Savannah lawyer Rick Magruder is at an event celebrating his court victory protecting a cop killer if a member of the team, Mallory Doss, finds her car has been stolen. With a couple of drinks, Magruder has to provide her a lift home, a decision that turns into a 1 night stand. Rick learns her nut case dad, Dixon, seems to have begun threatening her. Rick places his law firm's force behind Mallory, who hardly knows, has Dixon acquired by law enforcement, and subpoenas the girl's belligerent ex husband, Pete, to testify against the old man. Dixon is placed away in a asylum. But he escapes, putting everyone's lives who conspired against him .