Dana Delany becomes the justice system she can't trust. Corrupt cops, meet your worst nightmare.
Who can you turn to when protectors become predators? Dana Delany, Keith Carradine, and Brian Dennehy star in this moving, suspenseful drama about one woman's courageous battle to bring a rogue cop to justice. Sally Rawlings (Delany), a corporate executive with a bright future, watches her life spin out of control after a policeman, Officer Wexler (Carradine), cold-bloodedly kills her ex-husband before her very eyes. Wexler is acquitted of any wrongdoing, and Sally finds herself standing alone against a shocking police department cover-up. Thwarted at every turn by a system steeped in deceit and corruption, Sally takes the law into her own hands. Hacking into computer files, staking out Wexler and questioning witnesses, Sally will risk everything – including her own life – to expose the truth.
Acting
Delany's controlled fury—every glance says she's done being nice.
Writing
John Sacret Young's script makes paperwork feel like warfare.
Direction
Turns a TV movie budget into genuine paranoid dread.
Director
John Sacret Young
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired on Showtime in 1999, part of a wave of TV movies tackling police corruption before it was mainstream discourse.
Justin Theroux plays a rookie cop here—three years before Mulholland Drive, already perfect at morally ambiguous.
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