When Eldon Mate, medical bureaucrat turned selfproclaimed mercy killer is the victim of a grisly Hollywood Hills slaying, veteran LA cop Milo Stugis is assigned to the case. Baffled, Milo consults his friend, psychologist Alex Delaware, who realises quickly that lack of suspects isn't the problem - there is an abundance of individuals who might have wished the controversial Mate dead. Furthermore, Mate's lawyer has disappeared and the death doctor's mentally unstable son has been spotted lurking around his father's home.If all this were not enough, Alex Delaware must walk an ethical tightrope when his own professional past comes back to haunt him, and he is torn between helping his friend and safeguarding the darkest secrets of his patients. Pressured and in conflict as never before, Delaware finds himself caught up in the middle of his most complex and terrifying case.
