***SPOILERS*** It's when rich Philadelphia socialite Marrianne Danforth, Jamie Luner, threw a fund raising party for the homeless and orphaned children of the city that her shoddy past back on the west coast suddenly caught up with her.
Showing up at the big event unannounced and uninvited is pretty boy Brent Richter, James Wilder. Brent's got some very pressing business matters to iron out with a shocked and outraged, in seeing him for the first time in four years, Marrianne who's anything but glad to see him. It was Brent, together with Marrianne doing the dirty work, who was responsible for the murder of Marrianne's first husband Martin Grayson, James O'Regan, back in California four years ago. A greedy and two timing Brent later screw things up for himself in splitting the life insurance money on Mr. Grayson's life. That's when he was caught with his paths down in a motel room with another woman by Marrianne who was then known as Annie Grayson. Now he's back for his share of the loot, $250,000.00, Brent will gladly rat Marrianne out to the police if she doesn't come up with it!
At first not wanting anything to do with Brent Marrianne soon realizes that she's trapped in going along with his plan to not only get the 250 G's that she owes him but to likewise murder her now rich husband the doodled brained, in him having no clue to what his wife is planing for him, Richard Danforth, William R. Moses, and his father the head of the multi million dollar cooperation Danforth & Son Donald Danforth played by an elderly Huntz Hall, of the famous "Bowery Boys" series, look alike Lawerance Dane.
The one thing that sidetracks Brent and Marrianne's plan is Richard Danforth's faithful personal secretary, that Marrianne treats like dirt, Carrie Holdings, Lisa Langlois, who smells a rat in what her boss' wife is planing for him. Carrie ends up paying with her life by snooping around in the bar where Marrianne and Brent secretly meet up and make their plans to do in her boss Richard Danforth. In the end it's Richard's business partner the sharp classy and on top of things Tia Montgomery, Sophie Gendron, who uncovers Marrianne and Brent's plan to do both the, father & Son, Danforths in! But that's not before old man Danforth ends up getting poked from behind with a deadly dose of potassium chloride by Marrieann when, drinking his morning coffee, he's not looking!
***SPOILERS*** In the end Marrianne double-crosses her lover and partner in crime Brent Richter in order to keep all the money of Danforth & Son, some 30 million dollars, all for herself as well as keeping Brent from turning evidence against her if he's caught by the police. The one person who turns things around and puts Marrianne in her place is Tia who, after refusing to believe what she knew was true, was about to expose Marrianne's crimes to the D.A's office. This lead to a vicious and knock down and drag out cat fight, in a basement garage, between the two women that ended with Marrianne getting all that she's got coming to her. Not from Tia or a court of law but from a perfect stranger who unwittingly showed up at the right time and place to save Tia's life!