**SPOILERS** Canadian criminal lawyer Andrew Garfield, Michael Dudikoff, gets himself into hot water when he fell in love with sexy and hearing impaired artist Jane Claire, Marlee Matlin. Jane is being abused by her mob-up and jealous husband Noby Claire, Doug Sutheland, and she want's Andrew to handle a divorce case that she plans to file against him.
Andrew taking the case as well as striking up a hot affair with Jane has her husband Noby suspect that she's cheating on him and pay's Jane, as she's making out with Andrew, a surprise visit. In the struggle that followed Noby ends up getting blasted by Andrew with a 357 magnum that Jane kept at the couples, her and Noby, country cottage.
Even though it was self defense Andrew is in no position to be put on trial with him being caught with his pants down screwing around with another man's wife! The very man whom he ended up shooting! Covering up the killing Andrew and Jane dump Noby's body in the nearby lake and hide the murder weapon, the 357 magnum, in a safety deposit box registered to Andrew. It's then with Jane being the prime suspect in her husband's murder that she picks Andrew Garfield to defend her! The man responsible for her husband's death!
With Andrew knowing all the facts about Noby Claire's death in that he was he person who shot and killed him he had no trouble covering up in court Jean's involvement in it. Doing a masterful job Andrew, after getting an anonymous phone tip, actually sets up an innocent man Claud Martin, Eric Theriault, for Noby's murder knowing full well that Claud was completely innocent of the crime!
***SPOILER ALERT FROM THIS POINT ON*** It's when the presiding judge throws out all the charges against Jean Claire and she's found innocent Andrew starts to get second thoughts! Second thoughts about everything that happened to him since he first met Jane at an Art Show that she hosted at the New Bronswick Museum. Was that just a chance meeting or was Andrew set up to take the fall in Noby's murder! A murder that was planned far in advance in order for the person, or persons, who planned it to have time to cover up their involvement in it!
Complicated but very ambitious, for a made for TV movie, crime suspense drama with Michael Dudikoff dropping his usual macho image and playing a bewildered and confused defense attorney. Marlee Matlin does her usual lip reading, she in fact lost her hearing at the age of two, performance as the classy and beautiful Jean Claire. Marlee is both so personable and effective that even when she speaks, unable to fully annunciate her words, she comes across as being sexy.
It's Andrew's private detective Frank Rutton, Robbie O'Neil, who's working on the case who finds the real reasons for Noby Claires murder. It turned out to also be the reason why he was later gunned down and killed. Andrew in that he was at the scene and shot and killed Noby didn't realize that he, and possibly Jean, were set up right from the start with him being the designated fall-guy or pasty! A pasty who dug his own grave by going along with the scam thinking that he knows all the answers in Noby's death to cover himself. In reality Andrew was left completely in the dark by those who orchestrated the crime and set him up to eventually take the fall for it!