Savannah lawyer Rick Magruder is celebrating his courtroom victory defending a cop killer when a member of the staff, Mallory Doss, finds her car was stolen. Magruder has to provide her a lift home, a decision that turns to a 1 night stand. Rick soon learns her nut case daddy, Dixon, seems to have begun threatening her. Rick places the force of his lawfirm behind Mallory, who he knows, has acquired by the police, also subpoenas the girl's belligerent exhusband, Pete, to testify against the older man. Dixon is placed away in a asylum. However, he soon escapes, putting the lives of everyone who conspired against him.