Plot

Since the death of his colleague, which was partly his fault, Lieutenant Nick Gentry lives a lonesome life. Reporter Joan wants to write a story about him, and seems to be interested in other ways too, but he rejects. Instead he falls in love with his new neighbor Irene and witnesses how she's repeatedly beaten up by her husband Allan. One day, when Allan threatens her with a gun, he shoots him. Certainly self-defense -- until it turns out, that Alan's gun was made inoperable...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

After losing his partner, the troublemaker Lieutenant Nicholas "Nick" Gentry is sent to therapy by Captain Harrelson with the police psychiatrist. The promiscuous journalist Joan Branson sexually harass Nick that rejects and prefers to stay alone in his apartment. Nick sees his sexy new neighbor moving to the building on the other side of the street and while peeping her through the window, he sees the aggressive treatment of her husband. Soon Nick sees he husband beating her and he goes to her apartment as if the police had received a call reporting their argument. Nick learns that the designer Irene Stadler is married with her business partner Allan Stadler and fears him. Nick and Irene have a love affair and Nick decides to intimidate Allan in a restaurant. During the night he sees Allan threatening Irene with a gun and he runs to their apartment and kills Allan. Now Detective Rains has to investigate his fellow colleague that unravels dark secrets of his lover.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil