
Detectives Braxton (Chris Penn) and Kenneshaw (Michael Rooker) are interrogating textile heir Wayland (Tim Roth) over the murder of a prostitute. Certain that they have their man, they place Wayland under a lie detector test. Although he admits to meeting the murdered woman, while drunk, Wayland denies killing her. Instead, he begins to play mind games with the detectives, undermining their confidence in each other and placing doubts in their minds as to his guilt.