When Dallas FBI agent Thomas Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart) violates serial killer Raymond Starkey’s civil rights during an arrest, Starkey goes free and Mackelway is demoted to a remote branch office. His first day on the job, Mackelway investigates a murder that turns out to be the first of three seemingly random killings. Or perhaps they are not random at all; the last to die is Mackelway’s nemesis, Raymond Starkey.
