Up-and-coming lawyer Michael Fletcher can barely keep it together as he calls police to his suburban Detroit home. Upon arrival, officers find Fletcher's wife, Leann, dead from an apparent accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound. As detectives dig deeper, they uncover a connection to her death. Meanwhile, when firefighters in Palo Alto, CA, extinguish the flames from a burning house, they find the charred body of promising young realtor Jennifer Schipsi. Her boyfriend, Paul Zumot, collapses in tears when he learns the horrible news.