After accidentally killing a child murderer, a jaded crime reporter plummets over the edge into a violent, bloody journey to rid her city of the criminals and scumbags that she’s always despised. But what price must she pay as she starts to become the very thing she hates?

SYNOPSIS:

Jane Abel, a jaded crime reporter, accidentally kills Adrian Cain, a child rapist who suspiciously gets off with killing a twelve-year-old girl. Instead of staying at the scene, Abel flees to the safety of her apartment, plunging headfirst into a bottle of Jack Daniels. A few days later, as Abel desperately tries to tell her fiancée Mike Kennedy, what she’s done, they are mugged by a Columbian hitman, sent by Caesar, the leader of a powerful biker gang, and Adrian Cain’s cousin. Mike is left in a coma, fighting for his life. The mugger/hitman lies dead in the street, his head bashed in by a crazed Abel. These horrific incidents push Abel over the edge into a violent crusade to rid her city of the scumbags she has written so many stories on, but never, as she sees it, really done anything about. After killing Cain and the mugger, Abel goes after a paedophile connected to Caesar, with only retribution in mind, believing that she’s finally doing the right thing and making the world a better place.

As Abel’s vengeful killing spree starts to gain momentum, it grabs the attention of the police, the media and the public. Detective Powell, an arrogant, sadistic cop, working the vigilante murders, accidentally kills a prostitute he’s been sleeping with, then tries to cover up his crime by blaming the vigilante at an intense Police Press Conference. Detective Hendry, Powell’s new black female partner (and Abel’s childhood friend) isn’t convinced he had nothing to do with the prostitute murder. Putting her own career on the line, Hendry starts to look deeper into Powell’s relationship with the prostitute, finding out that she was more than just his snitch. As Powell gets more determined to catch the vigilante, who he feels is making the Police, and therefore him look bad, Hendry starts to close in on Powell for the murder of the prostitute. When Abel hears that her fiancée has come out of his coma, she rushes to the hospital to see him. Riddled with incredible guilt and remorse, Abel can’t stop herself from spilling her guts to Mike about what she’s done. He explodes and tells Abel to turn herself in, ‘cause if she doesn’t, he will. As Abel leaves in a hurry, feeling that she's really got nothing else to lose anymore, Caesar walks into Mike’s room and executes him to send Abel and the police a message.

When the police hear of Mike’s murder, Detective Hendry is sent to tell her friend the terrible news. After Hendry leaves the apartment, Abel holds her father’s gun to her head, as she looks across the street at a window in the building opposite hers and sees a man beating the crap out of his wife. Abel drops the gun and rushes across the street to try and help the woman. She gains access to the building and quickly finds the apartment where the beating is happening. She pushes her way in to the place looking for the woman and is attacked by the man. They fight and Abel ends up killing the man, viciously piercing his throat with a large kitchen knife. Abel calls for an ambulance and flees the scene to the safety of her apartment.

Detective Hendry is pressured into a meeting with Caesar, who now holds all her gambling debts and is using them to extort information from her. She tells him that Abel won’t say, or do anything about his execution of Mike, as Caesar now has all the power and control.

In her apartment, Abel decides it’s finally time to go after Caesar, as she knows that he killed Mike and also got his sleazy cousin, Adrian Cain, off for the torture and murder of the 12-year-old girl. Detective Powell is called to the scene of the wife beater’s murder and questions the woman as an EMT attends to her wounds. He looks out the woman’s window and sees Abel in the window across the street. Finally clicking to what’s gone on here, Powell rushes out to his car, just in time to see Abel driving off into the night. He jumps in his car and speeds off after Abel, as Detective Hendry follows after Powell, back in the distance. When Abel gets to Caesar’s pool hall and goes up against him, she takes a bloody beating. Luckily, she just manages to get herself together in time to catch the biker off guard and kill him viciously with a large hunting knife. Afterwards, Abel sees herself in the bar mirror and realises that she’s gone too far and become the very thing that she hated at the start of her violent, bloody journey.

As Abel flees the scene, Detective Powell, who’s been waiting for her, chases her into an old freight train yard. Not far behind, Detective Hendry follows Powell, now equipped with enough evidence to arrest him for the prostitute murder. Powell goes after Abel with a vengeance now, as Hendry observes from a distance.

In the final confrontation, as Abel stands in the doorway of an old wooden freight car, Powell has no hesitation and shoots her in the back. As Abel falls hard to the floor her gun goes off accidentally, shooting Powell in the chest. He drops to the ground, his face a mask of shock and disbelief. The old freight car shudders to life and starts to roll creaking down the rusty train tracks. Abel lies bleeding on the floor but smiles as her eyes close on the rising sun.

Hendry goes to Powell now, thinking about killing him for murdering the prostitute and shooting Abel. But her conscience kicks in and she just can’t do it. Uniformed cops and EMTs show up, and Hendry holds up her shield, waving them over to attend to Powell.