A recently bereaved detective returns to work and her first case is a spate of Vigilante killings, which all turn out to have some connection to her old cases. As the finger of suspicion points ever more in her direction, she must fight to solve the murders while she still can.

SYNOPSIS:

When a Vigilante strikes New York City, the police are baffled by a rapid spree of seemingly random, but meticulous, killings of lowlife serial offenders, and “bottom-feeders”. The media turn the Vigilante into a folk hero “The Subway Killer”, who puts right miscarriages of justice where the system clearly failed.

Detective Helen MacLean leads the investigation, only days after returning to work from a sabbatical following her husband’s violent death. The Vigilante toys with the police, leading them on a merry dance of false clues, and misdirects - exposing their uncomfortable ambivalent feelings in the case.

The stakes rise as MacLean becomes the prime suspect. Her faith in the system is sorely tested, especially when she confronts the man responsible for her husband’s death.

The ANTAGONIST is a tragic young woman, who takes the law into her own hands when the men who raped her and her mother got off on a technicality. Notwithstanding her fragile appearance, she is a strong, methodical, and focused woman.

Despite the subject matter, this is not a slasher flick. With flawed characters on both sides of the law, “A Dish Served Cold” raises real moral issues – “justice”, it seems, can come in many shades of grey.

A DISH SERVED COLD