Callum Crane is in line for appointment to the federal bench during the same week he forces himself, while drunk, on a new secretary at his office who has firmly said no to him. Its also the same week Nathan Corrigan (a young, callow ex-con) goes to the city to meet his biological, the same Callum Crane. They meet and before Nathan can tell Crane who he is, Crane offers him money to kill the secretary, who has threatened to goto the police. Nathan takes an envelop of cash and the womans photo, t