Crowley and Pepper are called in when word gets around that "The Company", formerly operated by Vito Angelo, is starting up again. Angelo has spent the last 15 years in prison and is soon to be released. Meanwhile, three hoods have been murdered and others terrorised. 

Pepper Anderson, working undercover as a waitress in a truck stop café, is forced to intervene in the quarrels of Shawn and Hilary Barbour, neighbours in her building. Shawn is a paranoid artist, while Hilary is a cool psychology student who tells Pepper and Crowley that she thinks Shawn will someday kill her.