An elderly store clerk kills an innocent black man he believed was robbing him. 

Throughout his radio show, Jack engages in a tense conversation with a dangerous "spurned lover" who is intent on killing his girlfriend and then himself. The situation becomes a race against time as the police work urgently to locate the woman's home.

Jack Killian retires from the San Francisco Police Department after accidentally shooting his partner, Rusty, in a crossfire situation.  He's drawn back to the world of the living by an offer to be a late night talk radio host.  A serial killer begins calling Jack, explaining the assassinations and Jack's inadvertently pulled back into the crime fighting world.