Nick is desperate for Brian's help after he is framed for murder. When fledgling private eye Nick Corsello is set up as a murder suspect by lovely but lethal jewel thief Tanya Marinakov he's driven to seek help from renowned ex-detective Brian Devlin — and to reveal his identity as the son Devlin never knew he had.

A mysterious German beauty uses Nick to get to Brian in the belief that he killed her mother.