 Spencer (Joe Mantegna) attends a play at his girl friend s (Marcia Gay Harden) insistence to meet a director (Christopher Lawford) who is allegedly being stalked. During the performance, the lead actor in a hale of fake arrows is suddenly killed by a real arrow from a crossbow. This launches Spencer into an investigation of everyone involved with the theatrical company and leads him up against a Chinese mobster (Ronin Wong), who warns Spencer to quit questioning his wife (Tamlyn Tomita), one of the theater s patrons. However, everything changes when the mobster is found beaten to death.