When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sheriff Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.
Jessica trades in her typewriter for a computer and Michael, one of her students, takes her to the company where he works to get setup. When one of their programmers is murdered, Michael is arrested.
When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sheriff Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.
Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.