The movie starts as we see Derrick Tyler, who is a sports agent, driving on the road.
His voiceover is then heard describing how he had previously grown accustomed
to winning at everything, but now the rules of the game have changed, and he is fighting for
his life in a game of life and death. Now the film shifts to the past where
Derrick has a gathering with his best friend Rafe Grimes and his girlfriend Michaela. It
is discovered that Derrick is married to a beautiful woman named Tracie. He is a former
college basketball star who now works with his best friend Rafe to represent African-American
Athletes. But Rafe constantly asks Derrick to sell their well-established agency to some
bigger corporation, but Derrick always denies it, as he loves his independence, and the job.
Tracie is a real estate agent and it seems visible that Derick doesn’t trust her. Tracie herself,
on the other hand, doesn’t seem so pleased with her husband. Even after
a long marriage and a seemingly successful life, they both are unhappy and unsatisfied
with each other, but never talk about it. In the next scene, Derrick and Rafe are on
a bachelor’s trip to Las Vegas. Quite troubled, Derrick expresses his concern about Tracie to his
best friend Rafe. He tells him that he thinks his wife is having an affair behind his back. Rafe in
turn tells him to have some fun, and forcefully removes his wedding ring, and encourages him to
cheat on his wife. What a great friend! Derrick follows his friend’s advice and
ends up meeting a woman named Valerie. He lies that his name is Darren, and tells her that he
is here for a bachelorette party, but hides the fact that he is married. Upon asking,
Valerie tells him that she is in Las Vegas to take a break from her hectic job. After some chatting,
flirting, and dancing, they both go to Valerie’s hotel room to take it further.
The next morning, Derrick tries to leave without saying anything but Valerie wakes
up. Derrick couldn’t find his phone and upon asking her, she tells him that it is
hidden in a safe and she’ll give it back if he gives her some more of his… time.
Leaving Vegas and Valerie behind, Derrick comes back to Los Angeles,
and seems guilty for having an affair. He settles to make things better with his wife.
Derrick continues with his work and signs another famous athlete, while his cousin Tyrin, who is
always there to ask him for money, comes to meet him. Although Derrick advises him to get a job and
do better in life, he still helps him with money. The same night, Derrick prepares dinner for
Tracie and they both have a romantic time together. Later, while they are indulging
in more romantic activities, they hear some noise coming from upstairs, and get startled.
Derrick goes to see what it is but is suddenly attacked by someone with a mask on, the man has
a gun, and they both get into a fight while the man tries to shoot him. But Derrick manages to
throw the gun away, and beats the man with the golf club, forcing him to run away. Tracie comes
upstairs, horrified, and they call the police. When the police arrive, Derrick couldn’t
believe his eyes, as the lead detective in this case, is none other than Valerie,
the woman he had the one-night stand with, and hoped to forget about. She recognizes Derrick,
but plays along, and asks only professional questions that are relevant to the situation.
The next day, Valarie is seen going to her ex-husband’s house who is a politician,
Carter Heywood. She requests him to let her meet their daughter Hayley. It is made evident that
Carter has a restraining order against Valerie, he resents her, and does everything to keep her
away from their daughter. The reason behind this is an incident in the past, when Valerie passed
out drunk, leaving her duty weapon unsecured. The worst took place when Hayley got a hold of it, and
accidentally pulled the trigger, resulting in her being tied to a wheelchair. Carter is determined
to never let Valerie near Hayley ever since! In the next scene Derrick is concerned that
Valerie will try to break his marriage, Derrick goes to meet her to talk about their situation,
but Valerie assures him that she doesn’t want her personal life to get mixed up with
her professional life, and promises that she is determined to find out who the intruder was.
Still uneasy after returning home, Derrick looks up Valerie on Google and finds out that
she is a renowned officer, and the incident with her daughter is mentioned as well.
The next day Valerie picks up Derrick from his work and tells him that she has a new lead on
the case. She takes him to a beach and gives him a binocular to pry on a beach house far
ahead. Derrick follows her instructions, and is distraught to discover his best
friend Rafe, and his wife, having a romantic time in the beach house.
Valerie suggests that Tracie hired the intruder to get rid of Derrick, so that she could inherit
half the business, with Rafe already owning the other half. This betrayal and heartbreak
lead Derrick to fall back in Valerie’s arms, and they end up spending the night together.
The next day, Derrick is arrested at his house and taken to the station where Valerie tells him,
that Tracie and Rafe were murdered last night. while showing him pictures of the crime scene,
she accuses him that in his rage, he must have gone to confront them,
and ended up murdering both of them. While Derrick agrees that he went there for
confrontation, but he denies murdering them. As a result of these allegations, Derrick’s
company suffers a huge loss, his multiple clients keep dropping out, and several of
his employees stop coming to work. Derrick soon figures out that Valerie
was the one to commit that crime and framed him, he confronts her, but she threatens
him with a gun and warns him that she can kill him with the intent of self-defense.
Helpless and alone, Derrick then discusses this with his ex-convict cousin Tyrin,
whom he always helped with money. He tells him that Valerie was the one to commit the crimes,
and framed him, but given Tyrin’s history, he asks him to promise to not meddle in this and stay out.
Tyrin says that he couldn’t promise that. Later at night, Tyrin is in his car with his
friend Bumpy, whom he recruited to take care of Valerie in order to help Derrick
and get a confession out of her. They both break into Valerie’s house
and manage to get a hold of her on the ground, but Valerie fakes being sick,
and begs them to let her go to the bathroom, where Bumpy assists her and guards the door.
As soon as he turns his back, Valerie takes her chance and hits him with the toilet seat
cover in the head. She grabs the gun from the ceiling tiles and finishes him off on
the spot. Hearing all this, Tyrin is alerted and attempts to shoot her, but instead gets
shot by her. (Such a tragic stupidity) Then Valerie calls Derrick and offers him
a solution, where she can frame Tyrin for the murders instead of Derrick,
and he can walk free, but there is a price for that. She wants him to kill her ex-husband,
Carter, who is not going to let her have Hayley’s custody as long as he is alive.
Derrick agrees, she gives him a gun and instructs him on when and where to find Carter. Derrick
finds Carter during his morning jog. With his gun pointed at him, he tries
to warn him about Valerie and asks for his help to stop her, but Carter is not
able to understand him and attacks him. This starts a struggle between them, ending
up in Derrick accidentally pulling the trigger and ending Carter on the spot. He runs away from the
scene while some women find Carter’s still body. He goes back to Valerie’s place where she gives
him Tyrin’s gun, that would help in framing him as the culprit of all these crimes. Valerie
also admits that she killed Tracie, Rafe, Tyrin, and his friend, and she says that
she is adamant to kill anyone who comes in her way of getting her daughter back.
This makes Derrick realize that Valerie would kill him as well, so that no one can lead the
crimes back to her and she picks up the gun hidden under a cloth, and starts shooting, but
Derrick also shoots back making her fall down. He gets distracted for a while and realizes
that she is not in the same place, when she comes up from behind and
repeatedly attacks him with a knife until Derrick is forced to shoot her to death.
Derrick then plays a recording on his phone where she confessed her crimes and her motives.
The police later arrive on the scene and Derrick goes to meet them.
In the next scene, Derrick is seen driving through the city, while on the radio,
J and Angie from "The Shade Room” inform that Derrick was officially exonerated while
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