Jessica Shepard (Ashley Judd), newly promoted homicide inspector, daughter of John Mills’s (Samuel L. Jackson) partner who died in murder-suicide with wife. Mills raised Shepard since age six to be a cop. Alcoholic Shepard repeatedly blacks out, drinking wine, poring over crime scene photos of dead dad in dumpster.

Shepard’s first case involves a lover. During blackouts, one by one, her former hook-ups killed, implicating her. Kaufman deftly drops clues throughout, leaving viewers in dark as to killer’s identity: Shepard? Partner Delmarco (Andy Garcia)? Shepard’s police psychiatrist? And so on.

Blackouts-tiresome. Delmarco’s attempts at initiating sex-lame. Delmarco and Mills-flat characters. Conclusion-anti-climactic.