U vseh nas est byvshiy, o kotorom my sozhaleem. No byvshiy muzh prokurora Dzhessiki Yardli - vot eto nastoyaschiy koshmar. On - pechalno izvestnyy seriynyy ubiytsa Eddi Kel, uzhe chetyrnadtsat let sidyaschiy v tyurme v ozhidanii kazni. Kazalos, Dzhessike udalos spravitsya s koshmarami proshlogo - obresti veru v sebya, stat uspeshnym yuristom, nachat novuyu schastlivuyu zhizn vmeste s dochkoy... Kazalos rovno do teh por, poka u Eddi ne poyavilsya podrazhatel, kopiruyuschiy ego pocherk. Ubiytsa zhestoko raspravlyaetsya s semeynymi parami, ostavlyaya v zhivyh ih detey.
FBR prosit Dzhessiku prinyat uchastie v ohote na manyaka. I eto znachit, chto ona dolzhna snova vstretitsya i naladit kontakt s byvshim muzhem - chelovekom, bukvalno razorvavshim ee zhizn v klochya. Eddi Kel govorit, chto znaet, kto ubiytsa. No v obmen na svoyu pomosch stavit dva usloviya, na kotorye Dzhessika ne mozhet poyti...