Heart-warming, busybody, Bernice Butzen reports her neighbor, Carolyn Fazzino, missing. Veteran Detective Waller is forced to work with new Detective Garcia. They discover Carolyn's car, purse, iPhone, and camera footage of a man abducting her, proving she has been kidnapped. Detectives interview Carolyn's estranged husband, Vince, who has a past of domestic violence. During an intense interrogation, he confesses, he has a girlfriend, Jenny Maxwell. But the married Jenny denies dating the egotistical womanizer making him look guilty in the eyes of the police.

Tension mounts when Carolyn wakes, devastated, confused and hurt, finding herself in the killer's trap. The list of suspects grows to include Carolyn's drunk psychiatrist and her introverted boss with a suspicion of solicitation. Detectives wonder if he did away with his employee who may have discovered his secret. The psychopath killer becomes violent trying to stab Carolyn when she refuses to cooperate. Frustrated, the kidnapper throws the only food she will receive while being held captive. Carolyn's frantic mother, Ruth, pleads for her daughter's safe return.