A dead body, identified as Lenny Spinoli, washes up on Dockweiler Beach in Southern California. Spinoli was last seen on Santa Catalina Island, leaving on a fishing trip with his friend, Ricky Martin. When Ricky goes missing, his realtor wife hires Hollywood PI Polly Berger to find him. Meanwhile, Polly's firm has been hired to tail the wife of a big-time Hollywood director of zombie movies, who claims his wife is cheating on him. Within days, the director's wife dies of a purported suicide. Polly suspects the director of murdering his wife, but how can she prove it? And as she digs for clues to the whereabouts of Ricky Martin, the FBI horns in, demanding that she help with their investigation. But will they return the favor, or are they just using her as bait?