To spare a condemned killer, Halloran forces his way into a kept woman's apartment the night of the execution. Ravishing Lois Heller is anesthetizing herself with expensive champagne and romantic music, while the idealistic young detective battles to shatter the redhead's mask of cynicism. Lois is protecting the real murderer, her lover Nicky who she alibied. As Halloran desperately struggles to convince her to call New York's governor, he learns why a woman could become so hardened.
—David Stevens