Alphabet Killer, The

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Rochester, NY. Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku) is a driven police investigator whose commitment to the job borders on obsession. The only other aspect of her life that receives any attention is her significant other Kenneth Shine (Cary Elwes), who just so happens to be a lieutenant with the RPD (and jockeying for the same promotion as Meg). They're currently working on one of their worst cases yet, the murder/rape of a ten year old girl named Carla Castillo...and when Megan puts it together that she was murdered in Churchville, Megan becomes convinced that they are dealing with a serial killer. She becomes so caught up in her work that she begins having hallucinations...and bloody Carla begins haunting her regularly. When Megan cannot crack the case, it pushes her over the edge and she suffers a nervous breakdown. She's diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia that finds her in a psychiatric hospital. Two Years Later: Megan regains work for the department as a records clerk and Kenneth has been promoted to the head of the department. At least she's got a support group for mental illness survivors and wheelchair-bound friend Richard Ledge (Timothy Hutton). When another girl, Wendy Walsh, is abducted, raped and murdered in Webster, Megan is convinced that the killer has resurfaced and her old fire is reheated. Against his better judgment, Kenneth allows Megan to ride along with investigator Steven Harper (Tom Malloy) after she badgers him, but only in an advisory capacity. However, soon after she is in the thick of things, her old symptoms start coming back, namely in the form of hallucinations of both dead girls now. And it's worse, she's beginning to manifest embarrassing tics which causes her to stop taking her meds (thus making the hallucinations worse). Ledge tells her she's flirting with disaster but knows better than to try to talk her out of anything. Megan knows that the case is in danger of going cold with few leads, no suspects, and a serial killer on the loose.