Plot summary
When young poker hotshot Josh Snow ( Aaron Stanford ) loses $80,000 in a card game, his backer and bookie Lou Cardinale ( Boris McGiver ) forces him into making collections to pay off his losses. Lou gives him a.38 revolver and a box of blanks to extract gambling debts and sends his mistress, Angela ( Aleksa Palladino ), with him to keep an eye on the money. At his first collection of $20,000 from Frankie Martin ( Harry O'Reilly ), Snow shoots a blank at the gambler and he pays up. However, when Snow confronts the next victim, Kip McGonagle ( Robert Leeshock ), he fires the gun again but a real bullet fatally wounds McGonagle. Investigating detectives Goren and Eames know Snow from a former case and Goren pays an elaborate game to get Snow to confess to intentionally shooting McGonagle in an effort to frame Cardinale for the murder. Also stars Tobias Truvillion and Brenda Withers.
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