Deviant Psychology

Kyle is a real piece of work. What the psychology books would classify, a “bad seed”. She’s young, beautiful, and a ruthless amoral sociopath with only one goal in life: To acquire riches by any means possible, then move onto her next victim. Having just “lost” her elderly husband, Kyle drives cross-country with a suitcase full of money, her disguises and a book on poisonous plants, which often comes in handy. Taking a detour through Nevada, Kyle trades in her dead husbands car for a new one, only to find herself lost in a rural area. Disoriented and unused to the powerful new car, Kyle wrecks off the side of a bridge and the car sinks to the bottom of a lake, where Kyle sees the body of an elderly woman, the recent victim of a savage murder, whose body has been dumped and weighed down. Escaping from the car, Kyle makes it to a large nearby home and seeks assistance from the overly paranoid owner, Martin, whose home is in slight disarray as if a fight broke out. Then Vicki arrives minutes later. A brassy “broad” fond of exposed cleavage, who nearly faints at the sight of Kyle standing in the house, bloody and covered in mud. Whether her hunch about them is right or not, for Kyle, the smell of fresh meat is too enticing. The house is impressive, as is the new Jeep and Mercedes out front. A new personality emerges and Kyle is now the “victim” recently beat-up and abandoned on the highway by her boyfriend with no-where to go. Kyle is invited to stay for the time being, even taking up Martin’s offer for some free therapy sessions and new prescriptions for the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder she claims to “suffer” from. Martin misses his practice back east and doing a good deed eases his conscience and let’s Kyle, the consummate manipulator, tighten the screws and learn valuable information to later use against him. Vicki can only bite her tongue and suffer in exasperated silence as Kyle ingratiates herself further into Martin’s life. For Martin, Kyle fills a void, reminding him of his own still missing daughter, the victim of a parental kidnapping many years earlier. And soon, Kyle fills another void, astounding Martin with her voracious sexual appetite and promise of a new life away from Vicki, who wants Kyle out, and thinks she has the perfect solution to do just that. But Vicki is no match for the cunning new tenant, who bides her time, and with the help of her newly arrived brother, Shane, devises an outlandish scheme to get rid of Vicki and take over Martin’s life. Shane, never able to rise above Kyle’s dominance, remains her servile pawn, willing to literally do her bidding, no matter what that may be. With his help, Martin and Vicki’s grisly fate will be sealed with such efficiency and discipline, that if it weren’t for one, not so minor detail, it may be the perfect crime.