The Lady in The Sea

Los Angeles 1993. Marlin Floyd— in his forties, rich, flashy, and handsome— arrives at a luxurious apartment of Shannon Williams. She is much younger and beautiful. They make love. Meanwhile, Dunata is driving Floyd’s wife, Chanel, holding him at gunpoint. When they arrive, she shoots him, takes his keys and uses them to enter the apartment. Shannon hears Chanel enter, takes a shotgun out from beneath her bed and shoots her dead. Detective Rio Santiago— late forties but looks older— is drinking in her car. She has a flashback to a car crash involving her and her wife pregnant Blue that left a family dead. She snaps out of if when she receives a page from the station. She goes to a house in South Central that is being raided. She sees the subject escaping from a window and getting in to a car. She shoots the subject as he drives away. Captain Wilson Lee (Cap)— late forties, heavyset— scolds Santiago for shooting the subjects, reminding her to tread lightly because she will be retiring soon. He gives her a throwaway case as her last one: the disappearance of Chanel Floyd on a yacht trip with her husband. Her new partner: DETECTIVE Kevin Dunata— a young hotshot. Although she was instructed to let the Dunata do all the work, she takes a keen interest in the case. She barges into an interrogation of Marlin Floyd she was not invited to— she doesn’t buy his story and presses him. Cap takes her off of the case and gives her a lame case: Missing person, Shannon Williams. Her new partner: Detective Charles Day— forties, but somehow a rookie, African American. She neglects the case in order to continue investigating Floyd. After being beaten senseless by Floyd’s goons the night before, Santiago wakes up in her luxurious house to Shannon’s father Clay. He is a country man and a master hunter. He insists she put more effort into finding his daughter. Floyd forces Santiago to resign from the police department by using his lawyer to file a lawsuit for the suspect she shot. After she resigns, she goes to see Floyd. He reminds her of the car crash: leaving the boxing match, too drunk to drive but now Blue is in a coma… handcuffed to the bed. Santiago pulls the plug on Blue and takes her ashes to Hawaii. Meanwhile, Day is getting close with Dunata. With the approval of Cap, Day gets put on the payroll of Floyd’s church. When he goes to a brothel with Dunata to meet Floyd, he finds a clue about Shannon. After he goes home to fill out a report to Internal Affairs, he is abducted. When Santiago returns, she goes to Day’s house to find that he has been missing. She finds his home office and sees all of the materials of his Internal Affairs investigation. Here, she learns Shannon was on yacht instead of Chanel— whose body parts were found in trash bags by a fisherman. She goes up to the brothel. She gets trapped in a room and knocked unconscious by Dunata. She is taken to a cabin in the mountains. She wakes up in a room with Day who is beaten to a pulp. She whispers to him. Men storm into the room and pull him out. Dunata tortures him to find out what she told him. Then, FBI raids the cabin. Dunata kills Day but Santiago is narrowly rescued. She has another flashback of the crash: Blue is unconscious, not breathing, no pulse. She drags Blue’s body from the passenger seat and puts her in the driver’s seat just as the first responders arrive. Santiago goes to the marina fuel station where Floyd is fueling his yacht to inform him that he was connected to the trafficking taking place at the cabin. However, she did not tell FBI where she knew he would be. She lets him believe that she didn’t tell them because she knew he would tell them who was really driving the night of the crash. While Floyd is driving his yacht a full speed to flee the FBI, Clay appears on the deck with a shotgun. The end.