Threshold of Deceit

Billy French, the newly elected Vice President of the United States bursts into his office, stands in the middle of the room and throws his arms up in the air and shakes them in a victory cheer; still hearing the clapping in the hallway. He immediately meets with his new Secret Service head, Bobby Sanchez, and realizes by the tone of the conversation, it will be a difficult relationship.
The new vice president has issues that continually plague him. French’s childhood before he became a senator and then the vice president was not normal by any stretch of the imagination. He was continually raped by his uncle in a farmhouse barn, and developed a hate of gay people, although tries to keep his comments in check for political reasons.
Shortly after French takes office, he begins to get phone calls from someone who claims in a muted voice to know what he has done and that he will be sorry. The vice president informs the FBI about the intrusions.
Meanwhile, Sanchez, leery of French, does some investigation about murders that occurred at various locations when French was present, and believes he is the culprit. However, his role as a Secret Service agent has been marred with troubling incidents in the past. Because of Sanchez’s violent behavior on occasions, he is sanctioned to see an FBI psychiatrist, Tamara Jones, who believes he has some serious issues.
Over time, French continues to suffer from flashbacks concerning his relationship with is uncle and the constant rapes. He is concerned with comments he made about gay people and what that will mean to his vice presidency as it moves forward.
Sanchez’s meetings with his psychiatrist begins to get familiar and he feels there is a chemistry between them, but she initially shuts that down. The head of the Secret Service meets with Sanchez after he gets a call from French claiming he is not an acceptable lead agent for him, and that he wants him replaced.
On several occasions while the vice president travels, murders of prominent people occur. The FBI visits with Sanchez, since he was present with the president when the murders occurred and investigate what he knows.
French continues to get the muted phone calls which angers him, believing someone is trying to ruin his career. French is accused of being a homophobe by several individuals due to comments he has made in the past about gay people and is not happy about it.
The FBI finds out that French’s uncle who was a rapist was killed by an unknown assailant, and it concerns the FBI involved in the current investigation. The FBI visits French and asks the same questions they asked Sanchez to get to the bottom of all the murders, but tell him, he’s not a suspect. The FBI begin to look more into Sanchez and his background.
After letting her guard down and having a tryst with Sanchez, Tamara, concerned about Sanchez and his behavior, secretly talks to his colleague about it, but the colleague is not exactly forthcoming. In a final meeting with Sanchez, he tells her he has been summoned by the FBI and is angry, and in the end, full of rage, he kills her.
French is still receiving muted phone calls and becoming angrier, but now believes Sanchez could be the perpetrator.
Sanchez is relieved of duty by the Secret Service chief while they figure out what’s going on. The FBI interviews Sanchez about the murders and wants to know if he knew his psychiatrist was found murdered, and he disavows any knowledge.
French is beginning to think Sanchez is the murderer who is trying to frame him. Sanchez disappears and French becomes paranoid about where he is. The new head of his detail tries to put him at ease while taking him home after a day at work.
In the courtyard of the vice president’s residence, French is confronted by a frantic Sanchez who claims French’s uncle raped his nephew, and that he killed all those people to get back at French. As they argue, Sanchez’ colleges and FBI agents confront Sanchez who steps forward and points his weapon at them and is killed.
Grateful for the ending to his nightmare, knowing he didn’t kill all those people -except one, French sits at his desk, looking at a picture of the farmhouse barn – reliving the day he finally ended his uncle’s life – the life of a terrible human being – a rapist.