The A.I. 187 chip which can revolutionize the inner workings of the human brain has been developed for the greater good, but falling in the wrong hands can be a weapon of mass destruction.
Dead bodies are being found in New York harbor. The police have no clues nor suspects until Nick and his colleague realize the killer is a giant octopus. Everybody, especially the police captain, refuses to believe Nick's story, and soon the harbor will be filled with boats for the 4th of July celebrations.
All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne, to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro makes increasingly shocking discoveries that even he can't turn a blind eye to.
A murdered wife. A jealous husband. A jilted lover. And a frightened friend. All of them in the same apartment at the same time. Three of them setting aside bitter differences and better judgment in the hope of earning a ten million dollar payday.
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
With very little money in her pockets, a young, street smart, starving actress, La 'Akea Roberts, leaves her home in Chicago and sets out to find her fame on Broadway, as a rich girl, Peyton Lee Parker, leaves her gilded-cage life style in North Carolina, in order to get out from beneath her father's rules and money, and heads for New York City. Coincidently, both young women find themselves renting the same apartment in the village. Though rightfully, the apartment is leased to Peyton, she allows La 'Akea to stay until she finds her own place. Unbeknougnst to both, the apartment belongs to a deceased mobster, Johnny Diamond, who happens to still reside there, in spirit. As Peyton, La 'Akea's and Johnny relationship takes shape, they also find themselves intertwined with the other eclectic residence of the apartment complex.