Michael Bekker is a pathologist who works for the local university. Bekker is drug addicted, taking a collection of prescription and illegal drugs that keep him high most of the time. Bekker met Druze at a bar and befriended him with the intention of having him kill his wife. Bekker dislikes his wife and wants the freedom of being without her. Bekker also wants the house which, thanks to his wife's eye for antiques, is worth nearly a half million dollars. However, the drugs make Bekker paranoid. Bekker continuously changes the plan, making Druze kill several more people in order to hide the fact that his wife's death was planned by him.