In this high-tech thriller, David Marx (Rutger Hauer), a take-no-prisoners homicide detective, is teamed with computer expert Kris Paddock (Tara Fitzgerald) to track down Kurt Bishop (Andrew McCarthy), a software pirate who has been trying to steal a valuable encryption security program. Bishop will stop at nothing, even murder, to get the codes, but when he kidnaps Paddock, he finds out the hard way how Marx gained the nickname The Coroner. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide