A beautiful but naive heiress is led to believe that a potential suitor wants to elope with her, unaware that he's really a kidnapper out for a big payday. Her rich and powerful father hinders the investigation by trying to handle the situation without the cops.

Sam doesn't believe that a beautiful model committed suicide. He suspects the creepy fashion designer T.J. Gaynor of murder.

Sam and Jim enter the world of underground filmmaking after a girl claims that her missing boyfriend, an actor, was killed for real during a death scene.