***SPOILERS*** Rolling in the gutter skid row Bowery drunk and missing in action, from court room, former top NY attorney Jason Condon, Eric Portman, came out of hiding from a local ginmill when he found out that his estranged 17 year old daughter Nora, Suzanna Pleshette, was in police custody. That after surviving a fatal car crash that killed two people one the foreman of a jury Murray Harrison, Victor Torley, in a top mob murder trial. The fact that Nora was in the car had the police suspect she had some connection with the late Murray Harrison's death that wasn't exactly kosher!
As it turned out it was Nora's dad Jason Condon, who put the police on the right trail in finding out why Nora was associated with Harrison in that her lifestyle after she left home went downhill and lead her straight to a man like Harrison. Not in the romance but blackmail department! With Nora suspected by the mob of knowing too much, which in fact she was totally ignorant of the matter, they put a hit on her as soon as she shows her face in public and out of police hands! The double sided ending has the NYPD lead by Let. Mike Parker, Horace McMahon, and Det. Adam Flinty, Paul Burke, together with the now clean & sober Jason Condon get to the bottom of this mysterious case in a wild shootout. But only after Nora being shot in the head ends up on life support in Bronx Lebanon Hospital.
***SPOILERS*** Even though hospitalized Nora was at the same time on trial for withholding evidence in a murder case. This idiotic charge was completely dismissed by Jason acting as Nora's lawyer giving a elegant and emotional speech to the jury in just how ridicules the charges against her were. There was also set up by Det. Flint a two way hook-up by phone when Nora, now out of danger and her coma, can listen in to what her father did for her now and thus now willing to forgive him for what he did to her in the past.