live in the Seattle University professor Jack Gramm ( Al Pacino ornaments) or a prestigious psychiatric appraisal experts often testify in court. Joe Foster , was charged as the main culprits of the serial killings case , Gramm became a key figure in his opinion for Joe Foster ultimately whether the death penalty is essential . Court , Foster condemned Gramm several witnesses - among them one finds the testimony of the victim 's sister - not impartial .
Foster was sentenced to death that night , Gramm received an anonymous phone call to his dead sister registered the other claims that after 88 minutes , he will be killed . At the same time , Seattle has emerged serial killer of a pirated Joe Foster , the same for the sake of killing women , the tragic death of one of his students . Friend Frank Parks , and his first wife , the FBI agent Shirley Burns and his assistant Kim Cummings ( Alai Thea Witt decorated ) help , Gramm eventually lock eyes in three people who a is the boyfriend of his students , a University of camping area security , there is another and he had a one-night stand woman . Student boyfriend was shot dead in his room in front of the security was confirmed to be suspect , and he had a one-night stand the woman is killing . The event is once again confusing. But at this time he received a death notification phone until the last ten minutes ......