After a man by the name of Samuels is found beaten to death in his apartment, police Captain Finlay focuses on a group of soldiers who had been in the same bar with the victim earlier that day. One of them, Mitchell, had left the bar with Samuels and a girl. Another soldier, Montgomery, had seen Mitchell in Samuels' apartment but he ran off with Samuels still alive. Sgt. Peter Keeley doesn't believe for one minute that the mild-mannered Mitchell could kill anyone. He finds Mitchell who tells him he'd agreed to go out to dinner with Samuels but wasn't feeling well and left. The next thing he remembers is sitting in a club with a girl named Ginny. Finlay thinks it's a hate crime and that Samuels was killed because he was Jewish. The real killer is prepared to do whatever is necessary to ensure he gets away with Samuels' murder.—garykmcd