Ray Liotta stars in this gripping thriller as Lee Ray a sociopathic killer serving time on death row. He is secretly given a rare second chance when the brilliant Dr. Miles Copeland (Willem Dafoe) offers to use him as a test subject for a new drug designed to squelch violent proclivities. Lee agrees and they go through the motions of lethal injection and the former criminal assumes a new life with a new identity. Soon however things start to go horribly awry; will the killer instinct prove too great to overcome?