Bakery Case Scenario

An attorney, who has both physical and emotional scars, is hired to represent a wealthy woman accused of murdering her husband, but someone doesn’t want the real truth to come out.

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

GRACE WINTHROP (35) bares both physical and emotional scars from a brutal attack when she was 16 years old. She remembers the attackers wearing skeleton ski hats; one was called “Basher” eating a cupcake with a “Patterns Bakery” box under his arm.

Now an attorney and a single parent to JODI (11) a deaf child, Grace continues to struggle to put her life together. She wants Jodi to have an operation to help her hear.

Grace’s adoptive mother, ANNIE TUCKER (70), plans to retire as Managing Partner at the firm. She wants Grace to take over, but
first Grace has to represent ZOE LANG (45), the CEO of a successful cosmetic company. Zoe is accused of stabbing her husband, Alfred, to death with a letter opener. Grace isn’t sure she’s up to the task.

Zoe pleads not guilty.
As Grace investigates the case, she’s unaware of a woman called “Radioactive” who smokes a thin cigar watching her. She also carries a patterns bakery box. Grace elicits the help from MIT Professor, JASON STEVENS (35).

Zoe tells Grace that she didn’t kill her husband. She opened the door when someone was there, wearing a skeleton hat. They pushed a towel into her face and she blacked out. Zoe believes she’s being framed. Grace can’t help but remember her attackers who also worn skeleton ski hats.

DETECTIVE GRIFFIN BARISH (37) leads the homicide investigation. His father was the one who lead the investigation when Grace was attacked. He gives Grace a tour of the Lang condo where the murder occurred. Grace finds evidence of a thin cigar. She sees the middle cushion on the floor. She wants the bed sheets checked for sperm. She notices a painting askew. There’s a safe behind
it.

Grace tracks down the women on the Lang board known as the “sorority.” ALEXA NASKIEWICZ (45) aka Lexi believes Zoe did kill Alfred. Zoe tells Grace that Lexi was fucking Alfred. Grace tracks down TIFFANY PARSONS (40), another member of the Lang Board. Tiffany believes Lexi killed Alfred, because Zoe selected Tiffany over Lexi for a promotion to CEO.

Grace sneaks back into the Lang condo and opens the safe, but she hears footsteps.
She hides in the closet and watches as Tiffany enters the room. Then a man comes in the room with her. Tiffany tells him the folder is missing. Grace takes a video. The man attacks Tiffany and leaves. Grace checks the safe and finds a Patterns Bakery box, when suddenly she’s grabbed by two attackers wearing skeleton ski hats. They tie her up and threaten her. They want no trial. Later, Grace learns that Tiffany was murdered. Grace need to know what’s in the missing folder. Grace believes that the one who killed Tiffany is the one who killed Alfred. Zoe tells Grace that she and Tiffany opposed a buyout, but Lexi was for it. Lexi has motivation. She tells Grace that Tiffany had a fling with a former FBI agent called Radioactive and she had “sewage” on the sorority. The sewage is in the folder, a blackmail treasure
trove.

Grace matches the face from her picture of the man in the Lang condo to ED DEITCHMAN aka NAIL. His girlfriend is NINA BERGMAN a former client that Grace helped. Grace tries to track down Nina and her friend “PUSSYCAT” at a seedy strip bar. Grace wants to know where Ed aka Nail is. CHARLEY enters and claims he has an address for Nail, but instead he attacks Grace, but she pulls her Taser out and zaps him, escaping. Later, Radioactive finds Charley. She then kills him.

Grace sees another Samurai letter opener at Lexi’s home. She comes up with a theory about the letter openers being exchanged. Grace believes it was Lexi who paid Ed to murder Alfred and Tiffany.

Grace is frantic when she learns that Ed/Nail, who believes Grace has his share of the money that was promised him, has abducted Jodi. He wants the money delivered to Pussycat. Annie and Grace deliver the money and get the address to find Jodi. They find Ed at a farmhouse, Annie shoots Ed and they rescue Jodi. To their dismay they learn that Ed is in a witness protection program. He’s untouchable. Grace realizes that Griffin’s cop family was in on her attack. She uses the name “Basher” and Griffin is stunned.

The trial commences. Witnesses are called. Eventually, Ed takes the stand and Grace confronts him with his sperm being found in the Lang condo. He goes ballistic. He was set up. He threatens Grace. Then he blurts out that he was at the pier with Basher the day that Grace was attacked and that he molested Jodi. Grace, enraged, grabs a gun and is about to shoot Ed when Annie tells her that Ed isn’t worth it. She lets the gun down but attacks Ed physically. She’s arrested, but the charges are mysteriously dropped as being self-defense.

Grace becomes managing partner. In Annie’s old office she finds a folder and realizes that Annie has been in cahoots with Zoe Lang. If Zoe won her freedom, Annie would get 20 million. Grace wants to know who really killed Alfred Lang and Tiffany. Annie says it’s up to a jury. Grace feels used. Annie leaves with the courtroom Judge. Annie is leaving the money for Grace and Jodi. Annie is dying.

Across the street, Griffin and Radioactive watch. Radioactive admits planting the sperm. Grace, Jason, and Jodi stand at the Boston Pier. Jodi can now hear, she’s had her operation. They stare at a sign that says: Mercy for het Ill-Fated, a generous gift form Patterns bakery.