Muna 1985 nyaya yemhondi yakazunungusa taundi diki reNiantic Connecticut. Mumwe mudzimai ane pamuviri akawanikwa akadzipwa muimba yekurara apo murume wake akanga asipo parwendo rwechikepe. Mhosva haina kugadziriswa kudzamara chapupu chauya kuzopa vaongorori ruzivo, munzvimbo dzese, kopi yeVHS yebhaisikopo rinotyisa.

Ed naEllen Sherman vairatidza kuva vaviri vaifara muguta, vese vari nyanzvi, Ellen muparidzi, Ed mudzidzisi pakoreji yenharaunda. Kunyange zvazvo vairatidzika kuva muenzaniso wenyasha dzenharaunda, hupenyu hwavo hwepachivande hwakataura nyaya yakasiyana. Ed aive philanderer aigara achichinjanisa vakadzi nemapati ebonde. Ellen airatidza kuti aisava nehanya nazvo uye nguva zhinji aitoitawo zvake.

Pinda Nancy Prescott, tenzikadzi waEd akazova nepamuviri uye akaita mwana panguva yekudanana kwavo. Ellen pamuganhu wake akaudza Ed kuti asiye Nancy kuitira kuti vatange patsva.

Ed akabvuma uye vaviri vacho vakaedza kudzora muchato wavo, Ellen iye pachake ave nepamuviri.

Asi neSvondo muna Nyamavhuvhu 1985, apo Ed aive aenda parwendo rwekufamba nechikepe neshamwari ina, akafonerwa nemapurisa pawairesi yechikepe, achiti mukadzi wake aive nepamuviri afa. Akawanikwa neshamwari yemurume yemhuri iyo Ed yaakange akumbira kumutarisa husiku ihwohwo.

Pakutarisa kwekutanga zvaitaridza sekunge munhu anopinda apinda mumba mavo ndokusvinira hupenyu kubva kuna Ellen akabva aita kukurumidza kudzoka, muchokwadi, air conditioner yakanga ichiri kuvhurwa.

Matema akakomberedza mutsipa waEllen akapa muyanzvi wezvekurapa humbowo hwakakwana kuti aone kuti aive adzipwa nehembe yake yemukati. Asi kufambira mberi kwekuferefeta kwaizoratidzawo kuti akange akadzipwa pamberi bhurugwa raive ratenderera muhuro make. Vanoongorora nezvezvokurapa vakafunga kuti akaurayiwa pakutanga Svondo iyoyo.

Mubvunzo wakaramba uriko; ndiani aizoita izvi? Uye sezvazvinowanzoitika, vaongorori vanotanga vatarisa kune wawakaroorana naye sekufungidzirwa. Asi Ed anga asipo parwendo rwekutyaira neSvondo, aive neakasimba alibi, ane zvapupu zvina. Haaigona kunge akazviita. Aigona sei kuva munzvimbo mbiri kamwechete?

Ed anga akatotaura nemukadzi wake pahusiku hwekuurawa kumba kweshamwari, vese vakamunzwa pafoni.

Forensic masayendisiti akavhiringidzika kunyanya Dr. Henry Lee weConnecticut State Crime Lab. Izvo ndezve kusvikira mumwe munhu auya nesipi iyo yaizoputira muvharo pacho nyaya.

Iye chapupu akati akange amhanyira kuna Ed kuchitoro chemuno chemavhidhiyo mangwanani erwendo rwake rwekufamba nechikepe. Anoti Ed akakurudzira firimu rinotyisa rakadaidzwa Blackout, chakavanzika chemurume akaremara anonzi Allen Devlin, uyo angangove akauraya mudzimai wake nevana zvine utsinye ndokubva ashandisa mhosva yacho kuti avhiringidze vaongorori.

Mune firimu, Richard Widmark, Detective Joe Steiner, akavhiringidzika uye akaronga kuratidza kuti Allen ndiye, zvechokwadi, ndiye anokonzera kuuraya kwoutsinye.

Ucharangarira chinodzora mhepo? Mu "Kudzima magetsi" mhondi inoshandisa huchenjeri hwekukanda vaongorori kure. Anosimudza mudziyo kuenda panzvimbo yayo yepamusoro oisiya ichimhanya.

Iwo akanyanya kutonhora tembiricha anodzora kuomarara kufa kufa maitiro uye kuora kwemuviri izvo zvinogona kukonzera vaongorori kufungidzira zvisizvo nguva yechokwadi yerufu.

Vese Widmark mufirimu uye vafereferi vehupenyu chaihwo munyaya yeSherman vanowana iyi mhondi. Munyaya yeSherman apo coroner yakasarudza nguva yerufu kuve Svondo, vakafungidzira kuti nemhepo inofefetera ichimhanya, nguva yekufa yaive mazuva maviri apfuura, neChishanu. Izvi zvinoreva kuti Ed angadai akazviita pamberi achisiya rwendo rwake rwekuredza hove.

Zvakadaro, Ed akange afonera mukadzi wake kubva mamaira kure nehusiku hwekuuraya uye shamwari dzake vaigona kupupura izvozvo. Kunze kwekusaziva kuna Ed, paive nemumwe munhu parunhare, mumwe wevanasikana vemuchinda uyo akataura kuti akanhonga receiver kuti afone akamunzwa achitaura, chete iye aisataura nemukadzi wake, aitaura pamusoro kurira kune rimwe divi: iko kufona kwaive kunyepa.

Sekureva kwechiratidziro Forensic Files (yakazara episode pazasi), Ed akadzipwa mukadzi wake kusvika parufu nemaoko asina maoko mushure mekudya kwemanheru neChishanu. Akazoputira chipfeko chemukati pahuro pake kuyedza kutsausa vaongorori kuti vafunge kuti imhosva yebonde.

Mushure meizvozvo, uye yakafuridzirwa nemuvhi Blackout, akabva ashandura air conditioner kuenda kumusoro kuti anonoke maitiro ekuora pakupedzisira achikanganisa Coroner uye nguva yechokwadi yerufu. Akabva aenda kumba kweshamwari yake kurwendo rwokubata hove ndokunyomba runhare gare gare usiku ihwohwo zvose zviri munzeve dzeshamwari dzake, asi asingazivi kuti mumwe munhu akanga achiteerera.

Pakupedzisira nekuda kwemuvhi Blackout, vaongorori vakagumisa kuti nekutonhora kwakanyanya, nguva chaiyo yekufa yakanga isiri Svondo, asi mazuva maviri kare apo Ed aive achiri kumba.

Ed Sherman akasungwa nemhondi. Vachuchisi vakapokana kuti Ellen akange asiya muchato wavo uye aida kurambana. Iye, ari iye muridzi wekutanga webhizinesi akaudza Ed kuti anogona kuve nemusikana wake nechikepe, uye hapana chimwe chinhu.

Panguva yekutongwa, vatongi vaifarira kwazvo kuziva zvakawanda nezve nguva yekufa kwaEllen. Kubva pane humbowo hwehutongi vakafunga kuti Ed aive nenguva uye nechinangwa chekuuraya, uye makore matanhatu mushure memhosva akawanikwa aine mhosva yekuponda kwekutanga, akatongerwa makore makumi mashanu mutirongo.

Ed haana kumbobvuma mhosva uye makore matatu mushure mekutongwa akafira mutirongo mushure mekurwara nemoyo.