The Alibi

Former conman Ray Elliott has gone straight. His company, Elliott Consulting, on the surface does financial risk assessment and management. Only his employees and clients know that it actually sets up elaborate alibis for cheating spouses. Ray's theory is that cheating does not lead to divorce, but getting caught does. He is equal-opportunity in that his clients are husbands, wives, straight, homosexual. Ethical Ray will not get involved in anything of a criminal nature, or in cases of revenge. Although the business is lucrative, he chose it as something to keep him interested in life. In fact, he gives a fee break to anybody working in a chronically-underpaid profession, such as police or teachers. Ray is trying to put his old life behind him, so he hasn't seen or spoken to his former con partner and boss Jack McAdam in years. Ray, who acted as the frontman in their partnership, learns through the grapevine that Jack is back in town and has a $5 million contract on his head. In his current business, Ray does little field work anymore, leaving it to his employees. He does still actively work on the case of wealthy Robert Hatch, his first-ever client, a chronic philanderer who refuses to divorce his wife Judith, the one in the family with the money. As a favor to Bob, Ray works directly on the case of Wendell Hatch, Bob's just about-to-be-married son, who wants to have a weekend fling before the wedding. Heather Price, Wendell's fling, is in turn cheating on her Latino boyfriend. Beyond the chronic philandering, the apple that is Wendell does not fall far off the tree as he is as gutless and stupid as his father. It is working on this case that Ray is implicated in a missing woman's and possible murder case, he knowing what happened to the woman in question, but who was not involved. Ray changes his policy just this once to get involved in hiding criminal activity of one of his clients, largely to protect himself. In that implication, Ray is doggedly pursued by Detective Bryce of the Santa Barbara Police Department, the lead investigator. Ray is introduced through some former associates to "The Mormon", an aging Mormon hitman. Although The Mormon would like information as to Jack's whereabouts, he who believes Ray knows, he wants to hire Ray for an alibi for one of his upcoming hits. Their relationship gets even more complex as the youngest of The Mormon's three wives, Adelle, a bored, sexually-aggressive woman, keeps trying to get into Ray's pants, and as The Mormon is asked to do another hit related to the missing-woman case. Ray must decide how much to trust his new associate Lola, a bright, ambitious, statuesque blonde for whom he is falling. But behind the scenes, a mysterious balding man, who is not averse to shooting to kill in his work, will most likely factor into whether Ray will escape these situations alive.