A widower suffering from mania eludes arrest after taking revenge on his wife's killer
A Good Alibi tells the story of Jerry (Geoffrey Stephenson), a not-so-devout Mormon who has been suffering from mania ever since his wife was killed seven years ago. The movie opens with Jerry exacting revenge on the man he blames for his wife's death -- an elaborately premeditated murder that might just have taken seven years to plan.
The two detectives on the case, Detective Perez (Sandra Inezz) and Detective Bingham (Lord B. Wag), immediately suspect Jerry. Jerry, confident in his crime, even invites them into his home and asks them to perform a search. Jerry's alibi is not something air-tight -- he says he was out drinking at a strip club -- but the timeline is difficult because Jerry drove through the night without stopping, much like the famous "astronaut killer." Jerry reminds the detectives that it's not up to him to prove where he was at the time of the murder, it is up to them.
Detective Perez isn't buying Jerry's story. She's studying psychology in her off hours and notices that Jerry's medicine cabinet contains Zoloft, an SSRI. Jerry fits the same profile as other homicidal SSRI users, such as the Virginia Tech shooter and one of the Columbine killers.
At this point, you'd expect the movie to become a procedural, with the detectives doing further investigation. Instead, writer/director Geoffrey Stephenson keeps the plot focused on Jerry, who as first seems elated to have gotten away with it. He meets a cute girl (Lubi Boutdy) on an LDS online dating website and takes her back to his place to smoke some pot.
The pot happens to be the one link back to the murder victim, and Jerry's date is not who she says she is. Still, the evidence she collects will not be Jerry's ultimate downfall -- it will be his own guilt. Convinced he has lost his scripture-promised heavenly kingdom thanks to committing murder, a distraught Jerry confronts the undercover cop and her boyfriend at their home at gunpoint. The situation is bound to end in bloodshed -- you'll have to watch to see whose.
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