Honey Don’t!

In Bakersfield, California, private investigator Honey O’Donahue is called to the scene of a fatal car accident by homicide detective Marty Metakawich; Honey recognizes the dead driver as Mia Novotny, a prospective client who had asked to meet with her that day.

After meeting with Mr. Siegfried, who suspects his boyfriend of cheating, Honey visits her sister Heidi and her nieces and nephews, including rebellious teenager Corinne. Her police contact, MG Falcone, provides Mia’s address and Honey speaks with Mia’s parents, learning that she became a member of the Four-Way Temple led by Reverend Drew Devlin.

Unbeknownst to his congregation, Drew is using his church to sell drugs for mysterious traffickers. He is interrupted during sex with a congregant by his henchman, Shuggie, after one of their drivers overdoses on stolen product. The traffickers’ French liaison Chère—who removed a Temple ring from Mia’s body before police arrived on the scene—warns Drew that Mia’s death will bring unwanted attention to their operation, but he claims not to have been involved.

Hector, one of Drew’s dealers, panics when a customer propositions him after refusing to pay and fatally runs the man over while escaping. Sent by Drew to tie up loose ends, Shuggie kills Hector’s grandmother before Hector disarms and kills him. A vengeful Hector ambushes Drew while in bed with more congregants, but Drew evades and overpowers Hector before shooting him with his own gun.

Honey learns that Mr. Siegfried’s boyfriend was the man run over by Hector, and she and MG have sex after a charged encounter in a bar. Corinne seeks Honey’s help after being beaten by her boyfriend and is later stalked by an old man who tells her he loves her. Honey questions Drew, who defends his various suspicious contacts by his position as a minister. MG and Honey sleep together again, bonding over their childhood abuse as MG shares that her violent father was killed in combat overseas.

Corinne is missing, and Honey brutally questions her boyfriend before she is approached by the old man—her and Heidi’s estranged father—who attempts to reconnect. Honey fears that her niece is in danger of following Mia’s path and learns from Marty that Mia was stabbed to death before being placed in her car, and that the bodies of Shuggie and Hector’s grandmother have been linked to the Temple.

Chère has sex with Drew before terminating their partnership and murdering him in his bed. Honey sees her leaving, but Marty is unconvinced there is reason to search the Temple. Surprising MG at her family home, Honey realizes she kidnapped Corinne just as an increasingly unstable MG reveals she murdered her father. MG stabs Honey, who is forced to kill her with her own service weapon before collapsing.

Honey awakens in an ambulance, having been rescued alongside Corinne, who would have been MG’s next victim; MG is discovered to have been responsible for the unsolved murders of two sex workers and Mia, whose death she staged as a traffic fatality. Later, noticing each other at a stoplight, Honey flirts with Chère.

Last Updated: September 20, 2025 at 11:19