Three Way

Lew Brookbank (Dominic Purcell) learns that his wife is having an affair, pulling him into a storm of rage. He grabs his gun and heads out, chasing a confrontation that ends with the two lovers murdered in bed on his boat. In the aftermath, with a potent motive and a murky past bubbling to the surface, he fears he will become the police’s prime suspect. He disposes of the bodies by dumping them into the ocean, abandons the boat, and leaves San Diego behind in a bid to vanish.

Settling in a town outside Santa Barbara, he finds work making signboards, meets a girl, Rita Caswell (Joy Bryant), and goes on with life as before.

While working along the roadside one evening, placing signboards, he stumbles upon a couple, Isobel Delano (Ali Larter) and Ralph Hagen (Desmond Harrington), planning the kidnapping and murder of Ralph’s wife, Florence (Gina Gershon). He immediately devises a plan to steal the ransom money from the two of them. It is at this time that Herbert Claremont (Dwight Yoakam), brother of Lew’s late-wife’s lover, appears, claiming to know that it Lew who is responsible for his brother’s disappearance and promising to turn over a gun left on the boat where the two had been killed.

Ralph kidnaps his wife Florence with the help of his girlfriend Isobel and keeps her in a boat. Lew has been following them and takes Florence away from the boat. Then he phones Ralph anonymously, threatening to call police unless he cuts him in for half the ransom money. Ralph agrees. Ralph and Isobel suspect that it is Florence who has some accomplice of her own and is blackmailing them. Lew sends Rita to get the money from Ralph. But Lew’s plan turns awry when Herbert interrupts and kills Florence. When Rita comes back she finds Herbert struggling with Lew and shoots him dead. She later finds that the money she brought from Ralph is fake. Lew goes to Isobel and Ralph to ask them about the real money. Meanwhile, Rita tips off the police. Soon the police come and arrest Lew, Ralph and Isobel. Lew is later released with the aid of Rita, who had hidden the real money herself.

Last Updated: October 09, 2025 at 16:50