A police officer has been found murdered in a hotel and the only clue is the shape of a spider cut into his stomach. While he was a dirty cop, he has no connection to any of the other murders that also have the red spider on their skin.

District Attorney Stephanie Hartford (Jennifer O’Neill, The Psychic) assigns Lieutenant Daniel Malone (James Farentino, Dead and Buried) to the case and he’s joined by Kate (Amy Steel, Friday the 13th Part III 3D), the daughter of the dead cop, to find who is behind it all. There’s also an Asian crimelord named Sonny Wu (Soon-Tek Oh) who knows more than he’s letting on and a blonde prostitute behind it all.

This was directed by Jerry Jameson (a TV veteran who directed 19 episodes of Murder, She Wrote as well as another giallo TV movie, Hotline, plus The Bat People and Airport ’77) and Paul King, who wrote the script with William J. Caunitz, the technical advisor for this movie. It was the follow-up to another TV movie by the same team, One Police Plaza. Caunitz was a New York City Police Department officer who used his own experiences to write several novels as well as these two movies.