The film opens with reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) and researcher Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi) going after a conservative senator who has been having secret sexual encounters with his male interns despite his heavily anti-gay agenda. Rowena confronts the senator while recording audio evidence. The story is shut down, however, when the source clammed up shortly after, Rowena's editor, a supporter of the senator, having put a stop to the story. Disgusted, Rowena quits her job. While walking home, she meets her childhood friend, Grace Clayton (Nicki Aycox), who seeks her help in taking down Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), a wealthy advertising executive. Grace gives Rowena her e-mails as proof of their extramarital affair, which he recently ended.
A few days later, Grace is found dead, leading Rowena to suspect Harrison. With Miles' help, Rowena goes undercover as a temp at his company. She flirts with Harrison both online and in real life, but he catches her snooping and fires her, believing her to be a corporate spy. At Miles's apartment, Rowena discovers a shrine to herself and explicit pictures of Miles and Grace. He arrives home and they fall out. She goes to the police, with evidence she and Miles uncovered, who arrest Harrison for the murder of Grace.
After Harrison's conviction, Miles visits Rowena, explaining that he knows she is the real killer and has been using this investigation to frame Harrison. He wonders what Grace had on her. Rowena flashes back to a memory of her father attempting to molest her and her mother subsequently bludgeoning him to death with a fireplace poker. A younger Grace watches from her window as they bury his body. Miles describes in detail how she had plotted the murder to end Grace's blackmail and pinned the murder on Hill. Miles asks how she intends to keep him quiet, implying she might sleep with him, since he has long lusted after her. However, Rowena stabs him to death and ransacks the kitchen. She then calls the police, claiming to have been attacked by Miles and that he might have been the real murderer. The film ends with a man looking out of a neighbouring window, presumably having witnessed what really happened.
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