spoiler highly charge police drama about a serial killer loose in and around the small town of riverside wisconsin . who be track down by the local police use policewoman gina pulasky and helen hunt and a an undercover decoy to catch him . nothing new in this make for tv movie that you haven not see before but the depth of the acting and screenplay be unusually good and bring out a lot about not only the killer but the policewoman and as well a her fellow policeman lover and state of mind . have be put under psychiatric care after shoot an arm and unstable assailant and who attack her partner with a rifle . officer palusky be give the task to go undercover to get close to murder suspect kayle timler and steven webber . after he be positively identify by the little girl sahsa and kim kluznick and who saw him not far from where little timmy curtis be find stabbed and 18 time and to death the next day . get a job at the mr. c diner where tim work gina get to become very friendly with him and later tell him and in order to get tim to open up and about him possibly be the serial murderer that she once kill in a hit and run accident a 79 year old woman . tim who be say to have a genius iq doesn not seem to pick up on gina attempt to trap him even when he later see her at a bowling alley with her fellow cop spend a night out . play some weird cat and mouse game with her tim at one point get gina and at knife point and to admit that she wire . but gina tell him that she be force to do it by the police to get a break and an early release from prison . besides tim instability and criminal action we find out that gina isn not all there as well . she seem to be suffer from her be reject by her father who leave her and with a drunk and abuse mother and a a young girl that effect her work a an undercover policewoman . there also the fact that gina lover policeman will mccaid ( jeff fahey ) and who estrange from his wife and two kid and who also on the serial murder case be too overprotective of her . that cause gina to almost blow her cover and that have her late be take off her assignment . put back on undercover duty by her bos capt . cheney ( dan conway ) and over the objection of officer mccaid and after another young boy and 12 year old davy marish and be find murdered gina finally get herself together and get tim to admit that he the person who responsible for the string of murder in the area . gina do it by have a hidden tape recorder that she replace the one that she give to him to show how honest she be and hidden on her . the movie in the company of darkness wasn not really that exceptional but the acting by helen hunt jeff fahey and especially steven webber be . it be these high caliber performance that lift the film well above the average make for tv movie be use to see .