It was a typical Saturday night in the hospital emergency room - kids with broken bones, drunks with broken noses and battered wives with broken dreams. Then a grief-stricken father takes after the town's leading obstetrician, and suddenly police Detective Jo Ferris and the hospital are teetering on the edge of a gut-wrenching decision: Is this a spur-of-the-moment attack of despair, or is something uglier lurking beneath it?