În inima frumoasei și istoricei vale a Dordogne (Franța), o echipă de studenți de arheologie și profesorul lor lucrează pentru a descoperi ruinele unui castel din secolul al XIV-lea. Pentru profesorul Edward Johnston, proiectul reprezintă punctul culminant al viselor sale. Cu ajutorul profesorului asistent Andre Marek, fiul său Chris și studenții săi Kate, Stern și François, Johnston a înregistrat progrese deosebite nu numai în săparea castelului La Roque, ci și a unei mănăstiri și a altor structuri din satul din apropiere Castlegard. Dar lucrurile sunt pe cale să nu funcționeze ... Profesorul Johnston este suspect de binefăcătorul săpăturii - International Technology Corporation, condus de Robert Doniger - și se îndreaptă spre New Mexico în căutarea de răspunsuri.
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the new girl in town, quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more ... much more.
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need enough money to enter a game with Stevens, so they decide to strike a deal with fellow crook Larry Jennings to scam a local gangster -- which turns out to be a bad idea.
N.Y. corporate Jane discovers her boyfriend John in bed with another woman, leaves building enraged and jumps into cab. Her driver is Nick. Jane and her friend Vickie have a plan - to make John jealous, they'll give Nick a false corporate identity and pass him off as Jane's new boyfriend.
Angered by all the child abuse in the world, a child psychologist goes vigilante, targeting child sex offenders who escaped severe sentences.