A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization dedicated to correcting wrongs against the defenseless and assigns human operatives to track down the evildoers and bring them to justice non-violently.
Como único sobrevivente da missão e com o corpo todo coberto de feridas pútridas, ele acorda no leito de um hospital do exército todo enfaixado, com o governo mantendo em sigilo o fracasso da expedição e a morte dos outros dois astronautas, isolando a imprensa e a população dos fatos reais.
Danny DeVito stars in and directs this critically acclaimed short film which was part of the ground breaking HBO/Cinemax anthology series, "Likely Stories." Danny plays corrupt Congressman Vince D'Angelo who is making a sleazy run to become Senator of New Jersey. In the process he spreads vicious rumors about his running mates and uses incendiary campaign commercials to get himself elected. His campaign is derailed when he is caught-on-tape giving a bribe to a G-man posing as a mobster. His response to the "Mobscam" debacle is to claim he was "conducting his own investigation" and then fakes an 11th hour assassination on himself to engender voter sympathy.
A jornalista Grace Collier testemunha sua vizinha, a modelo Danielle Breton, assassinando um homem. Mas a polícia não encontra nenhum corpo, e Grace tenta solucionar o crime por conta própria.