It's too late for Estrella Stockton, the mail-order bride who wanted to learn kung fu to protect herself from her abusive husband: somebody's stabbed her to death and tossed her off a bridge onto the house of Roderick Effington III. Now it's up to country/western club owner Charlie Plato (DeadMen Don't Dance, 1997) to find out how seriously Thane Stockton took the business about death do us part.