Ashes, Ashes — Charles Atkins

Manhattan forensic psychiatrist Barratt Conyers is facing plenty of challenges: her husband has been murdered, she's pregnant after being raped by the man who killed her husband, and she's trying to prevent her longtime nemesis, psychopath Richard Glash, from being transferred from his maximum security prison cell to the local mental hospital, from which he could easily escape. Do-gooder attorney Carla Phelps is opposing Barratt -- she believes it's a violation of Glash's civil rights to keep him in prison when he's obviously suffering from mental illness. But Carla's tune changes when Glash makes a daring escape during his transfer from prison and takes both Carla and Barratt hostage. As Barratt's on-again, off-again boyfriend, police detective Ed Hobbs, races to rescue both women, Glash reveals his bizarre and cunning plan -- a plan that will wreak havoc on the entire population of Manhattan.