Unemployed and newly-divorced Stephanie Plum lands a job at her cousin's bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past.
Jersey girl Stephanie Plum after losing her job, is broke. Needing a job she is told that her cousin, a bail bondsman, needs someone to help out in the office. But all he has are skip tracers. She learns that Joe Morelli, a guy she knew intimately years ago, is one of them. She eventually finds him but wasn't really prepared so he gets away. Another bounty hunter, Ranger tries to teach her. Eventually she finds him again but he claims he is innocent of the crime he is accused of and he is trying to prove his innocence. Eventually Stephanie thinks he's telling the truth so she stakes out the person who can help him but she only finds herself in trouble and Morelli saves her. She tries to find someone who can prove his innocence but problem is shortly after meeting with them they're killed or attacked.
Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
When Stephanie is in Bernie's appliance store asking about Carmen, the music playing in the background is Habanera from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen. Carmen is an opera about a woman murdered by her soldier-lover, who is jealous because she has been cheating on him with a bullfighter.
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Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers):
The keys Grandma Mazur hands to Stephanie are house keys, not keys to Big Blue.
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Quotes
Joe Morelli:
[after she kills Jimmy Alpha]
Come on the cuffs!
[Stephanie looks at him]
Joe Morelli:
Come on Steph, Stephanie, Stephanie? Plum! Stephanie Plum:
[Closes the door]
Payback Morelli. Joe Morelli:
[Door is closed and Morelli is banging on it]
Stephanie Plum open up the damn door!
[She laughs]
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