Derelict Intent

Having overcome his initial misgivings about using his law degree to actually practice law, Charlie Abernathy has started to realize some of the benefits of being a rising star at a large law firm. But just as Charlie gets comfortable, his promising legal career becomes a casualty of the Great Recession. With non-existent employment prospects and crushing student loans payments, Charlie returns home to live above his estranged father's bar and launch a solo law practice.

Desperate for clients, Charlie becomes entangled with an old girlfriend trying to divorce the abusive husband she had chose over him. Confronted by a husband who believes her new attorney wants more than just a legal fee, Charlie's most intense fight could be outside the courtroom.

At the same time, Charlie's father, Jack, is trying keep the bar out of foreclosure when cancer is discovered growing at the base of his brain stem. Obsessed with providing for new family in the event of his death, Jack attempts to enlist Charlie's help with a criminal enterprise that could solve both of their financial problems. But in order to convince Charlie to help him, Jack must reveal the truth about his divorce from Charlie’s mother. In doing so, Jack risks seeing Charlie precede him to the grave.