Road rage, it is said, arises from the innate desire for instant retributive justice. We see someone do something - that impacts us adversely and directly - and we feel it is our duty to do something about it. I haven't sen this movie since it was first broadcast, but it lives with me. Every so often something happens that it comes back to haunt me. Someone steals my space in the parking lot - right in front of me - and I get mad and I have a desparate, unsatisfied need to get even. In another movie, Kathy Bates gratified that desire, wrecking the young girls' beetle convertible with her street cruiser. "I'm older, but I have way more insurance". Mrs Cage has done everything right in her life. She has always obeyed the rules and done everything properly. Now the detective must uncover what caused that to crack. It is only the fear of having to explain myself to the cops afterwards that keeps me in line.
