Above Suspicion is a 1995 American made-for-television crime thriller film directed by Steven Schachter, and starring Christopher Reeve, Joe Mantegna and Kim Cattrall.

On May 27, 1995, 6 days after the film's release, Reeve himself was paralyzed from the shoulders down after suffering a spinal cord injury in a horse riding accident.

In part due to Nick's carelessness, Dempsey is shot during a night raid on a tenement building and his doctor says he is paralyzed from the waist down.

One night, Dempsey's neighbor, Iris, looks through her kitchen window and sees him pointing a gun at his head but she bangs on the door and seemingly stops him from committing suicide.

On the night it is set to happen, they sneak out of a movie theater after causing a commotion in order to create their alibi, go to the house, and start staging the scene.

He finds some inconsistencies in Dempsey's account and locates a man who forged a driver's license for Nick which he used to rent the car with which he drove himself and Gail to the house on the night of the murders.

Alan then stabs Dempsey in the right thigh, expecting to elicit a physical reaction to prove that he actually can use his legs.