The film centers on a Boston homicide detective, Doyle (Eric Dane) who searches for clues about a serial killer that murdered both his sister and his partner (Rebecca Gayheart).

Doyle surmises she was murdered by the same parties that killed his partner and sister due to similar wounds on their backs carved with a knife.

Doyle then recalls that his aunt Lola used to live on the island and he makes an attempt to locate her.

During a flashback Doyle recollects that Maggie whispered "The Rose, The Crown" in his ear while she was dying.

The woman in the photo, Angela tells Doyle his aunt died the previous year.

Upon leaving it is revealed that Eli and another man were spying on him Back at his hotel, Doyle attends an art gallery opening the Duchess had invited him to.

The artist, Clara asks to be treated to a couple of pints of beer at the gallery's after-party as compensation.

The next morning, Doyle, Melissa, Clara and another artist from the party, Billy MacLeod, are scalloping on the beach.

Eli and her companion show up at the house where Angela lives and take Tony hostage and torture him for information, and cut off one of his fingers.

While Doyle is at the house where Clara was attacked, he examines photos of the wounds and realizes that the carvings are actually letters and that the killers are spelling his last name.

Doyle's phone rings and a local priest tells him that a woman is there who wants to speak with him at the church.

Lola reveals that she stabbed her husband because he attacked her in a fit of drunken rage while finding her in bed with his brother Frank.

Hearing a siren, she rushes towards it only to find Eli driving a stolen police car and shooting at her.

The following morning, a crowd gathers on the beach for a memorial service for Clara, Lola gives Doyle his father's old movie camera.