Plot

Kerry and her daughter Ella try to settle the estate of her late father, however the contractor they hire brings with him a series of lethal mishaps.

The movie starts in a quiet suburban neighborhood. An older man hears a crash downstairs and goes to investigate. The man sees a hooded figure lurking downstairs. As he leans over the railing (that has been tampered with) the railing crashes and he falls down the stairs to his death, leaving the hooded figure to shrug and dust off his hands.

In the big city, we meet Kerry, who is painting and coloring . (She's a writer of kids story books) She gets a call, and it turns out the old man who fell down the stairs was her father. (The had an estranged relationship. She also is divorced.)) Kerry and her young daughter go back home to make arrangements for his funeral.

A Realtor named Claire shows Kerry around. Now tasked with selling the house, Kerry has to make repairs, luckily for her, Mike Dean shows up at the door with a tool belt on his hip. He is a contractor. He tells Kerry she has pretty eyes and knows the whole house history. Kerry then remembers him as a school days pal.

Before Mike Dean can get started on the house, Claire decides to buy the house. Kerry tells Mike Dean his services will no longer be needed. Mike reluctantly leaves, unhappy. He goes home and gets scolded by his mother for not bringing back enough money. Meanwhile Claire goes home and the hooded man is watching her. She is home alone celebrating the purchase of her dream home, with a bottle of wine. She goes to flip a light switch and electrocutes herself to death. The hooded figure shrugs and undoes the electrical tampering.

Kerry rehires Mike Dean to make repairs. Before Mike Dean can start his work on the house, A stronger jawed contractor named Jason shows up and charms Kerry. She gives him a walk through the house, and he offers to help out if things fall through with Mike Dean. She invites him to a family party, and Ella tells her mom that she should marry him.

More visitors come by the house, including Megan, Kerry's friend from high school. Mike Dean has been watching all of this from his car. Mike Dean shows up and Kerry introduces Mike to Megan. Megan can't understand why Kerry has hired Mike Dean over Jason. Megan has a disliking towards Mike.

After a successful party with Jason in attendance and some whining from Ella, Kerry decides to stay and live in her father's house.

While going through her father's financial documents, she finds a checkbook with the entire thing filled with $1000 checks made out to Mike Dean. She then goes into the attic and rummages through boxes. While looking through old pictures of her and her family, Kerry gathers items. She starts to carry the box downstairs but falls through the ceiling and into the living room due to some damaged floorboards. (The paramedics and Ella are suspicious.)

Kerry asks Mike Dean about it, and he freaks out on her, yelling: "Why won't you listen to me!" Then he runs out of the house, jumps into his car, and backs into her mailbox. After the whole incident, Megan tells Kerry to fire him and hire Jason. Kerry talks to Jason and tells him that she wants to hire him. He agrees to start the next morning and cryptically says that she should fire Mike Dean.

The next morning, Mike Dean is at their place bright and early. He is hammering away, and Kerry is frightened that he is there and keyed into her house. She calls Jason and asks him to come over right away. Mike Dean keeps following Kerry around the house and apologizing. When she finally gets the nerve up to fire him, he explodes and screams at Kerry - talking about how he is her brother. Jason shows up, and Mike Dean speeds away in his car.

Mike Dean goes home to his mother. She demands that he give her money, and he insists that he told Kerry the truth. Somebody has tampered with the gas lines in Kerry's house, and she practically blows herself up, turning on the oven. Instead of being severely burned, she just has some gauze on her arm. Kerry decides to call the police.

A friend of Kerry's father tells her the truth about Mike Dean. He is her half brother and has known his whole life. His mother had an affair with Kerry's father. Mike Dean and Kerry were supposed to inherit his estate 50/50, but Kerry's father cut Mike Dean out of the will for unknown reasons, but died before he could sign the altered deed.

Ella is in her room laying on her bed and watching You tube. Her ceiling fan is going too fast and shakes itself down, falling on the bed and decapitating all of her stuffed animals. (But, not Ella.) Kerry is convinced that it is Mike Dean tampering and call the police. The police say their hands are tied, but ask her to change the locks.

Kerry gets a call from the detective, and they meet up (together with the father's Insurance agent). He tells her that they believe that her father's death was not an accident, and a homicide investigation has begun. They think Mike Dean is trying to kill them to make sure he is the only person who gets the insurance money.

Megan drives by the house and sees Mike Dean lurking outside in his car. When Mike Dean sees her, he speeds off. Megan follows him to his house. There, he fights with his mother for burning his stuff and storms off. Megan runs to the house and finds a box of photos of Kerry. Megan is horrified but is then hit in the head with a hammer by Mike's Mom. The mom gets out her phone and calls Jason. They are working together, and apparently Mike's Mom is paying Jason to do all these terrible things. As Megan comes to, she hears them arguing and makes her escape, only to be run down by a van in the street, non fatally and admitted to hospital.

With Megan injured and at the hospital, Kerry is misinformed and still thinks Mike Dean is the bad guy. She is about to have sexy time with Jason, but she catches him in a lie about having a niece who loves her books. (Earlier at the party Kerry gave a book written by her to be presented to Jason's niece but he absentmindedly refers to himself as the only child). After realizing his mistake, he cons again about the niece and then while moving out, locks Kerry/Ella in their rooms and lights the furnace on fire, sending smoke billowing through the house. Kerry uses a golf club and smashes through some drywall and attempt to get out of the house, but can't because of the locks Jason installed.

Mike Dean and his Mom argue when he tells her that he told Kerry's father to take him out of the will so Kerry could take care of Ella as it is difficult for her to manage since she's now divorced. Mike's mother admits hiring Jason to killing his father and Claire and has asked Jason to kill Kerry and Ella too. Mike Dean wants to make things right with his sister and rushes to their house. On his way, he calls the police and tells them the situation and that his mother is on the way to the hospital 'to do something bad'. The police arrive just in time and stop Mike's mom from smothering Megan with a pillow.

At the house, Mike Dean tries to smash the front door and save them. Kerry and Ella make it outside through the back door by smashing the lock with the golf club. Jason too arrives and they have to decide who is the bad guy, Jason or Mike Dean. The boys' scuffle, and Kerry and Ella hide. Kerry realizes that Jason is going to kill her and hits him with the golf club. Mike Dean finishes the job as the police pull up.

The final scene shows Kerry, Mike, Ella and Megan and their new puppy in the front lawn, happy.

(Thanks to lifetimeuncorked)