<div><b>R.I.P. = Reanimated, Infernal, and Pretty damn dangerous </b><br><br> Struggling actress Esther Diamond, whose year got off to a rough start (what with incarceration, unemployment, and mystical death curses), finally catches a break when she lands an acting job.<br><br> She's hired to reprise her guest role as prostitute Jilly C-Note on <i>The Dirty Thirty</i>, a TV crime drama about depravity and corruption in the New York Police Department. Esther's ex-sometime boyfriend, NYPD's Detective Connor Lopez, hates that show with undying passion -- especially after Esther convinces her narcissistic co-star to shadow Lopez on the job, in order to add verisimilitude to his performance as a morally bankrupt cop.<br><br> But Esther's fellow thespian is her best bet for keeping an eye on Lopez 24/7?and, more to the point, on Lopez's new partner, Detective Quinn. Esther and her friend Max, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting the city from Evil, suspect Quinn of being involved in the latest mystical mayhem to menace Manhattan...<br><br> Corpses suddenly aren't staying quite as dead as they should.<br><br> While Max and Esther try to determine what Quinn's role is in the supernatural reanimation of the deceased downtown, a dangerous foe with deadly intent changes everyone's dinner plans one cold winter night...</div>