Certain Women drops us into a handful of intersecting lives across Montana. A lawyer ( ) tries to defuse a hostage situation and calm her disgruntled client ( ), who feels slighted by a workers' compensation settlement. A married couple ( and ) breaks ground on a new home but exposes marital fissures when they try to persuade an elderly man to sell his stockpile of sandstone. A ranch hand ( ) forms an attachment to a young lawyer ( ), who inadvertently finds herself teaching a twice-weekly...

Dave Brown is a Los Angeles police officer who works out of the Rampart Division. Dave is misogynistic, racist, brutally violent, egotistical and a womanizer, although he defends himself against many of these accusations as he says that his hate is equal opportunity. However unlawful, he uses intimidation and brutal force to defend his ideals. The most notorious of his actions is purportedly murdering a suspected serial date rapist, which is why he has been given the nickname "Date Rape Dave"....