As the Nixon Administration sinks deeper into the Watergate scandal, former White House Counsel, John Dean, plays a multi-dimensional game of chess to appease the White House, the Senate Watergate investigators, and a new wife. The heart-pumping back and forth illuminates new importance of Dean's fateful April 15 conversation with Nixon, which begins to unravel the cover-up plot and culminates in Dean's infamous testimony in front of the Senate and the world.