Telemystery: Red Widow Premieres Sunday, March 3rd on ABC

When her husband is brutally murdered, stay-at-home mom Marta Walraven is pushed to the limits to protect her children in the new ABC crime drama Red Widow, premiering tomorrow, Sunday March 3rd, 2013 with a 2-hour episode at 9 PM ET/PT. (The series' regular timeslot will be Sundays at 10 PM ET/PT.

In the first hour of the premiere, "Pilot", Marta Walraven (Radha Mitchell) has spent most of her life staying out of her father's world of organized crime. But when her loving husband, Evan, who supports the family by exporting marijuana, is brutally murdered in their driveway, everything changes. Marta's primary concern is to protect her three children — and yet when an FBI agent promises justice in exchange for her cooperation, she hesitates to go against the "Bratva" (Russian mob) code. Evan's business partners — Marta's scheming brother, Irwin Petrov (Wil Traval), and their best friend, the hapless Mike Tomlin (Lee Tergesen ) — were involved in the theft of millions of dollars of cocaine from a formidable international crime boss, Nicholae Schiller (Goran Visnjic). Evan paid with his life, but as far as Schiller is concerned, his debt is not clear. It is up to Marta, as Evan's widow, to navigate the criminal underworld in order to repay this debt — whatever way Schiller sees fit.

In the second hour, "The Contact", in exchange for his stolen drugs, crime boss Schiller tells a still grieving Marta he wants her to import a shipment for him. But she doesn't know when or how he will contact her. She believes if she is successful, she will be free from Schiller's control. While waiting, she enlists Mike and her father, Andrei (Rade Serbedzija), to teach her the criminal business. Their first step is to find a customs official to pay off — requiring an uncomfortable Marta to use her feminine wiles and rethink how far she is willing to go to protect her children. Meanwhile, her young son, Boris (Jakob Salvati), is still reeling after having witnessed his dad's death; Andrei has his bodyguard, Luther (Luke Goss), keep watch over Marta's family; Marta's sister, Kat (Jaime Ray Newman), steps in to help out at the house, causing conflict with her new husband; Marta's brother, Irwin, fights for his life while in jail for gun possession; and a suspicious Natalie asks FBI Agent James Ramos (Clifton Collins Jr.) if her father was involved in illegal activities.

Red Widow is based on the Dutch series Penoza, which recently concluded its second season on the air in The Netherlands.