Teenagers out of control! Now we’re talking. Stories about dangerous, scary teens threatening adults have been a staple of B-movies and bad TV shows for decades. But recently, teens tend to be portrayed in a more pleasant light (“High School Musical,” “Glee,” the Justin Bieber phenomenon). So I was happy to see the scary-teen theme return with a vengeance in “Bond of Silence” (8 p.m., Lifetime), starring Kim Raver (“24”).

Like many TV tragedies, “Bond” begins in yuppie heaven. Gorgeous wife Katy McIntosh (Raver) is preparing soup when her handsome and triathlete-running husband lawyer Bob (David Cubitt, “Medium”) comes out of the shower and gives her a hug. What could go wrong?

Set against this scene of domestic bliss, a New Year’s Eve party assembles across the street, teeming with underage drinkers and unsupervised youth. What could go wrong?

When the party-out-of-bounds awakens their young daughter, Bob assembles a posse of responsible dads to go over and talk some sense into those mixed-up kids.

Only Bob never returns. Rushed to the hospital after being found unconscious amid the boozy chaos, it’s assumed he died of cardiac arrest. Upon further study, it appears he was beaten or kicked to death and that one (or many) of the kids next door murdered a loving husband and dad.

This is where the real mystery begins and where “Bond of Silence” begins to go off the rails. The film never decides whether it’s about Katy’s search for justice (the natural course of a Lifetime movie) or an examination of high school students’ near-pathological conformity and aversion to snitching.

• Five years after Hurricane Katrina, director Spike Lee returns to document New Orleans in the two-part film “If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise” (8 p.m., HBO, concludes Tuesday).

• The documentary “Witness: Katrina” (8 p.m., National Geographic) culls more than a dozen filmmakers’ work, from news crews and government agencies to amateur videographers, to capture the chaos, confusion and courage on display during the great storm of 2005.

Tonight’s other highlights

• Tales of a swinger’s lifestyle obscure her grim diagnosis on “House” (7 p.m., Fox).

• Bret Michaels and Natalie Morales host the 2010 Miss Universe Pageant (8 p.m., NBC).

• Foster’s boyfriend Dave (Max Martini, “The Unit”) is kidnapped on “Lie to Me” (8 p.m., Fox).

• Items linked to Jackie Robinson and J. Edgar Hoover get the once-over on “History Detectives” (8 p.m., PBS, check local listings).

• Parents’ weekend brings anxiety on the first of a two-part season finale of “Huge” (8 p.m., Family).