A detective investigates the mysterious death of a nurse, helping uncover another brutal crime from the past.

SYNOPSIS:

In 1985 two teenagers lives were changed forever. In 2018 one of them wanted to undo the change. The other one didn’t.

A story about survivors and a perpetrator.

Short summary: The action takes place in September, 2018 with the Brett Kavanagh hearings playing on the character's car radios and TV's and in flashbacks to the distant and recent past.

This screenplay is about all the lives that are affected when a fifty-year-old woman, a nursing supervisor in a small hospital in the northern California town of Red Bluff decides to make the man who raped her when she was seventeen in Venice, Los Angeles, who is now a fifty-one-year-old assistant district attorney in Fresno County, pay for his crime. The DA tries to destroy the evidence of the rape which leads to the accidental death of the nurse. A detective in the Major Crimes Unit in the Sheriff's office in Tehama County investigates the cause of death. The DA becomes increasingly crazed after the death of the nurse which leads to a series of events resulting in the DA's daughter, a beautiful aspiring actress in Hollywood who consented to have sex with a producer in order to get a role in a movie to become a famous celebrity, the DA to land in jail and the detective and the nurse’s friend from high school, a dressmaker who lives and works in Montebello near East Los Angeles who had been sexually assaulted when she was fourteen years old, to fall in love.

This suspenseful, passion filled crime drama is an ensemble piece like a Law and Order episode combined with a Life Time Channel revenge movie set against spectacular sunsets and sunrises in both urban and rural locations all across the state of California. It’s a script for the main characters to be played by great actors to perform great acting with a heartwarming ending.

Synopsis: The story begins in September, 2018, in Tehama County, introducing us to a Caucasian 50ish Detective in the Sheriff’s office who had been abusive of women in the past - has now seen it all – but hasn’t found the love of his life.

We next meet a fifty-one year old Assistant District Attorney of southern European or middle eastern ancestry in Fresno County and his beautiful wife and his beautiful daughter in her mid-twenties, an aspiring actress in Hollywood. The D.A. receives a hand written letter threatening him with proof of an event that took place in 1985. The D.A. discovers the name and address of the letter sender, a home in Red Bluff in Tehama county in northern California. He travels to the home and breaks in looking for the proof. A woman, a fifty year old light skinned Black woman, comes home, enters her kitchen, is shocked to see the D.A. there, slips and falls backwards down a staircase, hits her head against the car side rear view mirror causing her to break her neck and bleed out on the garage floor. The D.A. decides not to report the death and makes the home look like a burglary had taken place.

The D.A. is in a traumatized state of mind and can’t sleep. His aspiring actress daughter is home from LA and he overhears her late at night telling her younger sister how she had sex with a producer to get a part in a movie. The D.A. becomes enraged and the next day travels to LA to find the producer. He follows the Producer and his party to a fancy restaurant in Beverly Hills, gets into a fight with him causing a scene. The diners take photos and videos of the event which go viral. The D.A. gets arrested. On the news that night a fifty year old Latino woman sees a report about the incident and becomes distraught. The D.A.’s daughter then thinks her acting career is ruined.

The detective investigates the death of the woman at the home in Red Bluff and learns she was the head nurse at the local hospital. A business card for a bridal/dress boutique in Montebello is found. The detective travels to the shop and interrogates the shop owner and the Latino woman, the dressmaker, who had seen the news report about the event in Beverly Hills the night before who works in the shop as a dress maker. The dressmaker doesn’t give any information to the detective about the death in Red Bluff.

The next morning, September 27, 2018, the dressmaker tries calling the nurse but can’t reach her. She finally decides to call the D.A. to ask what happened to the nurse and leaves a message for him to call her. The D.A. gets the message, looks up who called her, and finds out it is a friend of the nurse’s in high school. He hadn’t slept in about 10 days, is in a crazed state, gets a gun from his gun locker and drives out of the house.

The detective finds out the dressmaker had called the nurse and goes back to talk with her again. The detective and the dressmaker go to a restaurant with Christine Blasy Ford testifying about Bret Kavanagh on the TV. The dressmaker tells the detective she had been friendly with the nurse in high school and that the nurse had been raped when she was seventeen years old but does not tell the detective the name of the rapist. This conversation leads the dress maker to confide in the detective that she had also been a victim of sexual assault when she was fourteen and had never told anyone about it.

Then in a series of scenes we see how the nurse and the D.A. interacted back in high school, how he raped her after a party, how the dress maker and the nurse became friends in high school after the rape, how the nurse came to visit the dress maker a couple weeks ago, how the nurse confided in the dress maker for the first time to anyone about the rape, how they devised a plan to extort money from the D.A. and had a wonderful night out in Hollywood ending the night in bed together.

The detective and the dressmaker become attracted to each other. The detective decides he will go to Venice High School to try to find out who had raped the nurse and asks the dress maker to go with him but she reluctantly declines. The D.A. arrives at the boutique moments after the detective and the dress maker part ways. He threatens to shoot the dress maker and a worker and forces the dress maker into his car. The detective drives past the boutique and sees the D.A. and the dressmaker getting into his car. Not knowing the dressmaker was forced into the car the detective follows them at a distance all the way into the Mojave Desert. The D.A. tries to rape the dressmaker who is rescued in the nick of time by the detective. The D.A. ends up in jail, the D.A.’s daughter becomes a celebrity and in the last scene we see the detective and the dressmaker with a big diamond ring on her finger having an intimate moment in a hotel room with a beautiful view of the Eiffel Tower all aglow.

Credits roll accompanied by the song “Love is the Answer” by Todd Rundgren performed by The Foxes and Fossils