- Homicide haunts the release of a restored movie, and Jessica investigates the current crime and the 1960 murder that prevented the original release.
- On a Hollywood backstage, would be-actor Darryl Harding overhears Hank Duncan and another dodgy character threatening Monolith studio executive Carson Robbins if he stops helping them to original negatives to produce pirate videos. Jessica isn't much surprised her script hasn't been read yet by producer Boyce Brown, who is busy trying to finish 'Cry of Destiny', the last film of the late giant Austin Young, which gets worse when his unknown adoptive daughter Audrey Young turns up, claiming to own all rights. Jessica finds the corpse of author Fritz Randall, former pupil of and leading expert on Young, apparently suicide by pills as his master once did, but suggests to Lt. Gabriel Caceras they might both have been murdered, which soon proves true for Fritz. Boyce's daughter and producer Elaine is arrested. With these and other intrigues on top of the script's, there is plenty of snooping and sleuthing to be done before she can unmask the killer.—KGF Vissers
- Jessica Fletcher is in Hollywood visiting her old friend long-time movie producer Boyce Brown and his daughter Elaine, also a movie producer, hoping that Boyce has read the script of her book that they are to put on the big screen. They're in the midst of an exciting project - the completion of a 1960 movie that came to a grinding halt when the director, Austin Young, suddenly died. There are problems at the studio however. Many of their films are being pirated in the burgeoning video cassette industry and there's a man, Darryl Harding, who seems to be constantly on the lot but shouldn't be there. When movie buff Fritz Randall is found dead, the police are quick to pronounce it a suicide but Jessica isn't so sure. When she realizes that one of the historic photos Fritz was going to use in his book on the making of the 1960 film is missing, she's sure it has something to do with his death.—garykmcd
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