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Summary[]
Jessica is doing re-writes for a movie that is beset with both artistic and financial problems. When the stunt man dies doing a car jump scene, the director is charged with murder. It is up to Jessica to find the real killer.
Trivia[]
Victim: Webb Prentiss
Killer: Lucy Hendrix
Cause of death: sabotaged stunt by switching transmission gear
Motive: revenge against Prentiss for killing her father with an earlier sabotaged stunt in order to take his job as stunt coordinator
During the show movie posters are seen in an office, one movie is called Crimson Harvest, the title of Murder, She Wrote: Crimson Harvest (1994).
Although set in Rome, no filming actually took place there.
This is quirky. When Monte is arrested by the police his insignia on his hat resembles the one Mussolini had on his hat.
Webb had brought up that Rex was the one that tampered with the stunt rigging. He pretended to find the bad weld, With Webb bringing up that Rex tampered with the stunt rigging, where's the story that put Monte there before it was brought up that he checked the car. The viewers of this episode by any other forms of media would question that it wasn't brought up at all until Monte, himself, had brought it up, don't you think?
Starring[]
Regular Cast[]
Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher
Guest Stars[]
Bruce Abbott as Monte Hayes
Lisa Banes as Lucy Hendrix
Lorenzo Caccialanza as Inspector Amati
Mike Connors as Boyce Brown
Allen Cutler as Gary Hayes
Louis Giambalvo as Raimondo Bonelli
Sam Hennings as Webb Prentiss
Allan Miller as Jake Farber
Antony Ponzini as Tomaso Ciurillo
Ben Reed as Rex Toland
Shawn Weatherly as Kate Danbury
Lisa Vultaggio as Adrianna Bonelli
Victor Alfieri as Italian Assistant Director
Dean Francois as Italian Sound Engineer