***SPOILERS*** You just can't get any lower then this guy Locke, Philip Coolidge, who's not only threatening to reveal the truth about 14 year old Anne Mallory's, Caludia Carvey, real parents but masquerading around as a man of God, a reverend, in doing it! This filthy swine had found out through Anne's semi retarded and alcoholic cousin Parker, Mike Melin,that Anne's father axed his wife to death and then committed suicide in jail by hanging himself! Now smelling big bucks in his future Locke blackmails Anne's adopted parents Park Ranger Jim Mallory , Brian Keith, and his wife Linda, Patricia Breslin, for $6,000.00 in order to keep his mouth shut and not have Anne find out the truth. A truth that can end up destroying her young and productive, in being a straight A student in high school, life!
With Locke covering all the bases in getting the blackmail money and Jim, who's just itching to ring his neck, having no choice but to hand it over to him it's non other then Locke's drunken partner in crime Parker who screws the works up for him. Feeling that Locke is holding out on him Parker in a drunken rage attacks him and ends up strangling Locke to death before the pay-off by Jim Mallory is even made! You would now think that things got better for Jim but in fact they didn't! He's the number one suspect in Locke's death since he reported his blackmail attempt to the local police before Locke was murdered!
With the barley sober Parker now feeling he's in the driver's seat he in turn blackmail's Jim in giving him just $1,000.00 in blackmail money that's enough cash to keep him stone cold drunk, with cheap booze & beer, for at least the next six months. It's when Jim meets Parker who hiding like a monkey in a tree with the blackmail money unknowing to him Anne followed him in the wood and is confronted by the sneering Parker who tells her the truth about her real parents. To make a long story short this leads to a knock down and drag out fight between Jim & Parker with Parker left for dead in the forest and with a distraught Anne on the verge of having an emotional breakdown in finding out the truth about her real parents!
***SPOILERS*** With the world closing in on him Jim, now suspected by the police in both Locke and Parker's deaths, is happily surprised to hear from Anne in how much she loved him and his wife for adopting her in spite of what her father, a psycho ax murderer, did. And even more surprising is that Parker, Locke's murderer, not only survived being worked over by Jim but that a gold cigarette case was found on him belonging to his partner Locke implicating him in his murder!
With Locke covering all the bases in getting the blackmail money and Jim, who's just itching to ring his neck, having no choice but to hand it over to him it's non other then Locke's drunken partner in crime Parker who screws the works up for him. Feeling that Locke is holding out on him Parker in a drunken rage attacks him and ends up strangling Locke to death before the pay-off by Jim Mallory is even made! You would now think that things got better for Jim but in fact they didn't! He's the number one suspect in Locke's death since he reported his blackmail attempt to the local police before Locke was murdered!
With the barley sober Parker now feeling he's in the driver's seat he in turn blackmail's Jim in giving him just $1,000.00 in blackmail money that's enough cash to keep him stone cold drunk, with cheap booze & beer, for at least the next six months. It's when Jim meets Parker who hiding like a monkey in a tree with the blackmail money unknowing to him Anne followed him in the wood and is confronted by the sneering Parker who tells her the truth about her real parents. To make a long story short this leads to a knock down and drag out fight between Jim & Parker with Parker left for dead in the forest and with a distraught Anne on the verge of having an emotional breakdown in finding out the truth about her real parents!
***SPOILERS*** With the world closing in on him Jim, now suspected by the police in both Locke and Parker's deaths, is happily surprised to hear from Anne in how much she loved him and his wife for adopting her in spite of what her father, a psycho ax murderer, did. And even more surprising is that Parker, Locke's murderer, not only survived being worked over by Jim but that a gold cigarette case was found on him belonging to his partner Locke implicating him in his murder!