***SPOILERS*** It's when one of psychologist Joanna Shaw's, Jolene Blalock, patients was found murdered in an alley that she started to have nightmares about her own past. In the fact that the love of Joanna's life Jesse, Glovanni Mocibob, killed himself some dozen years ago because she didn't want take off with him for parts unknown and end up sacrificing her collage education in doing it.
The patient who ended up being murdered unhappily married woman Leslie Hammond's, Carrie Colak, boyfriend Clay Sanborn, Martin Coming, an old high school flame of her's was having a secret affair with Leslie at the time of her murder! That fact that Leslie dreamed of her being murdered the night before made it seem to Joanna that she may well have known her killer in advance! And it was suspected by Joanna that her drunk and violent husband Marshall, Joe Norman Shaw, was the person who ended up murdering her! Where Jesse, who's body was never found, comes into the equation is that Clay whom Joanna broke the terrible news to about Leslie's murder reminded her of him! So much so to the point that Joanna started to have an affair with Clay behind her husband's Dr. Harrison Shaw's, Jeff McGrail, back! This lead to the fireworks that happened at the conclusion of the film when Marshall met Clay, whom he held responsible for his wife's murder, as he was about to check out of town from the very hotel that he had a hot and heavy one night stand with Joanna!
It was Joanna's misguided feelings for Clay whom she unconsciously mistook for Jesse that got her into a heap of trouble by keeping his involvement, if any, in Laslie's murder from the police. It's the police in the person of bloodhound like, in smelling out leads, Detective Thron, Greg Lawson, the chief investigator in Leslie's murder who were about to have her arrested for withholding evidence, Clay Sanborn's identity, from them!
***SPOILERS*** This all lead to the big confrontation at the hotel with Marshall gun in hand confronting Clay and poor Joanna stuck in the middle of this violence in trying to prevent it from happening! As we soon find out the real killer of Leslie Hammond had nothing at all to do with any of this. He, or she, had his own problems to confront and neither Clay Marshall or Joanna had anything at all to do with them!
The patient who ended up being murdered unhappily married woman Leslie Hammond's, Carrie Colak, boyfriend Clay Sanborn, Martin Coming, an old high school flame of her's was having a secret affair with Leslie at the time of her murder! That fact that Leslie dreamed of her being murdered the night before made it seem to Joanna that she may well have known her killer in advance! And it was suspected by Joanna that her drunk and violent husband Marshall, Joe Norman Shaw, was the person who ended up murdering her! Where Jesse, who's body was never found, comes into the equation is that Clay whom Joanna broke the terrible news to about Leslie's murder reminded her of him! So much so to the point that Joanna started to have an affair with Clay behind her husband's Dr. Harrison Shaw's, Jeff McGrail, back! This lead to the fireworks that happened at the conclusion of the film when Marshall met Clay, whom he held responsible for his wife's murder, as he was about to check out of town from the very hotel that he had a hot and heavy one night stand with Joanna!
It was Joanna's misguided feelings for Clay whom she unconsciously mistook for Jesse that got her into a heap of trouble by keeping his involvement, if any, in Laslie's murder from the police. It's the police in the person of bloodhound like, in smelling out leads, Detective Thron, Greg Lawson, the chief investigator in Leslie's murder who were about to have her arrested for withholding evidence, Clay Sanborn's identity, from them!
***SPOILERS*** This all lead to the big confrontation at the hotel with Marshall gun in hand confronting Clay and poor Joanna stuck in the middle of this violence in trying to prevent it from happening! As we soon find out the real killer of Leslie Hammond had nothing at all to do with any of this. He, or she, had his own problems to confront and neither Clay Marshall or Joanna had anything at all to do with them!