house to make the final payment, Brian insists on accompanying her. He waits outside in the car for what seems an unbearable time, and taking Carol's gun from the glove compartment of her car, creeps up to the window of the house to see what's happening. Guss and Carol are involved in a violent fight, and when he sees Guss pull a gun on Carol, Brian impulsively fires at Guss, killing him.

In a panic, the lovers decide to bury Guss' body in the woods behind Carol's house but, unknown to them, David has witnessed the whole thing. Fulfilling his lifelong ambition to be a crack detective, David decides to handle the case himself, rather than go immediately to the police, and advises Brian to give Carol up and tell the police that it was she who killed Guss. Brian refuses, and David goes off to fetch the Sheriff (ALVY MOORE).

Now really frightened, Brian and Carol dig up the corpse and take it out to the desert and burn it. In the meantime, David arrives at Carol's house with the Sheriff,only to find the lovers and the body gone. Understandably, the Sheriff is annoyed at what he thinks is a practical joke, and David is humiliated.

When Carol and Brian return from their gruelling experience in the desert, David is still at the house, crushed because his big chance has been spoiled. But he still has an ace up his sleeve - Guss' watch, which he found at Carol's house the night of the murder. When he reveals this evidence, Brian impulsively jumps David, and a fight ensues, during which David pulls a gun and shoots his friend. Carol rushes Brian to the hospital, but there is little she can do for him by this time, and he dies in her arms. As Carol takes one last look at Brian, she realizes that he truly loved her.