The Morning After
1970
Teaser Storyline for "The Morning After"
John (Sammy Cole) returns from a trip to California. He finds his Sister Gay (Jean Parker) in bed, naked, dead from multiple stab wounds. He calls the police. The inspector (David Marcus) interrogates John to try to find out who killed his sister. John tells the police that Gay worked in a "sex" club run by his friend Larry (Richard Zunt). He explains that Gay got that job after a fight with their father (Thomas Strangle) when he discovered Gay in bed with her boyfriend. The police ask John not to leave town, and ask him to notify their father.
When John sees his father and tells him that Gay is dead, the old man is bitter and angry. He replies that Gay, like his ex-wife, was no good and she is better off dead. John is hurt by his father's vindictiveness. Back in the apartment, John looks through all their papers for a clue to the murderer. Larry, his friend and Gay's boss and
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lover recalls the first time that he met Gay and made love to her. John asks him if she had any other boyfriends, but Larry tells him that she worked strictly solo, and as far as he knew there were no other men in her life. The phone rings, and John speaks with Maureen, Gay's best friend, who also works at the club, and who is in love with John. She tells him that she knows something about Gay. John rushes over to her apartment, but Maureen (Linda Shall) will not say anything until after he makes love to her. Later, in bed she tells John that one evening after Maureen had just finished with a 'client', Maureen went to take a shower and Gay made a play for her. While the two women were making love on a couch in the bathroom, Larry came in, and in a fit of jealousy beat up Gay and almost killed her. John, convinced that Larry had killed his sister, rushes over to the club to confront Larry. He has a fight with his bodyguard (Nessa Trou) fells him with a karate blow, and breaks into Larry's office while he is busy making love to another one of his girls. John is about to shoot Larry, but his friend convinces him that he did not do it. He remembers an incident, however, where an older man got Gay very upset during her act the night she was killed. The only thing he noticed about this man is that he was limping.
John suddenly remembered that his father was limping when he saw him with the news of his sister. He rushes over to his father's apartment and gets him out of bed. At first the old man denies that he killed her, but seeing that John would kill him if he lied he confesses that he spotted Gay on the Street one day, followed her to the club and saw her lewd act. She even threw her panties at him during her Strip. He left before her and got drunk, then went to John's apartment to try to talk her out of the life she was leading, but passed out on the bed before she arrived. When Gay came home and found him, she laughed at him and then stripped for him and tried to seduce her own father claiming that he always lusted for her. In a fit of anger and passion the old man found the knife and killed her. John calls the police while his father breaks down in front of him.
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