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Rebecca has a very unusual secret, one that not even her best friends know about. The last person on earth she expects to reveal it to is a high priced escort named Paris.

The original scripted ending to 'A Perfect Getaway'.

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.

Galen promises Judy he'll give up boxing, but he's forced to break that promise when people in town start calling him a coward.

The story opens with an old couple in the evening of life, sitting by the fireside reminiscing the happenings of their younger days. How the young man had left his country home to seek work in the great city, and after many days of wandering had found employment as an office boy in the same office with the young lady. How she had taken an interest in him and before many days had become more than friends. Then came the climax which caused them to realize their true love for each other. The employer tried to force his attentions upon the young lady, and the office boy, hearing her cries of distress, had rushed into the private office and rescued her from the brute. Shortly after they were married, and now are at the end of a perfect day, sitting quietly at the fireside.

Gertie is an incorrigible flirt. She is sitting on the bank of a lake, and two of her admirers are contending for her favor. She throws a rose into the water and declares, "Who gets the rose, gets me." There is a wet half hour after that. Her sweetheart comes along and asks her to go for a ride in his car. She is delighted and goes into the house to change her gown. While he is waiting for her, Hank slugs his chauffeur over the head, takes his cap and goggles, and gets into his seat. Reggie and Gertie climb into the tonneau and spoon while Hank, as the chauffeur, drives them all over the town. Finally, he drives right off the end of a pier and the joy ride ends in the ocean.

Dorothy refuses Oren for her mother's sake and, aided by his rival Stid he goes West, while Dorothy's mother grieves over Dorothy's uncalled-for sacrifice and shows her the gorgeous white silk wedding gown she was saving for her to wear as Oren's bride. Months later, Oren writes; Mother Preston has mislaid her glasses, so Stid reads the letter for her and steals a self-addressed envelope which hopelessly separates Dorothy and Oren. Oren marries, while Stid presses a hopeless claim on Dorothy, finally getting his school-board-chairman father, to discharge her. Dorothy relents and takes Stid's ring, but removes it at her dying mother's bedside, and Stid enters to see the mother's silent hands holding the ring which settled his fate, awakening his manhood and causing him to hand Dorothy an intercepted letter. Dorothy opens the letter: a tiny card announces the birth of "Dorothy Preston Evans," Oren's daughter. With the card pressed to her lips, Dorothy rises above her double grief in complete resignation. Fifteen years later Dorothy has surrendered to circumstances and unconsciously enhanced her years by extreme plainness and humble servitude to her boarders, whose gaiety seems far separated from her years. Widowed Oren arrives with his 15-year-old daughter and they board at Dorothy's. Oren is visibly disappointed in Dorothy's appearance and sees to be entranced by attractive boarder Miss Everlyn. Oren's daughter grasps the situation and, deeply in love with Dorothy after whom she is named, she sees that Dorothy's inner beauty is not equaled by her outer appearance. Dorothy, in her window, witnesses the frolic of her paired-off boarders and in tears, prays that her long-shadowed life may have one perfect day. The Perfect Day dawns with resolutions to make her boarders happy by the seaside. Dorothy refuses to go, but before the picnic lunch is served Oren's daughter, displeased with her father's attentions to Miss Everlyn, goes for Dorothy, who refuses to go on account of no clothes. Oren's daughter pulls her into the bedroom, produces one of her own charming dresses. The girl sees the old leather trunk and is curious, and Dorothy shows the girl her mother's white silk dress. Although over 50 years old, the girl declares it is exactly the style of today and commands Dorothy, dressing her hair and making her wear the wedding dress. Later the picnic party is thrown into a flutter by Oren's daughter bringing Dorothy, dainty, handsome and modest, as a guest. Oren comes to his senses and serves Dorothy while Dorothy overhears insinuations from Miss Everlyn and later by the beach declares to Oren she hates him and herself for her indecent actions. Dorothy hurries away, but from the heights sees Oren pushing out on the water alone. Dorothy, about to tear off her dress and bob up her hair is startled by flashes of lightning; a storm is coming. She rushes to the kitchen; the girls come in; no one knows where Oren is and Dorothy is sure he will drown on the rough sea. She hastens away for help. By the seaside before the terrible sea, she sees the overturned boat, and cries out a prayer while Oren, who was home, finds Dorothy by the sea where her tears are convincing and her love seen by Oren and as the day ends Dorothy wins her wish, closing her "Perfect Day."