Suzanne's ballet dancer friend, Ruth Douglas, new in town to start her dancing career, gets caught in the middle of murder when, on an audition set up by Jeff with his nightclub manager acquaintance Scott Baker, she hears gunshots and sees Baker's dead body on the ground, with she and the male shooter seeing each other if only for a second before she runs off. In her fear, she is unable to provide any information about the shooter to Jeff or Lt. Gilmore beyond his gender. And again in her fear, she runs off in the process planning to head to some small town to hide in plain sight, not telling either Suzanne or Jeff where she's going, Jeff fearing that the killer will be able to find her wherever she runs without protection. Lt. Gilmore reports that Baker had a clean criminal record, his only major vice, albeit a non-criminal one, being women, indeed the shooter being a jealous husband. The issue is not only the shooter himself, Dan Costello, but that he has some "business" associates for who the killing is an issue with loose ends. So it becomes a race not only to find Ruth, but actually for Jeff, Stuart and Lt. Gilmore to find who the killer is. Jeff believes the key may be the unknown "woman" in the center.
—Huggo