Dead of Night

The story’s subplot involves the murder of a black prostitute at a Sunset Boulevard motel.  This is followed by a raid on an East L.A. apartment where the suspect, Juan Comacho manages to elude the police.  Later, Comacho is arrested in a Spanish Harlem bar and extradited back to California by NYPD Det. Brad Shaner.  It is here that the two plots intersect.  Offering a fresh look, a new perspective on the Laszlo murder, Shaner joins Mallory in reviewing the case file.  Viewing autopsy photos, Shaner recognizes Laszlo from a sexual assault arrest made in New York, almost twenty-eight years before.  At that time he was known as Paul Barac.  As the climax approaches, Mark, Laszlo’s stepson is interrogated.  In a tearful confession (told in flashback) the sixteen-year-old boy relates a year of sexual molestation by Laszlo, ending in Mark’s desperate attempt to end it all...by killing his stepfather.