Mike's Murder

Los Angeles bank teller Betty Parrish looks forward to whatever chance encounter she has with her former tennis instructor Mike Chuhutsky in she having fallen in love with him despite what little she actually does know about him. That love was initiated by their only sexual encounter the day they met at the tennis court. And her feelings for him have not been diminished about learning of the unsavory side of his life, such as that he is dealing drugs on the side to make ends meet, he, in his own admission, potentially being in danger because of it, and whenever he hasn't followed through in contacting her in he instead attending to those drug dealings. It is still with sadness, anger and incredulity that she learns from one of his friends, photographer Sam Morris, who she had never met and only heard of in passing but to who Mike had often waxed poetically about her, that Mike has just been found in his Brentwood apartment savagely murdered, targeted arguably because of something to do with the drugs from what Sam can only assume. In the shock to her sensibilities, Betty feels the need to learn more about Mike's life, and the events that led to his murder. In the process of speaking to people in Mike's life like Sam, and to Phillip, a music producer to who Mike apparently owed $3,000, Betty likes to feel that she was a larger part of Mike's life than she actually was. While not looking to assign blame, she still does come to a supposition that someone named Pete, to who Betty had spoken to once on the telephone but also has never met, was an integral part of what happened to Mike.