This episode has its roots in films like Victim with Dirk Bogarde and as far back as the trial of Oscar Wilde. The closet even today is a horrible place to live in with the constant fear of exposure that you might like to kanoodle with the same gender.
A young city councilman is murdered on the street and what superficially looks like a robbery seems more like a contract hit. The victim, son of one of the city's movers and shakers George Martin was being blackmailed and refused to pay any more.
The blackmailers are a lawyer James Sutorius and a convict Joe Aufiery. The problems for this case for Michael Moriarty and Richard Brooks are witnesses who won't come forward and a publisher in the gay press Reed Birney who is in the business of outing.
There's also Martin who is an old fashioned sort and not happy to have had a gay son. His attitude is the biggest stumbling block the DA's office has.
A great story about the terrible demoralizing effects of the closet.
A young city councilman is murdered on the street and what superficially looks like a robbery seems more like a contract hit. The victim, son of one of the city's movers and shakers George Martin was being blackmailed and refused to pay any more.
The blackmailers are a lawyer James Sutorius and a convict Joe Aufiery. The problems for this case for Michael Moriarty and Richard Brooks are witnesses who won't come forward and a publisher in the gay press Reed Birney who is in the business of outing.
There's also Martin who is an old fashioned sort and not happy to have had a gay son. His attitude is the biggest stumbling block the DA's office has.
A great story about the terrible demoralizing effects of the closet.