TONE:
A murder thriller with romantic overtones. Set in San Francisco, similar in style and tone to The Pelican Brief and I Love Trouble but with the visual look of Remington Steele. This script has a distinctly 'San Franciscan' feel to both the filming and visuals.
SET UP:
An Investigative Journalist for the Associated Press becomes involved in a murder when a body is found in the trunk of a White Lamborghini belonging to a drug dealer. The body is of a pregnant girl, infected with HIV. The murderer is a jealous Transsexual who was also a lover of the drug dealer, who is infected with full-blown AIDS.
STORY LINE:
The body of a pregnant girl is found in the trunk of a White Lamborghini belonging to a drug-dealer. A journalist, her assistant, and a private detective solve the crime and implicate a transsexual who has AIDS -- it is he who infected both the drug dealer and his dead girlfriend. There is a secondary plot involving a love affair between the reporter and the detective.
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