Actor Alec Hunter has been found knifed and strangled at the none-too-elegant Days 'R' Done Motel, the kind of place where drug deals and hour-long rentals are common and almost-famous clients are rare. What was Alec doing in such a sleazy place? And who was the Italian-looking gentleman who registered for the room? Charlie's concentration is not helped by an apparently serendipitous encounter with an old would-be girlfriend. He knew Julie Peters more than thirty years ago, and her reappearance reminds him of some unanswered questions left from their past...