So my mom was watching this last night, and fell asleep during the last ten minutes. Does anyone have a quick synopsis they can give me, so she can sleep again?
Thanks.
Good Gracious, I actually did watch this, and enjoyed it. It was a nice little TV mystery, and Tom Selleck was good as the grizzled, aging, disgruntled cop. William Devane didn’t get enough screen time, but good too.
The ending was: Jesse found out that the supposedly dead teller from the bank, whose body was found buried, was actually her sister, Lee. The sisters had conspired, when one found out about the money laundering at the bank, to rob it and get the two million in the robbery. One masqueraded as a man, and did the robbery, with the sister as a hostage. Unfortunately, the bank guard (Old guy questioned by Jesse at the dock), did fire and mortally wound the bank teller. This was not in the scenario of the sister’s plans. The teller sister then took her accomplice sister Lee out to the barrens, where she died, exchanged clothes, and buried her. So, the sister that was thought murdered actually was the one who survived.
The two sister’s mother, who had a stroke upon learning of the daughter’s death, was then incapacitate for decades, until Jesse Stone decided to open the case. The surviving daughter, with an ample store of cash with the robbery, was caretaking her mother, living her life to do that.
Jesse Stone then visited her, who had been a love interest of his, and, on a date, had decieved him with a bogus story. He showed up at her door, and told her he knew who she really was (the supposedly deceased bank teller hostage), and there was a poignant moment, where he could have outed her. He decided not to, as the lifetime duty of caring for her mother was enough of a sentence, and, if he sent her to jail, the mother would be the one who suffered most. Dramatic implications were also that he saw her decency, that she had suffered enough from a plan gone awry, and there was no reason to put her in jail, leaving the mother in bad care. Jesse chose to leave it.
The other last minute tie ups were: Jesse went to the boxing ring of the bigwig whose money was tied up in the bank, and had a talk, expanding on what he knew as the real story of the bank robbery those many years ago. Mr. Bigwig said he didn’t believe that, and thought Jesse didn’t know much, and he would call the Evil Terrence off the following detail.
End scene was: Jesse gets home, calls the sister, can’t speak. She looks at the phone, realizes he has called, Silence. Then, huge disturbance as Terrence come in and proceeds to try to kill Jesse. Jesse ducks, rolls, and shoots, killing Terrence with sevral shots. Terrence is most definitely bloody Dead, on the floor.
Last shot is Jesse sitting out on the deck in an Adirondack chair, sighing.
Thanks! I appreciate all of your effort.
She’s happy now.