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Synopsis of the play.
A newspaper reporter, Liz Walker, and her
fiancé, a lawyer, returning from seeing an art film in a nearby town, are
almost run off the road by a drunken driver. The reporter is sure she sees the
drunken driver's car go off the road and into a deep canyon. They call the
police, but when the police come and search the canyon, no car is found. The
reporter discovers that other accidents have occurred along this stretch of
highway and there have been many near misses. She is convinced that the highway
department should make this part of the road safer, and she makes it her
personal mission to investigate. She discovers that in an accident that happened
a year earlier, witnesses say two cars went over the cliff; yet the police found
only one. As the reporter drives her fiancé back to the scene of the accident
to talk to one of the witnesses, a drunken driver drives them off the cliff. The
witness, a Mrs. Hemingway, calls the police. The police search the canyon. This
time the police find a car, but not from any recent accident. The car they find
is the second car from the accident a year ago with two bodies in it. The
identification on the bodies indicates that they were a girl reporter and her
boyfriend, a lawyer.
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