

"Dearest bitch, I've exhausted myself trying to think of the perfect way to kill you. Sally returns home with a private investigator, and finds Elsa's body in a pool of blood, and her apartment in shambles. Increasingly enraged by his lack of contact with Sally, Douglas manages to break into her apartment, and murders her maid, Elsa, in the bathroom.

When police press her for information, Belle cannot remember the name on the obsessive letters's return addresses when police inquire about it to Sally, she says that they do not keep the fan mail. She survives the attack, but is hospitalized. He decides to hand-deliver a letter to her while she is rehearsing for the musical, but he watches the man at the studio give the letter to Belle, whom he realizes is the assistant who has been writing the nasty responses to him.Īfter the rehearsal ends, Douglas follows Belle into the subway, where he slashes her face open with a razor. Meanwhile, Douglas begins stalking Sally, sitting outside of her apartment building, and following her to her stage rehearsals.


After Belle receives another explicit sexual letter from Douglas, she brings it to Sally's attention Sally scolds her for being rude to the fan, and brushes it off, saying she's had to deal with many fans who have had extensive "fantasies" about her. Sally has recently taken a job in a musical stage production, and has been reconnecting with her ex-husband, Jake Berman(James Garner), who is in town filming a movie. Douglas feels ignored, and becomes determined to meet with Sally and consummate "his love" for her. Having sent multiple obsessive and borderline-sexual letters to Ross, her assistant Belle Goldman (Maureen Stapleton) has been intercepting them, responding herself and asking him to stop. Douglas Breen (Michael Biehn), a deranged young New York City record salesman, writes a rambling letter to stage and film star Sally Ross (Lauren Bacall).
