Mill tells Gudmundsdottir that his near-death experience made him realize he has feelings for her.
He discovers a live rattlesnake in a box and, terrified, bludgeons it with his umbrella. After leaving the bar, Mill receives a fax in his car, advising him to look under his raincoat. Because Mill is not alone, his stalker does not appear. While Mill is waiting, he is cornered by two screenwriters, Tom Oakley and Andy Sivella, who pitch Habeas Corpus, a legal drama featuring no major stars and with a depressing ending. Mill receives a postcard from the stalker suggesting that they meet at a hotel bar. Detectives Avery and DeLongpre suspect Mill is guilty of murder. Mill attends Kahane's funeral and gets into conversation with Gudmundsdottir. Thus, Mill has killed the wrong man, and the stalker apparently knows this. At the end of their conversation Mill receives a fax from his stalker. The next day, after Mill is late for and distracted at a meeting, studio chief of security Walter Stuckel confronts him about the murder and says that the police know that he was the last one to see Kahane alive. Mill goes too far and drowns Kahane in a shallow pool of water while screaming, “Keep it to yourself!” Mill then stages the crime to make it look like a botched robbery. In the bar's parking lot, the two men fight. The two go to a nearby bar where Kahane gets intoxicated and rebuffs Mill's offer, calling him a liar and continuing to goad him about his job security at the studio. Mill pretends to recognize Kahane in the lobby, and offers him a scriptwriting deal, hoping this will stop the threats.
Mill surmises that the disgruntled writer is David Kahane, and Kahane's girlfriend June Gudmundsdottir tells him that Kahane is at the Rialto Theater in Pasadena. Mill has also been receiving death threat postcards, assumed to be from a screenwriter whose pitch he rejected. His job is threatened when up-and-coming story executive Larry Levy begins working at the studio. He hears story pitches from screenwriters and decides which have the potential to be made into films, green-lighting only 12 out of 50,000 submissions every year.
Griffin Mill is a Hollywood studio executive dating story editor Bonnie Sherow.
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