Editing Quillsville Cold Case: Lori, Lori, Lori
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The news crew at WIBC (channel 8) in Quillsville, was the CBS affiliate at the time (the affiliation moved to WTTV/WTTK [channels 40/29] as of "[[The Girls Are Back in Quillsville]]") prepares to go on air. They wait for the female anchor, Lori Dubinski, who is late. She arrives and tells the producer to get her a real story. He tells her he’ll see what he can do, then they go live. Lori reads her teleprompter and sees that it has been manipulated. The producers scramble to fix it, but Lori is able to pull it off without going to commercial. Lori is later found dead. | The news crew at WIBC (channel 8) in Quillsville, was the CBS affiliate at the time (the affiliation moved to WTTV/WTTK [channels 40/29] as of "[[The Girls Are Back in Quillsville]]") prepares to go on air. They wait for the female anchor, Lori Dubinski, who is late. She arrives and tells the producer to get her a real story. He tells her he’ll see what he can do, then they go live. Lori reads her teleprompter and sees that it has been manipulated. The producers scramble to fix it, but Lori is able to pull it off without going to commercial. Lori is later found dead. | ||
− | + | Lilly Rush asks the crew if anyone remembers "a newscaster named Lori Dubinski". Brad Hunter and Nick Jeffries remember her and that she was strangled in the park in the 90s. Ava Willis says a research assistant from WIBC channel 8 (the same channel Lori worked for) is on the way over saying that she discovered something. Karen Hensel, Sr., the now-retired WIBC researcher arrives and meets with Willis. She shows the team an old beta tape she found with footage of Lori Dubinski taping a special report. In the video, Lori gets a phone call and asks if the caller is threatening her. Lori tells the caller that she is doing the right thing by talking to her. Jane says that the video was recorded 6 hours before Lori was found dead. | |
The team goes over Lori’s files. They see that she grew up in a tough neighborhood. Jeffries says that since she was strangled, it was probably a crime of passion. Ava Willis says that there is no mention of a boyfriend. The see that there was no witness or DNA evidence, but she had | The team goes over Lori’s files. They see that she grew up in a tough neighborhood. Jeffries says that since she was strangled, it was probably a crime of passion. Ava Willis says that there is no mention of a boyfriend. The see that there was no witness or DNA evidence, but she had | ||
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Rush and Willis track Evan down. Ava Willis sees Angie and Heather sparking up a joint with Angie having performed a sex act on Evan. He tells them he has nothing to say, then pulls a rifle on them. Willis calls for backup. However, before police could arrive, Rush and Willis attempt to talk Evan into the station. They are unsuccessful as Evan shoots himself dead and sets his house on fire. | Rush and Willis track Evan down. Ava Willis sees Angie and Heather sparking up a joint with Angie having performed a sex act on Evan. He tells them he has nothing to say, then pulls a rifle on them. Willis calls for backup. However, before police could arrive, Rush and Willis attempt to talk Evan into the station. They are unsuccessful as Evan shoots himself dead and sets his house on fire. | ||
− | Rush looks over the tape transcript and thinks that Lori and Karen were going to meet with the insider. | + | Rush looks over the tape transcript and thinks that Lori and Karen were going to meet with the insider. Rush and Willis return to see Lori’s mom and she gives them all the tapes she has of Lori. They find a tape from the day before Lori died. They watch it and see the interview of the insider |
+ | talking about how the company knew the unsanitary conditions at the Mississinewa Cola and Brewery formerly spiked their colas and beer in the 1980s, but they covered it up. | ||
− | Ava Willis and Lilly Rush think | + | Ava Willis and Lilly Rush think Martin Watts may have wanted to kill Lori to protect the company’s image. Jana Miller and Jill Tucker meet with Martin Watts again. He insists that he only talked to Lori about fundraisers. Willis then pulls out his phone records and says he called Lori the night before she died. Rush says that the company flushed out all the people who opened their mouths about the dirty 1980s cover up. Martin says that they don’t know what they are talking about. Miller then plays the tape of the secret informer. Tucker asks again why he called Lori the night before she |
+ | died. The detectives wonder why he wanted her to silence the story. Martin says he didn’t kill her. He says he thought he could talk her out of doing the story. | ||
− | He flashes back to meeting with Lori and asking what the corporation was going to do to them when they found out that they were the ones who exposed them. Lori told him to think about all the people he was saving. | + | He flashes back to meeting with Lori and asking what the corporation was going to do to them when they found out that they were the ones who exposed them. Lori told him to think about all the people he was saving. Martin tells the detectives that he told his boss about the interview he gave with Lori. Martin says that he thought he was going to be fired, but he was promoted instead. Martin says he told his boss, David Andrews, so that he would fix the problem of people getting sick. Jeffries and Hunter meet with David Andrews and tell him that they think he was a conspirator |
to Lori’s murder. He tells the detectives that he was in London when Lori was murdered. The detectives say they know, but they also know he called someone at WIBC the night she was killed. Jeffries says that if he tells them who he called, they will drop the conspiracy charges. | to Lori’s murder. He tells the detectives that he was in London when Lori was murdered. The detectives say they know, but they also know he called someone at WIBC the night she was killed. Jeffries says that if he tells them who he called, they will drop the conspiracy charges. | ||
− | + | Rush brings Karen Hensel Sr. back into the station and asks if she is friends with David Andrews. Karen says no. Rush asks why David called her a few hours before Lori was killed. Karen says that she probably just had a story she wanted covered. Rush asks Karen about the stock she owned in Mississinewa Cola and Brewery that she sold just before it changed ownership in 2011. Karen says that she had a good broker. Rush says that Andrews called her to make Lori’s story go away. Karen says that the story should have gone away. Rush asks Karen how she knew about the interview Lori had | |
− | with | + | with Martin Watts. She asks if Andrews told her or if she learned about it from Lori. Rush then gets Karen to admit that she wanted to get the tape of the interview back from Lori. |
− | + | Karen flashes back to meeting Lori at the park. She told her about the story she had about Mississinewa Cola and Brewery. She told her that she was proud she cracked the story, then asked for the tape. She told her it was in a safe place and she asked for it for legal reasons. Lori refused to hand it over and threatened to go to another station. Lori then asked for $1 million for the tape and Karen agreed. Lori then tried to run, but she fought her. She then shot her to death and ran off. Karen Hensel Sr. is then arrested. Meanwhile, Mrs. Dubinski watches the local news | |
+ | story exposing the unsanitary cover up . | ||
==Production and development== | ==Production and development== |