Burn (not a review, but just throwing it out there)

INT. LIVING ROOM NIGHT

Raquel and her friends and her roommates friends simultaneously occupy the same small apartment. The TV is on and FRANCIS is staying over like he's been doing more often. Raquel's girlfriends took to him like white on rice. JENNIFER STAHL, a New Yorker, is crashing here during her temporary stay on assignment with a talent agency. She is following Raquel's footsteps to a new life in the west where she can escape the law that constantly hounds her for selling marijuana. Raquel moved back out west after filming a production of a movie that industry insiders expected would skyrocket her career, but paying off debts, staying off drugs, and finding somebody to fall in love with was conflicting with the lifestyle of a budding star.

Raquel tempts her all the time with spliffs, bumps, alcohol and other recreational drugs.

JENNIFER

Time for ghost stories. The gray man, of the thirties, is tonight's could the werewolf of Wysteria have any bearing on JOEL GREYS decision to change his name from KATZ?

LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS

A few others sit watching TV in the living room. Raquel makes a B-line from bedroom to front door and exits without a word to anybody. Francis emerges from the bedroom exhaling smoke and looking around for Raquel. FRANCIS Did anybody see Raquel? When nobody responds, he heads out the front door to look for her.

EXT. ALVARADO STREET - NIGHT

FRANCIS

RAQUEL!

Francis spots her and takes after her.

FRANCIS (CONT'D)

Where you going?

Troubled look on Raquel's face tells it all

RAQUEL

I can't stand it anymore, living with those... those--

FRANCIS

Ho's?

RAQUEL

I've got to get out of there.

FRANCIS

Where you going?

RAQUEL

No. Permanently. I needto get my own place.

INT. COMPANY VAN - MORNING

Somewhat dishevelled, Raquel sits in the passenger seat awaiting what Francis has in store for her to solve her living arrangements problem.

FRANCIS

You're going to like this gig. Very informal, easy peazy and choose your own hours.

RAQUEL

What am i doing here so early then.

FRANCIS

I gotta get you in first. now, to be safe, you used a different name in school. Can we use that for your job application?

RAQUEL

Yeah. I still have id under elsie.

FRANCIS

Okay, because some of these gigs, Jesus, we're better off with pseudonyms. I'll be known as Florence while we're on rooftops painting numbers.

BIER

Can you find out what year Joel adopted the surname "grey"?

MOLLY

That's easy. Nineteen fifty-six. Borscht Capades listed Joel's name as Joel Kaye. And that same year, Joel used Grey as his last name.
Molly continues browsing Internet and shares her screen with BIER who notes that beat soup was believed to have originated in the Ukraine.

BIER

There's our link to the Baldwin shooting.

BIER (CONT'D)

Halyna was from Ukraine.

INT. HOME - DAY

Telephone rings. A robotic message comes thru the receiver.

TELEPHONE

Laura Italiano wrote an article about Kamala Harris that made it impossible to continue writing, so she quit. She also authored coverage on the plastic surgeon who killed his wife, Gail Katz Bierenbaum. The story goes something like this: Robert Bierenbaum killed his wife in 1985 and fifteen years later he went to court, eventually being found guilty, not fifteen years, after Gail's disappearance, but thirty years after.

AARON

Why would a journalist from the New York Post quit from negligence of fact checking a story if that pubication is only in the 51 percentile of factual reliability?

TELEPHONE

It's kind of unusual that a defendant would receive a life sentence even there's no body, nor a murder weapon. It wasn't until after he was found guilty that he admitted to killing her.

MOLLY

As far as I know from Bier's notes on the subject, ROBERT BIERENBAUM tried to appeal his conviction. I think something must've happened to prompt his confession. For instance, he must've done something much worse than murdering his spouse.

ALBERT

The saying goes it's a thin line between genius and insanity, BIERENBAUM was thought to be the former -- a perfect catch for Gail.

MOLLY

Bier uncovered court docs that disqualified HIS psychotherapists from testifying.

ALBERT

I wonder why. Here's what I truly have a hard time believing... Born in fifty-five, he was about thirty when his wife vanished. They had dated for about a year before they got married in eighty-two. That means he was twenty-six years old when he met GAIL. This scenario plays in my head over and over again. If he graduated high school at age EIGHTEEN, like most people, then the required eight years of medical school puts him at age twenty-six when he graduated; when did he have time to learn to fly airplanes?

MOLLY

My theory is he was involved in much darker activities, like black market organ harvesting and plastic surgery on minors. Surely being found guilty of such sinister practices would've gotten him a stiffer sentence!

ALBERT

What d'ya got there?

Molly hides the notes Bier had written on Jaffe vs. Redmond.

MOLLY

Remember the CD story? There is a link between a haunted movie and the Bierenbaum case.

ALBERT

Something about subliminal messaging.

MOLLY

Uh, maybe. ROBBIE GOULD, a med student, was played by MAX CANTOR who died of an overdose. DOCTOR JAKE HOUSEMAN not only emphasizes Robbie's poor moral judgement, but JERRY ORBACH played Houseman AND he had a part in the show Law and Order which aired an episode juxtaposing the Bierenbaum case.
AARON struggles in his mind to put the pieces together.

MOLLY digs thru more paper and finds more notes on the deli massacre. Hands them to Aaron.

MOLLY

Here's a fan forum entry for the Law and Order show.

INSET: THE UNKNOWN CARNEGIE DELI TRIPLE MURDERER #3. THE LAST OF THREE SUSPECTS

ALBERT

There was three murderers?

MOLLY

Either that or the Carnegie hosted murderers who killed in threes.

ALBERT

Like how actors die in threes.
Could there have been two previous triple murders at the deli we don't know about?

Molly's response is a questionable shrug.

ALBERT

This is Dirty Dancing?

MOLLY

Yes. And so far there's been two death within the cast: Max and JENNIFER STAHL.

Article in the Orange County Register by Lois Evezich subject is a dancer Jennifer Stahl. pdf copy in Google drive. Deirdre's account.

MOLLY (CONT'D)

In another article which focused on the unusual violence in NY over marijuana, reporter Kevin Flynn mentions Jennifer Stahl having been shot with ONLY two other friends, when in fact a total of five people were allegedly shot that day. Two survived, three died.

INSET:

AARON (READING)

SEAN SALLEY confessed to shooting Jennifer during his trial in June. How is this stiff linked to Bierenbaum?

MOLLY

Can't you see? The Jaffe v. Redmond case proved Bierenbaum was hiding something much worse than just having killed his spouse.

AARON

But isn't he doing life? How much worse could his persecution have been?

MOLLY

He's getting out. He only got twenty to life. And get this, Sean Salley is doing 123 years. That's a lot considering the people he killed were drug dealers and so despised by people that nobody went out of their way to point out to the newspapers that pictures of the victims might've helped humanize them a little more.

AARON

Right, so as to justify his sentence. I remember helping Bier search for photos of Jennifer Stahl. He said he wanted to pick out her scenes from Dirty Dancing. He only found descriptive articles about her, but what about Gail?

(TO SELF)

I like this article because it reads more like an obituary, describing how Jennifer Stahl's physical appearance was, considering no victim photos were used in the press when articles about the homocide at the Carnegie Deli were published.

MOLLY

GAIL and JENNIFER were like two peas in a pod. Gail had a rock n roll boyfriend and Jennifer had a rock n roll boyfriend.

AARON

And wasn't BABY, Jennifer Grey, involved in some kind of traffic accident in which two people died?

MOLLY

That's why Dirty Dancing made it into the haunted movies category. Or, if I can go off topic a bit, the Robert Bierenbaum murder of his wife Gail describes Gail as, prior to marrying Bierenbaum, living with a musician boyfriend in NY, just like the DAN BARRY, in your stack of notes, describes Jennifer Stahl as giving up acting for music with her boyfriend. The ironies are endless.

AARON

Could Jennifer Grey be the missing Gail?

Compare Robbie's character in DIRTY DANCHING, performed by Max Cantor to Robert Bierenbaum.

(TO SELF)

Max was taking up journalism and writing about the death of a dancer named Monika Beerle.

INSET: DAN MANGAN ARTICLE ALSO READS LIKE AN OBIT: SHE SHARED HER REEFER GLADNESS

INSET:

MOLLY

Where's this screencap from? Odd that immediate offspring names belonging to Martin were not mentioned.

ALBERT

She came from a broken home?

MOLLY

Who?

ALBERT

or was she raised by grandparents?
Where's my phone? I want to check this website out.

(READING)

Earn the necklace dot com, slash, Jennifer-Stahl wiki-cause-death-new-dirty-dancing-facts-know by Dontei Wynter- Published May second, two thousand seventeen.