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In San Francisco, Erik Sutton comes to the police station and talks with a detective, Sgt. Joe Brice. He asks about his missing car and admits that he came in early at 5 a.m. Erik explains that he’s up early because he’s a pianist and practices for two hours. Brice notes that Erik picked up a hitchhiker and then stopped at a liquor store, and points out that liquor stores aren’t open at 2 a.m. The sergeant says that they’ll let him know if they find the car, but Erik wants to know if they’re going to look for the girl. Brice explains that their priority is finding the car, and there’s no indication that the hitchhiker plans to use it for a crime.



A few days later, Erik comes back in. Brice notes that they found his car three days ago. Erik went for a drive, parked and went for a walk, and when he came back the woman was hiding there. She knocked him out and took the car again. Erik has no idea why the woman has been stalking him. Brice asks if Erik’s wife saw the mystery woman, and Erik explains that he and his wife separated. The sergeant wonders if the mystery woman is connected to that, but Erik insists that his wife never met the woman. Brice has him go through mug shots, but Erik doesn’t see the woman there. However, he insists that Brice do something before the woman shoots him. Erik asks to work with a sketch artist, and he describes the woman.

The woman, Claire Foster, comes out to her car and discovers that a motorcycle cop is writing a ticket for her illegally parked limo. The cop recognizes Claire and asks him to come down to the station. Erik arrives and Brice explains that Claire is married to a rich architect. She claims that she was with her husband during both incidents, but he left for Venezuela that morning and they can’t confirm her alibi. They put Claire through a lineup and Erik claims not to recognize her. When he leaves, Brice apologizes to Claire and shows her the sketch. The sergeant gets a lab report that Erik’s fingerprints were the only ones on the car, and Brice tells his officers to bring Erik back. Claire says that she won’t press charges, but she wants to talk to Erik.



Erik is drinking at a bar when Claire comes in and smiles at him. He apologizes to her but insists that he couldn’t have mistaken her. Erik says that she’s the woman he’s been looking for since college, and they’ve never talked before. He insists that they’ve passed on the streets and met at parties... in his dreams. Claire insists that it’s a coincidence, but Erik says that her image in his mind is the only thing that got him through his personal problems. He tried to get a detective agency to find her. However, when they warned it was impossible, Erik faked the claims that she stole his car to get the police to find Claire for him. When Claire comments that he went to great lengths to find her, he points out that she basically admitted she was the woman. She denies having a matching dream about him and insists she’s been content with her marriage for the last three years.



Erik wonders if she’s been happy, or merely content, and she tells him to stop digging at her. Claire assures him that he won’t press charges, and suggests that Erik see a psychiatrist. She notes that her husband, Walter, has recurring nightmares of a man with a long scar on his right hand entering their bedroom and strangling him. Erik has no such scars, and he realizes that Claire was hoping for it to come true, and that she wanted Erik to kill her husband because he won’t let her go. After a moment they embrace and kiss, and Claire explains that if she gets a divorce, it will be a long fight and she’ll lose everything. Erik invites her to come with him on his concert tour, but she refuses and asks him to stay. She says that she can’t and asks him to stay. When he refuses, she takes a pair of scissors out of her purse and cuts a scar on his right hand. She then binds his wound, says that she can stay at her place until the stitches come out, and everything will work out perfectly.



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