In the library of 264 Seacliff Drive, San Francisco, Hazel is on the phone with husband, Dan Murray, once on the verge of being a chain store tycoon, but now reduced to one, fairly shabby operation in Los Angeles. She's updating him on Hank's condition in the hospital, after he had an accident driving home from the sky ranch. Through the fog, he thought he saw a girl in his headlights, so he swerved from the road, and went over an embankment...