Her husband's promotion died with her secrets — but she's not burying the truth.
Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.
Acting
Duke's controlled fury anchors every scene.
Direction
Freedman treats TV movie like theatrical release.
Director
Jerrold Freedman
Patty Duke
Laura Dietz
Frederic Forrest
Blaise Dietz
Peter Coyote
Frank Mitchell
Meg Foster
Shari Mitchell
Albert Salmi
Ed Dietz
Miriam Colon
Ina Dietz
David Clennon
Rev. Warner
Pepe Serna
Jim Ramos
Richard Bradford
Chief Gilmore
Carmen Argenziano
Lt. Clifford
Pat Petersen
Ramsey
Amanda Peterson
Gretchen
Karmin Murcelo
Marie Ramos
Howard Hesseman
Jim Osborne
Marie Denn
Harriet Wade
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Duke fought for this role after network execs initially balked at her playing 'unsympathetic' — she rewrote scenes herself.
This aired months before the first Supreme Court ruling on electronic surveillance in marriage; critics called it 'accidentally prescient.'
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