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In this episode a man molests and kills a little girl and the police focus on her stepfather as the culprit after finding pictures of children at his home. The story itself closely resembles a real life case in which a little girl disappeared, in 1981 or thereabouts. Her body was found and the police eventually found her killer, a man who was not one of those who lust after children but rather had been inspired to do the deed after seeing a similar act on a home video.

It was the weirdest thing l ever saw, bar none. I'm,frankly, worried that the story in the reboot might parallel that of two Japanese families whose children were accidentally switched at birth, with no one realizing it till it was too late. 0ne of the children became the head of the family business and the other, a taxi driver in Tokyo. The businessman didn't realize he wasn't the wealthy family's child till a DNA test excluded him. 0nly then was the taxi driver found and his true identity verified. It was only pure chance that the businessman had the talent and drive to succeed his Foster father after the old man's retirement from the company itself. The driver's biological parents both died before the mistake was uncovered, and he won a huge lawsuit against the hospital where they were bon. The businessman has endured tremendous emotional anguish and may even have lost the right to his Foster father's estate. So, l hope the reboot is different from the original film.

Another plot that could be used is that of a novel l read years ago about a senator who fakes the enire scholastic career of his mentally handicapped son because the boy is unable to learn in the same way we do. In the end the Senator ends up dead at the hands of his son. This plot still haunts me to this day, and l often fantasize about the son killing his fathereven though it is actually impossible: the truancy laws are so strict - at least here in Canada - that despite being excused from elementary phonics l still had to show up for legal reasons. I'd sit around a round table with six or seven other children and my female aide would lead us in song.