Mary Higgins Clark’s ‘Pretend You Don’t See Her’

A murder in a Federal witness-protection program is in danger when the killer discovers her new identity., After witnessing the murder in one of her properties, Manhattan real estate agent Lacey Farrell is relocated to Minnesota by the Federal Witness Protection Program. Unable to get the murder out of her mind, she begins to delve deeper into the events that surround the woman’s untimely death., Thriller in which an estate agent is forced into witness protection soon after selling the apartment of a girl who died in suspicious circumstances. When the deceased girl’s mother is also found dead, all signs point to a murderer on the loose., The first of the PAX Network’s several TV-movie adaptations of the novels of Mary Higgins Clark, Pretend You Don’t See Her begins when real estate agent Lacey Farrell (Emma Samms) witnesses a murder. Not long afterward, Lacey is placed in the Federal Witness Protection program, along with her spunky young niece Bonnie (Kim Poirier). Danger rears its ugly head when professional hit man Curtis Caldwell Blake (Hannes Jaenicke) gloms onto Lacey’s new identity. Will detective Ed Sloan (Beau Starr) be able to rescue her in time, or is it up to Lacey to extricate herself from this perilous dilemma? Former police officer Sonny Grosso of The French Connection fame functioned as the film’s co-executive producer and research consultant. A British/German/Canadian co-production, the Toronto-filmed Pretend You Don’t See Her made its American TV bow on January 12, 2002., Estate agent Lacey Farrell sells the apartment of a recently deceased girl. Her grieving mother tells Lacey that she suspects the death was murder, but before Lacey can act on her intuition, the mother is killed. The New York realtor is forced into witness protection to escape the mystery hitman., When a Manhattan real estate agent witnesses a murder, she joins the Federal Witness Protection Program and starts a new life in Minnesota., A murder witness (Emma Samms) in a Federal witness-protection program is in danger when the killer discovers her new identity. Blake: Hannes Jaenicke. Det. Ed Sloan: Beau Starr. Domenic Troiano (of the Guess Who) composed the score.