"The film-noirish screenplay by Marion Parsonnet (and adapted by Jo Eisinger), was taken from an original story by E.Juxtaposed with the brutal murder scene was a pizza-eating dinner at the Brackett home, where the Sheriff gave a tribute to forgotten classic actor Lee Marvin and then acted out an endorsement of non-vegetarian meat-eating: "We, all of us, have a little bit of caveman in us.Elisabeth Garner - Counseling." The dark-haired police psychologist Beth (Jeanne Tripplehorn) is assigned o counsel Nick in the department as a recovering alcoholic and cocaine abuser.Henri excuses his graying hair and older age:Let""s just say I""m old enough to know what to do with my young feelings.