A shadowy, large-headed figure entered the bedroom door, moved toward he bed, and stood over the resting couple.BackgroundIn he Heat of the Night(1967) is a tense whodunit detective story thriller that was set in the little backwater town of Sparta, Mississippi during a hot spell in September.He remembered a year earlier, when they had again almost considered elling Tony: "I wish it was a year ago, when you came to say goodbye.The director of the CIA, Ezra Kramer (Scott Glenn) expressed his concerns to retired USN Adm.Mark Turso (Stacey Keach).In Reston, Virginia, retired Air Force Colonel Eric (or ""Ric"") Byer (Edward Norton), a military insider who had headed up the earlier secret and illegal CIA programs known as Treadstone and Blackbriar, was then notified of the problem.She asked:"Well, for the love of mud! Where am I sleeping, on a race track?"She explained who she was - a fallen woman: "I""m Pollyanna, the glad girl" - she was forced to remain until the next steamship ferry returned in four weeks.