The two women shoot each other simultaneously, and with justice done, Scavetti reclaims his family.Īlthough rife with undraped bodies, LADY IN WAITING is basically a knotty, plot-heavy policier, given a shot in the arm by veteran character actors in incidental roles-notably JFK lookalike Devane as the good cop, a somnambulant Meg Foster as a retired madam, and Costanzo as the roly-poly Scavetti learns that Richards killed Burns to stymie the investigation. Her poolside, blackmailer Richards turns up at the apartment.
When Burns is killed after a late-night rendezvous, Scavetti follows up on a blind lead to finger Danner as the sister of Henley's original victim, as well as the one who killed him. Enter Lori Danner (Shannon Whirry), a mysterious beauty in a blue Porsche. While Scavetti and partner Charlie Burns (Robert Costanzo) work double-time to clear him, and their Lieutenant (William Devane) struggles to ignore the rising tide of circumstantial evidence, their search leads them through the byzantine empire of sex for sale, as well as to figures from When Henley is murdered, Scavetti and his ex-wife both become prime suspects. Meanwhile, Henley's beingīlackmailed by Fiola Richards (Crystal Chappell), a newly-respectable Senator's wife who once worked for the Lady in Waiting escort service. When call girls start turning up dead, strangled with a red scarf, signs point to Henley, who was implicated in a similar death at a wild party. Now he wants to move them all to New York, against everyone's wishes. Kopins) and his 10-year-old son in the bargain. Scott Henley (Charles Grant), the lawyer who plea-bargained him into a dead-end homicide job, didn't stop there, and wound up usurping his wife Elizabeth (Karin Jimmy Scavetti (Michael Nouri) is a hardworking, recovering alcoholic cop with a troubled past, including strong-arming prostitutes. Much like the call girls who provide a focus for most of the action, the film does what it's paid to do and exits quietly. LADY IN WAITING is a softcore thriller with a laconic, boozy veneer and not much initiative in the way of story development.
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