Short Fuse

S.D. Blass (Art Garfunkel) is a beat reporting for the ''Washington Daily Tribune'' newspaper in Washington, D.C.<ref name="Grant"></ref> His editor-in-chief pressures him to deliver more featured stories, as it's been too long since Blass has had a decent article printed. Blass reaches out to Matthew Harrigan (Harris Yulin), a detective for the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, looking for a good story to pursue. He learns about a nurse that was raped and murdered on her way home after working the night shift at District of Columbia General Hospital. Unbeknownst to Blass, the detective had fabricated the complaint and placed the primary blame on go-go music and its concert goers. Blass take the story and publishes it with the title: ''"Nurse Murdered at Go-Go: Music and Drugs Blamed for Violence."''