SYNOPSIS:

Donna and Debbie McFarland are twins and the best dancers at their high school. Unfortunately they live in a trailer park. Lines are drawn between the rich and the poor families. The lines are broke when it comes to dancing, especially during the summer dances held on the Ocean City Pier. Donna and Debbie’s talent allows them to cross the lines.

The twins are voluptuous which doesn’t help their reputations. Other teens make assumptions about them. Donna uses her good looks to get better grades in school. One teacher in particular is influenced by Donna’s figure.

Police officer, BB Hanley, is rejected by her peers for being a female and for solving a murder convicting a police lieutenant and three city officials. She failed to get the fifth one, John Stecher, whom she holds responsible for killing her father.

After one of the Pier dances, Debbie McFarland finds BB and reports that her sister is missing. BB and her only friend of the force, Jack Warner, set out to find Donna. They find what they didn’t want to find…the teenager raped and murdered on the beach.

Police chief, Tom Wolfe, under the command of Public Safety Director, John Stecher, is ordered to “keep an eye” on BB with the intention of getting rid of her. Reluctantly, Tom allows BB to continue investigating Donna’s murder.

Mrs. McFarland and Debbie are distraught when BB enters their trailer. She notifies them of Donna’s death and promises to find who murdered her. She starts with the last person Donna was with, Tim Johnson.

Tim is a doctor’s son and shouldn’t be attracted to someone like Donna. But he’d rather have Donna than his rich girlfriend. Tim’s parents want him to become a doctor but Tim wants freedom to make his own choices. When BB questions him, she instinctively knows that Tim did not murder Donna.

BB interrogates all the possible suspects, including the disk jockey who had made a pass at Donna. None were suspicious. At Donna’s funeral, BB overhears a conversation that leads her in a straight line to the killer.

BB solves Donna’s murder but fails to connect the lines between the sisters when Debbie feels she must join Donna in death.

BB continues her quest to get Stecher and deeply regrets not being able to prevent the sister’s death.

LINES (1965) is the second in a trilogy involving policewoman BB Hanley. The first script is called THE FUDGE KING (1964) and the third is THE PARKWAY HOME (1966.)