Editing Dead Again (section)

==Plot==
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Newspapers detail the 1948 murder of Margaret Strauss, who was stabbed during a robbery; her [[anklet]] is missing. Her husband, composer Roman Strauss, is found guilty of the crime and condemned to death. Before his execution, Roman is visited by reporter Gray Baker. Asked if he killed Margaret, Roman appears to whisper something in Baker's ear. Baker does not disclose Roman's answer.

Forty-three years later, private detective Mike Church investigates the identity of a woman who has appeared at the orphanage where he grew up. She has [[amnesia]], cannot speak, and has nightmares. Mike takes her in and asks his friend, Pete Dugan, to publish her picture and his contact info. Antiques dealer and [[hypnotist]] Franklyn Madson approaches Mike, suggesting that hypnosis may help her to recover her memory.

When the session is unsuccessful, Madson suggests that they experiment with [[past life regression]]. Mike is skeptical, but the woman details Margaret and Roman's lives in the [[Third-person narrative|third person]]. When the session ends, she can speak but still has amnesia. Mike and the woman bear a striking resemblance to Roman and Margaret. 

Mike nicknames the woman "Grace" and falls in love with her. A man named Doug appears and claims that she is his fiancée, Katherine, but Mike discovers that he is lying and chases him off. Hypnotized, Grace remembers that Roman suffered from [[writer's block]] and was broke, despite his earlier wealth. He believes that Margaret is flirting with Baker. Margaret cannot convince him that she is faithful and catches Frankie, the son of their housekeeper, Inga, looking through her jewelry box. She asks Roman to dismiss Inga, but Roman refuses, saying that Inga saved his life in [[Nazi Germany]].

Grace sees Mike standing over Margaret with scissors and is convinced he intends to kill her. Mike insists that he would never hurt her, but when he accidentally calls her "Margaret", he agrees to let Madson regress him. During his regression, he realizes that he was actually Margaret (and that Grace was actually Roman), but is unable to tell Madson or Grace.

Pete Dugan tells Mike that he has identified Grace as artist Amanda Sharp. It is discovered that she lost her memory due to getting mugged. Amanda (Grace), still afraid of Mike, accompanies Dugan and Madson to her apartment; her artwork focuses on scissors. Madson gives her a gun to protect her from Mike. Mike visits Gray Baker in a nursing home and asks him about Roman's secret. Baker insists that Roman said nothing to him but rather leaned over and kissed him. Baker is convinced that Roman did not kill his wife and urges Mike to find Inga, who might know what truly happened. Baker tells Mike that Inga and Frankie started an antiques shop, and Mike realizes that Franklyn Madson is actually Frankie.

Mike breaks into Madson's shop, where he finds and questions Inga. She reveals that in 1948, she declared her love to Roman, but he rebuffed her. Frankie blamed Margaret for his mother's unhappiness, killed her with scissors, and stole her anklet. Roman was found covered in his wife's blood and holding the murder weapon.

After Roman's execution, Inga took Frankie to London, where he learned about [[hypnotherapy]] and past-life regression. After returning to Los Angeles, Frankie was convinced that Margaret's spirit would seek revenge. Seeing Amanda's photo in the newspaper, he knew that she had returned. He hired Doug, an actor, to separate Mike and Amanda, and distract Amanda while he waited to kill her. Inga apologizes for her role in Margaret's death and gives Mike the anklet. After Mike leaves to find Amanda, Frankie (Madson) smothers Inga with a pillow.

Mike tries to tell Amanda the truth. Terrified, she shoots him. Madson arrives and reveals that he is Frankie. He puts the scissors that he used to kill Margaret in Mike's hand and tries to make it look like Amanda killed him. Mike revives and stabs Madson in the leg with the scissors. Dugan arrives, misconstrues the scene, and tackles Mike. As Madson reaches for the pistol, Amanda stabs him in the back with the scissors. In a rage, Madson charges Mike, but Mike positions Amanda's scissor sculpture so that Madson impales himself.

A closing montage shows Mike and Amanda embracing, [[Superimposition|superimposed]] over Margaret and Roman in happier times.