**SPOILERS**Having recovered from a mental breakdown herself some eight years ago mental therapist Dr. Jesse Newman, Barbara Eden, receives another shock to her fragile mental system when one of her patients Catherine Hopkins ends up committing suicide in her San Franciso apartment with Jesse not being able to get to Catherine in time to stop her from doing it. The next day at her office at the city's Brantd & Davis Counseling Center Jesse, barley recovered from Catherine's tragic death, has this women Gloria Hager, Anita Finley, show up who wants to have only her treat her for a serious and deteriorating mental condition.
Gloria tells Jesse that she was recommended by her and Jesse's lawyer a Mister Ken Koplin, whom Jesse never heard of. After telling Jesse about how she's afraid that her 14 year-old daughters Kimberly, Erika Flores, life is in danger and needs Jesse to look after Kimberly after she's gone did Gloria feel that something soon and tragic was going to happen to her. With that Gloria broke off her therapy session and ran out the office never to be seen by a startled Jesse again. For some strange reason Goria left a pendant with a photo of Kimberly in Jesse's office just before she took off.
It's later when Jesse starts to get these visions of Gloria being abused and later murdered by her husband US Navy Admiral Truman Hager, Terry O'Quinn, that her life is turned upside-down. Jesse gets one of these strange visions when she's at a restaurant with her ex-husband Hal ,James Brolin, a San Francisco police detective before she ended up almost killing herself in an auto accident. The visions become so overwhelming that they drive Jesse to try to kill herself by slamming her car into a road-sign almost cracking her skull. This leads Hal and the hospital staff to feel that she's having another nervous breakdown like she did eight years ago.
Not being believed at first one of Jesse's visions prove to be true when the body of Gloria Hegar is found off a pier just where she said it was and that her death, in Jesse's vision, wasn't an accident but a cold-blooded murder with the killer being Gloria's husband Admiral Hager! The Navy and local police authorities instead of having the admiral questioned for his wife's death have Jesse on the hot seat in that she must have had something to do with Gloria's death. Jesse not only was treating her but knew what happened and exactly where her body was to be found; right outside of the admiral's San Francisco Bays house front porch.
On the run from the police and wanting to know what really happened to Gloria Jesse does get a clue to Gloria's daughters real identity in the pendant photo she she got of her. Later checking up on this mysterious attorney Ken Koplin Jesse finds him shot to death in his law office, an apparent suicide. Together with ex and SFPD detective Hal Jesse finds the truth about why the late Gloria Hager was so adamant in seeing her and what all that had to do with her daughter Kimberly.
Nice San Francisco locations instead of the usual Canadian town or city doubling for an American one that you would expect in a made for TV movie like "Vision of Murder" together with the films interesting and somewhat plausible para-psychological story-line makes the movie more then watchable. What really hurts the film is it's uneven ending that leaves you in doubt to what exactly happened, off screen to the mentally unbalanced Admiral Truman Hager. As well as what happened just a few moments earlier to Hal Newman who seemed to come back from the dead and save both Jesse and Kimberly from him.
Gloria tells Jesse that she was recommended by her and Jesse's lawyer a Mister Ken Koplin, whom Jesse never heard of. After telling Jesse about how she's afraid that her 14 year-old daughters Kimberly, Erika Flores, life is in danger and needs Jesse to look after Kimberly after she's gone did Gloria feel that something soon and tragic was going to happen to her. With that Gloria broke off her therapy session and ran out the office never to be seen by a startled Jesse again. For some strange reason Goria left a pendant with a photo of Kimberly in Jesse's office just before she took off.
It's later when Jesse starts to get these visions of Gloria being abused and later murdered by her husband US Navy Admiral Truman Hager, Terry O'Quinn, that her life is turned upside-down. Jesse gets one of these strange visions when she's at a restaurant with her ex-husband Hal ,James Brolin, a San Francisco police detective before she ended up almost killing herself in an auto accident. The visions become so overwhelming that they drive Jesse to try to kill herself by slamming her car into a road-sign almost cracking her skull. This leads Hal and the hospital staff to feel that she's having another nervous breakdown like she did eight years ago.
Not being believed at first one of Jesse's visions prove to be true when the body of Gloria Hegar is found off a pier just where she said it was and that her death, in Jesse's vision, wasn't an accident but a cold-blooded murder with the killer being Gloria's husband Admiral Hager! The Navy and local police authorities instead of having the admiral questioned for his wife's death have Jesse on the hot seat in that she must have had something to do with Gloria's death. Jesse not only was treating her but knew what happened and exactly where her body was to be found; right outside of the admiral's San Francisco Bays house front porch.
On the run from the police and wanting to know what really happened to Gloria Jesse does get a clue to Gloria's daughters real identity in the pendant photo she she got of her. Later checking up on this mysterious attorney Ken Koplin Jesse finds him shot to death in his law office, an apparent suicide. Together with ex and SFPD detective Hal Jesse finds the truth about why the late Gloria Hager was so adamant in seeing her and what all that had to do with her daughter Kimberly.
Nice San Francisco locations instead of the usual Canadian town or city doubling for an American one that you would expect in a made for TV movie like "Vision of Murder" together with the films interesting and somewhat plausible para-psychological story-line makes the movie more then watchable. What really hurts the film is it's uneven ending that leaves you in doubt to what exactly happened, off screen to the mentally unbalanced Admiral Truman Hager. As well as what happened just a few moments earlier to Hal Newman who seemed to come back from the dead and save both Jesse and Kimberly from him.
