William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale - Plot Synopsis: Between Life and Death
But Rick is about to find out that there are times when discretion is certainly the better part of valour. He has stumbled onto information that he may have to pay for with his life. The smooth and debonair Alex Trent - a bigtime businessman, with powerful government contacts - is dealing in nuclear arms: the next shipment is due at any moment. It is a case with frightening international ramifications, and the last person Rick should have chosen to confide in is his boss ...
For Rick appears to him as he plays in the garden, and tells Jamie he desperately needs his help. But how can this be, when Rick is lying comatose in Intensive Care? - Rick’s spirit has "dissociated" from his body, and Jamie is the only one who can see him. It may be the first time Jamie has had his father’s undivided attention in his life ...
Rick and Jamie’s first attempts to alert the police to what has really happened to Rick, and what he risked his life to defeat, are foiled at every turn. Rick knows he will need hard evidence to convince anyone of what seems an outrageously far-fetched scenario - that a highly respected businessman and a senior inspector are working together to supply arms to terrorists.
During his interrogation he had noticed surveillance cameras all through Trent’s hideaway, recording the every move of its inhabitants. Perhaps his own security measures could be turned against the villainous Trent - if Rick and Jamie could only get the tape showing Trent giving the order to have Rick killed to the police ... But between Rick’s impatience and Jamie’s timidity, none of their carefully-laid plans come to fruition.
The turncoat Marsh - who is still presenting the plausible face of the caring boss to the world - is, like Jamie’s mother Jean, puzzled by Jamie’s peculiar behaviour, and the "fantasies" he is having about what happened to his father ... But unlike Jean, Marsh knows how close these so-called fantasies come to the truth. And time is running out ...
Jamie - guided and directed by Rick - manages to infiltrate Trent’s centre of operations and acquire the incriminating tape. He is immediately pursued - but Rick cannot stay with him: his time is up - if his spirit does not go return to his body he will probably die. Jamie bravely insists his father leave him to fight the rest of the battle alone. In demanding respect for his own strengths, Jamie discovers he is braver and more resourceful than he knew - and in that, he is truly his father’s son.