I get the play on words with the title. "Fatal Trust" refers to the fact (as Kate points out in the movie) that we routinely and without a second thought place our lives in the hands of complete strangers who we allow to do all sorts of invasive things to us just because they're doctors. It's a point that gets made in the closing captions of the movie, which share a couple of incidents in which doctors were guilty of murdering their patients. So the point is clear - doctors are humans, and just because they're doctors doesn't mean that they can't kill. Point taken. And I thought the climactic confrontation between Kate and Dr. Lucas was reasonably exciting. But overall the movie was something of a disappointment.Kate (Amy Jo Johnson - who I'm not at all familiar with) moves from the big city back to the small town where she grew up after her husband is murdered. She gets a job working as assistant to Dr. Lucas (David Haydn-Jones - also not really familiar with him) and over the course of time (a short period of time) she becomes suspicious because several of his elderly patients (including her own mother before Kate moved back) die suddenly.So it's a kind of murder mystery, and it's honestly nothing special. The acting and writing are both second-rate, and the revelation of how the doctor actually kills his victims actually made me chuckle a little bit because it seemed so silly. It's thankfully fairly short at a little under an hour and a half (it was made for TV and was probably two hours once commercials were inserted) and I'll give it the credit of saying that the story does move along relatively well. Unfortunately, it's just not that good a movie. (3/10)

***SPOILERS*** it in fact was old taxi driver Harry Goodman, Frank Fontaine,who had the creepy and deranged Dr.Mark Lucas, David Hayden-Jnoes, number right from the start. Harry knew that Dr. Lucas was up to no good since his wife whom the Doc treated died mysteriously from a sudden and unexpected heart attack. If only the people in Ridegwood would have listened to Harry all this killing on Dr. Lucas' part would have come to an end much sooner with the kill crazy Doc put away,in the state prison, where he couldn't hurt or kill anybody.It was Kate Ryder,Amy Jo Johnson, who just came back to Ridgewood from the big city with her asthmatic 6 year old son Sam,Nigel Bennett,who came under Dr. Lucas radar when she wen to see him for a job as his Girl Friday or private secretary. Unknown to Kate she was replacing Grace, Nancy Helmes, who was one of Dr.Lucas' victims! In fact it was also Dr.Lucas who was responsible,by giving her the wrong medication,for Kate's mothers suicide whom he felt was,in being old and sickly,no use to society anymore!The worm finally turned for Dr.Lucas after he got a bit careless in killing far more people, including Larry Goodman, who's death, of a sudden a faked heart attack, he couldn't sweep under he rug. It's now up to Kate to expose the mad killer before she as well as her son Sam and sister Jesse, Carol Alt, who runs the town's Dad Diner end up being his latest victims. The big problem for Kate is who in town will believe her since Dr. Lucas is one of it's most outstanding citizens! Who besides offering his services for cut rate prices also on top of all that even makes house calls!***SPOILERS*** In finding that Dr. Lucas was in fact doctoring the records of those who died of his "special treatment" which included rattle snake poison Kate tries to get the Doc's latest victim 75 year old Miss.White's, Mary Morter, body exhumed and autopsied to see if she,like the Doc stated in her death certified, in fact died of natural causes! This sends the by now losing it Dr. Lucas into an absolute fury and also exposes to everyone in town including the mostly clueless Sheriff Cooper, Lorne Brass, to what the Doc is really up to: Mass murder of those he feels aren't worthy to be alive in this world! Adding another victim to his body count Deputy Sheriff Bailey,Charles Bender, and gunning down but not killing Kate's boyfriend Tom Donovan,Paul Popowich, Dr.Lucas takes off with Sam as a hostage into the nearby corn field to chill out after the heat's off. With the Doc now completely out of his mind he spills the beans to what his true motives were all along, kill those he feels are unworthy to be alive, to the gun toting Kate who,in her having just all she can take from the crazed maniac, blew him away!P.S As we soon find out Dr.Lucs' string of murders weren't confined to just the sleepy little town of Ridgewood that he has his practice or killing spree for just two years. He was killing people all across the country for eight years before he even came to town! And how many he killed is anybodies guess!

After her husband is killed, a woman returns with her young son to her small town birthplace.She becomes a secretary to the local town doctor, a good looking man who apparently has his own agenda consisting of killing his elderly patients.It's never explained why the woman never came home for own mother's funeral.Despite hearing from an elderly man, whose friend died while he was a patient of Dr. Lucas, our heroine doesn't believe this.In the case of stories dealing with serial killings, the bodies begin to pile up and you don't need to have a Ph.D to figure out what is going on.Our doctor, who uses poisonous snake venom to kill his patients, blurts out in the end that life is an incurable disease. You wonder what this nut job is talking about.I wonder what this doctor thought about Medicare.

Fatal Trust shows how well a story can change without notice and never take your eye away from the screen.When Kate (Amy Jo Johnson)comes with her son to start a new for her family when her husband was killed. With the help of her half sister they begin to rebuild their lives and get to be a family again.When Kate takes a job with Dr.Mark Lucas (David Jones) the loyal Dr she seems to enjoy the job.However she will discover that Dr.Lucas is not that he seems to be.This movie story is a strong one that is not found in many movies anymore, it was well thought out and well build together for a movie made for TV.The Characters were very clever and well put and they were played by great actors.The Music really plays well and each scene has a score that tells a story with that scene.You really need to get this movie a try and it does keep you guessing.Overall Fatal Trust has a strong story with very good cast and really enjoyable that should be worth watching.I give Fatal Trust a 8 out of 10