PERRY MASON

in The Case of the . . .

with Raymond Burr

as Perry Mason

All episodes of the fourth season of "Perry Mason in The Case of the . . ." have been upgraded as of 25 December 2009. Episodes 97, 101, 103, 105, 109, 113, 114, 116, 118, 121 and 123 appear for the first time in other than broadcast format with the release of the CBS-Paramount edition, from which they have been upgraded. Episodes 96, 108 and 115 are on DVD in the 50th Anniversary Perry Mason issue; DVD chapter indices for this issue are in { } brackets. Further, all episodes of less than 1400 words have been upgraded from the CBS-Paramount release. Where indicated "CBS Tape/DVD," the synopsis shows the DVD chapter indices placed in parentheses within the synopsis text. All episodes have been marked with their CBS-Paramount "Raymond Burr is Perry Mason Season 4" chapter markings in italics and squared [parentheses]. The coding and other information for the CBS-Paramount release takes precedence over previous tape and DVD releases.

Addition (cover) 27 Ma6 2010

#	TITLE	SHOW DATE	BOOK DATE-ORDER	CBS TAPE/DVD
96	Treacherous Toupee	17 Sept 60	ESG '35-6 cf. Counterfeit Eye	15064/13-28615

CHARACTER ACTOR CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Lorna Grant Dee Arlen Della Street Barbara Hale Stanley Roderick Jonathon Hole (correct Jonathan) Paul Drake William Hopper Judge Frank Wilcox Hamilton Burger William Talman Wilber Fenwick Lindsay Workman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Lucy, housecleaner Juney Ellis Cybil Basset Peggy Converse Flo Rita Duncan Peter Dawson Philip Ober Supper Club Manager Hal Smith Ken Woodman Bert Freed Plainsclothesman Len Hendry Teddi Hart Cindy Robbins Court Clerk George E Stone Hartley Basset Thomas B Henry Sgt Brice Lee Miller Dick Hart Robert Redford Receptionist Patricia Marlowe Arthur Colemar Nelson Olmsted

Produced by Herbert Hirschman Directed by Richard Kinon Teleplay by Maurice Zimm

[2-6/1-9 Title credits]{5-10/1-9}(3-1) [2-9]{2-9}(3-2) A Pan Am 707 jet is landing. Passengers deplane and one, a man goes to a pay phone booth, calls the Basset residence. Lucy, the house cleaner, answers and says that Mrs Basset has gone to a "sharecropper's meeting." The man quickly hangs up, then looks in the phone book. He calls Basset Tool and Die, gets the Domestic Tool and Die receptionist. He asks for general manager Peter Dawson, discovers that Dawson is now president. He again quickly hangs up, rushes to a cab. / The Domestic Tool and Die Company. Cybil Basset, wife of Hartley and mother of Dick, joins Dawson with her husband’s proxy. He doesn’t want her to get cold feet, has sent her son to San Francisco so she could make decisions on her own. She's been deserted 2 years by her husband. The stockholders, four men, enter and the meeting begins. A plan to sell assets of the firm and form a new one is discussed. The man, Hartley Basset, enters; “Looks like I got here just in time, doesn’t it?” Cybil faints. // [3-9]{3-9}(3-3) At home, Cybil gets Hartley a drink when he asks if she has “to hide the liquor from that useless son of hers.” Where was he? He just disappeared and she didn’t know what to do. He counters that it is not he who should answer questions. Cybil tells Hartley that the company was almost bankrupt, but Dawson saved it, by working day and night. She starts sobbing. He counters that perhaps she loves Dawson. She claims that he stole $6,000 when he left her, and she hates him. He doesn’t understand her charge, leaves to find out the truth. She calls . . . / son Dick, who enters a hotel room with his new bride, Teddi. He asks, “we’re getting the money, aren’t we?” He tells her he’s just got married. She advises him that his stepfather has returned. He orders her to “stop crying.” He’ll “make it rain . . . make it pour, on him.” The newlyweds kiss. / Ken Woodman, plant superintendent, comes to Dawson. Basset enters. He's fired the secretary but will keep Woodman, who relates how his wife left him, took her life in Manila. Coldly, he notes that she left about the same time Basset disappeared. He leaves. Basset now fires Dawson. / In his office with Della Street taking notes, Mason advises Dawson that Basset can fire him from his position as president, but not for six months as general manager. Dawson asks the attorney for protection for self and those around him, particularly Mrs Basset who also had a bad first marriage. Why, asks Mason, didn’t he start his own business? He never expected to see Hartley again and thought he could save the company and Mrs Basset with the proxy she held. Mason phones Basset, who is combative, calls Dawson a thief, then agrees to see him at 10 p m, after he and (Arthur) Colemar, the company controller, have time to go over the books. / 10 p m. A scream. Mason comes out of the elevator, enters the company office, is met by Dick who is carrying Teddi to a couch. She has been hit on the forehead, but she can identify the man. They find Hartley Basset, shot dead. Dick laughs. Basset is holding hair, from a wig or toupee. / On the phone, Cybil tells Peter about the murder. She wishes she had done it. He then looks for his gun, but it is gone. He pulls off his wig. // [4-9]{4-9}(3-4) Dawson tells Mason he has no alibi, but his spare toupee was stolen. Lieutenant Tragg enters, then gleefully discusses how toupees can be identified, including “six different shades” in Dawson’s toupee. Teddi is missing, and Tragg accuses Mason of hiding her so she can’t identify Dawson, whom he now arrests. / Paul Drake questions Dick in the company office. Mason enters, lets Dick go. The groom has no picture of his bride, whom he's known only a week. Colemar joins them, tells Mason he left at 9:47. He knows this because he doesn’t drive a car so he missed the 9:50 bus and had to wait twenty minutes. He couldn’t hardly believe Basset’s calling Dawson a thief, says Dawson barged in about 8. He knows Dawson wears a toupee because Ken Woodman teased him about it. / Woodman gives a cold shoulder to the “counsel for the defense,” as he eats his hot lunch. Mason notes wife's things are untouched for two years. He won’t answer two Mason questions, including if he connected Basset’s disappearance with his wife’s. He’s “not on the witness stand, yet.” Woodman accuses Teddi and/or Dick of the murder, for the money they’d lose with Basset alive. / Drake reports that the murder gun was registered to Dawson and, comments Della, shells were found in his apartment. / The manager of the Burgundy Club of San Francisco tells Drake that “Teddi Lansing” was a singer and pianist for about a month. She never gave him a publicity picture. In the things she left behind, he finds a lead to Fresno. / Flo’s Beauty Salon in Fresno. Drake has been waiting a half hour. He again asks about Teddi. Flo answers, “I’ll have to think about it.” So Paul pays Flo for info on Teddi. She produces Wilbur Fenwick, who married Teddi six months before, as photo shows. / Dick can't believe Drake's story, that she took Fenwick for all he had, left without saying “goodbye,” and didn’t even get a divorce. Mason says they must keep it quiet. Dick leaves. Paul, Perry and Della agree Teddi’s not going to reappear voluntarily. Dick returns to note that he's being followed. Mason says, yes, by the police. / (Lorna) Grant poses for Perry and Della. She is a virtual twin of Teddi, or so thinks Della. Mason gives her expense money to go to Carmel-by-the-sea. She notes that Mason does “skirt the law at times,” but takes the money when he says she’ll be doing nothing illegal. This seems an enigma to Della. What does it mean? “It means the preliminary hearing starts tomorrow morning,” explains the lawyer. // [5-9]{5-9}(3-5) In court, Dick testifies for D A Hamilton Burger to his carrying Teddi to the couch, then, after the D A clarifies why hearsay evidence should be allowed, what she said and what happened when the police arrived, searched the building, and Teddi disappeared. Lt Tragg identifies the torn piece of toupee and the murder weapon, which was found in a culvert, culverts being a favorite place, police have found, for criminals to discard weapons. Mason suggests that the murderer put it there to be certain it would be found. / Stanley Roderick is sworn in by the court clerk. He then demonstrates that the piece of toupee could only have come from Dawson's hairpiece. When Mason asks if the whole wig, instead of a piece of it, wouldn’t come off when someone pulled, Roderick asks him to “grab away,” to the delight of those in the courtroom. Colemar identifies the photostat of the page from accounts the month Basset disappeared, requested by Hartley Basset “on the day he returned.” There is a debit of $6,000, the missing amount. Dawson prevented an investigation. Afraid of an attachment due to the precarious situation of the business, employees were paid in cash, with surplus accumulated in the vault. He, Dawson, Mrs Basset and Ken Woodman had access to the vault. / Drake takes Dick to the airport. / Woodman testifies to hearing Dawson get angry. Then Basset fired Dawson. Later, Dawson said, "Hartley, some day I'm going to kill you." Mason questions the witness about his wife’s disappearance and death. The defense attorney brings up the passenger list for a flight to Manila, which includes “Ken Woodman.” Yes, he went to the Philippines to get proof of Basset's complicity with his wife, swore he'd kill him, but couldn't find him. Cybil Basset is called to the stand but court is adjourned by the judge. Cybil then asks Mason where her son is and he refuses her an answer. // [6-9]{6-9}(3-6) In Carmel Dick enters a room and embraces Grant. Sergeant Brice and a local policeman enter, take her despite her and his denials. / Cybil admits to receiving a note by special messenger from her husband at 7:58 the eve of the murder. She threw it away, but the police developed a photostat from an impression of the note by ballpoint pen on Basset's memopad. The note tells her to change her plans regarding Dawson, for he took the $6,000. She informed Dawson of this note. Tragg enters, speaks to Hamilton Burger, who tells the court that Teddi Hart, who can identify the murderer, is on her way to the court in half an hour, and, oh yes, charges the D A, Mason may be guilty of serious misconduct. Court adjourns to await arrival of Teddi. In the court hallway, Colemar tells Woodman how he admires Mason, then heads around the hallway corner, followed by Paul, while Colemar is followed by Della, who is observed curiously by Tragg. / In chambers, Burger repeats and explains his charge. Mason explains that the murderer had to think that Teddi was coming to the court to point the accusing finger at him, and now he will waste no time in “getting as far away as possible.” / At the airport, Arthur Colemar is caught by Lt Tragg with Della Street. // [7-9]{7-9}(3-7) Mason's office. The Los Angeles Chronicle headline reads KILLER TRAPPED. Della tells Paul of Colemar's confession. Colemar took the $6,000. At night, Basset discovered Colemar had done the embezzling. Teddi discovered them. Tragg enters; Mason calls him the devil! He announces that they found Teddi, in Vermont, “getting married again” says he in concert with Della. [8-9 end credits]{8-9}(3-8) [52:47]{52:47}(52:26)

[3-6/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] In his law offices, Everett Dorrell tells Richard (Hammond) that he cannot get his estate money for three years. Ev(erett) apologizes for not getting a better settlement on the accident and offers to lend Dick the $15,000 that he needs for his mother's operation. Come by at 9, Ev vociferously tells secretary Miss Winslow, who buzzed him on the intercom, he doesn't want to talk to Helen Austin. / Ev, at home in a robe, gets a phone call about Helen Austin, who has threatened to kill herself, at 5 to 9 . He rushes out to his car. The lights don't come on. He drives without them and, just as he leaves his driveway, he hits a woman, Helen Austin. Dick drives up and sees the dead woman and Ev. // [3-8] Ev, who has been dating Austin, tells Dick that he got a phone call from a bartender who said that Helen was in trouble. He’s worried his fiance and her family won’t believe he quit seeing her. Dick says he'll take care of things by taking the body elsewhere, reporting hit and run. He suggests Ev drive his car into a telephone pole to disguise the effects of the accident. Ev gives Dick the money he needs in cash. / Policeman takes Dick's report. Dick returns home, backs his car into the two-car garage, one side of which is empty. / He goes to bed, but wakes when he hears sirens. His garage door is on fire, and the Fire Chief thanks Dick for quickly turning in an alarm! Dorrell's car is in the empty space as the Fire Chief inspects. Neither car is fire damaged. Hammond phones Dorrell, but he is not home. / Hammond goes to Dorrell's office. Miss Winslow says Dorrell is at court, but Hammond thinks he's avoiding him. On the way out he is met by Clara Thorpe, Helen's aunt, who wants the $15,000 that Helen had on her. He refuses, then enters 904, Perry Mason's office. / He tells Mason the whole story, including the $15,000 and someone reporting the fire in his name. He also brings up the accident involving his mother. There was carelessness on both sides. Gertie reports over the phone that Dorrell was not in court that day. Mason tells Della Street to get Paul Drake to find Dorrell. / Mason and Hammond go to his home, find Lieutenant Tragg and Sergeant Brice waiting because Clara Thorpe has reported the missing $15,000. As they enter the house, a ringing phone brings info from Della that Dorrell will see Mason. Hammond has Brice get the $15,000. / Ev is told by (Marvin) Claridge that scandal cannot be allowed. Barbara (Claridge) asks if he will tell about Helen Austin. Marvin says he and Barbara won’t go along on his confession. This amounts to an ultimatum. Barbara muses over the situation. Mason is waiting outside but, over the intercom, Dorrell now says that he has nothing to say. Mason offers a choice of now or on the witness stand. Claridge, Martin’s prospective father-in-law, comes out, says he's Dorrell's advisor, "when necessary." // [4-8] Paul Drake has reported to Mason that Helen Austin wasn’t at the Oasis Inn and the bartender made no phone call. Dorrell had broken off with Austin who was a receptionist at the Claridge Land Company main office. Dorrell has categorically denied giving $15,000 to Hammond, and loaned him his car. Paul is told to treat this as a murder case. Clara Thorpe then tells Perry she wants the $15,000 "back." She is the last and only heir of her late sister’s only child, and does not know where Helen got the money. Did she actually see the money? Alex Hill, Austin’s former husband, is in Los Angeles. They were divorced more than a year earlier, after she met Dorrell. She wants him to lead her to another $15,000. After Clara leaves Mason tells Della that he intends to help her. / Mason seeks out Alexander Hill in his apartment. The man says he hasn’t worked for four months, yet Mason notes, as he is asked for a cigarette, that Hill has a solid gold cigarette lighter. Hill has “absolutely no interest” any more in Austin. He also has a silk shirt and tie. / Mason phones Tragg. / Mason and Tragg find Dorrell washing the street just below his driveway where the accident occurred. Dorrell lies about lending car and such. Mason accuses Dorrell of lying, of hit and run. Mason throws accusations, correct ones(!), at Dorrell, then announces that bloodstains were found in Hammond’s car, not Dorrell's car. Now Dorrell admits everything but giving him the cash. Tragg now reveals that Austin was dead when hit by the car. Hammond deliberately staged the event by phoning Dorrell, shoving the girl in front of the car. Austin was the driver of the car that killed Dorrell's sister and permanently injured his mother! // [5-8] In court the autopsy surgeon tells D A Hamilton Burger of the means of death, a large stone. A policeman identifies the location where the body was found and the man, the defendant, who reported finding it. Clara says Hammond with his attorney saw niece Austin in the hospital after the accident that killed his sister and injured his mother. On the night of the murder her niece went out at 7:30 to pick up $15,000. She tells Mason that she never saw the $15,000. Austin did mention Alexander Hill's name, as well as Dorrell. Yes, she was Hill’s wife. Her face was covered with bandages, so he could not see her face. Tragg identifies blood stains, and the lethal stone. Has location of the murder been determined, asks Mason. Has the driveway been searched? Mason suggests that the district attorney has suppressed evidence. Hamilton Burger immediately rests his case. Mason asks for a delay, which is granted by the judge, and asks Della to subpoena Dorrell, both Claridges, and Hill. // [6-8] Mason calls Dorrell, who admits hitting Austin, and agreeing to loan $15,000 for the service of removing the body. Hamilton Burger tries to go beyond Mason's direct testimony, and is stopped by the judge and Mason's objections. Alex Hill admits he's been out of work a few years. His gold lighter was a gift, but he bought his shirt and tie. He cannot explain his former wife's bank deposits and withdrawals. Burger objects to this line of questioning a cross-examining his own witness, but the judge is curious how Hill “has found a magic way of life.” How does Hill live expensively? Helen gave him the money. Helen wasn't alone in the car. That's how she got $2,000 every month and he got $1000 to keep quiet. Burger calls Dorrell as his rebuttal witness. He says he was not in the car, nor did he give money to Austin or the defendant. Mason gets him to admit that he knew the driver of the accident car was Helen Austin, but known to Hammond as Mrs H ill. He didn’t want the Claridges to know. Marvin Claridge put pressure on him, and is still doing so. If he wasn't the protected passenger, who was, asks Mason? Dorrell is trapped. It was Marvin Claridge. Yes, he did give $15,000 to Hammond, and if now he'll lose Barbara, he’s sorry. Marvin Claridge was the mysterious passenger in Austin's car and was having an affair with Helen. Claridge admits giving Austin the $2000 a month. She demanded $15,000, but he didn't give it to her. He gave it to Dorrell and told Helen to wait a day. No, he didn't kill her. Who, besides her former husband, could have been blackmailing her? Hill came to Claridge after Austin was murdered. Mason challenges Hill. The judge orders him to the witness chair. Hill, the murderer, stands, calls Helen a "cheat." “You made a pretty good pair,” comments Mason. // [7-8] Perry, Paul, Della and Ev are gathered in Mason's private office. Helen gave half her $2000 to Hill because “he threatened to go to Claridge’s wife and blow the whole affair wide open.” Hill couldn't leave Dorrell's because Hammond's headlights caught him in the driveway as he arrived right on time. Then what Hill overheard between Dorrell and Hammond set him up. Mason notes that the two men still have to answer charges of tampering with evidence and obstructing police procedure. Ev says he’s ready. Paul and Ev leave, and a hungry Della exacts a fine of a dinner out of Perry, “payable now!” [8-8 end credits] [51:24]

[4-6/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] As he drives up to his home, (Carl) Gorman is dictating to secretary Betty (Wilkins). She offers to take a cab back to the office, so that Gorman’s wife Alice can drive him to the airport. He cautions her to not interfere; “I know what’s best.” “Our company, ‘tis of thee, sweet corporate entity” she bewails at his excuses. Inside, Alice asks when she'll see him again. She's going to the mountains and nephew Jim (Ferris) is in town. Alice says there's no time for anyone in his family. He's busy opening a new factory. He leaves. Jim comes in from the bedroom. “We’re going to teach him a lesson he’ll never forget.” They kiss passionately. // [3-9] It is 7:23 at the Pink Lady Cocktail Lounge when Alice joins Jim. A cocktail waitress takes their drink order, “a dozen martinis.” Alice produces the withdrawal from her joint account, $11,000. She suggests travel, “for months.” He has obligations. Is he gambling she asks and gets no answer. He suggests she divorce Carl. She “couldn’t.” Jim gets the audit showing the company debts from Alice. He asks for a key to Carl’s office and gets angry when Alice doesn’t immediately comply. Finally, doesn’t she trust him, he asks. / Jim asks Stan (Piper) about the company converting to cash. (Harold) Ames is heard outside, so Jim goes to the anteroom, lies down as if asleep, as Ames enters. Jim asserts that gamblers are following him and mentions the snapshots that he took at the office party. He needs $80,000. Ames explodes, which Stan overhears. Harold offers a room at his club, heads out. Jim quickly returns to Stan, asks him to find out where the deposit came from, assures him of his $5,000 cut, then follows Harold. / Perry Mason's inner, private office. Gorman tells Perry Mason and Della Street of panhandling by Jim even at his club; $210 total. His wife, he asserts, has nothing to do with Jim. He wants Jim out of his will and his life. Mason notes that $210 is more than petty larceny, a crime, theft. Has Gorman been blackmailed? What over? He'd kill anyone who'd try. After he leaves, Della ponders what hold the nephew has on Carl. / Gorman is taken into the office by Betty Wilkins. Gambler men were waiting at the cabin for Alice. At the cabin, Alice, alone with Jim Ferris, says that there's background material on his father's company. Send Betty alone, with $80,000, the amount Jim owes them. Jim looks out the cabin window, sees a man watching. Jim notes how Carl has ruined her life. She wonders what Jim will do to her. Jim suggests he’ll take a walk, but Alice doesn’t want to be left alone. Jim pulls down the window shade. / A car speeds up the mountain road as Alice and Jim finish dinner. Betty toots, then calls to Alice, who shouts to her to do as told. Betty throws the money on to the porch. The watching man (Piper) now enters, masked, to rob them with Jim to leave with him. As Alice stands, the table falls over, and a fire is started. Alice pulls out a gun, Jim grabs her and gets shot. She rushes out and drives away. The masked man gathers the money as the cottage burns. // [4-9] Betty drives to a pay phone, dials. She sees the flames, drives back to the cabin, sees the body on floor and picks up Alice’s gun as a sole fireman arrives. / Los Angeles Chronicle headline reads MAN FOUND MURDERED IN FLAMING CABIN with a photo of Betty. Gorman says Betty wouldn't harm anyone. Alice is under sedation, but she said Jim wasn't there, only two masked men. Gorman says his father was once prominent in the paper packaging business and went to jail, so he changed his name. Drake says Gorman's nephew's name was well-known to gamblers, and was on the black list. Mason says blackmail had to come from Jim, not gamblers; “The responsibility for this, Mr Gorman, may lie closer to home than you think.” / Mason has brought Betty home. She didn't recognize the man's voice. She’s surprised at how ordered a desk is and is annoyed when Mason suggests that the police have searched the place. She asserts that she “was just doing an errand.” Yes, she knew Ferris. He went to Cuernavaca. He asked the night before how to reach accountant Stanley Piper. / Paul Drake reports Piper had been fired often. Yet he recently checked out, quite happy. Della drives up. She has checked the time from the cabin to the phone booth. A round trip is a quarter hour. Della suggest that all sorts of things could have happened in that time. / Mason questions Harold and Mrs (Dora) Ames. Harold admits he was unaware of what was going on. He discharged Piper. Dora butts in with “he’s the one who stole things.” When Mason suggests that the man might have masterminded the extortion, Harold counters that Piper only stole stamps. No, Gorman did not consult him before taking the $80,000. Harold says he’d do the same as Gorman; Alice might have been in danger. “Alice in danger from two men, oh!” says Dora in mock horror. He and the company would be rather shattered if it is not returned. / Gorman wakes Alice. Mason then questions her. One man had a widow's peak and a scar on his forehead. Just as Mason asks Alice if the second man could have been Jim Ferris, Lieutenant Tragg enters, wants also to hear her answer. Tragg notes that a forest ranger saw Ferris at the cabin, and also saw Betty Wilkins with him the night before. They once took out a marriage license. It was Betty’s gun which killed Ferris. Gorman is sorry that he asked Mason’s help, for he didn’t think Betty even knew Jim. “Why, if (he’d) once thought Betty’d actually committed murder.” Mason suggests that “she needs a lawyer now more than ever.” // [5-9] The Los Angeles courthouse. Outside the courtroom, Paul Drake reports to Mason that Ferris bought two tickets, Tijuana to Cuernavaca. He wonders why D A Burger has moved so quickly to trial and given the case to prosecutor Jack Alvin. Mason only wonders if they can find one witness. In court, the autopsy surgeon tells prosecutor Alvin that Ferris died before the fire. There was only one bullet. Tragg says that the murder weapon was bought by Wilkins, who then whispers to Mason that it was bought for the office. The court clerk is handed the weapon for identification. In the cabin many empty shells were found. Tragg tells Mason that it was a hunting cabin. Only two .25 caliber shell casings were found, but could have been fired from almost any gun. Re-direct; no, such a gun is not used for hunting. But only one shot slug was found, in the body. Even Paul Drake found no other. Re-cross; no burned money was found. Re-re-direct; he did find $5,000 in Betty Wilkins' car later the eve of the murder. This surprises Mason and Wilkins. Alice testifies to hearing Betty drive up, and away. She never saw any money. Gorman says he got $80,000 in $50 bills, unmarked. Mrs Ames says she saw Wilkins and Ferris together after a company party, kissing each other. On night before the murder, she saw them at the office. / Betty, in jail, tells Mason that, when seen with Jim lately, he was asking questions about the company. She told him “good bye,” drove him to the Pink Lady. Mason is annoyed that she didn’t tell him this earlier. / Drake is in a Cuernavaca hotel phone booth. He hasn't found Piper. Nor have the L A police who got there before he did. Mason suggests a way to bait Piper. // [6-9] Ames says that Wilkins had access to information. He was at home all eve on the night of the murder by his wife's testimony. Alvin objects that there is no foundation for an impeaching question but is overruled. If she was out visiting, how could she be certain where he was? “She couldn’t, of course,” he admits and Mrs Ames exclaims “Harold!” Did this give Ames an alibi, or maybe his wife? Couldn’t some other woman . . . ? Again Alvin objects. Mason’s questions are far afield but, notes the Judge, there is no jury, so he will hear Mason out. Ames denies being blackmailed by Ferris. Mason suggests then that it was Mrs Ames who was seeing Ferris. Mrs Ames says not so, puts her hands on Mrs Gorman’s shoulders and says it was Mrs Gorman. After some arguing among possible people to be recalled. Mason suggests it was Mrs Gorman at the Pink Lady and asks cocktail waitress Frances Banks to stand. Alice Gorman breaks down, says she did it, she shot Jim. The judge tells Mason that he’ll rule favorably on the attorney’s motion to dismiss. Gorman tells Mason he still needs his help. / Finally, in Cuernavaca, a man shows up to pick up the mail Mason and Drake put out as bait. Drake catches Ferris, with a wound in his shoulder, the missing second bullet. Piper was the dead man in the fire. // [7-9] Gorman, Wilkins, Drake, Street and Mason are assembled in the office. Mason explains how the notes that they sent as if “from Alice” trapped Ferris. They'd figured that the only way for a second bullet to get out of the cabin was in someone. No one is accusing Alice anymore. Gorman comments on poor Betty, who had to bear the whole burden. Della offers, “Nonsense, Mr Gorman, that's what secretaries are for.” Mason sheepishly mumbles, “Excuse me.” [8-9 end credits] [52:00] (52:08)

[5-6/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At the Los Angeles Airport, Lucy (Stevens) exits the terminal, crosses to the parking lot and heads to a car, TVC 325. She is wary as a policeman walks nearby. The car is unlocked and she puts a briefcase on the right seat, locks the car and goes to a telephone booth. She has been observed by another woman (Marjorie Ralston). Lucy phones Hugo Burnette in New York City at 5:35. The pickup car is driven away. Burnette tells her that her $60,000 delivery has earned her a vacation, but she wants out. He tells her there is no way out, she can’t quit. “There’s a way you haven’t thought of. I can’t go on living like this.” // [3-8] The briefcase is delivered by Miss Ralston to Catherine and Whitney Locke. Whitney dismisses Marjorie after asking some questions about whom she saw or talked to and she’s certain this is the briefcase that was put in the car. Catherine asks him about Hugo Burnette. She is not fooled by Marjorie who is in love with Whitney. Alone, Whitney empties the briefcase, phones Burnette . . . (9:22 p m) a switchboard operator handles the call, patches it through. Whitney tells Burnette that only newspapers, not $60,000, were in the briefcase. Burnette asks him to carry out his end of the bargain. “Not until you carry out yours.” / Burnette tells a businessman (John Ruskin) that he can go ahead, the zoning will be taken care of, and he'll “take care of that double-crossing red-head.” / A letter from Lucy tells Carole Morgan that she's closed her bank account with the accompanying $3,225 check. A phone rings but goes unanswered. Lucy brushes her hair which she has bleached, then leaves with the letter and check. / She gets into a postwar Chevrolet coupe, drives to San Pedro harbor. She takes out a packet of papers. She puts a stone on the gas pedal, pulls the transmission into drive, releases the brake and sends the car speeding into the harbor. / In Perry Mason's private office Carole Morgan tells the lawyer and his confidential secretary Della Street that she got the letter the day before yesterday in San Francisco. She phoned, with no result. She's afraid for Lucy, her cousin, who may have committed suicide. She gives Mason a packet of papers. Mason notes that the check is worthless if Lucy is dead, and asks if she's told him everything that might be helpful, and she says "yes," then leaves. Della Street and Perry wonder about Lucy’s waiting two days before coming to Los Angeles. Paul Drake enters, on the way to a vacation. Mason puts him on Lucy and Carole, then queries the detective about his vacation, to which Drake answers, “I must have been dreaming.” / Drake phones from dockside, where the car was found 19 feet deep. / Mason drives Morgan to the harbor where they are met by Drake. The car is brought out of the water. Lieutenant Tragg joins them. The car is hoisted out of the water and they witness a woman's body being taken out. // [4-8] Lt Tragg asks Hugo Burnette to identify Stevens. He is unsure, but asks for the address of the cousin and leaves just as Mason and Drake arrive. Drake follows Burnette. Mason wonders why a man would cross a continent to identify the woman. Lt Tragg wonders why Drake followed Burnette. “Just when do you do something for no definite reason?” / Mason takes Carole to the harbor, confronts her with the name of Burnette and the fact that there is no "Carole Morgan" in San Francisco. She now admits that she is Lucy Stevens. / Back in Mason's office, Della and Paul want to know who was in the car. Mason informs them that Lucy found that she was handling illegal money and thus staged the suicide. Mason wants Drake to run down Burnette, but he already knows he is in Woodcrest Arms, 6C. / Burnette reports to Ruskin that he cannot find Lucy’s "cousin" and he doesn’t know who the dead woman is. Ruskin leaves when Mason enters. The attorney is hoping that Burnette can give him a clue as to who the dead woman is, and why he transferred large sums of money in a briefcase. Why should he cooperate with Mason? Because Mason might be more sympathetic than the police. Someone is being paid off, or threatened, and real-estate developer Ruskin, who is easily recognized since he’s often in the newspapers, is involved. Mason points out how precarious is Burnette’s position, and Burnette is deflated. / Catherine is acting as secretary when Mason arrives. Locke denies any connection with $60,000 so Ruskin could get a favorable rezoning; he knows of Mason’s “razzle-dazzle” tactics. Mason exits, asking the name of Locke's absent secretary. “Marjorie Ralston.” / Perry phones Della to get Paul to check on Ralston, whom he thinks is the murder victim. Stevens is in the office, Della says. So is Tragg, who has identified Ralston as the victim, and Stevens as the murderer, and Mason as an obstructor of justice and withholder of evidence. // [5-8] In court prosecutor Grosvenor Cutter has Burnette testify to sending Lucy with the $60,000 and her delivering it to Marjorie Ralston's car. He admits that John Ruskin was sending money to Whitney Locke. Locke says that the $60,000 was a political contribution. Marjorie and Catherine saw him open the case but no one but he saw what was in it. The autopsy surgeon, Dr Hoxie, testifies, identifying a tire iron as the murder weapon. Tragg identifies the body in the car. Prosecutor Cutter, with much verbiage, tries to get the defendant bound over, but Mason quotes various aspects of the law and the judge adjourns court for lunch. Lucy tells Perry that she thought this was the only way out, and she was stupid to think so. Drake reports that Burnette always maintains two apartments, including one in Los Angeles. He reports on phone calls. Lucy arrived LAX at 5:20, made her call to Burnette at 5:35, and Whitney Locke placed a call at 6:22 to Burnette. Mason reviews the events by time. The Ralston woman left the parking lot at 5:30, Ralston left Locke's home about 6:20, and at 7 Lucy drove to the harbor. Drake tells Mason that Ruskin hired a detective to watch Locke. Della talks with the switchboard operator and discovers that a call to Burnette can go from L A to NYC and back to L A. // [6-8] Mason asks Tragg what fingerprints were found in Ralston's apartment. None of the defendant nor of Whitney Locke. Burnette states there were two jets from New York, a 3 p m one on which Lucy traveled. Didn't he take the 2:15 and arrive before Lucy. Yes. He admits to being in L A with Ruskin. When he heard from Locke, he phoned Lucy about 6:20. Ruskin had left him by then, but phoned about 6:30 to invite him to his home, at which he arrived about 7. Neither he, nor Ruskin nor Locke, can account for a half hour. Burnette's place is 5 or 10 minutes from Lucy’s. Mason queries Locke about Ruskin's interest in his political career. Locke's office denied a rezoning to Ruskin twice before the $60,000 contribution came. Why, if the contribution was legitimate, was there such secrecy and subterfuge? He was at home 6:20 to 7. Ralston left the airport at 5:30 and had time to follow Lucy home and then get to Locke's by 6:15. Then did he not go with Ralston on a fake search of Lucy’s car to find the money? Cutter protests “all the fishing lines thrown from Mr Mason’s expeditionary boat,” and calls Catherine Locke testifies that her husband was at homel at 6:30 when she left him alone. He made a phone call and fifteen minutes later, five of seven, Burnette arrived. Mason asks if she hired a detective to spy on her husband. This is answered by Ruskin who says he did it all, for he wanted to catch Whitney Locke in a bribe. Marjorie not only took the money, but then threatened him with exposure. He accuses Mason of only theorizing about Locke when the attorney was really after him. “I mus have been, Mr Ruskin; I was after the murderer.” // [7-8] The trio in the office. Drake notes that the money showed up when Ruskin found Ralston packing to duck out on her. She was killed at Lucy's car. Ralston suggested shifting the burden of the theft on to Lucy, and when they got to the car, Ruskin killed her, thus shifting not only the theft but the murder on to Lucy's shoulders. A vigorous discussion follows as to who helped most in solving the case. Della figured out the phone transfer LA-NYC-LA, which Paul says he should have figured out. Mason compliments him on discovering the detective shadowing Locke and he calls it luck. Mason has Cutter thinking he did all the work. Did he, baffled Paul asks. [8-8 end credits} [52:01] (52:00)

"Perry Mason in The Case of the Lavender Lipstick" is missing 5:30 of the original broadcast. The Columbia House tape 221917 is 51:44 in duration, the DVD 35230 is 46:14 long. I have notified Columbia House Video of the problem and asked them to issue a corrected disc and send those who already have the faulty disc a new copy. If you have the disc, please write Columbia House Video and ask for a replacement with the full Episode 100. The disc in Season 4 Volume 1 is correct.

[2-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] At night the Caresse Cosmetic Products building watchman (Charles Knudson) checks the main door. Inside a lab, chemist (Peter Nichols) checks “formula 331; bought time we had a little luck.” He holds a lipstick in a cloth, draws lips, fills it, then puts a reagent on it. It turns lavender. Karen (Lewis) suggests that Vance should figure how to keep estrogen from turning lipstick lavender, but Peter says he promised to do it. She notes how often he’s helped her. “Could be,” he says, “I have a weakness for a lady chemist.” Knudson tells Karen that (Max) Pompey awaits her. Karen finds Pompey in his office. He offers her a drink. She uses "Mr" and he corrects "Max," then accuses her of seeing Gabe Rawson, number one playboy and his leading competitor, and of giving estrogenic cream and other formulas to Rawson. He pulls out a file which shows she has Rawson’s address and private phone number. He has her deposit book, which shows two recent payments, but she doesn't recognize them. He makes a pass and gets thrown to the floor. He fires her, says she needs to be out of the city by tomorrow or be in jail, and to not tell Peter Nichols. // [3-9] Myra (Heston) catches Max coming out of his office. She has eaves dropped. She asserts that Karen is not a thief, but “a goat like you” must be. He is rebuffed when he makes a pass, they argue, and then they kiss. Alone, she calls Rawson to tell him that Pompey "found the evidence." / In Perry Mason's office Peter Nichols tells Perry and Paul Drake of his worries about Karen Lewis who is missing, and that his office is messed up. He hasn’t called the police because he thinks there is something in Karen’s childhood that she’s hiding. Pompey runs the lab but “a gentle old soul by the name of Silas Vance is president.” / Silas Vance charges in to the lab wondering where Pete Nichols or Karen Lewis or Max Pompey are. Myra tells Silas that Max fired Karen for selling formulas to Rawson. Silas stands up for Karen. Myra suggests that maybe Karen has been framed, and Vance says he’ll kill Pompey if he’s involved. Mason and Nichols join them, looking for Karen, who’s not been seen since an interview with Pompey. Vance clams up. Mason suggests that, if he doesn’t know what is going on, he should check in to the bloodstained towel found in Pompey’s office. / Rawson meets Pompey in a steam bath, confides to him that either Vance “kicks the bucket” or he must go into the stockholders “meeting with Caresse Cosmetics in the palm of his hand.” Pompey promised Rawson, who paid his debts, that Vance would sell out, but it hasn't happened. In three days Pompey must deliver. / At Sunset Hall Vance calls Lewis, tells her to come on down to the lab, they'll string up a real criminal. A shadow in the background indicates someone might have overheard Vance. / As Drake watches, Lewis enters the Caresse Cosmetics building. Drake checks the car registration. / Inside, Knudson is lying half conscious on the floor, and in his office Vance is dead. // [4-9] Lieutenant Tragg hears from Knudson, whose machine indicates he was hit at 11:22. Sergeant Brice is handed evidence as Mason joins them. Someone phoned the police, but not Knudson. Drake is in the office, as the police’s “prisoner.” He tried to follow Lewis when she ran out, but was stopped by the cops. / Karen is in Peter's arms when Mason's call catches them. / Pompey joins Myra at a restaurant. She left the plant, knowing that Vance was dead. Rawson joins the two, admits he told Myra of Vance’s death, pours champagne. Myra says Pompey is wondering which of the two of them killed Vance. / Peter tells Perry that he left the lab about 7, and has no alibi. Mason explains what Lt Tragg knows about the evidence, including the formulas on Karen’s desk. Peter says this provides a motive for killing Pompey, not Vance, who had the evidence, but it is now missing. That's Karen's motive. Mason receives a call from Drake. Vance has left Caresse in his will to Karen! / At the murder site Karen, wearing the same skirt as on the murder night, demonstrates to Paul, Peter and Perry what she did. Drake remembers that Vance had purple on his hand. Karen submits this was lavender, one of the new lipsticks. Under a desk drawer, Mason finds the lipstick message; "shot by KA" or so it looks, just as Tragg enters. He takes Karen to headquarters on a charge of first-degree murder. // [5-9] In jail Karen tells Perry that her father died in prison. She knows him only through newspaper clippings. He was head of a small cosmetics firm, and was convicted of selling a cheap face cream that was poisonous. Mason wonders then why Vance has watched over her. There must be some connection between him and her father. / Court. Even though Drake's been subpoenaed, Mason orders him to leave and get information on Kenneth Lewis, dead 23 years. Pompey tells the prosecutor, Ernest Helming, that he found carbons of two of the company's secret formulas and a bank deposit book. He showed these to Karen Lewis. Heston says Vance didn't believe the charges until she showed him the evidence at which time he said he’d confront her and look for a satisfactory explanation. Helming asks about the whereabouts of the evidence. Mason concedes that the decedent had the evidence in the afternoon, but that there is no evidence showing he had it later. “I’ll be happy to withdraw the question, Mr Mason, since it seems to disturb you so much” says Helming, with a smirk. Lt Tragg says that they couldn't find the evidence. Then the drawer is introduced, and related to KAren Lewis. Nichols identifies the lipstick found in the deceased's hand. Karen Lewis was helping him with the research. On two other thefts, Karen Lewis was his assistant. Knudson says he has no idea of who hit him at 11:22 when his clock broke. Mason asks him if in his 11 years he's ever found Karen Lewis' desk to “be remiss in any way?“ No. Isn't it strange that her desk was open one specific night? Helming objects. The judge adjourns court for lunch. “Have a nice lunch, Mr. Helming,” says Mason, cheerfully! // [6-9] Drake joins Della Street and Mason, who are finishing lunch in the attorney’s office. Vance, aka Frank Jefferson, was a full business partner to Kenneth Lewis. Drake got the information because Rawson asked his New York agency to get it. Rawson is on his way to New York. / Drake awaits Rawson in a steam bath, where he gives him a subpoena. / In court Max Pompey, on the stand, is revealed by Mason as the N Y state investigator in the case against Kenneth Lewis. By a coin toss, says Pompey, Lewis took the blame for the poisonous face cream, and Pompey got a lifetime job. Pompey was going to use this information to force Vance to sell his company to Rawson. He got deep into debt over a woman, Myra Heston, which Rawson paid off. She admits that, at Rawson's suggestion, she got Pompey to spend lots, and she made the deposits to Karen’s account. She planted the book at Rawson's insistence, and also got the formulas from him. Rawson admits giving money and formulas to Heston. Mason suggests that he went further, but Rawson denies it. Mason recalls Tragg, who testifies about what was found on the defendant's skirt, blood only. Because no glass from the watchman's machine was found in the skirt, Karen must have left before it was broken! Now Mason copies the lipstick writing, and shows KA could be KN. Drake stops Knudson from leaving the courtroom. Knudson confesses to Drake; he needed money for his family. Vance had found it was he who was stealing the formulas and he couldn’t let Vance send him to jail. // [7-9] Back at jail, Mason explains to Karen that Knudson didn't break the clock until he knew when she was there. Drake joins them, says Knudson burned the evidence, threw the gun up a canyon in Malibu. Mason then explains how easily they lured Rawson from the airport into the steam room. [8-9 end credits] [52:03](51:44)

[3-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] (Burt) Stokes of the Merchant Marine visits the Warden in San Quentin prison. He wants to see Riley Morgan, whom he admits that he doesn't know. He thinks that Morgan is the missing witness to the Kendall murder, and his ship left the harbor before the newspapers headlined it and Morgan could learn of it. He helped a guy with a broken ankle six years earlier. Morgan sailed to Yokohama, Japan, then worked a Dutch ship out of Australia for a couple of years, so never heard of the murder. / From a lineup, Stokes identifies Morgan. // [3-9] At the Pacific Military Academy, Jimmie (Kendall) leaves his books curbside and a man slips a letter inside. (Lorraine) Kendall, wife of the murdered man, drives up in a Buick convertible. Jimmie finds the note, gives it to his mom. / They drive home, where they are met by Uncle Roger (McClaine). It is black Friday. She goes to freshen up. / Warren Donner is awaiting her, and reading a newspaper that says Riley Morgan has been pardoned. He is joined by McClaine to whom he complains about everyone gossiping about him, the vice-president. His wife Faye is upset that her brother's murderer is now running around loose. He is worried that questions will be asked as to who did kill Kendall. Donner reminds McClaine that they, Lorraine and Faye benefitted from the murder of Martin Kendall. So which of them “really committed that murder?” / Mrs Kendall reads her note, telling her to phone Adams 1-0799 to find “who really killed (her) husband. / She phones and gets Stokes and agrees to meet him in half an hour. She opens the door to uncle Roger who gets a brief look at the note before she heads out. / Lorraine meets Burt in a park. He says Morgan has “no friends, no relatives, no money.” He got to her thru her boy, but won’t bother her again. Lorraine is told Riley never collected anything from the state, and half of what he should have gotten is $5,000. When she leaves, he turns to journalist Bill Worth who, with a recorder hidden in the bushes, has recorded everything. Worth leaves Stokes, not wanting a part in thinly disguised blackmail. / Worth is playing the Stokes-Kendall tape. Warren Donner and Faye Donner, sister of deceased, argue over what to do. // [4-9] In Perry Mason's inner office, Lorraine Kendall shows a possible newspaper article to the attorney that implies thru innuendo that she benefitted so much from Martin’s death. She notes that Morgan owed her husband money, and asked for an extension on repayment. Kendall played golf on Saturdays, and Morgan hid in the nearby woods, hit Kendall with a club. Roger McClaine followed Kendall into the woods, thinking he was looking for a ball, and saw Morgan leave. “The case hinged on when and where Morgan broke his ankle.” Now Stokes has come forth to say that he saw Morgan in his cabin Saturday morning. At Mason’s suggestion, Lorraine calls Stokes, and arranges a meeting for 10 p m, same place. He is meeting with Roger McClaine, who has brought $10,000 if he and Morgan will leave the country. After McClaine leaves, Morgan surprises him when he enters and asks what was going on. Stokes says it was the desk clerk. Riley says it is all over between them, he doesn’t want charity. / Leaving Jimmie, Lorraine hurtles down her winding driveway, nearly hitting an approaching car. The other car continues up to Jimmie, where its driver, Warren Donner, asks where the boy’s mom is headed. Jimmie tells her his uncle is not home for he had to answer the phone. It is 9:30, and she left after getting a phone call from a man. / Paul Drake and Mason look for Stokes at 10 p m, and find him dead. / Lorraine asks Jimmie to hurry up, she has to take him to Martha's in Santa Barbara. He protests, citing homework for the Academy. “Mother, what’s the matter? What’s happened?” / McClaine admits Mason to his home. The attorney tells him of Stoke's death, to which McClaine sees the irony of Lorraine’s absence when her husband was killed. Could she be with the Donners? Donner is kept on as a necessary evil. McClaine then notes that only Lorraine and little Jimmie were mentioned in Kendall's will. / At 3:30 Lorraine finally returns and admits to Mason that she went to the park but had a scuffle with a man she cannot identify, and left without seeing Stokes. Lieutenant Tragg arrives to arrest Lorraine Kendall for murder, both! // [5-9] Drake reports that nothing can be found on Lorraine before the age of 21. She’s a secretary who married the boss. Two years later a wealthy widow. Mason asks about brother Roger. “Writer, sailor, musician, gigolo, necktie salesman, and undoubtedly a few confidence games thrown in there someplace.” “Kind of guy who’d cover completely for his sister,” comments Mason. “Particularly if she’s got a million dollars.” / Morgan reads a Los Angeles Chronicle headline; KENDALL WIDOW HELD IN STOKES MURDER. Then he tells Perry and Paul that he thinks Stokes “was turning to blackmail,” but he knows nothing of value and, even if he did, he wouldn’t tell it. / Deputy D A Telford greets Faye Donner, who gives him a letter from Stokes, the wording as that sent Lorraine. / In court deputy D A Telford examines an attorney, Mr Leeman, about the alibi claimed by Morgan. Morgan testifies that Stokes followed him to Los Angeles. He identifies Roger McClaine, who testified against him six years earlier, as man who gave Stokes blackmail money the afternoon of the murder. McClaine admits paying $10,000 to Stokes, from a check given him by Lorraine. The tape is played and verified by journalist Bill Worth, who is forced by Mason to admit that his only permanent employer is Kendall Industries Weekly, with Warren Donner his boss. Donner says he never discussed the case with Worth. He saw Lorraine leave the house just after 9:30. Mason sends Drake on an errand. Faye Donner says she figured Stokes wanted to blackmail her, but she had no guilty conscience. Before she left the house at 9, she found $5,000 in new bills in Lorraine's purse. Her brother died at the same time Kendall was murdered. She expected to inherit, and was upset that the money went to an upstart secretary and an adopted child. Tragg says that the weapon belonged to Stokes. Footprints identified Stokes and Lorraine Kendall. He identifies $5,000 from the pocket of the corpse. On Mason’s request, court adjourns over the weekend. / Drake, at the Pacific Military Academy gate, gets a recalcitrant Buddie Staples to show him a postcard for Jimmie when he tells him he is a private detective. / Martha says that she sent Jimmie to Canada that morning, where he’s going on a long road trip. Paul and Perry drive a short ways away, then watch Martha leave with Jimmie. // [6-9] In jail Mason advises Lorraine that he's found no record of her first marriage which produced a child. She says she was only 19 the marriage and an annulment were obtained in Tijuana, to Riley Morgan! / Back in court, Mason goes after Tragg concerning the "struggle" revealed in the footprints. Why are not the shoes in court? Telford protests that it is only a preliminary hearing, but he is forced to agree to have the shoes brought to court when Drake returns with new information for Mason. / The shoes are brought. Morgan is now on the stand. He admits to making a 9:30 p m blackmail call to Lorraine, which Jimmie answered. He learned that she was going to the park to meet Stokes at 10. He denies killing Stokes at the park. Mason continues. In the dark he struggled with Lorraine, got the $5,000 from her purse and put it in Stokes’ pocket. He put his prison shoes on Stokes. Yes, he was blackmailing his sweet little wife, both times. He got away with the first one. // [7-9] Mason and Drake are at Mrs Kendall's. Stokes made up the story, got his ship’s captain to back him, then got greedy. Jimmie joins them. Perry says that something bothered him about the shoes, for one was tied with a granny, not, as Jimmie then notes, a sailor's square knot. “Why didn’t you get that, Mr Drake. Aren’t you a detective?” [8-9 end credits] [51:59]

[4-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] Lisa (Franklin), drunk, is driven to the Curtis Franklin Circus by her new husband, the one and only Felix (Heidemann). He carries her across the threshold. They enter a tent, say hello to tiger Diabolo, and see Jerry (Franklin), to whom they rush. Lisa unlatches the tiger's gate, he gets out, gores Jerry. // [3-9] Four years later, in the circus’s fifth sensational year, in a train on its way to Los Angeles, Felix readies a celebration as (Judd) Curtis enters. He points out that Lisa let the tiger loose on Jerry, and that's why she married Jerry, rather than Felix. Franklin has offered Curtis as co-owner of the circus $180,000 to buy him out, but Judd does not want to leave the circus, and has the right to take Jerry's share for the same price. He wants a loan from Heidemann, but the latter says he'll give his money first to Jerry to buy out Judd. Curtis reminds him that Lisa had no time to divorce Felix before marrying Jerry out of pity, and he wants the loan. / Lisa on the trapeze bar is watched by Jerry below in a wheelchair. She drops to the net, is then chided for not checking the equipment. On her way out, Curtis tells her to see Felix. Then Jerry tells Curtis to take Lisa off the evening’s bill, and he'll have the money by tomorrow afternoon. / Clown (Tim) Durant informs Curtis that Lisa won't stay on if he buys Jerry out. Curtis tells Durant that he'll not take over Heidemann's role. Durant says he has everything Heidemann has. “Everything but his genius,” rejoins Curtis. / Tony and Joyce Gilbert give $15,000 to Lisa and Jerry, and Felix says that is enough. Jerry says Curtis is bluffing. / In Perry Mason's private office Felix tells Mason of the bigamy, but the marriage with Jerry has not been consummated because of his injury. He's got all but $15,000, but he can get that. He doesn't want to hurt Jerry, who believes Lisa loves him. Mason cautions that he and Lisa must decide things for themselves. / The Gilberts are the first act as Paul Drake, Mason and Della Street enter the big tent. She shoots coins that he tosses into the air. Then he reciprocates. They split cigarettes in the mouths of each other. Heidemann is then introduced as the funniest man in the world, and begins his tricks as Paul, Perry and Della watch. The clown points a gun at Drake, who quickly removes his cigarette. They are joined by Lieutenant Tragg and discuss the value of popcorn at the circus. The lieutenant tells Mason that someone again let a tiger lose on Franklin, but he is okay. In fact, he's in a wheel chair watching Heidemann, as the clown points his gun at Judd Curtis, who is smoking, and shoots him. The clown runs out. Mason and Tragg determine that Curtis is dead. // [4-9] Gilbert shows Mason the cat cage, then explains how Lisa and he helped Franklin get away, this time, from the cat. Mason asks Lisa if she knows where Felix is. He was being blackmailed by Curtis. Lt Tragg enters with the circus entourage plus Della and Paul, and asks Lisa where was she when the fatal shot was fired. She was putting on her makeup when she heard the silence, and she saw no one in a clown suit. Tragg orders everyone downtown to tell what they saw. Mason notes that the lieutenant was an eyewitness, did he forget anything? Tragg counters that there is one thing he didn’t forget, “to put out an APB on Heidemann.” / The San Francisco Dispatch headline reads LOS ANGELES POLICE SEEK CIRCUS KILLER. Heidemann phones Mason from San Francisco where he’d gone to get the last part of the $180,000. He left Los Angeles at 9 from Union Station; Curtis was murdered at 9:15. / In jail Heidemann tells Mason that he didn't keep his ticket stub. He left his gun out for his replacement. He doesn't know who filled in for him, since Curtis was his substitute. Who, then, could have convinced the audience he was Heidemann? / Durant tells Mason he was waiting to enter. He says he was never asked to substitute. Mason suggests the murder bullet could have come from where Franklin was watching the show. Mason asks Durant to search his memory for some definite clues why the clown was not Heidemann. Even if he might, he wouldn’t. / The Gilberts come to Mason in his office. Joyce says that at about 6:20 she found Felix's note in Curtis' office. Later, the note was gone. She tells Drake that she was in the entrance, and Tony says that he was behind her. Drake says the police will concede Heidemann went to San Francisco, but after 10. Near Santa Barbara at Carpinteria, a gun was thrown from a San Francisco bound train on to the highway. It was the murder weapon. // [5-9] In court the autopsy surgeon tells Deputy D A Alvin that a .38 calibre bullet passed thru the victim’s heart. He tells Mason that the bullet could have travelled twice as far and done the same. Lt Tragg testifies about the San Francisco trip, about the murder bullet and why it was flattened, and about the gun. Then he states that no one has suggested it was not the incomparable Felix Heidemann who was performing that night. Mason gets Tragg to admit that the clown was unrecognizable and, due to damage to the bullet, it cannot be proven that the gun was the murder weapon. Two shots could have been fired. The gun was found at 6:50 a m, so any of the suspects could have driven to Carpinteria and put it there since they were all released by 3 a m. Franklin testifies to having partners to buy Curtis out, including Heidemann, who was the treasurer. He tells of Lisa's devotion and self-sacrifice, having chosen him. He knew that Felix was also in love with her. Mason objects to this line of questioning, and Alvin counters that he is laying a foundation regarding motive, that Heidemann was being blackmailed by Curtis. Lisa asks to be heard, for only she can answer what Alvin wants to know; but she will not testify, for Heidemann is her husband! / Durant testifies that Curtis was to get money from Heidemann. Why did he tell Durant this? Because, says Durant, Curtis planned to replace Heidemann with him. He has no doubt that it was Heidemann performing that night, a genius, and wouldn't it “take a bigger genius to impersonate him?” // [6-9] Paul and Perry ask Tony about what he saw from the entrance. Then Perry wonders about the second bullet making a hole in the tent. They go to Durant's dressing room, look for the missing blanks, and there Perry asks Gilbert if he wasn't angry with wife Joyce in his office for not telling him about the note, or why she went back to Curtis' office. What kind of guns does he use in his act? Is he a jealous man? Well . . . Drake finds four blank cartridges. / Mason cross-examines. Durant loaned Judson Curtis a lot of money so he could take over both the circus and the Heidemann act. Mason challenges him; he did see the note, and took Heidemann's place in the act. Yes, he took the opportunity, and all the pros watched and not one knew it was not Heidemann. He admits driving to Carpinteria and putting the gun there. He did not know that the gun was loaded when he went into the ring. Mason believes he did not kill Curtis. He first examined it after coming back from police headquarters. Someone else, says Mason, fired from a concealed place, namely Franklin. Jerry says that Curtis was the one who set the tiger on him, so that's why he killed him. He then thanks Lisa for "those four years." He never knew. // [7-9] In Mason's office Drake says that Curtis was desperate. He'd stolen so much money that an accounting would have shown that Franklin wouldn't have had to pay him a cent. So he had to buy Franklin out. Now Drake has Lisa reveal what only she, he and Perry know, that the Franklin marriage was a mock ceremony. Lisa has never been, legally, a bigamist. Della brings in champagne. [8-9 end credits] [52:00](51:52)

[5-5/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At the Concert Recording Company, David Carpenter, president, is at the piano, seemingly playing beneath posters indicating his recordings of Beethoven, Brahms . . . Or so it seems until the business manager, Andrew (Collis), enters and removes the needle from the record as Carpenter’s gloved hand is revealed. Carpenter is broke, and has only $910 in the bank. He cannot continue spending as he has, or giving extravagant gifts to his wife, such as the $3,500 he recently spent at a jewelry company. His doctor holds no hope of his recovering the use of his hand since the accident. His protege, Donna (Loring), has been offered $25,000 over four weeks to play (rock and roll) at Lake Tahoe, according to partner (Eric) Sturgis. Carpenter says it is out of the question. Collis puts the needle on the record, leaves. Carpenter phones / Donna to tell her she “must play for both” of them (he is 20 years her senior) and he loves her, and he then drives over a cliff (same pre-WW II car going over cliff is used in other Mason episodes). / Los Angeles Chronicle headline reads DAVID CARPENTER COMMITS SUICIDE. // [3-8] Anita tells Donna that she must not give up her studies, then suggests that she come and live with her and offers a key to her house. Donna notes that she’s been offered a large contract and will give up her studies. / “There are all the keys” says Eric Sturgis as he tells Anita Carpenter that the company is bankrupt. She now refuses the $25,000 of which her share would be $5,000. She learns that she cannot collect on the $150,000 policy since David’s death is a suicide. Andrew enters, and he and Eric fight over the company and the contract with Donna. Andrew vows to take care of Anita. She refused dinner with Eric. They leave, watched by (George) Worthington. He introduces self to Anita, says her husband was murdered, and he’ll prove it, for $1000. She is shocked. / In Perry Mason's inner office, Worthington says that he's taking a risk. He tells Mason, Della Street and Anita how the car was pushed over the cliff, one person slumped over the wheel and a second person running away. / Paul Drake and Mason investigate the murder site. Drake wonders why the car was coming from the wrong direction, from Malibu, not from town. Sergeant Binns says that, since the car was on a slope, all one had to do was release the parking brake and it wouldn’t need pushing. / Lt Tragg tells Mason that Worthington was at a bookies at 5, and the car with Carpenter in it went over the cliff miles away at 5:15. Worthington is brought in, admits he lied, for a few bucks. Sgt Binns' report, however, does make Tragg think in terms of murder. // [4-8] Los Angeles Chronicle headline shouts HINT MURDER IN PIANIST DEATH. Sturgis admits to Mason that he hired George Worthington to go to the police, then brings George out as his own alibi, for which he was to pay $5000. George says Sturgis told him what to say, leaves. Sturgis says he told him to make up a story. / Donna Ross is at the piano playing a concert piece when Mason drives up in his Ford convertible. Mason points out that Carpenter went to the cliff from her part of town, not his studio, and must have seen in her his “only hope for the future.” She denies his being in love with her, but unconvincingly. Tragg arrives, ask if instead of Carpenter being in love with her, she was in love with him, and he didn't keep his promises to her. / Anita Carpenter protests that Donna couldn't have done it. Mason isn’t even sure a murder has been committed. Donna is the daughter she never had, says Anita. Collis enters with note that Donna has hired a lawyer she could afford. / Mason, at a coffee counter, is immersed in a newspaper where a small headline reads “Hearing set in Carpentr murder.” Alice, the waitress, asks if anything is wrong. “No, the sandwich was fine.” / A Los Angeles Chronicle headline on Mason’s desk reading CARPENTER PROTEGE HELD FOR TRIAL catches Mason’s eye and interrupts his dictation. Della reports that, under pressure from Anita, Donna has parted with her lawyer who thought she was holding something back, but may be too embarrassed to ask Perry. Mason remembers what Donna was playing, "It was Fidelio, wasn't it?" he writes. / Donna gets the note, asks to phone Mason. // [5-8] After a long opening statement by Deputy D A Chamberlin, the autopsy surgeon testifies in court that death could have been caused by a car falling over a cliff, but head injuries were caused by a strike of a flashlight, which caused unconsciousness only, so it was not suicide. Tragg ties the flashlight to decedent. The defendants fingerprints were in the car and on the flashlight, as well as on other items of the defendant including a lipstick. James Gracie, a neighbor of Miss Ross in Sunset Canyon Lane, says that Mr Carpenter came to see Miss Ross. When he left, she was crying. Then she got into her car and followed him. Mason has him admit that he saw Carpenter's car leave, but not necessarily with Carpenter in it. Mrs Carpenter says that her husband tutored Anita Ross for more than three years. She denies any romantic relationship between David and Donna. Chamberlin produces the $3500 bracelet, but she doesn't recognize it. She then says that her husband said he was going to buy it for her birthday, which is months away, then changes to their anniversary, but that was a half year ago. It was found in Ross's cottage. Collis says Carpenter began the year with $80,000, ended with $900. He bought Miss Ross's new car, and her cottage, and a $500 a month allowance. Collis discusses the bracelet then, for Mason, the Lake Tahoe engagement for Donna about 3:30 the day of the murder. Collis admits there was nothing left to manage if Donna didn't accept the engagement. He gave Carpenter the bad news from the doctor. Mason asks if he’s in love with Anita. Chamberlain objects. The judge calls a recess. Anita looks perplexed. // [6-8] In jail Perry chides Donna for concealing her relationship with David. She says she was surprised when, on the day of the murder, she learned that he loved her. She idolized him, and didn't want to hurt him or Mrs Carpenter. / Back in court Sturgis testifies that he told Donna of the Lake Tahoe offer and she was willing to accept. Mason asks if he threatened Mrs Carpenter when she was against Miss Ross’ taking the offer? He admits to hiring Worthington to make up a story so that the death would look like murder, so he could share in the insurance money. Did not he tell Worthington exactly how to describe the event? “No! No!“ Anita Carpenter is recalled over Deputy DA Chamberlain’s objections. She admits that Sturgis was blackmailing her. Collis also wanted the Donna Ross contract, but didn't force the issue, as did Sturgis. Mason forces her to admit that she went to Donna's the murder afternoon, but she says she didn't know he loved Donna until it came out in court. Donna shouts out to Anita that she hasn't said anything. But it was she who saw Anita at the murder scene, says Perry. He accuses her of telling Worthington what story to tell. Now she admits that, when she stopped his car, he said he wanted a divorce. She got angry and jealous and then hit him with the flashlight and got out of the car. He must have hit the hand brake when he slumped forward. She couldn't stop it. “I loved him so.” // [7-8] The trio are with Donna. They discuss Anita's calculated risk in demanding that Mason defend Donna. Anita did it thinking that he'd get her off and maybe not discover the truth. "Fidelity seems to be the theme in what happened, so this is for you." Donna gives Perry a recording, which she did that morning, of Fidelio performed on piano). He accepts it as payment for his services. She will continue only as a concert pianist. After she leaves, Paul asks if she’ll remember . . . to send tickets to her first concert. Perry suggests to Della to ask for four tickets. Paul should “be able to find a blonde music lover.” [8-8 end credits] [52:00]

[2-5/1-9 Title credits} [2-9] Perry Mason is looking at flies in his downtown Los Angeles office and Paul Drake is playing with a fishing rod which he thinks is “handy for snagging the olives out of martinis.” He give Mason “8 to 5 you won’t make it to Edinburgh.” Della Street interrupts Mason's reverie about fishing in Scotland with an announcement of a visitor. Little Peggy Smith, with her doll, says that a teacher at her school said her father told her “Mason’s the only lawyer he would go to if he were in trouble,” and she wants to know who she is. // [3-9] Westcroft School headmistress Lorimer tells Mason that Peggy is the offspring of a Swiss bank (Tobler & Sons in Geneva) and an electronic brain, and is about 7 years old. She arrived at the school in a gleaming, chauffeured limousine. / Della is with Peggy and her doll, Maggie, when Perry and the headmistress arrive. The headmistress shows Mason a doll. She gets two a year, one on the day before Christmas, the other on the 11th of June. The only thing she remembers is “Auntie and Martha.” They dolls are all from one shop in Gstaad, Switzerland. Peggy confides in Della that if she could find her family, she'd show them she wasn't so terrible and they might want her back. / Paul is rushing Perry to get ready for his trip when Della notices that her boss’s ticket is not to Scotland, but “Los Angeles to London by way of Geneva, Switzerland.” “Perry, you’d better hurry. I think she’s going to kiss you!” warns Paul! / A view of Geneva from the air. / A Constellation airplane lands. / At Tobler et fils private bank, a Tobler tells Mason that he acts only as an agent. Everything is paid thru a numbered account. When Mason leaves, Tobler phones Los Angeles. / A train ride thru gorgeous Swiss countryside leaves Mason at Kringle's (Gstaad) doll shop. Mr Kringle says that the bank pays for the dolls. Two Miss Osbornes and a man are in the shop, and one of the Misses Osborne takes an interest in the situation, but none know who is behind all this. (We will learn later that the one is Linda, the couple are Helene and Larry.) Kringle explains that now he chooses the doll to be sent. / The Osbornes are at dinner in the dining room of the Gstaad hotel. Mason comes in alone. Helene joins him. Linda is her sister-in-law. She wants to know about the nine dolls for curiosity’s sake. Larry escorts her away. The Swiss waiter pours more cognac for Mason as he reveals that the Osbornes are very rich and have been visiting for several years, from Los Angeles and that they followed Mason from his hotel. / Mason returns to his hotel room to find a doll with its head twisted off, and a note, "this can happen to little girls, too." // [4-9] Mason paces his room, responds to the phone, which is his call to Westcroft's Lorimer. She is not in, nor is Peggy, who left with a woman. / Perry reaches Paul Drake. Della walks in to Paul's office with Peggy. Mason orders Drake personally to watch the school. / On a plane, the Miss Osborne who talked with him in the doll shop, Linda, is sitting next Mason. She's on her way to her uncle, Courtney Jeffers, the oil man. She got as far as the alter, but is not married. Mason, lighting a cigarette, tells her that he felt that he was being followed to the toy shop, by her, her brother and his wife. She’s baffled by his accusation. / In the Los Angeles Chronicle "morgue," Drake is looking into past files. The morgue man finds an article Margaret Jeffers, “oil heiress, elopes with a bond salesman.” She was killed, 6 1/2 years ago, in a Palm Springs crash. Courtney Jeffers avoids publicity and is a friend of the publisher of the Chronicle, and he is cantankerous. / Courtney Jeffers calls for Martha (Benson), his maid. Linda Osborne enters, says her flight was with Perry Mason, which calls forth Jeffers' ire; “he’ll charm the gall out of your back teeth.” Butler (Edgar) Benson announces Mason's arrival. Linda leaves before Mason enters. The lawyer tells Jeffers that he has a grand daughter and shows him a birth certificate to prove it. Jeffers is outraged, thinks Margaret's husband Clark Lawson is behind this. He refuses to see Peggy. / The child is with Della and Perry. The two girls go into the library when Linda Osborne arrives. Linda tells Mason that, had Margaret a child, she'd know it. He says there are records. She says they can be forged. He asks, can little girls be forged? Peggy is brought in. She crosses to Linda, says that if she “belonged to somebody, it just must be somebody as pretty as you are.” Linda is terrified, "don't touch me" is her response, and she leaves, very upset. Peggy is crestfallen. / Helen Osborne and her husband, Linda and Courtney are at dinner in the Jeffer’s place. Benson announces Mason, and Linda and Courtney meet Della, Perry, and Peggy, who apologizes for upsetting him. Now Jeffers accepts his granddaughter. / Mason dictates to Della the new will of Courtney Jeffers. Della is so happy she could almost cry. A call comes from Linda, who is standing over a dead Jeffers. // [5-9] In jail Linda says Peggy is “so like her mother,” which is why she cannot accept her because, on the day Margaret eloped with Clark Lawson, she was to have been married to him! She was stood up at the church. Uncle Courtney sided with her and kept it out of the papers. She can’t bear being around Peggy. / Deputy D A Chamberlin gives his preliminary statement to the court asserting that a change in Jeffers’ will was the motive for murder. Sergeant Willoughby found a button by the right hand of the deceased that is from a Linda Osborne dress. He identifies as the murder weapon a poker with the decedent’s blood type and the defendant's fingerprints only. Helen's husband Larry testifies of learning of the new will which cut him out of the inheritance. Helen testifies to her husband's wanting a brandy because "it isn't everyday that you lose nine million dollars." She heard an argument, then Linda stormed out “mad as a hatter.” Mason has the quote stricken from the record by the judge. Emma Benson was in the library when a noisy discussion, as Helen called it, went on. Mr Jeffers was determined to have Peggy in the house so Linda could care for her. He told her to pack up and get out when she refused to live in the same house with Peggy. Edgar Benson testifies to another argument, an hour later, between Jeffers and Linda. He heard a thud, then saw Linda going up the hall stairs, in a robe. The judge, who has other business to attend to, calls an early midday recess. // [6-9] Drake brings Mason the poker from Linda's room. It is identical to the murder weapon. Clark Lawson was killed in Korea. Also, Larry Osborne has drawn $10,000 in cash for each of the past three years. Della, at Mason's insistence, has tried to locate Tobler in Switzerland, but he's in L A, at a the Sunset Hills Hotel. / Tobler, threatened with a subpoena, says that Constance Osborne, Jeffers late sister and mother of Larry and Linda, created the trust for Peggy. He came to L A to tell Larry that the bank would gladly release all details about Peggy Smith’s fund if it would save his sister, and he refused! / Back in court Larry Osborne admits to Mason that he was wrong. He says Margaret knew the marriage was wrong two months into it, and kicked her husband out. Still, she wouldn't let her father know; “she wanted the estate for Linda and (Larry),” therefore she couldn't let Jeffers know of Peggy. Mason suggests that he left the broken doll in his hotel room, and Larry knows nothing of it. He was paying $10,000 a year blackmail to Uncle Courtney's man, Benson. Butler Benson calls it “a simple business deal.” Mason shows him a poker. The murder weapon and Linda's are identical. Can he be sure the robe is one that he saw? No. Is he sure it was Linda going up stairs, or could it have been Helene? Possibly. Helen admits to Mason to putting broken doll in his hotel room, to help Larry. Yes, she knew who Peggy was. Mrs Benson is recalled, and Mason suggests that she murdered Jeffers. He shows her the robe that she wore, the robe having been sent to the cleaners in a vain hope to get rid of the blood stains. She exchanged Linda's poker with the real murder weapon, because she knew her fingerprints would be on it. Now Drake's report from the chemist is used. It shows traces of blood on the exchanged poker. She breaks down and testifies that she and her husband knew that they were in Jeffers's will. When he found out how she and Larry had kept him from Peggy, she had to murder him, because he was going to discharge her and her husband, which would ruin them. // [7-9] At Jeffers’ house Linda and Peggy are with Della and Perry. Linda says she's going to take a trip, refuses to take Peggy with her, refuses Peggy's offer to live in the home, starts to leave. Peggy stops her, goes to her, and says she just wanted to say "goodbye." Linda stoops to her level, takes Peggy and hugs her. [8-9 end credits] [52:00](51:49)

[3-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] At 9 a m Lester (Martin) is awakened by a phone call from Sam Crane, who reminds him that he's due in the office by 10. Lester asserts that “at ten o’clock I’ll walk in that door fully dressed and throw mud in my stepfather’s eye.” When Lester hangs up, a mustached stranger with a gloved hand holding a gun takes him to the next room for breakfast, but forces whiskey on him. Lester jumps at his kidnapper, but falls to the floor. // [3-9] Marge (Fuller) parks her car, climbs the steps to and enters Lester's apartment. He is not there. She finds an open whiskey bottle, almost empty. She then finds a broken glass on the floor and answers a phone call from Crane, wondering where Lester is. Sam then enters the adjacent office, tells Judson Bailey and Lois Rogers that Lester must be almost there. Crane is reminded by Bailey that his presidency of Martin Boat Company is annually renewed by the stockholders who are he and Emma, his wife, and Lois. Sam points out that he and Lester are majority stockholders but, as Judson notes, that is not enough if Lester is not there. Lois suggests that Crane retire, but he asks for a little more time, warns that he could call for an immediate vote but, if he did, he’d have “corporation lawyers on his neck forever.” He is given until 8 o'clock that night. Lois and Judson kiss after Sam leaves. / The mustached stranger drives Lester into a dead end canyon, gets out to smoke. When he returns, Lester pushes the car door against him, knocking him down. During a brief fight, Lester gets the gun and the stranger flees with Lester firing at him. / Marge gets a telephone call regarding Lester's kidnapping from Sam. He tells her to go to Corelli’s Bar and get a picture of Judson Bailey with the guy who kidnapped Lester. / Bailey is talking with the mustached Mexican stranger, the kidnapper, in Corelli’s Bar. The stranger suggests this is the last time he’ll be tasting scotch fro some time. Baily admits he’s been in Mexico City, for he enjoys bullfighting. The stranger counters, “I don’t think they should make a sport out of killing.” Marge makes her photograph and the man leaves. Lois joins Judson and tells him of Marge's taking his picture. / Emma Bailey, on the phone, tells Judson that it isn't fair that he won't be home. Lester, Emma's son, enters and informs her that his stepfather, Judson, just tried to have him killed, and she should be at the 8 o'clock meeting to take back her proxy. Judson only married her to get the company. She refuses to believe this of her husband. He says he’ll show her a photo. / Marge tells Lester that the photo is gone, stolen. / Lester reports on the missing negative and only print, as Perry Mason looks at the gun in the private office. Lester relates his suspicions about Judson Bailey as Della Street takes notes. Mason says that, if his suspicions are correct, it is attempted murder. / At the Bailey Boat Company, Sam joins Lois, then Emma Bailey enters, soon followed by Perry Mason, and finally Lieutenant Tragg, who tells Emma of Judson's murder. // [4-9] Paul Drake joins Della and Perry. Lester has disappeared. The gun was stolen. No trace of any intruder at Marge Fuller's studio apartment. Mason suggests, then, that they “backtrack from the time of the murder.” He instructs Della to get Fuller to come to the bar with her camera. / Emma Bailey asks Mason if he's going to help her son. She has not told the police all she knows. She admits, she's done nothing but harm to Lester. When she called Judson at Corelli’s Bar, after the confrontation with Lester, he asked her to repeat every word, and was deadly quiet. He hung up and she tried, unsuccessfully, to call him back. Two hours later, he was dead. “It’s all my fault” she wails. / At Corelli's Bar Marge explains to Perry and Della that she recognized from his description the man with Bailey. Possibly Lois saw her make the picture. Judson and Lois met at Corelli’s almost every day. Mason asks her to find someone in the bar who looks about like the man. She does, and Mason has her snap a picture of him with the man. / Mason visits Lois Rogers, who is drinking. He says that the previous night he didn’t realize it was a personal loss for her. She pours him a drink. He shows her the photo and she admits "in this view" she cannot identify the man. Mason confronts her with the other view, namely is there another picture? Now she admits that she stole the picture, for Judson, and saw Marge make it. Judson wasn't upset until his wife phoned. She impersonated Crane's secretary to get Marge away from the apartment and, at 6:30, she gave him the picture at the bar. She asks who the other man is. “I have no idea, but that’s not Mr Bailey, that’s me.” / Over the phone at Corelli’s, Paul tells Perry that there was no photo on Bailey's body. / Mason goes to Crane, suggests that Lester came to him and he also asked Marge to make the photo, which has disappeared. Crane tries to eject him. Emma Bailey breaks in with the news that the police have caught Lester, in Crane’s beach cottage. She sent him there. // [5-9] The Los Angeles Hall of Justice. In the jailroom, Mason lights a cigarette as Lester says Bailey accused him of framing him. He found Bailey already dead when he went with the metal vase to confront him. He was too scared to turn himself in and wanted to find the man. He took the photo from Bailey, hid it in Sam Crane's beach house. Will Mason stick by him given all the dumb things he’s done? “We all do dumb things. That doesn’t mean we’re all murderers.” / In court Deputy D A Sampson asks Dr Hoxie, the autopsy surgeon, if a metal vase could have caused the death. Dr Hoxie admits to Mason that many things could have just as well caused the death. Sampson asks Lt Tragg about the metal vase. It was held as a weapon. Crane is forced to admit that Lester said he'd "get him (Bailey) thrown out of the boat company even if he had to frame him to do it." Mason cross examines. Had Judson Bailey threatened Crane's position in the company? Yes. Did he ask Mrs Bailey, after her first marriage, to marry him? Yes, and she turned him down. “If anyone had a reason to kill the man, it was I” says the witness. Emma Bailey testifies that she told her husband Lester's story of a hired gunman and that there was mutual hatred between deceased and defendant. Lois Rogers says she had to get the picture for Bailey. When he left her, he said, 'I'm going to take this phoney photograph and shove it down that little conniver's throat." Mason makes her admit that she went to Bailey's cottage as his (only) guest. They were lovers and he'd asked her to marry him and she'd said yes, and Emma knew, but pretended it wasn't so. Around 7:30 p m, says Wilma Stone, she heard a loud argument from Bailey's cottage between Bailey and Martin, much as they’d argued for years, and she saw Martin run out and drive away. The judge adjourns court for noon break. Lt Tragg teases Mason who has his right wrist in a cast. Perry suggests to Paul that he use central casting to find a man with a mustache and scar. // [6-9] The judge asks Mason to proceed with his cross-examination. Mason gets Stone to admit someone could have come and gone without her knowledge. She’s not snoopy, just observant! About 9:30 in the morning a man drove away with Martin, just before the Fuller girl arrived, who was also there at 6:30 p m. Samson reads back some testimony and confronts Marge Fulle. Sher says Lester lied to protect her. She was at the defendant's house 6:30 to 7:15, leaving the defendant alone. Mason insists that he must pursue the question of the photo. Sampson objects, but Mason explains his reason, (Della leaves) then recalls Sam Crane. Crane testifies that he got a phone call from Lester, who was at a service station, telling him of the death threat. Mason asks for a description of the man Lester described, and as Crane describes him, Della returns, followed by Paul Drake who brings in a man fitting the description. Stone jumps up and points at Drake's man with "that's him." Mason recalls Lois Rogers and she admits that the man could have been a stranger to Bailey, and someone else could have arranged the picture taking so that Bailey would be blamed. Crane interrupts, admits that he had to kill Bailey. He had to make Emma hate Judson, so he had to kill him. In the back row, Drake pays his impersonator his $100 fee! // [7-9] At dinner, Mason explains to Paul, Della, Lester and Marge that Judson Bailey was so outraged at the suggestion that he'd hired the kidnapper, he must have been telling the truth, so someone else must have done it. Crane arranged for the man to strike up a conversation with Bailey and for Marge to take the picture. “I don’t know why I didn’t get it whe you did practically the same thing right in front of me” offers Marge. “Don’t worry,” says Della, “I miss things like that all the time.” Just then, a photo girl takes the group's photo, and they act surprised. “Excuse me, but didn’t you want your picture taken?” They break into laughter. [8-9 end credits] [51:58]

[4-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] Three horses come galloping across a flat ground. One, a girl, keeps going. the other two, a woman and a man, stop. The woman calls after the fleeing girl, Ann, then orders the man (Joe Dixon) to get her and he races off. Ann’s horse appears without rider. Joe finds Ann on the ground, crying, and notes, “you might’ve been killed.” Would that have been so bad?” she responds. The woman (Rita Connoer) rides up and chastens Ann, but Joe tells her to “Shut up!” // [3-9] Perry Mason is shown red riding boots for Ann by Jill (Farwell). Burt, her former husband, and Rita Conover are to get married. She doesn't know why Ann needs a psychologist, though Ann is upset over, and refuses to adjust to, her father's remarriage. Jill wants Perry to get Burt and Rita to postpone their marriage. / Joe (Dixon) tells Burt that his remarriage is affecting Ann, but Burt says that she'll get used to it, “She’ll have to.” Burt gets a call from Mason. Joe is told to exit. / Rita Conover rides up, gives her horse over to Rennie (Foster) who insults her, calling her “your highness,” suggesting that the way she walks reminds him of a taffy machine. He asserts that the marriage won't come off. They tacitly agree to be quiet about each other as Joe joins them. When he asks for a moment alone, she slaps him. Rennie laughs. Joe goes to him, takes a pocket flask out of Rennie’s pocket and drinks. / Rita tells Burt that she wants to get away where they can talk. He brings up his conversation with Mason about Ann. She gets angry, says that any time Jill brings up Ann she gets her way. Rita says that there's only one way to solve this and that is to “go to Las Vegas, right now.” / At the Fernwood School for Girls, Ann's roommate Kathy (Jergens) practices French. Then Ann enters and says she went for a ride with dad, who's getting married tomorrow. She says that she gets “cold inside” when she sees him with Rita, and she'll die if they marry. Kathy asks for the red riding boots if she does. Ann asks a favor in return. / Joe, driving Burt's car, blows a tire. He is shocked when he opens the trunk. A police car comes up and a deputy sheriff says that they have a report on him for sideswiping a farmer. He shows them what is in the trunk; Rita Conover. // [4-9] Lieutenant Tragg interviews Burt Farwell. He and Rita loaded his car between 6 and 8 p m with all needed goods and had sent it to his cabin driven by Rennie Foster. He planned to drive in Rita's car to Vegas, then back to the cabin today. Joe Dixon, having entered with Sergeant Brice, gives his statement to Lt Tragg. It says Rennie went to a movie at 7. Joe explains that he left the ranch several times, once to get fruit crates as ordered by Burt, who doesn't remember telling him. / Jill, after reading the Los Angeles Chronicle headline RANCH FOREMAN HELD IN BEAUTY’S DEATH, asks Burt if he can't do something for him. Why is she so anxious to help him wonders Burt and why is he so afraid is her concern. Jill phones Perry Mason. At police headquarters. Lt Tragg tells Mason that Rita was killed about 11, was struck several times. Joe’s fingerprints are the only ones on the murder weapon. Joe began drinking in the afternoon and has a rough temper. Tragg offers to bring him up to Mason. / Joe says it was natural to pull the knife out! When Mason points out that a lab test showed his were the only fingerprints on the weapon, he gets angry, and Mason notes that he has a temper. He admits to having been in jail for a few fights in Tennessee, always after drinking. He stopped drinking long ago, but took a couple of belts from Rennie because of what Rita was doing to Ann. Joe confuses the time when Rennie told him of Burt's instructions, suggesting first, 8 p m, but Mason notes that Rennie went to the movies at 7, and he defends Rennie. / At the ranch, Paul Drake and Perry seek clues. In Rennie's room, they see evidence of his love of movies, including one now playing with Connie Cole. Mason once handled a case for Cole’s agent, so has a trick up his sleeve; he’ll have Paul build a trap for Rennie. / Ann tells Perry she can't help Joe though she wants to. Kathy, wearing the red riding boots, brings Ann a snack. Miss Pennock confides to Perry that Kathy slipped out in her car the night before, and won't say where she went. Mason confronts Kathy in the red riding boots, learns that it was Ann who actually “sneaked off the other night.” / Burt Farwell is angry that Mason has seen Ann, and won't believe that she sneaked out. Mason takes, privately, a call from Drake who has found Rennie Foster by the ruse of advertising a personal appearance of Connie Cole. Not only did Rennie show, but so did Tragg's men including Sgt Brice. He saw two shows, drank, fell asleep, and was wakened by the manager at 10 a m. Back in his office, Mason is ordered by Burt to keep away from Ann, but Mason says he’ll see her in curt. Mason intends to find the truth, no matter who it hurts. Burt leaves. Now Della plays on Mason’s dragging the young girl int court. “What would you have me do?” he grumbles. // [5-9] In court the autopsy surgeon tells Deputy D A Sampson that Conover died between 10 and midnight. Mason gets him to admit even a woman could have administered the wound. The body was moved between midnight and 5 a m. Rennie Foster describes Joe's confrontation with Rita Conover about 5. Mason goes after him regarding his ability to recall detail, even when drinking. He forces Rennie to admit he's wanted for manslaughter in Tennessee. Mason asks why the D A's office never gave him that information, and Sampson retorts that it is not relevant to the current case. Also, the witness would be partial to the defendant, as they are step-brothers, another fact that Mason did not know. Joe whispers to Mason that he’s sorry for not revealing all this to him, by he’s always protected his half-brother. Burt testifies that he left the ranch at 8 sharp, went to the Fernwood School, then went to his office, and went to his club after midnight. He got to the ranch about 10 a m, had to admit the rug cleaners who were redecorating for Rita. He became concerned at Joe Dixon's absence, so phoned the police, who had just stopped him. Mason, after suggesting Burt would not have made the call if the rug men were not there but would have driven to his cottage with the body, asks if he made the anonymous call to the police that got them to pull Joe over. No! Wilmer Beaslee, a Memphis, Tennessee theatrical booking agent, testifies that Joe Dixon was married a dozen years earlier to 16-year-old Georgia Hale. She walked out on him, went to New York, changed her name to Rita Conover. // [6-9] Joe tells Perry and Paul that one day Rita showed up at the ranch, saw Rennie, knew he was wanted in Tennessee, and decided that blackmail was better than alimony. He couldn’t tell Burt because Rita could put Rennie in prison. Joe admits he should have told Burt, but couldn’t. / Back in court, Ann is called, is hesitant, but Jill tells her to “just tell the truth.” The court clerk swears her in. Ann says Joe knew about her dislike of Rita, and “understood better than anyone.” He also said he'd do something about her problem the day that she was killed. It was all he could do to keep from “wringing her pretty neck.” Mason asks her when Joe left her at the school. 2 o'clock. Her mother was waiting for her, but she wanted to be alone. She saw Burt in the evening and learned that they were to be married the next day. Mason, by showing her a red riding boot, finally gets her to admit she left the school that evening, went to the ranch to talk to Rita. She wanted to tell Rita what she was doing to her mother, how her mother cried every night. She left her car at the highway, walked in. She won't go on and refuses to say what she saw next, then breaks down, crying. The judge calls a five minute recess. Ann runs from the courtroom to a window as Mason and others follow. She claims she killed Rita. Mason pulls her down after saying that he can prove she didn't kill Rita. When her mother admits to being at the house, Ann says she saw her mother running away, but Jill Farwell says that she and Rita only had a quarrel. Ann went inside and found Rita dead. She called Burt. Everyone is protecting everyone else. Jill is protecting Burt, Burt Ann, Ann Jill. Except Rennie, who is corralled by the police. // [7-9] Rennie slipped out of the movie theatre, came back in by an unlatched fire door. He was in the next room when Jill was at the ranch, killed Rita after she left. He also made the anonymous phone call to the police. / Joe lifts Ann onto a horse, and she rides away. [8-9 end credits] [51:59]

[5-5/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Main street, Upton. A picturesque yard. Inside its house, mayor (Jim) Henderson is being asked by (William) Carter if he'll head up the crime commission. Jim’s friend Arnold Webberly is the other possibility. Jim is still town mayor, but his term is up this year. Mona (Henderson) thinks it a big step up, so Jim agrees to accept. The men leave and Mona phones Tom (Stratton), tells him that the deal is off. She can’t afford to take any chances; her “husband’s career is at stake.” // [3-8] She answers realty speculator Tom's return call during which he threatens a front page story if she doesn't pass on information from the mayor's office. He’s got $70,000 in options. He has $10,000 for her. She arranges to meet him at a the Highway Hotel on 101, or to send Susan Connolly, Jim's secretary, at 1:30. / Mona goes to Susan Connolly in the mayor’s office to enlist her aid. / Susan goes to the Highway Hotel to meet Tom Stratton. A young man in the lobby observes. / She goes to room 204 where Stratton asks her to sign a receipt. She is surprised that she is picking up money. As she counts $10,000, a photographer, the man in the lobby, opens the door and snaps a flash photo. / The photographer, who is also a golf pro, Frank (Sykes) delivers the photo to Mona. She pays him $100, then slaps him, and leaves. / In Perry Mason's inner office, Connolly tells the attorney that she kept neither the money nor the receipt. She's worried that Henderson might be involved in scandal and kept from the governor’s crime commission. "I wonder what else Mona Henderson has to cover up" was the only thing Stratton said that she remembers. / Mona and Julia (Webberly) are having tea. Mona brings up Julia's finding a surprise hunchback witness, a Mr Bona Nova, in Reno who made her husband Arnold's case, thus accusing her of suborning perjury. She’d been looking for the hunchback a long time and just stumbled upon him. Julia is to tell William Carter that her husband “is not interested in the governor’s appointment.” / Paul Drake reports to Perry about Upton's fourfold explosive growth and Stratton's buying options on certain parcels of land. Drake suggests that Stratton had a direct line to the mayor via Mona, and getting Susan involved was the way to clear Mona. / 8 p m. Mason arrives to see Mona just before Jim Henderson drives up. They hear a shot. Mason sees a two-tone Ford hardtop drive away. They find Mona dead in the living room. Henderson mumbles, and Mason thinks he was going to name who he thinks is the murderer. Henderson then clams up. / Later, Henderson refuses to talk when Mason brings up Connolly and the $10,000. A police car siren is heard and a plain clothesman soon enters. / The Upton Inquirer headline reads MAYOR’S WIFE MURDERED and then in an article heading the news that “Newly zoned area results in 150 more building permits.” // [4-8] Susan tells Perry she was home all evening, but Mason says he phoned her at 8:30, 9 and 9:30. He saw her car at 8, next to Henderson's. Mason asks about her shoes, as her prints are in the ground at Henderson’s. She admits she fired the shot. Mason ask if she is in love with Henderson. "He doesn't even know I'm alive" she responds. / Mason goes to the Henderson's, where the police are making molds of shoe prints. Mason finds the mayor, Julia Webberly and William Carter. Julia leaves. Carter says Jim shouldn’t worry about the apointment and leaves. Mason confronts Henderson. who still refuses to tell the attorney anything. At the door, they notice Julia Webberly's car. Both go upstairs, find her in a bedroom, looking for a glove that she left the previous week. Mason asks if Julia hid it, or if she was looking for it the night before. “Just my glove” is all she states when Mason pushes her. / Julia goes to Frank Sykes, asks for his photo of the presentation of the golf trophy, with her and a hunchback man in the background. He has copies. He raises the issue of the hunchback witness, sets a blackmail fee, half a dozen golf lessons at $1000 each. / Mason asks Stratton about Connolly and the money, and Mona. He denies the existence of the hotel room photo. Mason leaves as Stratton answers Sykes phone call. Stratton asserts he wasn’t in the hotel room, there is no photo, and he won’t be blackmailed. Sykes phones the D A. // [5-8] The Upton court. In court prosecutor Thorne is heard detailing the charges. Paul Drake identifies Arnold Webberly in the courtroom to Mason. Stratton categorically denies any business with either Mayor Henderson, his wife, or Connolly. Is it not strange that he has options on all 14 parcels that the planning board is considering? No. He went to see the mayor, about 7, and only Mona was home. She was expecting Susan Connolly. Mason tries to get Stratton to admit that he went to see Mrs, not Mayor, to get the photo of himself and Connolly. Stratton denies all. Sykes asserts that Mona came to him. She'd heard Connolly was selling information to a real estate agent. He identifies his photo, then tells of Julia Webberly's finding a witness, who was also photographed, and of suborning perjury. Mason asks that the testimony be stricken and assign misconduct to the prosecutor. The prosecutor says he will call Webberly. The judge says he will withhold striking until then. Sergeant Ralph Reynolds identifies the weapon, which is registered to Henderson, and cartridges. Five cartridges were in the in gun, one had been fired, seven removed from the box. Where is the missing cartridge, Mason asks. Perhaps two bullets were fired. Arnold Webberly leaves, with Drake following. Mayor James Henderson says that he heard a shot, then found his wife dead, and saw Connolly's car being driven away. Yes, he expected her to be there. // [6-8] Drake reports to Mason over his car phone that Arnold Webberly's been in the house 45 minutes just as Sergeant Reynolds comes out. Mason confides to Della that Sykes has cleared Julia if she’ll just confirm his testimony. Julia can go one of two ways with her testimony and they will find out only in court. / Mayor Henderson says he knew that Susan would be at his home because she phoned him at 7:15. It is ten minutes from his office to home, a half hour from Susan's. Mason asks, hadn't Susan told him what really transpired between her and Stratton? Yes. His own wife had deceived him. Susan thought he did it, so fired the false shot to protect him by confusing the issue and cover Henderson with an alibi. Drake enters followed by both Webberlys, who were together in their house all the time. Prosecutor Thorne rests. Mason objects that he was promised the right to cross-examine Julia Webberly. Again the judge clearly concurs with Mason’s position. When Thorne refuses to examine her, the judge calls her. She admits she was frightened, that if the newspapers printed the story, she'd never convince anyone that it “was all innocent and above board.” Then when her husband told her Frank Sykes story, she knew all she had to do to get her husband the governor's offer was to corroborate Sykes's story. But Sykes lied. Susan did not blackmail her, but Mona, with the photo. Then she blackmailed Frank Sykes for money. Sykes spoke to Julia over the phone about 6 o'clock regarding her photo which included the hunchback. He got it back the next morning, or perhaps that afternoon. But it wasn't there when he and the police were there in the morning, and it had to be after he called Mona that evening. He had to be at Henderson's between 7 and 7:45. He now admits that he went then, demanded the photo and, finally, she got angry. He grabbed the gun. She wouldn't believe he'd shoot her. “Rotten luck.” // [7-8] Mayor Henderson tells Mason, Street and Connolly that he's not available for the appointment, it will go to Webberly. Carter will try to get probation for Susan. Henderson admits that he brought both the gun and the cartridges home. He looks at his watch, notes he has a job to get to. He and Susan leave together. “What about us?” wonders Della, out loud. Of course, not about a job. Mason teases her, giving her a spiral note pad with “take a note.” She gets read for dictation and he starts; “A new French restaurant just opened up; specializes in rack of lamb, mint sauce, Lyonaise potatoes, crepe suzettes . . . ” [8-8 end credits] [51:58](51:06)

[2-5/1-9 Title credits]{7-10/1-9} [2-9]{2-9} Donald Fletcher lectures to an audience of the Aitkens Weekly magazines. Wendell Harding gives him the current circulation figures, which are awful, and suggests that (Edmund) Aitken can explain why advertising is down. Fletcher sets a new editorial policy around sex for the three different magazines as Lori (Stoner) uncovers the new magazine covers behind the old. Aitken scalds Fletcher with invective and says "a virus cannot be talked to, it must be exterminated." // [3-9]{3-9} At a party at the Fletcher pad, Fletcher is introduced to Alyce (Aitken) by Edmond Aitken, then to her sister Milly Nash. Fletcher's neighbor phones to complain about the loud music and its effect on his sick wife. Fletcher suggests that he “send her to a hospital,” then checks his black book, finds "Nash." He returns to the party, discovers Alyce talking about learning Chinese as a child. He asks about the family pedigree, but Edmond cuts off Milly, noting that Fletcher takes pleasure in chopping down family trees. When asked whether he, Aitken, intends to resign from the company, he replies “no.” He is pressed about the Philadelphia end of the business. Fletcher quickly suggests that Aiken stay home and take care of his wife since there are a lot of other men who'd like to, Edmond hits Fletcher. Milly forces Alyce to apologize for Edmond. Fletcher tells Milly to call him in the morning. / In Perry Mason's office Ben Nicholson recites some poetry, then tells Mason it is what he knows most that deserves to be kept alive. Mason donates $100. Edmond Aitken is advised that only the post office can stop people like Fletcher, who has terminated his contract as editor-in-chief. / Nicholson watches Aitken leave and follows him to The Journalist Club where he sympathizes with him. / Fletcher phones Alyce. Fletcher tells Harding he’ll be fired unless he stops thinking. Lori reports that Harding has slightly over $93,000 scattered in accounts over the country. Fletcher orders Harding to go out and get new advertising. After he and Lori embrace, he brushes her off. He phones Mrs Aitken. / Edmond is at home drinking when Alyce and Milly return. He says he's going to fight, with proxies, and asks for hers, but she gave it to Fletcher! Milly notes that Alyce is frightened of being poor again, and with Fletcher the business would be safe. / Edmond returns to The Journalist Club and confides to Nicholson that he has murder in his heart. Nicholson cautions, "be sure you murder the right person." / A Los Angeles Chronicle headline read DONALD FLETCHER MURDERED. Della Street reaches Milly Nash, who admits that Edmond hasn't been home all night. Milly then cautions a reclining Alyce to remember that they've been in all night. Lieutenant Tragg arrives with a warrant for the arrest of Alyce. // [4-9]{4-9} Paul Drake reports that Alyce's fingerprints were all over the deceased's apartment and he was murdered with his own gun. Fletcher's secretary reported he and Alyce had a rendezvous, and a neighbor saw a woman like Alyce leaving the apartment at about 3 a m, the apparent time of the murder. Nicholson enters, says Aitken is at his house, and wants Mason to defend his wife. / In jail Alyce denies being at Fletcher's and offers that Milly will vouch for that. / Milly says Alyce had no reason to kill Fletcher. There was quite a scene when Alyce returned from Fletcher without the proxies, after which Edmond left and never returned. Lori Stoner tells Drake how mean Fletcher was. She mentions a "double-cross" of Aitken by Harding but reveals nothing more. She suggests that he see Rudi Tripp. / Photographer Tripp tells Mason and Drake how Milly drove Alyce. One day Milly hit Edmond on the head with a spotlight when he tried to remove Alyce from a shoot. Paul ogles the girl who is modeling for Tripp. / Perry suggests to Edmond that Alyce may have been blackmailed by Fletcher. Drake motions Mason out of the office, tells him it was Ben Nicholson who "rescued" Alyce and got hit, not Edmond Fletcher! // [5-9]{5-9} In court Mason is making several stipulations and Deputy D A Sampson suggests that the defense attorney could save the taxpayers by stipulating Alyce murdered Fletcher! Lori Stoner says that she left Fletcher at 8:30, having heard him phone an appointment for 9:30 with Alyce. Mason queries her regarding the contents of Fletcher's desk, and she mentions items not on the police list. Could they have contained blackmail materials? The judge suggests that the Deputy D A might wish to object, but Sampson says on the contrary, Mason may plead his case, for he plans to show that certain photographs of the accused were part of the motive for murder. Stoner says she has positive knowledge that Fletcher had blackmail items and that he "would stoop to anything to get what he wanted." Wendell Harding phoned Fletcher at exactly 11 p m. Fletcher said "guess who was here and who just called and who's coming back? . . . Alyce Aitken." Mason asks him if Fletcher blackmailed him? No. Mason then uses information from Stoner to corner him. How much money has he put in banks around the country. $93,000. Mason notes that he was quoting fine detail about defendant's being blackmailed, but cannot remember his own. Nicholson admits that his first statement to the police, that Aitken spent the entire night in his apartment, was not entirely true. About 2:30 he was awakened by a drunk Aitken who wanted to see his wife. He took him home, but Alyce was not there. She whispers to Mason that Nicholson is lying. Mason then learns that Milly was asleep in another room, and Edmond fell asleep in Nicholson's car. No, Nicholson was never introduced to Alyce Nicholson. Was he ever introduced to Alyce Nash? No. Was he hit on the head by Milly Nash? Yes. Again, Alyce Nash? No, he was not introduced to her, he picked her up on a boat trip to Catalina. Did he ask her to marry him? Yes. How many times? He has forgotten. He loved her too much and she almost destroyed him. She always wanted money. Yes, he despises her. For a while he edited a cheap girlie magazine published by Donald Fletcher. Philip Robinson, whose apartment is across the courtyard from Fletcher's, saw Alyce running from Fletcher's at 3:05. He is the one who phoned Fletcher about noise. After Alyce left, the music ended. "Deadly silence" notes Sampson. "For the tenth time" says Robinson as Mason cross-examines, it was her mink coat, her light blond hair. Lt Tragg identifies the long play record, says that the only fingerprints on the manual turntable arm were Alyce Aitken's. // [6-9]{6-9} Yes, says Alyce in private to Mason, she went back to Fletcher's to get the proxy back. She gave the proxy, not because of blackmail over her girlie photos, but because her sister told her it was the best way to preserve the value of the stock. She and sister Milly were brought up in an orphanage in China where their sailor father dumped them. She let Milly push her into making money, but for once she acted for Edmond, not Milly, and argued with and fought Fletcher. She then left after taking off her shoes and she didn't put the record on the hi-fi. It was at 10 o'clock that she took a record off the player! Mason gives Drake instructions to find the photos of Alyce. / Milly testifies that when Alyce returned, she said nothing, went to her bedroom and locked the door. She required sedatives. She tells Mason that she pretended to be asleep when Edmond returned home. She heard the hall clock chime once after Edmond and Nicholson left. It might have been a half hour, not one o'clock. Mason asks to recall a witness. Sampson shouts an objection, but Nicholson volunteers that it was three, not when he was at Aitken's, but when he got back to his place. Thus, he was at Aitken's at 2:30, and Alyce could have returned before 3. Mason and Sampson now cross argue a time discrepancy. Mason, suggesting deception, uses a manual turntable to show how someone, hiding in Fletcher's when Alyce was there, could have put the record on and left Alyce's fingerprints there. Mason then names the characteristics of the murderer They are someone familiar with the guest room, someone who used spray to put a streak in her hair and who could have used it to lighten all her hair, who has her own mink coat, and who knew about the neighbor. Lori Stoner stands up and confesses that he was trying to get rid of her, even after she helped him with every bit of his dirty blackmail. Killing Donald Fletcher “was the best thing she ever did in her life!” // [7-9]{7-9} Mason explains how he knew someone impersonated Alyce; the neighbor heard clattering of shoes running away from the murder scene, and who it had to be. Edmond wants to know why Mason was so sure that things would work out okay; Mason answers, "my faith in my client, your faith in your wife." Alyce and Edmond leave. Paul pulls out a packet of photos (of Alyce). He had to go thru all of Tripp's photos, hours of work. Mason throws them in the waste basket. [8-9 end credits]{8-9} [51:53]{51:53}

[3-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] A drunk Peter (Caine), and a woman (Debra Bradford) are making out at night in a Buick convertible outside a loud party. On the way to her home, he hits someone. Debra looks at the body, then takes over the driving, leaving the victim on the road. // [3-9] Peter wakes, hungover, and phones Debra. "Was there an accident?" / Debra tells Peter that she phoned for an ambulance for the injured person. He wants to call in as the hit-and-run. She reminds him that his father is to have a public project, the San Marcos aqueduct, named after him, William Harper Caine, the incorruptible county engineer. She has money, but he wants to take care of it. She suggests that Joe Witt, the man he hit, and his wife, Grace, want to retire. He could buy their small ranch in Manzanita Canyon for more than it is worth, $9,000. / William Harper Caine questions his son’s "investing'” $9,000 to a woman named Grace Witt. (Lawrence) Kent calls attention to the upcoming Board of Supervisor’s meeting. As they step into the adjacent committee room, Kent notes that his report disagrees with that of the taxpayers, and Perry Mason represents the taxpayers. Caine suggests that Kent would have risen higher in 21 years if he had imagination. Mason wouldn't represent the taxpayers if something weren't wrong. (Charles) Sistrom threatens Caine with exposure if he agrees with Mason. / The problem is that springs in the current route of the aqueduct could “cause constant earth slippage” and contamination, says Mason, who then requests a 90-day stop work order. To which Caine concurs, but contractor Robert Quigley disagrees with the survey and charges Caine with malfeasance, having purchased a property on the only alternate route, Manzanita Canyon, for $9,000 with a check signed by Peter Caine. The Board of Supervisors takes Caine's recommendation that a 90 day stop work order be given. Quigley, with Sistrom watching, tells Mason that he can't stop work, and he'll sweep Caine out of the way. / William Caine notes the only alternate route through Manzanita Canyon, then questions son Peter as to why he wrote the $9,000 check to the Witts, but Peter can't answer. Caine tells Peter that this has ruined his reputation. Debra Bradford has phoned for Caine. / Caine tells Debra that his son has told him about the accident. He wants her to corroborate it. She says maybe he's too strict, “a man of inflexible virtue” according to Peter, and he expects too much of his son. Then, Witt has further problems which will cost $1000. She suggests the check be made out to her. Quigley and Sistrom appear and make a photo of Caine handing Debra the $1,000 check. Quigley demands that Caine rescind the stop order and resign as county engineer. // [4-9] In Perry Mason's office Caine has told Perry the story. Does Caine believe his son? He doesn’t know. Mason thinks there must be something they do not know. Caine says that he will resign. Mason cautions that this is wrong, asks Della Street to contact Peter. Caine bets she won’t find him, and he is right. He leaves. Della reports from Paul Drake that Quigley Construction Company has over a million and a half out in short term loans to get the project started. Stop-work could bankrupt him. / Mason arrives at Quigley's in a white Lincoln convertible. He is met by Drake, and they find Caine with a gun in his hand over Quigley's dead body. He is covering for someone, Mason quickly discovers. The lawyer forces Caine to admit that he didn’t kill Quigley, and Caine asserts neither did his son. He asks Mason to represent him. / Della and Paul bring Peter to Perry. He admits to going to Quigley about 8 and leaving a note that brought his father there. He went ther to get Qugly to leave his father alone. / Paul, acting as a county tax accessor, goes to Grace Witt, who is drunk and comes on to him. As Paul takes inventory, she asks if her bottle (of gin?) is counted. “Only if you have it in case lots.“ She plans to live well. Her husband died three years earlier! Drake rushes out of her bedroom to his Thunderbird convertible and drives away as she looks bewildered. / Mason questions Debra on how Quigley found out about the hit-and-run, and how they were on hand to make the photograph, knowing Caine would be writing a check. In a phone call from Drake he learns that there is no record of a Joseph Witt at the county hospital. Mason suggests a frame-up involving Debra, “a dummy, an accomplice, and a drunk at the wheel.” Sistrom, who has been eaves dropping, bursts in and admits to getting a little rough and dirty with Caine. Whether real or not, Caine had a motive for murder. // [5-9] In the local court Dr Auerbach tells Deputy D A Parness that death was between 7 and 8:30. Lieutenant Lew Kaufman identifies the murder weapon as being registered to Caine. Kent says his survey indicated no underground springs in the Manzanita Canyon section, so he recommended to Caine that work continue. Kent corroborates for Mason that Caine kept a gun in his study. Mason confronts him with reports of several firms he commissoned that all confirmed there are underground springs in Manzanita Canyon. Sistrom reports Quigley's threats regarding Caine to Mason, but Mason points out how the threats were meaningless. Grace Witt says her property was worth $3,000, and she got a call from Debra Bradford offering $9000. She knew Peter Caine's father wanted to build in the canyon. Peter told her he was buying the place for his old man “to retire to when he quits working.” Mason confronts her with her forgery of her husband's signature on the deed to Peter Caine, and her complicity in the whole frame-up. She’s admitted to greed and dishonesty, notes Mason. Parness gets Peter Caine to admit to Witt's story and that he was at Quigley's 8 to 8:15 and left Quigley alive. He left a note at home for his father, and the gun was gone when he returned. Paul Drake says he arrived about 8:28 and at 8:30 found Caine over Quigley's body. // [6-9] At lunch a waitress asks if anyone wants dessert, then takes away Peter’s uneaten meal. Peter says Debra is a “buff,” when Mason asks about her sports car. Mason asks if the two don’t usually drive in rallies, and Peter says not always. / Court. Debra Bradford says the $1,000 was a bribe for her to say there was an accident, though there was none. After Caine gave her the check, Quigley threatened him with exposure to the district attorney if he did not resign and rescind the stop work order. Mason asks her, didn’t accepting the check indicate that she was willing to go along with bribery? About Sistrom, didn't she purchase $100,000 of Quigley Construction Company stock and register it in her and his name? Didn't she loan Quigley an additional $150,000 and get his shares assigned to her and Sistrom. She admits she and Sistrom are engaged. They are partners. They didn't know Quigley had borrowed an additional million until construction was started. Now she admits with Quigley and Sistrom to framing Caine, son and father Mason suggests that, with the stock in hand, they didn't need Quigley. On the night of the murder, she was driving in an all-night sports car rally, alone. The rally started at 7. 7:33, 8:10, 8:45 were three checkpoints she remembers. Mason points out that the official route was time consuming, but a different route, along Butler where Quigley lived, could have shortened it. Mason constructs a possibility between 8:10 and 8:45, putting Debra at Quigley's at 8:16. Drake timed it out. The leg was along Clarkson where the Caine house, with the gun, was. Kent is now recalled. He says that, on the eve of the murder, he was having dinner, alone, on his patio, which faces Clarkson. Did he, asks Mason, see Debra's car go by? Yes, and Bradford was driving. Mason then says there are four witnesses who will swear that Debra drove the official route. Mason states that Quigley paid Kent to get the aqueduct contract, paid again to get him to prepare a false engineering report. He was hiding in another room when Peter arrived, came out and shot Quigley after he left. Kent pleads that for 21 years he worked for Caine, but Caine had told him that, when he, Caine, retired, he'd recommend someone else for his job. “My judgement wasn’t sound.” // [7-9] Perry gives Peter a check for $6,000, Witt's conscience payment. Mason fakes a case he needs to look into with Della’s connivance, picked up by Drake, and they leave Peter and his dad alone. The two reconcile. Mason pokes his head back in, realizes he’s not needed. [8-9 end credits] [51:58]

[4-4/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] Mrs Hollister, former housekeeper, walks up to the boarded-up Augusta Bowden house, speaks to the county officer Ralph (Duncan) about a favorite vase. She is disgruntled when he turns her away. He returns to his inventory taking, finds $153,000 of federal greenbacks attached to the underside of a drawer. / He takes them in his briefcase to his home having picked up some groceries on the way. He tells Helen (Duncan) and Charley (Nickels) of his find, but his briefcase is now empty. “Oh Ralph, you fool” says Helen. // [3-9] (Lloyd) Farrell looks at one of the greenback fifties brought him by Nickels, wonders why Charley came to him, since he’s a dealer in art, not old money. Charley saye he found it in his cousin's car at the grocery store. Farrell says he’d rather not know, yet asks fifty percent, agrees to dispose of the greenbacks for real money. / Norma (Brooks) joins Lloyd at a restaurant, for the first time in a year. He orders “two Gibsons, one with a double onion.” He's used her before, but now he has his divorce. He wants the name of an old pensioner off the county rolls. / Helen shows Ralph a newspaper article of a man, Josiah Ames, thought to be a pauper, but who died the night before leaving $148,000 in greenbacks. He reads . . . and Perry Mason continues where Ralph leaves off, with Della Street at his side and Ralph Duncan in front of him. Ames' will gives Albert Keller his estate. Duncan, who hasn’t reported the find, feels the money must be that stolen from him. Money found as part of an estate becomes automatically redeemable, notes Mason. Duncan feels that he must tell the truth even if it means losing his job. / Nurse Hamilton tells Paul Drake what she knows of Ames, who was a terminal patient. She found the greenbacks. / Albert Keller says he was a friend of Ames, nothing more, and he didn't know he had any money, or was to be in the will, but he intends to enjoy the windfall. / Paul, Perry and Della discuss the situation over dinner. A third of a billion dollars in greenbacks has still not been redeemed. Maybe this is all mere coincidence, thinks Della. / Duncan answers the phone at his office, gets a tip over the phone from a woman. He locks the office safe, phones Mason . . . gets Gertie in a coat about to leave the office. She offers to get a message to Mason and he tells her he's going to see Farrell, who knows all about the money. / Duncan exits Farrell's house in a daze, then the police drive up and a patrolman picks him up. “There’s a man in there” states Duncan. “He’s been murdered.” // [4-9] Lieutenant Tragg gives Sergeant Brice orders, then heads outside where he greets Mason as he arrives. Then Duncan joins them and Tragg quips he knew Mason wouldn’t be representing a dead person. Sgt Brice shows Tragg the murder knife and the two go inside. Duncan tells Mason he was introduced by cousin Charley Nickels to Farrell, an art dealer. Tragg exits the house, with $5,000 in greenbacks. Mason nonchalantly lights a cigarette. / Nickels comes to Mason, says he's only a middle man. It was Norma Brooks' idea that he introduce Duncan to Farrell because they have things in common. He doesn’t even know what Farrell’s business is. / Drake reports that Farrell's business was import & export, and possibly disposing of stolen goods. Norma Brooks's name is in Farrell's little black book. Mason tells Drake to trace the money. ? Norma Brooks finds the Bowden file for Mason. Norma seems concerned about Duncan. She is caught off guard when asked about Lloyd Farrell. She says Farrell wanted to meet Duncan to learn how to bid on unclaimed items from estates. She breaks down over her relationship to Farrell and his death. / Drake is waiting at the Bowden house when Mason arrives with Brooks, who mentions that the Hollister woman had asked about greenbacks several times. Privately Drake says Della has a report on Ames's will; it is not forged. They find the door unlocked, go into the Bowden house. Inside, Tragg has just found the drawer. He tells Sergeant Brice to “talk to that young lady outside, if you will.” Tragg has also found the empty knife case. // [5-9] Court. The autopsy surgeon identifies the knife for District Attorney Hamilton Burger and says that the murder was between 6 and 6:30 p m. Mrs Hollister found a greenback the day after Bowden died. Mason objects that there is no connection to any money, but Burger says he intends to bring this into his case. She tried to reach Duncan but he never called back and his office said there wasn't any money. Didn’t she seem awfully curious about greenbacks? She recognized the knife, but last saw it in the house about a year ago. Sgt Brice says the $5,000 of greenbacks was found in Farrell's safe. There was also a single ticket to Tokyo for day after the murder made out to Farrell. Keller says his firm audited Farrell for past five years, but terminated the contract when he became “convinced that Farrell was engaged in selling stolen goods.” A music box, paid for with a check to “cash,” is admitted as evidence of this. Mason notes that $250 is a rather low retainer for a year's work. Mason asks if it isn't a coincidence that he inherited greenbacks . . . Hamilton Burger's objection is sustained. / The Judge admonishes Nickels with a warning of contempt of court if he doesn’t answer the prosecutor’s questions. Nickels says he is like a family chauffeur and he took Duncan to Farrell's shortly after 6. Duncan then sent him away. Duncan whispers to Mason that he sent him on to tell Helen not to wait dinner for him. Brooks is asked about an earlier inventory of an estate in which an item, the music box now in evidence, was missing; it was by Duncan. / At Sunnydale Rest Home, Mason asks Nurse Hamilton about Ames's means of support; only a pension. She is shown six photographs, and recognizes one who visited Ames, which surprises Perry and Paul. // [6-9] Mason cross-examines Brooks. Does she have access to county records regarding pensioners placed in terminal rest homes? Yes. Mason has an affidavit from Nurse Ann Hamilton that Brooks visited Ames twice. She admits to putting the greenbacks in Ames's locker and getting him to write a holographic will naming Keller as his heir. She loved Lloyd. How did Farrell get the old money? Ask Charley Nickels. He admits he had key to cousin's car, found the money, hid it, beat his cousin home, later took the money to Farrell. Didn’t he sell Farrell the music box he stole? And the knife/ Burger thinks Mason is hurting his client with this line of reasoning. “The prosecutor is most grateful to Mr Mason for this assistance.” “I am touched by Mr Burger’s solicitude for my client,” but, notes Mason, this provides the best reason for him continuing his line of reasoning. Keller is recalled; why was he chosen to inherit that noney? He says only that he had no share, “Farrell was to get it all back as soon as it was made good in probate court.” He had written a couple of checks on Farrell's account and altered the balance, and Farrell had held it over his head. Farrell had promised to return the photo copy when he had the greenback money; he was dead when he arrived shortly after six and there was tobacco burning next the phone. He heard a car, saw Duncan approach, ran out the back. A further question; the burning tobacco, might it have incriminated someone, such as lipstick on a cigarette? Might it have been a woman who was there before him? Norma Banks bursts out, "I wasn't there." Mason agrees; Duncan would have recognized her voice, but who wouldn't he have recognized? Who would have called so someone would be caught for her crimes? Mrs Hollister stands, says she worked hard for Mrs Bowden, the money was hers, but then they came and took it away. Farrell wouldn't give her any of it, he only laughed at her. // [7-9] In Mason’s office, Drake explains to Burger and Street that Hollister “followed the packet of money from Duncan to Charley to Farrell.” She hired herself out as a housekeeper to old people and robbed them blind. Had Farrell realized how little it would have taken, had he given her but $500, it might have saved his, and her, life, comments Burger. All the money now goes to the state. “And as a conscientious taxpayer,” winces Drake, “I guess I should be glad about that.” Burger quickly replies, “As a salaried public employee, I AM glad!” Mason adds that they all are. [8-9 end credits] [51:50]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Lt Tragg Ray Collins Deputy D A Chamberlin Robert Karnes Edith Bristol Rebecca Welles Arlene Ferris Andra Marten Madge Elwood Laurie Mitchell Loring Lamont (Junior) Tony Travis George Albert Barry Atwater Oolong Kim Benson Fong Orvel Kingman Robert Carricart Frances Kim Frances Fong Jerome Henley I Stanford Jolley Judge Morris Ankrum

Police Officer (Peter) Lyons Bill Cord Tom Grimes Irvin Ashkenazy Woman Apt Manager Elizabeth Harrower Al Tiger Joe Marsh

CHARACTER ACTOR Coroner's Physician Pitt Herbert Sgt Brice Lee Miller Court Clerk George E Stone

[5-5/1-8 Title credits](1-1) [2-8](1-2) It is 4:49 at Lamont Engineering. (Madge) Elwood comments on the clock hands being stuck on ten of five. Miss (Arlene) Ferris is approached by (George) Albert to do evening work for Lamont, Junior. Madge butts in with “what’s the matter with that cutie secretary of his,” and is put down. Albert goes back int his office, makes a phone call to Lamont, telling him it is all set up. / (Loring) Lamont tells Ferris to do the work. Lamont then informs Edith (Bristol) that she need not stay, the Newcome reports will be done by the typing pool. He gives her the evening off. He calls back to Albert, says that the parking guard should be told that Ferris will be working late. / In the parking lot, Lamont disconnects the rotor, puts it in the glove compartment of Ferris's car. When she tries to start it, he arrives to help, by offering a ride way out to Westwood. // [3-8] Lamont in his sports car, admits to being a wolf, suggests to Arlene that they have dinner, but first he must drop off the papers at the company’s Malibu beach house, “twenty minutes more,” he suggests (Malibu is well beyond Westwood, for those unfamiliar with the Los Angeles region). / They arrive at the beach house (the exterior set for this is really obviously a stage set). Inside the beach house, Lamont calls out for Greerson, but no one is there. The telephone rings. It is Oolong Kim, who demands his $2,000 back, saying he’ll even go to his father in Europe for it, but Lamont reminds him it was cash, no legal claim, get off his back. Kim promises his wife he’ll . . . but she cuts him off with “promise is most given when the least is said.” Lamont phones Edith, instructs her to call in an hour and hang up. / Three drinks later, he answers the phone and fakes a cancellation by Greerson. Edith Briston doesn’t hang up, but listens in. Lamont now makes a pass at Ferris. There is a tussle, but she escapes. He follows in his car, then on foot. She evades him, circles back, gets to his car, has trouble with the shift. He returns, but falls unconscious in the mud as she drives away. / Arlene and Madge are with Della Street and Perry Mason in his office. Arlene tells the attorney that she may have struck Lamont with her car. With Madge's help, she parked the car next a fire plug at Lamont’s apartment, took a bus home. She’s worried since Lamont didn’t show up at work. Della Street brings Paul Drake in from the outer office. Mason starts to tell him he wants Loring Lamont’s ears pinned back, when the detective comes forth with a noon radio report of Lamont's death by stabbing at a Malibu beach house. // [4-8](1-4) Sergeant Brice shows Lieutenant Tragg a glass with lipstick on it, and the lieutenant shows a cigarette with lipstick markings. / (Tom) Grimes, the gateman, shows Lt Tragg his register and points out Ferris’s car. / Albert shows Tragg Arlene’s desk while she is out to lunch. Madge observes. / Nighttime. Mason is listening to Madge Elwood on the phone. Drake says he hopes Perry has Arlene well hidden as Tragg is looking for her. A witness has seen her at Lamont’s parked car, and they've impounded the car. Tragg bursts in and asks to see Arlene. Mason says “later.” Tragg leaves, stating “by then I’ll have that warrant.” Paul gives Perry the witness’ address. Mason has Della call Madge to join him. / Mason and Madge ask (Jerome) Henley, the witness, who is listening to an lp of loud train sounds, for a hi-fi demonstration. Lt Tragg and Sgt Brice interrupt. Tragg wants Henley to identify Madge as the one getting out of Lamont's car, but warns him of Mason's tricks and proceeds to explain just how Mason would go about it. Tragg arrests Madge, thinking she is Arlene Ferris. Mason warns him, to which Tragg responds, “next thing you’ll be telling me you’re not Perry Mason.” / Tragg has learned he made a mistake. Paul, Perry and Della admit Arlene Ferris and George Albert to the inner office. Arlene tells of the phone call Lamont got and "You tell my father, O K, and I'll see that you never get the money.” Tho Albert doesn't want Madge mixed in with this, he leaves to take Arlene to Madge's apartment. Drake identifies O K as Oolong Kim, the caretaker at the beach house. / Kim and wife Frances allow Mason to look at the beach house. He asks her about O K, and she suggests "Orvel Kingman," to whom Lamont was making monthly payments. / Mason, at home, is visited by Orvel Kingman and his bodyguard Al. He's a bookie, “biggest west of Las Vegas.” Mason mentions the threat to “O K” on the phone by Lamont. He's never been called "O K, asserts Kingman." Via phone, Paul reports Arlene's arrest for first degree murder. Kingman and Al are gone. // [5-8](1-5) In court the coroner’s physician tells Deputy D A Chamberlain the cause of death. Frances Kim identifies an antique Italian dagger. Lt Tragg states to a curious judge, who is busy directly examining the lieutenant, that the defendant "planted" items to make it look as if Lamont had chased her outdoors, but his shoes had no mud on them, and there was even no change of clothes at the beach house. As the court clerk types away, Sgt Brice says the defendant's car couldn't start because the rotor was in the glove compartment. Security guard Tom Grimes says Lamont left the parking lot at 7:50 with Ferris. Police Officer Lyons says Lamont's car was tagged at 10:07. Mason gets Jerome Henley to admit that he doesn't know which of two women parked Lamont's car. He was tricked by Lt Tragg’s eagerness for a positive identification. / In Mason’s apartment, Drake reports Kingman has left the country, but he is not O K. The Kim's are in financial trouble, but tradesmen don't call him O K. Della brings in dinner for the two hungry men, wonders if it was the murderer who changed Lamont's clothes. Drake reports the saga of Lamont's car being tagged twice, the second time about 1, before being towed. Only one long distance call logged from Malibu, to Edith Bristol at 8:30. / Bristol, with Albert listening, tells Mason of the call from Lamont and her return call including Lamont’s pretending to talk to Greerson. Then that she got a call from Madge Elwood asking for a key to Lamont's apartment, which she didn't have. Mason asks Albert if he knew of this. No. / While driving in his luxurious Thunderbird, Perry explains to Della how Madge took Lamont's car to the beach house with clean clothes. That's why there was a second summons given the car, for if first were still there, no additional one would have been added. So Henley did see Madge, who took dirty clothes in her car./ A woman apartment manager admits Della and Perry to a garage where they find dirty shoes, just as Tragg, Brice and Albert arrive. Albert accuses Mason of planting evidence. // [6-8](1-6) Deputy D A Chamberlin wants to impeach Mason, calls Tragg, who says Mason and Street were inside Elwood's garage. His charges, asserts Mason, are “viscously misleading and suggestive.” Tragg identifies the shoes and muddy trousers. Drake enters, reports that he cannot find Madge. Since Madge cannot be found, Mason recalls George Albert admits he knew, from Madge, that Lamont needed clean clothes for a meeting the next morning with client Greerson. He admits Madge called him a second time to tell him she was driving his car out to the beach house so Lamont wouldn’t be stranded. Wasn’t he to follow to take her home? Did he arrive after MISs Elwood had murdered Lamont? He declines to answer, because he doesn't have to testify against his wife, whom he married the night before in Las Vegas. Mason calls Oolong Kim and asks about the 8:20 phone call. Kim says that Lamont, Junior, refused to pay his debt. Much later they drove to the Lamont beach house just after 10:30, saw a car, a red convertible and drove away. Police Officer Peter Lyons returns to the stand and says that his second ticket was to a double-parked red convertible. As he suggests he can get the registration, Mason stops Edith Bristol as she tries to leave the courtroom. She confesses. She took the clothes to the beach cottage. Lamont rejected her, said he'd use her car to get to town, she could hitch hike home for al he cared! She defended herself against him. // [7-8](1-7) Drake lights a cigarette, tells Della that Lamont's call to Bristol was his way of brushing her off. Madge and Albert were each afraid the other might have done the murder, so they married. “A comedy of errors,” quips Della. “No comedy, just errors,” parleys Paul, or “as Perry would say, ‘murder is never funny.’ " [8-8 end credits](1-8) [51:43](51:27)

[3-7/1-11 Title credits] [2-11] During a lightning storm a man (Willard Nesbitt) in the water next a capsized boat is trying to remove his jacket. He succeeds and swims to the shore where he collapses / In a beach cottage, a deputy returns the jacket to Nesbitt’s wife, Eve, who cries in the arms of Bruce Nesbitt. The deputy promises to continue the search. Eve tells them “Go ’way. Please go ’way.” As the deputies leave, Willard, outside, hides. One deputy speaks to the other about saving the widow the expense of a fancy funeral. They drive away. Willard comes out of hiding and climbs the two-story stairs to the porch where he sees Eve crying, and understands that he's “dead. Yes, now I’m dead.” // [3-11] At Nesbitt & Castle, Mining Properties, Lloyd Castle is reading the death article when Helen, his receptionist, enters, crying. Then Ben (Otis) brings checks for signing. He notes that the company’s financial situation is precarious, but if the Nesbitt contract isn't in the mail so he won't owe the widow $10,000. As he leaves, Lloyd wonders why he tolerates Ben, who answers, because he’s “a good company man” who knows “everything that goes on.” Secretary (Jenny Bartlett) then asks about the contract. As he leaves, she asks “where can you be found?” “I can't” he replies. / Bruce criticizes his step-mother, Eve, whom he calls a Georgia peach.“ He notes that the double-indemnity clause gives her $100,000, and calls himself "a boy who’s just been orphaned." They carry suitcases to their station wagon and drive away. Castle comes looking for the contract. He finds it, unsigned, as he expected in a desk drawer. He pockets it, leaves. / [4-11] In Perry Mason's office with the attorney Eve wants to know if she has a partnership with Castle, or a $10,000 buy-out. / Castle, proclaiming his company among the poorest in the field, shows Mason the signed contract and Jenny gives the attorney a $10,000 check. After Mason leaves, Castle is triumphant, because assays on the Mesa property are very good. He asks Jenny to marry him, telling her that the $10,000 will be worth half a million. “Oh faithful partner, you didn’t die a minute too soon” says Castle as he looks at a photo of himself with Willard. / [5-11] Anderson, “Joe’s” boss at Havenhurst Motel, tells him (actually Willard) to answer the phone while he’s in town. Willard then continues reading a newspaper article headlined "Mesa Mine a Mint." Using the name “Harry Brown,” he phones Mason, gets Della Street. He tells her, as an “investigator for the Bureau of Internal Revenue,” that Mrs Nesbitt hasn’t included the royalties from the Mesa Mine properties in her projected income. Della reminds him that Mason is Eve’s attorney, not her accountant. He hangs up, rushes out, nearly knocks a woman (Fanny Werbler) over, then hitches a ride in a truck. / Willard breaks into his home, looks for the contract, phones Eve. She is shocked at hearing his voice. / Della tells Perry that “Harry Brown” is unknown. Mason calls for Eve and gets Bruce who says she got a call at 9 o'clock, left for the lake cottage without saying anything. / Mason drives to the lake cottage with Della. A deputy shows Mason the body of Nesbitt, dead for 8 hours, not 8 weeks. // [6-11] The deputy explains to Mason that the body was found in the lake by a group of kids. Nesbitt faked an accident previously, probably to collect the insurance. He was weighted down, but why on only one leg. Mason figures the body could have gone in the lake as late as midnight, and Eve was there. / Eve tells Perry, Della and the deputy of the phone call telling her to meet Willard at the cottage and that they'd been cheated. She got there about 10:15, but no one was there, so she waited. She fell asleep and was wakened with news of her husband's death. / Mason compares Della's notes, made with a pen from the cottage, with Nesbitt's contract signature and discovers that the ink is not the same. Paul Drake reports that Nesbitt made two calls, one to Eve, the second to Ben Otis' answering service. / Otis notes that not only he, but Castle or Miss Bartlett could have gotten the message. Castle admits to getting the message, phoning the cottage about 10:10. Mason asks for, and gets, Nesbitt's contract file. / Professor Laiken says that the contract signature is "very likely" a forgery but asks for something more for comparison. Della phones that Paul has found where Nesbitt lived. / Perry joins Paul at the motel. Anderson says that his Joe Smith knew from several doctors' reports that he was to die soon. He talked often about a young girl named Eve. Fanny Werbler returns in a police car. She is a material witness because she saw a woman sneaking into Nesbitt’s cottage at the motel during the week, namely his wife Eve. She identified Eve and hear the police say “book that lady for murder.” // [7-11] In court D A Hamilton Burger gives his opening statement. Deputy Gillis identifies the murder weapon as Eve's gun, found near, not in, the hedge. Bruce says he and two friends drove by the cottage about 11 and he saw Eve's car there. Yes, he was, at his father's suggestion, spying on her. Mason suggests that Willard was only concerned with his wife's safety. From 10:30 to 11:40 he was with his friends. Mason notes that Willard could have died as early as 9:30, and the body put in the lake as late as midnight. He'll inherit the insurance money if Eve is convicted. Castle testifies to getting no answer to his 10:10 call, and Hamilton Burger reads the defendant’s testimony which indicated she should have been there to answer. Just after the marriage, Willard was as happy as a kid, but in the last few weeks he quit paying much attention to the business and borrowed money. Mason asks why he waited an hour before returning Willard Nesbitt’s phone call. Castle says he called Otis and Bartlett first. He did not know of Nesbitt's medical problems. Nesbitt reacts pointedly to Mason's suggestion that he cheated on the deal by buying Mesa two days after the signing of the contract. John Givney, for the Amalgamated Insurance Company, describes the possibility of double-indemnity fraud. Nesbitt knew his situation only a week before his disappearance. Givney could find no evidence of possible complicity by Eve. Mason instructs Paul to get blow-ups of recent Nesbitt checks. Fanny Werbler testifies to seeing Eve with Willard at the Havenhurst motel. Mason tests her ability to describe detail by turning away and asking her to describe his tie. She fails. Eve tells Mason that she went shopping in the hat described by Fanny, and she met Jenny Bartlett, told her Bruce was away. // [8-11] Jenny Bartlett says that she's never been to the Havenhurst Motel, never seen Fanny. Didn’t she pay Fanny? The judge quickly admonishes Mason for intimidation. Jenny admits to loaning Castle $10,000, because she had it, but this left her with only $150 savings. Otis recognizes the gun from a desk where Eve kept her papers. Mason gets him to admit that the gun could have been taken to the cottage weeks before, and been used by most anyone. Yes, he owns a share in the company. He could have reached the cottage half an hour before Eve got there, could he not? Yes, but he didn't. Paul Drake enters with Professor Laiken. Mason recalls Castle, then presents to the judge and D A Burger evidence of forgery based on Nesbitt's last-known check signatures versus the contract. Nesbitt was in severe depression, says Mason, causing the degrading of the signature. The judge asks for Mason's expert witness to present the case for forgery. in voir dire. As Laiken does, Lloyd jumps up, admits he traced the signatures, and Jenny tells him to stop. Why stop, asks Mason. Didn't she pay for Fanny's perjured testimony? “Yes. I did” she cries. Otis now admits he went to see Willard to tell him they'd cut him in, but Willard wanted to see them “all behind prison bars.” // [9-11] Mason, Drake, Street, Laiken and Eve Nesbitt discuss the case. Fanny Werbler recognized Willard from a newspaper photo. She began shopping for ways to make a profit, called the Castle office and got Jenny, who figured out what Willard had done, and tried to pad the case against Eve. Laiken reads Della's handwriting, “loyalty, perseverance, hunger, especially hunger!” Then he reads Jenny's and his and says they all indicate hungry people, and Mason is “a very rich man who can afford the finest restaurant in town.” [10-11 end credits] [51:59]

[4-7/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] A security man checks the door of C Slade & Co while a man hides inside. Using a key, the man, wearing gloves and dark glasses and seemingly blind, finds certain jewelry in the Kincannon Collection. He relocks the jewelry case from which he has removed nothing. He hears laughter, the guard and cleaning lady, then exits unseen into the stairway across the hallway. / He goes up to a rooftop, then by ladder to a penthouse apartment, where he answers the phone. He, Karl (Addison) is told by Adele (Bentley) that they'll have to give it up, for Charles Slade returns tomorrow afternoon. “He’ll just have to start the ball rolling tomorrow.” After hanging up, he removes the glasses. // [3-9] A doctor examines Addison’s eyes, tells him he should take six month's rest after the operation, for he'll be totally blind for several days. He’s already made arrangements; “a nice long trip. Just get away from it all.” / Edgar (Whitehead) greets Karl who tells him that he will have to take over for a year. There is a pleased look on Whitehead’s face as Adele follows Karl into his office. She and Karl embrace. He reminds her that she's an accessory to jewelry fencing which cannot continue with Slade’s return. Jim Kincannon enters the office and Karl makes small talk, trying to escape any questioning. Jim asks if the company has “changed its mind about selling the collection.” Addison reminds him that the Kincannon's are flat broke, and Jim has even sullied the family name since his father died.. Slade pays the insurance and a rental fee. Kincannon says he could get a San Francisco buyer for a third of a million if the jewels were given a fresh appraisal. Karl says no and Jim, desperate, grabs Karl’s shirt. He is told to get out, slinks away. “There’s nothing he can do,” Karl assures Adele. / A lady (Helen Slade) is singing a ballad at the piano as Jim enters the bar room. She ends with “I’m still under your spell.” Jim appeals for money to her, wife of Harry (who was the son of Charles) who was killed in an auto accident, for which she feels responsible. She is drinking heavily, orders a “double” refill. “Harry borrowed on his insurance until there wasn’t anything left.” Daddy Slade hated (her) “so much he wouldn’t give her the fuzz off a peach.” / Jim appeals to Charles Slade, saying he covered up for Harry to the tune of $20,000, which now makes him a thief. Slade reminds Jim of his earlier attempt to get money over a false blackmail claim and calls Jim “a filthy liar.” / As Della Street listens, Jim tells Perry Mason that he is worried that the merger of his company with another will uncover his theft. He hasn’t discussed this with his mother. Mason says that he may not be able to force a sale, but the collection can be appraised even that day. / Adele calls Karl, whose eyes are bandaged, to report the arrival of the appraiser with Mason. Adele, over the phone, is forced to do so by Karl. She goes to the fuse box and hooks up a set of wires, removes a fuse. / Later, Addison steals the jewels. He locks the Slade door, crosses the hall, accidentally kicks the cleaning lady's bucket, walks into the spilled powder. // [4-9] Slade has called Mason, with Paul Drake, to his office to demand back the jewelry from James Kincannon, who was in the room adjacent to the junction box while the appraisal was being made. Mason accepts Paul Drake’s suggestion that a Slade employee stole the jewels, then phones Sergeant Ferris of the burglary division. / Ferris has discovered trailings from the cleaning woman's bucket, which fluoresce under black ray. They are led to the building roof. They climb the ladder. “Somebody got a little clumsy around here” comments Sgt Ferris, holding a broken branch. They enter penthouse where Addison was staying. A jewelry box is found. Karl Addison is found, dead, on another roof below the penthouse. / Paul tells Perry that he doesn’t believe Jim could have done it. Mason tells Drake that Slade returned from Europe because certain items purchased from his company were uninsurable, because they had stolen jewels in them, and Jim Kincannon had recommended the purchasers to Slade. Drake reports that Addison visited a dive known as Gibby's Place, to see “a tired canary, Helen Slade,” but his heavy girl is Adele Bentley. / Helen tells Perry she knew Jim was in trouble. Helen remembers Addison giving her Harry some money and saying "crumbs for Kincannon, the pigeon. Here’s the sucker’s payoff." She told Jim this last night. She thinks somebody could push Karl hard. Mason notes that somebody already has. / Miss Padway insists to Drake that Adele is not in her apartment. Adele is then caught coming down the fire escape instead. / She tells Mason, Street and Drake how Addison did it. Lieutenant Tragg enters to arrest Bentley as an accomplice in theft. He also has James Kincannon at headquarters. / In a police lineup Kincannon is identified as the man who paid off for the stolen jewelry that went to Addison by expert jewelry thief Jack Shaw. Sergeant Brice leads Shaw out. Tragg explains to Mason the Shaw-Addison-Kincannon connection. // [5-9] In court Mrs Cartright informs D A Hamilton Burger that the insurance company told her that there were stolen gems in the broache she bought from Slades, which was recommended by Kincannon. “It was most decidedly and emphatically wrong” for Jim to recommend Slade’s. Shaw identifies Kincannon for Burger as the one who paid him. Mason asks if the meeting seven months ago was not for Kincannon to pay off Harry Slade's $5,000 gambling debt. No, it was for hot jewelry. Whitehead says Addison phoned the night of the theft and suggested he go home at once. Mr Kincannon couldn't have handled the necklace case, because only he and the assessor handled it. Bentley admits to fixing the alarm system and identifies Addison as the thief. She was in his penthouse apartment seven to nine, including when he phoned Whitehead. She swears that she didn’t kill Karl, she loved him. Lt Tragg says Kincannon was picked up returning from Las Vegas. Mason gets him to note that the jewelry case was found inside the locked apartment, which showed evidence of a struggle. Mr Sassano reports that James Kincannon got out of his apartment elevator at 9:55. Charles Slade says that he was at the apartment about 9:30 and got no answer. He phoned from across the street and got Addison at 9:40. As he was leaving he saw James Kincannon arriving at 9:50, leaving at 10. The court recesses over night. // [6-9] Mason and Drake time out how long it takes to get to Addison's apartment from the street. They conjecture that Kincannon probably stumbled over the empty jewel case in the hall. The killer saw this and planted the case in the apartment after Kincannon left. / Slade restates his times. Mason relates the time scheme. At 9:30 there was no sign of a struggle and the penthouse doors were locked. At 9:40 Slade spoke to Addison. The doors were locked from the inside only, or by key from the outside. Next morning they found the empty jewelry box, with Kincannon's fingerprints, inside. They got in with Slade's key. Lt Tragg says that the struggle had to occur after 9:45. Kincannon had no key. The dead man had his own key. How could Kincannon without a key get out of the locked room? The only other person with a key was not Kincannon, but Adele Bentley, who now admits to having a key. Burger interrupts to state that only Kincannon could have committed the murder, reiterating point by point that Slade had the apartment entry under constant surveillance and only Kincannon went there between 9:40 and 10. There was another way in. “Even if someone had landed there by helicopter . . .” interjects Burger, but he is cut off by the judge. Mason now points out that there was a back entry. Whitehead said he'd not completed the inventory of new items the night of the murder, yet Bentley says all items were on the inventory cards. Mason accuses Whitehead, says that he stayed late, saw blind Addison steal the jewels and followed him to the penthouse. Why did he have to murder a blind man? Whitehead confesses. Addison heard him take the jewelry from the case in his apartment, grabbed him, recognized his voice, so he had to kill him. // [7-9] Drake and Street explain events involving the scuffle in the apartment to Helen and Charles. Mason points out that Harry embezzled from his own company and was involved with Addison and Shaw. Jim became involved only because he was a very good friend to Charles Slade's son. Charles apologizes to Jim as well as to Helen. [8-9 end credits] [51:59]

[5-7/1-8 Title credits]{9-10/1/9} [2-8]{2-9} In Pinion City signs trumpet “Founders’ Week, July 7-14, Gala Celebration, 75 years of progress,” and, “men without beards will be arrested.” A man without a beard (Dan Southern) walks to a truck, checks its registration which reads “Fred S Swan.” Swan takes his leave of W L (Picard) and drives away followed by Southern. / After Swan parks his GMC truck, Southern of the Pinion City Advocate confronts him as the “former manager of a local bank.” Further, since he left Pinion City, he’s working in the library at San Quentin. He may have served his time, but morally he’s still a thief, notes the reporter. Southern notes that Iris McKay has suffered because of Swan. Southern tells Swan to get out of town “or maybe he’ll do what he should have done three years ago.” // [3-8]{3-9} Stock establishing shot of the Los Angeles freeway. Iris McKay visits Paul Drake about Fred Swan, an embezzler of $33,750. Gossips said Swan gave her the money, so she left town. The money has never been found by either Paul or the F B I. The PINON CITY ADVOCATE, sent to her by mail, announces Fred's return. A note was attached asking "Suppose he's come back for the money?" She's going back to see Fred Swan. Drake offers to go with her and is refused. She'll stay with Aunt Sarah, her “one relative in the world.” / Iris arrives in Pinion City by Southern Pacific passenger train and is met by Aunt Sarah who offers, “I never avoid the unpleasant.” Then Dan Southern of the newspaper, who gives her the line about interviewing returning residents. Sarah goes to her car as Dan and Iris renew their friendship. He suggests she’ll find Swan at the Plantation Motel, stomps off. / Aunt Sarah drives Iris home. Iris asks for the car, which Sarah never gives to anyone. Sarah doesn't believe Iris never had the money. She lets Iris have her “machine.” Iris drives the “machine” to the motel and finds Marta Wiltern where she expected Fred. They share memories of Buskirk farm. He visited Wiltern, who is lost in thought when Iris leaves. / Wiltern drives to the Buskirk farm where she tells Fred that Iris is in town. He reasserts his interest in Marta. She visited him in prison and now she’s worried about Iris’s poking around and what she might find. / Iris is joined by Alfred Needham, restaurant owner, who sent the note. Iris recognized the type in his menu. Alf never believed anything between her and Swan. He relates that Iris was with Fred on the eve of the bank "robbery," and notes that a small package Fred had with him. He saw who Fred gave the package to, but is here interrupted by Dan Southern, who mentions the $5,000 reward. Al tells Iris that the package was given to her Aunt Sarah. “I don’t believe it,” and Iris runs out. / Iris returns at dusk to Sarah's, is met by W L Picard, her former employer where she was a secretary. Sarah signs some papers. She's paid off her back taxes. She suggests that she give Iris her papers to keep with the folder sealed with sealing wax that she sent her a year ago. Iris is disturbed, goes outside to make a phone call from a booth whose door won’t close. Della Street answers for Paul Drake. Perry Mason takes the call, during which a moving shadow on the back wall of the phone booth suggests that Iris is overheard. Mason takes her orders to pick up at her apartment the folder, which might contain stolen money. // [4-8]{4-9} Mason enters Iris's apartment, which has been ransacked. Mason gets the hidden key, but the chest of drawers has been broken into. Drake joins Mason and they wonder what might have been in the sealed folder besides money. / Paul Drake arrives by train, beardless, in Pinon City. He thinks he sees Iris, but is wrong. He is stopped by Marta, who admits she knows Iris. He then is met by two cops who arrest him for being beardless. They tell him Iris hasn’t been there all morning. / Watched by a curious Wiltern, Drake drives a rental Buick to Sarah’s. She says Iris rode off on a rented bike to meet him, and sends him to Picard's. / At Picard’s Real Estate he finds Dora, who says Iris was there and talked with Mr Beller, the surveyor from the steel company, who is at the barber shop. / Beller tells Drake he saw a blue camper inside the Buskirk barn. / Drake arrives at Buskirk farm, finds Iris's bike, then Dan Southern trying to sneak away, and dead Fred Swan. / Sarah angrily confronts Chief Hagerty who has arrested Iris. Iris says Fred was drinking, and tried to . . . She stumbled into nearby Diamond Farm. The Chief says the jackhandle weapon has Iris’s fingerprints. Drake tells Sarah he’ll call Mason. // [5-8]{5-9} In court prosecutor Hale gets Needham to relate what he told Iris, mainly about the package three years ago. Swan gave the money to Sarah, not Iris. Mason has him admit that he knew Iris would be away from her home when he was looking for the missing money. Sarah says Needham is wrong, denies getting the package from Swan, and identifies the folder stolen from Iris and found in the Buskirk barn where Fred was killed. She refuses to say on several grounds what was in it, except no money. Wiltern says Iris came to her room at the motel. Mason makes her admit she visited Fred at San Quentin, and her maiden name is Buskirk, of the farm. Three years ago W L Picard handled the sale of the farm. The prosecutor, then judge, wonders if Mason isn’t going afield. The sale was for $45,000. Dan Southern didn't tell Iris where Swan was on the day of the murder when he knew, but saw Iris bicycling there on the day of the murder. He was jealous, hated Swan. Picard saw Iris as she arrived at the Buskirk farm. It had to do with steel company surveyors. / At a diner, Drake reports to Perry, Della and Dan that the Buskirk farm has been resold to Intersolidated Steel. Dan give Drake a list of nine men arrested and fined for not wearing beards. // [6-8]{6-9} Picard, recalled by Mason, admits that he saw the purchaser of the Buskirk farm three years ago to Letitia Cochran. It contained an option for sale to a recent owner, Intersolidated Steel, for nearly a quarter of a million, because they knew that a Federal dam was to be built there. Picard was the only local on the commission that decided on the dam, and he profited by $11,250, the option cost. Take this from $45,000, and one gets $33,750, the sum Swan embezzled. Picard now admits that Fred brought him the money in cash. He never asked where it came from. Sarah McKay, recalled, admits that she lived in San Diego, 26 years ago, for five months, as Letitia Cochran. Picard held over Sarah the knowledge of a birth certificate in the sealed folder, for Mary Frances Cochran, her daughter, who died at childbirth. She was 35 and her common law husband ran away just before the birth. Drake enters with a possible witness. Mason takes a new tack. Swan and Picard were partners and knew there was no money in the sealed folder, but no one else did. Needham jumps up, admits that he tried to cut in for the $5,000 reward, but Swan was furious and he hit him with a board, then he hit Swan with the murder weapon. // [7-8] {7-9} Drake explains that Needham saw Iris with the murder weapon and was careful not to leave his prints on it when he used it. Wiltern either tried to cut in on Swan & Picard, says Southern, or, says Mason, get even with the men who'd swindled her and her family. Iris asks to use the car. Sarah says that when “a young man doesn’t have a surrey, I guess a horseless carriage is the next best thing,” and Southern take Iris away. Sarah thinks it may be time to trade in her 22-year-old car. [8-8 end credits]{8-9} [52:03]{52:05}

[2-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] A heavy construction rig is driven into a construction site. The driver asks for a sledge hammer and Pete (Mallory) takes it and whacks a bolt. The driver leaves. When Chet (Stark) informs Pete, doing his first job with his own company at the construction site, that “the access road will be completed a day and a half ahead of schedule,” Pete seems unhappy, but he slaps Chet on the shoulder and says he “couldn’t have done it without” him. (Stuart) Benton arrives and is pleased. He promises his payment right on time of completion. Sergeant Ben Landro brings a stop-work order to Mallory and Benton claimed by Mr Ames. // [3-9] Harry (Parker) demands payment by tomorrow from Pete, or he'll pick up his rented equipment. He doesn’t “like courts and (he) can’t afford charity.” / The Bentonville Park Estates sales office. Pete enters while Stu Benton is on the phone offering an exclusive deal to a potential client as Sheila (Benton) listens. Pete is assured that the bank will loan him what he needs on his pending suit against Ames. “I tell you, there’s no problem.” “Well, I sure hope you know what you’re talking about.” / A reviewing judge gives the award to Ames, stating that Mallory is wholly in the wrong. Benton brushes him off. Ames is sympathetic to Mallory, who seems to be an innocent bystander. He suggests Mallory see Perry Mason who is a personal friend and will be visiting that evening. / Pete and Chet go over the measurements. They find that there was no access right of way, then that the map was altered. Pete, outraged, drives off and Chet calls Sheila to warn her that Pete has discovered the error (that he knew about!). / Pete confronts Edwards with giving him a false map and gets violent. / Edwards phones Sheila to warn her of Pete's imminent arrival. She feigns a wrong number and pulls out the phone cord. Stu sends her to the car with his briefcase. He plans to be gone two or three days. Pete confronts Stu. Sheila watches from outside through a window as Pete loses his temper. / Sheila tells Sgt Landro that her husband beat her. / He drives Sheila back to the office where they find Stu dead. // [4-9] Pete returns to the construction site office where he finds Chet, who informs him that Benton was murdered, “beaten to death.” / Perry Mason with Ames appraises a painting by Ames’ daughter, Miriam, to whom he gave $2500 for her charity. Mallory enters and tells Mason that he thinks he just killed a man. / Mason checks with the police and finds that Benton was killed from behind with a blow from a blunt instrument. Mallory says that he only hit him with his hand. After all he’d done to (him), how could he help it? He “just had to shove (his) fist in his face just once.” Mason, after lighting a cigarette, asks Ames privately if he should represent Pete, which means he's not representing Ames. Ames thinks about the time element. “I’m a bad host, perhaps, but not a murderer.” He then tells Mason to “help the man” just as Mallory enters the room. / In Mason's private office Paul Drake tells Mason and Della Street that the body was found at 9:50. Mallory left at 9:40, notes Della. / Mason and Della arrive at the Bentonville office just as Harry helps Sheila load her car and drive away without talking to the lawyer. Mason asks Della to get a copy of the sales contract between Miriam Ames and Benton and also to ask Ames why he returned from San Francisco after being away a year, just in time to get a restraining order. “Mata Hari, front and center” Della responds. Mason then confronts Harry with his rush to offer Sheila a buy out when the day before he had no faith in the project. / Della finds Miriam Ames, who provides the needed copy of her sale of the property to Benton. MIriam, who got in just this morning, says her father returned from San Francisco due to an anonymous phone call regarding a public road across his property. / Drake asks Stark why he, an engineer, is playing private detective and notes further that Benton was planning to obtain a Mexican divorce from his wife the day before the murder. Drake made his investigations the day after the murder, Stark the day before! Drake traps Stark into admitting that he was sleuthing for Sheila. / Mason asks Sheila why, since Mallory said Pete was “immaculate” within seconds of what she called a “knock down drag out fight,” she had to have a deputy sheriff with her. He traps Sheila into admitting that she and Stark wanted to stop Stu's cheating. “He was a con man.” Bentonville Park wasn't legitimate. “It could have been” she offers. Stu sold concessions for advance payment, created litigation against the contractor, then disappeared with the up-front money. Mallory was the first to fight back. Stu's briefcase contained blackmail money. Sgt Landro interrupts. He's found the briefcase in a bus terminal locker, and the locker key was in Mallory's room. // [5-9] D A Hamilton Burger presents exhibits A (decedant’s coat with defendant’s blood on it), B (steel marker stake, the murder weapon) and C to the court. Landro says that the briefcase (exhibit C) contained notes potentially damaging to Mallory's reputation as a violent person. Mason suggests another way blood could have gotten on the coat - a bloody nose. He asks for other names. “Pointless sensationalism” objects the D A, but the judge overrules. Harry Parker was also mentioned. Parker loaned Benton $50,000. Didn't this blackmail make him a silent partner, asks Mason. At 8:45 Mallory insisted “he had been swindled,” says Edwards, with switched survey charts. Mason points out that he frightens easily (he was restricted in the war to non-combat duty, etc), thus could not judge Mallory's mood. But Mason cannot get him to admit that he falsified the charts. Mrs Benton gives a quick explanation of what happened. She is accused by Mason of using Mallory’s arrival to her advantage. She becomes hysterical so the judge calls a recess. Mallory tells Mason he never thought anything would be made of the blackmail, admits that he hit a man some years ago in San Diego, was in jail for a couple of nights, but he wanted the job and was not forced into it by Benton. Hasn’t he made it rough for Mason? “I won’t let it worry me if it doesn’t worry you.” He is led away. Mason admits to Della that he’s worried by what wasn’t in the briefcase, then asks Paul to check out two telephone numbers with the phone company. “”Yeah, I know a couple uh dolls down there.” // [6-9] Sheila Benton admits conspiring against her husband to take over the company. “Suppose I had” killed my husband, she muses. “Would I have taken the briefcase?” To incriminate someone else, suggests Mason. Chet Stark also knew of the briefcase contents, she admits. Chet then admits he’s in love with Sheila and hoped to marry her. He bursts out that Stu got what was coming to him. What about his “share in $100,000 worth of insurance on Benton’s life?” Mason’s got it all wrong, he asserts. Ames says that Mallory came to Mason knowing that he'd be accused of murder. Mason asks about two San Francisco phone calls, 8:45 from and 9 back to Ames. From Stu to Miriam and Miriam to Ames. Stu and Miriam were having a whirlwind relationships that suddenly terminated. He was deeply concerned with the situation. He’d take her out to places they’d never be seen. She signed the property over without letting Ames see the contract. Then Stu's wife showed up. Stu tried to blackmail Miriam (in the call to her). Besides himself, who knew Miriam and could have wanted to remove the letters from Miriam to Stu from the briefcase? Ames answers "Pete Mallory." Stu was introduced to Miriam by Phil Edwards. Edwards jumps up, then testifies that his wife and Miriam were friends. He removed the letters plus materials with which Stu was blackmailing him. He planted the key in Mallory’s room. He was outside when Mallory hit Benton. He had to discredit Mallory and, since Benton could always talk, he had to kill him. He could lose his license, go to jail; he was frightened. // [7-9] Ames asks Mallory why he went into business for himself. Money, and to prove his worth, he responds. Mason suggests that Ames deed the necessary strip, to become part of the Bentonville project, and Miriam coaxes him to accept. [8-9 end credits] [51:59]

[3-5/1-9 Title credits](2-1) [2-9](2-2) A Chevy station wagon drives past the San Diego Zoo public entrance to a staff entrance where driver (Tony) Osgood greets Security Officer Frank Crawford. He's here to pick up (Hilda) Fursten at the (animal) hospital. He drives past several exhibits - a polar bear waves, an elephant trumpets, a lion growls - He meets Boris (Zelbowski), who informs him of a problem with a lion’s tooth. Boris begs off with having to inform Dr Walter Braun, with whom he’s “not exactly friends.” Tony greets (Harry) Beacom, who calls him “professor,” then Hilda with baby gorilla Toto, a new arrival from New York. Tony leaves. She talks to Toto, then puts the baby gorilla in his cage, goes to answer the phone. No one responds. She checks with the operator. When she returns, the cage is gone and a window is open. She calls for Beacom, who seems just as surprised as is she. // [3-9](2-3) Dr (Walter) Braun arrives at the zoo hospital. Crawford tells him of the gorilla theft, noting he can’t have gotten out of the 200-acre zoo. Inside Braun accuses Hilda of lying and manhandles her after she explains how the theft happened, but Tony stops him, starts to usher her out. Then he leaves her when she says that she must stay after being warned about her “young man.” / Outside Osgood and Fursten meet. He wants to marry her but she insists that she must go back to Germany. / In a San Diego courtroom, the judge is suggesting to Perry Mason a two week postponement. Della Street enters with the San Diego Gazette whose headline reads ZOO BABY KIDNAPPED. / These are lowland gorillas from the Congo, explains Osgood at the gorilla cage, a whole family in captivity at the zoo. What hold, asks Tony, could Braun have over Hilda, who is still a German citizen. Mason decides to “make a dental appointment.” / Trudie complains she has to buy groceries, but Braun has no money to pay Trudie (Braun), to whom he’s given “enough in the last eight years to buy a supermarket.” She hints at his fooling around with his nurse (Frieda), demands $2000 back “pay” and $1000 for next month, or she could go to the Federal authorities. Frieda (Crawson) brings in Mason. He ushers Trudie out. Mason Enters. Braun says he just lost his temper, admits he is Hilda's sponsor. Is there anything illegal about Hilda's status in America? If so, he's an accessory and “will have to go to jail.” After Mason departs Frieda wonders who the woman (Trudie) was. Braun has put up with Frieda, including her slovenliness, even her affair with lion tamer Boris. She warns her to keep out of his private business with “even Boris isn’t going to care for what is left of her looks.” She goes to the phone. / A trophy lion pelt is seen as the phone rings. Boris answers and Frieda tells him that Braun threatened her and she asserts that he must "do it tonight." He agrees, reluctantly, to do it with her help. Osgood interrupts Boris. As they go to check on the lion with the bad tooth, they pass the lion pelt. / Someone is walking through a wooded part of the zoo as Osgood and Crawford head over to look at the lion who has a bad tooth. They catch Beacom with the baby gorilla. He was offered $7000 for it. / [4-9](2-4) At night Crawford locks a gate, then hears the lion growling. / Hilda leaves instructions with another keeper who was playing with baby gorilla Toto. Fursten meets Crawford as she is heading to the lion compound. She is then joined by Beacom. Firing him is apparently “punishment enough.” She tells him she doesn’t have to go back to Germany. They hear the lion, see Dr Braun dead. / Osgood and Zelbowski tell an officer (Lieutenant White) how they pulled the lion's tooth after anesthetizing it. Neither knows why Dr Braun went back in to the lion compound. They would have to put the lion to sleep. Zelbowski says that the lion licked his hand as the body was being removed, asks, “Is that an action of a lion who just killed a man?” / Paul Drake drives up to Kona Kai in his new white Lincoln convertible. Mason, Della Street, Hilda and Tony are at breakfast bayside. Hilda wonders why Tony’s sports coat was stolen. Paul reports that Braun was badly clawed. A man was seen inside the compound in a dark blue sport coat. / Zelbowski argues with Frieda that he did not kill Braun, but she is pleased even if he did, so they “can take over this little racket.” Mason joins them and asks. Frieda stops him from answering any questions and offers that they are engaged. He asks about the sports coat. Mason warns that the next time they meet they’ll be on the witness stand where failure to answer could result in a jail term. Frieda warns Boris “who would (he) rather see put to sleep, the lion, or (him)?” / Hilda and Tony kiss. She wants to tell him of her relationship with Braun. Perry and Della interrupt; a Mrs Appleman from Seattle was looking for Hilda last night. Hilda Fursten is Mrs Walther Braun! Lt White arrests Osgood for first degree murder. // [5-9](2-5) In the San Diego court Prosecutor Telford, with a crowbar hung around his neck, asks pathologist Dr Prince how Dr Braun died. Of a broken neck. He was clawed after he was dead. The spacing of the marks prove it was a lion’s claws. The crime lab technician identifies Osgood's coat with blood stains of the deceased. The body was not clawed until after the murder, so how did the blood stains get on the coat! Crawson saw Osgood in his dark blue sports coat coming out of the lion compound at 7:30. / At Kona Kai, Drake reports to Mason and Della that Braun dropped a wife somewhere between Trenton and here as well as being caught selling and diverting dental gold. He founded a small drug company dealing in antibiotics, Apex Pharmaceutical at Seventh and Ash. Also, a lion would not claw a dead man. Mason asks Drake to go to the zoo to “give the lion a manicure.” / First protesting, then Boris anesthetizes the lion for Paul and Della. / Seventh and Ash. Mason is at the Apex Pharmaceutical Company. Abner Keller, bookkeeper, says Braun owned the company, which was boom or bust. A woman bangs on the door and Mason, learning from Keller that she is from Seattle, admits her (Trudie Braun), tells her the police will be interested in talking with her. // [6-9](2-6) Back in court the judge orders Hilda Fursten Braun to answer the question unless it will incriminate her. She then testifies that Dr Braun was threatening to send her back to Germany, where she was a part-time employee at the Hannover Zoo. Marriage was in name only, so she could get into America under the quota. Tony did not know that she was married. An immigration clerk says he looked up the marriage for the defendant. / Trudie identifies herself as the wife of Braun since '47 in Trenton. Between 7 and 8 she was at the zoo. She confirms other testimony regarding the dark sport coat, except it wasn't Osgood, but Crawson, his mistress. / Drake manicured the lion, found no human blood. Hilda gives Mason Zoo records. When asked why he wants to know about shipments of cages, Mason starts the story of the customs inspector and the Mexican boy, his bicycle and a bag filled with sand. Now Paul needs t kidnap a lion! / Crawson is asked by Mason to explain why she tried to incriminate Osgood. She dragged the body into the compound, clawed it with a lion pelt in the office. Who was she protecting? Boris. Zelbowski, admitting his own cowardice about confronting Dr Braun, testifies that he'd never place the blame on a cowardly lion. Zelbowski, then Beacom, is asked about the cages in which new animals arrive at the zoo. The bottom of Toto's cage contained pharmaceuticals to be sold through his company at three to five times their cost. Beacom says he stole the cage to force Braun to cut him in on his deals, and meant only to stun Braun with the iron bar when he wrestled the weapon away from him, not kill him. // [7-9](2-7) Perry, Della, Paul, HIlda and Tony are at the children's zoo, enjoying the pet animals. 3 to 5 shipments of pharmaceuticals each year from Hannover to San Diego would bring quite a good profit, it is noted. Drake demands an answer to Mason's story of the boy who came across the Mexican border every day on a bicycle with a bag of sand. Mason explains. When the customs inspector asked the boy what he was smuggling, what was the answer? He was smuggling bicycles! [8-9 end credits](2-8) [52:00](51:43)

[4-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] At the Galeria de Arte in Rio De Janeiro, one man, (Claude) Demay, is cleaning a tapestry. Another man (Leonard Voss) comes in and bawls him out over a poor cleaning job. He reminds Demay that it is a Pennamaker arras (tapestry), not someone’s laundry. Then he goes into an adjacent room where the Nathan Claver collection is crated. He takes some art objects from a desk, puts them in his pocket. He finds packing material, puts it on the floor. He pours a liquid all over the boxes, ignites the packing materials. He walks by Demay, slips the art objects into Demay’s coat pockets on a coat rack and tells him to shut off the lights when he leaves. / Lights go out one by one. Fire breaks out. Voss arrives with firemen. A police officer hauls out Demay, explains to Voss in Portuguese that he’s found art objects in his pockets. Demay denies all vehemently; “I didn’t start the fire. I swear I didn’t” he shouts. Voss smiles as the painting that Demay was cleaning burns. // [3-9] Los Angeles (stock shot of freeway used often in the Perry Mason series). A woman (Brenda Larken) sees a tapestry in a pawn shop at Third and Maple. She goes to the Voss Galleries. Voss is explaining the value of a painting, “It’s so far beyond the Bauer Kandinsky tradition. It’s a philosophy in itself,” to a client, (Jim) Hazlett, to whom “it looks pretty childish.“ Brenda tries to speak to Voss, goes into his private office, finds the tapestry pictured in a book. Hazlett mentions a Pannamaker tapestry, Theseus and the Minotaur, for auction. Voss says the last that he saw it was six years ago in Rio when it went up in flames as did the entire Claver collection. (Nathan) Claver arrives with his invitation to the auction. His was the seventh such tapestry. Brenda and Leonard find an invitation in their mail with a picture of Theseus and the Minotaur. Brenda remembers that a man went to prison over the fire. She mentions Leonard's warehouse and what she saw, namely that the entire Claver collection was not destroyed. She adds that they've “worked together for three years,” and “a wife can't testify against her husband.” He brushes her off. / At the pawn shop the pawnbroker tells Voss that the tapestry is not for sale. The ticket on the tapestry is to Sarah Demay. / Voss visits Sarah Demay to buy the tapestry. She says her brother-in-law brought it from South America. Claude enters, tells Voss that he has the tapestry and will sell it. He had friends in prison and learned of shipments by Voss the day before the fire. Demay demands payment and accepts a bronze Buddha from the Tao Quan Dynasty as a token of good faith. Leonard leaves. Claude goes to his trunk, finds it empty, Sarah complains that he’s “been sponging off (her) for three months. Yu didn’t give me a penny, not for food, not for nothing,” and that she hocked it. Five years, he wails, he “sweated to get Voss in a trap.” / He goes to the pawn shop. It is closed and the storefront window is broken and the tapestry is not on the wall. The pawnbroker sees him leave. / Della Street tries to keep Claude Demay out of Perry Mason’s private office. but he pushes by her. He explains his situation to Mason. He admits to weaving the fake tapestry in prison to hold on to his sanity. Only when he saw how good it was did he “realize how he might use it.” He offers to go straight to the police “the minute he can prove his accusations.” / The three find Voss dead in his office. // [4-9] Mason says Voss “put up a pretty good fight,” died of a stab wound. Demay notes the paper from a box as being the same as that in which he wrapped large parts of the Claver collection in Rio. But the Buddha is not there. Mason gives instructions to Della for Paul Drake and sends Demay to a hotel. / At the Hastings Gallery there is bidding in the background. Mason greets Nathan Claver, then tells him that the tapestry was stolen and Voss was killed. A clerk takes Voss to the telephone, a call from the police. Paul Drake reports that the pawnbroker saw Demay leaving his shop. Mason asks him to check on insurance payments on the fire loss and clients who were sent the invitation, and Larken. / Back at the office, Perry and Della look at photos of the tapestry and the Buddha. Paul Drake reports slim findings on Hazlett who was at the auction and Larken, “who had a monaural romance going on with Voss. Just then Lieutenant Tragg enters looking for Demay. Mason fends him off adroitly, then tells Paul to put a man on Demay as soon as he calls in. / Hazlett thanks Lawrence, leaving, for helping him. Mason enters, looks at some of Hazlett’s art collection, and is told that Voss didn't know of the auction, but Brenda must have. He saw Voss at 4:30. “The tapestry that was supposed to be auctioned was stolen at 6:30. Less than an hour later Voss was dead.” / Della says Paul found out that Voss was at the pawnbroker's about 6, but didn't get the tapestry. Della says a woman called, unidentified. Della dials the number. It is sister-in-law Sarah Demay. She wants to know where Claude is. / Mason asks Brenda Larken how Voss knew that the tapestry was at the pawnshop and she denies knowing. Drake on the phone says Sarah has disappeared, and so has Claude after getting a phone call. / Mason tells Claver that the stolen tapestry was Theseus and the Minotaur. Claver is outraged, orders Mason out of his house. Mason then suggests that the chauffeur did his dirty work as outside Drake talks to the chauffeur. Claver is forced to produce the fake, which he calls a fraud, and Mason calls a copy. Naturally Lieutenant Tragg arrives, with Drake. Carver apologizes and promises to make restitution to the pawnbroker. Demay was caught leaving the hotel. // [5-9] In court Hazlett tells D A Hamilton Burger how Voss chose to miss the auction. He phoned Voss to get his opinion on the tapestry. Mason suggests that, since he had a separate appraisal, he must have wanted Voss there to accuse him, who had swindled him. Brenda tells the D A that when Voss saw the picture he declared it Demay's way of getting back at him. She got a call telling where Demay was and, when Voss returned from the pawn shop, he said that he'd seen Demay and would see him that night for the last time for they'd reached an agreement. A messenger brings Tragg a document and Burger goes to talk to him, then ends his direct examination. Mason asks Brenda about wrapping paper. She says the gallery uses plain brown paper. Tragg identifies the murder weapon, a letter opener, wiped clean, then held by the tip by Sarah Demay. Sarah is brought in to the courtroom. She testifies that Claude said that he's “spent six years to get Voss." He left, she went to the pawn shop but there were cops around. She went to Voss's place, found him dead and took the letter opener. She saw Claude run away from the gallery as she drove up, so she was sure he'd done it. The judge recesses court for lunch upon Mason’s prompting. Claude tells Mason that it is true, except Voss was dead when he arrived at the gallery. Mason tells Drake that he "must" have" it" properly wrapped by the afternoon session. // [6-9] Mason is cross-examining Sarah Demay. Burger objects to the attorney’s “symantic excursions.“ Della enters, gives Mason a signal. He asks Sarah if she shouldn’t be as much a suspect as Claude, since it was she holding the murder weapon. Nathan Claver testifies that the fake Pannamaker tapestry would have easily been identified as such, as Drake enters with a wrapped tall object. Mason partially unwraps his "Buddha" so that Claver can see it. He's been paid full insurance. Isn't the fact that he had his chauffeur break into the pawn shop proof that he couldn't then tell the tapestry was a fake and that maybe Voss had items saved from the fire? Hazlett admits that Voss offered him special items. Mason asks for a recess to prepare a defense, and Drake rewraps the Buddha. / Drake's agents follow, one by one as they leave the court, the possible suspects. / The trio are in Mason’s office. Drake takes reports from his agents. Lawrence is added to the list. / Brenda heads out and an agent reports that she is heading to a warehouse. / Mason, Street and Drake go to the warehouse where Drake’s agent points them to where Larken has gone. Charlie, the watchman, gives Larken a key. They catch Larken looking for the missing Buddha. / Claver identifies his treasures, “a Gainsborough, daVinci sketches, the Utrillo,” all but the missing Buddha, for the trio, Hamilton Burger and Lt Tragg. Larken is not the murderer, Mason asserts. Six years ago Claver paid Voss to burn his over-insured collection. Then within this week part of that, a tapestry, showed up. He then knew how much Voss had betrayed him. His house is even now being searched for the Buddha. “You know, I’m glad some of these things didn’t burn. It’s like meeting old friends you’ heard had died” is all he can answer. // [7-9] Mason points out that only Claver knew the tapestry was a copy. He confronted Voss and saw the Buddha, knew he'd been betrayed. Hazlett bursts in, offers Claude Demay $10,000 for his copy. Demay makes a sale. [8-9 end credits] [52:00]

[5-5/1-8 Title credits](3-1) [2-8](3-2) At the Club Saratoga, Welkes directs (Herman) Albright to the private office and his wife Ida, who has lost $5,000. He can’t cover that. He’ll have to, she states, as she's written many checks which have all bounced. He says there is no money to cover them. She'll have to work it out herself. She says he'll lose his “precious little office boy” job if she goes to prison. She’d have to divorce him. “You know, I think I’d appreciate that,” he counters. What of his affair with Grace Halley. He's in charge of advertising for the Miss Debutante event, so naturally he is with her. But she's found a letter from him to Grace. He promises to pay his wife's checks, if she gives him a divorce. He leaves. She asserts to Welkes, “There, didn’t I Tell you what a dear he’d be?” // [3-8](3-3) Grace, posing in a winter setting, is told to take five. “Mr” Albright tells Grace, now that he’s free, he loves her, but she tries to let him know it is not mutual. / (Walter) Caffrey is on the phone when Albright arrives to admit, after some dissembling, that needs $5,000 to cover his wife’s gambling loses. Caffrey, who is having problems with Larry Enix who is in jail in San Francisco, says that maybe Albright, who is an important member of the team, can do something for him, and he'll call at 7:30. / Grace, in Perry Mason’s office, wants to know if her Miss Debutante contract can be broken. Only if something alters the “beautiful, unmarried and uninvolved image they hired.” She can't, but if she became involved, they could, over moral turpitude, or if she married. . . / Albright receives a positive response from Caffrey. He tells Ida that he’s promised the $5000 and he wants in return a divorce. Oh, didn’t she tell him about Las Vegas? She’ll need $3000 more! He says he can’t get more and she responds that he’ll not get his divorce. He leaves. About 10 p m he calls Grace from the Trinidad Bar, sets a morning appointment at her apartment telling her that he can get a divorce in Mexico, then hangs up. Buddy (Frye), her husband (!) says he'll put Albright right. He’s “tired of being a backstairs husband.” / A half hour later, 10:35, at the Trinidad Bar, Joy Lebaron picks up Albright. She comments on his Tattersall vest. The barman (Walter Clemens) asks for her drivers license. She is 23. A gibson, she tells “Joe.” / The bar photographer (Vicky Dolan) complains to the barman about a lack of customers. Albright and Lebaron, whom she photographed, left five minutes earlier. / About midnight the barman leaves the bar. He finds someone in a parked car, opens the door and a dead man (Albright) falls out. // [4-8](3-4) Ida identifies Herman for Lieutenant Tragg but asks about his coat and vest. “Herman never wore clothes like that in his life . . . That ghastly vest . . .” He must have had some place to keep then, thinks Tragg. / Lt Tragg asks if Mason, during an August heat wave, has a ski-suited client in his office, Grace Halley. He wants to question her about the murder of Albright. Mason goes back into his office and checks, asks a few questions about Albright’s phone call and whereabouts (she isn't in a ski suit), tells her to take his cues from him. He admits Tragg. Mason asks Della to have Paul Drake check the Trinidad Bar, and find what the police have on Grace. / Caffrey isn't sure what his agency will do about Grace. Apparently, he notes, she’s been talking to the newspapers. Mason brings up Caffrey's San Francisco partner (Larry Enix) who is in prison for income tax evasion. Mason goes to the outer office to get a call from Drake. // Mason, lighting a cigarette, joins Drake at the Trinidad Bar. The private detective reports that the police believe a woman killed Albright. A neighbor saw Grace run out of her apartment with an arm load of men's clothing about midnight. The barman, Walter Clemens, gives them Lebaron's name. She picked him up. They wonder if money was the motive, for he had $5,000 (which they think was cash). / Della announces Vicky Dolan, who brings Mason a photo of Joy and Herman. She asks $200, “supply and demand.” Paul phones that he’s found Joy. Vicki angrily stomps out. / At a beauty shop, Paul and Perry are interviewing Joy Lebaron when Lieutenant Tragg arrives. $5,000 is the motive the two throw at her, but Tragg joins them, notes that the money was a cashier’s check! He has the photo and it shows Walter and Grace in the background. // [5-8](3-5) Grace, in jail, admits, but only after Mason tells her the multiple levels of evidence against her - shot by a woman, two witnesses - that she went to Albright to tell him she had no feelings for him. She waited in his car for a half hour after seeing him in the bar, then left. He believes her. / In court Joy tells District Attorney Hamilton Burger that she had one drink with Albright; “Oh, I never expect more from a stranger.” He was gone when she came out of the ladies lounge, so she took a taxi elsewhere. He told her he had a terrible home life and a wonderful “outside interest.” Ida Albright tells Burger that Buddy Frye came to her house the evening of the murder. Mason and Ida banter before the attorney forces her to admit that her husband was in financial trouble, and she in worse for issuing bad checks. Frye's car was in front of her house from 10 to midnight, though she cannot swear that he was in the car. Mrs Diamond, Grace's floor-below neighbor, saw Grace around midnight with men's clothing, and saw Albright entering or leaving her apartment many times. / Frye admits that he's Grace's husband, which surprises Burger, and it was his clothes the nosey neighbor saw her removing from her apartment. Now Mason asks about the Mexican trip that Albright had proposed to Grace. Burger objects, noting that it was Mason who had such testimony ruled out. Mason states that was because it was then hearsay, but now it is pertinent as a direct statement. Court recesses at Burger’s request. / Back in his office Mason tells Street and Drake that he wants the Mexican bit brought out in his way, not Burger's, so he can get to Caffrey and the $5,000. Drake and Mason reason that Enix went to prison in a bargain letting Caffrey off, but giving him more of the business when he came out. Caffrey and Enix each get the whole business if the other dies. // [6-8](3-6) Drake goes to Albright's secret apartment as a TV repair man with his hair suitably tousled. He is told by the building superintendent that a bald man has a key to this apartment. Drake then finds a tailored suit labeled S Magaloff. / Back in court Mason finishes his examination of Frye. Burger produces records showing that Frye was doing a photographic shoot in Palm Springs for several days before the murder, so he cannot testify if, when, or how often Albright ever visited Grace. Caffrey says that the cashier's check was not for a Mexican trip, but to pay off Albright’s wife's gambling debts. Mason asks if he was to give him something in return, if Albright was not performing a service for him. Mason shows him the coat and vest that Albright was wearing with labels S Magaloff. Della brings Sasha Magaloff in. Caffrey admits that the clothes are his, worn by Albright so someone who’d never seen him could identify him as Caffrey. Mason points out bald-headed man, Mr Fenton, Caffrey's bodyguard. Since he was the intended victim, who could have killed Albright? Joy Lebaron breaks down. // [7-8](3-7) Drake explains to Mason, Street, Grace and Buddy that Enix had discovered that Caffrey was double-crossing him. So he and Lebaron, joins in Mason, planned to scare him. But, chimes in Buddy, she got the idea that, with Caffrey dead, she and Enix would get it all. Drake finishes with the fact that Joy claims that she panicked when Albright tried to take her gun away. Mason explains how the police collected information about a woman doing the murder, and he collected different information. So couldn’t it have been Ida? No, to Ida, her husband was “just a poor goose about to lay a golden egg, a $5,000 golden egg.” [8-8 end credits](3-8) [51:52](51:34)

[2-5/1-9 Title credits](2-1) [2-9](2-2) Preparations are going on for a test at a missile testing range (Vandenberg AFB). Major (Jerry) Reynolds and a sergeant are inspecting the (Sceptre) missile. As the gantry rises towards vertical, Major (Jerry) Reynolds is driven by a sergeant to the control room. The claws release the nose of the missile. T minus sixty seconds, In the control room, (Dan) Morgan is told to relax by Major Reynolds, but he's worried about his missile. As the Sceptre missile fires, Dr Bradbury takes a drink from a small bottle. The bird lifts off, then rolls over and is destroyed in the air. Dan shouts that he wants to know why. // [3-9](2-3) Helen Rand drives up to the Morgan office. She’s met by Jerry and a civilian engineer, to whom he gives instructions. “Check out the gimbal shafts on both booster engines. Isn’t there something they can tell the reports, asks Helen. The Morgan Missile Company has only one more test. The Sceptre is Morgan’s until the Air Force accepts it. Jerry is certain of the last bird, ”it’ll fly, on schedule, on course.” A stutterer (the civilian engineer), on the telephone, says that he found something which might be the problem. Another call indicates that Colonel Sloan is arriving in half an hour. / Sloan arrives at Vandenberg AFB on a DC-8. Sloan introduces Jerry to Captain Mike Caldwell, but they already know each other. “I heard you mad major” says Caldwell, “Congratulations, even tho they’re late . . . sir.” He will look for non-functional problems. “A right-handed monkey wrench on a left-handed nut and bolt.” Sloan wants Jerry to concentrate on making the next flight a success. / At the assembly site, Reynolds and Sloan give each other a watchful eye. A test of gimbals is proceeding. Sloan then accuses Dr Bradbury of taking too little interest, and being a big drinker, but who usually supervises preflight tests. Major Reynolds did the last preflight with Dr Harrison. / Dr Harrison says he’s working on an inertial guidance system. Sloan suggests he might have sabotaged the Sceptre to get rights to his invention. / Sloan is advised by Morgan that the Huxley Corporation picks up the contract if Sceptre fails. Sloan meets Helen Rand and advises her and Morgan that he will check them and the Huxley Corp, not just for patriotism, but the billions of dollars spent on the program. / Jerry advises Perry Mason that he's going to take a position at Huxley Corp, so that he can pay for his dad's hospital expenses, even tho he will have to resign his commission. He wants Perry to look at the contract, so that he won't be in a conflict of interest. Mason must rush off to get to San Francisco. The major points to the missile and suggests he can get Perry “to San Francisco real quick.” Mason thinks jets are fast enough. / Rand and (George) Huxley embrace. She calls him head of the "new prime contractor." She’s sure the shot won’t get off the ground. She toasts “To Morgan’s bird and to the egg it will lay.” / Reynolds is on the test site inspecting a problem while Morgan, Dr Bradbury and the others wait. Sceptre lifts just as Morgan returns to say that the shot should be stopped. “. . .23, 24, 25.” The Sceptre flies. Captain McVey says Captain Caldwell's body has been found, murdered, on the range. // [4-9](2-4) Mason and Paul Drake return to Vandenberg AFB on a DC-6. They are met by Captain McVey, who informs the attorney that Major Reynolds has been relieved of his duties. It is his job to see if there is a case. The procedure to be used in his investigation is explained. Drake says he will tail everyone connected with the case. The civilian engineer must be found. / Helen Rand gets a salute from the gate guard at Vandenberg AFB, drives on. / At the base Mason speaks to Reynolds. They knew each other in Korea. He saw Caldwell, Dr Harrison, at the Officers’ Club about the time of the murder. Caldwell was dealing out insults. They had a fight, because Caldwell found out about his cushy job with Huxley once the Morgin Company failed. / At a hotel, George Huxley says that he overpays to catch up in the business. He’s never met Caldwell, and he's tired of being badgered, by Mason, and an earlier phone call from a drunk. He denies seeing Helen Rand except a month ago, but Mason shows him “an interesting shade of lipstick” on cigarettes in an ash tray. On the way out, Drake says Rand came to Huxley. She caught the drunk, Dr Bradbury, about half an hour ago. Huxley overhears this. Burt Springer was the engineer who found something on the range. / Mason finds the drunk Bradbury, who calls Reynolds “a good man, a fine scientific mind.” Mason tricks him into admitting that he phoned Huxley. Dr Harrison brings Brad his room key and takes him away from Mason. Drake and McVey show Mason a sheared bolt which caused the earlier missile failure. This is what Springer found on the range, but it had earlier been found in Major Reynolds's hard hat. He’s going t recommend a general court martial be convened and Major Reynolds be tried for murder. // [5-9](2-5) Major Cooke will handle the prosecution for the United States. Mason is certified as qualified for the defense by the Judge Advocate General (JAG). Not guilty is the plea entered. Dr Richard Stanton testifies to the cause of death, a heavy blow, between 3 and 3:20 a m, by a large rock. Major Cooke produces an object which Stanton identifies as the murder rock. Dr Harrison says Caldwell and Bradbury were in the club, then Bradbury left and Reynolds came in just before 3 a m. After they argued, Caldwell followed Reynolds out of the club. At 3:12 Reynolds was picked up walking alone on the range and brought to the control center by a sergeant (Lewis). The body was “about 300 yards further down the range.” He says that at 3:05 the officers' club was empty. A jeep was pulling away in a big hurry. / Dr Bradbury says that a bolt tampered with is the evidence that the bolt could have been a prime cause of the failure and, on that day, Reynolds did the preflight. Caldwell showed it to him at the Officers’ Club just before he was murdered. Mason asks about illness on the day of the missile failure. Could the pressure he was under been due to Caldwell’s investigation? No, for he had to explain its significance. He's good friends with Helen Rand. / McVey says he found the tampered bolt tucked in Reynold's hard hat, which was left in the open. When Reynolds and Caldwell left the club - the convening officer (Brig Gen Bishop) is questioning - Caldwell had the bolt, says Harrison. / A flashlight is presented as the weapon. It had the deceased’s blood on it. Mason objects to its introduction. McVey states that fingerprints of Reynolds were inside on the reflector. // [6-9](2-6) At missile headquarters, Paul tells Perry that Bradbury got a check from Huxley written to and endorsed over by Rand for $5,000. ”It’s time to get out the tackle and do a little fishing” says Mason. / Morgan testifies that he knew that Reynolds was going to resign, but refused the $15,000 offer he made. Mason asks, did he resent Capt. Caldwell's investigation of his company? No, he got a report the day of the murder from Caldwell about 2 o’clock and showed him the partly sawed-through bolt. “After he (Caldwell) sees Reynolds, Morgan would not have to worry abut a failure.” / Huxley says Caldwell knew that he'd offered Reynolds a contract for $35,000. Even tho twice what Morgan offered, it was worth it. Mason asks all witnesses be present during his cross-examination of Huxley. Mason wants to test a voice identification. Lieutenant Colonel Fremont says that the court has discretion. / The witnesses are brought in. Mason points out to Huxley his $5,000 check to Rand for Bradbury. It was a gift to her. Yes, he loves her. Bradbury, sitting next Helen, bursts out that she is a cheat, and she and he were to go away together after he wrecked the missile. Dan Morgan says that he got a call at 2 a m. But, notes Mason, the decedent had no idea of the significance of the bolt until it was explained to him 45 minutes later by Dr Bradbury. Morgan admits doing much that was wrong, but “jets hadn’t been invented when (he) was talking about missiles.” He says that Caldwell wouldn't let the Sceptre fly, so he killed him. But he “built the first Sceptre, and it flew. It flew!” // [7-9](2-7) It was Morgan's jeep that was seen leaving the club, and he who hid the bolt in Reynold's hat. Reynolds tells Mason, Drake and McVey that he's staying in uniform. Mason suggests he’ll help regarding his father, and “the uniform belongs on you, major.” [8-9 end credits](2-8) [52:00](51:44)

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Hartley Elliott Don Dubbins Glamis Barlow Anne Helm Carter Gilman Walter Kinsella Muriel Gilman Kaye Elhardt Nancy Gilman Joyce MacKenzie Judge Willis Bouchey Glenn McCoy Dick Whittinghill Connors Harlan Warde Cartman Jasper Nelson Olmsted
Autopsy Surgeon (Dr. Hoxie) Michael Fox Sheriff Don Harvey Maurice Fellows George Selk	CHARACTER ACTOR Court Clerk Charles Stroud [Sgt Brice Lee Miller]

[3-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] A man (Carter Gilman) sees the door to his woodworking workshop close. “The glorious gift of the gods may not be cast aside. ‘Behold’, the noble Homer said, “ ‘cometh the java, hot, black and deee-licious’.” chirps daughter” Muriel (Gilman) who then kisses her dad Carter on the cheek and asks him if something is wrong. He is staring blankly. He asks for another egg and venison sausage. Muriel goes to the kitchen, cooks his order and returns. Her dad is not at the breakfast table. She calls for him, then finds her stepmother Nancy in bed, alone. By knocking over a vase, she wakens Glamis (Barlow), who says she asked Hartley Elliott to spend the night in the guest room. Muriel goes to her dad’s woodworking workshop, finds money all over the floor and a red stain on a rag. // [3-9] In Perry Mason's inner office personal secretary Della Street takes a telephone call from Muriel. Then as Mason enters she explains about the missing father, Edward Carter = Carter Gilman, for they live at the same address. / Mason identifies to Muriel the red stain as paint, not blood. There was a fight. $10,000 was scattered on the floor. The attorney notes the high quality of the wood used by her father. She is the stepchild in the family. They discuss at what Gilman might have been staring. / Mason is looking at a photo of Gilman. EdwardCarter arrives for his appointment. He is acting for a friend. Mrs Gilman is being blackmailed by a private detective Vera M Martel of Las Vegas. Gilman, who has a daughter, Muriel, by his first marriage, married Nancy as his second wife, who has her own daughter, Glamis. Duplicate daughters. Mason asks him to assign rights to everything in the workshop, which baffles Gilman/Carter, but he agrees and goes into the outer office. Perry explains to Della that this allows him to hold the $10,000 without being accused of suppressing evidence. Paul Drake enters, says that Martel is dead, murdered, stsrangled. Mason rushes into the outer office, but Carter has signed and then left quickly after making a phone call to his office. Drake comments on how curious the murder was, for Martel’s dress was smeared with red paint and sawdust from expensive wood everywhere on the clothes. / Nancy, Muriel and Glamis are questioned by Mason as to where Carter is. Nancy and Glamis are uncooperative. Did any of them withdraw $10,000 from the bank, or know Vera Martel? Glamis demands an explanation. Mason explains that Vera was probably strangled in the workshop. Nancy calls him “either drunk or crazy.“ The dorbell chimes. Mason retorts, “That is probably the police. When they’re finished, let me know if you think they’re drunk or crazy.“ Lieutenant Tragg and Sergeant Brice arrive. Mason directs them to the workshop. / Mason drives off. Glamis, in her sports car, is followed by Drake in his black T-bird. / Drake, whose car broke down (what does Ford Motor Company think about this admission in a show for which they provide all the cars?) is greeted at McCarren Field, Las Vegas, by his operative who catches him up to date, saying they lost Glamis downtown. But he has a car waiting for him. / At Martel's office Drake finds Carter Gilman. A sheriff and an officer enter, arrest Gilman for murder. // [4-9] Drake knows why Nancy Gilman was being blackmailed. He says Barlow is not the real father of Glamis Barlow. Nancy, once an uninhibited Greenwich Village artist, was Steven Barlow's wife. Glamis was born after marriage, but was not Barlow’s. The millionaire father of Glamis died about a year earlier, leaving money to his unknown and unlocated child. $2,000,000 tax-free was to go to Glamis in settlement if she never learned of her real father. / In jail Mason conjectures that Carter saw Vera Martel at his workshop, but he says it was later, and he saw a member of the family, whom he chased but could not catch, running out of the workshop. He came to Mason’s office. He left when he was informed over the phone by his secretary that a letter from Martel, saying that she had something he’d want, was received. He found Martel’s office had been ransacked before he got there. She was a prospective investor, but he found out who and what she really was, so took an impression of her office keys. He won’t identify who he saw leaving the workshop, even when Mason says someone else may have seen the frightened person and the police will then have a case against him and one other member of his family. / Mason and Drake have dinner with Hartley Elliott. He stayed overnight because his car battery was dead. He saw Glamis running out of the workshop just before Muriel went there. He considers disappearing, to protect Glamis, despite Mason's warning. // [5-9] In court the autopsy surgeon, Dr Hoxie, tells D A Hamilton Burger that 7:45-9:15 a m is the range of death time. Lt Tragg identifies the decedent's hair, modeling clay and sawdust from the trunk of Gilman's car. Maurice Fellows made a set of keys for Gilman from the clay impression of Vera Martel's keys. Muriel relates her not finding her father. Elliott, called by D A Burger, refuses to answer who he saw. He is committed to jail for refusing to answer. The court and Mason take issue with the possibility that Glamis could be tried later in Superior Court. Glamis is brought in and is sworn in by the court clerk. She testifies that she does not know any Vera Martel. Asked if she went to the workshop on the morning, Mason objects. The judge wants Burger to assure him he won't prosecute Glamis, but Burger claims he has a right to an answer, and she shouts "no." Card dealer Glenn McCoy, whose office is opposite Martel's, saw Glamis there. Burger now explains how he intends to involve Glamis as co-conspirator. The judge is not convinced, and Mason continues to protest. The judge adjourns court to consider the issues. / The money, says Drake, belonged not to any Gilman, but Martel. Tragg joins them, says that Hartley Elliott cracked. He then gives Mason a subpoena to bring the $10,000 that he took from the scene of the crime. // [6-9] Drake swears that his men are sure Glamis never went into Martel's office so the card dealer is lying. Mason tells Drake to find where Vera Martel was in the ten days she had the $10,000. He has Della arrange for a polygraph test. / Nancy Gilman is confronted by Mason. She denies knowing Martel, or being blackmailed by anyone. Even if the polygraph cannot be admitted in evidence, Mason wants the newspapers to know the results. / She takes the polygraph test. / Cartman Jasper, the tester, says that she is lying about Glamis, but not about Martel or blackmail. Della suggests that maybe Glamis is not her daughter. Mrs Gilman has already taken $2,000,000 for Glamis. / Drake is ordered over the phone to return to L A. / Drake says that only on the 10th day after Martel got $10,000 did she change her routine. Connors, Drake's operative, reports that Martel went to a Monroe estate in Redding, California. Phyllis Monroe is the most attractive dish in town. Mason asks Paul to get Monroe family pictures. / Back in court Hartley Elliott testifies that Glamis Barlow came out of the workshop about 8:25, running. The prosecution, Burger, then asks if Mason has the $10,000. The judge first allows Mason his cross-examination. Elliott is a manufacturer's agent in California and a legal resident of Redding. Drake brings Mason photos of Monroe family members. Does he know Monroe daughter Phyllis? Yes. Was it not Phyllis instead of Glamis running from the workshop? He identifies a photo of Phyllis as the woman leaving the workshop. Nancy Gilman admits Glamis Barlow and Phyllis Monroe, identical twins, are her daughters. Phyllis was adopted, tho not legally, by the Monroes. Elliott met Martel in Las Vegas and hired her to research the twins as the basis of blackmail, then better to marry Glamis and get half of $20 million. But Vera threatened to go to the Monroes. He intercepted Vera, took her to the workshop where he was interrupted by Phyllis. The $10,000 was Vera's bait, for a half interest in any inheritance Vera might produce. Phyllis accepted, because Monroe was in business trouble. But old G W Monroe had told her the truth. So he, Elliott, then put his hands around Vera to choke her, to scare her. But she fought. He only wanted to keep her quiet when Gilman came out. He took Vera into the garage. When Gilman left the workshop, Vera was dead. // [7-9] Drake notes that it was Phyllis, not Glamis, so there must have been twins for them to be two places at once. Mason figured it out when it became clear that Nancy did have a daughter Glamis, but that was not all. Will Glamis get half the estate, or $2,000,000, or what? it is a real muddle. “What can we do about it?” queries Glamis. “Simple,“ advises Perry, “just hire a good lawyer.” [8-9 end credits] [52:02]

[4-5/1-9 Title credits](2-1) [2-9](2-2) (J J) Gideon is trying to open the door of his company. The watchman lets him in. He goes to his office where he finds a cleaning woman in the hall, a typist at a typewriter, and grandson David in his private office. Gideon is pleased that David is again studying law. He suggests that David have a nightcap later. When J J leaves, Dorine (Hopkins) comes into the room via a back door, says she is supposed to be working for Comminger. She and David embrace. // [3-9](2-3) J J points out to his accountant (Lawrence) Comminger that two glasses were used, so she (meaning Dorine) was there. Lucius, who committed suicide, was in poor health, killed himself. Dorine was his private secretary, so Comminger has been checking his private records. J J stands up for David, but wants Dorine kept from him. / Dorine is putting suitcases into her Volkswagen Beetle when David stops her, asks why she’s moved 3 times in the last 3 days, points out how much he cares for her. She suggests that he try college girls with pom poms rather than her with her problems. He walks away. A cab arrives and a man jumps out. Dorine tries to run but he catches her. David returns, slugs the man, Dorine's husband, Tony (Montgomery). / Dorine, wearing dark glasses, joins David for lunch. Seeing her black eye, he says he “should have killed him.” She tells him that she has to get something back from Tony before she can get a divorce, and must give him $10,000 to get them. During this a waitress takes an order for two martinis, then returns to ask David for proof of age, which he provides. Yes, she’s older then he, but he'll help her. Can he “help her find $10,000.” / J J stops David in the office, asks why he's been trying to see if he can get money out of his trust, selling his car, and such. What is Dorine up to? David says it is he chasing her, not vice versa. He asks why J J fired her on Lucius's death. J J says she's nothing but a cheap, conniving . . . Dorine, on the phone, tells David that she got the money all by herself, and asks him to meet her in 20 minutes to celebrate, by which time she'll have given Tony the money. / Tony drives off in Dorine’s car with her money. Dorine tells David that he had the papers, but just laughed at her. A stroller has witnessed all this. / David drives to Tony’s place in his first-generation Thunderbird, scares several caged cats as he enter, breaks in to Tony's house, finds the envelope Dorine wanted, then gets hit over the head. When he comes to, he is confronted with the dead Tony. / [4-9](2-4) J J comes out of court and phones Perry Mason . . . who hears that District Attorney Hamilton Burger is winning the case against David. / In the county courthouse, Si Farrell states that he saw David Gideon leaving Montgomery’s. Mason and J J enter, only to hear Burger conclude his case before the trial judge, who binds David over for trial. Mason meets the defense attorney, Avery (Bellison). Burger then tells Mason that even his tricks can’t help the boy. / A police sergeant brings David to Perry at the crime scene. Paul Drake has 3 operatives in the crowd outside. David says that he came to about 10:30, and the envelope was gone. Mason says that Farrell, at the hearing, testified that when David came running out he was dirty. "Bloody, disheveled" is what he meant, suggests David, since the place is not messed up. Mason says that Dorine got him into this, David shields her. He suggests that, as Tony had her car, she couldn't have gotten here to do it. David is certain Mason can get him off as he’s followed every Mason case since high school. (All this prepares us for David Gideon to reappear as an office worker for Mason in later episodes). Drake gets by the police sergeant by bringing Perry a pack of cigarettes. He points out a girl who has been by the place twice the night before. David identifies her as J J's typist. / Comminger introduces Mason to Sue Franks, the typist. Mason notes that she knew Tony, for Comminger saw her recently at the race track with him. She was with her mother, but suggests Tony spent more time with the dice than with horses. She gets testy. / In Las Vegas Si Farrell tells Mason that Tony owed $10,000, and "the boys" said to push him hard, for he'd go to his wife who always makes good. / Sue Franks has been digging in the garden at the murder house, Della tells Perry . . . who finds Drake and Sergeant Brice (who here gets a few, rare, lines of dialogue) with Sue and the missing envelope. She knew it was there, because she saw David bury it. Drake says David was trying to protect his whole family. // [5-9](2-5) In jail David admits to burying the envelope about 10:20. He saw Farrell's taxi and a new convertible. David cannot believe a few photos of uncle Lucius with Dorine could cause J J to pay Dorine $5,000. Mason tells him that Lucius mismanaged the company out of nearly $100,000. / Outside the courtroom, Dorine asks Mason why David has not asked to see her. She says that “it is one thing to tell an attractive boy you're older than he is, it’s quite another to tell yourself.” / The courtroom door identifies Thomas J Hood as presiding judge, but it is now Kenneth MacDonald, not John Gallaudet who was on the judge’s bench earlier, with the same sign on the door. Comminger tells Hamilton Burger that Lucius was stupid, not criminal. Mason asks if he knows of any relationships by Dorine other than Lucius. David, of course. What of himself? That's business. Dorine says that Tony had the $10,000, about 9:40. He left her at her rooming house and drove off in her car. The stroller says that David left Dorine at 9:53. He helped Dorine into his house where his wife bathed her ankle, until 11 p m. The woman witness tells of David’s slugging Tony. Sue Franks testifies to David's running out of Montgomery's house and burying the envelope. She had watched the house, because J J had asked her to (J J leans over the courtroom barrier and whispers to Mason) for he didn't trust Tony or Dorine. Mason breaks her down. J J did not order her to watch him. Didn’t she try often to see him? She says she hated Tony. Pressured, she remembers that no one was there but, yes, there was a convertible that drove off as she arrived. / Mason and Drake do some timing; 8 minutes, which is how long David would have taken. Perry tells Drake that there is only one way the murder could have happened, if David is telling the truth. // [6-9](2-6) As Farrell is testifying that David looked frightened to death, drove away at 10:30, Drake enters with a man (a parking lot attendant). He and his taxi driver looked at the body, went to a neighbor and called the police. Mason traces Farrell's day, including his first visit to Montgomery, when he was told that Tony’s wife was scraping up the money from a sucker. Mason asks what he intended to do in the time after meeting with Montgomery and the next afternoon when he was scheduled to return to Las Vegas. See girls. By taxi? Mason forces him to admit that shortly before 10 he drove to Montgomery's in a new convertible. He asks for time to think when Mason asks if it were he who struck David Gideon. Mason recalls Comminger, suggests that Montgomery was already dead when Farrell, then David got there. Yes, he drove Dorine back to her rooming house. She phoned him to pick her up. Was he the latest in a long line of Dorine's boyfriends? Did Dorine also murder Lucius Gideon? Dorine shouts out "No, no." // [7-9](2-7) As Mason explains the case to the assembled group, David lights Paul’s cigarette. Dorine was juggling the company's books. She killed Lucius when he discovered it. Comminger discovered her embezzling, but she persuaded him to take half to keep quiet. Then Tony came along with his blackmailing hand out. Farrell found the body before David, had to slug David to get away unseen, but couldn’t admit or he’d be accused of stealing the $10,000, which he never found. There never was any $10,000, but Dorine had staged the perfect alibi. J J admits this is the first time that he’s been right about a woman. David returns a copy of Blackstone to Mason, the first of many he’ll borrow. His granddad may yet be proud of him. [8-9 end credits](2.8) [51:48](51.32)

[5-5/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] In the county court house of a small, mountain valley town, Conception O'Higgins (Lola Bronson's cousin) testifies about a barbecue. Lola Bronson interrupts her to say that he spanked her. Jeff Bronson argues over his barbecuing of the steaks. The divorce judge orders an interlocutory decree. She has her divorce and calls Jeff a sadist. // [3-8] Jeff thanks Perry Mason for his help. Lola says she'd probably given him her 100,000 shares rather than just the option had he asked. He retains control of Bronson aircraft with his, (Courtney) Patton's and Perry's shares and her option. Lola exits, is met by Bill Ryder, the chief test pilot. / Lola and Bill walk to a plane at Bronson Aircraft. Clarence (Keller) assures Jeff that the engines are fine. Leander Walker offers Jeff a deal on insurance against a test failure. He reads a confidential report on the future of the company if the test succeeds, or fails. Bill interrupts to ask, diplomatically, if he can fly Lola to L A. Bronson tells Walker that he doesn't want to "see, hear or smell" him again. Throughout this, Patton has seemed sympathetic to Walker. Jeff tells Courtney that Walker would just sell the company after taking over. He goes to the test center bungalow, gets a drink. He is joined by Violet Ryder, who accepts a drink because her husband just flew off with Lola. They drink to the "confusion" of Bill and Lola. “Bill’s been buzzing around her like a bee around a daffodil.” In the plane, Bill pulls out a bottle to celebrate. Lola reminds him that he has to fly the test the next day. He’s prepared and shows her the parachute that he has ready. He asks her for an advanced show of gratitude. / Jeff, half drunk, enters Conception's and Lola's apartment. He calls Lola “a silly, no-use, extravagant dame,” but he “brought her here from Argentina,” and he “feels responsible” like he would “for a stray cat.” Lola says that she'll see Ryder as often as she likes, and Jeff says that it's her funeral. / The Bronson executive plane takes off as Jeff, Courtney, Lola, Clarence, Violet, Walker and others watch. The altimeter reading reaches 20,000, a margin over the 18,000 required. The plane dives to 12,000, fails to pull out, crashes, but Ryder parachutes to safety. It is a disaster for all of them, the company. // [4-8] Conception asks Lola her thoughts, since she was against Lola’s marrying Jeff and investing in his company. Now they can go back to Argentina. Lola says she had to borrow to put money in the company, and may have to sell her ancestral lands to pay back. Leander Walker arrives with a check for her stock “from an admirer.” She sends him away, then phones the “admirer.” / Bill tells Violet that they are through. She suggests that she tell Jeff of his meetings with Walker. She demands half his profits for the crash, leaves. Lola joins him. He says Leander Walker called after she did, wondering why she wouldn't accept his check. She wants to be sure that the plane didn't fall apart, as Bill said over the radio. Then she pulls a gun on him, demands that he phone Jeff with his story. They fight. There is a gun shot and Jeff falls, dead. The door bell sounds. Lola leaves. Walker is outside. It is 11:10. At 11:50 Jeff fires Lola's gun, takes Bill's wallet, wipes glasses and the decanter while the phone is ringing, so he steps on the phone, stages a fight scene. / In Perry Mason's office Conception tells Perry and Paul Drake that Lola was out from 10:30 to 12:05. She called Jeff shortly after Lola left, and he said "Leave Ryder to me." Since 7 a m, Ryder hasn't answered his phone. She's sure that Ryder has a hold over her, and wants her protected. / Mason and Drake go to Ryder's, find him dead and the room in disarray. The clock was broken at 11:58. Lieutenant Tragg, with Violet and Sergeant Brice, enters just as Mason phones him. Mason says that he came to see Ryder on behalf of the Bronson shareholders. On the way out, Paul notices that the glass was broken from the inside. / Lola is shocked when Mason reports the death. She said she drove there, but did not enter, about 11. Conception says that she called Jeff at 11:10. Drake reports by phone that Jeff has been arrested. // [5-8] In court the pathologist (Mr Willard) testifies that the gun was fired 10 to 12 inches from the body. There was a mild contusion on the deceased's head. There was no violent struggle, but possibly a mild one. Mason gets him to state that the blow could have been struck by a woman. Lt Tragg says that it was not a burglary. Three bullets were found, the murder bullet and two others in the wall and a fireplace log. An astronomer (Mr Finney) got the license of the car driving away, and saw Walker later ring the bell and leave. Walker says that he twice went to Bill's to stay the night but got no answer, so stayed at a nearby hotel. He then relates his meeting with Violet and Jeff at the test center's bungalow. They were loaded. Violet related how she was a hat-check girl when Bill met her. Jeff was saying how he and Ryder had been forced down in Argentina and Lola came riding up looking like a goddess on horseback. He fell in love the minute he saw her. They started drinking "confusions." Then they swapped killings, she Lola, he Bill. Violet says that they wouldn't have said that “in front of a sub-cretin of a mechanic” if they meant it. She didn't see him that day except just after he parachuted. Lt Tragg, prompted by Hamilton Burger, reveals how the police, following the astronomer's information about the license number of the car driving away from Ryder's, went to Bronson's club and impounded his car, then found the murder weapon and Ryder's wallet in it. The three slugs and a test slug match. Lola stands up, says this is all wrong, asserts that she killed Ryder. Jeff tries to stop her by saying that he lied about never being in the house, that he shot Ryder. She says she did. / Burger, with a recorder running, tries to sort things out in a private hearing. Lola says that she got Ryder to admit that he deliberately wrecked the plane. The pistol fired in the dark. Jeff says that he never gave her the pistol, and Conception confirms this. Further, Bill wasn't lying where she said he was, so she is lying. Then, Mason, Burger and Bronson alone, the accused says that Conception called at 11:10. He got his gun and, having figured out what he'd done in the morning, drove over and accused him of wrecking the plane. Ryder came at him with a poker. So he shot him, fired a second shot, which he emends to two additional when Mason notes the third, and faked the burglary. What about the glasses, wiped clean? Jeff counters, why would he have to cover for Lola since she wasn't there? Burger asks Mason which he’d like to defend. Mason asks him who he’ll charge. // [6-8] Della Street suggests both can't be guilty, and they are both such nice people. Mason adds, “but stubborn.” He’s concerned about the third bullet. Paul reports that Violet was also registered at the hotel where Keller was staying. / Mason accuses Violet of perjury. She then admits that she went to Bill because he was getting money and she wanted her share. She points a finger at Courtney Patton. / Patton admits a double-cross. He sold half his stock to Walker for $50,000, then the remainder at only 10¢ on the dollar after the crash. / Hamilton Burger tells Mason he’s cleared Lola, but will proceed against Bronson unless he pleads guilty. Drake brings a report on phone calls from Ryder's house; to Patton, to the hotel, and to Jeff. Jeff says he received a call only from Conception. The hotel call is Drake's interest. Walker just checked out and took a cab to the airport. Mason tells Della that he’s going to tell Judge Abernathy and Hamilton Burger that he’s found the murderer. / Walker greets Lola and Conception at the airport, then Mason, Drake and Sgt Brice greet him. He's on the way to Argentina where Lola will sell him her stock. He is arrested. It was Conception who told him that she'd do it. Mason stops the ladies, tells Lola that Conception followed her to Ryder's, saw the struggle, saw Ryder hit his head and fall unconscious. She then shot Ryder. She called Jeff not from the hotel, but from Ryder's house. He was an evil man. She admits that he got up, went for a drink. He laughed at her when she told him to never see Lola again. He laughed! // [7-8] D A Burger tells Judge Abernathy that he will not oppose a defense motion for dismissal. So moved by Mason. Case dismissed by Abernathy. At the defense table Mason explains that Lola, Jeff and Conception, each fired a shot. Walker wanted the company so he could threaten to build another test plane and force a competing company to buy him out. Della is baffled how Conception, what with the divorce and all, would think Jeff would cover up for her. Mason suggests she take a look. Jeff and Lola are in a heavy embrace. [8-8 end credits] [52:03]