PERRY MASON

in

The Case of the . . .

with Raymond Burr

as Perry Mason

All 24 episodes in the 1958 part of the first season of "Perry Mason in The Case of the . . ." have been upgraded as of 22 September 2008 by comparison with the Columbia House video Tapes in their Collector's Edition as well as by an additional comparison to the DVD format, which is indicated by the DVD chapter indices placed in parentheses within the synopsis text. Episodes 17 and 18 appear for the first time in other than broadcast format with the release of the CBS-Paramount edition, from which they have been upgraded. Further, all episodes have been upgraded from and been marked with their CBS-Paramount "Raymond Burr is Perry Mason Season 1 Volume 1" 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.

Additional items (covers) 27May2010

#	TITLE	SHOW DATE	BOOK DATE-ORDER	CBS TAPE/DVD
16	Demure Defendant	4 Jan 58	ESG '56-50	13496/6-28608

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Nadine (Marshall) Christine White Capt Hugo Clem Bevans Marian Newburn Fay Baker Lester Newburn Walter Coy Dr (Bob) Denair Barry Atwater John Locke Sherwood Price (Uncle Martin) Wellman Alexander Campbell Judge Morris Ankrum Gertie Connie Cezon Dr Granby Maurice Manson

(Dr) Korbell Steven Geray Stand Owner Joe Mell Ballistic's Man (Sgt Davis) Paul Hahn Messenger Ashley Cowan Operative John Mitchum

CHARACTER ACTOR Court Clerk Jack Harris Miss Wilson Lida Piazza Arthur Lindner Rickie Sorensen Small Girl Leilani Sorensen

Produced by Ben Brady Directed by Laszlo Benedek Teleplay by Ben Brady & Richard Grey

[4-4/1-7 Title credits](3-1) [2-7](3-2) Nadine (Marshall) enters an English cottage-style house, calls to Capt Hugo, who is in the hallway on a ladder. He notes the ring on her finger, which she practically waves in his face. She’s wary of the reception she’ll get, but goes upstairs to Uncle Martin (Wellman) who is cleaning a rifle, and reveals her engagement. He tells her “you won't marry John Locke, you’ll do as you’re told!” He gives her a wedding gift in a sealed envelope. His gift; Photostats of criminal evidence against her. He threatens to send the originals to her husband. “So you plan to have a big family. What’ll you do if they take after your side of the family?“ She breaks into tears. // [3-7](3-3) She goes to Prof Locke's lab. He points out cyanide while mixing some in a liquid. She tries to delay the wedding. A messenger delivery takes him away to a counter. She empties a saccharine bottle and puts in cyanide tablets. Locke knows something is wrong with Nadine, who is now standoffish. When she leaves, he takes note of the change in the position of the cyanide bottle. / Back home, Nadine makes cocoa for Uncle Martin Wellman. Capt Hugo notes that Marian and Lester (Newborn) are upstairs. Up there, Uncle Martin says he will change his will, cut Nadine out. Marian gloats, offering “if people can’t make their own way in life, they shouldn’t expect others to keep them,” until Wellman says that he will give his estate and money to the Hartford Medical Foundation. This surprises the two who think they deserve the reward, but Wellman repeats Marion’s quote to hang her on her own petard. / They come down to the kitchen. Nadine is making cocoa. Marion pours water into a cup, recognizes the cyanide tablets in one of two saccharine bottles as Capt Hugo watches the proceedings. Nadine pours cocoa and heads upstairs. / Uncle Martin, continually berating Nadine, is fed his cocoa by her. / In the kitchen, Capt Hugo washes the cocoa pot. The ball buzzer buzzes and Nadine rushes out. Up in the bedroom, Uncle Martin is breathing heavily, dies. // Nadine is in a hospital bed speaking, under truth serum, into microphone held by Dr Denair's nurse, Miss Wilson, into a Wollensack reel to reel recorder. She says Uncle Martin always hurt her. She confesses; “No Uncle Martin, I didn’t mean it. I was going to use ‘em on myself . . . I killed him.” // [4-7](3-4) Tape (Scotch brand, reeling on to Soundcraft reel) playback to Mason. Dr Denair asking advice on what to do with the tape. Death certificate says Uncle Martin died of natural causes. Only his nurse Miss Wilson has heard the tape. // (3-5) Nadine hears the tape (now on an Audiotape brand reel) with Della Street and Perry Mason. On it she says “got to get rid of this bottle of cyanide,” then describes how to use lead shot to sink the bottle. She admits that she hated her uncle because he was a bully. In the hallway, Mason asks Della what she thinks about Nadine; she likes her. Mason gets the tape (in Scotch box) from Bob Denair. who admits that someone could lie under truth serum. Nurse Wilson calls Lieutenant Tragg. / Lt Tragg is waiting at Mason's. Gertie tries to warn Della when she enters with the tape recorder. The lieutenant has a search warrant, and takes both tape recorder and the tape from Della. / Mason is at the pond where Nadine disposed of the pills. He throws stones, softball style underhand, into the water, offers a boy and a small girl $5 to find the bottle. While waiting, he buys a hot dog from a stand where he is recognized by the stand owner. A boy, Arthur (Lindner), brings Mason the bottle. / Dr Korbell is to analyze what is in the bottle given him by Arthur. / Dr Denair at Perry Mason's office; Nadine is gone from the hospital. Dr Korbell informs Mason that Tragg now has the bottle. / Tragg is accusing Mason of tampering with material evidence. Arthur asserts that Mason never held the bottle. Tragg calls Dr Cramer at the crime lab; bottle had saccharine! “How do you explain her confession?“ asks Tragg. “Probably, overactive imagination” teases the attorney, who takes both tape and recorder (now the tape is back on a Scotch reel), but Tragg retrieves the tape. / (3-6) Paul Drake reports to Mason and Street that the police have found a second bottle containing cyanide and that they think Mason planted the first bottle. Paul is ordered to find Nadine. / Perry and Della find Locke outside a grocery store, loaded with groceries even though he usually eats out. He says that Nadine didn’t take the pills, and he’d go to jail before testifying against her. Della notes to Locke that a husband cannot testify against his wife. As police arrive, Locke drives off quickly. Mason now slyly observes to his secretary, “I hope the bar association doesn’t get you for practicing law without a license.” // [5-7](3-7) Capt Hugo admits Mason. He suggests he should be considered a suspect, then is asked if he wasn't surprised at not being mentioned in the will. No, Wellman owed him nothing and he owed Wellman nothing. Lester Newburn arrives and is queried. He expresses fondness for both Nadine and John Locke, but would not be surprised if John “threw that bottle of saccharine into the lake.” How did he know of the bottle? as the police have not released this information. Lester insists he will not make that slip again. He admits that he threw the saccharine-filled bottle into the lake. He will lie on the stand to protect Nadine. Mason takes a pen, dips it in ink, and writes his private phone number on a card, which Lester tears up. Marion joins them and asserts that Wellman died of a heart attack. As Mason leaves he sees ink on his finger. Marian reminds husband that Wellman left all his money to her. Lester asserts he helped out in ways he hopes she’ll never find out. / Drake reports to Della that Nadine and Locke were picked up by the police before they could get married. // (3-8) Mason in a Cadillac convertible is speeding through the desert. He enters Logan City. In the jail he demands the truth of Nadine. She tells Mason that Wellman showed her papers proving her that father was criminally insane; Mason points out to her that criminal characteristics cannot be inherited. / Court. D A Hamilton Burger tells the jury the state will prove murder. Locke testifies to poison being delivered to his lab, but refuses to remember if supply was short or of making tests using the tablets. Dr Granby testifies to finding dead Wellman, plus broken cup fragments and chocolate drink spilled on Wellman’s nightshirt. Autopsy indicates cyanide poisoning. Mason gets him to admit that his first decision was heart attack and a later decision was based on other, hearsay, evidence (the alleged confession), since embalming fluid destroys any trace of cyanide. Mason moves for dismissal. Burger offers the tape. Mason argues that the tape is inadmissible; it was a confidential communication between doctor and patient. The judge excuses the jury with suitable admonitions. // (3-9) Hamilton Burger argues, with the jury out, that the tape is admissible. The judge requires support. Burger presents shot from a shotgun shell, plus two bottles. Mason calls Lester to refute Burger's insinuation, but gets no cooperation. When Newborn says he didn’t throw the saccharine bottle in the lake, Mason is willing to take the stand to impeach his own witness. Then Mason sees something in the bottles, and says he will allow admission of the tape. The judge is surprised that Mason would allow such evidence against his client since, had he upheld Mason’s objection, the case would be dismissed. Mason notes that this would stamp his client as a murderess, “escaping justice on a technicality.” Asked by the judge if she wants a different attorney, Miss Marshall says "whatever Mr Mason does is alright.” The jury returns. Mason takes the saccharine bottle and the shotgun cartridge, each has #5 shot. The cyanide bottle has larger shot. Burger objects to Mason acting as a ballistics expert. After a short recess, Sgt Davis, a ballistics expert, testifies regarding the shot. The shot in the cyanide bottle came from another source, has ink on it. Penholder shot! Mason shows that it is from the library inkstand. Now Lester admits he got the shot from the penholder, then threw the bottle into the lake. He wanted to protect his wife, whom he believes killed Uncle Martin, since Capt Hugo saw her put cyanide into the chocolate. Marian, shouting, denies all. The judge orders Lester into custody for perjury and Marion to be held on suspicion of murder. // [6-7](3-10) Capt Hugo is confronted by Mason, who says he did it. Locke phoned Hugo about the missing pills, and he took them out of Nadine’s purse. He didn’t come forth to protect Nadine because he had more faith in Mason than does Della. Mason says he’ll have to turn him in. Mason owes him nothing, and he owes Mason nothing, notes Capt Hugo, “I’ll still come out ahead.” [7-7 end credits](3-11) [51:47](51:46)

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Arlene Dowling Susan Morrow Dr (Ralph) Chandler Carl Betz Helen Rucker Gertrude Michael Bill Emory Peter Leeds George L Ballard Ralph Moody Gertie Connie Cezon Judge Kenneth MacDonald Tom Sackett Paul Brinegar Detective Myers Walter Reed Mr Hartsel Nesdon Booth Sam Elliott Jon Locke Sergeant Neil John Pickard

[1-3/1-7 Title credits] [2-7] A sunbather by a river. A Jeep approaches. A balding man gets out, heads to a trailer, throws a stone at it, goes to it, looks in. Then he hooks up to it, and drives it away. The sunbather, covered only in a beach towel, returns to find an empty site. // [3-7] Della Street tells Perry Mason that a “girl with nothing to wear” a sunbather, Arlene Dowling, is calling from a golf course. Miss Dowling doesn’t “know how much (his) secretary told (him.)“ “Just the bare facts.“ She explains that her father is Frank Dowling. She gives Della her measurements. / Miss Dowling explains to Mason her position and that an unnamed friend advised her not to come to him. Mason explains to Arlene the problem of her father, Frank, which revolves around an apparent substitution of canceled checks instead of $400,000 in bills. Only he and George Ballard had the means and opportunity to effect a switch, and Ballard had an alibi. Arlene quit her job to prove her father innocent in the Mercantile Security theft. Her diary is in a trailer she wants him to get back. Mason charges her $1500, which she agrees to pay without hesitation. She can be reached, she says, through Dr. Chandler. Mason doesn’t like being played for a fool, warns Arlene he’ll throw her “to the wolves without the slightest compunction.” After she leaves, he and Della wonder where she gets her money. Mason places a newspaper ad for the lost trailer. / Arlene shows Uncle George (Ballard) the ad (in which we learn Mason’s phone number; MA 5-1190). She is angry that this is what she gets for $1500, but Ballard reminds her that all she wants is her trailer, not to be concerned how she gets it. He is distrustful of everyone, including her boyfriend, (Dr) Ralph (Chandler). He suggest Chandler may not be interested in her so much as the $400,000. / Memorial Arts Building. Nurse (Helen) Rucker suggests, even insists, to Dr Chandler that he get some rest. Call comes in from Mason. He asks Miss Rucker, who denies the doctor is there, to tell Arlene to meet him at a the Ideal Trailer Mart later. // The Ideal Trailer Mart. Mason, with Arlene, inspects a trailer which was brought in on consignment the night before and which Arlene identifies as hers. Mr Hartsel shows them the trailer papers. A Howard Pim brought it in. Mason says that the certificate is forged. Mason follows Hartsel to his office. Arlene goes inside the trailer and retrieves a note (the certificate of sale). Hartsel finds there is no Pim. Arlene presents her certificate, pays $2500 for the trailer noting she can get her money back. They banter, agreeing that Mason’s services are no longer needed, as she’s not taken his advice anyway. / She tells her Uncle George she has retrieved the trailer, and he gives her cash (he keeps his money in the house) to pay Mason his $1500 fee. She joins boyfriend Ralph outside in his Lincoln. He warns her about trusting Ballard too far. / A messenger delivers $1500 cash, two bills, for which Gertie signs. Mason then instructs Della Street to have Paul Drake get complete dope on the Mercantile Security theft. // [4-7] Paul Drake watches transfer of money from bank to truck, asks bank guard about Bill Emory. / Mason gets Emory at pool hall to tell him about the theft. The driver is alone in the truck, but he has a two-way radio. Only Frank Dowling and George Ballard had keys and access. Mason offers compensation, but Emory says he will “make out as long as there are guys who shoot pool.” / Mason phones Della who says another $1500 has arrived from Arlene Dowling. A process server is waiting in the office to serve him a subpoena duces tecum to appear before a grand jury with all monies collected from Arlene Dowling. / Ballard and his dog Sandy greet Mason. Ballard says Frank Dowling made up the shipment alone, yet he believes Dowling did not take the money and whoever did has a $1000 bill with serial 00581 on it. He remembers because he bet on fifth race, horse eight, to win, and he did. He was gone for a minute while Dowling had the money. Ballard offers Mason a drink, which he accepts. Mason looks at his two bills, appears concerned, then conceals them in a roll-up shade. / Night. A cab arrives with Arlene. The shade is pulled down, back up. Two men, Detective Myers and Sergeant Neil, watch in a car, say it is not Ballard who pulled the shade, because he’s short. A man comes out, drives off, in a car that looks identical to Mason’s. Myers thinks it is Mason after discussing it with Neil. They rush across the street, enter, find Ballard with a knife in his back. / MASON SUMMONED BEFORE GRAND JURY reads Los Angeles Chronicle headline. Hamilton Burger examines Mason "as an ordinary citizen who witnessed a murder." But he didn’t, says the attorney. Mason presents the bills "from" Dowling, as instructed by the court. They do not match the expert's list. Mason denies signaling Dowling with the window shade, is excused. Detective Myers testifies he saw Mason so signal. Burger asks indictment of perjury on Mason. // [5-7] Headline shouts indictment of Mason, with photo, for perjury. “I’m afraid the photographer didn’t capture the real me” is his respnse. Mason and Street discuss the timing of events. Perry has Della phone Lieutenant Tragg. / At Ballard’s house, Mason shows Lt Tragg he was concealing evidence, but none is in the shade. / Back at his office, Mason phones Chandler, gets Rucker, who covers for Chandler, refuses to reach Arlene. Drake has found the kid who swiped the trailer. Della identifies him as the messenger who brought the first $1500, Tom Sackett, whom Drakes notes was last seen headed towards Mexico City. / Chandler goes to red-headed, blue-eyed Arlene in his black Lincoln. She is in a secluded wood. They embrace. He cautions her against flight to Canada, suggests, twice, that she see Mason. // In Mason’s office, Emory does not initially recognize Sackett from a photo, but then says he saw him in Dr Chandler's office, where everyone from Mercantile Security went for treatment. Arlene phones in. Mason tells her where to await him. / Mason picks her up, and she reveals that when she looked for her diary in the trailer, she found $18,000 instead, planted. Ballard was lending her money. They discuss the murder. Tragg and company pull Mason and Dowling over, take Dowling away. // Court. Detective Myers says that, a few minutes after nine, he saw Mason at the window but, he sheepishly admits to Mason, he didn't arrive at that conclusion without prompting from his superior, Neil. Mason asks the liberty of the court to explain the circumstances around George Ballard’s death. Burger sees only Mason’s self-interest, not Mason’s claimed expediency, in the offer and insists he put on his case. The court clerk swears in Dr Ralph Chandler, who is asked by the D A to authenticate Arlene's diary, then read the part that shows she suspected George Ballard might be implicated in the theft. Mason objects, then cross examines the doctor on his qualifications. Did he give Sackett a treatment on a certain Wednesday; no, that's his day off. Mason takes the stand. Hamilton Burger asks if he is aware that $18,000 was found in his client's trailer. Now he is. Did he not signal Dowling with window shade. No, he only rolled it down to conceal two large bills, one with serial 00581, which he thinks was sent to incriminate him. Mason and Ballard listened to a radio show that was on from 8 to 8:15, and Mason left no later than 8:25, yet officer saw a man signal about 9. Mason names Dr Chandler as possible accomplice in theft. While patients were being given a complete physical examination, and thus were naturally disrobed, one could get keys and such out of their pockets, make impressions. These were turned over to forger Tom Sackett. Chandler's nurse Helen Rucker had equal opportunity. She and Sackett made up a dummy sack with the canceled checks and gave it to the only man who could have masterminded all, and murdered Ballard . . . Bill Emory. // [6-7] At dinner with Della, Mason receives $25,000 check (theft reward), which he tells Della to endorse over to Frank Dowling. Della kisses him and he offers the other cheek. She is famished, so Mason offers he anything on the menu. Waitress Amy takes her order; coffee, bacon and eggs. Burger joins them and Mason says the only way that Tragg could have been tipped off he was picking up Arlene Dowling was by Emory, who was in the office when the call came in. Burger announces perjury charge has been quashed, then agrees to Mason's buying him lunch. Mason recalls Amy; "One order of crow for the gentleman . . . he'll eat it here." [7-7 end credits] [52:52]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Sheila Cromwell Virginia Gregg Stephen Argyle Donald Randolph Elaine Barton Kipp Hamilton Harry Pitkin Harry Jackson (Francis) Bates Chester Stratton Frederick Arms Sid Clute Ross Hollister James Seay Judge Osborn Sydney Smith
Joe Raymond K L Smith Robert Finchley Brett Halsey Sheriff Mark Daley Ed Hinton Sgt Kenny Stephen Ellsworth Pat Ralph Sanford	CHARACTER ACTOR Western Union Clerk Jeanne Bates Sgt Davis Paul Hahn Jimmy Weaver Levy Court Clerk Jack Gargan

[2-3/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Elaine (Barton) admits Harry (Pitkin) to her apartment #208. She owes him money. “All that doh you make as a model” doesn’t jibe with him. He suggests she get if from Ross Hollister. “If you ever talk to him, I’ll kill you,” she warns. She wants a divorce from Harry. He forcibly takes her ring. “When you die, Harry, I now who’ll be at the funeral; you!” He gives Elaine a week, leaves. She pulls a gun from a drawer in a chest. // [3-8] An Olympic-sized swimming pool. Ross and Elaine dive in. She’s “had a slight headache for days.” He knows something is bothering her. Sheila (Cromwell), the “working member of this firm,” walks in. She wants the company books. Ross has forgotten them, says he'll do them tonight, leave them with Elaine. Sheila gives her a key, since she will be away to work early. Sheila gives him a letter, wishes him well on his trip, kisses him on the cheek, leaves. Elaine sees Sheila as “an attractive widow takes a good looking man as her business partner . . .” Ross proposes, again, to Elaine, asks where her ring is. She left it at her apartment, “it’s been slipping off.” She leaves. He then reads a letter from Apex Detective Agency, brought him by Sheila, which identifies Pitkin as Elaine’s visitor. / Harry calls Elaine. She says she hasn't got any money. He gives her a couple of more days before he tells Hollister. She hangs up on him. / Della Street brings Perry Mason a special delivery letter containing a key. It is an answer to an ad. The letter speaks of a hit and run witnessed by Miss Barton. The key is to Elaine’s apartment, so he can find in a notebook the license plate of the hit-and-run car. It’s a trap, thinks Della. “You’re not going to walk right into it” she asks. “What else are traps for!” / Mason drives his black Cadillac convertible to Barton’s apartment, follows the letter's directions, rings her doorbell, gets no answer, so uses the key to enter and finds a woman in bed. He exits and rings the doorbell. Elaine Barton, recognizing him by name, lets him in, goes to make coffee. Mason sees the chest of drawers in which Elaine had her gun. He shows the ad to Elaine who reads it aloud. The attorney mentions his client, Finchley. She had dinner that night with Ross. As she goes again to get coffee, Mason again looks in the chest, finds a gun in the drawer and under it the notebook mentioned in the letter, with a car and license plate noted “Cad sedan JPE 098”). She brings coffee, asks for his help. She’s being blackmailed. Mason compliments her on her fine acting performance. / In a hospital bed, Robert Finchley, Mason’s hit and run client, says he saw nothing at the corner where he was hit. Paul Drake, over the phone, identifies the car in Elaine’s notebook as owned by Stephen Argyle. / Mason goes to the notebook address, finds a white Caddy with a damaged right fender and correct license. He tells Argyle his car was involved in hit and run. Harry Pitkin, Argyle’s chauffeur, is brought in; says the car could not have been in an accident, that the dent was caused when the car was parked in Beverly Hills. Argyle does not recognize name of Elaine Barton. // [4-8] Broadmore Country Club (the huge veranda will appear in later episodes as “merely” a large house). Harry greets Pat, bribes him with liquor and $100 to remember Mr Argyle being there Monday night, 6:30 to 11. / Mr Bates queries Argyle about the accident. Argyle could go to jail, for Pitkin's tipping the doorman at the Country Club. Bates suggests out-of-court settlement, to be kept secret from the insurance company. / At the hospital, Bates offers $2500, Argyle adds a thousand, and Finchley, reluctantly, accepts. / Della lights Mason’s cigarette, then Mason tells Della that Bates got Finchley's signed release. Elaine Barton over the phone asks Mason to visit at 8. / Mason brings a $500 check to Elaine, accuses her of being a witness to the accident. She says license number in her book was not written by her. She’s in trouble; Pitkin is in the next room, dead, with her gun next him. Mason calls Lieutenant Tragg. / Lt Tragg at the crime scene brings the gun to Mason and Mrs Pitkin. She says she went for a walk about 4, returned to find him dead. Is Mason her attorney? Her “no” is covered by Mason’s “yes.” She goes for her coat. “I’d pack a bat, too,” suggests the lieutenant. / Tragg gets the report on the gun and fingerprints; one print is not Elaine's. / Jimmy announces Mason to Argyle who is playing “Night and Day” on a two-keyboard organ. Argyle thinks Mason is there about the settlement. The attorney instead confronts Argyle with the murder of Pitkin. He didn’t know he was married. Today was his day off. // Jail. Mason asks Elaine if Pitkin mentioned Joe Raymond, with whom he roomed. No. All Pitkin ever talked about was money. Ross Hollister gave her the ring, did not know she was married, and has key to her apartment. He was to leave the key for Sheila. Mason shows her the key he got in the mail, which is the key she left. / Sheila Cromwell knew Pitkin, and Argyle, and Ross Hollister, who called from Canada in the morning concerned about Elaine. She has great confidence in Mason. She doesn't expect to hear from Ross for another week. // [5-8] Court. Judge Osborn opens the preliminary hearing. Hamilton Burger calls Frederick Arms of the Apex Detective Agency. Arms was watching the defendant for two weeks at Ross Hollister's behest, and saw the defendant meet Pitkin twice, but was not on the case the day of the murder. Mrs Pitkin bought a gun from a pawn broker, the murder weapon, after the first visit. Isn’t it possible, Mason asks, for Hollister to be capable of killing a rival? Objected to. Sustained. Argyle “considered Pitkin a loyal employee.” He tells Mason that he doesn't know the defendant or of any of her relationships. Mrs Cromwell testifies to the D A that Barton told her “that Ross meant everything in the world to her.” She tells Mason that she doesn't know where Hollister is other than somewhere in Canada. She didn’t pick up the company’s books because the key was not under the mat. Why has she no idea of where Hollister is? She breaks down under Mason's cross-examination; Mason charges perjury. Burger asks for, and gets, an adjournment. / Cromwell sends a telegraph to Hollister in Halsey, California. Paul Drake has shadowed her and takes the sheet under her telegram, as the Western Union clerk looks a bit chagrined. / Drake goes to Halsey, finds a telegram halfway under the door. He sees through a window four more, unopened, inside the building. / Court. Cromwell now says Hollister was upset when he left Los Angeles due to a report from the Apex Detective Agency regarding Elaine. She suggested Hollister take a short vacation before his business trip; she doesn't know where he went. Mason confronts her with a list of 5 telegrams she sent him in Halsey. She “just knows” he’s not a killer. Why is Hollister hiding and why is she lying? The judge suggests Burger investigate possible perjury charges. Burger says his next witness will clarify the issue. Off camera, the court clerk swears in Sheriff Mark Daley who testifies to finding Ross Hollister dead on Crane beach, killed a full week before Pitkin's death. “There was a bullet through his left temple.” // [6-8] Argyle reads the newspaper story of the Hollister murder. Jimmy, his servant, announces Cromwell, who admits to being in love with Ross, who “couldn’t see (her) for dust.” She announces she'll kill him, pulls a gun. She accuses him of killing Ross and framing himself with a hit and run 70 miles away as his alibi. Sheila says books show $187,000 missing as his motive. Ross must have discovered it. Argyle argues a different possibility, then throws his drink in her face, takes the gun, suggests she’s “ far too clever for her own good.” Tragg enters with Mason, tells Argyle that the gun was not loaded. Mason thanks Sheila for a great performance. “The pleasure,” she says, “was all mine!” // [7-8] Mason tells Drake and Della that as soon as Sheila Cromwell knew Hollister, whom she was lying to protect, was dead, she was ready to help. Hollister had the key, Argyle took it from the body and mailed it to Mason. Pitkin knew where the body was, was blackmailing Argyle. Bates of Harvard Casualties enters, says he paid $2500 to Finchley, and wants it back, since Argyle was not responsible. Mason notes that the standard release form admits no liability by his company in the first place, so Finchley committed no crime in taking the check. But, they “paid him twenty-five hundred dollars . . . for nothing” “I wouldn’t say that. He thinks the world of you!” is Mason’s rejoinder. The three toast Mr Bates as the befuddled agent leaves. [8-8 end credits] [51:52]

#	TITLE	SHOW DATE	BOOK DATE-ORDER	CBS TAPE/DVD
19	Haunted Husband	25 Jan 58	ESG '41-18	20457/20-35228

CHARACTER ACTOR CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Marcia Greeley Helen Westcott Della Street Barbara Hale Michael Greeley John Hubbard Paul Drake William Hopper Harold Hanley Harlan Warde Hamilton Burger William Talman Charlie (Bartender) Herb Vigran Lt Tragg Ray Collins Judge Sydney Smith Doris Stephanak Karen Steele Court Clerk Jack Gargan Jerry Heywood Grant Richards (Tragg's Partner undredited) Claire Olger Patricia Hardy (Hotel Clerk uncredited) (Ernie) Tanner Fredd Wayne (Police Photographer uncredited)

Produced by Ben Brady, Directed by Lewis Allen, Teleplay by Gene Wang

"Perry Mason in The Case of the Haunted Husband" is missing 6:47 of the original broadcast. The Columbia House tape 20457 is 52:42 in duration, the DVD 35228 is 46:07 long and the 2006 CBS-DVD is 52:56. Missing are three full scenes and snippets of at least two others. The synopsis of this shows what is missing. 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 19.

{CUT SCENES (and noted snippets)} are marked in {} brackets with red text.

[3-3/1-8 Title credits](1-1) [2-8](1-2) Night along a deserted road. A woman paces below a sign that reads "Los Angeles 23, Long Beach 49, San Diego 163." She waves down a driver. She's been waiting an hour. The driver, already a bit tipsy, offers her a drink, takes one himself. Her purse was stolen in Fresno. He makes a pass, gets lipstick smeared on his dress shirt, and loses control, crashes his car into a truck. // [3-8](1-3) {Note; the camera opens the scene panning up to a framed award to Hamilton Burger, the 23rd Marshall Award for community service, signed by George W Gage and Henry Smith.) Hamilton Burger looks at a truck crash photo. His assistant, (Harold) Hanley, tells Burger that the case is one of manslaughter, for the “car smelled like a saloon.” The driver was Claire Olger. {/ Hanley interviews Olger in the hospital, doesn’t believe she wasn’t driving because her description of the man doesn’t fit the car owner. She doesn’t recognize a photo of Jerry Heywood. Why did she steal the car? She was the only one found in it.} / Della Street tells Perry Mason he ought to see Doris Stephanak re Claire Olger, whose face is on the front page of the newspaper. The car was owned by Jerry Heywood, a movie producer, who claimed the car was stolen, but Claire's description of the man driving the car doesn't fit him. Doris believes Claire is telling the truth. Mason takes the case, tells Della to get Paul Drake on the job looking for Heywood. She offers, “If you ever need anything, anything at all, just ask.” / Mason and Street at lunch with Drake, who says he learned little about Heywood, “boy wonder” of Magnum Pictures, mostly has no friends. Mason doesn’t believe the car was stolen; a thief in a tuxedo wandering about in a dinner jacket! Heywood may be denying knowing who had the car because his insurance had recently been canceled. Paul orders “hamburger with all the trimmings” but Perry treats him with a steak. / Heywood is dictating notes about a script. Mason asks about the unidentified man. Did Heywood know who he was? It would be expensive if he did, since he was uninsured, and Mason is sure he does. Heywood akss Tanner to show the attorney out. Heywood phones (Marcia) Greeley. She doesn't know where her husband (whose photo is next the phone, and is the driver) is. He came home in the early morning, changed clothes. He's probably on a binge. He wonders if the driver of his car was Michael (Greeley). They must find him before the police. Tanner, “secretary, chauffeur, butler,” has overheard, threatens to reveal the fact that Heywood was not at home as he claimed. Heywood throws him out. / (1-4) At the hospital, Claire reveals only one new item not in the newspaper; lipstick on his dress shirt. Mason tells Doris to take Claire to Gateview Hotel and register under the assumed name of Joan Lewis, then gives her money. / Los Angeles Chronicle headline CLAIRE OLGER OUT ON BAIL read by a man. / The driver of the car sees “Joan Lewis” registration ($4.50 for the room), pays clerk a tip. / Night. Mason's office. Drake suggests they'll never find dress shirt with lipstick. Mason suggests they use Claire as bait. She doesn't answer the hotel phone. / Mason looks through the transom, sees an overturned chair and thinks it is a girl's body on the floor. He tells Paul to call Lieutenant Tragg. // [4-8](1-5) Lt Tragg enters the room, finds a man's body. / Michael Greeley is dead. Lt Tragg suggests that Olger has now assured that Greeley cannot say he was not with her and, being in her room, she had opportunity to kill him. / As Mason and Drake exit the hotel's elevator, Paul is worried about his license. Mason notes Greely might have bribed the bellboy to get into the room. He checks the phone book, having noted Greeley's wedding ring, for Mrs Greeley. / Marcia Greeley tells Paul and Perry her husband was in San Francisco the night of the crash. She is certain he'd not have left the girl to take the blame alone. Yes, he does work for Jerry Heywood. Tragg, on the phone, advises Marcia of Michael's death. {/ Doris is at the liquor cabinet when Tragg knocks. She tries to keep him and his partner out of her apartment, but they force their way in, find Claire. / Tanner chats with bartender Charlie about the headlined case. “She’s going to need a magician to pull her out of this one.”} / (1-6) Doris tells Perry and Paul that Claire's arm bothered her, she went out to get aspirin, found the body when she got back. She panicked, came to her, where police picked her up. Tanner, incognito on phone, suggests Mason put Heywood on the stand and ask about the hideaway lodge near Fresno. Drake identifies Tanner as the caller from Mason’s imitation of his accent. Doris volunteers to find Tanner. / At the Adirondack Hotel bar, Doris and Tanner meet. {“My friends call me Ernie. What do they call you?” “Well, I don’t think your friends call me anything.”} “My name’s Doris.” / Mason's office at night in a downpour. Doris phones to say that Heywood's car had its 5000 mile check Monday, was over 5700 when returned. Mason tells Della to have Paul check everything to do with Heywood’s car. / Tanner tells Doris he quit his Hollywood boss. She wonders if he couldn't make trouble for Tanner. He says no, not with what he knows of Greeley . . . He suggests it is a bit noisy and she, to get his story, agrees to go to his place. // [5-8](1-7) Della answers the phone and Mason takes a call from Mrs Greeley, who has something of her husband's he should see; she'll be there in half an hour. He thinks it is the lipsticked shirt, which he doesn’t need now. / Doris {gives up waiting to get to a public phone and} returns to Ernie’s apartment, finds feathers on the floor, then Tanner dead in the shower. She phones Mason (at MAdison 5-1190). / Doris asserts she was gone only 15 or 20 minutes. Mason tells her they'll go up two flights, take the elevator down, he’ll then call the police. / Mason returns to office where Marcia Greeley has brought him the lipsticked dress shirt. They go through Della’s office into Mason’s private office. Tragg arrives, takes the dress shirt, asks if Mason knew Ernie Tanner. Mason asks "why?" Tragg says "he got himself knocked off at the Adirondack Hotel tonight," would Mason know anything about that? Mason says "not a thing." Tragg notices Mason's wet shoes, says whoever killed Tanner did so using a pillow to muffle the shot, leaving feathers which wet shoes would pick up. He picks up a feather from the floor, asks Perry if he'd like to comment. Instead, Mason asks Tragg for a cigarette. Tragg notes that Claire has a friend who was not locked up, Doris Stephanak. He could toss Mason in jail. But he won’t, notes Mason. / Burger is inspecting a dress shirt under a microscope, but Tragg points out that laundry marks don't check out and it is wrong size for Greeley. Burger thinks it is a trap by Mason. // [6-8](1-8) Court. The preliminary hearing. Mrs Greeley, Burger’s penultimate witness, Mrs. Greeley, leaves the stand. Mason wonders to Street that the dress shirt has not been introduced. Heywood identifies his Lincoln sedan. Mason uses the Clayton Service Shop records to show that the car was driven over 600 miles, supposedly in nine hours (Heywood has sworn that the car was in his drive at noon of the day of the accident). So car must have been stolen earlier. It is about 300 miles to Fresno, where Heywood has a lodge. Heywood was at a testimonial dinner, though he went home early. Yes, he knew Michael Greeley. Mason then asks via the Judge if the state is going to introduce the dress shirt. No, so Mason does. He asks Heywood if the shirt is his. No. Mason asks him to open his shirt collar. Burger offers that this is making a burlesque of the proceedings. The Judge admits he thinks it is highly irregular. Mason says the entire case is highly irregular, resulting in two murders. He asks the court clerk to read the laundry mark on Heywood's shirt. It matches that of the dress shirt. Mason gets him to admit that the dress shirt is his. It was found in the effects of Michael Greeley, how does he account for that? He asserts he is not on trial. Does he have any idea why the two men were murdered? Burger cannot see how this relates to the witness. Mason asks him if he isn’t interested in justice. Quickly the Judge interjects, “I am, Mr Mason.” Mason tells Heywood that Tanner was also employed by Greeley, to spy on him. He and Mrs Greeley went to his lodge Monday night; Mr Greeley was not jealous, but wanted to shake down Heywood. He flew to Fresno, then took the car at Heywood’s lodge, leaving the couple marooned. Mrs Greeley packed his shirt in her bag! Mr Greeley was a haunted man, was followed to Claire’s room. Mrs Greeley intercedes, says Heywood could not have done it, then admits she did. // [7-8](1-9) Exiting court (rather than as usual in his office), Tragg is commenting on how Mrs Greeley had killed Tanner when she phoned Mason. When Burger failed to introduce the shirt, says Della, they knew it wasn’t Greeley’s. Mason traps Tragg into saying he's called him “unscrupulous, conniving, unprincipled,” but he never called him stupid . Yet, if he tracked feathers back to his office, he must be, "stupid." So, who could have done it; Tragg says, you, me, and Mrs Greeley. "Oy gavult" as he realizes it was Mrs Greeley who brought the feathers to Mason’s office giving the attorney the clue to the murder which, of course, the lieutenant should have figured out. [8-8 end credits](1-10) [52:56](46:07 DVD) (52:42 TAPE)

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Edmund (Arthur) Lacey Robert H Harris Delores Coterro Anna Navarro Charles Barnaby L Q Jones Marylin Clark Kathleen Crowley George Moore Richard Crane Agnes Sims Betty Lou Gerson Margo Gail Kobe Lt Kramer Robert Williams Judge Frank Wilcox Dr L(ewis) J Palmer Robert McQueeney (Sgt Brice Lee Miller)

[1-8/1-8 Title credits](3-1) [2-8](3-2) The Lacey Publishing Co., Lonely Hearts, Tattle, Friendship reads the door sign. A woman leaves, then a man wearing horn-rimmed glasses enters, checks a mail box. Secretary (Agnes) Sims goes into the inner office and tells her “lover” that Box 96 is there. The man leaves. “Lover” (Edmund) Lacey takes a gun out of a drawer, looks out a side door, sees the man waiting for the elevator. He waits until he hears the elevator door close, then sneaks out and is caught by the man who is waiting in the fire exit. The man knocks Lacey to the floor. // [3-8](3-3) Paul Drake is reading "Lonely Hearts Calling" magazine ad. Lacey asks him to find the heiress in Box 96 so that he won’t be charged with mail fraud. 485 replies have netted him over $400 profit. To reply to a box, one has to use the form on the back cover of the magazine, so profits come from sales. Letters are picked up by a man in horn-rimmed glasses. Lacey says he’s written the heiress, but got no reply. Drake charges $200, then asks his secretary, Margo, to take a letter, to Box 96. “I am a poor young man . . .” Drake makes Lacey pay on the spot. / Drake, rushing to the bank “before the ink (on the check) dries” meets Perry Mason, shows him the ad. Mason suggests Drake marry the heiress. / Heiress Marylin (Clark) reads a letter from Charles B Barnaby, tells George (Moore) (the man wearing horn-rimmed glasses) that she's going to answer, and writes to Barnaby that he’s “a breath of fresh country air” and asks him to drop by next eve at seven. / Barnaby arrives at Marylin Clark's. He’s clumsy. She likes his naivete. / Bluebell Motel. Lacey phones Drake to say he's received cancellation of ad and heiress has identified herself. Drake asks for and gets her name for his report. He hangs up and Charles Barnaby ( a k a Charley Bailey) drinks champagne, is told off by his girl Delores (Coterro), a real spitfire. Bailey keeps her around “because she can tear a hotel room apart in thirty seconds flat.” Bailey/Barnaby tells Lacey he's been with heiress seven nights a week and are at "darling" and “honey” stage. Lacey asks if she's worth $75,000, but Barnaby says Lacey’s cut will only be $1000, not half. Lacey threatens that he’ll go to the police. Barnaby counters with federal offence in Lacey’s intercepting Drake's letter so he could substitute his own with Barnaby’s signature. Delores is worried over Marylin's beauty. He counters that “it’s nice not to have to romance a mudhen.” She says that she hates Barnaby, but they embrace. / Agnes is trying to pry open Lacey’s desk when he arrives. They trade insults. He says the heiress is worth $75,000, and no one has ever gotten the best of Edmund Arthur Lacey before. // [4-8](3-4) “Darling” Barnaby is given a demitasse by Marylin. The phone rings. It is George. Is she falling for the rube? Barnaby tells Marylin his 20,000 acre Montana ranch has oil, but he's mortgaged on the drilling and the note is overdue. She asks him to marry her. They kiss. / Drake barges in on Mason, who is dictating regarding $8 million to Della Street. Paul is worried. Lacey did not ask for his money back, and the heiress is actually Marylin Cartright of a Chicago department store. This morning she got certified check for $50,000, took it to Charles Barnaby alias country boy Baker, alias Charles Bailey . . . He bought a wedding ring and two tickets to Rio de Janeiro, for himself and his spitfire Delores Coterro. Mason tells Drake to call Lieutenant Kramer of the bunko squad. / Lacey outside the Bluebird Motel apartment, Barnaby inside, as Clark/Cartright arrives, suggests they leave quickly for airport. He suggests they celebrate. She gives him the certified check, they toast with champagne. Delores enters, starts a fight. Marylin rushes out. Delores hits Barnaby with her purse, he falls to the floor. Lt Kramer enters, chides Delores whom he knows, discovers that Charley is dead. She breaks down, crying over his dead body. // (3-5) Delores tells Lieutenant Tragg how she operates and that she killed Barnaby. Tragg says it was poison, not her. He tells Kramer to get out an A P B on Cartright. / George Moore, Marylin Cartright's stepbrother, asks Mason to represent Marylin, gives in to Mason’s terms. / George brings Perry (in his Cadillac convertible) to Marylin's hideaway. She tells of her sister Helen, who died of an overdose of sleeping tablets. She looked in her diary and discovered that Barnaby (under Bailey alias) was involved. He got $16,000. So she planned to trap Barnaby, turn him over to police, and it went exactly as planned except for the murder. Mason orders her to give herself up. / (3-6) Lt Tragg drops Coterro off at her apartment, the Kenton Arms, exacting a promise she’ll not talk to anyone. Drake has seen it all. / Mason beards Coterro in her lair, but gets nowhere, yet plants the idea that Lacey may have been murderer of her Charley. / [5-8](3-7) While emptying a safe, Lacey hears a noise. It is Coterro in the outer office, with a gun, that she fires through the door after Lacey shuts it in her face. She empties the gun on the door knob, and Tragg, tipped off by Agnes Sims, who won’t let him skip out with her half of the money, arrives in time with a partner (future Sgt. Brice) to arrest Lacey. “Poor darling, you’re so fragile” spits out Agnes as Lacey is led out. / D A Hamilton Burger tells Coterro that Mason was only trying to confuse her. She thinks it was Lacey who murdered her Charley, since Charley double-crossed him. Tragg convinces her to play ball. / Court. Burger tells the court that Marilin’s motive was revenge. Lacey testifies about the ad and that he warned Barnaby to leave the defendant alone. Didn’t Barnaby use his magazine over and over? Why was he at Bluebell Hotel the night of the murder? To thwart any swindle by reasoning with Barnaby. Since he didn’t go inside to Barnaby, was it “by mental telepathy” asks Mason. Moore agrees with Burger on recapitulation of their scheme to find Barnaby but remains a hostile witness admitting only what he must. Mason ask him if he has a job. No, he is supported by his stepsister, and he'd inherit if something happened to Marylin. Coterro explains her role in the swindle which she and Charley have done countless times. Then refuses to answer anything to Mason. Mason says he’ll defer his cross-examination. Dr Lewis J Palmer, autopsy surgeon, says prussic acid killed Barnaby. Defendant's glass also had poison. Wouldn’t that indicate that the murderer intended to kill both persons, asks Mason. Not necessarily, for the poison was in the bottle. How could it have gotten there without the deceased having observed it? Objection, sustained. // [6-8](3-8) Mason and Street enter the murder apartment. Mason recapitulates what Marylin told him about events in the apartment, proves she could have doctored champagne while lover boy was getting the glasses. Della notes she's seen bottles with model clipper ships inside, maybe they cut off the bottom. This give Mason his answer. / Court. Burger has explained to Coterro why she must answer Mason’s questions. Coterro knew Barnaby eight years, did anything he asked. Mason shows the airline tickets. Charley booked Rio, while she picked up her tickets to Hawaii, so she wanted to kill both, because Charley was going to marry Marylin. Mason asks if she is addicted to narcotics; she responds that she is not a bad girl. He shows her hypodermic syringe. Why did she buy syringe like this the night before the murder if she is not addicted to narcotics? She has diabetes. She takes 50 units of insulin every day. Why did she buy a 25 gauge 2-inch needle (diabetes needs only half inch needle), which can go through champagne cork. She says Charley no good, was going to marry Marylin, and “he cannot understand I can not ever give him up.” She breaks down crying. // [7-8](3-9) Mason tells Street and Drake that it was in front of them all the time. Coterro fired five shots, but did not intend to hit Lacey, they were to divert suspicion. Paul's report showed Barnaby bought a wedding ring. This was not part of his regular, oft repeated routine, so he was going to marry Marylin. Della notes the time, asks, “Which of you two handsome gentlemen is going to take me to dinner?” Paul flips a coin, but it lands on edge, leaning on a table leg. Both win (in The Case of the Black-eyed Blonde, Della asks the same question about lunch, and Mason preempts Paul). [8-8 end credits](3-10) [52:01](51:47)

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Gertie Connie Cezon Harriet Bain Virginia Vincent Arthur West Dan Riss Addison Doyle Robin Hughes Sylvia Bain Tina Carver Ned Bain Carl Benton Reid J J Stanley James Bell Judge Morris Ankrum Dr Hanover Dennis King, Jr Dr Fisher Alan Gifford
Night Clerk Charles Tannen Taxi Driver (Mr Miller) Leonard Bell Court Clerk Jack Gargan	CHARACTER ACTOR (Gertie Connie Cezon) (Police investigator uncredited)

[2-8/1-8 Title credits](1-1) [2-8](1-2) At night a man enters the lobby of the Gilbert Hotel with a bottle in a bag, gets his key from the night clerk, heads upstairs. The night clerk tells (Arthur) West, who was reading a magazine, this is his man, in room 234, and asks what he’s done. “He talk too much.” // [3-8] West enters 234, pours water in the face of (J J) Stanley and identifies himself as a licensed private investigator. He demands $50,000 as repayment for embezzlement with accomplice Ned Bain from the Texas National Bank ten years earlier. He tells Stanley that he needs a “manager, then takes the whiskey bottle from him with the comment that, when they are through, he’ll “be able to swim in this stuff.” / A woman (Harriet Bain) drives up to the Colegrove Apartments in a Citroen DS-19. She goes in to 2A where she hears a tape, played by West, of Ned Bain on the phone with J J Stanley talking about a detective who has discovered their embezzlement. / In Perry Mason’s private office Della Street looks longingly at the attorney’s ticket to London. She goes to the receptionist’s office to meet Harriet Bain and inform her that Mason is in court, then will leave for London, as Gertie looks on. In Della’s private office, the secretary offers Harriet a cigarette (in these early cases, Perry, Paul Drake, and clients all smoke). Harriet explains how, six months ago, she met writer Addison Doyle, a friend of sister Sylvia, and fell in love. They are engaged. Her father is being blackmailed over an embezzlement. He has a bad heart. She's afraid that the marriage will be called off if there is a scandal. She realizes that she's not pretty. / In his apartment, Della weasels Perry into taking on Harriet's case, though Mason argues she might be better off without a man who'd leave her so easily. Della notes that Harriet won't have another chance at happiness. When Paul Drake, who has just joined them, hears that the blackmailer is Arthur West, he says that “she'll need plenty of help if she’s mixed up with that character,” because West works both sides of the blackmail. Perry has Paul put a tail on West, so that they can find Stanley. He tells Della to get him a small magnet, one that will fit into a cigarette pack. He then instructs her to delay his plane flight. She coyly admits that she already has! / West plays a tape for Mason and Harriet Bain. Mason asks to inspect the tape for splices, so West unrolls the tape while Mason holds cigarette pack, with a magnet hidden inside, next it. Mason then asks to hear it again, and it is silent. Perry and Harriet leave. West packs the Revere Wollensak recorder and crosses the hall to 2B with whiskey bottle under his arm. He is admitted by Stanley. / Paul explains to Della how a magnet erases tape. Gertie is on the intercom with a call from West. Mason has forced West to get the original, rather than the copy he played and West, over Mason’s private phone line, says that he'll play the tape tomorrow at 9. Harriet rushes in saying that everything is now out in the open and Sylvia is mad. Ned Bain has decided he will fight. Mason tells Della and Paul that he can see Harriet’s father, but he's in bed with heart trouble. Della again calls airline reservations. / Mason and Harriet go to the family homestead. They are met by Sylvia Bain who says it is all “a storm in a teacup.” Then a pipe-smoking Addison Doyle is introduced to Mason. At bedside Bain tells Harriet and Mason that ten years ago J J backed him in “a wildcat strike and I was lucky.” He'd not pay off a blackmailer, nor go to police and hasn't seen Stanley in six months, has no address nor phone number for him. As Mason leaves, Addison wonders if Sylvia has lost control of her sister. / At 11:15 at night Ned Bain, fully dressed, gets out of bed, takes a brief case from under his bed and leaves the house, observed by Harriet. / Ned Bain rings the bell of 2B and is admitted by Stanley. Ned tells him “Never put off for tomorrow what you can do today, or rather tonight.” There is a worried look on Stanley’s face. // [4-8] Harriet’s Citroen DS-19 pulls up behind a parked cab. Ned Bain gets into the cab without his brief case. / Drake has located Stanley in a room opposite West's apartment. / Perry and Della find a note from West on the door of 2A advising them that he'll be late. A scream from inside 2A and Harriet Bain rushes out into Mason’s arms, claiming that Stanley is dead. Mason shuts the door, noting that it is a trap, He gives Della instructions on how to signal him when West arrives and crosses to 2B. He enters and closes the door behind him, then inspects Stanley's apartment, checking the refrigerator, then a large chest-type deep freeze which is mostly empty, with boxes scattered. Della's signal is sounded. Harriet, Della and Arthur enter 2A and then Mason exits 2B to join them as Della reads for West the note he left them as if they’d just got there. West goes to the kitchen, finds Stanley dead, calls the police. Mason tells Della to call the airline and cancel his trip (this is now a running gag). / Doctor (Hanover) tells Lieutenant Tragg that, from the body temperature, death was about 3 in the morning, from ice pick wounds. The pick is found in 2B by a police investigator. / Drake reports that Tragg knows Mason searched J J's apartment with Della standing guard. West rigged the tape recorder at the door with a timer set to 9 p m. Della phones to say that Ned Bain has had another heart attack. / But Bain will pull through. In Bain’s bedroom Doctor (Fisher) says that Bain “couldn't even walk to the bathroom with this heart condition,” yet “nothing in medicine is certain.” He hands Mason a metal tape canister, saying that he found it under Bain's pillow. Mason asks Harriet if she left the house or saw her father leave. She lies "no." Sylvia Bain then lies, saying she didn't leave the house, but Addison Doyle contradicts her, for she has a perfect alibi, because they were together in his apartment. Harriet is shocked. She and Perry exit and are met by Tragg, who takes the tape canister and arrests Harriet for murder. Her fingerprints are all over the ice pick. / [5-8](1-4) Mason corners Addison, who admits that being a writer charms the ladies and he has a champagne taste on a beer income. Mason warns him against switching from Harriet to Sylvia. / Della readies Mason for court. He asks about Dr Gross's Criminal Investigations and Della says she’s wired the publisher for a copy. / In court District Attorney Hamilton Burger is in the middle of direct examination of Tragg regarding the ice pick. The court clerk takes this as Exhibit A. A cigarette lighter with initials H B was also found at the scene of the crime and it is entered as Exhibit B. Mason gets the lieutenant to admit that, if an ice pick could be taken from the murder scene to police headquarters without destroying or impairing fingerprints, the pick could also have been taken from the Bain household to the scene of the crime to incriminate someone. Dr Hanover testifies to the cause and time of death, 2 to 3 p m, the latter determined by post mortem lividity that indicates he’d been lying on his back for two hours, and ingestion of the last known meal as well as body temperature. Yes, changes in room temperature could alter his testimony. Burger names Ned Bain as his next witness. Mason objects to this inhumane action, but the judge allows it after Burger shows the police doctor’s permission. The court clerk calls out for Ned Bain, who is brought in on a stretcher and is sworn in by the court clerk. Bain admits to embezzlement, since statute of limitations is passed. The next question brings outburst from Harriet; yes, she knew her father embezzled. Ned Bain admits to seeing Stanley at 11:30 on the night he died. He went to Stanley with money Harriet had withdrawn that day, with her full knowledge, so, Mason notes, she had no motive for murder. // [6-8](1-5) Taxi driver Miller testifies to seeing a foreign car drive up behind him. It is registered to Harriet. But he couldn’t see the driver. West testifies to being approached by Stanley with a tape recording, and describes the contents of the tape. Mason, lost in documents brought to him by Drake at beginning of this court session, is prompted by the judge. He then zeros in on West. Was there no personal connection between the two? No. Then how come he was paying for Stanley's apartment, food and drink? West made him a loan. Wasn't this financing blackmail? Why did he buy him a deep freeze, and fill it with food, and keep Stanley out of sight? Mason suggests Stanley's body was put in the deep freeze. West says he was playing cards at the time of the murder. Mason suggests he used deep freeze to alter apparent time of death, and that the freezer will reveal traces of decedent's rare AB blood group. / At the apartment blood stains are found on some packages. Dr Hanover admits that the time of death would be altered if the body were in the freezer. Mason also suggests that Harriet never could have put Stanley's body in the freezer, and the judge agrees, ordering Arthur West be held on suspicion of murder. / Addison Doyle reads Los Angeles Chronicle headline PRIVATE DETECTIVE HELD FOR MURDER as Mason and Sylvia Bain enter the Bain house. Mason learns during a phone call that Harriet is released. Sylvia suggests that Addison should not be present on her return. / At the bus station Addison removes Ned Bain's money-filled brief case from a locker. He is surrounded by Mason, Tragg and police, and lets Mason light his pipe! // [7-8](1-6) Drake enters Mason's office as Perry gets ready to leave for London. Paul comments that he knows Perry suspected Doyle when he saw a copy of Dr Gross's Criminal Investigations in Doyle’s apartment. Mason says that it cites an identical case of arrested body temperature by freezing. Doyle took a sure thing, namely $25,000, rather than wait the possibilities of a scandal over inheritance by Harriet. Sylvia was only trying to break his hold on little sister Harriet, thus helping her. Della returns from the beauty parlor with “a client” and cons Perry into seeing her. It turns out to be the "green-eyed" (jealous of Sylvia's beauty) sister, once an ugly duckling but now a beautiful swan from the beauty parlor. She, too, is on the way to London. Della, “Miss Machiaeveli” says Mason, has booked her a seat, of course, next to Perry. As they leave, Paul is "left holding the bag." [8-8 end credits](1- 7 ) [52:59](52:42)

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Dr (Charles) Morris Sheppard Strudwick Janet Morris Bethel Leslie Dave Kirby Dabbs Greer Gladys Strome Maxine Cooper Mrs Kirby Jeanette Nolan Phil Reese Woodrow Chambliss Mrs Strome Helen Brown Arthur Strome Anthony Lettier Lt Brewer Arthur Hanson Smith Larry Blake

Frederick George Davis Detective Ralston Sydney Mason Detective Ron Jacks Lee Roberts Marshall Gil Frye Workman Joey Ray

CHARACTER ACTOR Detective Jack Kenney Judge Owen Cunningham Court Clerk Jack W Harris [Sgt Brice Lee Miller]

[3-8/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A man (Dave Kirby) leaves #32 on the upper floor of motel, walks cautiously down the steps, is grabbed roughly by two detectives. Mrs (Janet) Morris identifies him. “Me and your husband are buddies,” he asserts. On him, they find Dr (Charles) Morris's key, a bottle of whiskey, and a packet of money. // [3-8] Police office. Lieutenant (Brewer) is typing a report, while Mrs Morris waits to sign a warrant against Kirby, who had $92,000 on him. One of the detectives informs Brewer that Dr Morris has said he sent Kirby to get the money. Lt Brewer learns that "it was a regrettable mistake." Dr Morris wants to know how Janet found the apartment (where he hides money, and gets away from it all when necessary). Brewer intends to inform the Treasury Department of Morris’s large sum of cash. Janet says she doesn’t want a divorce. Morris accuses her of lying about not knowing Kirby was a friend. / Janet goes to Perry Mason, because she doesn't want a divorce. The other woman is his nurse, Gladys Strome. Janet's efforts have brought the income tax people into the situation. Half the money is hers as community property (under California statutes). She leaves. Della Street is not sure Janet is protecting her husband, or the money. / Gladys greets Dr Morris with a kiss, then observes his lack of a shave. She mentions a cal from the Treasury Department earlier. Charles has sent Kirby to Loganville this morning. He notes that nothing is useless in nature, puts through a call to him at Kirby’s Drive-in Restaurant. Kirby agrees to everything Morris asks, then takes a drink. He opens the safe, takes out a cash box, but is caught by his wife, who “cant’ turn (her) back for a minute.” She takes the box, warning him regarding doctor Morris (even though he saved her husband’s life), then complains about flies. He finds the sales tax box, hammers its lock. / Janet walks in on Gladys, who doesn’t recognize her, and Dave. Dave quickly exits. Janet asks a favor of Gladys, namely, to leave her husband. Gladys responds, first noting this is the first time she’s seen Janet in the office in the year she’s worked there, then asking Janet to give Charles a divorce. The minister said “‘Til death do us part.” / Reese Airport. (Phil) Reese finishes servicing Dr Morris's plane. Janet brings him hot coffee, asks him where he'll be staying in Salt Lake City so Mason can contact him about the divorce. He is distrustful of her intentions. He goes to the operations shack and she puts a coffee thermos in the plane, as Reese watches. / The plane weaves wildly, crashes. (The model and crash are as bad as the original model of the Starship Enterprise!) // [4-8] Lieutenant Tragg is told by Reese that a radio message from the doctor had him saying, “I’m very tired.” He shows Tragg a damaged thermos, says Mrs Morris gave it to her husband. / Tragg tells Mrs Morris that the autopsy indicates that her husband was killed with morphine sulfate. She dials the operator, asks for Mason’s phone number. Tragg gives it to her; MAdison 5-1190 (now we know Mason’s office building, his office number, and his telephone number). / She confers with Mason who forces her to admit her husband did ask for a divorce and she had recently agreed. Tragg, when confronted by Mason, says that “guys have been murdered for less.” He has his partner (Lee Miller, often silent, but Sgt Brice wherever he speaks) take her in, then confides in Mason that Janet got $125,000 in insurance, her motive. / Drake reports that Gladys Strome has been with Dr Morris "since March of last year." She is the sole supporter of her mother and younger brother. She's away on vacation. Morris's will left $50,000 to Miss Strome. Where is the $92,000? Mason thinks Kirby is involved somewhere in all this. / Mason visits Kirby, meets his Mrs, “its not making money, but “keeping others from taking it away” she asserts. It was she who put down $8000 to buy the place, offers the attorney hamburger with fries, 35¢. Kirby took $164 from the sales tax box. She hasn't seen her husband for over a week. He got a long distance call on the 16th, from Dr Morris, left immediately. She cautions Frederick to put three half slices, not three whole pickles, on each plate. / Mrs Kirby has gone to missing persons, is now questioned by D A Hamilton Burger and Tragg re $92,000. She jumps all over them about their accusation of Kirby. They learn that Morris and Kirby flew in the war together. Mrs Kirby bawls both men out. Burger sends Tragg to the crash site. // [5-8] At the crash site, one of Drake's men finds a good luck medallion, shows it to Drake. That cinches it regarding Mason’s surmise, that it was Kirby, not Morris, in the plane. It is engraved “David Kirby . . .” Lt Tragg with his silent partner and other of his men arrive, take a bottle fragment found by Drake from him, as well as the medallion. Tragg notes that “murder is still murder,” whether the doctor or Kirby. / Mrs Kirby is shown the medallion by Tragg, who informs her of her husband’s death. She is overcome. // Court. D A Burger gives his opening statement. Reese says the plane left the ground at 2:24 and one half p m. Defendant was among 11 non-staff there. He noticed her parking, a blue Buick convertible, blue and white interior, license JRZ 426, next a Pontiac station wagon, XYL 116. She placed a vacuum bottle in the plane, which he identifies. Mason tests his photographic memory; it is excellent in recalling details of the D A’s clothes. He didn't see actual takeoff, nor defendant put poison in bottle. Paul has not found Morris, nor Miss Strome. Morris should have been worried that Kirby could give away his plan. Strome is sole support of her parents; where are they getting money? / Perry and Della meet Mrs and Arthur Strome over her dinner. She has no idea where her daughter is. Mason offers $100. Mom leaves to get more potatoes. Mason flashes bills and son Arthur tells Mason that Gladys is in Mexico, Boca de Ora. / Plane. / Mason meets with Dr Morris who is with Gladys Strome. He got Kirby to agree to fly to Salt Lake City with the $92,000 on which he’d paid the tax. He got a Mexican divorce three weeks earlier and intends to stay in Mexico where that is legal. Under pressure, they agree to “take first plane out of Boca de Ora,” but doesn't tell Mason in which direction. // [6-8] Mason tells Della and Janet he’ll ask for a continuance if things go wrong, due to the doctor and his nurse being in Mexico. Tragg testifies that the defendant bought the thermos 24 hours before the murder. Mason asks him why, when it was discovered body was not Morris, they didn't find Morris, when he could. Hamilton Burger spring his surprise. He has Morris and Gladys Strome brought in. Mason points out that the doctor cannot testify against his legal California wife. Burger argues the duplicity of Mason’s claims regarding residency. Gladys Strome is then called by Burger, is sworn in by the court clerk. Burger accedes to calling her Mrs Morris. She heard Janet on an extension phone say she'd not divorce Morris. Mason refuses to call her Mrs Morris, only Miss Strome. She started dating the doctor but a month after being employed. Kirby was in one of the doctor's suits when the plane crashed. Dr Morris saved Kirby’s life. Did Dr Morris prescribe morphine sulfate for Kirby? She doesn't recall. Mason examines Mrs Kirby who identifies the good luck medallion, which Lt Tragg showed her after he died. Della Street leaves courtroom and phones a jeweler. Mrs Kirby and husband are married 18 years, happily, despite drinking. To calm his nerves he took morphine sulfate to calm his nerves, prescribed by Dr Morris. Husband had $5000 insurance policy, plus military insurance, perhaps $10,000. Della returns, gives Mason a paper. Mason shows lucky medallion to Mrs Kirby. It is made of platinum which would not melt in fire, which she bought to make certain he could be easily identified. She brought her husband a bottle of whiskey, which was laced with morphine sulfate. She ordered the medallion on the 19th, picked it up the 20th, but said she hadn't seen her husband since the 16th. She drives a Pontiac station wagon with license plate showing she parked next the defendant's car). Mrs Kirby now says she built the drive-in with no help from Dave. He was worth nothing alive, maybe worth something dead. // [7-8] Mason calls for Della over the office intercom. Drake finds the outer office empty, so asks Mason if he should go look for her. “Think you’d have better luck than you did with the fugitive nurse?“ Mason then gets Paul to say Mrs Kirby was a penny pincher, so, when she spent a lot of money for a gift . . . Della enters with two plates of food; she's lost 3 pounds every case by missing dinner. Mason and Drake dig in, ignoring Street. [8-8 end credits] [52:00]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Marian Fargo Angie Dickinson Samuel D. Carlin Louis Van Rooten Diana Maynard Dorothy Green Charles Gallagher Paul Picerni Nora Kelly Eve Miller Arthur Fargo Pete Adams Judge Vincent G Perry Steve Daniels Richard Benedict Pierre (Renault) Jan Arvan
Waiter Jean Del Val Bus Clerk Ralph Montgomery Court Clerk Jack W Harris Detective Ray Kellogg	CHARACTER ACTOR Charter Pilot (Mr James) John Sands Suzie Doris Wiss Phone Operator Shirley Buchanan

[4-8/1-8 Title credits](3-1) [2-8](3-2) A bus pulls into a station at night. A brunette (Marian Fargo) walks to the end of the waiting line for the bus to Harristown. (Samuel D) Carlin (name spoken so quietly that the listener may not get it) accosts her. He's blackmailed her for 10 months ($1,000 per month), now asks for a lump sum of $10,000, offers her his word of honor, then the complete Charles Gallagher file in return, with payment between 8 & 9 pm the next day at Ferrolds. Another man (a detective, Steve Daniels) has been observing. // [3-8](3-3) Marian Fargo enters a house numbered 2281, where husband Arthur notes that she is upset. She admits to blackmail “because of Charles.” Arthur suggests she go to the police. / Detective (Steve) Daniels reports on Carlin to Charles Gallagher. His fee, 100 bucks. After he leaves, Gallagher removes his dressing gown, revealing that he carries an arm holster. / Marian Fargo arrives at Ferrolds in a hooded raincoat. Carlin phones Pierre to say that he won't appear. Pierre tells Marian to go to Carlin’s home. Perry Mason and Della Street arrive, introduce themselves to Pierre. / Della complains about the cost of menu items, and Perry reminds her not to look at the right column, then is jolted by $1.00 for a cup of coffee. Pierre delivers a telephone to Perry and the call is from Marian. She wants him to get a package, a file on Charles Gallagher, from Carlin at 6920 West Larendo. “Unless it’s complete and authentic, you’re not to pay for it.“ Two envelopes are delivered to Mason’s table by a waiter, one of which contains a $500 retainer. Perry and Della leave even without a $1 cup of coffee, as Marian watches. / At Carlin's, Mason offers the second envelope as payment for the Charles Gallagher file. Carlin denies any knowledge, then compliments Della. Della and Perry drive off in his Ford Fairlane. Arthur Fargo comes out of a side room. He and Carlin argue. Carlin has taken half the $1000 a month, and Arthur, who thought it was only $500, wants his $5000. Carlin threatens to expose Arthur’s complicity in the plan to extort all of Marian’s money, then ship off to San Francisco with his girl friend. Arthur boasts that no jury would convict him of killing a blackmailer. / Night. Mason’s inner office. Della receives a call from Drake’s very pretty operator, who has been trying to find Paul Drake. / Mason watches the Carlin place. A lady in a rain coat with hood enters the house. / Drake arrives at a pay phone in his T-bird, with dark-haired lady (Suzie, his date, whose name is never spoken). Della tells “Mr” Drake to go to 6920 West Larendo. / Mason stomps on a pile of cigarette butts, as Paul arrives. There is an explosion in the Carlin house. Three fire trucks arrive. A man's body is brought out. Drake’s description of the body fits Carlin, who has a bullet in his head. // [4-8](3-4) At Ferrolds Drake uses greenbacks as his business card to get a list of guests from the waiter, as Pierre quit “last night.” / It is raining outside Perry Mason's office. Inside Drake reports that he can’t find Pierre, but Carlin was to meet a woman named Fargo whose car is licensed to 2281 Livingston Drive. / At 2281, they note that a car, now gone, was parked all night during the rain. Inside is a body, with a note from Marian regarding her taking the 8 o’clock bus to Harristown. Mason orders Paul to Harristown, then, using a pencil to dial, phones Lieutenant Tragg, then picks up a hooded raincoat from an adjacent chair. / Paul arrives at the Harristown bus station in a taxi, has Mrs Arthur Fargo paged as Mrs Fargo gets off the bus, says goodbye to Mrs Maynard. The police arrive just as Drake identifies her. Bus passenger Diana Maynard sees the trouble, tells Paul she was with Marian from Los Angeles. She claims an eye infection, puts an eye-patch over her left eye, agrees to sign a statement. / Headline on the Los Angeles Chronicle reads WIFE INDICTED FOR HUSBAND’S MURDER. Mason thinks Maynard’s statement puts her in their corner. Drake says that the cops have found witnesses saying that Marian got on the bus at 11:30 in Wayne City. Operative Nora Kelly is put with Diana. // (3-5) Nora and Diana leave for "vacation." Diana comments on Mason’s thoughtfulness, and Nora chimes in, “yes, he thinks of everything.” / Mason interviews Marian Fargo. She won’t talk about Charles Gallagher. She lies about the blackmail. Mason points out that husband and Carlin were killed by the same gun. Mason walks out on her. / Della receives Charles Gallagher, who says he's Marian's brother, and her reason for Marian lying. He was imprisoned for stealing $3.00 worth of canned goods during the Depression. He got 3 to 5. In prison he hit a guard with the gun the guard had used to intimidate prisoners. He’s a fugitive, and has worked his way back up. An invention, a refinement for a carburetor, gave him money enough so he could retire, but he had TB from prison. He lives in Harristown. Carlin showed up at his sister's, thus began blackmail over his prison file. Della "helps" him make a right decision. He leaves by the private back door. // [5-8] At his apartment, Gallagher is packing. Daniels shows up, tries to bribe Gallagher by offering to keep his mouth shut and not go to the D A. His offer is rejected, forcibly. / In court. Mr Danvers is sworn in (again, how often will the court clerk actually swear in the witness in front of the camera, this time Jack W Harris), the parking lot supervisor at the airport, tells D A Hamilton Burger of Mrs Fargo's car being towed after Mrs Fargo parked it. Mason gets him to admit that she was wearing dark glasses and a hat with a floppy brim pulled over her face, yet he could identify her! / Mr James, who flew a female passenger to Wayne City, identifies the glasses and hat as the defendant’s, as well as a scarf purchased by Mrs Fargo that was left in the plane. A man made the reservation by phone and the passenger never spoke. Yet Mr James says it sure looked like her, finally swears it was Mrs Fargo. / Mason confronts Marian with her lies, suggests that she killed in self-defense, which is not murder. Mason asks who charted the plan for her, her brother? Marion thus learns that Mason knows of her brother. She can’t let him go back to prison. // [6-8](3-7) Burger is in his office with Lieutenant Tragg when an anonymous tipster comes on the phone. Tragg is to trace the call. The tipster suggests they ask Mrs Fargo who was being blackmailed, and to check on Maynard, then quickly hangs up. Tragg suggests it was Pierre Renault, because of the French accent of the caller. / Tragg picks up Mrs Maynard as Nora Kelly returns her to her apartment. / She tells Burger that Marion got on a bus at 8. Burger brow-beats her, suggesting that the other witnesses say she is wrong, and that’s perjury. / Mason calls his first witness, Maynard, who is sworn in by the court clerk. She testifies to dictating a statement to Paul Drake, nothing else. Burger tries on cross to get other information. Mason stops him with the limits of his direct. So Burger makes her his witness which. of course, Mason wants, so that he can cross examine her. She now says Mrs Fargo got on at Wayne City. After the judge overrules Burger’s objection, Mason uses cross-examination privileges to get at the "condition of her eye" with which she saw the defendant. What did the defendant wear? She gives an excellent, detailed description. What did other woman who rode on the first half of the bus trip wear? He suggests she can see less with two eyes than with one. The patch is removed. She identifies Lt Tragg, Miss Kelly, and the parking attendant at the international airport parking lot which, since she had been sequestered, she could not know. So she had to drive Marian’s car to the airport. She did not kill Marion’s husband. Then who did? She points to Carlin, in a wig and fake mustache, as the mastermind. “And he was going to get away with murder.” // [7-8](3-8) Della reads a statement that Charles Gallagher is exonerated and will not be extradited. Pierre was in the Carlin fire, not Carlin. He was Carlin’s messenger boy. It was Diana Maynard who got on the bus at Wayne City. Della agrees to go to Ferrolds Cafe for dinner with Perry. She wants to know “what could they put in a cup of coffee to make it worth a dollar.” [8-8 end credits](3-9) [52:57](52:41)

[1-6/1-12 Title credits] [2-12] At Reed Industries, as secretaries type, Harry Vance exits his off and heads to David Reed’s office, where he greets young Tommy (Reed). David Reed suggests that the Anderson thing should be dropped. He doesn’t trust Anderson, but Vance does. Helen Reed and Robert Crane arrive and Tony runs to his mom. Crane asks Reed about a suit concerning the custody of Tommy, is told his sister is not fit to be Tommy’s mother. If he takes the child away, threatens Crane, “you’ll not live to appear in court.” He rushes out as Helen stares at David. // [3-12] A downtown strip at night. A doorman takes a big tip, admits Helen, a k a Joyce Martell, to the private Burgundy Club. Bartender George and another man take note. She greets George at the bar. Johnny (Hale) comes from his office, tells her she cannot be a lush, and takes her to the office. George notes to another bar man that Martell is poison, to which is answered, “for Johnny there ain’t no antidote.” In his office, she pours another drink which Johnny smashes to the floor. Johnny says hasn’t seen her for a week. She hasn’t been herself, but tonight she will be, she insists, and they kiss. / [4-12] Helen wakes up at home. Sarah opens the door for Crane, who arrives to ask Dr (Desmond) how she is. She tells of nightmarish dream, shoulders in mink (she's allergic to fur, notes Dr Desmond), “but not in a dream,” she continues. She says she never smokes or drinks, but in a dream . . . in a building, she saw David's (former husband's) body, “there was a bullet hole in his head, and there was a gun lying near.” Doctor says she doesn't keep the psychiatric appointments he’s arranged. Crane asks Dr Desmond to make another appointment. Does she have her pills? In her purse. Sarah finds a purse with initials "J M." Helen says it is the purse she carried in her nightmare. Inside is a gun. / [5-12] Crane and Helen Reed visit Perry Mason, thinking they may be in trouble over possible murder of David Reed. Why? asks the attorney. Sister’s nightmare, and her nightmares often prove real. Crane confesses that he threatened to kill Reed and instituted suit. Mason says he can’t take the case, as a nightmare isn’t physical evidence. Crane shows the purse with initials “J M”, then gun from which one bullet had been recently fired, which is his and was in Helen’s nightmare. / Mason is greeted by Cora Dunbar, Reed's secretary. Vance then enters, fakes no knowledge of Mason and asserts that David can’t be dead, for he phoned earlier. Mason challenges him with knowing who he was. Della Street phones Mason the address of the Crest Apartments on Berry. Vance wants to know what Mason’s visit was really about. The lawyer ”wanted to verify a nightmare.” / Mason arrives at the Crest Apartments. Paul Drake says Crane and Helen Reed are at psychiatrist Dr Maitland's office. Drake has purse, says it belongs to “lazy hips” Joyce Martell who lives in apartment 310. The purse is worth $45. Expensive, suggests Mason, perhaps J M would like to get it back. A key in the purse gives them admission to the apartment room, where they find Reed dead. Mason has Paul put the gun back in the purse. // [6-12] Lieutenant Tragg and Sergeant Grant drive up to the Crest. Grant suggests that Tragg wait outside, as it was only an anonymous tip, probably nothing. Then Lt Tragg sees Mason’s Cadillac and knows that it is something. / Mason and Drake have found little of import in the apartment except that everything is monogrammed "J M." Somethings missing. Then Mason discovers half of a photo of J M behind a mirror. “If this is J M, there is nothing missing,” says Paul approvingly. Tragg arrives, notices Drake in brown (daytime attire), with black bag (evening dress), and takes J M's bag from Paul, spars with Mason, then finds the gun in the bag. Tragg suggests that Mason can visit his client in a cell. Mason responds, “just as soon as I find out who my client is.” / Outside the apartment, Paul pulls out a photo of Martell. Mason wonders who is in other, missing, half of the photo, tells Paul that Joyce Martell is Helen Reed. / [7-12] Close-up, without fade between scenes, of the photo, then tracked in, dissolve to close-up of Helen Reed. Tommy is saying his prayers. Sarah takes Tommy to bed. A cab driver tries to return a mink wrap with monogram "J M," but Mrs Reed tells him to take it away, shuts him out. Mason meets the cabbie, who tells the lawyer of dropping Joyce off at the Burgundy Club and later picking her up on Berry. Mason gets Helen to the door. Cabbie is certain it is Helen’s coat when Sarah, who opened the door for his rider, appears. Helen backs away as Mason tries to give her the wrap with initial J M on it. Sarah tells Mason Mrs Reed is allergic to fur. He points out that the taxi driver's testimony can point to murder. Helen says “that was only a nightmare.” She denies having any other apartment. / Mason tells Crane he may be arrested for murder. He says there is no Joyce Martell, it is an imaginary playmate of Helen's when they were children. A knock on the door, but not “shave and a haircut, five cents,“ which is Paul’‘s, but Mason offhandedly thinks is. Instead, Tragg comes in Mason’s private room via Paul's door, notes first that Mason has found his client, then says that the murder bullet was fired from Crane’s gun between 9 and 11 the previous night. Tragg produces a note from Cora Dunbar, saying Reed requested a meeting at Martell's apartment at 9 o'clock. The hotel desk clerk said he picked it up, but Reed asserts that he never read the note, because he was paged just as he picked it up. As the lieutenant leads Crane out, Mason cautions the accused to not discuss even the weather. Tragg wonders on which side of the law Mason is. His client’s side (of course). // [8-12] Drake has found the other half of photo with Joyce and it shows Johnny Hale of the Burgundy Club. Mason has refused before to be Hale’s attorney due to unethical aspects. / Mason enters the Burgundy Club, goes to Hale's office, knocks several times, finds Hale alone. Mason shows Hale the half photo found in the room with the dead man, then the other half showing him with her. Hale tells Mason to keep away from Martell. He threatens; “If Mason “so much as goes near her, (he’ll) answer to (him).” Mason leaves, bides his time, then reenters the office without knocking. He finds Martell with Joyce and the mink. ”Where did you leave your allergy?” queries Mason. “At home with Helen Reed.” / [9-12] Dr Maitland admits to Mason that Helen Reed only recently became aware of Joyce Martell, but Martell has been aware of Reed all along. They are largely opposites. Reed could not commit murder, but Martell could. / Court. Sarah Ellis is not sure she can identify the gun for D A Hamilton Burger. Cora Dunbar says Mr Reed had learned of his wife's indiscretion - he had detectives watching her - and was going to tell Crane. Reed said he’d show Crane what kind of a sister he had and he’d take Tommy away. Mason asks about her personal relationship to Harry Vance, and what about the airline ticket he bought for her to Mexico City. Her answers are unconvincing. Vance tells of meeting between Reed and Crane. He arrived at Martell's apartment at 10 o'clock and Reed was not alive. He wanted to buy Anderson company, had check, knew bank would not cash it if they learned of Reed's death, so he did not notify police. So he bought a ticket for Cora Dunbar to Mexico City. John Davis Hale is sworn in by the court clerk, then admits knowing Helen Reed for two years, visited her often in her apartment. To Mason he admits he knew her as unmarried Joyce Martell. Hamilton Burger asserts to the judge that Joyce Martell was nothing more than an alias. Mason says that is not true. // [10-12] Crest Apartments desk clerk Johnson testifies, pointing out Joyce = Helen. Burger rests his case. The court clerk swears in Dr Maitland and Burger stipulates as to his qualifications. The psychiatrist testifies for Mason to Helen Reed's split personality. Mason gets the court cleared so that he can put Joyce Martell on the stand. He notes that she has virtually been accused of being an accessory to murder. He wants her to help with an experiment. He hands her the mink wrap and she shrinks, blows nose. The law doesn’t recognize dual personalities, whispers the D A to Tragg. With her consent, Mason then has Dr Maitland produce Joyce Martell. Maitland guides her into an hypnotic state. Even as Burger argues with judge over the validity of all this, she suddenly becomes Joyce Martell, running her fingers through her hair as she throws her head back so even her hair changes to Joyce. She is no longer dour, but lively, calls out delightedly to Johnny, wraps herself in the mink coat. She admits to taking the gun from Crane’s apartment. She tells of putting the torn photo of herself in Helen’s apartment. As Martel puts on fresh lipstick, Mason tells the judge, after Burger finally objects, that he thinks Martell witnessed the murder. She loves Johnny, hates Helen Reed. Mason tells her that Helen feels the same way about her, will tell how she saw her in the room with the dead man, pick up gun . . . Johnny intercedes, admits he did it. He didn't know Reed was her husband, so when he saw her with him in her apartment, he flipped. “She’s the only one who ever meant anything to me, and she a in’t even real.” // [11-12] Mason tells Drake to deliver the mink to Crane. Johnny didn’t know that Helen Reed knew nothing of Joyce Martell, so couldn’t threaten Joyce, whom he loved. Della fakes disappointment over Helen’s likely recovery as she wraps herself in the fur to which Helen was allergic, saying, ”you do know what that means to a woman!” [12-12 End credits] [52:00]

CHARACTER ACTOR CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Gow Loong Benson Fong Della Street Barbara Hale Miriam Hocksley Mary Shipp Paul Drake William Hopper Elston Carr Anthony Jochim Hamilton Burger William Talman Judge Frank Wilcox Lt Tragg Ray Collins John Lowell Otto Waldis Doris Hocksley Toni Gerry Dr Morton Bert Holland Alan Neil Warren Stevens [Sgt Brice Lee Miller] Rebecca Gentrie Olive Deering [Det Sanchez Dean Casey]

Produced by Ben Brady Directed by Andrew McLaglen Teleplay by Seeleg Lester
In this synopsis, chapter markers for the original 2-episode-per-DVD issue are in bold faced type.

[2-6/1-10 Title credits](6-1)(1-1) [2-10] In Lowell's Photo Shop in San Francisco at night, (John) Lowell is reading a newspaper Wanted ad; “Information concerning the daughter of a man named Hocksley . . .” he continues reading, but his eyes fail and Doris Hocksley finishes for him . . . “estate worth in excess of $2.2 million . . . contact Elston Carr. How many people have this last name, Lowell asks Doris. “More than two million dollars.” // [3-10] Alan Neil greets Becky (Rebecca Gentrie), his only love. “Another Hocksley.” Doris, gets interviewed by Neil. She has some documents, but no photos. She claims to have received a package from China, a book and a note. Adam Hocksley, her father, died in Peiping. He seemed to know he was going to die . . . a partner turning Judas. The answer to the puzzle is in her uncle‘s safe. Neil thinks it wrong that “all that money going to a cold, heartless foundation.” Does Doris play draw poker? Yes. He offers her half the pot if she'll cooperate. / (6-2) At his office, Perry Mason is told the story by Doris Hocksley of her meeting with Alan Neil. Paul Drake gives his special knock (“shave and a hair cut,” but, as he always does, he omits the final “five cents”) enters the private office by the back door. Mason speaks to Rebecca Gentrie, gets a 2:30 appointment, okayed by Della Street. He tells Doris he'll look into it. / (6-3) Mason and Miss Street meet Neil, Gentrie, and (6-4) Elston Carr with his servant, Gow Loong. Elston orders Street out and Mason follows his confidential secretary. Elston calls him back, says that all the money belongs to him, and will only be a personal gift to the claimant. Carr, Adam Hocksley and John Lowell were partners trafficking in guns and the likes. Lowell was a Judas, who turned the other two over to the Chinese Communists. Gow Loong saved him while Adam Hocksley was killed. Carr wants Mason to hunt down the missing Hocksley girl for a $10,000 retainer. Neil says that he prefers Miriam Hocksley to Doris as claimant, despite Doris’s book and note and tale of a Judas. Mason tells Elston that he cannot work for him as he may represent Doris. / (6-5) Mason interviews Miriam Hocksley, who says she is having some things sent from her Palm Beach home. The attorney thinks her statement “artles, honest and above board.” / [4-10](6-6)(1-2) Della at her home telephones Mason at his home. He is reading on a couch. Carr's secretary Rebecca has called frantically, about a shooting . . . Mason speaks on the phone to Gentrie, who says she's "got him trapped inside Mr Carr’s study." Elston Carr has been shot. Mason advises her to call Lieutenant Tragg. / [5-10] Lt Tragg unlocks door and is followed in to the study by Detective Sanchez and Mason. They find Carr dead, and Doris Hocksley, in shock, clasping tightly a book. / A photographer and others do their work. A plainclothes cop, Sergeant Brice, hands personal effects to Det Sanchez who gives them to Lt Tragg. He then shows a pocket watch to Mason. Inside is the combination for the safe. Tragg finds the dial already at 13, completes the combination, opens the safe, finds an empty tin. Doris Hocksley holds a Bible and a photo. Mason suggests she needs medical attention. Tragg has Sanchez take her downtown. Gentrie says she was at the theatre. Carr had insisted that she go. She heard a shot while upstairs after she returned. She got a glimpse of dead Carr before locking the door. Mason suggests that Doris brought the Bible and photo, and he fits the Bible into the empty tin. It is a perfect fit. / Paul Drake reports that Doris Hocksley, widow of Jackson, has a daughter with polio. This costs over $100 a month, out of $48 weekly savings. The guy in the photo shop next door had a key to her apartment and could have sent the the book and photo. Della confirms that a John Lowell was the third partner. / [6-10](6-7)(1-3) Mason interviews Doris who is in a hospital bed. Carr phoned her to come to him. She found Carr dead, picked up the gun and it went off. She now tells Mason of Neil's offer of a deal, with the evidence in the safe. Mr Lowell brought the photo she had from San Francisco. She's known him for four months, ever since he opened the photo shop next her apartment house. She wonders how the photo he brought could match the one that she threw away. As a photographer, Lowell could have duplicated it. Mason tells her what District Attorney Hamilton Burger will suggest, then says he’ll get answers “from her very good friend John Lowell.” / Mason flies to San Francisco, where he visits (6-8) Lowell's photo shop. He finds Gow Loong, who came to kill John Lowell. Gow now has no accent, says he puts it on to save many explanations. He's discovered that Lowell did not sell out for money, but fear of being killed by the Communists. Loong is sympathetic as he reads a letter that he found in the waste basket from Lowell to Doris explaining the horrors he’d experienced. He has also found nothing to prove who is the legitimate Hocksley. “Zai jian” offers Mason as he departs. // [7-10](6-9)(1-4) In court, coroner Dr Morton explains for Hamilton Burger the cause of death. Mason asks, "how many bullets?" Answer, two. Gentrie testifies to locking Doris Hocksley in with the dead man. Mason asks, was the front door unlocked or locked when she returned from the theatre? Unlocked. How many shots did she hear? One. Tragg testifies that the bullets found in the body came from the gun with Doris Hocksley's fingerprints on it. He identifies the Bible, the photograph and the empty tin box. Tragg says that three bullets were fired from the gun. Mason shows that the third shot might have been accidental. Mason asks about the tin box. The Bible fit perfectly into the tin box, but not the photo. The judge adjourns court until Miriam Hocksley can be brought there. / Miriam, ready to leave for court, is not worried about testifying, but Alan Neil warns her that he is. She need not volunteer about the party at Harry Foster’s. / Miriam Hocksley says that Mason told her the defendant knew where key evidence could be found, in the safe. Mason examines; She did not submit a Bible, or photo, and the items she had sent for from Florida were neither the Bible nor the photo that are the prosecution's exhibits. Drake gives Mason an envelope, and Mason asks where Miriam Hocksley was on the night of the murder. At a party in Beverly Hills. Alan Neil says that he was helping his uncle Elston uncover "the real" Miss Hocksley. Hamilton Burger uses "pretender" to describe Doris Hocksley, and Mason objects to his "choice of words." Burger suggests he used the word as in "pretender to the throne." Mason rejoins that "since this hearing is not being conducted under a monarchy," he should use a more contemporary word. Did Doris Hocksley on the day of the murder bring evidence of her identity? Yes, but Neil considered it insufficient. Neil admits to Mason that no one knew how his uncle was going "to separate the real daughter from the fakes." Mason asserts that the empty tin and how it was used is the answer to the crime. Neil suggests that only his uncle knew the combination to his safe. Mason points out that Neil and Miriam left the party at 11 and returned at 1. During that time Neil went to the safe, killed his uncle. Neil reveals that during that time he was getting married to Miriam. Mason believes him to be telling the truth. Mason points out that the Bible perfectly fit box, which is one evidence of Doris’s authenticity. Burger objects as Mason tries to pry open the bottom of the box. The judge suggests “If Mason is crawling out on a limb, let’s give him a chance to saw it off.” The photo, which Mason now finds hidden in the bottom of the tin box, matches Doris's photo. The judge calls an adjournment. // [8-10](6-10) A ringing telephone wakes Mason. Miriam Hocksley says she killed him, Alan Neil. She's going to kill herself. A gunshot is heard. / Tragg watches, with Mason, as Miriam Hocksley is wheeled away, seriously wounded. Neil is now dead. Mason tells Tragg that Miriam didn’t do it. Neil was in bed when he was shot. Tragg eyes a painting on the wall, where the slug Mason heard fired over the phone was lodged. / Miss Gentrie, Burger, Loong and Tragg are with Mason as he accuses Gentrie of the murder of Neil. She tried to make it look as if, “practically on their honeymoon,” the bride killed the groom, then pointed the gun at herself. When Rebecca is told that Miriam Hocksley is alive, she gasps. Rebecca now recalls Alan Neil's expression of love, a lie, and breaks down, crying into Burger’s lap. Tragg leads her away. Mason offers to buy Burger a drink. // [9-10](6-11) Mason tells Street and Drake that Carr caught Rebecca at the safe so she had to shoot him. Arrival of Doris right thereafter was luck. Mason knew phone call that woke him was not Miriam, because the only person with his private phone number was Rebecca, who’d been given it by Della. The shot that he heard was the one that left a bullet behind the painting. “What some women will do for a man is just plain murder,” comments Drake. [10-10 end credits](6-12)(1-5) [53:04](52:44)(53:04)

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Marion Shelby Phyllis Avery Frank Lawton Stewart Bradley Ellen Waring Barbara Lawrence Det Sgt Phillip Dix Claude Akins Arthur Williams Jonathan Hole Scott Shelby Tom Palmer Judge Ellsworth Jason Johnson Ben Parker Howard Petrie (Pinewood D A) Howard Black Peter Hansen Richy Paul E Burns (Officer) Ted Young Frederick Draper

[3-6/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At a dock on a lake in Glidden Cove, Pinewood Lake, a handyman (Frank Lawton) works on an outboard motor as (Marion) Shelby suns herself. Frank brings her a glass of water. “You’re the handiest handyman I ever knew” A man (Scott Shelby) watches, then heads to his house, pushing a lawn mower out of his way, trips on a hose, goes into his house. He brings out a golf bag, loads a shotgun with shells he holds in his handkerchief, wipes the stock. He then puts the gun into his golf bag, takes it out to his Buick convertible. As he drives away, he stops to warn Frank “his duties around here do not include the entertainment of Mrs Shelby.” He drives a short distance, stops his car, gets out, carries the golf bag into a wooded area, and fires the double-barreled shotgun, once. // [3-8] Pinewood. Shelby/Waring Investments Office. (Ben) Parker accosts accountant Arthur Williams over an $8500 check due him from Scott Shelby. Williams takes the blame. Parker demands payment by Shelby by 6. / Mrs Shelby asks Frank why he doesn’t get a better job. He’s a writer and likes the roof over his head and three meals a day. He only has a couple of notebooks, impressions on people and things. “What is your impression of me,” Marion asks. He wishes he had the right to say. Scott returns, goes inside and replaces the shotgun in the gun rack, then pours himself a drink. Wife Marion enters, is challenged by her husband concerning her relationship with the help. Ellen (Waring) phones to say she and Arthur cannot come for the evening. “You and your handyman will have to behave yourself now.” / Perry Mason dictates to Della Street, then offers to take her home. A telegram is delivered by an awestruck delivery man (Richy). It asks Mason to contact, at Pinewood Lake, Frank Lawton, who is expecting to be arrested. Lawton was an army buddy of Mason and is jinxed. Della tags along as Mason heads out to Pinewood Lake. / Shelby in pajamas and carrying his shoes, sees that his wife is asleep. He goes outside into a moonlit night, puts on his shoes, goes to his car where he gets a flashlight. Then he goes to the dock, where he phones Frank, asking him to bring the shotgun. He then cuts the phone wire, tosses the cutters into the water. Frank dresses over pajamas, rushes to the house, hears “No, don’t” and a gunshot as he arrives at the front door. He gets the shotgun, goes to the dock, but hears only an echo as he calls for Shelby, then finds the flashlight, on. Mrs Shelby joins him, says she heard a shot. “Where’s Scott?” She falls, crying, into his arms. // [4-8] Detective Sergeant (Phillip) Dix reports to Marion and Frank. He suggests Frank lied about the phone call from the dock, and produces the phone cut from its base. / Police are searching around the dock as Mason and Street arrive. Officer (Ted Young?) phones ahead to Det Sgt Dix. / Dix looks at a shotgun, notes it has been fired recently. He goes out to meet Mason, who is there because of telegram signed with Lawton's name. Dix implies a murder might be related to Lawton, who was disliked by Shelby, and who is sweet on Mrs Shelby. Then Lawton denies sending the telegram. Mrs Shelby plays fainting so as to leave. / Lawton, in private, tells Mason he thinks, because of nocturnal excursions, there is something between Shelby and Ellen Waring. She also came out occasionally with Arthur Williams, a camera buff. “Everybody had trouble with Shelby.” The house is mortgaged to the hilt. Shelby brings clients to the estate, gets all their money, which is the last they ever see it. He says that, with a little encouragement, he imagines he could be in love with Marion. Dix enters with Lawton's notebook and reads a damaging passage from two days earlier; “I wonder why a man like Shelby should be permitted to live,” that gives Frank a motive for murder. / As Mason shaves with an electric shaver, he tells Paul Drake that he believes Shelby is not dead. Shelby flim-flammed everyone he did business with. Mason thinks, since Ellen Waring, whose connection was more than business, waited until the last minute to cancel a weekend visit, that she was waiting in a boat for Shelby when he jumped off the dock. As they leave, Mason puts his coat over a dozing Della. / Rex Arms Apts. Drake discovers Waring is in 3E. At Mason’s suggestion, he and Drake first search Waring's car in her garage, find the seat soaking wet, then a wet blanket and wet men's shoes. // [5-8] As Dix, Drake and Mason arrive at Warings apartment door, Drake says he saw a man at her window. The three enter, and Dix questions Waring. She has just heard the news on the radio about twenty minutes earlier. She is offended, confronts Mason as her accuser. She was in her apartment the previous night with her mother, who is shown sleeping in the adjacent room. Arthur Williams, who has apartment 3A down the hall, also visited. He arrives. She says that she and Arthur (who is 5 inches shorter than her) are to be married, went to the lake for a picnic at the Kleiner Estate, and he slipped, fell in. As Dix learns from Ted (Young) that Shelby's body has been found in the lake a mile from the dock, Mason approaches Waring. She is offended by the attorney’s apparent accusation of murder. “No, not murder” replies Mason (but, then what is he accusing her of?). Dix reports Shelby’s head was partly blasted away by a shotgun charge. Waring is distraught. / Kleiner Estate. Drake and Mason look at site where Waring and Williams had their picnic. / Court. Local district attorney (Howard) Black loudly proclaims what he will prove “beyond any reasonable doubt.” Lawton's notebook is entered as evidence by Dix, who identifies the shotgun with Shelby’s and Lawton's fingerprints. When Dix offers testimony on when the gun was fired, Mason strenuously objects as Dix is not an expert on firearms. No fingerprints were found on the shells. Mason gets Dix to say he cannot swear that this shotgun killed Shelby. “Then there might have been some other shotgun.” Mrs Shelby says Lawton's “conduct was always beyond reproach.” Black reads notebook passage indicating Lawton's love for her on the night of the murder. She says she was half-awake, overheard loud voices and gunshot, then at dock she saw Lawton calling for Shelby, with a shotgun in his hand. She admits there was little affection between her and her husband due to his flagrant affair with Ellen Waring. Lawton never made improper advances. Waring, now Mrs Williams, says it was only business between her and Shelby, and she was on a picnic, 2 to 5:30 at the Kleiner Estate, which Mason challenges, exercising his right to attack her credibility. Her husband, an amateur photographer, has photos to prove this. Arthur produces his photos. The prosecutor offers that “Mason needs time to catch his breath” and the court takes its lunch recess. Mason notes that Paul is a photographer. // [6-8] Mason returns to the Kleiner Estate with Drake and Street. / Accountant Williams testifies that the photos were made the afternoon of August 12, introduces receipt from the Brighton Camera Shop dated with time of the opening of the shop the next day. Mason asks about Williams' audit of Shelby's business. “There was a slight discrepancy” turns out to be $120,000. $121,714 was withdrawn by Scott Shelby on August 11, in cash, a suitable motive for murder. Mason, showing a receipt Della got from the Brighton Camera Shop which has no time mark or initials, gets Williams to admit that he went out of the way to get the proprietor to mark the time on his receipt and initial it. Mason asks Williams to look at his photos. Drake arrives with his own photos. Mason asks about the shadow, which is west, which means photos were taken in the morning, not the afternoon. Then, as we see the photos by Drake (1:55 p m) compared to Williams, the shadows are in the opposite direction. He took the photos early the next morning. Now Williams admits he was going to help Shelby disappear by waiting for him in a boat, for $10,000. He identifies Mrs Shelby as the killer. On the night of the murder, he had a camera with infrared film and flash; he took a picture with infrared film and infrared flash when he heard the gunshot. The photo shows Mrs Shelby leaning over her dead husband with the rifle. When confronted with this photo, Marion Shelby faints. // [7-8] Lawton packs. Mason says it was all Shelby's idea, even to getting his name out of Lawton's notebook. Marion just saw an opportunity and took it. Dix arrives, says they've found both murder weapon and money on a plank under the dock. He returns Frank's notebook, which Frank tears up as he tells Mason that, if he ever gets a telegram or letter from him, it is not from him. He’ll send a smoke signal. [8-8 end credits] [51:58]

[4-6/1-10 Title credits](2-1) [2-10](2-2) A Bannister Farms Ford station wagon pulls in to Hennessey's Cocktail Lounge parking lot. / Inside the lounge, a waitress (Helene) asks why Gary (Marshall) didn’t even call her the previous night. “Too much trouble” is his callous response. When she pursues the question, he chides, “you’re spilling my beer.” Stefan Riker introduces himself to a bored Marshall. He shows a picture to Marshall, who doesn't recognize the woman in the photo. // [3-10](2-3) Gary, driving back to the farm, tells Mrs Lisa Bannister that a man, Steven Riker, showed him a picture of her. She cannot explain and slaps him when he forcibly kisses her. “I guess I kinda forgot I was just a hired hand.” / Ed Bannister and Gary watch a horse on the track. “1:17.” “Six furlongs?” Bannister tells Gary to get rid of him. He’s “not in the business of raising pets.” / In the farmhouse, a wall covered with prize ribbons, Ed walks in leaning on two canes, complains about Lisa to her step daughter, Doris Bannister. Riker arrives to see his cousin, Lisa. Gary takes note. / Riker tells Ed that he’s from East Germany. Lisa enters, is taken aback when Riker calls himself her cousin. Ed says Lisa told him that “she had no living relatives.” / Lisa, her hair let down as in Riker’s photo, is pouring pills from a bottle. Doris stops her. Lisa says she’d “rather die than go back.” Riker is not a cousin, but a Berlin friend of her father, who “is the real head of the Communist Party in East Germany.” She is in the country illegally. Her passport is forged. Doris says she will “think of something.” / Doris goes to Riker's apartment in a low-cut evening dress. They banter. “I’m not the sort of man you should interest yourself in” suggests Riker, who wondersif she isn’t frightened. Then Doris impetuously kisses him. // [4-10](2-4) (Three months later.) Bannister dismisses Gary as Riker drives up in a Triumph sports car. He tells Riker never to come to his home again as Lisa listens. / Perry Mason is dictating late at night to Della Street. They hear someone, at 1:30 in the morning. If they were in England, Mason suggests “that it must be the char woman?” Della investigates. In Gertie’s office, Doris asks Della to see Mason. She has amnesia. She has a note with his address, including Suite 904 (so, if we didn’t know before, we now know the building, floor and number, and -from previous episodes- telephone number for Perry Mason). She tells Mason that she was picked up near “Canyon Road.” She collapses. // [5-10](2-5) Newspaper headline with photo of Doris and caption “Do you know this girl?” Bannister calls Mason and identifies her, asks Perry to help him, a cripple. He says that it is Stefan Riker, whom his daughter has been seeing frequently, who has a home near Sunset Canyon Road. Mason has Della look up Riker’s address. / Riker is dead, and Lieutenant Tragg is at the murder scene with Detective (Sergeant) Davis. A broken clock indicates 2:06. Lt Tragg reads a love letter from Doris Bannister. A gun is brought to him by Detective Quincey. / Outside is a ladder, discovered by Detective Marlowe, who shows it to Det Davis and Lt Tragg. Davis is driven off in a rush to get Doris. At a distance in his car, Mason and Street watch. / In the Los Angeles County Hospital Doris is still suffering from general amnesia. Mason asks Dr Forbes to move her to a private sanitarium, but she is placed under guard by Tragg. / Paul Drake reports that the police think Doris was crazy about Riker and he was two-timing her. D A Hamilton Burger has interviewed Doris, claims she cannot remember a thing. Mason thinks the amnesia shock could have been caused by an auto accident. He sends Drake to find the car Doris was driving on Sunset Canyon Road, and Riker’s “other woman.” / Jail. Lisa is fidgety. A matron brings Doris to the waiting room and face to face with Lisa. Doris shies away. Mason intervenes. Ed accuses her of lying. Mason gets little out of her, sends her back with the matron. Ed thinks it is an act. If she didn’t kill Riker, “ Why then should she pretend amnesia?” demands Mason. Bannister then says he never has fooled himself. Ten years before he was thrown from a horse. Then the doctor’s said he’d completely recover. He had the horse destroyed. Mason asks if that is what he’s “trying to do to your daughter.” // [6-10](2-6) Gary Marshal and Perry Mason are at the lounge where Helene finishes serving them. Gary praises the Bannisters. Helene overhears their conversation. Gary didn’t know Riker, he claims. When he leaves Helene snitches on him. Gary was always knocking the Banisters to her, and he visited the lounge often with Riker. A second waitress notifies Mason that he has a phone call. Drake has found Doris’s car off Sunset Canyon Road. / He and Mason go to the car, which is well off the road. The gear shift is in neutral. “She must have pushed the thing off the hill” suggests Paul, but Mason thinks it might have been jarred out of gear by the crash. A telephone book page, stuck behind the driver’s sun shade, fits exactly the torn piece brought him by Doris, on which Perry Mason’s address was written. Tragg shows up cheerily announcing “great minds run in the same channel.” // [7-10](2-7) Court. Hamilton Burger argues that Doris discovered the other woman, so killed Riker. Doctor Forbes has changed his mind on Doris's amnesia, she was faking. Burger attempts to make Mason look like a fool for trying to move Doris to a private sanitarium. Mason first asks about the effects of amnesia, both general and partial, then quotes from TIMES newspaper article to the effect that the county hospitals were badly overcrowded, a quote from the doctor, and makes the doctor look like a fool. A plaster cast, then the ladder with Doris’s fingerprints, is introduced. The back feet fit, loosely, the cast made outside Riker’s window. Mason makes Tragg look foolish regarding his identification of the ladder by its ferrule footprints, which don’t fit perfectly. “I just do not understand your logic” is Mason’s response to Tragg’s believing an identification if the fit is perfect, or not. The court clerk swears in Mrs Bannister. The judge allows Burger to treat her as an adverse witness. She unwillingly identifies a damaging letter as written by Doris, her step daughter of whom she is very fond. She admits to meeting Riker, a distant cousin, in East Berlin in 1947. She hated him. Mason reads from the letter; “I know you saw her again on Monday.” She denies knowing who the “other woman” is. Mason doesn’t believe her. / Doris insists that she didn’t use the ladder which, by itself, is an admission that she didn't have amnesia. She now claims she killed him. Mason accuses her of covering for her stepmother, the “other” woman. Doris insists Lisa was at Riker’s because she found Riker dead and took away a medallion given to Lisa by Bannister. You don’t kill the man you love argues Mason, but Doris counters that Lisa hated him, then adds that she pretended to be jealous only to keep Riker away from Lisa. “What’s his hold on Lisa?” “You’ll never find out.” // [8-10](2-8) Mason on the phone with Bannister asks him to bring the medallion to court. It is pouring rain. “At least mother nature is on our side” comments Della. / Drake meets Edward Bannister at the Fenway Parking Lot, but Bannister produces no medallion or copy. / Back in court. Bannister, walking on his two canes, is sworn in (how often do we actually see actor Jack Gargan do the swearing in?). He testifies regarding the murder weapon, his gun. Only Gary Marshall, the foreman, has access to the tack room where the gun was kept. He describes the medallion, a wedding anniversary gift to his wife. The missing 18 carat gold medallion was in Riker's hand. Doris shouts “that’s a lie,” and Burger objects as no medallion was found. Mason notes that “it was removed by an intruder.” Burger is on his feet shouting and the judge has to quiet down both prosecution and defense. Mason queries on the whereabouts of the medallion, then asserts that Bannister placed the medallion in Riker's hand in an effort to incriminate his wife, for he thought his wife and Riker were having an affair. Kill Riker and frame Lisa in one act. Drake has brought in a frame with imprints of feet and ferrules mad by Bannister, which Mason shows the judge. The plaster cast proves that it was not a ladder, but Bannister's canes, one with a ferrule with a nail in it, that made the imprint in the ground. Mason sticks the cane in the plaster cast, proving that Bannister is the murderer. // [9-10](2-9) Della informs Perry that Burger is disappointed that Bannister won’t be represented by the attorney. In answering Della’s curiosity, Mason suggests that only Bannister had the best possible motive, for he thought his wife was cheating on him. Della speculates on Doris's secret about Lisa that she was so willing to protect, for, “after all, every woman's entitled to at least one secret.” “What’s yours? queries Mason. Responds Della, “You’ll never know!” [10-10 end credits](2-10) [52:04](51:48)

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Daniel Conway H M Wynant Linda Griffith Marie Windsor Fred Calvert Jack Weston Amelia Armitage Jacqueline Scott Warner Griffith John Mack Brown Mavis (Jordan) Natalie Norwick Judge Grandon R Rhodes Rose Calvert Pamela Duncan Miss Eastman Louise Lorimer H B Varnell Donald Foster Court Clerk Jack Gargan

[1-6/1-9 Title credits](2-1) [2-9](2-2) At Cal-Texas Explorations, Inc., (President Daniel) Conway finds (Rosa) Calvert in his office, instead of Miss Eastman, who then enters. Rosa had nothing to do so came in to the office to clean up Conway’s desk. Has she been in touch with Warner Griffith? She fakes not knowing the name. Miss Eastman protects her, suggests that maybe she should be sent back to accounting. Then she makes a phone call to tell Griffith that she has the paper, the confidential report, that he wants. // [3-9](2-3) Conway dictates "providing that I'm reelected, of course." Outside, a woman comes to the door, enters a darkened outer office, then finds Conway dictating to Miss Eastman the theft of the confidential file by Rosa. She introduces herself as Amelia Armitage. Then “Miss” Armitage, wants to know what he is doing to protect himself against Griffith. 3419 stockholders, mostly small, depend on the regular dividend. Conway receives a call from a woman claiming to have a list of the proxies held by Griffith. She says he's being followed and his phone is tapped, so gives him directions to follow to get a phone call at 8:15. / At 8:10, he answers the phone, is told to go to (Red Fern) hotel room 709. As he leaves, a woman with a similar hair style than the 8:15 caller leaves a nearby booth. / Conway goes to the hotel, takes the elevator with an operator who is concentrating on reading a book, to the seventh floor. He finds room 709. The door is not locked. Inside he finds a dead woman (Rose Calvert), picks up a gun which he takes with him, then wipes the door handles. He rings for the elevator on seven, then walks down to six. The elevator operator notes that he walked down a floor. As he exits, Lieutenant Tragg and a policeman get on and ask for the seventh floor. / Mason picks the gun up with a pencil in the barrel as H B Varnell notes how lucky he and Perry were together when Daniel found him. The gun belongs to the company, which is why Conway took it. Conway thinks that the voice on the phone was Mrs Griffith. Mason says the gun must go to the police, and tells Conway to register as himself in an out-of-way motel. Varnell notes that Conway may lose control of Cal-Texas if he disappears. “If he doesn’t he may lose his life” warns Mason. / Mason traps Linda Griffith into admitting that she called Conway, but not the call that sent him to 709. Her husband's interests are no longer hers. She shows Mason a photo by her husband of the other woman, Rose Calvert. She won’t give him the proxy information as this could upset her divorce plans. // [4-9](2-4) Mason drives up to the Serranio Arms apartment building, checks the mail boxes and rings Rose Calvert’s bell (Room 319). He gets no answer, but finds Fred Calvert's return address (163 Vista Lane, Ellendale) on a letter half out of her box. / Mason drives to Calvert's where he barges in. Calvert thinks he's the divorce attorney, says he won't give Rose a divorce. He identifies Rose from Mason's photo. He's bereft; “the house is all paid for, not a cent of mortgage on it,” it was Rose’s security. / SECRETARY SLAIN IN HOTEL ROOM screams the Los Angeles Chronicle headline, as Della Street pours herself a cup of coffee. Mason interrupts her, takes the coffee; she’s made a gallon. She puts sugar in “his” coffee, informs him that Lieutenant Tragg wants to know where he got the gun. He sends her home, telling her she can do the dishes “tomorrow.” Then he goes into his private office where Paul Drake introduces him to Warner Griffith. Mason suggests Rose was his informer at Cal-Texas and he murdered her because his wife found out of the intimate relationship and threatened divorce. Drake says she was killed between 7:30 and 8:30 p m. Griffith points out that his plane reservations show he got back from Phoenix later, at 1. // [5-9](2-5) Lt Tragg brings Mason to D A Hamilton Burger who asks him about the whereabouts of Conway and how he got the gun. Confidential information says the lawyer about the latter item. “Well, you’re right in form, Mason, misusing the basic safeguards of the law to suit your own purposes.” But Burger and Tragg knows Mason wouldn’t violate the law and would have Conroy register under his own name locally. Tragg brings Conroy into the room. / Drake cannot find the girl. Just then Armitage walks into the outer office and Della announces her over the intercom. She states that she overheard Conway's office phone appointment, saw him take the call at 8:10. She told the D A and he told her to see a lawyer. Mason says she read this in the paper, and she'd be committing perjury. She just knows that Conway is innocent. How did he know, wonder Della and Paul. He’s learned to be wary of the D A’s gift horses. // [6-9](2-6) In court Burger gives his opening statement. Fred Calvert testifies that he identified his wife in the morgue after a midnight visitor showed him a picture and said she'd been murdered. Mason stipulates he was the visitor. Tragg found one set of fingerprints, on a chair, Conway's. He identifies the murder weapon, says he learned of identity of deceased only at 7 a m. Burger insinuates that Mason acted improperly, but the judge upholds the attorney’s objection to this line of reasoning. Mason makes Tragg, albeit reluctantly, admit that the attorney acted as he should. Miss Mavis Jordan, elevator operator at the Hotel Red Fern, identifies Daniel Conway as having visited the hotel the evening of the murder, around 8:30. Mason asks about the book she was reading. It was You Could Die Laughing. She identified Conway by his shoes. She explains that Stanford professors consider her “phenomenal, a quirk of nature,” and she was written up in “Time Week.” Warner Griffith, a member of the Board of Directors of Cal-Texas until recently, employed Rose Calvert after he left Cal-Texas. He got from her a white paper on oil leases that Conway was turning over to his competitors. Mason objects to Burger’s leading questions and the judge agrees, but Burger protests vigorously that Conway knew she had stolen the white paper and it represented a threat only to him. “She could have ruined him,” states Griffith, “that’s why he killed her.” // [7-9](2-7) Mason takes Mavis to Linda Griffith’s for a little experiment. Mavis finds the shoes Linda wore the night of the murder. Linda first insists that she wasn’t going to let Rose “take my husband without a fight,” then that she was angry with her husband, but she found Rose dead. She phoned Conway, both times. Mason presses on about her phoning the police so they might find Conway in the room! // (2-8) Back in court Drake reports that Warner was in Phoenix, but 6-11 p m is unaccounted for. Mason gives his alternative explanation to Conway's manipulations, including using several small companies to do his work, a standard practice which Warner should have known were normal if he wants to be president of the company. Hasn't Griffith's smear of Conway caused market value of the stock to go down, hurting stockholders? Yes. The white paper, then, “was a cheap trick to discredit DanielConway,” not a motive for murder. Warner admits that the gun was in Rose Calvert's possession and he had access to it. He returned from Phoenix to see Rose Calvert. She was to wait up for him, but wasn't there. No, he did not remove a letter from her mailbox (both Griffith and Mason call it the “Sorrento” Arms, but that is not what Linda Griffith called it, nor what the somewhat blurred sign indicates). Mason asks to call a previous witness to prove who is lying. Over Burger’s protest of irregularities, the judge allows it. Fred Calvert is reminded that he was told that Mason had gotten his address from an envelope, about midnight. He identified his wife about 7 a m. In that seven hours didn't he drive to Los Angeles, pick up the letter, return to Ellendale (a trip that took Mason only an hour). Yes, because the letter contained the deed to his house. Calvert denies being at 709 earlier in the eve, about 7:45. Mason bores in; she was leaving him. He’d given her “everything she could want in life.” Maybe the gun went off by accident, offers Mason. When Burger objects, Mason asks to have Calvert step down and have Miss Mavis Jordan looks at his shoes. Calvert says he truly loved his wife. “It was exactly the way Mason said” he confesses before Mavis has to make an identification. // [8-9](2-9) Mason explains to Della and Daniel that he couldn't let Mavis finish her identification, because Calvert was wearing a different pair of shoes. Miss Armitage, “Amelia” she tells Conway, joins them. Her family, from Running Springs, Texas owns 37% of Cal-Texas, so Conway is assured of election. Della takes Perry away, suggests that he’s about the right age for her and “ it would be a good time for a merger!” [9-9 end credits](2-10) [51:56](51:39)

[2-6/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] (Las Vegas) Danceland; Joe Brooks at the Piano” reads the sign. Inside a ballroom, adults dancing to a small band. A drunk, (Albert) Sanders, is ushered out the employees entrance to the Danceland Ballroom by the bouncer (Larry Coles), who meets (Fred) Archer on the way back in. As Archer exits he stops by Kim (Lane) in a car. She asks about the money. She's to pick it up tomorrow at 5 at the apartment. When he protests, she states that he’ll “go on being anything” she wants. // [3-8] Kim on a bed with empty champagne bottle tells Inez (Kaylor) of her dream of success, “the Regis Towers, it’s the penthouse.” But Inez says they always got to come back to Danceland Ballroom. Kim tells her that when she finds out about the operation, “You have just invented security.” Tomorrow she quits Danceland. / (Martha) Rayburn, who runs the Danceland Ballroom, hears from Inez that Kim has not come back since her morning date, must be with Mr Archer (who is only the landlord). Rayburn says Archer is happily married. Inez reveals that Kim said "once you get to know this operation, you've invented security." Does it have to do with the European modeling? Martha sends Inez back to the dance floor as Archer arrives, says he was robbed. Martha overhears. // Sanders is wakened by two officers (the silent one, Lee Miller, appears later in this series as Sgt Brice), is questioned about a wallet found in his trash can, and asked his whereabouts around midnight, then is hauled off to headquarters. / Perry Mason, appointed by the court when he volunteered, meets Sanders. Mason has looked into his past, found his wife and two kids were killed in an auto accident eight years before. Sanders had been driving 36 hours straight to get there in time for a job. He fell asleep at the wheel. Sanders says cops “wanted to know what Frederick Archer the Third's wallet was doing in (his) trash can.” / Mason asks Archer about the holdup but is interrupted by Martha Rayburn ,who says that she felt bad, so had Archer drive her home. Then there was the holdup, and she didn't feel up to talking to the police, so Archer didn't report the holdup but drove her home. Archer notes that no one was hurt, but Mason says, "No one but my client." Mason goes out to the coat check where Della Street awaits him. She reports that the “actresses . . . could all be reading from the same script,” and that Martha Rayburn was probably with Archer when he was robbed. / Paul Drake has found the college kid who serves as the bouncer at the ballroom, Larry Coles, who told him about Inez Kaylor, whose landlady revealed Martha's firing Inez Kaylor about two hours after the robbery. / Kaylor is introduced to Drake by Ralph Faulkner. She says she was fired at the club by Rayburn (who swears she wasn't there). Drake goes in to the courtroom to tell Mason that Kaylor is there. Then a man behind a newspaper gets up and heads towards Kaylor. Inside, Martha Rayburn identifies Sanders as the assailant to the prosecutor (Sam Walsh). Drake heads out to get Kaylor, and she's gone. Meanwhile, Mason is pressing Rayburn about being at the ballroom the night of the robbery, calls out to Paul Drake to bring in Inez Kaylor, which flusters Rayburn, but then Drake informs Mason of the missing witness. / Three boys playing baseball. One chases a ball, finds a dead woman. // [4-8] Nighttime. Della is pouring Mason a cup of coffee when Lieutenant Tragg arrives to say they've found Kim Lane, dead, with purse and jewelry missing which were then found at Sanders's trailer. Now murder is added to robbery, and D A Hamilton Burger “will try the rest of the case, personally.” / Jail. Mason informs Sanders that he is now accused of murder. Sanders says he “wouldn’t know her (Kim Lane) if she slapped him in the face,” nor Archer. He only went to the Danceland Ballroom because he loves music. He found the purse in the trash, gets angry with Mason, then has to be calmed down after rejecting Mason’s help. “Always in the gutter. Why?” he asks. / LOS ANGELES STAR-NEWS extra screams “Sanders indicted for murder of hostess.” / Larry Coles is with Kim when Drake arrives at her apartment. Kim is his favorite of all the girls, says he, leaves. Drake gives Kaylor the third degree, even asking where she was the night of the murder, then gives her a subpoena. She downs some sleeping pills, then pulls a disappearing act. / Mason joins Tragg and Drake at Inez's room. The pills turn out to be sugar. Tragg says the prosecutor will think the whole thing was staged. Mason has Della get plane tickets to Las Vegas. // [5-8] Plane. Las Vegas downtown. Mason and Street enter Kaylor's Las Vegas apartment on the pretext of repossessing Kim Lane's mink coat. Mason sends Mr Wickett away with a tip. They search the apartment. Della notes that clothes have foreign labels. In the mail Della finds a postcard from Universal Model Agency in Los Angeles addressed to Kin Lane. The man who was at court behind the newspaper enters with his own key. He pulls a gun on Perry as Della watches unnoticed. He leaves taking only the postcard. / Della enters Universal Modelling Agency office, overhears secretary (Marge), on a phone call, goes to a cabinet and pulls out a box which she then searches model cards. Della witnesses one model come, from Brazil, and go. Marge goes out, down the hall. The boss interviews her. He is the man behind the newspaper. / Court. Mason is going over the same questions until Hamilton Burger objects, and the judge sustains. Della enters, quickly notes that the agency man and man who had the gun are the same. Most of the models use Danceland as their phone contact. She sees Rayburn's purse, notes that it is the same as agency model's. Mason asks Rayburn her policy on gifts. She doesn’t give or get gifts. What about her purse? She says that it was designed specifically for her. Wasn't purse of Kim Lane, shown in newspaper photo, identical? Yes, she gave it to her. She doesn’t consider a handbag a gift. Mason doesn’t get the distinction. / Drake produces Kim Lane's purse, which he got from the evidence section secretly and has t return shortly. Isn't it bulky? Mason empties it, removes a mirror, finds a compartment with powder in it. He tastes and sniffs it. Drake reports that Joe Gibbs is the head of the model agency. // [6-8] Mason again examines Rayburn. Burger objects to the introduction of the purse. The judge is prepared to sustain, but Mason assures him that he will connect the evidence, so the objection is overruled but with requirement of clear connection. Mason now suggests (only) that it might be Kim Lane's. Burger sends Tragg out to find how Mason got the purse. Mason now has Rayburn describe the inside of the purse, remove its mirror, then notes that the powder inside is odorless but has a taste, of heroine. Mason asks the judge to have police confirm the analysis and the district attorney’s office investigate Rayburn and Archer for drug smuggling. Mason informs Rayburn she has choice of life imprisonment, or the gas chamber, as an accomplice to Archer in the murder of Kim Lane. Rayburn then reveals the whereabouts of Kaylor, admits she was not in the car with Archer, whom she was trying to help, but Kim Lane was, and she was already dead. Archer paid her off after she threatened to tell his family about the heroine business, left her for twenty minutes, found her dead when he returned. The robbery occurred when he was trying to dispose of her body. Joseph Gibbs says Rayburn provided hostesses to go to foreign countries on modeling assignments, return with heroine, unknown to them, in purses. He'd switch the compartment at the office, while models were busy in front of a camera. Was Kim blackmailing him? No. How did she get the money? $5,000 from Archer. Mason has the Court Stenographer read back Rayburn’s testimony. Then, how did Gibbs know exact amount Lane was paid since it was not in Rayburn’s testimony. He could know only if he killed her, for the $5000, in Archer's apartment. Gibbs demands to see a lawyer. The judge orders Burger to take appropriate action and then releases Sanders. Tragg arrives with the real Lane handbag, so Mason gives Burger his false one, saying he only told Rayburn ”suppose I told you it was Kim Lane’s purse” and the powder was flour! // [7-8] Mason admits to Della that he has no idea who really held up Archer, only that it was coincidence he dropped Archer’s wallet and Kim Lane’s purse in Sanders's trash can. Paul joins them, says Sanders has gotten a job at a record store. Inez, with whom he has a date, is going to go to business school and wants his advice on a good school. What business experience does he have, asks Della of Paul. He taught ”at one of the finest.” Mason comments, “Paul was a track coach . . . any girl he couldn’t catch in three laps around the desk was ready for the business world.” [8-8 end credits] [52:03]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Connie Cooper Ruta Lee Eugene Jarech Berry Kroeger Leona Walsh Josephine Hutchinson Dr George Barnes Arthur Shields Mary K Davis Marion Seldes Ralph Davis Philip Ober Susan Marshall Karin Booth Bob Shroeder Don Gardner Judge Cameron Morris Ankrum
Apartment Manager (Harris) Phil Arnold Mr Hill Richard Ryan Miss Clay Jeanne Bates	CHARACTER ACTOR Attendant Marian Collier Court Clerk Jack Gargan

[3-6/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Near a beach-front, a Chevrolet pulls up to Dr Barnes’s Seaside Hospital. Driver nurse Leona (Walsh) gets out with Dr (George) Barnes. Inside they find the office door locked, but it is opened by Mrs (Mary K) Davis. Nurse Walsh discovers that a book is gone from the doctor’s desk. Mary K pulls out a gun, demands to trade the book for a baby. Thousands of readers believe she’s going to have one. She tells him she'll ruin lives of everyone in the book if he is not at her place at 10 the next morning. // [3-8] "Around Town" news column by Mary K being read by its author. Miss Walsh arrives and secretary Connie Cooper is told to listen in. Walsh pleads for return of the book. Davis says she wants a baby turned over to her because she can care for it and give it position and money. Her husband Ralph is with the State Department and wants a divorce. That he thinks she is carrying his baby is “the only thing that is stopping him.” Walsh begs again. Mary K stops her with “there is no use appealing to my better nature, I don’t have one.” Davis gives Dr Barnes 24 hours more. After Walsh leaves, Davis confronts Connie; she told them about her. Connie says she said Davis was unfit to be a mother. Davis slaps her, says she knows what her mother was and it was nothing to be proud of. Cooper threatens to tell Mary K's husband Ralph what she knows, and Mary K tells her to call Washington now, or better yet, do it through his girl friend, Susan Marshall. Cooper rushes out. Davis smashes a photo (of her absent husband) saying, "It's all your fault." / Cooper goes to Susan Marshall, who says there is nothing she can do. Cooper leaves, and Ralph Davis comes out of an inner room. He says he cannot go back to Mary K. Could he allow Mary K to print what is in the book? He says Mary K is not “fit to have a child, she isn’t even fit to live.” / Cooper and her boyfriend Bob Shroeder go to Mary K's attorney Eugene Jarech, who leaves them for a minute, to someone in his outer office, returns and assures them they did the right thing. Alone he has his secretary arrange for cocktails with Mary K. / The Mud Lark restaurant. Jarech and Mary K having cocktails. She says he’s “told her a lot of things in the past five years. Any resemblance to the truth is purely accidental.” She allows that he can indulge in a bit of blackmail on the side. She leaves him to ask an attendant to get her an envelope and special delivery stamp, to mail a small book. She looks out of the powder room anteroom at Jarech, then addresses the envelope, messes it up, asks for another. She tears the first in half and the attendant deposits it in a waste basket. / Mary K Davis’s apartment. Walsh is backing out of a room. She phones Perry Mason, gives Della Street her name and impresses on her the importance of seeing Mason. / [4-8] Miss Walsh tells Mason about the book with names of unmarried women with children and women who could not legally adopt. Barnes would have the expectant mother “confined under the name of the married woman who wanted the child,” so at birth the certificate would name the adoptive mother. Barnes charged nothing for his services. She names Mary K. Mason says he'll talk to Mary K, and she leaves saying she shouldn't have come. Drake is told to check out the Seaside Hospital. Mason phones Davis, gets Lieutenant Tragg, who is at dead Davis's apartment. // Tragg tells D A Hamilton Burger that Barnes claims he's not seen Leona Walsh since afternoon, but her fingerprints are all over Seaside Hospital and match those in Davis's apartment. Walsh gives herself up and confesses. / Los Angeles Chronicle headline reads MARY K DAVIS MURDERED. Mason and Della wonder for whom she is covering. Drake reports on Mary K, presents the envelope which Mary K tore in half and was intended to be mailed to a Mary Gunther (maiden name of Davis) at a rent-by-day-or-week furnished apartment, rented nine days earlier. Mason thinks the book might yet be delivered there. / Della and Paul pose as brother and sister to gain entry to the apartment. Mr Harris, the apartment manager, notes that Mrs Gunther left things and the couple suggest that they be put in storage. They pay the rent, chase the manager out. Paul instructs Della on what to do when the letter arrives. Paul explainsthat two honks will indicate that Tragg is on his way. How can she contact him? Throw her shoes out the window! Paul leaves. Della discovers a dictating machine. / Mason goes to see Connie Cooper at Mary K’s apartment, and she as well as attendant boyfriend Shroeder admit to knowing Walsh. Shroeder says Barnes is an old friend. Connie says she told Mary K about the book, and Bob knew about it, too. Where was he about 6:30? The two had dinner together. Ralph Davis arrives, says he accepts Walsh's confession. Mason says he is a very tolerant man and thinking not of Mary K, only himself. He then warns Davis that if he is “able to prove Miss Walsh innocent, the police will have to find themselves a new suspect. It might even be you . . . or Susan Marshall.” // [5-8] Della receives the letter from the mailman (Mr Hill), tries to hide it. Someone intrudes from the inner room, with a gun in hand, but Della gets away out the front door, with the envelope. / Mason holds the envelope, gives it to Della with instructions to return it to sender, who they know is Dr Barnes, since Gunther is not alive. So she can write the return address on the envelope. Paul jumps up, heads out with “I never thought Alcatraz was any place to spend a vacation.” Jarech enters, wants the book, says he was at Gunther's apartment. He’s willing to split with Mason the fees he’ll get as attorney for those in the book. In response to Jarech, Mason states “the practice of criminal law isn’t slimy unless you make it that way. And it isn’t a rat race unless you run with rats.” Jarech will go to the district attorney if Mason doesn't give him the book. / Mason tells Dr Barnes that the D A can use the book to convict Leona Walsh. He says he once thought that the book was mailed by Barnes but now knows otherwise, so he'll have to turn it over to the police. He then makes a big display of lighting a cigarette, throws match box into the fireplace, and goes to the water cooler down the hall. Barnes puts the book on the fire, as Mason gets water. When he returns, Barnes says it was wrong for Walsh to kill Mary K, better if he had. Mason understands, but disagrees. / Della shows Mason and Drake the order demanding she produce the book. / Court. Hamilton Burger explains to the judge why Mason’s confidential secretary must testify. The court agrees and Della is sworn in by the court clerk. In one of the longest single scenes with district attorney Hamilton Burger prosecuting, Della Street answers some questions, Mason objects to many others, and Judge Cameron upholds Mason. This is clearly frustrating the district attorney who claims Mason has concealed evidence. Burger finally asks for a recess before he begins a long and costly procedure to show what he has failed to get from Della Street because of Mason's hedging and dodging. The judge admonishes Burger noting that, though his decisions have been technical, there is only a matter of degree between technical and constitutional safeguards. // [6-8] Perry admits to Della and Paul that tomorrow Hamilton will do it right. Della cannot tell if the intruder was a man or woman, she only heard what sounded like someone jumping up and down on crockery. / The apartment manager shows Mason and Drake Gunther's things, including the dictating machine. Paul loads one cylinder. It starts out with he voice of Mary K dictating part of a story. Perry orders Paul to get him a voice impersonator, a woman, to his office. / Drake plays back Miss Clay's impersonation to Mason and Street. She leaves, Tragg arrives, takes his evidence over Mason's objections. / Court. Mason asks that illegally removed evidence be returned. Burger argues that it is not just stolen property, but stolen evidence, so no warrant was needed. He bases his argument upon the receipt of an anonymous phone call about Mason's claiming Gunther's effects. Burger produces one unbroken wax cylinder to be played. Mason calls the cylinder "irrelevant, incompetent, and immaterial." The court allows the cylinder to be heard without allowing Mason to state his specific reasons for his objection. The impersonator's disc is played, and Connie Cooper breaks down, becomes violent, thinking it is her boyfriend who is going to be revealed. She admits she killed Davis, the cruelest person that ever lived. Burger says he believes Walsh's confession was to shield someone else. Court dismisses charges, orders Cooper taken in to custody. // [7-8] Mason tells Street and Drake that Bob Shroeder's mother was a murderess. Tragg bursts in, says Cooper will only be charged with second degree murder, Barnes has chosen to retire, and Burger was deliberating pressing unethical conduct charges for fooling him into introducing the false cylinder. Mason suggests Tragg tell Burger that he did protest that the evidence was "irrelevant, incompetent, and immaterial." Tragg says he already did so, and pours out from an envelope a broken wax cylinder; Burger missed him by at least two feet! [8-8 end credits] [51:58]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Vicky Braxton Mary LaRoche George Gordon Edward Norris Nora Mae Quincy Lenore Shanewise Louise Gordon Susan Dorn Charlotte Lynch Fay Spain Dr W[alter] Fremont Robert Burton Dr Williams Charles Lane Judge Sydney Smith Gertie Connie Cezon Dr J[ames] Meecham Charles Davis Detective Gilbert Frye Court Clerk Jack Gargan (Police matron Mrs Carmine unidentified)

[4-6/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A large stone mansion. In his living room George (Gordon) is smoking while listening to the end of the “Going home” part of Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony. He finishes smoking, goes upstairs, answers the phone on the landing. It is Charlotte (Lynch), wondering why he is not with her. George says he thinks his wife might know of them, since he cannot find the letters she wrote him, and maybe his wife is listening on the other extension; she is. He says he'll call around ten tomorrow. Louise, visibly distressed, confronts her husband, calls him a cheat, slaps him, then is knocked down the stairs. Vicky (Braxton) joins George at top of the stairs. // [3-8] George pleads with Vicky to get Louise to speak to him. As she leaves maid Martha, Charlotte in a disguise, comes in. “If the mountain won’t dome to Mohammed . . .” she muses, then kisses George. / Vicky meets Nora Mae (Quincy), who is leaving Louise, to whom she’s just given her six o’clock medicine. Vicky pleads for George but Louise says she will never see him again, only nurse Nora Mae and Vicky. She accuses George of trying to kill her and of stealing her jewelry as gifts for Charlotte. She asserts that all he wants is her money, so that is to stop, and she is having an attorney draw up a new will leaving her money to the Wayne Medical Center, with $350 a month to Vicky, but “George won’t get a penny.” / Nurse Quincy plays checkers with a chess set, talking to an imaginary opponent, to whom she shows her jewelry which fits what Louise says was stolen. George spies on her, then knocks. She hides the checkers set and the jewelry. George asks her to give some tablets he has to his wife. He asks her about a chess piece she missed in her clean up. / Nora Mae waits for Perry Mason with Gertie, who is on the phone. “I’ve always said that, when it’s something important, get the very best. Money is no object” she tells the just arrived Mason, who initially rejects her. In Mason’s inner office, Nora Mae says a man is going to murder his wife, and gives poison pills to Mason as she pours several teaspoons of sugar into her tea. She says she got the brush off from the police. Mason keeps one of four tablets, accepts a $5 fee, “Just exactly the figure I had in mind,” responds Mason, and Miss Quincy pays with five one-dollar bills. Then to Della, “you’ve been very nice, and quiet” as she leaves. Mason has noted the diamonds that Miss Quincy was wearing. Della says she thought Nora Mae’s “fingers were on fire.” Perry gives the pill to Della Street to take to Paul Drake. / Nora Mae returns to find George Gordon waiting next her shoe box of jewels. She says she'll return the jewels, telling him “your wife wasn’t using them!” He asks about the tablets, suggests she give them to his wife now. / She carries the milk upstairs, puts tablets in. George is watching her. // [4-8] Vicky wakes up to Louise's complaint over the intercom. When the doctor (Williams) arrives, Louise is dead. / As Lieutenant Tragg looks at the milk carafe, a detective brings him the box of jewelry. Nurse Quincy says that she borrowed it, and believes it is only costume jewelry. She admits to taking milk to Mrs Gordon and putting honey in it. / NURSE CHARGED WITH MURDER reads Los Angeles Chronicle headline. Drake brings Mason the analysis of the pill; no arsenic, which was the cause of death. / Nora Mae admits to putting pills in the six o’clock milk, along with tonic and honey, afraid Gordon would call the police if she didn’t. Mason informs nurse Quincy that her pills were only a sedative, but Mrs Gordon died of arsenic. She says she didn’t give her that milk, but took that milk back downstairs after she knew Mr Gordon was no longer around, went back up with fresh milk. “Try not to worry” she cautions Mason. // [5-8] Mason queries Vicky Braxton. Could not someone have gotten into the room after Mrs Gordon fell asleep, put in the arsenic which she would have drunk later. Yes. How long has she known George Gordon (maid Martha/Charlotte interrupts, informs Mason of a phone call from Drake); a couple of years since she married her cousin. Things were fine between Louise and George until the accident and she considered George unfaithful, but her beliefs prevented divorce, so she intended “to cut George off without a penny,” and leave her with $350, the same as before. Vicky thinks he's not seen girlfriend Charlotte lately, since he's hardly ever left the house. / Gertie finishes answering a phone call, reaches for a chocolate as Paul Drake enters. Then Mason joins them and Drake reports that Gordon was married before and got $53,000 when his first wife Grace died, but he's since spent it and is living on his wife’s handouts. / Drake flies to Sierra City to see Dr Walter Fremont, Grace Gordon’s doctor. Fremont states that Grace got food poisoning in Mexico and was beyond help when George got her back to Sierra City. He gets testy over Drake’s continued questioning. // [6-8] Drake brings Mason his report; “The first Mrs Gordon died of a heart attack induced by food poisoning.” This elicits from Della the possibility of a Bluebeard type murder. Mason notes that Bluebeards usually have the next wife chosen before killing off the current, so asks Drake to find Charlotte. / Court. Hamilton Burger presents his opening statement, concluding that the defendant murdered the deceased to cover her theft of jewelry. Dr Williams testifies to decedent being poisoned, by arsenic trioxide which tastes like sugar, and still had a normal life expectancy. Traces were found in the milk carafe. The taste of the arsenic would have been masked by honey. Lt Tragg identifies the arsenic bottle from the kitchen cabinet, with Nora Mae Quincy's fingerprints. He testifies that he searched the bedroom thoroughly and found nothing else. Mason elicits from Tragg the fact that arsenic (trioxide) was in a cabinet with other household chemicals that a practical nurse would be expected to use daily (implying her fingerprints on the bottle would be normal). / Gordon says he gave pills, a sedative, to Nora Mae to give to his wife without knowledge of Dr Williams. He meant for the tablets to put his wife to sleep so he could get back the letters from his mistress. He says Nora Mae seemed quite anxious to help (Nora Mae tells Mason, "that's not true"). Gordon then denies he ever knew woman named Charlotte, that his mistress, actually only a casual affair, was Mary Smith, who has moved to Texas. Mason moves on to first wife's death. Weren't symptoms same as those of his second wife? How long was he married, to each; two years. He got $53,000 from the first, about a million from the second. Mason asks that the first wife be exhumed and an autopsy performed. Hamilton Burger suggests Mason considers his office inefficient and calls Dr James Meecham of Sierra City, the county coroner. The court clerk swears him in. He testifies that he recently exhumed the body of Grace Gordon and found no trace of arsenic "or other poison." Mason asks about cyanide, is told that embalming destroyed any possible trace. Mason asks for an adjournment, to which Burger wryly offers, “I’m always willing to give Mr Mason all the time he requires.“ Vicky asks to speak to Nora Mae, and shows concern. Police matron tells Miss Quincy to come with her. Mason asks Vicky to find the love letters, which must still be in Louise’s bedroom. / Vicky brings Mason the love letters. They were taped to the back of a mirror in Louise's bedroom, as well as a photo of Charlotte, the maid Martha. / Court. Drake brings in Charlotte as Vicky testifies that Louise was upset about the loss of jewelry. Mason introduces letters and photo, which the court clerk enters into evidence. Vicky hired the maid. She says she found letters on the back of the mirror in Louise’s bedroom. Mason says she would have had to put them there herself after the murder and she hired the maid knowing she was Gordon's girlfriend, because she wanted to see Gordon convicted of his wife's murder. She says she had nothing to gain, no motive. Mason points out that she would inherit the whole fortune, as the only surviving relative, once George was convicted of murder. She breaks down. She was only a poor relative. Louise “wore her money like some kind of badge,” a badge she’s never have. The scene closes with a slow pan from Vicky, along the jurors, passing the prosecutor’s desk to Gordon and Charlotte, ending on Nora Mae. // [7-8] Mason reminds Nora Mae who, after choosing two deserts, admits she has a sweet tooth, that Tragg said he searched the room thoroughly, yet found nothing, so Vicky Braxton had to be lying about where she found the letters. Nora Mae worries about Mason's fee. She wants to “do the right thing,” suggests $25. "Just exactly the figure I had in mind" responds generous Perry Mason, as she counts out the one-dollar bills. [8-8 end credits] [52:00]

CHARACTER ACTOR CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Andrew Dale Maurice Wells Della Street Barbara Hale Judge Romley Frank Wilcox Paul Drake William Hopper Capt Walters Gavin Gordon Hamilton Burger William Talman Daniel James Donald Lawton Anna Houser Lurene Tuttle Purser (Mr Frank Buchanan) Noel Drayton Laura Houser Maureen Cassidy Accountant Stanley Farrar Evelyn Whiting Joan Tabor Christopher Walsh William Quinn Roland Carter Ralph Dumke Martha Lawrence Bobbie Collentine Carl Houser Theodore Newton

[1-6/1-10 Title credits] [2-10] In the interior of (State National Savings and Loan). A secretary enters Andrew Dale's office to get dictation, is chased out by Dale who is bawling out Carl (Houser). The bookkeeper, Houser, has just quit, claiming he needs a vacation, a little rest. Martha (Lawrence), the secretary, in the supplies room, tells Houser she is sorry that he is leaving. She leaves and he bolts the door, takes an envelope out of a file, pulls bills out and puts them in his money belt. // [3-10] Della Street and Perry Mason are on the ship "Westminster," returning from British Columbia. Laura Houser is introduced to Perry, then she introduces her parents (Anna and Carl). She leaves to meet Roy. Nurse (Evelyn) Whiting comes by with a bandaged patient in a wheelchair, asks for Mason's autograph for her nephew. Della notes that the patient cannot even talk. In the lounge, (Roland) Carter tells Anna how he's lived 18 years on his doctor's six months. He is shipboard neighbor of the Housers, and introduces Daniel James, his secretary, to Mason and Street. / The ship sails on. / Anna goes to Perry, then leaves when she sees Carl watching. / In her cabin, after showing Mason and Street a photo of herself and daughter in a frame, Anna Houser tells them that her husband has stolen $100,000 from the State National Savings and Loan with which he’d been employed for a year, and shows them the gun he bought. He’s carrying cash in a money belt. She wants him to return the more than $90,000 that remains. Mason says he'll have the Drake Detective Agency check out the story. If restitution has to be made, she'll have to get the money and hand it over. // [4-10] Back in the bank, Dale jumps to the conclusion that Houser is a thief when Paul Drake questions him. How he trusted that man! The bank's accountant comes in, says books balance to the penny. // [5-10] Storm at sea. The Hauser’s are arguing. They go out on deck, she in a black dress. Carter convinces Mason to join him and his secretary for a brandy. / In the lounge, they enjoy a cordial. Carter asks, “who was the victim?” They are interrupted with a man overboard announcement. Everyone is ordered to their rooms for roll call. Mason goes out on deck, sees a woman scurrying in from outside. He is admitted to Anna's room. The photo case now holds a picture of her husband. Anna doesn’t know why. The purser, Mr Buchanan, and Captain Walters enter, announce that her husband has been washed overboard. The captain shows them a pistol, Carl's. Captain notes Mrs Houser had on a black dress (she is now in lighter one), and wants to see that dress. He calls in two witnesses, Carter and James, orders purser to search. The dress is found, wet, in a shower, as well as a money belt with $91,500. // [6-10] Dockside. Carter bids Mason goodbye. Laura tells Perry and Della she doesn’t want to go home. They arrange for her to stay in a hotel, as Laura Wilson, so the press won’t bother her. Mason wonders who called in the man overboard. Nurse Whiting goes by with her wheelchair patient. / In jail, Anna Houser says she went out to the deck at her husband's insistence. He gave her his money belt. She followed him to the boat deck, where her dress got wet. Then he grabbed her, kissed her, sent her back to the stateroom. She thinks he committed suicide to make things easier over the money. Mason says no money was missing at the bank. He asks about Chicago. She digresses noting that he once stood out on a jury, believing the defendant innocent, until others agreed with him. There was a blizzard where they lived, in Chicago, so he decided to move west. Mason suggests her husband might be alive. Otherwise, why should the photos have been switched? / Della reports that Laura has not registered under her, or an assumed, name. The phone rings. It is District Attorney Hamilton Burger. He chats with Mason to soften him up. He has the boat captain and purser with him, wants to take a deposition so they can sail with their boat, rather than have to fly to Panama to rejoin their ship. Mason refuses to waive his client’s right to question the witnesses. Drake is ordered to find Laura. // [7-10] Court. Mason first challenges the court's jurisdiction as the ship was British and on the high seas, but the judge says he’s examined the D A’s response, given to counter Mason’s “dalaying tactics,” and finds that California jurisdiction prevails. Frank Buchanan tells of finding a dress and the money belt. He tells Mason that he last saw to Carl Houser alive at dinner, for he passed him a note from the nurse, Evelyn Whiting. Whiting tends a patient named Roger Cartman. The purser met her and her patient by the elevator that goes up to the ship’s hospital. / Mason and Drake arrive at the house where Whiting and Cartman were brought in an ambulance. Drake hasn't been able to get a line on Cartman, and Whiting gave a false address. The house is owned by Morgan Shreves, who was tried on tax evasion about a year ago, back in Chicago. The two argue about entering the building, but Mason explains that this would be a felony only if they intended, for example to remove something from the premises. But he plans only to leave something, his fingerprints, which is only a misdemeanor. They steal in. / Hamilton Burger receives a phone call from an unidentified person, who says the nurse and her patient saw everything and gives the address of Shreves' house, says Mason was there. / Drake is making the call, with a handkerchief over phone mouthpiece. It is a ruse to get police to find Evelyn Whiting. // [8-10] Court. Mason assures the defendant that her daughter will be all right. Drake enters and shakes his head “no.” “Everyone rise.” Judge Romley trudges up the steps as if very weary to the bench. Mason then raises the issue of corpus delicti. Burger responds that corpus delicti is not the body of the person, but the body of the crime. So Burger in a surprise move calls the defendant’s daughter, Laura Houser. Laura enters, gives a pained look at her mother. Mason is outraged at her being kept from him, but Burger says they only found her an hour ago getting off a flight from San Francisco. Laura testifies; she was on “A” deck, below boat deck. She admits that her parents were always quarreling, about money. She heard a gun shot up on boat deck, saw a man hanging over rail above, and a woman wearing two bracelets. Her mother was wearing two bracelets that eve. She “saw the man sort of rise, go over the rail and fall past me into the sea.” She turned in the "man overboard" alert, saying to the operator she saw a man "pushed overboard." Mason gets her to admit she wanted to get away so she would not have to testify. He notes that there is no concrete proof of her father's death. Judge Romley asks the D A if he doesn’t want to object to this line of inquiry. With a perfectly straight face, Burger replies, “No, your Honor. I would never like it said that the district attorney’s office would like to obscure the truth by taking advantage of technicalities.” Due to the weather, didn't Laura assume the couple above was her parents? Yes. Mason probes, carefully, point by point, what happened the night of the murder. Didn't she reach the conclusion it was her father hurtling into the sea after the event, not as it happened? Yes. When she heard her father was missing, was it not then that she concluded it was her mother on the deck above. Namely, Mason suggests, her “conclusions have just been a fabric of her imagination?” Yes. She breaks down, and Mason escorts her from the witness chair. Burger then says he has definite proof of corpus delicti, for “Carl Houser's body has been found and taken to the morgue.” Anna Houser is devastated. / Drake reports that Houser died from gunshot, but not the gun found on the ship. Carl Houser was on the jury that acquitted Shreve. Della suggests that's where Houser got the $100,000. Mason thinks the patient named Cartman was Shreves. He had to disappear, or he’d be called to testify to being bribed. / Court. Burger charges Mason with hiding a witness. Judge Romley orders the D A to produce his proof. Christopher Walsh, fingerprint expert, testifies to finding the fingerprints of Whiting, Shreve, Mason and Drake, and a set believed to be Cartman on the wheelchair. Mason tests Walsh, removing the name under the prints. Walsh identifies identical prints, whom he says are Cartman's; they turn out to be Cartman and Houser. Thus Carl Houser had to be alive 24 hours after his alleged murder at sea. Mason demands the D A produce Evelyn Whiting. / Whiting works for Shreves, and she admits to being married to someone who works for him. She admits Houser was bribed by Shreves. On the night of the murder, she did send Houser a note. She says it was a dummy that went overboard. She and Carl had it all planned to look like suicide. It was Morgan Shreves in the wheelchair (except when it was Houser going off the ship at the end of the cruise). So when Mrs Houser was charged with murder, they had to murder Mr Houser. She says she didn't do it, calls out for Morgan to help her. Roland Carter produces Daniel James a k a Morgan Shreves. // [9-10] Paul is complaining about the rain giving him an appetite just as Della arrives with a bag of food. Mason tells Drake that Houser took the photo out of the frame, because he wanted a remembrance of his family, which shows he didn't expect to be murdered. “A case of the Substitute Face,” comments Paul. Della admits she was floored when James also turned out to be Shreves. Mason’s admitting he, too, was floored by that, causes Paul to choke on his sandwich. [10-10 end credits] [52:02]

CHARACTER ACTOR CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Glenn Falkner Russell Thorson Della Street Barbara Hale Judge Frank Wilcox Paul Drake William Hopper Margo Garvin Ann McCrea Hamilton Burger William Talman Salesman Ray Walker Lt Tragg Ray Collins Court Clerk Jack Harris Stephanie Falkner Peggy McCoy Stickman Billy Snyder Eve Elliott Alix Talton Policeman Joey Ray George Castle Joe De Santis Model Carol Anderson Michael Garvin Sr Lyle Talbot [Sgt Brice Lee Miller] Michael Garvin Jr William Swan

[2-6/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Las Vegas at night, with the Las Vegas Boulder and Golden Nugget in the foreground. In a casino two women win at a one-arm bandit as a long-legged model looks on. She walks over to the craps table. Glenn Falkner is losing with the dice. The model bets he won't win. She does. “Limit on 4, 5, 6 and 10” It comes up “seven.“ Falkner is watched (by George Castle) as he leaves. / In his office at the Motel Anne, Glenn writes Stephanie (Falkner) of his loss of $10,000. Castle finds him, asks for his $8000 note "on demand" be paid. Falkner says he knows all this is to get the motel land for the "Marty Davis crowd" who want to build a new casino. Castle admits he put up 50 grand to guarantee delivery. Not for sale, says Falkner, he’s saving it for his daughter. Castle reclaims the note, claims it will be easier to deal with Stephanie, pulls a gun, shoots Falkner. // [3-8] Los Angeles (crowded freeway stock shot). Castle shows Stephanie Falkner the note, says he can sell the motel (Anne). It is the 10th, the offer is good only to the 12th. She says she'll think about it, ask a friend. “Mike Garvin?” / Michael, Jr, a used car dealer, goes to the Lodestar Hotel and Apartments to see Castle and discuss Stephanie. Castle asks if he didn’t just marry “a long-legged model from Vegas,” Margo, and isn’t his dad also interested in her. Michael swings at Castle, who ducks, sucker punches Michael, Jr, and evicts him. / Castle goes to Homer Garvin Investments office, greets Eve (Elliott), whose “cushy job” he got for her. He bothers her about going to Michael Garvin, Jr, about his meeting with Stephanie Falkner. He reminds her of her past as a redhead in Kansas, her forging checks, to keep her in line. A phone call, from Stephanie, who wants to speak to Michael. Eve covers for her so Castle won’t know who called. Castle leaves. Eve calls Stephanie back, tells her to meet Michael at Perry Mason's office tomorrow at 11. Castle, returning, overhears this. When Eve hangs up, Castle threatens her. / Mason's office. Stephanie says she was offered $600 a foot. Mike Garvin (Sr) says that is half its value, suggests Castle killed Stephanie's father, as everywhere Falkner went on the day he was killed, “Castle was somewhere in the background.” He intends to find out, and has three guns, for he is a deputy. His son has one, another is in his office safe, the third he carries. “You’re being childish,” says Mason, who then tells Mike he should go to the Las Vegas authorities. Stephanie gets up to leave, cries in Sr’s protecting arms, saying of her father, “he never let me down.” When they leave, Della Street comments that Garvin loves that girl. / Mason visits Castle in his Lodestar hotel room, works him from $1000 a front foot up to $1400. The attorney says he won’t recommend the offer to his client. After he gets a phone call, Castle agrees to $1500, asks, “where do we go from here?“ “I’m going to get a bad taste out of my mouth” is the reply. Mason tells Castle to be in his office in the morning. / Mason exits the hotel, phones . . . Paul Drake to check out Castle . . . sees Stephanie leave a taxi and enter the Lodestar . . . “I’ll buy anything, except casino chips,” Mason offers. Drake pulls out his Las Vegas file. / A bit later, Mason sees police arrive at the Lodestar. Stephanie exits via an outside stairway. Mason picks her up. As he backs up his Ford Fairlane convertible, Lieutenant Tragg stops him. Tragg tries to get the name of Mason’s lady passenger; “Nice speaking to you, Miss . . . Still been nice” as he is called away by a policeman. Now Mason asks Stephanie about Castle's murder; she doesn't want to say anything. // [4-8] Margo (Garvin) arrives at husband Michael, Jr's, used car lot in a white Lincoln, bringing him his gun which he left on the dresser. As he walks her back to her car, he drops the Los Angeles Chronicle with headline LAS VEGAS GAMBLER MURDERED. / Michael, Sr, phones Mason to ask him to take on Stephanie as a client. His first obligation is to her, not him. / Mason asks Stephanie if the telephone call Castle received while he was there was from her; “no!” Mason ask for and is shown the gun she carries, which she says she never used, but he finds it has been fired, once. She got it from Mr Garvin, who said Castle was dangerous, after meeting at Mason's office. She went to Castle on the childish notion she could learn “if he was responsible for my father’s murder.” Castle was dead when she got there. Stay here, orders Mason. / Mason visits Garvin, Jr., who produces a gun out of a drawer. Mason “clumsily” fires it once. “If it were anybody else but Perry Mason putting on this act, it might be convincing,” says Jr. They exit, and Mike insists they take his T-bird, not Mason's Fairlane convertible. / Junior gives his gun to Stephanie under Mason's orders. She’s told to say that she got it from Michael Garvin and say nothing more. A phone call indicates that Tragg is on the way up, sending Mason and Junior out the back way. / Franchi's restaurant. Lt Tragg finds Perry lunching with Della, tells them that the gun on Stephanie's table was the gun that fired the bullet that killed Castle. // [5-8] Mason tells Della that he’s “so clever I put a noose right around Stephanie’s neck.” / Junior is working with his wife who answers Mason’s call. She tells him Junior is not in. Eventually, she tells her husband, he’ll have to talk to Mason. / Court. D A Hamilton Burger is examining Lt Tragg, who arrived at the hotel about 8:30, identifies Stephanie as at the hotel, and the gun from the defendant’s apartment, for D A Hamilton Burger. Mason gets him to admit that the gun could have been given to Stephanie by Michael Garvin (leaving open whether Sr or Jr) after the murder. Eve Elliott testifies to events. Mason objects, but the judge says her testimony can be admitted only if connected. She says that, about 8 in the evening Mr Garvin took off his jacket and shoulder holster, and there was no gun in the holster at that time. Garvin, Sr, says he cannot identify the gun being shown him by the D A. Burger wants the guns identified; Junior gun, safe or vault gun and holster gun. Sr gave holster gun to Stephanie, took the gun from vault for himself. Mason elicits that, when his son married someone else “in such a hurry,” Garvin Sr wanted Stephanie to have every protection. // [6-8] Drake tells Mason, Street and Garvin, Sr, that Castle owned 40% of Julie's, a swank Las Vegas women's shop where they have long-legged models. Eve Elliott, and Margo both modeled there. Sr did not know this. Mason says this is peculiar. / Court. Mason and Burger argue over order of witnesses and Mason concedes. Garvin, Jr, says Mason visited him the morning after the murder, fired his gun, then switched guns. Mason objects and the judge admonishes the witness for volunteering information. Exhibit B is the gun Mason fired (Exhibit A the murder weapon) and has Jr’s initials on the bottom of the handle. They then went to Stephanie's, where Mason gave her a gun. Burger draws conclusion as to what Mason was doing by switching guns. Mason’s objection to this is sustained by the judge who warns Berger that the D A is bordering upon misconduct. Junior states to Mason that his gun was not out of his possession until he gave it to Mason. The attorney gets him to admit that, after taking it home, his wife brought it to him the next day. Isn’t it possible his wife used it? Jr jumps up, resenting Mason’s suggestion. The judge overrules Burger’s objection and suggests that the bullet Mason fired be compared to the guns. But Burger says the bullet has not be found. The court clerk swears in Margo. She testifies for the D A to taking the gun to her husband. Yes, to Mason, she knew Castle, at the Vegas dress shop. No, she did not leave her house the eve of the murder. Burger suggests Sr may now testivy Mason confers with his client who “certainly led (him) down the garden path.” What does she feel about Mike Sr? She likes him. Like her father? He’s much younger! / Garvin Sr admits that in the eve when he went to pick up Stephanie for dinner, he substituted the vault gun for the holster gun, because he thought Stephanie had killed Castle. Since it was the vault gun that murdered Castle, how did the murder gun get into the vault? Eve Elliott also has the combination to the vault. The Lodestar is two block away from the office and Sr took thirty minutes to shave and shower. Eve was there. Burger asks to recall Eve, but she steps forward and confesses; she was “trying to make something of herself, but George Castle wouldn’t let (her).” // [7-8] Junior and wife, Della and Perry, at Jr's office. Movers are bringing in a new desk and removing the old. Jr raises the question of what happened to the gun that he brought to Stephanie. “She hid it” says Della. She found the gun had been fired, though Sr had killed Castle, so the police found the gun Sr substituted. Sr and Stephanie are getting married. Sr has given Mason a blank check and Junior suggests he add a thousand dollars, as down payment on the Thunderbird. Mason gives the check to Della, but quickly takes it back when she suggests that she fill out the blank. [8-8 end credits] [52:02]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Sheila Bowers Peggy Knudson Enid Griffin Barbara Baxley Anne Brent Mari Alden (Charles) Stewart Brent Grant Withers Arthur Binney Richard Erdman Harry Mitchell Wally Brown Judge Kyle Fay Roope Dr (Otto) Cortley Alan Dexter Dr Parsons Carleton Young
Court Clerk Jack Gargan Garage Attendant Cy Malis Janitor (George) Max Wagner	CHARACTER ACTOR [Sgt Brice Lee Miller] [Bartender Donald uncredited]

[3-6/1-9 Title credits](2-1) [2-9](2-2) In an apartment building, a blonde (Sheila Bowers) enters her apartment, gets herself a drink, sees a Sunday Los Angeles Chronicle photo, then an article headline proclaiming “C Stewart Brent marries Miss Anne Rowan in Las Vegas. She calls out to roommate (and blonde friend) Enid, finds her unconscious from sleeping pills. She calls in an emergency to the operator. // [3-9](2-3) Sheila, drinking coffee, is informed that her roommate is okay by Dr (Parsons), who wonders who the man is. “Isn’t that why she tried to commit suicide?“ He will have to report it, but it needn’t get into the newspapers. Yes, she can go to work tomorrow. / Sheila reminds Enid that Stewart Brent is Enid's employer, not her boyfriend. “Kindness and consideration aren’t exactly symptoms of passion.” Enid feels Brent was trapped, and she wont give up, and won’t make the same mistake. / Brent building where Perry Mason has his office. Brent arrives, kisses blonde wife Anne who then is driven away. As he heads into his building, Brent first meets the janitor, George, then meets Perry Mason, asks him and Della Street to his wedding reception, as Arthur Binney looks on. / Brent's outer office. Brent comes in, greets Sheila who is typing, goes in to his office. Binney enters, asks to see Brent. Enid enters Brent’s office, is shown a photo of the new Mrs Brent, his new boss. When Brent is not looking, Enid switches on his intercom, informs Brent a Mr Binney wishes to see him with something personal about Mrs Brent. Binney enters, shows Brent “Expose” magazine cover, and blackmail plan, namely three pages of Brent’s jailbird bride (she pawned her own insured jewelry, claimed theft), at $10,000 per page. He has a week to decide. Enid is listening on the intercom, which Brent discovers. Brent calls Paul Drake when Binney leaves. / Brent consults with Drake. Could police mug shots be forged? Possibly. Brent’s only known her two weeks! Drake needs Anne’s fingerprints, then advises his client that he should see a lawyer. / The wedding reception. Mason and Street are introduced to Anne. Anne goes to bartender Donald (uncredited) to suggest less vermouth in the martinis. Enid tell the bride that the sweetness of the martinis are what the other Mrs Brant wanted. Anne orders the bartender to make up a new batch, then tries to befriend Enid by chatting. Della asks Perry, “bored?” “No, just hungry.” The secretary then notes that Anne has a mind of her own. Enid notes Anne is missing an ear ring. Anne says she left it in the music room. Anne lights Enid's cigarette, and Paul then palms the metal match box. Brent gets Perry and Della in private; speaks of blackmail of "friend." Mason advises his “friend” to go to the police; “Scandal, like murder, will out.” Anne interrupts, to get her misplaced ear ring. // [4-9](2-4) Paul Drake reports to Brent that the fingerprints on the match box prove his wife was a convict six years earlier as Anne King. Brent, alone, takes money, then a gun, out of a desk drawer. Binney, on the phone, gives Brent instructions for delivery at the Valley Motel, then sends a blonde (whose face we cannot see) to the motel for pickup. / Manager Harry Mitchell of the Valley Motel is reading the line on the horses when Brent arrives. He takes a room as Mr Walsh in which he must share a bathroom for $5. Mitchell waxes enthusiastic about the new odorless paint in Brent’s room. As Brent escapes his rambling, Mitchell says he’s betting on Walsh’s Pride. Brent heads out and Mitchell mutters, ”No sense of humor.” In the room, he is knocked out by Binney, who takes $30,000, leaves the gun. // [5-9](2-5) When he wakens, he finds his gun wrapped in a towel with a bullet hole in it. Then, as the phone rings in the adjacent room, he finds a dead man (Binney) and Anne's ear ring, which he folds into the cloth. Motel manager Mitchell comes to get Binney to answer the phone, finds the Binney dead and Brent holding a gun. / Brent admits to Lieutenant Tragg, with Sgt Brice and policemen, that he knew Binney “well enough to kill him.” Sgt Brice escorts Brent to the police car. While Tragg answers a phone call from D A Hamilton Burger, Brent slips the towel in which he’s wrapped the ear ring behind the rear seat of Tragg’s car. / Los Angeles Chronicle headline proclaims “BRENT CONFESSES MURDER.” Mason offers a a made-up reason for why Brent could be blackmailed, suggests to Anne that husband Brent was protecting someone. This is blackmail and Binney played both sides of the street, her and her husband. She reluctantly admits it. She paid Binney with her $2500 diamond earrings so he wouldn’t tell Stewart of her past. She insists she didn’t see Binney the previous night. Enid joins them, complains that she’s been denied the right to see Brent. // [6-9](2-6) “No one deserves killing” says Mason to Brent in jail. Brent says he assumed it was Binney who hit him, and admits he hid the earring he found in Tragg's back seat. Enid can prove he drew out $30,000 for the pay off. / Drake reports Binney never published a single copy, and seemed to have worked solo. Della announces Enid, who states that Brent did not kill Binney, gives Mason the bank book, demands vociferously that Perry get the towel. She doesn’t want to hear legal mumbo-jumbo or technicalities, storms out. / When a garage attendant wishes Tragg “happy birthday,” the lieutenant learns that “his niece” tried to leave a birthday present in his car, but wasn’t permitted. Tragg searches his car, finds the towel. / Mason, Street and motel manager Harry Mitchell look for the bullet. Mitchell speaks of a blonde visitor and a woman who phoned most every day, as Mason, with a pencil, checks the bullet’s trajectory. Mason tips him generously. / Sheila and Enid in their apartment. Mason arrives, is left by Sheila alone with Enid. When the lawyer says they need to find someone with a better motive, Enid praises Anne, says Brent is a lucky man. As soon as Mason leaves, so does Enid. / Mason gets a phone call from a blonde (whose voice we should now recognize as Sheila’s) suggesting he look into Enid's background. She tried to commit suicide the day after Brent’s marriage. // [7-9](2-7) Court. D A Burger gives his opening argument, but Mason passes. Enid admits to hearing the blackmail offer over the intercom. She did withdraw $30,000, but Mason is admonished by the judge, preventing her from saying what she thought Brent was going to use it for. Burger claims the withdrawal could have been Brent’s alibi. Tragg traces bullet's path and identifies the towel and the earring which he found in his car. The mate he did not find, he tells Mason. Also, someone could have planted them in the intervening 48 hours. No one heard the gun, and no silencer was found. / Dr Otto Cortley, a lab specialist, tells the jury his publication credits, then testifies that the towel, property of the Valley Motel, was used as a silencer. For Mason, he identifies Hibiscus red lipstick and hair (early 30s, bleached brunette to blonde) found on towel. He admits the possibility of error in the bullet’s path, that a blonde could have been hiding in the bathroom and fired from a different position than the path shows. The judge, noting the approach of five o’clock, adjourns overnight. / Night in Mason’s private office. Mason and Della are joined by Drake, who reports that Enid did try to commit suicide. They look at photos of three blondes. Perry tells Paul to send copies to his man in Seattle and ask if any have been sentenced. Paul is told to take a set to Mr Mitchell, but to ask him to think about it over night. / Mr Mitchell says he didn’t see any blonde the night of the murder. Binney was at the motel for three weeks, and testifies that he had a regular motel visitor. He points at Sheila. She screams denial even as she admits to being Binney’s partner. // [8-9](2-8) Anne goes to the Valley Motel, registers, asks for #9. “Button, button, whose got the button, and I didn’t need any partners to play” she chimes, then tells Mitchell she was in prison with Sheila and was Binney’s partner. Didn’t he drop one of the earrings? She suggests Mitchell is owed part of the take, “say, $1000.” Mitchell pulls a gun, but Tragg and Brice arrive on the spot. As does Mason. Brent rushes in to his wife. Mason and Tragg step outside and the attorney explains how Mitchell did it. He used the towel as silencer when shooting from the bathroom, took the money. Inside Brent congratulates his wife on her performance. Mason leads Tragg away. [9-9 end credits](2-9) [52:01](51:46)

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Bob Fleetwood Harry Townes Bernice Archer Frances Helm P E Overbrook James Bell Patricia Faxon Yvonne Craig Bertrand Allred Neil Hamilton Lucille Allred Ann Lee Judge Kenneth R MacDonald Officer Len Hendry

[4-6/1-9 Title credits](3-1) [2-9](3-2) A Pontiac Bonneville convertible speeds down a street, whips around a Pontiac hardtop, slams into a hedge. A girl (Patricia Faxon) complains to a woman (Lucille Faxon Allred) about Bertie (Allred) parking his car so this happened. Lucille says he’s inconsiderate. Inside, Bertrand Allred teases wife Lucille about her drinking, tells her and her daughter, his stepdaughter, Patricia that he's invited Bob Fleetwood for dinner. He goes out to move his car, finds Fleetwood unconscious next the hedge. / He drags him inside where he pronounces him dead. // [3-9](3-3) Della Street brings to Perry Mason in his private office a $2500 check from Lucille Faxon Allred, together with a wire, each from a different address, asking Mason to represent her or her daughter. He asks Della to deposit in his special account; they cannot even be sure it is from Mrs Allred. Della phones . . . gets Bertrand Allred, who is perplexed that a lawyer would want to speak to his wife. / Della reports that the check is good as gold. Allred comes to Mason to report that his wife ran off with his secretary the previous Saturday, his right hand man, Bob Fleetwood. He needs Fleetwood to complete the dissolution of his partnership with Stanley Jerome, and he’ll cooperate in any way they wish. After he leaves the attorney asks his “confidential secretary” to get Paul Drake to find Lucille Allred. “Any woman married to Bertrand Allred can use some help.” / Mason arrives at Allred's, is met by Patricia. She confesses to him that she hit Bob, thought it was the hedge. Bob revived and now has amnesia. Bertie advised against taking him to a hospital because, if he died, she’d be tried for manslaughter. Her mother and stepdad took Bob someplace else. Mom is getting a divorce from Allred who is upset because she has a fortune and it is not community property. Mason suggests she may not have hit Bob. Somebody may have slugged him. Her stepfather Bertie may be a danger to her and her mother. / It is pouring rain as Mason enters his private office. Drake reports to him that Mrs Allred is registered at the Mountainview Motel. They rush out, then Mason returns to say “hello” to Della! / The rain has stopped so the Cadillac convertible top is down as Paul and Perry arrive at the motel. They find Unit 8 open and search the empty room. / Drake learns that Fleetwood and Mrs Allred apparently left twenty minutes earlier, after Mrs Allred made a phone call to El Paseo 6-7729. Mason orders him to put a tail on Allred. / Back at Allred's, Lucille tells Mason that they were awaiting Bertie. Fleetwood slipped off in her car about 8:45. Patricia offers that it was she who brought her mother home. Lieutenant Tragg enters and quips, “Are you Mrs Allred’s lawyer, Mason, or are you just acting as an M C?” Fleetwood is dead at the bottom of a canyon in Mrs Allred's car which was in neutral, making it murder. Further, it is known that Mrs Allred drove out from the Motel with him and returned on foot. An officer whispers to Lt Tragg and he changes his story. Bertrand Allred is the dead man. He leads Mrs Allred out of the room. // [4-9](3-4) Back in Mason’s private office, Della reports that Allred was probably killed by blows to the head, not the car crash. Drake phones that he has found Fleetwood who still has amnesia. He gives directions to the Overbrook ranch. As he starts out Mason asks Della “How would you like to be married for a couple of hours to a fairly nice looking man about 40 years old?” / As a car approaches Overbrook’s ranch house, his dog, Prince, picks up his ears, gets up, growls and barks. Della and Perry arrive and she asks to see her husband, the man who lost his memory. When Robert sees Della, "his wife Mabel," he denies knowing her. Mason asks how he knows it is not her. Trapped regarding his supposed amnesia, he offers “I just feel it.” Della ushers him out. / They drive Fleetwood to the police. / Mason asks Lt Tragg to have his cooperation with the police noted. Tragg teases with “carved in stone be satisfactory, or shall we etch it in bronze?” “Whichever is more expensive!” Tragg reveals to Mason that Fleetwood says he was hit just outside Allred's, cannot remember anything since. Lucille is brought in by a matron. Alone with Mason, she is asked where she was when the lawyer was at the motel, about 9. She was trying to hitchhike. She was protecting Pat, the only thing she cares about. She came back to the motel to order a taxi, at which time Patricia picked her up (9:15). She first loved her husband, then learned gradually that he was “cheap, common, greedy, a liar and a cheat both professionally and personally.” She has a considerable fortune that is not community property. She didn’t kill him to keep him from killing her. But that’s what the district attorney will suggest, notes Mason. / Drake reports that Fleetwood's girlfriend, Bernice Archer, saw him at the hospital (where police took him for observation). Mason suggests Paul come with him to interview Archer, and he not say whether he is a private or a police detective. / Perry and Paul are granted entrance to Bernice's apartment when she recognizes Mason's name and is smart enough to inspect Paul’s credentials, notes he’s a private detective. Mason asks why she wasn't worried about Fleetwood being with another woman, but she notes that he's had three spells of amnesia before. She is sure that Mrs Allred did it, as Allred went out there secretly and only she and Bob knew it, but Mason notes that she could have also. // [5-9](3-5) Mason and Tragg confront Fleetwood in his hospital room with the fact that he called his girlfriend (the number given Mason by Drake earlier) at time he claimed to have had amnesia. Fleetwood now says that “Bertrand Allred was about to steal a fortune from his partner, Stanley Jerome,” with whom he'd purchased a mining interest. Allred submitted a fake report of its worthlessness, but Fleetwood discovered the true report of its worth in millions. He told Allred. Next thing he was hit, then woke up in Allred's living room. The only thing he could think of to get out of the fix was amnesia. Mrs Allred took him to the motel. Two days later, Allred found them, pulled a gun and forced his wife into the trunk of the car, and Fleetwood drove. On a slow downgrade, he sped up the car. Then he slammed on the brake and was able to grab Allred's gun and conk him on the head. Then he drove to the Overbrook's farm. Apparently Overbrook also lost money with Allred and said he'd kill him if he came on his property, but didn't know Fleetwood, so Bob felt safe there. When he stopped, Mrs Allred escaped from the trunk but wouldn't stop when he called. Outside in the hallway, Tragg confirms to Mason Fleetwood's story in every detail. // [6-9](3-6) In a courtroom at the Los Angeles Hall of Justice, D A Hamilton Burger gives the judge and onlookers at this preliminary hearing an impassioned opening tale of murder including incriminating footprints in the ground at Overbrook’s. Fleetwood tells Burger that he was brought to police headquarters by Mason and Street. Mason then asks why his identification and personal effects were on Allred’s body and he had nothing. Didn't he think there was a way he could kill Allred, then cheat Mrs Allred and Jerome out of the mining property? “No!” Tragg identifies a diagram showing all the tracks around the Overbrook place (including Prince’s tracks). Overbrook, an expert tracker, explains what each of the tracks indicates, stating that the woman jumped from the car trunk, ran to the road, then walked back to it. Mason confirms that no one could have gotten from or to the car without leaving tracks. He then moves for dismissal. Burger vociferously objects, saying not only has he proved a crime and the likelihood of the defendant committing it, but that there is no other possibility. The defendant should be bound over for trial. The judge concurs and calls the midday recess. Bernice Archer gives Mason a smile. // [7-9](3-7) Perry, Paul and Della drive out to Overbrook's yard. Paul asks Perry why he was so easy on Fleetwood. Because he’s lying about Mrs Allred and pushing him might do more harm than good. Paul notes that Fleetwood couldn't have known about the tracks coming back to the car. Della brings up Bernice Archer, but Paul points out she had an iron-clad alibi. Mason has Della run to the road and back. She has difficulty with a bush before she can start her run. Paul has solved the case! / Back in court, Mason has Bernice Archer recalled (her earlier testimony was not shown). Burger objects strenuously, but the judge notes that the Supreme Court has said that the order of examination of witnesses is within the Court’s discretion and technicalities should not defeat justice. Mason confronts Archer with a phone call from her sister's, Olive 1-7723, where she has already testified she was staying on the night of the murder. Was it from Fleetwood? Reluctantly, she answers yes. Was there a scheme by her and Fleetwood to involve Mrs Allred in murder? No. Was it her footprints to the car? She denies everything. Overbrook is questioned about the order of events. Perhaps a woman walked to the car, then ran from it, and perhaps there was no car there! She used something such as a bush to stand on and got to the car trunk position. Does Overbrook recognize the phone number, Olive 1-7723, called from his house? No. Then Fleetwood must have made the call while Overbrook was out of the house. Mason asks why there are so many tracks of his dog Prince around the car, but none from the house to the car if Prince was always with him. Didn't he leave Prince to watch a sleeping Fleetwood while he backtracked to the car, found Allred, a man whom he hated, unconscious, and murdered him? Overbrook then claims that Allred was already dead, but Fleetwood shouts out that that's a lie, he left him alive. // [8-9](3-8) As they leave the courtroom, D A Burger thanks lawyer Mason for saving an innocent woman and giving him the murderer. With Della and Paul listening, Mason then shows two scenarios where Overbrook might not have done it, leaving Burger frustrated and Street and Drake amused. After Hamilton leaves, Perry admits that Overbrook did it, but he couldn't bring himself to establishing a dangerous precedent of solving Burger's cases. [9-9 end credits](3-9) [52:02](51:47)

[1-6/1-8 Title credits](1-1)(3-1) [2-8] Two Larkin Import Export secretaries leave the office for the evening, one remains (Lorraine Stevens). Mr (George) Durell asks Lorraine Stevens to stay late, then goes in to Larkin’s office. Philip Larkin tries to impose on Lorraine, but she says he never cared, or he’d never had made cruel accusations. He threatens her with a report, and says he’ll let no one else ever have her. This is overheard by another secretary (Irene Collaro). // [3-8] Miss Stevens tries to pick up a package, but Alcorn Jewelry Shop doesn't have anything for her . . . Mrs (Claire) Durell, in a wheel chair, answers the phone call from Lorraine, accuses her of being her husband’s “cheap, little trollop.” George enters to see this accusation . . . Lorraine is given a glass of water by an Alcorn salesman, because she shows distress . . . Claire begs George to forgive her . . . Lorraine now phones Philip Larkin . . . whose phone rings, but he is dead on the floor, with (Joseph) Harrison standing over him. He picks up the phone, then replaces the receiver . . . Neither the salesman nor his partner know of the package. / Maid (Sarah Winslow) answers the loud, persistent door bell. Officer Norton and his partner, arriving on an anonymous phone call, Tom come in, find Larkin dead. / Harrison (stepfather to Philip Larkin) arrives and is met by Detective Sanchez and Lieutenant Tragg, and a silent wife, Ethel Harrison. He lat visited six months ago, and the gun is his. He was under care in Utah at the Double J ranch outside Salt Lake City, but was at Lake Tahoe the previous two weeks. Police take his fingerprints. Tragg tells Det Sanchez to take the gun case to the lab. / Tragg tells D A Hamilton Burger that Harrison’s prints match what was on the gun case. The maid told Tragg that she’d polished the case earlier that day, and that young Larkin “practically booted his stepfather out of the family business.” Harrison gained the business, after Larkin senior died, by marrying his widow, to the chagrin of Philip. Burger orders Harrison to be picked up. / Mrs Harrison in Perry Mason's office, asks the attorney to represent her former husband, whom she now believes. Mason warns her that he’ll be representing only Mr Harrison. After she leaves, Perry asks Della Street to have Paul Drake get the background on Philip Larkin and Mrs Harrison. He believes “she’s still in love with the man she divorced”. / (1-2) Jail. Mr Harrison asserts that he doesn't know how his fingerprints got on the gun case, but admits to having been there, and maybe in his fright did leave fingerprints on the case. They shake hands. // [4-8](1-3)(3-2) Mr Durell, with Harrison's secretary Irene Collaro standing by, agrees to help in any way. The business seems okay short of an audit. Miss Collaro was secretary for twenty-three years, then stayed on. Mrs Durell is heard shouting in the outer office at Lorraine. Durell goes to her, apologizes to Lorraine, takes his wife away. Irene now tells Lorraine how Durell, twenty-five years earlier, “drove his car into a truck,” leaving Mrs Durell in a wheelchair. Irene has trouble avoiding Mason's gaze. / Lorraine, over coffee at her place, tells Mason about a phone call to Durell's about 9 o’clock to find out about why there was no package for her to pick up. Mason points out that she is the only one with an alibi. / Tragg shows Burger a film that he found in Philip Larkin’s closet, then is ordered to find Mrs Harrison. / Paul Drake reports that Miss Stevens has a good alibi and was seeing a lot of Philip Larkin until a month ago. Also, Burger apparently has uncovered evidence guaranteed to put Harrison in the gas chamber.” / (1-4) Drake, posing as a gas company rep, visits Irene Collaro, looking for Ethel, but Miss Collaro is on to the ruse quickly, as the gas company man had been there two days before. / (1-5) Burger interviews Sarah Winslow in hopes of finding Mrs Harrison. He gets her to admit that Mrs Harrison packed things and left as soon as she returned from seeing Mason. Burger calls this “resort to flight” and unethical behavior by Mason, whom he phones . . . Della takes the call, then relays to Mason Burger’s urgent desire to see Mrs Harrison. Mason is just as interested. / Drake reports that he hasn’t found Mrs Harrison, but she’s in Los Angeles, somewhere. Everyone is puzzled by the note that sent Lorraine to the jeweler. Lorraine got her job at Larkin Imports through Miss Collaro. // [5-8](1-6)(3-3) Court. The judge opens the preliminary hearing and Hamilton Burger calls Dr Hoxie, who testifies to cause and time of death; 8:40 to 9 p m. (1-7) Sarah Winslow tells of Philip Larkin's considering Harrison a con man “after his mother's money.” Philip never tried to make friends with his stepfather. She says she polished the gun case on the day of the murder. She did not hear the gunshot, she tells Mason, as she was in the kitchen. Her fingerprints were on the French doors. She just tried to “air out the room.” (1-8) Tragg testifies to the fingerprints on the gun case. No fingerprints were on the gun. Why were not Miss Wilson's fingerprints on the case she just polished? asks Mason. Miss Stevens admits Mr Harrison was fond of her, tried to break up her relationship with the dead man, with whom he had heated arguments. Mason has no questions. Burger introduces the film but, as Mason notes, he cannot lay a proper foundation. This is due to the missing Mrs Ethel Harrison. Judge allows a showing, with Mason reserving right of voir dire. The film shows Joseph putting a necklace on Ethel, then getting into a fight with Philip Larkin. The judge adjourns for the night, noting that he’ll rule on the admissibility of the film after Mason exercises his right of voir dire. / [6-8](1-9)(3-4) Jail. Mason is pacing as Mr Harrison is led in. The fight was just before Ethel filed for divorce. Why did he hit Larkin this particular time? He accused him of marrying his mother for her money. And who made the movie? Harrison refuses to answer. “This little bit of gallantry might cost you your life,” is Mason’s parting shot. / Mrs Durell is piecing together scraps from the waste basket. She looks in the phone book, calls Mason as a "tipster," suggesting that the attorney investigate Ethel Harrison, who is in love with Durell. She provides an address from one of the scraps, which is that of Miss Collaro’s apartment. / Mason at Miss Collaro's, notes Mrs Harrison wrote a letter to Mr Durell and gave this as her return address. Mrs Harrison comes into the room, states that her testimony would only harm her former husband. When Miss Collaro protests, Mason realizes it was she who made the movie. Tragg arrives with Det Sanchez to pick up Mrs Harrison, for the tipster couldn’t depend on Mason. Irene refuses to help the attorney. // Burger calls Irene Collaro to the stand. She worked for Harrison twenty-three years, and made the movie. Philip “accused Mr Harrison of being Lorraine's father,” and divorce proceedings followed in one or two days. Mason takes note of her charming accent. The line of questioning comes under voir dire. She came from Paris. Never did she get any hint of Harrison being the father of Lorraine? Mason warns her that he has documents of her past in New York and Paris, then examines her about her paying for the boarding of Miss Stevens in Brookline, Massachusetts. In the film, Philip kept pointing to the camera, to Irene the photographer. Was she Lorraine's mother? Yes. And she wanted to protect her, as she has protected everyone, “Lorraine from society, her father from responsibilities.” The judge suggests to Burger that he might have objected to such a lengthy examination. Burger notes that “the district attorney's office functions to determine the truth and prosecute the guilty.” Mason has the court reporter reread the testimony regarding Irene’s work in Paris. The court reporter starts reading. At “They came to the firm I was working for in Paris . . .” Who? Now Durell steps in, and admits it was he who murdered Larkin to protect the daughter he couldn’t call his own. // [7-8](1-10) The trio; Perry, Della, Paul. The detective yelps “yikes” when he sees the sum on Harrison’s check. Della explains that Durell used Harrison’s gun, thinking Harrison was a thousand miles away and couldn’t be accused. He also wrote the note to Lorraine, so she’d have an alibi. Drake asks if there is anything Miss Know-it-all doesn’t know. Yes, “which one of you handsome gentlemen is going to take me to lunch.” Perry takes her on his arm before Paul can respond. He sputters, “What about me?” “Sorry, you’re not my type,” says Mason, “you’ll have to buy your own lunch!” [8-8 end credits](1-11)(3-5) [52:02](51:45)(51:45)

CHARACTER ACTOR CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Norma Carter Phyllis Coates Della Street Barbara Hale Marian Shaw Judith Ames Paul Drake William Hopper Judge Grandon Rhodes Hamilton Burger William Talman Dr Rose Francis De Sales Lt Tragg Ray Collins Sgt Brewster Jack Lomas Diana Reynolds Whitney Blake Cop Frank Sully Helen Bartlett Irene Hervey Carlos Figueroa Joe Dominguez Matthew Bartlett R G Armstrong Bobby Carter Casey Peters Otto Kessler Ludwig Stossel [Sgt Brice Lee Miller] Tony Davis Jan Merlin

[2-6/1-8 Title credits](1-1) [2-8](1-2) A postl-war Oldsmobile rounds the corner and parks. Blonde, Miss (Marian) Shaw gets out of the car. / In the hallway, she is greeted by superintendent Otto Kessler. She enters her apartment, orders blonde roommate (Diana Reynolds, the owner of the Oldsmobile) out, pulls a gun on her, they wrestle, the gun goes off. Otto Kessler enters, sees the gun in Diana’s hand. // [3-8](1-3) A porticoed mansion. A Yellow cab pulls up; Diana goes inside, types, opens letters delivered by manservant Carlos (Figueroa). Tony Davis sneaks up, kisses her on her neck. They discuss his lies about her to Marian. “Some people are born to suffer” is Tony’s attitude. When she leaves to take care of the gardener, Tony reads the letter regarding his mother and child she had. / He takes the letter to his mother (Helen Bartlett), wonders about his position regarding stepfather, Matthew Bartlett. She tells Tony that she married Bartlett to give her son security. / Oldsmobile convertible drives up to home of N Carter, for sale. Tony is met by Bobby Carter, the 4 year old mentioned in the letter. Tony enters the house as Bobby goes in search of his mother, sees a framed photo on the mantle inscribed to Norma Roberts from a man in uniform. Blonde Mrs Carter comes in; Tony says he’s from a development company and wonders if she’d like to sell. She notes she has a big for sale sign that he must have missed, so throws him out. / Back at the mansion, Tony and Marian confront Diana with her theft of jewelry. Marion orders her out of the building. Diana retorts with a missing letter about which she intends to inform Mr (Matthew) Bartlett. Tony hits her. / Over the phone, a tired Perry Mason is begging off a meeting with Paul Drake. Della Street joins him and, bit by bit, inveigles the attorney to receive the beautiful black-eyed blonde with “I don’t think she’s had time to dress.” Diana explains how she was thrown out of the mansion, and that she cannot prove the contents of the letter, as no one else, such as Carlos, knows about it. Della takes her photo. / Mr Bartlett is shown the photo. “What kind of a fool could Helen and Tony take me for?” is his response. He has known that he has a grandson (by son Robert, who died in plane crash) for some five months. Bartlett says son Robert married some girl five months before he died, Norma Carter. He thought Tony would be substitute for son Robert. He asks Mason to represent him to get his grandson, whatever it costs. Mason says “no” to being bought off, and notes he has a client. Lieutenant Tragg enters, says Diana has been murdered, produces gun registered to Bartlett but which has been in Diana's care the past month. / At Carter's, they find that the dead person is NOT Diana Reynolds, but Marian Shaw, whose watch stopped at 9:25. Sgt Brewster fills Tragg in on Norma Carter. / Norma Carter says she knew Marian Shaw and that she and Shaw’s roommate, Diana, fought over Tony Davis. Bartlett asks to see his boy, who is sleeping. // [4-8](1-4) Paul Drake reports; Kessler let him in to apartment and Diana had not slept in her bed. Mason notes that Norma Carter claims she was at a drive-in until 11 with the boy. Just then Diana enters, says she's been sitting at Union Station since eleven at night. Mason gets her to admit she saw Marian, but she did not know it was Norma Carter’s place. She got call about 8:45, thinks it was a man, who told her that her car had been in an accident but was found. Yes, she took a bus, heard a dog moaning, found her car and found Marian dead. She breaks down, sobs, says she ran because she couldn't get the car started. Della is told to take Diana to Sea Breeze Motel in Santa Monica, but Lt Tragg, accompanied by a partner (actor Lee Miller, who later becomes Sgt Brice), arrives with a murder warrant. / Los Angeles Chronicle headline; BLACK-EYED BLONDE HELD IN ROOMMATE’S MURDER is taken out of Carter mailbox. Mason meets Bobby Carter, then Mrs Carter, whom he calls “Mrs Bartlett.” She thinks he represents Mr Matthew Bartlett. He corrects her, explains that the intended victim might have been Diana. When the attorney tries to help with packing an egg crate, her “independent spirit” bristles. He reveals the anonymous phone call and anonymous letter about her being an unfit mother. Perhaps the same party lured Diana out to the Carter place. / Mrs Bartlett claims she was near the beach at the time of the murder, reports Drake. Bartlett’s plane got in at 7. Marian is blonde, could have been mistaken for Norma Carter. Diana could have been the one at the drive-in. Della notes that no one has an alibi. Paul mentions Kessler will testify to the gun in Diana's hand. “What else did she forget to tell me?” muses Mason. // [5-8](1-5) Jail. Diana says it was Marian, not she, who held the gun. Diana was hired by Bartlett instead of Marian who interviewed, then didn’t want the job. While there she met Tony, who dated her. Bartlett asked her about Bobby! Marian picked up Bobby, brought him for visits to Diana for some three months. Marian kept a diary about Bobby, hidden in her typewriter case. Mason has Diana authorize Della to get her a suit for the preliminary hearing. / Della is putting on lipstick when Paul enters with his usual, “hi, beautiful.” She cons Drake into taking her to dinner while she stops at Diana's, during which time he is to search for the diary. / A cop is entertained by Paul Drake while Della searches. When the cop, exasperated by Della’s taking so much time, follows her, Drake looks for diary under typewriter in case. No luck. // (1-6) Court. Dr Rose identifies for Hamilton Burger the time of death as 9:30 p m, which is corroborated by the watch stopping at 9:25. Mason gets him to admit this could be off by as much as two hours. Kessler tells of hearing a shot and seeing the girls, with Miss Reynolds holding a gun. He dug a bullet out of the wall the next day, but only gave it to police a week later for which he has no excuse. Anthony Davis admits love for Marian; they were engaged, and he told Diana so (Diana whispers to Mason that this is not true). He says he did not give Miss Reynolds a black eye. Mason embarrasses him with his own testimony, namely, he can’t remember what did happen, but easily remembers what didn’t! At the defense table, Della queries why Mason didn’t ask him about the letter. He’d deny it, and he wants to be able to call him a liar when he can prove it. / Bartlett tells Norma he's done her a terrible injustice, but think what he can do for Bobby. He offers her $100,000 for full custody. She refuses the check, he pleads, she accepts. // [6-8] Drake tells Mason that Hamilton Burger has the diary and Norma has given Bobby to Bartlett. Mason notices Norma Carter and Otto Kessler sitting side by side. Tragg explains how defendant’s shoes fit a plaster cast taken at the murder site and introduces Marian’s diary which he found in the typewriter case. Mason calls the diary hearsay, but the judge, giving Burger some latitude, allows reading of one passage, which is about Diana’s throwing herself at Tony. Mason asks to examine the whole diary. The judge gives him only until the afternoon session to read the diary. / Mason and Della visit Norma Carter. Della reads from her shorthand notes of the diary. Bobby isn't Norma's child, but Marian's is what the diary reveals. Norma had a long-range plan to sell Marian's Bobby to Bartlett. Also killed Marian when she met her unexpectedly, so she couldn’t interfere with the plan. She goes out to her jeep; Mason explains the anonymous letter (which can be identified by her typewriter), the phone call, and how she did it. She escapes in her jeep, pursued by Tragg. Speeding, she crashes into a bus at a crossing. / In a hospital bed, before Tragg, Burger, Drake, Street, Mason, a doctor and others, Norma confesses, then dies without explaining. Burger orders Tony be picked up for perjury. “She did try to make up for things, didn’t she?” offers Della. // [7-8](1-7) Mason in his black Cadillac convertible visits Bobby and Bartlett who are fishing. “Spittin’ image of his father” is Bartlett’s greeting. He does not reveal that Bobby is not Bartlett's. Diana is Bartlett's choice for a wife to help care for the child. Mason tells Della, “Mr Bartlett has a new lease on life, Bobby has a home and all the love he’ll need.” Can she give him a good reason to change this? She says she “can’t even give him a bad one.” [8-8 end credits](1-8) [52:03](51:46)

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins James Kincaid Alan Marshall alias Duane Jefferson Alan Marshall Patricia Taylor Joanna Moore Mrs Lumis Joan Elan Walter Lumis Ben Wright Gertie Connie Cezon George Baxter Jack Raine Judge (Hartley) Kenneth R MacDonald (Joseph) Henrich Harald Dyrenforth Jack Gilly Hank Patterson

Court Clerk Jack Gargan Jury Foreman James Stone Elevator Operator (Barney) Frankie Darro

CHARACTER ACTOR Muscleman Red Morgan Duane Jefferson Steve Carruthers

[3-6/1-8 Title credits](6-1)(4-1) [2-8](4-2) Brent Building. As he exits on the ninth floor, attorney Perry Mason asks elevator operator Barney to take a package up to the jewelers on the tenth. / (6-2) Two men, one of whom has misplaced his key, leave Room 1012, the South African Diamond Co, and head to the elevators where Barney waits. A woman comes out of the stairwell, enters the office with her own key and searches a desk. In the hall a man arrives. He finds the door to 1012 open. The man, (George) Baxter, discovers the woman and questions her regarding Mr Lumis. She goes to a typewriter. The man asks about Mrs Lumis’s arthritis and catches her in a lie. He accuses her, picks up the phone and dials. She hits him on the head with his attache case. / He reports her "theft" to Barney, who phones for the police on the elevator phone. // [3-8](6-3)(4-3) A police car arrives outside. On the 9th floor the woman finds that the door to room 904, Mason's office, is not locked. She enters Mason’s outer office where receptionist Gertie assumes she's from the Moser agency. / Later that night she is typing. Della Street compliments her on her work. Della joins Perry in the inner office (actually there are three rooms, Gertie’s receptionist room is at the front door while Della’s office is between Gertie and Mason’s inner/private office; this becomes only two rooms in later episodes) and Paul Drake joins them via the back door. He exclaims how lively it has been, then describes the thief; blonde, 5’3”, wearing Harlequin glasses and a beige suit. It fits Della's new typist. Della phones Miss Moser, learns that their request was cancelled by a call from Mason’s office. The typist is gone. They start a hunt for the thief. / Mason goes up to the South African Diamond Company office. A brunette exits as he enters. She looks warily back at Mason as she awaits the elevator. The attorney is greeted by Walter Lumis who explains who Baxter is. Now Baxter is gone, nor is he answering the phone at his room. / A car drives up to the waterfront. Baxter is pushed into the water with a cement block attached, observed by a man in a row boat (Jack Gilly). / Lieutenant Tragg takes the man who observed the event, Gilly, to see a lineup. He identifies one (Duane Jefferson). / (6-4) Lumis asks Mason his fee. $5,000. Lumis suggests that “the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous” since Jefferson has handled millions of dollars of diamonds over the past decade. Mason says that he will defend Duane Jefferson, not the company. / (6-5) In jail, Jefferson is unhelpful. He had a seven p m dinner engagement which lasted until after midnight, but won’t identify the woman. In a cavalier fashion he asserts that his word is as good as his accuser, a “wharf rat”? / (6-6) Mrs Ralph (Patricia) Taylor, wife of the senator, is the terrified typist, as Paul Drake has found out. Mason grabs the Harlequin glasses as they leave the office. // [4-8](6-7)(4-4) Mason and Drake join Patricia Taylor in her large and well-groomed garden yard. She is reading the Los Angeles Chronicle article headlined DIAMOND DEALER IN GEM THEFT SLAYING. Mason returns her glasses. She relates how she became the Senator’s private secretary, thought him a stuffed shirt, drew cartoons and sent them to a South African Air Force Captain named Duane Jefferson. Then she came to learn that the Senator was a fine man and now loves him. Since she didn’t have money to buy back the cartoons from Jefferson, she took keys and went into the office to retrieve them. As they leave her, Mason gives Drake a key to Jefferson's apartment with a hint to do a search. / Paul searches the apartment. Mrs Taylor spies on him and is caught. / Mason confronts her with two photos found by Drake. The first shows a brunette, the one leaving the office, with Jefferson at a restaurant. Patricia denies recognizing her. The second shows her with Jefferson at the same table. Mason asks, was this the night of the murder? He suggests she’d let a man die. She is outraged and immediately dials (from memory!) District Attorney Hamilton Burger’s office. // Judge (Hartley) opens the courtroom trial. Hamilton Burger asserts that Jefferson murdered Baxter to get half a million in diamonds and deserves the death penalty. Gilly identifies Baxter’s bowler hat and Jefferson. He had to take the hat back to his place to read the label in the light. How then, asks Mason, could he recognize Jefferson from thirty feet? Burger tosses out multiple objections to this question but the judge overrules. // [5-8](6-8)(4-5) Tragg testifies. He identifies the concrete block with which the body was weighted and its broken corner which was found in Jefferson’s car. The court clerk swears in Joseph Henrich as Mason asks his client who the man is. Henrich describes events of the murder eve, including Jefferson coming to see Baxter. He heard them argue, with Baxter shouting, “Don’t be a fool, you’ll never get away with it.” He went to tell his wife. Under Mason's cross examination, he says that he lives in an apartment over the garage next the house where Baxter rents. He admits that he was away with his wife long enough that he cannot know all the facts. The prosecution rests. Mason calls for dismissal, which Judge Hartley denies. As his witness, Duane Jefferson is called by the defense, surprising Burger. The defendant is sworn in by the court clerk (during this first season the script writers seemed determined to follow court procedure. In later seasons the swearing in is mostly observed in the background). He was with a lady at the Toreador, an hour from Baxter’s, from 7 to midnight or more, but will not disclose her name because she’s married. Mason confronts him with Patricia Taylor's name. Burger challenges. There is much argument by Burger with the judge over Mason’s slandering any woman he names. Burger, asking if the defendant is being chivalrous, also fails to get the name or a denial that it was Patricia Taylor. Mason calls Patricia Taylor. The defendant protests and is joined by Burger, but the judge orders Mason’s client to sit down. Mrs Taylor admits to illegally entering Mr Jefferson's office to recover letters that the defendant would not return to her. She admits to being the woman with Jefferson. Burger produces letters from Jefferson to Patricia. He reads one which the defendant sent her. She was with the defendant 8:30 to 8:45 (not 7 to 12) and the body was disposed of at 10 p m. Burger states that this allows time for Jefferson to get to the house. Mason objects that this calls for a conclusion of the witness. Burger pursues the issue, causing Mason to object, claiming further questioning is prejudicial and cites Burger for misconduct. The judge admonishes Burger. Redirect. Was there another married woman? She doesn’t know. // [6-8](6-9)(4-6) Back at Mason's office, Drake is unable to identify the second woman in the photo. Mason notes that both photos were from the same place the night of the murder. / (6-10) Back in court, the defendant is declared guilty of murder in the first degree by the jury. Burger is elated. He and Mason agree with the judge on a next-day hearing regarding sentencing. / (6-11) In Mason's office the blowups of the two photos help Perry recognize the woman. / As Lumis greets Mason he asks his wife to leave them. Mason asks her to stay because he must prove that Jefferson was with someone. Mrs Lumis then admits she was the other woman. Mason leaves and Mr and Mrs argue. He complains that in a couple of more hours they’d be in Mexico. He didn’t bargain for blackmail and murder; that was Jefferson’s idea so he is getting what he deserves. / Lumis drives to a trailer where someone is being held. Drake and Mason have followed. Drake knocks down Lumis’s muscle man and they find Lumis. / At court two Duane Jefferson's stand when called by Mason. Mason points out that the evidence against the real Jefferson was introduced to convict another man, so is false evidence. James Kincaid is a k a as the defendant. He was sent with Lumis to open an office for the South African Diamond Co. The real Jefferson refused to go along with the plot to hijack $500,000 worth of diamonds from Baxter, so Kincaid replaced Jefferson. Baxter immediately felt something wrong and refused to hand over the diamonds. Burger calls this a “wild-eyed dramatic grandstand play for which counsel is so noted.” The judge adjourns to call the attorneys into his chambers. // [7-8](6-12)(4-7) In Mason's office Drake is feeling sorry for Burger. The judge has ordered a new trial. Perry explains how Lumis, wife, Kincaid conspired versus real Jefferson when he wouldn’t cooperate. Della says they are invited to dinner. By whom, Drake wants to know, Burger and Tragg? No, Senator Taylor, who is thanking Mason for not exposing the cartoons in court. [8-8 end credits](6-13)(4-8) [52:07](51:05)(51:08)

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CHARACTER ACTOR CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Judge Treadwell Richard Gaines Della Street Barbara Hale Victor Kowalski Sid Tomack Paul Drake William Hopper Judge Morrisey Morris Ankrum Hamilton Burger William Talman Dr Norris Richard Aherne Lt Tragg Ray Collins Dave Kemp Alan Lee Donna Knox Joan Camden Herbert Walker William Remick Arlene Scott Mary Anderson Attendant James Nolan Daniel Reed Edgar Stehli Court Clerk Ted Stanhope Willard Scott Arthur Space Teller Olan Soulé Maury Lewis King Calder State Trouper Lee Miller Millie Foster Kitty Kelly (Lt Tragg's partner unidentified) George Metcalf Simon Scott

[4-6/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] It is closing time, 5 pm Friday, at the State National Savings & Trust Co. A woman steps up to the teller, presents a check, which is taken to Herbert Walker, who phones (Willard) Scott. Walker says he has a check for $20,000 payable to M Lewis signed by Scott's uncle Daniel (Reed) . . . Mrs (Arlene) Scott, who answered the phone, takes it back from Willard and tells Walker not to cash the check. “Daniel Reed’s as crazy as they come,“ she says just as Uncle Daniel, Willard’s cousin, comes in. He takes phone and orders the check to be paid . . . the woman says ”it’s nice to do business with an old, established firm,” as she leaves the bank with her money. // [3-8] In a hotel, (Dave) Kemp and collaborator (Maury Lewis) await arrival of Donna (Knox) with the $20,000. She comes in, Lewis gives Kemp $500. Kemp says the deal was 50:50, but Knox pulls a pistol and Kemp leaves without his $500. Donna and Lewis embrace. / Kemp, hired by Lewis to find Reed, tells the Scotts of the money scam. What can they do? Arlene thinks she knows. / At the Norris Sanitarium, Dr Norris informs the Scotts that their uncle Reed is quite alright thought he suffers from “senile dementia.” They discuss Reed’s giving away money and his becoming violent when asked about it. It’s been going on for months. // Perry Mason's office. (Millie) Foster tells Mason about her fiance, easy-going Daniel Reed, who never loses his temper, and how he's been wrongly committed to a sanitarium by the Scotts. They plan to marry since they have “a lot in common.” She describes Dr Norris as going to write a book and as posing for photos with a pipe. Dr Norris said Reed “has senile dementia evidenced by arcus senilus.” Mason suggests Della get a writ of habeus corpus through Judge Treadwell. / Outside court, a photographer takes a photo of the Scotts, then Perry and Della, who are then approached by Lewis, who offers to help “spring” Reed. In court, Judge Treadwell examines Willard Scott, who admits that Reed objected so was taken into the sanitarium by two male nurses. (George) Metcalf, for Willard Scott, states that Reed is physically unable to appear in answer to writ of habeus corpus. Dr Norris testifies that, when admitted, Reed was “incoherent in his speech and violent in his actions” and suffers from senile dementia, and there was arcus senilus on his right eye. Mason traps the doctor by comparison with dementia praecox, same diagnosis, except non-violent, and Reed's expected violence given the circumstances under which he was forced into the sanitarium. Dr Norris gets angry, which Mason notes was a sign of dementia. Then Mason focuses on the arcus senilus, a crescent shaped ring, "like the ring in Judge Treadwell's eye?" queries Mason. Judge Treadwell suggests had he “kicked up a row when shanghaied and you’d noticed this thing in my eye, you’d have said I was senile.” The judge is not pleased, orders the court to reconvene at the sanitarium at two in the afternoon. / The sanitarium. Reed has escaped! The attendant explains Reed’s ingenious means of escape, his use of a sock with a soap bar to hit Walsh, then wearing Walsh’s uniform. Mason points out that Reed clearly is in possession of his facilities. Accordingly Judge Treadwell grants the writ of habeus corpus. Norris is ordered to appear regarding contempt of court. Millie thanks Mason. Where will Daniel reed go now? asks Mason. / Daniel Reed stands over the dead body of Maury Lewis, calls Millie to meet him. As he leaves, he is seen by a janitor. // [4-8] Los Angeles Chronicle headline indicates HUNT MENTAL PATIENT IN MURDER. Mrs Scott accuses Mason of putting Reed in the position of being a murderer. “The man’s a maniac.“ The leave t find Daniel “a decent lawyer.“ Mason wonders why Lieutenant Tragg hasn’t been around. Paul Drake reports to Mason and Della Street that Foster has skipped. $20,000 made out to Maury Lewis was paid. Kemp, a private investigator who lost his license about six months ago, phones a tip; check out Donna Knox, Maury’s girl. / Donna Knox is drinking heavily. Lt Tragg enters with an unidentified partner, grills her regarding Lewis. Maury was a heel, but was hers. She says she'll do anything to get the killer in to the gas chamber. Mason enters, and she vents her anger on him. / Back at the office, Della asks, “How did it go, or shouldn’t I ask?” Mason takes a call from Reno. Millie is with Daniel at the Miramar Hotel. / A plane lands in Reno. / Millie and Daniel are having coffee. Paul and Perry join them. Mason takes a gun from Reed, who admits Lewis knew of his gold mine partnership in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he met Millie, but the other partner, Sewell, wanted the it all. One night in a shoot-out, Sewell was killed, buried in snow, and he and Millie left. He took Sewell's name, even married Millie as Sewell. They didn't see each other for 30 years. Lewis bought the ikdAlaska shack, “found Sewell's body, and figured out what happened.” Tragg shows up with a Nevada State Trouper, and Mason advises Reed to go with him. Alone with Drake, Mason gives instructions for Della to receive a phone call at 9:30 next morning. Since there seems to be a pipeline into his office, based on Tragg's beating him to Knox and being on his heels in Reno, Mason intends to confuse D A Hamilton Burger. / Della answers the phone. "Lewis's real name was Monty Sewell." “Lewis spelled backwards is very much like Sewell.” “If this ever gets out, Reed’ll go right to the gas chamber.” / Della meets Perry and Paul at the airport, says Burger has contacted Alaskan police, and “Sewell is Lewis!” The Alaskan police made positive fingerprint identification. // [5-8] Jail. Reed says that the Scotts tried to get him to change lawyers, to George Metcalf, and plead insanity. He actually did think he killed Lewis/Sewell, until about three months ago when he and Knox showed up. Trapper's nursed Sewell back to health. Mason says their only hope is to make things even more complex. // Court. After Hamilton Burger’s direct, Mason asks Lt Tragg about the discovery of Sewell and Lewis being one and the same. Then in particular his six-month stay at the Waverly Hotel in Phoenix. Did the manager describe Sewell? Yes, and he gives a description; late 60s, ca 5’5”, 140 pounds. The victim was early 50s, ca 6’, 180 pounds. Judge Morrisey notes that the description of Sewell fits the defendant better than the victim. Victor Kowalski, a janitor, identifies defendant as the one leaving the dead man's room, at 9:26. Coroner testified Lewis died before 9. Mason asks, did no one refresh his memory? How did he get his watch out of his pocket while carrying a 60 pound sand jar? No response. // [6-8] Court. Willard Scott admits to Burger that he knew about the Alaska murder and such. Mason has no questions. / Drake is certain Mason’s office is bugged. He leaves. Dave Kemp comes to Mason with information, namely, where Monty Sewell’s $20,000 is, namely, with Donna Knox. Kemp was with Mrs Scott at the Kelsey Club during the murder. Della says of Kemp, “all the warmth and charm of a cobra.“ Mason confides with Street that he'll put Willard Scott on as his own witness, and won't cross examine Donna Knox. This will catch Burger off guard. / District Attorney Burger skips examination of Knox, recalls Scott, over Mason's objections. Scott testifies that he took his uncle to a sanitarium because he needed help, but Perry Mason got him free on writ of habeus corpus, meaning that he is in full possession of his faculties. Mason ask, does Scott think Reed is in full possession of his faculties. No. So he wanted to take care of him, including his money. Why then, did he get an attorney named Richard Rice to draw up papers giving him control of the money, and also have his wife get George Metcalf to do the same? Metcalf made both Scotts guardians, Richard Rice made only him, Willard, sole guardian. Scott's alibi, that he was at home with his wife between 8 and 9, is shot down by Kemp's statement to Mason. Scott breaks down under Mason's suggestion that he killed Sewell because he knew his uncle would be blamed. Now Scott admits that he cannot stand the daily nagging of his wife Arlene, “sixteen years and never a minute’s peace.” // [7-8] Mason's office. Della, Paul and Perry are searching for the bug. They are joined by Lt Tragg, who unscrews the phone and shows them the bug, placed by Dave Kemp, who passed on the information that he got therey in hopes of getting his license back. Mason explains that most everyone had no motive; Millie had her chance 30 years ago, for she shot Sewell, and Reed was covering up for her. Mason's confiding in Della about Knox and Scott was a performance, and Tragg says Burger loved it, but don't” invite him the next time you’re doing a benefit!” [8-8 end credits] [52:03]