PERRY MASON

in

The Case of the . . .

with Raymond Burr

as Perry Mason

All episodes of the seventh season of "Perry Mason in The Case of the . . ." have been upgraded as of 20 November 2012. The following episodes have been upgraded by comparison with the Columbia House Video tapes in their Collector's Edition; 183, 187, 188, 190, 197, 207 and 209. Episodes 185 and 198 are on DVD in the 50th Anniversary Perry Mason issue; DVD chapter indices for this issue are in { } brackets. Episodes 182, 184, 185, 186, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 208, 210, and 211 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 of less than 1400 words have been upgraded from the CBS-Paramount release of Season 7 Volumes 1 & 2. All episodes of Season 7 have been marked with their CBS-Paramount "Raymond Burr is Perry Mason Season 7" chapter markings in italics and squared [parentheses]. Note; original broadcast dates are updated to the Season 7 listing. The coding and other information for the CBS-Paramount release takes precedence over previous tape and DVD releases.
Last updated; 11/15/13

#	TITLE	SHOW DATE	CBS DVD
182	Nebulous Nephew	26 Sept 63	89160

CHARACTER	ACTOR	CHARACTER	ACTOR
Perry Mason	Raymond Burr	Ernest Stone	Hugh Marlowe
Della Street	Barbara Hale	Caleb Stone	Ivan Dixon
Paul Drake	William Hopper	Ninevah Stone	Meg Wyllie
Hamilton Burger	William Talman	Leonard	Arthur Space
Lt Anderson	Wesley Lau	Sister Theresa	Irene Tedrow
Sophia Stone	Beulah Bondi	Judge	Kenneth MacDonald
John Brooks	Ron Starr	Coroner's Physician	William Woodson
Irene Stone	Kate Manx	Young Nun	Linda Marshall
Wayne Jameson	Mark Roberts	Stewardess	Kathy Willow

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Script by Jonathan Latimer

[1-8 Opening credits} [2-8] At night in a cheap motel, (John) Brooks is looking at slides. He identifies the people he sees for an unidentified man as Caleb Stone, great aunt Sophia, great aunt Ninevah, Leonard (the houseman and family chauffeur), Maureen Kelly and the so-called Caleb Stone the Fourth, “picture taken in 1946.” He then describes the house using a model. / They drive to the Stone mansion. The man wishes Brooks “good luck” after offering “that’s all the money you’ll ever need.” // [3-8] The maiden aunts Ninevah and Sophia are playing cards. Sophia wins. Ninevah admits “17” but Sophia counts “28.” Leonard announces Brooks, who has news of young Caleb. According to him, a friend named John Brooks, Caleb died in Shanghai, Red China. Brooks and Caleb were deck-hands on a Canadian freighter delivering grain. Brooks presents a locket and documents as proof. Sophia reminds him that Senior Stone's marriage with Maureen Kelley, the Stone housemaid, was declared void. Brooks rubs the bearskin head to see if the bullet hole is still there and Ninevah again asks if he is not really Caleb himself, to which Sophia objects strongly. Brooks says he and Caleb were like brothers, as they grew up together from the age of six. Ninevah invites Brooks to stay the night. “Hal the house happens to be mine” says Ninevah when Sophia objects. Sophia suggests that Brooks is an impostor and makes a phone call. / Irene Stone and the "family lawyer" (Wayne Jameson) are dancing when Sophia's phone call comes through. Irene passes on the news that Caleb Stone IV may have appeared. Jameson thinks Ernest won’t like this, but he’ll take care of it. They kiss. / Brooks is looking at the gun rack, then finds a pistol in a drawer. He checks the safe. Sophie accosts him, he offers to leave, then he goes to his bedroom with no help. Sophia takes the gun out of the drawer. / In his bedroom Leonard tells Brooks about the persecution of Caleb's mother. Ninevah brings a hot water bottle to Brooks. He gives more details - a glass of warm milk . . . a parakeet cage - to trick Ninevah. / Ninevah speaks to Perry Mason. She wants her money to go to John Brooks today. Both Mason and Della Street see through the confidence game and discuss it together, then both with Paul Drake (who knocks with his “shave and a hair cut” - but no “five cents”), who explains the complications including the marriage of Caleb III to the mother of Caleb IV. Old “Patent Medicine” Caleb proved the marriage certificate to be a forgery, so the child was named the "Patent Medicine Baby" by the press. She died a year later in Charleston where Caleb had met his mother. Now Sophia enters and demands that Mason change her will to favor Brooks. // [4-8] Mason is greeted by Leonard, joins Irene who tells him that no one will fool Ernest. Then Brooks shows Mason how, by opening the safe as did young Caleb, and being discovered, he won over the recalcitrant aunt. Mason calls him a brazen scoundrel. The aunts explain that they want to expunge their guilt in not standing up to their father after the trial and supporting young Caleb whom they loved. Now Ernest himself arrives and we recognize Brooks' accomplice, Ernest himself. He tests Brooks, then recognizes him as the young Caleb. / Irene is furious with Ernest. They are on the edge of bankruptcy. He informs her that the aunts were leaving everything to charity. He's lied to Irene about his inheritance. / A four-engine jet takes off with Mason and Drake in it. Paul's researches have vindicated Brook's claim of jumping ship, the Saskatchewan Queen, in Shanghai with Caleb, and one of them dying. Mason points out that if the man is Brooks, he may hurry the death of the aunts. Mason has notified Lieutenant Anderson, and he and Paul are on the way to Charleston, South Carolina. / In Charleston (Sorry, viewers, it doesn't look anything like Charleston, which this writer knows all too well), children come marching out from the St Mary's home for children. A young nun introduces Mason and Drake to Sister Theresa. She explains the arrival of orphan John Brooks, who got his name from Father John and a British poet, in 1942 and Caleb in 1948. They left after a lurid newspaper follow-up on the Patent Medicine Baby. She notes that another detective was checking up on this several months earlier. When given a current photo of Brooks, and told hat the aunts are happy believing this is Caleb, she says they should continue in their belief! // [5-8] The two aunts have offered Brooks a car. He surreptitiously phones Ernest Stone at Irene's. / Irene answers and Ernest listens, then leaves. Irene now tells Wayne Jameson that the call to Ernest was from John Brooks! She is sure something is going on! Wayne kisses Irene on the neck only, as she turns her head away, before leaving. She grabs a coat and leaves. / Ernest arrives at the mansion and asks Leonard for Brooks, then finds the safe open. He takes a gun from the rifle rack. Brooks enters. He has decided to abandon ship after a talk with Lt Anderson, worrying that Ernest may do something to hurry the inheritance. Didn’t Ernest do something, 15 years ago, to little Caleb & his mother? The houseman, Leonard, has told Brooks he believes that Ernest is responsible for what happened to Caleb. In the safe Brooks has found a report to Caleb senior from Ernest indicating that there was no marriage in Charleston. They fight and Ernest is knocked down. Ninevah catches Brooks on his way out, warns that she'll intervene with Ernest. As he starts to leave, she returns, joyfully announces; "Ernest is dead." // [6-8] Mason and Drake discuss Brooks' arrest for the murder of Ernest Stone. Each of the aunts claims to have murdered Ernest. “Well, one of us did” asserts Sophia. / To Mason and Drake Brooks explains that Caleb is not "dead," and he didn't commit first degree murder. Mason asks Drake to locate Caleb elder. / In court the coroner's physician testifies for D A Hamilton Burger as to means of death, a blow to the back of the head by a cylindrical metal object. Brooks tells Mason that the gun he used hit him elsewhere. The doctor admits a woman could have wielded the weapon. Lt Anderson testifies to finding a note which gives Ernest 80 percent of what he, John Brooks, inherits. / Della Street and Paul Drake are phoning information in various cities. / Mrs Irene Stone testifies to the call from Brooks. Wayne Jameson saw Ernest entering the Stone mansion. Ninevah found Stone dead, told “Caleb the good news." Hamilton Burger is baffled. To Mason, she admits to killing Ernest. Sylvia, after being reminded by the judge that Ninevah has recanted her confession, asserts that neither she nor “Caleb” murdered Ernest. Leonard says that the afternoon of the murder he told Brooks that Ernest was responsible for ruining Maureen's (Caleb IV's mother) life. He believes Brooks is Caleb. / Caleb Senior has been found and is on the way to Los Angeles from Albany, NY, Mason learns from Drake and Street. / The judge reminds the attorneys that “this is a homicide hearing, not a genealogical one.” Caleb Stone has been intercepted by the police; he is black! Hamilton Burger calls him as his witness. / This Caleb states that no one would ever accuse him being the "Patent Medicine Baby," but he did exchange names with the real Caleb. He continues; Caleb was worried that someone would still try to find him and he is still bitter, alive, and wants revenge. Irene says neither she nor Ernest went to the orphanage to trace Caleb. Leonard was in the library when she arrived at the house. Wayne then is accused of being the hidden partner in the cheating of the two aunts. His new goal was the wife and her insurance on Ernest. Sister Teresa is called upon to identify the man who came to find where Caleb was. Wayne quickly confesses to murdering Ernest. // [7-8] Mason explains to the group how he knew, from Sister Teresa's neither affirming nor denying that Brooks was the real Caleb, what the truth had to be. Caleb notes "love" as his guide, and the aunts had "faith." [8-8 end credits] [50:38]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Night. A honer-Dowling truck drives by the company gate as the night man waves. Two men are fighting inside the Honer-Downing Trucks office. A gun goes off. One man, stout, short hair, wearing glasses, runs out but cannot get through a wire fence. The night man (Harry) comes out wondering who is there. The first man throws his gun over the fence as a truck arrives. / Two boys are playing baseball. Chuck hits one to the fence. Miles, seeking the ball as Chuck calls, “hurry up before mom starts shouting,” finds the gun. // [3-8] Miles brings the ball to Chuck, who further berates him and heads home as his mom calls (a fog horn, comments Miles). Miles hides the gun in a shoe-box under straw. / Miles goes home. His "aunt" Sylvia Thompson is awaiting Bill Sheridan. Perry Mason arrives, instead, to get Sylvia. Miles immediately asserts, “she’s not my mother, she’s not even my real aunt.” Mason was having dinner with Joe Dowling, he explains to Sylvia. Joe tole him that she “was expecting Bill Sheridan and might be worried. Joe needs her at the trucking office.” She tells Miles to watch TV. Mason informs her of the robbery at her office. / Bill was the one who was shot. He tells Mason what he has already told his cousin Joe Downing, namely, he was working late,sitting at his desk, had the safe open and the next thing he was on the floor. He never heard the shot which, according to the deputy sheriff, just missed him. $4061 is missing from the safe. It could have been worse, notes Sylvia, if the safe had the payroll in it. The deputy sheriff says it adds up to simple robbery. / Outside, Joe tells Perry he doesn't think that it was a simple robbery. / Miles is half asleep as a TV announcer reads the news about the robbery at Honer-Downing, including mention of a 38 caliber pistol, just as Miles' "uncle Flick" comes in. He is the stout man with the gun, John Flickinger. He forcefully sends Miles to bed before Miles can tell him what he knows, promising to let the boy watch him play pool tomorrow. / Miles puts pillows in his bed, climbs out the window, retrieves the gun, with “caliber 38” on it. Flick comes looking for the gun. Miles takes it home just as Sylvia and Bill arrive. Bill asks when she’ll get rid of the kid. Miles hides the shoe-box under the porch. She checks on Miles, kisses him. He cries after she leaves. / Flick finds Miles' (actually Chuck's) baseball mitt at the lost gun site. // [4-8] Frank Honer asks Della Street why a meeting was called off. Perry and Paul Drake greet him. National Trucking is interested in Horner's company and Joe wanted private legal advice. Honer says he'll stay out of things now and let Joe handle it. / Mason gets Drake's report on Miles, who has had four mothers so far. Among other items, Flick gets about $75 a month for child support, saves more living with widowed sister Sylvia. Drake wonders why Mason is interested. “Wouldn’t it be important to you if you were eight years old and still hadn’t found a home?” / Sylvia tells Miles she has to go to the office. He goes under the porch, but leaves the shoe-box when Flick calls to him. / Flick takes Miles to a pool hall where he tells the boy that he was at the bowling parlor four solid hours the previous night. Miles avoids his questioning. / He takes Miles to a soda fountain but, when he sees a policeman outside, sends Miles to get candy and see a movie. / Flick runs home, searches for the gun in Miles' room, turning it inside out. / Sylvia is filing, gets berated by Downing who is auditing the books. Sylvia begs off to go home and feed Miles, then stops to talk with Bill who has been gambling and lost. He thinks nobody will discover "normal" shortages. Bill then asks for a date with Miss Frances, says she shouldn't worry about his "mother," which Sylvia overhears. / Sylvia arrives home. Flick suggests he should duck out for a few days; “My back is bothering me.” Miss Frances phones that when Sheridan left, Downing sent for his lawyer again. Flick announces he’ll find the kid. She goes outside to call Miles. She is crying when a paper on the ground leads her to see the gun box, which is now empty. / Mason in his white Lincoln convertible meets Miles coming out of the movie, but Miles does not want to talk and runs away. / The office; Sylvia runs out and drives away as the night man shouts for her to come back, just as Mason arrives. Inside, Joe has been shot dead. // ,,,,,i Deputy No. 2 picks up Miles as Flick watches. Mason interrupts, speaks to Miles, is sympathetic with Miles having no one to talk to, asks him to trust a lawyer. Flick's presence prevents the truth from coming out. / In jail Sylvia is stunned when she learns that nearly fifty thousand is missing. Joe was dean when she got to the office. Mason puts it to her that she owes the boy a better life. She understands. / In court the night man tells D A Hamilton Burger that he saw Sylvia in the office at “exactly eight o’clock” but, due to truck noise, never heard a shot. He won't confirm that she put anything into her purse. The sheriff admits ten minutes of Sylvia's time is not accounted for after the shooting. Mason sends Della to make a phone call. The robbery bullet was smashed, so it cannot be determined if it is from the same gun as the murder bullet. Burger calls Flick to the stand. / Della phones Miles and asks him to tell Mason his secret. She tells him that Mason can keep Uncle Flick away with a subpoena. Miles has the Los Angeles Chronicle in front of him with the headline LOCAL WOMAN HELD IN MURDER. A girl with a doll comes in and Miles runs out. / Flick says that he was looking for Miles (tho he knew he was at the movie). Mason notes he is supported by his sister and that his claim of a bad back is false, then makes him admit Downing fired him for “reporting to work drunk.” /Miles finds the box with the gun in it./ Honer testifies that nearly fifty thousand was missing the past year, but he doesn't think this proves embezzlement. He got a call at 7:30 from Joe who said he might have to fire Sylvia for "dipping into the till." He thinks the loss is due to mismanagement, with Bill Sheridan in charge. He believes the theft may be a cover for theft of records that would indicate who was responsible for the loss. / Miles gets on a bus to Los Angeles./ Bill Sheridan says he was not serious about Sylvia, but she did help him with gambling debts. He doesn't even know “how to work an adding machine.” / Miles finds the courthouse. / Sheridan was busy having dinner with Miss Frances at the time of the murder. / Miles enters the courthouse. / Miss Frances admits that she was with Sheridan. / Miles inside the courthouse, runs from a policeman who wants to take the box. / Mason confronts Miss Frances; didn't she call Sylvia just to get her back to the office? Miles runs in and the gun flies out of the box. // [6-8] Miles tells Burger, Mason and the judge about finding the gun. A man brings in a report. The two bullets came from the gun, but Sylvia's fingerprints were on the shoe box! / Flick tries to explain his being at the office. He fought with someone in the dark, the gun went off and he ran. He accuses Sheridan. He came to get a bottle which is not grand theft. Mason and Burger confer. Mason suggests that all the stories are true! Burger wrestles with the possibilities. Honer and Miss Frances join the crowd. Mason suggests that Sheridan was on the floor knocked out when the murder was committed by someone who took the gun out of the hidden shoe-box and fired the second, murder, bullet, then put the gun back. Miss Frances notes that the books were not audited before Sheridan took over. Mason suggests the fifty thousand was missing before Sheridan took over! Honer was not in San Francisco as he suggested - Drake could find no record of the trip - and Honer admits it. // [7-8] Mason explains; honer put the gun back after the murder, thinking Sylvia or Flick would be blamed. Sylvia tries to apologize for her mistakes, but Mason stops her. Miles arrives with Drake, having climbed 322 steps to the office. Now Mason has to go down the fire escape with him! [8-8 end credits] [50.38]


CHARACTER ACTOR CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Jason Sparks Archie Moore Della Street Barbara Hale Gerald Sommers Strother Martin Paul Drake William Hopper James Bradisson Robert Knapp Lt Anderson Wesley Lau Nell Wyatt Ann Doran Sandy Bowen Arthur Hunnicutt George Moffgat Woodrow Parfrey Banning Grant Russell Collins Hayward Small Richard Derr Lillian Bradisson Kathleen Crowley Asst D A Northridge Garry Walberg Deputy Coroner Chute Clinton Sundberg Man No 1 Charles Stroud Deputy Sheriff Connors Robert J Wilke Man No 2 Jack Fife

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At the Big Chance Mine site deep in a mountainous valley there is a shack. An old bearded man with a burro (see the related episode number 88, Bashful Burro) looks down as another drives up in a jeep, enters the mine shaft and falls to the bottom. // [3-8] People get on a bus headed for Mojave as the old man (Sandy Bowen) drives the injured man (Banning Grant) into town in the jeep. They are observed by Lillian Bradisson and Hayward Small. She asks Mr (Gerald) Sommers to see what has happened. Nell Wyatt has Jason Sparks take Banning inside. / Lillian asks Small what really happened. She hints that he was responsible for Grant's fall, so that he couldn't report the mine as worthless. Small explains that he'll sell worthless mines to Jim if he wants to buy. He's profited by his share of what is sold. Sommers reports that a ladder gave way under Grant in the mine. When Lillian leaves Sommers says Mr Bradisson called in that he was going to investigate a mine he bought. Nell tells Lillian she can’t see Grant until he sees a doctor. Sandy warns “that ain’t all he is going to see.” / Sandy tells Perry Mason and Della Street that he thinks someone is out to get Banning Grant. / Grant tells Mason that it was an accident. He wants Mason to defend Bowen against charges of salting a mine that was sold to Jim Bradisson. Bradisson, his stepson, now runs the mining business to which he is a minor stockholder. He wants Mason to settle up to the $5000 Sandy got, without revealing that he's bankrolling the deal. He admits that Sandy has salted many mines, but he doesn’t want to see the man in jail. / There is a crowd outside Gold Gulch Hotel as Mason exits and crosses to the Grant Mining Company office. There, Mason offers George Moffgat, company attorney, the $5000 settlement and it is accepted. Moffgat suggests Mason’s reputation is overrated, but Mason rejoins that he can be difficult when necessary. As Mason leaves the office, Deputy Sheriff Connors stops him, informs him that people hereabouts aren't happy with Jim Bradisson. / At the mine, Sandy, Perry and Della inspect wood that has been cut with a sharp crosscut saw. Sandy heard a mosquito buzz, the sound of a black light used to find minerals, a night earlier and thought it was Grant. / Back in town, Bradisson and Moffgat inform Mason and Street that they are calling off the suit, because the trade-off regarding taxes is worth more than the settlement. / Grant is very upset and Mason confronts him with his really wanting the mine, which Sandy had signed over to him should the suit be dropped. Grant explains how, near the mine, he found Indian arrows and a coyote-sized shaft and real gold plus a pistol with "Boler" on the handle. This is the famous lost million-dollar Boler mine! // [4-8] The Grant Mining board votes Banning Grant a directorship, so he'll have to tell them what he knows about the mine. Nell raises the issue of the quarterly dividend, on which townspeople depend, and says she'll be with them, then leaves with Sommers. Mason arrives, is told of the directorship, then points out he now owns Grant's stock. / In the hotel saloon, the deputy sheriff warns Mason that the townspeople don’t like Grant or his friends and are upset at the loss of a dividend. Mason explains to Della how Grant willed his stock to his wife who passed it on to James Bradisson who, with Hayward Small, has been bleeding the company dry through phony mining deals. Grant wants to keep the mine to help his friends. Mason thinks someone else knows the secret of the mine and wants it to himself. / Della, readying herself for bed, hears a buzzing in Grant’s room as she heads back to hers. Then she sees someone across the street raising a rifle. Gun shots. She gets Mason to break into Grant's room. Grant is okay, on the floor. / The deputy sheriff notes that the shots came from a 30:30 rifle, and Della asserts it was someone taller than Sandy. Mason looks at the holes in the window frame, above his head. Sandy suggests they go into the country. Mason agrees for his own reasons./ Mason rouses Paul Drake from sleep. / Drake plays prospector. The mining office is not open, so he goes into Grant Mining and asks Sommers where he has to go. Bakersfield, whose office will be closed by the time he can get there. Drake asks Sommers to put his find and a gun, with "Boler" showing on the handle, in the safe, but is told no. Sommers reports to Lillian and James. / In the saloon, Drake pays for a bottle with a $40 nugget, drops his bag and spills more. The gun is picked up, and he claims to have gotten it at a second-hand store. / Evening in the saloon and Paul “Sprague” is getting drunk. He is asked by Lillian to join her and is noticed by the deputy sheriff and Nell Wyatt. Sandy joins Paul. / Sommers finds Grant in the mountains and tells him about the guy celebrating the finding of the lost Boler mine. / Della is worried that someone will try to kill Paul as he did Grant, but Mason says the bullet holes tell him otherwise. Paul tells them that he is going to his camp, a good three miles from Grant's. Moffgat sees Drake leave. The deputy sheriff suggests that he should tag along for protection. Cars start out after Drake. / Drake heads to camp in his jeep with a parade of cars behind. He hides from them in a turnout, then another car appears and follows him. At his camp, he is shot at, then finds Bradisson dead. // [5-8] Court is held in the hotel saloon and Mason is representing Grant. Deputy Coroner Chute explains his presence. Drake explains his pretending to find the Boler mine. The deputy sheriff testifies that the murder weapon was Bowen's 30:30. He found Grant running back to his camp. Bowen admits he left his rifle with Grant under pressure from Assistant D A Northridge. He also admits to sawing the ladder with his own saw to discourage others from looking into the mine. Sommers admits to helping Grant because of the townspeople being victimized, so he knew where to find Grant. He did know also where Drake was, but didn't follow him or shoot Bradisson. Grant says he doesn’t have to testify, but wants to set things straight. He was between the two camps because he worried about telling Sommers where Drake was, so headed to Drake's camp to warn him when he heard the shots. Grant tells Mason to tell Sandy a mosquito will tell him where the Boler mine is. // [6-8] Mason is showing Della a map of the mines when joined by the deputy sheriff and Northridge. They report Bradisson was killed by Bowen's rifle, while the shots at Grant came from Bradisson's rifle. The deputy sheriff says Connors is cleared because his car, just serviced, showed odometer readings that would have gotten him to Bowen’s camp, but not on to Drake's camp. Paul arrives, gives a note to Perry which impels Mason’s to further action. / They go out to the Big Chance Mine with the black light device. / In the mine, with the device buzzing mosquito-like, they discover dots forming an arrow, 15 degrees east of north. / They find the Boler mine opening where they are confronted by Sandy. / In the saloon-courtroom, Mason shows the crosscut saw and rifle with “Bowen,” the pistol with “Boler,” the same "B" on all three. Sandy admits that this was another way to salt the property and get the law suit off his back. Sommers admits being forced to tell Bradisson where Drake's camp was. Mason accuses Lillian of following Jim to Drake's camp. Hayward Small says that, like everyone else, he tried to follow Drake but lost him. Mason produces safe deposit records showing Small and Bradisson had hidden two hundred thousand dollars. Small says Moffgat is in on the deal, too. Moffgat says Sommers had been stealing small amounts and Bradisson knew it, so had him under his thumb, thus was not forced to tell Bradisson where Drake's camp was. Also, he got back into town not at eleven, but twelve-fifteen. Mason notes that the odometer could have been turned back not by driving in reverse, but by propping his vintage car up and running the wheels in reverse! Mason produces Sommers' car jack. // [7-8] Mason explains that Grant put the "map" in minerals rather than on paper, which could have been taken from him. Sommers did what he did not so much to help the townspeople, as to get out from under Bradisson's threat of prison. Paul suggests that he's going to stay in Gold Gulch because Sandy has shown him a mine with gold all over the place, teasing Perry and Della. [8-8 end credits] [50:37]

[1/8 Title credits] [2-8] It is dark as two men slip things out of the second story of a building into station wagon. One of them slips, dropping a box that damages the rear gate. An alarm goes off. They speed away, observed by woman. // [3-8] The station wagon is being washed. / Dr (Aaron) Stuart leads his class on Walt Whitman. John (Marshall Baxter) starts the discussion. “in the Realm of Ideas” Whitman stressed unity, explains Stuart. He is followed by (Bruce) Perkins, who is interrupted by Mrs Perkins. A man who called her was right, The Leaves of Grass are filth," tho she hasn't read it. Guilty until proven innocent, he challenges. She takes Bruce out of the private (Manzana Valley Prep) school. Janet (Gwynne) complains that she has not gotten her visual aides, nor has her salary been paid. He goes into the office where Marion Stuart is glowing over a vacation weekend at Cliffside they now can take due to a cancellation. Tobin Wade, assistant dean, and gym teacher Chuck (Emmett) share the story. Stuart asks for the letters from Miss Perkins and the visual aid materials he ordered for Janet. He accuses his wife of causing the problems. She is a volunteer secretary. He looks for the documents as she leaves. The Perkins folder is empty and he asks Tobin and Chuck about it. Five students have been taken out of school lately. They await foundation funding. Stuart, haltingly, starts to apologize. / Marion sits next an unopened whiskey bottle. Harvey Forrest has called about the mortgage being two months in arrears. She reminisces on nights at Cliffside. He’s the one, not she, who needs help, says he. / Aaron gives realtor Harvey Forrest a check for $2000. Forrest mentions the offer on the property, but Stuart insists he'll “make Manzana Valley School work.” Forrest tears up the mortgage check, saying it should help against “restless creditors.” A phone call from Della Street summons Stuart. The Foundation Fund officer is in Mason’s office. Forest, with crossed finters, wishes Stuart “good luck.” / The Foundation Fund officer, Mr Ryan, explains his concerns to Mason and Stuart. Mason points out how funds have been poured back into the school. There have been anonymously-provided negative comments, and that of three hundred students who took a special test, the three students who took it at Manzana Valley Prep failed. / Stuart tells Gwynne of the three failures. She argues that they studied the material and her three brightest students. He ask if it was everything in the blue book. She says no, it was from a list provided by Tobin Wade. / He breaks into Wade's desk and finds the blue book after Chuck comes in to the office. / Wade enters a dark room, picks up a liquor bottle, then goes to the living room where he pours a drink. Marion enters and he tells her Chuck has called him and told him of the office event. He's been fired. Marion doesn't believe this. Tobin recalls their weekends, then berates Aaron against Marion's objections, then tells her their weekend at Cliffside was canceled. It's a double anniversary for her. It is one year since her last drink. He hands her a glass of whiskey. / Stuart has found the proof of Wade's involvement, including letters to parents, and shows them to Chuck. He doesn’t know why. / Stuart meets Jenkins coming out of his house, having delivered groceries for Marion. Jenkins asks if Mrs Stuart is okay, as she was looking sick-like “when she left with MrWade.” Stuart finds the liquor bottle, empty. He throws the empty bottle at a mirror, breaks it. Jenkins says he heard Wade say something about Cliffside. // It is night at the Cliffside Resort when Stuart finds Tobin and accuses him of making his wife drink tho she's sick. They wrestle and Tobin falls over the cliff into the ocean. / Stuart offers himself for arrest. // [4-8] (John Marshall ) Baxter says that, because Stuart has confessed, he'll only ask for voluntary manslaughter. Paul Drake is appalled at the confession without Stuart first calling Perry Mason. The lawyer asks for full cooperation, and gets it. / At Cliffside an ocean body search is being conducted. Sheriff (Ward Vincent) says no one could survive a fall from the cliff. Drake reports to Mason that the sheriff had called Wade in for questioning a few months earlier. No body has been found. Drake is sure Stuart will be bound over. “I’m not so sure” responds Mason. / At the Manzana Valley Court, Mr Baxter is the local prosecutor. Mr Ogden of Cliffside recognized Stuart's wife when she arrived and told Stuart that Wade had gone for a walk “out on the bluffs”. The sheriff testifies that Stuart's confession was totally voluntary. Mason challenges the validity of the confession, as there is no corpus delicti. Judge One agrees. Baxter argues substance over form, and Mason puts him down. / Stuart signs the property over to Harvey Forrest. He says in his own conscience he'll spend the rest of his life repaying the death. / Drake tells Mason and Street that Wade was stealing prep school books from the company warehouse and selling them to schools while pocketing the profit. / Marion tries to comfort her husband as they pack. Janet Gwynne phones Stuart to say that she's been at Wade's shack in Topanga Canyon and “Tobin Wade is alive.” / Wade is dead on the floor, and Stuart is handcuffed next him. Mason and Drake walk in to be told by Lt Anderson, who is with Sgt Brice, that Aaron Stuart has been arrested for first-degree murder. / Jenkins testifies that only the Stuarts and he drive the station wagon and identifies the tire iron from the car. Lieutenant Anderson is with Sergeant Brice in the background as Mason arrives with Drake. Now it is first-degree murder. // [5-8] D A Hamilton Burger argues complicity between Stuart and Wade. The woman who saw the station wagon speed away from the building at night (Grace Witt) tells her story. She recognized Tobin Wade in the car. Jenkins telles of his care of Stuarts car and that now one but Stuart and Mrs Stuart ever drove it. Of course, he drove it , too. Lt Anderson identifies the tire iron as the murder weapon. He notes blood and grease that link Stuart with the murder. / Perry asks Della to get Ann Cogin of the Manzana Valley C of C to meet them. $10 million will get even her attention on Friday night. He thinks Stuart's actions are prompted by financial reasons. He asks Paul to get in touch with a filmmaker, Ted Reichert; he wants to make a movie of Paul . . . getting murdered. // [6-8] Mrs Stuart has agreed to testify for her husband. She's an alcoholic, who'd been off a year, so the wedding anniversary was also a second anniversary. Tobin got her drunk. Mr Ryan admits to Mason that Wade specifically had him send Stuart out to the cliff bluff. / The sheriff says no man could have fallen off the cliff and into the surf and survived. Mr Richert, professional filmmaker, is qualified and produces his film. Mason quotes California legal decisions, twice, to overcome Burger's objections. Drake sets up the film. / The film is shown. It shows Drake jumping only several feet onto a soft landing, then throwing a dummy into the water. Burger's objection is overruled. Emmett is asked where the sports dummy for his team is kept. He admits to giving Wade the key to the room before Wade took Marion to Cliffside. He wasn't in cahoots with Wade, and doesn't know the name of the man who was, but that he was a real estate man. . Mason asserts that only one man could profit, real estate man Harvey Forrest. Mason produces a photo of real estate developer Baker, accuses Forrest of offering Baker “the most fantastic piece of property in the valley.” He admits to working with Wade, but thought his tactics were too obvious. When, after the first trial, Wade turned up alive and demanded a first payment of $50,000, he went to Wade's and killed him. When Stuart arrived, he knocked him out and planted the evidence. Things happened too fast, he claimed. For 40 years he watched real estate grow. // [7-8] Developer Baker tells Marion, Aaron and Perry that he'll deed property next the prep school to them and build the most modern school he can. [8-8 end credits] [50:39]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Arthur Tragg Ray Collins Lt Anderson Wesley Lau Otto Olney John Larkin Goring Gilbert Robert Brown Grace Olney Joanna Moore Leslie Rankin Margaret Hayes Colin Durant John Dall Maxine Lindsay Erin O'Donnell Oscar Pickering Carl Prickett Judge Charles Irving Ticket Woman Shirley Mitchell

Agnes Newton Kitty Kelly First Reporter Walter Mathews Second Reporter Dick Garton Art Expert Noel Drayton Housewife Ida Mae McKenzie

CHARACTER ACTOR Assistant In Art Gallery Julia Faye Thomas Sgt Brice Lee Miller Yacht Steward Lindsay Workman Critic Louise Lane

8-1 Title credits] [8-2] At a port site (Colin) Durant and Maxine (Lindsay) drive up to yacht, the Toreador, in a Buick convertible. She tries to beg off. She’s a “$12.95 cotton number from Gorman’s basement” Durant suggests that there “wouldn’t be a woman on board who wouldn’t give her eye teeth to swap places with you. He suggests that she, a beginning art student, should want to see a $130,000 Gaugin. They go aboard after being checked in by the Yacht Steward. Mrs (Grace) Olney arrives. She’s not on the Yacht Steward’s guest list. Inside, Leslie Rankin introduces (Otto) Olney to the visitors with a triple toast, interrupted by Grace, who claims the Gaugin "Tahitian Bathers" as hers. It hung in her bedroom, so what is it doing here? He like it! She throws champagne in her husband's face, then leaves. Durant looks closely at the Gaugin, laughs, tells Maxine it is a fake, a copy. // [8-3] At the Leslie Rankin Gallery Olney is looking at new possibilities with Leslie, including a Bracque. She decides that he wants the nude woman. Leslie says it is sold, but the art gallery assistant says the buyer has decided she doesn't want it because of a rumor that the Gaugin is a forgery. / (Goring) Gilbert asks an art student if she's thought of taking up house painting. Maxine is the model. Rankin enters. She’s not interested in his trash. She then accuses Maxine of putting out the rumor re the Gaugin forgery. Maxine counters, saying that Colin Durant would stake his reputation on its being a forgery. Rankin worries her, someone “will pay with his, or her, skin.” leaves. Gilbert queries Maxine, who runs out. He picks up another copy of the "Tahitian Bathers" from his collection. / Maxine apologizes to Durant, whom she thanks for all he’s done for her. He graciously says it is okay. / Rankin has told Perry Mason about Maxine's confession. Mason sends Della to get Paul Drake. He suggests that not Rankin, but the Gaugin, should sue. / Olney has two art experts, Ann Armbruster, head of the Arts Department at the University, and Dr Emil Danton, curator of the Pasadena Museum (Armbruster is non-speaking, so not credited). Dr Danton testifies that every element of Gaugin's style is present. A reporter asks if Mason is also representing Olney in his divorce. Olney claims that he and his wife don't even quarrel, but she enters at that moment and disagrees. Mason tells her that he’s representing the Gaugin! At the bar, another reporter asks Olney for a picture of him and his wife under the Gaugin, holding hands! Olney suggest Mason, instead, and the attorney complies. / At dinner (champagne and lobster, notes Paul Drake) Mason explain to Della Street and Paul why he had Olney, not Rankin, sue. Even if Rankin won, she’d be remembered as suspect. Durant approaches and confronts Mason with the fact that he didn't say it was a forgery, only that he'd want to run tests before he'd authenticate it. He then leaves. Mason asks the duo how Durant found him. Drake suggests that he must have been followed, and Mason surmises the whole thing was staged. Mason tries to call Maxine; no answer. Mason thinks he's “been tagged as the world’s prize boob.” // It is nighttime and Maxine is at a public phone booth in the Greyhound bus station. / Perry, Paul and Della arrive at the office, just miss Maxine’s call. Mason sees how he’s been suckered, “the classic false suit booby trap,” notes that, without Maxine's presence, the affidavit is not admissible, because the defense has the right to cross examine the witness. Maxine calls again. In a phone booth, she apologizes to Mason, says she's leaving town. Back in the office, Mason and Drake have heard the background of the bus station. / Drake asks a ticket woman about a bus, but there is one or two leaving every five minutes. / Della and Perry are admitted to Maxine's room by the landlady (Agnes Newton) who says the girl left with a suitcase and canary minutes after claiming she was in the shower. Della hears the shower still running. Colin Durant is dead in the tub. / Lieutenant Tragg, with Sergeant Brice, has found an envelope with ten crisp one thousand dollar bills. Tragg answers the phone. It is Otto Olney for Mason. The Durant suit is off. The attorney is fired. / Drake finds Maxine at the Mexican border four hours after the murder. Lt Anderson stops her from crossing the border. / In jail, Maxine tells Mason that an opening at the American Art School in Cuernavaca came open, requiring her immediate departure. Durant had arranged a flight from Tijuana and she left her apartment just before eight. "Eight-thirty you mean?" asks Mason. No. Durant was in the apartment and was going to both pay her back rent and take care of her canary. / Outside Gilbert's, Mason says Olney has denied paying Durant, and Drake can't believe Gilbert could. Gilbert gladly admits them to see the Gaugin copy Maxine has mentioned to Mason. As they entry the studio, Rankin charges through them. She wanted to examine the copy. "In the dark?" queries Mason. // [5-8] In court Della tells D A Hamilton Burger how she found Durant’s body at 9:42. Burger tries to get Della to say why they wanted to see Maxine and Mason objects via voir dire. Della is his secretary and he, Mason, a lawyer, so the question calls for privileged information. Della then says her next move was to call the police. Lt Anderson testifies that he didn’t find the gun, then identifies the ten one thousand dollar bills. Tragg states that the murder was between eight and eight-forty. Agnes Newton is positive that Maxine skedaddled at eight-thirty; she recognized the coat and suitcase and the canary, but didn’t see her face. Oscar Pickering, night superintendent at the bus station, saw Lindsey just before nine. He identifies a pistol from a locker 11. / Lt Anderson identifies the pistol as the murder weapon and it is registered to Maxine Lindsey. Mason calls Goring Gilbert and states that it is obvious Lindsey is not guilty. {a curious cross fade here indicates an elipsis, namely, the start of Mason’s questioning of Goring Gilbert was cut in final editing, making the judges statement rather strange} Gilbert admits making his copy for Colin Durant for $200. Drake enters with information Mason wants. Hamilton Burger is curious about Mason's "not guilty" statement, and Mason asks if he wants to take a bus ride. // [6-8] At the bus station Della, with the canary, joins Perry, Paul, Hamilton and Lt Anderson. Mason takes two dimes from Burger, opens, then closes a locker and takes the key. With this, and Oscar Pickering's testimony, Mason proves the gun was put in the locker while Lindsey was in custody. Asked by Burger what he has to say, Lt Anderson says “some detective from headquarters is going to be walking a beat tomorrow.” Della gets a newspaper from a newsboy and shows Mason a photo of a happily reunited Olney and wife “boarding their yacht for a world tour.” / The police stop the yacht from leaving port. / On the yacht Olney, with his wife, demands of Burger and Mason to be charged or be free to sail. Just then Drake arrives with Gilbert who says that Mason has his only “Bathers” copy. Then Sgt Brice enters with Leslie Rankin, who admits Olney's "Tahitian Bathers" is a copy, to which Grace Olney then berates her conniving husband. Grace brings out a rolled “Bathers” and Gilbert admits it is his work. Olney admits that on the day of the murder Durant offered him the copy for ten thousand dollars, much more than the three hundred expected. At eight o'clock, he went to Durant's girl's apartment, gave him ten thousand in bills, got the copy and left. Della brings in the caged canary. Grace Olney confesses to arriving at eight-twenty and leaving with the bird. Durant was already dead. It was she who left ten thousand in an envelope, for the copy Durant made for her! Now Mason asks Grace if her copy was with Durant; no. So he asks Gilbert how it got back to his studio, as well as the ten thousand left by Otto. Gilbert testifies that Durant said he could up the ante, maybe to seven fifty each. He left, then crawled back into the bathroom where he overheard ten thousand from each of the Olneys. Durant had heard him, so confronted him with his gun which went off, and Durant fell dead. // [7/8] An uninterrupted dinner. Questions all around, and Mason offers that Durant started wanting money via a defamation suit, then went for the twenty thousand. Della presents a bill from Hamilton Burger for the twenty cents rental of the bus station locker. [8-8 end credits] [50:39]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Anderson Wesley Lau Gwynn Elston Pippa Scott George Belding Baxter Patrick McVey Corley Ketchum Karl Swenson Felton Grimes Michael Conrad Carl Jasper Allan J Melvin Nell Grimes Jacqueline Loughery Judge Charles Irving Bolton Claude Stroud Little Girl Betsy Hale Mrs Gillette Ann Mitchell Plainclothesman (Evans) Jim Drum [Sgt Brice Lee Miller]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Water in a kettle boils. Gwynn (Elston) talks to it, then shuts it off. She takes breakfast to Felton and Nell Grimes who are kissing, "having a fight." He's leaving on another trip. Married but six months, but he was taking such trips before they got married. Gwynn reels off the start of her encyclopedia sales routine. Nell and Felton kiss passionately as Gwynn heads out. Nell wishes her a husband as wonderful as hers. / Gwynn, an encyclopedia salesperson, goes to the Gillette home (8343) where she is greeted by a little girl, then finds a photo that looks like Felton. The girl turns it around and Gwynn recognizes without a doubt Felton Grimes. The wife, Mrs Gillette, says that husband Frank, gone half the time, is returning tomorrow. Gwynn begins her sales pitch. // [3/8] Felton finds Gwynn going through his desk. They argue over her snooping. “Nosing over other people’s housing?“ She blurts out that maybe he's been married before. He kisses her, threatens her if she reveals anything. She runs in to the kitchen, throws her drink in the sink, then wipes it with tissue she saves. / She tells Perry Mason and Della Street that Grimes has poisoned her drink, baited her and is a bigamist. Mason sees through this, to her fear of telling Nell. Mason says Paul Drake should check into it. She then says she has to go back to the house where she left her encyclopedia sales things. Mason suggests the only way she can stay out of danger is to go back to the Gillette's for the order form which the husband has to sign. / Gwynn picks up the order form while Frank Gillette/Grimes is out. Mrs Gillette tells Gwynn that she's much too nervous and needs to find a good husband. As Gwynn leaves she notices a man looking at her car. She goes by neighbor Baxter's house, finds another car that is registered to Frank Gillette (8343 Rosetta). She runs, as the man stands in front of a neighbor's house. She bangs on the door of the Baxter's, a neighbor, and is met outside by the caretaker. He offers to help her. The man is now gone.At Gillette’s car, the caretaker offers that Gillette is “a family man.” When she gets in her car, the man is looking for lost keys next it. / Gwynn reports her incident to Mason. Paul Drake reports that he did not have a man watching Gwynn. Gwynn looks for her list of prospects, but it is lost. Nell joins her wondering how she’s dressed, aren’t they going shopping? Gwynn leaves her, knowing “where to find it.” / Traces of strychnine were in Gwynn's gin and tonic, says Paul. / Gwynn returns to the Baxters, looks for her forms, sees the door of Gillette’s car open, walks towards it, and trips over dead Felton. // [4-8] Mrs Gillette identifies husband Frank (Grimes) and Sergeant Brice helps her in her hysteria. George Belding Baxter tells Lieutenant Anderson that he found the body. He returned by plane and taxi from Bakersfield. Evans (plainclothesman) states that the murder gun was Gillette's. Drake arrives and Andy shows him a compact with "G.E." engraved on it. / Gwynn Elston doesn't think she even had her compact with her. Paul has found her order forms. He is worried that he took things from a crime scene, but Perry notes he did not know it was a crime scene when he took them. Drake reports that Grimes' real identity is Frank Gillette, who married Nell six months ago. Gwynn chips in how generous Felton was, giving Nell furs and such. His mother, however, died a charity case.Andy takes Gwynn away after she brazens out the loss of her compact. Frank’s father, Gorman Gillette from Bakersfield, died a couple of days ago, a hermit. Mason suggests he should claim his “long lost uncle Harry!“ Andy returns to take Drake with him. / The funeral home director (Mr Bolton) says that only a younger man, Frank, ever visited the hermit Gillette. Mason wants more information before he will claim Gorman, then offers $500 to help cover costs. Bolton snatches the bills greedily, offers to make phone calls. Mason takes a lipstick from Della, leaves her, while a snap, crackle and pop 78 rpm disc plays on. Mason returns with the old man's fingerprints. / Della brings a boxed dinner to the hermit’s shack where Perry has met one neighbor who heard Gorman call his visitor “son.” Della reports that Gwynn has told everything. Mason has discovered that Gillette read westerns and one copy of "Suburban Landscaping." Drake calls in; Gillette served time for armed robbery with an accomplice named Halsey, still not found. Gwynn is to be charged with first-degree murder. Mason tells him to get a subpoena for George Belding Baxter whose picture is in "Suburban Landscaping." // [5-8] Della is polishing a cigarette lighter and box. Baxter bursts in to Mason's office. He has to fly to Honolulu. He's given District Attorney Hamilton Burger an affidavit. Della pushes the lighter and box to him, but he smokes his own. He's offered a drink as Della goes to crystal decanters. He refuses. Baxter threatens a $100,000 suit for Mason's damage to his business as Drake and Street look on. “now are you going to be reasonable?“ “No, Mr Baxter, I’m not!“ After he leaves, Mason suggests that maybe the police have stopped looking for Halsey because they have found him. He draws a "U" around Baxter's fingerprints on his desk, tells Drake that these are his case. / In court Nell Grimes admits that Gwynn left at about 8:30 and didn't return until after she fell asleep. Burger badgers her, trying to pin down the time Gwynn returned. Gwynn whispers to Mason that she returned almost immediately. Nell refuses to answer if her husband and Gwynn argued. Mrs Gillette says Miss Elston left her house at 8:50. Her husband “was such a good man” and wouldn't have put strychnine in her drink. When he left the house that evening, he said "he had something unpleasant to attend to.” Mason asks her about her husband's business. Well, he began to travel a little less than a year ago, so maybe sales. Couldn't it have been "blackmail?" asks Mason. The caretaker says Miss Elton drove away at 9:15, and he saw no one on the estate the rest of the night. Andy says they found Gillette's blood on the compact and in footprints of shoes the size of the defendant's. An argument between Burger and Mason ensues over the proper introduction of the finding of the body. Baxter testifies to the time he found the body between 9:50 and 10. Mason tries to prove Baxter is someone else, but this is improper cross, as the judge forcefully reminds him. Carl Jasper is called. He is a private detective who was hired by Frank Gillette to check on the girl that would call on his house that night. She saw him. After she left he met Gillette, who admitted she knew something about him. As he drove away, fifteen minutes later. Gwynn Elston passed him returning. // [6/8] Gwynn tells Perry that, when she drove back, she didn't see anyone. Drake reports that Baxter's fingerprints are not Halsey's and are not even on file. / Mason shows Baxter the photo in "Suburban Landscaping." There are two people, Baxter and the caretaker (Corley Ketchum), whom Mason says Gillette recognized. Yes, Baxter admits, the caretaker Ketchum is his brother, Halsey. It was Frank Gillette, son of Gorman, who discovered the situation and moved next door and demanded money. With his father dead, Frank asked for a quarter of a million dollars, at Baxter's house the night of the murder. Halsey, Baxter and Gillette were together when Gwynn came by, wondering if things hadn't gotten out of hand. Gillette left. Shortly thereafter Halsey heard a car backfire, then found Gillette dead. He heard a woman running away. Mason calls Gwynn. What size shoes does Nell wear? The same as she. Did she check to see if Nell was in her room? Nell breaks down. // [7-8] Drake explains. Nell followed her, confronted her husband. They fought and that was that. Mason says Nell had her in the house as her detective, having suspected her husband of bigamy for at least a few weeks. He shows the prospects list, and the last one, that of Gillette, was typed on Nell's typewriter, not Gwynn's. [8-8 end credits] [50:36]

[8-1 Title credits] [2-8] Night. An Oriental man exits a small boat when it docks in Hong Kong harbor and heads downtown. / Mr Eng pays $40,000 for some diamonds, noting that they are worth much more. “May your years be long and filled with tranquility” says the Oriental man who then leaves. Eng suffers a heart attack after the delivering agent leaves. A Westerner and servant Kwon (not credited since he does not speak) enter to help him. // [3-8] The Westerner, Tudor Sherwin, joins Mr (Louis) Kew and asks about Mr Eng’s American relative. Juli Eng, Mr Eng’s granddaughter, joins them for the reading of the will. Eng’s death was not unexpected, as he’d phoned her that he knew he was dying. Juli gets all but a small bequest to Kwon. This includes the house, but there is no mention of diamonds in the inventory, which Juli knows about from her grandfather's phone call. Ralph Iverson of the Orient American (diamond) Sales Corporation enters. Juli relates the phone call. “You and your mother will have fewer burdens because of {the diamonds}. Privately, she suggests to Iverson that Sherwin run the company but he tells her that Sherwin was going to be let go. “The man’s always been sort of a snoop.” Juli runs out; Sherwin is gone. Iverson remembers a hidden space and opens it, but finds it empty. Juli says she'll call the police. / On a large passenger ship at dockside, a woman (Agatha Culpepper) stops a man (Gilbert Tyrell) who resembles a person she met named Chyilton. The police took him off the boat in Athens! So it must not be him. He claims to be Sureté National. In a cabin the diamonds are being shown to Tyrell by Iverson. They discus sneaking them into the U S A. Tyrell offers what not to do, then says a professional is required. Lorraine knocks on the locked door, Tyrell hides, she enters and finds the diamond package which Ralph says is a cigarette case for his boss. Lorraine leaves. Iverson is certain he can get the diamonds past San Francisco Customs, z”Nothing could be simpler.” Iverson arranges with Tyrell to get the diamonds into San Francisco. / Inspector Mac Ritchie has reasonable doubt that the stones ever existed. He states that he's searched Sherwin and he doesn't have the diamonds, so he's sailing for America, now. / The ship is casting off. Iverson leaves his room with the diamonds. Sherwin goes into his room. Iverson gives the diamonds to Tyrell at his stateroom. Agatha Culpepper interrupts Juli Eng's arrival from a pilot boat. Juli has to excuse herself. / Della Street brings Perry Mason a telegram regarding the stolen diamonds from Juli. Mason suggests a welcome for Sherwin. / Iverson tells Juli that he doubts Sherwin would bring the diamonds aboard ship. He suggests that she let Customs handle the situation. Mrs Culpepper joins them. She notices "everything.," including Juli’s watching the eEnglishman. Tyrell, faking a Texas accent, is joined by Sherwin. Juli asks Culpepper about Tyrell. She informs her that he's a very dangerous man and Iverson excuses himself when she asks him for confirmation. / Later, at dinner, Lorraine is again complaining to Ralph. Juli dances with Tyrell. Then Tyrell joins Iverson who warns him about Juli and about playing around with any of his girls. Iverson sees Tyrell kissing Lorraine, goes to Tyrell's room. Sherwin, already there in a connecting room, joins him. He threatens to expose Iverson’s cheating Kew for over $10,000. Since he hasn't found the diamonds, he'll wait until they land for his share of the loot. // [4-8] Paul Drake reports on Gilbert Tyrell and his aliases to Perry and Della. Paul is sent to the ship docks in San Francisco. / At the dock the custom's agent (Wendel) tells Drake of his shipboard informant who travels to collect rewards, Mrs Culpepper. / Aboard ship, Culpepper keeps a watchful eye on Tyrell. / At the dock Wendel tells Drake that Tyrell has been previously caught twenty years ago, in Southampton. / At Customs Tyrell informs the customs officer that he has diplomatic immunity, but to no effect. / Mason warns Juli there is no proof that Tyrell has the diamonds. Agatha is told they are looking for diamonds. “Diamonds, I love diamonds.” She asks Wendel what her “moiety will be.” Iverson sends his wife to get in a cab, goes to tell a man (later identified as Chowen) in a car to not let Tyrell out of his sight. Meanwhile, Tyrell has gone thru three hours of search. “Where did you plant those diamonds?” asks Wendel. “We’ll have to wait and see if they sprout.“ Wendel has to let him go. Juli protests to Mason as Wendel claims that not even the Hong Kong police believe there are no diamonds. Mason again queries Juli. “Nobody believes me.” / Tyrell goes into a phone booth. The phone rings at Iverson's, but he hangs up as Lorraine walks by. Juli enters and complains to Iverson. She partially overhears a phone conversation between Tyrell and Iverson who agree to meet at Iverson’s office in an hour. / A tugboat comes by and the diamond package is thrown to Tyrell. (Frank) Chowen and another confront him and he throws the diamonds into the water thinking they are customs agents. The two threaten him, but Drake pops out and saves him. They walk away and Tyrell explains that he didn’t know his attackers. A king’s ransom is in “a hundred feet of water headed for the Golden Gate.” / Drake phones Mason, noting that the diamonds were for Iverson, not Sherwin. / Juli comes running out of Iverson's office, hysterical. Mason enters as Iverson staggers out, a knife in his back, and dies. Juli crying hysterically, knows Iverson stole her diamonds. // [5-8] Doctor (Lefcourt) tells the District Attorney how the death was caused. Mason gets him to admit that he could have lived five or more minutes after being stabbed. Sherwin says the solicitor had everything cataloged. Iverson only must have seen the diamonds. Lorraine, hardly an unhappy widow, states that she saw a small package, but her husband didn't have it at customs. Ralph went to his office after dinner, regarding a phone call. Culpepper says she warned Juli, then identifies Tyrell, aka Colonel Chilton, as “a notorious smuggler.” Tyrell offers that he is a “globe trotter,” admits that he was a spy! The judge advises Tyrell that he need not incriminate himself. He “brought nothing that was contraband into the United States.” // [6-8] Drake tells Mason that Iverson had been swindling Eng for the past five yaars. A private detective hired by Sherwin told him so. Kew on the phone says Kwon remembers a package delivered from Red China. Mason tells Drake to show a photograph to every taxi driver in San Francisco. / In court Mason tells Juli that Louis Kew is in love with her. Chowen says he followed Tyrell. He overheard him call Iverson and say he could have the diamonds within five minutes, then went to the pier where he dropped them in the water. Mason recalls Culpepper. She was deprived of her reward when Tyrell was not caught with the diamonds. She saw Juli come aboard from a pilot ship. Tyrell is asked if he didn't drop the diamonds overboard with a float attached, to be later picked up and delivered. Really, wasn't that a stunt for Iverson’s benefit, with the diamonds left back in Hong Kong, sent ashore on the pilot boat returning after delivering Juli? Didn't he go to Iverson with his tale of how his thugs caused the loss? No, he didn't get out of the cab, didn’t go inside, because Mrs Iverson was there first. Lorraine jumps up, reveals that Ralph was going to run out on her, having finally gotten the big one with the diamonds, which she saw in the cabin while he was out. He beat her and she grabbed the knife. She breaks down sobbing. // [7-8] The usual three and Juli. She is told that her grandfather was merely helping mainland Chinese, not himself, by smuggling. Mason says Louis can handle the diamonds for her. Della says Mason is just teasing, she can go to Honk Kong if she wants. She smiles and admits she’s crazy about lawyers. [8-8 end credits] [50:36]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Three men and one woman (Chester, Lawton, Reed, Eloise, all Brents) gather with another (Justin Grover) around a bed with one woman (Bebe Brent) in it. One asks Grover if they should call the doctor. Another asks where nurse Randall is. The sick lady, Mrs (Bebe) Brent, calls for Hetty (Randall). She asks for an envelope from Justin, whom she asks about a "gift in anticipation of death." Justin accepts the envelope as agent. In the envelope addressed to Hetty Randall, he finds a certified check for $1 million. Three of the other four are outraged. Reed says that twenty years of service deserves reward. Eloise suggests Chester and Lawton would split everything, perhaps with Justin, if the check were destroyed. Bebe dies and Hetty returns from the drug store, too late. // [3-8] Next a swimming pool Lawton Brent serves ice cold lemonade to his future daughter-in-law Madeline Randall and son Reed. Justin arrives with news that Max Randall, Hetty's brother and Madeline's uncle, has heard of "a" gift to Hetty. / Hetty tells Madeline that Bebe went to a lawyer, then a man at the bank, who took care of the check. Max hears this. Hetty complains, “I don’t see my brother sometimes for year on end . . . Finally he decides to see if I’m dead or alive.” Hetty offers that no one should do anything. Madeline leaves, then heads back to get her gloves. She hears Hetty tell Max that Reed is a good boy and has certainly told Madeline what happened. Max says that he can smell a phony fast shuffle. / Madeline confronts Reed and he states that things were confusing. She demands to know what happened. She knows he's holding something back. She says that she thought she knew the kind of man that she was going to marry then leaves. Lawton tells Reed that he needs time. / Madeline confronts Justin. He needs time. Carla enters and gives Justin reason to leave. He offers to get in touch soon. Alone with Madeline, she accidentally blurts out that she came in at Justin’s signal to rescue him from her. “You can tell your Mr Grover . . . I’ll be seeing him whether he likes it or not.” / Chester tells Madeline that there was no gift. “You’re all lying,“ she shouts.Eloise complains that they are late to a party. / Madeline asks Perry Mason for help, tells h im her mother was like part of the (Brent) family. He quotes law to indicate the possible “undue influence” by her mother, then agrees to take her case. / Madeline is met by Reed, who confesses to the million dollar check and leaves her. She goes in to the house to answer the phone, then tells Grover that she knows “about the check, the miliion dollars.” He says he'll explain everything if she'll meet him in an hour, alone. Max has heard her end of the conversation. / Justin Grover's house is burning as Madeline runs out, meeting a policeman who corrects her statement that there is a man inside to "there was a man." // [4-8] In jail Madeline is being interrogated by D A Hamilton Burger with Mason and Drake present. Madeline is explaining that the fire started when she knocked over a heater and was knocked out bumping her head. Burger leaves. Mason tells Madeline he was to see Grover the next day, so why did she go? Because of the phone call from Grover.Drake tells Madeline that the back door had been jimmied, the front locked, so she is considered a felon. When she came to, she says, there was fire and smoke. She ran into the study, grabbed the brief case and ran, not seeing the dead body. Mason informs her she'll be charged with murder . . . in the first-degree. / Mason and Street help Hetty finish the papers that will get her her gift. When Mason asks why a nurse would get such a gift. She prevaricates. Mason suggests what she knows could help her daughter. Max nods "no," and she suggests that they leave. Mason is a great lawyer, she notes, and “you’ll get her off, I know.” / Drake wants information from Justin Grover's private secretary, Carla Eden, but she is on to him. He pulls a "talent scout" trick on her. / The Brents squabble before Mason and Drake, but Lawton says he and his son will stand by Hetty. Chester threatens that she won't get the money, because he and Eloise will disagree, two against two.Will the late Justin Grover testify by Ouija Board, queries Eloise. Mason reveals Grover's office diary admits that he had the check to deliver. Lieutenant Anderson enters. Hetty was only a go-between. The check was meant for Madeline, Bebe's daughter! // [5-8] In court Chester tells of a brother, Philip, who married Bebe, but was thought dead in an avalanche. Some time later he met "what was left of him" in a hospital. Philip lived until a few weeks ago. Eloise says Bebe went to pieces when she heard of her husband's death. Fourteen months later, when he was found alive, she telephoned her in Oregon, but she was injured in an auto accident near San Francisco and arrived later in Los Angeles. Hetty admits that Bebe was Madeline's mother by someone other than Philip. So Hetty took her as her child. The check was to go into a trust for Madeline. D A Burger berates Reed, warns that he will cite him for contempt if he is not more responsive. Reed says Madeline didn't know that the check was for her, but he did tell her how much. Lawton says that he fought against the gift check because the family company was in delicate condition financially. Madeline told him she'd "light a fire under" Grover if necessary to get the check. / At night in Mason's office, Drake reports to Mason and Street that the Brent business came up $150,000 short. He learned this by tricking Carla, then getting her a screen test. Justin Grover had been running around with some woman, identity unknown. Mason now knows who embezzled, who murdered, and who started the fire. // [6-8] Carla Eden testifies, rambling on until Burger by shouting gets her attention. She then says that Madeline said she’d see Grover whether he liked it or not. Mrs Taylor, his neighbor, heard an argument between Grover and someone else, man or woman she couldn't be sure, but they argued for ten or fifteen minutes. The policeman met Madeline heading out the back door. The surgeon identifies the cause of death as carbon monoxide inhalation. Burger, with a long explanation - “Burglary of an inhabited dwselling at night time is a felony” - asks Madeline “be bound over to Superior Court on a charge of first-degree murder.” Mason explains that motive and intent are not the same, and intent to steal is necessary. Max Randall admits that he told Madeline she was Bebe's daughter before she left to meet Lawton. He admits that he went to Grover's to retrieve the check for Madeleine, jimmied the back door, but never got beyond the kitchen. He heard the bell and knocked over a table in the dark. Mason says it was Madeline who entered, tripped and knocked her head while falling. The secret was kept from Madeline, because she was illegitimate. He was her father! Lawton suspected Chester of embezzlement, but found that it was Grover, so confronted him. He had a partner who was going to return much of the money. Mason turns to Eloise, who protests too forcefully. When Mason mentions embezzlement of $250,000, Carla Eden blurts that it was only $150.000. Mason asks about her screen test, then her first screen test. She was offered $500 a week by the same person who made the screen test for Paul Drake, but instead went to work for Grover for $100 a week. What of her safe deposit box? She now admits that she has over a hundred thousand dollars from working three years with Grover. When he demanded its return, she argued, struggled, then hit him and threw curtains on the gas heater before she left. After all, that money was hers! // [7-8] Della, Hetty, Max, Mr and Mrs Madeline Reed learn from Perry that Madeline is actually legitimate. [8-8 end credits] [50:38]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Three rich guys at night in a Thunderbird convertible are looking for beer. Tim (Balfour) is driving, Chick (Montana) is their presumptive leader. He and Greasy (Neal) go into Liquor store. Chick comes back and has Tim drive away quickly. He tells Tim to tell his housekeeper that he's been in all night, for what Greasy has done he might be in trouble,. / At home, housekeeper Edith (Summers) informs Tim that Chick called. Chick informs Tim that Greasy needs two bills to get out of town or else his friends will finger them. // [3-8] Luke (Balfour) is berating Tim Balfour,Senior, over the traffic citations young Tim has gotten. Tim does all his driving in Italy, counters Sr. He does no work at Balfour Enterprise. Tim is all Sr has left of his dead son and he is his conscience. Balfour says they have to give something to Tim (III), since the death of Tim II. “Give, give, give” complains Luke. Edith (Summers) tries to calm Luke. Tim comes to Uncle Luke for two hundred dollars, but is given a one dollar bill. Tim says his mother and father were cold because of Luke, who says Tim (II) wouldn't work because he was an artist, an intellectual. Luke denies responsibility for the car wreck in Italy that killed Tim's mother and father (and where Tim learned to drive). Edith consoles Tim and promises to help him. He then calls Chick. They plan to meet. / At the Balfour cottage Tim calls for Chick, wrecks his left headlight, then hides as the police drive by, finally speeds off. At a turn, we see what looks like a body by the side of the road. Tim swerves and runs his car off the road where it gets stuck. / Tim tells Edith, who is returning from the drug store, that he hit a gatepost and needs money to pay a man so that he won't be reported. H is not supposed to be driving since his license is suspended. The police drive up to bring him his wallet. Edith says they were at the Hollywood Bowl, so don't know how long Tim's car has been stolen. / Edith and Tim argue over who is wrong. Chick phones. Edith says that Tim is in Palm Springs. Chick says the price is now two thousand dollars. When Edith repeats the figure, Tim takes the phone, informs Chick that it is a shakedown. Chick responds that it will take $2000 to clear him of hitting the man in the road (who is lying nearby on the couch). // [4-8] Miss Adler says she's doing the best she can to prepare a financial statement, which has already taken three weeks, of Balfour's estate. She leaves and Luke complains that Balfour is leaving money and shares in the company to young Tim. When Mason refuses to stop it, Luke asserts that he will. / As Tim paces outside the company office, Edith asks Miss Adler for a $2000 advance on the $25,000 Balfour has left her. Miss Adler goes to Hal (Harold Minter, who runs the company) who agrees to the loan, but Luke phones and stops it. / As Edith enters Luke’s outer office, Chick comes out. She goes in to Luke, who tells her that she can run the house, but nothing else. He calls Perry Mason and asks for someone to be put on to watch Tim twenty-four hours a day. / The mantel clock chimes nine. Tim takes a loaded pistol from a wall display, puts it back, then checks another. Edith enters and he asks her if she had any luck. No, but she knows what has to be done. She goes into Sr’s bedroom while he sleeps and steals from his private cash supply. She gives it to Tim, who at first resists but then takes it. He then takes a gun out of the display, puts it back, than takes it when Edith leaves. / With the gun he goes to Chick and the wounded man. He knocks Chick down and takes the old man to his car. Chick comes after him and gets shot. The gun is left behind. // [5-8] Drake speaks to operative Pete on his car phone; just watch him he says. An expert has found latent prints on the gun. Lieutenant Anderson greets Drake at the crime scene. Minter comes over; he has found the body. / A man at El Rancho de Health is helping Tim take care of the old man. / Mason tells Luke Balfour that anyone creating grave emotional crises with a man recovering from a coronary must be suspect. He'd inherit all if Balfour dies before recovering. Luke tells Mason that he's trying to prevent Balfour from making a mistake that could kill him or ruin the rest of his life. Mason counts the three driving offenses of Tim, whom Luke calls a hoodlum, then notes that one more citation and Luke loses his license for all time. The phone rings; Drake. He reports that a friend of Tim's has been shot with one of Balfour's guns, and two thousand dollars on him. Mason arranges to meet Drake without letting Luke know. Luke denies being near his father's house this night, when Mason tries to trap him. / Edith paces as Tim drives up. As they enter the house, Miss Adler stops them and accuses Edith of taking two thousand dollars from Tim's grandfather. Tim volunteers that she did it for him. In private Tim confesses to the shooting to Mason, who says the man is dead. / In jail Tim asserts that he didn't mean to. Paul tells Perry that Tim took an old wino to Rancho de Health and he's still there, still drunk. Tim says the liquor store was just the start. Edith knew about the drunk. Mason stuns Tim when he reveals that his friend was shot from ten feet, in the back. / Drake reports that Chick was a fast talker, slow thinker but that, after meeting Tim, he had money. Drake is told to look for whomever is behind Montana. / In court D A Hamilton Burger asks Minter about finding the body. He drove past Balfour's, then thru the estate where he found the body. He runs Balfour's business, but is not a personal friend. He never saw Chick Montana before his death. The medical examiner testifies that the deceased was shot in the back. Gun powder was on the front of the jacket, but no bullet hole. Miss Adler testifies Edith took two thousand dollars from Balfour's bedroom. She identifies a photo of Chick, who was in the office to see Luke Balfour. Luke testifies that the murder weapon, with Tim's fingerprints, was easily accessible and was always loaded. The five thousand from which the two were taken was his, kept at Balfour's so his wife wouldn't find out about his going to Las Vegas. Yes, he met, and threw out, Chick, who went to Minter first. After a short conference with Drake, Mason recalls Lt Anderson. He asks about the gun and whether they dusted for fingerprints on the other gun. No. Wouldn’t it be interesting if no prints were on that gun? // [6-8] Mason and Drake commiserate. Then a cameraman shows Mason his outfit, which was trained on the gun case from outside the house. / Mason asks Balfour to spare Edith for an hour./ Mason explains the way the camera is started and instructs Drake to admit anyone who comes. Mason asks Edith about her knowledge of Tim's father, then notes that she's a corroborating witness in Luke's wife's divorce suit, even tho there was no infidelity! The first visitor arrives, the drunk man. Edith slams the door. Mason opens it and Drake comes in, says Edith tripped the camera looking at the gun case. Mason takes the gun out of the case and discovers that it has only blanks. He confronts Edith. Is she afraid the police will find out that the gun Tim had was loaded with blanks? She was in the cabin with the other gun. She saw her opportunity to get rid of Chick as well as Tim. She ruined Luke's life, Tim's father's life, Minter . . . She would eventually be alone in the mansion with Balfour. She brags about turning Sr against his son. // [7-8] Balfour apologizes to Mason for all he failed to see regarding Edith Summers. Tim arrives with Drake and Street, and is welcomed by his grandfather. [8-8 end credits] [50:38]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] In a desert valley a Chevrolet pulls up to a farm. Willard (Hupp) gets out and goes to the farmhouse porch where Eula (Johnson) is smoking a cigarette. They are watched by a young man. Hupp asks Eula if "he" (Grover Johnson) is coming around. Inside their home, Grover refuses to sell for what has been offered. Eula asks "a thousand acres of what?" and berates him. The property was Grover’s wedding present to Eula. Three years, she's tried, she complains. She wants him to sell. He refuses and is still making his mortgage payments to Hupp. The property’s value is going down and “he won’t get another buyer.” Eula drives Willard away in his car, with a young man (Les Gilpin) watching. On the road out, they meet a Texan driving a Lincoln. He's looking for property. // [3-8] He's (Nelson) Barclift. Eula and Willard bluff about offers to buy. Johnson offers a tour while Eula cooks up a big lunch. / Willard is preparing an offer to buy for the third time. What figure? Eula tells him to “leave it blank.” Barclift returns with Grover. She knows Barclift likes his steak smokey, blood red inside. She is passing out martinis as Barclift waxes enthusiastic about the property. Eula sends Grover out to cook it before he can name what they expect. She suggests $175,000, but has written $200,000 on the offer to buy. After protesting, he allows that he’ll “buy that boyhood dream” if he can get financing. / Paul Drake is astounded by the sale price. Perry Mason's client was offering $52,500. Drake says Barclift cannot possibly come up with the money and Della Street wants to know what she should write to Mason's client. Paul suggests "nothing," for he is sure Barclift is bluffing and will “never sign anything.” / Barclift signs the agreement, and a check, for $10,000 down and a promissory note for the remainder. As they exit to celebrate, Eula puts money into Nelson's hand, held behind his back. / Barclift is making passes at Eula while Grover is away. She refuffs him and he asks if she’ll pas up a Texas oil millionaire. He complains about the dinner, mentions his bridgeware. Eula asks to see it as she “paid for it.” He shows her his bridgework. Grover interrupts. He suspects something but leaves. She whispers that a dead body has been found in Arizona and when his bridgework is found . . . Les interrupts them. / Outside the Arizona cabin where the body is, Eula pours gasoline inside the Lincoln. Barclift sees movement at the window. Eula knows the "body" is alive, but “he’ll be dead soon enough.” She pulls a gun, calls out to her co-conspirator, “honey, come out here, quick.” Barclift tells her that she's "not going to put me in this car." / The burning Lincoln slides down a rock face next a waterfall. // [4-8] Grover Johnson is telling Mason, Street and Drake that he has to sell. Drake shows a flyer that proves Barclift was a small-time swindler. The estate will owe the $200,000. Grover says the $10,000 went to cover expenses. Mason's client still wants the place, so he'll help Grover get what he wants, for himself and to make Eula happy. / Les tells Eula that Grover is on the way back with a lawyer and a detective. She speaks on the phone to a furrier from whom she is buying an ermine stole and mink coat. She gathers and hides magazines which have coat ads. Outside Les is talking to a stranger. He reports to Eula that this one, (Walter) Jefferies, is asking questions like the lawyer and detective did earlier. / Jefferies drives up to Hupp's office. Inside, Hupp complains to Mason and Drake about the man outside who is asking about Barclift. Hupp, in his private office, speaks to Sidney Weplo about the property which is next a national park. / The sheriff meets Mason and Drake on the sidewalk, says the files are available for them and, since they were at Hupp's, they must have met Weplo, a cousin of Barclift. / Les drops Grover and Eula at Hupp’s office where they are introduced to Barclift's cousin and only living heir, over whom Hupp is fawning. Mason and Drake join them. Mason gives Weplo a snapshot of the sheriff and Barclift, together, and Weplo “recognizes” his cousin. After Eula and Grover leave, Mason asks Weplo if he will take over the $190,000 payments? Drake confronts Weplo with the fact that it was his dead wife who was Barclift's cousin. As Drake and Mason leave Hupp's, Jefferies comes out of the title office. He admits to Mason and Drake that he's an insurance investigator for Statewide Mutual and that Barclift's estate will get $200,000. / The sheriff is apologizing to Mason when the attorney points out that the estate will now have to pay the $190,000 still owed on the property. The sheriff wants to see Eula’s expression when she hears “how rich she’s going to be.” / The sheriff drives Mason and Drake to Johnson's. Hupp runs up to them for help. They find Eula dead with Grover over her. // [5-8] In court Jefferies tells the prosecutor that his investigation found both an old and the new dental bridge, but he still suggested a delay in payment. Gilpin tells how Eula and Grover kissed, then fought over his spending his money and a waste pile of rocks, and him apologizing. She'd get off the ranch but once a year, to shop in San Francisco. He tells details of the scene he walked in on between Eula and Nelson Barclift, kissing. Willard Hupp had the Johnson's at his place. Grover left him after drinks at the tavern. When he got to the house, he heard fighting, a thud. Then no more sound from Eula, but Grover started sobbing, said "Eula, don't die." The sheriff testifies that he saw bruise marks where she'd been choked and the blood on Eula's head where she'd smashed into the corner of the fireplace hearth. // [6-8] In jail Nelson admits that he spent time walking off his drinking, and when he got to the house Eula was already lying on the floor. He says he didn't say any of the things Hupp claimed, but Mason responds that he hopes Hupp is “telling the complete and unvarnished truth.” Mason suggests Drake get to a dentist. / The doctor (Lewis) tells Drake that, even with a permanent bridge, Barclift could have wanted a spare. Drake asks about the four-year-old bridge, but the doctor corrects; Barclift's permanent bridge was no more than six months old. / The prosecutor pushes the point that three conspirators became two when Barclift was murdered, but two became one when Grover was overheard to say to his wife, "I can't let you spoil everything." Mason has Gilpin clarify what he overheard, and how many conspirators there were. He assumed when Eula said “he” she meant Grover, but she could have meant someone else. Weplo says it was about six years since he'd seen Barclift, but he'd answered a letter about a revolving door accident in Sacramento just after his wife died. Mason traps him into admitting that he recognized the sheriff in the photo, and has never met Barclift. A credit union officer (Mr Morgan) says that some time back he loaned Barclift $200, to get his teeth fixed, which was never paid back when Barclift went to South America. Doctor Lewis states that Barclift's bridge was only six months old. Mr Jefferies says now it was not two but three dentists, and that the Sacramento Barclift was not the one who took out life insurance on his company. The third dentist was used by two of the con men who were planning to kill the third! Mason forces Hupp to admit that he couldn't be sure that he heard Jefferies. Maybe someone else wanted Eula not to die for, if she did, he’d not get his share of her insurance money! Hupp wouldn't have known how to arrange the insurance swindel and such. So Mason turns on Jefferies who would. Was it the revolving door accident in Sacramento? Eula didn't know how well the swindle was working. She got hysterical and he tried to calm her. He didn't mean to kill her and breaks down in sobs. // [7-8] The usual trio meet Grover outside the court.. Mason's client still wants the property and also wants Grover to stay on and run it. Grover likes the idea. [8-8 end credits] [50:35]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] In downtown Los Angeles (Martin) Baylor is looking at a new dress from Orin Leslie that is being worn by model Nicolai (Wright). Both Nicolai and Martin think it cheap. Martin suggests Orin thinks that he has less taste than his dead father. Leslie says he came because he was asked to. Baylor identifies the cheap elements of Leslie's offering, but adds that soon he'll be sole owner of the Baylor enterprise. They could then do a lot of business. / Perry Mason and Della Street are with Todd and Martin Baylor for the reading of the will. It is on tape. The dead Baylor says that he is at fault for the breach with Todd. He leaves Martin all the Baylor stores with one exception; if Todd, running the home store, can increase profits 4% in one year, he'll get a half share in all the stores. // [3-8] In a restaurant Todd sneaks up on Carla Rinaldi and kisses her neck. She's a buyer at the store. He's going to take the $30,000 alternative, plus $45,000 offered by Martin, rather than a 4% gamble. She suggests that he visit her uncle who has been on the wagon a whole year. / At the front desk Todd looks at his photo of Carla, tells the hotel clerk to switch his evening flight to tomorrow or later. / Joseph Rinaldi serves soup to Todd. He then reveals how Carla got Leslie to buy one of his old dress designs for $50, which gave him a new lease on life, one free from alcoholism. Todd looks at Rinaldi’s most recent designs and likes them. / Jane (Alder) and Carla agree that sample gloves are not up to Baylor standards. Todd joins them and announces that he's taking the store for a year during which he is going to market "designs by Rinaldi" exclusively, and only, to be launched with a charity fashion show. / Leslie calls Martin to complain about Todd's plans and learns that Martin is only waiting until Todd is far out on a limb. / (Montage of dressmaking) Models get a once over (Debbie and Trixie are named). Carla is looking for Todd. Nicolai says he took out after Rinaldi who had stormed out of Martin's office. / Todd finds Rinaldi, drunk, angry that Carla is a do-gooder, but didn't do good enough. / Martin needles Todd about "breakage," then shows him his court order stopping the fashion show, because he has an exclusive contract with Rinaldi. Carla falls from a ladder. / Jane Alder is taking care of Carla. The doctor (McBurney) cautions rest for Carla, then Todd and Jane. Jane tells Todd that Martin has a plan to sell the stores. / Todd searches for Martin in heavy rain. He asks a house man, then (Nicolai’s) maid, where Martin is. He goes to the store. A store security officer ( Edward Lewis) lets Todd in and sends him up the steps, then follows him and discovers Todd on the floor, next Martin, who has scissors in his back. // [4-8] It is raining. Lieutenant Anderson and Sergeant Brice are at the building door, knocking, when the security officer brings Todd down and then tells the police that Todd stabbed his brother. / Mason arrives just as the police are finishing the investigation. Rinaldi enters. He didn't get Jane's message about Carla. Rinaldi's eye settles on a piece of jewelry; Mason notices. Andy says that with what they’ve got, they don’t need an admission from Todd. / Rinaldi is at Alder's (just across the street from the store). He informs Jane that Martin's been killed. While Jane makes coffee, Rinaldi sees Carla's coat, which is wet from the rain. Jane looks in on Carla; she's asleep. Jane took one of Carla's sleeping pills and has been asleep since. / Who is Todd trying to protect? asks Mason in the jail room. The reply is angry. / At the store, Rinaldi says Todd doesn't need to protect Carla. Mason notes that the contract which covered one item in small print gives Orin Leslie exclusive rights, which he assigned to Martin Baylor. Todd, Martin, and Rinaldi had keys to the employee's entrance to the building. Rinaldi doesn't know where his is. / Paul Drake asks Nicolai Wright about Martin's dealings with Orin Leslie. She admits Martin gave Leslie a check. / Elsewhere Mason is looking at a photo showing Carla with the jewelry seen at the crime scene just as Jane Alder enters. She says that, in the past, Todd had mismanaged the store and his father had accused him of theft. Drake reports that the check to Leslie was for $10,000. / Leslie claims the check was for orders. Martin was going to put Leslie's wares in all his stores, under the Rinaldi name, make a killing and then sell the Baylor stores to someone who wanted the real estate. Of course, Todd knew. // [5-8] The security officer tells D A Hamilton Burger what he overheard; "Martin, you've gone to far, you're not going to get away with it" "Todd . . . No, No" and a crash. Lt Anderson says there were three keys, only, to the employee's entrance. He was let in the front by the security guard. Nicolai admits Martin confided in her, specifically, that he was going to force Todd out of the store. Leslie admits that he sold his contract with Rinaldi to Martin Baylor, not to the store. This guaranteed the end of Todd Baylor. He informs Mason that he owns Rinaldi designs, one dollar a dress. Hamilton Burger tries to get Alder to incriminate Todd at the moment Martin showed him the contract. She admits she told Todd of Martin's plan to sell the store and Todd said "I won't let him get away with it, I swear it, no matter what I have to do." She says that she took a pill, went to sleep and found Carla asleep an hour later. Rinaldi is angry with Burger, who ends his examination. Mason gets Rinaldi to admit that the contract was "life or death" to him and to Martin, Todd and Carla. Rinaldi says he went to Martin to get the contract and killed him. Todd now changes his plea; he killed Martin Baylor. // [6-8] Perry tells Della that he's afraid Todd will still plead guilty tomorrow morning when the judge wants to hear from him. Paul has found what Mason wanted, hidden clothes. / In court Mason wants to get a third confession, so recalls security guard Lewis. Why did Todd run up the steps? Because the elevator was already on the second floor. He waited with Todd until he heard the police at the door. The elevator was now on the first floor. Lt Anderson found the elevator on the first floor. Everything was locked, no one found, so the person who used the elevator must have had a key. Carla was the only person with a key that is not accounted for. With photos, Carla Rinaldi's pin is discovered at the crime scene and on a coat. Mason approaches Jane Alder, who confesses to wearing Carla's coat. She loved Martin and betraying Todd for him again was too much. She claims it was Martin, not Todd, who took money from the store accounts three years before. She was looking for the records, to show Todd. Martin found her there, she lost Carla's pin at the time. Todd must have thought it was Carla getting in the elevator when she left Martin. Martin had told her that he was going to fire her. He'd been flaunting his new girl friend, Nicolai. Miss Wright sees nothing wrong with Martin switching to a younger woman. Mason says Baylor's sells an outfit for $300, while a cheap knock-off goes for $30. On the day he was killed Martin was concerned with "breakage." This includes loss of dress models. Mason shows some taken from her apartment. She has multiple bank accounts and lives beyond her means, tho she claims it is Martin who paid for that. No, Mason notes, her husband, Edward Lewis, has a key to the front door of the building. While her husband was making his rounds, she was looking for more samples. You overheard Martin talking about thieves, knew he had found you out, asserts Mason. When Jane left, she stabbed Martin in the back. He just stood there. Todd came, tried to hold him up, and both fell down. // [7-8] The fashion show. Joseph Rinaldi is introducing the models. Perry explains that Lewis, not knowing his ex-wife had just killed a man, let her out. He makes one of the outfits Della likes part of Todd's fee. Paul walks after the model. [8-8 end credits][50:35]

(1-8 Title credits) (2-8) A taxi arrives at San Quentin Prison and the woman passenger goes inside. The taxi driver declines a ride, stating that his Wednesday Woman will be back in five minutes. Inside, the woman's husband, (Philip) Stewart, refuses to see her. She, Mrs Katherine Stewart, and the would-be-ride, Jack Mallory, share the ride back to town in the taxi. She protests that her husband only fought with the deceased who had a bad heart. The diamond "Jokarta" that the dead man took has never been found. Malory offers her a quarter million for the diamond. // (3-8) Katherine Stewart tells Perry Mason and Della Street that her husband, while working at Webber & Reed, had a key to the safe, but he's not a thief. He can get parole, but needs a job and has been offered a good one back East. She wants Mason and Drake to get permission for him to leave California. They'd been married only a month, but for the past month her husband won't speak to her. Paul Drake arrives with the news that Acme paid out the half million insurance claim. Jack Mallory, Acme's investigator, is freelance since a week ago. / Jack Mallory is greeted by Joyce (Hadley) who notes that Mrs (Helen) Reed has been quite active in the company since her husband died. Downstairs, (Thomas) Webber asks (Lester) Ormesby to hurry up, a bonded messenger is waiting. In his office, Webber tells Mallory that he isn't wanted there. Mrs Reed seconds this. Mallory tells her that, because Webber & Reed guaranteed that he could have his job back, Phillip Stewart will get parole. He sees a mammoth gem in the outer office which, Lester Ormesby, having tried to get a date with Joyce, takes into Webber. There he overhears Mrs Reed speaking of Stewart's murder of her husband. Since Webber is buying her husband's interest, it doesn't matter. Better Webber & Stewart than Reed and bankruptcy. She slaps him, then exits. / Mason buys a newspaper from "Rosie" Dell. Drake reports that Reed stole the diamond and it was smuggled to Hong Kong. A mysterious unidentified woman was seen leaving Reed's private apartment, unknown to his wife, just before Stewart landed the KO on his chin. Katherine Stewart was Reed's secretary and may be the mysterious woman. / Katherine awaits Phillip, but he rejects her pleas without explanation. / Stewart enters a pawn shop, as Webber watches from his club across the street. He gets a music box from the pawn broker. Webber and Mallory, watching from a car, see him exit the shop. / He ask for a ticket to Rio in ten days. / He rents a room for two weeks. In the room he opens the music box and pries out a cover, then lifts out a jewel box. // (4-8) On an elevator Ormesby and Stewart meet Lester, who is carrying several jewels in an open tray. He thinks Phillip was going to take a vacation in the Far East before he came back . . . but he's on parole (so can't). He takes the gems to Webber's office, while Stewart bothers Joyce who, to his surprise, has his new address. His office hasn't changed except the safe has been moved to Webber's office. Stewart finds his pistol in a locked drawer. Webber walks in, but Stewart isn't friendly. He notes that a half million was offered by a museum for the Jokarta and Webber refused. Then a week later, the sale was authorized, completed, and the diamond placed in Stewart's safe. Reed and Webber stole the museum's jewel. Webber remains amiable. / In the dark of night Drake enters Stewart's apartment and is immediately knocked out. He wakes to find Mallory watching. Why would he return the diamond to Acme for $350,000 when he can fence it for much more? Mallory offers to save Mason and Drake some trouble. Reed, he notes, was in deep financial trouble, but the package delivered in Hong Kong was empty. / Mrs Reed tells Mason that she's going to the south of France in a couple of weeks, at which time Webber & Reed will be no more. Her husband was stupid, selfish, scheming and evil. Katherine Stewart was his girlfriend. / Katherine tells Perry, Della and Paul that it took a long time to happen, but her marriage to Phillip was for real. There was nothing between her and Reed. His wife spent money faster than he could earn it. On the day of the murder, Katherine admits, she went to Reed because he called her, told her that he was going away and leaving his wife and the business. She was there in the morning, not late at night when Phillip got to Reed. / Stewart takes the elevator to work where he sees Ormesby arguing with Joyce. He finds Katherine in his office. She tells him of the "other" woman. He rushes out and finds "liar" Mallory at the elevator. They get on. Shortly thereafter, on the main floor, the elevator door opens and Mason finds Mallory, dead, a gun next him. // (5-8) In jail are the Stewarts, Mason and Drake. Stewart says Mallory organized everything, including pawning the music box and his ticket to South America, even staging things so that Webber would see him leave the pawn shop. Leave it all up to the Stewart jinx. A half hour after he sees Reed the man is dead. He goes into the elevator with Mallory and he turns up dead. Acme, note Mason and Drake, knew that Mallory was searching for the diamond. On the elevator, Mallory told him that he lied about Katherine. / In court District Attorney Hamilton Burger shows Lieutenant Anderson Stewart's pistol, the murder weapon. He says no one else could have been on the elevator but the two men. There were only two sets of footprints on the newly-waxed elevator floor. There were no identifiable fingerprints on the gun or elevator buttons. Janitor Amos Elwell explains his waxing the elevator floor and seeing Mallory and Stewart get on just afterwards. Joyce Hadley testifies that Stewart told Mallory "I'll kill you." The elevator was automatic. It was Perry Mason who pressed the button that brought it down to the first floor. / At night Perry finds Katherine in her husband's office, getting a sketch pad for Phillip. Mason asks her about Ormesby and Hadley. Ormesby has been following her around like a stray puppy, says Katherine. The morning she awaited her husband, was the hallway door not locked? No. Mason thinks the killer of Mallory was the same as for Reed. There was no medicine on Reed or in his apartment even though he was never without it. // (6-8) Back in court Webber testifies that he wanted Stewart to rebuild the business, which Reed had nearly bankrupted. He went to Ormesby's workshop on the tenth floor while the elevator incident happened. Lester was not there. Ormesby hems and haws over where he was. He remembers faces, but cannot remember "Rosie" Dell when Mason has him stand. Mason says Rosie drove Lester to Reed's apartment, then followed a woman. Lester says,"no, I drove my own . . ." The woman was Joyce Hadley. She says she had agreed to meet Reed in Hong Kong. His death cost her. Ormesby has used her. Mason, facing the public, says that Stewart got off at the tenth floor, the murderer stopped the elevator on the ninth, an empty hall, shot Mallory and threw the gun into the elevator. Joyce breaks down, crying that she didn't do it. Mason now examines Mrs Reed , who had a 10:30 appointment, arrived shortly after ten. Now she claims to have seen Joyce Hadley on the ninth floor where she was meeting her lawyer before signing the papers with Webbe. She said nothing because she didn't want to help Stewart, who killed her husband. No, says Mason, she did. Mason threatens her with a subpoena to her safe deposit box. She admits to stealing the diamond and taking it out of its box which she then rewrapped, laughing as Joyce delivered an empty box. She says Mallory ordered her to meet him. She had the gun and met him outside her lawyer's office on the ninth floor. When the elevator door opened, Mallory saw her with the gun . . . // (7-8) Leaving court, the Stewart's and Mason find themselves alone in the elevator. Mason explains how Mallory first pressed the button for the ninth floor for his appointment with Mrs Reed, then pressed the emergency stop. After talking with Stewart, he released the emergency, pressed ten and let Stewart off. Then the elevator went to the already set ninth floor, where he was met by Helen Reed and her gun. The elevator door opens. Mrs Reed, with Lt Anderson behind her, are seen inside, then the elevator doors close. (8-8 end credits) [50:35]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Leslie Ross looks on, her shapely legs prominently displayed, sd B K (Doran) B K (Doran), who is being fitted for a custom-tailored suit, is being told to set up a conference by Edward (Lewis). Ed is furious over B K’s dictatorial running of the company. Ed forcibly escorts the tailor out, then continues his tirade. He has checked into B K's South American deal and intends to have a proxy fight at the next Vero Plastics stockholder's meeting. After Ed leaves, she tells B K to pay off Orlando at the lodge and keep Ed busy with an outside auditor. He's only B K's son-in-law. As she leaves, she suggests to secretary Vera (Hillman) that she get her boss a drink. // [3-8] While waiting for Gertrude (Lewis) to join them, Sylvia (Cord) and Edward Lewis try to convince Walter (Cord) that B K has betrayed the company since his wife died. Four years ago the company had three attorneys, now they have only Leslie Ross. Gertrude overhears the end of this, where Walter indicates he won't be disloyal. Gertrude was on the phone with Leslie Ross, who suggested she vote her stock with her father rather than her husband. Ed asks her to have some faith in him. / At the company office Arthur Sutton, nephew of B K, bickers with Leslie. B (for Bruce) K arrives, late, and announces a weekend at the Vero Plastics Lodge after which, at the stockholder's meeting, he will resign as president. He asks Arthur to stay, then demands he turn over his voting rights. Arthur knows that B K doesn't intend to resign. Phil (Jenks) enters, says things are packed for shipping to South America and he'll be going, too. He states that outside accountants indicate that son-in-law Ed has been embezzling from the company. / Ed tells the usual trio, Perry Mason, Paul Drake and Della Street, that B K has been embezzling. He has rented a cottage near the lodge for Perry . . . and Paul. / At the Vero Plastics Lodge, B K instructs Jenks, with Ed, Vera and Arthur standing by, to get a manila envelope from the bank vault. It holds the outside audit and $200,000 in bearer bonds. At the lake, Ross finds Mason and Drake relaxing. They share introductions. Back at the lodge, Gertrude notes to Ed that old friend Mason, with Drake, are coming to dinner. She knows of the audit. Why does Ed want her to leave him alone for a couple of days? / The group is milling around outside at night. Ed leaves a cabin with a letter opener in his hand. Sylvia goes into Ed’s cottage where she notes that his letter holder is empty. Ed throws the opener in the lake, then washes his hands as Sylvia watches. Perry and Paul hear a scream. They find Leslie hysterical, looking at B K's dead body. // [4-8] At a cottage near a lake, Andy (Lieutenant Anderson) joins Perry and Paul. It has been avery long night, he asserts, after they left him. The briefcase with the bearer bonds and audit, and Ed Lewis’s letter opener, are missing. / Ross tells Drake that she went to B K's cottage to confront Ed with B K, who was going to demand Ed return the $50,000 he'd embezzled. Meanwhile, Andy is berated by Sutton for searching through his luggage. Then Andy tells Lewis to wait. He wants him to go downtown for routine questioning. Jenks and Vera Hillman are then confronted by Mason. Jenks asserts the $50,000 was embezzled by Ed Lewis and had nothing to do with the bonds. / Walter Cord explains that Sylvia is giving medicine to Gertrude who is very upset. This is her second marriage. Sylvia joins them. B K was going to give the company to Walter. Now it will go to Arthur. She spoke to B K in the afternoon. He had a briefcase and he said he'd soon have nothing to worry about from Ed. Vera was to get him over that eve. Mason goes to Gertrude who saw Ed leave B K's cabin with the letter opener, which he threw into the lake. Sylvia is outside the door. She has a call for Mason from Drake. / Ed drives to the lodge and goes looking for the knife in the lake. As he comes out of the water, Andy shows him the letter opener. Mason and Drake arrive too late. // [5-8] Late at night Perry and Della are joined by Paul. Gertrude's divorce was final two days after Ed married her, so they are not legally married, thus she can testify against him. Mason, who needs time, tells Drake how and when to get this to District Attorney Hamilton Burger. / Burger tells Mason and Judge Penner of the two-day late Illinois divorce. Mason counters with Ed and Gertrude living together before getting to California, including in Colorado, which recognizes common law marriage. The District Attorney asks for a three-day continuance, just what Mason wants! / Lewis tells Mason, Andy, Burger and Drake how he found B K dead and accidentally grabbed the letter opener, then ran like a kid. He figured that Gertrude, who had found the photostat he was looking at when she came into the room,which was proof that he didn't embezzle, and took that to her father together with the letter opener. They got into a fight and she struck him. But she is incapable of murder, insists Ed. / Now Gertrude is asked what happened. She saw Ed's note on the photostat, to Mason, of proof that her father was a thief. She took it to B K, who was enraged, tore it up and burned it. He showed her his audit, from the briefcase, which proved Ed the embezzler. They calmed down and parted, the letter opener left behind. Mason takes Burger aside. The briefcase, Ed's motive for murder, was still there when he left the cabin with the letter opener, so he has no motive. Burger now knows Mason snookered him on the extension. Mason asks for his help. He knows who has the briefcase. / Arthur Sutton is caught prying open a shipping crate. The folder of bonds is filled with nothing but cut newsprint. // [6-8] Back in court Sutton testifies frantically to pawning his mothers stock to invest in a new business which collapsed. He saw Ed with the letter opener, Gertrude following. He went into the cottage and took the briefcase which he thought had the negotiable bonds in it. Vera Hillman says B K gave thirty years to the company. He had worked a deal that was badly needed by the company with one Antonio Orlando regarding minerals, but had no export license, so he bought a worthless company that did. Jenks says he knew all this and was going with Cord to set up the export end of things. B K played musical chairs with the $200,000 until it no longer showed up on the company books. The books had been obviously tampered with by Ed Lewis. Ross was able to read the auditor's report and see that Ed Lewis was the embezzler. $250,000 was unaccounted for and she didn't know about the $250,000. So how did she know it was $50,000 that was embezzled, not knowing of the $200,000 in bonds? She claims that Ed admitted it when she told him of the report. Vera Hillman says B K sent her, not Ross, to Ed. Mason challenges her. She had access to the vault and stole the bonds and put them in a package in the crates for South America. Burger produces the package, which had her fingerprints on it, as well as the negotiable bearer bonds. Her accomplice would recover the bonds in South America and return to her. Phil Jenks states that, from the first day, B K used him, as he did everyone else. He was surprised when the payoff to Orlando was to be in this country at the Lodge, not weeks later when he'd have the bonds. Yes, he killed B K. // [7-8] Cord is with the legal trio. He responds to Della's question; yes, he'll recommend Ed for president. Will Mason be their legal counsel? Leslie Ross will be disbarred. Drake notes that, with her face and figure, she doesn’t need a license. How can they protect that? Mason counters with Proverbs I:10, which Della quotes; “My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.” [8-8 end credits] [50:38]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] High-fashion model Judith (Blair) poses as photographer Jacob (Kadar) praises her; “Exactly the effect I desired?“ She suggests that she's paid more than $5,000 for some photo negatives, ”Isn,t that enough?” He took the photos, but now claims that they were stolen. She pulls a gun, Jacob’s, and orders him to open a cabinet in the darkroom. “Judith, be sensible. You wouldn’t? You wouldn’t!“ There is a gunshot from behind her and Jacob falls dead. // [3-8] Judith leaves the Karl Kadar Studio followed by a man. She is interrupted by a woman and her Scottie dog, Jameson. She drives away in a Corvette, notices she's being followed. After a few turns she quickly enters a driveway while the following car is out of site. That car drives by and she turns back, away from the follower. / Back at the Karl Kadar Studio the man who was following Judith drives up. He is met by the woman, Irene (Grey) and her Scottie. He (Karl Kadar) suggests they go in. She says he (Jacob) has a model with him. He names ”Miss January, unclad on a bear skin rug, or Miss August, sunbathing on a rock. Shall we find out which model it is?” They find the dead Jacob. She now offers Karl her blackmail payment. He says that he knows nothing of blackmail. This could mean much for them, he suggests. They leave. Jacob’s watch has stopped at 8:12. / At 8:10 Lewis (Ames) and wife Katherine greet each other, while daughter-in-law Penny (Ames) gets blamed for not meeting him at the airport. Perry Mason and Lewis's son Norman ask Lewis how it went in Washington. It will be a few days before he’s confirmed as an ambassador. Lewis apologizes to Mason for getting him there for something he's already taken care of. Judith arrives and is introduced to Mason. Penny notes that she sounds as if she has a guilty conscience. Judith goes in to a bedroom to change and, after Mason leaves, is joined by a worried Penny, her sister. Judith says she didn’t see Jacob but she'll see him tomorrow. A phone call from Eloise warns Judith to say nothing for a man has taken care of everything. / Judith tells Mason and Della Street that she told Harper Green, her agent, of what happened and he told her to see a lawyer. No, her gun was not fired. Jacob Kadar’s blackmail involved calendar-girl photos from two years before. Mason calls Drake and asks if he’d like his photo taken, now. / At the Kadar studio Lieutenant Anderson, Sergeant Brice and a fingerprint expert, plus others, investigate the crime. Mason and Drake arrive as Andy asks Karl Kadar why he didn't call from the studio instead of the drug store. He didn't want to ruin any fingerprints. Harper Green says Jacob was to meet him at his office and, when he didn't and the phone wasn't answered, he came over. Andy asks Mason who his client is. He can say, says Andy, since the client cannot possibly be involved, as it is suicide! Yes, the pistol was fired(!) and powder burns indicate suicide. / [4-8] A newspaper story proclaims the death a suicide. Mason, Drake, Street are together. There is an ethical dilemma for the attorney. Who has the truth? Drake is instructed to find the negatives. / Lieutenant Tragg gets the ballistics report. The gun, the expended cartridge and the bullet in the heart all match. He relays this to Lt Anderson. Since Andy is not happy, Tragg suggests he make Mason his chief suspect. / Drake watches Karl Kadar photograph Irene Grey in bed. He and Karl break open the darkroom cabinet, which is actually Jacob’s, find it empty, as someone hiding across the hall in a supplies room notices. Karl admits that his brother made special calendar art photos. Was Jacob alone? If not, where are his negatives? Drake is called to the phone by Irene. Judith enters and asks about her photos. The cabinet was empty last night, Karl admits. / Green admits he went to Kadar's to get Judith's photos, but the police were already there. Judith cannot believe Mason's story of suicide. Mason warns her the police will not believe her story. / In the darkroom, with Andy and Tragg watching, a police photographer develops a photo showing Judith holding the murder pistol. / D A Hamilton Burger welcomes Mason who tries to explain his ethical problem by way of an hypothetical situation. His client X revealed to him something which could be self-incriminating . . . Burger says he can help. Just then Judith Blair enters in front of Lt Anderson, who has arrested her for murder. // [5-8] Norman, Katherine and Penny Ames have come as surrogates for Lewis to Mason. Lewis cannot be involved while awaiting his Senate confirmation. They leave and Drake reports that Judith gave Burger a story of a struggle with Jacob and the gun going off. Penny returns, but is cut off in what she wants to say by Katherine. / Burger hears the coroner's physician set the time of death at about 7:30. Mason gets him to say between 7:10 and 7:50. Lt Anderson identifies six photos, the last of Judith with the gun, found in Judith's model portfolio with their negatives. When and under what circumstances, and by whom, where the photos made? challenges Mason. The judge allows them as to the weight of their admissibility as evidence. / Penny shows Paul the photos over which she, not Judith, was being blackmailed. She was afraid husband Norman would learn so Judith helped her. Katherine has overheard, offers that, just after she was married, a similar thing happened to her. / Andy explains how powder burns on Jacob's wrist and such indicated suicide. The gun was Jacob's, by his cousin's admission. Drake whispers to Mason that it was Penny, not Judith, and that Karl was with a woman with a Scottie at a restaurant around 7:30. / In a TV studio Irene Grey is playing a nun with a girl, Jennie. She then tells Drake, who found her because of her Scottie, Jameson. She is playing a nun and cannot afford to have it known that she was a calendar girl. What she saw the previous night cannot help Judith. Lt Tragg introduces himself. // i Again in the photographer’s studio, Drake and Mason look for a second pistol. / Yes, two pistols, brought from Europe by Jacob, admits Karl, one his. Green admits that Judith called about 8:20. The first he knew of her visit or the pictures was this call. Katherine says that she saw Judith entering her car and also saw Norman. He admits to finding a blackmail letter and one of the pictures a couple of days before the death. He overheard Judith's plan to go to Jacob that night and followed her. He told, not his wife, but father, Lewis Ames, the day before he went to Washington. Lewis denies stopping off on the way from the airport to kill Jacob. He'd "settled" it by telling the Senate committee about the blackmail of Penny. No, he didn’t know his wife was similarly blackmailed. Katherine says that the same routine was used with her as with Penny, five years before. "Publish and go to blazes" was her response! She's proud of her figure. Mason stages the murder. Andy is Jacob, Della Judith, Paul the killer. The guns were switched, and the powder burns created by using a blank in the murder weapon. Andy says the non-lethal pistol had been recently fired and the powder was identical to that on Jacob. He starts to say that a fingerprint was identified, but Mason cuts him off. Karl Kadar is forced to admit it was he who took calendar art pictures of Katherine Ames. But it was not blackmail. Harper Green told him of all the models who needed money. Green denies all, but Mason reveals that it is his fingerprints on the duplicate gun! He shot when he thought Jacob was going to tell her everything, as he now wanted out. If only Judith and Mason had kept quiet. He slipped the photos in to Judith's apartment. Why did Judith have to interfere? he asks. // [7-8] Perry tells Della and Paul, that it was Jacob Kadar's fingerprints on the gun that fired the blank, but Green didn't know that. Lewis has his ambassadorship, and Mason a picture of a thankful Irene Grey, clothed. [8-8 end credits] [50:25]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Anderson Wesley Lau Nancy Banks Joyce Bulifant Rodney Banks Dick Davalos Lorraine Lawton Lisabeth Hush Larsen Halstead Dabbs Greer Marvin Fremont Arch Johnson Inez Fremont Phyllis Coates (Sgt) Burdett Paul Bryar Sgt McClanahan John Goddard Jarvis Nettle Gilmore Henry Norell Judge Willis Bouchey

Man Art Lewis Court Reporter Alex Bookston Sgt Brice Lee Miller Juror Dorothy Edwards

CHARACTER ACTOR Court Clerk Charles Stroud Officer Jack Crowder (Joe unidentified)

[1-9 Title credits] [2-9] (2-1 Title credits) (2-2) At a race track a blonde-haired woman runs through the parking lot with a handful of tickets. / In Perry Mason's office the blonde, Nancy Smith(/Banks) shows Mason and Della Street the tickets she's bought on Dough Boy. She wants Mason to collect her winning, for which she offers $27. Her bet was on the horse that smiled at her. / Paul Drake, Della and Perry listen to the race. Paul says one should never bet on a long shot (he's bet on Fisherman), but Dough Boy wins. Della is exultant. $57 to win. $14,250 is what Nancy won. // [3-9] (2-3) Mason, with Della Street, picks up the winnings from a loquacious man at the track. Marvin Fremont rushes over and claims that the winnings are his. Sergeant Burdett introduces himself. Fremont introduces himself as the man Rodney Banks stole from. Burdett says Banks has been picked up for embezzlement from Fremont with only one ticket. Fremont claims the winnings belong to him. Della has written down his calling Mason a crooked lawyer, which can be a cause for action. Fremont points out that the money Banks bet with was not Banks’, but his, so the winnings are his. Burdett won’t arrest an attorney, so Mason leaves. / Drake joins Lorraine (Lawton) at a trout farm, looking for a "Nancy." (Larsen) Halstead arrives, also looking for Nancy who works there. Lorraine supplies Drake with the surname, Banks. / At a motel, Nancy tells Mason that she bet every cent she had on Dough Boy while her brother bet only $50. She signs a receipt for the winnings. She gives Mason $5000 to get Rodney out of jail. / A police officer gives Banks all his belongings except the $50 ticket. Mason asks Banks if he did embezzle. Banks in turn asks if his sister told the attorney that. He notes that Nancy reads mystery stories. Mason cautions him. The missing money was only $1000. He intends to have Mason sue ... the attorney has to remind Banks that he’s Nancy’s lawyer, not his. / Nancy calls Mason to meet her, saying she’s at her apartment, tho in a rather open place at a pay phone. A masked man robbed her. / Mason returns to the motel where he finds Fremont dead in the bathroom. // [4-9] (2-4) Nancy arrives. She has a poor excuse for getting robbed. Mason notes that she has "Ice-cold hands." She asks him to get her a drink of water in the bathroom . He instead tells her to call the police and starts out of the room. Now she breaks down; "I didn't kill him." / Sergeant Brice and Lieutenant Anderson ask Inez Fremont about her divorced husband's business. Wholesale antiques. Anderson gets a phone call from (Sergeant) McClanahan. He gets a piece of cardboard from Sergeant Brice and goes outside to Mason and Nancy. She says that her robber looked just like Anderson after he puts on a white hood. The hood came from Fremont's pocket. A piece of cardboard Andy holds is part of a dry ice container, which was found under Fremont's body. Andy explains how dry ice could alter the apparent time of death by cooling the body quickly. They will get fingerprints off the cardboard. Mason tells Nancy to go to Della's via the freeway and take the Wilshire turnoff, and he'll follow. She explains seeing the body, going, and returning. / Mason follows Nancy on the crowded expressway until she turns off when he’s in the wrong lane to follow. She goes to the trout farm, opens a barrel and pulls out cardboard boxes. Sgt McClanahan comes out of the shadows, takes the boxes and gives them to officer Joe then pulls the murder weapon out of the barrel. / Halstead explains to Drake and Street that, when Fremont was threatened with tax trouble, he was called in by Fremont to set up a proper bookkeeping system. He believes Fremont egged the boy on to stealing. Fremont was a fence. He had a private strongbox with a wad of bills four inches thick, $30,000 in cash the day before the murder. / Halstead opens the safe. Sgt Brice opens the box as Mrs Fremont, Drake and Andy look on. It is empty. Halstead asserts that the money was there the last time Fremont was alive. / Mason finds mystery stories. Rodney says his sister was always talking about new ways to kill people. Mason notes that he's always had his sister doing things for him even though he’s two years older. He responds as if stealing from his employer means nothing. Lorraine Lawton, who lives across the halls, interrupts with a phone call. Paul Drake reports that the box was empty and Mason tells Rodney to get a lawyer, then tells him and Lorraine that Nancy will be charged with first-degree murder. // [5-9] (2-5) District Attorney Hamilton Burger asserts that Fremont was a fencer of jewels and concedes that he committed armed robbery. Fremont followed Nancy to the motel and was killed by her with his own gun. Andy identifies the murder weapon that was found with the dry ice containers. Lawton says dry ice was kept in a shed. She says Nancy learned of this method of confusing the time of death from reading mysteries, and mentioned it to any number of people at a party, any one of which could have used the idea to commit murder. She went out with Fremont the day before he was killed. She asked him to be nice to Rodney. He should ask Halstead, from whom she borrowed some money. Mrs Fremont says she watched her husband with all sorts of girls, including Nancy Banks, who slapped him, “a real beauty.” Surrounded by friends, he said he'd "fix that little something, if it's the last something something I do." Halstead testifies that the books, in three weeks time, failed to balance by almost $4,000. Burger has a list of serial numbers on some bills that were in the strongbox. He has Halstead read one number. McClanahan found $550 in twenties in Rodney Banks's bureau and the serial number of one matches that just read from Burger's list. Burger tries to connect this with Nancy but at Mason’s second objection is warned by the judge. So he calls Rodney. Jarvis Nettle Gilmore steps forth as his lawyer. Rodney is sworn in by the court clerk, then refuses to identify the money after his attorney signals with a nod of his head. Burger grants the witness immunity for "any crime in which he may technically have participated in connection with accepting this money.” The clerk reads the question. Rodney now says he got the bill from the body of Fremont after he murdered him. Burger is livid and makes improper statements about Rodney obviously lying. Mason calls Burger’s statement “prejudicial misconduct.” The judge agrees. Mistrial? // [6-9] (2-6) Nancy is crying with Della comforting her. Nancy admits using the dry ice because her brother was in jail earlier. She never saw the gun. Mason and Burger confer. Burger thinks Mason put Banks up to the trick, but it is perjury. Burger admits that he made a fool of himself and Mason then offers to help out if the DA will help Paul Drake. / Mason asks Banks how much money he has in his pocket and can he tell him of any serial number on any of the bills. When he got out of jail, Nancy shoved money in his hand. He never counted the money. He took a little over a thousand dollars, not four. He did not know about the strong box. Someone could have added the twenty to his bureau while he was out of his room. Lawton reveals that she was crying when she was in Rodney's room. Halstead was at the party where Nancy told of the dry ice. Halstead follows Mason's reasoning. Fremont discovered that neither Nancy nor Rodney took $30,000. The murderer followed Nancy and planted the gun. Drake and Andy enter. Drake gives Mason a folded bill. Mason picks up the list of $20 bill numbers, informs Halstead that the police are conducting a search of his apartment. Mason identifies the bill as one given him by his investigator after returning from the apartment of Lorraine Lawton. She stands up and loudly asserts she “didn’t kill him.” Lorraine borrowed from Halstead notes Mason. He now confronts Halstead who breaks down and admits that he was with Fremont all evening, during which time Fremont realized who took the money. He admits to the murder. // [7-9] (1-7) Drake says the $20 was only borrowed from Lt Anderson! Mason tells Nancy her brother is not yet out of hot water. Della notes that Nancy has promised not do Rod’s worrying for him. She insists it was the look in the horses eyes that made her bet on him. Drake rushes Nancy out . . . to the race track. [8-9 end credits] [50:43] (1-8 end credits) (50:19)

[1-9 Title credits] [2-9] {3-10/1-10 Title credits} {2-9} "Sensational novel by twenty-year-old Deborah Dearborn" says Perry Mason, holding The Widow. Mrs Seward says the book contains libel on her "friend,” then offers that “Certainly no teenage girl could have had enough experience with life to imagine some of the incidents in there. Mason explains the difficulties involved in a suit for libel. The author must have held (the widow) up to “public hate, contempt and ridicule.” She asks, suppose a stepson brought information to the young girl who wrote the book to maliciously expose his stepmother? Since she is a stranger in Los Angeles for only a short time and cannot take the time to find another lawyer, she suggests that Mason read the book, then she’ll call back in a couple of days, and leaves. Della Street informs her boss that a woman named Dearborn called earlier about a book contract, but never called back. Della points out that the Seward woman was actually (Stephanie) Carew. She murdered her husband, but was acquitted by the jury, whom the judge admonished with “you have signally failed in your duty.” “Didn’t Carew’s first wife commit suicide just before the second marriage?” asks Mason. “There may have been two murders” counters Della, who than says that the book is well written and if the widow is Carew . . . Mason, looking at the book jacket photo of Miss Dearborn, says that it is she who will need help. // [3-9] {3-9} Deborah Dearborn says "good night" to the ocean at her beach house, then dances inside to a tune from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet. John Carew’s presence in the beach house startles her. He warns Deborah that Stephanie has come out to Hollywood, too. She realizes this is the Stephanie about whom he told her fascinating stories, a terrible woman. She is his stepmother and he admits that all the things he made up are true. She points out that a million people have bought the book and “know about us.” John insists she must see a lawyer. He warns her that they can never see each other again. / Rubin Cason tells Deborah that he'll get top stars for the movie, but she says she can't let this go on. He chides her for not living up to his promises to others. / Gideon Long is telling his publicity agent that he's going to make Dearborn's novel into a classic movie. Cason enters and apologizes for not having the contract. When Rubin leaves, Gideon uses the speakerphone to have Herb (voice only, no credit) prepare a suit for breach of contract and grand theft with Cason. He will deal with Miss Dearborn personally. Herb warns that this loss could cost the studio its existence. Long reassures Herb that she will sign. / Chet (Worth) comes to Stephanie, next the pool of his house, and informs her that his jealous fifth wife has returned home. She asks to borrow one of his Rolls Royces. Tho rich, he cannot afford another divorce. A maid brings a phone with a call from Cason, and Long comes by to invite Worth and Stephanie to a party in the eve at his Malibu place. She takes the phone call, brazens it out with Cason regarding meeting him. A woman (we have to surmise it is Miriam Worth) comes on to the terrace above, sees Stephanie enter the house. / It is night at Los Angeles International Airport. Stephanie catches John on the way to Chicago, says she's going to see his girl Deborah and will tell her that he's “a coward as well as a thief.” Paul Drake, behind a newspaper, has heard it all. / At the Malibu beach house, Stephanie, enjoying a martini, baits Deborah with having been told by John that certain details in the book are true. When Deborah asks if Stephanie wouldn’t have to prove them true, she is caught. Stephanie says that the movie will be made, and Deborah will sign a $500,000 contract with Gideon Long “to make our book,” which she will then pay to Stephanie so she won’t sue her, John and Gideon as well as lose her house, her reputation as an honest writer, and “dear John will be ruined.” If Deborah doesn’t sign, she’ll be sued. She will return at eleven for Deborah’s signed contract agreeing to this. Deborah looks up the phone number (MA-1190) of Perry Mason at the Brent Building, Suite 904, and the switchboard operator informs her that Mason will be back in town in about an hour or two. In her anger, she smashes Stephanie’s martini glass. She rushes to the beach, strips off her robe, goes for a swim. / Drake gives his private knock (Shave ... and a haircut ... three bits) and makes a rare entry to Mason’s private room by the front door, then reports to Mason on the Carew case. He was hired by Stephanie, who said Mason was her lawyer, to find John with Deborah. Mason takes Deborah's call and calms her against threats by Stephanie, advising her to sign nothing and make no promises, and get a good night’s sleep. / Mason and Drake go to Chet Worth's where they find Stephanie floating face up, dead, in the pool. // [4-9] {4-9} Mason informs Lieutenant Anderson that Stephanie was found at 11:57. As Chet and Miriam Worth observe, the medical examiner informs Lt Anderson that it was drowning, and she'd probably been drinking. Lt Anderson gives the go-ahead to tap her alcohol. / Mason can't rouse Deborah at the beach house. A stole on the beach draws attention. Paul arrives, tells Perry that a brain tap on Stephanie indicates that she was drunk when she fell into the pool. Mason notes that too many people gain by her death; Rubin, Gideon, Chet and Miriam, and John. Drake points out that John, who had the most to gain, was on the plane to Chicago at the time of the murder. Stephanie was with him and came back to the cottage. Paul followed, found the Rolls Royce there, but gone after he made a phone call to his office. Now Deborah joins them, admits she was not at home the night so as to avoid Stephanie’s coming back for the papers. The papers are gone. Drake finds an open window and broken glass. Deborah says she wants Mason to put in a clause that will stop Stephanie from hurting John. He informs her of the death. / Cason tries to burn the papers as Mason knocks. He feigns not knowing Stephanie. Mason asks how much Gideon slipped him under the table to keep the contract so low and get her to sign it? $100,000, maybe, since he recently deposited $50,000. Did he have to slip Stephanie some? Now Cason admits that he knew Stephanie, a “slug, a spider, a black-hearted witch who didn’t even need a broomstick.” Mason suggests that the way to break glass is to “wrap your hand first,” observing the bandaged left wrist of Cason. / Gideon Long sets a code over the speakerphone with his secretary, “camellia,” and adds "tape everything." Mason enters. There is no chair, a device Long uses to keep visits short, so Mason gets one from the adjacent room. Has Long not spent $1,000,000 without yet getting a signed contract. He has verbal commitments. Mason suggests that he's known Stephanie for some time, privately, and that she demanded maybe a quarter or half million or she'd sue. He gives the code word. Mason recognizes the ruse and quickly leaves. / As Andy watches, the medical examiner tells John Carew that he can examine Stephanie over his objections. Mason suggests that he shouldn't object. / Paul reports at Deborah's to Perry that Stephanie died, not in the pool, but the ocean. So it is murder and Deborah is their suspect. // [5-9] {5-9} In court the medical examiner explains to D A Hamilton Burger how he knows that Stephanie was drowned in the ocean. Lt Anderson identifies a beach robe stuffed in a culvert on Ellis Street two blocks from the Worth residence. The robe was worn by someone coming out of salt water and was originally sold by the Varsity Shop in Lansing, Michigan, to Deborah Dearborn when she was a student. The judge notes that the duplicate sales slip says “a” beach robe, but D A Burger adds “terry cloth and maroon.” A stole is introduced, one seen by Miriam Worth being worn by Stephanie the night of the murder. It was found in the trunk of Deborah's car, “soaked in seawater, and was heavily encrusted with beach sand.” Mrs Mitchell, a neighbor whose house is 150 feet from Deborah's, saw the deceased in the stole and Deborah in the beach robe, arguing. After talking on the phone for a while, she saw Deborah alone coming out of the surf. She saw Deborah earlier, in the robe (of which she cannot identify the color) and slacks, so is sure it was her later at night. A neighbor describes a speeding car with a passenger with something like the robe wrapped around her shoulders. Mrs Davis saw the defendant's car, empty, in the Worth drive. Mason traps her with several photos of the same make and model but different cars, which she says are the same car. Cason says he first took Stephanie to the airport, then to Deborah's. On the way she told him “she’d sue the kid for every dime she made.” He then went on to Long's party. Mason asks why he drove her since she was using a car belonging to Chet Worth? When she asks, he drives! As Mason questions further about his stealing the contract, the judge sees no connection, but Burger says that he intended to introduce this particular matter later. Cason admits to breaking in to Deborah's to get the papers, which might have had something on him, but not until three or four in the morning which was after he heard of Stephanie's drowning. He gave the burned document to Mr Burger. // [6-9] {6-9} Deborah tells Della and Perry that she found the stole on the beach the next day, but Mason had gone to his office so she couldn't tell him. The circumstances keep adding up. Enough, notes Mason, for her to be bound over for trial. Drake enters with information about the airport for Mason. Drake is sure he saw the (Worth's) Rolls in front of Deborah's house. / Back in court Carew admits that he got off the plane just before the door closed. He rented a car (like the one Deborah had rented). The judge reminds John that he’s been declared an unfriendly witness. John admits that he found no one at Deborah's, but found Stephanie out front in the shallow water. He put her in his car, wrapped her in Deborah's robe which, after putting Stephanie in the pool, he stuffed in the culvert. Then he flew to Chicago. He lied to the police. The judge things the D A has an accessory after the fact and should reevaluate his case against the defendant, but Burger argues that this confession strengthens it. Mrs Mitchell tells Mason that she heard no car while on the phone, nor could she see any in the drive. She cannot tell what kind of car nor how big. Long says the Worths were both at his party. Long cannot properly remember who came or left his party. Drake brings Mason a coat. As Long leaves the stand and Mrs Mitchell gets on, Mason puts the coat on a surprised Long. Mrs Mitchell realizes this is what she saw on the beach. Long denies knowing Stephanie. Yes, he drives a Rolls and doesn’t Mason know who he is? Yes, says Mason, a murderer. Long now admits that he'd already made a deal with Stephanie, but then saw "the endless depths of her greed. I’m only an artist. What else could I do, but kill her?" // [7-9] {7-9} The usual trio and Deborah. Stephanie was already dead when Deborah went for a swim. Gideon had no intention of involving Deborah. Drake explains that he rented a coat instead of stealing it from Gideon's closet. Mason suggests that Johnny will have to face charges. Why, wonders Deborah, he was only trying to help. Mason continues, but is interrupted by Della, who changes the lawyer’s viewpoint with the comment that “Johnny finally got up and did something.” “What else” says Deborah, “is important to a woman?” [8-9 end credits] [50:23] {8-9 end credits} {50:20}

[1-9 Title credits] [2-9] Paul Drake receives Charles Fuller in his office. He's been looking for Alice Fuller, who is Charles’s mother, and only two days ago got his first lead. She was found in an open field in Nevada, half conscious. Drake will take him to her, then informs Fuller that the day his mother, Alice Fuller Bradley, disappeared was the day that she killed her husband. // [3-9] At the Valley Gardens Senior Citizens Facility, Drake and Fuller go to a bungalow, just as Vera Hargrave arrives. She was the practical nurse in Nevada who took care of Alice Bradley, with whom she now lives. / In the community hall Alice, a member of the Golden Age Club, is teaching a man to dance as Drake, Fuller and Hargrave look on. Alice joins them, but does not recognize her son when introduced. Vera says that a brain operation caused total memory loss for Alice. Philip, the dance partner, flirts with Alice. Lieutenant Anderson arrives, arrests Mrs Bradley for the murder of her husband. / (Karl) Dickinson, attorney in Bradley & Browne, asks Charles Fuller why he led the police to his mother. Charles reminds Dickinson that he no longer works for him. Dickinson says that if only Charles had taken his mother out of the state, the country, they'd have seen that she got the money from the estate. Dickinson threatens Fuller, suggesting that he and his attorney should not plead not guilty for Alice but for the sake of Mary and George Browne and Henry Clement and himself. With her memory loss, Alice will probably get only a suspended sentence. / Hargrave tells Perry Mason, Della Street and Fuller that Alice Bradley is physically sound, but has no memory beyond the hospital, nothing but the torn dress she was wearing. She gets a monthly check from the hospital foundation which makes it possible to support Alice and keep the bungalow. The name for Alice came from her wedding band, from "Bill." The argument that led to the murder six months earlier was over a junior partnership in the law firm which went to Henry Clement, not him, says Charles. Drake asks about his plan to take his mother to Mexico and live with her. Fuller says he only wanted to be sure that she was safe. Mason asks what he should plea. "Not guilty" replies Fuller / In court D A Hamilton Burger asks Henry Clement about his employment and what happened the day of the murder. He says that Mr Bradley asked him about an audit and he replied that there was a twenty-five thousand dollar shortage in an account handled by then Mrs Fuller's son, Charles. Dickinson testifies that Bill Bradley slammed the audit on his desk, says the embezzler was his own stepson, Charles Fuller. George Browne says that the firm had planned expansion and he preferred Fuller, but Bill Bradley resented his stepson. Bill invited him to dinner, then, with Alice, Mary and himself, announced his choice of Clement. Alice challenged that he always hated her son, but he said Charles was a thief. They fought and she fell, grabbed a fireplace poker as she got up and hit Bill. He was dead before the ambulance could arrive. Mrs Browne says that after she called for the ambulance, Alice ran by her and drove away. She admits to Mason that Alice hit her head when she fell, which left a bruise and a cut. Alice pulls back her hair, revealing the scar. Dr (Jesse) Younger is brought in by Drake, and Burger allows Mason to examine him. Younger testifies to the seriousness of the wound including damage to the brain and permanent memory loss. Brain tissue, which affects the ability to act volitionally, had to be removed. She was medically, technically, unconscious from the time of her fall, and struck out in self-defense at the nearest person. Mason asks for dismissal and Burger concurs. Dickinson and Browne confer, think Charles Fuller has already been fired by his current boss, who was watching throughout. Dickinson's rejoinder is that, because of the dismissal, Fuller may get his “crooked little hand” on $150,000, which Drake overhears. // [4-9] Dickinson accepts papers from Mason giving Alice the estate, but rejects the idea that son Charles should be appointed conservator. Mason notes that the embezzlement is only alleged and asks why the estate is only $150,000, when one of the accounts alone, with Carger Motors, is worth five times that amount. / George Browne offers Alice the keys to the house while the will is in probate and Charles poo-poos this generosity since it is "her" house, as Mary and Vera look on. The Browne's leave and Alice wonders about moving out into a big house. Charles says he'll take her there in the morning. What about his job? "What's the use of being a department head, mother, if you can't set your own hours?" Alice is concerned about his losing his job, given all that came out at the trial. He says he's going to see someone about the situation and offers to drive Hetty to the bus station. She has another job. / Drake wants to help Charles, who now accuses Clement of being the culprit. / Clement sweet-talks Alice. He offers to keep the evidence of Charles' embezzlement from the authorities if Alice will but sign over her property to his law firm, and they will provide an adequate monthly allowance to her. / Dickinson, on the phone, tells Browne that his auditors have shown Clement to have framed Fuller, and worries what he could do to them. / Charles is outraged at what his mother has done and tells her that he'll kill Clement. / Drake gets Alice's phone call and goes in search of Fuller. At the Clement place, he finds Clement with a knife in his chest, dead. // [5-9] In jail Hamilton Burger offers Charles a reduced plea. Charles stole the contract and destroyed it as well as killing Clement. Charles wants to testify, tho Mason cautions him. Burger bears in and Fuller admits to striking Clement, but Burger insists it was more than once. In anger, Charles admits that he hated Clement and wanted him dead. Burger advises him to listen to his lawyer. / At the Golden Age Club a little old lady (whom the detective calls princess), steps and side-steps with Paul Drake. He promises to dance with her. The group is having a raffle with the price a car. When Mary Browne arrives, Drake tells her that he wants her to get Carger Motors to provide a car for their raffle. Their business this year is worth $250,000, and she brought in the account. No, she says, Clement brought it. Then, wasn't she at a private party at Clement's a week before the murder? / Drake's report has Mason telling Street to get a petition ready for Judge Penner. // [6-9] Mason gives Dickinson a court order to appear on charges of fraud and improper division of the property of Bradley & Browne. Dickinson calls Browne. / Browne is caught by Drake sneaking to Clement’s safe. / In Mason's office Browne admits he didn't know about it but, yes, the Carger account didn't go into the firm until after the death, but it should have. Clement came to him long after and told him the money shouldn't go to a murderer. Mary, who is sitting next him, was in it with him. Clement wanted more than a junior partnership and had rigged it so he, Browne, would be blamed. He wanted to keep Mary out of the situation. Burger prompts him. He went to Clement's, but left when he heard Fuller coming. No, he didn't unbolt the back door, it was wide open. When Burger queries why it matters, Mason says someone else could have been there. / Hetty bursts in on Alice at the community center with the news of the trial postponement, which Alice says she already knows, since Mason also called her. She is worried, for she can remember since the accident, and thinks that she saw Clement watching her in the bungalow and called the police. Vera consistently tries to veer her away from this line of thought, but Alice presses on, figuring out that, since Clement knew she was alone, it meant Vera was at his place. Vera now admits that she was being paid not by a foundation but by Clement. When she brought Alice to Los Angeles, Clement had a fit. All she wanted was more money. As Vera raises her arm with scissors to kill Alice, an arm grabs hers. It is Perry Mason, who suggests to her that she should have considered he had called her from here. // [7-9] In the community hall Drake tells Alice not to worry about the Brownes and Dickinsons, "they'll be busy apologizing for the rest of their lives." Della takes Perry to dance. "Princess" comes up, and Drake leads her to the dance floor. [8-9 end credits] [50:25]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A man parks his car, walks across the street, puts a cigarette in his mouth. Another man lights a cigarette while his dog barks, Phillipe Bertain,the first man, is then admitted by Ninette (Rovel) to her home. She embraces him, praises his kindness. He apologizes for being late, but he has been to the bank and gotten what she needs (which saves her life), but needs it back in a week. “I want you to know you have saved my life . . . The whole sky will have stars again.“ A cab door slams as Armand (Rovel) comes home. Phillipe is clumsy and falls over furniture, but escapes. // [3-8] At the Kransdorf Bookstore, Phillipe is shelving books as the owner, Mrs Kransdorf, enters. Phillipe is frantic when the phone rings and Mrs Kransdorf answers it, but it is the someone calling the gas company. Mrs Kransdorf notices how Phillipe’s behavior has changed in recent weeks, then tells him that she's gone with her husband to see his doctor “and he’s just going to be fine.” They are moving to Arizona. The bookstore can be Phillipe's for the $5000 he has in the bank. / Phillipe rushes to the Rovel place. No one answers. He watches as the mail is delivered and Ninette comes out wearing dark glasses. She searches frantically for a letter. Then Phillipe confronts her. Inside she shows him her black eye. “I will kill him. I will kill your husband.“ She does not know when she'll get a divorce. / Phillipe tells Perry Mason and Della Street his problem. He grew up with Ninette in Dijon. She was the most beautiful girl and he was nothing, and he’s shy. He wants Mason's help in getting Ninette a divorce from her wife-beating beast of a husband, a ski instructor at a ski lodge, Classic Mountain. Mason informs Bertain that it is Ninette who has to get a divorce, Phillipe cannot get it for her. Mason makes him call Ninette. She says she won't see a lawyer, and Armand took the money from her. Phillipe tells Mason “there are certain things a man must do for himself” and leaves / At an airport, Phillipe asks for a ticket to Classic Mountain. Pete (Hayes) greets the other, lady, passengers, who ask if Armand is flying them. He tells Phillipe that Armand lures "the bunnies" up to the hotel. / He flies to Classic Mountain Lodge. (Linda) Sutton, the bookkeeper, is pinch-hitting at the desk. Lodge owner (Ray) Ogilvie, for whom “real estate is (his) sport,” greets him as a friend of Armand's and introduces him to his sister Carole. The bartender, Ron (Litten), serves Phillipe his ginger ale. Carole does not speak French, thinks Phillipe is a ski expert. Phillipe admits that he has never skied. Crowds gather around Armand when he arrives and Carole joins him, introduces Phillipe, whom Armand quickly brushes off. Phillipe informs Ron that Armand is a thief. Ron informs Phillipe that Armand is to be made the new manager. Phillipe follows Armand outside and demands his money. Armand accuses Phillipe of trying to steal his wife, then pushes him into the snow, making him a laughing stock. / Back at the bar, Phillipe is half drunk, muttering about Armand's lying and cheating. Of course, says Phillipe, Armand is now afraid of him! Linda Sutton tells Phillipe and Ron that Armand now owns part of the lodge, which he got for a $5000 loan to the now-dead part owner. Phillipe rushes to the office, where Ogilvie and Peter Hayes are discussing with Armand his plans to fly out that day. Phillipe enters, calls Armand a beast and thief and asserts that he’s going to kill hiim. He falls while trying to strike Armand. Ron has followed. He and the Hayes take Phillipe to the infirmary. Ogilvie asks Phillipe what Phillipe meant, but is brushed off. / A phone call answered by the bartender indicates Armand is headed to Van Nuys airport. / Armand falls asleep as the tower man tries to radio contact him. The plane crashes. // [4-8] It is night when Della announces Ninette Rovel, who has come to Mason for protection for Bertain, whom she's afraid her husband will kill. She explains about a French man’s “rights” over his wife. The attorney calls Paul Drake, who informs him that there has been a plane crash. / Ninette is crying at the hospital. As Mason exits, he meets Lieutenant Anderson, who offers that Rovel was acting drunk, but there was no evidence of alcohol. He shows Mason an unlabeled pill bottle. They go to Ninette who says it is probably “his stay-awake pills.” / At the bookstore Drake and Mason inform Bertain that Armand was full of barbiturates. They get no cooperation. Mrs Kransdorf enters, says the store is really closed, offers help. Paul and Perry beg off. / At the ski lodge Sheriff (Max Taylor), Drake, the bartender Ron, Pete, Linda Sutton and Peter Hayes are puzzled. No thermos was found in the wreckage, yet Armand could not have taken spiked coffee before flying. Or could he? It was an hoor after the coffee was delivered befor Armand flew off. There was no thermos in the plan wreckage. Bertain was sleeping it off in a room with a medicine cabinet full of pills. / Dick (Jenkins) explains avalanches to Mason. McManus, the dead owner, was drunk, having just returned from Reno, when he went on to a posted slope, says Ray Ogilvie. Mason suggests someone might have removed the sign, as well as started the avalanche. Ogilvie understands that this means murder. / There is an avalanche. Mason accosts Carole Ogilvie about her skiing with Armand the night of the avalanche. She refuses to talk. The sheriff informs Mason that Bertain has been picked up for first-degree murder. The thermos was found at an airfield where he got off the plane. // [5-8] In jail Bertain admits that he was hiding in the plane. He and Armand argued, and he was thrown off the plane with the thermos at an emergency landing. He took a bus home. He explains the $5000. He is not like “those fifty million other Frenchmen who know åll about women.” / In court Ninette explains to the prosecutor that she borrowed until her family in Dijon could raise the repayment. She didn’t upset Phillipe by telling him that Armand had taken the money. Hayes asks, “how could a little guy like that hurt Armand?” He then admits that he was told to put Bertain on a bus, fast. Hayes hated Armand and was happy to have Phillipe there if he was making trouble. Ron relates how he ran after Phillipe when the defendant ran off with the coffee. Ogilvie relates Phillipe’s threatening words to Armand, then admits Armand owned 10% of the lodge and was to be manager, because his sister wanted it. She says Armand was charming. She thought she was in love. Amrand lied only to protect the lodge. The forest ranger had threatened to close the slopes if the young skiers didn't stay off posted slopes. Carole admits she was on the posted slope. She shakes her head affirmative when Mason says Armand started the avalanche and murdered McManus. // [6-8] At the Classic Lodge bar Ron tells Mason he had to lie to Ninette about what that ski bum Armand was doing. “That guy was his own worst enemy.“ Della brings papers, Drake’s documents, on McManus' debts. Mason uses a trick with the bartender’s jigger to show Ron how something "didn't get out" because it "never got in." / Miss Sutton explains that Armand's loan to McManus was just temporary security, never intended as a sale of interest in the Lodge. He needed $5000 to pay off his debts in Reno. McManus had no heirs, so she went ahead with the transfer. She blurts out that she loved Amrand and he was going to divorce his wife and marry her. After the judge admonishes him for the latitude he’s already had to give him, Mason badgers Ninette about her badger game. But not before the prosecutor asserts that there is only Bertain who had sufficient motive for murder. She knew of Armand’s climbing the ladder of success at the lodge, and knew of his interest in Carole. Didn't she pay the bartender to give her information on Armand? Won't the police find where she found the pills that she substituted for his stay-awake pills? She asserts that she is only sorry she “could not kill him ten times.” // [7-8] Ray Ogilvie agrees to advance whatever Bertain needs until the estate can be cleared up. Carole offers Phillipe boots, and Ogilvie suggests he stay with them a few days. Phillipe goes off, smiling, after Carole. [8-8 end credits] [50:38]

[1-9 Title credits] [2-9] A Buick station wagon drives into the parking lot of Lang-James Laboratories. Inside (Randolph) James and (Hans) Lang, wearing nose masks, are watching a bubbling test tube. They finish their test of an antibiotic. They still maintain a formal relationship. Lang is too serious, notes daughter Gretchen Lang and, “concerning antibiotics (he) has no sense of humor.’ On the phone, she learns that Hudson Bradshaw is on the way, so she puts their notes into a safe as they are what Bradwhaw wants. Bradshaw enters and is advised by James that he is “in time to witness a test of our new pocket-sized atom bomb.” Bradshaw again offers James a better job and financing for the project, which is immediately rejected. He then threatens suit over the antibiotic as having been stolen from his company, Consolidation Drugs, by James while working for him. Lang asserts that the idea was his alone. Bradshaw says he'll tie things up until the shareholders' meeting, where he'll drop his own picket-sized atom bomb. // [3-9] At a beachfront house Natalie (James) asks Andy (Witcoe) if he took a ring and bracelet. Yes, he pawned them. She says the ring is worth $5000 and the bracelet three times that. All he asked for was $160 to keep his wagon from being repossessed. They kiss. She wants the pawn ticket back by the next day. Perry Mason, Natalie’s husband’s attorney, arrives in his white Lincoln convertible. He asks Natalie if she's selling her stock to Hudson Bradshaw. She's sick and tired of scrimping and living in Marion Devlin's termite-ridden shanty, and for months of hearing about an imminent payoff. “Every cent (she) inherited went into that stock.” Why shouldn't she get it back? Randolph, with whom Natalie has hardly been "communicating” Then the stock will be worth two to three times what Bradshaw has offered. This is the first she has heard that. Helen Bradshaw phones to confirm that Natalie is coming over for a drink. Natalie remains leery of James’s relationship with Marion. James calls Devlin and has Mason take the good news. Hearing this, she says now she'll see how high Bradshaw will bid. / Witcoe is cleaning his surfboard as James drives up in a 50’s Ford station wagon , looking for Lang. / Bradshaw is driving the coast highway (out Malibu way) when he receives a mobile phone call from Natalie, who doesn't want Helen Bradshaw to overhear. But Gertrude Lang is in the car and overhears. $100,000 is now $300,000. Bradshaw says “maybe I know a better way of dealing with her.“ Marion, however, was not on the phone in New York but just outside the shanty. He overhears Natalie, then confronts her. / A seeing-eye German Shepherd nuzzles his blind fisherman. Down the beach, Lang chides James for not controlling his wife. He’s upset that Bradshaw will cheapen his product. ”A woman like this should not be allowed to exist,” he asserts. / Helen and Natalie commiserate over drinks. Thru a telescope Helen views Randolph fishing far from the blind fisherman. Natalie leaves with Helen's diamond clip borrowed for a party, to walk home. She is hit by a white 50’s Ford station wagon, which is witnessed by an old woman. // [4-9] James picks up his gear, calls “good night” to the blind fisherman. The police arrive, question James at his white station wagon. / Hours later the Bay Shores police have not released James. Lieutenant Gibson explains to Mason and James that they haven’t found the man with the dog, and that they are a small town police force and cannot do blood checks and such. They can't identify the woman who had a diamond clip. A police officer brings in Mrs Pennyworth, the old woman, who then identifies Perry Mason as the man driving the station wagon. / Mason takes James home. Gretchen (Lang) (the blonde in the car with Bradshaw), claims the door was open so she came in. She hasn't been able to reach her husband. James phones Helen Bradshaw . . . who says Natalie left hours ago. Hudson asks who called. “Natalie is again among the missing.” He hopes “it’s permanent.” / It dawns on James, the diamond clip . . . / Mason and James are at a hospital with an intern to identify the just recently dead body of Natalie. As Mason calls the Bayshore police James ducks out. / He goes to the lab, enters after the Lab Parking guard locks the gate, and finds the safe open. He takes out papers, then is hit over the head. / Gertie tells Paul Drake that the police are looking for James. Mason joins them. Maybe James didn't run away, but is just playing detective. “Didn’t you tell him I was a world-reknowned detective” queries Drake, who has found little. He has confirmation that the dent in James's station wagon was there before the murder. James calls, but doesn't tell Mason where he is. / Devlin is met by the Security Guard. Inside the lab Lang and daughter await his arrival as if from the airport. Nothing has been stolen and the formula is safe. Randolph, offers Gretchen, is trying to find the fisherman with dog who can prove he “never left the beach until much later.” Devlin asks if he shouldn’t be too hard to find. “Should he?” / James runs up to a fisherman on the beach; it is Mason, who says Randolph must turn himself in. No, not until he finds the man with the dog, because he had the bumped fender fixed the next day, and it was his car. The fisherman arrives with his dog. Lieutenant Anderson, with Sergeant Brice, interrupts and arrests James for first-degree murder. // [5-9] D A Hamilton Burger opens his case by explaining that the defendant’s motive was to get control of his wife’s stock in order to keep control of the company. He examines Mrs Pennyworth who won't identify Mason this time. Lt Anderson says a piece of clothing that the deceased was wearing was found caught on the station wagon. Witcoe testifies that the fender was not damaged when he saw it at the beach. To Mason he admits that he boasted he was “more than friendly with Natalie James.“ He only got $160 from her, but Mason asks about $20,000. Lang left the beach a half hour before the accident and after saying she shouldn't be allowed to exist. A fisherman doesn't know if James left, or didn't. Mason asks him about fish, bonito he agrees, and yellowtail and, for bait, mullet. Burger calls them “two old anglers.” / At lunch, Mason is sure someone took James’s wagon and killed Natalie. He tells Drake to tail Witcoe and find the real fisherman, for the one in court doesn't know that bonito and yellowtail are not surf fish. / Back in court Mrs Bradshaw tells Burger that Natalie’s stock was wanted by two, the two husbands. For Mason, she identifies her diamond clip. She saw James on the beach four or five minutes before Natalie left. Mason tells Bradshaw that he had a good reason for taking the car and hitting Mrs James. Bradshaw knows James leaves his keys in the car. He asserts that he was reassuring Gretchen Lang (in his car) that her father would be kept on at his company. Devlin testifies to the enormous value of the antibiotic. Drake has found the real fisherman. He's blind! // [6-9] Gertie answers the phone, then passes on to Mason what she thinks she’s heard, just as Drake rushes in to tell Mason that he's got the two pawn tickets. Witcoe has said that he saw Devlin near the beach a half hour before Natalie James was run down. / In court, Mason brings a phone to Marion Devlin and challenges him to phone his New York office. The judge prompts him with the “area code is 212, in case you’ve forgotten.“ When he does, Mason picks up a phone ringing on his courtroom desk . Devlin now admits to being in Bay Shores. It was he who opened the safe in order to photograph the formula, when James came in. He hit him and ran. It was Dr Lang hosing off the station wagon by the sea wall the night of the murder. Lang admits that he washed the wagon thinking it was James who had hit Natalie. Did he threaten to kill the man on the beach the next night with his dog? He shakes his head “no.“ The fisherman identifies Devlin as the voice who told him he'd kill his dog if he ever returned to the beach. But Mason recalls Mrs Bradshaw. She had been having many dinners with Devlin. The $20,000 worth of pawned jewelry was hers, not Natalie’s. The old hat, identified by Mrs Pennyworth, was her husbands but has strands of her hair in it. She (knowing Randolph was fishing) had brought the wagon up to her house, then returned it after running Natalie down. Helen is livid with Devlin, because she knew the fisherman was blind! Natalie had been blackmailing her and she had to kill her. // [7-9] Mason is at the beach, fishing. Drake reports that the fake fisherman is a distant cousin of Marion Devlin's and Burger is going to throw the book at him. Mason knew the fake fisherman was so, because he said he didn’t see what James was doing, but all fishermen watch others t”o make sure they aren’t catching anything bigger than he is! “ ”Ask a stupid question,” bemoans Paul. [8-9 end credits] [50:28]

[1-9 Title credits] [2-9] A gloved hand puts a key in the door lock of the Downtown Transfer and Storage Warehouse. Inside, a balding man (Otto Joseph) is apologizing to wife Elaine (Joseph) over the phone for not being home on a Sunday. Business is bad, he says, but “he'll try to finish paper work early” and then maybe they can go out. He goes back to work. The gloved hand picks up a crowbar, sneaks up behind Otto and strikes him. The gloved hand pours gasoline on a cotton rope which even winds across his desk. Fire engulfs stacked boxes in the building, but Otto wakens. He reaches the fire alarm, triggers it, then falls, senseless. // [3-9] A radio dispatcher and a phone dispatcher get the message simultaneously and send fire trucks to the out-of-control blaze. The building is ablaze when the trucks arrive. A crane lifts a ladder as the fire rages. Platoon Commander (Farrell) Moorefield calls for help, noting the building was a 100 x 200 foot warehouse. (Former Deputy Firechief) Carey York joins the commander, who leaves him to monitor the phone. TV news reporter Tommy Towne arrives in a Buick (watch Tommy Towne in Angel Town) with a cameraman and joins York. Towne accuses York of incompetence. They argue, then fight and are separated by Moorefield as York says ‘I’ll kill the pipsqueak.” Towne challenges, “Platoon Commander Farrell Moorefield and the fire department presided as another structure was converted into a parking lot.” The platoon commander then phones for an A unit. York, who owns the place, realizes that it is arson. Lieutenant Anderson orders a policeman to have cars moved, then admits to Towne that it is not only arson, but also attempted murder. A policeman finds a cotton rope and a gasoline can in a radio-equipped car. / On TV Towne reports the arson and that Downtown Transfer was having financial trouble; its records had been subpoenaed by the tax department. and there was a threat of cancellation of fire insurance. The car with incendiary items belonged to York. Son Dorian and former chief York watch. Towne suggests York likes setting fires as much as putting them out. York smashes the TV. His son has failed him by not becoming a fireman. Dorian calls Moorefield as Carey drives to the fire station, where Moorefield reminds York that his son has agoraphobia. York vows he’ll make Towne “eat his words.“ “In Court,“ snaps Moorefield. He also warns against action and to not discredit the fire department. ”I’m not in the fire department anymore, I’m retired” counters York. Moore warns him that he's getting Perry Mason to help in a slander suit. / York tells Mason that Towne's house burned down in the last six months of his watch. Santana winds. Towne blames York’s fire department and him. Mason explains the possible defense of Towne. Moorefield says he’d stakek his life that York didn’t set the fire. Mason now suggests that they demand a public retraction from Towne. A phone call indicates it is now arson and murder, of Otto Joseph, the watchman. // [4-9] Paul Drake and Gertie are chatting. Mason joins them and Paul gives him the list of warehouse contents. His bookkeeper is Sylvia Gwynne, "a doll." York's son makes potentiometers. Drake explains the term to Gertie and she is no better off. Mason provides a simpler explanation. Gertie is still a bit baffled. Towne stalks into the room and demands an explanation from Mason of the form he has received demanding a retraction . Drake informs him that the insurance, on which he bases his charges, lapsed a week before the fire, and the records are duplicated. This shoots down Towne’s position. Mason threatens a one and one half million dollar damage suit if there is no retraction. / At the warehouse, Drake meets Ross Walker of San Pedro Shipping which owned half the stored goods (with Sylvia Gwynne). His goods were fully insured. Most were in transit to overseas places on old ships he owns. / {A continuity glitch occurs here. The opening shot shows a ship moving right to left. After the cut-away, there is no ship, but not enough time has passed to allow it to be gone. Then a huge ship comes in from the left, but at the cut to a closeup of the captain, the ship is not there.} At the harbor, Moorefield introduces Mason to Captain Hillman, an arson specialist who assures the attorney that York is not an arsonist. The entry training is too rigorous. He suggests something of metal was the arsonist's target. / The last item on Drake's list is a coilotron, a device for winding coils on potentiometers. / Mr Herbert (Baker) explains the potentiometer machine, which he manufactures. Demand is small, only 25 units. Dorian York had been virtually squeezed out of the Western market by the company who just bought one. The fire destroyed Baker’s machine which leaves Dorian very much in business, not bankruptcy. Towne has the only other photo of the machine. / Mason joins Moorefield to watch Towne's last broadcast during which he must retract or be sued. Carey York has not arrived. Towne changes his charge; York criminally set the blaze to save his son's business from bankruptcy. A phone call tells the chief that Careu York's car has gone off a cliff and crashed. / At the crash site Moorefield pulls the cover off the dead man; it is Towne. Lt Anderson says that the body has been dead a half hour, strangled. What they saw on TV was a (video) tape made that afternoon. Sergeant Brice brings Carey forward, under arrest for murder. // [5-9] In jail York says Towne called him. He had a date with someone who might identify the real arsonist. York drove him in his car, then he hid in bushes where he was knocked out. He set a radio to broadcast back to the fire station. “Who,” he asks Mason, “who? . . .“ Only he and Otto had keys to the warehouse side door. / Elaine Joseph tells Paul and Perry that her papa had a spare key made. He was paying international blackmail regarding his wife in the old country who was too sick to come with them when she and he left. Yes, her father stole from York. Mason comforts her. / In court D A Hamilton Burger and Lt Anderson are chatting. The bailiff calls out the full opening announcement leading to the entry of Judge Penner. The judge quotes various California codes and, when Mason asks to bypass the preliminary, the judge quotes another code. Burger interrupts to agree with Mason. York is bound over. Burger is baffled by Mason’s strategy, so approaches Mason who offers that he is just saving the taxpayers money. Quoting from Shakespeare, Mason offers, “the play’s the thing in which i’ll catch the conscience of the king . . . the king was also a murderer who took the bait and fell into the trap. // [6-9] Moorefield agrees to help Mason, but the Los Angeles Fire Department covers five hundred square miles, so he won’t vouch for the entire department nor put its reputation in jeopardy for one man. But he will help by bringing Captain Hillman into the picture. / Mason gives instructions to Gertie (since Della is out of town) to go to Ed Levine and get pots and pans. Mason finally tells a puzzled Gertie that this is leading to starting a fire underwater. / At the warehouse, Sylvia Gwynne admits to Drake she knew that Otto was stealing. Drake tells her that she should find an envelope and open it at eight. Why not give it to her in a cocktail lounge, she teases. Paul plants the envelope, which she finds. Paul is gone. / At the harbor, Drake and Dorian York get set to sail with gear. Moorehead gives then a pep talk. / At San Pedro Shipping Walker tells Mason that he's cleared the building. Mason says you can burn a building not only to destroy what is in it, but also what is not in it. He notes that Otto's wife is long dead, but his friends in the old country haven't told him so they could continue to blackmail him. They got him to help smuggle a coilotron out of the country. A dummy coilotron crate was destroyed in the fire. Mason says that a boat is arriving at the dock within an hour. It will transship the real coilotron. A phone call; Sylvia Gwynne says Otto left a letter and she wants $50,000 or she gives it to the D A. Walker pulls a gun on Mason, as smoke creeps under the door to his warehouse. Fire! They start out and Drake grabs Walker's arm, forcing him to drop his gun. Walker runs out. Now Captain Hillman's fireboats cooperate, spraying Walker with water and immobilizing him dockside // [7-9] Mason explains to Dorian that it was necessary for Walker to incriminate himself. Carey now arrives and explains to Perry how Walker has confessed to everything. Dorian and Drake show the fire-and-smoke making machines, smoke pots and fire pans, standard tools of motion picture effects, to Carey York, Mason and Moorefield. There was no real fire, but a whole lot of smoke. Calling his son a “square peg,” Dorian walks off with “I’m hungry, let’s eat.” [8-9 end credits] [50:39]

[1-9 Title credits] [2-9] Royal Garden Apartments. A young woman watches as an older woman leaves a bungalow, wearing a white fur coat, gets into her chauffeured Lincoln Continental and drives away. The young woman enters the bungalow, is greeted by Madame Zillia. She is Amy Scott, who has begun to receive her estate from England. “The powers merely use my unworthy self as an instrument” explains Madame Zilla. Amy pays $1000 for a month's services, thanks the Madame for helping her find her ring on the windowsill in the kitchen. She”doesn’t even remember slipping it off.“ The séance starts with Madame Zilla dropping a powder on coals, caustng ti to burst into flames. A second, then both Madame Zilla and Amy.. Madame Zillia calls on goddess Isis for help, sees Amy in a black dress, and death for someone near and dear. Twice during the seance, Amy has moved her purse closer to Madame Zillia. // [3-9] (Victor) Bundy is cutting a rose, then startles Amy on her return, warns her about the clairvoyant. They discuss Madame Zilla’s help of others, then he explains the obviousness of the ring’s location. He reminisces on a palmist in Polermo . . . She gives him a rent check, then enters her cabin, where Paul Drake informs her he's found "him," asks Dora to take care of Peetie. She then hides a recorder she takes from her purse. / Drake drives her in his black Thunderbird to a bar to see Tommy Stiller, who has taken his father Leonard’s recent suicide rather hard. She says that she knew Paul would find him. “How, by looking in a crystal ball” asks Paul. Stiller / The Sunset bar. Amy sees Tommy alone outside, but Drake, after driving away, has returned, stays near. Tommy asks Amy to leave him alone. Drake returns her to the Royal Gardens. He cautions Amy about the “phony fortune teller.” Bundy is confiding with a man. Madame Zillia is watching from her own bungalow. A scream. Peetie, Amy's parrot is dead. / Paul tells Perry Mason he thinks Scott is being “set up for a beautiful fleecing.” The dead bird was an old trick; was Dora the accomplice of Madame Zillia? “An innocent young girl involving herself like that” bothers Mason. “What do I do about it?” queries Paul. “More to the point,” ponders Mason, “ what does Madame Zilla intend to do about it?” / Madame Zillia tells Amy to never see her again, warns her of something she's doing that is dangerous. Amy eavesdrops on Madame Zillia making a phone call, but the clairvoyant closes the curtain. Amy has been joined by Bundy, who demands to know what she is doing. She has proof of what he's said about Madame Zillia; her tape recorder is gone. “I need help,” she realizes. She quickly changes the topic when Dora returns. Bundy says he’ll get rid of his guest, and she should come over in ten minutes. / Drake reports to Mason that Madame Zillia was the accomplice with the "Great Zacharys." Bundy is the mastermind. / Amy heads to Bundy's, meets Dora who should have left on the bus but is returning for her glasses. She enters Bundy's apartment, finds her tape recorder in the fire, and Bundy, dead. // [4-9] Mason and Drake find Dora at knocking at Bundy's office door. They find the body. Mason phones the police. / As they enter Mason’s office, Amy' says she’s been waiting at Drake's office, after driving around for a while. Drake's phone call from the flea bag Regency West informs Mason that Amy is the sister of Tommy Stiller, who is standing behind him. She is Arnell Stiller. Mason tells Arnell that he knows of her father's suicide, that he was a client of Madame Zillia, who was a partner of Bundy. Amy was in Paris when her genius father died. But he wasn’t practical, believed in fortune tellers. She admits she wanted to get the goods on Madame Zillia. This, notes Mason, is a motive for murder. / Tommy, drinking, says it was not Madame Zillia's fault, but his, and his staff of Howard Kern and Joyce Carlton. He was in charge of his father Leonard’s finances, and the backers failed him. He's tricked into showing he knew of Bundy and admitting he saw Arnell earlier. / Howard Kern (the man seen earlier with Bundy) went from Leonard Stiller to another company, Tillotson and Hartley, that got the building design contract Stiller was to have. Was Joyce Carlton the other woman in Leonard Stiller's divorce? Kern doesn't know. / Drake gets a hotel clerk to tell him where Joyce Carlton is. / He finds her at a swanky hotel, registered under a different name, owned by Kern's new company. They banter over who she knows until Kern shows up, escorts her away. Paul comforts himself with, “Bartender, I’ll have an old fashioned, please.” / Zillia tells Mason she only knew that Amy's situation was serious and she could get into trouble. She considered Leonard Stiller a friend, and didn't know of Bundy's or Kern's business activities. She never knew Amy as a Stiller. Mason informs her of what her crystal ball failed to show; the arrest of Amy for the murder of Victor Bundy. // [5-9] Court. Kern tells Hamilton Burger that he went to see Bundy to identify Amy Scott as Arnell Stiller. Zillia thought Bundy was acting strangely, was told by him to tell Amy to never see her again. Tommy Stiller tells Burger that he met his sister running from Bundy's. Burger pursues this line of questioning until Mason objects. / Dora says Miss Stiller was in Bundy's apartment for 15 minutes from 8 pm. A long distance call from Anton Bernfield in New York City was what sent her to Bundy's. He went to Madame Zillia since Arnell said she was working on her. Burger announces that Bernfield is a theatrical booking agent, and the Great Zacharys were Madame Zillia and the decedent. Lt Anderson says the murder weapon had the defendant's fingerprints. Death was between 7:45 and 8:15. The tape recorder found in the fire was purchased by the defendant. Bundy apparently didn't profit from Leonard Stiller's death through a payoff from the company that got his business. An envelope with a photo of Zillia and Bundy from Bernfield Theatrical Agency, mailed to Amy Scott, is placed in evidence. / Drake, playing possum, is mistaken by Joyce Carlton for her lover. Mason set this up, and gives her a subpoena. // [6-9] Court. Arnell is surprised to see Joyce enter. Burger rests the prosecution’s case. Mason decides to put on evidence. Tommy admits that he knew of the impending divorce between Leonard and his mother, and the identity of the other woman. His mother went to Paris to join Arnell and, then, because of himself, the building project blew up. It was Kern who tipped Tommy off to the other woman, Joyce Carlton. Kern denies this. Mason notes that a detective who spoke to Kern showed in his report that Leonard Stiller was a philanderer, taking gifts to his girl. Mason makes Kern read from the report, which identifies Joyce Carlton as Leonard's girl. It was Kern who identified Carlton. After a denying outburst from Joyce, Mason asks Kern, ‘why did he build up this elaborate lie.” He had to keep her from finding that he and Victor had tricked Leonard so he'd lose the project. They were paid off, and Victor Bundy bought the cabins “with his share of the payoff.” / Madame Zillia says Leonard was not in love with Joyce. He desired substance, maturity. When she saw Howard talking to Victor, she found the truth about Amy's identity and Victor's “inheritance” of the cabins. They defrauded Leonard and took the man she loved from her. She went to Bundy, who was wild, calling her a fool. He killed Leonard, because he had found out too much. She doesn't remember what happened, but “suddenly Victor was lying there, dead, and [she] was holding the bloody poker." // [7-9] Paul and Perry wish "bon voyage" to Amy. Madame Zillia has said had Amy been bound over for trial, she would have confessed. Mr and Mrs (Joyce Carlton) Tommy Stiller come to take Arnell to the airport to go to England to see her mother. As Arnell heads to their car, Paul offers, ”Hey, were a regular couple of cupids.” “Well, I just can’t see it. You with a bow and arrow,” answers Mason. “What about you, with wings?” is Paul’s end to the point. [8-9 end credits] [50:26]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Anderson Wesley Lau James Douglas Jerry Van Dyke Newton Bain Harry Townes Mary Douglas Nancy Cates Nellie Conway Joan Lovejoy Carole Moray Joyce Meadows Georgiana Douglas Ann Carroll Elizabeth Bain Shirley Mitchell Prosecutor Allen Joseph Sgt Steve Toland Frank Gerstle Gertie Connie Cezon Judge Kenneth MacDonald Dr Stevenson Alexander Lockwood Municipal Judge Edmund Glover (Joe) Duncan Steve Pendleton (Sgt Brice Lee Miller)

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Elizabeth Bain buzzes and calls, “Nellie, I want some company. Nellie Conway is in the hall with a glass and pills, yet goes away. Newton (Bain) comes out of an adjacent room and calls for Nellie. “You get away from here, Newton” shouts Elisabeth. James (Douglas, step-brother to Elizabeth) comes up stairs and is told to find Nellie. Elisabeth complains she is not supposed to have pills. Newton, who has been there only one day, has a meeting, he says, and Elizabeth calls out "its name is . . . Carole Moray." James offers to be a male nurse. Nellie sneaks out and phones for Perry Mason “to stop a murder." // [3-8] Nellie tells Perry that it was Newton’s idea to give Elizabeth the pills, not the doctor's and, of course, they are poison. Nellie is not a nurse, just a housekeeper. Elizabeth was in a car accident from which her husband walked away okay. Everyone feels sorry for him. Elizabeth won't let him in her room since the accident. Stepsister Mary Douglas may be the only one who can help. Newton was out with Carole Moray the previous night. Nellie knows Mason ”couldn’t bear to have murder on (his) conscience anymore than (she) can.” / Mason calls Paul Drake, who is in bed reading, to meet him immediately at the Douglas house. / At the house, Nellie is frantic. Sergeant (Steve) Toland, robbery division, has found one of Elizabeth's bracelets in Nellie's purse. Mason gets the word from Drake. The pills were aspirin. / In the courthouse hallway, Mary Douglas asks Mason to help Nellie, because Elizabeth is worried about her. She blames Newton. He agrees as amicus curie. Toland testifies to using ultra violet light to reveal Nellie's fingerprints on the box and her hands turning blue from powder on the box as well as on her purse and the bracelet. James Douglas put the powder on the box. James says that in the army he did a lot of police work, CIC. He and Newton inventoried the box two hours before the theft of the bracelet. He knew Nellie Conway was a troublemaker. Mason objects and the judge agrees that the witness should “just answer the questions.“ James won’t blame Conway, says the stolen bracelet's jewels are paste, $25, barely over the limit for petty theft. The real diamonds were put in a safe deposit box. Mason challenges him. When he saw Conway handling the box, wasn’t she dusting it. Yes. Didn't he handle the box? Yes. So his hands were blue. Didn't James handle it also, and so forth. The judge steps in and asks the prosecutor if he has presented his whole case, then, "When two amateurs set out to deliberately set out to entrap . . ." Case dismissed. Nellie gloats, but Mason tells her that slander isn’t nice. He makes it clear he’s not sorry for Bain and the judicial misconduct, but for her attitude. // [4-8] Gertie greets Mason at the office. Mary Douglas has brought him Elizabeth's new holographic will which leaves her most of her estate. Mason notes that it lacks a period at the end. A phone call for Mary. She runs out. Gertie has listened to the call. A doctor said Elizabeth has been poisoned. / Lieutenant Anderson tells Mason that Elizabeth is dead. Mary Douglas gave Elizabeth her morning medicine. Drake reports via phone that Conway has gone to New Orleans. Mason tells him to follow her. / In New Orleans; Canal and Basin streets. Drake introduces Joe Duncan, his local man, to Perry Mason. Conway is in a suite of rooms reserved by Newton Bain. He had two suites the week before. Carole Moray is in one suite now. Mason goes to Nelli Conway's room, where she offers Mason $200 for his services. She has $3000 from Bain for not suing him. She also did him a favor by giving Elizabeth three of his pills. Actually, she flushed them and got her own. Mason reports the death. Next door, Drake confronts Moray. She was waiting for some letters, which Conway delivered, that she wrote Newton and which his wife saw. She felt sorry for him and suggests that Drake will, too. / On a plane, Georgiana, James's wife, with James - they got on at Houston - tells Mason that Newton's first wife left him $100,000 and died of food poisoning. / Andy meets Mason at the airport. He's cleared Newton and arrested Mary Douglas for first degree murder. // [5-8] In jail Mary admits the capsules were the kind that could be pulled apart. They were left by the nurse. Mason notes that the holographic will now has a period at the end. She says she had to hold Elizabeth’s hand to make the needed period. / D A Hamilton Burger hears from Dr Stevenson that Elizabeth died at 11:31. He says there was an ink stain on the defendant’s hand. She ingested the fatal poison about 8:30 in the morning, not earlier as Mason tries to get him to agree. Conway admits to Burger of lying to Mrs Bain, telling her the pills were prescribed by the doctor. She made Newton give her $500 extra to administer the aspirin, which would make her sleep well. She was to receive her money along with a packet of letters for Carole Moray. She left instructions regarding the capsule, as stated by the nurse. She saw Mary handling the jewel box. James says he saw traces of the dust on Elizabeth’s water glass and Mary Douglas's hands. Burger exposes his CIC service. For three weeks James was a jeep driver for CIC. Then, why does the will give so much to Mary, when he and she should have shared equally. Georgiana explains to Mason that Elizabeth knew Mary needed the money and she and James didn't. She clearly doesn't like Newton. At about nine she talked with Elizabeth about mopping! The house was a frightful mess because Newton wouldn't hire another maid. He didn’t want anyone else in the house. // [6-8] James explains that he tried to like the things Elizabeth liked, but Carole was so different, so understanding. Elizabeth found the letters. She confronted him the night of the accident. She grabbed the wheel . . . She kept the letters in her mattress cover. He got them the night before she died. A box with rat poison in it, found by the homicide lieutenant (Andy) in the garage shortly after the murder, purchased by Mary, is identified by Newton. No, he didn’t notice the rat poison. The box had blue smudges and Mary Douglas's fingerprints. Quietly, to Mason, Mary admits to using some of the poison on rats in the basement. Drake gives Mason some papers. Mason attacks Bain, asking about the death of his first wife. Burger objects, but Mason points out that the D A opened the door by asking Bain about his ”sad life story, “ his not understanding women. Mason, instead, contends he understands them all too well, “one after another.” She died of food poisoning on a camping trip. The doctor got his information from Bain. He had help from Carole Moray, “a secretary in the local funeral home, who later left town for a better job.” Mason asks for a new autopsy of the first Mrs Newton Bain. / It is after dark. Perry, Paul and Andy wait in Paul’s T-bird to see who will run. Drake gets a radiophone call that indicates no one is moving. / Carole Moray is heading to the Newton house when a scream is heard. The three men run in as Newton runs away from Nellie, whom he was strangling. Mason suggest Newton was strangling her because he now knew his first wife was poisoned, and accuses Nellie of murdering the first wife by placing poison in the camping food, then putting rat poison arsenic in the pill she knew would be taken after she was long gone. When Newton is brought back, she laughs at him, the Lothario, “the stupid little Romeo! She did so much to keep him!” // [7-8] Mary, Paul and Perry are together. Newton tried and couldn't get rid of Nellie. He was waiting for Carol to go to the town where he could have his first wife exhumed. Drake says you have to feel sorry for Newton having to stand trial for trying to strangle Nellie. Mary exclaims, “You’ve what!” “Okay, okay, I’ll take I back.” [8-8 end credits] [50:30]

[1-9Title credits] [2-9] Simon Weatherly's Shakespearean touring company of four pulls up to a downtown Flagstaff hotel in their company bus. Red Doyle, the driver, shouts “Flagstaff, hit the pavement. Curtain call.” He is admonished for being “so clamorous” by one of the troup. John Sylvester Fossette calls him a “mass murderer” for his terrible driving. The driver tells another company member that he once “drove a two-star general all they way from the landing beach to Cassino.” He is asked what happened to the general. “He got killed, in an accident.” Company members depart for the hotel lobby one-by-one . In the coffee shop, Douglas McKenzie approaches actress Ramona Carver, who tries to brush him off after a muddled approach, but he claims she is his mother! // [3-9] The bus rolls on with the boy having joined the company. They give a performance, then drive on. The question arises of why the boy has been added as an assistant. On the road again they arrive at the Biltmore Theatre in Los Angeles. Ramona's friend, Perry Mason, with Della Street, meet the actress in her dressing room. She confesses that she had a son 23 years before. She calls Douglas in, then sends him for coffee. Della takes his side. She wants Mason to find who is putting Douglas up to this pretense. Mason sends Della to find Paul Drake. Ramona now confides that the boy’s father was from Boston, a true blue bluel-blood. His family sent the boy off to Europe. Only one person, a New York critic, a lecherous old liar, could know about the boy. They are interrupted by the company's fat man, John Sylvester Fossette, who immediately recognizes Mason. Then Douglas returns. He says that his foster father, Sam, told him who his mother was. He admits to almost revealing himself to her a year before in Chicago, which is where he got her autograph. He admits that his knees were shaking in Flagstaff. Ramona tells him that he is not her son. Doyle enters and asks if he should pick up (her) kit.” No, but then she gives the boy a $5000 check, which he tears up before stalking out. Scott Everett comes to remind Ramona that the bus is about to leave. Della returns from making a call to Paul Drake, who has arrived just in time to see Douglas leave. // [4-9] The bus rolls on to Santa Barbara. Scott is totaling figures. “You don’t add at all, Jack. You just pick a number,” he tells John Sylvester Fossette. Guy Penrose ask if he is to be given a percentage, but Fossette informs him that Simon Weatherly, in a letter from Geneva, Switzerland, expects him to hold to his contracted salary. Guy is praised in the letter. Scott is also praised, though Weatherly has forgotten his name. Guy threatens to give a performance not good enough for Ogden G Kramer. “Who?” a surprised Romana asks. “&Mac246; thought he was dead” retorts Fossette. Only moribund! He's a cinema critic in Santa Barbara. Penrose notes that he’s a former Broadway critic, having reviewed Ramona as a fitting "Medea," and is now on a Santa Barbara college drama department as part-time instructor. Ramona offers, “How absolutely divine. Reunion in Santa Barbara.” / Della and Mason are at dinner. Drake reports by phone that Douglas has taken a bus to Santa Barbara. / The company is met by students at the Santa Barbara college. Ramona charms them, heads to the hotel. As Ramona registers in the hotel, Fossette and Penrose observe Kramer looking on. Guy warns, “Keep all blunt objects out of Ramona’s reach.” Ramona begs off of her student admirers to read a telegram as Penrose tries to lead Kramer away. Ramona leaves Fossette to corral “Oggie darling” Kramer as if an old friend. / Mason is on the phone asking about $5000 when Ramona is cut off. / The college auditorium. The audience is clapping rhythmically because the performance has not begun. Douglas is in the audience. Backstage Fossette says he’s phoned the hotel but Ramona was not there, just as Ramona arrives. Mason has been there twice, with something for her, and she says she’s changed her mind. As the curtain goes up, Kramer enters the rear of the auditorium. / They company does "Lear," then “Macbeth,” with Kramer watching from the rear of the auditorium. / Afterward, a student takes Mason to Kramer's office. Kramer is dead. // [5-9] The Maitre d’ tells Mason that Ramona doesn’t answer her phone. The attorney then finds Penrose in the Rathskeller, and the latter admists he is drunk. he drinks “out of frustration.” He then complains of his treatment by Simon Weatherly, Simple Simon, and notes, when informed that Mason found the dead Kramer, that he should have little trouble in securing an acquittal. Ramona, of course, whom he believes will be charged, got Kramer drummed out of the critics' corp. They “are called The Company of Four for good reason. Hear no evil, see no evil, hear no evil.” “That’s only three.” “The fourth is greed, which makes liars of us all.” / Fossette tells Mason that Ramona came straight to his dinner from the performance, and just left him. Doyle phones that Ramona is in the bus. / The bus. Mason suggests Scott Everett might be her son, and Ramona tells Mason she wanted him to get her $5000 in marked money so she could pay off Kramer, then get him for extortion, but she changed her mind. The police enter. / In the hotel an officer says a waiter thought she had supper with Fossette, but never saw her there. She ate “Lobster and a salad.” He insults Fossette, regarding his girth (hormonal), by suggesting he could have eaten both meals. Dyker, the student who greeted her at the bus and escorted Mason to Kramer's office, comes forth to say he saw her enter the office, but he might be mistaken. Kramer apparently didn't like all the second act changes they made (to get the curtain down on time after the late start), went straight to his office and was typing for maybe a half hour before being killed, around 11:30. Mason found him at 12:40. Mr Rogers, from the IRS, was watching Fossette, who went alone to his apartment. Only the waiter and Mason entered thereafter. Ramona is taken to headquarters. // [6-9] Court. The local District Attorney hears Dyker tell how he knows Miss Carver went to Kramer's office. A crime scene expert, Sandifer (tho unnamed), testifies that evidence - red threads, fingerprints - shows Ramona was in Kramer's office. Fossette is trapped. This (fat) man “ate two lobsters,two salads, two desserts,” to cover for Ramona. While his testimony continues, Ramona tells Mason she found Kramer already dead. Carver's percentage is "generous," but she is a" theatrical luminary of the first magnitude." The D A queries about Ramona's relationship with Weatherly years ago (trying to connect Scott Everett). Penrose is queried if he knew she gave premature birth to a boy in Mercy Hospital, Jersey City. He “didn’t know.” Scott says he, as a drama student, was advised by Kramer to see Miss Carver about being a replacement, telling her he was an orphan. Kramer expected a payoff, and he complied as best he could. He saw Kramer the afternoon of the performance, confronted him about being his father, which enraged Kramer. He was born in Sioux City, Iowa. He suggests Weatherly was the father; Ramona bursts out laughing. / Ramona tells Mason that the father was "that boy from Boston" who got killed in an accident without ever knowing about the baby. Weatherly took care of her, but never answered her queries about the boy. Drake hasn't gotten an answer from Switzerland. Ramona accepts "that boy from Arizona," Douglas, as her son. / Scott, while making a picture in Europe, visited DeVos Sanitarium where Weatherly, who has been a patient for several years, cannot be visited. Neither he, nor Penrose, were on stage for the last fifteen minutes of the program. Fossette admits that they change their program often, to meet time limits. Mason suggest that Fossette is really the manager of the company, even writing Weatherly's letters in order to dodge taxes. Didn't Kramer find this out and want a cut? Didn't he slip out at the intermission between acts one and two and kill Kramer, then type the review and change the program to match what he'd typed? // [7-9] Son Douglas, mother Ramona, Paul and Perry celebrate. She asks, “Is it really so terribly wrong to kill a critic?” [8-9 end credits] [50:36]

[1-9 Title credits] [2-9] Jesse Young, M.D. counsels Rosanne (Ambrose). Her booking agency is threatening to sue her because her secretary, Leslie (Eden), has mixed up dates, places and such. She cannot remember her calls to the agency, or where or when she wrote her last book. She filed suite for divorce three months before, so Hubert knows nothing of this. Young suggests that Hubert was wrong for her and that he is the rejected lover. He also asserts that she is physically sick. She believes she's going insane. / At home, Rosanne finds her husband's study in disarray. She is hit over the head. / She awakens to find the room in perfect order. // [3-9] Rosanne is on the couch in the study and Dr Young is comforting her. Leslie (Eden) says she thinks that nothing of Rosanne's is missing, but cannot vouch for Hubert's things. Perhaps, suggests Rosanne, sarcastically , Hubert hit her over the head and did all this. The doctor orders her directly to bed, then leaves. Leslie goes to turn down the bed. Rosanne puts on a jacket and leaves. / At Garrett and Ambrose, Investment Counselors, Kirk (Cameron) is looking for a paper that 'Bert Ambrose insists must be there just as Rosanne bursts in and asks if he mussed up the study. He accuses her of going too far in getting Perry Mason's name on the divorce papers. Lieutenant Anderson enters with a warrant of extradition for Hubert Ambrose to New York for trial in the murder of Sophie Janel. / Court hallway. As Leslie Eden looks on, Mason meets Rosanne in a courthouse hallway. He says that he can't help ‘Burt, since he's her lawyer, but he does agree to ask the court for a stay. In the courtroom, Hubert is being charged. Mason asks for a stay. Lieutenant Barlow from New York explains how Harry Arden, who is the murderer, and Hubert Ambrose have been identified as one and the same by Vera Janel, daughter of the murdered woman. The judge orders a one week stay, no bail for the defendant. / In jail Garrett tells Rosanne that her husband is no good. 'Burt and Cameron fleeced the murdered woman out of a fortune. She suggests that Kirk may be the one who went to New York City. She hurries out. / Rosanne, thinking Kirk did more than help 'Burt, is maybe the murderer, has gone to Cameron to get the truth. She exits the apartment, goes down the back stairs and drops her purse, from which compacts fall out spraying powder, and then blacks out. / Eden calls Mason over missing Rosanne. / Rosanne wakes, finds her purse in perfect order. She goes back up stairs, peers through the door; Lt Anderson has discovered the suicide of Cameron. // [4-9] At the Garrett and Ambrose office Mason asks Fillmore Garrett how he could have not seen what was going on. Ambrose fooled him and Rosanne as well as Sophie Janel in New York. Hubert may even have taken Rosanne for every dollar she had. / Vera Janel calls Ambrose "a dirty swine, her mother was a good ten years older than he," and goes to her room. Winifred Wileen, president of Altamaw (anti-war) introduces herself. She is proud of her sit downs. Vera is her American chairwoman. She got none of her mother's $3 million. $2 million went to charity, $1 million to Hubert Ambrose. / District Attorney Hamilton Burger reads Cameron's suicide note, which exonerates Ambrose of the Janel swindle but stops short of a full confession. It was typed, and his blood was on it and his hand. The extradition warrant has been withdrawn. 'Bert and his attorney, Michael Rancer, leave. Then Mason and Rosanne. Burger and Lt Anderson have set a trap. / Perry Mason is dictating to Della Street. Paul Drake reports that the suicide gun was new and the gun breech was not leaking. Traces of chloro-hydrate (knockout drops) were found in the body. / Mason reports this to Dr Young, noting that the gun could have been held close to Cameron's head if he were knocked-out. Dr Young states that the two prescriptions he wrote for Rosanne were chloral hydrate and sodium nitrate. / Rosanne meets 'Bert at the ticket counter, just as Lt Anderson arrives with Sergeant Brice to arrest her for murder. // [5-9] In court Lt Anderson testifies that, though she went up in the elevator, she went down by the stairs, which is confirmed by her fingerprints on the rail and a lipstick at the bottom of the stairs and powder from her compact. Her purse contained two prescriptions. Her fingerprints were found on the barrel of the murder weapon. Mason gets Anderson to admit he knew of the nitrate on the barrel, chloral hydrate in the body, before Hubert Ambrose was released, and is forced to admit that so did Burger. Mason indicates that Burger then had Hubert entrapped into fleeing. Anderson tries to weasel out by saying that Rosanne's motive was to protect her husband and thereby his $1 million inheritance. Burger stipulates knowledge of the embezzlement by Hubert of wife Rosanne's funds and his intent to prove her actions were based on this. Leslie Eden says Rosanne, after writing the last of several checks to her husband, stated he'd "not only robbed her of the best years of her life but had now defrauded her of every cent she had in the world." She brought the prescriptions to Rosanne at the evening hearing. Dr Young attacks Burger's implications regarding use of the pills, then Burger gets him to state that Rosanne was not delusional. But he “cannot give an objective” answer regarding insanity at the time of the murder for he is in love with the accused. / Rosanne explains to Perry, Della and Paul that she had an argument with Cameron, who pulled a gun. She grabbed it by the barrel, he jerked it loose and she was struck on the head. She was dizzy, thinks she rang for the elevator, but ended up on the stairs. She dropped her purse. The powder was brushed up notes Paul. "Another of my illusions" she says. "Such as running away with your husband?" counters Mason. No, 'Bert phoned her to meet him. // [6-9] Garrett testifies that the books show no record of $70,000 Mrs transfer of funds to Mr. Her account assets were liquidated and withdrawn by Hubert who, with the help of Cameron, embezzled $150,000 from Sophie Janel. Garrett asserts that, as partner, he guarantees no one shall lose anything due to the other's actions. Yet he had no idea of what Ambrose and Cameron were doing. He was in New York regarding the embezzlement when Sophie Janel was murdered, because Vera Janel had written him. Vera reads the name of the sole inheritor, other than charities, of $1 million in her mother's will; Hubert Ambrose. Winifred Wileen testifies that when Sophie got a wire from Hubert saying he'd meet her and explain, she said she couldn't believe him again and was going to cut him off. She was president of SOSOD (Society of Supporters of Disestablishmentarianism) at 75 hundred pounds a year, yet the society never took in more than eight thousand a year. Mason brings up others, finally the Anticolonial League To Abolish Munitions And War. Her salary is 15 thousand pounds, though the bank account shows only two thousand pounds. Mason asks, isn't it that she was leeching from Vera that Sophie cut her daughter out of her will? She and her daughter came west to try to break the will. There was nothing wrong with that, asserts Wileen. Mason counters with there being something wrong when she hit Rosanne over the head with a poker. "It wasn't a poker . . ." is all he needs. She says it was a vase, and she was looking for the letter Sophie said she wrote Hubert in her own hand writing stating that he was a swindler. Mason counters; instead it said she was going to have her, Winifred, investigated by the immigration authorities. Mason asks to be allowed, out of order, to call a witness, and given the judge’s permission, calls Hubert Ambrose. Burger protests, but Mason notes that Burger stipulated to his crime against his wife, and that both he and his wife have waived the husband-wife privilege. Hubert Ambrose claims that when he married Rosanne he loved her, but that is long over. He actually thought she was mentally ill. He knew nothing of the illusions being practiced on his wife. He reminds Mason that he was in jail when Cameron was killed. His accomplice was not, notes Mason, and had to know of the $1 million inheritance. Did he send his wife a note to meet him at the airport. No, she sent him a note. Mason says both notes were sent by the same accomplice who stole from his wife knowing he was stealing from Janel, the only one who could have staged the illusions, and killed Cameron, Leslie Eden. // [7-9] Perry, Paul and Della, Rosanne and Jesse are rehash ing events. Leslie found Rosanne on the stairs on her way up, for she couldn't use the elevator, then again on the way down. She missed the lipstick, but planted the medicine bottles she had not given her in the courthouse; she just couldn't resist one more illusion. [8-9 end credits] [50:27]

[1-9 Title credits] [2-9] (3-1 Title credits) (3-2) (New) stock shot of Lost angeles, at night. Outside the Benson Hotel, a man tries to panhandle another, “just the price of a sandwich.” The other offers dinner in the hotel, which is refused because the panhandler has no tie. The man with a tie, William Sherwood, enters the hotel. He observes "Ruth" going out the revolving door and hurries after her, but she leaves in a cab. Her male companion states that her name is not Ruth Sherwood, but takes William Sherwood’s card. At the hotel bar, Sherwood calls Harry (Niles) to tell him he is having a double Scotch. // [3-9] (3-3) Harry comes looking for Bill. The bartender sends him to his room, pours two more shots. Harry finds Bill with a bottle of liquor. Bill's been off the sauce for six months, but saw his wife, Ruth, who has been dead for a year, killed in an airplane crash 30 miles south of Chicago. “It was Ruth!” he insists. “Did he talk to her?” No. Harry forces Bill in to the bathroom, then makes a phone call. / Bill is delivered to (Dana) Kent. “Thanks a little” he offers. She loves him. He is worried about his ex-boss, new partner Sidney (Falconer), and a meeting tomorrow. Dana offers “The way Mr Falconer worries, I think it would be unkind for anyone to say anything about this.” A phone call from Lynne Bowman (“Ruth”), her male companion looking over her shoulder, advises him they've never met, not in St Louis as he believes for “she’s strictly a west coaster.” Bill is sure it is Ruth's voice. / Chicago Globe-Star headline reads “AIRLINE CRASHES.” Falconer is asking Perry Mason and Della Street why he’s persecuted and tormented and why he took a lush into his firm. Mason says Sherwood is a good salesman and he needed the $15,000 investment which, Falconer notes, is insurance money from her death. But is the guy seeing pink elephants, or what if his partner committed insurance fraud? He leaves. Mason asks Street to get Paul Drake to track down Ruth’s sister, Maggie Malecki. / Mason meets Sherwood at an outdoor fruit and ice cream bar. Sherwood has no doubt his wife died in the plane crash. He also has no doubt he saw Ruth! The attorney informs Sherwood that Ruth's sister Maggie Malecki moved to L A a year and a half ago. No one, he says, would confuse Maggie and Ruth; “you can’t make a bird of paradise out of a crow.” They go across the street to her dress shop. Maggie suggests, as Sherwood said at the juice bar, that she would be negative about him. Maggie offers the other side of the picture, namely, that Ruth was high spirited and should have married a rich man rather than lead a budgeted life with Bill. Then he started to drink, which Bill suggests might have been caused by Ruth. Maggie is vehement when Mason tells her Bill saw Ruth. How could a man of Mason’s stature lend himself to such a gruesome business? asks Maggie. Bill identified her body. He did what he could is all he can say. She offers him what is left of her luggage and tells Mason to leave her alone. / Bill enters the office, assures Dana it is all over. After hesitating, she reports to him that a call taken by Falconer from an hysterical woman who said Bill would know who it was and who wants to meet him this night at eleven. She calls Harry, tells him where Bill is meeting his woman. / Red's Reef bar and grille. A waitress bugs Bill since he’s not touched his glass. Harry finds Bill, mentions AA, but is told to leave, is paid off and leaves. Ruth's man is watching from a phone booth. The waitress asks Bill if he needs anything. Bill drinks his shot, then orders a double. Later, he walks out, tipsy, finds Lynne dead in a car. // [4-9] (3-4) At 1:30 a m his phone wakens Mason. He joins Bill at a grille. He says his wife had been alive all along, but is now dead. He waited and waited, then found her in the car. Drake joins them and reports that there is no car nor a woman in the Red Reef lot. “I’m not drunk, I’m not insane” he shouts. Bill only remembers a rust-colored sedan, Acme Rent-a-Car. / Drake runs down (Vince) Kabat, Lynne's male companion. They exchange barbs until Drake mentions Ruth Sherwood. When told that it might be murder, he fesses up Lynne Bowman's home address. / Perry and Paul find her place open. “Too many neighbors,” cautions Mason, so they use matches, which Paul finds on a desk, for light so that they can investigate. Mason discovers that Lynne got her clothes from Madam Lili’s. The apartment was apparently burgled as they learn when a police sergeant enters and the lights are turned on. Lynne Bowman, in a rental car, went off the road and was killed. / Malecki identifies her sister and breaks into convulsive sobs. / Why this, why that, why, why, why? Drake reports to Mason and Sherwood. When he got to a Chicago agency, 200 police were already on the case. Kabat is a Chicago investigator for a bonding agency of a $200,000 bank robbery that took place the same day the plane, with Ruth supposedly on it, crashed. Lieutenant Anderson enters, announces Lynne had head injuries and was strangled, and presents Sherwood with a warrant. // [5-9] (3-5) Los Angeles County Courthouse (1958). In a courtroom the medical examiner tells District Attorney Hamilton Burger that Bowman died not from strangulation, despite marks on her throat, but from blows to the head. Bloody fingerprints of the defendant were the blood of the decedent. The medical examiner admits that it didn't require a strong person to cause the death blow. Mason is curious why Falconer didn’t question the woman who phoned. She hung up before he could! Falconer admits that Bill improved the company, but it still needs money. Niles says he's a good friend of Sherwood. They are buddies in AA. He got home about 11:30 p m. The waitress says that Bill had five doubles and left at 12:15 a m. / Mason says Sherwood's call came to him at 1:30 a m. It's enough of a gap for Bill to have committed the murder. Bill says his hand was shaking so hard that he couldn’t even read Mason’s phone number. He went to get a drink, couldn’t, so went for a long walk. “Quite a price, isn’t it, to stop drinking and send yourself to the gas chamber?” comments Mason. // [6-9] Maggie Malecki admits that she knew Ruth and helped her with her new identity. Ruth hated Bill and threatened to leave her forever if she didn’t help her. She explains Ruth’s meeting “Eddie” in the washroom at the airport. Kabat testifies that Ruth met a woman, Edith Ross, in the washroom at the airport with policemen swarming about the place, and switched tickets. He was tracing the Ross woman regarding the bank robbery and found Bowman, then thought she might be an accomplice. He arranged for her to bump into her husband, who confirmed who she was, yet she fooled him by not recognizing him. All he’s learned is that he’s a lousy detective! / Drake has found nothing, from Chicago, nothing on Ruth’s source of income, but then notices that his matches match another match case. / Mason shows Kabat the match cases, one from him, one in Ruth Sherwood's apartment. Burger stands up to assert he’s allowed Mason to go on this long . . . but the judge points out that it is he who allows Mason to go on. Didn’t Kabat testify that he always met Ruth downtown? And why has he spent much more investigating for a bonding company than he has reported on his expense account. Was he looking for the $200,000? When Mason suggests a recess so that the police can look for his fingerprints in Ruth’s apartment, he admits that he did go to her apartment to ask her about the money. He discovered that she'd made a date to meet her husband, so he went to the Red Reef, too, but she never showed. He thinks her sister must have the money. Maggie screams out that it is not so, she never got one penny from Ruth. Mason turns to Harry Neils, former truck driver who never joined a union. Isn't he Eddie’s professional accomplice, or the bank robber himself? Harry is caught trying to escape the courtroom. // [7-9] (3-6) Drake, Mason, Street, Sherwood and Kent are together. Ruth had the bank money in a suitcase, but had been afraid to spend it. Harry ran into Ruth right outside the Red Reef, tried to strangle the information on the whereabouts of the money out of her. Kabat followed Ruth and Harry followed Bill. Bill offers everyone a drink. A screwdriver! Dana gets the vodka, he gets the orange juice. [8-9 end credits] [50:32] (3-7 end credits) (50:12)

*Lathrop in the credits, but in the court, Mason calls him Lanthrop, which is confirmed by the subtitles

Produced by Arthur Marks & Art Seid Directed by Jesse Hibbs Script by Robb White

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] David Pelham is driving a group of teenagers who call him ‘a scientific phenomenon”, Michael (DaVinci) is among them and they are going to meet David’s”conservative . . . sterling parents.” Michael rejects “all parents.“ David cautions the group for they might wind up in one of his father’s classes. ”One of his special classes,” comments Michael. At David’s home they discover Susan and Gregory Pelham arguing. Won’t she be rational? asks Gregory. David, ashamed, leads his group away as Susan throws something at her husband, breaking a window. // [3-8] At a bar Mike is spiking the coffee for David. Joe Velvet arrives with his girl, is shooed away. David says he's “never going home again.” Mike sweet-talks David into stiffing his dad. The discuss anguish, decide t crank up the anguish machine. / David collapses, drunk, aboard a ship docked at the pier. Mike writes a ransom note to Dr Pelham, telling him to come to the ship. / Instead, Susan Pelham arrives at the ship. Mike demands that David's father come. They fight and David falls to the pier below. / Gregg admits to John Lanthrop that he's having problems with Susan. He “loves her, but …” He goes into the house to answer a phone call from the university, refusing to use Lathrop’s car radiophone. He finds Susan's jewel box open. Perry Mason on the phone asks about a kidnapping. Gregg knows nothing, suggests this is Susan’s idea of revenge. Mason tells him to phone the police. He doesn’t, but finds the note Susan had. He reads it, then goes out just as Susan returns, saying she killed a man. Haltingly, she explains what happened. David isn’t coming hom and she hit the man with her handbag. He advises her to say that she hadn't left the house all evening, even to Perry Mason. / Gregory finds dead Mike and rolls him in to the water, but does not find David. / Susan says her handbag was left next the dead man. Gregory pleads with Susan to say that she was attacked at the pier by a man who took her handbag. Mason enters and is shown the note. He calls the police. / At the pier Lieutenant Anderson reports that the FBI is combing the area. Andy asks them to identify the body. Sergeant Brice says they've found the man. It is Joe Velvet, not Mike. // [4-8] Sande Lukins, Gregory's secretary and Joe's girl, gives David coffee. Why was he at the pier? He doesn't know. John Lanthrop, a friend of David’ß father, arrives and, when he hears it is David Pelham, he says everyone is looking for him. / Lt Anderson examines David at the Pelhams. Who drove to the pier? He thinks Mike. Gregory interrupts to ask for a delay in the questioning. Lanthrop leaves with Anderson. Greg tells David that he doesn't owe an explanation, but is owed one, for he knows David was ou†side the window. David levaes. Mason asks for the truth. Gregory prevents Susan from speaking. mason says he can’t help them particularly if Susan committed manslaughter. Outside, Paul Drake reports to Perry that Michael DaVinci is Manning, the only son of Mary, but by which of five husbands she’s had and discarded he doesn't know. DaVinci has a police record. Mason orders Drake to speak to Mary Manning. / Mary Manning has not seen Mike in days, weeks, months. As Drake leaves he warns her that the police are looking for Mike. The maid tells her that Mike is asleep in the garage and ”the doctor is on his way.” She becomes emotional over the return of her son. / At night Sande Lukins is discovered checking files in Professor Gregory Pelham's office safe by Gregory. He accuses her of feeding information to Joe Velvet that was used to blackmail him and of taking files out and returning them just now. Mason has overheard. He informs them that the police use a different kind of arithmetic. To them, manslaughter adds up to . . . Lt Anderson finishes the sentence with "murder" and arrests Gregory. // [5-8] In court Mike Manning, head bandaged, tells District Attorney Hamilton Burger that Susan Pelham came to the pier. He only passed out but, when awakened, he was accused of "queering his pitch" with Doctor Pelham by Joe Velvet. The blackmail involved Doc Pelham meeting “Mary Manning, the motion picture actress” and his mother, at a motel. He’s sarcastic about his relationship with his mother. He told Joe of the meeting. Joe's former wife is Sande Lukins, who testifies that she knew what a bum Joe was so, when she saw a letter from Joe to the doctor, she went to Joe. She also knew the safe combination. She drove Joe to the pier and saw Michael carrying David away from the freighter. She left Joe at the pier, took David home where she sobered him up, then sent him home with John Lanthrop. Lanthrop says he shares a lab with Dr Pelham. They were together the eve of the murder and the doctor seemed “disturbed about a disagreement with his wife.” Mason elicits from Lanthrop the fact that the doctor was researching an enzyme that could help alcoholics. Day and night he worked. Captain Horatio Jones, retired and who lives near the pier, testifies to seeing through his binoculars Gregory Pelham roll Joe Velvet's body off the pier into the water. / In his private office Perry tells Paul that he knows who the murderer is. Della give Paul a doctor's head mirror. // [6-8] Back in court Lt Anderson says that he found fingerprints of Doctor Pelham on the probable murder weapon. Mason gets the lieutenant to admit that the fingerprints that were left, only on the top, could have been placed there while the bolt was resting on the pier and Velvet was already dead. Items of Mrs Pelham's jewelry were found in Velvet's pockets, the purse in the water. They also found some papers. A lab expert shows one of the notes, from Gregory to Joe, giving him $1000. Berger moves to bind the defendant over for trial. Mason's defense begins with Mary Manning, who admits she's an alcoholic. She’s destroyed everything she had in life. She only had her son, Michael, and Pelham's shoulder to cry on. He treated her “without the world knowing about it.” Apparently Velvet got hold of the names of other private patients of Pelham's. He was going to make the list public. Pelham refused to pay him. The $1000 was the doctor's own money, spent to keep Velvet from revealing the list until all the patients could be notified. Burger tries to get her to admit that the doctor would gain from his well-to-do clients if the cure proved successful. No, he’d never profit from their misery. Or allow Velvet to so profit, counters Burger, by killing him. Lukins admits she knew what was in the blackmail letter, but not the names of the patients. The names were in a notebook which was in the safe. Only she and Pelham had the combination and only on the night Pelham caught her did she not open it in his presence. Lanthrop says this is not so. He sees through the glass on the partitions. Drake rolls in a safe. Della has him put on a doctor's head mirror. Mason gives binoculars to Lanthrop who is asked to read the combination in the doctor’s head mirror as Drake opens the safe. The trap works. Lanthrop admits that he needed the money. He got into the safe, copied the information from the book and gave it to Velvet. On the night of the murder, he got a second phone call, from Velvet, who told him what had happened and that Joe was upping the ante from $10,000 to $50,000. He went to the pier, pleaded with Velvet to call it off. They got into a fight and he picked up the bolt . . (he breaks down crying). // [7-8] Perry and Della are outside watching the kids inside dancing at the Pelham's. Della, when asked by Perry, says she cannot remember as far back as when she last drank champagne and stayed up the night, so Perry suggests, “Let’s create some new memories.” Della is delighted; “You’re the boss.” [8-8 end credits] [50:37]

[1-9 Title credits] [2-9] A tow truck, followed by a Packard and Chevy, each tooting their horns loudly, pulls a wrecked Ford into Iron Lynch scrap metal lot in Harper Junction. in the tow truck, Annalee (Fisher), worried about their late arrival, is responded to by Barry (Davis) who responds in poetry. Then the two kiss, still in the truck. They are in a “scenic place” which Barry calls “Lover’s Leap.” Mort Lynch bawls Barry out for tardiness as (Grove) Dillingham joins them. Lynch warns Annalee not to let her stuffed-shirt boss know that she's been slumming. She departs. Grove is looking for some used fixtures. Mort offers help, namely “engineer” Barry. Eventually, Mort confides to Grove that Barry is the nephew of his former partner, Jay Davis, not good news. // [3-9] Lynch and Davis argue. Lynch has a load of metal for him to take tomorrow to San Diego. Davis says the Mexicans can take it. Lynch has seen Davis steal his Pioneer Trucking tool chest. He considers Davis a slacker. “Why don’t you learn to do something? Why don’t you go back to school?” David knocks Lynch down, throws the tool chest out of his sports car, with a “So long, junk man.” Mort's secretary, Miss Standish, sees all. Lynch just laughs. The Pioneer Trucking tool chest Davis has tossed at Lynch contains a plate for printing money. / At the beach, surfing. A boy and girl, she in a bikini, walk by Barry and Annalee. Barry tells her that he's going to sell life insurance. “Make a lot of friends when you’re young,“ then collect the coupons. (Sanford) Harper catches them kissing, teases them and, as he takes a drink, tells Barry that brother Dell wants him to write for the paper. Maybe he wants him to be sports editor. ”Who cares why?” / The other Harper asks Davis to write about Lynch as the boy looks at the photo of himself standing over the knocked-down Lynch. lynch is “a boil on this town,” asserts Dell, who has been in the town since 1873. What really happened to Barry's nice uncle Jay, and how did Lynch really get his start? how did he get rich overnight. / Dillingham agrees to check on things for Davis. The town belongs to Dell Harper, and Lynch wants it by becoming mayor, states Dillingham. He warns Barry not to “get caught in the middle.” / Barry is getting Paul Drake's report on Uncle Jay, alias Gleeson, alias Ginsberg, who served time for various offenses including “assault, bad checks, three years for counterfeiting.” / Lynch, on the phone, says he's heading home right now, then heads to his car with the tool kit. He meets Davis and gives him a check, tells him to “go drift,” then goes back to the office to answer a call from Miss Standish. During this, Davis finds the ten dollar money plate which he keeps when Lynch drives off. / He does a rubbing of the plate. [There is a flaw in the visual presentation of the $10 copper printing plate; it is not backward, which is the only way it would print correctly!] He takes the check out of the envelope Lynch gave him; $5000. He drives to Lynch's place and finds him dead. // [4-9] Miss Standish is outraged as the police start to lock up her desk. She has bills to pay! Perry Mason comforts her as the police continue to search the office. Davis shows up and claims to have been in Los Angeles all day yesterday, but he wants to help. Mason chats with Barry about Drake's findings. Barry reasserts that he was in Los Angeles, hitting a few bars too many, after learning that his uncle was a crook. To avoid further questioning by Mason, Barry begs off to work. Mason seems worried. / Drake pumps the Chief of Police, asking him to “open up.” Sanford Harper found the body about 10 p m. Lynch had $500 on him. The chief hands Drake a ten dollar bill. Drake only notices that it is worn and crumpled. It is a counterfeit $10 bill. / Dillingham, his leg in a cast, tells Mason that Lynch was the beneficiary of Jay Davis' $40,000 life insurance policy. He grudgingly offers more information; alternate beneficiaries included Barry Davis. Dell Harper at the newspaper, says Dellingham accusingly, put Barry up to nosing into ancient history. / Drake and Mason are at the newspaper. Annalee gets a phone call, “Are you alright?” she asks. “But I just can’t leave,” then rushes out. Drake follows. Mason takes the opportunity and goes in to Dell Harper’s office. Harper shows Mason the paper he withdrew, with a photo of Davis standing over a knocked-down Lynch. “The headlines read, ”Lynch settles Labor Management dispute,” and “Here’s your candidate for mayor.” Dell then admits to being “Mort’s worst enemy.” / Mason goes to Davis's place where he finds Joe, a plainclothesman, investigating. He's found the $10 printing plate. and an officer has found blood-stained clothes. A call from Drake sends Mason to the beach./ The catch Annalee walking the beach with her shoes off. Then Barry comes out with a rock in his hand. Almost hysterical, he admits that he found Lynch dead as well as the $10 plate. He spent the night tracking down the Mexicans. He tells about the $5000 check. He feels responsible for Mort’s death. Mason says they found a bloody pipe wrench in his car and that Mort was trying to help him, but he's going to be held for first-degree murder. The police arrive. // [5-9] Sanford is selecting music on a juke box. He joins Paul and says that he inherited his money and he only knows his brother disliked Lynch. He again waxes lyrical about horses. Aqua Caliente to Drake is only not water. People who liked both men had to remain quiet. / In court Dillingham tells the prosecutor he left Lynch no later than 8:45. Mort Lynch died about 9:45. Miss Standish tried to reach Lynch by phone, but it was busy until 9:20. Mason pursues the question of who took the newspaper picture, despite the prosecutor’s objection. She took the newspaper picture. Fifteen years and Mort still called her “Miss Standish.” Stanford got a call from Mort, went to his house, but saw nothing. “Nothing at all.” A (Mexican) neighbor saw Davis pushing his sports car away from Lynch's about 10:15. Dell Harper admits that he hired Davis because he “might uncover something (he'd) been unable to reach.” Since he's often been to the police office in Tijuana recently, “what dirty water did he hope to stir?” asks Mason. The prosecutor, urged by the judge, finally objects, but says that Mason will help by continuing this line of questioning. Well, says Dell, from a Tijuana policemen he learned that “Lynch's former partner was murdered.” // [6-9] Della and Paul wonder why a criminal would keep the plate that, as Barry states, he found in the junk yard. Mason sends them off on errands to get the answer. / Sanford thought the phone call from Lynch came from the office, but there are several phones in the house. Sanford claims to lose twenty or thirty thousand dollars a year, but Mason disagrees. Sanford says he goes to the Caliente track. Mason offers that he is only a $2 bettor. Dell claims that he turns over half his earning to Sanford, because he turned over an inheritance and saved him and helped him get a newspaper and printing shop started. His wife died in the East in 1944 and he went back to take care of things. Yes, he was in the house. Sanford answered the phone to keep him from talking to Lynch, to whom he's been giving the money all these years. Blackmail? Dillingham, recalled, says he makes his money selling insurance. Why, after Dillingham got out of the hospital, did he godirectly to the junk yard? After his accident, wasn't his car towed to a junk yard? Wasn't the copper plate kept for blackmail? Now Dell admits to printing a few bills with Jay Davis and pretending that the money came from his wife. Lynch was dead when he got there, so Dillingham must have killed him! Dillingham barely nods acceptance of the accusation. // [7-9] Back at the beach, Dillingham has admitted to also killing Uncle Jay. He caught on to the counterfeiting boys and tangled with Jay, but Sanford just kept on paying the blackmail. Mort got too close to the truth, so Dillingham had to kill him. Barry tells the group, Annalee, Paul, Della, and Perry, to hold on to the $5000 check until he earns it. [8-9 end credits] [50:44]

[1-9Title credits] [2-9] A woman is heard shouting “You had no right to order my friend out of my house . . . If I’m making a mistake, that’s my affair.“ Behind closed doors Irma (Hodge) is told by Sumner Hodge, her stepfather, not to see Con Bolton, a fortune hunter, again. (Mona) Hodge approaches and enters. Irma says she’ll not put up with Hodge’s Napoleon manner. She’ll marry Bolton and he cannot stop her. / Mona tells Irma that Con can hardly support her. Irma says someday he'll have his own farm when she gets her inheritance from her real father. Mona says that Sumner may prevent that. If so, says Irma, “I’ll kill him.” // [3-9] Both Mona and Irma are crying, separately. Outside, Sumner Hodge loads a rifle, shoots at the bust of Napoleon. Mona and Irma come running, but are sent back to their rooms. He calls the police. / The women argue about Con being upset and maybe firing the shot. Irma resents Mona’s accusing Con. Mona leaves Irma, sees a photo of Sumner framed behind broken glass. She intentionally steps on it. / A Lieutenant Anderson, from homocide, is shown into Hodge's office at Hodge & Talley Dental Supply by the secretary, Miss (Sally) Young. Then (Jack) Talley comes to find out what is going on. He tells Sally that he's selling out and going to South America. / Hodge explains his need for police protection to Andy. First he mentions the shooting, then an earlier hit-and-run attempt. Andy tries to connect Bolton to the hit-and-run. As a big taxpayer, Hodge demands police protection. / At the Lone Pine Club Bolton is serenading Irma with “I gave my love a cherry that has no stone . . .” He's interrupted by Andy's arrival and is asked about his difficulty with Sumner, but the cop leaves quickly. Con's boss (Noonan) chides the guitarist. Con tells Irma he'll inherit only $1000. He doesn’t belong to one like Irma, who then pleads with him not to leave town. / The lovers go to Sumner's brother, Uncle Adrian Hodge, twin of Sumner. His sister-in-law used to have an interest in his antique business, but Sumner made her stop. He believes his brother harbors “personal animosity” toward him. He gave him a statue of Napoleon to nurture his ill will. They tell him the statue was shot. He has no knowledge of the shooting, but agrees to help. In private, he calls Leo Lazaroff. / Paul Drake joins Perry and Della and reports on Bolton. Mason wanted him informed of a $1000 inheritance. Della learns that all three Hodges have left for their cottage Lake Ganado. / Talley arrives in a Ford Thunderbird at the lake to find a deputy outside the cabin. Irma tells a caller that her parents are on the lake. Talley enters. He’s brought check authorizations. Irma again answers the phone, then goes off to marry Con. Talley tries to get the attention of the Hodges who are on the lake in their boat, but fails and then follows Irma. / Irma drives into town in a black suicide-door Lincoln Continental and joins Con. Talley catches up with Irma at the coffee shop but, after cleaning Con’s forehead, she quickly leaves with him on his motor bike. / Sumner is playing with his fishing rod. Mona joins him with the message that Talley thinks Irma has eloped. He asks the deputy for a ride into town. Sumner goes after the lovers in the Continental. The brakes in the Lincoln fail and he crashes. // [4-9] Andy enters Mason's office to ask where Bolton is. On an envelope we see Mason’s office address: Brent building, Suite 904, Los Angeles, California. Bolton is to be charged with murder. Mason has Della call Irma, who is prying open a cash box. They arrange to meet with Con./ Mason and Irma meet at Adrian's antique shop. By phone Adrian learns of Sumner's death. Irma is upset that Con is not there. By phone Drake reports that Sumner's death is murder. Bolton is in Della’s office. / Bolton wants his $1000. He suggests that Leo Lazaroff, from whom Sumner stole an invention, tampered with the brakes and took the shot. / Lazaroff calls Sumner Hodge a crook. He stole his brother Max's formula for a tooth filling. Lazaroff says he talked to Hodge after Max died, but got no help. He hated Sumner and told Irma so. / Irma tells Mason she never believed Con fired the shot, nor did Lazaroff. Talley joins them. He says Sumner was stalling Irma regarding her inheritance. Further, he doesn’t believe Lazaroff’s claim. Sumner was buying his share of the business for $200,000. Using, as Mason suggests, family assets. Andy breaks in to arrest Con for murder. // [5-9] In court Mona tells D A Hamilton Burger that Irma was nine when her father died. Sumner rescued her and the business. She describes the events of the bust of Napoleon and later quarrel between Con and Sumner. Irma says she expected an inheritance from her real father when she came of age, though no specific provision for such was in the will. Lt Anderson testifies to the tampering of the brakes. Talley first tried to signal the Hodges, then followed Irma to town. He noticed a bruise and grease on Bolton’s forehead before he left town with Irma. As far as he could tell, when Irma drove the car to town, the brakes were okay. Cooper, who talked with Sumner Hodge just before he began his death drive, saw Bolton under the car in town. / Bolton explains that he was trying to fix the brakes because Irma said they were pulling to the right. No, he did not look at the master cylinder. He asks about a note that would have sent Sumner after them, but he knows of no such. // [6-9] Mason begins his defense. Cooper testifies that the deceased found a note in the car. Burger moves to bind Con over, but Mason continues his defense. Lazaroff testifies that his brother Max created a plastic with epoxy hard enough to be used as tooth filling. But Sumner had the notes, not he. Did he “make a deal with anyone” to obtain the notes? Adrian admits to such a deal with Leo. He was caught trying to get the notes from a box and was then fired. As a child, Sumner added some bruises, tears and a little blood to a licking he got from a teacher, who then nearly got fired. So Sumner, in asking for police protection, was he really afraid of the boy? Adrian admits that he was at the lake looking for the metal box with the formula and to talk to Mona on the day Sumner died. Mona identifies a metal box which has been forced open. She cannot identify the sheaf of papers found in the box, but the last sentence, in her husband's handwriting, is to Sally, her husband's secretary. Miss Young says the papers are a report stating that the process is perfect. Talley knows no more than she. Mason tells him that Mona and Irma will testify that the brakes were not okay, though he said so. Irma left a note to that effect, which Sumner would have read. Could not someone have tampered with the brakes and changed the note to send Sumner on the road to Los Angeles? Yes. Then, why was the payment to him in five separate bearer $40,000 checks? Was it not because he had stolen Max's formula and Sumner could prove it. Isn’t Talley forgetting the private detective Hodge hired to investigate the formula that he claimed to develop? Sumner used Con to get police protection from Talley. Now Talley admits to stealing the formula and tampering with the brakes, as well as leaving a note from Irma for Sumner saying that she was taking the checks in the metal box which also contained the formula that he was stealing. Case dismissed. Burger wants to know the name of the detective Hodge hired, but Mason says he shouldn’t expect him to do all his work. // [7-9] Con sings “This train” for Irma, as Perry and Mona have dinner at the Lone Pine Club. Adrian joins them with a bust of Napoleon, his peace offering. Mason leaves the two with Napoleon. [8-9 end credits] [50:39]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At night a girl (Alice Trilling) walks along a sidewalk, then across a road and up to the Trilling Toys building, where she sees in the display window a doll that walks and talks, called Angie. She is clearly affected. She hides when a Rolls Royce arrives bringing (Harry) Trilling. Talbot (Sparr) comes out, helps Trilling into the building in a wheelchair, all the while being scolded for working late. Alice takes a stone, throws it at the Angie doll, breaking the window. "I'm Angie. I love you," says the doll, “Good morning, good night.” // [3-8] Alice runs into a bar across the street, asks Herman for a beer, then lights a cigarette. “Alice is not in her usual wonderland mood this evening,” comments Herman. When she notices an artist (who is drawing her face) smiling at her, she leaves a coin and goes out, sees police at the store. Trilling is telling the officers that it is nothing. He asks (Natalie) Graham to get them gifts for their children. Sparr stands by. / Perry Mason and Della Street hear Harry Trilling's story. Since Alice’s father died, Alice, who owns the building and is his niece, has behaved irresponsibly. Mason notes that she is money in his pocket as principle stockholder. The will required Alice to prove her responsibility by her next birthday, either by marrying or settling down . . . Isn’t that requirement senseless, suggesting “any marriage proves a girl’s responsibility?” The trustees will dissolve the company unless she conforms. Harry enjoys running the company since his brother died. Mason offers to help, only if he'll take the doll, the company's biggest seller, named after Alice's nickname, off the market. The doll is everything dead Morgan Trilling demanded his daughter to be. / The bar (a truly gorgeous woman is playing the piano here, and before, but doesn't speak, so is not credited). Alice confronts the artist, Anthony Usher. She spills her drink deliberately on his drawing, ruining it. “You’re nothing but a nutty creep,” she shouts. “And you’re a shaggy dog,” he counters. He threatens to paint her. / At his studio, Usher paints her. She is stunned when she sees herself in his image. / Talbot tells Trilling that he gave the doll its voice. They argue. Of course, Talbot is certain he could run the company better than Trilling. But Trilling has to satisfy the trustees and Alice. Graham has been listening in the outer office over the intercom. She’ll let him take her out to dinner and she assures Talbot she'd never tattle on him to Trilling. / Back at the studio,Usher thinks his portrait just might sell. Alice claims she is what she is. Why does he paint her like some . . . Usher takes Alice in his arms, kisses her. She rushes away. / Harry goes to Alice. She's changed her hair, her appearance, and looks quite beautiful. Harry tells her there are other ways than marrying jilted playboys to satisfy the trustees. She says she'll see Mason, but she’s busy, wants him gone. She just wants to be left alone. He tells her he's taking the Angie doll off the market. She thaws, kisses him. / Alice comes out of a delicatessen with food. / She prepares dinner at the artist's place, but it is Natalie who comes in. Nathalie hems and haws, but Alice pries from her a check, $1000, to Usher, from Her “understanding Uncle Harry Trilling. / Alice throws a tantrum with her uncle. "You think I’m going to let a mixed-up nut like you wreck my company" shouts Harry to Alice. She strikes him with an Angie doll and he falls to the floor. // [4-8] Mason, Graham, and Paul Drake come in to the office where Harry Trilling lies, as when Alice had hit him, now dead. Why, Mason asks, didn’t she immediately phone the police? Who is she trying to protect?, Drake asks. Alice. Albert Charity arrives, late for his appointment. Mason finally reports the murder. / Drake searches Usher's studio, which has been ransacked. When Usher enters and is questioned about Alice, he knocks Drake down and rushes out. / Mason finds Drake, just awakening. He says Alice's apartment has also been ransacked. Alice's painting is destroyed. / Talbot reports to Della, Paul and Perry that Alice came to his door for money just after he was told by Charity of Harry's murder. Della says a police report has come in; Alice was spotted on the coast highway doing 120 mph. Talbot identifies Charity as the competition, Kiddyland. He doesn’t know why Charity would meet with Trilling. A phone call from Sergeant Brice reveals that Alice's car went off a cliff. / At the seashore Mason is already with Sgt Brice when Lieutenant Anderson joins them. Alice has been arrested, dry, at the airport. // [5-8] In jail Alice admits, "He grabbed me and I hit him." She only remembers she wanted to get as far away from him as she could. For once in her life, she thought she’d met someone interested in her just as she is.” Drake reports Usher has been caught by the prosecution, with one foot across the Mexican border. / In court Usher, in a cavalier manner, reveals to D A Hamilton Burger that he ran the car over the cliff. Yes, he was paid $1000 by Harry Trilling to play up to Alice. He went to Trilling's house for his $1000, but Trilling wasn't there. On the way to the Trilling Building, he saw Alice's car and took it. Alice whispers to Mason that she left her car and ran from the building. Mason cross-examines Natalie Graham, who explains that Harry, who’d never before run anything bigger than a washing machine store, was afraid the company would be broken up due to the will's provision that Alice had to prove herself responsible. The judge thinks Mason is going too far in asking opinions, but Burger thinks this helps his case. Natalie feels stupid for letting Alice find “the truth about her artist.” Burger examines Talbot who says he spoke on the phone to Trilling about 8:30. Trilling said he thought “Alice was going to be cooperative,” so it was “full speed ahead.” Mason cross-examines. Yes, he proposed to her, but she said he proposed “to her pocketbook” and could not believe he loved her. Charity says he talked with Harry shortly after nine. They were discussing Kiddyland buying into Trilling Toys before it was dissolved, so when it was dissolved the parts could be reassembled. He never agreed to Trilling’s demands. Over the phone he heard Alice shout, "I'm going to kill you, Uncle Harry." // [6-8] Back in jail Alice, her self-image still negligible, tells Perry and Della she's not worth it, maybe she did kill him. Drake gives Mason some reports. Mason reminds Alice of the ending to the story of the Ugly Duckling. / Again in court Natalie can't explain why Trilling's letter had a full address on it unless he wanted it mailed, instead of hand-delivered. She finally admits it was spite, to hurt Harry, not Alice, since he was looking to replace her. Mason gets her to admit she'd been trying to help the man she’s dating, Albert Charity, get the company. Mason recalls Usher, says he's committing perjury and Alice will go to prison. “There’s far less danger in the truth,” advises Mason. He admits now he didn't take Alice's car. Trilling's $1000 was for him to paint Alice. Trilling offered him even more, even after he said he wanted to keep the painting. It was that evening when he realized what a heel Trilling was, when he talked to other people at the company about Alice. When he got to the building in the evening, he saw Alice running away, then found Trilling, dead. He then took her car, thinking he'd give Alice some time to get away. Burger asks him if he heard testimony that the building was locked at 7 o’clock. Yes. But, Mason asks, couldn't someone have been in the building all the time, such as Talbot Sparr? Mason holds a noisy space ship toy in front of Sparr (one mentioned earlier by Sparr as an item Trilling Toys had rejected) and asks how many designs he sold to Charity in order to have the money to buy Alice a plane ticket to Brazil? He breaks down claiming that he “should have been running the whole thing.” // [7-8] The trio are with the artist and the heiress. Usher, who may go to jail for perjury, is drawing Alice, who wants to be poor, so maybe people will like her for herself. And Usher will never change! “Oh, I don’t know, Alice,” says Mason who then shows her the new portrait, a “picture of a swan!.” [8-8 end credits] [50:46]