PERRY MASON

in The Case of the . . .

with Raymond Burr

as Perry Mason

All episodes of season eight of "Perry Mason in The Case of the . . ." have been upgraded as of 23 February 2013. The following episodes have been upgraded by comparison with the Columbia House Video tapes in their Collector's Edition; 214, 220, 224, 225, 237 and 238. Episodes 212. 213. 215. 216. 217. 218. 219. 221. 222. 223. 226. 227. 228. 229. 230. 231. 232. 233. 234. 235. 236. 239. 240, and 241 appear for the first time in other than broadcast format with the release of the CBS-Paramount edition DVDs, from which they have been upgraded. Further, all episodes of less than 1400 words have been upgraded from the CBS-Paramount release of Season 8. All episodes of the of Season 8 have been marked with their CBS-Paramount "Raymond Burr is Perry Mason Season 8" chapter markings in italics and squared [parentheses]. Note; original broadcast dates are updated to the Season 8 listing. The coding and other information for the CBS-Paramount release takes precedence over previous tape and DVD releases.

Last update 2/23/13

#	TITLE	SHOW DATE	CBS DVD
212	Missing Button	24 Sept 64	81261

CHARACTER	ACTOR	CHARACTER	ACTOR
Perry Mason	Raymond Burr	Cully Barstow	Mike Mazurki
Della Street	Barbara Hale	Pancho Morado	Stanley Adams
Paul Drake	William Hopper	Mike Sommers	David Macklin
Hamilton Burger	William Talman	Judge Blanchard	Charles Irving
Lt Anderson	Wesley Lau	Miss Smithers	Ruth Packard
Janice Blake	Julie Adams	Lab Expert	Garland Thompson
Dirk Blake	Ed Nelson	Coroner's Physician (Dr Warner)	Pitt Herbert
Button Blake	Claire Wilcox	Woman at Motel (Chicita)	Jean MacRae
Lois Gray	Dee Hartford	Janice's Lawyer	Robrt Riordan
Vince Rome	Anthony Eisley	Bartender	Joe Dominguez
Judge Norris	Otto Kruger	Sgt (Herb) Brice	Lee Miller
Roger Gray	Alan Baxter	Scuba Diver	Richard Geary
Naomi Sutherland	Lysa d'Anjou

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

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Button (Blake) is riding a bicycle. She asks Miss Smithers if she can ride again and the maid goes for milk. A couple watches from a parked car. The woman in the car brings Button a doll she calls Amanda McGillicuddy and kidnaps Button. Miss Smithers brings the milk, sees the kidnapping and screams for Mrs Blake. (Janice) Blake phones the police. // [3-8] A power boat approaches a docking ramp, as Perry Mason and Paul Drake walk down a dock. Paul then rows Perry out to a sailboat, the Blue Nymph. They find Button, fishing, with her doll. How did they find her, sha asks, “Like Dick Tracy?” She says she’s talked with her mother, twice. Cully (Barstow) invites them below deck. They decline. Mr (Vince) Rome asks what is their authority, and Mason and Drake leave Button on the boat when she says she is enjoying herself. Cully wants his back wages, $1200, but Rome tells him Button is not dynamite, but “a little package of thousand dollar bills.” / Mason and Drake go to Dirk Blake, a naval architect. Mason joins Lois, Button’s cousin, and Roger Gray and Blake. Mason is "calling a rapid halt" between the way Blake and Button's mother have dragged her between them. Blake says he had Miss (Naomi) Sutherland take Button because, for three weeks, Janice had not allowed him his two days a week. Mason says he'll return Button to her mother or he'll go to Judge Norris, tell him what he knows, and have a bench warrant issued for his arrest. As he leaves, the secretary, Naomi Sutherland, asks if Blake is in trouble, then claims Button’s mother is unfit. Mrs Gray offers to take care of Button until the smoke clears. Naomi suggests that it is the four million Button inherits that is her interest. / Vince is making out with Janice, who finally puts him off, but he reminds her of romantic earlier times; “Starlit nights on the Blue Nymph …” A touch of blackmail? He suggests marriage, and he won't mention these affairs. Button returns. Miss Smithers says daddy’s already left and Janice suggests Vince do the same. / Chicita (the woman at the Playa Motel) bets Pancho (Morado) he can't clear the board. She wins. The bartender gives Pancho a call from Vince Rome who is on the Blue Nymph. He tells Pancho to arrange it so that Janice and he will have been witnessed at a wharf-front bungalow at the Playa Motel, or he won't get the Swiss watches, German cameras or gold coins from Peru. Lois Gray overhears the end of the conversation. She threatens to go to the police to stop him from getting Button, but he says then she'll have to say she was with him at the cabin. What will Roger think of that? // [4-8] In the Hall of Justice Blake explains to the judge that he took Button because he, Judge Norris, awarded him two days a week, and Janice wouldn’t give her to him. Janice explains, she was saving Button’s life, then, even after her lawyer interrupts, she asserts that every time Button came back from Dirk, she had bruises, itches and rashes and such. Button, she says, is a special girl, with a four million inheritance. Dirk wants “an ordinary little girl,” not one regimented into ballet lessons and dancing classes and etiquette lessons. Judge Norris calls Perry Mason, who has just entered the court, into chambers with Button. They cannot decide what to do, and Button can’t choose between Mommy and Daddy. After some discussion, The judge awards temporary custody to Mr and Mrs Roger Gray. As they leave the court, Dirk asks Mason for help, but Rome intercedes, saying that he has the goods on Janice that Roger needs to win handily. Now Mason refuses to help Roger. / On the Blue Nymph, Rome tells Gray that he can offer all the proof needed regarding Janice's infidelities, himself. Gray says he paid for Janice's night clubbing and such, not affairs with Vince. Stay away, he warns, from him and Janice. Vince shows him Dirk's uncashed check; he'll use it to show what Dirk did to get Button, so he'll never get her. Dirk grabs the check, Vince pulls a gun. They wrestle and the gun goes off. Dirk ends up with it. / Della Street shows Paul the Los Angeles Chronicle headline; NOTED YACHTSMAN SLAIN. Mason arrives and Della has Blake sent in. Blake admits to the altercation with Rome, and the firing of the pistol over a $500 check. It was to find out what Janice had been doing. He doesn't want custody of Button, only wants to see that Janice is a proper mother. Mason admits he misjudged Dirk. / At the yacht Drake is told by Sergeant (Herb) Brice that Lieutenant Anderson will be with him in a minute. Drake notices five parallel scratch marks, then checks a rope for safety. In the master's cabin, Lt Anderson says death was between ten and eleven. A yacht broker, Roger Gray, found him. / Roger asks Lois if she was on the Blue Nymph. He’s known about her affair with Vince. He found one of her earrings on the boat. They accuse each other of the murder. Button has overheard. / Janice and Dirk have heard from Button, and what they heard makes them think the Grays are unfit for her. They make up. Lt Anderson comes to arrest Dirk for first-degree murder. // [5-8] In court D A Hamilton Burger gives his opening statement. Lt Anderson identifies the $500 check of which he found a scrap at the crime scene. He produces an unsigned document wherein Dirk Blake agrees to pay Vince Rome an additional $10,000 to arrange for Janice's losing custody. The document, according to a lab expert, was typed on Dirk's office typewriter. Morado says that Vince, on the nights he claimed to be with Janice, was actually with nobody. Gray testifies to going in the morning to the Blue Nymph and finding Vince dead. Cully Barstow says he talked with Vince at 10:30. The coroner's physician (identified by Burger as Dr Warner) says that death occurred between ten and eleven. A Mr (Mike) Sommers went to his lobster traps about 10:30, or 10:45. He saw two men wrestling, one with a pistol. The next time the jetty light swung around, there was only one with a pistol. Then the armed man rowed away; Dirk Blake. About an hour later, he saw two guys on the deck of the Blue Nymph and heard a splash. / Drake reports to Mason at the Playa motel. A Mr and Mrs John Smith registered at the wharf-front bungalow. Sutherland comes to Mason, tells him that Dirk is a decent man. She wants him cleared. / At sunrise Mason, Drake and Andy are joined by a scuba diver, who has found Swiss watches below. // [6-8] In court Sommers and Barstow show how the boat was positioned at different times. Sommers saw into the cabin only when the jetty light shined inside, which was between 9:57 and 11:17, before Barstow talked to Rome! Dirk could not have committed the crime. Barstow admits he and Pancho Morado were smuggling Swiss watches from Mexico. Rome discovered it. Morado testifies Mrs Gray was with Vince Rome in his wharf-side bungalow. Now Mason wants to call Naomi Sutherland, who also had access to Dirk's typewriter, but she has left the courtroom. / Miss Smithers tells Dirk, Janice, Della and Mason that Sutherland has taken Button. / Button and Sutherland are at a large pond. Naomi suggests that they go to a high place. / Mason, driving the other three at a freeway entrance, looks up and sees Button with Sutherland at a freeway bridge overpass. / Button is scared. As Naomi lifts Button, Mason arrives with Della who approaches the two. Naomi sees Della, thrusts Button at her as she breaks down. // [7-8] In the Playa Motel and Bar Mason is at the board. Paul and Della enter, are greeted by the bartender. Perry tells Della and Paul that Naomi's psychiatrist says she has an obsession to be Blake's wife and Button's mother. She killed Vince when he failed to pay her. The Blake's enter, are welcomed by the bartender. They are reconciled with a happy Button as Mason announces, “Button’s taking us to dinner.” [8-8 end credits] [51;33]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At Red's Reef bar and grille, (Harry) Mardig goes to the bar and gets an explanation of why there are posters of both candidates. He asks about the chick smoking at a side table. David (Cartwell) goes to her table. He's worried about tomorrow which is collection day for his $6,000 gambling debt. She suggests that they run away. He's a no-good son of a rival candidate, she, Susan, the sister of the other candidate, Jason Foster. Officer Carl Rohr asks for her identification, then arrests her, but David is let off when she says she picked him up. The bartender calls Mardig a crummy rat (for turning Susan in). // [3-8] At campaign headquarters Jason Foster has his picture taken with wife Margaret and manager Alma Rice of Rice Real Estate. A woman reporter says that Senator (Randolph) Cartwell said he'd sold out to Harry Mardig, but Jason denies it. He opposes the race track project if the land can be put to housing or better use. A campaign worker gives him precinct returns. Officer Carl Rohr takes Foster aside and brings up his sister's waywardness, says he'd have run her in if Mardig had not convinced him otherwise. Alma overhears this and the two think Mardig is trying to box him in regarding the race track. / At Cartwell's Alma confronts David. He says he wasn’t at school because the law dean and he agreed law was not his forté. Was he with Susan? He lies, says that he hasn't seen her in weeks. /Susan, on the phone, asks David why she and he can't go out. He's afraid of being killed by gamblers to whom he owes money. Jason bursts in, asks about Red's Reef. Is she trying to fix it so he won’t get elected? She berates him for treating her like a child and he reminds her that she is. She tells him she was with David Cartwell and will marry him. He grounds her saying that he'll have a talk with David, then tells Margaret that she wants to marry David. She's had patience, understanding and help. Now, says Jason, it is his turn. / In Perry Mason's office the attorney says he should have asked to be Susan's guardian when their parents died, for now it is too late. But proving Mardig worked with David to get Susan arrested would open her eyes. Mason suggests that he get Paul Drake. Soon Paul joins them. / Publisher Edgarton (Cartwell) shows a photo, from Mardig, of Susan being held by officer Rohr, to Senator Randolph (Cartwell) who suggests he's conniving with Mardig on the race track issue. The Senator tells his brother that there’ll be no race track while he's in office. Jason bursts in and, in private, tells the tale, saying it was planned because Randolph's step-son was there, too, with Susan. David is called in and denies complicity with Mardig or dad Randolph. Jason threatens David if he should see Susan again. Foster leaves. David says Susan was just a kid he was having fun with. / Jason arrives home just as Susan returns via taxi. She was at the Cartwell estate says the taxi driver. Susan admits she was in the gate house, as she had been many times before. He rushes off. Susan shouts for Margaret, tells her she’s afraid that Jason’s going to do something terrible. / Margaret enters David's place and finds the photo of Susan and Rohr, a gun and a dead David. She takes the gun and photo with her. He bumps into a truck on the way out in her sports car. // [4-8] A marching band in a parade arrives at the Foster campaign headquarters. Perry; Della, Jason and Alma wonder who killed David. Drake informs them that Susan was picked up on a routine bar check, but Rohr was scared of something. David wrote a $6,000 check to cover a gambling debt in Las Vegas and the check bounced. The check had been sold by the casino to Harry Mardig. Alma Rice is asked for her suggestions. She points out that real estate is her line, not murder. / Mardig pleads with Edgarton to publish the photo of Susan and Rohr. Why not a deal with Foster? suggests Edgarton. You’d only get a kick in the pants, says Mardig; he’s got the cop good. Alma enters and asks which of the two murdered David. She admits that she fronted for Mardig to get him the race track deal, but no more. She threatens that if the picture is published, she'll tell Jason the whole story even if she gets thrown out on her ear, which is what she deserves for working with scum like them. / The bartender says that, after Rohr left, Mardig told David he'd see him tomorrow. Also, a C-note would buy Rohr. Yesterday afternoon David and Margaret Foster were having drinks together. / Drake is denied entry to Cartwell's. Rohr, driving by, warns Drake to stay out of his hair. Rufus Findlay arrives, tells him that a lady bumped his car about 11:30 and paid him $75 to keep quiet. It was Jason Foster's wife. / Jason is greeted warmly by Margaret. He then tries to comfort Susan, says he drove by Cartwell’s, then tried to think how to patch things up with her. / At campaign headquarters, Mason, with Drake, informs Jason of his wife's indiscretions at the bar and with her car. She denies both. / At a political rally Foster suggests joining progress. Ballots are paper bullets; don't be swayed by the real bullet and killing. Lieutenant Jeffers arrests Margaret Foster. // [5-8] In jail Mason accuses Margaret of covering for someone. She only claims that she didn't kill him. / In court the prosecutor gives his opening statement. Senator Randolph Cartwell says that, as he neared the estate, he heard a record player playing which seemed strange, so he went in and found David dead. Officer Rohr found a check under the couch, $6,000 to David, signed by Margaret Foster. The coroner's physician admits that the deceased might have fired the gun. Findlay identifies Margaret Foster as the one who hit his truck. Lt Jeffers testifies that he found traces of paint that matched the hit truck on Margaret's car. In her locked glove compartment, he found the murder weapon which belonged to Jason Foster. Mardig went to the gate house about 11:15. There he saw a small car and heard an argument between a woman and David about Susan, so he left. He refuses to answer when Mason links the bad check to a hold Mardig had over David. Maybe his whole story is an invention. Edgarton Cartwell stopped at the gate house because there was a taxi outside the gates. He saw Susan Foster inside the gate house, so went to the main house and talked to Randolph. He did not see the "small" car seen by Mardig nor the taxi when he left. The judge tells Cartwell to stand down. Susan is called, is sworn in by the court clerk, sits. The prosecutor argues she is a hostile witness, but she shouts that she's hostile, not to him, but to her brother Jason, who killed the only man she ever loved. / Jason has been asked by Cartwell to withdraw, but he won't, for that would admit guilt. Susan apologizes. She lied before. She only went to David's the night of the murder in order to take the pistol to him so he could protect himself from gamblers. / Back in jail Margaret admits that she took the pistol and went to David's to find out why he didn't keep his bargain to never see Susan again. // [6-8] Paul and Perry are at the roulette table in Las Vegas. The gambling boss says Mardig walked in, offered 50¢ on the dollar for the check. Mason shows him photos and the boss identifies one as the woman. / Back in court Susan testifies that she believed David had someone with him because there were two glasses, each half filled. Lt Jeffers says fingerprints on glasses were smeared and the one on the rug had lipstick on it. The lipstick did not match the defendant's. Alma admits the lipstick is hers. They had been seeing each other weekends for a year, then he started seeing Susan. They had a showdown, for a month earlier he'd promised to stop seeing Susan. They had another showdown. This is what Mardig overheard. She is the one identified in the photo by the gambling boss. She did not tell Mardig, but Edgarton, about the mess David had gotten into. David told her he was later that night getting enough money to spend a year with the European jet set. Randolph testifies he disinherited David that afternoon, but Edgarton brought him a check to be countersigned that eve. It was for $20,000 of emergency campaign expenses, which he didn’t sign. Edgarton told Mardig about David's check, so Jason Foster could be smeared. Also, Randolph has a share in the track, $1,400,000, a deal of a lifetime, so would have come around after the election. He now admits that he saw Foster's car that he forgot before. Mason counters that it was Alma Rice's car and 11:20, not 11:30, leaving the way for him to enter the gate house and kill David. Edgarton looks to Randolph for the alibi, a half hour with him, but the senator went along with the race track, but not murder, and says Edgarton was with him 5 minutes at the most. Edgarton breaks down; “it was a deal of a lifetime.” // [7-8] Election night and the returns come in as Perry, Paul and Della await the winner. Answering Drake’s question, Mason says that Mardig, through Susan, hoped he could force Jason Foster to accept the race track, or cause him to lose the election. Foster wins. [8-8 end credits][51:35]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A Ford taxi arrives at a mansion. The taxi driver helps two old ladies from Kansas City out, Ivy (Stanton, Everett's wife) and Lottie (Porter). It is noted that Ivy's niece Mona caught the famous sculptor for her husband. Everett (Stanton) is on the telephone to (Rex) Ainsley, while Hannibal sings loudly, “Who put the overalls in Mrs murphy’s chowder?” Dickens answers the door. Everett apologizes for Mona's absence (out of town, up in Seattle) and Hannibal's busyness. Whitey arrives at the front door, asks Dickens for Hannibal. The ladies go to the studio where they hear laughter, then find a nude model, Bonnie (Dunbar), with Hannibal. Dickens announces Whitey and Hannibal rushes to him. // [3-8] Whitey, a jeweler, examines Mona's jewelry for Hannibal, who chases him out when he offers only 5, not thousand, but hundred, dollars, calling him a “sneaky little thief.” Hannibal demands $10,000 from Everett. Why? Bonnie appears wanting a glass of milk. Hannibal doesn't get the money. “People were people until someone decided to paint chicken feed green.” Dickens reports a phone call from a foreign man to Hannibal. / In Perry Mason's office attorney Mason has a call from Mona who states that $10,000 is needed for Ferrara marble. Hannibal is on an allowance, and idea he suggested. She doesn't want her "baby to be cheated at marbles." / Drake checks out the Memorial Monument Co, whose yard man says Hannibal, who has “the finest taste of all” sculptors, has not bought stone in six or seven months. / Hannibal bursts in to the offices of Stanton Press (established 1911). He wants his check, demands it of the secretary. Ainsley comes out, says that the books are open and the accounts frozen during the stockholder’s’ meeting.. Everett calls Rex back to the stockholder’s meeting, then reminds Hannibal that Mona only owns 32% of the company, a “straight-laced old Bible-publishing firm,” and he intends to keep that way, which is why he was so upset at Bonnie's running around the house when Ivy and Lottie were there. / Hannibal breaks things and rants to Bonnie, then takes a call from Nonno Volente, who wants his $10,000 by the evening when he must pay his gambling debts. Hannibal gets an idea from Bonnie's apple and has her dictate a note; “Hannibal sweet . . . unless you give me $10,000 . . .” / He presents the note to Everett. It demands $10,000 or she will reveal their relationship and how he made her "a slave to (his) charms." Everett, worried about the company’s image,apologizes to Hannibal, and promises to get the money // [4-8] Hannibal is making a clay face when Everett enters; he's sent the money to Bonnie “by insured messenger” with a request for a signed receipt.“ Everett vows that everything is now okay. Hannibal heads out and is intercepted by Dickens, who points out that Mona has returned from Seattle. Hannibal calls for Everett, who says he kept the note that Bonnie wrote, but cannot find it when he looks on his desk. / Hannibal drives directly to Bonnie's apartment, finds the money envelope and then finds Bonnie dead. ”All lit was was a joke.” / Mona is at Perry's office with Bonnie’s notel, hoping for the attorney’s help.” Mason asserts she’s here only to save her marriage. Rex Ainsley phones, wanting to know if Mona gave Hannibal the combination to the office safe. / Ainsley shows Mason the cash box and explains how he found it. $10,000 is missing. He assumed it was Hannibal who took the money but Mason suggests that his employer, Everett, had every right to take the money. Mason accuses Ainsley of being overanxious to get Hannibal into trouble. Ainsley says the “company is stuck in the mud.” It “won't even publish paperbacks” or “go in for reprints.” A phone call comes from Drake. / Drake explains that the money was delivered, but is gone. She was hit with a blunt instrument and had a phone cord “wrapped around her arm.” A car phone call from an operative sends them to the Potted Penguin. / Hannibal enters the Potted Penguin and accosts Nonno Volente, who leads him outside. Mason and Drake enter the Potted Penguin, then catch up with Hannibal outside as Volente is driven away. Hannibal asks if they “shouldn’t go to (Mason’s) office.” / Lieutenant Anderson is on the phone in Mason's office. Hannibal starts a confession of how he was raising money, but Anderson says it is Mona who has been arrested. // [5-8] In jail a matron brings Mona to Hannibal who comforts her. Mason reveals why Hannibal was paying Volente the $10,000. Volente was a former suitor of Mona's and he had letters that he was going to sell to a scandal magazine. She admits that she was taken in, then tells Perry she had to be absolutely sure that Hannibal was in the clear first before she'd tell him that she'd been to Bonnie's and found her dead. “There was money all over the floor.” It was gone when later he arrived, asserts Hannibal. He and Mona embrace. Outside, Hannibal blames himself. “First it was that nice, harmless, brainless little child.” Mason, however, notes that Bonnie was not so nice nor harmless, or someone wouldn't have had to murder her. / In court Everett Stanton is harassed by D A Hamilton Burger, who finds it hard to believe that he did not know Mona had hired a detective to check pu on her husband. Mrs Banks testifies to Mona's crying while caring for her in Seattle, but she never said a bad word about her husband or Bonnie. Dickens doesn't know when Mona returned. He saw “a” crumpled piece of paper on Stanton's desk, but it was gone when he returned from his errands. The messenger identifies getting a package from Everett Stanton and delivering it to Bonnie Dunbar. He saw Mona get out of a cab as he left. Lt Anderson testifies to the decedent’s arm being wrapped with a phone cord. Volente, after being sworn in by the bailiff, says that he went to Bonnie’s apartment expecting to find Hannibal there, as “between an artist and his model, there is always an arrangement. When he got to the apartment, he saw money everywhere. As he is neat, he picked up the money off the floor. He took it, but did not want to become involved in murder. He went to the Potted Petunia to pay gamblers. There, Hannibal offered to pay the gamblers. He also offered him more money if he'd leave and not reveal who he saw leaving Bonnie's, namely Mona. // [6-8] In a break, Della shows how Burger is painting Mona as the only possible killer. Paul reports that a beach house meeting of a person with Bonnie could have been with anybody. Everybody drives his car, claims Hannibal, because he leaves the keys in it. Bonnie is mixed up with someone, says Paul. The only person that Bonnie can be proven to have seen brought a package to her apartment a few days before the murder. It is Rex Ainsley. / On the stand, Ainsley admits to giving Bonnie gifts. “A pressure cooker.” "For spying" on the family, suggests Mason. The gifts were domestic. Bonnie intended to marry. Hannibal objects. Ivy whispers to Della that from what she saw she's sure Bonnie had no intention of marrying. Dickens denies kissing Bonnie, then says she resisted him. She was planning to marry Hannibal, who was going to divorce his wife. Again, Hannibal says he loves his wife. Everett asserts that such a divorce would do irreparable damage to Stanton Press. Mason asks about the note he used to prove Bonnie's handwriting, which Dickens never saw, so maybe it didn't exist. Wasn't he Bonnie's secret lover? Could somebody have been elsewhere in the apartment all the time? Was Bonnie trying to call his wife to tell her about herself? Is that why he killed her? “:I didn't mean to,” he sobs. // [7-8] Everett gave the envelope to a messenger, then beat him to Bonnie's while the messenger was making stops on the way there. Hannibal and Mona make up for not trusting each other. Drake asks Mason to trust him for lunch money. Mason already has a bill in his hand to give Paul. [8-8 end credits] [51:33]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] It is a rainy night at a house on a cliff high over the California coast. There is thunder and lightening. Nurse (Phyllis Clover) prepares a shot. (Abner) Gordon, leaning on a cane, refuses, shouting “no, no, no..." and falls, unconscious, clutching his chest. / Doctor Lambert says”even death despises him” and tells nurse Clover to increase the heparin medication. He then sees Sadie (Norman) and says Abner will be all right. Then on to Rachael Gordon, Abner's niece, who is drinking. Fifteen years of her life, waiting for uncle Abner to die. She’s one month short of 35, his only flesh and blood. All for $1 million, her legacy. No, she'll kill him first before he lives on this way for years. // [3-8] The storm rages. Rachael looks into a cash box for papers and money. Outside someone in a raincoat approaches with a metal bar, goes to work on the front door. Bruce (Jay), in pajamas, hears it, but Rachael tells him it is okay. The would-be intruder, who wears pants, leaves. / On the next day, Charles Norman, the butler-gardener-chauffeur, talks to an expert about the break-in attempt. Norman lists the people who are living in the house. / Accountant Harlan Farrell chides Rachael over the books, calls her actions embezzlement and leaves. She tells Bruce she going to get him thrown out of the house and leaves as Phyllis enters. Bruce has his head down, so she rushes to him, offers a medicinal spray (a nebulizer). He says this is not the problem. Bruce and Phyllis embrace. / Abner, in the presence of Farrell, tells Rachael he expects full restitution by five Monday (namely, after the coming weekend) of the funds she’s used to support her parasite boyfriend. / In Perry Mason's office Bruce Jay says there was an accident while he was working his way through college at a chemical plant owned by Gordon. This affected his lungs. Gordon took care of him, hired him as a librarian/secretary, promised him $50,000 whenever he should choose to leave, and that figure is in his will. Mason agrees to claim it for him. But now there is a girl, a bookstore he'd like to own, and a second will that would give all to charity if he signs it. / Rachael and Tracey (Walcott) embrace, then he asks for the money. She says she has to have back the money she's already given him. He hasn’t got it and tells her to pray her uncle dies by Monday afternoon. “They can’t prosecute you for stealing from yourself.” / She sends Norman home. / She goes to a gun shop, but leaves when told by the salesman of the three-day waiting period. At another pawn shop the salesman takes a bribe and she gets a gun without a record being made. / A storm brews as Rachael loads the pistol, then tries some practice shots, seeing Abner’s face merged with a weathered log as her target. / Sadie, Phyllis, Charles and Bruce await Rachael's arrival in the kitchen. She enters, orders them to leave tomorrow, Saturday, at noon, and not return until Sunday noon. Abner hås “got to find out that he can’t crack the whip just for the fun of watching us dance.” As the others head out of the toom, Rachael drops a coffee pot, scalding her left arm. / Dr Lambert tells nurse Clover that Rachael is near a complete breakdown. He's sedated her; "she'll probably sleep the clock around." At 11 p m Rachael is asleep. / At 5:07 am Sadie Norman in the kitchen hears sounds, finds Rachael's bed empty, then hears three gun shots and discovers Rachael with a gun at Abner's bed. // [4-8] Mason paces Abner's study. He finds a law book upside down and right-sides it, then discovers books next it have dust on them. Bruce enters and advises Mason that Abner Gordon took over his fathers legal business. He asks him to represent Rachael, but Mason declines because he already represents Bruce and it would amount to conflict of interest. / Sergeant Brice and Lieutenant Anderson take Sadie's statement about Rachael ordering them out of the house. Rachael is wheeled out, sedated. Anderson tells Mason and Dr Lambert that District Attorney Hamilton Burger is the only one who can allow them to see Rachael Gordon in the County General Hospital, even when she comes out from her heavy sedation. / Dr Lambert says that he cannot imagine the hell Abner put Rachael through. The drug she was under would have made her unaware of what she was doing. Paul Drake's phone call lets Perry know that Anderson has discovered the source of the unreported gun. / Drake hears Farrell's tale of not noticing a few thousand misappropriated dollars. $5,000, Tracey Walcott. / Walcott is unconcerned when interviewed by Drake, who needles him about so quickly finding a new girlfriend. Walcott threatens to tell in court that all Rachael could think about the past month “was exactly how she was going to kill her uncle.” Drake slyly spills perfume on Tracey. / Bruce and Phyllis present a copy of the will, since Harlan Farrell refuses to become involved. Everyone, thinks Bruce, knows what they are to inherit. Drake bursts in; Rachael has been released from the hospital. Joe, an operative, tells Drake over the phone that Abner died three hours before Rachael shot him. Lt Anderson enters, arrests Bruce Jay. // [5-8] In court the medical examiner tells Hamilton Burger that Abner died from a heart attack because his anti-coagulant heparin had been mixed half and half with adrenaline. Farrell testifies that Bruce Jay was told by Abner that he'd have to wait for him to die to get his $50,000, and wouldn't get it for leaving his position as originally promised. A second will gave the money to charity. Jay wanted to marry Phyllis Clover. She says she was not going to continue nursing, but work in the book store, which Abner owed them. Jay, she says, got the prescription renewed. “The package was opened when I got it,” she admits. Charles Norman received the package and gave it to Jay, who took it to his room. Sadie took the open package to Clover. Dr Lambert says that the adrenaline would have been like running a transistor radio on a fifty million volt generator. He also says Bruce Jay has lung problems, a chronic bronchitis. His nebulizer uses adrenaline. // [6-8] Mason and Burger are on a nighttime stake out. Burger is curious, for Mason sat all day without a question. Mason assures Burger that “this character is a creature of habit . . .” Burger notes that one of his habits “happens to be sleeping at night.” Two men appear, bump, exchange packages. The police close in, catch Tracey Walcott and the pusher. / Back in court. Tracey has been on “the stuff” over a year; Rachael sent him to a clinic where he was given a drug to counter the narcotic, but he used it only once. Rachael Gordon was also on the drugs and used the stuff or her money to buy them and to keep him on a chain. Yes, he tried to break in to the house Wednesday. Thursday night Abner had a stroke and he couldn't see her. Friday, Rachael said he'd get no more. But, says Walcott, she left him enough money in his apartment to get a fix and called him at midnight to tell him where it was. So he went out to get a fix and wasn't near the house. Rachael tells Mason that she's under no criminal charges for firing the three shots. She intended to kill Abner while the others were out. "Present ability" must be there for assault to be possible, she offers, but Abner was dead. Mason's bombshell; she scalded herself so Dr Lambert would give her a sedative, which she offset with the drug given Walcott that counters the effects of the sedative. If she were drugged to sleep at 11, how could she call Walcott at midnight and tell him where the money was that she left him? // [7-8] Paul asks Perry, what gave him the idea Rachael was looking into the law. "If you see a crooked picture, you straighten it." Same with a book found upside down and he'd noticed one, of the penal code, with no dust on it. What if it were a maid's accident, or negligence? asks Della. Mason responds by asking what Justice Holmes said about negligence? Della quotes "Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked." [8-8 end credits] [51:36]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A four-engine jet lands at Los Angeles airport. Two men (Todd and Jimmy Meacham) and a woman (Elaine Meacham, Todd's wife) await Aunt Nellie, whose husband died on a world cruise. Todd wonders why Nellie couldn’t have already signed the papers. (Roger) Brody joins them, holding a large bouquet of flowers, to see Nellie. Jimmy tells him that “Hacienda Grande is not for sale,” they are going to subdivide the homestead themselves. Nellie arrives. She introduces Pierre Dubois, her new husband! // [3-8] Victor (Billings), the butler, serves drinks to Elaine, Jimmy and Todd. Jimmy takes two. They all, including Victor, discuss Pierre who is “12 years (Nellie’s) junior.” Victor notes that the couple might live in Monte Carlo and Pierre is an excellent skin diver. Nellie comes whirling in with Pierre. She says they want to buy a sailboat and Todd can help them. They head for dinner and Victor takes a surreptitious drink. / Pierre and Elaine are riding over the land. She tries to get him interested in the development, He counters; “ You would ask a Frenchman to explain bulldozers to his bride?” To him, the land is Nellie's. “But don’t French men ever want to develop . . . anything?” / Todd tries to explain the development to Nellie, but Pierre must make the decision. She is happy that the blueprint “is the same shade as Pierre’s little sports car.” It is Pierre who has to decide. /Jimmy tries to get Pierre interested in business, but he's interested more in their tennis game. Pierre suggests more play, then a swim. Nellie is paying for it. He's been talking to Roger Brody! / In the attorney’s office Paul Drake reports to Perry Mason that Roger Brody's offer is worth $2 million, the development three times that, and Nellie, the wacky widow, controls the property and Pierre her. Drake informs Mason, so he wont worry if he’s not around for a few days, that he is off to Paris, for Jimmy. / Jimmy tells the others that he's hired Drake. Victor offers them the solution to all their problems, maid Marie (Claudel). She is “lonely, friendless, hungry . . .“ So French! So lovely! She is sent to the terrace, where Pierre takes much notice of her, as the others watch. Pierre looks Marie up and down, then follows her as the four watch, gleefully. / Time for evening drinks. Nellie jabbers on and on about her gambling in Monte Carlo. Pierre follows Marie out of the room. / Pierre tells Marie to meet him “tonight in the summer house.” Roger Brody arrives, joins Pierre. / Jimmy asks Victor why he is setting up a tape recorder, since Paul Drake will be calling from Paris this evening. Then Jimmy tries to get Marie to go to Disneyland with him, but she, strenuously, declines. / In Paris Paul can't reach the Meachams, so he calls Perry to report that the Frenchman is a bigamist. The photo of his wife looks like Marie. / Marie tells Pierre she knows that he's been getting money from Brody and he'll run away again with another woman. She clobbers him with a flower pot, as Victor looks on. / Perry arrives in his Lincoln Continental convertible, top down. Hebumps into Marie who is leaving with a suitcase, then finds Pierre floating face down in the pool. // [4-8] Lieutenant Anderson covers the crime. Jimmy was waiting for an important long distance phone call; apparently Pierre's phone was off the hook. Mason ask an officer where his gray (Lincoln) convertible is. It is gone. / Marie is driving it. She has Nellie's jeweled necklace. She hides from what she things is a police car, but it is only a fire engine. / Mason is “absolutely sure” he is not involve. He then finds his car missing, and asks a police where his gray convertible is., with Drake, show Jimmy the photo of Marie. He considers her sweet, in need of help. Della Street interrupts. Mason’s car is found, smashed into a telephone pole. Jimmy knows she has a friend in Glendale, because, he admits sheepishly, he followed her one night. / A boy tells Drake that the lady just went into the house; Marie hides in the pantry, where they find her. / As Paul drives, Jimmy next him, Marie next Mason, Marie tells Perry she knows nothing about the murder, only the necklace, which is hers but which Pierre ran away with. She didn’t call the police because she didn’t want her parents to know how foolish she’s been. Can’t he just help? she asks. Jimmy, then Paul, ask the same. / Victor saw Marie looking through the gates. Later, while shopping in town, he saw Pierre nearly run her down and then try to get her into his car. It was then that he, Victor, discovered she was French. He then schemed to get her. The police have his tape recorder which is covered with blood from him being struck with it. Roger arrives, and Nellie cries on his shoulder. She thinks he was drunk and fell in the pool. / Sergeant Brice and Lieutenant Anderson tell Mason that Dubois was first hit over the head, then fell into the pool where he was held under with a pool skimmer. On it, and the pot with which Pierre was hit, were the same finger prints. Not Mason’s, of course. // [5-8] In Paris, Monsieur Arnaux, Marie's detective who has long since lost Pierre, tells Drake that his last report was the selling of the blue car. But Drake has seen it in storage in Nice. So Arnaux is a liar. / In court D A Hamilton Burger questions Elaine, who says she “tried to tell Nellie what Pierrie was like” at about 8 the eve of the murder. Burger shows her the necklace; it was on Nellie's dressing table, and Marie saw it, gasped, then dropped a glass of milk. / Jimmy says Marie was not nervous, just did not want to go out with him. He saw no one else come or leave, but was watching a hockey game on television, so anyone might have come or gone. Todd says uncle Herbert put nothing in his will about the development though they'd discussed it. Around 6:30 he explained it all thoroughly to Pierre. He left about 7. Mason asks if it was dark when he left. Yes. The sun set at 7:45. Ever talkative Nellie eventually says she went to Brody at Pierre's insistence. The deal had to go through that night, she was told to tell Brody. Brody left for a bit to get papers, then drove her home. She didn't know the cash value of the deal, but “there was going to be more than enough for a yacht, and to live on forever, and a house on the Rivieria.” Victor testifies to hearing the figure $2 million, planted his recorder about 9:40, saw Marie and went to his room. Lt Anderson identifies the necklace and pendant found in Mason's car along with an envelope containing $5,000 cash and a note from Pierre telling her to go quietly. // [6-8] Marie tells Perry and Della Street that it wasn't blackmail. She only wanted her grandmother's necklace and didn’t know about the money. Drake enters. Marie says he will save her, and Perry quips, “Wait until I unfasten my seat belt. Pierre didn't want to be found, but it was someone else who was paying the detective who is key. “Who?” asks Marie. Mason responds, “Why do you have to ask questions? Can’t we just save you?” / Back in court Mason presents his defense. Brody admits to paying detective Arnaux. He knew what Pierre was, only a chauffeur, but never told the family. He knew of Pierre’s marriage to Nellie. Nellie pouts, “Roger, and you brought me roses.” He couldn't match what Todd had in mind, but he made the best offer he could at current market value, $2 million. Pierre understood business. Didn’t Brody also know of the other wife? Yes, Marie's showing up made it easier for him. Todd admits that he gave Pierre $5,000 which he got from Victor, who owns part of his company. Didn't he question Nellie's keeping the books in proper order? “A matter of habit.” Uncle Herbert had Parkinson's disease, so Nellie must have been keeping the books and “must have well understood the difference between two and ten million dollars.” Perhaps Pierre had something about her which she wanted kept secret, which is why she acted flighty, vague. Mason turns on Nellie. Did she kill Herbert, take the phone off the hook, return from Brody's while he was out. . . ? She confesses. Pierre saw her kill Herbert and she had to keep this truth from the family. // [7-8] Marie stumbles on Jimmy at a sidewalk cafe in Paris. She says her fingerprints were on the skimmer because she dropped a tray of sandwiches and the napkins fell in the water and she had to fish them out . . .. Perry with Della joins them. They've explained everything satisfactorily to Marie's parents. Jimmy is there "because Marie hasn't even seen Disneyland yet." [8-8 end credits]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] (Mexican orchestral prelude) In Acapulco nurse Joanna (Monford) is teased by Rosa (Martinez) over her obvious infatuation with Rick Scott. Rose comments, “I cannot help it my eyes were not injured!“ Joanna takes Rick his medicine, but she first puts his dark glasses on him. He refuses a phone call from Los Angeles, tells Joanna he's going to the Yucatan, and she'd have to do the driving. The call, however, is not from Rick's brother, but his uncle Harvey (Scott) and for Joanna. She reports that he's improved and they are going to the Yucatan. He says not to worry, take as long as she wants. When she goes back to the terrace, she sees Rick kissing someone, is then introduced to Pamela Blair and brother Ben Scott and Elayna, Ben’s wife. They've come to take Rick back to Los Angeles by cruise ship, because the business needs his help. // [3-8] At night on an ocean-going cruise liner, Joanna is looking at the sea. Inside, Rick dances with Elayna. Harvey came out of retirement when Rick had his accident and Rick wants to know if Harvey's doing well by the company and the merger. Ask Pamela, suggests Elayna. Ben comes to the dance floor with Pamela. Joanna mopes outside. Partners switch. Pamela suggests that Rick and Elayna were made for each other. “If they weren't, you’d see to it” comments Ben. Rick asks Pamela, former accountant to Harvey, about his father and learns that he's been doing lots of exploring. She admits that she came along as bait to get Rick back home. / Elayna catches Joanna after she's given Rick his medicine and asks if Harvey didn't hire her to keep Rick from Los Angeles. Rick shows Pamela how to play shuffleboard and Joanna asserts that Rick is nothing more than a patient. / Rick tells Ben he sent Harvey a radiogram yesterday saying that the return trip is nonsense. A radiogram from Harvey says the merger will be finalized tomorrow morning before they dock. This upsets Rick . . . who finds Joanna, proposes to her (much to her surprise), and she succumbs. / The ship's captain marries them and Ben immediately radios this to L A. / The ship docks and Rick sends Joanna on her way in a taxi after she tells him how Harvey had her keeping him in Mexico. He then leaves in a taxi. / Esther Larson is on the phone at the Scott Ranch (Agricultural and Mining) company office when Joanna arrives with packages. Johanna catches (Laurence) Barlow, asks for Rick. Barlow says Rick is in Acapulco, Harvey not in. She introduces herself, as Rick's wife. He calls her a “poor little fool.” / Joanna returns to their apartment, finds Pamela and Elayna and a bellboy pouring them champagne. Elayna intentionally blurts out that uncle Harvey had to give up his stock as dowry to Rick the moment he was married. / In his office Perry Mason explains to Joanna that a stockholders' meeting was called off until Rick returns, now that he has more voting power. Rick has disappeared, injects Della Street. Mason notes that not all ship's captains have the power to marry people. When Joanna leaves, Mason asks Della to get hold of Paul Drake. The captain of the ship Joanna was on was not empowered to marry people, so Joanna and Rick are not husband and wife. // [4-8] At the Scott Cattle Ranch the Dos Banos Unit #1 sign is being pulled down. Drake drives up. Union Farm and Tool now has the lease says a rifle-wielding horseback rider, who also says neither Harvey nor Rick Scott have been there. / Perry takes Paul's call. The merger seems legitimate. Harvey has been buying up mining properties you couldn't give away, with a female companion, Emmalou Schneider. / Barlow goes to Harvey, who has smuggled out office records. He thinks he told someone, but cannot remember who. He’s running the company! He goes to work on the books, and Emmalou, who saw the previous scene, joins him. He says he didn't take her on his last trip because he was selling back the claims to the desert rats. Two weeks ago, didn't he buy a piece of property driving west to Peg-Leg's? No, they went east, to a square dance. He says there's "Nothing they can put you in jail for," goes back to his books. / Hours later, 5:30, the numbers still don't fit, when Joanna arrives. / Rick phones Perry from a toll phone, instructs him to meet him in a half hour at Harvey's. / Everyone arrives (in a veritable showroom of Ford Motor Company vehicles) at Harvey's, simultaneously. Joanna comes out, near hysteria. Mason finds uncle Harvey dead on the floor, a wallet with hundred dollar bills nearby. Emmalou points her finger at Joanna as the murderer. // [5-8] In jail Mason tells Joanna that the prosecution will say she and Harvey were in cahoots, but she killed him, figuring that she'd get more as Rick's wife. Rick did phone her at the hotel, but she never got the message. He does love her and had planned to take her to Las Vegas to make the marriage legal. She got the money from the bank for Harvey, "a few thousand dollars he thought he still had in one of his accounts." As a registered nurse she tried to help an old man who had been brutally beaten. The police assert she argued over her payoff and killed him. They found not a few, but $60,000 in her purse. / In court the banker tells D A Hamilton Burger that Harvey asked him to give his account to Joanna. Until recent months, he never had more than $3,000, but he got by mail and otherwise $60,000 that was given to Joanna. Lieutenant Anderson identifies the fireplace poker with which Harvey Scott was beaten to death, and the defendant's dress has on it the deceased's blood. Drake says Joanna "tried to help." Hamilton Burger calls Perry Mason, who testifies that Harvey Scott was still alive when he entered the house, but died while he was feeling his pulse. "Nothing they can send you to jail for" were Harvey's exact words, says Emmalou. Back in her house she saw Harvey's shadow and the shadow of a woman beating him with a poker, Joanna. // [6-8] Drake seeks Peg-Leg Jasper at his mining campsite. Jasper cocks his gun, claims that he's hidden from deputies for the past two days, but Drake gets him to court to clear friend Harvey's name. / Back in court Jasper says he got a check for $2,000 from Harvey for his mining claim, but the bank told him that it had been stopped. Harvey showed him the check, and $2,000 had been altered to $20,000. Since he can't read nor write, says Jasper, he didn't do the alteration. Barlow says he stopped the check, which was probably Harvey's mistake. Rick Scott has been going over the books, but even he does not know the source of Harvey's personal $60,000. Rick sent his wife a message, which she didn't get, because Elayna picked it up. Elayna did not trust Joanna, so tore up the message. Pamela says Elayna was scared that Harvey was hurting the company. Mason asks Ben if he really believed his uncle was robbing the company he and his father had established? Harvey didn't know Emmalou until after Rick had the accident that sent him to Mexico. How convenient, notes Mason, for this could allow mistakes to be made under cover of the merger. Barlow introduced Emmalou to Harvey. Barlow, asserts Mason, planned to embezzle a quarter of a million, but Harvey discovered it. So his accomplice killed Harvey, then left by the back door and drove around the block so as to arrive with everyone else, including Pamela Blair, his former book keeper. She wasn't a stockholder, so who called her to come to the meeting? Barlow? She faints. // [7-8] Della figures it was Pamela's silhouette Emmalou saw. Drake explains to her that when Joanna first saw Harvey there was paper all over the floor, but when he and Perry got there, there was none. Pamela knew the old man was going over the books, so must have gathered up the evidence. Perry sticks his head in the room, hushes them. The judge is pronouncing Rick and Joanna man and wife. [8-8 end credits] [51:35]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A convertible loaded with teenagers is heading to the Country Corners Bowling Alley in Tesora, California. At the bowling alley, a boyfriend brings Marla Carol her shoes. She and he argue. In a back room, Alan and Bill Jaris note her presence and that it will make the Duchess angry with Marla's mother. Alan suggests they should ask Marla to leave, but Bill says their doors are wide open to everyone. Out in the bowling area, Marla has cramps. // [3-8] Rose Carol, Marla's mother, and Bonnie May (the Duchess) are in Mayor Orson Stillman's office. They want the Jaris brothers bowling alley removed from town. Mayor says her father once owned the town, but no more. The Duchess threatens to l take her oil refinery business elsewhere, thus putting the Mayor out of business. As they leave, a phone call comes through from the hospital to say that Marla is hospitalized. / Linda (Terry) arrives at the Health Department's office of Dr Max Taylor. The hospital has confirmed an amoebic infection. Taylor orders Linda and Joe to check out other cases similar to amoebic dysentery. / Joe conducts interviews with a girl and a man in bed. / Taylor plots the cases on a map. There are more interviews. / Jack Baker has brought the doctor to the Duchess. Rose is sent upstairs to her daughter. The Duchess tells Max she knows he knows that the cases he's studied show that the bowling alley is the source of the infection, but he says it is clean. He is aware of her dislike of the Jaris brothers, which is no reason to shut down their livelihood. She wants the bowling alley closed or she’ll have her attorney in court the next morning. She threatens him with asking the city council to get a Health Department Director with more courage. Jack Baker cautions the doctor to do as the Duchess says. / Jack confronts Alan at his white clapboard house, suggesting he close shop, as two thugs approach. / Bill is helping Alan clean his wounds when Paul Drake arrives. He recognizes signs of brass knuckles. In the alley, Paul and Joe Kelly with Della Street and Paul's wife are bowling. Della teases Paul with “which side of the ball is up?” Just as the detective bowls, Joe calls “Paul” and the ball goes into the gutter. Bill Jaris joins them, hoping to see Perry Mason, but the attorney is on his way to Paris. / A sergeant had delivered a court order closing the bowling alley, and Kelly says they are legal, so he has to start closing up now. // [4-8] Joe Kelly confronts Mrs Wilmot. Is her difficulty with the bowling alley rather than the owners? She says the place is a source of corruption. Joe responds that experts brought in from Los Angeles the previous evening found nothing wrong. She says a bowling alley is a place of gambling and for gathering people of immoral character. Joe responds that Martin Luther King didn’t think so when he built a bowling alley for his young people in his home and bowled with them. She is busy. Drake ask if she is looking for another place to close down that threatens the serenity of the Duchess of Tesoro. Jack threatens Paul with brass knuckles. Outside in Paul Drake’s Thunderbird, Joe uses the car phone to call Della to get a cooperative judge to issue a temporary restraining order. / Paul, alone, rings the bell of the white clapboard house. No answer. Then Alan challenges Paul, mistaking him for Jack Baker. Alan is baby-sitting Bill's child. Bill, who refused to work in the oil refinery, married the Duchess’s only daughter, who died in childbirth, under the care of Dr Max Taylor. / Joe receives Mayor Stillman’s ultimatum over Bill's five-day restraining order, but then asks if the doctor will defend himself and the city against false statements. Doc Taylor says they aren’t false, but equivocates. It is only h is opinion. He argues that all 12 known cases have one eating place in common, the bowling alley. Bill says that the Duchess wants his son, but he'll "do anything to keep his son,.” / Doc Taylor asks Linda to get him the chief engineer of the Water Department. / Joe notes in Perry's office that the refinery is not in Tesoro, and the bowling alley is supplied by water from the refinery. Paul arrives to say that Bill has not given the town more time to investigate, as he'd promised, but that the city has turned off his water supply. / Mayor Stillman has found Doc Taylor dead. He, Kelly, Drake and Bill Jaris look at the body and muddy boots. // [5-8] Joe meets Bill in jail. Alan is also in jail for brawling with the city engineer. / Sadie Noymann, baby-sitter, complains about being left such a long time. When Joe hands her her gloves, she says “I didn’t . . . “ but takes them. / Joe, Paul and Della trace the water line. Joe orders Paul to follow a line until he finds mud. / In court D A Hamilton Burger examines Linda about Dr Taylor’s turning off the spur water line to the bowling alley. Dr Taylor was trying to reach Bill Jaris. The mayor testifies that he went out to the Wilmot house, but the Duchess was asleep. The sergeant testifies. Blood on the defendant was the decedent’s and fingerprints on the weapon were the defendant’s. / Joe lectures the Duchess on reasonable doubt in murder cases, then interviews Marla Carol. She cannot confirm Mrs Wilmot's being asleep. He serves all with subpoenas. // [6-8] Miss Carol is told by Joe Kelly that her boyfriend at the bowling alley the night she became ill will testify that he visited her at Wilmot's the night of the murder because she was alone in the house. Mrs Wilmot went out the side door and drove away after suggesting that Baker go to the movies. The gloves found at Jaris house were Mrs Wilmot's. She was the boy's grandmother, says Sadie Noymann. Joe Kelly has the court accept that Mrs Wilmot is hostile. He asks her about a daughter who died a year ago, survived by an infant grandson. Neither would inherit as Wilmot's will specifically prevents that. He asks who will inherit. Burger objects because Kelly cannot impeach his own witness. Kelly wants to show bias, not against the defendant, but against the deceased who attended the witness's daughter when she died. The witness's daughter happened to be the defendant's wife, notes Burger. Rose Carol is the sole heir. Her daughter made a wrong marriage and she blames Bill Jaris for her death, and for Dr Taylor's. Her anger has grown since. Bill Jaris killed her daughter! "Parties, travel, no time to get a decent night's sleep" she says. Kelly confronts her with an Arizona doctor who, two days before the daughter’s death, said she was in fine health. Dr Taylor called her "undernourished." Might his private statements have been only to cover his own feeling of guilt? Why did she go, recently, secretly, to visit her baby grandson? Yes, and once before. Did she order Jack Baker and two of his men to beat up the defendant's brother? She doesn't comprehend. Orson Stillman was one of her sources and Miss Terry in the mayor's office. Mayor Stillman admits that the city's water line was polluted from the refinery's lines. He admits that Doc Taylor had said the plant would have to be closed. The oil refinery is outside both city and county jurisdiction. So Linda Terry admits she was typing the report for the state and Joe Kelly reads from the transcript. The state never received the report. She always advised Jack Baker. Baker's alibi is that he was in the theatre, but it was around the corner from city hall, says Kelly. He could have run around to the doctor’s office, killed him and then destroyed the report. Rose, sole beneficiary and Jack’s date, says Jack was in the theatre. She says she is engaged. Linda stands up and states that she has been engaged for three months to him. Kelly asks, was her first date with Jack before or after he learned she’d inherit. After. Now Rose , crushed, admits that Jack was out of theatre for a half hour. // iAt the bowling alley the Jaris brothers worry that it will take months more than their second mortgage to get a new water line installed. "Grandma" Wilmot, who has just been to the bank to help out, arrives with Joe and reconciles with her son-in-law. Joe, ready to leave, takes a bowling ball from his wife (Marge), drops it, and bowls a perfect strike. “I don’t see what’s so hard about that” comments the Duchess. [8-8 end credits] [51:36]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Berlin at night. In a cabaret a blonde (Greta Koning) is singing “You are my sunshine” in German to an American soldier. She takes a cigarette out of his hand and puts it in his mouth. She then flirts with another soldier and finally moves on to Swedish sailors. A man (Joe Farrell) watches attentively. Afterwards at her dressing room, Frederic (Ralston) catches Greta and they embrace. One ‘t’ or two? (in “Greta”) She says she is just plain Greta Konig, no dots over the “o.” It has been three weeks, two days, one hour, fifteen minutes, yet he wants to marry her. She loves him, too, but . . . Helga breaks up their embrace as the band is heard in the final number. // [3-8] Fred is awaiting Greta at the bar, humming the Wedding March. Joe Farrell goes to Fred and offers him a ride to an evening party. He’s just seen Greta, which infuriates Fred. They go out back where Fred argues that Joe should keep out of his affairs. An MP interrupts them but Joe gives him the brush-off (he outranks the MP). But the MP has arrived with an order for the Captain to call his office. Joe rushes to Greta's dressing room. Her clothes are gone and a window is open. Helga does not know where she's gone, perhaps across the border, maybe the train to midnight. / An officer (Phil Morton) enters the U S Embassy and goes to an office where Farrell is on the phone to the Frankfurt police regarding Dr Kleinman. Morton reports that Ralston never made it to the general's party (nor did Farrell; duty called and he is furious about it). Via phone, a Swiss bank clerk in Geneva reports that Senor Hernando Ramirez is there. Farrell has “hit a home run” and leaves for "a place called Mitternacht." / Ramirez, who is an Argentinean businessman, leaves the bank and informs Alan (Durfee) that he must get to Mitternacht and Dr Kleinman. “Don’t you ever think of money?“ queries Ramirez. When Ramirez goes to pay the waiter for two double cognacs, Durfee snatches the money envelope, 300,000 Sfr, but Ramirez grabs it back. In Mitternacht he can turn the Francs into millions of dollars, asserts Ramirez. Alan invites the Argentinian into his car. / A plane flies over Geneva eastward towards mountains. / At Mitternacht, Max takes Dr Kleinman to a rendezvous site (now the mountains are low, hardly the Alps). Kleinman complains about ten years wasted in the lakes. Above them is a plane with Frank Appleton who has a brief case filled with money, and a bottle of whiskey from which he takes a slug. The plane encounters turbulence and a gun drops out of Appleton’s case, slides a seat forward. Perry Mason picks it up, then hands it back to Appleton, with a resigned “Welcome to MItternacht.” // [4-8] Night on Mitternacht Lake. Dr Kleinman, Max, Duval, Appleton, Ramirez and Durfee watch as a diver surfaces. They bring up a chest. Durfee makes snide remarks about Hitler (maybe they’ll find Hitler’s moustache cup!). The chest is filled with solid gold. / Mason at the Chalet Restaurant is meeting Ralston. The conspirators drive up in a Citroen DS-19. They see Mason whom Appleton recognizes; the others notice Ralston (Lt., U S Army Coprs of Engineers) joining him. They drive off to Madame Jurgen's (Greta is her niece). She says Ralston was here earlier, three weeks ago, with soldiers and instruments, on the shore of the lake. Bribed, she admits them to Ralston's room where they find Top Secret papers. Appleton protest their reading them, but the others read.the papers that indicate the U S Army is also exploring the lake. Alan reads from the papers items, such as jewels, British pounds, that are in the Nazi hoard. They decide to bribe local officials and go to work immediately. Madame Jurgen hears someone coming and the conspirators steal out the back way. / At a cabaret, Greta looks for Ralston outside, finds Mason who assures her that he's there as a friend, and approves of Fred's work in the army. His family is “important . . . old fashioned.” She admits that she has no family. Mason says Ralston's leave has been canceled, so he had to rush off. She hurries away. Mason and a man at a nearby table (Hurt) follow. They find Captain Farrell on the floor of Joe's room. Joe points a pistol at police inspector Hurt as he enters the room.// [5-8] Hurt is asking questions of Duval who claims to be alone and not knowing anyone. Ralston wants Hurt to search outside for the person who killed Farrell and whom he tried to chase with Farrell's gun, the murder weapon. Madame Jurgen says she did not leave her room all evening and gives a warning look to Greta. Mason mentions Kleinman, who is absent. He is noted for diving activities. While Hurt is on the phone, Joe tells Mason that he has tried to reach Joe’s Headquarters. Hurt, all friendly smiles, invites Ralston to his home/office. American army authorities are at Hurt’s house. / Mason confronts Colonel Owens about Joe Farrell and a theft of paper as Greta listens. Ralston and Farrell are known to have quarreled. Owens is confrontational but, eventually, says he’ll help Mason. Morton calls him away. Mason escorts Greta out. She asks if they talked about her, if she is not good enough, then hurries away. / Appleton, an Omaha businessman, is getting drunk on ale. He invites Mason to his table and introduces him to Durfe who has been in movies (but not currently!). “The words , , , they get in between the star and his public.” Mason wonders if Appleton is scared that the police will discover the gun he carries. Or $100,000, says Owens as he approaches. He mentions also Ramirez, and that the papers in Ralston's possessions are a fraud. He was here before to survey for an international power project, and Nazi treasure is a neat confidence trick. Durfee now notes that Kleinman and Max have everything, even his car. / Inspector Hurt, Mason and Owens discover that Kleinman took off in a plane at 9 or 10 the previous evening. “So now he could be across 10 borders, or even an Iron one.“ The inspector thought “the good doctor was honest, we looked for him, what elso could they have done? // [6-8] Madame Jurgen refuses to speak to Greta, which is noticed by Mason. Four of the conspirators argue over breakfast. Hurt tells Mason and Owens that the conspirators, whom he calls "suckers," have confessed to leaving the lieutenant’s room by the back door. Mason says it was Kleinman or Max who committed the murder. Hurt tries to strike a deal; the American should take Lt Ralston out of the country. Mason doesn't like this, calls Greta over and asks who put the Top Secret envelope in Ralston's luggage. She breaks down, then admits that Dr Kleinman made her bring Frederic there, admits further that she placed the envelope. / At the lake,divers bring up the body of Dr Kleinman. Hurt says “two murders,” tells Mason and Owens that Ralston is free. Greta is watching from a distance. She runs but is stopped by Madame Jurgen who warns her to run. She does. A gun shot. Greta returns to Madame Jurgen, who is alright. Hurt arrives holding a luger. He's wounded the double murderer, Durfee. // [7-8] Outside Mitternacht hauptbahnhof (Midnight railway station) Mason and Hurt agree that Durfee was the mastermind of the swindle. Greta comes down the station stairs and is stopped by Mason, who reminds her that she did nothing he didn't force her to do. She says Jurgen was not her aunt, but when she was 14 she helped her get false papers so she could go to Germany where there were jobs. She sobs,. It was really her “aunt” who put the papers in Frederic’s luggage. She doesn't know her own name. She's a war orphan and she's not good enough for Frederic. Mason points out all she did for him, and suggests there's a way for her to solve the name problem. As Frederic joins them, Mason asks him to explain to her how. The lovers kiss and Mason and Hurt walk away, friends. [8-8 end credits] [51:34]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] In a parking lot at an unidentified major airport Anthony Fry introduces reporters to his fiance, Kathy Anders, who points to Howard Stark as the man who introduced them to each other. One reporter suggests his new movie is about love between an old man and a young woman and nothing but a publicity stunt, to which Kathy bursts out that their love is real. Reporters leave and Anthony congratulates Kathy on her act. Howard asks what if the studio doesn't cooperate, and Fry says that he gets what he wants. Fry receives a message from a red cap and leaves in haste, telling Kathy to speak to his secretary about tomorrow's party. Anthony is picked up by Joanne Pennington as Kathy makes photos of the two. // [3-8] In Paul Drake's office Kathy James, aka Anders, is asking the private detective if he can find out who the woman in her photos is. She gets upset when Paul implies that she shouldn't get involved where she might get burned. / Fry's secretary Lydia (Lawrence) tells a phone caller that Fry is not in as Howard Stark and Coley Barnes enter. Howard takes the call from a Mr Gomez in Mexico City, Fry's film producer there, who demands 48 hour payment of $50,000 due, then hangs up. No money and they lose the negatives of the film to Gomez. Tony comes out of his bedroom, tells all that he's got an angel, J J Pennington. Phone from J J. / In J J’s office Tony offers angel J J a piece of his film. J J says 24 hours if Tony gives him the figures. Tony leaves, and J J looks at a photo of Kathy and Tony on a newspaper front page. / Joanne Pennington drops Tony off at his apartment, swearing to kill him if he uses her again. Kathy is watching, with a camera, and is discovered by Howard. He takes his camera. / Inside Tony's Kathy asks if she can get a job, but Stark sends her away. / At a hotel, Pennington Studio guard Joe picks Kathy Andeers up as Kathy James. / J J confronts her as the child behind the camera with her father when she was 4 or 5. Why has she, with such a fine father, get mixed up with Tony? J J knows of the film in Spain never getting off the ground and her cameraman father being blamed. She says she knows Hollywood, as does he, and they both know what has to be done. She's going to make Tony eat his own dirt. Her father is in Denver (she didn't know) and sober, and J J has hired him to do a big picture. Joanne Pennington, J J's wife, enters and is recognized by Kathy who promptly stalks out. / She goes to Tony's apartment and is noticed on the way in by the janitor. The apartment door is open. She enters, finds the camera, removes the film, and is caught by Fry. He slaps her, she hits him with heavy glass decanter. // [4-8] Howard Stark, Paul Drake and Coley Barnes break into the room and find Fry unconscious, and the latter two follow Kathy out the outside doors. Drake returns. Stark says Fry is dead. / Drake, from a phone booth outside Fry’s apartment, wakes Mason to tell him that he has a client in an awful jam. / Kathy returns to her apartment, pulls out suitcase, turns on the light and is surprised by Mason, who informs her that Fry was murdered, and she was seen leaving the apartment shortly thereafter. / Mason and Della Street tell Paul that, after hitting Fry, she went into the hall for several minutes, then went back into the room when she heard someone coming and finally left by way of the porch. / J J tells Mason that he still had a grievance with Tony. Did he try to bypass Fry and negotiate directly with Gomez? Well, yes. / Stark is found rifling Fry's secretary's desk by the secretary, Lydia Lawrence. Then Stark calls in Drake. He explains that he’s looking for a photo taken by Kathy Stark. He also explains his whereabouts that night, and Coley’s. / Barnes tells Mason that he and Stark left Fry's together, with Stark carrying lots of papers Fry wanted him to read. Lieutenant Anderson arrives and Barnes shows him a contract that, for $200,000, gave him ownership of Fry's picture. They've arrested Kathy and found the photograph, which was under the dead man's body. // [5-8] In court Lt Anderson identifies for D A Hamilton Burger the film trophy with which the decedent was murdered. On it were fingerprints of Kathy James. They allso found an envelope in which was a photo of Fry and a woman with James's fingerprints on it. The medical examiner testifies that the trophy was the type that inflicted the fatal wound. There were two blows and the second could have been struck when Fry was lying on the floor. J J Pennington tells Mason he wanted Fry's film. He knew of the $50,000 debt right after Fry left him. Coley tells Hamilton Burger that he was Fry's right-hand man. On the night of the murder, he was watching TV, heard a woman scream. A few minutes later he was worried so went down the hall where he met Stark. They broke in, then he saw James fleeing in the courtyard. While he was watching TV, Fry called him and said "That no-good dame was blackmailing him" and he needed $25,000 cash immediately. Stark says Fry phoned him, asked if there was anything in the papers that would allow him to ask Pennington for a $25,000 advance. He said he didn't know, but he'd come over after reading the papers and he did so a half hour later. Fry said "that blackmailing tramp" has got me over a barrel and all on account of that picture, that lousy picture.” Lydia Lawrence is sure she saw from her window over the courtyard Kathy James running away. The janitor testifies to seeing James on the way in, and out, when she dropped the film, which Burger has him identify. The druggist identifies the rare high-speed type film bought by Kathy and the photo she picked up of a man kissing a woman in a car. // [6-8] Joanne Pennington comes to Mason but he cuts her off before she can admit to youthful indiscretions. She says she got her husband to see Fry. She and husband J J cross as he comes to Mason. / Back in court Mason examines Lydia Lawrence. Was she aware of a contract favorable to J J? Yes. Fry's troubles started with the un-produced Spanish picture. He got a $100,000 salary advance on that film and put it all into the Mexican picture. He was broke. Is that why she waited to blackmail him? Didn't he use the Spanish picture only to raise the $100,000, blaming the picture's failure on a once-alcoholic cameraman? Didn't she go with Fry to Spain and send contradictory shooting orders to the cameraman? Isn't she equally guilty of fraud? She kept his books; wasn't she blackmailing him over revealing the books to investors? Mason points out that she could have gone along the porch to Fry's and killed him while Kathy was out of the room, and this forces her to admit blackmail, but not murder. She adds "ask Coley Barnes." Barnes says he gladly gave $200,000 to back his close friend Fry (with $100,000) in order to triple his money. Then why did he assign his rights to J J? Now Barnes claims that Fry was no friend, for he even dumped 15 year associate Stark. Stark is cornered by Mason. Didn't he learn in reading the Fry papers that he'd been discarded, written out? How could Fry, who took credit as sole author, have written a picture so sensitive that everyone thought it special, when he'd done nothing but hard two-fisted action films before? Stark admits he's the author, having worked on the script five years, but he didn't sneak along the porch. Hamilton Burger recalls the janitor who swears that no one went in or out of Fry's from the time Kathy went in until she came out. Burger is triumphant for blowing Mason's argument. Mason, however, thanks the janitor for naming the only one who could have murdered Fry, the only one in the room when Barnes and Drake and Kathy James were out; Stark. Now Stark admits he couldn't take being a doormat any more. // [7-8] Kathy feels sorry for Stark, but Mason tells her, Della and Paul that you get out of life “what you deserve no better, no worse.” Della demands a steak. She’ll get it if Mason gets home before midnight - when the late show will have a movie photographed by Kathy’s father. (51:13) [end credits] [51:34]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] An armored truck waits outside the First National Bank of Burgess. Reelin’ Pete (Bridewell) enters the bank and gives Reba Burgess’s key to banker Malone. Malone takes key 88 off the key rack and opens a safe deposit box with the two keys. Then Murphy and Malone and another guard drive in the armored truck with a beribboned shoe box to Burgess Mining. On the way, the young guard is told about the two-inch steaks Reba treats them to for their help. They are met by Reba, who is decidedly not friendly to "Mal" (Malone). While she opens the box with her back to Mal, he sees a gun in a drawer. He asks why she is upset but she only has him seal the box. / On the way back to town, the younger guard thinks that they are being put on, but the Murphy suggests to him that you'd do this for a box filled with a million dollars worth of uncut diamonds. // [3-8] Mr (Carl) Bascom, who has closed the mine and put half the people in town out of work, comes to see Reba. He, as manager, did what he thought was necessary while she and her deceased husband were off gallivanting around. He values the company at $2 million and wants half, then produces a document naming him a full partner. / In lawyer Perry Mason's office Reba is informed that Bascom may be due half the company. He'll be glad to examine the company records and see what can be done. She demands the papers back, for she wants no such help. The attorney tells Della Street to phone Paul Drake. / At the mine office, foreman Kelly discovers Bascom and orders him out. Bascom fires him, also Reelin' Pete when he enters. Reba enters and with Bascom heads to her house. Malone drives up and, with Pete and Kelly, search the office. Again, he finds the gun and a key, which he feels carefully. He finds the sealing wax. / At the bank Kinder tells Mal that Bascom is done. Bascom comes from the safe deposit room and talks to Malone about doing future business. As Bascom leaves, he compliments Mrs Munger's flowers. / At a bar Pete tells Paul Drake how the town protested when Bascom laid off workers and closed the mine. He left town the day before Burgess had his heart attack. Bascom enters and goes directly to chief of police Polek, from whom he learns that Paul Drake is Mason's private detective, and Mason is Reba's attorney. / He leaves, agitated, phones someone and is overheard by Malone. / Drake reports to Mason that Bascom went to South America with money, is now back and nearly broke. He sees a shadow outside his door and discovers that it is Bascom who has just moved in across the hall. / In the bank Bascom asks to get into his safety deposit box. Malone gives Bascom key 96, then goes to a customer whom Jenkins has said needs his presence. Malone tells Kinder to see Bascom to his box, then see that he is undisturbed. / Bascom returns to his desk. Kinder informs him that he left the key drawer open, and Bascom was still around after leaving the vault. Malone phones Reba. / Pete brings Reba's key. Malone sends Kinder for Polek, goes to Reba's box and finds the shoe box gone and a note left. Polek arrives and Malone apologizes for sending for him. / Drake returns to the hotel where he finds Bascom's door open and the room rifled. Kelly is in the room. By phone, he’s told that Bascom is at the mine. / Bascom "must have fallen into the sluice and drowned.” // [4-8] Mason has come to Burgess. Drake reports that Bascom was found with a wet leather pouch filled with sticky substance sweet as sugar and wrapped in ribbon, the same as Reba's box. Bascom was shot, then dumped in the sluice. The murder gun is Reba's. / Kinder tells Murphy to wait to open the bank. In the vault, Jenkins tells Mason that he expected Burgess to be murdered someday, but Mrs Munger says he was always polite to her. Reba and Malone join them. Reba is satisfied that nothing was tampered with. Malone tries to send Mason back to Los Angeles. Mason informs Reba that Bascom's heirs have his rights, but she could, of course, buy out their interest with her fortune in diamonds. / Kinder tells Mason that he overheard Malone tell Murphy that Bascom could have taken an impression of Reba's key, for there was wax on it. Drake tells Mason he’s been checked out, but Mason decides to stay in town in order to give free advice to Reba. / He goes to Reba and is rejected, but Polek arrests her for murder. // [5-8] In the Burgess town court, prosecutor Clark for the people, the police sergeant testifies to the murder weapon ballistics and its being found under sluice tailings. Kelly says Reba asked him to check the figures and find out what she might owe Bascom. He told her a half interest which would be worth a million or more. Widow Reba had gotten the mine profitable and now could be forced to pay cash or lose the mine, though a deal for her own diamonds might get her out. Kelly supervised the company books for Reba, but not for Bascom. Earlier books were destroyed in a fire. He had not seen Bascom until he and Pete found him in the office, apparently looking for something. Pete admits that Reba kept her appointment as expected with Bascom, but he got to Bascom with a question that scared him. Kinder says Bascom was a frightened man the last time he saw him. Bascom was the last one in the vault until Reba's box was opened by court order. Her shoe box was then found empty, and Bascom was there long enough to have opened both his and her box. Kinder says he not only told Mason about Bascom, but Reba as well. Polek testifies that he kept Bascom, who was scared by Drake’s presence, under close watch, noted that he bought a plane ticket back to South America and a lockable brief case. Bascom packed, then went out. When he came back a half hour later he found his brief case tampered with. One person had gotten into the room, Reba Burgess. // [6-8] In jail Reba tells Mason that she stumbled over the diamonds in an African cave as a young anthropologist. Her husband found in the Mato Grosso a riverbed with gold nuggets as big as golf balls. He took none, for finding them was his interest. When the company was in deep trouble and the government became involved, Jim Burgess returned to the town, was shown by Bascom $75,000 taxes marked paid that weren't. Jim and Bascom worked out a way to take care of it. She want to San Francisco. When she returned, Bascom was gone and Jim was dead from a heart attack. Mason notes that the books show no delinquency. A fire in the office took care of that. There were ten pouches, each of $100,000 of uncut diamonds, and nine were quietly disposed of before the company was in the black. Mason shows rock candy which looks like uncut diamonds, but was the sticky stuff found in Bascom's pouch. Bascom came to her, said he'd settle for much less than $100,000. She was going to do so. Why, asks Mason, did she risk going to his room for the other nine pouches. She had taken fraudulent loans from Malone. / In court Malone testifies that he found the empty shoe box in Reba's safe deposit box after Bascom left the vault. He did not report the theft to the police chief? No. Mason notes that if either mine partner were convicted of a felony, the other would become sole owner. Mason then suggests that Malone made it easy for Bascom to steal the key from the key box, so that he'd be caught and convicted. He refuses to answer. Mason notes that he knew the true value of Reba's security. Why, then, did he change his mind? Perhaps because he found a note threatening to reveal "the ancient truth about Jim Burgess" if theft were reported? Wasn't Burgess” tricked into thinking that he was responsible for his company's financial troubles?” Hasn't Malone wondered why Bascom stayed away when he had a valid partnership agreement worth a million dollars? Why was Bascom nervous and willing to sell out for less than $100,000? Malone saw a note, like the partnership agreement, put into a bank envelope, then into Bascom's safe deposit box, which was sealed until a few days ago. Yet, in between, Reba, he and others had seen the agreement! Impossible, unless Bascom had an accomplice, someone who persuaded him that it was safe to return. Now Mason reveals that a Sacramento Bank called to verify Reba's credit when she applied for the loan to pay off Bascom. Malone never got that call. Kinder took the call. It was he who got Bascom to return to Burgess, but he never quite trusted him to share his gains. Yes, he took the wax impression of the key. When he learned Bascom was going to sell out cheap, he took the pouches. Then, when he took the gun from the desk and pointed it at Bascom, he wouldn't tell him where the real diamonds were. It wasn't fair. Just candy in the pouches. // [7-8] Mason, Drake and Street suggest to Reba that she surrender herself, to Malone! Mal, in private, admits to Reba that he knew of the candy, and arranged the collateral from his pocket. She hugs him. [8-8 end credits] [51:33]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A large suburban half-timber house. Inside, blonde Sibyll comes down stairs and finds husband Eric Pollard working in his office. She raises the issue of divorce, but he is not interested in her or her lover. “There’s nothing left between us,“ she says, but he counters with “I love you.“ They argue and he has an attack of dizziness. // [3-8] In the offices of Talbot & Pollard, Estate & Property Management, Aimee (Wynne) warns Pollard that Perry Mason is with (Harlan) Talbot. At issue is the Smith estate. Young Smith died in an accident and the estate reverts to his uncle from whom he inherited, which means it goes back to the estate (and then to charities). Pollard is again dizzy. He says he works too late and should get eyeglasses. On the way out he informs Aimee that he just needs fresh air and won’t see anyone. / A cab has crashed into a flagpole. The cabby says that a guy jumped in, said “I’m gonna rob a bank.” A spectator confirms this story and another confirms his identification. Pollard walks up and is identified by another spectator as the man who commandeered the cab. A police officer frisks Pollard, finds a gun, then arrests Pollard. / In his courtroom Judge Alder adjourns court, then is helped out of his robes in his chambers by the court clerk. The judge talks about someone named Bert who has been wearing him about. Roy Galen awaits him as his probation officer, there regarding Pollard for his wife. Pollard's gun is a Japanese war souvenir, completely inoperable, and it was 9:25; the banks don’t open until 10. Judge Adler agrees to a pretrial probation report 131.3, but demands a psychiatric report. / Pollard is shown that he signed contrary contracts by Dr (Richard) Jenkins. Pollard denies having done everything that the evidence shows he did. He denies any rift with his wife and, when Jenkins asks if she’s asked him for a divorce, demands to know who is his wife's lover. / Roy Galen reports to Talbot, company lawyer Dean Franklin and Mrs Pollard. Though incompetent to”handle his own or anyone else’s business affairs.“ Pollard must still stand trial because he knew what he was doing during his armed robbery. / District Attorney Hamilton Burger agrees, in a hearing in chambers, that the judge should handle the “hot potato.” Dean Franklin, for the defendant, pleads guilty on all counts. The judge announces a pro forma sentence of five years at hard labor in the penitentiary, Galen recommends probation for Pollard, with conditions. Pollard accepts, but approaches the judge, then turns to Sibyll, says she doesn’t fool him. He then makes a violent statement; the probation officer Galen is Sibyll's lover! He faints and falls to the floor. // [4-8] Sibyll is on the phone to her lover; she can't leave now. Aimee overhears her expression of love. They argue. Sybill is being told by Aimee that she doesn’t “have to like ti.” Sybill calles her a “self-righteous snob. Mrs Pollard signs the bonding forms required for her to take over her husband’s business. Pollard enters, gets car keys from a drawer in order to go to Nat Rudick, his probation officer. But he’ll be sure to give (his boss, Dick Galen) your love, Sibyll. / Mason receives papers regarding Smith from Talbot, Franklin and Mrs Pollard. Leo Mann butts in; Mrs Pollard's signature is on a paper liquidating his $250,000 in stocks. Aimee reports that Mr Pollard handled the account personally until Mrs Pollard . . . The company handels his account, not any individual. / Pollard with Dr Jenkins, produces a letter of a one-year lease on an apartment rental in Brazil to Mr and Mrs Stephen Porter aka Sibyll Pollard. S P could be Stephen Porter or Sybill Pollard. He also found two one-way tickets to South America in Sybill’s bedroom. / Sibyll and Roy are on a park bench, she asking him to get back the tickets. There is a flash from a camera. / Roy goes to the office phone. Della Street answers. She passes the phone to Perry Mason. He arranges an 8 am appointment. Nat Rudick enters, wanting to go over reports. The phone rings. Galen hears Sibyll calling for help. He rushes out. Pollard comes in another door, tries to get by Rudick, then shows him the photo of Roy and Sibyll and threatens that he'll kill Galen when he returns. / Galen at Pollard's, gets hit over the head and falls. As he revives, he sees (Sibyll, dead). / Rudick gets a phone call. Galen has been arrested for the murder of Sibyll. Pollard seems surprised. // [5-8] In court Talbot testifies to the liquidation of a quarter of a million in stocks over Sibyll Pollard's signature. Sibyll had a life income of only $500 per month. When she died, the estate reverted to charities. Hamilton Burger suggests she embezzled from the company to cover this, letting the bonding company take the fall. Dean Franklin states that Sibyll had asked him to start divorce proceedings. She had a lover. Aimee Wynne recalls a phone conversation, denies preparing stock transfer form, didn’t even process it. Rudick recalls a phone call that prompted Galen to run out of the office about 8:30. Pollard came in at the same time. He had a photo of Sybill with Galen’s arm around her. / The autopsy surgeon says the murder occurred between 9 and 9:30 by strangulation with arm, not hands. Lieutenant Anderson testifies as to the speeding of Galen, and his exiting the house at 9:30. An officer took him back inside where they found Sybill, in the library, dead. Lawrence West of Wet Confidential investigations, took the photo for Eric Pollard and testifies that Mrs Pollard was hysterical about items being removed by her husband from her room. Then he tells of a later conversation between the two, when he circled back. Then Galen said , as she sobbed hysterically, “If anyone is going to kill you, Sybill, it’ll be me.” // [6-8] At Pollard'’s Eric, in his evening jacket, answers the door to find Paul Drake, who raises the issue of quarter of a million dollars and a possible reward for its recovery. Pollard suggests Drake try to sell his idea to his business partner. Pollard then suggests that Drake is implying a “threat to expose Harlan Talbot as an embezzler if (Pollard) don’t arrange a payoff. Pollard threatens Drake, who then gives him a subpoena. / Back in court the autopsy surgeon is asked if the defendant was examined after the cab affair. Yes, a slight bruise. Mason pursues the issue of the time of death, regarding a fire that might alter the time to an earlier point: 8:30, 8;15, 7:30 and so on. Death could have been much earlier and the autopsy surgeon’s time determination was based on knowing when the defendant was at the site. / Franklin is revealed to have been traveling to resorts; Santa Barbara, Los Vegas, San Francisco and such, registering as "Mr and Mrs Dean Franklin." He registered with Sibyll Pollard as his wife. / Talbot, who is ‘shocked , , , absolutely shocked,” is asked, was he with Sibyll? No. He was at his club waiting for Dean Franklin. / Pollard remembers a call that might have been to Franklin, but not one to Galen. He was with Rudick. Mason is permitted to explore one of Pollard's "delusions." One cannot be at two places at once. Paul Drake plays back a recording over a phone that he made when he served Pollard the subpoena. Pollard recorded his wife just before he strangled her, played this over the phone to Galen from a phone in the hall of records lobby so he could run in as Galen left, thus creating the perfect alibi. Pollard collapses in pain. // [7-8] In Mason’s office, Della explains that Pollard didn’t know that it was Dean whom Sibyll was in love with. Roy is told that Dean hit him over the head. Eric had misused a quarter of a million in speculation and was caught when Smith died unexpectedly, so he staged his faints, had Sibyll sign the papers he used to cash Mann’s stocks. Drake shows off his battery operated microphone and transmitter. Della says it is “not safe to even think around you anymore.” [8-8 end credits] [51:40}

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Della Street is on the phone to Perry Mason;”it's been like a morgue than a law office al morning.“. Paul Drake arrives without his usual, “shave and a haircut, five cents” knoc., Minerva Doubleday enters shortly thereafter. She reads a note to "emissary" giving complete detailed directions on how to receive a phone call this night at 11:13 p.m.. Paul is to take over, since she’s afraid to go and Homer (Doubleday) is a cripple. He is to deliver a Confederate 50 cent piece worth $50,000. // [3-8] Homer Doubleday’s shop. He refuses to say to whom he is selling his coin, but Hopkins' emissary, Vivian Norman, then tries to get Homer Doubleday at his numismatics shop, to sell his 50 cent piece to her at a ten percent premium. He considers Hopkins a pirate. He would not sell them for 100% more. She threatens him, leaves. Doubleday goes into the back room. He has stamped out five counterfeits for George Parsons, who then relates the specifics, saying that Homer faces jail for no one will believe he sold them as duplicates, not originals.. He fakes leaving after Minerva arrives and overhears the directions she gave Drake. / Paul pays for cigarettes, but the girl has to get his brand. He is with Mason at a restaurant. Della joins them. Mason brings up an operative “naught, naught, seven” (007) Della has checked out Doubleday and gives Mason a book that lists Confederate half dollars, four originals only were struck. The cigarette girl delivers Drake’s cigarettes. Drake cannot find his half dollar. The cigarette girl picked it up and returns it thinking it a gag. Parsons has been nearby and sees all this. / Howard Hopkins speaks to (Rexford) Wyler about getting the coin He “would kill to get i.”. Perry enters and is shown a 1913 Liberty nickel worth more than $22,000. Mason is shown wooden nickels. Mason shows Hopkins the Confederate half dollar. Hopkins offers $50,000, then raises the ante. “Neither I nor my client ruins easily” says Mason when threatened. After Mason leaves, Hopkins orders Miss Norman to have Clarence Trybill find who Mason is meeting. / Mason and Della arrive at the Bank of California Building in Mason’s Lincoln convertible. There they are met by Drake, who says Doubleday refuses to consider the offer. Mason's office has been ransacked. // [4-8] Drake is at a meeting place. He is being watched by Wyler. A panhandler asks for a match, then for the half dollar Paul was flipping. He gets a dollar bill. Paul drives off, then Mason and Della follow. Drake gets his next directions at a pay phone after giving the “Jefferson Davis” codeword. The directions come from George Parsons, who is with Vivian Norman. As Paul drives off, the phone continues to ring! / Paul picks up the message at the Wilshire Palace Hotel from the desk clerk, (there is a video glitch, a few frames missing, at 19:49) then leaves it for Della and Perry to pick up. It sends them to Doubleday’s. / At Doubleday's Minerva is leaning over the body of Parsons when Drake enters. He disarms her quietly. She loved Parsons, who lies dead at her feet. Mason and Della arrive. / Lieutenant Anderson, Drake and Mason are questioning Doubleday who says that nothing is missing. Anderson cross examines Doubleday, then Drake. He gets a phone call, then continues his cross. Minerva’s story is that she was walking by the shop and saw a light in the window. Drake, who had the half dollar all the time in his pocket, remains silent. Anderson says that the phone call identifies the pistol as being sold to Homer Doubleday in 1952. / Della speculates. Mason worries that he had to protect Paul’s license. Vivian Norman arrives and offers condolences and $50,000. She hopes that a “conflict of personalities” won’t prevent a deal. She raises her offer to $60,000 when Paul arrives. She says Parsons offered Hopkins the half dollar. She threatens to expose Minerva. George Parsons telephoned Hopkins and offers to sell him the half dollar and said he was getting it that evening from Minerva at the shop (thus blowing up Minerva’s statement). She makes an offer from Hopkins to pay for her defense, but must get the half dollar, then leaves. Drake says the hotel clerk identified Minerva as the one who left him the package. / The panhandler is rifling a desk at the apartment. He hears someone at the door and rushes out the back way. A woman apartment manager admits Lt Anderson and Sgt Brice. Brice finds love letters from Minerva to George. / Doubleday tells how he acquired the fourth Confederate half dollar from his grandfather, and how he believed the offer was from a legitimate collector. Wooden nickels are each rare. He admits to producing replica coins for display only, with the originals then to be kept in safekeeping. He made five counterfeits, but weighted them so they wouldn't stand on their edges. Among them were a “1776 Continental silver dollar and a gold Fugio cent.” Parsons was selling the counterfeits as originals. He intended to use the $50,000 with other funds to repurchase the fakes. Della rushes in to advise Mason that Minerva has been charged with first-degree murder. Doubleday asks Mason to drive him to police headquarters so he can tell them that he did it! // [5-8] Minerva, in jail, says she didn't leave the envelope at the hotel. She was looking over the body for the real half dollar as she had given Drake a counterfeit! She intended to give him the original to exchange for the counterfeit. Mason tells her that the police are used to false confessions so she needn’t worry about Homer. A matron takes her away. / In court D A Hamilton Burger is stating his case, namely, Minerva was blindly infatuated with George Parsons. When she learned that when Drake was to deliver the coin but not be paid, she was humiliated. Lt Anderson identifies the murder weapon. Drake testifies to the defendant's leaning over the victim. D A Hamilton Burger shows him a blackjack, saying he should be thankful to Minerva for protecting him, but Mason challenges this “gratuitous comment” and is supported by the judge who admonishes Burger. Minerva held the murder gun, recounts Drake, and said that she said she loved George. Mason retraces the movements of Drake. He was to get to a phone call at 11:13, but he got there at 11:08 and it was already ringing. The hotel desk clerk, Mr Summers, identifies Miss Doubleday as one who gave him the package. She shakes her head in bewilderment. Hopkins accepted Parsons as interlocutor. He identifies the coin given Drake as the half dollar. Burger places the coin in evidence. Mason shows Hopkins some wooden nickels, accuses him of sending anonymous letter to Doubleday. Wyler posed as the buyer, watched Drake and tried to call him just before 11:13, but got a busy signal. He reached Hopkins' house to return his money about 12:30. He then shows Mason how to identify the replicas, and stands the coin on its edge. Doubleday protests that this coin was the fake given Drake, it can’t stand on its edge he shouts. // [6-8] Inside an airplane Drake sits next Mason. Drake found the panhandler. / In San Francisco at the M H De Young Memorial Museum, the curator explains to Mason and Drake that his coin stands on its edge and “everyone” seems to know Doubleday's fakes. / Hopkins is asked to stand his coins on edge. They fall over. He points to Miss Norman as the only one who could have exchanged the coins so that Parsons could sell the originals, leaving Hopkins with the replicas. She admits to the switching, for she was to marry George. She dressed as Minerva to leave the package at the hotel. The panhandler comes in with Lt Anderson. He worked out the safe combination for Wyler. He phoned Hopkins after making sure that Drake had the coin. Hopkins substituted the original for the fake while on the stand. Hopkins, saying he would have paid $100,000, confesses to the murder. // [7-8] In his office Mason explains the scheme to Minerva, Drake and Della. Besides Paul, the police and Hamilton Burger, only Hopkins handled the coin before Wyler proved it original, so the only one who could have switched it was Burger or Hopkins. Kelso searched Parson's office when he learned of his death and the necessary involvement of Hopkins which meant the possibility of big money. Paul searches his coins, for wooden nickels. [8-8 end credits] [53:34]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Diane Adler Mary Ann Mobley Dillard Michael Constantine Mr (George C) Winlock Bruce Gordon Montrose Foster Vaughn Taylor Harrison Boring Paul Gilbert Mrs Winlock Ruth Warrick Marvin Palmer Jonathan Lippe Judge John Gallaudet Plainclothesman Larry Blake Waiter Jack Pepper Police Officer Len Hendry Delivery Boy Jim Henaghan

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At the Paul Drake Detective Agency, Paul is on the phone with . . . Della Street, who is balancing a book on her head, then doing exercises. Drake sneaks in while she is reading Paul's notes back to him. He calls it yoga, but it is not, she asserts. Della describes her watercress girl, 23 year-old Diane Adler, a friend from the Smoky Mountains, who can eat anything and keep the most perfect figure. Paul tries to invite himself to Della's lunch. Della puts him off with “there’s a candy bar in the second drawer.” / Della is having lunch with friend Diane Adler. Della has cottage cheese salad, Diane spaghetti and meatballs. A waiter asks if they want something to drink. Della perks up, then relents and orders only tea, while Diane orders a milk shake. // [3-8] Diane finishes a chocolate milk shake, dodges Della's questions regarding her figure and her job. She gives thanks for help from Della’s aunt Mamie Street, who has helped her adjust to Los Angeles. A waiter tries to sell Diane a scrumptious dessert, but Della shakes her head. While in line to pay, a man comes up and tries to find out Diane's name. Della brushes him off. Meanwhile Diane has gone to the waiter and gotten desert. As they leave Della notices the man signaling someone to follow Diane. Della calls Jones & Jones, Diane's supposed employer, only to find out that she quit two weeks ago. / At a beach Drake surveys Diane, who is reading a fashion magazine while sunning herself, and counts the number of candy bars she eats (Note hear the early use of a zoom lens). She leaves the beach, then weighs herself. As Paul tries to pick up Diane's weight card, Dillard, who had been following Diane, and once trued ti get a job at his agency, reaches for it. Diane returns for the card and retrieves it from Drake, who is a foot taller than her. She is then picked up by a man in a convertible. / Harrison Boring is the man, she tells Perry Mason and Paul Drake. His company is building their ad campaign around her. She has to gain 12 pounds. She explains how her father drowned. She is to get $200 a week, for two years, for being “pleasingly plump.” Her contract calls for 50-50 split of earnings. By mail she learns that the contract is canceled. She Wails that she had gained 10 pounds. / Boring is confronted by Mason with Miss Adler's contract and and a threat of suit. he asserts that his is a promoter, and ideals man. Until a few weeks ago he was employed by Montrose Foster. He could earn 50% of Diane’s earnings if she married rich. He offers to return the contract and blusters his way out. “Portrait of a promoter in panic,” comments Della. The contract, notes Perry, was a red herring”about losing weighs” (A major gaffé.as she wamts tp gain weight). / Mason goes to Montrose Foster's office. “Missing heir” is Foster's racket, says Mason, who notes that finding a “distant” relative and getting 50% of the inheritance could be worth a lot. Foster offers a deal which is refused. Foster does not know he's been had by Boring who quit when he found a rich person. Drake is waiting for Mason and points him to George C Winlock, the richest man in town, as Foster looks on. They get into Paul’s black Thunderbird, But Winlock, notes Paul who has been seen with Boring, “is not dead, yet.” // [4-8] Mason is met by Mrs Winlock's son Marvin Palmer (the man who tried to find who she was at lunch). Father George is playing golf. Mrs Winlock greets Mason, then Mr appears. He knows of no Diane Adler or Harrison Boring. Mason suggests that Winlock is Diane's father who drowned in a fishing accident in Lake Superior 12 years earlier. While other bodies were recovered, his was not. What was his name then? Mason knows he’s met Boring at the Shady Glen Hotel. Diane has her mother's inheritance, and she can keep it from her abdicating dad. Boring was to get part of Diane’s money, but tore up the contract. Is he getting more from Winlock? Mason suggests they meet privately at the Fair Oaks Inn. Winlock asks for "time to think" so he can do the right thing. He then takes a gun out of a drawer after Mason leaves. / Drake catches Perry at the Fair Oaks Inn. Boring spotted him. Dillard has been fired by Marvin Palmer and is now working for Drake, watching Boring. Diane was looking for Boring when Della found her and brought her to the suite at the hotel. Foster has browbeaten her. Drake answers a phone call from Dillard who is whispering because “they’re cops everywhere.” Boring is dead. // [5-8] Dillard reports a whole string of people visited Boring; Marvin Palmer, a middle-aged lady, a guy, then at 8:05 Diane Adler enters and at 8:21 left running. / She denies seeing Boring and tries to lie her way out of the situation. She asserts that she was in the cabin only six minutes during which she got back the contract. Della comes in from an adjacent room, into which Mason goes to meet Winlock. Winlock never told his current wife the full story, and she agreed to say they eloped on a weekend in Las Vegas. Status is all important to her. He wants to make a settlement with Diane that must be kept secret. Dian bursts in, crying, laughing thru her tears. She now admits that Boring was dead when she arrived, tho she at first thought he was drunk. She ran and phoned the motel and told them to look in (Boring’s) cabin 10. She sees herself as a liar because her father was. A plainclothesman and police officer arrive to arrest Diane. Mason suggests they look in the adjacent room, but Winlock is gone. / In court Dillard tells District Attorney Hamilton Burger that he heard only radios and such, no fighting, saw nothing, but threw a notebook, his only evidence, in a trash can. After browbeating by the D A, Dillard reads the times of Miss Adler in Boring's cabin. Mason asks about 7:47-8:02, the previous visitor, but Dillard cannot identify him; “too dark over there.” Dillard was clocked leaving town at 90 mph, he got rid of his notes; he would do this for a client? Burger says “this will get you a fine job at the Paul Drake Detective Agency.” Foster deliberately misled Miss Adler, tailed her, then lost her in Fair Oaks. Mason has him put on a hat, but Dillard shakes his head, “I just can’t tell” he apologizes. // [6-8]Mrs Winlock tries to reach Mason to admit that she was at Boring’s cabin, after her son, and she thought Boring was not dead but drunk. She'll testify, as will her son, if it keeps her unmarriage from coming out. / Drake says all the times are right. Winlock is waiting in Drakes Thunderbird. He was being blackmailed by Boring and was the man before Diane. He went to Boring, scared him into returning the $10,000 he paid him, and got Boring to “promise to get out of town for good.” / Mr Dillard had to see everything as there was no other way of entry. Mason confronts Dillard about the man in the dark hat. Didn’t Boring spot him as easily as he spotted Paul Drake? Under pressure he blurts out that Boring did not have liquor poured over him, "he was drinking it." Boring had seen Dillard and came to his cabin to confront him after Winlock left. They fought over the money which Dillard believed Boring still had. Then Dillard killed him and carried him back to the cabin where he poured liquor over him. He’s sorry for Diane. // [7-8] Dillard showed a wrong time for Diane's arrival, that was his slip-up. She wouldn’t have searched the room 16 minutes in the dark. Mason brings up Mrs Winlock’s perjury. Winlock says she was protecting not him, but the “useless son.” Diane, in the next room, overhears on the intercom his confession of wrongdoing. Thru tears her response to father's offer of dinner for four is that she “might be willing to try a little cottage cheese." (51:20) [end credits] [51:32]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At the Osmond Acres (now under construction) office Joe Marshall asks the secretary to see Adam Conrad. Conrad disproved specs on an invoice regarding a Santa Monica high rise because the materials were below specification.. Marshall is unhappy as the senior engineer and is sarcastic towards a man with little experience. Conrad says Mr Pierce ordered the cancellation because materials were below spec. Marshall has been doing business with this company for fifteen years without a complaint. Joe warns Conrad about shoehorning him out of a job. / Archer Osmond is arguing with Ed Pierce about a county recreation park location which caused a change in a road route. Osmond threatens cancellation of the job with Pierce. Osmond orders Joe to get a preliminary survey of an alternate, shorter, cheaper canyon route, even tho Joe says that the geologist’s report identified problems with that route. Joe orders Adam to work on the survey and it is not for Pierce to tell him hot to doe his job. He tells Pierce that he'll turn the place upside down and inside out to find who is padding accounts, so he doesn’t want anyone around over the weekend. // [3-8] Adam and a girl (Hillary Gray) are making the survey. She falls over a ledge. When Adam picks her up and holds her, she offers, “You’re a very civil engineer.” Then they take refuge in Marguerite Keith's house during a storm. Miss Keith gives a tour of her place. Her mother was a Manzana, Spanish, and this house is part of the Manzana estate. Adam reveals the road plans and Miss Keith says “The only way a road will ever be built here is over my dead body.” / Adam tells Joe Marshall of Quincy Davis who lived in the Keith house (honeymooning with his wife). Joe notes that Adam saw water runoff during a storm, and the house will have to be bulldozed for drainage. The road can go nowhere else. maybe Adam should hit Ed Pierce for a donation to save the homestead. He leaves. Adam, on the phone, relates Joe's comment to Hillary Gray. / Hillary goes to Quincy Davis. He doesn't respond until she notes that the road will not go around the house, but that the house will have to be knocked down. Davis won't call Archer Osmond, but vox popoli will. He writes a new editorial naming Adam Conrad as source. / Pierce is on the phone to Osmond regarding Davis's editorial. Marshall comes in only to get a mouthful, then tries to get around saying "We would have to bulldoze." Pierce says the house could have been moved and orders Marshall had better go out there. draw; around and under the house, then figure out how to do it. Marshall points the finger at Conrad and states that he can prove there's a crook in the company. / Pierce visits Adam Conrad and Hillary Gray. He confronts Adam with embezzlement that Joe Marshall presented. Adam says that at 8 o'clock tomorrow Pierce will have his explanation and resignation. / Adam drives to the Keith house in his sleek Mercury at night and finds the door open, enters and gets knocked out. / Miss Keith returns and sees Adam leaving, holding his head. She enters her house only to find it ransacked and Joe Marshall dead. // [4-8] Mason and Drake arrive as Lieutenant Anderson investigates. Sergeant Brice has found the murder weapon. Miss Keith thinks the murder is her fault and she wants Adam Conrad protected because he killed Marshall. / Hillary is fixing Adam's head just as Mason and Drake arrive. Adam entered the Keith house about 11:30 because he saw a flashlight, and was in the dark at all times. He left still looking for Marshall. Lt Anderson with Sergeant Brice come for Conrad. / Drake brings Hillary coffee. She tells him that she went to Quincy for help, but he printed more than she expected. / Paul wakes Quincy from his martinis at his office and informs him of murder. Quincy shows how the county park required rerouting of the road. Either go thru the canyon “or take the long way around.“ The county park that is the source of the problem was donated by Harley Leonard. / Mason and Drake visit Leonard and ask what was Leonard's relationship with Marshall, bribery? / With Drake and Archer Osmond present, Pierce gives Mason proof of petty chiseling and graft by Adam Conrad, but Mason says that is no motive for murder. Lt Anderson enters and offers that the motive is Marshall's finding Adam's embezzlement activities. Mason says 12 or 13 hundreds in kickbacks is hardly enough to convince a jury of murder, but Andy asks, what about $25,000, of which $10,000 has been recovered. An envelope with $10,000, found under the seat in Adam's car, had Joe Marshall's handwriting saying that he found it taped in a roll of blueprints. // [5-8] Drake informs Mason that the $10,000 was Harley Leonard's. He thinks that he can get proof that Leonard was dealing with Marshall. Della is sent to the County Clerk’s office after documents which will identify a fictitious person. / In court Davis testifies for D A Hamilton Burger that he learned of the house problem from Hillary Gray but, instead of making a phone call, he wrote a column. Osmond says the column had a staggering effect. He called Davis to say it was all a mistake and he’d have the house lifted from its foundation and moved to a new site. Pierce says that kickbacks were made via envelopes inside blueprints which Adam Conrad checked out. He adds that he went to Conrad's house and told him he'd found that he was a thief. Hillary Gray says that Conrad went to Joe Marshall just to get the truth out of him. Miss Keith apologies for cleaning up the house before the police got there. She saw Conrad running out of the house and driving away. / At night the Mercury Messenger Service is commandeered by Drake. Mason gets out of hissuicide-door Lincoln and asks the messenger service driver how much he got paid to forget a delivery a week ago. “A hundred bucks.” // [6-8] In Mason's office Osmond is asked about his partnership in Osmond Acres. Mason gets Osmond to agree to move the house to a suitable site at 8 am the next day, and announce it today via a press release, in return for the right to build a road, thus preserving 100% of the partner's investment. Miss Keith asks for Osmond to heal the breach between Conrad and employer. / Lt Anderson says fingerprints of Conrad are on the murder weapon. Marshall was killed in the house, a crow bar found outside in bushes. Mason relates the order of events and examines Anderson regarding other possible weapons such as tools that were in the house, but Conrad's fingerprints, only, were on the weapon. How often does a murderer wipe a weapon before he uses it, rather than after? Burger moves to bind over the defendant. Mason first asks Harvey Leonard, whom he expected the D A to question, several scenarios regarding murder by him, then springs the money in the envelope on him with a picture of the Mercury Messenger Service driver. Leonard now admits to bribery regarding the access road routing along his property, to Joe Marshall. Burger says it does not matter who embezzled, Conrad or Marshall. D A Burger wins the point as Mason puts on no defense. Conrad is bound over for trial. / Miss Keith gets into her car, then stops down the road next a police car. / A shadow outside a window. A figure uses a crow bar to enter the house, then uses the same crow bar to open a trap in the floor. Andy and Brice, then Mason, Drake, Burger and two policemen find Quincy Davis. Drake pries up the floor. The only record of Davis's wife's death in Italy is his newspaper report. She is buried under the house so he could not let it be moved. He had to murder Marshall who was blackmailing him. // [7-8] Mason explains how he knew that the problem was not the road, but the house, to Paul, Della, Hillary, Adam and Marguerite. Marguerite complains that she’s been living with that (the dead woman) under her feet. Mason ask her if she’d like to move . . . “How about the top floor of the tallest apartment building in town?” [8-8 end credits] [51:32]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A girl with a guitar case (Amy Jo Jennings) stands outside Jazbo's coffee house. She primps her hair, walks through the gate with a sign saying, “Closed.” Inside two men play guitars. She goes in, introduces herself to Jazbo Williams with a distinctive Southern accent and is a given chance to perform. / At Jazbo’s coffee house, she does a slow rendition of "Greensleeves" before a coffee house audience. A heckler shouts¨ts that she has “a great voice, baby, for calling hogs.“ He is a disk jockey, Lester Crawford, from hometown. He tries to get her to come home and marry him. She rejects him. // [3-8] In Jazbo's convertible Any Jo tells him of the hometown DJ. Jazbo warns her of the “cold, cruel town” yet invites her bak because he doesn’t “want to see (her) get (her) heart broke.” / A week later she gets billing at the coffee house. "Careless love" is watched by agent Harry Bronson and Lionel Albright. Lionel says she has no talent, but Harry wants to be introduced. / Backstage Mason asks Amy Jo for her power of attorney. Her father left her "quite a financial empire" back home, the Home Folks Remedies company, which she is president. She suggests that next time she’ll come to Mason’s office. Albright enters to take her to Bronson. / At Bronson/Siebling agents Amy Jo signs a contract with Harry Bronson. She sees Crawford in the outer office. Bronson orders secretary Natalie (Graham) to get rid of him. Evelyn Bronson arrives in time to see Amy Jo leave. She informs her husband that a diamond watch bracelet is missing. Other things, says Harry, have already been reported to the insurance company, “5.000 bucks.” She says she’ll find another and charge it! He responds by threatening to cut off all her charge accounts. Al Siebring in the background complains that he gets no more out of Bronson than does his wife. Harry orders Evelyn out, then tells Al that his summer road show will make it right. Al notes that Harry has no experience with musicals. Harry counters that he brings in the stars, and he’ll get the cash he needs. / Jazbo wonders why Bronson is taking such an interest in her. She asks for the night off to go to Bronson's party at the Crystal Room, HIlldale Country Club. He asks why Bronson is promoting an unknown, which hurts her. She hints that she’ll be in Bronson’s musical. He insists he'll pick her up afterwards. She responds that she “can take care ofH her)self.” / Amy Jo is the star of the party, even as others look on a bit bewildered.. Chris Thompson suggests to Evelyn Bronson that she get a divorce. He says he’ll “redeem her bracelet as soon as (he) gets the money.” Harry is “worth more dead than alive.” suggests Chris Albright cautions Harry over Amy Jo, But harry says that he knows what he is doing. Another starlet arrives, Audrey Stemple, drunk. Jazbo follows her in after hearing from Stemple's taxi driver that the dame is “going to fry an egg.” Natalie Graham advises Mrs Bronson that her husband is ill. (Tranquilizers, which we’ve seen him scoff down at least twice earler.)Evelyn tells her to take care of it, or with Siebring. Audrey wants to see Harry, but Siebring is stopping her (Jazbo overhears this). Jazbo tries to get Amy Jo to leave. She confides that she’s playing the lead in Bronson’s summer show. Jazbo shows her Miss Stemple, who admits she is doing the summer show with Albright. Amy Jo gave Bronson a $50,000 check to be a partner in the show! She runs out of the Hilldale Country Club. // [4-8] In his inner office attorney Perry Mason is reading the Los Angeles Chronicle headline HOLLYWOOD AGENT SLAIN. He and his confidential secretary Della Street discuss Amy Jo (whom Della has been trying to reach) and why she was at the party. Paul Drake bring the information that a glove was found at the scene of the crime. Mason orders Drake to find Jazbo, who owns a small Malibu beach house. / Drake, on Mason's orders, finds Jazbo Williams at his beach house with Amy Jo (who saw Bronson, asleep). He finds the partner to the crime glove. He calls Perry to tell him Amy Jo is in it “up to her neck.” / Mason joins them. Amy Jo found the key in the door and Bronson, limp, on a couch. She tried to wake him in order to get her check. She searched the room and his wallet, then left when a car arrived. She searched everywhere as she thought she had a right. So her fingerprints are everywhere. She is an embarrassed fool. / Della is on the office phone with Drake on his car phone, he suggesting they put a stop on the check and see who tries to deposit it. / Albright is interviewed by Mason. He knew Bronson was not leveling with Amy Jo. Audrey arrives, clearly drunk, looking for tomato juice. She lets out a line of invective towards Amy Jo who has cost her fat pay checks all summer. Della informs Mason via phone that Bronson's secretary deposited Amy Jo's check. / Mr Siebring, with Miss Graham, informs Mason that Bronson's subsidiary had the right to deposit the check. How did he acquire it so quickly? They drove Bronson home. Mason says he'll have the home bank stop payment. / At night at Jazbo’s beach house Lester knocks. Any Jo is lying on a couch. Lester then enters and suggests to Amy Jo that Jazbo might do her in to the cops. If she didn’t do it, why is she hiding. He promises to help her. He’s “gonne think real heard” for her. / Lieutenant Anderson enters Mason's office, suggests the attorney was hiding his client, who he now has in jail. // [5-8] In court Albright admits to D A Hamilton Burger that Bronson was in no position to risk Amy Jo in a leading role. He warned Harry about the stund ot taking Mary Jo’s money but casting Stemple. Stemple tells of admitting her role in musical to Jazbo and Miss Jennings and of Mary Jo “You’d think she was being murdered.” Lt Anderson identifies an ashtray as the murder weapon with Amy Jo's fingerprints. The glove is also identified, and its mate. The lieutenant admits to Mason that there were no fingerprints on the wallet. Mason shows that fingerprints could be from a concerned person trying to help the sedated Bronson. Mrs Bronson saw Amy Jo running from the crime scene. She saw Amy Jo near the shrubbery where the wallet was found. Mr Thompson was with Mrs Bronson. Mason implicates that Thompson was having an affair with Mrs Bronson. / Jazbo Williams tells of picking up an upset Miss Jennings and taking her to his cottage which has a spare room. Burger points out that he must have been afraid of what she might do in her hysterical condition. / Siebring entered the side door, not the front. Why? asks Mason. He wanted time alone with Bronson. Why did Siebring form a partnership with Bronson? He has some big clients. / Amy Jo left the shack even after being told to not do so by Mason. Then Lester said . . . It was his idea that she leave. Mason sends Paul out to investigate some “nice guys.” // [6-8] Miss Graham is asked when she first heard of Amy Jo Jennings. She identifies Crawford as having promoted Amy Jo to Bronson. by telling him how much money she had. Mason notes to Crawford that he left his Tennessee radio station with a $10,000 discrepancy in the accounts. Did he bargain with Bronson? Why did he want Amy Jo to be caught running? Maybe he threw the wallet into the shrubbery after killing Bronson, when he was not paid the $10,000 for delivering Amy Jo's $50,000. He now admits that he killed Bronson and also admits to returning and planting the wallet. Mason doesn't buy it and turns to Albright, suggests he found Albright unconscious after Lester's blow. Albright confesses that Harry bled him over past indiscretions and he thus killed him. // [7-8] Jazbo sings a commercial to Amy Jo, Della, Paul and Perry. Drake suggests not to worry about the future, he'll marry the boss someday. [8-8 end credits] [51:29]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] With four candles on a cake, three girls are celebrating the end of their internment. One blonde (Maxine Nichols) wishes that she’ll never see their faces again, says she's never going to do anything wrong again. / Another blonde (Lona Upton) is complaining to lawyer Jeffrey (Mills) about Amy, who is "canonizing" a man, her husband Dion, who drowned. She is overheard by Maxine, now in a new hairdo. Jeffrey leaves for an appointment and Lona follows. Her purse is snatched. // [3-8] A man gets out of a black Lincoln.. Lona drives up in a Mustang convertible. Mr (Roland) Canfield greets her, wondering if the police are following, and she states that her purse was stolen. She complains that Amy has for five years wasted everything. Amy invites the two to a movie by Pete Kamboly. At the end of the film, Dirigo II sails off to Catalina, the last time Dion Reed was seen. Amy asks to buy the film. Pete hands it to her and leaves. She tells Roland to write a check for $500. Maid Stella introduces Maxine Nichols, who has Lona's purse, which she found in the parking lot of the yacht club. Maxine recognizes a portrait of Dion Reed, dead husband of Amy. Lona takes Maxine into an adjacent room. After a few drinks Lona admits she's only a half sister of Amy. Maxine, who has no place to stay, is invited by Amy to stay with her. Amy is angry over $30,000 going to a home for dolphins. / At night Maxine goes directly to the safe behind the portrait of Dion, opens it and finds a jeweled necklace. She leaves the house and is shortly thereafter checked by the police. They offer her a ride. She gives them a false address. / Lona Upton tells Ken Kramer that Maxine stole the necklace and the police are holding her because the address she gave was a vacant lot. She wants Ken to get Maxine, who has a prison record, out of jail. Why, he asks, didn't she go to lawyer Jeffrey, instead of him? He wouldn’t understand! / Kramer goes to the police station where he is told that the necklace was not stolen, but loaned by Mrs Reed. He calls Della to ask Perry Mason's help, but the famous attorney has just left for Europe. // [4-8] Amy and Jeffrey are arguing. Lona joins in. How did Maxine open the safe? What did Maxine spend time in prison for? Purse snatching. Jeweler Costelni arrives and informs them that the emeralds were replaced with cheap imitations. It was always locked up in the safe and not insured. The change had to be done over time. Stella and Lona are the only possibilities. Lona says she'll sue Amy for a million dollars if she is accused. / Maxine is on the phone to an unknown party (Fay Gilmer). She talks about a nice coat she’s bought, says she’s on to something exciting and “be nice” if anyone comes looking for her. / Ken Kramer looks for Maxine at the Bradley Arms apartments, is invited by Fay Gilmer to wait for her return. Fay was her friend on Catalina, thinks Maxine has been in the Arizona dessert for past four years due to lung trouble, but she recognizes who Lona is, Amy Reed’s sister. Police are seen pulling up to a children's playground across the street. / Maxine is dead, and Sergeant Brice has found a man’s handkerchief which he brings to Lieutenant Anderson, who shows it to Kramer as Amy looks on. Maxine, says Amy, was penniless, but was found wearing an expensive coat, about which she was talking on earlier phone call to her. Gilmer doesn't know where she got the money. Kramer says where is less important than when. // [5-8] Amy tells Kramer that she thinks Maxine’s theft was meant to cover the real crime, the switch of the emeralds for imitations. He suggests any number of people might have had the combination, so Amy must have wanted Maxine out of the jail to find out who gave it to her. As Lona looks on Kramer tells Amy that Maxine has been murdered, which prevents her from telling who gave her the safe combination. He ushers Lona out and examines her. She says that, when she saw the jewels, she recognized they were fakes. Someone who came to the house, other than Amy and Stella, such as Canfield, Pete Kamboly or Jeffrey, had to steal them. He asks where she was at the time of the murder. She offers him $5000 to help her. / Inside a sailboat on the bay, K? Perhaps with Pete Kamboly, who bought her a drink. / Drake tells Kramer about various people; Jeffrey Mills, Roland Canfield, Pete Kamboly. He is asked to investigate the Dion Reed Foundation. As Drake leaves, Lona enters. Maxine wanted $10,000, but she had only $5000. She let Maxine use her credit card at the boutique. Lt Anderson enters. A handkerchief that belonged to Canfield had his blood type on it as well as Lona’s. She is arrested. / In court Hamilton Burger greets Kramer. Lona tells her attorney that she heard a shot when she rang the doorbell, then a car drove away. She went over, put the handkerchief on the wound, then went for help, but didn’t have change for a pay phone. She tells Della that she thinks Kramer doesn't believe her. Mrs Reed says Amy and she had the same father, but different mothers. She inherited, then invited Amy to live with her. She testifies regarding the necklace, appraised at $50,000. Kramer asks if the combination was written down,and she says yes, and four or five people could have gotten to it. The director of the Dion Reed Foundation, Roland Canfield, says that over $43,809 was contributed by Mrs Reed, and the Dion Reed Memorial Seamen's Home was to get another $30,000. Adding the jewelry brings the total to about $125,000. Lona hated the program, claims Canfield. Kramer gets Canfield to admit that, when Maxine came to the house, he recognized her as a former waitress from a Catalina bar where she knew wealthy Dion Reed. Jeffrey Mills testifies that Lona was not interested in Amy’s money, but in her health, but admits that Lona benefits from Mrs Reed's wealth. Miss Gilmer admits she was in love with Dion Reed and tried to attract his attention, and took Maxine in perhaps to renew her memory. Maxine said she'd not be home the night of the murder, “she had stumbled onto something exciting” that might mean money. The judge suggests Kramer offer an objection, but the attorney says this opens to him an examination of the phone calls. Fay says that Maxine told her "whatever it was that people thought she knew might be worth a fortune to her." // [6-8] Drake reports to Kramer and Della that the Reed Foundation's books are in order. Kramer thinks Amy keeps the legend of her husband alive to bolster her ego. Kramer asks Drake to get a copy of the film. / Pete Kamboly says Dion wouldn’t give Fay Gilmer the time of day. He is asked to look at the film; is the lady in the background Fay Gilmer? He thinks so. She was always around. In a blowup, it is clearly Maxine Nichols. Kamboly says that Dion considered both Maxine and his wife no good and Amy knew this would happen. Recalled to testify, Amy Reed says she doesn't like Kramer's exposing her memory to scorn. Dion was leaving her and he had the real emeralds. Who was to help Reed get back to shore? Kramer quiets Kamboly; if he stole money from Dion he wouldn’t still be working. He then accuses Canfield, who got a large sum of money shortly after what is now called the murder of Dion Reed. Canfield shouts that he isn’t the one on trial. // [7-8] Jeffrey is kissing Lona when Kramer arrives. Canfield has confessed that he tried to borrow money from Dion whom he’d agreed to help disappear, but when he discovered Dion had $100,000 on him he did more than switch emeralds. He took Dion's $100,000 and made the accident of Dion real. He also murdered Maxine when the gun went off in a scuffle as she tried to get him to pay her. He would have been caught right away if Lola's blood type had been the same as Maxine's. Lona asks Jeffrey his blood type. He doesn't know. But she says that "you have a blood test when you get married, I think." Lona and Jeffrey kiss. [8-8 end credits] [51:31]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] During nighttime a train arrives at Forrest Junction (SF 525 miles). Mrs (Lucille) Forrest gets off and is met by Joe (Sullivan), who informs her that he house is being opened and her car gotten out of storage. then Kevin (Lawrence). She then meets, and thee notes that he sounds lie he “never hoped to see (her) again.” He tries to butter her up, but she br¨shes him off. / Joe has taken the car, a Triumph sports car, out of mothballs and talks too much for Mrs Forrest of local gossip. / A white sports car, the Triumph, races down a road and its driver takes down "road out" and "danger" signs. Mrs Forrest drives down the same road in rainy weather. // [3-8] Mrs Forrest speeds past the last safe point in her Mercury Galaxie (Forrest Junction 5 miles sign), then a tire blows out. Walter Coffee hears the blow-out and comes to help. “Same old Lusice’ he says, but she rejoinders, ”Same old diplomat.” He tells her that she should enjoy life. She notes how life has not treated her well. he suggests Tony Claus can pick up her car in the morning. They commiserate about their pasts Coffee, who is the executor of her husband's will, suggests that there will be one party after another when it is noted that she is back. She is going to do what the law would not do for her. / Perry Mason wonders why she has come to him over a will that is already probated. She has a life income. She was previously her husband's housekeeper. She married Jed Forrest ten years earlier, a marriage of convenience She has not been in Europe, as everyone in Forrest Junction believes, but Chicago earning money so that she won't have to take any money from her inheritance. She believes that her son was murdered, but the trustee can cut her off if she pursues this issue under a “ subsequent” clause. She is certain that one of Dick's hunting partners murdered him with his own gun, ‘and now yø¨’re going to prove it for me” she asserts. / At the Forrest Junction Journal office, the editor (Ralph Day) is at the door. Inside, a wall has a print of a building suspiciously Wrightian (Louis Sullivan topped by German Warehouse detail). The editor swallows a table spoonful of something, then turns to someone behind his newspaper and asks if he is going to win a Guggenheim (the famous New York Museum by Wright is named after Solomon Guggenheim) award. Paul Drake puts the paper down. Kevin Lawrence and Tony Claus were with Dick while the editor had headed back to town to see his doctor (but Day says Clause only drove Dick out to the camp). They found Dick at a fence, with the safety of his gun. He was hoping Drake would provide him with a story for his newspaper. Mirna Decker was also there. / Mirna visits Tony. She loved Ralph Day, but Mrs Forrest thought she'd marry Dick. Mrs Forrest greets Mirna. She asks her and Kevin to join her later. She flirts with him about dancing (the Watusi). They will celebrate dead Richard's birthday. The white Triumph sports car is spotted by Mrs Forrest. It belongs to Mirna, who calls Mrs Forrest "mother," shrugs it off by "I know what makes women pick roses." / Mrs Forrest doesn't like Drake's failure to get the murder information. Drake tries to explain how it is a small town and people are already talking. She asserts that it was Ralph Day who did it. Drake protests that he wasn't there and she grows angry,, says he is not to argue with her. She will have to do what must be done. She orders Drake out. // [4-8] Mason visits the Forrest Junction Journal where he finds only Mirna. She is looking for a medicine bottle. She smels smoke. Mason finds burned newspapers in the sink. She fines the bottle, “ulcer juice.” Kevin by a phone call is checking on Mirna. She is angered, and tells Mason that they just took Ralph Day to the hospital. / Drake, at the hospital, is joined by Tony Claus. A doctor announces that Ralph is dead. / An autopsy has been called for, Kevin Lawrence notes to Perry Mason, then suggests he tell Mrs Forrest to keep quiet. She’s a Little bit off,” and nobody believer her son was murdered. She’s been telling people Ralph Day murdered her son and now Ralph’s dead. Also, Ralph ate only nice mild mushrooms. / Claus tells Drake that he gave mushrooms to Lawrence. More are gone than he remembers he gave. Drake mentions a burned paper regarding a cattle auction. An auction two years ago ended the day before Dick died. / Ralph, Kevin and Mirna, and Walter Coffee left Mrs Forrest to go to dinner together. Coffee investigated the son's death. “Nothing is straight anymore” says Lucille. Ralph killed her son and now Ralph is dead. Sergeant Landro asks Mrs Forrest about a bottle which holds a "country remedy" to help her sciatica, rattlesnake venom. It is what caused Ralph Day to bleed to death. // [5-8] Drake is at the newspaper office with Walter Coffee, who warns Drake, and thus Mason, to lay off the two-years-ago situation. The burned paper is from the day before Richard died. / The doctor testifies to how venom, tasteless, odorless, golden, like dry sherry wine, got into Day's bloodstream after drinking sherry, through ulcerous lesions. The doctor admits that another poison in certain mushrooms acts the same as venom. But the particular mushroom doesn't grow around Forrest Junction. D A Hamilton Burger is pleased with this information. Mr Claus dropped off food for Mrs Forrest including a bottle of dry sherry. Kevin testifies to what he, Walter, Lucille, Mirna and Ralph were drinking — Ralph, sherry — and all were mixed by Lucille. He went out to get mushrooms after the party. Ralph asked to borrow $800. Kevin resents Mason’s suggesting he has loaned money to Ralph. Burger is quick to shout his support of Kevin’s rage and the judge asks Mason to rephrase his question or state what he is driving at. Kevin was on his way to L A when he met Lucille coming in on the train. When he returned he reported his missing car, says there's been lots of vandalism. D A Hamilton Burger wonders why Mason is asking all the ridiculous questions about the car. The judge suggests Burger could have raised the issue less vociferously, but agrees that this is irrelevant. Sgt Landro found fingerprints of Ralph Day and Mrs Forrest on broken glass, plus traces of rattlesnake venom. // [6-8] After Mason finishes with figures that show no one in Forrest Junction has become significantly richer or poor in the past two years, Drake reports that Ralph Day had $10,000 in a San Francisco bank. Mason tells Drake to get a file. / Coffee got Lucille the venom. Mason asks why he is so afraid to "go through that door" regarding Richard’s murder. Mason tells the judge and Coffee about the $10,000. Why could someone want people to think he had no money? Coffee admits that he cannot swear Richard was NOT murdered. Walter says Mirna brought him a "refill" of his drink. She then admits this, “but only to Walter.” She elaborates, for Burger who had smirked at the comment earlier, about her sloe gin fizz. On the day of the murder, Dick would not talk to her. She drove up there to explain to Kevin why she'd been out with someone else the night before, Joe Sullivan, a wonderful dancer. (Laughter in the courtroom.) Mr Claus is accused by Mason of putting the bottle with venom in a refrigerator, then replacing it later in the evening with an uncontaminated bottle. Claus was on the ranch for almost 25 years. Was rewarded in the will with $50,000 which he put in to real estate up north. Mason points out that none of his lands was purchased after he got the $50,000. People at auction will testify that Claus got kickbacks; “full price to Mr Forrest, cash in Claus' pocket.” Claus dropped Dick off, Ralph saw him, and for two years he's been paying Ralph off for killing Dick. Ralph even printed a phony edition of the newspaper that he would have shown Mason, so he killed him. // [7-8] Mason points out that death had to be triggered by Mrs Forrest's return, which pushed Ralph to want more, and so forth. Tony even tried to kill Walter the night that she returned. Walter and Mrs Forrest refuse dinner in order to go together and take care of her sciatica. [8-8 end credits] [51:32]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] (Vera) Wynne saunters in to a bar and is met by (Glen) Holman. He introduces himself as a judge of voices. She responds that he is a private detective with considerable skill as a wire-tap specialist. He corrects with “electronic surveillance.” She wants a phone tapped. His price; $5,000 per job. She doesn’t “buy a pig in a poke.” He takes her to a pay phone, dials. She listens, to their table conversation! $5,000, in advance. She’ll call. // [3-8] Uncle Archer (Bryant) enters niece Nancy’s bedroom. The housekeeper has told him she isn't going to the theatre with him. She’s in bed, covered to her chin. He' admits he is both a bachelor and a roué,. She’s resentful because he fired a too mature accountant on the make for romancing her. She protests that she’s not a child, just a girl. He reminds her that she gets a million dollars when she attains her majority in a few months. He leaves. She jumps out of bed, already half dressed in her slip, and dresses . . . Downstairs in his study, Bryant is given letters to sign and a controller’s report to look at by Vera. The report is by young genius Clyde Darrell. He is almost ten years younger than the secretary, notes Bryant. Is she his “den mother?” She clearly likes Darrell. “Vera Wynne, the machine-like executive secretary” comments Bryant when Vera ducks the proclamation . . . Nancy sneaks out, gets in her boyfriend’s Thunderbird and kisses him. / At the So-Cal, Mutual Investors offices, Mr Forrest, the treasurer, is stopped by Miss Wynne from entering Bryant’s office. He figures that whiz-kid Darrell must be locked in with Mr Bryant and angrily drops his report on Vera’s desk. Ian Jarvis enters with flowers for Vera. In Bryant's office, Jarvis is asked how much of Bryant account his brokerage handles each year ($5 million gross or more). He is introduced to Clyde Darrell, then Paul Drake, private detective. Bryant explains that, twice a month, he purchases in small blocks across the country so as not to raise the market price. Someone netted $100,000 in a single day on a recent deal when Jarvis purchased blocks in Los Angeles after blocks had been purchased in New York and Boston at a lower price. Drake tells Jarvis that a conference call to a half dozen brokers across the country led to kickbacks to Jarvis, and he has the figures and proof. Jarvis is dismissed, exits, is thanked again for his roses. Vera knew, didn’t she? He compares her to Nero as he tossed Christians to the lions. Drake leaves. Jarvis asks Vera how does he say that he’s grateful and kisses her on the cheek (she wants more than that), then leaves. She calls Holman and asks his equipment to be installed at 8 o'clock. / Vera meets Holman in the basement garage. / He installs a transmitter in Bryant's phone, a receiver in Vera’s desk. She has bought the equipment, which cannot be traced to him. Holman tries again for a date, is brushed off and leaves. She dials, then identifies herself as "Nero" to Jarvis and sets up a deal based on knowledge of stock selection committee’s choices being made at a meeting the next day. $200,000 cash to be delivered to Jarvis by a bonded messenger with the capitol to be returned and the profit to be split evenly, then deposited to Archer Bryant's private bank account. // [4-8] Darrell is with Paul Drake, Perry Mason and Della Street in Mason’s private office. He believes someone has embezzled $200,000 from the company. There is no record of the check, though it was cashed and the bank has a it. Mason notes that they can determine everyone who handles it if they get it chemically treated. Darrell is told to not see Bryant before the committee meeting. / It is night as Bryant completes a phone call, then finds Forrest picking up a memo in the outer office. He drives away as Vera peers out of a nearby car. / In the office Vera transcribes phone calls and gives information to Jarvis. / On a yacht, Mason hears from Darrell, who is with Della, of another stock transaction mishap. Mason asks Drake if the phone could be tapped. Yes, easily these days. / Drake, Mason and Darrell discover (Holman’s) transmitter, which is no run-of-the-mill unit, and leave it in place. Drake knows an investigator who lost his license over the same kind of tap, Glen Holman. / The three seek Holman, but he’s just left town. Darrell says that checks and vouchers go from Forrest to Bryant, then to him for signing. Mason points out that Forrest or Bryant, or some other, could be trying to frame Darrell. / Archer finishes dictating in his study, then tells Vera he has a trick heart and will retire. She suggests he’s just a jump ahead of the East Coast office. Forrest will run the company. She wouldn’t trust him to run a street car! She admits she loves Clyde and believes it is shared. She warns Archer that she's known of his plans a long time, and he should think over his decision. She walks out and follows Nancy. Clyde kisses Nancy. She hasn’t told Uncle Archer. Vera overhears their declaration of love. / Darrell rushes to the office, with elevator operator Karl advising him to ring a couple of times if he is needed. Vera accuses him. She is outraged over his deception. He never said . . . She accuses him of stealing the stock list and $200,000. He discovers the phone. She says she's recorded everything. She tapped the phone to force Archer into giving him the job. She rages that she'll destroy him. They wrestle, she falls. He tries to revive her, gets blood on his hand. He tries to reach Karl, then runs up the stairs to a doctor's office, then down to the main floor where he finds Karl and asks him to get a doctor. / Lieutenant Anderson picks him up, but not before he calls Mason. // [5-8] Darrell finishes his explanation to Mason, who suggests that he left something out, "after (he) picked up the phone and bludgeoned Vera to death." No, he didn’t pick up the phone. Mason advises that his blow was superficial, her skull was smashed. / In court Lt Anderson testifies for prosecutor Hamilton Burger regarding the wire recorder. A technical argument follows regarding the admissibility of wire tap evidence. Though it is self-incriminating, it was not a wire tap, but electronic eaves-dropping. Mason's objection to its admissibility is sustained by the judge. Karl Lewis testifies to Darrell's admitting killing someone in his phone call to Mason. / Mason and Drake, at the scene of a car crash, learn that Glen Holman was killed about a week earlier. Drake calls Della (MA-5-1190) on his car phone for Perry, who tells her to get Jarvis in the office and tell him exactly "I know an excellent defense attorney who specializes in evasion of income tax cases." / In Mason's office, Jarvis threatens to sue for slander, and Mason suggests he do so. He admits he got $200, from Vera, but that’s not illegal. Mason shows him a photostat of his declared income used to get a construction loan for a $10 million building project. Mason advises him that Drake has checked his income versus what Boston and New York brokers paid him. Jarvis threatens to tell in court that Vera Wynne's last phone call was to have him switch the deposit from Archer Bryant to Clyde Darrell. // [6-8] Back in court D A Burger characterizes Miss Bryant’s meetings with Clyde Darrell as “surreptitious.” Mason objects, says even “clandestine” is not acceptable. Nancy admits to meetings with Darrell. She saw the defendant the night of the murder, outside the back door, and was told that he loved her. Bryant testifies that Vera was in love with Darrell and believed he loved her. A minute or two after Vera left the study he found her in the hallway, having returned from the back, and then she left. He okayed the $200,000 check which came with a voucher from Forrest. Forrest says he had nothing to do with the check, the voucher or theft of money. To Mason, he says that Bryant's controller, whom Bryant fired, made a mistake because he didn't understand the company's operating procedures. This was over $750,000. Nancy is recalled, says Uncle Archer insisted the man was too old. She is not a fool, nor Darrell, why then did she ask Darrell to keep quiet about their relationship? Didn't she find that her bank also held the trust account, from which Archer Bryant had withdrawn $750,000 for investment purposes? But Uncle put the money back! The investment was at the same time as the firing of the accountant. Bryant is also an accountant, therefore equally undesirable, for Uncle Archer stole money to cover gambling debts in cahoots with Ian Jarvis. Archer Bryant stands, orders Mason to stop. Mason continues; Glen Holman also could hear the phone conversations. Didn't Bryant make two calls, one to his brokers, another to Jarvis who made personal purchases of the same stocks? Bryant admits Holman wanted $50,000. They fought and the car rolled over the edge. He took the back elevator up to the office. Vera knew everything, she was mad. This killing also was an accident. Mason points out that he wore gloves when he picked up the phone, because Clyde's fingerprints were the only ones on it. // [7-8] Back in Mason’s office Drake explains to Clyde and Nancy why Bryant had to light into Jarvis when confronted in his office. About the wire recording; it had neither phone call, only the argument between Vera and Clyde. Burger had played it to Mason earlier, hoping to get it admitted. Vera, says Drake, picked on Clyde because she was a king maker and needed a man with a future. “Vera, Holman, and my frightened and charming uncle, all running on a treadmill to nowhere. Why, Mr Mason?” asks Nancy. “Answer a fool according to his own folly.” [8-8 end credits[ 51:25]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A Jeep drives along a winding road towards Mawauma Bay. There are two in the jeep. One is Auntie Hilo, the other, Anona (Gilbert). They are greeted by some girls and male surfers. It is to be a celebration of Anona’s betrothal. Anona agrees to go to Kamehameha Point to pick up the groom to be, Doug (Kelland), former world's surfing champion who is surfing in dangerous waters. Now Doug is a beach tramp. One of the boys, Jon Kakai, is not happy about the possible marriage. / Anona arrives at Kamehameha Beach, calls out to Doug who is surfing. Up on a hill, a rifle is cocked, then fired, and Doug falls into the surf. His surfboard washes up on the beach. // [3-8] Doug joins Anona and she shows him the bullet hole in his surfboard. Who has she told of their wedding? he wants to know. What has this got to do with their marriage? He intends to find out. / Paul Drake is driving Perry Mason in a Ford Fairlane convertible up to an island mansion. Choy asks them to await Mr Logan. On the veranda Paul greets the parrot and almost gets his hand bit. He and Mason confer on his fake photographing of birds as a decoy to his photographing to show how Kamehameha Point splits up Logan Beach. Mason's client is the Pan Pacific Hotel chain. (Jarvis) Logan is thinking of leasing his beach secretly. Logan suggests that his father was a good businessman and he has a clear title to the property. He introduces his parrot, who is partial to him and from whom he is rarely parted, to Paul. Kelland arrives looking for Professor (Gustave) Heller. Inside, Kelland accuses Heller of shooting at him and pulls a rifle off the gun rack to prove his point. Heller understands that a trust holding Kamehameha Point would be broken if Anona marries, giving Kelland half instead of a lousy $10,000. Only Kelland and Heller know that the point is not a worthless mass of barren rock. Heller paid Kelland $5000 after being shown a feather, and told that only Kelland knows the exact location of Heller's greatest achievement. Heller takes the gun and loads it, then warns Kelland that it will not be he, but Anona, he'll kill if necessary to prevent a marriage. / Drake reports to Mason of the bullet hole in Doug’s surfboard and of the pending marriage, then learns that it is Anona who is the problem. She is a lineal descendant of great Hawaiian chieftains and will thus inherit Kamehameha Point. Logan only owns the beach either side. Pan Pacific won't spend $6 million if the beach is divided. Drake is ordered to find Kelland. / In a night club two Hawaiian girls are dancing and one is Anona. She joins Mason at a table and confides that Logan has been like a father since her parents died. Mason gets assurances from her that whatever Logan does is okay. Doug approaches, half drunk, with Dolly Jameson, drunk, and says that she is his new girl and the engagement is off. Outside, Doug and his Kanaka cutie stop the drunk act. / Auntie Hilo is playing a pump organ when a depressed Anona arrives. Auntie goes to make tea. Doug, on the phone, asks Anona to come to his shack so that he can show her something. Auntie overhears on another phone, brings Anona her tea, then leaves Anona alone. / At the shack, Anona finds Doug dead with a spear in his back, a spear gun nearby . She finds the feather, then Drake arrives as she leaves, picks up the feather. // [4-8] Lieutenant Kia is investigating the murder. He notes the spear and spear gun found by Drake to have gone missing while Drake informed Jarvis Logan of the discovery; hard to believe. Why was he on the beach? Photographing birds. At night? He's an ornithologist and had his permission, says Logan. Lt Kia asks if Drake is particularly interested in the "nestus productus" (a parrot that was extinct fifty years earlier), tripping Drake up. / Mason also finds Paul's story dubious. A phone call from Jarvis asks Mason to represent Anona. Drake then shows Perry the feather Anona dropped. / The two visit Auntie Hilo. Anona, her niece, has disappeared. Lt Kia appears and advises everyone there (Auntie Hilo, Jon Kakai, Mason and Drake) to be at headquarters the next morning. / Mason visits Miss Jameson, who says she had been married for two (of her worst) years to Doug in California. She's a "tramp with a heart of gold." She wanted to help the kid avoid what she went through. She was in Hawaii to pick up remnants of the marriage before a final decree could be issued. Mason twiddle the feather, and Dolly suggests that it must be off her crazy outfit (which has feathers). After he leaves, Heller joins her. / At the Logan mansion Drake reports to Mason that the autopsy confirmed his story. The parrot is gone. Choy is asked to bring in coffee. Since Kelland was shot at, Kia had asked to examine the rifle. Hearing this Choy drops the coffee cup. The rifle is now clean. Mason forces Logan to give up Anona. Before she can relate her story to the attorney, Lt Kia charges in. // [5-8] Drake is outside city hall. Mason with attorney Roberts inside informs D A Alvarez that, given permission by the local bar association, he will fight for Miss Gilbert's innocence. / In the Hawaiian court Drake is unable to identify the specific spear gun, but can identify Miss Gilbert. Drake also picked up a feather. “A bird feather?” queries Judge Kee. Yes, which Lt Kia would not take when offered. Lt Kia identifies the spear gun, which had fingerprints of Gilbert and the purchaser, Jon Kakai, who says he hid the spear gun after seeing Anona flee the shack. Lt Kia says the body was found with salt water wet hair and swim trunks, from scuba diving. At night? / Drake and Mason return to the shack “for lunch.” Mason notes that dead man's hand seemed to point to a feather. Is it from the parrot, or Dolly Jameson’s housecoat? / Dolly testifies to her and Doug's meeting with Anona. In California she worked at Oceanland using scuba equipment. Auntie Hilo tells of a phone call. Choy says Anona came to the door sobbing and asking for Mr Logan, but he took her to Prof Heller, who reports about her extreme agitation and blood on her dress. Mason points out to Logan that he had an excellent reason to wish Kelland dead, for he needs the point to get the lease to pay off debts of half a million dollars. Logan points out that he knew Anona could not marry Kelland. He brought Dolly Jameson from the mainland. // [6-8] Drake reports that the feather does not match Madison's housecoat, nor has Logan's bird returned. / At a pet shop, the owner identifies the feather as the sacred scarlet bird of the Hawaiian king, “no specimen of which has been seen in more than 75 years.” / Mason shows Professor Heller the feather, but he cannot identify it. Auntie Hilo can. It is part of a royal burial cloak. She knows the secret burial place and had intended to kill Kelland after hearing a phone call. / At the beach, the judge, Lt Kia, D A Alvarez, Drake and Mason receive scuba diver Kakai's announcement of his discovery of the underwater entry to the burial chamber. He took one picture of the King's feather cloak. / Back in court Heller is confronted with the photo, but says actually he couldn't identify the feather. Choy saw Kelland and Heller with the feather and says it was Logan however who fired the shot. Logan admits he planned to move the contents of the tomb to another cave, on his rather than Anona's property. Heller points out that he needed Kelland to lead him to the tomb. Miss Kelland (Dolly Jameson) is confronted by Mason with two telephone calls made from her bungalow, the first to Miss Gilbert from Kelland, the second to Logan who now admits discovery of a royal tomb would mean the state taking the point, something he could not allow. // [7-8] At a luau of sorts on the beach D A Alvarez and Lt Kia are curious why Logan brought Mason and Drake to Hawaii. To keep company attorneys from learning his plan and discovering his financial distress. Anona, with Kakai, arrives with leis for Drake and Mason. Perry suggests that she find another, for Kakai. [8-8 end credits] [51:33]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Two truck drivers find themselves in heavy rain, one warning the other of icicles ahead. “Buddy, all there is to hit on a night like this is a darn fool holiday tourist.” The truck, carrying inflammable materials, heads off . . . In a Lincoln Continental a couple (Dr and Mrs Philip Stark) argue about a grandmother dying for the last five years. Dark-haired Frances, in the seat next him, heard him cancel his appointment in Albuquerque with, "Jill, darling. . . I’m so sorry I can’t come" she challenges. He brushes it off. The truck speeds towards the car . . . “Jill Fenwick” who doesn’t live in Albuquerque, but La Jolla. The truck speeds on . . . Frances knows he wishes she were dead . . . In a near head-on crash the truck goes off a bridge and explodes. In the car , Frances has fallen, unconscious. // [3-8] A bus driver lets dark-haired painter Betty Kaster off on a side street to see Dr (Philip) Stark. He complains how difficult it’s been since moving to Los Angeles. She thinks she'll support herself with her art in a year. He offers her a job including a room in the house if she'll manage things. Six weeks ago he almost lost the whole meaning of his life, Frances (Stark). / Stark introduces Betty to his wife, who is lying in bed, a sling on one arm and a bruised cheek. As he looks out the window, a boy is almost hit by a car and Frances loses control as Philip shouts "look out" to the child. / Freddy Fell, with flower, meets Betty. She brushes him off . He thinks that she’s hired by the insane vicious husband to keep away those who love her. Betty notes that he's not even telephoned his cousin Frances in twelve years. / A phone is picked up by Philip and Betty overhears him talking to Jill before he fakes it to be a different caller. He sweet-talks her. She came back to get a pill container needing a refill. She leaves with cook Martha (Glenhorn) and he drops the pill container in waste basket. // [4-8] Betty is taking dictation from Frances, who admits to being suspicious of her husband in the past. / As they come into living room where Betty is seated, Freddy Fell and Henry Thomas are talking about how Frances looks worse each year. They argue about money, Freddy wanting his share. Sarah Thomas comes in with Stark and quickly escorts the noisy relatives out. Betty argues that he should not send his wife to Mexico where she'll be all alone and without good Los Angeles doctors. Stark counters that it was the doctor's idea. / Della Street counsels Betty regarding reciprocal wills, namely two people will their each other their estate. Mason enters with "you two plotting a murder" jestingly. Betty begs off, pleading that she’s realized someone is the "most wonderful person in the world, he is, I know he is, he just has to be." / At a bus stop, Betty sees Stark enter a travel agency and pick up tickets, then get greeted and kissed by Jill, who asks, "how long before I can ask you to marry me?" Betty cries. / Betty returns home at night, finds it dark inside and the cook gone. Mason rings her on the phone to say he's done some fast checking. Philip Stark is an art critic and his wife inherited $2,000,000. He names two doctors (Robertson and Frederichouse), the latter of which is not listed in California. All of a sudden she hangs up and rushes to the stairs, then enters Mrs Stark's room. She sees an adjoining room door handle turn and calls out for Dr Stark. The door is locked. She goes back into the hall where she sees the front door close. She returns to Frances' bed were she finds the pill container and Dr Stark, dead. // [5-8] Betty tells Mason that it was at least an hour between seeing Stark downtown and dead, at which moment she ran out of the house. Drake calls from the police station to report that Stark was hit over head with a blunt instrument. Lieutenant Anderson and Sergeant Brice escort Martha Graham out. Drake asks, “does Martha Glenhorn mean anything?” to Mason's client. Of course, the cook. Mason reports that the cook saw a young woman with blood on her hands running out of the house. He wants Betty to go home with Della. She protests, wondering where Mrs Stark is, and if she's dead she feels at fault. Mason points out that she may be missing because she had reason to kill her husband. / Mr Thomas thinks Frances could kill no one, but Mason points out that the blow could have been struck by a woman, and so forth. Thomas claims he hardly knew Stark, but came to visit as a distant relative since his wife Sarah is executor of Frances’s great aunt’s will. They discuss Freddy who is a first cousin of Frances but on the other side of the family. Why does he call her “poor Frances.” Because Philip cheated her, stole her money and kept Mason’s cutie client in Frances’s house. / A lady exits a taxi and enters the La Jolla Arms apartments where Paul Drake awaits . . . Jill Fenwick. She finds him out quickly when he claims that he got keys to the apartment from her roommate (who left for New York several weeks before). She laughs when she is told of the killing of Philip Stark, even though she's been seen with Dr Stark. She has already told police what she knows! / At a hairdresser's ae beauty operator buys a newspaper from a newsboy, then hands it to a woman under a dryer. The woman has changed to blonde. She looks at te newspaper; "Betty Kaster accused of murder" is the photo caption. / In court Fell testifies to his visit to Stark's. The judge is curious why D A Hamilton Burger has brought him a case before he’s located the widow. Burger tells the judge that Mrs Stark is not even a material witness. Mrs Thomas says she got a telephone call at 4 p m regarding Mrs Stark's going to Mexico. Jill Fenwick gives her testimony; Philip left her at 5:55. She dated Stark four or five times. Limousine driver Link testifies to picking up Mrs Stark and then letting her off in San Diego where she demanded to be let out. He saw Dr Stark alive when he picked up h is wife. Martha Glenhorn was returning to the house to phone her husband, who had not picked her up on time, when she saw Betty leave, then found Dr Stark dead. She says Dr Stark was alone with Betty and kissed neither Sarah, nor Jill, but Betty Kaster. // [6-8] Paul catches Perry on the phone and is instructed to bring to the phone the woman his two operatives have been following. He goes to the woman and shows that he's an officer of the court. Mrs Stark looks up, faints. / The D A is examining Mrs Stark in h is office when Lt Anderson interrupts, then Paul comes in with Jill, who identifies “Mrs Stark” as actress Estelle Mabury. Frances Stark is really dead. Mabury was substituted. She took sugar pills. Mabury admits to taking $50,000 and allowing herself to be beat as if in an accident. Frances was thrown into the truck fire. They go into another room where the Thomases and Fell are waiting. Sarah Thomas speaks to “Frances.” Mason points out that this was a $2 million deal for, if Frances died before her husband, he'd not inherit, and grandma had to die before Frances. Slowly the Thomases realize that Freddy met Frances to borrow money but a year ago. Since an impostor could not claim the estate (and Freddy recognized the impostor), he murdered the Dr to get Frances' inheritance, knowing the impostor could not claim it. Freddy didn’t mean to kill him, he only wanted "a fair share." // [7-8] Thomas will now inherit. Betty can pay Mason only with a painting. She’ll do one a year. Della holds Betty’s partially completed painting of Perry. Paul suggests that even Hamilton Burger would like one, "Perry Mason, hanged, in oil." [8-8 end credits] [51:30]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] In a seemingly empty apartment a phone is off the hook and items are scattered on the floor. A blonde is in a bed and another phone is off its hook. A curtain is drawn open and Mignon Germaine brings coffee to Carina Wilien, the woman in the bed whom she calls an alcoholic floozy. Carina says Larry (Germaine) is fun and she likes him. Mignon replies that she’d do anything to protect him. Even murder? asks Carina. // [3-8] Larry Germaine is with District Attorney Hamilton Burger in the latter’s office. Burger brings up the Duncan fraud case. Jack Randall has spoken to him and he suggests Larry get in touch with Neil Howard, Brady Duncan’s attorney. Then Burger asks if Larry met Neil Howard through Carina Wilien, or vice versa. Larry is angry at the suggestion of impropriety, so leaves. Burger’s receptionist, over the intercom, says Howard has tried to reach Burger, specifically, not Germaine. / Brady Duncan, not feeling well, with wife Ruth and Curt (Ordway), plan dinner. Then Neil Howard arrives and informs them that the D A is considering prosecuting for criminal fraud. Chances of their losing to the D A are slim, but a civil suit could be lost as they are the "big guy." Neil suggests that something may already have been done that will affect that. / D A Burger watches attentively a floor show “Mambo Mignon” at the Club Carib as Mignon Germaine takes a voodoo doll from an urn and then conjures out of the urn a blonde dancer. / In her dressing room, Mignon explains magic noir. Burger admits to Mignon that he's worried about Larry who, despite his credentials, he may have to fire. Agnes Fanchon rushes in and Burger covers for Larry, saying that he's working. / Larry is in the arms of Carina Wilien. She is drinking and nearly faints. Why did she lead him on when she knows what he earns? She tells him that he'd not have to worry about money if he'd take a position in Neil Howard's firm. He chides her, “how stupid can she get?” She rushes into her bedroom, slamming the door. He leaves. In the bedroom, she laughs. / Germaine barges into an Ordway-Duncan party and asks why he was being compromised through offer of employment by Howard. The accusation is denied. / In Burger’s office Burger, Howard and Germaine are gathered. Howard says Wilien came to him with an offer from Larry Germaine, not the other way around. Burger suspends Larry. / Mignon and Larry see Mason (who's just returned to work from an accident, h is arm in a sling under his jacket); Wilien is missing. The men leave and Mignon finds Fanchon outside. Wilien is in the front row, drunk. / The show begins and Mignon places a voodoo doll on Wilien's table, then stabs it. Wilien laughs, gets up, then falls to the floor. // [4-8] An ambulance passes, siren wailing. / Wilien is in a hospital. Paul Drake and Mason discuss strategy. Burger and Lieutenant Anderson arrive and, as Fanchon and both Germaines listen, hear that Wilien is under surveillance because of attempted murder. / Drake is with Mr Kenneth, the deputy director of the Los Angeles County Museum. The voodoo snake god, says Kenneth, goes back to the serpent in the Garden of Eden. There is nothing unreal in Drake’s concern with a fatal fetish. He explains voodoo works by slow-acting poison. / Jack Randall tells Drake that chemist Brady Duncan gained head position of Allied by luck and by stealing the work of others, including his own. Randall receives a phone call from Neil Howard, who makes an offer for Curt Ordway; full settlement and royalty by Allied, of which Duncan is no longer president. / Ordway, Howard and Mason are at Brady's. Brady has been hospitalized under a severe physical and mental breakdown and is under heavy sedation. / In Mason's office Della Street straightens the attorney’s tie as Drake asks about his arm, which is in a cast. He says that he was unable to see Duncan because of Mrs Duncan. Drake reports on Wilien. She has no visible means of support, yet lives as if rich in a penthouse and takes antihistamine pills for allergies, but barbiturates were found in the pill bottle. They can accumulate, says Mason. Drake then repeats what Mr Kenneth told him about voodoo magic being slow acting poison./ Larry bursts into Mignon’s dressing room and finds Agnes in his mother’s costume. He tries to apologize to her as he looks for his mother’s pill bottle. He sneaks a knife into his jacket. / A nurse comes out of Brady’s room at the hospital and tells Mrs Duncan that her husband is resting. The nurse passes a door, out of which Larry peers, and walks by a policeman guarding Wilien’s room 204. Smoke in the waiting room calls the officer away and Larry enters the now unguarded room. The policeman sends the nurse to 204 where there is a phone. She enters and immediately screams. Larry is over Wilien, who has knife run through her. // [5-8] In court Larry has dismissed Mason in order to defend himself. The magistrate offers him six days to choose a new lawyer and Burger calls him a fool. He says that he will not enter a plea. / Fanchon swears the dagger was gone before Larry entered the dressing room. He’s trying to protect Mignon. Drake reports from the airport that Mignon left for New Orleans before Wilien was murdered. Mason orders him to New Orleans. / A passenger jet takes off. / Mason challenges Randall that he had no intent to file a civil suit, therefore committed fraud. Was he working with Allied seven years before when the president was killed by a chemical explosion? / Drake finds Mignon Germaine in a Spanish moss-covered house. / In jail Mignon relates for Mason, Drake and Larry a story of Wilien's connection with the New Orleans' Allied lab. Brady Duncan is implicated with the dagger and Carina. / Burger informs Randall that his actions could be, by Sec. 518, extortion. Mason enters, informs Burger that Germaine will plead not guilty. Burger calls Judge Penner. // [6-8] Back in court Burger explains the elements of a preliminary hearing, including no requirement of specific order of calling witnesses, and that the defense and prosecution have agreed to certain stipulations. The defense will call four witnesses before the prosecution puts on its case. Mrs Duncan was attending her husband on the night of the murder as well as the night of Wilien's collapse at the night club. Seven years ago she went to Nevada to get a divorce, over another woman, Carina Wilien, but she and Brady reconciled. Howard says that the Randall-Brady suit is baseless; the settlement was ordered not by Ordway but by Duncan. Ordway says Brady had prepared for sickness and, when he had a heart attack at the night club when Wilien collapsed, he resigned and his recommendation was for Ordway to replace him. At Club Carib, when Wilien collapsed, he doesn't remember the dagger, but does remember the (voodoo) doll being torn to shreds by Brady Duncan. Burger, having had prosecution's own doctor check, and agree with, the patient's doctor, calls Duncan, who arrives in a wheelchair. He says that he broke off the Wilien relationship and saved his marriage and hadn't seen Wilien for seven years until the night at the Carib Club, where he did tear up the doll. He saw no dagger. Mason suggests how Duncan, by sneaking out of his room and starting the fire in the hospital, could have murdered Wilien, then confronts him with payments he's made through a third party to Wilien, $1500 a month, $126,000 total. Brady was with Wilien when he should have been in the laboratory where he'd started a dangerous experiment, one which killed his predecessor. Was he paying off Wilien to keep quiet on this? Was someone else involved, and Wilien came to know this and blackmailed another, who substituted the pills, namely Ordway? Ordway confesses; he should have been president, not Brady. Wilien, drunk, gave the story away to him. At Club Carib, he knew what he had to do when the dagger was stuck into the doll. // [7-8] At the Club Carib, Burger, Mason and Drake explain to Larry how Carina was insuring the financial status of her future benefactor by lying about the job offer to Larry. Della interrupts; "this is where Agnes comes on." Agnes appears in smoke (a cut tries to cover the switch), in a blonde wig, throws a doll to Larry. Drake comments, "oh, oh, here we go again." [8-8 end credits] [51:31]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A bellboy (Joe) shows a foreigner his hotel room and takes a silver dollar when told to take a tip of 25¢. “Just ask for Joey.“ The foreigner unpacks, then looks up Enrico Bacio and phones. // [3-8] At Enrico Bacio Statuary there is a closing out sale. A woman customer buys David at half price and asks the saleslady if she's excited about returning to Italy, then notes that the pottery is like marble. It is a special process of the Bacio business. The saleslady (Elizabeth) goes to the foreigner, who asks her if she is from Sicily, Sciccata, a town high in the mountains. Bacio, he says, is very old family. He is Paulo Porro which, in English, means “wart.” / Giangiacomo is complaining to Dodson, Bacio’s lawyer, about Bacio's selling the business out from under him and returning where he will be like a king. “The women will practically crawl at his feet.” Dodson says that there was never a partnership on paper. Giangiacomo says Bacio treats everyone like slaves, “even his own kids,” and he’ll have to settle this by himself. / At dinner (Enrico) Bacio is at the head of the table with Massimo (Max), Elizabeth and Giangiacomo (Jack). Bacio is explaining how he gets orders and deals only in cash. Serafina brings in the pasta and is complimented. Elizabeth says she does “a man's job, and saves (him) a man’s salary,” so she’s not even had time to say “hello to a man let alone go out with one,” and she won't have father buy her a husband with a dowry. She asks permission to go to her room but is told, not until she finishes her supper. Jack complains that he's getting nothing, that they are all “imported slave labor.” Even Serafina works hard and is his wife in all but name. The doorbell rings and Serafina welcomes Paulo. Bacio, hearing the name, says his “life is in danger” and goes for his shotgun after he orders a call to the police. “Destino,” no one can avoid their fate says Serafina with a smile, as she laughs. / Over dinner Father Reggiani discusses language and how it is a record of experience with Perry Mason. Suggesting that the translator is as creative as the author, the Father says that a translator doesn’t translate just words, but the meaning of the words. The cafe proprietor advises the Father of an urgent phone call from the valley police, about murder. / A desk sergeant asks Enrico if he (Porro) waved a gun or otherwise threatened him as the extended family watch. As Mason and Father Reggiani arrive Porro asks if he ever threatened him. Enrico says Bacios and Porros always kill each other, it is a vendetta. The sergeant tells the father to explain that Porro is not to go near Bacio’s on pain of deportation. Mason and Father Reggiani take Paulo out. Enrico tells the sergeant that Paulo is a killer, a “malandrino.” / Porro explains to Father Reggiani and Mason how he came to California as a tourist. Maybe Uncle was playing a joke on him when he sent him to Bacio. Mason warns him to stay out of trouble. / Bacio, resting with his shotgun, hears a whistler. It is Porro. As Bacio leans out of an upstairs window with his shotgun, Porro climbs the fence into the pottery yard. // [4-8] A truck engine starts. Bacio runs into the yard and is hit over the head. Porro rushes to his aid and Bacio thinks that it was he who hit him. They fight, ending up in the house. / Massimo drives up and sees Porro run away. Inside, Bacio is dead. / In jail Porro holds a telegram, in Italian. Father Reggiani reads it. “Come to my laboratories, Will give you $5000 to go away and leave me alone forever, signed Bacio.” They fought and Paulo hit him, then ran away. But he was killed with a knife stab in the back of the neck, says Mason. “Oh. Mammia mia” says Paulo. / Massimo takes Drake through broken pottery. Massimo halts momentarily when he sees an empty shelf. Drake asks to see Bacio's shotgun. Drake observes tire tracks, then finds the gun among pottery. He asks about the truck. Massimo agrees to “do what he can.” / Dodson explains to Mason that the Bacio children will inherit, though cousin Giangiacomo may have a 505 claim thought he has not documentation.. The estate is worth about a half million. Bacio's business was all cash “Cash, all cash.”. / Massimo takes charge at dinner. Giangiacomo, Elizabeth, Serafina and he will continue the business. We will make Bacio “The biggest name in plaster reproductions.” Elizabeth opts out, preferring husband hunting. Giangiacomo will open his own shop and Serafina will go with him. Massimo warns them that the police are unsentimental, for each has a motive. Giangiacomo has the molds for pottery (he took them in the truck). Serafina admits hitting Bacio. Massimo demands loyalty. “Look what happened to him,” notes Elizabeth. Max replies that it was nothing until he tried to sell out. “Il Bacione. He has . . . come back,” exclaims Serafina. / Della Street has been trying to reach her boss when he walks in. Paul Drake has heard that the police found a threatening telegram from Porro. Paul has failed to reach Paulo’s San Francisco cousin, who is out fishing. The family is united against Paulo. Della, noting the boy’s brown eyes, defends him. He is “so Italian.” // [5-8] In court D A Hamilton Burger greets Mason with “bon giorno,” asks about the attorney’s arm (it is in a sling, under his jacket). Several viewers recognize Paulo. The doctor (coroner) identifies the weapon. Massimo says Porro was running "as if the devil himself were after him." Lt Anderson testifies regarding tire tracks and the shotgun. When issue of the telegram he allegedly sent is brought up, Paulo shouts that only Bacio sent a telegram. Murmurs from viewers cause him to rage against them. / In chambers Paulo is admonished. Then he is asked to tell who the viewers, brought by the prosecution, are who respond to him. He explains that he has a tourist visa. He gets money by looking in the phone book for Porro, then identifies himself as cousin Paulo bringing greetings from uncle Giovanni. All Sicilians have an uncle Giovanni. Mason asks about Paulo's threatening telegram demanding $5000. Father Reggiani looks at it and says that he believes Paulo. He is not even certain it was sent by an Italian. Drake enters, says he's found uncle Fiastri (the fisherman, who's been hiding from them all). // [6-8] Drake and Mason are in San Francisco where Fiastri tells them that his sending Paulo to Bacio was a joke. He must be the only Sicilian without an uncle Giovanni. He did business with Bacio and wanted to buy some molds. He also didn't like the cash policy. He spoke to Massimo about Bacio's calling him a crook and told him that he'd fix it so he'd "never go back to Italy alive." Massimo suggested that Fiastri send Porro to Bacio to scare him so he'd make a deal with Fiastri. / Giangiacomo testifies that his father was a true artist, therefore the molds were his. He still has the molds and was in the yard with Serafina from 10 to 11 loading. She knew of the feud and wanted to scare Enrico. She states that she said nothing because Massimo knew she hit Bacio, after which she went looking for the doctor, returned to find the police. Mason recalls not Massimo, but Dodson. Dodson admits that he knows no Italian. Mason asks him to read telegrams and tell him which is true Italian. Both are literal translations from English. Dodson says he cannot. Would tax problems have caught him, too? No. Could he not liquidate holdings fast enough for cash hungry Bacio? He admits sending the telegrams, hoping to keep Bacio from leaving for Italy so quickly, then accuses Massimo. But Mason says there was one other. Serafina calls Bacio a beast. In Italian and English, she admits that she killed him. // [7-8] Father Reggiani, Paulo, Della, Drake and Mason celebrate at dinner. Paulo says he should never have gone there, Sicily, in the first place, for he is from Naples. [8-8 end credits] [51:31]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A sky diver jumps from a single-engine plane. The parachute opens. Paul Drake in his black T-bird sees the diver land, caught in tree. He rushes to help bring her down,. “Don’t worry son, I’ll get you out of here,” he offers. But, as soon as he arrives, she bawls out Ben (Lucas), her agent, for hiring “some cut-rate flyboy who doesn’t know his ups from his downs. She walks out on him with ”This is my last caper. Drake picks up her I D bracelet. She is Reggie Lansfield. // [3-8] Lucas argues with Lansfield and tells her of a $5,000 job possibility. / At Victoria Dawns Swimming Pools, Douglas Hamilton, Dawn’s husband, greets Reggie and Ben, then separates Reggie from Ben. She is introduced to Lillian Keely, who asks her to turn around. It is about her height. She then sends Reggie with Doug for a further audition at Catalina Island. / Doug offers $50 extra per dive, which is from a high precipice. She climbs and then dives. $150. / The last test is laps in pool, as Miss (Victoria) Dawn, Doug, Dr George Devlin, Charles Shaw and Lillian Keely watch. Victoria cites several problems, but approves with a note to Charlie that there are only ten days until the new moon. Dawn announces she'll be a fine stand-in for her sister's swimming the channel between Catalina Island and the mainland. / Dawn wonders if mousy sister is trying to steal her husband. Charlie drives her and Devlin away in a wagon marked Palisades Rest Farm, George Devlin Director. / In a restaurant Reggie gives Ben his (double) commission with a minimal explanation of the stunt she is to perform. Drake returns the I D bracelet. Lucas chases Reggie off to an appointment, then asks Drake about a possible scam of an agent. Drake asks $100 a day and expenses./ Reggie walks in to the office, sees Doug kissing Lillian and saying that this is the only way to get rid of Victoria once and for all. She slips out. / Reggie arrives at the Palisades Rest Farm in a taxi and soon encounters a male nurse. She finds Victoria, drinking. Victoria knows what Reggie has to tell, but it means only divorce. Victoria appreciates Reggie’s risk in warning her, gives Reggie her neck charm to wear when she swims half the channel. / At a bar in Catalina Victoria starts a quarrel with Doug, Devlin, Charlie and Lillian, then threatens to swim the channel rather than fly back with her husband. After the others leave, she asks Charlie to get her a boat, now! / A bar patron sees her on the cliff and calls people in the bar out to watch. A crowd gathers on the beach. Reggie dives in. // [4-8] In the channel, Charlie gives Reggie hot broth. / Drake on the phone tells Perry Mason (wearing an arm sling under his jacket), who is with Della Street, to listen to the radio. Victoria Dawn is crossing the channel. Drake explains it may be Reggie Lansfield. / Reggie is tiring, takes another cup of broth. / An airplane takes off. / At the airport reporters are chasing Doug and Lillian. / Reggie calls for help from Charlie, who dives in to save her as the boat explodes . . . Ben Lucas rescues them. / Reggie drives to Miss Dawn's cabin. She enters only to find Dawn dead. She escapes through a window, but runs into the male nurse. / Drake is greeted at the Palisades Rest Farm by Andy (Lieutenant Anderson) and is asked if he can identify the attractive blonde seen coming out of the window of dead Dawn's cottage. He calls Mason on his car phone, to represent Reggie. / Mason interviews Charlie in a hospital. He searched for Reggie for ten minutes in fog and claims that Mason is lying about someone trying to kill him. / In a hall Mason, on the phone, asks Drake to check purchases of dynamite. He then asks Dr Devlin about patients Charlie and Dawn and is told he can't see Charlie again. / Lillian tells Mason that she was close to her sister. She says she never heard of Reggie Lansfield just as Doug comes shouting “they’re searching for the girl . . .” He admits hiring Lansfield to do half the swim since Victoria was not fit. Mason then tells them that Victoria bought dynamite that could kill those on the boat, but Doug turns this to suspicion of Reggie killing Victoria. On the phone, Mason learns that Reggie has been picked up, fleeing in a stolen car. / [5-8] In court D A Hamilton Burger reviews: Dr Devlin who found Miss Dawn, dead on the floor, about 3 am, was followed by the male nurse, Ernie Craig. Dr Devlin says he knew that it was not Victoria in the channel, she was not fit to swim a pool length. Lillian thinks she could do the swim, or at least half; Doug assured her of it. She invested money to keep the schools going and financed the channel swim. Doug says the real plan was for Victoria to disappear, then, while a search was on, Devlin would drive her to a place where she'd come ashore, stagger to a porch of some beach home. Reggie would be picked up by Charlie, hidden in a special compartment on the boat, but the boat blew up. He heard it on radio. Then he got a phone call from Victoria who said it was the best thing that ever happened, he'd never see her again. Was she insured by the company? Yes. He drove to find Devlin, heard more on the radio, called Charlie about 3 am . . . Shaw says Dawn tried to kill both Reggie and himself with planted dynamite. He admits there was a drug in the hot broth, but it didn’t work, and Reggie was then angry at Dawn. Ben Lucas admits Reggie threatened Dawn. He dropped her off about 1:45. The male nurse (Mr Craig) reports seeing the defendant about 2:45, and identifies his outfit with stains left after their struggle. Mason points out that the male nurse has a bad shoulder and was thrown by ju jitsu trying to force himself on Reggie. Lt Anderson testifies that fingerprints in blood on the windowsill and the male nurse's jacket are those of the defendant. Defendant's hair and fingerprints are also on the murder weapon, a bookend. // [6-8] In jail Drake and Mason interview Reggie. She remembers the bookend on the floor. Drake figures she left when Devlin knocked on the door. They go over the time line; swim 8, blow up 11, on shore 1, left hospital 1:30, dropped at her apartment 1:45, left for Dawn's at 2, so arrived at 3. / Back in court Dr Devlin is on the stand. The airport where he landed is 30 miles south of his Palisades Rest Farm and it is another 30 further south to the beach to which he was to take Victoria. Mason asks about his getting tickets to South America with a fraudulent passport with "wife's" picture, which was of Victoria Dawn. He admits they were in love. / Doug Hamilton knew that a quarter of million was missing. He kept Lillian investing by pretending to love her, but he loved Victoria. Mason confronts him with Victoria's intent to murder Reggie and Charlie. / Charlie says Mason's got it all wrong. He thinks Victoria didn't love Devlin, but him. Mason suggests instead that he knew otherwise, notes that Reggie and Ben never took Charlie into the hospital, but left him there about 1:30. His place and car were around the corner. He drove to the Palisades Rest Farm and killed Victoria Dawn. The hospital records show that he wasn't admitted until 3:10. He admits she was drunk and said it was always Devlin, not him, and she laughed in his face. So he hit her with the bookend to stop her laughing. // [7-8] The usual trio, plus Ben, try to persuade Reggie to go out to dinner. But this is Reggie’s big break! ‘This is what I’ve been waiting for --close-ups, everything.“ A knife thrower throws a half dozen knives at one time around her. Drake jokingly suggests that next time she be blindfolded. Ben likes the idea! [8-8 end credits] [51:35]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A Siamese cat begs for attention while Matilda and brother-in-law Gerald, working on a jig-saw puzzle (She is looking for a “squiggly one”) argue below over his need for money. “Why town is so rich and you’re so poor,” she asks. Matilda's husband Frank has been missing for a decade, and is certainly dead, and Gerald wants the will probated. The cat jumps onto the table. Matilda is frightened, tells Helen (Kendall), when she enters, to take it away. Servant Cosmo is behind her, and he rescues “Monkey” the cat from her as she goes to take phone call, alone. She expects her boyfriend, but gushes for him to marry her before she hears who is on the line. The call surprises her; it is instead from Uncle Franklin, a name she “will not mentioned in the house.” // [3-8] Matilda comes looking for Helen, who is still on the phone with boyfriend Frank, to tell her that Monkey “is dying upstairs from rabies.” / A veterinarian says Monkey is okay, but was poisoned, with strychnine. Matilda breaks down in Uncle Gerald's arms. He informs her he's starting legal proceedings to have Franklin declared dead so that she and he will get their inheritances. She informs him that uncle Franklin is not dead. / Gerald, acting for niece Helen, tells Perry Mason and Della Street that brother Franklin has returned. “Oh, this is no hoax. It’s no practical joke.” He is to meet Helen later. Gerald wants Mason at this meeting as a disinterested party. Matilda will lose most, millions, while he and Helen will lose $100,000 each. / Helen asks Thomas (Link, the gardener) to take care of Monkey, introduces Frank Templar, who complains about Helen breaking an evening date to be with Gerald. Link tells of life, “the crazy house that this young lady lives in,” before Franklin left as a warning to Frank. It was happy back then.”Don’t pick on the dead” Thomas tells the cat after Frank and Helen leave. / Mason, Street, Shore and Kendall outside hotel in seedy part of town. “Why would Uncle Franklin stay in a place like this?’ asks Helen. Mason and Kendall enter the hotel. The issue of the poisoned cat is raised by Mason who wants it to be investigated. Then the hotel desk clerk gives them a message left by “Henry Leech.” He’s at the “amp-i-theater.” / Amphitheater parking lot. Helen runs to a car, opens a door, a dead man falls out. Gerald does not recognize him. He’s shot in the back of his head. / Mason reports the crime, then calls the Shore residence, looking for Gerald. Cosmo answers, eventually says Matilda was poisoned. // [4-8] The crime scene. Mason asks if they can leave. No. Lt Anderson asks Gerald shore to look at some items which dead Henry Leech had tied in handkerchief; they are Franklin's he states. Helen remembers his watch. Andy wants more. Helen and Gerald, who cannot seem to stop talking, suggest Leech had the items to prove to Helen his contact with Franklin. This doesn’t satisfy Andy. Mason interposes that Helen has told all she knows. Andy wonders why Mason is so itchy. Since none of them could have murdered Leech . . . Andy relents, lets them go, but chides Mason with “Until you know what’s involved here, don’t let anybody tell the police one single word more than is absolutely necessarily.” To which Mason rebuts, “Your advice, not mine.” / Matilda, recovering in a hospital bed, goes on and on about the poisoning, certain it was her own fault for searching for medicine in the dark. She recognizes Henry Leech as friend of her husband, and neighbor many years ago. Through him, Matilda tells Mason, that’s where he met "her," the woman he ran off with. Andy butts in before Mason can get the info that he seeks. / Drake reports that the cat poison was only a weak strychnine. Mason tells Drake to get the police report on the handkerchief that was tied around Franklin’s things. He wants the laundry mark. / Helen returns home with Frank, who is angry. She is frustrated. He considers taking a piece of chocolate from a heart-shaped box. She cannot reveal what she knows. They make up. She finds the postcard from Franklin the birthday after he left. A squeaky door is heard,. Frank looks for intruder, runs upstairs with Helen following. A door opens, he turns, opens the door, calls for Cosmo, then is shot. // [5-8] A doctor bandages Frank's head as Helen and Mason look on. Frank saw nothing. Sgt Brice found nothing outside house. {Hey, Sgt Brice has a decent speaking part, finally!} Which one, Frank or Helen, was the intruder trying to shoot? asks Brice. All shots were from a .38. Phone from Drake; when he arrived at house it was crawling with police, and outside he was met by Thomas Link. / Link reads a letter from Helen in a car’s headlights. It tells him to cooperate with Mason, yet he is hesitant to speak, but being very talkative, he eventually reveals he knows Franklin Shore is alive, sleeping on his spare bed. / About 20 minutes ago. So when Franklin was sleeping, he snuck out to see Miss Helen. They enter; no one is there, and a window is open. Cat tracks lead to Monkey, cleaning his paws. They trace backwards, see that the tracks came from a flour tin to the bed, then on to the chair where they found Monkey. Inside the flour tin is a .38, same caliber as killed Leech and wounded Frank. Just then, Andy and Brice arrive. // [6-8 District Attorney Hamilton Burger informs Mason that police are upset that he's been one step ahead of them throughout this case. Burger suggests it must be Franklin Shore that is the murderer, for he had a motive, for “in community property state, where a husband has deserted his wife, how can he possibly get back his own personal fortune unless. . .” To Burger, it is simple: Mason is Kendall’s attorney and she wants her inheritance, and now Franklin Shore is alive. Della asks, what if Franklin has been murdered? She may go to probate court with Mason, be his guest! Further, Leech was a blackmailer. Shore and Leech were friends over the past decade, in the same area in Florida to which Shore had fled. Mason produces the postcard mentioning a “mild climate.” Drake enters with . . . "financial records." Mason leaves to go to Shore house as Burger fumes about Drake and Mason concealing evidence. / Mason confronts Gerald with his financial problems, and that he didn't want to go into hotel with Helen to meet his brother. Actually, Mason suggests, he didn't want to be recognized by the desk clerk. Yes, he went directly to the hotel after leaving Mason’s office. Ten years ago he signed Franklin's name to a $2,000 check that Franklin left unsigned when he disappeared. He worried that Franklin contacted Helen, not him. Mason tells Gerald that his logic is "inadequate." Mason calls Burger, says he's been thinking about the behavior of cats, tells him to come out, quickly, if he wants to meet the murderer. Cosmo hears all this. / Matilda, Burger, Andy, Mason, Frank, Helen, Gerald and Cosmo. Mrs Shore was left alone after Monkey was poisoned. Mason asks if she didn’t “give herself small does of strychnine just to heighten the illusion?” Thomas and Drake enter with Monkey. Mason points out that cat didn't settle down on bed (they like warm places), so it must not have been slept on. Caller didn't call Gerald because of voice he’d recognize, which Helen would not have known. Memories that "only" Helen could have known would also have been known by Matilda, who could have coached Thomas to make the call. Challenged, the gardener drops Monkey. It was he who shot at Franklin and Helen. Leech was blackmailing Matilda, for her husband is buried in the garden. Thomas put the gun in the flour tin. // [7-8] Mason's clue was postcard from "mild" climate, mailed in June, when Florida would have been hot. So card was not mailed by Franklin, but Matilda. Della brings in coffee on tray. Monkey jumps down onto tray, but is forgiven for having helped solve the murder. [8-8 end credits] [51:34]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A train arrives at Los Angeles Union Station where a man is watching for a couple. (Ed) Talbert arrives with a blonde. He phones a bar, the Hi-Hat Club. Eddy gets pianist Carl (Talbert) to answer and Ed asks Carl to pick him up. Ed turns, sees the watching man and has a heart attack. The blonde asks the man to help. He hangs up Ed’s phone. // [3-8] The station master sends the blonde, Kitty Delany, to be interviewed by (Sergeant) Danny Talbert, the other son whom Ed did not phone. / Mrs Talbert cries on Danny's shoulder and offers that Carl has changed since Louie Parker hired him. / After his piano stint Carl meets Danny and asks him if he’s another of Louie Parker’s punks. Carl is accused of calling pop to come when the trip could kill him with his bad heart. Dad took out of the bank $1800, every cent he had. Why? Carl denies having called on is father, then takes a call from Steve Radom (the watching man in the train station). Carl asks Eddy, doesn't Radom own this place? Yes. Danny goes out to Carl's car and steals a key. Danny leaves just as Mr (Charles) Judd arrives. Judd puts a cigar into his mouth, then enters the bar (now with no cigar). Eddy whispers to Judd who goes into Louie Parker's office and informs him Radom is cozy with Carl. Parker says he knew that Radom was coming to town. / Danny enters mom’s (and Carl's) apartment with the stolen key. / In bungalow 7 Steve Radom is welcomed by Stella Radom, but tells her she's not to let anyone know that he's there. She’s been coming to the coast five or six winters. Has she some guy she likes here? As far as she knows, she’s to say he’s still in the clinic. / Danny tries to get mom to leave with him, tells her he messed up Carl's room. / In the lawyer’s office Carl reports to Perry Mason that Radom was looking for a $10,000 promissory note that was owed by his father. When told Ed had died, Radom said “forget it.” Perry calls Lieutenant Anderson regarding Sergeant Talbert and learns that the sergeant was, before quitting, working on a case involving Louie Parker and Steve Radom in crime. / Parker tells lawyer Judd to threaten Radom. Parker returns to his office where he finds Danny Talbert awaiting him. He’s told to beat it. Danny locks the door. // [4-8] Kitty tells Danny she doesn't know the man (Radom); he was on the train and at the phone booth. She just got out of prison. She was in for shaking down a 70 year old man. Shown a photo, she recognizes the man who was following her father. / Radom returns Mason’s call. Mason asks to come over. Radom looks at a folder “Talbert loan.” / Danny accosts Radom. Mason enters the hotel grounds and is pointed to Radom’s by a waiter. Shots ring out as Mason approaches bungalow 7. He sees Danny running from the apartment, finds Radom dead. / Sergeant Brice tells Andy (Lieutenant Anderson) that he found Stella Radom and told her to wait. Andy lets Mason go. / Mason drops in on Stella and informs her that her odor of perfume was quite noticeable when he entered her brother's apartment just after the shots were fired. As his sister, she'd been there often. She thinks her brother owed $10,000, so Mason corrects her and warns her to clean up her story. / Della has stayed late in the office and has Danny Talbert waiting when Mason returns. Danny claims that he followed someone leaving the crime scene by the back door. He chased the car, saw only 410 on the muddy license plate. Radom did not fight back when he tried to rough him up, but he fell and hit his head and he had to wash blood off. He was in the bathroom when he heard the shots. He lost his service revolver during the scuffle. Mason doesn’t believe him. / Kitty is interviewed by Paul Drake. On the train, she and a conductor took Talbert to a compartment when he got sick. She did not see Radom on the train, but he was outside Talbert's phone booth at the station. / Mason takes a cigar rather than a drink from Judd, but keeps only the cigar band. He notes that Judd was a friend of Radom's sister, then notes to Parker that he was the business associate of Radom. Parker says that Steve had returned west from a clinic in the east, where he'd been given one month to live, so probably came to see his sister one last time. Outside, Drake informs Mason that Radom stopped in Barstow, Ed Talbot's town, and Carl may be a drug pusher. / Mason confronts Carl guarding drugs, with Mrs Talbert standing by. Danny stole a key, searched Carl's room, and now has been arrested for criminal homicide. // [5-8] In court District Attorney Hamilton Burger examines Kitty, who says Radom was outside the phone booth, and Talbert said he was going to call his son. Carl recalls the gasp of his father and the phone being hung up. He tried, unsuccessfully, to reach Danny. He went to the hospital. Radom owned the place where he works, so when he called, he went to Radom, who showed him the promissory note for $10,000. Stella testifies that Steve would have sent for her rather than coming, if all he wanted was to see her. No, it was not the amount of the note, but the person Ed and Ed's son, Danny, that brought Radom west. Why? Because Danny, according to Judd, was trying to put Radom and his business friends in prison. Judd denies Stella's charges, denies any illegal activity by Radom, and generalizes what Sgt Talbert was doing. Lt Anderson tells of Danny's quitting on the day of the murder, and about the investigation which was outside Danny's purview and during which he had discovered that Carl was involved in drugs. / Danny denies Mason's charge that it was emotional shock when he confronted Radom that caused the scuffle. Drake brings in Mrs Talbert and Mason confronts Danny with the fact that his mother was married to, and divorced from, Steve Radom long ago. Mr Talbert not only emptied his bank account, but his safe deposit box, when he came to Los Angeles. Radom was going to show Danny his birth certificate, proving he was his father. // [6-8] An invalid lady (Mrs Johnson) from bungalow 6 testifies that she saw Danny Talbert enter bungalow 7 and struggle with Radom, then heard two gunshots and saw Mason enter later. She saw no one else. / Parker is ruled a hostile witness, then admits he owns twenty-five nightclubs countrywide with partners, including Radom, as Amusements Diversified. The deed, however, reveals that only Radom owned the Los Angeles business. Stella would inherit, and Judd had drawn an agreement by which she gave the business, for considerable money, to him and his partners. She is his only living relative. Mason points out that the property needn't be sold, but could be given as an inheritance. What if Radom had a son? Mason then shows the Radom marriage certificate to Parker, who is one of two subscribing witnesses! Mason suggests that Parker hired Carl thinking that he was the son of Radom, having recognized Mrs Talbert. Parker set up Carl on drug charges to put Radom on the spot to sell to him. Mason suggests he was in Radom’s bungalow when Danny arrived. No, Mason has got it wrong! Who, then, could have stolen the birth certificate that Ed Talbert had and which was to be delivered to Radom (so he could transfer his ownership to his son). Only Kitty was on the train. She admits she stole it, asked $5,000 from Radom who then offered her $1,000 and a good job. But the certificate was worth millions to Parker. She hid in a back room and used the gun Danny dropped to convert $1,000 to millions. // [7-8] Mrs Talbert admits Ed knew Danny was not his son, but Radom’s. When she got sick five years ago and Ed lost his orange grove, he went to the one man he had every reason to hate, for the $10,000. Radom threw it in Danny's face, telling him he was his father. Well, Danny thinks he now has to look for a job, but Mason informs him that Andy asked him to represent Danny before the police board, so he'd get his job back. “Once a cop, always a cop,” says Carl. [8-8 end credits] [51:34]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Blonde Irene (Prentice) arrives the Sierra Tahoe Club in a taxi. The enters the club, plays one slot machine, the sees brunette Myrna at a roulette table and suggests to her that they go out to a show together, the Paris-Follies at the Pine Tree Lodge. A cocktail waitress sends Myrna "Ogden" to an odd-looking man in glasses who buys $500 in chips from her. Then she runs out of the casino. The club owner (Tony Cerro) orders his enforcer (Ned) to stop her. As he points a gun at her car, but she drives away, hitting him. // [3-8] The croupier reports to club owner Cerro. Myrna took the club for ten grand, admits Cerro. The enforcer enters, says her car was rented and shows Tony some Warren Novelty Company chips and wrapper. / At the Warren Company, Peter Warren thanks Perry Mason for his earlier help. He advises that he's given too much to Myrna for a divorce when gambling is her problem. The money he gives her should be put in a trust for her sake. he takes on some of the blame for “knock-down, drag-out scenes.” His secretary Ethel announces that a county investigator wants to see him, so Mason leaves, Jacob Leonard enters, identifies himself as cooperating with the D A and formerly the Nevada Gaming Commission, and shows him a Warren Novelty Company chip wrapper and a photo of Myrna at a gambling table. Myrna, on the phone, pleads with Peter to see her immediately. She’s afraid she’s been followed and might be killed! She pleads, desperately, with Peter to come to her. Peter says he’ll come, then denies knowing a dark-haired lady to Leonard. / Irene sees Peter enter Myrna's apartment. Myrna doesn't respond. He enters her bedroom and Myrna comes out from the shower. She tells Peter it was a tempest in a teapot. She wrote a $3,000 check on his account. Then the Nevada gamblers found out they were separated. He doesn't believe her story, demands the truth and gets scratched on his left cheek in a scuffle. Outside her bedroom, he threatens to wait until he gets an answer. He finds chips in her purse, phones the office, learns that Myrna did phone his office as she claimed. He then offers to make a deal with Myrna. She doesn't answer. A bell rings and it is Leonard at the door looking for Mrs Warren. Since Mr Warren doesn't recognize the dark-haired woman in the photo, whom a neighbor has said is his wife, Leonard takes him down to the D A's office. / Leonard tries to explain his situation to Mason. Drake suggests the problem is counterfeit chips, made by Peter, passed by Myrna. “Why,” he asks, “would (he) risk a business that nets $50,000 a year for (him) . . .?” Mrs Warren might have been frightened because Nevada usually takes care of problems itself. Mason orders Drake to investigate the chips, the wrapper and losing gamblers. / Mason and Peter approach Myrna's apartment as the "enforcer" leaves. They enter by sliding side doors (the key is still inside), get no response. Mason leaves, then Peter finds Myrna, dead (in his head, he hears Myrna's frantic phone call about gamblers following her). // [4-8] Peter seeks a clue to the murder, finds an empty purse with only one chip on the floor. Irene enters and informs Peter that Myrna took off from the casino after encountering an "odd looking little man." / Drake and Cerro, with enforcer Ned (Beaumont), who explains what happened, how the woman left the table every so often, which is not typical of high-stakes gambler, and cashing in about $3,000 of chips every time out. Counterfeits are perfect fakes. They don't know about the photograph. / A phone goes unanswered in Myrna's bedroom. / Drake goes to roulette table at the Sierra Tahoe Casino and buys chips, then meets up with Irene and Peter. Irene is taken to Cerro's office by Ned, while Drake has a drink with Peter, who says he is following-up on Myrna and brought Irene along. Drake gets a call from Mason who is in Myrna's apartment, with Leonard, and gets instruction to send Warren back on the first plane. Warren is not at the gaming table when Drake returns. He's with Irene, Cerro and Beaumont. Cerro wants to know about the chip wrappers, and says that he's connected Warren with his wife who passed the counterfeits. Warren asks where he learned the lady was his wife. From Beaumont. Warren then accuses Beaumont of his wife's murder (which he could not have known about, unless he was there). Drake, watched by odd-looking man, knocks, but when admitted neither Warren, Prentice, nor Beaumont are there, so he leaves. Cerro opens a secret door panel. Questions fly about the murder, about Irene being there while Myrna was dead, about Beaumont's being there, and maybe about Tony Cerro getting there first. Drake enters with the odd-looking man (Mr Jerome Bentley, who works for the State Gaming Commission) and police. They arrest Warren on suspicion of murder. // [5-8] Warren, in the Reno jail, explains why he lied to Mason. The lawyer points out that District AttorneyHamilton Burger will say his return to Nevada was a smokescreen. / In a Los Angeles courtroom Hamilton Burger hears the coroner's physician testify about the weapon which was probably a revolver which struck the deceased a blow, causing instantaneous death. Lieutenant Anderson found a “P W” monogrammed linen handkerchief with bloodstains the same type as the defendant's. Deceased fingernails held blood of the same type. Defendant had scratches. Leonard states that the defendant denied knowing the girl in the photo. He also found two paper-wrapped stacks of gambling chips in Warren's desk. Beaumont refuses to identify the counterfeit chips so as not to incriminate himself. Bentley says that he suspected the dead woman because of her general behavior, but won't say why he was there that particular night. / In Mason's office, Perry instructs Paul and Della to follow through on the Nevada Gaming Commission connections. He already knows who the murderer is! // [6-8] At the casino, where a huge “CLOSED” sign is posted, Mr Big instructs Cerro to speak before it is too late. Cerro admits he was in on the passing of counterfeit chips, because this was a way to get back at other casino owners who tried to break him when he first opened. He lost forty grand in one night, then thirty. Mr Big says others lost more than that so his 50% doesn't jibe. Cerro claims Warren is the one who offered him the counterfeits, but Mason says "impossible." Drake points out that Cerro married, and divorced, Irene Prentice when he owned a gambling place in Haiti. / Again in court, Miss Prentice admits she held back various things in earlier testimony. It was Myrna who had the counterfeit chip plan. Bentley thought the blonde woman was passing chips, not the brunette. There were no counterfeit chips, they were genuine. Six months earlier a truck taking chips to Reno was officially destroyed. Cerro says that Irene came to him with a scheme to pass the chips and another scheme to frame Myrna. Irene now admits to giving Myrna the chips. Leonard is outraged, but it is Leonard's signature on the report that the truck was totally destroyed. Five Savings & Loans in nearby counties have accounts of $10,000 each in the name of J Leonard. Now Leonard says, okay, but he didn't murder Myrna. She was alive when he left with Peter to go downtown to headquarters. Mason tells Leonard that he overlooked something, the scratches on Peter's face. He had to overlook them, or Peter would have had to say that Myrna was there, and then he, Leonard, would have had to ask to question her. But she was already dead, killed by him. He left the bedroom by a window and came around to the door. // [7-8] Bentley tells Mason, Drake and Street that the Gaming Commission is grateful. Cerro is allowed to keep running - under supervision. He has to pay back other gamblers’ loses - “Should take him about two years.” Leonard,explains Mason, bought a number of regular Warren Company poker chips and used those wrappers to plant, then find, them in Warren's desk. [8-8 end credits] [51:40] 

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A man with a brief case asks an elevator operator for the seventh floor. She notes that those are the executive offices of Bolton's. He claims that he has an appointment. At the receptionist’s desk he hears that Millie is not in her office. like everyone else, is looking for Millie (Cornwall). In the inner office, Millie is flattered by (Ernest) Hill's attentions but does her best to avoid his advances. She escapes when a phone rings and he has to answer it. / In her office, a younger man (we will learn later that he is Bert Blair, a company executive) suggests “Quiet waters getting a little churned up.” It’s a tidal wave,” she counters, “there are waves and then there are waves . . . (and, to put him down) and little ripples.” He makes up to her and she responds. / Outside, secretary Dahlbet tells A K Dudley that she's gone back to her office. He enters as the young man, surprised, departs quickly. Dudley invites Millie to his office to “pick out some neckties.” As she goes by Miss Dahlbet, she is stopped and asked if she'd like her husband (Herbie Cornwall, the man who first entered the building) to wait in her office. // [3-8] Herbie checks Millie's pocketbook. When she enters he asks her for the money she took from his wallet to buy film and the day before buying a close-up lens for her new camera. She gives him bills, noting that he lives on her salary. He suggests dinner, she counters that she has to work late. They kiss and make-up. He picks up a brief case and goes out. He meets Dudley on the way and asks him about his sales plan, which Millie was to have put to him. Dudley puts him off. He then brags to Miss Dahlbet about a big sales meeting. He's selling arch supports. / Herbie is at a bar with Charlie (Parks) who tries to encourage his sales efforts and forget his baseball past, and suggests he should grab a chance and run with it. Herbie insists he’s just not cut out for business, then sees his wife enter the restaurant next the bar, picks up one of two brief cases and leaves. / Herbie is at home, angry, and pitches the brief case. It opens and is full of money. / Herbie returns to the office where he finds Charlie whom he accuses of cheating other salesmen. Charlie brags that he's to become sales manager next week. Charlie opens his case, gives Herbie $25 worth of free samples. Charlie knows Herbie is upset about his wife. When Charlie answers the phone, the samples go into his case, with the money. As Herbie rushes out he meets Paul Drake coming up in the elevator. Paul tells Herbie that “Necessity is the mother of intervention” and intervention is arch supports. They go into Paul's office. While Paul is in another room, Herbie hurries out leaving the arch supports that Paul wants, with a $50 bill accidentally caught in them. / Herbie arrives at Bolton's with a policeman to meet Miss Dahlbet with a story of fire in Millie's office. Dudley tells Herbie that Millie is okay. He sent her home after dinner because she still had a headache. Herbie asks if money is missing. Things are so messed up Dudley has no idea. / Millie is packing at home. Herbie hides his brief case. Millie hurriedly closes her suit case and hides it under the bed. He suggests dinner. He's had a windfall. The phone rings and she takes it into bedroom; "arch supports?" She now knows cases were switched. She hunts for his case and lies about the phone call, then tries love act on him. She indicates that she knows he has money and they should go off together. He throws her against the wall. // [4-8] Herbie at the bar tells the bartender, "I belted her." He he bewails the fact that he will have to turn in his own wive. Paul, who has hunted Herbie down, returns the $50. A detective and a policeman arrive. They take Herbie's case. Charlie arrives, having also been nabed by the police once he mentioned Herbie’s name. Millie's been murdered. / Bert Blair arrives at her apartment. Lieutenant Anderson listens to Blair and Cornwall. Paul Drake phones Perry Mason to help. / Mason asks about records of $72,000 in brief case, but Dudley doesn't know. Millie was the only other one to have access to the safe. Why was he headed to Millie's apartment a half hour before her death? Dudley says he's not the one with a personal relationship with Millie. / Hill insists that his relationship with Millie was business. Only Herbie did not know about the upcoming audit. / Blair points out that his brief case differs in the initials on the case. He admits lending Millie a sympathetic ear. Drake on the phone informs Mason that Millie had bought two tickets to San Francisco, and Lt Anderson has charged Cornwall with first-degree murder. // [5-8] In court Parks tells D A Hamilton Burger that Herbie was not particularly successful at business, but his name as a baseball player is worth something. His wife married him when he was riding high and about to be sold to the majors. Yes, the briefcase is Herbie's. Miss Dahlbet says Herbie was in the office twice. On his first visit he had his briefcase, on his second after the fire not, and “he was as white as a sheet, angry . . .” Dudley overheard the disagreement between Millie and Herbie. The safe was open when they were together. Mr Hill admits that the argument could have been over money for the camera equipment bought by Millie. Hill took Millie to dinner due to her headache. She was always on some sort of diet. She told him that her husband did not make nearly enough and that she might leave him. She left for home about 8. Lt Anderson notes that death was about 9:30 and she was packing the suitcase in which he found two round-trip airline tickets to San Francisco. The deceased, or someone like her, rented an apartment in San Francisco ten days earlier. He identifies the briefcase and its contents ($72,000 cash). The Cornwall apartment was a mess when he got there. The bartender testifies that Cornwall looked nervous, that he said he'd “belted his wife” and "that's the end of Millie." He identifies Dudley as the one who came into his bar in the early evening with Millie. Dudley is compelled to give an answer to the audit, but he says that even with extra help it is not done. // [6-8] Not one penny is missing. Everyone is puzzled including Burger and Mason. The two discuss the issue as everyone listens. A phone call for Mason, who then relates Drake’s report of the photos being mailed back to Millie. In an adjacent room (but overheard, as we will learn), Mason tells Della to get Federal Judge (Bill Jensen) to let them open the mail box. / Hill tries to open the mail box and is caught by Paul and Perry. / Hill says Millie took photos of the books. He set the fire. He was preparing to embezzle, because there was excess cash. When he looked for it, there was a note from Millie saying that she had photos of the books before he altered them. It is she who took the money. He accuses Blair, who now admits that he was going to San Francisco with Millie. He phoned her when he found arch supports in the briefcase and she got upset. Maybe Dudley found out that he was going with her and went to her apartment. Dudley denies it. Mason agrees and fingers Charlie. Herbie did not go straight to the police, but stopped by to see Millie, says Mason. Trapped, Charlie says Millie was no good. She even laughed at him. // [7-8] The usual trio are in Mason’s office with Herbert Cornwall. Herbie says he knew Charlie was a heel who cheated everybody else. How, asks Della, did Perry figure all about the film? The film was a flimflam, there never was any and Millie probably never took any photos. It was a ruse on her part to convince Hill she had him cornered. Mason even faked the call for a Federal court order to Della. [8-8 end credits] [51:37]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Nathon Fallon Victor Buono Helen Cadmus Charlene Holt F A Snell Robert Colbert Josephine Kempton Lurene Tuttle Mortimer Hershey Gavin Mac Leod Sidney Hardwick Bartlett Robinson Benjamin Addicks Harvey Stephens Sergeant Deputy Robert Foulk Estate Guard Jim Boles Jefferson Tommy Farrell Gorilla Janos Prohaska Morgue Attendant True Boardman Waiter Ted Stanhope Animal Regulation Man Charles Stroud

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] In the Los Angeles Courthouse attorney Perry Mason is met by his confidential secretary, Della Street, who gives him a $5 package. She goes to a phone. Mr Jefferson of the press accosts Mason. The package Della gave him has the personal belongings of Helen Cadmus who, according to him, jumped off a yacht. Mason and Della get on the elevator. A photographer snaps them. Mason wonders what is really in the $5 package. // [3-8] Della shows Perry a scrapbook with photos of Helen Cadmus, who apparently disappeared at sea. Della argues with her boss that Helen wouldn't kill herself as he tries to get to work on a demanding brief. Helen’s diary was filled with pages and pages about a monkey. She worked for an eccentric millionaire, Benjamin Addicks. His assistant, Nathon Fallon, is in the adjacent room! He asks why Mason bought Cadmus's remaining personal effects and offers to buy them, for the $5 Mason paid, then offers Della $25 for her time. $500? He counters with a claim of invasion of privacy and a lawsuit. $1000. Mason throws him out and finally takes an interest in the case. / At a restaurant Paul Drake is with Miss (Josephine) Kempton who, with her attorney Jim Aetna, is suing Benjamin Addicks for defamation of character. She worked for Addicks and was fired a few days after the yacht incident. She's lost job after job because Addicks gives her a bad recommendation, writing letters asserting she stole various pieces of jewelry. A waiter brings Mason a phone with a call from Della regarding Mortimer Hershey, Addicks' lawyer. Mason tells Della to make an immediate appointment with Addicks and to bring the second volume of the diary with her. / Mason and Street arrive at Stonehenge, Addick's place, in open convertible. They are warned by an estate guard on how to get to the mansion without releasing the guard dogs. Hershey informs them that Addicks is getting rid not only of the dogs, but the whole mess. Della goes hunting while Mason deals with Hershey, who offers $5000 for Cadmus's effects, but Mason says they are not for sale. Mason refuses to deal with anyone but Mr Addicks. When Hershey rushes out, Mason picks up a photo of Cadmus. Della asks about the pottery. Pre-Columbian Mason responds, Grecian in Cadmus's diary. A bandaged Addicks — from gorilla injuries — arrives and Addicks is angry with Mason, who cuts him off by praising his pottery. Early Macedonian, actually, says Hershey. A chimp was running around the house. Accordingly, Mason insists they turn over the urn and, surely, there is all the jewelry that Miss Kempton was supposed to have taken. // [4-8] Fallon appears and suggests that Della planted the jewelry, but Addicks apologizes, the retreats to his bed before any of them can see lawyer (Sidney) Hardwick who is in another room. Hershey is interested in what else is in the diaries, which helped Mason figure out where the jewelry was. Mason is not interested in talking or selling. Perry and Della leave, he looking for a phone to call Kempton. / Mason is awakened by a 4 am phone call from Miss Kempton. She is at the house, and fades away. / Perry and Della drive up to Stonehenge. Della observes something at an upstairs window that causes her to scream. Perry enters after agreeing with Della that, if he's not back in four minutes, she is to phone for help. He goes through rows of cages, past a gorilla, into the house. The urn is still tipped over and a chimp climbs out of it. Upstairs, Mason sees a gorilla in the hall, enters a room and locks the door. The room is a shambles. A man is on floor as is Miss Kempton. The gorilla smashes the door open. Josephine, reviving, instructs Mason to take shiny objects out of his pocket and make it look like a game. The gorilla becomes involved and Mason and Kempton escape, exiting the house as the police arrive with Della. Kempton, Mason and Street are ordered into the sheriff's car by a sergeant deputy. // [5-8] As Della types frantically, Paul Drake reads his dossier on Benjamin Addicks and brother Charles. They made their killing in Brazil by finding diamonds in the Upper Amazon. Charles took his split and moved to Australia. Benjamin went back to Brazil and made a bigger killing. Della gets on Paul regarding phone calls, because Miss Kempton is still in jail. Addicks was not just beaten, but stabbed with scissors. / Hardwick tells Mason that he and James Aetna agreed on a $50,000 payment to Miss Kempton and checked it with Addicks so that a check could be delivered in the morning. Addicks died intestate and brother Charles will inherit. Hardwick says Hershey and Fallon went back to Los Angeles shortly after midnight and the deputy found a pair of bloody scissors, packed the way a lady gorilla would do. / Josephine arrives at Mason's. She told police that Addicks called her to come at 2 am, and she let herself in with her own key, found Addicks dead. She didn't worry about a gorilla, because they are so harmless. Mason asks about the night Helen Cadmus went overboard. Josephine saw Hershey kiss Cadmus, but he was not on the yacht and Josephine was. She was seasick, yet heard Helen typing for Addicks who was dictating to her. Drake phones that Addicks's phone calls were mostly to motels, to a Russian ladyfriend. Mason claims instead that it is Helen Cadmus. / Drake finds Chad Munsky aka Helen Cadmus. Bennie Addicks was nice to her and she knows he sent Fallon to Australia on a problem regarding Charlie. She is Addicks's wife!. / Mason tells Paul over the phone that Miss Kempton has been charged with first degree murder. // [6-8] F A Snell, assistant district attorney, is accused of entrapment by Drake. Snell has the sergeant come in to show a $50,000 check for Kempton that was found in the crease of the car seat of the sheriff's car after they brought Mason, Street and Kempton in. When they released Kempton, she went straight to the check, on which she had forged Addicks's signature. / Kempton admits to hiding a check and not telling Mason because she did not want to embarrass him. She did not forge the check. / A morgue attendant shows Drake and three ladies — Cadmus the last — the body of Addicks and insists that both a dentist and a doctor have identified him. Drake explains to Helen that Addicks’ having her disappear and setting up an irrevocable trust in South America meant that he, too, was going to disappear, maybe to keep his money and escape his brother. / Snell shows Mason a photo of Charles Addicks. / At Addicks's the estate guard says he saw Fallon and Hershey leave and Fallon says about 12:15. Addicks was killed about 3 or 4. Hershey says that the club attendant will verify his arrival. Mason asks Hardwick how much money will go to Charles — after Addicks's widow (who is in the study) makes her claim! Police take Kempton away. Mort Hershey peaks into the study, sees Helen and goes to her. They seem clearly close. When Fallon enters she mentions his partnership with Hershey, making Fallon think that he's been cheated. Drake, Mason and the police enter. Mason notes that the estate guard did wave to Hershey, but a person on the other side is hard to see. It was he who impersonated Addicks in bandages and refused to see Hardwick. Fallon, enraged with Hershey, explains how Addicks was tied up for two days and how he staged it to look like gorilla killed Addicks when he had to use the scissors. Yes, he killed a man for Hershey . . . then realizes everyone has heard his confession. // [7-8] Cadmus tells Mason and Street that she doesn't want the money and she is ashamed of what she did. Addicks cheated Charles, was always concerned with money. Mason says Fallon and Hershey staged the whole thing. Della notes that they even wrote correspondence from Charles who may not even be alive. They had it set up to collect the inheritance in Charle’s name. Drake knocks, and a chimp climbs Mason’s back and embraces him. Mason teases by suggesting he though the chimp was Ms Kempton.. [8-8 end credits] [51:02]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At a criminal law symposium attorney Perry Mason is answering a complex question. Next, Ward Toyama asks about criminal the responsibility of a public official. A man (Frank Jones), who has been observing this question session in the back of the auditorium, walks out. / Toyama enters a car to find Frank Jones, CDIB (Central Defense Intelligence Bureau), waiting to ask him if he'd risk his life in service of his country. // [3-8] In the House of Toyama, Imported Oriental Objets d'Art, Harry Grant, who runs but does not own the business, is asked by Jones if he can ship cargo for him. Toyama says he's going to the Gulf of Siam with the cargo. Grant sends Sally Choshi, Ward’s girl, out of the room. Jones offers $5000 if the Toyama company will act as the licensed exporter. / At dockside, Captain Otto Varnum asks Toyama for various documents, since the port of delivery is on the restricted list. Mrs (Esther) Norden takes a cashier's check from Toyama. / Toyama produces $5000 cash to convince Grant to sign the shipment papers. / Toyama gives papers to Albert King, who is selling two carloads of farming implements for shipment on the "Thomas Norden, out of Los Angeles.” King notes that old man Norden was blown right off the bridge some time back. Delivery will beby Friday. / Drake balks at getting information on Frank Jones for King by Friday. / Pier 320. Toyama reports to Varnum and is introduced to first mate, Frank "Jensen" (aka Frank Jones). Smitty takes Toyama to his room. Jones tells Toyama to ask of him whatever he needs. Smitty shows Toyama the ship, says “Jensen” has been with the ship a long time, but not regularly. Toyama sends Smitty away at the ship’s lounge. Albert King introduces Toyama to Ursula Quigly, who works for Mission Society and is taking supplies to Japan, before the ship sails on to Siam. The ship sails in thick-as-pea-soup fog. Attorney Toyama is thrown out of the bridge by Varnum, then threatens Esther Norden for not sailing directly to the Gulf of Siam. It was not written into the contract, and Norden threatens to expose incorrect bills of lading. Toyama looks for Jones, sees the Captain talking to Albert King on the bridge, bumps into Quigly on the way to his room where he finds King tied up in a closet. // [4-8] A ship in fog blows its horn. Inside, Grant tells Toyama that there is a federal warrant out for Jones' arrest. Toyama seeks Jones. A fight ensues and Jones goes over the rail. / The Captain says they've searched bow to stern and not found the first mate. Toyama claims he was knocked out. Alone with Harry, Ward says that he cannot say he knows about Jones or it will become known he knows about the cargo and that he went looking for Jones, and involuntary manslaughter will become first degree murder. / In Perry Mason’s office Della Street is taking down the interview. Grant tells Mason he'd discovered Jones. The captain, when he knew this, had to tie him up. Mason thinks this story a bit fishy, especially when Grant paraphrases penal code regarding accidental excusable death. On the way out, Grant meets Drake, whom he accuses of revealing their arrangement. Mason lets it be known that he distrusts Grant, and that Jones' body has been recovered. He was killed by many blows from a blunt instrument before he was thrown overboard. / Toyama explains to Mason why he took Jones at good faith. He had no way to confirm Jones’s story. Frank Jones paid Albert King over $100,000 for medical supplies and such that were to be transported overland to a country to which the US had banned shipping. Frank was not the philanthropist Toyama is, for he was going to sell the supplies, not give them away. Mason reveals that Jones could not have fallen in water from Toyama’s blow, for there was a deck below. The problem, states Mason, is not who, but where . . .  he fell in the water. / In court Miss Quigly tells D A Hamilton Burger that Toyama was looking for Jensen. Smitty says Toyama called “Jones,” then changed to first mate “Jensen.” Varnum identified the body. Mason examines no one, offers no defense. The judge binds Toyama over for trial. Burger expresses surprise that Mason offered no defense. Mason shows him a writ of habeas corpus. Ward Toyama is being held illegally by Los Angeles and the County District Attorney, for Jensen was killed at open sea and the State of California has no jurisdiction. // [5-8] King tries to get Grant to turn the shipment over to him, for $5000. Sally Choshi overhears and tape records the offer. Grant won't sign King's papers, but offers his own, which "returns" the shipment to King. King has to agree. / Hamilton Burger wants the ship with its time-dependant cargo to be allowed to sail. Judge Simpson grants Mason's request that the ship not be allowed to sail, as it will be part of Mason's evidence in arguing who has jurisdiction. / Miss Quigly tells Drake that she allowed the shipment to go out under her license in exchange for free passage for her and her cargo, by arrangement with Capt Varnum. / Varnum charges into Mason's office, angry over costs he'll run up waiting to sail when Mason knows the murder was committed in the harbor. Mason gives him two reasons why this is not so. Varnum threatens that someone will testify to seeing Toyama go down to the lower deck (if Mason doesn't release the ship is implied in the threat). That someone has not come forth, Mason notes, and advises Varnum to tell Mrs Norden that he'll see her on the ship in three days for a hearing. // [6-8] At the hearing aboard ship Burger suggests that Mason petitioned only to delay and harass the prosecution and that he can call one witness to solve the whole affair. The D A’s witness, Mrs Norden, states Toyama went down, and back up, from the deck where the fight occurred before the harbor pilot left the ship. Mason has Norden recall her husband's losing his life in the Caribbean when a ship, named after him, was recalled to duty. Mason notes his bravery in crossfire, saving all but himself. Toyama, too, is a decorated Naval officer. Would she lie and dishonor this man’s name? Mason wishes now to impeach Norden's testimony, not by cross-examination, but by other witnesses. Judge Simpson denies Burger's attempt to have habeas corpus denied. Smitty testifies to last seeing Jensen/Jones checking the bottom layer of crates as they were loaded, while the inspector checked only a few top ones. A crate that Jensen/Jones checked after ship sailed was about half way down. Drake has a crate brought in. Varnum considered Toyama's complaint a distraction, but not Albert King, whom he sent for after he received a message from Jensen/Jones. Mason accuses Varnum of carrying contraband in the crate to Japan. There it would be sent behind the Iron Curtain for a big profit to be shared with King. Drake pries the case open and a rifle is pulled out. Varnum, who thought it was medical supplies, shouts to King that he lied. King asserts he sold only medicinal supplies. King lied to Jensen/Jones and Varnum, all recorded by Sally Choshi. Mason asks if, in an earlier incident, when Captain Norden was killed, wasn't there another shipment other than men aboard, a shipment for which King has never been paid? King reveals that Frank Jones sent the ship into a trap hoping that it would be blown up so no one would know he had stolen and resold the supplies. Now King was going to double cross Frank. Mrs Norden reveals that King offered to split the profits with her. She went to Frank, said she was taking the ship back into the harbor. He knocked her down, then fell from above right next to her. She bludgeoned him to death, because he was responsible for her husband’s death. // [7-8] Mason is at a return appearance to the symposium. Toyama has the last question, regarding who may testify in certain circumstances (spouse against spouse). Mason asks him instead if it isn’t about time he "married that girl.” [8-8 end credits] [51:37]

Produced by Arthur Marks & Art Seid Directed by Jesse Hibbs Teleplay by Jackson Gillis

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A street in Los Angeles. A taxi brings Dorrie Ambler to Perry Mason's office (in the Brent Building). She is with Della, so that he can see her and recognize her. She was hired just to walk around the streets by (Joe) Billings because she looked like somebody else. Joe interviewed hundreds of girls. She gives Mason and Della Street her vital statistics. She is 5’4”, 117 lbs, and she had an appendix operation. Mason sees her appendix scar and drivers license with fingerprints. Della from the outer office phones Perry to tell him Dorrie has a gun in her purse. // [3-8] By thumb print Mason agrees that she's 21-year-old Dorrie Ambler but she’s lost one pound in the past few months. Dorrie leaves after she says that she’s ashamed of herself for being so young and stupid. Della has Paul following her. Mason comments on having such a wonderful secretary He knows of the gun and that it is loaded . . . with blanks. / The gun is fired at the airport by a woman in a mink coat. Drake sees it. So do others, including a man and woman who “don’t want to get shot.” A man bystander saw “her hold him up.” After an airport clerk tells a police sergeant that she said "this isn't a stickup," a woman bystander points her out  to be in the ladies room. A woman who looks like Dorrie, but wearing glasses, comes out and is stopped by the sergeant. / Drake reports that Dorrie seemed honestly surprised when she was picked up. He thinks “she's nuts.” Drake’s operative lost her in traffic, but gave a description to Paul. Since he was already there hel looked into the situation. When presented with what she had done, she just laughed. Della brings in a newspaper, which identifies Dorrie as heiress Minerva Minden. “Just wanted to see what it felt like,” said Minerva, “Can’t you take a joke?” Della notes that she’s worth $10 million. Paul notes that she’s been in trouble since collecting the inheritance. / Paul and Perry knock at Dorrie's door, get no answer, but neighbors Jasper and Rita are heard arguing. Rita says it is wise to warn a young woman of her husband, so she and Dorrie are friends. Dorrie arrives. Paul and Perry rush her away. She says she pulled the stunt at the airport to put look-alike Minden on the spot. Minden was arrested, while she waited two hours in the women's room before leaving in changed clothing. Her hairdresser had shown her a photo of Minden. She tried to contact her, but was told she was flying out that afternoon So she went to the airport. There, she saw Minden go into the ladies room, and here she is! Billings sent her clothes and she was just to wander around Sunset and LaBrea. Yesterday she saw two people looking at her. Billings tested her memory; on March 10 she was home with the flu. Mason and Drake figure this means that Minden was involved in a hit-and-run on that day. Della can check it. Drake calls Billings (unlisted) number. It is Compton & Billings, a crooked private eye. / Drake visits Billings, asks about his interviewing girls at the Palace Hotel. Billings denies, but Del Compton steps in and offers to help. When Drake leaves, Compton is upset Billings let a prestigious person leave. Compton doesn't believe Billings, who says he was in Las Vegas. Compton leaves. Billings immediately phones . . . Dorrie, or is it Minerva? “If you won’t get rid of him. Time is running out.” // [4-8] In court 19 year-old Minerva is given a tongue lashing by the judge, who notes she's been in numerous scrapes with her car. Aunt Henrietta Hull stands up for Minerva, thus getting herself a tongue lashing from the judge. Minerva then walks by Della without recognizing her. / Drake has found a hit-and-run on March 10. Della says the two are so much alike, wonders if they could be related? She has discovered Minerva had a sister. Dorrie calls Drake and advises her that she is being followed and she's going to run. Mason tells her to stay, they are on the way. / At Parkhurst Court, Perry and Paul find Joe Billings shot, the kitchen blocked. A car is driven away. / Lieutenant Anderson admits that Mason's client has been kidnapped and they’ve found the .38 that killed Billings. A car in Dorrie's garage, gaining cobwebs since March 10, is that of the hit-and-run! And is stolen. / Drake learns from Jasper that neither he nor wife were there at the time of the murder. She’s gone back to mom. But Compton was hanging around yesterday. Sergeant Brice calls him away. / Miss Hull denies Mason an interview with Minden. She’s never gotten into serious trouble. Mason points out that Minden is involved in hit-and-run, not just frivolous escapades. Outside, Minerva Minden meets Mason. Her eyes are lighter (than Dorrie’s), notices Mason, who accuses her of setting Dorrie up with Billings. Andy arrives and informs all that Dorrie is dead from an auto accident. Minerva murdered Billings. // [5-8] In the Los Angeles county jail, Mason is interviewing Minerva. Henrietta has offered Mason a $50,000 retainer. Mason wants the answer to only one question; did she murder Joe Billings? No. She tries to tell Mason more but, as an officer of court, he doesn't want to hear. / In court Lt Anderson testifies for District Attorney Hamilton Burger to the murder gun being found. It was purchased by Henrietta Hull, who says she's afraid of prowlers. She gave the gun to Minerva, to keep in her car. A taxi driver picked up Minerva as she left Parkhurst Court and drove her to Minden Castle. The butler admitted her and called her "Miss Minerva." Compton says that he figured Billings would double-cross him someday. Joe told him his client was “Miss Minerva Minden who'd hired him to protect her.” Dorrie Ambler was working with him on the case. Sgt Brice testifies regarding the car and the $5000 found in it which is part of a $15.000 bank robbery. Jasper admits to robbing the bank, with his wife (a conclusion of the judge, who says he need not incriminate her), then stole the car which, with $15,000 in it, was stolen while he and his wife were dancing at a party they’d crashed. His wife, using the description of the car thief, locates Ambler. The car was found about 10 the night of the murder. At 10:45 the car, in which Ambler met her death, drove off. They went home. He and his wife than heard a gun shot, entered Dorrie's apartment where they found a man dying. They heard a sound at the door, so went out the back way after blocking kitchen door. “Rita’s got to get clean, she’s a three-time looser!” Instead of cross-examining Jasper, Mason recalls Lt Anderson. // [6-8] Why was Dorrie's death not listed as murder? Mason insists one must solve this to solve Billings' murder. Andy says that the thumb print proved Dorrie was Dorrie. Mason asks him to compare driver's license with print taken at death scene. Andy finds only six points of similarity. Mason puts defendant's thumb print on screen, and Andy finds 12 points of identity, proving defendant burned to death in the car "accident." Now Minerva admits that she took on new identity of Dorrie, then got into the hit-and-run. She got Billings to help, but he blackmailed her. Compton says one man also thought, like he, that Dorrie and Minerva were two. Mason identifies Jasper, who says Billings got his $10,000, and Rita; "she didn't have to kiss him, did she?" He loved her . . . and killed her, too. // [7-8] Drake tells Minerva that Jasper picked up her purse when she ran out of her apartment, then scattered its contents all over the canyon where he crashed the car. “If I could be spanked for all the crazy things I’ve done” tries Minerva to explain. Della says she had her believing her eyes were lighter than Dorrie’s. But they are! She sometimes wore contact lenses. Minerva explains how she faked the appendix scar, starts to show Mason, stops, says she has to “learn how t be a lady, sometime.” [8-8 end credits] [51:34]