PERRY MASON

in The Case of the . . .

with Raymond Burr

as Perry Mason

and

These pages upgraded on 13 April 2008. All episodes of the fifth season of "Perry Mason in The Case of the . . ." have been upgraded. The following episodes have been updated by comparison with the Columbia House Video tapes in their Collector's Edition; 124, 126, 127, 129, 130, 132, 137, 139, 144, 148, 150, 151 and 152. Episode 150 is on DVD in the 50th Anniversary Perry Mason issue; DVD chapter indices for this issue are in { } brackets. All other episodes have been compared to full-length or multiple air checks in order to construct an accurate synopsis, and are marked with an asterisk (*). Where indicated "CBS Tape/DVD," the synopsis has been upgraded by an additional comparison to the DVD format, which is also indicated by the DVD chapter indices placed in parentheses within the synopsis text.

#	TITLE	SHOW DATE	CBS TAPE
124	Jealous Journalist	2 Sept 61	26309

CHARACTER	ACTOR	CHARACTER	ACTOR
Perry Mason	Raymond Burr	Kerry Worden	Claire Griswold
Della Street	Barbara Hale	Seward Quentin	Parley Baer
Paul Drake	William Hopper	Bartender (Young)	Paul Smith
Hamilton Burger	William Talman	Hope Quentin	Frieda Inescort
Grace Davies	Irene Hervey	Bonnie Mae	Roxanne Arlen
Ralph Quentin	Jan Merlin	Newscaster	Lee Giroux
Joe Davies	Linden Chiles	Operative (Don)	James D Neilson
Tilden Stuart	Denver Pyle	(Mr) Lewis	Alex Bookston
Miriam Coffey	Bek Nelson	Judge	Tom Harkness
Boyd Alison	Theodore Marcuse	Searcher	Richard Geary

Produced by Art Seid Directed by John English Teleplay by Samuel Newman

Three men are in a boat in the High Sierras. Whitewater overturns the boat. / Los Angeles Chronicle headlines declare ADAM YORK PARTY REPORTED MISSING and NEWSPAPER TYCOON MISSING ON TRIP. Adam York has apparently been lost with brother Prentice York and managing director cousin Tilden Stuart, reports a newscaster. / Three men are tramping through the forest when one discovers Stuart. / Los Angeles Chronicle editor (Joe Davies) is laying out the day's paper with his secretary (Miriam Coffey). Boyd Alison wants to know if Davies will continue Adam York's fight over annexation election of Derek Flats. He points out that the Los Angeles Chronicle is short of cash and at a ten-year low in circulation. Davies admits that he and his mother will get half the stock, the Quentins the other half. Then Allison offers half a million for Davies's and his mother's stock as security, 60 days, no interest. Davies heads to Kerry Worden's office. / Several models, a photographer and Ralph (Quentin) are with Kerry Worden who is directing the shoot. All but Worden leave as Davies enters. Worden tells her that he's got the money, will tell her at dinner. She says she saw Perry Mason about her will. Her stepfather was strange, but left her what little he had. The phone interrupts, and Joe is called to see Allison's attorney, Bradshaw. / In his office Perry Mason is learning about the situation of the Los Angeles Chronicle. Adam York owned all 100 shares of the Los Angeles Chronicle stock. Tilden Stuart gets 10 shares non-voting, Prentice York, Hope York Quentin, Ralph Quentin, sister Grace York Davies, and her son Joe Davies each gets 18 shares, and if any does not survive, those shares are equally divided. Hope Quentin asks, what if Davies's want to keep the paper running, she and her son want to sell it? Mason says that Davies controls it during the trust. One proviso, Tilden's non-voting may be voted by Joe Davies. Ralph asks why the step-daughter of uncle Prentice doesn't pick up 18 shares. Because he died simultaneously with Adam York. Drake reports this is not so, he died a bit later. Kerry Worden, Prentice York's legal heir, now gets his 18 shares. / Seward goes to Kerry, tells her of the offer to buy the paper. She does the math and sees what marriage to Joe is worth. / There is a celebration at the Fairmont Country Club. Grace announces the engagement of Kerry to Joe. Ralph announces that this is only half right, for Kerry is being engaged to him. Joe tells Kerry to get out of his sight or he'll kill her. // Joe is drinking heavily at a bar, when Boyd Allison suggests that he fight the sale of the newspaper. Joe says "short of murder. . ." / Drunk, Joe bursts into a living room at 2:35. He picks up a poker, then sees Kerry, dead. Mr Lewis observes. / In jail Joe tells Perry that he got a call at the bar from Kerry, who said she wasn't going to vote with the Quentins. / Perry sends Paul Drake out on various searches, has Della Street send a telegram to all the stockholders for an 8 p m meeting, as well as District Attorney Hamilton Burger./ Stuart explains that Derek Flats is drilled-out oils fields and other run-down property. Annexation would allow this to be cleared and new housing put up, which is why Grace Davies says the Los Angeles Chronicle supports the annexation. Miss Coffey notes that the city has a backup for the marina if Derek Flats is not annexed. / Drake gives operative Don instructions to get phone records at the Warden Apartments. The switchboard girl knows him, so he can't go. / Bonnie Mae, the switchboard girl at the Warden Apartments (doing Marilyn Monroe dumb blond act) poses for Don, who tricks her into letting him see her call book. Miriam gets Joe's signature, but he misses her overtures. She approaches him, he begins to see, but she quickly pecks him on the cheek and runs out. / At the stockholder's meeting Ralph is drinking. Grace and Hope argue. The offer of $2.5 million will be reinstated. Grace says no sale. So does Allison. Hamilton Burger joins them, says there was a second phone call to Joe at the bar, besides Kerry's. Yes, Alison made the call once he knew Kerry was going to sell him her shares, for then he could take over the paper. // In court Mr Lewis testifies that he came into the decedent's room about 2:35, saw the defendant with the murder weapon. Stuart says that at a luncheon after reading of the will, Joe Davies said it might be better to marry Kerry before she realized it could be more profitable to vote with the Quentins. Ralph tells Mason that he was in love with Kerry, but the attorney gets him to admit even the engagement was through his father. Hope Quentin admits that a survey indicating the Los Angeles Chronicle was in trouble was done by her husband, Seward. He testifies to arranging the sale for $2.5 million, and that Joe had said he'd kill Kerry. Mr Young, the bartender, followed Joe from the bar to Worden's at 2:30. He went to a drug store to call her to warn her. The line was busy, about 2:32. At 2:35 a neighbor saw her dead and Joe with a poker. The judge recesses court. No lunch, says Mason, as he sends Drake and Street to the newspaper and such to find the killer. // Young is shown a photo of the crime scene, with evidence of a fight, and phone hanging on side of the couch. Mason asks if maybe didn't he think, when he called, that this could be the reason for a busy signal. No, not at the time. Burger redirects. She might have been on the phone before a struggle. Mason then suggests the question is when the murder happened. Boyd Alison admits that the defendant knew if the deal with Worden went through he could kiss the paper goodbye. At the bar, where he asked Davies if there wasn't anything he could do, Joe had said, "short of murder. . ." Mason sets up an exhibit. He asks Alison if he owns any newspapers. No. Mason points out that he owns the Derek Flats Shopping News and Derek Flats Independent. Then, with a chart, he shows that these are owned by Enterprises, Ltd, 100% of whose stock is Alison's, through Coast Enterprises which, as Seward Quentin testified, made the $2.5 million offer for the Los Angeles Chronicle. He withdrew his offer when he figured he could get it cheaper, through the loan to Davies and purchase of Worden's stock. Also, Mason notes, he has always been opposed to annexation. Mason, on the chart, now shows how the All Services Company, which is the other branch next Coast Enterprises, owned 80% of Derek Flats slum properties. Mason now reveals the other branch of the Enterprises companies, which own the alternate land for the marina. But, he says, he didn't kill Kerry Worden. Mason asks, she phoned Ralph, Joe, and him? What did this double-dealing lady have to tell him? Stuart brought Worden to the engagement party. Did she tell him what she was going to do with her stock? He cannot remember. Well, didn't he buy shares, and take an option on more, of the company that owned the alternate marina land? Mason states that he sold everything he had to buy the first group of shares, but had no money to pick up the others. When he pulled the two men to the shore after the boat capsized, didn't he then see how he'd get the money? Probably the cause of death of Prentice York was largely indeterminate, since his body was found a few miles from his father's it was assumed he had outlived his father. Mason produces photos of Prentice as he was found. His broken-leg shoe is unscuffed, and the hands he used to pull himself over rocky ground are clean. Why was his first call from the hospital to Kerry Worden, and his first visitor her? He admits that he made an agreement to set her up as the heir to Prentice if they'd split, but she found out of her deal for the alternate marina land, and refused to split, then demanded half his profits. He couldn't let her sell to Alison, or tell people about him. He needed time to pick up the option and to get the money. He was desperate for time. // Stuart heard Joe at the door, turned off lights, hid. Then when Joe broke in and fell to the floor, he slipped away. The annexation is winning in a walk-away. The newspaper ad sales have doubled, circulation has gone into orbit, and they have enough contracts to pay the loan off twice, says Miriam Coffey. Joe wonders what to do with her, but mother Grace says he'll think of something.

At the Drake Detective Agency Mrs Murdock is questioned by (Amory) Fallon about where she lived while Paul Drake and Amory's brother-in-law (Frank Wells) listen. Fallon gives her some money and she is escorted out by Drake. Drake's secretary (Margo) answers the agency phone, passes it over to Paul. Fallon informs Frank Wells that he's found what he was looking for, Mrs Murdock. / Was she at the bus stop Monday between 7 and 7:30? No. Amory and Wells are baffled. In the hall, Amory says that he was fooled by her coat. After they've left, Agnes Murdock crosses the hall to returns the coat to her sick friend, Mrs Temple. // Drake barges in on Fallon, tells him that he doesn't like being played for a fool. He knows of the fire at Fallon Paints and that he's been to see Mrs Murdock. He dismisses Frank and secretary Miss (Vivian) Ames. Fallon apologizes, explains that the phone call he got the morning after the fire from a man identifying a woman who probably saw the arsonist. Drake figures out that Fallon hasn't gone to the police since he thinks the arsonist is someone in his own company. Ned Thompson breaks up the discussion and Drake is introduced as "Mr Henry." Drake leaves. Ned asks Amory about his month-long trip. What prospects did he bring back from Mexico City, Carlos Silva? And why, being Wednesday and he returned Monday, hasn't he seen his wife yet. Ames brings in some correspondence and Amory asks why certain files weren't in his office. They got moved and thus burned in the fire. She says it was done on order of Ned Thompson. She mentions a phone call from his wife and he dismisses her curtly. / Amory cross-examines his lab man, Bert Nichols, about what could cause an explosion, such as two chemicals in vials that he removes from the shelf. Vivian tells Amory that Silva is on the phone. Then Bert tries to get her to go out with him and Viv brushes him off. He tells her that she's "not even on the first team" in Ned Thompson's list of girlfriends. / Carlos Silva on the phone is put off by Amory, but notes it isn't often a quarter of a million is dumped into ones lap. / Mrs Temple in the convertible with Paul Drake says that she doesn't recognize any of the men leaving Fallon Paints as the one she saw Monday night. Edith catches Amory, leaving the plant, wants to know what happened. When Ned Thompson comes out, he asks if that is why she is there, then says that he never wants to see or talk to her again. / It is dark and Drake is about to send Edith Temple up to Thompson's when Amory Fallon, drunk, comes out and she identifies him as the man that she saw at the fire. / In Perry Mason's office Amory explains that about 7 p m Monday he bumped into a woman, who asked for a match and, when he didn't have any, went down the street and got a light from a man in a doorway whom she cannot identify. He went inside to look into the files that had been moved, remembered something he needed from his car twenty minutes later and thus was outside when the explosion occurred. He thinks Thompson was the man in the door. Mason shows him alternate interpretations of the facts, that his wife really could have wanted to see him, not Thompson and, since no one knew he was at the plant, murder is out and perhaps arson. Mason agrees to see Thompson and get the note the drunk Fallon slipped under the door. / Drake and Mason arrive at Thompson's apartment only to be greeted by Lieutenant Tragg. Thompson is dead. Sergeant Brice is investigating in the background. // At the crime scene Mason and Drake get Lt Tragg's explanation, including a reading of Fallon's threatening note. / Amory explains that he can't remember much of what happened, but he sat down and the next thing he remembered was that he was leaving the apartment. At the bar he saw Bert Nickols with a woman, before going to the apartment. Drake reports by phone that the fire was rigged, not professional. / Wells tells Drake that there never was anything between Thompson and Edith Fallon. If anyone was Thompson's girl, it was Ames. Drake leaves, Edith enters and says she's got to go to Amory. / Mason, going to see Vivian, is met by Bert Nickols, who knows that Thompson is dead. Bert notes that he is still only a chemist, while Thompson rose through the company rapidly, but clams up when Mason mentions the Martin project, which "could be worth quite a lot of money." Drake reports that Ames called Mr Green, Thompson's neighbor, about 7:50 insisting Thompson had to be in his apartment but he wasn't answering the phone, so he went down and found the body. Ames cannot be found. Lt Tragg, "practically a member of the family,"enters and says that Ames is in a city-paid hotel room, and they've arrested Fallon after talking to a couple of old ladies, particularly Mrs Temple. // In court Charles Grant tells D A Hamilton Burger that he found a $20,000 discrepancy in the books while Fallon was away and, when told about it, Thompson hoped Fallon would have an explanation. Evidence of this was destroyed in the fire. Mason asks why he went directly to a partner rather than Wells. Wells was the kid brother of the boss's wife. While Fallon was away in Mexico, did Thompson have access to the books? Yes. Wells says that he arrived at Thompson's apartment about 6:30. Amory caused a commotion about 7, but was not let in. When he left at about 7:05 did Wells see a note pushed under the door? No. Vivian Ames testifies that she went to the plant to get a file for Thompson, remembered Fallon had it, phoned Thompson, but he didn't answer. She became worried, called his neighbor, Mr Green. Bert Nickols testifies that Thompson made a microfilm copy of the ledger, but Fallon did not know of this. Carlos Silva says that he was told Fallon had told Thompson of the quarter-million-dollar deal, but he found Thompson did not know the deal had been closed. Thompson became violent. Silva saw the exposed microfilm at Thompson's. Mason traps him. Despite giving Fallon more time, he went to Thompson, so wasn't there more than one deal, involving members of the family others than Fallon? Silence equals a yes. Though the eve was warm, Tragg says that there was a fire, and no microfilm but ashes of the film. He found the missing contract file in a brief case belonging to Fallon in Thompson's apartment. / Della Street notes that Fallon didn't enter the apartment. But the brief case did. Drake reports that Thompson is a man-about-town, and heavy gambler. / Mason assures Edith Fallon that she's made the right decision. // Bert Nickols admits he was in bar with friend Miss Bruce, saw Fallon. He left about 7:15, went to his house, then Thompson's before eight, where he got no answer, so left. Wells, a trained accountant, didn't find the embezzlement, Thompson did. With the Court's permission, Mason asks, if Thompson did doctor the books, could he have had an accomplice? Perhaps the company had a secret formula that could be sold for millions, and the accomplice discovered this. What if Thompson had photographed the records knowing arson could destroy his evidence. Nickols admits that it is 20 minutes from the plant to Thompson's apartment. How did he accomplish this in 5, asks Mason, since he was at the apartment at eight, back at plant five minutes later. He actually arrived at Thompson's at 7:30, found Fallon, unaccustomed to drink, asleep (for 45 minutes) on the stairs. He and Thompson were going to sell the perfected Martin formula directly to Silva. The killer was Thompson's accomplice says Mason. The killer went back into the apartment, overheard Vivian Ames on the phone giving him an alibi, killed Thompson and destroyed the evidence. Frank Wells did it. Wells breaks out hysterically, admitting his guilt. // Mason says Wells took the brief case from the sleeping Fallon. Fallon apologizes to Edith, thanks her and Mason for heir faith in him. Mason says he always has faith, as Judge Learned Hand called "The eventual supremacy of reason."

A combo of guitar, bass and drums are playing soft jazz inside a church. Perry Mason and Della Street greet (Templeton) Courtland, who is with his secretary (Enid) Markham, on their daughter's wedding day, but his response is curt. The meet David Gideon, a friend of the bride's sister, Midge. Midge readies Polly. Eddy King asks the best man if he has the ring. As Polly comes down the aisle, a man waves an envelope at her, and she turns and runs out. // Gideon gets advice from Mason. Eddy comes to Mason for help in getting through to Polly. / Polly with Midge shows a picture of "sub-deb" daughter registering at a Las Vegas hotel with a famous jazz artist Bongo White. Another picture shows Midge gambling with gangsters. Midge says it was just a party at Jack Grabba's suite, and she wants to know how George Sherwin got hold of the pictures. Sherwin threatened to turn the photos over to a publisher and Polly couldn't let that happen. She's tried to reach Sherwin (she calls him Shearing), and cannot tell Eddy about this. (Enid) Markham says that Polly's dad is waiting with Perry Mason to see her. Templeton admits that he's opposed to the marriage, but wasn't the cause of her running out. Mason asks her if she is in trouble. She tries to explain that finally dad's cautions about jazz musicians playing in smoky nightclubs and staying in third-rate hotels finally got through when the combo played the wedding march, so she rushed out. Mason notes that Eddy King nets close to $100,000 a year, never plays in smoky nightclubs and doesn't stay in third-rate hotels. / Jonny Baker finishes "the thrill is gone." Eddie compliments her, then gets a call from Mason in which George Sherwin is mentioned. // George Sherwin and Enid discuss Grabba's willingness to pay $25,000 to get something with which to smear Courtland. He points out how much more he'd get for marrying Polly, $250,000. Bongo tells him to clear out in case Eddy's heard about the photos. Eddy joins them and accuses George of interference. George suggests that he, Jonny and Eddy meet that evening at the club. / Jonny finishes "the man I love" as David, Polly and Midge enter with Sherwin. Eddy rushes to Polly, who says that someday she may be able to explain, but "please leave me alone." / Eddy drives to Sherwin's apartment. He sees Polly rushing out from the back, then Templeton Courtland from the entry. He enters and finds Sherwin dead, holds the gun. // Lieutenant Tragg and Sergeant Brice view the scene, find no lipstick on the glasses. Brice finds a woman's face powder in the carpet. / Courtland admits to Mason that Polly was at Sherwin's. He was also there, but claims Eddy King is the murderer. / Polly shows Mason the gambling photo and says that she saw Sherwin alive at 2:30. She wouldn't have gone out the back way if she knew it was her father ringing the bell. Paul Drake joins, with news that the police have lots of evidence and have a witness. They have identified a French brand of cigarettes in Sherwin's ash tray, a brand Polly smokes. / Mason and Drake confront King with the photos and the fact that Polly was a minor (17) at the time. King says the photo was taken for Grabba so he could ruin Courtland politically. / Mason confronts Grabba with the gambling photo. Grabba says he once offered $25,000 for info to get Courtland off his back for gambling, but he'd never go through his daughter for it. He offers Mason the sum to burn the photos and negatives. / David Gideon speaks to Mr Boyson about his seeing the limping woman leaving Sherwin's apartment building. Inside, Drake instructs Jonny Baker on what to do. Boyson identifies Baker as the limping woman. / Tragg and Brice listen as Jonny finishes "the thrill is gone." She joins Mason and Della Street, says that her iron-clad alibi is that she was with Bongo White. Eddy joins them. Mason informs him that he was seen at Sherwin's about 2:30. Tragg and Brice come, ask Jonny about her brand of cigarettes and cosmetics, then arrest Eddy. // In jail Eddy explains how he changed the crime scene. He took a tape which was recording Sherwin and put it in his car, which the police have. / Under D A Hamilton Burger's questioning, Boyson admits that he identified Eddy King from an album cover. Lt Tragg connects the gun to Eddy and identifies one cigarette as having saliva matching Eddy's. Mason gets him to admit another, foreign brand, cigarette was found, such as smoked by Jonny Baker. Mason queries about the tape. It "was blank." Bongo says Eddy's meeting with Sherwin was calm, but Enid says that it was violent. She says she told Courtland about the photos. Baker says she stopped at Sherwin's about 2:00 to hear a song that he was composing for her, left the back way where she broke her heel. Hamilton Burger points out that the night janitor saw her leave at 2:20, but she claims to have gotten to Bongo's at 2:15. Now Jonny admits that she was never in Sherwin's apartment. // In his office Mason tells Paul, Della and Polly that by now Burger has figured out who the real woman was. Mason is also sure something should have been on the tape. Polly says that she did not smoke at Sherwin's. / Mason enters Bongo's apartment, finds a tape playing. He finds another that is under several tape boxes, puts it on. Bongo enters, tells Mason under gunpoint, to erase it. Drake arrives, knocks Bongo down. / Mason recalls Baker. Doesn't she smoke the French brand in question? He accuses her of the murder, citing how she did it, then plays the tape on which Polly is heard leaving. Then Jonny comes in, brings up his next week, next month, next year excuses, shoots him. "Eight years . . . that's too long to wait for any man" / / Eddy and Polly marry. Mason explains how the judge came to allowing the tape, which could not be introduced as evidence, to be played, thus forcing Jonny's confession.

Aboard the Janeel Trader (Jerry) Griffin goes to Captain (Bancroft) with safety concerns as a storm rages. Many crew jumped ship at the previous port, Yokahama. The captain tells him that he makes money by delivering fast. The captain points out that the cargo is worth $1.5 million and he doesn't want it shifting in the rolling sea. / Sheng tells Jerry that he can't blame the captain. The ship heaves and the captain is injured. MacLean tells Griffin that leakage is dangerous. Griffin takes command. Sheng is told to stand by to jettison the cargo. // Captain Lansing brings the ship into port with Jerry. Jerry reports to MacLean that they are tied up safe. The captain orders Jerry off the ship, warns him that he'll be sorry. The captain then tells (Arthur) Janeel to quite babying him, says that he'll have Griffin held up on mutiny. Janeel counters that Jerry saved his ship. The captain is taken away in an ambulance. Charles Griffin, aboard with Frank Logan who carted the machinery, says that he almost blackjacked and slew his brother, Jerry, to Japan when he heard there was no first mate aboard so he'd have someone he could count on. Yet he dumped a textile mill overboard as if it were ballast. Frank reports that all is lost. Jerry brings up the issue of insurance, but Charles says he'll stick it to his brother instead. // In Perry Mason's office law student David Gideon says that Jerry Griffin saved the ship. His brother gains 1/3 from the insurer, 1/3 from Janeel, but must pay his own third. But there are complications which could make Janeel fully responsible. Either way Jerry is in the middle of all this. / Wenzel, the first mate, shows up at the captain's quarters, wants to know what the deal was that put him ashore. Bancroft feigns a faint. / Julie (Abbott) welcomes Jerry at the Janeel Shipping office, says she'll quit if he's fired. Bancroft tells Jerry that he'll help him. / At the hearing MacLean says that the ship might have been saved with or without jettisoning of the cargo. Wenzel, a merchant marine officer, said that he could have saved both ship and cargo. He demonstrates with a model. Capt Bancroft is called, but he is not there. / Julie tells Jerry that she's tried everywhere but cannot locate Bancroft. / On the pier, two officers notice someone aboard the Janeel Trader. The go aboard and find a drunk. Then they find Jerry holding the murder weapon of Capt Bancroft. // Mason arrives as Bancroft is wheeled off the ship. Lieutenant Anderson meets with him, says Jerry was caught with the weapon. Then Bancroft dies. / Mason informs Jerry that there is little that he can do. / Janeel admits he twisted Bancroft's arm to get him to say that jettisoning was necessary. Bancroft owned a share of the ship. A telegram advises that the insurance underwriters have divers salvaging the cargo. / Paul Drake is instructed by Mason on how to oversee the salvage operation. He reports that Wenzel is habitually drunk. David given permission to check out Wenzel. / At Neptune's Bar Wenzel wins an arm wrestle, then sees David drinking milk at the bar so teases him. David accuses him of cheating. They arm wrestle and David wins. / Two divers with oxygen tanks cruise the ocean bottom. On shore at Pacific Island Salvaging Drake, smoking, watches as one crate drops, and only scrap iron falls out. / David reports that he was framed so as to be arrested in Yokahama. Then Logan, Mason, and Gideon listen to a phone report of Drake. No machinery, just scrap iron. Logan says that he personally supervised the packaging of the crates. Drake suspects a gypsy switch. / Charles Griffin catches Mason outside the jailhouse, offers tht he wants to help his brother. / Drake reports from Yokahama. The machinery was shipped out the previous day, just before the Yokahama police got there. Jerry Griffin supervised the loading of substitute junk. // In court the autopsy surgeon tells D A Hamilton Burger that death was not necessarily instantaneous. So, he tells Mason, Bancroft could have been dying before Jerry Griffin arrived. Lieutenant Anderson identifies the weapon. Vogel says that Jerry was holding the weapon when he arrived, and no one else could have left the ship. Janeel says Bancroft would have lost $45,000 had he not testified that jettisoning was necessary, and he had no idea of the substitution. Seamanship of Bancroft was beyond reproach, but the contract had early delivery bonus clause. Charles Griffin says the he had a greater financial involvement than Bancroft, but made no deal regarding testimony. Did he try to get such a deal? Jerry says he doesn't want to get off by accusing his brother. // Mason, Gideon and Street arrive at the shipping yard They time walking distances and ins and outs of dock guards. Mason gets a parking ticket at a standpipe. The ticketing officer tells Della, "you can see it (the sign) if you look." / In court Mason recalls Special Officer Vogel who, with Connor, checks warehouses once an hour. He says he saw Bancroft go aboard Trader at 8, Griffin at 9, but in between he and Connor were in and out of warehouses. Charles Griffin is given an hypothetical question. What if the cargo, insured, was substituted with junk, then sunk? Would he still not collect full insurance and leave the real cargo for later clandestine sale? Wouldn't he have had to enter into collusion with the ship's captain to be sure that the cargo would sink? Mason confronts Charles with a parking ticket that proves he was at the pier at 8:30. He loaned his car to Frank Logan, who then tries to leave the court. Logan admits that he went to see Bancroft. 8:30 to 8:40 on the ship. Mason asks, did he not go aboard because of a phone call from Kobe notifying him of plans to salvage the jettisoned cargo? He refuses to answer about the cargo, asserting that it was Bancroft's idea to scuttle the ship. Janeel denies knowing of the cargo switch or the plan to sink the Janeel Trader. Mason produces depositions showing that the ship needed repairs beyond affording and he was about to have his license revoked. Where was he to get the money to buy a ship from Acme Maritime? He had colluded on the sinking of the ship, but not the switching of the cargo. Mason reads the story of murder, how Janeel went aboard about 8:30, heard how he'd been double-crossed by Logan and Bancroft, then confronted Bancroft with his duplicity and killed Bancroft after Logan left. Janeel says he was in a blind rage and didn't mean to kill him. // In Mason's office Charles thinks Janeel cut it short or he'd have noticed him. David notes that the guards would have, too. Della cannot believe that Bancroft would sink his own ship, but Paul says he'd intended to ground it on a shallow shoal, then run it out to deep water with his crew having only a short distance to land. That's why he was so mad at Jerry for keeping it in shallow water.

A woman (Anne Gilrain) crosses the lawn of the Glen Haven Sanitarium at night, leaving. / She is admitted to her husband's apartment where she finds liquor set for two. She phones the Cadenza Club, asks for Gunner Grimes . . . The Cadenza Club maitre d' answers, goes for Grimes. Anne hears in the background the announcement of comedian Charlie Hatch and the beginning of his routine. She takes a quick drink. // Husband Tom Gilrain welcomes Anne home. She assures him that she's better. The phone is off the hook and he hears the comedian's act. He calls Dr Iverson at the sanitarium. Anne goes into her room, opens her jewelry box in which is a gun and a key. Tom finds the room empty. / Charlie Hatch, Gunner Grimes and Rowena commiserate after the performance. Gilrain arrives and confronts Hatch, who doesn't know Anne has been in a sanitarium. Gilrain warns Hatch against seeing his wife. They fight and Gilrain leaves. Grimes admits to Hatch that he saw Anne and stopped her letter from getting to him. Charlie warns that if he can't find Anne, Gunner is out. With Gunner watching, Rowena tells (Ed) Brigham that her next guy will have assets. He leaves and Gunner joins her, asks her to take a phone call tomorrow, then they can leave together with $50,000. / Charlie tells Perry Mason that Anne married Tom Gilrain after losing both parents in an auto accident. Gilrain had a previous marriage. He wants her free of her husband. Mason gives no encouragement, saying that she can divorce her husband only if she went to the sanitarium voluntarily. / Anne calls for Grimes, gets Rowena. She tells her that she'll await Gunner at Nico's at 10. / Charlie finds Anne at Nico's. She says she needed someone, and Tom seemed so kind, and admits alcoholism sent her to the sanitarium of her own choice. Gilrain comes for his wife, and Nico has to prevent a fight. As husband and wife depart, Rowena comes to Charlie's aid. He says there has to be some justice in the world; "I'll kill him." / Gilrain reaches for the phone as the desk clerk (Reese Lordan) tries to answer his summons. // In Glen Haven Sergeant McVey interviews Anne with Dr Iverson, who shows him the visitors book and Grimes as her visitor. / Charlie tells Mason that he's in love with Gilrain's widow. Mason tells him that Tom married too soon after his interlocutory decree. He lets Mason know that Gunner visited Anne. / Lieutenant Tragg introduces "Lieutenant" McVey to Mason and Hatch. The comedian says that he has a show at nine and another between 12 and 1. Gilrain was shot about 1. Hatch admits that he didn't do his second show. He got stoned. With Mason, Charlie suggests that Anne killed Tom, but indicates that he'd go to trial for murder to keep the police from charging Anne and, once acquitted, they'd never look for someone else. He has an alibi. / Rowena says Charlie was with her all night, except for a bit around 2. / At an outdoor drive-in, Anne tells Paul Drake that she had the key to Tom's safe deposit box and Grimes knew which bank the box was in, because Grimes and Gilrain had been partners at Lake Tahoe. / The Tahoe club owner tells Drake that, two weeks after Gilrain left the club, it was robbed of $65,000 by two men. / Brigham admits his insurance company paid off on the Tahoe robbery. He figured it was Gilrain, but he married and then didn't need the money. The partner, however, probably did, so he took an apartment across from Gilrain and kept a notebook of visitors hoping to find the money. Charlie Hatch is the last entry, 12:45 the night of the murder. // Reese Lordan tells D A Hamilton Burger that he never saw Hatch. He heard Gilrain mumble "Hatch." Mason gets an admission that it might have been "help, help." Brigham identifies his notebook and the last two entries, the Gilrains at 10:30, Hatch at 12:45. Drake reports to Mason his finding Gilrain's safe deposit box. "Elwood" Grimes identifies himself as Charlie's bodyguard. He kept a letter and phone calls from Anne away from Charlie. Didn't he discuss a plan for stealing money from Gilrain's safe deposit box? He gets angry. Anne says that she went to her husband's apartment hoping to get money. She asked for a divorce. The judge adjourns court and Mason tells Drake they need to get to the safe deposit box. // The bank manager says a special box had to be built, one requiring three, not the usual two, keys, and the signatures of both George Angstrom and T H Gilrain. A woman fitting Anne's description showed up the day after the murder, but with only one key. Drake explains the murder simply as Anne fighting with Tom. / In court Anne tells Mason that Grimes told her to get the key and he'd get the money. On the night of the murder she gave her husband back his key. She did not go to the bank. After explaining Charlie's fight with Gilrain, Rowena asserts that Charlie was with her all night, but the court sustains Burger's objection to this conclusion. Mason notes that if she cannot give Charlie an alibi, he cannot give her one. Eventually she admits to wearing a wig and going to the bank. She did it for Brigham! The insurance agent claims that he had been checking Grimes as the partner in the robbery and had told him if the money were returned there'd be no prosecution. Mason says that he was going to take the money and go to South America with Rowena, as he'd promised her. He got the key from Grimes. No, says Mason, he got the key from Gilrain. Grimes proves Mason right, holding out his key. Brigham was even trying to steal his girl! // Perry explains how things worked to Paul, Perry and Anne. Brigham did try to bargain with Grimes and he lied about Charlie who actually was passed out all night at Rowena's.

(3-1 Title credits) (3-2) A violent storm rages over a mansion perched high on a cliff above the ocean. A gravestone reads, “Father, Kenneth Walker, loving husband.” A second gravestone reads “Son, In Memory of Thomas Leslie Walker” (son). Inside a room with French doors opening to the storm, a blindfolded medium (Princess Charlotte) holds a seance. Helen (Garden) gives her an object, a glove. The medium relates it to Sylvia (Walker), who has recently lost her son, who has a message for his mother. Sylvia then calls the medium a fake, for the glove was purchased that afternoon and her son never touched it. There is a lightening flash and immediate crash. Sylvia has an attack. Michael (Craig) helps her out. Helen is told to get rid of the psychic and call Dr. Younger. / Princess Charlotte, Psychometric Medium, greets Philip Paisley. She’s had enough of his bright ideas. (He was at the seance with his wife Elaine). He offers offers “$500 in crisp new bills” if she’ll explain automatic writing and “her expert help help on how to fake a trance.” // (3-31) Dr Arthur (Younger) thanks Sylvia for dinner, tells Bonnie (who was at the seance) to be sure her mother takes her medicine, leaves. Michael, Sylvia's son-in-law follows. He asks the doctor how Sylvia really is. She's used psychic activities to reach dead son Tom. He reassures Michael that Sylvia will be fine. Philip Paisley has gone into a trance. Sylvia asks Helen to get a writing board. Dr Younger tells her to stop, she can’t take much more. She calls him a lying fool, for she believes “the truth is beyond the next hill.” Some charlatan is using her belief in spiritualism to rob her suggests the doctor. The board is place before philip. Michael calls it a “ghost to ghost telegraph company.“ Philip writes "automatically," Helen then reads, “Death’s omnipotence gloom casting . . .” Sylvia opens her safe, takes out a paper on which in his last day Tom wrote a poem. Dr Younger reads the poem from the safe. Helen reads what Philip wrote in his trance. The two match. Sylvia comforts Philip as he emerges from his trance. // Philip is moving into Tom's room which upsets the dead man's sister, Bonnie Craig, who says that he was putting on an act and got a copy of the poem in a letter from Tom. Since Tom died in an elevator crash, falling five stories. Philip demands that the elevator be fixed. He kisses Bonnie, which is seen by Elaine Paisley and Helen Garden. He kisses a reluctant wife, “only the first step on the way to 50 million bucks." / Perry Mason is welcomed at the cliffside mansion by Bonnie during another storm. She’s worried, but Mason suggests “frauds have a way of ultimately tripping over themselves.” They join the group where Philip, drunk, complains that “the spirit just isn’t interested.” Bonnie explains that she invited Mason. He's brought Life After Death, the Posthumous Poetry of Thomas Leslie Walker. He praises Philip for the book, asks him for an autograph. Philip says that Tom should autograph it. Mason congratulates him on the Thomas Leslie Walker Memorial Foundation. It is supported not by book sales, but one million from Walker Industries. Sylvia notes “I AM Walker Industries.” Mason hopes for a demonstration of automatic writing, but Philip refuses. Bonnie thinks that it is all an act and he challenges her to do it. “I’ll show him, myself” she shouts as lightening strikes outside. She falls into a trance and, as the others watch in stunned silence, writes "The fraud whose hoax turned hope to dread shall take his place among the dead" that can be read only in a mirror! Bonnie revives. Philip is terrified, calls her the fraud and rushes to his room, then takes the elevator . . . to his death. // (3-4) Sergeant Bradley informs Mason, Dr Younger and the others that it was not accidental, but murder. / Paul Drake explains to Perry and Della Street how the elevator was wired not just to fall, but pick up extra speed. During repair of the elevator, Bonnie “seemed unusually interested in how the elevator worked, what might conceivably go wrong with it, and what safety features it had.” Dr Younger saw her in Philip's room with a screw driver and a pair of pliers the night of the murder. David Gideon, who has permission to use Mason’s law library, suggests that Mason see Dr Andrija Puharich at the Parapsychology Lab. Mason gives Paul Drake extensive instructions, then gets a call from Bonnie. She’s been arrested for murder. / In jail Bonnie says that of course she was interested, because she wanted the elevator to be safe. She had to open a box that she thought had poems Philip was faking, so she had the tools. She deliberately got Philip drunk by “serving highballs that were almost all liquor,” so that he would not disturb her while she was searching his room. She’s not sure no one saw her making the loaded drinks. She vehemently declares that she did not fake her trance. / Mason explains to Dr Puharich how only Paisley used the elevator, to get to his car. The doctor tells Mason that a trance allows one to reveal what they’d not say otherwise. Bonnie could not incriminate herself in a trance, Puharich asserts, and Bonnie's trance can be proven. Drake reports by phone from Perry’s office that a Princess Charlotte, fake spiritualist, may have been in on Philip's swindle, which included blackmail of Michael Craig. / Michael says that Philip was putting the pressure on Bonnie over a business matter in which he was involved in order to become a vice-president at Walker Industries. Dr Younger admits to loving Sylvia ever since he first met her. Elaine, on her way out, stops to bitterly assert that Bonnie was having a little love affair with Philip. // (3-5) In court D A Hamilton Burger gets the judge to force Helen Garden, secretary companion to Sylvia, to state that Philip always reacted in the same manner when drunk by using the elevator to get down to his car and go driving. Bonnie said that “she'd see Philip Paisley dead and buried" before he could hurt the family. A week before the murder Bonnie did a fake trance, imitating Philip. Burger rests for the prosecution, giving a full explanation of how and why - ”a woman scorned” - Bonnie did it. Court is recessed by the judge. Burger approaches Mason, wonders how the lawyer can defend Bonnie, since Mason would never make the mistake of putting her on the stand. Sylvia, who has watched and overheard the foregoing, comes to Mason to say that the attorney “can’t possibly let Bonnie testify.” / Bonnie agrees to testify after admitting that she once went out with Philip hoping somehow to buy him off, but he was drunk. / Mason asks the court for a demonstration at the Parapsychology Lab. The judge listens to Mason’s reasoning regarding ESP, disagrees and is ready to say ‘no’ when Burger agrees, since this will give him the right of cross-examination. / Paul tells Perry and Della that Tom Walker was always in trouble with the ladies. He was always paying off. Both Craigs have electrical experience, he with the Signal Corp, she in a summer job with an electrical company. David reports that he found five positive identifications of photos given him by Mason. In a telephone call from Puharich Mason learns that the Faraday cage, to test for ESP, is ready. Bonnie’s life may depend upon it, ”particularly what happens with the Faraday cage” notes Mason. // 3-6) At the lab Elaine Paisley and Bonnie are the first test subjects. Elaine scores 93 of 1000, Bonnie 97 of 1000. “Neither score exceeds chance expectation” or shows ESP capability. Michael Craig, instructed by Gideon, works with Bonnie to match ten numbered blocks. No ESP. The Faraday cage is needed for a final determination. Dr Younger goes in the cage with Bonnie. Helen Garden is outside. 22,000 volts isolates the cage, notes Mason. “Do not touch the cage” cautions the attorney. Garden arranges ten blocks outside, Bonnie arranges inside. Of a sudden, the cage sparks. Garden jumps up, turns around, goes directly to the high voltage switch, opens it. She, not Bonnie, was Philip’s girlfriend and also Tom's lover, knew that he needed money which she’d then helped him get, had access to the company's books which she juggled for Tom. She killed Tom, who only laughed at her, and then Paisley guessed what she had done. So she also killed Philip Paisley. // (3-7) The family celebrates with Paul, Perry, David and Della. It seems that the partial test in the Faraday Cage indicated that Bonnie does have latent, or very mild, ESP capabilities, justifying her trance. What should she do with this? Mike suggests, “call herself ‘countess’ and give readings with an accent.” (3-8 end credits) (50:30)

A cab brings a man (Widlock) and his crutches to the construction site of the Palm View Medical Center. Nurse York warns Dr (Wayne) Edley of Widlock's arrival. Widlock has an X-ray of a hip Edley said was only bursitis but it shows broken bones. The X-ray Edley took was destroyed by an electrical fire. Widlock threatens a malpractice suit. // Janice Edley suggests to Grif Rolan that they should break a bottle of champagne over a sawhorse. Back in the office, Wayne tells Janice Widlock demanded $5,000, which they don't have. He wants to have Dr Gates, who taught him radiology, see if he can remember the destroyed X-ray. She suggests that he see instead her former boyfriend, Leslie Hall. He goes to / Los Angeles, and sees the new man renting Gate's office, Dr Banning, who says the records are stored, see Leslie Hall about them. / On the phone, Hall informs Edley that the notes are stored in the old Gates farmhouse. / Hall drives to the farmhouse and finds the notebook, takes it away. / Roger Gates finds Edley trying to get into the house. / Edley goes to Mrs Osborn, Dr Gates's housekeeper, in hopes she might have the notebooks. She tells him to see Hall. / He goes to Perry Mason and Paul Drake joins them, says the 24 hours they have is enough. / Drake finds Widlock at a bar and warns him of insurance fraud, then calls Edley to say Widlock will back off. / Edley returns home. Janice is at a meeting. When he calls her, there is no such meeting. / He goes to Hall's place, finds a woman's glove and a notebook, burned. Hall enters. Mr Morgan interrupts. Edley accuses Hall of burning the notes, swings at Hall and misses, is then knocked down. / Morgan returns with a policeman and plainclothesman (Sergeant Ben Landro). They find Hall, dead. // The next morning Drake reports to Mason that Widlock took an early bus to Phoenix. Mason sends him there, because of the newspaper report of Hall's death. / Edley tells Mason that, after the fight, he walked for hours and got into bed without waking Janice. Also, when the police got to the scene, not even ashes of the notebooks remained. Sergeant Ben Landro arrives with a blood-stained scalpel, then escorts Edley to headquarters. / Drake finds Widlock at a bus stop where he shows him the newspaper article on Hall's murder. / Widlock tells Mason and Drake that he never met Hall. He left because he was paid off, $3,000, by a Della Street. // Janice is asleep when Mrs Osborn's greets Mason. She explains how Janice lost both parents when she was young and was then cared for by uncle Dr Gates who took in her cousin Roger Gates. Janice tells Mason that she did see Hall. Mason suggests that he urged her to settle and she did. He warns her that "it's too bad she didn't listen to her husband, rather than the rest of the town."/ / Mason confronts Roger Gates over his not mentioning Hall's taking the notebooks. Roger complains that he has to go to L A, his father's office, having been so ordered by the police. / In Dr Gate's office in L A, Gates is dead and has been buried in a flower planter for the entire year. // In court prosecutor Parness hears Widlock complain about his hip. Widlock identifies Grif Roland as the man who delivered the $3,000. Roland admits that he got the money out of the payroll. He tells Mason that he owed Janice for getting him the construction contract. He was also friends with Hall, as he was with almost everybody. The autopsy surgeon says that only a physician or surgeon would have known how to correctly use the murder weapon. Mason, however, asks what other crime was committed this way, and by whom. A bookkeeper! Miss York admits that the murder weapon is of a Swedish make her doctor used, and one was missing. Asa Cooperman testifies to seeing someone like Edley at the doctor's incinerator. Sgt Landro introduces the blood-stained towel which was wrapped around the murder scalpel found in the incinerator about midnight. The towel was the type supplied Edley. Mason gets Landro to admit that the towel could have been Hall's, and that the murder could have been committed even with a paper cutter. The prosecutor goes back on the attack. Landro found another place where Dr Gates, uncle to Roger, had stashed records, namely a farmhouse. Roger testifies to finding just this morning a photostat of the $100,000 Swiss check to Janice and Wayne, along with a letter. The letter is a threat to reveal Dr Edley's part in Gate's disappearance. // Edley tells Mason that he got no notes from Hall. Della Street reports that Paul has found scattered bank accounts all over, in Hall's name. / By phone from Phoenix Drake tells Mason that he has found another Widlock. / Widlock also collected another $5,000. Drake brings in the second, twin, Widlock. Widlock admits that Hall gave him the $5,000, about 9:45. Mason suggests that his crutches are mere props, and Widlock admits that he was at the incinerator. Nurse York denies being at the incinerator, though Mason notes that Cooperman also said he might not have noticed a woman. How rich was Dr Gates? A millionaire. So $100,000 was little. Mason suggests that only one person could have been the woman who was being blackmailed by Hall. Mrs Osborn confesses. She went to see Gates at his office. He was already packed. He was leaving her. And Leslie kept asking questions. // Mason explains to the Edleys, Paul and Della, that Dr Gates converted his assets to cash and negotiable securities, on which Mrs Osborn was able to get her hands. Hall maintained the illusion of Gates being alive since he had power of attorney. He was bleeding Osborne. That is why he wanted Widlock paid off, so people wouldn't start asking questions.

A buzzer sounds at the Alchemy Gold Mines and a guard opens a door. A man wheels out a load of phoney gold ingots. A security guard and an official discuss the theft of over half a million dollars of ingots. Jones thinks that they could have been removed over a period of six or eight weeks. / A balding security man covers gold ingots in his car trunk, then hides his security clothes in a nearby wooded area. // At dockside a security man looks for a missing boat. Perry Mason and Paul Drake come looking for the Via Jero II. A watchman says that Captain (Scott) Cahill will be in soon. / At Art's Landing Cahill tells a crew member (Ben Wylie) that he is preparing the boat for Mason, since the Magoverns have canceled their usual weekend because Magovern broke his leg. The security man overhears this and goes to the bar where Charlie (Bender) is half drunk, and looks up Karl Magovern's address. / Karl asks wife Rita Magovern to answer the door. She wants him to tell her why he's so nervous. It is the security man, and she is very friendly to him before taking him to her husband. / Karl phones Professor Sneider to order him to join him at the boat at six o'clock. Sneider hangs up, then notes to his lab technician that Magovern is strange. Doesn't he owe money asks the technician. / Cahill chases Drake and Mason off the boat. Magovern, Mason notes, is a promoter whose company folded, leaving a hundred houses half-built. Magovern is seeking seaweed for alginate. Even Cahill thinks this strange. / Rita asks Karl why he has to go to Mexico and suggests that she have the waiting ambulance take him to the hospital to care for his leg. The ambulance driver enters. / Magovern and wife Rita arrive at the dock, where he is helped by the ambulance driver. Wylie admires Rita, and Karl threatens him, drinks from a bottle, and she throws it away. Cases of booze are loaded on the boat which has to be fueled. Sneider goes to find Charlie, the regular diver, who is now quite drunk, but suggest that his friend Max take his place. / A police officer shows Ben a photo of the balding security man, but Ben does not recognize him. The boat sails with the security man watching. His car trunk is now empty. / Off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico, Rita is sun bathing. Max returns from one dive, then dives again. A coastguard boat approaches. Two coastguard seamen board the Via Jero II and find Magovern dead. / On another boat, Mason and Drake are fishing when they receive Cahill's call. Magovern has been murdered, and he's now involved with gold smuggling. // Back on land, Mason is informed by Lieutanant Tragg that tincture of digitalis, found in Cahill's medicine chest, may have killed Magovern, though neither he nor the captain needed it. Sergeant Brice leads them to a cache of gold on the ship. Tragg points out that Magovern went ashore at Ensenada each week the past eight. / Sneider tells Mason and Drake that he now realizes that searching for kelp only in Mexican waters was an excuse for the weekly trips. He tried to fire drunken Charlie Bender but Magovern, who ran everything, liked him. / Rita says that she hates boats and the roof was falling in on her husband. The police found a map of the (Alchemy) gold mine in Karl's luggage. He was planning a half million theft, and wouldn't give her money to pay the gas bill. / Drake questions Ben Wylie about his interest in Rita. He's just a growing boy. Max is filling his diving tanks. He hasn't been paid by Sneider. / Drake reports that the police are looking for a man, probably connected with the gold robbery, named Leon Ulrich (the photo is of the balding security man). The glass with the poison had Magovern and Cahill's fingerprints. Cahill was broke. Magovern hadn't paid the $1000 per trip. / Cahill tells Mason that, just before they sailed the last time, Magovern promised to pay from a Mexican bank when they got to Ensenada. The digitalis came from an earlier customer with heart trouble. Tragg enters with a damning report; the medicine cabinet has only Cahill's fingerprints, was locked, and Cahill had the key. // In court Sneider admits to D A Hamilton Burger that Magovern went ashore in Ensenada on each trip. He found Magovern in a hotel corridor, bloodied from a fight with Cahill, on their penultimate trip. Mason gets him to admit that Cahill only left to get a doctor, he did not run away. He tells Mason that Magovern had not put up his share in their company, but he had. Yes, he's in desperate straits because Magovern didn't pay him. Burger asks where was he that night. Playing gin rummy with Rita is his answer. Wylie says Cahill and Magovern went to fill the fuel tank. Cahill and Magovern argued loudly at the gas dock. Wylie was at the wheel from then until midnight. Mason then shames him. Magovern kicked him out of a hotel bar. Yet because of his respect for the old man he kept working without pay! Rita was in the cabin outside her husband's room throughout from just after the poison had to have been administered. Mason confronts her. Why did she go on all those boat trips with her husband? She cared for Karl. Wasn't she afraid he'd go ashore and never return, with well over a hundred thousand collected by him in insurance claims when their Palm Springs house burned down? As Max goes to the stand, Mason gets a note from Drake via Street delivered by George. // Drake walks into a bar in a small town east of the kelp bed, asks the Mexican bartender for a beer. He notices a still-smoking cigarette butt, then shows the bartender the picture of Ulrich, who is hiding in a back room. He phones Mason to tell him that Ulrich has been seen there. / Mason requests a 48 hour recess, to which Burger concurs. Mason explains why to the judge. / Max, Wylie, Sneider, Mason and Burger are sailing with the coast guard. Mason explains why gold would be smuggled, not in many, but one trip. They reach a large kelp bed, the thickest they found, says Sneider. At full speed, they trigger a pressure buoy. Max, whom Mason suggests once served aboard a mine sweeper, admits that he took all the gold down the last trip, in his aqualung pressure tanks! He simply made a deal with Charlie Bender to take over on this one trip. Magovern didn't know about the gold. / Perry explains to Rita and Hamilton that Max put gold where it would be found to throw suspicion elsewhere. He had Leon Ulrich act as a process server to chase Karl back to Mexico. The poisonous digitalis was in the whiskey bottle which has been found where she threw it. Rita admits that Karl could have divorced her in Mexico,and she'd not even get her mink coat back. // Mason and Drake are fishing on Cahill's boat. Ulrich has been arrested. Rita found the digitalis, used it after the fact to throw suspicion on anyone on the boat, should a problem arise. Mason hooks a sailfish.

A man in convertible drives down to the seashore, writes a note on a ledger that he pins to the steering wheel, then smokes a cigarette, and finally dives into the swater with his clothes and shoes on and swims away. / The police arrive to hear the story of man's finding the suicide note. The car has Durrant Art Gallery on the side. / On Castle Rock beach at night,man signals with a flash light. The suicidal man comes swimming in and meets another, Austin (Durrant), who has a coat for him, Jack Culross, artist. The Los Angeles Chronicle announces his death. // A "for sale" sign is displayed at the Durrant Art Galleries. All that is left of Culross's work is sketches. Durrant is telling Edna Culross and her brother Clint (Miller) that Jack wasted his talent. She plans to move out of the country within a week. He'll give $5,000 cash for the paintings in the studio. / Durrant drives to an oceanside cottage where he finds Culross doing a great painting. / Later, at the opening of the Culross exhibit at the Durrant Gallery, a woman asks Dr Vincent Kenyon his advice on a third purchase. (Linda) Burnside agrees it is better than a 50% sell out. Clint and Edna have come and they see the "Three Witches," finished, though it was not when she sold it to Durrant. / Edna with Clint tells Perry Mason that the painting was finished after Jack's death. David Gideon explains to Della Street and Mason how, with a thermocouple, it can be determined how recently paint was put on a canvas. / A man slashes one painting several times. Mason offers to buy the Three Witches, but Dr Kenyon has bought it. / Culross tells Durrant to close the exhibit immediately. / Kenyon allows Gideon and Mason to test the painting, which he says is authentic Culross. Gideon measures the temperature. Outside the gallery, Mason confirms to Gideon that a third of the painting was done six days after the artist died. / Burnside informs Durrant that the bank package won't be ready until six, when he has to be in San Diego. She suggests she'll pick up the package, leave it at the gallery, and deliver another item. Culross has overheard this and demands a key to the gallery's back door so that he can pick up his share. Jack then phones his widow. / At the Durrant gallery a man (the slasher) leaves. Edna enters and is greeted by Jack, who tells her this trick is worth $80,000 tax free. She rejects him, says she's going to call the police and goes to her car. He gets a gun and pulls her out of the car. She is able to push him. He falls to the ground. // Edna tells Perry, Paul Drake, Della and David that she just ran, leaving her purse behind. / At the gallery, Gideon finds Edna's purse, but the car is gone. Drake smells a small caliber gun recently fired. / A policeman pulls over Edna's car on the Malibu Beach road. / Drake inofrms Mason and Gideon that Clint Miller was driving Edna's car and he's being held on suspicion of murder. Jack Culross was found in the back of the car, dead. / In jail Mason tells Miller to not underestimate the police. They'll connect Burnside, Mrs Culross, Durrant. Miller says that he thought Culross was injured and only realized that he was dead later. Edna left a note for him saying that she'd heard from her husband and was meeting him at the gallery. / Edna says that she never fired the gun. Lieutenant Anderson and Sergeant Brice arrest her. / Drake and Gideon go to Walter Hutchings apartment and meet him, the slasher, as he arrives. He refuses to cooperate. / Drake notes that Hutchings is on parole. He was curator of a Dallas university art gallery and was sent up on art bunko. / In Dallas Robert Shelby says Hutchings made only an error of judgment in buying a brilliant fake Matisse, "Blue Waters," from a guy named Peters, who skipped. He recognizes Culross as Peters, then shows them the fake. / Which twin they see in Los Angeles. // In court D A Hamilton Burger has Lt Anderson identify the murder bullets and the defendant's note to her brother. Miller, after being granted immunity, identifies the note. Hutchings identifies Edna as the woman who drove up to the gallery shortly before the murder. Linda Burnside testifies that she left the bank package before 7:30. Mason tries to get her to admit that she knew what was in the package. Burger counters with the admission by Edna that Culross had the money when she arrived. Durrant was certain Culross was going to fly out of the country, until he told him that his wife was going to drive him. Culross, regarding the air ticket, only said "it was taken care of." He inventoried the gallery the next day because tapestries had been knocked off the wall, folded and stacked. Kenyon admits that he was the victim of fraud in a posthumous exhibition. / London has sent proof to Mason that Kenyon's "Blue Waters" is a fake. Where is the money is no key to solving the crime. // "Was Culross blackmailing you in order to promote his career?" Mason asks Kenyon. The witness won't answer. Burnside says Kenyon helped promote the Culross show. Durrant, Miller and Mrs Culross, plus a fourth, knew that Culross was alive and knew as well of the $80,000 package. Burger thinks Mason is denigrating Kenyon, but that is not the target Mason had in mind. The judge admonishes Burger. Mason continues. When she left the package, the tapestries were still hanging. Burnside admits one could have hidden in the gallery and overheard Culross's intended double-cross of Durrant and the murderer's accomplice. When Mrs Culross arrived early, the murderer had to get the money safely out of the building. She admits there were mailing boxes and stamps in the office, and a mail box nearby. Mason has subpoenaed the package, which Deputy Postal Inspector Johnson brings to court. The name to which it has been mailed must be the murderer. The name is Linda Burnside. // Mason explains to the gathering that Burnside was in love with Culross and had purchased two plane tickets. Durrant is in jail. Dr Kenyon has been fired from his curatorial post.

Kirby (Evans) and (Ralph) Townley are joined by (Erin) Mooney. They discuss the new racer's engine and the importance of a test before the race. The racer is unloaded and Vincent (Danielli) is told by Professor (Dr) Mooney to listen to the engine to determine when to shift. Kate and Walter Eastman arrive in a Jaguar. Kate is greeted by brother Kirby. Vincent begins a test run, then spins the car off the track. // Dr Bell tells the gathered throng that he doesn't know why Vincent cannot walk. Kate Eastman, alone with Vincent, hears him say that he caused the accident and is faking paralysis. He rolled the car so he wouldn't have to race, after which he'd be sent back to Italy. He knows she's unhappy with Walter. Evans takes her into the hall where he warns her about becoming attached to Danielli. She ripostes with her husband's many declared affairs. Why shouldn't she have some fun? Should she expose him and dirty his name just to get a divorce? / Mooney asserts that Danielli intentionally wrecked the car and it will take a month to repair. Townley says that it will take five weeks to repair the engine. Evans tells partner Eastman that he should still want the engine. / In Perry Mason's office Eastman explains the Mooney rotary engine to Mason and Della Street. He's bailing out of the project. He doesn't like Danielli and instructs Mason to pay him off. He wants Danielli and the contract, which is with Mooney and Evans, taken care of by the next day. / Danielli tells Mason he'll be done when he's well and there is no obligation. Mason informs him that Eastman has arranged to fly him back to Italy, tomorrow. When Mason leaves, Kate and Walter meet. He'll eat at the club and she'll be at Gloria Foster's party. Vincent lies to Kate that he was offered nothing and has to leave tomorrow. He mentions her upcoming trip to San Francisco where her husband will send her to the opera, alone. He woos her, says he wants to live for love. He suggests that he steal the club receipts Walter will bring home that evening and that she get a flat on the way to the party, call her husband at the club to come help. Later he'll steal the money out of the car. They can't suspect him for he's paralyzed! / At night Kate drives Danielli to the robbery site, gets out of her car, understands then that Vincent intends to kill Walter. He passionately pleads his love. She makes the phone call, but to warn her husband, and is told by the North Hollywood Hills club secretary that she is too late. / The Mooney's pick her up. / They find her car run off the road and upside down. She hysterically calls "Walter, but it is Danielli who is dead. // Eastman tells Mason and Paul Drake that he didn't go to the club but just parked at "the horseshoe turn." He was there for a couple of hours to think about things. Evans heard Eastman return home about 9:30. He was in the garage with Mooney who was ready to commit mayhem on Danielli. He checked the car and was certain the engine didn't cause the flip over. He thought he heard Ralph Townley of Columbia Motors, who had the production rights to the Mooney engine, arguing with Danielli, because it was Townley's car parked outside. Mooney was not with him when he checked the engine. Erin Mooney enters, but sounds of a police car send Mason out. / He encounters Lieutenant Anderson and Sergeant Brice of homicide, rather than the traffic division. Butler Ellis comes to Mason, who gives him instructions to order a cab and tell Drake to meet him at the club. / Mason talks with Dr Mooney. He tried to see Danielli earlier and saw Townley's car. He suggests that Townley might be bribing Danielli to make his engine look bad. Later he also saw Walter's car. Ellis reports that the cab is waiting. He shows Mason a $1,000 check from Townley to Danielli. / Townley tells Mason and Drake that his job was to check the engine for Eastman and he wrote a check to Danielli for his opinion. He left Danielli at 8:30 and arrived at the club about ten. / Dr Bell, Lt Anderson, Mason, Eastman and others view Kate, in a delirium, repeat her words to Danielli and the club secretary. Then Eastman repeats his "horseshoe turn" story to Andy. / Sgt Brice has found no tire marks at the horseshoe turn, but Andy found the marks within feet of where Danielli was murdered. // In jail Mason wants to know from Eastman why he spent two hours at the horseshoe in. Eastman responds that Ellis saw Danielli forcing his attentions on Kate. That was what he was thinking about. He realized he'd taken young, lovely Kate for granted and robbed her of every chance for happiness. / In court D A Hamilton Burger shows the autopsy surgeon a wrench. It had hairs and blood of the same type as the dead man. Ellis tells Burger that he saw Danielli making love to Mrs Mooney and to Mr Eastman's wife. Eastman, later, ordered him to forget what he'd seen. Dr Mooney says that he'd forbidden his daughter, Erin, from seeing Danielli, but she went to him that evening. Erin heard Danielli argue with, and get threatened by, Eastman. Walter begs Mason not to bring the entire affair out into the open. Mason honors his request by passing on cross-examination. Andy states tht the wrench was found ten yards from the body. A cigar, found at the murder scene, is of a distinct imported variety made for Eastman. // Kate is still bed-ridden. She admits to Mason that she was a fool over Danielli. Yet she knew of Walter's other affairs and still loves him. / Back in court Evans testifies that he saw Danielli both early in the eve and after he was dead. The voice he heard arguing with Danielli could have been Ralph Townley. Townley says that after his argument with Danielli he got back to the club about 10:30. Burger's examination leads to his conclusion that it was Eastman's argument with Danielli, not what Ellis told him, that caused Eastman to cancel his dinner with Townley at the club. Mason suggests that Townley gave a large payment to Danielli before the check, to tell Eastman that the engine was no good. Didn't he fight with Danielli because he wanted much more than $1,000? Della brings Mason a note which prompts him to recall Lt Anderson, who reads a list of what was found in the broken-open glove compartment of Eastman's car. There is a battery guarantee, but none on the tires. What happened is that the tires were switched on similar cars, the murderers and Eastman's. Anderson raises the issue of how long it takes to change tires. Only the owner of the car with which they were switched, Kirby Evans, could have done that. Evans confesses. He wanted to control his sister Kate and, through her, her husband and his fortune. He explains everything including seeing Walter at the horseshoe turn, the cigar, the wheels and the missing tire marks at the horseshoe turn. His greed betrays him. // Mason, Drake and Street explain to the Eastman's how Evans lied to them about each other's affairs, none of which happened. Drake reports that the car with the Mooney engine has won the Palisades race!

At Health House (Veronica) Temple is giving instructions to four ladies. One who is quite fat (Mrs Dwyer) tries but fails to touch her toes. When Ward (Nichols) enters Veronica goes to him, warns him that he must have the money by Friday. (Casey) Daniels has watched, concerned. // David Gideon and Ward end a game of handball. Casey asks Ward what is wrong. They are to be married, so should have no secrets. He reminds her that she has enough trouble of her own persuading her father that they should marry. / Bernard Daniels asks bookkeeper (Clara) Prentice about four checks totaling $7,000 made out to and cashed by ABC Sporting Goods Company. She says that she's never seen the checks. Eugene Houseman, who signed the checks, says he recognizes his signature, but doesn't recognize the company. Daniels thinks of forgery and that there is only one employee he didn't pass on, Ward Nichols. Casey defends Nichols and Bernard reminds her that he's her guardian. Didn't Ward ask Houseman for a loan? He calls his insurance company. / Casey finds Veronica demonstrating a machine to the fat woman, who quickly leaves. Casey asks Veronica about the money Ward has given her and is told to get lost. / David Gideon brings Casey to Perry Mason and Della Street. Veronica is Ward's ex-wife, which has been kept from Bernard because he won't employ anyone who's been divorced or who smokes or drinks. She thinks Veronica may be doing the stealing. He cannot represent Ward without his permission. Paul Drake enters, tells them he just investigated Veronica, for Bernard Daniels! No final decree has been issued in her divorce. / Veronica is being nuzzled by (Dr) Harrison (Berry) when (Rhonda) Houseman arrives, looking for her husband. Veronica calls for Buzz Farrell, who is drinking. He's instructed to get Houseman, who is playing handball with Daniels. They take note of Buzz's condition. Rhonda points out that were it not for his drinking, he'd been a partner long ago and could have discharged Veronica. Buzz approaches the court, encounters Ward. Buzz gives Houseman the message, is caught drinking and is sent to the locker room, then to be fired. Then Daniels asks Nichols if he has any good reason why he shouldn't send him to jail. / Casey, Mason and Gideon arrive to take Buzz to dinner. They trip over a broken whiskey bottle and find Bernard Daniels, dead. // Lieutanants Tragg and Anderson and Sergeant Brice investigate with Mason and Gideon present. They find Buzz out cold drunk and the twin of the murder weapon, a dumbbell, in his locker. Miss Prentice has been found upstairs. / A handwriting expert explains to Mason, Street, Casey and Houseman the faults in the forged check signature. Houseman is relieved. / Drake reports that Nichols is missing. Veronica has a boyfriend, Dr Berry. Ward's fingerprint was on the broken whiskey bottle. David calls to say that Ward is with him. Ward had a wrestling match with Daniels, and cut his hand on the broken bottle He went to Berry to have it fixed. Then he heard of the murder, looked for Casey, then Veronica. Mason asks why Veronica wanted money. Six weeks in Nevada! Proof? Dr Berry? / Mason sees Dr Berry and asks him about a report that he gave Veronica concerning her pregnancy. When Mason leaves, Veronica enters from an adjacent room. She notes that Daniels was dead when she want to her appointment with him. / Drake is at ABC Sporting Goods where he is met by Mr Masters who explains the lease to J P Jones of the now-vacated company. / Gideon goes to pick up clothes for Nichols and is caught by Lt Anderson and Sgt Brice. They've found scratch paper with Houseman's signature, a lease for the ABC Sporting Goods Company and two bank statements. A phone call reveals that Nichols has been picked up on first-degree murder. // In jail Mason lights a cigarette while Ward explains how he discovered only two week ago that he was not divorced. Ward continues with his whole story. Drake reports two more forged checks, totaling $75,000. / In court a lab technician tells D A Hamilton Burger that the murder weapon, the dumbbell, has no fingerprints. Ward Nichols' fingerprints are on the broken whiskey bottle. Lt Anderson identifies the items found in Nichols' apartment. Mason makes the point that what Anderson found may have been planted. Houseman testifies that he took Buzz to the locker room but Buzz got another bottle and passed out before he could get him in the shower. He went to report to Daniels, but Daniels was arguing with Nichols, so he took a shower, then went upstairs to his wife. Mason suggests that Houseman snuck out and killed Daniels while Buzz was out cold. Buzz says that he couldn't have seen who took the dumbell from his locker. He hated Daniels but didn't kill him. Dr Berry admits that he reported to Veronica that she was going to have a child. Veronica testifies to Ward's saying that he'd get the money any way he could when she told him of her child and her wish to complete the divorce. // Paul joins Perry, Casey and Della at dinner. Veronica had a high school marriage and no divorce. There were also no lab tests on her. Prentice is in love with Farrell. There is nothing on Berry other than the lab lie. Rhonda was Daniels secretary up to a year ago and Eugene was a handball champ. $82,245 is the total missing. Buzz paid his bookie $245 recently, from horse betting. / Clara Prentice admits to taking the $245 from petty cash for Buzz and not replacing it from her savings account before the audit. Questioned, she says Daniels had asked her to make out a check for what he owed Veronica, whom he was going to fire or expose. She opens a secret drawer and they discover $75,000 in bills. / Back in court the handwriting expert says that the two checks totaling $75,000 plus the scratch paper signatures are the same person. Mason has the courtroom cleared of witnesses. Then Mason asks about the slant of the handwriting. The forger was left-handed. With everyone back, Mason asks Dr Berry about his signature on a lab report and forces him to admit to forging the report. He asks Berry to copy Houseman's signature. Berry starts with the pen in his right hand, so Mason stops him. Mason confronts Veronica with her high school marriage, which means she was blackmailing Nichols since she wasn't legally married to him. Why did she want a copy of the report? Who else was she blackmailing? She also writes right-handed. Mason tosses Houseman a handball. He catches it with his left hand. He is ambidextrous. He admits that he used his left hand for the forgeries. Veronica demanded $7,000 more than he could get without letting his wife or Daniels know that he was the wife of her child. Daniels found out and forced him to write a confession and forge two more checks. He was over-extended and would use the insurance money to pay off the creditors. He gave Bernard the $75,000. Rhonda stands and admits to the murder. She saw Eugene's confession and knew Bernard would bleed them forever. She waited until Daniels was alone. Then she took the confession, not the money, for she's not a thief. // Back at Health House, Casey and Ward thank Perry. Paul asks Della why Perry thought him a genius. Because he reminded Perry that Houseman was a handball champ and handball players are often ambidextrous.

Dr (Charles) Cromwell, the future Euclid College president tells ( Dick) Wilson that the cover of "The Euclid Vanguard" is indiscreet because of a potential million dollar endowment from James Vardon. Then Mark (Dr Marcus Tate) warns Cromwell about (Robert) Haskell, who is organizing the graduation ceremony. Outside, Mrs (Mary) Cromwell offers Haskell tea but he says "no," everything has to be just right for Vardon at the commencement. She asks Pete (Gibson) to bring sandwiches. Haskell heads off to continue preparations and Pete suggests that Haskell seems properly concerned. Cromwell joins Haskell and others as the layout is being considered. Haskell suggests that it would be special if Vardon arrived during the ceremony, just like the approaching cab. A woman, drunk, falls out of the cab and makes a fool of herself, then gets back in the cab wanting to see "Curly." // Cromwell is trying to locate the cab when Wilson arrives with a new cover. He notes that the woman in the cab had a heart attack. Mary Cromwell joins them. Then after Dick leaves with his cover approved, she wonders about her husband being preoccupied. It is only over the Vardon endowment, he submits. Haskell phones that Vardon is on the way . . . Vardon notes Haskell's dislike of Cromwell, who asserts that it is only that, after the endowment, he won't have so much of Vardon's funds to manage. Vardon considers the loss of his job might be Haskell's reason. He believes that Cromwell is the kind of upright man to make good use of his money which he has little time to use himself. / At the hospital, nurse Talbot offers to get some refreshment for Cromwell but he says he's alright. Maizie (Freitag), the drunk woman, wakes and recognizes her "Curly," the best thing to happen in her life. She tells the nurse they have much to remember and mentions high life in Panama. She apologizes for the scene she made. She mentions the money that she's stashed, which she wants to go to a student. She has an attack and Dr Hunterlin is called in. She dies. Cromwell begins to explain to Dr Hunterlin his relationship to her when the nurse interrupts. Maizie left a written statement but it has disappeared. / Jonas, an orderly, says that he mailed a letter, a will, for Maizie. / Cromwell explains to Perry Mason and Della Street how Maizie Freitag saved him from a difficult situation. Because of the Vardon gift and a Sumner Foundation gift, also $1 million, he wants the relationship kept unknown. This means suppressing the will which is worth only $2000. Mason says that Paul Drake can try to find where the will is. / Cromwell locates Maizie's cabby, who tells where she stayed. / The Travelcrest Lodge clerk says Freitag's room was paid for by Robert Haskell. The bartender Jerry reveals that Haskell tipped him for stocking Freitag's room with liquor. He also tipped a cab driver to pick her up later to surprise an old friend. / Cromwell pounds on Haskell's apartment door; it opens. / Paul Drake reports what Cromwell has already found out to Mason and Street. / Paul and Perry go to Haskell's, find him dead. // Sergeant Landro confirms Mason and Drake's discovery of the body. Vardon barges in right by a deputy sheriff demanding to know what is being done. Haskell had no enemies. Mason counters with "he had one." / Mary Cromwell returns from shopping, answers the phone, but we don't know who is on the line. She leaves the phone off the hook to answer the bell. It is Perry Mason, who notices the off-hook phone when she gets him a snapshot of her husband. Mason leaves. Mary returns to the phone and queries "you did what?" / Mason traces Cromwell's steps first through the motel clerk. The clerk notes that a student (Wilson) was there with the woman who is in Mason's snapshot, and came back for her handbag. / Mary Cromwell asks Dick why he fought with Haskell (so it was he on the phone). To protect her from scandal, he answers that he slipped a love poem in her hand bag, then decided he had to get it back. / Cromwell has the purse and reads the poem. He burns it. / Dr Tate is cornered by Mason regarding Wilson's relationship to Mrs Cromwell. Drake reports that the will has not been probated and the nurse has said Maizie was calling for a "Curly Oliver." Sgt Landro is talking to Professor Grove, but Mason is waylaid by Dr Tate who reveals where Cromwell might be. / Mary finds her husband where Tate said he'd be. He tells her that he found and burned the poem. He also found her hand bag where she left it, in Haskell's hotel room. On Tate's advice, Mason now finds the two and, when he calls Cromwell "Curly," the jig is up, as Sgt Landro arrives to take him to headquarters. // In court the autopsy surgeon tells Deputy D A Horner how he believes the murder occurred, at no earlier than five of two. Young Wilson met with Haskell about one. He identifies Mary's purse. Under Mason's withering cross-examination, he admits to going to the room but not entering when he heard Pete (Gibson) demanding unpaid money. The judge has Gibson stopped from leaving the courtroom in order to question him directly. Gibson was out of the room before the time set for death. Dr Tate is called to attest to this by Deputy D A Horner. He does, and also supplies himself an alibi by saying that he saw Gibson back at the campus at two o'clock. A motel maid (Julia Slovak?) saw Cromwell coming down the stairs with the hand bag. / Prof Grove testifies that Haskell was merely a go-between for Vardon. Horner asks Vardon if on what he was paid he could have invested three-quarters of a million on stocks that have gone down a quarter of a million? From a list of securities Vardon realizes that Haskell, using his power of attorney, had put up his own securities and now couldn't cover his loses. Which is why Haskell was actually trying to prevent Vardon from giving the college his gift. Now Horner, examining Sgt Landro, launches into a diatribe, claiming Cromwell is the Curly referred to by Maizie Freitag who was a bar girl in Panama City 26 years earlier when the defendant was involved in a barroom stabbing, which charge in Panama is still outstanding. // Drake sees little hope for Cromwell. Mason counters that the man was then a kid of seventeen, a stranger and scared. / Mason flies to his friend in Panama, Rafael Sandoval, who provides Mason a list of all who were involved in the brawl that resulted in the stabbing. Because the victim was his older brother, it is he who has made the list that is more complete than the police records. / Back in court Gibson says that he was owed $300. He got his job at the college a decade earlier with a recommendation from Maizie Freitag. Alright, says Gibson, he told Haskell that Cromwell knew Maizie. Haskell sent for Maizie, but put Gibson's signature on the note. Now he wanted a lot more than $300. Tate confirms seeing Gibson, but Mason notes that several students saw him downtown working on his car. Mason exposes Tate's false alibi, as well as his former involvement at a small New England college where a coed slashed her wrist. Grove admits to having access to faculty personnel records. Tate jumps up and admits that he got so angry when Haskell brought this up, and with his trying to ruin his friends the Cromwells, that he struck Haskell and knocked him down. He didn't move. // To the tune of "Gaudeamus Igitur," Perry leaves the administration building and joins Della and Paul. Cromwell is telling Vardon he cannot accept his million until he receives the $2000 from Maizie's will, to help male students. Mason announces that Sandoval decided not to pursue the matter; all that matters is that the stabber was not Cromwell. Della says that she knew it all along, for Mrs Cromwell said her husband couldn't have done it.

Newspaperman Lawrence Vander to see (Clifton) Barlow is announced by Miss Gibson. Vander admits that he's not there to do research on Space Associates Ltd. More importantly, he has proof that Max Kleinerman was not killed in the Battle of the Bulge, but switched uniforms with a dead soldier and is here as an executive in Barlow's company. // Mrs (Phyllis) Merrill reports that her husband, Harlan, has been fidgety for the past couple of weeks. She thinks something in his past has caught up with him. Since he has an appointment with Perry Mason, she came early. / At a meeting of company executives, Barlow tells Harlan Merrill that he wants the sale of Space Research American Division to go smoothly, so he and Emery Fillmore will make their financial records available. Buck Osborn is being given orders when Miss Gibsone announces a visitor and Harlan leaves. (Winifred) Dunbrack has the security checks on employees. The company party that night is announced. / Harlan Merrill receives a passport and birth certificate from a forger who leaves just as Vander enters to ask where Merrill served in the war. / David Gideon advises Merrill that Mason has been detained in court. Merrill explains that he must transfer all his assets to his wife now. He cannot wait for transfer documents and such. Gideon suggests a power of attorney in Mason's name. When Merrill goes to wait in the adjacent room, Gideon closes a book titled Trials of War Criminals before the Nurenberg Military Tribunals. / Mason explains to Gideon that the power of attorney is not enough since it doesn't spell out the intent of Merrill. David is sent out to find and bring back Merrill. / Merrill uses graphite dust to recover the writing on a note setting a meeting at 6 p m. Gideon finds him but Merrill tells him to forget it, that he'll take care of things himself. Gideon finds the note to which Merrill wa