PERRY MASON

in

The Case of the . . .

with Raymond Burr

as Perry Mason

All 24 episodes in the 1958 part of the first season of "Perry Mason in The Case of the . . ." have been upgraded by comparison with the Columbia House video tape and DVD editions. Episodes 17 and 18 appear for the first time in other than broadcast format with the release of the CBS-Paramount edition, from which they have been upgraded. Further, all episodes of less than 1400 words have been upgraded from the CBS-Paramount release. Where indicated "CBS Tape/DVD," the synopsis shows the DVD chapter indices placed in parentheses within the synopsis text. All episodes have been marked with their CBS-Paramount "Raymond Burr is Perry Mason Season 1" chapter markings in italics and squared [parentheses]. The coding and other information for the CBS-Paramount release takes precedence over previous tape and DVD releases.
Last update; 03/13/08

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Perry Mason in The Case of the Haunted Husband" is missing 6:47 of the original broadcast. The Columbia House tape 20457 is 52:42 in duration, the DVD 35228 is 46:07 long and the 2006 CBS-DVD is 52:56. Missing are three full scenes and snippets of at least two others. The synopsis of this shows what is missing. I have notified Columbia House Video of the problem and asked them to issue a corrected disc and send those who already have the faulty disc a new copy. If you have the disc, please write Columbia House Video and ask for a replacement with the full Episode 19.

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

[3-3/1-8 Title credits](1-1) [2-8](1-2) Night along a deserted road. A woman paces below a sign that reads "Los Angeles 23, Long Beach 49, San Diego 163." She's been waiting an hour. Driver offers her a drink, takes one himself. Her purse was stolen in Fresno. He makes a pass, gets lipstick smeared on his dress shirt, and he loses control, crashes his car into a truck. // [3-8](1-3) {Note; the camera opens the scene panning up to a framed award to Hamilton Burger, the 23rd Marshall Award for community service, signed by George W Gage and Henry Smith.) Hamilton Burger looks at a truck crash photo. His assistant, (Harold) Hanley, tells Burger that the case is one of manslaughter, for the sedan reeked of alcohol. The driver was Claire Olger. {/ Hanley interviews Olger in the hospital, doesn't believe she wasn't driving because her description of the man doesn't fit the car owner.} / Della Street tells Perry Mason he ought to see Doris Stephanak re Claire Olger, whose face is on the front page of the newspaper. The car was owned by Jerry Heywood, a movie producer, who claimed the car was stolen, but Claire's description of the man driving the car doesn't fit him. Mason takes the case, tells Della to get Paul Drake on the job looking for Heywood. / Mason and Street at lunch with Drake, who says he learned little about Heywood, mostly that he has no friends. Heywood may be denying knowing who had the car because his insurance had recently been canceled. / Heywood is dictating notes about a script. Mason asks about unidentified man. Did Heywood know who he was? It would be expensive if he did, and Mason is sure he does, whereupon Heywood has Tanner show the attorney out. Heywood phones (Marcia) Greeley. She doesn't know where her husband is. He came home in the early morning, changed clothes. He's probably on a binge. He wonders if the driver of his car was Michael (Greeley). They must find him before the police. Tanner has overheard, threatens to reveal the fact that Heywood was not at home as he claimed. Heywood throws him out. / (1-4) At the hospital, Claire reveals only one new item not in the newspaper; lipstick on his dress shirt. Mason tells Doris to take Claire to Gateview Hotel and register under the assumed name of Joan Lewis, then gives her money. / Los Angeles Chronicle headline CLAIRE OLGER OUT ON BAIL read by a man. / The driver of the car sees "Joan Lewis" registration, pays clerk a tip. / Night. Mason's office. Drake suggests they'll never find dress shirt with lipstick. Mason suggests they use Claire as bait. She doesn't answer the hotel phone. / Mason looks through transom, sees a an overturned chair and thinks it is a girl's body on the floor. He tells Paul to call Lieutenant Tragg. // [4-8](1-5) Lt Tragg enters the room, finds a man's body. / Michael Greeley is dead. Lt Tragg suggests that Olger has now assured that Greeley cannot say he was not with her and, being in her room, she had opportunity to kill him. / As Mason and Drake exit hotel's elevator, Paul is worried about his license. Mason checks the phone book, having noted Greeley's wedding ring, for Mrs Greeley. / Marcia Greeley tells Paul and Perry her husband was in San Francisco the night of the crash. She is certain he'd not have left the girl to take the blame alone. Yes, he does work for Jerry Heywood. Tragg, on the phone, advises Marcia of Michael's death. {/ Doris tries to keep Lt Tragg and his partner out of her apartment, but they force their way in, find Claire. / Tanner chats with bartender Charlie about the headlined case.} / (1-6) Doris tells Perry and Paul that Claire's arm bothered her, she went out to get aspirin, found body when she got back, came to here, where police picked her up. Tanner, incognito on phone, suggests Mason put Heywood on the stand and ask about the hideaway lodge outside Fresno. Drake identifies Tanner as the caller. Doris volunteers to find Tanner. / At the Adirondack Hotel bar, Doris and [Ernie] Tanner meet. / Mason's office at night in a downpour. Doris phones to say that Heywood's car had 5000 mile check Monday, was over 5700 when returned. Mason tells Della to have Paul check everything. / Tanner tells Doris he quit his Hollywood boss. She wonders if he couldn't make trouble for Tanner. He says no, not with what he knows of Greeley . . . He suggests it is a bit noisy and she, to get his story, agrees to go to his place. // [5-8](1-7) Della answers the phone and Mason takes a call from Mrs Greeley, who has something of her husband's he should see; she'll be there in half an hour. He thinks it is the lipsticked shirt, which he doesn't need now. / Doris {gives up waiting to get to a public phone and} returns to Ernie's apartment, finds feathers on the floor, then Tanner dead in the shower. She phones Mason (at MAdison 5-1100). / Doris asserts she was gone only 15 minutes. Mason tells her they'll go up two flights, take elevator down, he'll then call the police. / Mason returns to office where Marcia Greeley has brought him the lipsticked dress shirt. Tragg arrives, takes the dress shirt, asks if Mason knew Ernie Tanner. Mason asks "why?" Tragg says "he got himself knocked off at the Adirondack Hotel tonight," would Mason know anything about that? Mason says "not a thing." Tragg notices Mason's wet shoes, says whoever killed Tanner did so using a pillow to muffle the shot, leaving feathers which wet shoes would pick up. He picks up a feather from the floor, asks Perry if he'd like to comment. Instead, Mason asks for a cigarette. Tragg notes that Claire has a friend who was not locked up, Doris Stephanak. He could toss Mason in jail. But he won't, notes Mason. / Burger looking at a dress shirt under microscope, but Tragg points out that laundry marks don't check out and it is wrong size for Greeley. Burger thinks it is a trap by Mason. // [6-8](1-8) Court. Mrs Greeley, Burger's penultimate witness, Mrs. Greeley, leaves the stand. Mason wonders to Street that dress shirt has not been introduced. Heywood identifies his Lincoln sedan. Mason uses the Clayton Service Shop records to show that the car was driven over 600 miles, supposedly in nine hours (Heywood has sworn that the car was in his drive at noon of day of accident). So car must have been stolen earlier. It is about 300 miles to Fresno, where Heywood has a lodge. Heywood was at a testimonial dinner, though he went home early. Yes, he knew Michael Greeley. Mason then asks via the Judge if the state is going to introduce the dress shirt. No, so Mason does. He asks Heywood if the shirt is his. No. Mason asks him to open his shirt collar. Burger offers that this is making a burlesque of the proceedings. The Judge admits he thinks it is highly irregular. Mason says the entire case is highly irregular, resulting in two murders. He asks the court clerk to read the laundry mark on Heywood's shirt. It matches that of the dress shirt. Mason gets him to admit that the dress shirt is his. It was found in the effects of Michael Greeley, how does he account for that? He asserts he is not on trial. Does he have any idea why the two men were murdered? Burger cannot see how this relates to the witness. Mason asks him if he isn't interested in justice. Quickly the Judge interjects, "I am, Mr Mason." Mason tells Heywood that Tanner was also employed by Greeley, to spy on him. He and Mrs Greeley went to his lodge Monday night; Mr Greeley was not jealous, but wanted to shake down Heywood. He flew to Fresno, then took the car at Heywood's lodge, leaving the couple marooned. Mrs Greeley packed his shirt in her bag! Mr Greeley was a haunted man, was followed to Claire's room. Mrs Greeley intercedes, says Heywood could not have done it, then admits she did. // [7-8](1-9) Exiting court (rather than as usual in his office), Mason tells Tragg how it all happened. When Burger failed to introduce the shirt, they knew it wasn't Greeley's. Mason traps Tragg into saying he's called him "unscrupulous, conniving, unprincipled," but he never called him stupid . Yet, if he tracked feathers back to his office, he must be, "stupid." So, who could have done it; Tragg says, you, me, and Mrs Greeley. "Oy gavult" as he realizes it was Mrs Greeley who brought the feathers to Mason's office giving Mason the clue to the murder which he should have figured out. [8-8 end credits](1-10) [52:56](46:07 DVD) (52:42 TAPE)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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