PERRY MASON

in The Case of the . . .

with Raymond Burr

as Perry Mason

All episodes of the sixth season of "Perry Mason in The Case of the . . ." have been upgraded as of 8 August 2012. Episodes 155, 156, 157, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, and 180 appear for the first time in other than broadcast format with the release of the CBS-Paramount edition, from which they have been upgraded. The following episodes have been upgraded by comparison with the Columbia House Video tapes in their Collector's Editions; 154, 158, 159, 162, 166, 175 and 181. Episodes 166 and 169 are also on DVD in the 50th Anniversary Perry Mason issue. 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 6" 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; 3 Sept 2012

#	TITLE	SHOW DATE	CBS TAPE/DVD
154	Bogus Books	27 Sept 62	15058/9-28611/82073

CHARACTER	ACTOR	CHARACTER	ACTOR
Perry Mason	Raymond Burr	Pearl Chute	Allison Hayes
Della Street	Barbara Hale	George (Herbert) Pickson	Woodrow Parfrey
Paul Drake	William Hopper	Joseph Kraft	Maurice Manson
Hamilton Burger	William Talman	Mr Gilfain	Tenen Holtz
Lt Tragg	Ray Collins	Rare Book Curator	Raymond Greenleaf
Lt Anderson	Wesley Lau	Judge	Kenneth MacDonald
Ellen Carter	Phyllis Love	Bank Teller	John Alvin
Pete Norland	Adam West	Man	William Tracy
Prof. Carlos Muntz	John Abbott	Coroner's Physician	Michael Fox
Gene Torg	H M Wynant	Lady Librarian	Renee Godfrey
Kenneth Carter	Joby Baker	[Sgt Brice	Lee Miller]

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

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] It is raining in Los Angeles. Inside Kraft’s Bookstore a rival bookstore owner, Mr Gilfain, buys a few cheap books from (Ellen) Carter. Gambler brother of Ellen, Kenneth, begs his sister for money tho she says that Mr (Joseph) Kraft would get a policeman if he knew he were there. He confides that he's in deep trouble and she says he should have thought of that before gambling. Professor (Carlos) Muntz interrupts them. She's already borrowed too much from (Joseph) Kraft. He promises to never gamble again. She writes him a check. A guitarist, Pete Norland, has found his song and plays it. This wakes Mr Kraft, the store owner, who is listening to Mozart. He orders the shop closed. He then throws her out of the shop when he finds an $8,000, not $8.00 as she thinks, book with the title Tristram Shandy missing. // [3-8] Norland greets Ellen as she exits into rain. / Kraft calls Pearl (Chute) expecting that she picked up Tristram Shandy . . . Pearl lies. She kisses her boyfriend (Gene Torg) and takes Tristram Shandy from him. She explains the racket. Using special old glue and inks, she changes the rare books so they cannot be uniquely identified, then returns them to Kraft who sends her $500. She doesn't know where he gets them, but at book auctions he averages $6,000 a month. / Perry Mason and Della Street hear from Ellen and Pete, who arranged for her to see the attorney. Pete wonders why an $8,000 book should be marked $8.00. Ellen says that when her mother died Kraft hired her and Kenneth with the idea some day the store might be theirs. Then Kenneth stole $200 and was fired. Mason notes that he is missing Volume 6 of Maning and Granger’s Reports. / Store clerk Herbert Pickson advises a lady that Tropic of Cancer is not a medical book, then greets Torg, who then calls on Kraft with the Tristram Shandy. Kraft instead pulls a gun. Torg trumps with the queen of hearts, Pearl Chute. At the office door Perry Mason is introduced by Pickson. Mason is representing Ellen. Kraft says that he has a hair-trigger temper and apologizes for threatening Ellen with arrest. Mason tries to buy the found book, but it is already sold to Torg. Kraft promises to phone Ellen but instead phones Pearl, who she is not in. In the store Mason meets Prof Muntz, who specializes in 17th and 18th century English literature. He recommends the Cosgrove Library for help in identifying a rare Tristram Shandy. / Paul Drake is getting a lesson in rare book identification from the Cosgrove rare book curator who uses the King James Bible as his example. Then he takes a copy of Tristram Shandy with an inscription by L Sterne to actor David Garrick, but finds the author's name on the title page, which means this copy has been substituted for the real first edition and even the inscription is a forgery. / In the book store Kenneth opens an old book, takes out hundred dollar bills, then puts the book back and leaves, passing Mason and Drake on the way out. A man buys a book on barbecue from Ellen, who then greets the duo. They then find Kraft in his room, which is filled with gas, dead. // [4-8] Lieutenants Anderson and Tragg investigate. Ellen explains what she remembers. Pickson says that Kraft turned the radio on just after seven. Andy (Lieutenant Anderson) goes over the known facts, thinks the death to be accidental or suicide, the pilot light either off or turned off. Mason wonders if it might be murder. Lieutenant Tragg says homicide has to check anyway, Mason shouldn't make it a murder. "It's the granddaddy of all the locked-room puzzles he's ever heard of" asserts Tragg. The room was locked from the inside, and even the windows have steel mesh over them, and dead flies are on the sill. Mason still wonders what happened to the copy of Tristram Shandy. / Torg tells Chute that Kraft is dead. He asks how she got Tristam Shandy, by phone? Drake comes to Chute's and finds Torg with her. Torg recognizes Drake but still lets him in. Drake asks if the Tristram Shandy on the desk isn't the one in the store, whereupon he is thrown out. Torg apologizes to Chute, but asks her how she got the book. She says that she got it from Kraft on the 50-50 deal they now share in. They accuse each other of shoving Kraft a bit too hard. / Mason, at the Cosgrove, substitutes his copy of volume two of Tristram Shandy for the library copy. The curator and a lady librarian as well as Drake look on at how easy this switch was. Six rare books have been stolen. Three other libraries have a total of four loses. / Della restates the case. Chute replaced first editions with second editions, altered the firsts so that they couldn't be identified. Drake reports that Torg and Chute have denied everything to the police. Norland comes hesitantly because he doesn’t want to hurt Ellen but he's seen about two thousand dollars in new hundreds fall out of her purse. Pickson also saw it. Mason thinks Ellen is being framed, not for robbery, but murder. / Ellen doesn't know where the bills came from. Mason says that he'll show what the police will think. With Norland, Muntz, Pickson and Carter in the room, Mason turns on the reading light, the radio and the gas heater, as Kraft would have done. On a shout to Drake who is outside, the gas goes out, then comes back on without lighting. Paul joins them. He turned the gas off at the meter, which kills the pilot. Ellen Carter says anyone using the wash room knows where the meter is. Just then Lieutenant Tragg comes in with Sergeant Brice and a warrant for Ellen’s arrest on a charge of first-degree murder. // [5-8] In jail Mason explains to Ellen how bad it looks. Since she will inherit the store she has a motive for the murder. / The coroner's physician, Dr Hoxie, tells District Attorney Hamilton Burger that Kraft died about 7:15, give or take a half hour, with gas the cause. Pickson testifies that Ellen Carter returned to the store just before seven. Kraft turned the radio on just after seven. Then he left, was met outside by Mr Gilfain, which provides him an alibi. Norland admits seeing hundred dollar bills fall out of Ellen's purse. Andy identifies two envelopes, one from Ellen's purse, the other from her apartment, each containing twenty one hundred dollar bills. A bank teller testifies that Kraft took out $2000 on each of two days. Kenneth says that he put the bills, which he found in a book in the store, in Ellen's purse. He had earlier found a similar stash. He knows nothing about what was found in Ellen’s apartment and asks Burger, “What can you blackmail out of old man Kraft’s second-hand books?” Muntz tells Hamilton Burger that Kraft didn't get millions, but thousands, for his search reveals twenty-one first editions missing. Kraft had to have help. Torg denies being part of the racket, points Mason to Pearl for the Tristram Shandy. Pearl admits that she got scared after Drake visited, so burned the Tristram Shandy. She says that Kraft told her he knew Ellen had been lying for her brother. On cross she says that she was told Ellen would one day get every cent of his over $100,000. / The Cosgrove curator explains how anyone using the library must be known to them or have proper credentials. A page in the sign-in register, of the day before Kraft was killed, is missing. Norland is on a remaining page. / At the store Mason with Drake uses Ellen's key to gain entry. They find music playing. Someone rushes out, tussles with Drake, gets away. Mason performs a test, says the flies were right all along. // [6-8] Back in court with the witnesses excluded, Mason stages the murder using the courtroom as Kraft's private room. With a box of flies brought in by Drake, Mason proves the murder had to be before 6:40, when twilight ended, the last minute flies would have flown to the window sill, the only place flies were found. How, then, did the light come on at seven? Mason explains that the killer turned on the radio and light while Kraft was out, removed the fuse, then put it back at seven. The witnesses are now brought in. Muntz has a black-eye. He admits to running the substitution racket, but not committing murder. Burger wants to know who recommended this "expert witness" and asks Tragg who asks Andy who says "Perry Mason." Muntz says that his payment was placed in a specified volume in the 17th and 18th century English literature section. The $2000 for Tristram Shandy wasn't there and Kraft agreed to leave another $2000, but it wasn't there either. He has a perfect alibi. Kenneth knows nothing about the $2000 in the apartment, and he has a perfect alibi. Pearl has a perfect alibi. Torg also. Pickson was alone in the store between six and seven. When he was with Carter he put the fuse in and the radio came on after warming up, asserts Mason. So confronted, Pickson confesses. Kraft called him a thief when he found the $2000 and wouldn't give it back. He didn't know that it was Kraft's money and thought it was finders-keepers. He'd plotted the murder for a long time as an enjoyable mental exercise, which it wasn’t! // [7-8] Ellen presents Mason the volume 6 of Maning and Granger’s Reports that was missing from his legal books. Drake says Pickson put the $2000 in Ellen's apartment to implicate her. Mason was on to Muntz because he didn't seem to know about the Cosgrove's collection of Sterne's books. His signature was in the register many times. So was Norland's for he was trying to solve the mystery. Pete admits that he's been trying to get up the nerve to ask Ellen to marry him. [8-8 end credits] [50:47]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] (Carleton) Gage of the Gage Youth Foundation in Palo Verdes is visited by Joane (Proctor). She is asked how she feels about Ernest Demming. He asks her to go to Perry Mason and have a new will made cutting off Ernest Demming and giving all to Claudia Demming, her sister, not his nephew George Gage. He has proof of nephew and Ernest Demming planning to split everything, no matter who inherits. Nurse (Evelyn King) overhears this and phones Demming. He responds that he'll come up. Nurse discovers that Gage is dead. // [3-8] Joane Proctor tells Nick (Nicholas Blake) that Carleton is in a comma, and Demming and George Gage will not carry on with the Foundation. / Dr (Guy) Omstead informs Perry Mason and Claudia Demming that Carleton is weak, not likely to regain consciousness. Mason joins Nicholas and Joane and tells them that Ernest can do what he wants when he inherits, but hasn't he always been a supporter? Joane says that he lost interest after his first heart attack. Mason points out that no matter what happens to George or Ernest, Claudia can inherit only if Ernest dies after Carleton dies. George has overheard. He flaunts not just high living on the Riviera, but Paris, Rome, London . . . Nicholas is passionate about the Foundation, and is going to have it out with Ernest. He rushes into the library where he finds Ernest dead. There are several pills on the desk. Timmy runs in to say that a bus is waiting for Blake. Timmy is sent out by Blake who then tells Joane to go to bed without saying anything. / Joane asks a desk clerk at a Beverly Hills hotel to see Ernest Demming. The clerk phones and is told to send her on. She goes by herself, bumps in to (Olive) Omstead who invites her to lunch. She knocks at the room door, observed by a chambermaid. Inside she finds Nick who confides that the body is in the lake at the estate. He expected Carleton Gage to die right away and then he could convince people that Ernest Gage died later. He wrapped the body in canvas and waited until four in the morning, then drove to the lake, tied sash weights onto the canvas and threw the body into the lake. Then he drove Ernest's car back to the hotel. A waiter comes to retrieve the breakfast tray. Nicholas signs Ernest's name to the check, has Joane admit the man and give him the check. He has a foolproof plan to save Claudia, Timmy and the Foundation, or so he thinks. Claudia is on the phone, and Joane tells her Ernest went out with some people. / Detective Boykins is advised by George Gage that a samurai warrior is missing. Claudia says that a pair were once worth $8,000. George offers to work things out with Claudia should the will get rewritten and she rejects the idea, thus upsetting him because she knows of his arrangement with Ernest. / George is at the hotel awaiting Ernest's return. He smells something fishy and leaves. Joane tells Nicholas that she can't take much more. Joane answers Claudia's call and learns that Carleton Gage has died. / Joane drives along the ocean road towards the estate. She stops next a vegetable stand, gets out and asks for water to give her passenger medicine. The car starts off on its own, goes over a cliff into the Pacific as she calls "Ernest." // [4-8] Paul Drake comments "inheriting at 5:20, dying at 7:15. Ernest Demming had probably the shortest career of any millionaire in history." Mason, instead, is curious about the missing samurai warrior armor; "a curious thing to steal, a pointless kind of theft" and occurring at such a time. Joane Proctor comes in and says that the police have been questioning her. Nicholas took her convertible to go to the Foundation. She drove the ocean road with Ernest when he had a heart problem. She continues her lie, saying that she thinks she set the brake. Drake assures her it is an accident. Mason assures her that she has nothing to worry about if she's telling the truth. After she leaves, he suggests to Paul that they go fishing behind a vegetable stand that is run, according to the newspaper article on the death, by Ito Kumagi. They are seeking samurai armor. / Joane meets Nick. He was in the car and jumped into bushes at the last minute. Nick says that it's over and the Foundation is safe. They walk out. George Demming was nearby behind a newspaper. / Kumagi tells Drake that it was not samurai armor, but a big man like Drake, in the car. He saw the lady pull the hand brake. Drake goes down to the shore where Lieutenants Tragg and Anderson are looking, with a diver, for the body. A diver brings a pill container to Anderson. The other things they've found don't indicate murder, but the diver found the car in gear, the brake not on. / Lt Anderson is asking Dr Omstead about the pill prescription when Olive walks in. The pills do not look to the doctor like those that he prescribed. And it was a woman who picked them up at the drug store. / George Gage takes Joane away from children. When he saw her with Nick, Ernest was not with them. He posits how they murdered Ernest. His terms are that Joane must tell Claudia that he expects a life annuity, $100,000, or her sister goes to prison. Mason and Drake interrupt George, ask Joanne if she did put the brake on and take the car out of gear. As she says yes Lt Tragg and Sgt Brice, many paces behind, walk up with a warrant for her arrest on first-degree murder. // [5-8] In court D A Hamilton Burger asks Claudia if her late husband didn't threaten to leave her. No. Nurse King testifies to overhearing Claudia tell her sister that all that kept her from leaving her husband was (Carleton) Gage being alive. As soon as he died, George was going to turn to another woman. Mason warns her that canceled checks indicate that she was that other woman. She didn't get her final check because the defendant killed Ernest first. Kumagi says that he saw Proctor pull the hand brake on. An auto engineer demonstrates how, by brushing against the gear shift, the parking brake would automatically go off. A druggist testifies that the pills in the case are not the ones that he put in, and it was the defendant who picked up the prescription. The police chemist says that not the prescribed Demeral, but Benzedrine, was what was found in the pill case. Dr Omstead says he didn’t prescribe Benzedrine, which could produce a bad reaction. The chambermaid testifies to finding Demeral pills stuffed down in the couch, and the only person she saw in Demming's bungalow besides him was the defendant. / Mason asks Nicholas why, with Carleton Gage dead, Ernest would not have left his $40 a day bungalow and returned home. He doesn't know why. Drake notes that no one saw Ernest that day, but someone used the phone with his name and forged his signature on room service checks. Nicholas admits to signing the checks and that he and Joane found Ernest dead the night before. They thought it was a heart attack. / At the lake Hamilton Burger accuses Mason of being in on the affair. Burger wants to know how a dead body got from the Pacific to a lake in Palos Verdes. A body is found and is brought to the shore, but it is the samurai warrior armor. // [6-8] Back in court Burger asserts that the state can prove Ernest was murdered in the evening of Carleton Gage's death, not before. Olive Omstead testifies to hearing the desk clerk call Ernest and get approval to send Joane to his bungalow. George Demming testifies to seeing Ernest go into his bungalow the night before the murder, then later drive off with Joane. She reacts with "That's not true." Mason asks him why he so testifies when this precludes his inheritance. Burger interrupts. The body has been found in the Pacific Ocean where the car went over the cliff. Mason rejects an adjournment. He accuses George of trying to blackmail Joyce into splitting the estate and, when she refused, he killed Ernest. George says he didn't want to inherit, with four wives promised 150 percent of the estate. Mason suggests therefore that he worked out the under-the-table agreement. But he didn't kill Ernest and suggests that the little snoop, the nurse, knew about the samurai. The nurse accuses Dr Omstead of taking the samurai. Omstead now admits to removing the samurai. He saw Nicholas take the body to the car trunk, didn't know what Nicholas intended to do with it, and he wanted the body to disappear so that no autopsy would be made. Mason produces a glove which was found in Ernest's bungalow. Olive stands up, says " its no use, Guy," for she switched the tablets. Ernest said he was going back to Claudia for the money and didn't want to see her again. // [7-8] Kids in the background are playing with Joane and Nicholas. Mason explains to Drake and Street how Omstead, knowing about his wife's actions, tried to protect her. Joane and Nicholas will probably only get probation. [8-8 end credits] [50:48]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] In a sparring rink two guys sparring, coached by Jimmy (West). A girl (Jo Sands) comes in, distracts one boxer (Davey Carroll), who gets knocked down. George Hale of the Evening Star newspaper comes over, baits the boxer, asks about Tod Richards. West says Richards will get Davey over his dead body. Richards talks with Davey on his way to the showers. // [3-8] Richards receives a drink from Max the waiter. He and his girl Jo are awaiting Keith Lombard with Davey. When Richards makes an offer, Davey says that Jimmy took him out of a garage in San Diego. Loyalty is good, but Jo suggests that he must be loyal to himself. Lombard's arrival brings his special drink and the bell captain with mail. He warns Davey that Richards is a smooth operator. He becomes upset by some mail, namely five cards, the kings of diamonds and spades and the 4, 3 and deuce of clubs. He leaves. / Perry Mason advises West that Richards has his hands in everything, but he can draw up a contract that no one can break. / Mason comes to the rink with a contract for Davey, but the boxer has already signed with Richards. Jimmy is incensed, but Richards comes over with a contract offering Jimmy 50% and all expenses if he will train Davey. / Davey is working out at the new lakeside country training site when he sees a blonde setting a table. He follows her. Richards tells West that he's got the equipment he wants, all in West's name, and needs his signature. They go inside and Jimmy opens a drawer to get a pen and discovers a pistol. Jimmy signs without reading Richards' papers. / Outside Jimmy, sparring with Joe, is distracted by the sight of Richards wife (Lori). He approaches her. She teases him as Tod watches. He phones Jo, who misses him, to have her send out invitations. / Hale confronts West over his “dead body” statement. Everyone is called to ringside by Richards who introduces Lori to Lombard, who is surprised (having seen him with Jo), then curious about the trainer. / That night there is general carousing. West catches Davey, drunk, with Lori. / Tod is calling his girl when Jimmy interrupts him over the party and Lori with Davey. "You can't do this to me" shouts Jimmy, as George Hale and Keith Lombard observe. / A drunk Davey goes to Jimmy's room and the trainer says that he's leaving him. Jimmy stumbles out, then trips over a dead Richards. // [4-8] Perry Mason reads to Paul Drake and Della Street from the newspaper. The body of Richards was found at 5 am. Jimmy says that he was knocked down by Richards who has turned Davey into a bum. There were no fights scheduled. Richards taunted him that the whole thing was a joke. / Sergeant Landro at the lakeside place informs Mason that he's looking for West, and Davey and Lori are in jail. / Mason has paid the bail for Davey. Outside the jail Davey tells Mason and Drake that he didn't see West, who must have been asleep. He's distracted as Lori exits the jail, but she ignores him. Drake informs Mason of Hale’s big story. / Hale reads his article to Mason. Richards purchased the Wilshire-Lombard Hotel for pennies. He got his information by watching Richards and Lombard, the latter leaving while Richards was still alive. His opinion of Davey could not be lower. / Paul tries to reach Lombard through a switchboard operator. / Della reports that Richards spent only two nights with his wife the past week but his secretary, Jo Sands, draws $200 a week yet drives an expensive car and recently redecorated for $10,000. / Mason catches Sands just as her mechanic returns her car, which has a white glove hanging out. She is civil, stating that she's only Richards' secretary, but gets testy when he asks why he'd want a fighter. / Lori tells Mason that her lawyers think Tod got the hotel for a million less than it is worth. Drake joins them, refuses a drink, but Mason says he's bashful. While she gets the drink, Drake shows Mason an envelope from New York addressed to Lombard, which had in it the five cards. Lori gives Drake a drink. Mason is curious about Lombard's past, rags to riches, but before that in New York. Sgt Landro approaches. A boy has found the gun, Jimmy's. Mason sends Drake to New York. // [5-8] Before the court Mason discredits Landro's gun testimony. Hale overheard West threaten Richards, then explains that Richards had seen through West's having Davey look good against weak opponents. West shouts that it isn't so and Mason quiets him. Hale reveals that he only confirmed the sale later with Lombard, who was unhappy with the price. Lombard denies any bitterness with Richards. Mason gets him to admit that, just before he left the party, he heard only the voice of Richards but not West's, in the cottage. Mason asks about his hotel in New York. It burned down. Lombard refuses to answer a question on his personal financial affairs, but he did get a quarter of a million insurance money. Jo Sands says that Jimmy was getting on Richards' nerves. Richards got bored with his hobbies, with everything. She doesn't recognize the envelope to Lombard. Lori asserts that the defendant said "I'll kill you" and they fought, at which point she went back to the party. She didn't go to a roadhouse with Davey until the boxer told her that he'd seen her husband drive away. Mason reveals Lori Wilson was a switchboard operator at Lombard's New York hotel. She says sure but she didn't know Lombard was coming to the party. Carroll admits Jimmy and Tod had quarreled before. Burger produces a slip of paper. It is the same size as the "receipt" for equipment Jimmy signed. It was found in Richards' wallet. " I'm not going to warn you again. You know what'll happen if you back down?" Signed, Jimmy West. Burger forces Jimmy to admit that he lied in what he told Lori. Davey blurts out that the cottage was a mess, he only cleaned up a bit, and he stumbled over the body. Which is why he got everybody to the roadhouse and he wiped the gun before throwing it in the lake. He did it to help Jimmy escape. / In jail Jimmy admits it is his signature, but he only signed receipts. Now he remembers Lombard, because an earlier fighter he trained got killed in the New York hotel fire. Mason gives Della instructions. // [6-8] Sgt Landro testifies that West was peripheral to a boxing scandal in New York. He was trainer for Doc Morgan, a hoodlum who owned a string of boxers. Morgan had a record including armed robbery and arson. Lori says that she was in the office going over unpaid bills the night of the fire. Mason gets her to admit that she told her husband all these things about Keith Lombard. Yes. Now Lombard says there were playing cards in the envelopes he received. They signified the hotel slander. Then he got threatening notes which he thought were from West. Did the notes threaten to link him with both arson and murder which followed a poker game? Didn't he know that he'd hired an arsonist who used the fire to cover his own activities? Didn't Richards reveal Jimmy could do that to him? Then, having followed Richards to his cottage and hearing him only, wasn't he on the telephone? When Burger objects, Mason says the last phone call from the cottage was one of 37 made in the past two months to a Miss Kay McKenzie in San Diego. McKenzie testifies that she knew Tod three months. They wanted to marry. About a quarter to twelve they talked for some time. He was breathless, but he hung up abruptly. Mason reads from the police report which indicates the type of gun which, the attorney notes, backfires, leaving powder on the murderer. In this instance, on a glove, which Mason puts on the judge’s stand. The murderer, who had worked with Richards every step of the way on his blackmail scheme and expected to marry him, found him talking to another woman. Jo Sands stands up, asks where the attorney got the glove. "Tod lied to me," and she heard him say he loved another. // [7-8] In a boxing match Davey gets knocked down, again having been distracted by a blonde. / In the dressing room Mason explains that the murder had to be something that happened after the hotel sale. Someone had to be cut out or hurt. Jo had a fight with Richards and when he walked out, she saw the gun. West asks if the police have found powder burns on the glove. "Search me" he replies. He had to "buy it in a store. If Richards could run a bluff, why couldn’t I?" Davey comes to. Jimmy promises to make a real fighter out of him. [8-8 end credits] [50:47]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] An elevator rises in an ironwork atrium to Devro and Banks office. Inside the office Lita (Krail) is taking dictation from (Steven) Banks as he practices putting on the rug. She advises him that Clem Sandover, who in twenty years has never taken an expense account trip, is taking the estimates to Phoenix. Banks reminds her that she's the number one spark plug now. / Sandover doesn't answer (Frank) Sellers on the intercom for he is dictating inventory. Enos (Watterton) teases Sellers for thinking that Sandy is not fully prepared for the trip. Sellers suggests Sandy enjoy himself, but Sandy suggests he'll stay at the Y. Alone again, Sandy starts a recorder playback, pours money out of a bag and puts it in his briefcase. // [3-8] Watterton is telling the girls about Sandy's thriftiness when Lita Krail enters and asks the girls if they don't have any work to do. Watterton says he doesn't take orders from straw bosses. Sandy goes into Krail's office, asks her if everything's ready. She misreads him. He expects her to fly to Phoenix for a weekend. He has more office tidbits for her. He informs her that he's come into money and wants her advice. He's even bought a new sports coat. A secretary (Sally) comes in to tell him that his wife (Beth) has come with a sweater and is in his office putting it in his case. Sandy catches her before she opens the case. She met Sellers on the way in and he said that he was surprised she didn't want to go to Phoenix. He berates her for having worked there for all these years and still being so gullible. He tells her to leave him alone and go home. Krail hears the end of this and tells Sandy that she's made reservations for Phoenix. / Clem is on the train to Phoenix. He is dictating his embezzlement of $201,000. His other briefcase has snapped open above him, and bills float down. He counts $45,000. He pulls the emergency stop. / He phones Sally who says a $45,000 loan came in with his initials on it. / Clem takes a taxi home where he tells Beth that he missed the train and will take the plane the next day, just as Perry Mason joins them. Sandy thinks he's a divorce lawyer. He worries hearing Enos called. He rushes out calling for a taxi./ He goes to Watterton and finds him dancing with Krail, so he phones Sellers who berates him for not depositing the $45,000 and also for ruining his evening since he has to go back to the office to get it and have it deposited. / Sandy climbs the stairs one step ahead of Sellers and the armored car people. Just before he enters the office at 10:30, the elevator starts down. He puts the money in the safe as the elevator returns with Sellers and the armored car men. Sellers gets the money, then calls Krail to thank her for telling him about the money. Alone after the others leave, Sandy cries. // [4-8] It is 12:45 and there is a shadow and dance music, and a girl's hand hangs loose over the edge of a couch. / Paul Drake asks a driver who has been fixing his truck since dawn about the house that he’s parked near. Who went in or out? He then goes to Krail's. The music blasts on. At 6:54 Drake enters and finds her dead. / Beth has told Mason that she doesn't trust Krail. He has seen letters to Beth that were typed and unsigned saying "Stop trying to bleed me," which suggest blackmail. Until a year ago her life was tied up with the company but now Krail has the job. (Sandy has not left, but is overhearing this.) She left the job when the other partner died because Sandy, to whom she's been married only two years, was unhappy that she had a better job than he. She goes into hysterics and tells Perry to leave. Drake is waiting and reports that he's tracing a necktie. Mason tells him to have a man watch the house. Inside, Sandy worries, then tries to hide his money. / Mason reminds Banks that Jess Devro, his partner, was heard having an angry fight before he had his heart attack. Does Krail have any income besides her salary? / The job, according to Beth, was a source of all sorts of gossip. Banks says Beth was a snoop, but Sellers enters and says it was Sandy. Who was being blackmailed, wonders Mason, and by whom? Drake's phone call lets Mason know that the necktie Krail was holding belongs to Enos Watterton. / Enos admits they had a few drinks, then he took Lita home, but he never got in side. She got a couple of phone calls that evening, and was going to "fix Sandy's wagon." His tie is the one he lent to Sandy. / Mason goes to Beth demanding to see Sandy, who comes down the stairs. He says Krail lied to him. He even bought a new sports coat for their meeting in Phoenix. He admits that he picked up an ash tray and hit her, and hit her . . . as Lieutenants Tragg and Anderson walk in. Sandy confesses to putting Enos's tie in her hand. Andy says that Lt Tragg's warrant is for Beth. Krail was already dead when Sandy hit her, from a bullet to the heart. Sandy collapses. // [5-8] In jail Beth admits to going out to Krail's and not just to talk about blackmail. Sandy was going to be in trouble over money and Krail didn't know what Sellers would do. Only she could get him out of it if he'd quit his job and both of them would move out of town. Lita threatened her and took out a gun, which she wrestled away and threw on the table. Then she walked out. She heard Sandy come home after one and thought that maybe he'd killed Krail. / In court Sally tells D A Hamilton Burger that everyone knew Beth and Lita hated each other. She phoned Lita at 11:15 to tell her about Sandy's strange phone call. She heard an argument between Beth and Lita over the phone. Mason gives Della a note. Della bumps into Sally as she returns to her seat, while Cyrus Potkin is called to testify (we hear none of the testimony and must surmise this is the man who was fixing his truck). In the hall, Drake asks Della what that was about and she says Perry wanted to know if Sally's coat was real mink. It is. Sandy catches Della and offers to do whatever he can, for he's got a little saved. Cyrus Potkin is being given the heavy treatment by Mason over when he arrived at Krail’s. Burger examines Banks, who says that on the day of the murder Krail had given him a list of various kickbacks and other discrepancies in the finances. Mason asks if any money is missing. An audit shows the books to be in perfect order. Sandy is smiling at this. Mason asks if Krail's insinuations weren't to cover something bigger, such as the office blackmailer? Sellers admits that Krail said Sandy had hit on her with the idea he could get some money. The $45,000 was in the safe. Sellers' wife was an invalid for fifteen years, so any woman he “was seen with was a good friend.” Tragg interrupts Burger, goes to the stand, testifies to finding $201,000 in Sandy's room. /At a bar Perry and Paul with Sally Adams are awaiting someone. Banks comes in and goes to Sally to demand why the phone call. Della, in a blonde wig to look like Sally, looks up as Mason comes over. He admits to being blackmailed, but he doesn't know by whom and was about to call in a detective agency. Krail may have overheard this. He's only paid $6000. // [6-8] Enos is testifying as, in the hall, Drake corners Sandy, takes him inside where Enos is saying that Beth had all the brains in the family. Sellers then testifies that Beth Sandover never used her position for private gain. He knows her too well. Sellers calls Sandy “conniving and selfish, little and mean” and stupid, and has “less imagination than any bookkeeper in the world." Sandy objects! On the stand, he tells Mason how he kept the company going, and it is his money. He embezzled $201,000 and no one even guessed. Mason ask if Jess Devro didn't know. We are here to talk about murder, Mason reminds. Not Jess, Lita's. Clem Sandover now says that Lita was a blackmailer, getting information out of even him. Mason now posits what happened. Sandy went to Krail, fought over the gun and killed her. His alibi of being at the bar is easy, as it was only ten minutes away. He couldn't drive away because the truck driver was there. And the truck driver was still there later when he struck Krail with the ash tray, then drove away witnessed. Sandy steps out of the witness box and raves with the story he was dictating on the train, about how he, Clem P Sandover, committed the perfect embezzlement. // [7-8] The usual trio are at a table with Beth and Frank Sellers. Mason tells how he had primed Sellers to say the nasty things about Sandy. Drake says that Sandy admitted Devro almost caught him, which caused his stroke. Sandy's writing a book about the perfect embezzlement. [8-8 end credits] [50:46]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A black and white (police car) parks. Lieutenant Anderson heads in to a locker room to see Otto (Norden). He asks Andy why he's missed two Thursday wiener schnitzel dinners with him and his mother, then notes he’s to keep a watch on Jimmy, Andy’s cousin. James (Anderson) enters the locker room, is congratulated by Lt Anderson on his first night in a prowl car. / James and Otto are on the prowl when they notice an open gate at Wilson Plastics and no night watchman on duty. They hear an explosion. / Lieutenant Tragg reports to Lieutenant Anderson that Norden has been shot dead at Wilson Plastics where the safe was cracked. Officer James Anderson was seen running away by a plant executive. // [3-8] (Dwight) Wilson tells Lt Anderson that officer Anderson was running away but stopped when he was seen. Then the two entered the office where the safe was open and Ralph Pearce, the watchman, drugged. Jimmie cannot give a straight answer to Andy's questions. He was knocked out. When he came to, he was sick, dizzy, so he headed to the squad car, at which time the gunshots were heard as Dwight Wilson drove up. A police doctor looks at Jimmie's head. / Tragg is getting the report on the blowing of the safe with nitro from Detective Steve Toland. Andy, with Sergeant Brice in the background, joins him, is introduced to Carrie Wilson, company president, his nephew Dwight, and treasurer Jerel Leland, who says the records are gone but can be reconstructed from microfilm. “$60,000 in paper currency is gone.” The police doctor says that Jimmie's head is ha rd and he suffered only a scratch. / Arthur Morrell is talking with Lt Anderson when Toland enters to report that Pearce has been released from the hospital. He felt sick, passed out before he could reach the phone in the cold room. Morrell speaks of the professional job in blowing the safe.Morrel Leaves. Toland tells Andy that the job was amateur. Further, a chemical analysis plant was burgled of detergent recently, of Naughty Lady perfume and sources of nitro-glycerine. It was on the beat of Officer James Anderson. / Erna Norden shows Carrie Wilson and Andy the citation given Otto. As Andy places it on the fireplace mantle, he discovers a gift to Mrs Norden of Naughty Lady perfume. Erna says Otto said Jimmie gave it to him. / Jimmie tells Andy that he’s been suspended, then walks out in anger. / Fleta York announces Lt Anderson to Mrs Wilson. Carrie tells Arthur Morrell that she's not buying out Hillman Plastics. Arthur says it is always three against two, him and Duncan, against progress, so the company attorney, Perry Mason, better be at the meeting this night. He leaves after threatening to resign. Andy and Howard Duncan enter with Ralph Pearce's time clock. It has been grazed by a bullet, which gives the lie to his claim to have been elsewhere. / A building superintendent admits Andy, Duncan and Toland to Pearce's room, noting that he spoke earlier to another cop, whose name is “Just like yours, Anderson.” / They've found $30,000 of the stolen money. / Jimmie finds Pearce's post locked. / Mason finishes presenting the figures that argue against purchase of another company. Morrell argues that they must expalnd or die. They must diversity. Carrie calls for a vote and nephew Dwight switches to yes. Andy bursts in and a gunshot is heard. / Jimmie is running away, followed by Toland who shoots at him, but he gets away. The others find Pearce strangled to death. // [4-8] The Police Board Chairman announces the procedure. While awaiting the verdict, Jimmie tells Andy that he doesn’t believe in the fraternity of cops. Andy reminds Jimmie that he could have walked away from the department, but he really wants to be a policeman. Jimmie is "guilty as charged" and is dismissed from the force. As the two Andersons walk out of the hearing room, Tragg arrests James for murder of Ralph Pierce. / Mason, with Della Street and Paul Drake in attendance, tells Andy that the robbery and murder must be tied together. Andy points out that Norden is the likely uniformed suspect, for Jimmie knew nothing about Wilson Plastics, the watchman, or the payroll. Only Otto did. He explains how he sees it, but this doesn't jibe with the later murder of Pearce. Andy doesn't want to hurt Mrs Norden, who is like a mother to him, but he also has to help his cousin Jimmie. Will Mason defend him? Yes. But will Andy? If he “finds evidence involving him, I’ll put him into the gas chamber myself.” / In jail Jimmie says that he stumbled over the dead watchman, heard Detective Toland coming and ran. Mason notes that the body had been fully searched. Jimmie didn't do it. He was trying to find out how Pearce's lunch, which he picked up on the way to work, or his coffee could have been drugged. If Jimmie didn't steal the nitro and such, it had to be Otto. / When Mason speaks to Erna Norden, she defends the honesty of her Otto, calls Jimmie, not Otto, the crook. Mason says it is not about Otto, but perfume and a robbery. Mason comforts Erna. / Mason confronts the company staff with the fact that one of them is the murderer. By the time James Anderson arrived and stumbled onto Pearce, he was already dead. Pearce's clock was punched at ten in the cold room when everyone was in the meeting. Tragg and Andy enter. The other $30,000 has been found in Jimmie's apartment. // [5-8] District Attorney Hamilton Burger presents the court his opening statement. Then Leland tells him that the $60,000 recovered was the stolen money. Mason asks if “Pearce was a good night watchman.“ Burger objects and is sustained. Pearce was bonded. He was a former policeman who had been asked to leave the force. The stolen bill numbers were on the microfilm copy. Tragg testifies that Pearce was one of Jimmie's instructors at the academy. Jimmie was transferred from a beat to a patrol car whose area included the plant where Pearce worked. The recovered money that Tragg found was in Jimmie's apartment. The autopsy surgeon testifies that Pearce was strangled, between 10 and 10:30, in a refrigerated room so that his body was cold when found. Mason catches him on 10 being the earliest time of death, for the doctor knew when Pearce last punched in on his clock. It could have been earlier by other methods of determining death. Andy testifies to finding $30,000 at Pearce’s. He has been given an identification by a truck driver of the man who ran away; Jimmie. This is only a preliminary hearing, so now the prosecution rests, with Burger offering that Mason will offer his usual confusion of the facts. Mason, instead, has no defense! // [6-8] At Wilson Plastics Morrell demands Jerel sign the contract for purchase of Hillman Plastics. Mason enters with Drake. Jerel admits that the company may have a shortage of $25,000. Mason informs them that the Securities and Exchange Commission has withheld approval of the sale of Hillman Plastics. Drake says that just before the vote, someone bought Hillman cheap then, after a ten point rise, sold, making $100,000. Carrie accuses Dwight. It is not known who. Mason says that the money was not the reason for blowing the safe, but destruction of certain records. / Mrs Norden says she got a package the day of the robbery and it was gone after Otto's death. Pearce was to get the entire $60,000, but he asked for more when he found the microfilm with its copy of the records that were to have been destroyed in the safe explosion, and so had to be killed. Mason wants Erna to make-believe that she has the film. Della dials a phone number and Erna tells the answerer that the film is in the cold room. / Nephew Dwight is caught hunting for the microfilm, which Mason had found earlier. Dwight embezzled $25,000. He was the second person Erna called. Someone else gave himself an alibi by tampering with the time clock, making it look as if Pearce were alive long after he was murdered. Leland comes in, gun in hand, and says not even Perry Mason could prove it. But he had done it, as Anderson and Toland enter, guns in hands. // [7-8] Mrs Norden receives Mason who has come to tell her that Pearce, Otto’s former police partner, hated Otto, thinking that Norden caused him to be kicked off the force. He tried to frame Otto, stole his package and tried to frame Jimmie. Andy arrives for Thursday's wiener schnitzel, but she hasn't even shopped. Jimmie enters loaded with groceries, asks to be accepted. She requires that he musts call her Mama Norden. [8-8 end credits] [50:46]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Manager Rudy (Mahlsted) of the Royal Pacific Court is almost pushed over by a running bearded man. Then he is accosted by Miss (Vera) Jordan over kids’ bicycles being in the way. Mr (Phil) Schuyler asked him to get trick or treats for the kids. / Rudy and Vera enter Schuyler's place and find that he is drinking. Rudy is called away. Vera shows a cigarette girl costume that she took from a movie set. She suggests the two go together to Mexico. Outside, Rudy is met by Phil's brother-in-law, Frank MacManus, and he informs him that Phil is going to Mexico next week. Frank confronts Phil with a check he's forged for $3,000. Frank says that he'll prefer criminal charges if he doesn't get the money by that night. // [3-8] Maid Grace answers Schuyler's phone call and says Mr White is not available. Jerry Janda tries to quiet Grace, while Mona Winthrope White listens to "Pearls and Jade" song. Mona reminds Grace that she's Mrs White, not Miss Winthrope. Agent Jerry Janda wants her to give up her two-year honeymoon and go into the show. She says that if she stars in Alex Chase's show, Charles Noymann will finance a Broadway run and the picture. He says this will be her triumphant return to the screen. She agrees. Husband Damion White returns unexpectedly. Mona rushes off to see Alex before signing Noymann's contract. Grace informs Damion that Schuyler called. He sees some coincidence in this. He asks about the song. Grace says it is a tape recording. He phones Schuyler, balks at getting him $3000. / Mona, watched by Alex and Freda Chase, is gamboling barefoot on the beach. Freda is concerned about "the song," but goes to freshen her drink as Mona comes to Alex. Inside, Freda offers them each a drink and Mona throws hers in Alex's face for stealing her husband's song. Damion was playing the melody two years ago when she met him. Alex offers to pay for it. She phones Perry Mason, uses him as a legal shoehorn. While she acts as if he's answering her questions about comparing the songs, suing and such. He only mentions that it is not April 1, but Halloween. / Charles Noymann tells Jerry Janda that Chase's last three musicals died before Broadway. But tonight he'll sign at Mona's party. / Phil admits to Vera that that he's a louse. He calls for a cab, meets trick-or-treaters at the door and has Vera give them candy. He gives her a thick envelope for his brother-in-law, then tells her he's going to Mexico alone. Outside a bearded man (It is dark but it is not Alex) has been watching him. / At Mona's party, Phil arrives and asks to use the phone because his car broke down. At the phone he thumbs the phone book. Grace tells Mona she recognized Schuyler's voice. Mona listens on the phone and hears only a time check (not a call for help with his car). Schuyler confers with Damion, then leaves angrily. Mona goes looking for the two. White, seen by Mona, drives off to follow Schuyler (who is in a taxi). / Vera comes for Phil, sees water on the floor thru the door windows. Rudy finds Phil dead. Vera panics. // [4-8] Perry Mason meets the Whites at their beach place to discuss Phil's blackmail of Damion, but Phil was murdered during the night. / Janda badgers Grace to see Mona because Noymann is hesitating on the contract. Lieutenant Anderson barges in to see Damion. / At Chase's Alex confronts on the beach the bearded man who is playing a tape of "Pearls and Jade." Mona rushes up to tell Alex that the police have taken Damion. The bearded man runs to his car which the police are ticketing. / Lt Anderson asks Damion about the heater, the murder weapon, with Mason watching. The heater, plugged in, was tossed into the tub, electrocuting Schuyler. Vera comes in with Sergeant Brice, identifies White as the man who left just before Schuyler was found. Andy asks about a blue foreign sports car. Mason tries to catch Damion as Paul Drake drives up to inform Perry that he’s spoken to a cabbie who drove Schuyler to Malibu and back to the Royal Pacific. Also, the police have found a witness, a bearded man named Leonard Buckman, in front of Chase's place. / Mason confronts Freda and Alex, who denies knowing Phil. Damion claims to have given Phil $3000, but it wasn't found. Alex admits that he gave Damion the money. Freda says she saw Buckman and heard him playing "Pearls and Jade" and he gave Damion the money in the middle of a plagiarism suit. / Mona denies the suit. Mason tells her and Damion that it was Schuyler who wrote "Pearls and Jade." Mona admits that she followed Damion to Phil's, then back. Phil now admits that he got the song from Schuyler as a college professor wanting to impress his talented girl. Instead of credit, Phil wanted money to cover a problem with his brother-in-law. At the party, Phil demanded $50,000. He repeated the demand at his bungalow. Lt Anderson and Sgt Brice come to arrest Damion. Mason protests lack of evidence, but Andy says Damion’s fingerprints were on the heater and he has a witness who will prove no one else could have committed the murder. // [5-8] In court D A Hamilton Burger gives his peroration, then Frank MacManus tells him that Phil said he could get the money and called Damion White. Chase says that he gave Damion the money as a loan, and something was mentioned about the plagiarized song. But there was no problem about credit of the song or his own finances since Charles Noymann had, at the party, promised to do the show and the movie. Mr Kirkwood says that the show had played along the coast, but by the end the cast outnumbered the audience. Then Chase added a song and dance number, "Pearls and Jade," and the show was transformed. Reopened in Santa Barbara, it was a smash. Noymann says Schuyler suggested there could be a problem about who wrote the melody for the song but, for a small insurance payment, he could save a lot of money and avoid legal entanglements. When asked for proof, hung up. He saw Schuyler and White arguing at Mona's party. Mason asks how he knew that it was Schuyler on the phone. Because the person said he was. Mason gets him to admit that he could save half a million if he could have bypassed Janda. He did not, repeat “not,” see Schuyler, but he did see Vera return home, as well as Janda. Now the agent testifies that, after seeing Noymann, Buckman told him Schuyler, not Chase, wrote "Pearls and Jade." Then around seven Schuyler phoned and confirmed what Buckman said. He went to Schuyler, offered $5000 for a quit claim on the song, and was laughed at. He said Damion would give $50,000. / Della Street sums up Burger’s argument for Mason and Drake. The detective points out that Noymann, Janda and Chase all could be involved. Chase was a composer and a bankrupt angel. Della quotes “Satan and the Angel” which prompts Mason to have Drake check out the Angel, then two Satans. // [6-8] Buckman says that, after he saw the rehearsal of the new Santa Barbara trial of the show, he went to Phil and told him his melody had acquired a set of lyrics and had become the title song in a new piece by Alex Chase. Phil admitted that it was not Chase who had stolen the music, but a college professor friend. Mason accuses Buckman of blackmail and he, not Schuyler, who called Noymann. At that time he didn't have proof of his charge, but a day later he had a two-year-old tape gotten from Schuyler. He wouldn't cut him in, says Buckman, so he cut himself in by swiping the tape. Vera testifies that she gave MacManus the envelope, then went to her own place to dress for the masquerade party. She say Damion leave, and no one else. Rudy testifies. Vera, Frank went in, then out. Then Schuyler, and only one other, Damian White. Mason runs a demonstration that proves Rudy does not even know his own wallpaper. Several Trick-or-Treaters are brought in. Burger suggests there should also be dancing girls and snake charmers, and is admonished by the judge. Rudy identifies the first three, including Satan 1, fails on the fourth, Satan 2, an old man named Hudson, the same height as Jerry Janda without his elevator shoes. Chase's last flop was financed by Janda, wasn't it, asks Mason. Janda pleads his case to Mona and asserts that he had this chance to get to the top again. Schuyler was the only one who could prove the song was not Chase's. Janda asserts that he had to do it. And the costume wasn’t Satan, it was a fool. // [7-8] The usual legal trio, with Mason playing with Halloween masks and noting that “Halloween’s come a long way” from “the religious vigil of All-Hallows eve to murder.” Paul accidentally recites Keats and both Della and Perry catch him up.. The old man was a trick. Mason claims instead that it was a treat. [8-8 end credits] [50:49]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Dockside On the pier a friend suggest to Dickie (Durham) a "pint." Inside Joe’s Place Dickie gets into a fight. The bartender (Coleman) calls the police. Dickie slugs the arresting officer while his friend just watches. / The night court judge takes note of Dickie’s high-class residence address. “Guilty or not guilty?” she asks. A little of each, says Dickie. The judge sentences Dickie (Richard W) Durham to five days or $50, which he doesn't have, as his friend looks on. // [3-8] The friend is looking for R W Durham's place on Stanhope Road. / The Durhams, Crystal and Russell, are having breakfast. She notes that friends are coming for 18 year old Paula’s coming out. Russell offers that she is running wild. Maid Helen announces “a gentleman.“ The gentleman friend is Harry Fothergill and he tells Russell Durham that he's come on a freighter from Australia, after 20 years, with Dickie who's in jail and can't sail with his boat unless he gets out. Russell gives Harry the bail money to get Dickie quickly back out of the country. / Dickie, with Harry, walks in on his niece Paula. He’s a wandering minstrel and gypsy. Paula joins her mother, Crystal, inside. Dickie then surprises Crystal. Paula remembers all the Christmas presents that Uncle Dickie sent her. Dickie introduces “Lord “ Harry Fothergill. The two men invite themselves to stay. Dickie and Crystal rehash their past relationship, their Tijuana interlude. She tells him she won’t let him ruin their life. He kisses her on the lips. / Coffee is served at the end of dinner. Dickie mooches off Russell after dinner; $18,000 for a pub for Harry in Australia. / Russell tells Crystal that he hit Dickie with a coffee cup. Dickie has gone off with Paula to the Zebra Club. Gil Simpson, Paula’s boyfriend, is to join them. As Harry listens on the other side of the door, Russell says that Crystal must get rid of Dickie before he kills him. / Gil joins the couple only to get cross-examined by an obnoxious Uncle Dickie, who edges Gil on until Gil offers to slug him. Harry arrives just in time to stop a fight and, after much argument, he tells Dickie about Russell’s intentions. He warns Dickie that he's not going to let him continue to mess up people's lives. / Dickie, with Harry and Paula, goes to Perry Mason to write a will. Dickie mouths off about what he will bequeath, to Harry $250,000, to Paula $50,000, then doesn't have the $100 fee, so leaves it to Harry to pay., “an advance on (his) inheritance.” / Harry charges in on Russell wanting to know where Dickie is, since he left the place after a talk with Crystal. Russell gives Harry a check to keep Dickie away any way he has to. The check is for $18,000 to Dickie, but cannot be cashed in America. / Harry finds Dickie, who is down in the dumps, back at Joe’s Place. He refuses the check, as he plans to leave America, and also refuses to endorse it over to Harry. As Dickie storms out, he knocks over Harry who, as the bartender reaches for the phone, says “I’ll handle him.” / The police find Dickie dead. // [4-8] In jail Harry tells Mason that he followed Dickie who then signed the check on the pier after leaving the pub. So he didn't need to murder Dickie. / A handwriting expert tells Lieutenant Anderson and Mason that the signature on the check matches the valid one Mason has on the will. Andy thinks the will provides motive, but Mason suggests it was a joke, or done to impress Paula. / Oil man Frank Warden is telling Russell to stop getting so upset. Russell is worried that Dickie went to see “that lawyer” about “more than just a will.” Frank tells him to say that he paid to hang on to his wife, and to take the money from Rimrock Oil Company. Maid Helen admits Mason and Andy to Russell and Warden. Russell shows Andy the case of whiskey and clothes that Dickie bought for him though Dickie was penniless. There are no family holdings. “I guess you win, Perry.” Perry and Andy leave. Warden warns Russell, “you’re a compulsive talker.” / Paul Drake brings Fothergill to Mason, into whose custody he's been released. Della brings in a note mailed by Dickie an hour before he was murdered. It reverses his will, giving $250,000 to Paula, only $50,000 to Harry. “Richard William” is Dickie, and there is Russell W, both R W. Now, what to do with his Lordship? Mason thinks the problem will be taken out of their hands. / Mason asks Frank Warden about an eight year old West Texas oil lease for Russell. The land, says Mason, belongs to Richard, not Russell who has received the annual royalties for eight years. Warden’s lease read R W Durham. He didn’t know there were two R Ws. Russell says Dickie owed him more than money, but it is Fothergill who benefited from Dickie’s will, and the police traced the murder weapon which was purchased by Harry in Australia. // [5-8] In court the officer who got slugged at Joe’s Place testifies for D A Hamilton Burger that Dickie’s friend didn’t try to stop the fight. He identifies the murder weapon, a knife. Harry whispers to Mason that he gave Dickie the knife to “fight off mermaids.” Russell says that he and his younger brother were raised in Bakersfield, and Dickie knocked around in Texas oil fields, then left home and the country for good. He admits that part of his home and the Texas property worth about $200,000 belonged to his brother for whom he was an involuntary trustee. Mason wonders why, then, he would leave with only $18,000. Paula says that she and Lord Harry thought Uncle Dickie's will a joke. Simpson says that he made it clear to Mrs Durham that Dickie's influence on Paula was unhealthy. Warden says that represented Rimrock Oil. When he learned of two R W Durhams, he wrote Fothergill about Dickie's properties hoping to get a new, valid lease signed. Burger gets agreement that the defendant then knew Dickie, far from being penniless, was worth at least $200,000. Harry whispers to Mason that Dickie tore up that letter before he saw it. He stayed with Dickie to help him. / Crystal admits to Mason that she was once in love with Dickie, but when he returned he was so obviously dishonest, and Paula remembered fondly the Christmas presents he sent, which Harry actually picked. She admits that a month before Dickie left they were married in Tijuana, but it wasn't properly recorded. Paula is Dickie’s daughter. Russell knows. When she told Dickie, he left. She doesn’t want Paula to know. // [6-8] Mason asks to reserve right to cross Warden later. George Coleman testifies to Dickie's knocking Harry down, then Harry telling him not to call the police, "he'd handle him good." Earlier, Dickie had asked for paper on which he wrote a letter to Perry Mason. Burger calls Della Street who reads the letter switching the beneficiaries. Burger then states “somebody conveniently murdered Dickie Durham before he could make such a change in his will,“ getting Della to agree. Mason recalls Warden and goes after him for a search he made thru a missing person’s bureau in Bakersfield eight years earlier for Richard. This proves that he did know there were two R W Durhams. Russell now admits that he heard back then from Dickie in Spain and he refused to sign a lease agreement saying “don’t bother me with songs from peanut vendors,” So he fraudulently leased the property by forging Dickie’s signature. He owed money to Warden. Warden asserts that it was to be a short-term arrangement. Then a couple of months ago Dickie contacted him and demanded double value, a half million. He points to Simpson, the man behind the Rimrock Oil Company, who said he'd take care of it. "I already did" is Simpson's confession. // [7-8] In Mason’s office Paula says she never could get Gil on the pier to say where his holdings were. Drake explains that, when Gil met Dickie to settle things, Dickie made the mistake of drawing a knife, getting into a fight and losing. Mason informs Harry that the original will is good, but Harry wants no trouble, only enough for his pub. So he gives it to Paula, who won't . . . they agree to settle this later. Paula says her mother sends Mason her thanks. Mason returns the favor. [8-8 end credits] [50:48]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] In a Senate Sub-committee hearing room in Washington, D.C., Senator Cord orders (Stefan) Jahnchek to stay as others head out to lunch. The senator says that he’d hoped that, after serving almost of all his twenty year sentence, “he might have undergone the rudiments of reformation,“ and the witness would be more cooperative. “Fat chance, buster.“ Jahnchek is threatened with a Federal grand jury on charges of perjury. The marshal is ordered to return him to the penitentiary. In an adjacent room, having figured out that he’s the patsy, Jahnchek tell this to his lawyer, who says that he’s just doing what higher ups want. Jahnchek can't wait another two years to get the money that he's stashed away and with which he can live out of the country. By knocking down the marshal he escapes, then sends a Western Union message to John Gregory over the phone. A Washington Tribune headline reads “ ‘BIG STEVE’ JAHNCHEK FREE IN BREAK.” // [3-8] Nick (Paolo) and John (Gregory) get off their boat. Nick is over his head, but John, even deeper, says that the merger with Bickel Cannery will pay for his boats. John’s daughter, Helen Gregory, arrives and says they're going to hear Van (Bennett) speak at a woman's rally. She hands him Jahnchek's telegram and he begs off the rally. She drives off in her white Thunderbird convertible. Franz Moray of the Swiss Federated Bank manages his daughter's trust fund, $200,000, half of which is to be paid when she was ten, the other half when she's 21. He brings up the girl’s boyfriend running for congress and the problem of what would happen if the fact that his daughter is receiving the benefit of money intended for another man's daughter. He wants the second $100,000 to not reveal the fraud. / Perry Mason tells David Bickel that his client, John Gregory, has $300,000 in stock tied up in the company as escrow and needs an extension of but a few days on the merger. Bickel says Gregory can forfeit the escrow, for he'll allow no extension. / John asks Nick for $100,000 from his special account, and don’t ask why. / John asks Mrs (Margaret) Stone to leave town, rushes her out of her house. / Helen and Van Bennett are kissing as John arrives. They’ve received at campaign headquarters a call from Moray threatening Van’s election chances. John assures them it is a joke. The couple leaves. Stefan now surprises John. He wants to be taken to Mexico and given enough cash to take him and his daughter to Switzerland. John protests. After twenty years? Stefan says that he can't get the $100,000 without her signature. John counters that the money was for the girl, not him. Gregory tells Big Steve that his daughter is dead. It was a hospital mix-up. Big Steve will get his $100,000, and the other $100,000 later. The phone rings. It is Moray. First John tells Stefan he’ll get his $100,000 at the boat this night, 9:30. He then tells Moray to meet him at 10. / Down by the dock, John finds Stefan on the ship. They fight, John wins. Bickel comes aboard and finds a dead "sailor." // [4-8] The body is carried out. In the cabin, Mason questions John. Lieutenant Anderson joins them, informs Mason that it is homicide, but they have to know why he was killed. Mason asks Bickel how he showed up at this time. He states that Gregory was being blackmailed for a guy named Moray told him. Andy takes Gregory downtown. Paul Drake enters as the others leave and tells Mason that the dead man is Franz Moray. / Helen is saying she knows her father is not a murderer. Van Bennett says he only knew of Moray when he got his crazy phone call, which Gregory shrugged off. Helen knows less, except that her mother and baby sister were killed in an auto accident in Boston twenty years ago. She, dad and the nurse, Mrs Margaret Stone, came out okay. / Perry and Della join Drake in Boston. He's found a bank man, a stuffed-shirt named Corby, who says that Moray retired a month ago. / Drake speaks to the admitting nurse. / Mason, looking at a news file, is brought a clipping by the archivist. / Della reads the clip. Drake enters and shows Mason and Street the birth record of Susan Gregory. The car accident showed both mother and her daughter Susan DOA, with survivors being the father, nurse, and baby Helen who was one month older than Susan. / Karl Corby says that Helen was adopted when Susan was born, the real father being Big Steve Jahnchek. / In jail John asserts that the wrong name went on the accident admittance record, the real Susan lived. He accepted the $100,000 for a daughter from whom it was not intended, but put it in a trust. He didn’t see Moray on his boat. He changed his name from Gregor Jahnchek to John Gregory to get free of the bad name created by Stefan, his brother. / Nick knew Gregor who is now his best friend. Mason thinks Stefan is on the boat so goes aboard. Jahnchek swims away but is met by Drake. / Big Steve tells Nick that his brother is crooked and he'll send him to the gas chamber as Andy arrives. // [5-8] In court the autopsy surgeon explains the cause of death to D A Hamilton Burger, saying that a heavy wrench could have done it. Lt Anderson tells D A Hamilton Burger that a wrench that he's shown is the murder weapon and it has John Gregory's fingerprint. But, elicits Mason, two wrenches were missing from the rack, only one was found. Burger warns Nick Paolo that he harbored a fugitive, thus gets him to admit he received a phone call from John Gregory, after which he removed the shore watch from his boat. Bennett says that he saw a man leaving Gregory by the back door. He overheard the time of meeting and the name of Moray. Bickel claims that Moray said he could make trouble for Gregory. "I hit him" is what Gregory told him about a "drunken sailor." / Drake can't find Mrs Stone. Mason suggests that he look into the lease arrangement between Gregory and Bickel. Drake calls his office and learns that Burger has Stone as a surprise witness. // [6-8] Mrs Stone says that they met Gregory at the dock. He had just returned from three months at sea. This was the first time he saw his own daughter or his adopted daughter. She had to identify the living daughter after the accident,and mixed them up for Susan, not Helen, survived, under Helen's name. She told Gregory of her doubts,. Five years ago she came to California from Boston and Gregory paid her $5,000 to not see him or his daughter again. / In judge's chambers Mason asserts that there was no mix-up. John and Stefan bicker, which clearly annoys the judge. John says he loves the girl too much to let her be mixed up with a gangster. He has two accounts and the money in Helen's is his savings. The second account, kept by Paolo, is Stefan's. He was to leave it for him on the boat. Moray wanted the money. Stefan wanted the money. Burger cannot see the purpose of all this. John continues, noting that Stefan was never married to Helen's mother. Neither wanted a child. / Jahnchek gave Burger his sworn testimony in written form, but now says that it is not true. He didn't ask for $100,000, just enough money to get out of the country. Mason gets him to admit that he was there at 9:45. He fought with his brother, but was just stunned. He saw a launch, took it to get away, and doesn’t know how it got there. Nick Paolo admits he hid Stefan, but did not give him the launch. Moray did phone him, so he knew about him. Hadn't he already killed Moray when John tangled with Stefan? When Jahnchek took the power launch, he had to slip off in the shadows. It was he, Mason has discovered, who, thru a dummy corporation, leased ten tuna boats to Gregory. He'd used the $100,000 special account money so couldn't give it to John when asked for. If the Bickel Cannery merger went through, John could pay prettily for the tuna fleet, and then he could put the money back. He only intended to knock Moray out, send him south on a tuna boat. He “hit him too hard.” // [7-8] Congratulations in the courtroom. John asks Stefan why he lied on the stand, and is told, "I gotta be nice" because his brother John still holds his $200,000. [8-8 end credits] [50:47]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Orientalist (Edward Franklin) expounds at great length on a figurine, a Weary Watchdog, which (Zaneta) Holmes calls evil yet buys. (Trixie) Tong tells a man that he shouldn't see her there. Then Franklin asks her to wrap and crate the (weary) Kamakura watchdog. In an adjacent room, soon overheard by Franklin, Mrs (Janet) Brent is on the phone to Della Street, giving her directions on where they should meet. She leaves Brent’s Oriental Imports. / In a car, Janet Brent asks Della to give her $25,000, no questions asked. Janet sees another car pull up. “$25,000 or a gun” is “all she can use now.” Janet goes to the other car. // [3-8] At Hon Cee Cee's restaurant Mason asks for two Hong Kong dinners for himself and Della. Dean Chang, Trixie's visitor, says "specials," but is corrected by father C C. In respect to Dean’s love affair, CC offers “For if a fool persists in his follfy, he may become wide.“ Della asks Perry for $25,000, not questions asked. Maso, without hesitation, carefully writes out a check. Franklin has asked Alton Brent to initial some items. Miss Tong is the messenger. Janet Brent and Della, waiting for Franklin, are offered a chance to see his stamp collection, but they go off together. Della gives Janet the money and wonders why Janet would explain things to her, rather than her husband, and whether she is going to tell Alton how fabulous is his store manager, Ed Franklin. / Janet gives blackmailer/orientalist Ed the money for photos of a "drunken spree," but he doesn't give her the negatives, and does ask for a 50% part of the business which he already runs. She leaves. On the phone, Ed notifies that his services are now $6000 instead of $3000 a month. / Mrs Holmes is describing an antique Chinese headdress worn by Trixie. Alton Brent thanks her and her husband for making possible the delivery of the items for the preview. He tells them to "eat and drink, the proceeds go to charity” In an adjacent room, Franklin and a uniformed man are packing crates. As the man leaves, Franklin compliments Trixie, kisses her, all of which is seen by Dean Chang, who chides her. He says she makes herself dirty. Back at the party, Alton Brent is gushing over Della Street with Janet. Franklin interrupts to ask if Janet has spoken to him. Commodore Gallen Holmes informs Franklin that his appraiser has said a piece for which his wife paid $10,000 wasn't worth $50. Zaneta responds to Della’s query about the Weary Watchdog. Separately, Franklin finds Janet, taunts her. She holds a gun, says they'll go to get the photos. He picks up her luggage, swings one into the gun, wrestles with her and is hit on the head and knocked out. / A policeman stops Mrs Brent's car, on an APB, for murder. It is Della Street driving. // [4-8] After parrying with mason over Della’s complicity in helpling Mrs Brent escape, Lieutenant Anderson informs Della and Perry that the district attorney says that should Mrs Brent be found, tried and convicted, Della will also be tried. She claims to be hungry. / Della takes Perry to C C's, where Janet is waiting to meet the attorney. Mason warns Della that, as a officer of the court, he has to turn Janet in as soon as he's talked with her. Dean rushes to Mason, announces that his father is in jail. / Andy explains that C C was speeding, ran a couple of red lights and, when stopped, was found in possession of something reported earlier as stolen, namely, an exact mate to the Weary Watchdog, stolen from Commodore Galen holmes, with which Janet Brent killed Franklin. / In Mason’s office, Della and Janet are awaiting Mason's return. His footsteps send Janet into an adjacent room. Mason enters with C C and Dean Chang. C C explains that the Weary Watchdog belongs to Taiwan. Drake interrupts with his report. C C has been arrested twice for driving too slow and Dean has multiple citations. Mason tells them it is Dean who ran the lights. C C says that he will plead guilty and wants Mason to represent him. Mason refuses, citing conflict of interest and Della’s jeopardy. The two Chinese leave. Mason asks Della, "Where is she?" "The law library." Mason proceeds to bawl Janet out for putting Della in an untenable position. She responds by giving Mason an envelope with $25,000 in it. She stole it from Franklin's desk, along with the blackmail evidence which she burned. As to the statue, she had a copy made when she saw the original. She hit Edward only once, but he was hit thrice with, as Paul calls it, “that tired little mutt.” Andy and Sergeant Brice enter to arrest Janet and warn Della to not leave town. // [5-8] In court, Della is not next Mason, but in the spectator’s chairs. Commodore Holmes tells D A Hamilton Burger about the party conversation. He tells Mason of Franklin's guaranteeing him that the appraiser was wrong. Mrs Holmes says that she saw Mrs Brent coming down the stairs, publicly, with two suitcases. Her curiosity took her upstairs where she found Franklin. Janet appeared agitated and was with Della Street. Burger forces Street to reveal that Janet repossessed $25,000 from Franklin's desk along with incriminating evidence. Burger pursues Della’s driving Janet’s car as a ruse to help[ Janet escape. For Mason, Janet testifies that Ed Franklin deliberately drugged her to be able to stage the compromising photographs and he also forged the hotel registration for blackmail purposes. The night of the charity party, after Franklin spoke to her and her husband, she knew “it was the end of the road.” She went upstairs and used her gun to get Franklin to go with her, but he swung a bag. She hit him once, only. / Drake brings Della and Perry coffee and sandwiches. Paul reports on Trixie telling Dean he had no right to get angry with her for Franklin's making a pass at her at the Brent house charity party. Andy joins them to say that Burger is issuing a warrant for Della’s arrest “as an accesory to murder.” // [6-8] Mr (James) Wong is worried since Mason won't represent C C. Some time ago when he was going to Washington, Dean asked for help in getting Mrs Chang's husband to the U S, but there he found the father was dead. Dean is only C C's stepson and the two never see eye to eye, though C C would do anything for Dean, says Wong. / Mrs Tong tells Mason that her husband has never been able to join her and his daughter. She believes her husband is still alive. She tells Mason of blood money, extortion, money sent each week to keep her mainland relatives alive. The collector of the extortion was Edward Franklin. / Mason tells Drake he's headed to C C's courtroom as an amicus curiae. Mason reminds the judge and Assistant District Attorney Alvin that grand theft is not possible for a $50 item. Alvin is stupefied by Mason’s logic, but bows reluctantly to the judge’s decision to proceed. / Alton Brent is called and he says there is the Kamakura watchdog and his wife's cheap copy. The two are easily distinguishable. Who is Madame Tsu Tsen, asks Mason of Zaneta Holmes. She doesn't know. Mason then asks if this is not her mother, a prisoner in China, and she's afraid to acknowledge it? Yes. The stolen watchdog was the copy. Alton Brent, who has claimed expertise, is recalled, and asked to tell which dynasty each of two pieces is from. He can't. He admits that Franklin ran the business and that it was a front for other business, with an accomplice who was the one who exchanged the original watchdog with the copy. The accomplice was C C Chang who was, at that time, running through two red lights. Mason then goes to Dean, asks if it was the accomplice who knew two years earlier that Trixie's father was dead. Dean admits that it was he who ran the red lights. As Burger tells Mason his jury is awaiting him, C C finally confesses, noting that Franklin became too greedy.The judge grants amicus curiae motion and orders Chang arrested for murder as Burger looks on astounded. // [7-8] Paul note that Dean was afraid of losing his license. C C took the car and got himself arrested. There never was any love between the two. Burger arrives with the verdict that was never read and Mason has Drake use his cigarette lighter to destroy it. Andy wants to know what clued Perry. C C said that he took the watchdog to protect China's historic art pieces, but the Kamakura Weary Watchdog grave figure is Japanese, not Chinese. [8-8 end credits] [50:44]

(Bobby Slater from "A Man with Half a Face" by Hugh Pentecost)

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At Placer Hill High School two girls are talking about Bobby Slater. Mrs (Jane) Wardman reminds them to get to class. In class, (Pat) Mangan answers to Mrs Wardman with "Jane." They have not finished David Copperfield. Bobby teases her. She is called to the principal's office by Elsie (uncredited, tho a speaking role with nine words). Doris (Wilson) doesn't know what Mr (Everett) Rixby wants. The BOE (Board Of Education) asks for her resignation. Mr Everett Rixby, acting principal, shows her a copy of a lurid letter. Mrs (Cornelia) Slater, the board rep, threatens her with airing of this dirty linen if she doesn't resign. // [3-8] Perry Mason is with Judge Edward Daley discussing local fishing when Jane walks up. The judge confers with her. He was executor of her husband’s will. He says she's still an outsider locally. He explains how the town is locked in ways of the past and reveals that, privately, some of the boys said she made passes at them. / Mason, carrying groceries, is offered a ride to his cottage by Jane even as she is taunted by the boys on motorcycles. / She drops Mason off. He thanks her, hopes that he can return the favor. As she drives away the boys on their motorcycles ride by in pursuit. She meets her boy scout son Terry and the motorcycles roar by. / Inside the Summit Inn, Doris Wilson is at the bar with Gus Wiler, who brings Jane a double old fashioned. She says that she doesn't drink. He says that he hears otherwise and she's not at the high school anymore. Rixby joins them and suggests that Gus leave. He apologizes for not standing up to the dragon, and he does want to stand up for principle. She explains to Terry the problem and he identifies “that dirty Pat Mangan.” She, like others, mentions what happened to Kenneth Sterling, whom she was stupid enough to try to help. Terry calls it an accident when his motorcycle skidded into a ravine. / As she drives home, Mangan follows on his cycle. Then three more join him and pass her. Another group of four come after her. Her car goes off the road. // [4-8] Dr (Stephen Grant) tells Perry Mason that Jane’s condition is not serious. Mason expresses his indignation that he and the judge could be involved in such a situation. The doctor offers that the town protects its youngsters and, besides the letter, there was testimony of Pat Mangan. Jane points out that he is not a boy, but old enough to be in the army. As Jane's family doctor, he ventured no opinion about her self-control after losing her husband. / Perry Mason and Paul Drake overhear three girls, one of whom says she likes Mrs Wardman and one of the others says "so do the boys." Mason offers Drake's services. Drake asks about Kenneth Sterling, a disturbed boy to which she was close and helpful. She got a midnight call and helped him. Mason says that they can call for an open hearing or find the writer of the letter. Drake says it was done on an Imperial Super Quiet typewriter. There is also the note that she sent the board, about what Pat Mangan had said at a dance which made her think that Gus Wiler might be selling the boys liquor. Terry encourages mom to fight and she agrees. // Gus Wiler finds Drake and Mason checking tire tracks. Drake challenges him with the rumor that he's been selling liquor to the boys. / After Mangan parks his cycle, Drake inspects the tire, then goes to the door and presents himself as from the Imperial Typewriter Company, but Mangan has seen him inspecting the tire. He fights with Drake and lands face down when the detective easily sidesteps his swing. His mother comes out and declares that the typewriter was traded in two months ago when he bought his new cycle. / As Mason works at a typewriter, Mr Rixby tells Mrs Slater there's not much he can do since Mrs Wardman is going to fight. She tells Rixby they'll have to take things into their own hands. Mason asks for notes of the board meeting, but Doris Wilson won't provide them. Neither has Mason gotten no help from the judge. Mason plots to force the judge's hand. He has Drake get Mangan to start a fight. Mangan loses. / Sheriff Watson tells Drake and Mason that no call has come from Judge Daley, nor has he gotten far with motorcycle tracks. He also doesn't believe Wiler would sell to the boys though, in Cactus City where Sterling was killed, there are a dozen places that sell. Further, Sterling did have alcohol in his blood. The judge arrives and privately says he'll do what he thinks best both for Jane and the town. The judge answers the phone and hears "going over to Jane Wardman's house." / Mrs Slater and other women enter Wardman's house when Terry opens the door. But Jane is outside and stops them. Mrs Slater demands that Jane resign and Doris Wilson tells her to get out of town. Mrs Slater says she and the other women will take their children out of the school if she doesn't resign, just as Mason and Daley walk up. Mason threatens them with breaking and entry, intimidation and slander and the judge, having witnessed the behavior of the women that he's tried to protect, gives in. // [5-8] Judge Daley calls the meeting to order as Drake reports that Sterling died not of liquor, but of a heart attack. When a photostat of the original letter is introduced, and Doris Wilson doesn't know when the original was missing, Mason objects. Daley says Mason's objections won't do any good, he'll conduct things the way the Board thinks best. Daley reads the letter; " . . . what a certain young widow has been doing nights with the boys in her senior English class . . . " Cornelia repeats what she told the Board in private. She saw Mrs Wardman slip out of the dance with Mangan and fifteen minutes later return alone, lipstick smeared, dress disarranged, smelling of liquor. Doris Wilson says that she saw Mangan and Wardman necking. Mason challenges this shocking statement, but she says she did tell someone before the Board meeting, Mr Rixby. He says that he thought she must have mistaken some other girl for Mrs Wardman, and still thinks so. Mangan enters, says Jane gave him the eye, they went out and had a couple of drinks, necked, and he cut out. Mangan rushes out, followed by Drake, who dogs him until the boy gets on his cycle, charges past Drake and skids into bushes at the side of the road. / Drake has told Jane that Pat has admitted Wiler was behind the whole thing and he went along because he had it in for her, too. Sterling (here, inexplicably called Pat) also probably got his drinks from Wiler. / It is night at the Summit Inn when Mason and Drake find Wiler dead. The judge is already there. // [6-8] In his office Sheriff Watson is inspecting typing. None of the samples Drake has gotten from the stationery store that sold the brand match the original letter, which has been found in the wallet of the dead man. Jane says the only other person she talked about the Sterling accident with was Doris Wilson. / At a second meeting Judge Daley lets Mason take over. Sheriff Watson has no objection. He calls Pat Mangan, but Mr Mangan says he's out of town for a while. Bobby Slater admits that he lied. Pat had told him Mrs Wardman hauled him out of the dance because he was making trouble, and then found the liquor in his car. The next day Pat was bragging about mussing her up and spilling liquor on her. Neither did Mrs Wardman make passes at him, tho he told the Board that she did, because Pat threatened to beat him up if he didn't. Mason challenges the doctor with his own statement about those cut off from a loved one. Wasn't he in love with Jane? Didn't she deny him? Further, wasn't he partner with Wiler? Dr Grant tries to deflect the charge by pointing out that the judge was Wiler's landlord. Mason points out that the judge might have struck the fatal blow and planted the anonymous letter to get Wardman out of town for fear that her investigation into the liquor situation would reveal that the phone call Jane got from Sterling came not from Cactus City, but the Summit Inn. Jane wrote a note about this to the Board. Daley never got it. Doris admits that she destroyed it, because she cared for Wiler. Mason then asks why she changed typewriters the day before yesterday. He has a note he typed yesterday and another she typed three days earlier. The earlier is the same as the anonymous letter. Mason now implicates Rixby who withdrew $11,600 from his bank account, the exact amount used by Wiler to put in new fixtures at the Summit Inn. Didn't Ken Sterling's death occur at the Summit Inn? Then he and Wiler, knowing an investigation would expose them, arranged to have it seem to occur over near Summit City? Rixby unravels and tries to explain. Last night Gus told him he'd not stand by him any more, because he didn't strike the boy or move the body after it was found dead. So he had to kill him to protect his reputation. // [7-8] Cornelia comes to apologize with a group for everyone. Drake responds sarcastically, but Jane says Placer Hill is Terry's and her home. [8-8 end credits] [50:42]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A horse, Tiger Lil, rounds the track. One-twelve-three is her time. Jennifer (Wakely) and (Brad) Shelby are at the rail. Roberta (Harper) joins them. Jennifer asks Roberta to tell her dad, who has had a heart attack, the good news. The trainer (Joe Mead) thinks Tiger Lil will be ready. / Track [montage], Tiger Lil wins, three times. Jennifer tells Joe Mead that her horse is going home for a rest. / Jennifer arrives at the Wakely ranch after dark to learn that there's been a fire and her father is dead. // [3-8] Roberta comforts Jennifer, tells her that her uncle (Emmett) Pierson wants her to come to his office. Jennifer is crying because Brad Shelby hasn't called even once to say he's sorry. Roberta tells her that wealthy Madelon Haines was married to Brad in Las Vegas the day before her father died. Roberta suggests that Jennie move in with her. / Uncle Emmett Pierson tells Jennifer that her father was a good horseman, a poor business man, and there's little left after debts are paid, but the two of them are all each other has for they are family. / Jennifer tells H B Durrell that she intends to race Tiger Lil. Durrell gives Jennifer a surprise; her father nominated Tiger Lil for the Presentation Stakes and paid all the fees. / Jennifer returns to her stable to meet Joe, who says Tiger Lil has been sold, by order of Pierson, to Brad Shelby./ At Brad's, Jennifer tells Madelon that she came to get her filly back. Brad says he bought Tiger Lil to help her, but she counters that she'll get Tiger Lil back and he won’t stop her. / Of course, Jennifer goes to Perry Mason who, with Della Street taking notes, reminds her that she's a minor. The sale may hurt, but could be legal. Tiger Lil means more than money to Jennifer, and Uncle Emmett didn’t even tell her. / Pierson tells Mason that horse breeding is a rich man's game. Mason suggests that he could have sold the other Wakely horses instead of Tiger Lil. Jennifer took the sale harder than he expected, says Pierson, who admits that he knew about the Presentation Stakes. Yet he's not a gambler, only a business man. / Roberta Harper tells Mason and Della Street that Jennifer has gone out to her ranch after getting a phone call. She didn’t recognize the voice. / At the ranch, Joe drives up after Perry and Della arrive. The horse trailer is gone. / At Shelby's Shamrock Farms, Jennifer goes to Tiger Lil. She picks up a pitchfork, is confronted by Shelby and screams. Tiger Lil runs away, passing Mason who is on the way in. Jennifer tries to reach Madelon, then returns to Shelby who is dead. Mason, Street, Mead join Jennifer as she proclaims "I didn't mean to do it." // [4-8] In jail Jennifer claims she threw the pitchfork (spreader) at Brad as she ran away. Also, Madelon phoned her, told her that no one would be at the Shamrock for a while, come and get Tiger Lil. / Madelon admits she called Jennifer and was to meet her husband at the Red Coach Inn for dinner, but he didn't show up. She knew that Brad was shipping horses to Mexico in the morning and didn't want Tiger Lil to be included. She and her trainer, George Tabor, think $10,000 was enough for Tiger Lil, but Brad bought the horse himself. Doesn't it strike Mason as strange that Pierson was ready to sell the horse for five times what it was worth? / Pierson thinks Shelby wanted to do something big to prove himself, and he had to do it before Shamrock trainer (George) Tabor got back from the east. / Sergeant Landro tells Mason that Jennifer was the last person to handle the murder weapon. Then Harper tells Mason that she and Shelby were married seven years earlier, for a month. Of all the people, why then did Brad have to be the one to buy Jennifer's filly? Paul Drake on the phone reports where various people were; Madelon was at the Red Coach 8:30 to 9, Victor and two stable hands were playing poker, and George Tabor returned by plane at 10, then went into town at noon. / At the ranch, Tabor accuses Mead of keeping his mouth shut about Tiger Lil so she could be sold. Mason and Drake arrive in the detective's Thunderbird as Tabor drives away. Mead asserts that he had nothing to do with the sale. He is surprised at the sale price of $50,000. / Mason and Drake meet with Madelon Shelby, then Tabor arrives. He doesn't think Brad’s purchase was so shrewd, and offers to show them what Brad bought. / Victor runs the horse, which limps. George says Brad paid $50,000 for a horse that will never run again. // [5-8] In court Hamilton Burger has Sergeant Landro show how the pitchfork was used. It was thrust into the body at close range, not thrown. Mason gets him to admit that someone could have held the handle on the wood and no fingerprints would have been found. The stable hand tells Burger how Miss Wakely told off Brad in the afternoon. Harper has to say that Jennifer “didn't know how much (she) hated" Brad until now. Mason asks Mrs Shelby about the Mexican shipment, and maybe Brad knew he had to get rid of lame Tiger Lil before Tabor returned. The D A objects and Mason withdraws. Then Mason forces Madelon to admit that she met Tabor before going to dinner with her husband. Tabor called her to say that Brad had fired him. She rehired him. She says that, in running her ranch, she had to retake control from Brad, and she needs George Tabor. Madelon's trainer then says that even an expert couldn't have told Tiger Lil was lame by looking at her, but he found out when she favored one leg. When he ran her Joe Mead learned of the problem. Mason asks when he first saw Tiger Lil. In the morning is his answer, but before he could examine her, Shelby sent him on errands, then fired him, told him to get his things the next morning. This was after the horses were shipped to Mexico and before he could have examined Tiger Lil. Burger gets him to admit that Shelby never specifically kept him from seeing Tiger Lil. Mead then says that no one but he knew Tiger Lil was lame after the fire, and so he had no time to tell anyone. Burger forces him to tell what Jennifer said; “Brad Shelby’s not going to have Tiger Lil. I’ll get him back if . . . if I have to kill him.” / Mason conjectures to Della that Shelby planned to have Tiger Lil have an unfortunate accident in Mexico. Drake reports that Pierson was involved in something shady. Mason sends him to Mexico. // [6-8] Back in court Joe tells Mason that Pierson knew he'd not be at the ranch three days before the sale. Burger is astounded when Pierson says Shelby told him that Tiger Lil was lame. The sale was a cover-up for a gift to Jennifer. Pierson admits to Mason that three years' income taxes and the mortgage have been paid up by proceeds from the sale of the horse. Then why did he liquidate his stocks and bonds for $40,000 on the day that the horse was sold for $50,000? Roberta Harper, Jennifer's father’s secretary for his last two years, says Pierson tried unsuccessfully to take out life insurance on himself payable to Jennifer. Mason confronts her lie when she said she couldn’t identify the voice on the phone the eve of the murder, and says he's also discovered that she never did, in Mexico, divorce Brad Shelby. She demanded $40,000 from Shelby. Brad was going to Mexico to finally obtain a quick divorce. She got the money that night at the stable. Brad was drunk, heard Jennifer taking Tiger Lil so ran after her. She was scared for Jennifer. She was a threat to Brad as long as she lived. The money is hers! // [7-8] Pierson tells Mason that he spotted Roberta's false entries in the books. $10,000 was missing. He didn't want Jennie to think her father dishonest. Jennifer and Joe have arrived with Tiger Lil, now a prospective mother, and they now have Shamrock Farms ' best, the father, to start a new bloodline. Uncle Pierson agrees to be Jennifer's partner. [8-8 end credits] [50:46]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A car drives up to Bolton Hall. A man opens the gate and walks in. He is Mr (Burt) Renshaw and speaks with Mr (Edward) Link, Bolton Hall orphanage director, about an orphan named Maureen. He makes a contribution. At the gate, another arrival, speaks with a little girl. Link leaves Renshaw in the records room in order to stop the stranger (James Grove) from talking with the child. When Renshaw views the visitor, he moves some records from one file and places them in another, and vice versa. // [3-8] At the airport, foster-pop (Leverett Thomas) asks Maureen (Thomas) to visit, tells her a Mr Renshaw claiming to be her uncle Burt was at the house. She says to tell him that she left home five years ago, gives him some money, goes to her boyfriend, Rich(ard Campion). He wants her to meet his family. Has he told them she's an orphan? / Pop Thomas goes to Burt Renshaw’s music store. Renshaw admits Maureen Thomas is his brother's child. He places a photo of Thomas, which was taken secretly, over a $20 bill, and Thomas accepts it. / Renshaw goes to James Grove and finds him putting through a call to Angela Renshaw Fernaldi, who is all alone since her companion drowned. He tells her that he's found her daughter. A man (George?) takes the phone from Fernaldi after she says she'll be on the plane immediately. Grove hangs up before Renshaw can speak to her, then he tells Renshaw he won't be needing him, introduces "his" Maureen (Franklin). / Renshaw has taken "his" Maureen, Thomas, to Perry Mason. She was left at the Bolton Hall orphanage with no last name, placed with the Thomases at age two. At the divorce, the father was awarded custody since the mother was an alcoholic. Ed went into the navy and Maureen was again put at the orphanage. Then Ed's sub sunk. Maureen gets up to go, but sits again when Burt explains how rich Fernaldi is. Burt says he knows something no one else does, then leaves. Maureen puts herself in Mason's hands. In the outer office, Burt meets Richard Campion. // Richard is telling Maureen Thomas and Mr and Mrs Campion about a flight over the Rockies. Maureen volunteers that her father was killed in a submarine and her mother, Mrs Arturo Fernaldi, lives in Europe. Maureen takes Burt's phone call. / She goes to Burt's music store where she finds Burt dead. She goes to phone the police, but the phone is covered with blood. She drops it and runs out. // [4-8] Mason looks at a list given him by Lieutenant Anderson, which is the list Renshaw was using when he called Maureen Thomas. It has Pop Thomas, Richard Campion and Maureen checked, Mason not checked. Andy informs Mason that Renshaw was murdered the previous night. Mason offers him no help. Della gives him a note; "Maureen Thomas left on eight a m flight to Portland. Due back this evening at 5:15." Mason suggests the clerk at the shop, Miss (Margaret) MacDonald. Mason then suggests to Della that she get information from the orphanage. He thinks that Renshaw looked for "any" Maureen to pawn off on Angela Renshaw. / Mason greets Maureen Thomas at the airport, tells her of the murder of her “uncle.” Maureen says, after last night (at the Campion's) she really wants a mother. Mason notes that Renshaw claimed that only he could identify the real Maureen. / Grove tells Mason it seems that he has to prove his Maureen to Mrs Fernaldi. His Maureen, Franklin, joins them, is introduced to the other Bolton Hall graduate. Then Angela Renshaw Fernaldi bounces in, cannot tell which Maureen is hers. She admits to being a bad mother. Privately, Grove suggests Mason's client is unlikely, and might be suspected of murder following fraud. Mason says that, for now, the two Maureens are interchangeable. / Della Street gives Mason a news paper which he shows Maureen "Do you know this girl?" is the headline of a photo of her. How was it taken? / Paul Drake has the files from the orphanage. Two fit the Maureen they are looking for. Thomas "father" was on duty in a sub at the time she was deposited at the orphanage. Franklin has had three foster parents. / Andy (Lt Anderson) has identified Maureen Thomas. Mason takes him into his office, introduces Maureen Thomas. Andy shows a photo, which was taken in the shop by Margaret MacDonald on the night of the murder. It is the newspaper photo, with the background removed. Andy arrests Miss Thomas. // [5-8] In court Margaret MacDonald tells D A Hamilton Burger that she helped take care of the baby Maureen when Ed shipped out to sea. It was Burt who left the baby at the orphanage. Then, recently, he found a Maureen. Burger shows her the photo which was taken by a concealed camera, the film to which had been changed at closing time. Burt stayed on to meet with someone after hours, someone whom he knew was an impostor and phony. She tells Mason that she offered to raise the baby if . . . she and Renshaw had vaguely discussed marriage. She, not Burt, sent contributions to the orphanage. Edward Link testifies to the irregular receipt of anonymous contributions to be used for the benefit of "Maureen." His predecessor deduced it was meant for one of two Maureens, so they divided the money, between Franklin and Thomas. Pop Thomas says he got regular payments from the orphanage, and there was a point where they increased. Maureen hasn't lived with him for five years. He kept the money because his wife was sick and he needed it. Renshaw discovered this, and Pop promised to pay the money back. Andy identifies the murder scissors, and a handbag with dried blood on it. As James Grove goes to the stand, Maureen whispers to Mason that she almost tripped over Renshaw and that is when she lost her bag. Mason responds that proving she is Fernaldi's daughter is more important. Grove says his searches led him to Maureen Franklin. His firm is executor of a $200,000 trust fund that goes to the daughter at 21. Fernaldi shows a photo of her baby at less than one, with a Polka Dot pony. Maureen Franklin testifies that her toys were kept in a box, and one toy was a stuffed animal. Between first and second foster families, the box got left behind and new toys were presented. Grove has found the box, and Burger produces it, opens it, and pulls out a Polka Dot pony. Angela cries out, "She's the one, that's my baby." // [6-8] Rich tells Mason it makes no difference whether his Maureen is Angela's child or not. Della suggests Mrs Fernaldi’s photo was shown Grove who then planted the stuffed animal to fit the facts. / Back in court, Maureen tells Mason that overnight she remembers her childhood name; Buttons. The polka dots on the pony look like buttons. Mason asks Mrs Fernaldi if the pony didn't have a name. Angela cannot remember. Her drinking was not the cause of her divorce, but the result, or so her Swiss doctor said. Edward took the baby away after she burned her. There would be a scar on her left shoulder. Maureen Thomas shakes her head. Burger dramatically reveals Franklin's scar. MacDonald says that, when he went looking for Maureen, Renshaw discovered her cash removals, and struck her. There might have been a shoulder scar on her baby Maureen. Recalling Grove, Mason reverses the question; not, who is the daughter, but who is the mother? What if it was Mrs Fernaldi who drowned, and the traveling companion, using her documents, who lived? Even after twenty years, Burt would have recognized his own sister-in-law. So she had to kill him. She says she meant no harm. She never expected Grove to find anyone and she, the constant companion for fifteen years, now with no money or support, only wanted the trust funds. // [7-8] The usual trio with the three Campions and Maureen Thomas. Mason and Drake explain that no one could ever find the two traveling companions in Switzerland. If Burt didn't know Maureen was a fake, then there was only one other possibility. The nurse made the facts fit Franklin, unbeknown to Grove. The courts probably cannot decide which girl is the real Maureen. It is best to divide the money, since Franklin had no part in the fraud. Thomas thinks this a good idea, but is left with only half a mother. Mrs Campion steps forward, says Richard has put up with them all these years despite her lack of understanding of his generation. She extends her hand, Maureen Thomas accepts it, and they hug. [8-8 end credits] [50:44]

CHARACTER ACTOR Perry Mason Raymond Burr Della Street Barbara Hale Paul Drake William Hopper Hamilton Burger William Talman Lt Tragg Ray Collins Virginia Trent Margaret O'Brien Sarah Breel Lurene Tuttle Pete Chennery Leonard Nimoy Ione Bedford Melora Conway Sergeant Gifford Richard Coogan Bill Golding Arthur Batanides Austin Cullens Blair Davies Judge Charles Irving Floorwalker James Millhollin Saleswoman Shirley Mitchell

Store Detective Kenneth Patterson Interne Walter Kelley Foreman Bernard Fein

CHARACTER ACTOR (Maitre d') Andre Vincent Troy [Sgt Brice Lee Miller]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8]{1-9 Title credits){2-9} A woman at a jewelry counter argues about colors and sizes. The saleswoman has become weary trying to pleas her customer, who shoplifts earrings when the saleswoman looks for additional items. This is seen by a floorwalker. Faking a headache, the woman heads to the ladies room, bumps into Perry Mason. As the saleswoman follows Sarah on Mason’s suggestion, the floorwalker speaks to her, then to the attorney. A dark-haired woman comes up to Perry and asks about her Aunt Sarah (Breel), the shoplifter who then returns. The floorwalker confronts Sarah with theft which is proven by the saleswoman who shows the items, two scarves, a dozen stockings, a jeweled necklace. The dark-haired lady offers to pay, for her aunt has never stolen anything. Mason confronts the floorwalker over his public slander and physical mishandling of the ladies. A store detective steps up and calms the situation. Aunt Sarah steals again after thanking Perry! // [3-8]{3-9} The dark-haired lady, Ginny (Virginia Trent), and Aunt Sarah come out of the Bon-Ton. Ginny is mortified by her aunt's thefts, which cost $78. Sarah notes that Ginny needs the stockings. She is worried about her brother George who has disappeared. Ginny sends Sarah home in a taxi. / Ginny enters the "George Trent Co Rare Gems Cutting-Polishing" office. One of the workers gives her a letter with George's car keys in it. She answers a phone call from (Austin) Cullens, who wants to show the Bedford diamonds before they are cut. But Mrs Bedford’s diamonds are not in the vault. / Ginny goes to Perry Mason. Aunt Sarah never took the taxi home. George has disappeared. He never had a boyhood and now he's fifty. So he gets drunk, mails his car keys to himself, gambles, which makes Aunt Sarah snap. Arthur Cullens bursts in, puts on a show, suggesting Sarah is only acting to cover for George, He insists that George Trent has the diamonds and is probably gambling with them and has never let him down. The best thing to do is to tell the truth. Perry instructs Della Street to have Paul Drake search for Aunt Sarah; “police headquarters, ambulance calls, emergency rooms.” Della gives him a “what are you thinking” kind of look. / Andre has a message for Mason, from Ione Bedford. Over the phone, she says she told Cullens that she was going to sue. “You WERE going to sue?” “You don’t think I’d run the risk of being messed up by the famous Perry Mason . . . legally speaking, that is.” Then Austin found the diamonds at the Golden Platter where George played poker. “Aussie,” as she calls him, says he can get them back. Drake then introduces the attorney to Sergeant Gifford, who says Sarah Breel “was struck down by a car less than an hour ago.” / At the hospital the doctor has given Sarah a sedative. Gifford explains that the driver who hit her didn't see her when she stepped out between two parked cars. He shows Mason the contents of Breel's purse including a gun which Mason suggests was on the street, not necessarily in her purse, and diamonds, “fifty thousand bucks worth.” Mason refuses comment. / Outside Drake is collared to go to Cullens' place. / Where they find that the door is open. A penny in a table lamp has shorted the electricity. Mason finds Cullens, dead, shot. // [4-8]{4-9} Lieutenant Tragg has found a chamois pouch tied around Cullens' waist. Tragg sarcastically tells Mason that, of course not, the turned inside-out bag couldn’t have held the “diamonds they found by the old lady’s bag.” Then he notes that the gun (which, Mason notes, was not) found in Sarah's purse with two shots fired, is registered to the George Trent Company and was seen in the desk Sarah used. Mason points out that the shorting of the electricity is hardly an old lady’s trick. / Mason tells Sarah he can’t be her lawyer unless she tells him the truth. Sarah seems to suffer from amnesia but, since Mason is looking for her brother, she points out that he is already her lawyer! / At the Golden Platter, Drake asks owner and operator (Bill) Golding if he's seen Cullens. After learning that Cullens has been murdered, Golding tells Drake the same thing he told Cullens, he hasn't seen Trent or any diamonds. “Now, good night, Mr Drake.” Golding tells Joe, the bartender (not credited), that he's going out, and Drake follows him. / Mason shows Ione Bedford a photo of the recovered diamonds. Last she knew, says Ione, Aussie had said he’d get the diamonds from some gambling place. She denies, vociferously, that they are hers. Pete Chennery enters, thinks Mason is Cullens” “I’m sorry to disappoint you, but Austin Cullens is already dead.” Chennery claims she went out with Cullens. She admits it, then says that she couldn't identify the diamonds in the photo because she owns no diamonds. She was only helping Austin in his business. Chennery says Ione needs her own lawyer. Mason counters, they both do. In the hall, Mason hears the two still arguing. / Sarah still feigns amnesia. She tells Mason that, until he finds George, he'll have to do without her. / At the Trent Company office Mason, using the second key on a ring, goes into a locked storage room. Uncle George is found dead, apparently for a couple of days, says Mason. // [5-8]{5-9} Drake, Street and Mason are in the attorney’s office. Two shots were fired from the gun in Sarah's purse. While they can’t match the flattened murder bullet, it is same weight, calibre and alloy as the weapon used. Drake reports Golding drove one car home, another back, then sold the first, a blue sedan, at a used car lot. The man who hit Sarah said a blue sedan pulled out in front of him. So Sarah has no reason to cover for George, notes Paul, but Mason says now she won’t remember anything. Now Golding has disappeared, into the hands of the District Attorney. / (It is interesting how often Mason arrives outside the court building alone, walks up the steps of the courthouse alone, but, immediately inside the courtroom, Della is with him.) In court, Ione Bedford, now called Mrs Chennery, tells District Attorney Hamilton Burger that she just helped Cullens sell the diamonds, “salesmanship.” Gifford responds, “high-class fencing,” testifies the Bedford diamonds came from New York. They were taken to Trent's to be recut so they couldn’t be easily identified. The judge points to the speculative element of the sergeant’s testimony, but Mason stipulates to anything that goes against Cullen, but not, as Sarah tugs his jacket, against Trent. Mason asks if a second bullet was found at Cullens'. No. What was in his pockets? Nothing in the right hip pocket of a right-handed man. Burger and Tragg look baffled. “Of course, your only on robbery detail” chides Mason. Chennery says he was watching his wife. She'd moved out on him and was going out with Cullens and wearing fancy clothes. At 7:30 the night of the murder, he went to Cullens and overheard a man tell a woman "for Pete's sake will ya quit worrying about George Trent." He left when a blue sedan pulled up. The woman’s voice was not his wife’s. Mason brings up his arraignment on bunko charges and jail time. Burger objects. Sustained. Bill Golding admits that he owned a blue sedan. He went to Cullens's but then to a liquor store to phone when no one answered. Then he heard a shot and some banging around inside the house, then the defendant came running out. As he pulled from the curb, he heard some brakes screech. // [6-8]{6-9} Sarah in jail tells Mason she wants to plead guilty because the testimony is air tight. When she got home that night, she found a delayed message. George had discovered Cullens was a crook. She marched right over and, after Cullens was dead, took the diamonds off him. Accompanied by Della, Ginny is brought in and Mason accuses Sarah for covering for her niece. Once again Sarah asserts “I’m in charge of this family.” Mason suggests that “Virginia might like to be in charge of herself, for a change.” Ginny admits that she fought with Cullens. Mason says Cullens killed George to be safe from discovery, probably got the office gun from Trent. He was carrying the gun in his empty hip pocket. Ginny says first the lights blew then, when the phone rang, she was able to get away. The gun went off, once, and she ran. Mason sends Drake to find a second bullet, outside, possibly in a tree. / Mason has Ginny testify. She ran after only one shot, and Sarah saw her running away, went in and found the body. She breaks down, crying that she killed Austin Cullens. Will Burger dismiss the case against Sarah, asks the judge. Burger instead calls for a short recess, During the recess Burger asks why Mason did things this way, breaking the old lady's heart. But Tragg comes up with Drake, and the second bullet. Mason explains to Burger that Ginny heard a shot after the phone rang, while Golding heard a single shot after making several phone calls. Mason explains that the tree bullet was likely the first fired, the second, later one, the murder bullet. Chennery joins in and Burger, with some additional explanation by Mason, comes to understand that Chennery was the professional burglar who saw the blue sedan from inside the house. Mason notes that Chennery claimed to be watching his wife, who'd been seeing Cullens, for several days, yet thought Mason was Cullens. Sergeants Brice and Gifford take Chennery into custody. As Chennery shouts his innocence, Tragg says all he needs is one fingerprint inside the house.” Burger admits, “for once . . . I was wrong . . . on this case.” // [7-8]{7-9} Drake explains to Sarah, Ginny, Della and Perry that Tragg got a confession out of Chennery. Cullens caught him snooping in his house. Then Ginny arrives and after the argument he gets rid of her. Then Chennery came out of hiding and got to the gun before Cullens. Sarah admits to being an “overly protective mother hen” and that, even if one, “I don’t like people like that.” Ginny says people who love someone, like they Uncle George, do strange things. Drake asks Ginny for her car keys, for Della to put in an envelope. Mason closes with “the party’s on us” as they wheel Sarah out of the office. [8-8 end credits] [50:57] {8-9}

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Ladera bus station. Southwest lines bus arrives. Second person is a blonde (Linda Blake) who, with an English accent, asks a cab driver for the office of Ladera Legend newspaper. At newspaper, Floyd (Grant) argues with editor Clay Eliot over article regarding leaking ammonia fumes at his farm. Linda arrives, asks for her father, Addison Blake, learns he was killed seven years before. // [3-8] Ladera Motel. Mr Morescu tells Clay where to find Blake, and Charles Lambert was rumored to have murdered Addison Blake, but Floyd Grant gave him an alibi. No one answers Linda's phone, so they go up to her room, find her unconscious with gas coming out of an unlit stove. When wakened, she says she turned off the jet, and the window, which they found closed, was open. Eliot tells Sheriff (Orville) Ramsey there's little doubt it is attempted murder. The sheriff disagrees, who could have done it. Clay says , "Floyd Grant." / At Ladera farms, engineer Joe Italiano tells Grant he worked on the leaky drive shaft for a week. He'll pay back the money for the new drive shaft Ladera Farms paid for but was never delivered. How, asks Grant, since his salary is attached for alimony. Grant ask what would happen if the relief valve were closed. It would blow. He suggests that the time clock be reset, so that at seven, when no one is there . . . and the insurance money would pay. Grant, after receiving a phone call from Mrs Lambert, gives Joe $1000. // Charles Lambert, president, Donella Lambert, the president's young wife, and Sylvia Lambert, the president's mother, await Grant's arrival. Sylvia asks Grant about the incident with the Blake girl, and he says she should ask her son, or maybe he'll go back on the bottle. But he is, and he grabs a bottle from his desk and takes a quick slug. / Deputy D A Nelson Taylor and Sheriff Ramsey explain how, without a will, Addison Blake's properties were sold, the dairy farm to the Lamberts, the newspaper to Eliot. She could, notes Taylor, claim the property even at this late date, and he has his secretary contact Mason's secretary to arrange an appointment, since Mason is in town. Then Ramsey explains that, on a hunting trip, Addison Blake was killed by his own gun. Charlie Lambert and Blake had an argument, and Lambert was found drunk. Taylor says there was no evidence of misdoing. Linda says this would explain things regarding the action at her motel. Taylor reveals that Grant claims he has documented proof that Linda is a fortune-hunting fraud. / At the motel, Morescu gives her a special delivery note. She asks about a rentable car, and he gives her his. As she drives away, Morescu looks at the envelope; it is from Floyd Grant. / Grant tells Linda to be at the engine room at seven p m. / Paul Drake answers, then passes, the phone, to Perry Mason. Grant tells him he must see him immediately (it is about 6:30). / Linda arrives at the Engine room, enters, at 6:56. / Mason is dictating when Drake reminds him of the meeting. / Linda is in the engine room as the compressor starts up at 7:00. Explosion, as Drake and Mason arrive. / Mason and Drake arrive at Grant's. He is dead, and Linda is screaming over him. // [4-8] Linda explains how a man she didn't recognize came into the engine room and dragged her out. She came back to Grant's thinking he was trying to kill her, suggests Ramsey. She agrees. She was to meet a man with proof she was not Addison's daughter at the engine room. She picked up the walking stick, but never hit him. Taylor tells Ramsey to arrest her on first degree murder charges. Mason defends her, on this second murder attempt of her life. Outside, Mason instructs Drake to dig up information on dairy equipment, and Joe Italiano. / The Ledger. Between Della Street and Clay Eliot, a story comes out. Linda thought her father died in the war, until her mother died a few months ago and the truth came out. Her mother was divorced from Addison when she was pregnant. He never knew of his daughter, thus, no will. Drake reports he's found another ammonia compressor just like the one at Ladera Farms. Joe Italiano was drinking like a fish at a bar when Donella Lambert came in, and he then he ran out, just before the explosion. Donella Wynn, private secretary to Addison Blake, who married Charles and straightened him out, was looking for her husband, who was in the bar. / Mason challenges Donella about her husband's drinking; she, he, and mother Lambert say they'll speak with their own attorney's advice. / Joe Italian says he told the sheriff it was an accident, but Mason asks him to help with an experiment. They turn on the compressor. They turn off several valves. The pressure rises. They ask Joe if it was he who pulled Linda from the building. Joe's eyes are transfixed on the gauge. Joe goes to the switch, and Mason says the ammonia was drained before the test, there was no danger. Five years ago when he was to be operated on, says Joe, a man in a bed next him at the hospital, Charles Lambert, helped him. He thought Grant only wanted to collect insurance, not murder Linda. / Taylor offers voluntary manslaughter instead of murder. Mason advises. She won't plead guilty to something she “didn’t do.” // [5-8] Ramsey identifies for Taylor the walking stick as murder weapon. Mason has the sheriff demonstrate how the victim was struck; left-handed. Taylor shows how it could have been done so the blows were on the other side, if after the first blow the decedent were on the floor, disproving (temporarily) Mason's theory. Dr Lieberson says the fatal blow could have come from the walking stick. Mason asks about contre coup lacerations, which could not have occurred were the body lying on the floor, reclaiming his theory. Joe Italiano says it was 7:04 or 7:05 when he pulled Linda out of the engine room, which exploded at 7:05. Drake reports finding Linda Blake at 7:25 at Grant's with the walking stick in her left hand. Charles Lambert says he saw Grant tell Blake to be at the engine room at seven, the same time he was told to meet Italiano there. He sat outside with his gun, hoping Grant would come out. Blake came back, then Drake and Mason. No one else went in or out. // [6-8] Mason questions Donella at the Lambert's. Blake took Grant hunting in the woods on the property because Grant knew chemistry and geology and Blake was curious about prospecting. He found gold, but nothing worth mining. / Mason asks Charles what it was "he couldn't take" from Grant. His arrogance, towards him, his wife, his mother. He doesn't know if he killed Addison; he was drunk to oblivion. He is still drinking. Was he drunk when Grant was killed. Yes. He could have gone in between Linda's leaving and returning. Mason's defense begins with Sylvia, in whose name the gun Charles had was registered. The metal strongbox in which the gun was kept is brought forth and Sylvia opens it; Mason takes her key wallet, asks what each key is for. One is the back door to Grant's. She admits to paying blackmail to Grant. Did she kill him? She refuses to answer. Mason shows her the lease on the acreage of Ladera Farms, which expires in a few months; the sole owner of the company was Floyd Grant She is surprised. Second, a mineral report showing the land was rich in oil. Grant saw the mineral report, which never reached Addison. Grant was not giving Charles an alibi, but himself one. Different cars were used by different people; which did she use? (No answer). / Didn't she, Donella, as Addison's secretary, give Grant the mineral report and the information that he had no heirs? asks Mason. She had another rear door key. She drove the remaining car to the back, went in. He was just standing there. She says she struck him after hearing the explosion, as he said he'd sent her husband there so she and he could . . . // [7-8] The celebration. The sale of the farm to the Lamberts, and the paper to Eliot, is legal, but the oil land will revert to Linda. Clay says he hoped she had claims on the newspaper, or more pertinently, on him, and asks Mason to explain the community property law to Linda. [8-8 end credits] [50:43]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Professor Ronald Hewes leaves his office at Euclid College. A blond boy enters. Hewes leaves the building and a balding man who sees this enters, and goes to Hewes' office. The boy comes out. The man waits, then enters and takes a gun out of a drawer. / Hewes lectures to the class about “the unbridgeable gulf between what we see, what we remember, and what we subsequently commit to writing." The man enters and challenges Hewes about stealing his wife, shoots him. Mr Moncton is told not to intervene. The shooting is false. Hewes’ students have to write what they saw of this experiment in observation. // [3-8] Hewes returns to his office to find the false assassin, Ollie (Benson), apologetic because he never got off the second shot due to Moncton's intervention. Good, however, since the clip was loaded with live ammunition after the first shot. Who came into his office? A boy, Moncton, and a woman. Ollie gets his pay, leaves. / Hewes goes to the bookstore, is looking at L'Affaire Annabelle when Ned (Bartell) (the boy who went into his office) comes over. Hewes says that, tho he is against censorship in any form, a college should do better. Bartell says his former wife (Laura Hewes) bought a copy of L'Affaire Annabelle earlier; she's staying with the Metcalfes. / Hewes calls (Dean of English, Dr Curtis) Metcalfe, chides him for not telling him his former wife is in town. He asks for the dean’s wife (Esther) and tells her to get Laura. It is arranged for Hewes to come to the Metcalfe's the next day to see Laura at 3:30. / Hewes consults with Perry Mason about community property that he's gained since his divorce, which becomes final in a week. Mason says that he doesn't handle divorces, but would agree to arbitrate a fair settlement if his wife will accept him. Hewes has a bank account of near $90,000. When he leaves, Della Street comments "I could learn to hate him." // Sally Sheldon is waiting in Hewes' office with a copy of L’Affaire Annabelle. Her maiden name is Lawrence and she's the sister of Monica Lawrence, a student who a few years earlier wrote a short novel for a term paper. She tracked Hewes down through his publisher by way of his agent (Mike) Estridge. Then she searched his office and found the original which had his notes and additions. He asserts that Monica was incapable of writing such a work. Sally claims that she wrote it and he can't stand any publicity. He counters, asking if she can afford all the hushed-up details of her sister's death and that her sister was pregnant when she died? She threatens that the characters in the novel are still alive, with only the names being changed. Her last jab is his nickname in the novel, "Graffie." / Outside Hewes’ house a neighbor (Mrs Williamson) is raking leaves. She's happy since the professor's wife has returned. / Laura returns to the Metcalfe's at 4:10 with a forehead bruise and cut hand. Curtis informs her that Ronald has left town. She's expecting him and Mason, who arrives. Laura tells him it was Ronald's stall, but can he help her. He phones Hewes. / Hewes lies dead on the floor, a letter opener in his chest. // [4-8] Bartell tells Paul Drake that the professor wouldn't believe his wife was in town until he phoned her. / Laura says Ronald asked her for $5,000 two years earlier, which she got from her parents, to finance his run for Dean of English. After Dr Metcalfe got the spot, she learned Ronald had used the money to pay personal debts. Mason takes a call from Drake, who reports that Hewes is missing, and that Ollie Benson denies the shooting incident, and a witness suggests Laura was in Hewes' office. She denies it. Mason asks Laura if there is a woman in Hewes' life. Metcalfe says that a Sally Sheldon called him, and Laura and Esther make the connection to the student death. / Mason puts L'Affaire Annabelle back in Hewes' desk drawer (the one the gun was in), then looks at a large stack of handwritten reports on Hewes’ experiment as Drake joins him. Mason gives the Hewes student papers to Paul to read. As they leave, Lieutenant Anderson and Sergeant Brice enter Hewes’ office with Bartell and Metcalfe. / Back at his office with Drake, Mason finds Mrs Hewes waiting. The attorney tells Della to get her out quickly in a cab to her apartment and have her stay there. Then he sees Mike Estridge, who admits Hewes wrote L'Affaire Annabelle which "smells but it sells." Andy and Sgt Brice enter and inform Mason of Hewes' death. (Andy mistakenly calls Euclid College a university.) Mason says that he'll have Laura get in touch. They take Estridge to headquarters. Mason instructs Della to get an overnight case, a copy of L'Affaire Annabelle and a pad of writing paper, plus overnight things. Paul is told to not lose his shadow! / Della comes in a door of the Hotel Wolverine, goes thru an archway. Drake comes thru an opposite door, followed by Sgt Brice, and calls for Sally Sheldon. No answer. Brice suggests they go up together. They go in the door Della came out of. They find the room empty and a note half written to Hewes. Brice thinks that Sheldon is Laura Hewes, but Drake tells him otherwise. / A crowd is in Mason's inner office. Andy asks Laura if she owns a writing kit. Yes, it is in her room at the Metcalfe's. He gives her a warrant for her arrest for murder. // [5-8] In court Estridge tells D A Hamilton Burger that a year and a half ago he suggested to Hewes that he write a book and he did, L'Affaire Annabelle. Mrs Hewes knew of the royalties. These now will go to her since the divorce was not final. Benson tells about the clip with live ammo, and a man and a woman visiting Hewes' room. He couldn't identify the woman. Metcalfe says that having Laura at his house was uncomfortable. He arrived back home just before Hewes was to arrive. When Laura returned she was bruised and cut. / Mrs Williamson testsifies she saw Laura go in, then Ronald. She heard him say "you shouldn't be here." Mason makes the point that Hewes could have been speaking to someone else, such as Sally Sheldon. Andy says that blood spattered in the bathroom was not the decedent's. He identifies the letter opener, which has the same blood as the bathroom and the defendant, whose fingerprints were everywhere. // [6-8] Laura tells Perry that, when she heard Hewes returning, she ran out the back door. She went to the house to find proof of who wrote the book. She had to stand on a chair to get into a file. She slipped, cut her hand on the letter opener. Could she have heard someone other than Hewes? / Bartell identifies the letter opener as having been bought by Michael Estridge and mailed to Laura Hewes. Bartell identifies the report he wrote of the experiment conducted by Hewes. The judge examines it, thinks it is poorly written. But it is accurate, states Mason, who then asks why Bartell got it right, while everyone else got some details wrong. Because he took the course two years ago. Mason suggests he put the live clip in the gun. Didn't he, two years ago, know Monica Lawrence, sister of Sally Sheldon? The judge notes the continual introduction of Sheldon's name. Mason has forced Burger to find her. / Sheldon says that the novel was based on Monica's term paper which she actually wrote. She knew of the professor and Monica," the professor identified only by his nickname, "Graffie." Ned Bartell was the father of her unborn child. Bartell now admits he put the bullets in the gun and was in love with Monica. He never heard Hewes called "Graffie." This is the nickname of Curtis Graphton Metcalfe. The Dean of English denies closeness with Monica and leading wild, drunken off-campus parties. Bartell graduated only because of a passing grade in Metcalfe's English class. Yet he agrees that his English then as well as now was atrocious. Mason now says it was not he, but his alcoholic wife, who took the students with her on her drunken sprees. Mason asks Esther if Hewes, knowing her alcoholism and past, and being threatened with the loss of royalties and such, didn't try to blackmail her. Did she tell Ned of Prof Hewes’ blackmail? Ned jumps up to say yes. Esther pleaded with Ronald, said she'd divorce Curtis so he couldn't ruin his name, and Ronald got angry. They struggled. He had her on the floor and was hitting her, and she felt the letter opener, and . . . // [7-8] Laura tells Mason, Drake and Mike that Ronald was an arrogant man. Mike says that he'd told her about the money, and already asked her to be his wife. Dr Metcalfe, preceded by Della, joins the group, says Esther never would have let her be convicted for what she did. She has been off alcohol since the earlier incident. Mason says what Esther did was self-defense, and he'll help her end her nightmare. [8-8 end credits] [50:44]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] {7-10/1-9 Title credits} {2-9} A guy in a jalopy drives up to the Otis Instrument Co, asks about the cigarette machine. The watchman grabs another guy coming down from the fence. The driver of a car tells Cal to run. / In (Seaview) jail the guy, Cal Leonard, complains about his situation to the jail guard. Constant Doyle is brought by the desk sergeant to Cal in his cell. She is the wife and law partner of the man Cal expected. She reminds Cal that he hit a uniformed officer and he's been in jail before. Cal wants only her husband, Joe, but he died a few months before. Cal will not have a woman lawyer. The desk sergeant compliments Mrs Doyle and her husband on her way out of Seaview jail. In her car she takes a pipe out of the glove compartment, then returns to the desk sergeant with a deposit on the boy's bail because “perhaps he did meet Joe once.” // [3-8]{3-9} Doyle of “Doyle & Doyle, attorneys at law,“ arrives at her office and is told by Miss Givney that the phone has been ringing. Mr (Lawrence) Otis is awaiting her. He apologizes for canceling their arrangement after Joe died. She doesn't have the Washington contracts he had. Otis has noticed that Cal Leonard must be the son of a man who was an engineer, a radio man, but also an alcoholic who once worked for him. For the sake of Cal's father, he'll take care of things from here out. He leaves. She finds Cal in an adjacent room. He's contrite and tells Constant of hearing her husband speak, then teach him a couple of chess moves. He asks to borrow $10. Fred McCormick, on the phone, has a cruise just for her, a freighter trip, and Judge Simpson could have the boy's case squashed. She passes. She asks what he and the boys wanted to steal at the Otis company. He says nothing. He just wanted to see cousin Steven Arthur in order to get a job. She gives him $20. Arthur is never home because his wife Letty hates him, and vice versa. / On an intercom, Steve Arthur asks a Miss Smith if she was in his office. All his drawers were open and the filing cabinet moved. McCormick shows him the report of the previous night. Arthur says "what if" Leonard were not trying to get in, but was leaving after rifling his files and taking his bank statement, which is kept there so his wife won’t see it. / (Letty) Arthur, already tipsy, is being pumped by Cal. She calls to a waitress for another, a double. She says Steve was a $62 a week clerk. Cal thinks Steve stole from his dad, as much as $100,000. All he wants, even if it is five bucks, is what his parents left him, she can have the rest. Yes, Cal’s father did leave him something. She starts to tell him what to do next . . . / Miss Givney enters the office, finds the Otis file sticking up. She goes into Constant's office. Cal slips out the window, dropping papers. Givney sees him leaving as Constant enters only to find her keys missing. / Constant calls Paul Drake to find Cal. / Drake finds Constant's car outside the home of Lawrence Otis, then catches Cal trying to escape the dead body of Steven Arthur. // [4-8]{4-9} Cal tells Constant he went to Otis's at seven, tripped over Steve’s body, which is what gave him the head wound. It was McCormick who got him out to Otis's. He knows that Arthur had four bank accounts, put his salary in one, the Seaview, made regular deposits above this to another. $103,260 dollars over the year. Cal has a way with numbers. / Della Street and Constant discuss Perry Mason, who is in a hospital. He told Constant that anyone can hold a client’s hand at a preliminary hearing. Constant tells Della that far too many people in Seaview are interested in Cal. Maybe she can get them to say why at the preliminary hearing. / Miniaturization of instruments is what Constant wants to ask McCormick about, namely an invention by Cal and his father that made Otis’ company lots of money. Maybe it was Leonard's idea, admits he, the way Otis floats instruments in gas rather than oil. He thinks she shouldn’t get mixed up in this mess. / Letty is celebrating her freedom. She tells Constant that Steve didn't have the brains to steal olives from a martini. It was Constant's husband who did the stealing. Paul Drake joins them, says Cal's been arrested and (D A Hamilton) Burger himself will handle the case. Cal's fingerprints were all over the inside of the Otis cottage. // [5-8]{5-9} A police lieutenant tells Hamilton Burger that he found the garden fork, which was the murder weapon, next the murdered man. Constant asks if the body was moved. No response. Cal whispers to Doyle that, inside the house, Arthur told him that he paid his father in full, $2,000, then gave him $50. They fought, outside, and Cal was hit. That's the last he remembers. Lawrence Otis says that at six he tried to reach Cal to come out and talk to Steve. He got Givney, who said nasty things about the boy. He can't say why Steve came to his house, why he steered clear of his own house. He paid Leonard a $2,000 bonus, was going to offer Cal the same. Leonard was paid a good salary so the company owned anything he did for them. Steve Arthur was paid $103,000 in royalty bonuses for getting Leonard to perform. He tries to understand and explain why the boy could be angry enough to commit murder, but the judge cuts him off. Doyle asks if there is any written record of his royalty deal with Arthur. No. It was paid secretly, so that his wife wouldn't know. She levels a charge that he was being blackmailed by Steven Arthur. Burger has Otis admit Joe Doyle made his agreements. Letty says that she knew little of her husband's activities. Didn't she assert that Joe Doyle helped her husband steal? Constant pursues this even as Burger tries to stop the line of argument. An outburst from Letty; Cal Leonard was the first to use the word "crook." Burger wants to clarify the situation regarding Joe Doyle, calls Miss Liza Givney. She admits that there was a quit-claim letter prepared by Joe Doyle and signed by Leonard. She destroyed it because there were notes on the back about Joe meeting Arthur. Joe made a mistake in judgment. / Cal admits to seeing the files. He still lies to a woman lawyer. Paul Drake brings Constant a list of what was on the body when found. Mason is in a hospital bed. On the phone with Mrs Doyle, he suggests “when we take the case into jury trial . . .” She won’t take his temperature if he won’t give advice. After she hangs up, she asks what was in Arthur's black book. Figures and a dozen names of girls. Constant tells Cal to list them, and Drake to find them. / McCormick shows Constant the kind of contract he uses with engineers. Constant conjectures that Leonard made his invention when employed by McCormick before going to Otis and that was what Steve was blackmailing Otis with. Fred warns Constant that it was her husband who fixed things so that no further investigation would be made. // [6-8]{6-9} Constant cross-examines Letty, then reads names from Steven's black book. Drake interrupts; he's found 11 of the 12. She whispers a hint. Now Constant recalls the police lieutenant. From a photograph, she makes the claim something was taken from the dead man after which his coat was rearranged so as to conceal the fact. Drake immediately apprehended Cal, and the lieutenant found nothing of Arthur's on him. She asserts that the black book was taken while Cal laid unconscious on the ground. Burger helps her on with Arthur's coat and she then demonstrates what happened. She lies on the defendant's table, asks Burger to button the coat and tie the belt as in the photo. When done, Constant says he, like any man, didn't make the mistake the murderer did. Women button a coat right over left (the opposite of what Burger did). Letty shouts out that she wasn't following her husband that night. The number Drake couldn't figure out was that of a safe deposit box, in which Arthur kept the evidence with which he was blackmailing Otis. It is, however, someone who, having already committed murder, wanted to continue blackmail of Otis, Miss Givney. Q E D // [7-8]{7-9} Mason in his hospital bed compliments Constant and says that Burger wants him out of his bed and back since he's easier to beat. She again questions Cal and he asks if she can't stop asking questions. She suggests, á là Perry Mason, that the two go out for “the two biggest steaks in town.” As they leave, Constant turns back into the dark room; "Goodnight, Joe." [8-8 end credits] [50:39] {8-9}

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Professor Edward Lindley is teaching a college course on law at night. A male student, Mr Carson, asks about trial lawyers. A cross of parrot and jackass is the perfect trial lawyer, someone once said, is Lindley's first answer, but he then says they are the artisans of the profession. He returns to his office where Janice (Norland) is waiting. She asks him to go with her to the police because she just killed someone. Then she faints. // [3-8] Lindley offers Janice something less strong than brandy. She killed Raul Perez, her dancing instructor with whom she'd had an affair. Tonight she tried to break it off. She hit him with a poker, then ran when someone knocked at the door. / They drive to Perez's just to make sure. She tells Lindley she's a perennial wallflower. Her stepmother, Maureen Norland, tried to make her a swan by sending her to his law course and the Vivian Cosgrave Dance Studio. There she met Perez. As they go to the building, two men watch them, one from a camera store. She has a key. They enter but find no body. / Lindley drives Janice home. Their arrival is observed by Maureen Norland. / A photo shows Janice over Perez on the floor. Perez informs Vivian Cosgrave that they will be dance partners, after the sacrifice he's made for the team, being barely grazed by a fireplace poker. He'll get $10,000 from Janice for 26¢, a stamp and an envelope. They fake her teaching him a step as Lindley enters. He asks to see Raul. She says he never showed up. He asks her to have him call. / Darwin Norland is reading his day's schedule to Maureen Norland. She says he’s improved and he responds that he’s alive only due to her. Janice joins them. Maureen says she'll meet Darwin tomorrow at 6:10 p m. In the mail for Janice is the photo of her over Perez. Then the phone is announced by a maid; Vivian says Raul died on the way to the doctor. When Janice goes to another, more private, phone Maureen picks up the envelope. / Maureen goes to Lindley about Janice's problem. He says that he's not personally involved with her. Maureen comments that she wishes he were. Can he help her? Yes. / He goes to Perry Mason but gets advice from Paul Drake about the "fake injury" racket as Della Street observes. He then talks with Mason, who is in a hospital bed. Drake is told to take care of the situation. / At night Mr (Sidney) Hawes, the photo store owner, and Mr (Pedro) Dias (the two who watched Lindley and Janice earlier) are looking at the rain. Janice arrives and goes to Raul's apartment. Inside it is dark. When she turns on the light, Raul is really dead. She picks up a piece of the photo and leaves. // [4-8] Lieutenant Anderson is investigating the crime scene with Lindley and Drake. Pedro Dias, who runs the tobacco shop, cousin of Perez, found the body. He's been dead eight to ten hours. The furniture indicates a fight. A remote camera release under a table leads to a hidden Polaroid camera that works on a five second delay so that a compromising situation can be created. Spots on the floor, five feet apart, are not blood. Andy jokes that if they are footprints, they'd have to be made by a Martian nine feet tall. / Janice is lying on her bed in a state of ennui. Maureen tries to rouse her, sees something on a dish (the cause of the spots?), asks about it and is told it is "fire purified." / Dias walks away when questioned by Drake and Lindley, but Hawes bums a cigarette (strikes the match on his worn right shoe). He's already told the police about a dark-haired, not pretty but classy, lady who visited about 10:30 the previous night. It was the same lady who visited the night before with Lindley. / Drake enters the dance studio as a plump man leaves Vivian. She tells Drake what she told the police, namely that she knows nothing about Raul's racket and thinks he should check on Janice Norland. / Janice refuses Prof Lindley's help. The maid announces the phone for Lindley. On the phone Drake warns him that Vivian has named Janice to the police. She now admits that she was asked for $10,000. Raul's car was driven into the Pacific so that it would look like an accident. She was told to bring the money to Raul's and there she found his body. Maureen has overheard this last admission. Lieutenant Anderson comes in with Dias and Hawes while Sergeant Brice waits in the background. The two men identify Janice for the police. On the way in Andy found an envelope with money and a photo in the glove compartment of her car. // [5-8] Paul tells Della that District Attorney Hamilton Burger will make mince meat of the photo being taken the night before the murder. Maureen enters and tells Della that she was the one being blackmailed as well as the one who hit him with the poker. / Drake says Janice followed Maureen to Perez's where she heard an argument. She went in after and saw Perez on the floor, then made up her story to protect Maureen. Perez stole a locket which was a gift from someone with whom Maureen had had an affair a year before. Drake suggests that they have to find out who the man was, whom Maureen won't name, because he might have himself killed Perez. Lindley vetoes this. / Hamilton Burger asks the physician what caused death, and is told something the size of his finger, such as a fireplace poker. Andy identifies the poker, explains the peep-hole camera and how it could have been accidentally used to catch the murder scene, such as shown in a photograph found in the defendant's car. Lindley gets Andy to admit he cannot prove when the photo was taken. They found spots, five feet apart, an aniline dye. Lindley gets him to repeat his Martian bit. A technician testifies regarding his examination of blood and hair. A fingerprint expert developed one latent print on the poker; the defendant's. Sgt Brice found the apartment key in Janice's purse. Dias says she came to the apartment the night of the murder. Hawes saw her, too. Vivian says that Raul said he had Janice hooked; she didn't know he meant blackmail. Twice, says Darwin Norland, he lent Perez money, $100, then $300, to stop him coming to the house. Mrs Norland had no idea Raul was blackmailing Janice. Lindley looks at Maureen, then Darwin, then decides not to cross-examine. /Paul Drake is introduced by his Puerto Verde taxi man to a hotel owner, Juan Perez, a distant cousin of Raul. The man, says Juan, who was there with Maureen Norland, had the name of Edward Lindley. // [6-8] Mason is pacing in a robe. He tells Drake to tell Lindley what he learned. / Drake tells Lindley that the decision is now up to him. He recalls Maureen. She admits that Raul was blackmailing her over a locket. She went to get it back, gave him money, but he kept it. They struggled, he knocked her down. Then she hit him with a poker. She says that the locket was given her by a man she met in Puerto Verde. She went there a year ago to work out a problem. Her relationship to Mr Norland then was of autocratic school teacher to backward pupil. There she met another man in even deeper trouble. She also met a local priest, and together they helped this man. In helping him, she found how to help herself and regain her husband. Lindley makes her admit that the man she met there was him. Burger is astounded and asks the judge for a few minutes. Janice whispers to Lindley that she couldn't let what Maureen did destroy her father and she thought she could plead self-defense until the body wasn't found till later. Lindley asks Drake to get a pair of shoes, big enough for a Martian nine feet tall. / Darwin Norland says Perez had hinted that he had a locket he'd like to see. He went to Puerto Verde where he found about him and his wife, and figured Perez was also blackmailing Maureen. So he went to see Perez about 10:15. They fought, but no locket. He gave him until the next morning to produce it and left. There were no spots on the floor. Lindley has Andy look again at the photo. It has no red spots, so it was taken by an accomplice. Vivian Cosgrave vociferously denies she was ever in his apartment. Drake enters with a large oval pot. Directed by Lindley, he puts one shoe in the water in the pot, then removes that and the other, dry, shoe. He walks, leaving spots only with the one wet sock, five feet apart. The reason one sock only is wet is because the right shoe was so worn as to have a hole in it. Hawes is asked to come forth and is asked, if given a kitchen match, how would he strike it. He's caught, and says Perez had it coming to him. He never paid for all the photos he copied for him, not even the one he snapped of the girl standing over him. When he heard Norland fighting over the locket he figured that it was worth a fortune, so he took it away when Raul went to take it out of the couch after Norland left. It was a cheap dollar locket one can buy in any Mexican store. // [7-8] Drake, talking to Mason on a speaker phone, says that Perez recognized the church in the photo in the locket. He went after Norland, his wife, then his daughter. Lindley now believes “the perfect trial lawyer needs the eye of an eagle, the heart of a lion, and a lot of help.” [8-8 end credits] [50:43]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] To the slow beat of drums and a slow procession of military mourners walking past a huge crowd, a commentator at a state funeral is giving an account of the suicide of Oscar Volney, the Balkan's father of democracy, who plunged to his death from a twelve-story hotel room. Minister of the Interior Franz Schreck called it a suicide. / Ulric Zenas has arrived in the Los Angeles airport. He looks in phone book, then takes a taxi to the house of brother Laban. There a crowd surrounds a T V reporter. Inside, Elihu (Laban) says that Volney wrote him, his “brother in liberty,” that he was writing his papers, and Schreck knew this. “The truth in oscar’s own words” would destroy Schreck. Alyssa (Laban) asks newspaper publisher (Garrett) Richards to get rid of the press. Laban, who asserts “everyone must hear” Oscar’s words, goes outside and speaks to the crowd as Ulric Zenas looks on. Laban asserts that the Volney papers died with his brother. Schreck is a liar. Laban says he'll kill Schreck, the minister who killed his brother, “if I get my hands on him.” / It is night. Alyssa tells Richards that Elihu is resting quietly. Inside Ulric Zenas tells Laban that Franz Schreck put a bullet into Volney's head and the Volney papers still exist. // [3-8] On Philip Hillman’s boat, Laban tells (Amos) Waldemar, (Darius) Tyson, Hillman, Alyssa and Richards that the Volney papers can be had for a price. An official of the country’s People’s Party has them. Could not publication of a book cover the cost? The exchange of 500 one thousand dollar bills must be made with someone called Herr Umdrehen, in their language, Mr Turn-a-bout. Schreck is the "patriot" who will sell out. / Richards reports to Alyssa and Elihu on the O S S officer who is Turn-a-bout. He has to be persuaded by Laban. / Laban gives Schreck's itinerary to a man he believes to be Turn-a-bout. Turn-a-bout decides he must keep Laban away from Schreck, but allow him to authenticate the Volney papers. At noon, he says, Schreck will be at an amusement park and the exchange can be made in the tunnel of love. / At he amusement park, Turn-a-bout shows Laban how to short out the electrical system for the three minutes needed to effect the transfer. He shows him a trap where he is to await delivery of the papers, which he will immediately authenticate, give Turn-a-bout the money, then get away. When Schreck's plane comes in, Laban will get the swap information to Zenas as an angry picket. / Lieutenants Anderson and Tragg are on duty at the Los Angeles airport protest. Schreck arrives, guarded by Zenas. Laban passes the info in the crowd. Before Schreck gets into a limo, he looks backat the crowd. / Schreck arrives at the amusement park with his entourage. He exchanges nods with Senas, enters the tunnel. The power fails. Turn-a-bout gives Laban the papers. Laban says they are authentic. Turn-a-bout knocks him out and takes the money. Schreck exits the tunnel, dead. Laban wakes up on the sandy beach below the tunnel with Anderson and Tragg over him. The brief case has the money but not the manuscript, and the bloody knife used to kill Schreck,. // [4-8] Zenas denies any connection with laban. D A Hamilton Burger won’t allow Laban bail, as he is being charged with murder in the first degree. / Alyssa is telling Hillman that Bruce Jason is not the right lawyer for her father, for he is a playboy. HIllman dites Jason’s many qualifications. As she complains, Bruce Jason enters, arranging for a game of tennis. / In jail Bruce, Della Street and Paul Drake hear Alyssa complain about Jason's night-clubbing and seven marriage engagements. Laban is brought in. He identifies Jason as Turn-a-bout. / In a living room, Mason suggests Laban may have created his charge against Jason to avoid admitting to murder. Mason wonders about Jason’s ultimate motive for wanting to stay on the case. Jason quips, “Defense by Jason and mason,” a high wire act.” / Inside the amusement park tunnel area, Zenas confronts Jason, wants the Volney papers. Zenas knocks him out. Jason awakes on the beach where Drake tells him Zenas met with Tyson, the bank president. / The four partners meet Jason. Zenas’ government wanted to “recover the patent rights which Trans-Balkan once sold to an American corporation.” Waldemar accuses OSS agent Jason of working with Schreck in sabotaging two Trans-Balkan plants during the war and identifies him as Turn-a-bout. / Jason returns to his apartment only to find Alyssa there. She got in as his sister, the fourth “visiting sister” in recent times. She wants to know how her father could describe Jason's apartment if, as Jason states, he's never been there. That gives Jason an idea. He asks Alyssa to “just trust” him. // [5-8] In court District Attorney Hamilton Burger forces Richards to admit Laban told reporters "I will kill him." He denies his or Laban's contact with Zenas regarding the so-called Volney papers. He passed on the message for Herr Umdrehen to call Laban. Elihu may have dreamed all this. To Jason, he says he signed a note for the $500,000 because it “was important that those papers be published.” He identifies Jason as Umdrehen, and says Laban could have met with him. Lt Tragg says Laban tried to attack Schreck at the airport. Tragg found Laban's fingerprints on the iron rod used to short the electricity, and the money and murder knife in his brief case. Lt Anderson says that the park was closed off and every inch searched, but they didn't find Jason. Could he have swum away? is Jason's unanswered question. Jason, cautioned severely and forcebly by the judge regarding the client-attorney relationship, takes the stand. He was with the Office of Strategic Services during WW II and was decorated for valor and is known as Herr Umdrehen, which means Turn-a-bout. Did Laban contact him? No. Did Laban meet him in his apartment? No. Did he meet Laban at the amusement park? No. He has nothing to say. Laban is bound over on a charge of first-degree murder. Alyssa scoffs at “Trust me, just trust me.” // [6-8] At the airport, Zenas is met by a woman (Tess Noyman) who offers him the Volney papers. Della and Paul are watching. Somebody, an American, is sweating blood over what is in them, says Drake. / Zenas is taken to a man in bed, Tess's husband, Conrad J Veucollo, who is a twin of Jason and who substituted for him when he and Waldemar worked together with Schreck. Jason was on a skiing trip, and it was Veucollo who met Laban in Jason's apartment and killed Schreck. He wants a split in the profits. Zenas says that the patent rights were not sold to an American before, but during, the war with forged papers. The American’s name is in the papers. Tess phones the American who was partner in the patent rights deal, and Zenas reads from a paper. Veucollo confides that after the murder he swam to the Bonnie Mae but, instead of a payoff, he got two bullets. / Zenas goes aboard the Bonnie Mae, which Richards has been renting from Hillman the past month. Richards admits that he has the Volney papers in his home safe. They mention the foreign traitor, but not Richards nor the company that he used for the forged papers. Richards believes Veucollo to be dead; he didn't shoot him, but strangled him and dumped him ten miles at sea! Lt. Anderson and Sgt Brice enter with Jason, who is wearing "Veucollo's" clothes. Jason reminds Richards that he was his commanding officer when he gave him a medal in the English hospital and mentioned his "doppelganger," a double. // [7-8] Mason is on the phone to Bruce Jason. He congratulates Bruce on being the dedicatee of the first issue of The Volney Papers. In an office, Hillman says he told a lady that Jason was not interested in defending her Siamese cat. Laban says 'important' is different for each person. Bruce agrees, takes Alyssa by the arm and escorts her off to a tennis lesson. [8-8 end credits] [50:42]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] It is night outside an office building. Inside the Wilburn and McKinney, Electronic Industries Corporate Offices, Hollis (Wilburn) opens a safe, shuffles some papers including a bank passbook and takes a large envelope. She runs out just as the janitress enters. Sherman Hatfield, leaving his office, is bumped into by "hurricane" Hollis. She is forgetful about which man she is dating, Alex or Martin. She wants Sherman’s opinion, covers the face on a photo with a paper on which is written R21L28R17. Vernon Elliot, company auditor, comes out of Hatfield’s office. Hollis asks which of the two men she should choose. She's the Wilburn heiress and both men are rich, so they are not after her money. She tears up the paper, drops it on the floor. As she leaves, she cannot remember Vern’s name. "The 'kook' is a square" notes Hatfield to Elliot. // [3-8] A cab arrives at Hollis's. Just as the maid (Mrs Abernathy) announces her young man to her in a cocktail dress, she puts Martin's photo on the table, and Alex (Gaussner) walks in, dressed in casual clothes. Then Martin (Potter) enters, in a tuxedo. Alex excuses himself. Hollis goes to get her jacket. Martin then notices Alex going into another room. There he speaks to (John) Wilburn about a franchise. Martin interrupts them, calls Alex a sneak for this ploy to advance his case. In the hallway, Hollis overhears the argument, comes in and asks if she is a sales promotion or just an extra added dividend. She tells the boys she's not available, leaves. Wilburn gets a call from an unidentified man who says that, before he awards the franchise, he needs to talk to his friend about the money that he has in a Swiss account on which he's paid no tax. A nurse enters with Wilburn's heart pill. He takes it, reluctantly, then goes to Hollis, who is crying. He asks what she knows about the boys. She says Martin, of Potter Oil, went to Harvard and Alex, of Gaussner Industries, the Sorbonne. She wishes that she were back at Great Lakes High in Indiana. When he suggests that might not be a bad idea, she asks her Uncle John if he, too, has a problem. / Wilburn walks into his office where Jean (Crewe) chides him on too much exercise. He notices the "new' receptionist. She's been there since last April, and he hasn't. Then, in his office, he checks the safe, then ask Gage McKinney who has the combination. He mentions the phone call and information gotten out of the safe. As he leaves his office, another phone call from the unidentified man informs him that the friend has his Swiss passbook from his safe. Wilburn offers $1,000 if the caller will meet him. / Wilburn joins a cabbie outside the Trader's Bank. / Sherman Hatfield is practicing pool while telling Hollis that her uncle withdrew $2,000 in marked $50 bills, drove off in a cab. He admits he's a simple country boy, and she is country, too, a lamb waiting to be sheared. / Mrs Abernathy scolds Wilburn as he arrives home in a cab (the same one that brought Alex earlier) but she'll pick up his medicine. He tells the cabbie, who thanks him for the tip (thumbing a stack of bills), that his friend will have to come to him at 8 o'clock. / Wilburn demands Hollis tell him to whom she gave the safe combination. She is offended. She suggests she'll go back to Indiana, cash in her stock, the 15% interest her father left her, which she signed over to her uncle. Is he cheating her? He gets very angry and accuses her of helping the person who has his Swiss account information. Mrs Abernathy, overhearing this, goes to the phone to call the doctor and is interrupted when Wilburn picks up the phone to call a lawyer. He tells her to do something useful, get his medicine. / She returns with the medicine to find the door locked, and Wilburn calling for help from Hollis, who comes out from the room opposite. Mrs Abernathy sends her to get help. // [4-8] Vernon Elliot in Hatfield's office answers a long-ringing call, hears Wilburn's voice shouting, "Hollis, no, don't do that . . . No . . . Hollis . . . help." He catches Hatfield returning home. Elliot now gets the police on the phone at Wilburn's. / Hollis is telling Sherman that she killed Wilburn by calling him a thief. Lieutenant Anderson comes in. As Sergeant Brice watches from the hallway, Hollis says she was on the wall under the avocado tree, crying, when Wilburn died. Andy says it was murder. The room was locked from the inside when someone struck him on the temple. The murderer had to escape through the window yet Hollis, who could view it from the wall, saw no one leaving. Andy and Hatfield argue over interpretations of the facts. / Hatfield goes to see Della Street, who says that Hollis had Perry Mason sue John Wilburn to get the 15% her father had left her. She won, went back to Indiana. Hatfield tells Della that instead she stayed on with Uncle John. Della gets Perry on the phone and he says, from his hospital room, that Hollis terminated him with a check. / Hollis, coming out of her house, meets Alex, tells him she lied, for she did see the murderer coming out of the window. / Paul Drake tells Hatfield that Martin Potter caught up with Hollis ten minutes after Alex. Hatfield brings Hollis in and takes her $20 as retainer. Yes, she saw someone leave by the window, but doesn't know who. She signed a lot of papers giving Uncle John control of her stock, but he said he was willing his company to her. She saw a rough draft. With Hollis overhearing in the outer office, Hatfield tells Drake that Wilburn had intended to change his will. / Hollis waits until McKinney leaves the office, then opens the safe, takes out the handwritten will. Lt Anderson catches her. // [5-8] In court Mrs Abernathy tells D A Hamilton Burger that she was gone maybe ten minutes. Elliot testifies to Wilburn's words over the phone. He was in Hatfield's office working on Wilburn's franchise papers. Della Street is allowed to stand in for Perry Mason. In a rare moment of humor, Burger notes how rare it is to have Della as a witness. She says she’ll try not to be hostile. He quips “That’s a rare experience, too.” She testifies to Mason winning 15% of Wilburn's company for Hollis, and Hollis's fee to Mason was paid by John Wilburn. Jean Crewe typed and witnessed the signing of an agreement by which Hollis gave full control of her stock to Wilburn. She identifies the holographic will. This will gives Wilburn's half of the Electronic Industries business to Hollis. Hatfield presents an older will in which Crewe was the principle beneficiary. Wasn't she involved with him? Yes, after that will was written. He had a heart attack, and all thoughts of marriage vanished. McKinney admits that John thought one of the bidders for the franchise was trying to exert some pressure on him. Maybe, suggests Hatfield, the blackmailer got the wrong man. McKinney admits that he put his Swiss passbook in Wilburn's safe for a few days while he was having the combination to his own safe changed. Burger gets McKinney to admit that not only he and Wilburn but also Hollis had the safe combination. // [6-8] Hollis suggests that it was Gage McKinney who was putting pressure on John. / Gaussner says he never had the combination to the safe. Yes, he lied about his background, to get both the job and the girl whom he loves. Martin says he, too, wanted the contract, to get the girl. Andy says he found Hollis with the safe open, but did not see her open it. Elliot saw her with a large envelope which she said was from the safe. She never remembered him, but he did her. So, comments Hatfield, she had a bad memory. Burger objects, she could have written the combination down. Hatfield now remembers that Elliot saw the paper with the combination, which Hollis tore up, but he picked up the pieces, put them together, opened the safe and hit the jackpot. Suppose, instead of being in the office, he was in the study with Wilburn when he cried out the words that otherwise would condemn Hollis. Then he went straight to the office, where the phone was still ringing, answered it and waited until the police came on. Vern says "it was such a perfect alibi." // [7-8] Hatfield explains to Della and Hollis that, using the marked bills, John traced the pressure to Vern, who also wanted the franchise. When Vern showed up, John had everything to put him in jail. Hollis still doesn't know which boy to choose. [8-8 end credits] [50:43]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A Sunrise Hills station wagon drives up to a construction site. Gerald Thornton asks Bryce (the earth mover operator) why he's not taking trees out. (Amos) Keller with shotgun and granddaughter Sandra (Keller) and their dog Hardtack assert that there will be no trees coming down. Thornton says they'll lose $10,000, but Sandra's grandpa wants his trees. He shoots a branch off his orange trees. // [3-8] Grandpa Amos tells Sandra that for forty years his orange trees and he have been friends. He’s the only surviving veteran of the Spanish American War hereabouts. Jim (Wheeler) says he did agree on the sale until he talked with Amos yesterday. Jim took Amos to see Perry Mason. / (Gerald) Thornton is talking to (Courtney) Osgood at the bank when (Edward) Doyle arrives after saying hello to Hardtack. Janis (Carr) is dismissed so that Doyle and Thornton can talk privately. Doyle says Wheeler put Keller up to balking, claiming he's an architect who wants his models of the houses. Edward has $10,000 invested, Grace Doyle maybe $60,000. / (John) Grimsby agrees with Osgood to take the bank's interest in Sunrise Hills, but not the investors’. Thornton joins them, lets them know that he won't let Grimsby, with whom he's dealt with before, get a nickel out of Sunrise Hills. / At the Sunrise Hills Office Wheeler greets Grace Doyle, announces that he's taking his models with him. Thornton joins them, steps on one model, pulls a gun, and Jimmy leaves. Grace asks Ed if it is her, or Janis. They kiss passionately. She says she can get the Keller property. that it has to do with Keller's medal of honor. Then she calls to Hardtack. / A pound attendant tells Amos and Sandra they should get a lawyer if they don't want Hardtack put to death. // [4-8] Perry Mason is defending Amos Keller on a charge of Hardtack attacking Gerald Thornton. As D A Hamilton Burger looks on, Mason explains to Assistant D A Rice that an animal is often criminally responsible, rather than his owner, and gives examples, among them a Swiss rooster in 1474 for the crime of laying an egg. The judge rules that the trial go on. Thornton says that in the morning he got out of his car and the dog attacked him. Janis Carr saw it and phoned sheriff deputies who came and took the dog. Under Mason's examination, Thornton, who has millions invested, says that the Keller orange groves have nothing to do with what he will gain or lose. As Hardtack lies peacefully on the floor, a private physician testifies to treating Thornton's wounds, but they could have been caused by anything from tigers to claw hammers. Janis saw the whole thing from the trailer. The banker, Osgood, tells Mason that he has a half million invested, so he called Keller to suggest Thornton would go easy if he would sell. Without the property, the project cannot be completed. Amos, a bee herder and Rough Rider, has owned Hardtack nine years, during which the dog has never bitten anyone. Mason argues that Keller’s word is to be trusted as he is a Medal of Honor holder. The judge rules in favor of Keller, but orders the dog be kept secured. Burger teases Mason about “chickens and rats, dogs and cats.” / In night’s darkness Hardtack growls at an approaching visitor. This awakens Sandra, who goes out, finds the dog released. She hears a gun shot, runs to the trailer where she finds Amos's shotgun and a dead man. / Lieutenant Anderson tells Paul Drake that the body was found by Edward Doyle and his wife in the morning. Janis says nothing inside has been touched. Sergeant Brice is with her. There is lipstick on a highball glass, but she says she can prove she wasn't there. She flirts with Drake as she leaves. Footprints, says Andy, were left by men, women, and a dog. / Sandra tells Mason that she didn't hear a shot. Drake reports Thornton was bitten by a dog, but Sandra says Hardtack was still tied up in the morning. Drake releases Hardtack as Andy walks up. The dog helps the lieutenant find the shotgun, buried under oranges. / Della sends Sandra, Perry and Paul to a parking lot. / Wheeler greets the trio, says he has Amos at his place. While Drake and Wheeler check out the bungalow, Sandra admits that she heard the shot, tied up Hardtack when he returned. Mason says ballistics tests work with rifles and small arms, not shotguns, namely, she should have removed the shells, not hidden the gun. When the group enters the bungalow, Andy is playing checkers with Amos. The lieutenant has a warrant for Sandra on a charge of first-degree murder. // [5-8] In court D A Hamilton Burger describes the Keller orchard as being so valuable that its oranges can be described as Golden. The coroner's physician testifies to the closeness of the gun shot. Torn pants could have been caused by tigers teeth or a claw hammer, as well as a dog. Andy tested the shotgun whose shells were the correct size. It had Sandra's fingerprints. A lab technician testifies that Sandra's slippers contained blood of the type of the defendant. A highball glass from the trailer had lipstick and the defendant's fingerprints. Janis left at 8 at which time the glasses were all clean. At 10, Grimsby awaited a chance for a private talk with Thornton. He heard threats from Sandra to Thornton. About 10:30 Sandra came to him, says Amos, with what Thornton would do if he didn't sell. He confesses to the murder. He followed Hardtack to the trailer. Burger states that army records show an Amos Keller, army clerk, sitting safe at camp when San Juan Hill was stormed. / Della feels sorry for Amos. Mason says Sandra went to the trailer to give back the $10,000 check, and drank only plain soda water. Drake reports that the only large investor with Thornton was Ed Doyle, $10,000. The trailer had no list of investors, no check, no private records, nothing. Janis Carr had told the police nothing had been touched. / Drake catches Janis coming out of the shower, but he’s brought Della as chaperone. She admits that she lied. The private records were gone when she got to the trailer. So were Wheeler's models and sketches. When Della appears, taking notes, she's surprised that Drake is not a cop. / Paul, Perry and Della find Wheeler locked in his closet. He has his models in the garage. Thornton was dead when he took the and the papers exposing Amos Keller. The small investors were listed by name, but the $60,000 and $90,000 investors only by X and Y. The file is now missing. Mason tells Drake to get a throat specialist for Hardtack. // [6-8] Back in court Doyle tells Mason he put in $10,000, his wife $60,000. Grace says she told Thornton to put the screws on Keller over the dog and his fake decoration. She was an army brat, so she knew about fake heroes, and she hit the jackpot with Amos. Mason brings Amos back. Charlie Fellowes, a bigshot politician, was in the company with Amos. He has just died and Amos is in his will for taking the place of a boy at San Juan Hill, for which he gave him his medal. Amos proudly pins the medal on his jacket. Now Mason confronts Grace Doyle with medical evidence of Hardtack's neck losing hair, showing evidence of having been dragged by a choke collar. Grace says she's scared of dogs. Grimsby asks Mason why he should invest $90,000 when he can get the whole project for nothing. Osgood says that the investors were to be frozen out when Grimsby took over. Mason puts the chain to Hardtack in Osgood’s hand while he gets the records of withdrawals by the man. The dog growls. Mason tells him to hold the chain up; that's how he held the dog the night of the murder. Osgood admits that he invested secretly. Thornton threatened to expose him if he didn't help faking the second attack by the dog. Yes, to save his life savings, he shot Thornton. // [7-8] At the Memorial Day parade, Sandra thanks Mason. The hero comes out, asks Hardtack to join him in the parade. [8-8 end credits] [50:41]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A blonde speaks of six weeks since she went out to Mr Lazarus, “as in the Bible.” She's looped; “That’s the place where the road with all the good intentions.” He indicates how much he knows about her employer, Edgar Thorne. Invalid niece Barbara Billings is the one with the money, which is managed by Edgar. She's in the hospital, dying, and her two children are away at camp. / Lazarus buys a doctor's bag from a pawn broker, goes to the hospital, finds Mrs Billings. Lazarus is her long lost husband. // [3-8] Barbara forgives her Lazarus, Trevor (Harris). He admits that neither with her nor Billings Enterprises could he make it work. He's heard Jill Garson, her cousin, isn't taking care of the two children. Uncle Edgar Thorne is, she responds. For ten years he hasn’t even written. But he says the kids are his concern. Edgar and a doctor come in to send Trevor away. In the hall, Edgar says Barbara had him declared legally dead two years ago. / Harris goes to Perry Mason to find a way to see his wife. Mason has Della Street call Judge Ellison. The blonde, Thorne's secretary Michaela (Martin), catches Harris leaving Mason's, offers to take him to the family. / Edgar is telling the family that they must stand together. Clara Thorne mocks him. Jill (Garson) asks what to do, as Trevor walks in. He is kissed by Clara, says hello to Jill, then Nora (Kasner), and finally Clarence Henry. There is a bit of taunting before Trevor admits he was a failure, but why is not Clarence the head of things instead of Edgar? He reels off a string of negatives which show that he thinks Edgar is a “scheming unprincipled parasite,“ worse than a worthless money-grubber. Only Jill is decent. Edgar tells Trevor there is proof that he embezzled over $50,000. Trevor says that he is going to Barbara to set things straight, but a phone call to the sanitarium leads to the discovery that Barbara has just died. A smile creeps up the corner of Edgar’s mouth. / Trevor is packing to return to Europe. Nora joins him. He says he’s already contacted Perry Mason. She came to let him know that Edgar has the evidence against him in an envelope in the safe. She wants him to destroy it because of what it could do to the children. She gives him a key and the location of the safe combination. / Clarence tells Edgar he has the merger papers ready. Edgar puts the evidence envelope in the safe with the comment that it is “the case history øf an inept fool.” / In his bedroom Edgar gets a call from Nora to do dictation. He puts it off until the next day. Clara, tipsy, asks about "dictation" and his waiting for some stupid young thing. Jill helps her out of the room. / In the dark of night Edgar takes a pistol out of a drawer, sits down. / Trevor uses the key to open the back gate. // [4-8] In his office Perry Mason is dictating to Della Street when Jill Garson calls to say that Edgar Thorne has just been murdered. / Paul Drake reports that the man was shot to death recently. Jill has not called the police. She claims that housekeeper Nora probably led Trevor into Edgar's trap by phoning him about the evidence envelope. She saw Trevor running away and her brother, Clarence, tried to catch him. Mason tells her to call the police, then assemble the occupants of the house. Drake has found a contact switch in the safe. They find an infrared light, then a camera with its film chamber empty. / Lieutenant Anderson has found a gun outside. Two identify it as Edgar's. Miss Martin says that nothing was stolen. Andy (Lt Anderson) sends all but two to their rooms. Clara tries to remove the flowers in which the camera was concealed, but is stopped. / Mason instructs Drake to bring Jill Garson to his office when she is available. / Andy asks Jill why she called Mason. He lets her go when it is revealed that Mason is Harris's attorney. Sergeant Brice is at the door. Clarence tells Andy that there are 150 million reasons why Trevor was here that night, for that is the dollars his children will inherit and he will control now that their legal guardian is dead. / Harris is waiting in Mason's office when the attorney returns. Harris says that, standing in front of a safe someone else has opened, then turning and seeing a dead body, gave him reason to run. He says all he wants is for Jill to be the children's guardian. He doesn't want the money. He's ashamed of what he did to the kids, but is not ashamed of himself. Drake enters with Jill, who thinks that Trevor murdered Edgar. Mason calls Andy, tells him he has Trevor and the infrared film, which he then gets from Jill. // [5-8] District Attorney Hamilton Burger sets up a screen and Andy starts the projector. Not much is discovered. Mason demands print certainly already made by Burger be provided; they show Clarence Henry. / In court Andy identifies fingerprints, then a cast and an Italian shoe which were worn by Harris. Kasner says she is not employed by Thorne, but Billings. She gave the information about the envelope to Harris about 8:30, less than two hours before the murder. Mason elicits that she also told Jill Garson. On the stand, Garson testifies that she went to work for Billings after her husband was killed in an accident and Billings became an invalid. Burger asks her if Harris made “any statement about his convenient return as his wealthy wife was about to die.” Mason objects, calling this “Incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial.” Burger chalenges part of that immediately and the two argue vociferously. The judge sustains Mason’s objection Garson adds that Edgar warned Harris that he had documented evidence to discredit him should he try to make any changes as to who was guardian. Another Burger question objected to, and sustained. Michaela Martin admits that, when she said nothing was missing from the safe, she forgot the evidence envelope. Clarence says that Edgar wanted to prove Trevor was as dishonest now as ten years ago. He activated the infrared camera when he went to get some papers he needed, and the envelope was in the safe then. As he left, he saw Trevor enter by the back gate. He met Jill and his sister and they returned as Harris ran out. Then the envelope was gone and Thorne was dead. Yes, he knows the contents of the envelope; they proved Harris an embezzler and unfit in any way to control his children or their fortune. // [6-8] At the Thornes, Clara stands up for her husband, saying he was a good man. Did he drink, gamble, play around with other women? No, to each. Why does she drink to excess? Hadn't Edgar quit loving her? Who was he going to marry after getting rid of her? Nora says it is Michaela. / Back in court Mason asks Jill why she changed her mind about Thorne's fitness to serve as guardian. It happened when the elder Thorne, Uncle John, died and Edgar, rather than her brother Clarence, gained control of the company. She had the infrared film. Why didn't she give it to Andy when she told him it was Trevor running away? Was it because she knew it would show that her brother Clarence was the real embezzler? Clarence admits the embezzlement. Someone close to the family had to help Edgar prepare the evidence, which he did not remove from the safe. Edgar was going to divorce Clara, but he doesn't know who the other woman was. Kasner says it was Michaela, but Thorne told Clarence that he had someone else to marry but a month before he hired Michaela. Now Kasner confesses. She did all of Edgar’s dirty &Mac183;ork. She got jealous when she saw Edgar kissing Michaela, so she killed him. // [7-8] Drake explains that Edgar came into the room expecting to find Trevor, but found Clarence and let him go. Then Nora entered and killed him. Nora took the envelope, knowing the trumped-up documents would incriminate her, says Mason to Trevor. Jill enters. She has the children waiting to meet their father, but he refuses, at least for the time. [8-8 end credits] [50:45]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] (3-1 Title credits) (3-2) It is nighttime. There is gambling. A man and a woman are necking. There is a gunshot and the lights go out. They sneak out through the ladies’ room. Harrison (Burke) says that what happened doesn't concern them. Eva (Belter) is the worried one, drives out to the main road where she is blocked by a police car. An officer listens to her sob story about her husband’s heart condition and that a pharmacist and a doctor are awaiting her. He lets her go. She teases Harrison about his congressional ambitions and how much it means to her “to find one good man.”. // [3-8](3-3) The sign on the door reads SPICY BITS MAGAZINE, FRANK LOCKET, Editor & Publisher. A photographer is trying to sell a photo of Burke and his girl coming out of the ladies' room window. He gets $40. / "GANG SHOOTING EXPOSES GAMBLING" reads the headline that Perry Mason shows Mrs Eva Griffin" (Eva Belter). At first she's worried that Spicy Bits is going to print a feature on Burke at the gambling place. Then she admits that she's worried for herself. She shows Mason a bruise her husband gave her for "looking at the same man twice." The attorney takes $700 as retainer. Eva says it is Frank Locket that he needs to contact, though there is someone behind him. She gushes over how nice he is, calls him "Perry," (and will continue to do so, so it won't be mentioned again) and tells him “What it means to find one good man to rely on.” She is escorted into the outer office. Then Mason tells Della Street that of course she couldn't find Mrs Griffin at the address she gave because that's not her name. Someone committed suicide because of a Spicy Bits article, so he's taking her case. / Mason meets Paul Drake at a hotel lobby where the detective reports that Griffin shook his shadow. Locket runs his scheme by having those who don't want stories printed buy advertising space which they forfeit if the copy doesn't come in on time which, of course, it doesn't. He offered $500, but Locket stalled, apparently trying to reach someone else to make the decision. Locket is in a barber shop in the building. Drake shows Mason the switchboard setup. There is no pay phone, but a booth. Mason has Drake go to a booth across the street and phone for Locket who, paged by a bellboy, comes to the desk to receive his call. Drake tells Locket $500 is too much. Locket goes to the switchboard girl, writes a number, tells her to call it. Mason takes down the number she dials, then gives it to Drake who says the offer is now at $20,000! Locket comes out of the hotel with a girl. / Norma Vickers, whose mother is George Belter's housekeeper, tells Mason that Belter won't see him. So he simply goes up the stairs and finds Belter exercising. Mason tells him that he hides behind Frank Locket but, if he publishes anything about his client, he'll rip his mask off. Belter denies knowing Locket. As they go down the stairs, Belter slips while calling for Carl (Griffin). Mrs Belter comes to his rescue. Mason gives no clue to the others that he recognizes her. Mrs Vickers and Carl (nephew to George) look on as Belter orders Carl to throw Mason out. Mason warns Belter that he'll go to prison if he doesn't keep his magazine quiet. // [4-8](3-4) Eva Belter is crying in Mason's office. She says George doesn't pay Locket much, he's got something on him, on everyone. Mason challenges; she' s not afraid of George, she's just afraid she'll not get a good divorce settlement. She wants Mason to pay off, but $20,000 floors her. / Harrison Burke is told $20,000 by Mason. He says he can get it, or Mason can put Belter out of business, but either way, he loves Eva. / Mason is wakened by a phone call from Eva. George has been murdered. / Mason arrives at the Belter's in his suicide-door Lincoln convertible. Eva, who ran to the Vickers' place, where no lights were on and still aren't, to call (but didn't; she ran a mile down the road in the rain), has left her keys inside. They get in with a hidden key. She takes off the wet rain coat, Carl's, but Mason sees that a corner of the rug is already wet. She heard an argument, a shot, someone running down the stairs and out the front door. She forced herself to look. The phone was dead. All she could think was that he'd take care of it. She takes out the receipt for her $700, asks Mason if it shouldn't be destroyed so the police won't know. She's sure Locket will publish the article now. Mason says Locket won’t, not unless she wants them to for now she owns Spicy Bits. Carl Griffin returns in a white Thunderbird (CBS 768), drunk, with a blown tire. He is met by Norma, then Mrs Vickers. A traffic officer arrives to arrest Griffin, but Mason has sent him upstairs. / Mrs Vickers is preparing coffee. She and Norma want to deliver it, but Mason says that he'll "do the eavesdropping for all" of them. / Carl is telling Lieutenant Anderson that "George was really a great guy, but not for a wife." As Mason joins them, Carl says that he saw a handwritten will that cuts Eva out, gives him everything. Back downstairs Mason accuses Eva of going so far to phone to give Harrison Burke time to get away. She says the voice she heard was his, Perry's! Andy has overheard. // [5-8](3-5) Paul finds Della in the office. Burke is missing. A .32 killed Belter. Burke bought a .32 a month ago. Mrs Vickers knows little about the Belters. She's tried to get her daughter in to the movies and been busy with her. Eva interrupts; she has the handwritten will, and she thinks it is fake. / Mason has Joe, a handwriting expert, check the will. The expert is certain that it is a forgery and a bad one. / Drake interviews a woman (Esther Linten), noting that she and Locket are from St Paul, and four years earlier she had a roommate who died under strange circumstances. Locket interrupts. He just came from Griffin whose lawyers is certain Carl owns Spicy Bits. / Eva is in Mason's inner office as Perry, Paul and Della enter. Mason tells her that Harrison was there and Belter was killed with his gun, which is small enough for a woman to handle. What if he showed her a statement signed by Burke that it is so. She says he wouldn't, she told him to leave town . . . She breaks down and can't talk about it. Now as to the will, she copied it, so only a forgery would be found. What if Norma Vickers saw her copying the will . . . Now Eva really breaks down. She was terribly frightened when George called her to come up to the room. She didn't mean to shoot him. She wasn't even looking when he came out of the bathroom. She just pulled the trigger and ran, and ran. Just then Andy enters, announces that they found the gun, with Eva's fingerprints, outside in the bushes. "You mean" she asks Mason, Norma didn't see her? He replies, he had to get the truth, and he only said "what if?" She slaps Mason, then goes down slowly on her knees, crying. // [6-8](3-6) Mason, Drake, Burke and Andy enter the Belter's. Norma, Carl and Mrs Vickers have Eva recreate what happened, but Mason says "She's still protecting Mr Burke." Mason points out that the coat she wore, Carl's, was already wet when she went outside. Norma's pending marriage to Carl is revealed. Mason tells Andy that Eva fired the gun, but Eva had just started to say that she threw it down before she ran. So who threw it outside? The gun had several fired chambers, but only one bullet was found in the room and it was in the body. Drake hands Mason a pistol, which he fires into a bathtub full of water. Drake fishes out the bullet. Mason now speaks to Mrs Vickers. She knows who did it. Who shot Belter, then went back to the country club to get drunk as an alibi. This lady who will be an accomplice if she doesn't start talking now. Carl attacks Mrs Vickers, telling her to shut up, but is restrained by Sgt Brice. // [7-8](3-7) Mason explains to Eva how her shot went into the tub. She ran. Carl heard the shot and went upstairs. He and George laughed at the bullet in the tub. Then Carl cold-bloodedly shot George and threw the gun into the dirt near her footprints. She thanks Perry for being "one good man," but he adds, "who loves her." The door opens revealing Paul, Harrison, and Della. Mason says goodbye to her and she goes to Harrison. Spicy Bits has breathed its last for Perry Mason is the lawyer for the new owner. [8-8 end credits] [50:42] (3-8 end credits (50:35)

[THIS ONE IS CLEARLY INDICATED AS "PERRY MASON - Starring RAYMOND BURR - In ERLE STANLEY GARDNER'S The Case of THE VELVET CLAWS," which was the very first published Perry Mason novel. Locke is here Locket, Veitch becomes Vickers for television.]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Over the phone Peter (Brent) is asking secretary Gloria (Winters) to speak to Mr (Roy) Comstock. She says that he is out. Mr Lawson bursts in, goes directly to Comstock's office with the others following. Roy is pleading with Valerie (Comstock) not to leave him. Roy orders the crowd out. Valerie is going with the Vaughans to Catalina. He pleads "don't end my life." Miss Winters apologizes, and Valerie excuses it because she is new. Peter asks about money, the $200,000 loan, and Roy says he'll call him at Canaveral as soon as he pays off the loan. Gloria tries to comfort Roy. // [3-8] A tipsy Gloria dances with Roy. Valerie and the Vaughans enter, quickly stalk out. / In court a divorce judge awards Valerie Comstock her divorce including the Laguna Beach house and other property plus $350,000, but no alimony. Comstock's attorney (F J Weatherby) agrees to this. Polly keeps Roy from Valerie as they walk out. / At Cape Canaveral Peter Brent phones Comstock only to find that the number has been disconnected. / A jet plane flies west. / A yacht lies in a harbor. Brent joins Valerie, who brushes him off. A blonde man (Willie) makes sure he leaves. / Weatherby tells Brent that he doesn't know where Comstock is. Nor does he know where the money he borrowed to build houses, which would pay back the loan Brent took on his property, is either. Further, if Roy doesn't pay back, then Peter will have to give up his land. / Gloria Winters says the office has been closed, Comstock is no longer her boss. She won't say where he is. / Peter follows Gloria to a bar where Roy is drinking. Roy tells Gloria he's not worth helping. Then he is confronted by Brent, whom he tells there is no $200,000. / Brent tells Perry Mason and Della Street, "then he passed out. . ." Brent inherited 50 acres of beach land, gave half of it to Comstock for development with forty to fifty thousand dollar homes. They put it all up as collateral for a $200,000 loan to build, the loan coming from friends of Comstock. Mason tells Brent to bring Comstock to the office in the evening. Della tells Perry that Comstock must have money, as he gave his wife a large settlement and he can't keep his assets from the court. Unless there is collusion, notes Mason when prompted by Della. / Comstock argues with a watchman, then goes aboard his wife's yacht. Brent catches him, gets punched out. Comstock takes the yacht out to sea. / Gloria goes to the bartender to find Comstock, from whom she's gotten a suicide note. She calls the police. // [4-8] Willie goes to Valerie's beachfront house, tells her that they've found the yacht with no one on it. He tries to proposition her, but she begs off. He leaves. She goes into another room, where Roy is waiting. They kiss passionately. He says to join him in Mexico City next week. She's transferred all her funds there, as he instructed. He'll hide out at La Casita. Polly interrupts with a phone call. / Lieutenant Anderson is discussing the suicide at the pier with a Coast Guard Officer as a diver comes out of the water. Willie brings Roy’s I D bracelet to them. / Mason is on the phone with Lt Anderson who is at the pier. As Andy says he wants Brent, the man walks into Mason's office. Brent explains he woke up on an old pier. Mason turns him over to Della to get his story. / Mason confronts Weatherby, who is leaving for a conference in San Francisco, with a temporary restraining order preventing foreclosure on Brent’s property. / Paul Drake interviews Gloria Winters as Della takes notes. / Mason interviews Polly and Bill Vaughan, the latter being sued over a margin call. They were friends but didn't like the way Roy treated Valerie. Bill went hunting ducks with him in Mexico. He vows he pulled out of the deal with Comstock. / Valerie acts upset about the continual talk of Roy four days after his death. Drake interrupts them, “for a duck dinner.” Outside, Drake says he's found a man hiding out at the duck hunting place, La Casita. / They go, at night, to La Casita, find Lieutenant Tragg there. A vehicle approaches. Drake wrestles a man to the ground; Weatherby. Tragg says that they found Comstock's body just where they expected, where Mason’s client left it, in the ocean. // [5-8] In court a medical examiner tells D A Hamilton Burger that Roy Comstock did not drown, but was killed by a blow to the head. Mason gets the doctor to admit the time of death could be off by 24 hours, either way. Andy reads the authenticated suicide note, in which Roy says he's sorry for what he is about to do, which is sink himself with a weight. Andy identifies a rope which was around Roy's waist, but they have not found the weight. Mason is conferring with Drake when Valerie comes back into the court. The contents of the note were not released until the following morning. The bartender says Brent saw the suicide note. Vaughan says he was never sure that Comstock was dead. Weatherby says that Roy told him to go to La Casita and wait for him, whatever he heard. He wanted to give Roy $20,000 in exchange for documents about his past in Roy's possession. He refuses to answer questions on the land deal on incrimination grounds, and Burger tells the judge that Weatherby is being investigated on bunko charges. But Weatherby does state that Roy was a con man, a swindler. Wasn't Valerie as much a swindler? asks Mason. He doesn't know of her business affairs. Valerie states she hasn't seen Roy since the divorce. “What earthly difference does it make” if he killed himself. Mason asks, “what difference does any of what make?” She becomes befuddled, having difficulty remembering the question asked but a sentence or two before. Mason wonders why she had three cups of coffee while calling her hair dresser. Did she get a prescription filled while out? He tests her with reading. She cannot handle "is not competent as a witness." How many tranquilizer pills has she taken so she could appear calm about her husband's death? Mason says he will ask her over and over, maybe a hundred times, "about her husband, about her husband, about . . ." She breaks down and the judge calls a recess. // [6-8] Hamilton admits to Perry that neither he nor Tragg could break Valerie down in three days of questioning. Maybe she's not a crook, just a woman, whose shock was doubled when her husband was found dead. Burger is told over the phone that Valerie was told that Weatherby is out on bail. Five minutes later they left town. Mason calls for Paul to get an anchor. / Willie and Valerie go to Weatherby's. She goes in alone and he claims that he did his best not to incriminate her, as Tragg, Andy, Burger, and Sgt Brice sit by a tape recorder, listening. He says he was at La Casita throughout, but she says Bill Vaughan saw him in Los Angeles. It was then that he killed Roy. She says he was the only one but her who knew Roy was alive. He says Roy was dead, but she says she saw her husband after he swam ashore. She brings Willie in. Roy gets a gun. Willie and he fight, the gun goes off, and Willie gets it. Andy rushes in before Willie can use it. Mason then points out that only one person could have taken the body out and put it where it was supposed to be. Burger asks, what did you use for a weight, Willie. Paul Drake has phoned Burger that he’s bringing him an anchor. This infuriates Willie. // [7-8] Burger, Brent and the usual others discuss the crime. Willie found Comstock along the highway. Roy told him “to keep his mouth shut or he'd kill him.” A struggle, and Willie's blow did kill Comstock, but he waited until the next night to take him out and dump him. Weatherby has admitted to the swindle, so Brent will get his money. Drake says that he can now pay him for the anchor he bought, which Mason had him get to scare Willie. Mason suggests Drake send the bill to Hamilton, who smiles. Drake suggests, "why not send him the anchor?" [8-8 end credits] [50:45]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Austin Lloyd, partner with Dwight Garrett, both of Aerospace Reliability Associates (ARA), is on the phone complaining that the partnership is "like trying to ride a dying horse." He wants his $50,000 and he only guaranteed their report would guarantee that Universal Aeronautics would not get the contract, not that they would. Secretary Terry (Clover) enters to say that (Roscoe) Pearce, mad, is outside. Pearce enters, says he's got a week's extension to submit his bid on the DIMOS project, which would have been too high because they employed ARA. He intends to have an investigation, especially into Lloyd's genius partner. Lloyd gets back on the phone, says he and listener will go to jail if they find the problems in the ARA report. // [3-8] A grocery clerk, Joe, asks a man for identification and checks the ID via Telecredit, while talking to Lloyd. The man gets anxious, grabs his ID, but is caught by two policemen for having a stolen license and passing bad checks. Lloyd takes notice. / Terry answers the phone while typing a letter. Lloyd is explaining to (Robert) Fordney "how it works." Terry announces Garrett and a lawyer want to see him. She asks "what's electronic check approval" and if after this day she'll still be working there. Lloyd asserts that Dwight is smart, but don't sell Austin Lloyd short. Lloyd then joins Perry Mason, Myron Baker of Baker Avionics, Ned Chase, his chief reliability engineer, and Dwight Garrett, who has been offered a senior vice-presidency at Baker Avionics. He wants to dissolve the partnership and Austin tosses in that he wants to dissolve his marriage, too. Austin makes the point that, without Garrett, no one would hire his company. Lloyd says he'll give his answer in 24 hours. / Dwight tells Bonnie Lloyd, Dwight’s wife, that they both made a mistake, he when he made Austin his partner, she when she married Lloyd. Dwight wants her to let Austin go. He loves her. She leaves in a rush . . . He starts to follow but meets Pearce coming in. / Austin agrees to sign any paper Mason prepares if Dwight will help him land a Mexican electronics contract. Dwight agrees to go to Acapulco to meet the Mexicans; he'll be at Austin's at 4. / Austin tells Bonnie what a wonderful time they'll have in Acapulco. She's to take his check for $10,000 and get the tickets, one-way, and a radio receiver. They'll be sailing back in two weeks on their own boat. He'll meet her at the airport. / The bank teller runs Bonnie's check through an electronic check. / The Airline Clerk runs an electronic check on Bonnie’s check. / Austin, in bed, gives Dwight instructions in an envelope, asks him to give him a pill bottle and takes pills for his ulcer attack. After Dwight leaves Austin takes the remaining pills, calls the police for an ambulance "Dwight Garrett poisoned me." / Bonnie's check is run through Telecredit by the radio salesman. At the credit agency, Sergeant Parnell receives the note from the Telecredit operator, phones . . . At the store, Bonnie takes her check, leaves the radio, walks out. / At Los Angeles International Airport Garrett picks up his ticket. Then Bonnie hers. Garrett sees her; the tickets for both are one-way. The envelope is filled with cash. Lieutenant Anderson joins them, asks them to come to headquarters because Austin Lloyd has been murdered. // [4-8] In jail Della Street, Mason and Paul Drake explain to Bonnie and Dwight how they were picked up. That Bonnie was picked seems to Mason to have been carefully planned. Garrett asserts that Austin won't get away with it. Austin planned everything, right up to having him handle the poison bottle. Mason responds that Austin was strangled. / Pearce explains the DIMOS project, Delta Interplanetary Manned Orbiting Satellite. He notices a discrepancy in the contract Mason got from Garrett and his own copy; certain paragraphs he points out would keep him from getting the contract. How could the substitution have occurred? Terry Clover says that only he and Garrett touched the reports, and he typed it himself. From her purse she takes a typewriter printing element which has the special symbols Garrett needed on it, shows it (an IBM Selectric bouncing ball) to Mason. The substituted pages are from the same typewriter as the originals, because of a chipped "n." Pearce is convinced Garrett altered the three pages. / The airline clerk tells Drake that two seats, side-by-side, were ordered on the phone by Dwight Garrett. The radio salesman says that Dwight Garrett phoned the order. / Myron Baker backs Dwight. Ned Chase can't believe it. That it was done, or that Garret did it? asks Mason. Chase says that, on six projects, Garrett's reports had not a single error. Garrett would profit by Baker Avionics getting the contract, notes Mason. Myron admits that to get Dwight they offered a bonus of 5,000 shares of stock. If Baker, not Universal, had gotten the contract, the stock would be worth $50 a share, instead of $10. / Bonnie, in jail, says that a Rudolfo Aragon was to sell her the boat. Drake says there was no such person or boat. Mason says there was no Rodriguez to meet Garrett. The two required signatures on the checks; Austin's were forged. // [5-8] The autopsy surgeon tells District Attorney Hamilton Burger that the massive dose of barbiturates could have killed Lloyd had he not been strangled. Slow-acting Barbital was the drug, two to seven days. Pearce says he warned Lloyd about an investigation and he saw Garrett with Bonnie Lloyd at dinner. Baker says that no one suggested Garrett altered the report, and their handshake agreement was a day or two after the DIMOS report. He admits that Garrett's stock would be worth a quarter of a million dollars if Baker had gotten the contract. Chase says Lloyd asked Dwight if he intended to dissolve the partnership and to break up his marriage. Miss Clover says that only Garrett had keys to his room and his safe. She says Garrett shouted at her when she once tried to type something on the machine. She overheard Bonnie tell Austin "I just don't love you, I don't even respect you." Austin suggested that she loved Garrett and she said maybe she did. By then Garrett was overhearing all this, too. / In Mason's office Fordney is explaining electronic check approval. What a frame-up, Drake exclaims, giving checks with cash back that would have the company call the police and, since one check was for airline tickets, would send the police to the airport. Fordney says that Mason will have to prove Austin, not Dwight, forged the checks. // [6-8] In court Lt Anderson explains that the $10,000 check cashed by Bonnie had a forged Austin Lloyd signature, as do the other two checks the co-defendant cashed. After arguments, Mason agrees with Burger to a stipulation of the lieutenant’s competence in all matters criminal. He asserts that the routine business checks were typed on Miss Clover's typewriter, the forged ones on Garrett's machine, because it has a chipped "n." Then pages from the DIMOS report are shown, the first from the personal file of Dwight Garrett, the second from the copy which went to Universal Aeronautics. They, too, were typed on the same typewriter with the chipped "n." Mason asks Andy if there were any other drugs in the house. Yes, Seconal, which would kill in a half hour. Then why would Garrett use a drug which would take days? asks Mason. Burger objects that Lt Anderson is not qualified in this area, but Mason reminds him that he stipulated to Andy’s competence in all matters criminal. Austin would have taken the Barbital by choice to be sure help would come in time. Perhaps, suggests Mason, Lloyd was in trouble and wanted to frame Garrett for it. Only Garrett used the typewriter, challenges Lt Anderson. Mason suggests that whoever forged the report, forged the checks. Andy agrees. Mason goes to the typewriters, asks Andy which typed which, and gets the lieutenant confused until Burger objects. Mason asks for a test; Andy must type on Garrett's typewriter. He does. The "n" isn't chipped. He types on Miss Clover's typewriter, and the "n" is chipped. Mason shows how, while Burger was arguing with the judge, he changed the typewriter elements. The element, not the typewriter, does the typing. Andy says the dead man and Miss Clover had access to the office. Before she worked for ARA, she worked for Myron Baker, who now says the company had just received a "C" spec updating a "B" spec (military specification, identifying materials), and only one person could have known of the C spec which ARA nor Universal had. Chase admits he gave the wrong spec to Austin, who also typed the checks. He knew that Myron was going to replace him, but might not if they got the DIMOS project. He knew he'd never be free from fear . . . he leaned over Austin, put his arm on his throat, and pushed. // [7-8] Mason tells Dwight and Bonnie, Paul and Della, that Austin was desperate and knew that without his slide rule Dwight was a classic absent-minded professor. Dwight says his thank you is a large check, which he can afford. Della notes that he forgot to sign it. [8-8 end credits] [50:36]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Flight #13 from Athens is arriving at Los Angeles International Airport . . . VIM magazine cover is prominent inside the airport. Two men, one of them Dan(iel Patrick) O'Malley, the other his photographer (Ken Judson), discuss the man on the cover, John Kenyon. Dan comments about Kenyon; “Soap is for dishes, and clothes, the clothes look like he’s worn them in a sleeping bag for five nights.” Then Kenyon himself arrives, calls out to Dan, calling him a ”whiskey sponge, card share, and one of our more prominent literary failures,” introduces Theba and her mother, Cleo (Grammas), whom he originally thought was the housekeeper. Kenyon and O'Malley step aside and the latter berates the former when he learns that Theba is to be Kenyon's model. He’s going to do her lifesize. “Simplicity itself.“ When the ladies go for luggage Dan tells his photographer friend that Kenyon is history. “ As the sun sinks slowly in the west,its a sad farewell to the great John Keynon.“ Hhe tears in half a copy of VIM with Kenyon on the cover. // [3-8] O'Malley shows Theba and mom his sculpture studio and swimming pool (the Pacific). George (Spangler) comes in with luggage, asks how long the ladies are staying. “Why, forever, of course.” / Ken Judson snaps a photo of Kenyon next a sculpture of Theba, and is told not to take any more. Ken says there is to be no follow-up article and shows him 8x10s of Theba in a bathing suit. Theba asks if she can go shopping for momma, with Ken. Kenyon is pensive as the couple goes off in a Triumph two-seater. George informs John that mother Grammas is using her daughter. / It is five o'clock when Theba returns with a different man in a big American convertible. Theba says that, after lunch, Ken got a phone call and had to leave. He gave her taxi money. Then her mother introduced her to Mr (Roger) Correll, who bought her a hat and brought her back. He tells her “girls do not accept presents from men.” / Kenyon tells Perry Mason and Della Street that momma's introducing Theba to men. Della, perceptive as always, asks if he’s told Theba that he loves her yet. He wants to ship momma back to Athens. Mason says momma is there legally, but he should “marry the girl and put a lock on the door.” The girl just has to say “yes.” / John has prepared a candlelight dinner. He stammers over trying to propose to Theba, calls for George. Cleo comes in, tells him that George quit and Correll is coming for Theba. Kenyon asks Theba to marry him, then informs Cleo she is out of the house the next morning. Theba says she “just cannot . . .” and runs out of the room. / Dan, drinking, tells John that Theba was no good for him. On Dan’s chest of drawers, John finds a medallion he bought in Greece for Theba. Dan says that he found it on the floor one night after she left; he tried to tell John in a nice way. John slugs him. / Officer Korchek answers a phone call about a man dragging someone out of the house, a woman, and he threw her over the cliff. / John is looking over a cliff to the ocean and at his hands. // [4-8] Men are fishing for a body. Lt Tragg mentions a Charles L Welsh to Mason. Paul joins Mason / Paul Drake and Mason look at the 2-seater, registered to Judson. Drake comments that he's been seeing a lot of Theba. They knock on an apartment door. Theba welcomes them in and they find Judson with her. She saw John the night before at his house, not since. Theba proclaims that Cleo is not her mother, only a woman from her village, who introduced her to John, and claimed to John that she was her mother so that they both could come to America. She sees John as a big bear of a father type. Judson explains that Cleo knew John because she was housekeeper to a rich man, Stamatis, who was in wool and whom John visited. Correll, who is also in wool, is Cleo's friend, not hers. / Correll says he is only friends with Cleo, and Charles Welsh runs the company, not he. / Welsh admits that he made the phone call to the police. Correll had a successful trip to Greece where he signed for the rights to a wool carding machine owned by Stamatis. Welsh hems and haws over why he happened to be at Kenyon's that night. A phone call from Drake; he's found . . . / . . . O’Malley, who is with George Spangler and Ken Judson. Spangler tells Mason he quit his job, because of the Cleo woman, it was that bad. “Lord deliver him from good samaritnns” comments Kenyon. Drake tells him that he was seen dragging a lady over the cliff. He just laughs. / At the water's edge, the statue of Theba is pulled in as Sergeant Brice looks on. Lieutenant Tragg joins them only to inform the group that he's found the body of Cleo Grammas stabbed to death in Kenyon's studio. // [5-8] In jail Kenyon states that Theba was gone when he got back from O'Malley's, but Cleo was there, screaming. She grabbed a trowel and he wrestled it from her, cutting her hand, but she knocked him out with a mallet. He woke up alone. He “tossed the statue off the cliff, went to the nearest bar.” Mason suggests that voluntary manslaughter would be a workable plea. No! He didn’t kill her. / In court Welsh tells D A Hamilton Burger that Correll is engaged to his wife's cousin. He was curious about the Greek model Roger had seen a few times, so he drove by the Kenyon place out of curiosity. He saw Roger’s car pulling up, heard quarreling inside. Roger hesitated, looked in, drove off. He saw Kenyon throw the statue over the cliff. No one else went in or out of the house. Correll says he looked in the house and saw Cleo and John fighting. She held something like a knife and there was blood. He saw no one else. Why did he call Grammas, not Theba? Old world gentlemanliness. Mason asks why he didn't try to stop the fight. He says he's not a fool. Why not call the police? He didn't “want it known that he was there.“ He's been engaged since his return from Greece. Mason says at least one other firm claims they were promised that contract the same day Stamatis signed it over to him, which is also the same day Stamatis had a stroke from which he died. Was the contract signed before or after the stroke, or was it forged? Is this how Cleo got to America, because she knew, as Stamatis' nurse, what he did? The Athens police are investigating, Mason tells the judge. Correll admits Cleo was blackmailing him, then wanted more, so he used Theba as a cover to get to the mother. Judson says he saw Kenyon washing the sleeve of a jacket at the water's edge. He identifies a jacket with blood stains on it. George says that he warned John about the girl who'd go around with any man. John shouts at him to shut up. George says that when he put John to bed he was mumbling "She's dead." // [6-8] Della and Perry are discussing the case when Paul joins them. He’s seen the girl Correll is engaged to. He’d given her a house. Mason recalls Welsh, who admits he had additional reasons for going out to Kenyon's studio. He'd learned via a wire to the Athens police that his contract, for which he'd spent every cent he had retooling for the new process, might be fraudulent. He just wanted to see the caller, with voice disguised but accent recognizable, Theba. / The defendant claims that she never met Stamatis, never was in his house. She says the quarrel everyone has heard was between Cleo and Yannis (Greek for John), over his proposal of marriage. She never got the chance to answer. She would be proud to be John's wife. He asks her about the medallion. She says she broke it, then gave it to Dan O'Malley to fix. O'Malley says that John was “chosen by the gods of greatness to walk alone,” so he created the story about the medallion because he wanted to get rid of Theba and the harridan, neither of which was good for John. Mason quotes O'Malley from VIM that Cleo could neither read nor write. Now, Mason wonders, how then could she write an extortion note in English? Perhaps there was a second witness to Correll's contract signing? Wasn’t he a guest in Stamatis’ house in Athens? Now O’Malley admits that they were his pigeons. He was wrong. He was owed that money. // [7-8] Mason says O'Malley came in the back way just as Grammas hit Kenyon. He killed Cleo right then, hid the body and went out the back, as Correll was marching out to his car and Welsh was watching. Ken comes in and John tells him to take Theba, park some nice place and propose marriage to her. Theba kisses John (she's always calling him Yannis in the Greek), goes out with Ken. O'Malley comments about the statue of Theba, “It was a lousy piece of corn to begin with.” [8-8 end credits] [50:41]

[[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A group of people is talking about the book Dishonored by Richard Harris, "The True Story of a Community" Someone asks Dave Weaver, who lives in Harris's community and publishes the Cliffside Heights Sentinel how he dug up his story. "With a muckrake." Harris enters, and is asked if Monday's trial has been canceled. How much is publisher Albert McCann paying off? Didn't Perry Mason, who is representing the Cliffside Heights residents, catch McCann off guard by claiming invasion of privacy instead of slander? Weaver cautions Harris about opening his mouth. Harris states that there will be no settlement. It will be resolved in court. // [3-8] A newspaper boy throws the morning paper on the walk and Janet Layton picks it up, missing the headline announcing "Harris insists on trial." She is interested in an inside article, "among those who received awards from the Cliffside Heights Sentinel sponsors of our town essay contest were Janice and Nancy Layton" George and Margaret bustle Janet and Nancy off to school. Then Margaret cuts out the article and discovers the headline. She calls George back; "I've got to stop him." / In Perry Mason's office Margaret tells the attorney that the trial must not happen. Mason says it is not Harris, but the publisher that he's suing, and they have agreed to a settlement. She will do anything, “anything rather than let this man go into court.” She was married to him and her “children must not know that “this evil despicable man is their father.” / Grace (Kingman) is on the phone when Harris strides in. He tells her to get the phone and have the gas and electric turned on again in the house he hasn't lived in for years. He then goes into McCann's office and is confronted with an agreement in which he admits everything is fictional. He refuses to sign, warns McCann of what he didn’t write in that book. Mason enters, Harris stalks out, and McCann says he'll still settle. / Weaver goes to Margaret with an injured face (from Harris). He's certain Harris will expose her, so asks her to let him expose Harris and how he treated the kids and her. He gives her an hour to answer, which is when the paper has to go to press. / Margaret confronts Harris and how he has ruined lives. He suggests she things he invented sin. She says she "won't let (him) destroy the children," not if she has to kill him, as (Harry) Collins overhears. Collins wants to talk about Harris's account withCollins Office Supplies. Harris says they have an "understanding." Harris has pride of authorship and thinks the kids should have his name, not Layton's. She offers $5,000. He scoffs at it. Says he never cared about the kids. She begs. He pushes her away and she sees a gun in a drawer, grabs it, but he grabs her arm and the gun goes off. She leaves without her purse and its $5,000. / Margaret goes to Mason. She suggests Harris has some sort of club over McCann. Mason instructs Paul Drake to go with Margaret to get her purse. / McCann tries to get Mason to leave. Mason asks with what Harris threatened him. Grace enters with a phone call; Drake reports the murder of Harris. // [4-8] Lt Tragg is told how Harris was killed, by a coroner. Lt Anderson makes an acerbic comment. Tragg asks Drake if someone in Harris’s victims list did it. He replies “Mrs Layrton didn’t.” In Mrs Sayton’s purse is a gun and her gloves will reveal her use of it. In jail Drake informs Mason that Harris's gun was in Margaret's purse. It was the murder weapon and the police know that she threatened Harry due to a witness, Harry Collins. She appears, denies complicity, explains the confrontation and seeing the bullet hole in the drawer and desk when the police were there. Papers she saw were missing, possibly a manuscript. / At Harris's, McCann, with police witness, is searching the room. Mason suggests that he was searching for the sequel Harris wrote. McCann says he was seeking the agreement that he gave Harris at three the day before, hoping he'd signed it. Mason looks at the bullet holes, tells Drake to find the manuscript. / Mason enters Collins's place as Grace, shouting "Harris wasn't writing fiction," walks out on Collins. Mason suggests that the manuscript is his concern, with a cover large enough to hold several hundred pages, so Collins asks Miss Moore, a secretary, to run the tapes on the Harris account. Collins admits that Harris owed $3,100. Miss Moore reports that Norma Weaver, Dave's sister and Harris’s secretary, picked up two manuscript covers for Harris, Norma Weaver, sister to Dave, picked up two covers. / Mason tells Dave Weaver that he thinks his sister might know if there is a second copy of the sequel. Dave takes Mason into an adjacent room to see Norma. She gives him a vacant stare. Two days after she learned that she was pregnant, a car deliberately went off the road to hit her. It killed the baby. She's never identified the father, hasn't spoken a sane word since then. // [5-8] In court Lieutenant Anderson tells D A Hamilton Burger that Margaret's gloves have gun oil on them. The murder weapon, he says, identifying a Luger, was fired twice into the decedent and through the desk. He identifies the purse, which the defendant had returned to retrieve, and it held the gun and $5,000. McCann testifies that the decedent tore up the disclaimer, so he had Miss Kingman type another copy and take it to him. She says, when she presented it, he pounded on a manuscript on his desk, a sequel to Dishonored, in which he “used real names and made no pretense to the fact it was a real story. He said this manuscript would keep McCann from making a settlement, and he also named his former wife, Margaret Layton, and said she'd be sorry for changing the name of the brats. She mentioned this to McCann and Collins. So Collins reports Margaret's threat. (Jack) Tabor says he got the call to restore the gas and electric for Harris just before he was to go off duty. He got to the place and found the door was open. He went in, saw a woman leaning over a desk, frozen, looking at a body of a man. He phoned the office, went back, and the woman, Mrs Layton, was gone. / In jail Margaret claims Tabor is lying. Why should he, asks Mason, he's not remotely connected with the case. Mason has her reenact the gun incident, with Drake and Lt Anderson as witnesses. Then she remembers that the gun was not like the Luger they gave her. They show her a revolver and she recognizes it. // [6-8] “Voir dire” means “to speak the truth, cautions Mason. Then he asks Tabor if he'd answer questions often asked prospective jurors. Does he believe in capital punishment? "Morality cannot be a sometime thing, the public has a right to be protected." Mason catches him in his lies, for he could not have seen Margaret's face since her back was towards him. Weaver relates the conversation with Margaret and the one-hour deadline. Mason asks if he served during WW II. Yes, in Europe. Didn't he bring back a Luger pistol? Yes, the murder weapon is his. His sister, Norma, was the one looking at the dead body. He reveals that the gun was missing shortly before Norma was run down, and she had left him a note, a goodbye note, which was gone with the gun. Collins reports that Harris purchased a revolver from him. He admits to being a gun expert, and Mason enlists him in a demonstration. The Harris desk is brought in. Tragg appears baffled as Mason lines up the bullet holes. The bottom drawer would have had to be out for a single bullet to pierce three drawers. Mason asserts it was not, that the manuscript stopped that bullet, and the Luger was fired through the bottom drawer. The manuscript, with the revolver bullet, was removed from the second drawer as well as the revolver. Mason accuses Collins of the murder. What if Grace Kingman saw that manuscript, read it, and could be put on the stand to tell . . . Collins shouts that's not true, because the pages were blank, Harris had . . . "never committed to paper the fact that it was you and not Richard Harris, Norma Weaver was in love with," continues Mason. Collins admits he tried to kill Norma so she wouldn't expose him with her letter, and Harris deserved to die. But not Margaret Layton, asserts Mason. // [7-8] Weaver reports to the usual trio and Margaret that doctors now say there is hope for Norma. After a few notes, we get “things are not what they seem.” Paul fleshes it out as “things are not what they seem. Skim milk often passes as cream.” Befuddled, Della repeats, “things are not what they seem.” [8-8 end credits] [50:36]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A girl on motor scooter heads up to Walden Nurseries in the Flower City of Palmetto, California. The girl, Melinda (Tarr), tells off Roy (Mooney) for standing her up at the dance, where she was humiliated. They kiss, passionately, and he wipes lipstick away with as hankie embroidered with "A." Melinda wants to know who "A" is. Martin (Walden) drives up looking for his wife, finds Melinda's motor scooter, but doesn't know it is hers. He loads it into his truck, drives away with Roy, leaving Melinda hiding in the bushes. // [3-8] Melinda is walking the seven miles back to her home when Mrs Martin Walden comes along in a convertible and picks her up. Andrea's husband sold the radio station to Nelson Tarr. Andrea advises Melinda to tell her father that she went for a ride with “Andy,” short for Andrea. Melinda looks at the embroidered "A" on the hankie. / Tarr returns to an empty house, phones Jimmie (Moore) who says Melinda took his motor scooter. / Andrea advises Melinda about getting involved with the wrong kind of boy, or she might have to walk the whole seven miles home. Andrea recognizes her hankie as Melinda leaves the car. Inside, Melinda says the motor scooter broke down. He used to call Andrea “Andy,” but she's a married woman and Melinda suggests that many men may be in love with her. / Andrea tells Martin that there were old friends in the movie, playing second leads, as she probably would be. In town, she saw her sister, Frances, and picked up Melinda Tarr. He asks if she were riding the scooter he has locked up. She answers, me and the hired hand, his nephew! She says Martin is sick, goes to bed. He phones (David) Pinter to come out the next day. / At a soda shop Melinda is having a malt with Roy. She has to get her scooter back and cannot go to Walden who might tell her father, who knows nothing about Roy. She suggests he ask Andrea, and he gets upset at the implication. A boy and a girl have overheard this. / Roy is telling aunt Frances that he wants to leave town, in one piece. She's paying him $1,000 to expose Andrea for what she really is. Martin will be forced to divorce her. Then she can move back to the farm to take care of her brother. / Andrea in dark glasses walks past an announcer in a radio studio. Nelson Tarr is talking to (Chris) Hearn at the bank. Andrea joins him and he tells her that Walden has sold the note on the station to the bank and the bank is threatening to foreclose. She says she's leaving Martin. He offers to help her with the problem husband. / Tarr tells Hearn that his agreement was to pay interest only for the first six months, but that was verbal, and Hearn can only give him to the end of the month. Tarr calls Perry Mason, who advises the bank that this was a sale of recourse, in which if Tarr doesn't pay, the bank goes to Walden, and if he can't pay, they can foreclose. Tarr has no spare, having put up $29,000 down payment. Mason suggests that maybe Walden will honor the original six month agreement. / Andrea is still waiting at the radio station. She phones Chris Hearn, learns that Tarr left over an hour before. / Melinda has gone to Walden's hot house for the scooter. She looks in, sees Walden on the floor. She takes off on the scooter, meets a car driven by Pinter and goes off the road. Pinter stops to help her and she tells him that Walden is dead. Frances, who is a nurse, comes along and helps. He goes on to Walden's. // [4-8] In a hospital Frances gives Pinter's card to Chief Delehanty. An intern reports that there is no fracture. The Chief gets a phone call, then tells Frances that her brother, Martin Walden, is dead. / Pinter tells Delehanty that the door was locked from the inside. It was, however, a spring lock. / Tarr tells Mason and Della Street that he thinks that he killed Walden when he went out to discuss the agreement and belted him in the mouth. Walden cracked his head against a table, probably knocking the plant pot off at that time. Hearn put up bail, so the station could keep operating. He was there at 6:30, the police got there well after 7:30. As Mason leaves, Pinter stops him, tells him of his encounter with Melinda and of Frances helping. / Frances tells Mason and Pinter that she went out to Walden's, walked in on a domestic quarrel, so walked out. She was on the way back when she saw the accident. Mason asks Pinter if Martin's legal problem was divorce. Pinter says Martin first thought of it two years ago, then last week got in touch again. Frances says the grounds would be infidelity. She doesn't know who the other man would be. / Roy sneaks into Walden's bedroom, takes clothes from a closet while Andrea is on the phone to D A Hale. Mason is at the door. He tells her that the town's attitude about her is about to change. She's the richest woman in town! A noise sends Mason into the bedroom where he catches Roy, who asks Andrea to say there's nothing between them. She won't. With Mason gone, Andrea tells Roy he'll have to live with the truth as Frances states it. / D A Hale tells Mason the pot was swung with force, it didn't drop. Hearn is brought in and states that Walden died almost bankrupt, and Andrea knew it. Hale asks Tarr if he wasn't Andrea's lover, before and after marriage. Tarr denies it. // [5-8] In court Melinda is telling D A Hale how she was told to come out to the hot house to get her scooter, after she mentioned her daddy and Mrs Walden were friends. Pinter tells Hale that Walden came to him about divorce two years before, but there was a reconciliation. He often saw Walden not gambling, but losing. He dropped nearly $10,000 on two different occasions. The divorce came up again two weeks ago. Walden said his wife was having an affair with “one of her old Hollywood cronies.” Hearn says that Walden had disposed of nearly a quarter of a million dollars and practically nothing was left. He told Mrs Walden that if her husband didn't stop making bad investments, he'd go broke. Dr Oldham testifies that Martin Walden was struck by a flower pot. He admits to Mason that, due to the heat of the murder place, Walden could have been murdered an hour either side of 6:30. Tarr whispers to Mason that someone may have finished Walden off after he left. Mason says "or before" and asks if Tarr is protecting someone. Andrea admits that Tarr paid her hospital bill some years before, with a loan she's paid back. She knew Tarr always wanted to own a small radio station, so told him when her husband wanted to sell. Didn't she try to mislead people about her affair with Tarr by creating the appearance of an affair with Roy Mooney? Mason asks how they met. Walden wanted a Sunday newspaper layout and a woman was needed, so she came up with a photographer, and after that Walden came several times to see her in Hollywood. After marriage, he became quite jealous. After the quarrel she went with her troubles to Tarr, who went to Walden while she remained alone in the studio. Roy claims he heard nothing 'cause he was listening to the fights. He never had anything to do with Mrs Walden. Why did he flaunt Andrea's hankie in front of Melinda? It was given him by his aunt Frances. // [6-8] Melinda tells Perry and Della that Roy was using her to start a rumor about Andrea. Frances was trying to break up the marriage, says Della, who sees the irony of brother and sister plotting independently for the same result. Paul Drake reports by phone from Las Vegas that Walden was a bad looser, crying to the bartender. He’s not been seen with a woman. Mason suggests he’s looking for the wrong type and will send him a photo of Frances. / Frances watched her brother become nervous, near a breakdown, caused by his wife, so she plotted an incident because Andrea convinced Martin that everything was innocent. She overheard Andrea tell Martin she had arranged for Nelson to buy the station so he could be near her. He said he'd break her lover financially. She admits that she heard from Pinter regarding possible divorce, and knew that Andrea could be of no financial help to Tarr unless Martin died before the divorce. She claims that her brothers trips to Las Vegas were known to her as fishing trips to the High Sierras. Drake gives Mason a paper which causes him to ask her who Edward Montrose is. She doesn't know. Mason says that is the name her brother took in order to move his assets out of his wife's reach so she couldn't get alimony. Mason points out that someone has to have the power of attorney to get the money he’s hidden, and forces her to tell the truth or be named an accomplice. She says it was Pinter who told Martin how to hide his money. She accuses Pinter of the scheme; until then she had no idea he killed Martin. // [7-8] Melinda hugs her father. Della says she'll take Melinda out for a malt. Melinda asks her dad if she should invite Andrea. [8-8 end credits] [50:42]

[1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A radio commentator is noting races for state government. Shoo-in Victor Kendall, publisher of THE DAILY CLARION, is now being challenged for the office of lieutenant governor by Judge Daniel Redmond. / Redmond states his reasons for affirming a judgment, starts to leave the courtroom and goes to Perry Mason. He apologies that he had to be on the losing end in their first meeting. They exchange disagreements over citations by others, and Redmond suggests Mason take his approach to the state’s Supreme Court. Mason notes that in twenty years not one of Redmond's decisions has been overturned. Redmond leaves, and Della Street suggests that his nomination may have interfered with his decision. Mason disagrees. / Marian (Lamont) brings Redmond decisions for his signature. He tells her that the nomination didn't mean that much. (Quinn) Torrey arrives, crosses Kendall's face off a newspaper and congratulates Redmond. // [3-8] United States Senate Sub Committee on business and procedure is holding a hearing. (Martin) Weston is congratulated by Senator Deering. James Wall asks for a deviation to pursue questions about marine engines. Weston waffles when questioned. Deering recesses after advising Weston to refresh his memory and get a lawyer. Kendall has been witnessing it all. / Kendall tells judge Redmond that he is not fit for the job. There are U S Senate hearings in town. Isn't fraud against the government something he should worry about and which Martin Weston, his long-ago friend in Washington, worried about. Redmond and Lamont look at the newspaper photo; there is something familiar. / Redmond ushers a tipsy Weston into his room. Weston pours himself a drink. Weston reminds him of a party twenty years ago at which the group cheated the government out of some Navy engines. He got his cut and so, he asserts, did Redmond. As Weston collapses on the bed, Madge Eberly, from twenty years earlier, appears at the door. / Madge and Daniel reminisce over coffee. He almost proposed to her. She expected him to. She reminds Daniel of his romantic ardor at a party twenty years ago, when he spent an hour talking about statutory fraud. She says that Gus Sawyer, lobbyist, and Martin Weston were at the party. Wasn't he advising them on fraud. Oh, no, she’s not bitter. How much of a payoff did Sawyer arrange for him? / Redmond walks into an empty courtroom. Quinn joins him. Gus Sawyer is awaiting him. Twenty years ago, says Quinn, someone devised a foolproof scheme to defraud the government of a fortune. Everyone who put in to that scheme profited. Quinn, says Sawyer, used Weston to pay him $10,000 to get him on the bench. Martin Weston will testify to this. / Weston is asleep when Redmond returns to his room. He tries to rouse the man who mutters "immunity . . . you'll pay." Redmond tries to get water into Weston, as James Wall, special counsel to the United States Senate, enters with a subpoena for Redmond. Weston mutters "one hundred engines . . . Navy engines . . . fraud." // [4-8] Della Street tells Perry that Marian Lamont is in the outer office; Judge Redmond is in trouble. He's such a good man asserts Marion, kept her on after her heart attack three years ago even though it meant more work for him. She appeals for help. The Judge dictated two letters this morning, one withdrawing from the race, the other resigning as a judge. / Paul Drake is waiting in the courtroom when Mason and Lamont arrive. They find Judge Redmond in his chambers. He refuses help until Mason quotes one of his decisions which says we cannot substitute expediency for justice. Redmond tells Mason three people will testify against him. Is it true? asks the attorney. No. Mason orders to get on the job, with an army. The two letters, tear them up. / Outside the hearing Kendall accuses Mason of hiding Weston. Inside, Senator Deering announces that Weston has been found, dead. Kendall threatens to hound the police and Redmond. / Lieutenant Anderson hears from the autopsy surgeon. Death was by poison, morphine sulfate, a heart medicine. Andy has found a pill container, with morphine sulfate, prescribed for Marian Lamont. / Redmond worries about what motivates Kendall. All three witnesses, Weston, Torrey, Eberly, accuse him of fraud. Mason asks about the party. Redmond says that he had as Assistant Attorney General just successfully prosecuted a fraud case involving procurement. He recited the stupid mistakes of the loser in that case. From that, Weston and others figured what should be done. Lt Anderson enters with a warrant for Redmond on a charge of first-degree murder. // [5-8] In court District Attorney Hamilton Burger asks Victor Kendall about facts not in evidence and Mason objects. The judge finally says Kendall may testify not to what the Senate Committee was going to do, but what Judge Redmond believed they were going to do. Kendall says that he told him they would investigate his participation in criminal fraud from twenty years previously. Madge Eberly admits that she was with Redmond when a plan was worked out to defraud the U S government. When Mason asks a question, Burger's objection is taken by Mason as a stipulation that the witness had a motive for the murder! Lt Anderson testifies that a glass at the crime scene contained whiskey, water, and morphine sulfate, and both the decedent's and the defendant's fingerprints. Also a prescription for morphine sulfate was found under the bed. It was written to Marian Lamont, but was picked up by the defendant. The autopsy surgeon testifies to morphine sulfate in the bloodstream sufficient, given the .34 level of alcohol, to be toxic. Wall claims that he saw Redmond force the liquid down Weston's throat. / Drake reports. Redmond was appointed judge in 1943. Gus Sawyer is a lobbyist, fixer, you name it. Everybody was uncomfortably evasive of what Gus Sawyer did for them. There is nothing in Washington pointing to fraud in 1943. But just an hour ago, Quinn Torrey made a full confession to the fraud, naming Redmond. // [6-8] Torrey reads a prepared statement with his attorney standing by his side. He states that he was present when a unique method for handling marine engine procurement was discussed by Daniel Redmond. He admits to hiring Sawyer for a year, paying the mortgage on Weston's home, and contributing to a fund to get Redmond a judgeship. With his attorney whispering answers, Torrey tells Mason that he knew Redmond wanted his help because Sawyer told him so. A few days after the party, says Sawyer, Weston called to say that the procurement deal could involve fraud. However, when Redmond was asked what he'd do about it, he said "nothing," if he were appointed to the California bench. Through him, continues Sawyer, contributions were made and suggestions of Redmond's appropriateness were passed on. Mason presents documents while asking how much income Sawyer reported. The $10,000 from Torrey was disbursed, thus not declared, as it was not personal. He was on salary to Torrey. What of $10,000 from Arlington Industries? Yes, that's right. But, Mason states, the president says he doesn't know who Sawyer is. Mason points out that Redmond's appointment had been acted on and forwarded a month before the party, though the announcement was made a month after the party. Is it possible he invented the whole story to steal $10,000 from Quinn Torrey? Of course he doesn't remember. Wall says that he offered Weston immunity since his part in the fraud was minuscule. He hems and haws when Mason tries to pin him down on what documents he had involving Redmond. One document stating a fraud involving Weston, Redmond and marine engines is all he had. Weston admitted fraud, but laughed that the document was a forgery. Mason tricks him into admitting the forged document was from Victor Kendall. The newspaper publisher admits that he got his information from Madge Eberly, and he knew that Redmond was not involved in the fraud. He just wanted to force him out of the race for a nomination he worked twelve years to get. Eventually Weston tried to do to him what he was trying to do to Redmond. He stole the pills from Redmond's chambers and killed Weston. // [7-8] Paul and Della find Marian humming happily in the courtroom. They are looking for their boss in order to have lunch. She motions them to be quiet, opens the doors to the Judge's chambers. Perry and Dan are arguing point and counterpoint. Marian closes the door; "We're back in business again." [8-8 end credits] [50:42]