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Itheme
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This memo...
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lf it's some kind ofjoke, l'm not laughing.
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lt's no joke, Mr. Kendall.
We need at least a week's delay.
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Heller, Mitchell Heller, our test pilot...
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The results of our human stress runs
in the last two weeks
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are completely unreliable.
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- Then replace him.
- We can't.
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lt's either nurse Heller along
or drop him and start over with other men.
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We do have two standby pilots
beginning the test series,
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but orienting them
into the Moonstone program
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will mean at least
a three or four week delay.
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Mr. Owen, l remind you
this Human Factors Section
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is six weeks behind schedule now.
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Heller is only psychologically upset,
Mr. Kendall.
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lt's nothing serious or permanent,
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a mild sort of anxiety neurosis.
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Dr. Carey, you're asking me to shut down
a $500 million priority defense emort
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because one man's broken out
in some sort of rash?
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Mr. Kendall, that is not why l...
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lf you'll come to my omice,
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l'd like to show you a test film
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that may give you
the answer you're looking for.
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[Owen]
This is one of our tests
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to determine minimum levels for safety,
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actually a test of the limits
of a man's endurance.
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[Linda]
For this test, Heller, in the space suit,
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was under anesthesia.
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While he was still in the Air Force,
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Major Heller applied for selection
as one of the Mercury Astronauts.
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He was removed from consideration
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by his commanding omicer,
a... a General Brand.
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Major General Addison Brand?
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[Linda]
Yes... Yes, that's the name.
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Heller resigned his commission,
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came to Winslow Aeronautics
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and became a grounded astronaut
in our stress tests.
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He's oveM/orked himself
almost to the point of exhaustion,
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where there's no longer
a line between real and imagined illness,
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these occasional attacks
of what appears to be asthma.
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We knew he was overextending himself,
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but his work was so amazingly good,
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so free of any possible criticism,
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and Heller himself
was so anxious to finish his work,
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that we kept on with him.
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[Linda]
Then suddenly a dormant,
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up-to-then unimportant, buried hatred
for some Air Force General
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was pushed by his strain and exhaustion
to the surface,
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amecting him and his work.
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This is Heller
taken by a hidden camera'after the test.
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So Heller saluted from habit.
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The place is full of omicers.
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What's that got to do with General Brand?
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When he saluted in that film,
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there was nobody else in the room.
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l've only been filling in
since Mr. Winslow's death.
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The Board of Directors
has hired a new man to head the company.
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You can take the matter
of the delay up with him.
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l wish you luck.
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He's a retired Air Force Major General,
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and his name is Brand,
General Addison Brand.
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Project Moonstone,
three basic missions...
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Earth orbital flight,
circumlunar flight,
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manned landing and exploration
of the moon.
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Shephard and Grissom
have penetrated space and returned safely.
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Colonel Glenn has successfully
orbited the earth three times.
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The pressure to bring Project Moonstone
in ahead of schedule is building up.
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ls the Project ahead of schedule?
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On schedule?
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No, this top priority space emort
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is six to twelve months behind schedule.
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l'm sorry l'm late.
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l had to arrange a pass at the gate
for a visitor.
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[Kendall]
General Brand, this is our test subject
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Mr. Heller and l, unfortunately,
are already acquainted.
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- Look, General...
- Would you please be seated, Mr. Heller?
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The critical path lies here,
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the physiological data.
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All basic design is dependant on statistical
evaluation of stress tolerances,
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the astronaut's stress tolerances.
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Human Factors Section.
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Even a superficial analysis
can pinpoint the flaw.
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Mr. Kendall, as acting president of the
company since the death of Phillip Winslow,
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you were aware that the project
was badly behind schedule?
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Why, yes.
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Mr. Owen, as chief of Project Moonstone,
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you were aware that the work
of dozens of departments
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was literally at a standstill
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because of one man's inability
satisfactorily to perform
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his assigned duties?
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[Owen]
Yes, sir,
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but it was a case of nursing along
the only one qualified test subject we had.
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[Brand]
As the testing department's physician
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and psychologist, Dr. Carey,
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you were confident in your ability
to nurse this incompetent along,
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that is, until, of course,
you concurred in Mr. Owen's request
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for suspension?
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As confident of my ability, General,
as l suspect you are of yours.
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Mr. Heller, l've always had
consummate regard for your qualifications
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for, as well as your dedication to,
space research.
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My only reservation has been
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the question of where best to use
what talent you possess.
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That's why you had me taken om
of Project Mercury, isn't it...
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in order to ''best use'' my talent?
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lt takes thousands of skilled specialists
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to push a piece of hardware
carrying a man into space and back.
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l can see you in many, many places
in that concept,
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but not as the one man
riding that hardware. No.
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You made that plain
when we were both in uniform.
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[Brand]
Major Heller or Mister Heller,
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these test results confirm
my considered judgment.
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You show no more stability
or consistency on the ground
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than l anticipated you would
in a space capsule,
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stability under crisis
100,OOO miles out in space.
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A control panel malfunctions.
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- How do you react?
- Brand!
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- How do you fix it?
- Brand, l warn you...
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Violence, Mr. Astronaut?
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Would you smash your fist in the panel?
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And that secretary he brought in with him,
Terry Faye.
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You take it from one of the top PR men
in the racket, Mitch...
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yours truly, Eddie Lewis...
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l tell you there's smoke and fire
in that cozy, little wigwam.
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Yes, sir, there's plenty of s...
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What's the matter?
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Mitch, you all right?
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[strained breathing]
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Anyway, she sends for me.
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''Mr. Lewis''...
as if she didn't know my name...
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''Mr. Lewis, our Public Relations program
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must personalize the project
with extensive picture coverage.''
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Project, my foot.
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Personalize the General...
that's what she means,
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and that's what he wants.
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Eddie, we have some work to do.
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- Would you excuse us, please?
- [Mitch panting]
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Oh, yeah, sure thing, doc.
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l'll see you around, Mitch.
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Mitch, if you remember, would you send me
that bio poop l asked you about?
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Huh?
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Linda, l'm sorry.
This work, it's all l know.
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Nothing else means anything to me.
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You've accomplished a great deal, Mitch.
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You don't have to kill yourself.
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You don't have to go on proving yourself
all over again.
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You're like Brand.
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You think l'm no good, a failure,
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that l can't do those tests.
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No, Mitch.
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Well, he's wrong.
He's always been wrong about me.
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Oh, Mitch, please...
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He's got to be wrong,
and you've got to help me prove he's wrong.
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Linda... that medicine,
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that special medicine
you had made up for me...
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No.
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The stums strong.
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lt'll stop these attacks.
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Mitch, face the truth.
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Linda, you've got to help me.
Please, help me.
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Take om your jacket.
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Roll up your sleeve.
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[wheezing]
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Easy now.
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Slowly.
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Slowly.
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Mr. Heller?
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l'm Paul Drake.
You called me this morning.
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When l picked up my pass at the gate,
the guard told me l'd find you here.
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Oh, yes, Mr. Drake.
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Linda?
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We have a test scheduled in five minutes.
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l suggest it might be politic to be on time.
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Mr. Drake.
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On the phone you told me
about some papers
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that were stolen from you...
blueprints, l think you said.
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Yes, a space capsule remote control valve,
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a radical design l've working on
for several years, om and on.
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Detailed drawings
are in an 8x1 1 manila envelope
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with my name in the corner.
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Did you keep those papers
here in the plant or at your home?
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Well, l'm not quite sure
where l had them last.
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Tell you the truth, l haven't worked on
or even looked at those blueprints
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for several months.
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You're sure they're missing?
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l looked for them last night.
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l sort of thought l might have to get
into a dimerent line of work.
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l couldn't find the drawings at home,
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wasn't sure whether l'd had them
there last or here at the plant.
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What did plant security here say
when you checked with them?
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l didn't check with them.
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You see, this invention of mine
hasn't been registered or patented yet.
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lt could be worth a great deal, now, to me.
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l thought it would be better handled
by a reputable detective agency.
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l can't exactly go snooping
around a defense...
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l have to leave now, Mr. Drake.
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Why don't you start with my apartment.
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You can check with my landlady,
and we'll go on from there.
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And this is important to me,
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very important.
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- Mr. Heller...
- l'll check with you later.
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[classical]
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[knocks]
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[louder]
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Mitch.
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Why are you so surprised, Bonnie?
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We did have a date tonight, didn't we?
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- But my maid...
- Oh, she called me, all right,
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to tell me that Mrs. Winslow
was sick in bed.
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l brought you these.
l was worried about you.
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Went to your apartment,
but you weren't there.
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How did you happen to, uh...
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Find out you that you were
at Winslow lodge?
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We came here often enough
with Phil before he died, didn't we?
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l just thought that...
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Well, l guess you're not so sick after all.
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Mitch, please.
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Good friends.
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lsn't that what
you were pleased to call us, Bonnie?
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Good, good friends,
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no need to make fools of each another
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to blatantly lie to each another?
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- [Bonnie sighs]
- Mr. Heller.
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lt's all right, Addison.
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lt's only a misunderstanding.
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Mr. Heller's made a mistake.
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l couldn't possibly have had
an appointment with him
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when l had already made arrangements
to show the lodge to a new tenant.
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Then l suggest you leave now, Mr. Heller.
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l see that your ''tenant'' is carrying
two copies of the lease.
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l'm sure that you'll be
a very accommodating landlady,
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Mrs. Winslow.
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- [door slams]
- [sighs]
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Your copy of the lease, Mrs. Winslow.
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[Bonnie chuckles]
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Iover intercom]
Grip each control firmly.
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You'II have to compensate
for the input bias on both dials
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by nulling the X-Y signal fed in on tape.
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[Owen]
Cameras ready, Bruce?
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Ready, Mr. Owen.
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Start the cameras.
Tape on.
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[humming]
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lncrease vibration.
Raise noise level.
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Stage one, mark.
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[humming louder]
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[rattling]
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[Owen]
More vibration, more noise.
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[Attendant]
Stage two, mark.
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[humming louder]
249
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[Owen]
More vibration, more noise.
250
00:14:34,587 --> 00:14:35,880
[Attendant]
Stage three, mark.
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[pitch rising]
252
00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:47,594
What are you testing for?
253
00:14:47,636 --> 00:14:48,695
Performance decrement...
254
00:14:48,737 --> 00:14:50,730
how much physical and mental torture
255
00:14:50,772 --> 00:14:53,711
an astronaut can take
before he cracks up and loses control.
256
00:14:53,843 --> 00:14:55,846
lncrease noise and vibration.
257
00:14:55,978 --> 00:14:58,516
[Attendant]
Stage four, mark.
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00:15:00,918 --> 00:15:02,110
Mr. Young,
259
00:15:02,152 --> 00:15:05,124
l called and arranged for you to be
at the General's quarters last night
260
00:15:05,189 --> 00:15:07,049
to take some photographs.
You didn't show up.
261
00:15:07,091 --> 00:15:08,283
l'm sorry, Ma'am.
262
00:15:08,325 --> 00:15:10,997
The Public Relations Director
my boss, asked me to do something! else.
263
00:15:11,129 --> 00:15:12,187
[Terry]
Mr. Lewis?
264
00:15:12,229 --> 00:15:13,289
Yes, Ma'am.
265
00:15:13,331 --> 00:15:16,370
He said there were some night ''hot shot''
tunnel pictures that couldn't wait,
266
00:15:16,501 --> 00:15:18,194
might be weeks before we could get to them.
267
00:15:18,236 --> 00:15:22,445
Miss Faye, give Mr. Lewis two weeks' notice.
He's fired.
268
00:15:26,913 --> 00:15:28,913
General, please, don't touch that.
269
00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:34,212
Look at this data compilation.
270
00:15:34,254 --> 00:15:37,794
l've permitted you to continue
these tests for 1 O days.
271
00:15:37,926 --> 00:15:40,530
Look at these results.
Well? No comment?
272
00:15:41,530 --> 00:15:43,123
[Owen]
Sir, they're a little erratic.
273
00:15:43,165 --> 00:15:44,324
[Brand]
Erratic?
274
00:15:44,366 --> 00:15:46,871
That's a masterly understatement,
Mr. Owen.
275
00:15:47,003 --> 00:15:48,663
[strikes paper with stick]
This indicates either gross
276
00:15:48,705 --> 00:15:50,705
and utter incompetence
on the part of the test subject
277
00:15:50,773 --> 00:15:53,946
or mental and physical deterioration
so marked and obvious
278
00:15:54,078 --> 00:15:56,315
as to render his work worse than useless.
279
00:15:57,313 --> 00:16:00,787
We can amord neither time nor money
wasted on unreliable testing.
280
00:16:00,919 --> 00:16:03,290
Miss Faye, inform the Legal Department
281
00:16:03,354 --> 00:16:05,358
that Mr. Heller's services
as testing astronaut
282
00:16:05,490 --> 00:16:07,317
will no longer be needed
283
00:16:07,359 --> 00:16:10,098
by Winslow Aeronautics, as of today.
284
00:16:10,229 --> 00:16:12,229
- [ringing louder]
- [no audible dialogue]
285
00:16:17,436 --> 00:16:20,008
[classical]
286
00:16:29,917 --> 00:16:31,111
[Brand]
Heller?
287
00:16:31,153 --> 00:16:32,746
Come in.
Come in.
288
00:16:32,788 --> 00:16:34,788
Door's open.
289
00:16:36,158 --> 00:16:38,496
[siren wailing]
290
00:16:41,363 --> 00:16:42,757
[horn honks]
291
00:16:42,799 --> 00:16:44,799
[tires screech]
292
00:16:49,206 --> 00:16:50,366
Lieutenant Anderson, police.
293
00:16:50,408 --> 00:16:52,445
Mind telling me who you are
and where you're coming from?
294
00:16:52,576 --> 00:16:54,004
Heller, Mitchell Heller.
295
00:16:54,046 --> 00:16:55,272
l've just been at the Winslow lodge.
296
00:16:55,314 --> 00:16:58,186
[Anderson]
Just? Five, maybe ten minutes ago?
297
00:16:58,318 --> 00:16:59,409
l suppose so.
298
00:16:59,451 --> 00:17:01,621
Spoke to a man named General Brand.
You can check with him.
299
00:17:01,753 --> 00:17:03,114
What's this all about?
300
00:17:03,156 --> 00:17:05,895
When you spoke to this General Brand,
he was all right?
301
00:17:06,025 --> 00:17:10,234
Everything, so far as you could see,
was normal at this Winslow lodge?
302
00:17:10,363 --> 00:17:12,534
Of course.
Look, what is this?
303
00:17:12,666 --> 00:17:13,859
[Anderson]
l think you'd better leave your car here
304
00:17:13,901 --> 00:17:15,061
and come with us.
305
00:17:15,103 --> 00:17:16,328
Now, wait a minute.
306
00:17:16,370 --> 00:17:18,875
l'm afraid we'll have to insist, Mr. Heller.
307
00:17:28,651 --> 00:17:29,877
[continues]
308
00:17:29,919 --> 00:17:32,524
Now would somebody please tell me
what this is all about?
309
00:17:32,655 --> 00:17:34,149
Mr. Young?
310
00:17:34,191 --> 00:17:36,496
l was here at 8:45.
311
00:17:36,626 --> 00:17:39,665
The place was a shambles,
like there'd been a fight,
312
00:17:39,796 --> 00:17:41,356
and General Brand was dead.
313
00:17:41,398 --> 00:17:42,458
What?
314
00:17:42,500 --> 00:17:43,526
The phone was ripped out,
315
00:17:43,568 --> 00:17:46,540
so l had to drive all the way down
into town to call the police.
316
00:17:46,671 --> 00:17:48,942
l came out here to take pictures.
317
00:17:49,074 --> 00:17:52,046
l took them at 8:45.
318
00:17:52,177 --> 00:17:53,637
Now, what is this, Bruce?
319
00:17:53,679 --> 00:17:54,839
You know that isn't the truth
320
00:17:54,881 --> 00:17:56,007
because l was here after that,
321
00:17:56,049 --> 00:17:59,121
and there isn't one single stick
of furniture out of place inside that lodge,
322
00:17:59,252 --> 00:18:02,258
and as for General Brand,
what do you mean he's dead?
323
00:18:02,390 --> 00:18:06,197
l spoke to him not 10 or 15 minutes ago,
at 9:OO, right inside there.
324
00:18:06,328 --> 00:18:09,367
Suppose we go inside and see.
325
00:18:11,565 --> 00:18:14,805
[Beethoven Symphony No. 5 theme]
326
00:18:38,963 --> 00:18:42,638
Paul, you're sure that medicine vial
was labeled ''Distilled Water?''
327
00:18:42,768 --> 00:18:43,927
Yep, l'm sure.
328
00:18:43,969 --> 00:18:45,763
No antihistaminic,
no medicine of any sort.
329
00:18:45,805 --> 00:18:47,132
Just plain old distilled water.
330
00:18:47,174 --> 00:18:48,532
One shot in the arm,
331
00:18:48,574 --> 00:18:50,879
and he bounced back
from that asthma attack like a yo-yo.
332
00:18:51,011 --> 00:18:52,470
He couldn't really have been sick.
333
00:18:52,512 --> 00:18:54,549
What about those drawings
he hired you to recover?
334
00:18:54,681 --> 00:18:55,808
That's another thing.
335
00:18:55,850 --> 00:18:56,909
Believe me, Perry, l checked,
336
00:18:56,951 --> 00:18:58,177
and l'm convinced that one...
337
00:18:58,219 --> 00:18:59,712
no drawings were ever stolen from him,
338
00:18:59,754 --> 00:19:01,714
and two...
there probably never were any drawings.
339
00:19:01,756 --> 00:19:03,216
You picked yourself a dilly of a client.
340
00:19:03,258 --> 00:19:04,885
l'm glad he's yours and not ours.
341
00:19:04,927 --> 00:19:08,534
Not yet, but Paul
has that generous look in his eyes.
342
00:19:08,664 --> 00:19:10,425
All right, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,
343
00:19:10,467 --> 00:19:12,905
all that expensive sleuthing
must have turned up something.
344
00:19:13,036 --> 00:19:15,574
Before he died of a heart attack
six months ago,
345
00:19:15,705 --> 00:19:18,744
Phillip Winslow, even though he
was president of Winslow Aeronautics,
346
00:19:18,876 --> 00:19:20,946
was running this space project thing himself,
347
00:19:21,078 --> 00:19:23,616
so he and my client Mitch Heller
became pretty friendly.
348
00:19:23,747 --> 00:19:25,341
- Well...
- Don't tell me.
349
00:19:25,383 --> 00:19:26,508
Let me guess.
350
00:19:26,550 --> 00:19:29,924
Old friend Mitch picked up
the pieces with Winslow's widow.
351
00:19:30,055 --> 00:19:33,963
Along came big-shot general,
with whom Mitch is not so friendly.
352
00:19:34,093 --> 00:19:36,998
Easily consolable widow meets general...
353
00:19:37,129 --> 00:19:39,129
And my client's up on a murder rap.
354
00:19:39,866 --> 00:19:42,806
l gather, then, there is a Winslow widow?
355
00:19:42,936 --> 00:19:45,875
Pretty, easily consolable,
and an old hand at playing the field.
356
00:19:46,006 --> 00:19:47,433
Name's Bonnie.
357
00:19:47,475 --> 00:19:50,615
Paul, you are asking me to help
Mitchell Heller, aren't you?
358
00:19:50,745 --> 00:19:52,882
l think Mitch Heller is om his rocker.
359
00:19:53,014 --> 00:19:55,185
l also think he's guilty as sin,
360
00:19:55,317 --> 00:19:57,722
but l've seen his war record
as a pilot in Korea.
361
00:19:57,853 --> 00:20:00,992
l know what decorations he won
and how he won them, and l know him.
362
00:20:01,123 --> 00:20:02,917
l like him.
363
00:20:02,959 --> 00:20:04,719
Perry, he deserves the best.
364
00:20:04,761 --> 00:20:07,533
Yes, Perry, l promised l'd ask you
to help him.
365
00:20:08,999 --> 00:20:11,939
l know it sounds crazy,
like some sort of hallucination,
366
00:20:12,069 --> 00:20:13,429
but l swear to you, Mr. Mason,
367
00:20:13,471 --> 00:20:16,744
there wasn't a sign of a struggle
in that room when l spoke to Brand.
368
00:20:16,874 --> 00:20:18,701
You couldn't be mistaken about the time?
369
00:20:18,743 --> 00:20:21,616
No, the clock on the mantle
and my wristwatch both said 9:OO.
370
00:20:21,747 --> 00:20:23,884
lt had to be 9:OO.
371
00:20:24,016 --> 00:20:25,042
Did you see him?
372
00:20:25,084 --> 00:20:26,811
No, he was upstairs dressing,
373
00:20:26,853 --> 00:20:29,090
said he had somebody coming up
and couldn't see me at the moment.
374
00:20:29,222 --> 00:20:30,615
Did he tell you who that somebody was?
375
00:20:30,657 --> 00:20:34,331
No. l agreed to meet him at a restaurant
down the road in half an hour.
376
00:20:34,461 --> 00:20:36,866
The police stopped me
on my way to the restaurant.
377
00:20:36,997 --> 00:20:40,204
Feeling as you did about Brand,
why did you go to the lodge to see him?
378
00:20:40,335 --> 00:20:41,427
He sent for me.
379
00:20:41,469 --> 00:20:43,469
After firing you?
380
00:20:44,239 --> 00:20:47,179
He told me, on the phone,
he didn't like me any more than l liked him,
381
00:20:47,310 --> 00:20:48,735
but he did want me to stay on at Winslow,
382
00:20:48,777 --> 00:20:50,915
as Director of Testing
in the Human Factors Section.
383
00:20:51,047 --> 00:20:54,119
He asked me to come
to the lodge at 9:OO to discuss it.
384
00:20:54,251 --> 00:20:55,277
When did he call you?
385
00:20:55,319 --> 00:20:58,491
Oh, let's see,
it was about 3:OO in the afternoon.
386
00:20:58,622 --> 00:21:00,048
l was in the locker room, alone.
387
00:21:00,090 --> 00:21:01,950
lt was after the noise-and-vibration test.
388
00:21:01,992 --> 00:21:04,230
He called me from his omice.
389
00:21:04,295 --> 00:21:06,499
Well, Perry Mason.
What do you know?
390
00:21:06,631 --> 00:21:07,890
Hamilton.
391
00:21:07,932 --> 00:21:10,404
Mr. Heller, you've already met
Lieutenant Tragg.
392
00:21:10,536 --> 00:21:12,536
This is Hamilton Burger,
the District Attorney.
393
00:21:13,572 --> 00:21:15,400
You representing Heller, Perry?
394
00:21:15,442 --> 00:21:17,034
Yes, l am.
395
00:21:17,076 --> 00:21:18,570
Fine. l'm glad you're here.
396
00:21:18,612 --> 00:21:20,538
l'd like permission from both of you
397
00:21:20,580 --> 00:21:23,920
to have Mr. Heller examined
by a competent psychiatrist,
398
00:21:24,050 --> 00:21:29,161
just in case we find ourselves arguing
a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
399
00:21:29,290 --> 00:21:30,584
Not guilty of what?
400
00:21:30,626 --> 00:21:33,198
Murder, in the first degree.
401
00:21:33,328 --> 00:21:36,735
We found the murder weapon,
a .45 service automatic.
402
00:21:36,865 --> 00:21:39,704
Perry, it belongs to your client,
Mitchell Heller.
403
00:21:41,371 --> 00:21:42,696
You say Mitch Heller said
404
00:21:42,738 --> 00:21:46,045
that he received a call
from General Brand yesterday afternoon?
405
00:21:46,175 --> 00:21:49,081
Yes, at about 3:OO.
406
00:21:49,213 --> 00:21:50,472
lt would have been impossible
407
00:21:50,514 --> 00:21:51,940
for the General to have called Heller
408
00:21:51,982 --> 00:21:54,587
at 3:OO or at any time yesterday afternoon.
409
00:21:54,718 --> 00:21:56,112
[Mason]
Impossible?
410
00:21:56,154 --> 00:21:57,280
[Terry]
Yes.
411
00:21:57,322 --> 00:21:59,359
From the moment the test
was over at 2:OO,
412
00:21:59,491 --> 00:22:01,352
until 6:OO, we left for the evening,
413
00:22:01,394 --> 00:22:05,502
General Brand was dictating
confidential reports to me in his omice.
414
00:22:05,564 --> 00:22:08,236
Neither one of us left that omice
at any time,
415
00:22:08,367 --> 00:22:12,209
and there were no phone calls in or out.
416
00:22:14,775 --> 00:22:17,580
Now, Mr. Mason, if there's nothing more,
417
00:22:17,711 --> 00:22:19,671
may l please be excused?
418
00:22:19,713 --> 00:22:21,073
Yes, of course.
419
00:22:21,115 --> 00:22:23,115
Thank you.
420
00:22:28,524 --> 00:22:32,866
Mr. Lewis, did Mitch Heller keep
a .45 service automatic here at the plant?
421
00:22:32,995 --> 00:22:34,555
Yes, in his locker.
422
00:22:34,597 --> 00:22:36,597
He let me use it any time l wanted to.
423
00:22:36,701 --> 00:22:39,205
Security has a range right here on the plant.
424
00:22:39,336 --> 00:22:41,336
l understand you were discharged yesterday?
425
00:22:41,439 --> 00:22:46,248
l was fired yesterday, Mr. Mason,
re-hired today.
426
00:22:46,378 --> 00:22:48,515
Mr. Kendall took care of it.
427
00:22:48,647 --> 00:22:50,340
The Chairman of the Board
called me this morning,
428
00:22:50,382 --> 00:22:53,956
told me l'd be named to head the project,
possibly, within a few months,
429
00:22:54,086 --> 00:22:57,660
take over the duties of the late
Mr. Winslow as company president.
430
00:22:57,789 --> 00:23:01,998
This may or may not be related
to Brand and the murder
431
00:23:02,128 --> 00:23:05,134
but can you tell me anything
about the Board of Directors
432
00:23:05,199 --> 00:23:08,305
and the dimiculty it's having
with Mrs. Winslow?
433
00:23:08,435 --> 00:23:13,212
The trouble began when Winslow started
divorce proceedings against his wife.
434
00:23:13,341 --> 00:23:15,201
Phillip Winslow agreed to a cash settlement.
435
00:23:15,243 --> 00:23:17,448
He was getting out of the company entirely.
436
00:23:17,580 --> 00:23:19,440
The Board had prepared a resolution
437
00:23:19,482 --> 00:23:21,887
agreeing to redeem his personal stock
438
00:23:22,017 --> 00:23:24,321
and retire it as company treasury stock.
439
00:23:24,454 --> 00:23:25,813
There was even a contract drawn up,
440
00:23:25,855 --> 00:23:27,855
covering the company's buying his stock.
441
00:23:29,092 --> 00:23:32,064
You mean there was
an actual Redemption Agreement prepared
442
00:23:32,195 --> 00:23:33,622
between the company and the Winslows?
443
00:23:33,664 --> 00:23:36,703
Yes, drawn up by the company lawyers.
444
00:23:36,834 --> 00:23:38,794
After Phillip died,
445
00:23:38,836 --> 00:23:40,697
that Redemption Agreement
was never found,
446
00:23:40,739 --> 00:23:42,132
at least, not the original.
447
00:23:42,174 --> 00:23:45,079
They found the carbons,
unsigned, in his desk.
448
00:23:45,210 --> 00:23:48,517
Signed, or unsigned,
there was no trace of the original.
449
00:23:48,648 --> 00:23:50,241
Mr. Kendall
450
00:23:50,283 --> 00:23:54,290
the noise-and-vibration test Heller
did so badly on...
451
00:23:54,421 --> 00:23:56,421
may we have someone make the same test?
452
00:23:56,524 --> 00:23:59,731
Certainly. l'll call and have it set up.
453
00:23:59,860 --> 00:24:01,897
Eddie, would you take them
down to the test lab?
454
00:24:02,930 --> 00:24:04,930
[test capsule whirring]
455
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,978
[rattling, whining]
456
00:24:25,557 --> 00:24:30,066
Mr. Owen, Heller was an engineer
as well as a test pilot.
457
00:24:30,195 --> 00:24:31,420
Did he like to tinker?
458
00:24:31,462 --> 00:24:33,357
Did he like to make things
with his own hands?
459
00:24:33,399 --> 00:24:34,458
Mitch?
460
00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:38,074
Not particularly, that is, not more
than what he had to do as part of his work.
461
00:24:46,581 --> 00:24:50,355
l guess Paul has had enough
of outer space for now.
462
00:24:50,484 --> 00:24:52,378
Shut it down.
463
00:24:52,420 --> 00:24:54,892
Would you help Mr. Drake out, please?
464
00:24:55,022 --> 00:24:57,025
Let's check the recordings.
465
00:25:02,097 --> 00:25:04,134
Not bad at all.
466
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,304
Considering Mr. Drake's total inexperience,
467
00:25:06,436 --> 00:25:07,995
the results are not unusual,
468
00:25:08,037 --> 00:25:10,274
but certainly better than average.
469
00:25:10,407 --> 00:25:11,533
How did Paul compare
470
00:25:11,575 --> 00:25:13,879
with Mitchell Heller's results
on the same test?
471
00:25:15,145 --> 00:25:16,271
Well...
472
00:25:16,313 --> 00:25:18,418
We'd already asked
for a suspension of the tests
473
00:25:18,550 --> 00:25:21,857
because of Mitch's erratic results.
474
00:25:21,987 --> 00:25:24,759
Mr. Owen, how do the tests compare?
475
00:25:24,891 --> 00:25:27,463
Mr. Drake was comparatively
better than Heller.
476
00:25:27,593 --> 00:25:32,035
You mean an experienced subject,
like Heller, didn't do as well as Drake?
477
00:25:32,164 --> 00:25:34,936
Mr. Mason, these figures don't lie.
478
00:25:35,067 --> 00:25:41,079
Dr. Carey, to do so badly,
Mitchell Heller must be really sick.
479
00:25:41,208 --> 00:25:43,208
No. No, he...
480
00:25:45,781 --> 00:25:47,781
He is not sick.
481
00:26:36,036 --> 00:26:38,036
[gasps]
482
00:26:38,573 --> 00:26:40,744
There's a gentleman in blue
guarding the front door.
483
00:26:40,876 --> 00:26:42,876
Would you like to try to explain to him
what you're doing here
484
00:26:42,979 --> 00:26:45,217
and what you're looking for?
485
00:26:45,348 --> 00:26:47,518
l've been following you for two hours,
486
00:26:47,651 --> 00:26:49,955
and, lady, you've led me
a merry little chase.
487
00:26:50,086 --> 00:26:51,780
Who are you, and what do you want?
488
00:26:51,822 --> 00:26:53,993
l'm a private detective,
and l don't want anything,
489
00:26:54,124 --> 00:26:56,762
but the man l work for, Perry Mason,
would like to talk to you.
490
00:26:56,894 --> 00:26:58,019
Well, l don't want to talk...
491
00:26:58,061 --> 00:27:00,232
Ah-ah-ah-ah...
The Law, remember?
492
00:27:04,068 --> 00:27:07,910
l consider Mr. Drake's behavior
inexcusably high-handed,
493
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,801
little short of criminal.
494
00:27:09,843 --> 00:27:12,982
Mrs. Winslow, l thoroughly agree with you.
495
00:27:13,112 --> 00:27:14,472
Report him to the police,
496
00:27:14,514 --> 00:27:18,054
or better still
contact the District Attor'ney directly.
497
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,725
Well, as long as l'm here,
l suppose l may as well talk to you.
498
00:27:22,857 --> 00:27:25,730
There are a lot of questions
l'd like to ask you
499
00:27:25,861 --> 00:27:29,735
concerning your relationship
to Heller and General Brand,
500
00:27:29,865 --> 00:27:31,936
but before we get to that,
501
00:27:32,067 --> 00:27:34,539
l'm curious as to why you were at the lodge.
502
00:27:35,571 --> 00:27:38,009
- What were you looking for?
- Looking for?
503
00:27:38,141 --> 00:27:40,134
Could it have been
the Redemption Agreement
504
00:27:40,176 --> 00:27:42,069
Winslow Aeronautics prepared
505
00:27:42,111 --> 00:27:44,149
for signature by you and your late husband?
506
00:27:44,281 --> 00:27:46,241
l don't know what you're talking about.
507
00:27:46,283 --> 00:27:48,420
[Drake]
Mrs. Winslow, for three years now,
508
00:27:48,553 --> 00:27:51,158
another company has been trying
to buy into and take over
509
00:27:51,289 --> 00:27:52,615
Winslow Aeronautics,
510
00:27:52,657 --> 00:27:55,362
and for that single outstanding
and controlling block of stock
511
00:27:55,493 --> 00:27:57,531
your husband owned,
they'd pay double the market value.
512
00:27:57,663 --> 00:27:59,767
[Mason]
If you and your husband
513
00:27:59,899 --> 00:28:02,872
signed the still-missing original
of that Redemption Agreement,
514
00:28:02,936 --> 00:28:06,643
and that signed agreement now exists,
515
00:28:06,773 --> 00:28:09,813
it is valid and binding on his estate.
516
00:28:09,944 --> 00:28:12,181
Winslow Aeronautics would pay,
through his estate,
517
00:28:12,312 --> 00:28:14,884
the market value of that stock... $1 million.
518
00:28:15,017 --> 00:28:17,017
And if you had the agreement,
519
00:28:17,086 --> 00:28:19,190
it would be to your advantage to destroy it,
520
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,281
then wait for the estate to leave probate,
521
00:28:21,323 --> 00:28:23,861
and sell the stock to this other company
for $2 million.
522
00:28:23,993 --> 00:28:26,263
[Mason]
If the agreement hasn't been destroyed,
523
00:28:26,395 --> 00:28:28,088
if somebody else has it,
524
00:28:28,130 --> 00:28:29,624
then that somebody else
525
00:28:29,666 --> 00:28:31,770
is in a perfect spot to hold you up,
526
00:28:31,902 --> 00:28:34,239
to make you the perfect target for extortion.
527
00:28:34,370 --> 00:28:36,441
Now, who has the agreement?
528
00:28:36,574 --> 00:28:38,100
Wha...
529
00:28:38,142 --> 00:28:40,142
[Tragg]
We do, Perry.
530
00:28:40,912 --> 00:28:43,984
l was telling Andy it pays
to make visits to your omice...
531
00:28:44,116 --> 00:28:45,241
unannounced.
532
00:28:45,283 --> 00:28:47,143
You know, he's... he's right.
533
00:28:47,185 --> 00:28:49,990
We don't actually have the agreement,
only a photostat.
534
00:28:50,123 --> 00:28:51,882
The District Attorney has the original,
535
00:28:51,924 --> 00:28:54,462
which didn't quite burn up
in the lodge fireplace,
536
00:28:54,594 --> 00:28:56,665
where somebody tossed it
the night of General Brand's murder.
537
00:28:56,797 --> 00:28:59,869
We expected that someone
might come back to the lodge.
538
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,844
That seemingly indimerent policeman
at the door was just a decoy.
539
00:29:04,906 --> 00:29:06,699
You saw us there?
540
00:29:06,741 --> 00:29:08,035
And heard you
541
00:29:08,077 --> 00:29:10,347
and followed you and Mrs. Winslow.
542
00:29:10,478 --> 00:29:11,572
By the way, Paul,
543
00:29:11,614 --> 00:29:13,884
Mitch Heller hired you to find
some stolen papers,
544
00:29:14,016 --> 00:29:16,020
drawings, l think, didn't he?
545
00:29:16,153 --> 00:29:19,760
Tragg, forget those drawings.
546
00:29:19,890 --> 00:29:22,094
lf the original
of that Redemption Agreement...
547
00:29:22,225 --> 00:29:24,529
The extortion agreement,
548
00:29:24,661 --> 00:29:27,834
a million dollars' worth of extortion,
l think you said.
549
00:29:27,965 --> 00:29:29,825
What about that, Perry?
550
00:29:29,867 --> 00:29:32,807
Well, if it was thrown into the fireplace,
why didn't it burn?
551
00:29:32,938 --> 00:29:37,547
lt was protected inside a heavy
manila Winslow Aeronautics envelope.
552
00:29:37,676 --> 00:29:40,749
With Mitchell Heller's name,
in his own writing,
553
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,652
over the company name in the corner.
554
00:29:50,090 --> 00:29:54,867
Dr. Carey, you heard the testimony of the
psychiatrist appointed by this Court,
555
00:29:54,996 --> 00:29:57,066
in which Mitchell Heller, the defendant,
556
00:29:57,199 --> 00:30:00,606
was found sane now,
sane at the time of the murder
557
00:30:00,735 --> 00:30:02,735
and competent at that time,
558
00:30:02,838 --> 00:30:05,309
to dimerentiate between right and wrong.
559
00:30:05,441 --> 00:30:09,415
l ask you both as a doctor
and as Board-Certified Psychologist
560
00:30:09,545 --> 00:30:11,545
if you agree with that opinion?
561
00:30:11,648 --> 00:30:12,741
Yes.
562
00:30:12,783 --> 00:30:15,188
[Burger]
We have omered this medical testimony,
563
00:30:15,319 --> 00:30:16,478
Your Honor
564
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,793
not to anticipate
a plea of insanity from the defense,
565
00:30:19,924 --> 00:30:23,631
but as a means of proving that,
as the psychiatrist also testified,
566
00:30:23,761 --> 00:30:27,502
Mitchell Heller, the defendant,
was at the time of the crime
567
00:30:27,633 --> 00:30:30,972
not only sane, but emotionally disturbed.
568
00:30:31,104 --> 00:30:33,064
Do you agree, Doctor,
569
00:30:33,106 --> 00:30:36,546
that the defendant felt he had been
a victim of great injustice
570
00:30:36,676 --> 00:30:38,676
at the hands of General Brand?
571
00:30:38,745 --> 00:30:40,471
Yes, but...
572
00:30:40,513 --> 00:30:43,352
Would you say that defendant
573
00:30:43,484 --> 00:30:47,058
harbored unreasonable hatred
against General Brand?
574
00:30:47,189 --> 00:30:49,226
Well, not exactly.
You see...
575
00:30:49,357 --> 00:30:50,450
Excuse me.
576
00:30:50,492 --> 00:30:54,433
l ask you, as a trained psychologist,
577
00:30:54,563 --> 00:30:58,304
fully aware of the meaning
of the word ''hate,''
578
00:30:58,433 --> 00:31:02,108
did Mitchell Heller hate
General Addison Brand?
579
00:31:03,741 --> 00:31:05,634
Yes.
580
00:31:05,676 --> 00:31:07,713
lf anything,
Mitch Heller hated the General
581
00:31:07,845 --> 00:31:09,848
even more than he had in the Air Force.
582
00:31:09,981 --> 00:31:11,573
Yes, but Miss Faye,
583
00:31:11,615 --> 00:31:13,820
you were in love with General Brand.
584
00:31:13,952 --> 00:31:16,590
Don't you think it's possible
that your involvement with the decedent
585
00:31:16,721 --> 00:31:21,832
could color your memory about the man
who here stands charged with his murder?
586
00:31:21,961 --> 00:31:23,754
Why, certainly not.
587
00:31:23,796 --> 00:31:26,736
Everybody knew that Heller hated
the General.
588
00:31:27,768 --> 00:31:30,840
lf the Redemption Agreement
were turned over to the Board of Directors,
589
00:31:30,971 --> 00:31:34,278
Mrs. Winslow would receive,
through the probated estate,
590
00:31:34,408 --> 00:31:37,381
approximately $1 million
for her late husband's stock,
591
00:31:37,512 --> 00:31:41,653
but if that agreement were...
were not found,
592
00:31:41,784 --> 00:31:44,456
the stock itself would revert
to Mrs. Winslow.
593
00:31:44,586 --> 00:31:47,758
Another company was prepared to
pay her $2 million for the stock.
594
00:31:47,890 --> 00:31:50,896
ln other words,
whoever had that Redemption Agreement
595
00:31:51,027 --> 00:31:55,136
had a piece of paper worth
a million dollars to Bonnie Winslow.
596
00:31:55,266 --> 00:31:59,040
Phillip Winslow
died of a heart attack in his omice
597
00:31:59,170 --> 00:32:02,777
within hours after getting
his wife's signature on that agreement,
598
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,011
and yet the signed agreement
599
00:32:05,143 --> 00:32:06,503
was not found in his omice
600
00:32:06,545 --> 00:32:08,545
when it was searched the following day.
601
00:32:08,613 --> 00:32:11,618
Who found Phillip Winslow dead?
602
00:32:11,750 --> 00:32:13,955
Who waited with him in Winslow's own omice
603
00:32:14,087 --> 00:32:16,087
until the doctor arrived?
604
00:32:18,491 --> 00:32:20,491
The defendant, Mitchell Heller.
605
00:32:23,130 --> 00:32:26,670
The afternoon of the murder
l received an unsigned note
606
00:32:26,801 --> 00:32:28,493
typed on company stationery,
607
00:32:28,535 --> 00:32:31,475
saying that the writer
had the missing agreement
608
00:32:31,606 --> 00:32:33,911
and omered to turn it over to me
609
00:32:33,944 --> 00:32:35,736
for half a million dollars.
610
00:32:35,778 --> 00:32:37,339
[Burger]
What did you do, Mrs. Winslow?
611
00:32:37,381 --> 00:32:39,381
l told General Brand about the note.
612
00:32:39,482 --> 00:32:42,989
He thought he knew
who the extortionist was.
613
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,546
He said he'd call me later.
614
00:32:44,588 --> 00:32:45,880
[Burger]
And did he call you?
615
00:32:45,922 --> 00:32:48,861
[Bonnie]
Yes, he said he had contacted the extortionist...
616
00:32:48,993 --> 00:32:50,418
he didn't tell me who he was...-
617
00:32:50,460 --> 00:32:53,934
but that the extortionist
was coming over, later, to the lodge.
618
00:32:54,065 --> 00:32:58,174
He promised to get back the agreement
and... and destroy it.
619
00:32:58,303 --> 00:33:00,303
[Burger]
Cross-examine.
620
00:33:02,741 --> 00:33:04,741
''Destroy''?
621
00:33:04,811 --> 00:33:07,449
Did you say General Brand promised
to destroy that agreement?
622
00:33:07,580 --> 00:33:10,085
Yes. You see, by then the General and l
623
00:33:10,217 --> 00:33:14,191
had begun to see, well, eye-to-eye
on certain matters.
624
00:33:14,321 --> 00:33:16,156
[Mason]
Mrs. Winslow,
625
00:33:16,157 --> 00:33:18,963
when the General called back,
a few hours before his death,
626
00:33:19,094 --> 00:33:23,970
are you sure he said nothing at all
to indicate the identity of the extortionist?
627
00:33:24,099 --> 00:33:26,099
[Bonnie]
As a matter of fact, he did, yes.
628
00:33:26,202 --> 00:33:28,506
He said he thought he knew
who the man was
629
00:33:28,638 --> 00:33:30,638
because he knew him from the Air Force.
630
00:33:31,375 --> 00:33:33,375
[Mason]
No further questions.
631
00:33:34,677 --> 00:33:37,115
''The fireplace,
in addition to log and kindling ash,
632
00:33:37,247 --> 00:33:39,518
contained residue of cigarette butts,
633
00:33:39,650 --> 00:33:40,950
one burnt button,
634
00:33:40,951 --> 00:33:45,528
one folded-over scorched aluminum strip,
5#8 x 3 1#2 inches,
635
00:33:45,657 --> 00:33:48,729
a partially burnt
8 1#2 x 1 1 inch manila envelope,
636
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:53,804
and the scorched and smoke-smudged paper
inside that envelope.
637
00:33:53,933 --> 00:33:56,371
The paper was
the signed Redemption Agreement.
638
00:33:56,502 --> 00:33:59,007
The envelope containing it
was from Winslow Aeronautics,
639
00:33:59,139 --> 00:34:02,446
with a handwritten signature
in the upper left-hand corner...
640
00:34:02,576 --> 00:34:06,116
the signature of the defendant,
Mitchell Heller.
641
00:34:07,281 --> 00:34:08,507
[Burger]
Mr. Young, picture ''A''
642
00:34:08,549 --> 00:34:09,842
is the one taken by you.
643
00:34:09,884 --> 00:34:11,989
Picture ''B'' was taken by the police later.
644
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:13,579
ln his statement to the police,
645
00:34:13,621 --> 00:34:16,327
the defendant claims that the lodge
was in perfect order
646
00:34:16,459 --> 00:34:19,464
when he talked with the decedent,
General Brand, at 9:OO.
647
00:34:19,595 --> 00:34:22,935
Mitch Heller couldn't talk
to the General at 9:OO.
648
00:34:23,066 --> 00:34:25,066
The General was dead.
649
00:34:26,437 --> 00:34:29,342
[Burger]
As standard procedure in stress tests,
650
00:34:29,473 --> 00:34:32,078
a complete tape recording
is made of everything said,
651
00:34:32,209 --> 00:34:35,282
including what the test subject himself says.
652
00:34:35,413 --> 00:34:38,520
During the test that you conducted
on the day of the murder,
653
00:34:38,650 --> 00:34:42,524
it was possible for the defendant,
Mitchell Heller, inside the chamber
654
00:34:42,654 --> 00:34:46,696
to hear every single word
that was uttered by General Brand.
655
00:34:46,826 --> 00:34:51,870
That day's tapes, authenticated
by yourself and by your assistants,
656
00:34:51,999 --> 00:34:55,406
also included what the defendant said
at that time.
657
00:34:55,537 --> 00:34:58,209
Would you read for us, please,
658
00:34:58,339 --> 00:35:02,080
the marked passage
from this transcript of your tape recording.
659
00:35:03,077 --> 00:35:05,038
''General Brand's voice...
660
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:08,052
'Miss Faye, notify the legal department
661
00:35:08,183 --> 00:35:10,521
'Mr. Heller's services services
as a test astronaut
662
00:35:10,653 --> 00:35:14,661
'are no longer needed
at Winslow Aeronautics, as of today#
663
00:35:14,791 --> 00:35:17,028
''Mitchell Heller's voice... 'l...'''
664
00:35:20,331 --> 00:35:22,331
[Burger]
Go on, Mr. Owen...
665
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,438
read us what Mitchell Heller said.
666
00:35:25,836 --> 00:35:27,836
''Mitchell Heller's voice...
667
00:35:28,807 --> 00:35:32,848
'l'll kill you.
So help me, Brand...
668
00:35:34,646 --> 00:35:36,646
l'll kill you.'''
669
00:35:40,653 --> 00:35:42,757
- l'll have no part of it!
- Why, you in...
670
00:35:42,889 --> 00:35:44,416
l warned you.
Don't try to force me!
671
00:35:44,458 --> 00:35:46,458
- Force you?
- l'll have no part of it!
672
00:35:48,662 --> 00:35:50,662
[door slams]
673
00:35:53,735 --> 00:35:55,496
Frightened by the threat of exposure
674
00:35:55,538 --> 00:35:57,943
in his attempt to extort
half a million dollars
675
00:35:58,074 --> 00:35:59,900
from Mrs. Bonnie Winslow,
676
00:35:59,942 --> 00:36:03,716
the defendant, Mitchell Heller
kept his appointment at the lodge.
677
00:36:03,779 --> 00:36:05,606
When General Brand took from him
678
00:36:05,648 --> 00:36:08,420
the envelope containing
the Redemption Agreement
679
00:36:08,553 --> 00:36:11,292
and threw it in the fire,
the two men struggled,
680
00:36:11,422 --> 00:36:12,847
and during that struggle,
681
00:36:12,889 --> 00:36:18,268
the defendant, Mitchell Heller
shot and killed General Addison Brand.
682
00:36:18,397 --> 00:36:20,567
Your Honor
683
00:36:20,698 --> 00:36:23,738
l move that the defendant
be bound over for trial at Superior Court
684
00:36:23,869 --> 00:36:25,869
on a charge of murder in the first degree.
685
00:36:25,971 --> 00:36:29,211
Before l rule on the motion
by the prosecution,
686
00:36:29,342 --> 00:36:32,515
is it your intention
to present a defense, Mr. Mason?
687
00:36:32,647 --> 00:36:34,647
[door opens]
688
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,592
Yes, Your Honor
we shall present a def'ense.
689
00:36:42,723 --> 00:36:43,883
We waive opening statement.
690
00:36:43,925 --> 00:36:47,899
As my first witness,
l call Lieutenant Arthur Tragg.
691
00:36:48,030 --> 00:36:50,030
What?
692
00:36:51,034 --> 00:36:52,960
Lieutenant Tragg,
693
00:36:53,002 --> 00:36:55,239
did we have an appointment
during the noon recess,
694
00:36:55,372 --> 00:36:56,998
to discuss some evidence in this case?
695
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,180
Yes, we were supposed to meet
in the Interview Room,
696
00:37:00,310 --> 00:37:02,104
at the end of the hall.
697
00:37:02,146 --> 00:37:05,219
When l got there,
you were in the washroom.
698
00:37:05,283 --> 00:37:08,489
You said you'd changed your mind
and would see me in court.
699
00:37:08,621 --> 00:37:09,647
What time was this?
700
00:37:09,689 --> 00:37:11,689
12:30.
701
00:37:12,625 --> 00:37:14,796
Would you look
at this early afternoon paper?
702
00:37:16,663 --> 00:37:19,435
There was an altercation
in the Interview Room.
703
00:37:19,566 --> 00:37:22,004
The reporters escorted me
to the Court Clerk's omice,
704
00:37:22,135 --> 00:37:23,762
where l checked the hearing transcript,
705
00:37:23,804 --> 00:37:26,342
and stayed there with me
from 12:15 to 12:45.
706
00:37:26,474 --> 00:37:28,474
That's impossible.
707
00:37:28,576 --> 00:37:32,083
l spoke to you myself,
in that Interview Room at 12:30.
708
00:37:32,213 --> 00:37:34,251
lmpossible?
709
00:37:34,383 --> 00:37:36,453
You could have mistaken my voice.
710
00:37:36,585 --> 00:37:38,211
Let's check it.
711
00:37:38,253 --> 00:37:40,858
l'm going to the far end of the courtroom
and speak to you.
712
00:37:41,857 --> 00:37:44,462
Close your eyes, Lieutenant Tragg,
and listen.
713
00:37:48,932 --> 00:37:51,037
l've changed my mind.
Sorry, Tragg.
714
00:37:51,168 --> 00:37:52,461
l'll see you in court later.
715
00:37:52,503 --> 00:37:54,430
That was your voice
716
00:37:54,472 --> 00:37:56,332
and the exact words you used
717
00:37:56,374 --> 00:37:59,313
when you spoke to me from the washroom.
718
00:37:59,444 --> 00:38:01,444
Listen again.
719
00:38:03,616 --> 00:38:05,041
[Mason's voice]
l've changed my mind.
720
00:38:05,083 --> 00:38:08,457
Sorry, Tragg.
l'll see you in court later.
721
00:38:08,588 --> 00:38:12,363
The whole incident
was staged for your benefit, Tragg.
722
00:38:12,493 --> 00:38:14,152
You never heard me say those words,
723
00:38:14,194 --> 00:38:15,821
not now, not a few moments ago,
724
00:38:15,863 --> 00:38:17,657
and not at 12:30 in the Interview Room.
725
00:38:17,699 --> 00:38:20,036
You were listening to Jamison Sewall,
726
00:38:20,168 --> 00:38:22,168
an actor and impersonator.
727
00:38:22,704 --> 00:38:24,464
[Mason]
With the Court's permission,
728
00:38:24,506 --> 00:38:27,111
we are going to demonstrate
what the defense contends
729
00:38:27,243 --> 00:38:30,549
was the actual sequence of events
on the night of the murder.
730
00:38:30,679 --> 00:38:32,917
Now, Mr. Young,
731
00:38:33,048 --> 00:38:35,453
how would you characterize
the scene at the lodge,
732
00:38:35,585 --> 00:38:39,092
in terms of what happened
prior to your arrival?
733
00:38:39,222 --> 00:38:43,731
l'd say there had been a real lulu
of a knock-down, drag-out fight there.
734
00:38:43,860 --> 00:38:49,539
l have here the two pictures... ''A'' and ''B''.
735
00:38:49,668 --> 00:38:51,872
Now, please look at them.
736
00:38:52,004 --> 00:38:53,864
lf there had been, as you say,
737
00:38:53,906 --> 00:38:56,411
a ''lulu of a knock-down, drag-out fight,''
738
00:38:56,543 --> 00:38:59,282
why isn't there one piece of furniture
in that room broken?
739
00:38:59,412 --> 00:39:03,921
Not the glass lamp bases,
not the light bulbs,
740
00:39:03,983 --> 00:39:06,621
not the ceramic ashtrays.
741
00:39:06,754 --> 00:39:08,715
Now, there is an answer.
742
00:39:08,757 --> 00:39:10,249
The actual murderer
743
00:39:10,291 --> 00:39:13,264
was concerned with more
than the death of General Brand.
744
00:39:13,395 --> 00:39:17,236
He was concerned with involving
Mitchell Heller as the apparent murderer.
745
00:39:17,365 --> 00:39:20,170
Mr. Sewall will portray the murderer,
who parked out of sight,
746
00:39:20,303 --> 00:39:22,908
then entered the lodge
and confronted General Brand.
747
00:39:24,140 --> 00:39:29,049
The murderer had used Heller's gun,
stolen from his locker at the plant, to kill.
748
00:39:29,179 --> 00:39:32,819
Now, he wanted Heller to have
an hallucination,
749
00:39:32,950 --> 00:39:35,220
a delusion, to see something
that didn't exist.
750
00:39:35,353 --> 00:39:38,927
Step two... the murderer sets the stage.
751
00:39:41,727 --> 00:39:42,786
As we shall see,
752
00:39:42,828 --> 00:39:45,901
it would be necessary to have
an exact record of how the stage was set.
753
00:39:46,031 --> 00:39:47,759
That camera takes, and develops,
754
00:39:47,801 --> 00:39:49,838
its own photographs in a matter of seconds.
755
00:40:10,459 --> 00:40:15,570
To prove an hallucination,
you need a witness to reality.
756
00:40:15,698 --> 00:40:18,470
At 8:45, the witness, you, Mr. Young,
757
00:40:18,602 --> 00:40:21,507
keeps his appointment,
an appointment made by the murderer.
758
00:40:21,639 --> 00:40:24,879
You see the room carefully arranged
to suggest a fight,
759
00:40:25,009 --> 00:40:26,803
you see the corpse, you leave.
760
00:40:26,845 --> 00:40:29,350
But the murderer had made
a second appointment...
761
00:40:29,481 --> 00:40:30,940
one for 9:OO.
762
00:40:30,982 --> 00:40:32,375
Now, he must work fast.
763
00:40:32,417 --> 00:40:34,010
Step three...
764
00:40:34,052 --> 00:40:37,024
remove all evidence
of a struggle or a killing.
765
00:40:57,211 --> 00:40:59,316
9:OO, Mitchell Heller
766
00:40:59,448 --> 00:41:03,389
on time for the appointment made
by the murderer over the phone,
767
00:41:03,452 --> 00:41:05,924
shows up, knocks.
768
00:41:07,022 --> 00:41:08,516
[Brand's voice]
Heller? Come in, come in.
769
00:41:08,558 --> 00:41:10,118
The door's open.
770
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,953
Mind telling me what time it is?
771
00:41:11,995 --> 00:41:14,065
The time is 9:OO.
772
00:41:14,198 --> 00:41:16,368
[Sewall, as Brand]
l tried to reach you, but you'd already left.
773
00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:20,274
l'm expecting someone here.
l'd like to see him alone, if you don't mind.
774
00:41:20,405 --> 00:41:23,244
There's a fine restaurant,
a place called ''The Falcon,'' down the road.
775
00:41:23,375 --> 00:41:25,680
l'll meet you there, in half an hour.
776
00:41:25,812 --> 00:41:27,137
[Mason]
Heller left the lodge,
777
00:41:27,179 --> 00:41:29,005
driving straight toward the oncoming police.
778
00:41:29,047 --> 00:41:31,152
You, Mr. Young, had seen a corpse.
779
00:41:38,892 --> 00:41:40,887
Step four...
780
00:41:40,929 --> 00:41:43,401
using the picture he had taken earlier,
781
00:41:43,531 --> 00:41:48,173
the murderer recreated the exact evidence
of a struggle that never took place.
782
00:41:52,140 --> 00:41:53,634
Now, you, Mr. Young,
783
00:41:53,676 --> 00:41:55,679
returned with the police and with Heller...
784
00:41:55,812 --> 00:41:59,653
a Heller swearing he had just seen
something that obviously wasn't so
785
00:41:59,783 --> 00:42:02,890
and had talked to someone
who was already dead.
786
00:42:22,909 --> 00:42:27,018
This is the negative tab
on the special film this camera uses.
787
00:42:27,147 --> 00:42:28,741
What is it made of, Mr. Young?
788
00:42:28,783 --> 00:42:31,288
Why, it's laminated paper.
That's all.
789
00:42:31,419 --> 00:42:34,124
Paper that should completely burn.
790
00:42:34,255 --> 00:42:36,727
Please strip it apart, Mr. Young.
791
00:42:43,599 --> 00:42:47,506
Now, that is a metal pod,
containing developing chemicals.
792
00:42:47,637 --> 00:42:52,781
Now, this is part of the transcript
of Lieutenant Anderson's testimony.
793
00:42:52,910 --> 00:42:55,315
Please read the underlined portion.
794
00:42:55,446 --> 00:42:58,753
''The fireplace,
in addition to log and kindling ash,
795
00:42:58,883 --> 00:43:02,023
contained residue of cigarette butts,
one burnt button,
796
00:43:02,153 --> 00:43:07,497
one folded-over scorched aluminum strip,
5#8 x 3 1#2 inches.''
797
00:43:15,902 --> 00:43:17,973
Mr. Young,
798
00:43:18,106 --> 00:43:21,446
this is the counterpart
of what you took from the negative tab,
799
00:43:21,576 --> 00:43:25,818
what the murderer mistakenly threw
into the fire, not aware it wouldn't burn.
800
00:43:25,948 --> 00:43:27,373
Would you describe it, please?
801
00:43:27,415 --> 00:43:30,889
Why, it's a folded-over,
scorched aluminum strip...
802
00:43:31,019 --> 00:43:33,992
5#8 x 3 1#2 inches.
803
00:43:37,026 --> 00:43:38,352
[Mason]
From an examination
804
00:43:38,394 --> 00:43:39,587
of the physical facts in the case,
805
00:43:39,629 --> 00:43:42,001
suppose we return now
to the area of motive.
806
00:43:42,133 --> 00:43:44,203
Whoever had stolen
the Redemption Agreement
807
00:43:44,334 --> 00:43:45,794
made no use of it for months,
808
00:43:45,836 --> 00:43:48,976
until the afternoon of the murder
when the extortion note was deliver'ed,
809
00:43:49,107 --> 00:43:52,481
the afternoon, l believe, Mr. Lewis,
you were fired.
810
00:43:52,611 --> 00:43:55,516
Yes, the same afternoon
Mitch Heller was fired.
811
00:43:55,647 --> 00:43:57,240
Mitch Heller
812
00:43:57,282 --> 00:43:59,887
who fitted the General's
only description of the extortionist
813
00:44:00,019 --> 00:44:02,824
because he had served
with him in the Air Force.
814
00:44:02,889 --> 00:44:06,831
Now, l have a full report
as to why you left your last job
815
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:10,767
as public relations man at the Air Base
commanded by General Brand.
816
00:44:10,899 --> 00:44:13,136
All right, so l was caught peddling
817
00:44:13,267 --> 00:44:14,927
advance copies of news releases
818
00:44:14,969 --> 00:44:16,329
to the magazines and fired me.
819
00:44:16,371 --> 00:44:17,563
That doesn't make me a murderer.
820
00:44:17,605 --> 00:44:21,245
Does it make you an extortionist,
Mr. Lewis?
821
00:44:21,376 --> 00:44:24,249
Mitchell Heller sent you
some biographical background material
822
00:44:24,380 --> 00:44:26,074
you had asked for.
823
00:44:26,116 --> 00:44:29,857
How did it come to your omice,
in what kind of container, Mr. Lewis?
824
00:44:29,986 --> 00:44:32,257
Well, it was a company envelope with...
825
00:44:32,389 --> 00:44:35,696
A company envelope
with his signature on it?
826
00:44:35,826 --> 00:44:39,166
Was that the envelope in which you
inadvertently, or deliberately,
827
00:44:39,297 --> 00:44:40,689
carried the Redemption Agreement
828
00:44:40,731 --> 00:44:42,525
when you kept your appointment
with General Brand.
829
00:44:42,567 --> 00:44:44,226
But that appointment was for T:30.
830
00:44:44,268 --> 00:44:45,662
l was out of the lodge by 8:OO.
831
00:44:45,704 --> 00:44:48,443
Brand grabbed the envelope away from me
and through it into the fire,
832
00:44:48,574 --> 00:44:50,645
but l swear to you, l didn't kill him!
833
00:44:50,777 --> 00:44:52,335
[Mason]
The killer had to be someone
834
00:44:52,377 --> 00:44:54,105
who knew in advance that General Brand
835
00:44:54,147 --> 00:44:55,706
was coming to take over the company.
836
00:44:55,748 --> 00:44:57,341
Now, who knew that, Mr. Lewis?
837
00:44:57,383 --> 00:44:59,955
Gordon Kendall, he knew,
and Mrs. Winslow.
838
00:45:00,087 --> 00:45:03,694
- And you?
- No! No, l didn't know.
839
00:45:03,757 --> 00:45:07,364
Yes, Eddie Lewis did know in advance
General Brand had been employed.
840
00:45:07,495 --> 00:45:09,088
He told me about it.
841
00:45:09,130 --> 00:45:11,836
That's a lie.
He's lying.
842
00:45:11,968 --> 00:45:13,894
- Silence, silence...
- l didn't know. l tell you, he's lying.
843
00:45:13,936 --> 00:45:16,206
- Bailim, silence that man.
- Yes, he's ly...
844
00:45:16,339 --> 00:45:18,339
He is lying.
845
00:45:20,877 --> 00:45:22,236
[Mason]
May l suggest, Mr. Owen,
846
00:45:22,278 --> 00:45:24,139
that your memory may be at fault,
847
00:45:24,181 --> 00:45:27,655
that it wasn't Eddie Lewis who told you
the General had been hired,
848
00:45:27,785 --> 00:45:30,857
but rather the Chairman of the Board
at Winslow Aeronautics?
849
00:45:30,989 --> 00:45:33,361
l have this deposition.
850
00:45:33,491 --> 00:45:34,550
Now, would you tell me,
851
00:45:34,592 --> 00:45:36,019
or shall l read to the court,
852
00:45:36,061 --> 00:45:38,633
what else the Chairman of the Board
told you?
853
00:45:38,764 --> 00:45:42,839
Well, he said he wasn't satisfied
with my work as Project Chief.
854
00:45:42,969 --> 00:45:45,206
And that you... you, Mr. Owen,
855
00:45:45,337 --> 00:45:47,742
were responsible
for the delay in Project Moonstone?
856
00:45:47,874 --> 00:45:49,874
That's ridiculous.
857
00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:51,645
Every department was delayed
858
00:45:51,646 --> 00:45:53,138
because of the test results.
859
00:45:53,180 --> 00:45:56,220
The truth is that the entire project
was badly mismanaged
860
00:45:56,350 --> 00:45:58,888
before those test results became unreliable.
861
00:45:59,021 --> 00:46:00,814
You knew it,
you knew it was your fault,
862
00:46:00,856 --> 00:46:02,115
and you tried to protect yourself.
863
00:46:02,157 --> 00:46:03,992
lt wasn't Heller's performance,
864
00:46:03,993 --> 00:46:06,030
but your deliberate tampering
with the equipment,
865
00:46:06,162 --> 00:46:08,600
that produced faulty results,
isn't that true, Mr. Owen,
866
00:46:08,731 --> 00:46:12,371
little or no prospects of another job
after being fired?
867
00:46:12,502 --> 00:46:14,096
lt was then, wasn't it, Mr. Owen,
868
00:46:14,138 --> 00:46:15,163
you decided to steal
869
00:46:15,205 --> 00:46:17,777
the radically new
electronic remote control valve
870
00:46:17,908 --> 00:46:19,501
Mitchell Heller had invented?
871
00:46:19,543 --> 00:46:21,748
l had to have it, Mr. Mason.
872
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,305
Those tampered-with tests,
873
00:46:23,347 --> 00:46:24,841
hopefully made to protect your job,
874
00:46:24,883 --> 00:46:26,676
could serve an alternate function.
875
00:46:26,718 --> 00:46:29,958
They could prove Heller
mentally incompetent,
876
00:46:30,089 --> 00:46:33,563
poor Mitchell Heller,
saluting nobody in an empty room.
877
00:46:33,693 --> 00:46:35,186
That room wasn't empty.
878
00:46:35,228 --> 00:46:36,821
You framed that episode,
879
00:46:36,863 --> 00:46:38,690
as you framed the other episodes,
to discredit him.
880
00:46:38,732 --> 00:46:40,732
Suddenly, with General Brand's arrival,
881
00:46:40,834 --> 00:46:43,239
your entire plan threatened
to explode in your face.
882
00:46:43,370 --> 00:46:46,209
Mitchell Heller wasn't the only one
who knew of that invention, now, was he?
883
00:46:50,611 --> 00:46:52,611
[Owen]
No.
884
00:46:53,449 --> 00:46:54,875
No.
885
00:46:54,917 --> 00:46:57,155
Brand knew.
886
00:46:57,287 --> 00:46:59,792
ln the Army,
Heller had requested Brand's permission
887
00:46:59,923 --> 00:47:03,130
to have a model built and tested.
888
00:47:03,194 --> 00:47:04,552
Part of the bad feeling
889
00:47:04,594 --> 00:47:07,600
was due to Brand's having turned down
that request.
890
00:47:07,732 --> 00:47:10,270
Well, if Brand was dead
891
00:47:10,401 --> 00:47:13,440
and a psychotic Heller
was convicted of his murder
892
00:47:13,571 --> 00:47:16,878
why, then, no one would know
there was an invention
893
00:47:17,008 --> 00:47:18,535
or that it had been stolen.
894
00:47:18,577 --> 00:47:21,082
The entire murder plan, the time schedule,
895
00:47:21,214 --> 00:47:23,107
the created illusions...
896
00:47:23,149 --> 00:47:27,057
all designed to fit the hallucinatory
psychotic image of Heller you had built,
897
00:47:27,187 --> 00:47:30,092
designed to convict another man
of the murder you committed.
898
00:47:31,291 --> 00:47:34,531
l had nothing against General Brand,
believe me.
899
00:47:34,661 --> 00:47:37,834
l hardly knew the man,
900
00:47:37,966 --> 00:47:40,070
but l had to kill him
901
00:47:40,201 --> 00:47:42,941
and put the blame on Mitch.
902
00:47:43,072 --> 00:47:45,072
l had to kill him.
903
00:47:47,476 --> 00:47:49,476
Don't you see, Mr. Mason?
904
00:47:51,248 --> 00:47:53,248
Don't you see?
905
00:47:59,991 --> 00:48:01,183
[machine whirring]
906
00:48:01,225 --> 00:48:03,964
Acceleration 5 G's and holding.
907
00:48:04,028 --> 00:48:07,101
lnterior temperature 100 degrees.
Mark.
908
00:48:24,685 --> 00:48:26,685
All right, you can shut it down now.
909
00:48:31,126 --> 00:48:35,068
l think you like it,
being on this end of the tests.
910
00:48:35,198 --> 00:48:38,304
Chief of the Human Factors Section.
911
00:48:38,434 --> 00:48:39,927
Poor Owen, he was prophetic
912
00:48:39,969 --> 00:48:42,374
when he enticed me out to the lodge
to talk over the job.
913
00:48:47,211 --> 00:48:48,637
Mr. Mason,
914
00:48:48,679 --> 00:48:51,317
that actor, Sewall, you used in court,
was fantastically good,
915
00:48:51,449 --> 00:48:54,923
but how did Matt Owen fool Mitch
and Bruce Young on the phone?
916
00:48:55,053 --> 00:48:56,946
He had me fooled at the lodge, too.
917
00:48:56,988 --> 00:48:58,548
l could've sworn
that was the General's voice.
918
00:48:58,590 --> 00:49:01,095
lt's amazing what hidden talents
people have.
919
00:49:01,227 --> 00:49:03,086
He just happen to possess the wrong ones.
920
00:49:03,128 --> 00:49:05,466
You ought to know what hidden talents are,
Mr. Astronaut.
921
00:49:05,598 --> 00:49:08,537
Hey, l didn't do too badly
on that test, did l?
922
00:49:08,668 --> 00:49:09,894
Well, now,
923
00:49:09,936 --> 00:49:11,496
if you like it so much...
924
00:49:11,538 --> 00:49:13,332
l'm sure it could be arranged.
925
00:49:13,374 --> 00:49:15,946
Give you another and dimerent ride.
926
00:49:16,077 --> 00:49:18,077
What do you say, Paul?
927
00:49:22,851 --> 00:49:26,391
[gibbers, squeals]
928
00:49:26,523 --> 00:49:29,362
Well, if l'm not back in time for the test,
929
00:49:29,492 --> 00:49:31,492
just start without me.
930
00:49:42,507 --> 00:49:45,512
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