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[Woman]Tonight on Murder, She Wrote.
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He was in bedwith another man's wife.
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This case is not
as simple as it seems.
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This is a man's life we're deciding.
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And most of us here are
of a mind to let him keep it.
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This jury has just been hung
by this gentleman with the open mind.
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I mean, we're 12 reasonably
intelligent people here.
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We oughta be able
to sort this thing out.
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If it wasn't premeditated,
then it had to be self-defense. There's nothing else.
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But there is something else.
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- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
have you reached a verdict? - We have, Your Honor.
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[Police Radio Chatter]
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Get- Get through.
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Get through.
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Watch out.
Watch out. Easy.
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Careful. Watch it.
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Careful, now.
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I'm all right. I'm all right.
Take care of her. Take care of her. Don't move.
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[Groaning]
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Use that wreckerto get that car out ofhere now.
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I should have made her
wear the seat belt. I should've made her.
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She never wanted to wear her seat belt.
She always felt like she was gonna be trapped.
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Babe, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
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Oh, she's not-
She's not going to die, is she?
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Steph, I'm sorry.
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She isn't gonna die, is she?
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[Groans]
I don't understand-
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Why?
It was the kid. It was the kid on the bike.
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I swerved to avoid him.
Oh, my God.
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It was my fault.
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Oh, it should have been me.It should have been me.
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When can I talk to her?
Well, we'll know more about that in the morning.
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The paramedic said
you fractured your collarbone.
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No, it's all right.
I'm all right.
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All right. Well, if you'd
like to be with her-
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No. No, I can't-
I can't look at her knowing that I'm the one that-
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I understand that.
Well, if she does regain consciousness,
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it won't be for,
oh, several hours.
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Look, Mr. Reynolds, your wifehas a good chance of surviving,
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but, well, I'm afraid
she may never walk again.
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There was severe spinal damage.
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I'm sorry.
Oh, my God.
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Oh, my God!
Mr. Reynolds!
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Oh, wow!
Hey, pal, you been in an accident?
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Give me a shot
of scotch, will ya? Are you sure you're all right?
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Hey, Jerry, give me
a clean towel, okay?
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You look awful.
What happened?
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He called it- accident.
Anybody else hurt?
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Yeah. Someone else was hurt.
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It was my-
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This little kid was so scared.
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I mean, I missed him by- by that.
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And he just took off
and never looked back.
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If my wife lives, the doctor
said she'll never walk again.
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And I did it to her.
No, you can't think that.
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Who's that
with Becky Anderson? What'll it be, Mr. Detweiler?
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She's a pip, isn't she?
Her old man would be climbin' the walls if-
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Look, the guy was
in an automobile accident.
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His wife was almost killed.
Now, can I get you somethin'?
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Yeah, a beer.
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You know, I used to race
sports cars. A-And Stephanie used to come watch me.
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I should've been able
to handle that spinout.
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Now, you've gotta stop
blamin' yourself.
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No, an automobile's
a dangerous thing.
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You know,
I always buckled up. She never did.
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You wife would be the last person
to blame you for what happened.
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Thanks.
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Oh, my gosh.
Look at the time.
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I've got to go.
Oh.
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Can I drive you back to the hospital?
Oh, no, no. That's the last thing l-
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I can't face my wife until the morning.
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Could a friendly neighborhood stranger
offer to make you a cup of coffee?
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No, thanks.
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Well, as a matter of fact,
I'd be very grateful.
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Good night, Becky.
Good night.
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Thanks.
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Ah, well, ain't that somethin'?
What's that, Mr. Detweiler?
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Well, if I were to give it a name,
I'd call it the sympathy jump in the making.
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I didn't see nothin'.
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Open me one more,
Jerry, will ya? I'll be right back.
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[Phone Ringing]
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- Yeah?
- Yeah, Willie? Johnny Detweiler.
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- Cliff still stayin' with you?
- Yeah.
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Detweiler.
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[Sighs]
Hello, creep. What's new?
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What are you talkin' about?
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Real good lookin', got-rocks type.
She's takin' him home now.
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What'd he call for?
Becky's picked up some guy.
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- What?
- Trial separation, she says.
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I'm gonna kill that broad!
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[Gavel Pounding]
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
you have heard the evidence.
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And the time has come for you
to deliberate on your verdict.
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It is your sworn duty
to determine if the defendant,
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Mark Lee Reynolds,
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is guilty as the prosecution chargesof criminal homicide,
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or, as the defense contends,innocent,
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in that he killedClifford Anderson in self-defense.
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Now, your responsibilityis to so determine,
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based solely on the evidenceand testimony presented.
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And when you are in accordance,
Madam Foreman,
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you shall deliveryour verdict to the court.
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Bailiff, you'll escort the jury
to the jury room for deliberation.
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Court is recessed
till the verdict's been reached.
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That homicide charge is as
full of holes as a wheel of Swiss cheese.
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Open and shut.
We could be out of here by 4:30.
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I thought a murder trial
would take weeks.
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Long as the county's payin',
let's order lunch.
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We won't have time to eat it.
[Clears Throat]
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Mr. Bentley, please,
may I call you Thornton?
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You can call me Margo.
I'm a widow.
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Ally Collins. Single, thanks.
How do we get some coffee?
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It's over here.
Excuse me. Excuse me, everyone.
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Please, we do have a foreperson.
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Oh, thank you, Jackie.
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I have to warn you that I have never
been a jury foreperson before.
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Fraid this case ain't gonna
let ya be one for long, Mrs. Fletcher.
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Well, however long it takes,
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I hope you will all help me
to make the job as easy as possible.
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Madam Foreman, if I may-
Please.
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I think that we are all
pretty much of the same mind.
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So the job really doesn't call
for much more than our vote.
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Well, don't you think we should
examine the, uh, evidence first?
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The evidence says
he's innocent of homicide.
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He's guilty of one thing-picking the wrong time and placeto go to bed with another man's wife.
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You ride right over
that fact, Narramore.
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He was in bed
with another man's wife.
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- And he killed him
when he walked in on them. - In self-defense!
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Oh, yes.About that.
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There's one or two points there
that I don't quite understand. I'm not quite clear about.
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Can I please make a point?This case is nothing but...
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a great big sales pitch
by a politically ambitious district attorney.
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As I tell 'em on my radio show-
it's the product that counts, not the package.
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Well, product or package,
I'm not buying either one.
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The point is that this case
should never have come to trial.
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Then let's vote. At least we'll know
how close we are to a verdict.
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Yes, I think that might be
a very helpful idea.
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Uh, Frank, how should we go about-
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It's very simple. I think all we do
is write down our verdict.
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I'll collect 'em.
And you can count 'em.
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Very well. Shall we, uh-
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Here we are.
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Nine to two for acquittal
and one undecided.
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Seems we're not too farfrom an agreement.
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Why do I get the feeling
we're going to be here for a while?
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Maybe it won't seem so long
once we get started.
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Started?
Start where?
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Well, we could begin with
Mark Reynolds's testimony.
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I'd say that's
a very good place to start.
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Oh, fine! Which part
of his testimony?
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Well, how about where
his attorney asked him-
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Mark, what did you feel
when Dr. Webster told you...
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if your wife lived,
she'd be paralyzed? [Exhales]
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I felt, um, guilty.
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And I felt... lost.
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Empty.
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What did you intend
when you ran out of the hospital?
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I don't know.
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Um-
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I know I wanted to die.
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But you went to a bar.
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[Mark]Well, I ended up in a bar.
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Will you tell the court
why you went there?
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To drink.
To get drunk.
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And, uh,
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to drown out... reality.
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My golly, in my day,
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I did a lot of that,
but for different reasons.
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I don't think anybody
could call that unusual.
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Well, under those circumstances,
you're probably right.
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But remember the district attorney's
question in cross-examination?
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Why that bar, Mr. Reynolds?
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Between the hospital and the Last Resort,
there are six places where you could have drowned your guilt.
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- Why did you go to that one?
- L- I don't know. I just-
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Was it because Becky Andersonwas waiting there for you? No.
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- Waiting for you to play your
little game of accidental meeting? - No.
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Knowing your leaving together
would lure her husband so you could murder him?
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That's badgering, Your Honor.
My client has answered the question twice.
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No further questions at this time.
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As far as I am concerned,
those questions did not have to be asked.
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Except that so happens to be his case.
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Exactly.
And it's no case.
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- Do you mind if I say something?
- Miss Conover?
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It's just that-
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Well, when Mark Reynolds
was talking, l-
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I never got the feeling
he was trying to impress us.
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He was just telling usthe simple truth.
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Is this your first time
on jury duty, Miss Conover?
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Look, I served on six juries, bud.
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This happens to be
my second murder trial.
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What about you?[Jessica]I agree with Miss Conover.
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If anything, I thought Mark Reynolds's
testimony was very straightforward.
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Because he had nothing to hide.
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He certainly didn't hedge around
about the way he met Becky Anderson.
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Will you tell the jury, Mark,
how long you were in the Last Resort?
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Uh, I don't honestly know.
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Uh, probably about two hours.
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And it was there that
you met Becky Anderson?
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That's right.
For the first time?
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Yes.
Did you have much to drink, Mark?
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- I guess I did.
- You talked for almost two hours.
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And then?
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Then, uh, she drove us
to her apartment.
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We talked for a while.
She made some coffee.
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- And then-
- [Man] Did you knowBecky Anderson was married?
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No. I've since found out thatshe was planning to get divorced.
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[Man] In fact, was separatedfrom her husband for several months?Yes.
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Go on, please.
What happened next?
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[Inhales, Exhales]
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Well, all of a sudden,
there was a noise in the apartment.
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[Continues] Some shouting.It was Clifford Anderson.
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The next thing I knew was he was-
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He was in the bedroom.He had a gun.
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H- He went after her.
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Then he came after me.
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The gun went off,
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and I found myself with a-with a fireplace poker in my hand.
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And I hit him... hard.
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[Man] What did you do when yourealized he was dead?
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Becky called the police.
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And, uh, I was
taken to the station.
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And you called a lawyer.
You were allowed a call.
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No. L- l-
I called the hospital...
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to ask about my wife.
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And, uh,
they told me...
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that Stephanie had died
without regaining consciousness.
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I don't know what more
you need, Thornton.
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The husband attacked him!
He defended himself!
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I don't believe a word of it.
Well, I do.
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You people are crazy!
He's lying!
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What makes you
think so, Mr. Bentley?
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I know he is! I know it here!
That's a great way to reach a verdict.
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Look, miss, I know
that man is guilty as sin,
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00:15:03,069 --> 00:15:05,663
and there isn't anybody here
gonna change that.
235
00:15:05,738 --> 00:15:08,605
It don't take much to see who
the bleeding hearts are in this room,
236
00:15:08,675 --> 00:15:10,609
but I don't much care.
237
00:15:10,677 --> 00:15:15,410
We can sit here till Christmastimeif that's what you want.That man is guilty!
238
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[Jurors Arguing, Indistinct]
239
00:15:17,951 --> 00:15:20,852
[Jessica]Gentlemen! Gentlemen!Gentlemen! Gentlemen!
240
00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,856
Please. Please.Mr. Callahan, Mr. Lord,won't you please sit down?
241
00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:28,189
Well, what is the point, Mrs. Fletcher?
This jury has just been hung...
242
00:15:28,261 --> 00:15:30,354
by this gentleman
with the open mind.
243
00:15:30,430 --> 00:15:32,728
More like an open cavity,
if you ask me. Oh, please!
244
00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:36,530
Mr. Bentley is entitled to hold
any opinion that he wishes.
245
00:15:36,602 --> 00:15:39,002
Now, maybe we should
dig deeper into the testimony.
246
00:15:39,072 --> 00:15:42,633
- Oh, come on, Mrs. Fletcher.
- Now, there was another witness...
247
00:15:42,709 --> 00:15:45,303
who saw what happened that morning,
and that was Becky Anderson.
248
00:15:45,378 --> 00:15:49,371
[District Attorney] You say your husbandhad no right to come to your house?
249
00:15:49,449 --> 00:15:51,713
No, he didn't.
We were separated.
250
00:15:51,784 --> 00:15:55,447
- I had a restraining order.
- Your pending divorce- what are the grounds?
251
00:15:55,521 --> 00:15:58,513
Objection. Question has
no bearing on the case at hand.
252
00:15:58,591 --> 00:16:01,685
Well, it does if it indicates
the character of the witness.
253
00:16:01,761 --> 00:16:04,195
Overruled.
The witness will answer.
254
00:16:04,263 --> 00:16:07,027
"Irreconcilable differences."
255
00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:10,763
And your husband countersued,
256
00:16:10,837 --> 00:16:12,805
accusing you of infidelity.
257
00:16:12,872 --> 00:16:17,070
- He had no grounds.
- Mrs. Anderson,
258
00:16:18,411 --> 00:16:21,744
could you give me a-
a rough estimate of the number of men...
259
00:16:21,814 --> 00:16:25,341
- you've taken home
from various bars around town? - Your Honor, I object!
260
00:16:25,418 --> 00:16:28,012
Mr. Casselli,
you know better than that.
261
00:16:28,087 --> 00:16:29,884
My apologies, Your Honor.
262
00:16:31,257 --> 00:16:33,191
Mrs. Anderson,
263
00:16:33,259 --> 00:16:36,922
- how many times had you
slept with the defendant? - Once. I told you that.
264
00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:40,159
- And did you knowMark Reynolds before that night? - No!
265
00:16:40,233 --> 00:16:45,034
- You never saw him before the night
your husband was murdered? - No!
266
00:16:45,104 --> 00:16:49,734
I, for one, really resented
the district attorney's line of questioning.
267
00:16:49,809 --> 00:16:52,277
She's as big a liar
as he is- Reynolds.
268
00:16:52,345 --> 00:16:56,145
And I'll tell you something else,
Callahan. Mr. Moneybags is not what he seems.
269
00:16:56,215 --> 00:16:59,241
[Ally] Moneybags?
Yeah. Rich and got it all!
270
00:16:59,318 --> 00:17:01,479
Used to havin'
everything his own way. Hey! Hey! Hey!
271
00:17:01,554 --> 00:17:04,216
He isn't rich.
His wife had the money. He's got it now.
272
00:17:04,290 --> 00:17:08,420
Mr. Bentley,
Mark Reynolds is on trial. Not his lifestyle.
273
00:17:08,494 --> 00:17:11,088
I take it, Mrs. Fletcher, you were
one of the two for conviction.
274
00:17:11,164 --> 00:17:15,362
If she wasn't, you think we'd be
sitting here reexaminin' the evidence?
275
00:17:15,435 --> 00:17:18,427
Well, actually,
Mr. Corbin, I'm undecided.
276
00:17:18,504 --> 00:17:21,405
Oh! You're the undecided one.
277
00:17:21,474 --> 00:17:23,499
What are you gonna try to do,
Mrs. Fletcher,
278
00:17:23,576 --> 00:17:25,874
turn this into one of
your convoluted whodunits?
279
00:17:25,945 --> 00:17:30,814
Look, I am afraid, Frank,
that this case is not as simple as it seems.
280
00:17:30,883 --> 00:17:34,250
Lady, this is a very simple case
of a one-night stand...
281
00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,914
being marred by
a tragic coincidence.
282
00:17:36,989 --> 00:17:39,981
Interesting that you
should say coincidence.
283
00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:42,459
And every whodunit's
gotta have a few. Right?
284
00:17:42,528 --> 00:17:46,259
And there's one that I have
a very hard time forgetting.
285
00:17:46,332 --> 00:17:49,597
A couple of things
have been puzzling me also.
286
00:17:49,669 --> 00:17:52,502
Oh, great!
Another country heard from.
287
00:17:52,572 --> 00:17:56,008
Well, excuse me, but I was bothered
by what Fenton Harris said.
288
00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:59,101
Yes, Jackie, so was I.
289
00:17:59,178 --> 00:18:01,738
My motel is called
the Bide-A-Wee.
290
00:18:01,814 --> 00:18:04,078
Always hated that name.
My wife picked it.
291
00:18:04,150 --> 00:18:06,084
Used to call her Lola.
292
00:18:06,152 --> 00:18:08,313
She always got what she wanted.
[Spectators Laugh]
293
00:18:08,387 --> 00:18:10,855
Will you tell the court
where it's located?
294
00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:14,757
About 15 miles north of town
out on Route 37.
295
00:18:14,827 --> 00:18:18,456
Mr. Harris, do you recognize
anyone in the courtroom?
296
00:18:19,966 --> 00:18:23,925
In my business, it's good practice
never to recognize the customers.
297
00:18:24,003 --> 00:18:26,130
[Laughs]
That's a little joke.
298
00:18:26,205 --> 00:18:28,036
Mr. Harris, please.
299
00:18:29,775 --> 00:18:32,676
You're askin' if he ever
came to my motel.
300
00:18:32,745 --> 00:18:36,112
He did.Four, five, six times maybe.
301
00:18:36,182 --> 00:18:38,878
[Spectators Murmuring]
302
00:18:38,951 --> 00:18:43,888
Let the record show that the witness
identified Mark Reynolds, the defendant.
303
00:18:45,558 --> 00:18:48,049
Will you tell the court
if you recognize anyone else?
304
00:18:49,362 --> 00:18:53,321
You mean, do I recognize her?
Ms. Anderson there?
305
00:18:53,399 --> 00:18:56,664
Like I told you before, I thinkI seen her once with Mr. Reynolds.
306
00:18:56,736 --> 00:19:00,467
[Spectators Murmuring]Didn't come in the office.Stayed outside in the car.
307
00:19:02,108 --> 00:19:04,804
[Pounds Gavel]
Order in the court.
308
00:19:04,877 --> 00:19:08,210
Order in the court!
309
00:19:08,281 --> 00:19:11,045
When was this, Mr. Harris?
Approximately?
310
00:19:12,418 --> 00:19:16,047
About... three months ago. Yeah.
311
00:19:16,122 --> 00:19:18,989
Making it six weeks
prior to the time...
312
00:19:19,058 --> 00:19:23,586
that Mark Reynolds and Becky Anderson
claim they met for the first time.
313
00:19:23,663 --> 00:19:26,757
I told you he was a liar!
He said he thought he saw her.
314
00:19:26,832 --> 00:19:29,767
He wasn't sure.
How could he be sure? He's half-blind.
315
00:19:29,835 --> 00:19:33,999
- Mrs. Fletcher-
- Well, if there's a chance that he recognized her,
316
00:19:34,073 --> 00:19:36,166
I think that
we seriously have to...
317
00:19:36,242 --> 00:19:40,440
reexamine the notion that this
was merely a one-night stand.
318
00:19:40,513 --> 00:19:42,674
One moment, please!
319
00:19:42,748 --> 00:19:46,684
On cross-examination, Reynolds's lawyer
got him to admit he wasn't sure. Right.
320
00:19:46,752 --> 00:19:49,550
Yeah. But suppose he was right.
And we choose to ignore it?
321
00:19:49,622 --> 00:19:52,591
Suppose this and suppose that.
Now, you gotta stop this, Mrs. Fletcher.
322
00:19:52,658 --> 00:19:55,422
You can't turn this into one of your
make-believe murder mysteries.
323
00:19:55,494 --> 00:19:57,428
Yes. All right, I agree.
324
00:19:57,496 --> 00:19:59,862
But even if the woman
in the car wasn't Becky,
325
00:19:59,932 --> 00:20:05,199
doesn't Mr. Harris's testimony say
something about Mark Reynolds's character and his marriage?
326
00:20:05,271 --> 00:20:09,037
Yeah. Makes you wonder just
how far you really can trust him.
327
00:20:09,108 --> 00:20:12,908
Mrs. MacKay, you likely
have nothing to do all day but sit home and listen to soap operas.
328
00:20:12,979 --> 00:20:14,970
And just what is
that supposed to mean?
329
00:20:15,047 --> 00:20:17,106
It means that I have a business to run.
330
00:20:17,183 --> 00:20:20,118
And I can't afford to waste
any more time away from my shop.
331
00:20:20,186 --> 00:20:24,452
Well, that's just too bad about you, lady.
There are a few more of us with businesses to run.
332
00:20:24,523 --> 00:20:28,050
Short of turning this into
a hung jury, you're gonna have to stick it out like we are.
333
00:20:28,127 --> 00:20:30,891
Look, I'm sure that none of us
want a hung jury, Mr. Bentley.
334
00:20:30,963 --> 00:20:32,931
Look, look.
About Reynolds's fooling around-
335
00:20:32,999 --> 00:20:35,695
I can understand that.
My first wife had all the money.
336
00:20:35,768 --> 00:20:40,068
So I know what it feels like, believe me.
You just wanna prove something, if only to yourself.
337
00:20:40,139 --> 00:20:43,939
Well, that's interesting.
L- I hadn't thought of it that way.
338
00:20:44,010 --> 00:20:46,342
Well, he's got the money now.
Enough to hire...
339
00:20:46,412 --> 00:20:49,313
a fancy Manhattan lawyer
with his $600 suits.
340
00:20:49,382 --> 00:20:52,010
Oh, will you get off that.
His lawyer is not on trial.
341
00:20:52,084 --> 00:20:55,349
Yeah. Slick guy like that.
Wonder why he didn't hire somebody local.
342
00:20:55,421 --> 00:20:57,616
We keep getting away from the issue.
343
00:20:57,690 --> 00:21:01,421
We sure do, folks.
This is a man's life we're deciding.
344
00:21:01,494 --> 00:21:06,431
Yes, that's right. And most of us here
are of a mind to let him keep it.
345
00:21:06,499 --> 00:21:10,333
It's Mrs. Fletcher and her minions
who are so anxious to see him hang.
346
00:21:10,403 --> 00:21:12,394
Good heavens.
Is that what you think?
347
00:21:12,471 --> 00:21:16,271
Really, all I'm trying to do
is to examine both sides.
348
00:21:16,342 --> 00:21:18,537
And examine
and examine and examine.
349
00:21:18,611 --> 00:21:22,138
- Well, I for one cannot
find any fault with that. - Oh, right on cue, honey.
350
00:21:22,214 --> 00:21:25,513
We know what Mr. Reynolds's
lawyer wants us to believe.
351
00:21:25,584 --> 00:21:28,417
Self-defense. But you'll remember
that the district attorney...
352
00:21:28,487 --> 00:21:32,321
painted a very different picture
in his opening statement.
353
00:21:32,391 --> 00:21:36,259
The prosecution will prove
beyond a reasonable doubt...
354
00:21:36,329 --> 00:21:40,925
that Mark Reynolds
and Becky Anderson were lovers.
355
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,333
And that they conspired
to kill Clifford Anderson.
356
00:21:44,403 --> 00:21:48,601
If it was conspiracy, then why isn't
Becky Anderson on trial?
357
00:21:48,674 --> 00:21:52,667
Money, my friend.Her lawyer fixed it soshe'd get tried separately.
358
00:21:52,745 --> 00:21:56,306
Well, when we convict him,
the next jury will do the same to her.
359
00:21:56,382 --> 00:21:59,112
The district attorney
said reasonable doubt.
360
00:21:59,185 --> 00:22:01,517
Well, I've got it.
That's why I'm voting for acquittal.
361
00:22:01,587 --> 00:22:03,521
So am I.
And me.
362
00:22:03,589 --> 00:22:06,422
Yes. But what if
Fenton Harris did see Becky?
363
00:22:06,492 --> 00:22:08,892
What if Mark and Becky
weren't strangers?
364
00:22:08,961 --> 00:22:11,725
Gracious, I thought
we'd been all through that.
365
00:22:11,797 --> 00:22:14,163
- We did, Miss Webster.
- Oh, for goodness' sake.
366
00:22:14,233 --> 00:22:16,326
Why can't you people
just listen for a minute?
367
00:22:16,402 --> 00:22:18,870
I mean, after all, this woman
has a brilliant criminal mind.
368
00:22:18,938 --> 00:22:22,169
- [Laughs]
- That's not what I meant.
369
00:22:22,241 --> 00:22:25,699
Well, you know, maybe
it's my "criminal mind"- [Chuckles]
370
00:22:25,778 --> 00:22:28,269
That sees this as
a very complicated puzzle.
371
00:22:28,347 --> 00:22:31,248
And if so, please,
bear with me.
372
00:22:31,317 --> 00:22:35,253
But if Mr. Harris saw them at his motel,
373
00:22:35,321 --> 00:22:39,417
what light does that shed
on the prosecution's case?
374
00:22:39,492 --> 00:22:42,120
And what about the bartender
at the Last Resort?
375
00:22:42,194 --> 00:22:44,355
And as I remember it,
he was very certain...
376
00:22:44,430 --> 00:22:46,694
that he had never seenMark Reynolds before.
377
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,862
How about Becky Anderson?
Had you ever seen her before?
378
00:22:50,936 --> 00:22:53,564
Oh, sure.
She comes in a lot.
379
00:22:53,639 --> 00:22:55,937
- With her husband?
- Yeah.
380
00:22:56,008 --> 00:22:59,466
Before they broke up.
And afterwards, by herself.
381
00:22:59,545 --> 00:23:02,207
You'd call her a regular?
382
00:23:02,281 --> 00:23:04,306
Regular enough.
383
00:23:06,819 --> 00:23:09,117
Mr. Blevins,
384
00:23:09,188 --> 00:23:12,123
did Becky Anderson
ever pick up a man in the bar?
385
00:23:13,159 --> 00:23:15,957
Not that I ever saw.
But she did pick up Mark Reynolds?
386
00:23:17,430 --> 00:23:20,593
- Well, I wouldn't exactly-
- They did meet there.
387
00:23:20,666 --> 00:23:24,067
And they left together.
Is that correct?
388
00:23:24,136 --> 00:23:25,967
Yeah.
389
00:23:26,038 --> 00:23:28,063
On the surface,
390
00:23:28,140 --> 00:23:32,577
it appears that
two strangers meet in a bar and become fast friends.
391
00:23:32,645 --> 00:23:35,443
But if you believe Fenton Harris,
the motel owner,
392
00:23:35,514 --> 00:23:38,779
you have to believe
that Mark and Becky already knew one another.
393
00:23:38,851 --> 00:23:42,651
And if that's true, why this
complicated charade in the bar?
394
00:23:42,721 --> 00:23:44,916
They wouldn't
because they didn't.
395
00:23:44,990 --> 00:23:48,482
I know why!
They wanted to be seen.
396
00:23:48,561 --> 00:23:52,019
Yes. That's what I keep thinking.
397
00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:54,429
Oh, please!
Remember when the barman...
398
00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:56,934
said that Cliff Anderson
still came in.
399
00:23:57,002 --> 00:23:58,970
And even if he didn't
come in that night,
400
00:23:59,038 --> 00:24:01,506
they could expect some
other friends to come around.
401
00:24:01,574 --> 00:24:04,008
Somebody like Detweiler.
402
00:24:04,076 --> 00:24:06,977
Hey, I wouldn't call Cliff a buddy,
403
00:24:07,046 --> 00:24:08,980
but bein' a married man myself,
404
00:24:09,048 --> 00:24:11,175
I'd wanna know if
my old lady was cattin' around.
405
00:24:11,250 --> 00:24:15,778
- So I figured he would too.
- So if the district attorney's theory is correct,
406
00:24:15,855 --> 00:24:20,792
that phone call triggered
their plan to kill Becky's husband.
407
00:24:20,860 --> 00:24:24,728
Well, after that creep called,
Cliff was off like a shot.
408
00:24:24,797 --> 00:24:27,061
Had you known the deceased long?
409
00:24:27,132 --> 00:24:30,158
Oh, yeah. We fished together,
oh, five or six years.
410
00:24:30,236 --> 00:24:32,295
He was livin' with me
for eight months.
411
00:24:32,371 --> 00:24:34,464
Would you say he had a temper?
412
00:24:34,540 --> 00:24:37,839
Temper? [Laughs]
Does week-old fish bait stink?
413
00:24:37,910 --> 00:24:40,310
[Spectators Laughs]
414
00:24:42,414 --> 00:24:46,441
Well, the last thing
he did say was that...
415
00:24:46,519 --> 00:24:48,544
- he was gonna kill her.
- [Spectators Murmuring]
416
00:24:48,621 --> 00:24:51,681
One final question-
417
00:24:51,757 --> 00:24:55,659
When Clifford Anderson left
your apartment, was he armed?
418
00:24:55,728 --> 00:24:57,423
Armed?
Are you kiddin'?
419
00:24:57,496 --> 00:25:00,488
Answer the question,
Mr. Patecki.
420
00:25:02,067 --> 00:25:05,525
No. He was not armed.
421
00:25:05,604 --> 00:25:07,538
Okay?
422
00:25:07,606 --> 00:25:10,803
Puzzle piece number one-
where did Cliff Anderson get the gun?
423
00:25:10,876 --> 00:25:12,810
Now, that's
an important question...
424
00:25:12,878 --> 00:25:17,178
because a great deal
of the prosecution's case relies on the answer.
425
00:25:17,249 --> 00:25:21,743
I think the general assumption
was that he had picked it up on his way to his wife's house.
426
00:25:21,820 --> 00:25:25,586
It was midnight when he got the call.
Where would he have gotten it?
427
00:25:25,658 --> 00:25:30,220
Remember the ballistics expertsaid the gun had no registration.
428
00:25:30,296 --> 00:25:32,389
A single shot was fired.
429
00:25:32,464 --> 00:25:35,456
And he said that he had
made a nitrate test...
430
00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:38,935
on the hands of both
Mark Reynolds and Cliff Anderson.
431
00:25:39,004 --> 00:25:41,370
There were powder traces
on the hands of both,
432
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,466
indicating that both held
the gun when it discharged.
433
00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:47,944
A matching slug was removedfrom the living room wall.
434
00:25:48,013 --> 00:25:50,004
The only fingerprints on that gun...
435
00:25:50,082 --> 00:25:53,245
were those of Cliff Anderson
and Mark Reynolds.
436
00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:56,117
Proving a struggle.
Proving self-defense.
437
00:25:56,188 --> 00:25:58,452
Oh, come on!
Proving that this whole thing was planned...
438
00:25:58,524 --> 00:26:00,458
to lure this poor man
to his death.
439
00:26:00,526 --> 00:26:03,427
And proving what I said
about Reynolds all along.
440
00:26:03,495 --> 00:26:05,963
You people must be
from some other planet.
441
00:26:06,031 --> 00:26:09,296
Will you listen to yourselves?
A guy has a car accident.
442
00:26:09,368 --> 00:26:13,327
His wife is fatally injured,
so he leaves her in a hospital to go meet a dame...
443
00:26:13,405 --> 00:26:18,069
because he and this dame have
some idea about killing her husband by maybe luring him to her house?
444
00:26:18,143 --> 00:26:20,577
I mean, please!You gotta have rocks in your heads!
445
00:26:20,646 --> 00:26:23,547
What'd you say to me, buddy?
You're ready to stay here all year?
446
00:26:23,616 --> 00:26:26,346
Well, so am I, pal!
And as for you, Mrs. Fletcher,
447
00:26:26,418 --> 00:26:28,443
you've let this whole thing
get out of hand.
448
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,681
I think it's about time
for you to step aside...
449
00:26:30,756 --> 00:26:32,781
and let somebody else
run these proceedings,
450
00:26:32,858 --> 00:26:36,294
somebody who has
a vague idea what they're doing.
451
00:26:38,897 --> 00:26:40,831
Oh, sit down.
You talk too much.
452
00:26:40,899 --> 00:26:43,595
Mrs. Fletcher is doing
quite nicely, thank you.
453
00:26:43,669 --> 00:26:45,603
I certainly don't want the job.
454
00:26:45,671 --> 00:26:50,040
Mr. Lord, I'm perfectly willing
to step aside if that's what- That won't be necessary, Mrs. Fletcher.
455
00:26:50,109 --> 00:26:51,633
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Frank, sit down.
456
00:26:51,710 --> 00:26:54,406
Hey! It's perfectly okay.
I got lots of time.
457
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,414
Well-
458
00:26:57,416 --> 00:27:02,479
Let's go back to another part
of the puzzle that doesn't quite fit -
459
00:27:02,554 --> 00:27:05,045
Becky Anderson's neighbor.
460
00:27:05,124 --> 00:27:07,649
Oh, yeah!The wimp who came home...
461
00:27:07,726 --> 00:27:10,320
to find the husband's car
blocking the driveway.
462
00:27:10,396 --> 00:27:13,024
I had to leave my car on the street.
463
00:27:13,098 --> 00:27:15,032
Did you go say anything to him?
464
00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:17,967
With a temper like he had?
465
00:27:18,037 --> 00:27:21,063
Mm-mm. Listen,
if I was Mr. Reynolds over there,
466
00:27:21,140 --> 00:27:24,405
and I saw Cliff Andersoncome bustin'through the door at me,
467
00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:26,410
I'd have grabbed for that poker.
468
00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:30,938
Better an ax or a gun,if one was handy.[Spectators Murmuring]
469
00:27:33,852 --> 00:27:38,482
I'm here to tell ya it's a good thing
that young fella used that poker.
470
00:27:38,557 --> 00:27:42,493
If he hadn't, a couple of hours later
when I was lookin' through the window,
471
00:27:42,561 --> 00:27:47,931
it would've been his body
I'd have seen the ambulance takin' away, not Cliff Anderson's.
472
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,730
It still doesn't prove conspiracy.
473
00:27:50,803 --> 00:27:55,069
It does prove that if Mark and Becky
were looking for a volatile response,
474
00:27:55,140 --> 00:27:58,109
all they had to do was
wait for Clifford Anderson-
475
00:27:58,177 --> 00:28:00,907
...to show up.
476
00:28:00,979 --> 00:28:03,675
And show up he did.
477
00:28:06,318 --> 00:28:09,014
[Continues]But they were not in bed.
478
00:28:10,322 --> 00:28:13,314
They had not been making love.
479
00:28:16,495 --> 00:28:18,429
They had been planning his murder.
480
00:28:20,866 --> 00:28:22,959
They heard him drive up in front.
481
00:28:23,035 --> 00:28:25,196
They heard him barge into the house.
482
00:28:25,270 --> 00:28:27,363
And when he stormedtowards the bedroom,
483
00:28:28,774 --> 00:28:30,708
they were waiting.
484
00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:36,480
He didn't have a gun.Mark Reynolds had the gun.
485
00:28:39,051 --> 00:28:42,509
An unregistered gun.He needed it...
486
00:28:42,588 --> 00:28:44,954
as evidence for his self-defense.
487
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,793
And when the murder was done,
488
00:28:50,863 --> 00:28:54,594
when the stage was set,
489
00:28:56,235 --> 00:28:58,226
then they called the police.
490
00:29:00,205 --> 00:29:02,673
Speculation?
491
00:29:02,741 --> 00:29:05,335
No. Ladies and gentlemen,
492
00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:07,742
it is fact.
493
00:29:12,151 --> 00:29:15,814
I look at these
two people, I see...
494
00:29:15,888 --> 00:29:19,153
pleasant,all-American attractiveness.
495
00:29:19,224 --> 00:29:22,523
I'd like to believethe story they told,
496
00:29:24,897 --> 00:29:26,990
but I can't.
497
00:29:28,934 --> 00:29:31,459
Perhaps if they'd agreed to
a lie detector examination-
498
00:29:31,537 --> 00:29:33,698
Your Honor, objection!
499
00:29:33,772 --> 00:29:36,969
Sustained. Mr. Casselli,you know better than that.
500
00:29:37,042 --> 00:29:39,340
Yes. I do, Your Honor,
501
00:29:39,411 --> 00:29:41,845
and I beg the court's forgiveness.
502
00:29:41,914 --> 00:29:43,882
That was a pretty cheap trick.
503
00:29:43,949 --> 00:29:46,713
Even I know you can't talk about
a lie detector in a courtroom.
504
00:29:46,785 --> 00:29:50,881
But he did. And we heard him.
If they had nothing to hide, why didn't they take the test?
505
00:29:50,956 --> 00:29:53,948
[Callahan]
You know, for once, Bentley, I think you do have a point.
506
00:29:54,026 --> 00:29:56,153
Mrs. Fletcher, maybe
you've been right all along.
507
00:29:56,228 --> 00:29:58,753
Well, I haven't been saying
that I'm right, Mr. Callahan.
508
00:29:58,831 --> 00:30:01,994
I'm just trying to find the proper pieces
to fit into the proper places.
509
00:30:02,067 --> 00:30:05,002
Perhaps we were a little hasty
presuming Reynolds was innocent.
510
00:30:05,070 --> 00:30:07,538
Maybe Cliff Anderson
didn't have the gun.
511
00:30:07,606 --> 00:30:10,575
Oh, no. If there's one thingI am ready to accept,
512
00:30:10,642 --> 00:30:13,406
it's that he brought that gun
into the house with him.
513
00:30:13,478 --> 00:30:16,208
- [Frank] If he had the gun with him-
- Now, wait a minute.
514
00:30:16,281 --> 00:30:19,546
You talk half this room outta
believing it was self-defense, and then you tell us-
515
00:30:19,618 --> 00:30:21,813
[Jessica]I'm not telling you anything,Miss Collins.
516
00:30:21,887 --> 00:30:25,846
But I would like you to remember
the testimony of that traffic officer.
517
00:30:25,924 --> 00:30:28,620
Oh, sure.
I remember him.
518
00:30:28,694 --> 00:30:31,322
He arrested Anderson
a year ago on drunken driving.
519
00:30:31,396 --> 00:30:34,058
He found a gun in
the glove compartment!
520
00:30:34,132 --> 00:30:37,226
And I seem to remember
he confiscated it.
521
00:30:37,302 --> 00:30:41,864
Yes. But doesn't it seem logical
that a man like that might buy another one?
522
00:30:41,940 --> 00:30:45,933
Mrs. Fletcher, you're-you're
bringing us right back where we started from.
523
00:30:46,011 --> 00:30:47,911
Not really.
524
00:30:47,980 --> 00:30:50,414
What do you mean not really?If Anderson brought the gun,
525
00:30:50,482 --> 00:30:53,212
then Reynolds killing him
was self-defense, which it was not.
526
00:30:53,285 --> 00:30:56,846
I'm sorry, Mr. Bentley,
but it may have been.
527
00:30:56,922 --> 00:31:00,483
Oh, really, Mrs. Fletcher?
That's what we've been contending since we walked in here.
528
00:31:00,559 --> 00:31:03,119
What a joyous waste
of time this has been.
529
00:31:03,195 --> 00:31:06,892
Really, Miss Collins! If you didn't want
to serve, what are you doing here?
530
00:31:06,965 --> 00:31:09,365
I couldn't dream up
another excuse they'd believe, okay?
531
00:31:09,434 --> 00:31:11,698
Oh, please!
532
00:31:11,770 --> 00:31:14,295
Look, I posed the questionabout the gun...
533
00:31:14,373 --> 00:31:16,603
because we have all been
overlooking something,
534
00:31:16,675 --> 00:31:20,202
- and me included, I'm afraid.
- Well, hallelujah.
535
00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:22,941
It bears on the struggle for the gun.
536
00:31:23,015 --> 00:31:26,178
- And what would that be?
- The fact that Mark Reynolds...
537
00:31:26,251 --> 00:31:29,778
had injured his shoulder
in the automobile accident.
538
00:31:29,855 --> 00:31:31,789
Remember the testimony
of the paramedics...
539
00:31:31,857 --> 00:31:33,791
who took Mark and his wife
to the hospital?
540
00:31:33,859 --> 00:31:36,225
He was in a lot of pain.
541
00:31:36,295 --> 00:31:39,264
He'd broken his left collarbone,
but he didn't want us to touch him.
542
00:31:39,331 --> 00:31:42,459
- Why was that?
- He didn't want us to take the time.
543
00:31:42,534 --> 00:31:45,833
He wanted us to get his wife
to the hospital as fast as we could.
544
00:31:47,806 --> 00:31:51,333
[Continues] Somebody told me laterthey'd been married less than a year.
545
00:31:51,410 --> 00:31:53,571
He was really broken up.
546
00:31:53,645 --> 00:31:57,081
His wife had come to for a moment.
547
00:31:57,149 --> 00:31:59,208
"Why?"she says.
548
00:31:59,284 --> 00:32:02,583
He'd swerved to keepfrom hitting some kid on a bike...
549
00:32:02,654 --> 00:32:04,849
and has to watch her lie there dyin'.
550
00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:08,017
The last thing he was
thinking about was himself.
551
00:32:08,093 --> 00:32:12,530
When Dr. Webster was
called to the stand to testify, he said the same thing.
552
00:32:12,597 --> 00:32:15,122
Mrs. Fletcher, will you
please get to the point?
553
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,795
Well, my point is that neither
the paramedic nor Dr. Webster...
554
00:32:18,870 --> 00:32:20,861
treated Mark Reynolds's shoulder.
555
00:32:20,939 --> 00:32:23,464
Are you implying he wasn't hurt?
556
00:32:23,542 --> 00:32:25,442
Oh, no. No, not at all.
557
00:32:25,510 --> 00:32:28,035
Mr. Reynolds was obviously in pain.
558
00:32:28,113 --> 00:32:30,479
But his only concern was for his wife.
559
00:32:30,549 --> 00:32:34,144
The idea that she might never walk
sent him into a frenzy.
560
00:32:34,219 --> 00:32:36,710
I wish he'd stayed with her.
561
00:32:36,788 --> 00:32:39,348
But a little after 1:00,she suddenly went sour.
562
00:32:39,424 --> 00:32:41,551
The heart monitor
alerted the nurses,
563
00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:44,925
but by the time they could
get to her room, she was gone.
564
00:32:44,997 --> 00:32:47,431
If Mr. Reynolds had been with her,
565
00:32:47,499 --> 00:32:50,093
well, perhaps they might have
reached her faster.
566
00:32:51,269 --> 00:32:53,203
But who knows?
567
00:32:53,271 --> 00:32:55,432
Okay. So would you
please tell us...
568
00:32:55,507 --> 00:32:59,967
what does the broken collarbone
have to do with whether or not he had the gun?
569
00:33:00,045 --> 00:33:02,536
Would you stand up, Mr. Lord?
570
00:33:02,614 --> 00:33:05,344
May I borrow your cane
just for a moment, please?
571
00:33:09,588 --> 00:33:11,522
Mr. Lord.
572
00:33:11,590 --> 00:33:13,524
Good.
You're right-handed too.
573
00:33:13,592 --> 00:33:18,723
What do you mean "too"?
Well, Mark Reynolds's right-hand fingerprints were on the poker.
574
00:33:18,797 --> 00:33:22,460
His injury made his left arm
practically useless.
575
00:33:22,534 --> 00:33:25,401
It would have been almost
impossible for him to aim the gun,
576
00:33:25,470 --> 00:33:29,201
- let alone struggle over it
with Clifford Anderson. - Well, maybe Becky had the gun.
577
00:33:29,274 --> 00:33:32,539
Yes, but the traces of gunpowder
were on his left hand. His and Cliff's.
578
00:33:32,611 --> 00:33:34,602
Good point.
579
00:33:34,679 --> 00:33:38,080
But if he couldn't hold a gun,
much less struggle for one,
580
00:33:38,150 --> 00:33:40,209
than how did
the powder traces get there?
581
00:33:40,285 --> 00:33:42,913
Well, that's a question I can't answer.
582
00:33:42,988 --> 00:33:46,685
Now, there are a couple
of other things that bother me.
583
00:33:46,758 --> 00:33:49,989
Well, with what you just
came up with, I'm willing to listen.
584
00:33:50,062 --> 00:33:52,792
You may be willing to
listen to it. I think I've had it.
585
00:33:52,864 --> 00:33:55,424
Well, why don't you just
keep an open mind? Listen, my friend.
586
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:58,936
There's only so much testimony,
and we've gone over it all.
587
00:33:59,004 --> 00:34:02,735
No! The stuff about the left arm,
the powder traces-
588
00:34:02,808 --> 00:34:04,742
that makes it all
a different story for me.
589
00:34:04,810 --> 00:34:07,802
I say we stick to
our original verdict. I'm voting for self-defense.
590
00:34:07,879 --> 00:34:10,143
[Narramore]Sorry. I can't go along anymore.
591
00:34:10,215 --> 00:34:12,547
Mrs. Fletcher'sstopped me cold on self-defense.
592
00:34:12,617 --> 00:34:15,313
But still, murder?
593
00:34:15,387 --> 00:34:18,356
Broken collarbones,
powder traces. Whatever.
594
00:34:18,423 --> 00:34:20,584
Anderson is dead.
Reynolds killed him.
595
00:34:20,659 --> 00:34:22,593
I'm still calling it that.
596
00:34:22,661 --> 00:34:24,652
Hey, I've heard nothin'
that changes my mind.
597
00:34:24,729 --> 00:34:27,823
Maybe that's because you people
haven't been listening very hard.
598
00:34:27,899 --> 00:34:30,390
Mrs. Fletcher has madea lot of sense so far.
599
00:34:30,469 --> 00:34:33,563
Why can't we just keep
talking and listening, huh?
600
00:34:33,638 --> 00:34:36,232
I mean, we're 12 reasonably
intelligent people here.
601
00:34:36,308 --> 00:34:38,299
We oughta be able
to sort this thing out.
602
00:34:38,376 --> 00:34:40,776
Damn it. That's what
we're here for, isn't it?
603
00:34:42,180 --> 00:34:44,808
Well, she is right.
604
00:34:44,883 --> 00:34:46,851
Why don't we just keep at it?
605
00:34:46,918 --> 00:34:49,910
Okay, Mrs. Fletcher,
you've got the floor.
606
00:34:51,723 --> 00:34:57,662
Oh, dear. I wish I could be
a little bit more sure about what I'm doing with it.
607
00:34:57,729 --> 00:35:01,495
Now- Now, look,
I have three major problems,
608
00:35:01,566 --> 00:35:05,024
things that make no sense
the way they were presented.
609
00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:07,333
For one thing,
I believe Mr. Harris.
610
00:35:07,405 --> 00:35:10,135
- The motel owner?
- Yes.
611
00:35:10,208 --> 00:35:13,200
I really do think that
Mark and Becky knew each other...
612
00:35:13,278 --> 00:35:15,508
before the night
her husband was killed.
613
00:35:15,580 --> 00:35:17,673
Now we're getting somewhere.
614
00:35:17,749 --> 00:35:20,650
But, Mr. Lord, you also made
a very persuasive argument.
615
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,847
I mean, it seems ludicrousthat these two people,
616
00:35:23,922 --> 00:35:28,018
with Mark's wife lying
critically ill in a hospital bed,
617
00:35:28,093 --> 00:35:31,529
would choose this night
to lure Becky's husband to his death.
618
00:35:31,596 --> 00:35:35,054
- Well, thank you, Mrs. Fletcher.
- No, no, no.
619
00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:38,830
If it wasn't premeditated,
then it had to be self-defense. There's nothing else.
620
00:35:38,904 --> 00:35:41,737
But there is something else,
Miss Collins.
621
00:35:41,806 --> 00:35:46,402
A third possibility that
none of us have yet considered.
622
00:35:47,546 --> 00:35:51,107
[All Arguing]
Mrs. Fletcher, what other possibility?
623
00:35:51,183 --> 00:35:54,414
- What are you talking about?
- I'm afraid this is all beyond me.
624
00:35:54,486 --> 00:35:57,614
Mrs. Fletcher, if this is anotherone of your trips to fantasyland-
625
00:35:57,689 --> 00:36:00,249
Frank, will you just sit there
and shut up and listen!
626
00:36:00,325 --> 00:36:02,259
[Corbin]Let's hear it, Mrs. Fletcher.
627
00:36:02,327 --> 00:36:07,390
Well, what we have to do is to
take a look at two particular statements,
628
00:36:07,465 --> 00:36:11,265
contradictory statements,
starting with Mark Reynolds's description...
629
00:36:11,336 --> 00:36:15,204
of what happened when Becky's husband
burst through that bedroom door.
630
00:36:15,273 --> 00:36:19,607
- We've gone over that.
- And I hope for the last time.
631
00:36:19,678 --> 00:36:22,875
Now, he said that
there were words exchanged,
632
00:36:22,948 --> 00:36:25,542
and suddenly they were
struggling with a gun.
633
00:36:25,617 --> 00:36:28,415
Mark picked up the poker.
The gun went off.
634
00:36:28,486 --> 00:36:32,582
And Mark struck
Anderson with the poker. Then the police were called.
635
00:36:32,657 --> 00:36:36,252
Now, all that couldn't havetaken more than five-well, 10 minutes at the most.
636
00:36:36,328 --> 00:36:40,822
- No argument. Go on.
- Then what about ArthurJasper?
637
00:36:40,899 --> 00:36:45,199
The next door-neighbor.
Exactly. The next-door neighbor whose driveway was blocked.
638
00:36:45,270 --> 00:36:49,036
Now how did he put it?
If Mark Reynolds's hadn't hit Cliff with the poker,
639
00:36:49,107 --> 00:36:51,337
a couple of hours later
when I looked out the window,
640
00:36:51,409 --> 00:36:55,869
it could have been his body
being taken out in that ambulance instead of Cliff Anderson's.
641
00:36:55,947 --> 00:36:57,915
He did say that!
Mm-hmm.
642
00:36:57,983 --> 00:37:01,817
"A couple of hours later."
If Mark Reynolds had been telling the truth,
643
00:37:01,886 --> 00:37:04,753
the police and the ambulance
would have been there- Almost immediately.
644
00:37:04,823 --> 00:37:06,757
Then they lied. Why?
645
00:37:06,825 --> 00:37:09,589
And what was Cliff Anderson
doing in her apartment all that time?
646
00:37:09,661 --> 00:37:11,652
And the way Reynolds told it,
647
00:37:11,730 --> 00:37:14,392
they called the police
less than five minutes after he got there.
648
00:37:14,466 --> 00:37:16,696
Obviously they didn't.
649
00:37:16,768 --> 00:37:18,861
You were right, Mr. Narramore.
They lied.
650
00:37:18,937 --> 00:37:23,601
Leaving us, I'm afraid,
with only one inescapable conclusion.
651
00:37:23,675 --> 00:37:27,008
And only one possible verdict.
652
00:37:28,847 --> 00:37:30,508
[Murmuring]
[Gavel Pounding]
653
00:37:30,582 --> 00:37:32,573
[Judge]The defendant will rise.
654
00:37:37,322 --> 00:37:40,348
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
have you reached a verdict?
655
00:37:41,660 --> 00:37:44,220
We have, Your Honor.
How do you find?
656
00:37:44,296 --> 00:37:46,628
We find the defendant not guilty.
657
00:37:46,698 --> 00:37:49,667
[Murmuring]
658
00:37:55,540 --> 00:37:57,599
The defendant is released.
659
00:37:58,810 --> 00:38:01,643
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
I thank you for your efforts.
660
00:38:03,148 --> 00:38:05,708
Court is adjourned![Gavel Pounds]
661
00:38:08,219 --> 00:38:10,380
[Murmuring]
662
00:38:11,856 --> 00:38:14,324
Mr. Casselli.
Mrs. Fletcher.
663
00:38:14,392 --> 00:38:16,326
I thought I had
a pretty good case.
664
00:38:16,394 --> 00:38:19,056
I guess I can save myself the effort
of going after Mrs. Anderson.
665
00:38:19,130 --> 00:38:21,064
Oh, my, no.
666
00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:24,533
By all means, I think you should,
now more than ever.
667
00:38:24,602 --> 00:38:27,400
Could we meet in your office
in, say, 30 minutes?
668
00:38:27,472 --> 00:38:29,872
Sure, I suppose so, but-
669
00:38:29,941 --> 00:38:32,967
You might also ask Becky Anderson
to be there with her attorney.
670
00:38:34,045 --> 00:38:38,880
Look, before I put myself
in an awkward position, do you mind if I ask why?
671
00:38:38,950 --> 00:38:41,976
Oh, not at all. The last thing
in the world I want to do...
672
00:38:42,053 --> 00:38:44,886
is to put you
in an awkward position.
673
00:38:44,956 --> 00:38:48,619
Tom, I promised Martha
I'd be home for supper at 6:00.
674
00:38:48,693 --> 00:38:50,991
Mrs. Fletcher said she'd-
675
00:38:51,062 --> 00:38:53,053
Ah.
676
00:38:53,131 --> 00:38:55,691
Oh. So sorry to keep you waiting.
I got held up.
677
00:38:55,767 --> 00:38:57,701
Not at all, Mrs. Fletcher.No problem.
678
00:38:57,769 --> 00:38:59,794
Oscar, do you know
Jessica Fletcher? Oscar Ramsey.
679
00:38:59,871 --> 00:39:02,897
I know the lady by reputation.
How do you do, Mr. Ramsey?
680
00:39:02,974 --> 00:39:05,670
Ma'am.
Have you met Becky Anderson?
681
00:39:05,744 --> 00:39:08,679
Well, we haven't been
introduced. Hello.
682
00:39:08,747 --> 00:39:12,148
Mrs. Fletcher.
Got to say you people in the jury didn't surprise me any.
683
00:39:12,217 --> 00:39:15,482
That so?
I did figure you'd come in sooner with the verdict.
684
00:39:15,553 --> 00:39:19,512
Well, we spent some time-
Finding as you did makes this meetin' somewhat academic.
685
00:39:19,591 --> 00:39:22,151
However,
Tom said you'd explain.
686
00:39:22,227 --> 00:39:24,821
Well, Mr. Ramsey,
it's really simple.
687
00:39:24,896 --> 00:39:28,127
You see, it's our opinion,
that is the jury's,
688
00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:30,963
that Becky Anderson
killed her husband.
689
00:39:31,035 --> 00:39:34,095
- That's not true!
- What the hell is this?
690
00:39:34,172 --> 00:39:36,436
Hear her out, Oscar.
It gets very interesting.
691
00:39:37,509 --> 00:39:39,602
It's a bunch of damn hogwash!
692
00:39:39,677 --> 00:39:42,646
The same evidence
that got the first verdict is gonna clear my client.
693
00:39:42,714 --> 00:39:46,411
Well, we didn't exactly
find on that evidence.
694
00:39:46,484 --> 00:39:49,885
- You didn't what?
- Well, of course it was the evidence...
695
00:39:49,954 --> 00:39:52,821
and how we saw it
after some pushing and poking.
696
00:39:52,891 --> 00:39:54,825
One thing we couldn't understand is...
697
00:39:54,893 --> 00:39:58,989
what happened when your husband
arrived at your apartment.
698
00:39:59,063 --> 00:40:00,997
Mark explained that.
699
00:40:01,065 --> 00:40:03,397
Well, not to our satisfaction, I'm afraid.
700
00:40:03,468 --> 00:40:07,564
In fact, we feel that he was lying.
No!
701
00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:10,130
I'm not gonna allow this.
We are leavin'.
702
00:40:10,208 --> 00:40:15,646
You'll save us both a lot of time and work
if you stay and listen, Oscar.
703
00:40:15,713 --> 00:40:20,582
Mark's story about
struggling for the gun and wielding the fireplace poker-
704
00:40:20,652 --> 00:40:23,678
Now, it really is so much
nonsense considering...
705
00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:27,418
that his collarbone injury
from the accident.
706
00:40:27,492 --> 00:40:29,460
I was there. I saw it.
707
00:40:29,527 --> 00:40:33,486
[Jessica]Yes, you were there.But you didn't see anything.
708
00:40:33,565 --> 00:40:36,534
You're the onewho struck the fatal blow.
709
00:40:36,601 --> 00:40:39,001
While Mark stood by and watched?
710
00:40:39,070 --> 00:40:41,470
No. We don't believe that
he was there when it happened.
711
00:40:41,539 --> 00:40:45,976
Really? And just where
was he, Mrs. Fletcher?
712
00:40:46,044 --> 00:40:48,376
He was at the hospital
murdering his wife.
713
00:40:52,717 --> 00:40:55,845
Play "Hail Columbia" and salute the flag!
714
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,911
Will you listen to that!
[Laughs]
715
00:40:59,224 --> 00:41:02,352
- That is what happened,
isn't it, Becky? - No!
716
00:41:02,427 --> 00:41:05,021
Isn't that why you refused
to take the lie detector test,
717
00:41:05,096 --> 00:41:10,466
because you were afraid if you were
asked if Mark had killed your husband in self-defense and you answered yes,
718
00:41:10,535 --> 00:41:14,801
the machine would showthat you were lying? No!
719
00:41:14,873 --> 00:41:16,966
Not a shred of this will fly.
720
00:41:17,041 --> 00:41:21,978
You try usin' this in court,
and I'll set your run for state office back 10 years.
721
00:41:22,046 --> 00:41:26,244
Oscar, we are not talking politics here.
We are talking cold-blooded murder.
722
00:41:26,317 --> 00:41:30,048
Mark Reynolds had been
to the Bide-A-Wee motel at least six times.
723
00:41:30,121 --> 00:41:32,214
How many others might
he have gone to?
724
00:41:32,290 --> 00:41:35,817
And on the night of his wife's dying,
he picked up another woman in a tavern.
725
00:41:35,894 --> 00:41:40,422
- It was an accidental encounter.
- A woman he'd been seen with six weeks earlier.
726
00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:42,932
That testimony was refuted
by cross-examination.
727
00:41:43,001 --> 00:41:45,731
Not refuted, merely challenged.
Mrs. Fletcher,
728
00:41:45,803 --> 00:41:49,136
maybe you can make somethin' like this
work in one of your novels,
729
00:41:49,207 --> 00:41:51,266
but not in a court of law.
730
00:41:51,342 --> 00:41:54,778
That was the first time I saw him.
You heard the bartender.
731
00:41:54,846 --> 00:41:58,680
And the bartender heard what
you and Mark wanted him to hear.
732
00:41:58,750 --> 00:42:01,878
[Jessica's Voice Continues]The reason for the accidental meeting was...
733
00:42:01,953 --> 00:42:04,547
to give Mark an alibifrom a so-called stranger.
734
00:42:04,622 --> 00:42:07,420
His motive is clear.
He loved Becky.
735
00:42:08,860 --> 00:42:12,125
His wife ofless than a yearhad all the money.He wanted both.
736
00:42:12,196 --> 00:42:14,426
Next thing you'll sayis the car accident...
737
00:42:14,499 --> 00:42:17,400
that damn near killed him
and his wife was deliberate.
738
00:42:17,468 --> 00:42:19,595
Well, I believe that it was.
739
00:42:19,671 --> 00:42:22,333
A former professional
race car driver?
740
00:42:22,407 --> 00:42:24,739
He staged it so that
his wife would be killed.
741
00:42:24,809 --> 00:42:27,471
He wore a seat belt.
She never did.
742
00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:30,446
He slammed her side of the car
into that utility pole.
743
00:42:30,515 --> 00:42:33,279
[Continues]It was made-to-order murder.
744
00:42:33,351 --> 00:42:36,616
Remember the paramedicsaying she asked "Why"?
745
00:42:36,688 --> 00:42:39,987
She was askingwhy he tried to kill her.
746
00:42:40,058 --> 00:42:42,356
The fact thatshe didn't die on impact...
747
00:42:42,427 --> 00:42:47,126
and the fact that the doctor saidshe could regain consciousnessand expose him...
748
00:42:47,198 --> 00:42:51,100
meant he had to quickly
improvise a foolproof alibi.
749
00:42:51,169 --> 00:42:55,333
He called Becky.
Who else could he trust?
750
00:42:55,406 --> 00:42:58,807
And what better alibi than tobe in bed with another woman?
751
00:43:01,613 --> 00:43:04,673
She's wrong. Mr. Ramsey,
you have to believe me.
752
00:43:04,749 --> 00:43:09,482
It would have workedexcept for two unforeseen events.
753
00:43:09,554 --> 00:43:12,250
First, was your being
remembered by the motel man.
754
00:43:12,323 --> 00:43:15,349
The other was your husband's
learning of your being in that tavern.
755
00:43:15,426 --> 00:43:20,295
When he did, when he came hometo your house, he found you alone.
756
00:43:20,365 --> 00:43:25,462
Now, you couldn't let anyone know
Mark wasn't with you, so you had to kill him.
757
00:43:25,536 --> 00:43:28,130
That's not how it happened!
He was furious! He had a gun-
758
00:43:28,206 --> 00:43:30,868
Don't say any more!
759
00:43:34,479 --> 00:43:36,811
I'm not going to face this alone.
760
00:43:36,881 --> 00:43:39,975
Miss Anderson,
don't incriminate yourself.
761
00:43:40,051 --> 00:43:42,519
If she wants to cooperate, Oscar,
we could cut a deal...
762
00:43:42,587 --> 00:43:44,714
if the husband's death
really was self-defense.
763
00:43:46,524 --> 00:43:49,152
Even if Mrs. Fletcher's right...
764
00:43:49,227 --> 00:43:52,162
and my client and Reynolds
were mixed up in his wife's murder?
765
00:43:52,230 --> 00:43:54,357
She could plead second degree
in the wife's death.
766
00:43:57,602 --> 00:43:59,627
I want Mark Reynolds.
767
00:44:01,472 --> 00:44:03,963
Becky?
768
00:44:08,713 --> 00:44:10,704
All right.
769
00:44:12,216 --> 00:44:14,241
Tell us the entire story.
770
00:44:20,525 --> 00:44:23,153
I was alone.
771
00:44:24,762 --> 00:44:30,257
[Continues]Mark had been gone a halfhour,40 minutes by the time Cliff came.
772
00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:32,461
He was in a rage.
773
00:44:32,537 --> 00:44:35,335
He said all sorts of-
774
00:44:35,406 --> 00:44:39,399
He was horrible. Ugly.He had a gun.
775
00:44:39,477 --> 00:44:42,105
He wouldn't believe I was alone.
776
00:44:42,180 --> 00:44:45,240
And when he found out I was,
he demanded to know...
777
00:44:45,316 --> 00:44:47,375
who the man was
and where he was.
778
00:44:47,452 --> 00:44:51,354
He swore he'd kill him.
And me. L-
779
00:44:51,422 --> 00:44:55,188
The poker was in my hand.
780
00:44:55,259 --> 00:44:57,227
And I hit him.
781
00:45:00,031 --> 00:45:01,965
He fell.
782
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,266
It was a-
a half hour maybe,
783
00:45:07,338 --> 00:45:10,432
maybe more when-
when Mark came back.
784
00:45:11,776 --> 00:45:15,371
He said it was made-to-order.A foolproof alibi.
785
00:45:16,948 --> 00:45:20,645
He'd confess to killing Cliffin self-defense and-
786
00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:26,987
and that way no one wouldhave the slightest hint thathe'd killed his wife in cold blood.
787
00:45:28,659 --> 00:45:31,560
And to make certain that it
looked like self-defense,
788
00:45:31,629 --> 00:45:35,861
he saw to it that his fingerprintswere on the poker...
789
00:45:35,933 --> 00:45:39,664
and that the powder traceswere on his left hand.
790
00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:42,638
So with the bullet fired into the wall,
791
00:45:42,707 --> 00:45:45,904
all that was left was
for you to call the police.
792
00:45:50,681 --> 00:45:55,311
He said it was easy to
sneak into his wife's hospital room.
793
00:45:58,256 --> 00:46:00,952
A pillow over her face-
794
00:46:03,861 --> 00:46:07,058
As weak as she was,
she died almost instantly.
795
00:46:19,177 --> 00:46:22,044
The deal holds, Oscar,
but I'll need her on the witness stand.
796
00:46:23,581 --> 00:46:25,515
She'll be there.
797
00:46:39,397 --> 00:46:41,957
Ah, Mrs. Fletcher.
Oh, Mr. Reynolds.
798
00:46:43,334 --> 00:46:45,666
How can I thank you
for your verdict?
799
00:46:45,736 --> 00:46:47,670
There's no need.
800
00:46:47,738 --> 00:46:50,673
The satisfaction is knowing
that the right thing has been done.
801
00:46:50,741 --> 00:46:55,838
Nevertheless,
I just want you to know I'll always remember you.
802
00:46:56,914 --> 00:46:59,678
Oh, yes.
I'm quite sure you will.
803
00:47:07,825 --> 00:47:09,884
[All Murmuring]
804
00:47:09,934 --> 00:47:14,484
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