All language subtitles for Lou Grant s05e06 Doublecross

Hello, I'm calling from the trip. I'd
like to confirm a phone call. How much

money was involved?

Was it over a thousand dollars?

Was it over ten thousand dollars?

I saved you a piece of the Matheson
building.

Sorry, Mr.

Demolition. Why did you put yourself
through that, Margaret?

I wouldn't have gone on a bet.

I thought someone from the Historical
Society should be there to make Alex

Matheson feel guilty.

Did you?

Not for a minute.

He was so busy overseeing with a silver
hard hat on his head.

He looked like he was wearing an ice
bucket.

Well, we put up a good fight to save the
building.

Alex Madison has sat with us on the
board of the Historical Society for

Now, he's responsible for tearing down
one of our most important buildings.

I've already spoken to some of the other
board members.

Everyone's in agreement to throw the
rascal out.

Listen, I'm just a hired hand here, but
I'd hate to lose a guy with his money.

Let me offer you a compromise.

What are you doing this afternoon?

Hello, Alex.

They told us to come right out.

Wonderful, Margaret. Wonderful.

Dad?

Do you remember Margaret Finchot?

Mr. Matheson, how in the world are you?

And this gentleman is the archivist at
the Society.

Dr. Michael Shepard. How do you do? Mrs.
Dupree, who's taking care of Dad for

us. Hi.

You know, Dad and I were just talking
how ironic this whole business is.

You know, that building has always been
an embarrassment to the family.

His father put up the first building 100
years ago. The 34 earthquake destroyed

it. Dad built on top of it, and then he
caught hell from everyone because they

couldn't stand the way it looked.

Well, nobody's denying it was
monumentally ugly.

And now the board wants to get rid of me
for tearing it down. That's right.

Your only ally is this one here. I'd
hate for the society to lose you.

When we were making our last -minute try
for a restraining order, I did some

research. And in the cornerstone of that
building, there's a time capsule.

Margaret and I would like to suggest
that you open it up and offer its

to the city.

A time capsule. You're kidding.

It's nice having an historian around,
isn't it?

I had no idea.

Did you, Dad?

A time capsule in the building?

Alex, how about giving a nice little
gift to the city at its 200th year?

Well, that cornerstone was probably
destroyed when they took the building

The time capsule is in the cornerstone
of the original building, which is

actually eight feet underground and
hasn't been disturbed.

Margaret, you're talking about a lot of
money.

Excavation, God knows what else.

You single -handedly robbed this city of
a landmark.

I'm not going to let you off the hook.

I can see you're not.

All right.

We'll dig up the capsule, open it up,
see what's inside.

Good.

The society would be delighted to help
you plan the ceremony.

The ceremony?

Well, you are giving it to the people of
the city, aren't you?

Why not have some of the people around?
We'd be glad to help.

Good enough.

Thank you, Alex.

Well, that's the least we can do. I
should say it is.

Mrs. Dupree, would you be good enough to
show it away?

I'd be happy to. Goodbye, then.

Mr. Madison?

Bye -bye.

Can you believe it?

They didn't even know it was there.

I had no choice, Dad.

Don't worry, we'll pull it off.

A time capsule?

Tomorrow afternoon, I want you to give
us a little history.

L .A. history, I love it. That's
whatever was there before the freeway

built. I hear they've excavated the
first fiberglass surfboard.

This city is 200 years old. I know, I
know.

Talk to Dr. Shepard at the Historical
Society.

Find out what's in the time capsule.

Give me a little background.

A little gee whiz, nothing ever stays
the same, or gee whiz, nothing ever

changes. Gotcha. By the numbers.

Let that be our secret.

Who among those gathered at the building
site did not long to be a traveler in

time to glimpse that date in the future
when our gifts would be revealed?

They don't let me write like that, I'll
tell you. Well, a lot of that grand

style is compensation for living in a
town with unpaved streets and flooding

every winter.

How big was L .A. in 1881?

Maybe 15 ,000.

The first of the Mathersons built just
before the boom.

Are you from L .A.? Yep.

Even my parents are native. They were
the ones that got me interested in

history.

Okay, the Spanish came first. Then
Mexico?

No, first it was the Indians.

Then Spain did some exploration and
Russia, though they probably never got

far south.

May I?

Sure. One of the perks of this job.

So in the 18th century, Spain started to
colonize California.

She recruited 11 Mexican families, some
of whom I'm proud to say were descended

from black African slaves, to set up a
pueblo here.

Los Angeles was part of Mexico for some
time and then became part of the United

States. And I found the list of what's
in the time capsule.

Oh, great.

All right. Go ahead.

A proclamation from the city council.

A 48 stanza poem from the Roses in
January Society.

Samples of this season's walnut crop.

and something called the Pastor Cross.

Pastor, that's one of the early
families.

You may have something interesting here.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here
on A &E.

Once upon a time, the Madison family
didn't get along.

I haven't heard that late since I read
Jack and Jill. I'm giving you

I managed to make this story into
something kind of compelling, and I just

you to tell me how much can end up in
the story.

Okay.

Okay.

There was this feud between the two
halves of the Madison family.

And when the first Madison guy died,
which was about 1870 or so, his two sons

fought over everything. The house, the
branch, the business.

Eventually it all got settled in court,
except for one item.

Season tickets to the Rams.

A golden cross, encrusted with precious
stones.

It was named the pastor crop after this
early settler who came up from Mexico.

This guy's daughter got smallpox.

So he hammered out this cross for her,
which supposedly helped heal her.

Can you see why this is going to be way
over 400 words?

No, it's not.

Just say this settler. Pastor. Right.
Pastor made this cross. It's loaded with

significance. And gorgeous.

It's supposed to be gorgeous.

Reputed to be gorgeous.

That's four words.

Then just go on with the Madison feud.

And the story is that the Mathesons
decided to patch things up, so they

the cross in the cornerstone of their
new building, which is now rubble, and

tomorrow we all get to see it.

Now we're talking.

Ancient feuds, family secrets, present
jewels.

Don't get your hopes up, Lou. This is
all past history.

Where are you going to park?

Do you know where to park right now?

Oh, Ann, look. Oh, God.

I don't know. Are you going to get us
killed?

Which Mathesons are feuding with which?

Oh, nobody's feuding with anybody. That
was a hundred years ago. Right. I'm

going to go. Right.

the bright idea of a new time capsule
for the Madison Tower, and he wants me

assemble it. Well, that's terrific.

Oh, sure, Dr.

Shepard. You weren't railroaded into
doing all the work.

Now here, Mrs. Pinchot, Charlie's tied
up. You can take my seat. I have to be

front anyway.

Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, please find
yourself a comfortable seat.

Oh, jinx, Madison.

Meet Lou Grant.

My metropolitan editor.

How do you do?

Hello? Matheson.

Shouldn't you be up there?

No, because Alex Matheson and I recently
divorced.

Sorry. And he got custody of the podium.

Please be seated.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Okay, Jenks. Give us a five -hour play.

My pleasure.

My father couldn't be with us, but we
promised to give him a full report.

I'd like now to have each member of the
family take a crack at this.

Helen? First, my sister Helen.

Don't you love old Helen with a purse?

First son, Denley?

Who has just sunk $30 ,000 into a movie
which he can kiss goodbye.

My son, Alex Jr.

Stand up straight, darling.

He looks wonderful.

Thank you.

Nice job, son. Nice job.

And little Alex, still the biggest
thief.

Now the other members of the Matheson
family, whom we don't get to see often

enough.

This is my grandfather's brother's side
of the family. We'll start off with

Bill. Bill?

That old goat looks great.

Must make Alice's day a green.

His daughter, Mary Jane.

I'm sorry. Mary Alice.

Alice, you're such a trip.

Her sons, Brad and Don.

Do the two sides of the family get
together much? Oh, they never get

Of course, I was only with Alex 30
years, so don't go by me.

Now, yours truly.

Sign? Can you give me a hand with this?

Oh, this is something.

A proclamation from the city council.

A lovely verse from the Roses in January
Society.

The walnuts didn't travel very well. I
believe I'll leave them in.

Oh, my.

I believe this is the Pastor Cross.

The Matheson's family gift to the city
of Los Angeles.

Thank you all for coming.

Remind me not to store my gold jewelry
in granite. That thing turned green.

Anything real gold turned green.

Gentlemen, I'd love to get a shot of you
all together.

Why don't you get them, pal? It's their
party.

Billy, I got news for you.

This feud's alive and well.

How sick do you think the old guy is?

Maybe he's had another stroke.

You think he's sick enough to ask them
to bring it out?

Well, maybe we should start watching the
house.

This could be our chance.

Yeah.

Excuse me.

Is there something I can do for you?

No.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here
on A &E.

I told advertising to run it any time we
have something drop out in the next few

days. Fine. What's it about?

Well, I considered soliciting items for
the new time capsule from official

sources. Wouldn't that be awfully
predictable?

I'm going to go straight to the public.

You're going to get swamped. That's my
hope.

Tell me, where would you go to buy a
time capsule?

Geez, they're making you do it all,
aren't they?

Can't you find a manufacturer?

A time capsule manufacturer?

Try and find that in your yellow pages.

No, Mr. Hume. It's a lost art, like loot
making.

Or TV repair.

Hey, have you checked with a casket
maker?

Spare me. Don't they seem perfect? They
have all that subterranean business down

pat.

You may be right.

Should I make a couple calls for you?

Just don't let them talk you into
anything with a satin lining.

All I'm saying is that the cross I saw
didn't measure up to what I read about.

So it wasn't worth the bill, then?

Have you ever seen the Mona Lisa in
person?

No. Well, everybody says it's smaller
than they figured it could be. Have you

seen the Mona Lisa?

No.

But I met Forrest Evashevsky once, which
is the same thing.

He's a big guy, but not as big as I
thought he was.

He knows perfectly well I never heard of
Forrest Evashevsky.

Who's Tom Harmon's blocker at Michigan?

He knows perfectly well I never heard of
Tom Harmon.

Ricky Nelson's father -in -law.

Oh.

Have you ever heard of Lasagna?

Yes. Did you ever see a frozen lasagna
that looked as good as the picture on

box? No.

It's hyped.

It's like the Mona Lisa's hyped.

It's like the Pastore Costas hyped a
hundred years ago. It's simple as that.

Keep talking about hype.

Never loan me books again. Never. Aren't
you trustworthy?

Trustworthy? I'm conscience -stricken.
I'm afraid to leave them in my car or on

my desk because they're somebody else's
and I end up lugging them around with me

all the time.

All this is my reporter's gracious way
of saying thank you. And I hope that we

work together again on another exciting
story.

What, are you leaving?

What did you think about the cross?

Nice. I thought it was nice.

Well, I was disappointed.

Were you?

So was I. That grimy little green thing.

Do you think that people were
exaggerating when they talked about how

spectacular it was?

You know what bothers me?

That cornerstone was sitting there for a
few days.

What kind of security does demolition
site get?

Practically none.

Especially since nobody knew the
cornerstone contained anything valuable.

Well, what if somebody did know?

Well, we found out. What if somebody
else did, too?

You think someone stole the cross to
replace it with a fake one?

I'm just throwing open the question for
discussion.

I mean, even as a hunk of gold, that
cross has got to be worth an awful lot.

it's a matter of public record that it
was there.

We saw the capsule cracked open. It was
mortared shut.

But how long does it take mortar to dry?
Maybe it was opened and re -mortared.

Besides, I didn't think real gold turned
green.

Neither did I. A simple little test
could straighten this out.

You think the capsule was tampered with?

I don't.

Well, I have a reporter here who is a
little concerned that your pastor cross

not the pastor cross.

I'm sure he's wrong.

She? Her name is Billy Newman.

Oh, yes.

The girl who wrote the story.

That's right.

I'll bet the museum would be willing to
analyze the cross.

Would you let them take a look at it?

Well, I'd be a fool not to, don't you
think?

Crossy? I'll send him up, I guess.

Where?

A Conrad von Hauser wants to see me.

Who's that?

You mean he's not some famous block and
tackle from out of the past?

Sounds like he should be in puttees.
With a shaved head and a megaphone. The

kind of guy who always takes the stairs.

I think he's here.

We really nailed that one.

Oh, Mr. Von Hassel. Miss Newman?

Yes. What can I do for you? Mr.

Matheson asked me to pay you a visit.
Mr. Alex Matheson? That's right.

Come right in here.

Who?

What do you need me for? I want you to
hear this.

Mr. Matheson knew you were concerned
about the authenticity of the Pasteur

course. He asked me to share the results
of my test with you.

Mr. Van Hazen, this is Lou Grant.

I'm just here to listen. Are you from a
museum?

I'm an independent appraiser and a
chemist. Is the course genuine?

In my opinion, without a doubt.

Why is it green?

The cornerstone was lined in copper and
not entirely airtight.

And the walnuts... emitted gases as they
began to break down. And finally, the

method for refining gold was much cruder
200 years ago.

And those impurities within the metal
reacted with the gases, resulting in a

greenish cast on the cross.

I see.

Here is my verification that the stones
are genuine.

And this authenticates the style and
craftsmanship as appropriate for the

18th century.

And here are x -rays taken of the cross.

Do you have copies of these?

These are copies.

Then can I keep them?

Of course.

I guess I'm kind of disappointed.

That's true of so many legendary works.

The Mona Lisa, for example, is much
smaller than people realize.

So is Forrest Avershevsky.

Please.

Can we call you if we have any
questions? Of course. We'll be in touch.

I thought you were going to listen.

I did.

You must feel like a price cassava right
now, wasting our valuable time like

that. I could have been right.

Here, this is yours.

Thanks.

All right, enough is enough.

What?

Mrs. Pinchon telling me what I can't
write.

Now listen, Mrs. Pinchon, at your paper
and at your rug I'm standing on...

and it's your door I just accidentally
slammed. That's right, Mr. Grant, as far

as the eye can see, unless you look out
of the window. What do you want? I don't

mind when you call me with story ideas.
Oh, sure you do. Well, I do, but not as

much as I did at first.

But when you go around me, when you deal
directly with my reporters... Which I

never do.

Well, you certainly do. Not only go
around me, but kill a story out of the

What? When it's a story you wanted in
the first place.

I didn't do it.

Are you denying you called the city room
and told Billy to forget the past door

cross follow -up?

I swear to you, on my desk, on my rug,
and my $3 million

loan at 20 % floating interest, I have
not called Miss Newman since she wrote

that grisly story about the man who kept
the Gila monsters in his car.

I believe you.

Must be some mix -up. I'm sure that's
it.

Sorry I jumped the gun.

It's understandable.

Why don't we just forget this ever
happened?

Not on your life.

Was it Mrs. Pinchon who called for Billy
or her secretary?

Neither. Were you sure it was a he?

Disguising his voice.

Right, Lou. And hoping a dummy would
answer.

He was just a normal -sounding man.

He said he had a message, and the
message was that Mrs. Pinchon wanted

stop whatever it was.

Someone's trying to keep you off the
story?

You mean somebody besides you?

Notarized authentications, right? Look
at the notary seal. It's expired.

In 1962.

He tells us about gases escaping from
decaying walnut.

Do I say that's the dumbest thing I ever
heard? Do you?

Not true, huh? Oh, Conrad, that is a
bunk sandwich, and we swallowed it

We're holding up x -rays and nodding
like we know what we're looking for.

I am not.

Who's the cassava now?

Aren't you sick to death of being the
Madison's fool?

When are you going to turn me loose on
this story?

Tonight.

Thanks. Okay, here's my list of all the
ways the cross was described in the

past. Palm -sized.

And the one we've got is four by three,
palm -sized.

Okay. Gold?

Well, we know this one is a lot less
gold than something else, probably

Hammered? Hammered, right.

Adorned with native stones, tourmaline,
agate, and morganite?

So is this one.

The Paso brand is on the back. That's
there. I remember the letter P.

Right.

Each family had a brand registered with
the Spanish government. They used it to

keep the livestock straight. I've got a
monograph on it.

It's not alphabetical.

Are the Pastors in there?

Ah,

Pastor. You're right. The letter P.

Let's look at the P on the cross.

That's not the same.

No. That's not a brand.

It's not because I want it so badly, and
it's not because I've had nothing but

oranges since breakfast. The newspaper
said brand, and the pastoral brand has a

little tail on it. It certainly does.

Which the cross does not.

You're right.

Dr. Shepard, the Matheson family has
given the city of Los Angeles a cheap

imitation. What do you say we tell the
world?

We've got a couple of classes together,
and, uh, you know how you feel like you

know each other if you see a person day
after day?

So I invited her to a movie, and she
said she'd really like it.

Where are you going to take her?

Where do I always take her to the first
date?

Right, Granddad?

Mario's tomorrow night.

You need something, Dad?

Got any paper?

really a bad time to try to bring it
out.

Must really feel like he needs it.

I'll get it for you, Dad.

Soon.

I promise.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here
on A &E.

A &E returns to Lou Grant.

I'm sorry. I am not allowed to tell
anyone what a stinker Alex was.

That was part of the settlement.

Listen, I don't know what he did to you
in 30 years, but he has given the city a

worthless fake for which he will
probably get a tax write -off.

Unless he's exposed.

Now, maybe you're not interested in
revenge, but we are.

Anything I tell you, I'm not telling
you. Fair enough?

Thank you.

What is your ex -husband's relationship
to the other part of the Matheson

family? They're not so rich, Matheson.

We are the filthy rich Mathesons.

Oh, jeez.

Well, the first I knew of it was when I
invited them to little Alex's

christening by mistake.

And Alex went crazy.

He had his lawyer send him a letter
saying, don't come, you're not invited

all.

And that was lesson number one.

I never knew.

Do you have any idea why some members of
the family would be watching the house?

You mean snooping?

No,

why would you think that?

Something I overheard at the ceremony.

I can't imagine why.

I would love to meet one of the Matheson
men.

Could you get me an introduction to your
son?

Come on, come on.

Watch your step, though. It's a little
bit slippery.

Alex, are you sure we're allowed in
here? This is a drainage ditch. Sure.

This whole mural's sponsored by that
historical society my dad's in.

I did the Pueblo Street.

Oh, with the adobe and everything?

No, no, no, no, the street. The dirt.

I colored it in.

It's neat, isn't it?

I like drawing, but I gotta say I'm
pretty awful at it.

Anyhow, is this thing great or what?

It is great.

I never heard of ditch painting before.

If you don't like how it turned out, you
can wait for the rainy season, right?

Oh, it's not going to wash off.

I hope it's not going to wash off.

I think it's really appropriate in L .A.
for us to paint a zanya.

That's ditches in Spanish.

That's the way the city got its water
for 100 years, in ditches. And every

a flood.

You're really steeped in history, huh?

I'm really steeped in ditch history and
what I know I flaunt.

My great -great -grandfather's first job
here was as a zanjaro.

That's ditch digger.

I made them put him in the mural.

See the guy right up here in the brown
hat?

Oh, it looks like you.

Yeah, right.

I guess he was really kind of a pirate.

Not on a ship or anything, just a guy
who thought rules were for other people.

Dad says that's what L .A. was like back
then.

But I'll tell you something. I like
thinking that there's a gene or a

or something in that old guy and me.

Even if it's a ditch -digger chromosome.

Come on, I'll show you the rest.

You see this up here?

Uh -huh. All this blue? Uh -huh. And the
water down here? I did all that.

Oh, you colored that in?

Well, yeah.

Mr. Matheson?

Oh, hi.

I've been talking to your son.

He's seeing if he can find a picture of
your ancestor, the Zon Harrow.

All right.

It looks like you've been doing a little
ditch digging yourself.

Well, the gardener left the sprinkler
on, and I had to turn it off.

Billy, I've got it.

Nice to see you again.

It's hard to realize there's a real guy
there. I think it's that old -time

photography. Yeah.

Uh, Alex?

Yeah?

I know that the cross your family gave
the city is a fake.

What?

And I know your family has the real
cross.

I know about the fighting with the other
side of the family and how they're

planning to watch the house.

Who told you?

I can't say. I know who told you. It was
either Brad or Don.

I can't tell you if it were Brad or Don.

And they told you about Eagle's Nest, I
suppose.

Sure. You better get your facts
straight, because I'll tell you right

and Don are liars.

Are you F. Charles Hume?

Oh, my God.

You are?

I told Billy you couldn't be.

I was a 23 -year -old kid at the time. I
suppose you weren't pretentious at 23.

F. Charles Hume.

Where'd you catch up with me?

It's a byline in a clip file.

What does the F stand for?

It doesn't stand for anything, unless
you count F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I didn't realize I ever had a byline
back in my cub reporting days.

This was before Detroit?

Oh, yeah.

This was my very first job while I was
still in college.

Well, I've got a question for you, F.
Charles.

Sure.

1949, James Donald Matheson died.

Yeah, yeah.

Freak hunting accident at a family
estate high in the Sierras.

I don't remember this too well.

Billy's trying to figure out what
something called Eagle's Nest is, and

across this clip.

Could the family estate mentioned in the
story be Eagle's Nest?

Certainly what I'd name my family
estate.

I wish I could tell you for sure.

Gee, the guy was 24.

I remember this. This was a terrible
story.

The family kept it quiet because it was
such a sad accident.

This guy, James Matheson, had arrived
for a visit and nobody knew that he was

the grounds.

Other members of the family were out
hunting.

And this poor guy, James, he didn't have
a red jacket or anything.

They saw motion in the woods.

They shot him. That poor family, they
were devastated.

I bet they were.

First of all, the cross is ours.

My great -great -grandfather told my
great -grandfather, before he died, that

matter what happened, he wanted him to
have it.

Because they thought it saved him when
he was real sick as a baby.

Have you got the cross?

We will.

You're planning to steal it?

They stole it.

We're just getting it back.

What is your claim to the cross?

We've had it 80 out of the last 100
years.

That ought to tell you something.
They've got no scruples about taking

isn't theirs.

Now, you see how rich they all got.

You think you'd get that rich by
respecting what belongs to others?

The whole other side of the family is
bitter because we made it and they

It sounds terrible, but that's the
truth.

What is so important about the cross?

Well, they used to think it had healing
powers.

My granddad kind of believes that, too.

I don't know, when I'm an old guy, I may
even believe it myself.

That cross is our connection with where
we came from. Who we are. Our father was

James Matheson. He was just 25.

And just getting out of the service.

When he found out that Maxwell Sr.

was sick and the cross would be coming
out at Eagle's Nest. There was never any

hunting accident.

James Matheson went to Eagle's Nest to
steal.

Remember now, my father was totally
alone.

He had a gun and a knife.

There weren't even any bullets in the
gun.

It was dark.

Everyone thought he was a prowler. He
knew all along who he was. We fired into

the air, but he kept coming. They said
there was a warning shot.

All I know is my father was hit.

It was a terrible tragedy.

But you put yourself in the wrong place
at the wrong time.

Terrible tragedies can happen.

My family made up the story about the
hunting accident to keep the world from

knowing that James Matheson was a thief.

Our side of the family went along with
the newspaper story because the truth

couldn't come out about the cross.

Our father, James Matheson, bled to
death on the way to the hospital.

August 1949.

August 5th, 1949.

My great -grandfather, Maxwell Matheson
Sr., died later that week.

But he was holding the cross.

They're coming, Granddad. Let me take
the cross.

Kyle, you remember my son, Alex Jr.?
Hello.

This is Bree.

Dad? Dr. Geiler's here.

Mr. Matheson, how are we doing tonight?

Would you like some help from either of
the gentlemen?

No. If you'll excuse us for a few
minutes.

Of course.

Huh?

You can't talk him into having an egg in
the morning.

I'll try.

He only wants ice cream.

They spoil him.

Well, do what you can.

Good night, Mr. Matheson.

Here you are.

Thanks.

Did I come in with a coat?

I don't think so.

Good night.

Good night.

Doctor, how is Mr. Matheson?

He's comfortable. We're keeping an eye
on him.

You a member of the family?

No, I'm a reporter.

Oh, well, nothing's going to happen in
that house tonight.

You go home. Get out of the night air.

Good idea.

Oh, doctor.

Oh, thank you. Yeah, good night.

Good night.

Hold it right there!

It's gone.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here
on A &E.

So the doctor pulls away and I'm sitting
there in my car in front of this big

Spanish mansion wondering what I'm doing
there when all of a sudden all these

floodlights go on. I hear angry voices.
The gate opens and a big black car about

a block long comes screaming down the
driveway right at me.

The Batmobile?

No, the Matheson's. The car swerves. It
flies up the road and disappears.

Meantime, she's flooded the engine. The
center's cold. What else could she do?

She calls me. She didn't have any idea
where they were going, but I figured

were headed for a showdown with the
other side of the family.

So anyway, we get to Brad and Don's
condominium just as the police are

the magazines away.

The boys? No, Alex and his son. And
they've been accused of ransacking the

condominium. I followed Alex and the kid
to Hillside Division where they accused

their doctor of conspiring with Brad and
Don to steal a piece of jewelry. The

cross. It's the cross.

They wouldn't say.

It's the cross.

And they're blaming the doctor? You saw
him last night. The doctor claims his

medical bag was stolen by a kid who
wanted the drugs in it. He says he's

innocent.

We were this close to the cross and we
lost it.

I think it's time to write your story.

This is the art department. Read the
stories they illustrate.

They told me no one gave them any
instructions.

It's described in the story.

What's going on? Oh, look at what
they've drawn for the Pasteur brand.

a plain old letter P, which is entirely
wrong.

Just show me what it should be and I'll
take care of it personally.

It has a little tail on the end of it.

Dry. Boy, you've got to spill everything
out, and even then it's a crapshoot.

It's the top part of a shepherd's crook.

Exactly. Thank you. Tell them it's a
shepherd's crook, and maybe then they'll

get it right.

Fine with me.

Whoa. I am so dumb. I was so dumb. Now I
am so smart.

What did the Pastors do for a living?

Which Pastors?

The ones who first came to Los Angeles.

The Spanish government recruited
settlers according to their skills,

What did the Pastors do?

They raised sheep.

Which is why they designed their brand
as the top of a shepherd's cook.

Sure.

I really appreciate all the help you've
given me on this story.

It's my pleasure.

Whenever I dead -ended, you always gave
me something to keep me going.

Glad to help.

I was ready to drop the story when you
told me you thought the cross was a

disappointment. And I wouldn't have
found out about the brands if it hadn't

for you.

You even kept me on the story without me
knowing it. What do you mean?

Calling the paper with that phony
message from Mrs.

Pinchon. I'm sure you knew how mad that
would make me.

Now you're guessing.

Yes.

But I'm not guessing that the name
Pastor translates in English as

Where's the cross, Dr. Shepherd?

Are you going to the time capsule
ceremony tomorrow?

You haven't answered my question.

Yes, I have.

From Sandy Boland of La Puente, an
itemized bill from her auto mechanic.

From Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Olinsky of Santa
Monica.

This can of Diet Tiki Fruit Punch with a
note to future Angelenos. You've

probably dug up a lot of these plastic
things with six holes and wondered what

they were. Now you know.

I'm from Diana Lopez in Monterey Park,
age 11.

Our school lunch menu for the week past
with stars

drawn after...

Items that she liked the most, including
pizza burger and something called

bloody pudding. And she's written ick
next to fiesta casserole and vegetable

medley.

From Harold Chen of Westwood, one day's
classified section of the Los Angeles

Times. From? Also.

Excuse me, go ahead. He has included a
copy of the city budget.

for this bicentennial year.

From Joan and Paul Giancarlo, a packet
of all the junk mail they received in a

week.

And I break for Blonde's bumper sticker.

From Kurt Bradley of Pond.

And this is from a fellow Angeleno who
wishes to remain anonymous.

A plastic packet filled with assorted...

Uh, pills.

And finally, a snapshot from the Tran
family of Van Nuys taken last Labor Day.

Thank you all.

Alex Matheson, whose building this will
be, cannot be with us today because of a

family emergency.

He has asked Dr.

Michael Shepard of the Friends of the
Past to address us. Dr. Shepard.

As those of you who read the Tribune
today know, the cross donated in the

Matheson name to the city of Los Angeles
is not the authentic Pastor Cross,

which is probably just as well, since it
was never the Mathesons to give away in

the first place.

Louis Maria Pastor, the man who made the
cross, was swindled out of everything

he had long ago by the first of the
Mathesons.

On behalf of his descendants, Mr.

and Mrs. Alfred Shepard, and my sister,
Mrs. Virginia Dupree, on behalf of

my grandfather, Arthur Lewis Shepard,
who worked for 42 years in the boiler

of the Matheson building, so that when
the next earthquake came, he would be

first to retrieve his great
-grandfather's cross.

I'm glad he never learned they buried a
fake.

On behalf of all of the men and women
who built the city of Los Angeles, whose

names will never be remembered because
they could not write, and whose pictures

were never recorded because no one
thought to do it, I return the Pastor

Cross to our city of angels.

Ah, my Lord, he's got it.

property. You arranged your whole life
to get your hands on that cross and you

just gave it back.

There was nothing else to do. If I kept
the cross, it wouldn't legally be mine.

Besides, I just wanted to set the record
straight.

It's nuts.

You're nuts.

Oh.

Margaret.

Where are you headed, Margaret?

Back to paper. Walking?

I hope you don't mind my using the
Tribune the way I did.

I think we did rather well.

Have you got a minute?

I want to make a visit.

This is a big day.

It's been a long time since I've been in
the old plaza church.

That child getting married?

No, it's a presentation.

Quince Año's 15th birthday.

I was going to put it someplace more
public, but it didn't look right on

Percy.

What about the cross you just buried?

An even worse fake than the one the
Mathesons had made.

I think it's the last place they'll look
for a cross, is the church.

I've got to regret letting Alex stay on
the board.

He's going to try to have you fired.

The smart money is on me, Margaret.

It's a story told by his children,
colleagues, and enemies.

We'll explore the complex political
career and little -known personal life

Nikita Khrushchev tonight on an all -new
biography.

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skill to kill?

Leonard Nimoy guest stars in Columbo,
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