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You're doing very well. A little bruising and swelling. You're perfectly

Just continue taking it easy.

See you in about two weeks, okay?

I just want to die every time I look in the mirror.

How could he have done that to me?

You'll feel better after you talk to Dr. West.

Please sit down.

The doctor will be right here.

Hello, Dr. Clark.

What's that?

I'm ready if you are.

I think you're going to be very pleased.

I want to see if I can make the swelling under your chin go down a bit faster.

A couple of things they need, I'll be right back.

Hey, darling.

You're a genius.

Thank you.

What you see now is not what you're going to see in six weeks. I assure you.

wanted a nose like Elizabeth Taylor's now. Look.

I am going to hit you with a malpractice suit the likes of which you have never

seen. Miss Ferguson, please. You're overreacting.

Oh, what's the use?

She's an emotional wreck. You should never have operated on her.

Maybe the way I scream, my patience leaves something to be desired.

But it seems to me you have the same problem.

I do?

We need to talk, Lowell.

Tonight.

Who am I? It's not going to happen.

Good morning, Miss Ferguson.

My name is Dr. Lowell Carr.

I'm Dr.

Weston's partner at the Plastic Surgery Clinic.

Yes? I understand you're unhappy with the rhinoplasty that he performed. I

wondered if I might have the opportunity to talk to you about it. You're not

going to change my mind. I assure you.

This will only take a moment.

Your paper.

Ooh! The coffee smells wonderful.

Would there be another cup where that came from?

Of course.

You want sugar?

Black's fine, thanks.

All right.

I'd like to propose that before you take any legal action, you and I get

together and see if we can find a more constructive way to rectify the

situation. What do you mean?

Well, for instance, I could reconstruct the nose.

And if there's a problem with some other anatomical feature, I could fix that,

too.

Are you saying that if I drop the malpractice suit, you'll give me a free

tuck or something?

My goal is to see you satisfied.

I don't want to keep you.

Why don't you think about it, and I'll give you a call this evening.

I should be home around 7 .30.

No, I have a dinner tonight.

Why don't you call the office tomorrow, and I'll tell Laura to squeeze you in

this week.

Thanks for the coffee.

And thanks for coming by.

Oh, thank you.

Oh,

I just saw your piece on your new skin grafting procedure in the journal. It

terrific. Well, thank you. I'd like to see your notes on the procedure.

Oh, send them over first thing tomorrow. If you agree that we stop talking shop,

buy me a drink. Deal.

Miss Ferguson?

Miss Ferguson?

It's me, Dr. Weston.

Yes, that's my knife, but I don't know how it ended up in Dr.

Weston's back or how he ended up in my house, for that matter. We found this in

his pocket.

Seems someone named Doreen Ferguson called him at 4 .30 this afternoon and

him to come to this address at 7 .15 tonight.

I didn't leave a message like that.

But you are one of his patients.

Was.

I was, yes.

I went to him for a nose job. I wanted him to make my nose smaller and make it

go up. instead of down, but thanks to that charlatan, I went from having a

to having a snout.

Oh, my God.

You think I killed him?

Well, for the sake of argument, where were you around 7 .15 tonight?

I was closing up the antique store I work at down on Ballard Street. Anybody

you? You bet someone saw me, the cretin who rear -ended me when I pulled out of

the parking lot. In fact...

Here, here is his name.

Here is his phone number. Here is his insurance company. Oh, oh, and here is

the badge number of the police officer who stopped to make sure everything was

okay.

Any other questions?

Nope.

Dr. West, someone murdered him in my home to make it look like I did it.

Oh, my God, Doreen.

Miss, do you remember seeing or hearing anything unusual around 7, 7 .30?

Um,

uh, oh, yes.

Actually, I saw a man go through the door right about that time.

Can you describe him?

Um, he was the same man that was here this morning. You know, right before you

went to work. We keep an eye on each other.

No attractive single women living alone cannot be too careful. Well, who would

that have been, Miss Ferguson?

Dr. Carr?

I was at her house yesterday morning.

Yes, but not last night, no.

But were you at home last night?

No, I was at the Southern Association of Physicians' dinner meeting at the

American Hotel with a couple hundred other doctors.

In fact, I was holding a seat for Scott. He said he'd be late.

He never showed.

Now I know why.

You two get along?

Well, we're friends.

Bob, Lowell's worked quite a few miracles in his career, but even he

two places at once.

Yeah. Well, that was dark. The neighbor must have mistaken him for somebody

else.

I can go back to my office?

Sure, I'll even drive you.

You got a sunblock?

Looks like I'm going to the beach.

Dr. Carr took something off my cheek a couple months back.

It wasn't skin cancer, but it could have been. Ever since then, sunblock.

Ozone layer's going to make a comeback.

You watch.

That's Gary.

He's my brother.

We're twins.

Loa left a message on my answering machine saying the police were taking

questioning, so I got down there as fast as I could.

Are you a doctor also?

Oh, no, ma 'am. I own a... Tune -up shop.

We docked the cars.

And did you know the victim, Dr. Weston?

Yes, of course.

Did you mean to ask Gary here that question?

Oh, you're Gary.

Very few people can keep us straight.

Yes. Let's see.

When did you arrive at the Southern Association of Physicians meeting last

night?

I wasn't at the Southern Association of Physicians meeting.

Dr. Carr, would you please stand up?

Thank you.

Now, Gary, did you know the victim, Dr. Weston?

Well, no, no, not really, no.

Where were you from 7 to 8 o 'clock last night?

I was in my office at the tune -up shop with one of my suppliers.

Thank you.

Now, Lowell, where were you from 7 to 8 o 'clock last night?

I was having drinks in the ballroom of the American Hotel.

Your nurse told the police that she overheard an argument between you and

West in the night before the murder, something concerning the breakup of your

partnership.

It was a discussion, not an argument.

Well, it was a heated discussion, wasn't it?

A heated discussion, yes.

Oh, you can sit down now.

I don't have any more questions, Lieutenant.

However, I would like to speak with Mr. Matlock outside, please.

I've never seen anything like this. Oh, I know.

Lowell committed that murder.

It's perfect. He's got an identical twin.

nobody's going to be able to say for sure who came out of that house.

You think so? And then he tries to frame somebody to boot, just making a mockery

out of the system. I really hate that.

Julie, the man's got an airtight alibi. Oh, come on, Ben. It's easy for somebody

to get out of a party and then slip back in unnoticed.

You're the one who's always pointing that out in court. And even if there

people with Lowell at that dinner...

How do we know it was Lowell and not his brother?

Well, how do we know the person the neighbor saw was Lowell? Using that

it could have been Gary. No, Gary didn't have motive.

Lowell did.

Julie, I just have a problem.

Ben, you and I have spent our entire working lives as officers of the court

upholding the system of justice. I'm sorry, but that man is making fools out

us.

And I'm going to prove it.

Did Gary ever speak to Dr. Weston? Well, he may say hi to Scott when he'd come

to pick me up for lunch or something, but that was about it.

They didn't socialize? No, never. Why are you asking me all these questions

about Gary?

Well, if the neighbor thought she saw you coming out of that house, it could

have been your twin.

No, never.

My brother couldn't commit the murder.

Hands will have to see what she's got. Boy, this is something.

You did this.

Yeah, I did.

You're pretty good.

Bet you're pretty expensive, too.

So are you.

Maybe we could work at a trade.

Do you need your services for mine?

Well, physical appearances are not inconsequential in your line of work.

Well... I've always been quite satisfied with my parents.

Oh, don't take offense.

As we say in my line of work, a little lift gives you quite a lift.

Why don't you take the book home, look at the before and after pictures, and

if it gives you some ideas.

No.

Coming or going? Going.

What's this?

Oh, it's a book this plastic surgeon gave me. I'm representing him.

Well, you know, it might not be a bad idea at that.

What?

Well, look at yourself.

Look at those crow's feet. The lines on your face.

You're getting there, pal.

Couple more years.

You think so?

Oh, yeah.

Now, I, on the other hand, will never need plastic surgery because I'll never

wrinkle.

Why? Skin pigmentation.

See? I happen to have this yellowish skin pigmentation that blots out

the sun's rays.

So? I'll never wrinkle.

You know, it's true. There are people with a yellowish pigmentation. It's

natural.

But, Les, your yellowish pigmentation could be a sign of

jaundice.

What are you talking about?

Jaundice. And the yellow is not just in the skin. It's in the whites of the

eyes.

Yep.

You had your liver checked lately.

See, jaundice is a symptom. It could be a sign of something else wrong with you.

Anemia, poor circulation, pneumonia.

It's probably nothing to worry about, but why don't we look in the phone book,

see if we can find a specialist on liver diseases.

You'll get checked out, and then you'll be...

All right.

How long have you been tuning up there?

Close to a year now.

Doing all right.

You want a soda or something?

No, no, thanks.

I think before that it was the ice cream business.

Yeah. And before that you owned the dry cleaners? Yes, sir, I did. And before

that it was a Christmas tree farm.

I've been having a little trouble finding myself now.

Unlike your brother who made it right away.

You jealous?

No, no, I'm not the...

I'm not the jealous type, no.

We get along well. Oh.

I understand you tried to borrow some money from him a few months back, and he

turned you down.

Yeah. How'd he turn you down?

Well, he gave me that speech on the value of the dollar and how adversity

character. He was right, of course.

So where'd you finally get the money?

Scott Weston?

No, I... I mean, I hardly knew Dr. Weston.

You see that hat over there?

Left here by a supplier of mine, a gentleman named Duke McKenna.

We had a meeting the night that Dr. Weston was killed. If you don't believe

you can call him up. You can ask him.

Well, maybe I will.

Yeah.

So, you ever need a tune -up? I'll call.

How you doing, my friend?

Great. You came through for me, Gary.

I'm grateful and impressed.

Thanks.

Does that mean we're square?

You bet.

Anytime,

my friend.

Anytime.

Stella, my brother's here.

I'm here.

Come on, let's grab a sandwich.

Is this your pen?

No. I think you meant to ask Dr. Carr.

Is this your pen?

Well, it...

Could be. It's a company I do business with. Their sales rep often leaves

promotional items like this behind after he's made a call.

Well, this pen was found on the ground outside the window of Doreen Ferguson's

home. The district attorneys concluded that it fell out of the killer's pocket

when he entered the house through the window.

I'm afraid you're under arrest.

What?

You're going to arrest him because of some lousy little pen?

Gary, it's okay. That's nuts! I mean, there must be hundreds of pens like

What, are you going to go out and arrest all those people too?

I'll take good care of it.

Coffee? No, thanks.

You son of a gun. You really had me going yesterday with that jaundice.

I went to my doc and I got a clean bill of health. Oh, I'm glad, lad.

Jaundice. You son of a gun.

He did say I was a little anemic, though, so he gave me some iron pills to

And I said, I don't want to take too much iron, doc.

I don't want to clank when I walk.

He laughed.

It's funny.

Yeah, what's in the sack here? Oh, well, I don't understand why anyone would

want to go through the pain and expense of plastic surgery when there's a simple

solution. Look, guys wear toupees, women wear wigs, false eyelashes and whatnot.

Okay, you're going out for the evening.

What's wrong with this? Turn around.

Go on, turn around, will you?

Hey.

Is this for you or what?

I mean, you could wear it all evening. Who would know?

Well, there's one problem I see right off.

Your mouth doesn't move when you talk.

So what?

Gregory Peck's mouth doesn't move when he talks. He gets away with it.

Hi. Hi.

Conrad.

Les, how you doing?

Oh, can't complain, can't complain.

Well, I better go.

Oh, don't rush off. No, stick around.

No, I got an appointment to have my shoes half sold.

So time is of the essence.

He was

wearing

a mask.

I know.

Have you ever thought he was a little weird?

Oh, yes. Often.

So how'd it go?

Oh, good.

Good. This morning I tailed Gary from his tune -up shop to a bar on the Grand

where I had a very brief but lively conversation with this guy.

His name's William Hodges.

Been in town less than a month.

Started managing the bar where he met with Gary about a week ago.

Know what they were talking about?

Couldn't hear.

Is there some connection between him and Dr. Weston?

Not that I know of. I did find out something interesting about the bar,

Used to be owned by Ken Grohman.

Oh, yeah, a mobster.

He disappeared about a year ago after being indicted for racketeering. Who

it now?

Holding company, the Guilfoyle Corporation.

Keep digging.

Yeah.

I was just on my way down there.

Run that by me again?

Ben, I'm telling you, I was given that pen after the murder. Are you sure?

Yes.

Ask Laura, my nurse. Or call the sales rep and ask him. I'm absolutely positive

that he came to see me the day after the murder.

After. Yeah.

Someone must have stolen that pen and put it under that window.

Deliberately.

My friend.

Hey. Oh, hey, I'm sorry.

I got something in my contact. Let me buy you another.

No, don't worry about it.

Don't move.

Please, don't move.

My contact fell out. You might step on it. Here, drinks all around, everybody.

Just everybody, please stay in your seats.

It should only take a minute.

Speak and you shall find.

Sorry about that.

He stopped by the day after Dr. Whitson died.

Well, I know because he gave me a pen, too.

I don't suppose either one of you remembers names.

Um, yes.

Brian something.

Terwilliger. Yes.

It hits on me every time he comes in. Oh.

Well, the pen's not here.

Thanks for your help, Laurie.

So, now what happens?

We're going to drop.

But we've just established that I couldn't have dropped the pen on the

the murder because I didn't have it yet.

Doesn't that blow a hole in the A's case?

Laurie heard you arguing with the deceased.

shortly before the murder, and another witness says she saw you coming out of

the house.

She's got a case.

I see.

Lowell, how you doing?

Oh, hi. Hi.

Dr. Alvin Prescott, this is my attorney, Ben Matlock.

I'm honored.

Listen, I was just in the neighborhood. I thought I'd stop by and pick up the

file.

What file?

The one that you promised me at the association dinner.

Your notes on your new skin grafting procedure. You said I could have them.

Right.

Right.

I'll run you off a copy. Why don't you stay right here?

See you tomorrow.

Yeah, right.

Julie, it has been an honor meeting you.

I like to think that you are to criminal law what I am to plastic surgery.

At approximately 7 .15, I saw a man leave Doreen's house through the front

Is the man you saw in the courtroom today?

Oh, yes. He's right over there.

Thank you.

Mr. Matlock?

Ms. Stanford, are you sure this is the man you saw that night?

Positive. The porch light was on. I saw his face clearly.

You're sure you saw this man?

And not this man.

Once again, Miss

Stanford, whom did you see that night?

I don't know.

Thank you.

Redirect? Yes, Your Honor.

Miss Stanford, what did the man you saw do after he left your neighbor's house?

He got into a car and drove away.

And what did that car look like? It was maroon. One of those new Japanese luxury

sports cars.

Is this the car he got into?

Yes, that's the car.

Let the record show the witness positively identified a photo of the

Owned by the defendant, Dr.

Lowell Carr.

That's all, Your Honor.

So noted.

Ben? In here.

Hey. You got something?

So I have.

When I started checking into the background of that guy that Gary Carr

I came up with nothing.

Zero. He's got no social security card, no driver's license.

That's odd. That's what I thought. So I stole the glass that he'd been drinking

out of and I had it checked for prints. What are you doing?

Nothing.

I just thought I saw something on my face that wasn't there yesterday.

It's probably just a little something that comes with age, huh?

Yeah.

So guess whose prints were on the glass?

Whose? Ken Groman's.

That's impossible.

He disappeared a year ago. I know what Ken Groman looks like. Everybody knows

what Ken Groman looks like. His picture was in the paper for weeks.

Plastic surgery?

Right.

Lowell? Yep.

Oh, no.

What?

Dr. Prescott.

Who's that?

Someone who was with Lowell at that dinner. He asked him to send him

out of his files, only he never did.

He didn't? No.

Because Lowell wasn't at that dinner.

Julie was right.

He was at Doreen Ferguson's, killing his partner.

Sleep much? No. I couldn't get my mind off this.

Dr. Weston must have found out that Lowell redid Ken Grumman's face, and

that's why he wanted to dissolve the partnership.

So what are you going to do?

Well, I was hired to give Lowell Carr the best defense possible, so I guess

give it a shot.

Mr. Matlock?

You may call your first witness.

Your Honor, I call Mr. Gary Carr to the stand.

What's going on? You'll see. You'll see.

Well, what's it like to be an identical twin, Mr. Carr?

Well, I...

Just always thought it was a fact of life.

You don't mind being a twin? No.

I should think it'd be difficult.

People always try to tell you apart.

He's the smart one, he's the athletic one, he's the successful one. Doesn't it

bother you?

Well, sometimes, yeah.

By the way, which one is the smarter?

Well, I don't know about smarter.

Lowell usually got better grades than I did. You, the athletic one?

Well, we were both fairly athletic. He tended to play for string more often

I did. You're the successful one.

Well, no, not yet. I haven't really found myself career -wise. Actually,

filed for bankruptcy twice in the past seven years, haven't you?

Yeah. Has your brother ever filed for bankruptcy?

No, never.

He's smarter than you, better at sports, more successful.

You resent the hell out of your brother, don't you? Objection. Whatever ill

feelings this witness may or may not have toward his brother are not germane

this case.

Your Honor, this case rests on the fact that someone who looked like my client

was seen leaving the scene of the crime.

Now, this witness's emotional state is inarguably germane.

Objection overruled.

Please answer the question.

Well, I'd be lying if I...

I said I didn't sometimes resent him a little.

You asked your brother to loan you $20 ,000 a few months ago and he turned you

down. Did that make you mad?

For a while. It made you furious, didn't it? He humiliated you one more time,

but this time you were going to make him pay by framing him for a murder that

you committed, right?

I didn't kill anybody. Actually, you concocted two frames.

You lured Dr.

Weston to Ms. Ferguson's house, having heard that she was upset with him, and

killed him with one of her knives. And then instead of leaving by a window or

something, you went out the front door, knowing damn well the porch light was

on. You knew somebody would see you. You wanted to be seen. You wanted somebody

to positively identify your brother's car. You wanted that pin to be found.

wanted the police to conclude that your brother had killed his partner.

That's not true.

You had keys to his house and his car, didn't you?

Yeah. Knowing that he was at that association dinner, you went to the

where it was being held, drove his car from the parking lot over to Miss

Ferguson's house, committed the murder and drove back, didn't you? No, I

I was at my shop all night. No, you weren't.

I called Mr. McKenna.

He left at 7 o 'clock.

But then after he left, he realized he's left his hat in your office. So he

drove back, got back at 7 .30, but he couldn't get his hat because you weren't

there, were you?

I just went across the street to get a salmon. The light was out. The door was

closed. Your car was gone.

You weren't there.

You were at Miss Ferguson's, framing your brother, weren't you?

I wasn't there.

I was at the association dinner. Oh, come on.

Come on.

To get into that dinner, You'd have to show a positive ID, wear a name tag, go

by security guards.

You weren't there. Lowell was.

That wasn't Lowell. It was me.

You'd say anything to save your skin, wouldn't you? I can prove it. I can tell

you who I talked to, what I said, where I sat, what was on the menu. I can tell

you everything.

Are you asking this court to believe that your brother planted a piece of

evidence at the scene of a crime to incriminate himself?

I put the pen there.

Gary, shut up.

I did it.

I did it because Lowell told me to.

He knew he'd be able to show that it had been planted so people would think that

he'd been framed.

I don't know. I can't believe what I'm hearing.

Murdering Scott Weston was his idea. It wasn't mine. It was his. It was his.

Gary! Stop it!

Sorry, I... I don't want to take the rap for this alone.

Uh, Your Honor, um, could I ask for a brief recess so that I could

confer with my client in crime?

What the hell are you doing, Ben?

Trying to defend you. Defend me? You're burying me!

I was trying to show reasonable doubt by making it look like Gary had done it.

How was I to know that you were in on it together?

You did it, didn't you?

Your partner found out that you operated on Kim Grumman.

You changed his appearance to keep him from going to prison.

$20 ,000 that Gary wanted from me he got from Grumman.

Couldn't pay it back.

If I didn't operate, he'd kill him.

Oh.

Did you make Gary help you murder your partner? No.

He wanted to.

He said he got me into this mess, so he should help me out of it.

So what happens?

He helps me and screws up again.

My client wishes to change his plea from not guilty to guilty.

That seems entirely appropriate, Mr. Matlock.

I'm revoking bail.

I'm instructing the bailiff to remand the defendant's brother, Gary Carr, to

lockup and urge the prosecutor to file charges immediately.

Court is adjourned.

Sure called that one right.

What's more important, I won the cake.

Four left.

And I lost my shot at a free facelift.

Are you thinking about having a facelift? Well, it's like the old car

little lift is quite a lift.

Oh, I kind of like it just the way it is.

Unless you're saying that because you won.