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Dr. Redding, I didn't expect to see you for another two weeks. How was Rio?

Door open.

Certainly, Dr. Redding.

Door open.

Happy birthday, Vanessa.

Door open.

Override. Clearance one.

Oh, listen, darling.

You're back.

Just in time to join us.

Do you realize what would happen to this institute if one of the clients paying

for your alleged genius came in here and saw you behaving like emotional

adolescents? Actually, your wife's birthday gave us an excuse to sample

something made with my biovitus sucranus flower substitute.

I want to see the reports on the current status of each of your projects on my

desk in two hours. Door open. Certainly, Doctor.

You heard me. Erwin.

Dr. Redding. What the hell are you doing here?

I'm retrieving the .38 caliber firing mechanism for the velocity test I'm

conducting. What are you doing here, sir?

Come under the man in through that door. I followed him in here.

So that's what that was.

I thought something suspicious was going on. You saw them?

I saw a man I didn't recognize.

Why didn't you challenge him?

It seemed potentially dangerous.

Erwin, you had a gun!

Oh, that's right.

Only one of you four senior people could have opened that door. No one else has

the combination.

Vincent, surely you don't think one of us is responsible?

Oh, yes, he does.

This is insulting. I am changing the combination to that door. No one will

access to it but me. I suggest you get back to your work, and having read your

status reports, I mean that sincerely.

Door open.

Don't forget, dinner tonight with the Jardiks.

Erwin.

Yes, sir? When did I tell you your project report was due?

When you came back from Rio.

Well, I'm back.

And I want it on my desk by 5 .30. Door closed.

Door closed.

But he came back early.

I can't get two weeks of work done in one day.

Erwin, I think he knows that.

In fact, he's counting on it.

He's just looking for an excuse to fire me, isn't he?

Brilliant deduction.

He can't do this to me.

What can you do about it?

Dr. Redding, my project reports, sir, on your death...

Dial 555 -9930.

Ben Matlock's office.

Yes, hello. I have to speak with Ben Matlock. It's urgent.

Tell him it's his nephew.

Ben Matlock for Irwin Brooks.

Just a moment.

That's Doc.

Dr. Erwin Brockner.

He's my nephew.

Okay. And you are?

Ben Matlock.

There's no doctor or anything, just Ben Matlock.

I am a lawyer.

Okay. Wear this at all times.

Go to the door.

Face it.

Say your name.

Ben Matlock.

All right. You're in the computer memory.

Everything here is voice activated.

First, address the object, then tell it what you want it to do.

Door open.

And it'll open?

Yes.

All I have to do is say that and it'll open? Yes.

Why didn't it open when you said it? I have a different voice command.

So all I do... Just say, door open. Door open.

Welcome to the Mansbridge Institute, Mr. Matlock. Dr. Brockner is expecting you.

Now proceed to the third door on your left.

Override clearance six.

Irwin?

Thank God you're here.

Are you in some kind of trouble?

It's Vincent Redding.

He runs... He ran this place.

I came in here to give him my project report.

This is how I found him.

Are the police on the way?

No. You didn't call the police? Uncle Ben, no one can get in this office

someone on the inside admits them.

He was dead?

And no one else in the room.

Erwin, we have to call the police.

Okay.

Phone, dial security.

Security. This is Dr. Bruckner.

Dr. Redding has been shot.

He appears to be dead.

You better call the police.

Okay, right away.

Everybody is going to think there's just no way I could have gotten in here

unless Redding was alive to let me in.

Well, I got in.

I was able to command the door to open by overriding the system.

Maybe the killer overrode the system.

I've been over every inch of this room.

Nobody hiding, nobody going out the window.

Nobody's voice on a tape recorder that could have activated the door.

Nothing.

Somebody had to have opened that door for you by remote control.

That just isn't possible.

Only the computer can open the door. And only someone on the inside of an office

can order the computer.

If I didn't know better, I'd assume I shot him, too.

Well, at least your fingerprints aren't all over the murder weapon.

You're kidding.

I'm almost positive.

That's the gun I was using last night in my velocity experiment.

Somebody must have retrieved it from the supply room.

Well, it's still not an airtight case. You didn't have a motive.

You're kidding.

I think he was just about to fire me.

You must have killed him.

No, I didn't. I swear to you, Uncle Ben, I didn't.

Police, open up.

Door open.

Override clearance six.

Come right in, gentlemen. That's Dr.

Redding.

I believe he's dead.

You'll note two bullet holes in his chest.

You better let me do the talking.

Maybe it was suicide.

Maybe Dr.

Redding shot himself and then with his dying breath commanded the door to open

to admit Irving.

I'd sure hate to have to explain how he shot himself.

Go on.

Somebody had to figure out some way to fool the computer system. That's all

there is to it. Yeah.

Heroin? What?

Any idea how somebody could have figured out a way to fool the computer system?

Uh, no, not really.

Yeah, okay.

We agree it was a crime, don't we?

Yeah.

There are three people who could have set up the prank.

All three knew that Dr. Redding was expecting Erwin in his office that

and all three were co -workers of Erwin's.

Well, the Institute was just like any other business out to make a profit.

What about competitors or business rivals?

Hey, Erwin.

Huh?

Who were Mansbridge's business rivals?

Business rivals?

None of any real importance.

Something strange did happen the day before the murder.

I went down to the storage room to get that gun.

One of my colleagues snuck an unauthorized person into the building.

Oh.

Who?

I don't know. I only saw him for a moment.

Well, give Cassie the best description you can. We'll get Tyler in on this.

Okay. Okay, good.

Are you sure I'm not disturbing you?

I assure you, you're not disturbing me at all.

Although, I must warn you, it's almost time for my nap.

Oh, I think grabbing a few inks during the day is a great idea.

I take five naps a day at regularly scheduled intervals.

The alarm goes off, I fall asleep.

Ten minutes later, it goes off again, I wake up.

Alert, refreshed.

and capable of working virtually around the clock.

What happens if the alarm goes off and you don't feel like going to sleep?

My mind and body do what they've been trained to do, Mr. Matlock.

It's just a matter of conditioning.

But I digress.

What did you want to ask me?

Any idea who killed Vincent Reddy.

It all boils down to one simple fact, Mr. Adlock.

Erwin could not have entered that office unless Dr.

Redding was alive to admit him.

Is there no way somebody could sidestep the system?

Absolutely not. I mean, you're all geniuses here. In other words, who

else would have wanted to kill Vincent Redding?

Yeah.

All of us.

All of us hated him.

Myself, Vanessa, Paul Lou.

Now that Vincent's dead, Paul Lou could very well wind up with his job.

Do you know if Paul Lou was in

Vincent's office between 4 .30 and 5 .30 the day of the murder?

No, I'm afraid I was in my office working. I didn't see him

He does that. He's done it to me dozens of times. Just dozes off in mid

-sentence.

And his noise.

I'm sorry.

Here, try some.

Oh, thanks.

I'm kind of hoping that you can help me and my client out here, Dr. Lewis.

Wish I could. I like Irwin.

But I'm afraid I was in here working when Vincent was killed.

I'm no help at all.

It's good.

Made them myself.

The ultimate junk food.

No salt, no fat, no sugar, no calories, and no food value.

What's in them?

Not much.

Tastes good.

If the Food and Drug Administration weren't so hysterical about possible

risks, I would have had them on the market years ago.

Here, have some more.

It were possible to circumvent the system.

And somebody besides Erwin killed Dr. Redding.

Any likely suspects come to mind?

Any one of us. We all hated him.

Dr. Barnes, myself, his wife Vanessa.

He treated her no different than he treated everyone else.

Like dirt?

Actually, he treated dirt better.

Somebody said she's so grief -stricken she can't talk on the phone or work or

anything.

Michelle Thomas. I'm an attorney for Erwin Bruckner. I'd like to... to Dr.

Sedgwick.

I'm Dr. Sedgwick.

I trust this won't take long.

I'm so sorry to bother you.

I know your husband's death came as a terrible blow.

My exercise physiologist.

Please, just get to the point. Of course.

I found your husband's passport when I went through his effects and...

I wondered, if he'd just gotten back from Brazil, why hadn't it been stamped?

Oh, really?

Wouldn't it be more logical to ask the Customs Authority that question?

Well, it's just that you're here and Customs is there.

I have no notion why they didn't stamp his passport.

Perhaps they ran out of ink.

Your office is like Dr.

Renning's. Do you know of any...

Quirks or malfunctions that could explain how... Your client murdered my

husband, Miss Thomas.

Vincent was alive when Dr. Bruckner entered his office.

I heard him admit him.

You what?

I was on the phone with Vincent.

He commanded the door to open, said hello, Dr. Bruckner, and told me he'd

me back.

He never did.

Why didn't you tell anybody this before?

Because, quite frankly...

I assumed Irwin would hire himself a competent attorney who would, in time,

out about it and plead him guilty.

We don't believe Dr. Bruckner is guilty.

We think it was someone else at the Institute who killed your husband.

Really?

Perhaps Dr.

Barnes.

He was being considered for a higher -paying job at the Raleigh Foundation.

Vincent got wind of it, said the wrong things to the right people, and put the

kibosh on it.

When Jeremy heard about it, he was livid.

Well, you'll have to excuse me. My heart rate is falling rapidly, my patience is

wearing thin, and I am in mourning.

That's him, huh?

That's as close as we're going to get.

That is amazing.

What is?

Erwin, he accessed the police mainframe and used their composite sketch software

to get a picture of the guy in the storage room. Okay.

Hot off the press.

Oh, that's great.

Call Tyler. Tell him to go down to the institute. Take this with him. Keep his

eyes open. Dr.

Redding never changed the combination on that door. Maybe that guy will show up

again.

What's next for me?

You never did figure out how somebody opened Dr. Redding's door for you.

I still don't see how it's possible.

I'll keep working on it.

Any... Just one from Michelle. She's following up

on a lead she got from Dr. Sedgwick.

Good. He's kind of cute, isn't he?

Who? Irwin.

Irwin? I know he's a genius and everything, but he's like a kid. He's

cute.

Thank you.

I'm sorry babe.

Virgin Mary please.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Thanks.

How's it going?

I think I'm making some progress.

See, what I've done is I've written a program which allows me to recalculate

response to each allophone using simple mathematics.

For instance, in this equation, each of the gamma of n's represents the

allophone's speed sequence. We transform it into a predictive code for the

security program.

The guy Irwin saw showed up at the Institute.

What was he doing there?

Just as I was about to go in, he came out.

So I followed him to Fenwick's Tavern, where he met with a man wearing a very

expensive suit, and he gave him some papers.

Who was the man in the suit?

He left before I could find out.

Who was the other guy?

He left before I could find out.

Like both left before you'd find out? Yeah. You lost them? Yeah. You said you

had good news.

The guy Irwin saw drives a very expensive sports car.

There's only three places in this town that does body work on cars like that.

And guess who gave it a great big dent?

I called him from my office to remind him that we had a dinner engagement that

night. And while we were talking, he said, door open, and hello, Dr.

Which led you to conclude what?

That he had just admitted Erwin Bruckner to his office.

Thank you, Dr. Sedgwick.

Nothing further.

Your witness.

Thank you.

Dr. Sedgwick, your husband had just returned from a trip to where?

Brazil. Rio de Janeiro.

And he left on the 8th?

and was supposed to come back on the 29th. Is that right?

Yes, but he came back early on the 14th.

He must have missed you.

More likely he missed his work.

Did you drive him to the airport?

He drove his car and left it there.

Dr. Sedgwick, this is a gasoline credit card receipt dated the

13th. From the Richmond Center gas station up in Richmond, do you recognize

husband's signature?

Yes, that's his signature.

But it must be misdated.

Well, I suppose that could happen.

This is an official United States passport issued to Dr.

Vincent Redding.

Do you recognize it?

Yes, that's Vincent's.

There is no passport stamp.

Whatsoever for the period between the 8th and the 14th, is there?

No. That's because Vincent Redding was not in Rio de Janeiro.

He was at the Jimmy Nash Clinic in Richmond, being treated for acute

wasn't he?

Yes.

If it's ruled that your husband was not killed, but rather...

committed suicide, there will be no insurance proceeds.

You'll not be able to collect on your husband's $1 million insurance policy

because suicide was specifically excluded in that policy, wasn't it?

I suppose so, but... You made up that story about the phone call to further

incriminate Erwin Bruckner in an attempt to make sure no one would suspect your

husband committed suicide, didn't you? He didn't commit suicide.

Maybe not.

Maybe. You did make up that story.

Perjury. Trying to eliminate the slightest chance that your husband's

could be ruled a suicide.

Didn't you?

Yes.

No further questions.

Uncle Ben, I did it. I did it.

I was going to take a walk, you know, just to try and clear my head. And just

I was going out the door, Cassie says, it looks like rain. You better take

And then it hit me.

Umbrella? The operative theory.

When it rains, everything gets wet. But when it rains and you stand under an

umbrella, you don't get wet.

It's raining, yet it's not raining.

The operations program was functioning, yet it was not functioning.

Because... Another program, for the most part, identical to the original, within

simultaneous operation.

Acting kind of like an umbrella. And at predetermined points, it would take over

the original program.

Incredible.

This program will show that it was possible for someone besides

Dr. Redding to open that door?

Absolutely. It will when...

And if I can access it.

You know it's in the computer at the Institute.

You just don't know where.

Right.

Maybe I can explain your theory to the judge. We have to have proof, Erwin.

Uh, okay.

Well, maybe I could access the mainframe at the Institute from here.

Bring in a few more terminals, get a couple buddies, work around the clock.

But the odds of coming across that access code are slim.

How slim?

Roughly 4 ,185 ,000 to 1.

Maybe you'll get lucky.

Ben Matlock's office.

It's Tyler. He's at the body shop. Says he just got lucky.

May I help you? Yes, I'm looking for Douglas Harding. I have it on good

authority he works here.

Douglas Harding?

I'm kind of new here. I'll have to check. Just a minute.

Excuse me, sir.

There's someone out here asking for Douglas Harding. Ben Matlock. Is that

Drake? He says his name is Ben Matlock, sir.

I see. Thank you.

Apparently, Douglas Harding did work here, but he quit a year ago.

Oh.

This way to Mr. Drake's office?

You can't go in there.

Mr. Matlock.

Mr.

Harding. Mr.

Drake.

How can we help you?

Everything okay, Mr. Drake?

Thank you, John. Everything's fine.

Anything else?

An employee of mine saw Mr.

Harding here.

Hand you an envelope of some sort of paper at Fenwick's Tavern.

Well, what I want to know is why your employee, Mr. Hardy, was seen sneaking

and out of Mansbridge Institute.

Well, you'd have to ask him. Mr. Hardy?

I believe you had me confused with someone else.

Your company has defense contracts, doesn't it? Yes. And testing done at

such as Mansbridge Institute could affect your business greatly.

Of course.

Now, what's your point, Mr. Matlock?

My point is that I'm not mistaken about Mr. Harding.

He was seen sneaking into Mansbridge Institute.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that maybe some money changed hands and

maybe some test results were falsified to benefit you.

But that's not what this is all about.

Vincent Redding has been murdered.

So we're not talking about money or defense contracts.

It's very possible if Dr. Redding's death has anything to do with Mr.

here, the two of you might wind up doing quite a bit of time for murder. So

that's what I'm talking about. And I would strongly urge you to tell me who

you're dealing with down at the Institute.

I guess I don't have to ask if Erwin's figured out the program. No, I've never

seen anything like this. Oh, neither have I. It's beyond me.

Erwin's smart.

I had no idea. I mean, smart.

On something.

And on others, he's really dumb.

He's a kid.

Yeah.

It's funny, isn't it, who a person will be attracted to.

I'm sorry, I've seen you looking at him, and you said he was cute.

Well, he is.

He's cute.

Yeah.

His mother used to say that all the time. She'd say, Erwin's cute.

He's very bright.

He's strange.

But he's cute.

He is.

Which one?

All of them.

Strange. Strange.

Uncle Ben!

I got it!

Dr. Sedgwick.

Uh, is it fair to say that you're an expert in physics?

Yes, I think that would be fair.

This was subpoenaed from the physics lab at Mansbridge Institute just this

morning. Please tell the court what it is.

It's a tensor.

It's used to measure microfracture formation rates.

You use this device in your research at the institute, don't you? Yes, I've been

working with it for several months.

This device will be used in the courtroom today.

And what I'd like for you to do is just compare it with this one that was loaned

to us from the physics department at the university.

Same sensor.

In every way?

The bias resistor has been replaced.

The value's all wrong.

That throws off the calibration by a factor of ten.

You seem alarmed. Of course I'm alarmed. This sensor is from the Institute.

It means that the results of any test that I ran using it are totally invalid.

Say someone were testing an alloy.

If that person were using this device, would those tests be invalid also?

Of course they would.

Thank you, Doctor.

I'd have to check my records to be absolutely certain, but yes, this could

well be the sensor I've been using.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that would make the alloy you're

testing appear to be ten times stronger than it actually is.

Unfortunately, yes.

Who paid you to do these tests?

Drake Industries.

Drake Industries. That's the company that developed the alloy, right?

That's right.

In an attempt to obtain a very important contract with the Pentagon.

Yes. That would be a very lucrative contract for Drake Industries, wouldn't

I suppose so.

And that may be why Drake Industries paid you to alter this measuring device

falsify those test results to be sure they got that contract right.

Objection!

Speculation, Your Honor. There's no foundation whatsoever.

Sustained. Mr. Matlock, in my courtroom, we first present the evidence and then

we draw the conclusions. Do I make myself clear?

Your Honor, I just asked the man a question.

Yes, and it calls for a conclusion.

Yes, ma 'am.

Dr. Barnes, you were just forward your test results straight to the Pentagon

before Dr.

Redding returned for his trip on 29th, right?

Yes. So he never would have seen... There's nothing out of the ordinary

that. But he came back early. Did he ask to see your report?

Objection! Your Honor, where are we going with all of this?

Mr. Matlock.

Well... Your Honor, at this time, I'd like to make a somewhat unusual

request.

I'm sure it's safe to say... say that you have written and installed more than

few computer programs in the course of your career, isn't it?

Hundreds of them.

And I'm sure that when you write a program, it can do almost anything,

including tell a program that's already in operation to let another program

take over under certain circumstances, and no one would be the wiser.

I told you, Mr. Matlock, the systems program here is tamper -proof. I didn't

it was tampered with, Doctor.

I said someone simply shoved another program into the computer,

one that could take over the system if called upon to do so.

It can't be done.

You know it can, don't you?

Then where is it, Mr. Matlock?

Where is this ingenious program of yours? I'd like to see it.

Well, that's a problem.

Anyone smart enough to create such a program has got to be smart enough to

sure that no one else ever finds it.

That's your theory. And I think it's a good one.

I'll tell you what I believe. I believe that no matter how smart a person is or

thinks he is, there's always someone who's smarter.

Now, the prosecution contends the only way my client could have entered Dr.

Redding's office is for Dr.

Redding to have opened the door for me.

And he contends that Dr. Redding was alive when my client entered his office.

Therefore, my client, Dr.

Bruckner, must have killed him.

I intend to demonstrate that this is not true.

Dr. Barnes, would you kindly open your office door for us?

Door open.

My associate has been instructed how to access this other

program, the one Dr.

Barnes says doesn't exist, by using the computer terminal in Dr.

Barnes' office.

Meanwhile, Dr.

Bruckner will do exactly as he did the day of the murder.

He'll cross the foyer and denounce himself.

Dr. Redding?

What the prosecution said could not happen has happened.

The door opened with no one inside.

No one alive, that is.

The computer did three things it was not supposed to do.

It allowed Miss Thomas to know.

that Dr. Bruckner was outside Dr.

Redding's door.

And it allowed her to open Dr.

Redding's door from Dr. Barnes' office.

This all happened because of a program you said did not

exist.

How did you find him?

How did you do it?

You couldn't have accessed it.

This isn't mine.

I didn't say we accessed your program.

Actually, we accessed his program.

It never occurred to you that someone might be smart enough to create a

that...

approximated yours, did it?

Him?

He wrote this?

Well, of course he wrote it.

What do you think?

He's my nephew.

Stuff's all packed.

I just came in to say goodbye and thanks.

It's been a pleasure.

I've always liked you, Erwin.

Hey, before you go, take a look at this.

It's a pencil sharpener. Yeah, it doesn't work.

It's mechanical.

I don't even know where to begin to look at something that doesn't have

circuitry.

Speaking of circuitry,

What do you think of Cassie?

Cassie? Yeah.

She's a girl.

You're a boy.

Here's a tin spot.

Take her someplace.

Get her a cup of coffee or a bowl of ice cream.

Kathy, how'd you like to go out to dinner?

Uncle Ben gave me a ten spot.