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I can't take your call right now, but if you leave your name and number at the

beep, I'll get right back to you. Thanks.

This is Larry.

Pronto printing. Your business cards are ready.

Hey, maybe when you pick them up, we could go for a drink or something. What

you say?

Hello, Mrs. Hansfield. This is Rosemary Barnes.

That matter we talked about last week.

I've decided to go with another investigator.

Sorry.

My name is Brad Loomis. I'm with the investment firm of James Ashford in

I'd like to talk to you about...

Sorry

I'm

late. I'll talk fast. My kids have got swim lessons in half an hour.

You heard her talk fast.

This meeting wasn't my idea.

But your secretary called my secretary.

Not mine. You called.

No, he called and told my son I was supposed to meet you two here. I did

Were you calling my son a liar?

Wait a minute. Hold it, hold it, hold it. What the hell's going on here?

Oh, my grandmother was right.

She always said you can tell how well people know each other by how intensely

they argue.

Mr.

Sands. Oh, and Mr. Boyer, then, and Ms. Proctor.

Ben Matlock. I'm sorry for the confusion. I called the meeting.

Would you care for a drink?

What do you want?

I'm just trying to find out who killed Rob Casey.

You remember Rob Casey?

He was the man who was going to send each of you a set of bees.

Why would a complete stranger send me a photograph?

Well, he needed $40 ,000, and he needed it quick.

And my guess is that these pictures tell a story you'd assume the police not

hear. Are you saying he was trying to blackmail one of us?

Or all of you.

Well, as I say, that's a guess. The man with all the answers is dead.

Anything else, Mr. Matlock? As a matter of fact, yes.

Party favors.

There you are.

Hi. I'd like to see Jeffrey Barr.

He had some kind of emergency meeting.

Are you interested in having something videotaped?

No, it's personal.

I'm an old friend of his, Tyler Hudson.

You have heard him speak of me, haven't you?

No. Well, I don't get into town very often.

I guess out of sight, out of mind.

Do you mind if I wait?

Sure. You can wait in my office.

Out here is okay.

Hello? Read proof.

Oh, that's terrible. I'm so sorry.

Hold on. I'll pull your tape right now.

I have your tape right here, Mr Franklin.

Shall I messenger it over to your insurance company?

That's what we're here for.

If you need anything else, just call us.

Mr Hudson?

Hello, Linda.

How'd you get in here?

Tyler.

He's the reason your answer machine doesn't work.

We figured you'd stop by to see why.

Please just leave.

Somebody doesn't want you to talk to me.

You don't understand.

Then make me understand.

They got my boy!

Someone broke in here last week and they stole the log I kept on Rob Casey.

They left a note, said they have David.

If I didn't testify against Michael Koskoff, I'd never see him again.

I'm sorry.

I'm just trying to buy some time. I'm going crazy.

Did they say when they'd contact you again?

Sometime today.

David has asthma.

If he gets upset or frightened, he's going to get very sick.

Does he know his medication?

He knows what he needs.

Well, he's bright and he's inventive. Maybe he'll figure out a way to get it.

Whoever has him lets him.

And why would they care?

Somebody in on this thing made a desperate move.

Very desperate.

Somebody is coming to this drugstore to pick up David's medicine. He's probably

in there already.

So soon?

Mr. Marshall said someone called in the prescription.

That was less than an hour ago.

Linda, when this guy comes out of the drugstore, be cool.

Sure. And the object here is for him to lead us to David, okay? Okay.

All right.

Linda, just take it easy, okay? This is going to work, I promise.

Thank you, Mr. Marshall.

There you go.

Yeah, that's him. That's one of Dominic Vincent's hoods.

Linda! Linda!

Here's the kid's prescription.

Had some trouble picking it up.

I've been met. Hello, Ben.

Tyler, where are you?

I'm across the street from a house at 6624 Langdon Avenue. I saw him.

One of Donovan Vincent's goons has dropped off his prescription.

Yeah, well...

We can't do anything that might get David hurt, so just don't do anything.

in your car. Watch the house.

You got it. All right.

We have to do something.

I know.

Mr. Matlock, I'm shocked.

I respect family.

I wouldn't kidnap a kid.

Whoever took David Hansfield works for you.

Hey, Dom.

You birdied the sucker.

All right.

I don't know anything about this kidnapping.

But I'll look into it. I appreciate it.

I expect to see David very soon.

With a little luck, Mr. Matlock.

You do believe in luck, don't you?

Whatever work, Mr. Benson.

Linda, what the hell are you doing here? You didn't think I was going to wait in

the office. I guess not.

How many men in there?

There's one, I think. The guy that grabbed David left.

Let's go. Wait a minute. Now, Ben specifically said for us to wait. Let go

me. Wait a minute. Now, what are you going to do? Just walk up and knock on

door? That's my kid in there. You got a better idea? Hold on a minute.

Close the door.

If you're not careful, you might wind up getting him hurt.

Let's be smart about this, okay?

It's poppin' chips, kid.

Knock yourself out.

Oh, no! There they go again!

Hi.

Do you know anything about cars?

I think there's something wrong with mine.

I don't know.

Please do something.

I don't know if I can do anything.

Bless you.

See?

The radiator's bone dry. When's the last time you checked it?

I don't know.

Never.

Hello, David. Remember me?

You're that guy who works for my mom.

With your mom. I work with your mother.

Where is she? She's outside.

I want her to come in. She wants you to come out.

No.

David, your mother is waiting for you outside.

That's what the other guy said.

No.

Did you have a hose or a bucket?

A what?

A bucket, a bucket.

No. Maybe some distilled water. It comes in a bottle.

All right, I'll get some of that. That'd be great. You mean now?

Well, yeah, I mean now.

Well, there's this thing. I think this is it.

What?

He's okay.

Thank you.

Vincent's hood died before he reached the hospital.

What about the one who was holding David?

He was one of the lesser hoods. He just hasn't been convicted of murder yet.

I had a feeling you'd go after David yourself.

I couldn't help it.

I... I know. He's your son.

I'm glad I have a hotline to the police.

Thanks.

I've caused you a lot of trouble.

I lied in court. I hurt the case.

Remember I told you, being a woman in this business isn't easy.

Well, like the fellow says, ain't nothing easy.

We got over one hump. Now let's see if we can get over another one.

Okay, uh, Kim, bedtime is at 8 .30.

Yeah.

Nine o 'clock.

and there are peanut butter cookies and apple juice in the fridge for their

snack. All right.

I probably won't be home till late, so just feel free. Make yourself

comfortable, okay? Okay, don't worry about a thing.

Hey, Mom.

Bye. Bye -bye, sweetie. Okay, bye. Listen to Kim.

All clear Here we go

Phone line.

Phone line.

Phone line.

Bingo, alarm line.

Alarms out. Go.

Freeze.

Clear. Okay.

We in.

Put that down and place your hands behind your heads.

Oh.

Oh, yeah, you're in trouble now.

Breaking into a post office is a federal offense, gentlemen.

Oh, and ladies.

So is kidnapping.

And I want to see you serve every minute on that.

And then there's first -degree murder.

That's not exactly a misdemeanor.

So who's going to be the first to give himself a break?

Who's going to tell us what's going on here?

Nobody.

Okay. All right, take him downtown.

Just might have something.

It's safe in the gun from the pictures.

Maybe Charles Deming can tell us what they mean.

Uh, Ben Matlock, Linda Hansfield, Charles Dibb. It's a pleasure.

Well, I understand you'd like me to identify one of our safes. Yeah.

Uh,

that's not one of ours.

But it has your name on it. Yeah. Well, that's just a label here. I'll show you.

You see, somebody peeled that off one of our boxes just like that.

We would never do that.

But just to be sure, there would be a serial number on the bottom. AA -47

No, that's definitely not one of ours.

Well...

Did one of these ever get away from you, lose it, misplaced it?

One was stolen once. When?

Four years ago. It was the only time anyone ever broke in and got away with

jewelry. I remember that robbery.

Yeah? Yeah.

The insurance company reimbursed me for every item that was stolen, right down

to the last earring.

Hey, you had a record of everything.

I had a videotape of everything.

Oh.

Jeffrey Barr's company did the videotaping? Yeah. Two months before the

was robbed, nothing was ever recovered.

This is it, folks.

Three people committed the break -in while a fourth person waited in the car

outside. Sound familiar?

Same M .O. as the post office. Only back then, three people did the breaking -in

because Rob Casey was still alive.

You think the guns in that safe were the ones used in the jewelry heist?

Tyler just called from ballistics, and those guns were not used in the heist.

You're kidding.

No. They weren't even manufactured until two years ago. Neither was the safe.

And you know that label that was on the safe?

Rob Casey put that label there because he was bluffing?

And as soon as we find out who fell for it...

Mr. Barr, how long have you known Mitchell Sands and Nancy Brock?

On the advice of counsel, I invoke my Fifth Amendment rights, and I decline to

answer that question.

How about the decedent, Rob Casey?

On the advice of counsel, I invoke my Fifth Amendment rights, and I... Fine,

fine, fine, fine, fine.

Mr. Barr, you go into people's homes and businesses and

videotape their possessions for insurance policies. Is that correct?

Yeah, that's correct.

Okay.

Here is a videotape that we subpoenaed from your company library, and

the name of the man you made it for is right here on the box. Would you read

that name aloud for us, please?

It's Mitchell Sands.

Mitchell Sands, okay.

And your name's on here, too. Why?

It's because you're the one who made the videotape.

Right? Answering that question might tend to incriminate me. Oh, that's fine,

fine, fine. We have a cassette player right here, and all we have to do is pop

it in, and we'll hear your voice behind the camera and see you talking to your

client, Mitchell Sands, and his former girlfriend, Nancy Proctor.

All right, all right, all right. I had a passing acquaintance with both of them,

but that was four years ago.

Four years ago.

Okay.

Now, here's another videotape that we subpoenaed.

And would you read the name that's on this box?

Charles Deming Jewelers. Right. And the date?

April 7, 1985. And your name's on here, too.

That's correct.

Just two months after you made this videotape, this jewelry store was

robbed. Do you remember that?

Vaguely. Vaguely. Because of this videotape, the insurance company covered

entire $2 million loss. Now you remember?

Yes, I remember.

Yeah.

I've looked at this tape, and it's interesting.

I'm talking detail.

Anybody who looked at this tape would get a very good idea of the security

system in this store.

Particularly your passing acquaintance, Mitchell Sands, who was once

an electrical engineer.

Objection. Relevant. Relevancy. Relevancy. I'm going to show relevancy.

Over. Thank you.

Uh, this safe was found in a post office box,

registered... To Rob Casey. Maybe you recognize him.

And on the bottom, there's a sign, little tag there, says Charles Deming

Jewelers. You recognize him?

No.

Well, I think you recognize him. There.

Oh, uh -oh.

The police ran ballistic tests on these this morning and dusted them for

prints.

Care to guess what they found?

Look, that doesn't mean that I killed Casey.

Say again?

I said that this does not mean that I killed Rob Casey.

They found nothing.

Rob Casey was bluffing. These were not the safe and the gun that were used in

the heist.

My guess is he got rid of them four years ago like he was supposed to.

But then he got to thinking.

And he went out and he bought this safe and these guns as kind of a little

insurance policy.

In case, if, and when he ever wanted to blackmail his

former associates, Mitchell Sands, Nancy Proctor, and you.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Where were you at 6 o 'clock the night Rob Casey was killed?

I was videotaping the home and... Don't tell me that you were at Mr. and Mrs.

Dorfman's because I know you left there before 5 .30.

So where were you really, Mr. Barr?

I, uh... I went to Nancy Proctor's house. I had to talk to her. And did

No. No, she wasn't there. So we don't know where you were really, do we?

Yeah, ask the babysitter.

She saw me. She'll tell you I was there. Her name was Kim Kyoto.

She saw me. She'll say that I was there right at six o 'clock. Ask her.

I'm done.

If the killer isn't Mitchell Sands, I'll eat your hat.

I don't wear a hat.

Well, if you did, I'd eat it. Well, according to the biggest crime boss in

state, he's not.

But Nancy Proctor was at her son's piano lesson. I checked it out myself.

I checked out the ice cream parlor she took him to afterwards.

I even know what flavors they ordered. Well, we're missing something.

What makes you think we're going to find it here?

I don't know. This is where he was killed.

What you got?

A 1936 proof set.

How did the fire department miss this? I guess they weren't looking for

something like that.

Are they valuable?

I look for stuff like this all the time.

That penny, $200.

That buffalo head nickel, $700.

A dime, about 400.

That 50 cents, $2 ,000.

Ooh,

what's this worth?

25 cents.

That's a little.

That's a 1987 quarter.

You know, this would be worth much more as a set than if he broke it up. He'd

never break this up.

Do you think there might be a 1936 quarter around here somewhere?

Not if we're lucky.

Keep looking.

Gin up.

Wrist down.

Raise those fingers.

Higher, higher.

Sit up straight.

Elbows in.

Keep going.

Steady, steady.

Feel the tempo.

That's it.

So, you have more questions about Artie Proctor?

Yes, I forgot to ask you when I was here before.

Did his mom drop him off for his lesson and then pick him up later, or did she

wait for him?

Artie's lesson is only a half hour. Nancy always waits for him.

So his mother was in here from 6 to 6 .30.

Oh, not in here. No. No.

In the library.

Parents must wait in here.

Their presence in there would distract the students.

Shoulders back.

Wrists down.

Tempo. Tempo.

Do you always keep these doors closed?

Yes.

So you wouldn't know for sure whether she stayed or left?

No, I wouldn't.

Mrs. Proctor will be here at four tomorrow for Artie's regular lesson.

ask her and then call you?

No, no. No, please don't say anything.

All right.

Thank you for your time, though.

Uh, you say, uh...

Artie's regular lesson was Wednesdays at 4.

Yes. But on the 17th, he came at 6.

Well, Mrs. Proctor called the night before and asked if she could

Artie's one of my favorites.

I said, fine.

Oh, well, thank you. We enjoyed that.

Casey's house is five minutes from here.

She killed him.

She snuck out. She killed him. She snuck back in.

I want my spot.

The note said if I didn't testify against Michael Koskoff, that I'd never

son again.

So is that what you did?

I testified earlier that I saw Michael Koskoff leaving the scene of the murder.

When in fact, I didn't see anybody at all.

Why would someone force you to lie in court like that?

So that Michael Koskoff would be convicted and the real murderer.

The person who kidnapped my son would get away.

When you found your son, he was wearing a jacket.

Yes. I asked you to bring that jacket to court with you today.

You did it.

I ask that this jacket be marked Defense Exhibit J for identification.

It shall be still marked.

Thank you.

Is this your son's jacket?

No.

And when I examined it...

I found this label sewn into the lining.

What does it say?

It says Artie Proctor.

Nancy Proctor, Mr.

Barr and Mr. Sand's mutual friend, has a son named Artie, doesn't she?

Yes, she does.

No further questions.

No questions.

Witness may step down.

Mr. Matlock.

Call Nancy Proctor to the stand.

You recognize this coat?

Yes, it used to be my son's. Used to be?

He lost it several weeks ago.

I have no idea how it ended up here.

I think you have a very good idea.

I think you're a good mother and you would never let anybody's little boy go

without a warm jacket.

Are you saying that I had something to do with the kidnapping?

You had everything to do with it.

That is not true.

I have two small children of my own.

I think kidnapping is the most despicable, the most heinous of all

And that's exactly why you thought you could get away with it. You knew you had

a surefire way to get another mother, Linda Hansfield, to help convict Michael

Koskoff and get you off the hook for the murder of Ron Casey.

Objection. No foundation.

Assumes facts not in evidence.

Sustained. Okay.

Where were you between 6 and 6 .30 p .m. on March 17th?

I was at my son's weekly piano lesson. I was waiting for him there.

Does he usually have his lesson at 6?

Well, usually it's at 4. I had to reschedule it. I forget why.

But you were waiting for him right there in the room?

Yes. Now, are you sure we have spoken with the music teacher?

Well, I was actually in another room.

Uh -huh.

Where did you park that evening?

Where did I park?

Objection. Relevance.

Your Honor, I must be able to ask this witness where she parked. It goes to the

alibi, and this coat demands it.

Overruled. So, thank you. Where did you park that evening? Which side of the

street? North or south?

The south side.

Did you get a ticket?

No.

No.

Well, these people all parked on the same side

of the street that you say you parked, but they all got tickets. Do you know

why?

I have no idea.

Rush hour traffic regulation. There's a sign right in front of the house.

Maybe because you usually go at four, you never noticed it.

Now, why did all these people get parking tickets and you didn't?

The meter maid somehow missed me.

Or maybe you missed her.

Did you sneak out of that house, drive the less than two miles to Rob Casey's

house, go in, kill him, drive back, sneak back in the library of the music

teachers just before the lesson ended?

No. You were in on that jewelry store heist four years ago, weren't you?

And everything went fine for a while.

But then Rob Casey began to realize the only way

out of his problems was to blackmail you.

And you knew that he worked for Michael Koskoff, and you knew where the gun was

kept, and you stole that gun, and you killed Rob Casey.

None of that is true.

Where did you go after the music lesson?

I took my son to get ice cream, as I always do.

He went to a parlor at 9th and Maple.

Yes. And you ordered one butter pecan cone and one fudge ripple cone.

Yes. And you paid $1 .80 for them in exact change.

I don't remember.

Well, the boy who waited on you remembered.

Because this is one of the coins you paid him with.

A 1936 quarter.

He kept it because he knew it was old.

He thought maybe it was valuable.

And it was much more valuable than he thought.

It's proof.

The thing about a coin like this is the only place you can find them now is in a

collection or in a store.

Rob Casey worked in.

What were you doing with it?

I have no idea.

The thing about coin proofs is you have to have a whole set

from one year. A penny, nickel, dime, quarter, fifth cent piece.

And Rob Casey had that, kept it in a plastic box on a table.

I know because I found it.

It was melted. But everything was there.

Except this quarter.

I found a quarter. It was 1987.

Now, how do you suppose that 1987 quarter was there and

you wound up with this 1936?

I don't know.

How about this?

You went over there ostensibly to give him the blackmail money. He knew you, so

he let you in the back door.

You put your purse down on the table where he kept his coin collection.

Opened your purse, take out the blackmail money, but you took out a

I don't know what happened then. You shot him and he fell on the table, or he

jumped at you as you shot him and you both fell on the table.

Anyhow... You and him and the table and your purse and the coin collection all

went to hell in a tea kettle. I mean, stuff went everywhere.

Well, you had to get out of there, so you picked up your purse and see if you

had anything else on the floor, maybe lipstick, a powder puff or a comb or

something. Here's a coin. Pick it up, put it in there, and get out of there.

And then you went to the ice cream parlor, bought some ice cream.

Only thing is,

You're overpaid by almost $1 ,000.

He was blackmailing all of you, wasn't he?

How did you get picked to kill him?

Did you volunteer or did you draw straws?

Maybe you ought to invoke the fifth.

How do you feel?

Happy is how I feel. Happy and relieved and eager to get back to my coin shop.

Tyler?

Congratulations.

Congratulations to you.

You know, He'd make a pretty good team.

This is going to work out okay.

What is going to work out okay? Well, I'm glad to see you've settled your

differences. This is going to work out okay.

What's going to work out okay?

Linda's agreed to work with us from time to time.

Do you like hot dogs?

I can't stand them.

This is not going to work out okay.