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The Streets of San Francisco, a Quinn Martin production, starring Carl Malden.

Also starring Richard Hatch.

With guest stars Desi Arnaz Jr., Jess Walton,

Conrad Janis,

Lazaro Perez.

Betsy Slade.

Tonight's episode, In Case of Madness.

There's a celebration and it's taking place in me.

Hear my declarations.

I challenge destiny.

Gentle inspirations.

I want no part of you.

Give me revelations.

Let me know what I must do.

Let me know what I must do to

find the heart that beats the

drum inside of me to be a

part of what I feel and yet can't see.

I won't be any trouble. I promise. I swear on my mother. I just want to talk

him. That's all.

I just want to talk to him. I'm not going to do anything.

I'm not going to disrupt anything.

I just want to talk to him.

She's been there all night. And in Denver and Los Angeles and Chicago.

Charlie, I tell you, kids like that are murder. They're just, they're murder.

I said cut it, and I mean now!

Thank you, B .J. Thank you, old buddy!

What's the matter? You have to be the most infantile, the stupidest, the

What? And what's the matter with the rest of you guys? You have to go along

everything he does. You lost my tape!

Your tape! Your tape!

This is my studio, my money. What do you mean, your tape? And you stay out of

this. You, you're fired. You understand that? You're fired.

Hey, Dave.

Now, just stay out of it. The number works.

I'll tell you what works. And it's not a lot of junk like that.

It's what I tell you to write and sing and Vince to arrange and the rest of

to play.

Now, you're not the Rainmakers.

I'm the Rainmakers. Me.

You want to do some hallelujah singing, you go back to that two -bit church I

got you from.

VJ!

Jay, very clever, B .J., but it's not going to work.

You think by acting crazy, I'm going to break the contract and let you sign with

Earl North.

Well, forget about it, baby, because for the next three years, you are my

property. Do you understand what I'm saying? Can you read my lips? My

All of you.

Now go on, get out of here. Go on, pack up and get out of here.

Hi, where's B .J.? Where is he? I'd like to talk to you for a second. B .J.'s

upstairs putting water on his face. He doesn't feel too good. But listen, baby,

B .J. don't even know you're alive.

But I do.

And if you come out to the house... No, I'm sorry. I've got to hang around here.

I've got to talk to B .J. Okay, I'm a reasonable fella.

How about tomorrow? Get the keys.

Get the keys yourself.

All right.

May I get keys to the dinosaur, please?

Get out of the way.

Sir, you're going without me.

I'm going to walk it off. Get the keys?

Let's go.

I challenge destiny.

Gentle inspirations.

I want no part of you.

Give me revelations.

Let me know what I must do.

Let me know.

Must do.

Must do.

That's 622 on the clock.

Now, if he fell and hit that timing switch and started the clock, that makes

death at 103.

Who else was in the building then?

Everybody signed out except B .J. B .J.? B .J. Palmer.

He's like the star, you know.

Anybody else?

Well, Mr. Breen, of course.

B .J. could have left without signing your book, couldn't he?

No way. I never left the front door.

You're saying this building has no other side exits?

Well, sure it has.

Side door.

Well, then he could have left without you knowing it, right?

All right. Did you find that address for me?

Oh, yes, sir. I copied it down.

Townhouse, if you want to mark it.

Townhouse. Thanks a lot.

Something bothering you?

I know him from somewhere, but I can't place him.

You gonna go talk to B .J. Palmer now?

No, let's swing over to the lab first.

I want to find out if that microphone was the murder weapon and whose prints

were on it.

His guitar and clothes are still here.

You don't know when he's coming back. Mr. Palmer, you never tell about him. He

comes and goes all hours.

All right, I want to leave a message for him. Make sure that he gets it.

Make sure, sir.

Dr. Morley, what's wrong with me?

B .J., I can't give you a simple answer to that.

Why not?

After all the tests you've taken, you should know by now.

Well, we can't rule out the possibility of a brain tumor.

However, I still need information about your family.

You said your parents are both dead.

Did you ever find your father's death certificate?

Not yet.

It wasn't in my mom's stuff.

I asked somebody to check the records downtown.

How did his father die?

What has that got to do with me?

B .G., I have to investigate the possibility of genetic deficiency.

Insanity? A layman's word.

That's the only kind of word I understand.

Well, if you find out that something's been passed on from my father, then you

know how to cure it, right?

I never said that.

Hereditary degeneration is too complex an area to play guessing games.

So you're saying that if it is hereditary, there is no cure.

Why don't we wait for the final test results?

And meanwhile, you find out what you can about the cause of your father's death.

Yeah.

Sure, I'll do that.

Want me to go down and stick him up? No, no, no.

Yes, come in.

Hello, I'm Lois Flynn.

Did you want to see me? Oh, yes. Yes, we did. Thank you for coming. Sit down.

Thank you.

You're a member of that group.

The Rainmakers.

The Rainmakers. What do you do with the group? You play?

No, I do everything but play.

I keep their books for them and check on their gigs, their concerts.

Make sure they have the right plane tickets to the right cities.

It's the combination road manager den mother.

Well, den mother, where's B .J. Palmer?

I don't know. I checked his hotel. I couldn't reach him there.

We've been checking all morning. It couldn't reach him.

I'm sorry. I'll keep trying.

You and the others live in a house over on Burley?

The zoo, you mean.

No, it's a big empty mansion. The kids pool their money to buy it. It's a front

for when and if they make it big.

B .J. is married, has one child.

Yes, Ricky.

And he and Donna are separated.

But he doesn't live with the rest of you?

No, no. By mutual consent.

BJ's the loner. Most of the guys who are lead singers for rock groups are.

Well, compared to that whacked -out group, I guess you would say he was

That's not a put -down?

Not in my books.

How about the other members of the group?

Did they get my message?

Well, musicians being what they are, they didn't want to get sidetracked.

They're right in the middle of a rehearsal.

Well, we're right in the middle of a murder investigation.

I tell you what, why don't you come along with us?

Come on, Dan.

What the... Hey.

What's that?

Hey, man, you just pulled the plug on our life support system. Hey, listen.

is this? Hey!

Listen.

This is Lieutenant Stone, Inspector Robbins, Little Joe, Vince, Jimmy Gare.

That's how it is.

You were all supposed to come down to headquarters today. You didn't show.

So I decided to come to you. Hey, welcome back. What took you so long?

Cheryl, say hello to the cops. Cops, say hello to Cheryl.

Come on, honey, show me your tricks, huh?

Sit up.

Now, this is not a joke. This is a murder investigation.

You think it's not a joke when a man questions us?

I play guitar, man.

Killing people's not my kind of number.

Whose number was it?

You know, little Joe, you got a big mouth.

Go on.

Keep talking.

I would just be babe, one of us would take the hard route.

But B .J., he wants to do things with a little soul, you know, man?

And BJ's right, too. I mean, I could have smashed Bree the other night

BJ had a fight?

No, it was a professional disagreement.

Well, you don't kill somebody over a few songs.

Wait a minute.

You guys think one of us did it?

No, we think somebody was waiting for him in that building.

The security guard said nobody showed up after 11 o 'clock.

You can't be serious.

Was a security guard present when each of you signed out?

Yeah. Did any one of you go back to the studio? We were here, man.

Anybody see Palmer leave?

How about it, kid?

Come on.

Hey, come on, come on. He wants to know when B .J. left.

You see him?

Oh, well, I waited around for a little while, and then I figured he must have

slipped past me, so I went home.

Okay. So we're all on the clear.

What's your name?

Gere. Gere Jordan.

Well, Mr. Jordan, do you have any idea when Mr. Breen was killed?

No.

No, sir.

So what makes you think that anybody's in the clear right now?

B .J.

I'm sorry it took so long. The police were over. You know they want to see

Yeah, I got their message.

Did you find out about my father?

What did it say on the death certificate?

There was no death certificate.

Your father's still alive.

I understand.

My mother said she... said that he died.

She told me that...

Why would she... I know.

I know why she told you that.

He's very, very ill.

You've seen it.

Where is he?

He's here, in the city.

It's not very far.

Take me there.

He won't know you.

The doctor says he hasn't known anyone in over 20 years.

Palmer didn't show up here at noon.

No one's seen him at that nuthouse of theirs, and now you're telling me he's

in his hotel room.

Well, I'm going to tell you he skipped.

Mike, if he skipped, would he leave his clothes, his guitar, everything?

He might.

You find out what kind of a car he's driving and then put out an APB.

Oh, CJ, I didn't hear you come in.

I'm sorry I have frightened you.

I use my key out of habit.

I guess I should ring first.

How is he?

He's happy and healthy, like always.

Listen, um... Ricky will be home in a minute. Maybe you better leave.

Please go. It'll just mix him up. Every time you come here, he thinks you're

gonna stay.

I wish I could.

You made your choice.

I know.

I know how much you hated traveling.

You were right about Rick.

It's better for him to have one home, one school.

I had to get started, no matter what.

Honey, things are really beginning... Things are beginning

to pay off now.

There's this guy, Earl North.

He's been after me to sign.

And he says if we do an album, it's going to make more money than you ever

of.

It's enough to take care of you and Rick for the rest of your lives.

P .J., you still don't understand. I don't care about the money.

Well, I... I just wanted you to know...

No

matter what happened... BJ?

BJ?

I'm all right. I just gotta go.

BJ?

Full of plants a lot?

Yeah.

Whenever I get a chance.

Still looking for B .J.? Yeah.

Have you seen him?

No, and I don't want to see him either. He's crazy.

Hey, fellas, this ain't grass, right?

No, it's not. Yeah.

What do you mean, crazy?

Well, crazy like, you know, I was just over at the Breen house, and he calls up

to offer condolences.

So I pick up the phone, and he starts crying.

And I say, what's wrong?

Well, he slams the phone right in my ear.

I mean, he's really out of control, you know?

Like the argument he had with Mr. Breen?

Right, right. It's like, you know, it's like you push a button and he goes wham.

I mean, he smashes Jimmy's guitar with some silly goof -off, slam his fist

through a screen at the studio, and then he doesn't remember what he's done. I

mean, he's crazy.

Ask Lois.

We will. Thanks.

By the way, you're making a mistake.

It's a shade azalea.

You've got it in the sun.

Well, thanks, huh?

That's right.

Yeah.

Fine. I'll tell him thanks. Bye -bye.

Was that BJ on the phone?

No, it was the union. I was filling them in on the funeral.

I know it's old -fashioned, but I've insisted that we all go to the funeral

parlor. Miss Flynn, there's an APB out for BJ.

It'd be easier if you told us where he is.

I don't know where he is.

Art, I've talked to him a couple of times on the phone.

He's having some problems.

What kind of problems?

Was he into drugs or something?

No. Gambling?

No.

Then what?

Money problems.

Medical bills from all over the country.

Morley, Dr.

Kevin Morley.

Yes, I saw BJ this morning.

Doctor, we know that your specialty is neurosurgery.

And we know that Palmer had blackouts, violent outbursts.

Is he having a mental breakdown?

Is BJ under arrest?

No.

Well, then I have an obligation to my patient of confidentiality.

Doctor, is B .J. capable of killing?

No one can answer that question.

Maybe he's answered that question for us.

You didn't leave the building when you told the police you did.

Listen, sweetheart, let me talk to you for a second.

You see, I know what you're trying to do.

I also know that you would like to pin this murder on anybody.

But lay off me.

Hands washed, nails scrubbed, shoes cleaned.

Do I pass word? Very funny. In the van. Wait a minute. You've got to hold it

there. Listen.

We just got a phone call from Mr. North's office, and he wants all of us

that he just signed BJ for a big fat contract, and he set up a recording

for tonight, so let's get back in there and rehearse. Hey, hey, hey. Wait a

minute. In the van. Come on. Keep going. Come on.

I'll get back to him later.

Come on, Vince. Put your coat on.

Go into your car.

Lois. Oh.

Cheryl, honey, later. We're late, okay?

Now they're going to be sure BJ killed Mr. Green just so he could sign with Mr.

North, aren't they?

Cheryl, that's ridiculous.

I know who was in the building and when.

Vince lied about when he left.

Listen, Cheryl, we don't want to get Vince in trouble for nothing.

Now don't do anything until I talk to you later, okay?

I won't call the police. I'm going to find BJ and tell him.

Are you the garage attendant?

Yeah.

We didn't see anyone.

No, sir. I heard screaming and I came running.

The car was just like this and she was there.

It's awful.

I still feel a little sick. Do you know whose car this is?

Belongs to Carmela. She's a switchboard operator.

Does she always leave her key in the car?

Yeah, we ask all the staff to leave their key in the car. That way we can

the cars around if we want to.

How many other people know the keys are left behind?

Well, I guess all the regular...

Well, excuse me, I don't feel too good.

Regular who?

All the permanent guests and all their regular visitors.

Is it okay if I... Mike, it's Tanner.

He spotted BJ down at the funeral hall.

Tell him we're on our way. Thanks a lot. We're on our way.

Where were you between five and six?

The child was killed?

Are you sure it wasn't an accident? We're sure.

Why would anyone want to kill that poor kid?

That's the second question.

Would you mind answering the first one?

Where was I between five and six?

That's right.

You mean I'm a suspect?

Just answer the question.

Between five and six, I was at my doctor's. Dr. Morley.

Yeah.

Well, you can verify it. His number is... We have the number. I'll check it.

Come here.

Where were you all day?

Just around.

Had a lot of things to do because of what happened to Dave.

Things more important than answering our call?

We left messages all over town.

Hey, I'm sorry.

Yesterday, you were the only one who left that recording building without

signing out. Why?

I don't know. I guess I just forgot. How could you leave that building without

seeing the security guard?

I don't know. What time did you leave?

I don't know.

You don't know or you don't remember?

Or is it that you just don't want to tell us?

No, look, I just don't remember.

It was a rough night. I wasn't feeling very well.

It must have been a rough night.

It was with the doctors.

Wanted some pills.

Yeah, I have a heavy recording date tonight and I wanted something to help

me going.

All right.

Are you finished? All right, yes, yes, yes, yes. We're finished.

Go ahead.

Granted, he's off the hook for the murder of the girl, but he still could

killed Bree.

We never had a better suspect unless the book him on.

Come on, Dan.

Palmer's off the hook for one murder.

So what does that mean?

That we're looking for two unrelated killings? I don't think so.

I think they're related, and we'd better find a connection.

Listen, Tanner, didn't you tell me that in all this group, Palmer was the last

one who came in here?

Right. First the hype of Dan with the three guys.

Then the Flynn girl in the cab.

Then the one that drives the two -seater.

Vince Perez.

Yeah. Then Palmer.

Hmm.

Okay.

I want you to check out all the routes they took.

What street, how much time it took them to get here. Everything. The works.

The point is that all of them, every one of them, could have stopped by at B

.J.'s hotel on the way.

And killed a girl.

That's right.

Tomorrow, you and I are going to talk to that, um... What's his name? The

security guard.

Moran. Moran.

Yeah, but what can he tell us? I don't know.

We're going to start at the beginning, and we're going to dig until we find

Lois?

Oh, wait a second.

I want you to meet Mr. North.

Lois, how are you?

Mr. North, I think it might be a good idea if you told us where we stand.

Now, you had a contract with Mr. Breen to make an album.

I bought that contract from his estate.

We record tonight.

But which album?

I mean, the one we've been working on, or the one B .J. wants us to cut?

My album.

Hey, B .J., where are the charts?

No charts.

Oh, we'll be here all night. I mean, what are we going to play?

Oh, so we'll be here all night.

We'll work on the melody line, and then we'll go for it live.

Dynamite! Oh,

my women who say no,

you're not real.

Don't like women who say no. I can't understand

women that don't want a man. Don't like women who say no.

Don't like women who are all show.

Open

up

your heart to them. Music playing there. If you learn your part, you will

hear it everywhere.

Listen with your heart to the music calling you. Listen till it starts

and that's all you...

Don't you remember?

I'm tired, I guess.

Let's take it back.

You all right, P .J.? I just forgot the damn words.

Look, we'll save it, okay? We'll take it back from the bridge. Save the first

part.

Okay.

Here we go, cut off.

One, two.

One, two, three, four.

Moran was fired for boozing last night.

The booze?

That's right.

Last year, I answered a 211 down at the wharf.

Moran was working as a guard at a junk shop. He got sloshed and let a heist be

pulled right under his nose. I remember answering the call.

Come on.

Hey, Moran.

Listen.

Were you boozing tonight, Mr. Moran?

I knew.

I signed out those three creeps that losed my stuff. I swear I did.

Wait a minute.

What about Vince Perez? Did you sign him out?

Look, I wasn't feeling so good, you know.

You left the book to get a drink, right?

It was before Perez signed out.

I guess so.

Don't guess.

What the hell's the big deal?

I wasn't gone more than 20 minutes.

Half hour, maybe.

20 minutes or a half hour.

That means Perez could have been in that building as late as 115.

Come on.

Green was killed at 103.

If we try, we could take the world

so high.

So high.

I couldn't have done it without you.

You know that.

Run that by me again?

The security guard wasn't in the lobby when you signed out.

Why did you lie?

Look, we all know that Charlie hit the sauce, huh? But he did his job.

Now, why get the guy fired?

But no one can validate from when you left, right?

It had to be before one. I hit it for the hay market, I sat in, and I play,

then I left.

Wait a minute.

Answer something else for me, will you?

Yesterday,

Did you go directly from your house to the funeral parlor?

No, I, uh, on the way over there, I, uh, I stopped to see a girl that I know.

Then she can vouch for you.

No.

She wasn't home.

Look, that don't make me a murderer.

No, that doesn't make you a murderer.

Murderer needs a good motive.

Like the contract North tells me you signed with him this morning.

Gives you a group of your own, doesn't it?

Donna.

It's done.

The album's done.

Finished.

I just want you to know it's yours and Rick's.

I saw.

I saw.

Blood.

Dave. My clothes.

Dave. I killed him.

Must have.

Dave. I killed him.

You can go in now, Mrs. Palmer.

He's okay, isn't he? Yes. He's off the hook.

B .J. confessed.

Any word on Vince's story?

Yeah, his alibi checks.

Four guys in the band at the Haymarket confirmed Vince got there a couple of

minutes before one. Said he played for about an hour.

Well, how could they know what time he got there? Take a break at five to one.

That's when he walked in.

All right.

So Vince is off the hook for the murder of Bree.

So now we concentrate on Cheryl.

Yeah, if you believe Palmer's confession.

You don't?

Two murders in the same group by two separate people? Never.

Yeah, but B .J. said he killed Bree. He thinks.

He thinks. He's not sure. He thinks he's killed.

You.

What? It was something you said. What are you talking about?

Remember the first time we went to see the Rainmakers?

Yeah. And we were concentrating on when they left the recording studio?

And then you said, did any of you return to that building later?

They all said no.

Let's take it one more step.

Suppose somebody did go back into that building.

Cheryl could have seen who that somebody was.

That's why she was killed.

Both murders by the same person.

Yeah, that's the theory.

Now the problem is... Who was that somebody?

Hey, Mike?

Yes? Got something.

This is a breakdown on when people got to the funeral home and how they got

there.

How's that grab you?

It certainly does grab me.

You have the phone number on that house?

Let me know what I must do.

Let me know what I

must do.

Miss Flynn, Lieutenant Stone.

I'd like you to come down to Franklin Hospital immediately.

What? Mr. Palmer tried to kill himself.

No. He got there just in time and... Well, he's going to need an awful lot of

help, a lawyer.

A lawyer at the hospital?

Well, his suicide attempt could amount to a confession.

You'd better hurry.

I'll call the lawyer right away.

It is all right to talk to him. Sure it is. No, I mean before his lawyer gets

here. Well, you might even be helping us.

You go ahead.

I'll wait here for the lawyer.

All right.

Do I have to watch you every minute?

You're the mommy, aren't you?

Sure.

Lois.

I blew it.

No. No, you're going to be fine, BJ.

You're going to be just fine.

Dave.

Dave was wrong.

No, you didn't kill him.

I saw him.

I saw him lying.

Do what you've always done.

Leave this to Molly.

Lieutenant, you can't believe him.

Well, he says he did it. Well, he shouldn't be saying anything until he

his lawyer. Now I'm going to go and check. Oh, Miss Flynn, give us a minute

confirm some details, will you please?

All right.

Thanks.

Miss Flynn, you were the last one to arrive at the funeral home, isn't that

correct?

No, I think Vince arrived there after I did.

That's right, that's right. Here it is. You came by cab.

Yes. Cab from BJ's hotel.

Yes. In fact, the record shows you took a cab from your house to BJ's hotel,

arriving there at approximately 5 .40.

And you took another cab from the hotel at approximately 5 to 6, arriving at the

funeral home ten minutes later.

Yeah, I thought I could stop by BJ's hotel and pick him up and we could go to

the funeral parlor together.

Then I'm sure someone at the hotel lobby would remember seeing you.

Maybe if we go to the hotel together... No.

Miss Flynn, you have a right to remain silent.

I don't have any rights.

You have a right to counsel.

I don't have anything left.

I just can't let BJ go on thinking that he did it.

Why? Because I love him.

He never knew.

I couldn't tell him because of Donna.

But I could be near him.

And that was enough.

And then Dave was going to take that away from me, too.

After four years, he was going to fire me.

B .J. was my whole life.

I couldn't live without him.

So I went to the studio and I did what I had to do.

Was B .J. there?

No, he must have come in a few minutes later. I don't know, I panicked.

Miss Flynn, wait for your lawyer.

You know what worries me the most?

What are the audiences going to think when I start making appearances?

Did you ever see a bald -headed rock star?

Maybe we can start a new trend.

Melonhead and the Rainmaker.

Listen, anybody who's had a tumor removed and ends up as healthy as you

friend, you've got nothing to worry about.

Oh, the doctor said just a few minutes, so come on, let's go.

Oh, look, before you go, I got something for you. Oh, yes.

Only four weeks on the charts, and it's 16 with a bullet.

What's that?

Don't mind him. A bullet?

That's a mark that says a record's hot.

Oh.

It's still headed up. By the time I get out of the hospital, maybe it'll be on

the top of the charts.

Listen, you get yourself well and out of here. That's the important thing.

I will.

Thanks.

Thanks a lot.

Bye -bye.

A bullet, eh?

You know, I think this is more your speed.

And more for the classic.

The classic? Yeah, classic.