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Thank you.

Jess, I'm frightened.

Please, please help me.

These things that have happened. Your whole life and everything in it. Going

wrong. Just like that.

Not overnight, no.

For months.

One thing here, one thing there.

Jess. Step by step, Roseanne.

How wrong you were for one another.

So easy to know all the answers.

Out to the fact.

Roseanne, I'm not a marriage counselor.

Not a psychiatrist, just a general practitioner who happens to be a good

Exactly how should I have said it?

Dear patient, your marriage is destroying you.

I know I proposed to you once and you married another man.

Now this isn't jealousy, not bitterness.

But stop deluding yourself.

Isn't that symptomatic of paranoia, of severe mental illness?

Delusions? For Pete's sake, don't talk yourself into being sick.

The things I did, the things I said, I don't remember.

And the things I do remember, dear God, the things I do remember never happen.

Now listen. Now listen carefully.

A delusion is an unreasoning belief in the impossible.

An unquestioning belief in what isn't so.

You're also tired, close to exhaustion, physically sick.

Realize that. I don't believe you.

Roseanne, trust me.

All you need is to get away from your work. Get some rest.

Plenty of sleep. Good food.

Rx for disaster.

A high -calorie vacation.

You won't listen to me. Why did you come?

What in the name of all this footage are you expecting me to tell you? The

truth. And what is the truth?

I'm on the verge of insanity.

Jess, I saw it. I believed what I saw.

Please be still, Roseanne. I said I believed what I saw.

Now, is that some kind of trick of the senses?

Is that a delusion?

Not a delusion. Not an illusion.

That bump on your head is very real.

I know, but maybe after I imagined what I saw, maybe I fell. Maybe I fainted.

Maybe I even bumped my head on the floor.

And then again, maybe I'm not here and neither are you.

Maybe this is all a dream.

That's a lot of nadies.

Well, Miss Eden, anything missing?

I'm not sure, Dr. Young. Mrs.

Ambrose's material seems a little out of order, but I don't see anything

missing. Of course, I'm not sure of Mr. Ambrose's things.

Mr. Ambrose?

Bert didn't take everything with him when he moved out to the club.

I told Leslie not to touch the drawers where he kept his papers.

Everything is still in order, but more than a little disorganized.

As though things had been put back in, but in a hurry.

I wouldn't swear to it, Dr. Young, but it's possible.

Well, isn't it possible Bert came back to the house to look for something he

needed in here?

Oh, of course.

Why not?

Messed up all the papers. Hit me over the head when I walked in.

Cleaned everything up and ran.

You're making even less sense than I do.

I don't know, Jess. I just don't know.

I'll have the drugstore send something over to reduce your tension.

And something to help get you to sleep.

Miss Eden, see that she gets to bed right away.

And stays there.

I'll be back in an hour or so. Of course, Dr. Young. After I make my

the hospital, I'll come back.

Now it's upstairs in the bed for you immediately.

Agreed?

Agreed.

I'll turn down your bed, Mrs. Ambrose.

Come on, Kirk, stop fumbling around.

It has to be in that folder.

It just better be here, Mr. Ambrose.

Kirk, I'd like to talk to you.

Alone. If you'll excuse me. No, stay put.

Roseanne, you know Kirk Cameron, our office manager.

Whatever you have to say to me, I'd just assume there was a witness present.

Your desk in the den was broken into this afternoon.

There were papers scattered everywhere.

Your papers.

What? Was it you, Bert? Were you at the house this afternoon?

Whatever you believe may have happened in the den, I was not responsible.

May have happened?

I know you're a good friend of Perry Mason's.

I also know he refuses to handle domestic relation cases.

His name was on the divorce papers served on me.

Oh, you must have spun one of your better yarns to get Mason involved.

But it's true, it did happen.

I won't contest the divorce.

It'll be yours by default.

Only one thing, Ross, and when you say it's true, mean it.

But it is true.

It happened, like I said, in the den.

That's nonsense.

Sheer fabricated nonsense, darling, and you know it.

There's nothing anybody would want in that desk.

Nothing. Mr. Ambrose, I'm Lieutenant Anderson, Los Angeles Police.

This is Lieutenant Barlow, Police Department, New York City.

I'm Hewitt Ambrose. What can I do for you, Lieutenant?

I have a warrant here issued by the governor of the state of California

your arrest for extradition to New York.

On what charge?

You're wanted in New York City for the murder of Mrs. Sophie Janelle.

What happened?

As they said on the phone, it was very important.

Bert's been arrested for murder. They're going to extradite him to New York

City. Murder?

Yes, he's inside now. They sent for a judge.

I told Bert you'd help him.

You shouldn't have.

I'm your attorney representing you in litigation against Bert.

I can't represent you both.

Harry, I want to go ahead with the divorce.

But until then, he's still my husband. He needs help.

I know Bert's faults.

But somehow I can't think of him as a murderer.

That will be for a New York jury to decide.

There'd be no warrant for him unless he'd already been indicted in New York.

Is it possible they've made a mistake that he's not the man they're looking

Well, if so, he can petition on a writ of habeas corpus.

Alleging a legal restraint.

It'll stop the extradition.

I don't know what Bert's done, but I can't run away when he needs help.

What am I to do, Perry, right now?

Start looking through the phone book for another attorney in the middle of the

night?

No.

No, I'll ask the magistrate to delay the arrest warrant until Bert can retain an

attorney and file a petition for a writ.

Now, don't worry, Roseanne.

We'd better go on in.

And that you did there feloniously and with malice aforethought bludgeon the

aforesaid Sophie Janelle to death.

Under the provision of the California Penal Code, Mr. Ambrose, you are

to counsel, if you wish, before we proceed.

My counsel has just arrived, Your Honor.

Well, Mr. Mason, are you representing the accused?

No, Your Honor.

I'm here on behalf of Mrs.

Ambrose. But may I request that the accused be given a reasonable stay of

delivery on the arrest warrant so that he may retain counsel?

Do I understand that the accused intends to test the legality of the arrest?

That is for Mr. Ambrose to say, Your Honor.

There's been a gross error committed here someplace.

That indictment states that Mrs. Janelle was murdered a month ago.

I admit she's a client and a good friend.

But I haven't been in New York City in the past four or five months at least.

Lieutenant Bonnell? The New York City Police Department sent me out here to

assist the California Attorney General's office in checking out this extradition

demand and to take custody on behalf of the demanding state.

The man speaks of a Mr. Harry Arden.

The indictment alleges that Harry Arden and Hubert Ambrose are one and the same

man. Mrs. Janelle was found murdered in a New York City hotel room registered to

a Harry Arden.

Now that registration, along with round -trip airline tickets from Los Angeles

to New York and back, were made in that same name, the name of Harry Arden, made

by a Mr.

Kirk Cameron.

They were paid for by the firm of Garrett and Ambrose.

That's Hubert Ambrose, Your Honor, the man who personally represented Mrs.

Janelle. In addition, a witness testified to the New York grand jury,

authorized to state that that witness, the dead woman's daughter, Miss Vera

Janelle, has identified Harry Arden as Hubert Ambrose.

that both names refer to one and the same man.

Mr. Mason, I take it that the writ of habeas corpus will allege that Harry

and Hubert Ambrose are not one and the same.

Your Honor, that must be a decision between Mr. Ambrose and whatever counsel

retains.

One week's stay of delivery on the warrant of arrest is directed.

Since the crime cited is a capital offense, there will be no bail.

Lieutenant Anderson, the accused is remanded to the custody of the Los

police. And that's all.

Did you see Bert?

I've been your man's partner for so many years and not really knowing. Did you

see my husband, Mr. Garrett?

Yes, I told him our company lawyer would be here in the morning.

I know how upsetting and distasteful this must be to you because of the

but thank you for helping him, Mr. Garrett.

A man is absolutely no good.

And I fail to understand, considering your pending divorce, why you're at all

concerned with him.

He's still my husband.

He's a man in jail.

He may very well stay in jail until the New York authorities lead him to the

electric chair.

Up until today, you thought a great deal of my husband, Mr. Garrett.

Yes,

he's an effective salesman. He's a man of considerable charm in many ways,

but... But now you think incapable of killing a human being.

Oh, we all make mistakes in judgment.

No, I never considered him to be a murderer, but I never considered him to

swindler either.

Swindler?

When you called me, the police were in my office going over the books.

Of course, there's no real proof yet, but apparently Hubert and Kurt Cameron

fleeced this Mrs. Janelle in New York out of a fortune. Kurt Cameron?

I thought his only involvement in this mess was that he bought those tickets,

made the hotel reservations for Bert.

Well, evidently not. I assume it's only a matter of time until they have enough

evidence to arrest him for participating in this swindle.

Could he have been involved in more than just the swindle?

Kurt Cameron, the tickets, the reservations.

Maybe he did more than just buy those tickets.

Mr. Garrett, maybe he used those tickets himself.

Mrs. Ambrose, where are you going?

To get Kurt Cameron to tell the truth.

I called Dr. Young, Mr. Mason.

I've looked every... May have happened.

When you start getting into her financial affairs in preparation for

divorce, I think you'll find out that Hubert probably took her for every

she had in the world.

Is there a possibility that it wasn't Hubert, but Kirk Cameron who was

Oh, Cameron was involved with the swindle. Now, I don't know about the

Of course, we'd know a lot more if the police would release the contents of

suicide note he wrote.

Did Cameron know Mrs. Janelle in New York?

Well, he never knew her the way Hubert did.

More than a client -investment -counselor relationship.

Well, the dead woman's daughter's in town. Why don't you ask her, Mason?

Hubert Ambrose is a dirty swine.

My mother was a good ten years older than he.

But does that make any difference?

No. You romancers thought she was some silly college co -ed and filled her full

of stupid lies.

Lies, Mr. Mason.

And then he stole from her. He stole from her until she caught him, and then

killed her.

That poor child.

Most difficult for her. Most difficult.

Are you a relative?

Wilfred Willey, Mr.

Mason. A friend of Miss Janette's. And international president of Altamore.

A social organization?

I beg your pardon, sir.

The Anti -Colonial League to Abolish Munitions and War.

Oh, yes.

I remember.

You were involved in a sit -down strike in the street outside Parliament, and

you were arrested.

Five times.

Wasn't there a photograph of you? It appeared in 347 newspapers, printed in

languages, was on the telly networks of seven countries.

Is Miss Janelle associated with this organization?

Vera Janelle is the chairlady for the American chapter of Baltimore.

Excellent leadership.

Was arrested twice herself.

That's what our young people need today.

More dedication.

Well, how frightfully perceptive of you to notice it, Mr. Mason.

Vera's even more amazing when you realize she's rather well to do herself.

Moreover, the daughter of a millionaires.

True social consciousness with a background like that.

You did say her mother, the late Sophie Janelle, was a millionaires.

Mm -hmm.

She left three million dollars in her will.

Well, well.

Two million of it went to charity.

Owned some distant relatives.

And the third million naturally to her daughter Vera.

Oh, no, not at all.

Didn't you know, Mr. Mason, Sophie Janelle left that third million dollars

Hubert Ambrose.

I, Kurt Cameron, by myself, swindled Mrs. Sophie Janelle.

Hubert Ambrose had nothing to do with it.

I intercepted the letter she wrote to him stating she had found out, would

in the authorities unless he made it all good.

I didn't have the money. There was no way to raise it. It was only a matter of

time before I would be found out and sent to prison.

The plane tickets, the hotel reservation were for me.

I flew to New York using the code name Mr. Ambrose used in his dealings with

Mrs. Janelle.

I sent her a wire asking her to meet me in the hotel room.

She came.

I pleaded with her, but she wouldn't listen.

When she lifted the phone to call the police, I... That's all there is. But

original of this was typed on his own personal machine.

It was found splattered with blood under his head on the table.

The gun on his right hand was tested.

It fired the fatal shot.

His hands had traces of nitrate on them consistent with his firing the gun.

There were splatters of blood on the hand holding the gun.

Predictably, on the basis of this note and the other evidence, the coroner's

report describes the death as suicide.

Mr. Berger?

Yes, Mr. Manson?

In view of that confession, as Mr.

Ambrose's attorney, I insist the governor be contacted at once. Mike, I'm

Mr. Berger will do what should be done.

I have notified the governor.

And the warrant has been withdrawn.

The demand for extradition will not be honored. Your client is free to go, sir.

Fine. If there's nothing else, we'll leave.

There's nothing else.

Gibbert?

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Berger.

Perry, since you were already involved, so to speak, I asked you and Mrs.

Ambrose to be here so that you could hear this material at first hand before

spaked up other papers.

Thank you, Hamilton.

I appreciate that.

I'll take you home, Rosanna.

So far, so good.

Well, you know what to do, Andy.

All set up and waiting.

Good luck.

Bless you.

An interlocutory degree is conclusive and raised Judy Carter with respect to

all.

Hi, Perry. Bella.

I thought you were taking off for a day or two of fishing.

That's right. With a friend of mine in the ballistic section of the police

department. Did you plan to shoot the fish?

Last time I heard, gag writers were doing a lot better than legal

But do they get to spend much time with brave, handsome private eyes?

Is that a complaint or a promise?

Paul, I do have a brief to finish.

Yeah. Perry, you were mixed up in that Cameron suicide, weren't you? I was

up, yes.

Well, there's something funny about the whole setup. My friend tipped me. Real

funny. How funny?

The gun he used to kill himself was brand new.

Ballistics fired it over a hundred times and it never leaked once.

You're sure of that?

My friend wouldn't give me a bum sear. And that's not all. The autopsy revealed

traces of chloral hydrate in Cameron's body.

Perry. Tell him, cancel my appointments for the rest of the day.

I'll call and tell you when I'm coming back.

Of course, the so -called dermal nitrate test is not only controversial,

but it may be meaningless as evidence in court.

What is important, however, is that somebody was unaware of this and

significantly that a paraffin test usually reveals nitrate on the hand that

and fired a gun only when the gun breech is leaking.

Then... But that means... Chances are Cameron didn't fire that gun and that he

didn't commit suicide.

But the note. The blood on his hand.

It seems somebody could have typed the note and splattered the blood on his

hand. Just sit there.

Just sit there while somebody put a gun to his head. No problem at all. If again

that same somebody saw that he had a drink first.

A drink containing knockout drugs.

Chlorohydrate. Of all of them.

Why that drug?

Well, it's what they call what you said, knockout drops.

You're evading me.

Don't be ridiculous.

Why should I be evasive about... To protect Roseanne Ambrose. No.

Dr. Young, the police still haven't confirmed that suicide.

Now, this may not bother some people, but it definitely bothers me.

I'm Roseanne's attorney.

I'm also her friend.

She may be in serious trouble. I can't help her unless I know all the facts.

On the day Cameron committed suicide, you wrote two prescriptions for

What was in them?

Among other things, one had choral hydrate to put her to sleep quickly.

And the other? She was highly nervous, suffering from hypertension.

What was in that second prescription?

It contained a small amount of sodium nitrate.

What is it? These two plane tickets for a flight out of the States. You won't

have to bother picking them up. What are you talking about?

The fact that you're under arrest.

Both of you.

The governor withdrew that expedition warrant.

It's been reissued.

What's that got to do with my wife?

Nothing at all.

Mrs. Ambrose, you're under arrest for the murder of Kirk Cameron.

Now, Lieutenant Anderson, you heard the elevator operator testify that he took

the defendant, Roseanne Ambrose, up to the decedent's floor, but that he did

take her down again.

Did you, in the course of your investigation, find out how she got down

He used the stairs.

We found a jewel lipstick with her initials on it at the base of the

We found her fingerprints on the balustrade railing. And we found

when she dropped her purse and lost her lipstick, he also spilled some powder.

We could see where an effort had been made to sweep up the loose powder, but

there was still enough left in the depressions to match the powder in the

compact he was carrying.

You say the powder did match?

Not only match, the compact itself was scratched and dented, and we found

matching traces of enamel from the compact on the stairs.

And this was the same purse in which, according to your testimony, you found

two bottles of medicine described by Dr. Young? That's right.

Were you able to establish the presence of her fingerprints anyplace else? On

various pieces of furniture in Kirk Cameron's apartment.

And on the gun he was killed with.

Fingerprints on the gun?

You mean here on the handle where I'm holding it?

No, sir. We hardly ever lift prints off the handle.

There's no surface there to hold a print.

These prints, her prints, were found on the barrel where the smooth surface will

take prints.

Approximately where my fingers are holding it now.

I see.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

Cross -examine.

Lieutenant.

The nitrate on the decedent's hand, the chloral hydrate in his body, the powder,

the fingerprints.

Was all this evidence known by the authorities before Hubert Ambrose was

released from arrest on the extradition demand?

Yes, it was.

Then at that time, you knew Kirk Cameron's death was not suicide.

Yes, I knew.

And the district attorney knew it also?

Your Honor, I'll object to that question on the grounds that it calls for a

conclusion and an opinion of the witness.

If the court please.

The district attorney on direct examination has elicited from the

testimony relative to the defendant's alleged flight from arrest, trial, and

conviction. Well, then counsel should have objected when the questions were

asked, Your Honor. Your Honor, I submit this evidence is admissible for purposes

of impeaching the witness.

Impeaching? The defense may conceivably charge that the alleged flight and the

inferences drawn from it were actually planned by the authorities and that the

defendant was by entrapment lured into fleeing.

Entrapment? Now listen, Mr. Mason. That will be all, Mr. Berger.

Objection to the prosecution is overruled.

The witness will answer the question.

So far as I know, the district attorney was aware that Kirk Cameron's death was

not suicide.

Was Hubert Ambrose released as part of a deliberate conspiracy to create

evidence of criminal guilt and possible collusion between the defendant and her

husband? No, we didn't know they tried to escape. We didn't even suggest it.

We only hoped it would happen.

Hoped? We had reason to believe that Kirk Cameron had been murdered. We had

reason to believe that Roseanne Ambrose had been there and had held the gun.

We thought we could make an assumption as to her motive, but we couldn't prove

it. Lieutenant, what did you assume her motive was?

To keep Hubert Ambrose from being convicted for the murder of Sophie

Her husband had swindled her. She did it to get her money back.

Nobody convicted of murder can inherit from the person he murdered.

Hubert Ambrose couldn't collect the million dollars Sophie Donnell had left

in her will if he was convicted of her murder.

You assume then that Roseanne Ambrose killed Kirk Cameron in an attempt to

protect her husband's inheritance?

Well, that's what we thought, yes.

When he was released, when the two of them were picked up at the airport, we

couldn't prove they were trying to leave the state to avoid prosecution, but it

was enough for us to confirm for ourselves our assumption as to motive.

Your Honor.

Without questioning the veracity of the witness, it is obvious he cannot speak

for the knowledge or motivation of the district attorney.

I may have pleased the court.

Wait a minute, Mr. Mason.

Maybe we can cut off this excursion before I have to testify.

I was going to request that very thing, Mr. Berger.

Will counsel be satisfied with this stipulation as to my knowledge and my

intent?

You state for the record that you were aware of Hubert Ambrose's embezzlement

his wife's separate funds and that you were attempting to prove the

subsequent... Alleged criminal acts of Roseanne Ambrose? Well, those

dredged up to support some harebrained theory.

And when you told the defendant, Roseanne Ambrose, that she was not

from a severe mental illness, that was a fact and not a theory?

Yes. There was no mental illness?

No. She was absolutely at all times in control of her faculties?

Absolutely. Including at all times her ability to distinguish between right and

wrong?

That's right, Doctor.

The McNaughton Rule.

To be used as a defense against prosecution for murder, insanity does

to be either permanent or complete.

It must only involve, at the time of the crime, the inability to distinguish

between right and wrong.

I like it.

In your opinion, as her physician, her physician of long standing, based on

fact, not on theory, based on uninvolved, objective observation, was

Roseanne Ambrose able to distinguish between right and wrong?

I can't answer that. Let me remind you, the patient -doctor privilege pertains

only to civil matters. This is a criminal action.

I can't answer that.

Dr. Young, there's no question here of privilege of self -incrimination.

Now, if you don't want to be cited for contempt, you must answer.

I can't give an objective, an uninvolved observation.

You see, I love Roseanne Ambrose.

Cameron was frightened, obviously covering up, not telling me the truth.

He became abusive, ugly.

I started yelling at him.

I called him a murderer.

Cameron, from out of nowhere, suddenly had a gun in his hand.

He pointed it at me and ordered me out of the apartment.

I grabbed the gun by the barrel.

I tried to turn it aside.

We were fighting over the gun when he jerked it out of my hand and it struck

on the forehead.

Why haven't you told me this before?

Because I think that's what happened, but I'm not sure.

Maybe I did kill him.

When you left, why did you use the stairs? Why not the elevator?

Well, I was very dizzy, sick, from where the gun had struck me.

I think I did ring for the elevator.

Suddenly I found myself on the stairs.

I dropped my purse and I reached for it. Mrs.

Ambrose, if you were feeling so badly, why did you bother to clean up the

powder?

Did I?

It was brushed up.

I'm sure you're aware, Mr. Garrett.

that all members of a partnership are jointly and severally liable and damages

for fraud and misrepresentation of any one partner. No investor in a company

bearing my name shall lose so much as a single dollar through the misapplication

of funds.

Then you personally involve yourself with the company. You don't merely give

your name to it. In the investment world, the name of Fillmore Garrett is

synonymous with fiduciary responsibility.

We can't assume, then, that you were not unaware of the activities of Hubert

Ambrose and Kirk Cameron in your company.

No, you may not assume.

I had no idea what they were doing, believe me.

You must have been aware that something was wrong.

Well, no, I wasn't specifically aware of any particular thing, no.

Just generally uneasy, worried.

Yes, that's right.

That was before Mrs. Janelle died.

Naturally. Because you had started checking your books with your

Well, not then, no.

Oh?

Then you started checking the books after you returned from New York.

Yes, right after that.

And when were you there?

Well, I was in New York.

Were you in New York when Mrs. Sophie Janelle was murdered?

Well, yes, but I had nothing to do with that, believe me. But you were there

because of the embezzlement. Yes, because of the letter.

Letter?

From Mrs. Janelle?

No, it was a letter from her daughter. She wrote complaining about her mother's

money. Vera Janelle.

I ask you, of your own knowledge, is that an accurate copy of your mother's

will and testament?

It is.

Aside from bequests amounting to $2 million to certain charities, would you

to this court, please, the name of the individual designated by your mother as

the sole heir to the remaining $1 million of her estate?

Hubert Ambrose.

I most assuredly was with Miss Janelle and her mother when the wire arrived

Los Angeles.

And did you personally see it and read it?

But of course, she showed it to us.

And to the best of your recollection, what did the wire say?

My dear young man, I couldn't possibly remember.

Not the exact words, Miss Willane. What was the general sense of the wire?

Well, now, let me see.

Oh, yes.

Meet me such and such a room, such and such a hotel, such and such a time. Can

explain. And what was Mrs.

Janelle's reaction to this wire?

Rather unimpressed, I'd say.

Mrs. Janelle stated... that not only could she no longer believe Hubert, but

that she planned to cut him off without so much as a shilling.

Rather fully perceptive of the old girl, I thought. She stated that she, quote,

could never believe Hubert again, unquote. Was the wire signed Hubert?

No, no, it was signed Harry, with an H as in Hubert, and Arden with an A as

in Ambrose.

Your witness.

Miss Willene.

How do you support yourself?

Sir, I'm a gentlewoman of independent means.

Dedicated to socially urgent causes.

Why not?

To such a task, we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes.

Very good, Miss Willian.

I see you memorized Woodrow Wilson's words to Congress asking for a

of war.

So, son.

The initials S -O -S -O and D.

What do they signify?

Society of Supporters of Disestablishmentarianism. A society

were for five years at an annual salary of 7 ,500 pounds, correct?

Yes. Remarkable.

Considering the society never had a yearly income in excess of 8 ,000

Now, Amaphep. A -M -A -F -E -P.

Would you translate that, please?

Auntie Mau Mau, alliance for everlasting peace.

Chairlady, a husband is not competent to testify against his wife.

The privilege cannot be asserted in a criminal prosecution for a crime against

third party while husband and wife are connected with the commission of a crime

by one spouse against the other.

Well, that has no bearing here. There's been no proof of any such thing.

You stipulated earlier in the hearing, Mr. Berger.

That you were aware of Hubert Ambrose's alleged embezzlement of his wife's

separate funds.

That her alleged criminal act against Kirk Cameron was a direct consequence of

and thereby connected with her husband's embezzlement.

I don't care what kind of a technicality you've dredged up to make him a

competent witness.

He still can't be forced to testify unless both he and the defendant are

to waive their privilege.

Mrs. Ambrose is willing to so waive.

Less than an hour ago in county jail, Hubert Ambrose, with the advice of

counsel, agreed to testify on behalf of his wife.

Mr. Berger, you will have Hubert Ambrose brought into court before an end as a

witness. The judge has instructed you on your constitutional right not to answer

a question if you feel the answer might incriminate you.

I shall try not to abuse your consenting to appear at this hearing on behalf of

your wife.

I don't imagine I can be any more incriminated than I am right now, Mr.

Looks like I've been driving up the wrong street for a long time.

Mr. Ambrose, you don't believe then that there are goals in life so desirable

they are worth any price?

Take a good look at me.

Is your answer?

When you married Roseanne Ambrose, did you love her?

Yes. Do you still love her?

No, that was over long ago for both of us.

Do you hate her?

No, I never could.

Then why did you participate in the carefully designed plan to make her

she was going insane?

And perhaps literally to drive her insane.

That's a lie, a rotten lie.

What's a lie, Mr. Ambrose? That there has been such a plan?

Or that you've been part of it?

I, uh... I just thought... That she was, really was mentally ill?

These canceled checks represent the $70 ,000 given you by your wife.

Is that your signature on the endorsement?

Is it the signature of Kirk Cameron?

Of course, you knew about this money.

But did you know about the illusions?

Illusions?

A chain of carefully manufactured incidents to trick an imaginative and

susceptible woman into distrusting her own senses.

To confuse this already unhappy and highly nervous woman so that she

realize her life savings were being stolen from her.

I had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with that.

If you had known of the illusions.

Could you have intervened?

Was Kirk Cameron killed and his death made to look like suicide to prevent

conviction for the murder of Mrs. Sophie Janelle?

I know nothing about it.

But you do know that's the only way your million -dollar inheritance from the

murdered woman could be protected.

I was in jail when Kirk Cameron was killed. In jail!

But your accomplice wasn't.

Lieutenant Anderson needed help.

Information.

In giving that help, your accomplice knew the phony suicide had been

knew that you would be rearrested for Mrs. Chanel's murder, knew somebody else

would be sought for Cameron's murder.

It had to be somebody who knew of the million -dollar inheritance, who planned

to share it with you. To the accomplice, it was no longer a question of money.

It was life or death.

You had to be written off.

Did you send a message to your wife to meet at the airport?

Knowing the police were watching you both? No, no. My wife sent a message to

to meet her there.

But the simple truth is, it was not your wife who bought the tickets and sent

the message to you. It had to be your accomplice.

Deliberately tossing you back into the hands of the police.

Your accomplice who bought the tickets. And by sending messages both to you and

your wife, arranged a meeting at the airport.

What? The same accomplice who stole from your wife without fear of you, knowing

that you were stealing from Mrs. Janelle.

I didn't know it was that much. I swear I didn't. The one person who could have

done it.

Who could have staged the illusions.

Who could have killed Kirk Cameron.

Your accomplice.

Leslie Eden.

Why did you do it, Matthew?

Why? I told you I didn't want her hurt.

I warned you I didn't want anybody hurt.

And Kirk.

Why did you have to go and kill Kirk Cameron?

Harry,

the powder.

Did I actually sweep it up off the stairs?

Roseanne, I thought I'd convinced you of your sanity.

No, you didn't.

Leslie found you on the stairs unconscious on our way up to Cameron's.

Remember if you couldn't use the elevator?

You were still there, still unconscious, when she left after killing Cameron.

She couldn't resist adding just one more illusion.

She missed your lipstick when she put everything back in your purse.

Including the two bottles of medicine she did not give you earlier in the

courthouse. I didn't think I'd taken any of that medicine, but then there were a

lot of things I wasn't sure about.

Nothing more, I hope.

Just one, Jess.

Can I tell right from wrong?

A year from now, I'll answer that.

After you answer a question, I ask you.