1 00:00:02,673 --> 00:00:04,777 Itheme] 2 00:00:59,622 --> 00:01:01,592 Sit down, sit down. 3 00:01:01,724 --> 00:01:06,365 Peter, the details of the merger between Gregson Canneries and Super Brands. 4 00:01:07,896 --> 00:01:11,302 Why, it's a complicated arrangement involving distribution, 5 00:01:11,433 --> 00:01:14,705 marketing, the Super Brands complex of retail outlets. 6 00:01:14,836 --> 00:01:15,637 Never mind that. 7 00:01:15,903 --> 00:01:17,706 Only the basic financial arrangement. 8 00:01:17,839 --> 00:01:21,645 As part of an ownership transfer, Super Brands agrees to buy from us 9 00:01:21,842 --> 00:01:23,845 51 O/o of Gregson stock. 10 00:01:23,977 --> 00:01:24,945 At what price? 11 00:01:25,078 --> 00:01:27,883 Market value of the stocks at the time the merger was agreed upon. 12 00:01:28,014 --> 00:01:29,383 _9.OO per share. 13 00:01:29,515 --> 00:01:32,186 Regardless of what the shares cost us. 14 00:01:32,618 --> 00:01:33,653 Carl? 15 00:01:35,020 --> 00:01:37,524 Aside from the family stock owned by the three of you 16 00:01:37,655 --> 00:01:39,792 and my own small holdings, 17 00:01:41,326 --> 00:01:45,600 we are 65,OOO shares short of the amount of stock 18 00:01:45,729 --> 00:01:49,802 that we agreed to turn over to Super Brands at _9.OO a share. 19 00:01:49,933 --> 00:01:53,773 Yesterday afternoon, l gave orders to start buying quietly quietly. 20 00:01:53,903 --> 00:01:58,244 And what was this morning's opening price? 21 00:01:58,374 --> 00:01:59,642 _10 a share. 22 00:01:59,774 --> 00:02:01,477 What? 23 00:02:01,610 --> 00:02:03,212 Tell him the rest, Carl. 24 00:02:03,278 --> 00:02:07,252 Five minutes ago, the stock had already risen to _1 2 a share. 25 00:02:07,382 --> 00:02:09,017 [whistles] 26 00:02:09,149 --> 00:02:13,257 As it stands right now, we're bankrupt if the merger doesn't go through, 27 00:02:14,020 --> 00:02:15,690 and we're bankrupt if it does. 28 00:02:15,822 --> 00:02:18,359 lf you, young man, paid more attention to your job 29 00:02:18,491 --> 00:02:20,061 and less to your outside interests, 30 00:02:20,193 --> 00:02:22,263 this wouldn't come as such a shock to you, either. 31 00:02:22,395 --> 00:02:24,030 ls this some sort ofjoke? 32 00:02:24,162 --> 00:02:26,099 Gregson Canneries stock hasn't fluctuated 33 00:02:26,231 --> 00:02:28,501 one point up or down in the last thirty years. 34 00:02:28,633 --> 00:02:29,568 Why now? 35 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:32,504 Exactly, why now? 36 00:02:32,636 --> 00:02:36,243 Unless someone deliberately leaked information on that forthcoming merger. 37 00:02:36,407 --> 00:02:40,113 Which means, Peter, that dear Aunt Wilma is convinced one of us talked. 38 00:02:41,710 --> 00:02:43,380 l'm sorry, l just won't buy that. 39 00:02:43,513 --> 00:02:46,952 You never did have sense in judging who could or couldn't be trusted. 40 00:02:47,082 --> 00:02:49,186 Let's not bring up Karen Ross again. 41 00:02:49,318 --> 00:02:51,120 l fired her. That ended that episode. 42 00:03:00,227 --> 00:03:04,635 But all right, Peter , suppose we test your present judgment. 43 00:03:04,697 --> 00:03:07,702 Which one of the four of us broke a trust 44 00:03:07,867 --> 00:03:09,971 and destroyed the company? 45 00:03:10,102 --> 00:03:13,908 Which one of us feathered his own nest at serious cost to the other three? 46 00:03:14,039 --> 00:03:15,609 Which one, Peter? 47 00:03:18,176 --> 00:03:19,177 Very well. 48 00:03:19,311 --> 00:03:23,451 Super Brands must agree to a change in the merger agreement. 49 00:03:24,548 --> 00:03:27,487 Peter, you'd better fly to Chicago at once. 50 00:03:27,650 --> 00:03:28,418 Not today. 51 00:03:28,586 --> 00:03:30,088 And why not today? 52 00:03:30,219 --> 00:03:33,925 Well, l have some appointments, business appointments. 53 00:03:34,390 --> 00:03:36,560 Something very important l can't break. 54 00:03:36,692 --> 00:03:38,829 My secretary has your tickets. 55 00:03:38,961 --> 00:03:40,563 You're going to Chicago, Peter. 56 00:03:40,695 --> 00:03:44,334 And today. 57 00:03:53,639 --> 00:03:55,509 Gee, Agnes, it's amully heavy. 58 00:03:55,674 --> 00:03:56,809 lsn't that a lot of food? 59 00:03:56,942 --> 00:03:59,413 Of course. There's enough there for a week. 60 00:03:59,546 --> 00:04:01,682 And if your father had any sense at all, 61 00:04:01,814 --> 00:04:05,921 the two of you would get on that boat, sail out of the bay, and not come back, 62 00:04:05,984 --> 00:04:06,952 till that food was gone. 63 00:04:07,085 --> 00:04:08,955 [laughing] That's silly. 64 00:04:09,087 --> 00:04:11,691 You know Daddy can't stop working that long. 65 00:04:11,822 --> 00:04:16,363 lt isn't work that chains him to that omice. It's her, the old She-Dragon. 66 00:04:16,493 --> 00:04:17,461 [doorbell rings] 67 00:04:17,594 --> 00:04:20,833 l'll bet Daddy forgot his key again. 68 00:04:24,500 --> 00:04:26,770 Oh, Mrs. Holman. 69 00:04:26,901 --> 00:04:30,641 Sandra, is that what you're wearing to your dancing class this afternoon? 70 00:04:30,772 --> 00:04:33,276 l'm amully sorry, Mrs. Holman, 71 00:04:33,408 --> 00:04:35,210 l forgot to tell you not to pick me up today. 72 00:04:35,342 --> 00:04:36,845 l'm skipping dancing class. 73 00:04:36,977 --> 00:04:39,214 Skip -- Agnes? 74 00:04:39,346 --> 00:04:43,754 Yes, Mrs. Holman, Sandra and Mr. Gregson are going out on the sailboat. 75 00:04:43,883 --> 00:04:49,260 Well, what a nice day to finally start your vacation. 76 00:04:49,389 --> 00:04:52,494 But Daddy couldn't take time to go to the redwoods last month, 77 00:04:52,624 --> 00:04:56,732 and we never did see the circus. But today l got om from school and-- 78 00:04:56,861 --> 00:05:01,135 l know, l know, l've heard all the excuses. 79 00:05:01,265 --> 00:05:04,404 My husband Carl works just as hard for Gregson Canneries 80 00:05:04,468 --> 00:05:06,939 as your father does, Sandra. 81 00:05:07,070 --> 00:05:09,841 And you might as well get used to it. Men like that don't love a single thing 82 00:05:09,972 --> 00:05:10,973 but work, work, work. 83 00:05:11,106 --> 00:05:14,512 That's not true. It's mean to say that. 84 00:05:14,643 --> 00:05:17,081 lf anybody's mean, it's your precious Aunt Wilma. 85 00:05:17,212 --> 00:05:21,085 As long as she gets her way, she doesn't care what promises are broken, 86 00:05:21,215 --> 00:05:25,790 or what hearts, including yours, young lady, 87 00:05:25,919 --> 00:05:29,292 when your father comes home and tells you that something's come up. 88 00:05:29,423 --> 00:05:32,762 No he won't. My daddy promised we're going this time. 89 00:05:32,892 --> 00:05:35,029 He promised nothing would stop us. 90 00:05:35,161 --> 00:05:37,265 He promised. 91 00:05:37,396 --> 00:05:40,235 Just you wait and see. 92 00:05:45,537 --> 00:05:46,906 Daddy-- Please --- ? 93 00:05:47,037 --> 00:05:49,675 l'm sorry, baby, terribly sorry-- 94 00:05:49,807 --> 00:05:53,246 about the boat, about fishing, about everything. 95 00:05:53,377 --> 00:05:55,647 But last month and before that. 96 00:05:55,778 --> 00:05:58,682 l know. Once l finished the work l was doing, 97 00:05:58,815 --> 00:06:02,020 l said l'd be free to spend some time with you. 98 00:06:02,150 --> 00:06:04,387 And you finished, you told me you did. 99 00:06:04,453 --> 00:06:05,722 Yes, l finished, 100 00:06:05,854 --> 00:06:09,493 but some irresponsible fool went blabbing om about our business plans, 101 00:06:09,624 --> 00:06:11,594 and now we're faced with an emergency. 102 00:06:14,295 --> 00:06:16,999 That's the only thing that could have forced me to break our date 103 00:06:17,130 --> 00:06:18,198 and fly to Chicago. 104 00:06:18,331 --> 00:06:21,170 You understand that? 105 00:06:21,301 --> 00:06:23,872 Yes, but it doesn't help much. 106 00:06:27,639 --> 00:06:28,807 Sandra. 107 00:06:28,941 --> 00:06:31,145 Yes, Daddy? 108 00:06:31,276 --> 00:06:34,214 This half-finished letter to someone named ''Jill''. 109 00:06:34,345 --> 00:06:38,786 Oh, Jill is my pen-pal. Don't you remember me telling you about her? 110 00:06:38,915 --> 00:06:41,486 We write to each other almost every day now. 111 00:06:41,619 --> 00:06:46,026 But this letter mentions something about the canneries. 112 00:06:46,155 --> 00:06:49,294 Sandra, this is important. 113 00:06:49,425 --> 00:06:51,061 When you write to your friend Jill, 114 00:06:51,193 --> 00:06:53,931 do you ever write about things you hear me talk about? 115 00:06:54,062 --> 00:06:57,101 Sure, l write her all about you and the company, 116 00:06:57,232 --> 00:06:59,035 your being president and everything. 117 00:06:59,167 --> 00:07:02,640 Sweetheart, do you know what a merger is? 118 00:07:02,704 --> 00:07:07,011 No, but l know it's what you said you had to finish working on 119 00:07:07,141 --> 00:07:08,710 so we could have a vacation. 120 00:07:08,841 --> 00:07:12,414 Have you ever written to this Jill about this merger? 121 00:07:12,545 --> 00:07:14,415 Sure. 122 00:07:17,583 --> 00:07:19,085 ls something the matter, Daddy? 123 00:07:19,217 --> 00:07:21,921 Now, Sandra, try to remember. 124 00:07:22,052 --> 00:07:27,595 Did this Jill ever ask questions, specific questions, about the merger? 125 00:07:27,725 --> 00:07:30,062 Well, let's see. 126 00:07:30,227 --> 00:07:34,634 Last week she wrote about how her mother has a friend 127 00:07:34,764 --> 00:07:38,404 who knows all about business things and says you must be real smart, Daddy. 128 00:07:38,535 --> 00:07:43,677 Only please would l write when this merger thing was going to be. 129 00:07:43,806 --> 00:07:46,010 ls that what you wanted to know, Daddy? 130 00:07:46,140 --> 00:07:49,446 l keep all her letters if you want me to look some more. 131 00:07:49,577 --> 00:07:51,180 Cab's still waiting. 132 00:07:51,312 --> 00:07:54,483 You'll miss your plane if you don't hurry, Mr. Gregson. 133 00:08:01,020 --> 00:08:03,324 - Goodbye, honey. - Bye, Daddy. 134 00:08:06,725 --> 00:08:10,098 [sobs] 135 00:08:20,870 --> 00:08:23,241 Gregson? Peter Gregson. 136 00:08:23,372 --> 00:08:25,075 - Mr. Willoughby. - What's the matter? 137 00:08:25,208 --> 00:08:29,014 Your Aunt Wilma forbid you to shake hands with your big bad competitor? 138 00:08:30,078 --> 00:08:32,048 Wouldn't be flying east, by any chance? 139 00:08:32,180 --> 00:08:33,148 Would you? 140 00:08:33,281 --> 00:08:35,485 As far as Chicago. 141 00:08:35,617 --> 00:08:37,319 That's interesting, Mr. Willoughby. 142 00:08:37,452 --> 00:08:39,154 l happen to be going there myself. 143 00:08:39,286 --> 00:08:41,289 l shouldn't wonder. 144 00:08:41,422 --> 00:08:43,592 Wouldn't have anything to do with the sudden hike in the price 145 00:08:43,724 --> 00:08:46,830 of Gregson stock today, would it? 146 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,831 lf you'll excuse me, l have a phone call to make. 147 00:09:08,111 --> 00:09:11,750 Acme Detective Agency? Mr. Woodfern, please. 148 00:09:12,749 --> 00:09:14,586 Main thing you're after, then, is the identity of the person 149 00:09:15,852 --> 00:09:18,923 referred to as ''my mother's friend.'' 150 00:09:19,054 --> 00:09:22,325 Oh, there's a topnotch detective agency in Los Angeles. 151 00:09:22,457 --> 00:09:24,829 They do work for us down there. l'll have them get on it right away. 152 00:09:24,959 --> 00:09:28,030 Call me in Chicago the moment there's anything to report. 153 00:09:28,161 --> 00:09:33,905 And, Mr. Woodfern, whatever information you have to get from my daughter, 154 00:09:34,033 --> 00:09:36,070 try not to alarm her. 155 00:09:36,202 --> 00:09:41,445 And Jill lives at 1963 Sunshine Lane in Los Angeles. 156 00:09:41,574 --> 00:09:42,509 That's spelled-- 157 00:09:42,642 --> 00:09:45,046 Never mind, honey. l know how to spell that. 158 00:09:45,176 --> 00:09:48,015 What l'm doing for your father doesn't amount to much. 159 00:09:48,146 --> 00:09:50,283 But l think you'd better give me the girl's name again. 160 00:09:50,415 --> 00:09:52,819 Well, her name is Jill Thatcher. 161 00:09:52,950 --> 00:09:57,258 T-H-A-T-C-H-E- R. 162 00:09:58,522 --> 00:10:02,395 ''Dear Pen-Pal, we just finished dinner, and Mother is going out. 163 00:10:02,525 --> 00:10:03,493 l like it when she does, because then-- '' 164 00:10:05,060 --> 00:10:06,195 [doorbell rings] 165 00:10:06,328 --> 00:10:08,699 Jill, answer the door. 166 00:10:08,831 --> 00:10:11,468 All right, Mother. 167 00:10:15,536 --> 00:10:17,706 Well, how's my best girl tonight? 168 00:10:17,838 --> 00:10:19,308 l'm fine, Mr. Clark. 169 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,176 [Mrs. Thatcher] l'll only be a second, Matt. 170 00:10:21,308 --> 00:10:22,610 Take your time, Doris. 171 00:10:22,743 --> 00:10:25,681 You know l like to shoot the breeze with Jill. 172 00:10:25,812 --> 00:10:27,615 What do we got here? Another letter? 173 00:10:27,747 --> 00:10:30,618 Seems to me every time l come here you're writing to your pen-pal. 174 00:10:30,749 --> 00:10:34,356 Mr. Clark, are you really going to take me to San Francisco to see her? 175 00:10:34,486 --> 00:10:36,823 Sure thing, some day. 176 00:10:36,956 --> 00:10:39,360 l like to meet the kid myself if she's anything like her letters. 177 00:10:39,490 --> 00:10:41,627 l've been thinking about that. 178 00:10:41,759 --> 00:10:43,829 Whether l really ought to go on Ietting you read them. 179 00:10:43,962 --> 00:10:46,366 Well, honey, you show them to your grown-up friend up the street. 180 00:10:46,496 --> 00:10:48,065 Well, that's dimerent. You see-- 181 00:10:48,198 --> 00:10:50,034 [Mrs. Thatcher] Jill. 182 00:10:50,166 --> 00:10:50,967 Yes, Mother. 183 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:53,504 lf you want to spend the night over there, you'd better get your things together. 184 00:10:55,036 --> 00:10:57,408 l already have. They're right here. 185 00:10:57,540 --> 00:10:58,407 l know what. 186 00:10:58,540 --> 00:11:00,510 l'll write to Sandra and ask her permission 187 00:11:00,642 --> 00:11:03,614 No, honey, we'll forget the whole thing. 188 00:11:06,915 --> 00:11:08,684 Matt, l'll only be a minute. 189 00:11:30,735 --> 00:11:32,972 [doorbell buzzes] 190 00:11:35,071 --> 00:11:37,041 Hi, Jill. Hello, Doris. 191 00:11:37,173 --> 00:11:38,642 Hi, l brought my pajamas. 192 00:11:38,775 --> 00:11:41,112 Oh, good girl. Have a good time tonight, Doris. 193 00:11:41,243 --> 00:11:43,313 Thanks again. Be a good girl, honey. 194 00:11:43,445 --> 00:11:44,480 Okay, Mom. 195 00:13:03,048 --> 00:13:04,818 All right, buddy, you can get out now. 196 00:13:06,584 --> 00:13:09,656 Wait a minute, fellas, what all this about? 197 00:13:09,787 --> 00:13:11,356 You broke into my house this afternoon. 198 00:13:11,488 --> 00:13:13,558 l what? 199 00:13:13,690 --> 00:13:16,562 You broke in and stole some letters just like these. 200 00:13:16,693 --> 00:13:19,431 And you would have stolen these if l hadn't set a trap for you . 201 00:13:19,562 --> 00:13:21,465 l want this man arrested. 202 00:13:23,599 --> 00:13:25,435 As he told you last night, Miss Ross, 203 00:13:25,567 --> 00:13:27,704 Mr. Drake and l have worked together for a number of years. 204 00:13:27,836 --> 00:13:29,606 l'd vouch for him under any circumstances. 205 00:13:29,737 --> 00:13:31,407 Then why was he following me? 206 00:13:31,539 --> 00:13:35,045 At the risk of repeating myself, l'm a private detective. l was hired to. 207 00:13:35,175 --> 00:13:36,110 By whom? 208 00:13:36,243 --> 00:13:38,413 l can't tell you that. It wouldn't be ethical. 209 00:13:38,545 --> 00:13:40,147 Oh, l suppose it's ethical to break into my house. 210 00:13:41,849 --> 00:13:44,018 Here we go again. 211 00:13:44,150 --> 00:13:47,021 Would you have any way of knowing what time that occurred? 212 00:13:47,152 --> 00:13:50,024 Yes, 4:OO. My neighbors heard my dog barking. 213 00:13:50,155 --> 00:13:53,628 Well, at 4:OO, we had to reach Mr. Drake in a hurry 214 00:13:53,758 --> 00:13:56,028 so l can vouch for him then Miss Ross. 215 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:57,095 Mr. Drake couldn't possibly have been guilty 216 00:13:57,228 --> 00:13:59,899 of breaking and entering your house at four o'clock. 217 00:14:00,030 --> 00:14:01,900 Then who was? 218 00:14:02,032 --> 00:14:04,903 lt would seem to me the question is not so much ''who'' as ''why.'' 219 00:14:07,202 --> 00:14:08,872 Maybe l already know why. 220 00:14:09,005 --> 00:14:10,707 Oh? 221 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,878 Yes, last year l was in a little bit of trouble. 222 00:14:14,009 --> 00:14:16,614 But those letters from San Francisco tie in with it? 223 00:14:16,745 --> 00:14:19,382 How did you know they were from San Francisco? 224 00:14:19,514 --> 00:14:20,782 Then you were hired from there, weren't you? 225 00:14:20,915 --> 00:14:23,286 No comment. 226 00:14:23,416 --> 00:14:25,787 No comment is necessary. 227 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,393 lf l needed any proof, you've gave it to me. 228 00:14:29,523 --> 00:14:31,025 Miss Ross. 229 00:14:31,158 --> 00:14:34,831 l happen to be flying to San Francisco this afternoon on a case. 230 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:36,396 lf l can be of any help to you while l'm there. 231 00:14:36,529 --> 00:14:39,233 Why do you say that? 232 00:14:39,364 --> 00:14:42,136 From what you've said, or rather from what you haven't said, 233 00:14:42,267 --> 00:14:43,235 l gather you might need a lawyer. 234 00:14:44,402 --> 00:14:46,839 No, thank you. Goodbye. 235 00:14:53,043 --> 00:14:54,612 Welcome home. 236 00:14:54,745 --> 00:14:58,618 l hope you had a pleasant boat trip around the bay. 237 00:14:58,748 --> 00:14:59,950 Where's Sandra? 238 00:15:00,082 --> 00:15:04,223 Upstairs. She's locked in her room. 239 00:15:04,286 --> 00:15:06,288 - Locked in her room? - Don't look at me. 240 00:15:06,421 --> 00:15:08,123 The old She-Dragon locked her in. 241 00:15:08,255 --> 00:15:09,290 Agnes, l told you. 242 00:15:09,423 --> 00:15:11,860 Don't tell me. Tell your Aunt Wilma yourself. 243 00:15:11,992 --> 00:15:14,864 Tell her where to get om, once and for all. 244 00:15:14,995 --> 00:15:16,430 Why did she want to punish Sandra? 245 00:15:16,563 --> 00:15:19,502 Something to do with that private detective, l suppose. 246 00:15:19,632 --> 00:15:23,840 He called. He said it was important and he said couldn't reach you in Chicago. 247 00:15:23,970 --> 00:15:26,407 So you told him to contact Aunt Wilma? 248 00:15:26,538 --> 00:15:28,642 Well, l figured it was company business. 249 00:15:28,774 --> 00:15:31,612 l didn't expect to see her nibs come storming in here, 250 00:15:31,742 --> 00:15:36,083 screaming about some letters, frightening that poor child half to death. 251 00:15:39,416 --> 00:15:42,421 l didn't do anything wrong, did l, Mr. Gregson? 252 00:15:43,620 --> 00:15:46,558 - Baby. - Daddy. Daddy 253 00:15:46,689 --> 00:15:48,359 lt's all right, it's all right. 254 00:15:50,559 --> 00:15:52,863 Now you want tell me what happened? 255 00:15:52,995 --> 00:15:57,336 She -- she was screaming and she came in here 256 00:15:57,465 --> 00:15:58,567 and she took away all of Jill's letters. 257 00:15:59,667 --> 00:16:03,507 lt's all right. Now, don't cry, Sandra. 258 00:16:03,570 --> 00:16:07,543 But, Daddy, she hit me. 259 00:16:09,442 --> 00:16:10,911 She hit you? 260 00:16:12,678 --> 00:16:15,749 Daddy? 261 00:16:38,433 --> 00:16:39,401 Aunt Wilma? 262 00:16:39,534 --> 00:16:41,604 [woman groans] 263 00:16:46,974 --> 00:16:50,548 Aunt Wilma. 264 00:17:06,892 --> 00:17:11,232 Operator, this is an emergency. Get me an ambulance. Hurry. 265 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,471 Mr. Mason? 266 00:17:23,472 --> 00:17:25,275 Mr. Mason, l'm so glad l found you. 267 00:17:25,408 --> 00:17:26,375 Hello, Miss Ross. 268 00:17:26,509 --> 00:17:28,144 l phoned one hotel after another. 269 00:17:28,277 --> 00:17:30,681 l was afraid you might have flown back to Los Angeles. 270 00:17:30,812 --> 00:17:35,387 Did you-- did you read this morning papers? 271 00:17:35,516 --> 00:17:37,720 Yesterday you said l might need a lawyer. Today l do. 272 00:17:37,851 --> 00:17:39,019 Are you still willing to help me? 273 00:17:39,154 --> 00:17:42,526 Well, l'm due at the courthouse. 274 00:17:42,656 --> 00:17:43,590 You mind riding along? 275 00:17:43,723 --> 00:17:47,129 No. 276 00:17:47,261 --> 00:17:49,130 l used to work for Gregson Canneries 277 00:17:49,262 --> 00:17:52,234 as private secretary to Peter Gregson and her nephew. 278 00:17:52,364 --> 00:17:55,068 l was fired. 279 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,872 What reasons were given? 280 00:17:58,003 --> 00:18:01,476 Gregson's had developed a new processing machine for frozen foods. 281 00:18:01,605 --> 00:18:03,240 lt didn't worked out at the time, but it was known fact 282 00:18:04,275 --> 00:18:08,383 that other companies would give a small fortune for the specifications. 283 00:18:08,511 --> 00:18:11,850 Especially our chief competitor, Ben Willoughby. 284 00:18:11,981 --> 00:18:15,587 Well, when Lucy Gregson, that was Peter Gregson's wife, 285 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,691 was killed in an automobile accident. 286 00:18:19,822 --> 00:18:25,966 And the police found the portfolio with the specifications in the wrecked car. 287 00:18:26,094 --> 00:18:28,164 Nothing wrong with that, was there? 288 00:18:28,296 --> 00:18:29,898 Yes. 289 00:18:30,030 --> 00:18:33,570 The specifications were supposed to be locked in the omice safe. 290 00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:36,104 Mr. Gregson was out of town. 291 00:18:36,236 --> 00:18:41,545 He used to keep an e_ra car at the omice, one that l sometimes used. 292 00:18:41,674 --> 00:18:46,048 That day Lucy Gregson called me from some cocMail party 293 00:18:46,177 --> 00:18:48,682 and said she wanted to use the car. 294 00:18:48,813 --> 00:18:51,851 She also told me that she'd heard from Mr. Gregson 295 00:18:51,982 --> 00:18:55,923 and that he told her to call me and tell me he needed those specifications 296 00:18:56,053 --> 00:18:58,857 as soon as he returned to town. 297 00:18:58,988 --> 00:19:00,291 So you put them in the car. 298 00:19:00,423 --> 00:19:06,066 Yes, Wilma Gregson said that l had stolen them and put them there. 299 00:19:06,129 --> 00:19:11,738 That l would have sold them if Lucy hadn't gone om in the car. 300 00:19:11,867 --> 00:19:14,638 How could she possibly have made that accusation? 301 00:19:14,769 --> 00:19:17,340 Peter Gregson had never called his wife. 302 00:19:17,470 --> 00:19:21,644 He never told her to call me to get those specifications. 303 00:19:21,775 --> 00:19:24,479 You mean his wife lied? Why? 304 00:19:24,611 --> 00:19:27,148 l don't know. 305 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,386 But if l defend myself, l would have to accuse the dead wife of a man 306 00:19:30,516 --> 00:19:35,024 l was supposed to be-- well, overly involved with. 307 00:19:35,154 --> 00:19:37,825 Were you? 308 00:19:37,955 --> 00:19:40,727 Mr. Mason, Lucy Gregson was sick. 309 00:19:40,858 --> 00:19:43,095 She was on her way to being a hopeless alcoholic. 310 00:19:43,227 --> 00:19:44,660 Most people didn't know about it 311 00:19:44,661 --> 00:19:48,969 because Peter managed to keep her out of trouble and l helped him. 312 00:19:49,099 --> 00:19:53,607 l guess by helping him to take care of her and take Sandra 313 00:19:53,736 --> 00:19:57,075 when her mother was drinking. People got the wrong idea. 314 00:19:57,206 --> 00:20:00,946 So you allowed yourself to be fired, and then you left town. 315 00:20:01,075 --> 00:20:03,746 Miss Ross, why did you come back here? 316 00:20:03,878 --> 00:20:09,053 After l left your omice and went home, l received a phone call from Wilma Gregson. 317 00:20:09,183 --> 00:20:11,253 You see, Sandra's pen-pal, Jill, 318 00:20:11,385 --> 00:20:13,355 had left some of Sandra's letters with me to read. 319 00:20:13,486 --> 00:20:16,992 The ones you accused Paul Drake of having stolen? 320 00:20:17,123 --> 00:20:20,027 Yes, but it wasn't Mr. Drake. 321 00:20:20,159 --> 00:20:21,895 lt was Wilma Gregson who had them taken. 322 00:20:22,027 --> 00:20:24,264 She admitted it on the phone. 323 00:20:24,396 --> 00:20:28,370 She was quite nasty and threatened me with all kinds of things 324 00:20:29,367 --> 00:20:31,169 if l didn't keep away from her family. 325 00:20:31,302 --> 00:20:33,706 So you flew to San Francisco. 326 00:20:33,837 --> 00:20:36,842 Yes, to plead with her, to reason with her, 327 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,344 and to warn her that if she didn't leave me alone 328 00:20:39,476 --> 00:20:42,448 l'd finally have to fight back. 329 00:20:42,578 --> 00:20:45,182 Did you reason with her? Did you warn her? 330 00:20:45,314 --> 00:20:49,555 Yes and it was strange. 331 00:20:49,684 --> 00:20:53,023 She didn't say anything to me for the longest time. 332 00:20:53,154 --> 00:20:58,297 And then suddenly, quite nicely, she asked me to leave 333 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,128 and come back about 1 1 . 334 00:21:00,260 --> 00:21:04,234 l did and when l got there 335 00:21:05,598 --> 00:21:08,870 there were police cars out in front of the house and an ambulance. 336 00:21:09,001 --> 00:21:11,638 l was frightened, so l drove away. 337 00:21:11,769 --> 00:21:18,581 Miss Ross, what if Wilma Gregson were to regain consciousness 338 00:21:18,709 --> 00:21:21,013 and name her assailant? 339 00:21:21,144 --> 00:21:23,414 l only hope she does. 340 00:21:24,515 --> 00:21:26,652 You mean to say Karen Ross was here in San Francisco last night? 341 00:21:28,818 --> 00:21:31,289 Oh, no. 342 00:21:31,420 --> 00:21:34,057 Mr. Gregson, you ordered the Acme Detective Agency 343 00:21:34,190 --> 00:21:37,061 to discontinue its investigation the moment Karen Ross's name came up. 344 00:21:37,192 --> 00:21:38,727 ls that correct? 345 00:21:38,860 --> 00:21:40,429 That girl's sumered enough at the hands of my family. 346 00:21:40,561 --> 00:21:43,733 Let's not discuss for the moment. 347 00:21:43,864 --> 00:21:46,768 Now, in regard to this merger, how did you make out in Chicago? 348 00:21:46,901 --> 00:21:50,139 Super Brands turned me down. 349 00:21:50,270 --> 00:21:52,440 Dropped the entire merger deal like a hot potato. 350 00:21:52,571 --> 00:21:55,810 What people on this end would have gotten that information through you? 351 00:21:55,941 --> 00:21:59,547 Well, Aunt Wilma, of course, and two others that l know of. 352 00:21:59,678 --> 00:22:03,751 Carl Holman, our general manager, and my cousin, Lee Gregson. 353 00:22:03,814 --> 00:22:05,751 l doubt if Aunt Wilma told anyone else on the board. 354 00:22:05,883 --> 00:22:08,153 How did the stock do today? 355 00:22:08,286 --> 00:22:11,291 Dropped all the way back to normal. Closed at 9 points. 356 00:22:11,422 --> 00:22:15,095 Then it's not unlikely that whoever started the rise also started the fall 357 00:22:15,225 --> 00:22:17,028 by dumping their shares at peak value. 358 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:21,835 Yes, at quite a profit. 359 00:22:21,964 --> 00:22:24,201 lf Aunt Wilma recovers, l guess we'll all be fired. 360 00:22:24,333 --> 00:22:27,037 Daddy, uh-- 361 00:22:27,168 --> 00:22:30,407 Mr. Gregson, l'd like to talk to Sandra. 362 00:22:34,341 --> 00:22:39,117 Sandra, would you let me see your pen-pal letters from Jill? 363 00:22:41,013 --> 00:22:43,016 Aunt Wilma took them all away. 364 00:22:43,149 --> 00:22:46,221 Jill wrote about someone she called her mother's friend. 365 00:22:46,352 --> 00:22:48,221 She asked questions about the merger, didn't she? 366 00:22:48,354 --> 00:22:50,023 Yes. 367 00:22:50,155 --> 00:22:52,292 Did she ever mention a man named Matt Clark? 368 00:22:52,424 --> 00:22:56,632 Yes, he's a friend of Jill's mother. 369 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:00,666 He's a pilot for an ai_reight line between here and Los Angeles. 370 00:23:00,797 --> 00:23:03,836 All right, Paul. 371 00:23:03,900 --> 00:23:05,970 You want to help Karen? 372 00:23:06,102 --> 00:23:07,471 Yes, Sandra. 373 00:23:07,604 --> 00:23:10,876 l like Karen an amul lot. 374 00:23:11,006 --> 00:23:13,076 My Daddy doesn't, but l do. 375 00:23:13,208 --> 00:23:15,178 Sandra, that's not true. 376 00:23:15,310 --> 00:23:17,580 Now, l know how much you missed Karen when she went away, 377 00:23:17,712 --> 00:23:20,516 but l did, too. 378 00:23:20,647 --> 00:23:23,119 lt was just something that none of us could do anything about. 379 00:23:23,250 --> 00:23:25,520 You got to believe that. 380 00:23:30,323 --> 00:23:31,291 Been looking for you, Clark. 381 00:23:32,992 --> 00:23:36,331 Yeah? Well, look again some other time. 382 00:23:36,462 --> 00:23:39,701 l just don't happen to be in the mood for conversation. 383 00:23:39,831 --> 00:23:41,801 So l gather. 384 00:23:41,933 --> 00:23:43,936 They told me over at the ai_reight omice you'd been grounded. 385 00:23:44,068 --> 00:23:46,872 Wouldn't be making your scheduled flight back to L.A. today. 386 00:23:47,004 --> 00:23:48,974 Hey, who are you, anyway? 387 00:23:49,106 --> 00:23:52,278 They also told me l might find you here. 388 00:23:52,409 --> 00:23:56,449 Are you sure you got the right guy? The name is Matt Clark, l live in L.A. 389 00:23:56,580 --> 00:23:58,951 Mm-hmm, but you spent last night right here in San Francisco. 390 00:23:59,081 --> 00:24:00,616 So what? 391 00:24:00,749 --> 00:24:05,959 By the way, you notice those headlines about Wilma Gregson? 392 00:24:06,021 --> 00:24:07,923 Never heard of this Wilma dame before. 393 00:24:08,055 --> 00:24:09,425 The name Gregson isn't familiar? 394 00:24:09,557 --> 00:24:11,226 Why, should it be? 395 00:24:11,358 --> 00:24:14,630 For one thing, the pen-pal letters. 396 00:24:14,761 --> 00:24:17,733 Now, wait a minute. l don't even write my own mother. 397 00:24:17,864 --> 00:24:20,702 We could always ask the little Thatcher girl. 398 00:24:23,202 --> 00:24:26,841 Okay, so Jill does have a pen-pal up here by that name. 399 00:24:26,972 --> 00:24:28,874 l still don't sawy what you want with me. 400 00:24:29,007 --> 00:24:32,112 This morning you gave two weeks' notice that you were quitting. 401 00:24:32,243 --> 00:24:33,713 So what's that got to do with it? 402 00:24:33,844 --> 00:24:37,283 Might possibly mean you've suddenly come into a lot money. 403 00:24:37,415 --> 00:24:40,019 How? 404 00:24:40,150 --> 00:24:43,489 Buying low and selling high. 405 00:24:43,620 --> 00:24:45,055 What? 406 00:24:45,188 --> 00:24:46,456 Gregson stock. 407 00:24:54,128 --> 00:24:55,998 There's somebody in there to see you. 408 00:24:56,130 --> 00:24:57,065 Me? 409 00:24:57,198 --> 00:25:00,169 And when you're finished, it's to your room and to bed, young lady. 410 00:25:00,368 --> 00:25:02,638 - Mind now. - All right, Agnes. 411 00:25:06,339 --> 00:25:07,874 Karen. 412 00:25:08,007 --> 00:25:12,715 Sandra. Oh, Sandra, darling, it's so long since l've seen you. 413 00:25:13,279 --> 00:25:14,514 Let me look at you. 414 00:25:14,647 --> 00:25:16,116 You're pretty than ever. 415 00:25:16,247 --> 00:25:20,154 Oh, Karen, l've missed you so much. l-- 416 00:25:20,285 --> 00:25:23,323 Sandra, what's wrong? 417 00:25:23,455 --> 00:25:25,524 Did-- Did you see Aunt Wilma? 418 00:25:25,656 --> 00:25:27,090 l mean the picture in the paper of her? 419 00:25:27,091 --> 00:25:29,628 Yes, yes, darling. Now, don't think about that. 420 00:25:29,759 --> 00:25:34,501 But she was-- And now Daddy's in some kind of bad trouble, and you, too. 421 00:25:34,630 --> 00:25:36,166 l know it. 422 00:25:36,299 --> 00:25:39,972 And it's on account of me, me and my pen-pal, and those letters. 423 00:25:40,102 --> 00:25:44,008 But you mustn't blame yourself. You did nothing wrong. 424 00:25:44,138 --> 00:25:46,643 Maybe if l saw those letters it might help. 425 00:25:46,774 --> 00:25:49,478 lt would help you and Daddy? 426 00:25:49,610 --> 00:25:51,580 l don't know, it might. 427 00:25:51,712 --> 00:25:55,953 lf you have those letters, Sandra, would you give them to me? 428 00:25:56,082 --> 00:26:00,155 l-- l have to look for them. You'll wait down here? 429 00:26:00,285 --> 00:26:02,790 Yes, darling, of course. 430 00:26:26,941 --> 00:26:28,878 Perry, l stumbled onto something at a hotel car rental agency. 431 00:26:30,345 --> 00:26:33,751 The night Wilma Gregson was assaulted, Karen Ross rented a car. 432 00:26:33,881 --> 00:26:35,884 And today that car was impounded by the police 433 00:26:36,016 --> 00:26:38,387 who also had a search warrant to go through her room at the hotel. 434 00:26:38,519 --> 00:26:40,957 The way they're acting, you'd think Wilma was dead. 435 00:26:41,088 --> 00:26:43,459 That's why l asked you to meet me here. 436 00:26:43,590 --> 00:26:45,593 Wilma Gregson's taken a turn for the worse. 437 00:26:45,726 --> 00:26:47,528 Right now, she's in surgery. 438 00:26:47,660 --> 00:26:50,265 The family's in there. We better join them. 439 00:26:50,396 --> 00:26:53,902 Paul, other than the family, l wish you'd try to reach everyone 440 00:26:54,032 --> 00:26:56,770 Wilma contacted after she talked to Karen last night 441 00:26:56,901 --> 00:26:59,138 All right. 442 00:27:01,906 --> 00:27:03,275 Mr. Mason, have you-- 443 00:27:04,642 --> 00:27:08,382 We tried a craniotomy to relieve the pressure on the brain. 444 00:27:08,578 --> 00:27:11,350 There wasn't much hope even before we began. 445 00:27:11,481 --> 00:27:14,185 She was too far gone when they brought her in last night. 446 00:27:14,316 --> 00:27:17,922 l'm sorry Wilma Gregson's dead. 447 00:27:19,655 --> 00:27:21,357 l guess l better go make some arrangements. 448 00:27:21,490 --> 00:27:23,927 l'm afraid for now that's a matter for the police. 449 00:27:24,058 --> 00:27:26,929 - She wouldn't like that. - Carl. 450 00:27:27,060 --> 00:27:30,366 She's dead, Carl. 451 00:27:30,497 --> 00:27:35,239 You'll never again have to jump up and run just because she clears her throat . 452 00:27:35,368 --> 00:27:37,437 Never again, Carl. 453 00:27:37,570 --> 00:27:41,711 Oh, the years we waste and the tears we waste 454 00:27:41,841 --> 00:27:43,778 and the work of her head and hand 455 00:27:43,908 --> 00:27:46,545 belong to the woman who did not know. 456 00:27:46,678 --> 00:27:47,546 Did not understand. 457 00:27:47,679 --> 00:27:48,614 [phone rings] 458 00:27:48,746 --> 00:27:50,749 lsn't anybody gonna cry for dear Aunt Wilma? 459 00:27:50,881 --> 00:27:52,049 Oh, shut up, Lee. 460 00:27:52,182 --> 00:27:54,886 The hand that fed you is dead. Don't bite it now. 461 00:27:55,017 --> 00:27:57,822 - Peter Gregson? - Yes. 462 00:27:57,954 --> 00:28:00,425 Telephone. 463 00:28:05,260 --> 00:28:06,495 Hello. 464 00:28:06,629 --> 00:28:10,067 Peter, something's happened to Sandra. We can't find her anyplace. 465 00:28:10,198 --> 00:28:11,600 She's not in the house. 466 00:28:11,733 --> 00:28:15,372 Peter, Sandra's gone. 467 00:28:15,502 --> 00:28:19,242 And then she said-- Agnes, for Pete's sake, be quiet. 468 00:28:19,373 --> 00:28:21,509 And then she said she'd bring you the letters? 469 00:28:21,641 --> 00:28:24,747 Yes, but l-- l thought she went upstairs to get them. 470 00:28:24,878 --> 00:28:27,249 But they weren't upstairs and Sandra knew that. 471 00:28:27,379 --> 00:28:29,316 That's right, Aunt Wilma took them from her. 472 00:28:29,448 --> 00:28:30,783 Why didn't she tell me? 473 00:28:30,915 --> 00:28:32,852 Wait a minute. Here she is now with the police. 474 00:28:32,984 --> 00:28:34,787 Sandra. 475 00:28:36,954 --> 00:28:39,458 Good evening. l'm Inspector Wade. Homicide. 476 00:28:39,590 --> 00:28:41,527 Where did you find the child, Inspector? 477 00:28:41,659 --> 00:28:45,332 Wilma Gregson's house. We've kept it under surveillance. 478 00:28:45,462 --> 00:28:48,266 This youngster not only knew a shortcut from here to there, 479 00:28:48,398 --> 00:28:50,601 but was able to get in the house through the back way. 480 00:28:50,734 --> 00:28:52,837 Luckily for us, too. 481 00:28:52,968 --> 00:28:56,507 Well, San Francisco police are dimerent, they admit it when they're lucky. 482 00:28:56,639 --> 00:28:57,941 Why not, Mr. Drake? 483 00:28:58,072 --> 00:29:01,478 Oh, yes, we know who all of you are. 484 00:29:01,609 --> 00:29:04,748 Now you, Miss Ross, you should be interested in how we were lucky. 485 00:29:04,812 --> 00:29:08,985 As Miss Ross' attorney perhaps l'd be equally interested, Inspector. 486 00:29:09,115 --> 00:29:11,587 l guess you would, Mr. Mason. 487 00:29:11,718 --> 00:29:16,359 You see, Sandra had a pretty good idea where Wilma might hide things. 488 00:29:16,489 --> 00:29:20,128 Anyway, she found something our own search of the premises hadn't turned up. 489 00:29:22,694 --> 00:29:25,065 A bundle of letters. 490 00:29:25,195 --> 00:29:28,835 Are you implying those letters in someway amect Miss Ross? 491 00:29:28,966 --> 00:29:32,906 Along with what we found in her hotel room and the car she rented, yes. 492 00:29:33,036 --> 00:29:35,875 Maybe even more when we get her blood typed. 493 00:29:37,473 --> 00:29:40,144 l'm sorry, Miss Ross. l'll have to ask you to come downtown 494 00:29:40,275 --> 00:29:42,947 for questioning on the murder of Wilma Gregson. 495 00:29:48,750 --> 00:29:49,718 Now then, Mrs. Holman. 496 00:29:49,851 --> 00:29:51,787 On the night in question, did you see the defendant Karen Ross? 497 00:29:53,688 --> 00:29:54,790 Oh, yes. 498 00:29:54,922 --> 00:29:56,925 Under what circumstances? 499 00:29:57,057 --> 00:29:59,194 Well, l was over at Aunt Wilma's. 500 00:29:59,326 --> 00:30:01,296 lt was the servant's night om, you see, 501 00:30:01,428 --> 00:30:03,765 and l'd taken a casserole over for her dinner. 502 00:30:03,897 --> 00:30:07,570 My husband was still at the omice, so l stayed for a cup of comee. 503 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:09,202 And then just as l was about to leave, 504 00:30:09,335 --> 00:30:11,204 the doorbell rang. 505 00:30:11,336 --> 00:30:12,538 What time was this? 506 00:30:12,670 --> 00:30:14,874 A few minutes after 9. 507 00:30:15,005 --> 00:30:18,812 I Well, when l answered the door there stood Karen. 508 00:30:18,943 --> 00:30:21,380 About the last person in the world l expected to see 509 00:30:21,511 --> 00:30:23,113 considering how Aunt Wilma felt about her. 510 00:30:23,246 --> 00:30:24,915 That's an opinion of the witness, Your Honor. 511 00:30:25,047 --> 00:30:28,086 The last answer will be stricken. 512 00:30:28,217 --> 00:30:31,590 Well, what happened was that as soon as Aunt Wilma heard me 513 00:30:31,721 --> 00:30:35,260 mention Karen's name she came storming out and ordered her to leave 514 00:30:35,390 --> 00:30:37,260 And did the Defendant leave? 515 00:30:37,392 --> 00:30:41,732 No. Matter of fact, she walked right in, and looked her straight in the eye, 516 00:30:41,863 --> 00:30:46,370 and she said, ''l'm going to make you listen to me, whatever it takes.'' 517 00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:49,906 And what was Wilma Gregson's reply? 518 00:30:50,036 --> 00:30:52,206 Well, they just stood there Iooking at each other. 519 00:30:52,338 --> 00:30:56,445 And finally Aunt Wilma said, ''You needn't wait, Florence.'' 520 00:30:56,575 --> 00:30:58,645 ln that tone that meant l'd better go, 521 00:30:58,777 --> 00:30:59,945 so of course l left at once. 522 00:31:00,077 --> 00:31:01,914 But just as l was closing the door, 523 00:31:02,046 --> 00:31:05,619 l heard her say ''This had better be good, Miss Ross.'' 524 00:31:10,086 --> 00:31:12,390 l show you now this candelabra, Doctor, and ask if you have examined it. 525 00:31:15,658 --> 00:31:16,860 l have. 526 00:31:16,993 --> 00:31:18,528 With what results? 527 00:31:18,660 --> 00:31:20,597 The residue of scalp tissue and blood 528 00:31:20,729 --> 00:31:25,637 adhering to the base match both the tissue and blood of the victim. 529 00:31:25,768 --> 00:31:28,606 That was the murder weapon. 530 00:31:28,736 --> 00:31:30,473 There's no doubt of it. 531 00:31:30,605 --> 00:31:33,443 Unfortunately, it was a gift to Aunt Wilma from me. 532 00:31:33,573 --> 00:31:37,314 And, uh, when did you present it to her? 533 00:31:37,444 --> 00:31:40,115 Late that afternoon on my way home from the omice. 534 00:31:40,246 --> 00:31:42,350 And where was it when you saw it last? 535 00:31:42,481 --> 00:31:48,024 She unwrapped the thing and set it down on an end table. 536 00:31:48,153 --> 00:31:52,126 So that it was at hand for anyone who, in a fit of passion-- 537 00:31:52,256 --> 00:31:53,892 Objection. 538 00:31:55,026 --> 00:32:00,503 Well, it seems rather apparent there was a certain amount of passion involved. 539 00:32:00,631 --> 00:32:03,369 However, Mr. Mason, l'll withdraw the question. 540 00:32:03,433 --> 00:32:04,868 Your witness. 541 00:32:07,670 --> 00:32:11,376 That gift for your aunt, Mr. Gregson. Where did you get it? 542 00:32:11,506 --> 00:32:14,010 Well, there's an old dumer that lives up at Lake Tahoe 543 00:32:14,141 --> 00:32:16,178 that does marvelous things with manzanita. 544 00:32:16,310 --> 00:32:17,645 l had him make one up. 545 00:32:17,778 --> 00:32:19,815 You go to Lake Tahoe often? 546 00:32:19,947 --> 00:32:24,455 Yes. l suppose you might call it my favorite recreation spot. 547 00:32:24,584 --> 00:32:26,054 The lake or the casinos? 548 00:32:26,186 --> 00:32:27,154 l beg your pardon? 549 00:32:27,287 --> 00:32:30,726 lsn't it true that this gift was in the nature of a peace omering? 550 00:32:30,857 --> 00:32:34,163 That you had run up such excessive gambling debts at Lake Tahoe 551 00:32:34,293 --> 00:32:35,328 that your aunt had given you an ultimatum? 552 00:32:35,461 --> 00:32:40,736 Your Honor, aside from trying to fish in an irrelevant waters, 553 00:32:40,865 --> 00:32:44,472 Counsel is badgering this witness. 554 00:32:44,602 --> 00:32:47,406 Not at all. However, l'll ask a dimerent question. 555 00:32:47,537 --> 00:32:52,445 Now, we know that your Aunt Wilma had become highly dissatisfied 556 00:32:52,576 --> 00:32:54,578 with the handling of certain recent business matters. 557 00:32:54,710 --> 00:32:57,248 Did she by any chance discuss 558 00:32:57,379 --> 00:32:59,616 firing you that night? 559 00:32:59,748 --> 00:33:04,656 Well, yes, as a matter of fact, she did fire me. 560 00:33:05,987 --> 00:33:08,291 lnspector Wade, l direct your attention now to the car that was rented by Karen Ross. 561 00:33:11,758 --> 00:33:13,495 Did the police have occasion to examine it? 562 00:33:13,627 --> 00:33:14,996 Thoroughly. 563 00:33:15,129 --> 00:33:18,869 There was an identifiable bloodstain on the foot-accelerator. 564 00:33:18,998 --> 00:33:21,803 Tests proved that it was blood group AB, 565 00:33:21,934 --> 00:33:24,772 coinciding with that of the victim, Wilma Gregson. 566 00:33:26,404 --> 00:33:29,575 The autopsy surgeon has testified to the fact there was e_ernal bleeding 567 00:33:31,275 --> 00:33:34,247 as a result of the fatal blow decedent received. 568 00:33:34,378 --> 00:33:39,520 Did your investigation also show sings of such e_ernal bleeding? 569 00:33:39,649 --> 00:33:44,057 Yes, the victim bled from the scalp onto the rug, which has a thick pile. 570 00:33:44,186 --> 00:33:49,462 We found a depression in the rug indicating from the partial impression remaining, 571 00:33:49,591 --> 00:33:53,764 that a woman had stood on that bloodstained spot. 572 00:33:53,895 --> 00:33:58,738 lnspector Wade, l show you now this woman's shoe 573 00:33:58,866 --> 00:34:00,735 and ask if you if you ever seen it before. 574 00:34:00,867 --> 00:34:02,503 Yes, it has my mark. 575 00:34:02,569 --> 00:34:05,140 What can you tell the court about it? 576 00:34:05,271 --> 00:34:08,076 We found it in the hotel room of the defendant, 577 00:34:08,207 --> 00:34:13,617 On the instep we found a stain of blood of the same type as the victim's. 578 00:34:13,746 --> 00:34:17,786 With the court's permission, l would like to introduce this shoe 579 00:34:17,916 --> 00:34:19,786 into evidence as People's Exhibit T. 580 00:34:19,918 --> 00:34:21,287 Any objection, Mr. Mason? 581 00:34:22,819 --> 00:34:23,754 None, Your Honor. 582 00:34:23,887 --> 00:34:29,230 - Cross-examine. - No questions. 583 00:34:29,358 --> 00:34:31,195 Then may it please the court. 584 00:34:31,327 --> 00:34:34,198 l ask permission for counsel to approach the bench. 585 00:34:34,329 --> 00:34:35,264 Granted. 586 00:34:35,397 --> 00:34:38,669 Your Honor, much against its wishes, 587 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,805 the state finds it necessary to call a child as witness. 588 00:34:41,937 --> 00:34:43,472 Sandra Gregson. 589 00:34:43,604 --> 00:34:47,143 Your Honor, in order to spare this youngster further upset, 590 00:34:47,274 --> 00:34:50,780 l am willing to consider a stipulation as to the evidence 591 00:34:50,911 --> 00:34:52,981 the prosecutor wishes to get from her. 592 00:34:53,113 --> 00:34:54,782 l appreciate your concern, Mr. Mason, 593 00:34:54,914 --> 00:35:00,424 but it is essential to the State to have Sandra confront the defendant. 594 00:35:00,552 --> 00:35:02,221 Then l respectfully submit 595 00:35:02,287 --> 00:35:05,692 that this testimony be taken in chambers. 596 00:35:11,896 --> 00:35:15,168 Hello, Sandra. Would you like to have your father stay? 597 00:35:16,733 --> 00:35:18,135 Please. 598 00:35:18,267 --> 00:35:21,506 l must caution you that often 599 00:35:21,637 --> 00:35:25,978 a parent's slightest change of expression will influence a child's testimony. 600 00:35:26,108 --> 00:35:28,045 l'll be very careful. 601 00:35:29,978 --> 00:35:34,854 Now, Sandra, do you know the dimerence between telling the truth and telling a lie? 602 00:35:34,983 --> 00:35:36,251 Yes, sir. 603 00:35:36,383 --> 00:35:39,989 And do you know what it means to swear you'll tell the truth? 604 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,355 Yes, sir. 605 00:35:41,487 --> 00:35:43,190 That is what we want you to do now. 606 00:35:45,758 --> 00:35:47,628 Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, 607 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,797 - and nothing but the truth? - Yes. 608 00:35:51,796 --> 00:35:54,100 Sit over there, dear. 609 00:35:59,970 --> 00:36:00,905 Now, Sandra, 610 00:36:01,038 --> 00:36:05,446 we want you to tell us about the night Aunt Wilma was hurt. 611 00:36:05,508 --> 00:36:08,814 You mean after she had locked me in my room 612 00:36:08,945 --> 00:36:11,249 and Daddy started over to her house? 613 00:36:11,380 --> 00:36:13,050 Yes. 614 00:36:13,182 --> 00:36:19,393 Well, Daddy looked so angry, l was scared. 615 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:24,730 And so l got up and ran all the way over there by a shortcut l know. 616 00:36:24,859 --> 00:36:27,863 And who got there first? You or your father? 617 00:36:27,995 --> 00:36:29,897 l did. 618 00:36:30,030 --> 00:36:35,240 And when l was stopping to catch my breath, l saw-- oh, please, 619 00:36:35,367 --> 00:36:36,836 l didn't ever want to tell. 620 00:36:38,470 --> 00:36:43,245 lf it's the truth, Sandra, you mustn't hold it back. 621 00:36:43,374 --> 00:36:45,076 Now what was it you saw what? 622 00:36:48,445 --> 00:36:49,981 Karen. 623 00:36:50,114 --> 00:36:53,954 She ran out of Aunt Wilma's house and jumped into the car 624 00:36:54,084 --> 00:36:57,623 and drove om. 625 00:37:02,858 --> 00:37:06,531 When l got back to the house it was a little before 1 1 . 626 00:37:06,661 --> 00:37:09,465 The front door was open, so l just went in, 627 00:37:09,597 --> 00:37:14,004 and l saw her lying there on the floor. 628 00:37:14,134 --> 00:37:15,403 l thought she was dead. 629 00:37:15,536 --> 00:37:19,843 l was frightened, so l ran out and drove om. 630 00:37:19,972 --> 00:37:23,946 After a little while, l calmed down and l realized l ought to go back. 631 00:37:24,077 --> 00:37:28,050 When l did the ambulance was there already. 632 00:37:28,181 --> 00:37:33,156 Mr. Mason. 633 00:37:33,285 --> 00:37:36,056 Please forgive me for not keeping faith with you. 634 00:37:40,224 --> 00:37:43,028 Well, it was late in the afternoon when l got back to my hotel. 635 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,598 The afternoon of the day decedent was attacked, Mr. Clark? 636 00:37:46,730 --> 00:37:49,101 Yes, she was attacked that night. 637 00:37:49,232 --> 00:37:50,767 Anyway, there's a message waiting for me at the hotel. 638 00:37:51,767 --> 00:37:53,904 A Mr. Carl Holman wanted me to call. 639 00:37:54,036 --> 00:37:57,609 So l phoned his omice, but he'd already gone for the day. 640 00:37:57,739 --> 00:37:59,943 l kept on trying to get hold of him, but no luck. 641 00:38:00,074 --> 00:38:04,582 And when you phoned his omice did you reach Mr. Holman's secretary 642 00:38:04,644 --> 00:38:07,850 and did she tell you why Carl Holman wished to speak to you? 643 00:38:07,981 --> 00:38:11,620 Yes, it had to do with my buying up some Gregson Canneries stock 644 00:38:11,751 --> 00:38:13,086 down in Los Angeles. 645 00:38:13,219 --> 00:38:15,256 And had you purchased such stock? 646 00:38:15,388 --> 00:38:18,260 Oh, yeah, about _4,OOO worth. 647 00:38:18,391 --> 00:38:20,026 All the dough l could get my hands on. 648 00:38:20,158 --> 00:38:24,032 But holy smoke, just what l bought wouldn't make any stock go up and down. 649 00:38:24,162 --> 00:38:28,637 But tell me, why did you purchase this particular stock? 650 00:38:28,766 --> 00:38:32,639 Because of what l read in Jill Thatcher's pen-pal letters from the Gregson kid 651 00:38:32,769 --> 00:38:34,472 about the merger. 652 00:38:34,604 --> 00:38:36,674 And do you know, of your own knowledge, 653 00:38:36,806 --> 00:38:40,679 whether anyone else ever read these pen-pal letters? 654 00:38:40,809 --> 00:38:43,381 Sure, Karen Ross, the defendant, she read them. 655 00:38:43,512 --> 00:38:47,619 You see, she made no bones about liking the young Gregson kid. 656 00:38:47,748 --> 00:38:51,522 Just as she made no bones about saying she hated Wilma Gregson. 657 00:38:51,652 --> 00:38:55,458 And did she tell you why she left Gregson Canneries? 658 00:38:55,588 --> 00:38:59,294 Yes, because she was fired by her boss, Peter Gregson. 659 00:39:05,365 --> 00:39:09,305 Well, yes, when that incident involving the specifications arose, 660 00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:10,768 l had to let Miss Ross go. 661 00:39:10,902 --> 00:39:13,273 Mr. Gregson, this is no time for euphemisms. 662 00:39:13,404 --> 00:39:15,876 Did you or did you not fire her? 663 00:39:16,007 --> 00:39:16,841 l did. 664 00:39:16,974 --> 00:39:18,476 At whose insistence? 665 00:39:18,608 --> 00:39:20,511 Well, Aunt Wilma wanted her prosecuted. 666 00:39:20,644 --> 00:39:22,914 She was quite upset with Miss Ross at the time. 667 00:39:23,046 --> 00:39:25,784 Only at the time, Mr. Gregson? 668 00:39:25,915 --> 00:39:27,652 Did the decedent ever mention her name to you again? 669 00:39:27,783 --> 00:39:31,890 Yes, the day before the assault. 670 00:39:32,021 --> 00:39:33,790 And was this mention made during 671 00:39:33,922 --> 00:39:36,827 the discussion to which you have already testified to? 672 00:39:36,958 --> 00:39:38,260 The discussion about the leak 673 00:39:38,393 --> 00:39:40,330 involving the proposed merger 674 00:39:40,462 --> 00:39:42,632 between Gregson Canneries and Super Brands? 675 00:39:42,763 --> 00:39:43,831 Well, what if it was? 676 00:39:43,964 --> 00:39:46,268 Aunt Wilma was wrong about Karen, that's all. 677 00:39:48,835 --> 00:39:53,610 Uh, Mr. Gregson, l show you now People's Exhibit 2, 678 00:39:53,738 --> 00:39:57,077 consisting of letters found at the home of decedent. 679 00:39:57,209 --> 00:39:59,580 What can you tell us about these letters? 680 00:39:59,710 --> 00:40:01,413 Well, they were written by my daughter, Sandra, 681 00:40:01,545 --> 00:40:04,082 to her pen-pal in Los Angeles, Jill Thatcher. 682 00:40:04,215 --> 00:40:07,020 Mr. Gregson, would you be good enough to read into the record 683 00:40:07,151 --> 00:40:09,488 the portion of this letter marked in red ink. 684 00:40:11,921 --> 00:40:16,029 ''Dear Sandra, you keep asking how l started writing to you. 685 00:40:16,159 --> 00:40:19,798 ''Well, l got your name and address from a friend up the street. 686 00:40:19,928 --> 00:40:22,032 ''lt's... 687 00:40:23,232 --> 00:40:25,068 ''Karen Ross. 688 00:40:25,199 --> 00:40:28,271 l wasn't supposed to tell you, but l know you'll keep the secret.'' 689 00:40:28,402 --> 00:40:30,339 Thank you. 690 00:40:30,471 --> 00:40:33,443 Would you now, if you'll read the marked portion of this one. 691 00:40:35,742 --> 00:40:39,515 ''Be sure to write more about that business thing you were telling me about. 692 00:40:39,645 --> 00:40:43,819 ''That thing your Daddy called a merger. 693 00:40:43,949 --> 00:40:46,386 ''My mother's friend keeps asking questions. 694 00:40:46,519 --> 00:40:48,589 ''And l want to know something, too. 695 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:52,893 Who is Mr. Willoughby?'' 696 00:40:57,461 --> 00:41:01,602 Naturally l was surprised to get a call from Wilma Gregson. 697 00:41:01,731 --> 00:41:03,968 We were hardly on sociable terms. 698 00:41:04,033 --> 00:41:07,406 And when did you receive this phone call, Mr. Willoughby? 699 00:41:07,537 --> 00:41:11,778 Just about an hour before she was found with her skull crushed. 700 00:41:11,907 --> 00:41:14,578 And what was her purpose in calling you? 701 00:41:14,708 --> 00:41:18,481 She demanded to know the lowdown what happened last year. 702 00:41:18,612 --> 00:41:20,748 And what did you tell her? 703 00:41:20,881 --> 00:41:24,687 That l had never made a secret of the fact that l wanted those specifications. 704 00:41:24,817 --> 00:41:27,488 And that l knew that several of my people were trying to get their hands on them, 705 00:41:27,619 --> 00:41:29,255 but that was all l knew. Period. 706 00:41:29,389 --> 00:41:33,864 And in this telephone conversation, did the name of Karen Ross come up? 707 00:41:33,992 --> 00:41:37,665 Oh, yes, that's exactly what she was phoning about-- 708 00:41:37,795 --> 00:41:42,203 how Karen Ross tied in with the attempt to steal those specifications. 709 00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:46,307 Wilma said Miss Ross'd been over and would be back again about eleven. 710 00:41:46,437 --> 00:41:48,473 Thank you. Cross-examine. 711 00:41:51,341 --> 00:41:54,613 Mr. Willoughby, when you received this phone call, 712 00:41:54,743 --> 00:41:56,445 you just returned from a trip to Chicago? 713 00:41:56,579 --> 00:41:57,547 Yes. 714 00:41:57,679 --> 00:41:59,149 Did this trip have anything to do 715 00:41:59,281 --> 00:42:02,185 with a possible merger between your company and Super Brands. 716 00:42:02,250 --> 00:42:04,621 That's none of your business. 717 00:42:04,751 --> 00:42:07,523 ls that the answer you gave Wilma Gregson on the phone that night 718 00:42:07,654 --> 00:42:08,889 when she asked you the same question? 719 00:42:09,022 --> 00:42:11,626 As a matter of fact, yes. 720 00:42:11,758 --> 00:42:16,399 As a matter of fact, didn't she then threaten you with reprisals? 721 00:42:16,530 --> 00:42:18,566 Ne_ l suppose you're going to say 722 00:42:18,698 --> 00:42:20,434 l rushed right over there to have it out with her. 723 00:42:20,566 --> 00:42:23,070 Well, l didn't and l can prove it by Holman. 724 00:42:23,201 --> 00:42:25,839 That would be Carl Holman, 725 00:42:25,971 --> 00:42:27,974 general manager of Gregson's? 726 00:42:28,106 --> 00:42:30,810 Yes, right in the middle of our conversation, 727 00:42:30,941 --> 00:42:36,117 l heard someone come in, heard Wilma talk to him. 728 00:42:36,246 --> 00:42:38,182 Yes, when l came in she was on the phone. 729 00:42:39,215 --> 00:42:42,721 When she hung up, she seemed terribly upset. 730 00:42:42,851 --> 00:42:45,356 Did she then discuss the defendant with you? 731 00:42:45,488 --> 00:42:49,862 Briefly. She seemed impatient. She said Karen Ross would be back soon. 732 00:42:49,992 --> 00:42:51,894 Anyway, l had a terrible headache. 733 00:42:52,026 --> 00:42:55,565 Tell me what time did you leave the decedent's house? 734 00:42:55,695 --> 00:42:59,134 About 10:30. l went straight home because of my headache. 735 00:42:59,266 --> 00:43:00,935 Thank you. 736 00:43:01,067 --> 00:43:02,402 Your witness. 737 00:43:05,704 --> 00:43:09,477 Mr. Holman, how long have you been with Gregson's? 738 00:43:09,608 --> 00:43:12,080 Oh, from the week l graduated from college. 739 00:43:12,211 --> 00:43:14,682 l was engaged to Florence at the time. 740 00:43:14,812 --> 00:43:17,183 She was distantly related to Wilma Gregson, 741 00:43:17,315 --> 00:43:18,817 so l had an ''in.'' 742 00:43:18,950 --> 00:43:22,589 l went to work in the cannery on the night cleanup crew. 743 00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:27,461 Yet four years ago you were considered for the presidency of the company? 744 00:43:27,591 --> 00:43:29,895 Considered, yes. But what chance did l really have? 745 00:43:30,026 --> 00:43:31,495 l mean, with Peter Gregson there? 746 00:43:31,628 --> 00:43:33,097 After all, he was her nephew. 747 00:43:33,229 --> 00:43:35,299 You never did give up though, did you? 748 00:43:35,431 --> 00:43:38,570 You felt that you'd eventually make top rung at Gregson's. 749 00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:41,371 Yes, and l would have if she hadn't died. 750 00:43:41,503 --> 00:43:42,638 No, Mr. Holman. 751 00:43:42,770 --> 00:43:44,507 Because one of the last thing Wilma Gregson told you 752 00:43:44,639 --> 00:43:46,943 was that you would never be president of the company. 753 00:43:47,074 --> 00:43:49,645 That you would no longer even be general manager. 754 00:43:49,776 --> 00:43:50,777 What? 755 00:43:50,910 --> 00:43:53,314 She told you, did she not, that so long as she lived 756 00:43:53,446 --> 00:43:55,316 you would never work at Gregson's in any capacity, 757 00:43:55,448 --> 00:43:56,983 not even as a member of the cleanup crew? 758 00:43:57,116 --> 00:43:59,385 You don't know what you're talking about. 759 00:43:59,519 --> 00:44:02,590 We know how Wilma Gregson felt about the management of the company. 760 00:44:02,654 --> 00:44:05,125 Lee Gregson admitted that she fired him. 761 00:44:05,257 --> 00:44:06,859 Now, didn't she really fire you also? 762 00:44:06,991 --> 00:44:09,261 Of course not. That's utterly ridiculous. 763 00:44:09,393 --> 00:44:14,903 You happen to know a man by name of Mr. Josiah Sellers of this city? 764 00:44:15,031 --> 00:44:17,568 Uh, yes, he's a banker. He's on our board of directors. 765 00:44:17,701 --> 00:44:19,805 - Well, he's out of town just now. - Exactly. 766 00:44:19,935 --> 00:44:23,776 Now, since l had reason to believe that Wilma Gregson might have 767 00:44:23,906 --> 00:44:26,543 contacted quite a number of people that particular night, 768 00:44:26,675 --> 00:44:28,945 l've had my investigators checking. 769 00:44:29,077 --> 00:44:32,283 l should warn you that l have here a copy of a telegram 770 00:44:32,413 --> 00:44:35,184 shown to one of my investigators by Mr. Seller's housekeeper. 771 00:44:36,817 --> 00:44:39,588 A telegram sent at 10:40 by the deceased. 772 00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:43,694 lt reads, ''Peter Gregson no longer satisfactory as president. 773 00:44:43,823 --> 00:44:48,698 ''Both Lee Gregson and Carl Holman fired this date. 774 00:44:48,827 --> 00:44:51,498 l'm calling Board Meeting soon to vote in replacements.'' 775 00:44:51,630 --> 00:44:54,334 And it's signed Wilma Gregson. 776 00:44:54,466 --> 00:44:56,101 l can't believe that. 777 00:44:56,234 --> 00:44:58,370 You couldn't believe it that night, either, could you? 778 00:44:58,503 --> 00:45:01,107 lsn't that what gave you that headache? 779 00:45:01,238 --> 00:45:07,282 Now, you did not return straight home as you said, did you? 780 00:45:07,343 --> 00:45:08,712 Yes, l did. l certainly did. 781 00:45:08,844 --> 00:45:09,946 Well, ask Florence. 782 00:45:10,079 --> 00:45:12,883 Ask my wife. 783 00:45:13,014 --> 00:45:16,387 Well, l woke up about a quarter of 1 1 when l heard Carl drive into the garage. 784 00:45:17,419 --> 00:45:18,754 He came right to bed. 785 00:45:18,886 --> 00:45:20,456 You're a light sleeper? 786 00:45:20,589 --> 00:45:22,391 lndeed, yes. 787 00:45:22,523 --> 00:45:25,662 Mrs. Holman, are you telling the truth 788 00:45:25,792 --> 00:45:28,564 or are you deliberately lying to give your husband an alibi 789 00:45:28,696 --> 00:45:31,500 for the time Wilma Gregson was attacked? 790 00:45:31,631 --> 00:45:33,368 Well, that's ridiculous. 791 00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:36,037 He came in at a quarter of 1 1. l heard him and saw him. 792 00:45:36,168 --> 00:45:39,507 Suppose l were to tell you somebody else saw him in a bar, in Oakland, 793 00:45:39,638 --> 00:45:41,173 at a quarter to 12. 794 00:45:41,306 --> 00:45:45,246 Whoever said such a thing was either mistaken or lying. 795 00:45:45,376 --> 00:45:49,015 Mrs. Holman, why do you think 796 00:45:49,146 --> 00:45:51,350 Wilma Gregson suddenly turned against your husband? 797 00:45:51,481 --> 00:45:53,084 l can't imagine. 798 00:45:53,216 --> 00:45:56,020 Can't imagine that she had finally traced 799 00:45:56,152 --> 00:45:58,924 the so-called merger leak to its actual source? 800 00:45:59,054 --> 00:46:00,923 Why, that's preposterous. 801 00:46:01,056 --> 00:46:02,758 Carl lived for the company. 802 00:46:02,824 --> 00:46:06,197 lt was his stam of life, his meat, his drink. 803 00:46:06,327 --> 00:46:08,531 Nothing could have made him betray Gregson's 804 00:46:08,663 --> 00:46:10,533 because nothing else mattered to him. 805 00:46:10,665 --> 00:46:12,334 Nothing. 806 00:46:12,466 --> 00:46:17,041 lncluding his home, his marriage, you? 807 00:46:17,170 --> 00:46:19,274 Mrs. Holman, you have been lying. 808 00:46:19,405 --> 00:46:22,677 Your perjured testimony was intended to prove not only that Carl Holman was home 809 00:46:22,809 --> 00:46:25,848 at a quarter of 1 1, but that you were home at that time. 810 00:46:25,977 --> 00:46:29,116 l was-- l was. 811 00:46:29,247 --> 00:46:33,354 Yet Matt Clark testified he tried to contact your husband that night without success. 812 00:46:33,485 --> 00:46:36,723 Would you like to hear him testify he called your home repeatedly 813 00:46:36,854 --> 00:46:39,123 until past 1 1 :30 and never got an answer? 814 00:46:39,256 --> 00:46:46,001 No, that won't be necessary. 815 00:46:46,129 --> 00:46:50,469 l did so much for Carl all those years 816 00:46:50,599 --> 00:46:54,306 l got him into Gregson Canneries. 817 00:46:54,436 --> 00:46:58,209 Yes, l had to go to Wilma and plead with her to give him a job, but got him in. 818 00:46:58,339 --> 00:47:02,413 And then l schemed, and l planned, and l maneuvered to make something of him. 819 00:47:02,476 --> 00:47:03,978 To make him general manager. 820 00:47:04,110 --> 00:47:10,689 Miss Holman, a year ago, someone made a telephone call to Karen Ross, 821 00:47:10,817 --> 00:47:12,553 impersonating Lucy Gregson's voice, 822 00:47:12,685 --> 00:47:16,058 and ordering Karen to put those specifications in the car? 823 00:47:16,187 --> 00:47:17,623 lt was you who made the phone call was it not. 824 00:47:17,756 --> 00:47:22,931 Yes, l thought Peter would get involved in the scandal. 825 00:47:23,060 --> 00:47:28,403 A drunken wife, a romance with his secretary, an attempt to betray the company. 826 00:47:28,532 --> 00:47:30,969 You thought if Peter were discharged, or in disgrace, 827 00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:33,237 your husband would become president of the company? 828 00:47:33,369 --> 00:47:38,712 That accident. How could l know there'd be an accident? 829 00:47:38,841 --> 00:47:41,645 And it was only Karen that Wilma blamed, not Peter. 830 00:47:41,777 --> 00:47:44,648 That's why you betrayed the company, wasn't it? 831 00:47:44,779 --> 00:47:47,416 lt was you who leaked the news about the merger. 832 00:47:47,549 --> 00:47:52,124 You who purchased large blocks of stock and sold at considerable profit. 833 00:47:52,253 --> 00:47:53,355 You, Mrs. Holman. 834 00:47:53,487 --> 00:47:57,928 l thought l could destroy the merger 835 00:47:58,057 --> 00:48:00,828 and then Carl would surely be made president of the company. 836 00:48:00,959 --> 00:48:03,430 And not only that, by making all that money, 837 00:48:03,495 --> 00:48:07,536 l could prove l was the smart one-- me. 838 00:48:07,666 --> 00:48:12,174 But that night Wilma caught on, 839 00:48:12,303 --> 00:48:13,972 and she fired Carl. 840 00:48:14,105 --> 00:48:15,540 And she threatened to send me to jail. 841 00:48:15,673 --> 00:48:18,377 So l had to-- 842 00:48:19,643 --> 00:48:21,213 You had to kill her. 843 00:48:33,856 --> 00:48:35,992 ln a few minutes now, we'll be leaving for Los Angeles 844 00:48:36,124 --> 00:48:39,028 and everything that happened here will be just a bad dream, Miss Ross. 845 00:48:39,159 --> 00:48:41,630 l don't know whether l've wakened from it yet. 846 00:48:41,762 --> 00:48:46,905 Mr. Mason, l don't-- l don't know how to thank you enough 847 00:48:47,033 --> 00:48:48,068 for all you've done for me. 848 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,004 You could start by smiling. You should be happy. 849 00:48:51,136 --> 00:48:53,373 Oh, l imagine she will be. 850 00:48:53,506 --> 00:48:57,045 Look behind you, Miss Ross. 851 00:48:57,175 --> 00:48:59,177 We're coming with you, Karen. 852 00:48:59,311 --> 00:49:01,514 - With me? - To help you pack. 853 00:49:01,646 --> 00:49:03,682 Then we're all going to Las Vegas. 854 00:49:03,747 --> 00:49:06,017 - So you and l can be married. - Before the boat trip. 855 00:49:06,149 --> 00:49:09,321 Married? Boat? 856 00:49:09,452 --> 00:49:12,191 Not you. You're staying with Daddy. 857 00:49:12,322 --> 00:49:14,526 l'm taking the boat trip with Mr. Mason. 858 00:49:14,657 --> 00:49:16,059 Aren't l, Mr. Mason? 859 00:49:16,191 --> 00:49:19,697 You certainly are. You, l, 860 00:49:19,828 --> 00:49:21,331 Paul and Della. 861 00:49:21,463 --> 00:49:24,802 Where all going to Catalina and back. 862 00:49:24,933 --> 00:49:27,570 Well, don't just stand there. Kiss him. 863 00:49:30,103 --> 00:49:31,538 Oh, Peter. 864 00:49:32,572 --> 00:49:35,711 Subtitled By J.R. Media Services, Inc. Burbank, CA 865 00:49:35,761 --> 00:49:40,311 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0