1 00:00:03,024 --> 00:00:05,194 Itheme] 2 00:01:27,477 --> 00:01:30,316 [door opens, closes] 3 00:01:34,484 --> 00:01:36,484 l'm Mr. Corby's secretary. Can l help you? 4 00:01:36,553 --> 00:01:38,046 No, thank you. 5 00:01:38,088 --> 00:01:40,088 l was just leaving. 6 00:01:41,792 --> 00:01:43,792 [Man] l wouldn't. 7 00:01:54,838 --> 00:01:56,164 There you are, Miriam. 8 00:01:56,206 --> 00:01:58,133 Don't go away. We've got problems. 9 00:01:58,175 --> 00:02:00,245 Charlie, there was a man in here. 10 00:02:00,377 --> 00:02:03,316 Someone ran out of here just before you came in. 11 00:02:03,380 --> 00:02:06,119 He looked very strange, like maybe he'd stolen something. 12 00:02:06,250 --> 00:02:07,577 Someone? 13 00:02:07,619 --> 00:02:10,156 A young guy. He was shoving something inside his coat. 14 00:02:10,287 --> 00:02:11,514 A script, maybe. 15 00:02:11,556 --> 00:02:13,449 l'd better call the gate. 16 00:02:13,491 --> 00:02:16,296 Petty theft. Forget about it. 17 00:02:18,429 --> 00:02:20,189 What's our problem this time, Charlie? 18 00:02:20,231 --> 00:02:21,357 Get your book. 19 00:02:21,399 --> 00:02:23,402 l'll give you some rewrite on tonight's shooting. 20 00:02:23,535 --> 00:02:25,535 Right. 21 00:02:38,951 --> 00:02:40,309 Here we go. 22 00:02:40,351 --> 00:02:44,426 Revised pages. Act Ill, Scene Il, Mister Nobody. 23 00:02:44,557 --> 00:02:48,631 lnterior Mademoiselle Zizi's _ressing room. 24 00:02:48,761 --> 00:02:50,187 Close-up. 25 00:02:50,229 --> 00:02:52,866 - Zizi crying her stupid little heart out. - [door closes] 26 00:02:52,998 --> 00:02:55,636 - Charlie. - Something shaking, baby? 27 00:02:55,768 --> 00:02:57,427 How come the big director isn't down on the set? 28 00:02:57,469 --> 00:03:01,043 l sent word for you to get down to that set an hour ago. 29 00:03:01,174 --> 00:03:03,678 Better help yourself to some of those happy pills, Charlie. 30 00:03:03,743 --> 00:03:05,980 You'll need them. Where is it? 31 00:03:06,112 --> 00:03:10,220 That beautiful second-unit footage you sent a company up north to film? 32 00:03:10,349 --> 00:03:13,589 lt's coming, baby. It's on its way just like l promised. 33 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:15,079 Don't soft-soap me, Charlie. 34 00:03:15,121 --> 00:03:18,228 Joe from the union said you never hired another crew. 35 00:03:18,358 --> 00:03:19,651 Didn't need it, baby. Didn't need it. 36 00:03:19,693 --> 00:03:21,686 We struck oil, that's what. 37 00:03:21,728 --> 00:03:22,954 l got a call from Superior. 38 00:03:22,996 --> 00:03:24,522 Phil Rubin. You remember him? 39 00:03:24,564 --> 00:03:27,369 Those indie dog epics he cleaned up on a couple of years ago? 40 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:31,441 Phil calls me, see? He's got 5,OOO feet of gorgeous stum. 41 00:03:31,571 --> 00:03:35,512 Knock your eyes out. He's making a work print for us right now. 42 00:03:42,282 --> 00:03:46,724 We'll cut all establishing stum e_erior, dissolve into the bedroom. 43 00:03:46,854 --> 00:03:48,814 l guess that'll work. 44 00:03:48,856 --> 00:03:50,783 And knock a half day om the schedule. 45 00:03:50,825 --> 00:03:52,818 That's good thinking, Mike. That's great. 46 00:03:52,860 --> 00:03:55,532 The dough we'll save we'll use to expand the music score, 47 00:03:55,663 --> 00:03:57,356 dress up the credits. 48 00:03:57,398 --> 00:03:59,535 ''Directed by Michael Flint.'' 49 00:03:59,667 --> 00:04:02,840 A hundred-piece orchestra, tympanis, the works. 50 00:04:02,904 --> 00:04:04,663 Well, okay, Charlie. Oh, look. 51 00:04:04,705 --> 00:04:08,880 l hate to bring this up again, but the script-- it's pretty amul. 52 00:04:09,011 --> 00:04:12,518 - That third act, Charlie-- - Say no more, baby. 53 00:04:13,815 --> 00:04:16,487 l got the best writer in television to do a rewrite for me. 54 00:04:16,618 --> 00:04:18,888 As a personal favor. Only the best, baby. 55 00:04:19,021 --> 00:04:20,513 Rod Serling himself. 56 00:04:20,555 --> 00:04:24,028 [Flint] Serling doing a rewrite on Mister Nobody? 57 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,019 Spoke to Rod this morning at the Springs. 58 00:04:26,061 --> 00:04:27,420 ''Charlie, boy,'' says Rod, 59 00:04:27,462 --> 00:04:30,434 ''the third act curtain's finished, typed, and on its way to you now.'' 60 00:04:30,565 --> 00:04:31,993 Well, you know Rod. 61 00:04:32,035 --> 00:04:34,035 lt's gotta be great. He's the greatest. 62 00:04:35,004 --> 00:04:37,004 l gotta get back to the set. 63 00:04:37,106 --> 00:04:39,911 Get those revised pages to me the minute they get here, will you? 64 00:04:40,043 --> 00:04:42,581 Sure thing, baby. 65 00:04:44,013 --> 00:04:46,718 - [sighs] - [door opens] 66 00:04:46,849 --> 00:04:49,788 - [door closes] - The Palm Springs envelope again, 67 00:04:49,919 --> 00:04:51,445 Mr. Serling? 68 00:04:51,487 --> 00:04:53,757 Yeah, yeah. Where were we? 69 00:04:53,890 --> 00:04:56,462 - Act Ill, Scene Il. - [sighs] 70 00:04:56,592 --> 00:04:58,595 Oh, yeah. 71 00:04:58,728 --> 00:05:02,635 What would l do without you? Now, where were we? 72 00:05:02,699 --> 00:05:07,108 Oh, yeah. Zizi crying her stupid little heart out. 73 00:05:07,237 --> 00:05:10,744 We cut to Mr. Nobody entering her dressing room, 74 00:05:10,874 --> 00:05:15,282 his face radiating a warm, 75 00:05:15,411 --> 00:05:17,482 loving smile. 76 00:05:35,532 --> 00:05:37,769 And we cut to Mr. Nobody on the phone, saying, 77 00:05:37,902 --> 00:05:40,106 ''Hello, what's your latest advisory on the hurricane''-- 78 00:05:40,238 --> 00:05:41,898 - Just a minute, Mr. Corby. - Hold it. 79 00:05:41,940 --> 00:05:43,833 ''The Key West area. What? 80 00:05:43,875 --> 00:05:46,714 You're positive it's veering out to the ocean? Thank you.'' 81 00:05:46,845 --> 00:05:50,786 He hangs up, smiling. Cut. Two copies, Miriam. 82 00:05:50,915 --> 00:05:53,553 Well, Mr. David Crane. 83 00:05:53,685 --> 00:05:55,685 May l speak to you alone for a minute? 84 00:06:00,192 --> 00:06:04,300 Look, l'm the man who raised the money for this TV show of yours-- Mister Nobody. 85 00:06:04,363 --> 00:06:06,123 Oh, Davey, l wouldn't go that far. 86 00:06:06,165 --> 00:06:10,172 You introduced me to my silent partner, Mrs. Nelly Lamon. 87 00:06:10,302 --> 00:06:12,874 Sit down, Davey. What's on your mind? 88 00:06:13,005 --> 00:06:15,877 The chattel mortgage Mister Nobody Incorporated received 89 00:06:16,008 --> 00:06:17,835 from the Woodfield Mortgage Company. 90 00:06:17,877 --> 00:06:19,670 What about it? 91 00:06:19,712 --> 00:06:23,318 Well, a chattel mortgage is a mortgage based on an individual's possessions, 92 00:06:23,449 --> 00:06:26,153 in this case, Mrs. Lamon's jewelry and art collection. 93 00:06:26,286 --> 00:06:28,045 You're a lawyer. You ought to know. 94 00:06:28,087 --> 00:06:29,847 What l don't know is simply this-- 95 00:06:29,889 --> 00:06:32,427 l left instructions that when the mortgage was recorded, 96 00:06:32,558 --> 00:06:34,152 l was to receive a copy. 97 00:06:34,194 --> 00:06:37,500 l received no copy, so l called. 98 00:06:37,630 --> 00:06:41,671 The first thing l found out was that the mortgage has never been recorded. 99 00:06:41,802 --> 00:06:43,328 You don't say? 100 00:06:43,370 --> 00:06:44,863 Well, what do you know? 101 00:06:44,905 --> 00:06:48,444 Amazing how sloppy some of these big business outfits are. 102 00:06:48,575 --> 00:06:50,502 Well, l'll have to see to that, make sure everybody's protected. 103 00:06:50,544 --> 00:06:51,636 lsn't that right? 104 00:06:51,678 --> 00:06:55,317 Just as soon as l finish this memo to the sponsor's agency. 105 00:06:55,450 --> 00:06:56,574 Sponsor? 106 00:06:56,616 --> 00:06:58,720 Look, l'm kind of busy right now. 107 00:06:58,852 --> 00:07:00,712 Are you going to be in the steam room tonight? 108 00:07:00,754 --> 00:07:02,148 Suppose we discuss it then, 109 00:07:02,190 --> 00:07:03,882 and thanks for stopping by. 110 00:07:03,924 --> 00:07:05,351 Anytime, you know, you want to visit the set-- 111 00:07:05,393 --> 00:07:08,165 Mr. Corby, Charlie, there's something else. 112 00:07:08,296 --> 00:07:10,089 l called Woodfield Mortgage. 113 00:07:10,131 --> 00:07:13,570 They told me on the phone the mortgage is not for 68,OOO-- 114 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:15,460 which l understood was the permissible loan 115 00:07:15,502 --> 00:07:17,640 based on the value of Mrs. Lamon's things-- 116 00:07:17,772 --> 00:07:22,748 but that the mortgage was written up for _1 3T,OOO. 117 00:07:22,877 --> 00:07:24,737 Preposterous-- 118 00:07:24,779 --> 00:07:25,971 that's what it is-- 119 00:07:26,013 --> 00:07:28,013 just impossible that an outfit like that 120 00:07:28,115 --> 00:07:30,753 could hire somebody to make a stupid mistake like that, 121 00:07:30,885 --> 00:07:33,257 l mean, reading you the numbers from the wrong mortgage. 122 00:07:33,388 --> 00:07:35,625 But suppose they weren't the wrong numbers, Charlie. 123 00:07:35,756 --> 00:07:37,250 Suppose it wasn't a mistake. 124 00:07:37,292 --> 00:07:39,152 Suppose, suppose, suppose. 125 00:07:39,194 --> 00:07:40,519 Davey, it's got to be a mistake. 126 00:07:40,561 --> 00:07:42,598 They're not just going to give money away like that. 127 00:07:42,730 --> 00:07:45,235 Why, it's-- it's practically illegal, Davey. 128 00:07:45,367 --> 00:07:47,127 But if they did 129 00:07:47,169 --> 00:07:50,141 and if Mrs. Lamon finds out they over-evaluated her property 130 00:07:50,272 --> 00:07:51,465 and loaned twice what they should, 131 00:07:51,507 --> 00:07:53,612 she'll certainly wonder where all that money went to. 132 00:07:54,843 --> 00:07:58,115 Davey boy, it's got to be nothing but a silly mistake. 133 00:07:58,247 --> 00:07:59,407 Now, you know that, 134 00:07:59,449 --> 00:08:00,574 so why worry? 135 00:08:00,616 --> 00:08:03,053 Nelly's way out of touch. You know that. 136 00:08:03,118 --> 00:08:05,118 - Nelly's in Europe. - [intercom buzzes] 137 00:08:06,655 --> 00:08:07,714 Yeah, Miriam? 138 00:08:07,756 --> 00:08:09,994 Mrs. Nelly Lamon is calling. 139 00:08:10,126 --> 00:08:13,265 Uh, th-th-they want me on the soundstage? 140 00:08:13,396 --> 00:08:14,688 Urgent? 141 00:08:14,730 --> 00:08:16,123 Hold it. 142 00:08:16,165 --> 00:08:18,970 Look, Davey boy, don't fret about a thing, hmm? 143 00:08:19,102 --> 00:08:20,828 l'll get the loan company on the horn. 144 00:08:20,870 --> 00:08:24,443 l'll have them send you the corrected copy of the recorded mortgage. 145 00:08:24,574 --> 00:08:26,502 Okay? Okay. 146 00:08:26,544 --> 00:08:28,544 See you around the steam room, pal. 147 00:08:30,580 --> 00:08:32,580 [exhales] 148 00:08:40,190 --> 00:08:42,360 Nelly, baby. 149 00:08:42,493 --> 00:08:44,797 Hi, genius, got a minute? 150 00:08:44,929 --> 00:08:47,400 Where's my Nelly, Paris or London, huh? 151 00:08:47,531 --> 00:08:50,470 Mm-mm, Los Angeles. 152 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,909 Just before the plane took om, genius, l got so homesick for you. 153 00:08:55,039 --> 00:08:56,732 Mental telepathy, baby. 154 00:08:56,774 --> 00:08:57,933 Didn't want you to go. 155 00:08:57,975 --> 00:09:02,584 Well, you can tell me all about that tonight at my place. 156 00:09:02,646 --> 00:09:06,052 Well, we're shooting tonight, baby. 157 00:09:06,184 --> 00:09:07,277 Might have to wait. 158 00:09:07,319 --> 00:09:09,456 But it can't wait, genius. 159 00:09:09,588 --> 00:09:12,427 There's so much to go over with you about the show, 160 00:09:12,557 --> 00:09:14,627 about a new writer l found for you. 161 00:09:14,758 --> 00:09:16,758 He's-- He's amully clever. 162 00:09:16,828 --> 00:09:20,167 His name is, um-- let's see-- 163 00:09:20,298 --> 00:09:23,738 ah, Herbert Simms. 164 00:09:25,003 --> 00:09:27,908 One of your playmates, baby? 165 00:09:28,039 --> 00:09:30,944 Dinner at what time, Charlie? 166 00:09:31,076 --> 00:09:32,235 Make it supper. 167 00:09:32,277 --> 00:09:34,782 [chuckles] Pe_ect. 168 00:09:34,913 --> 00:09:37,585 Bye-bye, genius. 169 00:09:43,222 --> 00:09:49,133 Now, you just forget the cares of the day, genius, and think only of me, okay? 170 00:09:50,695 --> 00:09:54,202 What's this about somebody claiming he wrote the script for Mister Nobody? 171 00:09:54,333 --> 00:09:56,604 Oh, yes, Herbert Simms? 172 00:09:56,736 --> 00:09:59,775 Well, it seems that he read somewhere in the paper 173 00:09:59,905 --> 00:10:01,566 that l was your partner, 174 00:10:01,608 --> 00:10:03,945 and he showed me a script. 175 00:10:04,076 --> 00:10:08,117 Baby, you didn't steal his script, now, did you? 176 00:10:08,248 --> 00:10:11,287 Just one of these spooks in this business, 177 00:10:11,418 --> 00:10:15,926 got wind of the idea and wrote a script, for nuisance money. 178 00:10:17,723 --> 00:10:19,726 Well, l'm so relieved. 179 00:10:19,860 --> 00:10:21,860 Oh, and there's another thing, too. 180 00:10:21,928 --> 00:10:24,165 My Attorney David Crane came over this afternoon 181 00:10:24,297 --> 00:10:26,869 and he said something about your promising to call 182 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,404 the Woodfield Mortgage Company. Did you? 183 00:10:29,537 --> 00:10:30,962 Why, no, baby. 184 00:10:31,004 --> 00:10:33,004 Stampede at the ranch and all that sort of thing. 185 00:10:33,106 --> 00:10:35,106 Oh, well, never mind. 186 00:10:35,208 --> 00:10:37,346 - l did. - Good. 187 00:10:37,478 --> 00:10:39,070 A Mr. Stokes, 188 00:10:39,112 --> 00:10:41,617 a very determined man, 189 00:10:41,748 --> 00:10:45,655 kept insisting that the chattel mortgage on my things 190 00:10:45,786 --> 00:10:48,825 was for 13T,OOO, 191 00:10:48,956 --> 00:10:51,928 not the 68,OOO you told me it was for. 192 00:10:52,060 --> 00:10:54,397 [chuckles] That's mad. 193 00:10:54,529 --> 00:10:57,001 l swindled a mortgage company out of 68,OOO. 194 00:10:57,131 --> 00:11:00,638 Not mad. Clever. 195 00:11:00,768 --> 00:11:03,673 Amazing. 196 00:11:03,738 --> 00:11:05,875 Sure, my secretary has the power of attorney, 197 00:11:06,007 --> 00:11:09,314 and l leave the details to her, but 68,OOO? 198 00:11:09,445 --> 00:11:10,936 Where would l hide all that? 199 00:11:10,978 --> 00:11:13,183 Well, it really doesn't matter. 200 00:11:13,315 --> 00:11:16,187 As long as the picture's finished and everything comes back-- 201 00:11:16,318 --> 00:11:19,490 the mortgage company's money and my pretty little baubles, 202 00:11:19,621 --> 00:11:21,993 and, of course, l'm still going to be around, 203 00:11:22,124 --> 00:11:24,228 so, well, if there is anything left, 204 00:11:24,359 --> 00:11:26,797 you can just spend it on me. 205 00:11:28,698 --> 00:11:31,369 You make the future sound almost real. 206 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:35,341 I Well, it would be such a bother having to tell everyone 207 00:11:35,472 --> 00:11:38,845 that you hooked me into financing a film script 208 00:11:38,974 --> 00:11:44,352 that you stole from Herbert, uh, what's his name, Simms? 209 00:11:44,481 --> 00:11:47,053 You frighten me, baby, 210 00:11:47,183 --> 00:11:49,320 but good. 211 00:11:51,588 --> 00:11:55,529 lt's my son, Perry. It's on account of him l called you. 212 00:11:55,658 --> 00:11:58,630 lf not you, who else could l trust? 213 00:11:58,763 --> 00:12:01,334 You and your late husband were very kind to me 214 00:12:01,464 --> 00:12:05,104 when l was just a law student living in this neighborhood. 215 00:12:05,168 --> 00:12:08,040 You know l'll do whatever l can to help you. 216 00:12:08,171 --> 00:12:09,698 Now, what's wrong, Mrs. Simms? 217 00:12:09,740 --> 00:12:13,514 My son Herbert started hating being a pharmacist. 218 00:12:13,644 --> 00:12:16,149 He wants to make a million 219 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:20,154 from ideas for these dimerent TV shows, 220 00:12:20,284 --> 00:12:22,855 from moving pictures, yet, too. 221 00:12:22,987 --> 00:12:24,513 Well, there's nothing wrong with that. 222 00:12:24,555 --> 00:12:28,997 Now he says somebody stole his best idea, 223 00:12:29,126 --> 00:12:31,898 his chance to make a million dollars. 224 00:12:32,029 --> 00:12:34,701 There are certain legal steps he can take. 225 00:12:34,832 --> 00:12:37,837 Oh, he's changed, Perry. 226 00:12:37,968 --> 00:12:41,542 The whole world hates him is how he thinks. 227 00:12:41,673 --> 00:12:45,614 Oh, on the outside he's quiet, 228 00:12:45,744 --> 00:12:48,683 but inside he keeps a-- 229 00:12:48,814 --> 00:12:51,653 a terrible, terrible bomb. 230 00:12:53,819 --> 00:12:56,892 Herbie, look who dropped in. 231 00:12:57,022 --> 00:12:59,022 Poppa's friend. 232 00:12:59,792 --> 00:13:02,229 Well, have l changed that much, Herbert? 233 00:13:02,294 --> 00:13:03,419 No, Mr. Mason. 234 00:13:03,461 --> 00:13:07,402 l, uh, understand you're trying to break into TV. 235 00:13:07,533 --> 00:13:09,533 l'd rather not talk about it. 236 00:13:21,447 --> 00:13:25,288 When l called Mrs. Lamon this morning, 237 00:13:25,418 --> 00:13:27,455 she said she was sorry. 238 00:13:27,587 --> 00:13:30,559 She saw Corby last night, 239 00:13:30,690 --> 00:13:33,028 and he denied all that l'd told her 240 00:13:33,159 --> 00:13:36,198 and there was nothing more she could do. 241 00:13:36,329 --> 00:13:38,567 Herbert, when you mailed your Mister Nobody script 242 00:13:38,699 --> 00:13:40,559 to Corby Productions, 243 00:13:40,601 --> 00:13:44,240 did you receive any acknowledgement of the submission? 244 00:13:44,371 --> 00:13:46,030 Not a word. 245 00:13:46,072 --> 00:13:48,777 Did you send it registered mail, with a return receipt, 246 00:13:48,908 --> 00:13:51,713 and keep a dated carbon copy of the script itself? 247 00:13:51,845 --> 00:13:54,317 No, l didn't know l was supposed to. 248 00:13:54,448 --> 00:14:00,026 To bring action, you must prove that you actually wrote the material, 249 00:14:00,153 --> 00:14:01,880 that he had access to it, 250 00:14:01,922 --> 00:14:03,582 that he read it, 251 00:14:03,624 --> 00:14:05,862 then used it without payment to you. 252 00:14:05,993 --> 00:14:07,993 Well, of course he had access to it. 253 00:14:08,095 --> 00:14:10,600 Does he still have it? That would be important to us. 254 00:14:14,903 --> 00:14:16,395 S-Sure he still has it. 255 00:14:16,437 --> 00:14:18,264 All right. 256 00:14:18,306 --> 00:14:20,910 We will attend a court order in the morning, 257 00:14:21,041 --> 00:14:22,568 impounding the files 258 00:14:22,610 --> 00:14:25,515 to prevent his concealing proof of your submission 259 00:14:25,647 --> 00:14:28,152 by getting rid of the script. 260 00:14:28,283 --> 00:14:30,283 l'll be in touch with you, Herb. 261 00:14:45,601 --> 00:14:46,760 [Flint] Yo, Corby! 262 00:14:46,802 --> 00:14:48,802 Hold it! 263 00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:52,098 Maybe you didn't hear me. 264 00:14:52,140 --> 00:14:53,500 Sorry, baby, l gotta go. 265 00:14:53,542 --> 00:14:54,668 Send me a memo, huh? 266 00:14:54,710 --> 00:14:56,710 Remember the old saying, Charlie. 267 00:14:56,779 --> 00:14:58,438 You can run, but you can't hide. 268 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,483 Take it easy, Mike. 269 00:15:00,616 --> 00:15:03,021 They gave me a runaround on those wind machines. 270 00:15:03,085 --> 00:15:04,879 They promised to send them. Then just didn't. 271 00:15:04,921 --> 00:15:07,258 l had to get Rod baby to write the hurricane out of the script. 272 00:15:07,389 --> 00:15:09,994 l can read you like the funny papers. 273 00:15:10,125 --> 00:15:12,295 For why all this megillah? 274 00:15:12,428 --> 00:15:14,187 Mike, the footage is great. 275 00:15:14,229 --> 00:15:16,229 All you've got is tonight's work, and you're finished. 276 00:15:16,298 --> 00:15:17,792 Finished is right. 277 00:15:17,834 --> 00:15:20,573 You scrimped and cheated all the way down the line-- 278 00:15:20,704 --> 00:15:23,376 on talent, sets, music, everything. 279 00:15:23,506 --> 00:15:25,743 l thought this was my chance for a comeback, 280 00:15:25,875 --> 00:15:27,101 make a new reputation. 281 00:15:27,143 --> 00:15:31,117 Mike, you're sounding like your old reputation. 282 00:15:31,247 --> 00:15:34,586 Anything you don't like, your insecurity sends you to Juice Junction-- 283 00:15:34,718 --> 00:15:35,977 the bottle. 284 00:15:36,019 --> 00:15:37,645 Get hold on to yourself, baby. 285 00:15:37,687 --> 00:15:40,727 Get those last shots in the can tonight and go to bed happy. 286 00:15:40,858 --> 00:15:43,897 All right, Charlie, l gave you your chance, 287 00:15:44,027 --> 00:15:45,219 but the way you want it, 288 00:15:45,261 --> 00:15:46,488 that's how you're going to get it. 289 00:15:46,530 --> 00:15:49,067 Thanks, baby. See you later. 290 00:15:51,167 --> 00:15:53,839 Charlie! Mr. Corby, wait! 291 00:15:56,974 --> 00:15:58,233 Him wait? 292 00:15:58,275 --> 00:15:59,768 You dreamer, you. 293 00:15:59,810 --> 00:16:01,503 But there's a Mr. Stokes in the omice, 294 00:16:01,545 --> 00:16:03,305 from the Woodfield Mortgage Company, 295 00:16:03,347 --> 00:16:05,417 Mortgage company, huh? 296 00:16:05,549 --> 00:16:08,221 Now, if Charlie had a mother 297 00:16:08,352 --> 00:16:09,980 and she had a house, 298 00:16:10,022 --> 00:16:12,022 l'd really be worried. 299 00:16:12,724 --> 00:16:14,483 [French accent] A check? 300 00:16:14,525 --> 00:16:18,199 For _10,OOO? 301 00:16:18,329 --> 00:16:20,255 For me, Zizi? 302 00:16:20,297 --> 00:16:22,292 l want no part of the reward, madame. 303 00:16:22,334 --> 00:16:24,504 Oh, but why not, monsieur? 304 00:16:24,636 --> 00:16:28,477 Because you are Zizi, and me, l'm nobody. 305 00:16:28,607 --> 00:16:33,717 No, no. Oh, Mr. Nobody. 306 00:16:33,845 --> 00:16:35,505 [Flint] No, no. 307 00:16:35,547 --> 00:16:37,440 [exaggerated French accent] ''Mistaire'' Nobody. 308 00:16:37,482 --> 00:16:39,485 Uh, forget it. 309 00:16:39,618 --> 00:16:41,111 Cut it! 310 00:16:41,153 --> 00:16:42,345 Print it. 311 00:16:42,387 --> 00:16:44,524 - [stage bell rings] - Wrap it up and drown it. 312 00:16:44,657 --> 00:16:47,228 Come on, peasants. It's time to celebrate. 313 00:16:47,359 --> 00:16:49,359 - [people chattering] - [Man] Ha-ho! Let's go. 314 00:16:50,930 --> 00:16:52,055 How was it? 315 00:16:52,097 --> 00:16:53,557 Magnificent. 316 00:16:53,599 --> 00:16:55,602 You mean it? 317 00:16:55,735 --> 00:16:57,872 Easy on the bottle, Mike. 318 00:16:58,004 --> 00:17:00,007 Where's Charlie? 319 00:17:00,139 --> 00:17:01,565 Around. 320 00:17:01,607 --> 00:17:03,607 He better be. 321 00:17:05,778 --> 00:17:06,905 Why, Mr. Stokes. 322 00:17:06,947 --> 00:17:09,151 Oh, good evening. Is Corby here? 323 00:17:09,282 --> 00:17:11,552 We're expecting him soon. May l make you a drink? 324 00:17:11,684 --> 00:17:14,423 Just a very light one. Here, l'll do it. 325 00:17:15,656 --> 00:17:19,229 Well, the indispensable Miss Waters. 326 00:17:19,358 --> 00:17:21,830 Charlie didn't tell me that the party was formal. 327 00:17:21,962 --> 00:17:23,355 ls he around? 328 00:17:23,397 --> 00:17:26,369 l thought that he would come with you. 329 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:30,541 And leave with you, judging by your ensemble. 330 00:17:32,107 --> 00:17:35,213 l'm sorry, darling, but l have other plans for him tonight. 331 00:17:35,342 --> 00:17:38,347 Show me around, will you? l don't know a soul here. 332 00:17:40,380 --> 00:17:42,918 The great man himself! Yes, sir. 333 00:17:43,051 --> 00:17:46,190 Charlie ol' boy! Little baby boy! 334 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:49,560 Charlie here was going to take a trip and miss the party! 335 00:17:49,691 --> 00:17:51,895 [people groaning] 336 00:17:52,026 --> 00:17:54,063 He's going to make a speech, that's what. 337 00:17:54,194 --> 00:17:55,888 Charlie's going to make a speech. 338 00:17:55,930 --> 00:17:58,335 [Crowd] Yeah, speech, speech, speech.. . 339 00:18:00,869 --> 00:18:03,107 Well, here you are-- 340 00:18:03,171 --> 00:18:05,174 the money, the talent, and the manpower, 341 00:18:05,306 --> 00:18:08,946 the team that's going to make Mister Nobody an American institution, 342 00:18:09,078 --> 00:18:13,052 as well-known as ham and eggs and pie ? la mode. 343 00:18:13,181 --> 00:18:17,556 My job has been very simply a pleasant one of bringing you all together, 344 00:18:17,686 --> 00:18:19,790 and l want to say this from the bottom of my heart-- 345 00:18:19,922 --> 00:18:22,861 ln my 16 years in this business, 346 00:18:22,992 --> 00:18:25,363 l have never had the unselfish cooperation 347 00:18:25,494 --> 00:18:29,301 and the just plain darn desire to put out beyond the call of duty, 348 00:18:29,431 --> 00:18:32,002 that l've had from all of you wonde_ul people. 349 00:18:34,203 --> 00:18:36,203 Only one more thing to say-- 350 00:18:37,174 --> 00:18:40,246 Thank you and bless you all. 351 00:18:41,610 --> 00:18:44,415 [crowd] For he's a jolly good fellow 352 00:18:44,547 --> 00:18:46,818 For he's a jolly good fellow 353 00:18:46,950 --> 00:18:50,957 For he's a jolly good fellow 354 00:18:51,087 --> 00:18:53,491 Which nobody can deny 355 00:18:55,291 --> 00:18:56,551 [groans] 356 00:18:56,593 --> 00:18:58,730 [bottle shatters] 357 00:18:58,862 --> 00:19:01,767 Well, Miss Miriam. 358 00:19:01,898 --> 00:19:04,102 Mike, look at you. 359 00:19:04,168 --> 00:19:06,772 l got a riddle, Miss Miriam. 360 00:19:06,903 --> 00:19:09,141 Suppose a producer 361 00:19:09,272 --> 00:19:11,232 makes an invisible picture. 362 00:19:11,274 --> 00:19:12,902 You got it? 363 00:19:12,944 --> 00:19:15,315 Does that make him an invisible producer? 364 00:19:15,445 --> 00:19:18,284 What are you talking about, Mike, invisible picture? 365 00:19:18,415 --> 00:19:20,853 Mister Nobody, that's what. 366 00:19:20,985 --> 00:19:23,857 Never was no picture, no ma'am. 367 00:19:23,988 --> 00:19:25,648 He's a crook. 368 00:19:25,690 --> 00:19:27,616 Never no picture, no. 369 00:19:27,658 --> 00:19:30,563 Charlie baby stole all the money, see. 370 00:19:30,695 --> 00:19:32,488 He's going to run away 371 00:19:32,530 --> 00:19:34,290 and leave us all with nothing, 372 00:19:34,332 --> 00:19:37,905 nothing except an invisible picture. 373 00:19:39,204 --> 00:19:40,596 [Miriam] Charlie? 374 00:19:40,638 --> 00:19:41,797 Mr. Corby! 375 00:19:41,839 --> 00:19:43,432 That's not Charlie baby. 376 00:19:43,474 --> 00:19:45,301 You, stop! 377 00:19:45,343 --> 00:19:47,881 Stop him! Stop him! 378 00:20:03,595 --> 00:20:07,001 No, Herbert, no. 379 00:20:08,234 --> 00:20:10,194 Simms... 380 00:20:10,236 --> 00:20:12,236 [groans] 381 00:20:25,484 --> 00:20:29,559 You said my script had to be in his possession to prove l had a claim. 382 00:20:31,391 --> 00:20:35,332 l was afraid to tell you l'd already broken into his omice and stolen it. 383 00:20:35,461 --> 00:20:36,587 Don't you see? 384 00:20:36,629 --> 00:20:39,668 l had to put it back before you impounded his files. 385 00:20:41,501 --> 00:20:42,760 All right, Herbert. 386 00:20:42,802 --> 00:20:44,428 l want the full story of what happened, 387 00:20:44,470 --> 00:20:46,470 starting with how you got into the studio. 388 00:20:47,975 --> 00:20:50,780 l got in through the back... Iot-- 389 00:20:50,911 --> 00:20:52,914 lt's called the truck gate. 390 00:20:53,047 --> 00:20:55,752 When l sneaked into the omice building, 391 00:20:55,883 --> 00:21:00,091 l stopped outside the door to Corby's room. 392 00:21:00,220 --> 00:21:01,546 He was there? 393 00:21:01,588 --> 00:21:03,382 l heard his voice. 394 00:21:03,424 --> 00:21:04,650 His and another man's. 395 00:21:04,692 --> 00:21:05,884 l didn't know who it was. 396 00:21:05,926 --> 00:21:08,364 They talked so low l couldn't make out what they were saying, 397 00:21:08,495 --> 00:21:11,400 but it sounded like an argument, a quarrel. 398 00:21:12,866 --> 00:21:16,807 Then l went into the washroom up the hall to wait. 399 00:21:16,938 --> 00:21:19,342 How long were you there? 400 00:21:19,473 --> 00:21:21,710 Maybe five or ten minutes, 401 00:21:21,843 --> 00:21:23,736 in the dark it seemed forever 402 00:21:23,778 --> 00:21:27,719 and then l heard someone staggering along the hall, 403 00:21:27,849 --> 00:21:29,919 stumbling like they'd had too much to drink, 404 00:21:30,051 --> 00:21:33,792 and after a while, when l did come out, 405 00:21:33,922 --> 00:21:36,627 he was gone. 406 00:21:36,758 --> 00:21:40,599 Then l slipped in to put the script back. 407 00:21:40,729 --> 00:21:42,866 lt was dark. 408 00:21:42,997 --> 00:21:47,106 And l stumbled over Corby's body 409 00:21:47,236 --> 00:21:48,361 on the floor. 410 00:21:48,403 --> 00:21:50,396 He was lying there, staring up at me. 411 00:21:50,438 --> 00:21:51,865 Did you try to help him? 412 00:21:51,907 --> 00:21:54,779 No, l just ran. l thought he was dead. 413 00:21:54,910 --> 00:21:58,316 But he wasn't, was he? 414 00:21:58,446 --> 00:22:02,488 At least he was alive enough to seemingly name you as his murderer. 415 00:22:05,254 --> 00:22:06,413 [Della] Perry? 416 00:22:06,455 --> 00:22:07,581 What is it, Della? 417 00:22:07,623 --> 00:22:09,960 A Miss Miriam Waters to see you. 418 00:22:10,092 --> 00:22:11,353 Corby's secretary? 419 00:22:11,395 --> 00:22:12,986 Show her in. 420 00:22:13,028 --> 00:22:14,521 Right. 421 00:22:14,563 --> 00:22:16,563 Come in, please. 422 00:22:20,569 --> 00:22:22,773 Miss Waters, won't you sit down? 423 00:22:27,844 --> 00:22:30,181 You wanted to speak to me? 424 00:22:30,313 --> 00:22:32,207 There's something l have to ask you, Mr. Mason. 425 00:22:32,249 --> 00:22:35,388 Did that young man, Herbert Simms, 426 00:22:35,519 --> 00:22:38,791 did he take Mr. Corby's pillbox from the omice last night? 427 00:22:38,922 --> 00:22:40,548 Please, tell me the truth. 428 00:22:40,590 --> 00:22:42,584 Pillbox? 429 00:22:42,626 --> 00:22:44,387 No, he never mentioned it to me. 430 00:22:44,429 --> 00:22:46,533 Oh, good. 431 00:22:46,663 --> 00:22:48,663 l was sure it wouldn't be him. 432 00:22:49,699 --> 00:22:53,373 They ought to be investigating people like that Nelly Lamon. 433 00:22:53,503 --> 00:22:55,573 - A woman like that-- - [Mason] Now, just a moment. 434 00:22:55,705 --> 00:22:59,412 This pillbox, 435 00:22:59,543 --> 00:23:01,303 the police know it's missing? 436 00:23:01,345 --> 00:23:02,446 Not yet, 437 00:23:02,447 --> 00:23:05,319 but they asked me to check a list of his personal things, 438 00:23:05,450 --> 00:23:06,609 and what was in the omice, 439 00:23:06,651 --> 00:23:08,988 and they did find a couple of his pills in the wastebasket. 440 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:11,725 They were just Charlie's regular pills. 441 00:23:11,856 --> 00:23:15,396 He was always chewing them like popcorn, 442 00:23:15,526 --> 00:23:17,320 but then l got to thinking-- 443 00:23:17,362 --> 00:23:18,788 that's about all the pills he had left 444 00:23:18,830 --> 00:23:21,869 because l was supposed to get his prescription filled the ne_ morning, 445 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,939 and then l got to wondering-- where was the pillbox? 446 00:23:25,070 --> 00:23:26,963 Never mind. l get the idea. 447 00:23:27,005 --> 00:23:28,664 [picks up phone] 448 00:23:28,706 --> 00:23:30,706 [dialing] 449 00:23:39,651 --> 00:23:41,651 Doctor Walker, please. 450 00:23:44,089 --> 00:23:45,590 Joe, this is Perry Mason. 451 00:23:45,591 --> 00:23:50,367 On your coroner's autopsy on Charles Corby, 452 00:23:50,497 --> 00:23:55,006 l suggest that an essential part of the corpus delicti 453 00:23:55,134 --> 00:23:57,605 may be a report by a toxicologist. 454 00:23:59,973 --> 00:24:01,799 Mm-hm. 455 00:24:01,841 --> 00:24:03,844 Chemical examination for poison. 456 00:24:05,111 --> 00:24:06,771 Nelly, you have company. 457 00:24:06,813 --> 00:24:08,917 [Nelly] Hi, there. 458 00:24:10,383 --> 00:24:12,109 Do-- Do l know you? 459 00:24:12,151 --> 00:24:13,277 My name is Mason. 460 00:24:13,319 --> 00:24:16,759 - l'm counsel for-- - Oh, yes, Herbert Simms. 461 00:24:16,890 --> 00:24:18,850 Well, how nice of you to call. 462 00:24:18,892 --> 00:24:22,332 Um, Davey, why don't you pick me up about 5:OO. 463 00:24:22,463 --> 00:24:24,667 ls that an invitation to leave? 464 00:24:24,797 --> 00:24:28,004 By the way, l'm David Crane, Mrs. Lamon's attorney. 465 00:24:28,135 --> 00:24:29,261 [Mason] Mr. Crane. 466 00:24:29,303 --> 00:24:31,875 Won't you sit down, Mr. Mason? 467 00:24:32,006 --> 00:24:34,510 Thank you. 468 00:24:34,641 --> 00:24:37,614 - Um, what would you like? - Nothing, thank you. 469 00:24:38,612 --> 00:24:40,816 Surely you must've come all the way out here for something. 470 00:24:40,948 --> 00:24:43,653 Now, don't you tell me. You let me guess. 471 00:24:43,784 --> 00:24:45,784 Help for you client. 472 00:24:45,853 --> 00:24:49,427 Another candidate for the murder nomination. 473 00:24:49,558 --> 00:24:50,916 - Right? - Nelly-- 474 00:24:50,958 --> 00:24:55,467 Well, everybody knows that Charlie had an absolute genius for making enemies. 475 00:24:55,596 --> 00:24:58,802 As a matter of fact, l've just been rather abruptly advised 476 00:24:58,934 --> 00:25:02,941 that the only thing he didn't try to make was a good TV pilot. 477 00:25:03,004 --> 00:25:08,314 After all the money l poured into it, and, boy, all he could think about was larceny. 478 00:25:08,443 --> 00:25:10,748 lt's no wonder so many people had it in for him. 479 00:25:10,879 --> 00:25:14,118 You take Mike Flint, for example, 480 00:25:14,249 --> 00:25:18,625 counting on Mister Nobody for his big TV comeback. 481 00:25:18,753 --> 00:25:20,756 On the night of the party he drank so much 482 00:25:20,889 --> 00:25:23,894 that he couldn't even walk without falling down. 483 00:25:25,294 --> 00:25:27,431 And then there's Miriam Waters. 484 00:25:27,563 --> 00:25:32,005 You know, l've heard about secretaries being omice wives. 485 00:25:32,134 --> 00:25:33,593 Well, she took it literally. 486 00:25:33,635 --> 00:25:36,340 Nelly, that was a nasty insinuation. 487 00:25:36,472 --> 00:25:38,910 Well, l'm only trying to help. 488 00:25:39,041 --> 00:25:40,834 And then, of course, Mr. Mason, 489 00:25:40,876 --> 00:25:42,436 there is little old me, 490 00:25:42,478 --> 00:25:46,219 dreaming of becoming a big executive producer 491 00:25:46,349 --> 00:25:51,192 and then having the chattels whisked right out from under my feet... 492 00:25:52,788 --> 00:25:56,862 and last but not least, there is David. 493 00:25:56,993 --> 00:26:00,166 He brought Charlie to me for the financing. 494 00:26:00,297 --> 00:26:01,755 Now, that's not funny at all. 495 00:26:01,797 --> 00:26:04,602 l had nothing to do with that deal. It was set up, and you know it. 496 00:26:04,667 --> 00:26:07,172 Well, you were jealous of Charlie there, Davey. 497 00:26:07,304 --> 00:26:08,463 'Fess up. 498 00:26:08,505 --> 00:26:10,505 David has been absolutely infatuated with me 499 00:26:10,608 --> 00:26:11,967 ever since l divorced my third husband. 500 00:26:12,009 --> 00:26:13,168 Haven't you, David? 501 00:26:13,210 --> 00:26:15,515 - Nelly-- - Yes, you have. 502 00:26:15,647 --> 00:26:18,051 This deal Mr. Crane just spoke of, 503 00:26:18,181 --> 00:26:19,442 it had to do with a chattel mortgage. 504 00:26:19,484 --> 00:26:20,610 ls that right? 505 00:26:20,652 --> 00:26:24,192 Yes, with the Woodfield Mortgage Company. 506 00:26:24,322 --> 00:26:26,182 Mrs. Lamon, as your attorney, 507 00:26:26,224 --> 00:26:29,229 l must advise you, you're not obliged to answer that. 508 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,053 ''Mrs. Lamon--'' 509 00:26:31,095 --> 00:26:33,055 my, aren't we getting legal all of a sudden. 510 00:26:33,097 --> 00:26:37,171 You'd think that l had something absolutely dreadful to hide. 511 00:26:39,303 --> 00:26:41,303 Haven't you, Mrs. Lamon? 512 00:26:47,446 --> 00:26:49,750 Corby murdered. 513 00:26:49,881 --> 00:26:52,620 When l saw it in the paper, l was shocked. 514 00:26:52,750 --> 00:26:54,645 l just couldn't believe it. 515 00:26:54,687 --> 00:26:58,694 l stopped at your omice to discuss the mortgage your company gave 516 00:26:58,823 --> 00:27:00,816 to Mrs. Lamon to finance Corby's film. 517 00:27:00,858 --> 00:27:02,486 Mr. Gustavson, here-- 518 00:27:02,528 --> 00:27:04,528 Mr. Mason indicated how urgent the matter was, sir-- 519 00:27:04,630 --> 00:27:06,256 lt's all right, Gustavson. 520 00:27:06,298 --> 00:27:08,298 What can l do to help, Mr. Mason? 521 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,539 Who approved that chattel mortgage to the Mister Nobody Company? 522 00:27:11,671 --> 00:27:14,509 Well, l okayed it in general, 523 00:27:14,641 --> 00:27:17,078 but l was in San Francisco, unfortunately, 524 00:27:17,209 --> 00:27:18,403 when the money was paid out. 525 00:27:18,445 --> 00:27:22,553 You're aware the security was appraised at twice its value 526 00:27:22,682 --> 00:27:24,007 so that when the loan was written, 527 00:27:24,049 --> 00:27:27,589 Corby received not 68, but _13T,OOO? 528 00:27:27,721 --> 00:27:28,812 Aware of it. 529 00:27:28,854 --> 00:27:31,159 What do you think l was trying to talk to Corby about yesterday? 530 00:27:31,291 --> 00:27:33,217 Why do you think l have gray hair? 531 00:27:33,259 --> 00:27:36,331 Mr. Mason, l've got a stupid appraiser in my omice 532 00:27:36,463 --> 00:27:37,721 who is going to be fried in oil 533 00:27:37,763 --> 00:27:39,157 as soon as l can get my coat on and get down there-- 534 00:27:39,199 --> 00:27:41,199 l'm afraid we haven't been able to locate 535 00:27:41,301 --> 00:27:42,493 Mr. Bender yet, sir. 536 00:27:42,535 --> 00:27:44,062 Oh, you haven't. 537 00:27:44,104 --> 00:27:46,642 That's the same song and dance you gave me last night. 538 00:27:46,773 --> 00:27:49,244 My top appraiser makes a fantastic error 539 00:27:49,375 --> 00:27:50,768 and then just disappears. 540 00:27:50,810 --> 00:27:53,348 Unless you find Al in the ne_ hour, Gustavson-- 541 00:27:53,481 --> 00:27:55,173 Wait a moment. 542 00:27:55,215 --> 00:27:56,308 Al? 543 00:27:56,350 --> 00:27:58,243 Oh, yes, sir. That's his name, sir, 544 00:27:58,285 --> 00:28:00,389 Al Bender. 545 00:28:00,521 --> 00:28:04,262 There was an item on the police list, 546 00:28:04,325 --> 00:28:07,364 something from Corby's wastebasket, 547 00:28:07,495 --> 00:28:08,921 a scribbled note. 548 00:28:08,963 --> 00:28:13,004 lt said something like, ''On my way. Thanks.'' 549 00:28:13,134 --> 00:28:15,204 lt was signed ''Al.'' 550 00:28:15,336 --> 00:28:17,029 That does it. 551 00:28:17,071 --> 00:28:18,964 Corby and Bender. 552 00:28:19,006 --> 00:28:21,276 Oh, my head. 553 00:28:23,310 --> 00:28:26,950 Mr. Stokes, did you talk with Corby at all yesterday? 554 00:28:27,081 --> 00:28:28,441 Sure. 555 00:28:28,483 --> 00:28:30,143 l was childish enough to think 556 00:28:30,185 --> 00:28:33,891 that l could talk Corby into handing back the e_ra 68,OOO 557 00:28:34,021 --> 00:28:35,848 so l could straighten things out with Mrs. Lamon. 558 00:28:35,890 --> 00:28:37,484 l knew that she would agree. 559 00:28:37,526 --> 00:28:38,651 But he refused. 560 00:28:38,693 --> 00:28:41,432 He said he would discuss it with me later 561 00:28:41,563 --> 00:28:42,655 in the projection room, 562 00:28:42,697 --> 00:28:44,624 but he never showed up. 563 00:28:44,666 --> 00:28:45,925 l began to feel sick. 564 00:28:45,967 --> 00:28:47,327 l got this splitting headache, 565 00:28:47,369 --> 00:28:50,074 from that one lousy drink they gave me, l guess. 566 00:28:50,205 --> 00:28:53,177 Anyway, l gave up. l started home to Encino. 567 00:28:54,943 --> 00:28:59,419 This motel is quite a way from Encino, isn't it? 568 00:28:59,549 --> 00:29:01,786 lt's as far as l got. 569 00:29:01,917 --> 00:29:05,991 My head ached so badly that l had to stop for the night. 570 00:29:06,055 --> 00:29:10,931 lt's beginning to hammer again now. l'm a sick man, Mr. Mason. 571 00:29:11,060 --> 00:29:12,253 Do you blame me? 572 00:29:12,295 --> 00:29:13,587 Corby dead, 573 00:29:13,629 --> 00:29:15,055 the money missing, 574 00:29:15,097 --> 00:29:17,568 Bender gone, maybe for good. 575 00:29:17,701 --> 00:29:22,342 Al Bender just don't live here no more, 576 00:29:22,471 --> 00:29:24,742 and l don't keep tabs on my roomers 577 00:29:24,874 --> 00:29:28,013 unless their rent's past due. 578 00:29:28,144 --> 00:29:30,137 Any idea where l could get a lead on him? 579 00:29:30,179 --> 00:29:34,221 Well, you might try Chico's Bar over on Si_h Street. 580 00:29:34,351 --> 00:29:36,077 That's, you know, on Alvarado. 581 00:29:36,119 --> 00:29:38,523 Bender. 582 00:29:38,655 --> 00:29:40,655 Nope, never heard of him. 583 00:29:43,493 --> 00:29:45,730 Oh, you mean Al Bender. 584 00:29:45,864 --> 00:29:48,936 Sure, he used to come around here all the time. 585 00:29:49,066 --> 00:29:50,192 Not anymore, though. 586 00:29:50,234 --> 00:29:51,393 He blew town. 587 00:29:51,435 --> 00:29:53,807 Oh? When was that? 588 00:29:53,937 --> 00:29:56,374 Hm, couple days ago. 589 00:29:56,507 --> 00:29:58,711 He owed his ex a pocket full of alimony, 590 00:29:58,843 --> 00:30:00,913 and he was into his bookie for a bundle, 591 00:30:01,044 --> 00:30:03,616 so he wasn't going to walk past any dark alleys. 592 00:30:03,748 --> 00:30:06,386 He said he was going to take om like a jet-propelled bird 593 00:30:06,517 --> 00:30:07,643 and keep going. 594 00:30:07,685 --> 00:30:10,824 - Going where? - Al never did say which way he was going. 595 00:30:10,954 --> 00:30:13,693 With an independent operation like Corby's, 596 00:30:13,825 --> 00:30:17,232 our processing lab has been burned enough to be careful. 597 00:30:17,362 --> 00:30:19,432 l told Corby we checked around, 598 00:30:19,564 --> 00:30:24,140 that we insisted he do business with us, at least, on a strictly cash basis. 599 00:30:24,269 --> 00:30:26,474 What did your checking around reveal, may l ask? 600 00:30:26,605 --> 00:30:31,715 Well, Corby's company ordered approximately 100,OOO feet of raw stock film. 601 00:30:31,844 --> 00:30:35,384 He used about 30,OOO on the Mister Nobody picture. 602 00:30:35,514 --> 00:30:37,751 The rest of it was shipped to Spain 603 00:30:37,883 --> 00:30:40,989 to Corby International Productions, Ltd. 604 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,390 Oh, there's some other things, Mr. Mason-- 605 00:30:43,522 --> 00:30:46,728 a synch machine, two hand cameras, 606 00:30:46,860 --> 00:30:50,399 an old editing machine, and various and sundry other supplies, 607 00:30:50,529 --> 00:30:52,289 all shipped to Spain 608 00:30:52,331 --> 00:30:54,869 but paid for out of the Mister Nobody budget. 609 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,442 Corby never intended making Mister Nobody into a finished picture. 610 00:30:59,572 --> 00:31:01,776 He just bled the money out of that setup 611 00:31:01,908 --> 00:31:06,149 to finance his own film ventures overseas. 612 00:31:06,212 --> 00:31:07,672 No dice. 613 00:31:07,714 --> 00:31:10,486 Al Bender disappeared two days before the murder. 614 00:31:10,617 --> 00:31:12,176 What about Corby's missing pillbox? 615 00:31:12,218 --> 00:31:13,478 No, nothing there, either. 616 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,513 However, l did pick up a rumor at headquarters. 617 00:31:15,555 --> 00:31:18,260 They made a fast check and then ordered a more e_ensive autopsy, 618 00:31:18,391 --> 00:31:20,318 a visceral for the toxicology lab. 619 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,086 lt seems someone over there agrees with you 620 00:31:22,128 --> 00:31:23,454 that Corby might have been poisoned. 621 00:31:23,496 --> 00:31:27,370 He was indeed, and l must remember to plug that pipeline you've been using. 622 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:30,138 Della, Perry. 623 00:31:30,270 --> 00:31:32,908 Well, Andy, what brings you here? 624 00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:34,165 Just a friendly call, Perry. 625 00:31:34,207 --> 00:31:37,046 l didn't want to raise your hopes too high. 626 00:31:37,177 --> 00:31:39,037 There were traces of poison in Corby, 627 00:31:39,079 --> 00:31:41,484 but he died from a blow in the head, 628 00:31:41,615 --> 00:31:43,615 a blow delivered by your client. 629 00:31:48,122 --> 00:31:50,292 The larger fragments of the shattered whiskey bottle 630 00:31:50,424 --> 00:31:52,628 exactly fitted the cranial depression. 631 00:31:52,761 --> 00:31:54,761 Death was caused by a blow on the head 632 00:31:54,863 --> 00:31:57,635 inflicted by an object such as that whiskey bottle, 633 00:31:57,766 --> 00:32:01,239 a blow so severe the bottle itself shattered. 634 00:32:01,369 --> 00:32:02,829 Thank you, Doctor. That'll be all. 635 00:32:02,871 --> 00:32:04,871 Yours, Mr. Mason. 636 00:32:06,475 --> 00:32:08,779 Doctor, as part of the autopsy, 637 00:32:08,910 --> 00:32:10,913 was there a detailed chemical analysis made 638 00:32:11,045 --> 00:32:13,383 to determine if poison was present in the body of the decedent? 639 00:32:13,515 --> 00:32:15,041 Yes, there was. 640 00:32:15,083 --> 00:32:17,320 We found traces of arsenic trioxide. 641 00:32:17,452 --> 00:32:19,312 [Mason] Is it possible, Doctor, 642 00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:23,028 that the poison, and not the blow, caused the death of the decedent, 643 00:32:23,158 --> 00:32:25,228 that he was already dead or as good as dead 644 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:26,553 at the moment the blow was struck? 645 00:32:26,595 --> 00:32:27,722 No, Mr. Mason. 646 00:32:27,764 --> 00:32:30,502 There were only very minute quantities of poison present. 647 00:32:30,633 --> 00:32:33,438 Charles Corby was killed by a blow on the head. 648 00:32:33,569 --> 00:32:35,195 Where else, Lieutenant Anderson, 649 00:32:35,237 --> 00:32:37,342 did you find blood matching that of the dead man? 650 00:32:37,473 --> 00:32:38,974 On the defendant. 651 00:32:38,975 --> 00:32:40,868 Laboratory examination of his clothing 652 00:32:40,910 --> 00:32:42,947 also revealed the presence of glass splinters, 653 00:32:43,078 --> 00:32:44,939 glass matching that of the broken whiskey bottle. 654 00:32:44,981 --> 00:32:46,874 [Burger] We know that Herbert Simms 655 00:32:46,916 --> 00:32:51,191 had a shallow glass cut on the palm of his hand. 656 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,657 As to the decedent himself 657 00:32:53,791 --> 00:32:55,784 in addition to his own blood, 658 00:32:55,826 --> 00:32:59,265 did your laboratory examination reveal any other blood 659 00:32:59,395 --> 00:33:01,800 on the person or body of the murdered man? 660 00:33:01,932 --> 00:33:05,405 Yes sir, minute traces of blood not that of the decedent, 661 00:33:05,469 --> 00:33:08,575 but matching the blood type of the defendant, Herbert Simms. 662 00:33:10,206 --> 00:33:12,206 Although it was not prerequisite, of course, 663 00:33:12,309 --> 00:33:15,615 to approve the mortgage to Mrs. Lamon, 664 00:33:15,746 --> 00:33:18,418 she had given me a copy of Corby's budget 665 00:33:18,549 --> 00:33:22,123 for the television pilot film that she was financing. 666 00:33:22,252 --> 00:33:24,623 Mr. Stokes, was there a provision in that budget 667 00:33:24,755 --> 00:33:28,429 for a payment for an original teleplay? 668 00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:30,864 [Stokes] Yes, _5, OOO, 669 00:33:30,995 --> 00:33:32,995 to be paid to a Mr. Herbert Simms. 670 00:33:33,064 --> 00:33:35,064 [Burger] Your witness, Mr. Mason. 671 00:33:39,037 --> 00:33:45,082 Mr. Stokes, how much did your company actually pay out on that mortgage? 672 00:33:45,210 --> 00:33:47,647 _13T,OOO, 673 00:33:47,779 --> 00:33:49,672 but that was a matter of collusion 674 00:33:49,714 --> 00:33:52,853 between Corby and one of my appraisers, Albert Bender 675 00:33:52,985 --> 00:33:57,593 in over-evaluating Mrs. Lamon's security. 676 00:33:57,722 --> 00:33:59,115 [Mason] Tell me, Mr. Stokes, 677 00:33:59,157 --> 00:34:01,227 exactly how this collusion took place? 678 00:34:01,359 --> 00:34:07,572 Well, Mrs. Lamon signed a blank loan request, note, and mortgage forms 679 00:34:07,633 --> 00:34:10,372 so that Mr. Corby could handle the matter for her 680 00:34:10,503 --> 00:34:13,074 assuming that the maximum amount allowable, 681 00:34:13,204 --> 00:34:15,876 based on the appraisal, would be inserted later. 682 00:34:16,008 --> 00:34:18,246 And what was inserted 683 00:34:18,377 --> 00:34:22,284 was a figure based on twice the correct appraisal? 684 00:34:22,414 --> 00:34:23,507 Yes. 685 00:34:23,549 --> 00:34:26,588 That explains why Bender never filed the mortgage, 686 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,890 so that nobody would check the amount. 687 00:34:29,022 --> 00:34:32,328 Then when the picture was completed and sold, 688 00:34:32,458 --> 00:34:34,052 the full amount would be returned, 689 00:34:34,094 --> 00:34:36,097 nobody the wiser. 690 00:34:36,228 --> 00:34:40,470 Mr. Stokes, l understand that your hobby is lithography, 691 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,137 using woodcuts to make your prints. 692 00:34:43,269 --> 00:34:44,696 Now, in finishing a print, 693 00:34:44,738 --> 00:34:47,042 have you ever used a paper glaze? 694 00:34:47,174 --> 00:34:52,752 Why, yes. l use a product called Noymann's Fixit. 695 00:34:52,879 --> 00:34:54,372 And are you aware, Mr. Stokes, 696 00:34:54,414 --> 00:34:56,041 that that product is toxic, 697 00:34:56,083 --> 00:34:58,754 that it contains a high percentage of arsenic trioxide? 698 00:34:58,886 --> 00:35:00,886 - What? - No further questions. 699 00:35:01,989 --> 00:35:04,994 Herbert Simms came to me with a copy of a script 700 00:35:05,059 --> 00:35:07,864 that he claimed Charlie had used for his pilot film 701 00:35:07,995 --> 00:35:10,967 but, well, he didn't pay him. 702 00:35:11,098 --> 00:35:12,725 What was his attitude about this? 703 00:35:12,767 --> 00:35:17,843 Well, he was very angry and abusive and... 704 00:35:17,972 --> 00:35:20,577 Go on, Mrs. Lamon. What did he say? 705 00:35:21,776 --> 00:35:26,085 Well, he said that he wouldn't let Charlie get away with stealing his script, 706 00:35:26,215 --> 00:35:28,385 that if he wasn't paid, he'd, uh-- 707 00:35:29,952 --> 00:35:32,156 he'd kill him. 708 00:35:32,286 --> 00:35:34,286 [Burger] Your witness. 709 00:35:36,290 --> 00:35:38,151 Mrs. Lamon, 710 00:35:38,193 --> 00:35:39,953 when l visited you at your home, 711 00:35:39,995 --> 00:35:42,734 do you recall telling me that Mr. Flint, the director of the pilot film, 712 00:35:42,864 --> 00:35:44,357 was so drunk at the party the night of the murder 713 00:35:44,399 --> 00:35:45,592 that he fell down? 714 00:35:45,634 --> 00:35:48,773 Yes, l saw him fall down twice. 715 00:35:48,904 --> 00:35:52,010 Was one of those times in the corridor just outside Mr. Corby's omice? 716 00:35:52,141 --> 00:35:54,141 No, that wasn't when l-- 717 00:35:55,611 --> 00:35:57,237 All right, he wasn't there, 718 00:35:57,279 --> 00:35:59,279 but were you there, Mrs. Lamon? 719 00:36:00,315 --> 00:36:03,320 Yes, l-- l wanted to see Charlie, 720 00:36:03,385 --> 00:36:05,345 so l went to his omice and knocked on door 721 00:36:05,387 --> 00:36:06,546 but he didn't answer 722 00:36:06,588 --> 00:36:08,926 so, uh...l left. 723 00:36:09,926 --> 00:36:11,926 l see. 724 00:36:12,427 --> 00:36:14,698 Mrs. Lamon, 725 00:36:14,831 --> 00:36:18,705 around your beautiful home you do a good deal of the gardening, don't you? 726 00:36:18,835 --> 00:36:24,379 - Yes, pruning, planting, spraying. - Spraying, Mrs. Lamon? 727 00:36:24,507 --> 00:36:25,633 Would that be spraying 728 00:36:25,675 --> 00:36:29,082 with one of the many garden sprays that contain arsenic trioxide? 729 00:36:32,182 --> 00:36:34,820 Thank you. No further questions. 730 00:36:36,253 --> 00:36:37,913 [Burger] Miss Waters, did you ever prepare a check 731 00:36:37,955 --> 00:36:40,593 for Herbert Simms in payment for a script he wrote? 732 00:36:40,724 --> 00:36:42,084 No, never. 733 00:36:42,126 --> 00:36:43,518 And our company books-- 734 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,220 regardless of what the budget said, 735 00:36:45,262 --> 00:36:47,055 our books showed no such payment. 736 00:36:47,097 --> 00:36:48,223 l see. 737 00:36:48,265 --> 00:36:50,470 Let's return, now, to the night of the murder. 738 00:36:50,601 --> 00:36:51,893 Would you tell us, Miss Waters, 739 00:36:51,935 --> 00:36:54,373 while you and the guard were in that room, 740 00:36:54,505 --> 00:36:56,266 what the dying man said, 741 00:36:56,308 --> 00:37:00,149 as close as possible, in his exact words. 742 00:37:00,278 --> 00:37:02,950 ''No, Herbie, no. 743 00:37:03,014 --> 00:37:05,014 Simms, don't.'' 744 00:37:05,116 --> 00:37:06,541 Thank you, Miss Waters. 745 00:37:06,583 --> 00:37:08,583 Your witness. 746 00:37:13,124 --> 00:37:15,018 Miss Waters, 747 00:37:15,060 --> 00:37:18,434 you knew that Charles Corby was buying film, equipment, 748 00:37:18,563 --> 00:37:20,023 and other supplies, 749 00:37:20,065 --> 00:37:21,958 charging them to the pilot production 750 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,039 but actually shipping them overseas to another producing company he owned? 751 00:37:25,171 --> 00:37:26,929 Yes. 752 00:37:26,971 --> 00:37:29,776 Look, Mr. Mason, l was only his secretary, 753 00:37:29,908 --> 00:37:31,501 not his conscience. 754 00:37:31,543 --> 00:37:33,880 l did what l was told to do, period. 755 00:37:34,013 --> 00:37:36,384 Out of loyalty or love, Miss Waters? 756 00:37:36,514 --> 00:37:39,519 What dimerence does it make? 757 00:37:39,651 --> 00:37:41,011 He's dead, isn't he? 758 00:37:41,053 --> 00:37:43,892 Sure, l suppose he was robbing everybody blind. 759 00:37:44,023 --> 00:37:46,427 Maybe he never intended to make Mister Nobody, 760 00:37:46,559 --> 00:37:48,863 and maybe he was trying to promote himself 761 00:37:48,994 --> 00:37:51,899 into some overseas production unit, but so what? 762 00:37:52,031 --> 00:37:53,691 That's the way the business is, 763 00:37:53,733 --> 00:37:56,438 and that's the way a lot of the people in it are. 764 00:37:56,569 --> 00:37:58,196 Charlie was no better than many-- 765 00:37:58,238 --> 00:37:59,797 l admit that-- 766 00:37:59,839 --> 00:38:03,613 but he was no worse than most, either. 767 00:38:03,676 --> 00:38:05,436 ls it not a fact, Miss Waters, 768 00:38:05,478 --> 00:38:08,617 that you are now and have been for some time, 769 00:38:08,748 --> 00:38:10,748 under a doctor's care? 770 00:38:10,817 --> 00:38:14,456 Yes, l have some form of nutritional anemia. 771 00:38:14,588 --> 00:38:16,081 [Mason] An improper utilization 772 00:38:16,123 --> 00:38:18,393 of the iron in your system. 773 00:38:18,525 --> 00:38:20,352 Am l mistaken in stating 774 00:38:20,394 --> 00:38:22,966 that one of the medications you take to improve this iron action 775 00:38:23,096 --> 00:38:25,568 is a form of Fowler's Solution? 776 00:38:25,699 --> 00:38:28,504 Yes, l think that was the name the doctor mentioned to me. 777 00:38:28,635 --> 00:38:30,395 Did he also mention 778 00:38:30,437 --> 00:38:33,376 that in every 100 cubic centimeters of Fowler's Solution 779 00:38:33,507 --> 00:38:36,479 there are 1 .05 grams of arsenic trioxide? 780 00:38:36,610 --> 00:38:38,610 [Judge] One moment, counselor. 781 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,039 Mr. Burger. 782 00:38:40,081 --> 00:38:42,081 Your Honor, it's pe_ectly obvious 783 00:38:42,183 --> 00:38:45,155 the defense counsel is trying to suggest 784 00:38:45,286 --> 00:38:48,191 that someone tried to poison Mr. Corby 785 00:38:48,322 --> 00:38:51,462 and that perhaps Mr. Corby found out about this 786 00:38:51,592 --> 00:38:55,198 so that the murderer was forced to adopt a more direct method. 787 00:38:55,330 --> 00:38:57,189 However, Your Honor 788 00:38:57,231 --> 00:39:00,070 the State has no objection to this line of questioning. 789 00:39:00,202 --> 00:39:01,361 As a matter of fact, 790 00:39:01,403 --> 00:39:03,907 it serves as an introduction for our ne_ witness, 791 00:39:03,971 --> 00:39:07,311 a Mr. Maurice Parness. 792 00:39:07,443 --> 00:39:09,680 Mr. Parness, as a State Inspector, 793 00:39:09,811 --> 00:39:11,811 is it a part of your function 794 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,880 to visit various pharmacies 795 00:39:13,949 --> 00:39:15,776 and to inspect their records regarding, 796 00:39:15,818 --> 00:39:16,877 among other things, 797 00:39:16,919 --> 00:39:19,591 across-the-counter sales of arsenic compounds? 798 00:39:19,721 --> 00:39:20,781 Yes, it is. 799 00:39:20,823 --> 00:39:24,029 Mr. Parness, did you within the past week 800 00:39:24,159 --> 00:39:26,564 examine the records of the Simms Pharmacy, 801 00:39:26,695 --> 00:39:28,455 and if so, what did you find? 802 00:39:28,497 --> 00:39:30,391 [Parness] Yes, sir, l examined the records, 803 00:39:30,433 --> 00:39:32,226 and, as your omice requested, 804 00:39:32,268 --> 00:39:34,095 l double-checked their inventory vouchers. 805 00:39:34,137 --> 00:39:36,241 The records show an unexplained shortage 806 00:39:36,372 --> 00:39:39,077 of a considerable amount of arsenic trioxide. 807 00:39:40,477 --> 00:39:43,817 This is going to kill Momma, Mr. Mason. 808 00:39:43,947 --> 00:39:45,947 She... 809 00:39:46,483 --> 00:39:50,090 worked so hard and sacrificed so much to give me every break. 810 00:39:52,455 --> 00:39:55,060 She was set on my taking over the store when Poppa died. 811 00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,832 lt almost broke her heart when l said l wanted to be a writer. 812 00:39:59,963 --> 00:40:01,656 And now all of this. 813 00:40:01,698 --> 00:40:03,691 Suppose we worry about you right now. 814 00:40:03,733 --> 00:40:05,194 That cut on your hand, 815 00:40:05,236 --> 00:40:07,473 the whiskey and glass and blood on your clothes, 816 00:40:07,604 --> 00:40:09,264 your blood on Corby-- 817 00:40:09,306 --> 00:40:10,966 l assume you have an explanation for that? 818 00:40:11,008 --> 00:40:12,968 Well, l-l told you, Mr. Mason, 819 00:40:13,010 --> 00:40:14,903 l stumbled over Corby in his omice. 820 00:40:14,945 --> 00:40:16,705 A-Actually, l fell. 821 00:40:16,747 --> 00:40:18,917 There was glass all-- all around him, 822 00:40:19,049 --> 00:40:21,353 and l touched him. 823 00:40:21,485 --> 00:40:23,245 l guess l should've mentioned that cut hand. 824 00:40:23,287 --> 00:40:25,892 l guess you should've. 825 00:40:26,023 --> 00:40:27,916 What about the arsenic missing missing from your store? 826 00:40:27,958 --> 00:40:29,285 Oh, that. 827 00:40:29,327 --> 00:40:30,752 That was nothing. 828 00:40:30,794 --> 00:40:33,933 l used that myself to get rid of some rats in the back storeroom. 829 00:40:34,064 --> 00:40:36,064 But the Board of Pharmacy Inspector-- 830 00:40:36,134 --> 00:40:38,027 the records, your books, Herbert. 831 00:40:38,069 --> 00:40:40,506 l told you l wasn't cut out to be a druggist. 832 00:40:40,638 --> 00:40:43,543 l simply forgot to enter it. That's all. 833 00:40:43,674 --> 00:40:46,446 You think l'm going to get into trouble over that? 834 00:40:46,577 --> 00:40:50,652 Herbert, as your mother would say, 835 00:40:50,782 --> 00:40:53,186 that should be your only trouble. 836 00:40:58,524 --> 00:41:00,594 The murderer struck Corby and left. 837 00:41:00,725 --> 00:41:04,499 Corby lay there, dying, when Herbert came in. 838 00:41:04,564 --> 00:41:06,457 The last thing that registered in Corby's mind 839 00:41:06,499 --> 00:41:07,657 was Herbert touching him, 840 00:41:07,699 --> 00:41:09,659 starting to move him to see if he was dead. 841 00:41:09,701 --> 00:41:13,141 So when the guard came in with Miriam and they rolled Corby over, 842 00:41:13,272 --> 00:41:14,298 Corby, then about dead, 843 00:41:14,340 --> 00:41:15,432 thought it was still Herbert, 844 00:41:15,474 --> 00:41:18,948 and cried out, ''No, Herbie, no, Simms, don't.'' 845 00:41:19,078 --> 00:41:21,182 That explains the dying declaration, 846 00:41:21,314 --> 00:41:23,518 but what about the poison business, Perry? 847 00:41:23,649 --> 00:41:27,088 The poison business, Burger has dumped right back into my lap. 848 00:41:27,219 --> 00:41:30,392 He'll contend that Herbert tried to poison Corby, 849 00:41:30,524 --> 00:41:31,882 that Corby caught him at it, 850 00:41:31,924 --> 00:41:34,429 they fought, Herbert bashed in Corby's skull. 851 00:41:34,561 --> 00:41:36,454 Period Corby. Period Herbert. 852 00:41:36,496 --> 00:41:39,635 But the Autopsy Surgeon said there was hardly any poison in Corby? 853 00:41:39,765 --> 00:41:42,670 Oh, possibly he took only a sip of it-- 854 00:41:42,802 --> 00:41:45,474 - Or... - Orwhat? 855 00:41:45,606 --> 00:41:47,598 Perry, we got a break, the first break of the case. 856 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:48,900 What is it, Paul? 857 00:41:48,942 --> 00:41:50,835 Well, your hunch about the travel agency was right. 858 00:41:50,877 --> 00:41:52,880 Al Bender wasn't exactly jet propelled. 859 00:41:53,013 --> 00:41:54,873 lt was just an all-tourist, non-jet flight, 860 00:41:54,915 --> 00:41:57,185 but he's been located in Mexico City. 861 00:41:57,317 --> 00:41:59,689 l have one of my men on the way there now to get a statement from him. 862 00:42:01,321 --> 00:42:03,793 Mr. Crane, on your arrival at the studio that night, 863 00:42:03,857 --> 00:42:05,251 where did you go first? 864 00:42:05,293 --> 00:42:08,064 Directly to Corby's omice, to see him. 865 00:42:08,196 --> 00:42:10,199 l found Mrs. Lamon in the outer room. 866 00:42:10,331 --> 00:42:12,158 She said he'd slipped away from the party, 867 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,804 and she was looking for him but had gotten no response from her knock. 868 00:42:14,935 --> 00:42:15,995 Go on, sir. 869 00:42:16,037 --> 00:42:18,942 l suggested perhaps he'd gone back to the soundstage, 870 00:42:19,073 --> 00:42:21,343 so we went there to see. 871 00:42:21,476 --> 00:42:23,336 Later on, we heard he was dead. 872 00:42:23,378 --> 00:42:25,850 l think that'll be all, Mr. Crane. Thank you. 873 00:42:25,980 --> 00:42:27,980 Your witness. 874 00:42:28,617 --> 00:42:31,254 Mr. Crane, is it not true 875 00:42:31,386 --> 00:42:33,758 that you brought Corby and Mrs. Lamon together, 876 00:42:33,888 --> 00:42:37,595 with the result that she financed his pilot film through a chattel loan? 877 00:42:37,725 --> 00:42:42,634 ls it not also true that they paid you a finder's fee, _5,OOO, to be exact? 878 00:42:42,764 --> 00:42:45,936 Well, l-- l didn't know then it was a con game. 879 00:42:46,068 --> 00:42:48,973 l'll give it all back. l want no part of it. 880 00:42:49,104 --> 00:42:50,430 [Mason] That's very generous of you, 881 00:42:50,472 --> 00:42:52,472 Mr. Crane, but-- 882 00:42:53,542 --> 00:42:55,579 Your Honor, may l have a moment? 883 00:42:55,711 --> 00:42:56,970 Certainly, Mr. Mason. 884 00:42:57,012 --> 00:42:59,012 Thank you. 885 00:43:00,550 --> 00:43:02,550 Bender? 886 00:43:12,127 --> 00:43:14,131 Mr. Crane, 887 00:43:14,264 --> 00:43:16,868 have you ever at any time had access to, 888 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,871 or after business hours gained entrance to, 889 00:43:20,003 --> 00:43:23,109 the omices of the Hollywood Branch of the Woodfield Mortgage Company? 890 00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:24,332 Why, no. 891 00:43:24,374 --> 00:43:27,613 l'm sure you won't mind if we confirm that. 892 00:43:27,744 --> 00:43:30,616 l ask to recall Jerome Stokes. 893 00:43:30,747 --> 00:43:33,519 No, Crane couldn't gain access to our papers, 894 00:43:33,651 --> 00:43:34,677 not to my knowledge at least. 895 00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:35,777 Why would he? 896 00:43:35,819 --> 00:43:37,312 To make fraudulent alteration 897 00:43:37,354 --> 00:43:39,858 to the appraisal on the Lamon chattels, Mr. Stokes. 898 00:43:39,989 --> 00:43:41,183 [Stokes] But that was Bender 899 00:43:41,225 --> 00:43:42,950 one of my appraisers, who did that. 900 00:43:42,992 --> 00:43:44,952 Mr. Stokes, 901 00:43:44,994 --> 00:43:46,997 l find that Bender's ex-wife, 902 00:43:47,131 --> 00:43:49,301 complaining of nonpayment of alimony, 903 00:43:49,433 --> 00:43:51,770 has recently petitioned the court 904 00:43:51,902 --> 00:43:53,328 for a Writ of Garnishment, 905 00:43:53,370 --> 00:43:54,630 attaching part of his salary. 906 00:43:54,672 --> 00:43:56,672 ls that so? l hadn't heard that. 907 00:43:56,742 --> 00:44:00,348 Haven't you? Didn't you know Mr. Bender was in trouble? 908 00:44:00,478 --> 00:44:03,918 Of course not. There are 3T employees in my omice. 909 00:44:03,981 --> 00:44:06,953 All right, then, tell me this-- 910 00:44:07,084 --> 00:44:09,254 you do considerable traveling, 911 00:44:09,387 --> 00:44:12,125 both on company business and for pleasure. 912 00:44:12,257 --> 00:44:17,100 Do you ordinarily procure your tickets and reservations through a travel agency? 913 00:44:17,229 --> 00:44:19,333 Well... yes, that's right. 914 00:44:19,464 --> 00:44:23,605 Did you, two days before Charles Corby was murdered, 915 00:44:23,735 --> 00:44:27,209 write a check to that travel agency in the amount of _85? 916 00:44:27,339 --> 00:44:29,911 l may have. l have rather a large account. 917 00:44:30,041 --> 00:44:32,880 Let's see, l bought tickets for San Francisco recently. 918 00:44:33,011 --> 00:44:35,081 For _85? 919 00:44:35,213 --> 00:44:37,040 No, Mr. Stokes, 920 00:44:37,082 --> 00:44:38,808 for that amount you can go much farther. 921 00:44:38,850 --> 00:44:43,659 ln fact, it's exactly the price of a one-way, non-jet, tourist fare to Mexico City. 922 00:44:43,790 --> 00:44:46,094 Well, what of it? l don't see any reason that-- 923 00:44:46,225 --> 00:44:48,225 So isn't it more than coincidence 924 00:44:48,294 --> 00:44:51,900 that my investigators have just located Al Bender in Mexico City? 925 00:44:52,031 --> 00:44:54,502 [Stokes chuckles] All right, 926 00:44:54,634 --> 00:44:59,110 so l helped out and old employee in a tough situation with his wife, 927 00:44:59,238 --> 00:45:02,510 but l had nothing to do with Bender's appraisal. 928 00:45:02,575 --> 00:45:05,280 You have that reversed, Mr. Stokes. 929 00:45:05,411 --> 00:45:08,183 Bender had nothing to do with your appraisal. 930 00:45:08,314 --> 00:45:09,708 No-- No, that's a lie. 931 00:45:09,750 --> 00:45:11,643 l should warn you, Mr. Stokes, 932 00:45:11,685 --> 00:45:15,559 that this note handed to me just moments ago by Mr. Paul Drake 933 00:45:15,689 --> 00:45:18,093 is a copy of a statement made this morning 934 00:45:18,225 --> 00:45:20,228 by Mr. Al Bender in Mexico City. 935 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:24,167 Now, aren't you really just blaming your own falsification of records 936 00:45:24,298 --> 00:45:25,724 on a man you helped run away? 937 00:45:25,766 --> 00:45:28,471 That-- That is ridiculous. 938 00:45:28,602 --> 00:45:31,207 lt gave you such a good opportunity to go along with Corby 939 00:45:31,338 --> 00:45:33,198 in his scheme to get rich quick. 940 00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:35,167 Weren't you Corby's partner? 941 00:45:35,209 --> 00:45:38,281 Hadn't he convinced you of quick returns and fat profits 942 00:45:38,412 --> 00:45:39,672 if you provided the capital? 943 00:45:39,714 --> 00:45:41,339 That doesn't prove anything. 944 00:45:41,381 --> 00:45:42,508 l didn't-- 945 00:45:42,550 --> 00:45:45,522 Don't perjure yourself further, Mr. Stokes. 946 00:45:45,653 --> 00:45:47,346 Last night my investigators 947 00:45:47,388 --> 00:45:52,564 located a druggist near the motel where you spent the night after the murder. 948 00:45:52,694 --> 00:45:55,232 The druggist said that a man came into his drugstore, 949 00:45:55,363 --> 00:45:58,335 sumering from what was obviously some form of poisoning. 950 00:45:58,466 --> 00:46:01,672 The druggist gave that man an emetic. 951 00:46:01,804 --> 00:46:04,876 Now, shall we now bring the druggist into court to identify you? 952 00:46:04,939 --> 00:46:06,432 No. 953 00:46:06,474 --> 00:46:08,100 l mean, there's some mistake. 954 00:46:08,142 --> 00:46:10,102 lt was Charlie who was poisoned. 955 00:46:10,144 --> 00:46:12,516 Nobody was trying to poison Charlie Corby. 956 00:46:12,648 --> 00:46:14,818 The poison he took was accidental. 957 00:46:14,949 --> 00:46:18,055 The truth is Charlie Corby was trying to poison you. 958 00:46:18,186 --> 00:46:22,027 You spent the night in that motel, not drunk, but sick. 959 00:46:22,157 --> 00:46:24,928 Now, why did Corby try to poison you, Mr. Stokes? 960 00:46:26,495 --> 00:46:29,000 Because you'd found out he was double-crossing you? 961 00:46:29,131 --> 00:46:31,368 Why was Corby trying to poison you, Mr. Stokes? 962 00:46:33,269 --> 00:46:35,974 l told him l couldn't hide the mortgage any longer. 963 00:46:36,105 --> 00:46:37,866 l had to hand back all of the money, 964 00:46:37,908 --> 00:46:38,966 at least half of it, 965 00:46:39,008 --> 00:46:41,178 so that l could rewrite the loan. 966 00:46:41,310 --> 00:46:46,654 l threatened to tell everything l knew about him to the police. 967 00:46:46,783 --> 00:46:48,376 He kept stalling. 968 00:46:48,418 --> 00:46:50,622 He wouldn't give me an answer until we had a drink. 969 00:46:50,754 --> 00:46:53,726 Halmay through my drink l began to feel sick. 970 00:46:53,857 --> 00:46:58,233 He poisoned me by dropping pills in my whiskey. 971 00:46:58,361 --> 00:47:01,400 He just sat there grinning, waiting for me to die. 972 00:47:03,266 --> 00:47:05,266 l switched drinks. 973 00:47:06,069 --> 00:47:08,069 He took a sip... 974 00:47:08,639 --> 00:47:11,310 and then just realized what had happened. 975 00:47:11,441 --> 00:47:13,612 He got furious. 976 00:47:15,913 --> 00:47:17,913 l picked up the bottle. 977 00:47:18,749 --> 00:47:20,108 l hit him. 978 00:47:20,150 --> 00:47:22,150 [people murmuring] 979 00:47:23,587 --> 00:47:25,114 [Judge taps pencil] 980 00:47:25,156 --> 00:47:27,293 Gentlemen, before entertaining a motion 981 00:47:27,425 --> 00:47:29,562 for dismissal of the charges against the defendant, 982 00:47:29,694 --> 00:47:31,694 l would like to speak to the bailim. 983 00:47:33,497 --> 00:47:36,069 Perry, let me see that statement of Bender's, please. 984 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:37,960 We'll probably want to bring him up here. 985 00:47:38,002 --> 00:47:39,829 You'll have to catch him first. 986 00:47:39,871 --> 00:47:41,698 You mean there-- 987 00:47:41,740 --> 00:47:43,944 there was no statement? 988 00:47:44,075 --> 00:47:46,379 You broke Stokes down on a blum? 989 00:47:46,511 --> 00:47:50,050 Oh, Bender said something to one of Paul's operatives... 990 00:47:50,181 --> 00:47:51,942 before he slugged him and ran. 991 00:47:51,984 --> 00:47:53,984 [unfolds paper] 992 00:47:54,486 --> 00:47:57,792 ''Tell my ex-wife she can go whistle 'Dixie'. 993 00:47:57,923 --> 00:48:00,428 You can't get alimony out of a stone.'' 994 00:48:08,667 --> 00:48:11,305 They found the pillbox in the back of Stokes' car. 995 00:48:11,436 --> 00:48:12,630 He took it out, hid it, 996 00:48:12,672 --> 00:48:15,143 hoping no one would find out about the poison. 997 00:48:17,010 --> 00:48:18,168 Here comes Momma. 998 00:48:18,210 --> 00:48:20,915 Mrs. Mason, would you mind telling her. 999 00:48:21,046 --> 00:48:25,053 Hello, Perry and Miss Street. 1000 00:48:25,184 --> 00:48:28,055 Do you remember, Perry, on Friday nights sometimes, 1001 00:48:28,187 --> 00:48:29,914 you had dinner with us 1002 00:48:29,956 --> 00:48:32,261 and how you liked my chicken soup? 1003 00:48:32,392 --> 00:48:34,218 l made some for you. 1004 00:48:34,260 --> 00:48:36,664 Well, thank you, Mrs. Simms. 1005 00:48:38,398 --> 00:48:40,398 Thank you very much. 1006 00:48:41,501 --> 00:48:43,501 Mrs. Simms... 1007 00:48:43,904 --> 00:48:47,343 about Herbert and the drugstore. 1008 00:48:47,474 --> 00:48:48,900 Yes? 1009 00:48:48,942 --> 00:48:51,414 l contacted Rod Serling. 1010 00:48:51,545 --> 00:48:53,372 He really is a friend of mine. 1011 00:48:53,414 --> 00:48:56,419 He read some of Herbert's writings. 1012 00:48:57,951 --> 00:49:02,627 l know you're disappointed about Herbert and the drugstore... 1013 00:49:03,624 --> 00:49:06,229 but Mr. Serling thinks he has promise. 1014 00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,731 He wants to see him, help him get started. 1015 00:49:10,164 --> 00:49:13,804 Uh, Perry, about this Mr. Rod Serling, 1016 00:49:13,935 --> 00:49:15,938 could l talk to him? 1017 00:49:16,071 --> 00:49:17,864 Why? 1018 00:49:17,906 --> 00:49:22,047 Well, if he's going to help Herbie, maybe he could listen to me. 1019 00:49:22,176 --> 00:49:24,814 l tell you, after all these years in this drugstore, 1020 00:49:24,946 --> 00:49:26,946 well, there's so many stories. 1021 00:49:27,015 --> 00:49:29,387 lt's like Grand Central Station. 1022 00:49:29,517 --> 00:49:31,888 Let me tell you a for instance. 1023 00:49:32,020 --> 00:49:34,020 There was this... 1024 00:49:41,030 --> 00:49:44,035 Subtitled By J.R. 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