1 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:17,160 Mr. Gordon? 2 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,180 Don't stand there mumbling. Speak up. What do you want? It's time for your 3 00:01:22,180 --> 00:01:24,520 medication. I don't want it. 4 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:26,480 I'm sorry, Mr. Gordon, but Dr. 5 00:01:26,780 --> 00:01:28,420 Lambert insists you must have it. 6 00:01:29,260 --> 00:01:30,360 Adulterated jackass. 7 00:01:30,620 --> 00:01:32,980 My orders are to give you this medication. 8 00:01:34,180 --> 00:01:36,300 No. Please, Mr. Gordon. 9 00:01:36,740 --> 00:01:39,620 No, no, no, no, no! 10 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,560 Mr. Gordon! Didn't you hear me? I said... 11 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,280 The third time it's happened. 12 00:02:02,620 --> 00:02:04,160 Tonight I thought he was really going. 13 00:02:04,620 --> 00:02:05,820 He's too full of hate. 14 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:07,940 Even death despises him. 15 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:16,420 You'd, uh, better increase the heparin I order to one cc every night. 16 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:17,780 Yes, Dr. Lambert. 17 00:02:20,540 --> 00:02:23,960 I'll look in on Rachel before I leave. Now you call me if you need me. 18 00:02:24,700 --> 00:02:25,700 Good night, Doctor. 19 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:27,300 Good night, Miss Clover. 20 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:34,480 It's all right, Sadie. 21 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:35,920 He's going to be all right. 22 00:02:37,140 --> 00:02:38,140 Where's Miss Gordon? 23 00:02:38,260 --> 00:02:39,260 She's in her room. 24 00:02:40,700 --> 00:02:45,860 Dr. Lambert, could you help her, please? She's so nervous and upset. I just 25 00:02:45,860 --> 00:02:47,520 can't stand to see what's happening to her. 26 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:04,660 Pops got you one foot over the precipice, Rachel. 27 00:03:05,020 --> 00:03:07,080 He's off before you yourself have a stroke. 28 00:03:07,940 --> 00:03:08,940 How's Uncle Abner? 29 00:03:09,340 --> 00:03:10,340 He lives. 30 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:11,960 Wouldn't you know. 31 00:03:13,060 --> 00:03:15,060 You were hoping I'd say this was the end. 32 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:16,480 That upsets you, doesn't it? 33 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:17,900 Makes you sick. 34 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,420 Tell me, Doctor, how old do you think I look? 35 00:03:23,900 --> 00:03:26,260 You want me to say 40 or 45, I suppose. 36 00:03:26,580 --> 00:03:28,020 In a month, I'll be 35. 37 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,820 Fifteen years of my life. 38 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:34,340 Like someone in jail. 39 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,260 Looking after him, waiting for him to die. 40 00:03:37,980 --> 00:03:39,820 There's never been a lock on the front door. 41 00:03:40,140 --> 00:03:41,138 Oh, sure. 42 00:03:41,140 --> 00:03:42,140 Walk out. 43 00:03:42,420 --> 00:03:44,580 Let him cut me off his own flesh and blood. 44 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:50,320 His only flesh and blood. But staying here, you've become nothing but raw 45 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,320 and twisted emotions. 46 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,640 How much is it worth to be a sick, empty creature drained of every drop of the 47 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:56,920 joy of life? How much? 48 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,200 One million dollars, Doctor. My legacy. 49 00:04:01,420 --> 00:04:04,040 Abner had a mild stroke, the third one this month. 50 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:06,640 He could live on like this for years, Rachel. 51 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:07,840 For years. 52 00:04:08,780 --> 00:04:10,380 No, not for years. 53 00:04:11,180 --> 00:04:12,280 I won't let him. 54 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:54,160 Except me, Bruce. 55 00:05:54,660 --> 00:05:55,660 Never mind. 56 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,240 Rachel, you all right? 57 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:02,980 I just dropped something, I thought. 58 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:04,960 It's all right, Bruce. 59 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:19,120 There's no question of it. 60 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:20,880 Footprints in the flower bed. 61 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:23,760 Mark, you're on the lock. 62 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:27,220 Let me try to break in here, all right? 63 00:06:28,780 --> 00:06:31,020 Whoever it was, do you think he'll try again? 64 00:06:31,340 --> 00:06:34,160 It sort of depends on how badly he wants what he thinks he didn't get. 65 00:06:35,620 --> 00:06:38,660 This is the Abner Gordon home. 66 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:41,880 And you're Charles Norman, the butler, right? 67 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:43,320 Butler, gardener, chauffeur. 68 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:45,560 And my wife, Sadie, is the housekeeper. 69 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:47,100 Who else lives in? 70 00:06:47,380 --> 00:06:51,080 Well, aside from Mr. Gordon, that's his niece, Miss Rachel Gordon. 71 00:06:51,780 --> 00:06:54,500 And Mr. Bruce Jay, kind of secretary. 72 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:57,620 And Mr. Gordon's nurse, Miss Phyllis Clover. 73 00:06:57,860 --> 00:06:58,860 Oh, I see. 74 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:01,500 Do you have a gun? 75 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:02,720 A gun? 76 00:07:03,060 --> 00:07:04,140 Good heavens, no. 77 00:07:04,420 --> 00:07:06,080 Who runs the place, this Miss Gordon? 78 00:07:06,940 --> 00:07:10,460 If she's in, I'd like to have a talk with her. Certainly. Go right ahead. I 79 00:07:10,460 --> 00:07:14,420 cannot go on feeling sorry for you and shut my eyes to what you're doing. 80 00:07:15,660 --> 00:07:16,740 I am not blind. 81 00:07:18,140 --> 00:07:19,300 I am not stupid. 82 00:07:19,850 --> 00:07:21,350 And this account book speaks for itself. 83 00:07:21,730 --> 00:07:23,910 Harlan, please understand, I need your help. 84 00:07:24,190 --> 00:07:26,310 You can shake that thought right out of your mind, Rachel. 85 00:07:26,890 --> 00:07:29,770 As your uncle's accountant, I will not be put in the middle. 86 00:07:30,570 --> 00:07:31,570 Absolutely not. 87 00:07:35,830 --> 00:07:36,910 Excuse me, Miss Gordon. 88 00:07:37,310 --> 00:07:40,710 About the marks on the side door this morning, the police officer would like 89 00:07:40,710 --> 00:07:41,709 speak to you. 90 00:07:41,710 --> 00:07:42,710 Some other time. 91 00:07:43,190 --> 00:07:44,210 Tell him I'll call him. 92 00:07:44,410 --> 00:07:46,890 He's right here, waiting for you. I said not now. 93 00:07:47,110 --> 00:07:48,110 Get out. 94 00:07:49,580 --> 00:07:50,580 Certainly, ma 'am. 95 00:07:53,940 --> 00:07:57,860 Harlan, you've known me such a long time. It isn't as if I'd actually stolen 96 00:07:57,860 --> 00:07:59,080 money. Oh, isn't it? 97 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:03,220 Or perhaps your dictionary has a different moral evaluation for 98 00:08:04,220 --> 00:08:07,400 Mine tends to define it in the same terms as the California Code. 99 00:08:08,420 --> 00:08:09,420 The Penal Code. 100 00:08:11,500 --> 00:08:14,160 I, uh... I'm sorry, Rachel. 101 00:08:14,380 --> 00:08:15,380 What for? 102 00:08:15,740 --> 00:08:16,980 For snooping on me? 103 00:08:17,550 --> 00:08:20,630 For calling Abner's accountant and telling him I was stealing from my 104 00:08:21,250 --> 00:08:24,010 I... He found the discrepancy himself. 105 00:08:24,630 --> 00:08:29,010 Look, if it's the last thing I do, I'm going to have you thrown out of this 106 00:08:29,010 --> 00:08:30,010 house for good. 107 00:08:30,590 --> 00:08:31,590 Please, Rachel. 108 00:08:33,850 --> 00:08:37,669 Bill, did Mr. Farrell leave by the front door or the side door? I just passed 109 00:08:37,669 --> 00:08:39,770 him going up the stairs. He said he had to see Mr. Gordon. 110 00:08:53,290 --> 00:08:54,290 No, no, I'm all right. 111 00:08:54,730 --> 00:08:56,770 I thought you were having trouble breathing again. 112 00:08:57,590 --> 00:08:59,610 No, no, it's just Rachel. 113 00:09:00,610 --> 00:09:01,610 And this house. 114 00:09:02,430 --> 00:09:05,990 You really think if you stay on, it'll make things easier for her? For Mr. 115 00:09:06,150 --> 00:09:08,090 Gordon? Let's put it another way. 116 00:09:08,330 --> 00:09:10,450 If I go, will it make things harder for her? 117 00:09:10,670 --> 00:09:13,450 I don't think anybody or anything will help Rachel. 118 00:09:13,930 --> 00:09:16,410 But it's different for you now, darling. You're well again. 119 00:09:16,730 --> 00:09:18,810 But you've got your whole life ahead of you. 120 00:09:19,690 --> 00:09:20,690 Our life. 121 00:09:23,790 --> 00:09:24,890 Today is Thursday. 122 00:09:25,330 --> 00:09:31,970 By Monday, by five in the afternoon of Monday, you will make full restitution 123 00:09:31,970 --> 00:09:36,510 every last dollar you've drained out of my funds for that no -good parasite 124 00:09:36,510 --> 00:09:37,790 you're supporting. No! 125 00:09:39,830 --> 00:09:42,910 Didn't think I knew about your little boyfriend, did you? 126 00:09:46,610 --> 00:09:50,270 Please, Uncle Abner. By five Monday. 127 00:09:51,310 --> 00:09:54,090 Do I have to tell you what the alternative is? 128 00:10:00,970 --> 00:10:02,730 Sounds like an unhappy household. 129 00:10:03,270 --> 00:10:04,370 Tell me, Mr. J. 130 00:10:05,610 --> 00:10:09,390 How are you affected by actions Abner Gordon may take against his niece? 131 00:10:10,310 --> 00:10:11,910 Well, it's a matter of some money. 132 00:10:12,270 --> 00:10:16,510 You see, I put myself through college working in a chemical plant Abner Gordon 133 00:10:16,510 --> 00:10:18,190 owned. There was an accident. 134 00:10:18,410 --> 00:10:20,880 Some... defective old equipment in the factory. 135 00:10:21,220 --> 00:10:23,820 I ended up more dead than alive in the hospital. 136 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:26,740 My, uh, my lungs. 137 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,240 You filed a lawsuit? 138 00:10:29,700 --> 00:10:32,220 No. There was some sort of mix -up with his insurance. 139 00:10:32,940 --> 00:10:34,840 Abner Gordon would have been personally liable. 140 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,680 And you agreed not to sue him? 141 00:10:37,140 --> 00:10:40,140 Well, sort of. I mean, he was very kind. 142 00:10:40,620 --> 00:10:41,820 He paid my bills. 143 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:46,040 He brought me to his home as a sort of librarian secretary to recuperate. 144 00:10:46,540 --> 00:10:48,600 And I've been there ever since, working for him. 145 00:10:48,810 --> 00:10:51,370 You received no compensation at all for your injuries? 146 00:10:51,750 --> 00:10:56,370 He promised that any time I decided to leave to go out on my own, he'd give me 147 00:10:56,370 --> 00:10:57,370 $50 ,000. 148 00:10:57,430 --> 00:10:59,310 And now you've decided to leave? 149 00:11:00,190 --> 00:11:06,190 Well, there's a girl and a business, a bookstore I'm interested in. 150 00:11:06,970 --> 00:11:11,310 But, Mr. Mason, I haven't spoken to Mr. Gordon yet, and the way things are, 151 00:11:11,370 --> 00:11:13,690 maybe I shouldn't right now. Oh, yes, I think you should. 152 00:11:14,390 --> 00:11:15,390 And soon. 153 00:11:15,450 --> 00:11:17,010 In fact, you have a right to the money. 154 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,160 Well, I just don't want to cause any trouble at a time like this. Well, I'll 155 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,980 able to handle it for you without trouble. 156 00:11:23,660 --> 00:11:26,040 Unless, of course, Mr. Gordon has changed his mind. 157 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,700 As you describe it, that money is essentially a gift. 158 00:11:30,580 --> 00:11:36,000 And an offer of a gift lacking legal consideration is revocable at a moment's 159 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,500 notice. No, I don't think he'd back down on his promise. 160 00:11:38,780 --> 00:11:40,460 Is there something in writing about this? 161 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,040 Well, I know the $50 ,000 is provided for in his will. 162 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:47,540 Good. That may be all we need to assure payment. 163 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:49,520 Well, thank you, Mr. Mason. 164 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:53,820 I guess I've... Well, I've been a little worried about his changing his will. Is 165 00:11:53,820 --> 00:11:55,580 there an indication that he plans to do so? 166 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,720 Well, he's always threatened his niece, Rachel, that if she ever left him or got 167 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:00,900 married, he'd cut her off. 168 00:12:01,700 --> 00:12:03,520 He had another will drawn years ago. 169 00:12:03,740 --> 00:12:05,480 He's always waved it in her face as a warning. 170 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,380 Threatens to substitute it for the actual legal will. Under these 171 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,400 the validity of the second will may be seriously questioned. 172 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:14,830 Does it... Disinherit his niece? 173 00:12:15,390 --> 00:12:16,830 It disinherits everybody. 174 00:12:17,330 --> 00:12:19,470 It leaves every cent he has to charity. 175 00:12:26,450 --> 00:12:28,130 Oh, Rachel, baby. 176 00:12:30,270 --> 00:12:31,290 Did you bring the money? 177 00:12:36,510 --> 00:12:38,310 You did bring the money. 178 00:12:39,630 --> 00:12:43,290 Is Tracy... Oh, don't worry, honey. Just add it to the rest, I owe you. 179 00:12:43,660 --> 00:12:47,180 And it won't be long now. He can't hang on forever. 180 00:12:47,980 --> 00:12:54,020 And then, well, maybe... Tracy, I shouldn't give you any more money. 181 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:59,660 I mean, the money I've already given you, I've got to have it back. Every 182 00:12:59,660 --> 00:13:00,660 of it. 183 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:02,100 You what? 184 00:13:03,020 --> 00:13:04,720 But you know I haven't got it. 185 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,720 Tracy, I can't give you any more. 186 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:08,960 I stole that money for you. 187 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:10,860 He's going to send me to jail. 188 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,180 Unless I return every cent by Monday afternoon, he's going to use the new 189 00:13:16,620 --> 00:13:18,660 Tracy, what can I do? Tell me what. 190 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:28,540 Start praying. 191 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:32,260 What? Pray your uncle dies before Monday afternoon. 192 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:34,200 No. 193 00:13:34,380 --> 00:13:36,980 They can't prosecute you for stealing for yourself, can they? 194 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:38,240 Tracy. 195 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:40,160 Lock up and leave. 196 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,560 Shall we stop at police headquarters, or will you call? 197 00:13:54,260 --> 00:13:56,160 What? The attempted housebreaking. 198 00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:58,520 The police officer was insistent that he speak to you. 199 00:13:59,220 --> 00:14:02,200 Uh, no, you take the car home. I have some errands to do. 200 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:03,560 But it's no trouble. 201 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:04,940 I said drive the car home. 202 00:14:05,380 --> 00:14:06,379 I'll take a cab. 203 00:14:06,380 --> 00:14:10,120 Oh, Miss Rachel, you're not well, and I don't mind driving anywhere you want to 204 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:11,120 go. 205 00:14:14,220 --> 00:14:17,740 I am certain you'll like this pistol. It's a truly fine handgun, and I think 206 00:14:17,740 --> 00:14:21,780 you'll see for yourself the amazing advances in recent years, particularly 207 00:14:21,780 --> 00:14:23,920 relation to velocity and kinetic energy. 208 00:14:24,220 --> 00:14:25,460 Well, now, let's see. 209 00:14:25,780 --> 00:14:30,160 We have name, address, phone number, height, weight, complete description, 210 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,760 the serial number of the gun. Yes, it's all complete except for your signature. 211 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,960 You realize, of course, Miss Gordon, that the police provide for a three -day 212 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,680 delay before we're permitted to deliver any gun to a customer. 213 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:41,280 It's just a formality. 214 00:14:41,820 --> 00:14:44,800 A matter of record for the police. Really out of our control, you know. 215 00:14:46,780 --> 00:14:48,520 I'm sorry. I changed my mind. 216 00:14:57,380 --> 00:14:58,980 Ma 'am, I'll need your name and address. 217 00:15:01,540 --> 00:15:02,540 Just for the record. 218 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,940 Is it really necessary that there be a record? 219 00:16:46,269 --> 00:16:48,050 Lady, is that coffee ready yet? 220 00:16:48,270 --> 00:16:49,270 No, not yet. 221 00:16:51,770 --> 00:16:53,390 Be careful, that handle is loose. 222 00:16:53,770 --> 00:16:56,890 I know the handle's loose. It's been loose for days, and you've been 223 00:16:56,890 --> 00:16:57,890 to fix it for days. 224 00:17:03,390 --> 00:17:05,450 The coffee's not ready yet, Miss Rachel. 225 00:17:06,210 --> 00:17:09,210 Miss Gordon, you asked us to see you here. 226 00:17:09,530 --> 00:17:12,530 I realize that you're very upset, and I'm sorry, but... 227 00:17:12,940 --> 00:17:16,400 You've kept us waiting for over half an hour now, and it's time for me to give 228 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:17,400 your uncle his medication. 229 00:17:17,780 --> 00:17:20,140 And we mustn't disappoint the great God, Adner, must we? 230 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,839 By all means, let nothing interfere with his creature comforts. 231 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:25,960 Let him take us all for granted. 232 00:17:26,180 --> 00:17:30,160 Yes, walk all over us, but smile and say, Thank you, dear, dear Adner. Thank 233 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:31,500 you, Miss Rachel. 234 00:17:31,740 --> 00:17:35,020 Oh, once he's got to realize that we count, too, that we're people. Rachel, 235 00:17:35,100 --> 00:17:37,860 you're not feeding... Tomorrow, I want you all to leave this house at noon. 236 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:41,660 What? And stay away until Sunday at noon. 237 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:43,380 But that's impossible. 238 00:17:43,780 --> 00:17:44,780 Now listen to me. 239 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:45,960 I'll give him his medication. 240 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,660 I'll see that he's fed, taken care of, given whatever he has to have. 241 00:17:49,980 --> 00:17:51,180 But nothing more. 242 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,040 He's got to find out that he can't crack the whip just for the fun of watching 243 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:56,019 us dance. 244 00:17:56,020 --> 00:18:00,060 Rachel, that's absolutely the most... I'm not asking for opinions or comments. 245 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,080 I'm giving an order. 246 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:06,380 Tomorrow, Saturday at noon, until Sunday at noon, I want to be left alone with 247 00:18:06,380 --> 00:18:09,180 him. And don't you dare tell him anything about this. 248 00:18:09,980 --> 00:18:10,980 Please leave me alone. 249 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,000 is about as close to a complete breakdown as I've ever seen. 250 00:18:43,540 --> 00:18:44,640 Mr. Gordon, ready for bed? 251 00:18:44,860 --> 00:18:49,280 Yes. And, uh, I didn't tell him about the accident. I figured there was no 252 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:50,280 in upsetting him. 253 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,900 Don't. Just give him a half break and get him to sleep. 254 00:18:53,660 --> 00:18:54,700 Get some sleep yourself. 255 00:18:55,540 --> 00:18:57,340 Oh, is there anything more I can do for Rachel? 256 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:00,260 Well, I sedated her pretty heavily. 257 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:04,740 No choice between hysteria, shock, and her begging for relief. 258 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:07,480 No, no, no. She'll be all right. 259 00:19:07,830 --> 00:19:09,050 She probably smoked that hock around. 260 00:20:36,110 --> 00:20:37,110 foreign 261 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,480 Mr. Mason, I hope you didn't have to wait too long, sir. 262 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,660 I took Phyllis, Miss Clover, the nurse, back to her own apartment. The police 263 00:21:11,660 --> 00:21:12,680 had finished questioning her. 264 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:15,240 Have you been reading law, Bruce? 265 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:16,480 What? 266 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:20,320 Oh, no, no. Those belong to Mr. Gordon. He was a graduate attorney, but he never 267 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,600 practiced. He took over his father's businesses after he passed the bar. 268 00:21:24,180 --> 00:21:30,000 Mr. Gordon handles... That is, he used to handle his own legal affairs. He 269 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 retained an attorney. 270 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,140 I just didn't know who else to call but you. 271 00:21:34,670 --> 00:21:39,690 Actually, I was hoping possibly you might represent Miss Rachel Gordon. 272 00:21:39,930 --> 00:21:41,270 Did she ask you to call me? 273 00:21:41,590 --> 00:21:42,590 No. 274 00:21:42,970 --> 00:21:44,550 They haven't let any of us talk to her. 275 00:21:45,230 --> 00:21:47,630 I... I suppose she's under arrest. 276 00:21:47,870 --> 00:21:48,870 That seems logical. 277 00:21:49,670 --> 00:21:53,870 The policeman who told me to wait here for you said that she fired three times 278 00:21:53,870 --> 00:21:56,890 at point -blank range into Abner Gordon's head and chest. 279 00:21:57,790 --> 00:22:01,330 It's... It's like a... Like a bad dream. 280 00:22:02,530 --> 00:22:05,890 Only that... Dream, you keep reassuring yourself that you're going to wake up. 281 00:22:06,330 --> 00:22:08,590 Bruce, I'm sorry, but I can't represent Miss Gordon. 282 00:22:09,130 --> 00:22:10,670 She's a fine person, Mr. Mason. 283 00:22:11,150 --> 00:22:12,150 Or was. 284 00:22:12,450 --> 00:22:14,830 You've got to understand the pressure she's lived under here. 285 00:22:15,170 --> 00:22:18,350 I can't represent her, because I'm already representing you. 286 00:22:18,570 --> 00:22:20,630 But this is murder. It has nothing to do with her uncle's will. 287 00:22:20,850 --> 00:22:21,850 Yes, it does. 288 00:22:22,210 --> 00:22:25,610 If convicted, she's precluded by law from an inheritance under his will. 289 00:22:26,450 --> 00:22:27,450 Oh. 290 00:22:27,870 --> 00:22:29,650 Well, I didn't know that. 291 00:22:29,870 --> 00:22:32,490 I represent you, and you were involved with the decedent. 292 00:22:32,810 --> 00:22:34,110 It would be a conflict of interest. 293 00:22:34,390 --> 00:22:35,390 I'm sorry. 294 00:22:37,070 --> 00:22:40,290 Well, at least until she can retain somebody else, would you speak to her? 295 00:22:40,730 --> 00:22:41,890 Tell her what her rights are? 296 00:22:42,230 --> 00:22:43,230 Where is she? 297 00:22:43,530 --> 00:22:44,530 Upstairs in her room. 298 00:22:44,830 --> 00:22:46,190 I think Dr. Lambert's with her. 299 00:22:46,410 --> 00:22:49,050 She wanted us to leave at noon on Saturday. 300 00:22:49,610 --> 00:22:50,610 Well, that's today. 301 00:22:51,150 --> 00:22:55,270 And not come back till Sunday at noon so that she could be alone with him. 302 00:22:56,630 --> 00:22:59,010 Are you sure, Mr. Norman, there's never been a gun in the house? 303 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:06,280 Well, I couldn't swear to it. There's never been a gun in this house. Never. 304 00:23:07,180 --> 00:23:11,220 But, Lieutenant, isn't it possible that when Miss Rachel called that sergeant, 305 00:23:11,220 --> 00:23:13,300 he advised her to go out and buy a gun? 306 00:23:13,740 --> 00:23:16,680 Because of the burglar. He never had a chance to advise her about anything. 307 00:23:16,940 --> 00:23:17,940 She never called. 308 00:23:19,340 --> 00:23:21,660 That'll be all for now. I'll be speaking to both of you later. 309 00:23:28,910 --> 00:23:30,610 Sergeant Price told me you were here, Perry. 310 00:23:30,930 --> 00:23:33,750 Andy? I suppose you'd like to speak with your client. 311 00:23:34,330 --> 00:23:38,110 Bruce Jay is my client, Andy. He thought I might be of some temporary assistance 312 00:23:38,110 --> 00:23:40,370 to Miss Gordon until she retains her own counsel. 313 00:23:45,250 --> 00:23:46,850 He's on a heavy sedation, unconscious. 314 00:23:47,230 --> 00:23:49,270 I don't think he'll be doing any talking for a while. 315 00:23:49,890 --> 00:23:50,890 Oh, Doctor. 316 00:23:52,090 --> 00:23:53,790 I'm afraid you can't go with her. 317 00:23:54,630 --> 00:23:57,410 That's nonsense. She's ill. She's been through a terrible experience. 318 00:23:57,980 --> 00:23:58,839 I know. 319 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,660 I saw Abner Gordon's body. 320 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,640 Lieutenant Anderson, she will need medical attention when she comes to. 321 00:24:04,940 --> 00:24:07,780 She'll get it in the prison ward of County General Hospital. 322 00:24:10,620 --> 00:24:14,320 All right. I've just had word from Mr. Berger. It'll take an okay from the 323 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,920 district attorney's office to see Rachel Gordon. For anybody to see her, 324 00:24:17,940 --> 00:24:18,940 including her attorney. 325 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:21,600 Excuse me. 326 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:30,280 How long do you go on tormenting a decent human being, pushing her further 327 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,140 further into a corner with no hope of escape? 328 00:24:33,380 --> 00:24:40,280 I knew she was on the verge, but I just didn't think she... Unless it was 329 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,520 said as part of a privileged communication between doctor and 330 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:45,920 have to repeat it in court, you know. 331 00:24:47,180 --> 00:24:48,139 Repeat what? 332 00:24:48,140 --> 00:24:49,860 The admission you nearly made just now. 333 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,240 Don't be upset. 334 00:24:52,460 --> 00:24:55,340 You aren't the only one in whose presence Rachel threatened to kill Abner 335 00:24:55,340 --> 00:24:56,340 Gordon. 336 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,560 I don't know what hell is like, but it can't be much worse than the life that 337 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:01,560 Abner restricted her to. 338 00:25:01,860 --> 00:25:05,900 You're saying the shooting was no drug -inspired, irresistible impulse, but 339 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:07,400 calculated and premeditated. 340 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,000 You're not putting the words of a possible courtroom defense in my mind, 341 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,160 you, with this irresistible impulse? 342 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,199 No, Doctor. 343 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,760 I wouldn't do that even if I were Miss Gordon's attorney. 344 00:25:20,300 --> 00:25:21,300 I'm just curious. 345 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,300 Primarily about the effect of the injection you gave her for the burn last 346 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:29,440 night. Oh, it relieves pain and anxiety. 347 00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:35,240 How the anxiety, for example? By removing the inhibitory processes in the 348 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:36,700 frontal lobe of the brain of the patient. 349 00:25:37,060 --> 00:25:38,060 I thought so. 350 00:25:39,380 --> 00:25:41,000 Rather like turning off a red light? 351 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:46,360 If a patient were under tremendous tension, if she were fighting a 352 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:49,140 do something, the drug would remove her natural reluctance. 353 00:25:49,550 --> 00:25:53,070 would actually encourage her to do what she was possibly only planning to do? 354 00:25:53,210 --> 00:25:54,410 If, if, if. 355 00:25:54,830 --> 00:25:58,690 Hello? She was literally unconscious when she pulled that trigger. 356 00:25:58,930 --> 00:26:02,170 As far as I'm concerned, there isn't one shred of proof that she ever gave a 357 00:26:02,170 --> 00:26:04,050 single thought to actually killing Abner. 358 00:26:04,250 --> 00:26:07,530 You can say that, despite her repeated threats against his life? 359 00:26:07,790 --> 00:26:09,050 Is it one of your men, Mr. Mason? 360 00:26:09,270 --> 00:26:11,470 Yes. I want to call somebody named Drake. 361 00:26:11,730 --> 00:26:12,730 Excuse me, Doctor. 362 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,180 Sam was sure out to kill somebody, and Andy's been working real fast on this 363 00:26:22,180 --> 00:26:26,020 one. They found a shopkeeper to whom she paid 200 bucks for the gun and his 364 00:26:26,020 --> 00:26:27,500 promise not to report it to the police. 365 00:26:28,740 --> 00:26:31,240 Of course I didn't report it to the police then. 366 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:32,520 Well, why should I? 367 00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:36,780 Rachel misappropriated a few thousand dollars. Well, what's that, the crime of 368 00:26:36,780 --> 00:26:37,780 the century? 369 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,420 Hardly. Oh, I know Abner threatened her with the police and with that other 370 00:26:41,420 --> 00:26:46,020 will, but after all, he'd been waving that other will in her face for 15 371 00:26:46,660 --> 00:26:47,820 Did you ever stop to think? 372 00:26:48,330 --> 00:26:53,350 The last thing, the very last thing in the world Abner Gordon wanted was not to 373 00:26:53,350 --> 00:26:54,350 have her around. 374 00:26:54,430 --> 00:26:58,430 Did you ever think of it? Look, Mr. Farrell, all I really want to know is 375 00:26:58,430 --> 00:27:00,970 did Rachel Gordon do with the $5 ,000 she stole? 376 00:27:01,290 --> 00:27:02,290 Gambling, the horses. 377 00:27:02,450 --> 00:27:04,250 Oh, come now, Mr. Drake, really? 378 00:27:04,970 --> 00:27:06,770 Rachel and racehorses? 379 00:27:06,970 --> 00:27:08,070 Well, I never knew the lady. 380 00:27:08,370 --> 00:27:09,329 Well, I did. 381 00:27:09,330 --> 00:27:10,330 Know her man, too? 382 00:27:10,470 --> 00:27:16,370 Yes, and... You're sure you just work for an attorney, you're not a lawyer 383 00:27:16,370 --> 00:27:17,370 yourself? 384 00:27:17,590 --> 00:27:18,590 Honest engine. 385 00:27:19,330 --> 00:27:21,610 What did you say his name was? I didn't. 386 00:27:22,170 --> 00:27:23,710 Is there any reason why you can't? 387 00:27:25,370 --> 00:27:27,710 No, I... I guess it's all right. 388 00:27:28,450 --> 00:27:30,490 Walcott. Tracy Walcott. 389 00:27:31,410 --> 00:27:34,650 So like you say, I'm... I'm unconcerned. 390 00:27:35,990 --> 00:27:36,990 So what? 391 00:27:37,550 --> 00:27:39,190 Not even a sympathetic shrug? 392 00:27:39,650 --> 00:27:42,150 After all, she stole five grand for you. A loan. 393 00:27:43,050 --> 00:27:44,250 Strictly a business loan. 394 00:27:44,730 --> 00:27:45,970 That Avery sent back. 395 00:27:47,450 --> 00:27:48,550 Before or after? 396 00:27:48,930 --> 00:27:49,930 Before or after what? 397 00:27:50,810 --> 00:27:52,730 They strap her in a gas chamber for murder. 398 00:27:53,570 --> 00:27:55,210 You know, she's still at General Hospital. 399 00:27:55,690 --> 00:27:58,450 And if you ask real nice, they might let you in to see her. 400 00:27:59,470 --> 00:28:01,230 Sorry. Got a date. 401 00:28:02,130 --> 00:28:03,130 So soon? 402 00:28:05,110 --> 00:28:06,310 Can the new one afford you? 403 00:28:10,490 --> 00:28:13,890 Look, Seamus, if you're digging to get my goat, you're wasting your time. 404 00:28:14,650 --> 00:28:18,830 Now, as a matter of fact, I have got a date with a young lady who's got quite a 405 00:28:18,830 --> 00:28:21,150 bit of money and might promote me in a business of my own. 406 00:28:21,430 --> 00:28:22,430 Mm -hmm. 407 00:28:23,330 --> 00:28:28,470 Say, killing old man Gordon, was that Rachel's idea or yours? 408 00:28:30,010 --> 00:28:31,690 You're a wise guy, aren't you? 409 00:28:31,950 --> 00:28:33,210 Will you chew on this? 410 00:28:33,870 --> 00:28:37,290 If you and that shizer you work for think you can drag me into this, you've 411 00:28:37,290 --> 00:28:38,290 another thing coming. 412 00:28:38,370 --> 00:28:41,910 I'll sing all how I'll sing on the witness stand, and it won't be a lie 413 00:28:42,310 --> 00:28:46,400 I'll swear that for the last month, That's all Rachel could talk about, 414 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:47,400 about, dream about. 415 00:28:47,860 --> 00:28:49,720 Exactly how she was going to kill her uncle. 416 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:54,100 Now, do you get the picture? 417 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,180 Yeah, I get it. 418 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,440 You clumsy. 419 00:29:00,180 --> 00:29:01,240 Now, what am I going to do? 420 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,560 Tracy, boy, you smell real pretty. 421 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,560 You might just get yourself a whole platoon of promoters. 422 00:29:12,750 --> 00:29:14,190 Is this a true copy of the will? 423 00:29:14,930 --> 00:29:17,630 The original is locked in a safety deposit box at the bank. 424 00:29:18,550 --> 00:29:23,170 But Phyllis and I thought, well, maybe you could help us. 425 00:29:23,850 --> 00:29:28,250 If that will is filed, doesn't the probate court appoint an administrator 426 00:29:28,250 --> 00:29:29,330 something to take care of everything? 427 00:29:29,670 --> 00:29:32,590 Well, you see, the trouble is that Harlan Farrell, the accountant, simply 428 00:29:32,590 --> 00:29:34,090 refuses to become involved. 429 00:29:34,390 --> 00:29:36,290 And Bruce doesn't know what to do, Mr. Mason. 430 00:29:36,750 --> 00:29:40,230 There are bills to be paid, decisions to be made. And a million and one things 431 00:29:40,230 --> 00:29:42,150 that Bruce just doesn't have the authority to do. 432 00:29:42,370 --> 00:29:44,950 Bruce, who knows the provisions of this will? 433 00:29:45,190 --> 00:29:46,190 Who knows? 434 00:29:46,890 --> 00:29:48,410 I suppose everybody knows. 435 00:29:48,650 --> 00:29:51,410 By everybody, you mean those who are named in the will? 436 00:29:51,770 --> 00:29:56,330 Well, I don't... The will provides for you to receive $50 ,000, for instance. 437 00:29:56,690 --> 00:29:58,050 You obviously knew that. 438 00:29:58,430 --> 00:30:03,270 Tell me, do Charles and Sadie Norman know there to inherit $50 ,000? Harlan 439 00:30:03,270 --> 00:30:05,050 Farrell, that he should get $25 ,000? 440 00:30:05,450 --> 00:30:07,210 Dr. Lambert also $25 ,000? 441 00:30:07,570 --> 00:30:08,670 I suppose so. 442 00:30:09,130 --> 00:30:11,130 Mr. Gordon never made a secret of his favors. 443 00:30:11,490 --> 00:30:15,850 Quite the contrary. He was always talking about them, threatening with 444 00:30:15,850 --> 00:30:17,590 balance goes to Rachel Gordon. 445 00:30:18,670 --> 00:30:20,530 Do you know what that balance might be? 446 00:30:21,090 --> 00:30:22,090 Yes, I do. 447 00:30:22,590 --> 00:30:24,010 One and a half million dollars. 448 00:30:26,650 --> 00:30:29,330 I'm sorry to bust in like this, but I thought you'd like to know that Rachel 449 00:30:29,330 --> 00:30:31,090 Gordon was just released from general hospital. 450 00:30:31,310 --> 00:30:32,129 She was what? 451 00:30:32,130 --> 00:30:34,850 But, Paul, why would it? I don't know the story yet. 452 00:30:35,260 --> 00:30:36,680 Mr. Mason, that's impossible. 453 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,440 We were just there less than an hour ago and they wouldn't even let us talk to 454 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:41,920 Rachel. Wait a minute, honey. 455 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:43,880 You mean she's been released on bail? 456 00:30:44,180 --> 00:30:45,180 No, that's also impossible. 457 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,060 There's no bail on a murder charge. 458 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:50,780 I got my call, Gertie. 459 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:52,700 Hi, Joe. What'd you find out? 460 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,380 He didn't die from the bullets. 461 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:56,920 What? 462 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,880 Abner Gordon was stone cold dead three hours before Rachel pumped those shots 463 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:03,880 into him. Dead? 464 00:31:04,380 --> 00:31:05,380 But how? 465 00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:06,500 Murdered, that's how. 466 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:12,060 Mr. Bruce Jay, I have a warrant here for your arrest on a charge of criminal 467 00:31:12,060 --> 00:31:13,060 homicide. 468 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,900 It was obvious the victim was dead at least three hours prior to the shooting. 469 00:31:25,620 --> 00:31:27,840 How are you able to determine that, Doctor? 470 00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:32,460 Post -mortem lividity, temperature, rigor mortis. 471 00:31:32,780 --> 00:31:35,380 And what was the actual cause of Abner Gordon's death? 472 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,540 Coronary insufficiency as a result of a criminal human agency. 473 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,600 Essentially, the inability of the heart to sustain the pressure of continued 474 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:49,000 function. Doctor, isn't coronary insufficiency a term applicable to death 475 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,120 natural causes as well as to death caused by criminal action? 476 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,900 Yes. Well, then would you please explain to this court... 477 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,540 What the medical examiner's office found to make this particular coronary 478 00:32:01,540 --> 00:32:04,400 insufficiency a matter of criminal homicide. 479 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:09,940 He was in his 70s and suffered a prolonged state of arteriosclerosis, 480 00:32:09,940 --> 00:32:10,759 of the arteries. 481 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:15,440 He had a history of prior coronary difficulties, a series of mild strokes 482 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:16,440 incapacitated him. 483 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,940 At the time of his death, as part of his daily medical regimen, he was being 484 00:32:20,940 --> 00:32:24,620 administered one cubic centimeter of heparin every night. 485 00:32:24,860 --> 00:32:25,920 And what is heparin? 486 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:31,060 an anticoagulant to prevent clotting, thus reducing the possibility of 487 00:32:31,060 --> 00:32:32,039 additional strokes. 488 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,880 Thank you, doctor. Would you go on, please? 489 00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:39,220 In addition to a minute examination of the victim's body, we analyzed the 490 00:32:39,220 --> 00:32:43,360 of heparin, from which an injection was given to the victim less than two hours 491 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:44,199 before his death. 492 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,720 Was there anything unusual about the bottle of heparin, doctor? 493 00:32:47,020 --> 00:32:51,200 Well, heparin is colorless, remains colorless. The medication in the bottle 494 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,620 unmistakably turning brownish in color. 495 00:32:54,250 --> 00:32:56,970 It was quite obvious that something had either been added to the heparin or that 496 00:32:56,970 --> 00:32:57,970 had been replaced. 497 00:32:58,170 --> 00:33:01,730 And what did your analysis of the contents of that bottle reveal? 498 00:33:02,310 --> 00:33:05,090 It contained half heparin and half adrenaline. 499 00:33:05,410 --> 00:33:10,810 And this mixture of half heparin and half adrenaline had been injected into 500 00:33:10,810 --> 00:33:17,650 decedent that night in place of his usual injection of heparin? The post 501 00:33:17,650 --> 00:33:18,650 -mortem indicated that, yes. 502 00:33:18,850 --> 00:33:22,250 Well, what would be the result of the injection of such a mixture? 503 00:33:23,090 --> 00:33:27,490 Adrenaline is useful, but a very powerful drug. It's given in extremely 504 00:33:27,490 --> 00:33:32,650 dosages. One half cubic centimeter, which must have been the amount 505 00:33:32,910 --> 00:33:36,990 would constitute a fantastically massive dose even for a young healthy person. 506 00:33:37,210 --> 00:33:40,790 And for the decedent, considering his age and his health. 507 00:33:41,650 --> 00:33:45,850 It literally and actually caused Abner Gordon's heart to beat itself to death. 508 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:52,540 Oh, Bruce, the defendant, told me about a week before Mr. Gordon's death that he 509 00:33:52,540 --> 00:33:53,960 planned to leave his job. 510 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:59,280 He mentioned the payment of money which he claimed Mr. Gordon had promised him, 511 00:33:59,460 --> 00:34:00,460 $50 ,000. 512 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,700 Did you speak with the decedent about this particular $50 ,000? 513 00:34:05,380 --> 00:34:11,500 Yes, and he became very excited. He said something about... About what, Mr. 514 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:16,080 Farrell? About rats leaving a sinking ship. 515 00:34:16,420 --> 00:34:17,420 Really? 516 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:22,139 Did he indicate he would refuse to give Mr. J the $50 ,000? 517 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,900 Well, no, not entirely. 518 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:29,120 He said Bruce would have to wait until after he, Mr. 519 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:32,139 Gordon, was dead to collect the money. 520 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,739 In other words, he said the defendant could only collect that money through 521 00:34:35,739 --> 00:34:39,659 inheritance, through the will that we've already introduced here in evidence. 522 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:41,199 That is correct. 523 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,440 Now, as to the second will that we've also introduced in evidence... 524 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,080 The will that Abner Gordon threatened to substitute if his niece failed to make 525 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:51,600 restitution of certain funds. 526 00:34:51,820 --> 00:34:55,920 Did that second will provide $50 ,000 for Bruce Jay? 527 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,080 No, in that case, every cent would have gone to charity. 528 00:34:59,420 --> 00:35:00,420 I see. 529 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:07,340 Now, did the defendant give you any reason for his plan to leave his 530 00:35:07,340 --> 00:35:08,340 with Mr. Gordon? 531 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,080 Yes. To marry Phyllis Clover. 532 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,760 And did you intend to continue your nursing career after your marriage? 533 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,320 No. Bruce was going to open a bookstore. 534 00:35:20,780 --> 00:35:23,120 Oh, yes, with money he hoped to inherit. 535 00:35:23,420 --> 00:35:26,900 With the money that Abner Gordon owed him and promised to pay. 536 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:31,960 Miss Clover, on the day of Abner Gordon's death, an order was phoned into 537 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,340 pharmacist for a renewal of the heparin prescription. 538 00:35:35,780 --> 00:35:38,000 Did you phone that order in yourself personally? 539 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,940 No. I asked someone else to do it. 540 00:35:41,370 --> 00:35:43,370 Not by any chance a defendant, per se. 541 00:35:44,070 --> 00:35:47,070 Well, there were some things he needed to order from the pharmacist, too. 542 00:35:47,430 --> 00:35:51,890 Now, Miss Clover, you heard the pharmacist testify that he personally 543 00:35:51,890 --> 00:35:52,709 that prescription. 544 00:35:52,710 --> 00:35:56,430 And that the bottle, when he wrapped it with the rest of the order, contained 545 00:35:56,430 --> 00:35:57,690 only heparin. 546 00:35:58,590 --> 00:36:02,330 During that night, you did use the new bottle that just arrived, did you? 547 00:36:03,130 --> 00:36:08,290 Yes. And when you gave Abner Gordon his injection of what you believed to be 548 00:36:08,290 --> 00:36:11,460 heparin... What color was the medication in the bottle? 549 00:36:11,980 --> 00:36:17,340 It had no color. It was just as colorless then as it was when you 550 00:36:17,340 --> 00:36:19,020 package from the pharmacist. Is that right? 551 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:20,240 Yes. 552 00:36:20,620 --> 00:36:24,760 Well, I... You did unwrap the package yourself, didn't you? 553 00:36:26,140 --> 00:36:27,140 Didn't you? 554 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:29,800 No. 555 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,620 The package was open when I got it. 556 00:36:35,930 --> 00:36:39,010 Well, I took the package from the druggist man when he delivered it to the 557 00:36:39,010 --> 00:36:40,610 house. And did you open it? 558 00:36:40,850 --> 00:36:41,850 No, sir. 559 00:36:42,210 --> 00:36:43,290 Did you give it to the nurse? 560 00:36:43,690 --> 00:36:45,910 No, no, I didn't. What did you do with it? 561 00:36:46,550 --> 00:36:47,468 Well, Mr. 562 00:36:47,470 --> 00:36:51,890 J, the defendant, was in the hall, and he took the package. 563 00:36:52,250 --> 00:36:54,710 Did he give you any reason why he wanted the package? 564 00:36:55,810 --> 00:36:58,730 Something about some item of his own that he was expecting. 565 00:36:59,050 --> 00:37:01,110 And what did Mr. J then do with the package? 566 00:37:02,410 --> 00:37:04,990 Well, he took it into his room and closed the door. 567 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:12,460 Well, Mr. J called me into his room, and he gave me the package, the open 568 00:37:12,460 --> 00:37:16,880 package. And he asked me to take it up to Miss Clover. She was waiting for Mr. 569 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:17,960 Gordon's medicine. 570 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:25,800 Dr. Lambert, would you explain for us, in layman's terms if possible, your 571 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,340 opinion of how a dose of adrenaline would react in a man in Abner Gordon's 572 00:37:30,340 --> 00:37:31,340 condition? 573 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:35,640 It would be as if somebody had taken a small transistor radio. 574 00:37:36,170 --> 00:37:40,770 It was designed to run on a one -cell flashlight battery and hooked it up to a 575 00:37:40,770 --> 00:37:42,810 50 million volt power generator. 576 00:37:43,510 --> 00:37:44,550 Very well put, Doctor. 577 00:37:45,650 --> 00:37:50,250 Now tell me, Abner Gordon was not your only patient in this household, was he? 578 00:37:50,390 --> 00:37:52,810 No, I took care of just about everybody in the house. 579 00:37:53,190 --> 00:37:54,790 Including the defendant, Bruce Jay? 580 00:37:55,230 --> 00:37:59,050 Yes. Well, will you please describe to the court the defendant's medical 581 00:37:59,050 --> 00:38:01,930 condition? A chronic inflammation of the lung tissues. 582 00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:06,760 He'd aspirated an unusual amount of chemical and metallic particles in an 583 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:07,760 industrial accident. 584 00:38:08,020 --> 00:38:10,760 And what effect did this accident have on him? 585 00:38:11,180 --> 00:38:16,300 Well, that amount of material in the lung tissue produced a chronic 586 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,940 the first stages of pulmonary emphysema. He has then, on occasion, difficulty 587 00:38:20,940 --> 00:38:25,180 breathing, very much as someone would have who was suffering from severe 588 00:38:25,540 --> 00:38:26,780 Exactly the same symptoms. 589 00:38:27,020 --> 00:38:29,200 And you prescribed exactly the same treatment? 590 00:38:29,630 --> 00:38:32,170 The same treatment you would have prescribed for an asthmatic? 591 00:38:33,170 --> 00:38:35,410 Well, broadly speaking, yes. 592 00:38:36,330 --> 00:38:40,350 In addition to the long -term treatment, the emergency treatment is essentially 593 00:38:40,350 --> 00:38:41,129 the same. 594 00:38:41,130 --> 00:38:44,970 By emergency treatment, Doctor, you mean something to help the patient quickly 595 00:38:44,970 --> 00:38:45,970 to be able to breathe. 596 00:38:46,330 --> 00:38:48,490 Yes. A nebulizer, it's called. 597 00:38:49,450 --> 00:38:50,570 Something like this, Doctor. 598 00:38:51,730 --> 00:38:54,510 This nebulizer belongs to the defendant, Bruce Jay. 599 00:38:56,270 --> 00:38:58,270 And was, I assume, prescribed by you. 600 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,080 What drug does this contain, Doctor? 601 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:04,280 Gremlin. 602 00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:32,220 We've been here for more than two hours. 603 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,940 How long are we going to wait? 604 00:39:34,540 --> 00:39:35,660 Oh, not if we have to. 605 00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:37,238 What's the matter? 606 00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:38,240 Lose your curiosity? 607 00:39:38,860 --> 00:39:42,980 After you sat there in court all day without opening your mouth and then go 608 00:39:42,980 --> 00:39:45,400 running off in the middle of the night to play cops and robbers? 609 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:47,900 No, I haven't lost my curiosity. 610 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:52,080 But you suppose Paul Drake is wrong? 611 00:39:52,620 --> 00:39:53,620 I doubt it. 612 00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:57,300 This character is a creature of habit in more ways than one. 613 00:39:58,420 --> 00:40:00,000 That's just the trouble. So am I. 614 00:40:00,540 --> 00:40:03,300 And one of my habits happens to be sleeping at night. 615 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,960 Now, if he doesn't show up here pretty soon, I'm just... 616 00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:04,720 I'll take that. 617 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:14,600 Let's have a look. 618 00:41:23,740 --> 00:41:27,200 Tracy boy, you've got yourself a platoon of promoters. 619 00:41:30,180 --> 00:41:31,520 Yeah, I've been on the stuff. 620 00:41:35,980 --> 00:41:40,120 When you first met Rachel Gordon, when you began to keep company, was she aware 621 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:41,640 that you were a narcotics addict? 622 00:41:43,140 --> 00:41:44,180 No, not right away. 623 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:45,860 And when she discovered it? 624 00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:51,460 She sent me to a private clinic to kick it. Among the drugs they used, 625 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,220 nalorphine was given as part of your cure? 626 00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:55,520 Yeah. 627 00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,340 They even gave me something to take home. 628 00:41:57,660 --> 00:41:59,240 This nalorphine afterwards. 629 00:41:59,740 --> 00:42:04,140 It's like, it's like name -lining with talcum powder. Nothing. 630 00:42:04,670 --> 00:42:05,930 Just the once. 631 00:42:06,190 --> 00:42:07,310 The once I used, that's all. 632 00:42:07,530 --> 00:42:09,910 The attempted cure was of short duration? 633 00:42:10,310 --> 00:42:12,510 I found better ways to spend her money. 634 00:42:12,770 --> 00:42:15,550 Did Rachel Gordon then sever her relationship with you? 635 00:42:15,850 --> 00:42:16,850 No. 636 00:42:17,230 --> 00:42:18,710 We were both hooked. 637 00:42:20,050 --> 00:42:21,250 Each in our own way. 638 00:42:22,810 --> 00:42:24,750 She was my habit to keep me in line. 639 00:42:25,310 --> 00:42:27,850 I was chained to her pocketbook. 640 00:42:28,090 --> 00:42:31,110 The lousy money she kept doling out to me for the stuff. 641 00:42:31,550 --> 00:42:33,370 And sometimes she... 642 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,940 Would not or could not pay. 643 00:42:37,140 --> 00:42:38,140 Yeah. 644 00:42:38,580 --> 00:42:40,540 Sometimes it was bad. 645 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:42,379 Real bad. 646 00:42:42,380 --> 00:42:46,520 The time, for example, two nights before Abner Gordon's death, when you tried to 647 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,000 break into the house through the side door. 648 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,640 Oh, you don't know what it's like. 649 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,480 That fire inside of you. 650 00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:58,640 Well, you'd do anything. You'd lie, you'd steal, you'd... Kill? 651 00:43:00,580 --> 00:43:01,580 No. 652 00:43:02,860 --> 00:43:03,860 No, not that. 653 00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:05,780 Don't try to pin that one on me. 654 00:43:06,020 --> 00:43:09,460 You admitted to Paul Drake the subject was discussed between you. 655 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:14,160 Maybe I did, but... Such a simple answer. Kill Uncle Abner and inherit a 656 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,720 and a half dollars. No, no, no. Look, look, mister. 657 00:43:17,260 --> 00:43:21,060 Her. She tried to make a clay pigeon out of the old man. Her, not me. 658 00:43:21,340 --> 00:43:24,320 And think of the junk you could buy for a million and a half dollars. 659 00:43:24,820 --> 00:43:26,460 No, no, you don't know what you're talking about. 660 00:43:27,220 --> 00:43:28,520 Wednesday night you were desperate. 661 00:43:28,940 --> 00:43:30,760 You tried to break into the house. 662 00:43:31,230 --> 00:43:34,250 You tried to break into the house to see her, unsuccessfully. 663 00:43:34,770 --> 00:43:37,810 Thursday night, Abner Gordon had a stroke, and again you didn't see her. 664 00:43:38,230 --> 00:43:41,790 Then on Friday, Friday she told you there'd be no more money. 665 00:43:42,010 --> 00:43:43,130 No, no, that's not a lie. 666 00:43:43,470 --> 00:43:46,330 You didn't know where to turn. Your body was starved for the poison you'd been 667 00:43:46,330 --> 00:43:46,988 feeding it. 668 00:43:46,990 --> 00:43:47,990 You were desperate. 669 00:43:48,370 --> 00:43:49,670 No, that's not true. 670 00:43:49,910 --> 00:43:52,170 So again on Friday, you returned to the house. 671 00:43:52,930 --> 00:43:53,930 Stop it, stop it! 672 00:43:54,930 --> 00:43:56,670 She phoned me, I swear she did. 673 00:43:57,250 --> 00:44:00,010 She left dough for me in my apartment, under the pillow, a hundred bucks. 674 00:44:01,230 --> 00:44:04,570 She called me at midnight to tell me where she left it. I found the door and 675 00:44:04,570 --> 00:44:05,570 went out to get me a fix. 676 00:44:09,050 --> 00:44:10,050 Honest. 677 00:44:11,550 --> 00:44:12,550 It's the truth. 678 00:44:13,250 --> 00:44:14,250 You've got to believe me. 679 00:44:15,290 --> 00:44:17,150 I was nowhere near the house that night. 680 00:44:18,770 --> 00:44:21,230 Honest, it's the truth. I was nowhere near the house that night. 681 00:44:23,950 --> 00:44:28,250 The law reads that there can be no homicide unless a living human being is 682 00:44:28,250 --> 00:44:29,250 victim. 683 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:33,800 Of course, while the defendant is not guilty of homicide if his victim is not 684 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:38,060 living, he may be guilty of an attempt to commit murder or an aggravated 685 00:44:38,060 --> 00:44:39,060 assault. 686 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:44,080 Tell me, have criminal charges been filed against you for firing three shots 687 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:45,460 into the dead body of your uncle? 688 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:48,260 Not that I'm aware of, no. 689 00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:51,820 Not even charges for attempted murder or aggravated assault? 690 00:44:52,300 --> 00:44:53,420 I don't think so. 691 00:44:53,660 --> 00:44:54,840 But you did want to kill him? 692 00:44:55,420 --> 00:44:59,360 Yes. I'm sorry, but we must have a clear picture of your performance, Miss 693 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:00,360 Gordon. 694 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,640 Now, your plan was to kill your uncle the next day while you were alone with 695 00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:08,680 and claim it was the act of some unknown housebreak. 696 00:45:09,180 --> 00:45:10,360 Is that the proper setting? 697 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,920 Yes. Your desire was to kill him. Your intent was murder. 698 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:17,660 So you went into his room and shot him. 699 00:45:18,660 --> 00:45:19,840 But he was already dead. 700 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:21,320 You didn't know that, however. 701 00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:23,500 No, I didn't know that. 702 00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:28,500 It's obvious to me that even if the gun were unloaded, it's still assault to 703 00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:31,020 threaten someone with it. Not if there's no present ability. 704 00:45:31,420 --> 00:45:33,800 Please, can't you? Yes, present ability. 705 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:36,480 Present ability. 706 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:44,280 To convict a person, to convict a person of assault, it's not only necessary to 707 00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:49,340 show that he intended to inflict injury, but also that he had present ability to 708 00:45:49,340 --> 00:45:50,340 inflict such injury. 709 00:45:50,750 --> 00:45:54,250 Of course, that's a legal term one wouldn't know unless he happened to read 710 00:45:54,470 --> 00:45:56,110 And it is the law in California. 711 00:45:57,670 --> 00:46:00,350 I admit I tried to kill him. It was a terrible thing to do. 712 00:46:01,210 --> 00:46:02,590 What more do you want me to say? 713 00:46:02,850 --> 00:46:03,850 The burn on your arm. 714 00:46:05,030 --> 00:46:06,390 I assume it's healing well? 715 00:46:07,830 --> 00:46:09,150 Yes, it's fine. 716 00:46:09,450 --> 00:46:11,590 You know, that required considerable courage. 717 00:46:13,590 --> 00:46:15,690 Courage? Deliberately burning yourself. 718 00:46:16,550 --> 00:46:18,450 What? Poor Rachel Gordon. 719 00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:23,040 And everyone felt so sorry for you. But that's what you wanted, wasn't it? 720 00:46:23,260 --> 00:46:25,020 No. To be pitied? 721 00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,080 To be accepted as sick? 722 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:28,960 Neurotic? 723 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:30,700 On the verge of a breakdown? 724 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,340 With a relentless drive to kill the man responsible for your condition? 725 00:46:34,820 --> 00:46:36,020 You're out of your mind. 726 00:46:36,340 --> 00:46:39,100 You knew the coffee pot was broken. That's why you picked it up, jerked the 727 00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:41,280 handle loose, and deliberately scalded yourself. 728 00:46:41,780 --> 00:46:44,220 No, I didn't. Yes, Rachel. Yes. 729 00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,420 Because it was necessary that you have an undeniable reason to force Dr. 730 00:46:48,420 --> 00:46:49,900 to give you a pain -relieving opiate. 731 00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:52,100 I don't know what you're talking about. 732 00:46:52,940 --> 00:46:57,240 Necessary for everyone to think you were drugged, sedated, sound asleep. 733 00:46:57,660 --> 00:46:59,760 But I was drugged. Oh, yes. 734 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:02,180 But with two drugs. 735 00:47:03,220 --> 00:47:06,700 After Dr. Lambert gave you his injection, you then took a shot of your 736 00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:09,700 isn't that right? A shot of nalorphine? The nalorphine you found in your 737 00:47:09,700 --> 00:47:10,700 boyfriend's apartment? 738 00:47:10,860 --> 00:47:11,860 Oh, stop it. 739 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,680 And nalorphine counteracts the opiate, doesn't it? Cancels it. 740 00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:16,920 I never heard of such a thing. 741 00:47:17,140 --> 00:47:19,520 And I never heard of such a deliberately evil plan. 742 00:47:20,540 --> 00:47:22,860 You knew if your uncle ever died, you'd be blamed. 743 00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,600 And so to divert all suspicion, you killed him, not once, but twice. 744 00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:28,320 That's not a lie. 745 00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:33,020 You not only fired bullets into your uncle's dead body, you put Bruce Jay's 746 00:47:33,020 --> 00:47:36,080 adrenaline into the bottle of heparin and created the mixture that killed him. 747 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,640 But I was asleep, I tell you. I was Dr. Lambert. 748 00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,280 At 11 o 'clock he put me to sleep. 749 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:45,200 He drugged me to sleep. 750 00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:49,260 Then how were you able to phone Tracy Walcott at midnight and tell him to look 751 00:47:49,260 --> 00:47:51,180 under the pillow for the money you'd left him? How? 752 00:48:08,180 --> 00:48:09,180 No further questions. 753 00:48:12,490 --> 00:48:16,390 You know, Paul, I missed the clue on the 12 o 'clock call entirely. 754 00:48:16,950 --> 00:48:20,630 But then I looked it up, and there it was, right in the Tracy Walcott 755 00:48:21,150 --> 00:48:22,170 Well, I caught that one. 756 00:48:22,630 --> 00:48:26,110 But, Perry, what gave you the idea that Rachel was checking into the law? 757 00:48:27,070 --> 00:48:29,430 Well, if you see a crooked picture, you straighten it, don't you? 758 00:48:29,690 --> 00:48:34,210 Huh. Same with the book you find upside down. There was one in their library. 759 00:48:34,890 --> 00:48:38,370 When I straightened it, I noticed it was one of the penal codes, and there was 760 00:48:38,370 --> 00:48:39,370 no dust on it. 761 00:48:39,980 --> 00:48:44,960 So someone there might have been reading it. But Perry, what if it was a maid's 762 00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:50,660 negligence or an accident or... Della, do you know what Justice Holmes said in 763 00:48:50,660 --> 00:48:53,560 reference to negligence? It also applies to clues. 764 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:59,380 He said... Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being 765 00:48:59,380 --> 00:49:00,380 kicked.