1 00:01:10,179 --> 00:01:17,000 Advice to the lovelorn, to the love -torn, to the love -worn, 2 00:01:17,140 --> 00:01:19,640 please listen to me. 3 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:30,500 Advice to the lovers who are trying to recover 4 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:33,580 some ecstasy. 5 00:01:40,910 --> 00:01:47,910 To the man and the woman who are looking to play their 6 00:01:47,910 --> 00:01:48,910 part. 7 00:01:53,350 --> 00:01:59,890 Advice to the lovelorn, be careful when you give 8 00:01:59,890 --> 00:02:01,330 your heart. 9 00:02:09,610 --> 00:02:11,110 Sylvia Richland with Eye on Atlanta. 10 00:02:11,430 --> 00:02:14,110 Today we're at the spacious home of Marjorie Manners. 11 00:02:14,410 --> 00:02:19,310 Marjorie is this year's recipient of Atlanta's coveted Golden Peach Award 12 00:02:19,310 --> 00:02:23,410 by the local chapter of the Women of America to that person who best 13 00:02:23,410 --> 00:02:24,410 family values. 14 00:02:24,630 --> 00:02:28,090 And what better person to receive this award than one of America's favorite 15 00:02:28,090 --> 00:02:34,510 columnists. Marjorie Manners' column, Dear Marjorie, appears daily in over 300 16 00:02:34,510 --> 00:02:36,190 papers coast to coast. 17 00:02:36,829 --> 00:02:41,190 Atlanta's own Marjorie has been dispensing advice to the lovelorn for 18 00:02:41,190 --> 00:02:44,070 years. And now we're going to meet her family in person. 19 00:02:44,990 --> 00:02:46,030 Was that too awkward? 20 00:02:46,290 --> 00:02:48,170 No. Do you want me to do it again? 21 00:02:48,370 --> 00:02:49,370 No. 22 00:02:54,790 --> 00:02:58,990 Hello. Hi, I'm Sylvia Richland with Ion Atlanta. You must be Marjorie's husband, 23 00:02:59,150 --> 00:03:02,990 Lee. No, I'm her brother -in -law, Carter Weston. Lee's inside. Please come 24 00:03:04,950 --> 00:03:05,950 My wife, Carol. 25 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,880 You must be Marjorie's sister. That's right. 26 00:03:09,140 --> 00:03:10,660 Oh, that's wonderful. 27 00:03:11,020 --> 00:03:12,360 Please. Thank you. 28 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:18,080 Oh, now. You have to be Lee Manor's Marjorie's husband. 29 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,840 That I am, yes. Great. And you must be her son? 30 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:22,480 No, no. I'm her copy boy. 31 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,080 Oh. Maybe we should set it for Marjorie now. 32 00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:28,960 I'm just so overwhelmed. 33 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,600 It's such an unexpected honor. 34 00:03:33,460 --> 00:03:37,420 Really, helping people solve their problems is rewarding in and of itself. 35 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,960 This makes me feel almost guilty. 36 00:03:41,060 --> 00:03:45,040 Marjorie, people across the country say they don't feel as though they've read 37 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:46,760 the paper unless they've read your column. 38 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,640 How does it feel to know you touch so many lives? 39 00:03:50,420 --> 00:03:52,680 All I am to my readers is a friend, Sylvia. 40 00:03:53,020 --> 00:03:57,340 Someone who listens and helps put things in perspective, that's all. Still, it's 41 00:03:57,340 --> 00:04:01,400 quite an accomplishment to be syndicated in every major newspaper in the U .S. 42 00:04:01,870 --> 00:04:03,210 What's the secret of your success? 43 00:04:03,670 --> 00:04:06,090 A little intuition and a lot of luck. 44 00:04:06,710 --> 00:04:11,990 And the uncompromising love and support I receive daily from my wonderful family 45 00:04:11,990 --> 00:04:13,230 who are with me here today. 46 00:04:13,770 --> 00:04:17,829 Marjorie. And not to be overlooked, our two very special people, our terrific 47 00:04:17,829 --> 00:04:18,829 kids. 48 00:04:19,170 --> 00:04:22,610 Randall and Lucia, who grew up all together too fast in our way at college. 49 00:04:23,290 --> 00:04:27,130 And then, of course, there are the people that I work with at the Examiner 50 00:04:27,130 --> 00:04:31,090 have become like family. Nora Gould, our editor, who could not be here today. 51 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,040 And Harold, our ever -ready coffee boy. 52 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:37,000 Always Johnny on the spot. 53 00:04:37,820 --> 00:04:40,000 Any words of advice for our viewers? 54 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:49,340 My advice to everyone watching today is cherish 55 00:04:49,340 --> 00:04:50,340 your loved ones. 56 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,640 No matter who you are or where you are or what you do, they are life's most 57 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:56,640 precious commodity. 58 00:04:57,540 --> 00:05:00,340 As usual, Marjorie, you've given us something to think about. 59 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:01,880 Again, congratulations. 60 00:05:01,980 --> 00:05:02,980 Thank you. 61 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,720 This is Sylvia Richland coming to you from the home of Marjorie Manners, this 62 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,120 year's recipient of Atlanta's Golden Peach Award. 63 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:17,100 Congratulations. 64 00:05:21,780 --> 00:05:25,280 Couldn't have happened to a nicer landlady. Thank you, Gideon. Help 65 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:26,280 some champagne. 66 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:27,840 Harold. 67 00:05:28,340 --> 00:05:31,880 Some very dear and old friends of mine have asked me out to dinner, and what 68 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,920 with receiving the award and all, I'm afraid I haven't had time to do 69 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,360 column. The copy will be ready at ten instead of six tonight. 70 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:40,840 Okay? No problem, Ms. Minner, sure. 71 00:05:41,660 --> 00:05:42,780 All right, where is she? 72 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:44,800 Where's the famous answer lady? 73 00:05:47,140 --> 00:05:49,280 You're destroying my life. Do you know that? 74 00:05:49,780 --> 00:05:50,780 Who are you? 75 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:52,240 I'm Craig Moore. 76 00:05:52,540 --> 00:05:54,740 Because of her, my wife is going to leave me. 77 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:56,580 How can you do that? 78 00:05:57,180 --> 00:06:00,800 You treat her fantasies like they're real. She actually believes you. 79 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,300 Stay back! 80 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:06,000 I came here to have it out with her, nobody else! 81 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:08,240 I'm calling the police. No, Carol, please wait. 82 00:06:11,340 --> 00:06:12,380 What's your name again? 83 00:06:13,460 --> 00:06:14,620 Craig. Moore. 84 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:16,200 Craig. 85 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,460 I've obviously done something to make you very angry, and for that I'm sorry. 86 00:06:20,860 --> 00:06:22,100 Let's talk, shall we? 87 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,460 In there. Just the two of us. 88 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,200 You can't do that. The man's deranged. I don't think so. 89 00:06:27,620 --> 00:06:29,860 If anything, I'm a pretty good judge of character. 90 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:33,300 Come on, son. 91 00:06:33,460 --> 00:06:34,460 Let's talk. 92 00:06:55,470 --> 00:06:58,110 Those people out there are very special to me, Craig. 93 00:06:58,690 --> 00:07:02,290 And we were just about to celebrate something that will happen only once in 94 00:07:02,290 --> 00:07:03,850 lifetime and no doubt never in yours. 95 00:07:04,690 --> 00:07:07,150 So if it's all the same for you, I'd like to get this over with. 96 00:07:07,370 --> 00:07:08,530 What the hell do you want? 97 00:07:09,190 --> 00:07:11,110 I just want you to straighten out Anna. 98 00:07:11,670 --> 00:07:14,470 What you know her as in love but miserable. What do you want me to do? 99 00:07:15,130 --> 00:07:16,130 Print a retraction. 100 00:07:17,050 --> 00:07:18,050 Retraction? 101 00:07:18,950 --> 00:07:21,130 Who do I look like, Bob Woodward? 102 00:07:21,630 --> 00:07:23,870 I give advice to the lovelorn for crying out loud. 103 00:07:24,130 --> 00:07:25,170 Then print a modification. 104 00:07:25,910 --> 00:07:26,990 I think you better leave. 105 00:07:27,870 --> 00:07:31,830 You could write an open letter saying you've been giving in love but 106 00:07:31,830 --> 00:07:35,310 problem more thought and you think she'd be better off staying with her husband 107 00:07:35,310 --> 00:07:38,710 after all. And that all her crazy ideas about... I don't have time for this now. 108 00:07:39,010 --> 00:07:40,010 Well, I'll come back. 109 00:07:41,850 --> 00:07:45,550 Fine. You come back here tonight and we'll write this open letter together. 110 00:07:45,870 --> 00:07:46,870 Does that do it? 111 00:07:47,370 --> 00:07:48,370 You bet. 112 00:07:48,810 --> 00:07:49,810 Good. 113 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:50,960 Now smile 114 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:57,260 Ten 115 00:07:57,260 --> 00:08:02,500 o 'clock tonight in my office. 116 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,260 It's the bungalow by the pool. Just come straight back. 117 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:12,460 I will thank you Did I hear you correctly did you just invite 118 00:08:12,460 --> 00:08:15,900 him back here Marjorie the man threatened you he's harmless 119 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,960 Like so many people, all he really wants is someone to listen and to care. 120 00:08:24,180 --> 00:08:25,540 Drink up. You deserve it. 121 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:46,900 Ms. Manners? 122 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:33,300 Good morning, Cassie. 123 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:36,400 Good morning. 124 00:10:42,980 --> 00:10:43,980 Problems with her boyfriend. 125 00:10:44,940 --> 00:10:47,660 At least she thought it was her boyfriend. They've been going out for 126 00:10:47,660 --> 00:10:49,560 month. Suddenly, he just stopped calling. 127 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,220 Oh, we were thinking, what, dropped her? Something like that. 128 00:10:57,980 --> 00:10:59,940 I'm sorry, Ben. That won't happen again. 129 00:11:01,070 --> 00:11:03,310 As far as I'm concerned, Brad is history. 130 00:11:04,030 --> 00:11:05,050 Good for you. 131 00:11:09,930 --> 00:11:12,910 So what if he looks like Tom Cruise with curly hair? 132 00:11:13,930 --> 00:11:16,170 So what if he has a great sense of humor? 133 00:11:17,230 --> 00:11:21,510 So what if we have absolutely everything in common? He can take a flying leap. 134 00:11:21,790 --> 00:11:24,030 Well, why don't you call him? 135 00:11:24,930 --> 00:11:26,410 Because he said he'd call me. 136 00:11:27,190 --> 00:11:29,970 And besides, I don't care anymore. 137 00:11:32,540 --> 00:11:33,740 Well, we better go to court. 138 00:11:54,420 --> 00:11:57,920 What do you say we call the office and go straight to lunch? I'm starved. 139 00:11:58,220 --> 00:11:59,220 Mr. Matlock? 140 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:01,040 My name is Anna Moore. 141 00:12:01,300 --> 00:12:05,140 My husband is Craig Moore, the man who's been charged with the murder of 142 00:12:05,140 --> 00:12:06,140 Marjorie Manners. 143 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:08,600 I called your office, but there was no answer. 144 00:12:09,780 --> 00:12:10,780 There wasn't? 145 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,020 My husband needs a good attorney. 146 00:12:13,420 --> 00:12:18,780 Oh, um, Miss Moore, the state's case against your husband is rock solid. I 147 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:23,460 They've got fingerprints, witnesses, motive, and God knows he isn't much of a 148 00:12:23,460 --> 00:12:25,260 saint. But my husband isn't a murderer. 149 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:27,840 Mr. Matlock, you have to understand something. 150 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:29,200 I'm rich. 151 00:12:29,740 --> 00:12:32,440 My father left me a trust fund of over $20 million. 152 00:12:33,140 --> 00:12:35,680 I can pay you any fee you want. Just name it. 153 00:12:36,020 --> 00:12:37,860 Well, wait a minute. 154 00:12:38,380 --> 00:12:43,560 If your husband thought he was going to lose all that money because of some 155 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:48,760 advice Marjorie Manners gave you in her column, that's a very powerful motive. 156 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:54,240 I offered all of my money to Craig years ago. He wouldn't take it. He even 157 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:55,780 signed a prenuptial agreement. 158 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,600 Then I said, let's live on my fortune. 159 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,780 He said, no, I'd like a nice office job. 160 00:13:04,860 --> 00:13:08,180 He wasn't in danger of losing you or the marriage? 161 00:13:09,540 --> 00:13:16,440 Well, yes, I threatened leaving him just to get him to face up to what 162 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:17,780 was going on between us. 163 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:19,960 What was that? 164 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:21,760 It's very personal. 165 00:13:22,020 --> 00:13:26,620 You said a little while ago that he was no saint. 166 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:28,920 What did that mean? 167 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:32,200 Not in front of her. 168 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:36,420 Excuse me. 169 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:41,880 This is privileged information, right? 170 00:13:42,220 --> 00:13:45,200 Yeah. There's something about Craig. 171 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,720 I'm not even sure what it is, but it's very powerful. 172 00:13:49,260 --> 00:13:54,520 Women can't resist him. They are constantly throwing themselves at him. 173 00:13:55,060 --> 00:13:57,320 And Craig is only human. 174 00:13:57,820 --> 00:13:58,820 He succumbs. 175 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,320 He unfaithful? 176 00:14:02,860 --> 00:14:03,860 Doesn't, like I. 177 00:14:05,060 --> 00:14:06,120 You have proof? 178 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:10,540 A woman doesn't need proof of that sort of thing, Mr. Matlock. She knows. 179 00:14:11,340 --> 00:14:18,060 But despite this incredible, this unexplainable magnetism, Craig is a 180 00:14:18,060 --> 00:14:21,700 wonderful, if occasionally weak, man. 181 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:23,840 I just love him. 182 00:14:24,580 --> 00:14:26,000 Will you take the case? 183 00:14:30,380 --> 00:14:34,440 They only said at $50 ,000, the preliminary hearing will take place in 184 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,900 courtroom on March 12th. 185 00:14:39,020 --> 00:14:41,900 Your wife's made arrangements for bail. You should be out of here within an 186 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:45,440 hour. Mr. Matlock, I'm going to be frank. 187 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,160 I don't think your associate should be involved with this case. 188 00:14:52,460 --> 00:14:53,460 Isn't it obvious? 189 00:14:54,620 --> 00:14:58,440 Well, not that I blame her, though, but she won't be able to resist him. 190 00:14:59,329 --> 00:15:01,990 Oh, well, she'll resist him. She's a professional. 191 00:15:03,270 --> 00:15:06,770 Anna, Michelle said I'll be out of here within an hour. 192 00:15:08,150 --> 00:15:11,390 The big question is, then can I come home? 193 00:15:16,130 --> 00:15:18,710 Not until you at least admit we have a problem. 194 00:15:20,070 --> 00:15:22,610 Anna, I love you. 195 00:15:23,090 --> 00:15:26,910 I have never, nor will I ever, have an affair with someone else. 196 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:34,040 I'll be at the hotel. 197 00:15:40,460 --> 00:15:41,560 Isn't he wonderful? 198 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,280 Pool house where they're off and on. Yeah. 199 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:01,760 Lieutenant Daniels left it alone. 200 00:16:01,980 --> 00:16:02,980 Yeah. 201 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:12,860 Think 202 00:16:12,860 --> 00:16:19,640 we 203 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:21,060 provided ourselves a burglar? 204 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,100 What kind of burglar would leave something like this behind? 205 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,400 Maybe he was looking for something in here. 206 00:16:31,140 --> 00:16:34,440 You think maybe we walked in on him before he found what he was looking for? 207 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:35,560 It'd be good. 208 00:16:36,460 --> 00:16:39,400 You know, you don't need me to meet with the family members. Why don't I just 209 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:40,400 stay here and look around? 210 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:41,700 Sure. 211 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:43,360 Look here. 212 00:16:45,260 --> 00:16:47,100 There's a picture of the president up here. 213 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:48,860 Yeah. It's autographed and everything. 214 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:50,960 Yeah, her column was pretty popular. 215 00:16:53,220 --> 00:16:54,240 I've never read it. 216 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,420 Well, maybe that's why he's up there and you're down here. 217 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:08,960 Mr. Matlock. Yes. 218 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,780 Lee Manners. Very nice to meet you. 219 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:14,420 Good -looking kids. Are yours? 220 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:15,720 Oh, thank you. Yes. 221 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:18,160 Randall's at Duke. 222 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:19,660 Lucia's at Baxter. 223 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:22,859 Marjorie was very proud of both of them. 224 00:17:25,069 --> 00:17:29,650 This is a very awkward time for you to be paying us this visit, Mr. Matlock. 225 00:17:30,370 --> 00:17:32,090 We're all still in a state of shock. 226 00:17:36,010 --> 00:17:36,410 You 227 00:17:36,410 --> 00:17:43,210 must 228 00:17:43,210 --> 00:17:44,330 be Ben Matlock? 229 00:17:44,710 --> 00:17:47,830 Yeah. I'm Carol Weston. Hello. This is my husband, Carter. 230 00:17:48,050 --> 00:17:49,050 Hello. 231 00:17:49,590 --> 00:17:51,710 I'm sorry we're late. We didn't know you were here. 232 00:17:52,050 --> 00:17:53,650 What's this all about, Mr. Matlock? 233 00:17:53,930 --> 00:17:54,990 Just to say hello. 234 00:17:55,450 --> 00:18:00,430 I know this is a bad time, and I apologize, but I have to follow up on 235 00:18:00,430 --> 00:18:04,190 something. It occurred to me that my client, Craig Moore, was framed. 236 00:18:04,530 --> 00:18:09,950 And if that's so, then whoever actually killed Marjorie had to have heard her 237 00:18:09,950 --> 00:18:12,490 tell him to come back here at 10 o 'clock that night. 238 00:18:13,190 --> 00:18:16,990 I don't think your client was framed, Mr. Matlock. I think he killed Marjorie, 239 00:18:16,990 --> 00:18:17,990 and I think you really should leave. 240 00:18:18,150 --> 00:18:22,630 Absolutely. Well, I thought rather than depose all of you or haul you into 241 00:18:22,630 --> 00:18:26,250 court, it might be more convenient for you to answer my questions here. 242 00:18:26,550 --> 00:18:27,489 Excuse me. 243 00:18:27,490 --> 00:18:30,210 You don't seriously think that it was one of us? 244 00:18:30,570 --> 00:18:33,830 Lee, this is just some sort of legal smokescreen. 245 00:18:34,110 --> 00:18:38,710 No, it isn't that. Somebody did kill Marjorie, and I don't think it was Craig 246 00:18:38,710 --> 00:18:39,710 Moore. 247 00:18:40,770 --> 00:18:46,870 But now that I've seen all of you, husband, sister, brother -in -law, 248 00:18:46,870 --> 00:18:48,370 together under the same roof, 249 00:18:49,150 --> 00:18:54,890 I can see that you have to be ruled out. You're just one big happy family. 250 00:18:55,850 --> 00:18:59,750 Again, Mr. Matlock, I hardly think that happy is an apt description of any of us 251 00:18:59,750 --> 00:19:00,750 under the circumstances. 252 00:19:02,030 --> 00:19:03,330 I'm sorry, I have an appointment. 253 00:19:03,970 --> 00:19:07,070 Yes, I have to get to class. I like to skip it, but I am the professor. Well, 254 00:19:07,090 --> 00:19:08,090 I'll move along, too. 255 00:19:08,730 --> 00:19:10,970 I just, as I say, wanted to say hello. 256 00:19:11,530 --> 00:19:12,690 Could I use your telephone? 257 00:19:13,190 --> 00:19:17,380 Somebody was, uh... rifling through Marjorie's office and I need to report 258 00:19:17,380 --> 00:19:20,560 the police. I don't suppose one of you knows who it might have been. 259 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,700 No, I... Or what they were looking for? 260 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:25,980 Mr. Matlock, I can't imagine. 261 00:19:26,620 --> 00:19:27,620 Neither can I. 262 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:28,760 Well... 263 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:36,520 You're 264 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:37,560 too pretty to be a thief. 265 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:39,680 Or a cop. 266 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:43,920 And you're obviously not the cleaning lady. 267 00:19:45,379 --> 00:19:46,379 Atlanta Examiner? 268 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:50,360 No. I'm one of the attorneys representing Craig Moore. 269 00:19:51,060 --> 00:19:52,060 Michelle Thomas. 270 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,200 And you're? Gideon Harris. I've got a room upstairs. 271 00:19:55,700 --> 00:19:57,880 Do you rent it out, or are you a member of the family? 272 00:19:58,200 --> 00:19:59,200 Rent. 273 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,120 Although I must say, Marjorie had this way of making even poor college students 274 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:07,600 working on their PhDs feel like they were at home. 275 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:09,560 Good lady. 276 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,600 Um, about 20 minutes ago, someone was in here. 277 00:20:14,330 --> 00:20:16,890 Tearing this place apart, I don't suppose you saw anybody. 278 00:20:17,190 --> 00:20:18,710 No, I just got back from the library. 279 00:20:19,850 --> 00:20:23,590 Although I do have a clear view of this room from my room. That's how I knew you 280 00:20:23,590 --> 00:20:24,590 were here. 281 00:20:29,870 --> 00:20:30,870 See? 282 00:20:30,990 --> 00:20:31,990 Oh. 283 00:20:33,270 --> 00:20:36,270 Whoever was in here just might come back. 284 00:20:37,650 --> 00:20:41,050 How amenable would you be to my taking out this place from your room? 285 00:20:41,670 --> 00:20:43,690 Just for a while, till midnight at the most. 286 00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:45,300 Sounds good to me. 287 00:20:45,460 --> 00:20:47,300 Great. I really appreciate it. 288 00:20:47,700 --> 00:20:50,120 I'll just throw a bottle of Chardonnay in the fridge and we'll be all set. 289 00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:05,460 Well, now you can say you've dined at Gideon's Playroom. 290 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:07,920 Great. 291 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,600 No, no, I meant that the Manners use this as a playroom for their kids. 292 00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:13,020 Oh. 293 00:21:13,290 --> 00:21:14,730 How long have you been running it? 294 00:21:15,090 --> 00:21:18,650 Just two years. That's when Carter heard I needed a place to stay and he offered 295 00:21:18,650 --> 00:21:19,349 it to me. 296 00:21:19,350 --> 00:21:20,810 I met him down at the university. 297 00:21:21,910 --> 00:21:24,510 Sure you wouldn't like some wine? You only got a half hour to go. 298 00:21:25,230 --> 00:21:26,750 Thanks, but no thanks. 299 00:21:31,210 --> 00:21:33,050 Of course, you're welcome to stay longer. 300 00:21:37,070 --> 00:21:38,070 Sorry, I'll shut up. 301 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:45,720 Is that your dissertation? 302 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:48,320 Yeah, I just finished the rough draft. 303 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:50,960 Not a minute too soon. 304 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:52,680 What do you mean? 305 00:21:53,420 --> 00:21:57,460 I'm a sociologist. I'm specializing in the effects of mass communication on 306 00:21:57,460 --> 00:21:58,460 modern culture. 307 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,680 Specifically, I'm studying the influence of advice columns. 308 00:22:02,340 --> 00:22:04,840 Don't tell me your dissertation's on Marjorie Manners. 309 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,140 You don't knock it till you read it. It's good. 310 00:22:08,620 --> 00:22:10,560 It's gonna get me a teaching position at Yale. 311 00:22:14,220 --> 00:22:15,560 Sounds like Lee just got home. 312 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,460 We're supposed to be watching the pool house. 313 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,640 Watching the main house is much more interesting, believe me. 314 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:35,820 Yeah, off goes his light, and on goes hers. 315 00:22:37,580 --> 00:22:38,580 Whose? 316 00:22:38,980 --> 00:22:39,980 Carol's. 317 00:22:41,380 --> 00:22:43,200 Now, what room's it gonna be in tonight? 318 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:46,640 Give me the study. 319 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,100 What are you talking about? 320 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,700 How important is it for you to know what Atlanta's perfect family is really 321 00:22:57,700 --> 00:22:58,700 like? 322 00:22:59,220 --> 00:23:00,780 Very. Come on. 323 00:23:52,199 --> 00:23:56,340 Gideon. I'm sorry, Lee. I saw the light on in here. I thought I could just come 324 00:23:56,340 --> 00:23:57,340 in and get this. 325 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,360 Have you met Michelle Thomas? She works for Ben Matlock. 326 00:24:01,180 --> 00:24:05,360 Michelle, this is Carol Weston, Marjorie's sister, and Lee Manners, 327 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:06,460 husband. How do you do? 328 00:24:07,020 --> 00:24:08,020 Hello. 329 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:09,520 Carter working late tonight? 330 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:13,500 An interdepartmental meeting. 331 00:24:14,900 --> 00:24:16,280 I was waiting up for him. 332 00:24:34,740 --> 00:24:38,080 Gideon? For God's sake, let go of me. 333 00:24:38,380 --> 00:24:41,240 Michelle Thomas, Carter West, and Marjorie's brother -in -law. 334 00:24:42,540 --> 00:24:43,540 I'm an attorney. 335 00:24:43,980 --> 00:24:45,520 I work with Ben Matlock. 336 00:24:46,580 --> 00:24:49,580 I thought you had one of those late -night interdepartmental meetings. 337 00:24:50,740 --> 00:24:51,760 I left early. 338 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,000 What were you doing here? 339 00:24:54,820 --> 00:24:57,560 I was looking for something that I lent to Marjorie, a book. 340 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:58,840 With a flashlight? 341 00:25:03,379 --> 00:25:05,240 Crossing police lines without authorization? 342 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,540 Now, can you give me any reason why I shouldn't just pick up the telephone and 343 00:25:10,540 --> 00:25:11,640 report this to the police? 344 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,200 Getting a few excuses, please. 345 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,200 Sure. 346 00:25:24,420 --> 00:25:25,900 I'll be at my place if you need me. 347 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:35,260 In case you're curious, it was me in here earlier. 348 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,360 I was looking for Marjorie's diary. 349 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:40,360 Why? 350 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:43,620 I'm going to give you the short version. 351 00:25:45,060 --> 00:25:46,940 My marriage is all I have left. 352 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,100 I don't want to lose Carol. 353 00:25:51,900 --> 00:25:54,520 Losing Marjorie was traumatic enough. 354 00:25:57,980 --> 00:25:59,260 Marjorie and I were having an affair. 355 00:26:04,940 --> 00:26:11,420 It was her idea from the start, but... But I did grow accustomed to the 356 00:26:11,420 --> 00:26:12,420 arrangement. 357 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:19,840 Now that... Now that Marjorie is out of my life, I don't want Carol to find out. 358 00:26:21,980 --> 00:26:25,760 I'm going to have to leave this up to your discretion, but please. 359 00:26:27,460 --> 00:26:28,560 Carol is all I have left. 360 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,000 on my way over to the university to check out Gideon Harris. 361 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:44,360 You know, the guy that lives upstairs. 362 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,080 He says he was at a seminar, so we'll see. Yeah. 363 00:27:07,540 --> 00:27:08,540 You gonna answer that? 364 00:27:09,610 --> 00:27:10,610 What if it's Brad? 365 00:27:12,630 --> 00:27:13,630 Hello? 366 00:27:15,490 --> 00:27:16,930 No, she just left. 367 00:27:18,410 --> 00:27:20,070 Yes, I'll tell her. 368 00:27:20,750 --> 00:27:24,210 I thought you and Brad were history. 369 00:27:24,690 --> 00:27:29,810 Well, I finally called him, and it turns out he goes out of town a lot on 370 00:27:29,810 --> 00:27:31,630 business, and that's why I hadn't heard from him. 371 00:27:32,350 --> 00:27:34,930 And that's also why I'm afraid to answer the phone. 372 00:27:36,870 --> 00:27:37,870 I don't get it. 373 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,520 Well, he's got another business trip coming up, and he wants me to go with 374 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:43,480 Oh. 375 00:27:45,540 --> 00:27:47,960 I told him that I'd have to think about it. 376 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:49,360 What do you think? 377 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:51,480 I don't know. 378 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:58,120 Well, if I go, I know it'll change our relationship radically. 379 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:02,360 What do you think? 380 00:28:03,580 --> 00:28:04,580 Well, I don't know. 381 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:06,760 Do you think I ought to go? 382 00:28:09,939 --> 00:28:13,940 Maybe you ought to go and stay in two separate rooms and meet him at 383 00:28:16,860 --> 00:28:18,300 I'll be out at the manager's table. 384 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,120 You know, this is kind of an odd family. 385 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:32,720 Mr. Matlock, Marjorie could be very vindictive. 386 00:28:33,660 --> 00:28:37,640 I adored her when we were first married, but the more popular her column became, 387 00:28:37,780 --> 00:28:42,420 the more miserable she made everyone around her. She became enthralled with 388 00:28:42,420 --> 00:28:43,420 own power. 389 00:28:43,540 --> 00:28:47,760 She made more money than anyone else, so she insisted that I give up my job and 390 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,600 stay home with the kids. She even made Carol stop working. 391 00:28:51,020 --> 00:28:52,940 She wanted to control everything. 392 00:28:54,460 --> 00:28:57,700 She let Carter keep working? 393 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,420 Only because his salary was so laughable. 394 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:07,620 But what's inexcusable isn't so much what she did to us, but what she did to 395 00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:08,620 kids. 396 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,440 They're as screwed up as they come. 397 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:11,760 Oh, that's right. 398 00:29:11,820 --> 00:29:14,440 They didn't even come home when their mother died. 399 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:21,520 One I can't even find. And Randall, the other one, he'd rather not see any of 400 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:22,520 us. 401 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,640 That's a shame. That's really a shame. 402 00:29:29,420 --> 00:29:30,420 I'm sorry. 403 00:29:32,460 --> 00:29:35,720 You know, sometimes I feel awful. 404 00:29:37,180 --> 00:29:40,960 But I have to ask where you were the night of the murder. 405 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,480 I was home, alone. 406 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,720 Can anybody corroborate that? 407 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:47,760 No, nobody was here. 408 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:50,360 Where was Carter? 409 00:29:50,820 --> 00:29:52,840 Carter, well, he said he was going to the library. 410 00:29:54,020 --> 00:29:59,700 Mr. Matlock, as unusual as our situation was here, 411 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,440 I did not kill Marjorie. 412 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:10,520 Of course, you were mentioned heavily in her 413 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,080 will, weren't you? I mean, everything. 414 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:13,920 Yes, that's correct. 415 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,140 What if she had found out about you and her sister? 416 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,340 What if she had decided to cut you out? 417 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,060 And what if she didn't? 418 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:24,560 Yeah. 419 00:30:25,660 --> 00:30:26,660 Yeah. 420 00:30:27,180 --> 00:30:29,060 You wouldn't have any reason to kill her. 421 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,900 Well, I'm sorry. 422 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:36,740 I'm sorry. 423 00:30:40,820 --> 00:30:41,820 Ms. 424 00:30:45,460 --> 00:30:46,460 Weston. 425 00:30:47,780 --> 00:30:53,600 I understand. 426 00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:55,780 Congratulations are in order. 427 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,460 For what? 428 00:30:57,950 --> 00:31:00,990 I hear the paper found someone to take over your sister's column. 429 00:31:02,110 --> 00:31:08,990 That was supposed to be a secret. Well, the editor -in -chief of the Examiner is 430 00:31:08,990 --> 00:31:14,350 an old friend of mine. And he told me that he was delighted when you 431 00:31:14,350 --> 00:31:15,350 him with the idea. 432 00:31:15,770 --> 00:31:17,290 Well, it is kind of exciting. 433 00:31:18,290 --> 00:31:25,110 Well, now you have your sister's column, her income, and maybe 434 00:31:25,110 --> 00:31:26,110 even her husband. 435 00:31:27,139 --> 00:31:33,020 I, uh... I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask you where you were at the 436 00:31:33,020 --> 00:31:34,020 time of the murder. 437 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:35,980 I was at home, alone. 438 00:31:36,420 --> 00:31:37,420 And you, sir? 439 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:39,560 Of course. 440 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:42,040 Where was Lee? 441 00:31:43,420 --> 00:31:45,440 He said he was going to a concert that night. 442 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,540 Now, if you don't mind, you'll have to excuse us, Mr. Matlock. 443 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,750 Not only does this conversation seem pointless... but we do have a court in 444 00:31:57,750 --> 00:32:04,510 minutes. Oh, speaking of court, it's just a little subpoena to 445 00:32:04,510 --> 00:32:05,469 appear in mine. 446 00:32:05,470 --> 00:32:07,190 Well, not mine, but... 447 00:32:07,190 --> 00:32:15,070 Mr. 448 00:32:15,230 --> 00:32:18,270 Matlock, what could be so urgent that it can't wait until morning? 449 00:32:18,530 --> 00:32:23,890 My associate and I asked each of you where you were the night of the murder. 450 00:32:24,490 --> 00:32:26,930 And Carter, you said you were home alone. 451 00:32:27,230 --> 00:32:31,390 Lee, you said you were home alone. And Carol, you said you were home alone. 452 00:32:31,710 --> 00:32:35,910 That's an awful lot of people to be home alone at the time of this murder. 453 00:32:36,670 --> 00:32:38,750 Honey, you said you were having dinner with Gladys. 454 00:32:38,950 --> 00:32:41,850 According to Gladys, she did not have dinner with her. 455 00:32:42,570 --> 00:32:43,570 Where were you? 456 00:32:44,150 --> 00:32:45,150 I had a meeting. 457 00:32:45,790 --> 00:32:46,790 With whom? 458 00:32:47,970 --> 00:32:52,570 I had a meeting with Carl Kravitz. His company has decided to publish my novel. 459 00:32:52,990 --> 00:32:53,990 No. 460 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:55,920 I've been writing a novel, yes. 461 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,080 Well, why didn't you say that to begin with? 462 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,260 Because I have to publish it with a pseudonym now. It's a little explicit. 463 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:10,600 Oh, you mean... I mean explicit. And I don't want it to jeopardize my taking 464 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:11,720 over Marjorie's column. 465 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:18,260 Ms. Weston, when the copy boy got here at 10 o 'clock that night and discovered 466 00:33:18,260 --> 00:33:21,540 Marjorie Manor's body, he ran up to this house... 467 00:33:22,290 --> 00:33:23,790 And no one was home. 468 00:33:24,950 --> 00:33:26,850 Now, this, uh, Mr. Kravitz. 469 00:33:27,470 --> 00:33:28,950 How late were you with him? 470 00:33:30,710 --> 00:33:36,270 Well, I... I... I, uh, picked her up from Kravitz's office. 471 00:33:37,170 --> 00:33:39,530 What... What are you talking about? 472 00:33:40,970 --> 00:33:42,530 Carol was with me. 473 00:33:43,210 --> 00:33:45,090 Lee... It's gonna come out anyway. 474 00:33:46,070 --> 00:33:50,630 Look, Carter... You might as well know. 475 00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:54,260 Carol and I have been lovers. 476 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,440 No, no, no, no, no. 477 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:09,380 Now, we know that none of you were at home alone at the 478 00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:14,520 time of the murder. And we know that none of you were where you told each 479 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:21,480 you were. Now, Mr. Manners, according to my investigator, you were 480 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,020 not. at the concert, as you said. 481 00:34:24,380 --> 00:34:29,360 Where were you before you met Mrs. Weston? 482 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:31,659 Very interesting question, Mr. Matlock. 483 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:37,340 As a matter of fact, I was in a meeting with the president of Sendrax Chemicals. 484 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:44,080 I was trying to get him placed as a head of research in Detroit. I want him out 485 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:49,880 of this house, out of the city. I want him out of my life so that I can have 486 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:50,880 Carol. 487 00:34:51,210 --> 00:34:52,210 For myself. 488 00:34:52,670 --> 00:34:54,650 You know, you're really some kind of friend. 489 00:34:55,070 --> 00:34:56,850 Wait a minute. What about you? 490 00:34:57,290 --> 00:34:58,850 There's more than one liar here. 491 00:34:59,170 --> 00:35:02,230 You told me you were going to the library the night Marjorie died. 492 00:35:02,710 --> 00:35:05,430 Why did you tell Mr. Matlock that you were at home? 493 00:35:05,730 --> 00:35:07,950 No one saw you at the library, we checked. 494 00:35:12,630 --> 00:35:13,810 All right, so I wasn't there. 495 00:35:16,390 --> 00:35:19,630 Well, where were you? What's the big secret? 496 00:35:21,770 --> 00:35:24,350 I was at a bar near the university called the Cedar Lounge. 497 00:35:24,850 --> 00:35:28,930 The Cedar Lounge. That's a pickup bar for young people, isn't it? That's 498 00:35:29,530 --> 00:35:30,650 That's exactly what it is. 499 00:35:32,470 --> 00:35:34,950 The reason I lied, Mr. Matlock, is because I was embarrassed. 500 00:35:37,610 --> 00:35:41,730 And for your information, the reason I was at that bar was because I was upset. 501 00:35:41,850 --> 00:35:42,890 Now, you want to know why I was upset? 502 00:35:45,690 --> 00:35:47,630 Because I was having an affair with Marjorie. 503 00:35:48,590 --> 00:35:54,210 And she threw me over for somebody else. Liar! No, no, no, this is working. This 504 00:35:54,210 --> 00:35:55,570 is really working. This is wonderful. 505 00:35:57,030 --> 00:36:02,730 Now we know where all of you were at the time of the murder, and I'm sure none 506 00:36:02,730 --> 00:36:03,730 of you did. 507 00:36:07,830 --> 00:36:10,030 Who did Marjorie throw you over for? 508 00:36:11,170 --> 00:36:14,770 Uh, excuse me, I just wanted to get some hot water for some tea here. 509 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:33,820 She threw me over for him. 510 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,000 Marjorie Manners. 511 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:50,280 Little did all these people know that her life was just one big pajama party. 512 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,320 Yes. 513 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:52,720 Even Gideon was involved. 514 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,800 At least he wasn't a member of the fan. 515 00:36:55,220 --> 00:36:56,220 Yeah. 516 00:36:56,660 --> 00:36:59,780 Now we know why Carter was never able to find Marjorie's diary. 517 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,420 Gideon must have found it first. 518 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,460 Probably just after he killed her. 519 00:37:04,460 --> 00:37:08,740 But he was at a seminar from 9 to 11 that night. His alibi is airtight. 520 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:15,980 If she were killed around 10, but what if they, Gideon killed her a 521 00:37:15,980 --> 00:37:16,980 little before 9? 522 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,760 The university is only five minutes away. 523 00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:22,400 The time of death is only an approximation. 524 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:24,700 No, she couldn't have been killed then. 525 00:37:24,940 --> 00:37:25,940 Her column. 526 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,180 It was just one sentence away from being done. 527 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,300 If she was killed at nine, when could she have written it? 528 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:33,740 How about before that? 529 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,860 No, the people she was at dinner with dropped her off at 8 .50. 530 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:42,400 Well, that column had to have been written before nine. That's all there is 531 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:43,480 it. That's impossible. 532 00:37:44,380 --> 00:37:45,620 She couldn't have done it. 533 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,220 What kind of typewriter does Gideon have? 534 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,560 One just like this. 535 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:57,360 Well, that's it. 536 00:38:01,450 --> 00:38:07,450 I had an underwood all the way through law school. I remember the way it 537 00:38:07,450 --> 00:38:14,390 smelled, the way the little bell sounded on the carriage return, and 538 00:38:14,390 --> 00:38:17,170 how it ruined my day when I had to change the ribbon. 539 00:38:20,130 --> 00:38:22,330 It always turned out to be a mess. 540 00:38:25,010 --> 00:38:28,690 But with the cartridges they have nowadays... 541 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,920 You don't even need to look at the ribbon, let alone touch it. 542 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:45,460 Um, Mr. Harris, you live on the Manor's estate? 543 00:38:46,540 --> 00:38:47,540 Yes, I do. 544 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,300 Upstairs in a room in the main house? 545 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:52,640 That's right. 546 00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:57,240 How would you describe your relationship with Marjorie Manor? 547 00:39:00,710 --> 00:39:01,710 We were friends. 548 00:39:04,050 --> 00:39:05,790 Did you ever have an affair with her? 549 00:39:06,610 --> 00:39:07,610 Never. 550 00:39:07,850 --> 00:39:14,370 So you're just a struggling Ph .D. candidate seeking a convenient place to 551 00:39:14,370 --> 00:39:16,010 while he writes out his dissertation. 552 00:39:16,350 --> 00:39:17,149 Is that about right? 553 00:39:17,150 --> 00:39:17,888 That's right. 554 00:39:17,890 --> 00:39:20,890 Do you mind telling the court what your dissertation was about? 555 00:39:21,230 --> 00:39:22,230 Objection. Relevancy. 556 00:39:22,450 --> 00:39:25,830 I assume there's a point to this, Mr. Matlock. Absolutely, Your Honor. 557 00:39:27,070 --> 00:39:28,070 Overruled. 558 00:39:28,330 --> 00:39:29,590 Answer the question, please. 559 00:39:30,190 --> 00:39:35,710 My dissertation is a study of the sociopsychological ramifications of the 560 00:39:35,710 --> 00:39:38,150 media phenomenon known as advice columns. 561 00:39:38,650 --> 00:39:39,650 Specifically? 562 00:39:40,030 --> 00:39:45,350 The major portion of my dissertation is a study of Dear Marjorie. Marjorie 563 00:39:45,350 --> 00:39:46,189 Manners' column. 564 00:39:46,190 --> 00:39:47,190 That's correct. 565 00:39:47,670 --> 00:39:54,410 So you analyze her column and the effect it has on the people 566 00:39:54,410 --> 00:39:56,650 who follow it. Yes. 567 00:39:57,240 --> 00:40:00,520 Is it a serious, scientific, objective analysis? 568 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:02,400 Definitely. 569 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:09,940 What would happen to the validity of such a dissertation if it were known 570 00:40:09,940 --> 00:40:16,460 that the author of that dissertation were sleeping with the creator of the 571 00:40:16,460 --> 00:40:20,560 subject? I'm speaking of Marjorie Manners of Dear Marjorie. 572 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,740 The integrity of the work would be suspect. 573 00:40:24,060 --> 00:40:26,140 The integrity of the work would be out the window, wouldn't it? 574 00:40:26,510 --> 00:40:30,510 The Ph .D. would be out the window, wouldn't it? And the years you spent 575 00:40:30,510 --> 00:40:32,790 for that Ph .D. would be out the window, wouldn't they? 576 00:40:33,050 --> 00:40:36,650 Objection, Mr. Madler. I'll move on to another line of questions, Your Honor. 577 00:40:40,610 --> 00:40:42,210 Mr. Harris, sir. 578 00:40:45,510 --> 00:40:51,590 Did you know that Marjorie Manners kept a diary? 579 00:40:52,230 --> 00:40:53,230 Yes. 580 00:40:53,550 --> 00:40:54,550 You know it's missing? 581 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:56,540 No, I didn't know. 582 00:40:56,780 --> 00:40:57,960 Yeah, yeah. 583 00:41:00,620 --> 00:41:02,280 What was in it, Mr. Harris? 584 00:41:03,980 --> 00:41:06,900 Was she giving you too much unsolicited advice? 585 00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:11,080 Was she asking more than you were prepared to give? 586 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,760 Were you trying to get out of the relationship? 587 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,140 Was she threatening to go public with it? Is that why you killed her? 588 00:41:17,540 --> 00:41:19,420 Objection, Your Honor. No foundation. 589 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:21,380 Speculative, argumentative. Withdraw. 590 00:41:21,620 --> 00:41:22,620 Withdraw the question. 591 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:29,980 Mr. Harris, on the day that 592 00:41:29,980 --> 00:41:36,960 Marjorie Manners was killed, did you hear her say that in celebration of 593 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:41,640 her award, she was going out to dinner with some very old and dear friends, and 594 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,900 her column would be finished at 10 o 'clock instead of 6? 595 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:52,100 I think everybody at the party heard that. And you knew that Harold the copy 596 00:41:52,100 --> 00:41:54,750 boy... would come by at 10 o 'clock? 597 00:41:56,190 --> 00:41:59,050 Again, everybody did. Just answer yes or no. 598 00:41:59,310 --> 00:42:06,170 Yes. And you heard her tell my client to come 599 00:42:06,170 --> 00:42:07,970 by her office at 10 o 'clock? 600 00:42:08,270 --> 00:42:13,530 Yes. While you were at the party, did you see my client pick this up? 601 00:42:14,050 --> 00:42:17,190 Yes. You knew his fingerprints were on it? 602 00:42:18,670 --> 00:42:21,250 Yes. Mr. Harris, isn't it true? 603 00:42:21,790 --> 00:42:26,450 that you went to Marjorie Manor's office that night and, wearing gloves, used 604 00:42:26,450 --> 00:42:29,090 this to deliver the fatal blow to her head? 605 00:42:29,530 --> 00:42:33,750 Objection, Your Honor. Again, no foundation, speculative and 606 00:42:33,750 --> 00:42:34,890 Withdraw! Withdraw! 607 00:42:42,130 --> 00:42:48,030 You did... go to her office that night, 608 00:42:48,190 --> 00:42:50,530 didn't you, Mr. Harris? 609 00:42:51,770 --> 00:42:56,090 Mr. Matlock, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I was nowhere near her office 610 00:42:56,090 --> 00:42:57,510 night. I was in a seminar. 611 00:42:57,850 --> 00:42:58,850 Yeah. 612 00:42:59,990 --> 00:43:01,390 After nine, I know that. 613 00:43:03,670 --> 00:43:08,970 And I know that her column was found in her typewriter, indicating she had been 614 00:43:08,970 --> 00:43:11,070 working on it for an hour. 615 00:43:12,490 --> 00:43:13,930 But what if she didn't write it? 616 00:43:14,430 --> 00:43:19,510 What if it were written by someone who knew that column intimately well? 617 00:43:20,430 --> 00:43:21,430 I don't understand. 618 00:43:21,710 --> 00:43:25,290 You wrote the column, didn't you? Up in your room on your typewriter while she 619 00:43:25,290 --> 00:43:27,730 was at dinner. No. Then you put it in her typewriter. 620 00:43:27,990 --> 00:43:34,190 You went by her office, you killed her shortly before nine, and left that 621 00:43:34,190 --> 00:43:37,330 as proof that she was killed around ten. 622 00:43:37,650 --> 00:43:39,110 No, absolutely not. 623 00:43:39,350 --> 00:43:44,590 I'd like this typewriter introduced as Defense Exhibit C. 624 00:43:45,890 --> 00:43:47,510 Do you recognize this typewriter? 625 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,220 It looks like mine. It is yours. 626 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,160 Would you remove the ribbon? 627 00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:05,720 There you go. 628 00:44:06,740 --> 00:44:13,400 Now, what if we had the forensics department of the Atlanta police examine 629 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:18,180 the impressions on this typewriter ribbon? 630 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:20,240 Transcribe it, so to speak. 631 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:22,500 What would they find? 632 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,680 A copy of my dissertation. 633 00:44:28,420 --> 00:44:29,440 Some letters. 634 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:30,960 That's right. 635 00:44:33,700 --> 00:44:34,700 What else? 636 00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:42,300 Dear Marjorie's last column. 637 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,380 Dear angry, tense... 638 00:44:49,259 --> 00:44:52,400 My advice to you is stay with your husband. 639 00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:59,480 I know that most of the time he is either too tired or his back hurts. 640 00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,760 But there is that once in a while. 641 00:45:03,940 --> 00:45:07,520 Keep a good thought and make the best of that once in a while. 642 00:45:08,940 --> 00:45:09,940 That's good advice. 643 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,100 You know what I think, Mr. Harris? 644 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:15,740 I think... 645 00:45:16,350 --> 00:45:21,810 you would have made a wonderful replacement for Audrey Manners if 646 00:45:21,810 --> 00:45:25,490 you hadn't killed her. 647 00:45:44,420 --> 00:45:46,020 There's something I have to confess. 648 00:45:47,460 --> 00:45:51,580 All those women you thought I was with, well, you were right. 649 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,960 They couldn't resist me, and I couldn't resist the temptation. 650 00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:56,339 I knew it. 651 00:45:56,340 --> 00:45:59,460 But I'm never, ever going to do anything like that again. 652 00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,040 I'm going to be strong, I promise. 653 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:06,320 Promise? Going without you has taught me a big lesson. 654 00:46:06,940 --> 00:46:08,840 I love you, and only you. 655 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,340 You don't have to worry about me anymore. 656 00:46:19,850 --> 00:46:20,990 Let's go home. 657 00:46:28,670 --> 00:46:30,590 I'm really happy for them. 658 00:46:30,850 --> 00:46:31,850 Yeah. 659 00:46:32,990 --> 00:46:33,990 Yeah. 660 00:46:37,910 --> 00:46:40,970 How are things with Brad? 661 00:46:41,710 --> 00:46:43,150 I took your advice. 662 00:46:44,370 --> 00:46:45,990 Yeah? Yeah. 663 00:46:46,410 --> 00:46:49,230 I told him I wanted to go, but I wanted to have my own room. 664 00:46:50,930 --> 00:46:51,930 Yeah? 665 00:46:52,530 --> 00:46:54,250 He already booked me one. 666 00:46:54,950 --> 00:46:55,950 Separate rooms? 667 00:46:56,010 --> 00:46:57,010 Yeah. 668 00:46:58,850 --> 00:47:03,150 I think he actually likes me. 669 00:47:03,450 --> 00:47:04,450 Oh, well. 670 00:47:04,990 --> 00:47:06,730 Give yourself some credit. 671 00:47:08,170 --> 00:47:09,170 Thanks.