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♪ Hey, good lookin' Whatcha got cookin' ♪

♪ Hows about cookin' Something up with me ♪

♪ Hey, sweet baby Don't you think maybe ♪

♪ We could find us A brand new recipe ♪

♪ I got a hot rod Ford And a two dollar bill ♪

♪ And I know a place Right over the hill ♪

♪ Where... ♪

I forget it.

Bones, I forgot it.

♪ Hey, good lookin' ♪

♪ Whatcha got cookin' ♪

♪ Hows about cookin' Something up for me ♪

Yeehaw!

I didn't really want to sing that song, anyhow, actually.

But I got another one here I'd like to sing.

I'd like to sing a song and I'd like to dedicate it

to my beautiful wife, Kitty Carroll, right here.

Okay.

Ain't she something?

Stand back.

♪ I tried so hard My dear to show ♪

♪ That you're my every dream ♪

♪ Yet you're afraid Each thing thing I do ♪

♪ Is just some evil scheme ♪

♪ A memory from Your lonesome past ♪

♪ Keeps us so far a-apart ♪

♪ Why can't I free Your doubtful mind ♪

♪ And melt Your cold cold heart ♪

♪ Another love before my time Made your heart sad and blue ♪

♪ And so my heart Is payin' now ♪

♪ For things I did not do ♪

♪ In anger unkind words Are said ♪

♪ That make The teardrops start ♪

♪ Why can't I free Your doubtful mind ♪

♪ And melt Your cold cold heart ♪

See if I ever dedicate another song to you.

Hey, but it don't matter,

'cause I'll tell ya, Jimmy Legrand don't get mad.

He just gets even.

Kitty?

Kitty!

Listen to me, please.

Just what are you doing?

I'm not talking to you.

Yes, you are.

I'm not taking any more notes from you.

I want to know what's wrong and I want to know right now.

You're drunk. That's what's wrong.

Aw. I told you, Jim.

I said if you didn't stop drinking or raising hell,

then I was going to walk out on you for good,

and that's exactly what's going on right now.

Look, you can't do this. This tour is not over.

We got five more bookings.

You leave and you ain't never coming back.

What in sam hill's going on, Jimmy?

Now, Jimmy, just wait. Jimmy!

Tom, get 'em both back on the stage.

Have 'em do... No... Just have him tell every story he knows.

Luann. Luann, she is you're sister.

You gotta talk to her.

There ain't nothing to talk about.

She's had it and it's over.

All of it.

Listen, you can't do this.

Just think what it'll do to Jimmy.

You're worried about Jimmy, huh? Don't make me laugh.

All you're worried about is losing your meal ticket.

Oh, yeah. You just let him drink

and let him make an ass out of himself

so you can steal from him.

You're nothing but parasites hanging on and sucking him dry.

Hey, lady. You're way out of line!

You don't give a hoot what happens to Jimmy or Kitty,

and if your tour shuts down, it'll serve you right.

Oh, my God.

It's Kitty Carroll.

No. It's Luann, her sister.

I think she's dead.

Somebody call the police!

Okay. Now, if I can just get this clear...

Careful. Yep.

Here we go. Wait. Wait.

Yeah. Okay. You got it?

I think so. Okay.

Okay. Okay.

It's clear. Ahh.

Hey. Ha-ha-ha. Oh.

What do you think? Oh, it's just gorgeous.

The face and the... It's beautiful.

Look at that wood. Ooh.

Look at that workmanship. The inlay. Mm-hm

This wonderful little window. Oh, yes. Beautiful.

It's got to be 100 years old. Oh, yes.

Maybe more. Oh, maybe more. Yes.

How long do you think it'll take to fix it?

Well, I've got a guy that owes me a favor.

I expect he can get right on it.

I hear there's this little old man over in Athens

who fixes antique clocks for a living.

Well, yeah. Of course, this guy that owes me the favor,

he could probably save you some:

You sure he can fix it?

Oh, yes. He can fix anything.

Okay. All right.

Coffee?

I'll see you at dinner. Oh, okay. Okay.

L-Let's try Alfredo's, huh?

Okay. Okay. Okay Ha-ha-ha. Bye.

Bye.

There's a beauty.

That's a beauty.

This... Go in, then. There you are.

Yeah.

Damn.

This is Ben Matlock.

Actually, it's my answering machine,

because I'm not here right now.

But if you leave your name and number

at the sound of the beep, I'll call you back.

That's a promise.

Hi. Ben. It's Michelle.

Oh, Michelle. It's Sunday.

I know it's Sunday, but I thought maybe,

just maybe, you'd be home.

I'm not home.

Sorry you're not home, because the service

just called me to say that a woman named Kitty Carroll

wants to talk to you.

Country singer?

She's a country-western singer or something.

Anyway, I'll just say I couldn't reach you.

No. No, wait. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Hold it. Wait. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Wait... Hello?

Why, Ben. What a surprise.

Uh, hey, listen, Michelle.

Tell, uh, Kitty Carroll that I'd be delighted to meet her.

Where?

She'll be at the office in half an hour.

Okay. Okay.

Okay.

Well, uh...

Luann, she didn't have an enemy in the world,

but she was driving my car and it was...

We always dressed alike.

It was 3 in the morning and the parking lot

wasn't very well lit.

The police think whoever was driving that car

was trying to kill you.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's one of the reasons they arrested Jimmy.

Why would your husband want to kill you?

Well, I made him very angry last night.

I-I-I walked off the stage in the middle of the show

and I told him that it was finished between us.

What brought that about?

Jimmy's always been kind of wild, see,

and, uh, when we... When we got married about three years ago,

h-he promised me that he would change,

and... And he did for a while.

He... He stopped drinking

and, uh, he stopped going to dives.

Then about, uh, five months ago, when we started this tour,

he kinda started going downhill.

He was drinking and picking fights with everybody and...

Smashing up cars.

He's been in jail twice.

I read about that. I was hoping it was just something

some press agent had made up to hike the ticket sales.

You sound like a fan.

Well, you could say.

He has all your husband's records.

Go ahead.

Things just went from bad to worse and nothing I said...

I-It j-just didn't seem to make any difference.

And then when we came into town last night,

Luann and I went to this other motel

instead of staying at the Emerald

where everybody else was.

Then I sent Jimmy a message and I told him

that if he didn't shape up once and for all,

then I was going to file for divorce and I meant it.

What'd he do?

He showed up drunk, so I walked off the stage

and out of his life.

You think your husband was trying to kill you?

I don't know.

I just don't know.

I can't remember anything, but I'd never hurt Kitty,

drunk or sober.

I don't care what kind of fool thing I was in.

I couldn't have killed Luann.

Do you remember driving your car after the concert?

Um. Larry drove.

I was, uh, pretty loaded,

so he took everybody over to this country music place

we always hang out in when we're here. The Ramblers.

After that, my memory gets a little fuzzy.

Who's everybody?

Um, well, everybody would be

uh, Larry Thorpe, that's my manager,

and Lloyd Wylie.

The drummer.

Uh-huh.

And Bones, Bones Jennings.

The fiddle player.

Yeah.

When did you leave, uh, Ramblers?

I... I don't remember.

I must have passed out.

So you don't know who drove from the club

back to the motel where you were staying?

Well, probably Larry.

Uh, Bones and Wylie usually get drunker than I do,

but Larry, he likes to stay in control.

He's afraid somebody's gonna steal his money or something.

Hm. Yeah.

Well, uh, the arraignment

will probably be sometime this afternoon.

My associate's finding out where and when, and, uh,

if we can arrange bail,

maybe we can get you out of here by tonight.

Kitty thinks I did it, doesn't she?

Right now she's not sure.

I can't say I blame her.

Boy, I sure could use a drink right now.

I'm gonna tell you something.

If we get you out of this, you gonna have to get straight.

You just argue diminished capacity all you want.

Jimmy Legrand had a high tolerance for alcohol.

He can drink a lot, and you don't know

that he didn't drive his car to and from the scene

and specifically choose his victim. You don't know that.

This man was able to form intent.

He just mistook her sister for her.

He said he didn't.

He said he didn't, and there are no witnesses

who can place him behind that wheel.

A, pieces of the victim's dress were found entangled

in the crumbled front end of your client's car.

B, your client's fingerprints were found all over

it's steering wheel.

And C, your client was found in said car

just four hours after the murder.

But that doesn't prove that he was driving the car

at the time of the murder,

and what makes you so sure it was murder

and not an accident?

Ben, he's made threats all over town.

I'll be surprised if Judge Cooksey

even grants bail.

The man is not a hardened criminal.

Can we have... I'll just have water, please.

Three years in prison

for assault with a deadly weapon?

It was a fight in a barroom.

Oh. He's been arrested twice in the last two months.

Well...

This kind of behavior is willful and self-centered

and he's a menace to society.

Uh, well, could... Thank you. Thank you.

Could... Could we just stop here for a minute?

I want to make a statement. Mm-hm.

Now, I'm fond of you in many ways. I know.

In... In many ways, I'm crazy about you.

That doesn't change the fact that the man...

L-Let me go ahead. Let me go ahead here.

Uh. In many ways, we have a different point of view.

You're a prosecuting attorney.

You think like a prosecuting attorney and you should.

I'm a criminal lawyer.

I-I'm a defense attorney and I think like one.

Now, I know that Jimmy Legrand is not a wonderful person.

If you're truthful, he's a menace to society.

He's not wonderful. Heh-heh.

He has a long ways to go to be nice.

Now, I know there's a lot

of circumstantial evidence against him,

but I have agreed to defend him,

and the man has written some fine country songs:

"Down the Dusty Road," "Red Rosy Sunset."

So many wonderful and, to me, meaningful songs.

And I have to believe that somewhere in his deep recesses,

there is some good, some decency.

Besides, I don't think he did it.

I was just trying to point out what you're getting into.

I never said it was gonna be easy.

Oh, well, that's an understatement.

Well, the good part is I'm just his lawyer.

I-I'm not his friend.

I'll work for him, do the best I can.

The saints be saved, he doesn't live with me.

That isn't quite true.

I was afraid Judge Cooksey was going to deny bail,

so I made a little speech about your great regard

for Jimmy and his music,

and Judge Cooksey says since you think so highly of him,

his quote was: "You can have him."

He ordered him to stay at your house

for the duration of the trial.

You're kidding.

Hey, old buddy.

I understand we're gonna be roomies.

I'll take that.

I go nuts hanging around that motel.

Without Kitty, my car,

reporters bugging me all the time,

I think me staying with you is about the best idea

I've heard in a long time.

Well, that's about it. This is the kitchen.

D-Does Kitty know I'm here?

Yeah. I mentioned it to her.

I'm afraid she, uh, doesn't want to see you.

Do you have any beer in this place?

Now, listen.

Yeah, that's right. I know. I'm off it. Okay.

What you got there?

Um... It's mine. Huh.

It's not much.

Not much?

It's a sweetheart.

You know, if whoever ran down Luann

was really after Kitty, he might still be after her.

I talked her into hiring a bodyguard for awhile,

but I sure do wish I knew who might be after her.

I just don't know.

All the guys in the band loved her.

Please, uh, help yourself.

Thank you.

Ahem. So you've been staying

here ever since you arrived in Atlanta?

Um-hm. I figured if Jimmy didn't know where I was,

he'd take the ultimatum of my note seriously.

Why'd you send a note?

Why didn't you tell him in person?

To be perfectly honest, Mr. Matlock,

I was afraid of how he'd react.

Do you have any idea what Luann was doing

in the parking lot of the Emerald Motel that night?

I vaguely remember hearing the phone ring, but...

Any men in her life?

Not really.

Luann had real high standards

and men had a real tough time living up to 'em.

In fact, she was constantly fighting them off.

Have you met Lloyd Wylie?

Yeah.

Well, about a month ago, Lloyd Wylie...

He's the drummer on tour with us.

Well, he came on real strong to Luann

and, uh, she said thanks but no thanks

as nicely as possible,

but things were tense for awhile.

You know, real tense.

Nah. That's just Lloyd.

He likes to think he's irresistible.

Why was Luann driving your car that night?

I have no idea.

Hers is still parked outside.

What's going on?

Hey, Ben. Where ya been all this time?

We're having us a party here.

All right, all right. Folks. Hey, folks.

The party's over. I need everybody to go home.

Come on, get outta here.

Hey, come on. I'm just trying to make myself

a few new friends here, that's all.

Get outta here!

Hey, Jim, you look like hell. Why don't you get some sleep?

Get outta here!

Get outtta here! Go on! Get out!

Let's hit the road. Woo!

Come on.

Jimmy?

Hey.

Jimmy?

We're going to have a talk, mister.

All right. All right. All right. Yep.

All right. Drink this.

Huh?

Come on. Drink this.

Take it.

Oh, my Lord.

Now, you listen.

You're here because the judge ordered you to be here.

I'm defending you on a murder charge.

It could be that I'm the only thing

between you and a lot of hard time.

So from now on, you're going to do exactly as I say.

No partying, no drinking.

If I get you out of this

and you want to ruin your life after the trial,

that's fine with me,

but I'll be damned if you're going to do it

while you're in my house. You got that?

Uh...

Larry, this is a valid contract. You signed it.

I know it is, but Bones, we just don't have any money coming in.

You guaranteed us our salary whether...

Whether Jimmy could perform or not.

I can't pay it if I don't have any money.

You guaranteed to pay us if Jimmy could perform or not.

I'd pay it out of my own pocket...

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Take it easy, Lloyd.

I'll buy you a drink. Come on.

Come on. buddy.

Your drummer's got a bad temper.

He accused me of cheating on him.

Hell, I can't pay out salaries.

Not with us stuck out here,

but Lloyd, he thinks I'm holding out on him.

What did Luann Carroll think?

A couple of stagehands

heard what went on backstage that night.

That Luann accused you of stealing from Jimmy.

Whoa, whoa. Wait a minute.

Now, there was a bunch of us standing back there.

She wasn't talking to me. She meant somebody else.

Who?

I don't know.

Listen, you want to take a look at my books?

Be my guest.

Maybe you can tell me how I'm supposed

to pay salaries out of a shut down tour.

I'm sure you're doing the best you can.

Well, there. There, see? Anybody can play the drums.

I'll tell you what.

Come over to my house tonight,

I'll give you a nice, long private lesson.

Hey, bartend.

Mr. Wylie, Bones. Howdy.

I talked to the police.

Your alibi's good.

That little lady corroborated your story

about spending the night with you.

Hi.

Mm.

You have a way with women, don't you?

I mean that assault case over in Charlotte.

That woman you beat up.

The one who withdrew the charges almost immediately.

That's what I mean when I say you have a way with women.

It always seems to work in your best interest.

Are you saying I got that woman to lie?

Oh, no, no, no.

I'm just saying you have a way of handling women.

That wasn't quite the case with Luann Carroll, though, was it?

She was the one who got away, wasn't she?

Or did she?

You like to live dangerously, don't you, mister?

Most people won't hit a man with my color hair in public.

I hear Luann accused some people of stealing from Jimmy.

Any idea why she'd do that?

Jimmy'd give most of us the shirt off his back

if we'd asked for it.

That's not how Luann thought.

In her mind, we were stealing the shirt off his back.

Just her way of looking at the world.

She may have been right.

You know, Bones,

some people are under the impression

that you have been Jimmy's whipping boy.

What's that supposed to mean?

Well, it could mean that you were a good friend

when he needed one.

Or it could mean you resented him,

it's hard to say.

I resent you.

Hey, Bones.

See ya, son.

Can I get you something, mister?

No, I'm fine.

I see you know Jimmy Legrand's fiddle player.

That mean you know Jimmy?

Oh, oh, yeah.

Served him hundreds of times.

It's his favorite hangout every time he's in Atlanta.

In fact, he was in here

the night after his last concert.

Hm. The night that, uh,

Luann Carroll got herself killed.

Uh... I'm, uh, Jimmy's lawyer, Mr...?

My name's, uh, Fitzsimmons.

Well, I understand that Jimmy was pretty drunk

when he left here that night.

Well, uh... No, sir.

I mean, uh, I don't let none

of my customers leave here drunk.

I mean, that's the law.

Oh, well, I... I... I didn't mean that...

Uh, excuse me, will you?

I got a customer down here.

Yeah, what can I get for you?

Damn it, Jimmy.

I'm not drunk, just awkward.

What are you doing?

I was looking for a pot.

I promised to stop drinking, not eating.

How's ham hocks and black-eyed peas

sound to you?

Right.

Mm. Delicious.

Poor folk food.

Yeah.

Want some onions?

Mm-hm.

Okay.

Did you see Kitty today?

Yeah. How's she doing?

She's doing fine.

She's afraid of you now.

Seems to think you got a bad temper.

That's the reason she sent you that note

instead of having it out with you in person.

Well, I'm not easy.

No idea.

See, Kitty's the first woman who ever believed in me.

And I guess I just wasn't ready to handle that.

Well, I got to tell you one thing,

if you can't make it with her,

I don't know who you're going to make it with.

Yeah.

So what'd you do when you got the note?

Just what anybody else would do.

I read it, put it down.

And, uh, threw a chair out the window.

Well, it was either that or kick the hell out of Bones.

He was the one who brought me the note.

Say,

how about you take a note to her from me?

How about that?

Well... Hey.

Yeah, I've been working on it a little.

Oh, it don't keep no good time.

Yeah.

Keeps good rhythm, though, don't it?

Oh, Julie's gonna be so mad.

Lieutenant Peters has testified that when he found

Mr. Legrand in the car

that struck and killed Luann Carroll,

he appeared to be intoxicated.

Now, did you serve Mr. Legrand any alcohol that night?

Yes, ma'am, I did.

Did you see him leave your establishment?

Yea, ma'am, he left with some friends.

And in your opinion,

was he intoxicated when he left?

Well, he, uh... He... He sure looked drunk.

Mr. Fitzsimmons, you look like you're holding back something.

Just tell us, under oath, in this courtroom:

was he intoxicated?

Now, look, if you're asking me to make Jimmy Legrand

out to be some sort of liar... Answer the question, please.

Well, I... I'd say he looked drunk because, well,

I'd... I'd been serving him

watered-down drinks all night long.

No, ma'am, I don't see how he could have been drunk.

What do you mean, "watered-down drinks?"

Well, I mean drinks with hardly any booze in them.

Bones, uh... Mr. Jennings had told me to.

He... He said that he was worried about Jimmy,

something to do with his wife, so I...

I did like he said

and I served him mostly mixer all night long.

No, ma'am, I...

I don't see how in the world he could have been drunk.

In other words,

you think Mr. Legrand was pretending to be drunk.

Objection.

Cause for speculation.

Sustained.

No further questions.

Cross-examine?

I have no questions, Your Honor.

This court is adjourned for the day.

We'll reconvene at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.

I was drunk that night.

I swear it. I was drunk.

I know.

I think I know who did it.

Well, afternoon.

I'm looking for, uh, Molly Parnell.

Oh, that's me.

Oh, you must be Mr. Matlock.

Hi. This is Tyler Hudson.

Pleased to meet you. A pleasure.

Oh, uh, here are the telephone records

and I paper clipped the date you were interested in.

Oh, good. Thank you, ma'am.

Would you look at that?

Wow.

You mean... Do all of these stars stay here?

You bet. Like Jimmy.

He and his tour have been coming here for four years now,

every time they play Atlanta.

Wow.

That must be good for business

to be able to lay claim on something like that.

Better than all the advertising in the world.

Well, what is it you give that other motels don't?

Low rates?

Well, they're reasonable.

Complimentary cocktails?

Are you kidding? I'd be out of business in a day.

It must be something.

Uh, free room service with X-rated movies?

Mr. Matlock, I thought you were smarter than that.

Actually, I, uh...

I think you may be able to help me.

How's that?

I think you may be able to help me find

the person who killed Luann Carroll.

We're gonna have to subpoena this.

I found what we're looking for.

Thank you.

Hold it!

Mr. Legrand is as innocent today as he was yesterday.

That's all.

I got your note.

Are you okay?

I subpoenaed everything but the kitchen sink.

Good.

I missed you so much.

I guess, if the truth be told,

you've known Jimmy Legrand

longer than anybody in this room.

Isn't that right?

That's right.

Him and me go back a long way.

And you've known Kitty Carroll a long time too.

Since before they were married.

So I guess that's why

Kitty asked you to pick up that note

and take it to Jimmy, 'cause you're old friends.

Most likely.

Did she ask you to keep the motel

where she and her sister were staying a secret?

I didn't tell a soul.

So, if... If Mrs. Carroll were to testify

that she told no one else where she and Luann were staying,

then you were the only other member of the company to know.

Isn't that right?

I guess so.

Did you place a call from your room

at the Emerald Motel at exactly 2:20 a.m.

the morning Luann was killed?

No, sir.

Now, are you sure?

I subpoenaed...

your motel phone records.

Now, before I enter this into evidence,

maybe you wanna reconsider your testimony.

Maybe I did.

I... I can't remember.

That's all right.

You don't have to.

A call was put through

to Luann's room at exactly 2:20 a.m. that same morning.

I subpoenaed their records too.

Now, since you were the only one

who knew where they were staying,

isn't it logical that you're the one who made that call?

Shoot, I couldn't have done it.

I couldn't even see the phone that night,

let alone dial it.

I was too damn drunk.

Ask Larry Thorpe.

Ask any of them.

Uh, Mr. Fitzsimmons, the bartender,

has testified that he did serve watered drinks,

but he didn't say, because he couldn't,

who actually drank those watered down drinks.

It was you, wasn't it?

No. Jimmy got 'em.

Jimmy got 'em, but Jimmy didn't drink 'em.

You made sure that Jimmy drank your drinks, didn't you,

so all you had to do was act drunk

when you left The Ramblers? No.

No. That's not right.

Are you sure you didn't call Luann's room that morning

and ask her to meet you in your parking lot?

No, sir.

Are you sure that you didn't get in that car beside Jimmy,

who'd long since passed out,

and use it to run down Luann Carroll?

Well, that's crazy. Why would I...?

Why would I kill Luann?

Kickbacks.

Oh, no.

Luann found out about those kickbacks

you'd been getting from the motels all over the country

where Jimmy and his band and his entourage stay

when they're on tour.

No, Larry makes all the hotel reservations.

How am I gonna get a kickback?

'Cause you're the one who goes in at leaving time

and tells the manager

that he or she better cross your palm with some cash

if they want Jimmy's business again.

That's got to mean in the last six years...

That means you've been knocking down $3-400,000.

Luann found out about it

when she and Kitty changed accommodations, didn't she?

She threatened to tell Jimmy, didn't she?

So you killed her.

I never did.

Only problem... Only problem was,

in using Jimmy's car to murder Luann,

you knocked a big hole in the radiator

so it wouldn't hold water.

And in order to try to make it out of town,

according to plan, with Jimmy in the car,

you had to stop somewhere to get some water

to put in that radiator very carefully,

hoping no one would see you.

Bones,

what if I told you

someone did see you?

Okay. What the hell?

I didn't know who she was gonna tell about the money,

or if she was gonna tell, or when, or nothing.

It was driving me crazy.

So at night when Kitty walked off the stage,

everything sort of fell into place.

So I fixed Luann's car so that she'd have to take Kitty's,

called her, and...

shoot, you know the rest.

Everybody loves you, Jim.

No jury would have convicted you.

Uh, Your Honor?

Move to dismiss.

The People join in the motion.

This case is dismissed.

Court is adjourned.

Congratulations.

How did you do that?

Do what?

Pick up that witness.

Michelle, it was 3 in the morning.

How could you possibly find somebody who saw something?

I didn't.

Wait a minute. Ben, you said... No, no.

I didn't say there was a witness.

I said what if there were a witness?

You just dragged somebody off the street?

Well, not off the street.

He's an old friend of Ben's from Athens.

Fixes antique clocks.

♪ Come sit by my side ♪

♪ Little darling ♪

♪ Come lay your cool hand On my brow ♪

♪ Promise me that You will never ♪

♪ Be nobody's darling But mine ♪

♪ You're sweet as the flowers In springtime ♪

♪ You're pure as the dew On the rose ♪

♪ Rather be somebody's darling ♪

♪ Than a poor boy That nobody knows ♪

Honey?

I know I've never been much,

but I promise you:

from now on, whatever it takes, I will be.

I know you will.

I hope.

♪ Promise me That you will never ♪

♪ Be nobody's Darling but mine ♪

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