1 00:00:44,778 --> 00:00:47,145 And prove that she killed her husband. 2 00:00:47,314 --> 00:00:51,615 Your Honor, there are other incontrovertible facts. 3 00:00:51,785 --> 00:00:56,223 Twelve witnesses saw this sailboat, with husband and wife aboard, 4 00:00:56,390 --> 00:00:58,882 leave the starting line at the regatta. 5 00:00:59,059 --> 00:01:04,498 And eight witnesses, six hours later, boarded this boat adrift in a calm sea 6 00:01:04,665 --> 00:01:07,760 and the only person aboard was the defendant. 7 00:01:08,035 --> 00:01:11,494 Now, the police have found the victim's blood on deck. 8 00:01:11,672 --> 00:01:15,370 They found a radio that hadn't been used to call for help. 9 00:01:15,542 --> 00:01:18,478 And the only defense that we hear is that Jamison Selff, 10 00:01:18,645 --> 00:01:21,945 an expert yachtsman, just disappeared over the side. 11 00:01:22,115 --> 00:01:26,211 Your Honor, I ask that Louise Selff be bound over to Superior Court 12 00:01:26,386 --> 00:01:29,083 to stand trial on a charge of first-degree murder. 13 00:01:35,829 --> 00:01:36,853 Here he comes. 14 00:01:37,030 --> 00:01:39,150 Hey, what's the idea of tying up this phone? 15 00:01:39,299 --> 00:01:41,393 Tell your troubles to your city editor. 16 00:01:41,568 --> 00:01:43,560 There you are, Ted. Go to it, boy, ha, ha. 17 00:01:43,737 --> 00:01:45,399 Rewrite. 18 00:01:45,572 --> 00:01:48,542 The Deputy DA went after Louise Selff with both barrels. 19 00:01:48,709 --> 00:01:50,109 Starting with the insurance policy, 20 00:01:50,243 --> 00:01:52,243 she brow-beat her old man into taking out six weeks 21 00:01:52,412 --> 00:01:54,244 before she tossed him into the bay. 22 00:01:54,414 --> 00:01:56,940 Then he put on witnesses that gave a blow-by-blow account 23 00:01:57,117 --> 00:02:00,884 of the argument Selff and his bride had at the yacht club the night before. 24 00:02:01,054 --> 00:02:02,488 Yeah, any minute now. 25 00:02:02,656 --> 00:02:06,320 And so in the absence of sufficient evidence, 26 00:02:06,493 --> 00:02:09,759 the charge against the defendant, Louise Selff, is dismissed. 27 00:02:11,131 --> 00:02:12,793 Court stands adjourned. 28 00:02:13,333 --> 00:02:15,199 Louise, darling, I'm so happy. 29 00:02:15,369 --> 00:02:19,568 - Talk about getting away with murder. - It pays to have a good lawyer. 30 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,339 Look at her, still putting on an act. 31 00:02:22,509 --> 00:02:26,276 You won, Mr. Mason. But poor, blind justice took a beating. 32 00:02:26,446 --> 00:02:28,711 I hope you sleep well. 33 00:02:35,055 --> 00:02:38,992 My dear, my doors are always open to you. 34 00:02:56,510 --> 00:03:01,210 My dear, your husband has spoken to me from the other side. 35 00:03:01,381 --> 00:03:03,714 I've helped you before, I can do it again. 36 00:03:22,436 --> 00:03:24,132 Mercy Hospital. 37 00:04:50,690 --> 00:04:54,286 - Aah! Rosemary! - What is it, Louise? 38 00:05:01,535 --> 00:05:04,198 Well, I thought I'd come over and light the home fires. 39 00:05:04,371 --> 00:05:08,934 Who wants to spend two weeks in a hospital and home to a cold house? 40 00:05:09,509 --> 00:05:12,001 - Louise, are you all right? - Of course. 41 00:05:13,213 --> 00:05:18,413 It's just that across the room in this light I thought I saw Jamison. 42 00:05:19,986 --> 00:05:23,115 But then he would have had something cruel to say, 43 00:05:23,290 --> 00:05:26,055 or perhaps he wouldn't have spoken to me at all. 44 00:05:26,593 --> 00:05:28,858 Sometimes he didn't, you know. 45 00:05:30,931 --> 00:05:33,662 Sometimes he didn't speak to me for weeks. 46 00:05:39,039 --> 00:05:42,100 Rosemary, I want that portrait of Jamison taken down. 47 00:05:43,977 --> 00:05:45,172 Of course, dear. 48 00:05:45,345 --> 00:05:46,813 I suppose Rosemary has told you 49 00:05:46,980 --> 00:05:48,949 that I've started going through Jamison's papers, 50 00:05:49,115 --> 00:05:51,311 to help thin things out. 51 00:05:51,484 --> 00:05:55,080 I don't know what I would have done without the help of you two. 52 00:05:55,689 --> 00:05:58,056 Rosemary has promised to stay for a while. 53 00:05:58,225 --> 00:05:59,784 I'd like to feel noble about it, 54 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:02,395 but the fact is I'm still your indigent friend. 55 00:06:02,562 --> 00:06:03,996 With the mortgage due on the hotel 56 00:06:04,164 --> 00:06:06,656 and everything coming down around my ears. 57 00:06:06,833 --> 00:06:08,199 Heh, remember, Louise, 58 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:11,668 the fine ladies we were going to be when we were in school? 59 00:06:13,607 --> 00:06:16,577 Were Jamison's finances really in such awful shape? 60 00:06:16,743 --> 00:06:20,009 Pretty muddled, but you don't have to worry, not with the insurance money. 61 00:06:20,180 --> 00:06:22,615 I took the liberty of having Mason contact the company. 62 00:06:22,782 --> 00:06:24,662 The money should be in your hands within a week. 63 00:06:24,818 --> 00:06:27,117 Here, I'll show you the letter. - What are these? 64 00:06:27,287 --> 00:06:28,949 I stacked them there to throw them out. 65 00:06:29,122 --> 00:06:30,488 Uh, Rosemary has been a big help. 66 00:06:30,657 --> 00:06:32,956 - These are written to me. - Louise, don't look at them. 67 00:06:33,126 --> 00:06:36,961 They're just from cranks, all that nonsense in the newspapers. 68 00:06:40,033 --> 00:06:43,401 "Riches gained by murder. 69 00:06:44,671 --> 00:06:48,608 Woman who would kill her own husband for his money. 70 00:06:49,743 --> 00:06:51,735 Murderess." 71 00:06:54,347 --> 00:06:57,476 Thou shall not kill. 72 00:06:57,651 --> 00:07:00,587 Louise, you must ignore those letters. 73 00:07:00,754 --> 00:07:03,053 You feel you still need to establish some sort of defense, 74 00:07:03,223 --> 00:07:05,317 but the hearing is over. 75 00:07:05,792 --> 00:07:10,321 Only the court hearing, Mr. Mason. I'm still on trial. 76 00:07:10,497 --> 00:07:12,489 You saw the newspapers. 77 00:07:12,666 --> 00:07:14,965 I can't go on living this way. 78 00:07:15,135 --> 00:07:17,434 You can't let the kind of people who write crank letters 79 00:07:17,604 --> 00:07:19,505 and scandal sheets imprison you. 80 00:07:19,673 --> 00:07:22,802 Louise, Jamison was the kind of man who collected enemies. 81 00:07:22,976 --> 00:07:24,501 Any one of them could have killed him. 82 00:07:24,678 --> 00:07:27,910 That's not true. I was the only one who really knew him. 83 00:07:28,081 --> 00:07:31,381 To everyone else he was the personification of charm. 84 00:07:31,551 --> 00:07:34,988 Not to me. We had a mutual disrespect for one another. 85 00:07:35,155 --> 00:07:37,590 Can't you understand how I feel, Mr. Mason? 86 00:07:37,757 --> 00:07:44,163 I have to clear myself and I can't, not unless Jamison's killer is found. 87 00:07:44,331 --> 00:07:48,234 I understand, Louise. And of course I'll do everything I can. 88 00:07:49,269 --> 00:07:51,795 And, Della, I'd better get you home. 89 00:07:52,939 --> 00:07:56,398 Look at that rain. That's what I get for believing the weatherman. 90 00:07:56,576 --> 00:07:59,136 Your lovely dress, you'll ruin it. 91 00:07:59,312 --> 00:08:00,837 Heh, let me get you a raincoat. 92 00:08:01,014 --> 00:08:04,451 Jamison always kept an old slicker right in the closet. 93 00:08:08,088 --> 00:08:10,216 There's no raincoat here. 94 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:16,689 Jamison's raincoat, it's gone! 95 00:08:16,863 --> 00:08:19,423 - I'll go upstairs and get... - But I'm positive it was there. 96 00:08:19,599 --> 00:08:21,500 Did one of the servants borrow it? 97 00:08:21,668 --> 00:08:24,069 Ah, no, of course not, Louise. 98 00:08:24,237 --> 00:08:26,763 Don't you remember? You let them all go before I came. 99 00:08:27,273 --> 00:08:29,504 - It doesn't matter. - But it does matter. 100 00:08:29,676 --> 00:08:32,339 I saw it there and now it's gone! 101 00:08:32,779 --> 00:08:36,739 Uh, don't worry about it. We'll run for the car. Good night. 102 00:08:38,118 --> 00:08:41,020 Really, Louise, it doesn't matter. 103 00:09:38,144 --> 00:09:40,807 Rosemary. Rosemary! 104 00:09:46,352 --> 00:09:47,376 - Louise! - The door! 105 00:09:47,554 --> 00:09:50,114 - Somebody slammed the door! - Calm down. It's all right, Louise. 106 00:09:50,256 --> 00:09:53,283 I'm here. What happened? 107 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:55,656 What's the matter? What happened? 108 00:09:56,162 --> 00:09:59,189 - Louise, what happened? - Somebody slammed the door. 109 00:09:59,365 --> 00:10:02,733 Oh, no, dear. It was just the wind, that's all. 110 00:10:02,902 --> 00:10:04,734 Now be calm. 111 00:10:20,253 --> 00:10:21,915 Are you better? 112 00:10:22,989 --> 00:10:26,221 What are you doing up at this hour? It's after 3. 113 00:10:27,293 --> 00:10:28,989 I couldn't sleep. 114 00:10:29,162 --> 00:10:31,927 I decided I wanted to come down. 115 00:10:32,332 --> 00:10:36,167 - There was something I wanted to do. - In the middle of the night? 116 00:10:36,336 --> 00:10:39,067 The time doesn't make any difference. 117 00:10:39,239 --> 00:10:40,901 Rosemary, do you remember the time 118 00:10:41,074 --> 00:10:43,839 that we were going over the inventory of those things, 119 00:10:44,010 --> 00:10:46,536 just before they took me to jail? 120 00:10:46,980 --> 00:10:49,882 Well, I ran across the diamond cufflinks, 121 00:10:50,049 --> 00:10:52,951 the ones I gave Jamison just before we were married. 122 00:10:53,119 --> 00:10:55,714 I remember them. They're beautiful. 123 00:10:55,989 --> 00:10:57,753 I got to thinking. 124 00:10:57,924 --> 00:11:00,325 I want Ralph to have them. 125 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,355 He admired them so and he's been so decent. 126 00:11:03,530 --> 00:11:07,991 - Louise, can't this wait till morning? - I thought I'd wrap them. 127 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:13,166 I can't sleep and it just gives me something to do. 128 00:11:13,706 --> 00:11:16,938 - Louise, uh... - I remember shopping for these. 129 00:11:20,713 --> 00:11:22,204 Gone. 130 00:11:22,749 --> 00:11:25,514 Just like Jamison's raincoat, they're gone! 131 00:11:26,886 --> 00:11:30,220 You've been upset, dear. You might have mislaid them. 132 00:11:30,390 --> 00:11:33,918 Mislaid them? They were there! 133 00:11:35,061 --> 00:11:38,759 There's some explanation, dear. Your memory's playing tricks on you. 134 00:11:38,932 --> 00:11:41,163 There's nothing wrong with my memory. 135 00:11:41,334 --> 00:11:43,530 Someone's doing this to me. 136 00:11:43,703 --> 00:11:44,932 Louise? 137 00:11:47,740 --> 00:11:50,767 I realize that Mrs. Selff has been through an ordeal. 138 00:11:50,944 --> 00:11:53,573 And being a sensitive woman, has suffered more than most. 139 00:11:53,746 --> 00:11:56,841 But I never had the impression that she was unbalanced. 140 00:11:57,016 --> 00:12:01,511 But she's been acting so strangely. Why, she's refused to leave her room. 141 00:12:01,688 --> 00:12:03,648 I didn't know what to do. So I called Ralph and... 142 00:12:03,756 --> 00:12:05,816 And when she wouldn't talk to me, I called you. 143 00:12:05,992 --> 00:12:09,394 These things that are missing, uh, thank you, 144 00:12:09,963 --> 00:12:12,228 do you think she's capable of hiding them? 145 00:12:12,398 --> 00:12:13,832 I don't know. 146 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,902 Louise has always lived such a protected life. 147 00:12:17,537 --> 00:12:20,769 She seems to think we're in some sort of a plot against her, 148 00:12:20,940 --> 00:12:22,772 the usual paranoiac delusion. 149 00:12:23,977 --> 00:12:26,071 You're the only person she really trusts. 150 00:12:26,246 --> 00:12:30,445 And this newspaper didn't help any. I took it up to her without unfolding it. 151 00:12:30,617 --> 00:12:32,313 It's enough to send anyone off. 152 00:12:32,852 --> 00:12:36,311 Can't you do something to stop that man, that Harberson? 153 00:12:36,489 --> 00:12:40,756 - Yes, he has got to be stopped. - I don't want him stopped. 154 00:12:40,927 --> 00:12:42,122 Louise. 155 00:12:42,295 --> 00:12:45,288 I thought I saw you arrive, Mr. Mason. 156 00:12:46,599 --> 00:12:48,625 Now, I've decided to go see Ms. Saint Sutton. 157 00:12:48,801 --> 00:12:50,929 Oh, Louise. 158 00:12:51,104 --> 00:12:54,370 Louise, I can understand this compulsion you have 159 00:12:54,540 --> 00:12:55,667 to absolve yourself. 160 00:12:55,842 --> 00:12:58,971 But what you're proposing makes no sense at all. 161 00:12:59,312 --> 00:13:01,213 If I don't go, 162 00:13:02,015 --> 00:13:04,849 - they'll say I'm afraid. - They'll say? 163 00:13:05,018 --> 00:13:06,418 Who are they? 164 00:13:06,586 --> 00:13:10,990 A scandal sheet reporter? A publicity-seeking fraud? 165 00:13:12,225 --> 00:13:14,456 I use to see her, you know. 166 00:13:14,627 --> 00:13:18,997 I can't tell you why, any more than I could explain it to Jamison. 167 00:13:20,233 --> 00:13:21,895 Except that... 168 00:13:23,002 --> 00:13:25,631 Well, she was easy to talk to. 169 00:13:26,406 --> 00:13:28,671 I told her things, 170 00:13:28,841 --> 00:13:30,901 she sipped tea and listened. 171 00:13:33,513 --> 00:13:35,778 It was quiet there. 172 00:13:37,550 --> 00:13:40,247 Her whole house smelled of fresh bread. 173 00:13:41,187 --> 00:13:43,418 I was surprised she'd even talk to me. 174 00:13:44,924 --> 00:13:48,190 Jamison made all sorts of trouble for her. 175 00:13:48,361 --> 00:13:50,262 Louise, do you trust me? 176 00:13:53,099 --> 00:13:57,059 Then you can't trust them. Now, don't do this. 177 00:13:57,236 --> 00:13:59,705 You need a change, a trip, perhaps. 178 00:13:59,872 --> 00:14:01,204 We can go to my hotel. 179 00:14:01,374 --> 00:14:05,368 It's closed for the season, but you always loved the woods and the lake. 180 00:14:06,913 --> 00:14:10,441 - No, that's where I met Jamison. - Louise, 181 00:14:11,184 --> 00:14:13,176 don't go to see Willa Saint Sutton. 182 00:14:13,353 --> 00:14:16,881 Don't give that reporter a chance to keep this persecution going. 183 00:14:17,056 --> 00:14:19,616 You're being stupid, Louise. I hate to say this, 184 00:14:19,792 --> 00:14:23,923 but you're proposing to make yourself into a sideshow, a freak! 185 00:14:25,798 --> 00:14:28,563 I haven't slept in so long. 186 00:14:31,604 --> 00:14:33,903 Not really slept. 187 00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:42,315 I didn't get anywhere with Harberson's managing editor. 188 00:14:42,482 --> 00:14:45,941 "When the public stops wanting it, I'll stop giving it to them." 189 00:14:46,119 --> 00:14:49,556 - That was the sum and substance. - That's what I expected. 190 00:14:49,722 --> 00:14:51,816 And my check on Harberson spells it out. 191 00:14:51,991 --> 00:14:54,483 He's always been with the fringe papers, never made the grade. 192 00:14:54,660 --> 00:14:57,020 But he was aboard the boat that found the Selff yacht adrift 193 00:14:57,163 --> 00:14:58,763 and consequently lucked into a big story. 194 00:14:58,931 --> 00:15:02,011 Now, when the decent papers won't touch it, he's riding it for all it's worth. 195 00:15:02,168 --> 00:15:03,932 - Did, uh, Della get in touch with you? - No. 196 00:15:04,103 --> 00:15:06,103 She called twice. She seemed upset about something. 197 00:15:06,272 --> 00:15:09,572 - She left this number. - Thanks, Clay. 198 00:15:11,778 --> 00:15:15,738 She was going to drop off some papers for Louise Selff's signature. 199 00:15:22,121 --> 00:15:23,321 Paul, do you have some change? 200 00:15:23,489 --> 00:15:25,289 If I know Della, she's probably run out of gas 201 00:15:25,425 --> 00:15:29,226 for the third time this month and had to walk in the rain to a phone. 202 00:15:42,475 --> 00:15:46,173 That girl can remember the details of a brief four years old, 203 00:15:46,345 --> 00:15:49,247 but she can't remember that cars run on gasoline. 204 00:15:50,983 --> 00:15:52,007 Busy. 205 00:15:52,185 --> 00:15:55,485 Well, here's the, uh, detail on Willa Saint Sutton. 206 00:15:55,655 --> 00:15:57,851 She was a vaudeville hoofer as Wilma Waters, 207 00:15:58,024 --> 00:15:59,993 played the borscht circuit as a mentalist, 208 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:02,458 wrote a lovelorn column for a New Jersey weekly 209 00:16:02,628 --> 00:16:03,988 and made the papers a few years ago 210 00:16:04,130 --> 00:16:06,326 when she tried to open a nudist camp in North Carolina. 211 00:16:06,499 --> 00:16:09,435 Well, there are no surprises. 212 00:16:22,381 --> 00:16:24,441 - Della? - Perry, I'm at Louise's home. 213 00:16:24,617 --> 00:16:26,347 She's just left with Rosemary. 214 00:16:26,519 --> 00:16:29,045 I tried to get them to wait until I could reach you, but... 215 00:16:29,222 --> 00:16:31,088 I thought she'd given up the idea. 216 00:16:31,257 --> 00:16:34,250 I don't know whose idea it was, but I didn't get any help from Rosemary. 217 00:16:34,427 --> 00:16:36,760 She just said that if it would make Louise feel any better, 218 00:16:36,929 --> 00:16:38,261 there was no harm in it. 219 00:16:38,431 --> 00:16:41,299 Do you know where Willa Saint Sutton lives? 220 00:16:42,034 --> 00:16:44,367 Good, Paul and I will meet you there. 221 00:16:49,475 --> 00:16:51,273 Mrs. Selff? 222 00:16:52,645 --> 00:16:54,170 Everything is prepared. 223 00:16:54,347 --> 00:16:57,010 - Won't you at least wait for Perry? - Get a shot of us going in. 224 00:16:57,183 --> 00:16:58,811 There will be no pictures. 225 00:16:58,985 --> 00:17:00,476 Only Mrs. Selff will enter. 226 00:17:00,653 --> 00:17:03,133 Just hold your horses, sister. You promised me I could come in. 227 00:17:03,289 --> 00:17:08,421 I promised you could be present. I didn't say where. 228 00:17:08,828 --> 00:17:11,992 Sit down, Mr. Harberson, and be quiet. 229 00:17:12,164 --> 00:17:15,601 Or I'll have you tossed out on your rear! 230 00:17:24,310 --> 00:17:27,303 Pardon me, lady. My car seems to have stalled out there. 231 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,474 - Any chance I could use the phone? - I guess it's all right. 232 00:17:31,651 --> 00:17:34,815 - It's in the back. In the kitchen. - Thank you. 233 00:17:50,770 --> 00:17:53,010 - Where's Louise? - She's in there with Ms. Saint Sutton. 234 00:17:53,172 --> 00:17:55,937 - I didn't think it would hurt. - I'm taking her out. 235 00:17:56,108 --> 00:17:59,340 Look, you sounded off to my boss this morning and I let you get away with it. 236 00:17:59,512 --> 00:18:01,992 If you think you can bust in here and give orders, you're nuts. 237 00:18:02,148 --> 00:18:04,743 My paper doesn't take kindly to the press being pushed around. 238 00:18:04,917 --> 00:18:07,352 If you represent the press then we're all in danger. 239 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,785 - You got the integrity of a jackal. - That's slander! 240 00:18:09,956 --> 00:18:11,948 Print it. Now step aside. 241 00:18:12,124 --> 00:18:14,593 Quiet. Now, keep your voices down. 242 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:19,289 The spirits are very close tonight. They've been waiting for us, waiting. 243 00:18:24,904 --> 00:18:25,928 What is it, Louise? 244 00:18:26,105 --> 00:18:28,540 - What's wrong? - Jamison's here. I saw him. 245 00:18:28,708 --> 00:18:31,542 And Willa went out and that's when I heard his voice. 246 00:18:31,711 --> 00:18:34,374 Oh, I'm sorry, Louise, I'm so sorry I let you come. 247 00:18:35,047 --> 00:18:39,485 He talked to me. He talked to me. 248 00:18:42,021 --> 00:18:45,423 You spoiled it. All of you. 249 00:18:46,192 --> 00:18:48,821 Louise, you must understand what has happened. 250 00:18:48,995 --> 00:18:50,861 You saw your dead husband's picture. 251 00:18:51,597 --> 00:18:54,396 I know, I know. But I heard him. 252 00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:56,697 I heard his voice telling me... 253 00:18:56,869 --> 00:19:00,567 No, not his voice. It may have sounded like it. 254 00:19:01,774 --> 00:19:07,236 No. It was Jamison's voice. Cold, biting, Jamison's voice. 255 00:19:07,413 --> 00:19:08,938 Perry. 256 00:19:13,419 --> 00:19:16,287 - That door leads to where? - To the kitchen. 257 00:19:16,455 --> 00:19:18,083 But nobody has been there. 258 00:19:18,924 --> 00:19:22,656 - Come on, Louise. - I heard him. I heard him. 259 00:19:38,377 --> 00:19:42,144 Louise, you just imagined it was his voice. 260 00:19:44,016 --> 00:19:49,045 He told me to look in the desk. "It's in the bottom drawer. 261 00:19:49,355 --> 00:19:51,085 There is a letter and an envelope. 262 00:19:51,891 --> 00:19:53,519 Do what it says. 263 00:19:53,693 --> 00:19:56,629 It will repay you for all the misery I've caused you." 264 00:19:56,796 --> 00:19:58,697 Jamison said it, he did! 265 00:20:01,567 --> 00:20:04,901 It's addressed to you. Is that your husband's handwriting? 266 00:20:08,941 --> 00:20:12,537 Yes. Yes, it is! 267 00:20:16,282 --> 00:20:20,219 Perry, what's going on? You think Jamison Selff's alive? 268 00:20:20,519 --> 00:20:26,015 That or someone wants Louise to believe he is. 269 00:20:26,325 --> 00:20:29,727 Then you do believe the letter was written by Jamison Selff? 270 00:20:29,895 --> 00:20:31,955 Yes, it's unquestionably his writing. 271 00:20:32,131 --> 00:20:34,691 Do you know the agreement it refers to, 272 00:20:34,867 --> 00:20:37,132 the one Mrs. Selff was to get from the bank? 273 00:20:37,303 --> 00:20:41,638 Jamison was involved in some sort of experimental project with these people, 274 00:20:41,807 --> 00:20:43,469 the Arcott Laboratories. 275 00:20:43,642 --> 00:20:46,373 Of course, then, he was always mixed up in things like this. 276 00:20:46,545 --> 00:20:49,947 The letter mentioned a sum of $300,000 to be paid 277 00:20:50,116 --> 00:20:53,143 by the 30th of the month for a fifty-fifty interest in the process. 278 00:20:53,753 --> 00:20:56,780 Yes, and Louise is determined to pay it. 279 00:20:57,089 --> 00:21:00,526 That would be in just six days. Should she pay it? 280 00:21:00,693 --> 00:21:03,185 I don't know. She's under no legal obligation. 281 00:21:03,362 --> 00:21:04,990 And who knows what this scheme is? 282 00:21:05,164 --> 00:21:09,295 Well, until I've had a chance to check on the Arcott company, 283 00:21:09,468 --> 00:21:10,697 I certainly can't advise her. 284 00:21:11,403 --> 00:21:15,499 You know, Mr. Mason, it's a strange irony. 285 00:21:16,776 --> 00:21:18,768 Jamison treated her like a child. 286 00:21:18,944 --> 00:21:21,880 He was brutal to her when he was alive. 287 00:21:22,348 --> 00:21:25,477 And now I see the same tyranny from the grave. 288 00:21:28,354 --> 00:21:31,324 How long has it taken you to develop this laser process, Mr. Arcott? 289 00:21:31,490 --> 00:21:34,392 Nearly six years, working on other things at the same time. 290 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:35,721 Now... 291 00:21:35,895 --> 00:21:39,491 Now, if you'll keep a close eye on these blocks, 292 00:21:39,665 --> 00:21:42,100 I think you'll get a surprise. 293 00:21:48,774 --> 00:21:51,403 The blocks, Mr. Drake, now watch closely. 294 00:22:00,352 --> 00:22:02,184 The fusion is absolute. 295 00:22:02,354 --> 00:22:04,234 I think you can see the commercial implications. 296 00:22:04,390 --> 00:22:06,430 For the construction business alone it's tremendous, 297 00:22:06,559 --> 00:22:08,159 but can it be made commercially feasible? 298 00:22:08,327 --> 00:22:11,786 Well, naturally there are a few steps to work out from the lab to production. 299 00:22:11,964 --> 00:22:13,830 And you were counting on Jamison Selff 300 00:22:13,999 --> 00:22:15,900 for the money to do that? 301 00:22:17,703 --> 00:22:21,140 We made a deal. Yes. 302 00:22:21,507 --> 00:22:23,307 I believe you're sincere, Mr. Arcott. 303 00:22:23,442 --> 00:22:25,911 But I think you are rather naive about some of the problems. 304 00:22:26,078 --> 00:22:28,274 I'm sick and tired of being patronized. 305 00:22:28,447 --> 00:22:31,815 Despite your urbane manner and your overly polite concern, 306 00:22:31,984 --> 00:22:33,008 what you're saying is, 307 00:22:33,185 --> 00:22:36,145 "You mean well, kid, but I'm not gonna let you take Mrs. Selff for a ride." 308 00:22:37,323 --> 00:22:39,690 No one's appointed me mediator, 309 00:22:39,859 --> 00:22:42,795 but the way you gentlemen have been attacking one another 310 00:22:42,962 --> 00:22:44,590 won't solve one thing. 311 00:22:44,763 --> 00:22:47,858 What is your capital position if you don't get money from Louise? 312 00:22:48,033 --> 00:22:49,524 What bank is gonna carry your paper? 313 00:22:49,702 --> 00:22:51,295 Why haven't you made a market survey? 314 00:22:51,470 --> 00:22:53,070 You know more than I do about everything, 315 00:22:53,239 --> 00:22:54,867 you ought to answer your own questions. 316 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,064 If you wanna make a joke 317 00:22:56,242 --> 00:22:58,242 out of a $300,000 investment, that's your business. 318 00:22:58,410 --> 00:23:00,970 Mrs. Selff, I came here because Mr. Mason called and asked me to. 319 00:23:01,146 --> 00:23:02,671 I wish I hadn't. Now, it comes to this, 320 00:23:02,848 --> 00:23:04,783 if you wanna take up the option it's okay by me, 321 00:23:04,950 --> 00:23:07,943 and if you want to listen to Balfour, that's okay by me too. 322 00:23:11,523 --> 00:23:14,254 - You were rude, Ralph, really. - You can do as you like, Louise. 323 00:23:14,426 --> 00:23:16,626 But it seems to me you can't afford to take such a risk. 324 00:23:17,129 --> 00:23:20,031 Any scheme of this sort is a risk, of course. 325 00:23:20,199 --> 00:23:23,601 The process appears to have a good chance if given time. 326 00:23:23,769 --> 00:23:27,262 "Given time." That's what I told you, Louise. 327 00:23:31,277 --> 00:23:34,179 I guess I'd better not do it, Mr. Mason. 328 00:23:34,346 --> 00:23:37,475 I'm really not in a position to make such a large investment. 329 00:23:38,550 --> 00:23:42,453 As Ralph says, it might be too long a wait for a return. 330 00:23:42,621 --> 00:23:46,717 - Well, at least we have a decision. - After two hours. 331 00:23:46,892 --> 00:23:49,361 - I think I'll call it a night. - Let me see you out. 332 00:23:49,528 --> 00:23:52,123 Oh, good night. Good night, Louise. - Thanks again. 333 00:23:53,499 --> 00:23:55,627 Why don't you come up to my place for a nightcap? 334 00:23:55,801 --> 00:23:57,702 Thanks, but I have a friend waiting out front. 335 00:23:57,870 --> 00:23:59,839 Well, you're both invited. - Jamison! 336 00:24:03,442 --> 00:24:06,435 Louise? Louise? 337 00:24:12,985 --> 00:24:15,045 Whoever it was hung up. 338 00:24:27,967 --> 00:24:30,493 Perry, this is one nightcap I'd just as soon skip. 339 00:24:30,669 --> 00:24:34,401 At this hour I like my drinks served by a barmaid with long eyelashes. 340 00:24:34,573 --> 00:24:35,768 Sorry. No barmaid. 341 00:24:35,941 --> 00:24:37,781 Ralph Balfour's invitation was for drinks only. 342 00:24:42,181 --> 00:24:44,150 Balfour? Balfour? 343 00:24:44,316 --> 00:24:46,012 Can't see a thing. The blinds are drawn. 344 00:24:49,188 --> 00:24:50,713 Housebreaker. I walked right into him. 345 00:24:50,889 --> 00:24:52,489 Where's your phone? I'll call the police. 346 00:24:52,658 --> 00:24:54,058 In the bedroom. 347 00:24:54,226 --> 00:24:57,321 It's lucky you came along. Your banging on the door scared him. 348 00:24:57,496 --> 00:24:59,158 He went out the back. 349 00:24:59,331 --> 00:25:01,391 - Can you identify him? - Ugh, no. 350 00:25:01,567 --> 00:25:04,765 I couldn't see him in the dark. He swung on me with a flashlight. 351 00:25:04,937 --> 00:25:08,840 Obviously was looking for something. There's no money there. 352 00:25:09,074 --> 00:25:12,408 - What do you keep in the desk? - Oh, papers, letters. 353 00:25:24,156 --> 00:25:25,818 It's gone. 354 00:25:26,158 --> 00:25:28,525 The letter I got from Louise. 355 00:25:28,961 --> 00:25:32,193 The one she found in Jamison's desk. 356 00:25:44,076 --> 00:25:47,843 Louise. Louise. 357 00:25:48,747 --> 00:25:51,979 Louise. Listen to me, Louise. 358 00:25:52,718 --> 00:25:55,779 I want you to give Arcott the money. 359 00:26:04,663 --> 00:26:06,825 Louise! What is it? What happened? 360 00:26:08,967 --> 00:26:11,095 - He attacked me. - Who attacked you? 361 00:26:11,270 --> 00:26:13,899 I don't know. It was in the dark. I couldn't see. 362 00:26:17,276 --> 00:26:22,180 There's nobody there. What's this? 363 00:26:26,218 --> 00:26:29,017 Jamison's raincoat. 364 00:26:30,355 --> 00:26:32,449 The one that disappeared. 365 00:26:32,624 --> 00:26:33,922 Louise was raving, 366 00:26:34,093 --> 00:26:36,013 insisting she wanted to make the deal with Arcott 367 00:26:36,161 --> 00:26:38,392 as soon as it could be arranged. 368 00:26:38,564 --> 00:26:41,432 If the doctor hadn't calmed her, I don't know what she might have done. 369 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,866 Mrs. Selff has suffered a very severe shock. 370 00:26:45,037 --> 00:26:48,235 It, uh, may have been self-induced, I don't know. 371 00:26:48,407 --> 00:26:52,310 We'll be able to tell by her response to a day of forced rest. 372 00:26:52,478 --> 00:26:54,743 Tomorrow she may be perfectly fine. 373 00:26:54,913 --> 00:26:58,509 There's, uh, some sort of business that she's anxious to transact, 374 00:26:58,684 --> 00:27:00,448 or I'd keep her quiet longer. 375 00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:03,350 Then you don't believe there's any derangement? 376 00:27:03,522 --> 00:27:04,854 No. No, I don't. 377 00:27:05,023 --> 00:27:07,993 Just keep her quiet as possible, I don't think you'll have any trouble. 378 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,925 - And keep her under sedation. - I'll go on up. 379 00:27:11,096 --> 00:27:13,395 - And thank you, doctor. - Thank you. Goodbye. 380 00:27:13,565 --> 00:27:17,525 And don't worry, I'll take good care of Louise. 381 00:27:24,977 --> 00:27:26,912 What are you doing? 382 00:27:32,584 --> 00:27:34,951 Where's the gun, Louise? 383 00:27:36,855 --> 00:27:38,619 I don't know. 384 00:27:38,790 --> 00:27:41,385 Come on now, dear. Tell me where it is. 385 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,291 I know you've always kept it in the drawer. 386 00:27:44,463 --> 00:27:47,331 I'm not going to tell you. 387 00:27:47,499 --> 00:27:51,163 Louise, dear, it's dangerous to have a gun around. 388 00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:54,534 - Especially when... - When I'm crazy? 389 00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:59,141 I need the gun, Rosemary. I need it to protect myself. 390 00:27:59,311 --> 00:28:01,405 From whom, dear? 391 00:28:01,580 --> 00:28:02,912 From Jamison. 392 00:28:03,081 --> 00:28:07,485 - Jamison's dead, Louise. - No, I heard him. 393 00:28:07,753 --> 00:28:10,655 I thought for a moment I saw him out there. 394 00:28:11,356 --> 00:28:14,417 He's here, Rosemary. He's here. 395 00:28:14,593 --> 00:28:17,392 - You need some fresh air. - No. 396 00:28:21,166 --> 00:28:26,036 All right, dear. Now you try and get some rest. 397 00:28:52,598 --> 00:28:54,226 Hello? 398 00:28:54,466 --> 00:28:57,732 No. No. This is Rosemary Welch, Mr. Arcott. 399 00:28:58,003 --> 00:28:59,631 No, I'm sorry, she's asleep now. 400 00:29:00,138 --> 00:29:02,107 Does she realize tomorrow is the deadline? 401 00:29:02,274 --> 00:29:03,765 I haven't heard from Mason. 402 00:29:04,176 --> 00:29:06,016 Well, Mr. Mason is due here later this evening. 403 00:29:06,178 --> 00:29:07,942 I'm sure he'll be in touch with you. 404 00:29:27,466 --> 00:29:28,832 Hello? 405 00:29:29,001 --> 00:29:31,937 Oh, I've been trying to call you, but your line was busy. 406 00:29:32,237 --> 00:29:35,071 Arcott? Is he still...? 407 00:29:36,008 --> 00:29:37,203 Well, how is she? 408 00:29:37,376 --> 00:29:39,402 I left her just a few minutes ago. 409 00:29:39,578 --> 00:29:43,174 She insisted she'd seen Jamison down in the garden. 410 00:29:43,548 --> 00:29:44,948 I know, I know. 411 00:29:45,117 --> 00:29:50,920 It must be the effect of the drugs, but she's so insistent it upsets me. 412 00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:53,259 Yes, I told her Mr. Mason is on his way over, 413 00:29:53,425 --> 00:29:55,053 that seemed to quiet her. 414 00:29:55,227 --> 00:29:58,823 All right. Thanks for calling, Rosemary. Good night. 415 00:30:54,653 --> 00:30:58,356 Louise, I want... 416 00:31:20,979 --> 00:31:22,845 Jamison Selff. 417 00:31:30,655 --> 00:31:33,124 Naturally, the district attorney presumes your guilt 418 00:31:33,291 --> 00:31:35,817 and treats you as if you were guilty. 419 00:31:35,994 --> 00:31:38,156 But you know you're not. 420 00:31:38,797 --> 00:31:43,098 But I don't know. I saw him. 421 00:31:44,503 --> 00:31:47,473 I had the gun in my hand. 422 00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:51,433 And that the only thing I can remember 423 00:31:51,610 --> 00:31:55,911 is Rosemary leaning over me, holding my head in her lap. 424 00:31:56,515 --> 00:31:59,883 Now, listen to me, Louise, and listen carefully. 425 00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:03,114 Immediately after your husband's death 426 00:32:03,288 --> 00:32:06,019 you told me without hesitation 427 00:32:06,191 --> 00:32:10,060 that you did not fire that gun before you fainted. 428 00:32:11,296 --> 00:32:14,789 I thought it was that way then. 429 00:32:14,966 --> 00:32:18,368 You knew it was. You were positive. 430 00:32:20,005 --> 00:32:21,769 He's dead. 431 00:32:22,641 --> 00:32:25,668 Jamison's really dead. 432 00:32:26,311 --> 00:32:29,645 Did you see anyone else on the balcony? 433 00:32:32,017 --> 00:32:33,986 Could anyone else have gotten to the balcony 434 00:32:34,152 --> 00:32:36,485 through one of the other bedrooms? 435 00:32:37,689 --> 00:32:40,659 Apparently, that's how your husband got there. 436 00:32:43,061 --> 00:32:45,826 Louise, you must fight back. 437 00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:49,097 You understand what I'm saying? 438 00:32:50,836 --> 00:32:53,067 Yes, I understand. 439 00:32:56,541 --> 00:32:59,272 But to go through it all again, 440 00:33:02,581 --> 00:33:04,880 I don't think I can do it. 441 00:33:05,050 --> 00:33:06,882 Of course you can, Louise. 442 00:33:08,386 --> 00:33:10,355 You have to. 443 00:33:12,157 --> 00:33:13,181 Yes, sir. 444 00:33:13,358 --> 00:33:17,659 According to the lab report, the bullet was fired at very close range. 445 00:33:17,829 --> 00:33:19,695 When you arrived at the scene, 446 00:33:20,365 --> 00:33:22,231 did you speak to Mrs. Selff? 447 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,028 I questioned her, naturally. 448 00:33:24,202 --> 00:33:27,172 And how would you describe her mental condition at that time? 449 00:33:27,339 --> 00:33:28,500 Objection, Your Honor. 450 00:33:28,673 --> 00:33:31,837 - The witness is not a psychiatrist. - Objection sustained. 451 00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:34,138 I'll rephrase the question. 452 00:33:34,513 --> 00:33:38,609 When you questioned Mrs. Selff were her answers cogent and direct? 453 00:33:38,783 --> 00:33:41,116 No, sir. She was extremely agitated. 454 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,552 Apparently in shock. 455 00:33:43,722 --> 00:33:46,521 Mr. Balfour, it's already been established 456 00:33:46,691 --> 00:33:51,129 that the decedent, Jamison Selff, took out a $400,000 insurance policy 457 00:33:51,296 --> 00:33:53,891 on his life less than six months ago. 458 00:33:54,065 --> 00:33:56,193 - You were, of course, aware of this? - Yes. 459 00:33:56,368 --> 00:33:59,236 In your capacity as financial advisor to Mr. Selff, 460 00:33:59,404 --> 00:34:01,703 - did you recommend this purchase? - No, I did not. 461 00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:04,365 Mr. Selff's financial status was precarious. 462 00:34:04,543 --> 00:34:06,205 I felt he could not afford the premium. 463 00:34:06,378 --> 00:34:09,678 Did he give you any reason for disregarding your advice? 464 00:34:09,848 --> 00:34:12,943 There were other considerations. There was more than money involved. 465 00:34:13,118 --> 00:34:15,212 Really, Mr. Balfour? What else was involved? 466 00:34:15,387 --> 00:34:18,482 Well, uh, personalities. When a man is married... 467 00:34:18,657 --> 00:34:20,250 Oh. 468 00:34:20,725 --> 00:34:24,560 Did Mrs. Louise Selff, the defendant, uh, enter into this decision? 469 00:34:24,729 --> 00:34:26,960 I don't think Mrs. Selff's concern about the insurance 470 00:34:27,132 --> 00:34:28,725 was in any way unusual. 471 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:31,426 Ha, possibly not. My question to you, sir, 472 00:34:31,603 --> 00:34:35,699 is of your own knowledge, did Mrs. Louise Selff 473 00:34:35,874 --> 00:34:39,072 exert any pressure on her husband to buy this insurance policy? 474 00:34:39,244 --> 00:34:41,236 There was no question of pressure. 475 00:34:41,413 --> 00:34:43,780 You're objecting to the word. Would "persuasion" do better? 476 00:34:43,949 --> 00:34:45,975 Did she persuade her husband to buy the insurance? 477 00:34:46,151 --> 00:34:48,143 Persuade? Jamison? 478 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,312 She wouldn't dare. She was afraid of him. 479 00:34:50,488 --> 00:34:53,117 Then what consideration led him to buy the policy? 480 00:34:53,658 --> 00:35:00,064 Jamison told me that Louise gave him the money from her personal savings. 481 00:35:00,231 --> 00:35:02,029 I see. 482 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:07,468 Then Mrs. Jamison Selff actually paid for that life insurance policy 483 00:35:07,639 --> 00:35:09,870 which named her as beneficiary. 484 00:35:11,009 --> 00:35:13,843 No more questions, Mr. Balfour. 485 00:35:14,145 --> 00:35:15,545 We need some good news, Paul. 486 00:35:15,714 --> 00:35:17,740 Well, this news depends on the point of view. 487 00:35:17,916 --> 00:35:20,385 I finally caught up with our missing witness. 488 00:35:20,552 --> 00:35:23,716 - The, uh, little man who ran away? - Hmm, thank you. 489 00:35:23,888 --> 00:35:25,151 His name's Ed Allison 490 00:35:25,323 --> 00:35:28,623 and right now he's in Hamilton Burger's office answering questions. 491 00:35:28,793 --> 00:35:31,024 Right this way, please. 492 00:35:32,998 --> 00:35:34,830 - Mr. Harberson? - That's right. 493 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,300 - I'm the, uh, one who phoned. - Sit down. 494 00:35:38,470 --> 00:35:40,371 - Just coffee. - Coffee. 495 00:35:41,006 --> 00:35:43,908 Look, there's that reporter. 496 00:35:46,044 --> 00:35:48,343 That woman, Paul, I wanna know who she is. 497 00:36:00,125 --> 00:36:04,028 Yes, I'm an investigator with Interwealth Insurance, 498 00:36:04,195 --> 00:36:07,495 - assigned to the Selff case. - The Selff case? 499 00:36:07,666 --> 00:36:11,103 When did your company decide to investigate the Selff case? 500 00:36:11,269 --> 00:36:13,261 When the claim was filed. 501 00:36:13,438 --> 00:36:17,432 Uh, you see, with a policy this new and this big and no corpus delicti, 502 00:36:17,609 --> 00:36:19,669 it, uh, was practically automatic. 503 00:36:19,844 --> 00:36:23,008 And you were assigned, were you not, to keep an eye on Mrs. Louise Selff? 504 00:36:23,181 --> 00:36:26,083 That's right. Yes. She was the beneficiary. 505 00:36:26,251 --> 00:36:28,777 If there was fraud and if her husband was still alive 506 00:36:28,953 --> 00:36:31,787 he'd be showing up sooner or later to get his share. 507 00:36:31,956 --> 00:36:35,950 In, uh, this business you get to the point where you recognize a pattern. 508 00:36:36,127 --> 00:36:37,618 And you were confident, then, 509 00:36:37,796 --> 00:36:41,096 that Mrs. Selff was indeed working with her husband in this? 510 00:36:41,266 --> 00:36:44,464 That was the assumption, yes, and we did pretty well with it. 511 00:36:44,636 --> 00:36:48,767 - Except she decided to kill him. - Objection, Your Honor. 512 00:36:49,307 --> 00:36:51,538 The last remark will be stricken from the record. 513 00:36:51,710 --> 00:36:53,838 Take the witness, Mr. Mason. 514 00:36:54,779 --> 00:36:58,045 According to your testimony, Mr. Allison, 515 00:36:58,216 --> 00:37:01,880 you have been assigned to the Selff case for two months and two days. 516 00:37:02,053 --> 00:37:04,386 - Is that correct? - Mm-hm. Yes. 517 00:37:04,556 --> 00:37:06,286 In the space of all that time 518 00:37:06,458 --> 00:37:09,189 have you uncovered one scrap of conclusive evidence to prove 519 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,352 that Jamison and Louise Selff had worked together 520 00:37:11,529 --> 00:37:13,998 on a plan to defraud your company? 521 00:37:14,165 --> 00:37:18,694 Well, uh, there certainly was a plan to defraud, wasn't there? 522 00:37:18,870 --> 00:37:20,896 And who else had anything to gain? 523 00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:23,598 I'll ask the questions, Mr. Allison. 524 00:37:23,775 --> 00:37:25,437 I'd appreciate your answering them. 525 00:37:26,244 --> 00:37:30,807 Now once again, have you any evidence to implicate Mrs. Selff? 526 00:37:30,982 --> 00:37:32,814 I, uh... 527 00:37:35,420 --> 00:37:36,752 No, I haven't. 528 00:37:36,921 --> 00:37:40,358 Now, Mr. Allison, did you at any time observe Mrs. Selff 529 00:37:40,525 --> 00:37:42,585 in the commission of any act or deed 530 00:37:42,761 --> 00:37:46,926 to indicate that she did, in fact, know that her husband was alive? 531 00:37:47,098 --> 00:37:49,158 No, I haven't. But that doesn't mean anything now, 532 00:37:49,334 --> 00:37:51,997 I've seen cases where you would never suspect fraud... 533 00:37:52,170 --> 00:37:53,536 That's enough, Mr. Allison. 534 00:37:56,307 --> 00:37:58,708 Sure, that's him, Jamison Selff, 535 00:37:58,877 --> 00:38:01,278 but when he stayed at my house he had a mustache 536 00:38:01,446 --> 00:38:03,244 and his hair needed cutting. 537 00:38:03,414 --> 00:38:05,781 And he only called himself James, that's all. 538 00:38:05,950 --> 00:38:09,114 - Never gave nobody no last name. - I see. 539 00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:11,347 Now, how long did Mr. Selff rent a room 540 00:38:11,523 --> 00:38:13,185 at your establishment, Mrs. Stallman? 541 00:38:13,358 --> 00:38:17,796 Uh, five weeks. In and out, but he paid his rent. 542 00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:19,658 Well, what do you mean "in and out"? 543 00:38:19,831 --> 00:38:22,960 Well, I mean he didn't keep no regular working hours 544 00:38:23,134 --> 00:38:25,160 and he didn't make any friends around the place. 545 00:38:25,336 --> 00:38:27,430 - He had no friends at all? - No. 546 00:38:27,605 --> 00:38:30,370 But every so often he'd phone somebody. 547 00:38:30,542 --> 00:38:33,011 Did you ever overhear any of these phone conversations? 548 00:38:33,178 --> 00:38:35,875 Yes, sir. Is this where you want me to tell about, 549 00:38:36,047 --> 00:38:37,913 you know, what I told you in your office? 550 00:38:38,082 --> 00:38:39,380 - Missus... - About the time 551 00:38:39,551 --> 00:38:40,985 he saw me and hung up? 552 00:38:41,452 --> 00:38:43,978 Just tell us, please, in your own words what you overheard. 553 00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:45,453 Uh, yes, sir. 554 00:38:45,623 --> 00:38:48,252 Well, I walked in on him and he was on the phone 555 00:38:48,426 --> 00:38:53,228 and he was saying, "Louise. Louise." 556 00:38:53,398 --> 00:38:56,232 Soft like that, you know. 557 00:38:56,534 --> 00:38:58,469 Then he saw me and he hung up. 558 00:38:58,636 --> 00:39:01,435 Thank you, Mrs. Stallman. Cross examine. 559 00:39:03,141 --> 00:39:06,043 Mrs. Stallman, we haven't had an opportunity 560 00:39:06,211 --> 00:39:09,409 of discussing your testimony before, 561 00:39:09,581 --> 00:39:11,516 but I can see that you're a very perceptive woman 562 00:39:11,683 --> 00:39:15,176 with an excellent memory, so I'm sure you can be most helpful. 563 00:39:15,353 --> 00:39:18,915 Now, you told us the decedent didn't give you a last name. 564 00:39:19,090 --> 00:39:21,559 Did he ever offer any reason for this? 565 00:39:21,726 --> 00:39:24,491 Well, he went into some big song and dance 566 00:39:24,662 --> 00:39:27,291 about how he didn't know what his last name was. 567 00:39:27,465 --> 00:39:32,130 Said he figured he had some kind of amnesia. 568 00:39:32,303 --> 00:39:35,865 - Did he tell that to, uh, other tenants? - Yeah. 569 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,633 He didn't say much to anyone. 570 00:39:37,809 --> 00:39:42,645 But, uh, when he did, that's what he talked about, his amnesia. 571 00:39:42,814 --> 00:39:45,978 She was scared sick of her husband, I can tell you that. 572 00:39:46,150 --> 00:39:48,813 This was, of course, prior to her husband's disappearance? 573 00:39:48,987 --> 00:39:50,285 That's right. 574 00:39:50,455 --> 00:39:54,916 First time she came she wanted me to help her find some pearls she'd lost. 575 00:39:55,093 --> 00:39:59,087 She was desperate, said he'd be furious if he found out they were lost. 576 00:39:59,264 --> 00:40:02,132 Well, they turned up just like I said they would. 577 00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:06,704 And then later she told me that he'd used them as security on a loan, 578 00:40:06,871 --> 00:40:08,305 without telling her. 579 00:40:08,473 --> 00:40:10,942 Did you ever meet the decedent, Mr. Jamison Selff? 580 00:40:11,109 --> 00:40:12,407 Uh-huh. 581 00:40:12,577 --> 00:40:16,878 He came busting into my place one day, called me all kinds of names 582 00:40:17,048 --> 00:40:19,483 slapped her, right in the face. 583 00:40:19,651 --> 00:40:22,382 And then he told her she was a... Let me see. 584 00:40:22,553 --> 00:40:25,546 "A childish idiot," that's what he called her. 585 00:40:25,723 --> 00:40:28,158 Miss Welch, did the defendant actually say to you 586 00:40:28,326 --> 00:40:32,525 that she felt that she had been visited by the ghost of her dead husband? 587 00:40:39,537 --> 00:40:42,473 Will you answer the question, please, Miss Welch? 588 00:40:43,841 --> 00:40:45,275 Well, yes. 589 00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:47,969 She did say she had seen him, 590 00:40:48,146 --> 00:40:50,274 but she'd been wakened from a sound sleep. 591 00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,610 You mean she was simply recounting a dream? 592 00:40:52,784 --> 00:40:55,515 No. No, it wasn't that exactly. 593 00:40:56,521 --> 00:40:57,887 She felt he had come back. 594 00:40:59,791 --> 00:41:01,657 Oh, but you don't understand. 595 00:41:01,826 --> 00:41:03,727 So many strange things had been happening. 596 00:41:03,895 --> 00:41:06,296 Objects disappearing, the letter from Jamison, 597 00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:09,366 his voice on the telephone, the séance. 598 00:41:09,534 --> 00:41:11,730 But weren't you a witness to these incidents? 599 00:41:11,903 --> 00:41:13,667 Yes. Yes, I was. 600 00:41:13,838 --> 00:41:17,832 And did you yourself ever feel that these were ghostly manifestations? 601 00:41:18,009 --> 00:41:19,978 No, of course not. 602 00:41:20,144 --> 00:41:22,545 But that doesn't mean there was anything wrong. 603 00:41:22,714 --> 00:41:24,205 Miss Welch, are you trying to say 604 00:41:24,382 --> 00:41:27,682 it's possible for a normal mind to believe in ghosts? 605 00:41:33,825 --> 00:41:35,350 Your Honor. 606 00:41:36,194 --> 00:41:40,256 Your Honor, could we possibly have a brief recess? 607 00:41:40,965 --> 00:41:44,993 And could we ask defense counsel to join us in your chambers? 608 00:41:46,404 --> 00:41:49,340 Mr. Mason, will you approach the bench? 609 00:41:52,643 --> 00:41:56,944 Your Honor, I'm not enjoying torturing that woman out there. 610 00:41:57,382 --> 00:41:59,351 I'm convinced that the defendant in this case 611 00:41:59,517 --> 00:42:04,046 did indeed murder her husband, but I'm not an ogre. 612 00:42:04,222 --> 00:42:08,353 And I think the ends of justice could be better served in another way. 613 00:42:08,526 --> 00:42:09,789 How? 614 00:42:09,961 --> 00:42:13,159 I'm convinced that she was not mentally responsible 615 00:42:13,331 --> 00:42:14,629 at the time of the act. 616 00:42:14,799 --> 00:42:17,826 You're suggesting she was unbalanced. Heh. 617 00:42:18,002 --> 00:42:19,527 You're a fine prosecutor, Hamilton, 618 00:42:19,704 --> 00:42:22,367 but I question your credentials as a psychiatrist. 619 00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:24,304 What about the case you presented? 620 00:42:24,475 --> 00:42:27,155 That she and her husband conspired to defraud the insurance company, 621 00:42:27,311 --> 00:42:29,311 and that she killed him to avoid sharing the money? 622 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,382 All right, but let's suppose that Jamison Selff forced her 623 00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:33,882 to take part in that scheme, 624 00:42:34,052 --> 00:42:36,715 and that her mind gave way under the strain. 625 00:42:37,522 --> 00:42:38,581 What are you proposing? 626 00:42:38,756 --> 00:42:41,590 I'm proposing that you bind her over to Superior Court. 627 00:42:41,759 --> 00:42:45,958 I will then accept a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity 628 00:42:46,130 --> 00:42:49,362 and we'll stipulate that Louise Selff be confined for treatment 629 00:42:49,534 --> 00:42:51,162 to a proper institution. 630 00:42:51,602 --> 00:42:53,434 It seems worth considering, Perry. 631 00:42:53,604 --> 00:42:56,403 Your client does seem to be at the breaking point. 632 00:42:56,574 --> 00:43:00,170 That may be, but it's a long way from being psychotic. 633 00:43:00,344 --> 00:43:04,304 No, Your Honor, I'm not interested in a deal, no matter how well-intended. 634 00:43:04,482 --> 00:43:06,417 Why, Perry? Why not? 635 00:43:06,584 --> 00:43:08,815 Because I reject all your assumptions, 636 00:43:08,986 --> 00:43:10,545 that Louise was in on the fraud, 637 00:43:10,721 --> 00:43:13,452 that she killed her husband, and that she's mentally incompetent. 638 00:43:13,624 --> 00:43:16,458 I hope you can substantiate all that, Perry, 639 00:43:16,627 --> 00:43:18,892 choosing to subject your client to further strain... 640 00:43:19,063 --> 00:43:21,532 I would rather subject her to the stress of this hearing 641 00:43:21,699 --> 00:43:24,259 than to confinement in a mental institution. 642 00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:27,599 You make an excellent cup of coffee, Your Honor. 643 00:43:27,772 --> 00:43:30,970 Mr. Balfour, as Jamison Selff's financial advisor, 644 00:43:31,142 --> 00:43:32,942 what was your attitude towards the option deal 645 00:43:33,077 --> 00:43:34,101 he made with Arcott? 646 00:43:34,278 --> 00:43:37,544 I'm not against speculative deals, per se, 647 00:43:37,715 --> 00:43:40,480 if you can afford to lose the money if things don't work out. 648 00:43:40,651 --> 00:43:43,382 Then you regarded Arcott's process as speculative? 649 00:43:43,554 --> 00:43:46,683 Of course. On paper it looked promising, 650 00:43:46,858 --> 00:43:50,625 but until it was developed and tested and proved... 651 00:43:50,795 --> 00:43:53,822 But Jamison Selff didn't have money with which to speculate. 652 00:43:54,532 --> 00:43:57,559 He was facing bankruptcy. His credit was gone. 653 00:43:57,735 --> 00:44:00,170 He stood to lose everything, including the Arcott deal, 654 00:44:00,338 --> 00:44:02,739 unless he came up with the money before the option deadline. 655 00:44:02,907 --> 00:44:07,470 Then that could have given Jamison Selff a motive for dying, couldn't it? 656 00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:11,412 With the insurance settlement, the option could be exercised. 657 00:44:12,750 --> 00:44:13,911 Not if he were dead. 658 00:44:14,085 --> 00:44:18,546 Then later he would be able to come back to life, pretend amnesia, 659 00:44:18,723 --> 00:44:22,387 repay the insurance company out of his profits from the Arcott process. 660 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:24,961 - If any. - Of course. 661 00:44:25,129 --> 00:44:27,030 But apparently Jamison Selff had enough faith 662 00:44:27,198 --> 00:44:30,066 that there would be profits to risk everything. 663 00:44:30,234 --> 00:44:33,727 Now, we can see how Jamison Selff expected to gain 664 00:44:33,905 --> 00:44:35,840 by exercising his option. 665 00:44:36,007 --> 00:44:37,407 Was there anyone, Mr. Balfour, 666 00:44:37,575 --> 00:44:40,409 who would benefit by its not being exercised. 667 00:44:43,314 --> 00:44:44,577 Glenn Arcott. 668 00:44:46,684 --> 00:44:48,812 I don't like what you're suggesting, Mr. Mason. 669 00:44:48,986 --> 00:44:50,986 But you've admitted you feel the option deal 670 00:44:51,155 --> 00:44:53,681 you made with Jamison Selff was a bad one? 671 00:44:53,858 --> 00:44:56,828 Now, yes. But I didn't feel that way the time I made it. 672 00:44:56,994 --> 00:45:00,863 I was even grateful. I needed development money badly. 673 00:45:01,032 --> 00:45:02,432 What made you change your attitude? 674 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,592 Well, my process has almost proved out. 675 00:45:04,769 --> 00:45:07,238 We'll soon be ready to go into full-scale production. 676 00:45:07,405 --> 00:45:10,068 - Is that general knowledge? - Well, no. 677 00:45:10,241 --> 00:45:13,734 I've, uh, kept the results a secret so far. 678 00:45:13,911 --> 00:45:15,812 I... Well, I promised Mr. Selff. 679 00:45:15,980 --> 00:45:19,075 You feel you could make a more favorable financial deal today 680 00:45:19,250 --> 00:45:21,370 - than you could have then? - Heh, I not only feel it. 681 00:45:21,519 --> 00:45:23,613 I've had a better offer from another source. 682 00:45:23,788 --> 00:45:27,122 But your option with Jamison Selff, that's an obstacle. 683 00:45:27,291 --> 00:45:29,091 Look, Mason, I don't know how you do business, 684 00:45:29,227 --> 00:45:30,957 but when I make an agreement, I stick to it. 685 00:45:31,128 --> 00:45:33,256 I don't have to like it, but I keep my word. 686 00:45:33,431 --> 00:45:35,127 That's fine, Mr. Arcott. 687 00:45:35,299 --> 00:45:38,064 And I presume you've notified this other source 688 00:45:38,236 --> 00:45:39,761 that you can't accept the offer? 689 00:45:39,937 --> 00:45:42,236 Garen Industries? I haven't given them a definite refusal. 690 00:45:42,406 --> 00:45:44,068 I don't know what the outcome will be. 691 00:45:44,242 --> 00:45:45,972 Garen Industries? 692 00:45:46,143 --> 00:45:47,736 So they offered you considerably more 693 00:45:47,912 --> 00:45:52,509 then you were to receive from Jamison Selff if his option is not exercised? 694 00:45:52,683 --> 00:45:54,709 How could they know you were so near success, 695 00:45:54,885 --> 00:45:57,821 if, as you say, you kept it a secret? 696 00:45:57,989 --> 00:46:00,686 All I know is that I didn't tell them. I kept my word. 697 00:46:00,858 --> 00:46:04,260 Look, I'm no businessman. I'm an engineer, a scientist. 698 00:46:04,428 --> 00:46:06,693 I do my work and I try to be honest. 699 00:46:06,864 --> 00:46:09,698 So get off my back, I'm not on trial here. 700 00:46:09,867 --> 00:46:13,804 I'm sure you try to be honest, Mr. Arcott, but don't be angry. 701 00:46:13,971 --> 00:46:17,464 I've seen the consequence when you become angry. 702 00:46:17,642 --> 00:46:19,975 Cross-examine, Mr. Burger? 703 00:46:21,712 --> 00:46:24,705 Just a few brief questions, Mr. Arcott. 704 00:46:24,882 --> 00:46:26,407 After the death of Jamison Selff, 705 00:46:26,584 --> 00:46:29,952 did you still feel that that option agreement was valid? 706 00:46:30,121 --> 00:46:32,852 Yes. By the terms, it could be reassigned. 707 00:46:33,024 --> 00:46:36,756 But was that option one that could be exercised by just anyone? 708 00:46:36,927 --> 00:46:40,125 Or was it possible only for Jamison Selff's legal heir? 709 00:46:40,298 --> 00:46:43,132 - His widow? - Only by his widow. 710 00:46:43,301 --> 00:46:46,169 - No one else. - That's all. 711 00:46:46,470 --> 00:46:48,632 Witness may stand down. 712 00:46:52,543 --> 00:46:55,138 Since Mr. Arcott's testimony has not been corroborated, 713 00:46:55,313 --> 00:46:57,248 the defense recalls Mr. Balfour. 714 00:46:57,415 --> 00:47:00,544 Mr. Ralph Balfour, take the stand. 715 00:47:06,590 --> 00:47:10,186 I remind you, Mr. Balfour that you're still under oath. 716 00:47:10,795 --> 00:47:12,661 Mr. Arcott claims he kept the development 717 00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:14,992 of his process a secret, Mr. Balfour. 718 00:47:15,166 --> 00:47:17,863 - Is that true? - No. I was informed. 719 00:47:18,035 --> 00:47:22,336 - By whom? Mr. Arcott? - Not directly. By Mr. Selff. 720 00:47:22,506 --> 00:47:25,442 - And whom did you tell? - No one. 721 00:47:25,609 --> 00:47:29,011 - Uh, that's the truth. - Mr. Balfour, 722 00:47:29,180 --> 00:47:32,844 you kept the secret so well that you didn't even inform Louise Selff. 723 00:47:33,017 --> 00:47:34,679 That is true, Mr. Mason. 724 00:47:34,852 --> 00:47:37,219 I thought it would be a mistake for Louise to speculate. 725 00:47:37,388 --> 00:47:40,950 But if Louise Selff had known that the Arcott process had proved out, 726 00:47:41,125 --> 00:47:45,256 or if she had been in on the insurance fraud with her husband, 727 00:47:45,429 --> 00:47:47,398 she'd have gone through with the deal. 728 00:47:47,565 --> 00:47:50,433 And Jamison Selff could have stayed dead as he planned. 729 00:47:50,601 --> 00:47:54,766 But he couldn't do that because his partner in the fraud, 730 00:47:54,939 --> 00:47:57,135 the person who helped him leave the boat, 731 00:47:57,775 --> 00:47:59,710 the person who was supposed to advise Louise 732 00:47:59,877 --> 00:48:01,368 to pay for the option, 733 00:48:01,545 --> 00:48:05,949 was instead doing everything possible to prevent her from paying. 734 00:48:06,617 --> 00:48:09,246 Now, when he realized the double cross 735 00:48:09,420 --> 00:48:13,221 Jamison Selff returned and fought with you. 736 00:48:13,958 --> 00:48:15,927 Fought with you the night I came to your home. 737 00:48:16,093 --> 00:48:18,562 That man was an intruder. I couldn't see who it was! 738 00:48:18,729 --> 00:48:20,823 Oh, but you could. 739 00:48:21,932 --> 00:48:24,663 When we arrived we could see the lights inside, 740 00:48:24,835 --> 00:48:26,035 but you told us they were off, 741 00:48:26,203 --> 00:48:28,331 and that you hadn't recognized your assailant. 742 00:48:28,506 --> 00:48:31,704 When he couldn't force you to keep your part of the agreement 743 00:48:31,876 --> 00:48:34,072 it left Jamison only one chance, 744 00:48:34,245 --> 00:48:38,239 to try and communicate with his wife from beyond the grave. 745 00:48:38,416 --> 00:48:41,409 And there was only one way ultimately for you to stop him. 746 00:48:41,585 --> 00:48:45,750 - Jamison Selff had to die again. - Give me a chance to explain. 747 00:48:45,923 --> 00:48:49,087 Let me give you the facts! - Facts? 748 00:48:49,260 --> 00:48:50,626 Facts, Mr. Balfour? 749 00:48:50,795 --> 00:48:53,993 It's a fact that you made the counter offer to Mr. Arcott. 750 00:48:54,165 --> 00:48:57,499 It's a fact that you set up the dummy corporation, Garen Industries. 751 00:48:57,668 --> 00:49:00,668 It's a fact that you decided that it was the only way you could have it all. 752 00:49:01,705 --> 00:49:05,164 Jamison Selff was a man without conscience! 753 00:49:05,342 --> 00:49:07,709 An opportunist. A double dealer. 754 00:49:07,878 --> 00:49:10,814 He was ruthless! A liar and a cheat! 755 00:49:15,186 --> 00:49:19,055 And so was his murderer, Mr. Balfour. 756 00:49:20,424 --> 00:49:22,393 So were you. 757 00:49:25,729 --> 00:49:28,221 - I'll never make the checkroom. - Heh, I don't know why. 758 00:49:28,399 --> 00:49:30,630 I managed to carry them three blocks, Clay. 759 00:49:30,801 --> 00:49:32,633 Rosemary, Louise and I have just been shopping 760 00:49:32,803 --> 00:49:34,772 and Louise told me about these great bargains... 761 00:49:34,939 --> 00:49:37,932 - All this stuff, bargains? - Was a fabulous saving. 762 00:49:38,108 --> 00:49:42,307 A half-price sale, shoes, stockings, dress, robes. 763 00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:44,244 Believe me, I saved a fortune. 764 00:49:44,415 --> 00:49:47,544 I'll bet you only spent $150 to save that fortune. 765 00:49:47,718 --> 00:49:51,485 Séances, missing jewelry, mystery phone calls, a dead man that talks, 766 00:49:51,655 --> 00:49:53,146 all that I understand. 767 00:49:53,324 --> 00:49:56,419 But women, heh, heh, they're beyond understanding. 768 00:49:56,594 --> 00:50:01,328 - Clay, you're misogynist. - Misogynist? Mm-mm. 769 00:50:01,499 --> 00:50:04,594 Della, you're gonna have to stop using that kind of language. 770 00:50:04,768 --> 00:50:07,636 - Oh, Clay is a woman-hater. - Ah. 771 00:50:07,805 --> 00:50:10,297 - On the other hand... - I am exactly the opposite. 772 00:50:10,474 --> 00:50:13,342 I'm not thinking about you, Paul. I'm thinking about Perry. 773 00:50:13,511 --> 00:50:16,208 And, believe me, you were just wonderful to Louise. 774 00:50:16,380 --> 00:50:19,316 All that time, interest and understanding. 775 00:50:19,483 --> 00:50:22,783 I don't know what she's angling for but you might as well let her have it. 776 00:50:22,953 --> 00:50:24,785 Della, tell me, 777 00:50:24,955 --> 00:50:26,821 what would you have done if you had a client 778 00:50:26,991 --> 00:50:29,620 whose husband died twice?