1 00:00:33,815 --> 00:00:36,249 [Laura] Try this for a deep, dark secret... 2 00:00:36,350 --> 00:00:39,251 The great detective Remington Steele? 3 00:00:39,353 --> 00:00:42,015 He doesn't exist. I invented him. 4 00:00:42,123 --> 00:00:45,251 Follow... I always loved excitement. 5 00:00:45,359 --> 00:00:47,520 So I studied and apprenticed... 6 00:00:47,628 --> 00:00:49,755 and put my name on an office. 7 00:00:49,864 --> 00:00:52,025 But absolutely nobody knocked down my door. 8 00:00:52,133 --> 00:00:56,536 A female private investigator seemed so... feminine. 9 00:00:56,637 --> 00:00:58,764 So I invented a superior. 10 00:00:58,873 --> 00:01:01,774 A decidedly masculine superior. 11 00:01:01,876 --> 00:01:04,037 Suddenly, there were cases around the block. 12 00:01:04,145 --> 00:01:06,670 It was working like a charm. 13 00:01:06,781 --> 00:01:09,272 Until the day he walked in... 14 00:01:09,383 --> 00:01:11,908 with his blue eyes and mysterious past. 15 00:01:12,019 --> 00:01:13,782 And before I knew it... 16 00:01:13,888 --> 00:01:16,049 he assumed Remington Steele's identity. 17 00:01:16,157 --> 00:01:19,786 Now I do the work, and he takes the bows. 18 00:01:19,894 --> 00:01:22,055 It's a dangerous way to live... 19 00:01:22,163 --> 00:01:24,290 but as long as people buy it... 20 00:01:24,398 --> 00:01:26,559 I can get thejob done. 21 00:01:26,667 --> 00:01:29,568 We never mix business with pleasure. 22 00:01:29,670 --> 00:01:31,797 Well, almost never. 23 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,133 I don't even know his real name. 24 00:01:53,461 --> 00:01:56,692 [Rhythmic Beeping] 25 00:02:19,887 --> 00:02:23,789 [Sustained Beep] 26 00:02:30,498 --> 00:02:32,466 [Rhythmic Beeping] 27 00:02:35,403 --> 00:02:38,031 [Woman Laughing] 28 00:02:40,341 --> 00:02:42,866 [Chuckling] 29 00:02:42,977 --> 00:02:45,741 You're in a bawdy mood tonight. 30 00:02:48,249 --> 00:02:50,683 You're so tacky. 31 00:02:50,785 --> 00:02:52,753 I love it. 32 00:02:54,221 --> 00:02:56,246 Now? 33 00:02:56,357 --> 00:02:58,655 You gotta be kidding. It's so late. 34 00:02:58,759 --> 00:03:02,195 You're right. I am tense. 35 00:03:02,296 --> 00:03:04,526 [Chuckles] 36 00:03:04,632 --> 00:03:08,033 What exactly would you prescribe, Doctor? 37 00:03:09,103 --> 00:03:11,230 Really? 38 00:03:12,340 --> 00:03:14,865 Well, that is one proven cure. 39 00:03:16,477 --> 00:03:20,208 [Chuckles] No. Not there. 40 00:03:20,314 --> 00:03:22,748 It's so cold. 41 00:03:22,850 --> 00:03:25,614 And I'm in a warm mood tonight. 42 00:03:29,156 --> 00:03:32,557 Not there either. That's too dangerous. 43 00:03:34,695 --> 00:03:36,959 Ah, you. 44 00:03:38,065 --> 00:03:40,556 Where? 45 00:03:41,936 --> 00:03:44,962 Oh. That does sound intriguing. 46 00:03:48,809 --> 00:03:51,607 You've sold me. Yeah. 47 00:03:51,712 --> 00:03:54,180 I'll see you there in 15 minutes. 48 00:03:56,384 --> 00:03:58,852 Okay. 49 00:03:58,953 --> 00:04:00,921 Bye. 50 00:04:05,226 --> 00:04:07,786 [Gagging] 51 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,763 [Whistling] 52 00:04:36,524 --> 00:04:39,493 - [Doorbell Buzzing] - [Whistling Resumes] 53 00:04:43,130 --> 00:04:46,566 - [Buzzing Continues] - Coming. Coming. 54 00:04:48,869 --> 00:04:50,996 - [Buzzing Continues] - Yes, yes, yes. 55 00:04:54,909 --> 00:04:57,139 - Ah, Laura! You're early. - I need to talk to you. 56 00:04:57,244 --> 00:05:01,237 The need is mutual. But I was hoping dinner tonight would provide ample opportunity. 57 00:05:01,348 --> 00:05:03,714 That's another thing. About dinner tonight... 58 00:05:03,818 --> 00:05:06,912 - What is that smell? - Smell? My new aftershave perhaps. 59 00:05:07,021 --> 00:05:09,615 - I'm sure whatever's on your mind can wait for a few more hours. - No. 60 00:05:09,724 --> 00:05:11,624 It seems to be coming from in here. 61 00:05:11,726 --> 00:05:14,456 Laura, I'm prepared to accept responsibility for any reprehensible thing... 62 00:05:14,562 --> 00:05:17,258 I may have done, providing I can do it over dinner tonight. 63 00:05:17,364 --> 00:05:20,663 - What reprehensible thing? - Well, surely the reason you're here is because... 64 00:05:20,768 --> 00:05:22,668 I've insulted some client... 65 00:05:22,770 --> 00:05:25,864 mislaid some piece of evidence, committed some faux pas. 66 00:05:25,973 --> 00:05:29,465 And then later, when we're both suitably dressed and the mood is set... 67 00:05:29,577 --> 00:05:31,704 I promise to become a picture of repentance. 68 00:05:31,812 --> 00:05:34,144 - Fair enough? - Does this sudden urge to repent... 69 00:05:34,248 --> 00:05:37,376 have anything to do with the fact that your aftershave is burning? 70 00:05:37,485 --> 00:05:41,080 What? [Sniffing] No. Oh, no, no! 71 00:05:44,725 --> 00:05:48,320 - You're cooking. - Yes. So much for the element of surprise. 72 00:05:48,429 --> 00:05:51,592 You're cooking dinner. I never knew you cooked. 73 00:05:51,699 --> 00:05:55,328 Uh-huh. I was counting on the shock to weaken your defenses. 74 00:05:55,436 --> 00:05:58,064 Well, I just assumed that dinner meant some restaurant. 75 00:05:58,172 --> 00:06:01,198 L-l... I don't know what to say. 76 00:06:01,308 --> 00:06:04,402 Say yes and let me make up the question. 77 00:06:04,512 --> 00:06:08,004 - Oh, this is terrible. - Actually, it's canard au vin rouge. 78 00:06:08,115 --> 00:06:11,676 - The least you might do is taste it before passing judgment. - No, no, no. 79 00:06:11,786 --> 00:06:14,482 I meant you've gone to all this trouble, and I came here to cancel... 80 00:06:14,588 --> 00:06:16,988 because something's come up, and I have to fill you in. 81 00:06:17,091 --> 00:06:20,390 Cancel? You don't cancel canard au vin rouge. 82 00:06:20,494 --> 00:06:23,224 - [Doorbell Buzzing] - Oh, damn, he's early. 83 00:06:23,330 --> 00:06:25,730 Oh, damn, who's early? Laura! 84 00:06:25,833 --> 00:06:29,030 You don't have to call me Dr. Lindstrom, Mr. Steele. Philip will be fine. 85 00:06:29,136 --> 00:06:31,969 I really appreciate your letting me come to your apartment like this. 86 00:06:32,072 --> 00:06:35,530 If the hospital board of trustees ever found out I went to see a private detective... 87 00:06:35,643 --> 00:06:38,578 Do they really control the funding of your clinic that completely? 88 00:06:38,679 --> 00:06:43,582 I'm afraid so. The entire sleep disorders project comes up for review next week. 89 00:06:43,684 --> 00:06:46,084 Ah. Sleep disorders, yes. 90 00:06:46,187 --> 00:06:49,714 About ten days ago, morphine started disappearing from the drug cases. 91 00:06:49,824 --> 00:06:53,988 Labs have been broken into. Records have been destroyed. What is that smell? 92 00:06:54,094 --> 00:06:57,222 It was canard au vin rouge at one time. 93 00:06:57,331 --> 00:06:59,765 But as you were saying, Doctor. 94 00:06:59,867 --> 00:07:02,301 Then one of my best staff physicians, Sheila Marcus, suddenly disappeared. 95 00:07:02,403 --> 00:07:05,634 No call, no message, just gone. 96 00:07:05,739 --> 00:07:08,503 - And you suspect she's responsible? - Sheila? 97 00:07:08,609 --> 00:07:12,306 No, I don't believe she's capable of anything like that. Besides... 98 00:07:12,413 --> 00:07:15,382 Her car still hasn't left the hospital parking lot. 99 00:07:15,482 --> 00:07:19,111 That's why when Miss Holt told me of your idea of infiltrating the clinic to find out... 100 00:07:19,220 --> 00:07:21,950 - Infiltrating, you say? - But don't worry, Mr. Steele. 101 00:07:22,056 --> 00:07:25,287 I'll make sure that no one knows that you're not a real insomniac. 102 00:07:25,392 --> 00:07:29,123 - And with Miss Holt posing as your physician... - Ah. 103 00:07:29,230 --> 00:07:33,667 Infiltrating your clinic as an insomniac with Miss Holt posing as my physician. 104 00:07:33,767 --> 00:07:37,533 Ah, yes, of course. How could I forget? 105 00:07:37,638 --> 00:07:40,971 I wonder if I could have a word with you over the duck in the kitchen, Doctor. 106 00:07:41,075 --> 00:07:43,600 Yes, of course, Mr. Steele. 107 00:07:43,711 --> 00:07:47,738 I suppose it's difficult to find a good insomniac this late on a Sunday afternoon. 108 00:07:47,848 --> 00:07:50,612 An insomniac? For God's sakes, Laura, I'm supposed to be Remington Steele. 109 00:07:50,718 --> 00:07:53,687 Precisely. And if Remington Steele checks into that clinic... 110 00:07:53,787 --> 00:07:57,018 he can't help but become a target for whoever's behind the trouble. 111 00:07:57,124 --> 00:08:00,924 First you deflate my duck, and now you want to cook my goose. Wonderful. 112 00:08:01,028 --> 00:08:03,121 I thought you loved plunging into the thick of things... 113 00:08:03,230 --> 00:08:05,630 trusting your instincts, living by your wits... 114 00:08:05,733 --> 00:08:08,668 the true detective poised at the edge of danger. 115 00:08:08,769 --> 00:08:10,498 No need to quote me so accurately. 116 00:08:10,604 --> 00:08:14,734 How was I supposed to know you'd choose tonight to dazzle me with your gourmet gifts? 117 00:08:14,842 --> 00:08:18,642 - Hoisted by my own canard. - Lindstrom's in trouble. 118 00:08:18,746 --> 00:08:22,147 The man's career... his whole life... is tied up into that clinic. 119 00:08:22,249 --> 00:08:26,379 Can you really walk out there now and tell him we simply refuse to help? 120 00:08:26,487 --> 00:08:28,853 Well, what else can I say, except... 121 00:08:28,989 --> 00:08:30,923 Ah! 122 00:08:59,787 --> 00:09:04,349 - Aside from the neck problems I'm gonna have, how do I seem? - As healthy as a prize pig. 123 00:09:04,458 --> 00:09:07,222 Oh, what a delightfully descriptive way you have. 124 00:09:07,328 --> 00:09:10,957 You want poetry? Go to the library. 125 00:09:11,065 --> 00:09:15,229 We specialize in sleep here. Follow me, Steele. 126 00:09:15,336 --> 00:09:17,395 Anywhere. 127 00:09:17,504 --> 00:09:21,406 I'm thrilled you could fill in for Dr. Marcus with such short notice, Dr. Holt. 128 00:09:21,508 --> 00:09:24,341 The administrator at my clinic is a very understanding man. 129 00:09:24,445 --> 00:09:27,039 Naturally, I want you to take over Dr. Marcus's cases. 130 00:09:27,147 --> 00:09:30,947 I need files for Nestor Bickerman, Ivan Turbell and any new admittances, please. 131 00:09:31,051 --> 00:09:33,952 - Remington Steele. - [Lindstrom] Nurse Blackwell. 132 00:09:34,054 --> 00:09:36,318 I'll get him settled and see that the workup is left in your... 133 00:09:36,423 --> 00:09:38,755 that is, Dr. Marcus's office. 134 00:09:38,859 --> 00:09:42,556 Everyone seems to have a different theory about why she took off so suddenly. 135 00:09:42,663 --> 00:09:44,563 What's yours, Nurse? 136 00:09:44,665 --> 00:09:49,500 Well, apparently, gossip is an illness that we can't even cure. 137 00:09:49,603 --> 00:09:53,061 Come, Steele. 138 00:09:53,173 --> 00:09:57,576 Even if that woman's innocent, I think we should give serious consideration to framing her. 139 00:09:57,678 --> 00:09:59,578 - Mr. Steele.! - Coming. 140 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:03,446 - If you'll pardon me, I have a review presentation to make. - Yes. 141 00:10:03,550 --> 00:10:07,884 Excuse me. Is that Steele? That's not Remington Steele, is it? 142 00:10:07,988 --> 00:10:10,218 I believe it is. Why? 143 00:10:10,324 --> 00:10:14,317 Hey, forgive my manners. Terry Wicker. Same slave ship, different oar. 144 00:10:14,428 --> 00:10:17,761 You must be standing in for the mysterious missing Marcus. Am I right? 145 00:10:17,865 --> 00:10:21,130 - I am, and it's Laura Holt. - Well, welcome to the big sleep. 146 00:10:21,235 --> 00:10:23,931 Come on. I'll show you where the bodies are buried. 147 00:10:24,038 --> 00:10:27,201 - Oh, well... - So, where'd you go to school, Holt? 148 00:10:27,307 --> 00:10:29,639 - Uh, Stanford. - Stanford, huh? 149 00:10:29,743 --> 00:10:31,973 You must've studied with Dr. Laker. 150 00:10:32,079 --> 00:10:35,344 Ah, yes, Dr. Laker. A wonderful man. 151 00:10:35,449 --> 00:10:39,215 I would hardly call Elizabeth Laker a wonderful man. 152 00:10:39,319 --> 00:10:43,380 Oh, Elizabeth, of course. I was thinking of her brother. 153 00:10:43,490 --> 00:10:45,981 Her brother? I thought her brother was a plumber. 154 00:10:46,093 --> 00:10:49,824 Well, internal medicine isn't one of my favorites, but the man did earn his degree. 155 00:10:49,930 --> 00:10:53,422 Now if you'll excuse me, I have so much to catch up on. 156 00:11:09,249 --> 00:11:11,274 Oop! Excuse me, Nurse. 157 00:11:12,719 --> 00:11:15,415 This is your room. The second bed on the right is yours. 158 00:11:15,522 --> 00:11:18,650 - Have a pleasant stay. - How could it be anything but... 159 00:11:34,541 --> 00:11:38,102 - Bickerman. Nestor Bickerman. - Steele. Remington Steele. 160 00:11:38,212 --> 00:11:41,238 - What are you in for, Steele? - Uh, can't sleep. 161 00:11:41,348 --> 00:11:44,408 - Thank God you're not one of them. - Them? 162 00:11:44,518 --> 00:11:47,112 The sleepers. I don't think I could handle sharing a room with a sleeper. 163 00:11:47,221 --> 00:11:49,519 You know what snoring sounds like to a man who hasn't slept in months? 164 00:11:49,623 --> 00:11:52,251 - No. What? - Fingernails on a blackboard... 165 00:11:52,359 --> 00:11:54,657 a dentist's drill hitting a nerve. 166 00:11:54,761 --> 00:11:58,197 - Ah. - Hey, what are you staring at? 167 00:11:58,298 --> 00:12:00,266 Get out ofhere. 168 00:12:03,504 --> 00:12:07,338 There's a sleeper for you. Half the time they can't keep that guy awake. 169 00:12:07,441 --> 00:12:11,036 They call him a narcoleptic, but to me he's just another lazy bum. 170 00:12:11,145 --> 00:12:13,272 I got a hundred guys like him working for me. 171 00:12:13,380 --> 00:12:15,371 - Never trust a sleeper, Steele. - No. 172 00:12:15,482 --> 00:12:18,178 So what kind of work you do? Me, I'm in petrochemicals. 173 00:12:18,285 --> 00:12:20,276 Been in petrochemicals since the war. 174 00:12:20,387 --> 00:12:22,651 I didn't like it at first, but it sort of grows on you. 175 00:12:22,756 --> 00:12:26,089 I think sleep is overrated, don't you, Steele? 176 00:12:26,193 --> 00:12:29,754 It's just a big waste of work time if you ask me. 177 00:12:29,863 --> 00:12:32,024 What can you do when you're asleep? 178 00:12:32,132 --> 00:12:35,363 Dream. Dreaming's for suckers. 179 00:12:35,469 --> 00:12:38,836 Give me facts, data, reality. 180 00:12:38,939 --> 00:12:41,066 That's what makes me tick. 181 00:12:41,175 --> 00:12:44,736 Not that I haven't had a couple of good dreams in my time. 182 00:12:44,845 --> 00:12:48,906 [Chuckles] As a matter of fact, in the summer of'79... 183 00:12:49,016 --> 00:12:53,214 I dreamed I was in this house with a thousand rooms. 184 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:58,121 So I walked into the first room, and there was this chest with a thousand drawers. 185 00:12:58,258 --> 00:13:02,024 [Woman] Let me check all the patients in the ward first. 186 00:13:07,568 --> 00:13:09,536 Oh. 187 00:13:16,677 --> 00:13:19,145 - [Gasps] - Ooh! Ooh! 188 00:13:19,246 --> 00:13:21,544 What a charming place for a midnight rendezvous. 189 00:13:21,648 --> 00:13:23,548 How could we have missed it all this time? 190 00:13:23,650 --> 00:13:25,550 It isn't listed in the better guides. 191 00:13:25,652 --> 00:13:27,847 But we weren't looking for Sheila Marcus then either. 192 00:13:27,955 --> 00:13:31,015 - You already checked the morgue? - Yeah. Nothing. 193 00:13:31,124 --> 00:13:34,218 Then I remembered this was a teaching hospital. 194 00:13:34,328 --> 00:13:38,856 Of course, anatomy. There would have to be cadavers for the students to work on. 195 00:13:38,966 --> 00:13:42,493 It might take weeks before they noticed their stock was multiplying. 196 00:13:42,603 --> 00:13:46,801 Then again, if one could stomach taking inventory. 197 00:13:46,907 --> 00:13:48,875 Oh. 198 00:13:52,312 --> 00:13:54,576 Sheila Marcus. 199 00:13:54,681 --> 00:13:58,879 I was afraid someone had donated her to science too soon. And so young. 200 00:13:58,986 --> 00:14:01,284 Look at these bruises on her neck. 201 00:14:01,388 --> 00:14:05,324 - Strangulation? - A safe bet. 202 00:14:05,425 --> 00:14:08,519 Well, what next? A call to inform Lindstrom? 203 00:14:08,629 --> 00:14:10,529 - No. - No? 204 00:14:10,631 --> 00:14:12,826 Laura, the man's supposed to be our client. 205 00:14:12,933 --> 00:14:15,094 What about our professional code of ethics? 206 00:14:15,202 --> 00:14:17,830 - You're lecturing me about ethics? - I must be losing sleep. 207 00:14:17,938 --> 00:14:20,930 But even so, don't you think the man has a right to know? 208 00:14:21,041 --> 00:14:24,909 Think about it for a minute. If we tell Lindstrom, then the man is duty-bound... 209 00:14:25,012 --> 00:14:26,912 to report it to the hospital board. 210 00:14:27,014 --> 00:14:29,380 And if he can't deliver them a culprit at the same time... 211 00:14:29,483 --> 00:14:31,883 - Then they might shut him down tomorrow. - That's right. 212 00:14:31,985 --> 00:14:34,215 - [Thumping] - Ah, yes, Dr. Holt. 213 00:14:34,321 --> 00:14:38,417 [Loudly] The constant pressure of brilliant sleuthing has driven sleep from my life. 214 00:14:38,525 --> 00:14:41,221 If it weren't for the support, indeed the love of my associates... 215 00:14:41,328 --> 00:14:43,228 I don't know how I would continue. 216 00:14:43,330 --> 00:14:45,423 [Whispering] Open the door. 217 00:14:46,967 --> 00:14:49,629 - Looking for something? - I know why you're here, Mr. Steele. 218 00:14:49,736 --> 00:14:51,727 - You do? - Yeah, you're looking for me. 219 00:14:51,838 --> 00:14:55,501 - I am? Why? - Because I'm... I'm the guy that did it! 220 00:15:00,681 --> 00:15:02,239 [Snoring] 221 00:15:02,349 --> 00:15:05,182 - Is he... - Asleep? 222 00:15:05,285 --> 00:15:07,276 Yes. 223 00:15:15,062 --> 00:15:16,962 Hey, hey, hey. 224 00:15:17,064 --> 00:15:19,225 - I didn't hurt you, did I, Mr. Steele? - I'll survive. 225 00:15:19,333 --> 00:15:22,791 Forgive me for pressing the point, but what is it you've done exactly, Mr... 226 00:15:22,903 --> 00:15:25,963 Ivan. Ivan Turbell. Ivan "The Terrible" Turbell. 227 00:15:26,073 --> 00:15:28,803 And I'll confess to everything, all right? 228 00:15:28,909 --> 00:15:32,140 What do you need, proof? I'll give you proof. 229 00:15:32,245 --> 00:15:34,770 I woke up in the sleep room with that tucked under my arm. 230 00:15:34,881 --> 00:15:36,940 I'm guilty.! 231 00:15:37,050 --> 00:15:39,348 It's Dr. Marcus's jacket. 232 00:15:39,453 --> 00:15:42,286 You don't have to split atoms for a living to put this one together. 233 00:15:42,389 --> 00:15:46,348 As soon as I heard Dr. Marcus disappeared, I knew I was the guy. 234 00:15:46,460 --> 00:15:49,918 So, just tell me what I did and I'll go along quietly. 235 00:15:50,030 --> 00:15:52,692 You want me to tell you what you've done? 236 00:15:52,799 --> 00:15:54,994 Explain my condition to him, will you, Doc? 237 00:15:55,102 --> 00:15:57,263 Well, uh, you see, Mr. Steele... 238 00:15:57,371 --> 00:16:01,501 Look, some narcoleptics just fall asleep on the snap of your fingers. 239 00:16:01,608 --> 00:16:04,168 - Exactly, just like that. - Or when they're too excited. 240 00:16:04,277 --> 00:16:07,178 Yes, overstimulation, very symptomatic. 241 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:10,215 - [Ivan] Sometimes they have hallucinations. - Yes, terrible hallucinations. 242 00:16:10,317 --> 00:16:12,683 And then there's the deluxe narcoleptic like me... 243 00:16:12,786 --> 00:16:16,051 who's got all those and a few extra symptoms to boot, like night terrors. 244 00:16:16,156 --> 00:16:18,283 You must know about my history, Doc? 245 00:16:18,392 --> 00:16:22,886 Well, I haven't had a chance to go through it in great detail, Ivan. 246 00:16:22,996 --> 00:16:26,864 When I was 16, I thought a hideous winged serpent... 247 00:16:26,967 --> 00:16:29,629 was screeching down over my bed to tear me apart. 248 00:16:29,736 --> 00:16:33,570 So I grab a battle-ax to fight it off. The ax turns out to be a lamp. 249 00:16:33,673 --> 00:16:36,836 - And the screeching serpent? - My mother. 250 00:16:36,943 --> 00:16:40,174 I didn't hurt her seriously. But then again, when I was in college... 251 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,180 my roommate found me in my underwear... 252 00:16:42,282 --> 00:16:45,843 trying to drag the dean's car into the quadrangle fountain. 253 00:16:45,952 --> 00:16:50,321 - Another horrifying monster? - Poisonous meteorite. But the dean wouldn't buy it. 254 00:16:50,424 --> 00:16:53,291 - Don't tell me. - Yeah, he was still in the car. 255 00:16:53,393 --> 00:16:56,123 Look, I don't want to read about this one in the papers first. 256 00:16:56,229 --> 00:16:59,596 Please, can't you just tell me what I did to this poor woman? 257 00:17:01,435 --> 00:17:04,268 Ivan, could I have a word with Dr. Holt for a moment? 258 00:17:04,371 --> 00:17:08,899 Sure. Hey, if I'm not awake when you get back, it's nothing personal, okay? 259 00:17:14,481 --> 00:17:18,212 - That's it. Case closed. Brilliant work, Laura. - Let's not rush anything. 260 00:17:18,318 --> 00:17:20,809 Rush anything? We have one corpus delicti, one confessed murderer... 261 00:17:20,921 --> 00:17:23,583 and a splendid piece of physical evidence that join the two. 262 00:17:23,690 --> 00:17:26,420 - Dinner awaits. - Not so splendid. This jacket is covered with blood... 263 00:17:26,526 --> 00:17:29,552 only we didn't find any wounds on Sheila, remember? 264 00:17:29,663 --> 00:17:33,030 You know, Laura, sometimes your preoccupation with detail really concerns me. 265 00:17:33,133 --> 00:17:36,261 So we don't say a word until we know whose blood this is. 266 00:17:36,369 --> 00:17:38,530 All right, very well. This is a hospital, after all. 267 00:17:38,638 --> 00:17:41,232 It shouldn't be too hard to get this checked discreetly. 268 00:17:41,341 --> 00:17:44,799 I'll see what I can find on Ivan. It's odd, though, he can't remember what happened. 269 00:17:44,911 --> 00:17:47,004 Just don't turn your back on him when he's asleep. 270 00:17:47,113 --> 00:17:49,172 His mother, the dean, Dr. Marcus. 271 00:17:49,282 --> 00:17:51,910 He seems to do his best work on authority figures, Doctor. 272 00:17:52,018 --> 00:17:55,476 You know what they tried to do to Genevieve Bujold in Coma. [Clicks Teeth] 273 00:17:58,258 --> 00:18:01,352 Then it's possible, Dr. Lindstrom, for a narcoleptic to function... 274 00:18:01,461 --> 00:18:05,557 even when he's asleep, and when he wakes up have no recollection of what he did? 275 00:18:05,665 --> 00:18:08,293 Mm-hmm. It's called automatic behavior. 276 00:18:08,401 --> 00:18:11,336 - Could they do something violent? - I don't think so. 277 00:18:11,438 --> 00:18:14,805 But there are always exceptions. This is a fairly new field, remember. 278 00:18:14,908 --> 00:18:18,708 Tell me, Dr. Holt, do your questions relate to a particular case? 279 00:18:18,812 --> 00:18:20,905 We have come up with some promising data... 280 00:18:21,014 --> 00:18:24,211 but it's still too early to make an accurate diagnosis. 281 00:18:24,317 --> 00:18:29,516 - And Mr. Steele? - By now he should be well into a full workup. 282 00:18:29,623 --> 00:18:32,956 I felt dreadful about spilling my blood sample all over Dr. Holt's jacket like this... 283 00:18:33,059 --> 00:18:35,755 and immediately offered to rush it to the cleaners at my own expense. 284 00:18:35,862 --> 00:18:37,989 - What did you say your name was again? - Rona. 285 00:18:38,098 --> 00:18:43,661 Rona. Oh, Rona. You have no idea the memory that name stirs in me. Rona. 286 00:18:43,770 --> 00:18:45,761 Really? 287 00:18:45,872 --> 00:18:48,705 Anyway, I offered my arm to Dr. Holt for another blood sample... 288 00:18:48,808 --> 00:18:51,936 but since I'd already donated two pints to your blood drive this morning... 289 00:18:52,045 --> 00:18:55,674 - Two pints? That's quite a lot. - A man gives what he can, Rona. 290 00:18:55,782 --> 00:18:59,149 But Dr. Holt felt it would be medically unsafe for me to lose any more blood... 291 00:18:59,252 --> 00:19:01,982 and simply suggested that your lab could run a test on the jacket. 292 00:19:02,088 --> 00:19:05,387 - Well, that would be highly irregular... - Tell me. 293 00:19:05,492 --> 00:19:09,553 Do you wear those glasses all the time, or just when you're concentrating on your work? 294 00:19:09,663 --> 00:19:14,066 Well, I do take them off at night... before I go to bed. 295 00:19:14,167 --> 00:19:18,160 A pity I couldn't be there to see your eyes unencumbered. 296 00:19:18,271 --> 00:19:22,367 - [Soft Moan] - Anyway, being that Dr. Holt is new on the staff... 297 00:19:22,475 --> 00:19:25,638 I couldn't bear the thought of my clumsiness causing her any more embarrassment. 298 00:19:25,745 --> 00:19:28,771 I offered to bring the garment down here and ask for your help in person. 299 00:19:28,882 --> 00:19:31,908 - But if it's gonna be a problem. - I suppose I could hang on to it... 300 00:19:32,018 --> 00:19:33,986 and try to do it later, Mr. Steele. 301 00:19:34,087 --> 00:19:36,715 Oh, I'd be ever so grateful. 302 00:19:38,158 --> 00:19:42,151 Grateful is nice, but your room number would be better. 303 00:19:42,262 --> 00:19:44,753 [Chuckles] My room number? 304 00:19:44,864 --> 00:19:47,594 Yeah. Well, I am slated for night duty... 305 00:19:47,701 --> 00:19:50,033 and you did say you were an insomniac. 306 00:19:51,671 --> 00:19:53,662 - I did, didn't I? - Mm-hmm. 307 00:19:53,773 --> 00:19:56,264 Yes. [Chuckles] 308 00:20:20,367 --> 00:20:22,267 - Are they here yet, Doc? - [Gasps] 309 00:20:22,369 --> 00:20:25,270 - Oh. Who's that, Ivan? - The police. 310 00:20:25,372 --> 00:20:28,705 I thought it over and I decided prison isn't gonna be all that bad. 311 00:20:28,808 --> 00:20:32,300 You know, three squares, a place to hang your hat. 312 00:20:32,412 --> 00:20:36,314 - At least I'll be locked up so I don't hurt anybody. - Ivan, I'm your doctor. 313 00:20:36,416 --> 00:20:40,819 And I couldn't call the police unless I was certain you had committed some crime. 314 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:45,050 Now maybe if you could tell me again about everything you can remember that night. 315 00:20:45,158 --> 00:20:49,026 Well, l... I came... I came down here as scheduled. 316 00:20:49,129 --> 00:20:51,029 You know, that Nurse Blackwell? 317 00:20:51,131 --> 00:20:53,326 - She hooked me up to the electrodes. - Nurse Blackwell. 318 00:20:53,433 --> 00:20:55,731 Was she the one who monitored the polygraph all night? 319 00:20:55,835 --> 00:20:58,736 I suppose so. After I was all wired... 320 00:20:58,838 --> 00:21:00,965 I came in here, they plugged me in and... 321 00:21:01,074 --> 00:21:04,771 - And then you went to sleep. - I'm a narcoleptic. Sleep is my life. 322 00:21:04,878 --> 00:21:07,073 Do you remember the night terror? 323 00:21:07,180 --> 00:21:10,581 There was this big dark form standing over me with a snake in his hand. 324 00:21:10,684 --> 00:21:14,313 And I was thinkin', "Don't come any closer with that snake. 325 00:21:14,421 --> 00:21:16,685 Take it away! Take it away!" 326 00:21:16,790 --> 00:21:21,352 But he didn't. So I grabbed him like this around the throat. 327 00:21:21,461 --> 00:21:25,864 And the next thing I knew, I woke up with Dr. Marcus's jacket in my hands. 328 00:21:25,965 --> 00:21:29,128 You don't remember anything else about that night? 329 00:21:29,235 --> 00:21:31,032 Sorry, Doc. 330 00:21:31,137 --> 00:21:33,970 - Maybe Mr. Steele can help us, huh? - [Blackwell] Dr. Holt.! 331 00:21:34,074 --> 00:21:38,135 - What is this? - I was consulting with my patient. 332 00:21:38,244 --> 00:21:43,580 Mr. Turbell is in this room so we can monitor his daytime sleep seizures. 333 00:21:43,683 --> 00:21:48,017 And it does none of us any good to have this process interfered with. 334 00:21:50,557 --> 00:21:52,354 Of course. 335 00:21:58,565 --> 00:22:00,863 Steele, right? Dr. Wicker. 336 00:22:00,967 --> 00:22:04,698 Terry to my friends, and I'm betting you're gonna be one. Can I buy you a cup of coffee? 337 00:22:04,804 --> 00:22:08,069 Afraid I never touch the stuff. Can't sleep as it is... uh, Dr. Wicker? 338 00:22:08,174 --> 00:22:12,907 - You're Dr. Holt's patient, aren't you? - I believe so. Why? 339 00:22:13,012 --> 00:22:16,004 Well, no reason. It's just that she's hopelessly new around here... 340 00:22:16,116 --> 00:22:20,075 and I just thought a man of your ilk might like a second opinion... 341 00:22:20,186 --> 00:22:22,086 on the house, of course. 342 00:22:22,188 --> 00:22:24,679 You don't say. Tell me. 343 00:22:24,791 --> 00:22:29,592 Are you always so generous with your services, Doctor, or am I showing a bit too much ilk? 344 00:22:29,696 --> 00:22:32,426 Ah, you see right through me, don't you, Steele? 345 00:22:32,532 --> 00:22:34,591 And why not? You're the detective. 346 00:22:34,701 --> 00:22:38,660 All right, okay, I'll come clean. 347 00:22:38,772 --> 00:22:41,866 Look, Lindstrom is right on the edge with this clinic... 348 00:22:41,975 --> 00:22:46,241 and one more bad break, he'll be just another M.D. Looking for a hook to hang his shingle on. 349 00:22:46,346 --> 00:22:49,372 Now you ask me, that's why Sheila Marcus wised up... 350 00:22:49,482 --> 00:22:53,009 passed on the tearful good-byes and took off. 351 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,111 - But I've got my own little survival plan. - Really? 352 00:22:56,222 --> 00:22:59,248 Wicker's Sleep Centers. 353 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,055 A chain of private sleep clinics. 354 00:23:02,162 --> 00:23:05,928 You see, we franchise out the name, and within a year... 355 00:23:06,032 --> 00:23:09,195 we're branching out into our own line of mattresses and pillows. 356 00:23:09,302 --> 00:23:12,396 Sounds most ambitious. But why tell me? 357 00:23:12,505 --> 00:23:14,837 Well, I'll need partners for one thing. 358 00:23:14,941 --> 00:23:19,742 And who better than a man with a sleep problem, who also makes a headline now and then? 359 00:23:19,846 --> 00:23:23,111 Just picture this copy... 360 00:23:23,216 --> 00:23:27,050 "Sleep as safe and sound as Remington Steele... 361 00:23:27,153 --> 00:23:29,713 with Wickers." 362 00:23:29,823 --> 00:23:31,724 - I'm telling you. We could sell a lot of pillows. - It certainly gives one pause. 363 00:23:31,724 --> 00:23:33,555 - I'm telling you. We could sell a lot of pillows. - It certainly gives one pause. 364 00:23:33,660 --> 00:23:38,620 - Then you'll sleep on it, huh? - Mm. If only I could. Mm. 365 00:23:38,731 --> 00:23:41,825 What do you mean there was a screwup with my test results? 366 00:23:41,935 --> 00:23:44,665 - You know my heart's over here, Doc. - I know that, Mr. Bickerman. 367 00:23:44,771 --> 00:23:47,604 I was just listening to your vena cava minoris. 368 00:23:47,707 --> 00:23:50,403 Oh, yeah. Well, I'm due to get out of here in two days. 369 00:23:50,510 --> 00:23:53,240 - Where's Dr. Marcus anyway? - I don't know. 370 00:23:53,346 --> 00:23:57,077 - A family emergency, I think. - I didn't ask to be here in the first place. 371 00:23:57,183 --> 00:24:00,016 But try saying no to your chairman of the board. 372 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,579 "You want to be president of Varicorp Petrochemical, Nestor?" B.J. Says to me. 373 00:24:04,691 --> 00:24:06,989 "Just show us a clean bill of health." 374 00:24:07,093 --> 00:24:10,392 Well, your labial "pentranostrum" seems normal. Turn. 375 00:24:10,496 --> 00:24:13,761 Fifteen years I've waited for this promotion... 376 00:24:13,867 --> 00:24:18,463 and the company quack hears I have a touch of insomnia, and, bammo... 377 00:24:18,571 --> 00:24:20,471 it's either a spin through here... 378 00:24:20,573 --> 00:24:24,100 or it's no leather chair with a built-in back massager... 379 00:24:24,210 --> 00:24:26,110 no office on the 84th floor... 380 00:24:26,212 --> 00:24:29,238 no diamond tie clasp with the company logo. 381 00:24:29,349 --> 00:24:33,080 I'm sorry about all this, Mr. Bickerman, but we can't seem to locate your paperwork. 382 00:24:33,186 --> 00:24:36,644 So we're going to have to run another full series of tests. 383 00:24:36,756 --> 00:24:41,386 That Nurse Blackwell seems to lose a lot of paperwork, doesn't she? 384 00:24:41,494 --> 00:24:43,985 Nurse Blackwell? I guess that is her area. 385 00:24:46,099 --> 00:24:48,397 Ah, Dr. Holt, I hope I haven't kept you waiting. 386 00:24:48,501 --> 00:24:51,368 Make yourself comfortable on the bed, Mr. Steele. 387 00:24:51,471 --> 00:24:54,031 And I'll need you to fill this for me, Mr. Bickerman. 388 00:24:54,140 --> 00:24:57,268 - Why, you thirsty? - I meant with a sample for your new tests. 389 00:24:57,377 --> 00:25:00,710 - I'd like to get them going as soon as possible. - But I just went. 390 00:25:00,813 --> 00:25:03,782 Ah, try for me anyway, won't you? 391 00:25:09,622 --> 00:25:11,852 Were you able to get the blood on that jacket tested? 392 00:25:11,958 --> 00:25:13,858 Easy enough, except of course for the cost. 393 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,054 You don't suppose we could get my room changed by tonight? 394 00:25:17,163 --> 00:25:20,326 - This is pretty big. How much do you need? - Just to the line. 395 00:25:20,433 --> 00:25:23,493 - What line? - Oh. 396 00:25:26,873 --> 00:25:28,898 Try running the water. 397 00:25:30,810 --> 00:25:33,335 - We might want to take a closer look at Dr. Wicker. - What for? 398 00:25:33,446 --> 00:25:35,812 Well, for one thing, I hate people who are abusively nice. 399 00:25:35,915 --> 00:25:38,406 And for another, he can't wait until Lindstrom's clinic collapses... 400 00:25:38,518 --> 00:25:40,611 so he can start his own sleep disorder empire. 401 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,416 And furthermore, I find the thought of using Remington Steele... 402 00:25:43,523 --> 00:25:45,855 to hawk pillows just short of revolting. 403 00:25:45,959 --> 00:25:49,326 Sorry, Doc. No go. Maybe with a few more cups of coffee. 404 00:25:49,429 --> 00:25:51,989 - We'll have to finish this tonight. - I can finish this tonight. 405 00:25:52,098 --> 00:25:54,066 I can't wait. 406 00:26:01,274 --> 00:26:03,504 [Man Clears Throat] 407 00:26:11,084 --> 00:26:12,984 - Hey! Hey. - Yes. 408 00:26:13,086 --> 00:26:17,113 Yes, the hay is wonderful at harvesttime... soft, sweet smelling. 409 00:26:17,223 --> 00:26:19,589 Come on. We can't do this now. 410 00:26:19,692 --> 00:26:22,661 Believe me, Laura, I'm not trying to sleep with you. 411 00:26:22,762 --> 00:26:25,424 I'm just trying to sleep with you. 412 00:26:25,531 --> 00:26:28,364 Here. Look at this. 413 00:26:30,703 --> 00:26:33,069 Oh, what a charming idea for a bedspread. 414 00:26:33,172 --> 00:26:36,664 It's Ivan's printout the night Sheila Marcus was killed. 415 00:26:36,776 --> 00:26:39,609 - There's a half hour gap with no readings. - Oh. 416 00:26:39,712 --> 00:26:44,115 - You mean Ivan left the sleep room that night? - It would appear so. 417 00:26:44,217 --> 00:26:46,185 Guilty. 418 00:26:47,687 --> 00:26:49,621 It's not that simple. Come here. 419 00:26:49,722 --> 00:26:52,384 [Groans] Laura, please, I'm trying to get some sleep. 420 00:26:52,492 --> 00:26:56,121 But the only safe place seems to be your bed. [Sighs] 421 00:26:56,229 --> 00:26:58,129 But with the missing morphine and the records... 422 00:26:58,231 --> 00:27:02,099 Nurse Blackwell is a prime candidate. 423 00:27:02,201 --> 00:27:05,534 - If only there was something I could... - Sink your teeth into? 424 00:27:06,973 --> 00:27:08,873 Consider me available. 425 00:27:08,975 --> 00:27:11,307 Thanks. 426 00:27:11,411 --> 00:27:13,971 But if you don't get back, Bickerman's gonna start missing you. 427 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,310 Hmm, I don't miss Bickerman. 428 00:27:16,416 --> 00:27:18,316 [Chuckles] Come on. 429 00:27:18,418 --> 00:27:22,684 Oh, Laura, please. Just five minutes. A kidnap. 430 00:27:22,789 --> 00:27:26,350 I mean, catnap. Ah, yes. 431 00:27:30,263 --> 00:27:33,096 I'd say good night, but honesty prevents me. 432 00:27:35,001 --> 00:27:37,492 - Good night. - Yes. 433 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,808 [Sighs] 434 00:27:53,086 --> 00:27:55,054 I said good night. 435 00:27:57,857 --> 00:27:59,825 Is that you? 436 00:28:28,721 --> 00:28:30,689 [Door Closes] 437 00:29:32,185 --> 00:29:33,948 [Elevator Bell Dlngs] 438 00:29:47,033 --> 00:29:50,491 [Footfalls On Stairwell] 439 00:30:28,307 --> 00:30:30,275 Dr. Holt? 440 00:30:31,844 --> 00:30:35,302 - Are you all right? - I'm fine. Thank you. 441 00:30:36,415 --> 00:30:38,406 The light in here is so bad. 442 00:30:38,517 --> 00:30:40,417 This is plasma, isn't it? 443 00:30:40,519 --> 00:30:43,215 - It's an empty I.V. Bottle. - Oh, great. 444 00:30:43,322 --> 00:30:46,189 It's good to know we have extras if we need them. 445 00:30:46,292 --> 00:30:48,419 That wouldn't be Mr. Steele's blood test you have there? 446 00:30:48,527 --> 00:30:52,657 - Uh, oh, yes. But I just thought that I would... - You thought what? 447 00:30:52,765 --> 00:30:55,563 Well, since Mr. Steele brought me the sample personally, l... 448 00:30:55,668 --> 00:30:58,603 Surely you're not entertaining notions of responding in kind? 449 00:30:58,704 --> 00:31:01,229 I didn't think it would hurt anything. 450 00:31:01,340 --> 00:31:04,776 As his doctor, I'll see to it he learns of the results. 451 00:31:07,346 --> 00:31:11,282 You never let us technicians have a crack at any of the good ones, do you? 452 00:31:11,384 --> 00:31:16,083 Ivan, there comes a point in every man's life... 453 00:31:16,188 --> 00:31:19,715 when he must examine the consequences of his actions... 454 00:31:19,825 --> 00:31:22,851 and probe deeply into the innermost reaches ofhis true self. 455 00:31:22,962 --> 00:31:24,862 I'm in it up to my neck, right? 456 00:31:24,964 --> 00:31:29,298 To be specific, there's considerable evidence pointing to you as the culprit. 457 00:31:29,402 --> 00:31:32,098 Oh, no. Just, please, don't hold back. 458 00:31:32,204 --> 00:31:34,263 You gotta tell me, Mr. Steele. What happened? 459 00:31:34,373 --> 00:31:38,537 Dr. Marcus was strangled to death. Her body hidden in the cadaver room. 460 00:31:43,349 --> 00:31:46,409 Ivan? Hey, hey. Come on. Wake up. 461 00:31:46,519 --> 00:31:48,316 - He didn't do it. - What? 462 00:31:48,421 --> 00:31:52,619 Somebody just locked me out of my office and followed me down to the nurses' station. 463 00:31:52,725 --> 00:31:56,388 - Any idea who? - No. But if you were with Ivan, it couldn't have been him. 464 00:31:56,495 --> 00:31:59,953 - That seems logical enough... - I got the blood test results from Rona. 465 00:32:00,066 --> 00:32:02,626 Oh. Was she terribly disappointed? 466 00:32:02,735 --> 00:32:08,071 She'll survive. But according to the report, the blood on that jacket was type "A." 467 00:32:08,174 --> 00:32:11,632 - So? - Sheila's blood type was "O." And Ivan's is AB-negative. 468 00:32:11,744 --> 00:32:14,508 Well, if it's not her blood, and it isn't his blood... 469 00:32:14,613 --> 00:32:16,843 Somebody's trying to frame him. It's clear. 470 00:32:16,949 --> 00:32:19,645 What about the gap you found in his readout? 471 00:32:19,752 --> 00:32:21,652 I don't have an explanation for that yet... 472 00:32:21,754 --> 00:32:25,451 but I think it's time we let Lindstrom know what's going on. 473 00:32:25,558 --> 00:32:28,550 - You want to tell Ivan the good news? - I really think I should. 474 00:32:28,661 --> 00:32:31,061 Hey. Hey. 475 00:32:31,163 --> 00:32:34,326 - I did it. I did it! - Well, perhaps you didn't do it. 476 00:32:34,433 --> 00:32:38,426 - What? - Well, you didn't kill Dr. Marcus. 477 00:32:41,006 --> 00:32:42,940 Did l... Did I miss something? 478 00:32:57,323 --> 00:32:59,553 - Are you sure I'm innocent? - I intend to prove it to you. 479 00:32:59,658 --> 00:33:01,888 - So keep your eyes open and please... - I'll try to stay awake. 480 00:33:01,994 --> 00:33:03,552 - I really will. - Good. 481 00:33:03,662 --> 00:33:07,723 Because the sight of someone sleeping now is apt to make me violent. 482 00:33:07,833 --> 00:33:10,802 I only recently found out myself I was narcoleptic. 483 00:33:10,903 --> 00:33:13,394 The fact is, it's ruined my life. 484 00:33:13,506 --> 00:33:16,270 Imagine prom night, I finally get Effie Stoneglass... 485 00:33:16,375 --> 00:33:18,866 the most popular girl in the senior class to dance with me. 486 00:33:18,978 --> 00:33:21,469 - Guess what I do when the band starts playing? - Fall asleep? 487 00:33:21,580 --> 00:33:24,879 Like a rock. And the first time I was ever intimate with a woman. 488 00:33:24,984 --> 00:33:27,350 You know that moment you always hear so much about? 489 00:33:27,453 --> 00:33:29,148 - You mean... - I slept right through it. 490 00:33:29,255 --> 00:33:32,315 - And she had the marriage annulled the next day. - Ivan, I'm sorry. 491 00:33:32,425 --> 00:33:36,862 - I had no idea. It's been rough, hasn't it? - Well, you try to adjust. 492 00:33:36,962 --> 00:33:39,362 But you have to be awake to do that. 493 00:33:39,465 --> 00:33:41,399 All the friends it's cost me and the careers. 494 00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:45,231 You know, there's no easy niche for a sleeper in our world, Steele. 495 00:33:45,337 --> 00:33:47,601 How'd you do that? 496 00:33:47,706 --> 00:33:50,732 With a certain God-given talent and a lot of practice. 497 00:33:50,843 --> 00:33:52,868 Ayellow tie? Hmm. 498 00:33:52,978 --> 00:33:55,276 And this man imagines that I could be his partner? 499 00:33:55,381 --> 00:33:59,317 - What are we looking for? - Whoever framed you, knew about your case history. 500 00:33:59,418 --> 00:34:01,943 I just wanted to see if there was anything in the good doctor's closet... 501 00:34:02,054 --> 00:34:05,581 that rattled as much as he did. 502 00:34:05,691 --> 00:34:07,249 Dr. Marcus? 503 00:34:07,359 --> 00:34:11,295 What would Dr. Wicker be doing with Dr. Marcus's stethoscope in his locker? 504 00:34:11,397 --> 00:34:13,194 What indeed? 505 00:34:13,299 --> 00:34:15,290 What is that? 506 00:34:15,401 --> 00:34:17,369 A most illuminating picture. 507 00:34:19,205 --> 00:34:22,003 Sheila and I had more than just a professional relationship. 508 00:34:22,107 --> 00:34:25,167 In fact, the night she disappeared, we had planned a rendezvous on the phone. 509 00:34:25,277 --> 00:34:28,576 - But she never showed up. - Why didn't you tell us this before? 510 00:34:28,681 --> 00:34:32,242 I'm a married man. I was hoping this entire thing could be cleared up... 511 00:34:32,351 --> 00:34:34,478 without probing into Sheila's love life. 512 00:34:34,587 --> 00:34:36,782 But I see now we're well into that territory. 513 00:34:36,889 --> 00:34:41,451 - Did you know Sheila was seeing Terence Wicker? - No, I didn't. 514 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,324 But it doesn't surprise me. Sheila loved men. All men. 515 00:34:44,430 --> 00:34:49,060 - Not in a way that was dirty and cheap. She was just... - Philanthropic? 516 00:34:49,168 --> 00:34:52,069 [Sighs] Exactly. 517 00:34:52,171 --> 00:34:55,038 Perhaps Sheila found out Wicker was trying to close you down... 518 00:34:55,140 --> 00:34:57,631 or that he had a morphine problem. 519 00:34:57,743 --> 00:35:00,109 If that stethoscope turns out to be the murder weapon... 520 00:35:00,212 --> 00:35:02,237 it would certainly make him a prime suspect. 521 00:35:02,348 --> 00:35:05,943 I don't know. What do you think, Steele? 522 00:35:06,051 --> 00:35:08,042 - Mr. Steele. Mr. Steele! - [Grunts] 523 00:35:08,153 --> 00:35:10,621 Pardon me. I'm meditating. 524 00:35:10,723 --> 00:35:14,159 I find it beneficial whenever I'm about to embark on the demanding last leg of a case. 525 00:35:14,260 --> 00:35:17,457 I wondered if you concurred with Miss Holt about the stethoscope. 526 00:35:17,563 --> 00:35:20,088 The stethoscope? Absolutely. 527 00:35:20,199 --> 00:35:22,895 What did I just agree to? 528 00:35:23,002 --> 00:35:26,460 - That the stethoscope might be the murder weapon. - Did I come up with that? 529 00:35:26,572 --> 00:35:29,700 That was great, Steele. Meditating. I never thought of calling it meditating. 530 00:35:29,808 --> 00:35:32,641 It's time for Mr. Steele to go on the machine. 531 00:35:32,745 --> 00:35:35,179 The machine? 532 00:35:35,281 --> 00:35:37,647 Try to relax, Mr. Steele. 533 00:35:37,750 --> 00:35:39,775 There's nothing to worry about. 534 00:35:39,885 --> 00:35:41,944 I'll be here all night. 535 00:35:42,054 --> 00:35:44,045 What a comforting thought. 536 00:35:44,156 --> 00:35:46,818 I can see your machine quite well from my station. 537 00:35:46,926 --> 00:35:49,451 Oh, I'm so glad. I wouldn't want you to miss anything. 538 00:35:49,562 --> 00:35:51,792 [Chuckles] 539 00:35:52,831 --> 00:35:54,799 [Door Opens] 540 00:35:55,968 --> 00:35:57,868 [Beeping] 541 00:36:41,714 --> 00:36:44,376 [Beeping Stops] 542 00:36:50,689 --> 00:36:52,919 [Beeping] 543 00:37:13,012 --> 00:37:15,606 - [Knocking] - [Laura] Dr. Wicker? 544 00:37:19,485 --> 00:37:22,010 Dr. Wicker? 545 00:37:23,689 --> 00:37:26,749 [Gasps, Gags] 546 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,740 [Screams] 547 00:37:48,347 --> 00:37:51,214 - [Coughing] - My God, what happened? 548 00:37:51,316 --> 00:37:54,080 I stabbed him with something. L... 549 00:37:56,422 --> 00:37:58,913 Yes, it appears you did. 550 00:38:11,236 --> 00:38:13,136 I didn't kill him. 551 00:38:13,238 --> 00:38:15,934 You're trapped in the darkness with someone squeezing the life out of you... 552 00:38:16,041 --> 00:38:17,941 with your own stethoscope. 553 00:38:18,043 --> 00:38:21,479 You reach for the closest weapon, surgical scissors, and you defend yourself. 554 00:38:21,580 --> 00:38:23,571 I didn't pick up surgical scissors. 555 00:38:23,682 --> 00:38:25,673 I picked up a hypodermic needle. 556 00:38:25,784 --> 00:38:27,979 - Who's dead? - [Steele] Dr. Wicker. 557 00:38:28,087 --> 00:38:29,987 - Dr. Wicker! You don't think l... - Relax, Ivan. Relax. 558 00:38:30,089 --> 00:38:32,114 Laura, do you realize what you are saying? 559 00:38:32,224 --> 00:38:35,193 - If you didn't kill Dr. Wicker, then he's not our man. - He isn't. 560 00:38:35,294 --> 00:38:37,319 But what about our evidence... the picture, the stethoscope? 561 00:38:37,429 --> 00:38:39,659 The stethoscope was a plant, just like the jacket. 562 00:38:39,765 --> 00:38:42,199 Why would the murderer want to frame two people? 563 00:38:42,301 --> 00:38:45,702 I don't think he's trying to frame anyone. He just wants to buy some time. 564 00:38:45,804 --> 00:38:48,773 Each clue that he leaves behind takes us down another blind alley. 565 00:38:48,874 --> 00:38:51,536 Blind alley. That's a delightfully quiet spot for a rest. 566 00:38:51,643 --> 00:38:54,134 The missing morphine is the one thing we haven't nailed down. 567 00:38:54,246 --> 00:38:57,010 The key must be in there somewhere. 568 00:38:57,116 --> 00:38:59,016 What are you doing with these, anyway? 569 00:38:59,118 --> 00:39:02,815 Strange as it may sound, I couldn't sleep, so I slipped out of the sleep room to see you. 570 00:39:02,921 --> 00:39:05,151 I thought I might keep them, so I could slip back in. 571 00:39:05,257 --> 00:39:08,693 But someone must've noticed you were off the machine right away. 572 00:39:08,794 --> 00:39:11,024 Only if they came into the room to check both machines. 573 00:39:11,130 --> 00:39:14,531 From the nurses' station, only my polygraph can be seen, and it was running when I left. 574 00:39:14,633 --> 00:39:16,931 How did you manage that? 575 00:39:17,035 --> 00:39:19,503 I switched connections with the other machine. 576 00:39:19,605 --> 00:39:21,937 What did you say? 577 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,531 I connected the other patient to my machine. 578 00:39:24,643 --> 00:39:28,272 - I like that look in your eye. - What does that mean? 579 00:39:28,380 --> 00:39:30,848 It usually precedes a brilliant case-ending deduction. 580 00:39:30,949 --> 00:39:32,678 - You did it. - I did? 581 00:39:32,785 --> 00:39:36,516 - Of course! It's so obvious. Why didn't we see it before? - How about exhaustion? 582 00:39:36,622 --> 00:39:39,955 - Now what exactly... - Quickly, come on, Ivan. We'll need your help. 583 00:39:42,494 --> 00:39:45,725 - You know, for a doctor, she seems pretty good at this. - Yeah. 584 00:39:50,135 --> 00:39:52,194 Nurse Blackwell. 585 00:39:52,304 --> 00:39:54,670 - Dr. Holt. - I would like a word with you. 586 00:39:54,773 --> 00:39:57,037 - If you must. - In private. 587 00:39:57,142 --> 00:40:00,942 Well, I did need to prepare some additional medication. 588 00:40:20,666 --> 00:40:23,965 I was merely curious about the sleep room procedure. 589 00:40:24,069 --> 00:40:28,233 When you monitor the patients all night, do you ever leave your station? 590 00:40:28,340 --> 00:40:31,935 - Twice, but only briefly. - How briefly? 591 00:40:32,044 --> 00:40:36,174 Well, I try to check in on all the other patients on the floor if I can. 592 00:40:36,281 --> 00:40:40,411 Is that what you did the night before it was discovered Sheila Marcus had disappeared? 593 00:40:40,519 --> 00:40:44,353 - What's the matter, Mr. Steele? - Patience, Ivan. 594 00:40:44,456 --> 00:40:47,687 Fatigue has blurred my natural gifts. 595 00:40:47,793 --> 00:40:50,023 This should do it. 596 00:40:52,064 --> 00:40:55,761 - You can do it, can't you? - Of course I can. Don't be ridiculous. 597 00:40:55,868 --> 00:41:00,271 And according to the reports, it was always you who discovered the missing morphine. 598 00:41:00,372 --> 00:41:04,331 I am supposed to inventory all the drugs every night. 599 00:41:04,443 --> 00:41:09,039 And, naturally, I would be the one to discover any discrepancies. 600 00:41:09,147 --> 00:41:12,981 - Now, if you'll excuse me. - Just a moment, Nurse. I'm not finished yet. 601 00:41:13,085 --> 00:41:16,612 Oh. This is most embarrassing, Ivan. 602 00:41:16,722 --> 00:41:19,213 There's a pride factor at work here. 603 00:41:20,459 --> 00:41:22,825 I should be able to do this in my sleep. 604 00:41:22,928 --> 00:41:24,828 Forget I said that. 605 00:41:24,930 --> 00:41:27,899 I know you can do it, Mr. Steele. 606 00:41:35,140 --> 00:41:39,236 It takes me five minutes to get through a hospital standard. 607 00:41:39,344 --> 00:41:41,904 If the union ever got wind of this, well... 608 00:41:42,014 --> 00:41:43,982 You belong to a union? 609 00:41:45,817 --> 00:41:50,311 I don't believe I care to hear any more of this, Dr. Holt. 610 00:41:50,422 --> 00:41:53,084 Very well. You won't have to... 611 00:41:53,191 --> 00:41:55,318 for the moment. 612 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,700 Have you come across anything yet? 613 00:42:03,802 --> 00:42:06,202 I might, if only these lines would hold still long enough. 614 00:42:06,305 --> 00:42:09,297 Dr. Marcus told me these printouts are as individual as fingerprints... 615 00:42:09,408 --> 00:42:13,469 so we should be able to spot it right away. 616 00:42:13,578 --> 00:42:15,478 - Any luck? - Not so far. 617 00:42:15,580 --> 00:42:18,310 - Do you really think it could... - Hold on. 618 00:42:18,417 --> 00:42:21,545 Have a look at this. 619 00:42:21,653 --> 00:42:24,884 Well, here they're an insomniac, and then the readings suddenly become... 620 00:42:24,990 --> 00:42:26,890 Narcoleptic. That's definitely narcoleptic. 621 00:42:26,992 --> 00:42:28,926 And then it goes back to insomnia. 622 00:42:29,027 --> 00:42:32,394 - How long is that span of narcolepsy? - About half an hour. 623 00:42:32,497 --> 00:42:35,398 The gap in my readout was half an hour! 624 00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:38,298 It appears we've found our killer. 625 00:42:51,416 --> 00:42:55,375 I hope he shows up soon. I'd hate to sleep through the resolution of our case. 626 00:42:55,487 --> 00:42:58,923 Hang on. If he shows up, you can spend all day tomorrow in bed. 627 00:42:59,024 --> 00:43:01,151 Oh. In bed. 628 00:43:01,259 --> 00:43:03,625 That has such a nice rhythm to it. 629 00:43:03,729 --> 00:43:07,426 Especially when you say it with that soft lilt in your voice. 630 00:43:07,532 --> 00:43:10,092 You never told me I had a lilt in my voice before. 631 00:43:10,202 --> 00:43:13,968 I never told you I could cook either, but that never stopped me. 632 00:43:14,072 --> 00:43:16,097 Still trying to weaken my defenses? 633 00:43:16,208 --> 00:43:18,369 Oh, it's such a noble struggle. 634 00:43:18,477 --> 00:43:22,311 - I'd hate to give it up. - So would I. 635 00:43:22,414 --> 00:43:25,042 You know, I've never had a man cook for me before. 636 00:43:25,150 --> 00:43:28,916 Mmm. Oh, the recipes we could share. 637 00:43:38,263 --> 00:43:40,629 [Sighing] 638 00:43:42,100 --> 00:43:45,866 - [Banging] - Hmm? 639 00:43:59,484 --> 00:44:02,112 Looking for this, Mr. Bickerman? 640 00:44:02,220 --> 00:44:06,452 - Couldn't sleep again, eh, Nestor? - Well, l... I just... 641 00:44:06,558 --> 00:44:08,458 You were just trying to retrieve your blood sample... 642 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,529 so that no one would learn your sleeplessness was caused by your drug habit. 643 00:44:11,630 --> 00:44:13,791 [Steele] And if the chairman of the board frowned on insomnia... 644 00:44:13,899 --> 00:44:16,163 I imagine he'd be rather intolerant of morphine addiction. 645 00:44:16,268 --> 00:44:20,102 You almost pulled it off. Just a few more days and you'd get that clean bill ofhealth... 646 00:44:20,205 --> 00:44:22,298 and that chair with the back massager. 647 00:44:22,407 --> 00:44:25,570 But Dr. Marcus was able to get one of your samples through the lab. 648 00:44:25,677 --> 00:44:28,510 So you killed her and framed Ivan who was in the sleep room with you that night. 649 00:44:28,613 --> 00:44:32,982 When Dr. Wicker discovered the discrepancy in the sleep printout, he had to die too. 650 00:44:33,085 --> 00:44:35,645 You're right. I am an addict... 651 00:44:35,754 --> 00:44:40,214 and those hypocrites at Varicorp are responsible for it. 652 00:44:40,325 --> 00:44:43,954 They sent me on a mine renewal tour about six years ago. 653 00:44:44,062 --> 00:44:46,462 I spent months crawling around abandoned mines... 654 00:44:46,565 --> 00:44:50,262 Iooking for a vein for those parasites to tap into. 655 00:44:50,368 --> 00:44:52,427 But one day a beam gave out... 656 00:44:52,537 --> 00:44:55,700 and a load of shale came down on me. 657 00:44:55,807 --> 00:45:00,506 Five operations and a ton of painkillers later, and I was an addict. 658 00:45:00,612 --> 00:45:04,810 It ruined my sleep... 659 00:45:04,916 --> 00:45:09,876 my marriage, but I'm not going to let it ruin my career. 660 00:45:09,988 --> 00:45:13,719 Now, get over there, Steele, next to the doc! 661 00:45:45,023 --> 00:45:47,287 [Steele] Ivan, now! 662 00:45:47,392 --> 00:45:50,327 I will not fall asleep. I will not fall asleep. 663 00:45:57,869 --> 00:46:00,633 Did I do it? Did I do it? 664 00:46:00,739 --> 00:46:02,900 This time, Ivan, you did it. 665 00:46:05,010 --> 00:46:08,969 This is great. I don't remember the last time I actually made it through an entire meal. 666 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:12,914 Usually, I got groggy after the salad, and before you knew it, I was face down in the entree. 667 00:46:13,018 --> 00:46:16,510 But this time, I have never felt more awake in my life. 668 00:46:16,621 --> 00:46:20,148 I mean that's really something, isn't it, Steele? 669 00:46:20,258 --> 00:46:22,852 I'm glad someone's made a full recovery, yes. 670 00:46:22,961 --> 00:46:25,156 Well, Ivan will always be a narcoleptic. 671 00:46:25,263 --> 00:46:28,596 But with properly monitored treatments, should lead a normal, functional life. 672 00:46:28,700 --> 00:46:31,328 And the clinic? You hinted at good news. 673 00:46:31,436 --> 00:46:34,337 We're back in business. Varicorp, Bickerman's company... 674 00:46:34,439 --> 00:46:37,203 was so upset at all the bad publicity he brought them... 675 00:46:37,309 --> 00:46:40,904 they made a substantial contribution to the clinic to try to balance things out. 676 00:46:41,012 --> 00:46:43,310 The committee had no choice but to renew us. 677 00:46:43,415 --> 00:46:47,112 A comforting thought for those still afflicted, I'm sure. 678 00:46:47,219 --> 00:46:49,619 I did it. I made it to dessert. 679 00:46:49,721 --> 00:46:51,712 Dessert. Mr. Steele. 680 00:46:51,823 --> 00:46:54,519 Hmm? Ah. Ah, yes. 681 00:46:54,626 --> 00:46:56,526 Ah, dessert, of course. 682 00:46:56,628 --> 00:46:58,596 Excuse us. 683 00:47:03,401 --> 00:47:06,029 - You still look a little weary. - Yes. 684 00:47:06,137 --> 00:47:09,903 - Well, as Buddha once said... - Buddha? 685 00:47:10,008 --> 00:47:13,603 Or was it Kurt Vonnegut? 686 00:47:13,712 --> 00:47:17,170 At any rate, he said, "Be careful of what you pretend to be... 687 00:47:17,282 --> 00:47:21,378 because you are what you pretend to be." 688 00:47:21,486 --> 00:47:23,920 In other words? 689 00:47:24,022 --> 00:47:26,650 I've become a raving insomniac. 690 00:47:26,758 --> 00:47:29,022 You mean you haven't slept since we left the hospital? 691 00:47:29,127 --> 00:47:31,288 I think I nodded off once in the shower, but I'm not sure. 692 00:47:31,396 --> 00:47:34,524 Oh. Well, we'll have to have Dr. Holt take a look at the patient. 693 00:47:34,633 --> 00:47:37,568 - [Clears Throat] - Sounds strong enough. 694 00:47:37,669 --> 00:47:41,435 Of course, levity comes easily to someone who doesn't have to face a lifetime... 695 00:47:41,539 --> 00:47:44,633 of examining their bedroom ceiling. 696 00:47:44,743 --> 00:47:49,009 You can play at a doctor anytime you wish, but l... 697 00:47:49,114 --> 00:47:51,708 Oh, my, that feels good. 698 00:47:53,718 --> 00:47:56,949 - Temperature seems normal. - Or rising slightly. 699 00:47:58,857 --> 00:48:01,223 Shoulders still tense. Can't have that. 700 00:48:01,326 --> 00:48:04,557 [Sighs] You think I need physical therapy? 701 00:48:04,663 --> 00:48:07,325 Well, perhaps a little of that... 702 00:48:07,432 --> 00:48:09,559 and my lilting voice. 703 00:48:09,668 --> 00:48:11,829 Mmm, yes. 704 00:48:11,936 --> 00:48:14,928 Yes, and your lilting voice. 705 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:16,940 [Sighs] 706 00:48:28,887 --> 00:48:31,253 Time for dessert, Mr. Steele. 707 00:49:06,558 --> 00:49:07,889 [Mews] 708 00:49:07,939 --> 00:49:12,489 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0