1 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,325 [Laura] Try this for a deep, dark secret... 2 00:00:36,436 --> 00:00:40,065 The great detective Remington Steele? 3 00:00:40,173 --> 00:00:42,334 He doesn't exist. I invented him. 4 00:00:42,442 --> 00:00:45,343 Follow... I always loved excitement. 5 00:00:45,445 --> 00:00:47,572 So I studied and apprenticed... 6 00:00:47,681 --> 00:00:49,842 and put my name on an office. 7 00:00:49,950 --> 00:00:52,851 But absolutely nobody knocked down my door. 8 00:00:52,953 --> 00:00:56,582 A female private investigator seemed so... feminine. 9 00:00:56,690 --> 00:00:58,851 So I invented a superior. 10 00:00:58,959 --> 00:01:01,860 A decidedly masculine superior. 11 00:01:01,962 --> 00:01:04,089 Suddenly, there were cases around the block. 12 00:01:04,197 --> 00:01:06,722 It was working like a charm. 13 00:01:06,833 --> 00:01:08,596 Until the day he walked in... 14 00:01:08,702 --> 00:01:12,001 with his blue eyes and mysterious past. 15 00:01:12,105 --> 00:01:13,868 And before I knew it... 16 00:01:13,974 --> 00:01:16,101 he assumed Remington Steele's identity. 17 00:01:16,209 --> 00:01:19,872 Now I do the work, and he takes the bows. 18 00:01:19,980 --> 00:01:22,107 It's a dangerous way to live... 19 00:01:22,215 --> 00:01:24,376 but as long as people buy it... 20 00:01:24,484 --> 00:01:26,611 I can get thejob done. 21 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,621 We never mix business with pleasure. 22 00:01:29,723 --> 00:01:31,884 Well, almost never. 23 00:01:33,126 --> 00:01:35,185 I don't even know his real name. 24 00:02:16,302 --> 00:02:18,327 Laura, wait. 25 00:02:33,753 --> 00:02:36,449 Remington Steele to give an interview? 26 00:02:48,334 --> 00:02:52,532 [Sniffs] Ah, can you smell it, Laura? 27 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,107 Smells like an old liverwurst sandwich. 28 00:02:55,208 --> 00:02:59,144 Oh, the stench of professionalism, the odor of objectivity. 29 00:02:59,245 --> 00:03:01,145 Oops. [Chuckling] 30 00:03:01,247 --> 00:03:03,909 Shades of Sevareid, Cronkite, Hugh Downs. 31 00:03:04,017 --> 00:03:05,985 Oh, trench coats and drizzle. 32 00:03:06,086 --> 00:03:09,351 The sound of ack-ack pounding on a distant shore. 33 00:03:09,456 --> 00:03:13,586 And there, in the very thick of it all, the man with the microphone. 34 00:03:15,128 --> 00:03:17,995 [Sighs] I always wanted to be a reporter... 35 00:03:18,098 --> 00:03:21,192 ever since I saw Joel McCrea in Foreign Correspondent. 36 00:03:21,301 --> 00:03:23,963 - So did I. - Hmm? You wanted to beJoel McCrea? 37 00:03:24,070 --> 00:03:26,038 - A reporter. - Really? 38 00:03:26,139 --> 00:03:29,905 Oh. And we learn another little facet of Laura Holt. 39 00:03:30,009 --> 00:03:33,206 - [Sighs] - And all because of that man. 40 00:03:33,313 --> 00:03:35,873 Hmm? 41 00:03:35,982 --> 00:03:38,780 Mr. Walsh! Toupee time! 42 00:03:40,453 --> 00:03:43,854 Doesn't look much likeJoel McCrea to me. 43 00:03:43,957 --> 00:03:46,357 He lectured my freshman year in college. 44 00:03:46,459 --> 00:03:49,792 The stories he's covered, the places he's been. 45 00:03:49,896 --> 00:03:52,364 For months afterwards, I dreamed of flying off... 46 00:03:52,465 --> 00:03:56,196 to Tangier, Maracaibo, Macao. 47 00:03:56,302 --> 00:03:58,202 What dissuaded you? 48 00:03:58,304 --> 00:04:00,772 It was much more romantic than realistic. 49 00:04:00,874 --> 00:04:04,241 - Besides, I was on a math scholarship. - Oh. Regrets? 50 00:04:04,344 --> 00:04:06,244 - A few. - Oh. 51 00:04:06,346 --> 00:04:08,246 - Mr. Steele. - Yes. 52 00:04:08,348 --> 00:04:11,317 - I'm Amy Fogelson, Russell Stewart's assistant. - Oh, how do you do? 53 00:04:11,417 --> 00:04:13,578 Um, my associate, Laura Holt. 54 00:04:13,686 --> 00:04:15,586 - Hello. - Hello. 55 00:04:15,688 --> 00:04:18,885 Why don't we find a quiet spot to do a little preliminary background on you... 56 00:04:18,992 --> 00:04:20,960 before Mr. Stewart takes over? 57 00:04:21,060 --> 00:04:23,585 Oh, of course. 58 00:04:23,696 --> 00:04:28,258 Remember, the interview with Russell Stewart is merely a cover for our being here. 59 00:04:28,368 --> 00:04:32,327 Fear not. While she's pumping me, I'll be pumping her. 60 00:04:39,746 --> 00:04:42,681 - The Fogelson kid buy it? - Why shouldn't she, Mr. Greene? 61 00:04:42,782 --> 00:04:45,751 Remington Steele is always being asked to give interviews. 62 00:04:45,852 --> 00:04:48,480 I just hope he doesn't have any skeletons in his closet. 63 00:04:48,588 --> 00:04:52,456 Russell loves to rattle 'em for all the world to see. 64 00:04:52,559 --> 00:04:54,459 Hmm. 65 00:04:54,561 --> 00:04:57,359 You sounded very cryptic over the phone, Mr. Greene. 66 00:04:57,463 --> 00:05:01,331 It started two weeks ago. At first I thought they were just routine foul-ups. 67 00:05:01,434 --> 00:05:04,403 Instead of the news on the teleprompter, there were nursery rhymes. 68 00:05:04,504 --> 00:05:06,472 "Mary Had A Little Lamb," stuff like that. 69 00:05:06,573 --> 00:05:08,541 Wrong film was substituted. 70 00:05:08,641 --> 00:05:12,634 Somebody reversed the basketball scores, changed the temperatures on the weather map. 71 00:05:12,745 --> 00:05:15,475 Made my news team look like a pack of blithering idiots. 72 00:05:15,582 --> 00:05:18,415 - You think it's deliberate. - What do you know about the ratings, Miss Holt? 73 00:05:18,518 --> 00:05:20,850 - Arbitron? Nielson? - I've heard of them. 74 00:05:20,954 --> 00:05:24,185 We in television live and die by them. They're our god. 75 00:05:24,290 --> 00:05:27,259 Our ticket to heaven or hell. 76 00:05:29,596 --> 00:05:33,464 Channel 3 News was in the ratings dumper when I took over as station manager. 77 00:05:33,566 --> 00:05:37,127 If it was up to me, I would've canceled it, put on reruns of Barney Miller. 78 00:05:37,237 --> 00:05:41,674 The F.C.C. Has this rule about television stations performing in the public interest... 79 00:05:41,774 --> 00:05:43,435 so I had to keep the damn news on. 80 00:05:43,543 --> 00:05:47,570 - Only you found a way to... - Jazz it up, give it pizzazz. 81 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,649 I mean, the news is generally so depressing. 82 00:05:50,750 --> 00:05:54,208 All those famines, fires, floods. Who wants to see that every night? 83 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,450 So I put in a happy news format. A little chitchat between all the rapes and murders. 84 00:05:58,558 --> 00:06:01,857 And I wanna tell you... the public ate it up. Our ratings doubled. 85 00:06:01,961 --> 00:06:05,954 Aside from a moral question, I still can't see the connection. 86 00:06:06,065 --> 00:06:08,533 Television is a cutthroat business. Dog eat dog. 87 00:06:08,635 --> 00:06:11,103 There's fierce competition for the advertising dollar... 88 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:13,798 and for every rating point you get, another station loses one. 89 00:06:13,907 --> 00:06:16,637 You suspect a rival station is sabotaging you? 90 00:06:16,743 --> 00:06:19,303 I make no accusations. 91 00:06:19,412 --> 00:06:23,712 I just want Steele to find out who's behind it and bring the culprit to justice. 92 00:06:23,816 --> 00:06:26,011 But it's got to be done quietly. 93 00:06:26,119 --> 00:06:29,020 If this gets out, we'll be the laughingstock of the television community. 94 00:06:29,122 --> 00:06:29,322 [Man] All right, everybody. Magic time.! 95 00:06:29,322 --> 00:06:31,085 [Man] All right, everybody. Magic time.! 96 00:06:31,190 --> 00:06:33,158 Fifteen seconds to air. 97 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,260 Energy, people! 98 00:06:36,362 --> 00:06:38,262 Energy, energy.! 99 00:06:38,364 --> 00:06:41,629 Remember, we love our work, and we love each other. 100 00:06:41,734 --> 00:06:45,033 We're happy and we show it, huh? 101 00:06:45,138 --> 00:06:48,039 - ¢Ü¢Û¢Ü¢Û[Theme Song] - [Announcer] And now from the Channel 3 Studios... 102 00:06:48,141 --> 00:06:51,110 it's Spotlight News... 103 00:06:51,210 --> 00:06:55,306 featuring Hoop Tracy on sports, Uncle Tim with the weather... 104 00:06:55,415 --> 00:06:59,010 and investigative reporter Russell Stewart. 105 00:06:59,118 --> 00:07:03,384 And now with the news, the Southland's most innovative news personalities... 106 00:07:03,489 --> 00:07:06,583 Elliot Walsh and Chrissie Carstairs. 107 00:07:06,693 --> 00:07:09,321 Good evening. And good evening to you, Elliot. 108 00:07:09,429 --> 00:07:12,762 - I hope you had a nice day. - Excellent, Chrissie. Excellent. 109 00:07:12,865 --> 00:07:15,891 - And how was your day? - Filled, Elliot. Filled. 110 00:07:16,002 --> 00:07:17,902 Dateline Rome: 111 00:07:18,004 --> 00:07:22,134 Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner... 112 00:07:22,241 --> 00:07:24,903 vehemently denied rumors that she's secretly contemplating... 113 00:07:25,011 --> 00:07:26,979 yet another trek down the aisle... 114 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:31,813 with a mysterious Argentinean suitor, identified only as Flavio. 115 00:07:31,918 --> 00:07:35,251 - Elliot? - And speaking of rumors, Chrissie... 116 00:07:35,355 --> 00:07:38,051 a palace spokesman today denied reports... 117 00:07:38,157 --> 00:07:40,887 that Princess Di is pregnant again. 118 00:07:40,994 --> 00:07:42,928 Well, that's too bad. 119 00:07:43,029 --> 00:07:46,465 I'm sure the whole world would welcome another bun in the royal oven. 120 00:07:46,566 --> 00:07:50,127 And speaking of ovens, how hot was it for the Lakers tonight, Hoop? 121 00:07:50,236 --> 00:07:53,137 Sizzling, Chrissie. We'll have all the highlights later. 122 00:07:53,239 --> 00:07:56,037 Thanks a heap, Hoop. Look forward to that. 123 00:07:56,142 --> 00:08:01,011 And now Uncle Tim will give us a hint as to what to expect weather-wise. 124 00:08:08,821 --> 00:08:11,119 I think it's going to rain, Elliot. 125 00:08:11,224 --> 00:08:13,749 I'd say that's a safe bet, Chrissie. 126 00:08:13,860 --> 00:08:17,728 And speaking of bets, Spotlight News investigative reporter Russell Stewart... 127 00:08:17,830 --> 00:08:20,196 will give us a glimpse of his five-part series... 128 00:08:20,299 --> 00:08:22,199 on bookmaking in the Southland. 129 00:08:25,872 --> 00:08:28,067 Good God! Did that go out over the air? 130 00:08:28,174 --> 00:08:30,142 No, no. We were still on Chrissie. 131 00:08:30,243 --> 00:08:33,269 She's gonna lose her cookies.! Go to a commercial.! 132 00:08:33,379 --> 00:08:35,347 Commercial. 133 00:08:36,382 --> 00:08:39,180 The safety clamp on that lamp was definitely sheared. 134 00:08:39,285 --> 00:08:42,015 - No question about it. - [Grunts] 135 00:08:42,121 --> 00:08:44,885 I can't believe a competing station would resort to something like this... 136 00:08:44,991 --> 00:08:47,687 no matter how desperate they were for, uh... 137 00:08:47,794 --> 00:08:50,558 - What do you call them? - Ratings. 138 00:08:50,663 --> 00:08:54,099 You actually think these television people would kill for ratings? 139 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,862 - I've heard it said. - Hmm. 140 00:08:56,969 --> 00:08:58,937 Desperate lot. 141 00:08:59,038 --> 00:09:01,506 Well, if it wasn't sabotage to discredit Spotlight News... 142 00:09:01,607 --> 00:09:03,575 and drive viewers away from Channel 3... 143 00:09:03,676 --> 00:09:06,839 maybe whoever was occupying that chair was the target. 144 00:09:06,946 --> 00:09:08,846 Uh, let's see. 145 00:09:08,948 --> 00:09:12,247 First of all, we have the female jockstrap. 146 00:09:12,351 --> 00:09:15,081 "Jock." Athletes are called jocks. 147 00:09:15,188 --> 00:09:18,817 Hmm. Quaint terminology you have for your sports figures. 148 00:09:18,925 --> 00:09:23,089 - Uncle Tim took her place. - Russell Stewart was about to, until the light fell. 149 00:09:23,196 --> 00:09:25,664 Thank God they didn't get him. 150 00:09:26,766 --> 00:09:28,927 You watch Spotlight News? 151 00:09:29,035 --> 00:09:31,503 Hey, the news is very depressing these days... 152 00:09:31,604 --> 00:09:34,129 and Russell Stewart's hot to look at. 153 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:38,734 If you're gonna get depressed, you might as well get turned on doing it. 154 00:09:38,845 --> 00:09:41,473 Mr. Greene certainly knows what his audience tunes in for. 155 00:09:41,581 --> 00:09:43,549 I say we split up. 156 00:09:43,649 --> 00:09:46,311 Each of us interrogate a possible victim... 157 00:09:46,419 --> 00:09:49,616 and see if there's any truth behind Murphy's, uh, theory. 158 00:09:49,722 --> 00:09:52,282 - You just stay clear of Russell Stewart. - Why? 159 00:09:52,391 --> 00:09:54,859 I don't want him asking you any embarrassing questions. 160 00:09:54,961 --> 00:09:58,124 Mmm. Child's play for a seasoned prevaricator. 161 00:09:58,231 --> 00:10:00,859 Hoop Tracy is a lot safer. I'll deal with Mr. Stewart. 162 00:10:00,967 --> 00:10:04,835 - Well. - That leaves me with Uncle Tim. 163 00:10:04,937 --> 00:10:08,338 - Why do I always get the weirdos? - [Chuckling] 164 00:10:08,441 --> 00:10:12,639 Perhaps because you, uh, relate so well to them, Murphy. 165 00:10:23,556 --> 00:10:27,515 Excuse me. Um, Mr., um... 166 00:10:27,627 --> 00:10:29,595 Tim. 167 00:10:29,695 --> 00:10:32,823 - I'm Murphy Michaels, Tim, and I, uh... - Mr. Tim. 168 00:10:32,932 --> 00:10:35,196 - Pardon? - [Clinking] 169 00:10:35,301 --> 00:10:37,769 My first name's Uncle. My last name's Tim. 170 00:10:37,870 --> 00:10:41,431 Had it changed legally, so you can call me Mr. Tim. 171 00:10:41,541 --> 00:10:45,238 Right. I represent the insurance company that carries the policy on the station. 172 00:10:45,344 --> 00:10:48,905 That was a very close call the other night. A few more seconds, you might not be around. 173 00:10:49,015 --> 00:10:52,382 But I am, so what's your point, sonny? 174 00:10:52,485 --> 00:10:55,784 The point is, the light was rigged to fall. 175 00:10:55,888 --> 00:10:59,119 Anybody around here who might want to see you under it? 176 00:10:59,225 --> 00:11:01,193 Nobody wants to kill me. 177 00:11:01,294 --> 00:11:04,161 And if they did, I know exactly who it is! 178 00:11:09,569 --> 00:11:11,469 I always get 'em. 179 00:11:22,548 --> 00:11:26,279 Uh, Miss Hoop... I must say you have an excellent stride, Miss Hoop. 180 00:11:26,385 --> 00:11:28,853 I was power forward on my college basketball team. 181 00:11:28,955 --> 00:11:31,617 Ah, I've always enjoyed motorized sports. 182 00:11:31,724 --> 00:11:34,192 All right, guys. Grab your helmets. 183 00:11:34,293 --> 00:11:36,591 Let's talk about last Sunday's tragedy. 184 00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:40,598 - [All Groaning] - Get out of here! 185 00:11:41,634 --> 00:11:43,534 What about you, Markowski? 186 00:11:43,636 --> 00:11:47,003 Wanna explain why the coach called for a field goal with 10 seconds left to play... 187 00:11:47,106 --> 00:11:49,074 when you were down by four points? 188 00:11:49,175 --> 00:11:51,507 Hey, the coach coaches. I just kick. 189 00:11:51,611 --> 00:11:54,512 Ah. Yeah. Hmm. 190 00:11:54,614 --> 00:11:56,582 How 'bout you, Wemlinger? 191 00:11:56,682 --> 00:12:01,244 Wanna tell your mother why the winning touchdown pass bounced off your helmet? 192 00:12:02,555 --> 00:12:04,489 - [Scoffs] - [Clears Throat] 193 00:12:04,590 --> 00:12:07,354 If they could move that fast on the field, we'd have an unbeatable team. 194 00:12:07,460 --> 00:12:09,428 I sense you rather enjoyed that. 195 00:12:09,528 --> 00:12:14,465 Listen, cutes, when I got to be a sports reporter, women weren't allowed in a men's locker room... 196 00:12:14,567 --> 00:12:17,035 so I used to have to sit in the equipment office and wait... 197 00:12:17,136 --> 00:12:19,661 until someone deigned to come out to give me an interview. 198 00:12:19,772 --> 00:12:22,070 More often than not, they forgot that I was there. 199 00:12:22,174 --> 00:12:24,608 So I used to have to go back to the station empty-handed. 200 00:12:24,710 --> 00:12:27,770 So, I got a court order allowing all qualified reporters... 201 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:32,510 regardless of gender, access to the locker rooms. 202 00:12:32,618 --> 00:12:36,349 So you better believe I love to see their little tushes flapping in the breeze. 203 00:12:36,455 --> 00:12:39,754 - Makes for great visual commentary. - Oh! 204 00:12:42,361 --> 00:12:46,320 Any of those gentlemen angry enough to want you removed from the sports scene permanently? 205 00:12:46,432 --> 00:12:49,230 I'd be disappointed if they weren't. It would mean I wasn't doing my job. 206 00:12:49,335 --> 00:12:53,169 Then you wouldn't be surprised to find that that falling light was intended for you? 207 00:12:53,272 --> 00:12:55,570 - You mean it wasn't an accident? - Mm-mmm. 208 00:12:55,675 --> 00:12:59,475 No. I don't think any of the guys I've gone after would resort to that. 209 00:12:59,578 --> 00:13:02,046 I mean, bad press is all part of the game. 210 00:13:02,148 --> 00:13:05,276 A game you play exceedingly well, Miss Hoop. 211 00:13:05,384 --> 00:13:07,682 I like you, limey. You're kinda novel. 212 00:13:07,787 --> 00:13:10,813 Wanna hoist some brewskis with me after the show tonight? 213 00:13:10,923 --> 00:13:12,891 I'm all for new experiences. 214 00:13:12,992 --> 00:13:15,256 - Attaboy! - Oh! 215 00:13:17,830 --> 00:13:20,298 That light was meant for me. 216 00:13:20,399 --> 00:13:22,697 Why would someone want to kill you? 217 00:13:22,802 --> 00:13:25,134 Because of who I am, what I do. 218 00:13:25,237 --> 00:13:27,705 I've helped put several people in prison, Miss Holt. 219 00:13:27,807 --> 00:13:29,775 Frauds, charlatans, con men. 220 00:13:35,948 --> 00:13:38,781 - There it is. - What? 221 00:13:38,884 --> 00:13:40,852 The site of my next expose. 222 00:13:40,953 --> 00:13:43,251 I'm going to film a vice officer... 223 00:13:43,356 --> 00:13:46,018 receiving a payoff from a flesh peddler. 224 00:13:46,125 --> 00:13:48,650 If I were you, I wouldn't sound quite so nonchalant about it. 225 00:13:48,761 --> 00:13:50,729 It's my job. 226 00:13:50,830 --> 00:13:52,798 That's a very courageous attitude. 227 00:13:52,898 --> 00:13:56,994 I'm a very courageous guy, and not a bad dancer. 228 00:13:58,571 --> 00:14:01,665 I have a thirst... call it a lust... 229 00:14:01,774 --> 00:14:04,743 for the truth, for a certain justice in the world... 230 00:14:04,844 --> 00:14:09,144 for honesty in institutions as well as personal relationships. 231 00:14:09,248 --> 00:14:10,875 Admirable. 232 00:14:10,983 --> 00:14:13,315 And what do you lust for, Miss Holt? 233 00:14:13,419 --> 00:14:16,513 - That depends on who I'm with. - And if you were with me? 234 00:14:17,890 --> 00:14:20,620 I'd hardly know where to begin, Mr. Stewart. 235 00:14:20,726 --> 00:14:24,218 [Chuckling] We'll call this first round a draw. 236 00:14:24,330 --> 00:14:28,528 But I warn you... I never leave a fight unless I'm carried out. 237 00:14:30,002 --> 00:14:30,803 [Woman] I can't find Uncle Tim anywhere. 238 00:14:30,803 --> 00:14:32,464 [Woman] I can't find Uncle Tim anywhere. 239 00:14:32,571 --> 00:14:35,062 It's 15 minutes to air! What do you mean, you can't find Uncle Tim? 240 00:14:35,174 --> 00:14:38,234 I sent someone to his apartment, and I called all his local hangouts. 241 00:14:38,344 --> 00:14:40,642 - I mean, what am I, the F.B.I.? - All right, all right! 242 00:14:40,746 --> 00:14:43,738 - I don't know what else to do. - Let's get a grip on each other. 243 00:14:43,849 --> 00:14:45,817 We're all professionals here. 244 00:14:45,918 --> 00:14:48,751 If he doesn't show up on time, somebody's gotta do the weather. 245 00:14:48,854 --> 00:14:52,187 - Why? - Please, Elliot. This is no time for your wry humor. 246 00:14:52,291 --> 00:14:54,418 Hoop, you used to do the weather. 247 00:14:54,527 --> 00:14:56,495 What about filling in for Uncle Tim? 248 00:14:56,595 --> 00:14:59,063 They don't have weather girls anymore, Ed. It's considered sexist. 249 00:14:59,165 --> 00:15:01,531 - I'll take a shot at it. - Sorry, kid. 250 00:15:01,634 --> 00:15:05,126 You got a behind-the-scenes face. Chrissie, get over here. 251 00:15:05,237 --> 00:15:07,205 I don't know anything about the weather. 252 00:15:07,306 --> 00:15:09,433 That never stopped Uncle Tim. 253 00:15:09,542 --> 00:15:12,534 What's to know? Read it from the teleprompter and point at the map. 254 00:15:12,645 --> 00:15:14,579 Come on. I'll run you through it. 255 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:16,807 After Elliot introduces you... 256 00:15:16,916 --> 00:15:20,875 you step over here, and you start with the local forecast. 257 00:15:20,986 --> 00:15:22,954 Where's the weather copy? 258 00:15:27,593 --> 00:15:29,652 "Light to moderate rain." 259 00:15:29,762 --> 00:15:33,095 So you hit the rain button. 260 00:15:33,199 --> 00:15:35,759 [Screams, Gasps] 261 00:15:45,711 --> 00:15:48,179 Looks like a blow to the back of the head. 262 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,408 There you are. It was obviously an accident. 263 00:15:51,517 --> 00:15:54,145 He was checking his water trough... 264 00:15:54,253 --> 00:15:56,653 fell in, hit his head. 265 00:15:56,755 --> 00:15:59,656 Just like falling in a bathtub. Happens every day. 266 00:15:59,758 --> 00:16:02,158 At least now we know whom the killer was after. 267 00:16:02,261 --> 00:16:04,456 Always good to narrow those things down. 268 00:16:04,563 --> 00:16:06,997 One minute and 30 seconds to air. 269 00:16:07,099 --> 00:16:08,964 All right, everybody. Places. Where's Chrissie? 270 00:16:09,068 --> 00:16:12,629 Probably locked in her dressing room. 271 00:16:12,738 --> 00:16:16,401 Chrissie? Open up. We have a show to do. The news must go on. 272 00:16:16,509 --> 00:16:19,171 - Why? - Find a key. 273 00:16:19,278 --> 00:16:21,212 It's the same thing every night. Inflation, unemployment. 274 00:16:21,313 --> 00:16:23,577 Why don't you just rerun last night's news? 275 00:16:23,682 --> 00:16:26,446 - They'll never know the difference. - Just a minute, everybody. 276 00:16:26,552 --> 00:16:29,248 I'll handle this. Please stand back and give me some room. 277 00:16:29,355 --> 00:16:32,950 - Don't you think you should... - Laura, you know how long I've waited to do this. 278 00:16:33,058 --> 00:16:35,356 Chrissie, if you don't come out right now... 279 00:16:35,461 --> 00:16:38,487 - Hoop's our new anchorwoman. - [Yells] 280 00:16:38,597 --> 00:16:40,690 [Murphy Screams] 281 00:16:42,268 --> 00:16:44,236 - Who was that? - Never mind. 282 00:16:44,336 --> 00:16:46,304 Places, everyone. 283 00:16:48,607 --> 00:16:51,075 [Groaning] 284 00:16:52,912 --> 00:16:55,779 [Moaning] 285 00:16:55,881 --> 00:16:58,645 I should've kicked it in. 286 00:16:58,751 --> 00:17:02,118 What would be your assessment of all the mishaps here at the station, Miss Fogelson... 287 00:17:02,221 --> 00:17:04,416 culminating in the death of Uncle Tim? 288 00:17:04,523 --> 00:17:06,423 I really couldn't say. 289 00:17:06,525 --> 00:17:08,493 Who would want to kill a weatherman? 290 00:17:08,594 --> 00:17:11,893 Anybody who was interested in journalism. 291 00:17:11,997 --> 00:17:15,194 I hate to break the unwritten rule about speaking ill of the dead... 292 00:17:15,301 --> 00:17:17,394 but Uncle Tim was third-rate burlesque. 293 00:17:17,503 --> 00:17:19,971 That's not a news team. It's a circus. 294 00:17:20,072 --> 00:17:24,338 Some clown pours water on his head to tell people something they already know? 295 00:17:24,443 --> 00:17:26,843 Yet you volunteered to take that clown's place. 296 00:17:26,946 --> 00:17:29,414 I was trying to help in an emergency. 297 00:17:29,515 --> 00:17:32,348 No matter how comedic the man's life may have been, it was still taken... 298 00:17:32,451 --> 00:17:34,419 and someone is responsible. 299 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,420 That's your specialty, Mr. Steele. 300 00:17:36,522 --> 00:17:38,422 Mine is research. 301 00:17:38,524 --> 00:17:42,051 According to your official bio, which can mercifully be described as sketchy... 302 00:17:42,161 --> 00:17:44,755 you were connected with certain government agencies... 303 00:17:44,863 --> 00:17:47,229 and international organizations. 304 00:17:47,333 --> 00:17:49,995 If you despise the Spotlight News so much, why do you stay? 305 00:17:50,102 --> 00:17:52,002 I have to eat. 306 00:17:52,104 --> 00:17:55,870 However, neither the Central Intelligence Agency, Interpol or Ml5... 307 00:17:55,975 --> 00:17:57,875 have any record of you. 308 00:17:57,977 --> 00:18:01,242 A death seems more important than the humble beginnings of a private investigator. 309 00:18:01,347 --> 00:18:04,714 - Don't you agree, Miss Fogelson? - Who are you, Mr. Steele? 310 00:18:04,817 --> 00:18:08,082 - My life's an open book. - With a lot of blank pages. 311 00:18:08,187 --> 00:18:12,055 - I have nothing to hide. - Oh, we all have something to hide. 312 00:18:12,157 --> 00:18:15,217 The trick is finding out what it is. 313 00:18:15,327 --> 00:18:17,227 [Chuckles] 314 00:18:58,404 --> 00:19:00,872 - Ah, Miss Holt! - Mr. Walsh. 315 00:19:00,973 --> 00:19:03,567 This hardly seems the place for such a young lady. 316 00:19:03,676 --> 00:19:07,442 - Sit. - You left this number with the station. 317 00:19:07,546 --> 00:19:11,175 Now you've discovered my secret vice. 318 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:18,112 Terrible about Uncle Tim. That's why you're here, isn't it? 319 00:19:18,223 --> 00:19:20,589 I must confess... 320 00:19:20,693 --> 00:19:23,321 in all the time I've been doing Spotlight News... 321 00:19:23,429 --> 00:19:25,624 I barely spoke two words to that man. 322 00:19:25,731 --> 00:19:28,632 May I ask you something personal? 323 00:19:28,734 --> 00:19:31,328 If you don't want to answer, just say so. I won't be offended. 324 00:19:31,437 --> 00:19:34,463 Please. 325 00:19:34,573 --> 00:19:38,339 You lectured at my college during my freshman year... 326 00:19:38,444 --> 00:19:43,404 and it really affected me, my outlook on a lot of things. 327 00:19:43,515 --> 00:19:48,475 I remember you once said, "A good reporter gives the facts... 328 00:19:48,587 --> 00:19:51,317 a great reporter understands their meaning." 329 00:19:51,423 --> 00:19:53,323 I wanted to talk to you afterwards... 330 00:19:53,425 --> 00:19:57,691 but courage is a fleeting thing when you're that age. 331 00:19:57,796 --> 00:20:00,060 It can leave at any age, Miss Holt. 332 00:20:00,165 --> 00:20:04,067 Why would somebody with your background and your experience... 333 00:20:04,169 --> 00:20:05,830 Be anchoring Spotlight News? 334 00:20:05,938 --> 00:20:08,998 I don't mean to sound condescending or critical. 335 00:20:09,108 --> 00:20:12,475 It's just that it seems so far beneath you. 336 00:20:12,578 --> 00:20:17,072 You have to change with the times, roll with the punches, go with the flow. 337 00:20:17,182 --> 00:20:20,242 Actually, I'm grateful to be doing it. 338 00:20:20,352 --> 00:20:23,810 You see, my kind of reporting is practically passe. 339 00:20:23,922 --> 00:20:26,789 Oh, there are still a few who dig for a story... 340 00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:29,588 do their own research, write their own copy... 341 00:20:29,695 --> 00:20:34,496 but they're rare in this day of male models and junk food news. 342 00:20:36,535 --> 00:20:39,026 Oh, may I? 343 00:20:53,986 --> 00:20:56,113 I remember when I was a little girl... 344 00:20:56,221 --> 00:20:58,746 my father used to dance with me like this. 345 00:20:58,857 --> 00:21:02,759 He'd pick me up in his arms so that my feet would dangle way above the floor... 346 00:21:02,861 --> 00:21:05,489 and he'd twirl me around the living room. 347 00:21:05,597 --> 00:21:08,862 Careful, Miss Holt. Nostalgia is a dangerous disease. 348 00:21:08,967 --> 00:21:12,596 Highly contagious and almost impossible to cure. 349 00:21:16,475 --> 00:21:19,672 Do you have any theories about Uncle Tim's death? 350 00:21:19,778 --> 00:21:22,645 A good reporter always has theories. 351 00:21:22,748 --> 00:21:24,875 Care to share them with a fan? 352 00:21:24,983 --> 00:21:28,578 Uncle Tim... he was what we used to call a goofball. 353 00:21:28,687 --> 00:21:33,647 Not terribly bright, not terribly offensive, harmless enough. 354 00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:36,057 Now, Chrissie is up... 355 00:21:36,161 --> 00:21:38,493 for a network anchor job in New York... 356 00:21:38,597 --> 00:21:41,065 and she had no intention of taking him with her. 357 00:21:41,166 --> 00:21:43,464 You see, she thought he was an albatross... 358 00:21:43,569 --> 00:21:47,164 something to be discarded as quickly and painlessly as possible. 359 00:21:47,272 --> 00:21:49,740 Why would Uncle Tim care whether Chrissie Carstairs... 360 00:21:49,842 --> 00:21:52,003 took him with her when she went to New York? 361 00:21:52,110 --> 00:21:54,203 He was her husband. 362 00:21:54,313 --> 00:21:56,611 It wasn't generally known outside the station... 363 00:21:56,715 --> 00:21:59,309 but they were married when she was a struggling model. 364 00:21:59,418 --> 00:22:03,218 He paid for a nose job and a few other anatomical refinements... 365 00:22:03,322 --> 00:22:07,315 and when the job came up at the station, he got Greene to hire her. 366 00:22:07,426 --> 00:22:10,827 Naturally, he felt that when she made it big, so should he... 367 00:22:10,929 --> 00:22:13,397 after all he'd done for her. 368 00:22:13,498 --> 00:22:16,626 She, of course, had other ideas. 369 00:22:16,735 --> 00:22:19,033 - The kind that lead to murder? - Ah! 370 00:22:19,137 --> 00:22:23,938 Theories are just that. Just an old reporter's instinct. 371 00:22:27,312 --> 00:22:29,280 - ¢Ü¢Û¢Ü¢Û[Country On Jukebox] - To Uncle Tim. 372 00:22:29,381 --> 00:22:31,349 Uncle Tim. 373 00:22:37,556 --> 00:22:40,525 At least now he won't have to risk pneumonia every time it rains. 374 00:22:40,626 --> 00:22:42,753 [Both Chuckle] 375 00:22:42,861 --> 00:22:46,228 Can you imagine what Ed would have made him do if we lived somewhere where it snowed? 376 00:22:46,331 --> 00:22:49,960 I take it you're not very pleased with the way the news is presented on Channel 3. 377 00:22:50,068 --> 00:22:54,937 We'll go down as the first station in television history to presentJiggle News. 378 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,168 Have you seen the way Chrissie bounces around out there? 379 00:22:58,277 --> 00:23:03,180 I have it on good authority she's had everything enlarged... except, of course, her brain. 380 00:23:03,282 --> 00:23:06,513 She has more surgical scars than Frankenstein. 381 00:23:06,618 --> 00:23:08,518 Only he has a higher I.Q. 382 00:23:08,620 --> 00:23:10,588 Damn it! 383 00:23:10,689 --> 00:23:13,658 Why couldn't she have been the one in the water trough? 384 00:23:13,759 --> 00:23:15,727 Oh. 385 00:23:24,236 --> 00:23:28,900 What exactly did Chrissie Carstairs do to earn your enmity? 386 00:23:29,007 --> 00:23:31,601 Ed promised me the anchor slot. 387 00:23:31,710 --> 00:23:34,178 And then Chrissie wiggled into his line of sight... 388 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:37,248 and "Slam, bam, thank you, ma'am," she got it. 389 00:23:37,349 --> 00:23:41,012 Are you inferring that she slept her way into the job? 390 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,555 Chrissie does her best work from the prone position. 391 00:23:44,656 --> 00:23:47,784 I didn't have any leverage in that department. 392 00:23:47,893 --> 00:23:52,193 I'd already slept with Ed to get the sports assignment. 393 00:23:52,297 --> 00:23:56,927 This is beginning to resemble a segment of Spotlight News. 394 00:23:57,035 --> 00:24:00,129 Think anyone would notice if I had Chrissie put to sleep? 395 00:24:00,238 --> 00:24:02,638 [Escalating Tone] 396 00:24:04,376 --> 00:24:06,503 - Ah, here's the happy family. - [Groans] 397 00:24:06,611 --> 00:24:08,511 - How's the arm? - Numb. Very numb. 398 00:24:08,613 --> 00:24:10,808 Perhaps this will restore the circulation. 399 00:24:10,916 --> 00:24:15,012 Chrissie Carstairs slept with Ed Greene to get the anchorwoman's job. 400 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,783 I can top that. She was secretly married to Uncle Tim. 401 00:24:18,890 --> 00:24:21,916 Oh, dear me. Channel 3 is a veritable Peyton Place. 402 00:24:22,027 --> 00:24:25,929 Lana Turner. Lee Philips. Twentieth Century Fox, 1957. 403 00:24:27,165 --> 00:24:30,328 Well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. 404 00:24:30,435 --> 00:24:32,903 [Sighs] Go on, Murph. 405 00:24:33,005 --> 00:24:37,908 Everybody seems to be what they say they are, except Amy Fogelson. 406 00:24:38,010 --> 00:24:40,638 - What's her story? - That's just it. She hasn't got one. 407 00:24:40,746 --> 00:24:44,113 She seems to have sprung full-blown when she got the job six months ago. 408 00:24:44,216 --> 00:24:45,979 What did her application say? 409 00:24:46,084 --> 00:24:48,780 That's another funny thing. She never filled one out. 410 00:24:48,887 --> 00:24:51,913 She got the job on Elliot Walsh's personal recommendation. 411 00:24:52,024 --> 00:24:54,788 Amy Fogelson and Hoop Tracy shared an intense revulsion... 412 00:24:54,893 --> 00:24:57,361 at the way the news was exploited on Channel 3. 413 00:24:57,462 --> 00:25:00,829 But could that be reason enough to kill a poor buffoon like Uncle Tim? 414 00:25:00,932 --> 00:25:04,197 Murders have been committed for far less logical reasons than that. 415 00:25:04,302 --> 00:25:08,295 But Chrissie Carstairs considered her husband excess baggage. 416 00:25:08,407 --> 00:25:11,808 She wanted to get rid of him before she moved on to bigger and better things. 417 00:25:11,910 --> 00:25:15,710 And he did say if somebody was trying to kill him, he knew exactly who it was. 418 00:25:15,814 --> 00:25:18,977 She might just wind up as the lead story on her own newscast. 419 00:25:19,084 --> 00:25:21,882 Before we go charging off, I think you should know... 420 00:25:21,987 --> 00:25:25,150 that Miss Fogelson is determined to unearth the truth... 421 00:25:25,257 --> 00:25:27,225 about Remington Steele. 422 00:25:27,325 --> 00:25:30,453 Oh, I knew that interview cover was a mistake. 423 00:25:30,562 --> 00:25:32,530 Yes. Well, don't worry, Laura. 424 00:25:32,631 --> 00:25:35,156 Rather than embarrass and jeopardize you and the agency... 425 00:25:35,267 --> 00:25:38,293 - I'm prepared to do the honorable thing. - You're gonna leave? 426 00:25:38,403 --> 00:25:41,634 I was thinking more along the lines of stealing her notes. 427 00:25:41,740 --> 00:25:43,833 - [Painful Yell] - Ah, splendid! 428 00:25:43,942 --> 00:25:46,843 Glad to see feeling's returned. Always a good sign. 429 00:25:46,945 --> 00:25:47,479 [Doorbell Ringing] 430 00:25:47,479 --> 00:25:49,709 [Doorbell Ringing] 431 00:25:58,890 --> 00:26:01,518 Oh. I thought you were the deli. 432 00:26:01,626 --> 00:26:03,685 May we speak to you, Miss Carstairs? 433 00:26:03,795 --> 00:26:07,322 I'm... I'm having the tension pounded from my body. 434 00:26:07,432 --> 00:26:10,890 - Oh. - I'm having a massage. 435 00:26:11,002 --> 00:26:13,664 Ahh! 436 00:26:13,772 --> 00:26:15,865 It's about Uncle Tim's death. 437 00:26:15,974 --> 00:26:20,206 Well... Well, just for a minute. 438 00:26:20,312 --> 00:26:22,280 Thank you. 439 00:26:23,448 --> 00:26:25,348 [Clears Throat] 440 00:26:25,450 --> 00:26:29,045 How did Uncle Tim feel about your going to New York without him? 441 00:26:29,154 --> 00:26:32,419 How do you know about New York? Nobody's supposed to know about that. 442 00:26:32,524 --> 00:26:35,084 I'm not even announcing it until tonight's show. 443 00:26:35,193 --> 00:26:36,751 Was he angry, Miss Carstairs? 444 00:26:36,862 --> 00:26:39,922 Did he threaten to follow you, perhaps reveal your marriage... 445 00:26:40,031 --> 00:26:42,625 in the hopes of embarrassing you with your new employers? 446 00:26:42,734 --> 00:26:46,226 Or did he suddenly become more attractive dead than alive? 447 00:26:46,338 --> 00:26:49,307 Stop it! Stop saying these terrible things. 448 00:26:51,143 --> 00:26:54,374 [Frustrated Sigh] Now look what you've done. 449 00:26:54,479 --> 00:26:56,743 You're making my face break out. 450 00:26:56,848 --> 00:26:59,408 What's gonna happen to my credibility if I have a zit? 451 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,923 Chrissie, dumpling, was that the deli? 452 00:27:06,024 --> 00:27:07,992 Ah, Mr. Stewart. 453 00:27:08,093 --> 00:27:11,119 Investigative reporter and part-time masseur? 454 00:27:16,101 --> 00:27:18,160 Excuse me. I... have to... 455 00:27:19,905 --> 00:27:22,305 fold the towels. 456 00:27:29,848 --> 00:27:32,840 - [Doorbell Ringing] - That's the deli. 457 00:27:32,951 --> 00:27:36,614 Now you must go because we only ordered enough food for two. 458 00:27:43,061 --> 00:27:48,363 [Screaming] 459 00:27:52,604 --> 00:27:55,505 - Excuse me. - Excuse me. Excuse me. Mind your backs. 460 00:27:58,710 --> 00:28:01,543 I went in to wake her from her nap and... 461 00:28:01,646 --> 00:28:04,774 Suffocated by a mudpack? 462 00:28:04,883 --> 00:28:06,874 Hmm. 463 00:28:06,985 --> 00:28:08,953 Huh. 464 00:28:10,722 --> 00:28:15,216 - These must have broken off in the struggle. - Chrissie's fingernails. 465 00:28:30,642 --> 00:28:33,110 Miss Holt, you shouldn't be here. 466 00:28:33,211 --> 00:28:35,509 Matter of fact, neither should I. 467 00:28:35,614 --> 00:28:38,845 I don't know why Ed insisted I do this. I could get myself killed. 468 00:28:38,950 --> 00:28:41,976 I have a few questions about Chrissie that can't wait. 469 00:28:42,087 --> 00:28:44,055 Oh, poor Chrissie. 470 00:28:44,155 --> 00:28:48,592 Just yesterday, so... so vibrant, so alive, so giving. 471 00:28:48,693 --> 00:28:51,059 How long had you been receiving? 472 00:28:51,162 --> 00:28:55,121 I know what it looked like, but it was actually a business conference. 473 00:28:55,233 --> 00:28:59,033 Chrissie promised to recommend me at the network as a special assignment reporter. 474 00:28:59,137 --> 00:29:02,106 We were just discussing what film she should show them. 475 00:29:02,207 --> 00:29:05,233 You know, to demonstrate where my talents lie. 476 00:29:05,343 --> 00:29:10,280 Did Uncle Tim know about this business relationship? 477 00:29:10,382 --> 00:29:12,680 He may have suspected something. 478 00:29:12,784 --> 00:29:15,252 Chrissie was rather careless about those things. 479 00:29:15,353 --> 00:29:19,949 He must've been very upset, with Chrissie leaving him here and taking you to New York. 480 00:29:20,058 --> 00:29:23,994 Oh, I see what you're getting at. 481 00:29:24,095 --> 00:29:28,327 That may have been an excellent reason to dispose of Uncle Tim, but not Chrissie. 482 00:29:28,433 --> 00:29:30,901 She was my ticket out of this two-bit station. 483 00:29:31,002 --> 00:29:34,870 Unless she changed her mind. She had a history of loving then leaving. 484 00:29:34,973 --> 00:29:36,941 Just ask Uncle Tim and Ed Greene. 485 00:29:37,042 --> 00:29:40,034 Laura, I am telling you that somebody's after us. 486 00:29:40,145 --> 00:29:42,943 Somebody's trying to wipe out the entire Spotlight News team. 487 00:29:43,048 --> 00:29:45,516 Maybe even the people I'm going to expose today. 488 00:29:45,617 --> 00:29:49,713 Maybe they got wind of... what I'm trying to do. 489 00:30:03,268 --> 00:30:06,726 Come on, Russell. We got a deadline. Let's move it. 490 00:30:13,044 --> 00:30:15,979 Here. Hold this a minute. 491 00:30:18,249 --> 00:30:20,843 How much money did he give you, Officer? 492 00:30:25,056 --> 00:30:27,581 Run! 493 00:31:05,597 --> 00:31:07,531 Give me a hand! 494 00:31:16,641 --> 00:31:19,906 [Yells] 495 00:31:31,990 --> 00:31:35,153 [Panting] I'm a fraud... 496 00:31:35,260 --> 00:31:38,127 a charlatan, a con man. 497 00:31:38,229 --> 00:31:40,220 I can get behind that. 498 00:31:40,331 --> 00:31:43,789 Amy does all the research, writes all the questions... 499 00:31:43,902 --> 00:31:46,370 even picks the people I'm supposed to interview. 500 00:31:46,471 --> 00:31:49,099 I don't even know who half of them are. 501 00:31:49,207 --> 00:31:51,107 I'm tired. 502 00:31:51,209 --> 00:31:54,906 So tired of always being afraid. 503 00:31:55,013 --> 00:31:57,311 I want to get to where it's safe... 504 00:31:57,415 --> 00:32:01,374 where people don't threaten me or hit me or try and run over me. 505 00:32:01,486 --> 00:32:04,614 If I only had my gun, I'd put you out of your misery. 506 00:32:04,722 --> 00:32:07,714 Well, I, uh... I want that anchor spot. 507 00:32:07,826 --> 00:32:11,785 - What anchor spot? - The one that's gonna open up as soon as they bounce Elliot. 508 00:32:11,896 --> 00:32:15,127 Elliot Walsh is going to be fired? 509 00:32:15,233 --> 00:32:17,565 This is a young man's game... 510 00:32:17,669 --> 00:32:21,127 and I don't care how many toupees Elliot wears. 511 00:32:21,239 --> 00:32:23,764 He's not fooling anybody. He's old. 512 00:32:23,875 --> 00:32:26,173 And what about all the years he's put in... 513 00:32:26,277 --> 00:32:28,973 strengthening his talents, honing his skills? 514 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,277 He certainly still has a great deal to offer. 515 00:32:32,383 --> 00:32:35,284 Maybe he can read them the newspaper at the old folks' home. 516 00:32:46,731 --> 00:32:48,631 Then would you care to tell us, Senator... 517 00:32:48,733 --> 00:32:52,169 about your silent partnership in the Thorezen Construction Company... 518 00:32:52,270 --> 00:32:57,230 and exactly what an illegal campaign contribution of $10,000 bought you? 519 00:32:58,710 --> 00:33:01,338 [Steele] Excellent questions, Miss Fogelson. 520 00:33:01,446 --> 00:33:04,108 Nothing compared to the ones Russell Stewart's going to ask you. 521 00:33:04,215 --> 00:33:06,683 It seems we both have some minor discrepancies in our past. 522 00:33:06,784 --> 00:33:10,584 - For instance, you didn't exist until six months ago. - And you don't exist at all. 523 00:33:10,688 --> 00:33:12,349 What's your connection with Elliot Walsh? 524 00:33:12,457 --> 00:33:15,392 You have no birth certificate, no tax returns... 525 00:33:15,493 --> 00:33:17,961 no fingerprints on file anywhere. 526 00:33:18,062 --> 00:33:20,690 Two people have been murdered, Miss Fogelson. 527 00:33:20,798 --> 00:33:23,995 Why are you so consumed with Remington Steele? 528 00:33:24,102 --> 00:33:28,766 I believe him to be a fraud, a charlatan, a con man. 529 00:33:36,014 --> 00:33:38,448 I knew a young man once. 530 00:33:38,550 --> 00:33:40,814 Virtually an orphan. 531 00:33:40,919 --> 00:33:43,217 Shunted from relative to relative. 532 00:33:43,321 --> 00:33:45,619 Always underfoot and unwanted. 533 00:33:48,593 --> 00:33:51,824 He'd been given many names as a child. 534 00:33:51,930 --> 00:33:55,366 Sometimes to suit the vanity of those who sheltered him. 535 00:33:55,466 --> 00:33:59,664 Others to bilk the government with one more dependent. 536 00:34:01,105 --> 00:34:03,539 He never really knew who he was or where he belonged... 537 00:34:03,641 --> 00:34:06,542 so he set out at an early age to find something he could call his own... 538 00:34:06,644 --> 00:34:08,544 something to... 539 00:34:08,646 --> 00:34:13,606 he could hang onto when the nights turned bitter and the faces unfriendly. 540 00:34:13,718 --> 00:34:18,246 And, as he'd been taught by his elders... 541 00:34:18,356 --> 00:34:21,814 he acquired many names in that pursuit... 542 00:34:21,926 --> 00:34:24,326 and many professions to go with them. 543 00:34:24,429 --> 00:34:26,920 He saw a great deal of the world... 544 00:34:27,031 --> 00:34:28,999 mostly from the underside. 545 00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:33,298 Cheap lofts, drafty street corners. 546 00:34:37,775 --> 00:34:41,267 He's still searching, Miss Fogelson... 547 00:34:41,379 --> 00:34:43,847 merely from a better perch. 548 00:34:45,383 --> 00:34:48,784 If you can find that young man in any of your notes... 549 00:34:48,886 --> 00:34:51,855 he'd greatly appreciate it. 550 00:34:51,956 --> 00:34:54,424 The day Chrissie was killed... 551 00:34:56,194 --> 00:34:59,027 I heard her arguing with Hoop Tracy. 552 00:34:59,130 --> 00:35:01,155 I don't know what it was about... 553 00:35:01,265 --> 00:35:03,563 but it was threatening and violent. 554 00:35:03,668 --> 00:35:06,637 Thank you, Amy. 555 00:35:06,738 --> 00:35:08,706 Mr. Steele? 556 00:35:10,241 --> 00:35:13,074 That was a very affecting story... 557 00:35:13,177 --> 00:35:17,113 but it doesn't mean the hunt is over. 558 00:35:18,216 --> 00:35:20,184 For either side. 559 00:35:40,238 --> 00:35:43,036 Ah. I warned you. 560 00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:47,601 Nostalgia is very insidious, Miss Holt, even for one so young. 561 00:35:50,615 --> 00:35:52,549 You're not dancing tonight. 562 00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:56,609 And if I had a brain, I'd lie and say I was waiting for you. 563 00:35:56,721 --> 00:36:00,350 Actually, I think even the box step would elude me this evening. 564 00:36:02,326 --> 00:36:04,226 A little game we play. 565 00:36:04,328 --> 00:36:06,626 They don't permit alcohol here... 566 00:36:06,731 --> 00:36:11,395 so from time to time I smuggle in a bottle. 567 00:36:11,502 --> 00:36:14,027 They bring me a pot of tea, and we all pretend... 568 00:36:14,138 --> 00:36:16,106 I'm getting smashed on orange pekoe. 569 00:36:18,776 --> 00:36:23,509 Well, I presume you came to talk about Chrissie. 570 00:36:23,614 --> 00:36:27,641 So much for an old reporter's instinct. 571 00:36:29,420 --> 00:36:32,014 Any idea who the mercy killer is? 572 00:36:32,123 --> 00:36:35,024 Aren't you afraid you might be next? 573 00:36:35,126 --> 00:36:37,594 In truth, I'd welcome it. 574 00:36:38,863 --> 00:36:41,161 Do you have heroes, Miss Holt? 575 00:36:41,265 --> 00:36:43,165 I'm looking at one. 576 00:36:44,702 --> 00:36:47,603 Heroes are very important. 577 00:36:47,705 --> 00:36:50,572 They give you something to strive for. 578 00:36:50,675 --> 00:36:52,802 I want to catch the ball like DiMaggio... 579 00:36:52,910 --> 00:36:55,435 change the country like Roosevelt... 580 00:36:55,546 --> 00:36:58,845 tell the truth like Ed Murrow. 581 00:36:58,950 --> 00:37:01,748 - You have. - And what's it gotten me? 582 00:37:01,853 --> 00:37:05,345 I'm a trained seal at the Channel 3 zoo... 583 00:37:05,456 --> 00:37:09,654 honking and clapping for my lousy portion of fish. 584 00:37:09,761 --> 00:37:12,889 I hide under some Sicilian peasant's crowning glory... 585 00:37:12,997 --> 00:37:15,022 stab myself with corset stays... 586 00:37:15,133 --> 00:37:17,601 and pretend to give serious consideration... 587 00:37:17,702 --> 00:37:21,832 to whether Princess Di is pregnant again. 588 00:37:21,939 --> 00:37:26,535 While Chrissie Carstairs, every teenager's midnight fantasy... 589 00:37:26,644 --> 00:37:30,171 whose head has never held one single, solitary thought... 590 00:37:30,281 --> 00:37:35,275 is summoned to New York to read the news at 600,000 per. 591 00:37:37,922 --> 00:37:40,390 Do you ever think about growing old, Miss Holt? 592 00:37:40,491 --> 00:37:43,551 - Not really. - Take my advice. Don't do it. 593 00:37:43,661 --> 00:37:46,528 It's a very demeaning process. 594 00:37:46,631 --> 00:37:51,000 Now, they say the... the first thing you lose is your hair. 595 00:37:51,102 --> 00:37:53,195 Not so. 596 00:37:53,304 --> 00:37:57,070 The first thing to go is your courage. 597 00:37:58,876 --> 00:38:02,869 Elliot, tell me about Amy Fogelson. 598 00:38:03,981 --> 00:38:05,949 She's the only decent one down there. 599 00:38:06,050 --> 00:38:08,780 The rest of'em? Not worth the powder to blow 'em up. 600 00:38:08,886 --> 00:38:12,982 Well, what's her background? Where did she come from? How did you meet her? 601 00:38:13,090 --> 00:38:15,251 You don't suspect her? 602 00:38:15,359 --> 00:38:18,886 She's the only one at the station who doesn't have any history. 603 00:38:18,996 --> 00:38:20,964 She's got plenty ofhistory. 604 00:38:23,034 --> 00:38:25,434 Let her alone, huh? 605 00:38:25,536 --> 00:38:29,666 She's had enough trouble in her young life. 606 00:38:29,774 --> 00:38:32,140 You have a newscast in a few hours. 607 00:38:32,243 --> 00:38:34,143 Don't worry. 608 00:38:34,245 --> 00:38:38,545 I have an infallible method for telling when I've had too much orange pekoe. 609 00:38:38,649 --> 00:38:41,174 My cheeks get numb. 610 00:38:42,420 --> 00:38:44,388 Besides... 611 00:38:46,190 --> 00:38:49,182 the station is... 612 00:38:49,293 --> 00:38:51,921 a very sobering place. 613 00:38:56,901 --> 00:39:00,667 Like everything else in life, ace, it's all in the wrist. 614 00:39:00,771 --> 00:39:04,207 Do you have another name? Something less sporting than "Hoop"? 615 00:39:05,376 --> 00:39:07,810 - Margaret. - Very pretty. 616 00:39:07,912 --> 00:39:10,710 Yeah, but it didn't pay the bills. 617 00:39:10,815 --> 00:39:13,443 When was the last time you saw Chrissie Carstairs, Margaret? 618 00:39:13,551 --> 00:39:16,679 Before you and I went to the bar the other night. 619 00:39:16,787 --> 00:39:20,052 - Are you certain that was the last time? - Yes, damn it. Why? 620 00:39:20,157 --> 00:39:23,285 Someone heard you and Chrissie in a violent argument the day she died. 621 00:39:23,394 --> 00:39:26,557 Who? Who heard? 622 00:39:30,768 --> 00:39:34,727 Okay. So we had a little tiff. 623 00:39:34,839 --> 00:39:36,807 She was on her way to New York... 624 00:39:36,908 --> 00:39:39,342 and I asked her if she could put in a good word for me with Ed. 625 00:39:39,443 --> 00:39:42,241 Maybe it would've meant something, maybe not. I don't know. 626 00:39:42,346 --> 00:39:44,314 It couldn't have hurt. 627 00:39:44,415 --> 00:39:46,315 Then she got on her high horse... 628 00:39:46,417 --> 00:39:49,352 and she had the nerve to tell me that I had to earn the job like she did... 629 00:39:49,453 --> 00:39:51,421 on merit. 630 00:39:51,522 --> 00:39:53,649 She earned it flat on her back, the little twitch. 631 00:39:53,758 --> 00:39:57,023 As I remember, your parting words to me were... 632 00:39:57,128 --> 00:39:59,926 "Do you think anyone would notice if I had Chrissie put to sleep?" 633 00:40:00,031 --> 00:40:04,365 So I had a primo reason to kill the little tramp. 634 00:40:04,468 --> 00:40:08,996 But why in God's name would I want to do anything to a little goose egg like Uncle Tim? 635 00:40:11,208 --> 00:40:13,642 Excellent point... 636 00:40:13,744 --> 00:40:16,338 provided the same person killed both of them. 637 00:40:18,382 --> 00:40:20,213 Thanks for the lesson. 638 00:40:28,192 --> 00:40:30,353 I hope you can think on your feet, Mr. Steele... 639 00:40:30,461 --> 00:40:33,862 'cause these are the questions Russell's going to ask you tonight. 640 00:40:33,965 --> 00:40:36,957 I think he might be more interested in the story we stumbled upon. 641 00:40:37,068 --> 00:40:38,968 Oh, yeah? 642 00:40:39,070 --> 00:40:41,834 It concerns someone who planted incriminating documents... 643 00:40:41,939 --> 00:40:45,204 on a congressman she suspected of taking kickbacks. 644 00:40:45,309 --> 00:40:47,937 She then ran the story in the newspaper she worked for. 645 00:40:48,045 --> 00:40:51,242 Although the accusations proved true, the methods were highly questionable. 646 00:40:51,349 --> 00:40:55,115 And Agnes Fowley was discharged from the paper. 647 00:40:55,219 --> 00:40:59,053 I'm sure you're painfully familiar with the details, Miss Fowley. 648 00:41:01,192 --> 00:41:03,660 For six months I've been looking over my shoulder... 649 00:41:03,761 --> 00:41:08,596 waiting for the other shoe to drop, and here it is with a great big thud. 650 00:41:08,699 --> 00:41:11,099 I couldn't get a newspaperjob to save my life... 651 00:41:11,202 --> 00:41:13,602 not even delivering them. 652 00:41:13,704 --> 00:41:16,172 I finally came to see Mr. Walsh. 653 00:41:16,273 --> 00:41:20,369 Although he disapproved of my methods, he understood my motives. 654 00:41:20,478 --> 00:41:23,572 He was good enough to intercede with Ed Greene on my behalf. 655 00:41:23,681 --> 00:41:28,448 Someone with such a fervent desire to punish the guilty, no matter what the cost... 656 00:41:28,552 --> 00:41:31,419 just might see Spotlight News as the ultimate corruption... 657 00:41:31,522 --> 00:41:33,854 and want to put an end to it permanently. 658 00:41:33,958 --> 00:41:37,325 I made a mistake. I learned from it. 659 00:41:37,428 --> 00:41:40,397 I'm everything you say I am, except a murderer. 660 00:41:44,101 --> 00:41:46,001 What are you gonna do with that? 661 00:41:47,705 --> 00:41:51,835 There's no sense in exposing someone for past indiscretions. 662 00:41:55,146 --> 00:41:57,114 I see your point. 663 00:42:12,930 --> 00:42:15,125 I hope that kid finds himself. 664 00:42:15,232 --> 00:42:18,201 He's never stopped trying. 665 00:42:18,302 --> 00:42:20,293 Well, I wish him luck. 666 00:42:20,404 --> 00:42:22,634 And he you. [Mouthing Word] 667 00:42:28,112 --> 00:42:30,842 - You know how much I hate this part of the job? - What? 668 00:42:30,948 --> 00:42:33,781 - Delivering autopsy reports. - Murphy, we're private detectives. 669 00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:36,512 Autopsy reports are part of our lives. 670 00:42:38,222 --> 00:42:41,282 Chrissie obviously put up quite a struggle. 671 00:42:41,392 --> 00:42:44,452 There was blood under all three of her broken fingernails. 672 00:42:44,562 --> 00:42:48,259 Hmm. Apparently she inflicted a substantial wound on her killer. 673 00:42:48,365 --> 00:42:51,664 Yeah, but where? I don't see anybody around here with scratches or Band-Aids. 674 00:42:51,769 --> 00:42:55,933 Hmm. Unless it was on a portion of the anatomy we don't normally see. 675 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,873 I don't think the killer suffocated Chrissie in the buff. 676 00:42:58,976 --> 00:43:03,106 - Ooh, uh... - You know, you really are incredible. 677 00:43:03,214 --> 00:43:05,273 - Really? - Oh, come on, Laura. 678 00:43:05,382 --> 00:43:08,249 Don't tell me he's come up with the solution again. 679 00:43:08,352 --> 00:43:11,150 Hit the nail right on the head, Murph. 680 00:43:12,923 --> 00:43:15,653 Care to share your brilliant deduction with a fellow detective? 681 00:43:15,759 --> 00:43:17,727 Oh, come now, Murphy. 682 00:43:17,828 --> 00:43:20,797 You know these things are always more fun when there's an audience to guess along. 683 00:43:20,898 --> 00:43:22,866 - [Painful Yell] - Sorry, sorry. 684 00:43:22,967 --> 00:43:25,697 [Announcer] And now, from the Channel 3 Studios... 685 00:43:25,803 --> 00:43:29,864 it's Spotlight News with the new Spotlight News team... 686 00:43:29,974 --> 00:43:32,306 featuring Biff Lagerfeld with sports... 687 00:43:32,409 --> 00:43:34,377 Cousin Claude with the weather... 688 00:43:34,478 --> 00:43:38,244 and investigative reporter Russell Stewart. 689 00:43:38,349 --> 00:43:40,317 And now with the news... 690 00:43:40,417 --> 00:43:42,681 the Southland's most innovative news personalities... 691 00:43:42,786 --> 00:43:46,017 Elliot Walsh and Margaret Tracy. 692 00:43:46,123 --> 00:43:48,421 Good evening. 693 00:43:48,526 --> 00:43:50,494 At the top of today's news... 694 00:43:50,594 --> 00:43:54,052 is the release of the coroner's report on Chrissie Carstairs... 695 00:43:54,165 --> 00:43:58,033 Spotlight News late anchorwoman. 696 00:44:00,037 --> 00:44:03,473 The autopsy revealed blood under the victim's fingernails... 697 00:44:03,574 --> 00:44:06,168 indicating that Miss Carstairs... 698 00:44:06,277 --> 00:44:10,111 managed to inflict deep lacerations on her assailant. 699 00:44:10,214 --> 00:44:13,240 The killer was obviously driven... 700 00:44:13,350 --> 00:44:16,649 by a deep-seated need to express his rage... 701 00:44:21,025 --> 00:44:23,323 at the loss of heroes. 702 00:44:25,062 --> 00:44:28,463 He began by trying to embarrass... 703 00:44:28,566 --> 00:44:31,034 those he felt were trivializing the news... 704 00:44:31,135 --> 00:44:35,697 but his anger soon pushed him beyond protest... 705 00:44:36,807 --> 00:44:40,402 and into the dark corner of murder. 706 00:44:50,187 --> 00:44:52,678 I've been doing these newscasts... 707 00:44:52,790 --> 00:44:56,521 for more years than I care to admit. 708 00:44:56,627 --> 00:44:59,323 Tonight will be my final one. 709 00:45:08,472 --> 00:45:12,431 This is a symbol... 710 00:45:12,543 --> 00:45:15,103 of not only what I've become... 711 00:45:15,212 --> 00:45:18,978 but of what the entire electronic news community... 712 00:45:19,083 --> 00:45:21,051 is in danger of becoming. 713 00:45:21,151 --> 00:45:23,278 - Go to a commercial! - Let him speak! 714 00:45:23,387 --> 00:45:25,753 Cut that son of a... 715 00:45:25,856 --> 00:45:29,451 We have this magical tool... 716 00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:31,790 called television. 717 00:45:31,895 --> 00:45:34,363 This tool of light and sound. 718 00:45:34,465 --> 00:45:37,525 An instrument that can help create... 719 00:45:37,635 --> 00:45:40,433 the most informed people in the world... 720 00:45:40,537 --> 00:45:43,995 in the world's most enlightened republic. 721 00:45:44,108 --> 00:45:49,341 Instead, we give you Spotlight News. 722 00:45:49,446 --> 00:45:52,176 We put on happy faces and happy talk. 723 00:45:52,283 --> 00:45:57,118 We serve up wars and disasters like mealtime snacks. 724 00:45:57,221 --> 00:46:00,850 We snicker, we prattle, we pander. 725 00:46:00,958 --> 00:46:03,722 Spotlight News is not a local disgrace. 726 00:46:03,827 --> 00:46:06,455 It's a national affliction! 727 00:46:09,366 --> 00:46:12,529 Ayoung lady I've become very fond of... 728 00:46:12,636 --> 00:46:14,604 reminded me that I once said... 729 00:46:14,705 --> 00:46:19,438 "A good reporter gives the facts, a great reporter understands the meaning. '" 730 00:46:22,513 --> 00:46:24,777 Well, I won't pretend to any greatness... 731 00:46:24,882 --> 00:46:27,544 so I will simply give you the facts. 732 00:46:27,651 --> 00:46:30,711 We, who sit in these well-salaried seats... 733 00:46:30,821 --> 00:46:33,619 are not the news. 734 00:46:33,724 --> 00:46:37,820 Forget our polished smiles, our scripted banter and our pretty faces. 735 00:46:37,928 --> 00:46:40,920 We are not the news. 736 00:46:41,031 --> 00:46:43,124 The news is unexpected. 737 00:46:43,233 --> 00:46:47,033 It's hard and ugly and, most of all, it's complex. 738 00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:50,607 Don't settle for us, people. 739 00:46:50,708 --> 00:46:53,176 You're better than that. 740 00:46:54,611 --> 00:46:56,579 You deserve better. 741 00:47:12,930 --> 00:47:17,162 I realize my powers of deduction have sharpened considerably under your tutelage... 742 00:47:17,267 --> 00:47:21,397 but, um, how exactly did I solve this one? 743 00:47:21,505 --> 00:47:25,032 When you said that the scratches were probably on a portion of the killer's anatomy... 744 00:47:25,142 --> 00:47:27,406 that we didn't normally see. 745 00:47:27,511 --> 00:47:30,378 - But we always saw Elliot without his toupee. - Exactly. 746 00:47:30,481 --> 00:47:32,381 He hated that toupee. 747 00:47:32,483 --> 00:47:35,680 It represented everything he'd grown to despise about himself. 748 00:47:35,786 --> 00:47:38,186 He only wore it when he was on the air... 749 00:47:38,288 --> 00:47:42,349 yet the night after Chrissie was killed, he had it on when I found him here. 750 00:47:42,459 --> 00:47:44,893 Ah, of course. 751 00:47:44,995 --> 00:47:47,793 To hide the evidence that could link him to the murder... 752 00:47:47,898 --> 00:47:49,866 he was forced to wear it all the time. 753 00:47:49,967 --> 00:47:52,595 I'm sorry. 754 00:47:52,703 --> 00:47:55,365 I know he was an idol. 755 00:47:55,472 --> 00:47:57,804 [Laura] A fallen idol. 756 00:47:59,910 --> 00:48:04,370 But at the end, he managed to get back on his feet, hmm? 757 00:48:04,481 --> 00:48:07,075 Yes. 758 00:48:07,184 --> 00:48:11,587 Now, what was that little exchange between you and Amy all about? 759 00:48:11,688 --> 00:48:15,647 All that stuff about hoping the kid finds himself? 760 00:48:15,759 --> 00:48:20,662 Oh, a poor waif, wandering in the cold, cruel world in search of himself. 761 00:48:20,764 --> 00:48:24,063 - Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk. - Anyone I know? 762 00:48:24,168 --> 00:48:26,193 Slightly. 763 00:48:26,303 --> 00:48:29,431 But with any luck, you'll know him far more intimately. 764 00:49:04,708 --> 00:49:06,005 [Mews] 765 00:49:06,055 --> 00:49:10,605 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0