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Tonight, on Spence of your hide, you produce a lady friend, knocked off her partner.

Why should I keep guilty to something I didn't do?

I don't believe innocent people ever pleading guilty.

You really believe Justice is about where the Janet Cole killed her partner?

Justice is what we can make the jury believe you.

Ryan is a lover boy, not a killer man.

You got to cland about to be convicted of murder. I got to climb this dead.

We might want to think about changing occupations.

of his misery.

He was too dumb to live in the world.

He was better off out of it.

I did him a favor.

It wasn't. Come, passion. You did it for your own selfish aim.

He deserved to die. He left me without a scent in the

world and then came back to taunt me with it. He came back because he loved you.

Thank you.

as long as you care that's a good sign. I've got a lovely mystery.

If this does

have a business that it didn't land in, I won't complain.

It's got a side where we can talk.

Annie, there's plenty of time before Curt and Janet. It's just first call.

Not until the play's over. I want to talk to her now.

Rule is, no one's allowed backstage until after the play. I'm not just anybody.

Okay, okay. Maybe a better girlfriend. Well, I'm ready.

We haven't finished our rehearsal yet.

Say good night, Brian.

Why don't you watch him out? Say good night, Brian.

Ah, life upon the wicked stage. Is never what a girl's supposed to just ask me.

What happened? Yeah, Sherry came out the door just like we did now.

Car came roaring down the alley and hit

her. Your car? Yes. I wasn't driving.

It's Spencer. It was a set up.

But why? Well, I was common knowledge sharing and I refuting.

She wanted to dissolve the partnership. So I was the perfect patty.

Someone got in my car, wired it, I'm waiting for Sherry to come out.

So why do you call me now?

I'd go to a trial in a few days and you got McVane.

Who wants me to plead guilty to manslaughter?

Spencer, I thought he was gonna fight for me.

Get another lawyer.

Fire the most famous lawyer in Boston because he thinks I'm guilty.

How's that gonna look? Confession of guilt on all the front pages.

So who else wanted to share your belt, your dead?

Well, Sherry got some money from unusual sources.

She had a friend who was connected. My mom? In the theater?

It's great way to long to cash. What loses more money than the theater.

Anyway, I think they found out about it and killed her.

I can't prove it, but she did have a bookkeeper who kept her records only...

You just appeared. Yeah, I'd think he's in hiding.

If you could find him, maybe he'll tell you.

Maybe I should talk to McBain. Would you?

Maybe you'll listen to you.

So I take his advice. I'm going to jail.

Spencer, I know your television has broken. VCR is dead, your board.

It's not a fact. I'm working for the producer of this play. And I like it so far.

We're going to play a Cisco and he would I got a review it for you.

So what are you doing here? Yes. He's a new critic for the Globe.

From the new computer date for Brian Lorde,

an air-duel idiot of Boston's underworld. Not the mentioned patron of the arts.

On the nose, he invested in the play.

And see why with a little lady hanging with backstage? Plenty of ladies in his life.

This act of special. Especially as they get for him, he does. Round the world.

I can't deal with this. What? Ganges is in the theater.

They are solid mainstream nowadays, babe.

And the gourmet food helps rise everything. And then some of you're his bodyguard.

It's all for show. Makes him seem mean. He's happy I get paid. symbiosis complete.

Except for dragging me to these mystery plays.

Too many questions, not enough answers.

what's on TV?

music

She watched Janet Cole when she was one of the

better actresses on the East Coast circuit.

I had continued to enjoy her work as a producer of Good Theater. I liked her.

And now she was a client accused of murder and at

odds with a very famous attorney, David McFaith.

Hi, it's Prince of.

Nice to see you again. Like, then, you're looking well.

Unfortunately, I have to work out at these days. You still jogging?

No, whatever I can. Good. Mrs. Culler's upstairs waiting outside the car.

You mind walking up? Good for the heart. I'm gonna cure that for you, all right?

I don't need any value, yes. So when you go to trial? Well, being a trial.

If I can cut a deal with Sam Reynolds in the day's office,

the judge will clear this case when it's done.

Sam Reynolds, I remember seeing his name in the paper.

Yeah, he's a very ambitious young man. He thinks he has a dead to rights.

She pleads innocent, he can get picked up an open court, and he'd beat me.

And he'd be in better position. He'd elected to a higher office.

So this is all about? Janet pleads guilty to a derail some heart shot lawyer

who wants to be DA. Look, I swear to the awful lot for this deal.

If a manslaughter the lady gets five years, maybe less.

It's a lot better than 20 years for first degree murder.

You're presuming she's guilty. I can read the case against her.

And whatever I do, it's not going to hold her. Oh, hang on.

Hey, are you all right?

Spencer, don't ever

get old.

Like I don't believe in innocent people ever pleading guilty.

You're still looking for pure justice, Vincent. Justice.

It sounds to me like we're talking about famous lawyers

and would-be district attorneys. You really believe justice is about whether Janet

cold-killed a partner? Do you think that her innocence or guilt

has anything to do with justice?

Justice, my friend, is what the judge says it is.

Justice is what we can make the jury believe.

Justice is how good a lawyer she can get and how good

a case he can argue for his client, whether she's innocent or guilty.

I'm glad to see you're here. Have you thought about what I suggested?

Yes.

I've asked Spencer to investigate some things I feel haven't been done.

Well, I'm certain Spencer knows I conduct a

thorough investigation for every case I handle.

Well, Dan, at my plane, you're my attorney and you're telling

me I'm guilty, so I don't know who's side you're on.

How I feel, I believe, doesn't matter. It's what we can prove, Janet.

I'd like Spencer in there.

I'd feel a whole lot better if I knew one person was on my side. It's fine with me.

Good. Let's get this over with.

Thank you.

Mr McVane, Mr Reynolds, gentlemen, I take it we are

ready to enter a change of plea in this case.

Mrs. Cole, your attorney has explained to you the significance of this proceeding.

Yes, Your Honor?

You've made your own decision for any coercion or undo influence. Yes, Your Honor.

And how do you now plead?

Not guilty, Your Honor.

The plea will remain as previously set, and the case will proceed to trial.

to our deal, McVane? Well, it's obvious my client is disinclined to accept

your offer of prison.

You're never gonna get a better deal.

I promise you.

You want to be Brian Lord, see Brian Lord.

Don't you even want to know what about negative? See, I'm even down to curiosity.

Brian Lorde, who's in place, maybe one of those investments,

didn't go well, maybe Brian got mad.

Maybe the self-intrigued lab bird for future draft choice. Look at here, Lorde.

Brian is a level bar, and that a killer man, also, no girl, you did.

Well, he's got plenty of friends and neighbors that got go right here. Truly, truly.

So tell me. The lover loves to talk.

It probably means that you don't know what he's talking about.

Now, why are you out here running a perfectly fine day laying all this on me?

That's a courtesy call, I guess. You're Brian Lawrence, bodyguiding, right?

Steal trap, man, man. If I talk those and go well, who's gonna knock

you to toss me out of the room? Next frame, I throw you out.

You go down the valley and try.

In which case, I just want you to know it's nothing personal.

I'll catch you on the way to work. I'm scared of you.

C. Brian Lourd before the night was through.

Meanwhile, it was time to start tracking the frightened bookkeeper, George Lindwell.

Yeah, yeah. Antiovis, onions, peppers, you know, the whole instrument.

Yeah. Yeah, Nelson. B-E-L-S-O-N, Sergeant Frank Belsen. Thank you.

doing.

I'm timing him, you don't get here in 10 minutes. I got him free pizza.

You're timing the delivery boy doing a lunch hour in Boston?

I mean, Frank, come on, sorry, the fare. I know. Got a free one last month.

at the at the file didn't it good? No. I don't think it would.

Your client's definitely not.

You know, I always appreciate your unbiased observation.

And Fabio for me to tell you how to do your job, Spencer.

But Janet Cole is open in shut, 12 to 20, Science Hill and Deliverment.

What do you got on this bookkeeper, George Lillmann? Lillman, he's gone. Gone?

Like dead, moved to Florida, working as an astronaut? What, gone? Come on, Frank.

I guess as good as mine, you read the file.

He took off right after he made a statement.

And that doesn't bother the police? That a material witness just disappears?

That's it. All we do is catch him. They got judges. They got juries.

They got lawyers. The DA told us he don't need the bookkeeper. He's got his case.

But that case is circumstantial. That could change you.

Found George Lynn would have talked to him.

You're just all bent out of shape because you're

my enginic, cold story that our partners involved with the mob.

But we talked to Lynn when he said there was no mob involved. You talked to them.

We talked to her. And he said, there was not involvement.

What kind of investigation? The idea of technique is that, come on!

Look, you're buying the mob being involved in a play.

Yeah, yeah, what's wrong with that? It's a joke, right?

I saw a lot of sharks can sue their last night.

And when have you ever heard of the mob passing up

with an opportunity to invest a little bit of money to get a lot on money back?

We're finding some hold of dumb cash in here.

All right, all right, maybe it's possible.

Yeah, well, so find this George Lindbergh guy. Let me talk to him.

Find your... That's what you think I made out of time?

I get a lotta important things around.

A couple more minutes, I'm getting a free pizza. Yeah, with a horse McGaggy.

Yeah, the horse McGgaggy?

Thank you for a lovely evening, Brian.

Yeah, that's the Lord Brian's car.

Bye.

I think you're out of the job who told you.

Come in!

Sorry, it's so late, but I had a touch base. You want something to drink?

Some...

So make exceptional Irish whiskey. My doctor says I've been doing it to me,

but perhaps you'll allow me the pleasure of watching you drink it.

Perhaps you'll even describe the experience for me.

Like other pleasures of the flesh, drinking is an experience

that I relish enjoying, even if only vicariously.

tingling.

Sharp.

people okay.

Thank you.

You're about Brian Lloyd's murder. I heard it.

It appears you're almost at eye witness.

Almost.

Which leads us to the obvious question, how's it going to affect the trial?

The murder of Brian Lodden won't be any part of it. There are connections.

The Bryan Lord is a mobster's nephew. What? He's now dead.

While he was alive, he dropped a bundle in the theater,

and your client keeps insisting that it was the mob.

And what my client says is not evidence.

If I give even the slightest hint in mentioning the Lord murder,

the DA will see to it that the judge hands me my head, Spencer.

Meanwhile, Justice Marches on blindly. Justice? No. The law.

The law is very clear in these issues.

Well, he's took to the issues, and I'll hang on to this mob theory.

The problem may be that you don't have a great deal to work with.

You know, what help if you try to believe your client's story? Spencer.

Do you have any idea how many criminal cases I've tried?

You know, sometimes it's the attorney's advantage not to look too closely.

You look too close to it. You prove the client's guilt.

I have to make judgments when I take on clients, too.

I haven't been doing as long as you have, but it is part of my business.

And I've made enough mistakes that

I go damn slow now.

Well...

Maybe I've been around too long.

I don't get too close to the lives of my clients

anymore because I've been disappointed too often.

Liars, thieves, murderers, and worse.

Now I'm going to deal in opinion.

I like to think that now it's worth something. People pay me a lot for it.

I'm going to give it to you for free, Spencer.

Janet Cole is guilty. I'm sure of it. She swear she's innocent.

Can't you put me in the wrong?

Can't you put it aside this once?

You know, he could be right.

Janet Call might be guilty.

But until we know, should we honestly try to prove it?

Dan Bidwicki.

same time i had a client trying to be the murder

I also had a friend trying to avoid being a murder victim.

It's funny how cranky the mob can get when your body guarding one of their boys

and someone shoots the one.

That's your fun level. About a court law, what you got? Words out.

Contracts defined and dispose of you. They're welcome to try.

Once you take a little trip, see if I can get a handle on this thing.

I'm duty bound. Got a fan out who killed a lover boy.

Somebody gets off the down responsible for it. They got their walls with me.

I'll try this. It also ran the gun 22 caliber registered to Brian Lord.

Must be suicide. I shoot some cell three times across the room.

ask your father to drink a finger, what about your wandering bookkeeper?

Nothing yet.

Look at here.

You got to climb about to be convicted of murder. I got to claim this dead.

We might want to think about changing occupations.

You may proceed, Mr. Reynolds.

Your Honor.

in the theater.

Actors and actresses live or die on the whim of the defendant Janet Cole.

playwrights, directors hang on her every word,

knowing that her decisions determine their futures.

She has risen to the top of her world, and she rules it like a monarch.

And then one person threatened to take all that away.

Janet Cole's partner, Sherry Belch, wanted to dissolve. How's it going?

If you don't find anything soon, it's better.

I present our case tomorrow, and there isn't any case. Sorry. Don't worry, Spencer.

I've been doing your work for you. So George Linwood's telephone number.

He called me this morning. He wanted me to know that Janet is innocent,

but he couldn't testify to that fact,

because he was afraid that his old life was in jeopardy.

I had to call Trace when we were talking.

She exercised that and murdered

her partner.

Fortunately when I called the phone number

McVane gave me, it was a corner news stand.

Fortunately, the vendor remembered the guy who borrowed his phone.

was holed up just down the street in a flea bag hotel.

I think so, Georgie. Come on, have a seat. Don't show me. I haven't talked.

I won't see anything. I'm not going to kill you, but you are going to talk.

Who are you? I'm a spencer from a PI, a work for Janet Cole,

and she needs your help. I can't go blow me away.

I think that's a risk you're going to have to take. That's George Luck.

You were brave enough to call. You want to do the right thing. You want help, Janet?

You just need to be a little bit braver. That's all. No, I won.

I won' test the fight. Look. You can deal with them all later or you can deal

with me now but you are going to testify.

You got you by the shotgun.

You'd be still assembled if your body was going to be missing. You understand?

Now I know who you are and who sent you.

If I thought you off this planet, you'll just send more for me to thug.

If you tell a man I want to meet, after I find

a who killed Brian Lloyd, you understand?

Would you state your complete name, please? George Arthur, Linwood.

May we approach the bench?

The state was not provided with advance notice

that this witness was to be called and object to the testimony to be offered.

The council for the defense suggests

that this witnesses may clarify the underlying substance

of the quarrel between his client and her deceased partner.

I will allow testimony in that restricted area. Proceed, Mr. McVeigh.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Now Mr. Lindwood, again, what is your profession?

I work as a bookkeeper and personal assistant.

Mr. Lindwood, you worked as Secretary and Bookkeeper

for the late Sherry Belcher, is that right? Yes.

And in that capacity you were familiar with the deceased's financial affairs? Yes.

Was Sherry Belcher the chief fundraiser for

the partnership she'd formed with Miss Cole?

Yes.

And how did she raise the money for their productions?

She had investors. Well, banks, investment houses, individuals,

what sort of investors? Individuals.

And did the books she kept accurately reflect the amounts

of money that individuals invested in her productions?

No.

No?

The books would show that the investments were

for more than the money she actually got.

She was laundering money. Is that what you're trying to say, Miss Alimmon?

Yes, you see, if someone invested $100,000, we would show it as $200,000.

The extra $10000,000... well, they

kept it, but they could claim it as a loss.

Sir Sherry Belcher made it very convenient for money to disappear.

Isn't that right, Miss Alimmon? Yes. Is that all that she did? No. She also...

kept money for herself. Oh, I see.

What about the investors? Didn't they complain about that?

Well, they couldn't come clean about it.

Organized crime.

They used the partnership to

longer their money.

And what did they do? What did they about it when they found out

that Sherry Belcher was keeping their money for herself? I guess.

They killed her. Objection. Speculation. Sustained.

Did Janet Cole know where Sherry Belcher got the money? No, she didn't know.

Objection? The witness cannot testify to another party's knowledge. Sustained.

Thank you, Your Honor. No further questions.

You may step down.

Actress lady just returned to the scene of the crime. Are you with the police?

You see the police. I'm just getting things that belong to me.

Down in your automobile. I see other suitcases. You planning on a little trip? No.

There must be some explanation.

Look, this is my stuff. I'm getting out of here. I am not stealing anything.

I'm not here to talk about stealing. Then what?

I want to hear all about how you pop crime.

Me?

Kill Brian.

You're crazy. Amana.

I'm gonna give you a chance to get out of here.

Magnanimous.

You don't think I'll use this? Well, I do. It's a lot easier killing a second time.

Rather proves my point, doesn't it? They'll be bigger than 22, though.

to dream to.

He had another girl here?

Right in our bedroom.

When she left, I got the gun. I only meant to scare him. Get him to death.

I wasn't thinking straight. I just wanted to get even.

Well, I got a little evening up myself to do.

Come on, I'ma let you talk to the blue boys. Look, Brian always a creep.

He had it coming. If you let me go, I promise. Nobody will ever see me again.

Now you want to go out on the streets?

Brian's family's there.

You understand what I'm saying?

Telephones do work.

You make the call.

Talk to the man, live in prison. Run dead in a week.

Wait!

Good choice.

You're on a...

We haven't been able to point to finger at someone and say,

this is the person who murdered Sherry Belcher. Nor have you been able

to show that Janet Cole did not, in fact, murder Sherry

Belcher, but

isn't there reasonable doubt about this issue?

Isn't it reasonable to suppose that someone else might

have murdered Sherry Bultry?

Isn't it reasonable to suppose that someone else might have motive or opportunity?

You're under the prosecution set out to prove with absolute certainty.

That cherry belcher was murdered by Janet Cole.

That, I respectfully submit your honor, they have not done.

Don't hangs in this courtroom like a shroud.

And doubt, reasonable intelligent

doubt, requires injustice

that the accused must be found innocent.

The court will now hear final closing statements from the prosecution.

So you're off the hook of Brian's murder?

Not until Brian's up with Carl's off the wolves. Jimmy Carter? Jimmy the broker.

You have a past with him, let's rise.

Chapter two, the actress killed a boy of love

because she was jealous that does not connect with your hidden run job.

Unless Jimmy was the one laundering the money through the theater.

Say he was, but wasn't unhappy about the deal.

That her ran down the lake in the alley, and why? I said about it.

question.

questions.

I know.

I know.

Spencer. Jimmy. Been too long. And Hawk still alive and kicking. No thanks to you.

To form advertising, it gives our other

independent contractors an incentive to perform.

We think it's wise to let them know that we constantly evaluate our performance.

Your job was to protect Brian from hitmen.

did that.

Protect him from himself. Boy had a dangerous habit to many women.

Girlfriend dropped the hammer on Romeo.

the actress.

I see. Are you

planning to do anything about it? Did that, too. Put her in a cab.

Destination? If she has any brains, BPD, homicide division.

Very civic-minded of you.

All right.

Women were always Brian's

problem, and they

were his responsibility.

I consider our accounts imbalanced. Well consider this.

If you point another gun in my direction,

you will eat that gun with salt and pepper.

I think you'll find your life will be relatively quiet.

Anything else, gentlemen? That's a matter of fact there was one thing.

It's a guess, Jimmy, but I'm guessing

you were the one who was laundering the money in the theater.

And Brian was just one of your guys who helped in that effort.

And that Sherry Belcher was paid off the handle that for you.

Brian gets it. Share a good sit.

We thought there was a connection, now I know there wasn't.

Spencer, you're right.

Except in one small area.

We never did business with Sherry Belzer.

Our partner was Janet Cole.

Janet.

Apparently Janet got greedy.

Jimmy.

Did you get Sherry Belcher?

Why should we?

She got bumped off by her partner and the state is sending her up.

Why don't we let the state handle it?

We pay our taxes, not much.

but we pay shall.

Mr. Reynolds.

Vane.

Upon due consideration of the evidence

and the testimony presented to me in this court,

I have concluded that the defendant Janet Cole is not guilty.

and she is hereby released from the custody of this court.

I'm gonna make your achievements.

Ha ha!

Kjola, Daniel.

Judge just told me I'm innocent. You're colder than you sent me out to get you off.

You may know it all the time. You never believed you were innocent.

Well, thanks to you and George, he came around. Oh, he's a lawyer.

Happy is one another victory.

I needed you Spencer, he wasn't defending me. I needed your help.

You did a great job.

Very grateful.

You and George might quite a team.

But you're not gonna get away with it. I already have.

You won't get away with it.

What can you do about it?

Spencer.

You keep your mouth shut.

So if you don't, I'll sue your ass off.

The only thing I want from you?

Is it Bill?

just watching them. But even that felt better than doing nothing.

It seemed that justice was stood on its head.

And the man who had spoken so eloquently about it was as much a victim as I was.

Truthfully, I didn't want to hear what else he would have to say.

The Fifth Amendment provides that no person shall be subject

for the same offense to be twice tried in jeopardy of life or limb.

She can't be tried again, Spencer. She can be tried for poetry either.

She didn't testify.

And that was at her own insistence, too, once she saw George back.

They plotted their drama rather well, didn't they?

She's gotten off with it, Spencer, live with it. Can you? Look.

When I was a young lawyer, I lost a lot of cases I should have won.

Now that I'm old, I win a lot of cases that I should lose.

You know how I live with them?

I look back and I think.

On the whole, substantial justice has been done. You didn't want to defend her?

No, I didn't. You were sure she was guilty? No.

No, no, I wasn't sure of anything, Spencer. Look, I'm an old man now, right?

When I get hunches, I pay attention to them.

And it was getting harder for me to get up in the courtroom anymore.

And when I do it, I...

I like the things that I'm on the right side, but it really isn't important.

If one guilty defendant gets off, and it's horrible as it sounds,

it really doesn't matter if one innocent person goes to jail.

You've got to look at the larger picture, Spencer. On the whole, the system works.

Again, on the whole substantial justice is done. I can't look at a larger picture.

I'm a detective. I'm not a lawyer. I take it one case at a time.

I deal with lives one at a times. I don't know whether the system works or not.

All I know is that woman is guilty and she used you and me to get off.

No such thing is absolute justice, Spencer. Another one of your famous opinions?

No. No, it's reality. Look, life's not fair. It's not even close.

Most of the time, it is a little better than a crept shoot.

You're crossing the street, you get hit by a car.

You buy a lottery ticket, you come into a million.

Look, at best, all we can hope for, all that we can expect,

is that as time goes by, the system levels it all out. Come on.

Drink the rest of that Irish whiskey and make me happy, huh?

Oh, boy, do I love the smell of this stuff. So she just walks.

Let's play. Listen.

You don't think the doctor would mind if I just took a little bit of this,

so they've just got to tell them.

Spencer.

You will let go.

Is it too much for one guilty person to feel free?

Okay. Okay. We'll try our fun.

Tax evasion, tax fraud or something.

You know, it's a hell of a thing for a lord to go after his client like this.

If you're probably soon my butt off, then you'll probably win.

but I don't mind.

Thank you.

What if we crack George Lindwood?

Now that would help.

I've got an approach. Oh, yeah. Simple and complicated. Simple.

Separate George from Janet, that convincing

that it's in his interest to turn on her.

It is in his interests. Yeah, look. We need him to testify, right? Shall I knock?

Allow me.

Wow.

What the hell do you think you're doing? Pointing is

gun at you. Guns. Flourle.

I'm gonna call the police.

Now look who wants to call the police.

Spencer, it's over. Why don't you just give it up? George.

How do you want to die?

Oh, he's just kidding, George.

Now, why don't you get dressed so we can go have a little talk?

Uh-uh, he is not going anywhere.

Yeah, come on, George, we want to talk about bookkeeping. Don't kill me.

Where are you going?

You wanna stop me? Kill me.

I aim to please.

She might be going for the polling.

Thanks so.

She's gonna kill you, George.

Oh, not now.

later when you don't suspect.

She's gonna run over you too.

Or maybe there'll be something in your drink that tastes like almonds.

Do it.

She doesn't have a choice because you know she killed Sherry Belcher

because you knew she took money from them up.

You stay here. Your dad is telling you true.

She loves me.

Don't even wish it!

I think we'll take a trip.

Paris sounds nice, where are the South of France?

You will tell me how the winter is in Boston, won't you?

Let's go, George.

George, you really

don't want to talk to them because you'll end up in jail and you really

don't wanna do that now. Let's go.

All right, George, we'll talk about it later.

You boys have a nice party.

I'm going to go get the police.

woman.

Stone Cold.

How about your clothes are neatly hanging in the closet aren't they?

Thank you.

BAM!

Do you think Jimmy Carver has spoken?

face of justice.

had just pleaded guilty to embezzlement and fraud.

He would go to prison for his crimes.

Janet Cole had paid an even higher price.

Perhaps my fame was right, but within the system, or without, in this case at least,

some stanchial justice had been done.