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No! I'm not gonna go!
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I hate seafood! It's gross!
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I wanna have hamburgers.
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WOMAN: Jason
Michael Terwilliger,
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you have five seconds.
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One, two...
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Yes. My name is Ellen Barrett.
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I'm calling from Room
227 of the Sea View Motel.
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I think I killed someone.
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Uh-huh. Yes, I'll be here.
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MARKS: Ellen Barrett.
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That's two R's and two T's?
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Yes. I'm from Atlanta.
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I'm a journalist. I write
a newspaper column.
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MARKS: And he is?
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Was?
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He said his name
was Adam Easley.
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He worked for Vic Baron.
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Vic Baron as in the mobster?
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Easley called me
about a week ago
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and said that he heard that I
was doing a story about his boss.
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And that he and Baron
had had a falling out,
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and he'd be more than
happy to rat on his boss.
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I thought he was on the
level so I agreed to meet him.
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And then when I got here...
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What happened, Miss Barrett?
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Well, it was a setup.
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I'd no sooner shut the door
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but he grabbed me and he
told me that Baron wanted me
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to drop the story or else.
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And then he started to throw
me around the room and he hit me,
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until finally I...
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Maybe we should do
this someplace else.
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- Feeling better?
- Yeah.
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- Okay. Do you mind if I turn this on?
- Go ahead.
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Now, in as much detail
as you can remember,
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tell me exactly what happened
in that motel room tonight.
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Well, after I told Easley that I
wasn't about to drop the story,
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and that he and Vic Baron
could pretty much shove it,
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he grabbed me by the hair and
he threw me across the room.
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I hit a chair on the way
down, and I knocked it over.
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And then I got up pretty fast,
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and I grabbed for the phone
to try to call for some help,
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and he yanked the receiver out
of my hand and he hit me with it.
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Hard.
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Then what happened?
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Well, then I scratched his face.
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And I tried to run for the
door, but he pulled me back,
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and he grabbed my blouse
and he started to slap me.
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I thought he was gonna kill me,
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so that's when I
saw the knife, and...
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It was sitting on a tray
with a bunch of dirty dishes.
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And I grabbed the
knife and I stabbed him.
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How many times?
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I have no idea.
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According to measurements
taken by the coroner at the scene,
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Mr. Easley was
about 6 feet tall.
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How tall are you, Miss Barrett?
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I'm 5'3".
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BILLY: Ben?
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You here?
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Ben?
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Go away.
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You are here. Why didn't
you answer the door?
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What are you reading?
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Innocent Till Proven Dead.
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I read that. Yeah,
it's pretty good.
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Especially when you find
out who the murderer is.
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I figured it was the DA.
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I mean, who would have ever thought
it'd turn out to be the guy's own wife?
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- Whoops.
- Billy, you just ruined it for me.
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Well, heck, I didn't mean to.
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Leanne sent this to me all
the way from Los Angeles.
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I'm sorry.
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How's she doing anyway?
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Well, pretty good. Job
seems to be working out.
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- She gonna stay?
- I imagine.
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She met a fella.
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Oh.
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She didn't take your spark
plug wrench with her, did she?
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- Spark plug wrench?
- Yeah, I need it.
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That's why I came over.
Truck conked out on me again.
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Did you ever consider getting
your own spark plug wrench?
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Why?
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We got yours.
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- You know you got a message?
- Yeah, I'll get it later on.
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Don't you wanna
know who it's from?
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ELLEN: Ben, this
is Ellen Barrett.
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I'm in Wilmington, North
Carolina, at 910-555-7000.
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Please call me as soon
as you get this message.
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It's very important. Thanks.
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Save that.
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Who's Ellen Barrett?
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A woman.
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- A woman?
- Yeah.
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I used to know her.
She was a reporter.
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Covered the courthouse
for the Atlanta Herald.
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Did you...?
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[LAUGHING]
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No.
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[CHUCKLES]
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She was married.
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She has her own syndicated
column, Pulitzer Prize winner,
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and I just knew her.
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Think you might be
going to Wilmington?
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I don't know.
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I got business there myself.
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My truck's on the fritz. I
might go along with you.
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Business...?
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Eh...
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It just so happens that
someone's interested
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in buying the house
that Lucy left me.
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Someone by the name
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- of Clarence Litton.
- Clarence Litton?
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Clarence Litton, the
billionaire with all the hotels.
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What's Clarence Litton
want with that dump of yours?
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I'll thank you not
to call it a dump.
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The roof's bad,
the wiring's shot,
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you need new plumbing,
it's termite-infested.
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I've seen roaches.
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- You have not.
- It's a dump.
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It's a prime piece of
beachfront property
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- that's gonna make me filthy rich.
- It's a dump.
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WOMAN [OVER PA]:
Flight 584 to Charlotte
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now boarding at Gate 5.
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CARRIE: Mom.
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ELLEN: Carrie.
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Carrie, what are you doing here?
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Dad and I are staying
at the beach house.
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- Kind of a graduation present.
- Aw.
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Your hair looks
pretty that way. I like it.
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You look awful.
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Oh, I didn't sleep, that's all.
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How did you know I was here?
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Well, Dad called your office
after he heard what happened.
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Well, everything is okay.
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Then why is Ben Matlock coming?
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To make sure that
everything stays okay.
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So just tell your father that...
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Tell him everything is okay.
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Why won't you let him help you?
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Oh, Carrie, your father and I are
like oil and water. We don't exactly mix.
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- He still cares about you.
- Carrie, don't involve yourself in this.
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Tell him not to
worry. I can handle it.
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Come on. Now, as long as
you're here, you can meet Ben.
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ELLEN: Carrie!
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Carrie!
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Oh, Ellen.
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- Oh, Ben.
- Hi.
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- Good to see you.
- Good to see you.
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- It's been a long time.
- Only about seven years.
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Yeah. Long enough for you to
have acquired an entourage, I see.
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Oh, no, no, we're
just traveling together.
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This is Cliff Lewis.
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An honor to meet you. I
read your column all the time.
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And his father, Billy Lewis.
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ELLEN: Hello.
- Hello.
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- Are you vacationing?
- Business.
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I'm in real estate.
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In fact, I'm in the process
of hammering out a deal
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with Clarence Litton.
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- Really?
- Yeah, Clarence contacted me
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through the U.S. mail.
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- He said, "Dear Mr. Lewis..."
- You don't wanna hear this.
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Dad, Dad, Dad.
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Just because you're
selling one lousy house,
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does not give you the right to
tell people that you're in real estate.
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- Does too.
- Does not.
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Does too.
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It's not a lousy house.
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Hi. Peter Haskins.
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- Come in.
- Oh, thanks.
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Have a seat.
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Where?
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Oh, sorry.
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You are Peter
Haskins, the deputy DA?
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That's me.
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You want me to
just hold that for you?
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No. That's okay.
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Okay.
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You're here to discuss
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- the Ellen Barrett case.
- That's right.
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Barrett, Barrett...
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Barrett...
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Well, why haven't you
closed her case out?
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Well, there are a
couple of inconsistencies
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in the statement
she gave the police.
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Inconsistencies?
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Yes.
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Yes. Uh...
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Ones that tend to call
into question her claim
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that she acted in self-defense.
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I can give you specifics
just as soon as I find her file.
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Is this it?
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Ahem. Okay.
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For instance, Adam
Easley, the fellow she killed,
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she says he said he
worked for Vic Baron.
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But so far, we haven't been
able to find any kind of connection
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between this Easley
and Baron at all.
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Well, if I were Vic Baron
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and was gonna have
somebody roughed up,
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I'd be sure whoever I sent to do
it couldn't be traced back to me.
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Mm.
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The second for instance,
she says Mr. Easley called her
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at her home in Atlanta
last Friday night.
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Right.
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The thing about it is he was
staying at the Sea View Motel then,
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and their records show he made
no call to her home that night
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or any other night.
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Maybe he called her
from somewhere else.
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Their records do show that he
made other long distance calls
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from his motel room.
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It seems kind of strange he'd
leave just to make that one call.
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Not if he didn't want
that one call to be traced.
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Your point is well
taken, Mr. Matlock.
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It could very well be
I'm nitpicking here.
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But before I charge
somebody with a crime,
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I always like to know for
sure just what that crime was.
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Yeah.
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You're not gonna lose
that file again, are you?
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Oh, no, no. I'm
gonna put it right here.
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Well, good.
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Because the sooner you
can get this cleared up,
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the sooner Ellen can
get on with her life.
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- You keep in touch.
- Oh, yes. Thank you.
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- Uh-huh. Well, I'll...
- No, no. No, sir.
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- Let me get the door for you.
- Oh, okay.
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BRAD: Hon, I told
you not to go out there.
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CARRIE: Well, I
had to do something.
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I mean, she's my mother.
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I wanted her to know
that I'm worried about her,
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that I care about her.
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She just pushed
me away like always.
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It's not you, Carrie. It's me.
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I'm the one who she doesn't
want in her life anymore.
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Which is okay, I understand.
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No, it's not okay.
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Because I don't understand.
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Honey, you don't need to. This
is between your mother and me.
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Dad, if I don't understand what
happened between you two,
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how am I gonna know that the
same thing's not gonna happen to me?
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How do I know that I'm not gonna
meet somebody and fall in love
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and get married and have a kid,
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only to wind up hating
my husband's guts?
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Honey, she doesn't hate my guts.
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Then what's the deal?
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STEVE [ON PHONE]: Brad?
- Steve?
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Yeah, Brad. What is the
holdup on the editorial?
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Look, I don't give
a damn. Just run it.
250
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You do not answer to him.
You answer to me, you got that?
251
00:16:04,197 --> 00:16:06,428
And we're running
that piece tonight.
252
00:16:10,236 --> 00:16:12,398
No. No, no, I wanna
see the whole page.
253
00:16:12,572 --> 00:16:14,541
Just fax it here
as soon as it's set.
254
00:16:14,707 --> 00:16:18,007
Well, that's why the paper's
paying you the big bucks, isn't it?
255
00:16:26,118 --> 00:16:27,518
CLIFF: Well, Ben just called.
256
00:16:27,687 --> 00:16:28,916
He talked to the DA,
257
00:16:29,088 --> 00:16:30,750
and he should be here
in about 15 minutes.
258
00:16:30,923 --> 00:16:32,083
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
259
00:16:32,225 --> 00:16:34,854
- You sure I can't get you something?
- Oh, no, thanks. I'm fine.
260
00:16:35,027 --> 00:16:36,723
You've got a nice
house here, Mr. Lewis.
261
00:16:36,896 --> 00:16:39,388
Yes, I do, don't I? It's a
real nice house. Heh, heh.
262
00:16:39,565 --> 00:16:42,626
Most people would pay a
fortune to own a place like this.
263
00:16:42,802 --> 00:16:44,896
Yes, sir, a real fortune.
264
00:16:45,071 --> 00:16:49,167
I'm a fair man, but when
something is of value, I...
265
00:16:49,342 --> 00:16:51,709
Have you ever heard the
expression don't count your chickens
266
00:16:51,878 --> 00:16:54,313
- before they're hatched?
- Clarence Litton's a billionaire.
267
00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,540
Think he's gonna miss
a measly 500 grand?
268
00:16:56,716 --> 00:16:58,446
Five hundred grand?
What are you, nuts?
269
00:16:58,618 --> 00:17:00,678
The man's rich.
That's peanuts to him.
270
00:17:00,853 --> 00:17:02,493
I can't talk to you
when you're like this.
271
00:17:02,622 --> 00:17:05,148
- Like what?
- Delusional.
272
00:17:25,444 --> 00:17:27,606
JERRI: Stop that hat!
273
00:17:34,153 --> 00:17:36,145
Oh, thanks.
274
00:17:36,322 --> 00:17:37,381
Thanks.
275
00:17:37,557 --> 00:17:39,549
Thought I was gonna
wind up swimming for it.
276
00:17:39,725 --> 00:17:42,325
Then you would've had your hands
full because I'm a lousy swimmer.
277
00:17:42,461 --> 00:17:45,056
You need to get one of those
strings that ties under your chin.
278
00:17:45,231 --> 00:17:47,257
- Or a smaller hat.
- Or a bigger head.
279
00:17:47,433 --> 00:17:48,696
[LAUGHS]
280
00:17:48,868 --> 00:17:50,988
You always dress like this
when you come to the beach?
281
00:17:51,137 --> 00:17:53,436
Yeah, you never know
who you're gonna meet.
282
00:17:54,140 --> 00:17:55,506
I'm Jerri Stone.
283
00:17:55,875 --> 00:17:57,741
Cliff Lewis.
284
00:17:58,544 --> 00:18:01,571
- So do you live around here?
- No, Atlanta, actually.
285
00:18:01,747 --> 00:18:04,342
I'm just here helping
my father sell a house.
286
00:18:04,517 --> 00:18:06,076
It's down there.
287
00:18:06,252 --> 00:18:08,448
- On the beach?
- Yeah.
288
00:18:08,621 --> 00:18:10,419
I've always wanted a
house on the beach.
289
00:18:10,590 --> 00:18:13,958
Oh, you wouldn't want that
one. It's got a lot of problems.
290
00:18:14,126 --> 00:18:15,754
How much is he asking for it?
291
00:18:15,928 --> 00:18:19,888
Well, if my father was a
normal person, he'd ask 375.
292
00:18:20,066 --> 00:18:21,986
That way, you know, he
could pay off the mortgage
293
00:18:22,134 --> 00:18:24,228
and have a little
leftover to put in the bank.
294
00:18:24,403 --> 00:18:29,307
But since my father is my
father, he wants way too much.
295
00:18:29,475 --> 00:18:32,138
- Way too much?
- Way too much.
296
00:18:32,311 --> 00:18:35,713
So, what do you do?
297
00:18:35,881 --> 00:18:37,372
I'm a nurse.
298
00:18:37,550 --> 00:18:39,849
In fact, my shift
starts in an hour.
299
00:18:40,019 --> 00:18:41,681
I'm gonna have to go.
300
00:18:42,154 --> 00:18:44,282
- Thanks for saving my hat.
- You're welcome.
301
00:18:44,957 --> 00:18:47,392
- Nice meeting you.
- Nice meeting you.
302
00:18:48,894 --> 00:18:50,726
Is that Jerri with a J or a G?
303
00:18:52,632 --> 00:18:53,691
J.
304
00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:58,967
I thought maybe, you know, I
might give you a call sometime.
305
00:18:59,905 --> 00:19:01,737
That'd be nice.
306
00:19:17,556 --> 00:19:19,218
I have to stay in
town indefinitely
307
00:19:19,392 --> 00:19:21,623
just because some
deputy DA has trouble
308
00:19:21,794 --> 00:19:23,160
with some gangster's phone bill?
309
00:19:23,329 --> 00:19:25,093
That's crazy.
310
00:19:25,531 --> 00:19:27,159
Well, Peter Haskins
hasn't had a chance
311
00:19:27,333 --> 00:19:29,131
to prosecute somebody
famous before,
312
00:19:29,301 --> 00:19:31,361
so I guess he figures the
bigger he makes the case,
313
00:19:31,537 --> 00:19:32,800
the bigger office he'll get.
314
00:19:32,972 --> 00:19:35,271
I have to get back to
Atlanta. I'm on a deadline.
315
00:19:36,542 --> 00:19:39,034
You've been saying that as
far back as I can remember.
316
00:19:39,211 --> 00:19:40,907
Well, it goes
with the territory.
317
00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,606
I thought it'd change when
you married your editor.
318
00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:45,242
Well, it didn't.
319
00:19:47,853 --> 00:19:50,118
Well, do you see
Brad at all anymore?
320
00:19:50,289 --> 00:19:51,552
No.
321
00:19:51,724 --> 00:19:54,489
He's pretty busy now
that he's editor in chief.
322
00:19:54,660 --> 00:19:58,097
I have seen Carrie, though,
right here in Wilmington.
323
00:19:58,264 --> 00:20:00,358
She and Brad are spending
the summer at our...
324
00:20:00,533 --> 00:20:03,560
His beach house in Castle Cove.
325
00:20:03,736 --> 00:20:05,068
You should drop
by and say hello.
326
00:20:05,237 --> 00:20:06,237
Maybe I will.
327
00:20:06,405 --> 00:20:08,237
[PHONE RINGS]
328
00:20:10,910 --> 00:20:12,208
Hello?
329
00:20:14,580 --> 00:20:16,105
Yeah.
330
00:20:16,982 --> 00:20:18,507
Yeah.
331
00:20:20,019 --> 00:20:21,783
Yeah, okay, I see.
332
00:20:21,954 --> 00:20:23,081
Yeah.
333
00:20:23,255 --> 00:20:25,724
I understand.
Thanks for the call.
334
00:20:27,193 --> 00:20:28,320
That was Mr. Haskins.
335
00:20:28,494 --> 00:20:31,794
He's found another
inconsistency in your story.
336
00:20:31,964 --> 00:20:33,330
Now what?
337
00:20:33,499 --> 00:20:36,901
Well, how did you say you got
into Adam Easley's room that night?
338
00:20:37,069 --> 00:20:40,597
I've already told them that. I
knocked on the door and he let me in.
339
00:20:40,940 --> 00:20:44,433
Well, the police have found somebody
who says that's not quite the case.
340
00:20:45,544 --> 00:20:47,479
- Who?
- Ten-year-old boy,
341
00:20:47,646 --> 00:20:48,807
staying across the hall.
342
00:20:48,981 --> 00:20:51,450
He said he saw you
enter Adam Easley's room.
343
00:20:51,617 --> 00:20:52,641
But you didn't knock.
344
00:20:52,818 --> 00:20:55,481
Walked right in, and there
was no sign of Mr. Easley.
345
00:20:55,654 --> 00:20:57,145
Well, he's wrong.
346
00:20:57,323 --> 00:21:00,919
I mean, come on,
a 10-year-old kid?
347
00:21:01,093 --> 00:21:04,393
He was probably so thrilled
to be talking to real-live cops
348
00:21:04,563 --> 00:21:06,243
that he'd say anything
they wanted to hear.
349
00:21:06,398 --> 00:21:08,765
It happens all the time, Ben.
350
00:21:08,934 --> 00:21:12,871
Well, all I can tell you is
Mr. Haskins believes him,
351
00:21:13,038 --> 00:21:14,158
and he thinks you're a liar.
352
00:21:14,707 --> 00:21:17,541
You lied about
Mr. Easley and Mr. Baron,
353
00:21:17,710 --> 00:21:19,030
the telephone
call, and now this.
354
00:21:19,612 --> 00:21:20,978
I didn't lie, Ben.
355
00:21:21,547 --> 00:21:22,606
He thinks you did.
356
00:21:42,134 --> 00:21:43,966
CLIFF: Thank you very much.
357
00:21:50,643 --> 00:21:52,544
LITTON: Mr. Lewis.
358
00:21:52,711 --> 00:21:56,204
- It's a pleasure to meet you.
- Feeling's mutual.
359
00:21:56,382 --> 00:21:59,011
This here is my
son, the lawyer, Cliff.
360
00:21:59,185 --> 00:22:01,586
- Yes, of course. How are you?
- Very fine, thank you.
361
00:22:01,754 --> 00:22:02,847
Well, please, have a seat.
362
00:22:03,022 --> 00:22:04,902
I take it Evelyn offered
you something to drink.
363
00:22:05,057 --> 00:22:06,923
Yeah, but I told her no.
364
00:22:07,092 --> 00:22:08,788
Told her we were
here to talk business,
365
00:22:08,961 --> 00:22:10,088
not to have a tea party.
366
00:22:10,262 --> 00:22:11,525
[LITTON LAUGHS]
367
00:22:11,697 --> 00:22:13,666
Well, I like your
attitude, Mr. Lewis.
368
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,468
I also like your house.
369
00:22:16,635 --> 00:22:20,970
So do I. Got a lot
of sentimental value.
370
00:22:21,140 --> 00:22:24,338
Used to belong to
my dear sister Lucy.
371
00:22:24,510 --> 00:22:26,843
She owned that house
for less than six months
372
00:22:27,012 --> 00:22:28,207
before she passed away.
373
00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:31,908
But those were the happiest
six months of her life.
374
00:22:32,151 --> 00:22:33,915
She loved that house.
375
00:22:34,420 --> 00:22:38,414
The idea of somebody tearing it
down just to build something else
376
00:22:38,591 --> 00:22:44,553
like, say, a big fancy hotel...
377
00:22:45,431 --> 00:22:47,491
It would've broken her heart.
378
00:22:47,666 --> 00:22:49,635
Oh, I don't know.
379
00:22:50,102 --> 00:22:53,004
I'll bet that if I had made her the
offer that I'm about to make you,
380
00:22:53,172 --> 00:22:56,574
she would've gotten
used to the idea in no time.
381
00:23:00,846 --> 00:23:05,580
Here's what I'm prepared to
give you for that house, Mr. Lewis.
382
00:23:16,028 --> 00:23:18,896
Five hundred and
five thousand dollars?
383
00:23:19,064 --> 00:23:20,464
Yep.
384
00:23:21,133 --> 00:23:23,125
- I don't believe
it. CLIFF: Oh, no.
385
00:23:23,636 --> 00:23:25,400
This is the part
you won't believe.
386
00:23:26,272 --> 00:23:28,070
I turned them down.
387
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,106
MATLOCK: You turned them down?
388
00:23:30,276 --> 00:23:33,269
Come on, that's just
their first offer, Ben.
389
00:23:33,445 --> 00:23:35,437
They're bound to go higher.
390
00:23:35,614 --> 00:23:38,846
Even a country bumpkin
like you ought to know that.
391
00:23:39,018 --> 00:23:42,011
[LAUGHING]
392
00:23:43,522 --> 00:23:45,991
[BILLY CONTINUES LAUGHING]
393
00:23:50,195 --> 00:23:52,164
To be honest with
you, I wasn't totally sure
394
00:23:52,331 --> 00:23:54,323
I could make that
murder one charge stick,
395
00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:56,162
even with the kid's testimony.
396
00:23:56,335 --> 00:23:58,304
But now that I've read
that Forensics report,
397
00:23:58,470 --> 00:23:59,995
there's not a doubt in my mind.
398
00:24:00,172 --> 00:24:03,165
Well, I don't see anything
so earth-shattering here.
399
00:24:04,043 --> 00:24:05,067
According to your client,
400
00:24:05,244 --> 00:24:07,084
Adam Easley hit her on
the head with the phone.
401
00:24:07,246 --> 00:24:09,738
- Right.
- Well, according to that report,
402
00:24:09,915 --> 00:24:12,043
only the fingerprints of
Adam Easley's right hand
403
00:24:12,217 --> 00:24:13,297
were found on the receiver.
404
00:24:13,452 --> 00:24:16,149
Thing about it is Adam
Easley was left-handed.
405
00:24:16,322 --> 00:24:18,348
Oh, come on. They
were struggling.
406
00:24:18,524 --> 00:24:20,857
Maybe he had to hold
her arm with his left hand
407
00:24:21,026 --> 00:24:23,655
and pick up the phone with
his right. He just had two.
408
00:24:23,829 --> 00:24:26,799
Maybe. But then there's the
matter of Miss Barrett's fingerprints.
409
00:24:26,966 --> 00:24:29,046
- What about them?
- If you'll turn to the next page,
410
00:24:29,201 --> 00:24:32,399
you'll see they were found on
virtually every object in that motel room.
411
00:24:32,571 --> 00:24:34,437
Which just does not
square with her contention
412
00:24:34,606 --> 00:24:37,446
she was there for a very brief
period of time before killing Mr. Easley.
413
00:24:37,576 --> 00:24:39,216
There was a commotion.
He was throwing her
414
00:24:39,345 --> 00:24:40,865
from one side of
the room to the other.
415
00:24:41,013 --> 00:24:43,013
Of course her fingerprints
were all over the place.
416
00:24:43,182 --> 00:24:44,912
Your client is
lying, Mr. Matlock.
417
00:24:45,084 --> 00:24:48,248
And the clincher is right
there on the next page.
418
00:24:50,189 --> 00:24:52,181
What next page?
419
00:25:09,274 --> 00:25:11,869
It's actually something the
investigating officer picked up
420
00:25:12,044 --> 00:25:13,979
on the night of the murder.
421
00:25:16,715 --> 00:25:21,210
Sure would like to be a fly on the wall
when Miss Barrett tries to explain that.
422
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,457
I scratched him
during the fight.
423
00:25:30,629 --> 00:25:32,928
He grabbed me, and
he started slapping me,
424
00:25:33,098 --> 00:25:36,535
and I remember raking
my fingers down his face.
425
00:25:36,702 --> 00:25:39,365
And then I made a run for
the door when he let me go.
426
00:25:39,538 --> 00:25:42,064
Mr. Haskins just showed me
a police report that indicates
427
00:25:42,241 --> 00:25:45,268
the scratch marks went up
Adam Easley's face, not down.
428
00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:48,612
- What?
- His skin was curled up
429
00:25:48,781 --> 00:25:50,875
near his cheek,
not down by his jaw.
430
00:25:51,050 --> 00:25:52,916
Somebody went like
that instead of like that:
431
00:25:55,054 --> 00:25:57,353
I just remember clawing at him.
432
00:25:57,523 --> 00:26:00,584
I guess my fingers could
have gone up instead of down.
433
00:26:01,026 --> 00:26:05,225
Ellen, the man was a good
6, 8 inches taller than you.
434
00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:06,695
It'd be next to impossible.
435
00:26:06,999 --> 00:26:09,833
I don't care. That's
what happened.
436
00:26:10,636 --> 00:26:13,697
The police think that
you scratched his face
437
00:26:13,872 --> 00:26:16,068
after he was dead.
438
00:26:16,642 --> 00:26:18,304
Now, why would I wanna do that?
439
00:26:18,477 --> 00:26:20,912
To claim self-defense
instead of murder.
440
00:26:21,346 --> 00:26:24,646
I didn't even know Adam Easley.
Why would I wanna kill him?
441
00:26:24,817 --> 00:26:26,376
I don't know.
442
00:26:26,618 --> 00:26:28,382
Mr. Haskins
wants to talk to you.
443
00:26:29,154 --> 00:26:31,453
Talk to me or arrest me?
444
00:26:33,192 --> 00:26:34,854
I'll go with you.
445
00:26:35,027 --> 00:26:36,620
Might as well get it over with.
446
00:26:51,210 --> 00:26:52,644
JERRI: Mm.
447
00:26:52,811 --> 00:26:54,643
Good choice.
448
00:26:55,013 --> 00:26:57,505
CLIFF: I cannot believe
that I bumped into you again.
449
00:27:00,419 --> 00:27:01,682
You look really nice.
450
00:27:02,020 --> 00:27:03,454
Thank you. So do you.
451
00:27:03,956 --> 00:27:05,447
Thank you.
452
00:27:06,558 --> 00:27:08,823
So, uh, how's the
nursing business?
453
00:27:08,994 --> 00:27:12,658
Well, I'm on a floor with 47
patients and two nurses, so it's busy.
454
00:27:12,831 --> 00:27:14,766
- Yeah.
- What have you been up to?
455
00:27:15,334 --> 00:27:17,326
Oh, arguing with my pop mostly.
456
00:27:17,936 --> 00:27:19,029
Did he sell the house yet?
457
00:27:19,204 --> 00:27:22,436
Oh, remember how I told you that
he wanted too much money for it?
458
00:27:22,608 --> 00:27:25,874
- Yeah.
- Well, they offered him $505,000.
459
00:27:26,044 --> 00:27:27,273
You're kidding.
460
00:27:27,446 --> 00:27:29,506
- And he turned them down.
- You're kidding.
461
00:27:29,681 --> 00:27:32,048
No, he figured that if the buyer
wanted the house bad enough
462
00:27:32,217 --> 00:27:34,880
to offer him that much money,
he was bound to offer more.
463
00:27:35,053 --> 00:27:37,022
Well, how high does
he think the guy will go?
464
00:27:37,189 --> 00:27:38,452
Oh, he didn't say.
465
00:27:38,857 --> 00:27:40,826
My dad is, um...
466
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,759
Well, I can't imagine that
they'd go much more than 6.
467
00:27:44,930 --> 00:27:47,090
So if they make another
offer and it's anywhere near 6,
468
00:27:47,232 --> 00:27:49,565
I'm gonna lock him in
the room until he takes it.
469
00:27:49,735 --> 00:27:51,499
I don't blame you.
That's a lot of money.
470
00:27:52,271 --> 00:27:54,638
- It's a lot of money.
- Yeah.
471
00:27:59,111 --> 00:28:01,671
I'm really glad you
didn't have to work today.
472
00:28:03,448 --> 00:28:04,848
Me too.
473
00:28:05,651 --> 00:28:06,914
Oh, yuck.
474
00:28:07,085 --> 00:28:09,281
- Oh, does that stain?
- Oh, yeah.
475
00:28:09,454 --> 00:28:11,514
I'd better go home and
see if I can get this out.
476
00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:13,170
Oh, well, do you
want me to drive you?
477
00:28:13,325 --> 00:28:15,085
No, that's okay. My
car's right out in front.
478
00:28:15,227 --> 00:28:17,423
Well, it's not a problem.
I don't mind driving.
479
00:28:17,596 --> 00:28:19,929
We'll have to do this
some other time. I'm sorry.
480
00:28:20,098 --> 00:28:22,124
I'll see you later.
481
00:28:23,101 --> 00:28:24,660
Pardon me.
482
00:28:35,948 --> 00:28:37,416
Hi.
483
00:28:37,716 --> 00:28:39,947
Hi. What are you doing here?
484
00:28:40,452 --> 00:28:41,613
Eating.
485
00:28:42,254 --> 00:28:43,722
You're spying on me.
486
00:28:44,890 --> 00:28:46,882
Well, yeah.
487
00:28:47,826 --> 00:28:52,230
- What happened?
- Oh, she spilled wine on her skirt.
488
00:28:52,431 --> 00:28:54,161
Is she coming back?
489
00:28:54,566 --> 00:28:55,727
Probably not.
490
00:28:56,368 --> 00:28:58,701
Well, you'll see her again.
491
00:28:59,071 --> 00:29:00,437
Why do you say that?
492
00:29:01,773 --> 00:29:03,036
I don't know.
493
00:29:03,208 --> 00:29:05,768
Maybe I'm a mind
reader. Just a feeling.
494
00:29:07,913 --> 00:29:09,779
Don't look so sad.
495
00:29:16,221 --> 00:29:18,656
Of course there
are no hard feelings.
496
00:29:18,824 --> 00:29:21,555
I'm a businessman
too, don't forget.
497
00:29:22,227 --> 00:29:26,597
Yes, Mr. Lewis, I'll make sure
they validate your parking this time.
498
00:29:27,532 --> 00:29:29,000
Good.
499
00:29:29,201 --> 00:29:32,365
Well, I'll see you and your
son here tomorrow at 3.
500
00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:34,470
Okay, bye.
501
00:29:37,876 --> 00:29:39,970
You sure about this?
502
00:29:42,214 --> 00:29:44,774
You offer them
anything over $600,000,
503
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:46,441
and I guarantee you
504
00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:49,110
Cliff will cram it down
his father's throat.
505
00:29:49,288 --> 00:29:50,368
LITTON: You better be right.
506
00:29:51,390 --> 00:29:53,985
It's bad enough I
have to deal with hicks,
507
00:29:54,159 --> 00:29:56,185
but when they start
one-upping me, I...
508
00:29:56,361 --> 00:29:58,728
Well, I just don't
like it, Miss Stone.
509
00:29:58,897 --> 00:30:00,798
I just don't like that at all.
510
00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:07,239
All of them said that they
were gonna pull their ads?
511
00:30:08,473 --> 00:30:10,032
- Unless we what? CARRIE: Dad?
512
00:30:10,208 --> 00:30:12,973
No, no, no, there's no way
in hell that I'm gonna do that.
513
00:30:13,145 --> 00:30:14,636
Forget about it.
514
00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:17,681
Yes, I realize that, but...
515
00:30:17,849 --> 00:30:19,647
Listen, uh, let
me think about it
516
00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:21,650
and I'll call you tomorrow,
okay? Okay, bye.
517
00:30:21,820 --> 00:30:24,790
- Hi.
- Frank. Ingrid. How are you doing?
518
00:30:24,956 --> 00:30:26,796
We're doing a lot better
than you are, I think.
519
00:30:26,958 --> 00:30:29,553
Oh, well, some of our
advertisers are taking issue
520
00:30:29,728 --> 00:30:31,848
with the pro-union editorials
I've been running, so...
521
00:30:31,963 --> 00:30:34,091
I didn't just hear the
U word, did I, Ingrid?
522
00:30:34,266 --> 00:30:35,757
Cover your ears, darling.
523
00:30:35,934 --> 00:30:38,335
Frank contends that if
his mills ever went union,
524
00:30:38,503 --> 00:30:39,983
he'd be out of
business within a week.
525
00:30:40,138 --> 00:30:41,936
[GIGGLES]
526
00:30:42,107 --> 00:30:43,871
That's not so bad,
Frank. Think about it.
527
00:30:44,042 --> 00:30:45,602
All the water skiing
you could get done.
528
00:30:45,744 --> 00:30:48,646
Hey, you ought to see my new
boat. You saw it, didn't you, Carrie?
529
00:30:48,814 --> 00:30:51,875
- Oh, yeah, it's beautiful. FRANK:
Come on over, go for a spin.
530
00:30:52,050 --> 00:30:54,530
I'm taking her to the lake
tomorrow. It'll be your last chance.
531
00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:55,710
Yes, come over.
532
00:30:55,887 --> 00:30:59,016
I'll put on some steaks and
we'll all four have a barbecue.
533
00:30:59,191 --> 00:31:01,126
Except I don't have
anything to make salad with.
534
00:31:01,293 --> 00:31:03,888
Or any bread. And
we're all out of chips.
535
00:31:04,062 --> 00:31:06,224
Be a dear and go raid
the refrigerator, would you?
536
00:31:06,398 --> 00:31:07,889
Sure.
537
00:31:09,334 --> 00:31:14,272
Kids like her almost, almost
make me wanna have one.
538
00:31:14,439 --> 00:31:17,238
How are things between
Carrie and Ellen?
539
00:31:17,943 --> 00:31:21,072
Oh, well, it's difficult.
540
00:31:21,246 --> 00:31:25,308
Do you suppose there's something
Frank and I can do for Ellen?
541
00:31:25,917 --> 00:31:27,681
Well, I don't think so.
542
00:31:27,853 --> 00:31:29,549
Especially now.
543
00:31:29,721 --> 00:31:31,417
What do you mean?
544
00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:36,954
They just announced on the news.
545
00:31:37,763 --> 00:31:39,732
She's been arrested.
546
00:31:40,198 --> 00:31:41,791
For murder.
547
00:31:44,770 --> 00:31:47,115
LITTON: Well, you're quite
right about one thing, Mr. Lewis.
548
00:31:47,139 --> 00:31:48,163
I wanna buy your house
549
00:31:48,340 --> 00:31:51,071
because I wanna tear it
down and build a hotel there.
550
00:31:51,243 --> 00:31:55,010
But if you're assuming that I'll
pay any amount of money to do so,
551
00:31:55,180 --> 00:31:56,409
you're quite wrong.
552
00:31:56,581 --> 00:32:00,575
Because I operate on a
budget like everyone else.
553
00:32:00,752 --> 00:32:04,780
And this, therefore, must
be considered my final offer.
554
00:32:07,959 --> 00:32:11,293
Six hundred and
twenty thousand dollars.
555
00:32:11,463 --> 00:32:12,692
We'll take it.
556
00:32:12,864 --> 00:32:14,389
Right, Pop?
557
00:32:14,566 --> 00:32:15,966
Pop?
558
00:32:17,169 --> 00:32:19,604
- Come on, son, let's go.
- Oh, hold on.
559
00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:22,741
You just have to sign on the
line. Someone give him a pen.
560
00:32:22,908 --> 00:32:26,242
BILLY: I'm not gonna sign that.
CLIFF: He just offered you $620,000.
561
00:32:26,411 --> 00:32:27,470
I heard him.
562
00:32:27,646 --> 00:32:29,945
- Let's go.
- I'm not gonna let you do this now.
563
00:32:30,115 --> 00:32:33,882
Why don't we just leave you
two alone so you can talk it over?
564
00:32:34,052 --> 00:32:35,111
No need for talk.
565
00:32:35,287 --> 00:32:37,256
I'm not taking less
than 800 and that's final.
566
00:32:37,422 --> 00:32:38,583
Eight hundred?
567
00:32:38,757 --> 00:32:41,022
- And I want the mortgage paid off too.
- What?
568
00:32:41,193 --> 00:32:43,253
Not only does that
go beyond my budget,
569
00:32:43,428 --> 00:32:45,829
it goes beyond common sense.
570
00:32:45,997 --> 00:32:48,796
I'm afraid we have nothing more
to say to each other, Mr. Lewis.
571
00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:50,966
These things happen.
572
00:32:52,671 --> 00:32:53,730
Get out the parking ticket
573
00:32:53,905 --> 00:32:56,739
so what's-her-name
out there can validate it.
574
00:32:59,544 --> 00:33:02,776
- Seven hundred thousand.
- Seven seventy-five.
575
00:33:02,948 --> 00:33:06,043
LITTON: Seven fifty. BILLY:
Plus 350 for the mortgage.
576
00:33:07,452 --> 00:33:09,318
Plus 350 for the mortgage.
577
00:33:10,489 --> 00:33:12,720
Now, you draw
that up and I'll sign it.
578
00:33:12,891 --> 00:33:13,984
[BILLY CHUCKLES]
579
00:33:14,159 --> 00:33:16,628
Sit down, son, before you fall.
580
00:33:19,664 --> 00:33:22,828
One point one million dollars?
581
00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:25,698
That's right, Ben. You're
looking at a millionaire.
582
00:33:25,871 --> 00:33:28,670
Pop called his bluff,
the guy fell for it. I...
583
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,605
Any idea what yachts
go for these days?
584
00:33:31,776 --> 00:33:34,371
Oh, what do you
care? You get seasick.
585
00:33:34,546 --> 00:33:38,381
I'll just get me a gross of those little
patches you stick behind your ear,
586
00:33:38,550 --> 00:33:41,577
and I'll be all set. Ha-ha-ha.
587
00:33:42,187 --> 00:33:45,089
Wonder what Dora-Dora's
like this time of year.
588
00:33:45,257 --> 00:33:46,725
That's Bora-Bora, Pop.
589
00:33:46,892 --> 00:33:48,827
[DOORBELL CHIMES]
590
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:50,958
I'll get it.
591
00:33:56,835 --> 00:34:00,966
- Hi.
- Hi, Jerri, what are you doing here?
592
00:34:01,139 --> 00:34:03,768
- Can I talk to you?
- Yeah, yeah, come in. Sure.
593
00:34:03,942 --> 00:34:06,002
Of course you can. Come on in.
594
00:34:06,311 --> 00:34:09,645
Um, Ben, Dad,
this is Jerri Stone.
595
00:34:09,814 --> 00:34:14,013
Jerri Stone, this is Ben Matlock
and my father, Billy Lewis.
596
00:34:14,185 --> 00:34:16,518
I know who you are, Mr. Lewis.
597
00:34:16,688 --> 00:34:18,714
That's why I'm here.
598
00:34:19,824 --> 00:34:22,020
I'm not a nurse.
599
00:34:22,327 --> 00:34:24,296
I'm a private investigator.
600
00:34:24,462 --> 00:34:26,363
Clarence Litton
wanted me to find out
601
00:34:26,531 --> 00:34:28,693
how much you expected
to get for this house.
602
00:34:28,867 --> 00:34:30,495
Everything I did was on purpose.
603
00:34:30,669 --> 00:34:32,831
Running into you on the beach
604
00:34:33,004 --> 00:34:35,803
and then finding out how things
stood at the restaurant last night.
605
00:34:36,441 --> 00:34:37,465
You told?
606
00:34:37,642 --> 00:34:38,905
JERRI: It's okay.
607
00:34:39,744 --> 00:34:41,940
You're an unusual
man, Mr. Lewis.
608
00:34:42,747 --> 00:34:46,445
All of the information that I gave to
Mr. Litton turned out to be useless.
609
00:34:47,018 --> 00:34:48,748
Well, that's why he canned me.
610
00:34:49,588 --> 00:34:53,389
But you know what? I don't
mind because you're nice people.
611
00:34:54,859 --> 00:34:57,328
I started feeling bad
about the whole thing,
612
00:34:57,495 --> 00:35:00,226
and I just wanted to apologize.
613
00:35:00,732 --> 00:35:02,462
Especially to you.
614
00:35:02,634 --> 00:35:03,727
I'm sorry.
615
00:35:07,706 --> 00:35:09,436
That's all right.
616
00:35:09,641 --> 00:35:12,110
I've had to do some
underhanded things myself for Ben.
617
00:35:12,277 --> 00:35:14,678
I've never asked you to
do anything underhanded.
618
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,010
- Sneaky?
- Sneaky, maybe,
619
00:35:17,182 --> 00:35:18,343
but not underhanded.
620
00:35:19,217 --> 00:35:20,810
Sneaky.
621
00:35:21,586 --> 00:35:22,918
Well, I gotta go.
622
00:35:23,088 --> 00:35:26,923
Hey, congratulations on
sticking it to old Litton like that.
623
00:35:27,092 --> 00:35:28,958
He thought you
were just a dumb hick.
624
00:35:29,794 --> 00:35:31,194
I know.
625
00:35:32,397 --> 00:35:34,957
- Bye.
- Bye.
626
00:35:41,373 --> 00:35:42,898
Classy lady.
627
00:35:43,074 --> 00:35:44,940
Got guts too.
628
00:35:45,110 --> 00:35:47,875
Too bad she can't hold a job.
629
00:35:54,386 --> 00:35:57,413
JUDGE: Bail is at set $250,000.
630
00:35:57,589 --> 00:35:58,613
As for the trial,
631
00:35:59,190 --> 00:36:01,955
it will commence the
third of next month
632
00:36:02,127 --> 00:36:03,595
at 9 a.m. in this courtroom.
633
00:36:04,996 --> 00:36:07,261
Court is adjourned till 2:00.
634
00:36:07,432 --> 00:36:08,900
This is weird.
635
00:36:09,067 --> 00:36:13,095
I've been a spectator in court a
hundred times, but sitting here...
636
00:36:13,505 --> 00:36:16,600
There were a couple dozen
reporters outside when I came in.
637
00:36:16,775 --> 00:36:18,368
You might wanna go
down the back stairs.
638
00:36:18,543 --> 00:36:20,263
- I know that's what I'm gonna do.
- Thanks.
639
00:36:20,712 --> 00:36:23,841
Figure why make their jobs,
such as they are, any easier.
640
00:36:24,015 --> 00:36:26,348
I hate reporters.
641
00:36:26,518 --> 00:36:27,781
[ELLEN CHUCKLES]
642
00:36:29,754 --> 00:36:31,552
Ellen. Yoo-hoo!
643
00:36:31,723 --> 00:36:34,022
ELLEN: Ingrid.
- Oh, how are you, dear?
644
00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:35,990
We have been so
worried about you.
645
00:36:36,161 --> 00:36:38,221
- Hello, Ellen.
- Frank, hi.
646
00:36:38,396 --> 00:36:39,756
Ben Matlock, these
are my friends,
647
00:36:39,898 --> 00:36:41,258
- Frank and Ingrid Jefferies.
- Hi.
648
00:36:41,399 --> 00:36:42,479
- Hello.
- Nice to meet you.
649
00:36:42,634 --> 00:36:44,728
Are you gonna be able to
raise all that bail money?
650
00:36:44,903 --> 00:36:46,703
- Because...
- Oh, I can handle it. Thank you.
651
00:36:46,805 --> 00:36:48,885
- Thanks for offering.
- Real reason why we came here
652
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,441
is because we heard you're
staying in some dreadful hotel.
653
00:36:51,609 --> 00:36:52,804
Oh, well, I've been in worse.
654
00:36:52,977 --> 00:36:55,742
Well, we think you
should stay with us.
655
00:36:55,914 --> 00:36:58,611
You'd be near Carrie, and
she's very worried about you.
656
00:36:58,783 --> 00:37:00,945
- Oh, it's tempting.
- We've got an extra bedroom.
657
00:37:01,119 --> 00:37:03,884
- It seems a shame to waste it.
- Actually, it's his idea.
658
00:37:04,055 --> 00:37:06,889
- Then I accept.
- Great.
659
00:37:08,026 --> 00:37:10,359
[CAR HORN HONKING]
660
00:37:16,167 --> 00:37:17,328
[CAR HORN CONTINUES HONKING]
661
00:37:17,502 --> 00:37:21,064
- What's making all that racket?
- I don't know.
662
00:37:41,326 --> 00:37:43,227
BILLY: Couldn't decide
between red and white
663
00:37:43,394 --> 00:37:45,022
so I got black.
664
00:37:45,196 --> 00:37:47,097
Wanna go for a ride?
665
00:37:47,265 --> 00:37:49,325
MATLOCK: Where did
you...? BILLY: From the bank.
666
00:37:49,701 --> 00:37:51,602
Sold a house. Collateral.
667
00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:53,898
They couldn't loan me
the money fast enough.
668
00:37:54,072 --> 00:37:56,667
Pop, deals on houses
fall through every day.
669
00:37:56,841 --> 00:37:58,707
Oh, take that
apron off and get in.
670
00:37:58,877 --> 00:38:01,437
What's he got you doing
now? Baking cookies?
671
00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:03,605
- No, we're making a stew.
- Billy.
672
00:38:03,882 --> 00:38:05,544
Jealous, huh?
673
00:38:05,717 --> 00:38:06,844
No, I'm not jealous.
674
00:38:07,018 --> 00:38:09,419
You liked it when I had to
come crawling to you all the time
675
00:38:09,587 --> 00:38:11,613
- to borrow money, didn't you?
- Are you crazy?
676
00:38:11,790 --> 00:38:15,192
Ah! The worm has turned,
and you can't stand it.
677
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,761
I'm just afraid the worm's
gonna do something stupid.
678
00:38:21,733 --> 00:38:24,862
[SINGING] I'm looking
over a four-leafed clover
679
00:38:25,036 --> 00:38:28,700
That I overlooked before
680
00:38:36,247 --> 00:38:38,409
Think it's hereditary?
681
00:39:07,512 --> 00:39:09,105
Come on.
682
00:39:15,053 --> 00:39:16,954
WOMAN 1: Be careful. Stand back.
683
00:39:17,121 --> 00:39:20,956
- Come on, get the hose.
MAN: I told you to get the hose.
684
00:39:25,797 --> 00:39:27,197
WOMAN 2: Hey!
685
00:39:27,365 --> 00:39:31,200
[ALL SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
686
00:39:34,639 --> 00:39:36,767
Mm. Mm.
687
00:39:36,941 --> 00:39:39,604
Give me one all the way.
688
00:39:39,777 --> 00:39:41,837
Wise choice, Mr. Matlock.
689
00:39:42,013 --> 00:39:43,379
- Oh, hi.
- Hi.
690
00:39:43,548 --> 00:39:46,177
- Mind if I join you?
- Well, sure.
691
00:39:46,351 --> 00:39:48,217
Uh, give me two,
please, with the works.
692
00:39:48,386 --> 00:39:50,218
And a bag of chips...
693
00:39:50,388 --> 00:39:52,823
- Two?
- And a root beer.
694
00:39:54,592 --> 00:39:58,154
- So got a couple minutes to talk?
- Sure.
695
00:39:58,329 --> 00:40:00,129
- I was wondering...
HASKINS: Oh, Mr. Matlock.
696
00:40:00,632 --> 00:40:02,123
I was just about to call you.
697
00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:05,759
- Excuse us for a moment?
- Sure.
698
00:40:10,775 --> 00:40:14,177
I've been talking to the police
up in Wallace all morning long.
699
00:40:14,345 --> 00:40:16,837
Someone tried to burn
Adam Easley's house down.
700
00:40:17,015 --> 00:40:18,950
- What?
- Last night, about midnight.
701
00:40:19,117 --> 00:40:22,178
Definitely arson, definitely
not a professional job.
702
00:40:22,353 --> 00:40:25,619
Made me think that maybe someone
who didn't have a lot of experience
703
00:40:25,790 --> 00:40:28,225
was trying to destroy
something inside the house.
704
00:40:29,460 --> 00:40:31,019
You talking about Ellen Barrett?
705
00:40:31,896 --> 00:40:33,364
Yes.
706
00:40:33,932 --> 00:40:35,924
So I had the police
search the house,
707
00:40:36,501 --> 00:40:38,436
and they found
something very curious.
708
00:40:38,603 --> 00:40:40,697
A book, written in Chinese,
709
00:40:40,872 --> 00:40:43,034
published in Shanghai
about 20 years ago
710
00:40:43,207 --> 00:40:44,732
titled Birth of a Criminal.
711
00:40:45,109 --> 00:40:47,203
Wasn't exactly a
bestseller even then.
712
00:40:47,378 --> 00:40:48,812
Almost impossible to get.
713
00:40:48,980 --> 00:40:51,950
And yet that's the only book
they found in that whole house.
714
00:40:52,483 --> 00:40:57,683
So I had somebody down at the
library do a quick translation, and bingo.
715
00:40:58,923 --> 00:41:01,791
Oh, sure. Keep right on going.
716
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,623
What do you care, jerk?
717
00:41:07,699 --> 00:41:09,292
- Where was I?
- Bingo.
718
00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:10,560
Oh, yeah.
719
00:41:10,735 --> 00:41:12,829
- Okay. Okay?
- Yeah, I guess so.
720
00:41:13,004 --> 00:41:18,375
The book chronicles the
life of a real-life serial killer
721
00:41:19,444 --> 00:41:22,312
from his childhood
right up to the execution.
722
00:41:23,514 --> 00:41:26,074
It sounded suspiciously
similar in theme
723
00:41:26,250 --> 00:41:28,913
to that series of articles your
client did for the Atlanta Herald
724
00:41:29,087 --> 00:41:31,079
that won her the Pulitzer Prize.
725
00:41:31,255 --> 00:41:32,484
So I compared the two.
726
00:41:33,624 --> 00:41:35,889
They're the same, Mr. Matlock.
727
00:41:36,961 --> 00:41:40,125
I finally have what
I've been looking for.
728
00:41:40,298 --> 00:41:41,994
Motive.
729
00:41:49,207 --> 00:41:50,334
Mr. Matlock.
730
00:41:53,444 --> 00:41:55,640
You forgot your hot dog.
731
00:41:57,815 --> 00:41:59,716
- What?
- I said where were you
732
00:41:59,884 --> 00:42:01,443
between 11 and 1 last night?
733
00:42:01,619 --> 00:42:03,986
I was right here, sleeping.
734
00:42:04,489 --> 00:42:06,856
- Where were you?
- We were sleeping too.
735
00:42:07,025 --> 00:42:09,017
- In another room.
- Of course.
736
00:42:09,193 --> 00:42:11,662
So you can't say for
sure where Ellen was.
737
00:42:11,829 --> 00:42:13,957
ELLEN: Ben, what's this about?
738
00:42:14,132 --> 00:42:17,569
Our friend Mr. Haskins
knows about the book.
739
00:42:17,735 --> 00:42:20,967
The police in Wallace retrieved
it from Adam Easley's house
740
00:42:21,139 --> 00:42:23,233
after you tried to
burn it down last night.
741
00:42:23,408 --> 00:42:26,378
I didn't burn down
anybody's house.
742
00:42:26,544 --> 00:42:28,104
Ellen, the district
attorney has motive.
743
00:42:28,279 --> 00:42:30,373
He's gonna contend that
you killed Adam Easley
744
00:42:30,548 --> 00:42:31,982
because he was blackmailing you.
745
00:42:32,150 --> 00:42:33,516
Because he knew
746
00:42:33,684 --> 00:42:37,485
the Pulitzer Prize-winning
articles of yours were all plagiarized.
747
00:42:37,655 --> 00:42:38,918
Plagiarized?
748
00:42:39,090 --> 00:42:40,850
Ben, please, could we
do this somewhere else?
749
00:42:40,992 --> 00:42:42,192
MATLOCK: What's the difference?
750
00:42:42,326 --> 00:42:44,659
By the end of the trial...
By the end of the day,
751
00:42:44,829 --> 00:42:46,092
everybody's gonna know.
752
00:42:46,264 --> 00:42:48,324
It's over, Ellen. So
how about the truth?
753
00:42:53,271 --> 00:42:54,864
[SIGHS]
754
00:42:55,406 --> 00:42:57,807
The DA's right about the book.
755
00:42:58,242 --> 00:43:00,711
But he's wrong about me.
I didn't kill Adam Easley,
756
00:43:00,878 --> 00:43:02,574
not in self-defense
or otherwise.
757
00:43:02,747 --> 00:43:04,477
He was already dead
when I got to his room.
758
00:43:04,649 --> 00:43:07,676
Well, why did you
say you killed him?
759
00:43:09,587 --> 00:43:10,714
I can't tell you that.
760
00:43:12,123 --> 00:43:13,455
How am I gonna defend you?
761
00:43:13,624 --> 00:43:14,956
Oh, Ben, come on.
762
00:43:15,126 --> 00:43:18,096
Clients lie to their lawyers
all the time. You know that.
763
00:43:18,262 --> 00:43:20,822
Besides, I'm not lying. I
just can't tell you everything.
764
00:43:21,933 --> 00:43:22,957
[SIGHS]
765
00:43:23,134 --> 00:43:24,693
Oh, Ben, come on, please.
766
00:43:24,869 --> 00:43:26,929
If you drop me, nobody
else is gonna touch me.
767
00:43:27,105 --> 00:43:28,505
I'll be convicted for sure.
768
00:43:31,843 --> 00:43:34,870
Ben, I didn't kill him.
769
00:43:52,763 --> 00:43:54,755
Well, nothing on the news.
770
00:43:55,633 --> 00:43:57,932
I guess the DA hasn't told
the press about the book.
771
00:43:58,102 --> 00:43:59,570
You know what I feel like doing?
772
00:43:59,737 --> 00:44:02,297
Remember when you and Brad
used to come over and we'd play bridge
773
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:03,464
out there, till dawn?
774
00:44:03,641 --> 00:44:05,940
- Ingrid, they're divorced.
- I know.
775
00:44:06,444 --> 00:44:09,437
But this morning in the store
when Frank was off skiing,
776
00:44:09,614 --> 00:44:13,244
I started talking to this really
nice, very nice-looking man
777
00:44:13,417 --> 00:44:15,886
about your age, and he
mentioned he plays bridge.
778
00:44:16,354 --> 00:44:17,434
So why don't I go call him?
779
00:44:17,588 --> 00:44:19,386
Now is not the time
to be fixing her up.
780
00:44:19,557 --> 00:44:22,117
Why not? Romance strikes
when you least expect it.
781
00:44:22,460 --> 00:44:23,860
She has other
things on her mind.
782
00:44:24,028 --> 00:44:25,908
And I'm trying to get
her mind off those things.
783
00:44:26,063 --> 00:44:28,897
I know you are, Ingrid. But I
kind of feel like being alone.
784
00:44:29,066 --> 00:44:31,262
I just think I'll take a
long walk on the beach.
785
00:44:31,435 --> 00:44:34,234
- Want some company?
- No, thanks.
786
00:44:35,673 --> 00:44:37,665
Don't wait up for me.
787
00:44:39,410 --> 00:44:43,506
- Oh, Ingrid.
- What was wrong with that?
788
00:45:37,101 --> 00:45:38,660
JERRI: Hello, Ellen.
789
00:45:39,270 --> 00:45:40,329
What you got there?
790
00:45:40,504 --> 00:45:41,972
Who the hell are you?
791
00:45:42,139 --> 00:45:44,819
- I'll explain to you in the car.
- I'm not going anywhere with you.
792
00:45:44,976 --> 00:45:46,842
Well, you know,
you got two choices.
793
00:45:47,011 --> 00:45:49,845
Either you can come with
me or we can call the cops.
794
00:45:50,014 --> 00:45:51,676
You decide.
795
00:46:00,925 --> 00:46:04,259
[HUMMING]
796
00:46:06,163 --> 00:46:07,859
[DOORBELL CHIMES]
797
00:46:16,107 --> 00:46:17,627
- Well, who's that?
- Probably somebody
798
00:46:17,775 --> 00:46:19,903
bringing your daddy
home in a straightjacket.
799
00:46:20,077 --> 00:46:21,170
- Hi.
- Hi.
800
00:46:21,345 --> 00:46:24,406
Mrs. Barrett would
like to talk to you.
801
00:46:25,116 --> 00:46:26,607
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
802
00:46:26,784 --> 00:46:28,150
- Bye.
- Okay, yeah.
803
00:46:31,289 --> 00:46:33,622
- What's that?
- It's blood.
804
00:46:33,791 --> 00:46:36,386
Let's sit down. This is
gonna be a long story.
805
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:37,994
Oh.
806
00:46:41,098 --> 00:46:44,796
After, uh, I wound
up winning the Pulitzer
807
00:46:44,969 --> 00:46:48,030
for those plagiarized
articles 15 years ago,
808
00:46:48,205 --> 00:46:50,174
my conscience
started bothering me,
809
00:46:50,341 --> 00:46:52,810
and eventually I told
Brad what I'd done.
810
00:46:53,344 --> 00:46:54,744
You were still married then?
811
00:46:54,912 --> 00:46:56,847
Yeah, and he was my editor.
812
00:46:57,014 --> 00:47:00,678
I never told anybody else, but
somehow someone found out,
813
00:47:00,851 --> 00:47:04,344
and a couple of weeks
ago, a man called Brad up
814
00:47:04,522 --> 00:47:06,787
and he said that he would
make what I had done public
815
00:47:06,957 --> 00:47:10,587
unless he was given $100,000.
816
00:47:10,761 --> 00:47:13,196
He said his name
was Adam Easley.
817
00:47:14,632 --> 00:47:17,761
I wonder why he put the
squeeze on Brad instead of you.
818
00:47:17,935 --> 00:47:19,870
Oh, maybe he thought
he had more money
819
00:47:20,037 --> 00:47:22,438
or more to lose or maybe both.
820
00:47:22,606 --> 00:47:24,234
I don't know.
821
00:47:24,575 --> 00:47:28,945
Anyway, Brad told me about the threat,
and he said that he'd take care of it.
822
00:47:29,113 --> 00:47:32,277
But knowing that Brad doesn't
have the stomach for such things,
823
00:47:32,450 --> 00:47:34,146
I got worried, and I...
824
00:47:34,318 --> 00:47:36,116
At the last minute I
thought that I would go
825
00:47:36,287 --> 00:47:39,382
and meet with this Easley too.
826
00:47:40,191 --> 00:47:43,252
I went to his room
and I knocked.
827
00:47:43,427 --> 00:47:45,896
When no one
answered, I tried the door.
828
00:47:46,063 --> 00:47:47,497
It was unlocked.
829
00:47:47,665 --> 00:47:51,399
I opened it, walked in,
830
00:47:51,569 --> 00:47:56,200
and there was Easley,
lying dead on the floor.
831
00:47:56,374 --> 00:47:57,774
The knife was next to him,
832
00:47:57,942 --> 00:48:01,003
and the briefcase
was underneath him.
833
00:48:01,178 --> 00:48:02,544
It was Brad's.
834
00:48:02,713 --> 00:48:06,377
I figured that Brad had
gone there, met with Easley,
835
00:48:06,550 --> 00:48:10,612
got mad, lost it,
and killed him.
836
00:48:10,788 --> 00:48:12,450
I knew that if Brad
were arrested,
837
00:48:12,623 --> 00:48:15,218
the plagiarism would come
out and we'd be ruined.
838
00:48:15,393 --> 00:48:17,885
Brad, me, Carrie, all of us.
839
00:48:18,062 --> 00:48:19,223
I see.
840
00:48:19,397 --> 00:48:23,027
So I decided to make
it look like I'd killed him.
841
00:48:23,701 --> 00:48:27,367
I went outside and I
buried the briefcase.
842
00:48:27,538 --> 00:48:29,404
It was empty.
843
00:48:29,573 --> 00:48:32,702
But I didn't want anything
of Brad's to be found.
844
00:48:32,877 --> 00:48:34,869
Then I went back to the room.
845
00:48:35,045 --> 00:48:37,708
I guess that's when
the boy saw me.
846
00:48:37,882 --> 00:48:40,242
JASON: No, I'm not gonna go!
ELLEN: And I called the police.
847
00:48:40,384 --> 00:48:42,429
MATLOCK: And then while you
were waiting for them to come,
848
00:48:42,453 --> 00:48:44,319
you staged the scene.
849
00:48:46,624 --> 00:48:49,059
ELLEN: I tore my blouse,
850
00:48:49,226 --> 00:48:54,665
then I wiped the knife clean,
and I put my fingerprints on it.
851
00:48:55,466 --> 00:48:57,697
I knocked over some furniture,
852
00:48:57,868 --> 00:49:00,133
scratched his face.
853
00:49:00,304 --> 00:49:02,864
And I whacked
myself with the phone.
854
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,236
And when the police
came, you told them that lie
855
00:49:05,409 --> 00:49:07,571
about Adam Easley
working for Vic Baron.
856
00:49:07,745 --> 00:49:10,340
- Yes.
- Well, why'd you dig up the briefcase?
857
00:49:10,514 --> 00:49:12,676
So I could get rid of it.
858
00:49:13,851 --> 00:49:14,910
Brad did it.
859
00:49:16,253 --> 00:49:18,586
I think that's a
safe assumption.
860
00:49:20,357 --> 00:49:21,484
You haven't talked to him?
861
00:49:22,059 --> 00:49:25,587
We agreed not to contact each
other until after he'd talked to Easley.
862
00:49:25,763 --> 00:49:29,131
We wanted to make sure
that Carrie never found out.
863
00:49:29,567 --> 00:49:30,728
[CHUCKLES]
864
00:49:30,901 --> 00:49:33,097
You know, that's the first
time we agreed on anything
865
00:49:33,270 --> 00:49:35,637
in almost 14 years.
866
00:49:38,008 --> 00:49:39,476
Well, to tell you the truth,
867
00:49:39,643 --> 00:49:43,580
after I overheard what the deputy
DA told you in the courthouse,
868
00:49:43,747 --> 00:49:49,448
I thought maybe I'd do a little
freelancing and follow Ellen.
869
00:49:50,387 --> 00:49:54,654
I figured if I came up with
something, maybe you'd hire me.
870
00:49:54,925 --> 00:49:56,951
That's why you came
to the courthouse?
871
00:49:57,127 --> 00:49:58,595
Yeah.
872
00:49:59,430 --> 00:50:01,194
I know you have Cliff,
873
00:50:01,365 --> 00:50:03,596
but he doesn't strike
me as the kind of person
874
00:50:03,767 --> 00:50:06,669
who's particularly good at...
875
00:50:08,372 --> 00:50:11,274
- Sneaking around?
- Yes.
876
00:50:11,876 --> 00:50:13,640
Well, he's, uh...
877
00:50:15,579 --> 00:50:18,811
The truth is I don't have
anything for you right now.
878
00:50:19,450 --> 00:50:24,411
This case, every time I
think I got a handle on it,
879
00:50:24,588 --> 00:50:27,217
you know, pull the old
rabbit out of the hat?
880
00:50:27,424 --> 00:50:29,064
I look in there and
there ain't no rabbit.
881
00:50:29,226 --> 00:50:30,524
[JERRI LAUGHS]
882
00:50:30,694 --> 00:50:33,687
Well, maybe I could do
some more freelancing.
883
00:50:33,864 --> 00:50:36,698
No, no. I don't like that.
884
00:50:36,867 --> 00:50:40,531
I don't want people
going behind my back.
885
00:50:41,272 --> 00:50:43,832
Especially people
who work for me.
886
00:50:51,382 --> 00:50:53,817
So Ellen thinks
that I killed him?
887
00:50:54,318 --> 00:50:55,581
You did, didn't you?
888
00:50:59,523 --> 00:51:00,616
No, no.
889
00:51:00,791 --> 00:51:04,660
Well, she found your
briefcase under the body.
890
00:51:07,498 --> 00:51:08,659
I was there that night,
891
00:51:09,433 --> 00:51:10,492
but I did not kill him.
892
00:51:10,668 --> 00:51:13,467
He was alive when I left.
893
00:51:13,637 --> 00:51:15,333
MATLOCK: Let's hear it.
894
00:51:15,606 --> 00:51:18,075
BRAD: All right. Okay.
895
00:51:22,379 --> 00:51:25,372
This guy, Easley, called
me a couple of weeks ago
896
00:51:25,549 --> 00:51:28,815
and said that he knew
Ellen had gotten the Pulitzer
897
00:51:28,986 --> 00:51:31,353
by plagiarizing that book.
898
00:51:31,822 --> 00:51:34,690
Said if I didn't pay
him 100 grand, he'd tell.
899
00:51:34,858 --> 00:51:40,593
So I got him the cash and
I met him in his room at 9.
900
00:51:45,135 --> 00:51:46,797
Is that the money?
901
00:52:07,992 --> 00:52:09,483
Wait a minute. I
don't want some copy.
902
00:52:09,660 --> 00:52:10,787
I want the book.
903
00:52:11,362 --> 00:52:13,228
The book's my insurance policy.
904
00:52:14,765 --> 00:52:16,666
How do I know you're
not gonna do this again?
905
00:52:16,834 --> 00:52:18,894
Guess you'll just
have to trust me.
906
00:52:38,022 --> 00:52:40,355
And that was it. I
went straight home.
907
00:52:40,524 --> 00:52:42,049
After Carrie went
to bed that evening,
908
00:52:42,226 --> 00:52:46,186
I threw the copy that he had given
me into the fireplace and I burned it.
909
00:52:47,931 --> 00:52:51,368
Well, the police estimate the
time of death to be about 9:30.
910
00:52:51,535 --> 00:52:54,801
Well, I was home
long before then.
911
00:52:54,972 --> 00:52:57,032
Who did you think had done it?
912
00:52:57,474 --> 00:53:00,501
Ellen. I figured she had gone
over there for some reason
913
00:53:00,678 --> 00:53:03,614
and got into a fight with the
guy and killed him in self-defense,
914
00:53:03,781 --> 00:53:05,701
- just like she said.
- What'd you think happened
915
00:53:05,849 --> 00:53:09,445
- to your briefcase and the money?
- I figured Ellen took it.
916
00:53:12,289 --> 00:53:15,282
First she said she did it, and
then she said she didn't do it,
917
00:53:15,459 --> 00:53:16,757
said you did it.
918
00:53:16,927 --> 00:53:21,058
And then you said you
didn't do it, said she did it.
919
00:53:21,231 --> 00:53:23,962
I wish you'd get
your stories straight.
920
00:53:36,780 --> 00:53:38,408
Oh, no.
921
00:53:38,615 --> 00:53:40,208
Carrie...
922
00:53:44,088 --> 00:53:46,990
Mom got that prize by cheating?
923
00:53:47,691 --> 00:53:49,956
And you knew about it.
924
00:53:51,061 --> 00:53:54,828
All those years
you've been living a lie.
925
00:53:55,566 --> 00:53:59,435
Is that why you divorced?
Because of the lie?
926
00:54:00,404 --> 00:54:03,636
You've lectured
me about honesty.
927
00:54:05,109 --> 00:54:08,170
Your honesty cost me a mother.
928
00:54:09,413 --> 00:54:11,279
- And a father.
- Carrie. Carrie.
929
00:54:11,448 --> 00:54:12,746
Carrie.
930
00:54:39,777 --> 00:54:41,268
Ellen.
931
00:54:46,016 --> 00:54:48,144
Figured I might find you here.
932
00:54:50,921 --> 00:54:54,619
- Ben Matlock came to see me today.
- I know, he told me.
933
00:54:54,792 --> 00:54:58,991
Unfortunately, Carrie was listening,
and she overheard everything.
934
00:54:59,163 --> 00:55:00,883
- What do you mean everything?
- Everything.
935
00:55:01,031 --> 00:55:05,093
Oh, for crying out loud, Brad,
how could you let that happen?
936
00:55:06,003 --> 00:55:07,972
All right, I'm sorry.
937
00:55:09,072 --> 00:55:11,940
She was very upset. She
ran out of the house in tears.
938
00:55:12,109 --> 00:55:13,304
- She ran away?
- Yeah.
939
00:55:13,677 --> 00:55:16,579
She got back an hour
ago. She's up there now.
940
00:55:16,747 --> 00:55:18,773
I've sat her down and
explained everything to her,
941
00:55:18,949 --> 00:55:21,077
and she's handling it.
942
00:55:21,251 --> 00:55:24,449
Just sitting there listening to music,
or at least what she calls music.
943
00:55:25,422 --> 00:55:27,948
Did you tell her that
stealing from that book,
944
00:55:28,125 --> 00:55:31,857
- I've regretted every day of my life?
- The best I could.
945
00:55:33,130 --> 00:55:34,393
I love her, Brad.
946
00:55:34,565 --> 00:55:39,162
The last thing in the world I want
is for her to be hurt by my stupidity.
947
00:55:40,070 --> 00:55:42,910
That's why I covered for you when I
thought that you killed Adam Easley.
948
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,635
Ellen, I didn't
kill Adam Easley.
949
00:55:45,809 --> 00:55:49,143
Well, what was I supposed to think?
He was lying on top of your briefcase.
950
00:55:49,313 --> 00:55:51,077
I figured you'd killed him.
951
00:55:51,248 --> 00:55:55,310
And I knew watching you go to
prison would break Carrie's heart.
952
00:55:55,652 --> 00:55:57,746
I couldn't let that happen.
953
00:56:20,143 --> 00:56:21,975
They almost ready?
954
00:56:22,145 --> 00:56:23,511
MATLOCK: Few seconds.
955
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:25,760
Of course he said Adam
Easley was alive when he left.
956
00:56:25,916 --> 00:56:26,996
What else was he gonna say?
957
00:56:27,384 --> 00:56:29,478
MATLOCK: He had to
know that incriminates Ellen.
958
00:56:29,653 --> 00:56:31,246
Well, maybe he didn't care.
959
00:56:31,421 --> 00:56:33,947
How did this Adam Easley
guy wind up with the book
960
00:56:34,124 --> 00:56:35,649
that she plagiarized?
961
00:56:35,826 --> 00:56:39,024
People familiar with
obscure Chinese literature
962
00:56:39,196 --> 00:56:41,097
generally aren't blackmailers.
963
00:56:41,265 --> 00:56:42,545
MATLOCK: Somebody
gave it to him.
964
00:56:42,933 --> 00:56:44,424
Maybe that's who killed him.
965
00:56:44,601 --> 00:56:46,365
CLIFF: Yeah. Hey,
maybe they were partners.
966
00:56:46,536 --> 00:56:50,473
You know, uh, instead of settling
for half the blackmail money,
967
00:56:50,641 --> 00:56:52,974
they could have wanted the
whole thing so they killed him.
968
00:56:53,143 --> 00:56:55,840
You know, there's
still 100 grand missing.
969
00:56:56,980 --> 00:56:59,506
Okay, here you go.
970
00:56:59,683 --> 00:57:02,585
- Blueberry pancakes.
- Oh, yes.
971
00:57:02,753 --> 00:57:04,949
- Oh, yes.
- Good.
972
00:57:08,091 --> 00:57:10,959
I think we should go for
this Adam Easley guy.
973
00:57:11,862 --> 00:57:14,832
Well, the police say that he
owed two months back rent
974
00:57:14,998 --> 00:57:18,332
on the house in Wallace, and he
had no visible means of support.
975
00:57:18,502 --> 00:57:20,937
Hadn't filed an income
tax return in five years,
976
00:57:21,104 --> 00:57:23,903
and, at this point, no one's
come forward to claim his body.
977
00:57:24,074 --> 00:57:26,100
It's hard to know
where to begin.
978
00:57:26,276 --> 00:57:27,300
How about with him?
979
00:57:43,827 --> 00:57:45,921
People who can eat
from morning to night
980
00:57:46,096 --> 00:57:48,429
without getting
fat drive me crazy.
981
00:58:03,013 --> 00:58:04,845
Thanks a lot.
982
00:58:05,282 --> 00:58:08,946
So this is the
infamous Adam Easley.
983
00:58:09,119 --> 00:58:12,089
Medical examiner did a
real number on him, huh?
984
00:58:12,255 --> 00:58:15,748
Looks like he put everything
back pretty much in the right place.
985
00:58:16,860 --> 00:58:18,954
- You okay?
- Mm.
986
00:58:19,596 --> 00:58:21,792
Haven't you ever
done this before?
987
00:58:22,466 --> 00:58:24,833
Oh, you should've
said something.
988
00:58:25,002 --> 00:58:27,369
I used to do this all the
time when I was a cop.
989
00:58:27,537 --> 00:58:29,938
I always thought it was so cool
how you could learn so much
990
00:58:30,107 --> 00:58:32,838
from people just by
looking at their corpses.
991
00:58:33,043 --> 00:58:34,602
For instance,
look at that liver.
992
00:58:34,778 --> 00:58:36,440
See how kind of puffy it is?
993
00:58:36,613 --> 00:58:39,447
Beginning stages of cirrhosis.
994
00:58:39,616 --> 00:58:40,982
This guy liked to drink.
995
00:58:42,386 --> 00:58:44,446
Sure was tan.
996
00:58:46,490 --> 00:58:47,958
Take a look at this.
997
00:58:48,125 --> 00:58:51,254
Calluses all across
his palm. See that?
998
00:58:51,428 --> 00:58:52,828
Hmm.
999
00:58:54,798 --> 00:58:55,822
Left hand too.
1000
00:58:57,067 --> 00:59:00,560
Look at that. Tan
line on his ring finger.
1001
00:59:00,737 --> 00:59:03,366
Was he wearing a ring
when they bagged him?
1002
00:59:03,607 --> 00:59:06,133
Watch, wallet, gold
necklace. No rings.
1003
00:59:06,309 --> 00:59:07,402
Huh.
1004
00:59:07,577 --> 00:59:08,817
Well, if it was a wedding band,
1005
00:59:08,945 --> 00:59:12,177
looks like he was wearing
it till pretty recently.
1006
00:59:13,784 --> 00:59:16,413
Maybe there's an
ex-wife somewhere.
1007
00:59:16,887 --> 00:59:19,618
Maybe she's the one
with all the answers.
1008
00:59:24,694 --> 00:59:26,356
[CLIFF SIGHS]
1009
00:59:26,696 --> 00:59:28,164
[CHUCKLES]
1010
00:59:37,941 --> 00:59:39,705
Mom!
1011
00:59:41,511 --> 00:59:43,707
Oh, Carrie.
1012
00:59:48,485 --> 00:59:50,613
How could you do it?
1013
00:59:51,354 --> 00:59:52,549
[SIGHS]
1014
00:59:52,722 --> 00:59:56,489
How many countless times
I've asked myself that question.
1015
00:59:57,194 --> 01:00:04,260
I was young, I was ambitious,
and incredibly stupid.
1016
01:00:05,368 --> 01:00:08,497
And you thought no
one would ever find out?
1017
01:00:09,873 --> 01:00:12,399
Well, I thought that
I could live with it.
1018
01:00:12,576 --> 01:00:15,307
And in time, I thought I had to.
1019
01:00:15,479 --> 01:00:18,608
I hope you can forgive
me someday, Carrie.
1020
01:00:20,350 --> 01:00:24,151
I was dishonest, I
lied, I cheated, I stole,
1021
01:00:24,321 --> 01:00:25,345
and I lived with it.
1022
01:00:25,522 --> 01:00:27,650
And I made your
dad live with it.
1023
01:00:27,824 --> 01:00:30,350
That's what ruined our marriage.
1024
01:00:31,328 --> 01:00:34,025
I lost him and I lost you.
1025
01:00:35,298 --> 01:00:37,824
You didn't lose me.
1026
01:00:38,101 --> 01:00:39,569
You just didn't want me.
1027
01:00:39,736 --> 01:00:42,205
Oh, Carrie, no.
1028
01:00:42,372 --> 01:00:47,709
I didn't fight for custody of you
because I thought I didn't deserve you.
1029
01:01:24,748 --> 01:01:26,614
JUDGE: Mr. Haskins.
1030
01:01:27,984 --> 01:01:29,213
Mr. Haskins!
1031
01:01:39,629 --> 01:01:41,530
Ideally,
1032
01:01:44,801 --> 01:01:49,296
what you hear in a
court of law is the truth.
1033
01:01:51,608 --> 01:01:53,839
But I'm afraid that what
you're gonna hear mostly
1034
01:01:54,010 --> 01:01:58,141
in this court of law are lies.
1035
01:02:00,217 --> 01:02:06,157
You will hear how Ellen
Barrett told the police
1036
01:02:06,323 --> 01:02:09,521
that she went to Adam
Easley's hotel room
1037
01:02:09,693 --> 01:02:12,219
to get information on
a suspected mobster
1038
01:02:12,395 --> 01:02:14,261
named Vic Baron.
1039
01:02:15,031 --> 01:02:18,559
You will hear how Adam Easley
greeted her at the door as a friend
1040
01:02:18,735 --> 01:02:20,829
and how chagrinned she was
1041
01:02:21,004 --> 01:02:23,701
when moments later he told
her he'd been sent by Vic Baron
1042
01:02:23,873 --> 01:02:25,569
to beat her up.
1043
01:02:27,244 --> 01:02:29,577
You will hear how she...
1044
01:02:29,846 --> 01:02:31,508
How he.
1045
01:02:31,848 --> 01:02:33,441
Pulled her hair
1046
01:02:34,117 --> 01:02:37,576
and he tore her clothes
and he hit her on the head,
1047
01:02:37,754 --> 01:02:42,249
and how she, in turn,
scratched his face
1048
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:46,694
and ultimately stabbed him
to death with a steak knife.
1049
01:02:48,932 --> 01:02:50,457
But these will
have all been lies.
1050
01:02:50,834 --> 01:02:53,133
Because you will then
hear how no connection
1051
01:02:53,303 --> 01:02:57,900
between Adam Easley and
Vic Baron has ever been found,
1052
01:02:58,375 --> 01:03:01,038
how in all likelihood,
1053
01:03:01,211 --> 01:03:03,874
the injuries she suffered
were self-inflicted,
1054
01:03:04,047 --> 01:03:07,245
and how the scratch
mark on the victim
1055
01:03:07,417 --> 01:03:09,613
was put there after he was dead.
1056
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:13,415
You will hear how Miss
Barrett tried to make it look
1057
01:03:13,590 --> 01:03:16,219
as if she murdered Adam
Easley in self-defense,
1058
01:03:16,393 --> 01:03:20,990
when in point of fact, it
was premeditated murder.
1059
01:03:24,801 --> 01:03:26,861
Why did she kill him?
1060
01:03:28,438 --> 01:03:31,101
Ladies and gentlemen,
couched in that answer
1061
01:03:31,274 --> 01:03:33,675
is the biggest lie of all.
1062
01:03:35,378 --> 01:03:37,813
Because you will
hear how Ellen Barrett,
1063
01:03:37,981 --> 01:03:40,541
famous reporter and columnist,
1064
01:03:40,717 --> 01:03:43,551
renowned for the series of
articles she wrote years ago
1065
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,622
that won her the Pulitzer Prize,
1066
01:03:46,790 --> 01:03:50,158
how she was being
blackmailed by Adam Easley.
1067
01:03:50,327 --> 01:03:51,761
Why?
1068
01:03:51,928 --> 01:03:54,796
Because he found out
that that series of articles
1069
01:03:54,964 --> 01:03:57,524
had, in fact, been
written by somebody else.
1070
01:03:57,701 --> 01:04:00,694
Ladies and gentlemen,
Adam Easley is dead
1071
01:04:00,870 --> 01:04:05,137
because he found out that
Ellen Barrett is a plagiarist.
1072
01:04:05,308 --> 01:04:08,005
[CROWD MURMURING INDISTINCTLY]
1073
01:04:31,868 --> 01:04:33,302
INGRID: Found him.
- Ah.
1074
01:04:33,470 --> 01:04:34,950
Are you sure I can't
get you anything?
1075
01:04:35,105 --> 01:04:37,199
Oh, no, I'm fine. Thank you.
1076
01:04:37,374 --> 01:04:39,054
- Is this you in all these pictures?
- Yep.
1077
01:04:39,209 --> 01:04:41,542
Frank skis
practically every day.
1078
01:04:41,711 --> 01:04:43,511
Even when he's making
the rounds of his mills,
1079
01:04:43,646 --> 01:04:45,376
he comes home by
way of Lake George.
1080
01:04:45,548 --> 01:04:48,245
But I don't mind. I like
what it does for his pecs.
1081
01:04:48,418 --> 01:04:49,647
- Ingrid.
- Ha, ha, ha.
1082
01:04:49,819 --> 01:04:51,014
What can we do for you?
1083
01:04:51,187 --> 01:04:56,319
Well, I'm just still trying to
get a handle on this case.
1084
01:04:56,659 --> 01:04:58,127
Think...
1085
01:04:58,862 --> 01:05:00,797
Did you happen to
be home that night?
1086
01:05:00,964 --> 01:05:02,057
I wasn't.
1087
01:05:02,232 --> 01:05:04,133
Tuesday is ladies'
night at the racquet club.
1088
01:05:04,300 --> 01:05:05,324
I was home.
1089
01:05:06,035 --> 01:05:08,004
Uh, you remember
if Brad was home?
1090
01:05:08,171 --> 01:05:09,571
Is that what you're doing?
1091
01:05:09,739 --> 01:05:11,207
You're checking up on Brad.
1092
01:05:11,975 --> 01:05:14,501
Well, you're a friend of his,
and he lives across the street.
1093
01:05:14,677 --> 01:05:18,205
And like they say, the
truth never hurts, so I just...
1094
01:05:18,381 --> 01:05:19,679
[LAUGHS]
1095
01:05:20,049 --> 01:05:21,711
FRANK: Well, I know
he was home at 11
1096
01:05:21,885 --> 01:05:23,925
because there was something
about Ellen on the news,
1097
01:05:24,087 --> 01:05:26,022
and I called him
right away to tell him.
1098
01:05:26,189 --> 01:05:27,851
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
1099
01:05:28,024 --> 01:05:30,084
You remember
seeing him before that?
1100
01:05:30,794 --> 01:05:32,262
Yes, as a matter of fact, I do.
1101
01:05:32,429 --> 01:05:35,422
I saw him pull into the driveway. I
remember because his headlights
1102
01:05:35,598 --> 01:05:37,478
shine right into our house
whenever he pulls in.
1103
01:05:37,634 --> 01:05:40,934
Just between you, me and the
lamppost, it's really annoying.
1104
01:05:41,771 --> 01:05:44,301
Uh... When would that have been?
1105
01:05:44,474 --> 01:05:47,376
Well, seems to me I was
watching Inside the FBI at the time.
1106
01:05:47,544 --> 01:05:50,144
INGRID: He never misses that show.
- So it must have been sometime
1107
01:05:50,313 --> 01:05:51,713
between 9 and 9:30.
1108
01:05:53,383 --> 01:05:57,946
Well, I had a feeling
Brad didn't do it.
1109
01:05:59,222 --> 01:06:00,485
Well, who do you think did?
1110
01:06:01,858 --> 01:06:05,488
Oh, well, uh, I'm
damned if I know.
1111
01:06:38,261 --> 01:06:39,456
There's a dog in here.
1112
01:06:42,866 --> 01:06:44,835
Mrs. Easley!
1113
01:06:45,001 --> 01:06:46,867
Are you in there?
1114
01:06:47,036 --> 01:06:48,868
Hello?
1115
01:06:50,974 --> 01:06:52,135
[BARKING]
1116
01:06:54,878 --> 01:06:55,971
[CONTINUES BARKING]
1117
01:07:00,350 --> 01:07:01,579
You shouldn't torment the dog.
1118
01:07:01,751 --> 01:07:04,880
Hey, if she's in there, she's gonna
come out and see what's going on.
1119
01:07:05,054 --> 01:07:06,352
[BARKING]
1120
01:07:06,523 --> 01:07:09,186
[BOTH BARKING]
1121
01:07:09,359 --> 01:07:13,421
[BARKING]
1122
01:07:13,663 --> 01:07:15,495
Hush up.
1123
01:07:24,607 --> 01:07:28,476
I told them yesterday I wasn't
gonna have any money till Friday.
1124
01:07:28,678 --> 01:07:31,273
No, whoa, whoa, we
don't want any money.
1125
01:07:31,447 --> 01:07:33,973
We just wanna talk to
you about your ex-husband.
1126
01:07:35,518 --> 01:07:37,248
Bum's dead. What's to ask?
1127
01:07:38,154 --> 01:07:39,588
When was the last
time you saw him?
1128
01:07:41,090 --> 01:07:42,649
About a week before he died.
1129
01:07:42,825 --> 01:07:44,691
Was that here or up in Wallace?
1130
01:07:46,095 --> 01:07:47,825
Lake George.
1131
01:07:47,997 --> 01:07:50,364
He just about lived out there.
1132
01:07:50,533 --> 01:07:53,469
Kept the place in Wallace
just so he could take a shower
1133
01:07:53,636 --> 01:07:55,127
once in a while.
1134
01:07:55,305 --> 01:07:57,425
I went up there to tell him
that the divorce was final
1135
01:07:57,574 --> 01:08:00,373
and that he owed me
four months' child support.
1136
01:08:00,610 --> 01:08:01,873
Told him I'd gotten a lawyer
1137
01:08:02,045 --> 01:08:03,843
and was gonna go
after his lousy ski boat
1138
01:08:04,013 --> 01:08:05,072
if he didn't pay up.
1139
01:08:05,248 --> 01:08:07,080
A water ski boat?
1140
01:08:07,250 --> 01:08:09,090
MRS. EASLEY: That's why
we never had any money.
1141
01:08:09,485 --> 01:08:11,454
It all went into
hanging around the lake
1142
01:08:11,621 --> 01:08:14,284
trying to impress those
rich dudes out there.
1143
01:08:14,457 --> 01:08:17,291
Parties, beer, wine, whiskey.
1144
01:08:17,460 --> 01:08:20,794
That damn ski
boat, the Candy Man.
1145
01:08:22,865 --> 01:08:26,165
Anyway, Adam said he'd have
the money for me in a week.
1146
01:08:26,336 --> 01:08:28,498
Then the bum goes and dies,
1147
01:08:28,671 --> 01:08:31,937
and here I am hiding in the bathroom
every time there's a knock on the door
1148
01:08:32,108 --> 01:08:33,599
for fear that it's
a bill collector.
1149
01:08:33,776 --> 01:08:36,405
Did he say where he
was gonna get the money?
1150
01:08:37,347 --> 01:08:38,645
He didn't say.
1151
01:08:38,815 --> 01:08:40,841
I didn't ask.
1152
01:08:41,351 --> 01:08:44,651
Adam wasn't a man what you'd
call had a whole lot of principles.
1153
01:08:54,130 --> 01:08:56,599
[DOORBELL CHIMING]
1154
01:09:01,504 --> 01:09:03,473
Oh, hello. I'm Clarence Litton.
1155
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:04,972
Is Mr. Lewis here?
1156
01:09:05,141 --> 01:09:07,770
- Oh, yes, come on in, please.
- Thank you.
1157
01:09:08,244 --> 01:09:09,644
Here.
1158
01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:12,047
- Billy? BILLY: What?
1159
01:09:12,215 --> 01:09:13,239
Billy?
1160
01:09:13,416 --> 01:09:15,044
What?
1161
01:09:16,219 --> 01:09:17,983
LITTON: Hello, Mr. Lewis.
1162
01:09:18,321 --> 01:09:21,758
I stopped by because
I'm afraid there's...
1163
01:09:21,924 --> 01:09:23,790
Well, there's a small problem,
1164
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:26,623
and I'd like to explain
it to you personally.
1165
01:09:31,534 --> 01:09:33,332
You're not gonna buy the house?
1166
01:09:33,503 --> 01:09:36,337
Yes, we're going
to buy the house.
1167
01:09:36,939 --> 01:09:39,704
But, unfortunately, we're
not gonna be able to do so
1168
01:09:39,876 --> 01:09:42,505
- as soon as we'd planned.
- What do you mean?
1169
01:09:43,046 --> 01:09:45,675
Oh, due to some mix-up
in our Legal Department,
1170
01:09:45,848 --> 01:09:48,647
we're not gonna be able to pay
off the mortgage until Thursday,
1171
01:09:48,818 --> 01:09:50,650
not tomorrow as we agreed.
1172
01:09:50,820 --> 01:09:53,619
- Thursday? This Thursday?
- Correct, correct.
1173
01:09:54,257 --> 01:09:56,886
But in the meantime,
I brought by a check
1174
01:09:57,060 --> 01:09:58,722
for what we agreed to pay you,
1175
01:09:58,895 --> 01:10:03,799
well, in hopes that it would help
you accept our profound apologies
1176
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:06,068
for the slight delay.
1177
01:10:08,438 --> 01:10:10,498
Yeah, okay.
1178
01:10:10,673 --> 01:10:13,142
Of course I'll have to
run this Thursday thing
1179
01:10:13,309 --> 01:10:15,210
by my son the lawyer,
see what he says.
1180
01:10:15,378 --> 01:10:16,505
Oh, of course, of course.
1181
01:10:16,679 --> 01:10:18,614
And if he has any
questions, Mr. Lewis,
1182
01:10:18,781 --> 01:10:20,647
just have him call me
and we'll discuss this...
1183
01:10:20,817 --> 01:10:21,897
- Always a pleasure.
- Good.
1184
01:10:22,051 --> 01:10:24,131
- Always a pleasure.
- Thank you, Mr. Lewis. Goodbye.
1185
01:10:24,287 --> 01:10:25,550
Let me see that.
1186
01:10:26,222 --> 01:10:28,953
Seven hundred and
fifty thousand smackers.
1187
01:10:29,125 --> 01:10:30,149
[SNICKERS]
1188
01:10:30,326 --> 01:10:33,854
I'll just parlay that
into a couple of million.
1189
01:10:46,008 --> 01:10:48,910
Now, water skiing, that could
explain Adam Easley's dark tan.
1190
01:10:49,078 --> 01:10:51,741
- And the calluses on his hands.
- Yeah.
1191
01:10:51,914 --> 01:10:53,940
You know, I think this
is gonna work out good.
1192
01:10:54,117 --> 01:10:55,642
- What?
- Well, you and me
1193
01:10:55,818 --> 01:10:57,013
teaming up like this.
1194
01:10:57,186 --> 01:10:59,155
You wanna have
some dinner tonight?
1195
01:10:59,322 --> 01:11:00,688
Oh, Cliff, I don't think...
1196
01:11:00,857 --> 01:11:03,793
You don't think I'm your type,
right? I... That's all right, I understand.
1197
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:06,122
Well, it's just that I recently
broke up with somebody
1198
01:11:06,295 --> 01:11:08,890
and I'm not really ready to get
involved with somebody else.
1199
01:11:09,065 --> 01:11:11,125
- You know what I mean?
- Yeah.
1200
01:11:12,235 --> 01:11:13,669
Good.
1201
01:11:14,070 --> 01:11:16,972
I think I saw a phone over by that
gas station. I'm gonna go call Ben.
1202
01:11:18,141 --> 01:11:20,872
I'll, uh, just meet
you by the boats.
1203
01:11:21,043 --> 01:11:22,534
Okay.
1204
01:11:23,179 --> 01:11:25,080
I'll see you over there then.
1205
01:12:26,008 --> 01:12:30,139
This ain't your boat, pal.
You the one that's been
1206
01:12:30,313 --> 01:12:32,475
- ripping everybody off
down here? CLIFF: No. No.
1207
01:12:32,648 --> 01:12:35,117
MAN: You the one that
got my radio last week?
1208
01:12:35,318 --> 01:12:36,718
[GRUNTS]
1209
01:12:37,286 --> 01:12:38,447
MAN: Come here.
1210
01:12:38,621 --> 01:12:39,987
This is not your boat.
1211
01:12:40,156 --> 01:12:41,333
CLIFF: I know that, I know that.
1212
01:12:41,357 --> 01:12:43,758
If you'll give me one
moment, I'll explain.
1213
01:12:43,926 --> 01:12:45,451
Help! Boat loose!
1214
01:12:47,230 --> 01:12:48,459
Somebody help me!
1215
01:12:53,369 --> 01:12:54,393
MAN: Oh.
1216
01:12:54,570 --> 01:12:55,981
JERRI: You got it?
MAN: Yeah, I got it.
1217
01:12:56,005 --> 01:12:57,667
Oh, good.
1218
01:12:58,541 --> 01:13:00,567
MAN: Yeah, hold
on. Bring it around.
1219
01:13:03,145 --> 01:13:04,545
Yeah.
1220
01:13:07,116 --> 01:13:09,642
- This yours?
- Yeah. Thanks, I owe you one.
1221
01:13:10,152 --> 01:13:11,984
- Don't mention it.
- No, really.
1222
01:13:12,154 --> 01:13:13,588
How about I buy you a drink?
1223
01:13:15,658 --> 01:13:17,251
Sure.
1224
01:13:24,867 --> 01:13:26,233
MAN 1: Yeah.
1225
01:13:31,440 --> 01:13:32,533
Mr. Matlock?
1226
01:13:34,310 --> 01:13:35,334
Hi.
1227
01:13:35,778 --> 01:13:37,474
I am Carrie Gelardi.
1228
01:13:37,647 --> 01:13:39,013
I was coming to see you.
1229
01:13:39,181 --> 01:13:43,551
Oh. The last time I saw you,
you were as big as a grasshopper.
1230
01:13:43,953 --> 01:13:45,615
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
1231
01:13:46,255 --> 01:13:48,451
It doesn't look very
good for my mom, does it?
1232
01:13:48,958 --> 01:13:50,483
Um...
1233
01:13:51,027 --> 01:13:52,620
- Well...
- I hope you're not gonna try
1234
01:13:52,795 --> 01:13:54,093
and pin it on my dad.
1235
01:13:54,630 --> 01:13:56,189
Well, to tell you the truth...
1236
01:13:56,365 --> 01:13:58,925
Because he was telling
the truth, Mr. Matlock.
1237
01:13:59,101 --> 01:14:01,570
He was home at 9:15. I
know because of my car.
1238
01:14:02,471 --> 01:14:03,769
- Your car?
- Yeah.
1239
01:14:03,940 --> 01:14:06,102
I parked my car in the driveway
1240
01:14:06,275 --> 01:14:08,506
and when I park my
car in the driveway,
1241
01:14:08,678 --> 01:14:10,442
he can't park his
car in the garage.
1242
01:14:10,613 --> 01:14:14,209
Oh. Well, did you move
your car so he could...?
1243
01:14:14,383 --> 01:14:16,682
No. No, he was too upset.
1244
01:14:16,852 --> 01:14:21,756
He was so upset he said forget
it and left his car in the street.
1245
01:14:21,924 --> 01:14:24,758
I'm really worried
about the both of them.
1246
01:14:26,462 --> 01:14:29,159
Well, I...
1247
01:14:29,432 --> 01:14:32,891
Well, thank you
for the information.
1248
01:14:33,235 --> 01:14:34,259
I'll see you later.
1249
01:14:54,357 --> 01:14:56,258
What say, Frank?
1250
01:14:56,692 --> 01:14:59,423
Mr. Matlock, what's up?
1251
01:14:59,595 --> 01:15:02,724
Remember you told me
how you saw Brad's headlights
1252
01:15:02,898 --> 01:15:04,867
when he turned
into his driveway?
1253
01:15:05,034 --> 01:15:07,003
- Yeah.
- I just found out
1254
01:15:07,169 --> 01:15:10,037
that he didn't turn into
his driveway that night.
1255
01:15:10,373 --> 01:15:12,467
So you couldn't have
seen his headlights.
1256
01:15:15,444 --> 01:15:16,969
You caught me.
1257
01:15:17,613 --> 01:15:18,808
Why'd you lie?
1258
01:15:20,583 --> 01:15:22,518
I've known Brad for 20 years.
1259
01:15:22,685 --> 01:15:25,348
He came to my wedding. I
saw him through his divorce.
1260
01:15:25,521 --> 01:15:27,490
There's no way in hell
he could kill anyone.
1261
01:15:27,656 --> 01:15:29,249
He's a good guy.
1262
01:15:29,425 --> 01:15:31,394
I was just trying to
protect him, that's all.
1263
01:15:32,928 --> 01:15:34,487
Maybe what I did was wrong,
1264
01:15:34,864 --> 01:15:36,833
but I did it for
the right reason.
1265
01:15:36,999 --> 01:15:38,763
I'm sorry.
1266
01:15:41,037 --> 01:15:42,733
Okay.
1267
01:15:49,645 --> 01:15:50,669
[FLY BUZZING]
1268
01:15:51,147 --> 01:15:52,911
What were you doing
out at Lake George?
1269
01:15:53,082 --> 01:15:55,881
Oh, Adam Easley's ex-wife said
that he was out there water skiing
1270
01:15:56,052 --> 01:15:57,172
about a week before he died,
1271
01:15:57,319 --> 01:15:59,948
and that he was about to
come into a lot of money.
1272
01:16:00,122 --> 01:16:02,057
Uh, so we went out
there, we found his boat.
1273
01:16:02,625 --> 01:16:05,823
Had a little run-in with his dock mate
who's very strong and not very nice.
1274
01:16:05,995 --> 01:16:07,258
Oh, he was nice to me.
1275
01:16:07,430 --> 01:16:09,262
He bought me a drink.
1276
01:16:09,732 --> 01:16:11,166
Right.
1277
01:16:11,333 --> 01:16:14,326
Anyway, uh, we came
up empty-handed.
1278
01:16:16,572 --> 01:16:19,736
Did you say Adam Easley
water skis out at Lake George?
1279
01:16:20,543 --> 01:16:22,512
- All the time.
- Well, that's interesting
1280
01:16:22,678 --> 01:16:25,648
because Brad Gelardi's next
door neighbor, Frank Jefferies,
1281
01:16:25,815 --> 01:16:26,839
does too.
1282
01:16:40,262 --> 01:16:41,730
Hmm.
1283
01:16:43,199 --> 01:16:47,796
[SINGING] Can she bake a
cherry pie Billy Boy, Billy Boy?
1284
01:16:47,970 --> 01:16:52,567
Can she bake a cherry
pie Charming Billy?
1285
01:16:52,741 --> 01:16:56,371
[SINGING] She can bake a
cherry pie She's the apple of my eye
1286
01:16:56,545 --> 01:16:59,310
She's a young thing And
cannot leave her mother
1287
01:16:59,482 --> 01:17:02,179
Hey, I'm gonna have
to tune up the old guitar.
1288
01:17:02,351 --> 01:17:03,876
Yeah. I got some good news.
1289
01:17:04,053 --> 01:17:06,420
- What?
- Well, I went back out to the lake,
1290
01:17:06,589 --> 01:17:09,821
and I showed the picture of
Frank Jefferies to my new pal.
1291
01:17:09,992 --> 01:17:11,460
- Did he recognize him?
- Yep.
1292
01:17:11,627 --> 01:17:13,789
Didn't know who he
was, but he did say
1293
01:17:13,963 --> 01:17:16,083
that he'd seen him with
Adam Easley a couple of times.
1294
01:17:16,232 --> 01:17:19,293
- Oh, then we're on the right track.
- Mm-hm.
1295
01:17:19,468 --> 01:17:22,302
- How's it going here?
- Eh.
1296
01:17:23,706 --> 01:17:26,676
Wonder what happened
to all that money.
1297
01:17:40,890 --> 01:17:42,984
Here's a passbook.
1298
01:17:47,429 --> 01:17:50,593
Well, the last big deposit was
made two months before the murder.
1299
01:17:50,766 --> 01:17:52,826
That won't help us.
1300
01:17:53,002 --> 01:17:55,597
Come on now, come on.
Children, not on the carpet.
1301
01:17:55,771 --> 01:17:57,399
I just got them shampooed.
1302
01:17:57,573 --> 01:17:59,405
Pizza will be here any minute.
1303
01:17:59,575 --> 01:18:01,271
CHILDREN: Pizza! Pizza!
1304
01:18:01,443 --> 01:18:03,173
Pizza!
1305
01:18:03,812 --> 01:18:06,338
Your maid let us
in, Miss Jefferies.
1306
01:18:06,515 --> 01:18:09,041
We have a warrant
to search the premises.
1307
01:18:09,952 --> 01:18:11,853
Back outside. Come on, let's go.
1308
01:18:12,021 --> 01:18:13,284
Let's go. Now, come on.
1309
01:18:13,455 --> 01:18:14,946
All of you, all of you.
1310
01:18:15,124 --> 01:18:16,990
- Right now, right
now. GIRL 1: Golly.
1311
01:18:17,159 --> 01:18:19,424
Or no pizza.
1312
01:18:22,965 --> 01:18:24,399
What are you doing here?
1313
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,902
Well, just checking bank
statements and such.
1314
01:18:28,070 --> 01:18:30,096
Like I say, we have a warrant.
1315
01:18:30,673 --> 01:18:31,971
Are Frank and I suspects?
1316
01:18:32,441 --> 01:18:34,535
They're just
covering all the bases.
1317
01:18:34,710 --> 01:18:35,734
Who are the kids?
1318
01:18:36,478 --> 01:18:37,673
Underprivileged children.
1319
01:18:37,846 --> 01:18:40,077
I throw a beach party
for them every summer.
1320
01:18:40,449 --> 01:18:41,940
That's nice.
1321
01:18:42,117 --> 01:18:45,986
Well, we'll be going,
and have a nice party.
1322
01:18:53,395 --> 01:18:55,387
[DOORBELL CHIMES]
1323
01:18:56,131 --> 01:18:57,997
Pizza's here, Mrs. Jefferies.
1324
01:18:58,167 --> 01:19:00,033
MARKS: Excuse us.
- Sorry.
1325
01:19:02,004 --> 01:19:04,735
- I'm sorry, I can't break a hundred.
- You're kidding.
1326
01:19:04,907 --> 01:19:08,173
- Why not? What am I supposed...?
- I think maybe I can.
1327
01:19:09,211 --> 01:19:10,702
- Uh, let's see, let's see.
- Great.
1328
01:19:10,879 --> 01:19:16,951
Here's... Here's a 20
and a 20 and two 5's
1329
01:19:17,319 --> 01:19:19,811
and a, uh, 50.
1330
01:19:19,989 --> 01:19:22,823
Oh, Mr. Matlock,
you're a lifesaver.
1331
01:19:23,959 --> 01:19:25,450
Thank you.
1332
01:19:31,433 --> 01:19:33,834
Is this the briefcase you gave
to the decedent that night?
1333
01:19:34,003 --> 01:19:35,096
Yes, it is.
1334
01:19:35,271 --> 01:19:36,796
What was in it when
you gave it to him?
1335
01:19:36,972 --> 01:19:39,373
One hundred thousand
dollars in $100 bills.
1336
01:19:40,342 --> 01:19:41,674
What's in it now?
1337
01:19:43,012 --> 01:19:46,039
- Nothing.
- Your Honor, we already know
1338
01:19:46,215 --> 01:19:49,777
that's the briefcase that was found
underneath the decedent's body.
1339
01:19:49,952 --> 01:19:51,818
It's already entered
into evidence.
1340
01:19:52,721 --> 01:19:54,189
Mr. Matlock?
1341
01:19:56,091 --> 01:19:59,687
Why didn't you come forward
when Ellen was arrested?
1342
01:20:03,599 --> 01:20:05,625
I was ashamed.
1343
01:20:06,735 --> 01:20:08,067
MATLOCK: Nothing further.
1344
01:20:08,237 --> 01:20:10,331
HASKINS: No questions.
1345
01:20:10,673 --> 01:20:13,673
He told me a lot of things when he
and Ellen were going through the divorce.
1346
01:20:13,809 --> 01:20:17,075
He needed someone
to confide in, and I was it.
1347
01:20:17,546 --> 01:20:20,345
Uh, how do you make
a living, Mr. Jefferies?
1348
01:20:20,516 --> 01:20:22,348
I own a half
dozen textile mills.
1349
01:20:22,518 --> 01:20:24,077
Been in my family for years.
1350
01:20:24,453 --> 01:20:27,048
MATLOCK: They union or
nonunion? FRANK: Nonunion.
1351
01:20:28,023 --> 01:20:31,551
Uh, what would happen
if they went union?
1352
01:20:32,294 --> 01:20:34,889
I'd have to shut them down.
I couldn't afford to run them.
1353
01:20:36,198 --> 01:20:37,393
I don't know.
1354
01:20:37,566 --> 01:20:39,865
I don't know, I think
you could afford it.
1355
01:20:40,035 --> 01:20:44,735
It's just that you and your
CEOs wouldn't be able to draw
1356
01:20:44,907 --> 01:20:47,638
such nice big
salaries, would you?
1357
01:20:47,810 --> 01:20:50,336
That's the real reason
you scream "shut down"
1358
01:20:50,512 --> 01:20:53,846
every time that five-letter word
that starts with a U comes up, isn't it?
1359
01:20:54,383 --> 01:20:57,410
I pay my workers well,
and I treat them fairly.
1360
01:20:57,586 --> 01:21:00,106
- And they'd be the first to say
so. MATLOCK: Well, that may be,
1361
01:21:00,222 --> 01:21:04,557
but there is a movement to
unionize mills like yours, isn't there?
1362
01:21:04,727 --> 01:21:09,825
Like in those editorials
in the Atlanta Herald?
1363
01:21:09,998 --> 01:21:13,696
- Are they pro- or anti-union?
- Pro.
1364
01:21:13,969 --> 01:21:16,598
They keep fanning the
flames, don't they? Heh, heh.
1365
01:21:16,772 --> 01:21:17,796
Does that bother you?
1366
01:21:18,440 --> 01:21:19,806
Of course it bothers me.
1367
01:21:20,175 --> 01:21:22,110
Who's editor in
chief of the Herald?
1368
01:21:23,345 --> 01:21:24,438
Brad Gelardi.
1369
01:21:24,613 --> 01:21:27,481
MATLOCK: Well,
he's a friend of yours.
1370
01:21:27,816 --> 01:21:28,875
Didn't you talk to him,
1371
01:21:29,051 --> 01:21:32,715
try to get him to stop
publishing that stuff pro-union?
1372
01:21:33,088 --> 01:21:35,785
- Of course I did, but...
- He kept fanning the flames.
1373
01:21:35,958 --> 01:21:38,792
He kept fanning the flames,
didn't he? Yeah, yeah.
1374
01:21:38,961 --> 01:21:45,526
Flames that, uh, could
ruin your business, maybe.
1375
01:21:45,701 --> 01:21:48,830
Certainly your lifestyle.
1376
01:21:49,805 --> 01:21:52,070
And so since arguing
with him wouldn't help,
1377
01:21:52,241 --> 01:21:56,337
you decided on
more drastic moves.
1378
01:21:56,512 --> 01:22:00,779
You figured out a way
to not only get him fired,
1379
01:22:00,949 --> 01:22:02,508
but to ruin his character
1380
01:22:02,684 --> 01:22:04,484
and discredit him and
everything he stood for,
1381
01:22:04,653 --> 01:22:06,645
- didn't you?
HASKINS: Objection!
1382
01:22:07,156 --> 01:22:09,955
What in the world do
mills and unions have to do
1383
01:22:10,125 --> 01:22:13,527
with whether or not Ellen Barrett
committed first degree murder?
1384
01:22:13,695 --> 01:22:16,722
I just got started, Peter.
For heaven's sakes.
1385
01:22:16,899 --> 01:22:18,390
JUDGE: Mr. Matlock.
1386
01:22:18,567 --> 01:22:21,127
I'll tie it up, Your
Honor. I promise.
1387
01:22:21,770 --> 01:22:24,001
Proceed. Objection overruled.
1388
01:22:26,275 --> 01:22:29,677
I understand you like to
water ski, Mr. Jefferies.
1389
01:22:30,446 --> 01:22:31,470
Yes, I do.
1390
01:22:31,847 --> 01:22:35,306
The decedent, Adam
Easley, liked to water ski.
1391
01:22:35,484 --> 01:22:36,975
- Did you know that? FRANK: No.
1392
01:22:37,152 --> 01:22:40,281
Oh, yeah. He had a ski boat down
at Lake George and everything.
1393
01:22:40,456 --> 01:22:41,480
You got a ski boat?
1394
01:22:42,291 --> 01:22:44,817
- Yes, I do.
- Oh.
1395
01:22:44,993 --> 01:22:47,473
He got a ski boat, you got a ski
boat. Where do you keep yours?
1396
01:22:47,629 --> 01:22:48,688
Lake George.
1397
01:22:48,864 --> 01:22:50,389
MATLOCK: Did you
know Adam Easley?
1398
01:22:50,566 --> 01:22:51,898
FRANK: No.
1399
01:22:52,634 --> 01:22:54,068
Well, there's a man here
1400
01:22:54,236 --> 01:22:57,138
who docked his boat
next to Adam Easley's boat,
1401
01:22:57,306 --> 01:22:58,604
and he's prepared to testify
1402
01:22:58,774 --> 01:23:01,039
that he saw you and
Mr. Easley together
1403
01:23:01,210 --> 01:23:02,508
on numerous occasions.
1404
01:23:02,678 --> 01:23:04,772
FRANK: He's mistaken.
- Objection.
1405
01:23:04,947 --> 01:23:09,544
We got mills and unions
and water skiing and boats.
1406
01:23:09,718 --> 01:23:12,347
Just when does Mr. Matlock
plan to get around to something
1407
01:23:12,521 --> 01:23:13,721
that is relevant to this case?
1408
01:23:13,889 --> 01:23:16,654
Mr. Haskins, give me a break.
1409
01:23:16,825 --> 01:23:18,157
You did say something
1410
01:23:18,327 --> 01:23:21,263
about tying all this up,
didn't you, Mr. Matlock?
1411
01:23:23,031 --> 01:23:24,522
Yes, sir.
1412
01:23:25,167 --> 01:23:28,899
Were you aware that Ellen
Barrett plagiarized the articles
1413
01:23:29,071 --> 01:23:31,836
- that won her the Pulitzer Prize?
- No.
1414
01:23:33,008 --> 01:23:34,601
Well, that's odd.
1415
01:23:34,776 --> 01:23:37,837
I understood that your
friend, Brad Gelardi,
1416
01:23:38,013 --> 01:23:40,915
told you they were
plagiarized and that he knew it.
1417
01:23:41,884 --> 01:23:43,352
Um...
1418
01:23:43,619 --> 01:23:45,520
Yeah, actually I
think he did tell me.
1419
01:23:45,687 --> 01:23:49,124
Actually, he's
prepared to testify
1420
01:23:49,358 --> 01:23:52,851
that in the middle of his divorce
when you were his closest friend,
1421
01:23:53,028 --> 01:23:54,724
- he told you.
- I guess I forgot.
1422
01:23:55,030 --> 01:23:58,831
Yeah. And you decided
to take that knowledge
1423
01:23:59,001 --> 01:24:00,970
that he trusted you with
1424
01:24:01,136 --> 01:24:04,106
and use it to nip this
union business in the bud
1425
01:24:04,273 --> 01:24:06,401
by framing him for murder
1426
01:24:07,142 --> 01:24:10,943
and by exposing him as a
man who condoned plagiarism.
1427
01:24:11,113 --> 01:24:13,639
- At least, that was the plan, wasn't it?
- No.
1428
01:24:13,815 --> 01:24:18,810
And so you obtained a
copy of the Chinese book
1429
01:24:18,987 --> 01:24:20,421
that Ellen had plagiarized
1430
01:24:20,589 --> 01:24:25,220
and gave it to your water-skiing
buddy, Adam Easley,
1431
01:24:25,394 --> 01:24:30,264
and had him make the call to Brad
about the blackmail money, didn't you?
1432
01:24:30,432 --> 01:24:31,923
- No. MATLOCK:
You told him to ask
1433
01:24:32,100 --> 01:24:35,662
for $100,000 in cash.
1434
01:24:36,038 --> 01:24:40,203
Then you arranged for Mr. Easley
to meet Brad at that motel
1435
01:24:40,375 --> 01:24:41,399
and collect it.
1436
01:24:41,577 --> 01:24:43,944
Not one word of this is true.
1437
01:24:44,112 --> 01:24:45,637
After Brad left,
1438
01:24:46,848 --> 01:24:50,410
you showed up, wearing gloves.
1439
01:24:50,886 --> 01:24:52,946
And you did something
1440
01:24:53,121 --> 01:24:56,785
that Adam Easley didn't
expect at all, didn't you?
1441
01:24:58,060 --> 01:24:59,619
You picked up the steak knife
1442
01:24:59,795 --> 01:25:01,764
- and killed him!
- No!
1443
01:25:01,930 --> 01:25:04,957
He was holding the briefcase
and, good for you, he fell on it.
1444
01:25:05,133 --> 01:25:06,999
I didn't kill him.
I wasn't there.
1445
01:25:07,736 --> 01:25:10,171
You removed the
money from the briefcase,
1446
01:25:10,339 --> 01:25:14,003
put the case back under the
body so the police would assume
1447
01:25:14,176 --> 01:25:15,337
that Brad was the killer.
1448
01:25:15,510 --> 01:25:16,534
And then you left.
1449
01:25:16,712 --> 01:25:18,146
That's not true.
1450
01:25:19,514 --> 01:25:21,676
What you didn't know
1451
01:25:22,184 --> 01:25:25,882
is that Brad had told
Ellen about the blackmail,
1452
01:25:26,054 --> 01:25:29,616
and she was afraid that
somehow he might botch the payoff.
1453
01:25:29,791 --> 01:25:34,126
So after you left the
motel, she showed up,
1454
01:25:34,863 --> 01:25:36,764
saw the body,
1455
01:25:36,932 --> 01:25:39,800
and she assumed what you
wanted everybody else to assume,
1456
01:25:39,968 --> 01:25:42,096
that Brad had done it.
1457
01:25:42,270 --> 01:25:45,638
So to protect Brad and herself,
1458
01:25:45,807 --> 01:25:50,871
she staged that scene to
make it look like self-defense.
1459
01:25:51,313 --> 01:25:54,408
When all the time,
it was you, wasn't it?
1460
01:25:54,583 --> 01:25:57,917
- No. This is outrageous.
HASKINS: Objection! Proof!
1461
01:25:58,086 --> 01:26:01,284
Proof! It is obvious to me
Mr. Matlock has absolutely
1462
01:26:01,456 --> 01:26:04,187
no concept of the word "proof."
1463
01:26:06,028 --> 01:26:10,796
Mr. Haskins, I've been an officer
of the court for my entire adult life.
1464
01:26:10,966 --> 01:26:13,526
Do you really think I'd
go this far without proof?
1465
01:26:15,671 --> 01:26:16,695
How about it?
1466
01:26:17,839 --> 01:26:20,866
All right, right here.
1467
01:26:21,043 --> 01:26:23,945
Right here in this little sack.
1468
01:26:24,112 --> 01:26:27,674
What has $100 bill
got to do with anything?
1469
01:26:27,849 --> 01:26:31,513
He said, "What's $100
bill got to do with anything?"
1470
01:26:31,987 --> 01:26:33,979
I was just getting to that.
1471
01:26:34,156 --> 01:26:36,625
Scout's honor, Your Honor.
1472
01:26:38,326 --> 01:26:40,420
Go ahead, fast.
1473
01:26:40,595 --> 01:26:42,029
Okay.
1474
01:26:43,231 --> 01:26:45,723
You know where I got
this $100 bill, Mr. Jefferies?
1475
01:26:46,101 --> 01:26:47,763
I have no idea.
1476
01:26:47,936 --> 01:26:49,734
Your wife gave it to me.
1477
01:26:53,008 --> 01:26:56,843
Detective Marks saw her
give it to me the other day
1478
01:26:57,012 --> 01:27:00,210
in exchange for
some smaller bills.
1479
01:27:00,549 --> 01:27:02,848
It occurred to me
1480
01:27:03,018 --> 01:27:06,750
that it might be
one of $100 bills
1481
01:27:06,922 --> 01:27:10,757
that Brad took to Adam
Easley the night of the murder.
1482
01:27:10,926 --> 01:27:14,988
And I hoped the lab
could find fingerprints.
1483
01:27:15,163 --> 01:27:17,428
What they found was even better.
1484
01:27:17,599 --> 01:27:18,623
Know what it was?
1485
01:27:19,768 --> 01:27:21,634
Again, I have no idea.
1486
01:27:24,406 --> 01:27:27,774
Traces of Adam Easley's blood.
1487
01:27:28,744 --> 01:27:31,942
It was part of the
missing blackmail money.
1488
01:27:33,448 --> 01:27:35,747
How'd your wife end up with it?
1489
01:27:36,418 --> 01:27:37,511
You gave it to her.
1490
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:40,648
How did you end up with it?
1491
01:27:40,822 --> 01:27:44,953
It was part of the money you took
out of that blood-soaked briefcase
1492
01:27:45,127 --> 01:27:48,393
after you stabbed
Adam Easley to death.
1493
01:27:49,164 --> 01:27:51,599
Wasn't it, Mr. Jefferies?
1494
01:27:54,836 --> 01:27:56,862
No more questions.
1495
01:28:08,450 --> 01:28:12,444
We find the defendant,
Ellen Barrett, not guilty.
1496
01:28:13,088 --> 01:28:14,499
JUDGE: Thank you,
ladies and gentlemen.
1497
01:28:14,523 --> 01:28:18,153
Bail is exonerated and
the defendant is free to go.
1498
01:28:19,928 --> 01:28:21,487
Mom.
1499
01:28:27,435 --> 01:28:28,459
Congratulations.
1500
01:28:28,637 --> 01:28:30,265
Thank you.
1501
01:28:35,777 --> 01:28:39,270
Okay, I'm taking
both of you to lunch.
1502
01:28:39,447 --> 01:28:42,975
Now that you're both unemployed
and we have nothing better to do,
1503
01:28:43,151 --> 01:28:46,747
maybe we can finally learn
how to talk to one another.
1504
01:28:59,568 --> 01:29:01,264
Go to lunch?
1505
01:29:01,770 --> 01:29:03,864
After whipping
my tail like that?
1506
01:29:04,039 --> 01:29:05,598
Making a fool out of me?
1507
01:29:05,774 --> 01:29:08,300
Humiliating me in
front of my peers?
1508
01:29:08,476 --> 01:29:11,105
- I'm buying.
- I'm easy.
1509
01:29:33,468 --> 01:29:35,699
MATLOCK: You think
we'll all fit in that car?
1510
01:29:35,871 --> 01:29:37,430
BILLY: It'll be a tight squeeze.
1511
01:29:37,606 --> 01:29:40,440
No worse than the cheap
seats on most airplanes.
1512
01:29:40,609 --> 01:29:43,443
Lord knows you're used to them.
1513
01:29:44,512 --> 01:29:46,174
Oh, I don't know, Ben.
1514
01:29:46,348 --> 01:29:47,782
What?
1515
01:29:48,516 --> 01:29:52,954
Think I should have sold
Lucy's house like that?
1516
01:29:54,055 --> 01:29:58,254
It's a little late for
seller's remorse, Billy.
1517
01:29:58,426 --> 01:30:02,830
Yeah, but she was my sister.
1518
01:30:03,331 --> 01:30:06,392
She spent her last years here.
1519
01:30:06,801 --> 01:30:09,066
Now, thanks to me,
1520
01:30:09,237 --> 01:30:12,173
they're gonna tear it all
down and plow it under
1521
01:30:12,340 --> 01:30:15,640
like some big patch of weeds.
1522
01:30:17,279 --> 01:30:19,180
Maybe I shouldn't have sold it.
1523
01:30:19,347 --> 01:30:22,476
Maybe I should've
just let it sit.
1524
01:30:23,218 --> 01:30:26,985
- Kind of like the Lincoln Memorial.
- Yeah.
1525
01:30:29,024 --> 01:30:33,724
Billy, I think it's good for
you to feel guilty like this.
1526
01:30:33,895 --> 01:30:37,332
And I don't wish to
speak evil of the dead,
1527
01:30:38,066 --> 01:30:41,036
but I think you're
forgetting something here.
1528
01:30:41,603 --> 01:30:44,869
Lucy was nasty,
1529
01:30:45,740 --> 01:30:50,337
mean, ornery,
hateful, muleheaded.
1530
01:30:50,845 --> 01:30:54,612
And you had to live
with her for 40 years.
1531
01:30:54,783 --> 01:30:59,153
You gave up 40 years
of your life. Forty years.
1532
01:31:00,488 --> 01:31:02,650
You hated her, Billy.
1533
01:31:04,826 --> 01:31:06,624
Thanks, Ben.
1534
01:31:07,062 --> 01:31:08,860
I needed that.
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