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You're a dead man.
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[Jessica] Tonight on Murder, She Wrote.
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Sure was a good idea of yours,
Jessica, this tv exposure.
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Well, honestly I didn't originate it.
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Will you kindly get your equipment
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out of my flower beds?
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Scrutiny is a hit for one reason,
and you're lookin' at him.
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He was a credit to his profession.
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He was a lowdown, two-timing snake.
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It might be healthy for you
to get out of town for awhile.
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That big fellow you saw-
he could be dangerous.
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You there! Hold it!
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[cheerful orchestral music]
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[piano playing]
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Ronald Ross,
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yours is acknowledged
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to be one of the
finest private collections
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of abstract expressionism in the country.
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Quite obviously, you're not
one of those gentlemen
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who, uh, knows what he likes
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but doesn't know anything about art.
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Well, actually, Kevin,
I have a degree in art.
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Oh, and now you're, um, what--
an entrepreneur?
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Whatever that means.
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In your case, doesn't that mean
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the selling of illegal drugs
smuggled in from South america?
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Someone's been putting you on, Mr. Keats.
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I'm a legitimate businessman.
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Successful businessman,
I'll grant you that,
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but not legitimate.
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Isn't your primary commodity cocaine?
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Oh, come on.
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You were in Miami two weeks ago--
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true or false?
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I had a business meeting--
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With a gentleman
by the name of Jose Amaldo.
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-Lousy creep.
-Jose amaldo...
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how'd he know that?
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Who is shown in these candid photos,
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has been named 17 times
as a major narcotics distributor
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by the house committee report
on drugs and organized crime.
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This wasn't your first
meeting, was it, Mr. Ross?
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I can't tell you
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how disappointed I am Mr. Keats.
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'Cause I love to show off
my art collection.
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Well, Mr. Ross may hope it ends there,
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but I've been promised
new and revealing information,
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which you can see next week
right here on scrutiny:
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part two in "the profile of an art lover."
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You're a dead man.
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Good night, Nick.
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Good night. And good night, Paula.
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Good night, America.
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Oh, I enjoy your show, Miss Roman.
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I'm just not sure that
I want to expose myself
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to one of those, uh,
soul-baring interviews.
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Oh, no, that's Kevin Keats' department.
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Mine are the down-home feats,
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and I would love to show America
J.B. Fletcher's Cabot Cove.
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Oh, dear, don't you think that
sounds a little bit pretentious?
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No, not at all.
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What I have in mind
is a very gentle portrait
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of a small New England town
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as seen through the eyes
of one of its leading citizens.
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Mrs. Fletcher, please.
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I really went to bat for this,
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and you've always been very special to me.
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[laughs]
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Well, all right.
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I'll bring it up at the town meeting,
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and if the town decides
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they want to pose for a video portrait,
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well, I'll do my part.
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Oh, good.
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I've never been turned down by a town yet.
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-Oh, really?
-Thank you.
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I know you've got a lot of work to do,
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so I'm going to make this short.
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Despite rumors to the contrary,
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the network isn't at all discouraged
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by the way things are going.
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Why should they be?
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We're consistently winning our time slot.
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We're still in the top 20.
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That's not number one.
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It's not 65, either.
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Are they really that worried
about our ratings?
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Well, there is the matter
of the new audience survey.
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Doug, you remember our conversation?
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Richard, I don't need this pressure
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when I'm trying to put a show together.
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Pressure? Listen, buddy-boy...
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you don't know what pressure is.
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You're only the producer here, remember?
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Well, nobody forced you
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to be vice president
in charge of the news.
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Somebody had to do it.
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You could have suggested
they give the job to a newsman.
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-Here, here.
-"Newsperson," please.
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Look, look, look.
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You guys have no idea
the heat that I take for you.
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Richard, will you get out
of here and let us work?
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Doug, don't make me
look bad on the top floor.
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I don't have to make you look bad.
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You're able to do that all by yourself.
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Well, now that
we've all had a little laugh
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at the expense of the enemy,
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what do you think
of Paula's Cabot Cove idea?
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I think it's brilliant.
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Make a great Americana segment.
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Thank you.
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Only you're not doing it.
I've got something else for you.
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A nebraska high school boy's
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been accepted
on the girls' basketball team.
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Ought to be a lot of good stuff there.
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Oh, sure. This is very funny.
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Now, please, let's talk about
my cabot cove piece.
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I'm giving it to Kevin.
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-What?
-I want you there tomorrow.
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You've got to be out of your mind, pal.
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I mean, I'm prepping part two
of the Ron Ross expose.
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Uh, well, there's not going
to be a part two.
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The legal department killed it.
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That stinks, Doug.
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The sweet smell of sup-press.
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In view of the death threats
you've received, Kevin,
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it might be healthy for you
to get out of town for awhile.
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-What death threats?
-Cranks.
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What else, you know?
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Don't you worry about your Cabot Cove gig.
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I have no intention of drowning
in the backwaters of maine.
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Check your contracts. You have a choice.
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Either take the assignment
or go off salary.
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On the other hand, I've always
loved the smell of sea air.
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I hope the tide's in.
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[orchestra music playing]
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[chattering]
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-Jessica.
-Oh, good morning, Wylie.
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Here, let me help you with that.
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Oh, thanks a lot.
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Well, it looks like
you bought out the whole store.
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Oh, I just got a few things.
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-Uh-huh.
-Good morning.
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Including a new outfit
to wear on television?
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It's one of the symptoms.
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-Oh, is it going around?
-Lots of foolishness.
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[laughs]
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Everything shined up.
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Everybody's wearing their easter duds.
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I even saw Nils Anderson
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slapping on a fresh coat of paint.
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Well, I don't see anything
foolish about that.
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How nice does a live bait
stand have to look?
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[laughs]
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It's getting out of hand,
Jessica, this tv business.
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Well, they took a vote
at the town meeting,
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and everybody voted "aye."
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All except one sorehead that I could name.
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Mm-hmm, Seth Hazlitt.
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And you notice he's not here
for the festivities.
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Now, where is Seth? I haven't seen him.
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Had a sudden yen to visit
his sister in South carolina.
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Stuck me with all his patients
till next Tuesday.
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Jessica!
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Uh, hold up there!
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Been trying to get you
on the phone all morning.
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Uh, when are those tv people
coming in from new York?
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Oh, they'll be here sometime today.
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Couldn't be more specific, could you?
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Thinking about organizing a little,
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uh, welcoming ceremony.
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Oh, well, I don't think
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that anything special is called for, Sam.
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I mean, they're just coming
to town to do a job.
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Oh, they'll do a job,
all right, on cabot cove.
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Have you ever seen that show?
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Yeah, and so has the rest
of the country, doctor.
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Good publicity means summer visitors.
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More trade for the merchants.
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Sure was a good idea of yours,
Jessica, this tv exposure.
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Well, honestly I didn't originate it.
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I believe in giving credit
where credit's due.
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Well, got to see to my haircut.
Want to look good for camera.
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You're wrong, Wylie.
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Paula Roman loves this town
as much as I do,
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and she told me that
this segment is going to be
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like a beautiful postcard.
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-Mm?
-And I believe her.
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Mmm, I just hope the rest of the country
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doesn't become so entranced
that they come racing up here
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in their trailers and campers and...
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[clattering]
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-vans.
-over here.
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no, lift it more this way.
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Good Lord!
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-Who's gonna get the dolly?
-I'll get the coffee.
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Hey, Mike. Bring the dolly, will you?
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Young man?
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Will you kindly get your
equipment out of my flower beds?
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Move it, please, now.
Who's in charge here?
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-Uh, Mrs. Fletcher?
-Yes.
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-I'm Kevin Keats.
-Oh, how do you do?
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Well, uh, where's miss Roman?
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Uh, Paula's been reassigned.
I'll be handling this segment.
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You? Oh, oh, uh, I thought
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You see, miss Roman assured me
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that this was not going to be, uh
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Well, a certain kind of interview.
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Is this the way you always look?
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Well, is there anything wrong
with the way I look?
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No, it's just that my image
of you is, uh, more homespun.
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Oh.
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World-famous author,
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highly intelligent and sophisticated.
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[laughs]
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It makes you wonder, J.B. Fletcher,
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how you came to be buried in a tiny town
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in the back of Maine where the people are,
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if you'll forgive me,
hardly your intellectual equals?
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Uh, let's stop right now Mr. Keats.
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I'm sorry, but I really can't allow you
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to insult my friends and my--My home.
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Uh, look, if this is what you're after,
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then you'll have to leave me out of it.
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I'm sorry.
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Now I know who the real
tough guy is in this twosome.
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You forgive me? Can we start again?
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Yes, of course.
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Jessica Beatrice Fletcher.
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J.B. Fletcher,
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writer of best-selling
mystery novels, world traveler.
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You could live almost anywhere
in the world.
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Why choose Cabot Cove, Maine?
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Well, my roots are here,
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and I've spent many happy years
with my late husband here.
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-Sentimental attachment?
-Oh, much more than that.
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I mean, I'm in touch with
the rest of the world, but, uh--
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Well, I can be apart from it
when I need to be.
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I mean, take my house, for instance.
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Frank and I bought that drafty old place
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about 30 years ago,
and I-i hung the pictures,
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and I-i planted all the little plants,
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and I learned how to put up
the storm windows--
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But it's still drafty, you understand?
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And this is where Frank died and uh,
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and where I began a new life.
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I don't think I've ever really
thought of living anywhere else.
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Is it always this quiet?
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On a good day you can hear the wind,
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the ocean, and the seagulls.
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[door slams]
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Mrs. Fletcher!
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00:11:47,874 --> 00:11:49,501
And which is that?
254
00:11:49,584 --> 00:11:51,503
The darndest thing just happened.
255
00:11:51,586 --> 00:11:53,547
Uh, Amos uh Sheriff Amos Tupper.
256
00:11:53,630 --> 00:11:55,715
How do. I just picked up my new suit.
257
00:11:55,799 --> 00:11:57,926
The one I bought for the television show,
258
00:11:58,009 --> 00:11:59,970
and I was sort of gettin'
the feel of it behind the wheel,
259
00:12:00,053 --> 00:12:01,805
and I looked up and I saw this helicopter
260
00:12:01,888 --> 00:12:03,181
set down out on the bluffs.
261
00:12:03,265 --> 00:12:05,642
-Hey, cut it!
-Do you mind?
262
00:12:05,725 --> 00:12:07,060
I'm trying to talk to Mrs. Fletcher.
263
00:12:07,144 --> 00:12:10,063
Anyhow, this great,
big, bald-headed fella,
264
00:12:10,147 --> 00:12:12,816
he gets out,
and there's this long limousine
265
00:12:12,899 --> 00:12:14,734
just waitin' there to whisk him into town.
266
00:12:14,818 --> 00:12:17,737
I'll bet you anything
he's one of those tv fellas.
267
00:12:17,821 --> 00:12:20,198
You say this fella was uh big and bald?
268
00:12:20,282 --> 00:12:22,325
Yeah, about 6'3".
269
00:12:22,409 --> 00:12:24,161
Say, who is this nosy Parker?
270
00:12:24,244 --> 00:12:26,496
Uh, Amos this is Kevin Keats.
271
00:12:26,580 --> 00:12:29,666
Keat--Keats? Oh.
272
00:12:29,749 --> 00:12:34,421
Oh, well, Sir,
you look a lot taller on tv.
273
00:12:34,504 --> 00:12:37,299
Amos, you just walked into
the middle of a tv interview.
274
00:12:39,342 --> 00:12:40,385
That so?
275
00:12:43,555 --> 00:12:45,599
Oh, uh, I-i-i hope that that wasn't
276
00:12:45,682 --> 00:12:47,517
-Oh, no, no, I had them cut it.
-Oh.
277
00:12:47,601 --> 00:12:50,687
In any case, Mrs. Fletcher,
your nose is a little shiny.
278
00:12:50,770 --> 00:12:52,147
Uh, makeup! Hair.
279
00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:57,819
Take your time now. Don't rush it, huh?
280
00:12:57,903 --> 00:12:59,946
Thank you.
281
00:13:00,030 --> 00:13:02,240
-Sheriff, could I talk to you?
-Mm-hmm.
282
00:13:02,324 --> 00:13:05,035
That big fellow you saw arriving
283
00:13:05,118 --> 00:13:07,621
If it's who I think it is,
he could be dangerous.
284
00:13:07,704 --> 00:13:09,623
Dangerous?
285
00:13:09,706 --> 00:13:11,374
I may need your help
getting away from him.
286
00:13:11,458 --> 00:13:13,210
No need, Sir.
I'll just have him picked up.
287
00:13:13,293 --> 00:13:15,962
On what charge? Suspicion of being ugly?
288
00:13:16,046 --> 00:13:18,924
I'd prefer to handle it
my own way, if you don't mind.
289
00:13:19,007 --> 00:13:20,967
Could you arrange to have a boat for me
290
00:13:21,051 --> 00:13:22,093
by sunrise tomorrow morning?
291
00:13:22,177 --> 00:13:23,845
-A boat?
-Yeah.
292
00:13:23,929 --> 00:13:25,972
Not too small, but something
I can handle by myself.
293
00:13:26,932 --> 00:13:28,433
Sure. I'll take care of it personally.
294
00:13:28,517 --> 00:13:29,601
Thanks.
295
00:13:29,684 --> 00:13:31,144
[phone rings]
296
00:13:31,228 --> 00:13:32,354
Hill House.
297
00:13:34,314 --> 00:13:37,901
Uh, Mr. Keats? Telephone for you.
298
00:13:42,197 --> 00:13:43,573
It's a lady.
299
00:13:43,657 --> 00:13:45,075
You can take it here at the desk.
300
00:13:45,158 --> 00:13:46,743
Thanks.
301
00:13:46,826 --> 00:13:48,578
Uh, for your information,
302
00:13:48,662 --> 00:13:51,915
the hotel was once featured
in the national geographic.
303
00:13:51,998 --> 00:13:53,542
It photographs like a million dollars,
304
00:13:53,625 --> 00:13:55,001
inside and out.
305
00:13:55,794 --> 00:13:57,087
If you'd care to set up your cameras,
306
00:13:57,170 --> 00:13:58,463
why, you could take--
307
00:14:00,131 --> 00:14:01,216
Excuse me.
308
00:14:03,677 --> 00:14:04,761
Hello.
309
00:14:04,844 --> 00:14:06,221
Hello, you monster.
310
00:14:07,264 --> 00:14:08,765
Judith, is that you?
311
00:14:09,182 --> 00:14:10,600
I know what you're doing, Kevin.
312
00:14:10,684 --> 00:14:12,811
You understand? I know what you're up to.
313
00:14:12,894 --> 00:14:14,604
It's not your business any more, Judith.
314
00:14:14,688 --> 00:14:16,022
Don't intrude in my life.
315
00:14:16,106 --> 00:14:17,482
You really should learn the difference
316
00:14:17,566 --> 00:14:19,776
between an intrusion and a warning.
317
00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:23,822
Don't threaten me. Don't ever threaten me.
318
00:14:31,246 --> 00:14:34,583
Kevin, hold on. We've got to talk.
319
00:14:35,083 --> 00:14:36,251
I have more important things to do
320
00:14:36,334 --> 00:14:37,669
than waste time with you, Helman.
321
00:14:37,752 --> 00:14:40,463
Hey, hey, now, now. Come on.
322
00:14:40,547 --> 00:14:42,090
Putting you on this story
323
00:14:42,173 --> 00:14:44,718
was a change of pace, a fresh approach.
324
00:14:44,801 --> 00:14:46,469
Don't take it personally.
325
00:14:47,304 --> 00:14:49,180
Oh, but I do.
326
00:14:49,264 --> 00:14:50,473
Scrutiny's a hit for one reason,
327
00:14:50,557 --> 00:14:52,267
and you're lookin' at him.
328
00:14:52,350 --> 00:14:54,769
They toss out producers
like so many empty beer cans,
329
00:14:54,853 --> 00:14:56,187
but I keep rolling along.
330
00:14:56,563 --> 00:14:58,064
So you get off my back
331
00:14:58,148 --> 00:14:59,691
before I do something you'll regret.
332
00:15:21,546 --> 00:15:23,882
-Morning.
-Morning, sheriff.
333
00:15:23,965 --> 00:15:25,759
Well, there she is.
334
00:15:25,842 --> 00:15:27,052
Not much to look at,
335
00:15:27,135 --> 00:15:29,471
but Augie Wilkins swears she's yar.
336
00:15:30,388 --> 00:15:31,514
Yar?
337
00:15:31,598 --> 00:15:33,391
-Easy to handle.
-Oh, yeah.
338
00:15:33,475 --> 00:15:35,644
Well, I'm sure
she'll do just fine, sheriff.
339
00:15:35,727 --> 00:15:38,563
Augie Wilkins wanted a $100 deposit.
340
00:15:38,647 --> 00:15:40,190
Paid for it out of my own pocket.
341
00:15:40,273 --> 00:15:42,233
Well, I can't thank you enough.
342
00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:45,779
-Mr. Keats?
-Yeah?
343
00:15:45,862 --> 00:15:48,740
We haven't talked
about the rental fee yet.
344
00:15:49,491 --> 00:15:50,492
Right.
345
00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:52,410
And there's my $100.
346
00:15:52,494 --> 00:15:53,953
[engine starts]
347
00:16:01,836 --> 00:16:03,380
You there! Hold it!
348
00:16:10,303 --> 00:16:11,513
[explosion]
349
00:16:25,568 --> 00:16:27,404
I know it's early,
350
00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:29,906
but I thought you'd like to hear
there's nothing to worry about.
351
00:16:29,989 --> 00:16:31,950
The matter has resolved itself.
352
00:16:32,492 --> 00:16:33,785
You're a little late.
353
00:16:33,868 --> 00:16:36,371
I've already heard it live
from Paula Roman on the scene.
354
00:16:37,831 --> 00:16:40,125
Let me understand this, sheriff.
355
00:16:40,208 --> 00:16:42,544
You were waiting here
for Kevin Keats at daybreak.
356
00:16:42,627 --> 00:16:43,795
Why?
357
00:16:43,878 --> 00:16:46,131
Mr. Keats asked me to rent a boat for him.
358
00:16:46,214 --> 00:16:47,382
You rented the boat?
359
00:16:47,465 --> 00:16:49,676
Yes, ma'am, at his request.
360
00:16:49,759 --> 00:16:52,554
Sort of an unofficial favor.
361
00:16:52,637 --> 00:16:54,389
And you are certain that the explosion
362
00:16:54,472 --> 00:16:56,015
was not caused by leaking fuel?
363
00:16:56,099 --> 00:16:58,560
Oh, no, ma'am. It was a bomb, all right.
364
00:16:58,643 --> 00:17:01,312
Has any evidence been recovered?
365
00:17:01,396 --> 00:17:03,815
Well, not yet, ma'am,
but I've got divers searching.
366
00:17:06,776 --> 00:17:08,528
Uh, excuse me, sheriff,
367
00:17:08,611 --> 00:17:10,780
but I think your deputy
wants to talk with you.
368
00:17:10,864 --> 00:17:12,532
What is it, Charlie?
369
00:17:12,615 --> 00:17:14,617
Sheriff, they just recovered
a body from the water.
370
00:17:14,701 --> 00:17:16,870
It doesn't look like
it'll be easy to identify.
371
00:17:16,953 --> 00:17:19,914
-Excuse me, ma'am.
-Yes.
372
00:17:19,998 --> 00:17:22,542
Uh, this has been a special report,
373
00:17:22,625 --> 00:17:24,419
live from Cabot Cove, Maine,
374
00:17:24,502 --> 00:17:27,589
the scene of the tragic
and mysterious death
375
00:17:27,672 --> 00:17:30,258
of anchorman Kevin Keats.
376
00:17:30,341 --> 00:17:31,426
Please stay tuned to this station
377
00:17:31,509 --> 00:17:33,136
for any new developments.
378
00:17:33,219 --> 00:17:34,262
I'm Paula Roman.
379
00:17:36,973 --> 00:17:38,641
[murmuring, crying]
380
00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:42,395
I don't like this, Jessica. Not one bit.
381
00:17:51,529 --> 00:17:53,907
Paula, are you all right?
382
00:17:53,990 --> 00:17:55,366
Aside from being somewhat shattered,
383
00:17:55,450 --> 00:17:58,077
I guess I'm just exhausted.
384
00:17:58,161 --> 00:17:59,370
I caught that first morning flight
385
00:17:59,454 --> 00:18:00,538
out of New York, you know.
386
00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:05,335
Uh, I'm staying at the hotel
if you need a ride.
387
00:18:05,418 --> 00:18:06,753
-Please.
-Okay.
388
00:18:11,132 --> 00:18:14,803
[music playing]
389
00:18:17,931 --> 00:18:20,433
Miss Roman, may I express my condolences
390
00:18:20,517 --> 00:18:21,935
on the loss of your colleague.
391
00:18:22,018 --> 00:18:24,020
Yes, thank you uh, Mr.--
392
00:18:24,103 --> 00:18:27,190
I'm George Fish,
and it's an honor to meet you.
393
00:18:27,273 --> 00:18:28,608
-George manages the hotel.
-Oh.
394
00:18:28,691 --> 00:18:30,735
The tv folks have set up an office
395
00:18:30,819 --> 00:18:31,903
in the private dining room.
396
00:18:31,986 --> 00:18:33,905
It's this way.
397
00:18:33,988 --> 00:18:36,324
A terrible tragedy,
and it's so hard to believe.
398
00:18:36,407 --> 00:18:40,411
Why, only last night,
poor Mr. Keats was saying
399
00:18:40,495 --> 00:18:43,081
how this hotel would photograph
like a million dollars.
400
00:18:43,164 --> 00:18:44,582
Mrs. Fletcher!
401
00:18:44,666 --> 00:18:46,334
The darndest thing just happened.
402
00:18:46,417 --> 00:18:47,710
[tape fast-forwarding]
403
00:18:47,794 --> 00:18:48,837
Great, but keep the sheriff in
404
00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:49,921
'cause he's part of the story.
405
00:18:50,004 --> 00:18:52,006
Nick.
406
00:18:52,090 --> 00:18:55,760
Oh. Yeah, I know, kid, I know.
407
00:18:55,844 --> 00:18:59,889
I didn't expect to see you.
I'm so glad you're here.
408
00:18:59,973 --> 00:19:02,058
Oh, uh, Jessica, this is Nick Brody.
409
00:19:02,141 --> 00:19:04,018
-Jessica Fletcher.
-Well, how do you do?
410
00:19:04,102 --> 00:19:05,228
Oh, a pleasure.
411
00:19:05,311 --> 00:19:06,813
Like the rest of america,
412
00:19:06,896 --> 00:19:08,731
I've been a fan
of Nick Brody and the news.
413
00:19:08,815 --> 00:19:10,149
You're very kind.
414
00:19:10,233 --> 00:19:12,652
I guess I am kind of an institution.
415
00:19:12,735 --> 00:19:15,530
Something like the Staten Island ferry.
416
00:19:15,613 --> 00:19:17,407
Where's Doug?
Doug Helman, he's our producer.
417
00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:19,158
Nobody seems to know.
418
00:19:19,242 --> 00:19:20,952
He checked in last night,
then left early this morning,
419
00:19:21,035 --> 00:19:22,495
and nobody's seen him since.
420
00:19:22,579 --> 00:19:24,163
He hasn't even called
to pick up his messages.
421
00:19:24,247 --> 00:19:25,957
He's probably off climbing
a mountain somewhere.
422
00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,167
Well, kid, are you ready to go to work?
423
00:19:29,794 --> 00:19:31,504
The network wants me to fill in for Doug.
424
00:19:31,588 --> 00:19:33,548
They want a special on Kevin
in the scrutiny time slot.
425
00:19:33,631 --> 00:19:34,966
[sighing]
426
00:19:35,049 --> 00:19:36,342
Oh, Nick.
427
00:19:36,426 --> 00:19:37,343
Hey, hey, kid that's the way it is,
428
00:19:37,427 --> 00:19:39,095
like it or not.
429
00:19:39,178 --> 00:19:41,472
It's news and that's what we peddle.
430
00:19:41,556 --> 00:19:43,057
Why don't you grab some coffee?
431
00:19:43,141 --> 00:19:44,976
I'm going to take another look
at this tape.
432
00:19:45,059 --> 00:19:47,228
Sorry, now I know who the real tough guy
433
00:19:47,312 --> 00:19:48,855
is in this twosome.
434
00:19:48,938 --> 00:19:50,940
I'll take mine black, please.
435
00:19:51,024 --> 00:19:52,108
[sighing]
436
00:19:52,191 --> 00:19:54,819
Jessica, I noticed a strange look
437
00:19:54,903 --> 00:19:56,696
on your face down at the waterfront
438
00:19:56,779 --> 00:19:58,948
when I told you that I flew in
from new York this morning.
439
00:19:59,032 --> 00:20:00,825
With the amount of traveling that I do,
440
00:20:00,909 --> 00:20:02,911
I know the schedules by heart.
441
00:20:02,994 --> 00:20:05,955
You were on the air a half-hour
before the first flight
442
00:20:06,039 --> 00:20:07,665
from New York landed in Portland.
443
00:20:07,749 --> 00:20:10,084
[sighs]
444
00:20:10,168 --> 00:20:11,794
I'm such a terrible liar.
445
00:20:11,878 --> 00:20:13,212
I don't know
what I'm doing in this business.
446
00:20:15,757 --> 00:20:19,218
I flew in last night with Doug Helman.
447
00:20:19,302 --> 00:20:21,471
It just seemed a lot easier to lie,
448
00:20:21,554 --> 00:20:22,805
and not because I murdered Kevin.
449
00:20:24,182 --> 00:20:25,934
Because you spent the night with him?
450
00:20:26,017 --> 00:20:27,685
How did you know that?
451
00:20:27,769 --> 00:20:30,813
You didn't recognize the hotel manager,
452
00:20:30,897 --> 00:20:32,190
which means that you didn't check into
453
00:20:32,273 --> 00:20:33,983
your own room last night.
454
00:20:34,067 --> 00:20:38,154
George Fish is always on hand
to welcome celebrities.
455
00:20:38,237 --> 00:20:40,031
Kevin has been trying to reach
a divorce agreement
456
00:20:40,114 --> 00:20:41,950
with his wife who lives in California,
457
00:20:42,033 --> 00:20:44,452
and he didn't want to complicate matters.
458
00:20:44,535 --> 00:20:46,204
He told me that she phoned last night.
459
00:20:47,538 --> 00:20:49,123
She heard somehow that I was here,
460
00:20:49,207 --> 00:20:51,501
and she threatened him.
461
00:20:51,584 --> 00:20:53,294
Maybe she did more than just threaten.
462
00:20:53,378 --> 00:20:56,130
-From California?
-Hey, kid.
463
00:20:56,214 --> 00:20:58,049
I've got a call in
to dickie Abbott at the network.
464
00:20:58,132 --> 00:20:59,384
Pick up the phone, will you?
465
00:20:59,467 --> 00:21:01,260
And tell him what's going on up here?
466
00:21:01,344 --> 00:21:04,138
Oh, Nick, you're beginning
to sound like a producer.
467
00:21:04,222 --> 00:21:05,598
Oh, it's worse than that.
468
00:21:05,682 --> 00:21:06,891
I'm beginning to think like one.
469
00:21:06,975 --> 00:21:08,184
[phone rings]
470
00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:11,270
Yeah. Brody.
471
00:21:13,731 --> 00:21:14,732
Come again?
472
00:21:16,567 --> 00:21:19,028
What is this, a conspiracy?
473
00:21:19,112 --> 00:21:20,530
Now Abbott's disappeared.
474
00:21:20,613 --> 00:21:22,156
He left his New York office last night,
475
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,200
and nobody's seen him since.
476
00:21:24,283 --> 00:21:26,911
What a hell of a way to run a network.
477
00:21:26,995 --> 00:21:28,454
Perhaps the greatest tragedy
478
00:21:28,538 --> 00:21:31,165
is where Kevin Keats met his end.
479
00:21:31,249 --> 00:21:34,502
Urbane, hard-nosed,
a legend in his own time,
480
00:21:34,585 --> 00:21:36,337
a man who faced death a hundred times
481
00:21:36,421 --> 00:21:38,256
in hot spots all around the world,
482
00:21:38,339 --> 00:21:40,883
keats was blown to bits
in a jerkwater village
483
00:21:40,967 --> 00:21:43,094
where even the crickets die of boredom,
484
00:21:43,177 --> 00:21:45,430
where the part-time mayor
conducts town business
485
00:21:45,513 --> 00:21:47,974
from a 5x5 room in the back of his office,
486
00:21:48,057 --> 00:21:49,726
and the sheriff is responsible
487
00:21:49,809 --> 00:21:51,436
for supplying the boat
that caused his death.
488
00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:53,938
[chattering]
489
00:21:54,022 --> 00:21:55,732
I insist on seeing
miss Roman this very minute.
490
00:21:55,815 --> 00:21:57,358
Clara, will you keep your dress on?
491
00:21:57,442 --> 00:21:59,193
This is not the
annual Church social, dear.
492
00:21:59,277 --> 00:22:00,903
I've got some real reporters here.
493
00:22:00,987 --> 00:22:03,114
-Lady, do you mind?
-I'm trying to get a room here.
494
00:22:03,197 --> 00:22:05,658
-You got any messages for me?
-Fowler, 231. Fowler.
495
00:22:05,742 --> 00:22:07,827
[chattering]
496
00:22:12,290 --> 00:22:14,917
Sam? Sam, what are you doing?
497
00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:17,295
Funny, Jessica, I was about
to ask you the same thing.
498
00:22:17,378 --> 00:22:20,256
You got any idea
what's going on in this town?
499
00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:22,300
You can't turn around
without some fool photographer
500
00:22:22,383 --> 00:22:23,676
flashing a camera in your face.
501
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,012
Sam, when a celebrity is killed,
502
00:22:26,095 --> 00:22:27,805
you have to expect--
503
00:22:27,889 --> 00:22:30,475
This is all your doing.
You and your publicity seekin'.
504
00:22:30,558 --> 00:22:32,226
Now just one moment, Sam.
505
00:22:32,310 --> 00:22:34,395
You talk us into letting them
tv cameras into town,
506
00:22:34,479 --> 00:22:36,856
and now we're the laughingstock
of the country.
507
00:22:36,939 --> 00:22:39,817
Me, Amos Tupper, the lot of us.
I won't have it.
508
00:22:39,901 --> 00:22:41,903
Yes, but what's going on is not my fault.
509
00:22:41,986 --> 00:22:44,947
Not the way I see it,
or anybody else, either.
510
00:22:45,031 --> 00:22:47,241
Well, what do you expect me
to do about it?
511
00:22:47,325 --> 00:22:49,952
I mean, as long as
the murder remains unsolved,
512
00:22:50,036 --> 00:22:51,370
the media are going to hang around.
513
00:22:51,454 --> 00:22:53,664
-Sam--
-Then get it solved.
514
00:22:54,415 --> 00:22:55,750
Find out what happened, Jessica,
515
00:22:55,833 --> 00:22:57,335
and get 'em the hell out of here.
516
00:22:57,418 --> 00:22:59,003
Your mess. You clean it up.
517
00:23:00,421 --> 00:23:01,964
[sighs]
518
00:23:13,226 --> 00:23:14,227
[phone rings]
519
00:23:14,310 --> 00:23:16,562
-Mr. Fish!
-Hill house?
520
00:23:16,646 --> 00:23:18,689
George, this is Jessica Fletcher.
521
00:23:18,773 --> 00:23:21,317
I don't think I care
to talk to you right now, ma'am.
522
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,237
Look, George, if you want
to get rid of the mob
523
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,989
that is cluttering up the lobby,
please help me.
524
00:23:27,907 --> 00:23:32,203
Last evening, I understand
that Mr. Keats' wife called him.
525
00:23:32,286 --> 00:23:34,705
Could you tell me the time
526
00:23:34,789 --> 00:23:37,416
and the number in california
that she was calling from?
527
00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:39,836
The time was about 7:00,
528
00:23:39,919 --> 00:23:42,296
but, uh, she wasn't calling
from california.
529
00:23:42,380 --> 00:23:43,297
Left a local number.
530
00:23:44,590 --> 00:23:48,886
-Local?
-555-8901.
531
00:23:48,970 --> 00:23:51,764
That's the idle hour motel
up near the interstate.
532
00:23:51,848 --> 00:23:53,266
Thank you.
533
00:23:55,893 --> 00:23:57,603
Now, Sheriff, this big bald man.
534
00:23:57,687 --> 00:23:59,939
You're sure you'd recognize him
if you saw him again?
535
00:24:00,022 --> 00:24:00,940
A big, ugly fella like that?
536
00:24:01,023 --> 00:24:02,400
[laughs]
537
00:24:02,483 --> 00:24:05,278
That's not a face one's likely to forget.
538
00:24:05,361 --> 00:24:06,946
Okay, let's take a look.
539
00:24:10,158 --> 00:24:12,827
'Cause I love to show off
my art collection.
540
00:24:12,910 --> 00:24:14,120
[grunts]
541
00:24:14,203 --> 00:24:15,830
That's him!
542
00:24:15,913 --> 00:24:17,623
That's the fella
I saw runnin' from the boat.
543
00:24:17,707 --> 00:24:19,041
Run it back.
544
00:24:20,751 --> 00:24:21,752
Freeze it.
545
00:24:24,505 --> 00:24:26,215
Well, I think we've just got us
546
00:24:26,299 --> 00:24:29,010
a sensational ending for our special.
547
00:24:29,093 --> 00:24:30,386
More than that, I hope.
548
00:24:32,722 --> 00:24:34,140
Mr. Ross may hope it ends there,
549
00:24:34,223 --> 00:24:35,516
but I've been promised--
550
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,352
world lost a great man Miss Roman.
551
00:24:38,436 --> 00:24:40,771
He was a credit to his profession.
552
00:24:40,855 --> 00:24:43,482
He was a low-down, two-timing snake.
553
00:24:43,566 --> 00:24:45,902
I really can't think of anything good
554
00:24:45,985 --> 00:24:48,738
to say about him, living or dead.
555
00:24:48,821 --> 00:24:51,657
Well, 3,000 miles is
an awfully long way to travel
556
00:24:51,741 --> 00:24:54,535
to vent your wrath, Mrs. Keats.
557
00:24:54,619 --> 00:24:56,287
Surely you could have
called him from home.
558
00:24:56,370 --> 00:24:59,749
I thought if we sat down and talked,
559
00:24:59,832 --> 00:25:02,418
maybe things could be better between us.
560
00:25:03,502 --> 00:25:04,670
What made you change your mind?
561
00:25:06,797 --> 00:25:09,842
When my taxi pulled up to the hotel,
562
00:25:09,926 --> 00:25:13,554
I saw Kevin and Paula Roman
563
00:25:14,722 --> 00:25:16,265
leaving together,
564
00:25:17,308 --> 00:25:19,101
and the way he looked at her, I--
565
00:25:20,144 --> 00:25:21,687
Why didn't you go back home?
566
00:25:21,771 --> 00:25:23,731
What? And duck a good fight?
567
00:25:23,814 --> 00:25:26,651
I wanted him to know how I felt.
568
00:25:27,902 --> 00:25:30,488
And then when he finally took my calls,
569
00:25:30,571 --> 00:25:31,614
he didn't want to listen.
570
00:25:32,823 --> 00:25:35,743
Then you didn't actually
meet or talk with him at all?
571
00:25:36,118 --> 00:25:37,411
Look, I didn't kill him,
572
00:25:37,495 --> 00:25:38,829
if that's what you're getting at.
573
00:25:39,205 --> 00:25:42,083
I wanted him alive in a courtroom,
574
00:25:43,084 --> 00:25:44,502
where I could watch his face
575
00:25:44,585 --> 00:25:46,879
while my lawyer carved up his assets.
576
00:25:46,963 --> 00:25:50,841
Well, now that he's dead,
I suppose you'll get it all.
577
00:25:50,925 --> 00:25:51,926
[phone ringing]
578
00:25:55,304 --> 00:25:57,181
I can see how that would be
considered a motive.
579
00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:00,309
Is there a Mrs. Fletcher here?
580
00:26:01,602 --> 00:26:02,937
Excuse me.
581
00:26:06,941 --> 00:26:08,693
-Hello?
-Jessica?
582
00:26:09,277 --> 00:26:10,695
Wylie? How did you know where I--
583
00:26:10,778 --> 00:26:12,238
George Fish.
584
00:26:12,321 --> 00:26:14,031
You're not the only detective in town.
585
00:26:14,115 --> 00:26:15,449
Is Mrs. Keats there?
586
00:26:15,533 --> 00:26:17,535
-Yes.
-Would you do me a favor?
587
00:26:17,618 --> 00:26:19,954
Ask her how many toes her husband had.
588
00:26:20,037 --> 00:26:22,790
Uh-huh. Uh, Mrs. Keats--
589
00:26:22,873 --> 00:26:25,042
-Toes?
-It's important.
590
00:26:25,126 --> 00:26:27,044
[sighs]
591
00:26:27,128 --> 00:26:30,506
Mrs. Keats, how many toes
did your husband have?
592
00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:31,716
[laughs]
593
00:26:31,799 --> 00:26:33,050
Well, ten. Doesn't everyone?
594
00:26:33,134 --> 00:26:34,760
Wylie--
595
00:26:34,844 --> 00:26:36,971
Unless she said "eight,"
596
00:26:37,054 --> 00:26:38,973
the fella I've got lyin' here on the table
597
00:26:39,056 --> 00:26:40,224
is not the late Kevin Keats.
598
00:26:45,980 --> 00:26:48,399
Aw, now, doggone it, Doc,
that's impossible.
599
00:26:48,482 --> 00:26:50,609
I saw Kevin Keats get on that boat.
600
00:26:50,693 --> 00:26:52,278
That may be,
601
00:26:52,361 --> 00:26:54,739
but the man whose remains
were fished out of the bay
602
00:26:54,822 --> 00:26:57,658
had only three toes on his left foot.
603
00:26:58,284 --> 00:27:00,619
Meaning that he was
injured in the explosion?
604
00:27:00,703 --> 00:27:03,289
No, the other two were removed
surgically some time ago
605
00:27:03,372 --> 00:27:04,832
by surgical amputation.
606
00:27:04,915 --> 00:27:06,250
Okay, now, hold it.
I want to get this down.
607
00:27:06,334 --> 00:27:08,002
Now, which two were they?
608
00:27:08,085 --> 00:27:12,965
Both phalanges of the third
and fourth pedal digits.
609
00:27:13,591 --> 00:27:14,925
I already called Seth at his sister's.
610
00:27:15,009 --> 00:27:18,095
I figured if anyone in town
were missing toes, he'd know.
611
00:27:19,013 --> 00:27:20,097
And?
612
00:27:20,181 --> 00:27:21,849
No one he ever treated.
613
00:27:22,933 --> 00:27:24,810
Which means that
we're dealing with a stranger.
614
00:27:24,894 --> 00:27:27,438
And we've got a whole
lot of those in town these days.
615
00:27:27,521 --> 00:27:29,273
-I've got another one for you.
-Huh?
616
00:27:29,357 --> 00:27:31,525
If the dead man isn't Kevin Keats,
617
00:27:31,609 --> 00:27:34,320
then where is Kevin Keats?
618
00:27:38,783 --> 00:27:40,576
Mayor Booth, how does it feel
619
00:27:40,659 --> 00:27:42,828
having a killer running loose
in your community?
620
00:27:42,912 --> 00:27:44,955
You say there's a killer here.
621
00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:47,208
It's my feelin' he's long gone by now.
622
00:27:47,291 --> 00:27:48,876
Certainly not one of my neighbors.
623
00:27:48,959 --> 00:27:50,544
Outsider for sure.
624
00:27:50,628 --> 00:27:52,380
And what is sheriff Tupper doing about it?
625
00:27:52,463 --> 00:27:54,590
Has he requested help
from the state police?
626
00:27:54,673 --> 00:27:55,633
No need.
627
00:27:55,716 --> 00:27:58,344
Us cabot covers
can handle our own problems.
628
00:27:58,427 --> 00:27:59,887
Be a lot easier without strangers
629
00:27:59,970 --> 00:28:00,930
and outsiders buttin' in.
630
00:28:01,013 --> 00:28:02,681
I can tell you that.
631
00:28:02,765 --> 00:28:05,267
Has sheriff Tupper explained
to your satisfaction
632
00:28:05,351 --> 00:28:08,562
how a bomb got aboard a boat
that he leased to the victim?
633
00:28:08,646 --> 00:28:10,689
Lady, just point that contraption
634
00:28:10,773 --> 00:28:11,941
in somebody else's direction!
635
00:28:13,526 --> 00:28:16,362
[chattering]
636
00:28:19,532 --> 00:28:21,700
Where the, where have you been?
637
00:28:21,784 --> 00:28:23,619
I didn't know I was lost.
638
00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:26,372
When your office doesn't know
where you are, you are lost.
639
00:28:26,455 --> 00:28:27,706
Nick, look, you are sitting
640
00:28:27,790 --> 00:28:29,542
on the hottest story of the year.
641
00:28:29,625 --> 00:28:31,293
Now, the ratings on this are
going to shoot through the roof.
642
00:28:31,377 --> 00:28:33,003
The network is going all-out on promos,
643
00:28:33,087 --> 00:28:35,673
so, please, Nick, give me
a show to go with that hype.
644
00:28:35,756 --> 00:28:36,966
Listen, while you've been playing
645
00:28:37,049 --> 00:28:38,426
the little man who wasn't there,
646
00:28:38,509 --> 00:28:40,761
we've been working our butts off here.
647
00:28:40,845 --> 00:28:43,264
And without Doug Helman,
the indispensable producer.
648
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:45,766
You don't suppose that Doug killed Kevin
649
00:28:45,850 --> 00:28:47,768
and then split, do you?
650
00:28:47,852 --> 00:28:49,061
My money was on you.
651
00:28:51,021 --> 00:28:53,315
-I'm afraid you're both wrong.
-Oh, Mrs. Fletcher.
652
00:28:54,233 --> 00:28:56,068
Ah, Richard Abbott.
653
00:28:56,152 --> 00:28:58,320
What was that enigmatic remark?
Have they caught the killer now?
654
00:28:58,404 --> 00:29:02,408
No, but Kevin Keats,
apparently, is very much alive.
655
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,870
-You've got to be kidding.
-No.
656
00:29:06,996 --> 00:29:08,456
If it wasn't Keats
they fished out of the drink,
657
00:29:08,539 --> 00:29:09,623
just who was it?
658
00:29:10,374 --> 00:29:12,084
Remember earlier, we were talking about
659
00:29:12,168 --> 00:29:14,211
Mr. Helman's absence,
660
00:29:14,295 --> 00:29:16,547
and you joked that he was
probably off somewhere
661
00:29:16,630 --> 00:29:18,007
climbing a mountain?
662
00:29:18,507 --> 00:29:19,550
On the coast of maine?
663
00:29:19,633 --> 00:29:22,511
Mountain climbing... frostbite.
664
00:29:23,179 --> 00:29:25,639
The body that was fished out of the harbor
665
00:29:25,723 --> 00:29:28,517
had two toes missing on his left foot.
666
00:29:29,518 --> 00:29:32,938
Doug. Th-that's crazy.
667
00:29:33,689 --> 00:29:36,108
That's unbelievable. Unbelievable.
668
00:29:37,735 --> 00:29:38,903
What a segment.
669
00:29:41,822 --> 00:29:45,576
Keats thought dead. Keats not dead.
670
00:29:45,659 --> 00:29:47,328
Producer dies in mysterious explosion.
671
00:29:47,411 --> 00:29:48,412
You got a real twist there.
672
00:29:49,371 --> 00:29:50,873
Guys, this is gonna be better
673
00:29:50,956 --> 00:29:52,291
than the secret of Al Capone's vaults.
674
00:29:52,374 --> 00:29:53,751
Brody, I want you on this right away.
675
00:29:53,834 --> 00:29:55,211
I want a reedit and rewrite by Wednesday.
676
00:29:55,294 --> 00:29:57,087
And I want Paula on this. Where is Paula?
677
00:29:57,630 --> 00:30:00,633
I'm here. So it was Doug that was killed.
678
00:30:00,716 --> 00:30:02,510
Hey, kid, we need some changes and fast.
679
00:30:02,593 --> 00:30:04,178
I don't feel like changing.
680
00:30:04,261 --> 00:30:05,721
I need help. Can we talk?
681
00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:07,014
Paula, Paula, we've got
a story to get out.
682
00:30:07,097 --> 00:30:08,557
Not now.
683
00:30:08,641 --> 00:30:10,309
Listen, Helman didn't even
want you up here.
684
00:30:10,392 --> 00:30:12,311
The only reason you came
is because Kevin insisted.
685
00:30:12,394 --> 00:30:13,354
Now, come on. Now, let's get to work.
686
00:30:13,437 --> 00:30:14,438
Let go of me, Nick.
687
00:30:24,990 --> 00:30:26,450
You know where Kevin is, don't you?
688
00:30:26,534 --> 00:30:27,785
You've spoken to him?
689
00:30:27,868 --> 00:30:29,286
Yes, but how did you know?
690
00:30:29,370 --> 00:30:31,372
Paula, you trust me.
691
00:30:31,455 --> 00:30:32,873
Who would Kevin trust?
692
00:30:32,957 --> 00:30:34,583
[sighs]
693
00:30:34,667 --> 00:30:36,293
Oh, Jessica, I couldn't believe it
694
00:30:36,377 --> 00:30:37,711
when he called my room.
695
00:30:37,795 --> 00:30:38,754
He had to keep telling me over and over
696
00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:40,214
that I wasn't dreaming.
697
00:30:40,297 --> 00:30:41,840
[sighs]
698
00:30:41,924 --> 00:30:44,009
I was laughing and crying
just like a schoolgirl.
699
00:30:44,093 --> 00:30:45,594
[chuckles]
700
00:30:47,221 --> 00:30:48,722
He's going to call back tonight.
701
00:30:48,806 --> 00:30:49,932
Well, when he calls,
702
00:30:50,015 --> 00:30:51,976
tell him that he must come forward
703
00:30:52,059 --> 00:30:53,686
and explain what happened on that boat.
704
00:30:54,353 --> 00:30:55,729
If he stays in hiding,
705
00:30:55,813 --> 00:30:57,690
it could be too easily misinterpreted.
706
00:30:57,773 --> 00:31:00,150
He's hiding because
someone tried to kill him.
707
00:31:00,234 --> 00:31:01,735
He was lucky to escape.
708
00:31:01,819 --> 00:31:04,321
Look, the town is swarming with reporters,
709
00:31:04,405 --> 00:31:06,031
but I could arrange for the sheriff
710
00:31:06,115 --> 00:31:08,576
to come to my house
this evening, say, after dark.
711
00:31:10,369 --> 00:31:12,580
All right.
712
00:31:12,663 --> 00:31:14,665
If only Doug hadn't taken me
off my assignment.
713
00:31:14,748 --> 00:31:16,667
That's when it began.
714
00:31:16,750 --> 00:31:18,752
That was a ridiculous meeting
in Doug's office.
715
00:31:18,836 --> 00:31:20,546
Well, then if that's when it began,
716
00:31:20,629 --> 00:31:22,881
I want to hear about it-- everything.
717
00:31:24,383 --> 00:31:25,968
Then you admit that Mr. Helman
718
00:31:26,051 --> 00:31:28,304
forced you to come to cabot cove
for this assignment
719
00:31:28,387 --> 00:31:29,805
against your will?
720
00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:31,974
No, that was a put-on, an act.
721
00:31:32,057 --> 00:31:33,684
Doug and I thought it up together.
722
00:31:33,767 --> 00:31:35,436
I was sure that my death threats
723
00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:37,605
were tied in with the pressure
being put on the network
724
00:31:37,688 --> 00:31:41,859
for me to drop the story about
my drug-dealing art collector.
725
00:31:41,942 --> 00:31:43,110
So we thought we'd take the heat off
726
00:31:43,193 --> 00:31:44,653
by pretending to drop the story
727
00:31:44,737 --> 00:31:46,155
and reassigning me to Cabot Cove.
728
00:31:46,238 --> 00:31:48,073
Why cabot cove?
729
00:31:48,157 --> 00:31:50,284
Why not go to Nebraska and cover a boy
730
00:31:50,367 --> 00:31:52,077
on a girls' basketball team?
731
00:31:52,161 --> 00:31:53,996
That'd be fine, except for one thing.
732
00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:56,582
We had a secret witness hiding
nearby here in new hampshire,
733
00:31:56,665 --> 00:31:58,584
who had agreed to talk to me and only me,
734
00:31:58,667 --> 00:32:00,377
about Ron Ross and some of his other
735
00:32:00,461 --> 00:32:02,921
South American drug connections.
736
00:32:03,005 --> 00:32:04,048
New Hampshire?
737
00:32:04,131 --> 00:32:06,133
Two hours by car.
738
00:32:06,216 --> 00:32:08,719
Uh, but you didn't take a car.
You took a boat.
739
00:32:08,802 --> 00:32:10,054
That was supposed to be my cover.
740
00:32:10,137 --> 00:32:12,348
Oh, I see.
741
00:32:12,431 --> 00:32:15,225
You wanted everyone to believe
that you were on a boat
742
00:32:15,309 --> 00:32:17,019
in the middle of the harbor,
743
00:32:17,102 --> 00:32:19,897
whereas you were really
on your way to new hampshire?
744
00:32:20,856 --> 00:32:22,274
Exactly.
745
00:32:22,358 --> 00:32:23,776
You know, I really meant
to finish our interview first,
746
00:32:23,859 --> 00:32:25,235
but then along came the sheriff here
747
00:32:25,319 --> 00:32:27,237
and forced me to accelerate my plan.
748
00:32:28,238 --> 00:32:29,531
When'd I do that?
749
00:32:30,407 --> 00:32:32,618
Uh, Amos, I think it was
when you described
750
00:32:32,701 --> 00:32:34,244
the big fella getting off the helicopter.
751
00:32:34,328 --> 00:32:35,996
-Oh.
-Gerald Foster.
752
00:32:36,372 --> 00:32:37,998
Ron Ross's enforcer.
753
00:32:38,082 --> 00:32:39,541
With him in town, I had to disappear.
754
00:32:39,625 --> 00:32:41,168
That's when I asked
the sheriff for the boat.
755
00:32:41,251 --> 00:32:44,505
Augie wilkin had the only one
in town for rent,
756
00:32:44,588 --> 00:32:47,216
and I couldn't get ahold of him
till around 8:00 at night.
757
00:32:47,299 --> 00:32:48,967
And as soon as I heard from you,
758
00:32:49,051 --> 00:32:50,511
I called Doug in new York
759
00:32:50,594 --> 00:32:52,513
and told him to get up here on the double.
760
00:32:52,596 --> 00:32:55,140
Now, this was the first time
that you formulated your plan?
761
00:32:55,224 --> 00:32:56,225
Mm-hmm.
762
00:32:56,308 --> 00:32:57,935
And then he came up here,
763
00:32:58,018 --> 00:33:00,646
and you staged the fight
in front of the hotel manager?
764
00:33:00,729 --> 00:33:01,980
Exactly. Just another part of the act.
765
00:33:02,064 --> 00:33:04,191
Ah.
766
00:33:04,274 --> 00:33:06,902
Then Mr. Helman was already on the boat
767
00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:08,070
when you got on board?
768
00:33:09,321 --> 00:33:10,656
Funny, I didn't see him.
769
00:33:12,116 --> 00:33:13,200
You weren't supposed to.
770
00:33:13,283 --> 00:33:15,411
See, you or anybody else watching
771
00:33:15,494 --> 00:33:17,037
was supposed to see me get on the boat,
772
00:33:17,121 --> 00:33:19,665
putt-putt out into the harbor.
773
00:33:19,748 --> 00:33:22,167
What they wouldn't see
was Doug take over the helm
774
00:33:22,251 --> 00:33:23,293
while I slipped over the other side
775
00:33:23,377 --> 00:33:24,461
and swam under the pier.
776
00:33:25,921 --> 00:33:29,883
Mr. Keats, I was standin' right there
777
00:33:29,967 --> 00:33:32,010
when that boat blew up.
778
00:33:32,094 --> 00:33:33,721
Now, you could've come out of hidin'
779
00:33:33,804 --> 00:33:36,598
and hollered to me,
but you didn't do that.
780
00:33:39,977 --> 00:33:42,855
No, I didn't.
781
00:33:42,938 --> 00:33:45,774
No, you disappeared.
782
00:33:45,858 --> 00:33:47,985
Where'd you go? What did you do?
783
00:33:48,068 --> 00:33:49,528
[sighs]
784
00:33:49,611 --> 00:33:50,946
I'm sorry. I can't tell you that.
785
00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:53,115
Well, I'm afraid I don't think much
786
00:33:53,198 --> 00:33:54,867
of your so-called plan.
787
00:33:54,950 --> 00:33:57,661
It wasn't part of my plan
for the boat to blow up
788
00:33:57,745 --> 00:34:00,038
and lose the best friend I ever had.
789
00:34:00,122 --> 00:34:02,458
I don't know how Ross' man did it,
790
00:34:02,541 --> 00:34:03,917
but that bomb was meant for me.
791
00:34:05,794 --> 00:34:09,173
No, I don't think
it could've been Ross' man.
792
00:34:09,256 --> 00:34:11,925
Sheriff, what are you getting at?
793
00:34:12,009 --> 00:34:15,012
Only that if Ross's man somehow knew
794
00:34:15,095 --> 00:34:16,722
that there was going to be a boat,
795
00:34:16,805 --> 00:34:20,100
he'd know which one,
and where it was going to be,
796
00:34:20,184 --> 00:34:23,771
and I didn't even know that
until 8:00 the night before.
797
00:34:25,230 --> 00:34:28,025
Now, did you discuss this with
anyone else besides Mr. Helman?
798
00:34:29,485 --> 00:34:32,488
No, and I'm certain Doug didn't either.
799
00:34:32,571 --> 00:34:34,698
I mean, we'd agreed between us
to keep our plan a secret.
800
00:34:34,782 --> 00:34:37,910
Well, then Mr. Ross' man
couldn't have known
801
00:34:37,993 --> 00:34:41,455
you were going out on a boat
until he followed you.
802
00:34:41,538 --> 00:34:43,957
Seems to me,
he couldn't have set that bomb.
803
00:34:47,503 --> 00:34:49,046
Do you have any trouble
with that, Mrs. Fletcher?
804
00:34:50,964 --> 00:34:54,510
Actually, Amos, no.
805
00:34:54,885 --> 00:34:56,345
Well, I have trouble with it Sheriff.
806
00:34:56,428 --> 00:34:58,222
Kevin didn't kill anyone.
807
00:34:58,305 --> 00:35:00,098
Why do you think he turned himself in?
808
00:35:00,849 --> 00:35:02,935
Maybe because he's a pretty smart fella.
809
00:35:04,186 --> 00:35:07,815
Sorry, ma'am but it adds up only one way.
810
00:35:07,898 --> 00:35:11,527
Either Mr. Helman set that bomb
to blow himself up,
811
00:35:12,486 --> 00:35:14,988
or Mr. Keats here did it for him.
812
00:35:23,038 --> 00:35:24,706
[reporters chattering]
813
00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:26,625
Where's the sheriff?
814
00:35:26,708 --> 00:35:28,836
Sheriff, are there any
new developments in the case?
815
00:35:28,919 --> 00:35:29,795
Sorry, fellas.
816
00:35:30,128 --> 00:35:31,547
Has Kevin Keats signed a confession yet?
817
00:35:31,630 --> 00:35:32,923
No statement, fellas.
818
00:35:33,006 --> 00:35:33,924
Has he explained to you where he was
819
00:35:34,007 --> 00:35:35,300
when he disappeared?
820
00:35:35,384 --> 00:35:36,301
-I can't talk now!
-Amos Tupper.
821
00:35:36,969 --> 00:35:38,303
Miss Polsby.
822
00:35:38,637 --> 00:35:40,639
First of all, I am not one
of the "fellas," hmm?
823
00:35:40,722 --> 00:35:44,434
And secondly, as society editor
of the cabot cove gazette,
824
00:35:44,518 --> 00:35:46,395
I have a right to talk to Kevin Keats.
825
00:35:46,478 --> 00:35:48,063
He's in jail, ma'am,
826
00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:50,399
and nobody from the press gets to see him.
827
00:35:50,482 --> 00:35:52,234
Nobody, period.
828
00:35:52,317 --> 00:35:54,653
Then why was Paula Roman allowed in?
829
00:35:54,736 --> 00:35:56,738
I have been told
that she is in with him now.
830
00:35:56,822 --> 00:35:58,866
Miss Roman is different. It's personal.
831
00:35:58,949 --> 00:36:00,492
Now if you'll excuse me.
832
00:36:00,576 --> 00:36:01,702
Why is she any different
from the rest of us?
833
00:36:01,785 --> 00:36:02,828
Sheriff!
834
00:36:02,911 --> 00:36:05,455
[yelling continues]
835
00:36:06,915 --> 00:36:09,918
Nice, huh? All the comforts of home.
836
00:36:12,713 --> 00:36:15,173
I never should have let you
talk me into coming in.
837
00:36:15,257 --> 00:36:16,508
And what were you gonna to do?
838
00:36:16,592 --> 00:36:18,218
Run? With your face?
839
00:36:18,302 --> 00:36:21,263
You're almost as famous
as Ronald Mcdonald.
840
00:36:21,346 --> 00:36:22,514
I don't suppose
there's a lawyer on the way?
841
00:36:24,016 --> 00:36:25,767
Not yet.
842
00:36:25,851 --> 00:36:28,103
Look, Kevin,
you know what we have out there?
843
00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:29,688
Three networks, two cables,
844
00:36:29,771 --> 00:36:32,232
five independents and the world press.
845
00:36:32,316 --> 00:36:35,652
As long as you're in here,
you belong to scrutiny.
846
00:36:35,736 --> 00:36:36,945
Brody wants me locked up?
847
00:36:37,029 --> 00:36:37,905
[sighs]
848
00:36:37,988 --> 00:36:40,824
Only until after this special,
the former Kevin Keats's eulogy.
849
00:36:40,908 --> 00:36:42,200
[grunts]
850
00:36:42,284 --> 00:36:43,702
And the sheriff has
even given his permission
851
00:36:43,785 --> 00:36:45,704
to let you tape your narration in here.
852
00:36:46,622 --> 00:36:48,707
I don't want to tape my narration in here.
853
00:36:48,790 --> 00:36:51,585
I want outta here! I'm sorry.
854
00:36:52,544 --> 00:36:54,755
Richard and Nick want you here.
855
00:36:56,632 --> 00:36:59,426
To boost their precious ratings, huh?
856
00:36:59,509 --> 00:37:01,261
[sighing]
857
00:37:02,512 --> 00:37:03,680
Is this how far we've come, babe?
858
00:37:04,765 --> 00:37:05,974
To this? Hmm?
859
00:37:06,058 --> 00:37:07,225
[sighs]
860
00:37:11,897 --> 00:37:14,900
-Mrs. Keats?
-Oh, hello, Mrs. Fletcher.
861
00:37:14,983 --> 00:37:16,485
I'd ask you to join me,
862
00:37:16,568 --> 00:37:19,571
but I've already finished
my daily consumption.
863
00:37:19,655 --> 00:37:22,157
Besides that, I have an appointment.
864
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,159
An exclusive interview
with something called
865
00:37:24,242 --> 00:37:26,453
scandal U.S.A.
866
00:37:26,536 --> 00:37:28,914
they're paying me a bundle
for the inside scoop
867
00:37:28,997 --> 00:37:30,499
on a lousy marriage.
868
00:37:30,582 --> 00:37:32,501
Well, this won't take long.
869
00:37:32,584 --> 00:37:36,630
When your husband was in hiding,
was he with you?
870
00:37:37,464 --> 00:37:39,925
I wish. Is that what he told you?
871
00:37:40,008 --> 00:37:42,970
No, but something isn't quite right,
872
00:37:43,053 --> 00:37:45,097
and I'm just trying
to sort it out, that's all.
873
00:37:46,181 --> 00:37:47,933
Sounds to me like Kevin's sorted himself
874
00:37:48,016 --> 00:37:49,226
right into a life sentence.
875
00:37:49,309 --> 00:37:50,936
Oh, well, it doesn't matter.
876
00:37:51,019 --> 00:37:53,271
His career was probably
in the toilet, anyway.
877
00:37:53,355 --> 00:37:54,481
Oh?
878
00:37:55,565 --> 00:37:58,527
I think the network
was getting ready to 86 him.
879
00:37:58,610 --> 00:38:01,571
In a fit of paranoia,
the big fellow told me
880
00:38:01,655 --> 00:38:02,906
that they had conducted
881
00:38:02,990 --> 00:38:05,075
a confidential audience research.
882
00:38:05,158 --> 00:38:08,620
Oh, yes, miss Roman mentioned
something about that.
883
00:38:09,830 --> 00:38:11,665
Miss Roman was always up on things.
884
00:38:12,916 --> 00:38:15,711
And you think that this survey
885
00:38:15,794 --> 00:38:19,756
might have had an unfavorable
effect on your husband?
886
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,384
It's just a guess.
887
00:38:22,467 --> 00:38:23,969
I have been waiting years
888
00:38:24,052 --> 00:38:25,470
for the great American public to find out
889
00:38:25,554 --> 00:38:27,472
what I have known all along.
890
00:38:27,556 --> 00:38:28,765
[chuckles]
891
00:38:28,849 --> 00:38:31,018
So long, Mrs. Fletcher.
892
00:38:31,101 --> 00:38:34,021
And if you see my husband,
give him my worst.
893
00:38:38,984 --> 00:38:41,153
Remember me, Mr. Abbott?
I'm Jessica Fletcher.
894
00:38:41,236 --> 00:38:42,738
I was just on my way up to your room.
895
00:38:42,821 --> 00:38:44,531
Oh, well, I was just on my way out.
896
00:38:44,614 --> 00:38:46,158
Can this wait till tomorrow?
897
00:38:46,241 --> 00:38:49,494
Uh, obviously, you know about
Kevin Keats being under arrest?
898
00:38:49,578 --> 00:38:51,038
Uh, yes, I do.
899
00:38:51,121 --> 00:38:52,497
They should either charge him with murder
900
00:38:52,581 --> 00:38:53,749
or let him go if they can't prove it.
901
00:38:53,832 --> 00:38:56,752
Well, surely losing your star anchorman
902
00:38:56,835 --> 00:38:58,503
could really hurt you in the ratings?
903
00:38:59,046 --> 00:39:00,464
Oh, so you've heard about
ratings here in cabot cove.
904
00:39:00,547 --> 00:39:02,507
Oh, we've heard about a lot of things,
905
00:39:02,591 --> 00:39:04,342
including network audience survey.
906
00:39:05,761 --> 00:39:06,678
Mrs. Fletcher,
907
00:39:06,762 --> 00:39:08,513
that is supposed to be confidential.
908
00:39:08,597 --> 00:39:11,600
I was hoping that perhaps
you could explain it to me.
909
00:39:11,683 --> 00:39:15,228
Paula said that research
is your area of expertise.
910
00:39:16,104 --> 00:39:17,022
Oh, well, it's really very simple.
911
00:39:17,105 --> 00:39:19,566
You see uh the network is always testing
912
00:39:19,649 --> 00:39:23,570
the popularity of its programs
by sampling its audience.
913
00:39:23,653 --> 00:39:24,863
Aha.
914
00:39:24,946 --> 00:39:27,199
Paula seemed to feel that, uh,
915
00:39:27,282 --> 00:39:30,118
you were concerned
about the latest survey.
916
00:39:30,202 --> 00:39:31,787
-Really?
-Yes.
917
00:39:31,870 --> 00:39:34,623
She also said that you seemed,
well, furtive,
918
00:39:34,706 --> 00:39:36,792
when you mentioned it to Doug Helman.
919
00:39:36,875 --> 00:39:38,543
Does that mean
you didn't want to discuss it
920
00:39:38,627 --> 00:39:39,586
in front of the others,
921
00:39:40,128 --> 00:39:43,256
perhaps because of personnel involvement?
922
00:39:43,924 --> 00:39:45,092
Say, one of the three anchors?
923
00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:47,469
Do you read tea leaves too?
924
00:39:47,552 --> 00:39:49,137
[laughing]
925
00:39:49,221 --> 00:39:50,555
Not very well, Mr. Abbott.
926
00:39:50,639 --> 00:39:52,349
If I did, I might be able to figure out
927
00:39:52,432 --> 00:39:55,185
where you were when your office
was unable to reach you.
928
00:39:55,268 --> 00:39:57,145
Those hours when the bomb
929
00:39:57,229 --> 00:39:59,981
was most likely planted on the boat?
930
00:40:00,065 --> 00:40:01,566
Well, I'm sorry, Mrs. Fletcher,
931
00:40:01,650 --> 00:40:03,944
but you're gonna have
to forgo me as a suspect.
932
00:40:04,027 --> 00:40:06,822
You see, in television land,
when the canoe springs a leak,
933
00:40:06,905 --> 00:40:07,989
one doesn't bail water.
934
00:40:08,073 --> 00:40:09,366
One just looks for a new canoe.
935
00:40:10,408 --> 00:40:11,868
The morning Doug Helman was killed,
936
00:40:11,952 --> 00:40:13,870
I was having breakfast in New York,
937
00:40:14,496 --> 00:40:16,248
with the president of another network.
938
00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:17,833
When I heard the news on the radio,
939
00:40:17,916 --> 00:40:19,793
I, uh, chartered a jet
right here to cabot cove.
940
00:40:20,794 --> 00:40:23,797
I see. And did you get the job?
941
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,633
[laughing]
942
00:40:26,716 --> 00:40:29,010
Well, at this level,
one doesn't ask for a job.
943
00:40:29,094 --> 00:40:30,178
One lays the groundwork.
944
00:40:30,262 --> 00:40:32,556
[inhaling]
945
00:40:32,639 --> 00:40:36,143
Mmm, wonderful air you have up here.
946
00:40:36,226 --> 00:40:38,687
-Good afternoon, Mrs. Fletcher.
-Good afternoon.
947
00:40:42,274 --> 00:40:43,233
[knocking]
948
00:40:43,316 --> 00:40:44,442
-Get it.
-Mrs. Fletcher?
949
00:40:46,486 --> 00:40:48,405
It's the front door again. Reporters.
950
00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:50,490
Ah, they'll go away.
951
00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:55,495
[knocking and ringing continues]
952
00:40:58,498 --> 00:41:00,750
Darn! I didn't see that.
953
00:41:02,752 --> 00:41:04,838
I guess I'm not in the same class as Seth.
954
00:41:05,380 --> 00:41:06,923
Or the class he thinks he's in.
955
00:41:07,007 --> 00:41:07,883
[doorbell ringing continues]
956
00:41:07,966 --> 00:41:10,051
You know, it's funny.
957
00:41:10,135 --> 00:41:13,638
I moved up here to cabot cove
for the peace and quiet.
958
00:41:13,722 --> 00:41:15,724
Ah, it doesn't really bother me.
959
00:41:17,893 --> 00:41:18,935
Check.
960
00:41:19,019 --> 00:41:20,687
[knocking, doorbell rings]
961
00:41:20,770 --> 00:41:21,980
Huh?
962
00:41:23,773 --> 00:41:27,235
Bishop to King. You're one away from mate.
963
00:41:27,319 --> 00:41:29,196
You mind if I, uh, freshen up my coffee?
964
00:41:29,279 --> 00:41:32,157
[gasps]
965
00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:34,993
I thought you were new to this game?
966
00:41:35,076 --> 00:41:39,164
Nope, I merely said I hadn't
been playing as long as seth.
967
00:41:39,247 --> 00:41:40,332
Who do you think taught me?
968
00:41:44,294 --> 00:41:45,712
I surrender.
969
00:41:48,632 --> 00:41:50,926
Jessica, I know your mind is elsewhere.
970
00:41:51,009 --> 00:41:52,636
You want to talk about it?
971
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,388
I just can't stop thinking
about Kevin Keats' story.
972
00:41:55,472 --> 00:41:57,015
[scoffs]
973
00:41:57,098 --> 00:41:59,059
That cockeyed plan he made with Helman?
974
00:41:59,142 --> 00:42:00,894
There had to be an easier way
to slip out of town.
975
00:42:00,977 --> 00:42:03,063
Mm-hmm.
976
00:42:03,146 --> 00:42:04,314
I don't remember telling you that.
977
00:42:04,397 --> 00:42:06,316
You didn't.
978
00:42:06,399 --> 00:42:08,318
I overheard you talking
to sheriff Tupper on the phone.
979
00:42:13,365 --> 00:42:14,783
[snaps fingers]
980
00:42:14,866 --> 00:42:16,952
Wylie, give me a ride down to the jail.
981
00:42:17,035 --> 00:42:18,745
I must be sure.
982
00:42:24,209 --> 00:42:26,878
I must ask you exactly what you discussed
983
00:42:26,962 --> 00:42:28,505
with Mr. Helman
when you called him in new York
984
00:42:28,588 --> 00:42:29,547
the night before the murder.
985
00:42:29,631 --> 00:42:31,466
We covered all that.
986
00:42:31,549 --> 00:42:32,926
I told him about the boat,
987
00:42:33,009 --> 00:42:34,803
what it looked like, where it was.
988
00:42:34,886 --> 00:42:37,180
Uh, I told him about
Ross' enforcer being in town.
989
00:42:37,264 --> 00:42:39,015
What else?
990
00:42:39,099 --> 00:42:42,018
And what did he tell you?
991
00:42:42,102 --> 00:42:44,521
He said he'd catch the night
plane to portland, uh--
992
00:42:44,604 --> 00:42:47,482
I wanted him to bring Paula.
He was against the idea.
993
00:42:47,607 --> 00:42:51,027
He thought she'd get in the way,
but I talked him into it.
994
00:42:51,111 --> 00:42:53,863
Did Mr. Helman review
the timetable of your plan?
995
00:42:53,947 --> 00:42:55,740
-Oh, yeah.
-Yeah.
996
00:42:55,824 --> 00:42:57,450
Doug was nothing if not meticulous.
997
00:42:57,534 --> 00:43:00,370
And were you alone
when you made that call?
998
00:43:00,453 --> 00:43:03,248
Mm-hmm, yeah, I was
in my room at the hill house.
999
00:43:03,331 --> 00:43:04,416
Ah. Was he alone?
1000
00:43:05,125 --> 00:43:06,543
Well, I don't know, I--
1001
00:43:07,585 --> 00:43:09,337
Yes, as a matter of fact,
1002
00:43:09,421 --> 00:43:11,172
he mentioned the secretary leaving early,
1003
00:43:11,256 --> 00:43:14,050
and anyway, I'm certain Doug
would never discuss our plan
1004
00:43:14,134 --> 00:43:15,218
in front of a third party.
1005
00:43:17,887 --> 00:43:21,349
What if he didn't know or care
1006
00:43:21,433 --> 00:43:23,351
that there was a third party present?
1007
00:43:23,977 --> 00:43:27,314
[typewriter clacking]
1008
00:43:41,411 --> 00:43:42,495
Oh, if you're looking for Paula,
1009
00:43:42,579 --> 00:43:44,456
she just called from her room.
1010
00:43:44,539 --> 00:43:45,957
I'm not looking for Paula.
1011
00:43:46,041 --> 00:43:47,667
Well, I'd love to chat,
1012
00:43:47,751 --> 00:43:50,628
but I've got to finish this rewrite.
1013
00:43:51,463 --> 00:43:54,090
I'm afraid you'll have
to change the ending too.
1014
00:43:57,969 --> 00:43:59,137
Any suggestions?
1015
00:44:00,138 --> 00:44:02,724
You might write about a respected newsman
1016
00:44:02,807 --> 00:44:04,142
who'd been around so long,
1017
00:44:04,225 --> 00:44:06,019
he's become a national institution.
1018
00:44:06,102 --> 00:44:09,105
He's one of the hosts
of a prime-time news show
1019
00:44:09,189 --> 00:44:10,648
and learns that a fickle audience
1020
00:44:10,732 --> 00:44:13,234
prefers the show's bombastic younger man
1021
00:44:13,318 --> 00:44:15,028
and attractive younger woman.
1022
00:44:16,237 --> 00:44:18,239
It's my guess that that's the upshot
1023
00:44:18,323 --> 00:44:20,367
of the network audience survey
Doug Helman showed you
1024
00:44:20,450 --> 00:44:22,243
in his office when he called you
in for a meeting.
1025
00:44:23,495 --> 00:44:26,373
You were there when Kevin Keats
1026
00:44:26,456 --> 00:44:28,917
called Doug Helman from cabot cove.
1027
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,710
-Who told you that?
-You did.
1028
00:44:30,794 --> 00:44:33,254
Listen, Helman didn't even
want you up here.
1029
00:44:33,338 --> 00:44:34,756
The only reason you came
is because Kevin insisted.
1030
00:44:34,839 --> 00:44:36,424
Now, come on, sweetheart.
1031
00:44:36,966 --> 00:44:39,219
That subject was
only discussed on the phone
1032
00:44:39,302 --> 00:44:41,596
between Kevin Keats and Doug Helman.
1033
00:44:42,722 --> 00:44:44,432
Paula must have let it slip.
1034
00:44:44,516 --> 00:44:45,892
I just spoke to Paula.
1035
00:44:45,975 --> 00:44:47,102
She didn't.
1036
00:44:47,769 --> 00:44:49,396
-Then Doug told me.
-When?
1037
00:44:49,479 --> 00:44:51,439
He went straight
from his office to the airport.
1038
00:44:52,190 --> 00:44:55,068
Next morning, he was concealed
on the boat before sunrise
1039
00:44:55,860 --> 00:44:57,904
and dead a few minutes later.
1040
00:44:57,987 --> 00:45:01,366
You had to have heard that in that office.
1041
00:45:13,336 --> 00:45:15,088
Helman told me I was through.
1042
00:45:15,171 --> 00:45:16,798
He said he was sorry,
but if he didn't give
1043
00:45:16,881 --> 00:45:19,008
in to the network on the small things,
1044
00:45:19,092 --> 00:45:20,969
he wouldn't get anywhere on the big ones.
1045
00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:24,055
You can guess how that made me feel.
1046
00:45:25,682 --> 00:45:27,517
The phone rang as I was starting out,
1047
00:45:28,017 --> 00:45:29,686
and he turned his back to me.
1048
00:45:29,769 --> 00:45:31,104
So you stayed to listen.
1049
00:45:32,689 --> 00:45:34,816
I knew he was talking to Kevin.
1050
00:45:34,899 --> 00:45:36,526
And I was trying to think of something
1051
00:45:36,609 --> 00:45:38,653
that would win Kevin over to my side.
1052
00:45:38,736 --> 00:45:41,489
Then I became aware
of what they were getting at,
1053
00:45:41,573 --> 00:45:43,241
what they were setting up.
1054
00:45:43,324 --> 00:45:44,909
That's when I got the idea.
1055
00:45:44,993 --> 00:45:47,245
It just flashed in my head,
1056
00:45:47,328 --> 00:45:50,582
very clear and very terrifying,
1057
00:45:50,665 --> 00:45:52,876
because I knew I'd do it.
1058
00:45:52,959 --> 00:45:54,169
How did you get to cabot cove?
1059
00:45:54,919 --> 00:45:56,421
I drove all night.
1060
00:45:56,504 --> 00:45:58,840
It's not that far. Only 350 miles.
1061
00:46:00,133 --> 00:46:01,968
Oh, about the bomb?
1062
00:46:02,051 --> 00:46:04,262
Well, you don't get to be
a 63-year-old reporter
1063
00:46:04,345 --> 00:46:05,847
without learning something.
1064
00:46:06,764 --> 00:46:09,184
But what did killing
Mr. Helman solve for you?
1065
00:46:09,267 --> 00:46:11,019
He was only following
the network's orders.
1066
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:14,355
Without Helman, I had
a better than even chance
1067
00:46:14,439 --> 00:46:16,107
of staying with the show.
1068
00:46:16,191 --> 00:46:18,568
I had more experience than any of them.
1069
00:46:18,651 --> 00:46:21,112
To hell with the audience research.
1070
00:46:21,196 --> 00:46:25,074
So I wasn't young,
vicious, or even pretty,
1071
00:46:25,158 --> 00:46:27,118
but I was the one
who could talk sense to them.
1072
00:46:27,202 --> 00:46:30,747
I'm a newsman. I'm not a performer.
1073
00:46:30,830 --> 00:46:33,374
I tried to tell Doug that.
1074
00:46:33,458 --> 00:46:35,168
And whatever he started out believing,
1075
00:46:35,251 --> 00:46:36,669
in the end,
1076
00:46:36,753 --> 00:46:38,546
he bought the idea
that the wrapping paper--
1077
00:46:38,630 --> 00:46:40,840
The wrapping paper--
1078
00:46:40,924 --> 00:46:42,634
Was more important than the package.
1079
00:46:46,763 --> 00:46:48,431
If you don't mind,
I'd like to finish this rewrite
1080
00:46:48,515 --> 00:46:49,974
while we're waiting for the sheriff.
1081
00:46:52,602 --> 00:46:54,103
Just dial nine for an outside line.
1082
00:46:57,023 --> 00:46:59,859
[typewriter clacking]
1083
00:47:11,079 --> 00:47:14,415
[cheerful orchestral music]
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