1 00:00:00,876 --> 00:00:02,712 [Jessica] Tonight on Murder, She Wrote. 2 00:00:02,795 --> 00:00:04,463 No way in hell are you gonna convince me 3 00:00:04,547 --> 00:00:06,048 that one of my boys could kill a man. 4 00:00:06,132 --> 00:00:07,842 You coached him. I taught him. 5 00:00:07,925 --> 00:00:09,760 Jessie, that was 20 years ago. 6 00:00:09,844 --> 00:00:12,263 Neither of you would want to see a murder go unsolved. 7 00:00:12,346 --> 00:00:15,224 Where did you get the $50,000 to start with? 8 00:00:15,307 --> 00:00:16,809 You ask that question again to me 9 00:00:16,892 --> 00:00:18,227 or anybody else and I'll sue you. 10 00:00:18,310 --> 00:00:20,146 [tires screeching] 11 00:00:20,229 --> 00:00:21,647 He was almost killed last night 12 00:00:21,731 --> 00:00:23,441 in the car run off the road. 13 00:00:23,524 --> 00:00:24,650 What is going on between me and my wife 14 00:00:24,734 --> 00:00:26,110 is none of your business. 15 00:00:26,193 --> 00:00:27,903 I don't like what you're getting at. 16 00:00:27,987 --> 00:00:29,989 You killed one of my boys! Let go of me! 17 00:00:32,074 --> 00:00:34,118 [cheerful orchestral music] 18 00:01:35,262 --> 00:01:36,847 Come on, Hampton. Lighten up, will ya? 19 00:01:36,931 --> 00:01:38,265 A couple belts at lunch yesterday 20 00:01:38,349 --> 00:01:39,850 doesn't make me a lush. Yesterday? 21 00:01:39,934 --> 00:01:41,769 How about every day? How about right now? 22 00:01:41,852 --> 00:01:43,062 Nobody wants to buy cars from a drunk, Dan. 23 00:01:43,145 --> 00:01:44,271 You're finished. Look, Billy boy. 24 00:01:44,355 --> 00:01:45,815 I'm the best salesman you got. 25 00:01:45,898 --> 00:01:47,691 Oh, yeah, well, that's ancient history. 26 00:01:47,775 --> 00:01:49,026 You haven't moved enough units this past year 27 00:01:49,109 --> 00:01:50,861 to keep this place in lightbulbs. 28 00:01:51,278 --> 00:01:53,489 [both grunting] 29 00:02:17,930 --> 00:02:19,014 Hi there. 30 00:02:20,182 --> 00:02:21,433 Real beauty, isn't she? 31 00:02:22,268 --> 00:02:23,853 How about takin' her out for a test drive? 32 00:02:27,189 --> 00:02:28,941 Thanks, maybe some other time. 33 00:02:29,692 --> 00:02:31,402 All right, just say the word. 34 00:02:42,580 --> 00:02:43,873 [typewriter clicking] 35 00:02:58,345 --> 00:02:59,555 [doorbell rings] 36 00:03:03,309 --> 00:03:05,352 Mrs. Fletcher, I'm Andrew Durbin. 37 00:03:06,896 --> 00:03:08,355 [laughs] 38 00:03:08,439 --> 00:03:10,232 I'm renting Lila small's house for a few weeks. 39 00:03:10,316 --> 00:03:12,943 Oh, yes, of course. Lila left her key with me. 40 00:03:13,027 --> 00:03:13,944 Please forgive me. Come in. 41 00:03:14,028 --> 00:03:15,487 Thank you. 42 00:03:15,571 --> 00:03:16,780 Lila called me last night from New York 43 00:03:16,864 --> 00:03:18,365 to say you'd be arriving today, 44 00:03:18,449 --> 00:03:19,700 and still it still flew right out of my head. 45 00:03:19,783 --> 00:03:21,535 You must think I'm addlebrained. 46 00:03:21,619 --> 00:03:23,913 No addlebrain could have written The Belgrave Murders. 47 00:03:23,996 --> 00:03:26,123 Oh, thank you for those kind words. 48 00:03:26,206 --> 00:03:28,626 I think I may have come at a bad time. 49 00:03:28,709 --> 00:03:30,002 Oh, not at all. 50 00:03:30,085 --> 00:03:31,587 I was just going out, but Lila's house 51 00:03:31,670 --> 00:03:33,047 is only a couple of blocks from here. 52 00:03:33,130 --> 00:03:34,423 Thank you. 53 00:03:39,762 --> 00:03:42,139 It's nice to see things haven't changed much. 54 00:03:43,849 --> 00:03:45,476 Oh, then you've been to Cabot Cove before. 55 00:03:45,559 --> 00:03:47,186 Years ago. 56 00:03:47,269 --> 00:03:50,272 Matter of fact, I stayed a bit longer than I'd planned. 57 00:03:51,732 --> 00:03:53,025 Well, then this should be 58 00:03:53,108 --> 00:03:54,818 quite a nostalgic vacation for you. 59 00:03:56,070 --> 00:03:58,530 [sighs] Or are you here on business? 60 00:03:58,614 --> 00:04:00,032 A little of both. 61 00:04:00,115 --> 00:04:02,409 But mostly just to soak up a lot of sunshine 62 00:04:02,493 --> 00:04:04,036 and good, clean salt air. 63 00:04:04,119 --> 00:04:05,037 [laughs] 64 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,622 You sound to me like... 65 00:04:06,705 --> 00:04:08,082 Like someone with a raging case of cabin fever. 66 00:04:09,166 --> 00:04:12,086 Mrs. Fletcher, you are a master of understatement. 67 00:04:18,092 --> 00:04:21,178 Oh. This place could do with a good airing. 68 00:04:24,431 --> 00:04:26,100 Oh, please, let me get all that. 69 00:04:26,183 --> 00:04:28,185 I've already taken up too much of your time. 70 00:04:28,268 --> 00:04:29,603 Oh, it's no trouble at all. 71 00:04:29,687 --> 00:04:31,146 One last favor. 72 00:04:31,230 --> 00:04:33,315 I've got some papers your sheriff has to sign. 73 00:04:33,399 --> 00:04:35,109 Could you tell me where I could find him? 74 00:04:35,192 --> 00:04:37,152 Four blocks down, turn to the left. 75 00:04:37,236 --> 00:04:38,946 It's on the outskirts of town. 76 00:04:39,029 --> 00:04:39,989 Oops, I'm gonna be late. 77 00:04:40,072 --> 00:04:41,615 Can I drop you somewhere? 78 00:04:41,699 --> 00:04:42,950 Oh, how very kind of you. 79 00:04:43,033 --> 00:04:44,702 A dear friend, Kevin Cauldwell, 80 00:04:44,785 --> 00:04:46,495 is retiring as football coach of the high school. 81 00:04:46,578 --> 00:04:48,247 A few of us are giving him a farewell party. 82 00:04:48,330 --> 00:04:50,332 -Let's go. -Thank you. 83 00:04:51,959 --> 00:04:53,919 I don't mind telling you. I'm shocked, Perry. 84 00:04:54,461 --> 00:04:57,256 I'm speechless, that's it. I'm... I'm speechless. 85 00:04:57,339 --> 00:05:00,092 Everyone knows that I had that accident 86 00:05:00,175 --> 00:05:02,970 because the car Bill Hampton sold me was a lemon. 87 00:05:03,053 --> 00:05:06,223 Now I'm welded to this chair for life. 88 00:05:06,306 --> 00:05:07,891 I'm helpless as a baby. 89 00:05:07,975 --> 00:05:12,479 Arnie, what I said in that courtroom is final. 90 00:05:12,563 --> 00:05:15,858 Now, I am truly sorry about your accident. 91 00:05:15,941 --> 00:05:20,529 Perry, the stock market has made me a very rich man. 92 00:05:20,612 --> 00:05:22,156 I am not suing him for the money. 93 00:05:22,239 --> 00:05:23,365 It's the principal of the thing. 94 00:05:23,449 --> 00:05:25,409 Arnie, I can't hear your case 95 00:05:25,492 --> 00:05:27,786 because I have a conflict of interest. 96 00:05:27,870 --> 00:05:29,288 I've known you and Bill since we were kids. 97 00:05:29,371 --> 00:05:30,914 We played on the same football team. 98 00:05:30,998 --> 00:05:32,916 That's exactly my point. 99 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,045 No one has to tell you how underhanded Bill Hampton is. 100 00:05:36,128 --> 00:05:37,629 Remember the time he fixed us up with a couple of chicks-- 101 00:05:37,713 --> 00:05:40,632 That's it, Arnie! Not another word. 102 00:05:43,469 --> 00:05:44,720 Boy, Perry, 103 00:05:44,803 --> 00:05:46,930 you are very strict, very strict. 104 00:05:47,014 --> 00:05:49,641 And also very busy. So, if you'll excuse me. 105 00:05:51,393 --> 00:05:52,686 See you at coach's party? 106 00:05:52,770 --> 00:05:54,146 Are you kidding? 107 00:05:54,229 --> 00:05:55,314 The year of '66 was the greatest thing 108 00:05:55,397 --> 00:05:56,899 that ever happened to me. 109 00:05:56,982 --> 00:05:57,983 I'll be there. 110 00:06:09,411 --> 00:06:10,579 [knock at door] 111 00:06:18,921 --> 00:06:21,340 -Sheriff. -Afternoon, Judge. 112 00:06:21,423 --> 00:06:22,466 Could you spare a few minutes? 113 00:06:22,549 --> 00:06:24,051 Of course, come on in. 114 00:06:24,134 --> 00:06:26,095 Oh, uh, this is Mr. Durbin. 115 00:06:26,178 --> 00:06:28,972 He's rentin' Lila small's house for a few weeks. 116 00:06:29,056 --> 00:06:31,308 Well, welcome to cabot cove, Mr. Durbin. 117 00:06:32,017 --> 00:06:34,728 Thank you, Judge. 118 00:06:35,813 --> 00:06:36,814 What can I do for you, Amos? 119 00:06:37,773 --> 00:06:40,818 Eh, never handled anything like this before, your honor. 120 00:06:40,901 --> 00:06:42,861 Thought it'd be best to check it with you. 121 00:06:56,333 --> 00:07:00,003 [people speaking simultaneously] 122 00:07:00,087 --> 00:07:02,756 [laughing] 123 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:04,508 Parole papers? 124 00:07:04,591 --> 00:07:07,136 Yes, it seems Mr. Durbin served 20 years 125 00:07:07,219 --> 00:07:09,138 in the state prison for murder. 126 00:07:09,221 --> 00:07:10,639 Oh, dear. 127 00:07:10,722 --> 00:07:11,974 I don't know the circumstances. 128 00:07:12,057 --> 00:07:13,308 He was paroled a few months ago. 129 00:07:13,392 --> 00:07:14,685 One of the conditions being 130 00:07:14,768 --> 00:07:15,894 that he register his whereabouts 131 00:07:15,978 --> 00:07:17,563 with an officer of the court. 132 00:07:18,313 --> 00:07:20,774 He sure made Amos Tupper nervous. 133 00:07:20,858 --> 00:07:22,651 Well, it seems hard to believe. 134 00:07:22,734 --> 00:07:25,529 I mean, he's so charming and intelligent. 135 00:07:25,612 --> 00:07:29,491 Jessica. Heck of a swan song, Jessie. 136 00:07:29,575 --> 00:07:30,909 Some swan song. 137 00:07:30,993 --> 00:07:32,744 If I know you, Kevin Cauldwell, 138 00:07:32,828 --> 00:07:36,415 you'll be spending even more time at Cabot Cove High. 139 00:07:36,498 --> 00:07:38,292 I fell head over heels for this woman 140 00:07:38,375 --> 00:07:40,002 my first day at the school. 141 00:07:40,085 --> 00:07:42,045 But for some unfathomable reason, 142 00:07:42,129 --> 00:07:43,213 she wouldn't leave her husband. 143 00:07:43,297 --> 00:07:44,673 [all laughing] 144 00:07:44,756 --> 00:07:46,091 Then I met Frank Fletcher, 145 00:07:46,175 --> 00:07:48,051 and I gave up the chase. 146 00:07:48,135 --> 00:07:49,553 Best friends a man could hope for. 147 00:07:49,636 --> 00:07:51,388 Well, it was a two-way street, Kevin. 148 00:07:51,471 --> 00:07:53,807 Those were wonderful years for all of us. 149 00:07:53,891 --> 00:07:55,684 Mmm, some not so wonderful. 150 00:07:55,767 --> 00:07:57,895 Or maybe you forgot that football camp of mine. 151 00:07:57,978 --> 00:08:00,856 The one that was gonna make me the... the next Pop Warner. 152 00:08:00,939 --> 00:08:02,316 [all laughing] 153 00:08:02,399 --> 00:08:03,358 Hey, I'm still waiting 154 00:08:03,442 --> 00:08:04,359 for my counselor's salary. 155 00:08:04,443 --> 00:08:05,611 [chuckles] 156 00:08:08,655 --> 00:08:10,699 I'm just kidding. It's... Coach, I'm kidding. 157 00:08:11,909 --> 00:08:12,868 Remember what I told you guys. 158 00:08:12,951 --> 00:08:14,411 You can't win 'em all. 159 00:08:14,494 --> 00:08:15,913 Hey, we beat 'em all in '66, coach, remember? 160 00:08:15,996 --> 00:08:17,539 Yeah, we sure did. 161 00:08:17,623 --> 00:08:19,458 State Football Champs. 162 00:08:19,541 --> 00:08:21,543 First and only time for Cabot Cove or me. 163 00:08:21,627 --> 00:08:24,213 Tough act to follow, but what a year. 164 00:08:24,296 --> 00:08:26,131 And I owe it all to you guys. 165 00:08:26,215 --> 00:08:29,968 Perry, Arnie, Billy. 166 00:08:31,637 --> 00:08:33,931 Danny. Where's... where's Danny? 167 00:08:34,014 --> 00:08:37,809 Hey, Dan? Where's Dan Pulling? Dan never misses a party. 168 00:08:37,893 --> 00:08:39,186 Especially one with free drinks. 169 00:08:39,269 --> 00:08:41,271 -Hey, zip it up, Arnie. -Touchy, touchy. 170 00:08:41,355 --> 00:08:42,648 What's the matter? Feeling a little bit guilty 171 00:08:42,731 --> 00:08:43,815 about firing Dan this morning? 172 00:08:43,899 --> 00:08:45,192 That's none of your business. 173 00:08:45,275 --> 00:08:46,610 Well, maybe you're just nervous. 174 00:08:46,693 --> 00:08:47,986 After all, I'd be nervous, too, if I was 175 00:08:48,070 --> 00:08:48,987 facing a million-dollar lawsuit. 176 00:08:49,071 --> 00:08:50,530 Knock it off, Arnie. 177 00:08:50,614 --> 00:08:52,157 But then it is the insurance company's money. 178 00:08:52,241 --> 00:08:54,117 I said knock it off! 179 00:08:59,039 --> 00:09:00,540 Excuse me. I wanna talk to Jessica. 180 00:09:05,712 --> 00:09:08,757 It was a great party, Jessica. Thanks. I mean it. 181 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:10,342 Everybody chipped in. 182 00:09:10,425 --> 00:09:12,219 But I know whose idea it was, don't I? 183 00:09:12,302 --> 00:09:13,845 [laughs] Any plans? 184 00:09:13,929 --> 00:09:15,722 Yeah, goin' back to my office. 185 00:09:15,806 --> 00:09:17,933 They're payin' me till Friday. 186 00:09:18,016 --> 00:09:21,144 After that, I guess it's gonna seem kind of funny. 187 00:09:21,228 --> 00:09:23,647 After all these years, nothin' to do. 188 00:09:23,730 --> 00:09:24,731 You could get to like it. 189 00:09:24,815 --> 00:09:26,566 Well, I'll give it a shot. 190 00:09:27,317 --> 00:09:28,527 Thanks for everything. 191 00:09:31,071 --> 00:09:33,657 He'll never be able to handle it. 192 00:09:33,740 --> 00:09:37,536 30 years, you don't just quit, not like this. 193 00:09:37,619 --> 00:09:40,414 If he could quit himself, it would be much easier. 194 00:09:40,497 --> 00:09:42,291 I really feel sorry for him. 195 00:09:42,374 --> 00:09:44,543 Well, since the guest of honor has fled the premises, 196 00:09:44,626 --> 00:09:47,421 I hereby declare this party adjourned. 197 00:09:47,504 --> 00:09:49,715 Let's go, honey. Jessica, can we drop you? 198 00:09:49,798 --> 00:09:51,633 Oh, thanks. I thought you'd never ask. 199 00:09:51,717 --> 00:09:54,303 [all laughing] 200 00:09:55,721 --> 00:09:57,889 Fetch the chariot, my good man. 201 00:09:57,973 --> 00:09:59,933 I don't sell chariots. It's too hard to get parts. 202 00:10:00,017 --> 00:10:02,352 Uh-oh. 203 00:10:03,729 --> 00:10:04,938 Danny. 204 00:10:05,022 --> 00:10:06,440 Hey, coach! 205 00:10:08,525 --> 00:10:10,944 Drunk as hell. Just what we need. 206 00:10:11,028 --> 00:10:12,529 Come on, Jessica. Let's go. 207 00:10:12,612 --> 00:10:13,780 We'll see you later. 208 00:10:13,864 --> 00:10:15,198 -Bye-bye. -Bye. 209 00:10:15,282 --> 00:10:16,533 Maybe I'd better go see if Dan's okay. 210 00:10:16,616 --> 00:10:18,035 Let coach handle it. 211 00:10:18,118 --> 00:10:20,078 -Tara, I-- -Perry, you can't help him. 212 00:10:20,162 --> 00:10:21,079 School's out. 213 00:10:22,956 --> 00:10:24,124 Let's go. 214 00:10:41,808 --> 00:10:43,185 What is it, Bill? 215 00:10:43,268 --> 00:10:44,269 It's nothing. 216 00:10:49,024 --> 00:10:51,443 It's just somebody's idea of a practical joke. 217 00:11:03,330 --> 00:11:06,625 [telephone ringing] 218 00:11:06,708 --> 00:11:09,628 [moans] 219 00:11:16,968 --> 00:11:19,805 -Hello. -Bill, who is it? 220 00:11:22,933 --> 00:11:26,019 Who are you? What do you want? 221 00:11:28,105 --> 00:11:29,147 Bill, what's wrong? 222 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:34,361 What is it? 223 00:11:36,947 --> 00:11:38,323 Bill. 224 00:11:40,367 --> 00:11:41,493 Bill. 225 00:11:46,832 --> 00:11:47,958 What is that? 226 00:11:52,963 --> 00:11:56,174 -Oh! [Jack-in-the-box laughing] 227 00:11:56,258 --> 00:11:58,343 -Bill. [laughing continues] 228 00:12:02,639 --> 00:12:04,558 Bill, talk to me. Tell me what's happening. 229 00:12:04,641 --> 00:12:06,184 -Who's doing this? -Honey, it's nothing. 230 00:12:06,268 --> 00:12:07,727 It's nothing. It's just a sick 231 00:12:07,811 --> 00:12:09,604 practical joke, that's all. 232 00:12:16,486 --> 00:12:17,863 I'm gonna call Sheriff Tupper. 233 00:12:17,946 --> 00:12:19,448 No! 234 00:12:19,531 --> 00:12:21,783 I told you. It's just a joke, a private one. 235 00:12:23,410 --> 00:12:24,828 I'll take care of it myself. 236 00:12:26,246 --> 00:12:28,457 You say you got a good look at the clipping? 237 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:30,041 It was from The Gazette. 238 00:12:30,125 --> 00:12:32,210 Something about a hitchhiker being convicted 239 00:12:32,294 --> 00:12:36,339 and $100,000 in bonds missing, but it happened years ago. 240 00:12:36,423 --> 00:12:37,841 A hitchhiker? 241 00:12:39,176 --> 00:12:43,680 I have a vague memory of a man who was murdered in shawmut. 242 00:12:43,763 --> 00:12:45,432 A hitchhiker was convicted for the crime, 243 00:12:45,515 --> 00:12:46,850 but they never found he bonds 244 00:12:46,933 --> 00:12:48,602 that he was supposed to have taken. 245 00:12:48,685 --> 00:12:51,146 But that was at least 20 years ago, I'm sure. 246 00:12:51,938 --> 00:12:54,524 Jessica, I'm worried. 247 00:12:54,608 --> 00:12:56,485 Bill has never kept anything from me before. 248 00:12:56,568 --> 00:12:57,903 Who's ever behind this, 249 00:12:57,986 --> 00:12:59,529 it's more than just a practical joke. 250 00:12:59,613 --> 00:13:02,491 And you have no idea what it could be? 251 00:13:03,283 --> 00:13:04,326 No. 252 00:13:06,119 --> 00:13:08,830 I'm sure Dan Pulling's got something to do with this. 253 00:13:08,914 --> 00:13:11,791 Getting back at Bill for firing him. 254 00:13:12,501 --> 00:13:13,877 Oh, God. 255 00:13:14,753 --> 00:13:17,422 Can you remember anything else about last night, 256 00:13:17,506 --> 00:13:21,510 something that Bill might have said or done? 257 00:13:21,593 --> 00:13:24,888 No... except... 258 00:13:26,014 --> 00:13:29,267 a car drove by when we were outside the house. 259 00:13:30,393 --> 00:13:31,811 It was moving very slowly, 260 00:13:31,895 --> 00:13:34,022 as if the driver was watching us. 261 00:13:34,105 --> 00:13:35,273 Did you get a look at the driver? 262 00:13:35,357 --> 00:13:37,275 No, it was too dark. 263 00:13:37,359 --> 00:13:38,568 But the car was an old Corvette, 264 00:13:38,652 --> 00:13:40,529 you know, from the '50s. 265 00:13:41,530 --> 00:13:43,782 Will you have a talk with him, Jessica? 266 00:13:43,865 --> 00:13:45,700 Maybe there's something that Bill can't tell me 267 00:13:45,784 --> 00:13:46,952 because he doesn't want to frighten me 268 00:13:47,035 --> 00:13:48,495 but he might confide in you. 269 00:13:48,578 --> 00:13:50,580 Of course, Alison. 270 00:13:50,664 --> 00:13:53,500 But I'll have to do a bit of research first. 271 00:14:07,931 --> 00:14:09,933 Night, fellas. See you in the morning. 272 00:14:51,891 --> 00:14:53,893 [tires screeching] 273 00:15:20,337 --> 00:15:23,006 -Jessica. -Oh, hello, Alison. 274 00:15:23,089 --> 00:15:25,008 I've been looking all over for you. 275 00:15:25,091 --> 00:15:27,302 -Have you talked to Bill yet? -No, not yet. What's wrong? 276 00:15:27,385 --> 00:15:29,596 It's worse, whatever's going on. 277 00:15:29,679 --> 00:15:31,056 Jessica, he's carrying a gun. 278 00:15:31,139 --> 00:15:32,474 Oh, dear. 279 00:15:32,557 --> 00:15:34,059 Early this morning, I came downstairs 280 00:15:34,142 --> 00:15:36,519 and I heard Bill on the phone in the study. 281 00:15:36,603 --> 00:15:37,854 He was telling someone 282 00:15:37,937 --> 00:15:39,439 that he was almost killed last night 283 00:15:39,522 --> 00:15:41,483 in the car, run off the road. 284 00:15:41,566 --> 00:15:43,276 He said he thinks he knows who did it, 285 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:44,986 and they've got to do something before it's too late. 286 00:15:45,070 --> 00:15:46,696 Do you know who he was talking to? 287 00:15:46,780 --> 00:15:48,740 No. Just as I came in the study 288 00:15:48,823 --> 00:15:50,325 I saw him putting the gun in his pocket. 289 00:15:51,368 --> 00:15:53,912 -Where is he now? -At the showroom. 290 00:15:53,995 --> 00:15:56,164 Alison, I think you should talk to Sheriff Tupper. 291 00:15:56,247 --> 00:15:58,792 No, no, I can't do that. He'd never forgive me. 292 00:15:58,875 --> 00:16:01,044 He'd be furious if he knew I was talking to you. 293 00:16:32,367 --> 00:16:33,451 Hello, again. 294 00:16:34,994 --> 00:16:36,955 -Ready for that test drive? -Ah, afraid not. 295 00:16:37,038 --> 00:16:40,333 But I brought my baby in for some minor repairs. 296 00:16:41,167 --> 00:16:43,086 Yeah, she's a real classic, all right. 297 00:16:44,421 --> 00:16:45,672 Cherry condition. 298 00:16:46,423 --> 00:16:47,841 I saw it parked across the street 299 00:16:47,924 --> 00:16:50,969 from the, uh, Cove Restaurant yesterday. 300 00:16:51,052 --> 00:16:53,179 It does attract attention. 301 00:16:55,432 --> 00:16:56,891 These are pretty hard to come by. 302 00:16:58,435 --> 00:16:59,310 Where did you find this one? 303 00:17:00,311 --> 00:17:02,439 Bought it from a little old lady over in Shawmut. 304 00:17:03,106 --> 00:17:06,067 Had it garaged ever since her husband died... 305 00:17:06,818 --> 00:17:08,069 20 years ago. 306 00:17:09,904 --> 00:17:11,990 A tragic incident. You might remember it. 307 00:17:12,073 --> 00:17:14,534 That's if you were in these parts back then. 308 00:17:15,702 --> 00:17:16,828 Try me. 309 00:17:17,912 --> 00:17:19,748 Seems this businessman 310 00:17:19,831 --> 00:17:21,666 picked up a hitchhiker one night. 311 00:17:22,417 --> 00:17:24,335 Next thing you know, the man is dead 312 00:17:24,419 --> 00:17:28,590 and $100,000 in negotiable bonds is missing. 313 00:17:29,841 --> 00:17:31,134 Ring a bell? 314 00:17:32,719 --> 00:17:34,512 All right, what do you want? Why have you come back here? 315 00:17:34,596 --> 00:17:37,223 Sorry for rambling on like that. 316 00:17:37,307 --> 00:17:38,767 Bad habit. 317 00:17:38,850 --> 00:17:40,810 Comes from spending too many years alone. 318 00:17:46,149 --> 00:17:48,234 It's the electrical system. 319 00:17:48,318 --> 00:17:50,487 The left side doesn't work. 320 00:17:50,570 --> 00:17:52,572 It started acting funny last night. 321 00:17:53,865 --> 00:17:57,327 I just replaced the headlight, so it, uh, can't be that. 322 00:18:00,246 --> 00:18:01,414 Probably a short. 323 00:18:04,709 --> 00:18:06,044 We're pretty busy right now. 324 00:18:06,127 --> 00:18:07,420 Why don't you come back about 9 o'clock? 325 00:18:07,504 --> 00:18:08,963 I'll have it ready for you then. 326 00:18:11,216 --> 00:18:14,010 Thanks. See ya at 9:00. 327 00:18:29,484 --> 00:18:31,277 Jessica. 328 00:18:32,237 --> 00:18:33,905 Don't tell me you're in the market for a car? 329 00:18:33,988 --> 00:18:35,406 Oh, my goodness, no. 330 00:18:35,490 --> 00:18:37,075 I spend enough time sitting as it is. 331 00:18:37,158 --> 00:18:39,035 No, Bill, I came to see you. 332 00:18:39,118 --> 00:18:42,330 Alison told me what happened last night and this morning. 333 00:18:42,413 --> 00:18:45,208 Oh, come on. [chuckles] 334 00:18:45,291 --> 00:18:47,710 Oh, Bill. That nervous laugh. 335 00:18:47,794 --> 00:18:49,504 I remember that from sophomore english. 336 00:18:49,587 --> 00:18:51,214 It generally meant that you hadn't done your homework. 337 00:18:51,297 --> 00:18:52,757 [chuckles] Jessica, come on. 338 00:18:52,841 --> 00:18:55,218 I don't want to seem to be butting in, 339 00:18:55,301 --> 00:18:58,721 but a man that carries a gun has to be desperately worried 340 00:18:58,805 --> 00:19:00,807 about something or someone. 341 00:19:00,890 --> 00:19:03,852 Now, Alison is terribly worried. 342 00:19:04,477 --> 00:19:05,728 Come on, that's ridiculous. 343 00:19:05,812 --> 00:19:07,856 I mean, Alison and I have never had any secrets. 344 00:19:07,939 --> 00:19:09,482 Why... why would I want to start now? 345 00:19:09,566 --> 00:19:12,819 Perhaps this has something to do with it. 346 00:19:19,325 --> 00:19:23,538 Bill, that was Andrew Durbin who drove by your house, 347 00:19:23,621 --> 00:19:24,998 Andrew Durbin who left 348 00:19:25,081 --> 00:19:27,625 that bizarre valise on your doorstep. 349 00:19:28,835 --> 00:19:29,836 But why? 350 00:19:30,295 --> 00:19:32,130 What is the connection between you two? 351 00:19:32,213 --> 00:19:33,548 Jessica, forgive me. 352 00:19:33,631 --> 00:19:35,425 I never met the man before yesterday. 353 00:19:35,508 --> 00:19:37,468 And quite frankly, what is going on between me and my wife 354 00:19:37,552 --> 00:19:39,721 is none of your business. 355 00:19:39,804 --> 00:19:41,764 I'm sorry. I came here as a friend. 356 00:19:41,848 --> 00:19:43,182 Yes, and I'd like to keep it that way. 357 00:19:43,266 --> 00:19:44,559 Now please excuse me, 358 00:19:44,642 --> 00:19:46,185 because I've got a very, very busy day. 359 00:20:01,868 --> 00:20:03,202 He was just here. 360 00:20:03,620 --> 00:20:05,163 Durbin, yes. 361 00:20:05,997 --> 00:20:07,624 No, no, it was him all right. 362 00:20:08,625 --> 00:20:10,084 You bet we're in this together, 363 00:20:10,168 --> 00:20:11,502 and we're gonna take care of him together. 364 00:20:12,378 --> 00:20:14,547 Come to my office a little before 9 o'clock tonight. 365 00:20:19,719 --> 00:20:21,429 Yes, of course this is me. 366 00:20:21,512 --> 00:20:23,139 I don't believe I ever made a secret of it. 367 00:20:23,222 --> 00:20:24,307 Mm-hmm. 368 00:20:24,390 --> 00:20:26,809 And that's the murder you served the 20 years for. 369 00:20:26,893 --> 00:20:28,519 I served the 20 years, sheriff. 370 00:20:28,603 --> 00:20:29,646 I did not commit the murder. 371 00:20:29,729 --> 00:20:31,481 Jury thought otherwise. 372 00:20:31,564 --> 00:20:33,316 The jury was wrong. 373 00:20:33,399 --> 00:20:34,692 I maintained my innocence then. 374 00:20:34,776 --> 00:20:36,361 I maintain it today. 375 00:20:36,444 --> 00:20:38,655 You have an excellent memory, Mrs. Fletcher. 376 00:20:38,738 --> 00:20:39,948 The events of the last couple days 377 00:20:40,031 --> 00:20:41,032 have helped to jog it. 378 00:20:41,115 --> 00:20:42,450 All right, Durbin. 379 00:20:42,533 --> 00:20:43,952 I want to know what you're doin' here 380 00:20:44,035 --> 00:20:46,329 in Cabot Cove spookin' Bill Hampton. 381 00:20:46,412 --> 00:20:48,206 Really? Has he filed a complaint? 382 00:20:48,289 --> 00:20:50,458 No, he hasn't. At least not yet. 383 00:20:50,541 --> 00:20:52,669 But it's evident that you've gone to a great deal of trouble 384 00:20:52,752 --> 00:20:55,129 to attract Bill's attention. 385 00:20:55,213 --> 00:20:56,255 Why? 386 00:20:57,423 --> 00:21:00,301 20 years ago, I was a college student 387 00:21:00,385 --> 00:21:01,928 spending my summer vacation 388 00:21:02,011 --> 00:21:05,556 thumbing from one anti-Vietnam rally to another. 389 00:21:06,891 --> 00:21:08,434 One night over in Shawmut, 390 00:21:08,518 --> 00:21:10,770 I hitched a ride from a businessman. 391 00:21:10,853 --> 00:21:11,938 He wouldn't happen to have been 392 00:21:12,021 --> 00:21:13,398 driving a Corvette, would he? 393 00:21:16,317 --> 00:21:18,319 Just on the outskirts of Cabot Cove, 394 00:21:18,403 --> 00:21:21,698 we were run off the road by a teenager playing chicken. 395 00:21:21,781 --> 00:21:23,574 The kid's car had only one headlight. 396 00:21:23,658 --> 00:21:25,368 He came straight at us. 397 00:21:25,451 --> 00:21:27,120 The man swerved the car, hit the shoulder, 398 00:21:27,203 --> 00:21:28,746 and cracked his head on the steering wheel. 399 00:21:28,830 --> 00:21:30,331 Now just hold on here. 400 00:21:30,415 --> 00:21:32,291 You're not saying that he died 401 00:21:32,375 --> 00:21:33,626 from that bump on the head. 402 00:21:33,710 --> 00:21:35,712 'Cause I read the autopsy report. 403 00:21:35,795 --> 00:21:36,838 Amos. 404 00:21:37,547 --> 00:21:39,507 Sorry, Miss Fletcher. 405 00:21:39,590 --> 00:21:40,717 No, sheriff. 406 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:41,968 The man was unconscious, 407 00:21:42,051 --> 00:21:43,720 bleeding heavily from that bump, 408 00:21:43,803 --> 00:21:46,848 but very much alive when I left the car to get help. 409 00:21:47,473 --> 00:21:50,143 I ran down the road to a farmhouse we passed. 410 00:21:50,226 --> 00:21:53,563 On the way, I saw the car with one headlight 411 00:21:53,646 --> 00:21:55,148 make a turn up ahead 412 00:21:55,231 --> 00:21:56,816 and come back toward the Corvette. 413 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:11,164 There were people in that farmhouse. 414 00:22:11,247 --> 00:22:13,249 They were watching TV. 415 00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:14,292 I rang the bell. 416 00:22:14,375 --> 00:22:15,626 I pounded on the door, 417 00:22:15,710 --> 00:22:16,919 yelled that there'd been an accident. 418 00:22:17,003 --> 00:22:19,130 They kept on watching TV. 419 00:22:20,757 --> 00:22:23,176 By the time I got back to the car, the man was dead. 420 00:22:23,259 --> 00:22:27,013 His head bashed in, his luggage all over the roadside. 421 00:22:27,597 --> 00:22:30,058 Just then, a police car pulled up, 422 00:22:30,850 --> 00:22:32,018 and... 423 00:22:34,103 --> 00:22:37,732 the rest is a matter of record. 424 00:22:38,483 --> 00:22:40,443 Then you're saying whoever was in the car 425 00:22:40,526 --> 00:22:41,652 with one headlight 426 00:22:41,736 --> 00:22:43,905 killed the man and stole the bonds. 427 00:22:43,988 --> 00:22:46,324 The police searched for those bonds for days. 428 00:22:46,407 --> 00:22:47,700 They never found them. 429 00:22:47,784 --> 00:22:49,077 What was I supposed to have done with them, 430 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,703 burned them, eaten them? 431 00:22:50,787 --> 00:22:53,289 It made no sense, but they convicted me anyway. 432 00:22:54,916 --> 00:22:57,543 But you still haven't answered my question. 433 00:22:58,544 --> 00:23:02,381 What are you to Bill Hampton, and what is he to you? 434 00:23:06,052 --> 00:23:07,470 While I was in prison, 435 00:23:07,553 --> 00:23:09,931 I subscribed to The Cabot Cove Gazette, 436 00:23:10,014 --> 00:23:11,349 certain I would find a photo 437 00:23:11,432 --> 00:23:13,810 of the kid I saw in the car that night. 438 00:23:13,893 --> 00:23:15,061 You saw the driver? 439 00:23:15,144 --> 00:23:16,395 Not the driver, Mrs. Fletcher. 440 00:23:16,479 --> 00:23:17,980 The passenger. 441 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,358 That's him. 442 00:23:20,441 --> 00:23:21,484 He was in that car 443 00:23:21,567 --> 00:23:22,735 wearing a white dinner jacket, 444 00:23:22,819 --> 00:23:24,529 like kids wear at a prom. 445 00:23:24,612 --> 00:23:26,447 That's right, Mrs. Fletcher. 446 00:23:26,531 --> 00:23:27,990 The murder of that man, 447 00:23:28,074 --> 00:23:30,243 the senior prom at Cabot Cove High, 448 00:23:30,326 --> 00:23:31,828 they happened on the same night. 449 00:23:34,622 --> 00:23:36,833 I don't care what night it was. 450 00:23:36,916 --> 00:23:38,876 Just-just-just a minute, Amos. 451 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,419 There were no lights on that road. 452 00:23:40,503 --> 00:23:43,131 How can you be sure that was Bill Hampton? 453 00:23:43,214 --> 00:23:46,342 Oh, his face has been burned into my mind for 20 years. 454 00:23:48,094 --> 00:23:50,888 You haven't identified the driver, have you? 455 00:23:50,972 --> 00:23:53,599 What makes you so sure I haven't? 456 00:23:53,683 --> 00:23:58,771 Because you continued to collect Cabot Cove history 457 00:23:58,855 --> 00:24:01,399 long after you identified Bill. 458 00:24:01,482 --> 00:24:04,026 Maybe the reason you were pressuring Bill 459 00:24:04,110 --> 00:24:06,612 was that you hoped that he would, uh, 460 00:24:06,696 --> 00:24:08,990 lead you to the driver. 461 00:24:09,615 --> 00:24:12,410 All this theorizing is gettin' us nowhere. 462 00:24:13,244 --> 00:24:14,745 Now, you take my advice, mister. 463 00:24:14,829 --> 00:24:16,956 You leave town before I put you under arrest. 464 00:24:17,039 --> 00:24:19,876 On what charge, sheriff? I haven't broken any law. 465 00:24:19,959 --> 00:24:21,669 No, but you're plannin' to. 466 00:24:21,752 --> 00:24:23,838 By your own admission, you come here for revenge. 467 00:24:23,921 --> 00:24:25,798 Not revenge. Justice. 468 00:24:25,882 --> 00:24:27,717 And unless I'm mistaken, 469 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,761 neither of you would want to see a murder go unsolved 470 00:24:30,845 --> 00:24:33,598 or justice undelivered, would you? 471 00:24:38,019 --> 00:24:39,812 This guy Durbin must be out of his mind. 472 00:24:39,896 --> 00:24:41,314 Bill Hampton's the last man on earth 473 00:24:41,397 --> 00:24:43,149 who would murder somebody. 474 00:24:43,232 --> 00:24:45,193 These are my boys, Jessie. 475 00:24:45,276 --> 00:24:48,654 Arnie, Perry, Dan, Bill, especially Bill. 476 00:24:48,738 --> 00:24:49,822 He was like my own son. 477 00:24:49,906 --> 00:24:51,699 That's why I'm here, Kevin. 478 00:24:51,782 --> 00:24:54,160 Now, this will surprise you. I know it did me. 479 00:24:54,243 --> 00:24:56,412 But I believe Mr. Durbin's story. 480 00:24:56,495 --> 00:24:58,289 Jessie. 481 00:24:58,372 --> 00:25:00,249 Not necessarily that he saw Bill in the car that night, 482 00:25:00,333 --> 00:25:02,251 but that he did see a young man wearing a white dinner jacket. 483 00:25:02,335 --> 00:25:04,128 That's ridiculous. He's lying. 484 00:25:04,212 --> 00:25:05,838 I don't think so. 485 00:25:05,922 --> 00:25:07,131 You were one of the chaperones at the prom, Kevin. 486 00:25:07,215 --> 00:25:08,633 Now, think back. 487 00:25:08,716 --> 00:25:12,678 Can you remember what Bill did when it was over? 488 00:25:12,762 --> 00:25:15,014 Jessie, that was 20 years ago. 489 00:25:15,723 --> 00:25:17,433 No, I'm sorry. 490 00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:19,310 There's no way in hell are you gonna convince me 491 00:25:19,393 --> 00:25:20,937 that one of my boys could kill a man. 492 00:25:21,020 --> 00:25:22,813 Look, Kevin, how do you think I feel? 493 00:25:22,897 --> 00:25:24,690 You coached him, I taught him. 494 00:25:24,774 --> 00:25:26,400 I don't want to believe it any more than you do, 495 00:25:26,484 --> 00:25:28,069 but he is acting very strangely. 496 00:25:28,152 --> 00:25:31,113 He is carrying a gun, and he is lying to Alison. 497 00:25:31,197 --> 00:25:33,616 Now, something must be terribly wrong. 498 00:25:33,699 --> 00:25:36,869 No, no, no, you're way off the track, Jessie. 499 00:25:36,953 --> 00:25:39,622 No, it's not just Bill that I'm worried about. 500 00:25:39,705 --> 00:25:42,667 I'm sure that Andrew Durbin's after a second person. 501 00:25:42,750 --> 00:25:45,503 Whoever was driving the car that night. 502 00:25:45,586 --> 00:25:47,546 Has he put a name to this other person? 503 00:25:47,630 --> 00:25:49,840 No, but my guess is that he's waiting 504 00:25:49,924 --> 00:25:52,260 for Bill to lead him to the driver of the car. 505 00:25:52,343 --> 00:25:54,512 And you want me to talk to him. 506 00:25:55,930 --> 00:25:58,057 If he'll listen to anyone, it has to be you. 507 00:25:59,558 --> 00:26:03,145 Okay, I'll tell you this, Jessie. 508 00:26:03,229 --> 00:26:04,772 As far as I'm concerned, 509 00:26:04,855 --> 00:26:06,899 this guy Durbin committed that crime. 510 00:26:06,983 --> 00:26:09,652 And if he thinks he's gonna lay it off on Bill Hampton-- 511 00:26:09,735 --> 00:26:11,737 Kevin, don't do anything foolish. 512 00:26:12,863 --> 00:26:14,365 Yeah, okay. 513 00:26:16,367 --> 00:26:18,369 Guess it was just an old man wishing... 514 00:26:19,370 --> 00:26:21,080 wishing he were 20 years younger. 515 00:26:23,749 --> 00:26:25,167 [clattering] 516 00:26:38,472 --> 00:26:39,682 You're early. 517 00:26:41,892 --> 00:26:42,935 [gun cocks] 518 00:26:49,275 --> 00:26:51,944 [police chatter on radio] 519 00:27:04,707 --> 00:27:08,252 Miss Fletcher. Mr. Cauldwell. 520 00:27:08,711 --> 00:27:10,838 Sorry to start your mornin' off this way. 521 00:27:10,921 --> 00:27:12,882 Oh, thank you for calling me, Amos. 522 00:27:12,965 --> 00:27:14,216 Who found Bill's body? 523 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:15,968 Hal Avery, about an hour ago. 524 00:27:16,052 --> 00:27:19,013 Accordin' to Doc Mathews, he must've shot himself 525 00:27:19,096 --> 00:27:20,848 some time between 9:00 and 11:00 last night. 526 00:27:22,099 --> 00:27:25,519 Yeah, we found this typewritten note in the car next to him. 527 00:27:25,603 --> 00:27:27,646 It's pretty clear Bill couldn't take the pressure 528 00:27:27,730 --> 00:27:28,898 that Durbin was puttin' on him. 529 00:27:35,321 --> 00:27:37,031 -Excuse me. -Thanks. 530 00:27:37,907 --> 00:27:40,576 Are you positive that it was a suicide, Dr. Mathews? 531 00:27:40,659 --> 00:27:42,411 Bullet in the right Temple. 532 00:27:42,495 --> 00:27:44,163 Yeah, from Bill's own gun. 533 00:27:44,246 --> 00:27:45,915 Checked the registration myself. 534 00:27:45,998 --> 00:27:47,416 Yes, but that doesn't make any sense. 535 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:49,335 The right Temple? Bill was left-handed. 536 00:27:49,418 --> 00:27:50,753 That's right. 537 00:27:50,836 --> 00:27:53,255 Bill was the only lefty quarterback I ever coached. 538 00:27:53,714 --> 00:27:55,424 But what does that mean? 539 00:27:55,508 --> 00:27:57,134 Well, it means, it's unlikely that a left-handed person 540 00:27:57,218 --> 00:27:59,261 would shoot themselves in the right Temple. 541 00:27:59,345 --> 00:28:01,889 But a stranger, someone who didn't know Bill very well, 542 00:28:01,972 --> 00:28:05,393 probably wouldn't have known that he was left-handed. 543 00:28:05,476 --> 00:28:07,019 A stranger? 544 00:28:07,853 --> 00:28:09,939 Uh, don't ask me to be a hypocrite. 545 00:28:10,022 --> 00:28:11,232 Hampton's dead. 546 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:15,945 In a way, he's paid a debt long past due. 547 00:28:16,695 --> 00:28:18,030 But did I kill him? 548 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:20,241 No. 549 00:28:22,284 --> 00:28:24,078 Bad news, Miss Fletcher. 550 00:28:24,161 --> 00:28:25,913 He was havin' dinner at the Cove Restaurant. 551 00:28:25,996 --> 00:28:27,456 My deputy just confirmed it. 552 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:30,835 From 8:00 until they closed, just past 11:00. 553 00:28:30,918 --> 00:28:33,170 -Long time for supper. -I'm a slow eater. 554 00:28:34,922 --> 00:28:36,465 They found the keys to his car 555 00:28:36,549 --> 00:28:38,175 locked in Bill Hampton's service office. 556 00:28:38,426 --> 00:28:39,802 Well, Mr. Durbin, 557 00:28:39,885 --> 00:28:41,470 it seems that your mission is accomplished. 558 00:28:41,554 --> 00:28:43,472 I guess you'll be leaving Cabot Cove. 559 00:28:43,556 --> 00:28:45,099 Not just yet. 560 00:28:45,182 --> 00:28:46,725 Well, I can think of only one reason 561 00:28:46,809 --> 00:28:48,352 that you'd want to stay. 562 00:28:48,436 --> 00:28:50,062 You're hoping that the driver of the car 563 00:28:50,146 --> 00:28:52,356 will reveal himself to you. 564 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,442 You'll understand if I don't comment on that. 565 00:28:57,570 --> 00:28:59,572 You know what's wrong with your alibi, Durbin? 566 00:28:59,655 --> 00:29:01,365 It's too airtight. 567 00:29:01,449 --> 00:29:03,492 You're gonna trip up somewhere. 568 00:29:03,576 --> 00:29:04,952 And when you do, 569 00:29:05,035 --> 00:29:07,288 I'm gonna be there waitin' for you. 570 00:29:08,205 --> 00:29:10,082 Comin', Miss Fletcher? 571 00:29:10,166 --> 00:29:11,876 In a moment, Amos. 572 00:29:11,959 --> 00:29:16,380 I'm sorry, but what you did was totally reprehensible. 573 00:29:17,214 --> 00:29:19,592 Even though your friend was guilty of murder? 574 00:29:19,675 --> 00:29:21,552 That was a matter for the courts. 575 00:29:22,261 --> 00:29:23,888 Was it? 576 00:29:23,971 --> 00:29:25,598 You mean the same courts that sent me away to prison, 577 00:29:26,098 --> 00:29:28,476 that robbed me of 20 precious years, 578 00:29:28,559 --> 00:29:32,146 that locked me away in an 8x10 cell like an animal 579 00:29:32,229 --> 00:29:33,856 for a crime I didn't commit 580 00:29:33,939 --> 00:29:37,109 while Bill Hampton and his confederate were free 581 00:29:37,193 --> 00:29:40,070 to enjoy a life I never had and never will have? 582 00:29:42,448 --> 00:29:44,742 You have a bizarre definition of justice, Mrs. Fletcher. 583 00:29:45,367 --> 00:29:47,411 We still only have your word 584 00:29:47,495 --> 00:29:48,871 that it was Bill Hampton 585 00:29:48,954 --> 00:29:50,498 that was involved in that killing. 586 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,044 You're a bright woman, Mrs. Fletcher. 587 00:29:55,127 --> 00:29:57,546 You take this, read through it, read it carefully, 588 00:29:57,630 --> 00:29:59,673 the accounts of the trial, everything, 589 00:29:59,757 --> 00:30:03,844 then come back and tell me I'm a killer and Hampton wasn't. 590 00:30:05,137 --> 00:30:08,182 My task here is only half over, Mrs. Fletcher. 591 00:30:08,265 --> 00:30:10,226 I'm not leaving until it's finished. 592 00:30:16,565 --> 00:30:17,900 No! 593 00:30:17,983 --> 00:30:19,693 Bill would never commit suicide. 594 00:30:19,777 --> 00:30:20,945 Of course he didn't. 595 00:30:21,445 --> 00:30:23,572 Bill, he was a... he was a fighter, not a quitter. 596 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:25,866 "Never say die" Hampton. 597 00:30:26,742 --> 00:30:29,078 12 points down in the fourth quarter, 598 00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:30,454 and he couldn't wait to get out there 599 00:30:30,538 --> 00:30:32,081 and stick it to the other guys. 600 00:30:32,164 --> 00:30:33,290 Remember, honey? 601 00:30:33,374 --> 00:30:34,708 Look, all of you, 602 00:30:34,792 --> 00:30:37,628 the alternative is just as hard to take. 603 00:30:37,711 --> 00:30:39,463 I don't think it was suicide. 604 00:30:40,047 --> 00:30:41,382 I think it was murder. 605 00:30:42,049 --> 00:30:44,134 Why would anyone want to murder Bill? 606 00:30:44,218 --> 00:30:45,553 Let me show you something. 607 00:30:46,387 --> 00:30:48,722 Now, you all know about Andrew Durbin, 608 00:30:48,806 --> 00:30:51,809 but what you may not know is that he swears 609 00:30:51,892 --> 00:30:54,562 that he is innocent of killing that businessman 610 00:30:54,645 --> 00:30:55,938 and stealing those bonds, 611 00:30:56,021 --> 00:30:57,690 and I'm afraid that I believe him. 612 00:30:57,773 --> 00:30:59,817 But what does that have to do with Bill's death? 613 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:01,193 Everything. 614 00:31:01,819 --> 00:31:04,154 It's possible that Bill was involved. 615 00:31:04,238 --> 00:31:05,990 You don't know what you're saying. 616 00:31:06,073 --> 00:31:08,033 She seems to know exactly what she's saying. 617 00:31:08,117 --> 00:31:10,244 I'm sorry, Alison. 618 00:31:10,327 --> 00:31:11,870 I'd give anything to be wrong. 619 00:31:11,954 --> 00:31:13,747 The night of your senior prom, 620 00:31:13,831 --> 00:31:16,166 it's possible that Bill and someone else 621 00:31:16,250 --> 00:31:17,626 committed the crime 622 00:31:17,710 --> 00:31:20,421 that Andrew Durbin went to prison for. 623 00:31:20,504 --> 00:31:22,006 Well, if that's true, then 624 00:31:22,089 --> 00:31:24,300 Durbin must have killed Bill out of revenge. 625 00:31:24,383 --> 00:31:27,303 No. He has an unshakable alibi. 626 00:31:27,386 --> 00:31:28,470 I see. 627 00:31:28,887 --> 00:31:30,389 What you're saying is, 628 00:31:30,764 --> 00:31:32,266 Bill's killer is the person who was with him 629 00:31:32,349 --> 00:31:33,350 the night of the prom. 630 00:31:33,434 --> 00:31:34,643 Yes. 631 00:31:34,727 --> 00:31:36,770 That's a strong possibility. 632 00:31:37,313 --> 00:31:38,897 You were close then, all of you. 633 00:31:38,981 --> 00:31:41,025 You traveled together. Think back. 634 00:31:41,108 --> 00:31:43,485 Can't you remember anything unusual 635 00:31:43,569 --> 00:31:45,070 that could have happened that night? 636 00:31:45,154 --> 00:31:47,781 We had a hell of a good time. That's all. 637 00:31:47,865 --> 00:31:50,868 Look, Jessica, I don't like what you're getting at. 638 00:31:50,951 --> 00:31:51,952 Take it easy, honey. 639 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,496 You're talking after the prom? 640 00:31:57,875 --> 00:31:59,793 It was around midnight, I guess. 641 00:31:59,877 --> 00:32:01,378 A bunch of us drove over 642 00:32:01,462 --> 00:32:03,005 to that all-night diner on route 6. 643 00:32:03,088 --> 00:32:04,298 We stayed there till after sunrise. 644 00:32:04,965 --> 00:32:06,800 Including me and including Bill. 645 00:32:06,884 --> 00:32:09,303 We left the prom early and went straight to the diner 646 00:32:09,386 --> 00:32:10,846 just like everybody else. 647 00:32:11,138 --> 00:32:12,598 Isn't that right, Perry? 648 00:32:14,642 --> 00:32:15,684 That's right. 649 00:32:16,977 --> 00:32:18,979 Bill and Alison were with us. 650 00:32:19,772 --> 00:32:21,190 You're certain, Perry? 651 00:32:21,649 --> 00:32:24,985 Someone else could be in danger if you're wrong. 652 00:32:31,116 --> 00:32:34,328 They were there, Jessica. All night. 653 00:32:50,928 --> 00:32:52,054 Durbin! 654 00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:53,722 I'm Durbin. 655 00:32:54,264 --> 00:32:55,557 The name's Cauldwell. 656 00:32:55,641 --> 00:32:56,934 Bill Hampton was a friend of mine. 657 00:32:58,727 --> 00:32:59,728 Hey! 658 00:33:01,563 --> 00:33:03,732 Kevin! Stop that! 659 00:33:03,816 --> 00:33:06,068 You bastard! You killed one of my boys! 660 00:33:06,151 --> 00:33:08,153 -Kevin, please! -Coach, take it easy. 661 00:33:08,237 --> 00:33:10,864 Get your hands off me! Let go of me! 662 00:33:11,115 --> 00:33:13,283 -Are you all right? -Yeah. 663 00:33:13,534 --> 00:33:14,785 Kevin, you come with me. 664 00:33:22,292 --> 00:33:24,086 I wanted to kill him. 665 00:33:24,169 --> 00:33:25,504 You might have succeeded too. 666 00:33:25,587 --> 00:33:27,005 That would have complicated things. 667 00:33:27,089 --> 00:33:29,341 I'm gonna heat some coffee. Sit down, Kevin. 668 00:33:29,425 --> 00:33:30,926 So, Jessica, do you really believe 669 00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:33,887 Bill was involved in that killing 20 years ago? 670 00:33:33,971 --> 00:33:37,307 I'm sorry, Kevin, but, yes, I do. 671 00:33:38,434 --> 00:33:39,768 And what's worse, 672 00:33:39,852 --> 00:33:42,563 I think that someone else was involved. 673 00:33:43,188 --> 00:33:47,401 You know, Alison lied to me, and Perry swore to it. 674 00:33:49,445 --> 00:33:51,613 Have you been able to think of anything, 675 00:33:51,697 --> 00:33:53,449 anything that could have happened 676 00:33:53,532 --> 00:33:56,493 that was unusual on the night of the prom? 677 00:33:56,577 --> 00:33:58,620 Well, after you left my office, 678 00:33:58,704 --> 00:34:00,998 I... I gave it some thought. 679 00:34:01,081 --> 00:34:03,459 Fact is, I left early, around 11:00, 680 00:34:03,542 --> 00:34:05,252 an hour before the dance was really over. 681 00:34:05,335 --> 00:34:06,378 Oh, why was that? 682 00:34:06,462 --> 00:34:08,422 The same reason you stayed home that night, the flu. 683 00:34:08,505 --> 00:34:10,883 Besides, the last thing those kids needed 684 00:34:10,966 --> 00:34:12,551 was good old coach spying on them. 685 00:34:12,634 --> 00:34:14,303 Then you have no way of knowing 686 00:34:14,386 --> 00:34:16,013 if Bill and Alison left the dance at the same time. 687 00:34:16,096 --> 00:34:17,723 No, Jessica, I'm sorry. 688 00:34:17,806 --> 00:34:20,017 But what I do remember about that night is my boys. 689 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:22,770 I can't, I won't believe any of them is involved. 690 00:34:22,853 --> 00:34:24,146 Their killer instincts are restricted 691 00:34:24,229 --> 00:34:25,397 totally to the gridiron. 692 00:34:25,481 --> 00:34:26,607 Even Dan Pulling? 693 00:34:26,982 --> 00:34:29,401 I seem to remember they used to call him "the animal." 694 00:34:29,485 --> 00:34:32,029 Yeah, Dan used to have that kind of wild ferocity 695 00:34:32,112 --> 00:34:34,156 before he lost it in a bottle of gin. 696 00:34:34,865 --> 00:34:36,200 Funny, back then. 697 00:34:36,992 --> 00:34:39,119 Danny never touched the stuff, not even beer. 698 00:34:41,497 --> 00:34:43,123 I wonder what got him started. 699 00:34:44,541 --> 00:34:46,251 Well, the problem with that theory 700 00:34:46,335 --> 00:34:50,172 is that Dan never had two dimes to rub together. 701 00:34:50,255 --> 00:34:52,007 If Mr. Durbin's right, 702 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:54,176 then Bill's accomplice shared in the spoils. 703 00:34:54,259 --> 00:34:56,053 Which brings me to Arnie Wakeman. 704 00:34:56,136 --> 00:34:57,387 Now, Arnie Wakeman was always 705 00:34:57,471 --> 00:34:59,515 the poorest kid in school, Kevin, 706 00:34:59,598 --> 00:35:03,685 but he managed to make a fortune on the stock market. 707 00:35:03,769 --> 00:35:05,395 Now, how did he do that? 708 00:35:07,314 --> 00:35:10,150 I already told the sheriff I don't know where Dan is. 709 00:35:11,276 --> 00:35:14,780 It's 20 years ago that I'm curious about, Arnie. 710 00:35:16,490 --> 00:35:18,325 The night of your senior prom. 711 00:35:18,408 --> 00:35:19,535 What about it? 712 00:35:21,787 --> 00:35:22,913 You know, Perry called me and told me 713 00:35:22,996 --> 00:35:24,248 what you've been up to. 714 00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:28,085 I... I... I can't believe you're trying to nail one of us. 715 00:35:28,585 --> 00:35:31,421 For heaven sakes, I'm trying to get to the truth, Arnie. 716 00:35:31,505 --> 00:35:32,798 Your friend is dead. 717 00:35:32,881 --> 00:35:34,675 Never mind that terrible lawsuit. 718 00:35:34,758 --> 00:35:37,094 He was your friend and mine. 719 00:35:37,177 --> 00:35:38,846 I didn't kill Bill. 720 00:35:38,929 --> 00:35:39,888 And I sure as hell didn't kill the guy 721 00:35:39,972 --> 00:35:41,473 in that car 20 years ago. 722 00:35:41,557 --> 00:35:43,433 Well, I've been doing some digging around. 723 00:35:43,517 --> 00:35:45,185 Four years after the murder, 724 00:35:45,269 --> 00:35:48,981 Bill came up with $50,000 to buy his car company. 725 00:35:49,064 --> 00:35:51,066 Now, I think that it was his half 726 00:35:51,149 --> 00:35:53,318 of the missing bond money. 727 00:35:53,402 --> 00:35:54,987 I always knew that guy was a crook. 728 00:35:55,070 --> 00:35:57,364 And his partner got the other half. 729 00:35:57,948 --> 00:35:59,157 What are you driving at? 730 00:35:59,241 --> 00:36:01,368 Well, according to the clipping 731 00:36:01,451 --> 00:36:02,536 in The Gazette, 732 00:36:03,245 --> 00:36:05,873 you returned to Cabot Cove after five years in New York 733 00:36:05,956 --> 00:36:08,125 having made your fortune in the stock market. 734 00:36:08,208 --> 00:36:10,085 I never did like that picture. 735 00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:14,131 It also says that you parlayed a $50,000 investment 736 00:36:14,214 --> 00:36:17,092 into a multimillion-dollar portfolio. 737 00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:18,969 Jessica, you're crazy if you think 738 00:36:19,052 --> 00:36:20,888 I had anything to do with Hampton killing that guy. 739 00:36:20,971 --> 00:36:23,265 Well, then set me straight. Tell me. 740 00:36:23,348 --> 00:36:26,268 Where did you get the $50,000 to start with? 741 00:36:26,351 --> 00:36:27,561 I'm warning you. 742 00:36:27,644 --> 00:36:30,105 You ask that question again to me or to anybody else 743 00:36:30,188 --> 00:36:31,732 and I'll sue you for defamation. 744 00:36:31,815 --> 00:36:34,985 Arnie, do you think that I like this coming here, 745 00:36:35,068 --> 00:36:37,154 asking questions of you and Perry? 746 00:36:37,237 --> 00:36:38,780 There's been one murder in this town. 747 00:36:38,864 --> 00:36:41,366 And unless somebody gets to the truth now, 748 00:36:41,450 --> 00:36:43,619 there's liable to be another. 749 00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:45,454 I'm sorry, I can't help you. 750 00:36:57,758 --> 00:36:58,842 Oh, I almost forgot. 751 00:36:58,926 --> 00:37:00,260 I found this special delivery on your doormat. 752 00:37:00,344 --> 00:37:02,804 It's from the, uh, insurance company. 753 00:37:02,888 --> 00:37:04,932 I'll just leave it on this hall table. 754 00:37:35,170 --> 00:37:36,129 My telephone Bill. 755 00:37:37,506 --> 00:37:38,757 I'm sorry, Arnie. 756 00:37:39,257 --> 00:37:41,718 I saw the scuff marks on the newly polished floor 757 00:37:41,802 --> 00:37:43,136 from a man's shoes. 758 00:37:45,180 --> 00:37:46,974 Maybe we'd better have a talk with Sheriff Tupper. 759 00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:49,685 Attempting to defraud an insurance company. 760 00:37:49,768 --> 00:37:51,979 That's pretty serious business, Mr. Wakeman. 761 00:37:52,062 --> 00:37:54,606 So I can walk. I didn't kill Bill. 762 00:37:54,690 --> 00:37:56,024 And the $50,000? 763 00:37:56,858 --> 00:37:58,485 It's from an inheritance. 764 00:37:58,568 --> 00:38:00,612 20 years ago, an uncle of mine died and left me a trust fund. 765 00:38:00,696 --> 00:38:03,198 -Suppose you can prove that? -Yeah, I can prove that. 766 00:38:03,281 --> 00:38:04,741 But you did keep it a secret. 767 00:38:05,575 --> 00:38:07,995 So I wanted to be a big man, 768 00:38:08,078 --> 00:38:09,329 to show all these people that Arnie Wakeman 769 00:38:09,413 --> 00:38:11,081 had something on the ball, 770 00:38:11,164 --> 00:38:12,958 that I'm not just another poor kid from the edge of town 771 00:38:13,041 --> 00:38:14,501 with holes in my jeans. 772 00:38:14,584 --> 00:38:16,253 But now the money has run out, 773 00:38:16,336 --> 00:38:17,587 which I assume is the reason 774 00:38:17,671 --> 00:38:20,507 that you decided to sue Bill Hampton. 775 00:38:20,590 --> 00:38:21,883 I phonied the accident. 776 00:38:22,342 --> 00:38:23,760 I got some shyster doctors and lawyers 777 00:38:23,844 --> 00:38:25,262 to swear I was paralyzed. 778 00:38:25,345 --> 00:38:27,222 All in the hope of collecting enough money 779 00:38:27,305 --> 00:38:30,600 from the insurance company to continue your lifestyle. 780 00:38:30,684 --> 00:38:32,144 Hey, if you think it was fun 781 00:38:32,227 --> 00:38:33,562 sitting in that wheelchair, you guys-- 782 00:38:33,645 --> 00:38:34,980 Suppose you tell us 783 00:38:35,063 --> 00:38:36,356 what happened the night of the prom. 784 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,025 Oh, we're back to that? 785 00:38:38,108 --> 00:38:40,527 Mr. Wakeman, right now you're in a mess of trouble. 786 00:38:40,610 --> 00:38:41,945 You best cooperate. 787 00:38:43,113 --> 00:38:45,866 Can you remember anything unusual happening, 788 00:38:45,949 --> 00:38:48,577 something to do with Bill Hampton? 789 00:38:49,119 --> 00:38:50,120 [chuckles] 790 00:38:50,203 --> 00:38:52,289 Sure, Bill was plastered. 791 00:38:52,372 --> 00:38:54,750 Alison left him flat on the dance floor. 792 00:38:57,085 --> 00:38:59,171 -Then what? -I don't know. 793 00:38:59,254 --> 00:39:01,631 I think he ran after her. They had a hell of a row. 794 00:39:01,715 --> 00:39:02,966 He tried to get her to stay but she wouldn't. 795 00:39:03,050 --> 00:39:05,802 -About what time was that? -11:00. 796 00:39:05,886 --> 00:39:09,556 [telephone rings] 797 00:39:09,639 --> 00:39:11,183 Sheriff Tupper here. 798 00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:13,101 That so? 799 00:39:13,894 --> 00:39:15,270 Are you sure about that? 800 00:39:16,271 --> 00:39:18,607 Okay, thanks a lot. 801 00:39:18,690 --> 00:39:22,402 Well, there goes my number one suspect. 802 00:39:22,486 --> 00:39:26,073 Dan Pulling he's been over in the drunk tank in Bartlesburg 803 00:39:26,156 --> 00:39:27,491 for the past two nights. 804 00:39:28,283 --> 00:39:30,243 Looks like we're right back to square one. 805 00:39:39,294 --> 00:39:43,340 -Jessica? -I'm sorry, Perry. 806 00:39:43,423 --> 00:39:44,633 I should have called first. 807 00:39:44,716 --> 00:39:45,675 Tara and I were just leaving. 808 00:39:45,759 --> 00:39:47,094 Uh, before you go, 809 00:39:47,177 --> 00:39:48,970 I'd like to ask you all a question. 810 00:39:49,054 --> 00:39:51,348 Why are three people 811 00:39:51,431 --> 00:39:55,185 whom I consider very dear and close friends lying to me? 812 00:39:55,268 --> 00:39:57,020 That's out of line, Jessica. 813 00:39:57,104 --> 00:39:58,396 I've been talking 814 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,232 with several of your old classmates 815 00:40:00,315 --> 00:40:02,442 ones who were at the prom and at the dinner. 816 00:40:02,526 --> 00:40:03,860 And none of them remember 817 00:40:03,944 --> 00:40:06,029 seeing Bill or Alison that evening. 818 00:40:06,988 --> 00:40:09,282 Alison forced you to back up her story. 819 00:40:09,366 --> 00:40:11,118 I understand, Perry. 820 00:40:11,910 --> 00:40:13,411 You were Bill's closest friend. 821 00:40:13,495 --> 00:40:15,539 Are you suggesting that maybe I was in the car 822 00:40:15,622 --> 00:40:17,415 -with Bill that night? -No more! 823 00:40:22,921 --> 00:40:26,091 Lying won't bring Bill back or change the truth. 824 00:40:26,299 --> 00:40:28,677 You and Bill had an argument, 825 00:40:29,219 --> 00:40:31,388 and you left the prom separately. 826 00:40:32,222 --> 00:40:33,598 He was drunk. 827 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:38,812 He kept trying to make me leave the prom early... 828 00:40:39,980 --> 00:40:41,398 and go to a motel with him. 829 00:40:42,691 --> 00:40:46,403 I got angry, and I told him if that's what he thought of me, 830 00:40:46,486 --> 00:40:48,155 if that's what he wanted, 831 00:40:48,238 --> 00:40:50,157 then he could find himself another girl. 832 00:40:53,243 --> 00:40:54,619 He wanted to take me home, 833 00:40:54,703 --> 00:40:55,996 but I wouldn't get in the car with him. 834 00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:57,455 He was too drunk. 835 00:40:57,539 --> 00:41:00,000 Was there anyone in the car with him 836 00:41:00,083 --> 00:41:01,334 when he drove off? 837 00:41:01,418 --> 00:41:03,253 He... he didn't drive anywhere. 838 00:41:03,336 --> 00:41:04,254 He walked back inside. 839 00:41:07,090 --> 00:41:08,550 He said that 840 00:41:08,633 --> 00:41:09,801 [crying] 841 00:41:09,885 --> 00:41:11,761 he had a trophy to collect. 842 00:41:24,357 --> 00:41:25,650 Hello, Kevin. 843 00:41:30,655 --> 00:41:32,073 You caught me, Jessie. 844 00:41:33,867 --> 00:41:35,952 I was hearing the roar of the crowd again... 845 00:41:37,454 --> 00:41:40,498 seeing my boys win that state championship for me. 846 00:41:41,791 --> 00:41:43,752 One of the advantages of age. 847 00:41:43,835 --> 00:41:45,378 The storehouse of memories 848 00:41:45,462 --> 00:41:48,006 that we get to replay over and over. 849 00:41:49,216 --> 00:41:50,634 But after 30 years, 850 00:41:50,717 --> 00:41:53,511 to be left with just a handful of memories... 851 00:41:54,679 --> 00:41:56,473 well, my fault. 852 00:41:57,224 --> 00:41:58,975 I was never one to plan for the future. 853 00:42:00,852 --> 00:42:02,604 But you did have the opportunity. 854 00:42:03,355 --> 00:42:06,524 Not many high school teachers get their hands on $50,000. 855 00:42:08,860 --> 00:42:10,153 What are you talkin' about? 856 00:42:10,237 --> 00:42:11,655 Your share of the missing bonds. 857 00:42:15,242 --> 00:42:17,786 Bill used his half to buy a car lot. 858 00:42:17,869 --> 00:42:19,579 You probably invested yours 859 00:42:19,663 --> 00:42:21,039 in that football camp 860 00:42:21,122 --> 00:42:22,749 that you'd always dreamed of having. 861 00:42:24,251 --> 00:42:25,502 How did you know? 862 00:42:26,503 --> 00:42:29,089 You said that you left the prom early, at 11:00... 863 00:42:30,006 --> 00:42:31,132 because you weren't feeling well. 864 00:42:33,551 --> 00:42:34,552 Not true, Kevin. 865 00:42:39,766 --> 00:42:40,809 Look at the clock. 866 00:42:42,143 --> 00:42:46,439 You presented the boys with their trophy at 11:45, 867 00:42:46,523 --> 00:42:49,067 long after you said you'd left the dance. 868 00:42:51,945 --> 00:42:53,363 You know how many years 869 00:42:53,446 --> 00:42:54,990 that picture's been on my office wall? 870 00:42:56,408 --> 00:42:58,285 Bill Hampton was always your favorite. 871 00:42:59,286 --> 00:43:00,704 When I realized that you lied 872 00:43:00,787 --> 00:43:02,122 about the time you left the prom, 873 00:43:02,205 --> 00:43:04,416 I knew that there had to be a reason. 874 00:43:04,499 --> 00:43:08,503 You were the other person in Bill's car that night. 875 00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:09,921 Hmm. 876 00:43:10,005 --> 00:43:12,799 Always said Jessie Fletcher never missed a trick. 877 00:43:12,882 --> 00:43:14,676 I don't understand, Kevin. 878 00:43:14,759 --> 00:43:17,595 How could a fine man like you commit a cold-blooded murder 879 00:43:17,679 --> 00:43:19,848 and live with that secret for 20 years? 880 00:43:21,141 --> 00:43:23,184 In those days, Bill was my boy, 881 00:43:23,268 --> 00:43:24,978 the son I never had. 882 00:43:25,061 --> 00:43:28,148 He was roaring drunk prom night. Too drunk to drive home. 883 00:43:28,231 --> 00:43:29,941 So you put him in your car. 884 00:43:30,859 --> 00:43:32,819 And we had the bad luck to come upon that man 885 00:43:32,902 --> 00:43:34,321 in the Corvette. 886 00:43:35,238 --> 00:43:36,448 Bill kept grabbing the wheel, 887 00:43:36,531 --> 00:43:38,158 trying to get me to turn around 888 00:43:38,241 --> 00:43:40,702 and take him to that diner where his friends were. 889 00:43:40,785 --> 00:43:42,829 Just then, the Corvette came round the bend, 890 00:43:42,912 --> 00:43:45,790 and Bill jerked the wheel over hard. 891 00:43:46,458 --> 00:43:48,376 I was worried the driver might be injured. 892 00:43:49,502 --> 00:43:52,339 Bill was scared and wanted to get outta there fast. 893 00:43:52,422 --> 00:43:53,882 He was too drunk to think straight. 894 00:43:54,924 --> 00:43:56,217 I swung around and went back. 895 00:43:57,802 --> 00:44:00,388 The door was open on the passenger side. 896 00:44:01,556 --> 00:44:03,224 I thought the crash sprang it open. 897 00:44:03,308 --> 00:44:05,685 The driver was unconscious and bleeding. 898 00:44:06,561 --> 00:44:09,105 Then I saw the bearer bonds scattered all over the floor 899 00:44:09,189 --> 00:44:10,732 from an open valise. 900 00:44:11,316 --> 00:44:12,817 Good as cash. 901 00:44:13,568 --> 00:44:15,862 The driver came to and saw me holding the bonds. 902 00:44:15,945 --> 00:44:18,865 That's... that's... that's when I panicked, Jessie. 903 00:44:19,407 --> 00:44:22,285 The sight of all that money just there for the taking. 904 00:44:23,036 --> 00:44:23,995 I didn't even think about it. 905 00:44:24,079 --> 00:44:25,121 I just picked up a rock 906 00:44:25,205 --> 00:44:26,831 and I hit him again and again! 907 00:44:29,834 --> 00:44:31,878 I hadn't planned it, Jessie. 908 00:44:31,961 --> 00:44:34,506 But the man was dead, there were all those bonds, 909 00:44:34,589 --> 00:44:36,299 and done was done. 910 00:44:36,383 --> 00:44:37,634 Yes, but what about Bill? 911 00:44:38,843 --> 00:44:40,637 The boy idolized me. 912 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:43,223 Would have done anything for me, and he did. 913 00:44:44,432 --> 00:44:46,059 And once Bill sobered up, 914 00:44:46,142 --> 00:44:49,229 you swore him to secrecy in return for half the bonds? 915 00:44:50,855 --> 00:44:52,649 That's right, Jessie. 916 00:44:52,732 --> 00:44:55,527 We sat on those bonds for a couple of years 917 00:44:55,610 --> 00:44:56,820 and then cashed them in. 918 00:44:57,612 --> 00:45:01,282 And allowed Andrew Durbin to spend 20 years in prison 919 00:45:01,366 --> 00:45:03,159 for a crime that you committed. 920 00:45:03,243 --> 00:45:05,161 I know, I know, it was a terrible thing, 921 00:45:05,245 --> 00:45:08,164 but I've lived with that secret for 20 years, Jessie. 922 00:45:08,248 --> 00:45:09,582 Do you understand? 923 00:45:21,219 --> 00:45:22,220 I guess... 924 00:45:25,140 --> 00:45:27,892 I guess I should've known that nothing good would've... 925 00:45:29,102 --> 00:45:30,937 come of that money. 926 00:45:35,024 --> 00:45:37,527 A couple of things I don't understand, Miss Fletcher. 927 00:45:38,153 --> 00:45:40,029 Could I get you another piece of pie, Amos? 928 00:45:40,113 --> 00:45:43,116 Well, now that you offer. It is mighty good. 929 00:45:43,658 --> 00:45:45,285 As I was sayin', 930 00:45:45,368 --> 00:45:48,079 I wonder why coach Cauldwell and Bill Hampton 931 00:45:48,163 --> 00:45:50,832 didn't just kill this fella Durbin. 932 00:45:50,915 --> 00:45:52,917 Well, that wouldn't have been very smart. 933 00:45:53,001 --> 00:45:54,711 That's as good as saying that he was right, 934 00:45:54,794 --> 00:45:56,337 and it would have opened up the case again. 935 00:45:57,088 --> 00:45:58,131 The other thing. 936 00:45:58,214 --> 00:46:00,675 Coach shot Bill Hampton on the right side of the head 937 00:46:00,758 --> 00:46:02,343 to fake the suicide, 938 00:46:02,427 --> 00:46:04,262 but he knew that Bill was left-handed. 939 00:46:04,345 --> 00:46:07,974 Yes, but he wanted us think that a stranger had done it, 940 00:46:08,057 --> 00:46:10,435 someone that didn't know that, like Mr. Durbin. 941 00:46:10,518 --> 00:46:13,062 [doorbell rings] Who can that be? 942 00:46:13,146 --> 00:46:14,606 -Excuse me, Amos. -Mm-hmm. 943 00:46:21,571 --> 00:46:23,114 -Mrs. Fletcher. -Mr. Durbin. 944 00:46:23,198 --> 00:46:26,284 I came to say good-bye and to thank you. 945 00:46:26,367 --> 00:46:27,702 I'd rather you didn't. 946 00:46:28,953 --> 00:46:30,705 But I was telling you the truth, 947 00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:33,833 and I did spend 20 years in prison unjustly. 948 00:46:33,917 --> 00:46:36,753 Yes, and I'm sorry. 949 00:46:36,836 --> 00:46:39,464 But you knew when you came here what would happen. 950 00:46:39,547 --> 00:46:42,926 I wasn't sure, but I did warn you I was after justice. 951 00:46:43,009 --> 00:46:45,720 I can't help but think that 952 00:46:45,803 --> 00:46:48,348 justice could have been served in a better way. 953 00:46:48,431 --> 00:46:50,141 Oh? 954 00:46:50,225 --> 00:46:52,143 Well, you give it some thought, Mrs. Fletcher, 955 00:46:52,227 --> 00:46:53,770 and when you figure out what could have been, 956 00:46:53,853 --> 00:46:55,188 you let me know. 957 00:47:16,918 --> 00:47:19,837 [cheerful orchestra music]