1 00:00:00,334 --> 00:00:02,962 I predict that Kathleen will win. 2 00:00:04,004 --> 00:00:05,923 [Jessica] Tonight, on Murder, She Wrote. 3 00:00:06,006 --> 00:00:08,551 The police found Bud's body in my robe. 4 00:00:08,801 --> 00:00:11,929 We're absolutely clean on this. Now trust me. 5 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:14,598 We're also negotiating with Bud's grieving widow. 6 00:00:15,182 --> 00:00:16,767 If she and her attorney agree to the bucks, 7 00:00:17,184 --> 00:00:18,394 well, she gets first crack. 8 00:00:18,644 --> 00:00:20,730 Hey, I'm talking dinner here. Maybe a chance to talk. 9 00:00:21,188 --> 00:00:23,816 He must have gone from his room to mine, naked. 10 00:00:23,899 --> 00:00:24,984 Surprised? 11 00:00:25,067 --> 00:00:26,610 Nothing about politics surprises me. 12 00:00:26,694 --> 00:00:28,320 I assume he had his own key. 13 00:00:28,404 --> 00:00:29,989 -Jack, please! -[crowd chattering] 14 00:00:32,074 --> 00:00:35,035 [cheerful orchestral music] 15 00:01:22,082 --> 00:01:24,627 Mr. Speaker, the 23rd district 16 00:01:24,710 --> 00:01:27,421 joins with the 18th and 33rd districts 17 00:01:27,505 --> 00:01:30,382 in unanimous support for the candidate. 18 00:01:31,133 --> 00:01:34,428 Mr. Speaker, the Union of Federated Office Workers 19 00:01:34,512 --> 00:01:36,722 submit the name of the only candidate 20 00:01:36,806 --> 00:01:40,434 that has the full support of the Upstate minorities. 21 00:01:40,518 --> 00:01:44,855 A proven leader, and can deliver the votes. 22 00:01:46,690 --> 00:01:48,859 If my opponent can't find a way 23 00:01:48,943 --> 00:01:52,988 to pay back the $600,000 he owes from his last campaign, 24 00:01:53,072 --> 00:01:54,865 then how can the voters expect him 25 00:01:54,949 --> 00:01:57,326 to do anything about the federal budget? 26 00:01:57,409 --> 00:02:00,287 Well, I certainly wish I had a millionaire spouse 27 00:02:00,371 --> 00:02:01,497 like Mrs. Lane here. 28 00:02:03,207 --> 00:02:04,750 Perhaps the fairness doctrine 29 00:02:04,834 --> 00:02:06,919 would allow your husband to help repay my debts. 30 00:02:07,002 --> 00:02:09,213 After all, we're from the same party. 31 00:02:10,673 --> 00:02:13,425 Why does she have to take all these cheap shots 32 00:02:14,009 --> 00:02:16,220 just because I've got a few bucks? 33 00:02:16,303 --> 00:02:18,472 Oh, Jackson, ought to come out on the road with us more often. 34 00:02:18,556 --> 00:02:19,890 You get used to it. 35 00:02:19,974 --> 00:02:21,517 Drelinger has read that same bad joke 36 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,978 on the past four TV appearances. 37 00:02:24,061 --> 00:02:25,479 "After all, we're from the same party," 38 00:02:25,563 --> 00:02:27,565 complete with the ha-ha-ha's. 39 00:02:27,648 --> 00:02:29,608 The man's on the threshold of senility. 40 00:02:30,276 --> 00:02:33,445 Well, the ha-ha-ha's must be working. 41 00:02:33,529 --> 00:02:37,741 My man still leads Kathleen by ten points in the polls. 42 00:02:37,825 --> 00:02:40,536 Kathleen is closing the gap, and you know it. 43 00:02:40,619 --> 00:02:43,330 Better get your old boy some new ad libs, Butterfield. 44 00:02:43,414 --> 00:02:46,083 Yeah, and some fresh 3x5 cards. 45 00:02:46,166 --> 00:02:48,586 In the few moments that we have left, 46 00:02:48,669 --> 00:02:51,630 Mrs. Lane, this morning's Daily Post alleges 47 00:02:51,714 --> 00:02:54,258 that you and Bud Johnson, your campaign manager, 48 00:02:54,341 --> 00:02:55,676 were becoming-- 49 00:02:55,759 --> 00:02:57,636 well, how shall I put it-- involved. 50 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:59,513 I don't believe this. 51 00:02:59,763 --> 00:03:02,600 Bud Johnson's only involvement with me is managing my campaign. 52 00:03:02,683 --> 00:03:04,768 Anything beyond that, is merely malicious gossip. 53 00:03:04,852 --> 00:03:08,022 So you're denying that the relationship is romantic? 54 00:03:08,105 --> 00:03:10,065 Yes, my campaign director and I 55 00:03:10,149 --> 00:03:11,901 were dancing together last night 56 00:03:11,984 --> 00:03:13,611 in front of 1,000 voters 57 00:03:13,694 --> 00:03:15,571 at the Italian-American block party. 58 00:03:15,654 --> 00:03:18,115 The Post calls it a romance. 59 00:03:18,198 --> 00:03:19,617 I call it the tarantella. 60 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:22,119 All right. She's on a roll now. 61 00:03:22,202 --> 00:03:25,497 I'm gonna try and answer some of these calls. 62 00:03:25,581 --> 00:03:28,834 The few hours my campaign allows me to sleep, 63 00:03:28,918 --> 00:03:30,753 I sleep with my husband... 64 00:03:30,836 --> 00:03:32,755 when he can get out on the stump with me. 65 00:03:32,838 --> 00:03:35,132 There have been persistent rumors. 66 00:03:35,215 --> 00:03:36,842 Mr. Hall, I don't want to talk about rumors. 67 00:03:36,926 --> 00:03:38,344 It demeans both our professions. 68 00:03:38,427 --> 00:03:39,845 But five years ago 69 00:03:39,929 --> 00:03:41,805 when you were Mayor of your hometown, 70 00:03:41,889 --> 00:03:45,643 stories persisted that you had an affair with a married man. 71 00:03:45,726 --> 00:03:46,810 Forgive me, Mr. Hall. 72 00:03:46,894 --> 00:03:49,438 What should be put to bed in this campaign 73 00:03:49,521 --> 00:03:51,190 is gossip, not me. 74 00:03:51,357 --> 00:03:53,150 Well, I'm sorry. 75 00:03:53,233 --> 00:03:55,319 I see that's all the time we have for Face The Issues . 76 00:03:55,402 --> 00:03:56,737 I want to thank both candidates. 77 00:03:56,820 --> 00:03:57,947 Thank you, Edmund. 78 00:03:58,030 --> 00:03:59,698 And, I for one, am certainly willing 79 00:03:59,782 --> 00:04:01,158 to overlook and forget 80 00:04:01,241 --> 00:04:02,785 any of Mrs. Lane's past indiscretions. 81 00:04:02,868 --> 00:04:05,871 This is Edmund Hall. Have a pleasant Sunday. 82 00:04:08,123 --> 00:04:09,416 Cass? Bud. 83 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:10,834 Bud. Thank God. 84 00:04:10,918 --> 00:04:12,795 -Sounds like trouble. -You bet. 85 00:04:12,878 --> 00:04:15,047 -Harold just quit. -What? 86 00:04:15,130 --> 00:04:17,049 We spent eight weeks wining and dining 87 00:04:17,132 --> 00:04:18,759 the best speech writer in the country-- 88 00:04:18,842 --> 00:04:20,594 Man, that really leaves me hanging out to dry. 89 00:04:20,678 --> 00:04:22,846 Well, I'm working on some alternatives. 90 00:04:22,930 --> 00:04:25,182 -Good. Good. Keep on it. 91 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:27,559 Listen, Cass, uh, I just spoke with Gracie, 92 00:04:27,643 --> 00:04:28,978 and she's gonna stay up at the farm 93 00:04:29,061 --> 00:04:30,896 with the kids for a couple of weeks. 94 00:04:30,980 --> 00:04:33,732 Bud, don't start. Okay? 95 00:04:33,899 --> 00:04:35,067 Hey, I'm talking dinner. 96 00:04:35,150 --> 00:04:36,443 You know, maybe a chance to talk. 97 00:04:36,527 --> 00:04:40,280 Bud, you're a nice guy, but I'm talked out. 98 00:04:40,364 --> 00:04:42,950 Now, what was, was. Now let it alone. 99 00:04:46,537 --> 00:04:49,707 Kathleen, you were wonderful! 100 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:55,045 Oh, Bud was right. I should have known better. 101 00:04:55,129 --> 00:04:56,463 I try to deal with issues, 102 00:04:56,547 --> 00:04:58,132 and that muckraking gossip hound, 103 00:04:58,215 --> 00:04:59,842 all he cares about is-- 104 00:04:59,925 --> 00:05:01,301 Somebody call me? 105 00:05:01,385 --> 00:05:04,638 Oh, yes. You're supposed to be impartial. 106 00:05:04,722 --> 00:05:07,641 You cut Kathleen off just when she was about to nail Drelinger. 107 00:05:07,725 --> 00:05:09,351 It's a half-hour show. 108 00:05:09,435 --> 00:05:11,812 I can't spill over into pro bowling highlights. 109 00:05:13,105 --> 00:05:16,400 Edmund, other than the blow-dry and some makeup, 110 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:18,569 just what are your qualifications 111 00:05:18,652 --> 00:05:19,737 to be a newsman? 112 00:05:19,820 --> 00:05:21,655 She danced with the Mayor last night 113 00:05:21,739 --> 00:05:23,323 and half the city council. 114 00:05:23,407 --> 00:05:25,200 Is she fooling around with them, too? 115 00:05:25,284 --> 00:05:27,995 Just be glad I'm focusing on your wife and not you. 116 00:05:28,829 --> 00:05:30,914 The Post is sifting through your back taxes, 117 00:05:30,998 --> 00:05:32,124 but did I bring it up? 118 00:05:32,207 --> 00:05:34,668 If you're looking for old news, dig up Watergate. 119 00:05:34,752 --> 00:05:37,004 I paid every penny back. It's on the record. 120 00:05:37,087 --> 00:05:40,007 That's wonderful, Edmund. 121 00:05:40,090 --> 00:05:41,925 You've just handed me the winning issue. 122 00:05:42,551 --> 00:05:44,136 I'm going to appeal to every voter 123 00:05:44,219 --> 00:05:46,305 who's ever been audited by the IRS. 124 00:05:46,388 --> 00:05:48,640 Ah, it will be a landslide. 125 00:05:49,808 --> 00:05:51,685 I'll say one thing, Kathleen. 126 00:05:51,769 --> 00:05:53,604 You kiss a lot better than Arthur Drelinger. 127 00:05:56,565 --> 00:05:59,818 Kate, if you don't mind, I want to get back to the house. 128 00:05:59,902 --> 00:06:02,946 I want to look at those condominium estimates tonight. 129 00:06:03,030 --> 00:06:05,365 Well, I wouldn't be very good company, anyway. 130 00:06:05,449 --> 00:06:08,702 We will see you this weekend in, uh... 131 00:06:09,328 --> 00:06:10,954 Bud. Help. 132 00:06:12,915 --> 00:06:16,043 Where will this wandering caravan be on Saturday? 133 00:06:16,126 --> 00:06:17,961 Let's see, Lacentra, and, uh... 134 00:06:19,755 --> 00:06:22,216 Holiday Township and Forrest Heights. 135 00:06:22,299 --> 00:06:23,801 Of course, that's just Saturday morning. 136 00:06:24,510 --> 00:06:26,386 Listen, there's a glitch with Harold. 137 00:06:26,470 --> 00:06:28,013 I've got to run and try to iron it out. 138 00:06:28,097 --> 00:06:29,598 I'll see you back at the hotel, all right? 139 00:06:30,516 --> 00:06:33,769 Well, I showed you the great capitals of Europe. 140 00:06:33,852 --> 00:06:35,813 You can show me the motel capitals 141 00:06:35,896 --> 00:06:36,939 of middle America. 142 00:06:37,022 --> 00:06:37,981 [laughter] 143 00:06:43,904 --> 00:06:45,280 You people have Hall on your payroll, 144 00:06:45,364 --> 00:06:47,032 or does he just have a garbage fetish? 145 00:06:47,116 --> 00:06:48,992 Guy is just doing his job. 146 00:06:49,076 --> 00:06:52,329 Anyway, Kathleen can't overcome Drelinger's lead. 147 00:06:52,412 --> 00:06:53,831 A bright girl like you-- 148 00:06:53,914 --> 00:06:56,625 top 10% of her class at Pendleton-- 149 00:06:56,708 --> 00:06:59,044 You of all people should be able to do the arithmetic. 150 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:01,338 Oh, what adds up in this voter profile 151 00:07:01,421 --> 00:07:03,048 is that you're falling way behind 152 00:07:03,132 --> 00:07:05,050 among working women and blacks. 153 00:07:06,885 --> 00:07:09,471 When our guy clobbers Kathleen, 154 00:07:09,555 --> 00:07:10,973 and he will, 155 00:07:11,056 --> 00:07:12,516 we're gonna be taking on some extra staffers 156 00:07:12,599 --> 00:07:14,351 for the main event. 157 00:07:14,434 --> 00:07:16,061 Does that mean that you'll be looking 158 00:07:16,145 --> 00:07:19,022 for a highly visible and bright, working, black female? 159 00:07:19,106 --> 00:07:21,275 What do you think Kathleen took you on for, sweetheart? 160 00:07:21,358 --> 00:07:23,193 I can't imagine. 161 00:07:28,866 --> 00:07:30,576 Well, Butterfield. 162 00:07:30,659 --> 00:07:31,910 How do you score the debate? 163 00:07:32,411 --> 00:07:34,705 On balance, I'd say you came off best. 164 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,623 [chuckles] 165 00:07:36,707 --> 00:07:37,708 Did you ever think of going into politics? 166 00:07:37,791 --> 00:07:40,085 Uh, look. 167 00:07:40,169 --> 00:07:44,131 This is strictly on background, but somebody fed that story 168 00:07:44,214 --> 00:07:46,550 to the post about Kathleen and Bud Johnson. 169 00:07:47,759 --> 00:07:51,096 The Drelinger camp would never smear an opponent. 170 00:07:53,265 --> 00:07:55,225 Look, Kathleen Lane is news. 171 00:07:55,309 --> 00:07:56,768 Right now the only story I've got 172 00:07:56,852 --> 00:07:59,021 besides those rumors about her love life, 173 00:07:59,104 --> 00:08:01,857 is how she's closing the gap on Drelinger. 174 00:08:01,940 --> 00:08:03,817 If you guys have got something, 175 00:08:03,901 --> 00:08:05,819 and you give it to me instead of The Post , 176 00:08:05,903 --> 00:08:08,113 well, all I can say is, 177 00:08:08,197 --> 00:08:10,282 my sources are always confidential. 178 00:08:10,365 --> 00:08:13,160 Well, we don't deal in dirty tricks. 179 00:08:13,243 --> 00:08:16,496 It smacks of bad sportsmanship. But we are doing some research. 180 00:08:16,580 --> 00:08:17,706 If something newsworthy does turn up, 181 00:08:17,789 --> 00:08:18,999 you might get a call. 182 00:08:19,082 --> 00:08:21,668 Just make sure I get it first. 183 00:08:21,752 --> 00:08:23,337 If any headline material does turn up, 184 00:08:23,420 --> 00:08:25,547 and I'm not saying it will, 185 00:08:25,631 --> 00:08:27,549 it would come from some anonymous source. 186 00:08:27,633 --> 00:08:28,926 Understood? 187 00:08:29,009 --> 00:08:30,093 Perfectly. 188 00:08:40,354 --> 00:08:41,980 Fletcher, J.B, Mrs. 189 00:08:44,733 --> 00:08:46,068 I'm sorry. 190 00:08:46,151 --> 00:08:48,362 The computer does not recognize you. 191 00:08:48,445 --> 00:08:50,697 When do you say you made this alleged reservation? 192 00:08:50,781 --> 00:08:52,658 I made it last night in Chicago, but-- 193 00:08:52,741 --> 00:08:54,159 You should have a confirmation number. 194 00:08:54,243 --> 00:08:57,246 Every reservation has a confirmation number. 195 00:08:57,537 --> 00:08:59,873 Yes, well, I told you, I didn't make it personally. 196 00:08:59,957 --> 00:09:02,167 -It was arranged-- -Jessica? 197 00:09:02,251 --> 00:09:04,795 Kathleen, thank heavens. 198 00:09:04,878 --> 00:09:06,630 You look absolutely wonderful! 199 00:09:06,713 --> 00:09:08,507 Well, so do you. 200 00:09:08,590 --> 00:09:10,092 I'll look a lot better 201 00:09:10,175 --> 00:09:11,510 after I've checked in and gotten into a hot tub, 202 00:09:11,593 --> 00:09:14,137 if they can find a tub for me to climb into. 203 00:09:14,221 --> 00:09:15,764 Is there a problem? 204 00:09:15,847 --> 00:09:17,641 Well, they seem to have lost the reservation 205 00:09:17,724 --> 00:09:19,226 that you made for me. 206 00:09:19,309 --> 00:09:21,520 Good Lord, I told Bud to make that personally. 207 00:09:21,603 --> 00:09:23,897 Excuse me, uh... Preston? 208 00:09:24,564 --> 00:09:26,316 There seems to be some sort of mix-up. 209 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:27,734 I would very much appreciate it 210 00:09:27,818 --> 00:09:30,070 if you could arrange to put Mrs. Fletcher 211 00:09:30,153 --> 00:09:31,989 in a room as close to mine as possible. 212 00:09:32,072 --> 00:09:35,617 Of course, if there's anything available. 213 00:09:35,701 --> 00:09:37,202 And you are? 214 00:09:41,123 --> 00:09:44,167 It's been almost four months, and I'm still Mrs. Anonymous. 215 00:09:44,251 --> 00:09:46,628 Well, I thought you were coming up in the polls. 216 00:09:46,712 --> 00:09:49,881 Oh, I am. But this is only the primary. 217 00:09:49,965 --> 00:09:52,592 The fact is, if it isn't a presidential election, 218 00:09:52,676 --> 00:09:55,512 the public interest is on a par with Saturday night wrestling. 219 00:09:56,722 --> 00:09:58,473 Frankly, if it wasn't for all of the money 220 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,976 that Jackson's poured into my candidacy, 221 00:10:01,059 --> 00:10:04,104 I'd still be a total nobody instead of a relative unknown. 222 00:10:04,187 --> 00:10:06,398 That sounds awfully cynical. 223 00:10:06,481 --> 00:10:08,525 I hadn't realized 224 00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:10,944 what a big fishbowl I'd be living in. 225 00:10:11,737 --> 00:10:13,113 The press has been having a field day 226 00:10:13,196 --> 00:10:14,489 digging into my personal life. 227 00:10:14,573 --> 00:10:17,451 Not just mine, but Jackson's, too. 228 00:10:17,909 --> 00:10:19,286 Anything for a story. 229 00:10:19,369 --> 00:10:20,996 And the less it has to do with the issues, the better. 230 00:10:21,079 --> 00:10:23,540 Speaking of the issues, I was delighted 231 00:10:23,623 --> 00:10:26,001 when you asked me to come here speak for you. 232 00:10:26,084 --> 00:10:28,962 You know, your program on environmental cleanup 233 00:10:29,046 --> 00:10:31,465 is something that I can really get behind. 234 00:10:31,548 --> 00:10:34,384 I have another little problem. 235 00:10:34,468 --> 00:10:36,928 My head writer quit on me this morning. 236 00:10:37,012 --> 00:10:38,430 And this Friday, 237 00:10:38,513 --> 00:10:40,390 I'm making my most important address 238 00:10:40,474 --> 00:10:42,726 to the state party leaders right here in the capital. 239 00:10:42,809 --> 00:10:44,686 And it isn't enough that I find a writer 240 00:10:44,770 --> 00:10:47,230 who understands my position on the issues, 241 00:10:47,314 --> 00:10:49,107 I need somebody who knows me, 242 00:10:49,191 --> 00:10:52,277 who won't just be putting words into my mouth. 243 00:10:52,903 --> 00:10:54,071 Oh, no. 244 00:10:54,154 --> 00:10:55,906 Oh, please, Jess. 245 00:10:59,284 --> 00:11:00,535 Kathleen, if you give me a good, 246 00:11:00,619 --> 00:11:02,579 juicy murder and a few suspects 247 00:11:02,662 --> 00:11:04,915 my imagination will swing into high gear. 248 00:11:04,998 --> 00:11:07,209 But speechifying? 249 00:11:07,292 --> 00:11:09,252 I'm not sure that I could write on a soapbox. 250 00:11:09,336 --> 00:11:11,129 But that's exactly why I need you. 251 00:11:11,213 --> 00:11:13,006 You can write so movingly. 252 00:11:13,090 --> 00:11:17,010 You won't make me sound like an oracle on Mount Olympus. 253 00:11:17,094 --> 00:11:19,763 This morning, I tried to ad lib a speech 254 00:11:19,846 --> 00:11:21,390 and almost guaranteed 255 00:11:21,473 --> 00:11:24,476 a group of foreign war veterans maternity leave. 256 00:11:27,145 --> 00:11:29,606 Sure, you're laughing, but I'm desperate. 257 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:31,900 Unless you pick up an oar and start to paddle 258 00:11:31,983 --> 00:11:33,693 I'm afraid I'm going to have to jump this ship. 259 00:11:33,777 --> 00:11:37,948 Well, we can't have that. All right. 260 00:11:38,031 --> 00:11:40,534 I'll climb on board for a week's worth of 261 00:11:40,617 --> 00:11:41,660 "My Fellow Citizens." 262 00:11:45,372 --> 00:11:46,498 [intercom buzzing] 263 00:11:46,581 --> 00:11:47,707 Yes, Ruth? 264 00:11:47,791 --> 00:11:48,834 A man for you on line one. 265 00:11:50,877 --> 00:11:52,379 This is Edmund Hall. 266 00:11:52,462 --> 00:11:54,005 Are you interested in a story 267 00:11:54,089 --> 00:11:56,967 that will bury one of the candidates? 268 00:11:57,050 --> 00:11:59,219 Who is this? 269 00:11:59,302 --> 00:12:01,221 Call me a "highly placed source." 270 00:12:01,304 --> 00:12:03,348 Is that you, Butterfield? 271 00:12:03,432 --> 00:12:05,100 If you're not interested, i'll take it to The Post . 272 00:12:05,183 --> 00:12:08,103 Okay. Let's say I'm interested. 273 00:12:10,147 --> 00:12:13,233 The 11:00 bus for Cleveland is now boarding at gate ten. 274 00:12:24,744 --> 00:12:26,872 [phone ringing] 275 00:12:31,585 --> 00:12:32,919 Hall. 276 00:12:33,003 --> 00:12:34,004 Open the phone book. 277 00:12:34,087 --> 00:12:35,797 What? 278 00:12:35,881 --> 00:12:37,466 The phone book-- find your station's number. 279 00:12:37,549 --> 00:12:39,718 What is this, some kind of joke? 280 00:12:39,801 --> 00:12:41,970 I don't think Kathleen Lane will be laughing. 281 00:12:52,272 --> 00:12:53,273 Now who is this? 282 00:12:54,649 --> 00:12:55,901 [dial tone] 283 00:13:24,846 --> 00:13:27,307 Bud, see what you think of this piece so far. 284 00:13:30,101 --> 00:13:32,020 Good. It's good. 285 00:13:32,312 --> 00:13:34,022 Though you might want to soft pedal 286 00:13:34,105 --> 00:13:35,232 this reference to day care for working mothers. 287 00:13:35,315 --> 00:13:37,150 But in a speech Kathleen gave last week, 288 00:13:37,234 --> 00:13:38,735 she came out for day care. 289 00:13:38,818 --> 00:13:40,278 Yeah, well, that was at a day care center. 290 00:13:40,362 --> 00:13:41,947 The speech you're working on 291 00:13:42,030 --> 00:13:43,782 is for a couple hundred ladies at a country club, 292 00:13:43,865 --> 00:13:45,158 and they already have day care. 293 00:13:45,242 --> 00:13:46,201 They call her the maid. 294 00:13:46,451 --> 00:13:48,745 [laughs] 295 00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:50,789 How does Kathleen feel about day care? 296 00:13:50,872 --> 00:13:52,832 I mean, really feel? 297 00:13:52,916 --> 00:13:54,167 Beats me. I never asked her. 298 00:13:55,710 --> 00:13:57,379 Hi, guys. 299 00:13:57,462 --> 00:13:59,756 Just left Kathleen at the senior citizens' center. 300 00:13:59,839 --> 00:14:01,675 And did she come out for long life? 301 00:14:01,758 --> 00:14:03,093 Yeah, that's our position. 302 00:14:04,844 --> 00:14:05,929 Anne, when's Kathleen getting back? 303 00:14:06,012 --> 00:14:07,806 Late. 304 00:14:07,889 --> 00:14:09,307 While she was at the center the state party chairman called. 305 00:14:09,391 --> 00:14:10,475 He wanted to see her. 306 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:11,893 She said she was gonna drive 307 00:14:11,977 --> 00:14:13,311 one of the staff cars out to his house. 308 00:14:13,395 --> 00:14:14,938 Maybe he's gonna drop the other shoe 309 00:14:15,021 --> 00:14:16,231 and come out for her. 310 00:14:16,314 --> 00:14:17,941 Yeah, and maybe he's gonna drop 311 00:14:18,024 --> 00:14:18,942 the other show on her and come out for Drelinger. 312 00:14:19,109 --> 00:14:20,735 Bologna? 313 00:14:20,819 --> 00:14:22,195 No comment. 314 00:14:39,296 --> 00:14:42,924 Here now with the 11:00 news, Edmund Hall. 315 00:14:43,008 --> 00:14:44,551 Good evening. 316 00:14:44,634 --> 00:14:47,095 In the headlines, this campaign exclusive. 317 00:14:47,178 --> 00:14:50,307 A highly-placed source close to the senate primary 318 00:14:50,390 --> 00:14:52,434 has made available to this reporter 319 00:14:52,517 --> 00:14:55,895 photographs of married candidate Kathleen Lane 320 00:14:56,688 --> 00:14:58,481 seen here with her also married 321 00:14:58,565 --> 00:15:01,359 30-year-old campaign director, Bud Johnson 322 00:15:01,443 --> 00:15:05,155 at her vacation retreat at Lake St. Catherine. 323 00:15:05,238 --> 00:15:07,616 According to campaign insiders, 324 00:15:07,699 --> 00:15:09,826 her husband was out of the country on business 325 00:15:09,909 --> 00:15:10,994 at the time. 326 00:15:12,412 --> 00:15:14,164 This morning's Daily Post alleged... 327 00:15:19,419 --> 00:15:20,920 Mrs. Fletcher. 328 00:15:21,004 --> 00:15:22,255 Did you see Channel 8? 329 00:15:22,339 --> 00:15:23,840 Yellow journalism in living color. 330 00:15:23,923 --> 00:15:25,592 Have you seen Bud? He's not in his room. 331 00:15:25,675 --> 00:15:27,469 No, and Kathleen's not in her room either. 332 00:15:27,552 --> 00:15:29,679 Great! Where are those two? 333 00:15:29,929 --> 00:15:31,514 [sirens wailing] 334 00:15:41,816 --> 00:15:43,526 Okay, okay, get back, get back. 335 00:15:45,153 --> 00:15:47,405 All right, everybody, all right. Stand back of the barricade. 336 00:15:47,489 --> 00:15:48,865 Stand back of the barricade. 337 00:15:48,948 --> 00:15:50,575 Cass, what's going on? 338 00:15:50,659 --> 00:15:53,328 Oh, Kathleen, he must have fallen from the balcony. 339 00:16:08,093 --> 00:16:10,595 Mrs. Lane, you have any idea why Mr. Johnson killed himself? 340 00:16:10,679 --> 00:16:12,055 No. 341 00:16:12,138 --> 00:16:13,765 Did you see the 11:00 news tonight? 342 00:16:13,848 --> 00:16:15,642 No, but my associate, Cass Malone, 343 00:16:15,725 --> 00:16:17,686 told me about those ridiculous photographs. 344 00:16:17,769 --> 00:16:19,479 The way I see it, 345 00:16:19,562 --> 00:16:21,856 if he saw those photographs on the news, 346 00:16:21,940 --> 00:16:23,608 he knew he had finished your chances. 347 00:16:23,858 --> 00:16:25,777 Lieutenant, we weren't lovers. 348 00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:27,362 No? 349 00:16:27,445 --> 00:16:28,863 Then how come he jumped from your balcony? 350 00:16:29,030 --> 00:16:29,948 Well, that's impossible. 351 00:16:31,574 --> 00:16:33,118 Recognize this, Mrs. Lane? 352 00:16:33,201 --> 00:16:34,869 Yes, that's mine. Where did you get it? 353 00:16:34,953 --> 00:16:36,329 Where did you see it last? 354 00:16:36,413 --> 00:16:38,498 I guess I took it off when I showered. 355 00:16:38,581 --> 00:16:41,209 Lieutenant, where did you find that bracelet? 356 00:16:41,376 --> 00:16:44,587 In the pocket of the robe the victim was wearing. 357 00:16:44,671 --> 00:16:46,840 Now, every guest gets a robe. 358 00:16:46,923 --> 00:16:48,591 They're all the same, but yours is missing. 359 00:16:49,843 --> 00:16:51,594 Now, I don't know what the victim was wearing 360 00:16:51,845 --> 00:16:53,096 when he left the balcony, 361 00:16:53,179 --> 00:16:55,390 but when he landed, he was wearing your robe. 362 00:16:55,473 --> 00:16:57,684 Now, Mrs. Lane, you care to tell us what's going on? 363 00:16:57,767 --> 00:16:59,728 Lieutenant, Mrs. Lane wasn't here. 364 00:16:59,811 --> 00:17:01,020 She's just returned. 365 00:17:01,271 --> 00:17:02,689 Uh-huh. 366 00:17:02,939 --> 00:17:04,941 [phone rings] 367 00:17:05,024 --> 00:17:06,109 Penthouse. 368 00:17:08,903 --> 00:17:10,655 Excuse me, Mrs. Lane. It's your husband. 369 00:17:12,907 --> 00:17:14,784 Take it in the bedroom. 370 00:17:15,702 --> 00:17:17,871 Lieutenant, we found something across the hall 371 00:17:17,954 --> 00:17:19,164 in the victim's room. 372 00:17:19,247 --> 00:17:20,248 Right. 373 00:17:32,260 --> 00:17:35,472 No, I didn't see the news, either. 374 00:17:35,555 --> 00:17:37,849 Some supposedly flirtatious photographs 375 00:17:37,932 --> 00:17:39,642 of Bud and me alone out at the lake. 376 00:17:39,726 --> 00:17:41,394 As I understand, 377 00:17:41,478 --> 00:17:43,605 some reporter called me to give me a description. 378 00:17:43,688 --> 00:17:44,773 Look, honey-- 379 00:17:44,981 --> 00:17:46,524 I don't want to sound cold, 380 00:17:46,608 --> 00:17:49,068 but you can't let Bud's death stop your campaign. 381 00:17:49,152 --> 00:17:53,448 Jack, the police found Bud's body in my robe. 382 00:17:54,532 --> 00:17:55,533 What the hell does that mean? 383 00:17:55,742 --> 00:17:57,368 I don't know. 384 00:17:58,578 --> 00:18:00,371 Traffic's light. I'll be there in an hour. 385 00:18:00,455 --> 00:18:01,414 What's your room number? 386 00:18:01,498 --> 00:18:03,374 1811. No, wait. 387 00:18:03,458 --> 00:18:05,376 The management gave me another room. 388 00:18:05,460 --> 00:18:07,003 Check with the desk. 389 00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:10,256 Oh, and Jackson, please, drive safely. 390 00:18:18,515 --> 00:18:22,268 The victim's pants. The victim's room key. 391 00:18:22,352 --> 00:18:23,853 Something I can do for you, Mrs. Fletcher? 392 00:18:23,937 --> 00:18:25,563 Oh, one of your men said I'd find you here. 393 00:18:25,647 --> 00:18:27,190 Lieutenant, I think you should have a word 394 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:28,525 with your fingerprint man. 395 00:18:28,608 --> 00:18:29,526 What's he turned up? 396 00:18:29,776 --> 00:18:30,902 Nothing. 397 00:18:31,778 --> 00:18:34,280 Well, what I mean is, he didn't find any prints 398 00:18:34,364 --> 00:18:35,782 on the door handle leading to the balcony. 399 00:18:35,865 --> 00:18:37,158 So? 400 00:18:38,076 --> 00:18:40,912 Well, a man doesn't go out on a balcony to end it all 401 00:18:40,995 --> 00:18:43,998 and wipe his prints off the handle first. 402 00:18:45,625 --> 00:18:47,710 No, I won't give a statement to the paper 403 00:18:47,794 --> 00:18:50,505 until the facts are sorted out. 404 00:18:50,588 --> 00:18:52,799 Mrs. Lane, we just got these on loan 405 00:18:52,882 --> 00:18:54,342 from Channel 8. 406 00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:01,808 It doesn't take a detective to figure out 407 00:19:01,891 --> 00:19:04,102 who stands to gain from this, Lieutenant. 408 00:19:04,185 --> 00:19:06,396 So you and Johnson weren't at the lake together? 409 00:19:06,479 --> 00:19:07,939 -We were there. -What are you saying? 410 00:19:08,106 --> 00:19:10,358 Are you saying these are doctored, faked? 411 00:19:10,441 --> 00:19:13,111 Those pictures are really perfectly innocent. 412 00:19:13,194 --> 00:19:14,571 Look, ma'am, 413 00:19:14,654 --> 00:19:16,197 now we figured he fell between 10:45 414 00:19:16,281 --> 00:19:17,782 and that news broadcast. 415 00:19:17,866 --> 00:19:20,618 Maybe even just after these pictures were aired. 416 00:19:21,244 --> 00:19:22,287 Where were you tonight? 417 00:19:22,579 --> 00:19:23,454 Me? 418 00:19:23,538 --> 00:19:24,873 Well, I... 419 00:19:24,956 --> 00:19:26,916 Kathleen, weren't you out meeting 420 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,419 the state party chairman at his house? 421 00:19:29,502 --> 00:19:31,921 Mrs. Fletcher, you said that you were her speechwriter. 422 00:19:32,005 --> 00:19:34,007 Are you also her spokesperson? 423 00:19:34,090 --> 00:19:36,634 Lieutenant, I did go out there. 424 00:19:36,718 --> 00:19:38,845 Actually, I didn't meet with him. 425 00:19:38,928 --> 00:19:41,431 The message I got must have been fouled up. 426 00:19:41,514 --> 00:19:43,099 I arrived there about 10:30. 427 00:19:43,182 --> 00:19:45,476 I rang the doorbell, nobody answered. 428 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:49,188 So I climbed back into my car, waited about a half an hour, 429 00:19:49,272 --> 00:19:50,899 and then I drove back into town. 430 00:19:50,982 --> 00:19:52,108 Did anybody see you? 431 00:19:52,191 --> 00:19:54,652 Yes, I told you. The parking valet. 432 00:19:54,736 --> 00:19:56,112 When I pulled up outside, 433 00:19:56,195 --> 00:19:57,864 Bud's body had just been discovered. 434 00:19:58,948 --> 00:20:00,325 Well, who's to say that 435 00:20:00,408 --> 00:20:02,201 you didn't return to the hotel earlier? 436 00:20:02,285 --> 00:20:03,494 I'm to say. 437 00:20:04,454 --> 00:20:06,289 The hotel has my new room number. 438 00:20:06,372 --> 00:20:07,332 Kathleen, shall I go with you? 439 00:20:07,415 --> 00:20:08,416 Oh, no, Jess, I'll be all right. 440 00:20:08,499 --> 00:20:10,460 Jackson's driving in. 441 00:20:23,514 --> 00:20:25,808 These letters and numbers mean anything to anybody? 442 00:20:25,892 --> 00:20:28,770 "A.D. 53 / K.L. 46." 443 00:20:28,978 --> 00:20:31,731 They seem to be a poll of some sort. 444 00:20:31,814 --> 00:20:32,982 -Nan? -That's right. 445 00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:34,484 They're preliminary figures 446 00:20:34,567 --> 00:20:36,027 from a survey conducted this afternoon. 447 00:20:36,110 --> 00:20:37,946 Did you give this to Mrs. Lane or the victim? 448 00:20:38,029 --> 00:20:41,366 No, what I mean is, 449 00:20:41,449 --> 00:20:43,326 they were phoned in to me at 10:00. 450 00:20:43,409 --> 00:20:46,162 And I brought them right over, but Kathleen wasn't back yet. 451 00:20:46,245 --> 00:20:48,122 At least, nobody answered when I knocked. 452 00:20:48,206 --> 00:20:49,457 So I slipped them under the door. 453 00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:51,417 Oh, how odd. 454 00:20:51,501 --> 00:20:53,544 That nobody answered? 455 00:20:53,628 --> 00:20:55,838 Maybe somebody didn't want to be disturbed. 456 00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:58,508 I was wondering how they got onto this table. 457 00:21:00,969 --> 00:21:03,471 Sure, Bud and I went for a swim. 458 00:21:03,554 --> 00:21:05,014 It was totally innocent. 459 00:21:05,098 --> 00:21:09,435 Kathleen, we've always leveled with each other. 460 00:21:09,978 --> 00:21:11,437 I'm only going to ask you once... 461 00:21:11,521 --> 00:21:12,939 Jack, I swear, I-- 462 00:21:13,022 --> 00:21:16,609 Please, let me finish. It's no secret. 463 00:21:16,693 --> 00:21:20,446 Bud gave his hotel room keys to every woman... but his wife. 464 00:21:21,531 --> 00:21:24,826 Jack, we weren't having an affair. 465 00:21:24,909 --> 00:21:26,202 I promise you. 466 00:21:27,745 --> 00:21:29,080 That's all I wanted to hear. 467 00:21:29,163 --> 00:21:32,542 Those photographs of Bud and I hugging-- 468 00:21:32,625 --> 00:21:34,794 I had just beat him at ping-pong. 469 00:21:34,877 --> 00:21:36,546 He actually started to pout. 470 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,424 I just felt sorry for him. 471 00:21:40,133 --> 00:21:41,384 What was the score? 472 00:21:42,802 --> 00:21:44,262 Twenty-one to three. 473 00:21:44,679 --> 00:21:47,140 You always have to win, don't you? 474 00:21:48,808 --> 00:21:50,560 I'm not so sure I'm going to win this one. 475 00:21:51,978 --> 00:21:53,938 You've done nothing wrong. 476 00:21:54,022 --> 00:21:55,356 Tomorrow you'll call a press conference 477 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:56,441 and deny everything. 478 00:21:57,817 --> 00:21:59,944 Let's go to bed and get some sleep, huh? 479 00:22:05,074 --> 00:22:07,076 -Quiet please! -Quiet please. 480 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,870 Quiet. 481 00:22:08,953 --> 00:22:11,539 You'll all have a chance. She has a statement to make. 482 00:22:11,622 --> 00:22:13,875 Ladies and gentlemen, 483 00:22:13,958 --> 00:22:16,753 I am prepared to make a statement. 484 00:22:16,836 --> 00:22:17,962 Please. 485 00:22:23,968 --> 00:22:25,553 Thank you. 486 00:22:27,096 --> 00:22:31,934 Bud and I were co-workers, and yes, friends. 487 00:22:32,727 --> 00:22:34,854 But it never went any further than that. 488 00:22:36,230 --> 00:22:38,483 I just wish that he were alive now 489 00:22:38,566 --> 00:22:41,277 to personally refute those charges 490 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,279 and those misleading photographs. 491 00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:45,990 Mrs. Lane, are you going to stay in the race? 492 00:22:46,074 --> 00:22:50,369 My supporters and my husband want me to stay and fight. 493 00:22:50,453 --> 00:22:52,705 I'm sure that's what Bud would have wanted too. 494 00:22:53,873 --> 00:22:56,918 But most important, I want to carry on. 495 00:22:57,001 --> 00:23:00,546 And no amount of press pillory can make me back out. 496 00:23:00,630 --> 00:23:02,507 Mr. Lane, is it true 497 00:23:02,590 --> 00:23:04,008 that you were out of the country 498 00:23:04,092 --> 00:23:06,052 on the weekend that Bud Johnson and your wife 499 00:23:06,135 --> 00:23:07,929 spent the day at your summer cottage? 500 00:23:08,012 --> 00:23:11,516 I was away on business in the Bahamas. 501 00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:16,437 But Kathleen told me that they intended to work there. 502 00:23:16,521 --> 00:23:20,733 Ms. Brown, I have total confidence 503 00:23:20,817 --> 00:23:22,777 in my wife's fidelity. 504 00:23:22,860 --> 00:23:25,071 Score one for the home team. 505 00:23:25,154 --> 00:23:27,156 Thank you. 506 00:23:27,323 --> 00:23:32,161 I would just like to add, my wife started out a dark horse 507 00:23:32,245 --> 00:23:35,206 some 20 points behind Drelinger. 508 00:23:35,289 --> 00:23:38,876 Now she's closed to only seven points behind. 509 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:43,047 I predict that Kathleen will win come primary day. 510 00:23:51,305 --> 00:23:52,849 Mrs. Lane, 511 00:23:53,850 --> 00:23:55,017 who do you think took those pictures? 512 00:23:55,810 --> 00:23:57,812 Who do you think has the most to gain? 513 00:23:57,895 --> 00:24:00,398 Are you implying Drelinger's people are behind it? 514 00:24:00,606 --> 00:24:02,525 You said that, Harry. I didn't. 515 00:24:04,026 --> 00:24:07,155 Mr. Hall, suppose you tell us 516 00:24:07,238 --> 00:24:11,617 and your colleagues just how you got those pictures. 517 00:24:11,701 --> 00:24:13,786 There are shield laws in this state, 518 00:24:13,870 --> 00:24:16,914 and I'm prepared to go to jail to protect my sources. 519 00:24:16,998 --> 00:24:18,791 Mrs. Lane, first the police said 520 00:24:18,875 --> 00:24:20,209 it was suicide. 521 00:24:20,293 --> 00:24:22,545 Now the word from headquarters is a loud and clear 522 00:24:22,628 --> 00:24:24,422 "no comment." Would you care to comment? 523 00:24:24,505 --> 00:24:26,883 You know as much as I do, Mr. Hall. 524 00:24:26,966 --> 00:24:30,428 You told the police that you were away from the hotel 525 00:24:30,678 --> 00:24:32,096 when Bud Johnson died. 526 00:24:32,180 --> 00:24:33,890 That's true. 527 00:24:33,973 --> 00:24:36,559 Then, if you weren't there to let him into your room, 528 00:24:36,642 --> 00:24:38,019 I assume he had his own key. 529 00:24:38,269 --> 00:24:39,604 Jack, please! 530 00:24:51,532 --> 00:24:53,951 Yeah, it's murder, and yeah, I think she did it. 531 00:24:54,035 --> 00:24:55,036 But proving it... 532 00:24:56,746 --> 00:24:59,207 I'm not so sure about that. 533 00:24:59,290 --> 00:25:00,875 Meanwhile, she's being convicted 534 00:25:00,958 --> 00:25:04,212 on the front page of every newspaper in the state. 535 00:25:04,295 --> 00:25:06,923 Hey, she's news. Nobody asked her to run. 536 00:25:09,383 --> 00:25:11,093 You sure you don't want some coffee, Mrs. Fletcher? 537 00:25:11,177 --> 00:25:12,595 It looks lousy, but-- 538 00:25:12,678 --> 00:25:14,639 Oh, no, no, no, thank you. Lieutenant-- 539 00:25:14,722 --> 00:25:16,057 The thing is, 540 00:25:16,140 --> 00:25:18,392 this case has a lot of loose ends. 541 00:25:18,476 --> 00:25:20,311 The DA's the kind of a guy who likes his packages 542 00:25:20,394 --> 00:25:21,729 wrapped up nice and neat. 543 00:25:21,812 --> 00:25:23,105 You know what I mean? 544 00:25:23,189 --> 00:25:25,107 What you mean, is that this case 545 00:25:25,191 --> 00:25:26,150 may never come to trial. 546 00:25:26,234 --> 00:25:27,902 You could say that. 547 00:25:27,985 --> 00:25:30,279 While Kathleen Lane tries to run for office 548 00:25:30,363 --> 00:25:33,366 with this cloud of suspicion hanging over her head. 549 00:25:33,449 --> 00:25:35,785 Well, it's better than being tried and convicted. 550 00:25:35,868 --> 00:25:37,495 Have you considered 551 00:25:37,578 --> 00:25:40,164 that somebody else may have killed Mr. Johnson 552 00:25:40,248 --> 00:25:42,416 and framed Mrs. Lane for the express purpose 553 00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:44,252 of destroying her candidacy? 554 00:25:44,335 --> 00:25:45,336 It's crossed my mind. 555 00:25:46,921 --> 00:25:50,800 Well, next time it starts crossing, lieutenant, 556 00:25:50,883 --> 00:25:53,594 please stop it halfway and give it some attention. 557 00:25:54,929 --> 00:25:56,514 I have known this woman for 17 years, 558 00:25:56,597 --> 00:25:59,684 and believe me, she is incapable of deceit or subterfuge. 559 00:25:59,767 --> 00:26:02,395 And she's also incapable of committing murder. 560 00:26:02,478 --> 00:26:05,064 Sure, she's a friend. I understand. 561 00:26:05,147 --> 00:26:06,732 Oh. It's much more than that. 562 00:26:06,899 --> 00:26:08,567 She's innocent. 563 00:26:08,651 --> 00:26:10,403 And she's not gonna spend the rest of her life, 564 00:26:10,486 --> 00:26:11,862 political or not, 565 00:26:11,946 --> 00:26:12,863 with people whispering behind her back 566 00:26:12,947 --> 00:26:14,282 that she's a killer. 567 00:26:14,365 --> 00:26:15,283 Not if I have anything to say about it. 568 00:26:15,366 --> 00:26:16,450 Excuse me. 569 00:26:31,841 --> 00:26:32,842 Thank you. 570 00:26:42,310 --> 00:26:44,312 Oh, Mrs. Fletcher! 571 00:26:44,395 --> 00:26:46,230 Edmund Hall, Channel 8. 572 00:26:46,314 --> 00:26:48,607 Yes, news at 6:00 and 11:00. 573 00:26:50,109 --> 00:26:52,820 I'm sure your broadcast tonight will be quite lively, 574 00:26:52,903 --> 00:26:54,363 since you managed to provoke Jackson Lane 575 00:26:54,447 --> 00:26:56,324 into a near brawl. 576 00:26:56,407 --> 00:26:57,366 How are you planning to lead off? 577 00:26:57,450 --> 00:26:59,118 With a hook or a jab? 578 00:26:59,201 --> 00:27:02,705 If you're in town Sunday, tune in Face The Issues. 579 00:27:02,788 --> 00:27:04,957 That's my foray into public service. 580 00:27:05,041 --> 00:27:06,751 And news at 6:00 and 11:00 isn't? 581 00:27:06,834 --> 00:27:08,794 Well, my Sunday show's not hard news. 582 00:27:08,878 --> 00:27:10,755 We have on scholars, intellectuals. 583 00:27:10,838 --> 00:27:13,924 That's nice. Excuse me, Mr. Hall. 584 00:27:14,008 --> 00:27:15,384 Look, 585 00:27:15,468 --> 00:27:17,053 if you happen to have a new book out, 586 00:27:17,136 --> 00:27:19,138 I'd love to have you on the show-- 587 00:27:19,221 --> 00:27:21,557 unless you're opposed to tooting your own horn. 588 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,976 Oh, I don't mind selling books, Mr. Hall. 589 00:27:24,060 --> 00:27:27,063 You could even say a few words about Kathleen Lane. 590 00:27:27,146 --> 00:27:30,941 The longtime friend angle always intrigues the electorate. 591 00:27:31,025 --> 00:27:34,070 Something personal that she might have mentioned to me, 592 00:27:34,153 --> 00:27:36,489 like the identity of that doctor 593 00:27:36,572 --> 00:27:37,990 that she was supposed to be seeing 594 00:27:38,074 --> 00:27:39,784 while she was the Mayor? 595 00:27:39,867 --> 00:27:42,203 Well, the public loves a peek 596 00:27:42,286 --> 00:27:44,121 into a candidate's personal file. 597 00:27:44,205 --> 00:27:45,706 No, at times, 598 00:27:45,790 --> 00:27:48,793 it seems that's all they are interested in. 599 00:27:48,876 --> 00:27:51,379 Look, Mr. Hall, I might-- 600 00:27:51,462 --> 00:27:53,005 just might-- consider chatting with you 601 00:27:53,089 --> 00:27:54,924 about my latest novel and other matters 602 00:27:55,007 --> 00:27:58,969 if you will tell me who gave you those photographs. 603 00:28:00,721 --> 00:28:04,725 You're quite a horse trader, Mrs. Fletcher. 604 00:28:04,809 --> 00:28:06,977 But the truth is, I don't know. 605 00:28:07,186 --> 00:28:09,063 Oh! 606 00:28:09,146 --> 00:28:11,357 That's why you claimed confidential source 607 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:12,900 and shield laws, etcetera. 608 00:28:12,983 --> 00:28:14,402 Well, I could hardly tell the truth. 609 00:28:14,485 --> 00:28:16,028 I'm supposed to gather news, 610 00:28:16,112 --> 00:28:18,322 not have it left for me in bus station lockers 611 00:28:18,406 --> 00:28:20,241 by persons unknown. 612 00:28:20,324 --> 00:28:21,867 Unknown? 613 00:28:21,951 --> 00:28:23,953 Doesn't the name Arthur Drelinger spring to mind? 614 00:28:25,496 --> 00:28:26,956 All right, I'll level with you. 615 00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:29,333 C.W. Butterfield, Drelinger's campaign manager 616 00:28:29,417 --> 00:28:31,252 has been beating around the bush. 617 00:28:31,335 --> 00:28:34,296 Said he might have something newsworthy about Kathleen Lane. 618 00:28:34,380 --> 00:28:37,550 But I can't swear it was the photos. 619 00:28:37,633 --> 00:28:40,136 So do I count you in for Face The Issues ? 620 00:28:40,219 --> 00:28:41,762 I will think about it. 621 00:28:43,597 --> 00:28:45,224 Well, don't think too long. 622 00:28:45,307 --> 00:28:47,518 We're also negotiating with Bud's grieving widow. 623 00:28:48,185 --> 00:28:49,687 If she and her attorney agree to the bucks, 624 00:28:49,770 --> 00:28:52,022 well, she gets first crack, naturally. 625 00:28:52,606 --> 00:28:54,233 I'll wait to hear from you. 626 00:28:58,821 --> 00:29:01,240 I just can't believe that somebody would murder Bud 627 00:29:01,323 --> 00:29:03,075 just to win an election. 628 00:29:03,159 --> 00:29:05,161 Even more disturbing is the fact that 629 00:29:05,244 --> 00:29:08,956 they have gone to considerable trouble to smear you. 630 00:29:09,039 --> 00:29:11,792 You know what I don't understand is, 631 00:29:11,876 --> 00:29:14,211 if Bud's clothes were in his room, 632 00:29:14,295 --> 00:29:17,006 and he was found dead in my bathrobe, 633 00:29:17,089 --> 00:29:20,217 he must have gone from his room to mine, naked. 634 00:29:20,301 --> 00:29:23,554 No, I think it's more likely that he was lured into your room, 635 00:29:23,637 --> 00:29:25,890 killed, and then put into your robe. 636 00:29:25,973 --> 00:29:28,684 Then the murderer took Bud's clothes back to his room, 637 00:29:28,767 --> 00:29:31,187 using the key that I saw lieutenant Gowans 638 00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:33,856 take out of Bud's trousers pocket. 639 00:29:33,939 --> 00:29:36,233 Kathleen, I can't say that this has any connection 640 00:29:36,317 --> 00:29:37,985 with Bud's death, 641 00:29:38,068 --> 00:29:41,572 but Edmund Hall has been trying to pump me about you 642 00:29:41,655 --> 00:29:44,074 and that mysterious doctor. 643 00:29:44,158 --> 00:29:47,036 Hall is a nothing more than a peeping Tom with a hand mic. 644 00:29:48,954 --> 00:29:49,955 Kathleen... 645 00:29:52,291 --> 00:29:54,627 is there something that you haven't told me about? 646 00:29:54,710 --> 00:29:56,045 Anything at all? 647 00:29:56,128 --> 00:29:57,838 No, of course not. 648 00:29:57,922 --> 00:29:59,840 Did you talk to the party chairman 649 00:29:59,924 --> 00:30:02,468 about the meeting that you were supposed to have at his house? 650 00:30:02,551 --> 00:30:04,803 Yes, he said he never called me. 651 00:30:04,887 --> 00:30:07,973 Nan Wynn was the one who told me he called. 652 00:30:08,057 --> 00:30:09,892 So someone called Nan Wynn 653 00:30:09,975 --> 00:30:13,354 claiming to be the party chairman, 654 00:30:13,437 --> 00:30:15,606 luring you away from the hotel. 655 00:30:15,689 --> 00:30:17,650 Kathleen, where is Nan? 656 00:30:17,733 --> 00:30:19,026 I don't know. 657 00:30:19,109 --> 00:30:20,486 I've been trying to reach her all day. 658 00:30:23,155 --> 00:30:24,281 Where are you going? 659 00:30:24,365 --> 00:30:25,824 What about my speech? 660 00:30:25,908 --> 00:30:27,952 Well, the speech can wait. 661 00:30:28,035 --> 00:30:30,371 Kathleen, I think it's high time that somebody had a chat 662 00:30:30,454 --> 00:30:33,040 with the source of your troubles. 663 00:30:33,123 --> 00:30:35,918 The issue in this campaign, friends and neighbors, 664 00:30:36,001 --> 00:30:37,586 is a simple one. 665 00:30:37,670 --> 00:30:42,299 Moral integrity, honesty, a respect for justice 666 00:30:42,383 --> 00:30:45,886 and a love for the American way of life. 667 00:30:45,970 --> 00:30:47,471 C.W., there's something wrong here. 668 00:30:47,555 --> 00:30:49,223 What is it now, Arthur? 669 00:30:49,306 --> 00:30:51,058 Shouldn't that be "issues," not "issue"? 670 00:30:51,141 --> 00:30:52,351 I mean, here I am, reading off this 671 00:30:52,434 --> 00:30:54,478 laundry list of cliches. 672 00:30:54,562 --> 00:30:58,107 "Simple... honesty... respect for justice" 673 00:30:58,190 --> 00:31:00,276 are slogans, Arthur. 674 00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:01,902 Ideas. 675 00:31:01,986 --> 00:31:03,696 You want to say "issues," fine, 676 00:31:03,779 --> 00:31:05,406 say "issues." 677 00:31:05,489 --> 00:31:08,742 Just try to make it sound sincere. 678 00:31:08,826 --> 00:31:10,411 While you're at it don't blink your eyes so much. 679 00:31:10,494 --> 00:31:11,453 It makes you look shifty-eyed. 680 00:31:13,747 --> 00:31:15,874 Well, if these lights weren't so bright. 681 00:31:15,958 --> 00:31:18,711 Leo, how's my makeup? I feel like I'm sweating. 682 00:31:18,794 --> 00:31:20,588 Excuse me, sir? 683 00:31:20,671 --> 00:31:21,672 Yeah? 684 00:31:23,173 --> 00:31:25,467 Lieutenant Gowans, he's outside. 685 00:31:25,551 --> 00:31:26,760 Well, I already told him we didn't slip 686 00:31:26,844 --> 00:31:28,137 those photos to Channel 8. 687 00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:30,139 You want me to have him wait? 688 00:31:30,222 --> 00:31:32,016 Outside, in the chief's anteroom. 689 00:31:32,099 --> 00:31:33,767 Oh, that's a terrific idea. 690 00:31:33,851 --> 00:31:34,977 No, bring him inside! 691 00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:36,437 Okay! Outside everybody! 692 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,063 Five minutes. You're doing fine. 693 00:31:38,147 --> 00:31:39,315 You're doing fine. 694 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:42,526 -C.W., -Yeah. 695 00:31:42,610 --> 00:31:44,194 if we did have anything to do 696 00:31:44,278 --> 00:31:45,904 with those photographs Hall got a hold of, 697 00:31:45,988 --> 00:31:47,239 I don't want to know about it. 698 00:31:47,323 --> 00:31:48,866 Is that clear? 699 00:31:48,949 --> 00:31:52,161 Chief, we're absolutely clean on this. 700 00:31:52,244 --> 00:31:53,329 Now trust me. 701 00:31:56,415 --> 00:31:58,250 Gentlemen. 702 00:31:58,334 --> 00:32:00,294 Lieutenant! So good to see you. 703 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,090 Dreadful business, this thing with Johnson. 704 00:32:05,174 --> 00:32:07,134 My heart goes out to that poor woman. 705 00:32:07,217 --> 00:32:08,636 Yeah, I just heard on the radio 706 00:32:08,719 --> 00:32:10,679 that a new poll from The Daily Post 707 00:32:10,763 --> 00:32:13,515 says Mrs. Lane just fell 12 points behind you. 708 00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:14,933 Well, you can't say you're surprised. 709 00:32:15,017 --> 00:32:16,393 Surprised? 710 00:32:16,477 --> 00:32:18,437 Nothing about politics surprises me. 711 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,190 If the lady self-destructs, well, that's her lookout. 712 00:32:21,273 --> 00:32:23,484 I only get involved if she got a little help. 713 00:32:25,653 --> 00:32:26,987 I'm not quite sure 714 00:32:27,071 --> 00:32:28,781 I understand that remark, Lieutenant. 715 00:32:28,864 --> 00:32:31,742 Well, let me just make it very clear to you, sir. 716 00:32:31,825 --> 00:32:33,661 Were you and Mr. Butterfield here 717 00:32:33,744 --> 00:32:35,537 between 10:00 and 11:00 Monday night 718 00:32:35,621 --> 00:32:37,706 when Johnson died? 719 00:32:37,790 --> 00:32:39,249 I think I resent that question. 720 00:32:39,333 --> 00:32:41,627 Chief, the lieutenant's just doing his job. 721 00:32:42,336 --> 00:32:45,839 And obviously, neither one of us has anything to hide. 722 00:32:45,923 --> 00:32:48,592 The fact is, Mr. Drelinger was at the Onyx Lodge 723 00:32:48,676 --> 00:32:50,052 from 8:00 till 11:00. 724 00:32:50,135 --> 00:32:52,179 He was receiving the Man of the Year award. 725 00:32:52,262 --> 00:32:53,347 And of course, I was there. 726 00:32:53,430 --> 00:32:55,933 Eleven, huh? 727 00:32:56,016 --> 00:32:58,686 I heard it was 10:30 when you two left. 728 00:32:58,769 --> 00:32:59,978 I thought it was later than that. 729 00:33:00,062 --> 00:33:01,397 We were in my car at 11:00, 730 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,565 driving Mr. Drelinger to his hotel. 731 00:33:03,649 --> 00:33:05,359 We stayed in your hotel room till after 12:00. 732 00:33:05,442 --> 00:33:06,568 Wasn't that correct, Arthur? 733 00:33:06,652 --> 00:33:08,362 Yes. Absolutely correct. 734 00:33:11,198 --> 00:33:13,242 Well, thank you. 735 00:33:14,618 --> 00:33:15,744 If I need anything else, Mr. Butterfield, 736 00:33:15,828 --> 00:33:16,829 I'll let you know. 737 00:33:16,912 --> 00:33:19,123 Of course. Trust me. 738 00:33:23,836 --> 00:33:26,714 -Mrs. Fletcher. -Lieutenant. 739 00:33:26,797 --> 00:33:28,590 That speech you made, kind of got to me, 740 00:33:28,674 --> 00:33:30,426 so I decided to work on those loose ends. 741 00:33:30,509 --> 00:33:33,679 -And? -Nothing, zip, zero. 742 00:33:33,762 --> 00:33:36,682 Look, if you can do any better, please, be my guest. 743 00:33:41,270 --> 00:33:43,272 Mrs. Fletcher, what a surprise. 744 00:33:43,355 --> 00:33:45,023 I know you must be very busy, 745 00:33:45,107 --> 00:33:48,318 but I wonder if you could spare me just a few moments? 746 00:33:48,402 --> 00:33:51,029 Arthur, Jessica Fletcher. 747 00:33:51,113 --> 00:33:52,698 Kathleen Lane's new writer. 748 00:33:52,781 --> 00:33:55,242 The mystery novelist. Yes, yes, of course. 749 00:33:55,325 --> 00:33:56,535 Mrs. Fletcher, this is indeed a pleasure. 750 00:33:57,870 --> 00:33:59,329 Are you here with a message from Kathleen? 751 00:33:59,413 --> 00:34:01,039 Now, if she's ready to bow out-- 752 00:34:01,123 --> 00:34:04,460 "Bow out"? Oh, no, nothing like that. 753 00:34:04,543 --> 00:34:06,462 I just wanted to satisfy my curiosity 754 00:34:06,545 --> 00:34:08,547 about one or two small things. 755 00:34:08,630 --> 00:34:09,840 Such as? 756 00:34:09,923 --> 00:34:11,759 Well, for starters, those photographs 757 00:34:11,842 --> 00:34:15,304 that someone gave to Edmund Hall of Kathleen and Bud Johnson. 758 00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:18,766 We had nothing to do with that. 759 00:34:18,849 --> 00:34:19,850 Really? 760 00:34:19,933 --> 00:34:21,935 I can't imagine why anyone 761 00:34:22,019 --> 00:34:24,980 would want to sneak around with a telephoto lens camera 762 00:34:25,063 --> 00:34:27,274 trying to shoot something-- 763 00:34:27,357 --> 00:34:29,276 well, shall we say "compromising"-- 764 00:34:29,359 --> 00:34:32,112 and then slip it to Edmund Hall, 765 00:34:32,196 --> 00:34:36,700 unless they were deliberately trying to smear Kathleen Lane. 766 00:34:36,784 --> 00:34:38,744 Mrs. Fletcher, I couldn't agree with you more. 767 00:34:38,827 --> 00:34:40,496 That kind of backstairs journalism 768 00:34:40,579 --> 00:34:42,414 is an insult to the people we serve. 769 00:34:42,498 --> 00:34:43,624 C.W., make a note. 770 00:34:43,707 --> 00:34:45,459 We want a strong, public statement 771 00:34:45,542 --> 00:34:47,169 condemning that sort of sleazy journalism. 772 00:34:47,336 --> 00:34:48,378 My goodness! 773 00:34:48,462 --> 00:34:49,713 No wonder you have so many 774 00:34:49,797 --> 00:34:51,465 strong supporters, Mr. Drelinger. 775 00:34:53,342 --> 00:34:55,052 I may be confused, 776 00:34:55,135 --> 00:34:58,430 but someone told me that you had a file on Kathleen Lane 777 00:34:58,514 --> 00:35:00,474 and that you were working up something 778 00:35:00,557 --> 00:35:02,100 to release to the press. 779 00:35:02,184 --> 00:35:03,602 Who told you that? 780 00:35:03,685 --> 00:35:05,354 That is a damn lie. 781 00:35:05,437 --> 00:35:09,399 Mrs. Fletcher, the only file we have on Kathleen Lane 782 00:35:09,483 --> 00:35:11,693 is her position on the issues. 783 00:35:11,777 --> 00:35:13,695 And between you, me, and the doorpost, 784 00:35:13,779 --> 00:35:16,865 we're not that far apart on a lot of things. 785 00:35:16,949 --> 00:35:18,534 No, Mrs. Fletcher. 786 00:35:18,617 --> 00:35:20,869 If there's one thing Arthur Drelinger can't abide, 787 00:35:20,953 --> 00:35:23,163 it's dirty tricks. 788 00:35:23,247 --> 00:35:24,248 Arthur, here's the documented printout 789 00:35:24,331 --> 00:35:25,499 of our new phone survey. 790 00:35:25,582 --> 00:35:28,252 Kathleen Lane is officially... 791 00:35:28,335 --> 00:35:29,419 dead. 792 00:35:34,550 --> 00:35:37,177 I swear, Mrs. Fletcher, I was not a spy for Drelinger. 793 00:35:37,261 --> 00:35:39,179 Yes, but according to Cass Malone, 794 00:35:39,263 --> 00:35:40,764 you delivered the message to Kathleen 795 00:35:40,848 --> 00:35:42,099 to visit the party chairman, 796 00:35:42,182 --> 00:35:43,934 which left her without an alibi. 797 00:35:44,017 --> 00:35:45,936 I only took the message. 798 00:35:46,019 --> 00:35:48,355 The man said he was an aide to the party chairman. 799 00:35:48,438 --> 00:35:50,023 I thought you believed 800 00:35:50,107 --> 00:35:52,192 in Kathleen's stand on the issues. 801 00:35:52,276 --> 00:35:53,986 What I believe in are numbers. 802 00:35:54,069 --> 00:35:55,404 The substantial salary numbers 803 00:35:55,487 --> 00:35:56,989 that Drelinger's campaign offered me, 804 00:35:57,072 --> 00:35:58,574 and the ugly numbers 805 00:35:58,657 --> 00:36:01,118 that Kathleen is suddenly trailing by in the polls. 806 00:36:01,201 --> 00:36:03,912 Well, it just seems to me that if you beat the body politic 807 00:36:03,996 --> 00:36:06,248 over the head long enough with these polls, 808 00:36:06,331 --> 00:36:09,877 they tend to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. 809 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,628 Self-fulfilling or not, 810 00:36:11,712 --> 00:36:13,005 Kathleen is dead in the water. 811 00:36:16,508 --> 00:36:17,593 Take a look at the month-to-month curve 812 00:36:17,676 --> 00:36:18,719 on these numbers. 813 00:36:18,802 --> 00:36:21,388 Kathleen starts out 20 points back. 814 00:36:21,471 --> 00:36:23,223 Then she closes it to 15. 815 00:36:23,307 --> 00:36:26,018 Then 12, then ten, then five. 816 00:36:26,101 --> 00:36:27,394 And this past week-- 817 00:36:27,477 --> 00:36:28,896 the photos, Bud's death-- 818 00:36:28,979 --> 00:36:30,814 It's back to 12 in two days. 819 00:36:30,898 --> 00:36:35,319 You mean, Kathleen was within five points of Drelinger? 820 00:36:35,402 --> 00:36:37,779 The day Bud was murdered, yes. 821 00:36:37,863 --> 00:36:39,364 But the figures that you passed under the door 822 00:36:39,448 --> 00:36:41,533 were 53 to 46. 823 00:36:41,617 --> 00:36:43,660 That's seven points. 824 00:36:43,744 --> 00:36:45,621 That was a mistake. 825 00:36:45,704 --> 00:36:48,123 I told you and lieutenant Gowans and no one else. 826 00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:51,710 What's the big deal? Anybody can make a mistake. 827 00:36:53,462 --> 00:36:54,463 Oh, dear. 828 00:37:12,648 --> 00:37:15,192 Mrs. Fletcher! What's going on? 829 00:37:15,275 --> 00:37:16,443 Is she throwing in the towel? 830 00:37:16,526 --> 00:37:18,028 I honestly don't know. 831 00:37:18,111 --> 00:37:19,404 Well, she's called a press conference. 832 00:37:19,488 --> 00:37:21,949 She's trailing Drelinger by 12 points now. 833 00:37:22,032 --> 00:37:23,116 What else could it be? 834 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,911 Well, maybe she's decided to hang in and fight it out. 835 00:37:25,994 --> 00:37:28,288 But if she has decided to withdraw, 836 00:37:28,372 --> 00:37:31,375 I think you can take some of the responsibility. 837 00:37:31,458 --> 00:37:33,251 Oh, give me a break, Mrs. Fletcher! 838 00:37:33,335 --> 00:37:35,295 I don't make the news, I just report it. 839 00:37:35,379 --> 00:37:36,755 Really? 840 00:37:36,838 --> 00:37:38,548 It doesn't seem as simple as that to me. 841 00:37:38,632 --> 00:37:40,968 Whatever you report, becomes the news. 842 00:37:41,051 --> 00:37:42,928 You seem to decide what is news 843 00:37:43,011 --> 00:37:44,513 and what is important and what isn't. 844 00:37:44,596 --> 00:37:46,431 I mean, somehow you seem to mix up 845 00:37:46,515 --> 00:37:48,767 importance with sensationalism. 846 00:37:48,850 --> 00:37:50,560 Let me explain something to you. 847 00:37:50,644 --> 00:37:53,313 The political beat puts people to sleep. 848 00:37:53,397 --> 00:37:54,898 It's dry, it's boring. 849 00:37:54,982 --> 00:37:57,150 They want to see Dallas, Knots Landing... 850 00:37:57,234 --> 00:37:58,485 So you give them soap operas, 851 00:37:58,568 --> 00:38:00,445 but what about the issues? 852 00:38:00,529 --> 00:38:02,739 What have we got, two, three minutes of airtime per story? 853 00:38:02,823 --> 00:38:04,408 We've got to grab them. 854 00:38:04,491 --> 00:38:05,575 Now, what are we gonna give them, dry statistics? 855 00:38:05,784 --> 00:38:07,452 Charts, graphs? 856 00:38:07,536 --> 00:38:10,288 You seem to have a very low opinion of your viewers. 857 00:38:12,332 --> 00:38:14,167 One thing I know about the public, Mrs. Fletcher, 858 00:38:14,251 --> 00:38:16,753 they have a very short attention span. 859 00:38:16,837 --> 00:38:19,381 If Kathleen Lane folds, she's yesterday's newspaper. 860 00:38:19,464 --> 00:38:21,591 In a month, they won't even remember her name. 861 00:38:21,675 --> 00:38:26,179 Well, thank you for the lesson in political science, Mr. Hall. 862 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:32,561 Thank you. 863 00:38:34,187 --> 00:38:35,689 Oh, Kathleen... 864 00:38:35,772 --> 00:38:36,815 Jessica. 865 00:38:39,609 --> 00:38:41,987 Thank you so much for trying to lend a hand. 866 00:38:42,070 --> 00:38:43,405 Then it's true? 867 00:38:43,488 --> 00:38:47,117 I can't convince her to carry on. 868 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,369 Jessica, how can I? 869 00:38:49,453 --> 00:38:51,246 I've learned the hard way that a candidate 870 00:38:51,329 --> 00:38:52,998 is worth two angles to the media. 871 00:38:54,291 --> 00:38:56,001 When I was 20 points behind in the polls, 872 00:38:56,084 --> 00:38:57,836 they tried to build me up 873 00:38:57,919 --> 00:39:00,964 with those heartrending stories about the gutsy underdog. 874 00:39:01,048 --> 00:39:03,508 But after molding you into "David versus Goliath", 875 00:39:03,592 --> 00:39:05,761 they wanted a new angle for the morning edition. 876 00:39:05,844 --> 00:39:08,346 That's the idea. 877 00:39:08,430 --> 00:39:12,434 And when I closed the gap, they started to tear me down. 878 00:39:12,517 --> 00:39:15,479 No, my attempt at public service has cost me my dignity, 879 00:39:15,562 --> 00:39:18,398 my privacy, and my sanity. 880 00:39:18,482 --> 00:39:20,525 And it could have cost me my marriage. 881 00:39:21,860 --> 00:39:23,570 I'm sorry, Jessica. It just isn't worth it. 882 00:39:24,946 --> 00:39:26,323 Kathleen? 883 00:39:26,406 --> 00:39:27,240 The Lynch party is trampling the lawn. 884 00:39:29,868 --> 00:39:33,497 We're still suing Hall and Channel 8? 885 00:39:33,580 --> 00:39:34,956 No, we're not, darling. 886 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,126 We're just gonna get on with the rest of our lives. 887 00:39:41,922 --> 00:39:43,298 I'd better go out there 888 00:39:43,381 --> 00:39:45,926 and give them the hanging they came for. 889 00:39:46,009 --> 00:39:48,512 Jackson, could I have a moment with you? 890 00:39:51,264 --> 00:39:53,183 Kathleen! 891 00:39:53,266 --> 00:39:54,267 I'll be right along. 892 00:40:00,065 --> 00:40:02,484 Yes, what is it, Jessica? Something wrong? 893 00:40:02,567 --> 00:40:04,402 Well, I'm afraid so. 894 00:40:04,486 --> 00:40:06,321 I think I know who took those photos 895 00:40:06,404 --> 00:40:08,824 of Kathleen and Bud and leaked them to Channel 8. 896 00:40:08,907 --> 00:40:10,242 You do? 897 00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:11,868 It was the same person that lured Kathleen 898 00:40:11,952 --> 00:40:14,704 away from the hotel the night that Bud died. 899 00:40:14,788 --> 00:40:18,041 Well, if it's someone on Drelinger's staff, 900 00:40:18,125 --> 00:40:21,670 then we've got to stop her from withdrawing. 901 00:40:21,753 --> 00:40:23,296 Oh, I'm afraid it's a little late for that. 902 00:40:25,173 --> 00:40:27,425 Please! Please, I have a statement. 903 00:40:30,512 --> 00:40:32,514 If the candidate's character 904 00:40:32,597 --> 00:40:34,349 becomes the issue of the campaign, 905 00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:37,769 and the bedroom becomes the ballot box, 906 00:40:37,853 --> 00:40:40,689 then the candidate can no longer speak on the vital ideas 907 00:40:40,981 --> 00:40:43,608 and programs which should be addressed. 908 00:40:43,692 --> 00:40:46,361 Although my husband 909 00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:52,117 and some tireless volunteers and staff workers 910 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,161 pleaded with me to remain in the race... 911 00:40:57,414 --> 00:40:58,957 I am announcing my withdrawal. 912 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:00,208 [reporters clamoring] 913 00:41:07,716 --> 00:41:09,968 I hope to speak out 914 00:41:10,051 --> 00:41:13,597 on some of the issues from time to time 915 00:41:15,223 --> 00:41:17,517 and that the party will still look for the best man, 916 00:41:17,601 --> 00:41:18,602 or woman... 917 00:41:21,855 --> 00:41:24,941 and not give the nomination to Arthur Drelinger by default. 918 00:41:27,319 --> 00:41:29,696 What a gutsy lady she is, huh? 919 00:41:29,779 --> 00:41:31,531 You know what I'm going to do? 920 00:41:31,615 --> 00:41:32,782 I'm going to take her away for a while, 921 00:41:32,866 --> 00:41:35,327 for a few months. 922 00:41:35,410 --> 00:41:39,080 We always talked a lot about spending time in France. 923 00:41:39,164 --> 00:41:41,499 But it really tears me up, though, 924 00:41:41,583 --> 00:41:44,336 that she'll never get a chance to show what she could do. 925 00:41:44,419 --> 00:41:49,633 On the contrary, you must be enormously relieved. 926 00:41:49,716 --> 00:41:53,136 Relieved that somebody like Drelinger smeared my wife, 927 00:41:53,220 --> 00:41:54,846 and forced her to withdraw? 928 00:41:54,930 --> 00:41:56,681 Oh, Jackson, I'm sorry, 929 00:41:56,765 --> 00:41:58,516 but Kathleen's most dangerous opponent 930 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,144 in this campaign wasn't Drelinger. 931 00:42:01,228 --> 00:42:02,979 It was you. 932 00:42:03,063 --> 00:42:04,105 Me? 933 00:42:06,816 --> 00:42:10,654 After spending $1 million to launch her campaign? 934 00:42:10,737 --> 00:42:12,072 Yes, I imagine 935 00:42:12,155 --> 00:42:13,740 there probably was a time when you thought 936 00:42:13,823 --> 00:42:16,952 the election might help your business deals. 937 00:42:17,035 --> 00:42:20,330 But then the sharks started to circle. 938 00:42:20,413 --> 00:42:22,582 I don't know what you're talking about. 939 00:42:22,666 --> 00:42:24,501 I'm talking about the media spotlight 940 00:42:24,709 --> 00:42:26,962 that sudden-- suddenly began to pry 941 00:42:27,045 --> 00:42:28,797 into your personal and business life. 942 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,174 Everybody knew about your tax problems. 943 00:42:31,258 --> 00:42:33,635 But you thought that was all behind you. 944 00:42:33,718 --> 00:42:36,638 But because of Kathleen, you became news again. 945 00:42:36,721 --> 00:42:37,973 The press began to dig 946 00:42:38,056 --> 00:42:39,891 to see what dirt they could come up with. 947 00:42:39,975 --> 00:42:42,852 Oh, that's ridiculous! 948 00:42:42,936 --> 00:42:44,646 I don't think so. 949 00:42:44,729 --> 00:42:47,899 You knew that you couldn't take that kind of scrutiny, 950 00:42:47,983 --> 00:42:52,862 so you decided that Kathleen had to drop out of the race. 951 00:42:52,946 --> 00:42:54,948 I think it was you who took those photographs 952 00:42:55,031 --> 00:42:57,033 of Kathleen and Bud Johnson. 953 00:42:57,117 --> 00:42:59,244 I was out of the country! 954 00:42:59,327 --> 00:43:01,121 Well, that shouldn't be hard to check. 955 00:43:01,204 --> 00:43:02,998 They keep very good records these days. 956 00:43:03,081 --> 00:43:04,791 Lieutenant... 957 00:43:04,874 --> 00:43:08,420 you can't take this woman's wild charges seriously. 958 00:43:08,503 --> 00:43:12,048 Perhaps you'd like to show us your passport, Mr. Lane. 959 00:43:12,132 --> 00:43:14,009 Oh... 960 00:43:14,092 --> 00:43:15,969 all right. 961 00:43:16,052 --> 00:43:18,513 Maybe I wasn't in the Bahamas. 962 00:43:18,596 --> 00:43:21,391 That doesn't prove I took the pictures. 963 00:43:21,474 --> 00:43:24,144 I think that you called Edmund Hall, disguising your voice. 964 00:43:24,227 --> 00:43:26,521 I think you also left that phone message, 965 00:43:26,604 --> 00:43:28,481 luring Kathleen on that wild-goose chase 966 00:43:28,565 --> 00:43:30,025 to the chairman's house in the suburbs. 967 00:43:30,108 --> 00:43:31,735 The next thing I know, 968 00:43:31,818 --> 00:43:33,987 you'll be accusing me of killing Bud Johnson! 969 00:43:34,070 --> 00:43:37,240 For God's sake, I was here-- 970 00:43:37,324 --> 00:43:39,534 40 miles away from the city! 971 00:43:39,617 --> 00:43:41,870 Oh, you may have given that impression 972 00:43:41,953 --> 00:43:43,872 when you called on your car phone. 973 00:43:43,955 --> 00:43:46,207 But you were there, all right, Jackson-- 974 00:43:46,291 --> 00:43:48,418 in Kathleen's suite. 975 00:43:48,501 --> 00:43:50,462 That's a lie! 976 00:43:50,545 --> 00:43:51,921 Nan slipped the poll results 977 00:43:52,005 --> 00:43:54,507 under the door at around 10:00 o'clock. 978 00:43:54,591 --> 00:43:57,969 Fifty-three to 46. Seven points apart. 979 00:43:58,053 --> 00:43:59,846 Those are those numbers you shouted at the reporters 980 00:43:59,929 --> 00:44:02,057 at the news conference the very next morning. 981 00:44:02,140 --> 00:44:04,726 My wife started out a dark horse 982 00:44:04,809 --> 00:44:08,396 some 20 points behind Drelinger. 983 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,609 Now she's closed to only seven points behind. 984 00:44:12,692 --> 00:44:15,779 Care for an instant replay, courtesy of Channel 8? 985 00:44:17,364 --> 00:44:20,408 Well, that's what it was-- seven points. 986 00:44:20,492 --> 00:44:23,078 That was a mistake. It was actually five points. 987 00:44:23,161 --> 00:44:24,621 Nan was already making the correction 988 00:44:24,704 --> 00:44:26,331 and typing up the release, 989 00:44:26,414 --> 00:44:29,250 about the time you threw Bud Johnson off the balcony. 990 00:44:29,334 --> 00:44:32,253 The only way you'd have gotten seven points 991 00:44:32,337 --> 00:44:33,963 would have been if you'd have been in that room, 992 00:44:34,047 --> 00:44:35,632 and seen the figures she'd slipped under the door. 993 00:44:40,970 --> 00:44:45,225 Bud found out that I wasn't in the Bahamas that weekend. 994 00:44:45,308 --> 00:44:47,811 Once the photographs made the news, 995 00:44:47,894 --> 00:44:49,312 he'd start to put it together. 996 00:44:52,649 --> 00:44:53,817 And then... 997 00:44:53,900 --> 00:44:55,985 A.D. 53 / K.L. 46 998 00:44:56,069 --> 00:44:57,862 ...the solution came to me, 999 00:44:57,946 --> 00:44:59,697 Bud's suicide. 1000 00:44:59,781 --> 00:45:04,202 It would finally put an end to Kathleen's campaign. 1001 00:45:04,285 --> 00:45:09,290 I got-- I got Kathleen out, and I slipped into her suite. 1002 00:45:09,374 --> 00:45:11,251 I phoned Bud's room. 1003 00:45:11,334 --> 00:45:13,670 And I told him Kathleen was back 1004 00:45:13,753 --> 00:45:15,088 and wanted to see him. 1005 00:45:17,924 --> 00:45:19,384 I was-- I was cornered. 1006 00:45:19,467 --> 00:45:21,219 [stutters] I had to do something. 1007 00:45:23,388 --> 00:45:24,806 I brought the hammer from home. 1008 00:45:27,559 --> 00:45:28,852 So you removed his clothes, 1009 00:45:28,935 --> 00:45:30,770 dressed him in Kathleen's robe... 1010 00:45:30,854 --> 00:45:32,730 And then you threw him off the balcony. 1011 00:45:34,107 --> 00:45:36,359 Jessica, 1012 00:45:36,443 --> 00:45:40,447 the people I dealt with in those days, 1013 00:45:40,530 --> 00:45:44,200 the people I deal with now, 1014 00:45:44,284 --> 00:45:48,163 I didn't get where I am by being a choir boy. 1015 00:45:49,497 --> 00:45:51,583 And they were getting awfully nervous 1016 00:45:51,666 --> 00:45:52,834 about those rumors. 1017 00:45:52,917 --> 00:45:55,253 It wasn't jail. 1018 00:45:55,336 --> 00:45:57,755 I was looking-- 1019 00:45:57,839 --> 00:46:02,302 I was looking at... much worse. 1020 00:46:02,385 --> 00:46:04,971 And I couldn't think of what else to do! 1021 00:46:13,855 --> 00:46:18,693 And now, I'm going to step out of the goldfish bowl, 1022 00:46:18,776 --> 00:46:22,864 and, once again, become Mrs. Jackson Lane, 1023 00:46:25,575 --> 00:46:26,701 the devoted wife 1024 00:46:27,869 --> 00:46:29,996 of a wonderful, loving husband.