[Jessica] Tonight on Murder She Wrote.
She moved in about five years ago
and she’s never been out of her apartment.
Never?
It’s not at all what it appears to be.
There is not enough malpractice insurance in the world
to cover what you’ve been doing to her.
Doctor Holden, do I have to go to sleep?
There you go.
You’re gonna feel much better in the morning.
You’ll be around, Mr. Phelps, won’t you?
I have to keep an eye on Alice, don’t I?
Hello, Alice.
Go away!
Alice may have seen something that incriminates someone else.
[screeching]
[screaming]
[cheerful orchestral music]
[chattering]
[screaming]
[gasps]
[screeching then screaming]
[knocking on door]
Good morning, Mrs. Fletcher.
Express mail.
Thank you, Richie.
Yes, the galleys have just arrived.
I promise, I’ll get to them over the weekend.
All right. Goodbye, Arthur.
Was there something else, Richie?
Well, it’s really not your problem, ma’am,
but there’s this tenant,
up in one of the singles on the 10th floor.
Alice--uh, Miss Morgan I mean.
She moved in about five years ago
and she’s never been out of her apartment.
Never?
Uh-uh, not once.
Come in, Richie.
Thank you, ma’am.
She’s afraid, Mrs. Fletcher.
There’s some sort of name for what she’s got.
Uh-huh, yeah, I think you mean agoraphobia.
There you go.
Anyway, I sort of keep an eye on her, you know.
I deliver her groceries and the paper
and take away her trash.
She doesn’t trust strangers.
Well, all of a sudden this last couple of days
she’s refused to open the door to take the stuff.
She tells me to just leave it.
She hasn’t even hauled it inside.
She just yells that I should go away.
Oh.
Does she have any relatives?
A brother.
And there’s a Dr. Holden who comes to visit her.
I’ve called them both and left messages on their machines
but nobody’s shown up.
I tell you what? Why don’t the two of us just run up there for a minute
and maybe between the two of us
we can find out whether or not she needs help.
[knocking on door]
[Alice] Go away!
Alice, I’m here with Mrs. Fletcher from 4B.
She’s worried about you.
[Alice] I’m fine. Go away.
Alice, I thought maybe we could talk for a moment.
Otherwise we’re gonna have to call for some help.
Just for a minute.
Please, sit down.
Thank you.
Would you, um, like some tea?
Oh, no, thank you.
Miss Morgan, Alice,
I don’t want to pry,
but Richie was very concerned about you.
When I look through here I can see the brownstone,
the house I lived in with my family.
Oh, that’s lovely.
Do you ever have a dream where, when you wake up
you’re not certain if it was a dream or if it was real?
Yes, I have.
I usually fall asleep before this show is over,
so I tape it just to be sure.
Five years ago I saw a man.
I mean, I saw him in a dream,
but maybe...
[man on television] He is back with a vengeance.
He is a leading contender
in the much talked about design project,
the Lower Soho Museum of Arts.
Jordan Barnett, welcome back to the Big Apple.
Thanks, Jim.
It’s nice to be back.
That’s the man... from my dream.
From five years back?
Yes.
No.
A week ago and every night since
I see the body of my mother lying there
and when I go to touch it,
this huge vicious bird comes right at me.
Her body, but your mother is--
[shouting] For God’s sake, don’t you understand?
She’s dead!
She was murdered.
Who are you?
And what are you doing here?
I’m sure that you and the doorman
have the best of intentions,
but Miss Morgan is my patient
and as you can see, her condition is very precarious.
So you’re going to have to leave, I’m afraid, right now.
Of course. Excuse me, are you the Dr. Holden
that Richie was trying to reach?
Yes, I am and Alice needs me right now.
Thank you very much.
Alice, well, let’s turn this off.
Come on, you can do it, calm down.
Yeah, slowly, slowly, that’s a girl, slowly.
[phone ringing]
Jordan Barnett Design Studios, Laura Martin speaking.
I’m afraid he’s in a meeting just now, Mr. Beris.
All right.
We’ll report back to the rest of the committee tomorrow.
And well, personally I think
it’s safe to say you’ll be our choice.
Thank you, Mrs. Eddington.
I’d be less than honest if I didn’t tell you
how much I appreciate your personal involvement.
Thanks so much for coming by.
So, what’s your reading?
Is the museum commission a go?
Well, Laura, let me put it this way.
I hope I'm gonna be counting heavily on you
in the next few months.
I got a few phone calls and we’re out of here. Dinner.
Oh, the TV station faxed in some inquiries
that came in after the show the other night.
Well, shall I send the usual bio and credits?
Jordan, is something wrong?
Well, of course not.
What about dinner?
Later.
Jim, you want to bring it around?
Right away, Mr. Barnett.
Barnett.
Ben. Ben Cutler, how long has it been?
Forget the charm, will you?
You know how long it’s been.
You got about 30 seconds.
Maybe you ought to get to it.
Yeah, but what it is, see,
I’ve seen your specs
of renderings for the museum project.
And?
You’re incredible, you know that?
When you can put two sentences together, call me.
Thanks.
I’ll give you a couple right now.
Except for a few details you added,
that entire package is my old university library project.
Ben, get a life.
And stay the hell out of mine, all right?
Look, Jordan, I don’t want to make trouble.
I just want what’s mine.
[Ellen] Time’s up, Jennifer.
Oh, thank you, doctor.
Uh, see you on Tuesday.
Doctor, I need--
Tuesday, Jennifer.
[gasps] What?
Ellen, we’ve got to talk.
Not now, Peter. Now let me through.
No, damn it. I’m sick and tired of you
draining my sister’s bank account
and not making her any better
and turning her against me in the bargain.
And I’m also a little--
Peter, you’re being tedious.
The only interest I have in you
and your financial problems is
how they affect Alice and her mental health.
Now--now get out.
You better start listening to me, doctor,
because you know and I know
there is not enough malpractice insurance in the world
to cover what you’ve been doing to her.
You want her permission to sell the brownstone.
I’m not gonna take anything away from her, Ellen.
She’ll get her half, every penny of it.
I’ll see what I can do.
Okay, but fast.
[man] I would have retired six months ago,
but my wife said, "How can you be a good grandpa,
if you can’t afford all of this stuff?"
I know. When is it due?
Yesterday.
The kid’s probably gonna be a soccer star.
My daughter, Estelle, says
he’s been trying to kick his way out of there for months.
Did you find anything?
Well, yes, but I’m not sure I know what it means.
Lillian Morgan, age 47,
murdered in her own brownstone on West 61st Street,
five years ago last month.
There’s a statement in there from her daughter, Alice,
and also her son, Peter.
Hmm, carving knife from the kitchen.
Possible robbery.
So the case is still open, no suspects.
How old would Alice have been at that time?
Mmm, 18 years old and her brother was away at school.
Yeah, it’s kind of coming back to me.
The victim had a husband who walked out on her
about three months before she was offed.
That was Wallace Morgan.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, we tried tracing him, vanished into thin air.
Here, missing persons.
Figured he died or left the country.
So anyway the daughter, this neighbor of yours,
she goes a little wingy,
holes up in her apartment for five years,
suffers recurring nightmares of her mother’s murder,
then sees this architect.
Jordan Barnett.
Right, on the TV and her shrink tells you to butt out.
Come on, Jessica, there’s nothing here.
They said this was gonna be more complicated
than driving a patrol car, but I had no idea.
Miss Fletcher.
Detective Grady.
Here’s what I tracked down, lieutenant.
Phone company records show this guy Barnett
closing his account five years ago, last month
and there’s no record of him in New York since.
[knocking on door]
Hello, Alice.
Hello, desk.
I’ll be right there.
Come on, move it, move it.
Mrs. Fletcher, it’s Alice.
Somebody’s trying to bust into her apartment.
[Jordan] Alice, let me in.
Go away, please.
Leave me alone.
Come on, Alice, open up.
Alice, Alice, I’m not here to hurt you.
Alice, damn it, open it up!
Alice!
Go away!
Hey!
Alice, this is Jessica Fletcher.
He’s gone now.
Would you please open the door?
Mrs. Fletcher,
it isn’t just a dream.
That was Jordan Barnett,
the man who killed my mother.
Alice.
Don’t leave me alone, please.
Alice, you’re a big girl now, okay.
I--I’ll stay with you.
No, you won’t, Mr. Phelps.
Alice needs her rest.
I’m gonna have to ask you to leave, both of you.
It’s okay. It’s okay.
Put your head down, come on.
There you go. Lie back.
That’s a girl.
I’ll see you tomorrow, hmm?
Look, I can understand your concern, doctor, but--
[Dr. Holden] I don’t think you do.
That young woman is simply not strong enough
to withstand a barrage of people
and questions that could send her right over the edge.
Dr. Holden, doesn’t it alarm you that the man
that she believes murdered her mother
is now trying to get into her apartment to possibly harm her?
Given your profession, Mrs. Fletcher,
I’m not surprised that like Alice, you have a difficult time
discerning that fine line between fantasy and reality.
Jordan Barnett is not a fantasy nor is the fact
that he happened to have left Manhattan
within hours of Lillian Morgan’s murder.
Life is full of coincidences.
[Jessica] Perhaps.
But as I believe Dr. Freud suggested, "very few accidents."
Touché.
[Laura] Pardon me, what did you say your name was?
I’m sorry, Dr. Holden, but he’s with a client just now.
Would you care to leave a message?
Oh, well, may I tell him what this is regarding?
I’ll give him the message, doctor,
but I happen to know that he is busy tonight.
You’re welcome.
I cannot account for the fantasies
of a young woman who is clearly deranged.
Following my recent television appearance,
the station sent us a list of enquiries and I--
Yeah, about that.
I wasn’t aware that architects
were making house calls to prospective clients.
If you permit me to finish I was about to say
that I thought she might be the same Alice Morgan
that I dated many years ago
and subsequently lost track of.
So instead of phoning her you simply showed up at the door.
I wanted to surprise her.
Well, you certainly seemed to have succeeded.
Look, this whole thing is a total misunderstanding.
It’s not at all what it appears to be.
I was coming to that.
So why did you run?
Let me answer that with a question for both of you.
Now suppose you’re a prominent architect
for whom there is an important high profile commission
hanging on a precarious balance.
The Lower Soho Museum.
Precisely, and you make the mistake
of knocking on the door of a young woman
unaware that she happens to be severely emotionally disturbed
and who turns your innocent visit into a public scene,
a scene which neither you nor your career can afford.
Now my question is this, what would you have done,
if an overprotective doorman
and several irate neighbors converged
upon you, making the same assumptions
that brought the two of you to this office?
He’s got a point, Mrs. Fletcher.
Well, I make no claim that I made
the wisest decision by leaving when I did.
But now if you’ll excuse me, I’m already late
for an important meeting.
Thank you for your time, Mr. Barnett.
I can’t believe you’re pulling this on me again.
It’s just business, Laura.
Yeah, right. Yours and this Dr. Holden’s.
I got that part, Jordan.
What I want to know is should I pack my bags
and head back to California?
Laura, Laura, I promise I’ll explain everything to you.
Now if I can get away early enough, we’ll grab some dinner, huh?
[Peter] I’m actually her stepbrother.
Alice’s father died when she was young as did my mother.
My dad married Lillian Morgan when I was about three.
And your father, Wallace Morgan,
you never heard from him after he vanished?
No.
Peter, do you have any inkling of
why he suddenly left Alice and your stepmother,
what was it, three months before she was murdered?
Wait. Is this why you asked me over here
to get something on my father--
No, no, not at all Peter, no
believe me, I didn’t mean to pry.
I suppose knowing Alice
I was just naturally curious about her background.
Actually what I am trying to determine
is whether Mr. Jordan Barnett was involved with you
or your family at the time that Lillian Morgan was murdered?
Barnett?
Yes, he’s an architect.
Now he disappeared five years ago
just around the time of the murder.
Jordan Barnett, I recognize him.
This is a two-way street, Mrs. Fletcher.
I want quid pro quo.
I’m not sure I understand.
I mean, what do I have that you want?
Well, at the moment access to my stepsister.
I understand you and she have gotten kind of tight
in the past couple of days, much to the annoyance
of that quack who’s been treating her.
Look, Alice and I inherited a couple of individual trusts
which keep us alive and well
and one old brownstone, period.
The one in which, Lillian Morgan was murdered.
Uh-huh, the family mans, such as it was.
Now I have a chance to sell it
for more than that old dump’s worth
but I can’t do it unilaterally.
I need Alice’s consent.
And you want me to intercede.
For whatever reason
Dr. Holden’s turned her against me.
I mean, Alice won’t even take any of my phone calls.
And quite frankly I need the cash.
Look, Peter, I’ll tell her all that you’ve told me
and I won’t advise her one way or the other.
Hey, I can live with that.
I can’t be in a worse place
than I am now, which is nowhere.
So, what can I tell you about Jordan Barnett?
The truth, Peter.
Did you or your family know him?
I think my Dad was considering hiring him
to remodel the brownstone.
You know that little witch who’s working for you.
Hmm?
She goes.
Oh, Ellen, be reasonable.
She spent almost all the time with me
when I was out in the West coast.
I don’t care, Jordan.
That’s how long I went without you.
No. Ellen, come on.
Mm-mmm.
-She’s history as of tomorrow. -Oh, come on.
-As of tomorrow. -Come on.
Or would you rather that I had Alice start to believe
all of that stuff her subconscious
is just trying so hard to tell her, huh?
Ah.
Hey, taxi.
Hey! Hey!
Ah, New York.
Where is a cab when you need one?
[footsteps approaching]
The deceased was a white male, approximately 45.
All of his jewelry and wallet
were taken suggesting a robbery motive.
I personally knew him as a Jordan Barnett, an architect.
Freddie, a minute. You got anything?
Uh, nothing that you couldn’t find for yourself.
The cause of death, a single knife wound inflicted
by a broad bladed instrument of some kind.
The wound aperture shows
bruising suggesting a very powerful thrust.
You going anywhere for breakfast, Artie?
No. Thanks anyway, Freddie.
Grady, what is this?
Pick it up.
My back, mm.
Bag it.
Have forensics chase down any prints.
All right, lieutenant. Uh, listen, should I take this--
Grady, just do it, all right?
[Ben] Look, I may have lost the stub but I was there.
I can describe the movie, it was a revival of Casablanca.
[Artie] Casablanca.
Who can’t describe Casablanca?
I don’t even like it and I know it by heart.
That’s the best I can do.
Yeah. Well, there is a lady and a parking valet
who will testify to an incident outside
of Barnett’s office last Thursday at 5 p.m.
All right, look.
Look, five years ago, we were partners.
We had a worthwhile thing going, you know.
We had a five-story for the city,
a couple of big commissions pending.
Then he walked out.
Just like that.
And your career?
[Ben] I had a little regrouping to do is all.
But I didn’t kill him, lieutenant.
I had no reason to.
That isn't what I heard, Mr. Cutler.
According to our information your career
went in the dumper on the day Jordan Barnett left town.
Okay, we know Barnett snuck into your building
to find out what Alice remembered
about when he killed her mother.
Now, if she’d only give us a statement
that corresponds with what she told you.
You mean about her dream of seeing Jordan Barnett
standing over her mother’s body?
Yeah.
Then I figure we can close the file
on the Lillian Morgan homicide.
And it takes your friend, Alice, out of danger.
Perhaps.
-What perhaps, Jessica? -Well, several things.
First, you said you didn’t know what Jordan Barnett
was doing over on East 67th Street?
Well, it happens that the spot where you found his body
is just around the corner
from the office of Alice’s psychiatrist, Dr. Ellen Holden.
That’s good. Next.
Well, the similarity between the way
in which both Mrs. Morgan and Mr. Barnett were killed.
I mean, you indicated that it could
have been done by the same person.
Yeah, yeah, not necessarily so.
Right over here, Jessica.
Thanks.
Artie, suppose Jordan Barnett didn’t kill Lillian Morgan,
but was the one who found her body.
Now it’s conceivable that he was killed
because he was getting too close to the truth.
Okay, that tracks, sort of.
What are you saying?
Well, what I’m suggesting is that Alice
may have seen something that incriminates someone else.
And if the killer realizes it...
Alice.
[pounding on door]
I don’t want to talk to you right now.
Damn it, Alice, open the door.
Look, Mrs. Fletcher told me
what you want and I can’t, not just yet.
Oh, for God’s sake, give me a break.
You’re never gonna set foot in that old rat trap again.
Barnett’s gone, Alice.
There’s nothing to be frightened of anymore.
Alice, it’s time you and I
went back to the way we were, brother and sister.
We were never anything like that, Peter.
You know we weren’t.
Please, leave me alone.
Alice, it’s Henry.
Peter’s gone.
You okay?
I know what the problem is, Alice.
Richie told me all about it, very protectively.
I mean, Richie would throw himself
in front of a truck for you.
Did you ever get a chance to listen
to the record I found for you, the Chopin?
No.
Maybe you’d like to listen to it with me.
I don’t know if you realize
but I’ve been your neighbor for as long as you’ve lived here.
No, I didn’t know that.
And I saw the same TV show you saw,
the one Barnett was on.
I recognized him when he tried to break into your apartment.
I’m almost glad he’s dead,
not that anyone should rejoice in somebody else’s misfortune,
but with only the thickness of a wall between us,
well, it’s almost like we’re family
and, I watch out for you.
Family.
That’s a very nice way to put it, Henry.
Actually I’m kind of glad we’re not related.
I mean, I’d like to be your friend.
I think you already are.
Well, can’t keep the boss waiting for too long.
Thank you for coming by.
You never have to be alone, Alice,
you know that, don’t you?
Holy Magoli, when?
Grady!
What is it, lieutenant?
That was my son-in-law.
Estelle and my wife left for the hospital 15 minutes ago. They think it’s time.
Well, listen--
The case is yours, Grady, don’t screw it up.
My father, Mrs. Fletcher.
Peter.
Doesn’t do him justice really.
May I ask what you’re doing here?
Well, I was curious to see the place
that had given Alice so many sad memories.
She let me have the key.
Why did you cover it?
Ah, I loved him too much to be reminded of him the whole time.
He was kind of a hero to me.
Do you know where your father is now, Peter,
or why he left several months before Lillian was murdered?
No to both questions.
He simply ran away from it all,
from Lillian and her money, from me.
Alice told me that you were away at school
when your stepmother was murdered.
Right, slogging away at those winter finals.
Well, thank you for sharing this with me, Peter.
Hey, listen, I appreciate you going to bat for me with Alice.
I’m sorry it wasn’t more effective.
You held up your end of the bargain.
Hmm.
Richie, what’s all the commotion about?
It looks like half the Police Department is parked outside.
I couldn’t stop them, Mrs. Fletcher.
I phoned Dr. Holden because I didn’t know what to do.
What are you talking about?
The police have come for Alice.
[Alice gasping repeatedly]
Oh, good heavens.
[Artie] The condition is agoraphobia, Grady.
Remember it the next time you try strong arming
some young lady who is suffering
obviously from a severe emotional trauma.
What did I know, lieutenant?
By the time I got her to open the door,
she was like hysterical and started hitting me.
And then this guy--
There seems to have been a very unfortunate breakdown
in communications, lieutenant.
Yeah, guilty as charged. I haven’t exactly been on my game.
Anyway, I gave that piece of jewelry
to forensics like you told me to
and they came back with a match on miss Morgan’s prints
from her school ID card from six years ago.
Has she got any idea
how her locket ended up at the murder site?
Who got a chance to ask?
Listen, I'm really sorry, lieutenant.
It’s all right, Grady.
Go down to the station and make out the report
and release Mr. Phelps.
I have to tell you, Jessica,
psychosis or no psychosis,
I’m still not convinced
that Alice Morgan didn’t kill Barnett.
Well, at this point
I’ve got nothing more than my instinct to go on
but, Artie, it seems just as plausible to me
that somebody else planted that locket.
Yeah, someone close to her,
someone who had access to her apartment or to her.
Let’s see, we’ve got the doorman,
her stepbrother,
Dr. Holden.
I think maybe I’d better get back to my apartment.
I’ve got some work to do before I turn in.
You’d be around, won’t you, Mr. Phelps?
Of course, lieutenant.
I have to keep an eye on Alice, don’t I?
She’s calm now, lieutenant,
no thanks to your Neanderthal associates.
If you must talk to her I urge you to keep it to a minimum.
You’re gonna have to do so in the morning.
Dr. Holden, I'd like to ask you a question.
Did Jordan Barnett visit your office last night?
Why would he?
I’ve never met the man.
-Excuse me. -Really?
Well, Mr. Barnett’s phone records
indicate a call from your number
around three hours before he was killed.
Well, I tried to talk to him, lieutenant,
because he had frightened my patient.
And because he’d been playing such a large part in her nightmares
and I wanted to find out whether there was any truth to her dreams.
Unfortunately, the young woman
who answered the phone wouldn’t put him on the line.
Now, I suggest we give Alice
some much needed peace and quiet.
[knocking on door]
Who is it?
It’s me, Mrs. Fletcher, Alice Morgan.
Alice?
I’m sorry to bother you so late.
May I come in?
Oh, of course, of course.
Oh, Alice, you’re looking so much better.
I’m so sorry about what happened.
Detective Grady just had no idea.
Sit down.
It was okay.
No, I take it back. It was horrible.
But, you know, I actually found out something about myself.
That what you fear had very little basis in reality?
Something like that.
I started thinking about what actually did happen
and I remember I was out of the apartment
and in the elevator with those police
all the way to the ground floor,
the door opened and there was the lobby
and Richie at his desk.
It had been so long I’d forgotten what it looked like.
I was terrified all right, but nothing happened.
I mean, I was alive and in one piece
and whatever I thought would happen was all in my head.
Not nearly as bad as what
Dr. Holden had led you to believe.
That’s right.
Mrs. Fletcher, if I could do that again
with nobody forcing me,
only this time try to go to the brownstone.
To separate the nightmare from the reality.
Yes.
Would you help me?
Alice, I'd be proud to.
Hello, Richie.
Alice, hi.
You need any help, Mrs. Fletcher?
Thanks, but I think not, Richie.
Don’t you worry about us.
We’re taking it one step at a time.
[Richie] All right.
Makes you feel pretty good, huh, Mr. Phelps?
Okay so far?
Yes.
Thanks.
I never thought I’d ever be back inside this whole thing.
It used to seem warmer, friendlier.
It began up there, in my bedroom.
I’d come home from school that night.
I was tired and went right to bed.
About two in the morning voices downstairs woke me.
Angry voices, an argument of some kind, my mother’s--
But I couldn’t recognize the other.
A man and a woman were fighting terribly.
[woman screaming]
Then there was a scream.
I went downstairs.
There was my mother’s body lying there,
a hunting knife next to it and...
and there was that man, Barnett, standing over her.
He looked up and he saw me.
He turned and he ran.
What about the hawk?
The front door
as he runs out, it attacks me.
[hawk screeching]
[screaming]
Alice, listen to me, listen to me.
Despite what you think you heard, I don’t believe
that Jordan Barnett wounded your mother.
Then who did?
I think--
[creaking]
we’ll talk it over later.
Right now it’s time to leave.
The quicker the better.
Mrs. Fletcher.
Hello, Alice.
Peter.
I know. I know.
It seems odd inviting myself in like this.
I borrowed the key from Dr. Holden.
You’ve been here.
Of course.
Once I heard that Jordan Barnett was in town
I had to lift that locket of yours.
To blame me for Jordan Barnett’s murder.
Why not?
You haven’t got a clue, do you?
Five years ago what was really going on?
My father loved your mother very much.
God only knows why,
because all it took was
that simpering phony Barnett to take her from him.
Do you have--
Do you have any idea what that did to my dad?
Suddenly everything was lost for him,
his self respect, everything.
He had to bail out, run away.
Do you blame him?
The thing was, I lost the only person
that I ever really wanted to be with.
The only person I ever loved.
You and Mrs. Fletcher left the brownstone in a hurry.
It would have been a lot easier to finish our business there.
Did she fill in all the gaps for you?
Not quite all, Peter.
Don’t move, Morgan.
Drop it.
You okay, Alice?
Just fine, Detective Grady.
Alice’s memory of the murder
was more accurate than she gave herself credit for.
She thought it was her nightmare,
but you must have been watching
as Jordan Barnett came in that night
and found Lillian on the floor just after you’d murdered her.
The police report indicated
that the weapon was a carving knife
but what Alice remembers seeing was a hunting knife.
It was your father’s Boye knife,
the knife that was your symbol of retribution in two murders,
the one that you are holding just now.
This is your fantasy, Mrs. Fletcher.
It was a kitchen knife that killed my stepmother.
I don’t think so, Peter.
You hid and waited.
Lillian.
[Jessica] It was certainly a curious twist of fate
that brought Jordan Barnett to the brownstone that night,
the very night you chose to kill your stepmother.
You saw Barnett come in to find his lover dead on the floor.
You saw Alice become hysterical.
Then when it was safe you substituted
that Boye knife with a knife from the kitchen
which became the weapon of record.
This is all totally ridiculous.
When Alice’s mother was killed I was miles away at school.
[Jessica] Wellington college, wasn’t it?
I noticed the jacket that you were wearing
in the photograph of you and your father.
I called the school tonight.
Peter, your finals that year
ended the day before Lillian was killed.
I always dreamed of an attacking hawk.
Mrs. Fletcher showed me how I had it mixed up
with the emblem on your helmet,
the one you left on the hall table.
I never saw you in the brownstone that night,
only your helmet,
but subconsciously I must have known that you were there,
that you killed my mother
but I could never let myself believe it.
When I heard Barnett was back in New York,
I was afraid he might talk to you and you’d remember.
Alice,
when my dad and your mom got together,
married...
Alice, I’ve always wanted a sister.
I wanted a brother too, Peter.
I think I finally got the mobile working
but at 11 pounds four ounces he may be too mature for it.
I mean, you should see him, Mrs. Fletcher.
He’s practically ready to walk and talk.
Oh, Artie, he’s beautiful.
Oh, I didn’t tell you.
Dr. Holden’s license has been pulled
and all of a sudden other clients of hers
are coming out of the woodwork to file formal complaints.
[knocking on door] Oh, thank heavens.
So it’s a fair guess that she won’t be manipulating
other patients the way she did Alice.
Ready, Mrs. Fletcher?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, hi, lieutenant.
Ready? Ready for what?
Alice and Henry are taking me to the Philharmonic.
To-- wait a minute.
What about all those people?
What do you think, Henry?
Will Mrs. Fletcher be able to stand it?