1 00:00:00,126 --> 00:00:03,129 I would do anything to help my son. 2 00:00:03,212 --> 00:00:04,797 Can't Steve's father help? 3 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:08,092 Your husband and I were more than just friends. 4 00:00:08,175 --> 00:00:10,594 Steven is Frank's son. 5 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:14,223 [Jessica] Next on Murder, She Wrote. 6 00:00:14,807 --> 00:00:15,891 You're a terrific lady. 7 00:00:15,975 --> 00:00:17,226 Jessica, 8 00:00:17,309 --> 00:00:20,980 there's absolutely no indication that it was Frank's child. 9 00:00:21,063 --> 00:00:23,816 Did Frank have an affair with Nancy Landon in Korea? 10 00:00:23,899 --> 00:00:25,901 Some guys found comfort wherever they could find it. 11 00:00:25,985 --> 00:00:27,278 Is Steve Frank's son? 12 00:00:27,361 --> 00:00:28,612 Do you want to know the truth? 13 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,078 [cheerful orchestral music] 14 00:01:31,467 --> 00:01:33,511 Right over, Harry. I'll be right there. 15 00:01:42,978 --> 00:01:44,605 We've got 500 yards of concrete 16 00:01:44,688 --> 00:01:46,148 going in the hole this morning, 17 00:01:46,232 --> 00:01:48,234 and the next driver that stops for coffee 18 00:01:48,317 --> 00:01:51,487 is gonna eat his load with cream and sugar! 19 00:01:55,783 --> 00:01:57,076 Stop the pour! 20 00:01:57,159 --> 00:01:58,160 Are you crazy? 21 00:01:58,244 --> 00:01:59,161 Somebody must be. 22 00:01:59,245 --> 00:02:00,579 Shut it down! 23 00:02:00,663 --> 00:02:02,164 Hey, I take my orders from Mr. Olston. 24 00:02:02,248 --> 00:02:05,251 You got a problem, you talk to him. 25 00:02:06,961 --> 00:02:11,090 Murray, we're talking 400 tons of steel. 26 00:02:11,173 --> 00:02:12,675 Now, you either match Quiglino's price, 27 00:02:12,758 --> 00:02:13,676 or I'm canceling my order. 28 00:02:13,759 --> 00:02:14,969 It's that simple. 29 00:02:15,261 --> 00:02:16,637 Now, you get back to me in an hour, 30 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,222 or you can ship it all back to Korea. 31 00:02:21,350 --> 00:02:22,893 You got to stop them out there, Mr. Olston. 32 00:02:22,977 --> 00:02:25,855 What are you, an architect or a comedian? 33 00:02:25,938 --> 00:02:27,481 What the hell are you doing, huh? 34 00:02:27,565 --> 00:02:29,191 The footings are 2 feet under the specifications, 35 00:02:29,275 --> 00:02:30,526 and in the northeast corner, 36 00:02:30,609 --> 00:02:32,903 there are supposed to be pilings. 37 00:02:32,987 --> 00:02:36,240 The rebar is only half the size that my drawings called for. 38 00:02:36,323 --> 00:02:38,117 We had to rework your specs, Steve. 39 00:02:38,409 --> 00:02:40,160 What? You can't do that. 40 00:02:40,411 --> 00:02:42,496 I had an independent engineer go over your drawings. 41 00:02:42,580 --> 00:02:43,581 Your plans are over-specced. 42 00:02:43,664 --> 00:02:45,666 Like hell they are! 43 00:02:45,749 --> 00:02:47,376 This is a school. 44 00:02:47,459 --> 00:02:50,546 What you're building out there is not only shoddy; 45 00:02:50,629 --> 00:02:51,964 it's unsafe. 46 00:02:52,047 --> 00:02:53,048 Look, Steve. I-- 47 00:02:53,132 --> 00:02:54,425 I can see you're upset. 48 00:02:54,508 --> 00:02:56,302 I'll tell you what we're gonna do. 49 00:02:56,385 --> 00:02:58,387 I'll give you the new specs, and you rework your drawings. 50 00:02:58,470 --> 00:03:00,723 We'll pay you for it. 51 00:03:00,806 --> 00:03:02,433 Now, what do you say to 10 grand cash? 52 00:03:03,058 --> 00:03:05,144 What you're trying to buy is not for sale, Olston. 53 00:03:05,227 --> 00:03:06,729 Now, look, Landon, you watch your mouth. 54 00:03:06,812 --> 00:03:08,272 No, you look. 55 00:03:08,355 --> 00:03:09,899 I'm gonna take this to councilman Axelrod. 56 00:03:09,982 --> 00:03:11,233 And if he's not interested, 57 00:03:11,317 --> 00:03:12,359 then I'm gonna go to the newspapers. 58 00:03:12,443 --> 00:03:13,485 I'm gonna shut you down. 59 00:03:16,322 --> 00:03:19,283 Looks like this guy's gonna be a problem, Mr. Olston. 60 00:03:19,366 --> 00:03:22,077 No telling what a nut like that might do. 61 00:03:23,203 --> 00:03:24,997 Well, we better deal with it. 62 00:03:26,165 --> 00:03:29,293 Now, are you saying that you have no idea 63 00:03:29,376 --> 00:03:31,045 who committed the murder, Mrs. Fletcher? 64 00:03:31,128 --> 00:03:33,297 No, I'm afraid I don't. 65 00:03:33,380 --> 00:03:35,841 Oh, but surely you must have some notion. 66 00:03:36,342 --> 00:03:39,511 Well, to be perfectly honest, I don't have a clue. 67 00:03:40,137 --> 00:03:42,681 As I tried to explain before the break, 68 00:03:42,765 --> 00:03:44,391 when I start a book, 69 00:03:44,475 --> 00:03:46,560 sometimes I spend weeks shaping the characters, 70 00:03:46,644 --> 00:03:48,103 finding an arena, 71 00:03:48,187 --> 00:03:50,189 working on the details of the murder, 72 00:03:50,522 --> 00:03:52,942 before I even consider which one of my characters 73 00:03:53,025 --> 00:03:55,736 actually committed the murder. 74 00:03:56,362 --> 00:04:00,115 Yes, but it's all formula stuff, isn't it? 75 00:04:00,616 --> 00:04:02,451 Well, yes, yes. 76 00:04:02,534 --> 00:04:05,204 I'll bet he's never even read one of your books, Jessica. 77 00:04:05,287 --> 00:04:06,830 I suppose there is an element of formula 78 00:04:06,914 --> 00:04:07,873 in all mysteries, but... 79 00:04:07,957 --> 00:04:08,999 hi. 80 00:04:09,083 --> 00:04:10,084 I try to present the story-- 81 00:04:10,167 --> 00:04:11,377 Look who's on television. 82 00:04:11,460 --> 00:04:12,878 Jessica Fletcher. 83 00:04:12,962 --> 00:04:15,422 She's in town promoting her new book. 84 00:04:15,506 --> 00:04:18,467 We'll be back with J.B. Fletcher after these messages. 85 00:04:20,052 --> 00:04:22,179 Steven, is anything wrong? 86 00:04:23,347 --> 00:04:24,640 It's Ben Olston. 87 00:04:24,723 --> 00:04:27,518 He's using my school to rip off the taxpayers. 88 00:04:27,810 --> 00:04:29,019 Oh. 89 00:04:29,103 --> 00:04:30,229 What are you going to do? 90 00:04:30,312 --> 00:04:31,772 I don't know. 91 00:04:31,855 --> 00:04:34,024 I-i got to get some things down on paper. 92 00:04:38,612 --> 00:04:40,280 We do not send the same release 93 00:04:40,364 --> 00:04:42,241 that goes to the general media to the minority press. 94 00:04:42,324 --> 00:04:44,326 We screen it first for spin. 95 00:04:44,785 --> 00:04:47,496 Next time, check with me first, Larry. 96 00:04:50,624 --> 00:04:52,584 Councilman Axelrod's office. Dawn Bickford speaking. 97 00:04:52,668 --> 00:04:55,212 -Can you talk? -Hmm. 98 00:04:55,295 --> 00:04:58,382 Well, for you, I'll clear my agenda anytime. 99 00:04:58,465 --> 00:04:59,675 Listen, we might have a problem. 100 00:04:59,758 --> 00:05:01,260 Ah. Building Department? 101 00:05:01,343 --> 00:05:02,803 Planning Department? 102 00:05:03,637 --> 00:05:05,556 Or is it your wife? 103 00:05:05,639 --> 00:05:07,516 Local government is here to serve you. 104 00:05:08,017 --> 00:05:10,102 Architectural Department. 105 00:05:10,185 --> 00:05:11,603 Look, Steve Landon showed up today. 106 00:05:11,687 --> 00:05:13,772 He was supposed to be out of town. 107 00:05:14,565 --> 00:05:16,233 Anyway, he spotted the cuts we made 108 00:05:16,316 --> 00:05:17,317 on the school foundations. 109 00:05:17,693 --> 00:05:19,987 Didn't you get those new specs I cleared for you? 110 00:05:20,070 --> 00:05:21,989 Axelrod didn't even see them go by. 111 00:05:22,072 --> 00:05:23,157 Well, that's the problem, darling. 112 00:05:23,699 --> 00:05:26,035 Landon's threatening to take them to Axelrod, 113 00:05:26,118 --> 00:05:27,286 maybe even the newspapers. 114 00:05:27,703 --> 00:05:29,371 This could be awkward if we get tagged on this. 115 00:05:29,455 --> 00:05:30,372 Yeah, you bet it could. 116 00:05:30,456 --> 00:05:31,957 What you're saving 117 00:05:32,041 --> 00:05:33,625 isn't worth jeopardizing all the other projects 118 00:05:33,709 --> 00:05:35,002 you're bidding on... 119 00:05:35,586 --> 00:05:37,546 not to mention my little tushie. 120 00:05:38,881 --> 00:05:41,258 Well, that, my darling, is definitely worth saving. 121 00:05:41,341 --> 00:05:43,135 Well, I'm glad you think so. 122 00:05:43,218 --> 00:05:45,387 But if Landon raises a stink about this, 123 00:05:45,471 --> 00:05:47,931 people could start looking into your other projects. 124 00:05:48,140 --> 00:05:49,933 Well, there is a solution, 125 00:05:50,017 --> 00:05:51,727 a radical solution. 126 00:05:51,810 --> 00:05:52,936 How radical? 127 00:05:55,105 --> 00:05:56,732 I'll, uh... I'll get back to you on that, Councilman. 128 00:05:57,316 --> 00:05:58,233 Is someone there? 129 00:05:58,650 --> 00:06:00,152 That's right, Councilman. My wife. 130 00:06:00,235 --> 00:06:01,403 I think she's taking me to lunch. 131 00:06:01,487 --> 00:06:02,696 Oh. 132 00:06:02,780 --> 00:06:04,448 Terrific. 133 00:06:04,531 --> 00:06:06,617 And when did you plan on telling her about us? 134 00:06:07,534 --> 00:06:08,911 Soon. 135 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:13,332 Uh, listen, I'll phone you about those plans later, Sir. 136 00:06:14,083 --> 00:06:15,375 Lunch? 137 00:06:15,459 --> 00:06:17,211 Really, darling, have you forgotten already? 138 00:06:17,294 --> 00:06:20,297 I'm leaving to spend a couple days with mother. 139 00:06:21,256 --> 00:06:22,424 Well, of course, Cynthia. 140 00:06:22,508 --> 00:06:24,009 You mentioned that last night. 141 00:06:24,093 --> 00:06:25,928 You said she wasn't feeling well. 142 00:06:26,011 --> 00:06:27,262 What is it this time? 143 00:06:27,346 --> 00:06:30,015 Her... the headaches or the arthritis? 144 00:06:30,265 --> 00:06:31,767 Her asthma. 145 00:06:31,850 --> 00:06:33,602 Of course, you got home so late last night, 146 00:06:33,685 --> 00:06:34,937 I'm not surprised you don't remember. 147 00:06:35,020 --> 00:06:36,522 Well, honey, I told you. 148 00:06:36,605 --> 00:06:37,523 I've been working late on the annual report. 149 00:06:37,606 --> 00:06:39,358 I know. 150 00:06:39,441 --> 00:06:41,693 And you've come so far from that bricklaying contractor 151 00:06:41,777 --> 00:06:43,862 I married 15 years ago. 152 00:06:43,946 --> 00:06:45,489 Of course, it's not without some help, 153 00:06:45,572 --> 00:06:47,241 like all the money I put in the firm. 154 00:06:47,324 --> 00:06:48,826 And I'll never forget it, Cynthia. 155 00:06:48,909 --> 00:06:50,953 I mean, how can I when you keep reminding me? 156 00:06:51,036 --> 00:06:52,287 Well, in case you're interested, 157 00:06:52,371 --> 00:06:53,831 I'll be back in three days. 158 00:06:53,914 --> 00:06:55,999 I'll call. 159 00:06:56,083 --> 00:06:57,167 Drive safely. 160 00:06:57,251 --> 00:06:58,669 And hello to mother. 161 00:07:21,984 --> 00:07:22,985 Clink! 162 00:07:25,529 --> 00:07:26,822 You know, to be honest, Seth, 163 00:07:26,905 --> 00:07:28,365 doing the talk shows and the promotion 164 00:07:28,448 --> 00:07:30,200 is more work than actually writing the books. 165 00:07:30,284 --> 00:07:31,660 [rumbling] 166 00:07:31,743 --> 00:07:33,745 No, it isn't raining. 167 00:07:33,829 --> 00:07:37,332 Oh, yeah, did you hear it too? 168 00:07:37,416 --> 00:07:40,794 Well, no, there's nothing wrong with your hearing, Seth. 169 00:07:40,878 --> 00:07:42,212 No, it wasn't thunder, 170 00:07:42,296 --> 00:07:44,798 but it might have been a sonic boom. 171 00:07:44,882 --> 00:07:47,885 Yeah, I've got another two days here, then on to Atlanta, 172 00:07:47,968 --> 00:07:50,971 unless I can think of some graceful way to get out of it. 173 00:07:51,054 --> 00:07:53,849 [chuckles] Right. 174 00:07:53,932 --> 00:07:56,268 Well, I'll check with you as soon as I get back. 175 00:07:56,351 --> 00:07:59,188 Bye. 176 00:07:59,271 --> 00:08:00,189 [sighs] 177 00:08:00,272 --> 00:08:01,732 Ooh. 178 00:08:06,153 --> 00:08:08,989 [phone ringing] 179 00:08:09,072 --> 00:08:10,199 Hello. 180 00:08:10,282 --> 00:08:11,950 Oh, hello, Mrs. Fletcher. 181 00:08:12,034 --> 00:08:14,870 Uh, my name is Nancy Landon, 182 00:08:14,953 --> 00:08:16,663 and we've never met, 183 00:08:16,747 --> 00:08:20,000 but I have followed your career for years, and, well, 184 00:08:20,083 --> 00:08:22,085 I know you hear this from lots of people, 185 00:08:22,169 --> 00:08:24,546 but I feel as if I know you. 186 00:08:24,630 --> 00:08:26,590 Yes, Mrs. Landon. What can I do for you? 187 00:08:26,673 --> 00:08:28,217 Well, uh... 188 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:33,305 I wondered if we could, uh, talk personally? 189 00:08:33,388 --> 00:08:36,642 Well, uh, my time is pretty much committed. 190 00:08:36,725 --> 00:08:39,269 Oh, it's very important. 191 00:08:39,353 --> 00:08:42,606 Yes, but you see, I have a number of appointments. 192 00:08:42,689 --> 00:08:47,444 Well, this is a personal matter. 193 00:08:47,527 --> 00:08:49,196 Maybe I should have mentioned sooner, 194 00:08:49,279 --> 00:08:52,407 uh, I was stationed in Korea in '51. 195 00:08:52,491 --> 00:08:57,079 I was an army nurse, and I knew your husband. 196 00:08:57,162 --> 00:08:58,747 You were a friend of Frank's? 197 00:08:58,830 --> 00:08:59,790 Yes. 198 00:08:59,873 --> 00:09:01,708 I know he's dead now, 199 00:09:01,792 --> 00:09:04,253 but he was such a wonderful man, 200 00:09:04,336 --> 00:09:07,422 and he spoke of you often. 201 00:09:07,506 --> 00:09:11,218 Please, if I could just see you for a little while. 202 00:09:11,301 --> 00:09:12,678 [inhales] 203 00:09:12,761 --> 00:09:14,054 Well, Mrs. Landon, 204 00:09:14,137 --> 00:09:16,014 I seem to have a lunch open. 205 00:09:16,098 --> 00:09:18,892 Could you meet me here at the hotel around 1:00? 206 00:09:18,976 --> 00:09:21,687 Oh, thank you. Yes, I'll be there. 207 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,569 Yes, Mr. Mayor, obviously it was some kind of terrorist. 208 00:09:30,028 --> 00:09:32,531 I... thank God nobody was hurt. 209 00:09:32,906 --> 00:09:34,408 As soon as we find out anything, 210 00:09:34,491 --> 00:09:36,159 Sir, I'll let you know. 211 00:09:36,243 --> 00:09:38,328 Thank you. Yes, right. 212 00:09:38,412 --> 00:09:40,163 I've spoken to my sources down at the precinct, Sir. 213 00:09:40,247 --> 00:09:41,623 There's been an arrest. 214 00:09:41,707 --> 00:09:42,749 Well, that's fast work. Who did it? 215 00:09:42,833 --> 00:09:44,084 The architect. 216 00:09:44,167 --> 00:09:45,961 His name is Steve Landon. 217 00:09:46,044 --> 00:09:47,921 Apparently he made a threat to blow up the entire project 218 00:09:48,005 --> 00:09:51,216 in front of Mr. Olston and an employee. 219 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:52,259 He was also seen in the vicinity 220 00:09:52,342 --> 00:09:53,343 just before the explosion. 221 00:09:53,427 --> 00:09:55,387 The architect? 222 00:09:55,470 --> 00:09:57,806 Why the hell would an architect blow up a school building? 223 00:09:57,889 --> 00:10:00,517 Apparently he has a history of mental instability, Sir. 224 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,894 He was under a psychiatrist's care. 225 00:10:02,978 --> 00:10:04,604 I've taken the liberty 226 00:10:04,688 --> 00:10:06,690 of preparing a statement for the press, Sir. 227 00:10:06,773 --> 00:10:08,233 Ah. 228 00:10:08,317 --> 00:10:10,485 -Care to look it over? -Yeah, thank you. 229 00:10:13,697 --> 00:10:16,658 I imagine being a nurse in wartime wasn't easy. 230 00:10:16,742 --> 00:10:18,410 You must have been very young. 231 00:10:18,493 --> 00:10:20,912 In Korea we grew up very fast, Mrs. Fletcher. 232 00:10:22,831 --> 00:10:25,834 Frank never talked much about the ugly side of the war 233 00:10:25,917 --> 00:10:27,419 after he came back. 234 00:10:27,502 --> 00:10:29,546 Even his letters were usually quite cheery. 235 00:10:30,005 --> 00:10:31,548 But knowing him, 236 00:10:31,631 --> 00:10:33,008 I could read between the lines, 237 00:10:33,091 --> 00:10:36,178 and I sensed what he was going through. 238 00:10:36,678 --> 00:10:38,597 Frank had a kind of an inner strength. 239 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:40,349 Mmm. 240 00:10:41,016 --> 00:10:43,602 Everyone came to him with their problems. 241 00:10:43,685 --> 00:10:45,354 [chuckles] Yes. 242 00:10:45,437 --> 00:10:47,439 You must have known Clint Phelps and Lee Goddard. 243 00:10:47,522 --> 00:10:48,857 They were in the crew with Frank. 244 00:10:48,940 --> 00:10:50,567 Oh, yes, of course. 245 00:10:51,693 --> 00:10:53,278 Mrs. Fletcher, 246 00:10:53,362 --> 00:10:54,821 did you read the paper this morning, 247 00:10:54,905 --> 00:10:56,406 about the explosion at the construction site? 248 00:10:56,490 --> 00:10:57,949 Oh, yes. 249 00:10:58,033 --> 00:10:59,242 I think I even heard it go off last night. 250 00:10:59,326 --> 00:11:01,328 That was a terrible thing. 251 00:11:01,703 --> 00:11:03,330 They've arrested my son, Steven. 252 00:11:03,413 --> 00:11:04,790 They're accusing him of doing it. 253 00:11:04,873 --> 00:11:06,291 -What? -Well, he didn't, of course. 254 00:11:06,375 --> 00:11:07,834 He was home with me at the time it happened. 255 00:11:07,918 --> 00:11:09,336 Well, if he was at home with you, then... 256 00:11:09,419 --> 00:11:11,755 oh, they don't believe me. 257 00:11:11,838 --> 00:11:13,382 You see, Steven was the architect 258 00:11:13,465 --> 00:11:16,093 on the school project. 259 00:11:16,176 --> 00:11:17,886 It was his first big commission. 260 00:11:17,969 --> 00:11:19,971 He has a brilliant future ahead of him. 261 00:11:20,514 --> 00:11:22,808 But then he discovered that they were using 262 00:11:22,891 --> 00:11:25,894 inferior materials and cutting corners. 263 00:11:25,977 --> 00:11:28,563 And now they're trying to cover up what they did 264 00:11:28,647 --> 00:11:31,024 by blaming him for the explosion. 265 00:11:31,817 --> 00:11:33,944 That's why I need your help, Mrs. Fletcher. 266 00:11:35,070 --> 00:11:36,530 Well, I can certainly see your predicament, 267 00:11:36,613 --> 00:11:39,241 but, uh, how could I help? 268 00:11:39,324 --> 00:11:42,369 Well, we don't have any money. 269 00:11:43,161 --> 00:11:45,622 Everything I had went towards Steven's education, 270 00:11:45,705 --> 00:11:47,332 and his wife died last year, 271 00:11:47,416 --> 00:11:49,751 so he's still paying off the medical bills. 272 00:11:49,835 --> 00:11:51,378 Oh, I'm so sorry. 273 00:11:52,129 --> 00:11:54,089 We're up against some very powerful people. 274 00:11:54,172 --> 00:11:57,968 I mean, they've been stealing millions. 275 00:11:58,051 --> 00:12:00,137 [sighs] 276 00:12:00,220 --> 00:12:01,388 He needs a lawyer. 277 00:12:01,471 --> 00:12:02,305 That'll cost money. 278 00:12:03,557 --> 00:12:06,101 But what he needs more than anything else 279 00:12:06,184 --> 00:12:09,229 is somebody with influence who'll go to bat for him, 280 00:12:09,312 --> 00:12:10,897 someone like you, Mrs. Fletcher, 281 00:12:10,981 --> 00:12:13,400 who can keep him from being railroaded. 282 00:12:13,483 --> 00:12:15,819 Mrs. Landon, my heart goes out to you, 283 00:12:15,902 --> 00:12:17,487 but I don't know anything about this. 284 00:12:17,571 --> 00:12:20,115 I don't even know your son. 285 00:12:20,198 --> 00:12:26,037 I would do anything to help my son, Mrs. Fletcher. 286 00:12:26,121 --> 00:12:27,497 Of course. 287 00:12:27,581 --> 00:12:29,166 Any mother would. 288 00:12:29,749 --> 00:12:30,959 Or father. 289 00:12:31,042 --> 00:12:33,170 Can't Steve's father help? 290 00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:34,171 He's dead. 291 00:12:34,254 --> 00:12:37,132 I'm sorry. 292 00:12:37,215 --> 00:12:38,967 I was hoping you would help 293 00:12:39,050 --> 00:12:41,720 once you knew the circumstances. 294 00:12:41,803 --> 00:12:43,513 You see... 295 00:12:43,597 --> 00:12:45,223 [sighs] 296 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,894 I haven't told this to a single human being 297 00:12:48,977 --> 00:12:51,229 in all these years, 298 00:12:51,313 --> 00:12:54,691 and I will deny it to Steven himself. 299 00:12:56,067 --> 00:12:57,944 When we were in Korea, 300 00:12:58,820 --> 00:13:02,199 your husband and I were more than just friends. 301 00:13:03,909 --> 00:13:07,120 Steven is Frank's son. 302 00:13:14,711 --> 00:13:16,129 As a lawyer, Jessica, 303 00:13:16,213 --> 00:13:17,923 my advice is don't take it too seriously. 304 00:13:18,006 --> 00:13:21,676 This sort of thing happens all the time to celebrities. 305 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,971 Well, it never happened to me before. 306 00:13:25,055 --> 00:13:27,098 They're strange people. 307 00:13:27,641 --> 00:13:30,018 Most of them are your garden variety nuts, 308 00:13:30,101 --> 00:13:32,646 people who come forward and make wild claims. 309 00:13:32,729 --> 00:13:35,398 Well, whatever she is, 310 00:13:35,482 --> 00:13:38,026 Nancy Landon doesn't strike me as a nut. 311 00:13:38,109 --> 00:13:41,863 Frankly, it sounds to me more like a shakedown. 312 00:13:42,989 --> 00:13:46,243 In any case, you can go on back to Cabot Cove 313 00:13:46,326 --> 00:13:48,745 and let me deal with it. 314 00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:51,206 Of course I don't believe her story for a minute. 315 00:13:51,289 --> 00:13:53,792 If anything like that had happened in Korea, 316 00:13:53,875 --> 00:13:55,252 Frank would have told me. 317 00:13:55,752 --> 00:13:58,797 All she wants is your money, Jessica. 318 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,216 As soon as she realizes you aren't going to bite-- 319 00:14:01,299 --> 00:14:05,220 But she seemed so desperate, so vulnerable. 320 00:14:05,303 --> 00:14:07,180 I mean, they've arrested her son. 321 00:14:07,264 --> 00:14:08,807 And if what the paper says is true, 322 00:14:08,890 --> 00:14:10,934 he's going to need a lawyer. 323 00:14:11,017 --> 00:14:13,186 Jessica, my second piece of advice 324 00:14:13,270 --> 00:14:15,272 is don't get involved. 325 00:14:15,772 --> 00:14:17,190 I can assure you, 326 00:14:17,274 --> 00:14:18,775 I have no intention of getting involved. 327 00:14:18,858 --> 00:14:20,527 Now, I'll check her out. 328 00:14:20,610 --> 00:14:22,404 Now, will you just let me worry about it? 329 00:14:22,487 --> 00:14:24,489 I'm handsomely compensated for it, 330 00:14:24,573 --> 00:14:27,117 as you'll see when you get my bill. 331 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,286 But Andrew, I mean, 332 00:14:29,369 --> 00:14:30,620 if this is just a shakedown for some money, 333 00:14:30,704 --> 00:14:32,872 why did she wait until now, 334 00:14:32,956 --> 00:14:34,666 when her son is in such desperate trouble, 335 00:14:34,749 --> 00:14:37,043 to make a claim like this? 336 00:14:37,127 --> 00:14:38,128 [groans] Oh. 337 00:14:39,754 --> 00:14:41,423 I'm just fine, Clint. 338 00:14:42,465 --> 00:14:43,800 Well, I find myself in a hotel room 339 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:45,302 and got to thinking about you two, 340 00:14:45,385 --> 00:14:46,469 and I thought I'd give you a call. 341 00:14:46,553 --> 00:14:47,554 How's Bonnie? 342 00:14:47,637 --> 00:14:48,847 Fine. She's in Tacoma. 343 00:14:48,930 --> 00:14:50,348 We have a new grandson. 344 00:14:50,432 --> 00:14:52,851 Seven pounds, three ounces. 345 00:14:52,934 --> 00:14:55,103 Oh, that's wonderful. And Phyllis is fine? 346 00:14:55,186 --> 00:14:57,147 Couldn't be better. But you know how kids are. 347 00:14:57,230 --> 00:14:59,107 They can't wait to assert their independence 348 00:14:59,190 --> 00:15:02,193 but once the baby arrives, they want mother around. 349 00:15:02,694 --> 00:15:04,529 Oh, yes. 350 00:15:04,613 --> 00:15:05,905 It must be wonderful for Bonnie, though, 351 00:15:05,989 --> 00:15:07,532 seeing the grandchildren coming along. 352 00:15:07,616 --> 00:15:09,159 It's funny that you called, Jess. 353 00:15:09,242 --> 00:15:11,453 I was just thinking about Frank the other day. 354 00:15:11,536 --> 00:15:14,205 I found myself on one of those little commuter flights. 355 00:15:14,289 --> 00:15:17,042 I hadn't been on a prop plane in years. 356 00:15:17,125 --> 00:15:18,793 I was looking out the window at that engine, 357 00:15:18,877 --> 00:15:21,171 and it all came rushing back on me, 358 00:15:21,671 --> 00:15:24,799 Frank and Lee and the Dixie Damsel. 359 00:15:24,883 --> 00:15:26,176 Clint, 360 00:15:26,801 --> 00:15:30,013 I bumped into somebody who knew you and Frank in Korea. 361 00:15:30,096 --> 00:15:31,431 No kidding! Who? 362 00:15:31,514 --> 00:15:33,016 Nancy Landon. 363 00:15:33,099 --> 00:15:34,809 Nancy Landon... 364 00:15:35,393 --> 00:15:37,062 oh, yeah, she was a nurse. 365 00:15:37,145 --> 00:15:38,146 Lots of fun. 366 00:15:38,229 --> 00:15:39,773 How's she doing? 367 00:15:39,856 --> 00:15:42,150 Well, I'm afraid she has some problems. 368 00:15:42,233 --> 00:15:44,402 Uh, her son's in trouble, and she's asked me to help. 369 00:15:44,486 --> 00:15:47,364 Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. 370 00:15:48,198 --> 00:15:49,157 How did you happen to meet her? 371 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:50,659 She phoned me. 372 00:15:50,742 --> 00:15:53,036 She mentioned that you and Frank and she 373 00:15:53,119 --> 00:15:54,704 had been friends in Korea. 374 00:15:54,788 --> 00:15:56,665 Well, I wouldn't exactly say we were friends. 375 00:15:56,748 --> 00:15:58,291 We used to run into each other once in a while 376 00:15:58,375 --> 00:16:01,211 in the officers' club. 377 00:16:01,294 --> 00:16:04,172 To tell you the truth, Jess, it was such a long time ago, 378 00:16:04,255 --> 00:16:07,217 I'm not even sure I'm thinking of the same person. 379 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:08,885 Uh, but you do seem to remember her. 380 00:16:08,968 --> 00:16:10,220 Hell, Jess, most of what happened in Korea 381 00:16:10,303 --> 00:16:11,304 I try to forget. 382 00:16:11,930 --> 00:16:14,307 You know, Bonnie's going to be real disappointed she missed you. 383 00:16:16,267 --> 00:16:19,270 Yeah, well, uh, tell her I'll call her next week. 384 00:16:19,604 --> 00:16:20,647 Promise. 385 00:16:21,356 --> 00:16:23,066 We'll work on that, uh, 386 00:16:23,149 --> 00:16:24,818 get-together we've been planning. 387 00:16:24,901 --> 00:16:27,320 And send me a picture of that grandson, right? 388 00:16:27,404 --> 00:16:28,655 Bye. 389 00:16:33,702 --> 00:16:35,995 I'm telling you, Jessica, you're making a big mistake. 390 00:16:36,329 --> 00:16:39,207 Andrew, I'm not getting involved. 391 00:16:39,290 --> 00:16:41,000 It's just that I'm a pretty good judge of character, 392 00:16:41,084 --> 00:16:42,377 and if I meet this young man, 393 00:16:42,460 --> 00:16:43,795 I may be able to get a better idea 394 00:16:43,878 --> 00:16:45,505 if he's telling the truth 395 00:16:45,588 --> 00:16:48,717 about corruption in the City Building Department. 396 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:50,468 Help you, Sir? 397 00:16:50,552 --> 00:16:52,137 Yes, uh, Andrew Dixon to see Lieutenant Claymore. 398 00:16:52,220 --> 00:16:53,680 He's expecting me. 399 00:16:53,763 --> 00:16:55,098 He's got someone in there with him now. 400 00:16:55,181 --> 00:16:56,516 If you'd take a seat... 401 00:16:56,599 --> 00:16:58,393 thank you. 402 00:17:04,357 --> 00:17:08,111 Andrew, you said that a Lieutenant Nancy Landon 403 00:17:08,194 --> 00:17:10,280 was stationed at the Seoul Military Hospital 404 00:17:10,363 --> 00:17:14,159 from early 1951 until her discharge in April of '52? 405 00:17:14,242 --> 00:17:17,036 We don't even know if it's the same Nancy Landon. 406 00:17:17,120 --> 00:17:19,998 Well, that was two months after Frank and his crew 407 00:17:20,081 --> 00:17:21,666 went down in the Dixie Damsel. 408 00:17:21,750 --> 00:17:23,543 Jessica, that doesn't mean a thing. 409 00:17:23,626 --> 00:17:25,670 Well, the bomb squad has everything they need, 410 00:17:25,754 --> 00:17:28,256 Mr. Olston, so I guess we can let you clear the site. 411 00:17:28,339 --> 00:17:30,884 Well, every day's delay costs money. 412 00:17:31,509 --> 00:17:34,387 Councilman Axelrod appreciates your cooperation, 413 00:17:34,471 --> 00:17:35,472 Lieutenant Claymore. 414 00:17:35,555 --> 00:17:37,724 Thank you. 415 00:17:38,516 --> 00:17:40,018 That's Dawn Bickford, 416 00:17:40,101 --> 00:17:42,479 Councilman Axelrod's administrative assistant. 417 00:17:42,562 --> 00:17:45,565 And Ben Olston owns the construction company. 418 00:17:45,648 --> 00:17:48,943 Sounds as if he also owns some influence in high places. 419 00:17:49,652 --> 00:17:51,696 Well, I've already gotten a call from the mayor's office, 420 00:17:51,780 --> 00:17:54,073 but I didn't realize the bomber 421 00:17:54,157 --> 00:17:55,825 had this much juice going for him. 422 00:17:55,909 --> 00:17:58,119 Well, he may have absolutely nothing going for him, 423 00:17:58,203 --> 00:18:00,789 Lieutenant, but we're interested in the details. 424 00:18:00,872 --> 00:18:02,499 Well, it's very simple. 425 00:18:02,582 --> 00:18:04,250 Uh, Steve Landon threatened to blow up the school 426 00:18:04,334 --> 00:18:06,419 that's under construction in front of two witnesses, 427 00:18:06,503 --> 00:18:08,421 Mr. Olston and, uh, Ralph Crocket, 428 00:18:08,505 --> 00:18:10,548 his construction supervisor. 429 00:18:11,007 --> 00:18:11,883 Now, Crocket happened to be 430 00:18:11,966 --> 00:18:13,593 driving by the construction site 431 00:18:13,676 --> 00:18:15,637 about five minutes before the explosives went off. 432 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,138 He spotted Landon leaving the site, 433 00:18:17,222 --> 00:18:18,807 getting into his car. 434 00:18:18,890 --> 00:18:19,933 He got the license plate number, 435 00:18:20,016 --> 00:18:20,934 and it checks out. 436 00:18:21,476 --> 00:18:23,186 So he immediately called the police. 437 00:18:23,269 --> 00:18:24,687 No, we got these statements this morning. 438 00:18:24,979 --> 00:18:26,648 Well, that's very odd. 439 00:18:26,731 --> 00:18:28,608 I mean, if Mr. Landon 440 00:18:28,691 --> 00:18:30,235 threatened to blow up the place, 441 00:18:30,318 --> 00:18:31,861 why wouldn't Mr. Crocket have been alarmed 442 00:18:31,945 --> 00:18:33,363 to see him there at night, 443 00:18:33,446 --> 00:18:35,073 gone to investigate, and done something? 444 00:18:35,156 --> 00:18:36,991 Yeah. Well, I asked him that. 445 00:18:37,075 --> 00:18:40,578 Apparently, nobody took the threat seriously. 446 00:18:40,662 --> 00:18:42,121 Now, I'm checking out a lead 447 00:18:42,205 --> 00:18:44,415 that Mr. Landon has mental problems. 448 00:18:44,499 --> 00:18:47,335 That's something I wasn't aware of. 449 00:18:47,418 --> 00:18:49,796 Yeah, but Mrs. Landon said that her son was at home 450 00:18:49,879 --> 00:18:51,840 with her at the time of the explosion. 451 00:18:51,923 --> 00:18:54,092 Well, naturally, we'd expect a mother to lie 452 00:18:54,175 --> 00:18:56,511 to protect her son. 453 00:18:56,594 --> 00:18:58,179 Yes, I can understand that. 454 00:18:58,263 --> 00:18:59,681 But on the other hand, 455 00:18:59,764 --> 00:19:01,474 all of the evidence against him 456 00:19:01,558 --> 00:19:06,396 seems to come from Mr. Olston and this employee of his. 457 00:19:06,479 --> 00:19:09,691 May we see Mr. Landon? 458 00:19:09,774 --> 00:19:13,194 So, uh, when the building was finished, 459 00:19:13,278 --> 00:19:15,572 then Mr. Olston would collect for materials 460 00:19:15,655 --> 00:19:16,906 that never went in. 461 00:19:16,990 --> 00:19:19,325 Well, it sounds highly suspicious. 462 00:19:19,409 --> 00:19:21,077 I just want to tell you, Mrs. Fletcher, 463 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:22,787 how much I appreciate what you're doing. 464 00:19:22,871 --> 00:19:24,747 Mother told me that you were going to help me out. 465 00:19:24,831 --> 00:19:26,541 Mr. Landon, I think you should know 466 00:19:26,624 --> 00:19:31,129 I advised Mrs. Fletcher not to come. 467 00:19:31,212 --> 00:19:33,506 I want to be up front with you, Mr. Dixon. 468 00:19:33,590 --> 00:19:35,174 I haven't got a dime. 469 00:19:35,258 --> 00:19:37,969 And whatever your legal fees are, I will pay you, 470 00:19:38,052 --> 00:19:40,430 if it takes me the rest of my life. 471 00:19:40,513 --> 00:19:42,348 Mr. Landon, are you suggesting 472 00:19:42,432 --> 00:19:44,434 that it was Mr. Olston 473 00:19:44,517 --> 00:19:46,811 who blew up his own construction site? 474 00:19:46,895 --> 00:19:50,315 Well, uh, I can't prove it. 475 00:19:50,398 --> 00:19:53,359 But when I went in and I confronted Olston, 476 00:19:53,443 --> 00:19:55,236 he tried to buy me off. 477 00:19:58,323 --> 00:20:00,116 I guess I can't prove that either. 478 00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:02,285 We don't know that any of this is true. 479 00:20:02,368 --> 00:20:03,745 You don't believe me. 480 00:20:03,828 --> 00:20:05,413 Your mother certainly believes you. 481 00:20:05,788 --> 00:20:07,332 She seems devoted to you. 482 00:20:07,790 --> 00:20:09,542 Well, my mother and I, uh, 483 00:20:09,626 --> 00:20:11,002 we only have each other, at least now. 484 00:20:11,085 --> 00:20:12,837 My wife died last year. 485 00:20:12,921 --> 00:20:13,880 Yes, your mother mentioned it. 486 00:20:13,963 --> 00:20:15,715 I'm so sorry. 487 00:20:15,798 --> 00:20:17,008 Well, I guess I'm still 488 00:20:17,091 --> 00:20:18,551 trying to come to terms with it. 489 00:20:19,177 --> 00:20:23,348 Steven, is your father in any position to help? 490 00:20:23,431 --> 00:20:25,099 My father died before I was born. 491 00:20:25,183 --> 00:20:26,726 He was a flier in Korea. 492 00:20:26,809 --> 00:20:28,519 He was shot down somewhere over Pusan, 493 00:20:28,603 --> 00:20:30,772 and my mother never remarried, 494 00:20:30,855 --> 00:20:35,151 so I guess she had her hands full trying to raise me. 495 00:20:36,152 --> 00:20:39,030 She seems to be a very determined woman. 496 00:20:42,867 --> 00:20:46,079 I think he's a likeable young man, Andrew. 497 00:20:46,162 --> 00:20:47,997 I'm inclined to believe him. 498 00:20:48,081 --> 00:20:49,540 Oh, he's charming all right, 499 00:20:49,624 --> 00:20:51,376 but there's a very strong case against him. 500 00:20:51,459 --> 00:20:53,211 And he's bucking some very powerful people. 501 00:20:53,294 --> 00:20:55,797 Well, then he's gonna need help, isn't he? 502 00:20:57,382 --> 00:21:00,385 [men talking and tools clattering] 503 00:21:08,685 --> 00:21:11,145 Oh, excuse me. 504 00:21:11,229 --> 00:21:12,397 I wonder if you could tell me 505 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:13,982 where I can find Mr. Ben Olston? 506 00:21:14,065 --> 00:21:15,108 Uh, yeah, in there. 507 00:21:15,191 --> 00:21:16,859 But I think he's all tied up. 508 00:21:16,943 --> 00:21:18,111 Thank you. 509 00:21:19,570 --> 00:21:20,571 If you have any more odd jobs, 510 00:21:20,655 --> 00:21:21,990 you've got my number. 511 00:21:22,073 --> 00:21:23,574 Look, I already burned your number. 512 00:21:23,658 --> 00:21:26,077 I don't know you. You don't know me. You got that? 513 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:27,620 If I were you, I'd take a long trip. 514 00:21:27,704 --> 00:21:29,664 They say there's work in Central America. 515 00:21:29,747 --> 00:21:32,792 There's 25,000 there. 516 00:21:32,875 --> 00:21:34,002 That's all I had in the safe. 517 00:21:34,085 --> 00:21:36,295 I'll get you the rest tonight. 518 00:21:36,379 --> 00:21:37,588 Mr. Olston? 519 00:21:37,672 --> 00:21:39,590 Nice doing business with you. 520 00:21:40,633 --> 00:21:42,385 Mr. Olston, I'm so glad I caught you. 521 00:21:42,468 --> 00:21:44,012 Being a volunteer, 522 00:21:44,095 --> 00:21:47,223 I have to steal any bit of time that I can. 523 00:21:47,306 --> 00:21:49,308 And you are at the top of my list. 524 00:21:49,392 --> 00:21:50,852 List? What list is that? 525 00:21:50,935 --> 00:21:52,353 The fundraiser. 526 00:21:52,437 --> 00:21:54,313 We have you down as a generous contributor. 527 00:21:55,023 --> 00:21:56,441 Those guys are running for reelection 528 00:21:56,524 --> 00:21:57,692 12 months a year, aren't they? 529 00:21:57,775 --> 00:21:59,193 Which one is it this time? 530 00:21:59,277 --> 00:22:01,696 Well, our club admires Councilman Axelrod, 531 00:22:01,779 --> 00:22:03,865 particularly for his position on women's issues. 532 00:22:03,948 --> 00:22:05,700 Axelrod? 533 00:22:05,783 --> 00:22:07,493 Well, I contribute directly to his reelection committee. 534 00:22:07,577 --> 00:22:08,911 Oh, dear. 535 00:22:08,995 --> 00:22:10,955 Well, maybe I've got the wrong list. 536 00:22:11,039 --> 00:22:14,417 Who is your contact on his committee? 537 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:17,003 I deal with Dawn Bickford, his administrative assistant. 538 00:22:17,086 --> 00:22:18,379 Lady, I'm very sorry, 539 00:22:18,463 --> 00:22:20,423 but I've got an awful lot of things to do. 540 00:22:20,506 --> 00:22:21,716 Of course. 541 00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:23,968 Thank you so much for your time. 542 00:22:24,052 --> 00:22:26,387 All crew scheduled for overtime on the weekend, 543 00:22:26,471 --> 00:22:29,223 get your special ID badges from the office. 544 00:22:32,143 --> 00:22:33,644 Hi. It's me. 545 00:22:33,728 --> 00:22:35,396 Temple was just here. 546 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,523 Well, we seem to have that little problem solved, 547 00:22:37,607 --> 00:22:39,317 which leaves us with the other problem, 548 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:40,943 your wife. 549 00:22:41,027 --> 00:22:41,944 Dawn, I told you, I'll tell her 550 00:22:42,028 --> 00:22:43,613 as soon as she gets back. 551 00:22:43,696 --> 00:22:45,281 Oh, and when is that? 552 00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:46,783 Tomorrow. 553 00:22:46,866 --> 00:22:49,660 Does that mean you're off the leash tonight, 554 00:22:49,744 --> 00:22:51,662 or do you have to be home in case she calls? 555 00:22:51,746 --> 00:22:54,207 Well, that depends. 556 00:22:54,290 --> 00:22:55,500 You feel like playing house? 557 00:22:55,583 --> 00:22:57,293 Well, that adds a certain spice 558 00:22:57,376 --> 00:22:59,170 to sneaking around behind her back. 559 00:22:59,921 --> 00:23:00,963 What time? 560 00:23:01,047 --> 00:23:03,341 9:00-ish. 561 00:23:04,092 --> 00:23:05,426 I'll turn on the sauna. 562 00:23:05,510 --> 00:23:08,137 [chuckles] 563 00:23:28,074 --> 00:23:29,742 Thanks. 564 00:23:29,826 --> 00:23:32,912 [dog barking] 565 00:23:32,995 --> 00:23:34,789 Is there anybody home, lady? 566 00:23:34,872 --> 00:23:38,751 My husband must be home, or else the alarm would be on. 567 00:23:42,672 --> 00:23:43,798 Ben? 568 00:23:45,007 --> 00:23:46,217 Are you home? 569 00:23:47,301 --> 00:23:48,344 Ben? 570 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:51,889 Would you mind staying until I have a look around? 571 00:23:51,973 --> 00:23:53,099 Oh, sure thing, lady. 572 00:23:53,182 --> 00:23:54,851 You can't be too careful, can you? 573 00:23:54,934 --> 00:23:56,686 Ben? 574 00:23:58,229 --> 00:23:59,814 Ben? 575 00:24:00,773 --> 00:24:01,858 No, don't go in there, lady. 576 00:24:01,941 --> 00:24:02,984 [gasps] 577 00:24:12,201 --> 00:24:13,953 I'm glad you were able to come. 578 00:24:14,036 --> 00:24:15,830 Well, before I went back to Cabot Cove, 579 00:24:15,913 --> 00:24:19,250 there were some things that I wanted to talk to you about. 580 00:24:19,333 --> 00:24:21,460 I'm sorry, Jessica. 581 00:24:21,544 --> 00:24:24,672 I hope you don't mind my calling you Jessica. 582 00:24:24,755 --> 00:24:27,550 The last thing I wanted to do was hurt you. 583 00:24:27,633 --> 00:24:30,094 Mrs. Landon, the police mentioned a report 584 00:24:30,178 --> 00:24:33,097 of some mental instability in Steve's background. 585 00:24:33,181 --> 00:24:34,932 Oh, that's nonsense. 586 00:24:35,016 --> 00:24:36,309 Of course, he was very upset when his wife died. 587 00:24:36,726 --> 00:24:38,269 Of course. 588 00:24:38,352 --> 00:24:41,731 And he visited a psychiatrist a few times 589 00:24:41,814 --> 00:24:44,025 at my recommendation. 590 00:24:44,108 --> 00:24:45,985 But there was no mental illness. 591 00:24:46,527 --> 00:24:48,738 He was like a Rock of Gibraltar. 592 00:24:49,197 --> 00:24:52,783 At least until this terrible business with Ben Olston. 593 00:24:52,867 --> 00:24:54,285 Did something happen? 594 00:24:54,368 --> 00:24:56,746 Something that you didn't tell me about? 595 00:24:57,997 --> 00:25:00,875 Jessica, I feel I can trust you. 596 00:25:02,752 --> 00:25:06,631 I found this in the glove compartment 597 00:25:06,714 --> 00:25:08,925 of our station wagon this morning. 598 00:25:09,008 --> 00:25:10,259 You think it's Steve's? 599 00:25:10,343 --> 00:25:11,719 Well, it certainly isn't mine. 600 00:25:11,802 --> 00:25:13,846 Who else could it belong to? 601 00:25:13,930 --> 00:25:17,683 Mrs. Landon, I like Steve, but I have to tell you 602 00:25:17,767 --> 00:25:19,560 I don't believe the things you told me 603 00:25:19,644 --> 00:25:22,063 about Steve being Frank's son. 604 00:25:22,396 --> 00:25:24,232 Oh, I can't say I blame you, Jessica. 605 00:25:24,649 --> 00:25:27,026 I mean, Steve told me that his father was shot down 606 00:25:27,109 --> 00:25:28,611 and killed in Korea. 607 00:25:28,694 --> 00:25:30,112 Well, that's what I told him. 608 00:25:30,196 --> 00:25:32,490 You didn't expect me to tell a little boy 609 00:25:32,573 --> 00:25:34,742 that his father left me to go back to his wife? 610 00:25:35,201 --> 00:25:36,535 Well, I'm sorry, 611 00:25:36,619 --> 00:25:38,246 but why should I believe it either? 612 00:25:45,253 --> 00:25:48,172 I was hoping I wouldn't have to show you this. 613 00:25:50,424 --> 00:25:54,470 I've always felt it was very private. 614 00:26:17,451 --> 00:26:20,830 "May 3rd, 1954. 615 00:26:21,205 --> 00:26:24,166 "Dear Nancy, haven't heard from you in more than a year. 616 00:26:24,250 --> 00:26:26,919 "Little Steve must be about two now. 617 00:26:27,670 --> 00:26:29,630 "I do wish you'd let me do something to help you, 618 00:26:29,714 --> 00:26:32,425 "since I know how difficult things must be. 619 00:26:33,009 --> 00:26:36,262 "Just remember, if you need anything 620 00:26:36,721 --> 00:26:37,888 "ever, 621 00:26:38,431 --> 00:26:40,516 "please let me know. 622 00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:43,352 Always, Frank." 623 00:26:48,816 --> 00:26:51,277 I'm sorry, Jessica. 624 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:53,946 I thought this part of my life was closed forever. 625 00:26:54,822 --> 00:26:57,033 But Frank did promise to help. 626 00:26:58,534 --> 00:27:00,578 [knocking on door] 627 00:27:07,293 --> 00:27:08,753 -Nancy Landon? -Yes. 628 00:27:08,836 --> 00:27:09,837 I'm Lieutenant Claymore. 629 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,130 Oh, is this about Steven? 630 00:27:11,213 --> 00:27:12,214 Mrs. Fletcher. 631 00:27:12,298 --> 00:27:15,217 Lieutenant. 632 00:27:15,301 --> 00:27:17,386 Mrs. Landon, 633 00:27:17,970 --> 00:27:19,263 do you have a permit for this firearm? 634 00:27:19,347 --> 00:27:20,473 Uh, no. 635 00:27:20,556 --> 00:27:23,017 I mean I don't know. 636 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:24,226 It isn't mine. 637 00:27:25,686 --> 00:27:28,314 Mrs. Landon, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to come with me. 638 00:27:34,653 --> 00:27:36,489 Lieutenant, how long are you planning 639 00:27:36,572 --> 00:27:37,990 to hold Mrs. Landon here? 640 00:27:38,074 --> 00:27:39,784 The pistol in Mrs. Landon's possession 641 00:27:39,867 --> 00:27:42,203 checks out to be registered to Ben Olston. 642 00:27:43,371 --> 00:27:45,456 His wife said he kept it in his desk at home. 643 00:27:45,539 --> 00:27:47,541 And if the fingerprints on it turn out to be Mrs. Landon's, 644 00:27:47,625 --> 00:27:48,584 we're gonna book her. 645 00:27:48,667 --> 00:27:50,044 -But she says-- -I know. 646 00:27:50,127 --> 00:27:51,754 I know what she says, but there's more. 647 00:27:52,254 --> 00:27:54,465 We found an appointment slip on the victim's desk, 648 00:27:54,548 --> 00:27:56,217 confirming an appointment with Mrs. Landon 649 00:27:56,300 --> 00:27:58,260 at 8:00 p.m. last night. 650 00:27:58,844 --> 00:28:00,346 But I didn't have an appointment. 651 00:28:01,347 --> 00:28:04,225 What they were doing to Steven was so unfair, 652 00:28:04,308 --> 00:28:07,061 I decided to go see Mr. Olston 653 00:28:07,144 --> 00:28:09,980 to confront him with Steven's report. 654 00:28:10,064 --> 00:28:12,441 That had to be about 8:00. 655 00:28:17,738 --> 00:28:19,365 [knocking] 656 00:28:23,369 --> 00:28:24,286 Yes? 657 00:28:24,370 --> 00:28:25,287 Oh, hello. 658 00:28:25,371 --> 00:28:26,414 My name is Nancy Landon. 659 00:28:26,497 --> 00:28:27,581 [phone ringing] 660 00:28:27,665 --> 00:28:28,833 I'm Steven's mother. 661 00:28:28,916 --> 00:28:30,501 Please, I need to talk to you. 662 00:28:30,584 --> 00:28:31,877 Look, I have nothing to say to you. 663 00:28:31,961 --> 00:28:33,295 Please. 664 00:28:33,379 --> 00:28:34,588 Just wait a minute. 665 00:28:38,342 --> 00:28:39,260 [phone ringing] 666 00:28:39,343 --> 00:28:40,886 Hello. 667 00:28:40,970 --> 00:28:42,596 Hi, babe. 668 00:28:43,681 --> 00:28:44,598 Understand? 669 00:28:44,682 --> 00:28:46,642 Well, yeah, I understand. 670 00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:48,769 If you feel it's more important, fine. 671 00:28:49,603 --> 00:28:50,938 Look, I can't talk right now. 672 00:28:51,021 --> 00:28:53,107 The, uh, architect's mother's here. 673 00:28:53,566 --> 00:28:54,400 Don't worry. 674 00:28:54,483 --> 00:28:55,985 I'll see you tomorrow. 675 00:28:57,027 --> 00:28:58,404 Yeah, me too. 676 00:28:58,487 --> 00:29:00,197 Bye. 677 00:29:00,990 --> 00:29:02,658 There's nothing I can do for you, Mrs. Landon. 678 00:29:02,741 --> 00:29:04,743 I shouldn't even be talking to you. 679 00:29:05,161 --> 00:29:06,454 But what about Steven's report? 680 00:29:06,537 --> 00:29:08,622 What do you have to say about this? 681 00:29:08,706 --> 00:29:10,624 Who do you think you are, coming into my house like this? 682 00:29:10,708 --> 00:29:11,792 Now, get out! 683 00:29:19,425 --> 00:29:20,426 I didn't go there to quarrel with him. 684 00:29:20,509 --> 00:29:24,096 I went there to talk about Steven's report. 685 00:29:24,180 --> 00:29:26,432 Except we didn't find any report, Mrs. Landon. 686 00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:28,809 What we found was an appointment slip 687 00:29:28,893 --> 00:29:30,478 with your name on it. 688 00:29:30,561 --> 00:29:32,730 I'd advise you to call a lawyer. 689 00:29:35,191 --> 00:29:36,859 Alright, Jessica. 690 00:29:37,401 --> 00:29:39,570 But for the life of me, I don't understand why. 691 00:29:40,070 --> 00:29:41,864 Because in spite of everything, 692 00:29:41,947 --> 00:29:43,365 I just don't believe she did it. 693 00:29:43,866 --> 00:29:46,076 Are you sure that's the reason? 694 00:29:47,661 --> 00:29:48,787 Of course it is. 695 00:29:49,413 --> 00:29:52,082 Now, someone could have planted that gun in her station wagon. 696 00:29:52,166 --> 00:29:54,168 I mean, her address is in the telephone book. 697 00:29:54,251 --> 00:29:56,378 It's possible someone else was there 698 00:29:56,462 --> 00:29:57,755 when Nancy arrived. 699 00:29:57,838 --> 00:30:00,132 It's also possible that Nancy Landon 700 00:30:00,216 --> 00:30:01,926 is a very disturbed woman. 701 00:30:02,301 --> 00:30:04,428 I mean, she did make the outrageous claim 702 00:30:04,512 --> 00:30:06,096 that Steve is Frank's son. 703 00:30:06,597 --> 00:30:08,516 Oh. 704 00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:10,434 Oh, which reminds me, have your sources 705 00:30:10,518 --> 00:30:12,436 been able to get any more information 706 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,146 about her military service? 707 00:30:14,230 --> 00:30:15,981 I'm waiting to hear. 708 00:30:16,065 --> 00:30:17,274 Where are you going? 709 00:30:17,358 --> 00:30:20,694 To pay a call at city hall. 710 00:30:23,781 --> 00:30:25,324 Those allegations are very grave, 711 00:30:25,407 --> 00:30:27,076 very grave indeed, Mrs. Fletcher. 712 00:30:27,159 --> 00:30:29,328 But I can assure you, 713 00:30:29,411 --> 00:30:31,247 there's absolutely no truth to them. 714 00:30:31,330 --> 00:30:33,582 Yes, but how can you be sure, councilman Axelrod, 715 00:30:33,666 --> 00:30:35,167 without an investigation? 716 00:30:35,251 --> 00:30:36,669 Because we have a whole department 717 00:30:36,752 --> 00:30:38,671 that monitors construction. 718 00:30:38,754 --> 00:30:40,589 I'm sure you do. 719 00:30:40,673 --> 00:30:43,676 But I understand that Ben Olston was a contributor 720 00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:45,469 to your reelection fund. 721 00:30:45,553 --> 00:30:47,137 Well, yes, I... 722 00:30:47,221 --> 00:30:49,723 I believe he did, to the legal limit. 723 00:30:49,807 --> 00:30:53,352 It's a matter of public record. 724 00:30:53,435 --> 00:30:55,312 And that Mr. Olston did a great deal of business 725 00:30:55,396 --> 00:30:56,981 with the city-- 726 00:30:57,565 --> 00:30:59,775 Business that, if you don't control, 727 00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:01,986 you at least influence. 728 00:31:02,444 --> 00:31:05,406 All of the contracts are scrupulously bid, 729 00:31:05,489 --> 00:31:07,199 and the work is done for the best price, 730 00:31:07,283 --> 00:31:08,867 consistent with the highest quality. 731 00:31:08,951 --> 00:31:10,578 Yes, but according to the report 732 00:31:10,661 --> 00:31:12,121 that the architect made to you, 733 00:31:12,204 --> 00:31:15,791 the quality of that work was in serious question. 734 00:31:15,874 --> 00:31:17,835 I assure you, ms. Fletcher, 735 00:31:17,918 --> 00:31:21,463 I am not at all aware of any such report. 736 00:31:21,547 --> 00:31:23,090 Miss Bickford, are you aware of any reports 737 00:31:23,173 --> 00:31:25,175 coming in here from, uh... 738 00:31:25,676 --> 00:31:27,595 Steve Landon, the architect who was arrested. 739 00:31:27,678 --> 00:31:29,263 No. 740 00:31:29,346 --> 00:31:30,639 No report from him ever came through this office. 741 00:31:30,723 --> 00:31:32,433 I'm certain of that, Sir. 742 00:31:32,516 --> 00:31:34,435 Then I'm afraid you have been seriously misinformed, 743 00:31:34,518 --> 00:31:36,645 ms. Fletcher. 744 00:31:36,729 --> 00:31:39,315 Yes, perhaps I have. 745 00:31:39,398 --> 00:31:40,733 On the other hand, 746 00:31:40,816 --> 00:31:42,610 I understand that a copy of the report 747 00:31:42,693 --> 00:31:44,486 with all the details 748 00:31:44,570 --> 00:31:47,531 is missing from the scene of Mr. Olston's murder. 749 00:31:47,615 --> 00:31:49,658 Thank you so much for your time. 750 00:31:53,078 --> 00:31:56,415 Get in touch with the police officer who is responsible 751 00:31:56,498 --> 00:31:59,752 and find out what the hell is going on! 752 00:32:00,461 --> 00:32:01,420 Yes, Sir. 753 00:32:05,883 --> 00:32:08,010 Yes, Clint, I realize this is awfully short notice, 754 00:32:08,093 --> 00:32:11,180 but I've spoken to the airline, and I can get a flight 755 00:32:11,263 --> 00:32:13,807 that will put me in seattle in time for dinner. 756 00:32:14,850 --> 00:32:17,227 It has been too long. 757 00:32:18,312 --> 00:32:20,689 Well, do you think you could meet my plane? 758 00:32:21,857 --> 00:32:23,692 Wonderful. 759 00:32:26,362 --> 00:32:28,739 Bonnie's going to be very disappointed she missed you. 760 00:32:28,822 --> 00:32:30,949 [chuckles] Grandchildren. 761 00:32:31,033 --> 00:32:32,993 You know, just about the time you think you've got 762 00:32:33,077 --> 00:32:35,037 the kids safely out on their own, 763 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,790 along comes the next generation of little people, 764 00:32:37,873 --> 00:32:40,042 and there you are, a second-hand parent. 765 00:32:40,125 --> 00:32:42,002 [chuckles] It's wonderful. 766 00:32:42,086 --> 00:32:43,379 [chuckles] 767 00:32:43,462 --> 00:32:45,589 Clint, you know, I love you and Bonnie, 768 00:32:45,673 --> 00:32:48,175 but I didn't come to talk about the grandchildren, 769 00:32:48,258 --> 00:32:50,135 at least not this time. 770 00:32:50,219 --> 00:32:52,304 I guess I figured that out, Jess. 771 00:32:52,388 --> 00:32:55,182 Tell me about Nancy Landon. 772 00:32:55,265 --> 00:32:57,351 [chuckles] There's nothing to tell. 773 00:32:57,851 --> 00:33:02,690 Clint, Frank has been dead almost ten years now. 774 00:33:03,357 --> 00:33:06,276 There are things that I have to know. 775 00:33:06,694 --> 00:33:08,987 I hardly even remember Nancy Landon. 776 00:33:09,571 --> 00:33:11,031 And I'm telling you, Jess, 777 00:33:11,115 --> 00:33:12,783 there's nothing you need to know. 778 00:33:12,950 --> 00:33:16,328 Clint, you were Frank's closest friend. 779 00:33:16,870 --> 00:33:19,289 Did Frank have an affair with Nancy Landon in Korea? 780 00:33:19,373 --> 00:33:20,916 Of course not. 781 00:33:20,999 --> 00:33:23,085 Frank was crazy in love with you. 782 00:33:23,168 --> 00:33:26,463 Oh, please, don't try to protect my feelings. 783 00:33:27,965 --> 00:33:30,008 I want to know the truth. 784 00:33:30,676 --> 00:33:33,887 Now, Nancy has a son, Steve. 785 00:33:34,930 --> 00:33:36,098 Is Frank his father? 786 00:33:38,434 --> 00:33:40,102 You want to know the truth? 787 00:33:42,312 --> 00:33:44,732 It was in those lonely letters we wrote home 788 00:33:44,815 --> 00:33:46,483 late at night when we couldn't sleep, 789 00:33:47,025 --> 00:33:50,237 trying to reach out to wives and sweethearts at home. 790 00:33:56,034 --> 00:33:57,244 But there was another truth, 791 00:33:57,327 --> 00:33:59,246 one that nobody ever wrote about, 792 00:33:59,747 --> 00:34:01,665 about being scared, 793 00:34:01,749 --> 00:34:03,500 about being desperately lonely 794 00:34:03,584 --> 00:34:05,419 not knowing if you were gonna be alive next week. 795 00:34:05,502 --> 00:34:08,380 So you learned to survive, to hang in there, 796 00:34:08,464 --> 00:34:11,175 to blot out the fear and emptiness. 797 00:34:11,675 --> 00:34:14,678 Things happened. 798 00:34:14,762 --> 00:34:17,347 Some guys took comfort wherever they could find it. 799 00:34:17,431 --> 00:34:19,600 It didn't mean they loved their wives any less. 800 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:23,645 Sometimes you just needed to prove you were still alive. 801 00:34:24,772 --> 00:34:26,565 But it was not the sort of thing 802 00:34:26,648 --> 00:34:28,567 you came home and told your wife about. 803 00:34:29,985 --> 00:34:34,114 Yes. Well, I understand. 804 00:34:35,407 --> 00:34:39,787 Maybe not perfectly, but I do understand. 805 00:34:41,580 --> 00:34:44,583 It wasn't always easy being the one left behind. 806 00:34:47,586 --> 00:34:51,173 You're the only person who can tell me the truth. 807 00:34:51,673 --> 00:34:53,967 Is Steve Frank's son? 808 00:34:54,426 --> 00:34:57,221 Frank was the best friend I ever had, 809 00:34:57,304 --> 00:34:59,640 but, Jess, I was not his confessor. 810 00:34:59,723 --> 00:35:01,266 I got hit by some flak. 811 00:35:01,350 --> 00:35:02,810 I was in the hospital for a couple of months. 812 00:35:02,893 --> 00:35:03,977 Sure, Frank knew Nancy. 813 00:35:04,061 --> 00:35:05,896 We all knew her. 814 00:35:05,979 --> 00:35:08,273 But whatever went on between them was none of my business. 815 00:35:09,066 --> 00:35:11,068 And Frank was not the kind of man 816 00:35:11,151 --> 00:35:12,861 to talk about something like that. 817 00:35:14,196 --> 00:35:17,199 I have to know the truth. 818 00:35:18,325 --> 00:35:19,576 The truth is 819 00:35:20,035 --> 00:35:22,287 he loved you, Jess. 820 00:35:22,579 --> 00:35:24,206 That's all I know. 821 00:35:29,962 --> 00:35:32,005 Well, Jessica, I pulled some strings 822 00:35:32,089 --> 00:35:34,716 and got copies of Nancy Landon's military records. 823 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,301 And? 824 00:35:36,385 --> 00:35:37,970 Now, it still doesn't prove a damn thing, 825 00:35:38,053 --> 00:35:40,305 but she was given a compassionate discharge 826 00:35:40,389 --> 00:35:44,101 in April of 1952 because she was pregnant 827 00:35:44,184 --> 00:35:45,477 and unmarried. 828 00:35:46,019 --> 00:35:46,937 I see. 829 00:35:47,020 --> 00:35:50,274 Jessica, there's absolutely no indication 830 00:35:50,357 --> 00:35:51,733 it was Frank's child. 831 00:35:52,985 --> 00:35:56,363 Well, thank you for telling me, Andrew. 832 00:35:59,783 --> 00:36:01,159 [children yelling] 833 00:36:01,869 --> 00:36:03,495 It's ironic, isn't it? 834 00:36:03,579 --> 00:36:05,581 You and Mr. Dixon get me out on bail, 835 00:36:05,664 --> 00:36:06,790 and the same day, they arrest my mother. 836 00:36:06,874 --> 00:36:08,500 I know. 837 00:36:08,584 --> 00:36:11,169 The whole situation seems to go from bad to worse. 838 00:36:11,461 --> 00:36:13,046 I feel like it's all my fault. 839 00:36:13,130 --> 00:36:14,464 I mean, if I hadn't made such a big deal 840 00:36:14,548 --> 00:36:16,550 out of Olston's construction fraud, 841 00:36:16,633 --> 00:36:18,594 then maybe none of this would have happened. 842 00:36:18,677 --> 00:36:20,429 Yes, but if you were convinced of fraud, 843 00:36:20,512 --> 00:36:23,682 you couldn't roll over and ignore it. 844 00:36:23,765 --> 00:36:24,892 No. 845 00:36:24,975 --> 00:36:26,810 I guess I'm not built that way. 846 00:36:26,894 --> 00:36:30,480 Yes, some things are worth fighting for or against. 847 00:36:31,356 --> 00:36:34,151 Steve, you told me that you gave your report 848 00:36:34,234 --> 00:36:36,236 to Councilman Axelrod. 849 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,864 Did you give it to him personally? 850 00:36:38,947 --> 00:36:40,657 Actually, I never got in to see him. 851 00:36:40,741 --> 00:36:42,242 I gave it to his assistant, Dawn Bickford. 852 00:36:42,326 --> 00:36:43,952 I see. 853 00:36:44,036 --> 00:36:45,996 She seems to have had a very friendly relationship 854 00:36:46,079 --> 00:36:47,664 with Ben Olston. 855 00:36:47,748 --> 00:36:50,000 In fact, Mr. Olston told me that she was the one 856 00:36:50,083 --> 00:36:52,669 who accepted his political contributions. 857 00:36:52,753 --> 00:36:55,297 There, you see. You are making progress. 858 00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:58,050 Oh, now wait a minute, Steve. 859 00:36:58,133 --> 00:37:00,802 We still don't know what all this has to do with his murder. 860 00:37:01,845 --> 00:37:04,139 But will you stay and help my mother, please? 861 00:37:04,222 --> 00:37:06,350 We really have nobody else to turn to. 862 00:37:07,893 --> 00:37:09,770 Well, I'll do what I can. 863 00:37:13,523 --> 00:37:14,816 You're a terrific lady. 864 00:37:18,445 --> 00:37:20,155 Now, let me get this straight. 865 00:37:20,697 --> 00:37:21,949 You're suggesting that Ben Olston, 866 00:37:22,032 --> 00:37:23,784 or somebody working for him, 867 00:37:23,867 --> 00:37:27,496 set the explosives himself to cover up a taxpayer rip-off 868 00:37:27,579 --> 00:37:30,540 that might extend right up to the City Council? 869 00:37:30,624 --> 00:37:32,376 I think it's a distinct possibility. 870 00:37:32,459 --> 00:37:35,337 Oh, Mrs. Fletcher. 871 00:37:35,420 --> 00:37:37,089 Listen, I... 872 00:37:37,172 --> 00:37:39,007 I just passed my captain's exams. 873 00:37:39,091 --> 00:37:41,009 I'm fifth on the list for promotion. 874 00:37:41,093 --> 00:37:42,761 Yes, there was never any doubt in my mind 875 00:37:42,844 --> 00:37:46,264 that you were bright and ambitious. 876 00:37:46,348 --> 00:37:48,517 Well, I'm already getting enough heat 877 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,143 from Councilman Axelrod's office to fry my bacon. 878 00:37:50,227 --> 00:37:52,354 And from Dawn Bickford? 879 00:37:52,437 --> 00:37:54,773 Now, how did you know that? 880 00:37:54,856 --> 00:37:56,525 She was here in your office with Ben Olston 881 00:37:56,608 --> 00:37:57,651 the morning after the explosion. 882 00:37:58,110 --> 00:38:00,529 And Steve Landon tells me that she was the one 883 00:38:00,612 --> 00:38:02,739 he gave his report to in the councilman's office. 884 00:38:02,823 --> 00:38:05,867 Now, has it occurred to you that she may have been involved 885 00:38:05,951 --> 00:38:07,285 with Mr. Olston 886 00:38:07,369 --> 00:38:09,955 in more than just government contracts? 887 00:38:10,038 --> 00:38:12,582 When I get heat, 888 00:38:12,666 --> 00:38:14,126 I always wonder where the fire is 889 00:38:14,209 --> 00:38:15,877 and who's shoveling the coal. 890 00:38:15,961 --> 00:38:18,588 I made some inquiries about Dawn Bickford, yep. 891 00:38:19,006 --> 00:38:20,841 She and Olston were an item. 892 00:38:20,924 --> 00:38:22,843 Adds a whole new dimension to things, doesn't it? 893 00:38:22,926 --> 00:38:24,428 [chuckling] 894 00:38:24,511 --> 00:38:26,013 Lieutenant, if you were the one 895 00:38:26,096 --> 00:38:28,056 who exposed corruption in City Hall, 896 00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:30,851 you might be first in line for captain. 897 00:38:31,852 --> 00:38:34,563 Yes, I already thought about that. 898 00:38:34,646 --> 00:38:36,148 But what about the murder? 899 00:38:36,231 --> 00:38:37,816 Look, if Nancy Landon's fingerprints 900 00:38:37,899 --> 00:38:39,693 were the only ones on the murder weapon, 901 00:38:39,776 --> 00:38:41,695 it means that it had been wiped clean 902 00:38:41,778 --> 00:38:44,781 before it was planted in the car. 903 00:38:45,157 --> 00:38:46,700 But Mrs. Landon admits she was there. 904 00:38:46,783 --> 00:38:48,702 Without an appointment. 905 00:38:49,411 --> 00:38:51,329 Yet there was a neatly typed appointment slip 906 00:38:51,413 --> 00:38:53,081 left on the desk 907 00:38:53,165 --> 00:38:55,125 more or less telling the police that she had been there. 908 00:38:55,208 --> 00:38:56,835 Now, what are you driving at? 909 00:38:57,878 --> 00:38:59,796 Well, perhaps someone else was there 910 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:01,757 when Mrs. Landon called. 911 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,550 Well, from what Mrs. Landon said, 912 00:39:03,633 --> 00:39:05,635 Olston got a call from his wife while she was there. 913 00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,054 And where was Mrs. Olston? 914 00:39:07,137 --> 00:39:08,513 She was visiting her mother. 915 00:39:08,597 --> 00:39:10,307 Her car broke down on the way back. 916 00:39:10,390 --> 00:39:11,641 Both the motor club records 917 00:39:11,725 --> 00:39:13,310 and the taxi driver back her up. 918 00:39:13,393 --> 00:39:14,978 Now, she and the taxi driver discovered the body 919 00:39:15,062 --> 00:39:16,646 around midnight. 920 00:39:16,730 --> 00:39:19,232 Lieutenant, when I went to see Mr. Olston, 921 00:39:19,316 --> 00:39:20,650 there was a man there with him. 922 00:39:20,734 --> 00:39:21,902 I had the feeling that I'd walked in 923 00:39:21,985 --> 00:39:24,154 on some sort of a pay-off. 924 00:39:24,446 --> 00:39:27,324 Olston said he'd get the rest later. 925 00:39:27,866 --> 00:39:30,285 You think maybe it was the guy who set the explosives? 926 00:39:30,786 --> 00:39:32,245 I think it's possible. 927 00:39:35,832 --> 00:39:37,209 Mrs. Fletcher, 928 00:39:37,584 --> 00:39:39,211 if I showed you a mug book, 929 00:39:39,294 --> 00:39:41,171 you think you might be able to pick this guy out? 930 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,048 Well, I could try. 931 00:39:43,757 --> 00:39:46,718 If what Steve Landon says in this report is true, 932 00:39:47,094 --> 00:39:48,428 somebody's going to get prosecuted. 933 00:39:48,512 --> 00:39:49,805 I assure you, Councilman Axelrod, 934 00:39:49,888 --> 00:39:51,556 I had nothing to do with this. 935 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,141 Well, before you say anything more, Miss Bickford, 936 00:39:53,225 --> 00:39:55,268 I think you should know we picked up Roy Temple. 937 00:39:55,352 --> 00:39:56,561 Who? 938 00:39:56,645 --> 00:39:57,687 Roy Temple. 939 00:39:57,771 --> 00:39:58,980 Rap sheet as long as your arm. 940 00:39:59,064 --> 00:40:00,649 His specialty is explosives. 941 00:40:01,733 --> 00:40:03,110 And he got real nervous 942 00:40:03,193 --> 00:40:04,277 when we started talking about murder. 943 00:40:04,361 --> 00:40:06,196 He implicated you, Miss Bickford, 944 00:40:06,279 --> 00:40:07,948 along with Ben Olston. 945 00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:10,158 Temple swears both you and Olston hired him 946 00:40:10,242 --> 00:40:11,326 to blow up the construction site. 947 00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:13,245 No, that's not true. 948 00:40:13,328 --> 00:40:14,704 Ben might have done something like that, 949 00:40:14,788 --> 00:40:16,581 but I had nothing to do with it. 950 00:40:16,665 --> 00:40:18,416 Olston's wife was out of town the night he was murdered. 951 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:19,918 You were at the house with him, weren't you? 952 00:40:20,001 --> 00:40:22,295 No, I wasn't there! 953 00:40:24,131 --> 00:40:27,717 I was supposed to be there, but I... 954 00:40:27,801 --> 00:40:29,636 I was stuck here working. 955 00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:31,012 I phoned Ben. 956 00:40:31,096 --> 00:40:32,764 And I told him I couldn't make it. 957 00:40:32,848 --> 00:40:34,432 What time was that? 958 00:40:35,142 --> 00:40:36,351 About 8:00. 959 00:40:36,893 --> 00:40:38,979 He mentioned to me that Mrs. Landon was there, 960 00:40:39,062 --> 00:40:41,606 which would prove that I wasn't there when she shot him. 961 00:40:42,607 --> 00:40:45,694 Lieutenant, may I have a word with you privately? 962 00:40:48,071 --> 00:40:49,406 Mrs. Olston, 963 00:40:49,531 --> 00:40:51,867 Mrs. Fletcher here has a theory 964 00:40:51,950 --> 00:40:53,118 about how your husband was killed. 965 00:40:53,618 --> 00:40:54,995 Theory? 966 00:40:55,078 --> 00:40:57,122 You mean why Mrs. Landon shot him? 967 00:40:57,205 --> 00:40:58,331 Would you like a drink? 968 00:40:58,415 --> 00:40:59,583 No. No, thank you. 969 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,920 My theory is that Mrs. Landon didn't kill your husband. 970 00:41:05,755 --> 00:41:07,299 But the murder weapon, my husband's pistol, 971 00:41:07,382 --> 00:41:09,384 was found in the station wagon. 972 00:41:09,801 --> 00:41:11,970 It was probably planted there by the murderer. 973 00:41:12,053 --> 00:41:13,889 Mrs. Olston, 974 00:41:13,972 --> 00:41:16,349 did you know your husband was having an affair? 975 00:41:16,433 --> 00:41:17,809 No. 976 00:41:18,435 --> 00:41:19,561 I... 977 00:41:19,644 --> 00:41:21,396 I suspected it. 978 00:41:21,897 --> 00:41:23,899 I'd been spending more time with my mother lately. 979 00:41:23,982 --> 00:41:25,650 She hasn't been feeling well, poor thing. 980 00:41:25,984 --> 00:41:28,320 And Ben's been working late a lot. 981 00:41:28,403 --> 00:41:30,780 Well, we think the woman your husband was seeing 982 00:41:30,864 --> 00:41:33,033 was here in the house the night he was murdered. 983 00:41:33,116 --> 00:41:34,034 Here, while I was away? 984 00:41:34,117 --> 00:41:35,702 Oh, yes. 985 00:41:35,785 --> 00:41:39,122 We suspect some kind of lovers' quarrel which... 986 00:41:39,206 --> 00:41:40,957 which ended in your husband's death. 987 00:41:41,041 --> 00:41:43,126 Do you know who that other woman was? 988 00:41:43,210 --> 00:41:45,503 No, I have no idea. 989 00:41:45,587 --> 00:41:48,548 No, perhaps I do now. 990 00:41:49,049 --> 00:41:51,676 There was a strange message on the answering machine. 991 00:41:52,177 --> 00:41:54,137 What kind of a message? From who? 992 00:41:54,596 --> 00:41:56,389 Someone called Dawn. 993 00:41:56,473 --> 00:41:58,350 I think she works for the city. 994 00:41:58,433 --> 00:41:59,476 And it was about meeting Ben that night. 995 00:41:59,643 --> 00:42:02,145 Well, we found no message on the answering machine. 996 00:42:02,229 --> 00:42:03,563 Well, I thought it was business, 997 00:42:03,647 --> 00:42:04,606 so I probably erased it. 998 00:42:04,689 --> 00:42:06,149 Mrs. Olston, 999 00:42:06,233 --> 00:42:08,610 there was no message on the answering machine. 1000 00:42:08,693 --> 00:42:10,528 I think you were listening on another phone 1001 00:42:10,612 --> 00:42:11,571 when Dawn Bickford called. 1002 00:42:11,655 --> 00:42:13,406 No. 1003 00:42:13,490 --> 00:42:14,866 You knew your husband was involved with another woman. 1004 00:42:15,283 --> 00:42:16,785 You deliberately told him you'd be away, 1005 00:42:16,868 --> 00:42:19,537 and then you came back early, hoping to catch him with her. 1006 00:42:19,621 --> 00:42:21,373 Unless I'm mistaken, you were hiding, 1007 00:42:21,456 --> 00:42:23,124 perhaps upstairs, 1008 00:42:23,208 --> 00:42:25,585 when Nancy Landon arrived and Dawn Bickford telephoned. 1009 00:42:25,669 --> 00:42:26,670 No! 1010 00:42:26,753 --> 00:42:28,129 I was miles from here. 1011 00:42:28,213 --> 00:42:29,673 My car had broken down. 1012 00:42:29,756 --> 00:42:31,549 Perhaps you can ask the taxi driver. 1013 00:42:31,633 --> 00:42:33,969 That was all later, after the murder. 1014 00:42:34,052 --> 00:42:35,595 I'm sorry, but you've made another mistake. 1015 00:42:35,679 --> 00:42:37,305 You said that the murder weapon was found 1016 00:42:37,389 --> 00:42:39,391 in Nancy Landon's station wagon? 1017 00:42:39,474 --> 00:42:41,184 We found the weapon in the house. 1018 00:42:41,268 --> 00:42:45,355 Where she brought it, after she found it in her car. 1019 00:42:45,438 --> 00:42:49,317 Now, only the person who put it there would mention the car. 1020 00:42:49,401 --> 00:42:52,070 No, no, no, no, no, you're trying to confuse me. 1021 00:42:52,153 --> 00:42:53,780 And how did you know that Nancy Landon 1022 00:42:53,863 --> 00:42:55,365 owns a station wagon? 1023 00:42:55,448 --> 00:42:58,201 I suspect because you saw it, 1024 00:42:58,285 --> 00:43:00,120 probably through an upstairs window, 1025 00:43:00,203 --> 00:43:02,372 before you came down and confronted your husband. 1026 00:43:05,875 --> 00:43:07,877 With Ben, there was always some woman. 1027 00:43:08,628 --> 00:43:10,213 I just had enough. 1028 00:43:10,297 --> 00:43:12,382 It was my family's money that set him up in business. 1029 00:43:15,927 --> 00:43:17,470 I came back early. 1030 00:43:17,554 --> 00:43:19,264 I thought maybe I'd catch them together. 1031 00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:22,309 [scoffs] What I didn't expect was Mrs. Landon showing up. 1032 00:43:23,143 --> 00:43:24,436 Instead of Dawn Bickford, 1033 00:43:24,519 --> 00:43:26,730 there was Mrs. Landon at the door. 1034 00:43:28,023 --> 00:43:29,190 Then the phone rang. 1035 00:43:31,151 --> 00:43:33,069 It was Dawn Bickford calling. 1036 00:43:34,821 --> 00:43:37,198 She said she couldn't come that night. 1037 00:43:38,074 --> 00:43:39,993 That was enough for me. 1038 00:43:40,744 --> 00:43:42,704 I wasn't going to take it from Ben anymore. 1039 00:43:42,787 --> 00:43:44,622 I'd had enough! 1040 00:43:45,290 --> 00:43:46,875 So when Mrs. Landon left, 1041 00:43:46,958 --> 00:43:48,752 I went downstairs and confronted him with it. 1042 00:43:49,419 --> 00:43:51,546 He didn't even bother to deny it. 1043 00:43:51,629 --> 00:43:52,839 Then he hit me! 1044 00:43:52,922 --> 00:43:54,174 He hit me! 1045 00:43:54,257 --> 00:43:55,508 Suddenly the gun was in my hand. 1046 00:43:55,592 --> 00:43:56,926 [gunshot] 1047 00:44:01,348 --> 00:44:03,516 Then it all seemed so easy. 1048 00:44:04,184 --> 00:44:05,935 Nancy Landon was my way out. 1049 00:44:07,228 --> 00:44:09,272 I typed up the appointment slip 1050 00:44:09,356 --> 00:44:11,441 so the police would know that she'd been here 1051 00:44:11,524 --> 00:44:13,443 and then just drove over 1052 00:44:13,526 --> 00:44:15,445 and left the gun in her station wagon. 1053 00:44:16,780 --> 00:44:19,949 And what about the report that Mrs. Landon left? 1054 00:44:20,033 --> 00:44:21,659 I burned that. 1055 00:44:21,743 --> 00:44:23,161 After all, it was my company now. 1056 00:44:23,244 --> 00:44:26,122 [sighs] 1057 00:44:26,206 --> 00:44:28,792 There was still plenty of time to drive out of town, 1058 00:44:30,335 --> 00:44:32,295 pretend the car had broken down, 1059 00:44:33,755 --> 00:44:36,800 come back with the taxi driver to discover Ben's body. 1060 00:44:44,724 --> 00:44:46,518 I'm only glad it's over. 1061 00:44:52,732 --> 00:44:53,900 I couldn't let you go back to Maine 1062 00:44:53,983 --> 00:44:55,610 without thanking you properly. 1063 00:44:55,693 --> 00:44:57,112 It's not necessary. 1064 00:44:57,195 --> 00:44:59,030 I'm glad things turned out the way they did. 1065 00:44:59,781 --> 00:45:01,991 Frank promised to help and, well, 1066 00:45:02,075 --> 00:45:05,787 he isn't here anymore, so I did what I could. 1067 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,212 I suppose we ought to talk about Frank. 1068 00:45:14,963 --> 00:45:16,381 [sighing] 1069 00:45:17,257 --> 00:45:19,175 Oh, Jessica. 1070 00:45:20,343 --> 00:45:23,054 I feel so terribly guilty. 1071 00:45:24,431 --> 00:45:26,724 Whatever happened, it was a long time ago. 1072 00:45:26,808 --> 00:45:29,477 No, I feel guilty about lying to you. 1073 00:45:29,561 --> 00:45:31,146 But... 1074 00:45:31,229 --> 00:45:34,023 I was so desperate to help Steven 1075 00:45:34,107 --> 00:45:35,859 I would have done anything. 1076 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,155 I lied to you about Frank. 1077 00:45:40,864 --> 00:45:42,699 We were never lovers. 1078 00:45:43,158 --> 00:45:44,451 Now I... 1079 00:45:44,534 --> 00:45:46,619 I suppose I should tell you the truth. 1080 00:45:46,703 --> 00:45:48,913 And this is the truth, Jessica. 1081 00:45:48,997 --> 00:45:52,083 I was very much in love 1082 00:45:52,167 --> 00:45:56,004 with a young flier in Frank's squadron. 1083 00:45:56,087 --> 00:45:58,298 His name was Steven. 1084 00:45:58,381 --> 00:46:00,008 He was married. 1085 00:46:01,342 --> 00:46:04,804 And then, one day he was shot down and killed. 1086 00:46:05,597 --> 00:46:07,140 I was pregnant. 1087 00:46:08,475 --> 00:46:09,809 But Frank... 1088 00:46:09,893 --> 00:46:11,269 the letter. 1089 00:46:11,352 --> 00:46:13,813 Oh, Frank knew about Steven and me. 1090 00:46:13,897 --> 00:46:16,441 He was a good friend, that's all. 1091 00:46:16,941 --> 00:46:20,361 A friend I needed very badly. 1092 00:46:20,445 --> 00:46:23,239 He helped me through the terrible grief. 1093 00:46:26,117 --> 00:46:28,036 Frank was a wonderful man. 1094 00:46:28,703 --> 00:46:31,956 He even kept in touch after little Steven was born. 1095 00:46:34,125 --> 00:46:36,878 Thanks for telling me the truth, Nancy. 1096 00:46:37,420 --> 00:46:38,713 [sighs] 1097 00:46:38,796 --> 00:46:41,257 I think in my heart of hearts, I... 1098 00:46:42,592 --> 00:46:44,844 I always trusted Frank. 1099 00:46:46,387 --> 00:46:48,848 You are a lucky woman, Jessica. 1100 00:46:49,516 --> 00:46:51,559 Frank loved you very much.