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Unless you break the speed limit, I'd say you're late for class.

I guess I'm late for class.

I'm sorry, Mark. I didn't think Judge Hayes would have so much to say and take

so long to say it. Oh, that's okay. Missing a few minutes of a lecture isn't

going to blow my mind.

It isn't going to blow your ego, either.

What's the topic tonight?

The witness as an observer.

Sounds pretty bad.

Look, I'll see you in a couple hours now. You ever bring home a snack?

No.

Have a bowl of chili, watch the football game, take a whirlpool bath, and go to

bed. Bye. Bye.

I'll be down in a few minutes, Hank.

Passing by?

Yeah, more or less. What are you doing tonight?

I'm taking the night off, Dennis. I'm doing nothing.

Whatever business brought you here, we'll have to wait.

Bob, tomorrow, Dennis.

This one I'll keep till tomorrow. Dennis, relaxation is an art you should

cultivate.

I'll tell you what. Make us a drink. In about half an hour, you can split a bowl

of chili with me.

I have two tickets for the McLaren -Felty fight.

My wife won't go.

That's right, Bob. This is purely a social visit.

I'm sorry I misjudged you.

Comes of being exploited once too often.

It comes of having a basically suspicious nature.

What do you say?

McLaren Felty.

It's the fight of the decade.

You know how tough it is to get tickets.

I'm tempted, but... No thanks, Dennis.

49ers are playing the Cowboys tonight, and I've got a front row seat.

Hey, how about joining me?

I wouldn't trade a good fight for a football game.

Even with your famous chili thrown in.

Good night, Bob.

Good night.

Just remember, I offered you the ticket first.

After my wife.

I appreciate it.

Enjoy the fight. Enjoy the game.

Are you a fight fan, Hank? Yes. Well, then you're in luck. Let's go.

Don't you like it?

I don't understand it. You don't have to understand it to like it.

It helps.

Read the program notes.

I read them.

Twice. And?

And I don't understand it.

But it was nice of you to come at all on such short notice.

It was nice of your date to get the flu.

I mean... I know what you mean.

Can you figure out what's happening on stage?

I think the peasants are rejoicing.

Why?

I'm not sure.

I'm going to celebrate an anniversary together.

better.

How can you tell?

Ed, these tickets cost George $30.

I wish George were here and I were at the McLaren -Felty fight.

Thanks a lot.

With you.

I don't like fights.

They're down there stabbing each other with swords and you don't like fights?

Why don't we go pick up a pizza and a gallon of rum crunch ice cream?

And watch TV with the chief.

We could take off our shoes.

You better phone and make sure he wants company.

I'll be right back.

Excuse me.

I'm sorry.

The eye is a camera.

It captures and retains an image.

But, and it's a big but, but the brain interprets that image.

That interpretation is dependent on many factors, including the character and

experience of the observer.

And such things as familiarity with the pictorial sense.

Excuse me.

Thank you.

The lines are busy. I'll try later.

What's happening here?

The peasant is saying goodbye to his daughter.

You mean she hasn't left yet?

She left, but she came back again. Now she's leaving again.

You want to leave?

Do you?

I think we should hold out to the end.

Five yards to go.

Amazing rookie from Yale, moving the ball out smartly on the first play from

Grimmie.

Take it easy.

It's all right. Everything's under control.

You've just seen a mock murder.

That makes each of you a witness.

Now, what I want to know is what you saw.

What you really saw.

know what you're talking about.

Bye.

Operator, would you please dial 362 -0024 for me?

Well, 362 -0024 is a local number and may be dialed direct.

Yes, I know.

I'd just like to have it checked. It's been busy for some time.

One moment, please.

Thank you.

That line is still busy.

Operator, there are two lines on that number on a rotary system.

They could both be busy.

but they may be out of order.

Could you have them checked?

I'll request the service department to verify the busy signal. Thank you for

calling. Thank you.

The lines are still busy. They're checking them out.

How's the plot thickening? The mayor is beginning to think that the peasant is

his long -lost brother.

Terrific.

Ed? I was just thinking.

If the telephone's not out of order, the chief is having a very busy night.

Mark's there?

It's Thursday.

Mark's in school.

Shh.

Maybe the chief took the bone off the hook so he could get some sleep.

Maybe.

All right.

How many people say the murderer had brown hair?

Blonde hair?

Any bits for black hair?

How about no hair?

You think the murderer was bald, Mr. Sanger?

I don't know, but he was wearing a wig.

You certain of that?

I'm certain of what I saw.

Anybody else here say the murderer was wearing a wig?

Now, Mr. Sanger, it seems you're alone. None of your fellow witnesses will

corroborate your story.

Maybe not, but I saw a wig on the mat.

Can you describe it?

Yes, just one of those cheap cotton types that kids wear on Halloween.

Perhaps you only think you saw it. No, I saw it.

Isn't there anybody here who can verify Mr. Sanger's description?

I agree.

Now, Mr. Sanger, it seems you really did see something.

Ironside. I feel alone.

I'm also curious.

Who are you?

What do you want?

You want to talk?

How do you like it with the lights out?

You forgot to steal my candles and my matches so I wasn't in the dark.

What do you think?

He was going to watch the football game.

The peasant or the mayor? The chief.

He wouldn't have taken the phone off the hook to sleep because he was going to

watch the football game.

Maybe he took the phone off the hook to watch the game.

What do you say we go get that pizza you were talking about?

I thought we were waiting for the intermission. I'm hungry.

Okay.

This is the telephone repairman.

Your phone should be working now.

Who called the repair service?

I don't know. All I know is somebody reported a continuous busy signal and

verified it out of order.

It looks like somebody jump -wired the terminals.

I'm going to call the office and have them test the lines.

If you're really a repairman, get out of there and call the police immediately.

Yes, sir.

Hello?

Hello? I'm sorry, we aren't able to complete your call.

Hey, look who's here.

It's okay, Sophia. I'll take care of it. Hi, Al. Mr.

Brown? Miss Whitfield?

Always a pleasure.

How are things with you, Al?

Things are great.

Business is terrible.

Excuse me.

Nobody makes a pizza like you, Al.

Now you're talking about quality.

I mean, that's different.

Quality comes from the creator.

The artist. The man whose fingers fashion the delicacy for the sensitive

And that's me.

Do you realize the blood of five generations of pizza makers flows in my

The artist.

My ancestors vibrate in my fingertips.

Vibrate? So you're back, huh? Now, what kind of a pizza do you want? And I'm

going to make it myself.

The usual. To go. That would be one half mushrooms, one fourth pepperoni, and

one fourth sausage with anchovies. To go. Bravo.

Alfredo. Still busy?

Yeah. They should have it prepared by now.

Less than ten minutes ago, Mr. Sanger was the only one to say that the

wore a wig.

Now the majority agrees with Mr. Sanger.

Why?

Mr. Sanger, did you notice anything else about the murderer?

Yes. He was black.

That's ridiculous.

The man was white.

All right. All right, everyone. Quiet.

Quite right, Miss Turner.

And he didn't have a wig either.

Yet most of you say that he did.

Now, I must admit that Mr. Sanger and I set this up. But the point is made.

You didn't believe your own eyes.

Simply because Mr. Sanger was so adamant, so confident, so forceful in

described, you were intimidated by him. Point to remember, eyewitnesses are not

infallible because they are people.

And people are apt to be interpretive and opinionated. As lawyers, it is vital

to remember that all too often, a man will see much more with his brain

than he will with his eyes.

You will find many witnesses that see too much.

That is, they invent images that were not present in the visual stimulus.

A Nile tree in the background can become an ominous man under the pressures of a

criminal investigation.

Then there are those who don't see enough.

There are people who are really unaware of what they've seen.

The image... Yes, Mr. Sanger?

Excuse me.

Still busy?

Out of order. They sent a truck out, but both lines are still busy.

Ed, I'm getting some very bad vibrations.

Yeah.

Let's get going.

Gotta run, Al. Thank you very much.

Hey, but what about your pizza?

You eat it, okay?

Yeah. Thanks a lot. I hate pizza.

How you doing, Ironside?

Hello, Mr. Chard.

Jimmy Chard, isn't it?

You don't know me.

I know about you.

And if the alarm goes off, so do you, Ironside.

Now, it doesn't make a difference that you know about me.

I think a man should know the name of his executioner.

It's not like they do in the tank.

All legal.

No faces.

No names.

Jimmy, put the gun down and let's talk.

You got 13 minutes, cop. Don't talk.

If I were you, I'd pray.

What happened to the telephone repairman? What do you think happened? I

him. Why?

Because he walked in on me, that's why.

He walked in to repair a telephone, not to harm you.

Hey, he was going to call his office, wasn't he?

Maybe he had a wife, Jimmy. Maybe a couple of kids.

Shut up.

You know, it's doubly sad, Jimmy.

Because you murdered two people just now.

One unnamed, faceless man.

One scared young fellow named Jimmy Chard.

Listen, you shut up or I'm going to blow your head off right now.

You know you're not going to get away with any of this.

Give me the gun, Jimmy.

Spent three years planning this execution, Ironside.

You got ten minutes.

Not leaving much for your mother, are you?

First your brother, now you.

How old are you, Jimmy?

25, 26?

Billy was... 22 years old when they pulled the switch on him.

You know, he didn't even have a chance to vote.

You strapped him in a chair and you dropped a gas pellet on him. Then you

home and you ate your supper, huh?

It was my brother, Ironside. Your brother killed two police officers.

We were trying to kill him and he shot back.

He was committing a robbery.

And he was carrying a loaded gun and he was prepared to kill anyone who tried to

stop him. And he did. He shot down two men who were paid $150 a week to put

their lives on the line.

Don't ask me to feel sorry for Billy. Not sorry, not guilty.

And not ashamed.

He was a thief and a murderer. And I arrested him.

A jury tried him and a judge sentenced him.

That's what's going to happen to you, Jimmy. And your mother will have another

parcel of clothes to take home from prison and cry over. Now give me that

Now listen! Stop pushing me!

That's beautiful, you know?

That's really beautiful.

Terrific. Try to find a cop when you need one.

Did you really kill the repairman?

How do you know he's dead?

I know.

But maybe he's not.

Maybe all you have to do is to give me the gun, call an ambulance, and stay

alive. I'm telling you, he's dead. How do you know?

How do you know, Jimmy, you've never killed anyone in your life?

I've killed.

I've killed plenty. In the army, it was all legal.

Viet Cong regulars.

I've done my share of killing. Two whole years of it in Vietnam.

Why do you think it took me three years to get to you, huh? I mean, where do you

think I was when Billy was pulling that job?

You were never in Vietnam, Jimmy.

Where do you get that? Go on, read it.

It's a lie.

Is it?

Okay, come on, throw that folder on the floor. Right now. Go on, throw it down.

You spent two years in the Signal Corps and 16 months in an Army psychiatric

ward.

So what, huh?

I mean, what difference does it make? You've got three minutes.

You're curious about that folder, aren't you?

Wonder why I'm sitting here with information on you.

Billy, he told you. He had to tell you, right?

Well, you know, Billy was always a liar.

No, Billy didn't tell me.

You just did.

I did some checking on Billy's family and background when he was arrested.

I never thought he was clever enough to plan a bank robbery. He was only in the

purse -snatching little league.

All right, man.

Sure, I planned it.

I'm real good at planning things, you know. I mean, look at the mess you're

Oh, you're bad at planning things, Jimmy.

That's why two policemen and your brother are dead.

Put on a good show, talked a good game.

When the day came for the plan to become a reality, you found an excuse, didn't

you? A great excuse.

Uncle Sam never asked for you, Jimmy. You enlisted.

You wanted out of that job because you knew the plan was a pipe dream.

You didn't have the guts to admit it to your brother. You let him walk into that

bank and murder two innocent men and himself because of your stupid ego.

You never planned anything successfully in your whole life.

Not a bank robbery and not this murder.

You know what you are, Jimmy?

You're a failure.

Shut up. Shut up!

You still got time, Ironside. I can wait.

You're gonna put it out like Billy did.

What's that?

Water.

I was running a bath. It's overflowing.

A bath now, huh?

Okay.

Turn it off. What difference does it make?

Turn it off! Come on, move it! Turn it off!

Well, it's a long story.

He'll be all right.

But there's a telephone repairman somewhere in the building I'm not sure

Better use the phone in the van and call an ambulance.

What was he after?

Revenge. Maybe absolution.

The man from the telephone company. He's unconscious in the garage, but he's

still alive.

Good. Well, how was the opera?

Pretty dull compared to what must have happened here.

Pretty dull regardless.

My chili's finished.

Let's go out for some pizza.

Oh, that's a good idea. Fantastic. I feel like rum crunch myself.

Beautiful. Here, Ed. Take care of this for me. What is it?

What's it look like? Three dumb pool balls and a shirt sleeve.

More Ironside on Monday. Next this morning, Yvonne's in a bit of a state

series of embarrassing experiences.

But is Gary on hand to help?

Tonight's sweetheart returns in minutes.