All language subtitles for S01E24 - The Star Juror

Good evening.

Just a bit of do -it -yourself.

I'm breaking up an old closet and I'm
about to put in the cornerstone.

I saw this as an opportunity to provide
future generations with a picture of our

culture. Therefore, I am placing a few
significant items inside the stone.

Naturally, I have included several of
the current hit records in their

tongue, a supply of plastic credit
cards, some low -calorie chewing gum,

a frozen TV dinner. By the way, in order
to conserve space and at the

same time demonstrate our scientific
know -how, all of these items have been

placed here in concentrated form.

All one has to do is to add water.

Of course, in order not to take chances,
I also placed five gallons of water in

the cornerstone.

Obviously, that too is in concentrated
form. So concentrated, in fact, that I

don't seem to be able to find it.

All of us at one time or another sit in
judgment of ourselves, but never in

quite the sense that the hero of
tonight's story did.

We were also planning to place a copy of
the weekly television schedule in here,

but we were afraid by the time this is
opened, future generations would have

lost the art of reading.

So we are putting in the following bit
of film instead.

Why, hello, Mr. Davis.

Having a nice weekend?

Mm -hmm.

Get going.

Me too.

Want a beer?

Want to sit down and talk to me?

You know, I don't think I ever talk to
you outside the drugstore, except say

hello passing in the street.

Have a beer.

I can't drink them all and they're
getting hot.

Come on.

Why,

Mr. Davey, what would Jenny say?

Well, Jenny wouldn't say nothing.

Imagine Jenny saying nothing.

Don't do that. Don't do it. Don't laugh
so loud.

You're hurting me. I'm going to tell
your wife you're hurting me.

But none do nothing. Now, don't you
scream like that anymore, because

hear you.

Now, you're not going to tell Jenny, are
you?

Well, I was just going to kiss you. You
kiss everybody else in town.

Now, you aren't going to tell, are you,
Lola?

Mrs. Davies!

No,

you can kiss me.

Stay there and sleep then.

I got me a nice boat here. I'm going to
roll me all around the lake.

If you ain't at the car when I take this
boat back and dock it, you can find

your own way back to town.

You hear me?

Jenny? Oh, George, George, wake up. We
got company.

Howdy, Sheriff Walter.

Howdy, Jenny, George.

Where's Pauline?

She's at Susie's party.

What brings you out to lake today,
Walter? First warm Sunday of spring.

keep away from the lake. Got to take the
boy boating.

Can we go on, Dad?

Yep, but get a good one.

Come on, Jeff.

And get an extra pair of oars.

Where, uh...

Where are the boys going, Walter?

They're cutting across the boathouse.

Would you like some chicken, Sheriff?

I've fried up three nice chickens, just
the good pieces and the neck. George

loves neck.

There's also some white meat there, too.

Thank you.

George, here's that nice fat neck you
were eyeing before church. You want it

now? Uh -uh.

Anybody in jail this week, Sheriff?

Jenny, you ask Walter that every time
you see him. I know that. I know what I

asked. Isn't there, Sheriff?

Nope, Jenny.

It's been a quiet month.

Only criminal in our town is time.

He's a criminal everywhere.

I wish you could lock old man time up.

That would be all right, wouldn't it?

We'd just send old man time to the
electric chair.

George, you sure you don't want this
neck? It's your last chance. I'm going

eat it up.

You want some nice homemade ice cream
and cake, Walter?

No, thanks, Jenny.

You want to take a little walk, George?

See what kind of a boat the boy's got?

We walk around the edge of the lake,
we'll meet him.

No, Waller, no, I think... You know, I
think Jenny and me better get all this

stuff packed up. We don't want to be
late for church tonight. What are you

talking about? It's all packed up.

Look at my dad.

Sheriff Walder! Sheriff Walder!

Sheriff Walder, we found a dead woman.
Lola Pendlewar, in the woods, she's

A dead woman?

It had to be a man. Just had to be. All
you have to do is find out who that

Lola's escort was today.

Sinful woman like that Lola.

Even with her dead, the mere mention of
her name leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Now you finish up your supper, George,
and get down to town.

Why? Well, to talk to Walter and find
out who done it.

Did, Mama, not done.

Don't you correct your mother.

Well, now, Walter be down at the jail up
to his neck in trouble.

A team of wild horses couldn't keep the
sheriff out of that beer joint tonight.

Now you eat up and get down there.

I'm the number one suspect. I ain't got
no witness to what I was doing.

Just what was you doing, Leo? Well,
checking fence in the back pasture, but

nobody seen me.

At least I didn't see anybody see me.

Ah, there ain't no sense looking any
further.

There's the man who did it.

Now, don't let him tease you, George.

Thank you. Everybody comes in on him.

Hey, George, you were out at the lake,
though, weren't you? Uh -huh.

Well, didn't you hear anything or see
anything?

No, no.

Well, now, here's a couple of men who
can tell us something.

Howdy, Judge Higgins. Dr. Vance. Hi.

Leo, I don't see any checker players
tonight. What's wrong, George?

Too much excitement.

Ah, there's never too much excitement
for a fast game of checkers.

I'll take the red one.

The town is heated up, though.

Like someone set a match to them.

Everybody's scared.

Women all staying in.

Well, we got him.

Resisted arrest and everything.

You about through?

You ain't gonna get no new pillow.
Nothing to eat, neither.

And you'll have to sleep on what's left
of that bed.

You let me out of here.

Shut up!

Now, you stop that, DJ. You stop that.

Wait a minute.

George?

The phone?

George? I hear it. I hear it. Well, get
up and answer it.

Yes, I hear it.

Something must be wrong.

Hello?

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, no, no, no, no, Dr. Vince.

Well,

I can be there in about five minutes.

I know, doctor. We got it.

Yeah, yeah. Bye.

Well, I got to open up the store and
take some stuff to the jail because J

been acting up and they need something
to quiet him down.

Here we go.

We'll settle Helen down right now.

You ain't going to stick me with that
thing. I ain't no horse.

You come in here, I'll kill you.

I'll kill you.

Don't you stick me with that, Dr. Vince.
Hold his arm out.

Careful now, Dr. Vince. He'll take a
hunk out of your hand.

Ow!

Boy,

you are a horse.

Never had a horse to bite me any harder.

Hold on to him for a minute.

I'm holding him.

Why don't you and him, George, he need
you. You can sit on my stomach.

I'm through P.

kill her, boys.

Mr. Davis, you know I didn't kill her,
don't you?

Oh, I loved her.

Poor little Lola.

I was the only one who loved her.

Really, honest, couldn't love that silly
little baby girl.

He's not playing possum. I gave him
enough to knock out an elephant.

Boy, he's got a devil in him.

Strong as a mule.

No doubt in my mind he's the murderer.

He's a real killer.

No need for a trial.

Waste of money. Money and time.

Too bad we have to take him to the state
penitentiary electric chair.

We still had hanging. We could do it
ourselves.

Right outside the front door, huh,
George?

Sheriff's office.

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

J .J. didn't kill Lola.

It was someone else.

Who is this?

You must listen now and believe me.

J .J. is innocent.

Well, if he didn't do it, who did?

Me. Who's me? Who is this?

Now listen, if you don't tell me who
this is, I'm going to hang up. I got too

much to do to stand around here
listening to crank calls.

It was me.

Who?

Who?

George Davis.

George Davis.

Don't get your back up.

Well, J .J. is out on bail, all right. I
told you. He's already got himself

another girl, Alice Moore, down from the
mountains.

Same type as he is, wearing shorts on
the street.

His mother showed up this morning with
some money.

She's been washing it out in a long time
in this town, but I didn't have any

idea she'd saved up that much.

Well, I'm not taking my stuff to her
anymore.

So, he'll be out on the street until the
trial, a whole month with the murderer

in the street.

Judge Higgins should have set the bail
higher.

Well, Judge Higgins ain't so dumb
letting J .J. out on bail.

He's hoping he'll do something to give
himself away. Everybody knows he done

The judge just wants him to tip his
hand, cap the evidence perfect.

He'll do it all right. He'll trap
himself somehow. They always do.

I wish you'd mind me and get a glass
that ain't cracked.

I don't want you swallowing no slivers
of glass.

A sliver of glass is a man's best
friend.

Do you want me to open you up another
one, J .J.? Go ahead.

I don't know what I'm being punished
for, but the Lord is severe.

That's the way they're going to fry me
more.

Don't do that, JJ. You're making her
stink.

Don't answer, JJ.

Just be another threat. Don't answer.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

You answer this one.

Oh, no.

Go on, answer it.

Fenton residence.

Somebody wants to talk to you, JJ.

Ask them what they want.

Well, J .J. wants to know what you want.

Oh.

Oh, yes. Well, thank you.

Yes, I'll tell him.

That's somebody that says they're the
friend, J .J.

That you're being watched and that the
judge is out to trick you.

And for you to be careful.

And for the life of me, I don't know who
it was.

Yeah, I bet that was a friend.

I'm not going to be more careful.

I'm going to be smart.

Come on, Alice.

JJ, where are you going?

Out of the county.

Out of the state.

They warned you about jumping bail.

Ma, I jump or I fry.

jump.

Hi, Walter.

Working kind of late, aren't you,
George?

No, no.

See, I had to get out and order for some
vitamins, and I wanted to get them down

to the post office, so I'd go out first
thing in the morning.

Well, I'm going right by there. That's
out of your way. I'll save you the trip.

No, no, thank you, Walter. I was kind of
looking forward to walking.

7 -3, calling 1 -4.

Excuse me.

Walter?

You there?

Walter? Hello.

Walter here. That you, Pete?

Well, he done it, Walter.

He drove out of the county toward the
state line.

He was traveling fast, but I was right
on his tail, and I got him with the help

of the state police.

I thought so. I'm on my way.

Well, I think Mr. J .J.'s cooked his own
goose.

I think his flight is an admission of
guilt.

All right, George, I got work to do.

answering me like that. Why didn't you
answer me, George?

Who'd you think it was? The murderer?

Well, these days you never know.

You sick? Got indigestion?

Hmm.

You been drinking?

Did you see Judge Higgins in town?

Oh, well then. You don't know the
wonderful news.

Seda Arvin called me up tonight and said
that you have been selected to serve on

the jury of the murder trial.

You're going to get your official
summons tomorrow. Seda made it out and

it this afternoon.

I'm so proud of you, George.

It's about time you got into politics.

Theta says so, too. It's a great honor.

First murder trial any of us can
remember.

Reporters coming down from everywhere.

It's going to be your chance to deal out
justice, George.

To see if this terrible criminal gets
his just desserts.

The restoration of the tissues of the
neck, the fracture of the right horn of

the thyroid cartilage, and finally the
deep bruising all indicate a violent

struggle.

Oh, uh, there's one thing more.

She had a mark on the side of her face.

Looked like somebody had slapped her
several hours before.

No witness.

No questions, Your Honor.

Martin knows he's guilty.

Judge Higgins.

Yes, Judge?

Could I ask Dr.

Venture a question?

You know, I've lived here all my life,
and I know that when you're on a jury,

there's something you don't understand,
well, you can ask questions, and with

the judge's permission, of course. Now,
and there's a couple things here I don't

understand. You know, and if we make a
mistake and we ain't right in our

judgment, well...

All right, George, ask your question.

Well... Through me, George.

Yes, yes. Well, with your permission,
and I'd like to ask Dr.

Vince... George, say the witness.

Well, with your permission, and I'd like
to ask the witness, if Lola... George,

say the victim.

Thank you, Judge. Well, then, with your
permission, I'd like to ask the witness

if the victim struggled and defended
herself.

Well, I've already answered that in my
paper, Your Honor.

Well, if she defended herself and it was
a violent struggle, like the doctor

said, well, then wouldn't the accused
have marks or scratches or something on

his body? You know, Lola was known for
her long red fingernails.

Well, there were marks on the accused,
on the left hand and the right forearm.

Scratches, obviously caused by
fingernails.

Judge, could I ask a question of the
accused?

Go through me, George.

Oh, well, then would you ask J .J. if
he's got any explanation about the

scratches the doctor found on his
forearm?

Did the accused understand the question?

Oh, yes, sir.

Yes, Your Honor.

Yeah, old Lola scratched me, all right.

But that was earlier in the morning.

I already told the doc so.

Well, we had to fill a fight, see,
and... Oh, she scratched me.

Well, shoot, I got scars everywhere.

Is that all, George?

For right now, thank you, Judge.

He sat up on the boat, and he just
looked at me.

Kind of a nasty look, like I'd messed
things up.

Then he started rowing away.

I watched him.

because I thought there was something
awful funny.

And then he rode over to the cove there
where the body was.

I didn't know the body was there then,
but he got out and he stood there,

down at what he had done.

I seen it all.

Come to think about it, I wouldn't be
surprised if I didn't see one of her

Yes, George.

Judge, you know, listen to Jess. I don't
get a clear picture of this whole thing

at all. I think that you ought to take
us out to the lake and let us have a

at the scene of the crime.

I think so, too.

Very well.

The jury will be taken to the scene of
the crime tomorrow morning. Next

I call Elsie Grissom to the stand.

Miss Grissom, would you tell this court
what it is that you do?

I own and run the Happy Home Hotel.

And you rented a room to the victim,
Lola Penderwall? I did, but I never

have if I ever suspected that... Well,
she wasn't so bad till she met him when

he came back from the penitentiary. He
was a devil to her.

I sometimes heard them talking together
very late at night.

Would you tell this court what it is
that you heard?

Well, I... heard them fighting.

Their relationship was very stormy,
laced with a generous amount of liquor.

The morning of that Sunday, they had a
quarrel. It woke me up.

The gist of it was she wanted to go out
to the lake and go swimming.

You promised me, she kept saying. You
promised me. And then, that's what I

heard. Oh, louder than that, though.

About like that. A couple of times, too.

And then she cried and cried and cried
as if her heart would break.

Later on, they went out.

On an outing from which she did not
return alive.

Elsie, after you listened to all this,
did you happen to see J .J., the

leave with the victim?

I certainly did.

He had his arm around her.

His arm around her?

Did he look like a murderer to you with
his arm around her? I mean, Elsie,

did... Did that thought ever enter your
mind that he was about to kill her?

No.

Would the star

juror care to give me some justification
for his behavior?

What behavior?

What behavior?

The behavior that has brought down
ridicule and scandal over our heads.

What are you talking about now, Jenny?

Have you gone deaf and blind?

Unplug your ears. Open your eyes.

George Davies, the most respected,
highly thought of citizen in this town,

protecting this infidel, this murderer.

No wonder you get indigestion.

Oh, now, Shmore, you're going to wake up
Pauline. Oh, poor, poor Pauline. She

don't dare leave the house.

Your father... Your father's done
nothing but observe the oath he took as

juror. That oath don't tell you to sit
up there and play games. You're there to

see that a murderer is guilty.

Jenny, I tried every way possible to get
out of this duty.

But I was literally forced, because I'm
so respectable, to sit judgment.

And I refuse to condemn a man on such
slim evidence.

Make a mockery of justice.

Justice will be done, Jenny. JJ will get
what he deserves.

I'll see to that.

Joe!

What's that note say, George? I don't
know, Jenny.

I don't know, but... It's George.

Since when you become a friend of
killers?

This is for JJ.

You... Better be sure... He gets it.

Now, I still don't see how Jess could
have seen JJ get off that boat, because

it's already out of sight.

You know, it's still about half a mile
from the cove where Lola was killed.

Is that right, Judge?

That's right.

I swear I thought I could have seen it.

Well, you did swear it, Jess, but it
wasn't true.

Has the jury reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

Will the accused please stand and face
the jury?

Will you please state the verdict?

We find the accused, J .J. Fenton, not
guilty.

George, he's been tired. I think he's
lost his mind.

I don't understand it, but I will never
have a prescription filled there again.

Poor Jenny.

Well thank you, George!

You clean it up?

Well, one

package of gum. That's all we've sold in
three days since your brilliant show on

the trial.

We've been boycotted.

I only did my duty. You should hear what
people are saying about you and your

duty. And as for your friends and your
jury, they give you all the credit.

Well, what have I done, Jenny? You know,
have I committed a crime?

You...

You act like you like to see me
electrocuted. A couple of shock

wouldn't do you any harm.

Just why were you so anxious to get J
.J. off?

Well, I was only anxious to see that
justice was done. Well, no justice was

done. That murderer is still loose.

Can I help you?

Yeah.

I want to thank you.

You want to come in the back?

Now,

J .J.? Well, I... I just wanted to thank
you.

Why'd you do it?

Oh, I... I sure do appreciate it.

But I ain't sure you did me service or
disservice.

As far as they're concerned, I'm still
the local killer.

I've taken spite out of my mother.

Last night, somebody tried to burn the
house down.

Well, I... I just put her on the bus,
sent her to see her sister.

No telling what's going to happen next.

Of course, they fired me at the mill.

A good old Frank Williams, he offered me
a job killing chickens.

Killing chickens?

Why don't you just get out of town, JJ?
You know, get out of town. Go far away

somewhere. That's just what everybody
wants, isn't it?

To see me run.

Well, I ain't going to give them the
satisfaction.

I'm going to stay and kill chickens.

And come fall, I'll get a job
slaughtering pigs if I have to.

But I'm going to stay until a real
killer is found.

Mr. Davies, you seem awful sure that it
wasn't me who'd done it.

You must have some idea who did.

No, no, JJ.

Then help me to find out who did it.

Please.

Help me.

Oh,

JJ, your car.

Don't kill me. I'm still the local
killer.

Killer. Killer.

Killer. Killer.

Killer.

Killer.

Killer.

Killer. Killer.

Killer.

What is it, George?

Walter, I've come to tell you the name
of the man who murdered Ola.

Oh, you have, huh?

Regular Sherlock Holmes. Well, I hope
you have the evidence to back it up.

Now, write down what I tell you.

I, the undersigned, George Davies, do
hereby declare that I killed Lola

Penderwalder on the... Ha!

That's very funny.

I got scared, Walter.

Panic is strong. It freezes reason.
Panic had made a murderer of me. See, I

choked her, and then I ran, taking with
me the weapons of the act, my hands.

Now, that ain't funny. A joke's a joke.

And there's voices out there where I did
it.

Voices?

George, do me a favor.

Go on home, huh?

There was voices, Walter.

Yeah. There was voices that seemed to be
coming.

Well, don't you believe me? Well, sure I
believe you. But I'm telling you the

truth. This is the best thing. Take it
easy. Go on home. I promise.

This will calm him down, settle his
nerves.

I'll go right into the store and fill it
out myself, Doctor.

Good night, George.

Oh, good night, Dr. Vince.

Pauline, honey?

Yes, Daddy?

George Davies, if you had wanted to kill
me, you couldn't have done a better

job. If you had used a knife, you
couldn't have caused more pain.

You not only had to smear my name in the
name of your child with scandal and

ridicule, you had to dishonor us, too,
by going mad.

Daddy, call Sheriff Walter.

And tell him you were only making fun.

I wasn't making fun, Pauline.

My mother always warned me that she
could see signs of insanity in his

in his background.

I know someone who'll believe me. You're
not getting out of this house, Julie!

Man, oh man, Alice.

It can't go on.

I'll go get the doctor.

Hey.

Leave the gun.

Who's that?

George Davies.

Come on in.

I had me some visitors, Mr. Davies.

You weren't one of them, were you?

No,

you wouldn't do a thing like that.

You're my friend.

The champion of my cause.

You saved me.

Thanks to you, I'm a free man.

And I can do what I want.

Nobody would care.

No, no, no.

Don't do that.

I'm so miserable, Mr. Davies.

And I hurt.

I might have done it.

And I'm being punished for it, you know.

I might have done it.

J .J.

J .J., look at me.

Listen to me.

I killed Lola.

No, thank you.

That's mighty big -hearted of you.

But you leave me alone.

Go on, get out of here.

I swear it. I swear it. I killed her.
You wouldn't kill a fly.

I don't want your lies to save me.

I'm not worth your burnt offering.

But this time, this time you can be a
witness.

See?

Well, that's that.

Who's that in the car?

That's George Davies.

George.

George, what are you doing here?

Well, I come to visit JJ.

He's dead.

He killed himself.

Alice Moore says he's been talking about
it for days.

Right through the heart.

Shows you were wrong.

He killed Lola.

It's with the gun and the fingerprints.

Alice touched it. Pete touched it.

I'm not going to bother dusting it for
fingerprints.

It's even got mine on it.

I got eyes. I know a suicide when I see
one.

Walter, I shot him. I killed him.

George, I know you're mixed up.

The whole town's in back here, rooting
for you to pull out of this.

Dr. Vince said you need a rest.

You've been working too hard.

Let me run you home.

Take a hot bath.

Get into bed.

Come on now.

You will be comforted to know that
George ultimately got his wish and was

to prison where he died a broken man.

One item I haven't mentioned, which I'm
placing in the cornerstone, is my dear

sponsor's last will and testament. That
bothersome fellow seems to have

mysteriously disappeared.

Never mention me in the will, either.

Father, certain people are forever
getting in a man's way when he's

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