1 00:00:00,910 --> 00:00:02,510 Thank you. 2 00:00:53,740 --> 00:00:58,500 I don't believe it. Either my watch is wrong or you're sick. 3 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:00,440 I feel fine. 4 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:02,840 In that case, how about some coffee? 5 00:01:03,540 --> 00:01:06,160 When did I ever not want morning coffee? 6 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,560 I could bite my tongue off. 7 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,840 I had a phone call last night. Kept me up thinking, that's all. 8 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:15,920 Morning, everybody. 9 00:01:16,380 --> 00:01:17,380 I'm early. 10 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:18,800 I'm not early. 11 00:01:19,460 --> 00:01:22,540 You know, this is the first time I ever walked in here and you weren't already 12 00:01:22,540 --> 00:01:27,660 up and... Except when you were... He's sick. That's it, you're sick. 13 00:01:27,900 --> 00:01:28,900 I feel fine. 14 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:31,740 Somebody called him up last night. Phone call? Who? 15 00:01:32,340 --> 00:01:33,340 Ted Hollinger. 16 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:34,840 No kidding. 17 00:01:34,860 --> 00:01:38,300 I'm not even going to ask why you're still in bed at 8 .15. 18 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:43,320 Mark, where's the thermometer? 19 00:01:43,580 --> 00:01:44,700 Fran, I feel fine. 20 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:49,220 All right, then. I will ask. 21 00:01:49,580 --> 00:01:54,680 Why are you still in bed at 8 .15? I'm in bed at 8 .15 because... 22 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,480 Because I feel lousy. 23 00:01:59,310 --> 00:02:01,010 Now keep your distance. I think it's the flu. 24 00:02:01,410 --> 00:02:02,850 I'll call the doctor. Oh, Fran. 25 00:02:04,210 --> 00:02:05,870 I have something to say to all of you. 26 00:02:07,430 --> 00:02:09,009 So gather around closer. 27 00:02:13,310 --> 00:02:16,610 I think an old friend of mine needs some help. 28 00:02:17,510 --> 00:02:18,510 Ted? 29 00:02:20,630 --> 00:02:26,270 I think he needs it sooner than I'm going to be able to give it. 30 00:03:18,060 --> 00:03:19,060 Fill it, please, regular. 31 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:21,900 I'm looking for a place called Ollinger's Pier. 32 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,240 Uh, Jenkins Landing's right down the way. 33 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,980 It's closer, good bait, and they got better fishing boats for rent, too. 34 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,460 Well, I don't need a boat, and Ollinger's has been recommended. I never 35 00:03:33,460 --> 00:03:34,379 it. 36 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:36,720 It's a big pier sticking out in the ocean. 37 00:03:37,740 --> 00:03:40,400 Ollinger. Ted Ollinger. You're sure you never heard of it? I'm sure. 38 00:03:42,100 --> 00:03:43,100 Well, you tried. 39 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,060 But tell your friend Jenkins you ran into one you just couldn't steer his 40 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:55,600 Excuse me, sir. 41 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:56,800 Maybe you could help me. 42 00:03:58,740 --> 00:03:59,800 I'm sorry, what's that? 43 00:04:00,340 --> 00:04:01,319 Ollinger's Pier. 44 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:02,319 You know where it is? 45 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,500 Yes, straight through town, turn left. You'll run right into it. 46 00:04:05,940 --> 00:04:06,940 Thank you very much. 47 00:04:29,420 --> 00:04:31,000 Cash or charge? Credit card. 48 00:04:38,660 --> 00:04:40,840 Edward D. Brown, San Francisco. 49 00:04:42,780 --> 00:04:44,040 I wonder who he is. 50 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:46,420 You can catch him before he reaches the pier. 51 00:04:47,780 --> 00:04:49,640 Yeah, maybe I better have a closer look at him. 52 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:27,720 See license, please. 53 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,560 You know, our car had the speed limit back there a little close. 54 00:06:36,220 --> 00:06:37,220 I don't think so. 55 00:06:40,380 --> 00:06:41,920 Yeah, we'll let it go this time anyway. 56 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:44,140 Saw the sign back there, I guess. 57 00:06:45,060 --> 00:06:46,520 Doesn't say anything about pedestrians. 58 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,480 Well, Ollinger isn't doing much business these days anyway. 59 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:52,160 Big dayboats don't use his landing anymore. 60 00:06:53,550 --> 00:06:56,950 And this is where you start touting me to Jenkins Landing, is that it? 61 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:27,920 When I met you On a day just like today 62 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:34,600 And though the sun 63 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:40,900 is shining now Tomorrow may be raining 64 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:47,860 And I hope you will be staying Until 65 00:07:47,860 --> 00:07:50,340 the clouds have gone 66 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:03,620 you feel so all alone and no one with strangers around you 67 00:08:03,620 --> 00:08:10,440 where can you go when you feel so all alone maybe 68 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:15,520 i can say that i found you 69 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:20,680 i found you 70 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,160 dead 71 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:35,480 $10! 72 00:11:46,090 --> 00:11:46,989 Adam Brunson? 73 00:11:46,990 --> 00:11:47,969 Yes, sir. 74 00:11:47,970 --> 00:11:50,390 Excuse me, your office. I can find you here. My name is Ed Brown. 75 00:11:50,730 --> 00:11:54,030 Oh, yes, Mr. Brown. What can I do for you? I believe you know Ted Olinger. 76 00:11:54,830 --> 00:11:56,050 Yes. Sit down. 77 00:11:56,410 --> 00:11:57,089 Thank you. 78 00:11:57,090 --> 00:11:58,770 I've been out to cheer. There was no sign of him. 79 00:11:58,990 --> 00:12:02,350 Well, he's always there during the day. He was more or less expecting me, too. 80 00:12:03,270 --> 00:12:06,890 Not like Ted to stand up a friend. You did say you were a friend of his, didn't 81 00:12:06,890 --> 00:12:08,490 you? No, I don't believe I did. 82 00:12:09,470 --> 00:12:11,470 But it's true we are friends. We used to work together. 83 00:12:12,130 --> 00:12:14,590 Oh, Ted's a retired policeman, isn't he? 84 00:12:16,300 --> 00:12:17,300 Just coffee, please. 85 00:12:30,980 --> 00:12:33,460 I found this on his desk. 86 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:38,820 Well, my representative had a hearing before the county commissioners when the 87 00:12:38,820 --> 00:12:39,820 pier was condemned. 88 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,700 Now, a week later when the county put up those no parking signs, there was no 89 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:45,400 place left for his customers to leave their cars. 90 00:12:45,790 --> 00:12:46,790 The appeal was denied? 91 00:12:47,550 --> 00:12:48,550 Unfortunately. 92 00:12:49,890 --> 00:12:52,290 An organized attempt to put him out of business? 93 00:12:52,510 --> 00:12:53,510 Uh -huh. 94 00:12:53,850 --> 00:12:57,110 Cronyism is the name of the game in this county. It's the very reason I'm 95 00:12:57,110 --> 00:12:58,110 running for prosecutor. 96 00:12:58,350 --> 00:12:59,350 Oh, Bill. 97 00:12:59,570 --> 00:13:00,570 Come on over here. 98 00:13:01,530 --> 00:13:05,690 This is Mr. Brown, a friend of Ted Olinger's up from San Francisco. Bill 99 00:13:05,690 --> 00:13:09,210 Eaton's. Mr. Eaton was kind enough to direct me to the pier. Ted was supposed 100 00:13:09,210 --> 00:13:10,310 meet him, and he didn't. 101 00:13:10,530 --> 00:13:12,170 You wouldn't know why, would you, Mr. Eaton? 102 00:13:12,710 --> 00:13:13,710 No. 103 00:13:17,580 --> 00:13:18,880 You know where Ted Olinger might be? 104 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,060 Maybe he just ran out on his creditors. Yes. 105 00:13:28,780 --> 00:13:31,460 Well, I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help, Mr. 106 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:34,880 Brown, but I'm sure he'll turn up with a perfectly logical explanation. 107 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:47,240 Miss, do you know St. Ellington? 108 00:13:48,860 --> 00:13:49,900 It's a small town. 109 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:03,540 I'll look at that menu now. 110 00:14:06,740 --> 00:14:08,000 Sorry, lunch hour's over. 111 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:12,600 You're the owner here? 112 00:14:15,950 --> 00:14:21,350 Mr. Martin, I've come to Grants Bay for a few relaxing days of fishing at the 113 00:14:21,350 --> 00:14:25,490 invitation of my friend Ted Olinger. Now, that seems like a simple enough 114 00:14:25,490 --> 00:14:26,490 to do, wouldn't you think so? 115 00:14:27,210 --> 00:14:28,210 I guess so. 116 00:14:29,770 --> 00:14:33,710 Well, then why do you suppose it is that every time I mention his name, I get 117 00:14:33,710 --> 00:14:36,670 the distinct impression I'm doing something very wrong? 118 00:14:38,410 --> 00:14:40,470 Well, you claim he's a friend of yours. 119 00:14:40,710 --> 00:14:42,690 Maybe that doesn't say a whole lot for your judgment. 120 00:14:42,990 --> 00:14:47,260 Oh. Maybe folks around here just don't feel inclined to do him any favors or 121 00:14:47,260 --> 00:14:48,460 buddies either. Well, that's funny. 122 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:50,980 Everybody liked him in San Francisco. 123 00:14:52,380 --> 00:14:53,380 Maybe changed. 124 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:18,080 Mr. Martin, I intend to stay right here in Grants Bay until I find Ted. 125 00:15:19,180 --> 00:15:20,180 I'll be at his place. 126 00:15:21,580 --> 00:15:23,060 I thought you might like to know that. 127 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:55,600 I was a rookie assigned to my first patrol car. 128 00:16:56,980 --> 00:16:58,520 He was my senior officer. 129 00:17:01,260 --> 00:17:02,260 That's a long time. 130 00:17:04,940 --> 00:17:05,940 Ed. 131 00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:09,540 Ted owned a cemetery plot at St. Joseph's. 132 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:11,319 I'll claim the body. 133 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:12,700 Let me know. 134 00:17:13,819 --> 00:17:15,760 I can have an ambulance up there in an hour. 135 00:17:15,980 --> 00:17:18,720 I think we need an autopsy. 136 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:20,180 There's no question about it. 137 00:17:21,140 --> 00:17:22,140 Chief. 138 00:17:22,469 --> 00:17:25,569 I haven't talked to anybody here yet. What do you think I ought to do? 139 00:17:27,470 --> 00:17:32,310 You'd do exactly what I'd do if I were there. 140 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:56,980 the night before last. He mentioned a conspiracy. 141 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,180 He didn't say who, but he'd come across some incriminating evidence. 142 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:01,640 And you believed him? 143 00:18:02,140 --> 00:18:03,400 Ted Olinger is dead. 144 00:18:03,660 --> 00:18:04,660 I believe that. 145 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,660 Well, he was painting a railing. We found an open can of paint hanging 146 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,400 You don't have to climb on the outside of a railing to paint it. He had a heart 147 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:13,660 attack and he fell in and drowned. 148 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:15,480 Who said heart attack? 149 00:18:15,700 --> 00:18:17,120 Medical examiner, Doc Johnson. 150 00:18:17,540 --> 00:18:19,900 And he ought to know Olinger was his patient. 151 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:21,940 That he should have noticed the bump on his head, too. 152 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:23,959 Oh, he did. 153 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:25,360 He figured he hit something when he fell. 154 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:27,980 Or something hit him. 155 00:18:30,740 --> 00:18:34,080 Sergeant, I have a feeling that you want me to consider something other than 156 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,500 natural or accidental death in this case. 157 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,100 Well, I don't think an investigation is totally out of line to you. It's a 158 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:41,180 matter of motive. 159 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,760 There's no doubt that a good share of the town hated him. 160 00:18:45,180 --> 00:18:46,440 That ought to do for a start. 161 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:48,520 The conspiracy. 162 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:50,920 Then you do know about it. Oh, yeah. 163 00:18:51,580 --> 00:18:54,600 Hollinger was standing in the way of a real estate development that could have 164 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,460 meant a lot of money for a lot of people around here. And you don't think that's 165 00:18:57,460 --> 00:18:57,959 a motive? 166 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:01,320 Sergeant, these aren't your San Francisco hoodlums we're talking about. 167 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,160 are just plain, ordinary citizens. Sheriff, most of the murders in this 168 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:09,740 are committed by so -called plain, ordinary citizens. Yeah. There's 169 00:19:09,740 --> 00:19:11,020 that you keep bringing up. 170 00:19:11,380 --> 00:19:13,420 I wonder why he didn't say something about it to me. 171 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,320 Maybe he wasn't sure he could trust anybody around here. Maybe that's why he 172 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:18,360 called for outside help. 173 00:19:20,330 --> 00:19:23,530 It's too bad that Grant's pay is out of your jurisdiction. You better believe it 174 00:19:23,530 --> 00:19:27,250 is. Otherwise, I might do a little pushing to find out why your deputy gave 175 00:19:27,250 --> 00:19:28,410 hard time out at the pier. 176 00:19:28,650 --> 00:19:29,930 Oh, that'd be Larry Davis. 177 00:19:30,630 --> 00:19:32,350 Oh, he's a fine young man. 178 00:19:32,950 --> 00:19:36,890 Local boy, substantial kind that invests all his money right here in the old 179 00:19:36,890 --> 00:19:37,890 hometown, I bet. 180 00:19:38,130 --> 00:19:39,230 Wouldn't be a bit surprised. 181 00:19:39,810 --> 00:19:44,210 Including some property involved in that real estate deal you mentioned, I bet 182 00:19:44,210 --> 00:19:48,690 you. I can't really blame him or anybody else for resenting Olinger. 183 00:19:48,990 --> 00:19:52,650 You see, a Denver company, United Chemical, wanted to build a factory on 184 00:19:52,650 --> 00:19:56,830 acres right down there along the shore, but Ted's peer sat right smack dab in 185 00:19:56,830 --> 00:19:58,530 the middle of it. And he wouldn't sell? 186 00:19:58,730 --> 00:20:01,130 No, he was an ecology freak. He didn't sell a grant. 187 00:20:02,150 --> 00:20:03,230 Mrs. Adam Bronson? 188 00:20:03,550 --> 00:20:06,490 People kept on calling her sell a grant even after she got married. 189 00:20:07,230 --> 00:20:09,410 Grant, Grant's Bay, that's how it all started. 190 00:20:10,330 --> 00:20:12,010 And she sided with Ted? 191 00:20:13,670 --> 00:20:17,090 Didn't want to upset the delicate balance of nature, they said. 192 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,920 Well, it was our budget that needed some delicate balancing. 193 00:20:20,340 --> 00:20:23,720 The folks around here wanted that factory. You take a look around outside. 194 00:20:23,860 --> 00:20:25,120 You'll see how bad we need it. 195 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:28,700 You wanted to see me, Ted? 196 00:20:28,900 --> 00:20:31,520 Oh, yeah, I did. Oh, you met Sergeant Brown? 197 00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:32,940 Sergeant. 198 00:20:33,420 --> 00:20:34,940 I'm sorry to hear about your friend. 199 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:39,380 Yeah. I wanted to ask you, Adam, did Ted leave a will with you who might help us 200 00:20:39,380 --> 00:20:40,379 trace any relatives? 201 00:20:40,380 --> 00:20:41,480 He had no living relatives. 202 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,120 Well, I guess we can take your word for that. 203 00:20:44,460 --> 00:20:46,360 In fact, I'll clean the body. 204 00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:47,900 If you have no objections. 205 00:20:49,780 --> 00:20:54,000 I'll, uh... Be all right, I guess. 206 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:56,320 What about the will, Adam? 207 00:20:56,540 --> 00:21:00,300 He didn't file any with me. Not that it matters much. The bank seized the 208 00:21:00,300 --> 00:21:01,440 property to pay off the mortgage. 209 00:21:05,020 --> 00:21:06,020 All right, Ed. 210 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:07,400 Keep in touch. 211 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:11,500 Incredible. 212 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:13,280 It's out. 213 00:21:13,290 --> 00:21:15,950 Absolutely incredible. It sounds like the whole town's involved. 214 00:21:17,090 --> 00:21:18,230 Can you believe that? 215 00:21:20,130 --> 00:21:23,790 Can't even get a whole town to agree on where to put a stop sign. 216 00:21:24,270 --> 00:21:25,790 It does sound like a conspiracy. 217 00:21:26,290 --> 00:21:27,430 Maybe it could use some help. 218 00:21:28,970 --> 00:21:30,610 Well, if he could, he'll ask for it. 219 00:21:31,170 --> 00:21:33,010 Besides, I have something else for you to do. 220 00:21:33,470 --> 00:21:35,690 Your notes on that clipping, Mrs. Adam Bronson. 221 00:21:39,330 --> 00:21:40,630 The former Stella Grant. 222 00:21:40,910 --> 00:21:44,040 She'd been in Las Vegas on the 6th. and Ted was there a week later. 223 00:21:44,860 --> 00:21:45,860 Investigating a death, maybe? 224 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:50,080 That's what you're going to find out. Take Fran with you. And leave you alone 225 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:50,959 your condition? 226 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,840 My condition is... Lousy! 227 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:54,560 To quote the doctor. 228 00:22:26,220 --> 00:22:28,160 I took it upon myself to pack your suitcase. 229 00:22:28,940 --> 00:22:31,180 Otherwise, you'd have had to hire a boat to get out there. 230 00:22:32,940 --> 00:22:33,940 You still will. 231 00:22:35,020 --> 00:22:38,100 Mr. Hollinger's personal effects will have to be inventoried. Sorry. 232 00:22:38,660 --> 00:22:40,560 No trespassing. Peer is posted. 233 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:42,480 Now, who did that? 234 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,720 Bank. You want to go out there, you're going to have to get their permission. 235 00:22:46,540 --> 00:22:47,540 In writing. 236 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,300 I'll be happy to pass on your request to the new owner, Sergeant Brown. 237 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:06,940 And just who would that be? 238 00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:09,500 It's a confidential matter at the moment. 239 00:23:09,820 --> 00:23:11,940 I assume there will be an announcement in a day or two. 240 00:23:12,460 --> 00:23:13,460 Thank you. 241 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:24,060 Maybe we'd better try his car. 242 00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:51,780 Ed, we've been trying to reach you. 243 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,380 I've been busy getting another lesson in organized resistance. 244 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,540 We heard from Mark in Las Vegas. 245 00:23:58,480 --> 00:23:59,780 Do you know a William Eaton? 246 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:02,760 Yeah, he's a real estate man here. 247 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,740 Well, he arrived in Las Vegas the day after Mrs. Bronson did. 248 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:07,500 Registered at the same hotel. 249 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:09,300 How's that? 250 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,400 Not according to Mark. 251 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,900 He said they had a real Donnybrook in the dining room. The maitre d' told him 252 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:19,840 she acted like a lady, but Eaton's voice got so loud they asked him to leave. 253 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:26,200 What was the hassle? Maître D didn't exactly know, but he heard the word loan 254 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:27,680 more than once. 255 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:29,640 That mean anything to you? 256 00:24:30,260 --> 00:24:31,260 Yeah. 257 00:24:31,980 --> 00:24:33,020 Yeah, it sure does. 258 00:24:33,780 --> 00:24:34,780 Later. 259 00:24:56,490 --> 00:24:57,490 Hi, Sally. 260 00:24:57,990 --> 00:24:58,889 Mr. Martin. 261 00:24:58,890 --> 00:25:00,150 I just saw him going into the bank. 262 00:25:01,350 --> 00:25:02,950 I don't have to answer your questions. 263 00:25:06,910 --> 00:25:07,930 Dolly Pearson, is it? 264 00:25:14,350 --> 00:25:15,350 Let me help you. 265 00:25:21,690 --> 00:25:22,690 Iowa. 266 00:25:22,870 --> 00:25:23,870 Michigan. 267 00:25:28,910 --> 00:25:29,910 You like Grants Bay? 268 00:25:32,130 --> 00:25:35,670 Well, I like how you can take a deep breath and not choke. 269 00:25:36,030 --> 00:25:37,070 I like the ocean. 270 00:25:37,470 --> 00:25:38,470 What about people? 271 00:25:40,410 --> 00:25:41,630 No place is perfect. 272 00:25:42,630 --> 00:25:45,730 Unless you were born here, they'd treat you like a foreigner. Yeah, I noticed. 273 00:25:48,950 --> 00:25:51,390 Maybe there's something wrong with our passports. 274 00:25:57,740 --> 00:25:58,740 Ted was a newcomer, too. 275 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:01,440 You and he must have had a lot in common. 276 00:26:02,220 --> 00:26:03,940 Look, I just worked for him, that's all. 277 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,220 In his coffee shop. 278 00:26:07,060 --> 00:26:08,060 It's always full. 279 00:26:08,780 --> 00:26:10,800 People waiting for the dayboats to pick them up. 280 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:12,900 People coming back in with their catches. 281 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,700 But that stopped when they condemned a peer. 282 00:26:17,820 --> 00:26:19,420 No way to get supplies out there. 283 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:21,280 No way. 284 00:26:22,340 --> 00:26:23,340 Sally. 285 00:26:27,690 --> 00:26:28,770 I found this in his cabin. 286 00:26:29,890 --> 00:26:32,270 You can get it in any drugstore for a dollar and a half. 287 00:26:33,550 --> 00:26:34,550 Sally. 288 00:26:35,530 --> 00:26:39,250 Somebody killed him. He had a heart attack. You know better than that. And 289 00:26:39,250 --> 00:26:42,030 he fell in the water and he drowned. Wanted to get away with it? I don't 290 00:27:47,139 --> 00:27:48,820 Yeah, I understand you had a little accident. 291 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,120 It could be that my brake fluid picked this particular time and this particular 292 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:54,780 place to disappear, but I doubt it. 293 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:56,640 How about it, Sam? 294 00:27:56,860 --> 00:27:57,940 That's a clever tip. 295 00:27:59,940 --> 00:28:03,300 It connects the brake pedal with the master cylinder. 296 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:05,040 Must have fallen out. 297 00:28:05,260 --> 00:28:06,460 Sure it did. 298 00:28:07,580 --> 00:28:09,800 Are you ready to press charges against somebody? 299 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,520 Any suggestions? 300 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,380 Nobody in this town would do such a thing. 301 00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:16,660 I wonder if Ted Olinger would agree with that. 302 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,180 Look, I can stall him here for a couple days. 303 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,540 The sooner he finishes this snooping and gets out of here, the better. 304 00:28:58,770 --> 00:29:01,970 The autopsy says he was asphyxiated, but not drowned. 305 00:29:02,470 --> 00:29:03,710 No water in his lungs? 306 00:29:03,930 --> 00:29:04,930 Not a drop. 307 00:29:06,190 --> 00:29:10,110 But here's something weird, though. They found bits of lint in his throat. 308 00:29:10,890 --> 00:29:12,010 Fran, let me see that. 309 00:29:13,770 --> 00:29:18,310 Chief, please. Now, you promised to rest. I can read it. Just tell me if the 310 00:29:18,310 --> 00:29:19,870 color of that lint is indicated. 311 00:29:20,610 --> 00:29:22,050 Yes, it was blue. 312 00:29:24,130 --> 00:29:27,180 Ed? You were in that cabin. I want you to think hard. 313 00:29:27,740 --> 00:29:29,340 Something he could have been smothered with. 314 00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:30,900 Murder weapon. 315 00:29:32,020 --> 00:29:33,100 A pillow, I think. 316 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:35,840 A pretty blue pillow. 317 00:29:36,820 --> 00:29:38,720 Think you're ready to go to the sheriff with it? 318 00:29:39,860 --> 00:29:40,860 I don't know, Chief. 319 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,920 There's a deputy here I don't trust very much. 320 00:29:43,740 --> 00:29:47,440 Might be a good idea to make a more thorough search of Ted's place anyway. 321 00:29:47,980 --> 00:29:48,980 Talk to you later. 322 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:16,640 Sergeant Brown. 323 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,380 You know, this is a downright unfriendly town, Mr. Bronson. I can't even rent a 324 00:30:22,380 --> 00:30:23,960 boat. The fellow in there says they're all reserved. 325 00:30:24,260 --> 00:30:26,280 Oh, well, I'm sure he wouldn't lie about it. Yeah. 326 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,780 Oh, by the way, I hear you had a little accident. 327 00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:30,880 That's what we're calling it for the time being. 328 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,000 My brakes went out. Oh? 329 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,540 I was talking to Sam at the service station. I wondered if it could have 330 00:30:38,540 --> 00:30:39,820 the problem with your wife's car. 331 00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:43,860 I'm sorry, that's a painful question for you, but... Oh, no. 332 00:30:45,130 --> 00:30:48,330 No, it's all right. It's just I don't understand the question. 333 00:30:48,710 --> 00:30:51,890 Well, my brakes were tampered with. I thought hers might have been, too. 334 00:30:52,230 --> 00:30:54,450 Oh, no. 335 00:30:55,610 --> 00:30:57,110 It was those spongy shocks. 336 00:30:57,330 --> 00:30:59,230 I blame myself for not having them replaced. 337 00:31:00,010 --> 00:31:02,810 You mind if I ask what your wife was doing in Las Vegas? 338 00:31:03,250 --> 00:31:05,070 Surely that has nothing to do with the accident. 339 00:31:05,750 --> 00:31:07,850 Well, it might have something to do with Ted Olinger's murder. 340 00:31:08,790 --> 00:31:12,950 I believe the sheriff is going along with the M .E. You see, Dr. Johnson was 341 00:31:12,950 --> 00:31:13,950 careless. 342 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,000 Ted was smothered to death. 343 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:18,360 And you seem very sure of that. 344 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:19,239 I am. 345 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,120 An autopsy was performed in San Francisco. 346 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,100 Now, what about your wife's trip? 347 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:28,040 Oh, well, she went to Vegas to get a little sun, do a little gambling. 348 00:31:28,580 --> 00:31:30,060 How she loved those slot machines. 349 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,200 I was going to join her, but my campaign manager called a strategy meeting. 350 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:37,180 Could it be that she intended to bail Ted out of his troubles? 351 00:31:38,420 --> 00:31:39,420 Alone? 352 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,280 Yes. 353 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:42,780 That would be very like her. 354 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,540 They were allies, you know, Mother Nature's warriors. 355 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,040 Thanks, 356 00:31:47,740 --> 00:31:48,880 Mr. Bronson. 357 00:31:49,860 --> 00:31:50,860 We'll talk again. 358 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:03,899 about this, okay? 359 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:07,740 Just tell us where you were. In the office, working. Good. Was anybody there 360 00:36:07,740 --> 00:36:08,740 with you? 361 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:10,860 Oh, I see what you mean. Do I have a witness? 362 00:36:11,100 --> 00:36:14,720 If it was up to me, I'd take your word for it. You know that, Bill. Pat, I was 363 00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:19,100 alone. Records at the Marina gas dock indicate you called about 5 o 'clock 364 00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:22,800 yesterday afternoon and asked them to top the test. I was planning to use my 365 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,720 boat, but I had to straighten out some escrow papers at the last moment and I 366 00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:26,720 changed my mind. 367 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:27,880 Is that a crime? 368 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,220 Well, well, it's about time. 369 00:36:32,490 --> 00:36:35,710 I came as soon as I got your message. What's this all about, Pat? Sergeant 370 00:36:35,710 --> 00:36:39,370 here is convincing somebody in Grant's Bay is out to do him bodily injury. 371 00:36:40,510 --> 00:36:41,510 You? 372 00:36:42,670 --> 00:36:45,430 He's actually accusing me of having tried to kill him last night. 373 00:36:45,790 --> 00:36:46,790 What are you saying? 374 00:36:46,890 --> 00:36:49,170 Well, I haven't dignified the charge with a reply. 375 00:36:49,570 --> 00:36:51,230 Well, you don't have anything to hide, do you, Bill? 376 00:36:52,030 --> 00:36:53,270 Adam, are you kidding? 377 00:36:53,670 --> 00:36:55,030 Then go ahead and dignify it. 378 00:36:56,690 --> 00:37:00,290 Well, at the advice of counsel, I deny the charge. 379 00:37:00,590 --> 00:37:01,590 Charge is? 380 00:37:01,950 --> 00:37:04,790 I'm referring to your car trying to run me down in the parking lot. 381 00:37:05,570 --> 00:37:08,310 I don't know anything about it. And sabotaging my brakes. 382 00:37:08,570 --> 00:37:10,330 I don't know anything about brakes. 383 00:37:10,570 --> 00:37:11,930 Not even Mrs. Bronson's. 384 00:37:12,270 --> 00:37:15,390 That's the second time you've alluded to Stella's accident. Now, unless you have 385 00:37:15,390 --> 00:37:18,270 some concrete evidence to back that up, I wish you'd shut up about it. Are you 386 00:37:18,270 --> 00:37:21,430 aware that your wife was followed to Las Vegas by Mr. 387 00:37:21,630 --> 00:37:22,630 Eaton? 388 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:25,840 And why would he want to do that? 389 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:30,480 Maybe to warn her not to give Ted a loan. No, I requested her not to. At the 390 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:31,319 of your voice? 391 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,720 No, I just wanted her to see that all I planned. Your plans would be down the 392 00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:36,860 drain. No. How much would you have lost? 393 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:38,120 A million? Two million? 394 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,040 No. But you're up to your neck in land options, aren't you? Yes, he is. 395 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,560 But Adam... Ted could have held out with a loan. 396 00:37:45,340 --> 00:37:46,920 He would have been left holding the bag. 397 00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:48,740 Whose side are you on? 398 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,180 You could have done it. 399 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:52,120 You could have killed my wife! 400 00:37:58,259 --> 00:37:59,259 Well, 401 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,680 looks like you're going to have to get yourself a new lawyer, Bill. 402 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,860 Pat, you're not actually going to hold me here, are you? Just until you get 403 00:38:19,860 --> 00:38:21,640 another lawyer and he shows up with a red. 404 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:23,940 We'll play us a little game of gin while we're waiting. 405 00:38:26,670 --> 00:38:29,210 And admit, Sergeant, we don't have any real hard evidence. 406 00:38:34,650 --> 00:38:35,850 Glenn, I better find you. 407 00:38:45,890 --> 00:38:47,950 Sally? Please leave me alone. 408 00:38:48,830 --> 00:38:52,130 She has nothing to say to you. Yes, again, Martin, you both have. Listen, 409 00:38:52,130 --> 00:38:54,410 got a business to run here, and the lunch crowd's going to be in here any 410 00:38:54,410 --> 00:38:57,170 minute. I had a phone call last night from San Francisco. There was a letter. 411 00:38:57,730 --> 00:38:58,750 It was Ted's will. 412 00:39:00,750 --> 00:39:03,710 The bank sale is bound to realize something above the mortgage. 413 00:39:04,750 --> 00:39:06,690 Whatever it is, it's yours, Sullivan. 414 00:39:09,850 --> 00:39:10,870 Don't let him con you, Sally. 415 00:39:11,230 --> 00:39:12,230 It's only his word. 416 00:39:12,530 --> 00:39:13,930 She knows I'm telling her the truth. 417 00:39:14,910 --> 00:39:16,190 She knows Ted loved her. 418 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,220 So why don't you just cool it, Martin, before you get yourself in heavier than 419 00:39:20,220 --> 00:39:21,220 you already are? 420 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:29,060 I just used him. 421 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,620 Somebody to be with because there was nobody else. 422 00:39:33,820 --> 00:39:35,700 He deserved so much more. 423 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:39,360 Oh, yeah. 424 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,020 Truth, at least the truth. 425 00:39:45,420 --> 00:39:46,560 He still deserves that. 426 00:39:58,600 --> 00:39:59,600 How so? 427 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:02,360 Who killed him? 428 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,140 We all did. 429 00:40:24,110 --> 00:40:25,190 What the devil is this? 430 00:40:26,130 --> 00:40:32,990 They were all yelling at once about the pier, that it had to sell, 431 00:40:33,130 --> 00:40:36,130 that he had no right to hold out when it meant so much to everybody else. 432 00:41:09,830 --> 00:41:15,190 It was an 433 00:41:15,190 --> 00:41:20,050 accident. 434 00:41:22,190 --> 00:41:25,650 We were just trying to scare him. We just shoved him around a little, that's 435 00:41:25,650 --> 00:41:26,970 all. He tripped and fell. 436 00:41:27,210 --> 00:41:28,210 All right. All right. 437 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,380 Let's not lose our head. You know what you've done. It's called manslaughter, 438 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,740 and as far as the United Chemical Deal is concerned, forget it. 439 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,940 A corporate image won't stand this kind of publicity. 440 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:39,200 Now head to the hills. 441 00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:42,880 What can we do, Adam? We have to do something. 442 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:44,640 Sure. 443 00:41:44,780 --> 00:41:46,700 Sure, if nobody ever finds out about it. 444 00:41:47,300 --> 00:41:48,420 But there's many people. 445 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,480 We can keep it quiet. Look, we have to. You know what you can get for 446 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:52,660 manslaughter? Fifteen years. 447 00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:57,920 Sally? 448 00:41:58,060 --> 00:41:59,060 How about you? 449 00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:01,700 I didn't have anything to do with it. 450 00:42:01,900 --> 00:42:02,980 I say you did. 451 00:42:03,420 --> 00:42:04,660 It's your word against ours. 452 00:42:04,860 --> 00:42:05,980 I don't think we have to threaten her, Bill. 453 00:42:06,380 --> 00:42:08,240 Sally wants to see Grants Bay saved, too. 454 00:42:09,140 --> 00:42:10,140 We all do. 455 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,420 Well, just remember what I said. 456 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:18,480 Get your things, Sally. 457 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:21,160 All right. 458 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,720 Go home, all of you. Try to establish alibis. 459 00:42:31,660 --> 00:42:32,660 were all left together. 460 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:36,480 The body wasn't moved. 461 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:39,280 No. 462 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:41,740 That's what's so puzzling. 463 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:48,440 I heard them talking and they think that somebody went back, got scared and 464 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:54,460 tried to get rid of... And they don't know who. 465 00:43:05,870 --> 00:43:06,870 Mr. Bronson. 466 00:43:15,310 --> 00:43:17,950 I wondered who Martin called. I thought I'd wait and see. 467 00:43:19,210 --> 00:43:23,070 Well, house calls are not exclusive to the country doctor, Sergeant. Not in 468 00:43:23,070 --> 00:43:24,070 Grants Bay. 469 00:43:24,690 --> 00:43:26,290 Get in, Mr. Bronson. Let's talk. 470 00:43:36,430 --> 00:43:37,710 I was going to look you up anyway. 471 00:43:38,670 --> 00:43:39,850 Well, I'm not surprised. 472 00:43:41,230 --> 00:43:45,510 I warned them they couldn't keep it quiet, but that's no excuse for me, I 473 00:43:45,550 --> 00:43:46,830 I'll have to take my lumps, too. 474 00:43:48,930 --> 00:43:50,810 But first I want to put Eden where he belongs. 475 00:43:51,610 --> 00:43:53,770 It'd be a lot easier if I could find Ted's notes. 476 00:43:54,870 --> 00:43:57,290 I have reason to believe he was investigating your wife's death. 477 00:43:58,070 --> 00:43:59,310 Are you sure he made notes? 478 00:43:59,550 --> 00:44:00,550 He always did. 479 00:44:00,690 --> 00:44:02,370 Where would he have kept them? Well, Eden. 480 00:44:02,910 --> 00:44:03,910 Probably at his place. 481 00:44:04,710 --> 00:44:07,130 That's what I was looking for last night when I got interrupted. 482 00:44:09,750 --> 00:44:10,750 I can get a boat. 483 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,060 Mark poking around in the wrong haystack, so I sent him in another 484 00:44:44,060 --> 00:44:45,060 just called back. 485 00:44:50,980 --> 00:44:51,980 I see. 486 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:54,480 Yes, sir, I understand. 487 00:44:54,940 --> 00:44:55,940 Thank you. 488 00:45:13,740 --> 00:45:14,740 At last. 489 00:45:21,100 --> 00:45:22,100 Well? 490 00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:27,480 Ted writes that on the night your wife was killed, there was someone else in 491 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:28,480 car with her. 492 00:45:28,700 --> 00:45:29,700 Billy? 493 00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:33,720 Ted suspected that he'd hit her over the head and then left her unconscious body 494 00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:34,720 in the car. 495 00:45:35,340 --> 00:45:39,100 Then he aimed it down the hill where it would crash at the hairpin curve. 496 00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:42,780 But he needed a motive, so he went to Las Vegas to look for one. And he found 497 00:45:42,780 --> 00:45:45,090 it? In the hotel where Eaton met Stella. 498 00:45:45,670 --> 00:45:46,670 No. 499 00:45:47,490 --> 00:45:50,810 At a lawyer's office where your wife went to discuss a divorce. 500 00:45:51,590 --> 00:45:52,590 You were the man. 501 00:45:54,010 --> 00:45:55,010 Divorce? 502 00:45:58,130 --> 00:45:59,550 That's no motive for murder. 503 00:46:00,250 --> 00:46:06,450 It is if a man who's using his wife's fortune to finance his political 504 00:46:06,450 --> 00:46:08,530 suddenly sees that fortune walking away. 505 00:46:08,990 --> 00:46:10,290 No, I love my wife. 506 00:46:10,750 --> 00:46:14,030 When you were referred to as Stella Grant's husband, a thing like that could 507 00:46:14,030 --> 00:46:15,030 make a man hate. 508 00:46:15,490 --> 00:46:17,050 It even made killing her easy. 509 00:46:17,730 --> 00:46:21,750 And that made killing Ted Olinger a necessity. He had to be silenced. 510 00:46:22,170 --> 00:46:24,810 You came back here later that night. 511 00:46:25,110 --> 00:46:26,110 You're out of your mind. 512 00:46:26,230 --> 00:46:27,290 To kill him. 513 00:46:30,430 --> 00:46:34,650 With this, you were the only one to examine him. 514 00:46:35,510 --> 00:46:37,270 The only one who knew he was still alive. 515 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,540 It's too bad the tide didn't cooperate and carry his body away. 516 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:44,600 The notebook. 517 00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:01,480 I gotta tell you, Adam. 518 00:47:02,620 --> 00:47:04,420 You're a big disappointment to me. 519 00:47:07,790 --> 00:47:11,770 drawn map showing how to get to Grants Bay from San Francisco. 520 00:47:13,110 --> 00:47:14,110 And that's all? 521 00:47:15,650 --> 00:47:16,790 There's nothing in the notebook. 522 00:47:18,070 --> 00:47:20,570 Nothing. Just enough, I'd say. 523 00:47:22,650 --> 00:47:23,650 Just enough.