1 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,680 Barnaby Jones, a Quinn Martin production. 2 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:23,280 Starring Buddy Ebsen. 3 00:00:23,860 --> 00:00:27,040 Also starring Lee Merriweather. 4 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:29,460 Mark Chera. 5 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:35,940 With guest stars Robert Reed, Catherine Justice, 6 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:42,720 Anthony Gary, and Lockhart. 7 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:48,760 Tonight's episode, Death Beat. 8 00:01:32,530 --> 00:01:35,730 Looks like he might come before you get to it. No way. This guy wants to go on a 9 00:01:35,730 --> 00:01:36,950 camera. That's why he called us. 10 00:01:39,370 --> 00:01:40,370 Jim? 11 00:01:46,250 --> 00:01:47,250 Get back! 12 00:01:47,990 --> 00:01:48,990 Okay, okay. 13 00:01:51,790 --> 00:01:54,670 This is DeWitt Robinson on the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro. 14 00:01:54,930 --> 00:01:57,110 The man you see on that ledge is Jim Anders. 15 00:01:57,390 --> 00:01:58,990 Called us on the KBX hotline. 16 00:01:59,330 --> 00:02:00,330 Told us his intentions. 17 00:02:00,810 --> 00:02:01,830 Seemed to be reaching out. 18 00:02:02,330 --> 00:02:03,630 Like he wanted somebody to stop him. 19 00:02:07,650 --> 00:02:09,889 Jim? Jim, we want to help you. 20 00:02:10,630 --> 00:02:13,490 I don't know what a reporter can say to you. 21 00:02:13,730 --> 00:02:15,290 Nobody asked you to say anything. 22 00:02:15,770 --> 00:02:17,150 You want us to listen, is that it? 23 00:02:17,550 --> 00:02:19,750 Yeah. Why not? Nobody else will. 24 00:02:20,430 --> 00:02:21,430 What's the problem? 25 00:02:22,150 --> 00:02:23,810 You have trouble at home? Your wife? 26 00:02:24,230 --> 00:02:26,170 Girlfriend? Lose your job? 27 00:02:27,470 --> 00:02:29,690 Are you hooked on something? Let me speak to him. 28 00:02:30,750 --> 00:02:31,750 Father Moore. 29 00:02:37,380 --> 00:02:38,380 What's your name? 30 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:40,920 What's his name? 31 00:02:40,940 --> 00:02:41,940 Anders, Jim Anders. 32 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,020 Jim, will you give me just a minute? 33 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,700 Look, whatever you're selling, I am not buying it. There's an answer, Jim. 34 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,100 There's always an answer, no matter what's bugging you. 35 00:02:57,420 --> 00:02:58,960 There's got to be a better way than this. 36 00:03:00,700 --> 00:03:02,680 Come on, talk to me. 37 00:03:03,420 --> 00:03:06,560 Hey, Jim, as lousy as it is, there's always something worth talking about. 38 00:03:07,820 --> 00:03:09,840 There's got to be somebody who's going to miss you. 39 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 How about it? 40 00:03:14,140 --> 00:03:15,140 You married? 41 00:03:17,660 --> 00:03:18,720 Isn't there a girl somewhere? 42 00:03:19,140 --> 00:03:20,140 Mother? 43 00:03:20,740 --> 00:03:21,740 Father? 44 00:03:22,420 --> 00:03:23,420 Who is it, Jim? 45 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:25,960 Who do you care about? 46 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,260 Get him away from me! 47 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:29,960 Take my hand, Jim. 48 00:03:30,420 --> 00:03:34,180 I promise you, there's an answer, one you can buy. 49 00:03:42,750 --> 00:03:43,750 Hold it. 50 00:03:46,010 --> 00:03:47,010 Longer. 51 00:03:47,750 --> 00:03:49,230 Now hold it one more beat. 52 00:03:50,350 --> 00:03:51,350 Now. 53 00:03:52,970 --> 00:03:54,790 I wonder what we had to do with this. 54 00:03:55,250 --> 00:03:58,610 I mean, if we hadn't have been there, maybe it wouldn't have happened. If we 55 00:03:58,610 --> 00:03:59,930 don't cover the news, somebody else will. 56 00:04:00,710 --> 00:04:02,290 Nobody asked that priest to interfere. 57 00:04:03,510 --> 00:04:04,670 Tell me something, DeWitt. 58 00:04:05,070 --> 00:04:09,110 If you stay in this business long enough, do you ever get used to it? 59 00:04:09,110 --> 00:04:10,110 have to. 60 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:12,560 What's the running time on that? 61 00:04:12,780 --> 00:04:13,780 3 .57. 62 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:15,980 Robinson's reports, cutting room. 63 00:04:17,220 --> 00:04:18,219 Yeah, he's here. 64 00:04:18,220 --> 00:04:20,160 DeWitt, it's the hotline. They're putting it through. 65 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,520 Maybe take that timing sheet up to control room, will you? 66 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Yeah, DeWitt Robinson. 67 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,400 It's me, Jim. 68 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:29,600 Hold up. 69 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:32,980 Steve, is there any coffee around here? 70 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:37,359 Newsroom, huh? 71 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,020 Stuff tastes like it was made by Dr. Jekyll. 72 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:40,320 Well, I... 73 00:04:40,590 --> 00:04:41,590 It'll do wonders for you. 74 00:04:47,590 --> 00:04:49,170 Jim, you made it? You all right? 75 00:04:49,790 --> 00:04:51,050 How can I be all right? 76 00:04:52,070 --> 00:04:53,510 We just killed a man. 77 00:04:54,270 --> 00:04:55,270 A priest. 78 00:04:55,570 --> 00:04:56,570 Are you sure? 79 00:04:56,850 --> 00:04:57,850 Did you see a body? 80 00:04:58,130 --> 00:04:59,550 I didn't have to see him. 81 00:05:01,230 --> 00:05:02,650 Why didn't you stop him? 82 00:05:03,110 --> 00:05:04,330 How was I gonna do that? 83 00:05:04,750 --> 00:05:06,850 Hey, Father, don't worry about the guy on the bridge. There's a little 84 00:05:06,850 --> 00:05:08,290 manufactured news for the 6 o 'clock report. 85 00:05:08,650 --> 00:05:10,350 It would have been a lot better than what happened. 86 00:05:10,790 --> 00:05:12,010 It was an accident. 87 00:05:12,610 --> 00:05:16,150 DeWitt, you can't run that film. 88 00:05:16,750 --> 00:05:17,970 I've got to run it. 89 00:05:18,210 --> 00:05:21,210 Everybody knows I've got to. Why wouldn't I run it? I'll be recognized. 90 00:05:22,030 --> 00:05:23,210 Sure, you'll be recognized. 91 00:05:23,690 --> 00:05:24,690 You knew that beforehand. 92 00:05:25,310 --> 00:05:28,310 That's why you can't go home. You'll find yourself someplace to crash at the 93 00:05:28,310 --> 00:05:31,230 marina. You shave your lip and I'll see you at the foot of the South Jetty at 94 00:05:31,230 --> 00:05:32,089 nine in the morning. 95 00:05:32,090 --> 00:05:34,510 You damn well better see me now. 96 00:05:35,090 --> 00:05:37,710 Look, I've got a newscast to do. 97 00:05:38,010 --> 00:05:40,350 I've got a press club dinner tonight that I cannot get out of. 98 00:05:40,610 --> 00:05:41,950 Now, don't sweat it. 99 00:05:43,110 --> 00:05:44,250 I'll take care of everything. 100 00:05:44,730 --> 00:05:46,330 Can you take care of the priest? 101 00:05:46,890 --> 00:05:49,770 Hey, I mean, maybe he's all right. 102 00:05:50,490 --> 00:05:51,910 You made it. Maybe he did, too. 103 00:05:52,870 --> 00:05:54,450 Jim, trust me. 104 00:05:55,670 --> 00:05:56,670 Okay? 105 00:05:58,010 --> 00:06:00,110 I'll see you in the morning. 106 00:06:32,580 --> 00:06:34,260 Mr. Jones, come in. Thank you. 107 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:36,740 Did you see the police yet? 108 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,340 My associate is down there now. 109 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,600 I hope they tell him more than they told me. 110 00:06:42,340 --> 00:06:44,560 They haven't recovered anyone from the water yet. 111 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:46,720 But it's been 15 hours. 112 00:06:47,060 --> 00:06:49,800 And Jim hasn't been at his apartment since I got into town. 113 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:53,240 I've knocked on his door so many times, the landlady's daughter thinks I'm some 114 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:54,240 kind of a nut. 115 00:06:54,660 --> 00:06:56,420 Oh, Mr. Jones, I'm a nervous wreck. 116 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,200 Maybe we'd better get right over to the TV station. 117 00:07:08,300 --> 00:07:12,460 The screen in the projection room is a lot bigger than a television set. 118 00:07:12,700 --> 00:07:16,440 You could probably tell for sure whether it was your friend that jumped off the 119 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,480 bridge. I just can't believe he'd do it, Mr. Jones. 120 00:07:19,980 --> 00:07:23,180 Especially not after he wrote me about how well he was doing out here. 121 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:24,840 How did he sign the letter? 122 00:07:25,620 --> 00:07:26,620 All my love. 123 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,980 Well, now, any fellow that signs a letter that way isn't thinking about 124 00:07:31,980 --> 00:07:32,980 off any bridges. 125 00:07:33,780 --> 00:07:34,880 Okay, I guess you're right. 126 00:07:35,980 --> 00:07:37,480 Oh, we might find out something. 127 00:07:42,380 --> 00:07:45,100 Hi. Oh, this is my associate, Jedediah Jones. 128 00:07:45,380 --> 00:07:48,800 I have to warn you, at the very first opportunity, he'll ask you to call him J 129 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:50,760 .R. Hi, I'm Wendy. 130 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:52,220 Hiya, Wendy. How are you? 131 00:07:52,660 --> 00:07:56,780 They found Father Moore's body outside the harbor entrance, but there's no sign 132 00:07:56,780 --> 00:07:58,000 of the other guy, Jim Anders. 133 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Jim Wills. 134 00:08:00,140 --> 00:08:01,860 I tried to tell the police that. 135 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,580 Well, they're just going by what he was called on television. 136 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,380 When he called in on the hotline, he used the name Anders. 137 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:09,520 Now, the question is... 138 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,860 Why would anyone contemplating suicide bother to lie about his name? 139 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:15,400 That's right. 140 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:17,500 He wouldn't, would he? 141 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,720 Confess to the police. Do you want your gourd? 142 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:30,080 That's not going to bring the priest back. 143 00:08:30,340 --> 00:08:32,059 It'll get him off my head. Sure. 144 00:08:32,620 --> 00:08:35,520 You're going to mess up two other lives, man, yours and mine. How do you ignore 145 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,760 something that you see every time you close your eyes? Hey, give it a little 146 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:40,980 time. It'll go away. You'll forget about it. 147 00:08:42,740 --> 00:08:44,960 Look, I owed you 500. 148 00:08:46,140 --> 00:08:47,600 Here's another 500 on top of that. 149 00:08:49,940 --> 00:08:52,020 Okay, it's not going to make you forget, not right away. 150 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,060 But a grant's going to go a long way to getting you back to Columbus, back to... 151 00:08:56,060 --> 00:08:57,460 What's her name? Wendy, huh? 152 00:09:00,450 --> 00:09:03,070 Wouldn't she rather have you free in Columbus than here in the slammer? 153 00:09:05,950 --> 00:09:07,190 She's not in Columbus. 154 00:09:07,610 --> 00:09:09,050 Wherever. She's here. 155 00:09:09,910 --> 00:09:11,790 Look, I called back home last night. 156 00:09:12,130 --> 00:09:14,510 I had to talk to somebody and you weren't available. 157 00:09:17,070 --> 00:09:19,810 They said she flew out here. She wanted to surprise me. 158 00:09:20,290 --> 00:09:21,470 Oh, that's some surprise. 159 00:09:21,790 --> 00:09:24,370 Well, she probably went to my place when I didn't show up. 160 00:09:25,910 --> 00:09:27,690 Well, there's no telling where she is now. 161 00:09:28,310 --> 00:09:30,930 The worst that happens is... She flies back to Ohio. 162 00:09:31,310 --> 00:09:34,070 Not if she saw me on the news last night. 163 00:09:34,310 --> 00:09:35,830 What if she thinks I'm dead? 164 00:09:37,010 --> 00:09:38,010 Okay. 165 00:09:38,710 --> 00:09:39,710 Okay. 166 00:09:40,390 --> 00:09:41,390 I'll find her. 167 00:09:41,690 --> 00:09:42,690 Come on, I can do that. 168 00:09:43,090 --> 00:09:44,670 I got contacts on the hotline. 169 00:09:45,490 --> 00:09:47,550 Only you just keep your problem to yourself. 170 00:09:48,310 --> 00:09:49,310 Here, come on. 171 00:09:52,910 --> 00:09:53,910 All right. 172 00:09:54,570 --> 00:09:55,570 Find her. 173 00:09:58,110 --> 00:09:59,190 You gonna cool it? 174 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,820 Here's where I'm flopping in Venice, under the name Will. Wait a minute. 175 00:10:06,180 --> 00:10:07,280 You gonna cool it? 176 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:09,920 If you don't take too long. 177 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:14,980 I don't know what a reporter can say to you. 178 00:10:15,820 --> 00:10:17,440 Nobody asked you to say anything. 179 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,180 You want us to listen? Is that it? 180 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:22,440 Yeah! Why not? 181 00:10:23,380 --> 00:10:24,380 Nobody else will. 182 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:27,920 What's the problem? You have trouble at home? Your wife? Your girlfriend? 183 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:29,280 Oh, my God. 184 00:10:30,670 --> 00:10:32,250 You're absolutely certain that's Jim? 185 00:10:33,630 --> 00:10:35,090 Yes, it's Jim. 186 00:10:35,830 --> 00:10:36,850 Mustache must be new. 187 00:10:37,490 --> 00:10:40,650 I could tell it was him just by hearing his voice. 188 00:10:42,030 --> 00:10:43,190 That's all we need, thanks. 189 00:10:44,230 --> 00:10:45,510 That'll do it, Fred, thanks. 190 00:10:50,850 --> 00:10:52,950 None of this makes any sense to me at all. 191 00:10:53,670 --> 00:10:54,670 Look. 192 00:10:57,170 --> 00:10:58,650 See, read the part. 193 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:00,340 Or it says he's been getting some work. 194 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,860 Apparently he figured it might lead to some acting jobs on television. 195 00:11:07,340 --> 00:11:08,279 Pictures, maybe. 196 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,080 Well, it certainly didn't sound like a guy with no future and no hope. 197 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:12,880 No, it certainly didn't. 198 00:11:14,220 --> 00:11:15,220 Thank you, Mr. Price. 199 00:11:20,020 --> 00:11:22,200 Listen, there's something else that I think you ought to know about. 200 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,600 Jim was on the diving team when he was in college. 201 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,420 Oh? High board or low board? 202 00:11:28,830 --> 00:11:32,750 Tower. He used to even pretend like he was doing a comedy act, you know? He'd 203 00:11:32,750 --> 00:11:35,890 pretend like he was falling, and then right at the last minute, he'd cut the 204 00:11:35,890 --> 00:11:37,010 water just like a knife. 205 00:11:37,270 --> 00:11:40,770 Then you think the idea of his selecting a high bridge to end it all just 206 00:11:40,770 --> 00:11:41,489 doesn't track? 207 00:11:41,490 --> 00:11:42,910 That's exactly what I'm thinking. 208 00:11:53,530 --> 00:11:56,270 Steve, grab a camera and meet me in the parking lot, quick. 209 00:12:10,219 --> 00:12:11,260 Girlfriend and detective. 210 00:12:11,980 --> 00:12:14,220 We can catch them before they leave the parking lot. 211 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:15,820 Hold it, Libby. Not so fast. Why? 212 00:12:16,140 --> 00:12:19,400 Do it. Just think it. A grief -stricken girlfriend. 213 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:20,680 A dead priest. 214 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:21,920 A fake name. 215 00:12:22,580 --> 00:12:24,760 That's the kind of story the network will pick up on. 216 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:26,300 What fake name? 217 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,400 Anders. The girl ID'd him as Jim Wills. 218 00:12:30,980 --> 00:12:33,460 And it gets better. She won't believe that he's dead. 219 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,720 He was a high diver in college. 220 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:38,620 Is this a ticket to the big time or what? 221 00:12:41,699 --> 00:12:42,699 DeWitt? 222 00:12:44,820 --> 00:12:46,760 Yeah, you go get him. I'll be there in two minutes. 223 00:12:49,980 --> 00:12:52,980 First off, I think you ought to take a ride over to Jim's apartment. 224 00:12:53,540 --> 00:12:57,680 Hopefully he has some nosy neighbors who might be able to... Mr. Jones! 225 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:58,960 Mr. Jones! 226 00:12:59,820 --> 00:13:01,260 I'm so glad we caught you. 227 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:05,580 Miss Millican, we'd like very much to interview you for tonight's broadcast. 228 00:13:06,100 --> 00:13:07,100 Me? 229 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:08,840 It's all about Jim. 230 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,760 who he really is, how you came out here to be with him, and all about... Please, 231 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,780 I really don't think... I think an interview at this time is a little 232 00:13:17,780 --> 00:13:24,560 Okay, let me... This is Wendy Milligan, 233 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:28,760 who came here from Columbus, Ohio, to be with a man named Jim Wills. 234 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,380 Miss Milligan, you saw our news broadcast last night, and you recognize 235 00:13:33,380 --> 00:13:35,360 on that bridge as your fiancé? 236 00:13:35,900 --> 00:13:36,940 Um, yes. 237 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:38,500 No, I mean, no. 238 00:13:39,100 --> 00:13:40,120 Look, I wasn't sure. 239 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:44,120 Excuse me, Mr. Robinson, but Miss Milliken's been through an ordeal. I 240 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:45,680 think you want to add to her grief, do you? 241 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:46,900 Who are you, sir? 242 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:48,840 Barnaby Jones, private investigator. 243 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:51,440 Hired by Miss Milliken to find her fiancé. 244 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,980 Mr. Jones, what's happening here is news. I don't want to interfere with 245 00:13:55,980 --> 00:14:00,340 First Amendment right to gather news, Mr. Robinson, but there is no news here 246 00:14:00,340 --> 00:14:02,440 yet. But of course there is. 247 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:06,460 Miss Milliken, I understand you refuse to believe that Jim's suicide attempt 248 00:14:06,460 --> 00:14:07,460 successful. 249 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,160 Look, it wasn't a suicide. 250 00:14:09,420 --> 00:14:12,780 He wouldn't do that. Look, no interview. Isn't that what you were just told? He 251 00:14:12,780 --> 00:14:16,120 was a high driver, wasn't he? Listen, I don't think I'm explaining this clear 252 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,100 enough. You see, the young lady is worried about someone she loves and 253 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:22,040 need a microphone stuck in her face. Okay, Steve, that ought to give us 254 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:23,040 to broadcast. 255 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:26,540 That's just about all you care about, isn't it? 256 00:14:27,860 --> 00:14:30,200 Hey, Olivia, you're on the ball, kid. This one ought to give us enough to milk 257 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:31,440 for days. We play our cards right. 258 00:14:33,460 --> 00:14:35,340 Olivia, do you remember Cloris LaRue? 259 00:14:35,930 --> 00:14:39,170 You mean the stripper with the snakes? Only what I read in the newspaper. 260 00:14:39,590 --> 00:14:40,650 She used to live here. 261 00:14:41,090 --> 00:14:42,090 How do you know? 262 00:14:42,290 --> 00:14:43,970 I dated an actress here once. 263 00:14:46,570 --> 00:14:48,450 Singers, actors, dancers, okay. 264 00:14:48,670 --> 00:14:50,170 But snakes? No way. 265 00:14:50,550 --> 00:14:52,250 So you mean you just kicked Cloris out? 266 00:14:52,610 --> 00:14:54,370 Not me. My mother, the manager. 267 00:14:58,430 --> 00:14:59,810 When's the last time you showed him? 268 00:15:00,330 --> 00:15:02,110 I haven't seen him since yesterday morning. 269 00:15:03,550 --> 00:15:04,550 But so what? 270 00:15:05,150 --> 00:15:06,150 Stood up before. 271 00:15:07,230 --> 00:15:08,230 You had a date with him? 272 00:15:08,790 --> 00:15:09,769 Last night. 273 00:15:09,770 --> 00:15:12,230 He was supposed to take me to Le Chevalier. 274 00:15:13,110 --> 00:15:15,390 Fancy schmancy. That's 70 bucks a throw, isn't it? 275 00:15:15,670 --> 00:15:16,810 It was to thank me, he said. 276 00:15:17,690 --> 00:15:21,110 I taught him a little salad and spaghetti when he had the shorts, you 277 00:15:22,090 --> 00:15:23,090 He's so grateful. 278 00:15:23,630 --> 00:15:26,370 Struggling young actor, lands part in pictures, is that it? 279 00:15:27,030 --> 00:15:28,590 He's more into stunts, I think. 280 00:15:29,130 --> 00:15:30,290 He's very athletic. 281 00:15:32,910 --> 00:15:34,010 When did he give up acting? 282 00:15:34,460 --> 00:15:37,500 When his acting teacher recommended it. You know who that teacher was? 283 00:15:38,380 --> 00:15:39,219 Let's see. 284 00:15:39,220 --> 00:15:40,340 Archer. Arche. 285 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:43,120 Arche. Silent T. 286 00:15:44,020 --> 00:15:45,020 French. 287 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:48,460 A -R -C -H -E -T. 288 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:49,960 Arche. 289 00:15:50,260 --> 00:15:51,620 All right, I'll get right on it. 290 00:15:52,740 --> 00:15:54,980 Barnaby, are you planning to go into the theater? 291 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,860 I will if it's necessary to find out about Jim Wills. 292 00:15:59,220 --> 00:16:00,220 Oh, Barnaby. 293 00:16:00,580 --> 00:16:01,580 Wendy called. 294 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:06,180 It seems DeWitt Robinson phoned her, wanted to finish out that interview. She 295 00:16:06,180 --> 00:16:08,320 tried to say no, but... How long ago was that? 296 00:16:08,660 --> 00:16:09,660 Just a few minutes. 297 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,160 Listen, I'd really like to know how he found out where she was. 298 00:16:13,420 --> 00:16:16,900 He impresses me as the kind of a fellow who would find a potato bug in a bean 299 00:16:16,900 --> 00:16:18,780 barrel if he thought there was a story in it. 300 00:16:20,540 --> 00:16:21,860 I think Wendy needs this. 301 00:16:23,860 --> 00:16:26,120 Wendy, what about the letter he sent you? 302 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:27,920 Oh, he said he had some work. 303 00:16:28,660 --> 00:16:30,540 Why do you think he told us the exact opposite? 304 00:16:30,940 --> 00:16:31,940 I don't know. 305 00:16:32,540 --> 00:16:33,760 What kind of work? 306 00:16:34,140 --> 00:16:35,140 He didn't say. 307 00:16:35,820 --> 00:16:40,600 If he did survive, as you believe, why do you think he hasn't come forward? 308 00:16:41,420 --> 00:16:45,500 Well, maybe he's hurt or dazed or something. Or hiding. 309 00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:46,960 Why would he do that? 310 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:48,520 Afraid, maybe. 311 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,880 Thinking he was responsible for the death of Father Moore. 312 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,580 But the priest grabbed him. How could that be Jim's fault? 313 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,060 That would depend on exactly why he was threatening to jump in the first place. 314 00:16:58,320 --> 00:16:59,320 You insist. 315 00:16:59,630 --> 00:17:01,890 That he wasn't through with Tyler. Why then? Was it a publicity stunt? 316 00:17:03,470 --> 00:17:04,470 Barnaby? 317 00:17:04,609 --> 00:17:06,810 This will be Barnaby Jones again, private investigator. 318 00:17:07,190 --> 00:17:08,349 Are these folks invited guests? 319 00:17:08,710 --> 00:17:11,869 No. Then why don't we invite them out? She opened the door for us. It's still 320 00:17:11,869 --> 00:17:14,569 open. Why don't you use it? What kind of camera is this anyway? This is a zoom 321 00:17:14,569 --> 00:17:15,429 lens, right? 322 00:17:15,430 --> 00:17:16,269 Come on, man. 323 00:17:16,270 --> 00:17:17,630 All right, Steve, leave me that there. 324 00:17:25,550 --> 00:17:28,290 Well, off the record, do you think he's still alive? 325 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:30,620 Off the record, no, but we're going to find out. 326 00:17:30,860 --> 00:17:32,380 If you do, will you give me an exclusive? 327 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:36,640 Well, I've got one. How about an overly ambitious news hog who gets a 328 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:38,860 trespassing rap laid on him if he ever pulls a stunt like this again? 329 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:52,280 You refused to believe that Jim's suicide attempt was successful, is that 330 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,580 Look, it wasn't a suicide. He wouldn't do that. 331 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000 No interview. 332 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,140 Isn't that what you were just told? No interview. Oh, I cut it there. 333 00:17:59,020 --> 00:18:00,960 They came out completely in Jones, too. 334 00:18:01,780 --> 00:18:04,520 And that new stuff, when it comes back from the lab, cut around both of them. 335 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:06,760 It's super footage, DeWitt. 336 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:07,960 Too good for the locals. 337 00:18:08,660 --> 00:18:10,360 Wouldn't it be a trip if he was alive? 338 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,160 He sees his girl on TV all choked up over him. 339 00:18:14,580 --> 00:18:16,360 That'd sure smoke him out of the woodwork. 340 00:18:18,820 --> 00:18:19,820 Yeah, you're not kidding. 341 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,660 Well, you go ahead and make the cuts. Be right back. 342 00:18:25,580 --> 00:18:26,700 I hope he does it. 343 00:18:27,750 --> 00:18:29,950 Sees the broadcast, turns himself in. 344 00:18:30,390 --> 00:18:32,050 You'd think he'd get a year or two. 345 00:18:32,530 --> 00:18:33,830 I mean, that Wendy's nice. 346 00:18:34,750 --> 00:18:36,710 And you're aromatic. 347 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:04,700 Yeah, this is Wilson. 348 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:06,760 Where the hell have you been? 349 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:08,860 Locating your girlfriend at Promet. 350 00:19:09,460 --> 00:19:10,460 You found Wendy? 351 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:11,600 I will have. 352 00:19:11,820 --> 00:19:12,920 Right at six o 'clock tonight. 353 00:19:13,420 --> 00:19:14,420 Six tonight? 354 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:15,960 Six -thirty at the latest. 355 00:19:16,340 --> 00:19:17,340 It's a sure thing. 356 00:19:18,380 --> 00:19:20,640 Okay. Just call me right away. 357 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:23,700 Yeah, but you're gonna have to answer the phone a lot quicker than you did 358 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:24,700 time. Where were you? 359 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,980 Oh, I'm on the third floor. The only phone is in the lobby. 360 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,680 It'll probably be while we're on the air with the news. I can only be on the 361 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:31,780 phone for a few seconds at a time. 362 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,940 So I'll stand by the phone. Well, look, between 6 and 6 .30, don't get 363 00:19:36,940 --> 00:19:40,800 impatient. You stay in the lobby and close to the phone, okay? 364 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:42,680 Right. 365 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:50,060 Now, you students certainly know what a rose is. A rose by any other name would 366 00:19:50,060 --> 00:19:51,060 smell as sweet. 367 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:52,600 Listen, darling, please. 368 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:58,940 Now, try to think of yourself as a beautiful, pink, fully opened blossom. 369 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:00,760 Not a blooming ragweed. 370 00:20:02,110 --> 00:20:05,010 Well, I'm sorry, darling. Perhaps we should think of some other little 371 00:20:05,630 --> 00:20:09,450 How about a nice, bright little yellow daisy? Would you like that? 372 00:20:10,270 --> 00:20:11,610 Marvelous. Over there, darling. 373 00:20:11,990 --> 00:20:12,990 Mr. Archer? 374 00:20:14,050 --> 00:20:17,370 Well, well, my dear sir, I'm not often privileged to hear my name properly 375 00:20:17,370 --> 00:20:21,110 pronounced. As a mark of my appreciation, I'm waiving the usual 376 00:20:21,110 --> 00:20:24,450 admission. Thank you. We appreciate that. My name is Barnaby Jones. 377 00:20:24,690 --> 00:20:26,210 This is my associate, Jedediah Jones. 378 00:20:26,990 --> 00:20:29,030 Jedediah. Well, it's certainly a pleasure to meet you. 379 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,900 And I can certainly use a young man of your talent, Jedediah. 380 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,780 It's rather hard to keep young leading men, you know. 381 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:37,040 Like Jim Wills. 382 00:20:38,380 --> 00:20:40,660 I'd like to ask you a few questions about him. 383 00:20:41,780 --> 00:20:43,960 Hmm. Private investigator, eh? 384 00:20:44,420 --> 00:20:46,700 Well, I'll tell you anything except that he was a good actor. 385 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,340 Is that why you advised him to go into stunt work? 386 00:20:49,620 --> 00:20:50,760 Oh, come now, Mr. 387 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,860 Jones. It seems to me you've already done some investigation. 388 00:20:55,260 --> 00:20:59,670 Some. Well, Jim is very physical, of course, but you don't just go into stunt 389 00:20:59,670 --> 00:21:01,770 work. You mean jobs like that are hard to find? 390 00:21:02,050 --> 00:21:04,850 Well, he mentioned recently someone who was very good at opening doors. 391 00:21:05,410 --> 00:21:06,870 Any idea who that may have been? 392 00:21:07,250 --> 00:21:11,090 I had the impression it was a television person, someone of rather substantial 393 00:21:11,090 --> 00:21:12,090 influence. 394 00:21:12,630 --> 00:21:15,530 No, no, darling, a bright little yellow daisy. 395 00:21:16,270 --> 00:21:17,270 Excuse me, sir. 396 00:21:17,390 --> 00:21:19,530 She's the girlfriend of one of my backers. 397 00:21:19,810 --> 00:21:22,370 Now, darling, it's simply a matter of concentration. 398 00:21:23,010 --> 00:21:24,010 Well, Warnaby... 399 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:28,300 What television person named DeWitt Robinson do we know in this case? 400 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,460 Maybe we just don't know him well enough. 401 00:21:30,980 --> 00:21:33,480 Ah, shucks. Just when I was beginning to like not seeing him. 402 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,440 Well, Jedediah, sometimes you have to wade through the hogwalla to get to the 403 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,080 melon. Well, I'll put on my high boots. 404 00:21:41,860 --> 00:21:42,860 Hello. 405 00:21:43,740 --> 00:21:44,740 Yeah. 406 00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:47,900 Hotel Brody, room 843, 9 o 'clock tonight. Got it. 407 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,200 843, 9 o 'clock. 408 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:52,600 I'll be there. 409 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:23,480 Where's Wendy? 410 00:22:24,140 --> 00:22:25,140 She's not here. 411 00:22:26,260 --> 00:22:28,260 You promised me that she'd be here. 412 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,440 That's before I found out Wendy hired a private detective to find you, man. 413 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:33,180 I should have known better. 414 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:35,580 It's a temporary delay. 415 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:37,440 It's temporary. 416 00:22:38,700 --> 00:22:41,300 I'm telling you, that private detective is digging in pretty good. 417 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,000 You've got to get your story straight. 418 00:22:44,660 --> 00:22:45,660 My story? 419 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:47,560 All right, all right. We're both on the hook. 420 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:50,280 Here. 421 00:22:51,020 --> 00:22:52,020 Take a look at that. 422 00:22:57,770 --> 00:22:58,770 $4 ,000. 423 00:22:59,050 --> 00:23:02,730 I want you to play one last scene in front of my camera. 424 00:23:03,650 --> 00:23:04,850 What kind of scene? 425 00:23:05,290 --> 00:23:08,050 I want you to play the same scene you were supposed to play before. 426 00:23:08,670 --> 00:23:11,390 Only this time you tell him it was a performance on that bridge, see? 427 00:23:11,970 --> 00:23:13,030 Father Moore believed it. 428 00:23:13,310 --> 00:23:17,030 All right, now you've got such a case of the gilth. This time, you're gonna do 429 00:23:17,030 --> 00:23:18,030 it for real. 430 00:23:18,850 --> 00:23:20,290 Without any water to land in. 431 00:23:21,270 --> 00:23:23,130 Just tell me where Wendy is, man. 432 00:23:23,370 --> 00:23:24,990 Look, this time I talk you out of it. 433 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,600 I'll find her myself. But look, they'll understand. 434 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,240 All you're going to get is probation. 435 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,400 Get out of my way. It's too late. 436 00:23:31,620 --> 00:23:32,700 It was all on the air. 437 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Everything tonight. 438 00:23:34,220 --> 00:23:35,300 What was on the air? 439 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:36,520 Your real name. 440 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:37,880 Interviews with Wendy. 441 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:38,920 Everything. 442 00:23:39,260 --> 00:23:40,260 Except the deal with me. 443 00:23:40,740 --> 00:23:41,740 Now look, Jim. 444 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,800 It's all set up. We can do it this time. 445 00:24:16,459 --> 00:24:17,459 555 -6209. 446 00:24:20,940 --> 00:24:21,940 Libby Price. 447 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:27,080 Libby, I just heard from Jim Wills. 448 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:29,540 He's at the Hotel Brody in the roof garden. 449 00:24:30,140 --> 00:24:31,460 Says he's going to try it again. 450 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:34,020 Number 451 00:24:34,020 --> 00:24:42,700 one 452 00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:43,700 in the news market. 453 00:24:43,740 --> 00:24:45,700 That's where DeWitt Robinson's hotline put it. 454 00:24:45,980 --> 00:24:47,380 Sorry, it's the only chance I'll get. 455 00:24:47,620 --> 00:24:48,780 I'm sure your fellas won't join me. 456 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:49,779 No, thank you. 457 00:24:49,780 --> 00:24:52,360 Mr. Monaghan, how long has the hotline been in existence? 458 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:57,160 Oh, let's see, at least five, maybe six months since DeWitt talked us into it. 459 00:24:57,660 --> 00:25:00,340 Fifty bucks cash for any news tip we use on the air. 460 00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:02,860 A regular viewer would know that. 461 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:04,340 Guess you found me out. 462 00:25:04,660 --> 00:25:06,580 That made him into kind of a hero, didn't it? 463 00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:08,220 Saved his job for him. 464 00:25:08,620 --> 00:25:11,680 And may get him a spot on a national show out of New York. 465 00:25:12,139 --> 00:25:15,560 Mr. Robinson's stories have all been on the sensational side. 466 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:20,060 Yes, they have been lately, starting with the terrorists who blew up the 467 00:25:20,060 --> 00:25:21,720 abandoned power facility. 468 00:25:22,180 --> 00:25:24,140 Oh, yeah, I remember that. About a month and a half ago, right? 469 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,100 The hotline didn't pay off during the first few months, did it? 470 00:25:28,380 --> 00:25:29,380 Right. 471 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,020 Caught on just before option time. 472 00:25:32,660 --> 00:25:37,200 Mr. Monaghan, I wonder if you could supply us with a list of the stories 473 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,860 Mr. Robinson's hotline generated, along with the dates. 474 00:25:40,460 --> 00:25:42,660 Well, I think I'd have to know why, Mr. Jones. 475 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,160 Kind of like to see how they stack up against the activities of the young man 476 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:47,560 that went off the roof carton last night. 477 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:48,800 Jim Wills? 478 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:51,720 You know what you're suggesting, manufactured news. 479 00:25:53,460 --> 00:25:55,300 That's a very serious accusation. 480 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,440 That's why we have to be sure before we make it. 481 00:25:59,980 --> 00:26:03,480 Kind of figured that you'd want to know one way or the other, too. 482 00:26:19,660 --> 00:26:24,060 very grateful to you betty i really needed somebody and you were there thank 483 00:26:24,060 --> 00:26:27,000 listen if you'd like me to stick around for a while i'd be more than happy to 484 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:33,920 it's okay thanks anyway but i am really whipped well you have my number yeah 485 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:40,700 oh betty why did this happen i just 486 00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:46,640 don't understand any of this i've got a whole life to re -plan you know 487 00:26:47,470 --> 00:26:51,630 I just can't seem to do any of it until I find out what it was that happened. 488 00:26:52,410 --> 00:26:54,770 Wendy, I'll make you this promise. 489 00:26:55,770 --> 00:26:58,750 Barnaby will never stop until all of this is explained. 490 00:27:00,090 --> 00:27:01,090 Okay. 491 00:27:01,930 --> 00:27:02,930 I'm fine. 492 00:27:23,409 --> 00:27:25,430 Wendy, Jim asked me to talk to you. 493 00:27:25,690 --> 00:27:29,330 Jim? Jim Wills was obviously very disturbed on that roof. 494 00:27:29,810 --> 00:27:33,290 He asked me to tell Wendy how desperately sorry he was. 495 00:27:33,490 --> 00:27:40,050 But he kept saying, if it hadn't been a priest, if it hadn't been a priest, was 496 00:27:40,050 --> 00:27:41,050 Jim a religious man? 497 00:27:41,090 --> 00:27:42,510 He respected life. 498 00:27:42,770 --> 00:27:44,550 Yes, he respected life. 499 00:27:45,250 --> 00:27:47,290 That's why Jim Wills was so tortured a man. 500 00:27:47,710 --> 00:27:51,430 And that's why he didn't commit suicide. He did not commit suicide. Do you hear 501 00:27:51,430 --> 00:27:52,610 me? He didn't have it in him. 502 00:27:52,910 --> 00:27:55,390 I don't care what you say. He didn't. I was there. 503 00:27:55,850 --> 00:27:59,510 I tried to stop Jim Wills on that roof. I can hear you trying to stop him. 504 00:27:59,850 --> 00:28:03,190 Don't jump, Jim. Don't jump. Not until you've told us your whole sad story. 505 00:28:03,550 --> 00:28:06,530 Oh, and turn your head this way a little bit so we can get your good side on the 506 00:28:06,530 --> 00:28:09,390 camera. We can all understand. Why don't you just get out of here? 507 00:28:12,870 --> 00:28:14,130 Why don't you put that one on the air? 508 00:28:16,850 --> 00:28:17,850 Fill it. 509 00:28:22,490 --> 00:28:25,350 Libby, I dropped by your station to see you. They said you were here. 510 00:28:26,310 --> 00:28:27,310 You were right. 511 00:28:30,510 --> 00:28:33,830 I thought you came here to rescue me. Well, I did, but you didn't look like 512 00:28:33,830 --> 00:28:34,830 needed it. 513 00:28:35,650 --> 00:28:36,690 Did you see the anchorman? 514 00:28:37,330 --> 00:28:38,830 Monaghan, yeah. I think we're on the right track. 515 00:28:39,310 --> 00:28:42,590 I blew my little intimate interview with Libby the way I just came in here just 516 00:28:42,590 --> 00:28:44,250 now. Oh, I kind of liked it myself. 517 00:28:46,730 --> 00:28:47,730 Did you forget something? 518 00:28:48,250 --> 00:28:49,310 To apologize. 519 00:28:49,810 --> 00:28:52,570 Sometimes DeWitt gets carried away. 520 00:28:53,150 --> 00:28:54,870 I'm really sorry for everything. 521 00:28:56,250 --> 00:28:57,250 Thank you. 522 00:29:06,470 --> 00:29:11,190 Oh, Mr. Jones, I thought you'd be finished asking questions about Jim. 523 00:29:11,490 --> 00:29:15,290 Now that he's... I mean, now that he's not missing anymore. 524 00:29:15,930 --> 00:29:18,930 I'm going to keep asking questions, Margie, until they're all answered, 525 00:29:19,030 --> 00:29:20,030 especially about his work. 526 00:29:20,370 --> 00:29:21,370 His stunt job? 527 00:29:21,810 --> 00:29:28,490 I not only want to know the nature of the job, but when he did it. I compiled 528 00:29:28,490 --> 00:29:30,970 list here in hopes it'll jog your memory. 529 00:29:33,330 --> 00:29:35,070 Explosion, fire, robbery. 530 00:29:35,790 --> 00:29:37,350 It's dangerous work. 531 00:29:38,350 --> 00:29:39,790 Makes you wonder why. 532 00:29:40,430 --> 00:29:42,390 Did he ever mention anything about a fire? 533 00:29:42,850 --> 00:29:44,510 About the third or last month? 534 00:29:45,290 --> 00:29:46,289 My memory. 535 00:29:46,290 --> 00:29:48,410 Can I tell you about my memory? The worst. 536 00:29:49,530 --> 00:29:51,250 Lucky we don't have to rely on it. 537 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:52,830 I keep a journal. 538 00:29:53,490 --> 00:29:54,490 A diary? 539 00:29:54,670 --> 00:29:55,730 No, a journal. 540 00:29:56,450 --> 00:29:59,690 You know, my thoughts, feelings, character sketches. 541 00:30:00,450 --> 00:30:03,690 Whenever I meet somebody interesting, you're in it. 542 00:30:04,370 --> 00:30:05,830 You want to be a writer, isn't it? 543 00:30:06,230 --> 00:30:08,030 John Boy started with a journal, didn't he? 544 00:30:10,790 --> 00:30:12,050 Here's what I have for the third. 545 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,580 The third wasn't exactly what you call one of your banner days. 546 00:30:19,780 --> 00:30:21,320 Shall we move along to the fourth? 547 00:30:22,460 --> 00:30:23,460 Oh. 548 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,560 Jim knocked on the door. It was two in the morning. 549 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,080 He asked if there was any stab in the house. 550 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:31,920 There was a burn on his hand. 551 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,000 Will Wendy be heading back to Ohio right away, do you think? 552 00:30:45,540 --> 00:30:46,760 I don't know. She didn't say. 553 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,440 Were you ever around when Robinson took one of his hotline calls? 554 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:52,560 Not lately. 555 00:30:53,420 --> 00:30:56,260 Do you think she'll talk to me? I mean, woman to woman. 556 00:30:58,060 --> 00:30:59,060 Wendy. 557 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:03,560 There is a reporter around here anyway. You keep answering my questions with 558 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:04,560 questions. 559 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,520 Why are you so interested in doing it? 560 00:31:08,860 --> 00:31:10,320 It's my week for collecting jerks. 561 00:31:10,919 --> 00:31:13,120 What do you want me to say? That he's a jerk? 562 00:31:14,140 --> 00:31:15,340 All right, he's a jerk. 563 00:31:15,860 --> 00:31:19,040 Present company accepted, I hope. Mr. Jones. 564 00:31:19,380 --> 00:31:20,780 Sorry, but I have to borrow your friend. 565 00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:25,020 Something came up on the Wills case. I have a job for you. 566 00:31:25,260 --> 00:31:26,260 Is that urgent? 567 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:28,280 I think so. 568 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:30,720 What can I say? 569 00:31:31,060 --> 00:31:32,880 Well, we both have a lot in common. 570 00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:34,620 We're both slaves to our work. 571 00:32:08,490 --> 00:32:11,830 Let me get this straight now. You say your name is Marjorie Hall and you're a 572 00:32:11,830 --> 00:32:13,170 neighbor of Jim Wilt? 573 00:32:15,610 --> 00:32:18,130 Oh, I see. You're the landlady's daughter. 574 00:32:18,770 --> 00:32:20,330 You say he left you a letter? 575 00:32:21,410 --> 00:32:22,410 Confession? 576 00:32:23,990 --> 00:32:24,990 Confession of what? 577 00:32:25,390 --> 00:32:26,730 What happened on the bridge. 578 00:32:28,410 --> 00:32:29,410 I see. 579 00:32:29,850 --> 00:32:32,530 Well, yes, I'd like very much to look at the letter. 580 00:32:34,230 --> 00:32:36,850 I figure there'd be a price. What kind of money are you talking about? 581 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:39,440 I don't know. 582 00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:40,800 How's about a million bucks? 583 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:43,780 That's pretty steep. 584 00:32:44,620 --> 00:32:46,840 Take me a little while to raise that kind of money. 585 00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:48,620 No kidding. You could have fooled me. 586 00:32:49,140 --> 00:32:50,140 Well, I'll try. 587 00:32:51,180 --> 00:32:54,400 But in the meantime, don't sell the letter to anyone else. 588 00:33:18,260 --> 00:33:20,020 Tony, it's Libby. Get me to it, quick. 589 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:28,440 Oh, well, look, when he gets back, just tie him down and lock him in his office. 590 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:29,580 Anything. I've got to see him. 591 00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:41,140 Hey, Bobby, who's got more money than the network, huh? 592 00:33:42,340 --> 00:33:43,340 That's right, nobody. 593 00:33:43,980 --> 00:33:44,980 Yeah, 594 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:46,680 so squeeze him a little. 595 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:48,860 Yeah, but don't blow the deal, okay? 596 00:33:49,580 --> 00:33:50,580 Yeah, right. 597 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:51,539 Do it. 598 00:33:51,540 --> 00:33:54,320 I'm glad I caught you. Hey, Libby, just in time. Grab a glass and I'll give you 599 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,320 one guess. 600 00:33:55,740 --> 00:33:58,060 New York's come through with an offer. 601 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,860 My agent's negotiating the deal. 602 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:05,720 Cheers, babe. 603 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,400 Johnny said you had something hot. What is it? 604 00:34:13,659 --> 00:34:14,659 Yep. 605 00:34:14,900 --> 00:34:16,300 Jim Wills left a letter. 606 00:34:16,710 --> 00:34:19,429 It's a confession of some sort about what happened on the bridge. 607 00:34:22,210 --> 00:34:23,210 Left it? Left it where? 608 00:34:23,409 --> 00:34:26,110 With his landlady's daughter, Margie Hall. 609 00:34:26,670 --> 00:34:30,290 I don't know what it's about, DeWitt, but it sounded pretty important. And it 610 00:34:30,290 --> 00:34:33,290 has to be something that you can use tonight when you wrap that story. 611 00:34:37,050 --> 00:34:38,050 Yeah. 612 00:34:40,010 --> 00:34:41,530 You did the right thing, babe. 613 00:34:41,830 --> 00:34:42,830 Really on the ball. 614 00:34:48,010 --> 00:34:52,010 Don't you want to know how I found out? 615 00:34:57,790 --> 00:34:58,990 The wit? 616 00:35:05,550 --> 00:35:08,150 Right. Hold your horses. 617 00:35:08,670 --> 00:35:09,670 Oh. 618 00:35:13,130 --> 00:35:14,170 Roger Hall? 619 00:35:14,410 --> 00:35:16,230 You win first prize. 620 00:35:16,810 --> 00:35:17,810 Who wants to know? 621 00:35:18,150 --> 00:35:19,150 Do it, Robinson. 622 00:35:20,170 --> 00:35:23,810 Well, I've been reading an awful lot about you lately. 623 00:35:24,170 --> 00:35:27,170 If you're talking about the letter, let's get at it. Letter? What letter? 624 00:35:28,290 --> 00:35:30,070 If you don't know, baby, forget about it. 625 00:35:30,510 --> 00:35:31,510 Come on. 626 00:35:44,610 --> 00:35:46,390 Word do get around, don't it? 627 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:48,600 Are you making an offer? 628 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:50,400 I might be interested. 629 00:35:50,980 --> 00:35:52,340 Could be worth a lot. 630 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:54,020 Depends on what's in it. 631 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:57,160 Judge for yourself. 632 00:36:00,380 --> 00:36:01,380 That's a cop. 633 00:36:03,780 --> 00:36:07,280 I made it down in my local friendly neighborhood drugstore. 634 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:11,540 Girl can't be too careful in matters like this, huh? 635 00:36:15,340 --> 00:36:16,940 Did he spell your name right, honey? 636 00:36:21,060 --> 00:36:22,740 The man was in the wrong business. 637 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,120 He should have been a comedy writer. 638 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,780 What are you saying? This is a fiction? 639 00:36:29,420 --> 00:36:30,420 Oh, yeah. 640 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,180 That's a bad pulp variety. 641 00:36:35,780 --> 00:36:39,400 Yeah, I don't know. It looked like a confession to me. I mean, at this late 642 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,220 date, why should the guy lie, huh? 643 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,720 I figure the police are gonna think that. 644 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:55,300 A man in my position is always vulnerable to this 645 00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:57,480 kind of slander. 646 00:36:59,340 --> 00:37:05,520 And I find it less damaging in the long run to 647 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:10,340 pay off than to fight back. 648 00:37:10,980 --> 00:37:12,240 You understand that? 649 00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:15,720 Like a reasonable attitude? 650 00:37:16,020 --> 00:37:17,020 Yes. 651 00:37:17,780 --> 00:37:19,720 And how much is reasonable? 652 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,920 And how fast do you think you want it? 653 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,480 Morning. He went for the bait. Betty did okay? 654 00:37:40,970 --> 00:37:44,650 Yeah, even though Marge wasn't crazy about the impersonation, she got the job 655 00:37:44,650 --> 00:37:46,910 done. Where is the payoff going to be? 656 00:37:47,410 --> 00:37:49,450 By the monkey cages at the old zoo. 657 00:37:49,810 --> 00:37:51,550 I think I know where that is. What time? 658 00:37:52,130 --> 00:37:53,830 This afternoon, four o 'clock. 659 00:37:55,210 --> 00:37:56,210 All right. 660 00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:57,250 Will you get things going? 661 00:37:59,310 --> 00:38:00,310 Okay, good enough. 662 00:38:00,630 --> 00:38:01,630 Talk to you later. 663 00:38:01,670 --> 00:38:02,670 Goodbye. 664 00:38:04,710 --> 00:38:05,910 Rotten business, isn't it? 665 00:38:07,910 --> 00:38:08,910 Yours or mine? 666 00:38:09,790 --> 00:38:10,790 Both. 667 00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:13,800 You set me up, and I set him up. 668 00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:17,560 Just that I could have stopped him, but I didn't. 669 00:38:18,700 --> 00:38:19,700 And you shouldn't have. 670 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:22,760 Let me look. 671 00:38:23,420 --> 00:38:27,700 The fraud that Robinson perpetrated on the public is nothing compared to the 672 00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:31,120 crime he committed against the name of every TV newsman in the business, 673 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,820 including you. I mean, he's responsible for the death of Father Moore, if not 674 00:38:34,820 --> 00:38:35,678 Jim Wells. 675 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,440 How did you know that I wasn't in on it? 676 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,720 Well, you would have been at Margie's place waiting for him. 677 00:38:41,060 --> 00:38:42,820 If you thought you had equal billing in that letter. 678 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,120 Come on, we better go. We? 679 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,960 Well, you don't want another station to get a scoop on your own story, do you? 680 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,780 You're a reporter, aren't you? Yes, I am. 681 00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:02,840 And that's the final Robinson report on the short life and tragic death of Jim 682 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,680 Wills. In fact, the final Robinson report you'll be seeing locally on this 683 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,640 station. Beginning Monday, we'll be seen a half an hour later on the network 684 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,920 news originating from New York. 685 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,060 This is DeWitt Robinson, and that's a wrap. 686 00:39:22,180 --> 00:39:24,100 Well, thank you, Charlie, for letting me tape in advance. 687 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,280 I took her out to do that live and never made a play. No problem, DeWitt. I'm 688 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,300 just sorry this will be your last show here. 689 00:39:31,660 --> 00:39:33,160 We're going to miss Robinson's report. 690 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,140 Not to mention the ratings on our 6 o 'clock news. 691 00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:37,780 Yeah, well, you'll come up with something. 692 00:39:38,780 --> 00:39:41,440 Well, good luck in New York, DeWitt. 693 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:42,920 Thanks, Tony. 694 00:41:05,810 --> 00:41:06,810 Over here. 695 00:41:24,430 --> 00:41:27,770 I watched a lot of television. 696 00:41:28,950 --> 00:41:30,110 Come on, let's get it over with. 697 00:41:30,410 --> 00:41:31,650 I know I want the original. 698 00:41:32,350 --> 00:41:33,350 So do I. 699 00:41:34,110 --> 00:41:35,170 If you get my meaning. 700 00:41:44,430 --> 00:41:45,490 All right. 701 00:41:46,770 --> 00:41:47,810 That's it. We're through. 702 00:41:48,770 --> 00:41:50,570 You understand that, Miss Hall? 703 00:41:51,930 --> 00:41:52,930 Finished. 704 00:41:53,270 --> 00:41:56,710 Yes, I do believe that is the word for it. Mr. Robinson, finished. 705 00:42:06,570 --> 00:42:07,570 Don't try, Robinson. 706 00:42:13,050 --> 00:42:14,050 Don't try, Robinson. 707 00:42:21,810 --> 00:42:22,810 Robin. 708 00:42:23,930 --> 00:42:25,230 You're under arrest, Robinson. 709 00:42:25,730 --> 00:42:26,730 Suspicion of murder. 710 00:42:27,820 --> 00:42:31,320 By exchanging the money for what he believed to be an incriminating letter, 711 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,120 News personality DeWitt Robinson has verified his part in the planning and 712 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,060 execution of Roger McStory. 713 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,060 You're still on the ball, aren't you, Libby? 714 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,200 Oh, I taught you pretty good, huh? 715 00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:45,880 You were wrong about one thing. 716 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:49,220 I don't think I'll ever get used to it. 717 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:50,840 Oh, sure. 718 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:55,000 For old time's sake? 719 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:56,360 You didn't. 720 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:12,600 What am I going to say? 721 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,860 You want me to tell you that the news at 6 o 'clock isn't real? 722 00:43:18,380 --> 00:43:19,380 Oh, hell, it's real enough. 723 00:43:19,620 --> 00:43:21,760 We just dramatized it a little for you. That's all. 724 00:43:22,540 --> 00:43:23,540 That's all. 725 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,220 We don't want you to tune us off. 726 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,460 We edit, we select. We go out on the bridge when somebody's going to jump 727 00:43:30,460 --> 00:43:31,460 because you want to see it. 728 00:43:32,260 --> 00:43:33,580 Nobody wanted that priest to die. 729 00:43:34,260 --> 00:43:38,440 Jim Wills agonized over it more than I did. That's why we... That's why we were 730 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,720 dancing around on the roof garden of that hotel. 731 00:43:41,230 --> 00:43:42,230 I have to tell you that. 732 00:43:43,450 --> 00:43:44,450 You were there. 733 00:43:45,250 --> 00:43:46,250 You saw it. 734 00:43:46,550 --> 00:43:48,330 Living color. Last night, you saw it. 735 00:43:48,810 --> 00:43:49,930 You make up your own moral. 736 00:43:52,210 --> 00:43:53,210 Because I'm tired. 737 00:43:57,410 --> 00:43:58,410 That's to Whit Robinson. 738 00:44:01,730 --> 00:44:02,750 And that's a wrap. 739 00:44:06,710 --> 00:44:09,110 Well, we know that wasn't a fake. 740 00:44:11,210 --> 00:44:16,910 But I'm afraid that Tim's feeling for me was... Not according to our friend 741 00:44:16,910 --> 00:44:17,910 Margie. 742 00:44:18,750 --> 00:44:23,670 Oh, he liked her, all right, but she said that his mind was always on you. 743 00:44:24,970 --> 00:44:26,370 He knew I was in town. 744 00:44:26,630 --> 00:44:28,110 Why didn't he try to find me? 745 00:44:28,410 --> 00:44:30,110 Because DeWitt kept him from it. 746 00:44:30,870 --> 00:44:33,150 His biggest concern was for you, Wendy. 747 00:44:33,630 --> 00:44:38,390 All he wanted was to take his lumps for the accidental death of the priest, find 748 00:44:38,390 --> 00:44:39,450 you, and start over. 749 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,580 Are you really sure about that? I just talked to DeWitt. 750 00:44:43,060 --> 00:44:45,200 That's why I stopped by here. Thought you'd like to know. 751 00:44:45,460 --> 00:44:46,780 Oh, I did want to know that. 752 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:48,640 Thank you, Libby. 753 00:44:51,660 --> 00:44:53,520 I guess I can go home now, Mr. Jones. 754 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,200 I think I'm going to be all right. 755 00:44:56,460 --> 00:44:58,120 I never doubted it for a moment. 756 00:44:58,640 --> 00:44:59,640 Well, 757 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:02,420 wouldn't you know it. 758 00:45:03,340 --> 00:45:05,720 I forgot to ask my cab to wait. 759 00:45:07,170 --> 00:45:11,210 Well, now, I think I just happen to be going in your direction. 760 00:45:12,190 --> 00:45:14,210 What direction is that, Jedediah? 761 00:45:14,530 --> 00:45:15,930 Uh, south, west. 762 00:45:16,270 --> 00:45:17,850 North? Whatever. 763 00:45:20,690 --> 00:45:21,690 Get out.