1 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:22,860 Barnaby Jones, starring Buddy Ebsen. 2 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,380 Also starring Lee Merriweather. 3 00:00:26,980 --> 00:00:33,020 With guest stars Wayne Rogers, Dan Trevati, 4 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,720 special guest star Stephanie Powers. 5 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,460 Tonight's episode, Echo of a Murder. 6 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,860 works around here except me. Well, Claire, the engine just stalled. I'll 7 00:01:11,860 --> 00:01:14,260 fixed in a minute. And you know how I hate to sit in the sun. You know how bad 8 00:01:14,260 --> 00:01:15,260 it is for my skin. 9 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,160 Well, if you think I'm gonna put up with this, you got another thing coming. 10 00:01:18,580 --> 00:01:22,500 The wife of a man who owns himself a lodge. Well, she don't expect herself to 11 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:24,280 down on her hands and knees scrubbing no floors. 12 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:26,600 Never ask you to scrub floors. 13 00:01:27,580 --> 00:01:31,040 It's not demeaning to be a hostess while meals are being served. Well, I should 14 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:35,360 hope not because my daddy didn't raise me up to be no hired hand. 15 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:36,740 If he could see me... 16 00:01:38,220 --> 00:01:39,240 The voice of hers. 17 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:41,640 How it grates on my nerves. 18 00:01:42,060 --> 00:01:43,420 I don't care what you deny. 19 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,160 Not a day goes by you don't go snooping around that redhead. 20 00:01:47,820 --> 00:01:50,400 You and your fancy lodge. 21 00:01:51,020 --> 00:01:52,600 Ain't nothing but a hole in the wilderness. 22 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,860 Ain't nothing to do out here. Ain't nobody out here but a bunch of old 23 00:01:56,860 --> 00:01:58,140 and senile old men. 24 00:01:58,820 --> 00:02:02,420 As a matter of fact, I think I'll just take me the next bus out of here and I 25 00:02:02,420 --> 00:02:03,780 don't need no invitation from you. 26 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:05,200 Will you sit down in the boat? 27 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:08,940 Some late mail came in for you, mister. 28 00:02:09,780 --> 00:02:15,520 What the devil is he doing to her? 29 00:03:07,820 --> 00:03:09,040 That's all I know, Sheriff. 30 00:03:09,940 --> 00:03:11,440 The owner of the lodge. 31 00:03:12,180 --> 00:03:13,980 Killing his wife out on the lake. 32 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,060 Of course I saw it. 33 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:18,600 It's plain murder. 34 00:03:35,690 --> 00:03:37,450 Mr. Jones, thanks for coming up. 35 00:03:38,050 --> 00:03:40,970 I hope you don't think I was taking advantage just because I knew your son. 36 00:03:41,570 --> 00:03:43,490 I'm always glad to hear from Hal's old friends. 37 00:03:43,910 --> 00:03:45,230 He didn't do it, Mr. Jones. 38 00:03:45,570 --> 00:03:46,690 Gil, Mr. 39 00:03:46,930 --> 00:03:49,450 Atkins, it just didn't happen the way people are saying. 40 00:03:49,790 --> 00:03:50,910 Has he been charged yet? 41 00:03:51,250 --> 00:03:55,230 Last night, right after I phoned you. They're calling it a suspicion of 42 00:03:56,450 --> 00:04:02,150 Well, let's start out by your telling me everything exactly as you saw it. Mom, 43 00:04:02,270 --> 00:04:03,830 excuse me. 44 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,000 Lon, I hate to disturb you with all this excitement going on, but my TV isn't 45 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,100 working. Do you think you could fix it? 46 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,100 Yeah, I'll have it taken care of right away. It's those new jacks they put in. 47 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:13,640 Well, whenever you get the chance. 48 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,040 Now, what did you see, Lon? 49 00:04:18,660 --> 00:04:22,260 Trouble is, I don't know exactly what I saw. I know they were arguing out on the 50 00:04:22,260 --> 00:04:27,360 lake, and then Gil's wife screamed, and everybody's saying Gil hit her with the 51 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,260 oar, but it couldn't have happened like that. I know Gil. 52 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,140 Has he made a statement to the sheriff? 53 00:04:31,669 --> 00:04:35,090 Gil swears he was just trying to keep her from falling out of the boat. And 54 00:04:35,090 --> 00:04:38,090 oar, he was just trying to reach her with it, not hit her. 55 00:04:38,770 --> 00:04:39,770 Gil doesn't swim. 56 00:04:40,570 --> 00:04:41,570 Neither did Claire. 57 00:04:50,390 --> 00:04:51,710 That's Miss Renfrew. She's a guest. 58 00:04:52,890 --> 00:04:54,750 Would you like me to point out where it happened? 59 00:05:01,740 --> 00:05:04,280 They were just to the right of where the sheriff's boat is now. 60 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:07,180 About 100 yards from here. 61 00:05:07,860 --> 00:05:10,020 Yeah, and at that distance, you can't see everything. 62 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:12,620 That's what I told Mr. Wright. 63 00:05:13,460 --> 00:05:14,560 We all like Mr. 64 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:19,840 Atkins, too, Lon, but that wife of his was a... Well... For a woman sleeping 65 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:22,580 drinking the day away, snappish even at a good morning? 66 00:05:23,300 --> 00:05:27,100 Our sympathies are with Mr. Atkins, but to a point, that is. 67 00:05:27,420 --> 00:05:32,080 Don't misunderstand us, Lon, but anybody who... Carried on the way Mrs. Atkins 68 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,680 did, especially yesterday morning. 69 00:05:36,060 --> 00:05:38,760 Claire went up and barged right into Miss Renford's cabin. 70 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,320 You could hear Claire's voice all over the lake. 71 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:42,760 What were they arguing about? 72 00:05:43,620 --> 00:05:47,860 Claire thought Gil was paying too much attention to Miss Renford. But Gil's 73 00:05:47,860 --> 00:05:49,980 always looking after the comfort of every guest. 74 00:05:50,380 --> 00:05:54,800 I take it you folks are all going to be appearing as witnesses against Mr. 75 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:55,960 Atkins? Yes. 76 00:05:56,590 --> 00:06:01,030 With all due respect to Lon's friendship for Mr. Atkins, the whole thing took 77 00:06:01,030 --> 00:06:02,670 place right in front of our very eyes. 78 00:06:03,270 --> 00:06:04,350 Seeing is believing. 79 00:06:05,030 --> 00:06:09,990 You know, ma 'am, I wasn't too old when my grandfather took me to see a young 80 00:06:09,990 --> 00:06:13,130 fellow named Harry Houdini who was appearing in our town. 81 00:06:13,790 --> 00:06:17,350 And at an early age, I learned two things. One, 82 00:06:18,510 --> 00:06:21,070 you can't eat a hot dog and cotton candy at the same time. 83 00:06:21,510 --> 00:06:22,510 And two... 84 00:06:23,250 --> 00:06:28,090 Believing everything you see is nearly as bad as having to see everything you 85 00:06:28,090 --> 00:06:29,090 believe. 86 00:06:41,130 --> 00:06:42,130 Joan? 87 00:06:44,050 --> 00:06:45,570 I'm sure glad you could come. 88 00:06:46,110 --> 00:06:47,610 Mine's talked about you often. 89 00:06:48,350 --> 00:06:50,770 Do they really ski in outfits like that these days? 90 00:06:51,710 --> 00:06:53,210 Yeah, and I don't know where it's going to end. 91 00:06:55,230 --> 00:06:57,210 You, uh, you talk to Lyne? 92 00:06:58,150 --> 00:07:01,810 Mr. Atkins, have you hired yourself a good lawyer? 93 00:07:02,130 --> 00:07:05,430 A fellow named Fred Baumiller. He's a local attorney, but I'm sure he's all 94 00:07:05,430 --> 00:07:09,550 need. After all, it's Lyne's word against that of those guests, most of 95 00:07:09,550 --> 00:07:11,950 at the age where I wouldn't trust their eyesight or their judgment. 96 00:07:12,430 --> 00:07:16,410 My doubt of a friend, an employee, would outweigh impartial witnesses. 97 00:07:17,250 --> 00:07:19,350 But they couldn't have seen me kill my wife. 98 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,480 Mr. Jones, I jumped in the water and I don't swim. 99 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,900 I held onto the side of the boat. I reached out my arm to her. I called her 100 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:32,180 name. Those witnesses, they'll have to tell you that. They'll have to tell you 101 00:07:32,180 --> 00:07:33,340 that they heard me call her name. 102 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:38,280 Playing the devil's advocate. 103 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,800 You could have been just a man who suddenly came to his senses and realized 104 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,120 he had killed somebody in front of a bunch of people. 105 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,880 Yes, I suppose it could be taken that way, but it wasn't. 106 00:07:50,370 --> 00:07:52,250 None of what they thought they saw happened. 107 00:07:52,670 --> 00:07:53,730 What really happened? 108 00:07:54,290 --> 00:07:59,730 She stood up in the boat She she'd been drinking that morning and I I was afraid 109 00:07:59,730 --> 00:08:03,890 she was gonna fall over the side just that The guests are saying you pushed 110 00:08:03,890 --> 00:08:10,850 out of the boat She pushed away from me mr. Jones what possible motive could I 111 00:08:10,850 --> 00:08:13,250 have for killing Claire mr. Atkins 112 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,020 If I'm going to be working for you, I've got to have complete honesty. 113 00:08:17,220 --> 00:08:21,340 Now, don't tell me that there is no possible motive when you and your wife 114 00:08:21,340 --> 00:08:22,600 constantly quarreling. 115 00:08:22,860 --> 00:08:26,600 And what about that attractive red -headed guest, Miss Renford? 116 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:29,720 All right. 117 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:34,220 I'll admit, I probably was paying too much attention to Sharon Renford. 118 00:08:35,460 --> 00:08:36,460 And it's true. 119 00:08:37,380 --> 00:08:39,140 Claire and I did constantly fight. 120 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:42,299 Mr. Jones, I... 121 00:08:42,510 --> 00:08:45,630 I probably made one of the biggest mistakes of my life when I married her. 122 00:08:47,730 --> 00:08:51,350 But do I look like the kind of a man who would lose his temper to the point that 123 00:08:51,350 --> 00:08:55,110 I would take an oar and brain my wife in full view of all of those people? 124 00:08:56,830 --> 00:08:58,170 What were you doing out in the boat? 125 00:08:59,590 --> 00:09:03,150 I was trying to show Claire where I thought we should put some small cabins 126 00:09:03,150 --> 00:09:06,070 along the shore, trying to convince her that it would pay off. 127 00:09:07,430 --> 00:09:09,190 The outboard had just stalled on me. 128 00:09:09,470 --> 00:09:10,470 What about the oar? 129 00:09:13,070 --> 00:09:16,730 Have you ever tried to take the end of a heavy oar and pass it to someone in the 130 00:09:16,730 --> 00:09:19,930 water? You hold it out and it falls in. 131 00:09:20,670 --> 00:09:24,690 I swung that oar over my head in hopes that it would fall within her reach. 132 00:09:24,990 --> 00:09:26,270 And the oar didn't hit her? 133 00:09:28,190 --> 00:09:30,550 It fell short by at least a foot. 134 00:09:32,150 --> 00:09:35,210 Lon says you didn't know your wife very long before you married her. 135 00:09:35,770 --> 00:09:37,010 Nine weeks to be exact. 136 00:09:38,730 --> 00:09:41,270 I used to go up to Vegas a lot. 137 00:09:42,060 --> 00:09:43,060 Try to relax. 138 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:45,060 Forget about the lodge business. 139 00:09:46,220 --> 00:09:51,540 We met up there and one thing led to another and... Mr. 140 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,860 Jones, I didn't know I was marrying an alcoholic. 141 00:09:55,180 --> 00:09:57,040 You wouldn't believe the change in that girl. 142 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:02,060 Well, it looks to me like your case depends on finding a couple of favorable 143 00:10:02,060 --> 00:10:03,060 witnesses. 144 00:10:03,540 --> 00:10:06,700 I'll inquire around. People have had a chance to sleep on what they saw. 145 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:08,280 Then you'll take the case? 146 00:10:09,500 --> 00:10:11,500 From what I know up to this point, 147 00:10:12,270 --> 00:10:17,590 Would take a man with an uncontrollable temper to do what they say they saw you 148 00:10:17,590 --> 00:10:18,590 do. 149 00:10:20,690 --> 00:10:23,550 Not to mention a very stupid one, and that doesn't describe you. 150 00:10:27,690 --> 00:10:29,630 Well, times change. 151 00:10:30,670 --> 00:10:31,670 For the better. 152 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:49,040 Fifty percent. 153 00:10:49,060 --> 00:10:51,180 That's a pretty low rate of recovery. 154 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,120 Well, in my experience, we've had about, oh, a dozen drownings. 155 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,080 Recovered just about half of them. It's the currents. 156 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:02,020 And over in the center of the lake, the bottom slopes down to subterranean 157 00:11:02,020 --> 00:11:03,020 levels. 158 00:11:03,140 --> 00:11:06,800 Scuba dive almost got swept under a ledge down there one time. We gave up 159 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:07,800 divers. 160 00:11:07,860 --> 00:11:10,780 I can see why this lodge isn't all that popular. 161 00:11:11,380 --> 00:11:13,480 Yeah, fewer people come up here each year. 162 00:11:14,140 --> 00:11:17,560 I know Mr. Atkins bought it cheap, but folks don't figure him for turning it 163 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:18,560 around. 164 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:22,980 The bodies that you recover, where do you generally find them? 165 00:11:23,820 --> 00:11:27,320 Well, after a couple of days, some of them show up over in Funeral Creek. 166 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:29,500 Folks took the calling at that. 167 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,340 It's a neck of water, horseshoes itself around back of those trees. 168 00:11:36,140 --> 00:11:38,140 Right about here is where she went down, isn't it? 169 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:40,600 Yeah, we should be just about over it. 170 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,500 Cottage over there, does that belong to the lives? 171 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,720 Large property, runs about a quarter mile passing. 172 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:26,520 A cedar waxwing. 173 00:12:27,940 --> 00:12:29,500 Well, I'm very flattered. 174 00:12:29,940 --> 00:12:31,200 That's a very good likeness. 175 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:33,040 I'm Barnaby Jones. 176 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,400 We almost met over some postcards this morning in the lobby. 177 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,280 I did think you'd come to visit me a little sooner, Mr. Jones. 178 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:44,680 Well, I wanted to talk to the guests who had made depositions first. 179 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,420 See whether they still was positive after a night's sleep. 180 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:49,520 And were they? 181 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,000 I'm afraid so. 182 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,720 I see you're an ornithologist, Miss Renford. 183 00:12:55,230 --> 00:12:57,090 Oh, no, just a casual interest in birds. 184 00:12:57,650 --> 00:13:02,290 I'm a sort of an amateur one, by accident, to outwit Miss Wilhelm. 185 00:13:03,910 --> 00:13:04,910 Miss Wilhelm? 186 00:13:04,950 --> 00:13:08,350 My seventh grade teacher. She was an absolute bird nut. 187 00:13:09,050 --> 00:13:13,070 I used to collect demerits like you just couldn't imagine, so I tried to get on 188 00:13:13,070 --> 00:13:17,210 the good side of her. I signed up for bird studies in my hobby class. 189 00:13:17,750 --> 00:13:19,090 How very clever of you. 190 00:13:19,510 --> 00:13:21,310 Well, to make a long story short... 191 00:13:21,630 --> 00:13:27,490 I had to help her catalog the entire library file of birds, from Aberdevine 192 00:13:27,490 --> 00:13:28,930 Zebra Finch. 193 00:13:31,470 --> 00:13:36,510 Mr. Jones, I don't think when you decided to come and visit me you wanted 194 00:13:36,510 --> 00:13:37,510 discuss birds. 195 00:13:38,210 --> 00:13:42,950 Well, let's just say that I was curious about where you were about the time of 196 00:13:42,950 --> 00:13:43,950 the boating mishap. 197 00:13:44,530 --> 00:13:45,570 I was right here. 198 00:13:46,450 --> 00:13:49,810 I was photographing a flock of wild geese that were flying over at the time. 199 00:13:50,350 --> 00:13:53,490 I wasn't aware there was anything going on in the cove until I heard Mr. Atkins 200 00:13:53,490 --> 00:13:54,490 calling for Claire. 201 00:13:55,590 --> 00:13:57,990 And then I saw him clinging to the side of the boat. 202 00:13:58,910 --> 00:14:02,950 Hey, that is a beautiful piece of equipment. Do you mind if I look at it? 203 00:14:03,710 --> 00:14:04,710 I'll go right ahead. 204 00:14:07,950 --> 00:14:08,869 Telescopic lens. 205 00:14:08,870 --> 00:14:09,870 Very handy. 206 00:14:11,110 --> 00:14:13,670 So, you caught some wild geese flying over, huh? 207 00:14:14,530 --> 00:14:15,870 Yes, I hope they're in focus. 208 00:14:16,630 --> 00:14:18,930 I didn't hear Claire when she screamed for help. 209 00:14:21,819 --> 00:14:25,180 What? You said that you heard Gil Atkins calling her name. 210 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:29,540 There'd been quite an argument before that loud enough to be heard all the way 211 00:14:29,540 --> 00:14:30,540 over to the lodge. 212 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,820 You're 50 yards away from where the boat was. It seemed to me that your 213 00:14:34,820 --> 00:14:37,340 attention would have been attracted to the boat from the very beginning. 214 00:14:39,820 --> 00:14:42,700 I heard voices naturally, but I didn't pay them any attention. 215 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:47,260 That's funny, Miss Renford. I took you for a person who had a very curious 216 00:14:47,260 --> 00:14:48,260 nature. 217 00:14:48,910 --> 00:14:53,050 I was busy photographing the geese, concentrating on them. 218 00:14:53,890 --> 00:14:57,670 Scream, struggle, according to the guests, and here you are with the front 219 00:14:57,670 --> 00:14:58,670 seat. 220 00:15:04,790 --> 00:15:06,310 She was a worthless tramp. 221 00:15:07,390 --> 00:15:08,750 Drunken shrew he married. 222 00:15:10,270 --> 00:15:12,970 Do you think I'd give one iota of evidence against Gil? 223 00:15:13,990 --> 00:15:16,490 Whatever happened, she drove him to it. 224 00:15:17,130 --> 00:15:18,850 You saw it all, didn't you, Miss Renford? 225 00:15:20,870 --> 00:15:23,250 You're not going to drag anything out of me in court. 226 00:15:23,970 --> 00:15:25,870 Gil deserves all the help he can get. 227 00:15:26,390 --> 00:15:28,210 You're under a misconception, Miss Renford. 228 00:15:28,590 --> 00:15:31,910 I'm a private investigator employed to help Gil Adkins. 229 00:15:35,050 --> 00:15:36,050 Oh. 230 00:15:40,130 --> 00:15:44,670 Well, I... I'm not even sure what I saw. I'm not even sure it was in focus. 231 00:15:45,390 --> 00:15:46,690 You triggered the camera? 232 00:15:50,530 --> 00:15:54,110 Yes, I wanted to get a shot of that tramp taking the pratfall. 233 00:15:54,730 --> 00:15:56,170 You filmed the whole thing? 234 00:15:56,770 --> 00:15:58,670 I'm positive it was all an accident. 235 00:15:59,490 --> 00:16:02,830 But I'm not adding to any evidence against Gil by giving anyone that film. 236 00:16:03,370 --> 00:16:05,250 You're positive it was an accident? 237 00:16:05,470 --> 00:16:07,650 Gil Atkins is swearing it was an accident. 238 00:16:08,310 --> 00:16:11,410 Doesn't it occur to you, Miss Renford, that something you have on this film 239 00:16:11,410 --> 00:16:12,530 might prove it was an accident? 240 00:16:15,690 --> 00:16:18,450 Couldn't have killed her knowing all those people were watching. It just 241 00:16:18,450 --> 00:16:19,450 make any sense. 242 00:16:19,690 --> 00:16:23,690 Now there, Miss Renford, I couldn't agree with you more. Not making sense. 243 00:16:24,250 --> 00:16:27,190 Do you think I testified to something I didn't see? 244 00:16:27,810 --> 00:16:31,770 Mrs. Handley, your testimony is not being disputed. 245 00:16:32,250 --> 00:16:35,010 It's simply that your answer sounded like conjecture. 246 00:16:36,510 --> 00:16:42,070 Nothing conjecture about telling exactly what I saw with my own two eyes, is 247 00:16:42,070 --> 00:16:43,070 there? 248 00:16:44,029 --> 00:16:45,530 What delaying a daughter -in -law? 249 00:16:45,930 --> 00:16:46,930 Oh, she'll be here. 250 00:16:47,130 --> 00:16:50,170 If she were going to be too late, she'd have called me. I'll rephrase, Mrs. 251 00:16:50,230 --> 00:16:54,410 Hanley. Is there any question in your mind that the distance to the boat and 252 00:16:54,410 --> 00:16:57,610 fading light distorted what you were seeing? 253 00:16:58,650 --> 00:17:00,790 Frankly, I wish there were some question. 254 00:17:01,890 --> 00:17:04,710 It isn't easy to be accusing someone of murder. 255 00:17:05,270 --> 00:17:07,190 Madam, we are not accusing here. 256 00:17:08,190 --> 00:17:11,950 We are examining the circumstances surrounding the death of one Claire 257 00:17:11,950 --> 00:17:12,950 without prejudice. 258 00:17:13,939 --> 00:17:14,939 This is a hearing. 259 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:16,280 Nothing more. 260 00:17:16,859 --> 00:17:18,020 Thank you, Mrs. Hanley. 261 00:17:19,300 --> 00:17:22,319 Mr. Lon Stevens, it only looked that way. 262 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,440 All we wish is a direct reply. 263 00:17:24,980 --> 00:17:26,099 Did you see Mrs. 264 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:29,720 Claire Atkins being pushed or hurled from the boat? It looked that way. It 265 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,040 wasn't... Mr. Stevens, either you saw such an act or you didn't. 266 00:17:34,380 --> 00:17:36,540 I couldn't have, and nobody else could have. 267 00:17:36,980 --> 00:17:38,520 It only looked that way. 268 00:17:38,780 --> 00:17:41,720 Did you see that oar strike Mrs. Atkins over the head? Now listen... 269 00:17:42,570 --> 00:17:43,690 Thank you, Mr. Stevens. 270 00:17:46,710 --> 00:17:48,670 They sure shut him up in a hurry. 271 00:17:49,170 --> 00:17:52,030 He's not telling them anything, except he's your friend. 272 00:17:53,150 --> 00:17:54,970 I'd like to call on Mr. Benjamin Reich. 273 00:17:55,250 --> 00:17:58,550 There's no doubt in my mind she was thrown from the boat. 274 00:17:59,210 --> 00:18:04,030 And the oar was picked up and swung at her head. 275 00:18:04,550 --> 00:18:07,370 Did you see that oar strike her head? 276 00:18:07,990 --> 00:18:08,990 Yes. 277 00:18:10,060 --> 00:18:13,300 Did you see Mrs. Atkins then disappear beneath the water? 278 00:18:14,620 --> 00:18:15,620 I did. 279 00:18:15,980 --> 00:18:17,020 Thank you, Mr. Wright. 280 00:18:19,780 --> 00:18:21,900 Now, Your Honor, I'd like to call Mrs. Ryan. 281 00:18:23,300 --> 00:18:24,300 We got her. 282 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:30,300 Your Honor, before any more witnesses are called, I'd like to call to the 283 00:18:30,300 --> 00:18:35,400 Mr. Barnaby Jones, who wishes to place into evidence some movie film. What kind 284 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:36,400 of film? 285 00:18:36,820 --> 00:18:37,820 Pictures of the... 286 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:44,960 boating mishap your honor filmed in its entirety they couldn't possibly have 287 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:45,960 taken the film 288 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,040 The oar didn't touch. 289 00:20:31,110 --> 00:20:32,650 I think we can open the blinds now. 290 00:20:43,690 --> 00:20:48,930 Mr. Atkins, you're looking at a damn fool. Oh, don't worry about it. 291 00:20:50,590 --> 00:20:54,330 You've made a lot of people very happy, Barnaby. 292 00:20:54,570 --> 00:20:55,570 Congratulations. 293 00:20:55,850 --> 00:20:59,030 I think congratulations might be due Mr. Atkins. 294 00:21:00,469 --> 00:21:01,469 Right over there. 295 00:21:02,250 --> 00:21:05,230 Maybe the cleverest man I ever met. Thank you. 296 00:21:06,610 --> 00:21:09,910 Don't think a thing about it. No, you're being very nice. 297 00:21:10,390 --> 00:21:11,990 I don't think I'll ever trust my eyes. 298 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,740 We did it. We did it. 299 00:21:45,820 --> 00:21:47,640 I can breathe. 300 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:50,400 I haven't taken a deep breath in months. 301 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:52,900 Hey, you know. What? 302 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:55,560 I like Claire's lips a lot better. 303 00:21:55,940 --> 00:21:56,940 Oh, you do? 304 00:21:58,460 --> 00:21:59,460 Oh, 305 00:22:03,420 --> 00:22:05,900 it feels better. 306 00:22:06,860 --> 00:22:07,860 I've got an idea. 307 00:22:17,740 --> 00:22:19,880 Treating a woman like a piece of dirt. Ain't that the truth? 308 00:22:24,060 --> 00:22:25,100 Got it way clean. 309 00:22:25,780 --> 00:22:26,780 Nobody hurt. 310 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,200 Had $250 ,000 on its way. 311 00:22:44,340 --> 00:22:45,680 $250 ,000? 312 00:22:46,220 --> 00:22:47,220 That's a figure. 313 00:22:48,910 --> 00:22:49,910 I don't believe it. 314 00:22:50,150 --> 00:22:53,910 I went over this in detail with Steve Kelton of Solar Insurance, and that's 315 00:22:53,910 --> 00:22:54,910 you got coming. 316 00:22:55,930 --> 00:22:56,930 Well, 317 00:22:58,290 --> 00:23:01,790 I remember an item in the escrow papers about the lodge insurance remaining in 318 00:23:01,790 --> 00:23:05,050 effect, but I never gave much thought to the policy being anything more than the 319 00:23:05,050 --> 00:23:07,150 usual fire and theft and sufficient liability. 320 00:23:07,610 --> 00:23:11,330 The former owners had a lot of other business interests besides the lodge. 321 00:23:11,330 --> 00:23:16,710 had a partnership clause in the policy which protected them in the event of 322 00:23:16,710 --> 00:23:17,710 of services. 323 00:23:18,540 --> 00:23:22,200 Hmm. Kind of an ugly thought that I'll profit by Claire's death. 324 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:27,000 Claire became your partner not only in marriage, but in fact when you added her 325 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,280 name to the lodge title, a jointly owned venture in the eyes of the law. 326 00:23:31,940 --> 00:23:33,120 That's right, I remember. 327 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:40,060 At her insistence, everything I had, bank accounts and so on, became jointly 328 00:23:40,060 --> 00:23:41,060 owned. 329 00:23:41,940 --> 00:23:45,180 Poor Claire, she was such an insecure person. 330 00:23:45,770 --> 00:23:48,490 I just thought I'd pass this information along to you, Mr. Atkins. 331 00:23:48,930 --> 00:23:50,130 Well, I appreciate that. 332 00:23:51,530 --> 00:23:52,950 Incidentally, how'd you come by this information? 333 00:23:53,410 --> 00:23:54,510 Making inquiries? 334 00:23:54,890 --> 00:23:57,530 I make a lot of routine inquiries when I'm on a case. 335 00:23:59,130 --> 00:24:00,130 Of course. 336 00:24:00,590 --> 00:24:01,590 Still stunned. 337 00:24:06,470 --> 00:24:12,350 Mr. Jones, I know you're checking out today, and I know that Lon hired you, 338 00:24:12,350 --> 00:24:13,790 I want you to send me the bill. 339 00:24:14,010 --> 00:24:15,010 All right. 340 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,940 I'm planning on doing a little fishing before we leave. 341 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:19,760 Fishing? For what? 342 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:21,920 Anything I can catch, Mr. Atkins. 343 00:24:29,620 --> 00:24:35,160 You notice anything? 344 00:24:37,020 --> 00:24:39,500 Not exactly an authority on wild geese. 345 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,660 You're talking about the geese. 346 00:24:42,300 --> 00:24:44,080 I mean the way the picture jiggles. 347 00:24:45,610 --> 00:24:48,770 I didn't know that my hand would be any steadier trying to follow a gaggle of 348 00:24:48,770 --> 00:24:49,770 geese. 349 00:24:53,710 --> 00:24:54,710 Now what? 350 00:24:56,630 --> 00:24:57,890 Know something strange now? 351 00:24:59,750 --> 00:25:00,750 I don't think so. 352 00:25:01,470 --> 00:25:05,210 You're aiming your camera up at some geese. You hear a noise in the cove. You 353 00:25:05,210 --> 00:25:06,250 point your camera down there. 354 00:25:06,730 --> 00:25:07,730 Why no jiggle? 355 00:25:13,430 --> 00:25:14,470 Go look at the people. 356 00:25:14,730 --> 00:25:16,950 Look at the end of the boat and the edge of the picture. 357 00:25:18,110 --> 00:25:22,150 Taken at 50 yards with a telescopic lens handheld by Miss Renford. 358 00:25:22,690 --> 00:25:23,950 And it doesn't vary a hair. 359 00:25:25,410 --> 00:25:28,250 Miss Cameron was locked in position when she took these pictures. 360 00:25:29,710 --> 00:25:33,690 Oh, she wouldn't have had enough time if she thought Claire was going to fall 361 00:25:33,690 --> 00:25:34,730 and wanted to get a picture of it. 362 00:25:35,490 --> 00:25:39,770 If I were to ask Miss Renford, which I don't intend to, she'd say she used a 363 00:25:39,770 --> 00:25:41,190 tripod, which she forgot to mention. 364 00:25:44,159 --> 00:25:45,180 Well, what do we do now? 365 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:47,960 Now we go fishing. 366 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,000 You know, here's another letter asking a company discount. 367 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,060 Maybe you should change your mind about turning down discount business. 368 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:04,180 Why is Jones using boat number seven? 369 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:06,260 That's the one he said he wanted. 370 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,040 If he talks about staying over, you tell him that we have everything under 371 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,820 reservation from tonight on. Understand? 372 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,320 Yeah. 373 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:26,980 As to Mr. Jones helping you, you don't want him around? 374 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:30,120 It's not that, Lon. 375 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,260 It's just that I don't want to be reminded of Claire's accident. 376 00:27:04,970 --> 00:27:06,230 Hope I'm not too far away. 377 00:27:07,330 --> 00:27:09,530 Let me see the fish, Dad. 378 00:27:16,090 --> 00:27:17,090 One more. 379 00:27:17,810 --> 00:27:19,770 That's the biggest fishing bug in the world. 380 00:27:23,230 --> 00:27:24,710 Terrific! I got it. 381 00:27:27,430 --> 00:27:28,730 Well, we've got to get packing. 382 00:27:29,170 --> 00:27:31,450 I hope the weather holds for you. Bye -bye. 383 00:28:23,980 --> 00:28:24,980 I have a question to ask you. 384 00:28:25,660 --> 00:28:26,940 I know you think a lot of Gil. 385 00:28:27,580 --> 00:28:29,580 Oh, we've been to a NAM together, Mr. Jones. 386 00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:33,240 I don't think I could have made it without Gil. I wasn't that much of a 387 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,580 You socialize a lot, working for him? Sure. 388 00:28:36,220 --> 00:28:39,280 I mean, drink in the lounge nights, talk over old times. 389 00:28:39,660 --> 00:28:41,020 You must know his wife pretty well. 390 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,320 Claire? 391 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,560 She wouldn't talk to me from the first day she got here. 392 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,660 She'd just turn away like she hated me. 393 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:48,080 That's strange. 394 00:28:48,220 --> 00:28:50,060 Oh, no, sir. She treated everybody the same. 395 00:28:53,889 --> 00:28:57,030 Your guest, Miss Renford. Did Gil know her before she came up here? 396 00:28:57,410 --> 00:28:58,410 Why, sure he didn't. 397 00:29:00,230 --> 00:29:01,290 Speaking of Miss Renford. 398 00:29:05,050 --> 00:29:06,950 Better be hunting up a new TV jack for her. 399 00:29:07,670 --> 00:29:08,830 Nice seeing you again, Betty. 400 00:29:09,570 --> 00:29:10,690 Nice seeing you, Bob. 401 00:29:11,010 --> 00:29:12,230 Visit us again, Mr. Jones. 402 00:29:12,890 --> 00:29:14,030 Ball's best time for fishing. 403 00:29:14,450 --> 00:29:15,630 I may see you before then. 404 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,160 Like trying to grab a hold of a greased pig. You think you got them, and you got 405 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:24,160 a handful of air. 406 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,660 Maybe I should pack up and leave tonight. 407 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:10,439 Oh, no. 408 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:11,440 That's not necessary. 409 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:13,200 We don't want to hurry anything. 410 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,720 You talk to the guests, chat with them, say your goodbyes. 411 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:20,660 How long do you think we'll have to wait? 412 00:30:22,060 --> 00:30:23,140 Shouldn't be more than a week. 413 00:30:23,460 --> 00:30:26,240 In the meantime, I'll put the lodge on the market. We'll get what we can get. 414 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:27,280 You stay in Palm Springs. 415 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:28,680 All right. 416 00:30:45,930 --> 00:30:46,930 What are you doing here? 417 00:30:47,330 --> 00:30:49,590 I promised I'd fix her television set. 418 00:30:51,410 --> 00:30:52,410 You're her. 419 00:30:54,590 --> 00:30:57,610 All of a sudden, he's Mr. Efficiency. 420 00:30:58,570 --> 00:31:00,030 It was just a trick. 421 00:31:01,970 --> 00:31:02,889 That's right. 422 00:31:02,890 --> 00:31:03,890 Just a trick. 423 00:31:04,030 --> 00:31:05,030 Nobody got hurt. 424 00:31:05,810 --> 00:31:07,670 And the insurance company can afford it. 425 00:31:07,950 --> 00:31:10,010 When I get the check, there's something in it for you. 426 00:31:10,690 --> 00:31:12,310 That's what it was? The insurance? 427 00:31:12,670 --> 00:31:13,670 Sure, that's all. 428 00:31:13,970 --> 00:31:15,450 $10 ,000 for you. 429 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,240 Take off, live it up. You're not even involved. 430 00:31:19,140 --> 00:31:21,480 You don't know anything about it? You never did. 431 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,640 And we'll call the $10 ,000 a loan from me to you that you never have to pay 432 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:27,640 back. 433 00:31:30,820 --> 00:31:31,820 Hey, Lon, wait a minute. 434 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,480 You know me better than anybody, Gil. 435 00:31:36,860 --> 00:31:39,000 Do you think I'd ever cheat or steal? 436 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:04,600 Listen to me. 437 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,720 I'm in this thing deep, and you're flushing me down the drain. 438 00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:09,600 Gil, I'm all mixed up. 439 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,880 I'll say you're mixed up. You're pretty mixed up in the Kong Delta, too. 440 00:32:13,300 --> 00:32:14,560 I know I owe you, Gil. 441 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,000 Owe me? 442 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,760 I wiped your nose for two years. 443 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,980 They took half a mortar shell out of my hide when I pulled you out of that mud 444 00:32:20,980 --> 00:32:22,660 hole. I know, Gil, I know. 445 00:32:23,340 --> 00:32:27,900 See, I can't go along with you anymore. 446 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:29,520 What do you mean? 447 00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:33,040 I gotta think, Gil. 448 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,200 Think? You never had anything to think with. 449 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:36,920 Maybe. 450 00:32:37,820 --> 00:32:38,860 Maybe you're right. 451 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,600 But I know enough to stop when it comes to me doing something bad. 452 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,820 I can't look the other way anymore, Gil. It's not like Saigon. 453 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,360 When you were taking supplies out the back door and selling them to the black 454 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,420 marketeers. You don't know what you're talking about. You couldn't make it 455 00:32:56,420 --> 00:32:57,420 honest. 456 00:32:57,660 --> 00:32:59,600 You never could do anything honest. 457 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:06,840 Always spoiling things with your cheap... tricks. That's you, Gil. Cheap. 458 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:07,840 cheap. 459 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:09,400 What? 460 00:33:15,380 --> 00:33:16,780 What? 461 00:33:17,740 --> 00:33:18,820 What? 462 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:25,380 What? 463 00:34:08,810 --> 00:34:11,949 Instead of another cup of coffee, what you need is a good night's sleep. 464 00:34:13,370 --> 00:34:14,370 Betty. 465 00:34:17,510 --> 00:34:21,330 Last cup of coffee may just... What? 466 00:34:21,550 --> 00:34:24,530 What? Tell me. Bring it in. Look at the length of the shadow of that oar. 467 00:34:27,530 --> 00:34:29,409 It's just about the same size as the oar. 468 00:34:31,330 --> 00:34:36,469 But the length of the shadow of this fishing rod, it's barely half the length 469 00:34:36,469 --> 00:34:37,469 the rod itself. 470 00:34:40,429 --> 00:34:42,170 I'm sorry, Barnaby. I don't get it. 471 00:34:46,510 --> 00:34:50,670 You took these pictures of me about five o 'clock in the afternoon. 472 00:34:51,190 --> 00:34:56,449 Same time, same place, boat angle the same. Everything is the same except the 473 00:34:56,449 --> 00:34:57,450 shadows are shorter. 474 00:34:59,910 --> 00:35:00,910 I was right. 475 00:35:02,290 --> 00:35:03,510 That film was staged. 476 00:35:04,570 --> 00:35:08,930 You must have done it in the early spring when the lodge was closed and the 477 00:35:08,930 --> 00:35:09,930 was still deserted. 478 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,540 They used the same boat, same engine. They even repainted the boat. 479 00:35:15,340 --> 00:35:16,560 Everything was the same. 480 00:35:17,700 --> 00:35:20,040 The only thing they couldn't control was the seasons. 481 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,820 Roses fade and shadows shift by Ebenezer Elliott. 482 00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:29,220 What teacher was that? 483 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,240 Good old Miss Wilhelm. 484 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:34,600 So now we know. 485 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,790 And that little old statement I made at the hearing about... Optical illusion 486 00:35:40,790 --> 00:35:41,790 still stands. 487 00:35:43,350 --> 00:35:49,530 All those guests at the lodge who thought they were seeing Claire, what 488 00:35:49,530 --> 00:35:50,530 they actually seeing? 489 00:35:51,490 --> 00:35:57,490 They said she was unsocial, that she drank and slept a day away. But they 490 00:35:57,490 --> 00:36:02,150 her. They heard her arguing with Sharon Renford in that cottage. 491 00:36:03,390 --> 00:36:08,390 Everybody heard Claire, but even Lon says he never knew her because she 492 00:36:08,390 --> 00:36:09,390 avoided him. 493 00:36:13,290 --> 00:36:19,210 Are you saying that Sharon and Claire are the same person? 494 00:36:23,510 --> 00:36:30,170 Well, then, if 495 00:36:30,170 --> 00:36:34,950 that's so, why didn't they make it look like an accident from the very beginning 496 00:36:34,950 --> 00:36:35,990 instead of a murder? 497 00:36:36,330 --> 00:36:38,950 Because a heavily insured Claire. 498 00:36:39,850 --> 00:36:42,290 disappearing into the lake with a smell like fraud. 499 00:36:43,130 --> 00:36:47,190 It had been long investigations, and the coroner might not even have certified 500 00:36:47,190 --> 00:36:48,190 death. 501 00:36:48,370 --> 00:36:51,950 No, our Mr. Atkins took the bold approach. 502 00:36:52,370 --> 00:36:59,070 He had eyewitnesses to an apparent murder, so he forced that hearing judge 503 00:36:59,070 --> 00:37:04,450 examine the probable cause of death, never the question of death. 504 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:18,460 So Claire, or Sharon, swam underwater 505 00:37:18,460 --> 00:37:22,540 to the shore, getting back to the cottage through the brush and the trees. 506 00:37:23,060 --> 00:37:23,979 That's right. 507 00:37:23,980 --> 00:37:25,300 Hello, Steve Kelton, please. 508 00:37:26,620 --> 00:37:31,700 And you can bet that if I hadn't happened on to that stage film, they 509 00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:35,800 found a way to have some deputy sheriff just happen on it. Hello, Steve. 510 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:37,640 Barnaby Jones. 511 00:37:38,420 --> 00:37:42,250 How would you like to save a quarter of a million dollars on that? Atkin policy. 512 00:37:45,270 --> 00:37:46,270 That's right. 513 00:37:47,110 --> 00:37:48,210 Hold up payment. 514 00:38:20,710 --> 00:38:21,710 Good morning. Hi. 515 00:38:23,310 --> 00:38:24,570 How did it all go with Lon? 516 00:38:26,650 --> 00:38:30,110 What's Lon? Well, he was happy enough to leave last night. 517 00:38:31,230 --> 00:38:33,490 Why shouldn't he be? He's getting $25 ,000. 518 00:38:39,250 --> 00:38:40,590 Is something else wrong? 519 00:38:41,750 --> 00:38:44,050 I heard from the insurance company. 520 00:38:46,510 --> 00:38:48,670 They're investigating further into Claire's background. 521 00:38:50,090 --> 00:38:51,090 Well, let them investigate. 522 00:38:51,690 --> 00:38:52,850 She has no background. 523 00:38:53,050 --> 00:38:54,590 She has no family. She has nothing. 524 00:38:55,310 --> 00:38:58,630 She appeared from thin air, and she's going to disappear into the same thin 525 00:38:58,990 --> 00:38:59,990 Ah. 526 00:39:00,770 --> 00:39:03,470 But that guy from the company said a very interesting thing. 527 00:39:04,130 --> 00:39:07,850 If they don't recover a body from that lake out there, they're not going to pay 528 00:39:07,850 --> 00:39:08,850 off for seven years. 529 00:39:09,310 --> 00:39:10,370 For seven years? 530 00:39:11,310 --> 00:39:14,950 But... What about all those people that saw Claire drone? 531 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:19,640 Sudden change in their attitude. 532 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,140 Almost overnight. 533 00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:24,620 Maybe something we overlooked. 534 00:39:25,180 --> 00:39:26,600 Or something Jones saw. 535 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:37,740 Bill, I... Look, this thing's going to start falling apart around us. Maybe we 536 00:39:37,740 --> 00:39:40,520 ought to... You know, 537 00:39:42,020 --> 00:39:43,020 drop it. 538 00:39:43,460 --> 00:39:44,460 Back out. 539 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,400 It's not that important, really, is it? 540 00:39:48,569 --> 00:39:50,430 It's not as if we're losing anything we ever had. 541 00:39:53,030 --> 00:39:56,290 Hey, you know the clothes that you wore with Claire? 542 00:39:56,610 --> 00:39:57,610 Where are they? 543 00:39:58,350 --> 00:40:00,010 They're out back where you told me to bury them. 544 00:40:00,770 --> 00:40:02,690 I think we should get rid of them. Why don't you go get them? 545 00:40:05,330 --> 00:40:06,710 All right. 546 00:40:09,030 --> 00:40:10,850 You know, Gil, no one would ever find them. 547 00:40:11,390 --> 00:40:12,670 The rock covered them perfectly. 548 00:40:17,550 --> 00:40:18,550 Said go get him. 549 00:40:21,090 --> 00:40:22,090 Why, Gil? 550 00:40:37,550 --> 00:40:38,550 Go, Gil. 551 00:40:38,670 --> 00:40:39,670 Go. 552 00:40:40,030 --> 00:40:41,450 Gil, Ron knows. 553 00:40:41,790 --> 00:40:42,790 Ron knows. 554 00:40:43,270 --> 00:40:46,450 If what you're thinking is for them to find Claire's body in the lake, Ron 555 00:40:46,450 --> 00:40:49,320 knows. Yeah, the secret's buried with him. 556 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:53,360 Yes, ma 'am. 557 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:54,780 We have your reservation right here. 558 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:56,780 Just let us know when you'll be arriving. 559 00:40:58,020 --> 00:40:59,020 Thank you. 560 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:03,680 Good afternoon. Is Lon Stevens around? 561 00:41:04,540 --> 00:41:06,100 No, sir. He's no longer with us. 562 00:41:06,980 --> 00:41:08,300 Could you tell me where I can find him? 563 00:41:08,620 --> 00:41:10,640 He left sometime last night for another job. 564 00:41:11,380 --> 00:41:13,280 You'd have to ask Mr. Atkins for any details. 565 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:15,460 Where is Mr. Atkins? 566 00:41:15,980 --> 00:41:17,980 I believe he's driving one of our guests into the city. 567 00:41:19,380 --> 00:41:21,780 Would that guest be Miss Sharon Renford? 568 00:41:22,940 --> 00:41:23,940 Yes, sir. 569 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:26,160 How long ago did they leave? 570 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:27,920 Oh, I'd say about 30 minutes, sir. 571 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:08,880 Never mind casting off. 572 00:42:10,660 --> 00:42:13,100 I'm betting she's still alive. You're going to need water in her lungs. 573 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,860 Well, now, that is something I didn't figure. You're having a gun. 574 00:42:21,380 --> 00:42:24,840 But I guess it just proves that you never were quite sure of yourself right 575 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:25,840 the beginning. 576 00:42:26,580 --> 00:42:28,020 It's all over, Mr. Atkins. 577 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:33,160 A man as smart as you has got to know that once you start swinging wild, 578 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:34,280 everything goes downhill. 579 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,300 What did you tell the insurance company? 580 00:42:36,890 --> 00:42:39,630 Among other things, to watch your next move. 581 00:42:40,930 --> 00:42:43,230 You do move fast, Mr. Atkins. 582 00:42:44,010 --> 00:42:45,530 Why aren't the sheriff's men here? 583 00:42:46,430 --> 00:42:50,390 As a professional, I have got to admire the way you put everything together, 584 00:42:50,590 --> 00:42:53,330 especially the play acting by Miss Renford here. 585 00:42:53,910 --> 00:42:57,470 She's quite a gal. And the way you use remote control on the camera. 586 00:42:57,950 --> 00:43:00,110 No third party, cuts down expenses. 587 00:43:01,790 --> 00:43:03,390 You didn't call the sheriff, did you? 588 00:43:03,830 --> 00:43:05,290 You weren't that sure of yourself. 589 00:43:06,190 --> 00:43:08,450 Don't you even want to know where you slipped up? 590 00:43:08,810 --> 00:43:12,410 Just a plain little boulder, part of it. 591 00:43:17,210 --> 00:43:18,630 I can't. I can't. 592 00:43:20,630 --> 00:43:22,730 Help me. I can't. What do you know? 593 00:43:23,370 --> 00:43:25,290 There's one thing you didn't have to fake. 594 00:43:25,610 --> 00:43:26,610 Help me. 595 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:19,980 He killed Long, you know. 596 00:44:21,580 --> 00:44:23,360 That's what I figured when I called the police. 597 00:44:23,860 --> 00:44:25,700 They've got dogs out around the lodge now. 598 00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:29,600 Nobody was supposed to get hurt. 599 00:44:30,540 --> 00:44:32,180 It generally starts out that way.