Remington Steele S01E09
Remington Steele S01E09
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00:00There's been a murder committed here, apparently by one of us.
00:07They've asked me to oversee this investigation, and oversee it I must.
00:11Where should I begin?
00:12Why do people put an elevator in their home?
00:14Couldn't walk upstairs.
00:15He's good.
00:16What do we do next?
00:18The scene of the crime is often the best single source of conclusive evidence.
00:21Boy, he is good.
00:23Sure I hated Alan.
00:24You know I wouldn't kill Alan.
00:26But I didn't kill him.
00:27There are still the fingerprints to be dealt with.
00:30A fingerprint is as good as a signed confession.
00:32Murphy, tell us, whose print is it?
00:37Try this for a deep, dark secret.
00:39The great detective Remington Steele, he doesn't exist.
00:44I invented him, follow.
00:46I always loved excitement.
00:48So I studied, and apprenticed, and put my name on an office.
00:53But absolutely nobody knocked down my door.
00:55A female private investigator seemed so feminine.
01:00So I invented a superior, a decidedly masculine superior.
01:05Suddenly, there were cases around the block.
01:07It was working like a charm.
01:09Until the day he walked in with his blue eyes and mysterious past.
01:15And before I knew it, he assumed Remington Steele's identity.
01:19Now I do the work, and he takes the vows.
01:23It's a dangerous way to live.
01:25But as long as people buy it, I can get the job done.
01:29We never mix business with pleasure.
01:32Well, almost never.
01:36I don't even know his real name.
02:53Havenhurst Detective Agency.
02:59Quarterly invited to a reunion.
03:01Please invite Mr. Steele.
03:03We're all dying to meet him.
03:15Laura?
03:18Melody?
03:24Miss Wolfe?
03:28Anyone?
03:31You know, I think they're going to be pretty disappointed
03:33when we show up empty handed.
03:36Reunions are supposed to be about catching up
03:38with old friends, seeing how everyone is doing,
03:41finding out who put on weight.
03:43If they want to meet Remington Steele,
03:45let them drop by the office.
03:48Where has it been?
03:49Four years since we left Havenhurst Detective Agency.
03:53Boy, it doesn't seem that long, does it?
03:56Imagine him in a room full of detectives.
04:01They'd be waiting all weekend for him to slip up.
04:03And if he did, they'd eat him alive.
04:06Oh, dear god.
04:10He sure does look like old Alan is doing well for himself.
04:17Oh, dear god.
04:20No Remington Steele?
04:22Could be helped.
04:24Let's go.
04:25Let's go.
04:26Let's go.
04:26Let's go.
04:27Let's go.
04:28Let's go.
04:29Let's go.
04:30Let's go.
04:31Let's go.
04:32Let's go.
04:33Let's go.
04:34Let's go.
04:35Last minute thing in Marseilles.
04:38Marseilles.
04:39Marseilles.
04:40Come on, Laura.
04:41This is Alan.
04:42You remember me?
04:43I'm the fellow who taught you to lie like that.
04:49Fess up.
04:50He couldn't come because the little
04:52missus put a foot down, am I right?
04:54Actually, there is no Mrs. Steele.
04:56You mean not yet?
04:59Oh.
05:01So tell me how good I look.
05:03You do.
05:0530 pounds.
05:06Oh, I'd kill to lose five.
05:07Where?
05:08Places you haven't seen.
05:11Well, obviously the reunion's already begun.
05:14Alan, you have an elevator in your house.
05:17Alan, I'm so proud of you.
05:19You guys happen to notice my civilian you pulled in?
05:21Just got it.
05:22Very happy with it, actually.
05:24I recommend them.
05:25Good, Carl.
05:26Alan, Alan has an elevator in his house.
05:30Carl?
05:31Yeah?
05:33I forgot a tie.
05:35Alan's going to hate that.
05:37He said formal.
05:38I know.
05:39You see all that help in the kitchen?
05:41Reunion, my Aunt Fanny.
05:42You know what this is?
05:43What?
05:44The Alan Grevy show.
05:45Check my bag. I brought a couple.
05:47Thanks.
05:49Those things never change.
05:51Alan Grevy was a snake at the Havenhurst Agency.
05:54Still shedding skin.
05:55You see them all, Laura?
05:56Yeah.
05:57Havenhurst was such a zoo.
05:5970 detectives.
06:00I'm glad we all got out.
06:03Everybody's always tripping over everybody else.
06:05Too big.
06:07Guys like me, you, we need some visibility.
06:12Expecting a little trouble over dinner?
06:14Huh?
06:1738's pretty serious baggage for a weekend in the country,
06:20isn't it?
06:21I wouldn't know.
06:21Never use one.
06:28Oh, say, how you been, Murph?
06:30Fair to Middlin and you.
06:33OK.
06:34Married, kids, you know.
06:36Yeah.
06:38Did I ever meet the guy you finally married?
06:40Meet him?
06:42You introduced us.
06:43I did.
06:45You were working at the agency, I don't know, maybe a year.
06:49You pulled a divorce case on Mrs. Robin Maxwell.
06:54Convinced her husband was doing the dirty deed
06:56outside of marriage.
06:58He was guilty.
06:59You did catch him.
07:01Yeah, but what?
07:02The next day he came to the office,
07:04pleaded with us not to give our information to his wife.
07:08You were working on something else, so I took the meeting.
07:11I told this guy my hands were tied.
07:15Tried to buy me with dinner that night.
07:18Yeah, what happened?
07:20It worked.
07:22Oh, Sandy.
07:25Love is strange.
07:29Oh.
07:38What do you think they're talking about?
07:41Oh, it's been a long day, Carl.
07:44I'm tired.
07:45I don't want to play detective.
07:48They're talking about missed opportunities.
07:51That's what reunions are about, right?
07:54What if I had worked harder?
07:56What if I'd been a little nicer?
07:57What if I, what if I, what if I?
08:02Right about now, they're saying, what
08:04if I had noticed you when we were
08:05working together at Havenhurst?
08:09Fools like that never remember.
08:11He never looked at her because he was always looking at you.
08:15Her, she never gave him the time of day.
08:18The only guy she wanted to know about was Alan.
08:28Hey, say something, Holt.
08:32Huh?
08:35You never talk to me.
08:37Never.
08:39Not back at Havenhurst, not now.
08:42I'm sorry.
08:44You know, we're a lot alike.
08:47Sure, Alan's got a big house.
08:49Sandy's got a rich husband.
08:51But you and me, we got something better.
08:54Killer instinct.
09:00Best murder, huh?
09:04A man gets on an elevator on the 10th floor.
09:09He's all alone.
09:12It's an express.
09:15The elevator doesn't stop again until the third floor.
09:19When the doors open, he's dead.
09:24What happened?
09:25It didn't go down to the basement
09:27and then back up to the third floor.
09:29No.
09:30There was no one else on the elevator.
09:33No.
09:35It hasn't stopped?
09:37No.
09:39It went from the 10th floor to the third floor.
09:42No stops, no people.
09:46Was he poisoned?
09:49No.
09:51But he was murdered.
09:53That is the name of the game.
09:57Would someone get that, please?
10:01Alan, come on.
10:03That's not fair.
10:04Now, you're supposed to tell us how the murder was committed.
10:08A little self-control, Sandy.
10:10I promise.
10:11I won't lie to you.
10:16I'll let you go home without the answer.
10:25Hope I'm not late.
10:30What are you doing here?
10:33I was invited.
10:38Where did you get that?
10:42You're not the only sleuth around here, you know.
10:44My wastebasket.
10:46So you know that chick as well, do you?
10:53Mr. Steele, we were just playing best murder.
10:57It'd be an honor if you'd contribute one.
10:59Alan, Mr. Steele's been traveling all day.
11:02Nonsense.
11:03Polar flight's a second nature to me.
11:05Good.
11:07Then it's your murder.
11:10Yes, yes, well, so many to choose from.
11:15In the morning, when your head is clear
11:17and I've had a chance to brief you on the business of the day.
11:20Nonsense, dear, nonsense, nonsense.
11:22Ah, yes, here's one.
11:25It was a hot day in July.
11:28I was called to the house of a wealthy industrialist by his wife.
11:32She met me at the front door of the residence,
11:34escorted me into the study.
11:36And there, lying on the floor, was her husband.
11:42Quite dead.
11:44Shot, actually.
11:47That is your best murder.
11:50It certainly is.
11:52For ballistic tests conducted several days later
11:55proved that the path of the bullet
11:58began inside the industrialist's chest
12:02and traveled outwards.
12:06The bullet traveled from his insides out?
12:10Precisely.
12:12And since it is essential that a suspect
12:14be placed at the scene of the crime,
12:17and since it is difficult, if not impossible,
12:19to prove that someone fired the fatal shot
12:23from inside the man's chest...
12:26I think I've had too much to drink.
12:28Yes, well, I would call that a best murder.
12:31I don't think I've had enough to drink.
12:34That is incredible.
12:37That's brilliant.
12:39That, that's...
12:43So, what's the answer?
12:46The answer.
12:50The answer.
12:53The answer.
12:56Well, it seems to me that a great murder,
13:00like a great wine, should be savored.
13:03Take the night, or the weekend for that matter.
13:06Allow it to sink into your thoughts,
13:08invade your dreams.
13:10Consider it, ponder it.
13:13And then, if the answer is not obvious to you...
13:17I'm very glad you came, Mr. Steele.
13:21You're going to add a great deal to this weekend.
13:24That's our Mr. Steele.
13:26The life of the party.
13:29Well, I for one am going to take Mr. Steele's suggestion,
13:33go to sleep,
13:35and let that murder sink into my dreams.
13:38Until the morning.
13:42Good night.
14:06Good night, you two.
14:08Good night.
14:10Good night.
14:14The bullet traveled from inside his body out?
14:17Fascinating, isn't it?
14:19What movie is it from?
14:21Laura, do you think I'd risk embarrassing you in front of all your friends
14:25by stealing a murder from a movie?
14:28What if someone else had seen it?
14:30You mean...
14:32Mm-hmm. Messed it up.
14:34It's a question of honor, Alan.
14:36You made promises you didn't keep them.
14:38Carl, you were meant to be used.
14:40You asked for it.
14:42You'd be disappointed if someone like me didn't take advantage of you.
14:45Four years is a long time to wait for restitution, Alan.
14:48A lot of anger builds up, so don't push me!
15:33Carl...
15:39Carl...
15:45Carl...
15:51Carl...
15:56Carl...
16:02Carl...
16:27It's a joke, right?
16:29His neck was broken.
16:31In fact, in two.
16:33Well...
16:35Laura, I guess that leaves you and me.
16:37I mean, if we're talking murder.
16:39We are, and it doesn't.
16:41Even a 90-pound weakling can break somebody's neck if they know how.
16:44Oh, well, thank you. I stand corrected.
16:47What do you think you're doing?
16:49I'm moving the body out of the elevator.
16:51You're tampering with physical evidence.
16:53I'm not tampering with it. I'm moving it.
16:55Yeah? Well, I wish you wouldn't.
16:57Well, we can't very well leave the body where it is, can we?
16:59Murphy.
17:01All of you, there's been a murder committed here,
17:03apparently by one of us.
17:05That body just might be our biggest and best clue,
17:07and I, for one, think it's bad form
17:09to have your best piece of evidence moved by a potential suspect.
17:12How about if I move the body?
17:15Don't you get it, Sherlock? We're all suspects.
17:17I think that's for the police to decide, don't you?
17:20Police? Don't you think you're being a bit precipitous, Laura?
17:23Precipitous? The man's dead!
17:25Nobody is arguing that, but let's just stop a minute and think.
17:28You call the police, you know what happens?
17:30We're all taken in. Suspects in a murder.
17:32Yes, but that's only a problem if you're guilty.
17:35Oh, that's a lot of garbage. Look, I run a detective agency.
17:38You think that people are gonna feel comfortable
17:40coming to me with their problems, opening up their private lives
17:43if they read that I have been suspected of murder?
17:45Come on! Is there anybody here who wouldn't be hurt by that?
17:48Wait a minute.
17:50Robin and the kids don't know where I am.
17:54I didn't tell them I was coming here.
17:56Didn't want to. It's a marital thing.
17:59I really don't want to have to call them from a police station.
18:02Laura, Murphy. We don't need any bad publicity.
18:05Carl. Cut to the chase, will you?
18:08What I'd like to propose is that we investigate the murder.
18:11Give ourselves some sort of time limit until nightfall.
18:14Us investigate us? That's never gonna work.
18:17Murphy's right. We can't even decide who's gonna move the body.
18:20How are we going to investigate a murder
18:22when the murder is still running around,
18:24probably planting false clues, destroying evidence?
18:26That's crazy.
18:28Now, the only way this would ever work
18:30would be if there was somebody on the outside,
18:32somebody with no ax to grind, didn't know Alan,
18:35somebody we could trust, somebody...
18:38Forget that last thought.
18:40Please.
18:42Mr. Steele? No.
18:44Do you think he would? Oh, no.
18:46I guess I'll buy it if everybody else will.
18:48Morning, morning, morning, morning.
18:50My goodness, did I sleep soundly.
18:52Country air, I'll wager.
18:54Sound sleep like that always makes me feel hungry.
18:56Know what I could go for? Large country breakfast.
18:59Hot cakes, sausages.
19:01Ah.
19:10The man has been murdered.
19:17I think I'll take the stairs.
19:19Mr. Steele?
19:21If I might have a word with you.
19:23Oh.
19:26I hate working on the weekends,
19:28but if I must, I must.
19:32I didn't ask you to come up here.
19:35They're your friends.
19:37Do me a favor and keep that in mind.
19:39You're absolutely convinced that I'm going to go out there and make a fool of you.
19:42Every one of those people out there is a trained investigator.
19:45Laura, I understand your squimmishness, but the fact remains,
19:48I need to oversee this investigation, and oversee it I must.
19:51It's only till nightfall.
19:53I have to believe that two bright people like Gus can fool even the finest investigators for that amount of time.
20:00Of course we can.
20:04Just one question.
20:06What?
20:08Where should I begin?
20:10What?
20:11It's a simple question. Where should I begin?
20:13A starting point.
20:15Something to get the ball moving.
20:17Something to kind of keep them busy.
20:19Impress them with my keen mind.
20:21Oh.
20:24Start with the last person to see the victim alive.
20:27What's that?
20:28The basic rule of detection.
20:30The last person to see the victim alive is either a superb witness or an excellent suspect.
20:35Ooh. I like that.
20:37You do, huh?
20:39Hmm.
20:48Hmm.
21:00Forgive me.
21:02Ravenous.
21:06Now then.
21:08Let's begin at the beginning.
21:11Being dyed-in-the-wool professionals,
21:14we all know that the last person to see the victim alive is either a superb witness or an excellent suspect.
21:23He's very good.
21:25So then.
21:27The question I put to all of you is quite simple.
21:31Who was the last person to see Alan Grievey alive?
21:37The murderer.
21:41What is this, a set-up?
21:43I know you all heard me and Alan last night, but I wasn't the last one with him, and I didn't kill him.
21:47You hated Alan.
21:49Well, listen to Walter Cronkite here with the latest breaking news.
21:52Sure, I hated Alan.
21:54You know how the Alan Grievey agency got so big so fast?
21:58Alan had me copy every phone number, every file, and every client who had ever done business with Havenhurst.
22:06And you know how he thanked me?
22:08He laughed in my face.
22:11Said he didn't have any positions for people who couldn't be trusted.
22:15Then he called good old Donald over here.
22:19Made sure he knew what I'd done.
22:21By the time I got from Allen's to Havenhurst, my name was off my parking space.
22:26Thanks to good old Alan, no one will touch me.
22:29Don't anybody get out the violins.
22:31Man drove up in a Cadillac.
22:34Yeah, yeah.
22:36Repossessed it yesterday afternoon.
22:38Goes back to the dealer on Monday.
22:42That's what I do for a living now, folks.
22:46You should always catch me on the weekends, Laura.
22:48That's when I look good.
22:50Sure, I hated Alan.
22:52We all hated Alan.
22:54What about the gun?
22:55What gun?
22:56The .38 I saw in your bags.
22:57I didn't bring a gun, Carl. I saw it.
23:00Miss Holt, would you be kind enough to check Carl's room?
23:02No way. She works with Murphy.
23:04How do I know she's not going to plant something?
23:06I'll go.
23:07You? No.
23:08Then I'll go.
23:09Not in your life.
23:11What if we all go?
23:37You want to tell me about that amused smirk on your face?
23:50You thought I was going to embarrass you.
23:52These people need someone to lead them,
23:54someone to guide them,
23:55someone to show them how it's done.
23:57And they chose me.
23:58They don't know you.
23:59They'll ask.
24:08What do we do next?
24:10Me?
24:11You're asking me?
24:13I thought you were going to lead them, guide them,
24:15show them how it's done.
24:17And I am.
24:19As soon as you tell me how to do it.
24:21Oh.
24:23Oh, come on.
24:24Something, anything.
24:26Last person to see the victim alive.
24:28It's wonderful.
24:29Sounds so official.
24:31Happen to have another one like that?
24:36Hmm?
24:38Scene of the crime.
24:42Hasler?
24:44Scene of the crime.
24:46Best single source for conclusive physical evidence
24:48is almost always a scene of the crime.
24:52Thanks.
24:57No gun.
25:02Must have stashed it somewhere else in the house.
25:05The scene of the crime.
25:07What?
25:08I have no need to tell you people
25:10that the scene of the crime
25:11is often the best single source of conclusive evidence.
25:14Boy, he is good.
25:16You mean the elevator?
25:17Precisely.
25:18Here, let me.
25:19For my special.
25:21We'll all check it.
25:22Hmm?
25:32What are you doing?
25:34Dusting for Prince.
25:36He's dusting for Prince?
25:38Why is he dusting for Prince?
25:40Because it's my dusting kit.
25:43No hugging with that.
25:45Hmm.
25:47Mr. Steele?
25:49You got a minute?
25:50Mm-hmm.
26:00This is ridiculous.
26:03You want some coffee?
26:11Hey.
26:12Sandy, I need the light.
26:14Murphy, Murphy, listen.
26:16Forget about the dusting for a minute.
26:17I need your help.
26:19What are you talking about?
26:20I didn't kill Alan.
26:22But I just know any time now
26:24somebody's gonna find something
26:25that makes it look like I did.
26:29I figured we'd see slides of the company picnic,
26:31maybe tell stories about the 78th Christmas party.
26:34Oh, good old Alan.
26:37Always did have a sense of the theatrical.
26:40Oh, lots of dog food, but no coffee.
26:44Laura, can I be honest with you?
26:46I've been watching that Mr. Steele of yours,
26:49and while it's certainly not my place to say,
26:51I don't think he's always cracked up to be.
26:53What do you mean?
26:54Well, it's nothing I put my finger on.
26:56It's just a feeling I get.
26:59Look, Mr. Steele, all I'm asking for is a chance,
27:01a chance to prove myself, show you what I can do.
27:04And when's a better chance gonna come along than this?
27:07Hey, nobody's kidding anybody here, right?
27:10I'm down to my luck.
27:11You know it, I know it.
27:12I mean, the repo business
27:13is not exactly a growth industry.
27:15Carl, I already have a most able-bodied associate
27:18in Ms. Holt, and Murphy McMichaels is...
27:20Steele, Steele, you're looking at
27:22a valuable piece of manpower here.
27:29I know how to crack this case,
27:33and I know how to make it stick.
27:40It's right there.
27:42The answer to this case is right there.
27:53Can I ask where these came from?
27:55I found them.
27:58On Alan's body.
28:00On his neck, to be precise.
28:03Mr. Steele, with your permission,
28:06I have a theory I'd like to share with the others.
28:09Oh, you'd just like to throw us off the scent.
28:12Well, I don't think so.
28:14I don't think so.
28:16I don't think so.
28:18I don't think so.
28:20You'd just like to throw us off the scent.
28:22Sandy, let's hear what he has to say.
28:25Those are threads, pieces of fabric,
28:28fabric that must have unraveled, been strained.
28:32Now, we know Alan's neck was broken.
28:34I think whoever broke it used a rope or a sash
28:38or something made with those fibers to do it.
28:40So you're suggesting we look for
28:42whatever these threads came from.
28:44Rip the place apart if we have to,
28:46but if you find the source of those threads,
28:48you found your killer.
28:49Right, Carl.
28:50We'll rip the house apart
28:51and give you time to hide the gun.
28:53Forget the gun.
28:54The man died of a broken neck.
28:56Yeah, of course.
28:57You got here, you realized you couldn't shoot him
28:59without everyone hearing it,
29:00so you broke his neck, then you hid the gun.
29:02No way. I mean, I didn't kill him.
29:04Show them how it's done.
29:06What is this?
29:08I didn't bring a gun.
29:09People?
29:11Any thoughts about lunch?
29:14Little levity.
29:16Ha, ha, ha.
29:19Um, gun or no gun,
29:21it seems clear to me that Carl might be on to something.
29:25Does this mean we all have to run up the stairs again?
29:29Might I make a suggestion, sir?
29:32Why don't we all take a break?
29:35Murphy needs to fingerprint everyone
29:36so he can have something to compare
29:38with the prints he took off the elevator.
29:40Those of you who wish to look for the source of the fibers can.
29:45And those who wish to have a little chat...
29:49can.
29:51Splendid suggestion, Miss Holt.
29:53We'll all, uh, regroup in an hour.
30:02This is not working.
30:04Certainly it is.
30:05I think Carl's come up with a solid piece of evidence.
30:07Besides, only five more hours until nightfall.
30:11So long as everyone can stay alive until then.
30:14Aah!
30:36Seems like we've been doing an awful lot of this today.
30:45I followed her up.
30:48And I startled her.
30:50Here.
30:51Looks like a perfect match of the fibers.
30:53She was trying to get rid of it.
30:56Sandy, where's the belt?
30:58For what it's worth, I think she's innocent.
31:00Innocent?
31:02Innocent?
31:03What do you people want, a smoking gun?
31:05Forget I said gun.
31:07Let's just explore what we have here.
31:10A set of fibers.
31:12From where?
31:13Alan's neck.
31:15Says who?
31:16What do you mean, says who?
31:17Sandy's right.
31:18How do we know where those fibers came from?
31:20How do we know Carl didn't come up here,
31:22take him from the robe, set her up?
31:24Donald, I'm no murderer, but it's never too late to start.
31:28Nothing like getting a bunch of old chums together, is there?
31:31All right, come on, you guys.
31:33Carl!
31:34All right.
31:37Now, where were we, gentlemen?
31:39I don't understand why Donald keeps protecting Sandy.
31:42I am not protecting Sandy.
31:44I'm only trying to get at the truth.
31:46You can plant fibers, Carl.
31:48You can start fights, but there's nobody here
31:50with a motive to kill Alan except you.
31:53Oh, really?
31:56You want to tell him, Sandy?
31:58Or shall I?
32:00I don't know.
32:01I don't know.
32:03You want to tell him, Sandy?
32:05Or shall I?
32:06I don't know what he's talking about.
32:08I'm talking about a motive for murder.
32:11I'm talking about your husband and Alan
32:14and about living here.
32:15Living here?
32:17I was the first one here Friday.
32:19Wanted to talk to Alan about a loan.
32:22Lit restitution, if you know what I mean.
32:25But Alan couldn't talk.
32:27He wasn't alone.
32:28Sandy was already here.
32:30No car out front.
32:32No suitcases.
32:34An awful lot of clothes for just a weekend.
32:36Who are you kidding, Sandy?
32:38You didn't slip away for a reunion.
32:40How long have you been here?
32:43Good old Carl.
32:45Always could smell other people's dirt a mile away.
32:49Been here for years.
32:55Been here five days.
33:00I don't suppose it's any secret that Alan and I...
33:10But I decided that I wanted to get married.
33:13And Alan wanted no part of marriage.
33:16So along comes Robin Maxwell.
33:18Wealthy, powerful, aggressive.
33:21Everything that Alan was.
33:24Except Alan.
33:28Three months after the wedding...
33:32I told myself I'd had too much to drink.
33:35Then I poured myself another.
33:38Some women knit.
33:40Some women do needlepoint.
33:42I did Alan Grievey.
33:48You ready for the good part?
33:52I'm a husband's second wife.
33:54He's been there before.
33:56He smells another man.
33:58So what does he do?
34:00He goes to a detective agency.
34:02What agency? Not Havenhurst.
34:04Not where he met me.
34:06He goes to the Alan Grievey agency.
34:09Tells Alan he thinks the little woman is, uh...
34:14Et cetera, et cetera.
34:17Alan always did have a sense of humor.
34:21Of course, he took the case.
34:24He waited a week to give Robin the good news.
34:28Now you ready for the punchline?
34:31I even sent him a bill.
34:33Good old Alan.
34:40So I had nowhere to go.
34:42I came here.
34:44I figured a girl could do a lot worse.
34:47But Alan didn't want me around.
34:50What's the point of having a mistress
34:52if you have to come home to her every night?
34:56He told me I had to be out of here by Monday.
35:04Sure, I hated Alan Grievey.
35:08But I didn't kill him.
35:10Of course you didn't.
35:13Well...
35:15There are still fingerprints to be dealt with.
35:19Miss Holder's quite right.
35:22Let's not jump to any conclusions.
35:24I'll get my print kit.
35:26I'm beginning to think we're making a big mistake.
35:29Perhaps we should call the police.
35:31Donald!
35:32What are we doing?
35:34Whoever did this is toying with us.
35:36They're doing exactly what you said they would do.
35:38Planting evidence, manipulating us.
35:40Well, enough is enough. I'm going.
35:50Donald!
35:52Don't you think you're being a little precipitous?
35:55Hey, is he leaving?
35:57Seems to be flirting with the idea.
35:59I, for one, am tired of playing detective for a day.
36:02I also have problems with playing sitting duck for a murderer.
36:05I'll make it a point to stop off at the police on my way home.
36:12Ugh!
36:14I'm sorry.
36:16Ugh!
36:23It's a .38, the one I saw in Carl's room.
36:26Why, you slime! You set me up!
36:31This is getting very boring.
36:33Have Murphy give one of them the gun, and let's be done with it.
36:36Of course it was you!
36:38You planted the gun in my suitcase, let Murphy see,
36:40and then took it back to kill Alan!
36:42None of you believe that. You know I wouldn't kill Alan, don't you?
36:45Come on, Donald. Everyone knows about you and Alan.
36:48How, when you were back at Havenhurst,
36:50he used to make you do all his dirty work for him,
36:53took credit for all your accomplishments,
36:55used to tell jokes about you behind your back,
36:57sometimes to your face.
36:59Sure, sure, but that was Alan.
37:02I mean, I admired Alan.
37:04And I'll tell you something else.
37:07I liked being the second guy through the door,
37:10so long as that first guy was Alan.
37:13Alan was very good.
37:16Sure, he could ride roughshod over your feelings,
37:19but we were a team.
37:22If he were here, he'd tell you that.
37:24Team, huh?
37:26That's why when he left Havenhurst, he didn't take you with him,
37:29stole every client your agency had, left you the king of nothing.
37:32I said we were a team!
37:34Anyway, it was you who stole my clients, not him.
37:37As soon as Alan heard about it, hell, he called me.
37:40It's all right, Donald.
37:42We still have to wait for Murphy to look at the fingerprints.
37:45I couldn't kill Alan.
37:48I counted Alan Grevy among my closest personal friends.
37:53I remember this one case that we were on together.
37:57Me doing the legwork,
38:00Alan handling the client relationships,
38:03dinner and whatnot.
38:05The firm that hired us said it.
38:08You two are a hell of a team.
38:11A team.
38:36Ah, Murphy, there you are. Did you make a match?
38:38No disputing fingerprints.
38:40The finest crime-fighting tool ever invented.
38:43There were a lot of partials in the elevator.
38:46Many were unusable.
38:49Of the identifiable prints, most were Alan's,
38:51and there were a few I couldn't match up.
38:53Murphy, the sun has set. The suspense is building. Onward.
38:57There was one very good print on the stop button.
39:00It was a perfect match.
39:02Then we have it, our murderer,
39:04caught in the vice of irrefutable evidence.
39:06No denials, no counteraccusations will set this killer free.
39:09The fingerprint is as good as a signed confession.
39:12So, please, Murphy, tell us.
39:15Whose print is it?
39:19Laura's.
39:35Laura, I'm sorry.
39:39I was never in that elevator.
39:42I have only two things to say.
39:44I have known Laura Holt.
39:48I don't even want to think how long I've known Laura Holt.
39:51And I can say, without fear of repudiation,
39:54that this woman is incapable of any foul play
39:57against Alan Grievey or anyone else.
40:03Aren't you?
40:06Rhetorical question.
40:17I also want to say, you're fired.
40:35You're fired.
41:06Staring us in the face, damn it.
41:09Do you know what you're looking for?
41:11I have no idea.
41:13Something. Anything that seems out of place.
41:15Alan's room is the only one we haven't been through.
41:18Closet. Closet. Closet.
41:28The man had excellent taste.
41:31A little conservative.
41:33Someone should have told him that herringbone is out.
41:36Alan's tooth is au courant.
41:39Actually, Murphy,
41:41the trained eye can learn a great deal from a man's clothes.
41:45We dress for what we are.
41:47Or what we pretend to be.
41:49Now, what we have here is a man who spared no expense on himself.
41:53Silk suits.
41:55Custom-made.
41:59By and large, always in style.
42:02A man who lost a great deal of weight, I would think.
42:06He went from a size 44...
42:10to a 38 with no stops in between.
42:18He's done it again, hasn't he?
42:20Did what?
42:22Of course. We've got about this thing all wrong.
42:24We've dissected everyone,
42:26but the one person we should have been looking at from the start.
42:29Alan.
42:31Don't be absurd. The man's dead.
42:33The others are calling the police, getting ready to leave.
42:35Oh, stop it.
42:39Yes.
42:41Well, maybe not.
42:51His business was off 30%.
42:54He'd let a lot of people go.
42:57Murphy.
42:59Why do people put an elevator in their home?
43:02Um...
43:04Charles Lawton.
43:06Witness for the prosecution.
43:10Had a stroke. Couldn't walk upstairs.
43:13Oh. He's good.
43:17You know what I think?
43:19I think Alan was a very sick man.
43:27Come on.
43:42What are you doing?
43:57Come on.
44:18Best murder.
44:20A man gets on an elevator.
44:22He's all alone.
44:24It makes no stops, but when the doors open,
44:27he's dead.
44:29What happened?
44:31Sometime during the day,
44:33he must have taken the belt from Sandy's robe.
44:45It was already attached to the elevator cables
44:47and sitting on top of the vent.
44:50Now, I don't know what he used,
44:52but he pulled it through the vent.
45:02And he must have transferred my fingerprint
45:05to the elevator button.
45:14And then he hooked it up.
45:16And then he hooked it up into a noose.
45:20He put it around his neck.
45:27And then pressed the button.
45:30As the elevator rose,
45:32the cable jerked the belt tight,
45:34breaking his neck.
45:37Only that wasn't good enough.
45:39Suicide wasn't what he had in mind.
45:41So he set it up so the noose would tear.
45:44That way, by the time the elevator reached the second floor,
45:47the cable would have pulled the belt
45:49back up through the vent.
46:00So it just disappeared.
46:03In every way, it looked like a murder.
46:06Why, Laura?
46:08Why would he do something like that?
46:11It takes months to lose 35 pounds.
46:14If Alan didn't have clothes,
46:16it was because he was somewhere he didn't need them.
46:19A hospital.
46:21Remember the dog food?
46:23Shelves of it.
46:25The only thing missing was...
46:27A dog. We haven't seen one all weekend.
46:29When a man knows he won't be able to take care of it,
46:32he'd probably find it in another home.
46:34The threads, the fingerprints.
46:37He probably put the gun in Carl's bag,
46:39then in mine.
46:41Why would he do that to us?
46:44Alan was always letting us know he was better than us.
46:48He invited us here for one final joke.
46:51A last vanity, so to speak.
46:53Something to remember him by.
46:55Laura, he might not have found out for years
46:58he could have been convicted of murder.
47:00That's no joke.
47:02Alan was always true to his word.
47:04He said if we didn't solve the murder,
47:06he'd explain it to us before we left.
47:13The elevator servicemen are coming on Monday.
47:16I'm sure they're checking the cables.
47:18It's just like him.
47:20They'd have found the belt.
47:22So rewarding, so stimulating.
47:24What a brain twister that was.
47:26A puzzle to test the finest minds.
47:28And you, Miss Holt?
47:30Shone brilliantly.
47:36You know, I've been thinking.
47:38Perhaps we should have a reunion every year.
47:45Ballistic tests conducted several days after proved
47:49the path of the bullet began inside the industrialist's body
47:53and traveled out.
47:55That's amazing.
47:59How is it possible?
48:01How?
48:03You want to know how?
48:05Bernice, a good murder is like a good wine.
48:08It should be savored.
48:10So take the evening, or the week for that matter.
48:14Allow it to seep into your thoughts,
48:17invade your dreams,
48:19consider it,
48:21and ponder it.
48:29Is that how it's done?
48:32That boy's come a long way.
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