Remington Steele S01E13
Remington Steele S01E13
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00:00I'll see you there in 15 minutes.
00:05Dr. Marcus was strangled to death.
00:08I know why you're here, Mr. Steele.
00:11You do?
00:12Is he...
00:13Asleep?
00:14Yes.
00:15I'm a narcoleptic.
00:16Sleep is my life.
00:17Then you'll sleep on it, huh?
00:19If only I could.
00:20Please, I'm trying to get some sleep,
00:22but the only safe place seems to be your bed.
00:24There's nothing to worry about.
00:26Try to relax.
00:28I will not fall asleep!
00:30Dr. Wicker?
00:32Oh!
00:35Try this for a deep, dark secret.
00:38The great detective Remington Steele?
00:41He doesn't exist.
00:43I invented him.
00:44Follow.
00:45I always loved excitement.
00:47So I studied and apprenticed
00:49and put my name on an office.
00:51But absolutely nobody knocked down my door.
00:54A female private investigator seemed so... feminine.
00:58So I invented a superior.
01:00A decidedly masculine superior.
01:03Suddenly there were cases around the block.
01:05It was working like a charm.
01:07Until the day he walked in
01:10with his blue eyes and mysterious past.
01:13And before I knew it,
01:15he assumed Remington Steele's identity.
01:17Now I do the work and he takes the vows.
01:21It's a dangerous way to live.
01:23But as long as people buy it,
01:25I can get the job done.
01:27We never mix business with pleasure.
01:30Well, almost never.
01:33I don't even know his real name!
01:53Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.
02:22Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.
02:45You're in a body mood tonight.
02:49Oh, you're so tacky.
02:52I love it.
02:56Now, you've got to be kidding.
02:59It's so late.
03:01You're right.
03:02I am tense.
03:06What exactly would you prescribe, doctor?
03:10Really?
03:14Well, that is one proven cure.
03:19No, not there.
03:22It's so cold.
03:24And I'm in a warm mood tonight.
03:31Not there either.
03:33That's too dangerous.
03:39Where?
03:43Oh, that does sound intriguing.
03:50You've sold me.
03:53I'll see you there in 15 minutes.
03:58OK.
04:00Bye.
04:06Ugh.
04:19Oh.
04:45Coming.
04:46Coming.
04:50Yes.
04:50Yes.
04:51Yes.
04:56Ah, uh, Laura.
04:57You're early.
04:58To talk to you.
04:59Yes, well, the need is mutual.
05:00But I was hoping that dinner tonight would
05:01provide ample opportunity.
05:03That's another thing about dinner tonight.
05:05What is that smell?
05:06Smell?
05:07My new aftershave, perhaps?
05:08Now, I'm sure whatever's on your mind can
05:10wait for just a few more hours.
05:11Oh, it seems to be coming for me.
05:12Now, Laura, I'm prepared to accept
05:14responsibility for any reprehensible thing
05:16I may have done, providing I can do it over dinner tonight.
05:19What reprehensible thing?
05:20Well, surely the reason you're here
05:21is because I've insulted some client,
05:24mislaid some piece of evidence, committed some faux pas.
05:27And then later, when we're both suitably dressed
05:30and the mood is set, I promise to become
05:32a picture of repentance.
05:33Fair enough?
05:34Does this sudden urge to repent have anything
05:36to do with the fact that your aftershave is burning?
05:39What?
05:40No.
05:41Oh, no.
05:42No.
05:46You're cooking.
05:47Yes.
05:48So much for the element of surprise.
05:50You're cooking dinner.
05:52I never knew you cooked.
05:53Uh-huh.
05:54I was counting on the shock to weaken your defenses.
05:57I just assumed that dinner meant some restaurant.
05:59I, I, I, I don't know what to say.
06:04Say yes, and let me make up the question.
06:06Oh, this is terrible.
06:08Actually, it's canard of Van Rouge.
06:10And the least you might do is taste
06:11it before passing judgment.
06:12No, no, no, I only meant that you've
06:13gone to all this trouble.
06:14And I came here to cancel because something's come up,
06:16and I have to fill you in.
06:18Cancel?
06:20You don't cancel canard of Van Rouge.
06:22Damn, he's, he's early.
06:25Well, Van Rouge's early.
06:26Laura?
06:28You don't have to call me Dr. Lindstrom, Mr. Steele.
06:30Philip will be fine.
06:31And I really appreciate you letting me come
06:32to your apartment like this.
06:34If the hospital board of trustees
06:35ever found out, I want to see a private detective.
06:37Do they really control the funding
06:38of your clinic that completely?
06:40I'm afraid so.
06:41The entire sleep disorders project
06:43comes up for review next week.
06:45Ah, sleep disorders, yes.
06:48About 10 days ago, morphine started disappearing
06:50from the drug cases.
06:51Labs have been broken into.
06:53Records have been destroyed.
06:55What is that smell?
06:56It was canard of Van Rouge at one time.
06:59But, as you were saying, doctor.
07:00Then one of my best staff physicians, Sheila Marcus,
07:03suddenly disappeared.
07:04No call, no message, just gone.
07:07And you suspect she's responsible?
07:09Sheila?
07:10No, I don't believe she's capable of anything like that.
07:14Her car still hasn't left the hospital parking lot.
07:17That's why when Miss Holt told me
07:18of your idea of infiltrating the clinic,
07:20to find out all of infiltrating, you say?
07:22But don't worry, Mr. Steele.
07:24I'll make sure that no one knows that you're
07:25not a real insomniac.
07:27And with Miss Holt posing as your physician.
07:28Ah, infiltrating your clinic as an insomniac
07:33with Miss Holt posing as my physician.
07:35Ah, yes, of course.
07:36How could I forget?
07:37Ha, ha, ha.
07:40I wonder if I could have a word with you
07:41over the duck in the kitchen, doctor.
07:43Yes, of course, Mr. Steele.
07:45I suppose it's difficult to find a good insomniac this late
07:48on a Sunday afternoon.
07:49Insomniac?
07:50For God's sakes, Laura, I'm supposed to be Remington Steele.
07:52Precisely.
07:53And if Remington Steele checks into that clinic,
07:55he can't help but become a target for whoever's
07:57behind the trouble.
07:58First you deflate my duck, and now you
08:00want to cook my goose.
08:01Wonderful.
08:02I thought you loved plunging into the thick of things,
08:05trusting your instincts, living by your wits,
08:07the true detective poised at the edge of danger.
08:10No need to quote me so accurately.
08:12How was I supposed to know you'd choose tonight to dazzle
08:14me with your gourmet gifts?
08:17Hoisted by my own canard.
08:19Lindstrom's in trouble.
08:20The man's career, his whole life,
08:22is tied up into that clinic.
08:24Can you really walk out there now and tell him
08:26we simply refuse to help?
08:29Well, what else can I say except, ah!
08:43Mm.
09:01Aside from the neck problems I'm going to have, how do I seem?
09:04As healthy as a prize pig.
09:06Oh, what a delightfully descriptive way you have.
09:10You want poetry?
09:11Go to the library.
09:13We specialize in sleep here.
09:16Follow me, Steele.
09:18Anywhere.
09:19I'm thrilled you could fill in for Dr. Marcus
09:21with such short notice, Dr. Holt.
09:23Well, the administrator of my clinic
09:24is a very understanding man.
09:26Naturally, I want you to take over Dr. Marcus' cases.
09:29I need files for Nestor Bickman, Ivan Turble,
09:31and any new admittances, please.
09:32Remington, Steele.
09:34Nurse Blackcomb.
09:35I'll get him settled and see that the work
09:36up is left in your office.
09:38That is Dr. Marcus' office.
09:41Everyone seems to have a different theory about why
09:43she took off so suddenly.
09:44What's yours, nurse?
09:46Well, apparently, gossip is an illness
09:48that we can't even cure.
09:51Come, Steele.
09:55Even if that woman's innocent, I
09:56think we should give serious consideration to framing her.
09:59Mr. Steele!
10:00Come in, if you'll pardon me.
10:01I have a review presentation to make.
10:03Yes?
10:05Uh, excuse me.
10:06Is that Steele?
10:07That's not Remington Steele, is it?
10:09I believe it is.
10:12Oh, hey, forget my manners.
10:13Terry Wicker.
10:14Same slave ship, different oar.
10:16You must be standing in for the mysterious missing
10:18Marcus, am I right?
10:19I am, and it's Laura Holt.
10:21Well, welcome to the big sleep.
10:23Come on, I'll, um, show you where the bodies are buried.
10:25Oh, well, uh.
10:26So, uh, where'd you go to school, Holt?
10:29Uh, Stanford.
10:30Stanford, huh?
10:31You must have, uh, studied with Dr. Laker.
10:33Ah, yes, Dr. Laker, wonderful man.
10:37I would hardly call Elizabeth Laker a wonderful man.
10:42Oh, Elizabeth, of course I was thinking of her brother.
10:44Her brother?
10:45I thought her brother was a plumber.
10:47Well, internal medicine isn't one of my favorites,
10:50but the man did earn his degree.
10:51Now, if you'll excuse me, I have so much to catch up on.
11:11Oh, excuse me, miss.
11:14This is your room.
11:15The second bed on the right is yours.
11:17Have a pleasant stay.
11:18How could it be anything but.
11:36Bickerman, Nestor Bickerman.
11:37Um, Steel, uh, Remington Steel.
11:40What are you in for, Steel?
11:41Uh, I can't sleep.
11:43Thank God you're not one of them.
11:44Them?
11:45The sleepers.
11:46I don't think I could handle sharing a room with a sleeper.
11:48You know what snoring sounds like to a man
11:50who hasn't slept in months?
11:52Oh, what?
11:52Fingernails on a blackboard, a dentist
11:54drill hitting a nerve.
11:58Hey, what are you staring at?
12:00Get out of here.
12:05There's a sleeper for you.
12:07Half the time, they can't keep that guy awake.
12:09They call him a narcoleptic.
12:10But to me, he's just another lazy bum.
12:13I got 100 guys like him working for me.
12:15Never trust a sleeper, Steel.
12:17So what kind of work do you do?
12:18Me, I'm in petrochemicals.
12:20Been in petrochemicals since the war.
12:22I didn't like it at first, but it sort of grows on you.
12:24I think sleep is overrated, don't you, Steel?
12:28It's just a big waste of work time, if you ask me.
12:31What can you do when you're asleep?
12:34Dream.
12:35Dreaming's for suckers.
12:37Give me facts.
12:39Reality, that's what makes me tick.
12:43Not that I haven't had a couple of good dreams of my time.
12:47As a matter of fact, in the summer of 79,
12:50I dreamed I was in this house with 1,000 rooms.
12:55So I walked into the first room, and there was
12:57this chest with 1,000 drawers.
12:59OK, just let me check all the patients in the ward first.
13:09Oh.
13:18Oh!
13:19Oh, what a charming place for a midnight rendezvous.
13:23How could we have missed it all this time?
13:25It isn't listed in the better guides,
13:27but we weren't looking for Sheila Marcus then, either.
13:29You want her to check the morgue?
13:31Nothing.
13:32Then I remembered this was a teaching hospital.
13:36Of course, anatomy.
13:38It would have to be cadavers for the students to work on.
13:40Might take weeks before they noticed
13:42their stock was multiplying.
13:44Then again, if one could stomach taking inventory.
13:48Well, well, Sheila Marcus.
13:56I was afraid someone had donated her to science too soon.
13:59So young.
14:00Look at these bruises on her neck.
14:03Strangulation?
14:04Safe bet.
14:07Well, what next?
14:08A call to inform Lindstrom?
14:10No.
14:11No?
14:13Laura, the man's supposed to be our client.
14:14What about our professional code of ethics?
14:17You're lecturing me about ethics?
14:18Hmm, I must be losing sleep.
14:20But even so, don't you think the man has a right to know?
14:23Think about it for a minute.
14:24If we tell Lindstrom, then the man
14:26is duty bound to report it to the hospital board.
14:29And if he can't deliver them a culprit at the same time.
14:31Then they might shut him down tomorrow.
14:32That's right.
14:35Ah, yes, Dr. Holt.
14:36The constant pressure of brilliant sleuthing
14:38has driven sleep from my life.
14:40If it weren't for the support, indeed,
14:41the love of my associates, I don't
14:43know how I would continue.
14:44Bring the door.
14:49Looking for something?
14:50I know why you're here, Mr. Steele.
14:51You do?
14:52Yeah, you're looking for me.
14:53I am?
14:54Why?
14:55Because I'm the guy that did it.
15:05Is he?
15:06Asleep?
15:07Yes.
15:08Ah.
15:17Hey.
15:17Hey, hey.
15:18I didn't hurt you, did I, Mr. Steele?
15:20I'll survive.
15:21Forgive me for pressing the point,
15:22but what is it you've done exactly, Mr. uh?
15:24Ivan.
15:25Ivan Terrible.
15:26Ivan the Terrible.
15:27Terrible.
15:28And I'll confess to everything, all right?
15:30What do you need, proof?
15:31I'll give you proof.
15:34I woke up in the sleep room with that tucked under my arm.
15:36I'm guilty.
15:39It's Dr. Marcus' jacket.
15:41You don't have to split atoms for a living
15:43to put this one together.
15:44As soon as I heard Dr. Marcus disappeared,
15:46I knew I was the guy.
15:48So just tell me what I did, and I'll go along quietly.
15:52You want me to tell you what you've done?
15:54Explain my condition to him, will you, Doc?
15:56Well, uh, you see, Mr. Steele.
15:59Look, some narcoleptics just fall asleep
16:02on the snap of your fingers.
16:03Exactly.
16:05Or when they're too excited?
16:06Yes, overstimulation, very symptomatic.
16:08So sometimes they have hallucinations.
16:10Yes, terrible hallucinations.
16:12And then there's the deluxe narcoleptic, like me,
16:14who's got all those and a few extra symptoms to boot,
16:16like night terrors.
16:18You must know about my history, Doc.
16:20Well, I haven't had a chance to go
16:21through it in great detail, Ivan.
16:26When I was 16, I thought a hideous wind
16:28serpent was screeching down over my bed to tear me apart.
16:31So I grabbed a battle axe to fight it off.
16:34The axe turns out to be a lamp.
16:35And the screeching serpent?
16:38My mother.
16:39I didn't hurt her seriously.
16:40But then again, when I was in college,
16:42my roommate found me in my underwear
16:44trying to drag the dean's car into the quadrangle fountain.
16:47Another horrifying monster?
16:49Poisonous meteorite.
16:51But the dean wouldn't buy it.
16:52Don't tell me.
16:53Yeah, he was still in the car.
16:55Look, I don't want to read about this one in the papers first.
16:58Please, can't you just tell me what I did to this poor woman?
17:04Ivan, could I have a word with Dr. Holt for a moment?
17:06Sure.
17:07Hey, if I'm not awake when you get back,
17:09it's nothing personal, OK?
17:16That's it. Case closed.
17:17Brilliant work, Laura.
17:18Let's not rush anything.
17:20Rush anything?
17:21We have one corpus delecti, one confessed murder,
17:22and a splendid piece of physical evidence to join the two.
17:25Dinner awaits.
17:26Not so splendid.
17:27This jacket is covered with blood.
17:28Only we didn't find any wounds on Sheila, remember?
17:31You know, Laura, sometimes your preoccupation with detail
17:33really concerns me.
17:35So we don't say a word until we know whose blood this is.
17:38All right, very well.
17:39This is a hospital, after all.
17:40It shouldn't be too hard to get this checked discreetly.
17:42And I'll see what I can find on Ivan.
17:44It's odd, though.
17:45He can't remember what happened.
17:47Just don't turn your back on him when he's asleep.
17:48His mother, the dean, Dr. Marcus,
17:51he seems to do his best work in authority figures, doctor.
17:54You know what they try to do to Genevieve Bourgeaud in coma.
17:56Tsk, tsk.
17:57Then it's possible, Dr. Lindstrom,
18:02for a narcoleptic to function even when he's asleep.
18:04When he wakes up, have no recollection of what he did?
18:07Mm-hmm.
18:08It's called automatic behavior.
18:10Could they do something violent?
18:12I don't think so, but there are always exceptions.
18:14This is a fairly new field, remember?
18:16Tell me, Dr. Holt, do your questions
18:18relate to a particular case?
18:20Well, we have come up with some promising data,
18:22but it's still too early to make an accurate diagnosis.
18:26And Mr. Steele?
18:28By now, he should be well into a full workup.
18:31And actually, I felt dreadful about spilling
18:32my blood sample all over Dr. Holt's jacket like this
18:35and immediately offered to rush it
18:36to the cleaners at my own expense.
18:37What did you say your name was again?
18:39Rona.
18:39Rona, oh, Rona.
18:41You have no idea the memory that name stirs in me.
18:44Rona.
18:45Really?
18:47Anyway, I offered my arm to Dr. Holt for another blood sample,
18:50but since I'd already donated two pints to your blood
18:53drive this morning.
18:54Two pints, that's quite a lot.
18:56A man gives what he can, Rona, but Dr. Holt
18:58felt it would be medically unsafe for me
19:00to lose any more blood and simply suggested that your lab
19:02could run a test on the jacket.
19:04Well, that would be highly irregular.
19:06Tell me, do you wear those glasses all the time
19:09or just when you're concentrating on your work?
19:12I do take them off at night before I go to bed.
19:16Pity I couldn't be there to see your eyes unencumbered.
19:20Anyway, being that Dr. Holt is new on the staff,
19:24I couldn't bear the thought of my clumsiness causing
19:26her any more embarrassment.
19:27I naturally offered to bring the garment down here
19:29and ask for your help in person.
19:30But if it's going to be a problem.
19:31Well, I suppose I could hang on to it
19:34and try to do it later, Mr. Steele.
19:37I'd be ever so grateful.
19:39Grateful is nice, but your room number would be better.
19:45My room number?
19:46Yeah, well, I am slated for night duty
19:49and you did say you were an insomniac.
19:53I did, didn't I?
19:55Yes.
19:57Huh.
20:22Nothing here yet, Doc?
20:24Who's that, Ivan?
20:26Police.
20:27I thought it over and I decided prison
20:29isn't going to be all that bad.
20:30You know, three squares and a place to hang your hat.
20:34At least I'll be locked up so I don't hurt anybody.
20:36Ivan, I'm your doctor and I couldn't call the police
20:39unless I was certain you had committed some crime.
20:42Now, maybe if you could tell me again about everything
20:45you can remember that night.
20:47Well, I came down here as scheduled.
20:51You know, that Nurse Blackall, she
20:53hooked me up to the electrodes.
20:54Nurse Blackall, was she the one who
20:56monitored the polygraph all night?
20:58Suppose so.
20:59When I, after I was all wired, I came in here.
21:02They plugged me in and.
21:03And then you went to sleep.
21:04I'm a narcoleptic.
21:05Sleep is my life.
21:06Do you remember the night terror?
21:08There was this big, dark form standing over me
21:10with a snake in his hand.
21:12And I was thinking, don't come any closer with that snake.
21:16Take it away.
21:17Take it away.
21:18But he didn't, so I grabbed him like this, around the throat.
21:23And the next thing I knew, I woke up with Dr.
21:26Marcus's jacket in my hands.
21:28You don't remember anything else about that night?
21:31Sorry, Doc.
21:33Maybe Mr. Steele can help us, huh?
21:34Dr. Holt, what is this?
21:38I was consulting with my patient.
21:40Mr. Turbull is in this room so we can monitor
21:43his daytime sleep seizures.
21:45And it does none of us any good to have
21:48this process interfered with.
21:50Huh.
21:51Oh.
21:53Of course.
22:00Steele, right?
22:01Dr. Wicker.
22:02Terry to my friends.
22:04And I'm betting you're going to be one.
22:05Can I buy you a cup of coffee?
22:06I'm afraid I never touch the stuff.
22:08Can't sleep as it is.
22:09Dr. Wicker?
22:10You're Dr. Holt's patient, aren't you?
22:13I believe so. Why?
22:15No reason.
22:16It's just that she's hopelessly new around here.
22:17And I just thought a man of your ilk
22:20might like a second opinion.
22:22On the house, of course.
22:24Don't say.
22:25Tell me, are you always so generous
22:27with your services, doctor?
22:28Or am I showing a bit too much ilk?
22:31Ah, you see right through me, don't you, Steele?
22:34And why not?
22:35You're the detective.
22:36All right, OK, I'll come clean.
22:40Look, Lindstrom is right on the edge with his clinic.
22:43One more bad break, he'll be just another MD looking
22:46for a hook to hang a shingle on.
22:48Now, you ask me, that's why Sheila Marcus wised up.
22:51Passed on the tearful goodbyes and took off.
22:54But I've got my own little survival plan.
22:57Really?
22:58Wicker's Sleep Centers.
23:01A chain of private sleep clinics.
23:04You see, we franchise out the name.
23:07And within a year, we're branching out
23:09into our own line of mattresses and pillows.
23:11Sounds most ambitious.
23:13Why tell me?
23:14Well, I'll need partners, for one thing.
23:17And who better than a man with a sleep problem?
23:19Who also makes a headline now and then.
23:22Just picture this copy.
23:25Sleep as safe and sound as Remington
23:28Steele with wickers.
23:31I'm telling you, we could sell a lot of pillows.
23:34Certainly gives one pause.
23:36Then you'll sleep on it, huh?
23:38If only I could.
23:40What do you mean there was a screw up with my test results?
23:43You know my heart's over here, Doc.
23:45I know that, Mr. Bickerman.
23:46I was just listening to your vena cava menoris.
23:49Oh, yeah.
23:50Well, I'm due to get out of here in two days.
23:52Where's Dr. Marcus, anyway?
23:54I don't know.
23:55Family emergency, I think.
23:56You know, I didn't ask to be here in the first place.
23:59But try saying no to your chairman of the board.
24:02You want to be president of Barracore Petrochemical,
24:04Nestor, BJ says to me?
24:06Just show us a clean bill of health.
24:09Well, your labial pentranostrum seems normal.
24:11Turn.
24:1215 years I've waited for this promotion,
24:15and the company quack hears I have a touch
24:18of insomnia and bammo.
24:20It's either a spin through here, or it's no leather chair
24:24with a built-in back massager.
24:26No office on the 84th floor, no diamond tie
24:29clasp with a company logo.
24:31I'm sorry about all this, Mr. Bickerman,
24:32but we can't seem to locate your paperwork.
24:35So we're going to have to run another full series of tests.
24:38That nurse Blackall seems to lose a lot of paperwork,
24:41doesn't she?
24:43Nurse Blackall?
24:44I guess that is her area.
24:47Ah, Dr. Holt.
24:49Hope I haven't kept you waiting.
24:50Make yourself comfortable on the bed, Mr. Steele.
24:53And I'll need you to fill this for me, Mr. Bickerman.
24:56Why, are you thirsty?
24:57I met with a sample for your new tests.
24:59I'd like to get them going as soon as possible.
25:01But I just went.
25:02Oh, try for me anyway, won't you?
25:12You able to get the blood on that jacket tested?
25:14Easy enough, except, of course, for the cost.
25:15You don't suppose we'll get my room changed by tonight?
25:18You know, this is pretty big.
25:20How much do you need?
25:21Just to the line.
25:22What line?
25:29Try running the water.
25:32We might want to take a closer look at Dr. Wicker.
25:34What for?
25:35Well, for one thing, I hate people who are abusively nice.
25:37And for another, he can't wait until Lindstrom's clinic
25:39collapses so he can start his own sleep disorder empire.
25:42And furthermore, I find the thought
25:43of using Remington Steele to hawk pillars
25:45just short of revolting.
25:47Sorry, Doc.
25:48No gold, maybe with a few more cups of coffee.
25:51We'll have to finish this tonight.
25:52I can finish this tonight.
25:53I can't wait.
26:10Hey.
26:11Yes.
26:12Yes, the hay is wonderful at harvest time.
26:15Soft, sweet smelling.
26:17Come on, we can't do this now.
26:19Oh, believe me, Laura, I'm not trying to sleep with you.
26:22I'm just trying to sleep with you.
26:25Here.
26:26Oh.
26:27Look at this.
26:30Oh, oh, what a charming idea for a bite spreader.
26:33It's Ivan's printout the night Sheila Marcus was killed.
26:36There's a half hour gap between the time
26:39with no readings.
26:42You mean Ivan left the sleep room that night?
26:44It would appear so.
26:46Guilty.
26:49It's not that simple.
26:50Come here.
26:51Oh, Laura, please.
26:53I'm trying to get some sleep, and the only safe place
26:55seems to be your bed.
26:58But with the missing morphine and the records,
27:00Nurse Blackall is a prime candidate.
27:04If only there was something I could do.
27:06Sink your teeth into?
27:09Consider me available.
27:11Thanks.
27:13But if you don't get back, Bickerman's
27:14going to start missing you.
27:16I don't miss Bickerman.
27:19Come on.
27:20Oh, Laura, please.
27:21Just five minutes.
27:22A kidnap.
27:24I mean, try not to.
27:26Ah, yes.
27:32I'd say goodnight, but honesty prevents me.
27:36Goodnight.
27:37Yes.
27:54I said goodnight.
27:59Is that you?
28:06No.
28:36No.
29:06No.
29:36No.
30:06No.
30:30Dr. Holt?
30:33Are you all right?
30:35I'm fine.
30:38The light in here is so bad.
30:40This is plasma, isn't it?
30:42It's an empty IV bottle.
30:44Oh, great.
30:45It's good to know we have extras if we need them.
30:48That wouldn't be Mr. Steele's blood test you have there.
30:50Ah, oh, yes.
30:52But I just thought that I would.
30:53You thought what?
30:54Well, since Mr. Steele brought me the sample personally,
30:57I just.
30:58Surely you're not entertaining notions
30:59of responding in kind.
31:01I didn't think it would hurt anything.
31:03As his doctor, I'll see to it he learns of the results.
31:09You never let us technicians have a crack
31:10at any of the good ones, do you?
31:13Ivan, there comes a point in every man's life
31:18when he must examine the consequences of his actions
31:21and probe deeply into the innermost
31:22reaches of his true self.
31:25A minute up to my neck, right?
31:27Be specific.
31:28There's considerable evidence pointing to you as the culprit.
31:31Oh, no.
31:32Liz, please, don't hold back.
31:34You've got to tell me, Mr. Steele.
31:35What happened?
31:36Dr. Marcus was strangled to death, her body
31:39hidden in the cadaver room.
31:44Ivan?
31:45Hey, hey, come on.
31:47Wake up.
31:48He didn't do it.
31:49What?
31:50Somebody just locked me out of my office
31:52and followed me down to the nurse's station.
31:54Any idea who?
31:55No, but if you were with Ivan, it couldn't have been him.
31:58Well, that seems logical enough, but.
31:59I got the blood test results from Rona.
32:03Was she terribly disappointed?
32:04She'll survive, but according to the report,
32:07the blood on that jacket was type A.
32:09So?
32:10Sheila's blood type was O, and Ivan's is AB negative.
32:14Well, if it's not her blood and it isn't his blood.
32:16Somebody's trying to frame him.
32:18It's clear.
32:19Well, what about the gap you found in his readout?
32:21I don't have an explanation for that yet,
32:23but I think it's time we let Lindstrom
32:25know what's going on.
32:27You want to tell Ivan the good news?
32:28I really think I should.
32:33I did it.
32:33I did it!
32:34Well, perhaps you didn't do it.
32:37What?
32:38Well, you didn't kill Dr. Marcus.
32:43Did I miss something?
32:59Are you sure I'm innocent?
33:00I intend to prove it to you, so keep your eyes open.
33:02And please, I'll try to stay awake.
33:04I really will.
33:04Good, because the sight of someone sleeping
33:06now is apt to make me violent.
33:09You know, I only recently found out
33:10myself I was narcoleptic.
33:13Fact is, it's ruined my life.
33:15Imagine prom night.
33:16I finally get Effie Stoneglass, the most popular girl
33:19in the senior class, to dance with me.
33:21Guess what I do when the band starts playing?
33:22Fall asleep?
33:23Like a rock.
33:25And the first time I was ever intimate with a woman.
33:27You know that moment you always hear so much about?
33:29You mean?
33:30I slept right through it.
33:31She had the marriage and all the next day.
33:33Ivan, I'm sorry.
33:34I had no idea.
33:35It's been rough, hasn't it?
33:36Well, you try to adjust, but you
33:39have to be awake to do that.
33:41All the friends it's cost me, the careers.
33:43You know, there's no easy niche for a sleeper in our world,
33:45Steele.
33:47How'd you do that?
33:49A certain God-given talent and a lot of practice.
33:52A yellow tie?
33:54This man imagines that I could be his partner.
33:57What are we looking for?
33:58Well, whoever framed you knew about your case history.
34:01I just wanted to see if there was
34:02anything in the good doctor's closet
34:03that rattled as much as he did.
34:07Dr. Marcus?
34:10What would Dr. Wicker be doing with Dr. Marcus' stethoscope
34:12in his locker?
34:13What indeed?
34:15What is that?
34:17The most illuminating picture.
34:21Sheila and I had more than just a professional relationship.
34:24In fact, the night she disappeared,
34:25we had planned a rendezvous on the phone.
34:27But she never showed up.
34:28Why didn't you tell us this before?
34:31I'm a married man.
34:32I was hoping this entire thing could
34:33be cleared up without probing into Sheila's love life.
34:36I see now we're well into that territory.
34:39Did you know Sheila was seeing Terrence Wicker?
34:42No, I didn't.
34:43But it doesn't surprise me.
34:44Sheila loved men, all men.
34:47Not in a way that was dirty and cheap.
34:48She was just.
34:50Philanthropic?
34:53Exactly.
34:54Perhaps Sheila found out Wicker was
34:55trying to close you down, or that he had a morphine problem.
34:59If that stethoscope turns out to be the murder weapon,
35:01it would certainly make him a prime suspect.
35:04I don't know.
35:05What do you think, Steele?
35:07Mr. Steele?
35:08Mr. Steele?
35:09Oh, pardon me.
35:10I'm meditating.
35:12I find it very beneficial whenever
35:13I'm about to embark on the demanding
35:15last leg of a case.
35:16I wondered if you concur with Miss
35:18Holt about the stethoscope.
35:20Stethoscope?
35:21Absolutely.
35:23What did I just agree to?
35:24That the stethoscope might be the murder weapon?
35:27Did I come up with that?
35:28That was great, Steele, meditating.
35:30I never thought of calling it meditating.
35:31It's time for Mr. Steele to go on the machine.
35:35Machine?
35:37Try to relax, Mr. Steele.
35:39There's nothing to worry about.
35:41I'll be here all night.
35:44What a comforting thought.
35:46I can see your machine quite well from my station.
35:49I'm so glad.
35:50I wouldn't want you to miss anything.
36:24♪
36:34♪
36:54♪
37:14Dr. Wicker?
37:16♪
37:21Dr. Wicker?
37:22♪
37:32♪
37:42♪
37:52My God, what happened?
37:54I stabbed him with something.
37:56I...
38:00Yes, it appears you did.
38:02♪
38:12I didn't kill him.
38:14You're trapped in the darkness with someone
38:16squeezing the life out of you with their own stethoscope.
38:18You're rich with atrocious weapons, surgical scissors,
38:20and you defend yourself.
38:22I didn't pick up surgical scissors.
38:24I picked up a hypodermic needle.
38:26Who's dead?
38:27Dr. Wicker.
38:28Dr. Wicker?
38:29You don't think I...
38:30Relax, Ivan, relax.
38:31Laura, do you realize what you're saying?
38:33That if you didn't kill Dr. Wicker,
38:34then he's not our man.
38:35He isn't.
38:36But what about our evidence?
38:37The picture, the stethoscope?
38:38The stethoscope was a plant,
38:39just like the jacket.
38:41Why would the murderer want to frame two people?
38:43I don't think he's trying to frame anyone.
38:45He just wants to buy some time.
38:47Each clue that he leaves behind
38:48takes us down another blind alley.
38:50Blind alley, that's a delightfully quiet spot
38:52for a rest.
38:53The missing morphine is the one thing
38:54we haven't nailed down.
38:55The key must be in there somewhere.
38:58What are you doing with these, anyway?
39:01Strange as it may sound,
39:02I couldn't sleep,
39:03so I slipped out of the sleep room
39:04to see how you were progressing.
39:05I thought I might keep them
39:06so I could slip back in.
39:08But someone must have noticed
39:09you were off the machine right away.
39:11Only if they came into the room
39:12to check both machines.
39:13From the nurse's station,
39:14only my polygraph can be seen,
39:15and it was running when I left.
39:17How did you manage that?
39:19I switched connections with the other machine.
39:23What did you say?
39:25I connected the other patient to my machine.
39:28I like that look in your eye.
39:29What does that mean?
39:30It usually precedes
39:31a brilliant case ending deduction.
39:33You did it.
39:34I did?
39:35Of course.
39:36It's so obvious.
39:37Why didn't we see it before?
39:38How about exhaustion?
39:39Now, what exactly...
39:40Come on, Ivan.
39:41We'll need your help.
39:44You know, for a doctor,
39:45she seems pretty good at this.
39:52Nurse Blackhope.
39:54Dr. Holt.
39:55I would like a word with you.
39:57If you must.
39:58In private.
39:59Well, I did need to prepare
40:01some additional medication.
40:23I was merely curious
40:24about the sleep room procedure.
40:26When you monitor the patients all night,
40:28do you go to the station?
40:30Twice.
40:31But only briefly.
40:32How briefly?
40:33Well, I try to check in
40:35on all the other patients
40:36on the floor if I can.
40:38Is that what you did the night
40:39before it was discovered
40:40Sheila Marcus had disappeared?
40:42What's the matter, Mrs. Thiel?
40:44Patience, Ivan.
40:46Fatigue is blurred by natural gifts.
40:49This should do it.
40:53You can do it, can't you?
40:55Of course I can.
40:56Don't be ridiculous.
40:57And according to the reports,
40:59it was always you
41:00who discovered the missing morphine.
41:02I am supposed to inventory
41:04all the drugs every night.
41:06And naturally,
41:07I would be the one
41:09to discover any discrepancies.
41:11Now, if you'll excuse me...
41:13Just a moment, nurse.
41:14I'm not finished yet.
41:16Oh, this is most embarrassing.
41:19There's a pride factor at work here.
41:22I should be able to do this
41:23in my sleep.
41:25Forget I said that.
41:27I know you can do it, Mr. Thiel.
41:36Takes me five minutes
41:38to get through a hospital standard.
41:40If the union ever got wind of this, well...
41:43You belong to a union?
41:47I don't believe I care to hear
41:49any more of this, Dr. Holt.
41:52Very well.
41:53He won't have to...
41:55for the moment.
42:03Have you come across anything yet?
42:05I might.
42:06Only these lines
42:07would hold still long enough.
42:08Dr. Marcus told me
42:09these printouts
42:10are as individual as fingerprints,
42:11so we should be able
42:12to spot it right away.
42:14Any luck?
42:15Not so far.
42:16Do you really think it could be...
42:18Hold on.
42:19Have a look at this.
42:23Well, here they're in insomniac,
42:25and then the readings
42:26suddenly become...
42:27Narcoleptic.
42:28That's definitely narcoleptic.
42:29And then it goes back to insomnia.
42:31How long is that span
42:32of narcolepsy?
42:33About half an hour.
42:35The gap in my readout
42:36was half an hour.
42:38It appears we found our killer.
42:53I hope he shows up soon.
42:55I'd hate to sleep
42:56through the resolution
42:57of our case.
42:58Hang on.
42:59If he shows up,
43:00you can spend all day
43:01tomorrow in bed.
43:02Oh, in bed.
43:03That has such a nice rhythm to it,
43:05especially when you say it
43:07with that soft lilt in your voice.
43:09You never told me
43:10I had a lilt in my voice before.
43:12I never told you
43:13I could cook either,
43:14but that never stopped me.
43:16Still trying to weaken
43:17my defenses.
43:18It's such a noble struggle.
43:20I'd hate to give it up.
43:22So would I.
43:23You know,
43:24I've never had a man
43:25cook for me before.
43:27Mmm.
43:28The recipes we could share.
43:35Mmm.
43:37Mmm.
43:40Mmm.
43:47Mmm.
43:52Mmm.
44:02Looking for this,
44:03Mr. Bickerman?
44:04Couldn't sleep again,
44:05eh, Nesta?
44:06Well, I...
44:07I just...
44:08You were just trying
44:09to retrieve your blood sample
44:10so that no one would learn
44:11your sleepiness
44:12was caused by your drug habit.
44:13And if the chairman
44:14of the board
44:15found an insomnia,
44:16I imagine they'd be
44:17rather intolerant
44:18of morphine addiction.
44:19You almost pulled it off.
44:20Just a few more days
44:21and you'd get that clean
44:22bill of health
44:23on that chair
44:24with the back massager.
44:25But Dr. Marcus
44:26was able to get
44:27one of your samples
44:28through the lab.
44:29So you killed him
44:30and framed Ivan,
44:31who was in the sleep room
44:32with you that night.
44:33And when Dr. Wicker
44:34discovered the discrepancy
44:35in the sleep printout,
44:36he had to die, too.
44:37You're right.
44:38I am an addict.
44:39And those hypocrites
44:40at Varicorp
44:41are responsible for it.
44:42They sent me
44:43on a mine renewal tour
44:44about six years ago.
44:45I spent months
44:46crawling around
44:47abandoned mines
44:48looking for a vein
44:49for those parasites
44:50to tap into.
44:51But one day
44:52a beam gave out
44:53and a load of shale
44:54came down on me.
44:55Five operations
44:56and a ton
44:57of painkillers later
44:58and I was an addict.
44:59It ruined
45:00my sleep,
45:01my marriage.
45:02But I'm not going
45:03to let it ruin
45:04my career.
45:05Now get over there,
45:06Steele,
45:07next to the dock.
45:08Edwards,
45:09get over here!
45:10Step back!
45:11Get on up!
45:12You must resist the
45:35Oh.
45:47Ivan, now!
45:49I will not fall asleep.
45:50I will not fall asleep.
45:59Did I do it?
46:00Did I do it?
46:02This time, Ivan, you did it.
46:06This is great.
46:08I don't remember the last time I actually
46:09made it through an entire meal.
46:11Usually, I got a little groggy after the salad,
46:12and before you knew it, I was face down in the entree.
46:15But this time, I have never felt more awake in my life.
46:19I mean, that's really something, isn't it, Steele?
46:22I'm glad someone's made a full recovery, yes.
46:25Well, Ivan will always be an archileptic.
46:27But with properly monitored treatment,
46:28should lead a normal, functional life.
46:31And the clinic?
46:31You hinted at good news.
46:33We're back in business.
46:34Veracorp, Bickerman's company, was
46:36so upset at all the bad publicity he brought them,
46:38they made a substantial contribution to the clinic
46:41to try to balance things out.
46:42The committee had no choice but to renew us.
46:46Comforting thought for those still afflicted, I'm sure.
46:49I did it.
46:50I made it to dessert.
46:51Dessert, Mr. Steele.
46:55Ah, ah, yes, ah, dessert, of course.
46:58Excuse us.
47:05You still look a little weary.
47:06Yes.
47:08Well, as Buddha once said.
47:10Buddha?
47:12Or was it Kurt Vonnegut?
47:15At any rate, he said, be careful of what you pretend to be,
47:19because you are what you pretend to be.
47:23In other words?
47:26I've become a raving insomniac.
47:28You mean you haven't slept since we left the hospital?
47:30Well, I think I nodded off once in the shower,
47:32but I'm not sure.
47:33Oh, well, we'll have to have Dr. Holt
47:34take a look at the patient.
47:38Sounds strong enough.
47:40Of course, levity comes easily to someone
47:42who doesn't have to face a lifetime of examining
47:44their bedroom ceiling.
47:46You can play at a doctor any time you wish, but I, oh my,
47:53that feels good.
47:55Temperature seems normal.
47:57Or rising slightly.
48:00Shoulder's still tense.
48:02Can't have that.
48:04You think I need physical therapy?
48:07Well, perhaps a little of that and my lilting voice.
48:12Yes, yes, and your lilting voice.
48:15Mm.
48:30Time for dessert, Mr. Steele.
48:45Oh, Mr. Steele.