WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Mystery House. 00:05.000 --> 00:10.000 Mystery House. 00:10.000 --> 00:15.000 Mystery House. 00:28.000 --> 00:33.000 Mystery House. That strange publishing firm owned by Dan and Barbara Glenn, 00:33.000 --> 00:39.000 where each new novel is acted out by the Mystery House staff before it is accepted for publication. 00:39.000 --> 00:44.000 Mystery House. 00:49.000 --> 00:53.000 The title for the story we're trying out tonight for a Mystery House novel, Barbie, 00:53.000 --> 00:58.000 Murder is an Accident. I suppose it's about a murder that's made to look like an accident? 00:58.000 --> 01:01.000 It's a story about a murder that is an accident, Dan. 01:01.000 --> 01:06.000 Oh, but murder's never an accident. If it's an accident, well, it just isn't murder. 01:06.000 --> 01:11.000 Oh, this is. Wait and see. Oh, now don't tell me you're going to try to fool me with a little technicality. 01:11.000 --> 01:15.000 Well, say, Mr. Glenn, don't sneer at little technicalities. They're very important. 01:15.000 --> 01:16.000 Not to me, Tom. 01:16.000 --> 01:22.000 Why, they're important to everybody, Mr. Glenn. That's why we have to be so scrupulously careful of what we say in my part of the show. 01:22.000 --> 01:37.000 Everything exactly right. Here's what I mean. 01:37.000 --> 01:42.000 OK, places everybody. Set the scene, will you, Tom? 01:42.000 --> 01:47.000 Death is an accident. 01:47.000 --> 01:52.000 Tonight's story opens in a car that's rolling along a country road at five thirty in the morning. 01:52.000 --> 02:00.000 Hal Bennett, editor of the Country Weekly paper, is driving and his wife is registering a mild protest. 02:00.000 --> 02:07.000 I could learn to hate you, Hal, getting me out of bed at five o'clock just because some guy disappeared three years ago. 02:07.000 --> 02:12.000 Oh, now, Pam, I thought you were a mystery fiend. Besides, I need you as a cameraman. 02:12.000 --> 02:16.000 Photography's a wonderful science, but you can't take pictures of something that happened three years ago. 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 So why bother me just when I was having a wonderful dream? 02:19.000 --> 02:23.000 Well, wake up and listen. You remember when Carl Jordan disappeared? 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 Clarion and Moop here from Chicago. 02:25.000 --> 02:28.000 Yeah. You remember how upset his wife was? 02:28.000 --> 02:31.000 I might even be upset if you disappeared. 02:31.000 --> 02:37.000 Well, she said the last time she'd seen him was the night that a stranger came to the farm and asked for some help with his car. 02:37.000 --> 02:41.000 And Jordan went out to help the stranger and, presto, no more Jordan. 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 Yeah. 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 But what does that have to do with my beauty sleep? 02:44.000 --> 02:49.000 Well, just this, my pet. Who do you think walked in and signed a confession last night? 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 You. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 Yeah. Oh, now, be serious. Henry Paulson. 02:53.000 --> 02:57.000 Not Henry Paulson, the president of the Farmer's State Bank. 02:57.000 --> 03:01.000 Right. The sheriff's got him out on a farm now looking for Jordan's grave. 03:01.000 --> 03:05.000 Grave? Ooh. You mean Henry Paulson murdered Jordan? 03:05.000 --> 03:09.000 Well, could be. Sheriff Olson's being very mysterious about the whole business. 03:09.000 --> 03:13.000 Has some kind of a signed confession. Telephone operator tipped me off. 03:13.000 --> 03:19.000 Hmph. I thought you said murder mystery. There's only one suspect and he's already confessed. 03:19.000 --> 03:26.000 Listen, my love. Big operators like Henry Paulson don't sign confessions unless they have an ace up the sleeve. 03:26.000 --> 03:30.000 Extenuating circumstances to you, my dear. And we're going to find the catch. 03:30.000 --> 03:34.000 Okay, I surrender. Only give me two more minutes to sleep. 03:34.000 --> 03:37.000 Oh, no, you don't. No, no. We're here. The Paulson farm. 03:37.000 --> 03:41.000 Hey, is that the sheriff over there digging? 03:41.000 --> 03:47.000 Yeah, looks like him. And that's Paulson with him. Come on. We'll go down and see if they found the grave. 03:50.000 --> 03:53.000 Walking through a cornfield is certainly great on my line. 03:53.000 --> 03:56.000 I'll make Olson get you a new pair on his expense account. 03:56.000 --> 03:59.000 Hey, Oscar. How you doing? 03:59.000 --> 04:03.000 Benef. Eh, I don't know when you would find out about this. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 Why don't you newspapers newsers mind your own business? 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 You will get no news till I want you to have it. 04:09.000 --> 04:13.000 Come on, I take it easy, Oscar. We're not here to bother you. We just want to help you out. 04:13.000 --> 04:18.000 Excuse me, Mrs. Bennett. I don't mean to be rude, but I got to watch when your husband is around. 04:18.000 --> 04:21.000 And besides, I got a very important suspect. 04:21.000 --> 04:25.000 Important? I don't know why you should treat Henry Paulson any different from any other criminal. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 You aren't afraid of him, are you? 04:27.000 --> 04:33.000 Ain't afraid of nobody, but I got to find Carl Jordan's body and Paulson is the only one who knows where it is. 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 I got to be nice to him just until... 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 We understand, Sheriff. 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 He's admitted to murder, has he? 04:39.000 --> 04:45.000 He says Carl Jordan died accidentally and he bury him secret to avoid scandal for the bank. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 Oh, brother, does that sound fishy? 04:47.000 --> 04:48.000 Accident, eh? 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 Well, Henry Paulson's been... 04:51.000 --> 04:56.000 Excuse me, Mrs. Bennett, sort of sweet on Carl Jordan's wife for many years. 04:56.000 --> 05:01.000 You don't need to apologize for mentioning it, Sheriff. I remember a case like that in Chicago. 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 Why, Mrs. Jordan has a grown son. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 That's right. He just got back from Chile. 05:06.000 --> 05:12.000 Your mining engineer. He's coming back. That is why Henry Paulson confessed. 05:12.000 --> 05:17.000 Seems like the Jordan boy made his mother tell him everything about old Carl's disappearance. 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 Mrs. Jordan told her son Paulson killed Carl? 05:20.000 --> 05:24.000 She told him enough so Paulson were afraid of the Jordan boy start talking. 05:24.000 --> 05:28.000 That is why Paulson come to me to tell his story. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 He admits being responsible for Jordan's death? 05:30.000 --> 05:38.000 He says Carl Jordan took some cattle into Omaha and his wife think he don't come back for several days. 05:38.000 --> 05:41.000 I could tell it to your husband better. 05:41.000 --> 05:45.000 You mean Paulson was making a good thing out of the husband's absence? 05:45.000 --> 05:51.000 Yeah. He was visiting Mrs. Jordan and Jordan come home early and found him in the living room. 05:51.000 --> 05:53.000 Of course, Jordan was plenty mad. 05:53.000 --> 05:55.000 How unreasonable. 05:55.000 --> 06:04.000 He start to slug Paulson and Paulson slug right back and all at once Paulson say he sees Jordan fall and on the floor beside him is a big heavy brass vase. 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 A brass vase? 06:05.000 --> 06:09.000 Paulson claim the vase fall off the mantle and crack Jordan's skull. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.000 He swears he don't have his hands on it. 06:11.000 --> 06:14.000 And that's supposed to make Jordan's death an accident? 06:14.000 --> 06:15.000 Maybe. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 What about Mrs. Jordan though? 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 Well, I got Hennegan out there now. 06:19.000 --> 06:23.000 Isn't she involved too? I mean hiding her husband's death? 06:23.000 --> 06:28.000 Paulson takes all the blame for that. He says he and the lady were good friends. 06:28.000 --> 06:34.000 But I can't arrest her for that. I got to get back to my prisoner now. You better go away. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 Okay, Oscar. But don't forget now. 06:36.000 --> 06:37.000 Hey, hell, look. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.000 What's the matter? 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 Over there on the road. There's a man getting out of our car. Come on. 06:41.000 --> 06:42.000 Yeah. 06:44.000 --> 06:45.000 Oh, my nylon. 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 Hey, he's back in his own car now. We're too late. Quick, Pam. Your camera. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 That telephoto lens will pick up the license plate. 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 Okay. 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 But why? Do you think he stole something from us? 06:54.000 --> 07:00.000 Just a hunch, sweetheart. But any guy roaming around here at this time of the morning must have something to do with the Paulson case. 07:00.000 --> 07:03.000 Now, let's go see your friend, Mrs. Jordan. 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 It doesn't look like much happening here. 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 Yeah. Let's go over to the house and see if Mrs. Jordan will talk. 07:09.000 --> 07:14.000 We're not the only ones interested in the Jordan farm. That horseback rider. 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 Who are you? What do you want? 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 I'm a horseback rider. 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 Oh, I see. 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 I see. 07:22.000 --> 07:23.000 I see. 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 I see. 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 I see. 07:25.000 --> 07:26.000 I see. 07:26.000 --> 07:27.000 I see. 07:27.000 --> 07:28.000 I see. 07:28.000 --> 07:29.000 I see. 07:29.000 --> 07:30.000 I see. 07:30.000 --> 07:31.000 I see. 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 Who are you? What do you want? 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 Well, you must be Donald Jordan. 07:35.000 --> 07:36.000 What about it? 07:36.000 --> 07:39.000 I'm Hal Bennett of the Clarion. This is my wife. 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 We want to talk to you about your mother, about your father's disappearance. 07:42.000 --> 07:45.000 Disappearance? You mean murder? 07:45.000 --> 07:51.000 We've just talked to the sheriff, Mr. Jordan. He said Henry Paulson was helping him find the grave. 07:51.000 --> 07:55.000 What do you mean helping? Paulson could find it quick enough if he wanted to. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 He dug it, didn't he? Was he handcuffed? 07:57.000 --> 07:58.000 You sound a little bitter. 07:58.000 --> 08:02.000 Why wouldn't I be? Where I've just been, we don't fool around with murderers. 08:02.000 --> 08:05.000 We don't pamper them, let them make fools out of officers. We don't... 08:05.000 --> 08:08.000 But you can't call Paulson a murderer, yet. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 The sheriff seems to think it was an accident. 08:10.000 --> 08:14.000 He would, because Paulson told him so, and Paulson's a big man. 08:14.000 --> 08:17.000 Big man. He's a mad man. 08:17.000 --> 08:19.000 He stops at nothing to get what he wants. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 Why, he's been threatening me since the day I got back from South America. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 That sounds like he figures you know something. 08:24.000 --> 08:28.000 Are you sure you didn't know anything about your father's death before you got back? 08:28.000 --> 08:31.000 Now look here, Bennett. I don't know anything about this, see? 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 Nothing except that Paulson's guilty. 08:33.000 --> 08:37.000 Mr. Jordan, please. If he's guilty, the law will take care of him. 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 The law? These American laws make me laugh. 08:40.000 --> 08:43.000 In South America, we know how to deal with murder. 08:43.000 --> 08:47.000 Paulson should be hanging now. Would be if it weren't for that stupid sheriff. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 Now who's coming here? 08:49.000 --> 08:52.000 Just another of your great officers of the law. 08:52.000 --> 08:56.000 Miss Hannigan. I thought Olson said he was already here questioning Mrs. Jordan. 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 Hey! Hey, Hannigan! 09:00.000 --> 09:01.000 Hi, Bennett. 09:01.000 --> 09:05.000 Paulson told me no visitors. I'll have to throw you out of here. 09:05.000 --> 09:09.000 Why, hello, Mr. Hannigan. We just want to talk to Mrs. Jordan a minute. 09:09.000 --> 09:13.000 Well, you can't for two reasons. Chief of Witches, she ain't here. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 What do you mean? I thought you were watching her. 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 That's like the baby watching the nurse. 09:18.000 --> 09:21.000 If you know so much, Wiseguy, where's your mother? 09:21.000 --> 09:24.000 And where have you been? How should I know where my mother is? 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 You were supposed to be watching her. 09:26.000 --> 09:29.000 As for me, it's my business where I've been. 09:29.000 --> 09:30.000 This is a free country, isn't it? 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 Oh, come on. Let's find Mrs. Jordan. 09:32.000 --> 09:35.000 Olson will be plenty mad at you if she's disappeared, Hannigan. 09:35.000 --> 09:38.000 Then he'll just have to be mad. She's gone, all right. 09:38.000 --> 09:41.000 I was talking to her and she asked to be excused a minute. 09:41.000 --> 09:42.000 She never came back. 09:42.000 --> 09:46.000 But she couldn't just vanish. She must still be in the house. 09:46.000 --> 09:50.000 If she is, she's awful good at hide and seek. I looked every place. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 This is enough for me. So long. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 Hey, where do you think you're going? 09:54.000 --> 09:57.000 I'm going to hire some competent men to put on this case. 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 Why, you... 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 No, no, no. Let him go, Hannigan. Come on. 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 Let's search the house. 10:03.000 --> 10:05.000 Thank you. I've been hard through the place. 10:05.000 --> 10:07.000 Did you try all the doors? 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 Sure thing. 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 What's this? A bedroom? 10:15.000 --> 10:18.000 Hey, Mrs. Jordan. Here, hang on. Help me untie her. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 Mrs. Antwight, I was right here. 10:20.000 --> 10:22.000 Hurry up with those robes, Hal. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 Here, I'll get that rag out of her mouth. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Mrs. Jordan, what happened to you? 10:26.000 --> 10:29.000 I don't know, Mrs. Bennett. My wrist... 10:29.000 --> 10:32.000 Nobody could have tied her like this while I was here. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 Maybe not Hannigan, but they did. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 Mrs. Jordan, what happened? 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 I don't seem to remember. 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 Sharp pain in the back of my head. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 Everything went black. 10:42.000 --> 10:45.000 And when I woke up, I was in that clothes closet 10:45.000 --> 10:48.000 and I had a rag in my mouth and my hands and ankles tied. 10:48.000 --> 10:49.000 Oh, it was awful. 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 Did you look in this closet, Hannigan? 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 I must have. I opened every door I come to. 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 Well, you must have missed this one. 10:55.000 --> 10:57.000 I answered that. Were you, Bennett? 10:57.000 --> 10:59.000 Yeah. 10:59.000 --> 11:01.000 Hello? Yeah. 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 He what? 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 Oh, wait a minute. How did he... 11:07.000 --> 11:10.000 Okay. Yeah, sure. We'll be on the lookout. 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 Yeah. Thanks, Sheriff. 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 Yeah, I'll tell Hannigan. Goodbye. 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 What now? Paulson's escaped. 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 Somebody drove his car out there and left it with the geese in it. 11:19.000 --> 11:21.000 No. Oh, he'll blame me for everything. 11:21.000 --> 11:23.000 My son, he'll try to kill Donald. 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 Now, don't be so upset, Mrs. Jordan. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 He can't hurt anybody while Hannigan's here. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 But he has a gun in his car, a revolver. 11:29.000 --> 11:32.000 Donald made him go to the sheriff and we've got to stop him some way. 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 I'm afraid. 11:34.000 --> 11:36.000 You've got nothing to worry about, Mrs. Jordan. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 If he tries any funny stuff around here, I'll take care of him. 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 Oh, he has such a violent temper. 11:40.000 --> 11:42.000 That night when he killed Carl. 11:42.000 --> 11:45.000 Oh. So you're admitting now that he killed your husband, are you? 11:45.000 --> 11:47.000 What? I don't know. 11:47.000 --> 11:50.000 Can't you leave me alone? Can't you see I'm all upset? 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 I don't know what I'm saying. 11:52.000 --> 11:53.000 Oh! 11:53.000 --> 11:55.000 Hortson! Stick him up, fella! 11:55.000 --> 11:57.000 No, no, wait a minute. He's hurt. Can't you see? He's bleeding. 11:57.000 --> 11:58.000 Call a doctor, Pam. 11:58.000 --> 12:00.000 Henry! No, don't shoot, Henry. For the love of... 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 Shoot? 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 Sheriff got me. 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 Spark plugs. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 Spark. A doctor, operator? 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 You said... 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 Any doctor at all? 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 Sir, it's a matter of... 12:13.000 --> 12:15.000 Save it, Pam. Save it. 12:15.000 --> 12:17.000 Change that call to the coroner. 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 He's dead. 12:19.000 --> 12:42.000 Music 12:42.000 --> 12:45.000 Who engineered Henry Paulson's escape from the sheriff? 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 Was it Donald Jordan? 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 I hardly think so. 12:49.000 --> 12:53.000 Maybe there's someone mixed up in this thing we haven't met yet. 12:53.000 --> 12:55.000 And how did Henry Paulson get shot? 12:55.000 --> 12:58.000 Was it for murdering Carl Jordan three years ago? 12:58.000 --> 13:01.000 Or, uh, was that murder? 13:01.000 --> 13:05.000 Well, it looks like we have a lot of questions to be answered in the second act. 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 And they'll be answered in short order. 13:07.000 --> 13:09.000 But first... 13:09.000 --> 13:23.000 Music 13:23.000 --> 13:29.000 And now, act two of murder is an accident. 13:29.000 --> 13:33.000 Hal Bennett, the Clarion editor, has just entered Sheriff Paulson's office. 13:33.000 --> 13:37.000 Donald Jordan lounges incidentally against the desk. 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 You get the photographs developed, Bennett. 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 Right. And the numbers check. 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 88... 13:43.000 --> 13:44.000 Y... 13:44.000 --> 13:45.000 783. 13:45.000 --> 13:48.000 Just like on the car Paulson drove away in. 13:48.000 --> 13:50.000 I hollered that the blame fool to stop. 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 He should have known I would chase him in my car. 13:52.000 --> 13:53.000 You fired the shot? 13:53.000 --> 13:54.000 Sure. 13:54.000 --> 13:57.000 I drove up alongside of him and yelled like anything. 13:57.000 --> 13:59.000 He wouldn't stop, so I had to shoot. 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 Then why did you let him make that scene at Mother's? 14:01.000 --> 14:02.000 Why didn't you take him right to jail? 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 Are you trying to be funny? 14:04.000 --> 14:06.000 His car went off the road on into a ditch. 14:06.000 --> 14:09.000 By the time I climbed on there, Paulson must have gone. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 You must be a very fast man. 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 Not fast, maybe, but I'm doing a lot better than Paulson. 14:14.000 --> 14:15.000 Cut the clowning, Olsen. 14:15.000 --> 14:18.000 I'm going out and get my mother right now before something happens to her. 14:18.000 --> 14:19.000 Just a minute, young man. 14:19.000 --> 14:21.000 Just a minute, nothing. She's intending to... 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 Wait a minute, relax, Jordan. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 My wife's with her. 14:24.000 --> 14:28.000 And Pam can take care of any murderer in the world barehanded. 14:28.000 --> 14:29.000 Yeah, I'll bet. 14:29.000 --> 14:32.000 Photographed the car on the one Paulson drove away in. 14:32.000 --> 14:34.000 Both had the same license plates. 14:34.000 --> 14:36.000 And they're yours, Jordan. 14:36.000 --> 14:39.000 Mr. Jordan, where were you when Paulson escaped? 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 Why, how should I know? 14:41.000 --> 14:43.000 You weren't on your mother's farm. 14:43.000 --> 14:48.000 I was in town making a call to the city, trying to hire some competent detectives. 14:48.000 --> 14:51.000 And before, where were you when Mr. Bennett came to the farm? 14:51.000 --> 14:54.000 Out riding. I've told you that a dozen times. 14:54.000 --> 14:57.000 I guess I have to lock you up until you decide to talk straight. 14:57.000 --> 15:00.000 You half-baked clown, you can't frame me. 15:00.000 --> 15:01.000 You bungled this thing from the start... 15:01.000 --> 15:06.000 Now look, Donald, all the sheriff wants is a reasonable explanation of your actions. 15:06.000 --> 15:07.000 Reasonable? 15:07.000 --> 15:08.000 Yeah. 15:08.000 --> 15:11.000 Reason would be quite a novelty around here. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 I'll give him some reasoning. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 The kind we use in our mining. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 Look out. 15:16.000 --> 15:17.000 Oh, no you don't, sheriff. 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 Give me that gun. 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 Grab his legs. 15:19.000 --> 15:20.000 I got the... 15:20.000 --> 15:21.000 Oh, no. 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 Your gun, Olsen. He's got your gun. Look out. 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 And I know how to shoot it too, Bennett. 15:25.000 --> 15:26.000 You have any ideas of coming after me? 15:26.000 --> 15:29.000 What's the matter with you, Jordan? Get down from that window ledge, you fool. 15:29.000 --> 15:32.000 I've had enough of this. A man who killed my father is dead now, 15:32.000 --> 15:34.000 and that's all I'm interested in. 15:34.000 --> 15:36.000 That and getting my mother away from here. 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 Come away from that window. You will get hurt. 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 Thanks for worrying about me, sheriff. 15:40.000 --> 15:44.000 I'm going back to South America where they're more interested in justice than in theory. 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 Jordan, come away from that window. 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 Come on, Olsen, give me that gun. 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 You can't jump from that window, Jordan. You'll be killed. 15:50.000 --> 15:53.000 The ivy on the wall will get me to the ground, Bennett. 15:53.000 --> 15:55.000 So long, you chumps. 15:55.000 --> 15:59.000 Jordan, you're crazy. Come back. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 Still alive, huh? 16:21.000 --> 16:25.000 Yes, but the doctor says most of his bones are broken. 16:25.000 --> 16:28.000 He won't live long. Have you called his mother, hell? 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 Yeah, she'll be here in a minute. 16:30.000 --> 16:33.000 She better hurry if she wants to see him before he dies. 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 Oh, such a fool. 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 Come in, Mrs. Jordan. 16:37.000 --> 16:39.000 I'm sorry this happened. 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 Hey, wait a minute. Where's Pam? Didn't she come with you? 16:41.000 --> 16:44.000 My son. Where is he? My poor son. 16:44.000 --> 16:47.000 Well, he's in pretty bad shape, Mrs. Jordan. Doctors are doing all they can. 16:47.000 --> 16:52.000 You're trying to tell me... 16:52.000 --> 16:55.000 Oh, that's another one to take care of. 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 We'd better call the nurse and get her in the bed, hell. 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 You spent it, I guess. 16:59.000 --> 17:00.000 Yeah, she dropped her purse. 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 Well, pick it up while I find the nurse. 17:02.000 --> 17:05.000 Okay. It's open. Hey, wait a minute. Look at this. 17:05.000 --> 17:09.000 What? Money, powder, papers? Not any woman's purse. 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 Yeah, but this. A tractor wrench. 17:11.000 --> 17:15.000 I suppose women carry tractor wrenches in their purses these days, huh? 17:15.000 --> 17:20.000 Uh, fire. I ain't got enough troubles without there has to be fire, no. 17:20.000 --> 17:23.000 And the fire ain't here. Hello. Operator? 17:23.000 --> 17:26.000 This is Sheriff Olson. Where's the fire? 17:26.000 --> 17:30.000 What? What? Oh, my goodness. 17:30.000 --> 17:33.000 Well, wherever it is, I'm not going with you, Sheriff. I've got to find Pam. 17:33.000 --> 17:36.000 I don't like this business of Mrs. Jordan coming here without her. 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 Just a minute, hell. The fire's at the Jordan farm. 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 What? Well, here. Here. Grab her, Sheriff. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 But she's fainted. She's got to be put to bed. 17:42.000 --> 17:45.000 Bed? Nothing. She's going to that fire. 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 Come on, hurry, Sheriff. For the love of Mike, step on it. 18:02.000 --> 18:05.000 Yeah, step any harder and my foot goes through the floorboard. 18:05.000 --> 18:08.000 They're almost there. See the flames? 18:08.000 --> 18:12.000 If anything's happened to Pam, I... Gee, I got her to stay with Mrs. Jordan. 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 It'll be my fault. Just don't get excited. 18:14.000 --> 18:17.000 She takes care of herself pretty good for a woman. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 Oh, well, hurry up, will you? The place is practically burned down. 18:19.000 --> 18:22.000 If Pam's in there, I... Just try to keep yourself down. 18:22.000 --> 18:25.000 Getting excited won't do any good. 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 Hey, Sheriff, over there with the blanket over it. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 Sheriff, it's a body. Pam made it. 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 No, hell. Come on and don't get all excited. 18:40.000 --> 18:41.000 Excited, but Pam... 18:41.000 --> 18:42.000 Will you take a look, hell? 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 No, no, I don't want to look, Sheriff. I can't. 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 What would you tell me? 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 I guess I got to if that's the way you feel. 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 You're your fate right here. 18:50.000 --> 18:53.000 Oh, I hope he's wrong. 18:53.000 --> 18:56.000 Well, I guess I got to do it. 18:56.000 --> 19:00.000 Hi, Sheriff. Isn't this the silliest thing you ever saw? 19:00.000 --> 19:04.000 Doctor said I was suffering from a shock and he insisted on wrapping me in this blanket 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 like an Egyptian mummy. 19:06.000 --> 19:08.000 Well, can't you say something? 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 Say something? Sure. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 Mr. Bennett. Oh, Mr. Bennett. 19:12.000 --> 19:15.000 Oh, darling. Darling. 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 Pam, Pam, just let me look at you, will you? 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 Oh, but I got smudges all over my face. 19:19.000 --> 19:22.000 Well, you look pretty wonderful to me, baby. Smudges and all. 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 But don't you ever scare me like that again. 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 Scare you? Yeah. 19:26.000 --> 19:30.000 Oh, I like that. If you think I staged this performance for your benefit. 19:30.000 --> 19:33.000 And speaking of being scared, how do you think I felt? 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 It was all my fault, baby. I'll never leave you alone again. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 Alone? Yeah. 19:37.000 --> 19:40.000 Oh, hell, where is that awful woman? Did she get away? 19:40.000 --> 19:43.000 Mrs. Jordan? She's in the sheriff's car, out like a light. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 When she saw her son, you... What about her son? 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 Well, he got excited and tried to climb down the ivy on the courthouse wall. 19:48.000 --> 19:52.000 Maybe dead by now. He tried to say he didn't know anything about Paulson, but... 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 Well, of course he didn't know anything about Paulson. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 She did it. She's the murderer. 19:56.000 --> 20:00.000 What? What are you talking about? The sheriff shot Paulson and Paulson killed Carl Jordan. 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 No, Mrs. Jordan killed both of them. She told me. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 What? That shot I fired at Paulson. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 Hey, my car. Somebody... 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 It's Mrs. Jordan. She's driving away. 20:09.000 --> 20:12.000 Come on. We'll take the fire-cease car. The fast one. 20:20.000 --> 20:22.000 The woman's insane. Hurry. 20:22.000 --> 20:24.000 Yeah, well, don't worry. We'll catch her. 20:24.000 --> 20:27.000 She's horrible. I can't tell you how horrible. 20:29.000 --> 20:31.000 Wait, you're gaining on her, Sheriff. 20:31.000 --> 20:33.000 Hey, catch her. Then we talk. 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 Down, Pam. She's shooting at us. 20:35.000 --> 20:38.000 No, I'm getting mad. Hal, you hold on to the wheel. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 Sure, but what are you gonna do? 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 Hey, you better duck down, Sheriff. 20:42.000 --> 20:47.000 She ain't a very good shooter so far, but I am, and I'm aiming for the tires. 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 Yeah! You got him. 20:51.000 --> 20:54.000 Yeah! You got him. 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 All right now, Mrs. Jordan. 21:10.000 --> 21:13.000 I don't remember anything, Sheriff. After my son, everything. 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 I'm sorry. 21:15.000 --> 21:18.000 I'm glad you've forgotten about trying to kill me, Mrs. Jordan. 21:18.000 --> 21:19.000 I? No. 21:19.000 --> 21:20.000 What happened, Pam? 21:20.000 --> 21:23.000 After you left the farm, I tried to visit with her, just to pass the time. 21:23.000 --> 21:26.000 She began to fidget around, and she was playing with her purse. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 You hated me. I could see it. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Well, you didn't do much to build up any friendship, darling. 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 I asked her to lie down, Hal, and when I tried to take her purse... 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 I knew what you were after. You didn't fool me. 21:35.000 --> 21:39.000 When she wouldn't give it to me, I was disgusted, and I started to walk away from her. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 Right then, something hit me on the head. 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 That tractor wrench? 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 Well, I wouldn't ever have known, except that she missed. 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 The blow grazed me, and I went down stunned. 21:47.000 --> 21:50.000 Then she gave me a nice, neat crack before I could get up. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 When I came to, I was tied up. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 And then she skipped out. 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 No. She sat down and talked as sweet as... 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 Well, you know how she always talked. 21:59.000 --> 22:02.000 And she asked me over and over again how I wanted to die. 22:02.000 --> 22:05.000 She said it had to be an accident. 22:05.000 --> 22:07.000 Death is an accident, she kept saying. 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 All deaths are accidents. 22:09.000 --> 22:10.000 The woman is crazy. 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 No. Just tired. Very tired. 22:13.000 --> 22:14.000 It's been so long. 22:14.000 --> 22:15.000 So long since what? 22:15.000 --> 22:18.000 Since Carl disappeared. My husband. 22:18.000 --> 22:20.000 His death. That was an accident? 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 I never loved him, but he never knew it. 22:22.000 --> 22:25.000 The accident was that he found out. 22:25.000 --> 22:27.000 I'm afraid you're not making sense, Mrs. Jordan. 22:27.000 --> 22:30.000 It's so simple, though. I didn't love my husband. 22:30.000 --> 22:35.000 Henry Paulson and I were very happy because we arranged everything so carefully 22:35.000 --> 22:38.000 so that no one would ever guess we were in love. 22:38.000 --> 22:40.000 But your husband's dead, Mrs. York. 22:40.000 --> 22:42.000 Carl came home when he wasn't supposed to. 22:42.000 --> 22:45.000 He found Henry Paulson there and he began to strike in it. 22:45.000 --> 22:48.000 It was then I knew I had to kill Henry Paulson. 22:48.000 --> 22:52.000 You mean you tried to kill Paulson and kill your husband by accident? 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 Isn't it funny? 22:54.000 --> 22:57.000 She aimed the brass vase at Paulson, but it hit Jordan. 22:57.000 --> 23:00.000 I didn't dare let Mr. Paulson know I'd meant to kill him, of course. 23:00.000 --> 23:04.000 So he and I had to put together that story about Carl's disappearance. 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 Yeah, but this morning Paulson's escape... 23:06.000 --> 23:09.000 You men are so stupid. I tricked you, Sheriff. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 I told Henry I'd have a car waiting on the road 23:11.000 --> 23:14.000 and that I'd have the spark plugs disconnected on your car 23:14.000 --> 23:15.000 so you couldn't follow him. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 I did, of course. 23:17.000 --> 23:20.000 And I had everything all planned for Hannigan to kill him if you didn't. 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 That's why I was talking about his gun. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 Oh, yeah, I remember. You said he'd try to shoot you. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 Yes. I couldn't kill him. 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 I had to fix it so the sheriff would do it. 23:28.000 --> 23:31.000 Or Hannigan. It had to be an accident. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 And she tied herself up and put that gag in her mouth 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 so nobody thinks she left the car for Paulson. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 What about the fire? 23:37.000 --> 23:38.000 That was no accident. 23:38.000 --> 23:39.000 But there was an accident. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 The neighbors reported the fire too soon. 23:41.000 --> 23:45.000 Otherwise, Mrs. Bennet, you'd have been accidentally burned to death. 23:45.000 --> 23:48.000 Well, it was one real accident, Mrs. Jordan. Your son... 23:48.000 --> 23:50.000 No, don't talk about it. 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 I've had all the accidents I can stand. 23:52.000 --> 24:09.000 You've got one more coming, Mrs. Jordan, at trial by jury.