1 00:00:00,710 --> 00:00:02,545 [Jessica] Tonight on Murder, She Wrote 2 00:00:02,712 --> 00:00:04,463 Construction on Gillrich Towers 3 00:00:04,630 --> 00:00:07,007 begins immediately upon demolition of those brownstones. 4 00:00:07,174 --> 00:00:09,760 -The bad guys are running the store. -It’s easy to feel that way. 5 00:00:09,927 --> 00:00:12,555 If I have to tear it down with my own hands, that building falls. 6 00:00:12,722 --> 00:00:15,599 You ever come back here, Gillrich, you’re a dead man. 7 00:00:15,766 --> 00:00:18,185 [gasps] Notify the captain. We got a break. 8 00:00:18,352 --> 00:00:21,230 -That is absolutely fabulous. -You caught me. 9 00:00:21,397 --> 00:00:23,607 I slept last night, knowin’ the cops are off my case. 10 00:00:23,774 --> 00:00:25,609 Margaret doesn’t know how to say no. 11 00:00:25,776 --> 00:00:28,320 I find that pillow talk brings out a man’s generosity 12 00:00:28,487 --> 00:00:29,947 and expectations. 13 00:00:30,114 --> 00:00:32,324 I don’t believe the end justifies the means. 14 00:00:32,491 --> 00:00:34,452 I’m a little tired of this condescension. 15 00:01:55,324 --> 00:01:57,201 [people clamoring] 16 00:02:03,874 --> 00:02:06,669 They’re knocking down buildings all over New York, 17 00:02:06,836 --> 00:02:09,839 and for what? More skyscrapers. 18 00:02:10,005 --> 00:02:13,843 [sighs] Oh, Jessica, I envy you your Cabot Cove retreat. 19 00:02:14,009 --> 00:02:15,052 [both laugh] 20 00:02:15,135 --> 00:02:17,847 Hi. Thanks for being here. 21 00:02:18,013 --> 00:02:19,932 Look, Jessica, two out of these three 22 00:02:20,099 --> 00:02:22,476 beautiful old buildings have already been vacated. 23 00:02:22,643 --> 00:02:25,813 Without Number 65, they won’t be able to build anything 24 00:02:25,980 --> 00:02:27,690 much less a 40-storey co-op. 25 00:02:27,857 --> 00:02:30,067 Which is why I asked you for lunch. 26 00:02:36,824 --> 00:02:40,578 We have been engaged in an absolute dog fight over these buildings. 27 00:02:40,744 --> 00:02:43,289 Look, Carol, I really want to help, 28 00:02:43,455 --> 00:02:46,667 but I just had my editor’s notes on my final draft. 29 00:02:46,834 --> 00:02:48,752 Now don’t worry. Margaret is joining us for lunch, 30 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,172 she’s assured me that the deadline’s pretty flexible. 31 00:02:52,339 --> 00:02:54,842 Margaret just doesn’t know how to say no. 32 00:02:55,009 --> 00:02:57,219 Look, I’d be delighted to make a contribution, but... 33 00:02:57,386 --> 00:02:58,804 No buts. 34 00:02:58,971 --> 00:03:01,307 We’ve got a hearing scheduled at the city-- 35 00:03:01,473 --> 00:03:03,183 -Hi, Mrs. Fletcher, Miss Collins. -Hi, Margaret. 36 00:03:03,350 --> 00:03:04,852 Sorry. Something came up. 37 00:03:05,019 --> 00:03:07,187 Do you realize that Margaret discovered 38 00:03:07,354 --> 00:03:09,607 that Eugene O’Neill did rewrites 39 00:03:09,773 --> 00:03:12,276 for Strange Interlude from this very table? 40 00:03:12,443 --> 00:03:14,653 I think it was when it was a speakeasy. 41 00:03:14,820 --> 00:03:16,655 A famous gangster used it as an office. 42 00:03:16,822 --> 00:03:18,574 Dutch Schultz. 43 00:03:18,741 --> 00:03:20,367 And did you know that Ernest Hemingway 44 00:03:20,534 --> 00:03:22,661 used to live on the top floor? 45 00:03:22,828 --> 00:03:24,163 When you called last week, 46 00:03:24,330 --> 00:03:25,956 I did a little bit of digging around 47 00:03:26,123 --> 00:03:28,208 at the local historical society. 48 00:03:28,375 --> 00:03:30,669 Hemingway on the top floor! 49 00:03:30,836 --> 00:03:33,088 Jessica, you are wonderful! 50 00:03:33,255 --> 00:03:35,966 We have managed to save the homes of Mark Twain 51 00:03:36,133 --> 00:03:37,760 and Edna St. Vincent Millay, 52 00:03:37,927 --> 00:03:40,429 and now, Hemingway and O’Neill. 53 00:03:40,596 --> 00:03:41,889 And Dutch Schultz. 54 00:03:42,056 --> 00:03:44,058 A close, personal friend of my grandfather’s. 55 00:03:44,224 --> 00:03:45,935 He brought in a lot of business, believe me. 56 00:03:46,101 --> 00:03:47,019 What are you drinkin’, young lady? 57 00:03:47,186 --> 00:03:48,604 Got any non-alcoholic beer? 58 00:03:48,771 --> 00:03:51,482 Comin’ up. Ladies. 59 00:03:51,649 --> 00:03:54,818 Look, Carol, I’ll be delighted to sign any petition 60 00:03:54,985 --> 00:03:56,403 or letter or whatever. 61 00:03:56,570 --> 00:03:57,988 But I’m afraid this book deadline 62 00:03:58,155 --> 00:03:59,907 precludes me being involved any further than that. 63 00:04:00,074 --> 00:04:02,242 -She’s right, Miss Collins. -Oh. 64 00:04:02,409 --> 00:04:04,244 Is there any chance that these developers-- 65 00:04:04,328 --> 00:04:05,579 The Gillrich brothers. 66 00:04:05,746 --> 00:04:08,415 Well, is there any chance that they might consider an alternate site? 67 00:04:08,582 --> 00:04:09,917 [rueful chuckle] 68 00:04:10,084 --> 00:04:11,669 Believe me, we have tried. 69 00:04:11,835 --> 00:04:14,004 We put any number of possibilities on the table. 70 00:04:14,171 --> 00:04:17,216 What would be acceptable to me is if Eugene Gillrich 71 00:04:17,383 --> 00:04:20,678 is found in cement shoes at the bottom of the East River. 72 00:04:20,844 --> 00:04:22,930 [chuckles] 73 00:04:24,431 --> 00:04:26,266 [man] Oh, come on, Vincent. 74 00:04:26,433 --> 00:04:29,395 The hearing is simply a formality. 75 00:04:29,561 --> 00:04:30,980 It isn’t as if we’re gonna default on the loan. 76 00:04:31,146 --> 00:04:32,940 You tell him, darling. 77 00:04:33,107 --> 00:04:35,109 You bought those buildings, you have a right to knock them down. 78 00:04:35,275 --> 00:04:37,277 Lee, please, the man is just a bean counter. 79 00:04:37,444 --> 00:04:38,988 Vince, Vince. 80 00:04:39,154 --> 00:04:41,240 In the last week, foreign interests have committed 81 00:04:41,407 --> 00:04:44,827 to renting the rest of the ground floor retail space. 82 00:04:44,994 --> 00:04:46,912 Not true. 83 00:04:47,079 --> 00:04:49,957 Any cash flow problems you think we’re having are just rumors. 84 00:04:51,458 --> 00:04:54,003 Vincent, would I hang you out to dry? 85 00:04:54,169 --> 00:04:55,462 You tell your loan committee 86 00:04:55,629 --> 00:04:57,006 that we are absolutely on schedule. 87 00:04:57,172 --> 00:04:58,966 Construction on Gillrich Towers 88 00:04:59,133 --> 00:05:02,469 begins immediately upon demolition of those brownstones, 89 00:05:02,636 --> 00:05:05,806 which we’re hitting with the wrecker’s ball in 72 hours. 90 00:05:05,973 --> 00:05:07,933 -Okay, but not a minute more. -All right. 91 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:09,768 I will call you 92 00:05:09,935 --> 00:05:12,146 immediately upon the completion of that hearing. 93 00:05:12,312 --> 00:05:14,023 -I’ll do what I can. -Thanks. 94 00:05:14,189 --> 00:05:16,191 Uh... foreign interests? 95 00:05:16,358 --> 00:05:18,235 Since when? 96 00:05:18,402 --> 00:05:20,362 Since soon. 97 00:05:20,529 --> 00:05:22,573 Hey, Walter, you have an eye. 98 00:05:22,740 --> 00:05:25,743 Your opinion of my bride’s latest sketches. 99 00:05:25,909 --> 00:05:27,619 My instructor says I’m really growing. 100 00:05:27,786 --> 00:05:29,872 These are for the model apartments in the Gillrich Towers. 101 00:05:31,498 --> 00:05:34,334 Well, these are... these are very nice, Lee. 102 00:05:34,501 --> 00:05:38,255 All the promise you showed when you did Eugene’s office here. 103 00:05:38,422 --> 00:05:40,758 Thank you. 104 00:05:40,924 --> 00:05:45,054 Oh, Eugene, I just got off the phone with a Margaret Johnson 105 00:05:45,220 --> 00:05:47,264 from the City Preservation Committee. 106 00:05:47,431 --> 00:05:50,434 Damn it, Walter, I told you not to take their calls anymore. 107 00:05:50,601 --> 00:05:52,186 She just wanted to know what’s to become 108 00:05:52,352 --> 00:05:54,229 of a woman in Number 65, 109 00:05:54,396 --> 00:05:55,981 one of the tenants, 110 00:05:56,148 --> 00:05:58,817 a Mrs. Rhodes, who’s 87 years old, 111 00:05:58,984 --> 00:06:00,486 and has lived there for 60 years. 112 00:06:00,652 --> 00:06:02,738 Are we throwing her out? 113 00:06:02,905 --> 00:06:04,990 Of course not. You wouldn’t let me. 114 00:06:05,157 --> 00:06:08,368 In fact, we’ve already committed to paying for her move to Florida. 115 00:06:08,535 --> 00:06:10,913 This injunction they’re going for... 116 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,749 Miss Johnson wanted me to tell you 117 00:06:13,916 --> 00:06:16,376 there are gonna be pickets and TV coverage 118 00:06:16,543 --> 00:06:18,253 she also wanted to know whether you’ve had time 119 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:20,380 to review those alternate sites. 120 00:06:20,547 --> 00:06:24,218 Or maybe we could at least spare Number 65. 121 00:06:24,384 --> 00:06:27,387 Oh God, Walter, whose side are you on? 122 00:06:27,554 --> 00:06:30,891 Look, how many times do I have to spell it out for you? 123 00:06:31,058 --> 00:06:34,019 Come on, Eugene. I’m a little tired of this condescension. 124 00:06:34,186 --> 00:06:35,854 Walter, Eugene. 125 00:06:36,021 --> 00:06:40,442 These people are determined to make real trouble for us. 126 00:06:40,609 --> 00:06:43,946 I don’t see why we can’t at least consider an alternate site. 127 00:06:44,113 --> 00:06:46,031 You think you know real trouble? 128 00:06:46,198 --> 00:06:49,576 63, 65, 67. 129 00:06:49,743 --> 00:06:53,705 When we lose 65, the whole project crashes and burns, Walter, 130 00:06:53,872 --> 00:06:56,542 followed immediately by us. 131 00:06:56,708 --> 00:06:59,378 Now, all I want from you tomorrow at the hearing 132 00:06:59,545 --> 00:07:01,421 is silence. 133 00:07:01,588 --> 00:07:03,966 [sighs] 134 00:07:06,635 --> 00:07:09,179 And after, the Hamptons, 135 00:07:09,346 --> 00:07:11,765 before you have a coronary. 136 00:07:11,932 --> 00:07:15,227 If the hearings don’t give me one first. 137 00:07:15,394 --> 00:07:17,229 We could still lose this whole thing, Lee. 138 00:07:17,396 --> 00:07:19,022 It could go away from us, 139 00:07:19,189 --> 00:07:20,607 even without Walter’s help. 140 00:07:20,774 --> 00:07:23,735 This is Mike La Rocca with a feature report 141 00:07:23,902 --> 00:07:25,904 for Channel 6 at the City Courthouse, 142 00:07:26,071 --> 00:07:28,031 where a surprise development took place a few moments ago 143 00:07:28,198 --> 00:07:30,200 as the hearings adjourned for the day with no decision. 144 00:07:30,367 --> 00:07:32,452 I am with two members of the City Preservation Committee. 145 00:07:32,619 --> 00:07:36,123 What is your reaction to the split at Gillrich Realty, Miss Johnson? 146 00:07:36,290 --> 00:07:38,333 Me? Well, I-- 147 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:41,170 the fact that Walter Gillrich publicly broke ranks with his brother, 148 00:07:41,336 --> 00:07:43,630 and agreed to consider alternate sites 149 00:07:43,797 --> 00:07:46,717 means that even the enemy has a sense of history... 150 00:07:46,884 --> 00:07:48,844 and a conscience, 151 00:07:49,011 --> 00:07:50,888 about architectural continuity, 152 00:07:51,054 --> 00:07:54,016 and senior citizens being thrown out into the streets. 153 00:07:54,183 --> 00:07:56,268 -What were you thinking? -Thank you very much, ladies. 154 00:07:56,435 --> 00:07:59,855 I believe I see Eugene Gillrich coming out. 155 00:08:00,022 --> 00:08:02,357 -Mr. Gillrich, Mike La Rocca. -No comment. 156 00:08:02,524 --> 00:08:04,526 But today, your brother seemed to break ranks with the-- 157 00:08:04,693 --> 00:08:06,820 -It’s clearly a misunderstanding. -Forgive me, Mr. Gillrich, 158 00:08:06,987 --> 00:08:08,405 but that sounds like an oxymoron. 159 00:08:08,572 --> 00:08:10,616 Walter Gillrich, perhaps you have something to say. 160 00:08:10,782 --> 00:08:12,743 My brother has nothing more to say. 161 00:08:14,203 --> 00:08:16,496 Mr. Walsh, you have a lease on the 65 bar 162 00:08:16,663 --> 00:08:19,208 that allows you to operate the place till they tear it down. 163 00:08:19,374 --> 00:08:20,876 That’s right, Mike. 164 00:08:21,043 --> 00:08:23,629 And with the friends turnin’ out like today, 165 00:08:23,795 --> 00:08:25,797 and Walter Gillrich comin’ through at the 11th hour, 166 00:08:25,964 --> 00:08:28,926 it looks as if my lease is gonna last as long as I do. 167 00:08:29,092 --> 00:08:31,094 Yes, but some cynics are saying 168 00:08:31,261 --> 00:08:34,056 that, due to all this publicity, the 65 has turned into a cash cow, 169 00:08:34,223 --> 00:08:36,975 and you into an overnight devotee of cultural history. 170 00:08:37,142 --> 00:08:40,604 Hey, Mike, the 65 was my father’s, 171 00:08:40,771 --> 00:08:42,731 and my grandfather’s before him, 172 00:08:42,898 --> 00:08:44,316 a hangout for the famous and the infamous. 173 00:08:44,483 --> 00:08:46,610 And if you wanna talk cold beer, 174 00:08:46,777 --> 00:08:48,737 and the best-liked steak sandwich in town-- 175 00:08:48,904 --> 00:08:50,864 Thanks very much, Mr. Walsh. 176 00:08:51,031 --> 00:08:53,242 This is Mike La Rocca, Channel 6 News, 177 00:08:53,408 --> 00:08:54,993 at City Hall. 178 00:08:56,870 --> 00:08:59,164 It’s nice to finally meet you in person. 179 00:08:59,331 --> 00:09:01,500 Ernest Hemingway in 4B. 180 00:09:01,667 --> 00:09:03,543 [laughs] For whom the Bell tolls. 181 00:09:03,710 --> 00:09:05,504 That’s my favorite, Miss Johnson. 182 00:09:05,671 --> 00:09:07,506 -Margaret. -Margaret. 183 00:09:07,673 --> 00:09:10,425 He wrote it on top of an icebox on legal paper. 184 00:09:10,592 --> 00:09:12,719 He was tall. 185 00:09:12,886 --> 00:09:14,846 Instead of a desk. 186 00:09:15,013 --> 00:09:16,765 Yeah, well, I’d need a desk. 187 00:09:16,932 --> 00:09:19,851 I’m not that tall. I’m also not Ernest Hemingway. 188 00:09:20,018 --> 00:09:21,895 [chuckles] -Walter. 189 00:09:23,188 --> 00:09:25,691 Car’s waiting. 190 00:09:25,857 --> 00:09:28,527 Uh, we’ll talk, Margaret. 191 00:09:34,157 --> 00:09:35,659 And tonight, many of the faithful 192 00:09:35,826 --> 00:09:37,452 will hold a rally at the 65 bar, 193 00:09:37,619 --> 00:09:39,288 which, like a cat, may truly have nine lives. 194 00:09:39,454 --> 00:09:40,872 It won’t quite be a victory rally, 195 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:42,874 but after this day’s events, 196 00:09:43,041 --> 00:09:45,168 many of the Preservation Committee supporters 197 00:09:45,335 --> 00:09:47,212 believe that the construction of the Gillrich Towers 198 00:09:47,379 --> 00:09:48,714 is no longer-- [turns TV off] 199 00:10:02,602 --> 00:10:04,896 Carol, it’s Jessica Fletcher. 200 00:10:05,063 --> 00:10:06,898 I hope i’m not calling you too late. 201 00:10:07,065 --> 00:10:09,526 I had the news on, and it’s good, for a change. 202 00:10:09,693 --> 00:10:11,486 Well, I guess the two-day reprieve 203 00:10:11,653 --> 00:10:13,613 is better than a demolition permit, 204 00:10:13,780 --> 00:10:14,948 but still, there’s no telling 205 00:10:15,115 --> 00:10:16,700 what Eugene Gillrich has 206 00:10:16,867 --> 00:10:18,910 up those immaculately tailored sleeves, 207 00:10:19,077 --> 00:10:20,454 except that you can be certain 208 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:22,539 it will be Machiavellian. 209 00:10:22,706 --> 00:10:25,250 Well, I find I’m a little ahead of schedule, 210 00:10:25,417 --> 00:10:27,252 so if another body will help at the rally-- 211 00:10:27,419 --> 00:10:28,837 Oh, Jessica, 212 00:10:29,004 --> 00:10:31,381 that is absolutely fabulous. 213 00:10:31,548 --> 00:10:34,051 I’ll alert that cute reporter from Channel 6. 214 00:10:34,217 --> 00:10:35,552 You are an angel. 215 00:10:35,719 --> 00:10:37,304 Thanks for calling. Bye. 216 00:10:37,471 --> 00:10:39,431 Bye. 217 00:10:41,350 --> 00:10:42,893 Did you hear that? 218 00:10:43,060 --> 00:10:46,396 Another celebrity isn’t going to impress them downtown. 219 00:10:46,563 --> 00:10:48,899 What gets those people where they live 220 00:10:49,066 --> 00:10:51,193 are the tax revenues the city will realize 221 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,070 from my new co-ops. 222 00:10:55,322 --> 00:10:58,075 So you know that romancing me 223 00:10:58,241 --> 00:11:01,411 isn’t gonna shake my people off your back. 224 00:11:03,455 --> 00:11:05,957 Carol, has it occurred to you 225 00:11:06,124 --> 00:11:07,876 that I may have no ulterior motive? 226 00:11:08,043 --> 00:11:10,545 For about two wish-fulfilling seconds, 227 00:11:10,712 --> 00:11:12,798 until you flunked my reality check. 228 00:11:12,964 --> 00:11:15,967 You have a very young, very attractive wife. 229 00:11:17,886 --> 00:11:20,138 Who’s very busy this afternoon with homework. 230 00:11:20,305 --> 00:11:22,682 So you thought you’d come by, do a little of your own, 231 00:11:22,849 --> 00:11:24,559 at my home. 232 00:11:24,726 --> 00:11:27,020 Why don’t you think of me 233 00:11:27,187 --> 00:11:29,773 as an insatiable student? 234 00:11:32,651 --> 00:11:35,153 There’s always new things to learn. 235 00:11:49,126 --> 00:11:50,293 Excuse me. Sir? 236 00:11:50,460 --> 00:11:52,712 Is the report ready to be typed? 237 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:54,965 Uh, not yet, Evelyn. 238 00:11:55,132 --> 00:11:57,509 Look, it’s almost 6:00. 239 00:11:57,676 --> 00:11:59,010 Why don’t you leave it till tomorrow? 240 00:11:59,177 --> 00:12:01,596 Right. Thank you, Sir. Good night. 241 00:12:05,934 --> 00:12:07,769 Hey, La Rocca, wait up. We gotta talk. 242 00:12:07,936 --> 00:12:10,021 Ah, Victor, just the man I wanted to see. 243 00:12:10,188 --> 00:12:12,441 Listen, about the layout for my 64th Street special. 244 00:12:12,607 --> 00:12:14,401 My picture has got to be bigger, okay? 245 00:12:14,568 --> 00:12:16,403 The lettering has to be behind me, you know? 246 00:12:16,570 --> 00:12:18,530 Which is where I’d like to be with a sledgehammer. 247 00:12:18,697 --> 00:12:20,240 What do you mean, Victor? 248 00:12:20,407 --> 00:12:22,200 I mean I’ve been upstairs for the last two hours 249 00:12:22,367 --> 00:12:24,744 trying to explain away the bill of goods I let you sell me. 250 00:12:24,911 --> 00:12:27,873 It’s a sure thing, Victor. Who’s got the muscle to stop the Gillrich brothers? 251 00:12:28,039 --> 00:12:30,041 You’re talkin’ about this landmark preservation business? 252 00:12:30,208 --> 00:12:32,127 It’s all smoke, Victor. It’s gonna happen. 253 00:12:32,294 --> 00:12:33,670 Yeah, from your lips, 254 00:12:33,837 --> 00:12:35,130 we’ve got pickets, petitioners, 255 00:12:35,297 --> 00:12:37,132 angry ladies, hearings, evicting old people, 256 00:12:37,299 --> 00:12:39,468 and we’ve got sponsors going South in droves, Mike. 257 00:12:39,634 --> 00:12:42,012 -Some sure thing, huh? -Victor, you know as well as I do 258 00:12:42,179 --> 00:12:43,638 that only means bigger ratings. 259 00:12:43,805 --> 00:12:45,807 And if it doesn’t happen, the station’s out. 260 00:12:45,974 --> 00:12:47,601 All the thousands they spent promoting it, 261 00:12:47,767 --> 00:12:49,936 and I’m out all my credibility. 262 00:12:50,103 --> 00:12:53,106 Mike, we’re gonna figure out another angle. 263 00:12:53,273 --> 00:12:55,150 An out. Do you understand me? 264 00:12:55,317 --> 00:12:59,029 Victor, not to worry. I have a little plan of my own. 265 00:12:59,196 --> 00:13:02,282 If I have to tear it down with my own hands, that building falls. 266 00:13:08,246 --> 00:13:10,290 So did you finish the notes for the book? 267 00:13:10,457 --> 00:13:12,834 Yeah, it’s only a page. I’ll fax it to your place tonight. 268 00:13:13,001 --> 00:13:15,045 Oh, that’s great. [tires screeching] 269 00:13:17,088 --> 00:13:18,924 Lucky to get a space. 270 00:13:22,552 --> 00:13:24,679 Isn’t that Eugene Gillrich’s wife? 271 00:13:24,846 --> 00:13:26,806 So it is. 272 00:13:26,973 --> 00:13:29,309 What do you suppose she’s doing on enemy turf? 273 00:13:29,476 --> 00:13:31,770 Spying, perhaps? [both chuckle] 274 00:13:34,481 --> 00:13:37,943 Really? Well, Ms. Gillrich is probably here 275 00:13:38,109 --> 00:13:40,445 to lend her husband some support. 276 00:13:40,612 --> 00:13:42,906 But I guess it’s easier to manufacture some excuse 277 00:13:43,073 --> 00:13:44,908 to break my lease. 278 00:13:45,075 --> 00:13:48,411 Well, anyway, hey, Pete, first round’s on me, 279 00:13:48,578 --> 00:13:50,997 then it’s every man for himself. 280 00:13:51,164 --> 00:13:53,250 [customers cheering] 281 00:13:59,130 --> 00:14:01,716 This whole building, right? 282 00:14:01,883 --> 00:14:03,677 Yes. 283 00:14:03,843 --> 00:14:06,596 Mike La Rocca with celebrated local author J.B. Fletcher. 284 00:14:06,763 --> 00:14:09,933 So, does your pub crawling bring you here often? 285 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:11,893 Well, I live just around the corner. 286 00:14:12,060 --> 00:14:14,020 Tell me something, Miss Fletcher. 287 00:14:14,187 --> 00:14:16,314 What’s the appeal of these broken-down old tenements 288 00:14:16,481 --> 00:14:19,109 to a bright, successful woman such as yourself? 289 00:14:19,276 --> 00:14:20,777 As a neighborhood resident, 290 00:14:20,944 --> 00:14:23,238 I’d like the area to remain just that-- 291 00:14:23,405 --> 00:14:24,823 a neighborhood. 292 00:14:24,990 --> 00:14:26,658 Thank you very much. 293 00:14:35,417 --> 00:14:37,377 Mr. Gillrich, off the record, 294 00:14:37,544 --> 00:14:39,838 you coming over here a sign of capitulation? 295 00:14:40,005 --> 00:14:41,548 [laughs] 296 00:14:41,715 --> 00:14:43,675 For the record, Mr. La Rocca, 297 00:14:43,842 --> 00:14:45,385 my coming over here is to talk dollars 298 00:14:45,552 --> 00:14:46,845 and common sense with the neighborhood merchants. 299 00:14:47,012 --> 00:14:49,264 -More specifically? -More specifically, 300 00:14:49,431 --> 00:14:51,891 what’s wrong with 1,000 affluent new residents, 301 00:14:52,058 --> 00:14:54,102 all of them ready to shop till they drop? 302 00:14:59,357 --> 00:15:01,484 You think they’d be afraid to show their faces around here. 303 00:15:01,651 --> 00:15:03,403 To answer your question, Mrs. Fletcher, 304 00:15:03,570 --> 00:15:05,989 I live over in Queens. I’m the visiting nurse 305 00:15:06,156 --> 00:15:08,074 to Mrs. Rhodes upstairs in 4B. 306 00:15:08,241 --> 00:15:09,701 Oh, where is she? 307 00:15:09,868 --> 00:15:11,745 Fifty years in one building. 308 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:13,663 It would be wonderful to get her on the news. 309 00:15:13,830 --> 00:15:16,499 You know, Mrs. Collins, I don’t think she’s quite up to it, 310 00:15:16,666 --> 00:15:19,461 but I’ll be glad to give her the petition. 311 00:15:19,628 --> 00:15:21,546 -I know she wants to sign up. -All right. 312 00:15:23,590 --> 00:15:26,009 Ah, J.B. Fletcher. Eugene Gillrich. 313 00:15:26,176 --> 00:15:27,719 Oh, yes, Mr. Gillrich. 314 00:15:27,886 --> 00:15:29,679 It’s certainly a pleasure to meet you. 315 00:15:29,846 --> 00:15:31,306 And Miss Collins. 316 00:15:31,473 --> 00:15:33,016 Well, allow me to buy you both a drink. 317 00:15:33,183 --> 00:15:34,976 -Miss Collins? -A dry martini. 318 00:15:35,143 --> 00:15:36,645 And Mrs. Fletcher? 319 00:15:36,811 --> 00:15:38,521 Well, um, White wine? 320 00:15:38,688 --> 00:15:40,565 One white wine, and a dry martini with an onion. 321 00:15:40,732 --> 00:15:43,193 -Got it. -Yeah, speak up. 322 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,570 Margaret Johnson? Yeah. Margaret Johnson. 323 00:15:45,737 --> 00:15:46,780 Maggie, phone call! 324 00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:49,032 Thank you. 325 00:15:51,368 --> 00:15:53,370 Hello. 326 00:15:53,536 --> 00:15:55,497 Why yes, I’d love to. 327 00:15:55,664 --> 00:15:57,749 That would be wonderful, Walter. 328 00:16:12,931 --> 00:16:15,433 So. This is the table where Eugene O’Neill 329 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,269 supposedly carved his initials? 330 00:16:18,436 --> 00:16:20,480 Granddad said he used a steak knife. 331 00:16:20,647 --> 00:16:22,857 Nolan, my offer’s still open. 332 00:16:23,024 --> 00:16:24,526 Oh, come on. 333 00:16:24,693 --> 00:16:27,028 Give up this City Preservation crusade. 334 00:16:27,195 --> 00:16:29,030 Sign on for demolition, 335 00:16:29,197 --> 00:16:31,783 and I will move this place, lock, stock and sawdust 336 00:16:31,950 --> 00:16:33,410 to the East side. 337 00:16:33,576 --> 00:16:35,829 You’ll become another Hard Rock Cafe. 338 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:37,706 T-shirts, souvenirs, 339 00:16:37,872 --> 00:16:40,291 and tourists lined up around the block. 340 00:16:40,458 --> 00:16:42,293 [Pete] Yo, people! 341 00:16:42,460 --> 00:16:44,671 You’re parked out front, the cops are towin’. 342 00:16:44,838 --> 00:16:47,006 [all groaning] 343 00:16:49,509 --> 00:16:51,511 On the down side, 344 00:16:51,678 --> 00:16:55,056 you must know that I’m a man who has a lot of friends downtown. 345 00:16:55,223 --> 00:16:58,435 I mean, one phone call, and the city fire department 346 00:16:58,601 --> 00:17:02,021 finds your venerable old institution a trap. 347 00:17:02,188 --> 00:17:04,274 And another phone call to, say, 348 00:17:04,441 --> 00:17:06,276 the city health department, 349 00:17:06,443 --> 00:17:09,154 and they find rats in your kitchen. 350 00:17:13,575 --> 00:17:16,035 I don’t take too good to threats, Mr. Gillrich. 351 00:17:16,202 --> 00:17:18,037 Look, Nolan, Nolan, 352 00:17:18,204 --> 00:17:20,290 we’re just a couple of workin’ stiffs 353 00:17:20,457 --> 00:17:22,083 tryin’ to turn a buck here. 354 00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:24,878 Come on, why don’t you give up this nostalgia garbage, 355 00:17:25,044 --> 00:17:27,213 and, I mean, your lace-curtain origins. 356 00:17:33,219 --> 00:17:36,222 You ever come back here, Gillrich, you’re a dead man. 357 00:17:38,183 --> 00:17:40,351 All right, all right. 358 00:17:50,820 --> 00:17:52,530 -What’s wrong? -Let’s go. 359 00:17:57,285 --> 00:17:59,662 He said he’d have that report on my desk 360 00:17:59,829 --> 00:18:01,623 first thing this morning. 361 00:18:01,790 --> 00:18:04,083 But knowing Walter, it’s probably not there. 362 00:18:04,250 --> 00:18:07,003 Knowing Walter,he probably typed it himself, so it might... 363 00:18:18,890 --> 00:18:20,558 [gasps] -Walter. 364 00:18:20,725 --> 00:18:22,977 Oh, my God. 365 00:18:30,944 --> 00:18:32,904 Okay, lieutenant, the janitor says 366 00:18:33,071 --> 00:18:36,616 he saw the victim last night around 6:30 at the water cooler. 367 00:18:36,783 --> 00:18:39,786 But, with his vacuum running, he never heard a shot. 368 00:18:39,953 --> 00:18:41,913 According to the after-hours sign-in sheet, 369 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,541 nobody got up here past 6:00. 370 00:18:44,707 --> 00:18:47,627 God, suppose we’re lookin’ at a robbery also? 371 00:18:47,794 --> 00:18:50,338 Man’s dead, wearing a $1,000 watch. I don’t think so. 372 00:18:50,505 --> 00:18:52,757 He was shot at close range. 373 00:18:52,924 --> 00:18:54,968 Figures maybe he knew the shooter. 374 00:18:55,134 --> 00:18:56,761 The bullet went into the back of the chair, 375 00:18:56,928 --> 00:18:58,763 in here, and out here. 376 00:18:58,930 --> 00:19:00,807 Well, keep looking for the bullet. 377 00:19:00,974 --> 00:19:03,226 And Henderson, cheer up, will you? 378 00:19:03,393 --> 00:19:05,812 We’ll solve this... or not. 379 00:19:11,651 --> 00:19:14,028 Mr. Gillrich, I know this isn’t a great time 380 00:19:14,153 --> 00:19:15,989 to be piecing together what happened, 381 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:18,241 but let me talk to you over here. 382 00:19:18,408 --> 00:19:21,452 Whatever it takes. I want who did this caught now. 383 00:19:21,619 --> 00:19:23,746 Did your brother have any enemies? 384 00:19:23,913 --> 00:19:26,165 -Not a one. -Everybody liked him. 385 00:19:26,332 --> 00:19:27,876 Someone who he let go? 386 00:19:28,042 --> 00:19:29,669 Someone who didn’t get a promotion 387 00:19:29,836 --> 00:19:31,170 returns with a gun. It happens. 388 00:19:31,337 --> 00:19:34,090 I know, but we’re a small company. 389 00:19:34,257 --> 00:19:37,010 We haven’t let anyone go in years. 390 00:19:37,176 --> 00:19:38,761 I saw on the news, 391 00:19:38,928 --> 00:19:40,889 you and Walter had a flare-up at City Hall. 392 00:19:41,055 --> 00:19:43,141 You accusing me? 393 00:19:43,308 --> 00:19:45,476 My brother worked nights to put me through college. 394 00:19:45,643 --> 00:19:47,478 His capital started this business. 395 00:19:47,645 --> 00:19:49,063 I loved him. 396 00:19:49,230 --> 00:19:51,441 For the report, 397 00:19:51,608 --> 00:19:53,902 where were the both of you between, say, 398 00:19:54,068 --> 00:19:55,945 6:30 and 10:00 last night? 399 00:19:56,112 --> 00:19:58,865 The 65 Bar. We went there about 6:00. 400 00:19:59,032 --> 00:20:01,576 We left there around 9:30. Witnesses saw us. 401 00:20:01,743 --> 00:20:03,244 Then we took a cab home. 402 00:20:03,411 --> 00:20:05,872 Do you have any idea why Walter was at your desk? 403 00:20:06,039 --> 00:20:08,750 His office connects, but, no, I don’t. 404 00:20:08,917 --> 00:20:11,711 Walter’s report. Maybe he was bringing it in when he was shot. 405 00:20:11,878 --> 00:20:14,130 We did find a draft of an Environmental Impact report on his desk. 406 00:20:14,297 --> 00:20:15,673 It hadn’t been typed up. 407 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,886 Reports, permits, condos. 408 00:20:21,387 --> 00:20:24,307 It all seems so damned unimportant now. 409 00:20:29,604 --> 00:20:31,481 Lieutenant, Mike La Rocca, Channel 6. 410 00:20:31,648 --> 00:20:33,149 No comment. 411 00:20:33,316 --> 00:20:35,401 So the department has nothing to go on, 412 00:20:35,568 --> 00:20:38,696 citizens stand by helpless as another senseless shooting goes unsolved. 413 00:20:38,863 --> 00:20:41,783 La Rocca, you wanna make speeches? 414 00:20:41,950 --> 00:20:44,035 Run for Congress, all right? 415 00:20:50,917 --> 00:20:53,169 Victor. Okay. 416 00:20:53,336 --> 00:20:55,129 Just remember, that was Walter Gillrich 417 00:20:55,296 --> 00:20:57,173 who gummed up his brother’s plans. 418 00:20:57,340 --> 00:20:58,925 With him gone, it’s clear sailing. 419 00:20:59,092 --> 00:21:00,718 Wrong. I just heard it on the news. 420 00:21:00,885 --> 00:21:02,762 Until the police know why he’s gone, 421 00:21:02,929 --> 00:21:04,931 the planning board is postponing the final hearing. 422 00:21:05,098 --> 00:21:07,558 No digging for Dutch Schultz’ victims 423 00:21:07,725 --> 00:21:09,435 till further notice, if ever. 424 00:21:09,602 --> 00:21:11,479 I swear to God, La Rocca, 425 00:21:11,646 --> 00:21:14,148 I am not gonna be the only one lookin’ who’s for a job. 426 00:21:14,315 --> 00:21:16,776 The police, look, they know what they’re doing, 427 00:21:16,943 --> 00:21:18,778 they’ll find the killer, we’ll be in business. 428 00:21:18,945 --> 00:21:21,322 And what makes you so sure? 429 00:21:21,489 --> 00:21:23,700 Call it my nose for news. 430 00:21:26,577 --> 00:21:30,206 I really don’t think there’s anything I can add, Artie. 431 00:21:30,373 --> 00:21:32,166 I met Walter at the hearing. 432 00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:33,876 He became our political Ally, so to speak. 433 00:21:34,043 --> 00:21:35,420 That was the last time you saw him? 434 00:21:35,586 --> 00:21:37,171 In person, you mean? 435 00:21:37,338 --> 00:21:40,174 We spoke later on the phone, about 6:30, I think. 436 00:21:40,341 --> 00:21:42,719 Department’s already getting heat from Eugene Gillrich 437 00:21:42,885 --> 00:21:46,347 and his City Hall contacts. What I don’t get is, Eugene is the heavy, 438 00:21:46,514 --> 00:21:48,391 and Walter, who never had an enemy in the world, 439 00:21:48,558 --> 00:21:50,143 winds up with a hole in his chest. 440 00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:52,812 [phone rings] -Gelber. 441 00:21:52,979 --> 00:21:55,148 Doris? What? 442 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:56,566 When? 443 00:21:56,733 --> 00:21:58,609 Oh, that’s terrible. 444 00:21:58,776 --> 00:22:00,319 Our year-old grandson was turned down by 445 00:22:00,486 --> 00:22:01,696 the Wee School in the Dells Infant Program. 446 00:22:01,863 --> 00:22:04,615 How could they do that? The kid’s brilliant. 447 00:22:04,782 --> 00:22:06,284 He fell asleep during the interview? 448 00:22:06,451 --> 00:22:08,453 I’ll get back to you, Doris. 449 00:22:08,619 --> 00:22:10,496 Sorry. 450 00:22:10,663 --> 00:22:13,583 Artie, since Walter was shot from behind in his brother’s office, 451 00:22:13,750 --> 00:22:15,835 I assume that you’ve considered the possibility 452 00:22:16,002 --> 00:22:17,587 that Eugene was the intended victim, 453 00:22:17,754 --> 00:22:19,839 and that Walter was killed by mistake? 454 00:22:20,006 --> 00:22:21,716 Yeah, yeah, we have. 455 00:22:21,883 --> 00:22:23,384 Apparently, the list of people who can’t stand Eugene 456 00:22:23,551 --> 00:22:26,387 begins with Nolan Walsh and ends with his friends. 457 00:22:26,554 --> 00:22:28,347 Coroner’s office approximates time of death 458 00:22:28,514 --> 00:22:30,391 at 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. 459 00:22:30,558 --> 00:22:32,435 do you know how many homicides he said there were last night, Lieutenant? 460 00:22:32,602 --> 00:22:35,146 Henderson, I don’t care, okay? 461 00:22:35,313 --> 00:22:38,441 We worry about this one, period, then we go on to the next. 462 00:22:38,608 --> 00:22:40,818 Henderson is convinced that the bad guys are running the store. 463 00:22:40,985 --> 00:22:42,904 It’s easy to feel that way. 464 00:22:43,071 --> 00:22:44,822 The lab’s backed up. 465 00:22:44,989 --> 00:22:46,908 They’re still running the fingerprints 466 00:22:47,075 --> 00:22:48,409 no bullet’s been found yet, 467 00:22:48,576 --> 00:22:50,620 and, oh, yeah, the taxi company confirmed 468 00:22:50,787 --> 00:22:52,705 that the Gillriches got home at 9:30. 469 00:22:52,872 --> 00:22:55,083 Henderson, check all the tenants in 65. 470 00:22:55,249 --> 00:22:56,918 If Gillrich was trying to throw me 471 00:22:57,085 --> 00:22:58,544 out of my rent-controlled apartment, 472 00:22:58,711 --> 00:23:00,296 no love lost, yes? 473 00:23:00,463 --> 00:23:02,882 Here are the tenant lists for all three buildings. 474 00:23:03,049 --> 00:23:06,219 Old Mrs. Rhodes in 65, could you die? 475 00:23:06,385 --> 00:23:09,097 She’s been there so long, she’s only paying $300 a month. 476 00:23:09,263 --> 00:23:12,308 300? Maybe the old bird would like some roommates, 477 00:23:12,475 --> 00:23:14,977 share the expenses. Doris and I don’t take up much space. 478 00:23:15,144 --> 00:23:17,772 Maybe Mrs. Rhodes put out a contract on Eugene Gillrich 479 00:23:17,939 --> 00:23:19,982 so she wouldn’t lose her pad. 480 00:23:20,149 --> 00:23:22,110 Or the ghost of Dutch Schultz did it. 481 00:23:22,276 --> 00:23:25,696 Henderson, check every tenant. 482 00:23:25,863 --> 00:23:27,740 Even Mrs. Rhodes. 483 00:23:30,451 --> 00:23:32,954 You sure I can’t get you some coffee? 484 00:23:33,121 --> 00:23:34,872 Something to calm you down? 485 00:23:35,039 --> 00:23:36,541 No, thank you. 486 00:23:36,707 --> 00:23:38,167 It’s these petitions, Miss Collins. 487 00:23:38,334 --> 00:23:39,919 They’ve been thrown out. 488 00:23:40,086 --> 00:23:42,713 There are at least 900 dead people. 489 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,216 Oh, really? I don’t understand that. 490 00:23:45,383 --> 00:23:47,760 Collectors were moving rather slowly, but still... 491 00:23:47,927 --> 00:23:49,720 [laughs] 492 00:23:49,887 --> 00:23:51,430 Now don’t you worry. 493 00:23:51,597 --> 00:23:54,016 Signatures can be replaced. 494 00:23:54,183 --> 00:23:56,811 There are plenty of people out there who are willing to sign. 495 00:23:56,978 --> 00:23:59,397 Eugene Gillrich’s lawyer has moved to have 496 00:23:59,564 --> 00:24:01,315 the whole petition drive declared invalid. 497 00:24:01,482 --> 00:24:03,109 I don’t think Eugene Gillrich 498 00:24:03,276 --> 00:24:04,652 will allow him to do that. 499 00:24:04,819 --> 00:24:07,071 You don’t? Why? 500 00:24:07,238 --> 00:24:08,614 Why don’t you give me those petitions, 501 00:24:08,781 --> 00:24:10,283 and I’ll take care of everything. 502 00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:14,120 Thank you. 503 00:24:15,496 --> 00:24:17,373 Suffice it to say, Margaret, 504 00:24:17,540 --> 00:24:20,710 that there is no teacher quite like experience, 505 00:24:20,877 --> 00:24:24,422 especially when it comes to learning exactly where a man’s buttons are, 506 00:24:24,589 --> 00:24:27,550 and when to push them. 507 00:24:27,717 --> 00:24:28,885 Miss Collins. 508 00:24:29,051 --> 00:24:30,469 Mm-hmm? 509 00:24:30,636 --> 00:24:33,055 I don’t think I really understand you. 510 00:24:35,016 --> 00:24:36,893 That’s very true. 511 00:24:37,059 --> 00:24:39,687 But try to think of it in terms of you and Walter. 512 00:24:39,854 --> 00:24:41,439 I hardly knew Walter. 513 00:24:41,606 --> 00:24:43,733 Oh, that’s what you may tell the police, 514 00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:45,943 but when you got the phone call at the Bar last night, 515 00:24:46,110 --> 00:24:47,486 I heard you call him by name, 516 00:24:47,653 --> 00:24:49,447 and then you left right after. 517 00:24:49,614 --> 00:24:52,200 You did go and see Walter last night, didn’t you? 518 00:24:52,366 --> 00:24:55,745 No. I have to go. 519 00:25:00,416 --> 00:25:02,335 I have to tell you this. 520 00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:05,546 A lot of people think Walter was killed by mistake, 521 00:25:05,713 --> 00:25:07,465 that the real target was Eugene. 522 00:25:07,632 --> 00:25:10,593 -So I heard. -Miss Collins, just so you know, 523 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,220 even though a cause may be just, 524 00:25:12,386 --> 00:25:15,806 I don’t believe the end justifies the means. 525 00:25:15,973 --> 00:25:18,392 I like you, Margaret, 526 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:21,020 but I don’t want to see you get hurt. 527 00:25:21,187 --> 00:25:24,732 You mustn’t go through life tilting at dragons like don quixote. 528 00:25:24,899 --> 00:25:27,026 Don quixote tilted at windmills. 529 00:25:27,193 --> 00:25:28,903 Okey, St. George slew dragons. 530 00:25:29,070 --> 00:25:31,239 You see? That’s just what I mean. 531 00:25:31,405 --> 00:25:33,282 After a while, who remembers? 532 00:25:39,121 --> 00:25:41,582 I sneak out of here, 533 00:25:41,749 --> 00:25:45,002 and kill Walter Gillrich. 534 00:25:45,169 --> 00:25:48,547 And the settlers... 535 00:25:48,714 --> 00:25:51,217 they ambush the cavalry, 536 00:25:51,384 --> 00:25:54,679 as they ride to the rescue. 537 00:25:54,845 --> 00:25:57,056 Now his brother, maybe. 538 00:25:57,223 --> 00:25:59,308 Precisely, Mr. Walsh. 539 00:25:59,475 --> 00:26:01,644 You slug Eugene in front of a lot of people, 540 00:26:01,811 --> 00:26:03,813 you grab a knife, and you threaten to kill him. 541 00:26:03,980 --> 00:26:05,439 You leave after he does, 542 00:26:05,606 --> 00:26:06,691 you sneak into his office, 543 00:26:06,857 --> 00:26:08,442 it looks like him in his chair, 544 00:26:08,609 --> 00:26:09,944 and you pop Walter by mistake. 545 00:26:10,111 --> 00:26:11,404 If I may say so, Lieutenant, 546 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:14,115 from what I know of Mr. Walsh, 547 00:26:14,282 --> 00:26:17,034 if he had decided to go after Eugene Gillrich, 548 00:26:17,201 --> 00:26:19,662 there would’ve been no mistakes. 549 00:26:19,829 --> 00:26:22,248 She’s speakin’ the truth on that one, all right. 550 00:26:22,415 --> 00:26:24,250 I’m not so sure I’d like that kind of a character reference 551 00:26:24,417 --> 00:26:25,876 tossed around about me. 552 00:26:26,043 --> 00:26:28,170 [phone rings] -Stay in town. 553 00:26:28,337 --> 00:26:30,464 I’d hate to have to send for the cavalry. 554 00:26:30,631 --> 00:26:31,799 Gelber. 555 00:26:31,966 --> 00:26:33,592 Yeah, Henderson? What? 556 00:26:33,759 --> 00:26:37,013 What? Whose prints? 557 00:26:38,222 --> 00:26:40,016 I never would’ve figured that. 558 00:26:40,182 --> 00:26:43,019 Notify the captain. We got a break. 559 00:26:47,064 --> 00:26:48,941 [phone rings] 560 00:26:50,651 --> 00:26:52,445 Hello. 561 00:26:52,611 --> 00:26:55,865 Mrs. Fletcher? This is Margaret’s assistant. She... 562 00:26:56,032 --> 00:26:58,576 she won’t be able to keep her appointment. 563 00:26:58,743 --> 00:27:00,786 Peggy, what is it? 564 00:27:00,953 --> 00:27:02,455 The police just arrested her 565 00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:03,831 for the killing of Walter Gillrich. 566 00:27:03,998 --> 00:27:05,291 Margaret?! 567 00:27:07,001 --> 00:27:09,253 Thank you, Peggy. 568 00:27:18,846 --> 00:27:20,973 "8:30 p.m." 569 00:27:24,393 --> 00:27:27,521 Oh, Mrs. Gillrich, I’m very sorry about your brother-in-law. 570 00:27:27,688 --> 00:27:29,774 Thank you, Mrs. Fletcher, 571 00:27:29,940 --> 00:27:32,276 but it’s been much harder on Eugene, as you can imagine. 572 00:27:32,443 --> 00:27:33,986 Well, I certainly can. 573 00:27:34,153 --> 00:27:36,238 Excuse me. I want to check with the Lieutenant. 574 00:27:39,325 --> 00:27:41,494 Doris, in this town, money talks. 575 00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:43,287 Maybe that’s what it’s gonna take 576 00:27:43,454 --> 00:27:45,831 for them to look a little more kindly on little Josh. 577 00:27:45,998 --> 00:27:47,666 Later. 578 00:27:47,833 --> 00:27:49,335 -Jessica... -Look, Artie, 579 00:27:49,502 --> 00:27:51,587 I have to talk to you about Margaret Johnson. 580 00:27:51,754 --> 00:27:53,464 Look, Jessica, we didn’t pull it out of the ether. 581 00:27:53,631 --> 00:27:56,384 Her fingerprints match with those on an elevator button, 582 00:27:56,550 --> 00:27:58,511 and on the doors of the reception area. 583 00:27:58,677 --> 00:28:01,222 And in her initial statement, 584 00:28:01,389 --> 00:28:03,724 she said the only time she talked to Walter was on the phone. 585 00:28:03,891 --> 00:28:05,393 So how come we find this "Save our Block" pin 586 00:28:05,559 --> 00:28:07,603 with Miss Johnson’s thumbprint on it? 587 00:28:07,770 --> 00:28:10,731 Artie, I was just asked to sign in downstairs. 588 00:28:10,898 --> 00:28:14,527 How is it that you don’t have Margaret’s signature from that night? 589 00:28:14,693 --> 00:28:17,196 Well, she admits to meeting Walter downstairs 590 00:28:17,363 --> 00:28:19,490 at around 7:00 for a drink in the restaurant. 591 00:28:19,657 --> 00:28:21,826 Then, they came up here to talk about the hearing. 592 00:28:21,992 --> 00:28:24,370 She didn’t have to sign in because Walter was with her. 593 00:28:24,537 --> 00:28:28,416 Your lab people put Walter’s death at around 8:30. 594 00:28:28,582 --> 00:28:31,627 Now I think I can prove that Margaret wasn’t here then. 595 00:28:31,794 --> 00:28:33,671 She couldn’t, and you can? 596 00:28:36,048 --> 00:28:39,927 Margaret faxed me these notes last night from her apartment. 597 00:28:40,094 --> 00:28:42,054 Look. My fax machine prints out 598 00:28:42,221 --> 00:28:44,974 a chronological summary of messages I received. 599 00:28:45,141 --> 00:28:47,351 There’s Margaret’s fax to me at 8:30, 600 00:28:47,518 --> 00:28:51,814 following an 8:10 fax and preceding another which came in around 9:00. 601 00:28:51,981 --> 00:28:54,775 Jessica, suppose that the coroner’s off by 30 minutes. 602 00:28:54,942 --> 00:28:56,861 Walter’s murdered at 8:00, in which case, 603 00:28:57,027 --> 00:29:00,281 Margaret’s at home faxing you as she claims at 8:30. 604 00:29:00,448 --> 00:29:02,950 Artie, I can’t believe that she would murder 605 00:29:03,117 --> 00:29:06,287 an Ally that she was beginning to grow very fond of. 606 00:29:06,454 --> 00:29:08,581 Well, she is so lucky to have a friend like you, 607 00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:10,624 but you know what she really needs right now? 608 00:29:10,791 --> 00:29:12,793 She needs an alibi with no holes in it. 609 00:29:17,590 --> 00:29:19,175 Artie, the carpet here is gold. 610 00:29:19,341 --> 00:29:21,093 Yeah, so? 611 00:29:21,260 --> 00:29:24,930 Jessica, you’re doin’ it again, aren’t you? 612 00:29:26,140 --> 00:29:28,225 This carpet is blue, Lieutenant. 613 00:29:28,392 --> 00:29:30,019 Jessica, we like each other, 614 00:29:30,186 --> 00:29:31,729 but picking out patterns... 615 00:29:31,896 --> 00:29:34,231 but if blue carpet fuzz was on the wheels of the chair 616 00:29:34,398 --> 00:29:37,234 in Eugene’s gold-carpeted office where Walter was found, 617 00:29:37,401 --> 00:29:40,863 it’s possible that Walter was killed here in his own office. 618 00:29:41,030 --> 00:29:43,532 Perhaps he was the intended victim all along. 619 00:29:43,699 --> 00:29:45,618 You mean... wait, wait. 620 00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:47,786 The killer pushes Walter in his chair into Eugene’s office. 621 00:29:47,953 --> 00:29:51,040 Then he pushes Eugene’s empty chair back in here, 622 00:29:51,207 --> 00:29:52,625 so that we believe from the get-go 623 00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:54,126 that the wrong man was murdered. 624 00:29:54,293 --> 00:29:56,212 No wonder you couldn’t find the bullet. 625 00:29:56,378 --> 00:29:58,881 We were looking in the wrong office. 626 00:30:01,550 --> 00:30:04,345 Ah, I love it. 627 00:30:04,512 --> 00:30:07,181 You gave us the missing piece, Jessica. 628 00:30:07,348 --> 00:30:09,099 Romance turns sour. 629 00:30:09,266 --> 00:30:11,769 -Romance? -Walter wines Margaret. 630 00:30:11,936 --> 00:30:13,771 They come up here, just like she said, 631 00:30:13,938 --> 00:30:15,481 only this time, not to talk about hearings. 632 00:30:15,648 --> 00:30:18,108 She’s growing fond of him, like you said. 633 00:30:18,275 --> 00:30:20,694 Maybe he got rough with her, she tries to push him off. 634 00:30:20,861 --> 00:30:23,405 Not the first time a guy doesn’t stop when a woman says no. 635 00:30:23,572 --> 00:30:24,657 And then... 636 00:30:33,916 --> 00:30:35,793 Miss Johnson, what can I tell you? 637 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,003 We live in a society where it’s easier to prove you own a gun 638 00:30:38,170 --> 00:30:39,755 than it is to prove you don’t own a gun. 639 00:30:39,922 --> 00:30:41,549 Some places, it’s harder to buy a pack of cigarettes. 640 00:30:41,715 --> 00:30:43,425 Oh, for heaven’s sakes, Artie. 641 00:30:43,592 --> 00:30:45,135 I mean, think. 642 00:30:45,302 --> 00:30:47,846 Doesn’t it just smack of circumstantial evidence? 643 00:30:48,013 --> 00:30:51,475 Jessica, the D.A.’s people are comfortable with it. 644 00:30:51,642 --> 00:30:53,477 This is crazy, for God’s sakes. 645 00:30:53,644 --> 00:30:55,563 You’ve all caved in under the pressure 646 00:30:55,729 --> 00:30:57,731 Eugene Gillrich put on your superiors to charge somebody. 647 00:30:57,898 --> 00:31:00,192 That’s the only reason I’m here. 648 00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:02,903 Lieutenant, the statements from the residents of 65. 649 00:31:03,070 --> 00:31:05,447 None of them seemed all that hostile toward the Gillrich brothers. 650 00:31:05,614 --> 00:31:07,741 Ha, they say. Did you get everyone? 651 00:31:07,908 --> 00:31:10,244 Except Mrs. Rhodes. I couldn’t reach her, only her answering machine. 652 00:31:10,411 --> 00:31:13,205 Her nurse called back to say Mrs. Rhodes’ niece came in from Jersey 653 00:31:13,372 --> 00:31:14,290 to bring her out there for a few days. 654 00:31:14,456 --> 00:31:17,501 So get an address. You don’t need a passport to take the Lincoln Tunnel 655 00:31:17,668 --> 00:31:19,670 into New Jersey, at least the last time I looked. 656 00:31:19,837 --> 00:31:21,547 The coffee’s still warm. 657 00:31:21,714 --> 00:31:23,424 Jessica, would you care for some with milk? 658 00:31:23,591 --> 00:31:25,050 Thank you. 659 00:31:25,217 --> 00:31:26,969 Miss Johnson, don’t tell me, let me guess. 660 00:31:27,136 --> 00:31:29,138 -Black, right? -No, thank you. 661 00:31:29,305 --> 00:31:32,391 Look, Jessica, I would love it 662 00:31:32,558 --> 00:31:35,019 if you and Margaret... Jessica? What? 663 00:31:37,271 --> 00:31:38,856 Memory. 664 00:31:39,023 --> 00:31:41,066 The way people order their drinks. 665 00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:44,111 -Say again. -Margaret, keep a good thought. 666 00:31:48,198 --> 00:31:50,075 It’s 2:00 tomorrow, Nolan. 667 00:31:50,242 --> 00:31:51,994 Now that Walter’s murder is solved, 668 00:31:52,161 --> 00:31:54,038 the Planning Board’s going ahead with the final hearing. 669 00:31:54,204 --> 00:31:56,081 I think it’s safe to say 670 00:31:56,248 --> 00:31:58,584 we’ll all have reason to celebrate. 671 00:31:58,751 --> 00:32:01,045 I don’t mind tellin’ you, I slept last night, 672 00:32:01,211 --> 00:32:02,796 knowin’ the cops are off my case. 673 00:32:02,963 --> 00:32:04,882 To sleeping. 674 00:32:07,176 --> 00:32:09,261 Oh, Jessica, what a lovely surprise. 675 00:32:09,428 --> 00:32:11,597 -Do you have a few moments, Carol? -Of course. 676 00:32:11,764 --> 00:32:13,599 I’ve got a few things to take care of. Why don’t you have a seat? 677 00:32:13,766 --> 00:32:15,309 Thanks. 678 00:32:17,269 --> 00:32:20,939 I don’t for a moment believe that Margaret killed Walter Gillrich. 679 00:32:21,106 --> 00:32:25,986 Carol, I must ask you to be very truthful with me. 680 00:32:26,153 --> 00:32:27,696 And I haven’t been? 681 00:32:27,863 --> 00:32:31,158 You and Eugene Gillrich were not only bitter enemies, 682 00:32:31,325 --> 00:32:34,119 but each one of you said that you hadn’t met until the hearing. 683 00:32:34,286 --> 00:32:36,330 That wasn’t the truth? 684 00:32:36,497 --> 00:32:37,831 The night of the rally, 685 00:32:37,998 --> 00:32:40,167 Mr. Gillrich offered us a round of drinks, 686 00:32:40,334 --> 00:32:42,878 and I overheard him tell the barkeeper 687 00:32:43,045 --> 00:32:45,756 that you preferred one with an onion, 688 00:32:45,923 --> 00:32:47,424 as you have here. 689 00:32:47,591 --> 00:32:49,510 That’s what I asked for. 690 00:32:49,677 --> 00:32:52,137 No. You simply said a martini. 691 00:32:52,304 --> 00:32:55,057 He volunteered the onion. 692 00:32:56,809 --> 00:32:59,603 You oughta be running our committee. 693 00:32:59,770 --> 00:33:02,231 Eugene Gillrich, on tape, 694 00:33:02,398 --> 00:33:06,694 offering me $50,000 to withdraw the committee’s objections 695 00:33:06,860 --> 00:33:08,112 to his project. 696 00:33:08,278 --> 00:33:09,988 He thought you’d go for that? 697 00:33:10,155 --> 00:33:13,242 I find that pillow talk brings out a man’s generosity 698 00:33:13,409 --> 00:33:14,868 and expectations. 699 00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:16,870 And I have to admit, 700 00:33:17,037 --> 00:33:20,249 it wasn’t the most unpleasant afternoon I’ve ever spent. 701 00:33:20,416 --> 00:33:22,418 You intend to present that at the hearing? 702 00:33:22,584 --> 00:33:24,628 Push comes to shove, yes. 703 00:33:24,795 --> 00:33:27,589 If I turn this over to the Planning Board, 704 00:33:27,756 --> 00:33:29,425 Eugene Gillrich won’t be able to get a permit 705 00:33:29,591 --> 00:33:31,760 to build a doll’s house. 706 00:33:31,927 --> 00:33:34,012 And if they ask you how you got the tape, 707 00:33:34,179 --> 00:33:36,306 you could be hurt as badly as Eugene. 708 00:33:36,473 --> 00:33:37,891 Well, maybe less. 709 00:33:38,058 --> 00:33:40,394 My reputation is already a bit tarnished, 710 00:33:40,561 --> 00:33:41,979 and he’s got a wife. 711 00:33:42,146 --> 00:33:44,523 Jessica, in my divorce, 712 00:33:44,690 --> 00:33:47,651 I got the park avenue apartment, period. 713 00:33:47,818 --> 00:33:52,364 $50,000 is inordinately tempting, but this... 714 00:33:52,531 --> 00:33:54,575 this is more important. 715 00:33:54,742 --> 00:33:56,910 -Hiya, Pete. -Hello, Al. 716 00:33:57,077 --> 00:33:59,913 Well, that day of days. 717 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,583 My social security check. 718 00:34:02,750 --> 00:34:04,251 Right on schedule. 719 00:34:04,418 --> 00:34:07,129 Hey, listen, would you mind giving Mrs. Rhodes her mail? 720 00:34:07,296 --> 00:34:08,797 The vestibule’s all blocked up back there. 721 00:34:08,964 --> 00:34:10,299 No problem, Al. 722 00:34:10,466 --> 00:34:13,093 -Is this all? -That’s it. Have a good one. 723 00:34:14,344 --> 00:34:16,013 Excuse me. 724 00:34:18,015 --> 00:34:19,475 Pete, since you’re on duty, 725 00:34:19,641 --> 00:34:21,769 why don’t you let me take Mrs. Rhodes up her mail? 726 00:34:21,935 --> 00:34:24,313 Oh, be my guest, Mrs. Fletcher. 727 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,775 My knees, I never mind letting someone else walk up those four flights. 728 00:34:31,987 --> 00:34:34,782 Hey, pal, you gotta understand.I can’t lose. 729 00:34:34,948 --> 00:34:37,284 Either this place gets declared a landmark, 730 00:34:37,451 --> 00:34:40,078 and I stay, or it’s torn down and I reopen on the East side. 731 00:34:40,245 --> 00:34:42,164 Okay, look, 732 00:34:42,331 --> 00:34:44,249 I’m sure it’s not gonna come as a big surprise to you 733 00:34:44,416 --> 00:34:46,293 that if Gillrich wins, I win. 734 00:34:46,460 --> 00:34:48,504 And if he loses, you’re dead, I heard. Too bad. 735 00:34:48,670 --> 00:34:51,256 You ever tend bar? We’re gonna need some help around here. 736 00:34:51,423 --> 00:34:53,133 That’s cute. 737 00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:56,094 All right, listen, I have a proposition for you. 738 00:34:56,261 --> 00:34:58,889 You close down the bar for one month while we dig up the basement 739 00:34:59,056 --> 00:35:01,767 to find the bones of Dutch Schultz’ victims for the TV cameras. 740 00:35:01,934 --> 00:35:06,647 I pay you a fat fee as co-host and co-producer of my TV special. 741 00:35:06,814 --> 00:35:08,982 Me and my place, coast to coast. 742 00:35:09,149 --> 00:35:12,027 Right. I’m tellin’ you, the tourists will be lined up from here to Hoboken, 743 00:35:12,194 --> 00:35:15,280 because they saw you and the 65 on my show. 744 00:35:15,447 --> 00:35:17,407 Yeah. Yeah, I love it. 745 00:35:17,574 --> 00:35:19,284 I’m telling you, 746 00:35:19,451 --> 00:35:22,496 you’re gonna parlay beer, burgers and blarney 747 00:35:22,663 --> 00:35:24,790 [Irish accent] into a huge pile of green cash. 748 00:35:24,957 --> 00:35:27,417 La Rocca, you grave-robbin’ scuzz, 749 00:35:27,584 --> 00:35:29,461 you get outta my joint now! 750 00:35:49,273 --> 00:35:51,984 Mrs. Rhodes? 751 00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:53,944 My name is Jessica Fletcher. 752 00:35:54,111 --> 00:35:57,656 We haven’t met, but I have your mail here. 753 00:35:57,823 --> 00:36:01,326 There’s two magazines, 754 00:36:01,493 --> 00:36:04,413 but no social security check. 755 00:36:04,580 --> 00:36:08,125 Unless you would prefer that the police deliver it? 756 00:36:08,292 --> 00:36:10,210 [unlocking door] 757 00:36:15,007 --> 00:36:18,468 Mrs. Fletcher, you caught me. 758 00:36:22,264 --> 00:36:25,100 It was a bit difficult to swallow-- 759 00:36:25,267 --> 00:36:28,145 an 87-year-old woman who subscribes to fitness magazines, 760 00:36:28,312 --> 00:36:30,522 and doesn’t get a social security check. 761 00:36:30,689 --> 00:36:33,150 Mrs. Rhodes was a dear, Mrs. Fletcher. 762 00:36:33,317 --> 00:36:34,902 I mean, in the last months of her life, 763 00:36:35,068 --> 00:36:37,613 I went from visiting nurse to live-in. 764 00:36:37,779 --> 00:36:39,656 I even wrote the checks to pay her bills. 765 00:36:39,823 --> 00:36:41,491 And you gave up your apartment? 766 00:36:41,658 --> 00:36:43,702 Well, nothing much to give up. 767 00:36:43,869 --> 00:36:46,163 I’d been rooming with two other girls. 768 00:36:46,330 --> 00:36:49,333 Anyway, Mrs. Rhodes had no family or friends, 769 00:36:49,499 --> 00:36:52,044 so she left what little she had to me. 770 00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:54,755 Four years ago, she passed away. 771 00:36:54,922 --> 00:36:56,882 And you never told the landlord. 772 00:36:57,049 --> 00:36:58,634 Mrs. Fletcher, I kept meaning to. 773 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,844 But the days turned to weeks, and then months, 774 00:37:01,011 --> 00:37:03,680 and then, when I finally started shopping for an apartment, 775 00:37:03,847 --> 00:37:05,724 the prices were through the roof. 776 00:37:05,891 --> 00:37:09,019 So you kept 4B at a low profile 777 00:37:09,186 --> 00:37:10,812 as nurse to a non-existent patient, 778 00:37:10,979 --> 00:37:13,649 and saved yourself a fortune in rent. 779 00:37:13,815 --> 00:37:15,233 Thousands. 780 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,027 I guess, in the back of my mind, 781 00:37:17,194 --> 00:37:19,196 I knew I was breaking the law, but... 782 00:37:19,363 --> 00:37:21,865 I wonder what the penalty is for rent fraud. 783 00:37:23,158 --> 00:37:25,118 -Hop in. -Where to? 784 00:37:25,285 --> 00:37:27,079 Across the street. 785 00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:28,914 See the parking sign? 786 00:37:29,081 --> 00:37:32,209 In three minutes, we’re all illegally parked here, 787 00:37:32,376 --> 00:37:34,211 so I gotta move across the street 788 00:37:34,378 --> 00:37:36,630 where it’s okay to park after 3:00. 789 00:37:36,797 --> 00:37:38,924 You gotta be crazy to keep a car here. 790 00:37:39,091 --> 00:37:42,469 I am shifting from one side to the other every couple of days. 791 00:37:42,636 --> 00:37:44,680 Well, it’s the same on my block. 792 00:37:44,846 --> 00:37:46,473 -It’s like musical chairs. -Yeah, really. 793 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,601 So, meanwhile, I’m taking cabs and buses. 794 00:37:49,768 --> 00:37:51,186 It’s cheaper than gettin’ towed, 795 00:37:51,353 --> 00:37:52,688 or a garage. 796 00:37:52,854 --> 00:37:55,315 -Josie, that’s it! -What’s it? 797 00:37:55,482 --> 00:37:57,484 A missing piece. 798 00:37:57,651 --> 00:37:59,361 Thank you very much. 799 00:37:59,528 --> 00:38:01,446 Hurry. Move your car. 800 00:38:06,118 --> 00:38:08,412 Artie, I’m grateful you’re going out on a limb for me. 801 00:38:08,578 --> 00:38:11,665 -I hope it works. -Out on a limb? Let me put it this way. 802 00:38:11,832 --> 00:38:14,334 If you’re wrong, school crossing guard’s gonna look like a promotion. 803 00:38:14,501 --> 00:38:16,211 Wish us luck, Jessica. 804 00:38:16,378 --> 00:38:18,213 I don’t think you’re gonna need it, Carol. 805 00:38:18,380 --> 00:38:20,424 I prefer it that way. You here on business, Lieutenant? 806 00:38:20,590 --> 00:38:23,301 -Yes, I am. -So are we. Come on, Carol. 807 00:38:25,595 --> 00:38:27,931 Lieutenant, any new developments I should know about? 808 00:38:28,098 --> 00:38:30,183 Something that, um, might affect the outcome? 809 00:38:30,350 --> 00:38:32,102 Hang loose, La Rocca. 810 00:38:32,269 --> 00:38:35,188 You could turn out to be a development yourself. 811 00:38:37,816 --> 00:38:40,027 I love to make guys like that squirm. 812 00:38:46,533 --> 00:38:48,410 Lieutenant, Mrs. Fletcher. 813 00:38:48,577 --> 00:38:50,704 Not to taint the committee’s credibility, Lieutenant, 814 00:38:50,871 --> 00:38:52,581 but Miss Johnson, has she confessed yet? 815 00:38:52,748 --> 00:38:54,541 She hasn’t confessed. 816 00:38:54,708 --> 00:38:56,585 -And Mr. Gillrich, you got a minute? -One. 817 00:38:56,752 --> 00:38:58,920 Okay, a couple of details I need to clean up. 818 00:38:59,087 --> 00:39:02,007 You stated that you were at the 65 last Tuesday night 819 00:39:02,174 --> 00:39:04,384 between 6:00 and 9:30. 820 00:39:04,551 --> 00:39:07,220 We’ve done this.The time is on our bar check. 821 00:39:07,387 --> 00:39:09,973 Lieutenant, you’ve got your killer. What is this about? 822 00:39:10,140 --> 00:39:12,267 Well, it’s about a parking space, Mr. Gillrich. 823 00:39:12,434 --> 00:39:14,102 The evening your brother was killed, 824 00:39:14,269 --> 00:39:16,438 Margaret Johnson and I noticed 825 00:39:16,605 --> 00:39:19,691 that your wife was fortunate enough to find a parking space 826 00:39:19,858 --> 00:39:22,986 almost directly in front of Number 65 West 64th Street, 827 00:39:23,153 --> 00:39:26,198 despite the fact that it was a few minutes after 6:00. 828 00:39:26,364 --> 00:39:28,658 Yeah, when most of the spaces were already long gone. 829 00:39:28,825 --> 00:39:30,577 -What’s wrong with that? -Oh, nothing. 830 00:39:30,744 --> 00:39:33,413 And when your husband mentioned that you had taken a cab home, 831 00:39:33,580 --> 00:39:35,874 the inconsistency slipped by me. 832 00:39:36,041 --> 00:39:37,918 -And everybody else. -Until nurse miles 833 00:39:38,085 --> 00:39:40,378 explained the parking hassle to me. 834 00:39:40,545 --> 00:39:42,380 Mrs. Gillrich, if your car 835 00:39:42,547 --> 00:39:45,092 was parked outside the 65 where I saw it, 836 00:39:45,258 --> 00:39:47,761 why didn’t you drive it home instead of taking a taxi? 837 00:39:47,928 --> 00:39:49,471 What is this about, Lieutenant? 838 00:39:49,638 --> 00:39:51,098 Honey, you know what they’re talking about? 839 00:39:51,264 --> 00:39:53,558 I think it’s called common sense, darling. 840 00:39:53,725 --> 00:39:58,146 We’d both been drinking, so leaving my car and taking a cab home 841 00:39:58,313 --> 00:40:00,107 was the safe, sane thing to do. 842 00:40:00,273 --> 00:40:01,858 Yeah, Gelber, I don’t know what your game is, 843 00:40:02,025 --> 00:40:04,986 or what kind of balloons Mrs. Fletcher here is floating, 844 00:40:05,153 --> 00:40:06,988 but I read it as harassment, 845 00:40:07,155 --> 00:40:08,448 and the commissioner is gonna hear about it 846 00:40:08,615 --> 00:40:10,158 the minute that this hearing is concluded. 847 00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:11,618 Now if you’ll excuse us. 848 00:40:11,785 --> 00:40:13,954 Got it, Lieutenant, just like you said. 849 00:40:14,121 --> 00:40:15,539 Don’t look so disappointed, Henderson. 850 00:40:15,705 --> 00:40:17,082 I warned you we might solve this one. 851 00:40:17,249 --> 00:40:19,793 Mrs. Fletcher and I weren’t all that certain 852 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,420 this proof existed, Mrs. Gillrich. 853 00:40:22,587 --> 00:40:25,882 Proof? Of what? 854 00:40:26,049 --> 00:40:29,052 I have to ask both of you to accompany me downtown. 855 00:40:34,933 --> 00:40:36,268 [Eugene]What the hell are these? 856 00:40:36,434 --> 00:40:38,645 Parking ticket issued to your vehicle, 857 00:40:38,812 --> 00:40:41,648 and the log-in sheet from the impound lot where it was towed 858 00:40:41,815 --> 00:40:45,360 after being ticketed at 9:02 in front of 65 West 64th. 859 00:40:45,527 --> 00:40:47,988 No parking after 9:00 p.m. that side of the street. 860 00:40:48,155 --> 00:40:50,490 Everyone in the 65 heard the bartender warn 861 00:40:50,657 --> 00:40:52,868 that illegally parked cars were about to be towed. 862 00:40:53,034 --> 00:40:54,578 You never told me you brought your car. 863 00:40:54,744 --> 00:40:56,872 But you weren’t there, Mrs. Gillrich. 864 00:40:57,038 --> 00:41:00,625 You had gone back to the Gillrich brothers’ offices to murder Walter. 865 00:41:00,792 --> 00:41:02,627 What?! 866 00:41:02,794 --> 00:41:05,130 I suspect that you took a taxi to your husband’s office. 867 00:41:05,297 --> 00:41:07,132 And since no one saw you leave the 65 bar, 868 00:41:07,299 --> 00:41:10,177 or return, my guess is that you used the side door 869 00:41:10,343 --> 00:41:13,763 just beyond the restrooms, and returned the same way. 870 00:41:13,930 --> 00:41:16,266 And got back too late to hear the bartender’s warning. 871 00:41:16,433 --> 00:41:19,311 What is this "left by a side door", Mrs. Fletcher? 872 00:41:19,477 --> 00:41:22,314 -She was with me all evening. -Not true, Mr. Gillrich. 873 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,233 Part of the night, I saw you alone with Nolan Walsh. 874 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,485 That’s your signature from the impound lot. 875 00:41:27,652 --> 00:41:29,529 You retrieved your car the next day. 876 00:41:29,696 --> 00:41:31,615 Ticket and towing, $140. 877 00:41:31,781 --> 00:41:33,992 Doesn’t pay to keep a car in New York city. 878 00:41:34,159 --> 00:41:35,994 This is insane. 879 00:41:36,161 --> 00:41:37,871 I mean, so my car was towed. 880 00:41:38,038 --> 00:41:40,290 I forgot to move it in time, 881 00:41:40,457 --> 00:41:42,959 and I was embarrassed to admit it to my husband. 882 00:41:43,126 --> 00:41:44,753 The police have the bullet, Mrs. Gillrich. 883 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,796 I’m fairly certain it will prove 884 00:41:46,963 --> 00:41:48,840 to have been fired from your gun. 885 00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:50,884 Lee? 886 00:41:52,427 --> 00:41:54,346 I lost the gun months ago. 887 00:41:54,512 --> 00:41:56,723 Don’t you remember? 888 00:41:56,890 --> 00:41:58,850 I saw it last week in your dressing table. 889 00:41:59,017 --> 00:42:01,311 Paraffin tests will prove that you fired it. 890 00:42:01,478 --> 00:42:03,355 Along with everything else, 891 00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:05,815 I doubt we’ll have any trouble getting a murder one indictment. 892 00:42:05,982 --> 00:42:08,777 Lee, talk to me. 893 00:42:10,862 --> 00:42:13,323 When Margaret got the phone call from Walter... 894 00:42:15,784 --> 00:42:19,496 I could hear her surprise, and pleasure. 895 00:42:19,663 --> 00:42:22,332 He invited her to meet him at the office, 896 00:42:22,499 --> 00:42:24,209 and I just had to find out what they were up to, 897 00:42:24,376 --> 00:42:26,878 and Eugene was busy working the room. 898 00:42:27,045 --> 00:42:29,339 I saw a rear exit sign by the powder room, 899 00:42:29,506 --> 00:42:31,925 and I didn’t want to lose my parking space, 900 00:42:32,092 --> 00:42:33,593 so I took a taxi. 901 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,470 I let myself in with my parking key, 902 00:42:35,637 --> 00:42:37,514 and took the elevator straight up, 903 00:42:37,681 --> 00:42:40,850 bypassing the guard and the lobby sign-in sheet. 904 00:42:41,017 --> 00:42:43,311 I got to the office before Margaret and Walter. 905 00:42:43,478 --> 00:42:45,397 I didn’t realize they had met downstairs 906 00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:47,315 for a drink first. 907 00:42:47,482 --> 00:42:49,651 I was ready to give up waiting when I heard them 908 00:42:49,818 --> 00:42:51,653 coming through the reception area. 909 00:42:51,820 --> 00:42:53,697 I slipped into Eugene’s office. 910 00:43:01,663 --> 00:43:03,373 It was pretty obvious 911 00:43:03,540 --> 00:43:05,542 that Walter was already half convinced 912 00:43:05,709 --> 00:43:08,086 that my husband was destroying old Manhattan, 913 00:43:08,253 --> 00:43:11,715 and Margaret Johnson was taking him the rest of the way. 914 00:43:11,881 --> 00:43:13,591 I heard Walter promising 915 00:43:13,758 --> 00:43:16,052 that he’d convince Eugene to build elsewhere 916 00:43:16,219 --> 00:43:19,180 to spare those decrepit, God-awful brownstones, 917 00:43:19,347 --> 00:43:21,808 and it was making me furious. 918 00:43:21,975 --> 00:43:23,977 I couldn’t believe that Walter could find that woman 919 00:43:24,144 --> 00:43:26,396 sexually attractive, but there it was. 920 00:43:26,563 --> 00:43:28,148 She was making the most of it. 921 00:43:28,315 --> 00:43:30,025 I stayed out of sight until she left. 922 00:43:34,279 --> 00:43:37,115 And then, it was my turn to talk shop with Walter. 923 00:43:39,242 --> 00:43:41,911 For god’s sake, Walter, what’s your job here? 924 00:43:42,078 --> 00:43:43,246 Getting in the way of a dollar? 925 00:43:43,413 --> 00:43:46,207 What is yours, spying? 926 00:43:46,374 --> 00:43:48,084 Listen, damn you, 927 00:43:48,251 --> 00:43:49,753 Eugene has put everything he’s got on the line 928 00:43:49,919 --> 00:43:51,755 for this project. Everything. 929 00:43:51,921 --> 00:43:54,257 And you’re willing to buy a stupid woman’s story-- 930 00:43:54,424 --> 00:43:56,009 -Shut up! -No, I won’t. 931 00:43:56,176 --> 00:43:57,927 Not until I’m finished. 932 00:43:58,094 --> 00:44:02,557 Eugene may feel an obligation to carry you, Walter, 933 00:44:02,724 --> 00:44:04,726 but I don’t. 934 00:44:04,893 --> 00:44:08,146 You’ve never been anything but dead weight dragging him down. 935 00:44:08,313 --> 00:44:09,981 Turn around, damn you, I’m not finished. 936 00:44:10,148 --> 00:44:12,734 Fine. 937 00:44:12,901 --> 00:44:14,944 I’ll leave it up to Eugene. 938 00:44:15,111 --> 00:44:17,739 Either he dumps you, or I take a hike. 939 00:44:17,906 --> 00:44:20,325 It’s you or me. 940 00:44:20,492 --> 00:44:23,912 Well, that’s the first good idea you’ve had. 941 00:44:24,079 --> 00:44:26,331 Let Eugene choose between you and me, 942 00:44:26,498 --> 00:44:28,917 and then, perhaps, he’ll come to his senses about you. 943 00:44:29,084 --> 00:44:32,796 Lee, close the door on your way out. 944 00:44:38,009 --> 00:44:40,136 Turn around, Walter, or I’ll kill you. 945 00:44:41,638 --> 00:44:44,516 I’m not kidding! 946 00:44:44,682 --> 00:44:46,893 [Jessica] And then, to make it look as if Walter 947 00:44:47,060 --> 00:44:50,897 was shot by mistake, you wheeled him into your husband’s office. 948 00:44:51,064 --> 00:44:53,900 And I put Eugene’s chair in Walter’s office. 949 00:44:54,067 --> 00:44:57,320 When I got back to the 65, I saw that my car had been towed. 950 00:44:57,487 --> 00:44:58,822 So you said nothing about it, 951 00:44:58,988 --> 00:45:00,698 and took a taxi home to your husband. 952 00:45:03,743 --> 00:45:05,286 Oh, god, Eugene, I’m... 953 00:45:07,247 --> 00:45:08,998 there’s no gun permit on file. 954 00:45:09,165 --> 00:45:11,459 I bought it for her out of state. 955 00:45:11,626 --> 00:45:14,712 I insisted she have it, 956 00:45:14,879 --> 00:45:16,548 for protection. 957 00:45:16,714 --> 00:45:19,217 He wasn’t just my brother. 958 00:45:19,384 --> 00:45:21,469 He was my conscience. 959 00:45:21,636 --> 00:45:24,764 He might’ve talked me into sparing those BrownStones. 960 00:45:34,107 --> 00:45:37,068 And if it had come to choosing between us? 961 00:45:39,612 --> 00:45:42,365 I’m never gonna have to make that decision. 962 00:45:50,665 --> 00:45:52,625 And with the preservation designation, 963 00:45:52,792 --> 00:45:55,879 as well as Eugene Gillrich filing Chapter 11, 964 00:45:56,045 --> 00:45:58,923 and pleading no contest to bribery charges, 965 00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:01,926 the disputed brownstones are here to stay. 966 00:46:04,762 --> 00:46:08,308 Now, to my father and my grandfather. 967 00:46:08,475 --> 00:46:09,767 And to Eugene O’Neill... 968 00:46:09,934 --> 00:46:11,186 Ernest Hemingway... 969 00:46:11,352 --> 00:46:12,562 oh, Mrs. Rhodes. 970 00:46:12,729 --> 00:46:14,898 Don’t forget Dutch Schultz. 971 00:46:15,064 --> 00:46:16,191 And have I got good news for you. 972 00:46:16,357 --> 00:46:18,276 You mean about Margaret being elected 973 00:46:18,443 --> 00:46:21,196 -Head of the committee? -Better. My grandson Josh. 974 00:46:21,362 --> 00:46:22,572 We decided against the Wee School. 975 00:46:22,739 --> 00:46:24,324 Kid’s too smart for them, anyway. 976 00:46:24,491 --> 00:46:25,909 Instead, he’s gonna be in a weekend program 977 00:46:26,075 --> 00:46:27,994 for one-year-olds in central park. 978 00:46:28,161 --> 00:46:29,996 Great. Isn’t it wonderful that the City has such a program? 979 00:46:30,163 --> 00:46:31,998 What city? 980 00:46:32,165 --> 00:46:36,294 Doris decided she and I are gonna take Josh and the kids.