[Jessica] Tonight on Murder, She Wrote.
There’s nothing to be scared of.
[screams]
Puncture marks on their necks.
I found enough ways to murder someone.
You ask him who he is, where he comes from.
I’m not so sure about that, Sheriff.
My sister did not just disappear. Something happened to her.
Looks to me like a wooden stake.
Vampire?
You must be joking.
I know who you are.
[girl] I am not so sure about this.
[boy] Come on, please, don’t back out on me now.
[girl] But why here?
[boy] Well, why not?
Hey, at least we have some privacy.
[owl hooting]
[girl] What was that?
It’s just an old hoot owl. Hey, come on.
God, I feel like we’re in the middle of one of those horror movies.
-A horror movie? -Yes.
Look at me, look at me.
Would I ever let anything happen to you?
[laughs]
[loud rustling]
What was that? It came from over there.
Billy.
Billy, let’s go.
I mean, this was a really lousy idea.
I told you, there’s nothing to be scared of.
There’s nobody out here except you...
and me, and the moon.
[loud scraping, man breathing heavily]
[groaning and gasping]
-Geez! -[screams]
[Billy] Come on!
Let’s go, let’s go!
[drill whirring]
[Jessica] I’m out of tape.
Wouldn’t you know? Murphy’s law.
Wait a minute. I think I’ve got some.
I know I have more, but I have no idea where.
Is anything wrong, Charlie?
Oh, this is, uh...
This is from Laurel. She used to do things like that.
She’d put little notes here and there,
so that I’d think about her.
She must’ve put this one in there just before she...
I’m so sorry.
You know,
if things had worked out as we planned,
we’d have been married a year by now.
[phone rings]
Hello. Mr. Baker?
Yes, yes, he’s right here.
-For you. -Thank you.
Mr. Baker, I really...
Yeah, no, no.
I told you your specs were wrong.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay, okay. Yes!
Jessica, I’m afraid I’m gonna have to go over there again.
Oh, now, just a minute, Charles.
I’m sorry, but I’ve got to.
I’ll be back first thing tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow morning? But what about the electricity in here?
Uh, it’s a bad circuit breaker.
The supply store won’t have one for me until tomorrow.
You know, I wish I had never bid on this Baker job.
The man is one colossal pain.
Look, Charles, this is really unacceptable.
Listen, Jessica, I told Baker that your job had to come first.
He’s just antsy, that’s all.
Believe me, I hate spreading myself this thin,
but I promise you that I will be here in the morning.
Early.
-Doc. -Charlie.
Well, you look like a lady whose house is not getting fixed
as promptly as she would prefer.
Well, that is the understatement of the week.
So lights out again. Electricity?
They discovered that the wiring is obsolete, along with the plumbing.
It’s just been one thing after another.
It’s a lot like life, isn’t it?
So, what happened to the rest of the peach pie?
Oh, I gave it to Sheriff Metzger.
It would’ve spoiled anyway.
I’ve got some coffee in a thermos in the dining room.
Well, you could’ve given the pie to me.
After all, Mort didn’t have to spend his morning
playing fright therapist to an hysterical teenager.
Fright?
Well, yes. Thank you. Carla Thompson.
Scared out of her wits at the cemetery last night.
What was she doing there?
Didn’t say. Up to no good, I expect.
Kept rambling on about somebody rising from the dead.
[chuckles]
Oh, Mr. Jatich. Hello.
I, uh...
think Mr. Baker’s expecting me.
[German accent] Yes, of course.
May I take your coat?
[hinges squeaking]
Oh, Molly.
Good evening. Please come in and sit down.
Oh, thank you, Mr. Baker.
So what do you have for me this evening?
My father and I thought you might like this.
Oh, excuse me. Am I interrupting your dinner?
Oh, no, this is... this is our dinner.
To make up for our time being cut so short last evening.
Oh, thanks,
but, uh, I have to...
Just call whomever it is and tell them you’ve been, uh,
unavoidably detained.
Peter, would you serve the first course, please?
Oh, course? Mr. Baker, I can’t...
Please.
It’s Larry.
[Baker] Interesting motif...
Where have I seen that before?
Yes, it’s the duomo at Lucca, isn't it?
Daddy.
Aren’t you working awful late?
Aren’t you?
Actually, yes, I was.
Dave called.
I know. I spoke to him.
He was pretty bent out of shape.
Said it’s the third time you’ve broken dates with him this month.
I’m surprised he noticed.
Molly, give him a break.
I have...
for 18 months now.
He’ll get over it.
I’m kinda tired.
Mr. Baker make up his mind yet?
He’s tending towards a couple of the florals
from the Devlin collection.
Huh. It’s a good thing I don’t have to pay you by the hour.
So I’m afraid with all of the distractions...
Well, I think I will be able to fax you
the fourth chapter tomorrow night,
but don’t hold me to it.
Right. Well, you’re a dear.
Goodbye.
Uh, look, I have some other samples back at the office.
I can run back there and get them,
or like I said, we can do this later.
Well, perhaps tomorrow would be better, okay?
Great.
I have to get these books over to one of our other customers.
Do you know Mr. Baker?
He bought that old Victorian house over on Oak Street.
Oh, you mean the Borbey house?
No, I haven’t met him.
Oh, he is so demanding, but he really knows what he wants.
And he seems to be getting it.
[doorbell rings]
Oh, dear. I’d just about given up hope for the plumber.
Fletcher, JB.
The bathtub?
Line 13.
A plumber was supposed to come this morning,
remove the old one, so this could go right in.
Sorry about that.
I was given to understand
that there was a limit to the number of books
that you can take out of this place at any one time.
Well, Jean was kind enough to take pity on a stranded writer.
So what’s it gonna be today, Jessica?
More books on poison, or man-eating fish?
Or what was it... electrocution.
Lethal snakes.
-Ew! -[Jessica laughs]
No, no, I found enough ways to murder someone
to last me for my next eight books.
-Mrs. Fletcher? -Yes.
Forgive me, but I must compliment you
on your most recent book, Crypt of Death.
Oh, you certainly know your sepulchers.
Well, thank you. I spend a lot of time in libraries.
[Jean] It was Dr. Sorenson’s book,
Burial practices: From the dark ages until today
that you wanted me to get for you from the Boston library.
I heard that you were in Cabot Cove, Dr. Sorenson.
Research?
What I hope will be my almost magnum opus.
Middle European supernatural phenomenon
in New England.
[Jean] Dr. Sorenson’s devoting
a whole chapter to the Borbey family.
Ah, you mean, on their being, uh...
what do you call ’em, vampires?
Don’t tell me you believe that old yarn.
Dr. Hazlitt, is it?
Despite what the medical establishment would have us believe, Doctor,
there are a great many things in this world
which defy rational explanations.
And there always seems to be someone ready to peddle the irrational ones
and enough fools around to buy them.
Coming, Jessica?
Seth...
The town records are woefully incomplete.
I’m afraid the graveyard appears to be my best bet.
Dr. Sorenson is studying all the tombstones.
Just a minute. Are you the one
that’s been going around scaring the daylights
out of some of our local teenagers?
Excuse us, Dr. Sorenson. We have some errands to run.
Jessica, I may not be a certified shrink,
but I can tell you without fear of contradiction,
that man is committable.
Let’s go get your car before you boil over.
What am I supposed to do, huh? Give up?
It’s been 18 months.
Maybe she doesn’t want to be found.
Oh, that’s encouraging.
Look, I told you this was gonna delay things, us, I mean.
That it was gonna cost money.
Every spare penny that Charlie and I can lay our hands on.
Dave, I don’t blame you for wondering or trying,
but this isn’t about money.
It’s about moving on with our lives.
I loved Laurel, too.
She was like a sister to me, for goodness sake.
Molly, I don’t wanna lose you.
My sister did not just disappear.
Something happened to her, and I’m gonna find out what.
Molly.
-Hi, Mrs. Fletcher. -Dave.
Doc, if you wanna head on over to the garage,
your car’s all done. I just had to flush the cooling system.
[Mort] Hey, Doc, Mrs. F.
Your kitchen finished yet?
I’m afraid not, Sheriff.
Well, anything else you’re afraid might spoil, I’m your guy.
That peach pie was sensational.
You don’t have to rub it in, Sheriff.
Charlie kinda short-changing your job, too?
Well, Mr. Baker seems to be keeping him very busy.
I’m beginning to get rather annoyed.
Beginning? You should’ve heard her go on about it last night.
-I guess money still talks. -[Seth] Exactly.
Ask me, Mr. Lawrence Baker
has been calling most of the shots around here
since the day he moved in.
Do I detect a few sour grapes there,
because you don’t happen to have any real estate
he’s interested in buying?
If I did, I wouldn’t sell it to him.
So, Sheriff, any news?
Negative, Dave.
This PI you hired oughta get his eyes examined.
That woman he spotted in the motel in Kennebunk,
she was 50 if she was a day and short.
Really?
Well, thanks for checkin’ it out, Sheriff.
Listen, Dave,
we gotta talk.
That’s the seventh time this month.
It’s kinda eating into our resources.
I understand.
[Dave] I brought Mr. Baker’s car back.
There’s a bill that needs to be paid.
[Jatich] You can just give the bill to me
and we’ll take care of it tomorrow.
[Dave] That’s not good enough. I ran up a parts and labor tab.
It has to be taken care of immediately.
[Jatich] I’m sorry, but Mr. Baker is busy.
He’s not available right now.
You can go get him, because I wanna be paid now.
-I told you, he’s not-- -[Baker] Peter.
It’s all right.
This, uh... wheel alignment?
Was it absolutely necessary?
It was pulling to the right.
Hmm.
That’s correct.
-Your Molly Holt’s friend, aren’t you? -Friend?
She told me about your missing sister.
Did she also tell you we plan on getting married?
No, she didn’t.
Well, you might want to keep that in mind, okay?
You might want to mention that to her.
Peter, pay the man.
Mr. Perrin, leave my house
before you have an accident.
If you hurt Molly, I swear...
[Molly] Dave.
Please.
[laughing]
You won’t even kiss me now.
Come on.
Okay, you have to kiss me right now. Will you?
Maybe.
[screaming]
It’s right there. That’s where it was.
You don’t have to look, Carla.
After what happened in the cemetery the other night,
I’m not surprised you didn’t call the Sheriff till this morning.
You shouldn’t even be here, child.
Sorry about that, Doc. She’s a material witness.
Well, Sheriff, I’d say
you didn’t need the services of a medical doctor.
What you need...
is a window dresser.
Department store mannequin.
-[Billy] You’re kidding? -[Charlie] Thank god.
Well, at least you can’t blame me for this one, Sheriff.
I can’t blame them either.
In the moonlight, that thing would scare the heck out of anybody.
Listen, Dave, all I meant was,
try to screen out the false alarms a little better.
We’ll take care of it, Sheriff.
If you had to guess, Sheriff,
what would you say the chances are
of finding Laurel Perrin alive?
Between you and me, slim to none.
I made myself very clear when you bid the job.
And I am telling you for the umpteenth time,
these drawings are wrong.
It wasn’t built that way. It couldn’t have been,
because this...
this is a bearing wall.
It was here when I remodeled the place the last time,
it had to have been here from the get-go back in 1847, because otherwise,
the whole thing would’ve sagged and collapsed a long time ago.
You wanna explain something to me?
Why isn’t it on the original drawings?
If I had to guess, uh...
the builders realized...
the need for it when they were puttin’ the place up
and they just never bothered to change the original drawings.
And you’re telling me it can’t be taken out.
Of course I’m not.
Some hefty footings, steel I-beams, reinforcements.
I gotta tell you, with these two rooms opened up like that,
it’d be gorgeous. We’re talking about a lot of money here.
Ah!
How much?
Mm, let’s see.
Engineering, geology,
steel fabrication. Minimum?
Double my original bid.
You know, I don’t like being sandbagged, Mr. Wetherly.
Yeah? Well, I don’t like being accused of it.
Let me tell you something, Mr. Baker.
Why don’t you just get somebody else for this,
-because I don’t need this kind of grief. -Mr. Wetherly.
Do it.
Now he’s got me doin’ major demo
and rippin’ out walls.
The man is nuts.
Jessica, I feel really bad about this.
Well, you’re not half as sorry as I am, Charles.
I don’t think you have any idea how much I resent this.
Oh, that... that contractor I told you about
over in Bridgetown, Danny Corcoran.
He said he can start work this afternoon.
He’s very good, very fast, he’s got great references.
Listen, I don’t expect you to understand,
but with business being the way it is and all the people I owe money to,
and having to finish the Sheriff’s office too,
well, I was between a rock and a hard place. I’m sorry.
Could be I’m putting a rosy glow on things,
but I seem to remember when people had enough principles
to choose the hard place.
Yeah. Jonesport Hospital.
I gotcha. Thanks.
Gonna be very nice when it’s finished, Sheriff.
Yeah, "when."
What can I do for you, Miss Higgins?
There was someone snooping around the church cemetery last night.
It was probably that Sorenson fella.
He’s been keeping some strange hours, but outside of scaring a couple of kids
who didn’t belong there in the first place...
Look, Miss Higgins, I gotta...
Wait a minute, Sheriff. I heard about Dr. Sorenson.
But does he have a permit to dig up graves?
You saw him digging?
I couldn’t make out who it was,
-but I could hear it. -Excuse me. Andy.
Look, Miss Higgins, I gotta run,
but Deputy Broom is gonna take your statement
and I promise you, we’ll get into it just as soon as we can.
That’s a promise.
-She’s comatose? -Automobile accident, Jane Doe,
-they said she fits Laurel’s description. -How bad is she?
I was just coming to that. You better prepare yourself for a shock.
Hospital said she’s got burns, head injuries.
-She’s critical. -Oh, God.
Hey, Dave.
Hope everything turns out okay.
Thanks, Mort.
-[Philip] We’ve got that in stock. -Oh, wonderful.
I think my luck is changing.
You said you thought it would take two rolls for the bathroom?
I believe so. Yes.
Good. Then I’ll take them with me.
Mr. Corcoran is coming at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow.
I’ll get them.
Mr. Holt?
I, uh, want...
Mrs. Fletcher, isn’t it? Yes.
I recognize you from the photographs on your book jackets.
Lawrence Baker.
I understand we’re sharing a contractor.
Until today, yes.
I’m very sorry to intrude.
Uh, Mr. Holt, I wanted to speak to you
before you closed about the property that you have for sale
on the road just south of town.
It’s not for sale.
And we are closed.
Well, not according to your sign.
And my understanding is that the property is for sale.
Larry.
Molly, good evening.
I’m attempting to discuss business with your father.
We’ve got nothing to say to each other, Mr. Baker.
Oh, I think we do.
It’s obviously not about real estate, though, is it?
[Philip] She’s engaged to be married.
-Daddy. -You keep quiet.
And you, you’re old enough to be her father.
Judging from your behavior, I’m not sure you are.
Leave her alone and get out.
Evening, Molly.
Evening, Mrs. Fletcher.
Daddy, I can’t believe what you just did.
How can you be so rude?
You wanna know how?
You ask him who he is, where he comes from.
What are you talking about?
I got Bill Truslow down at the bank to run a credit check on him.
There was no record, nothing.
Nobody ever heard of Lawrence Baker.
[Jessica] That’s interesting.
According to Eve Simpson,
he paid cash for the Borbey house.
[floorboard creaks]
What are you doing in my house?
I know who you are.
What?
You must be joking.
Don’t...
don’t come any closer.
Oh, it’s gonna be lovely, Sheriff.
Yeah.
I’m really wondering how we ever got by with so little space.
Ask me, it’s just another example
of the big bang theory of government.
Keeps on expanding like the universe.
-[phone rings] -Excuse me.
Well, Jess, if you can tear yourself away from
this Taj Mahal of traffic tickets,
perhaps I can take you home.
[Mort] Hold on, Doc. Yeah.
Yeah. We’ll be right there.
There’s been a murder over at the Borbey house.
[gun cocks]
-What is that thing? -Looks to me like a wooden stake.
Driven through his heart.
I may be off-base,
but a wooden stake through the heart,
isn’t that the way they kill vampires?
Oh, for heaven’s...
Sheriff, don’t look now,
but your bubble’s a little off plum.
Doc, I meant in the movies.
I didn’t say that I believe in that stuff.
On the other hand,
it sure looks like somebody does.
-As a matter of fact... -What is it, Sheriff?
I checked out the cemetery this afternoon, the Borbey grave.
Not only was somebody tampering with it, but I found this.
-A bulb of garlic. -So?
Doc, didn’t you see any of those movies?
I had better things to do with my youth.
All right, forget the movies.
My grandmother used to tell me that, back in the old country,
people used to put garlic on graves to keep the vampires
-from rising. -Aha, it runs in the family.
Now just a second. My grandmother happened to have been a nice lady.
Sheriff, garlic is excellent for roses.
It improves the fragrance
and it also helps to control the aphids.
Oh, yeah?
Well, I didn’t see any roses growing out of that old grave.
In any case, it may interest you to know
that your "vampire" was hit on the head
prior to his assailant driving that stake through his heart.
Doc, there’s nothing in the rules
that says a vamp...
those people can’t be knocked out.
Rules? Oh, heaven help us!
[Mort] Why do I even bother?
Mr. Jatich, did anybody see you pulling the car in the garage
after you dropped Mr. Baker off at the door?
Not that I know of.
You don’t really seem too torn up about this.
I wasn’t especially fond of Mr. Baker.
Any idea how the murderer got in?
The side door was open when I came in from the garage
and found Mr. Baker.
It’s been jimmied from the outside.
[Seth] Jessica, Sheriff?
What is it, Mrs. F?
[Seth] Turn my back for one second.
I’m not sure.
[Seth] Go off and desert a person without saying a word.
Maybe we could just leave him there?
[Seth] Jessica?
Yeah, that’s right, Sheriff.
I didn’t get back from Jonesport until around,
I don’t know, 3:00 a.m.
Yeah.
No, I’m not offended. Check with the hospital.
I think the ICU nurse’s name was Burkhart.
No, it’s Burnhart. Yeah. Thanks.
Hi.
I just wanted to say I’m sorry about that woman
not turning out to be Laurel.
It’s probably just as well.
Um, hospital says she’s gonna be in there for a long time,
and even so...
My sympathies about what happened with Lawrence Baker.
Dave, um...
Listen, um,
I got a ton of work.
Right. Have a good day.
You too.
[Mort] Dr. Sorenson, did you go to the Borbey house
to see Lawrence Baker on the night of his murder?
I was alone in my room
at Hill House all evening, Sheriff.
Besides, I never met the man.
Excuse me, Sheriff. Dr. Sorenson.
I just came from the library
and according to all of these books, legend has it
that vampires can only be killed with a stake that is made of ash wood.
That is absolutely correct, Mrs. Fletcher. Why?
Because the stake in Lawrence Baker’s heart was fir.
What do you figure, Mrs. F?
The killer didn’t know the real...
vampire drill?
Or wanted us to believe that they didn’t.
Excuse me.
Jessica, could I speak with you for a moment?
Yes, of course. Excuse me.
Look, I know I really blew it with you
and I just hope you’ll accept my apologies.
I do, but...
I can’t honestly say that it will change the way I feel.
Well, I promise, one of these days,
I'm gonna make it up to you.
[Mort] Hold on. Mrs. F, you might wanna hear this.
Go on, Dr. Sorenson.
Well, the night before last, I was in the cemetery.
I decided to open the Borbey graves.
The one I opened was William Borbey’s.
The coffin was empty.
I wonder, Sheriff, are you aware
what the name Borbey translates to in English?
Yes, I checked that out at the library.
It’s Hungarian for "baker".
As in Lawrence Baker?
[Sorenson] According to my research,
Borbey House was vacated shortly after William’s death.
Or perhaps I should say, apparent death.
After that, the unusual events ceased.
Wait a minute. What unusual events?
-There were several unexplained deaths. -Like how?
[Sorenson] Well, bodies with little or no blood left in them
and puncture marks on their necks.
You’re really convinced that Lawrence Baker
was a... vampire?
Oh, no, no, no.
Is.
Do either of you know anyone in Cabot Cove
who ever saw him outside Borbey House
in the daylight?
Sheriff, when you were going through the house,
did you find any mirrors?
One, in Peter Jatich’s shaving kit.
You put that together with the fact
that before he showed up here two months ago,
he apparently didn’t even exist...
Okay, Dr. Sorenson,
there’s still a body over in the morgue with a hole in his heart
and killing people, even one of them,
is still murder.
So I think you better plan on sticking around town for a while.
Well, if you insist, Sheriff.
But may I remind you
that if Lawrence Baker is, as I believe him to be,
one of them,
he is not dead,
and therefore, is a continuing threat
to society.
Okay, Mrs. F, you’ve been awfully quiet about this whole thing.
So what do you think?
Was he or... wasn’t he?
Oh, I don’t know, Sheriff.
I mean, my instinct tells me that there’s
a logical, rational explanation for all this, but...
Yeah, what?
Jessica. Excuse me.
Sheriff. Oop, pardon.
More posters?
I’m trying a new angle.
I figured since she was in her boat the day she disappeared...
That’s a shot of the boat the day we found it on Saco Island,
I’m just hoping to jog someone’s memory.
Even if they caught a glimpse of anything strange...
Oh, my.
Dave, was your sister right or left-handed?
She was right-handed. Why?
I’m not sure. Sheriff, what time is it?
Couple of minutes to five. Why?
Will you call the Department of Building and Safety
and ask them to wait for us?
[man] I am really, really sorry, Mrs. Fletcher.
They put our files in here while they paint.
-How about this one? -[man] We looked in that one.
We’ve looked in that one.
We’ve looked in all of them, Sheriff. God, I hate this.
I had everything so organized, and now...
[sighs] I knew. I knew this would happen if we moved.
I’m gonna go check my office one more time.
Maybe there never was one.
Perhaps it was never lost.
What are you saying, Mrs. F?
That somebody stole a building permit?
You got to admit, that’s a pretty dumb thing to steal.
Excuse me, Sheriff. This just came in from Washington.
That Jatich fella that works for Mr. Baker.
His fingerprints match the guy they’ve been looking for for two years.
Entered the country illegally.
He’s wanted by the German government.
And they say he was a big deal with the Stasi,
the East German secret police.
Your government is mistaken, Sheriff.
Oh, I don’t think so, pal.
The way I figure it, Baker knew your secret
and he threatened to turn you in, so you killed him. Means, motive.
And you certainly had the opportunity,
alone with him in this old dump.
I was not alone with him.
What do you mean?
When I returned from placing the car in the garage,
I heard voices from back in the kitchen.
Voices?
You mean from a ventilator?
-Yes. -Who did you hear?
Mr. Baker and Dr. Sorenson.
They were arguing.
[Mort] You heard Sorenson kill him?
I’m not sure what I heard.
Noises.
Thumping.
The hammer driving the stake.
Then footsteps,
a door slammed, then silence.
I came through into the library
and found Mr. Baker. That’s when I called you.
[Mort] Why didn’t you tell me about hearing these voices before?
As I told you before,
I was not especially--
Fond of Baker.
At least that narrows it.
Either Sorenson lied to us, or you’re lying.
But in any case, between the two of you,
we’ve got our killer.
I’m not so sure about that, Sheriff.
Why did I even entertain the thought?
And these papers tell you who did it, right?
I’m fairly certain they do.
Now you’re gonna tell me, right?
It’s almost two feet.
Dad, that trestle table you have out in back would be perfect.
I don’t care what it is, as long as it’s bigger than this.
Just so I don’t have to listen to him complain.
-Hi, Mrs. F. -Sheriff. Philip.
Molly, here are your books back.
The stripe that I’ve marked will be just fine.
Wonderful. We can have that out to you this afternoon.
-Good. -New contractor working out?
Couldn’t be better. And I got him in the nick of time,
or Lawrence Baker would be doing it to me again
-from the grave. -I don’t get you.
The contractor, Mr. Corcoran,
has been hired by the late Mr. Baker’s attorneys.
They want him to go forward with the restoration
of the Borbey house immediately.
Meaning tomorrow... after he’s finished my job.
Makes sense.
It’ll bring more money than a fixer-upper.
I think so.
Who is that?
[Jessica] It’s me, Charles.
Jessica? What are you doing here?
Like you, Charles, unfinished business.
Oh, this?
I just stopped by to pick up some tools
and I thought I’d satisfy my curiosity.
About when that wall was put in?
Yeah, yeah. How did you know?
Mr. Jatich told me he overheard you
telling Mr. Baker that it was a bearing wall,
that it couldn’t be removed
without dangerously weakening the structure.
That’s, uh, yeah, that’s true.
Well, I was right.
This lumber dates clear back to when
this house was first built.
I don’t believe it does, Charles.
I believe that that wall was built 18 months ago
when you were remodeling the place
for the previous owners,
when Laurel Perrin vanished.
Jessica, you...
that’s crazy.
What are you talking about? What remodeling?
I never worked on this place until Mr. Baker hired me.
You can check the files.
There’d be permits on file.
Well, there would be, if you hadn’t stolen them.
Now wait a minute. That is just not true.
Charles, the real reason that you’re here
is to hide the fact that, 18 months ago,
you killed Laurel.
I loved Laurel.
I could never have killed her.
It’s also the reason you made sure
you submitted the winning bid
when you heard that Lawrence Baker wanted to restore this old place.
Jessica, no.
You had to make certain that this wall
would remain in place,
so that no one would ever discover that you’d sealed Laurel’s body inside it.
And that’s why you killed Lawrence Baker,
because he insisted that you remove the wall.
You can’t prove any of this.
The bids that Mr. Baker solicited.
Your price was so low
that you’d have lost money on the job
and that’s how desperate you were.
And the rest of these are copies of your invoices
for building supplies dated 18 months ago.
I’m sure the previous owners of Borbey House
will confirm that you were their contractor.
That’s assuming you live to ask them.
Put it down, Charlie! Nice and easy.
So you returned to Borbey House that night
to wait for Mr. Baker to kill him,
and discovered that Dr. Sorenson was there.
You watched him and when Baker returned,
you kept on watching.
[Charlie] That’s where I decided to try to make it look like...
like I was killing a vampire.
[Baker] What are you doing in my house?
I know who you are.
What?
[Charlie] When Sorenson ran out of there,
I figured he was such a nut on the subject,
that it might look like he did it.
And 18 months ago, when Laurel Perrin
supposedly disappeared while out on her boat?
She, uh...
she never left Cabot Cove.
I didn’t mean to hurt her, but I...
There’s nothing left to say, it's over...
[Charlie] She came over to Borbey House
while I was in the middle of building that wall
and she told me that she wanted to break off our engagement
and that she wasn’t in love with me anymore.
And I...
I just lost it.
And when I realized that she...
when I realized she was dead,
the only thing I could think about
was how I could hide her.
I figured I could find a way to bury her later.
When the house was put up for sale,
I tried to buy it,
but Baker bought it right out from under me.
-He paid lots more than I offered. -Cash.
So that’s why you had to get that contracting job.
Laurel’s boat.
It didn’t beach itself on Saco Island, did it?
No.
No, I put my bicycle on board
and took it up the coast that night.
That’s how I got home after ditching it.
The wall.
How? How did you...
Laurel’s boat told me.
I noticed the halyard cleated to the mast.
An experienced sailor like Laurel
would never have curled it counter-clockwise as you did.
And then, the name of the boat,
the word "Hollow,"
just seemed to spark my memory.
The wall in the library,
I recalled that it was unusually thick
and I followed a hunch.
Andy.
Mrs. F.
Remind me never to play poker with you.
[Mort] Hey, Mrs. F.
Thought you already left for New York.
I wouldn’t miss this for anything.
You might like to know that Peter Jatich
turned out to be okay.
Apparently, he was one of the good guys back in East Germany,
so Washington has granted him political asylum in the US.
-I’m glad to hear that. -And that Sorenson fellow?
Uh, well, he was eccentric, but harmless. On his way back to Europe.
To continue peddling, thank you, that nonsense, I expect.
-Yeah. -[Molly] Jessica.
Jessica, we wanted you to be the first to know.
We set a date.
Oh, that’s wonderful.
But only if you can be there.
Oh, just tell me when.
Come on, hon, I’ll fix you a plate.
Oh, and Jessica, thanks.
Congratulations.
[Jean] Excuse me, Sheriff. I found the book you wanted.
-[stammering] -I don’t believe it.
[Mort] Doc, that happens to be a very important work.
[Seth] Oh, right. Very important for Dr. Sorenson’s pocketbook.
Okay, well, then, answer me this.
How do you explain that Lawrence Baker
didn’t have any mirrors in his home
and never went out into the daylight.
[Seth] That’s easy. The coroner’s report indicates
that he was a perfectly normal man for his age,
except he had photophobia.
Now that is a genetic condition
that means the eyes are extremely sensitive to light.
Sufferers tend to like the evening
and avoid the glare from mirrors.
[Mort] Now you said "normal for his age." Doc,
those people don’t get old.
And what about the Borbey grave and the missing body?
Granted, pranksters might have stolen it, but, uh...
Sheriff, I found this book in the basement of the library.
I don’t know if it means anything to you, but...
[Mort] Doc, that’s...
[Seth] Don’t say it, Sheriff.
Don’t even think it.