Ralph is a county employee whose job is to inventory estates for the public administrator's office. He finds $153,000 in greenbacks and takes it home to show this novelty to his wife. She chastises him for removing property from the estate.
Ralph: Oh, darling, what they don't know down at the office doesn't hurt them.
(Nothing odd about this except that his wife is Mrs. Olson from the Folger's ads and it's hard to think of her as anyone's darling.)
Opens briefcase. Money is gone.
Mrs. Ralph: Oh, Ralph, you fool.
PM: What do you have there, Lieutenant?
Tragg: Something you're not interested in, Perry, money.
PM: Never underestimate the efficiency of the law.
HB: I object, Your Honor, that's a completely improper question. We are not concerned with what the witness thinks.
PM: Miss Hamilton, have you ever been anyone's last hope?
He shows the woman six photos and asks if she has ever seen any of the six before. She identifies one and I get the feeling that this is one place where the episode was cut. I'd like to think his "last hope" question had a follow-up from Perry.
The Mason-Keteers and DA Burger are discussing the denouement in Perry's office.
HB: All that money goes to the state.
PD: As a conscientious taxpayer, I should be glad.
HB: As a salaried public employee, I am glad.
PM: We're all glad, Hamilton.
This episode marks William Talman's return to the Perry Mason cast after his firing nine months previous. He'd gotten some scandalous publicity but Raymond Burr and executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson lobbied to get him back in the program.
Burger will have quite the caseload. I would assume there were a number of charges to be filed, in addition to charging the real murderer with the crime. Almost every witness was complicit in some way in this case. One confession after another!
Ralph: Oh, darling, what they don't know down at the office doesn't hurt them.
(Nothing odd about this except that his wife is Mrs. Olson from the Folger's ads and it's hard to think of her as anyone's darling.)
Opens briefcase. Money is gone.
Mrs. Ralph: Oh, Ralph, you fool.
PM: What do you have there, Lieutenant?
Tragg: Something you're not interested in, Perry, money.
PM: Never underestimate the efficiency of the law.
HB: I object, Your Honor, that's a completely improper question. We are not concerned with what the witness thinks.
PM: Miss Hamilton, have you ever been anyone's last hope?
He shows the woman six photos and asks if she has ever seen any of the six before. She identifies one and I get the feeling that this is one place where the episode was cut. I'd like to think his "last hope" question had a follow-up from Perry.
The Mason-Keteers and DA Burger are discussing the denouement in Perry's office.
HB: All that money goes to the state.
PD: As a conscientious taxpayer, I should be glad.
HB: As a salaried public employee, I am glad.
PM: We're all glad, Hamilton.
This episode marks William Talman's return to the Perry Mason cast after his firing nine months previous. He'd gotten some scandalous publicity but Raymond Burr and executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson lobbied to get him back in the program.
Burger will have quite the caseload. I would assume there were a number of charges to be filed, in addition to charging the real murderer with the crime. Almost every witness was complicit in some way in this case. One confession after another!