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  • 7/1/2025

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03:29There's something unseemly about show business.
03:32I'm not sure it's the right PR for the hospital.
03:35Mr. Briggs, the hospital didn't win the raffle.
03:38I did.
03:39Excuse me.
03:40Okay, everybody, pictures and autographs for everyone.
04:01Oh, my God, what a time for you tired to go flat.
04:11Wait a minute.
04:12I must be at the studio in 20 minutes.
04:15Oh, I'll take you.
04:15My car is right over there.
04:17Listen, you think I could hang around the set and meet some of the actors?
04:20Dolores, don't you have to work?
04:21Dolores, don't you have to work?
04:21Oh, I'll take an early lunch.
04:23Dolores, it's 9.30.
04:24All right, I'll take a late breakfast, but I'm not going to miss this opportunity.
04:28All right.
04:29Oh.
04:31Must be an epidemic.
04:32How you doing, D?
04:35Hi.
04:36Need a lift, Amanda?
04:38Do you have the time?
04:39Oh, what do you have?
04:39Free as a bird.
04:40Come on, I got nothing scheduled until this afternoon.
04:42Okay.
04:43Thanks.
04:43Hey, listen, you think the girl who plays Christine Blair will be there?
04:46I didn't know you watch The Young and the Restless.
04:48I don't.
04:49You know, it's just that, you know, every once in a while, a patient will come in and turn it on.
04:53And, you know, she kind of caught my eye.
04:55So I was wondering...
04:56You were hoping if I'd introduce you to her once we got to the studio.
04:59See, I like the way you think.
05:00I really, really do.
05:02Excuse me, Doctor.
05:04Now that we've done the first act of a star is born,
05:07we could get back to the business of medicine.
05:09We need to go over the O.R. budget.
05:12Oh, Jack was going over the pun, I think, yes.
05:15Dr. Stewart.
05:17Dr. Stewart.
05:18We need to get together on the O.R. budget.
05:22Now?
05:22Of course, now.
05:23Unless that's what you're planning to say to someone who needs emergency surgery.
05:28Well, no, we can't this wait a couple hours.
05:30I gotta take a mandolin.
05:30Last time I looked, you were employed by Community General Hospital.
05:35If you'd rather earn your money as a chauffeur, Jack, that can be arranged.
05:44All right, you all report.
05:46All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players,
05:56roaring my doctors with your siren song of show business.
06:01Mark!
06:02Mark!
06:03I need a ride.
06:05Oh, no, man.
06:06Oh, but please.
06:15This is so exciting.
06:17I've never had a time to get hooked on soap operas.
06:19Oh, they're dramas.
06:20Huh?
06:21They're called daytime dramas now.
06:23Oh, that's good to know.
06:24What are they doing in there?
06:25Look at that.
06:26Who are those two idiots looking through the window?
06:30Stop, Tay!
06:36Oh.
06:37Um.
06:39Oh, we're so sorry.
06:41Who let you in here?
06:43I'm Amanda Bentley.
06:44I won the raffle.
06:46Uh, what raffle?
06:47Uh, a day on the set.
06:49And a walk-on part.
06:49Why doesn't anybody tell me these things?
06:54Well, where would you like me to stand?
06:57Pittsburgh.
06:58She's our guest.
06:59A little common courtesy.
07:01I am not paid to be courteous, Laura Lee.
07:04I am paid to get this show in on time and on budget.
07:07And I can't do that with civilians underfoot.
07:09Lois, would you relax?
07:11We just started the scene.
07:13Yes.
07:14And it was all wrong.
07:16I beg your pardon?
07:16I realize that I am just the director.
07:21But I know what I want.
07:23And neither one of you are giving it to me.
07:25Now, let's start from the top.
07:30Hello, I'm Eric Graydon.
07:33How do you do?
07:34This is Laura Lee Bell.
07:35Hello.
07:35Mike Sloan.
07:36Never mind the director.
07:37She won't last long.
07:38She's just a temporary replacement for the regular director who's out with the flu.
07:42Yeah, believe me, we're sending him buckets of chicken soup, hoping he'll be back tomorrow.
07:46Uh, Nancy?
07:50Yeah?
07:51What is your name?
07:52Amanda Bentley.
07:54Amanda Bentley.
07:56Huh.
07:59Would you take Miss Bentley up to the makeup room?
08:02Oh, sure.
08:02Follow me.
08:03Well, I better get back to the hospital.
08:05Oh, please stay, Mark.
08:06I feel like I've ordered my last meal.
08:08Get a cup of coffee.
08:10Okay.
08:10That's an uncanny resemblance.
08:17I was thinking the same thing.
08:19I'll be damned.
08:22Go down the hall, make a left, then a quick right, past the dressing rooms, another left,
08:27and makeup's at the end of the hall.
08:28You can't miss it.
08:28Really?
08:29Okay.
08:30Two lefts and, oh, two lefts and a right?
08:35Was it two rights and a left?
08:38Oh, dear.
08:40Laura Lee.
08:42Eric.
08:43Doug.
08:44Becky, whoa!
08:44I didn't know that you were working today.
08:46You just saved me a messenger, boy.
08:48Let me tell you where next week's script.
08:49There must be some mistake here.
08:50I'm not, Becky.
08:51I'm not.
08:51Did you do something in your hair?
08:52I washed it this morning.
08:53It's lovely, but it's never gonna match.
08:55Match?
08:55Yeah, the stuff that you shot yesterday.
08:57When Lois sees you, she is going to flip her.
08:58Oh, she already has.
09:00You should just see her.
09:00Yeah, listen, I'll see you tomorrow, Becky.
09:01Okay?
09:02Bye-bye.
09:02Wait, wait a minute.
09:03There must be some mistake.
09:04I'm not.
09:04Oh.
09:08Victoria Rowell.
09:11Melody Thomas.
09:12God.
09:14Victoria Rowell.
09:18Miss Rowell?
09:19I have...
09:19Oh, excuse me.
09:20I'm so sorry.
09:22I'll leave the script right outside the door.
09:24Yeah, whatever.
09:25Oh, dear.
09:29Hey, hey, hey, Vicky.
09:30Oh, this is great.
09:31Hey, uh, do you want to have some lines?
09:33I'm really getting tired of this.
09:35Tired of running lines?
09:36Being called Vicky.
09:38Oh, well, uh, what would you rather be called, huh, Drusilla?
09:42Stop that!
09:43What?
09:43What kind of a name is Drusilla?
09:44Well, it's your name.
09:46I thought you said my name was Vicky.
09:48You actors.
09:50Hey, hey, Vick!
09:51All right, you're going to start here at the couch, then you're going to cross to the door and open it.
10:00Do you think you can handle that?
10:02Piece of cake.
10:04All right, let's rehearse.
10:07Ding dong!
10:08Ding dong!
10:17Ding dong, Amanda.
10:19Door!
10:20Cross to the door!
10:21What the hell happened?
10:31My goodness, I was supposed to have been standing right here.
10:35Well, thank God for your stage fright.
10:36You saved my life.
10:39Oh, you're cut.
10:41Don't touch him, please.
10:42Coming through, coming through.
10:44Not to worry, I'm a doctor.
10:46Well, that makes two of us.
10:47Now we can have a convention.
10:48I haven't seen you in over a year.
10:49What the hell are you doing here?
10:50I've got to check up on you every now and then, Eric.
10:52Where?
10:52I'm Dr. Milton Goetz.
10:54I represent the company that insures the actors.
10:56I think you will live, Eric.
10:57My agent will be delirious.
11:00Damn, I told my service to call only if it was an emergency, which it appears to be.
11:04So much for spending the day on the set.
11:06You have my permission to treat him, Doctor.
11:08See you, Eric.
11:11Chandelier!
11:11I need another chandelier.
11:15Eric, you all right?
11:16I'm all right, sweetheart.
11:17Just a little scratch, that's all.
11:19Well, you don't think that new director is bad luck, do you?
11:22Just because the chandelier really crushed me two days after this obnoxious chick was hired?
11:26Oh, can't stand that woman.
11:28Mr. Braden, excuse me.
11:30Oh, sorry.
11:30Are you adding insult to injury, Mrs. Sloan?
11:32Uh, Jean Cooper.
11:35Come on.
11:36Miss Cooper's a pleasure.
11:37Mark Sloan.
11:38Mm-hmm.
11:38Are you part of the cast?
11:40Is she part of the cast?
11:42Obviously, he's not a fan of the show.
11:43Obviously, he's not.
11:45I'm sorry.
11:46I don't get much chance to watch daytime dramas.
11:48You know they all say that.
11:49In my day, uh, they call them soap operas.
11:52Me too.
11:54There, you see.
11:55So, what do you do, Mr. Sloan?
11:58I'm a doctor.
11:59Really?
12:00Really?
12:00How would you like a taste of showbiz?
12:04In what way?
12:06Well, you'd be my stand-in.
12:07Yeah, stand-in.
12:08That would be a good idea.
12:09Yeah, do all my movements for me, you know.
12:12In fact, I have a scene coming up directly under that chandelier.
12:17Oh, yeah.
12:17You know, I think it's probably perfectly safe now.
12:20Maybe.
12:21But I'm seriously thinking of doing my scene in the dining room.
12:24Good thought.
12:25Nice meeting you.
12:27Nice to meet you.
12:28Stay alive.
12:29I'm going to have to learn my line, sweetheart.
12:31Mr. Braden.
12:32Yes, Mr. Sloan?
12:33That chandelier, I don't think it was an accident.
12:36What do you mean?
12:37I mean the rope was deliberately cut.
12:41Wait, you're saying someone is trying to kill me?
12:44It looks that way.
12:46Do you think there's anyone who might have a motive?
12:48Not a van, no.
12:49Has anything unusual happened lately?
12:53No.
12:53Except, you know...
12:57A few weeks ago, I received a strange fan letter.
13:02Someone was saying that they wanted to put my name into the headlines in a very unique way.
13:08And then there was a follow-up letter saying that the deadline was approaching.
13:14Usually I ignore that kind of stuff.
13:15Did you save any of them?
13:18Wait a minute.
13:18Maybe I did save the last one.
13:19Let's see.
13:23Here we go.
13:25Glad to see any advances, too.
13:28No return address?
13:29Yeah.
13:30Postmarked four days ago.
13:31Next week is almost here.
13:36A week you'll never forget.
13:37The week I come into your life.
13:39You N.O.
13:40And you know this is wrong?
13:41No, no, no.
13:43Except through the correspondence.
13:44I don't know who that is at all.
13:46You know, maybe you should go talk to Laurel E. Bell.
13:49Why don't you do that?
13:50Because I remember her saying that she had received a similarly strange fan letter.
13:55Maybe there's a connection.
14:02Hey, I know that guy.
14:05Yeah, I know that guy.
14:07Yeah, he knows me.
14:07Now back off, man, all right?
14:09I'll carry you later.
14:10What is going on here?
14:13Um, you know this guy?
14:14He's one of my doctors.
14:15What was he doing lurking behind the scenery?
14:17I wasn't lurking.
14:18I was, um, I was looking for someone.
14:21Well, who were you looking for?
14:24For my colleague, Dr. Sloan.
14:26What?
14:26Jack, what is it?
14:30Taplinger.
14:31Taplinger?
14:32Yes, he's taking a turn for the worse.
14:35Paroxysmal arrhythmia.
14:37Pulmonary infarction.
14:38Acute esophageal varicosity.
14:40Couldn't he have phoned?
14:42I say we go in.
14:43What's your opinion, doctor?
14:44Well, I, I concur.
14:46Okay, I'll have him prepped and ready in an hour.
14:48Okay.
14:49Well, now that we've saved Mr. Taplinger,
14:52do you think we could please resurrect this show?
14:55Oh, and Miss Bell, uh, Mr. Braden was telling me
14:58you've been getting some rather strange fan mail.
15:01It goes with the territory.
15:03May I have a look at it?
15:04I think I threw them away.
15:05Why save it?
15:06Could you see if you have it?
15:08It could be very important.
15:10This doesn't have anything to do with that chandelier, does it?
15:12Well, I, time will tell.
15:15I'll go check my dressing room.
15:18Okay, wait a minute.
15:21Esophageal varicosity?
15:22Hey, yeah.
15:23Varicose veins of the esophagus?
15:26Poor Mr. Taplinger.
15:27I guess he'll never sing again.
15:29Jack, what are you doing here?
15:31Oh, I can tell you in three words.
15:34Laura Lee Bell.
15:38I'm gonna get coffee.
15:40Oh, would you get one for me, too, please?
15:41No.
15:41Hold on for a second.
15:43We gotta see what we're shooting first.
15:52Hey, I know you guys.
15:56You're on the show, too.
15:57You're Cole Howard and his gorgeous wife, Victoria.
16:00Oh, well, you know, we have other names, too, you know.
16:03You're Cole Howard and his gorgeous wife, Victoria.
16:05No, I'm Heather Tom, and this is J.D. Peck.
16:08And you are?
16:09Jack Stewart.
16:10Oh, are you an actor?
16:11Doctor.
16:12Oh, you're a doctor on the show?
16:14I'm Dr. Jack Stewart.
16:15Oh.
16:16Oh, so are you our guest on the set today?
16:18Yes.
16:18Great.
16:19Of whom?
16:20Dr. Mark Sloan.
16:21Oh, is he an actor?
16:22No, he's my boss.
16:24Well, then what are you doing here?
16:25Well, actually, I'm here visiting a friend of mine.
16:27She's on the show.
16:28Oh, okay.
16:29She's an actress.
16:31No.
16:31Well, today, yeah, but normally she's a pathologist.
16:35What part is she playing?
16:36I have no idea.
16:38Do you know Laura Lee Bell?
16:41Who?
16:41Who?
16:42Cricket.
16:43Christine.
16:43Cricket, of course.
16:45Of course.
16:45Yes, yeah, absolutely.
16:46Can you, uh, give me a favor?
16:48Can you, um, can you set me up with it?
16:50Uh, we'll have to get back to you on that.
16:52Get back to you on that one, Jack.
16:53Hey, thanks.
16:53Cole, Victoria, it's very nice meeting you.
16:55You too, Dr. Jack.
16:57Security.
16:58Man, they don't even know who Laura Lee Bell is.
17:00What the hell is that?
17:03I found one.
17:04It was still in the waste paper basket.
17:06Oh, thank you.
17:06One week until your life changes forever.
17:13You and Owen.
17:15You and Owen.
17:18Unknown.
17:20I think it's time we call the police.
17:22There's a phone right over there.
17:24Oh, my God, I still have two seats in that set.
17:27Clearly, the letter wasn't really that threatening.
17:30One week until my life changes forever.
17:32Death is a pretty big change.
17:34Hey, watch out!
17:35You all right?
17:43Oh.
17:44What was that going?
17:47You're your biggest fan.
17:57Did anybody else get a letter from a U.N. Owen?
18:01Um, I did.
18:03And you are?
18:04Uh, I'm Melody Thomas Scott.
18:06I play Nicky Newman-Abbott on the show.
18:08Do you have any of these letters, Miss Scott?
18:10Well, I always send my fan mail to my publicist,
18:12but I haven't for a few weeks, so I might.
18:15Could you check, please?
18:17Sure.
18:18Would you like some help?
18:19Sure, Vicki.
18:22You don't need me for a while, do you?
18:24Um, take the next century off.
18:26Anybody else?
18:33Yeah!
18:34Yeah!
18:35Stevie!
18:36What's the matter?
18:38Ooh!
18:41Did you come to see my big scene, you sweetie?
18:45Miss, please, I'm trying to conduct a police investigation here.
18:48The bikini girl from that medical show they shot at the hospital.
18:51That's where Stevie and I met!
18:53Look, uh, Miss, if you didn't get any of these letters,
18:55uh, you're free to go.
18:57See you tonight, Poopsie.
19:00Woof!
19:02Didn't she ever act with any clothes on?
19:04Come on, man.
19:04We've got a lot of work to do.
19:05Could we try and just concentrate on the case, please?
19:07Oh, I'll do my best, Poopsie.
19:09All right.
19:09Uh, please, can everybody stay alert for anybody that doesn't fit in?
19:13That could be our letter writer.
19:15Oh!
19:16Let me call me!
19:17Let me call me!
19:17Let me call me!
19:18I've never hit a word!
19:19You can't wait!
19:19You don't know me!
19:20Just say, Dolores, you know her, too?
19:23She's my assistant.
19:25She's got a hell of a right.
19:26Dolores, what are you doing here?
19:28I've got a very important message for you.
19:31What?
19:31What is it?
19:32The cleaner's called.
19:33Your suit's ready.
19:34What?
19:34Let me stay.
19:35Please, I'll do it.
19:36I won't tell you.
19:37Dolores, get off.
19:38I haven't taped a thing since you got here.
19:41Who sent you?
19:44General Hospital.
19:45Mrs. Mitchell Meyer just leaving.
19:47Jeez.
19:48Let's go.
19:49Dr. Stewart, we have to go to the hospital.
19:52Dr. Mr. Tapplinger needs us.
19:54Mark, are you kidding?
19:55Excuse me.
19:55Do you see that I'm making a headway here?
19:57If you invented him, you're going to have to save his life.
19:59He will make it.
20:00Yes, he'll make it.
20:00Dolores!
20:01I'm coming!
20:05Dolores, get up and cross it a bit.
20:07Psst, dammit!
20:10I'm ready, here.
20:11God damn it!
20:12Psst!
20:14Right here!
20:20Nice going.
20:21Soft pedal it.
20:22You don't want to panic anyone.
20:24You and I both know we're dealing with a homicidal maniac here.
20:27We are?
20:28Oh, that's right.
20:29You play a P.I. on the show.
20:31Yeah.
20:31Doug Davidson?
20:32Steve Sloan.
20:33Nice to meet you, Steve.
20:34What drives our boy?
20:36That's the key.
20:38Revenge?
20:39Some imagined slight?
20:41Chance to get his mug in the paper?
20:43I don't know.
20:44And who's next?
20:46My money's on Melody Thomas Scott.
20:49Why?
20:50I don't know.
20:53You just had a hunch.
20:57Yeah.
20:58Yeah.
20:58Gotta go with your instincts.
20:59I like that.
21:00You know, I could be a big help to you.
21:02I've learned a lot playing this part.
21:04I'll bet you have.
21:06Mr. Davidson, you can think of anything else.
21:08Anything at all.
21:09Please, give me a call.
21:10I won't let you down, Lieutenant.
21:24I just can't get over it.
21:26What?
21:27You and Vicki, you're practically twins.
21:31Really?
21:32Here, look.
21:32Here she is.
21:36Oh.
21:36Oh, no, here, here.
21:40This could be one right here.
21:47Dear Miss Scott, you don't know me, but I know you.
21:51Soon people will mention our names together.
21:54You and Owen.
21:56Sounds pretty whacked.
21:58You know, if he's left a trail with these letters,
22:01the police are bound to find it.
22:03I hope so.
22:05In any event, I have a scene to do.
22:08Oh, show must go on, huh?
22:09Yeah.
22:10I'd like to find the guy that said that and wring his neck.
22:15So, where is everybody?
22:18Um, oh, they're all shooting on the other stage.
22:21I don't understand why somebody would want to kill all three of us.
22:26Watch out!
22:27Whoever he is, he sure is determined.
22:40Dolores, I need...
22:41Mark, this has got to stop.
22:43Jack has...
22:43This is Norman Briggs.
22:51Paige, Dr. Sloan, and Dr. Stewart.
22:54And while you're at it, send out an APB on Dolores Mitchell.
22:58This is a mutiny.
22:58A mutiny on the bounty, and I'm Captain Bly.
23:00It's a mutiny.
23:01That's what it is.
23:02I think it's up here.
23:03I'll just go to my office.
23:08It'll be fine.
23:08Wait for the phone to ring.
23:10Nobody does it better than you.
23:11File some memos.
23:12And that's one of your best things, too.
23:13Make some coffee.
23:15Oh, uh, cream, two sugars, D. Thanks.
23:18I couldn't get Christophe St. John.
23:24Who the hell is Christophe St. John?
23:26I'm one of those soap opera actors.
23:28Excuse me, one of those daytime drama people.
23:30So what do we got here, Mark?
23:32Just like a nut job or something?
23:35We're dealing with a highly disturbed personality.
23:39It's a syndrome that's become all too common these days.
23:42There's someone suffering from paranoid, schizophrenic tendencies
23:44who decides to become famous by killing somebody famous.
23:48What did you guys do to Norman?
23:50Yeah, we haven't seen him since this morning.
23:51Why?
23:52Well, he's wandering around out in the hall muttering something
23:54about rats deserting a sinking ship
23:56and being the captain of the Titanic.
23:59Hey, Steve, you got any information
24:00on our cycle?
24:01Yeah, I, uh, ran his letters through the lab.
24:04All of them were typed in a Claridge II manual typewriter.
24:08It shouldn't be too hard to identify
24:09because the, uh, right beak on the capital T is dented
24:12and the left serif in the small Y is gone.
24:15The paper's a heavy bond of Japanese manufacture
24:18that's only carried in a few stores,
24:20so maybe our boy bought it at one of them.
24:23So what now?
24:24I get the pavement.
24:25Huh.
24:25Unless you know if anything else turns up.
24:27Okay, thanks.
24:28Where are you going?
24:30I'm going to find out what Norman's problem is.
24:32I thought everybody knew what Norman's problem was.
24:34Is there anything new to her?
24:43Oh, can I?
24:43Yes.
24:43Come on.
24:44Oh, no.
24:45No, no.
24:45Oh, no.
24:47No.
24:47No, no.
24:48No, no.
24:49No.
24:50No, no.
24:51No, no.
24:52No, no.
24:53No.
24:53No, no, no.
24:54No, no.
24:55No, no.
24:56No.
24:57No.
24:57No, no.
24:58No.
24:59No, no.
25:00I don't know.
25:30I don't know.
25:37Hey!
25:42Mr. Gruber, I presume.
25:48I'm gonna call the police. Breaking and entering, assaulting battery, running in the hall.
25:52I am the police.
25:54I'm gonna lodge a complaint. Illegal search and seizure, denial of due process.
26:00You got running in the hall.
26:02What's the matter with that Blaustein? Sicken you on me over a lousy 1800 bucks?
26:06Who is Blaustein?
26:08My landlord. I'm a little behind on the rent.
26:11Well, don't worry. You're gonna be living rent-free for a long time.
26:15Mr. Gruber, you wrote these letters.
26:19How did you find me?
26:21Found it where you bought the stationery.
26:23So I bought some paper. Big deal.
26:25I can prove that these letters were written on that typewriter.
26:28What letters? I don't know from any letters.
26:31Eric Braden, Melody Thomas Scott, Loralee Bell. Is it jog your memory?
26:37Okay. So I admit it. I wrote them. I didn't think anybody would catch on.
26:43Let's go.
26:45Wait a minute. Maybe we can strike a bargain.
26:48I'll give you ten percent. Straight across the board.
26:51Ten percent of what? Murder?
26:54Murder?
26:56What are you talking about?
26:59Mr. Gruber, you tried to kill these three people.
27:03You're crazy. Why would I kill the Golden Geese?
27:07All right. Let's start over. Did you write these letters?
27:11Of course. Why?
27:18About a month ago, I had this dynamite idea.
27:21I don't know where they come from. They just do.
27:25A series of audio tapes outlining my 12 steps to financial freedom.
27:32But how to promote it.
27:36And then it hit me. Bingo!
27:39An infomercial to end all infomercials.
27:42Eric Braden, Melody Thomas Scott, Loralee Bell.
27:46They come on one after the other. Pow, pow, pow.
27:49And extol the virtues of my system.
27:52Why did you sign it? You and Owen? Unknown? And why the expensive stationery?
28:01Hey, these stars get big offers. I had to create a mystery, a little allure.
28:07The stationery let them know they were dealing with a class act.
28:11And the mysteriousness, that tells them they're dealing with a master of hype.
28:17Next week, I was going to reveal all.
28:21Mr. Gruber, do you have an alibi for this morning?
28:26Boy, do I have an alibi.
28:29He was in jail. He was arrested at a Rose Bowl swap meet for peddling without a license.
28:37It seems he was selling portraits of Elvis on velvet.
28:42If it isn't a demented fan...
28:45That means that our potential killer is on the set of Young and the Restless.
28:48And through exhaustive police work, we've been able to eliminate you and Owen as a suspect.
29:04Oh, great. Where does that leave us?
29:06Swinging in the breeze.
29:08Not necessarily.
29:09All we have to do is find the common denominator that links the three of you together.
29:13Besides those letters.
29:15Are any of you related?
29:17Not that we know of.
29:20You have the same, uh, financial advisor?
29:22No, no.
29:23Invest money with the same individual?
29:25Mm-mm.
29:27Do you date the same people?
29:31We're very close, but we don't socialize.
29:34We each have our own personal lives.
29:37Well, we're not making a lot of progress.
29:40And whoever it is is still out there... lurking.
29:45Why does she look at me every time she says that?
29:47It's gotta be here.
29:48Think.
29:52Melody and I went to the same hairdresser once.
29:54Mm-hmm.
29:55Well, that leaves me out.
29:57Eric and I used to bank at the same branch right around the corner.
30:01But, sweetheart, I closed that account over two years ago.
30:04Oh.
30:05I don't know.
30:06It's hopeless.
30:07Futile.
30:08No, don't worry.
30:09I promise I won't let anything happen to you.
30:11Really?
30:12Mm-hmm.
30:13My fiancé will be relieved to hear that.
30:16Oh.
30:17Well, it was very nice meeting you.
30:20Sorry, Jack.
30:21You know, come to think of it, there's one thing that the three of us have in common.
30:30What?
30:31Me?
30:33You think I tried to kill those actors?
30:36According to them, you desperately wanted a permanent directing job on the show.
30:40I made no secret of that.
30:41Well, because all three disliked you intensely, they complained to the producer.
30:45They were counting the days until you left.
30:47With them out of the way, you had a chance of staying on.
30:50Think, Lieutenant.
30:52Astral project yourself back to the time that chandelier almost crowned Eric.
30:57Where was I?
30:59I'll give you a hint.
31:01I was desperate, standing behind the camera desperately trying to get Amanda Bentley to answer the doorbell.
31:07And when that piece of scenery nearly crushed Laura Lee, I was on stage, surrounded by my crew, desperately trying to finish the scene before lunch.
31:19And when that Klieg light nearly creased Melody's skull, I was on the other stage, desperately trying to get the actors to say their dialogue as written.
31:30You could have had a partner.
31:32I don't need the young and the restless anymore.
31:37David Kelly wants me to direct an episode of Picket Fences.
31:41Well, can't argue with that.
31:43Woman's on her way.
31:45But if you really want someone with a motive...
31:50Me?
31:52You're accusing me of attempted murder?
31:55I'm not accusing anybody. I'm just asking a few questions.
31:58How could you suspect me after all we have been to one another?
32:03Tawny, we've only known each other two weeks.
32:06You know, two weeks can be a lifetime with the right woman.
32:09I thought we had something more than the purely physical.
32:12Oh, we do, Tawny.
32:14I thought we had something spiritual.
32:17You know, I'm just gonna go over here for a minute.
32:19We do, definitely. Spiritual. It's just that I have to separate the, uh, personal from the professional.
32:26According to certain sources, you desperately wanted a regular part on the show.
32:31And you thought that if one of the other girls was, uh, incapacitated, you might have a better shot at getting it.
32:37Okay, so I'm ambitious.
32:38I want to be more than the bikini girl, but... murder?
32:43Tawny, please understand. I have to ask. Can you account for your time this morning?
32:48You want to know where I was?
32:51Yes.
32:54Lamar!
32:56Yeah, Tawny!
33:00You know what I like about her? She's smart. I love that in a woman.
33:03Give me a break here.
33:07Lamar, will you please show this homicide detective where I was all morning?
33:18This was my big scene.
33:20I rehearsed it all morning.
33:33Yes.
33:36She died.
33:42This is hopeless.
33:44Futile. Boring.
33:46I know it's discouraging, but...
33:49there has to be a connection. There's some place. We just haven't found it yet.
33:53Well, maybe it doesn't exist.
33:55Maybe they were all just random acts of violence.
33:57Maybe they were committed by three different people.
33:59No. They were too specific. They were too focused.
34:01All right, let's go over it again.
34:04I'd better put on another pot of coffee.
34:08Today, an anonymous killer went after Eric Braden,
34:11Melody Thomas Scott, and Laura Lee Bell.
34:15Why today?
34:17Excuse me?
34:18I mean, why not yesterday? Why not last week?
34:20Oh, Mark, come on.
34:22Well, Amanda, we have to start somewhere.
34:24Now, what element was present in each of their lives that wasn't there before?
34:29I have no idea.
34:31I have no idea.
34:34Amanda.
34:35What?
34:36You.
34:37Me?
34:38You were with each of them when the attempts occurred.
34:40Pure coincidence.
34:41Why would anybody want to kill Amanda?
34:43Well, that's the next thing we have to figure out.
34:44You're grasping at straws, Mark.
34:46No, you're the only thing that ties the three of them together.
34:48Well, it's a pretty loose fit, if you ask me.
34:50Mark, I am a pathologist.
34:51So, obviously, none of my patients are angry at me.
34:55And as much as I'd hate to admit it, I do lead a dull life.
34:58I'm in the lab every day.
34:59I don't really date.
35:00I don't go out that much.
35:02I'm too busy.
35:03So, I'm sticking to the random violence theory.
35:06I'm washing off the stage makeup, and thank God my day on the set is over.
35:10You be careful.
35:11Will do.
35:14I'm gonna go to.
35:16Keep my eye on it.
35:18What are you gonna do?
35:19I'll stay in a while.
35:20Okay.
35:21See you.
35:24You know, I forgot.
35:25I still have a flat tire.
35:26Come on.
35:27Don't worry about it.
35:28I'll drive you.
35:38What do you have to say now?
35:40Well, I guess my life's not so dull after all.
35:49I can't drink any more coffee, right?
35:50Can we get on with this?
35:51Hey, Melanie, Mark?
35:54All right, look.
35:55I'm convinced that somebody's trying to kill me.
35:56But who?
35:57Well, we should start with your enemies.
35:59All right, well, there was a girl in eighth grade.
36:01Lucinda Farmer.
36:02We fought over the same boy, and I hit her with my gym bag.
36:03That's not funny.
36:04Mark, I know, and I'm not trying to trivialize this.
36:05It's just that I'm so damn scared.
36:06I know.
36:07I got one.
36:08I got one.
36:09That DNA research guy.
36:10Remember him?
36:11Gregory Talbot.
36:12Yeah, you guys were hot and heavy there for a while, Amanda.
36:13Come on.
36:14Put him in jail for murder.
36:15Then there's that baby-selling operation you helped shut down.
36:16Those people don't remember you too fondly, either.
36:17All right, so I thought that Lucinda Farmer was her only suspect.
36:22What's the matter?
36:23Amanda, move over.
36:24She had reportedly been under a doctor's care for a doctor's care for a doctor's care
36:25for a doctor.
36:26I know.
36:27I got one.
36:28I got one.
36:29I got one.
36:30I got one.
36:31That DNA research guy.
36:32Remember him?
36:33Gregory Talbot.
36:34Yeah, you guys were hot and heavy there for a while, Amanda.
36:35Come on.
36:36You put him in jail for murder.
36:37Then there's that baby-selling operation you helped shut down.
36:38Those people don't remember you too fondly, either.
36:39All right, so I thought that Lucinda Farmer was her only suspect.
36:40What's the matter?
36:41The victim of an apparent heart attack.
36:42Amanda, move over.
36:43She had reportedly been under a doctor's care for a heart condition for several years.
36:47Mrs. Moreland, a vivacious and familiar face on the Hollywood scene, sponsored the
36:52annual Sportsman's Ball for underprivileged children.
36:55According to her sister, television director Lois Clare, she will be buried at Park Grove
37:00Cemetery.
37:01I know that woman.
37:03Yeah, she's the director of The Young and Restless.
37:05No, the other woman.
37:06Beverly...
37:07What's her name?
37:08Yes, I've seen her before.
37:09Where?
37:10At the studio.
37:11When I was looking for that Vicki person to give her her script.
37:14I opened the dressing room door.
37:17And I saw this Beverly lady in an embrace with a man.
37:22And at the time I was so embarrassed because I had intruded on this very intimate moment.
37:27But it occurred to me that she seemed terribly lifeless.
37:31What do you mean?
37:33Well, at first I thought that she was just relaxed.
37:36But I noticed, like, her neck and her arm were... were so limp.
37:43And it was after I saw them that they made the first attempt on my life.
37:48Did the men see you?
37:49Yes.
37:50What did he look like?
37:51Um...
37:52He had a mustache.
37:56He was big.
37:58And, I don't know, an athletic build.
38:01Amanda, you know, you may have just described a murderer.
38:04You know, before you got there, Mrs. Marlin could have already been dead.
38:08Yeah, not from any heart attack.
38:10Of course it is.
38:11Who is he?
38:20Oh, God.
38:21She's back.
38:22Don't worry.
38:23My acting days are over.
38:25If only Laurence Olivier were alive to hear that.
38:28My sister just died.
38:31You don't seem too broken up.
38:33We weren't close.
38:34The newscast said she was a socialite.
38:37A socialite?
38:38She was a hairdresser with money.
38:40Worked in television.
38:42Sitcoms, mostly.
38:43Where did the money come from?
38:45Did you know her?
38:46No.
38:47Why are you asking all these questions?
38:49I saw her once.
38:51Briefly.
38:52Well, I don't want to talk about her.
38:55She's dead and gone.
38:56And good riddance.
38:58You know, she may have been murdered.
39:00What are you talking about?
39:02She had a heart attack.
39:03We think she was here the day she died.
39:05Amanda saw her in her dressing room.
39:07And she may have already been dead.
39:09May we?
39:10Oh, please.
39:11Lois, tell us a little bit about your sister.
39:14Well, like I said, she was a hairdresser.
39:16She married some stunt guy.
39:17Everything was pretty much routine.
39:18Until he died doing a car chase for some big movie.
39:20Beverly sued the studio.
39:22Only her lawyer.
39:23Now, he was a sharpie.
39:24He was a sharpie.
39:25He sued the automobile company, too.
39:26Claimed the car had built-in defects and that it was structurally unsafe, no matter how
39:30you drove it.
39:31The car company settled?
39:32Lickety-split.
39:33Lickety-split.
39:34Suddenly, Beverly was worth millions.
39:36Instant socialite.
39:37You wouldn't be a little jealous there, would you?
39:38A couple of months ago, our father got sick.
39:40There were operations, specialists, around-the-clock nurses.
39:44With all her money, she didn't even kick in a dime.
39:45She said she was broke.
39:47Some guy took her to the cleaners.
39:51I had to hawk everything I owned.
39:53The car company settled.
39:54Sure.
39:55That's right.
39:56What?
39:57What?
39:58The car company settled?
39:59Lickety-split.
40:00Suddenly, Beverly was worth millions.
40:01Instant socialite.
40:02You wouldn't be a little jealous there, would you?
40:03A couple of months ago, our father got sick.
40:04There were operations, specialists, around-the-clock nurses.
40:07With all her money, she didn't even kick in a dime.
40:09She said she was broke.
40:10Some guy took her to the cleaners.
40:12I owned this guy who was he I don't know she wouldn't say what happened to him
40:22well last I heard she was gonna dump him but just like Beverly a little too late
40:30for us take a little dry with us where
40:37I don't understand dr. Sloan the police were here they didn't find anything wrong well
41:03they weren't looking for the same thing we are what's that a murderer well bedrooms upstairs
41:09where did you sister keep her valuables over here
41:18oh you have the combination no Jackie will do your stuff over here my pleasure oh but I know where
41:30to find it Beverly she wasn't very original look at this prescribed for depression got it oh it was
41:46open dr. Sloan thank you oh that's odd what almost all her jewelry is missing well maybe she put it
42:05in a safe deposit box no she'd like to keep her things around you know maybe she was selling it
42:11off there are large deposits here every few weeks but then the bank balance itself is down to almost
42:17nothing everything that came in went right back out again to a star bright attractions that snake who
42:26Vincent Neil he's star bright attractions he calls himself a promoter everything he touches though loses
42:33money but he manages to walk away with pockets full of cash what does he look like well he's um
42:39he's about six foot 180 pounds dark hair black mustache he's very intense he sounds exactly like
42:46the person I saw with your sister no wonder she didn't want me to know who she was seeing
42:52so Neil weed a large amounts of money out of your sister probably under the guise of investing in
42:59his promotions and once she figured that she was being taken she decided to expose him
43:04so he intercepted her on her way to see you killed her brought her back here now all we got to do is
43:12find the guy maybe he's found this
43:16what are you doing this what you're looking for hey
43:34that's what I call teamwork
43:46I don't believe you guys
44:00you know you could have been killed well we didn't know we were going to find anything or not we
44:08didn't want to waste your time and you'll just burst in before we had a chance to call you it was his
44:12fault well no harm done this time I just want to go back to the hospital all right go on I want to get
44:23out of here all right well you two go on get out of here before I change my mind
44:29I'm Dr Milton Gatz I represent the company that presures the actors
44:57damn I told my service to call only if it was an emergency
45:02Dr Amanda Bentley Community General Hospital yeah I need a signature on a death certificate
45:11Beverly Moreland yesterday afternoon yes of course I'll wait hurry
45:17you sign that death certificate
45:24I was Mrs Moreland's personal physician I received a call yesterday afternoon from Mrs Moreland
45:31an emergency call she was complaining of chest pains I rushed over to her house but
45:35she was already dead sounds pretty good doesn't it she couldn't have called you
45:42because I just seen her in the dressing room at the studio a bit of a bump you and Vince and
45:48Neil were in this together he had a rather large insurance policy on her only needed was the cause of
45:54death that no one would question Neil made his one call from the police station to me he said
46:00you had found a bottle of pills but you didn't realize their significance until now
46:05what did you get a part on ER too
46:24You're on ER, too?
46:36Okay, okay, settle down, everybody. I think I'm on at the beginning.
46:39Bring your rounds. Good.
46:41Norman, enjoy your life.
46:46Was that you?
46:48Hard to tell. It went so fast.
46:51Twelve hours on the set for that?
46:53Well, I thought it was wonderful. Great presence.
46:56Oh, there she is.
46:57Who?
46:58The girl looks like Amanda.
46:59Her?
47:02A bit.
47:03Oh, she doesn't look anything like me.
47:07No.
47:08Mm-mm.
47:23The Finn.
47:30The Kristin.
47:33Fulton's finishing.
47:35All right.
47:37Femalewar.
47:39One of the features of her family is about the amount of Catherine.
47:41One is that she gets The county's family, is how he includes all theño equipment,