Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980): Season 9, Episode 8 - Let Death Do Us Part - full transcript

[ALARM WAILING]

LORD: This is Jack Lord
inviting you to be with us next

for "Let Death Do Us Part."

Spier's wife left a
million-dollar estate.

As her convicted killer
he can't collect a dime.

So he's out to prove
himself innocent.

Any chance of doing that?

MAN: None whatsoever.

Hold it! Police!

Go on! Get him!

Do you communicate
with your mother?



Mr. McGarrett, my
mom is talking to us.

Yes, Mama.

She trusts you to see
that justice is done.

I'll try not to
disappoint the lady.

Listen to me! I wanna
know about this.

You hired a private eye to
check on Edna Kentner. Why?

And who is the shamus?

Gentlemen, I want
this case cleaned up.

Now, we've got a jailbreak, homicide,
two counts of breaking and entering.

Now, Spier is not some
comic weirdo we're dealing with.

LORD: Next, "Let
Death Do Us Part."

Be here, aloha.

Spier's wife left a
million-dollar estate.

As her convicted killer,
he can't collect a dime,



so he's out to prove
himself innocent.

Mr. McGarrett, my
mom is talking to us.

Yes, Mama.

She trusts you to see
that justice is done.

I want this case cleaned up.

Now we've got a jailbreak, a homicide,
two counts of breaking and entering.

Now, Spier is not some
comic weirdo we're dealing with.

Guard. Guard.

Are you okay?

[ALARM WAILING]

Move over.

Spier, Jim Spier.

The guy's a trusty.

I didn't get careless. I didn't.

I mean, he just jumped me.

How was I supposed to know?

Let me get this straight, John.

You're telling me that this guy
Spier twice refused a parole.

The last, just
about a month ago.

And then he attacks a guard
and escapes from prison.

Making himself liable
for an even longer stretch.

- That's right.
- I don't get it, John.

What is it? Some
attention-getting device or what?

What can I tell you?

In the population, there are
a certain number of crazies.

Would you believe 11.7 percent?

Always the optimist.

Go on, John.

All right. Uh...

"James Jim Spier, personable,
broke, no previous arrests."

He marries, uh, a wealthy
widow, Helen Newhall.

She's considerably
older than he is

and she wills the bulk
of her estate to him.

A year later, her remains
turn up in a lime pit.

The jury is out an
hour and 20 minutes,

Spier is convicted.

So how come he
doesn't take his parole?

A matter of principle.

Oh, Spier claimed
that accepting a parole

would be a tacit
admission of guilt.

Hmm. So naturally,
he goes over the wall.

Naturally.

Wasn't there a charge
of police brutality

from Spier's attorney?

That's right.

Spier claimed H.P.D. hated him

because he was a
big man with the ladies.

- How about that?
- Well, he can't be all bad.

Helen Newhall's estate.
What happened to that?

It's still in litigation.

The, uh, daughter, Anita,
will wind up with most of it.

Well, we'd better get
into this one, gentlemen.

Split it up, run
down the principals,

see what's left of
the physical evidence.

Who handled the case for H.P.D.?

Lieutenant Norton.

He's retired now but we've
got an address on him.

Send it over, John. I'll
go and see him personally.

Chin, check on Spier's
cellmate, if he had one.

Any visitors he
had while in prison.

Ma'am, would you give the
check to this gentleman, please?

Thanks, John.

Great meal, John.

You know, Claudie,
there's no doubt about it.

Lieutenant Norton
is the key to this.

He had nothing on
me. He had me framed.

[SIGHS]

Must have been something in it
for Norton, some kind of payoff.

[CLAUDINE SCOFFS]

Jim, I've spent close to two
grand having Norton investigated.

If there was any kind of payoff,
he sure hasn't spent the money.

Not yet, anyway.

Well, maybe he
hasn't gotten it yet.

But that estate is gonna
be settled this week.

Somebody's getting away
with murder and being paid for it.

[SIGHS]

You really think Norton conspired
with someone to put you away?

I'm gonna prove it.

[SIGHS]

Well, I've done all
I can to help you.

And I hope you're not
gonna do anything crazy.

What do you mean crazy?

Look, I'm in this with you now.

Helping you prove your innocence
while you're still in prison is one thing.

Helping an escaped
criminal is something else.

- I'm not a criminal.
- Look.

Don't do anything
crazy. That's all I ask.

[SIGHS]

McGARRETT: Lieutenant Norton?
- Yeah.

McGarrett, Hawaii Five-0.

Oh, yeah. I know who you are.

All right, let's
get this over with.

Tell me, what is it
that you want to know?

I'm told you are the expert on
the Helen Newhall murder case.

I was the detective in charge.

I'm trying to understand why a
man would turn down a parole

and then break out of prison.

Very simple, McGarrett.

Spier's wife left a
million-dollar estate.

As her convicted killer,
he can't collect a dime.

So he's out to prove
himself innocent.

Any chance of doing that?

[SCOFFS]

None whatsoever.

The man's guilty as Cain.

There was a missing
witness, wasn't there?

A woman by the name of Kentner.

Edna Kentner.

Oh, yes.

Let me tell you about that
mythical lady, Edna Kentner.

The first we hear about her

is when we dig up
Mrs. Spier's remains.

Now, during all the time that
his wife was listed as missing,

Spier never once
mentioned Edna Kentner.

Then all of a sudden this woman,

a one-night stand he picked
up in a bar, becomes his alibi.

Claimed he was with her
the day his wife disappeared.

Only he couldn't find
her and neither could we.

Really gave it a try, huh?

[CHUCKLES]

Hotels, motels,
airlines, missing persons.

We covered them all. There
was no such person, believe.

Spier is a murderer.

And there's a funny thing.

I'm against murder.

So are we, lieutenant.

Believe.

Thank you.

Hey, McGarrett.

Hold him a second.

- What's his name?
- Mike.

Hello, Mike.

Did you ever read my book?

No. I don't think I have.

My Ten Toughest Cases.

Chapter three covers
the Helen Newhall murder.

Might help you.

Thank you,
lieutenant. Thank you.

Let me know what you think.

I'll give it a try.

Yes?

If you're the police,
get a warrant.

This is not an arrest, ma'am.

You know about Jim Spier.

He murdered my mother.

I don't discuss Jim Spier.

He escaped.

You didn't know?

No, I, uh...

I disconnected the telly
a year ago Christmas.

Went over the wall yesterday.

Ha, ha. Thanks.

Thanks for the tidings of joy.

Excuse me, if you will.

Ma'am, there are
a few questions.

Uh, mail them to me.

Ma'am, for your
own protection...

Sir, if you insist on
staying, you're trespassing.

Or are you one
of those policemen

who keeps the law
by breaking the law?

We serve and protect.

[GROWLING AND BARKING]

Go on, get him.

[DOG BARKING]

Hold it, police!

NORTON: Oh, yeah.

It was Spier, all
right. No question.

McGARRETT: Do you have
copies of what was stolen?

NORTON: Well, I don't
know yet what's missing.

McGARRETT: Besides the
Newhall files, what would Spier want?

I can't answer that
till I check the files.

You'd better get
on it, lieutenant.

Should be plenty of latent
prints on that cabinet too.

Mostly mine, probably.

Oh, that guy's got to be
crazy, tangling with me.

I just hope he comes back.

Steve.

McGARRETT: Yeah, Danno.

Hey, McGarrett.

Did you, um...?

Did you get a chance
to look at my book?

Yeah, I read the chapter
on the Helen Newhall murder.

And what did you think?

Well, with all the, uh, policeman's
instinct and detective's intuition,

I thought it was a bit
romantic, lieutenant.

Yeah, that's just
what I wanted. Great.

That's what'll sell
a million copies.

Good.

Yeah, Danno, what have we got?

Well, some gal came
to see Spier in prison

every visitor's day
for the last six months.

Spier's cellmate thinks
she was a beautician.

- Beautician?
- Yeah.

All right, Chin, stay on it.
Maybe she'll lead us to Spier.

- Anything else?
- Anita Newhall, the daughter.

She is one flaky lady.

She's running some
kind of big mystic trip.

Guess I just couldn't
connect with her astral plane.

Well, I'll go and see her.

Maybe my karma
is more in tune, huh?

Let me know what happens.

Yeah. Count on it.

Oh, brother, what trash.

That fink egomaniac has
the guts to call this a book.

All this jive about Anita Newhall
and her messages from the beyond.

CLAUDINE: I'm
trying to collate...

Wait a minute. Ho, ho.

Ha-ha-ha. You ready for this?

"While I was not one of those persons
who subscribes to the occult, hmm,

as an experienced detective, I
came to know the value of intuition.

The victim's daughter,
Anita Newhall,

I recognize was a
very intuitive person."

- Such bull.
- Ha, ha.

I never heard such bull.

What did he have to
say about Edna Kentner?

Nothing. Well,
practically nothing.

He says I conjured up a witness.

Conjure, and he didn't
even give her a name.

- Well, I found her name.
- Huh?

Look at this memo
from a Sergeant Pearson

who worked with Norton.

Anita Newhall
hired a private eye?

To look for Edna Kentner.

Yeah, but why?

I don't know.

But look at the
date on this memo.

Written two weeks after
your wife disappeared.

So?

When did you first mention
the name Edna Kentner?

Hey. Hey, hey, hey.

That was after they found
the remains of Helen's body.

Now that must have been
months after she disappeared.

You're sure you never mentioned the
name to Anita or anyone else before?

- You're sure?
- Are you kidding?

I never would have mentioned it
in the first place if I didn't have to.

Well, Anita Newhall and Edna Kentner
could have had some sort of contact.

That's what that indicates.

Anita Newhall, Edna Kentner.

You know, I've broken this thing
down, put it back together 8,000 times,

I never figured that one, never.

If the police knew about this,

and you could show that Anita
and Norton withheld evidence,

wouldn't that get
you a new trial?

Yeah, maybe.

Maybe, maybe, maybe.

If I could just
get a lock on it.

If I could nail that down.

She's, uh, in her special room.

I never know what
I'm supposed to do.

It's all right. I'll
announce myself.

ANITA: Yes, yes, I understand.

Yes, you're trying to warn me.

Come in.

McGARRETT: Sorry to interrupt.

It's, um...

It's, uh, not, uh,
words that interrupt.

It's presence.

I see.

Well, the presence is Steve
McGarrett, Hawaii Five-0 State Police.

Shall I leave?

Please.

You've come to tell me that
you've recaptured James Spier?

No. Not yet.

Naturally, I'm
protecting myself.

I've hired Mr. Norton.
Do you know him?

He used to be a detective.

Yes. I know him.

Well, he's going to work
with the estate patrol

until your people put Jim
Spier back where he belongs.

That shouldn't take long.

Mr. Spier does such
incredibly dumb things.

Well, it may only
be a matter of hours

before he stumbles into one
of the incredibly clever traps

that we've set for him.

[CHUCKLES]

Do sit down, please.

Thank you.

This is a Ouija board.

- Really?
- Yes.

Tell me, what can I do for you?

I know it's part of the record,

but would you mind
running through the story

of your mother's disappearance
for me once again?

On the day my
mother disappeared,

she was going to spend
two weeks at a health retreat.

Car broke down.

Now, she called here first,
but there was no answer.

Then she called me.

It was, oh, after 2:00
when we arrived back here.

Jim's car was in the driveway.

As I drove off, mother
was going up the steps.

I never saw her again.

Not on this astral plane.

Um...

Do you communicate
with your mother?

Are you scoffing, Mr. McGarrett?

No. No, no.

That's an honest question.

Yes, I have communicated
with my mother.

[GASPS]

Not always when I wanted to,

and sometimes when
I least expected it.

But, yes, I am not
separate from my mother.

From these, um, conversations,

did you learn anything about your
mother's last confrontation with Spier?

Any, uh, detail that
is not in the transcript?

Crime is hardly a fit topic

for transcendental
conversation, Mr. McGarrett.

Well, Hamlet did discuss murder
with his father's ghost, didn't he?

Jim Spier killed my mother

when he found out she
was going to change her will.

Money is not an uncommon motive.

Thank you.

Mr. McGarrett?

Mr. McGarrett.

My mom is talking to us.

Yes, Mama.

She trusts you.

She trusts you to see
that justice is done.

I'll try not to
disappoint the lady.

SPIER: Anita.

Ah, don't turn around.

It's just your old Uncle Jim.

Move.

No.

You listen to me, kid.

You pay the same price
for killing two as killing one.

You just go into that bedroom.

[CHUCKLES]

Don't worry about a thing.

You're not about to get
lucky or anything like that.

[GUN CLICKS]

Sit down.

Well, it's good to see you. Look
like you took off a little weight.

What are you made
up for, you scum?

Ha, ha. Same old Anita, huh?

Well, we're gonna have
one of our frank little talks.

I don't have anything
to say to you, ever.

You're gonna speak
to me, sweetie,

because I wanna hear all
about you and Edna Kentner.

Where did you first
hear about her? When?

- You killed my mother.
- That isn't true.

You wanna talk?

- Yeah. Yes.
- Huh?

You wanna talk about all the
different ways you killed her?

You married her
but you despised her.

And when she found
out, that didn't kill her?

- No, huh?
- We had an arrangement.

You were going to
love her but you didn't.

You didn't. You wouldn't.

We're not going into that.

Yes, we are. You were
gonna be her companion.

She trusted you.

She gave everything over to you.

Money, anything you wanted.

She signed her life over to you.

And you didn't kill her?

No?

Shall I make you a list?

How many ways
a cheap hustler...?

Anita, damn it. You shut up!

Helen was afraid.

"Once we get married,
once we get married."

- That's what she always said.
- She was afraid to be loved.

- Yes.
- Yes.

People aren't afraid.

I know it.

Ha, ha. The expert.
And what do you know?

I wouldn't be afraid.

If I wanted it, I
wouldn't be afraid.

Oh, man.

I wouldn't.

Listen to me.

I want to know about this.

You hired a private eye
to check on Edna Kentner.

Why? And who was the shamus?

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Who is that?

I have no idea.

NORTON: Anita?

Are you there?

[KNOCKING]

Anita? Are you all right?

[ANITA GRUNTS]

You all right?

[ANITA GROANING]

WOMAN [ON RADIO]: To all units,
there is no officer needing assistance.

I was coming up the stairs
and Spier was hiding in there.

Well, he knows this place
like the back of his hand.

By the way, he looks
completely different now.

He's dyed his hair dark
brown and he has no mustache.

Thank you. That's very helpful.

I think he's absolutely insane.

I mean, I'm not
pretending I ever liked him,

but he did have a seedy
sort of charm about him.

- Just tell me what happened.
- Yes.

Uh, he came out
of there with the gun

and he started
threatening me and ranting,

swearing that he was innocent.

Well, Mr. Norton must
have heard the shouting

because he forced the door open.

Downstairs?

Downstairs.

Then, uh, he called up to me and
Spier then went over to the railing.

- You mean like this?
- Like that.

Uh, he exchanged a few words
with Norton then Spier shot him.

What happened to the gun?

Uh, he turned and
he dropped it and ran.

Where did it land?

Uh, here, just about here.

Did you touch the gun?

Uh, of course. I picked it
up and I tried to shoot Spier.

It clicked once
and, uh, then it shot.

I missed. Sorry about that.

You'll have to come downtown to
make a formal statement, you know that.

Yes, I understand.

McGARRETT: Morning,
gentlemen. CHIN HO: Morning, Steve.

I want, uh, Anita Newhall
put under surveillance.

You think Spier
might go after her?

Oh, he might.

But I'd like to know
more about that lady.

She's very strange.

Oh, and one more thing.

Spier apparently has
changed his appearance,

so, uh, Chin, get an accurate
description from Miss Newhall

- and pass it on to H.P.D.
- Got it.

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

- McGarrett.
- Yeah, McGarrett, this is Jim Spier.

- I wanna talk. Got things I gotta say.
- Spier?

Yeah?

Listen, why don't...

What you've been listening to,
everything's wrong. I've got the facts.

Now, if you come
in, I can guarantee...

All that stuff in the papers,
that's what I'm trying to say.

It's another frame.
I did not kill Norton.

I didn't. Anita did.

They're all in that
thing together.

Look, I've got all the answers

and they're on the way
to you, special delivery.

What do you mean special delivery?
What answers are you talking about?

Spier, now why don't you...?

- Cut off?
- Yeah.

Yeah, I know, operator.

Yeah, we tried. Thank you.

Spier is innocent again?

Gentlemen, I want
this case cleaned up.

Now, we've got a jailbreak, homicide,
two counts of breaking and entering.

Now, Spier is not some
comic weirdo we're dealing with.

But Spier's cellmate doesn't
know why he broke out.

Chin, dig. Dig until
you find that beautician.

I don't care if you have to check
every beauty parlor in the state.

Right.

And, Danno, I want the book on this
mythical and missing witness of his.

This, uh, Edna Kentner.

Check the airlines,
hotels, car registrations,

everything and anything.

Okay. Any questions?

CHIN HO: Thank you.

JANE: You people ask
the wildest questions.

You know how long it's been?

Well, we're just going
back over everything.

You know, trying to get lucky.

Oh, isn't everybody?

You know, the first
time I talked to the police

I couldn't remember a thing.

Then all of a sudden,
about a month later,

I remembered this woman who
was having trouble with her teeth.

She was in a panic,

so I sent her to a dentist
friend of mine in San Francisco.

- Did you report it?
- Oh, no.

Well, I wasn't absolutely sure it
was the flight in question, you know.

And it was one of
those things to do today

that you never quite get to.

Do you remember
the dentist's name?

Irv? Sure.

- I dated him for two years.
- Irv.

Irv Cutler.

A very serious type.

Let me see.

He lives at, uh, 4237
Penelope Way, San Francisco.

Okay. Thanks a
lot, we'll check it out.

Sure, okay.

Oh, uh, will you be flying
back to San Francisco?

Maybe. I have to get off
a Telex to San Francisco.

Well, I'd, uh, just as soon you
didn't mention my name to Irv.

- Of course not.
- Okay.

CHIN HO: She's the lady, Steve.

Claudine Hessler.

Charlie at the Surfside
recognized her.

She owns and operates
a beauty shop, Danielle's.

What about the sketch?

Did you check it with
the prison authorities?

Yeah, a positive ID. You
want me to pick her up?

No, no, Chin. Just
stay a step behind her.

She may be doing
that hair-job for Spier.

Ha, ha. That figures.

What about Anita Newhall?

She pick up on your
surveillance yet?

I sit very low in the car.

That way I sneak
under her radar.

- Ha, ha.
- Very shrewd.

She does some
flaky things, that lady.

She left home yesterday at 3:35,

went to a coin booth and placed a
long distance call to San Francisco.

The number she called was a
public phone in a shopping center.

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

McGarrett.

Oh, yes, will you
read it to me, please?

It's the answer to your
Telex to San Francisco.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes, I have it. Thank you.

The dentist dug out a file.

That stewardess friend
of his sent him a patient.

She used the name Evelyn Knight.

You thinking what I'm thinking.

E.K., Evelyn Knight.
E.K., Edna Kentner.

One and the same person.

Yeah.

Yeah, could be a married woman

out for a little extracurricular
romance using a phony name.

When people use an alias, uh,
they often keep the same initials.

It's on their towels and silver.

And even on their napkin rings.
How'd you figure that one out, Chin?

Ha, ha. Charlie Chan knows all.

What about the dates,
Danno? How do they jive?

When did this Evelyn
Knight leave the islands?

Let's see. Uh...

It checks. The day after
Helen Newhall was murdered.

Why did she run?

That's what we're
gonna find out.

Danno, next plane
to San Francisco.

That dentist must have
an address on that woman.

- Find her.
- Bring her in?

Alive and hopefully not kicking.

We'll get Manicote to
get you a set of papers.

- Uh, Malia, get me Manicote, please.
MALIA [OVER PHONE]: Yes, sir.

Tell him I want a set
of extradition papers

on one Evelyn Knight,
alias Edna Kentner.

I'd like a full description of
the woman who lived in 140-A.

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

- McGarrett.
- Steve.

We traced Evelyn Knight down to
an apartment here in San Francisco.

She made several moves.

We finally found her place
through an unlisted phone number.

But the cupboard was bare.

She checked out yesterday.
Left no forwarding address.

Looks to me like she was tipped.

Have you got a description?

It's on the Telex.

By the way, she was
single and lived alone.

Good work, Danno, good
work. Come on home.

Chin, pick up the
description on the Telex.

Get out an APB on Evelyn
Knight, also known as Edna Kentner.

We'll give her a little lead.

These pictures are of the artifacts
Norton said he found in the lime pit.

And this other jewelry
and the bridgework

were found with the remains.

Right.

And this is the ring I
spoke to you about.

It was returned to the daughter,
Anita Newhall, after the trial.

Listed value, $3,500.

And all of these things
belonged to Helen Newhall,

the mother, no question?

That's what the prosecution claimed
and the defense never challenged.

You would think that in
the absence of a corpse,

there would have
been more challenges.

Is there any way that this
thing could have been a hoax?

No way, Steve.

The remains were
there, that's certain.

In that kind of lye base, human
bone disintegrates quickly.

I'd say somebody
had that figured.

9156 Kolanianaoli.

We're moving in.

Let's go.

What makes you so
sure you shook them?

Oh, come on, Jim. How many
times do I have to tell you?

It seems kind of quiet.

Well, that's why you're
staying here. It's quiet.

Yeah. Maybe you're right.

Jim?

What are you doing with that?

Just to be on the safe side.

No, absolutely not.

If you're so damn
sure you shook them,

then there's no problem.

If you're so damned
innocent, there's no problem.

[SIGHS]

Jim?

It's open.

Easy, ma'am, we're police.

Jim Spier.

- Where is he?
- He...

He just left.

- Be careful. SPIER:
Stay where you are.

Don't.

All right, drop the guns.

Come on, both of you, drop them.

Jim, don't be ridiculous.

CHIN HO: Listen to the lady.
- Do yourself some good.

It's over. You're caught.

Oh, no.

I'm not caught. They're caught.

True?

Tell her who's
caught. Go ahead, you.

I'm caught, okay?

And don't you forget it.

I didn't surrender
because I had to.

I gave myself up.
That's understood.

CHIN HO: Yeah, understood.

Man, you gotta do
everything the hard way.

I'm doing this because that's
how good you been to me.

It'll be okay.

It will.

Yeah.

Well, we'll see.

Come on, Spier.

Let's go.

McGARRETT: All right, Spier.

Slow down, slow down.
One thing at a time.

I admit that, okay?

So I cheated on my
old lady. Big deal.

If that's a criminal offense,

you better start building
some bigger jails.

Strike that.

All right, Anita Newhall has your gun
and you start running down the stairs.

Then what?

That's it.

Norton had the drop on
me at the foot of the stairs.

She fired down over the railing.

She was trying
to kill me, not him.

All right, cut it
there. Type it up.

We'll have a statement for you
to sign on the Norton homicide.

- That's it, Kim, thank you.
- Good.

I sure didn't want
to see him get killed.

I mean, I hated his guts, but I
still didn't want to see him dead.

All right, now off the record,

let's go on to this, uh, Edna
Kentner-Evelyn Knight matter.

What about it?

[SIGHS]

Helen and I had an arrangement.

It was no great love match.

But I was up front about that.

Honest, McGarrett,
we had a deal.

Maybe it bothered the
pants off her daughter, Anita,

but I'm telling you, it
was okay with Helen.

And that's the truth.

And was it part of your deal

that you could have these one
night stands, pick up any lady?

Was that okay
with Helen Newhall?

No.

I gotta admit it.

Listen, I caused that
old girl a lot of pain.

I thought I could be a friend
and a companion to her

when the physical
thing didn't work out.

But I gotta admit.

I never made good on any of it.

How I came to resent that woman.

Man, you just... You
just wouldn't believe.

Anita's right about one thing.

I contributed to her
mother's death all right.

I really did.

But I didn't kill her, and that's
why I never accepted parole.

Yeah, Danno. Got something?

A woman fitting the
description of Evelyn Knight

showed up at the Newhall house.

Taxi picked her
up at the airport.

Evelyn Knight?

- No mistake?
- No mistake.

Anita met her at the
door of the house.

Sergeant, back
in the holding tank.

SPIER: Hey, what's happening?

Well, we may have
your missing witness,

and maybe something more.

Ah, Mr. McGarrett and friend.

I thought you'd be out
chasing escaped convicts.

Jim Spier turned himself in.

- Seriously?
McGARRETT: Seriously.

[GASPS]

Oh, I am so relieved.

Mr. Spier's version of what
happened to Lieutenant Norton

differs from yours in
some very important details.

Does it?

Well, then you have
the real Jim Spier.

Whatever happens, he
always has his own version.

Do you have visitors,
Miss Newhall?

Yes, I often do.

There's a warrant
out for a woman

using the aliases of Edna
Kentner and Evelyn Knight.

Now, we have reason to believe
that she might be here in Honolulu.

No, uh, I can give you
my personal assurance

that there's no one
here by that name.

WOMAN: Anita.

Ah...

Our heroine is heard from.

- You are Mr. McGarrett?
- Yes.

And you are Helen Newhall,

this lady's mother.

That's right.

- Uh...
- No, Anita, please.

I didn't come here to hide.

May I join you?

By all means.

McGARRETT: You've been living
in San Francisco, Mrs. Newhall?

Yes, all this while.

She didn't know who she was.

You were using the name
Evelyn Knight, were you not?

Yes.

I had a terrible shock and
suffered from what has been called

a traumatic loss of memory.

I woke up in San Francisco

and didn't know who I
was or where I'd come from.

I thought I was
senile or insane.

It was terrifying.

Mr. McGarrett, this
is hardly the time...

Please, Anita, please.

I had a sizable sum of money,

and, uh, the identification
of Evelyn Knight.

Of course, it didn't fit me.

But that didn't matter.

I tried to make the description
fit me and me fit the description.

I wasn't very clever at it,

but, uh, people don't
seem to be very observant.

Were you and your
daughter in touch?

Only on the extra sensory level.

ESP?

If you want to call it ESP, yes.

But, I mean, ha, we weren't legally
conspiring or anything like that.

Mrs. Newhall, may
I see your hands?

Palms down, please.

Danno, take a look.

No question, Steve.
That's the ring.

This ring was introduced
as evidence in Spier's trial.

Now,

if you and your mother
were not in touch,

how did she get it?

By astral projection?

Oh, I don't have to sit here

and take these snide,
vicious attacks on my beliefs.

They're my convictions.
They're my religious convictions.

Because you don't
happen to understand.

Anita, Anita, that's enough.

I... I can't, Mr. McGarrett.

We've been in touch
since the beginning.

My daughter has been
trying to protect me.

I killed Edna Kentner.

You killed Edna Kentner?

You don't have to say anything.

I want to, dear,
I really want to.

Evelyn Knight used the name
Edna Kentner, didn't she?

I guess.

People often come to the
islands for romantic adventures.

Maybe she was ashamed
to use her own name.

Tell us what
happened, Mrs. Newhall.

Mother.

Please, Anita.

[SOBBING]

When I... When I
came home that day,

the woman was with my husband.

They didn't see me or hear me.

I was so shocked, so horrified.

I was crazy.

I waited till Jim left.

And then I...

I confronted the
woman in my bathroom,

naked.

I just attacked.

I just attacked her,

and I felt my
nails in her throat.

And she kicked and she screamed,

and I pushed her and
she fell over the tub.

Shh, shh.

You have the
story, Mr. McGarrett.

I'd like you to finish, if you
feel up to it, Mrs. Newhall.

My mother will make a
statement. Isn't that what you want?

It's not gonna get any
easier, if you can tell us now.

[WHIMPERS]

It's cruel and inhuman.

It's all right.

The woman was lying there,

and I ran downstairs
and Anita was coming in.

No, dear, uh, I came
upstairs and she was dead.

So together, you arranged
the ring and the other artifacts

and the disposing of the
body in the lime pit, huh?

And then you steered Lieutenant
Norton to his, uh, discoveries, huh?

No, I... I didn't
say I did anything.

Is that the way you
remember it, Mrs. Newhall?

Well, yes.

Except that I didn't
go back upstairs.

Remember, Anita, I was
trying to call Dr. Imhoff?

- Operator, please.
ANITA: Mother.

Mother, hang up.
The woman is dead.

Yes, dear, but, uh, think now.

Uh, you were on the
phone when I came in.

Yes, dear.

And you came back
to the top of the stairs,

and you called down to me.

"It's too late. She's dead."

Do you think I could forget
a thing like that, Anita?

Was she dead, Miss Newhall?

No, Mama. No, Mama.

You were on the
phone when I came in.

That's right and you were
at the top of the stairs, dear.

All right. Was she
dead, Miss Newhall?

Was she dead when you
walked into that bathroom?

- Anita?
- You killed her, Mama.

You killed her.

You killed her, Mother.

No, you killed her.

You're under arrest for
the murder of Edna Kentner.

Oh, no, that's impossible.

Why, Anita? Why?

Why?

I'll tell you why.

There's the will and the
estate that Anita stood to gain.

Her hatred of Spier and her
jealousy of him, that's why.

I'm so sorry.

It was my fault. It really was.

Book them, Danno.
Both, for conspiracy.

Get me John Manicote, please.

John, McGarrett.

Arrange for the release of
Jim Spier as soon as possible.

Yeah, I know all about
the charges against him.

And be good to him, brother.

And you better get
yourself a sharp lawyer

because I have a feeling he's
gonna sue the pants off somebody.