While restoring her house in Cabot Cove, Jessica worries that her contractor is preoccupied by the remodeling of another house until the project is put on hold when the client who may or may... Read allWhile restoring her house in Cabot Cove, Jessica worries that her contractor is preoccupied by the remodeling of another house until the project is put on hold when the client who may or may not be a vampire is found murdered.While restoring her house in Cabot Cove, Jessica worries that her contractor is preoccupied by the remodeling of another house until the project is put on hold when the client who may or may not be a vampire is found murdered.
- Sheriff Mort Metzger
- (as Ron Másak)
- Teenage Girl
- (as Susan Christy)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMadlyn Rhue previously appeared in the season 6 episode "Seal of the Confessional" as a different character. Angela Lansbury heard that Madlyn Rhue was in danger of losing her Screen Actors Guild medical coverage because she wasn't working enough to qualify. So she created the part of Jean the librarian to bring Rhue back for four episodes between seasons 10-12.
- GoofsBorbey is coming from a Hungarian word. Originally spelled "borbély", Borbey is most likely a phonetically written English pronounciation of the word "barber" in Hungarian.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Sheriff Mort Metzger: 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?
Dr. Seth Hazlitt: 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.
Sheriff Mort Metzger: Now, you said, "Normal for his age." Doc, those people don't get old. And what about the Borbey grave and the missing body? Now, granted, pranksters might have stolen it, but, uh...
Jean O'Neill: Sheriff, I found this book in the basement of the library. I don't know if it means anything to you, but...
[looking in the book, a picture of William Baker looks just like Lawrence Baker]
Sheriff Mort Metzger: Doc, that's...
Dr. Seth Hazlitt: Don't say it, Sheriff... Don't even think it.
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
Cabot Cove, Maine, episodes of "Murder, She Wrote" usually garner audience affection for a homespun quality centering upon the hometown of this series protagonist and her inner circle of fellow citizens.
On occasion, however, a grim, supernatural malady plagues this patriotic American community, and this time around, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), Doctor Seth Hazlitt (William Windom), Sheriff Mort Metzger (Ron Masak), Deputy Andy Broom (Louis Herthum) (the four holding the series records for greatest number of appearances, in order), face a series of macabre circumstances occurring in their New England community.
Handyman Charles Wetherby (Richard Gilliland), tending to wiring and carpentry at the residence of Jessica Fletcher, finds himself detained from meeting the agreed deadline to finish the project at hand, as he also handles remodeling work for the new owner of the Borbey estate, Lawrence Baker (David Birney), for English surname "Baker" translates from the Hungarian "Borbey." While many guest stars are capable of portraying characters who appear guilty of crimes such as murder, David Birney also has a way of developing his characters with an added dimension of having a mysterious past.
Jessica expresses disappointment at Charles' abandoning her project in process, but Lawrence has offered a great deal more financial gain above market value than the average homeowner would remit.
Charles also has had experience in remodeling Borbey House, as Laurel Perrin, his fiancée and he had considered the possibility of residing there after their wedding, which has now been postponed, as she has been missing for a year and a half by now.
Dave Perrin (Gary Hershberger) searches high and low for his missing sister, as he continues to tack posters around Cabot Cove in the hopes of learning information regarding missing sister, Laurel's, whereabouts. Dave's steady, Molly Holt (Judith Jones), daughter of businessman Philip Holt (Lawrence Pressman), agrees against her father's wishes to assist Lawrence Baker in researching "The Legacy of Borbey House."
Peter Jatich (Christopher Neame) serves as butler to Lawrence Baker, who rarely emerges into the daylight unless he wears trench-coat and darkly-tinted sunglasses. Philip Holt also objects to a seeming budding romance between Molly and Lawrence, because Baker's his age and because rumors abound throughout Cabot Cove that Baker's a vampire, which could make his age considerably elder by several generations. Naturally, Dave also objects to Molly's growing interest in Lawrence and his in Molly.
But when two young lovebirds, Billy the Teenage Boy (Don Jeffcoat) and Carla Thompson the Teenage Girl (Susan T. Collins) decide to spoon in the local memorial park one evening, Doctor Howard Sorenson (Roy Dotrice) frightens them senselessly, as he feigns a zombie routine.
Doctor Howard Sorenson, a specialist in the supernatural and unexplained, consults Librarian Jean O'Neill (Madlyn Rhue) plus Jessica Fletcher to assist in his research of "The Legacy of Borbey House," while Molly assists Jessica in researching, as well.
Adding to the trouble at hand is an altercation involving combinations of Charles Weatherby, Jim Milio (Steve Jackson) over Laurel, Dave Perrin, Philip Holt and Peter Jatich. But soon actual bodies begin to surface, to the dismay of one and all.
When Doctor Sorenson sneaks into Borbey House late one night, he discovers a body slain by a wooden stake. Sheriff Mort Metzger and Deputy Andy Broom handle the mysterious case as professionally as possible but especially need Jessica's capable assistance to sort through clues this time around.
The cast is rounded out by Barbara Townsend as Mrs. Higgins, and Richard Jamison as Delivery Man. This episode represents the second of Richard Gilliland's two "MSW" guest appearances, the second of Gary Hershberger's three, the second of Madlyn Rhue's five, the third of Lawrence Pressman three, and the fourth of David Birney's four "MSW" guest starring roles.
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- Dec 22, 2009