- A drunken playboy is in a hit-and-run accident. Peter's attempt to help the victim by buying his property finds Peter putting his father, who is the county engineer, in a compromised situation on a project when no victim turns up.
- Peter Caine, driving drunk at night on a lonely road, hits a man and seriously injures him. Peter's companion, Debra Bradford, takes over driving and leaves without offering assistance. She learns the man's name is Joseph Witt and devises a scheme for Peter to pay damages to Grace Witt, Joe's wife. Peter will buy the Witts' property for more than market value, which he willingly does. At the county board meeting, chief county engineer William Harper Caine, Peter's father, sides with Perry Mason to stop construction by contractor Roger Quigley until another survey may be prepared. Such a stop order will bankrupt Quigley, who accuses Caine of conflict of interest, citing Peter's recent real estate purchase. When Caine writes a check to Debra as final payment to Grace Witt, Quigley and his associate, Charles Sistrom, burst in and take pictures of the exchange. Now they want Caine to resign. Perry and Paul Drake find Quigley at home, dead with Caine--gun in hand-- standing over the body. Arrested, Caine confesses to the killing, but he is protecting someone else.—richardann
- After hitting a pedestrian with his car, Peter Caine wants to call the police and report the crime. Actually, he was so drunk that he can hardly remember what happened but his girlfriend suggests that a better way to atone for what's happened would be be to offer to buy the nearly worthless ranch owned by the man he struck. By offering more that it's worth, they will have the money to pay for hospital bills and still have some left over. Peter agrees but his father, city engineer William Caine, thinks his son has again gotten himself involved in some foolish investment of some sort. When it turns out that the land Peter bought is actually an alternative route for a major aqueduct project, the elder Caine is publicly embarrassed and accused of corruption by Roger Quigley, the owner of the construction company that may go under if the plans are changed. When Quigley is killed, William Caine is charged with murder and Perry Mason agrees to represent him.—garykmcd
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