***SPOILERS**** Overcomplicated as well as typical Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, late in the series episode when the series' writers were plumb out of any new ideas or stories. This has Perry who was at the scene of the crime, as it in fact happened, defend LAPD Sgt. Danny Talbert, Robert Quarry,in the murder of big time gangster Steve Radom, Gregory Morton. it was Radom who owned the night cub that Danny's estranged brother Carl,Chris Robinson,worked in as a jazz pianist.
It turns out that Danny's father Ed Talbert, Emile Meyer, who suddenly dropped dead of a massive heart attack at the L.A Union Station was being blackmailed by Radom to keep his mouth shut about something and was forgiven for a $10,000.00 debt that he owed him to do that. At the trial Danny is totally uncooperative with his defense attorney Perry Mason about the circumstances behind the secret relation between his father and Radom. With Perry trying to find out why he's allowing himself to be sent to the San Quentin gas chamber in doing that!
***SPOILERS***As for the person who actually murdered Radom it was just business as usual on his part in keeping Radom from driving him out of business by framing Danny's brother Carl, who's involved with him, as a drug pusher. It was Carl that was being used by him to keep Radom off his back. Feeling that he's got nothing to lose the person in question took advantage of a scuffle between Radom & Danny outside his bungalow to murder him and frame Danny for it. But the biggest surprise in the entire episode is just what exactly Radom had on the late Ed Talbert and his two sons especially Danny that ended up causing all this both death, on Radom's part, and confusion which even the great Perry Mason couldn't quite figure out! That's until the shocking truth about which Perry Mason unearth, in the L.A Hall of Records, was finally made public!
It turns out that Danny's father Ed Talbert, Emile Meyer, who suddenly dropped dead of a massive heart attack at the L.A Union Station was being blackmailed by Radom to keep his mouth shut about something and was forgiven for a $10,000.00 debt that he owed him to do that. At the trial Danny is totally uncooperative with his defense attorney Perry Mason about the circumstances behind the secret relation between his father and Radom. With Perry trying to find out why he's allowing himself to be sent to the San Quentin gas chamber in doing that!
***SPOILERS***As for the person who actually murdered Radom it was just business as usual on his part in keeping Radom from driving him out of business by framing Danny's brother Carl, who's involved with him, as a drug pusher. It was Carl that was being used by him to keep Radom off his back. Feeling that he's got nothing to lose the person in question took advantage of a scuffle between Radom & Danny outside his bungalow to murder him and frame Danny for it. But the biggest surprise in the entire episode is just what exactly Radom had on the late Ed Talbert and his two sons especially Danny that ended up causing all this both death, on Radom's part, and confusion which even the great Perry Mason couldn't quite figure out! That's until the shocking truth about which Perry Mason unearth, in the L.A Hall of Records, was finally made public!