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1962,
February 6th - Cain's Hundred
- # 19 Murder by Proxy
Writer:
Franklin Barton
Director:
Elliot Silverstein
Created by: Paul Monash
Prod.: Charles Russell
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Peter Mark Richman: Nicholas Cain
Charles McGraw:
Earl Klegg
Regis Toomey:
Judge Otto
Leonard Nimoy: Ralph Tomek
Fay Spain:
Enid Lazzo
David
McMahon:
Court Clerk
Oliver
McGowan, defense lawyer: Preston Luther
Pamela Duncan:
Frances
Lee Farr:
Harvey Dakes
Juanita
Moore:
Beatrice George
Gerald Hiken:
Vic Fell
Nicholas Cain has been lawyer for the mob. After becoming engaged, Cain decides to leave his life of crime behind him. This makes him a target for the underground. In an attack his fiancée, Stella, is killed instead of him. Cain now teams up with the F.B.I. in order to bring 100 mobsters to justice.
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Earl Klegg is
refusing to talk about a murder he obviously has got knowledge of. He thinks he
is
safe
because
at the time of
the
murder
he was in
jail. Preston Luther, the defence attorney, introduces himself to Cain in court.
He first mistook Cain for a defense person and is astonished to learn that he
pursues the case. He intends to proof beyond reasonable
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doubt
that the victim, Albert DeMando, has been killed by a conspiracy. He claims the
partners in crime are Earl Klegg and Ralph Tomek. Cain tries to convince the
jury that Klegg paid Tomek $ 20,000 for killing the man. Cain produces Tomek's
gun permission paper and a taxi driver who remembers having driven Tomek to the
gun shop. "Relax", Tomek tells Klegg "it's a little
thing". "It's
these little things that worry me", Klegg responds.
DeMonde's fiancée, Enid, is in the witness stand. She testifies that Klegg had arranged to have her fiancée murdered because his testimony had sent Klegg to prison. She claims he's said: "I'm going to have you killed, Mando." And she had learned from her fiancée that Tomek is the organization's killer the day he was killed. Defencs proves that Enid was attending a conference the day she claimed to have talked to the victim.
Tomek is questioned. He claims he did not know the victim and offers witnesses confirming his alibi who are of the organization or his wife who cannot witness against him.
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A
witness shows up. She has seen Tomek and the victim together because she saw the
pictures of both in the papers. She recalls that only one man returned. The
witness identifies Ralph Tomek. During a break the witness gets a phone call:
She is threatened and contradicts her testimony later on in court. Before the
judge she confesses that she withdraw the testimony because she were threatened
with her child being killed. She feels much better being questioned without
entering the witness stand.
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Meanwhile Al's friend Vic and her fiancée both feel guilty: She has talked him into witnessing against Klegg and Vic is a member in the organization working in the office. He could have warned him. And his name was remembered by the witness: She's heard the name in the conversation.
Cain calls Vic as a witness and finds out that Vic led Al to Tomek. He was the person who wrote the cheques of the organization. Believing Tomek only wanted to talk to him he brought him to Tomek. He blames himself for not having protected his friend.
