Angela Lansbury credited as playing...
Jessica Fletcher
- [last lines]
- Jessica Fletcher: And what about Mary? She had a parole hearing coming up.
- Warden Elizabeth Gates: She still does.
- Jessica Fletcher: Well, perhaps I should warn you, I intend to do everything in my power to help at that hearing.
- Warden Elizabeth Gates: Don't worry, Jessica. So do I.
- Jessica Fletcher: Well, I particularly liked the way the gas station bandit was caught. You know, having the getaway driver shift into reverse by mistake and crash into the police car... Now, that showed a great deal of imagination.
- Tug: Not exactly. That's the way it happened.
- Mary Stamm: No. I didn't dilute anything. I wouldn't know how. That's the truth, Mrs. Fletcher... But the truth is hardly a defense. I found that out the hard way.
- Jessica Fletcher: By your husband?
- Mary Stamm: [sighs] He beat me so bad I was hospitalized 3 times. But there wasn't enough evidence for anybody to stop him from doing it to me again. I finally made up my mind to leave him, when a friend called me to warn me that he was coming home mean, nasty drunk. I called the police. And then I went and I hid in the bedroom with my husband's .22 rifle. My husband got there first.