1:33:01
But $1,600,000...
1:33:04
...is a little more than 20 cents an hour.
1:33:06
My mother never knew about the will.
1:33:08
Come on, Miss St. George.
1:33:11
The will is eight years old.
1:33:13
You were there, Frank.
1:33:15
You were there when Detective Mackey
told her about the will.
1:33:17
Do you think she knew about it?
1:33:18
The constable's not on trial.
1:33:19
Neither is my mother.
1:33:21
Constable?
1:33:28
She seemed pretty surprised, l guess...
1:33:30
...to me.
1:33:35
That's how l saw it.
1:33:39
You want us to believe
that they were best friends...
1:33:41
...and alone for eight years
and they never even talked about it?
1:33:45
l think people can keep secrets
a lot longer than eight years.
1:33:47
A $1,600,000 secret?
1:33:50
Come on!
1:33:53
Did you know about the will,
Miss Claiborne?
1:33:56
No, sir.
1:33:58
Vera made it pretty clear she was plannin'
on takin' it all with her when she went.
1:34:02
l figured when she'd passed on there'd be
some laundry to do and a fare-thee-well.
1:34:05
lsn't that convenient?
1:34:06
You don't believe her?
1:34:08
Then l tell you what, Detective.
1:34:10
We may be in the presence
of a truly gifted criminal mind.
1:34:13
For eight years she's a heartbeat away...
1:34:15
...from being the richest woman
on the island.
1:34:17
So what does she do?
1:34:18
Does she wait one year
and let Vera drown in the tub?
1:34:21
Spend three years starving her?
1:34:22
You're only digging yourself in deeper.
1:34:24
Smother her in her sleep?
1:34:25
Drug her?
1:34:27
My mother's plan is
far more brilliant than that.
1:34:31
She waits through eight years of bed pans,
sponge baths, diapers and bed sores.
1:34:35
She waits eight years until Vera's
already got one foot in the grave.
1:34:38
And then what does she do?
1:34:39
-We know what she did.
-That's your theory, isn't it?
1:34:41
She waited eight years
to throw her down the front stairs.
1:34:43
Yes. To make it look like an accident.
1:34:45
An accident? She ransacked
the kitchen for a rolling pin.
1:34:48
Calm down!
1:34:49
How is beating Vera to death
going to look like an accident?
1:34:51
She panicked, just as you're doing now.
1:34:59
Sammy Marchant brought the mail
every day at noon.