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.
1:35:01
-Why not wait till midnight?
-She panicked.
1:35:02
-She knew she had to finish--
-How do you know what she knew?
1:35:04
Fourteen years' experience.
1:35:06
-You've never been wrong.
-Not when it counted.
1:35:08
-That's right, you're 85 for 86, aren't you?
-Yes, l am.
1:35:11
-One case away from a perfect record.
-This report is the truth.
1:35:13
Truth? Bullshit! Why don't you tell him
why we're really here?
1:35:22
Go on.
1:35:26
Tell him.
1:35:33
Because she's done it before.
1:35:35
Wait a minute.
ls there some prior felony here, John?
1:35:42
No, there's not.
1:35:43
They wouldn't indict her.
1:35:51
Eighteen years ago...
1:35:54
...my father drank some scotch...
1:35:56
...and fell down a well.
1:35:58
Detective Mackey didn't think
it was an accident, which is...