Written by: Carol Mendelsohn
Directed by: Kim Manners
Transcribed by: Michelle Furnas
Disclaimer: I have NO claim to the characters NOR am I associated in any way to the show. The characters were created by Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell and belong to them and Columbia Tristar Television Distribution.
This is a transcript of If You Could See What I See, originally aired January 6, 1986.
Scene opens with a woman sitting in a rocking chair. She looks upset. We see visions of a plate falling, then a glass, then lights and Mark walking. Then a dead fish, a gunshot and Mark falling. The woman sits forward and hugs herself. Then we see Mark rolling down a hill followed by Hardcastle standing in front of a casket.
Change scene to Gulls Way.
HARDCASTLE: McCormick! We're outta orange juice.
MARK: (enters wearing an apron, carrying a broom and some silver tea service)Yeah I know, I know. I put it on the grocery list.
HARDCASTLE: What good's it doing on the list? It's supposed to be in there next to the milk which we're also out of.
MARK: Well take my word for it. Contrary to popular belief breakfast is not the most important meal, Judge.
HARDCASTLE: It's my most important meal.
MARK: You got plenty of bologna, make yourself an early lunch.
HARDCASTLE: See what happens? You see? I give you a little bit of latitude, your work starts slipping.
MARK: Look, my work is the same as it's always been.
HARDCASTLE: Substandard.
MARK: Oh get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, did we?
HARDCASTLE: Oh I got up to this (Judge picks up a sock from a plate).
MARK: Is that yet another caustic remark in reference to my recent request for a raise?
HARDCASTLE: What raise? I don't owe you any raise. Look at this place. Hey, we got no groceries. There's laundry piled up all over the place. You haven't vacuumed in two weeks.
MARK: Do you have any idea how tired I am of having dish pan hands? Not only am I doing the dishes, but I'm also polishing silverware. I'm washing the garage. I'm even cleaning your dirty socks.
HARDCASTLE: Well that's too bad, McCormick because you're stuck doin' it.
MARK: That's where you're wrong. I'm not stuck with doin' it. I'm gonna hire a maid.
HARDCASTLE: What! You what!
Mark walks out and Hardcastle follows him to the gatehouse.
MARK: I don't care.
HARDCASTLE: You're totally out of your mind, you know that? Cause I'm not paying for any maid.
MARK: Fine, I'll pay for the maid.
HARDCASTLE: With what? Cigar coupons?
MARK: With my salary as menial as it is.
HARDCASTLE: Do you have any idea what it costs to hire a maid these days? Huh?
MARK: Yes.
HARDCASTLE: Huh? Plus room and board plus television? Color television?
MARK: Yes I figured it out last month when the laundry room flooded for the second time, and I had to cancel my date with Doreen. Yes, I could pay it with half my salary and still come out ahead.
HARDCASTLE: Yeah well I'm tellin' ya right now we are not hiring any maid, and that's final.
Change scene to the same woman we saw at the beginning. She's dusting her mantel. We see the vision of the plate falling again. She looks toward the phone and it rings.
WOMAN: Hello.
MARK: Hello, yes, Millie Denton please.
MILLIE: Speaking.
MARK: Um, Millie, uh I don't know if you'll remember me. My name is Mark McCormick.
We see the the scene from the beginning the gun going off.
MARK: I was a cellmate of your husbands for a few months back in '81.
We see the scene from the beginning where Mark is rolling down the hill.
MILLIE: Mark McCormick, yes I remember you.
MARK: I know I should have called sooner. I was very sorry to hear about Buddy.
We see a glass falling.
MILLIE: Thank you.
MARK: I also heard, Millie from some of the guys that you might be looking for some work. I understand that you're a housekeeper?
MILLIE: Yes, yes I am.
MARK: Well it just so happens that I'm looking for a housekeeper, but I can't pay you very much.
MILLIE: Well, money's never been that important to me.
MARK: Uh, Millie could you by any chance come by my residence tomorrow say around 11? Uh, it's 101 Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and you can meet my employer, Judge Milton C. Hardcastle.
MILLIE: Fine, I'll see you and Judge Hardcastle tomorrow.
Again we see the scene which is a premonition that Millie's having. Mark is being held from behind. The gun goes off at close range hitting him in the side. Then she sees Hardcastle standing in front of a casket. Then she sees Mark fall to his knees after being shot.
Change scene to Hardcastle standing in front of a casket.
PASTOR: All of us who knew Charlie will agree he wasn't a witty man. He never sent out a Christmas card. He didn't even like animals, but he remained throughout his life a dedicated member of the California bar and for that we will remember him. May he rest in peace.
Service breaks up.
MAN: Hey Milty.
HARDCASTLE: Huh?
MAN: (they shake hands) How long has it been? Six years?
HARDCASTLE: Seven and a half.
MAN: Last time I saw this guy he was sittin' in on a case for Judge Willoby, uh Kesslar vs. Demato.
HARPER: (Lt. Frank Harper) I remember that case. It was all over the papers. Young drifter sues frozen food heiress for palimony.
HARDCASTLE: Yeah when he lost the case, he tried to strangle the money out of her. He's doing twenty five in the pen right now.
MAN: Hey Milty, I'm not responsible for my client's actions. I'm just an attorney. No attorney is.
HARPER: Hey wait aren't you...?
MAN: Wendell Price.
HARPER: Frank Harper. I caught you on that morning show, divorce attorney to the stars.
PRICE: That's right. I got more academy award winning clients than any other attorney in the biz. I gotta run fellas. I gotta meet The Jester Johns at my club. That is the hottest new punk group on the charts. I'm handling divorces for the entire group except the drummer. He's not the marrying type. Caio.
HARPER: That guy is a real celebrity.
HARDCASTLE: That guy's a crumb. Uses every trick in the book to win his cases.
HARPER: So you don't like the guy. Nobody liked Charlie Clarkson either.
HARDCASTLE: Well, Charlie was a little rough around the edges, but he was a good guy. I liked him.
HARPER: That makes you a majority of one.
HARDCASTLE: You didn't know him like I did. I owed Charlie. What are you doin' here? You two weren't that close.
HARPER: We weren't. I'm here on official police business.
HARDCASTLE: Why? You know something that wasn't in the papers?
HARPER: Well, Charlie Clarkson and his secretary did not die in a robbery attempt, but somebody sure went to a lot of trouble to make it look that way.
HARDCASTLE: Listen, I wanna know what happens. You call me if you hear anthing, okay?
HARPER: Sure, caio.
HARDCASTLE: Ah, gee. Caio.
Change scene to Gulls Way. Mark's vacuuming and Hardcastle is on the phone.
HARDCASTLE: What? I can't hear you, Frank. (to Mark)Will you shut that thing off? (back on phone)What? Listen, Frank I gotta go. Give us yeah about an hour. Okay. (he hangs up and Mark turns the vacuum off) What are you doin'?
MARK: I'm straightenin' up a little. Millie's gonna be here any minute. I want the place to look good.
HARDCASTLE: You been out in the sun too long or what?
MARK: Look Judge, do you know how difficult it is to find good help these days. Now, domestics can be very selective. (doorbell rings) She's here. She's here. You know you could have straightened it up a little. (Mark uses the duster on the Judge) You could've straightened up a little. I'm trying to make a good impression. (Mark opens a drawer and sneezes and stuffs the duster inside and goes to answer the door). Hold on, Millie. (He answers the door.) Hi, you must be Millie Denton.
She sees the vision again of the gun pointing at Mark, the plate falling and then a gunshot shooting out a light.
MARK: Is everything okay? (They're in the den. Mark pours her a glass of water) Is there something else I can get for you?
MILLIE: I'm sorry. It's just that you remind me so much of my son.
MARK: Yeah.
HARDCASTLE: I told Frank we're gonna meet him in his office in an hour. He's got some more information on the Clarkson case.
MILLIE: I hope I didn't keep you waiting. I had to take the bus.
MARK: The bus? You should have told me. I could have picked you up, Millie.
MILLIE: Oh, Buddy always said you had a good heart. He said you weren't like the others, that you really didn't belong inside.
HARDCASTLE: We're gonna be late.
MARK: (to Hardcastle) Did you hear that? Look, Judge what are you looking for? Why don't you just go ahead. Millie and I we have business to discuss here.
MILLIE: Uh if you've got another appointment, Mark, I can come back another time.
MARK: No, no, no, why don't I give you a tour of the place.
HARDCASTLE: While you're at it, will you find my keys?
MARK: Did you lose them again?
HARDCASTLE: Yes.
MARK: Well we're just gonna have to attach little elastic bands to your sleeves, Milton just like we do for your mittens, aren't we? Did you look in the refrigerator?
HARDCASTLE: Yes.
MARK: What about the bathroom? You were in there all morning.
HARDCASTLE: Yes.
Millie reaches into the sofa and finds the keys.
MILLIE: Are these your keys?
HARDCASTLE: Yes. How did you know abou...How did you know they were in there?
MILLIE: Well I always look in the sofa. People are always losing their keys in the sofa.
MARK: See, she's organizing us already. You're hired.
Mark and Millie clasp hands and she sees the vision of Mark rolling down the hill again.
Change scene to Mark and Hardcastle arriving at the police station.
MARK: You know, when you hire a maid, it usually means you're a man of leisure, but no you gotta drag me down here to the police station.
HARDCASTLE: Well, if you're a man of leisure, you'll have more time to work on the case.
MARK: I got enough things to work on. I gotta work on my tan. I gotta work on my tennis game. I gotta work on eating some of Millie's freshly made cookies.
HARDCASTLE: What you're gonna work on is gettin' refrences for Millie Denton.
MARK: Judge, she looks like everybody's mother. Now, that's refrence enough.
Inside a woman is leaving Frank Harper's office.
WOMAN: Thank you Lt. Harper.
HARPER: My pleasure.
Mark and Hardcastle walk up and they all watch the woman walk to the water fountain and get a drink.
MARK: Wasn't that...?
HARPER: Lonnie Summers. She's got that big billboard sign on Sunset.
MARK: That's right. The big billboard with the small bikini.
HARDCASTLE: Will you get ahold of yourself! (Hardcastle pulls Mark inside the office by the jacket) (to Harper)I thought you were working on the Clarkson case.
HARPER: I am working on the Clarkson case. Clarkson represented Ms. Summers in her divorce.
MARK: What? Is her husband a fruitcake?
HARPER: Her husband is Dex Falcon, the movie star.
HARDCASTLE: He's been married and divorced more times than you been in traffic court.
HARPER: Clarkson called her the night he died. He said that he had information that would win her case and destroy her husband and for her to meet him the next day in his office and that he would explain everything.
HARDCASTLE: Well, you gonna get a warrant and search his office.
HARPER: I'm working on it, but it's gonna take a little time.
HARDCASTLE: Awww...
HARPER: I'm only talking about a couple of days. I mean what is it with you and Charlie Clarkson, Milt?
HARDCASTLE: I was his friend.
MARK: It also looks like you were the president and only member of his fan club. What gives here?
HARDCASTLE: Okay, he did me a good turn once.
MARK: Well there's gotta be more to it than that. What?
HARDCASTLE: Well, back when I was a cop, I was having a little trouble with my wife because I was a rookie. I was working the night shift, and I was pullin' double duty every fourth night, and I had all these cases runnin' around in my head, and I couldn't stop thinkin' about 'em day or night. So I wasn't too easy to live with, and it got so bad that she decided to go and see a lawyer about gettin' a divorce.
MARK: Charlie Clarkson.
HARDCASTLE: Right and you know what he did? He told her to forget about it, go home and work things out and we did, and we had a hell of a marriage too. Thanks to Charlie. The man was a little short on charm, but he had integrity.
HARPER: Well, I'll do what I can, but Until I get the search warrant, my hands are tied.
HARDCASTLE: Well, mine aren't.
Change scene to Charlie Clarkson's office. Mark and the Judge arrive in suits.
MARK: Judge, are you sure about this? You can't just walk into somebody's law office and take over.
HARDCASTLE: Why not? I practiced law for twenty years. Besides this is divorce law. No problem.
SECRETARY: Morning Judge, we've been expecting you.
HARDCASTLE: Has Lonnie Summers called?
SECRETARY: Yes sir, you're appointment is tomorrow at ten.
Change scene back and forth between Millie washing dishes at the sink at Gulls Way to Mark and the Judge in the law office. We see an aquarium in the foreground of the law office. Millie sees the dead fish floating in the aquarium that she saw earlier.
Change scene to evening at Gulls Way.
HARDCASTLE: Millie, that was terrific. That's the kind of meal my wife used to cook.
MILLIE: Oh that's good. I was a little nervous. It's been awhile since I cooked for anybody except myself.
MARK: Cooking must be like riding a bike then because I have not eaten this well since...well, I can't remember when I ate this well.
MILLIE: I hope you saved some room for dessert.
MARK: No, no and no coffee thank you.
HARDCASTLE: You know what my favorite dessert is?
MARK: Tutti frutti ice cream with marshmellow sauce.
HARDCASTLE: No.
MILLIE: Pecan pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
HARDCASTLE: He told ya.
MARK: No I didn't.
MILLIE: Lucky guess. Okay, two pieces of pecan pie coming right up.
HARDCASTLE: I'm gonna have mine in the den.
MARK: Yes, pecan pie ala John Wayne. Here I'll help you with the dishes.
Change scene to the kitchen. Millie and Mark are doing the dishes.
MARK: These last couple of years must have been pretty rough on you having lost Buddy.
MILLIE: Well I've managed. The worst part is the lonliness. Not having anyone to talk to or to do things for. I don't have to tell you. You know all about being alone.
MARK: Well, yeah but I have Hardcase.
MILLIE: Why do your feelings for Judge Hardcastle embarrass you, Mark?
MARK: (pauses)They don't. I just don't talk about them much that's all.
MILLIE: If I tell you something, you won't sit in judgment will ya?
MARK: No, of course not, I don't do that.
MILLIE: You're life is in danger. Judge Hardcastle doesn't know it, but he's putting your life in danger.
MARK: (laughs)He knows it, all right. Are you kidding, since I've hooked up with Hardcastle, I've been shot at, run over. I was even thrown off a train.
MILLIE: I'm serious, Mark. I see a gun.
MARK: What do you mean? You see a gun?
MILLIE: When I was a little girl, something happened. I was in the playground. I was on the jungle gym with my best friend, Maryanne. I saw this picture. I saw her fall off and she was crying. I told her to get down, that something bad was gonna happen, but she laughed at me and the kids laughed at me, but then she fell. She broke her back. After that, nobody wanted to play with me or be my best friend because I was different. I've lived most of my life alone, Mark. I've been shut behind closed door away from people, and I want it that way because it hurts too much to be close, and see things.
MARK: Are you saying you're some kind of psychic?
MILLIE: I'm saying I see pictures. I'm saying they come true.
MARK: (looks stunned) I'm gonna put these away. (He drops the plate just like in the vision.) It's okay, it's just a plate. Hardcastle doesn't know this, but I break at least one a week.
Chage scene to the next morning. Mark and the judge are dressed in suits leaving Gulls Way.
HARDCASTLE: (makes some kind of noise of disbelief).
MARK: She said she had visions.
HARDCASTLE: You're not gonna really go for that psychic mumbo jumbo, are ya?
MARK: She did find your keys in the sofa.
HARDCASTLE: That's the first place She always looks.
MARK: Well, what about the pecan pie?
HARDCASTLE: That's a lucky guess.
MARK: I don't know about that, Judge. I've been reading how these psychics predicted Nixon would resign, and Farrah and Ryan would wed, and the Yankees would win the world series.
HARDCASTLE: Yeah, that's because you're always reading those scandal sheets when you're standing in line in the supermarket. Instead of reading that crud, you'd look at the Wall Street Journal or the Times, you wouldn't have to bother with it.
MARK: Then I'd miss out on all the showbiz gossip.
HARDCASTLE: Ohhhh...
Change scene to Charlie's law office. Mark and the Judge are meeting with Lonnie Summers.
SECRETARY: (voice over) Judge, Ms. Summers is here to see you.
HARDCASTLE: (voice over) Okay, send her in.
LONNIE: I was on my way to a party at the beach when Charlie called at Warrens...for Liza.
HARDCASTLE: What time was it? Do you remember?
LONNIE: I remember I was rushing because the cleaners had spotted my chifon jogging suit so I had to wear leather.
MARK: Leather?
HARDCASTLE: And that's when you got the call from Charlie?
LONNIE: At 6:52. See I have this bad habit of always being late. So, last year, Dex got me a digital watch so everytime I have someplace to go I keep checking my watch to speed myself up.
MARK: Sounds like a good system to me.
HARDCASTLE: And what did Charlie have to say?
LONNIE: He said he had found a diamond mind...no gold, a gold mind. He said I was gonna walk away from the divorce a rich woman. He said together we were gonna destroy Dex.
HARDCASTLE: Well, did he tell you why?
LONNIE: He just said the number I found had panned out.
MARK: What number is that?
LONNIE: The number I found on Dex's nightstand.
HARDCASTLE: A phone number?
LONNIE: No.
MARK: An address?
LONNIE: No, there were a lot of numbers like on a charge account.
MARK: A bank account.
LONNIE: Maybe.
HARDCASTLE: Did he say anything about Dex's financial situation?
LONNIE: He just said Dex didn't have as much money as he should, and then I explained it to him.
HARDCASTLE: Well, why don't you explain it to me.
LONNIE: Well, see Dex never has any money cause he's always buying his friends expensive gifts like cars or like this bracelet he gave me yesterday. Real diamonds, I had it appraised.
HARDCASTLE: Wait, why would he want to give you a diamond bracelet when you're getting a divorce?
LONNIE: Oh, didn't I mention it? He's not divorcing me. This bracelet is a getting back together present.
Change scene to Dex Falcon and Wendell Price sitting at a table in a restaurant talking.
FALCON: One more night with that broad and I'm gonna go crazy.
PRICE: Look Dexter, please, this is just temporary. Just until we get Milton Hardcastle off of our backs.
FALCON: Well you're my lawyer, there's gotta be some other way, some way I can go ahead with this divorce.
PRICE: Now, look Dex, Hardcastle has taken over Clarkson's practice. He's representing Lonnie. Now if you go ahead with this divorce, he might find out about the Cayman account.
FALCON: I'd be out ten million bucks.
PRICE: Uh huh, listen pal, thirty five percent of that is mine and I'm not about to lose it because you're getting tired of some blonde bimbo.
FALCON: The whole marriage thing with Lonnie is just a mistake.
PRICE: That's what you said about your last five wives, Dex.
FALCON: I don't know. Maybe I'm just not the marrying kind.
PRICE: Don't quit now pal, you could still use another house.
Mark and Hardcastle enter the restaurant.
HARDCASTLE: His office said he'd be here.
MARK: I think you're fishing, Judge.
HARDCASTLE: Just follow my lead. (They go over to the table) Well, I understand that congratulations are in order.
FALCON: Oh you heard about the award nomination. I'm up against some pretty stiff competition. I got Newman, Redford, Stallone.
MARK: I think the Judge was referring to you and Lonnie getting back together again.
HARDCASTLE: Yeah.
FALCON: Oh that, yeah well naturally I'm very excited that Lonnie and I were able to patch things up.
HARDCASTLE: Spur of the moment, wasn't it?
PRICE: You know how love is, Milt. You make it more spontaneous it is, the more they love it.
MARK: The bracelet was a nice touch.
HARDCASTLE: Lonnie says you're always doin' that, giving expensive gifts to friends.
FALCON: Well as my mother always told me, when the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
HARDCASTLE: Charlie Clarkson didn't figure it that way. He thought maybe you were puttin' some money into foreign accounts to get around the community property thing.
PRICE: Milt, you know how it is. You get to be a big star like that, the rumors they start flying around. My client has paid through the nose for all his divorces. Believe me, I know.
HARDCASTLE: I bet you do. I bet you know some more that you're not tellin' too.
PRICE: Please, there's not gonna be any divorce. Can we be friends? Look, I'm givin' a big party tomorrow night to celebrate the reconciliation. I know that Lonnie would love to have Mark and you join us.
HARDCASTLE: Right.
Hardcastle and Mark leave the table. Mark bumps the waitress causing the champaign glass she's carrying to topple over. The scene switches to Millie having the vision again of the gun pointing at Mark, the gunshot and the light fixture shattering. Change scene to evening at Gulls Way.
MILLIE: (to Mark) I brought you a sweatshirt. It's getting cold.
MARK: Oh thank you.
MILLIE: If there's nothing else, I think I'll turn in.
HARDCASTLE: Oh Millie.
MILLIE: Oh the pool man's going on vacation. I took care of it this morning. He's sending his brother-in-law to take care of things while he's away.
HARDCASTLE: Okay.
MARK: How did you know the Judge was gonna say that?
MILLIE: He mentioned it to me this morning.
MARK: Oh.
HARDCASTLE: (Hardcastle unloads the gun he's cleaning) Well, if you two will excuse me, I'm gonna go to bed, and seeing as how we have a real maid, you can clean the gun.
MARK: Yeah, me too.
HARDCASTLE: Goodnight, Millie.
MILLIE: Goodnight, Judge.
Millie stares at the gun and sees the lamp shatter.
MARK: Goodnight (he kisses her on the cheek).
MILLIE: Mark...(she still staring at the gun).
MARK: Is there something wrong?
MILLIE: No, goodnight Mark.
MARK: Night.
Change scene to Millie in her room in her rocking chair. She's staring out the window at the gatehouse. We see someone loading a gun. Then there's a gunshot and the lights in the gatehouse go out.
Change scene to morning.
HARDCASTLE: You really gotta be a little more careful. You're could have hurt yourself.
MARK: Look, I'm gonna get hurt if I keep working on this case, Judge, I can feel it.
HARDCASTLE: Oh I told you last night and I'm gonna tell you all over again okay. Just because you get careless and shoot out a light doesn't mean your whole life's in danger.
MARK: Judge, you weren't there. You didn't see her, the way she looked at that gun. It was like she knew what was gonna happen even before it happened.
HARDCASTLE: She doesn't know what's gonna happen. Nobody knows what's gonna happen. You can't predict the future. You got free will.
MARK: Well, I am exercising my free will, and I'm getting off this case.
HARDCASTLE: No, you don't exercise any free will in my cases. You do what I tell you to do.
MARK: Judge, you know, why I must be some kind of psychic cause I knew you were going to say that.
HARDCASTLE: Listen, hey, listen we got a pretty good idea what this Falcon guy is up to, right. Now, all we need is a little hard evidence. The sooner we get that, the sooner this case is gonna be over. Come on, that's fine. Looks great.
MARK: Good as new.
They walk away and the picture Mark rehung to cover the bullet hole falls down. Change scene to a man running Falcon's financial records.
MAN: (just see a computer terminal and an arm) Bingo, Mark, we hit paydirt. It's an account in the Grand Caymans. Deposits over the last ten years. You should see this. We're talking major bucks.
MARK: All right, Benny, thanks.
HARDCASTLE: (on phone)Yeah, that's it? Okay, thanks Jerry.
MARK: Falcon has an account in Grand Cayman.
HARDCASTLE: Ten million.
MARK: Bet you don't know who made all the deposits.
HARDCASTLE: Wendell Price. Come on, put on a tie, we're going to a party.
Change scene, the Judge is sitting at his desk and Mark is tying his tie in a chair nearby.
HARDCASTLE: The tie's okay, but you gotta do better than that. Come on, I don't wanna be late for this thing.
MARK: I can't. Millie's ironing my shirt. (both are humming). (Millie comes in). Oh great, thank you, Millie.
Millie helps Mark on with his shirt. She notices Hardcastle's award sitting on the edge of the desk.
MILLIE: You shouldn't keep that so close to the edge of the desk.
HARDCASTLE: Why? That's been sittin' there for ten years ever since I got it from the district court right in that spot.
MARK: I don't know, Judge. If Millie says to move it, I'd move it.
MILLIE: You shouldn't go to that party tonight.
MARK: Well, I promise the Judge will have me home before curfew.
MILLIE: I see a string of lights(we see the lights). I see steam rising from the ground(we see Mark walking and steam rising). I see two men and a gun(we see one man holding Mark from behind and a man in front of Mark. Both have ahold of the gun). I see your death(we see Mark lying motionless at the bottom of a hill).
HARDCASTLE: The only thing he's gonna die of is cold if he doesn't get his clothes on.
MILLIE: Do you want to lose another son?
HARDCASTLE: Listen, Frank Harper is seeing a friendly judge about getting a search warrant for Price's office. I'm gonna go to Price's house and search it. Now you can go along if you wanna or you can stay home. The choice is yours. (The Judge walks out)
MILLIE: Please stay home.
MARK: Millie, I can't. He's counting on me.
MILLIE: Then there's nothing I can do if you won't listen to me.
Mark and the Judge leave. Scene changes to the party.
HARDCASTLE: Harper should be here within an hour. We're gonna search the place.
MARK: Okay you search the guys. I'll search the girls. Look at these women. They're beautiful. They've all gotta be actresses. They gotta be actresses. Yes, I'm in the process of casting my new movie about to get underway.
HARDCASTLE: Hey, listen. Hey, listen...
MARK: And then I'm about to direct my feature, Needless.
HARDCASTLE: (whistles) Hey kid, you search the rooms downstairs. I'll take care of up here.
MARK: Not now, not now. I don't want to work anymore.
HARDCASTLE: Just do it. Just do it.
MARK: I told them I was a producer down there.
Mark leaves to go upstairs. Hardcastle watches Price go upstairs.
PRICE: (to another guest) Excuse me, Jake have you seen Dex?
JAKE: I think he's in the den.
Price goes to the den not knowing he's being followed by Lonnie. He finds Dex there with another woman. Lonnie looks very upset and hurries away.
PRICE: Excuse me, I mean would you excuse us a moment please. (the woman leaves) Thank you. (Price closes the door). I just got a call. Hardcastle and his friend, Harper, are working on a search warrant.
FALCON: Oh my God, they're on to us.
PRICE: Hey relax, will ya. Everything they have on us is circumstantial unless they get the files.
FALCON: I don't want to go to jail. You know what they do to guys like me in there?
PRICE: Yeah, nobody's gonna go to jail. All we gotta to do is take care of Hardcastle and his sidekick before they do any real damage.
FALCON: Aw, come on, when we killed Clarkson and his secretary you said there would be no more trouble. All I wanted to do is put a little aside for my retirement.
PRICE: Well if you don't want to retire early, you meet me in the pool house in ten minutes.
Change scene to Mark walking up the stairs. A waiter approaches him.
WAITER: Mr. McCormick, I have a message for you from Judge Hardcastle. He asks that you meet him in the pool house.
MARK: Oh okay, thank you.
Mark exits the house. He walks under a string of lights and we see steam rising from the jacuzzi. We see Millie sitting in her rocker. Back at the party, the same waiter approaches Hardcastle.
WAITER: Judge Hardcastle, I have a message for you. He asks that you meet him in the pool house.
HARDCASTLE: Who?
WAITER: The young gentleman, curly brown hair.
HARDCASTLE: All right.. (he starts to walk away and runs into Lonnie).
LONNIE: Judge Hardcastle.
HARDCASTLE: Yeah.
LONNIE: We have to talk.
HARDCASTLE: Well could you call me at the office in the morning?
LONNIE: I found Dex with another woman.
HARDCASTLE: Ten minutes, okay?
LONNIE: I don't wanna be married to that two timing weasel for another ten minutes, I want a divorce now.
Change scene to Mark entering the pool house. We hear a gun cock.
Change scene to Millie sitting in her rocker with her cat in her lap. The cat meows and jumps down. The scene changes back to Mark in the pool house. Falcon and Price are there and Price has the gun.
MARK: Hardcastle called it. You guys killed Clarkson and his secretary.
PRICE: Shut up.
Change scene to Millie. We see the plate falling, the glass toppling over, the lamp shot out, Mark walking by the steam. Scene changes back to Mark making a grab for the gun. Falcon grabs him around the neck from behind. We see millie in her rocker, she's rocking harder. We see the plate falling again, Mark and Price struggling over the gun, Mark rolling down a hill, the plate shattering and finally the gunshot. Falcon lets go and Mark collapses to the floor.
Change scene to Hardcastle going out to the pool house.
HARDCASTLE: McCormick. McCormick.
He finds blood on the floor of the pool house.
Change scene to a car driving. The car stops and Price get out and goes to the trunk. He open it and Mark is lying inside. Price pulls him fromt he trunk and tosses him down the hillside.
Change scene back to the party. The police arrive. Inside the Judge finds Falcon.
HARDCASTLE: (grabs Falcon's shoulder) Hey, where's McCormick?
FALCON: Well, how should I know? It's a big party. He's a big boy. Maybe he got lucky.
Hardcastle punches Falcon and knocks him down. He bends down and doubles up his fist to hit him again.
HARDCASTLE: What did you do to him!? What did you do to him?!
The police have to pull Hardcastle off of Falcon
HARPER: Milt, back off Milt!
Change scene to the pool house. Harper examines the blood.
HARPER: (to officer) Along with the APB you've got out on Price, I want you to put one out on one Mark McCormick. (the officer leaves) Milt, you were right. We found Clarkson's files in Price's office. Okay now where do you think you're going?
HARDCASTLE: I'm gonna ask Falcon a couple of questions.
HARPER: I know how you feel, but an assault and battery rap isn't gonna do anybody any good. We don't even know if that's McCormick's blood, but we do know that Price and Falcon probably shot Clarkson.
HARDCASTLE: Probably shot McCormick too.
HARPER: Don't go jumpin' to any conclusions. Just go home. Mark is probably waiting there. If I hear anything, I'll call you.
Hardcastle leaves. Scene changes to Mark. We see his hand moving so we know he's still alive, but he's bleeding from a wound on his left side. Scene changes to Gulls Way.
HARDCASTLE: (in the gatehouse) McCormick! (he goes to the main house) Hey, McCormick! (the Judge goes to the desk and grabs up the phone bumping his award which falls and shatters. Then he goes to Millie's room. She's gone, but he finds a note.)
MILLIE'S NOTE: Milt, I'm sorry Mark wouldn't listen. I couldn't stay. If you need me, I'm at 1320 Clover Way. Millie.
Change scene to Millie's house. She's sitting in her rocker and Hardcastle is knocking on the door.
HARDCASTLE: Millie, Millie it's Milt Hardcastle. (he tries the doorknob and it opens.) Have you heard from McCormick.
MILLIE: Mark's dead.
HARDCASTLE: No he's not dead. He's missing. Do you know where he is?
MILLIE: He wouldn't listen to me. You wouldn't listen to me. And now he's dead.
HARDCASTLE: No you listen, he's not dead, you hear, and you're gonna help me find him. Come on.
Change scene to Millie and Hardcastle driving around in Hardcastle's truck.
MILLIE: I can't help you.
HARDCASTLE: You don't have a choice. You have to help McCormick.
MILLIE: I told you. McCormick's dead.
HARDCASTLE: And I'm tellin' you he's not. Now does any of this look familiar?
MILLIE: I don't know.
They drive around some more. Time is elapsing.
HARDCASTLE: Are we gettin' close?
MILLIE: I don't know. I told you the vision's stopped.
Change scene to a car pulling into Gulls Way. It's Price. He finds Millie's note. The scene changes again to morning. It's daylight. The Judge and Millie are still driving around. Price is on the same road, but he's ahead of Hardcastle and Millie. He passes a sign for Kelly's Curve.
HARDCASTLE: Are we gettin' close?
MILLIE: I don't know.
HARDCASTLE: Well, try harder.
MILLIE: I am trying. There up ahead. Do you have anything that belonged to Mark? A hat, a sweater anything?
HARDCASTLE: (hands her a cassette) Tears for Fears. That's his favorite band.
Millie sees Mark rolling down the hill, we see the sign for Kelly's curve and an odd shaped boulder.
MILLIE: I see a boulder, a big boulder on the side of the road. We're getting close. I can feel it.
The truck takes a curve, and Price drives toward them. He pulls in behind them and then alongside and rams into them. A police car heads their way and then another setting up a road block. Price is caught.
OFFICER: Put your hands on the dash. Get them up there.
PRICE: Watch the suit fella. I wanna call my lawyer(He sees Falcon in the back of the car.
As soon as Price is in custody, Hardcastle peels out to continue the search.
HARPER: Milt! Milt!
MILLIE: This is the road. I'm sure of it. That tree up ahead. I know I've seen that tree before. We're getting close keep going. There up ahead, that boulder. Pull over.
Harcastle stops and gets out going to the edge. He sees McCormick lying down the hill and makes his way down to him. Mark has a the wound on his side and had blood on his left cheek, but he's conscious.
MARK: (breathy) What took you so long? (he passes out)
Scene changes to Gulls Way. Hardcastle and Mark are outside. Marks lying in a lounger and Hardcastle is sitting at a nearby table leafing through a magazine. They are joined by Millie. Mark has a bandage around his waist and his right arm is in a sling. The following exchange is all done in a joking tone.
MARK: Is it time for my nap yet?
HARDCASTLE: No, it's time for my nap. Nursing you is a tweny four hour a day job.
MILLIE: Mark's been through a lot. (she hands Mark some milk).
MARK: Right, Millie, a lot of pain.
HARDCASTLE: You don't know what pain is yet.
MILLIE: Why I don't think a little attention's gonna spoil him.
MARK: Yeah.
HARDCASTLE: Don't worry, Millie. After you're gone, I'm gonna give him plenty of attention.
MARK: What do you mean when you're gone? What are you talking about? What? You're not leaving are you?
HARDCASTLE: I told you, but I think you were delirious at the time. She is gonna go to San Antonio and live with her sister.
MARK: Oh no.
MILLIE: I'm leaving tomorrow.
MARK: No, you can't do that. You can't leave me alone with him. You don't know what he'll do. He's viscious.
HARDCASTLE: It's the pain. He's slippin' over the brink.
MILLIE: I know you two like to kid around, but you should have seen the Judge when you were in surgery...
HARDCASTLE: (tries to interrupt)Millie, would you go in the kitchen and see if there's any cookies...
MILLIE: Worse than an expectant father.
MARK: Really?
MILLIE: Yeah, yeah
HARDCASTLE: Not really.
MILLIE: He sat with you all night long. He never closed his eyes. He wouldn't leave your side until the doctor said you were gonna be okay.
HARDCASTLE: Yeah, there was nothin' on television.
MARK: I'm deeply moved.
Millie bends down and whispers to Mark.
HARDCASTLE: What'd she say?
MARK: (laughs) Read my mind.
HARDCASTLE: It's a blank.
End of episode. Closing credits roll.
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