Deceptions

Are you all packed?

Yeah, just about.

Come on, now wait a minute.

Now wait a minute, you're gonna make me late for my plane.

You're gonna make me late for my plane.

So, be late.

I can't, okay?

Well, on second thought.

Pook, Jesus, you nearly scared me to death.

Look at the mess you've made, come here.

Hey, what are you doing?

Oh, my, God.

Douglas.

Oh, my, God.

And that's, that's all.

Mrs. Erickson, did you have any idea

that your husband wanted to kill you?

No, I loved him and I thought he loved me.

Detective Gentry, they're here for the body.

Excuse me.

If forensics is finished tell 'em to go ahead.

Mrs. Erickson, something bothers me here.

I gotta be honest with you.

You say your husband left this morning on a business trip

to San Francisco, then he comes back here tonight,

breaks in and tries to murder you with a knife.

And yet he forgets that he left a 357 magnum revolver

in his bedside table drawer.

Now that seems, well what Nick, it's inconsistent.

What are you implying?

I'm not implying anything.

You're saying that I wanted to kill my husband.

She's hysterical now.

Mrs. Erickson, I know what you've been through.

Maybe we oughta continue this tomorrow

when you feel a little better.

Let me tell you something, officer.

My husband didn't know it was there.

It was at the shop being repaired.

I went and picked it up and I forgot to tell him.

I forgot to tell him.

In progress, I'll have 25 minute delays

7006 South Haverly custom weather wrap.

I need a 77, get it.

Currently 21 there's no one on your suspect.

Frequency 17 is clear.

Way to go, Harley.

Hey, I'm not in the comfort business,

that's for the undertaker.

I'm in the truth business.

Yeah, well there's not a lot to be gained

by making her into a hostile witness either.

If she's guilty, she's already hostile.

Just ask her husband.

So, what do you think?

I think she did it.

You think everybody did it.

Everybody did do it, they just ain't been caught.

Oh you've got it all figured out?

Well, I don't know, Nick.

Maybe he left the gun in the drawer because he was fair

minded and wanted to give her a fighting chance.

What do you think?

I think I'm gonna keep an open mind.

You gotta watch that,

who knows what'll blow through there.

All the different lines come right here.

We've got cable, security, what not,

he knew which ones to cut.

Hell, it was his house.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.

Wait a minute, I thought you said that she did it.

Now you're telling me the husband planned the whole thing?

Did you ever hear of supposition?

- 12 eight 17, no. - What?

Supposition, you know suppose this, suppose that.

There is no information

at the fish market received.

Ask yourself one question.

This girl - Meet with information over

at the fish market received. - Is a walking wet dream.

Why would anyone wanna put a end to something that sweet.

You know, you're right.

She's too pretty to be innocent.

Let's fry her.

Come on, you got my opinion, what's yours?

Well, I think Mrs. Erickson is one hot lookin' woman

with a lot of money and a lot of time to spend it.

Just my type.

3X106 interference resending

the last name is R-O-B--

She's your type all right.

And the D.O.B. is seven--

She just offered her husband.

Yeah, well at least she's single.

307N2C returned.

6D21, John John Paul zero one four.

You got a code four.

659 roger that, you have code four--

No, no, they're all good.

Well I'm pleased with everything.

Well, I just thought that there was another roll.

No, well if we could just see some more of the room.

Uh huh.

So there is another room?

Yeah, yeah.

No, thanks a lot, no.

We really appreciate it.

Uh huh.

Yeah, all right.

What's this?

You got enough chemicals

in that danish to preserve a fart.

The body is the temple of the soul.

You wanna take a dump in your temple, be my guest.

All right, you wanna hear what we got so far?

Not particularly.

Douglas Erickson checked into the Mark Hopkins Hotel

yesterday morning, 10:30 a.m...

No one at the desk can identify him.

But he did use a credit card

and he signed the guest register.

So, what'd they find in the hotel room.

It's what they didn't find.

No receipt for a second set of airline tickets.

Just Erickson's bags filled with clothes.

Oh, and an appointment book.

Oh, that's interesting.

They find anything in the book?

I already checked.

No San Francisco appointments,

no San Francisco phone numbers, no San Francisco contacts.

You know, that just doesn't figure.

Guy plans on killing his wife you're gonna think

he wants to come up with a better alibi.

Well, the appointment book doesn't prove anything.

Maybe the guy was a bad record keeper.

Sure.

That's how he got rich?

Okay, so one of us has gotta go to the airport,

check on his travel reservations,

see if we can find his car.

And one of us has to go all the way back out there

and take Mrs. Erickson's statement.

Which one do you want?

Let's.

All right.

Heads.

Sorry.

Mrs. Erickson?

Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.

Oh, that's all right.

I often go for a swim in the morning.

The water's cool.

It really revives you.

It's nice.

I mean, it looks like a good life.

Please, come in.

Can I get you something to drink?

No, you're a cop and you're on duty, so you don't drink.

Well, I need a drink.

Bourbon.

I'm trying to adjust my thinking.

Trying to see things the way they are.

It's funny, the world doesn't look any different.

Mrs. Erickson, I know how you're feeling,

and I know that stirring things up like

this can be very painful, but I have to finish taking

your statement for our report.

Of course.

Why don't we sit in here.

Now then, what is it that you wanna know?

Well, you said last night that your husband's gun

had only recently returned from the gun shop.

When was that?

Couple of weeks ago.

I don't remember the exact date.

I do have an invoice around here somewhere, I can get it.

No, no, that's not necessary.

I just need a name.

Santa Monica Gun and Rail, something like that.

It's on Lincoln Boulevard.

And the owner called you?

I imagine he's the owner.

But he called you?

Yes.

Is that important?

Well, it tends to substantiate that the gun was

in the house by circumstance,

that the time and date of its return

were not under your control.

I don't understand.

Why is that important?

It suggests that there was no premeditation

involved in your husband's death.

That man last night, that police officer.

Detective Kessler.

He was so, am I under suspicion for?

Mrs. Erickson, every possibility is considered

in a murder investigation.