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77 Sunset Strip Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
34 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 1
Girl on the Run
Fri, Oct 10, 195877 mins
Stuart meets and begins mutually to fall for nightclub singer Karen Shay. Their meeting is not as accidental as Karen initially believed as she eventually learns that Stuart is a private detective who was hired solely to locate her. She took on the Karen Shay moniker to escape in she, really Kathy Allen, having witnessed a high profile murder of a star witness in a criminal investigation, she previously willing to testify as she knows she can visually identify the killer who tried to kill her as well. She ran when she discovered that police protection was not enough of a safety net as a further attempt was made on her life while under that police protection. It isn't until these revelations come to light that Stuart believes he has been duped and that he has been hired by the killer so that the killer can finish her off for good. Stuart not only has to protect Kathy but discover the identity of the killer himself, who he cannot identify from their one and only brief meeting. This case may be more difficult for Stuart as the killer has hired a crazed hit-man to do this job, he who too has never met his employer face-to-face, and as the nature of the killer's day job lets him hide in plain sight.
Episode 2
Lovely Lady, Pity Me
Fri, Oct 17, 195847 mins
Stu's Monday starts maddeningly. His op's blackmailing a philandering client, so Stu chucks him out onto the Strip, frightening off a voluptuous, potential client waiting in the lobby. Stu Bailey dashes after the steamy blonde, who refuses to divulge her name - despite their plunging into a whirlwind romance. The operative turns up dead in Stu's office, but Stu was trysting with the mystery woman at the time. When she goes missing, the heat hunt Stu for his op's murder, Stu tracks his alibi.
Episode 3
A Nice Social Evening
Fri, Oct 24, 195846 mins
Wandering into Dino's Lodge one evening, Stuart makes the acquaintance of visiting Frederico Velasquez, one of the richest men in the world. This meeting was not by accident on Stuart's part as he has been hired by the US government to act as Velasquez's bodyguard without Velasquez knowing it. The government is aware that someone will try to kill him for geopolitical reasons while he's in the US, they have warned him, but he brushed off the notion in his carefree attitude, the reason he balked at having an American bodyguard beyond his own behind the scenes security detail who may not be quite as present. Dealing with that security detail without they knowing who he is may be a challenge for Stuart. Making Velasquez's acquaintance was easy for Stuart in having his own beautiful date, Betty, on one arm, and a beautiful "extra", Marilyn, on the other. In he, Betty and Marilyn being Velasquez's companions for the better part of his stay in the US, Stuart will find that spending time with Velasquez for the week may be too much of a good thing in generous Velasquez liking to party often, party long and party hard. The real challenge comes when Velasquez decides to hold a large party aboard his ship with upwards of a thousand guests, protecting him in such a large, confined and crowded situation with many unknown people requiring the extra hands of Jeff and Kookie, who may still not be enough to mitigate the risk.
Episode 4
Casualty
Fri, Oct 31, 195848 mins
A woman hires Jeff to find her dead husband, who she's just seen alive ! Kookie and Doll trail the fast-moving zombie, who continues changing names & addresses, and his glamorous new girlfriend. As Jeff makes significant progress with the help of an easily-charmed landlady, the company which insured the resurrected man hires Stu also. Somehow, a mysterious Mr. Dolan who looks half-dead, is involved too.
Episode 5
The Bouncing Chip
Fri, Nov 7, 195846 mins
A Vegas casino falters, because their chips are being counterfeited. "The Meteor" hires Stu, who discovers the plastics company that's making the counterfeits, then goes undercover as a cardsharp from Miami, to find out if the scheme's mastermind is relocated Chicago gangster Frenchy LaTour. The menacing Frenchy is also suspected of fitting his former boss Big Ears Beecham with a concrete kimono.
Episode 6
Two and Two Make Six
Fri, Nov 14, 195847 mins
Ex-con's wife hires Jeff to determine who is trying to kill her husband, who was recently released from San Quentin. Convicted robber Detterback chilled out in the cooler, but the police don't buy that he's doesn't know the assassin, so Detterback goes almost batty. His wife made it large as a fashion designer during the bad time he was hanging in the stately big house, but is his Alice the greatest, most loyal spouse ? Or does she deserve something better than Detterback, who might get it, pow, right in the kisser?
Episode 7
All Our Yesterdays
Fri, Nov 21, 195847 mins
PI Stu lensing brand-new silent flicker while battling gaggle of greedy heirs? Ex-screen goddess tabs Stu to spend whatever's necessary for a silent masterpiece, including rounding up her elderly former crew & cast-mates. Her adult children fear amateur mogul Stu will blow their inheritance, so they cast their own crew of experts, to prove Lucinda Lane's lost her marbles. Carhop Kookie wants a role in the spectacular too - reasoning he's a jumble of jerky moves already.
Episode 8
The Well-Selected Frame
Fri, Nov 28, 195848 mins
Jeff is approached by wealthy Santa Barbara socialite Valerie Stacey, who, scared to be seen talking to a private investigator, asserts that her husband, Chinese curio importer Howard Stacey, is trying to kill her. The reason?: he is in love with his secretary, and does not want an expensive divorce where Valerie would get most of his money. Rather than go to the police with her suspicions, she wants Jeff to find evidence of Howard's plan to kill her so that she can then file for divorce herself with cause, Jeff having an inside position as she wants him to go undercover as an architect she's hired to work on their hacienda extension despite Jeff stating he cannot fake his way through such a ruse. Agreeing to the conditions anyways, Jeff feels that something isn't quite right in his first hours at the hacienda. When he discovers why he feels the way that he does about the case, he has to figure out how to get out of the potentially life threatening predicament into which he's gotten.
Episode 9
Iron Curtain Caper
Fri, Dec 5, 195847 mins
Stuart is asked by newspapermen Paul Corrick and Burton Baldwin to work on an assignment of national importance, so important that they are giving him an unlimited budget and a fee of his own asking, Stuart who accepts despite believing it a mission impossible. One of their reporters, Larry Hilton, was caught trying to smuggle a list containing the names of the highest ranking but unknown American Communists out of the eastern bloc, they unsure if he is still alive or if the Communists in East Berlin where he was detained were able to find the list. If the Communists were able to find the list, Corrick and Baldwin know Hilton is already a dead man. Stuart's mission is to find Hilton, who if alive is probably being held somewhere in East Berlin, recover the list and bring Hilton back to the west, each successive stage which will probably be more difficult than the last. Stuart subsequently learns that the American authorities are aware of his mission but cannot provide him any official assistance. Immediately upon arrival in West Berlin where Stuart will be based, he knows that he is being followed, including by a beautiful, young American woman he met on the plane named Nancy Devere, to who he is attracted but who he does not fully trust in knowing that she has an agenda of some sort beyond romance with him. In the process of the case, Stuart will find that there are friends and enemies (some in their role only for a price) in the most unexpected of places.
Episode 10
Vicious Circle
Fri, Dec 12, 195847 mins
Having already reported it to the police who could do nothing, Kookie tells an incredulous Jeff that he is sure he saw someone being abducted, Jeff's incredulity due to there being no reports of anyone missing, and frankly Kookie being Kookie. Jeff further states that kidnapping would indeed be a police matter. Kookie is redeemed when a few days later attorney Blake Catto enters Bailey and Spencer wanting to hire Jeff as the said kidnappee. A $150,000 ransom was paid by Blake's father, former mobster long gone straight Lou Catto, something that he would deny in wanting to deal with the kidnappers, probably old associates or enemies with a grudge, in his own way i.e. with a proverbial bullet through the head. Blake, who reported his kidnapping to the police who could do nothing without Lou's testimony as to the ransom, does not want Jeff to apprehend the kidnappers, but solely find the kidnappers as evidence that he was indeed kidnapped for the police to proceed, all done before Lou takes his own actions. Although Blake was blindfolded during his entire ordeal, he, using his other senses, can provide clues to Jeff as to the who's and where of the kidnapping. The problem with this case is that Jeff, with Blake and Kookie by his side, Lou and his right hand heavy Pete Schrieber by his side, and Police Lieutenant Roy Gilmore and his men feeling the need at least to keep on top of what is happening due to the people involved, may be working at cross purposes, that is unless they can all come together in some way.
Episode 11
One False Step
Fri, Dec 19, 195847 mins
Stranger on a plane proposes exchanging murders to crime-busting Fed whose wife won't grant him a divorce. A gossip column tips the stranger, a novelist, to the prosecutor's dilemma, so he trails the attorney onto a flight from D.C. to L.A. David the prosecutor isn't sure whether the charming "John Smith," the author, is seriously insane or just has a very cavalier sense of humor, so David hires Stu Bailey to protect his philandering wife from murder. Stu gets some unwanted aid from the Fed's future sister-in-law, who he fluffs off as an interfering ditz, but she turns out to have a very Hawaiian eye.
Episode 12
The Court Martial of Johnny Murdo
Fri, Dec 26, 195847 mins
Jeff is hired by "old money" widowed Grace Murdo on behalf of her son Johnny Murdo, who was just expelled from the Southern Military Institute just weeks before graduation after being court martialled for the theft of funds from the office of Colonel Richard Gaunt. Prior to the court martial, Johnny was an exemplary cadet and had even made the Colonel's list. Johnny vows that he didn't steal the money even though he admits he sneaked into the Colonel's office in the middle of the night, albeit solely to see if he had made the prestigious list. Mrs. Murdo wants to clear Johnny's name as such a blemish on his record will follow him throughout his already predetermined life. Mrs. Murdo had even asked her longtime friend Arnold Santly to ask his ward, bright fellow cadet Walter Lochrie, to defend Johnny in the court martial. Jeff finds that breaking through the very closed ranks of the military will be difficult, especially as Colonel Gaunt is leaving the matter solely to Major George Wilkinson, who is in charge of student matters and who refuses to discuss the matter with Jeff in his mind the case being closed. Jeff is certain that secrets are being kept behind these closed ranks and he is going to have to hope for some of these issues to come to the light of day in some manner to exonerate Johnny and find the real thief.
Episode 13
Hit And Run
Fri, Jan 2, 195947 mins
Kookie's just driven by a hit & run killing 2 people, when a mysterious blonde repeatedly tries to run him off Sunset Boulevard. The crash disfigures the woman, & a witness disappears from the scene with her purse. Hotrodder Kookie was on the way to a hot date, so he'd borrowed Stu's classier ride. The woman's a well-known thesp, her hubby's a well-connected tycoon, so the fuzz put the squeeze on hep-cat Kookie, not the jet setters. PI Stu tries to untangle the web that's ensnared him too.
Episode 14
Not an Enemy in the World
Fri, Jan 9, 195946 mins
Jeff learns that Suzanne is worried about her brother Marcel Fabry, each the only other's relative in the US. She hasn't heard from him in a few weeks and no one seems to know where he is. He worked as a chauffeur for studio costume designer Elaine Lamson, his year long stint in that job which had just come to an end as Mrs. Lamson, whose driver's license was suspended for that year for a drunk driving record, was getting her license back. Coincidentally, her older husband, Mike Lamson, a diamond trader, was killed in a vehicle accident the day Marcel went missing. To help a friend, Jeff decides to investigate on the firm's dime. The investigation goes slowly with Jeff unable to discover much tangible information. He gets Roscoe to snoop around the race track as Marcel was in trouble with the law when he was younger being involved in a race track scam, and he may have turned to his old colleagues. The only thing bothering Jeff in the early going is a seeming lie told to him and Suzanne by Mrs. Lamson. That lie and Marcel's earlier trouble lead Jeff to suspect that Mrs. Lamson, who is closer in age to Marcel than to her husband, and Marcel may have killed Mr. Lamson both for the sizable life insurance money and as a crime of passion, Marcel currently in hiding until the dust settles. Ultimately, Jeff may have to pull a sting on Mrs. Lamson to discover the truth.
Episode 15
The Secret of Adam Cain
Fri, Jan 16, 195948 mins
Stu goes international to fetch a black vase from duplicitous art dealer, while fending off tight-lipped tough guy Iron Man Brown. An Oklahoma oil tycoon left the seemingly worthless vessel to his English niece and nephew who hire Stu, but won't tell him why they'll pay anything to retrieve it.
Episode 16
The Girl Who Couldn't Remember
Fri, Jan 23, 195946 mins
Jeff's next case is brought to him by an old friend, Dr. Langton. An attractive young woman stumbled into Dr. Langton's office with a concussion and resulting amnesia, Jeff to find out who she is. With no identification on her person, the only things Jeff has to go on are two items in her purse: ten $100 bills, and a monogrammed matchbook with the initials S.C., hence Jeff giving her the temporary name of Sandra Carter. Jeff only proceeds on her okay in the possibility that she may actually be involved with something criminal, she providing that consent. With no where to live, Jeff arranges for adjoining hotel rooms for her and Kookie, who will act as her bodyguard. She really is in danger as she witnessed the murder of gangster Silky Callahan, she who had an unusual but innocent place in his life, who the murderers know can identify them and who hit her head in escaping the murder scene which led to her amnesia. With only scant other evidence Jeff is able to dig up, his very public next move may truly place the collective of Sandra, himself and Kookie in mortal danger.
Episode 17
Dark Vengeance
Fri, Jan 30, 195948 mins
Media personality John Cosgrove has led a very public campaign against narcotics, that fight which included saving his now assistant, Margo Harris, from the life, she a former junkie. It is arguably in that battle that Cosgrove is shot point blank outside the television studio following an anti-narcotics telethon he was hosting, that shooting which he survives but leaves him blinded. As his friend, Stuart vows to help him find the shooter. Beyond the loss of his sight, Cosgrove only caught a quick glance of the shooter in the mêlée, and the one and only eyewitness is getting progressively forgetful in Stuart believing he being threatened by the shooter. Stuart may find that his biggest issues with the case may be with Cosgrove himself, who is used to being a one-man show and who does things in a very public manner which may not work well not only in he finding who was behind the shooting, but in both Stuart and Lt. Gilmore's efforts to solve the case in its entirety. Meanwhile, the person behind the shooting has a new priority in shutting down Stuart, for good if need be, he willing to use whoever at his disposal to reach his end goal, including Jeff and Margo.
Episode 18
Conspiracy of Silence
Fri, Feb 6, 195946 mins
Jeff heads back to school, specifically San Juan College, for his next case. Garrett Martin hires Jeff to protect his daughter, student Johanna Martin, largely from what he considers the dangerous choices she makes, most specifically in men, as she actively plays the field. Undercover as a transfer student, Jeff discovers that Johanna is bright, forward, pretty but very unhappy, likely stemming from wealthy Garrett being an absent figure in her life, leading to she probably looking for that daddy figure among all the college boys she dates. Despite her quips dismissing his rock star status among the girls on campus, she may have set her sights on their married English Literature professor, Carlos Traynor, he and Mrs. Traynor - the elegant Eloise - who frequently hold tasteful parties for the students. Jeff finds that he has to protect Johanna for real when a seeming attempt is made on her life, that attempt which could be related to the recent murder of her fellow classmate and friend, Helen Charles, who was stabbed multiple times in a campus park and Johanna who received a threatening note telling her she would be "the next" which she brushed off as a prank. Johanna and Helen are considered much alike in Helen also collecting men. In changing his focus to finding who murdered Helen, he may find out more about the real Johanna underneath the girl playing the field.
Episode 19
Eyewitness
Fri, Feb 13, 195948 mins
A boy with a telescope espies a murder being committed in a physician's office across from his family's apartment. Already known for having a fertile imagination, he is not believed when he describes the scene by what he thinks he saw: a man killing a bear.
Episode 20
Lovely Alibi
Fri, Feb 20, 195948 mins
Ed, a policeman friend of Stu's, gets suspended over bar incident. He asks Stu for help on an investigation of a murder. Ed's girlfriend is somehow involved with the suspect. Girlfriend Jill disappears. The Frankie Ortega Trio plays their version of the show's theme song.
Episode 21
In Memoriam
Fri, Feb 27, 195947 mins
Struggling book publisher learns that he's dead, from a newspaper ad. He hoped he'd be in clover, not a coffin, because he's about to publish a book blowing the whistle on a Latin American dictator. But with his ace editor about to divorce him for dallying with talentless, but shapely female authors, he needs Bailey and Spencer's services. Stu's soon in a spin too: he gets caught in a revolving brunette.
Episode 22
The Fifth Stair
Fri, Mar 6, 195947 mins
Forlorn hubby prefers to have his wife killed, rather than let her get away with adultery. Tony's tight alibi, & plan to make it look like a burglary gone too far seem perfect. Even when major complications boil up, slick Tony turns them to his advantage. PIs Bailey & Spencer get mired in Tony's La Brea tar-pit, causing their apprentice operative Kookie to go totally Bugs Bunny a la Blanc.
Episode 23
Pasadena Caper
Fri, Mar 13, 195948 mins
A year and a half after she reported him missing, elderly and doddering Rachel Baker hires Stuart to locate her nephew, Peter Baker. In the spot off the pier where the authorities did a search a year and a half ago and found nothing, Peter's car is found within a day of Stuart being hired in that exact spot with an ocean water decomposed body matching Peter's general build inside the submerged vehicle. Already suspicious as to the coincidences, Stuart becomes even more suspicious that something isn't quite right when he reports his findings to Mrs. Baker in her antiquated Pasadena home. First, she tries hard but doesn't quite succeed in convincing Stuart that she hated Peter as a no good bum. Second, he learns that she is the beneficiary of a double indemnity life insurance policy on him, this in combination with she talking about upgrading the house with some modern conveniences, including electricity, the insurance which would go a long way in covering the bills. To get to the truth, Stuart, with some help from Jeff aka "Dr. Jefferson", decides to pull a "Sheridan Whiteside" in feigning a back injury caused on site so that Mrs. Baker would be forced to put him up in her home, hopefully allowing him to discover whatever secrets are hidden in the house beyond what he hopes to find behind the locked door to Peter's bedroom. While Stuart has to deal with Mrs. Baker, her equally elderly housekeeper Lavinia, and their hulking handyman, Leo, all three who may be involved in murder, all the while pretending to be immobile due to the injury, Jeff does the field work outside the house on Stuart's behalf, some people on the outside who don't want him snooping around.
Episode 24
Hong Kong Caper
Fri, Mar 20, 195947 mins
With Stuart unable to go, Jeff is sent to Hong Kong representing their businessman client Paul Nolan, Sr., who is also unable to go due to sensitivities of Hong Kong's proximity to mainland China, this case essentially kiboshing Jeff's plans for a college reunion getaway. Mr. Nolan received a "worse case scenario" letter from his deceased son, Paul Nolan, Jr., an air force pilot, asking him to go to Hong Kong to complete some unfinished business in meeting a special woman at American bar, Candy's Quarters - a home away from home for Americans of whatever stripe, but especially for American servicemen - with only a "Candy quarter" in identification. Upon arriving at Candy's, Jeff learns that who Paul was supposed to meet is the bar's second generation owner, Candy Varga, who inherited it from her mother, the original Candy. Despite sounding and looking American and especially as it her job to be American in making Americans feel at home, Jeff further learns that she is Hong Kong born and bred to an American mother and Eurasian father, she who has never left the region. Jeff can tell that Candy is scared of something - something she seems unwilling to admit to or divulge - he determined to find out what that it in her now tie to his client. It seemingly has something to do with a bunch of shady Chinese hanging around the bar, either officially or unofficially, they led by Run Run Lee who make it obvious they don't want Jeff snooping around. It may also have something to do with the seemingly yokel Midwestern middle-aged American tourists George and Hannah Wells, who Jeff always seems to encounter in his Hong Kong travels.
Episode 25
A Check Will Do Nicely
Fri, Mar 27, 195948 mins
A California girl is kidnapped while studying in Europe, and Stu is engaged by her absent father. They fly over the pond, and Stu hatches a brilliant con to find the abductors, schmoozing with his suave and debonair French, fine art sensibilities and gendarme friend's help.
Episode 26
The Grandma Caper
Fri, Apr 3, 195946 mins
Jeff has been hired by attorney Oliver Fenwick and his sister Vickie Fenwick to follow their wealthy grandmother, Hortense Fenwick, who is more casually referred to as Grandma by anyone who knows her. Why follow her? Because she has been of late shoplifting despite her wealth. They don't want the police involved because it would lead to her being committed which would in turn threaten her required signature on some important documents for a real estate development. The other issue why they don't really believe what she is doing is a true crime is that she has only been stealing from Fenwick owned stores, the Fenwicks who are tallying up what each store is owed and are subsequently repaid. Jeff will find that this job is not for one person alone as Grandma is wilier and more manipulative than he would have ever have expected, and as Grandma begins to branch out into other criminal ventures beyond the Fenwick stores. Above and beyond the stealing, Jeff has to figure out if Grandma has an end game. Or is she just really bored and/or going crazy?
Episode 27
Honey from the Bee
Fri, Apr 10, 195947 mins
Stuart, Kookie and their respective dates are among those Russian restaurateur Yegor Danilov has invited to a small party on Friday night in honor of the highly publicized acquisition of a tapestry - an old family heirloom that used to hang in the family's summer home in St. Petersburg when he was a child - which he has now hung behind the desk in his office. The four are aware that Danilov's story behind the tapestry is all fiction in order to bring publicity to the restaurant as they were in the restaurant the night when he acquired it from a Mrs. Jennings aka the former Countess Natalia Dombroska - the tapestry her family heirloom - Danilov ultimately loaning her $1,000 in her need for money while he holds the tapestry until she can pay him back. The money is to pay the proverbial bills as she and her niece, Natalie Baranova, are unable to survive on her work as a singer. What all of them except the Countess don't know is the secret behind the tapestry, most specifically the proverbial honey behind the images of the bees surrounding the "D" insignia in its center, some old time Russians who know the secret and will kill to obtain that honey.
Episode 28
Abra-Cadaver
Fri, Apr 17, 195946 mins
Bailey and Spencer is hired by the Insurance Protective Association, who believes that an insurance scam operation is underway, the recent death of a Robert J. Green, with similarities to other recent life insurance payouts too many to be coincidental. Jeff is assigned to go undercover to infiltrate the ring. In answering ad after ad in trying to find the ring who would be hiring drifters in the hopes of earning big money but in reality would be their next victim, Jeff believes he's found the ring. In being such a drifter, Jeff has to be careful in contacting those from who he would need assistance, including Stuart, Kookie and Roscoe, in not blowing his cover. It ends up being a game of cat and mouse between Jeff and those with who he is involved, including a beautiful blonde named Audrey Franklin, the two, for the non-existent scheme which Jeff is supposed to make his fortune, pretending to be man and wife, with it never too clear who is the cat and who is the mouse with each side hoping to provide enough rope for the other to hang.
Episode 29
A Bargain in Tombs
Fri, Apr 24, 195946 mins
Stu is hired to find a missing girl in Italy. He encounters his driver from when he was in the war. He also befriends a local boy that offers to help in the task. The locals are not very helpful. The full picture is not clear, but the missing girl is related to an ongoing crime. Eventually the crime is found out.
Episode 30
The Widow Wouldn't Weep
Fri, May 1, 195947 mins
A widow breaks into Jeff's apartment to entice him to prove her husband was murdered, rather than committed suicide. Jeff runs into multiple suspects since the dead man was a philanderer. He also gets kidnapped and warned off of the case. Kookie assists in the tailing of suspects.
Episode 31
Downbeat
Fri, May 8, 195947 mins
Stuart is charged with sedition for passing top secret documents of national security importance to an enemy agent, a charge and act which he vehemently denies. Despite Stuart being acquitted for lack of evidence, his private investigator's license is suspended because of the scandal. In the process, many people abandon Stuart, not among them being those at and who hang around 77 Sunset Strip, but Jeff et al can't help Stuart if he doesn't want help, to which he seems not. What Stuart decides to do is drink himself into a stupor in no longer having any purpose in life. In waking up one morning not knowing where he is, Stuart finds that someone, referred to as the boss, is trying to "help" him, either in an act of true friendship or to take advantage of his current down and out status. He will soon find out which.
Episode 32
Canine Caper
Fri, May 15, 195947 mins
A jewel robbery of rubies takes place in Amsterdam and Jeff is called upon to investigate if they are to be smuggled into the United States. It is found that they were smuggled in a poodle's collar and the agent of a famed actress is suspected.
Episode 33
Mr. Paradise
Fri, May 22, 195946 mins
Stuart is hired by husband and wife Vincent and Helen Blanton, in believing that their wealthy uncle, Cyrus Blanton, is being swindled by his neighbors, who are building a Utopian paradise community called Eden on their vast rural property, Uncle Cyrus joining their cause in adding his property for the community. Outwardly, the community, led by a man calling himself Mr. Paradise, has renounced any form of progress, instead espousing peace and harmony and a "do unto others" philosophy. It also operates as a legal non-profit, the community members who only donate a small financial amount for the community to operate. However, in going undercover in meeting Mr. Paradise, Stuart believes Vincent and Helen's assertions are correct in that Mr. Paradise has some sort of scheme going on to dupe people like Cyrus. They have to convince Mr. Blanton's sister, Lois Blanton, who, closer to Uncle Cyrus than her brother, believes that her brother, sister-in-law and Stuart are all operating under a financial gain motive, and wants to see Uncle Cyrus happy in whatever form that takes. Upon meeting Uncle Cyrus with Mr. Paradise, Lois comes to the same conclusions as her brother, sister-in-law and Stuart, but by that time Stuart's cover is blown. As such, he has to co-opt Kookie and Roscoe to infiltrate the community, they acting as "converts" which may not be the easiest thing for them to do to a point of convincing Mr. Paradise of their sincerity. What Kookie, Roscoe and Stuart all ultimately believe to be at the core of the scheme is that Mr. Paradise is able to convince his followers to will their estates to the community, many of the wealthy elderly people whose deaths are accelerated in entering the community's infirmary with whatever minor ailment never to exit alive. This discovery places Kookie, Roscoe and Stuart's lives at risk, along with Cyrus and the other especially wealthy elderly followers', as Mr. Paradise and his operatives are willing to kill to protect their lucrative scheme.
Episode 34
Strange Girl in Town
Fri, May 29, 195946 mins
Suzanne's ballet dancer friend, Ruth Douglas, new in town to start her dancing career, gets caught in the middle of murder when, on an audition set up by Jeff with his nightclub manager acquaintance Scott Baker, she hears gunshots and sees Baker's dead body on the ground, with she and the male shooter seeing each other if only for a second before she runs off. In her fear, she is unable to provide any information about the shooter to Jeff or Lt. Gilmore beyond his gender. And again in her fear, she runs off in the process planning to head to some small town to hide in plain sight, not telling either Suzanne or Jeff where she's going, Jeff fearing that the killer will be able to find her wherever she runs without protection. Lt. Gilmore reports that Baker had a clean criminal record, his only major vice, albeit a non-criminal one, being women, indeed the shooter being a jealous husband. The issue is not only the shooter himself, Dan Costello, but that he has some "business" associates for who the killing is an issue with loose ends. So it becomes a race not only to find Ruth, but actually for Jeff, Stuart and Lt. Gilmore to find who the killer is. Jeff believes the key may be the unknown "woman" in the center.
