The Killing Scene

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With Robert Duvall as Richard Fletcher, Will Geer as Judge Andrews,  Dana Elcar as Dr. George Graham, Walter Brooke as Ralph Phillips, Frank Maxwell as Detective Stevens, Bart Burns as Spencer Gallagher, Merri Ashley as Karen Johnson, Michael Stefani as the Clergyman, Carol O'Leary as Mrs. Fletcher, Stuart Nisbet as the 1st Child, William Boyett as the Second Detective, John J. Fox as Herman William, Jimmy Jarratt as the So</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="445"><div> Episode 79</div> <div> Season 3 - #19</div> <div> First broadcast on</div> <div> January 31, 1968</div> <div> Teleplay by Robert Foster &</div> <div>  Philip De Guere, Jr.</div> <div> Story by Ed De Blasio</div> <div> Directed by Ben Gazzara</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1179" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 4839 ><NOBR><div> Creative Team</div> <bR> <div> Producer</div> <div>      Robert Hamner</div> <div> Supervising Producer</div> <div>      Jo Swerling Jr.</div> <div> Associate Producer</div> <div>      Steve Heilpern</div> <div> Music</div> <div>      Pete Rugolo</div> <div> Director of Photography</div> <div>     William Margulies A.S.C.</div> <div> Art Director</div> <div>      Henry Larreco</div> <div> Film Editor</div> <div>      Richard Bracken</div> <div> Unit Manager</div> <div>      Donald Baer</div> <div> Assistant Director</div> <div>      Les Berke</div> <div> Set Decorators</div> <div>      John McCartey  &</div> <div>     Robert C. 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HREF="exchange.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Exchange">The Exchange</A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="819" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1644862c0.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="300" ALT="Tom Skerritt and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul visits Lou Patterson in his cell</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The Plot</div> <bR> <div> Paul goes to St. Quentin's death row to visit Lou Patterson, a young man who has run out of stays of execution, and is about to face the gas chamber in virtually hours. Having been the prosecutor at Lou's murder trial, Paul is disturbed by a development which now makes him doubt  that Lou is guilty after all. </div> <bR> <div> Convicted by the testimony of John Pons, Lou is being executed for killing a watchman in the commission of a robbery for which Pons is also serving a sentence.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 328 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1645902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Tom Skerritt and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul tells Lou about new developments</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> At his trial Lou had maintained that he wasn't even involved in the robbery, and that Pons was crazy. Now Pons has been committed to the state psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane as the result of a breakdown that occurred when Pons learned that Lou's last possible appeal had failed. When Paul tells Lou about the development, the condemned man is ambivalent. Saying that he's tired of hating him and John Pons, he asks Paul to just let him die in peace. When Paul asks him if that is what he really wants, Lou says that “want” is almost as bad a word as “hope,” ruefully noting the fact that Pons is now “officially” crazy.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="164786180.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="280" ALT="Tom Skerritt and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul asks if Lou committed the murder</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul gets down on the floor with Lou, and asks him if he killed the watchman, and Lou replies, “six years ago you told everyone I did. Now you're asking?”</div> <bR> <div> He denies the murder, and Paul says he wants to represent him, but Lou asks what he could possibly do in the 48 hours left to him.</div> <bR> <div> Off to New York on business, Paul's friend Ralph Phillips lends Paul his office and provides one of their firm's  secretaries to work on the case.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1648902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Dana Elcan and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Dr. ~Graham refuses to cooperate</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul goes to see Dr. George Graham, the psychiatrist treating John Pons. Graham is completely uncooperative, and says that he'll do nothing to use or harm his patient in Lou Patterson's cause.</div> <bR> <div> Though Paul points out how much Pons envied everything Lou could do, and he couldn't, Graham still refuses to help in any way. Paul keeps trying, and appeals to Graham as a human being, that if he can help save a man's life, he should try.</div> <bR> <div> After seeing the psychiatrist, Paul visits Judge Andrews.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 285 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="164a86040.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="260" ALT="Will Geer and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul appeals to Judge Andrews</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> He points out that Lou Patterson has already had two appeals and four stays of execution. He believes that there is no legal ground to ask for another stay, but Paul finally convinces the judge that Pons' breakdown is an indication for further investigation, and the judge gets in touch with an aid to the Governor.</div> <bR> <div> 24 hours before Lou is to go into the gas chamber, the Governor grants a stay of execution, but only for 48 hours, leaving Paul only 72 to come up with something.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 328 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="164c862c0.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="300" ALT="Dana Elcan and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Dr. Graham has come up with a name</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> That night Dr. Graham visits Paul, and says that he has a lead based on a session with Pons under sodiam amathol, in which Pons spoke extensively about Lou Patterson, and also mentioned a new name - Fletcher. Paul goes to see Lou at St. Quentin again, and asks him about the name Fletcher, saying that this person just might be the man that Pons got to replace Lou on the raid when the watchman was killed. At the trial Lou had spoken about someone named Rick, a point on which Paul had cross examined him so ruthlessly that Lou says he made him look like a liar, and convinced the jury that he was just that.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="164e86180.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="280" ALT="Robert Duvalland Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul questions Rick Fletcher</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The problem had been, and remained, that Lou knew almost nothing about Rick, a man who was like a phantom that Lou says he's spent six years trying to remember.</div> <bR> <div> After checking out 10 of the 14 Richard Fletchers in the phone book, Paul drives into a garage, and confronts the eleventh, mentioning both Lou Patterson and John Pons to him. Fletcher says that he doesn't know either of them, then goes off in a car with his family. Paul takes with him a car maintenance booklet with Fletcher's picture on the cover.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1650862c0.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="300" ALT="Tom Skerritt and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Lou recognizes Rick Fletcher's picture</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> He shows a number of photos to Lou, and he picks out the one of Fletcher as someone he's seen before.</div> <bR> <div> Lou is elated that Paul has found the mystery man who's haunted his life, but Paul points out that there's still a long way to go.</div> <bR> <div> The condemned man is incredulous that the information won't mean an automatic stay of execution. Having gotten both a face and name that he was seeking for years, he says that death is just a word out there far away to Paul, adding, “but what you don't know is that it's all around; it's climbing all over me.”</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1652862c0.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="300" ALT="Tom Skerritt and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Lou talks about knowing when he's going to die</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> He tells Paul that no one knows what it's like to be aware of when you're going to die, losing your mind if you don't learn to live with it.</div> <bR> <div> “Before you came I was ready for it. In some ways I was dead already, but now I'm alive again. I got hope …. again.”</div> <bR> <div> Desperate, he says that Paul must try and get the stay of execution.  But when Paul goes to see the Governor's office in Sacramento, his aide Spencer Gallagher says the new information is just not substantial enough for another stay.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1654862c0.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="300" ALT="Robert Duvalland Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Fletcher appeals to Paul to leave him alone</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Later, Richard Fletcher comes to Paul's hotel, and asks him to stop harassing him. There are four detectives working on the case for Paul, and Fletcher says that he can't explain all this to his wife and children. He again denies that he knows anything about Pons or Patterson, and that he's worked hard to build his business, and can't understand what Paul wants from him. He shouts at Paul to leave him alone.</div> <bR> <div> “I'm not going to do that,” Paul tells him, Even if Patterson dies, I'm going to keep this investigation going. You'll never get rid of me.”</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 285 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="165686040.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="260" ALT="Robert Duvalland Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul makes an equally strong appeal to Fletcher</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> He adds ironically that instead of showing Lou Patterson Fletcher's photo, he should have taken a picture of his family - or his service station - to show him what he was dying for - so Fletcher could have these things. Paul points out that there is still time to do this, since Lou Patterson still has 12 hours left.</div> <bR> <div> Fletcher knocks Paul to the floor and leaves.</div> <bR> <div> A short time from the deadline, Fletcher rings Paul at his hotel.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 325 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1658862c0.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="300" ALT="Tom Skerritt and Michael Stefani in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul asks Louise Laine about Orsini</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> But he is at Judge Andrews' chambers waiting for a call from the Governor's office, so Fletcher leaves a message at the desk, saying that Paul should go to the Pacific Section Police Station as fast as possible.</div> <bR> <div> A clergyman visits Lou who goes into a mixture of rage and then grief, saying that Paul Bryan used him to ease his conscious.</div> <bR> <div> “He made me want to live again,” Lou sobs, ranting helplessly, and grabbing the minister, first in anger, then in desperation.</div> <bR> <div> The minister is passive through all this.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 325 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="165a862c0.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="300" ALT="Will Geer and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul and the judge wait for a call of reprieve</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> , and suggests praying as Lou's trembling head rests against his chest.</div> <bR> <div> Lou moves away, leaning against the wall as the clergyman recites The Lord's Prayer, while outside the cell, prison staff begin making preparations.</div> <bR> <div> At the judge's chambers, a call comes from Spencer Gallagher that the Governor has decided that the execution must go ahead on schedule.</div> <bR> <div> Paul goes back to his hotel; Rick Fletcher enters the police station; </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 295 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="165c860e0.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="270" ALT="Tom Skerritt in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Alicia realizes that her husband is dead</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Lou walks with an entourage towards the gas chamber.</div> <bR> <div> Fletcher tells detectives that they should call St. Quentin to stop the execution, and that Lou Patterson is going to die for a crime he didn't commit. Fletcher says that he is ready to confess or do anything they want, as long as they make the call. </div> <bR> <div> A call is made to the Governor's Office, and the detectives advise Fletcher of his rights as a stenographer is ordered.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 310 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="165e861d0.jpg" border=0 width="390" height="285" ALT="Robert Duvalland Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul tells everyone that Lou is already dead</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Fletcher explains that the murder was committed by Pons, and he was a witness to it. He says that he kept wanting to say something, but waited, expecting Patterson to be released.</div> <bR> <div> At this moment, having arrived at the police station only a minute earlier, Paul walks into the room. Fletcher tells the detectives that Paul is his lawyer, and knows about the confession.</div> <bR> <div> “He confessed?” asks Paul, then says, “Patterson died 15 minutes ago.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="14a1281e0.png" border=0 width="40" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="14a1281e0.png" border=0 width="40" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Notes & Comments: It does get a bit gruelling to watch Paul be subjected to untold misery and harassment every time he enters a small US town. The anti-Middle America bias of the series would have been better served by just eliminating such locations from the schedule.</div> <bR> <div> But though the physical and psychological violence was unpleasant to have to deal with for the umpteenth time, this really did pan into an outstanding piece, even if one had to stretch credibility at many turns in the cause of dramatic licence.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="1277" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 65 ><NOBR><bR> <div> Robert Duvall as</div> <div> Richard Fletcher</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> Tom Skerritt as</div> <div> Lou Patterson</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="184"><bR> <div> Will Geer as</div> <div> Judge Andrews</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> Dana Elcar as</div> <div> Dr. George Graham</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> Walter Brooke as</div> <div> Ralph Phillips</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> Frank Maxwell as</div> <div> Detective Stevens</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> Bart Burns as</div> <div> Spencer Gallagher</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="1216" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 65 ><NOBR><bR> <div> Merri Ashley as</div> <div> Karen Johnson</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="197"><bR> <div> Michael Stefani</div> <div> as the Minister</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="195"><bR> <div> Carol O'Leary</div> <div> as Mrs. Fletcher</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> Stuart Nisbet</div> <div> as the 1st Child</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> William Boyett as</div> <div> the 2nd Detective</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> John J. Fox as</div> <div> Herman William</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> Jimmy Jarratt</div> <div> as the Son</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div>  Next Episode:  <A HREF="sarojaneyou_neverwhispered.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SaroJane, You Never Whispered Again">Sara-Jane, You Never Whispered Again</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0dc96450.png" border=0 width="150" height="69" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>