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[enchanting instrumental music]
- [Cade] I'm headed out, Mother.
- Another new suit?
- I have an image to project and to protect.
- Which requires money.
- Which I would have more of if you would just-
- We have had this discussion, Cade.
All in good time.
- What if I don't have time?
[doorbell ringing]
- Ask Tannis to show them into the drawing room.
I'll be down in a moment.
- Of course.
- Have a good evening.
[soft enchanting music]
- Well, now the fun begins.
- It started for me the minute I walked through
this time portal.
[upbeat jazz music]
[glass clinking]
- Welcome to the sixth annual Real Murders Club
Agatha Christie Night.
[crowd whistling and cheering]
- Now, for you new members, Real Murders
was inspired by a story from Agatha Christie's first book
called, "The Tuesday Club."
Miss Marple starts meeting with her friends every week
to re-examine various murders.
- Exactly.
And we would like to thank our host,
Gladys Allison-McCourt,
for letting us invade her home again.
- To Gladys. - [Crowd] Cheers.
- [Ro] Cheers.
- This house really is the perfect setting for a mystery.
Very Gothic.
- See, Aunt Gladys?
You can't blame Bubba and Lizzie for not wanting
to have their wedding here.
- No, and I must say, your Real Murders game
is far more exciting than a stuffy wedding.
[Gladys laughing]
- We are very glad to have you
as an honorary member for tonight.
- Thank you.
- So everyone knows the rules right?
- Yes. - Not a clue, actually.
- Okay, so it's like a scavenger hunt
only none of us can leave the room.
- Once we get the name of the Christie novel,
the first person to deduce
where the murder weapon is hidden, wins.
- Ah. - Good luck trying to beat Ro.
- Maybe I'll have beginner's luck.
- Hmm, maybe you will, Davis.
All right, if everyone's ready,
Gladys, please reveal the novel.
[relaxing instrumental music]
[crowd murmuring]
- A Poirot novel, is it?
- Let the hunt begin!
[crowd murmuring]
- [Man] Go, go, go.
- I have no idea what to do.
- I think I'm just gonna roam around and enjoy the show.
Five bucks says your cousin wins.
[Phillip laughing]
- Why do you keep following me?
It's against the rules.
- 'Cause I don't know the plot to this one.
At least tell me what the murder weapon is.
- Oh fine, cheater.
It's hemlock.
- Served in beer but these are sealed.
- Arthur, you've read the novel.
Who did it?
- Not telling.
- I'm guessing it's the Butler?
- No, I think it was that society lady.
- Lady Dittisham.
- Well, of course it was a woman.
Historically, poison is almost always
a woman's method of murder.
- Did you say a woman's method of murder?
- Which could be found in a woman's purse.
[running footsteps]
[soft pulsing music]
- May I?
Found the poison. Beginner's luck it is.
[Gladys laughing]
[crowd applauding] - [Gladys] Bravo.
[upbeat instrumental music]
- Are you not able to do it up?
I told the seamstress it was too tight.
- No, it's fine.
See, look? I've got it right here.
There, all done.
[Lizzie sighing]
- Lizzie, you look so beautiful.
- Except now I can't breathe.
- Well that's nerves, it's not the dress.
- Oh, okay.
[phone buzzing]
- Ah, Jeremy Connor?
- Oh, that's my caterer. Can you get it?
- Sure.
Hi, Lizzie's phone.
Oh, uh, there's been a snafu with the shrimp.
The refrigerator on the delivery truck broke, so.
- No! Oh, no.
So all of my guests are gonna get sick?
- No, no, just let her finish.
- Okay, he wants to know if he can offer salmon
instead of shrimp.
- Well, I don't know.
I can't think.
- Tell Jeremy the salmon will be fine.
- That'd be great.
[loud knocking] - Thank you.
[door clicking]
- Oh, hi Dad. - Hi, there.
Hi, just wanted you to know I'm here
and ready to walk my niece down the aisle.
- Good, 'cause we could do some help calming Lizzie down.
- Lizzie, if only your Pop could see you now,
he'd be so proud.
- Oh, Ted, don't make me cry, okay?
I don't want to ruin my makeup.
- [Sally] This is not what I had in mind, Dad.
- Ah, why don't you wait outside
so there's no flood?
- [Ted] Yeah.
[door squeaking & slamming]
- [Ted] Hi, there, Nick.
- Hi, Ted.
- [Ro] Oh!
- This was the only bag in your back seat.
- Yes. Something blue for the bride.
Thank you so much.
- Yeah, and your keys.
- Sharp suit, I like it.
- You know what I like it? You.
- Ro! Earring emergency. Help me!
[cheerful orchestral music]
[loud kissing]
- Ah, Arthur. I couldn't imagine a better best man.
And Lynn, thank you so much for coming.
- Well, both of us are honored to be here
to watch you join the ranks of the happily married.
- Ah, yes. See how blissful we are?
- What do you mean?
Marrying you was the best decision I ever made.
- Hmm.
[crowd murmuring]
- Impressive turnout.
- Well, you know, marrying into a rich family
means a high-end guest list.
Most people are just here to suck up to Gladys.
- I can see that.
Good luck.
- Thank you.
- Bubba! Oh! [loud kissing]
I cannot tell you how pleased I am for you and Lizzie.
- Thank you so much, Aida.
I know it was a twisty road to the altar, but we made it.
- For which I take full credit.
- Ah.
- Did you know that I introduced them?
- [Aida] No.
- Yes. [Gladys laughing]
I told Lizzie my favorite lawyer would treat her right.
- Well, I hope to never disappoint you.
[Gladys laughing] Or her.
- Oh, I have a gift for Lizzie.
Where can I find her?
- Oh, she's getting ready at the B and B next door.
Come on, I'll take you.
- Perfect.
- See you later. - Thank you.
Hello, Cade. How are you?
- Hey, Bubba. I'm doing well.
I don't know whether to congratulate you
or offer you my condolences.
[Bubba laughing]
My cousin Lizzie's a handful.
- Okay. - Good luck.
[crowd murmuring]
- You are always such a beautiful bridesmaid.
I'm sure you'll make a stunning bride.
- Don't worry, Mother, maybe someday.
- Oh, Aunt Gladys, they are just perfect.
- Oh!
Now you have something borrowed.
Oh, something blue.
- Maybe something new.
What's that?
- Ooh. Let's see.
Hmm.
Oh! - [Women] Oh!
- It's a charm for my bouquet.
And it is from Victor Hansen.
- Oh, how nice that he still cares
about the Allisons and the McCourts.
Lizzie, you shouldn't have let Cade bully you
out of inviting him.
- Well, I didn't.
I called and I invited him anyway.
He said he wasn't sure if he was gonna be able to make it
but that he would try.
- Why wouldn't Cade want Victor at the wedding?
I mean, he's such a lovely man.
- Yeah, didn't he and Cade work side by side for years?
- It's kind of a familiarity breeds contempt thing.
[Bubba clearing throat]
[relaxing orchestral music]
- You got this.
- Oh Tannis, I wondered where you'd been.
- Yeah. Where have you been?
You're supposed to be helping my Mom.
- I was in the ladies room, if you don't mind.
- I do mind.
And you can't sit there.
My Uncle Ted is sitting there.
- Well, where am I supposed to sit?
- That's not my problem, is it?
[soft relaxing music]
- Some people think money solves everything.
- It certainly doesn't.
Where in the world is Philip?
Victor, come sit. Please sit down.
Lizzie loves the charm you bought her.
Victor Hansen, this is Nick Miller.
Victor was CEO for many years at Allicourt,
the biggest manufacturing company in town.
- Nice to meet you.
- You too.
- Oh, Lizzie is going to be so happy that you're here.
- Nice to meet you.
[relaxing organ music]
[relaxing orchestral music]
[soft jazz music]
♪ You say I'm the only one you need ♪
♪ And I know
♪ If you leave, my heart will bleed ♪
- Did I catch the bridesmaid about to cry?
- What? No.
Don't be silly. Teagarden women don't cry at weddings.
- Well, that's too bad
because your eyes are beautiful
when they're shimmering with tears.
- Stop.
- Don't Teagarden women know how to take a compliment?
- Well, sometimes.
- Hey, hey.
We promised Lizzie we'd check in with caterer
when he got here.
- Oh, I'll do it.
Sorry, bridesmaid duty.
- No problem.
- Keep Nick company.
- Oh, okay.
♪ You will never
- [Ro] Jeremy, hi.
We spoke earlier about the salmon.
- Of course everything is fine with the salmon.
I would have let you know if it wasn't.
- Okay. Good to know.
[bottles banging]
- Uh, hi, excuse me.
Who told you you could come back here?
- I wanted to make sure there was something here
for Gladys to eat.
She's on a restricted diet.
- Don't you think I know what Gladys McCourt can eat?
Sorry, I just don't like guests wandering into my kitchen
right before I'm about to serve.
- I'll take that as a hint.
- Gladys, Cade, you know Nick Miller, right?
- Hey Nick. I'm Cade.
- Nice to meet you.
- [Cade] You too.
- Professor, I'm sorry I didn't get to chat with you
at the Agatha Christie dinner.
I'd like to know more about the man
who's caught our lovely Aurora's attention.
[Aida laughing]
You must be pretty special.
- Well, I've heard awfully nice things about you as well.
Including what a great company Allicourt is to work for.
- Don't forget to take your pill.
- I'll take it later, Tannis.
[soft jazz music]
- Ah, if you all will excuse me.
- Cade's been the CEO of Allicourt
for a few months now, right?
- Yes he has.
He's a clever lad,
but I'm doubting his maturity for the job.
- It's a shame that Victor retired so early.
- I know. I've come to regret letting him go.
- Well, see you later.
- Yes. Yes, enjoy.
- Thank you. - You as well.
[crowd murmuring]
- Hansen, you got a lot of nerve showing your face here.
- Bride asked me to be here.
- Well, if my mother sees you she'll have you thrown out.
- Ah, you know that isn't true.
Then you've always been truth-challenged, haven't you, Cade?
- Leanne, hey. - Phillip? Hi.
- How'd you do on that Spanish test?
- Not too bad, actually.
What are you doing back here?
- Came to say hi when I saw you were working the event.
And I'm kind of hiding from my Aunt Aida.
- Why? [Leanne laughing]
- I kind of missed the wedding.
I overslept.
- Ah, the wedding was this afternoon.
- I know. My power nap powered a little too long.
- Well, you missed a big society wedding I hear.
[Jeremy clearing throat]
- See ya.
- This is the expensive sparkling wine
for the Alison-McCourt table.
- Okay.
[kitchen tools banging]
[crowd murmuring]
- All right, everybody, if we could have your attention.
It's time to toast the bride and groom.
- You still haven't taken your pill.
You need to take it before you eat.
- [Gladys] I just wanna make a toast first.
Where's the sparkling wine?
- Here you go.
- Oh, she doesn't need that much.
Take this one.
[crowd murmuring]
[glass clinking]
- I am sorry to cut in line ahead of the best man
but I just wanted to say thank you all very much
for being here today
for my darling niece and her marvelous new husband, Bubba.
[crowd laughing]
You can tell just by looking at them
that they have found real and everlasting love.
And that makes me very happy.
To Bubba and Lizzie.
- [Crowd] To Bubba and Lizzie.
[glasses clinking]
[crowd murmuring]
- Oh dear.
- Here, Mother.
[mysterious instrumental music]
- Oh dear.
- [Tannis] Can I get you something?
- No, I'm okay.
Just please, don't fuss.
I'm just a little dizzy.
- Tannis, she's fine.
- Please go on with your speeches.
[plate clanking]
- I'll take care of her.
- Um, well, I guess the best man should say his worst.
- Actually, Bubba, can we just wait
until Aunt Gladys is back?
- Sure.
You know, why don't we just enjoy our H'ordeurves
for a few more minutes and DJ?
- You know, I know that Gladys has a heart condition
but she didn't look very well.
- I know and I'm worried.
- Cade, you should make sure your mother's all right.
- Guys, she has these spells all the time.
There's no reason to panic, I promise she's fine.
- Still, I'm gonna go check on her.
- Okay. I'll go with you.
[crowd murmuring]
[soft jazz music]
[loud footsteps]
- She didn't look well.
- Yeah.
[door squeaking]
- [Tannis] Gladys!
- Oh! Oh! Is my aunt okay?
Oh!
[mysterious instrumental music]
[birds chirping]
[relaxing instrumental music]
[tires crunching]
[seatbelts clicking]
- You okay?
- Marriage and a death all in one day.
Life can change so fast.
[loud kissing]
[door slamming]
[soft mournful music]
These are the people from the library
that would wanna be at the funeral.
Gladys was our biggest donor.
And this list is from my mother.
It's people they worked with on different charity boards.
- Thank you so much for helping us out with this, Ro.
My poor dad can't even get out of bed.
- I just still can't believe she's gone.
She was so strong.
- I know. She was the rock of our family.
She kept us all grounded.
Without her, it just feels...
- Like we might all just float away?
- [Tannis] I was trying to help!
- No, you were causing trouble as usual.
I told you, I wanted you out of here
and that was a long time ago.
- Cade, what are you doing?
- Something my mother wanted to do after the wedding,
firing Tannis.
- That's not true.
If she wasn't happy with me, she would have said so.
You know your aunt. She always spoke her mind.
- Yes, and she spoke her mind to me.
She said that you were devious, that you were spying.
And what did I find you doing up there just now?
Going through her stuff.
- I was organizing her things
so your cousins could go through them.
I was trying to help.
- Cade, that's probably true.
- 11 years looking after her,
I can't just stop at the drop of a hat.
- Oh, please.
Don't act like you ever actually cared for my mother.
Just go.
- You can't stand it that I know
you're the one crying crocodile tears.
- Tannis, how can you say that?
[door slamming]
- That is why my mother was gonna fire her.
She doesn't know how to show decent respect.
- I know people handle grief differently,
but he is lashing out, blaming everyone
for what happened to his mother.
I don't think he can process it.
- I know but it has always been like this.
Tannis and Cade yelling at each other
the second they thought Aunt Gladys couldn't hear them.
- Why?
- Well, neither one could stand the thought
that the other might have more influence over Aunt Gladys.
And Cade has always thought that Tannis was the reason
she kept him on such a tight leash financially.
- What do you mean a tight leash?
It looks like he's living a pretty good life to me.
- Oh, all this is Aunt Gladys's money.
Cade has a trust fund that dolls out some money each year
but he's always complaining that it's not enough.
- But what about his salary as CEO of Allicourt?
I mean, that must be pretty decent.
- Cade said she told him when he was appointed
that he would still have to earn his position.
That he would be rewarded once he had proved himself.
[soft instrumental music]
- Hey, you hear from the coroner yet?
- Not yet.
- I'm really hoping they tell us that Gladys McCourt
died of natural causes.
- I did hear from Bubba Rankart though.
He did some legal work for Gladys,
and he says there's something that we need to know.
- I knew Gladys suffered from congestive heart failure
but she was so formidable.
I never thought it would have the final say.
I just wish I'd been in more of a hurry
to talk to her at the wedding.
- Well, she was definitely thinking of you.
In fact, the last thing she told me
was how much she regretted letting you retire.
- I hate that my leaving Allicourt
may have caused her stress
in what turned out to be the final months of her life.
- But Victor, you didn't know what was coming.
- No, but I did know that I wasn't leaving this company
in the best of hands.
[soft mournful music]
- [Phillip] So sorry for your loss.
- We're here for you.
- Thanks, guys.
- She seemed really cool.
- And that Agatha Christie night at her house was amazing.
- She was definitely cool.
- Please, if there's anything we can do to help,
let us know, Sally.
- Okay.
Actually, you can help me keep those two separated.
Tannis and Cade.
- All right.
[soft mournful music continues]
- Oh, Jeremy, I didn't get a chance to thank you
for offering to cater our little get together
later on today.
- I mean, how could I not?
Working for Gladys was one of the best jobs I've ever had.
She was a good person. Good to me.
- You worked for Gladys?
- You didn't know?
Yeah, Jeremy was her personal chef for five, six years?
- Well, you did a great job catering Lizzie's wedding.
- About the wedding, I owe you an apology
for being so short-tempered that day.
I was just thrown off by the whole shrimp thing.
- Don't worry about it, please.
It was minor considering.
- Excuse me, I'm just gonna go check on my dad.
[crowd murmuring]
- Look at him.
- Who? Cade?
- Can't really pull off the whole grief thing, can he?
Too excited to get his fat inheritance.
[soft mournful music]
- Everything okay?
- Crocodile tears.
First Tannis said it about Cade
and now Jeremy Connor said the same thing.
- So the rumors aren't exaggerated.
Those two don't like each other either, Victor and Cade.
- I don't think Cade gets along with many people.
There's Lynn and Arthur.
[soft instrumental music]
Is it me or does it look like they're working?
- They're definitely working.
- I still don't understand why Bubba wanted me here
for the reading of the will.
- I think just for moral support for the Allisons.
They're going through such a hard time.
That's why I'm here.
- All right. Well, it looks like everyone's here now.
So let's get started.
[Bubba sighing]
Here we have the Last Will and Testament
of Gladys Allison-McCourt.
I'll start with the bequests.
[Bubba clearing throat]
Gladys lists various charities with specific amounts,
including $50,000 to the library.
Next, she moves on to employees.
I gave and bequeath to my caretaker, Tannis Clemmons,
the amount of $50,000.
I give and bequeath to my personal chef, Jeremy Conner,
the amount of $500,000.
- Why does he get so much more?
- Yeah, that's crazy.
- Guys, shh. Just stop.
- Now the family.
To my beloved brother, Ted, my niece, Sally,
my niece, Lizzy, I give and bequeath each
the amount of $250,000.
[Bubba clearing throat]
To my son, Cade McCourt, I also leave $250,000 in trust
to be dispersed at $25,000 a year for the next 10 years.
- Okay. What about the rest of it, Bubba?
- Well, the bulk of the estate,
including the remaining cash, the stocks, bonds,
the house, and ownership of Allicourt Industries
is bequeathed Aida Teagarden.
- [Group] What?
- What?
No, that can't be right.
- No, my mother would not do that
unless you tricked her into it.
- Hey, watch what you're saying, Cade.
- Or maybe it was you.
- Let's just everybody calm down.
- Calm down? How am I supposed to calm down?
This is not what my mother wanted.
- He's right, Bubba.
Gladys told us what was in her will last year.
- And she told us that Cade was to be
her primary beneficiary.
- Thank you.
- And that's what she did
in the will that I drew up for her.
But this is a more recent will
filed at probate court less than a month ago.
Cade is out, Aida is in.
Everything else remains the same.
You can show them in now.
[loud footsteps]
- [Sally] Wait, what are the police doing here?
- Oh, this isn't good.
- Sorry to interrupt, folks,
but we figured this would be our best opportunity
to get fingerprints from all of you.
- Why would you want our prints?
- We got the autopsy results back.
Gladys didn't die from a heart attack.
She was poisoned by cyanide.
[brooding orchestral music]
- Gladys was murdered.
- Aunt Gladys was murdered right in front of us.
How can that be?
- I am so sorry.
- You knew this was coming.
Why didn't you warn me?
- I didn't want it to be true.
- I just can't believe Jeremy got so much more.
- Tannis, that's what you're worried about right now?
- You're right. I'm sorry.
I'm just so upset. I don't know what to think.
It's just why would she give Jeremy so much more money
than you two?
- We don't know.
- I'm gonna miss her so much.
I worked for her for so many years,
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
- Lizzie, you're a business major. You're clever.
Your husband is supposed to be family now
so why is he helping Aida Teagarden
steal my house, my company?
- My mother did no such thing.
- Aunt Gladys had the right to distribute her assets
as she saw fit.
Maybe she decided you weren't fit.
- Bubba was her attorney.
Why did she go to someone else to change the will?
- I don't know.
But like I said, that was her prerogative.
- Well, we will just see what a judge has to say about this
because I will be contesting this will in court today.
- Okay, Lizzie, let's just go.
- Cade, you need to contact your lawyer
and meet us at the police station in one hour.
- Why?
- We're getting statements from everyone
who had contact with your mother in her last days.
You're the first.
I'll see you there.
[soft mysterious music]
- Is it possible that he poisoned Gladys
not knowing that she changed her will?
- I'd like to think that she'd be safe with her own son.
Excuse me.
Aida, I need to ask you a few questions.
- You can't possibly consider her as a suspect.
- No, but we just wanna know more
about your relationship with Gladys.
- It's okay, honey.
We were friends.
- Close friends, I'd say.
- I don't know if I'd say that.
She was one of my first real estate clients
and then we found ourselves on the same advisory board
for the Food Bank and Arts Association.
And we'd have lunch every few weeks or so.
- That's it?
- That's it.
I have no idea why she changed her will
but I am sure this is a mistake.
- No, Bubba talked to the lawyer that drew up the new will
and to the witnesses of Gladys's signature, as have we.
The will is valid, there's no mistake.
- Maybe, maybe Gladys was feeling threatened somehow
and she changed her will to protect herself.
- Well, okay, no. Ro, we're not doing this.
We're not playing the Real Murders Club speculation game.
Look, this is a tough case.
A wealthy victim is poisoned in full view
of a hundred people, all of whom need to be contacted,
not to mention the dozens of hotel staff
that we need to follow up with.
- Yeah, right. So why not let the Club help?
If you could just tell me how that poison
might've gotten into her.
- No. Okay, Ro, you know that is not how this works.
Aida, thank you. We'll be in touch.
No.
- Well, I certainly hope you're gonna listen to him
and stay far away from the murder investigation.
But if you wanna look into
the change Gladys made to her will,
I would love that information.
- I will get the name of the lawyer
who drew up that new will.
[relaxing instrumental music]
- If only the CCTV footage of the hotel ballroom
had a good view of Gladys at the table,
rather than pointing at the door.
- Well, I got Officer Heard
looking at possible sources of cyanide.
- Great, just don't pour too many resources into it.
The lab tells me that any savvy internet user
can figure out how to order that stuff.
- All right. And the search of Gladys's house?
- I'm gonna take Hendrix and Dylan
and interview the rest of the household staff.
- All right, I'll chip away at our list
of family and friends, starting with him.
[loud footsteps]
- Hey, hey, Chief!
[group murmuring]
Ah, I was wondering if I could ask you
a couple of questions.
- I'm sorry, Sally.
We are not releasing any information to the press yet.
- Oh, I am not here as a reporter.
Macon assigned someone else to the story.
I'm here as a family member.
- Oh, I apologize.
Come into my office.
- Okay, you need to stop repeating
that the will was fraudulent.
We know that it's not.
Gladys basically cut you out.
The question is why?
- Ask Tannis Clemmons.
She was always trying to turn my mother against me
and she was with her when my mother died.
Now, you wanna know what I think?
I think that Tannis slipped my mother the poison.
She kept trying to get her to take pills at the wedding.
- Well, that is her job, she's her caretaker.
And what motive would Tannis have?
- She wasn't gonna have that job for long.
My mother was gonna fire her.
She knew that because I told her.
- And you think that she would kill her for that?
- Yeah.
- So you're saying that Tannis
had so much influence over your mom,
that she got her to disinherit you, her own son,
from the will, but not enough influence
to stop herself from getting fired?
Not to mention that when Gladys died,
Tannis would have lost her job anyway.
- It's possible. Revenge, resentment.
These are all motives.
Now, you also, you need to talk to Jeremy Connor.
That was my mother's private chef.
He got a lot of money in the will,
way more than I did, her own son.
What are you gonna do about that?
- About your mother's murder?
- Yes. And about the fact that I'm being cheated.
[soft pensive music]
- Victor, what a nice surprise.
Please, come in.
- I got a call from the CFO at Allicourt.
He told me some things I find hard to believe.
Gladys murdered?
And Cade cut out of the will?
- Yes, and everything left to me.
Isn't that the most absurd thing you've ever heard?
- Yes. And then again, maybe not.
- Well, if you understand it, please enlighten me.
You knew Gladys much better than I did.
- I did know her and she had trust issues.
I remember her coming back to work
after having lunch with you
saying that it was rare to feel
that she had a friend she could trust.
Maybe it was as simple as that.
- I don't know.
Here, let me get you some coffee.
[engine roaring]
- If we can get approval to remove a wall,
we could put in a nook and some cozy chairs.
Call it The Gladys Allison-McCourt Reading Room.
After all, she's one of our most generous donors.
- [Ro] Mm-hmm.
- Or perhaps we can start a literacy program in her name.
Have you heard a word that I've said?
- [Ro] Mm-hmm.
- Hey, Lillian.
I only know one way to get Ro's attention
when she's in research mode.
- I know, but a marching band
would disturb the other patrons.
- My method.
- Oh, Nick, hi.
Wait, what time is it?
- 30 minutes past your shift.
Go home.
- Or you can go out to dinner with me.
- Oh, I would love to,
but I wanna wait a little bit longer
for Elaine Bertram to call me back,
the attorney who drew up Gladys's new will.
She's working at a small firm in Corinth now.
Before that, she was at Bedford Wades in Seattle.
That's a huge firm.
- Ro, you're allowed to take a break from this
and have a meal, you know.
- Are you keeping track of the time
that I'm spending looking into this?
[Nick laughing]
- What are you talking about?
[phone buzzing]
- Sally. - Please take it.
I'll see you later.
- Okay. [loud kissing]
Hey Sally. - [Sally] Hi.
- What's up?
- So I just had an interesting talk with Lynn.
- [Ro] What'd she say?
- Well, she said that the cyanide that killed Aunt Gladys
was found in her water glass
and in the wine glass she drank.
- Okay, well, that water glass
must have been sitting on the table for half a day
so any number of people could have had access to it.
And the wine glass, well, that came from the kitchen,
then it was passed to the server,
and then to-
- Tannis who handed the wine glass to Aunt Gladys.
Huh.
Lynn said that there were five different sets
of fingerprints on both glasses
and they haven't identified them all yet.
- Yeah, but you wouldn't have to touch the glass
in order to be able to get the poison into it.
- True.
- Although I do recall it was Cade
who handed her the glass of water.
Before Gladys took that last sip.
- Oh, you had to say that, didn't you?
Ro, I don't wanna have to suspect
one of my own family members.
- I know. I'm sorry, Sally.
But Cade has to be at the top of the list.
- I am so glad you stopped by.
You have a wonderful way of putting things in perspective.
- Why don't we have dinner tomorrow night
and I will tell you everything I know about Allicourt.
- Oh, thank you. That would be so helpful.
But let's have dinner here.
I will make you a home cooked meal.
- That sounds lovely.
- Okay. - See you then?
- Yes, absolutely. Thank you.
[relaxing instrumental music]
[engine roaring] [tires crunching]
- In the house now. - Hey, Cade!
- [Cade] Go, go, go!
- [Aida] What are you doing?
[door slamming]
How dare you! What is wrong with you?
- What is wrong with me?
I am the one who was just robbed of everything
that's important to me.
My house, where am I supposed to live?
- I want you out of here right now.
- Not until you tell me
how you got my mother to change her will.
What did you do?
- Cade, I mean, I have no idea
why your mother made the change.
Maybe she didn't trust you for some reason.
- You don't know what you're talking about.
She groomed me to take over when she died.
What was the Victor Hansen just doing here?
Are you two- [loud knocking]
- Hey, Aunt Aida. Just talking to Ro and she's...
Are you okay?
- He forced his way in.
Please, will you show him the way out?
- I'll show him the door all right.
- Oh, it's fine.
It's fine, all right. I'm leaving.
[loud footsteps]
I'll see you in court, Aida.
I'm gonna get what's rightfully mine.
[soft mysterious music]
- We have to call the cops.
- No, don't please.
It's bad enough people think I stole his inheritance
without my throwing him in jail too.
[soft instrumental music]
- Thank you all, Real Murders gang, for coming.
It really helps when we all put our heads together.
And this case is especially urgent to me
because I think my mother may be in danger
from whoever killed Gladys McCourt.
- Her son, Cade, shoved his way into Aunt Aida's house,
threatened her.
- He really did that?
I'm so sorry, Ro.
[door slamming]
- Nick, what are you doing here?
I thought you had to teach class today.
- They told me what happened with your mom,
I handed my class over to my TA.
I wanna help.
- Thank you. Means a lot.
Now, our first suspect.
[chalk scratching]
Cade McCourt.
- Okay, other than Gladys's prints on the glass,
we have Leanne Baker who was the server
who poured the water.
- Yeah, I interviewed her yesterday.
She said she didn't notice anything in the glass
and we have no reason to suspect her.
She's got no motive, no connection to Gladys, nothing.
- Right.
And then there's the person everyone saw
hand the water to Gladys.
- Cade McCourt.
- Now, Cade has the most obvious motive.
He thought he was gonna inherit
most of his mother's fortune.
He considers Allicourt his company.
- He had opportunity.
He was sitting right next to Gladys.
- Handed her the glass, you said.
Could be one of those hiding in plain sight moves.
- Sally, you grew up with Cade.
Does he have it in him to commit murder?
- No.
I don't know.
I mean, he was mean to Lizzie and me as kids,
but he's family.
- Childhood cruelty is a common
psychological trait within killers.
- We have to consider Cade, Sally.
You and Lizzie said he complained about needing money.
- And as CEO of a company that uses chemicals
and processing, he could have a dozen ways
of getting a hold of cyanide.
- Yeah, but killing his own mother,
I can't believe that.
- Plus the first guy you suspect
hardly ever turns out to be the guy, right?
- Except for when he does.
- But you know who Cade keeps pointing at.
[soft instrumental music]
- Tannis Clemmons. [chalk scraping]
- So we lifted a few prints from Tannis Clemmons,
Gladys's caretaker, from both the wine glass
and the water glass.
- Yeah, she's the one who handed Gladys the wine glass,
and specifically picked the one she gave her
because it had less in it in.
And earlier, she was trying to give Gladys medication
but the pills checked out.
It was heart medicine.
- Yeah but, pressing Gladys to take a sip from the glass
or glasses with cyanide in them?
Cade's lawyer's gonna have a field day with that.
- Tannis was like super close to Gladys
from the minute I got to the reception.
- [Davis] Big time opportunity.
- And if Cade was telling the truth,
that Gladys planned to fire her, then she had motive.
Tannis would have been very upset
if she devoted her whole life to taking care of Gladys
and Gladys turned on her.
- That's if Cade was telling the truth.
- Well, Sally, you knew Tannis really well.
What do you think?
- I think, I don't know anybody as well as I thought.
- I say we take a closer look at Tannis Clemmons.
You know, historically poison
is a woman's method of homicide.
[Lynn chuckling]
- And where did you pick up that little tidbit?
- Oh-
- And don't even tell me the Real Murders Club.
- No.
Anyway, there was, there was another set of prints
on the glass.
The caterer.
- Jeremy, why him?
- There's no evidence against him, is there?
- Not that we know of,
but he did get a hefty bequest in the will.
Bigger than family members, which really irritated Tannis.
- And Cade.
- As the caterer, Jeremy did have plenty of access
to the table and all the glassware in the ballroom.
- I'll act like I need a caterer,
get his references, and talk to his clients.
- I can talk to my friend, Leanne.
She works for him.
- Yeah, and the rest of us, we can all look into Cade.
Except we won't ask you to, Sally.
- Thank you.
- But can you find out if Tannis really thought
Gladys was gonna fire her?
- Sure. I planned on giving her a necklace from Aunt Gladys.
I can ask her then.
Do you wanna come?
- Yeah.
No, no.
I am tired of waiting for that lawyer
who drew up the second will to call me back,
so I'm gonna go track her down at her office in Corinth.
- I'll go with you.
[soft instrumental music]
I've been thinking about the cyanide,
how the killer got it.
I think I'll talk to the Head of the Chemistry Department
at the university and see what he thinks.
- Good idea.
[crowd murmuring]
- You didn't want me to come, huh?
- Why would you say that?
- You were quiet in the truck.
You're quiet now even when I'm talking about the subject
I know you're obsessing about.
- I just wanna know why you wanted to tag along.
You'll say it's to keep me out of danger, right?
That's how it always starts.
And then eventually you're gonna try to get me to back off
for my own good, of course.
- Interesting.
I think you might be trying to push me away.
- What?
- Mm-hmm. And that must mean that you really like me.
- Aurora Teagarden? Hi, Elaine Bertram.
Sorry, I've been in court.
I have a few minutes now if you wanna come into my office.
- Yes. - Okay.
- We know the police looked into the witnesses
to the signature and confirmed the will wasn't fraudulent.
- Why would anyone think it was fraudulent?
- Well, Gladys did disinherit her son
and left the majority of her estate to a friend.
My mother who she didn't know all that well.
- Well, I did tell her that that was unusual,
cutting her son out of the will.
- Did she tell you why she did it?
- She said she had her reasons.
I left it at that.
- Did she say why she came to you
instead of her regular attorneys?
- Okay. Who referred her to you?
- She said a friend of hers gave her my name.
- Then you didn't ask her who?
- If I did, her answer didn't stick with me.
[phone buzzing and chiming]
And that's my reminder for my next meeting.
Is there anything else I can help you guys with?
- Yeah, tell me what to say to my mother
about why Gladys picked her as a beneficiary.
- I'm sorry, I don't have an answer.
For me, this was just a routine will change.
Remarkable only because people are asking me about it now.
Look, I really do need to go.
- It was Cade who did it, you know? Killed his mother.
I'm sure of it.
- Why would you think such an awful thing?
Did Gladys say anything to you about him?
- You know how she was. She didn't air her dirty laundry.
But that last month she didn't have dinner with Cade at all.
She ate with me.
Now, would she do that if she were about to fire me?
I don't think so.
We were very close.
- I thought you might like to have this.
It was one of her favorite necklaces.
- I don't want it.
- I thought you said you were close.
- We were, which is why it's too painful to take.
Why did she give Jeremy so much more money than me?
I gave up my entire life to take care of her.
I never had children.
I never married.
I just waited on her.
Jeremy didn't even work there anymore.
After he left, I had to take over all of his duties,
prepare all the meals.
Gladys didn't even want me to mention his name.
Not that I would after he betrayed us by leaving.
- Really? So Aunt Gladys was upset with Jeremy when he left?
- Sally,
what are you doing?
You wouldn't be interfering with my appointment
to interview Miss Clemmons, would you?
- Nope. No. No.
I was just going to give her something from my aunt
which she doesn't want.
So now I'm gonna go.
But I hope you find out why Gladys was mad at Jeremy Connor.
- Sorry about that.
Now, why don't you tell me about Gladys and Jeremy.
[door slamming]
- Well, that was a waste of time.
- I'd ask you to grab dinner with me tonight,
but I'm guessing you could use some space.
- Could I? I don't think that's right.
[mailbox squeaking]
I don't like that you feel I'm pushing you away.
I'd much rather you feel like I'm pulling you closer.
- Is that right?
- Aurora Teagarden. There you are.
- Victor.
[engine revving]
[Ro crying out]
[tires squealing]
- You okay?
- [Ro] Yeah.
[engine revving]
Victor! Victor, can you hear me?
[Victor groaning]
Were you hit?
- I'm okay. Probably did more damage hitting the ground
than the car did.
- Still though, I think we should get you checked out.
We were all very lucky just now.
- Yeah.
- It was a high-end black sedan.
The first four numbers of the plate were 5, 8, 2, 0,
but I couldn't make out the last few.
- And you're sure that this car
purposely tried to run Ro down?
- Yeah, it looked like it was headed straight for me.
- Actually, that car might've been gunning for me.
- Victor, I thought that they were taking you
to the hospital to x-ray your hip.
- It's fine. I'll be all right.
- Hold on. Back it up.
- You really think that car was trying to take you down?
- I don't know for sure
but somebody might've been trying to stop me
from telling what I know.
- And that would be?
- A little over a month ago,
Gladys came and asked me to return to Allicourt as CEO.
Said she was gonna remove Cade from the position
after Lizzie's wedding.
- Did she tell you why she planned to let Cade go?
- I asked, she said it was personal.
I said, I'd think about it but I didn't see myself
taking her up on it.
I was enjoying retired life too much.
- And how did she react?
- She was confident
that my sense of duty to Allicourt would prevail.
And then she said she'd call me after the wedding.
- So you think that somebody tried to run you down
so you wouldn't tell anyone
that Gladys was gonna fire Cade?
Who knew that you were coming here to talk to Ro?
- No one, but I did confront Cade about all this
before I came here and he's pretty angry.
He could have followed me.
- No, Cade doesn't drive a black car.
- We'll put out an APB on the partial plate
and I'll bring in Cade for questioning again.
- So this is everything from the closet.
[hangers clanging]
I put, put all of Aunt Gladys's shoes in this box.
- Okay, we should probably label all these boxes donate
so Cade knows what to do with them.
These pants are crinkling.
- Really?
What's that?
- It's a private investigator's report.
- On who?
- On Tannis Clemmons.
- Aunt Gladys hired someone to follow Tannis?
- Remember Cade said he caught Tannis
digging around in here.
Do you think she was looking for this?
- Yes, Victor Hansen showed up at Allicourt
which he had no business doing.
- He said you two had words.
- Because he's peddling lies about me,
telling everyone that my mother wanted him back as CEO.
- How do you know it's a lie?
- Even if my mother wasn't happy with the job I was doing,
there's no way that she would hire Victor Hansen.
- Are you suggesting that he left on bad terms?
Because as I recall,
she threw him a big fat retirement party.
- Yeah, you know what?
I'm not answering any more questions without my lawyer.
[soft upbeat music]
- I can't believe you still came to dinner
after being almost run over by car today.
- Not the highlight of my week, but I'm just fine.
- Are you sure?
Because we can do this another night.
- Your charming company is all I need
to make me feel better.
- Well, I don't know how charming I am.
I have to go to Allicourt tomorrow
and I'm a little overwhelmed.
- You're a savvy business woman, Aida,
you'll get the lay of the land.
- Yes, but I would get it so much faster if...
Victor, you know more about Allicourt than anyone.
If you're really okay, do you think you could meet me there
and maybe show me around?
- Technically Cade is still CEO of Allicourt.
- But I've seen his temperament.
I think he's ill-suited for the job.
Not to mention he threatened me
and he's a suspect in his mother's murder.
Oh, Victor, I need you. Please.
- It's that gift of insight and persuasion
that will make you a stellar owner of the company.
[Aida chuckling]
- So you'll come?
- Yes.
- Thank you.
[glasses clinking]
[soft instrumental music]
- Here.
- Hey.
- Sorry, I'm...
- Hey, look. You're allowed to be a little shaky.
- I just, I really thought that car was gonna hit me.
I can't believe I couldn't move.
And if you hadn't been there, I...
- Hey.
It's gonna be okay.
The others are gonna be here soon
and we're gonna figure this out, okay?
- Good. Because this case just got a lot more dangerous.
- Yeah.
[soft enchanting music]
- Ro, are you sure you're okay?
We can do this another time.
- No, I'm fine and no, we can't.
[Ro sighing]
Sally, I'm sorry.
We just really have to solve this case.
So you found this report where?
- In Aunt Gladys's dresser.
- She had to give the original to the police, of course.
- It's a private investigator report on Tannis Clemmons.
- Doesn't seem to be anything sinister in it. Still?
- Gladys hired a PI to investigate Tannis?
- Well, there's no client name on the report
so it is possible that it was someone else.
- [Ro] Cade maybe?
- Yeah, I mean, that guy really does seem
to have it out for her.
Maybe he was looking for dirt to get rid of her.
- Or maybe he was worried that she had something on him.
- Well, she definitely had it out for him
and Jeremy too.
She told me that Aunt Gladys was so upset with Jeremy
that she refused to even talk about him.
- Then why would she give him such a large bequest?
- Convenient for Jeremy.
I looked him up in the court system.
His wife filed for divorce two months ago.
She cited a gambling problem.
Said he owes $300,000 to quote, "Unsavory persons."
- Jeremy Connor has a $300,000 gambling debt?
- I'm guessing Lynn and Arthur
are gonna be very interested in hearing that.
- I asked Leanne to come by tonight.
- Hi. - Hi.
- [Leanne] Hi.
- Please tell everyone what you told me about your boss.
- Oh, um, well, when I got to work today,
Jeremy was just like,
I dunno, just not himself.
- [Davis] Not himself how?
- Edgy.
- Well, he seems like a pretty edgy guy, at least to me.
- Yeah, I guess edgier then.
He was definitely anxious.
Actually, he's been like that a week now,
come to think of it.
- [Phillip] And the phone call?
- Oh, when I went back near the office to check my schedule,
I could hear Jeremy on the phone yelling at someone.
- What was he saying?
- Something like, "I need more money now,"
and, "You have to fix this
"or someone's gonna notice a difference."
- A difference of what?
- Yeah, that can mean pretty much anything.
- Maybe not.
- He was really going on about it.
I just assumed it was a dispute with a client over a bill.
- Ro, what are you thinking?
- Well, you know how we were looking
into the difference between Gladys's two wills?
My mother gave me a copy of the second one
and Sally brought a copy of the first.
Now, Bubba said there was only one change
but I haven't compared them side by side.
[papers rustling]
- Do you see what I see?
- Yes, there is another difference.
Jeremy Connor was only getting $50,000
in the original will,
the same as Tannis Clemmons.
- So how did it go from 50 grand to half a mil?
- [Arthur] You run that plate yet?
Yeah. I'll wait.
- We have this little radio.
I like to tune into the police frequency.
It's kind of entertaining.
And I hear you guys are looking for a black sedan
and the first numbers of the license plate,
and I'm thinking, "Wow, should give you guys a call."
- Well, I'm glad you did.
- Could be this car was used in a crime?
- Could be, excuse me.
You got it. Great.
Who's the car registered to?
Jeremy Connor?
[soft mysterious music]
- Cyanide?
Yeah, I use it in class for experiments every now and then.
- So a student could sneak some out if they wanted?
- Doubtful.
I distribute it myself in only the amount necessary.
It's a very controlled substance.
We keep it under lock and key
with the other toxic and volatile compounds.
- You do any kind of inventory or tracking?
- Oh yeah. There is a bit of a...
Hi, I'll be with you in just a moment.
- I'll come back later.
- [{Professor] Okay.
- You know that woman?
- Yeah, yeah. She's in one of my night classes.
Uh, Chem 201, I believe.
I'm getting a lot of certified nursing assistants
chasing an RN lately.
- Thanks for your help.
- Yeah.
- I've got news for you.
- Oh I do too.
I talked to Bubba.
He is so embarrassed about the will,
said he should have caught the discrepancy.
- An extra zero was easy to miss if you're reading quickly.
- Yeah, well he was taking the other lawyer's word
that there were no other changes
besides primary beneficiary.
And he had his new paralegal review it
but she didn't catch anything
because he told her there were no other changes.
Anyway, he said it was his responsibility.
- Did he talk to Elaine Bertram about the new will?
- As soon as the probate court informed him about it.
- And he got ahold of her?
She's never available when I call.
I left her two messages this morning.
- I know it's frustrating.
And he told Arthur and Lynn
that he gave them wrong information, so.
What's your news?
- Okay.
Tannis Clemmons is taking a chemistry course
at the university.
A course that uses cyanide in class experiments.
- You're kidding.
Where is she now?
- She was at the university
but when she saw me, she left really quickly.
I think I should probably track her down
and keep an eye on her.
- Yeah. Good idea.
Be careful. - I will.
[soft pulsing music]
- I'm not denying that's my car,
I'm saying I wasn't driving it.
What part of, "It was stolen," do you not understand?
- Well, if your car was stolen last night
then why didn't you report it?
- Because I didn't know until this morning.
I was at a friend's house playing some poker,
I had too much to drink so I stayed there.
I went out in the morning and, bam, car's gone.
- Well, we'll be talking with this friend.
- I hope you do.
- Tannis Clemmons tells us that
Gladys didn't want her mentioning your name.
- Yes, and Gladys's phone records and emails
show that she had no contact with you
after you left her employ.
- Okay, yes, she was mad because I left
to start my own company, but she adored me.
She thanked me hundreds of times for creating a special menu
that helped with her heart condition.
I mean, doesn't the fact that she left me all that money
prove that she liked me?
- Money I understand you could really use
to pay off a hefty gambling debt.
[soft brooding music]
- Yeah. Well, Gladys knew about all that.
She knew that my wife was on my back for losing a paycheck.
So yes, she knew that I was usually hurting for extra money.
Look, can I get my car back now or what?
- [Sally] What's Tannis doing at my aunt's house?
- Hey. - [Nick] Hey.
- You followed Tannis here?
- Yeah, yeah. It seemed like the right thing to do.
I haven't been able to see her through any of the windows.
- I'm so glad you came by, Sally.
- What are you doing here, Tannis?
- I came to get a scarf I knew was here.
I changed my mind about the necklace.
I'd like to have it.
- Yeah, I think you're looking
for the private investigator's report on you
that Sally found.
- Cade was always threatening to have me investigated.
Always trying to find a reason to get rid of me.
- Maybe he had good reason,
like you enrolling in a chemistry course
learning to use cyanide maybe?
- I'm not in class to learn about cyanide.
It's the prerequisite for my nursing degree.
I always dreamed of finishing it.
- And Aunt Gladys knew about this?
- Yes. She always supported me.
Always said that she would help me with my future,
which is why I was so disappointed
when she left me so little in her will.
- Well then, why was Cade having you investigated?
- I just told you.
He was trying to find a reason to have me fired.
- Why would he try to get you fired?
Just because he didn't like you?
- That and maybe he suspected I knew some of his secrets
and wanted to find out for sure.
If you don't wanna give me the necklace, that's fine.
Nevermind.
- I can have it delivered to you.
[door clicking]
- What secrets of Cade's is she referring to?
[soft instrumental music]
- Thank you so much
and I look forward to our lunch next week.
[loud footsteps]
- There she is, our Grand Dame of Allicourt.
- Left impossibly large shoes to fill.
- Well, you're already off to a good start.
You've already charmed the CFO, the VP of Marketing,
and all you have to do is win over the CEO.
Cade's office is right here.
It's my old office.
Cade redecorated.
I miss this place.
The way it used to be.
Ah, at least he kept this cabinet.
- And you were happy in your job here?
- It was more than a job.
It was- - Victor!
What are you doing here?
And you, you have no right to be here, not yet.
You do know I'm contesting the will, right?
- You better watch for cars
when you're crossing the street, Aida.
Cade here might try to run you over.
- I heard about that.
I'm disappointed you're not more banged up.
- You find it amusing?
My daughter was almost hit.
- Well, maybe you both should hang out
with a better class of people.
Oh, I could tell you a very interesting story
about Victor here.
It's called BR00263.
What do you think about that, Hansen?
- I think you ought to read her the sequel.
You don't know anything about it, do you?
Clueless as ever when it comes to company business, Cade.
- Hey!
[loud banging]
This is cyanide.
- That's not mine. Let me see that.
- You're not getting anywhere near it.
Call the police, Aida.
- I've never seen that before.
[mysterious instrumental music]
- You and Nick seem to be getting cozy.
- Yeah, funny, he seems to think
I'm keeping him at a distance.
- Are you?
- Well, he just seems so sure about us.
He just keeps pointing out how wonderful it all is.
- Is it not?
- No, it is.
It's almost perfect.
And I just, I had something that I thought was perfect
before with Martin.
- And he walked away and now you feel-
- Don't say I'm scared.
I'm not scared. I'm just...
- Oh, Cade!
[door clicking]
Tannis seems to think you hired a detective
to investigate her.
Is that true?
- Yeah, well, she was spying on me first,
so I wouldn't believe her.
- Spying on you?
For what purpose?
Tannis mentioned Cade had secrets.
- But what could they be?
- So you're saying that you discovered the bottle
in the cabinet after you were scuffling with Cade?
- Yeah.
- What were you two fighting about?
- Cade mentioned a story with a number and Victor,
you seemed to know something about that.
- It was a file of the corporate minutes
of my last board meeting here.
I made some uncharitable remarks to Cade
when he said something
that I found threatening about Gladys.
- We need to see those minutes.
- Minutes are in the corporate records room.
- Do you happen to remember the file number
that Cade mentioned?
[Victor sighing]
- [Lynn] Arthur!
- Excuse me.
- I'm gonna call Aurora.
- Okay.
- That storage space where you found Jeremy Connor's car?
It was rented under the name of Cade McCourt.
[soft pulsing music]
[phone ringing]
- Hi, mother.
- [Aida] Aurora, I'm at Allicourt.
- Oh, it's your first day. That's nice.
- Well, it was nice till we found a bottle of cyanide
in Cade's office.
- What?
- Well, what we think is cyanide.
The police are going to pick up Cade now.
- Okay. Thanks for telling me.
- Whatever it is, I don't wanna know.
I've decided ignorance is bliss.
- Sally, I'm leaving town for a while.
- Wah, why? Where are you going?
- You can't go!
- You and your mother are causing me too much grief.
- Cade, you cannot run away from this.
- Run away from what?
- Well, you told me not to tell you.
- [Cade] Then I'll leave out the back.
- Now what?
- It's over, Cade. They're here.
- Who's here?
- Cade McCourt, you need me to come with us
for further questioning
in the murder of Gladys Allison-McCourt.
- You can't take me. I don't have to go with you.
- We have enough to consider you
an even stronger person of interest
and our principal suspect.
We can hold you for 24 hours.
- And a warrant for your arrest isn't too far behind.
- Sally. I didn't do it, you have to believe me.
You don't believe me, do you?
You don't believe I'm innocent.
As if this nightmare isn't already bad enough.
- I want to believe you.
I want that more than anything.
- But Aurora keeps trying to talk you out of it,
doesn't she?
She wants me to be guilty
so her mother can keep what's mine.
- No, what she wants is the truth.
And it's all her mother wants too.
What about the cyanide in your office?
- Someone else must have put it there.
- And Jeremy's car?
The police think you stole it
so you could run down Victor Hansen.
- I didn't steal the car.
I was never in that car.
- But they found it in a storage space you rented.
- I don't have a storage space.
Why would I need a storage space?
I live in the biggest house in town.
Can't you see that I'm being framed?
- You thought you were gonna inherit a lot of money
when your mother passed.
- I know.
I live an expensive lifestyle,
a lifestyle that I can't afford,
but that does not make me a killer.
I get it, okay?
I can be an arrogant jerk sometimes but I love my mother
and you know that.
- Then why did she all cut you out of the will?
She must've had a reason.
- I wish I knew.
- I think you do know.
[soft instrumental music]
- Is Cade McCourt's lawyer here yet?
- No, not yet.
Hey Sally, how'd the visit go?
- Cade swears that he's innocent.
He says he was never in Jeremy's car.
- Really?
Well, that's interesting
because we found his prints on multiple items in the car,
including a card from a chemist
that says he mixed up a batch of cyanide
for one Cade McCourt.
- Don't you think it's odd that he would leave
a card like that just lying around a stolen car?
Or he'd leave cyanide in his office
when he knows that you're investigating him?
He swears that he's being framed and-
- You'd be surprised how often the rich and entitled
fail to cover their tracks because it never occurs to them
that they can't get what they want.
- Yeah, but still, it seems like
most of the evidence pointing to him came up pretty easily.
[Lynn laughing]
- We're working 14 hours a day and she thinks it's easy.
- Oh, I didn't mean it.
Okay, I know Bubba told you about the discrepancy
between the two wills, Jeremy's sudden windfall.
- He told us but.
- And then there's Tannis Clemmons.
Cade admitted to hiring somebody to investigate her.
I mean, he didn't say why yet
but maybe he was telling the truth
about Gladys planning to fire her.
- Okay. Sally-
- We just found out today
that she was taking a chemistry class.
So Ro and I don't think that this whole case against Cade
is really all that airtight.
- Ro's thoughts or yours are not what matter to the DA
or the judge, Sally.
[loud footsteps]
- I don't know if I deserved that.
- Sorry, Sally.
But listen, we're not gonna stop looking into every angle
just 'cause we got Cade in a cell.
- Thank you, Arthur.
[soft instrumental music]
- I don't want one hole in this case, Arthur, not one.
We need to go back to that storage place.
We need to bring a picture of Cade
and make sure he's the one who actually rented the unit.
I wanna get enough evidence to arrest him today.
- All right, let's do it.
- Yeah, Bubba Rankart said that you told him
there were no other changes
other than the primary beneficiary,
yet Jeremy Connor is getting considerably more.
- I didn't recall Miss McCourt asking me
to change any of the bequests.
Let me check my notes.
[drawer sliding]
[papers rustling]
No, I don't. I don't see it.
I don't understand.
- Are you saying it's a typo?
- Which I should have caught.
I'm embarrassed but these things happen.
The lawyer for the estate
will know how to remedy the situation.
- I still don't know why Gladys cut Cade out of her will.
But I do know that she did not mean
to leave Jeremy Connor so much.
You know, maybe we should tell Jeremy that
and see how he reacts.
- Aurora, no. You don't have to keep looking into it.
And the police are closing in on an arrest
and this whole ordeal will be resolved soon.
- Yes, but I-
- No, and it's too painful to keep poking at it.
The minute the estate passes to me,
I am donating the house to the city
and giving all the money to the Allison's and to charity.
As far as Allicourt, I'm going to honor Gladys's wish
and reinstate Victor as CEO.
I finally talked him into it.
- Well, that's great, Mother.
- And that will relinquish all of my interest in Allicourt.
- Okay, well, I still think it's a good idea
to talk to Jeremy.
- [Aida] Aurora, did you not hear what I said?
- Oh, I gotta go.
[Aida sighing]
- [Storage Worker] Uh, no.
That's not the person that came in and rented the unit.
- The unit was rented under the name of Cade McCourt.
This is Cade McCourt.
- Yeah, well the person that came in
and filled out the paperwork and paid for it all
was a woman.
- A woman?
- Yeah. Said she worked for the McCourt family.
- Do you remember what she looked like?
- I don't know.
Dark hair, like my mom's age, 40 whatever.
- All right, thank you.
We need to take another look at Tannis Clemmons.
I mean maybe, maybe she tried to run down Aurora
because she was getting too close.
- It's worth looking into.
[loud footsteps]
- I know Jeremy's catering this event,
now we just have to find him.
[dishes clinking]
- There's Leanne, I'll ask her.
- Okay.
[dishes clinking]
Ah, Jeremy.
- Aurora Teagarden.
You a guest at the lunch today?
- No, but I was hoping that I-
- Sorry, I'm a little busy.
- Well, this will only take a minute.
I talked to the lawyer who drew up the new will for Gladys.
And she said that Gladys didn't ask her
to change the amount left for you.
Said it's supposed to be $50,000 as in the original will.
- I doubt that's true.
And even if it was it'd be a little too late
to do anything about it.
- The lawyer said there are legal remedies.
[soft instrumental music]
Tell me, if Gladys was such a fan of yours,
why didn't you come over and say hello to her
at Lizzie's wedding reception?
- Sorry. I have 122 people waiting for their lunch.
We'll have to talk later.
[loud footsteps]
- Oh, Leanne. Hey, have you seen Nick?
- Uh, yeah, he's still at the parking lot.
I told him Jeremy had to go to his car to get
clean Chef's whites.
- No, Jeremy just went to the pantry.
- Oh, I must not have seen him come in. Sorry.
[loud footsteps]
[mysterious instrumental music]
- Jeremy?
Oh, I guess you really don't wanna talk to me.
[loud footsteps] [door banging]
Oh, Nick! Hey, what are you-
- There's a back door.
- Did you see Jeremy go out?
- No. [loud banging]
[rushing footsteps]
- [Nick] Calling for help right now.
- He's dead.
Nick, look. I think someone injected him with that syringe.
Hey, Arthur.
If that syringe contained cyanide
that was from the same batch that killed Gladys,
well, Cade's still in custody, right?
- Yes, Ro. This complicates the case against Cade.
We also have the problem with the storage space.
- Where you found Jeremy's car?
- Yeah, it was rented, but not by Cade.
By a woman who said that she worked with the family.
- Well, Tannis maybe?
Have you contacted the chemist who sold Cade the cyanide?
Have you shown him a picture of her?
- Ro, stop.
Look, we've got a crime scene to process here,
plenty of staff members for our officers to interview.
I promise you we'll talk to the chemist again.
- Arthur, we're happy to help in any way we can.
- Yeah, what's gonna happen to Cade now?
- Well, the DA says that we don't have enough to hold him,
so we've got to cut him loose
which seems to me a very bad idea.
Excuse me.
[crowd murmuring]
[soft enchanting music]
- I know you feel guilty,
like you should have been able to stop it or something.
- Lucky me, I'm dating a psychology expert
who knows how I feel before I do.
- It's okay to let me know you, Ro.
I'm not going anywhere.
- Thank you.
- Though if you keep buying new houses
I might not be able to find you.
- I know, I just can't seem to settle down.
- Maybe you just need to find a reason to.
[door creaking]
- Aurora?
So now it's two murders? Two!
- I know. I know, mother. It's awful.
Jeremy must have known something about who killed Gladys.
- I have no idea why Gladys chose me,
but I want nothing to do with the McCourt fortune
or Allicourt Industries.
- Yeah, I bet it feels more like a curse now, huh?
- Like a dark cloud looming over me.
- Well, help is on the way
if Victor will take Allicourt off your shoulders.
- He will.
Although he said he's worried about making Cade an enemy.
[Aida chuckling]
I don't see why.
I mean, he handles Cade just fine.
He didn't even blink when Cade was trying to taunt him.
- Taunt him with what, mother?
- Oh, Cade was trying to tell me a story
about BR zero, something, something.
Victor said it was the minutes to a meeting.
The police are getting a copy
from the corporate records room,
so I'm sure they'll sort it out.
- BR? Superior court file numbers start with BR.
When I work the reference desk at the library
sometimes I help patrons look up court cases by file number.
- You're looking up cases with Gladys McCourt
as the plaintiff?
- Yeah. Nothing so far.
- Try Allicourt Industries.
- Here it is. Case BR00263.
- Oh, that's the number.
- Says the case is sealed.
- A secret court case?
- We have to find out what's in that lawsuit.
Mother, you said there's a corporate records keeper
at Allicourt?
- My dad has the car out front.
I'm glad they've let you go, but it's two murders now.
This is terrible.
They have to catch the person.
- Do you think these bozos are gonna figure this out?
No. If you want something done right.
- Cade! Don't you need a ride?
[soft instrumental music]
- So I've asked the corporate record keeper
to pull the file but it is very confidential
so make sure that, [phone ringing]
that it doesn't leave this room, okay?
- [Ro] Mm-hmm.
- Oh, I have to take this.
- Complaint for damages.
Plaintiff, Allicourt Industries
versus defendant Victor A. Hansen, former CEO.
- Gladys filed suit against Victor.
- Mm-hmm. Common facts on February 15th.
An audit of the manufacturing division
of Allicourt Industries revealed
$1.2 million unaccounted for.
- Through emails, Victor Hansen did instruct
an Allicourt manager to falsify requisition documents
and purchase orders on the manufacturing goods.
Breach of fiduciary duty.
- So Victor embezzled
over a million dollars from Allicourt.
- Then the retirement party for Victor,
that must've been about keeping up appearances
to protect the company.
- Hmm.
- But he was at the wedding and Gladys seemed fine with him.
- Yeah, she did.
Oh, this could be why.
Allicourt filed to dismiss the suit.
Conflicting facts have come to light.
- Well, what's the date on that?
- A week before Gladys drew up her new will.
- The will that cut Cade out.
And after Victor said that she asked him to return as CEO.
- Well, we finally know why Gladys cut Cade out of her will.
- She found out it was Cade who embezzled that money
and he set up Victor to take the fall.
- Mm-hmm.
- All right, I will.
I'll just see you when you get here.
What?
[soft mysterious music]
- Okay, so if Cade embezzled the money
and then realized that Gladys found out about it
and would likely take everything away from him,
that would be motive to kill her.
- Thinking he was still the primary beneficiary.
- I gotta tell my mother.
- Yeah, I'm gonna keep going through this file,
see what else I can find in here.
- Okay.
[door creaking]
[rushing footsteps]
- Victor, what are you do-
- Have you seen your mother?
- Why? What's wrong?
- I was talking with her on the phone
while I was driving here and her voice suddenly cut off.
- What are you saying?
- I'm sure I heard Cade McCourt's voice
telling her to shut up five minutes ago.
They must still be in here.
Come on. - [Ro] Okay.
- [Leanne] Thanks for coming down to meet with me.
- Sure. You ready to be interviewed by the police now?
- Yes, but I don't know what I can tell them.
I wanna help, but I didn't see anything.
- You may have seen more than you realize.
Just think about the day and anything out of the ordinary
that may have happened.
Was there anyone here who isn't normally here
for an event like this?
- No. At least not until Aurora and Nick got here.
- Well, they don't count.
Anyone else?
- No, just Mr. Hansen came by to see Jeremy.
- Victor Hansen was here?
- Yes, but he and Jeremy talk all the time.
Jeremy used to cater events for him
when he was still at Allicourt.
I worked a few of them.
- What were Victor and Jeremy talking about today?
- I don't know.
I didn't see them together.
I just, I saw Mr. Hansen leaving.
- When did Victor Hansen leave?
- Yeah. I didn't think anything of it. They're friends.
- Leanne, when?
- A little before Jeremy was found dead.
[Phillip sighing]
- We need to talk.
- Yes, we do.
I have the chemist in my office.
He ID-ed Jeremy Connor as the man
who bought the cyanide from him using Cade's name.
And we have CCTV footage from the business
next to the storage unit.
Jeremy Connor was seen leaving the storage unit on foot
after his so-called stolen car was left there.
- So he's who tried to run down Victor?
- And set Cade up for it.
Now we just have to figure why.
- No, I know why.
Phillip just called.
We got an eyewitness who saw Victor Hansen
leaving the catering event kitchen
right after Jeremy was killed.
[Lynn sighing]
- Cade, let me go!
Let go of me right now!
- Cade, stop! I'm calling the police!
- No more Cade.
- Victor, no! [gunshot exploding]
[Aida screaming]
[Cade groaning]
- Mother, Mother, are you okay?
- Yeah, I don't know. I think so.
- That was reckless.
You could have hit my mother.
- I just saved your mother.
- I'm calling the police.
- [Aida] And call an ambulance too.
- I wish we knew where Cade went.
He always makes things worse for himself.
- Well, I can't imagine how things can get worse.
First Gladys and now Jeremy.
Imagine Victor's gonna be pretty upset about Jeremy.
- Victor Hansen? Why?
- Victor was a big fan of Jeremy's.
In fact, I think Victor loaned Jeremy the money
to start his own company.
- Wait a minute, Jeremy owes Victor money?
- Yeah.
- Daddy, I gotta make a quick call.
- All right.
[phone ringing] - Sally.
Sally, not a good time.
- Okay, real quick.
Dad just told me that Victor Hansen
lent Jeremy Connor a bunch of money.
And Jeremy owes Victor money.
- Thank you. I needed to know that.
Now, tell Arthur that Victor
just shot Cade here at Allicourt.
- What?
- Cade was threatening my mother.
Just call Arthur now and an ambulance.
- [Sally] Okay. Okay.
- Mother, let's go.
- Cade was saying the most unbelievable things.
That Victor was paying someone to spy on him.
- Yeah, of course they were unbelievable.
Let's get you out of here now.
- Wait, wait. I wanna hear what else Cade told you, Aida.
- It doesn't matter.
The police, they're on their way.
Thank goodness. This is over.
Mother, let's go.
[Aida sighing]
- [Aida] Yes, okay. Let's go.
[loud footsteps]
- Don't you move.
[soft mysterious music]
[loud banging]
- [Lynn] Nick, we got a call there were shots fired.
- [Arthur] Sally just told us
that Ro said Victor Hansen shot Cade
somewhere in this building.
- [Nick] Yeah, I heard the shot so I came running out
and I can't find Ro or her mother anywhere.
- We have a witness that said they saw Victor Hansen
leaving the catering event after Jeremy Connor was killed.
- [Aida] Victor, this isn't like you.
This is not how you operate.
- No, it's how he operates now, Mother.
He had Gladys killed by Jeremy Connor.
- I was driven to it.
- Cade didn't wanna wait his turn to be CEO, did he?
So he embezzled money from the company
and he made it look like you did it.
- That wasn't the worst betrayal.
- No. No, it was Gladys believing him over you.
- After all I did for that company
and she treated me like a common criminal.
Showed me the door.
- Yeah, but she realized her mistake,
tried to reinstate you.
- Too late. She ruined my life, my reputation.
No, Gladys deserved exactly what she got.
- Victor, no!
- And so did Cade.
I wanted him to feel the pain of being framed
just like I did.
To know what it felt like to lose everything.
- So you got both out of your way.
You set up Cade to make it look like he killed Gladys,
and you got Jeremy Conner to slip Gladys the cyanide
in exchange for a bigger chunk of Gladys's will,
engineered by Elaine Bertram.
And it was Elaine who rented the storage unit too
in Cade's name.
Are you gonna kill Elaine to cover your tracks
like you did Jeremy?
- Never trust a gambler.
They will ask you for more money.
He was trying to extort me
by threatening to reveal what I'd done.
- To what end?
He would've been implicated too.
- Desperate men take desperate measures.
- Just like you did.
- I am not a bad person.
I just wanted my rightful position as CEO back.
I wanted my reputation back.
I did it for justice and for the company
that I helped build.
I am the only one who can make sure it succeeds.
I just need a minute to think how to make this work,
how to make it look like Cade went crazy,
killed you both.
[loud footsteps]
- Get the paramedic's here.
Cade, can you hear me?
- Both of you back that way.
[loud banging] [Aida groaning]
- Mother, go!
[dramatic instrumental music]
Mother, go, go, go!
[Aida screaming]
- No! Aurora! Aurora! No!
[loud banging] [Ro groaning]
[running footsteps]
- [Aida] No! No!
Aurora!
[running footsteps]
- Aida. - Oh!
- [Nick] She's in there?
- Yes, she's with Victor.
He's got a gun.
- There's gotta be another way in.
- I'll check over here.
[running footsteps]
[gunshots exploding] [Aurora hollering]
[soft mysterious music]
[running footsteps]
[gunshots exploding]
[running footsteps]
[soft mysterious music continues]
[loud banging]
[Victor groaning]
[running footsteps]
- [Nick] Ro!
- Don't move!
[Ro and Nick sighing]
[door slamming]
[Nick sighing]
[soft instrumental music]
- Oh, hey, Cade. What are you doing in here?
Aren't you gonna join us for dinner?
- Oh, and have to explain to everyone
how I'm about to start a two-year jail stint for embezzling?
I'm okay.
- You know, you did agree to the plea bargain.
You can't really complain now.
- I know. I'm not complaining.
I got in over my head and I made mistakes.
Mistakes that I am taking responsibility and paying for.
But just because I deserve it
doesn't mean I really wanna talk about it.
If you'll excuse me.
Have fun.
- Now that we're all here,
on behalf of the entire Allison family,
we wanna thank the police for all of their hard work
in tracking down who poisoned our beloved Gladys.
We also have to thank the Real Murders Club
and the amazing Teagarden women, Aida and Aurora.
- Well, we're just glad to finally know what happened.
And now my mother has an announcement.
- Yes.
So I found a new CEO for Allicourt.
Now, it seemed like the logical choice would be Bubba
because he worked with Gladys for many years
and he's now a member of the Allison family.
But then it occurred to me that there was a better fit
for Gladys's shoes.
Lizzie Allison-Rankart.
- [Ro] Congratulations, Lizzie.
- [Group] Congratulations.
[glasses clinking]
- Lizzie, congratulations. I'm so proud.
[glasses clinking]
- Well, Bubba gave me the courage to take it on.
- That is amazing, Lizzie.
So when can we eat?
- Dinner will be served soon.
- Need a refill?
- Ah, sure.
I'll go with you.
[soft instrumental music]
I should have told everyone how grateful I am for you.
The way you keep showing up for me again and again.
I just don't know how to stop thinking
that you're too good to be true.
- Then don't stop
because that's what I think about you too.
That's how it's supposed to be, you know?
Two people excited to be spending time together,
on their way to falling in love.
- Did you just say love?
- Does that scare you?
- Oh, I'm shaking in my boots.
[loud kissing]
[enchanting orchestral music]