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I liked the killer; he fixed the extorting, bullying, mean, creep that was the defendant's uncle. He got what he deserved; what would have made it better is if the killer had told him what he'd done right after he drank the cyanide. Death can't come soon enough for some people. Nadine, (the defendant), is truly stupid and childish, but without her, would we have a story? Nope. The whole thing with the pills? You've gotta see it yourself.

Defendant's fiancé drives a real nice A-H 3000 neatly around a truck to get away from cops. Even though her dad was committed for being criminally insane, she should have known that her scientist fiancé would never have believed that the behavior could be passed on. A real neat trick with the pen holder and lead shot, and like I said; I liked the killer (p.s., he didn't have much time left anyway). Della was beautiful, and we got a look at Perry's place as he and Della were cooking steaks - they had to leave them ...too bad.

The demure defendant is Nadine who is engaged to marry scientist John Locke.

However her wicked uncle is having none of it. He tells Nadine that heer father is criminally insane and her kids might end up the same.

The uncle is also planning to cut Nadine off his will, which may be good news for some of his other relatives.

The uncle later dies of cyanide poisoning. It just happens that Nadine stole some from her boyfriend's lab.

Perry Mason is called in when a psychiatrist comes to see him. He gave Nadine a truth serum, she confessed to him that she poisoned her uncle. Nadine later threw the bottle into her lake.

I was impressed how the kids found the bottle from the bottom of the lake and how Tragg came across a second bottle later on.

All those bottles containing cyanide does make the story a bit confusing.

Although there are several alternative suspects. Perry Mason throws a curve ball at the end and gets an unlikely suspect to confess.

Perry asks a couple of kids to search the bottom of a lake for a bottle of cyanide while he's sitting with his back turned eating a hot dog?

Did the kids parents know about this?

How did Tragg know to look for a second. bottle at the bottom of the lake?

There are other issues for me here, but I thought I'd just mention the major ones.

***SPOILERS*** Mind bending as well as confusing Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, episode with Perry due to the success of the show, with him living and eating off it, looking like he gained at least 30 pounds on his once, when he started, lean 200 pound frame with most of the poundage going into his fat-man store size 50-54 pants. It's here that Perry is defending the emotionally as well as reality challenged Nadine Marshall, Christine White, who's on trial for the poisoning and murder of her abusive and bed ridden Uncle Martin Wellman, Alexandr Campbell, by spiking his evening hot chocolate drink with a dose of deadly cyanide. This was right after Uncle Martin threatened to expose the fact, with documented evidence, that Nadine's father was committed to an institution for the criminally insane and died there to her unsuspecting boyfriend and soon to be engaged to her John Locke, Sherwood Price.

Perry feels the the very emotionally disturbed Nadine confessed to the murder just to keep her boyfriend John , who she lifted the cyanide tablets out of his laboratory, out of being implicated in Uncle Martin's murder that she, not really knowing how and why, committed! Passing a lie detector test in admitting to Uncle Martin's murder Nadine's soon flew the coup making her seem even more guilty then she really is. It's up to Perry to come up with the cyanide tablet bottle and prove that instead of cyanide Nadine put a harmless sugar subtitle in it and then deep sixth it in a nearby lake. It was the real murderer of Uncle Martin who used the fact that Nadine was crazy enough to admit, under hypnosis, that she committed a crime that she didn't commit to cover his behind in the murder!

***SPOILERS*** Utterly insane and ridicules ending with Perry exposing the person who murdered Uncle Martin in court who claimed that he or she was innocent and later just before the ending credits get the real murderer to confess to it privately to him! That despite the fact that it would land him in the San Quentin gas chamber! It's as if the writers felt that the first confession wasn't that good enough and before the episode ended they had to put a new one in so it would make more sense! which instead of making any sense made it, the killer's confession, even more unrealistic!