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- Perry Mason: Della, tell me, what would you have done if you had a client whose husband died twice?
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- Deputy D.A.: And prove that she killed her husband. Your Honor, there are other incontrovertible facts. Twelve witnesses saw this sailboat, with husband and wife aboard, leave the starting line at the regatta. And eight witnesses, six hours later, boarded this boat adrift in a calm sea, and the only person aboard was the defendant.
- Perry Mason: [to a sensationalist reporter] If you represent the press, then we're all in trouble; you have the morals of a jackal!