(to Mac, after bending a vase that reveals a hidden room) I'll shoot you if you say ladies first.
“Death House” · Season 6, Episode 10
In this episode: Mac Taylor (4), Stella Bonasera (4), Don Flack (1), Danny Messer (1), Sid Hammerback (1)
Sam Harding was an inventor. This room, maybe this entire penthouse was his greatest creation.
Okay. Knowing that, how do we find Richard Lawson?
We play Sam Harding's game.
Things just got a lot more difficult.
(ominous) And a lot more dangerous.
Jones put up seed money for Harding's invention business. But it sounds like their deal eventually went sour 'cause Harding filed a suit in 1923 for patent infringement but it was dismissed. Jones comes up missing shortly after.
Sam Harding had motive to make that happen. Harding thought Jones stabbed him in the back and when he didn't win in court, he got revenge.
We just solved an 86-year-old murder. Not bad for a half a day's work.
Well, it gives us the rest of the day to tackle the remaining unanswered questions: who broke into the penthouse? And who made the 911 call?
Did you know that between 400 and 1400 A.D. there was a common belief that mummia was a potent medicine with curative powers? People used to grind up mummy parts and put them on their bodies to get well when they were sick.
(musing) Mmm, take two milligrams of mummy and call me in the morning.
(chuckles) Something like that.
Sid, I thought you had hobbies outside of work.
I take it my interest in the history of my profession and the fascinating world of the post-mortem does not strike you as an enjoyable pastime?
(to Stella) Let's take him to a Jets game this weekend
SHSam Harding
(flashback, on the phonograph to Walter Jones) A sad, painful song. A song of lies and betrayal, heartbreaking. But a song can only make you feel so much. It's no substitute for real suffering. That's why I invited you to my home. Everything I worked for, you stole it and sold it to the highest bidder and kept the money. My money. Then you bought off the judge and made me look like a liar. So while you made millions, I invested my unrewarded ingenuity and hard work into making this place a lesson in pain, lies, and betrayal. You may be smart enough to steal my inventions, but let us see if you are smart enough to survive them. (Walter tries to run from the room, steps on a tile that gives way releasing the angel-wing knives, and knocking him to the floor, fatally wounded. Sam puts the broken phonograph pieces in Walters' pockets, walks out of the penthouse and locks the door as Sam dies inside)
(about Richard Lawson) If this guy's a successful real-estate agent, what's he doing breaking into Sam Harding's penthouse?
Well, before he died, Harding set up a trust to take care of his home, keep it empty after his death. Nobody was allowed to go inside, not even the building's super or maintenance man.
He wanted to hide the fact that he murdered Walter Jones and left him there to rot.
His secret and Jones' body would've remained undiscovered, except this week the rule against perpetuities went into effect.
That stops dead people from owning property forever.
Right, which means the penthouse was just about to be put up for auction by the state.
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