A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Gideon Armstrong: [after Jessica exposes the murderer] I gave you everything you wanted.

Cynthia Armstrong: You gave me exactly what you wanted to give me – thanks a lot, Gideon – and exactly when you wanted to give it. And what I really wanted was out of this rotten marriage and your miserable face out of my sight. Yes, I bought the land secretly. And it was Stan, he found Raymond.

Dr. Stan Garfield: That's a lie! It's a lie!

Cynthia Armstrong: Yes, you did. You found Raymond and you got him to steal the gold artifacts from the university museum. And then he made sure that there were gonna be all inexperienced people working at this dig, people who could be fooled. And as for you, Benton, you were easy.

Jessica Fletcher: But why kill Raymond?

Cynthia Armstrong: Because he got so greedy. We could've made millions on this. But he came at me, and he made all these crazy threats to me. He threatened he would tell my husband the truth. I had to stop him. I had to get rid of him. I picked up this rock, you see, and I killed him.

Karen Parks: Why did you throw the body off the cliff?

Jessica Fletcher: To hide the real cause of death. You see, they couldn't leave the body in the cave because, once he was discovered missing, there'd be a search, and we might've found him there. Actually, the fall would have hidden the real cause of death if he had died from the blow on the head. What you hadn't realized was that he died of drowning.

Gideon Armstrong: If you just had come to me, we could have talked it out.

Cynthia Armstrong: And you would've listened to me, wouldn't you have, Gideon?