EPISODE 4/30/02
Simon Answers Questions

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TUESDAY, April 30, 2002

Scene 1:
Location: Old Mill
Scene: Main room

SIMON FRASIER ALONE.

>> Simon: [on the phone] Yeah, the Old Mill. That's great. Look, I could really use your advice. Thanks.

SIMON FRASIER AND OFFICER WILLIS

>> Willis: Mr. Frasier? I just have a couple more questions. You mentioned earlier that you and your wife came here on a romantic rendezvous. Is that right?
>> Simon: Yeah, that was the idea.
>> Willis: Well, maybe times have changed, but generally speaking, a romantic rendezvous doesn't include box cutters and duct tape. Do you mind telling me what these items are doing in the backseat of your car?
[Officer holds up a bag of items]

Scene 2:
Location: Old Mill
Scene: Outside

SIMON FRASIER, OFFICER WILLIS

>> Simon: Look, my wife and I, we just bought the old Gunnison place. We're fixin' it up ourselves. There's all sorts of contract supplies in the back of the car.
>> Willis: Your car?
>> Simon: Yeah, my car. Yeah.
>> Willis: You led me to believe that you and your wife came here together.
>> Simon: We did.
>> Willis: No, sir, you didn't. You arrived first in your car, then Mrs. Frasier arrived in her car.
>> Simon: Yeah, well, we were here at the same time together --what difference does it make, huh?
>> Willis: You were here alone before your wife arrived. That gave you ample opportunity to bind Ms. Scully using --
>> Simon: Oh, please.
>> Willis: -- The duct tape we found in your car, murder her and hide the body in the rug.
>> Simon: Oh, right. Yeah, and then make sure that she gives you a call to report it?

SIMON FRASIER, LUCINDA WALSH, OFFICER WILLIS

[Lucinda Walsh enters.]
>> Lucinda: Press pass. Press pass. I'm here to see Simon Fraiser, and here he is. Good. Oh --Norman, hello. Are you in charge this evening?
>> Willis: Yes, Ms. Walsh.
>> Simon: Lucinda, can we have a word, please?
>> Lucinda: Norman, he's a mate. If you wouldn't mind --
>> Willis: Five minutes.

SIMON FRASIER, LUCINDA WALSH

>> Simon: Look, thanks for coming.
>> Lucinda: What the hell is going on?
>> Simon: Katie and I come down here, we find a body -- Jill Scully, Dahlia Ventura's lawyer.
>> Lucinda: Good God, kill all the lawyers. How did she die?
>> Simon: Apparently, she was hit over the back of the head.
>> Lucinda: Oh, murdered. Well --
>> Simon: Yeah, yeah. And your friend Norman here seems to think I did it.
>> Lucinda: Did you do it, Simon?
>> Simon: No! No. But what's the bet that Dahlia makes all the evidence point to me? God, I cannot win. Every move I make, she's there first. Norman finds the duct tape in the back of the car that I brought down here to use when we were staging Katie's murder.
>> Lucinda: I told you that was the silliest idea.
>> Simon: You did not! You said it was genius.
>> Lucinda: How many happy geniuses have you met?
>> Simon: I need your help in explaining this to the police.
>> Lucinda: No way, darling. This is not gonna fly. You gotta come up with something less creative and more plausible, or indeed, you will end up in jail.

Scene 3:
Location: Old Mill
Scene: Outside

SIMON FRASIER, LUCINDA WALSH

>> Simon: Jill Scully called Katie earlier to warn her that her life was in danger.
>> Lucinda: And then Jill ended up dead?
>> Simon: Yeah, because Dahlia got to her first.
>> Lucinda: How would Dahlia know about the phone call? Come on. How would Dahlia know that? How would she know that you're gonna be playing murder games here with Katie?
>> Simon: I don't know. She's probably got our cabin bugged, the phones, the cars.
>> Lucinda: Can you prove that?
>> Simon: Well, I can prove that she was in our cabin, 'cause she left the watch and her keys there.
>> Lucinda: Oh, Simon, that makes you look more guilty, not less.
>> Simon: I don't care about myself. I'm worried about Katie, okay? I have to convince the cops that the threat to her is real.
>> Lucinda: Oh, I do believe that you have done that, darling. And they're gonna put you away in jail. And behind bars, dear, I don't know how you can protect Katie. You're clever, but not that clever.
>> Simon: All right. So we need more proof.
>> Lucinda: Well, I don't know. I think you need more proof if you're gonna go to the cops, yes. On the other hand, the Oakdale police --I don't know. All they do is let comatose criminals walk around, get away, escape.
>> Simon: Look, if I could find Dahlia, I could do it. But I have to find her before she gets to Katie.
>> Lucinda: Who cares if she does? She's inundated Katie with newspaper clippings, with sob stories. What else can she do to her?
>> Simon: Kill her, and lay the blame on me.

Scene 4:
Location: Old Mill
Scene: Outside

SIMON FRASIER, LUCINDA WALSH, OFFICER WILLIS

>> Willis: I just thought your friend here should know, the A.D.A. has decided to transfer this case to the Oakdale P.D.
>> Lucinda: Oh, really?
>> Willis: Mr. Frasier's free to go.
>> Lucinda: Oh, my heavens, that's wonderful. Thank you, Norman.
>> Willis: It wasn't up to me. And I'd advise your friend not to go very far. Because the guys in Oakdale are going to have all kinds of questions.
>> Lucinda: Oh, well, I'm --I'm sure that Mr. Frasier is going to be cooperating fully in any way he can with the police. Right?

Scene 5:
Location: The Cottage
Scene: Inside

SIMON FRASIER, KATIE FRASIER

>> Simon: Yeah.
[Simon Frasier enters.]
[Henry Coleman overhears from a hiding place.]
>> Katie: Hey! What happened after I left? What did the cops say? Did they believe our story?
>> Simon: We can't stay here anymore. Katie, we have to leave Oakdale -- tonight.

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