Prescription: Murder (1968 TV Movie)

Katherine Justice: Joan Hudson

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• Joan Hudson : How should I behave?

  Dr. Ray Flemming : You're an actress, Darling. Improvise.

• Joan Hudson : I want to call my lawyer.

  Lt. Columbo : Dr. Flemming murders his wife and you want to call YOUR lawyer?

• Dr. Ray Flemming : [Dr. Ray Flemming stands at the window of his girlfriend's apartment with his back towards Columbo. He laughs at what Columbo has just mentioned about Miss Hudson being dead and that he has nothing to live for and that maybe he'd want to confess to the murder of his wife. He turns around and speaks to the lieutenant]  You're a very funny man.

  Lt. Columbo : I wasn't trying to be funny.

  Dr. Ray Flemming : But you are, more than you know. So you want me to purge myself? My one and only love is dead and I have nothing more to live for, is that it?

  Lt. Columbo : All I'm saying, Doctor, is that if you love that girl...

  Dr. Ray Flemming : Love that girl? Look, Columbo, I overestimated you. I thought you understood about human nature. I never loved that girl.

  Lt. Columbo : Come on, Doc.

  Dr. Ray Flemming : No, really. Remember that hypothetical murder that we were talking about? He needed an alibi. The girl was available, so he used her. It was as simple as that.

  Lt. Columbo : No. You killed your wife because you were in love with the girl.

  Dr. Ray Flemming : Well, if I killed Carol, then there's no proof that I did it. I did it for myself, not for some dime-a-dozen little actress.

  Lt. Columbo : She helped you with the murder. You'd have had to marry her.

  Dr. Ray Flemming : Not really. Something would've been arranged, like an accident maybe.

  Joan Hudson : Always planning ahead, aren't you, Ray?

  Joan Hudson : [Dr. Flemming turns around and sees her girlfriend standing there, alive. Understandably, he's dumbfounded]  He said there was something I should hear.

  Lt. Columbo : [He goes over to her, then looks out the window in the door and realizes that the woman who was assumed to be the late Miss Hudson is a fake. Knowing that he has just been beaten by Lieutenant Columbo, he quietly surrenders and has a smoke outside]  Would you like to make a statement now?

  Lt. Columbo : [Miss Hudson nods. Columbo tries to find something to write with, but can't. A detective offers him a pen or a pencil]  Why don't we sit down? We'll be more comfortable.

  [They do just that while Doctor Flemming takes a smoke outside the apartment, ending the pilot] 

• Dr. Ray Flemming : We had no choice.

  Joan Hudson : Does that justify?

• Joan Hudson : I had to see you. When I'm alone, I don't know, I... I get confused.

  Dr. Ray Flemming : Second thoughts?

  Joan Hudson : A few.

  Dr. Ray Flemming : It's a natural reaction, under the circumstances.

  Joan Hudson : I keep wishin' there were some other way.

  Dr. Ray Flemming : There isn't.

  Joan Hudson : But, if you talked to her... if I talked to her...

  Dr. Ray Flemming : Joan, don't be naive. We have one alternative. We decided that a long time ago.

• Dr. Ray Flemming : Are you sure of everything? Shall I do it over again?

  Joan Hudson : No, I don't want to talk about it anymore!

  Dr. Ray Flemming : Ah, but it will be fine, I promise you. Just pretend you're working on a role, right down to the props.

• Joan Hudson : With my nails gnawed off and every neurosis in the book, ha! I was in great shape, wasn't I?

  Dr. Ray Flemming : It's not a bad shape at all.

• Joan Hudson : What about that man, that Columbo?

  Dr. Ray Flemming : You'll never see him again.

  Joan Hudson : Why does he keep bothering you?

  Dr. Ray Flemming : Because Carol's death has been almost too perfect. That's what irritates him, it's like a speck in his eye. Why, he'd even look for flaws in the old testament.