# Murder, She Wrote (season 10)

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Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996) is an American television show, airing on CBS, about mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher.

### A Death in Hong Kong [10.1]

    Louise Walton: [after Jessica exposes her as the murderer] I knew that Brian was determined to merge with a Chinese company before the People's Republic took over. If not Kuan, then someone else. And I'd be replaced with a Chinese counterpart, left out in the cold.
    Inspector McLaughlin: So you decided to kill Brian and frame Emma.
    Louise Walton: Without them, the board had no choice but to put me in the position that I have deserved for so long, running the House of Dunbar.

### For Whom the Ball Tolls [10.2]

    Eugene Gillrich: [after Jessica exposes the murderer] There's no gun permit on file. I bought it for her out-of-state. I insisted she have it for protection. He wasn't just my brother. He was my conscience. He might've talked me into sparing those brownstones.
    Lee Gillrich: And if it had come to choosing between us?
    Eugene Gillrich: I'm never gonna have to make that decision.

### The Phantom Killer [10.4]

    Kathryn Scofield: [after Jessica exposes her as the murderer] I don't regret killing Harrison Kane. Not at all. He was a pig.

### Love & Hate in Cabot Cove [10.8]

    Irene Macinoy: [after Jessica exposes her as the murderer] Candace Bennett was the only girl that Chad ever made friends with in high school. Well, they were so close. It was so wonderful. Then he got that damn football scholarship and went away to some college where he didn't belong.
    Chad Macinoy: Mom...
    Irene Macinoy: It was such a waste of time. While he was gone, Ethan seduced Candace. Oh, she always was so stupid and silly about boys. Well, Chad came back too late. He screwed up again. I tried to save it. I did.
    Jessica: So you decided to eliminate Chad's rival for her affections. But to divert suspicion, you concocted the Sheriff's imaginary enemy, who wrote threatening letters, and finally took a shot at him in the Sheriff's office so that we would believe the killer's victim was to be the Sheriff.
    Irene Macinoy: And I could give Candace back to Chad. And they could get married in a church, and everybody could be there to see it. Oh, and they would give me the most precious little grandchildren in the whole world.

### Murder at a Discount [10.9]

    Iris Novaro: [after Jessica exposes her as the murderer] Dave never stopped loving Janet. I think that's what ticked me off so much that night when I stopped by the store to tell him I didn't want a divorce after all. Someone was just running out of the store.
    Jessica: That would've been Norman Trent. According to his statement, he went there to avenge his daughter but was having second thoughts.
    Iris Novaro: Well, he was in such a hurry to get out he dropped his cane. That was Dave's misfortune. He stormed out of his office, saying he had read your book, and it reminded him of how he had given me the damn garage opener to get fixed, and that was the way I got back into the house. And the fact is, it was all true. It made me angry. I forgot why I was there because he was gonna call the police. That's when I hit him with the cane. I cleaned my prints off it and threw it in the dumpster down the street. After all these years, no way was I gonna go to jail.

### Murder in White [10.10]

    Oliver Hopkins: [after confessing to the murder] It was for you, Sally. You're going to be a big star someday, like Judy or Marilyn. You've got the talent, the looks, the je ne sais quoi. You'll go all the way.

### Northern Explosion [10.11]

    Marie Camouche: [after Jessica accuses her of comitting the murders] Eleven years. That's a long time. Every minute of it, thinking what my life would be like with Frank. He was a good man. He was just doing his job. He didn't deserve to die.

### Proof in the Pudding [10.12]

    Jessica: [after exposing the murderer] Oh, Jeannine. You might try an over-the-counter remedy called Drip-Stop. It's supposed to work wonders with allergies. I know it helped clear up something for me.

### Portrait of Death [10.13]

    Sondra Arthur: [while examining a painting] Philip, $15,000 is a lot of cash for chaos. Frankly, I hate it.
    Philip Jovey: Who said anything about liking it? Sondra, remember last year, that oil on wood you absolutely loathed?
    Sondra Arthur: It did triple in value, I'll grant you that. Less due to your judgment than the artist killing himself in that spectacular fashion.
    Philip Jovey: Bungee jumping. Tragic but public.
    Frances McNean: [after Jessica exposes her as the murderer] Lousy break, Mrs. Arthur deciding to donate that painting. Boy, there was no way I was gonna spend the best years of my life in a stinking prison cell.
    Lt. Artie Gelber: Wrong, Miss Skutnik, only it'll probably be two cells. You'll finish your sentence in Missouri, and then New York will want you. That kind of variety ought to be good for the soul.

### Deadly Assets [10.14]

    Harvey Terhune: [after confessing to the murder] I never meant to mess up my life like this. The money, it wasn't worth it.

### Time to Die [10.16]

    Mario Hernandez: [after Jessica exposes him as the murderer] What was I gonna do? I mean, you gotta understand, Garcia had been bleeding me for months. When he challenged me to the match race, that's when I hit on the idea how to get rid of him. The two that left Montauk were my racing birds, but they had phony I.D. bands, and they both flew back to my loft. The two that were supposed to race, Garcia's and mine, I never took them out of the cage. I drove them back to Manhattan. I used the fire escape to get up to Garcia's roof and brought my own racing clock with me. I had Garcia remove the racing I.D. band from his bird, put his bird back in his cage, then clock it in. The time punched by the clock showed that the bird had arrived at 6:07. Then I got rid of him. Then I used my own racing clock to prove that my bird had arrived at my loft at 6:08. It made no difference that it took me ten minutes to get back to my own loft. It would always look like I was on that roof to punch in Red at 6:08. Finally, I put Garcia's bird in his loft and got out of there. I went down to the club and that gave me an alibi for the rest of the night. It was perfect. Except for me accidentally pulling out that damn feather when I went to get his I.D. band.

### The Dying Game [10.17]

    Floyd Larkin: [after Jessica exposes him as the murderer] Hallowell threatened to make my embezzlement public unless I allowed him to raid the Larkin Plan to cover his own excesses. At the party, I paged him. I told him to meet me in the bower, that I would sign our deal there. I took the express elevator down, giving myself plenty of time to prepare. When I heard Ernie Fishman coming, I had everything off. Except the mask. I panicked. I didn't notice until later, but then I realized that you, Jessica, must have seen it at the party. The piece of mosquito netting caught on my pin. I told myself that I was temporarily borrowing to cover those business losses I told you about. With my signature on Amalgamated's acquisition of the store, I would have Hallowell's five million to reimburse the pension fund.
    Jessica: Hallowell had bigger ideas?
    Floyd: Yes. He would have destroyed the pension, destroyed the financial security of the very people who had given this store its name.

### Wheel of Death [10.21]

    Richard Binyon: [after Jessica exposes him as the murderer] When I took over my father's grocery store, I hated it. It was shabby. I started to remodel it, to turn it into the kind of down east, cracker-barrel place the tourists would go for. I didn't know it would cost so much. I borrowed all I could. Then I had to steal. Little things at first, out of people's houses when I made my deliveries. And then, a man I met in a bar sold me a little kit of tools for opening people's houses when they weren't home. I never thought that I'd end up, you know, murdering somebody.