Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)

Jessica Behind Bars (1985)

Angela Lansbury: Jessica Fletcher

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Jessica Fletcher : And what about Mary? She had a parole hearing coming up.

  Warden Elizabeth Gates : She still does.

  Jessica Fletcher : Well, perhaps I should warn you, I intend to do everything in my power to help at that hearing.

  Warden Elizabeth Gates : Don't worry, Jessica. So do I.

• Jessica Fletcher : Well, I particularly liked the way the gas station bandit was caught. You know, having the getaway driver shift into reverse by mistake and crash into the police car... Now, that showed a great deal of imagination.

  Tug : Not exactly. That's the way it happened.

• Mary Stamm : No. I didn't dilute anything. I wouldn't know how. That's the truth, Mrs. Fletcher... But the truth is hardly a defense. I found that out the hard way.

  Jessica Fletcher : By your husband?

  Mary Stamm : [sighs]  He beat me so bad I was hospitalized 3 times. But there wasn't enough evidence for anybody to stop him from doing it to me again. I finally made up my mind to leave him, when a friend called me to warn me that he was coming home mean, nasty drunk. I called the police. And then I went and I hid in the bedroom with my husband's .22 rifle. My husband got there first.