****SPOILERS**** After a nasty divorce where he accused his pretty former Argentinian wife Lola, Lisa Gray, for burning to a crisp the couples $6.00 a pound prized aged rib stakes at a barbecue by, after he criticized her in being a lousy cook, dumping them into the burning charcoal Jeff Bronson, Charles Bateman, is hassled by insurance agent Leander Walker,William Mims. Walker wants Bronson to sell him his stock interest in his airplane company for pennies on the dollar. It's then that things start to really go downhill for Bronson. It's Bronson's test pilot Bill Ryder, Guy Mitchell, who's working with Walker behind his boss Bronson's back in sabotaging the new aircraft he's to test that will end up bankrupt his company!
With Bronson's plane, piloted by Bill Ryder, crashing on it's maiden flight his business is now Kaput but things get even worse after that. It's the ex-Mrs Bronson, Lola, who now has a change of heart & mind in being involved with both Bill Ryder & Leander Walker in sabotaging her ex-husband Jeff's Bronson's plane. And in return her getting a big pay off in his company stock options, for $1.00 not .10 a share, for doing it. Lola now want's Ryder to call Jeff and admit what he did despite her also being involved with it and threatens to shoot him if he doesn't. This soon turns into a violent struggle between Bill & Lola for the gun with Bill ,in getting shot, getting the worst of it.
****SPOILERS**** With Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, who was involved in the Bronson divorce settlement now defending Lola in the murder of Bill Ryder it's Lola's ex-husband Jeff who has a change of heart as well. It's then Jeff who tries to take the responsibility of shooting Ryder on himself. In fact it was Jeff who came on to the murder scene and faked Ryder's murder by planting evidence that would lead to straight him. But what both Jeff and Lola didn't realize was that Bill Ryder was actually alive after Lola shot him and dead before Jeff shot him so there was a third party who was the real killer! WoW Wee! It just can't get anymore more confusing then this!
In the end Perry not only gets off both Lola & Jeff, who both already confessed in open court, in the murder of Bill Ryder but also plays Cupid in him gets the two back together as man & wife by the time the Perry Mason episode ended. And yes as for who really murdered Bill Ryder by shooting him before and after Lola & Bill shot him it doesn't really matter any more anyway. By the time that Ryder's killer finally confessed it was more of an anticlimax, with all the surprises that had already happened, to even mildly surprise anyone.
With Bronson's plane, piloted by Bill Ryder, crashing on it's maiden flight his business is now Kaput but things get even worse after that. It's the ex-Mrs Bronson, Lola, who now has a change of heart & mind in being involved with both Bill Ryder & Leander Walker in sabotaging her ex-husband Jeff's Bronson's plane. And in return her getting a big pay off in his company stock options, for $1.00 not .10 a share, for doing it. Lola now want's Ryder to call Jeff and admit what he did despite her also being involved with it and threatens to shoot him if he doesn't. This soon turns into a violent struggle between Bill & Lola for the gun with Bill ,in getting shot, getting the worst of it.
****SPOILERS**** With Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, who was involved in the Bronson divorce settlement now defending Lola in the murder of Bill Ryder it's Lola's ex-husband Jeff who has a change of heart as well. It's then Jeff who tries to take the responsibility of shooting Ryder on himself. In fact it was Jeff who came on to the murder scene and faked Ryder's murder by planting evidence that would lead to straight him. But what both Jeff and Lola didn't realize was that Bill Ryder was actually alive after Lola shot him and dead before Jeff shot him so there was a third party who was the real killer! WoW Wee! It just can't get anymore more confusing then this!
In the end Perry not only gets off both Lola & Jeff, who both already confessed in open court, in the murder of Bill Ryder but also plays Cupid in him gets the two back together as man & wife by the time the Perry Mason episode ended. And yes as for who really murdered Bill Ryder by shooting him before and after Lola & Bill shot him it doesn't really matter any more anyway. By the time that Ryder's killer finally confessed it was more of an anticlimax, with all the surprises that had already happened, to even mildly surprise anyone.