A maid (better known as personal assistant) found a dead girl stabbed eight times in her employer's kitchen. The man (John Shea) lied on his own bed in a state of shock. He is a well-known theatrical composer and the night before he staged a brand new opera in Broadway; after the show he had a night party to celebrate the event and he met the victim, a wannabe actress, before taking her in his hometown. The man is keen on knives, owning a collection of rare daggers (one maybe belonged to Custer). Detectives realized that the alarm system was off, so maybe someone related to the victim's life could have committed the murder. They questioned her former fiancée, her roommate and the participants in shrink sessions she usually attended. Actually the maid staged everything to make it looked like a break in: the composer stabbed the victim the same way his mother (still alive and locked up in a nuthouse) had stabbed his father when he was a child. Defense attorney claimed mental defect, but someone else behind the defendant pulled the strings...
Nice episode, in which we see that even successful person could be easily manipulate. An advice: don't go to any shrinks unless it's strictly necessary.