This episode revolves around Aerospace Reliable Associates which is a partnership in new space age production. The two partners are Dwight Garrett (Douglas Henderson) and Austin Loyd (Gerald Mohr).
Dwight is reserved quiet person that is the brain of the partnership. While Austin Loyd is a deceitful rotten scoundrel and the pain of the partnership.
Perry is brought in to dissolve the partnership. Seems like Dwight is doing all he can to make the company solvent while Austin is doing everything possible to steals from the company. So Perry is there to make sure that the partnership is dissolved and that Dwight retains any assets he has in the company.
But Dwight and even Perry did not know just how low that Austin could reach. He comes up with this almost fail-proof plan of setting-up his sweet partner, Dwight, and also taking down his loyal wife (he was ready to divorce her). Austin comes up with a plan where he tells his wife they are going to Mexico and to buy one-way tickets and he will meet her at the airport. He also tells his partner, Dwight, that he has a buyer for the partnership that will make them both rich if he goes and meets with them in Mexico.
Austin then take a small amount of pills and calls the police and tells them that Dwight poisoned him. However- something goes terribly wrong. Instead of being found by the police and taken to the hospital the police find Austin dead by strangulation.
The police pick up Dwight and Austin's wife getting on a airplane with a one-way ticket to Mexico and with much planted money. Both were charged with the murder of Austin Loyd. What a set-up!
This is some of the writers best work. A good story, good acting and a person that everyone could hate. Only in trial, and there are some good moments in the courtroom, is Perry able to bring the true murderer to justice.
A very good episode!