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 both, 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 his brother's 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.

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.

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"Frances McNean": [after confessing to the murder] Boy, there was no way I was gonna spend the best years of my life in a stinking prison cell.

NYPD 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 Jessica exposes him as the murderer] I didn't mean to do it. I mean, he was going for his gun. I had borrowed Libby's key, and I let myself in. And I had just taken the money and suddenly I hear someone breaking in.

Jessica: Well, that would have been Walter.

Harvey Terhune: And then suddenly, this other guy shows up. He saw me. He was going to kill me. I mean, I had to do something.

Charlie Garrett: Wait a minute, you know anything about Lomax's sideline?

Harvey Terhune: No. Not really. No. I mean, I had a hunch. Yeah. We weren't doing enough business around here to pay for those weekend trips he'd take to the Caribbean. 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.