Police Woman Silence (Season 2, Episode 14)
TV Episode | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Police Woman

Silence (Season 2, Episode 14)

TV Episode | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An angular blonde gets off the plane at LAX and takes a cab to her brother in law, Julian's house. She's looking for her sister, Beth, missing six weeks. In his study, there's the woman's portrait, looking suspiciously like a brunette ...See moreAn angular blonde gets off the plane at LAX and takes a cab to her brother in law, Julian's house. She's looking for her sister, Beth, missing six weeks. In his study, there's the woman's portrait, looking suspiciously like a brunette version of Pettet - they are sisters after all. Mute from a childhood growth and resulting surgery, the sister can only communicate through sign-language. Her brother-in-law's secretary, his lover, makes their relationship obvious by her unsuspecting, "Darling!", as she enters the study, and Beth's sister leaves in a huff. While in the middle of another fur-heist case Pepper gets drawn into the case of the missing Beth as she can understand sign language. When the blonde sister winds up stabbed in the shoulder in her hotel room and found by a maid, she claims her brother-in-law is responsible. In interrogation by Pepper and Crowley, the brother-in-law irks the pair by calling the sister "pathetic" and questions Crowley's authority and competence. The brother-in-law denies responsibility for the stabbing. The sister reveals letters that Beth wrote to her which seem to implicate the brother-in-law in something unwholesome. These lead the squad to find a decomposed, decapitated body buried in Northern California they think may be the sister, Beth. During an inquest, the DA verifies that Robert Webber sometimes has the opportunity to use lye in his business, the substance used to speed up the body's decomposition. Webber looks pretty guilty, until Pepper, at home with Pettet downstairs on the couch, gets a call from Crowley: the forensic lab has determined the body is that of an elderly woman. That, and a phone bill revealing a call to the Pettet's native Nova Scotia, prompts Pepper to dial it. The fussy Nova Scotian housekeeper is irritated by the late-night call and when Pepper asks for the sister, she's informed she died six months ago but that her sister, Beth, is out in California. Pepper smells a rat, and goes downstairs to find the sister off the couch doing midnight dish duty. Pepper realizes that the sister is, indeed, Beth herself, and has dyed her hair and adorned contact-lenses in order to pull the ruse. Unable to coax her to put down the loaded gun she's had stuck in Pepper's face for several minutes, Pep jumps her, they fall behind the couch; the gun goes off, and Pepper gets up - and promptly collapses. The guys get there and receive an improbable call from the airport revealing that the sister's flight out will be delayed by a few minutes. Everyone recognizes this as the unlikely plot device it is and they rush for LAX, leaving Pepper behind. There, they spot Joanna Pettet and chase her down, Crowley pulling the fake scar from her throat, thus permitting her to scream. Written by Ophiuchus811 See less

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19 cast members

Name	Known for
Angie Dickinson Sgt. Suzanne 'Pepper' Anderson Sgt. Suzanne 'Pepper' Anderson See fewer	Rio Bravo (1959)
Earl Holliman Lt. Bill Crowley Lt. Bill Crowley See fewer	Forbidden Planet (1956)
Charles Dierkop Royster Royster See fewer	The Sting (1973)
Ed Bernard Styles Styles See fewer	Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
Joanna Pettet Glenna Burns / Beth Lord Glenna Burns / Beth Lord See fewer	Casino Royale (1967)
George Murdock Hogan Hogan See fewer	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Than Wyenn Attorney Hall Attorney Hall See fewer	Splash (1983)
James McCallion Cabbie Cabbie See fewer	Coogan's Bluff (1968)
Robert Webber Julian Lord Julian Lord See fewer	The Dirty Dozen (1967)
C. Lindsay Workman Hodgkins (as Lindsay Workman) Hodgkins (as Lindsay Workman) See fewer	Westworld (1973)
Joan Lancaster Mrs. Larkin Mrs. Larkin See fewer	Dallas (1978)
Sally Sommer Irene Wilson (as Sommer Sally) Irene Wilson (as Sommer Sally) See fewer	The Incredible Hulk (1977)
James Almanzar Berian Berian See fewer	The Black Cauldron (1985)
Buddy Lester Gus Gus See fewer	Ocean's Eleven (1960)
John Sebastian Judge Judge See fewer	The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
Ysabel MacCloskey Mitchell Maid Mitchell Maid See fewer	Mork & Mindy (1978)
Dave Shelley Gas Jockey Gas Jockey See fewer	Hunter (I) (1984)
Cletus Young Cashier Cashier See fewer	The Artist (I) (2011)
Gavin Brendan Eric Eric See fewer	Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969)