HARDCASTLE & MC CORMICK "The Birthday Present" (TV episode)
CREDITS
PLOT
Judge Hardcastle makes a return visit to the bench and is gunned down by the hardened criminal he is trying to send back to prison for life.
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
BAD GUY
Weed is a convicted murderer; smuggling a gun into the courtroom where Hardcastle is presiding over his re-trial, he shoots and wounds the Judge. He threatens Henderson with a sharpened spoon, tosses a cop against car, and shoots a cop.
CHARACTER
Crazy, Manson-like. Very flat, expressionless, and non-blinking, then turns violent. Weed has a girlfriend, Sybil, who helps him escape, and stays with him at motel.
COMMENTS
Good scenes for JB include his big courtroom speech, and the scene with Sybil where he stokes her face, she mouths his hand, and they smile at each other.
COSTUME
Prison clothes, dark blue wool watch cap. Vertical dark scar on chin.
DEATH SCENE
Shot by McCormick, who has never killed anyone before.
LINES
"I can't sleep at all no more, Jerry. I got so many guys I gotta score on it's like my head, it won't stop."
"I plead wisdom by reason of insanity. I plead that you're dead."
SCREEN TIME
About 5 minutes in 6 scenes, throughout episode.
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