Notas del episodio
In a fashionable mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York City, an elderly man named Lemuel Barker and his young wife Audrey are just finishing their dinner and are being served by a housekeeper, Emily. The diners are eating quietly, but somehow there is an air of brooding in the large and well furnished dining room. Emily asks "Will you have a piece of pie, Mr. Barker?" Lemuel says "No, thank you, Emily". Audrey says "But, it's your favorite pie, Lemuel. Aren't you feeling well?" Lemuel says "I'm quite all right, Audrey. I'll just have some coffee". Emily says "I'll pour it for you, Mr. Barker". Lemuel says "Thank you, Emily". Audrey says "Lemuel, something's been bothering you this evening. I wish you'd tell me. I can see you're worried". Lemuel says "Let's finish our coffee, Audrey, and we'll discuss it inside. Frankly, I have something on my mind". He drinks some of his coffee, and says "Audrey, this coffee, it ...." Suddenly, Lemuel coughs and falls out of his chair! Audrey says "What's the matter? Lemuel?" Emily says "What's happened, Mrs. Barker?" Audrey says "My husband, he ... he's fainted!" Emily says "His eyes, Mrs. Barker, look at his eyes! Has hasn't fainted. He's dead!" The next day, Audrey pays a visit to Mr. Keen and his partner, retired police officer, Mike Clancy. At their meeting, Audrey says "When the when the police took my husband's body for an autopsy, Mr. Keen, they found that he'd been poisoned. A very powerful poison had been put in the coffee he drank. A poison that reacted in a matter of seconds". Keen says "You were fortunate not to have had some of that poison coffee yourself, Mrs. Barker". She says "Well, Emily Cross, our housekeeper, served Lemuel, my husband, first. He drank his coffee before I was starting to drink mine". Keen says "And the police believe it was not accidental poisoning, but murder?" Audrey says "Yes, Mr. Keen".