Tim Balfour has everything a young man could want. He lives in his grandfather's mansion, (a grandfather who still feels guilty for driving his son/Tim's father away years ago,) has nice clothes, a great car, a housekeeper who dotes after him. What more could he want? Much more apparently as he gets involved with a botched robbery this opens him up to extortion and/or blackmail. Rather than show some gumption, he comes up with creative lies to encourage the others to help him out. His continued excuses, reliance on the others' guilt, and just plain dumb actions make him one of the least sympathetic 'defendants' in the series.
When he is accused of murder one almost hopes he is guilty or that Perry Mason will lose a case for a change as this young man is not worth saving and should end up in jail, if only to protect viewers from ever having to list to him again. This episode is more uncomfortable than it is entertaining. The one redeeming part is the excellent performance by Virginia Christine as housekeeper Edith Summers.
When he is accused of murder one almost hopes he is guilty or that Perry Mason will lose a case for a change as this young man is not worth saving and should end up in jail, if only to protect viewers from ever having to list to him again. This episode is more uncomfortable than it is entertaining. The one redeeming part is the excellent performance by Virginia Christine as housekeeper Edith Summers.