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The Stripper is an episode of Matlock from the first season. Template:Matlock-Episode

Episode Summary

After being fired from one job after another because of her ex-husband, Jason Hardiman (John Carter), Carla Evans (Kerrie Keane) has had to resort to stripping at a local club. She takes her son there and has him read a book in another room while she performs. Then her ex-husband shows up and threatens to take her son away by going to court. She threatens him in front of witnesses by saying, "I'm not going to stand still for this. I'm warning you." So when Jason Hardiman ends in the hospital after being shot, she is the prime suspect. Matlock who, five years ago, represented her ex-husband in the divorce hearings, offers to defend her, on the house, after he found out what a liar her ex-husband was. When Carla Evans is released from jail, Jason Hardiman is murdered in the hospital, and once again, Carla is the suspect in a murder case after the night nurse, Ms. Jackson (Anne Haney), identified her from the hallway and from a security camera video. Charlene tackles that by bringing up the point that she wasn't wearing her glasses when she identified the defendant from the hallway. Matlock notices in another video that the woman that killed Jason Hardiman buttoned their trench coat like a man, left over right. When Helen Shelly (Gary Frank) is called to the stand, she says she was with Doug Templitt (Gary Frank) on the night Jason Hardiman was shot and when someone entered the hospital room and killed Jason Hardiman. Because they spend so much time together, Matlock assumes that she grabbed Doug's trench coat by accident. Matlock thinks they have a case of confused identity, so he tells a joke that Doug told - "One time a woman went into a barroom with a duck under her arm. The bartender walks over and says, 'Where did you get the pig?' and the woman says, 'It's a duck,' and the bartender says, 'I was talking to the pig.' " Helen says, "Duck, I was talking to the duck" in Doug's voice. It turns out that Helen Shelly and Doug Templitt are one and the same person, but two personalities. When Matlock asks Doug who killed Jason Hardiman, he says it was Helen. "Carla was everything Helen wanted to be but couldn't." Jason wanted to humiliate, degrade, and take her child away from her. Doug wouldn't let Helen kill Carla because he loved Carla.

Credits

The Stripper - Episode of Matlock

Starring

Andy Griffith as Ben Matlock
Linda Purl as Charlene Matlock
Kene Holliday as Tyler Hudson

Recurring Roles

Robin Thomas as A.D.A. Burton Hawkins
David Froman as Lt. Bob Brooks

Also

Supervising Producer - Richard Collins
Produced by Joel Steiger
Produced by Robert Schlitt
Created by Dean Hargrove
Teleplay by Michael Petryni
Story by Rick Mittleman
Directed by Dan Haller

Trivia Fact

Richard Newton usually plays Judge Richard Cooksey, but in this episode he plays Judge Alvin Roundtree.

References

www.tv.com

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 == Episode Summary ==
-After being fired from one job after another because of her ex-husband, Jason Hardiman ([[John Carter]]), Carla Evans ([[Kerrie Keane]]) has had to resort to stripping at a local club.  She takes her son there and has him read a book in another room while she performs.  Then her ex-husband shows up and threatens to take her son away by going to court.  She threatens him in front of witnesses by saying, "I'm not going to stand still for this, I'm warning you," so when Jason Hardiman ends in the hospital after being shot, she is the prime suspect.  Matlock, who five years ago, represented her ex-husband in the divorce hearings offers to defend her, on the house, after he found out what a liar her ex-husband was.  When Carla Evans is released from jail, Jason Hardiman is murdered in the hospital, and once again, Carla is the suspect in a murder case after the night nurse, Ms. Jackson ([[Anne Haney]]), identified her from the hallway and from a security camera video.  Charlene tackles that by bringing up the point that she wasn't wearing her glasses when she identified the defendant from the hallway.  Matlock notices in another video that the woman that killed Jason Hardiman buttoned their trench coat like a man, left over right.  When Helen Shelly ([[Gary Frank]]) is called to the stand, she says she was with Doug Templitt (Gary Frank) on the night Jason Hardiman was shot and when someone entered the hospital room and killed Jason Hardiman.  Because they spend so much time together, Matlock assumes that she grabbed Doug's trench coat by accident.  Matlock thinks they have a case of confused identity, so he tells a joke that Doug told - "One time a woman went into a barroom with a duck under her arm.  The bartender walks over and says, 'Where did you get the pig?' and the woman says, 'It's a duck,' and the bartender says, 'I was talking to the pig.' " Helen says, "Duck, I was talking to the duck" in Doug's voice.  It turns out that Helen Shelly and Doug Templitt are one and the same person, but two personalities.  When Matlock asks Doug who killed Jason Hardiman, he says it was Helen.  "Carla was everything Helen wanted to be but couldn't."  Jason wanted to humiliate, degrade, and take her child away from her.  Doug wouldn't let Helen kill Carla because he loved Carla.
+After being fired from one job after another because of her ex-husband, Jason Hardiman ([[John Carter]]), Carla Evans ([[Kerrie Keane]]) has had to resort to stripping at a local club.  She takes her son there and has him read a book in another room while she performs.  Then her ex-husband shows up and threatens to take her son away by going to court.  She threatens him in front of witnesses by saying, "I'm not going to stand still for this. I'm warning you." So when Jason Hardiman ends in the hospital after being shot, she is the prime suspect.  Matlock who, five years ago, represented her ex-husband in the divorce hearings, offers to defend her, on the house, after he found out what a liar her ex-husband was.  When Carla Evans is released from jail, Jason Hardiman is murdered in the hospital, and once again, Carla is the suspect in a murder case after the night nurse, Ms. Jackson ([[Anne Haney]]), identified her from the hallway and from a security camera video.  Charlene tackles that by bringing up the point that she wasn't wearing her glasses when she identified the defendant from the hallway.  Matlock notices in another video that the woman that killed Jason Hardiman buttoned their trench coat like a man, left over right.  When Helen Shelly ([[Gary Frank]]) is called to the stand, she says she was with Doug Templitt (Gary Frank) on the night Jason Hardiman was shot and when someone entered the hospital room and killed Jason Hardiman.  Because they spend so much time together, Matlock assumes that she grabbed Doug's trench coat by accident.  Matlock thinks they have a case of confused identity, so he tells a joke that Doug told - "One time a woman went into a barroom with a duck under her arm.  The bartender walks over and says, 'Where did you get the pig?' and the woman says, 'It's a duck,' and the bartender says, 'I was talking to the pig.' " Helen says, "Duck, I was talking to the duck" in Doug's voice.  It turns out that Helen Shelly and Doug Templitt are one and the same person, but two personalities.  When Matlock asks Doug who killed Jason Hardiman, he says it was Helen.  "Carla was everything Helen wanted to be but couldn't."  Jason wanted to humiliate, degrade, and take her child away from her.  Doug wouldn't let Helen kill Carla because he loved Carla.
 == Credits ==