Cor Blimey, Diagnosis Murder with Dick Van Dyke

I saw an episode of this recently and, at the risk of spoiling the suspense for any avid fans who may have missed the airing, would like to share the denouement with you all. 

Dick Van Dyke’s son (or son’s friend I wasn’t really watching at the start) had administered some medication to a superstar basketball player who then died.  To save his son (or son’s friend) Dick had to find the real murderer.

In the Courtroom he called as a witness the ‘towel boy’, a general Janitor for the basketball team who suffered from cerebral palsy.  Dick (I can call him Dick we’re friends) asked the towel boy if he wanted to be a basketball player himself.  The towel boy with cerebral palsy replied “when you’ve got cerebral palsy you’re happy just to walk in a straight line”.  Then, in a startling move, Dick flung a basketball straight at the towel boy and the towel boy instinctively blocked it with his hands, protecting his face.

Haha, the game was up.  Dick explained that the towel boy had been the same college as the (now deceased) superstar and during a trial game had been smashed against the backboard by the (to be) superstar as he slam-dunked the winner.  The towel boy was ignored and the superstar taken to the big leagues and multi-million pound success.

The towel boy would have the last laugh, though.  He disguised himself and pretended to have cerebral palsy in order to get a job in the locker rooms of the basketball team who had signed the victim up.  Then he proceeded to daily fill the victim’s clothes, towel and locker with cat hairs.  The victim had a mysterious cat allergy and it was this- not the prescription drugs- that killed him. 

Three cheers for Dick Van Dyke!

 

~ by theraffishdandy on 19 April, 2008.