Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For2000

[flashback:
Jessica walks through the garden and swimming pool area]

Jessica Fletcher:
[voice only] After you were shot I went out to examine the area where the shooter would've been standing. On inspection I found a bullet hole in a tree that was on a direct line to my window, meaning a bullet had not been fired *in* from the garden it had been fired *out* from the room. Then when the Police found the bullet in the wall of my room and it matched the one that killed Yuri, I knew. I was hoping that somehow, some way it wasn't you. That perhaps I'd misread the clues or you were being set up to take the blame. One thing finally changed that, and I feel confident that when forensics checks the powder burns on your shirt, they'll realise only you could've fired that gun. Everything about the murder pointed to premeditation, which meant that the murder must have had something to do with the contents of his previous novel. Yuri killed your song didn't he?

Warren Pierce:
[downcast] Jess do you know what it's like to go through life... wondering why your son was murdered? Who killed him? And then one day, I opened a book.

[holds up the book titled COLD WARRIOR]

Warren Pierce:
[downcast] This book. My Publisher said that he wanted me to review it. It was Yuri's book. Can you believe it? As I read... bit by bit I realised I was... I was reading the end of the details of my own son's... murder. Information that no one else could've known but the man who did it. The man who killed him. Yuri must've thought nobody put it together, he must've thought he was immune from prosecution, but it's all here Jess. It's all in the book! All the facts! I wasn't going to let him get away with it. Yuri Malenkovich killed my son! Shot him... shot him. He dumped his body in a ditch... and he just... left it there.

Jessica Fletcher:
[walking towards Warren] For as long as I've known you, I felt that a part of you has been in terrible pain. Now I know why. And I am so sorry Warren. I truly am.