- As Perry prepares to go to Scotland on vacation, a little girl arrives in his office asking him to determine who she is. His search takes him to Switzerland where he meets a woman who becomes his client after a murder.
- Preparing to go to Scotland for a fishing vacation, Perry takes on a very special client when 8-year-old Peggy Smith appears in his office and asks him to find out who she is. Perry learns that she attends a prestigious school and has been there since she was 3. Her school and residential fees are paid automatically by the Tobler bank in Switzerland, and twice a year she receives a lovely handmade doll from a Swiss toy shop. Perry flies to Switzerland but Swiss law keeps him from finding out who funds Peggy's life. During a chance meeting with American tourists at the doll shop in Switzerland, Perry learns of Peggy's family; later he receives a doll with a broken neck and a note that the same thing can happen to a little girl. Perry eventually convinces Courtney Jeffers that he is Peggy's grandfather, born to his daughter, after the man had initially denied the child's existence. Soon after the old man changes his will in Peggy's favor, he is killed and Perry finds himself defending Peggy's cousin, Linda Osborne, who is accused of the murder.—garykmcd
- Perry is getting ready for a fishing trip to Scotland when Della tells him that he has a young lady potential client who needs his help. She brings in a sweet little girl who tells Perry she needs his help in finding out who she is. Perry falls for this immediately and starts an investigation. The little girl has been in a fancy boarding school since she was three and has received no contact from anyone except for a fancy doll as a present on Christmas and her birthday. She has nine fancy dolls. Perry goes to Switzerland where he contacts the bank that pays the girl's bills. He also goes to the shop where the dolls were sold. There he meets a young woman who talks to him about the dolls. Soon, he finds a doll in his hotel room that has had its head broken off with a threatening note.
Perry returns to L.A. and happens to sit by the young woman on the plane home. After investigation is done by Paul he comes up with a likely mother for the child--a deceased heiress to a large fortune. He goes to see the alleged grandfather of the child who throws him out. Not by coincidence, the young woman, from the store and on the plane, is the niece of the old man. She later comes to Perry's office to beg him not to bother the old man with the girl. Perry introduces the girl to her and she acts appalled and runs away.
However, the old man contacts Perry and, when he sees the girl is his granddaughter, hugs her. He then instructs Perry to change his will in favor of the young girl. Before this is done, Perry gets a call from the girl's cousin -- not surprisingly, the old man was murdered before he could complete the will to dispose of his millions. Linda is accused of the murder and Perry defends her.
In the trial, it turns out that the young girl's cousin and wife (Perry's client's brother and sister-in-law) along with two family servants had kept the existence of the young girl a secret in order to protect their inheritance. The brother or wife seem likely suspects for the murder but after tough questioning by Perry, it turns out the butler had been blackmailing the cousin for years and his wife, the housekeeper, turns out to have murdered her employer because she and the butler would have been fired and taken out of the will for their involvement in the plot of concealment.
Perry's client is exonerated but we still do not know whether she will take care of the young girl. She is angered because the girl is the child of the man who left her at the altar and her cousin who she had considered a dear friend before the two eloped on her wedding day. At the end of the show Perry says the young girl will permit Linda to live at the house with Peggy. Linda says she cannot do this, but Peggy calls to her before Linda leaves. Linda and the young girl embrace in the last scene.
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