Incompetent, Irrelevant, and Immaterial

Summary: Perry Mason receives a call from a long lost confidant about taking up a new case. The charge? Murder, and his confidant turned client is adamant that it’s false. Paul Drake discovers there’s more than just an old acquaintance that Perry has neglected to mention. Amongst the race to clear their client and the reappearance of old flames, can Perry and Paul reconcile when what they’ve been hiding from each other finally comes to light?

Perry: You believe he killed Leonard? Hamilton: Perry, Jefferson Pike saved my life once. We were out on Marshes Lake, up in Canada. Our rubber boat got flipped over in the wind, and one of the oars caught my ankle. Pike could have left me in the duck blind and gone for help. But it was way below freezing. So instead he carried me three miles... all the way to shore. And in the course of wading through that icy water, he lost two toes. That was 12 years ago. I got him his job here at the club. Perry: Now you may try him for murder. Hamilton: No, I... I'll have to disqualify myself. Remove myself from any prosecution. But it would still be my responsibility. And I suppose I have no right to be talking to you this way. Let alone suggesting that-- Perry, if Jefferson Pike is arraigned for this crime... and...if you can find any merit in the case... Perry: I'll defend him, Hamilton. Even if he did save your life.