Fatal Vision (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.2 (1984)

Karl Malden: Freddy Kassab

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Quotes 

• Col Pruett : They found one of the knifes and the ice pick here right under these bushes and the club was found right about here.

  Freddy Kassab : It doesn't make any sense. Why would four murderers fleeing the scene of the crime stop to throw their weapons under a bush right outside the back door?

• [Freddy sees four Valentine's Day card standing upright on top of a china cabinet seven feet off the floor in one corner of the living room at the crime scene] 

  Freddy Kassab : Those four Valentine's Days cards that my wife mailed to Jeff and his family, were they there that night?

  Peter Kearns : That's right.

  Freddy Kassab : Still standing just way they are?

  Peter Kearns : Just like that. Nobody touched them.

  Freddy Kassab : And he fought them off in here... in this room?

  Peter Kearns : Right.

  [Freddy stomps his feet hard on the floor several times, and all four of the cards quickly fall over] 

  Freddy Kassab : Some fight.

• Freddy Kassab : [to Pruett and Kearns]  Impossible. Jeff made two phone calls two minutes apart. In those two minutes he claims to have looked out the back door, then went to the bathroom to check his wounds, washed his hands, checked Colette to see if there was any signs of life, gave her mouth to mouth resuscitation, then checked the kids Kimmy and Kristy, then staggered into the kitchen again to wash his hands and make the second phone call. Impossible. Absolutely impossible! Nobody could perform all those functions in a two minute time span!

  [Freddy then lays down on the living room couch] 

  Freddy Kassab : Now, here's another thing. I'm asleep here on the couch. I wake up hearing Colette screaming. I open my eyes, I sit up... I see both of you standing over me and I describe you just before you attack me. The blonde woman with the floppy hat, the black man with the army sergeant's strips on his sleeve, and the two other men. I describe everything. How? How for God's sake? This light next to the couch was off.

  [Freddy turns out the light and the room is in near darkness] 

  Freddy Kassab : I can't recognize or describe either one of you in this dim light!

• Freddy Kassab : Thank you for you time.

  Col Pruett : Are you satisfied?

  Freddy Kassab : [bitterly]  Yes, I am. I now know that my son-in-law murdered my daughter and my two grandchildren.

  Col Pruett : I might as well tell you, Freddy, that what evidence we do have against Jeff MacDonald is still circumstantial. It's only fair to warn you if you plan to pursue it... if you plan to bring a case to bring Jeff MacDonald to trial... it could be a very long haul.

  Freddy Kassab : It's okay. I plan to live a long time. And I have the patience of Job.