Aired: February 6, 1991 | Season: 5 | Episode: 17

Overview
Runtime: 45m
Directed by: Christopher Hibler, Gerald Sanoff
Written by: Anne Collins
Guest stars: Arthur Eckdahl, Carol Mayo Jenkins, Charles Stratton, Christian Clemenson, Earlene Davis, James Karen, Joe Mays, Morgan Hunter, Nancy Sullivan, Pamela Kosh, Patricia Daniels, Steve Archer
Description
Matlock receives a call in the middle of the night from a young man who once painted his house who claims he's been arrested for stealing the formula to cure baldness from a company who fired his friend and stole his work. Twenty-four hours later Ben gets another call from the same young man, who has been accused of murdering the man he claims he stole the formula for. The biggest problem is that none of what Jeff Duvall claims seems to be true; not only did Tim Crider not ask him to steal the formula, but he was never fired in the first place!