Owen Marshall
The Pool House(First aired: 1972)
Steve Knight (Mark Hamill), 18 years old, lost his father in an car accident, and had to stay long months in hospital himself. Once released, he went back to school and fell in love with Jeannie Holden, a 16 year old girl who lived in the small pool house next to her parents house. Steve is not the only one who loves her; her teacher, Mr. Conner, and Kent Warren, friend of his brother Fred, feel the same way about her. Steve has a job as a paper boy, was also tutored by Jeannie after school. During one tutoring session at her place, she told him that her brother was coming over that weekend to stay with a few friends. The morning after they arrived, Warren found Jeannie in her house- dead. Owen Marshall heard Steve had been arrested. He doesn't believe it and decides to help Steve. Not until Marshall showed him a letter the police found in his locker would Steve break his silence.
Later, acting on hints from his secretary Frieda, Owen and his partner go to the high school to talk with the guard there. He told them that the night she died, he saw a red car with a white wave on its side. Owen's partner knew that car belonged to Kent Warren. After talking with Warren's college roommate in the courtroom, Warren looked desperately at Fred, and then he, too, broke his silence. He said that he hated Steve because his sister loved him which is why he had to suffer. Jeannie's death was an accident. Fred slapped her and she fell down - hit her head .It was over. Steve, he didn't know whether to go to school again, and still believed that Jeannie's parents still hated him. Owen told him that they were lonely - and wanted talk to somebody who knew their daughter very well.
