The Confession

A guy in Hyde Park, London, is confessing to murder. The guy speaking is a former attorney who wanted to be a judge. Then the scene shifts to the past.

The attorney is being praised by another attorney for the speech he has written. It is to get the judge to find a defendant guilty of murder although no body had been found. He reads his speech to another attorney in the room.

A woman shows up claiming to be the woman that was supposedly murdered.

She fits the description of the guy's wife but the attorney doesn't believe her. She says she won't testify. Why didn't he ask her for some form of printed identity? She must have had a driver's license or something else that would have established her identity beyond doubt. The book about One Step Beyond misses this rather important point. She signs a piece of paper and gives it to him. The writing matches the writing on another legal paper she had signed.

He destroys the note.

He picks up a judge's robe. He finds the same note in his robe pocket. He checks with some guy that's an expert on paper and inks and finds out that the ink used on the paper doesn't exist anymore so each time he destroys a note and a new one shows up means that the original note continues to somehow resurrect itself. A little later the throws the note into the river. The note manifests itself yet again.

He goes into the courtroom and we hear voice over his original speech. He stops and shows the note and talks about further evidence. It's obvious he's going insane.

The next morning he was found in the courtroom. His hear had turned white overnight.

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