The Formula

Der junge Laborant Jeff Duval wird verdächtigt, den Chemiker Dr. Tim Crider ermordet zu haben. Dieser hatte die Formel für ein gewinnträchtiges Haarwuchsmittel entdeckt. Matlock entdeckt bei seinen Ermittlungen ein Geheimlabor.

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!