A complex case ensues after Perry Mason receives a telephone call, supposedly from a man whose funeral he attended three years earlier.
An old man seems to be giving his money away, something his nephew and wife try to stop by having him committed. But once he escapes from the sanitarium, he's accused of murder.
A bankrupt road builder is charged with murdering the man responsible for his financial woes; guest Jason Evers.
When a scientist in the Orient invents a serum that permits human flesh to be remolded and shaped at will the Premier sees a way of overtaking the world.