What??!! That was the twist? Michael Barnes wasn't even driving the car!!?? No matter how faulty the recollections of the five witnesses, I don't find it credible that none of them would have missed it was a woman diver. Up to that point, the story did a good job of demonstrating that one person's eye-witness testimony could differ considerably from another's regarding the circumstances of the same event. And since Michael Barnes (John Forsythe) basically misrepresented his own role in the accident, I don't know why he couldn't have answered prosecuting attorney Anderson's (John Zaremba) final question about passing the stop sign. Since he wasn't driving, he could have answered truthfully that he didn't. But what I think might really have been going on with this episode was to test the viewer's own powers of observation. Because whether it was intentional or not, if you go back and rewatch the episode, you'll see that the nameplate situated in front of the judge at the start of the trial read Judge B. Martin, and later on in the story, the nameplate read Judge B. Nielson!
Review of I Saw the Whole Thing
