Perry Mason falls firmly into the latter category, opening on a gray, Depression-era Los Angeles that's home to Emily (G.L.O.W.'s Gayle Rankin) and Matthew Dodson (Nate Corddry), a couple in crisis.
Their infant son Charlie has been kidnapped and though they've complied with the kidnappers' requests, they're about to discover the already horrifying crime has taken a turn for the even worse.
When the Dodsons retrieve their child, as arranged, from downtown L.A.'s Angels Flight after watching its railway car descend from the vantage of a nearby hotel, they discover Charlie is dead and that his eyes have been sewn open to make him appear alive from a distance.
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