FADE IN EXT. MAIN STREET, MAYBERRY - DAY AUNT BEE is taking lunch to Andy at the courthouse, when she runs into CLARA EDWARDS on the street. CLARA Bee! Bee, there you are. I've been looking all over. AUNT BEE Oh, hello, Clara. What's the matter? CLARA That's what I was going to ask you. I heard you had words with Ethel Bixby at the lady's auxiliary on Saturday. AUNT BEE Oh, that. She had a bone to pick because she overheard me telling Myrna Jenkins something she thought her husband discussed with Doc Bailey in the strictest confidence. CLARA Oh, my. What did you say to that? AUNT BEE I told her if she wasn't such a busybody, she wouldn't know what people were saying behind her back in the first place! CLARA Oh, Bee, you're terrible. AUNT BEE Well, it's true. A little gossip never hurt anyone. CLARA You're right about that. Aunt Bee turns down a side street -- EXT. ALLEY Clara tags along with her. CLARA Aren't you going to the courthouse? AUNT BEE I always cut through the alley on the way there. You never know what you'll overhear out the back of Floyd's barber shop. They both giggle like school girls, but their laughter abruptly halts when they come upon -- a dead body lying face down in a puddle of blood. AUNT BEE & CLARA Oh my. TIME CUT TO