So you're standin' there thinkin' she's underwater
and I'm afraid of him,
so what did you do instead?
Well, he said, "Look, let's just wait,
"maybe she went ashore to the restaurant."
The dingy was gone.
And I'm thinkin' to myself, plus the other thing is
when we were all at the restaurant,
we were all drinking a lot.
And he said, "Look, let's just have a drink,
"and let's just try to see if we,
"let's just calm down."
And I'm thinkin' damn, we really need
to call the Coast Guard.
He didn't wanna have any parts of that.
He pours a drink, let's have a drink.
Have a drink, time goes by, hours go by.
Doug Odin, the Harbor Master who finally showed up,
and he is who insisted that they call the Coast Guard.
Seven people were manipulated that night
to not search for Natalie.
So hours went by.
Yeah.
So she may have been unconscious,
or she may have, the cold water may have brought her around.
She may have been fighting for her life all this time.
She may have been unconscious.
We don't know.
I just, this strikes me as really perplexing.
Your wife is missing,
yet you don't call the Coast Guard that searches the water.
Why did he not do it?
And what did he say to you?
He just said we're not gonna do anything right now.
And you drank alcohol with him?
We stood on the back of the boat and drank.
Dr. Phil--
Where was Christopher Walken during this time?
He was in his state room.
Did anybody go check his state room
to see if she was in there?
When Robert Wagner asked me to check the boat,
when I checked my state room,
I thought I better check Christopher's state room
to be on the safe side.
I opened the door.
He was in his bed by himself.
I checked the other state room.
There was another guest state room.
There wasn't anybody there.
She could've been saved.
Isn't that the hardest thing to reconcile?
That had that call have been made,
had Robert have made that call,
she might've been saved.
Now, what was the original story that you told
the police back then?
Did you give a statement at that time?
No, it was written for you.
Yeah, what happened was
when RJ and Christopher had left the boat
and I was left to identify Natalie's body,
then I was told I was to, I was gonna take,
be taken directly to Robert Wagner's house.
And we don't say a word to anybody.
We all have our, three of us have our stories straight.
Who's getting the story straight?
Robert Wagner is tellin' us we have
to get our stories straight and this is what happened.
He's telling this to you and who?
Christopher Walken.
Okay, so you, Christopher Walken, and Robert Wager,
he's saying the three of you have
to get your stories straight.
Correct.
Okay, and what was the story that you got straight?
The story was that
when they went down below
and Natalie was gonna retire for the night,
that the dingy was banging up against the boat.
And she went outside to untie the dingy,
which the dingy was probably tied to the back of the boat.
And when she untied the dingy to move it away from the boat,
which she woulda never done in a million years.
She wouldn't even go outside in the dark,
in the cold, in the rough,
the way things were she would never never do it.
And so bein' she was, we said that she did this,
then she slipped and fell into the water and drowned.
And this story was given to you by who?
By Robert Wagner.
You said this is the story we're gonna tell?
Correct.
And where did he get the story?
That's what he had to dream up,
because there was nothing else he could think of.
We got to the house.
He said you're gonna have, this is gonna be your lawyer.
I didn't know who he was, but he was appointed to me.
Christopher had his and RJ had his.
You were coerced by Robert.
He even got you a role on Hart to Hart the TV show.
Yeah. To buy your silence.
Yeah, he did that,
he got me into the Screen Actors Guild extras, and--
Did he get you a lawyer?
Yes, he did, yes.
And you lived with him in the immediate aftermath?
Did he move you into the guest house?
No, I was inside the main house upstairs,
and kinda remained prisoner in the house.