Over dinner, Creighton feigns amazement at the notion that Marcy could have been in a long-term relationship behind his back – despite eye-witness reports suggesting a motorcycle was seen with her car at the beach house three times per week.
He reluctantly accepts her terms.ĭoubtless stinging from this immediate reversal of fortunes, Creighton invites Columbo out for a feed to discuss the case having first spoken to the Police Chief, who orders the Lieutenant to share all the case files with the lawyer.
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This potentially makes her an accessory to murder, but she’ll keep her mouth shut if Creighton makes her a full partner and agrees to marry her within six months.
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While Columbo is yet to make any major deductions, Creighton’s junior colleague Trish Fairbanks has already cracked the case! Although she doesn’t share all the details with the viewer, she references an incident that took place the day before around the time of the murder where Creighton borrowed her car and sent her off on an unspecified “research assignment”. Trish cracks the case far quicker than Columbo Their relationship is off to a very edgy start. The detective then enrages the lawyer by refusing to share details of the autopsy with him, citing department policy. Interrupting him during his closing comments of his latest case, Columbo breaks the bad news and whisks him off to identify the body. What could it all mean?Ĭolumbo is duty bound to report Marcy’s death to her emergency contact – and he’s surprised to learn it’s Hugh Creighton, “the lawyer who’s never lost a murder case”. Both bottles, meanwhile, have one single star on their labels. Why were two bottles of Champagne opened in the kitchen but drunk in the bedroom? He also notices that one of the corks has one blue star on its underside, while the other has two. The raking of the garden sand is inconsistent. True to form, he’s soon bewildered by little things not adding up. Rather than make an emergency call, the cowardly custard screeches off into the night on his motorbike.Ĭome the morrow and our man Lieutenant Columbo emerges to investigate. He drives this back to where he’d parked his own ride, leaving Neddy to wake several hours later to find a dead Marcy in bed beside him and no idea what happened.
She’s under the impression he’s there to hurt her unconscious lover, but of course she’s the victim whom he throttles off-screen before manipulating the crime scene, planting Neddy’s prints on the bottles and vamoosing in the gardening truck. With Neddy now out for the count, Creighton makes his presence known to Marcy.
Neddy conveniently gulps enough of the sedated Champagne to drop into a slumber, while Creighton sneaks into the house and switches the cork and wrapping from the opened bottle with replacements he procured from a bottle in his own office. He’s really off for a day’s slaying, which commences by his pinching the truck of the Japanese gardener who services the beach house, and driving to said location disguised as said gardener to disturb Marcy and her wimpy lover as they cavort in the sack. The fiendish lawyer ain’t off for a day at the office, though. Oooh, I love it when you play dirty, Hugh…
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