Tommy Brown and Lt. Columbo in “Unfinished Business”

Tommy Brown

And I guess this, all this looks kinda bad, huh? This big house and this party goin' on, everything?

Lt. Columbo

No sir. No sir, it's kinda refreshing. You see, in my line of work, homicide, somebody is always, well, dead. That's the only way to put it. I mean they don't even call us in unless that's what it is, somebody dead. So naturally I see a lot of grief.