Criminal Minds · Season 1, Episode 15
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
Did you ever see one of these before, Lieutentant?
Uh, no, not sure I have. Looks kind of familiar, though.
It's a camera mounted starlight scope. They use them quite a bit at Burglary for night work.
You mean that takes pictures in the dark?
[nods] I bought this one myself.
You used your own money?
Well, I wanted to have the best equipment for the job, sir.
You must be a bachelor.
Uh, sir?
Yes?
You don't mind if I ask you a personal question, do you?
No.
What'd you pay for those shoes?
I think about 60 dollars.
I stepped into some water yesterday and ruined mine. You don't know where I could find a pair that looks like that for around 16 or 17?
16 or 17? Sorry, I don't really, Lieutenant.
Thank you.
Columbo, I'm trying to watch this game! What is it?
You know, you did the same thing the first time I came in here last Sunday. I guess that's what started me wondering.
I did what?
You turned the radio down but not quite off. When I told you that Eric Wagner was dead. It's alright. I do the same thing. You know, when I'm listening to the game and my wife interrupts, I can't help myself. I want to hear that game and I don't care how the important the interruption.
[annoyed] Your wife has my sympathy.
[yelling] Columbo, I'm going to throw you out of here on your ear!
I wouldn't do that, sir. I mean, you'll miss the best part. You see, I'm not finished.
You know, I listened to this thing I can't tell ya how many times, over and over again, figuring maybe I'd hear something that shouldn't be there, some sound that shouldn't be there, an ambulance, a fire truck, like you were in a phone booth, something...
[impatiently] But you didn't because it isn't there. I made the call from this booth, from that phone.
Then it suddenly occurred to me. I had it backwards. Maybe there was a sound that should be there and wasn't.
Is that Big Ben?
Yes, it is.
Well, look at that, a thing that old and it´s only a minute slow.
I just never have seen anything like you. Like that performance you both just gave...
Thank you. I didn't mean to be nasty, old boy. No hard feelings?
And you both must be exhausted. I don't know how you do it.
With innocent, loving hearts. Good night, Lieutenant.
Well, whatever it is, it sure must be most unusual. Uh, the reason I say that is because, you know, when my wife and I try to remember what happened yesterday or the day before, well, we don't agree on anything. And you two, you not only agree, you use almost the exact same words to tell about it. [pauses to let his words sink in] Good night.
Marvelous. Let me tell ya, I don't want to repeat myself but the other night when I saw that performance that you two--
Durk, would you please explain what we're doing here.
[indicating Columbo] Why don't you ask the tour guide?
[after exposing Nora as the murderer] I was just playing hunches. I had nothing to go on. I was just guessing. I had nothing concrete. I just wanted to see what you'd do. And when you came in here, you didn't even turn on the lights. Just ran right straight through to the fountain. You know, coincidence. If I hadn't called George, if he hadn't been looking at the TV, if it was some other movie, if you hadn't been dressed like a man... Because that's when it occurred to me. Twelve years ago, somebody standing on a beach at night saw your husband get in a boat and go out to the ocean. I remember the photographs. You and your husband, the same height. It could have been you.
It was. You see, I married Al because I thought I could improve myself. You know, my career. And then I began to care about the marriage. So when he went playing around, you know, all the starlets, all that bit, well, it hurt. So I put up with it, you know. I put up with it until, one night, he brought one of them right in here. And we had a hell of a fight. We argued, fought, and I struck him with a bottle. And he... I panicked. And I buried him out there. Jean knew. Well, I'll get a coat and we'll go.
You were both nurses, is that right?
Yes, but Sharon always was devoted to healing. She always worked in hospitals. Myself, I work in Beverly Hills for a plastic surgeon because I selfishly enjoy being with middle to upper middle class people. However, I don't meet any single men unless they're ready for face lifts.
You know, in a way I have to congratulate you. Up until now, you really had me going. I mean, here you are, you're a surgeon, a man that's gotta be cool. Even when you're angry you're controlled. You never lose yourself. That's why it struck me funny when you blew up in the operating room and you grabbed me and pushed me. I mean, you know, there was only one thing we didn't search. You know what it was? It was me.
It certainly looks like it's one on me, doesn't it? You know, I really believed it all fit together. All the pieces, everything. The killing of the nurse, everything. Well, it goes to show you, Doc, maybe I've been at this job too long. Okay. You win. You're finally rid of me.
You'll be alright, Lieutenant. I'm sure you'll find others to harass.
Because that would explain why Miss Martin was so bothered after the operation and it would explain why she wanted to see the chemist at the company that made the suture. That's murder. That certainly is. No question about it.
[Dr. Mayfield starts laughing]
What's so funny?
Excuse me, Lieutenant. I had to play it as though you were serious. You don't really believe all those foolish things you say, do you?
[angrily slams carafe down on desk] I believe you killed Sharon Martin and I believe you're trying to kill Dr. Hidemann.
Lt. Columbo, you're remarkable. You have intelligence. You have perception. You have great tenacity. You've got everything except proof.
I want you to take good care of Dr. Hidemann because if he dies we're going to have to have an autopsy, aren't we? I mean, we're going to have to know whether a heart attack killed him or rather it was just a dissolving suture.
Maybe Marcia knows more than she's telling
Oh, actually I think she knows less than she's telling.
[after discovering that the toothbrush in Dudek's suitcase is not his but his roommate's] Lieutenant, then Tomlin Dudek could not have packed his own suitcase.
That's what I was trying to get around to, sir, yes. And if somebody else packed it who didn't know that he wore dentures then--
Then his accident was not an accident!
I, uh, thought you'd like to know, sir, that, uh, I think that is a possibility, yes sir.
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