Just think, Lieutenant. If you had investigated my niece's death, all this need never have happened.
“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)
Ah, look. An unfinished A. A for Annie. Did Annie my maid do it? We haven't got a butler.
That must have been very hard, losing someone you love like that. I've been very lucky. I lost my parents. That's the way of the world. But to lose someone that young, that's like being cheated. That's very hard.
I'm beginning to be very fond of you, Lieutenant. I think you're a very kind man.
Don't count on that, Miss Mitchell. Don't count on it.
Now you're inheriting the property and all, so I'd like you to be there too. I could run you over. My car's right here. It's French, very rare.
Uh, yes. Oh, I can see why.
[to group of murder mystery fans] I like my job. Oh, I like it a lot. And I'm not depressed by it. And I don't think the world is full of criminals and full of murderers because it isn't. It's full of nice people just like you. And if it wasn't for my job I wouldn't be getting to meet you like this. And I'll tell you something else. Even with some of the murderers that I meet, I even like them too. Sometimes... like them and even respect them. Not for what they did, certainly not for that. But for that part of them which is intelligent, or funny, or just nice. Because there's niceness in everyone. A little bit anyhow. You can take a cop's word for it.
Oh, wait a minute. Let me see that shoe. Oh, that's a very nice shoe. You like that shoe, Sergeant?
SSergeant
It's very nice, Lieutenant.
It's practically new. That's terrific. I'm looking for a pair of shoes just like this. See, I like them rounded toes. It's French style. The French thought of that. [looks inside shoe] Oh. Made in Italy. Well, what's the difference? I like them.
Good Evening, Ma'am. My name is Lt. Columbo, Homicide. I'd like to speak to Paul Gerard. Is he home?
EEve
I'm not sure.
Is it a big house or is he just out to the police?
OMr. Ozu
Tell me, Lieutentant, do you have a suspect yet?
Oh, I have my eye on someone...
Oh, one more thing. Gee, I almost forgot what I came here to ask you.
Fortunately you remembered.
As you're an expert on restaurants, sir, I wanted to ask you. Do you know anything about the Restaurant Developers Association?
I don't know anything about it, Lieutenant. I've never heard of it. [turning to Eve] Have you?
EEve
No. No, Lieutenant, I'm sorry.
Well, that's alright, ma'am. As the Chinese say, "There's more than one fish in the sea."
You're a very able man, Lieutenant. I respect that. But I don't care for you very much.
You know, sir, I was thinking the same thing about you? I respect your talent. But I don't like anything else about you.
When did you first suspect me?
Well, after it happened, sir, about two minutes after I met you.
That can't be possible.
Oh, you made it perfectly clear, sir, the very first night when you decided to come to the restaurant directly after you were informed that Vittorio was poisoned.
I was instructed to come here by the police.
And you came, sir.
Yes.
After eating dinner with a man that had been poisoned. You didn't go to a doctor. You came because the police instructed you. You didn't go to a hospital. You didn't even ask to have your stomach pumped. Mr. Gerard, that's the damnedest example of good citizenship I've ever seen.
In those days everything was bad for your eyes. Not wearing mittens was bad for your eyes. Wearing rubbers in the house, that would strike you blind right on the spot.
Either there was no motive at all like in those crazy kind of murders that you read about in the newspaper. Or there was a very good motive, one that makes terrific sense. And that's what keeps going around in my mind-- motive.
Well, there's something that I don't understand, ma'am, and maybe I should. Uh, I probably should. Lord knows I'm not the brightest guy on the force. Another detective, he could cut right through this.
You're a fascinating man, Lieutenant.
To a psychologist, sir?
You pass yourself off as a puppy in a raincoat happily running around the yard digging holes all up in the garden, only you're laying a mine field and wagging your tail.
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