It just seemed like a funny place to make a funeral arrangement.
Well, I guess she would inherit everything he owned.
Why did I have to hear about this on the news?
I feel bad for that. But anyway?
Make another 2 million the first year.
It's also my problem to find somebody who might even have a motive to kill me
is the way
you're looking for
some claim I'm going to throw you out of here on your ear.
I mean, you'll miss the best part.
Hello, everybody from Los Angeles, the jampacked Coliseum
on a brilliant sunshine and welcome to professional.
Again, this is going to be ladies and gentlemen.
Both teams have gone to the final
and is their game plan.
Qatar is on the action.
Meeting of the season between
the local rockets and our newsroom
with Jimmy, and then you should have called the office.
I won't be having any people say, Oh, well, I thought maybe Mr.
Wagner might be bringing by some people, Wow, you're new in the organization
killed Eric Wagner on his team, but football, not his game.
What would you like to drink, sir?
Well, see, there's
tomato juice in the icebox. Yes, sir.
Okay.
Once you get yourself an empty seat or take the girl to the movies,
I won't need you to also think I'm the right one of your listeners.
OK, you look good now. Yes, sir.
Major stop!
Last year's Sundance sensation Mike
locked up one on the way out.
Yes, sir.
But he's planning to march right on into this.
Let's listen to some music.
You mentioned
out there's quite a story about that great young man is right.
Been broken four times.
Yeah.
Eric,
Eric, is that you?
I'm not sure.
Or you're not still in bed of all that.
At least you're alone, aren't you?
Yeah.
Oh, listen for I got it.
That the check that you've
put me on to Chicago little system, where will you get
yourself out of there and dunk yourself in some coffee and get out to the pool?
You hear me?
Hold it, hang on. I'll do whatever I want.
Kid, this is an emergency stop by the travel agency and picked up our tickets.
We're on our way to Montreal and 630.
Well, what if we move fast enough?
I can still pin down that hockey franchise for you.
I've been on a harm to the Canadians.
I'm not going to do it. Another sports franchise.
Anyway, hockey's four
penguins make another 2 million the first year, yet, I guarantee you.
Who needs it?
Look,
let's put the money into a construct.
Now look, you just get yourself out of there,
hall into the pool, get in and get a workout.
I don't want you daydreaming.
Want him to get to Canada.
I need your signature kid igloo.
Hold it, Hanlon.
I'm going to fire you one of these days.
Next time you call me kid, you had it.
My son, this isn't for me.
I just work here.
It's for your dad.
Remember biggest sports empire in the world?
That's all he ever dreamed of.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, Paul, I don't need to hear that again.
All right.
6:30.
What's all that noise?
Oh yeah, the game.
Sure, kid, I might in your story as usual.
I'll talk to you later. Yeah.
But. What
are all those mega?
Yeah.
I want results.
This is me.
This reservoir, what's on it?
Hey, look, it's just about right.
I've got eyes, Rizzo.
I want you up here at half time.
Oh yeah, boy, I don't like a game plan.
That's why I may make some changes in the second half.
You may make some changes in the long run.
Listen, Paul, come on.
We settled on this last night.
Last night, last night.
Today we got to win this one.
All right.
But I'm not going to start Ludden if that's what you get.
Now, you know what the tax plan is. Madness.
I don't care about his knees. What do you make of that?
And I've gone with the long game, used a long game,
if you have to, as long as it works.
Listen, Paul, who dat?
I mean, what do you mean? Call me up like this, right?
Right before kick off?
So I'll call you any time I feel like didn't get this straight.
You can make up your mind on third down.
You call me on a field phone. I'll make your decisions.
Oh yes, sir, Mr. Hanlon, Sir, Mr.
Paul Allen. Yes, sir, you
who do?
Yeah.
What's this for?
Shove it up the failed telephone.
Against the wall on their own 47 yard line.
That's what happened.
But that was the last time.
Today is another Sunday mass today.
Our bar today will find out
the best in this.
And now,
ladies and gentlemen from the Coliseum in Los Angeles,
our national anthem.
two weeks ago, he made that beautiful game saving tackle.
We're not going to last five.
Here we go.
Jefferson.
Those right in the back of one of the pioneers
riding that it goes under a whole host of white shirts, it'll will be first
and ten for the rockets on their own, that's making the 28 yard line.
And you notice how fast on Billy Murphy got down there, no,
I saw that he's one of the best and specialty.
Yeah, we'll be watching him a lot this afternoon.
Along with Sandusky, 48, tackles Dennis just last week for Bath.
All right, around the middle center, which is why
first play played the game ban 38 yard line.
33 yard line, you know, it looks like you're looking
for a receiver due to loss of five yards, second down 15 Jones over the ball.
Uncle marks him out at all number eleven.
This one's going to be a pass intercepted by.
Mason has them in
sacks of barium for pioneers all over him this time.
So back then, well, it was
I place an order for to minutes ago.
I need rewiring.
Yeah, he took a couple of little clients for
travel side, right?
Drops back, rockets need to get on the scoreboard,
it's in the air and has.
The quarterback now drops back.
Rockets need to get on the scoreboard, it's in the air and they wrestle
for neither one gets the ball, bounces off out into the end zone
might be interference and it is on a two yard line.
Hello, Eric. Oh,
what's the matter you say, don't fall back
asleep, the break up of Sanders takes a kid.
I'm sorry, I was a little harder. No, Lavelle hasn't a great story.
You want me to pick you up.
There's no sense to take a class here for you're our leader.
What are you doing now planned, right?
I got the radio on here in the box, I guess it's a little loud.
Yeah, our my gladiators doing a great job, getting murdered.
This is your head clear yet.
Oh, Larry,
I'm up by the pool now.
Are you in it yet?
Well, 20 more laps satisfy you.
I told you I'd be ready to get off my back that 5:30.
You got that. Mr.
Paul,
how did you get here?
You do a work.
Pioneers ball.
They're both down in the.
Pile, there's not too much time left.
And in the car, pioneers bring our.
second and seven defenses need to look into the past.
All in all parties.
The Rockets to make one more attempt
to get on that score before half time, it'd be a great psychological boost.
Sanders again at quarterback on the same play action fakes
ran up the middle of the night and have a great player.
Great confidence just didn't work this first half because even Los
Angeles is over.
Glasses take advantage.
Staff told us to go down on that playing field here at halftime.
The band's all the great colors and youngsters, all right, as time goes on
and on about their positive on that first day of.
Down there, we've got Cameron.
Take a look at that point.
That wasn't the digression you can for the ladies, we all know that when
I come to think of it, gosh, yeah,
nobody answering your cell phone information.
Yes, I know.
Know that trailing by a few points.
I'm still not going to take a chessboard.
one in there with his bad name.
OK, so let's skip the whole thing.
I had a couple of plays would have been worse and better than yours,
but I can't do everybody's job and I know what I'll stick
to what we agreed on last night.
You run your team good.
I got bigger fish to fry.
And obviously, man is coming that.
Again, as if there's not.
Rockets ball breakup,
a new ball game, fans, this half of the rockets are moving again.
Here's the deal in motion Miller last snapped Snapdragons
game takes a hand up on Great Over Here the Dennis Rodman.
For that first down to the bird count, it is a pretty fast whistle.
They've been waiting for you by the pool.
All right, here's the play.
second, down rockets, three yards to go.
Rockets.
And off the Phelps drive, straight ahead, wait a minute.
Bubbles.
And I just want to
hear the end of that play I just got here charging rockets just can't afford.
Sir, the dirty corner is all ready to leave.
He needs you OK to remove the body, letting him know it's over
Sunday afternoon.
This shouldn't take you long, Lieutenant.
I hope not what happened here, anyway?
The decision name is Wagner holds this place.
A report from the liquor store found floating in a pool at 250 p.m.
fished him out. Yell to a neighbor for help.
They couldn't revive him.
Call the police the big panic lieutenant.
I've got some gas waiting for me at home.
I'm sorry.
I got here as fast as I could.
Where where are you in the golf course now?
My wife went bowling and I was sort of testing out
this little hammock listening to the game, and I ran into the Sun.
Yeah, well, you want to take a look.
You said somebody was in a big panic.
The neighbor.
Would you say the neighbors is another one of those crucial plays
30 yards across from Vladimir severities, as you can see there
brake. Again.
What time you think this thing happened?
Oh, he's been dead about an hour now.
Let's put it around 2:30.
OK, we're going now.
Well, listen, doc, I kind of like these don't drive hard
one to and they're untangling that pretty good game.
I kind of like to know a little bit more about what happened to you.
Why is a false alarm?
Lieutenant, how do you know that?
Well, look over there from the water that splashed on the decking,
they must have been diving.
We slept on the board, and that conclusion would have knocked him unconscious.
Yard penalty.
All right.
I didn't know what happened on the board.
I mean, there's water up around the steps to
cut across the board, the steps, the bottom of the floor.
What difference does it make?
It was knocked out and he was drowned. That's all.
I've seen it a dozen times yards on the play.
That's another big turn coming up, though you're going to work,
do an autopsy on two of the rockets.
Need that big.
We have to need to make sure it's routine.
Remember, Navy, you've forgotten my line up,
be the ball.
I think he may be right, lieutenant
detective there in the House does the same thing.
Wow. Long as I'm here,
I'm going to see anybody within it, isn't anybody, lieutenant?
So maybe the delivery boy in the neighborhood,
you mean a house like this? There are no service.
Couldn't find any standard detective.
Yes, sir.
Officers there,
a gardener, Wagner, who had a party last night, Lieutenant.
I'm Sergeant Clemens, sir.
Why was that a party?
Pretty good one, too.
I guess you see, the neighbor said Wagner's wife is out of town
someplace, so maybe work and let the servants go for a while. And
you know what I mean?
You've read about Eric Wagner, haven't you, Eric?
You mean the one whose father used to own the football?
You mean that's who this was,
kids so long that I think
Paul Hanlon, you must have heard of him.
He's the general manager of something.
I was just listening to the game.
So I'd like to release the delivery boy, you know,
and the neighbor. No,
I mean, yes, as soon as you get their statements.
But I want a full team out here. I want prints and pictures.
The whole inside of the house
own the diving board and the pool coughing all around.
Your name is Clemens.
I'll leave you in charge of that.
I'll be in touch.
Yes, sir.
But where are you going, sir?
To the football game?
Why I left this
time a hand off Durant's young arm blockers in front of him,
five yards across the board border the 35, and he's down at the 31 yard line.
Well, with that, all the best because there's still way short the first down.
But here come talent.
Talented tow from Sweden.
Yes, here cap space and the fans love him more.
Now his club needs three points, three points to tie.
It's all
38 yard field.
Goal, stop
this person!
You may have missed many
private box, Mr.
Well, I know you are Mr Paul Hanlon you.
I've seen your pictures in the newspaper.
I'm busy now.
That's all
tidied up.
Who are you anyway?
What kind of Columbo, LAPD?
Police?
I'm afraid I have some bad news for you, Mr.
Hanlon, and since we can't locate Mrs. Wagner.
Well, Eric
Wagner was found dead a little while ago in a swimming pool
and to.
Eric?
Sorry.
Oh, no, no.
I just talked to him.
You did.
Yeah, well, a couple of hours ago, I guess I call it from here
before the game, I called him again a little time later.
I was supposed to fly
to Montreal tonight, 6:30.
Mean, I don't get this.
Eric was by the pool.
He was alone, as far as I could tell.
And he's a terrific swimmer
will always look like a typical accidents where there was this bump on his head.
Anyway, we're trying to locate his wife.
And there were no cell phones in the house.
There weren't.
And it's my understanding, at least from the newspapers,
that you're like one of the family. Yeah,
yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, but I'll I'll come right over to
Shirley's in Acapulco, she went down about a week ago,
some kind of charity function
. I'll contact her.
I'll talk to her myself.
Thanks.
And don't worry, sir, I won't bother with any questions she has yet
to attend.
Are you either, for that matter?
What questions?
Oh, well, look like Mr.
Wagner had some kind of a party out there last night.
I don't think that's any concern of yours, lieutenant, any more than it is mine.
You've done your duty. That's enough in it.
Well, I did kind of wonder about the pool service by any chance.
You don't happen to know whether they come to the Wagner House on Sunday.
Football action.
I don't know of any pool service that works on Sunday at all. Why
all there was just this water around the pool deck?
Well, it's normal for there to be water around the pool in there.
Yes, sir.
But not fresh water, no chlorine in it.
So his death was an accident,
there must be some simple explanation.
Well, that's why
I said it look like an accident, sir,
because if someone had used a hose around there, I can maybe
hide something or make it look like Mr Wagner was diving.
Well, that's my problem, sir.
I sure don't want to bother you that now.
Culture home.
Plagiarism.
Excuse me, I'm looking for Mr.
Rizzo.
I'm a coach, Rizzo.
Yeah.
Oh, you got a minute?
Yeah, sure.
What can I do for?
My name is Lieutenant Columbo.
I've got some bad news for you, Sir Eric Wagner drowned this afternoon
in his pool by the house, Eric.
Huh. Yeah.
Well.
Oh, they
got a poor boy.
Sorry to bring you such bad news.
I like everybody that reads the sports page.
I was aware that you were very close
to Eric's father when the man was alive, so I figured you'd want to know.
Yes or no?
Oh, my God.
I never did anything wrong, because, you know, I mean,
according to his father's standards, no man always wanted to be big time
quarterback, professional touchdown, rah rah.
So what happens?
Well, again, which and what may have made the swing at Typekit?
Maybe you could fill me in there, sir.
I couldn't help noticing his name pop up on some of these scandal columns now
and then it was there
anything that I stuffed dog a mile at the time and shake hands.
So that couple of though too like anybody, it's.
And why do you ask me all these questions?
Well,
I happen to be from homicide.
Homicide.
You said the boy drowned in the pool.
Oh, routine, sir, we investigate everything.
Actually, I would ask Mr.
Hanlon some of these questions, but a very busy man and excitable fellow.
Yeah, yeah, busy. Excited.
This was one of his days.
David, a bombshell as legislation.
That's not a bad joke.
I suppose it's his privilege sometimes to.
Give me Mr Allen was sort of upset today.
Yeah, yeah, you could say he was sort of absent.
He called me up on the field from the owner's box, you know, up in Tablet
Stadium just before the game was about to start showed me something I love.
So half time I screwed it up there, going to give him a piece of my mind.
I get up to here and
I don't know
it was all right and everything seemed to be just fine.
I didn't think we did that good during the first half.
No offense. Oh.
I wanted to ask you a question about Mr Howard.
I've read some of the publicity now he's very new here with the Rockies, isn't he?
No, and I don't know, really.
It was a PR man first when it came to, you know, public relations.
And then about two years ago and Mr Wagner died well, Derek didn't
know anything about running a ball club, so he got a handle on it.
Come in and take over, run the business for him.
So Hanlon just stepped in. You?
No, I didn't just step in.
Don't go getting any bright ideas. The and the way you
look.
Maybe I'm not a biggest fan of ball handling, but let me tell you
this he's one of the sharpest truly as general managers in this business.
But this club, on its failing got another basketball franchise built stadiums.
They made it get a couple of million dollars, and
I don't know what the best of friends,
really. Yeah, really.
And that goes for just about everybody else around here, too.
What do you mean by that?
What I mean is you're wasting your time.
Look, I grant you I don't say Eric was the greatest
in many things, but he was a
I was an outright killer.
I don't know anybody, anybody in there in the whole world.
I would want to see him dead.
He's been so busy.
No, he hasn't talked to anyone all day.
No, sir, the funeral arrangements aren't being announced just yet.
Yes, Mr
Hammond will make an announcement when it's appropriate.
Thank you, sir.
That's true.
They say the right there, that's side.
Oh, do I sign
when residents hold a moment, please?
I was looking for that housekeeper.
Oh, I'm afraid she's been with Mr. Hanlon.
She just got herself and she's quite upset.
So I don't think I'm a water canal.
I was Eric Wagner's lawyer.
I was his father's attorney and best friend for about 40 years.
Oh please, sir, I am sorry.
You see, I'm new in the office and, well, I replaced Miss Babcock,
but she was only there for a couple of days,
so I really haven't gotten everybody's name straight.
Oh no, no, that's nothing to worry about.
That's all right.
Oh, that's fine right over there.
But whose office, rather than the office that you were new and old?
Whose offices? Oh, Mr. Hanlon's.
But then, oh,
you can go now.
Thank you.
Oh no, I just haven't carried in that.
I'm for the police, lieutenant Columbo.
Oh, Wagner residents, oh please.
Well, Mr.
Hanlon said he just wouldn't be able to see you for a while, sir.
So no problem.
I don't mind waiting. No child.
What are you doing here?
I've actually said we've had a little trouble locating Mrs.
Wagner.
We've checked all the hotels in Acapulco so far.
Of course, she is a bit of a whirling dervish on every committee.
It's very social.
Oh, sure. Yes.
You don't mind if I ask you a personal question,
Do you know what you pay for those shoes?
I think about $6.
I stepped into some water yesterday alone money.
I don't know where I could get a pair
that looks like that for around 16 or 17, 60 or 70.
Sorry, I don't really have time.
I didn't know you were here.
You should find into the.
I didn't want to disturb your father's
transitional treasurer any time soon.
This doesn't seem to be the time or the place
to air their grievances between you and me.
Walter, why don't you call me this afternoon?
Why did I have to hear about this on the news?
I really wasn't sure you were back from Washington, the Wagner residence.
Why? Oh, it's you again, Miss Recology.
Well, wait a minute.
Walter, you shouldn't get yourself into an uproar.
Known as bad for also right, Shirley.
She's on her way.
I've spoken to her.
Look, I know this must be very unpleasant for you.
So, sir.
It's a miss because you can't take calls now, honey.
She says. It's quite cold.
You know, calls today.
I don't have time.
Not until tomorrow. Got it.
Mr. Cozy, he says. You just can't.
What are you going to have? Excuse me, that's all.
There's nothing left to be done that needs to be done.
Shirley will be back tomorrow night.
Lieutenant, it's for you.
I left a no excuse.
Lieutenant Commander,
out of the hangar.
Well, what about the autopsy?
I see.
Thank you very much.
But, Senator, if you need me, I'll be back in my apartment
in about two hours, I got to finish this know.
Well, I did want to ask you so you don't mind if I bring another.
I am drilling here first thing in the morning.
Kind of recheck everything.
So what have you done so far?
Sure knows how to take charge and big time.
What is all this autopsy lab crews?
Well, just part of a routine murder investigation, sir.
Excuse me.
Murder.
Police report
taking out.
Please contact
to the nearest courtesy telephone.
And even now, she's going to harassed her.
Cut back.
Colombo, what are you doing?
You're following me.
Well, sir, it just seemed like a funny place to make a funeral arrangement.
Mr Charles Bentley.
You know, he is sort of caught me by surprise back there.
I mean, making a telephone call right after you told the girl back in the house,
you didn't have time to talk to anybody.
That's why I was on the phone calling off a meeting in Montreal for tomorrow.
I forgot about it earlier. I don't know why.
Well, you have to be terribly upset by everything that's happened.
I can understand that anyway when you turn it off at the airport naturally.
All right, lieutenant.
I am meeting Mrs.
Wagner's plane in just a few minutes.
You know,
I kind of thought that's what it might be.
I just couldn't figure out how she could have gotten it
so soon, I mean, all the way from Acapulco.
You see, we check the airline.
I chartered a special flight for.
Oh, gosh.
You really know how to get things done.
Sorry, looks at it,
I couldn't tell you about it back in the house now, but all of us.
The last thing in the world surely needs now is any of that
bleeding hearts sympathy from water canal.
I can appreciate that, sir.
I don't want those newspaper people out there, either.
Not that she's had a good night's sleep.
I understand her.
You could be a big help for me, sir, if you just fill me in
with certain details, you think you could do that?
Well, if you can be brief, I'll certainly try, sir.
I want to be delicate about this, but.
I have wondered about the kind of marriage at the Wagner said,
I mean, in the light of the kind of party that Erik through there last night,
Mr. Columbo, that boy was like a kid brother to me.
But I couldn't straighten him out.
He was a baby, just never grew up.
Surely understood about that
the better part of a year, I guess she was way out of his class.
They both.
And unfortunately, she could never bring herself to break up.
Sounds like quite a woman. She is.
You don't happen to know.
Well, I guess she would inherit everything he owned, which us exactly
why follow me?
It's just that things are happening so fast there,
and I thought, maybe you'd want to be brought up to date.
Like that autopsy report?
I just got it on the phone.
Incidentally, you never asked me about that.
I thought you would.
I guess it slipped your mind. No, it didn't slipped my mind.
There was nothing to ask about because there was nothing new.
Wasn't.
No, sir, there wasn't.
Lieutenant, you're going to find this was an accidental death.
And if, God forbid, it's anything else.
And it was one of those crazy hippie girls who was mixed up,
but you see, that's another thing I wanted to tell you about Sir.
We located every girl that was at that party.
There are no means there at all. Nothing.
So it looks to me like
we're just going to have to look to someone else.
What does that mean?
Well, you see, we turned up a neighbor's kid who reported
seeing a dangling ice cream truck in the area around 230.
That's just about one Mr.
Wagner would have died. I don't.
So what so
I have to thank my wife for one, because she's mad at everybody.
She's even mad at the ice cream man.
Why does the ice cream truck have to come
just before lunch or just before dinner ruined the child's appetite?
I have to listen to that. I hear that three times a week.
You know, that's twelve times a month.
Well, anyway, listen, I bought a dangling ice cream company.
Turns out they don't have a roof before lunch.
They don't have one before dinner.
They don't have one or two, 30.
They don't even work in that area.
So that's a what I call a loose end, and it's something I got to tell you.
Well, I wish you luck.
And the other thing, sir, I hope you're not offended.
I have to find somebody else
to substantiate your story that you were in your box at the football game.
That's your job.
Everybody is a suspect and not true.
Thank you very much.
I'm very happy to hear you say that,
gee, I thought Mr.
Rizzo could do it for us, you know,
but it turns out that he says he didn't speak to even
once on the field phone during that whole awful first half.
And then you weren't even angry.
I told you I called Eric from the box just before the game.
I called him again from the box about the end of the first quarter.
Unfortunately, the telephone company records
can't prove that, but that's not my problem, I think.
No, sir.
That's my problem.
It's also my problem to find somebody who might even have a motive to kill Mr.
Way. Yes.
Oh, oh, oh,
00. Oh.
I'm sorry.
I've just been hoping it.
Lieutenant, she's going to be at home
you won't bother with.
You're looking for something.
Oh, right there. Just raise your hands.
Now, wait a minute.
This isn't what it looks like.
All right. You want to have a gun? Just get his wallet.
Thank you, sir. They'll thank me.
Thank that radio over there, huh?
Well, what do you know, the license and everything?
Of course I got a license.
My name is rooftops.
What do you mean, radio?
Well, let me show you don't feel better.
Good afternoon, anybody.
You see some of these bugs have frequency leakage.
You don't put them in, right?
It affects the other electrical systems.
That's what happened to you.
Take it easy, will you? Those things are expensive.
Sorry, won't happen again. Anyway, you put it in
and they use the
telephone and the fact that the radio I noticed static.
I don't feel bad.
I didn't know anything about this myself,
but I had trouble on my TV when my wife used the hairdryer.
So the electrician explained to me, You find this boring
and tell me who told you to take out those bugs?
Come on, William.
Business is bad enough to the lieutenant.
That's what we got from the act of doing. All right.
So I got a pretty good idea we might have wanted Eric Wagner by Iran.
And I also remember who I told about coming in here with a lab crew.
Pull him on, right?
Come on, lieutenant.
You know, my client's name is privileged information,
and I have a perfect right to keep his identity a secret.
I've got a perfect right to arrest you for breaking and entering.
Not to mention illegal wiretaps.
So for the sake of that license of yours, Mr.
Dobbs, who hired.
You know, you put me on a spot.
I can't give you his name without his permission.
Well, I'm not worried since I can call you an accessory
to a murder.
I know you're going to help me out,
you're going to get me that information. But.
Well.
Well, it turns out six seasons
when you spend most of time.
Listen, and you don't
want to hear.
You're all right.
Spend a number of years.
When you get those shoes,
Millicent will show what's causing
what's what is the name, the black telephone?
I'll cut it from the.
Yes. Yeah.
Is what will get them in?
No, I want that watch
when fired, you get in touch my attorneys and get them to meet me over here.
I want to see them at.
No cancel that.
I'll have to call you back.
This office tells me somebody came in there this morning
before dawn with a search warrant. We didn't touch anything.
Honestly, I promise.
What I want some more shots with the motive is.
No, no, not now.
Finish the interview with Mark and then wrap it up your ass.
You know, I didn't expect to find you here.
I had some trouble locating you
because I didn't know that you were at a basketball game.
You know, the day after Mr.
Wagner said a game.
It's just some pros live around here.
Like to work out together. That's all.
Oh, these are professionals.
Yes, these are professionals.
That's Leroy Ellis, Riley
Harris, Harrison, Jim McMillan.
That's Keith.
Glenn Robinson, two weeks are all going to be working for me.
Mark was the first one to sign.
I had to come over here to get to get his signature
because he's going to be going this afternoon.
What are you up to?
That's what I came down here to explain, sir.
I mean, I came down here to get here because
I made a real wrong guest last night.
I think you made a few.
No, I'm talking about the phones and Mr.
Wagner's house. What about him?
Mr Hammond, those phones were
black. Yes, sir,
and I'll admit that for a while, I thought you had something to do with it,
so we checked your office and you know what
your phones have done to
buy the same equipment.
And by the same man,
my phone's.
Yes, sir. But.
So honestly, that's the only reason we went in there.
The other thing, sir, is I came down here to get you
because I thought you would like to meet the man who hired the detective.
Yes, I'd like to meet him.
Apparently, they've got tapes of all your conversations for the past
two weeks in that something.
Oh. Water, you actually hired a private detective.
I'm sorry, Hammond, that's all I can say, sorry.
I think maybe you will be
when I report you to the Bar Association for spying on your own client.
Tara.
Yeah, man, there as my witness, I'm voluntarily disclosing everything
that I paid jobs to do.
And when I personally sue you for invasion of privacy, please,
I know it's kind of irregular, but Mrs.
Wagner is waiting inside, told you to stay away from the.
But I was insistent.
I haven't the slightest idea why Hobbs has on those tapes,
but I want everyone to hear everything I understand about.
Are you in charge of this mess or not, sir?
Sir, I'm only trying to solve a murder, and this gentleman was Mr.
Wagner's lawyer, and it did seem all right with me.
Why don't we proceed,
Mr. Hanlon?
A moment before we go, What is it?
Bad news?
What you remember?
I definitely told you about the dangling ice cream truck,
the dangling ice cream.
Yes, you did.
I checked the main office and
I got it right here.
They told me when I originally called what areas they serviced and.
And I've got all these papers here.
Oh, here we are.
And it turns out that they're in
Westwood Hollywood, downtown L.A.
shows you how stupid I am.
It never occurred to me that downtown L.A.
included the concession at the stadium.
I don't understand.
But I'm sorry to say this here,
but this makes it even more important that we find some way to substantiate
your story that you were at the stadium at the time of the crime, right?
Well, look, senator, you may be right.
Let's go inside, shall we?
I'd rather not.
You're not at all,
but at least you're alone, aren't you?
Yeah.
Oh, listen, before I got.
And she brought her little sister, Typekit.
Stop it right there.
Surely that's a very sort of thing that I suspected Paul
Hanlon was egging Eric on, he just trying to make trouble between the two of you.
Walter, we have been listening to this for nearly three hours,
and that's the very first time there's been the slightest suggestion of anything.
But you saw that little chip that you put me on to Paul.
Didn't you hear him?
Charlie, that's why I came back from Washington.
That's the whole reason that I had dogs here.
I wanted evidence to prove to you and Eric Hanlon Hammond had been using him
using your boat.
Wait a minute. Just hold on a second.
I think I've got it took me
a minute to connect with the word chick.
Eric said You wanted a new mate.
Do you recall anything about that?
He was trying to find you one
as a surprise before you got back.
And I put him on to the best employment agency that I could find, and that's all.
If he found some girl through that? Yes,
of course.
Will you please get this over with?
Certainly not.
Of course, the airport, you are a leader.
What are you doing now playing right to tag on it?
I got the radio on here in a box, I guess, as they look
like gladiators now a murder.
This is your head, Claire.
You are.
Not only
are you in it yet?
20 more laps satisfy you.
I told you I'd be ready tonight to get off my back.
How at 5:30 you got that back they go.
That's all there is of that, sir.
There's still a big pile of tapes from Mr Hammond's office phone.
Sergeant, do you happen to have the time
that I made that call
log on my pickup hesitant
to 29.
Of course,
if you want to check with the radio station,
they keep a record of those football broadcasts.
And Eric died at 230.
You said approximately.
Well, Walter, maybe I ought to thank you.
At least you've managed to prove where I was.
And I guess that's another loose end, as you call it, tied up.
You see.
Surely the lieutenant thinks, I imagine with Walter's help
that I might have killed Eric.
I really don't know what to say to you, Walter.
It would tell you how contemptible I think you are.
And surely you've got to believe that, you know,
I had these tapes made for your sake.
Look, don't worry, Walter.
I already knew how jealous you were of Mr.
Hammond's influence.
Now, just get out. All of you.
Please leave.
This is what.
There's still a lot of investigating we have to do
just go, Oh.
Oh, yeah, I guess rock and
roll next.
Lieutenant,
I'm giving away this time, scrambling, scrambling.
You want to see me
marry the man?
And listening to that thing,
that's the last phone call, 100 times, nothing will last three days.
I've called your office at least 100 times less than the Senate about my license.
I can't operate without it and I give it up.
I know. Okay. I'm sorry. I still forget.
I strike you funny.
Man watching a football game makes a telephone call just when they call
pass interference against his own team and the two yard line.
Yeah, I suppose so.
Maybe it can prove he wasn't really there.
In the meantime, I got to have my equipment.
See, that's my problem.
Can't program unless that's why I'm listening to this,
trying to hear a sound, something that doesn't belong there.
Maybe he made the phone call from someplace else.
You have to think of that
someplace where there was a radio broadcasting, background noises,
folk whistles, dogs barking, things like that just can't listen.
When you go find yourself another suspect, our lieutenant cut it out.
I got to have my equipment.
And by the way, how did you manage to plant those found bugs in the first place?
I did. Oh, did.
That would be betraying and trust is ruined.
I don't want to get anybody else.
All I can tell you, it wasn't by breaking and entering, OK.
I don't know how it.
That's all I can tell you.
I understand.
Question about the equipment, I'm sorry to hold you up on, and it's just
I've been preoccupied by this case, what's it worth, 600 bucks?
A lot of money.
All right.
Have put a grill in the Hanlon's office.
She ran an errand to Wagner's house.
It's as simple as that.
The girl?
Part time operate, I use her on a time.
She likes to play change, she have a name.
Babcock,
that's all she did.
She's not there anymore.
Why? I don't know.
I am a fighter after three days.
Oh, secretary!
I'm. A secretary.
Well, that's not a usual line of work.
Ten of my equipment.
Coming.
Hi, darling.
Miss Babcock
Duffy, so Cincinnati, my name is Eve.
Don't be embarrassed.
We've been expecting you. You had. Sure.
Well, our mutual friend called and told me all about you.
You did.
I didn't expect that.
I bet you're starving.
Are you starting to go to dinner at Chase?
I meant to be.
Yes. Eve Babcock.
And when you relax,
please go to the loo out for a drink, so it'll be fun.
Then the Chasen's for dinner isn't the same.
I hadn't planned on dinner.
Oh, you hadn't.
All right.
No dinner. It's all right.
It just would have been nice to know, you know?
Oh, I mean her shot of the whole evening.
I have no idea you were pressed for time.
I mean, Harry should have told me it was Harry.
Harry Stevenson.
Oh, I got your name from. From
a Mr.
Dobbs.
Ralph,
once you know, oh, well, this is really silly.
Look, honey, you should have called before you came up.
I'm busy now.
What about tomorrow?
No, no, no, not tomorrow, Thursday.
I'm free Thursday.
Well, I do it.
Hello, darling.
Miss Babcock Eve and your Cincinnati into the brokered convention, right?
My name's Smith.
Okay, Smitty
Smith, this is my cousin.
He was just leaving.
Weren't you, honey? Yeah.
How are you? Fine.
Oh, I know a lot of people in Cincinnati.
Oh yeah. Incidentally, my name is Lieutenant Columbo.
I'm from the Los Angeles Police Department.
Miss Babcock,
about those stocks, I'll call you.
Nice to meet you, Lieutenant.
Don't ask me any questions.
I'm calling my attorney.
Wait a minute. No.
Instead of doing that, why don't you do yourself a favor?
Take this
appointment book and put it someplace where I can't see it.
I'll call your attorney because I'm not here to hurt you.
Put that away.
I'm investigating the death
of Eric Wagner, and I just want to ask you a couple of questions.
Now why would you want to?
I already know you pointed the phone books for Mr. Dobbs.
No, I'm not worried about that.
This is what bothers me.
Why were you fired from that job after only three days?
Because if you don't mind my noticing, you'd be an ornament in any office.
Thank you, Lieutenant.
Perhaps my typing was not good enough.
Who knows?
I thought maybe you got offered a better job.
I really think you should go.
Well, maybe somebody offered you more money than Davos could.
I mean, Mr.
Hanlon, he doesn't miss much.
And he sure would miss you.
And I thought that maybe he noticed you planning those phone bugs and
he you see, we'd look to stop this.
Eric Wagner's death was an accident, right?
Was it not? That's what all the newspapers have said.
You have absolutely no right to come in here and start upsetting
me, asking me questions, insinuating things, trying to get caught .
You're perfectly right.
I was getting way ahead of myself, and I know you want to get something to eat,
so I'm going to run along.
Good night.
That.
You know,
it just struck me.
You know, when you got upset there.
Well, the tiniest little accent came out and, you know,
I got a nephew will marry the girl, she's got the same kind of accent.
She's also very pretty.
But she's Hungarian.
Do you have another name besides Babcock, something more Hungarian like
Mr Ramoji?
But yes, the thought.
Enjoy your meal.
Well,
good afternoon, sir, and where would you like to go today home,
but soak my feet,
they're killing new pair of shoes.
Just exactly what is it?
You wish, sir? Mr.
Paul Hanlon, that you make a reservation for Sunday for Montreal.
Why do you ask?
I'm from the police.
My name is Lieutenant Columbo.
This Mr.
Hamlin usually use this office to make those travel arrangements.
Yes, he does.
What would you check on it?
The Sun Reservation.
I'll have to consult my files.
You were speaking of anger when you have said
the game at the Coliseum. Yes.
Badgers have a football
second down seven on their own 24 yard line.
I've always been on the fence on the first to start it,
you know, I think it's for the game.
Didn't even you couldn't enjoy
that.
I find the answer.
I can't think of anything else off the starting price tag of a four.
A number of times I heard these guys voices over and over and over.
Men still can't find it.
Remember that fumble again?
Yeah. Well, sometimes things are difficult to find, you know?
You know what it's like.
I can't hold a half or something and you can't get a hold of the other half.
You know, they break, but I don't think he's
going to be wide right now
and off.
eight back to pass
goes to Ali open and the flat is complete to the 34
yard line.
Sanders at quarterback,
he takes the snap hands off, it's that same play again, Kelly over right
tackle and works again good for five solid now, six yards to the 41 yard line.
Well, it's your different last week around the time
these rockets are moving today to field goals with the Allen dilemma.
What is shown?
Great guys today only eleven go.
I'll tell the coach kind words from a loyal fan of very rare in
my mind right now there's tingling ice cream concession.
That's the best in town.
Don't ever change that.
Yes, sir.
All right, Columbo.
Now what do you want?
I've got something to show you, sir.
Won't take long.
Oh, those shoes feel better.
Boy, they're getting a lot of trouble earlier.
Columbo, I'm trying to watch this game.
What is that?
All right.
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 turn the radio down, but not quite all right.
And I told you that Eric Wagner was dead.
Sorry. I do the same thing.
You know, when I'm listening to a game, my wife interrupts.
I can't help myself.
I want to hear that game, and I don't care how important the interruption.
Your wife has my sympathy.
However,
when I told you
about the fresh water on the decking,
when I told you that Eric Wagner might have been murdered,
you know you did kind of radio completely off.
But I thought I struck a chord or something.
You know, Columbia has struck
note, will you please go find somebody else to pester first?
I won't take long, sir.
Actually, I just came here to talk about Miss Ramoji
twins, right?
Oh, you know, Miss Babcock.
I was the lady were kept trying to call you the house.
No, later on your phone or from the airport.
What are you talking about?
Well, you did try to call it right.
I mean, you wanted to tell her that be quiet about something, something
I don't even know anybody named Rock, whatever it is.
But I spoke to her last night,
and you see,
when I saw the type of woman that she was,
it suddenly occurred to me why you were in such a hurry
to rush out of that house and get to an outside phone.
And the only reason I could have been was because
you already know
the phones in that house were, but you didn't notice me
or whatever,
you know.
Seriously, expect me to tell you anything now.
I don't expect you to admit anything you admit.
But you see when I saw the type of lady
that she was and it seemed like to have a bread buttered on both sides.
Well, as she practically admitted, I tell you,
you really something.
And I'm sure Mr.
Agos is going to do a lot more talking
when she knows that this is really a murder and it really is.
This is a murder case.
There is no question about it. He did it again.
I guess you just can't help yourself.
Colombo, I'm going to throw you out of here on your air.
I wouldn't do that to.
I mean, you missed the best part, you see, I'm not finished.
The point is this.
And you see the point is this,
if you knew that House was bugged,
then you also know that you could use those phones
to set up a perfect alibi.
But you want to call an alibi is the truth.
Why can't you get that?
I knew I had to break that alibi.
There under tension.
Oh, yeah, I know until I broken that alibi,
none of these other things would mean much.
But now
look, they scored a touchdown.
But now what?
You don't mind listening to last week's game against either way.
Well.
Just by coincidence
happens to be exactly the same time that you made that second phone call to Eric.
No. Here we go back to exactly 229.
Just a minute or two before he was murdered.
You know and listen to this thing.
I can't tell you how many times over and over again.
Maybe I hear something that shouldn't be there.
Some sound that shouldn't be there.
An ambulance, a fire truck make a deal in a phone booth.
Something.
But you didn't because it isn't there.
I made the call from this booth from that phone.
I'm sorry. I'm wrong.
Then it's suddenly
I had it backwards.
What are you doing now?
Maybe there was a sound that should be the one here in the box.
And what
do you like?
What?
Something right in front of you?
What kind of sound
are you?
20 more laps satisfy you.
I told you I'd be ready and I could get off my back,
there ain't nothing.
And. You.