What do you think?
I think she's remarkable.
I'm talking about the money.
You thought I was dead, didn't you?
Oh yes, until I heard of the feats of Geronimo.
And I knew it had to be you.
Sir, I do have a murder on my hand.
I'm painfully aware of that, lieutenant.
And you know what?
Henderson was one of my best operators.
That's my wife's favorite piece of music.
I know you have my house bugged.
Bathroom door here, sir.
What's that over there?
And that's the wet bus,
OK, sir.
Thank you.
Have a nice day, Mr.
Anderson.
Don't worry about a job.
Believe me,
ABC can give my best to ship.
All right.
Yes. Yes,
I like.
Yes, Colorado is a river.
Geronimo is an Indian.
There is no beach like a long
beach, an amusement park when
and two hours.
Through, yes,
4:30 Monday, John Graham's office, don't let me forget.
Please have a nice evening, all of you.
Oh, Mr. Brenner, the speech for Mr.
DaFonte this until
tomorrow, 10:00 in his office.
I must have mislaid a day somewhere.
Can you come in at 9:00 in the morning?
Yes, I'll return after dinner this evening and put it on tape,
and then you can have it and do it.
Plus, we'll be seeing you buy
more privacy on a freeway.
I don't know.
Wasn't it you that said,
you should never have a clandestine meeting in a clandestine place,
besides which I've always had a sudden, perverse affection for amusement parks?
By the way, how is A.J.
Henderson? A.J.
Henderson commutes every day from West Point,
except when he has to go to a regional office for a visit.
I'm very ordered.
Life makes them worth much more that way.
You thought I was dead? Didn't hear?
Oh yes, until I heard of the feats of Geronimo and I knew it had to be you.
Why didn't you contact me?
I have three years, amigo.
one can't be too careful.
Let me tell you about this little operation that I've been involved in.
Tell me about the operation in a minute.
first thing's first Nelson.
Now, as I remember,
we had a new currency scheme going on down there in banana land.
300,004 zeros, as I recall, supposing I told you that I was broke double,
just don't go broke.
They die sometimes, but they don't go broke.
Oh, come along now. That's hearing about my being a double agent.
So, you know, there's no facts in it.
Agency doesn't deal.
In fact, it's only rumors, and I have a lot more than rumors now.
Some you.
John, relax, the rules have been safely invested into Billy Bonds.
You'll get your money back plus interest when, of course I can write you
a personal check and then we'll both be tossed into the Potomac.
I said, when I want cash
and I'll worry about the lottery, I was afraid about that, sir.
Yes, sir.
I've just taken your photograph. Yes.
And if you would like to print off it, please stop by the booth on your way.
I don't have the money for you. I'll read it.
I can stop by any time, any time.
In that case, I'll miss it.
And thank you so much.
And bright eyes your eyes with deadly nails
and deadly Victoria and see if we can remember the $0.39 to you.
That's right, you so.
And that's when a big giant panda
and ladies and gentlemen, knock down the next wedding.
And ladies and gentlemen, step right up.
Wins a prize and and wins a giant.
Good.
Yes. Congratulations, gentlemen.
We have two winners.
I usually lose two of these in six months in the same days and after break,
we keep my buddy.
I'm all heart.
Thank you all.
I have ten wins
you a prize and I bet you were disappointed when I showed up the
not that greedy at the top of my head too cold.
How do you do it?
How did you get away from day one? I had two of people on ice.
It was a matter of a simple exchange
and the director wanted to make it look like I was dead.
Oh yes, a director looking for lower director.
What's this all about?
This is a naval code on microfilm.
In the possession of a crusty old buzzard by the name of Steinmetz.
You require a series of meetings to make sure that he's not been set up.
Is he all that interested in the moment?
This is the microfilm,
when and where tonight at 11:00 Sinbad Santa Monica Pier
Remember the routine that we used in the files in 1967?
It's the same one.
Why all the jazz?
Oh, this is the way that Mr.
Steinmetz like it is, Steinmetz.
You see an operator or somebody say that he's an old and trusted partner,
and that's all.
Excuse me, a man.
Hello. Hi.
You like the name Fred?
Yeah, you do.
Perhaps you prefer the name Archibald.
I don't know any Archibald.
You don't know any Archibald.
Well, this is Archibald.
And now you know him, and now he's yours.
Would you like him?
Yeah, you're all right. He's yours.
Thank you.
It's my pleasure. Nice talking this way.
All right, bye.
You've been eating this.
What's the price, whatever it takes?
What currency, dollars or lira
and they want the drop site where they decide?
I suggest, by the way, that you don't where you'll get that undercover.
I don't call the contacts may want to frisk,
you know, I'm an operator, Adobe that they do,
but they don't know your name or anything else about you.
When you use one of your men out here
with too much money involved, besides director doesn't want to Mr.
Steinmetz tracing back to me, but you are sitting alone,
perhaps , but not at this time.
I'll take care of the photo scandal for you
and I'll be in touch.
And then I seasoning.
Yes, sir.
What's your poison path
to what kind of rocks?
But on the rocks?
You want to twist in that?
You know, I find that's 150.
Pretty.
The machine doesn't work.
No cigarets or no money back.
You acting up again.
How much you lose $0.60.
No sweat.
Thank.
You got something to show me.
OK. The price is 350 grand.
325, I want something for myself.
I tell the man 400 Premiere both get healthy.
It's nice doing business with you.
And goals.
So a crisis the day of the drunk and went out to get back to you on this.
If the man wants goals,
you got anything else for me. No.
This time,
my son is going to have to come up with two frames of that microfilm blown up.
We're going to have to verify.
I understand,
but the old man don't show you nothing without a down payment in gold.
I've already told you, I don't know about that.
Mr. Steinmetz does.
I met you tomorrow.
Now that we've met, let's make it early.
6:00.
Here I am all.
How was it?
Slight problems.
Nothing important.
Slight problem as he's to gone away safely.
Really wants a payoff on gold
price of gold in Zurich and.
What are you doing down here?
Just taking the action.
You know, they cleared twelve, 15
year, eleven, eight, seven, six months
where.
Kresteva, come on.
Welcome to Mother's Heaven.
Excuse me.
Photographer, photographer,
do you think you've got enough stuff over the side for a moment?
How you doing, Anderson? OK.
All right, fellas. Give it to me for a minute.
I'll give it back to you.
Just step over the side, everyone out.
How do you, Anderson?
I've been pretty good
at letting that it looks like a mugging.
It's the third one they find around here in the last six months.
How long has he been dead?
two hours tops.
He was hit twice with a blunt instrument once here.
And the second blow was here at the base of the skull.
Which one came first?
Oh, and tell us.
Lying on its back.
So finally, this sort of came first.
Grandma got us Polaroids.
Yeah.
What's solitaire poker chip broken?
And you will find just about anything on this beach.
Mostly beer cans.
What's his name?
There's no I.D., no wallet, nothing the luggage clean the money,
except for a pack of unopened cigarets and a box of matches, what matches?
Some bits.
So, yeah, it's a club of on the parent, Sergeant
Kramer is already.
Dennis, Coke, yeah.
You take it off.
That's where it was when we got here.
Kramer's and Sinbad's, yeah.
How do you get is the parking lot?
There's a staircase and take it up, walk down the pier
and you run right into it.
Take it easy.
Carry those.
The bartender has an ex-cop.
She's an interesting dancer,
and I showed him the photos.
He thinks he knows the guy.
Do you mind?
I'd like you to meet.
The top.
Who is the bartender, the lieutenant Columbo?
Oh, don't.
He's the ex-cop.
You're an ex-cop and all that.
He didn't like the hours I kept.
So here I am to 2:00 in the morning in this chamber.
You guys were doing nothing.
No thank.
Lieutenant.
Who says the victim was in around 11:00 on good?
You know who?
We have a summer for.
He came in here, had a couple drinks.
Oh, wait a minute.
He got his money stuck in his cigaret machine over there.
I came back as coins.
He got his cigarets and took off.
The victim that sex.
They found a four pack on.
Oh, wait a minute.
There was another guy sitting right here, the young black guy with a leather
jacket and turtleneck sweater.
When your dead man walked out of here, he got up and followed him. OK?
You sure? Sure.
I'm sure he left the whole drinking in the never touched a fresh drink.
Hey, I noticed things like
this my ex Katrina
Hotel.
Are you listening?
Who was it?
You know, we went. Who?
Who was the guy with the leather jacket that followed the victim?
But I can make him if in the files could stop by downtown,
and I would be glad to hey, we like Old Home Week.
You guys finish with me.
Did the two guys?
Did they talk to one another
while one was sitting right where you said, Yeah,
I was over there with a beer pumps up
all six of.
I'm finishing,
I'm finished.
What do you think?
I think this a remarkable.
I'm talking about the mother,
you're doing just fine.
Just keep up what you're doing.
You're going to find out how the guy got to the beach.
You're going to check out the kids.
Just keep up with you.
Don't.
They're coming.
You notice there eyes
arise, arise,
arise,
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be delivered before the Commodity Brokers
luncheon.
first of all,
I'd like to thank the officers of your association for inviting me here.
It seems like only yesterday I was crushing the grapes
in my father's vineyard.
I dropped the fare at the pier about 1040.
It's definitely this guy in this photo and I collected him here.
Thanks.
Thank you.
first of all,
I'd like to thank the officers of the association for inviting me here.
It seems like only yesterday I was crushing the grapes in my father's
vineyard.
If you don't believe me, I'll show you the bottom of my feet.
one foot still has a cabernet stain and the other
a sharply
disguised with law degrees.
They give you all kinds of fancy titles.
Get a load of the latest one.
I'm a president.
Good day.
I'm really sorry to cut you waiting. It's all right.
We just thought that we'd.
Just a minute,
lieutenant.
Lieutenant.
I had to make a stop.
My secretary said this was urgent, please have a seat.
He told him you get a chance to touch
a member of your company was killed last night, sir.
What we're referring to Mr A.J.
Henderson out of New York Henderson.
You know why, yes, but I didn't know he was in town.
What happened?
He was murdered. What is it?
We're going to need an official identification.
What is?
This is not AJ Henderson.
The bellboy at the hotel is positive,
this is the one.
Excuse me.
This is our man.
What does your man do?
Well, we have offices all over the world, Mr.
Henderson's chief function is to periodically check the various branches.
Be sure we're all operating efficiently.
He is not us.
Sorry to trouble you, sir.
Lieutenant, I'd like an explanation,
so he.
This is really weird, whatever.
Tell me something, how did you get to this guy?
Have you ever been in the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel?
It's like Grand Central Station.
Now I got to go in there, I got to find the district right.
Yeah, you've got to find a clerk in Grand Central Station.
I don't feel like that. Don't give me a break.
Just give me a minute to explain.
I got a minute.
So I got to go, and so I plan, I find them.
Now I've got to show a photo of our guy.
Does he know?
Does he remember the guy laughs.
Yeah.
So you left
because you remember he shakes his head so long, I've got to find the other quirks,
I got to find the best captain in the bellhops.
So finally,
I find the guy who remembers walking him to his room.
Now I know it's Henderson.
I got to go back to the desk
because down at the desk, I got to get his registration card.
Do you know what he uses as a business reference, the Winston advertising agency?
That's right.
And the guy's got to be nice to do that.
Maybe smarter than we think.
I don't.
Did you check his wrong?
Just some.
He signed in about 4:00 tomorrow.
He told me he took a cab to the beach at 10:00 p.m.
What did he do between four and ten?
This much I can tell you.
He came down and he asked the desk clerk how long it would take to get to the pike
Long Beach amusement parks.
Take a break.
Give me the Photoshop.
What was that again?
What was it like?
The fish, the pipe.
The Pike's Long Beach amusement park.
Excuse me, just one. Yes,
I remember seeing this man.
No, are you sure?
Positive was in the pocket yesterday afternoon,
and I'm positive.
It's.
Step right up, ladies.
Only 35.
Baby cries, I wake you up
out of ten wins, you a giant.
Yesterday there was a fella here in the amusement park.
I want to see whether you remember this is his picture.
Boy, he looks dead, Donnie.
How could I ever forget it?
He and his friend, they beat me out of 2:20 dollar benders.
But now this guy, he was all right.
He gave it back. Is that it up there?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Why do you have to go to win one of them?
Things knocked down a duck's ten out of ten.
And my wife would go for that.
Oh no, sir, that any day in your approach.
Forget about it.
If I'm standing on a dock, I couldn't at the water.
The man who was with him, if you saw him again, would you know him?
Yeah, I think so.
Well, if he comes by, you give me a call.
Yeah, yeah.
I'll be glad to
step right up, ladies and gentlemen.
Step right up and find out.
Ladies and gentlemen, step right up.
Only 35.
Win yourself a big prize.
Would you care for one sentence?
Yes, I would.
Well, the fight over here and sit down right in that chair
and look right into the camera.
Does she take a picture
of everybody that comes through here?
Look straight ahead, sir, that bright light
smile, how did you hear what I said?
Yes, sir.
I'll take about 90 seconds.
I'll have a button for you.
So we take what we can, but we can't cover everybody.
We can pretty good.
All right, now you're doing this.
That takes about 90 seconds.
What's she doing?
Well, that's a Polaroid system, sir.
I mean, it's a one shot deal, but see, interesting.
Well, here's my interest. What do you call yourself,
Don? All right now, Don, you take a Polaroid
like you just did to me, the lady.
She does something else.
Well, that's a Polaroid system, too.
Because this makes a putting holds a negative
now you can order for print right now or you can order from the lodgment.
What is she doing?
Hey, look at that.
Isn't that great?
That's terrific.
Can I talk with the lady?
Joyce.
This is a fellow from the police department who wants to talk.
Take him out of the shop and I'll cover for you. OK?
Would you like a photo?
Right this way?
Joyce, that's it, Joyce.
All right.
You know, these are ready to be developed and then file. OK.
I'm going to show you something.
It's a picture of a dead man.
Just take it easy.
Sure is, isn't he?
Do you recognize him
now? No, he was in the park yesterday.
Do you remember taking his picture?
Gee, I take so many pictures.
All right, let me check over something.
He can take as many pictures as you can, right,
try and hand out cards, right?
And you take people's name, right?
That's right.
And they can order a print immediately or they can come back
or they can write for an online payment.
That's right.
What about the ones that you don't sell?
Well, I keep them about a week and then I get rid of them.
So you got a lot left over from yesterday.
Yeah, I do.
Magazine Sure. Come on in the back.
I'll show you what's left.
So, man, men, family,
couple of girls.
Oh, man.
Chuck, that's it,
that's it, that's all the unsold photographs from yesterday.
That's the works is not another pile.
No, and he's not in it. No.
You sure, quite sure.
What about the photographs that you didn't sell?
What about them?
Don't have a negative.
You want to see the negatives?
I do.
I'm going to get to the negatives.
Millionaire.
You know, you can't really see faces on the negativism
and you hold them up and you can't make them,
and I think you'll have to have them printed, you have a magnifying glass
to it.
You know, I might not even have taken his picture,
I mean, just because he was here, he may never have come back.
Maybe he bought it, so maybe I don't even have it.
I guess this
is it.
I thought you said that he wasn't here.
He's not.
Who is this?
Pret, a fat lady
who is that behind the fat lady?
To your friend.
I'm not going to say anything
shows you want a little perseverance can do
now, aid and guess this.
And let's not rush.
Standing next to the guy behind
the fat lady is a piece of a guy in a blue jacket.
They could be together.
Now, let's see if we can find a bigger piece
of the guy who is standing next to my guy who is behind the fat lady.
Look through these photographs. OK.
I am doing.
What do you think about that?
Same color.
My goodness, you've done it.
That's him. No.
That's them both, and
they're together.
Hey, you know what?
Yesterday, this new guy here, he fought both.
The print and the negative for me, I remember
because he gave me 20 bucks for him.
Can you blow this up?
This extra demand for extra supply
is going to make a proper marriage in this market.
The place
you worry about the Chinese.
I tell you, don't worry about the Chinese.
You know why.
Because they can pull out of the Olympics, but they can pull out of soybeans.
I tell you this, they're going to be our big buyers.
I guarantee you.
Now, you know what it's like
from the growers side of things.
No matter the high cost of cuts, the wrong room,
no matter the loss again since Mr Brenner, we are going to have the wrong war.
The secretary said
that I could find you here, my name is Colombo.
If there are any celebrating, I'm sorry to bother you, sir.
This is very important to, you know, when A.J.
Henderson from New York want a promise for the next year?
No, I don't.
You have the right from.
I had this blown up, you might want to take a look at it.
He got hit.
That was taken last night using.
There
was a fine screen, one of those comments that took me to dialog
always gets everybody.
How are you going to come to the table that I've be with you in a moment?
I'll see you a little later.
But I just had too long. It was terrific.
I was, and I speak as I
step over here to
take a seat.
According to witnesses,
you were seen with Mr Henderson yesterday afternoon, didn't quite catch your name,
Lieutenant Columbo Los Angeles Police Department.
Right.
Sorry for the perception,
not knowing who you were, and since I intended to pilot Mr.
Henderson away from his firm to my firm, I naturally denied
knowing.
Until what time, sir, were you with Mr.
Henderson?
Oh, I suppose I left him between 5:36, something of that nature.
Do you have any idea what Mr Henderson's plans were after he left you?
Not at all.
I imagine that he was going back to the hotel Typekit.
Oh, yes, yes.
He did say that he was going to take a drive up to the beach and see it at night.
Never seen it before. East Coast Man. And
apparently that's just what he did, sir.
He was found murdered there last night in a place called Muggers Haven,
I guess Haven. Yes.
God forgive,
the strange thing is one of the reasons I gave him
for moving out here away from New York that the crime rate was not quite so high.
Isn't that too bizarre?
That is ironic. Do you have any suspects?
Yes, sir, we do.
But we don't know who he is yet.
Someone who will appear to follow him out of a nightclub out there at the beach.
How did you contact me so quickly?
Oh, that's a long story, sir.
But when I got the photograph, someone at the firm where Mr.
Henderson work identified you.
They said, you were a very famous consultant.
They also said, sir,
that the AJ Henderson that works for their firm
is alive and living in Westport, Connecticut,
and doing business out of New York.
They must be mistaken.
No, sir, I am not.
You mean to suggest that the Henderson that I met
with yesterday was not with Winston advertising?
That's right.
And I understand
initially, you see, he called me
from New York and evinced an interest
in working for my firm and I said, Yes, sure, of course we'll see about it.
Meanwhile, I checked it out, found, in fact, that he was an able
accounting executive and said next time he was over here with me and we did, and
that was yesterday.
He must have been impersonating,
impersonating,
but I don't know.
Did you hire him
too late?
Now isn't.
I was going to I like to most impressed, but
it's too late now.
So what they said, it's puzzling, isn't it?
Well, it
certainly is to me, sir.
I can't make head in the table this whole thing.
You have to excuse me.
I think to hear you appreciate we all have to do a little bit from time to time.
If I can help you in any way
whatsoever, please don't hesitate to contact me
now that you know what I am or thank you very much, sir.
I. Good day, sir.
Good afternoon, sir.
Alison, good to see you again.
And you have some coffee or I didn't fly out from Washington
to have coffee, Nelson.
What happened here?
Oh, you mean Geronimo?
Yes. Damn it Geronimo. Well, it was all set.
The meeting was arranged for him
with a representative of Steinmetz, and the next thing I knew we were said.
Do you think Steinmetz did it?
Most unlikely?
We'll have to have someone pay him a visit.
I wouldn't advise that, sir, even if you would find him.
You see, he still has the microfilm.
And after all, that is our primary objective as a model.
Yes, you're right.
As far as I can tell, it was a simple mugging
of all the ways to lose a top operator.
It's unbelievable. We're running late, sir.
I'm I'm sorry about this, sir. Yes.
Well, I had to be in Mexico City this afternoon anyway.
You know, Lieutenant Columbo.
Oh yes, indeed. He's a local homicide officer.
He discovered that I was with Geronimo a few hours before he was killed.
He's running a check on him.
That's understandable.
But I made the excuse that I was trying to get him to join my firm,
place him under surveillance.
Right?
Well, we don't want any locals finding out about our operations.
All right, sir. Have a good trip. All right.
Bye, Nelson.
Here's
my itinerary coming back here from Mexico City.
This.
That's him, that's the guy.
Latham said his name.
Yeah, well, that's the guy who followed your man out of the fire.
Yes, sure. Sure, I'm sure.
Melville love.
Well, that's the guy.
Lawrence Melville, yeah.
Melville, Lieutenant, Columbo, LAPD.
I was having a drink in May, but I don't know A.J.
Henderson. And the second followed him out.
He's mistaken, man.
Come down to headquarters tomorrow.
We'll talk about it then.
OK, I'll be there.
An afternoon, sir.
Lieutenant Columbo, what an unexpected.
I know it's Sunday.
I was in the neighborhood.
This is quite a place you have here and remote, and I had a hard time finding it.
How did you get in?
Oh, the gate was open, I just drove.
Oh, excuse me.
So when I do when I'm at and below
on own, nobody can I have to leave you for a moment,
I'll say a little later life.
Would you go for a drink?
Thank you very much.
But I could use one of those.
Help yourself.
Thank you very much.
I'm really sorry to bust in on your life is.
But I'm sure you understand.
I'm just a policeman, and wherever the line takes me, that's where I have to
go. I have the same problem myself from time to time.
Thank you very much, Eli.
Shall we move away from the madding
crowd and talk in a few more?
Peace and quiet.
I think I explained my one little deception.
As far as I can see, there's nothing else to tell.
I'm not quite sure you still haven't told me where you were when Mr.
Henderson was killed.
Oh, I see what you have to know.
Well, let me see if I can tell you.
I returned to my office that evening.
I wrote down and dictated the the speech for the front.
You remember the I you were. You were there. You heard it.
You can check with my secretary if you like.
Her name is
lieutenant.
I think that I should warn you that I am not an unworldly man.
I have.
Powerful and important friends, even in the police department,
I respectfully request.
That you do not.
Harass me.
Why, sir, I would never do that.
I know I understand your problem, but you must understand.
And it's a very bizarre situation
because of a misplaced confidence in a man that I knew as Henderson.
I find myself in this
ridiculous predicament with you.
Oh, and it's all very understandable, sir.
As a matter of fact, I have a lead on that suspect that I met.
Do you know Lawrence Melville?
No, no, I don't.
And this time I'm not lying to.
He's black,
28 and been arrested and convicted for assault.
Do you know whether or not Henderson? No,
I didn't know Melville.
I hardly knew Henderson was effective.
It's a matter of fact.
I didn't know anything at all.
two mothers usually know the victims.
No, sir, at least not on a personal basis.
But I have a hunch that Melville is a mother.
Now, now you're confusing me, lieutenant.
Well, you see, Sir Henderson was hit
once right here. Hmm.
And then when it went down, the assailant hit him again at the back of the neck
right here at the base of the skull. Hmm.
Mr Henderson must have known him otherwise,
how did he get it from the front?
Couldn't the mother have asked him for his valuables
and when he was refused, then hit him from the front?
All it could have happened that way, no doubt about it.
Why isn't it true?
There was no identification on Henderson's person, right?
Nothing at all.
And isn't it logical then, to assume that the mugger
took the victim's cash and credit cards
or they were removed or not?
And why are you making more out of it than that?
It's us.
His coat was off.
Yes, that's it.
That's it.
Save for the life of me, I cannot figure out
why would a mother I'd take off her victim's coat unless it was going
to remove something other than cash a credit card
not being a mother.
I'm afraid I can't help you there.
Tell me.
How did you
first come upon this Mel deal as a suspect?
He was seen at Sinbad following Henderson out.
It seems as though you've got a pretty tight case now,
too many loose ends, and I bring this into the day's shoot me
right down.
I better run along.
I'm sorry to have interrupting you Sunday.
Not at home.
I've enjoyed speaking to you. Once again.
I'll see you to your car.
This will be your car.
Yes, sir, there are only three Typekit in the country.
Interesting model.
Allow me.
Just between us, sir.
Mm-Hmm.
Somebody's following me
now who would be following a cop.
Well, that's what I'm trying to figure out.
Can't be the collection company the cars paid for.
Take care.
This is unless
you see the message two miles north of the small
Ashley store and the bank account, you
click on the left,
you are.
And I think tonight.
Julie will follow.
You are a.
Mr Styles, stand the hell out of me.
Come my car, come.
Be careful.
Always be careful, careful.
This is spooky.
Why are we meeting way out here in the boondocks
here?
You go in front.
We merge.
Glenn, first, you
work for me, I tell you explicit.
This is very serious business you're in.
I know.
And you laid down some heavy bread to back it up.
But if I don't know, there's going to be this sort of stay the streak of
what do you talk?
I'm talking about heat from some heavy little.
Do them Colombo.
I'm talking about that government, man, you put me next to.
That's no date.
I am aware of this.
He also wins my head this on the chopping block.
When you are in the business of buying and selling information
on the international market, you will have to have
sometimes a little.
Hey, listen, Nick, I know for me not to put me away.
Did you kill him?
No, I didn't kill him.
I did what you told me to do.
That's all.
And you have nothing to worry about.
How did the man die, Mr.
Steinmetz? I don't know.
I do not know.
It was not a part of my ventures.
We do not know what happens now.
Well, we have to reestablish contact with the other people.
What do I tell the cop?
Nothing. Nothing.
They ask me about if I knew a man named Brenner.
That is good. It means they have a suspect.
You just relax. OK?
It's all I wanted.
Just a little downhole reassurance.
You take this key
to this car and take this car tonight.
This car, what for?
This is a cover car for another member of my organization
that has to be at sixth and Alvarado by midnight tonight.
What about my car?
Your car will be at your home by the time you return.
You sure are strange, Mr. Steinmetz.
It's a strange world
from now.
You will be fed the week by week.
Right now you're talking,
but we still use the same drops mm.
Until I tell you that we are going to change.
I get that car, it's my pride and joy.
sixth and Alvarado, here I go.
You should have talked to us.
I should have talked to somebody, but I didn't do nothing wrong.
No, sir.
How is this?
He looked a lot older than that.
He had a big nose.
Where did you say Mr. Steinmetz again?
In a bar? In a bar?
Look, listen, he had a OK.
Yeah, in a bar.
He leaves some bread.
Knew everything about him. A record.
And you don't know how to get in touch with him. I got to you.
We had this and say, it's like a mailbox where we leave messages.
We just exchanged them. That's all.
No. Look,
you got to put the glasses and then take this off over here.
Take it off this copy and get this mustard is right.
And what is it?
But it would look like a goatee on it.
What about the credit cards in the glove compartment?
They belong to Henderson.
I'm telling you, I don't know nothing about that.
I swear it's like I told that Lieutenant Columbo, I didn't touch dead man.
We just talked about this microfilm.
That's all.
That's all we did on this.
Hey, how's this?
It's OK.
Yeah, that's Mr.
Steinmetz.
You're getting close to me just, oh, you got to do
is just make him a little older, get a little tight end here.
His nose was just bigger glasses off.
Did you got him? No.
I can't absolutely verify that Mr.
Brenner came back that night and wrote his speech,
but that's what he said he was going to do.
And you found the tape sitting on your desk
when you came in the following morning, right at 9:00.
I typed it up and gave it to Mr.
Brenner shortly before ten,
when he rushed in, picked it up and went off to his meeting.
Good morning.
Good morning, Mr.
Premiere morning.
Good morning, sir.
This way, Mr.
Colombo.
No calls for five minutes.
The hell are you doing here,
Mr. Brenner, you told me yourself that I should check with your secretary.
That's what I'm doing.
That was before your suspect turned up with Henderson's credit cards.
How do you know that, sir?
I told you already, Lieutenant, I have friends in the police department.
I have friends across the country all over the world.
I also know that your suspect
has accused a man named Steinmetz of trying to kill you.
Your information is very good, sir.
We don't believe that Steinmetz wanted him dead.
You know,
the officer from the bomb squad told us that
if you wanted a man dead,
you'd use a lot more plastic
explosives in the car than what we found.
And you would put it in the engine rather than in the driver's door.
I fail to understand you.
You have suspects all over the place, you have melvill, you have,
Steinmetz said.
Yet you still insist on suspecting me.
Yes, sir, I do feel you're involved.
I have to admit that.
Did anyone see me on the pier?
The answer is no.
Do I know Melville again?
The answer is negative.
I could go on and on, but I suggest that we leave it to what it is.
Your secretary doesn't provide a novel by at all, sir.
You simply told her that you were coming back here.
Can you prove that you actually did come back?
As you well know, these offices are empty in the evening
and I don't need to prove it.
Neither do I require an alibi
if you have an accusation to make.
Do it.
No accusation
in that event.
Good morning.
And Lieutenant, let me assure you
that you are delving into areas over which
you have no authority.
For the last time, I ask you.
Don't harass me.
Colorado calling the director.
Yes. Now entering
travel out.
You're right.
I don't have an I can't complain on the house by
you don't ask, how's your dog?
He's swimming
in this chant enough for you, Lieutenant.
That's perfect first.
Was a swimming bladder
further down the block, vote the pool, so he goes over there in the mornings.
Leave me as often as lieutenant.
I want to join him.
All right. It's just a normal sized pool.
It's not a lake.
two hot dogs.
Hey, you know, you're pretty
close, you know?
I know.
Yeah,
yeah, yeah.
You know it, huh?
I don't blame you.
That you said.
You're pretty, too.
Thank you.
You guys got a dog?
Yeah.
You know, what am I doing now?
This woman?
It goes swimming every morning.
I didn't know that swims or he can swim.
Fact,
a fifth. Dog.
That's what I call dog out.
Let's take a walk.
This way.
Inside.
Watch your step
back.
I hope you don't mind.
I don't carry a gun, sir.
It's not a gun we're looking for.
I know you've seen that.
Yes, sir.
What is it that he is looking for a bug?
I don't have any bugs, so
you don't mind if I satisfy myself in that regard.
Now I want you to look at this.
I want you to pay strict attention.
You are the head man. Yes.
It's only on rare occasions.
I take a local law enforcement officer into my confidence
only when the situation absolutely warrants it.
Whatever it is, sir,
I won't breathe the word good.
Now it seems in your investigation of a homicide,
you stumbled upon one of my most valued
counterintelligence men.
I he is in fact, in charge of the West Coast region.
A lot of sensitive, highly important information from the Pacific and South America
funnels through him.
I had no idea.
I realize that it's why I'm here.
Nelson Brenner's cover is deep and foolproof,
all the more reason to emphasize the confidentiality
of our conversation.
Nelson Brenner.
Well,
that certainly explains a great, many strange things.
I thought it would.
Can we come across? But.
Whatever inconsistency
you bottle cannot come as a direct result of any kind to protect the agency.
Fantastic.
I hope you understand.
I ran a check on this man, I sent the Washington.
Yes, I know. I got it right here in my pocket.
You never know.
This man was a spy operator.
Operator
operators Faisal,
they referred to as operators.
What are you some of your fabricators,
my favorite things to imagine.
Likewise, there.
one more thing,
sir, if we take a moment, are you familiar with a man named Simon?
Forget about him.
But you do know him. Yes, forget about him.
Sir, I do have a murder on my hand.
I'm painfully aware of that as kind of the man.
You know what? Henderson has one of my best hapless.
But you see this, Mr.
Steinmetz, in my judgment,
is somehow implicated here, and I can't find a trace of them.
Neither can we.
And we've been asking a lot longer than you have,
but we get him one of these days.
one more thing, sir,
how do your operators carry a gun?
They do.
Well, ambition, give me two.
two gallons. $2.
Wait a minute.
Right.
All right, go ahead.
Will it be?
OK, just regular gay.
All right.
Make it three.
I get three and a quarter,
three, 45, three, 55.
Oh, you know.
Mean, wipe your windshield, sir.
No, sir, I don't bother, I can see through it.
This team are on their own.
All right. Oh.
All right.
What's up there now for 37? 37
to 50, 70 to 80.
three, can I stop stop?
Have three, 80,
but I have enough of those gentlemen over there.
Thanks, you could use this, sir.
Gentlemen, all the way over here, sir.
I just met the director, the head man.
Yes, I know.
You know, already I knew before.
You know what, before that, I met him.
I knew it before that, you were going to meet him.
She's the way you guys operate.
It's fantastic.
We could use a couple of guys like, you know, in the department,
all the lies or explain now.
Yes, sir.
I guess they are.
It's a weight off my mind, too.
In fact, I'm going to take the rest of the day off.
Why don't you join me
at my house for a cocktail or something
and we can discuss old times who rather fascinate me?
Oh, that's very, very nice of you, sir.
But I still got a couple of things I got to do, sir.
We have other customers.
I got a check back down at the state.
Those guys are always bothered me.
You know what I mean?
I don't.
Wait a minute.
I still on this analysis.
Come in, please.
Your culture?
Mr Brown will be here in a moment.
You don't
know, I'm coming.
He wondered, Why wouldn't you
like it or not?
In Yemen, Mr.
Caesar came to the the.
And combining that
one kind of point to Animal Kingdom on
why don't I say
I'm terribly sorry to keep you waiting?
Having dinner for a few friends this evening, I was just checking the menu
with the chef.
Oh, that's all right.
Or that's no problem.
Here's your $10
in your mind at 5:00 a.m.
in Japan.
And then afterwards, we're having a little piano recital.
Please come in.
I've ordered some or done for you.
Make yourself comfortable.
Oh, thank you, sir.
This is quite a place to be comfortable.
But I do want to clear up this $10.
So that's why I'm here.
I can spare it, you know?
Oh, I know you can't, sir.
It's just that I'd like to keep my accounts up to date.
Well, maybe I don't, but my wife likes to keep everything straight.
You know what I mean?
Is that an original painting, sir?
Oh yes. Nearly everything here is original.
That was done in Austria.
1761 The Discovery of America.
The Discovery of America.
Is it all in there?
Really
isn't that fantastic?
Look at that.
The discovery of America.
I think I'm just going
to make this $10 here on the table, so that way it's out of my hands.
Well, relax, relax. Take a minute.
Try one of these, huh?
Try a few of them, in fact.
All right, sir.
Thank you, sir.
This looks good.
May I, sir, please?
What would you like in the way of libation
or nothing when I'm on duty, but you are finished for the day on?
Where near?
Do you have any wine cellar for just a glass?
What kind would you like
Red Beaujolais
Colombo?
A little music.
That's quite a music box you got there, so
that must have set you back a few dollars to do you like music?
Well, I hear it all the time.
My wife is crazy about
classical.
Yeah, Beethoven.
What's his name?
The guy that wrote Marriage of Figaro outside.
That fella
likes rock music, too.
When the nieces are around, it's on the air all the time.
Lot of rock.
How about this?
That's oh, that's
Madame Butterfly.
This.
That's my wife's favorite piece of music.
I know.
You know.
You have my house bugged.
But since the director met with you,
I've had it removed.
So I'm glad my wife to know about that.
Tuning.
Boy, that's some system they got there, hydroponic.
Gee, I wish my wife could hear like this.
Well, it it helps to calm the nerves, you know?
Are you nervous, sir? Well, yes, we all need
our little antidotes and I happen to know one of yours.
And what would that be, Scott?
Well, as a matter of fact, yes,
I have some very special ones in my day.
You care to sample them was that we can take this with us
just through here.
And here are the little darlings.
Do you have a cutter?
I watched her a cigar cutter.
No, I don't carry them.
Well, in that case, if you mind if I do it for you.
Not at all, sir.
You have all the experience.
Can I like to play games here? Yes.
I know this
one bad game, and I've seen that before,
and I know poker.
Do you mind?
Go ahead.
Plus, is mahjong what?
mAh Jong. Up.
You play all these games for money, sure.
Yes, indeed.
You like to gamble, sir.
What else is there?
Your cigar?
Matches are over here.
No one.
How do you find this guy?
Real, classic
Cuban.
The Bay of Pigs wasn't a total disaster.
Here we are.
See how you like it.
Happy days.
Who is that lady there in that picture
that won the The Princess of Thailand?
My goodness.
And look at these here, the medals you won, you did
well in the war reasonably well, look at those medals.
Where was that, sir? Korea?
My goodness, what is this that you wouldn't be able to understand
it's in Latin, a little gift from the University of Bavaria.
Distinguished Achievement Award
University, the State of New York trustees, Columbia University
Certificate for service driving a racing car quite a life, sir.
I find it
quite a nice.
What kind of plane is that, sir? That
that's the Tea
Party three.
Silver Star.
Oh, yeah.
And that's you standing right beside.
Uh-Huh.
Yes, I seem to remember reading about that.
It was quite famous during the war, wasn't it
the best known trainer of the period?
Well, you're a hero, sir,
and you have power
and you live in a magnificent house.
You're a hero.
The languages you speak, how can you say your life is dull?
My job?
What time do you have?
645, oh, I have to run, I almost forgot, sir, I'm taking my wife out to dinner.
Forgive me.
You've been very gracious.
I'll get your coat.
It's been a fantastic day.
Oh, yes, indeed.
May I help you with your coat?
Thank you.
I appreciate the $10,
I'll tell you.
I hope I never run into that
kind of fix again.
Safe journey.
Oh, I almost forgot.
This is a sketch that we worked up on.
Steinmetz Melville says that this is a reasonable
facsimile.
Steinmetz.
This is Steinmetz.
You've never seen him before. Oh,
no, I have never seen him.
If this is not a breach of security, sir,
could you tell me how you made contact
by telephone or through a representative of his?
I see, cause I've checked every Steinmetz in the city, and so far
I haven't been able to find anyone who even comes close to this description.
Well, by now, lieutenant, you should know that no one in
our business is ever who he says he is.
Of course, I should have known that myself,
by the way, may I have a copy of that for our leader, the director?
Why don't you take this one, sir?
I have another copy for myself.
You see, I hope to have a nice evening.
My best to your lady.
See? And Nelson Indranil feature allegation,
but I'm Adina El Discurso, actually seen at the horn, take their Congo
Nazi on air on a copy of the discourse of the discourse.
You were never able to make it out.
You better make sure
they land the commodity speech of last week.
We have a copy.
Yes, it's in the files.
Would you mind bringing one like from
or you get progress?
Never got the Frisco Islam.
I'm sort of under the misguided Muscadet that I that
that unusual to get a squeeze just a half hour before you got to deliver that.
Oh no, no, because I read it twice.
I make an impression in my mind like this.
You know me.
Sometimes I forget my own telephone number.
Thank you that I am at sales
and we see this the speech.
Suppose you wanted to read.
There's no time we read.
And what Nelson, who writes this feature, says just what I want to say.
And he adds A touch of spaghetti.
You me on how things are right or he's a brilliant, brilliant man.
But it is impossible that I take this.
Thank you very much.
So is it possible to have a few more grapes?
Good luck. It was a possible U.S. diplomat.
Not anymore. Day.
I think Caroline is such a pleasure to talk with to a on anybody.
That's in part because anybody na you be sure to call me.
Am I wrong? Hi.
Hey. I think she got a job.
Let's get back to work.
Good morning.
I'm a simple farmer in the Imperial Valley.
It just happens to be 400 miles wide.
That's all
my pop up from whom I learned the business told me years ago
when I started out Salvadore to be a successful.
You got to know two things.
Who buys?
Who sells?
Are your crop and the weather?
Well, we got all the water down in our valley
that takes care of the weather.
So my staff get made me cry tomorrow moment.
This is important.
Your secretary was kind enough
to provide this tape.
Of course, I have a warrant for
you've told a lot of nicer.
Of course, most of them
can be explained in his capacity as a spy, but not that
they want to know your whereabouts at the time of the murder.
What strikes you about this picture?
The T30 three Silver Star.
I see that you visited with me again
in my absence.
I have a warrant for that.
Do you have a warrant for everything?
What strikes you about that picture?
I was younger and more beautiful than not,
that was taken 15 years ago in Korea.
Not the fact that at that time.
Your hairline is receding.
How stupid of me.
What strikes me, sir, looking at you now, 15 years later,
is that you now have a healthy crop of hair luxuriant.
I wear a piece, a hairpiece.
That's what I told the old guy down at headquarters.
I said, Figure this a little bit more.
And working on that assumption, sir,
he took an airbrush
and he removed all your hair.
This is the same perfume.
Moved all of it. Yes.
And then he put on a wig
and he added a mustache and a beard and sunglasses.
Stomachs. Wow.
Oh dear old friend, Mr.
Steinmetz, that's marvelous.
Very clever fellows. You've got.
It's really wonderful.
I want you to hear the tape.
Yes, I'll hear it.
By all means, go ahead.
To pay strict
attention to the early part.
For Mr De Santé
to be delivered before the commodity brokers lunch
right here.
That's.
That sounds
is the closing of Venetian blinds.
That's the sound.
So close the blinds, what's so special about that, that
direction is east.
Please don't give me a lesson in geography.
At five minutes past six, the Sun came up an hour or so later.
Give or take a few moments.
The Sun angles into the building in this direction, and it hits right here
at your desk.
You came in the
following morning, sir, to finish your speech.
You sat down
and when you started to dictate the early morning Sun got in your eyes
and then a rose went to the window
and closed the blinds.
Let me see.
I closed the blinds for privacy.
But you're on the third floor, sir.
Why would you require privacy laws or other buildings in the neighborhood?
Higher buildings, but they're all office buildings.
There's no one in them at night, but this is an office building.
I was in it at night.
Why should not other people be in their offices?
Why don't you play the tape?
Carry on from there, and you will see.
But in fact, it had to be night.
Any particular sections here right on from there?
Now you listen very carefully.
first of all,
I'd like to thank the officers of the association for inviting me here.
It seems like only yesterday I was crushing the grapes at my father's
vineyard.
If you don't believe me, I'll show you the bottom of my feet.
one foot still has a cabinet stain that you hear that.
Yes, sir, I heard you had the chimes.
Did you do custom?
Yes, there are 1111.
So it had to be 11:00 at night.
It could not have been 11:00 in the morning.
I can check with my secretary.
That's good.
No, sir.
It couldn't have been at night.
Couldn't have been night.
It's been about overproduction, but it's going to be all right.
There's a food shortage all over test
for the price to fall.
Look at Southeast Asia.
They need our crops more than ever now because of the tragic events
that in the past ten years, this extra demand for our extra supply
is going to make for a proper marriage in the marketplace.
And if you're worried about the Chinese stopping,
they may pull out of the Olympics, but
not out of the soybeans.
You lost me again, Mr.
Colombo.
I did some checking newspapers, wire services, TV news rooms.
I checked everywhere
and I ended up calling the Peking was bureau.
Did you?
And at six, 20:00 a.m.
on the morning of the dafonte speech.
six hours and 20 minutes past midnight.
seven hours and 20 minutes past the time that you claim
that you were writing this speech.
And to the shock of
the world, the Chinese pulled out of the Olympics.
Did they?
You couldn't have written that speech the night before.
There's no way in the world it hadn't happened yet.
What made you stay on it?
Was it the the coat?
Yes, sir.
I couldn't figure out why it was removed.
See that I know that a mother
can take a guy's money without taking off his coat.
And then it occurred to me that Mr Henderson
was a secret agent.
And the secret
agents work on shoulder holsters and that Mr.
Henderson had what was a secret agent, believe us.
And you couldn't afford to have that fact.
So in order to remove
the show, the host had to
reveal the code code.
Why didn't she put it back on again?
No, I was going to.
But apart from muggers on the beach, Mr.
Colombo, they also have loving couples.
And I was interrupted
at the scene of the crime.
Would you like to hear something funny?
I'd love to.
Today, the Chinese,
they changed their minds.
Did they again?
They're back in the games.
In the games.
Mahjong. My.