I liked this, it was fun to see how these super-IQ people thought they were so smart, and yet Columbo outsmarted them all :lol: looking almost apologetic too :lol:
There's a club called Sigma that only accepts people with a very high IQ. Brandt kills Bertie because he had found out that Brandt had stolen money - apparently because his wife spends too much... so annoying, it's not like he had to do it, you know, and yet there are probably people thinking that 'it was her fault' :-/ She did spend too much, but he kept giving her money to spend. Maybe without money she would have left him? Who knows, maybe, if that's the only thing that kept them together - that she was pretty and he was rich - but is the idea of stealing and murdering a better choice compared to being without her? :-/
Anyway, he planned an elaborate murder. He shot him personally, then make it look like someone had shot him while he was downstairs with the others.
A teenage-genius will give him her theory, which was not so absurd as the spectacled-guy's theory of suicide :-/ , but both of them were quite surprised when Colombo had to tell them that he had already checked. She took it nicely enough, but the man seemed rather upset :-p
Our first encounter with Mrs Brandt was pretty much all we needed to know about her. She came to greet him with a new nightgown and when he told her that Bertie had been killed it didn't take long for her to say that they need to move on, that she doesn't want to keep seeing him mourning and stuff like that... I mean, it's been ten seconds, it's not too much to grieve for ten seconds!!! (Of course he wasn't really grieving, it was only the tension).
As always Columbo suspects him right away and sticks to him like glue.
At the end, he has all the elements he needs, but he lacks a decisive proof, so he meets with him at the club, in that room where the murder happened, and then he started talking about the murder, and how that genius of his spectacled-friend made him understand how things had gone... until Brandt can't take it anymore, saying that that guy is not a genius but an idiot, and that 'this is out it went' or something, and he showed him how he put a pen(or something) next to the record-player so that when the music stopped it would fall on the dictionary making it fall on the ground with a loud thud.
This is his proof.
It was unexpected for him that a guy like Colombo could outsmart him, and he kept asking him about his IQ, but Colombo said that he wouldn't know how to do anything else but his job :-p also, Colombo told him that he has met many many smart people in his life, and that he always knew that there were people smarter or better than him, but he never gave up, thinking that if he worked harder, he might do it... and he did.
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venerdì 26 luglio 2019
Columbo - Make me a perfect murder
This was interesting, and it would have been better if they had not wasted time in showing us their 'technological wonders' that leave Columbo's mouth open... I mean, it was 1978, it was really so amazing to see a line on a monitor making shapes in rhythm with the music???
Anyway, I liked the protagonist here, so sorry she chose to become a murderer out of vengeance. Kay works on tv, she just finished the production of a new movie, 'the professional', and she has a love affair with her direct boss Mark. When he tells her he's promoted to go work in New York, she's all happy saying 'when do we leave?' but he goes alone. She doesn't let this throw her down, instead asks happy again that this means she will get his position once he leaves, but he tells her that he doesn't think her ready for that, because most of her success is due to intuition... which might be his expert opinion as a professional, yes, but it also makes him sound like a jerk, in a job like that isn't good intuition a good thing after all? Anyway, he says he got her a new Mercedes, as a goodbye gift I suppose, and she leaves, not before he jokes showing her his gun asking her if she wants to shoot him.
I think that's the gun she used, although I'm not so sure when did she take that.
She plans everything very carefully. She has a man work all night so that there will be someone hearing the shot and alerting everyone immediately, to testify the exact time of death. She makes a tape with her voice to remind her how much time left she has, a four minutes countdown. She tells the operator to go and pick something up, that she'll stay there to make the reel change - since she tampered with the clock on the projector, he thinks he'll have to make the change in two minutes time, but she'll do it instead. He goes and immediately she starts her plan. She has four minutes, not two, before the change, so she goes down, enters Mark's office, shoots him, hides the gun above the elevator's roof, then hurries back, only slightly slowed down by a guard that stopped to watch pictures of nude women on a magazine. She gets back just in time to make the change, but the projectionist enters right that instant so she has to throw the glove on the floor. It's one of the gloves he uses for his ship-model building hobby, after all.
Everything seems perfect. As soon as Columbo starts talking to her, as always he immediately starts suspecting her, but it takes him time to realise the motive and the way she did it.
Colombo believes in Poirot's style very much, (with the difference that Colombo does everything himself, instead of having someone else do the walking): he pays a lot of attention to people's reactions, and talks a lot with a lot of people paying attention to everything they say because while talking casually often people can say things that turn out very interesting/useful.
In this case, the projectionist - who dislikes this kind of movie - rant against 'the professional', saying there's too much blood in these movies, and that the other day (of the murder) he came back, took a look, and saw a man shooting himself in the head. He didn't like that.
Later, Colombo goes to see if a repairman was able to repair his tv - he went in with his dog in his arms, I can't understand why they can't let him walk on a leash, poor thing; Colombo said that it's the dog that watches tv in his house, and that they wanted to see Valerie's show - a dancer who should have appeared live on tv but she was a mess Kay cancelled her show for the night, ordering to air 'the professional' instead. The man was still working on the tv and yet the tv was on (....?...), and Colombo watched a minute of it, not surprisingly the bit he needed to see, all heroes need a bit of luck right?
He sees the sign that signals that the reel must be changed, and immediately after the scene when the man shoots himself, which means that Kay had just changed it when the man arrived (instead of two minutes before).
By the way, she will get fired over that. I thought it absurd too, actually, and I'm not a tv producer, but that movie was new and she burned it by showing it unexpectedly like that. Bad move.
Luck helps him again when he's at Mark's house and a guy delivers their laundry (what a coincidence) and he notices that there's a woman's jacket, not a man's, because of the way it's buttoned.
He understands that Kay had a relationship with him, and everything now makes sense.
Towards the end, Kay and Colombo are in the elevator together when she sees the gun up there, so after he gets out she goes back in and takes it, and then she will throw it off her car.
What she didn't know is that the police had found it already, and had placed another one where she could see it. They checked, it was there before she went in, it wasn't there anymore when she got out.
After being exposed, she says she's not relieved at all that it's all over, and that she will fight and she will survive, and who knows, maybe even win.
A remainder that Colombo's job may very well be done, but that doesn't mean that the culprits will be locked up.
The episode started with the police chasing after Colombo thinking he was a drunk driver , and they even hit his car. I thought this was why he needed chiropractic help and also to wear one of those white things around his neck for the first half of the episode, but then he started saying that every doctor had a different opinion on why he had neck-ache, and then that his wife was the only one right saying that he slept with the window open... I mean, what about the car-crashing thing? I go by experience when I say that that's most likely to cause neck problems....
Anyway, I liked the protagonist here, so sorry she chose to become a murderer out of vengeance. Kay works on tv, she just finished the production of a new movie, 'the professional', and she has a love affair with her direct boss Mark. When he tells her he's promoted to go work in New York, she's all happy saying 'when do we leave?' but he goes alone. She doesn't let this throw her down, instead asks happy again that this means she will get his position once he leaves, but he tells her that he doesn't think her ready for that, because most of her success is due to intuition... which might be his expert opinion as a professional, yes, but it also makes him sound like a jerk, in a job like that isn't good intuition a good thing after all? Anyway, he says he got her a new Mercedes, as a goodbye gift I suppose, and she leaves, not before he jokes showing her his gun asking her if she wants to shoot him.
I think that's the gun she used, although I'm not so sure when did she take that.
She plans everything very carefully. She has a man work all night so that there will be someone hearing the shot and alerting everyone immediately, to testify the exact time of death. She makes a tape with her voice to remind her how much time left she has, a four minutes countdown. She tells the operator to go and pick something up, that she'll stay there to make the reel change - since she tampered with the clock on the projector, he thinks he'll have to make the change in two minutes time, but she'll do it instead. He goes and immediately she starts her plan. She has four minutes, not two, before the change, so she goes down, enters Mark's office, shoots him, hides the gun above the elevator's roof, then hurries back, only slightly slowed down by a guard that stopped to watch pictures of nude women on a magazine. She gets back just in time to make the change, but the projectionist enters right that instant so she has to throw the glove on the floor. It's one of the gloves he uses for his ship-model building hobby, after all.
Everything seems perfect. As soon as Columbo starts talking to her, as always he immediately starts suspecting her, but it takes him time to realise the motive and the way she did it.
Colombo believes in Poirot's style very much, (with the difference that Colombo does everything himself, instead of having someone else do the walking): he pays a lot of attention to people's reactions, and talks a lot with a lot of people paying attention to everything they say because while talking casually often people can say things that turn out very interesting/useful.
In this case, the projectionist - who dislikes this kind of movie - rant against 'the professional', saying there's too much blood in these movies, and that the other day (of the murder) he came back, took a look, and saw a man shooting himself in the head. He didn't like that.
Later, Colombo goes to see if a repairman was able to repair his tv - he went in with his dog in his arms, I can't understand why they can't let him walk on a leash, poor thing; Colombo said that it's the dog that watches tv in his house, and that they wanted to see Valerie's show - a dancer who should have appeared live on tv but she was a mess Kay cancelled her show for the night, ordering to air 'the professional' instead. The man was still working on the tv and yet the tv was on (....?...), and Colombo watched a minute of it, not surprisingly the bit he needed to see, all heroes need a bit of luck right?
He sees the sign that signals that the reel must be changed, and immediately after the scene when the man shoots himself, which means that Kay had just changed it when the man arrived (instead of two minutes before).
By the way, she will get fired over that. I thought it absurd too, actually, and I'm not a tv producer, but that movie was new and she burned it by showing it unexpectedly like that. Bad move.
Luck helps him again when he's at Mark's house and a guy delivers their laundry (what a coincidence) and he notices that there's a woman's jacket, not a man's, because of the way it's buttoned.
He understands that Kay had a relationship with him, and everything now makes sense.
Towards the end, Kay and Colombo are in the elevator together when she sees the gun up there, so after he gets out she goes back in and takes it, and then she will throw it off her car.
What she didn't know is that the police had found it already, and had placed another one where she could see it. They checked, it was there before she went in, it wasn't there anymore when she got out.
After being exposed, she says she's not relieved at all that it's all over, and that she will fight and she will survive, and who knows, maybe even win.
A remainder that Colombo's job may very well be done, but that doesn't mean that the culprits will be locked up.
The episode started with the police chasing after Colombo thinking he was a drunk driver , and they even hit his car. I thought this was why he needed chiropractic help and also to wear one of those white things around his neck for the first half of the episode, but then he started saying that every doctor had a different opinion on why he had neck-ache, and then that his wife was the only one right saying that he slept with the window open... I mean, what about the car-crashing thing? I go by experience when I say that that's most likely to cause neck problems....
Colombo - Murder under glass
Not one of my favs, for sure, but ok. There's Colombo speaking Italian... and not bad! The characters were nothing special, the murderer was arrogant and very annoying when he played charming (charming? really? :/ ) , but the plot was not bad at all.
Paul Gerard is a food critic, and three restaurants pay him to talk well about them. One of them, Vittorio Rossi, has had enough of all this, thinks he doesn't need him anymore and wants to stop paying (we're talking thousands of dollars), not only that, he threatens to expose him, right to his face... Gerard goes to have dinner with Vittorio at his restaurant, then leaves before tasting the wine, going to pick up an important Japanese man at the airport. When he's already gone, Vittorio opens the bottle of wine, drinks some and dies.
The young waiter just came from Italy and doesn't speak English, but we're told that he phoned his family in Sicilia, and the Italian Police called the American Police, and voilà, Colombo shows up.
Gerard returns to the restaurant after being called by the police and talks to Colombo, saying that he feels fine, and the investigation starts.
It takes Colombo quite a while to realise how the wine had been poisoned, which is the strangest thing of the episode, because it seemed rather obvious to me, the only possible way. Once the food has been discarded and he knows the poison was in the wine, then there's only one way possible. I mean, the waiter picked a random bottle among many in Vittorio's restaurant, nobody else touched it, and the only thing that came in contact with the bottle was the opener.
Anyway, the episode starts with Gerard's own tv-show where he speaks about food, and he explains how to cook fugu, so it's no surprise to the viewer that he used the poison of this fish to kill Vittorio.
Not having a clue, the police can't find out what poison it was, but Colombo is very persistent to say the least, and even shows up uninvited at Gerard's house while he's having dinner with the Japanese man and they're about to eat fugu, a rare specialty, and obviously the man explains to Colombo about the poison, thinking that he's sharing a curiosity while at the same time complimenting Gerard on his ability since not everyone can cook that fish.
At the end, Colombo calls Gerard to Vittorio's restaurant to cook together, he's making scaloppine, while they talk. Gerard knows that Colombo is getting too close to the truth and most importantly that he won't stop, so he goes again with the same trick he used before: switching the bottle opener with the one poisoned that he brought from home. Colombo drinks his wine after his attentive look, but then explains to him that he marked the opener and now the opener on the table has no mark, so he knows that he had tried to poison him and therefore he switched the glasses, and now he takes the other glass as proof - ... it's all very nice and all, but shouldn't all the wine in the bottle be poisoned? If it was poisoned with the opener, all the bottle should be poisoned, not just one glass, so switching the glasses wouldn't be enough, would it? ... I mean, while watching it one tends to just go phew our Colombo is ok and clever as always, but then if you think about it, it's absurd and very wrong, there's no way you can poison one glass and not the other if you put the poison in the opener you use to open the bottle....
Anyway, Colombo sits again and tells him to taste his scaloppine and tell him what he thinks of it, and Gerard says that he really wished he had chosen to become a chef....
A funny thing was that all Vittorio's friends were showering Columbo with free food :-p
Gerard was so full of himself, he had to ask Columbo when did he start suspecting him, and was very much taken aback when Colombo told him that he suspected him from the very beginning, as soon as he saw him. Well, he's right, you know, if you got called and got told that the man you just dined with had died of poisoning, would you be so calm ? Wouldn't you be worried about yourself, maybe go to a hospital? Gerard (who clearly had no intention of stopping there for the whole dinner since he had planned to go to the airport), went straight back to the restaurant when the police called him, totally fine and very calm, not in the slightest worried that he might have been poisoned too...
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Paul Gerard is a food critic, and three restaurants pay him to talk well about them. One of them, Vittorio Rossi, has had enough of all this, thinks he doesn't need him anymore and wants to stop paying (we're talking thousands of dollars), not only that, he threatens to expose him, right to his face... Gerard goes to have dinner with Vittorio at his restaurant, then leaves before tasting the wine, going to pick up an important Japanese man at the airport. When he's already gone, Vittorio opens the bottle of wine, drinks some and dies.
The young waiter just came from Italy and doesn't speak English, but we're told that he phoned his family in Sicilia, and the Italian Police called the American Police, and voilà, Colombo shows up.
Gerard returns to the restaurant after being called by the police and talks to Colombo, saying that he feels fine, and the investigation starts.
It takes Colombo quite a while to realise how the wine had been poisoned, which is the strangest thing of the episode, because it seemed rather obvious to me, the only possible way. Once the food has been discarded and he knows the poison was in the wine, then there's only one way possible. I mean, the waiter picked a random bottle among many in Vittorio's restaurant, nobody else touched it, and the only thing that came in contact with the bottle was the opener.
Anyway, the episode starts with Gerard's own tv-show where he speaks about food, and he explains how to cook fugu, so it's no surprise to the viewer that he used the poison of this fish to kill Vittorio.
Not having a clue, the police can't find out what poison it was, but Colombo is very persistent to say the least, and even shows up uninvited at Gerard's house while he's having dinner with the Japanese man and they're about to eat fugu, a rare specialty, and obviously the man explains to Colombo about the poison, thinking that he's sharing a curiosity while at the same time complimenting Gerard on his ability since not everyone can cook that fish.
At the end, Colombo calls Gerard to Vittorio's restaurant to cook together, he's making scaloppine, while they talk. Gerard knows that Colombo is getting too close to the truth and most importantly that he won't stop, so he goes again with the same trick he used before: switching the bottle opener with the one poisoned that he brought from home. Colombo drinks his wine after his attentive look, but then explains to him that he marked the opener and now the opener on the table has no mark, so he knows that he had tried to poison him and therefore he switched the glasses, and now he takes the other glass as proof - ... it's all very nice and all, but shouldn't all the wine in the bottle be poisoned? If it was poisoned with the opener, all the bottle should be poisoned, not just one glass, so switching the glasses wouldn't be enough, would it? ... I mean, while watching it one tends to just go phew our Colombo is ok and clever as always, but then if you think about it, it's absurd and very wrong, there's no way you can poison one glass and not the other if you put the poison in the opener you use to open the bottle....
Anyway, Colombo sits again and tells him to taste his scaloppine and tell him what he thinks of it, and Gerard says that he really wished he had chosen to become a chef....
A funny thing was that all Vittorio's friends were showering Columbo with free food :-p
Gerard was so full of himself, he had to ask Columbo when did he start suspecting him, and was very much taken aback when Colombo told him that he suspected him from the very beginning, as soon as he saw him. Well, he's right, you know, if you got called and got told that the man you just dined with had died of poisoning, would you be so calm ? Wouldn't you be worried about yourself, maybe go to a hospital? Gerard (who clearly had no intention of stopping there for the whole dinner since he had planned to go to the airport), went straight back to the restaurant when the police called him, totally fine and very calm, not in the slightest worried that he might have been poisoned too...
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martedì 23 luglio 2019
Columbo - Try and catch me
An old woman is so sure that her beloved niece has been murdered by her husband that she plans revenge against him. Everyone considered it a tragedy, but she felt sure about it. Honestly, the guy acted so calmly and confident around her that I wondered if she was right or not, for almost the entire episode I thought she might have made a mistake due to her tremendous grief, but at the end it seems like she was right. There's nothing definite about it, but it is implied that she may have been right.
This is crime-novels author Abigail Mitchell. Edmund is the widower who doesn't caught on her strange behaviour at all, never suspecting a thing. She tells him she wants to make him her heir, and also has her lawyer write a testament for him in her favour, so if he dies before her she'll get back what he inherited from his wife.
Right before a trip to New York, she manages to talk to him alone, while having all the others (her lawyer, her maid and her assistant Veronica) think that he left already. She has Edmund walk inside her big safe to take something for her, then she closes the door and activates the alarm (apparently, I didn't notice this), to lock him inside. It's soundproof so nobody will notice anything.
She hoped it would be considered an accident, she will even say that maybe Edmund came back and entered the safe to take some money since he knew she had a lot of cash in there - no, not stealing, merely a bit of his inheritance in advance - and got trapped in there by accident... but Columbo never believed that for a second, because of the alarm. Someone set it from the outside...
Edmund had left his car keys on the table so she took them and hid them in the house, but when she tried to retrieve them she couldn't find them. The maid saw them and Veronica took them, saying she lost them. Abigail didn't know what to expect from this. Later Veronica gives her the keys, but doesn't exactly blackmails her. She simply wants to be closer to her, travelling around the world with her and stuff, have fun.
Abigail wants to throw away the keys when she meets Colombo. He's been looking for those keys everywhere, and even tells her that if he finds the keys he finds the killer. She gives the keys to him, saying she found them in a bush... (these keys, it didn't make sense to hide them in the house, just take them with you and drop them somewhere in New York! now it doesn't make sense to give them to Colombo....). Colombo has pictures that prove she couldn't have found them where she says she did, but this is not much of a proof.
The evidence that counts is that, right in front of her, he manages to decipher Edmund's last message. He took one of her books, and only hid a little piece of it. The title was slightly changed, he had no pen and no light, but he had a few matches and he deleted a couple of words only leaving "I was murdered by Abigail Mitchell".
Previously, Colombo had visited Edmund's apartment with Abigail, and he noted that there weren't any pictures of his dead wife, and because of this he says that it was not a happy marriage. This is the first clue that Abigail was actually right.
At the end of the episode, Abigail says that none of this would have ever happened if only had been Colombo the one in charge of investigating the death of her niece.... exactly, that's what makes detectives like him heroes and the real world so scary...
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This is crime-novels author Abigail Mitchell. Edmund is the widower who doesn't caught on her strange behaviour at all, never suspecting a thing. She tells him she wants to make him her heir, and also has her lawyer write a testament for him in her favour, so if he dies before her she'll get back what he inherited from his wife.
Right before a trip to New York, she manages to talk to him alone, while having all the others (her lawyer, her maid and her assistant Veronica) think that he left already. She has Edmund walk inside her big safe to take something for her, then she closes the door and activates the alarm (apparently, I didn't notice this), to lock him inside. It's soundproof so nobody will notice anything.
She hoped it would be considered an accident, she will even say that maybe Edmund came back and entered the safe to take some money since he knew she had a lot of cash in there - no, not stealing, merely a bit of his inheritance in advance - and got trapped in there by accident... but Columbo never believed that for a second, because of the alarm. Someone set it from the outside...
Edmund had left his car keys on the table so she took them and hid them in the house, but when she tried to retrieve them she couldn't find them. The maid saw them and Veronica took them, saying she lost them. Abigail didn't know what to expect from this. Later Veronica gives her the keys, but doesn't exactly blackmails her. She simply wants to be closer to her, travelling around the world with her and stuff, have fun.
Abigail wants to throw away the keys when she meets Colombo. He's been looking for those keys everywhere, and even tells her that if he finds the keys he finds the killer. She gives the keys to him, saying she found them in a bush... (these keys, it didn't make sense to hide them in the house, just take them with you and drop them somewhere in New York! now it doesn't make sense to give them to Colombo....). Colombo has pictures that prove she couldn't have found them where she says she did, but this is not much of a proof.
The evidence that counts is that, right in front of her, he manages to decipher Edmund's last message. He took one of her books, and only hid a little piece of it. The title was slightly changed, he had no pen and no light, but he had a few matches and he deleted a couple of words only leaving "I was murdered by Abigail Mitchell".
Previously, Colombo had visited Edmund's apartment with Abigail, and he noted that there weren't any pictures of his dead wife, and because of this he says that it was not a happy marriage. This is the first clue that Abigail was actually right.
At the end of the episode, Abigail says that none of this would have ever happened if only had been Colombo the one in charge of investigating the death of her niece.... exactly, that's what makes detectives like him heroes and the real world so scary...
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domenica 21 luglio 2019
Colombo - By dawn's early light
The protagonist is one of those guys obsessed with the military world, military discipline and of course war. I didn't like him one bit. Everything happens at a military academy, a school for boys who wants to start a military career, I think it is. This commandant, colonel Rumford, is rather obsessed with it, but the school is not doing so great, it's not even half full, so Haynes wants to turn the academy into a school opened to boys and girls alike, not a military academy, and Rumford is very much against it. Haynes has the same name of the academy because his grandfather founded it.
Rumford plans his murder, putting inside the cannon a rug to block it and also modifying the 'bullet' adding explosive, so instead of shooting blanks it explodes when Haynes fires it at the academy ceremony.
When Rumford was there in the early morning to put in the rug, he was able to see a bottle of cider hanging from a window. He could just let it go, right? Given the circumstances... but no, he immediately orders to find the culprit, appearing so sure that one of the student is making cider, rather obsessed with it he wants to find the culprit and punish him.
Colombo investigates and of course he's the one who doesn't believe it's an accident at all, and he keeps around the colonel asking questions as he always does, he also starts sleeping with the kids (well more or less, he thought he would be together with them, actually he's only in the same section of the school, but has a room of his own).
When the colonel wakes everyone up at 3am to search the rooms looking for the cider, Colombo hides it before it can be found, then he talks to the kids learning everything he needs to know about it to bust the colonel.
The cider could have been seen only that morning of the explosion. Not before (too dark) not later (it would be taken inside to avoid anyone seeing it during the day), so this proves that the colonel was right next to the cannon that early morning...
He's all 'I had to do it, I don't regret it'... well no, you didn't "have" to do it !
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Rumford plans his murder, putting inside the cannon a rug to block it and also modifying the 'bullet' adding explosive, so instead of shooting blanks it explodes when Haynes fires it at the academy ceremony.
When Rumford was there in the early morning to put in the rug, he was able to see a bottle of cider hanging from a window. He could just let it go, right? Given the circumstances... but no, he immediately orders to find the culprit, appearing so sure that one of the student is making cider, rather obsessed with it he wants to find the culprit and punish him.
Colombo investigates and of course he's the one who doesn't believe it's an accident at all, and he keeps around the colonel asking questions as he always does, he also starts sleeping with the kids (well more or less, he thought he would be together with them, actually he's only in the same section of the school, but has a room of his own).
When the colonel wakes everyone up at 3am to search the rooms looking for the cider, Colombo hides it before it can be found, then he talks to the kids learning everything he needs to know about it to bust the colonel.
The cider could have been seen only that morning of the explosion. Not before (too dark) not later (it would be taken inside to avoid anyone seeing it during the day), so this proves that the colonel was right next to the cannon that early morning...
He's all 'I had to do it, I don't regret it'... well no, you didn't "have" to do it !
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venerdì 19 luglio 2019
Columbo - An exercise in fatality
The ep wasn't bad per se, it was nice, but there were no particularly nice characters, and the ending... come on, that's nonsense, shoe-laces, really? What kind of proof is that?? I don't know, maybe I'm the only one, but I can't accept that as proof. As something suspicious to make Colombo think, yes, but as actual proof? :-/
Honestly, I look at those four shoes and they all looked the same to me...
Anyway, details.
Milo is a sort of health guru, he writes books and is a partner in a gym, spends a lot of time keeping himself fit and healthy, doing exercise and eating "healthy" ( I do hope there's a way in the middle, between eating chili like Colombo and only eating three pills plus a glass of carrot-juice like Milo...).
He likes money and he has a lot, more than people know because he uses his own companies to overcharge the gym and then he sends the money abroad.
His partner in the gym, Stafford, finds out what he's doing and openly threatens him to get to the bottom of it, find proof, and sue him, and also press charges.
Of course Milo won't allow that, so he kills him. How? Well:
Milo's secretary always records every phone record to the office, as per Milo's instructions, a safety precaution because there are weird people around, apparently. So, Milo cuts a piece of the tape, with Stafford voice on it.
Then he goes to the gym and confronts Stafford, planning to choke him with a tube to his neck, but startled Stafford let go of the hot coffee he's holding burning Milo's wrist, so Stafford tries to run outside his office, towards the gym, but Milo is after him, catches him, and strangles him - indeed, with the tube, and in a moment we see why.
After putting gym clothes on him, Milo puts Stafford in the gym as if he was weight-lifting when he died, leaving a heavy weight on his neck, as if it fell on him killing him.
Then he goes home, where he's having a party and his secretary with some guests are there already. He has two phone lines, so he uses one to call the other. His secretary answers, and it's Stafford's voice greeting her and asking for Milo.
Milo pretends to be talking to him for a few moments, then goes back to his guests.
Colombo gets to the gym in the early morning, with a thermos of hot coffee.
He is puzzled by the shoe-markings on the gym floor, since everyone has black shoes, and only Stafford had brown ones, so he thinks that Stafford was there with his normal shoes before changing. Making and abrupt turn on his heels to leave those markings. Running? Chased or chasing? Fighting?
Milo made it look like he died after 9pm with that phone call, so they'd all have a perfect alibi.
Despite the fact that we see the secretary (Jessica? Jennifer? ... well, J for sure) in a bathing suit at Milo's house near the beach when Colombo gets there to give them the bad news, she will later remark that it was not at all normal to find her at his house, it was actually the first time she went there at night, so Colombo wonder why Stafford didn't sound at all surprised that it was her answering the phone...
Milo may be fit, sure (although he does look his age, he doesn't magically look like a boy just because he's fit), but he's also arrogant, unpleasant, annoying... to the point that he openly challenges Colombo...
Colombo already found out about the phone recording, has a very accurate idea of how things went, but up to this point he has no way of proving it.
Then we get to the ending.
Colombo says that you can clearly see the way shoelaces are tied. A right-handed person ties them always in a way, the same way Stafford tied his normal shoes (which were not untied), but his gym shoes were tied the opposite way, meaning that someone tied them from the front, which means that Stafford didn't do that himself, someone put him in a gym suit. Milo had declared that during that 'phone call' (when Stafford was already dead but Milo pretended to be talking to him) Stafford told him he was already in the gym doing exercise. Only the murderer could know that, only the person who had put clothes and shoes on him. So Milo's screwed.
This ending was rather unsatisfying...shoelaces, the first ring on one side or the other... they all looked the same to me....
ITA Dalle 6 alle 9
Honestly, I look at those four shoes and they all looked the same to me...
Anyway, details.
Milo is a sort of health guru, he writes books and is a partner in a gym, spends a lot of time keeping himself fit and healthy, doing exercise and eating "healthy" ( I do hope there's a way in the middle, between eating chili like Colombo and only eating three pills plus a glass of carrot-juice like Milo...).
He likes money and he has a lot, more than people know because he uses his own companies to overcharge the gym and then he sends the money abroad.
His partner in the gym, Stafford, finds out what he's doing and openly threatens him to get to the bottom of it, find proof, and sue him, and also press charges.
Of course Milo won't allow that, so he kills him. How? Well:
Milo's secretary always records every phone record to the office, as per Milo's instructions, a safety precaution because there are weird people around, apparently. So, Milo cuts a piece of the tape, with Stafford voice on it.
Then he goes to the gym and confronts Stafford, planning to choke him with a tube to his neck, but startled Stafford let go of the hot coffee he's holding burning Milo's wrist, so Stafford tries to run outside his office, towards the gym, but Milo is after him, catches him, and strangles him - indeed, with the tube, and in a moment we see why.
After putting gym clothes on him, Milo puts Stafford in the gym as if he was weight-lifting when he died, leaving a heavy weight on his neck, as if it fell on him killing him.
Then he goes home, where he's having a party and his secretary with some guests are there already. He has two phone lines, so he uses one to call the other. His secretary answers, and it's Stafford's voice greeting her and asking for Milo.
Milo pretends to be talking to him for a few moments, then goes back to his guests.
Colombo gets to the gym in the early morning, with a thermos of hot coffee.
He is puzzled by the shoe-markings on the gym floor, since everyone has black shoes, and only Stafford had brown ones, so he thinks that Stafford was there with his normal shoes before changing. Making and abrupt turn on his heels to leave those markings. Running? Chased or chasing? Fighting?
Milo made it look like he died after 9pm with that phone call, so they'd all have a perfect alibi.
Despite the fact that we see the secretary (Jessica? Jennifer? ... well, J for sure) in a bathing suit at Milo's house near the beach when Colombo gets there to give them the bad news, she will later remark that it was not at all normal to find her at his house, it was actually the first time she went there at night, so Colombo wonder why Stafford didn't sound at all surprised that it was her answering the phone...
Milo may be fit, sure (although he does look his age, he doesn't magically look like a boy just because he's fit), but he's also arrogant, unpleasant, annoying... to the point that he openly challenges Colombo...
Colombo already found out about the phone recording, has a very accurate idea of how things went, but up to this point he has no way of proving it.
Then we get to the ending.
Colombo says that you can clearly see the way shoelaces are tied. A right-handed person ties them always in a way, the same way Stafford tied his normal shoes (which were not untied), but his gym shoes were tied the opposite way, meaning that someone tied them from the front, which means that Stafford didn't do that himself, someone put him in a gym suit. Milo had declared that during that 'phone call' (when Stafford was already dead but Milo pretended to be talking to him) Stafford told him he was already in the gym doing exercise. Only the murderer could know that, only the person who had put clothes and shoes on him. So Milo's screwed.
This ending was rather unsatisfying...shoelaces, the first ring on one side or the other... they all looked the same to me....
ITA Dalle 6 alle 9
sabato 13 luglio 2019
Columbo - Playback
Another rich, arrogant murderer. In this episode Colombo has a bad cold throughout, one of those little things that makes the character more real, makes you feel sympathy for him, makes the show less fake and cold. We also see his poor dog; it seems healthy and happy, but Colombo always leaves him alone in the car, saying to stay put and silent... I mean, poor doggy...
Harold is an arrogant man, very much obsessed with his technological gadgets, so proud of his wristwatch that can show numbers, his whole house is absurd, the doors open with a loud sound and he claps his hands to make them open. There are videocameras everywhere in the house and a guard outside checking the cameras, and he takes advantage of this for his premeditated plan to get rid of his mother-in-law that wants to exclude him from the company, thinking he's wasting her money on his stupid inventions.
By attacking him with her words so much she doesn't come out very nice, but then again she IS right in her judgement of him, so we shouldn't really judge her, maybe she would be nicer with a decent son-in-law. She even says that she hired a private detective so she knows about all his affairs... and yet no private detective came forward to talk to Colombo about this, after her death :-/ I mean, client confidentiality and all that, sure, but after her death, wouldn't it be the decent thing to do to volunteer the information to the police?
Anyway, Harold secretly cuts a little glass of the window, leaving some dirt on the wall outside to make it look someone entered the house that way.
The designated night, he plays a video showing an empty room for the guard while he kills the woman, being careful not to appear in the camera frame, then he goes out to an art party. He sets a timer for the recorder to show the murder at a later time, when he'll be at the party, so when the guard sees it and runs inside the house, he can be seen by a lot of people at the party.
As always Colombo seems very impressed by all this technology :lol:
Harold starts right away 'explaining' to the police how things went :-/ I didn't quite understand the little things about Harold doing one thing differently than usual: apparently usually it was the guard to write down the hour and I guess the place where he goes, but this time Harold handed him a magazine with everything already written on it by him... why? I didn't quite get this part. Why did he? And why the guard didn't copy it in his chart? What was the meaning of all this? I really didn't get this, the only obvious thing was that once again Colombo explains to us how he always gets suspicious when someone does things he never did before...
Colombo finds that there is no dust near the window, inside the house, and of course this is important because it's very difficult to walk through a field, a garden, enter a clean house and to not leave even the smallest particle of dirt... Harold suggests the thief might have taken his shoes off... which is absurd :-/
Harold's wife Elizabeth (Gena Rowlands), after petting the poor dog a little before Colombo shoo him away, tells him of that night, when she thought she heard a noise while Harold was still in the house but he told her he heard nothing so she says she might have been dreaming. She heard nothing afterwards... Colombo is convinced that she heard the shot, because such a loud noise would have caused the doors to open, which is the only way she could have seen the chair - that otherwise would have been in the dark - and she had told him that she saw it coming out of her nightmare.
Harold is getting very frustrated, but Colombo won't stop because he thinks, obviously, that there was no thief, that Harold did it but he can't figure out yet how to get him.
He stops to eat something at a bar and the guys there are all watching a game of American football, so Colombo has the chance to see a replay scene, like they always do in sports, and he gets the right idea of how he did it, now he only needs to prove it, so he takes the video of the murder that Harold gave him and takes it to expert to analyse it. He watches the first part, the murder, and the second part, when the guard arrives on the scene, at the same time on two different screens, looking for something that might prove that there was a time gap between the two, and he finds it.
A much better proof than those he finds sometimes, actually. This one was really good.
He takes the video to Harold's house, and shows it to him and his wife. By zooming in (really? on a videotape?) he can clearly see that on the desk, while the woman was being murdered, there still is the party invitation, which clearly means that he hadn't gotten out yet, since not only he needed it to enter the party, but he clearly presented it there and I think he even left it there. Colombo got it back from the gallery people, showing them that it was indeed the same one that appears on the screen.
Elizabeth is in tears. Harold is having a breakdown, trying to get himself a new alibi from his wife: it would be a weak and useless one anyway, but his wife doesn't confirm it of course, she can't speak at all. Poor woman, she lost her mother and now she's losing her husband... but in the long run I say it will be good for her, she'll be able to speak her mind and choose for herself, because he kept her always locked up in the house with the excuse that being on a wheelchair it was safer for her to stay in that house...
ITA playback
Harold is an arrogant man, very much obsessed with his technological gadgets, so proud of his wristwatch that can show numbers, his whole house is absurd, the doors open with a loud sound and he claps his hands to make them open. There are videocameras everywhere in the house and a guard outside checking the cameras, and he takes advantage of this for his premeditated plan to get rid of his mother-in-law that wants to exclude him from the company, thinking he's wasting her money on his stupid inventions.
By attacking him with her words so much she doesn't come out very nice, but then again she IS right in her judgement of him, so we shouldn't really judge her, maybe she would be nicer with a decent son-in-law. She even says that she hired a private detective so she knows about all his affairs... and yet no private detective came forward to talk to Colombo about this, after her death :-/ I mean, client confidentiality and all that, sure, but after her death, wouldn't it be the decent thing to do to volunteer the information to the police?
Anyway, Harold secretly cuts a little glass of the window, leaving some dirt on the wall outside to make it look someone entered the house that way.
The designated night, he plays a video showing an empty room for the guard while he kills the woman, being careful not to appear in the camera frame, then he goes out to an art party. He sets a timer for the recorder to show the murder at a later time, when he'll be at the party, so when the guard sees it and runs inside the house, he can be seen by a lot of people at the party.
As always Colombo seems very impressed by all this technology :lol:
Harold starts right away 'explaining' to the police how things went :-/ I didn't quite understand the little things about Harold doing one thing differently than usual: apparently usually it was the guard to write down the hour and I guess the place where he goes, but this time Harold handed him a magazine with everything already written on it by him... why? I didn't quite get this part. Why did he? And why the guard didn't copy it in his chart? What was the meaning of all this? I really didn't get this, the only obvious thing was that once again Colombo explains to us how he always gets suspicious when someone does things he never did before...
Colombo finds that there is no dust near the window, inside the house, and of course this is important because it's very difficult to walk through a field, a garden, enter a clean house and to not leave even the smallest particle of dirt... Harold suggests the thief might have taken his shoes off... which is absurd :-/
Harold's wife Elizabeth (Gena Rowlands), after petting the poor dog a little before Colombo shoo him away, tells him of that night, when she thought she heard a noise while Harold was still in the house but he told her he heard nothing so she says she might have been dreaming. She heard nothing afterwards... Colombo is convinced that she heard the shot, because such a loud noise would have caused the doors to open, which is the only way she could have seen the chair - that otherwise would have been in the dark - and she had told him that she saw it coming out of her nightmare.
Harold is getting very frustrated, but Colombo won't stop because he thinks, obviously, that there was no thief, that Harold did it but he can't figure out yet how to get him.
He stops to eat something at a bar and the guys there are all watching a game of American football, so Colombo has the chance to see a replay scene, like they always do in sports, and he gets the right idea of how he did it, now he only needs to prove it, so he takes the video of the murder that Harold gave him and takes it to expert to analyse it. He watches the first part, the murder, and the second part, when the guard arrives on the scene, at the same time on two different screens, looking for something that might prove that there was a time gap between the two, and he finds it.
A much better proof than those he finds sometimes, actually. This one was really good.
He takes the video to Harold's house, and shows it to him and his wife. By zooming in (really? on a videotape?) he can clearly see that on the desk, while the woman was being murdered, there still is the party invitation, which clearly means that he hadn't gotten out yet, since not only he needed it to enter the party, but he clearly presented it there and I think he even left it there. Colombo got it back from the gallery people, showing them that it was indeed the same one that appears on the screen.
Elizabeth is in tears. Harold is having a breakdown, trying to get himself a new alibi from his wife: it would be a weak and useless one anyway, but his wife doesn't confirm it of course, she can't speak at all. Poor woman, she lost her mother and now she's losing her husband... but in the long run I say it will be good for her, she'll be able to speak her mind and choose for herself, because he kept her always locked up in the house with the excuse that being on a wheelchair it was safer for her to stay in that house...
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Colombo - Troubled waters
In this ep we see Colombo out of his usual zone: on a cruise, no coat, wearing only a shirt with no jacket... it starts with Colombo running to catch the ship, wondering where his wife might be but they tell him that she's on board already. We never see her of course, but we hear about her a lot since it seems that they keep losing each other and he spends his free time looking for her :-p
The protagonists of this case's ep are Danziger, a man with an older, rich wife; the singer he had an affair with, Rosanna, and Lloyd, the musician that was in love with Rosanna and kept around her even after she told him she didn't want anything to do with him anymore.
Rosanna is now a threat to Danziger because she could ruin his marriage, so he kills her. Quite an elaborate plan, it would have worked for sure if he wasn't so unlucky to do it when Colombo was around... this is why I love these shows, because the protagonists care enough to keep at it until they find the truth, while all the secondary characters are well satisfied with the easy solution handed to them, but these shows also make you wonder how many innocent might be in trouble because there was no Colombo to save them. In this ep, without Colombo, Lloyd would have been screwed for sure, everyone was happy and eager to call him a murderer and be done with it. Only Colombo kept investigating.
Danziger broke a phial inhaling something to provoke/simulate a heart attack in the swimming pool, so he was brought to the infirmary and kept there until the next day, and this would have provided him a solid alibi.
At night, while the band took their usual break, he sneaked out, took a pair of gloves from the infirmary, used the stairs for the staff, took a uniform to walk unnoticed, entered her room with a key he made for himself earlier, killed her by shooting her thru a pillow, used her lipgloss to write an L on the mirror, left the uniform and the gun in the laundry, and sneaked back into the infirmary and into his bed, ready for the nurse when she came to take his pressure.
Knowing that there was a detective on board, when the body was discovered by a member of the band (since she was late for the show), Colombo was called to take a look. He was a bit seasick to they suggested him going to the infirmary, where he found a pillow-feather that raised his suspicions. From that moment on, he keeps digging until he's able to break Danziger's story and find proof that he's the murderer.
All these rich guys think so low of Colombo that never find it strange that he asks for their 'help' so often, accepting very easily the idea that such a dumb man might need their help what with them being so much smarter... and also very much full of themselves, the idiots.
Danziger planted the receipt of the gun in Lloyd's room, and everyone seems to accept his involvement quite easily, despite Lloyd protesting that he never bought a gun and never murdered anyone. Only Colombo believes him, and even tells him so.
Colombo asks the doctor if it is possible that Danziger might have faked the heart attack, and then goes to the swimming pool and is able to retrieve the phial he used. There's also the fact that (obviously) Danziger's pressure was much higher when taken after the murder, you know, with all that running upstairs. Many little things but still no proof.
Still, his relentless investigation is worrying Danziger. When Colombo tells him that there is nothing he can do to definitely connect Lloyd to the murder, since he used gloves so the gun has no fingerprints and the gloves where never found, Danziger thinks he better provide him with a pair of gloves with gunpowder on them so Colombo can arrest Lloyd and be done with it. He steals another pair of gloves, takes the gun of the 'magician' of the show and shoots with it to get gunpowder on the gloves, then hides them where they will eventually be found.
When this happens, Colombo uses the gloves inside out, not checking for gunpowder outside, but checking the fingerprints inside, sure that they are Danziger's and not Lloyd's. At this point, Danziger has no way of explaining why would he do that... and it's the end for him.
Lloyd was played by Dean Stockwell with big moustache and big curly hair :lol: what a look, I'm glad I always saw him with short hair :-D
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The protagonists of this case's ep are Danziger, a man with an older, rich wife; the singer he had an affair with, Rosanna, and Lloyd, the musician that was in love with Rosanna and kept around her even after she told him she didn't want anything to do with him anymore.
Rosanna is now a threat to Danziger because she could ruin his marriage, so he kills her. Quite an elaborate plan, it would have worked for sure if he wasn't so unlucky to do it when Colombo was around... this is why I love these shows, because the protagonists care enough to keep at it until they find the truth, while all the secondary characters are well satisfied with the easy solution handed to them, but these shows also make you wonder how many innocent might be in trouble because there was no Colombo to save them. In this ep, without Colombo, Lloyd would have been screwed for sure, everyone was happy and eager to call him a murderer and be done with it. Only Colombo kept investigating.
Danziger broke a phial inhaling something to provoke/simulate a heart attack in the swimming pool, so he was brought to the infirmary and kept there until the next day, and this would have provided him a solid alibi.
At night, while the band took their usual break, he sneaked out, took a pair of gloves from the infirmary, used the stairs for the staff, took a uniform to walk unnoticed, entered her room with a key he made for himself earlier, killed her by shooting her thru a pillow, used her lipgloss to write an L on the mirror, left the uniform and the gun in the laundry, and sneaked back into the infirmary and into his bed, ready for the nurse when she came to take his pressure.
Knowing that there was a detective on board, when the body was discovered by a member of the band (since she was late for the show), Colombo was called to take a look. He was a bit seasick to they suggested him going to the infirmary, where he found a pillow-feather that raised his suspicions. From that moment on, he keeps digging until he's able to break Danziger's story and find proof that he's the murderer.
All these rich guys think so low of Colombo that never find it strange that he asks for their 'help' so often, accepting very easily the idea that such a dumb man might need their help what with them being so much smarter... and also very much full of themselves, the idiots.
Danziger planted the receipt of the gun in Lloyd's room, and everyone seems to accept his involvement quite easily, despite Lloyd protesting that he never bought a gun and never murdered anyone. Only Colombo believes him, and even tells him so.
Colombo asks the doctor if it is possible that Danziger might have faked the heart attack, and then goes to the swimming pool and is able to retrieve the phial he used. There's also the fact that (obviously) Danziger's pressure was much higher when taken after the murder, you know, with all that running upstairs. Many little things but still no proof.
Still, his relentless investigation is worrying Danziger. When Colombo tells him that there is nothing he can do to definitely connect Lloyd to the murder, since he used gloves so the gun has no fingerprints and the gloves where never found, Danziger thinks he better provide him with a pair of gloves with gunpowder on them so Colombo can arrest Lloyd and be done with it. He steals another pair of gloves, takes the gun of the 'magician' of the show and shoots with it to get gunpowder on the gloves, then hides them where they will eventually be found.
When this happens, Colombo uses the gloves inside out, not checking for gunpowder outside, but checking the fingerprints inside, sure that they are Danziger's and not Lloyd's. At this point, Danziger has no way of explaining why would he do that... and it's the end for him.
Lloyd was played by Dean Stockwell with big moustache and big curly hair :lol: what a look, I'm glad I always saw him with short hair :-D
ITA assassinio a bordo
domenica 7 luglio 2019
Longmire season 5
1 - A fog that won't lift
Cady finds Walt all bloddy and Donna's missing. Matthias blackmails Henry into helping him, as Hector. Vic kisses Walt while he's in the hospital. He doesn't know who did it but Walt walks out.
Browning was released on sheriff Wilkins' orders.
Vic helps him get dressed :p Vic thinks Donna was the primary target, Walt insists he was trying to hurt him.
Vic has a hard time getting him to take care of himself, he even spits his pill, and she has to force him to take it, then Vic takes him to Henry's house to rest, because his house is a crime scene.
At Donna's house, they meet her son and he's a jerk and I despise him.
Cady tells Walt that she's working for Jacob. Walt has Henry drive him, but then Matthias calls him and he has to go :(
Walt never asks him about anything, how he's doing or stuff like that, he never notices when he's troubled :-( poor Henry, he seems so alone.
2 - One good memory
Poor Henry, he's sent to retrieve something at a thief's house and is caught again and has to run; turns out Matthias set him up to give him a legally excuse to search the place.
Walt confronts Browning but he doesn't have Donna. Amos gets fired.
Duncan takes a man hostage at the Red Pony, saying that he took Donna. Henry follows him but also calls the police. Henry stops Duncan while Vic jumps on the other guy's back :p
Duncan set Donna's van on fire. Tamar took Donna (the troubled ex-soldier, rape-victim, protecting her)
Finally Henry backs out on his deal with Matthias and tells him "I will not be manipulated or exploited anymore, I'd rather be back in prison. And I am sorry, I realise this puts you in a difficult position. You told me you were having a tough time getting people on the res to trust you. I imagine that will become even more difficult when they learn that you were the one that arrested Hector. You think people will thank you for getting their folk-hero to the white man's prison?" and "I would like to re-negotiate the terms of our arrangement" :-)
Walt saves Donna, Tamar calms down, has him cuff her, then asks for a moment alone and they let her, and just talk to themselves! How stupid was that! I was sure she'd jump in the lake! Still, Walt finds her and takes her out... alive. Good. Come on, suicidal, traumatised, and they left her alone!
3 - Chrysalis
Cady finds a white ten-year-old girl alone outside the casino and calls Walt. The Indian community resents the money Jacob gave Cady instead of them.
Henry helps Cady find an 'office' on the res, an empty house. She understands that Henry loves her like a father, but also "underestimates her like a father".
Vic is still too interested in Walt's romantic life, and is openly hostile to Donna: "I have no idea what makes you worthy of him, I really don't" OMG when will she stop?!?
Olivia's dad was run over and killed. Olivia's mom is addicted to painkillers because her husband beat her. Olivia ran over her dad to help her mother.
Jacob gives Cady a rifle as a symbol of trust.
4 - The Judas wolf
Cady can't represent Walt in the civil suit and he says that she chose Nighthorse over him :-/
Henry asks Cady's help to become foster parent to an orphan Cheyenne boy, then hugs her :-) so sweet :-) but then the boy is found hanged (suicide?) and Henry and Matthias cry their heart out together. It was the most moving scene, heartbreaking, never seen either of them so desperate :-(
Cady sends Walt a lawyer. Everybody knows about Walt's civil suit case.
A guy kidnaps hunter Dan to take his kidney for his dad. Henry steals and burns the dealer's drugs that killed the boy's father.
5 - Pure Peckinpah
Vic buys a 'house', a sort of camper, however she called it.
Bob's son Billie is on heroine and needs help, so they bring him to rehab. Henry finds the dealer dead in front of the Red Pony. He calls Matthias and then Walt. He thinks the body was left there because of him, because he's Hector, but it doesn't occur to him that Malachi's there too!
Ferg kisses the cute nurse that gave him Tamar's name :-)
Walt looks at the dead dealer's house and sees Hector lives written there, so he looks at Hector as his prime suspect!
I was right, it was a message to Malachi :-/
Looking for the new Hector, Vic feels like not-ruling-out Zach.
Ferg: "Zach just wanted to help people" - Vic:"I'm sure that's what the new Hector thinks he's doing too, I just feel like we shouldn't discount people because we feel like we know them, especially if they're feeling powerless" and !!! that so applies to Henry.
Walt goes to ask Henry is Matthias is Hector! I laughed out loud! Henry has some very logial and true replies :-) I loved that scene lol and the next one, when Henry tells Matthias about it lol
Matthias "oh shit" - Henry "well put" lol
Travis fixes Vic's camper :-) then catches the girl Vic was looking for :p
He talks about a red-headed guy.
Matthias is in Walt's office when they get a call that Hector did something :-p He burned the pizza guy pot, so Walt is now ok believing that Hector only burned the drugs :-)
Matthias "Like I said, Hector doesn't kill" :-)
Vic helps Jul and her granny who calls her "her precious Juliet" :-)
Vic takes Billy to another clinic and Ferg takes the red-headed dealer to the Feds but on the road a lot of armed men show up to free the guy. We hear gunshots! Ferg!!!
6 - Objection
Walt missed the deposition for his case and his lawyer's pissed, of course.
Walt finds Ferg's empty police car but no Ferg! Well, it's good, no body...
A terrified girl takes refuge in Cady's office. Walt finds Ferg alive but very shaken up. A Fed guy says that they are the Irish mob.
Jacob is right you know, Walt really goes after him every chance he gets :-/
Ferg: "I don't deserve to be here, I screwed up" and "should I resign" but Vic supports him :)
At the deposition, Walt does his best to ruin himself, I say, because honestly Jacob didn't say anything bad, Walt got up and started shouting!
He's a good man, I know, but sometimes (oftentimes) he's a real idiot! :-/
Ferg is called Archie :) I didn't know that. His girlfriend is proud of him and I'm glad he has her :)
The scene between Henry and Jacob was good too :D
The lawyer saying "you're pulling a Columbo" :lol:
Mandy (the girl escaping) asks Cady's help. JP's wife is in bad condition, badly beaten up. Asha thinks there's nothing she can do and both girls want to be free of JP, and Cady helps.
Ferg retrieves his badge that Eddie touched, providing proof :)
Browning makes a deposition against Walt :-/ and he just leaves :-/
Henry asks Walt what's going on, never the other way around :-/
Henry tries to help and Walt brings trouble :-/
Walt is truly obsessed with Jacob :-/ I'm rather tired of this, no, very tired of this :-/ he needs to move on too, like Vic :-/
Walt tells Cady to quit :-/
Walt wants to settle but now they refuse to settle.
I tell you, I love scenes between Henry and Matthias, or Henry and Jacob... but I'm getting really tired of Walt and Vic's obsessions!!!
7 - From this day forward
Walt can't relax in his home after what happened with Tamar so he takes her in the middle of nowhere in his car like when he was a teenager... can't decide if that's more funny or embarrassing...
Asha slept in front of Cady's office, not knowing where to go, still scared even after Cady gave her husband a restraining order.
Two men find a corpse in a hollow tree while looking for a treasure: Tony. His wife and mother-in-law thought he abandoned her two years ago.
Asha's staying at Cady's office but one night JP comes to tell her that he's getting sober and she was about to forgive him but Cady outs his lies and she stays.
Walt sent Ferg to Colorado to check an address, and he brings his girlfriend along.
Cady asks Henry to take Asha in for a few days, to keep her safe. She means good, I like what she's doing, but they all go to Henry wanting something... still, I'm not complaining about her, at least she really cares and helped him when he needed her, when he was in prison...
Tony's mother-in-law hired a man to kill him because he wanted to divorce his wife for her money.
JP bursts in with a gun, and Cady shoots him with Jacob's rifle.
8 - Stand your ground
Jacob calls Walt because the Irish mob left him a warning threat, and he insists they're not his partners, in fact he cancelled all reservation for their 'manifest destinations' and he wants protection.
Henry goes to pick Asha up, but Cady's at Matthias office.
Walt goes to Vic's place to tell her he hired Amon as security for Jacob, and that he could be responsible for it because he "may have threatened the head of the Irish mob to his face".... :p
"I do realise in retrospective I may have gone a bit too far" so they may have put a hit on Walt... he doesn't call the FBI because there's a leak there.
Instead of backing up her story, Asha accuses her of murdering her husband, because JP died, during surgery. Cady thought she saved her life, but she still say she loved him.
With her phone call, Cady called Jacob, not Walt, and Jacob sent a lawyer.
Henry called Walt, when he thought she'd been shot. Once again Walt is blaming it on Jacob, but Cady had asked Walt's help and he had turned her down, told her to quit.
Henry finds Malachi's secret book :-) and brings it to Jacob.
Walt talks to the Irish boss.
Cady has more clients now, but she's not happy to have it this way.
Walt goes back to accuse Jacob, but then they got shot at. Amon gets shot in the leg and Vic tells Walt that she's not dating Amon; There's a 20.000$ bounty on Hector: Matthias"I might start thinking about killing you" - Henry "that is not funny" - Matthias "sure it is" :lol these two.
No charges against Cady.
Finally Walt goes after Malachi but of course, knowing him, Malachi puts it all on Jacob.
Cady cries in Henry's arms, then Jacob comes to see how she's doing. Henry told her she's his family and a true Cheyenne warrior, and asked Matthias a favour to give her her rifle back, then Jacob tells her he knew she had the strength to handle the job and that he's proud of her.
Vic took a pregnancy test.
Jacob banishes Malachi, taking Henry with him so he can get him to sign the document that gives him back his Red Pony :) He signed! Finally!
9 - Continual soiree
Henry has his bar back, and has changed all the locks already by morning, and fires Darius and also takes his picture to add it to the no-serve-board .
Vic must go testify against Chance Gilbert and he will be representing himself, poor girl. Gilbert talks about her "romantic obsession" : the whole trial is difficult to bear :-/
Travis finds out she's pregnant and thinks he's the father.
Walt is angry with Henry because he gave the book to Jason. It was a glorious day for Henry but Walt can only think of busting Jacob, even wonders if Henry or Jacob or both killed Malachi, and if that wasn't enough already he says that he and Henry used to be on the same side, before Jacob turned Henry and Cady against him :-/ I mean, he's gone, he totally lost it...
Jacob asks Cady to hire some Indian help and gives her names of people with relatives in the council, because of politics .
Walt asks Matthias help to look for Malachi. Walt then goes to accuse Jacob of murdering Malachi, and his smile is almost maniacal. He also wants to bring down Hector :-/ Walt goes to Cady to ask if either Jacob or Henry (!!!) asked her to assist Hector... she tells him that Henry and Jacob are not perfect but they are good men; he says that Cady and Henry are falling for Jacob's act regardless of what he (Walt) says, and Cady calls it "irrational Nighthorse obsession", that his judgement is biased and he should consider retiring, and before he goes "ehi dad, I'm totally over shooting and killing that man so, thanks for asking" because he didn't, of course, not once.
Cady tells Walt of the kid that killed himself, and Walt finally starts thinking of Henry as Hector. He goes in and accuses Henry of dishonesty and disloyalty and then they fight!!
10 - The stuff dreams are made of
Walt talks to his lawyer while Henry talks to Matthias.
He was the one man that always had his back, and he attacked him :-/
Gilbert was found guilty on all charges, good.
Henry and Jacob talk about Malachi, civilly :)
Gilbert asks Walt to be put in death-row, instead of jail for twenty years. Of course, he was all freedom-talk (his own freedom, that is) so jail is worse than death. Well, good.
The mayor suspends Walt until his trial's over. Cady hires Mandy officially, so she puts back the money she had taken...
Donna questions their relationship and they talk and I guess they broke up.
A fanatic of Gilbert's tries to drown Vic and Travis wants to take care of her, if she only let him. He insists and takes her to a doctor.
Cady is about to get adopted in the Cheyenne tribe.
Henry sent Walt his soldier-Indian figurines with a note "always remember the asymptote".
The mayor offers Jacob to solve his biggest problem: Walt. He can take him down.
A woman asks for help at the Red Pony and of course Henry offers to help, and he falls into Malachi's trap and gets tortured.
Somebody save him, my Henry!!
Malachi, Darius and their men leave him tied up to the ground in Crow territory, under the sun, and Malachi used the stakes Jacob uses for his warrior rituals. I guess he figured that Walt will be happy to suspect Jacob of Henry's murder, after finding his body. Well, I know he won't die, for two reasons: first, that would be unacceptable because Henry's the best character of the show, and second, because LDP tweeted me (can you believe that? how nice!) that he'll have many scenes in season 6 so I'm really looking forward to it :-)
Cady goes through the ritual and becomes part of the Cheyenne tribe. It ends with Cady having a vision, strange to describe: Henry hanged (sob) but still answering his phone; her dad gone, blood in her office, Jacob dressed as a warrior, then Walt too...
Walt finds out the truth behind his lawsuit: they want his land, and if he's sentenced to pay them all the money they're asking for he'll have no choice but to sell his place!
note:
finally got around to copy this :-p
Columbo - A deadly state of mind
A character with my name :-) It doesn't happen often :-) Well, it's a weak woman, made weaker by the drugs given her and all the brain-washing, and she has horrible taste in men choosing only jerks, but still, she's called Nadia :-)
So, Marc Collier is a doctor, specialised in hypnotherapy, he writes books about it, but the last one is causing him trouble and he's using Nadia as his subject, using drugs on her to facilitate the state of surrender so he can easily manipulate her. She's married but in love with him, so they plan to meet at her country house while her husband is away. He goes there but, surprise! the husband is present, he forbid her to call him to warn him. Collier doesn't really seem to care and acts all cocky, even after the husband tells him that she's had many lovers before, and he plans on taking her away with him. Now the husband gets angry and attacks Collier and when she tries to stop him he attacks her. To stop him, Collier takes a poker next to the fireplace and hits him hard, killing him. She's in shock, but he tries to think and doesn't want to tell the police the truth so he stages a fake robbery, taking the jewellery (rings and watches) from her and her husband hand and wrist, and telling her exactly what to say. Using hypnosis, so she's pretty convincing where she tells her story to the police. She says she was listening to music with her husband when a man came asking to make a phone call then broke in with another man, their faces covered, took their jewels and when her husband attacked them they killed him.
Colombo is not convinced, he thinks that if they drove in front of the house she should have seen the car lights, and even without lights, they said the car was far away but then drove to the front... little things as usual that make him think. Then he finds on the floor a flint that came out of Collier's lighter since he smokes a lot. Nadia and her husband don't smoke and the 'robbers' were supposed to have their faces covered, and the house had been closed for months after being throughly cleaned, so he thinks there was someone else in the house. Nadia seems increasingly unstable and he keeps thinking that she's hiding something, so Collier plans on getting rid of her. Hypnotising her again, making her believe that she's about to swim in the swimming pool so she throws herself off the fifth floor.
Colombo is convinced that Collier killed her, exactly like that. He found all her clothes neatly arranged on a chair, with her jewels inside her shoes, not something you do if you want to kill yourself, but something you do before taking a swim. Still, he can't prove that he hypnotised her.
What he can do, is to prove that he lied before and killed her husband.
When he drove off after killing him, he almost hit a blind man walking with his dog. Now Colombo tells him, with various officers as witnesses, that that man can identify him and state that he was there indeed, and at 530 not 700pm. Collier acts all cocky again, saying that he won't fall for their little act, that the man is blind and can't have seen anybody. He says that he never saw him of course, having never been there before, but that being a doctor he can tell for sure that the man is blind, although they staged it very well, telling him where to go, where to sit, where to take the matches to hand the lieutenant... and to prove it Collier gives the man a magazine to read. To his utter surprise, the man reads it with no problem. Collier is shocked, and Columbo's trap is revealed. The blind guy has a brother who looks a lot like him, and they gave him glasses to make it better.
Only the brother is not blind, and it was him talking to them. So Colombo says that there was no way he would think that that man was blind if he hadn't seen the brother before. So Colombo indeed has an eye witness, only it isn't mr Morris, it's Collier himself!
Colombo - Peter Falk
ITA Colombo - testimone di se stesso
So, Marc Collier is a doctor, specialised in hypnotherapy, he writes books about it, but the last one is causing him trouble and he's using Nadia as his subject, using drugs on her to facilitate the state of surrender so he can easily manipulate her. She's married but in love with him, so they plan to meet at her country house while her husband is away. He goes there but, surprise! the husband is present, he forbid her to call him to warn him. Collier doesn't really seem to care and acts all cocky, even after the husband tells him that she's had many lovers before, and he plans on taking her away with him. Now the husband gets angry and attacks Collier and when she tries to stop him he attacks her. To stop him, Collier takes a poker next to the fireplace and hits him hard, killing him. She's in shock, but he tries to think and doesn't want to tell the police the truth so he stages a fake robbery, taking the jewellery (rings and watches) from her and her husband hand and wrist, and telling her exactly what to say. Using hypnosis, so she's pretty convincing where she tells her story to the police. She says she was listening to music with her husband when a man came asking to make a phone call then broke in with another man, their faces covered, took their jewels and when her husband attacked them they killed him.
Colombo is not convinced, he thinks that if they drove in front of the house she should have seen the car lights, and even without lights, they said the car was far away but then drove to the front... little things as usual that make him think. Then he finds on the floor a flint that came out of Collier's lighter since he smokes a lot. Nadia and her husband don't smoke and the 'robbers' were supposed to have their faces covered, and the house had been closed for months after being throughly cleaned, so he thinks there was someone else in the house. Nadia seems increasingly unstable and he keeps thinking that she's hiding something, so Collier plans on getting rid of her. Hypnotising her again, making her believe that she's about to swim in the swimming pool so she throws herself off the fifth floor.
Colombo is convinced that Collier killed her, exactly like that. He found all her clothes neatly arranged on a chair, with her jewels inside her shoes, not something you do if you want to kill yourself, but something you do before taking a swim. Still, he can't prove that he hypnotised her.
What he can do, is to prove that he lied before and killed her husband.
When he drove off after killing him, he almost hit a blind man walking with his dog. Now Colombo tells him, with various officers as witnesses, that that man can identify him and state that he was there indeed, and at 530 not 700pm. Collier acts all cocky again, saying that he won't fall for their little act, that the man is blind and can't have seen anybody. He says that he never saw him of course, having never been there before, but that being a doctor he can tell for sure that the man is blind, although they staged it very well, telling him where to go, where to sit, where to take the matches to hand the lieutenant... and to prove it Collier gives the man a magazine to read. To his utter surprise, the man reads it with no problem. Collier is shocked, and Columbo's trap is revealed. The blind guy has a brother who looks a lot like him, and they gave him glasses to make it better.
Only the brother is not blind, and it was him talking to them. So Colombo says that there was no way he would think that that man was blind if he hadn't seen the brother before. So Colombo indeed has an eye witness, only it isn't mr Morris, it's Collier himself!
Colombo - Peter Falk
ITA Colombo - testimone di se stesso
Columbo - Negative reaction
A rare case where we get to see Colombo at his desk, inside the police station :-) The solution is not so air-tight as Colombo seems to think, but I guess it was enough at the time.
Galesko (Dick Van Dyke) is a famous photographer who has published many books. He has a wife, a very unpleasant woman, always shouting at him, drinking and offending him, still instead of leaving her he opts for killing her... a bit extreme but he was sure he had thought of everything, coming up with a perfect plan...
Alvin Deskler just came out of prison and started working secretly for him. Galesko's plan was rather complex. He forged a ransom letter to himself written using letters taken from a newspaper, had Deskler buy him an old camera and also a small farm in the country. Galesko led his wife to see the farm then tied her up to a chair, put a clock on the mantelpiece and took her picture - actually he took two because the first didn't come out right, and hurt his photographer-sense. He'll pretend that that picture was sent to him as proof that someone has kidnapped his wife. Then he shot her.
As instructed by Galesko, Deskler now rents a car to meet him, and Galesko orders him to call him at a specific hour at his house and then meet at a junkyard at a specific time. At home, Galesko tells his maid that his wife went away, not giving her reasons because he wanted her to be suspicious so she listens in when he receives a phone call and answer personally, acting weird and writing $20.000 in small bills on a notepad that he leaves there for her to see.
He goes to meet Deskler and shoots him with another gun then puts in his hand the gun he used to kill his wife and shoots himself in the leg. He will tell Colombo that he went to pay the ransom, the guy shot at him and he reacted and shot him, killing him. He has already put the cut newspaper, the glue and the camera in Deskler motel room.
Colombo notices that the clock has been put there recently, then he finds the discarded photo. Deskler had been in prison already (although only for stealing, never for killing), and after everything found in his room the other cops are pretty satisfied with the case, but Colombo is not. Which is why we love him. He cares.
Colombo, talking to the other cops, asks if they think that Deskler was an idiot, because only an idiot would leave so many clues behind. Then there are a lot of little things piling up. The discarded photo (would any kidnapper care so much about the composition of the picture?), the fact that Deskler always went around in a taxy although he was supposed to have no money, the fact that he refused to look for a job, the fact that his room had been cleaned by the maid and nothing was found there the day before, the fact that there was the newspaper but no little bits of paper you would inevitably made while cutting the letters....
There was one witness at the junkyard, but he was completely drunk and the next day he doesn't remember a thing. Colombo went to question him at the shelter for the poor, where a nun thought he was a poor man in need of some food and also tried her best to give him a new coat, and when he was finally able to tell her that he was a lieutenant on a case she thought he was undercover :p
Colombo acts dumber than usual, and Galesko falls for it. He thinks that Colombo is a fool, a simpleton who knows nothing about pictures. At the end, Colombo is sure that he did it but still has no proof, so he called him at the police station (making him angry, he already told him to stop harassing him) and accused him of murder in front of three officers. He says that he has proof that the murder was committed at 10 am and not 2pm, so Galesko does not have an alibi while Deskler has one - he was taking his driver license, if I'm not mistaken - by the way, when Colombo goes to check this talking to the man Deskler took his driving test with, the man acts scared to death about Colombo's car and his ability to drive lol, at first the door doesn't even open, then there are no seatbelts, he doesn't use turn-signals... the man couldn't wait to get out of that trap, he'd rather walk the rest of the way :lol:
As proof, Colombo shows him an enlarged copy of the picture that shows his wife tied to the chair, only the picture has been inverted and now the clock shows 10am. Galesko shouts that it's a pathetic attempt to frame him, that if he looks at the original picture he will see that it's been inverted, but clumsy Colombo says he inadvertently destroyed the original... so Galesko feels he has no other choice but to show him the real picture, and very confidently steps forward moving aside the other cameras on the shelf to take out the one he used to take that picture, to show him that inside there's still the negative.
Colombo now have witnesses that among a dozen cameras he picked the right one with confidence, knowing which one it was because he himself took the picture. Galesko now realises that if he hadn't taken the camera there would be no proof against him whatsoever.
Now, this is where it ends and it's ok, we appreciate that the murderer has been caught and that the good guys win, but if we look at it closely, does it really make sense?
The fact that the picture shows one hour or another, does it really mean that the woman was shot at that hour? Sure, the fact remains that Deskler had an alibi for that hour so he couldn't have taken the picture. Ok, we accept that.
Does the fact that he picked the right camera be absolute proof that he took the picture himself? He's an expert photographer and he had seen the original picture, he had hold it in his hands, so isn't it possible that he knew that only that camera produced such pictures? The other cameras were very different, the pictures would have been different, would have had to be developed and would have come out differently no doubt. This was the kind of camera that immediately delivered a picture, like a polaroid.
Who knows, but after all it's not like we really care right? :-)
Colombo - Peter Falk
ITA Colombo - Una mossa sbagliata
Galesko (Dick Van Dyke) is a famous photographer who has published many books. He has a wife, a very unpleasant woman, always shouting at him, drinking and offending him, still instead of leaving her he opts for killing her... a bit extreme but he was sure he had thought of everything, coming up with a perfect plan...
Alvin Deskler just came out of prison and started working secretly for him. Galesko's plan was rather complex. He forged a ransom letter to himself written using letters taken from a newspaper, had Deskler buy him an old camera and also a small farm in the country. Galesko led his wife to see the farm then tied her up to a chair, put a clock on the mantelpiece and took her picture - actually he took two because the first didn't come out right, and hurt his photographer-sense. He'll pretend that that picture was sent to him as proof that someone has kidnapped his wife. Then he shot her.
As instructed by Galesko, Deskler now rents a car to meet him, and Galesko orders him to call him at a specific hour at his house and then meet at a junkyard at a specific time. At home, Galesko tells his maid that his wife went away, not giving her reasons because he wanted her to be suspicious so she listens in when he receives a phone call and answer personally, acting weird and writing $20.000 in small bills on a notepad that he leaves there for her to see.
He goes to meet Deskler and shoots him with another gun then puts in his hand the gun he used to kill his wife and shoots himself in the leg. He will tell Colombo that he went to pay the ransom, the guy shot at him and he reacted and shot him, killing him. He has already put the cut newspaper, the glue and the camera in Deskler motel room.
Colombo notices that the clock has been put there recently, then he finds the discarded photo. Deskler had been in prison already (although only for stealing, never for killing), and after everything found in his room the other cops are pretty satisfied with the case, but Colombo is not. Which is why we love him. He cares.
Colombo, talking to the other cops, asks if they think that Deskler was an idiot, because only an idiot would leave so many clues behind. Then there are a lot of little things piling up. The discarded photo (would any kidnapper care so much about the composition of the picture?), the fact that Deskler always went around in a taxy although he was supposed to have no money, the fact that he refused to look for a job, the fact that his room had been cleaned by the maid and nothing was found there the day before, the fact that there was the newspaper but no little bits of paper you would inevitably made while cutting the letters....
There was one witness at the junkyard, but he was completely drunk and the next day he doesn't remember a thing. Colombo went to question him at the shelter for the poor, where a nun thought he was a poor man in need of some food and also tried her best to give him a new coat, and when he was finally able to tell her that he was a lieutenant on a case she thought he was undercover :p
Colombo acts dumber than usual, and Galesko falls for it. He thinks that Colombo is a fool, a simpleton who knows nothing about pictures. At the end, Colombo is sure that he did it but still has no proof, so he called him at the police station (making him angry, he already told him to stop harassing him) and accused him of murder in front of three officers. He says that he has proof that the murder was committed at 10 am and not 2pm, so Galesko does not have an alibi while Deskler has one - he was taking his driver license, if I'm not mistaken - by the way, when Colombo goes to check this talking to the man Deskler took his driving test with, the man acts scared to death about Colombo's car and his ability to drive lol, at first the door doesn't even open, then there are no seatbelts, he doesn't use turn-signals... the man couldn't wait to get out of that trap, he'd rather walk the rest of the way :lol:
As proof, Colombo shows him an enlarged copy of the picture that shows his wife tied to the chair, only the picture has been inverted and now the clock shows 10am. Galesko shouts that it's a pathetic attempt to frame him, that if he looks at the original picture he will see that it's been inverted, but clumsy Colombo says he inadvertently destroyed the original... so Galesko feels he has no other choice but to show him the real picture, and very confidently steps forward moving aside the other cameras on the shelf to take out the one he used to take that picture, to show him that inside there's still the negative.
Colombo now have witnesses that among a dozen cameras he picked the right one with confidence, knowing which one it was because he himself took the picture. Galesko now realises that if he hadn't taken the camera there would be no proof against him whatsoever.
Now, this is where it ends and it's ok, we appreciate that the murderer has been caught and that the good guys win, but if we look at it closely, does it really make sense?
The fact that the picture shows one hour or another, does it really mean that the woman was shot at that hour? Sure, the fact remains that Deskler had an alibi for that hour so he couldn't have taken the picture. Ok, we accept that.
Does the fact that he picked the right camera be absolute proof that he took the picture himself? He's an expert photographer and he had seen the original picture, he had hold it in his hands, so isn't it possible that he knew that only that camera produced such pictures? The other cameras were very different, the pictures would have been different, would have had to be developed and would have come out differently no doubt. This was the kind of camera that immediately delivered a picture, like a polaroid.
Who knows, but after all it's not like we really care right? :-)
Colombo - Peter Falk
ITA Colombo - Una mossa sbagliata
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