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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