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....
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