One of the episodes I like less, it’s rather boring and I don’t like Alex at all. Of course he’s the murderer, the bad guy, but he’s also very much not interesting and unpleasant.
Alex is a director famous for his special effects. His old friend Leonard comes to meet him with a tape: their other friend who died gave it to him. It shows Leonard’s sister right before her death. Leonard knew she fell from a motorbike and died alone, but the tape shows that she was actually doing a stunt for Alex when she fell, Alex went to her and saw the blood on her head, told his friend to stop recording and we can guess that they got the hell out of there without calling for help.
Why?
I mean, it was an accident, how could an accident ruin his career, ruin his chances?
Leonard now wants to ruin him and show the tape to everybody - and yet he informed Alex that nobody else had seen it yet because he wanted to confront Alex first… not a smart move…
So Alex quickly forms a plan: he tells Leonard the tape has been forged, that he wasn’t really there with her, andthen he tells his people to wet a whole street of his set, and he attaches some cables to an iron gate, so when he takes Leonard there, he scares him until he backs up and touches the gate; Leonard gets electrocuted and dies. Alex puts his body in his car and dumps it at a beach or something. He took away all documents and smashed his face - we don’t see it of course, this show is never splatter - so that it would be impossible to identify him.
He’s quite surprised when Colombo shows up at his place. Fact is, when he dumped the body, Alx’s book with his phone number fell out of his pocket or something, and Colombo found it. He’s even more surprised when Colombo comes back saying they IDed the body, because his belt has a hidden compartment where he kept a cheque.
Colombo hears Alex’s secretary complain about some people charging them with the water truck to wet the street, which nobody told her anything about, and it also makes no sense to her because the weather was bad already.
When Colombo tells him the victim was Leonard, Alex calls him a dear friend, that he hasn’t seen in three years. He cries recalling the girl’s death: Jenny. Alex goes to sleep while Colombo whistles and makes himself an ice-cream soda - like Alex made for Leonard - and takes a chance to snoop while drinking it.
Colombo goes to talk to him while he works, and asks him about the wet street. He looks around and finds the cable and then the gate. Colombo keeps coming back to him of course, even if he’s working. Alex talks a lot, and his speeches of shadows and stuff are quite boring.
One of the body’s shoes is missing its heel, and Colombo found it near the iron gate.
A taxi driver says he drove Leonard to the studios.
Alex has some actors talk near Colombo to make him believe that Leonard was here to buy cocaine or something. Rose the secretary knows Leonard called, and uses it to keep her job and get a bonus cruise… but it was another staged scene, this time Colombo’s idea. The fact that he bribed Rose is a kind of admission, and everyone working at the restaurant during their lunch had a part in it, so they can testify.
Colombo arrests him with great pleasure.
He got in contact with the police from Albany where Leonard lived, and got the original tape. He shows it to Alex, and that’s a motive. There’s also the weather report Rose always gets for him, and the shoe heel… but most of all there’s Leonard’s ticket to the studio tour used as a bookmark inside a book in Alex’s house. Proof he was there.
Fisher Stevens as Alex Brady
Molly Hagan as Ruth Jernigan
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