I liked this episode enough, it was the only one where you couldn’t be sure of who had done it until the end… well, you knew, but at the same time you didn’t for sure, while usually we see all the process and know every detail for sure.
The episode and the plot was interesting, but I didn’t much care for this Wayne character. Ok, being the murderer, it’s normal that he wasn’t very likable, but that’s the point. To everyone else in the story, he was. All the women loved him! Not just two or three, all of them. Helen the insurance woman, the producer’s wife, the woman at the tennis place, Jess and Theresa and even Jess’s maid, all of them had a story with him, but there were more that lilked him a lot even if they didn’t have an affair with him, and I can’t see why. He was reasonably handsome, but really nothing so earth-shattering…
Anyway, the plot is: despite his many women, the one he asked to marry him was Theresa, a successful writer. At first she was unsure, but then during a tv interview, pressed by her fans, she admitted that she loved Wayne and wanted to marry him.
Next thing we know, Theresa calls Wayne at night and tells him that she hates him and will never marry him. Now, we saw that her sister jess had a private investigator gather information on Wayne so maybe they wanted us to believe that after learning something she called it off, but they also showed us the shadow of the woman speaking, and that wasn’t Theresa’s hair, or head… and it’s very easy to recognize her as soon as we see her… (well, in Italian it’s rather ridiculous because the two voices were so very different that it was impossible to mistake them, and it was absurd that Wayne did).
Wayne drives back immediately and ends up killing her. When she showed up, Jess, sister and literary agent who has always been a bit jealous of her pretty sister (apparently… she was different, more aggressive, a tough character, which may explain whileall the boys turned to her sister once they met her…) is openly hostile to Wayne.
It doesn’t take too long for them to butt heads, and it doesn’t take long for Wayne to sort of confess that he came home and found that Theresa had destroyed all his love letters and had read the investigator’s notes, and he says that he lost his mind and shot her with her own gun that he found there, or something like that. Before they can arrest him though, they learn that the shot to the heart with the gun he admits to using was not what killed her. She had been killed with a blow to the head, I think, or a shot to the head, something like that, but for sure the gun shot to the heart happened when she was already dead. He faints. Apparently he’s free to go, it’s not a crime to shoot a dead body…
Let’s see what I remember: Wayne lives with Theresa, as his own room there, full of pictures of his many adventures (climbing, fishing, skydiving, tennis) and Colombo wonders when he has time to earn his living, but he doesn’t reply, I’m not sure he actually does anything. Jess tells Colombo about the investigator so he can talk freely. Wayne said he arrived around 7, and on the way left a message on Helen’s machine saying he was going to see Theresa (knowing that her phone records the hour too). Some men doing cable repairs were there since 5.50am to 6.20 am if I remember right, and didn’t see any cars. After checking the phone records Colombo guesses the truth and Jess confesses she made the call, since Theresa wouldn’t do it.
When Colombo busts him, it’s because he studied her lingerie, to the curious looks of everyone in sight. He was with Jess, having won her over simply with a kiss, when Colombo explains. When they found her, Theresa was wearing pretty lingerie but also white knee length socks that she only wore with slacks, that she used when she wanted to be comfortable, like around the house or while travelling on a plane.
Her lingerie, though, really caught Colombo’s attention, and is the reason why he’s sure that it must have been a man, because no woman would make the same mistake. Wayne arrived early and killed her while she was asleep then he dressed her as if she was preparing to leave (she was supposed to leave forSeattle on a plane). In his plan he could have been back to play tennis and nobody would have noticed. Colombo had the recorded message analized and apparently the noise that Wayne said was traffic was actually crows, and there were a lot annoying the cable guys while they worked…
Colombo says Wayne arrived very early and killed her, but then the cable guys arrived and he couldn’t leave without being seen, so he changed his plan and made that phone call, and then shot her heart. He figured that if he confessed and was proven ‘innocent’, as indeed happened, they would not look at him anymore, but Colombo is smarter than that.
He says that someone dressed her, someone who knew her enough to know she would wear slacks and those white socks for the plane, and it could not have been a sister or a maid because no woman would put the panties on backwards. The picture of the body proves it because you can see the label on her right hip, but it should have been on the left, because they’re always on the left side…
Whn she gets it, Jess launches herself at Wayne, and I’d say she even assest one good punch :)
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