This is the only episode where nobody dies… well, until the end when they kill the villain. Still, up to that point he had only kidnapped the girl but our heroes arrive before he can touch her or otherwise hurt her.
As it often happens, what I liked most were the scenes with Colombo, I wasn’t too fond of everybody else. It was nice seeing him in a smoking at his nephew’s wedding, not as a lieutenant but as an uncle.
The story is simple: his nephew Andy Parma, another detective, marries rich Melissa who recently started a career as a model. It’s all nice and happy, with Colombo dancing and laughing with the bride, until the newlyweds retreat to their room and he has a very loud shower, singing his lungs out :-/ and someone breaks in and takes her away. He calls Colombo and his other cop friends and they start investigating right away.
Since it had to be someone waiting for Andy to be away and Melissa to be alone, they search for someone who was at the party but shouldn’t have been, someone nobody knows, stuff like that.
Colombo drives to photographer Alexìs house,, the one who ‘discovered’ Melissa and took lots of pictures for a magazine who will dedicate a few pages to the event.
Colombo asks Andy, his two cop friends and Melissa’s father to point all the people they know and can therefore be discarded, then he sends three cops to check with the few singles who did they bring, and when it’s all over there’s only one young man not accounted for.
Colombo also gets many depliants of vans to show a man in order to find out what van was used to take her away, and he finally realises it was an ambulance.
This Rudy guy is rather troubled and talks about his dead mother in a ‘psycho’ way. Honestly, it was the boring part of the episode. I don’t know if it was scary in any way back when it aired the first time, but it certainly isn’t to me.
He keeps her in a room with a mattress on the floor and little else, until he thinks it’s time that he ‘marries’ her, meaning that he says all the words and that’s enough for him, then they lay in the bed when our heroes finally arrive. It seemed to me like this Rudy guy wanted to eventually slid her throat, like his mother died, but as soon as he gets in Andy shoots him before he can do anything.
The only scene I didn’t like - other than Rudy talking about their love and their wedding - was at the end when they were to enter the house…slowly, one at a time… it probably was the right way but still I didn’t like how it was shown.
By magic of television, Melissa spends a long time pouring lots and lots of vinegar and even more oil on the door hinges to try and get out, and yet her light white silk nightgown is still perfect, like her hair despite her hands touching it a lot.
At least she tried to freed herself, it’s better than nothing, but then she ignored the kitchen and was completely frozen by the next room, like a shrine in her honor, with a video, pictures, a white bed and everything. I don’t get why she was so shocked, he had talked to her a lot about their love and their wedding, it was abundantly clear that he was obsessed with her.
The episode ends immediately after she’s saved, not a minute more.
Colombo drove in the night with a map on the wheel and a light to actually see it, when he was trying to find Alex’s house :lol: *safetyprocedures*
Alex - Daniel Davis
cop Mulroney - Doug Savant
Andy Parma - Thomas Calabro
ITA non c’è tempo per morire
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