This one wasn’t bad, although it was’t anything special either. Very interesting the first time for sure, a little less valuable as a rewatch.
Viviane Dimitri is so not in her right mind… years ago she loved Pete and he loved her to the point of stealing money from his clients to give her everything she wanted, but then the market went bad and he lost everything… she says he could have made it, the market was about to go up again and he’d have made the money he needed but he didn’t have the time because someone “called his boss and told him what he was doing”… when the client demanded his money back Pete killed him, and ‘a police lieutenant’ hunted him until he arrested him and Pete got a ten years sentence, but eight years in he got a heart attack and died.
Viviane sells houses, talking/convincing people to buy much more expensive houses than they inetnded to. She’s sure that her boss Charlie is the one who ratted out Pete, so she kills him, then she goes to dinner with married Leland during which she sneaks out to use Charlie’s bank card to get some money that she’ll put back in his wallet and back in his pants.
Colombo finds 400 dollars cash in Charlile’s pockets, it was money he won in a bet on a basket game. So Colombo soon explains to his young seargeant his own theory about that cash, great way to instruct the younger ones!
She wanted Colombo to be the one in charge of this case, and she made sure by calling the police station to ask for him, to be sure that he’d be back from his holiday. For security reasons cops’ addresses and phone numbers are not in the phone book.
Colombo eats his beloved chili with crackers as usual.
28-29 years of marriage for Colombo. He says they never had children but they have each other, and that she’s always doing something…
Colombo knows from the start that Viviane did it, it’s quite obvious from the cash money, and also that she has left clues for who he has to suspect, so he makes her think he bought it to see what her true game is. He can’t find any proof at all. She insists on asking to meet Colombo’s wife, and when he mentions that he does not eat jam but that his wife loves it, she brings him some for her.
Colombo tracks down Viviane’s old psychiatrist who of course can’t really tell him much about her, but I liked their meeting,, and he made it clear that not only in a case such as that a woman would choose to go after the wife of the man responsible for her husband’s death, but also that she wanted him to know the truth, wanted the satisfaction of him knowing.
So Colombo arranges for his sergeant to rush to him saying his wife is at the hospital… and then there’s Mrs Colombo’s funeral (the priest reminds me a lot of Filini ) and then Colombo asks Viviane to drive him home. He makes himself a slice of bread with the jam Viviane gave him and she watches him eating it. He fakes getting sick until she laughs at him and tells him everything, that she poisoned him and his wife and killed Charlie. At this point he says that it’s not his house but it’s the sergeant who lives there, and who has recorded her confession. His wife is alive and with just a small flu, he never gave her the jam, of course, but sent it to be analyzed immediately. He says he’s sorry for her pain but he took it rather personally that she wanted to kill both him and his wife.
We saw a picture on the piano, a double frame, one with Colombo and one with another woman that’s supposed to be his wife, but at the end of the episode, after the sergeant takes Viviane away, Colombo calls his wife to ask how she feels, and says that the picture is of her sister and she can now take it back, and also tells her that he wants her to have her picture taken because apparently she never had before, and he’s rather sweet, and ends the call with an “I love you too”.
Weird bit: when Colombo visits a ‘hotel’ that rents rooms for prostitutes and where people gamble, the guy at the reception reacts weirdly upon hearing that he’s the police: he says that ‘we gave it to your office’ and that all has ‘been taken care of’ and Colombo says that he didn’t come here for that… and from the guy’s face it looked a lot like he was talking about some sort of bribe… I mean these things happen for sure, but would Colombo not care at all? … Actually maybe not, he has quite an easy attitude about anything that isn’t his case…
ITA che fine ha fatto la signora Colombo?
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