Not my favourite one for sure, this ending was worse than the chewing-gum one, it made absolutely no sense.
Let’s proceed with order and the whole plot: Marcy Edwards lives with Hugh Creighton. She’s an ex rock star, he’s a famous lawyer who always wins. He has her followed: she sees her lover at their beach house for two hours three days a week. They play at the beach, drink champagne, eat caviar, and have sex.
… every single time… always the same again and again… and not once did they fancy a pizza or whatever else, always champagne and caviar… :-/
So, Hugh ends it: she finds herself locked out of the house with her bags waiting for her, but she won’t go quietly, she wants lots of money even if they’re not married, or she’ll tell everyone that he’s corrupt - I’m not sure if it’s true, it probably is of course but it’s not really important because if people believe her his reputation could be ruined anyway.
At this point he plans o kill her. He fakes reconciliation, gives her a pill so she won’t drink, puts something in the champagne so he’ll fall aslee and then he shows up dressed as the gardener and strangles her while she’s wide awake. Then he pushes the police to arrest that guy, who woke up next to a dead girl and fled because he has a record.
Colombo keeps digging: Hugh took away the punctured cork and left one he brought with him, and looking at the two corks Colombo can see one is not right, because all Marcy’s bottles have one star, but one of the corks has two stars … and already this is weird, that she only bought the cheaper kind…
Hugh of course has plenty of two stars bottles.
Colombo openly accuses him but then it turns out he has an alibi, he got a speeding ticket elsewhere, so there’s a picture of him. It’s clearly his face but Colombo can see that the shadows are not right because it was someone else with a flat mask of his face, his assistant who then figures it out… but of course she did: he really told her to take his car, drive to Pasadena and wear a mask while speeding, so to get a ticket? A complete mask while driving is dangerous and yett she did it without knowing why, but did he really think she would not figure it out??? She worked with him! She’d have to be completely dumb to not realize it. Shewill agree to reveal nothing, demanding to be made a partner, but it was a huge risk. Someone could see her driving that car and suddenly wearing a mask… which I insist was insanely dangerous because she couldn’t see, you can’t tell me that there were holes for her eyes or Colombo would have seen right away that it was a mask!
And anyway, I can’t imagine that conversation: ‘you must drive my car to Pasadena and wear a mask with my face when the time is right so to get a speed ticket with my face on the picture’ - ‘of course Hugh, nothing else?’ … just an ordinary day task right? :-/
Anyway, the first few minutes right until she threatens him, she really appeared to be a b… not a nice lady, but then we see his plan, we understand he made sure she was sober and awake to know it was him and to feel him strangling her - well, breaking her neck is what killed her, and yet she had a peaceful, pretty face lying there afterwards… - and we see his over-the-top reactions to the ‘news’… and he’s really one of the worst. It doesn’t surprise me that his job was to make sure murderers got away free, he’s just that kind of soul less person.
Also, the gloves marks on her neck match the marks on the gardener’s truck he used to get there… Colombo’s csi people were amazing…
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