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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,134 --> 00:00:02,159 She hasn't done anything. Now let her alone! 2 00:00:02,236 --> 00:00:04,500 No, no! Don't lie for me! 3 00:00:04,905 --> 00:00:06,532 Have a nice meditation. 4 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,632 The doctors are already pretty certain that your father-in-law was dead 5 00:00:09,710 --> 00:00:11,143 before he went in the water. 6 00:00:11,212 --> 00:00:13,840 His mizzen jibed like that. 7 00:00:13,914 --> 00:00:15,006 He went overboard. 8 00:00:16,083 --> 00:00:19,951 I got done a lot sooner than I figured. And nobody saw me. I'm positive. 9 00:00:20,554 --> 00:00:22,021 What's your name? Johnny. 10 00:00:22,089 --> 00:00:23,113 Daddy. 11 00:00:23,190 --> 00:00:24,282 Wait a minute, Columbo. 12 00:00:24,358 --> 00:00:27,122 We're here today, all of us, to have some fun. 13 00:00:27,194 --> 00:00:28,218 Now, come on. 14 00:00:28,295 --> 00:00:29,922 You mean, so you can get drunk! 15 00:00:35,736 --> 00:00:39,832 The brightly beams our Father's mercy 16 00:00:40,775 --> 00:00:44,336 From His lighthouse evermore 17 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,073 But to us He leaves the keeping 18 00:00:50,284 --> 00:00:54,414 Of the lights along the shore 19 00:00:55,322 --> 00:00:59,190 Let the lower lights be burning 20 00:00:59,660 --> 00:01:04,324 Send a gleam across the wave 21 00:01:04,799 --> 00:01:05,925 (HORN HONKING) 22 00:01:06,934 --> 00:01:11,030 Some poor aging, struggling seaman 23 00:01:12,373 --> 00:01:13,738 You may rest 24 00:01:14,742 --> 00:01:16,869 In peace next day 25 00:01:17,078 --> 00:01:18,238 (HORN HONKING) 26 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,447 Dark the night of sin has settled 27 00:01:23,984 --> 00:01:26,748 Loud the angry billows roar 28 00:01:27,188 --> 00:01:28,519 (WOMEN LAUGHING) 29 00:01:29,090 --> 00:01:32,082 ... are longing, hoping 30 00:01:32,159 --> 00:01:35,356 For the lights, along the shore 31 00:01:35,996 --> 00:01:37,429 (ALL LAUGHING) 32 00:01:37,498 --> 00:01:38,726 Oh, it's funny! 33 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:39,788 (SHRIEKING) 34 00:01:41,669 --> 00:01:43,762 Oh, dear, I love you. 35 00:01:43,838 --> 00:01:46,102 Thank you, Swanny. Thank you. 36 00:01:47,274 --> 00:01:48,298 WOMAN: Marvelous! 37 00:01:48,375 --> 00:01:49,899 I see his yawl's back. 38 00:01:50,244 --> 00:01:53,680 WOMAN: Oh, that's the most beautiful boat he ever designed. 39 00:01:54,181 --> 00:01:55,808 And your uncle 40 00:01:55,883 --> 00:01:58,283 is the most beautiful man that's ever lived. 41 00:01:58,519 --> 00:02:00,510 SWANNY: I think he's taking a tour. 42 00:02:00,621 --> 00:02:02,282 WOMAN: Where's he going, Swanny? 43 00:02:02,356 --> 00:02:05,348 Oh, who knows? He's out in it night and day. 44 00:02:05,426 --> 00:02:09,487 He's more at home on that boat then he is at home. 45 00:02:09,563 --> 00:02:10,996 Oh, let's drink to that. 46 00:02:11,065 --> 00:02:12,089 I'll drink to anything. 47 00:02:12,166 --> 00:02:13,360 Where is your glass? 48 00:02:13,434 --> 00:02:15,800 Stand-by for the Commodore. 49 00:02:15,870 --> 00:02:16,928 (HORN HONKING) 50 00:02:17,004 --> 00:02:18,835 SWANNY: Stand-by. WOMAN: For the Commodore! 51 00:02:19,874 --> 00:02:21,239 Hail to the Commodore! 52 00:02:21,308 --> 00:02:22,400 Hail the Commodore! 53 00:02:22,476 --> 00:02:23,465 MAN: All hail the... 54 00:02:23,544 --> 00:02:24,533 SWANNY: Commodore! 55 00:02:24,812 --> 00:02:27,781 ALL: (SHOUTING) The Commodore! The Commodore! 56 00:02:28,516 --> 00:02:31,349 All right, let's get this damn thing over with. 57 00:02:31,652 --> 00:02:33,017 (ALL LAUGHING) 58 00:02:33,087 --> 00:02:34,213 (HORN HONKING) 59 00:02:39,093 --> 00:02:40,526 How are you, Otis? 60 00:02:40,828 --> 00:02:42,523 Let me get another reading here. 61 00:02:46,734 --> 00:02:47,996 Got it. 62 00:02:48,068 --> 00:02:51,196 Great. Can you give a smile, sir, please? 63 00:02:51,272 --> 00:02:52,261 (CAMERA CLICKING) 64 00:02:52,339 --> 00:02:53,863 Fine. There we go. 65 00:02:53,941 --> 00:02:55,568 MAN 2: That's it. That's it! 66 00:02:55,643 --> 00:03:00,205 Sir, would you be so kind, as to give us a shot possibly with Mr. Clay 67 00:03:00,281 --> 00:03:02,010 and your lovely daughter? 68 00:03:02,983 --> 00:03:04,211 He was such a boring man. He was... 69 00:03:04,285 --> 00:03:05,411 Excuse me, Mrs. Clay. 70 00:03:05,486 --> 00:03:08,683 Your father would like to have a shot with you inside for the magazine. 71 00:03:08,756 --> 00:03:10,314 Oh. He was such a boring lover. 72 00:03:10,391 --> 00:03:12,256 (ALL CHATTERING) 73 00:03:14,895 --> 00:03:17,022 Just think, 30 whole years 74 00:03:17,097 --> 00:03:20,089 you've been building boats. PHOTOGRAPHER: Excuse me, this is just for the family. 75 00:03:20,167 --> 00:03:21,464 Madam, this is just a family shot. 76 00:03:21,535 --> 00:03:23,093 Goodbye, Hannah. 77 00:03:23,170 --> 00:03:25,035 Could we have a picture with Mr. Clay? 78 00:03:25,105 --> 00:03:26,697 Of course. Charlie. Great. 79 00:03:26,774 --> 00:03:28,298 Charlie, darling! Thank you. 80 00:03:28,375 --> 00:03:29,774 All right. Coming, love. 81 00:03:29,843 --> 00:03:31,037 I'll talk to you later. 82 00:03:35,616 --> 00:03:36,605 Okay. Let's have a group. 83 00:03:36,684 --> 00:03:40,211 Daddy is the greatest naval architect in the whole world! 84 00:03:40,721 --> 00:03:42,586 Excuse me, sir. Can you get a little closer? 85 00:03:42,656 --> 00:03:44,123 Good. Here we are. 86 00:03:44,191 --> 00:03:45,351 That's nice. 87 00:03:45,426 --> 00:03:46,450 Oh, that's fine. 88 00:03:46,527 --> 00:03:47,858 Can you kiss him again, just one more time? 89 00:03:47,928 --> 00:03:48,917 Of course I can! 90 00:03:49,129 --> 00:03:50,926 Great. Oh, that's super. 91 00:03:52,166 --> 00:03:53,656 That's it. That's it. 92 00:03:53,734 --> 00:03:55,065 Can you look into the lens? 93 00:03:55,135 --> 00:03:56,159 Thank you. 94 00:03:56,237 --> 00:03:58,831 Let's get these people out of here! 95 00:03:59,506 --> 00:04:01,497 All right, Swanny. Everybody out of here now. 96 00:04:01,575 --> 00:04:03,702 Everybody out. Gentlemen, right out. 97 00:04:03,777 --> 00:04:06,974 All right. Everybody out! Everybody out! 98 00:04:07,047 --> 00:04:08,139 CHARLIE: Excuse me, have a drink on me. 99 00:04:08,215 --> 00:04:09,546 He'll be with you in a minute. 100 00:04:09,650 --> 00:04:10,674 How you doing? 101 00:04:10,751 --> 00:04:14,915 See you in a few minutes. Right in there. Okay? Enjoy yourself. 102 00:04:15,022 --> 00:04:16,614 Look happy! 103 00:04:20,628 --> 00:04:22,755 CHARLIE: Gotta give the family a little privacy now, okay? 104 00:04:22,830 --> 00:04:24,798 SWANNY: You people, out there, in the other room. 105 00:04:32,239 --> 00:04:34,036 MAN: We'll have a nice time. 106 00:04:44,585 --> 00:04:46,644 I can remember when people bought my boats 107 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,585 simply because they liked to sail them. 108 00:04:49,089 --> 00:04:50,818 Not for any slogan, or any status. 109 00:04:50,891 --> 00:04:52,358 Just simply, because they liked to sail. 110 00:04:52,426 --> 00:04:54,326 Well, the business has changed some since then. 111 00:04:54,395 --> 00:04:55,828 Daddy, don't you realize 112 00:04:55,896 --> 00:04:59,263 that Charlie has practically doubled your business this year? 113 00:04:59,333 --> 00:05:02,268 Doubled the overhead, you mean. Doubled our losses. 114 00:05:02,336 --> 00:05:05,066 CHARLIE: Only for taxes. That's the secret of expansion. 115 00:05:05,139 --> 00:05:07,937 So who wants to get fat? I don't! 116 00:05:08,242 --> 00:05:10,233 Charles, I don't like conglomerates. 117 00:05:10,311 --> 00:05:12,370 Oh, Daddy, stop all this! 118 00:05:12,813 --> 00:05:15,714 We're here today, all of us, to have some fun. 119 00:05:15,783 --> 00:05:16,841 Now, come on. 120 00:05:16,917 --> 00:05:18,851 You mean, so you can get drunk! 121 00:05:21,155 --> 00:05:23,123 I can remember over the years, 122 00:05:23,190 --> 00:05:26,717 when we gave a party, an annual party, for all our own workers! 123 00:05:27,628 --> 00:05:30,153 Not for all those sponges out there. 124 00:05:30,531 --> 00:05:33,125 Plus maybe a few executive types. 125 00:05:33,267 --> 00:05:35,394 Well, those are some of our finest customers. 126 00:05:35,469 --> 00:05:37,767 I'd appreciate you joining me and talking with a few of them. 127 00:05:37,838 --> 00:05:38,770 No. 128 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,631 I never did like parties. 129 00:05:44,345 --> 00:05:46,506 I'm going back home, do some work on my boat. 130 00:05:46,580 --> 00:05:49,572 Daddy, you can't! They're important people waiting for you in there. 131 00:05:49,650 --> 00:05:51,675 Listen, Joanna, will you stop... Daddy, Daddy! Please! 132 00:05:51,752 --> 00:05:52,741 Otis. 133 00:05:52,820 --> 00:05:54,515 Stop making a fool of yourself. Please, Daddy, please! 134 00:05:54,588 --> 00:05:57,216 Otis, I just need you for a short appearance to show some unity. 135 00:05:57,291 --> 00:05:59,589 Squash those rumors about trouble within the company. 136 00:05:59,660 --> 00:06:02,720 Well, it's my company and I don't give a damn! 137 00:06:03,097 --> 00:06:05,258 My daughter was a fool because she married you, Charles, 138 00:06:05,332 --> 00:06:07,857 and I was a fool for letting you run things so long. 139 00:06:07,935 --> 00:06:10,233 Come on, don't be so shocked and innocent. 140 00:06:10,304 --> 00:06:13,137 You all had your hands in the till, one way or another. 141 00:06:13,307 --> 00:06:15,673 There's only one decent man here. 142 00:06:16,377 --> 00:06:17,435 Here! 143 00:06:17,511 --> 00:06:18,603 Take us home. 144 00:06:29,823 --> 00:06:32,417 Is that the Wonder Girl from your office? 145 00:06:34,094 --> 00:06:36,824 That's why you work so late. 146 00:06:39,333 --> 00:06:41,233 What's wrong with him? 147 00:06:42,469 --> 00:06:44,164 He's going to sell us out. 148 00:06:44,238 --> 00:06:45,227 What? 149 00:06:46,173 --> 00:06:47,470 The company. 150 00:06:48,742 --> 00:06:52,007 He's going to pull the rug out from under all of us. 151 00:07:01,455 --> 00:07:03,047 I'll talk to him. 152 00:07:08,629 --> 00:07:10,187 I'll talk to him. 153 00:07:11,598 --> 00:07:13,031 Talk to him. 154 00:07:14,234 --> 00:07:15,633 Talk to him. 155 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:20,600 Eat, 156 00:07:22,009 --> 00:07:23,271 drink, 157 00:07:24,978 --> 00:07:26,445 and be merry. 158 00:09:21,228 --> 00:09:22,889 (BELL RINGING) 159 00:10:05,372 --> 00:10:06,396 Hi, Wayne. 160 00:10:06,473 --> 00:10:07,599 Hi, Charles. 161 00:10:07,774 --> 00:10:09,036 Can I talk to the boss? 162 00:10:09,710 --> 00:10:11,268 He's on the phone. 163 00:10:11,345 --> 00:10:13,336 Well, when we dropped him off, he asked me to bring this back. 164 00:10:13,413 --> 00:10:15,438 He's been having a little trouble with the self-steering. 165 00:10:15,515 --> 00:10:16,573 He's going out tonight. 166 00:10:16,850 --> 00:10:18,374 Yeah. He mentioned that to me. 167 00:10:19,052 --> 00:10:20,280 How's he feeling? 168 00:10:20,354 --> 00:10:22,982 Well, he's a little het up. He'll calm down. 169 00:10:23,056 --> 00:10:24,614 Well, he gets like that. 170 00:10:24,791 --> 00:10:27,191 A few hours on the water, he'll be like a new man. 171 00:10:27,260 --> 00:10:28,693 Why don't you give that to me? I'll... 172 00:10:28,762 --> 00:10:29,888 Sure. 173 00:10:30,197 --> 00:10:32,665 Just wait here a second, I'll tell him you're here. 174 00:10:38,972 --> 00:10:42,135 Wayne's here. He brought the self-steering vane you wanted. 175 00:10:49,249 --> 00:10:52,685 He says, thanks. He'll see you at the yard tomorrow morning, 11:30. 176 00:10:52,753 --> 00:10:54,516 I'm leaving myself. 177 00:10:56,657 --> 00:10:57,988 Give him some peace. 178 00:10:58,058 --> 00:10:59,889 Be in at the usual time? 179 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:01,889 That depends on Joanna. 180 00:11:01,995 --> 00:11:03,860 All right. See you in the morning. 181 00:11:04,431 --> 00:11:05,455 Good night. 182 00:11:35,595 --> 00:11:37,119 How's everything, Mr. Clay? 183 00:11:37,197 --> 00:11:39,358 Not bad, Wally. What time you got? 184 00:11:40,333 --> 00:11:41,561 12:45, sir. 185 00:11:42,002 --> 00:11:44,732 As a matter of fact, it's going on 12:46. 186 00:11:45,172 --> 00:11:46,867 Yeah, thanks a lot. Take it easy. Good night! 187 00:11:46,940 --> 00:11:48,305 Good night, Mr. Clay. 188 00:12:31,284 --> 00:12:32,546 (ENGINE WHIRRING) 189 00:13:03,383 --> 00:13:04,748 MAN: Commodore? 190 00:13:05,252 --> 00:13:06,241 Commodore? 191 00:13:06,686 --> 00:13:08,210 It's a nice evening. 192 00:13:09,256 --> 00:13:12,521 You're running right, sir. Please, you're running right. 193 00:13:12,659 --> 00:13:13,683 (BELL CLANGING) 194 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,318 Have a good sail, sir. 195 00:14:19,226 --> 00:14:22,252 My name is Lieutenant Columbo. Are you the lady of the house? 196 00:14:23,763 --> 00:14:25,253 I'm Mrs. Clay. 197 00:14:25,999 --> 00:14:27,296 Joanna Clay. 198 00:14:32,038 --> 00:14:34,006 I'm Charles Clay. What do you want? 199 00:14:34,741 --> 00:14:38,507 My name is Lieutenant Columbo. I'm from the Los Angeles Police Department. 200 00:14:41,648 --> 00:14:43,377 Lieutenant Columbo. 201 00:14:44,384 --> 00:14:46,181 What do you want, Lieutenant? 202 00:14:47,187 --> 00:14:49,917 Your father is Otis Swanson, is that right? 203 00:14:50,323 --> 00:14:51,483 Yeah. 204 00:14:52,259 --> 00:14:55,592 It seems they call him the Commodore? 205 00:14:56,997 --> 00:14:59,557 That's right. They call him the Commodore. 206 00:15:01,868 --> 00:15:04,428 His boat was found, he was not on it. 207 00:15:06,439 --> 00:15:07,929 The sailing boat. 208 00:15:08,508 --> 00:15:09,600 Yawl. 209 00:15:11,144 --> 00:15:12,577 He wasn't on it? 210 00:15:13,179 --> 00:15:15,477 No, sir, he was not on the boat. 211 00:15:16,716 --> 00:15:18,479 Well, where is he? 212 00:15:19,853 --> 00:15:21,377 We don't know. 213 00:15:22,188 --> 00:15:25,351 I'm going down to take a look at it now. 214 00:15:28,395 --> 00:15:33,264 Would you like to come along, sir? I think maybe you could help out. 215 00:15:33,767 --> 00:15:34,927 Certainly. 216 00:15:35,869 --> 00:15:37,530 It's a beautiful place. 217 00:15:38,071 --> 00:15:39,095 Thank you. 218 00:15:39,172 --> 00:15:40,833 Where's the beach? 219 00:15:41,308 --> 00:15:42,536 It's out back. 220 00:15:42,776 --> 00:15:44,107 Can I look? 221 00:15:44,844 --> 00:15:47,210 Go ahead. Be with you in a moment. 222 00:15:47,347 --> 00:15:48,837 Come on, love. 223 00:16:19,312 --> 00:16:21,177 Put that down, Sarge. 224 00:16:22,349 --> 00:16:25,250 We'll get a little fresh air on the way back. 225 00:16:37,297 --> 00:16:38,264 GEORGE: Hello, John. 226 00:16:38,331 --> 00:16:39,320 How you doing, George? 227 00:16:39,399 --> 00:16:40,696 What are you doing out here? 228 00:16:41,334 --> 00:16:43,768 Listen, Chief asked me to run you down. 229 00:16:43,970 --> 00:16:46,097 He's got this guy just assigned to Homicide. 230 00:16:46,172 --> 00:16:48,402 He wants the Lieutenant to take him under his wing. 231 00:16:48,475 --> 00:16:49,567 No kidding? 232 00:16:49,642 --> 00:16:51,234 He's real hot on him. 233 00:16:52,212 --> 00:16:53,975 Okay. Let me meet him. 234 00:16:55,382 --> 00:16:57,179 Where was I, Charlie? 235 00:17:01,921 --> 00:17:04,651 You didn't sleep in your bed last night. 236 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,384 I stretched out in the den. 237 00:17:08,661 --> 00:17:10,788 I didn't even know you were home. 238 00:17:20,473 --> 00:17:24,273 Did Daddy mention that he was going sailing? 239 00:17:25,111 --> 00:17:27,045 Drink this coffee. Straight. 240 00:17:27,347 --> 00:17:28,336 Black. 241 00:17:29,382 --> 00:17:32,112 Wayne Taylor said he intended to go out. 242 00:17:33,887 --> 00:17:36,481 Maybe somebody stole his boat. 243 00:17:37,757 --> 00:17:38,951 Stole it? 244 00:17:39,025 --> 00:17:40,253 The boat! 245 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:49,562 If you didn't put me to bed last night, who did? 246 00:17:50,703 --> 00:17:53,501 I don't even remember leaving the yacht club. 247 00:18:08,154 --> 00:18:09,314 GEORGE: She's not making anything. 248 00:18:09,389 --> 00:18:10,686 Her oldest daughter's getting married. 249 00:18:10,757 --> 00:18:12,588 She's going crazy about that. 250 00:18:14,727 --> 00:18:15,716 Sir! 251 00:18:16,396 --> 00:18:18,728 Sir, would you mind waiting just a minute? 252 00:18:18,798 --> 00:18:20,197 We better get the Lieutenant. 253 00:18:20,266 --> 00:18:22,530 Lieutenant! Lieutenant! 254 00:18:22,602 --> 00:18:23,967 I'm coming! 255 00:18:28,942 --> 00:18:31,706 Oh, that's a big ocean. A lot of water out there. 256 00:18:31,778 --> 00:18:33,837 Japan is that way? 257 00:18:33,913 --> 00:18:35,107 Lieutenant. 258 00:18:36,116 --> 00:18:37,276 Excuse me, sir. 259 00:18:37,417 --> 00:18:39,009 Be right with you. 260 00:18:41,621 --> 00:18:42,645 Lieutenant. 261 00:18:42,722 --> 00:18:44,019 John, how are you? 262 00:18:44,090 --> 00:18:45,785 Just fine, Lieutenant. 263 00:18:47,427 --> 00:18:49,987 I'd like you to meet Theodore Albinsky. 264 00:18:50,396 --> 00:18:51,385 How are you? 265 00:18:51,464 --> 00:18:52,453 Very good, sir. 266 00:18:52,532 --> 00:18:53,624 Sarge. 267 00:18:59,506 --> 00:19:03,067 I want to give these up. The wife is into plants, she even talks to them. 268 00:19:03,143 --> 00:19:06,340 She says the smoke is bad for them, so you keep a check on me. 269 00:19:07,847 --> 00:19:09,041 Theodore. 270 00:19:10,416 --> 00:19:11,474 Al what? 271 00:19:11,551 --> 00:19:12,813 Albinsky. 272 00:19:13,153 --> 00:19:14,381 How old is he? 273 00:19:14,587 --> 00:19:15,747 He's 29. 274 00:19:16,156 --> 00:19:18,317 He's been on the force four years. 275 00:19:18,758 --> 00:19:20,749 The Chief is crazy about him. 276 00:19:21,361 --> 00:19:23,829 He wants you to take him under your wing. 277 00:19:31,504 --> 00:19:33,028 Theodore Alb... 278 00:19:33,473 --> 00:19:34,735 Albinsky? Albinsky. 279 00:19:35,275 --> 00:19:37,106 And what do I call you? Theodore? 280 00:19:37,443 --> 00:19:39,411 No, sir, you call me Mac. 281 00:19:39,979 --> 00:19:40,968 Mac. 282 00:19:41,447 --> 00:19:42,505 Yeah. Mac. 283 00:19:43,016 --> 00:19:45,007 Do you have any Scotch or Irish in you? 284 00:19:45,084 --> 00:19:46,449 Oh, no, sir. 285 00:19:49,189 --> 00:19:50,417 All right, Mac. 286 00:19:50,490 --> 00:19:51,616 Welcome aboard. 287 00:19:51,724 --> 00:19:53,021 Mr. Clay? 288 00:19:53,826 --> 00:19:55,953 Would you be kind enough to ride along with us, 289 00:19:56,029 --> 00:19:58,259 so we can fill in some background on the way? 290 00:19:58,831 --> 00:20:00,856 And John here, he'll come along with us. 291 00:20:00,934 --> 00:20:03,903 And he'll take you wherever you want to go afterwards. 292 00:20:03,970 --> 00:20:06,200 All right, Mac. You come along. 293 00:20:06,873 --> 00:20:10,400 Mac, you'll probably need some practice driving, 294 00:20:10,476 --> 00:20:13,445 in case we ever have to give chase. You take the wheel. 295 00:20:13,613 --> 00:20:16,946 Mr. Clay, why don't you come around to this side here? 296 00:20:18,117 --> 00:20:21,018 I'm sorry, Mr. Clay, you haven't met everybody. 297 00:20:22,222 --> 00:20:25,885 The fella in that other car there is Sergeant John Sanderson. 298 00:20:26,025 --> 00:20:28,152 Sergeant, why don't you get in the back here? 299 00:20:28,228 --> 00:20:29,217 Okay. 300 00:20:29,796 --> 00:20:32,264 And this is Sergeant George Kramer. 301 00:20:32,966 --> 00:20:35,992 Mr. Clay, why don't you sit in the front like this? 302 00:20:36,269 --> 00:20:38,203 This fella likes to be called Mac. 303 00:20:38,271 --> 00:20:39,260 Hi. 304 00:20:40,406 --> 00:20:41,395 Here. 305 00:20:43,876 --> 00:20:45,844 Lieutenant, how do we get this in reverse? 306 00:20:45,912 --> 00:20:46,901 Up. 307 00:20:46,980 --> 00:20:48,004 Up? 308 00:20:48,081 --> 00:20:49,878 Toward the end knob. Do you have enough room? 309 00:20:49,949 --> 00:20:51,348 Yeah. Yeah. 310 00:20:51,417 --> 00:20:53,851 Excuse me while I just get my watch. 311 00:20:54,921 --> 00:20:56,912 All right, just give me a second. 312 00:20:58,391 --> 00:21:00,757 I think it's in the other pocket. 313 00:21:01,327 --> 00:21:02,726 There's the key right there, Mac. 314 00:21:04,197 --> 00:21:07,598 Mr. Clay, do you have the time? Is it anywhere near 11:20? 315 00:21:08,635 --> 00:21:09,693 Twenty-one. 316 00:21:09,769 --> 00:21:10,929 Oh, wonderful. 317 00:21:11,671 --> 00:21:13,536 I set that by the radio. 318 00:21:14,907 --> 00:21:16,033 Okay. 319 00:21:17,443 --> 00:21:20,173 Excuse me, sir, if you don't mind, may I? 320 00:21:21,814 --> 00:21:23,975 Oh, that's a honey, isn't it? 321 00:21:24,317 --> 00:21:26,080 That's a real watch. 322 00:21:26,252 --> 00:21:28,584 That's got the day and the date. 323 00:21:29,122 --> 00:21:32,091 I'll bet you that's waterproof and shockproof. 324 00:21:35,094 --> 00:21:36,721 Don't rush it, Mac. 325 00:21:38,931 --> 00:21:39,920 That's it. 326 00:21:40,733 --> 00:21:41,893 All right. How do you switch to first? 327 00:21:42,001 --> 00:21:43,229 Toward you and down. 328 00:21:44,937 --> 00:21:46,700 Slow on the clutch. 329 00:21:46,873 --> 00:21:48,807 That's it. That's it. 330 00:21:50,310 --> 00:21:52,141 Okay. Watch this guy here. 331 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:54,869 All right. 332 00:21:57,216 --> 00:22:00,845 All right. Take it around the full circle till you get the hang of it. 333 00:22:10,430 --> 00:22:12,591 All right, hit the highway. 334 00:22:29,182 --> 00:22:30,843 Now, that's a what? 335 00:22:31,684 --> 00:22:32,912 A yawl. 336 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:34,978 Yawl? 337 00:22:35,054 --> 00:22:39,150 Yeah. Yeah. Yawls, ketches, schooners. 338 00:22:39,959 --> 00:22:42,189 And what makes a yawl? 339 00:22:42,595 --> 00:22:44,688 Well, yawl have mainsails. 340 00:22:44,764 --> 00:22:47,392 Difference is that the mizzenmast 341 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,058 is aft of the steering station on a yawl. 342 00:22:51,871 --> 00:22:54,169 Thank you, Mr. Clay. Thank you very much. 343 00:22:54,807 --> 00:22:55,865 Mac. 344 00:22:58,111 --> 00:22:59,669 (WHISPERING) Go look around indoors. 345 00:23:02,482 --> 00:23:06,145 I'd like to make a preliminary check, if you don't mind. 346 00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:10,080 No, no, no. I like everything preliminary. 347 00:23:15,061 --> 00:23:17,393 How was he when you last saw him? 348 00:23:19,132 --> 00:23:23,193 Well, when Taylor and I left him at his house, he was healthy. 349 00:23:26,639 --> 00:23:29,938 You know, the first thing that our office did this morning 350 00:23:30,009 --> 00:23:32,534 was check that security service out there where he lives. 351 00:23:32,612 --> 00:23:35,342 And a guard remembers your leaving the island, all right, 352 00:23:35,415 --> 00:23:38,714 but he never noticed your father-in-law's boat leave. 353 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,410 He couldn't have. 354 00:23:43,423 --> 00:23:47,257 Because it's impossible to see a boat from the bridge gatehouse. 355 00:23:49,495 --> 00:23:52,623 Check with the Coast Guard to see if they have any logged record 356 00:23:52,698 --> 00:23:54,359 of his departure, Lieutenant. 357 00:23:54,434 --> 00:23:56,368 Oh, I never thought of that. 358 00:23:56,903 --> 00:23:59,371 Good. We'll do that. 359 00:24:00,139 --> 00:24:04,439 Listen, are the police always called in when there's any possibility of an accident? 360 00:24:04,544 --> 00:24:08,674 Accident. Oh, I'm sure this is an accident. 361 00:24:09,916 --> 00:24:12,749 Don't worry just because I'm from Homicide. 362 00:24:15,388 --> 00:24:18,084 Didn't I mention that? Well, never mind. 363 00:24:20,393 --> 00:24:22,987 If the Commodore just fell off the boat, 364 00:24:23,062 --> 00:24:26,589 probably somebody out there already just picking him up. 365 00:24:26,766 --> 00:24:29,735 I mean, we get lots of false alarms. 366 00:24:32,004 --> 00:24:35,371 Mr. Clay, would you care to come aboard? 367 00:24:43,749 --> 00:24:45,944 Love to have you join us, Sergeant. 368 00:24:57,997 --> 00:25:00,431 They'll only take a minute there. 369 00:25:04,937 --> 00:25:06,734 Sergeant, you got a match? 370 00:25:19,318 --> 00:25:20,307 Mr. Clay, 371 00:25:22,188 --> 00:25:23,382 smoke? 372 00:25:24,991 --> 00:25:26,390 Erratically. 373 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:35,328 (HUMMING) 374 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:55,509 Lieutenant. 375 00:25:56,389 --> 00:25:58,050 Excuse me, Lieutenant. 376 00:25:58,858 --> 00:26:01,622 This is Ensign O'Connor. 377 00:26:01,794 --> 00:26:03,284 Lieutenant Columbo. Hi, Lieutenant. 378 00:26:03,362 --> 00:26:04,886 Sergeant Kramer, Ensign O'Connor. 379 00:26:04,964 --> 00:26:06,056 Sergeant. 380 00:26:06,132 --> 00:26:07,895 And, I think you know Charles Clay. 381 00:26:07,967 --> 00:26:08,956 Yes, we met. 382 00:26:09,035 --> 00:26:10,969 And this is, Bosurs Mate Murray. 383 00:26:11,304 --> 00:26:13,534 Sorry. Lieutenant Columbo. 384 00:26:13,739 --> 00:26:16,139 Bosurs Mate Murray, this is Sergeant Kramer. 385 00:26:16,208 --> 00:26:19,336 Sergeant. This is Mr. Clay. Charles Clay, Bosurs Mate Murray. 386 00:26:19,412 --> 00:26:20,970 All right. I got you. 387 00:26:21,047 --> 00:26:23,311 Would these gentlemen come aboard? 388 00:26:23,382 --> 00:26:24,371 All right. 389 00:26:24,784 --> 00:26:28,185 Lieutenant, I brought Murray, here, down. 390 00:26:28,254 --> 00:26:31,087 I thought you might like to see his log entry last night. 391 00:26:31,157 --> 00:26:33,352 Oh, yes, yes, I certainly would. 392 00:26:33,426 --> 00:26:34,620 What do you think? 393 00:26:34,827 --> 00:26:38,092 This is a big thing, this yawl. 394 00:26:39,565 --> 00:26:42,796 Do you think one man could sail this all by himself? 395 00:26:42,868 --> 00:26:43,857 MURRAY: Well, sir, if you ask me, 396 00:26:43,970 --> 00:26:47,804 I think the Commodore could sail the Queen Mary alone, sir. 397 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:49,064 Oh? 398 00:26:49,141 --> 00:26:52,338 O'CONNOR: He's one of the finest sailors in the world, Lieutenant. 399 00:26:52,411 --> 00:26:55,938 Yes, he's designed even bigger boats for single handling. 400 00:26:59,452 --> 00:27:01,647 Well, what do you think happened? 401 00:27:02,922 --> 00:27:05,322 Well, sir, I don't know, 402 00:27:05,791 --> 00:27:08,589 but that portside cleat was pulled loose. 403 00:27:09,228 --> 00:27:11,458 That might have given him a little trouble. 404 00:27:11,530 --> 00:27:13,327 Portside cleat. 405 00:27:15,067 --> 00:27:16,227 Cleat. 406 00:27:19,171 --> 00:27:20,661 What does that do? 407 00:27:20,740 --> 00:27:23,072 O'CONNOR: It secures the gib sheet. 408 00:27:33,285 --> 00:27:34,479 Murray. 409 00:27:36,188 --> 00:27:37,416 Yes, sir? 410 00:27:37,957 --> 00:27:40,926 Let me take a look at that log. 411 00:27:40,993 --> 00:27:42,756 Yes, sir. Here you go. 412 00:27:43,029 --> 00:27:48,126 It'll show you as the time the Commodore cleared the harbor last night. 413 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,259 That was 1:23 a.m. 414 00:27:50,603 --> 00:27:52,935 I'm sure it was him, sir. He was all alone. 415 00:27:53,539 --> 00:27:54,631 Here. 416 00:27:57,777 --> 00:27:59,642 Was the mizzen furled when you found it? 417 00:27:59,712 --> 00:28:01,873 No, sir, it was all the way up. 418 00:28:01,947 --> 00:28:03,437 MURRAY: The wind was only 12 knots, sir. 419 00:28:03,516 --> 00:28:05,814 That's approximately 13 miles per hour, 420 00:28:05,985 --> 00:28:07,179 on land. 421 00:28:08,387 --> 00:28:09,854 Were the running lines free? 422 00:28:09,922 --> 00:28:12,789 All clear, wheel perfect. No seaweed below. 423 00:28:15,027 --> 00:28:16,119 Thank you very much. 424 00:28:16,195 --> 00:28:17,355 Right, sir. 425 00:28:17,430 --> 00:28:18,863 Thank you very much. Yes, sir. 426 00:28:31,177 --> 00:28:33,975 Mr. Columbo, if he did happen to fall overboard, 427 00:28:34,046 --> 00:28:36,844 do you know what the odds are against finding him in the water? 428 00:28:36,916 --> 00:28:39,282 Between the tides, sharks and currents? 429 00:28:40,386 --> 00:28:42,786 Most of the people around here seem to like him. 430 00:28:42,955 --> 00:28:44,946 Yeah. Most of us. Fred! 431 00:28:45,825 --> 00:28:46,985 Fred! 432 00:28:49,295 --> 00:28:50,421 Who's Fred? 433 00:28:50,496 --> 00:28:51,485 Yard Foreman. 434 00:28:51,731 --> 00:28:55,497 You wanted to know why the Commodore stopped by here yesterday. Fred was here. 435 00:28:55,568 --> 00:28:56,660 Fred! 436 00:28:59,472 --> 00:29:02,270 So you went up to his place and you took him that thing, huh? 437 00:29:02,341 --> 00:29:03,330 That's right. 438 00:29:03,409 --> 00:29:05,070 You took him that quad? 439 00:29:05,144 --> 00:29:06,736 Part of a vane. 440 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:08,644 Part of a vane. 441 00:29:08,948 --> 00:29:11,007 And he was gonna fix something? 442 00:29:11,083 --> 00:29:12,641 Yeah. The boat was shipshape, 443 00:29:12,718 --> 00:29:15,209 but he took it out last week and there was one thing bugging him. 444 00:29:15,287 --> 00:29:16,982 The self-steering vane. 445 00:29:17,056 --> 00:29:21,390 And this part of the vane, that's what this is for? 446 00:29:21,460 --> 00:29:23,155 Yeah. It's self-adjusting. 447 00:29:23,996 --> 00:29:27,295 The vane is self-adjusting. 448 00:29:27,366 --> 00:29:30,267 Mr. Columbo, the Commodore's yawl is fully equipped 449 00:29:30,336 --> 00:29:32,463 to sail around the world single-handed. 450 00:29:32,605 --> 00:29:34,971 But you like to sleep, don't you? 451 00:29:35,274 --> 00:29:37,003 Oh, I've got to have my eight. 452 00:29:37,076 --> 00:29:39,340 All right. You gotta have your eight. 453 00:29:39,411 --> 00:29:43,142 You're all alone on a boat, you still need your eight. Right? 454 00:29:48,254 --> 00:29:49,846 I got you. 455 00:29:51,390 --> 00:29:53,950 Who's running the ship while I'm in the sack? 456 00:29:54,026 --> 00:29:56,756 BOTH: The self-steering vane. 457 00:29:57,830 --> 00:29:58,888 Fred! 458 00:29:58,964 --> 00:30:00,124 FRED: Here! 459 00:30:01,433 --> 00:30:03,128 Fred, this is Lieutenant Columbo 460 00:30:03,202 --> 00:30:04,669 from the Los Angeles Police Department. 461 00:30:04,737 --> 00:30:06,398 He wants to ask you a question. 462 00:30:07,139 --> 00:30:08,606 How you doing, Fred? 463 00:30:08,941 --> 00:30:10,067 Okay, Lieutenant. 464 00:30:10,442 --> 00:30:12,171 Be with you in a minute. 465 00:30:12,378 --> 00:30:14,744 I got to see one of those vanes. 466 00:30:17,550 --> 00:30:18,608 How was he? 467 00:30:18,684 --> 00:30:19,673 Who? 468 00:30:20,319 --> 00:30:21,411 The Commodore. 469 00:30:21,487 --> 00:30:23,887 He was pretty upset. That's why he went sailing. 470 00:30:23,956 --> 00:30:25,821 When he's upset he takes it out at sea. 471 00:30:26,659 --> 00:30:28,286 And you know him pretty good? 472 00:30:28,627 --> 00:30:30,891 I've been managing his boatyard for quite a while. 473 00:30:30,963 --> 00:30:33,932 So you're the manager of the Swanson Boatyard, huh? 474 00:30:35,367 --> 00:30:36,891 This is Fred? 475 00:30:36,969 --> 00:30:38,129 That's correct. 476 00:30:38,771 --> 00:30:41,399 You run the yard and he's the foreman. 477 00:30:42,107 --> 00:30:46,544 Now, over you is Mr. Charles Clay. 478 00:30:47,313 --> 00:30:48,439 Is that right? 479 00:30:48,514 --> 00:30:49,538 That's right. 480 00:30:50,049 --> 00:30:52,142 And he married the Commodore's daughter? 481 00:30:52,952 --> 00:30:54,442 That's right. 482 00:30:55,454 --> 00:30:57,615 And the Commodore owns all this. 483 00:31:04,496 --> 00:31:05,929 Nice boat. 484 00:31:09,001 --> 00:31:10,229 All right. 485 00:31:13,539 --> 00:31:14,563 Fred? 486 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:15,766 Yes, sir! 487 00:31:17,776 --> 00:31:18,800 (LOUD WHIRRING) 488 00:31:18,878 --> 00:31:20,709 Mr. Taylor here 489 00:31:21,113 --> 00:31:24,981 tells me that you were down here yesterday afternoon, 490 00:31:25,885 --> 00:31:28,251 and the Commodore came down. 491 00:31:29,355 --> 00:31:32,552 And he went into the spare parts shop. 492 00:31:32,625 --> 00:31:34,149 The chandlery. 493 00:31:34,994 --> 00:31:36,586 COLUMBO: Is that right, Fred? 494 00:31:36,662 --> 00:31:37,856 Yes, sir. 495 00:31:37,930 --> 00:31:40,057 And he picked up a few things? 496 00:31:41,834 --> 00:31:43,199 Is that right, Fred? 497 00:31:43,402 --> 00:31:45,029 Mr. Taylor will tell you. 498 00:31:45,104 --> 00:31:47,902 He was always in and out. Picking up bits and pieces. 499 00:31:52,978 --> 00:31:55,412 Do you remember what he took yesterday? 500 00:31:55,481 --> 00:31:57,108 Well, I had to get back to work. 501 00:31:57,182 --> 00:32:01,585 But by the time I left him, he had a few stencils and some paint. 502 00:32:01,654 --> 00:32:02,643 Stencils? 503 00:32:02,721 --> 00:32:05,246 Yes, sir. Stencils. Cleat. A bunch of running... 504 00:32:05,324 --> 00:32:06,313 Cleat, is it? 505 00:32:06,392 --> 00:32:07,518 Cleat! Cleat? 506 00:32:07,593 --> 00:32:09,060 Running lines... Come again? 507 00:32:09,128 --> 00:32:10,755 Running lines. Running lines? 508 00:32:10,829 --> 00:32:11,818 Yes, sir. Like boat. 509 00:32:11,897 --> 00:32:12,921 All right! 510 00:32:12,998 --> 00:32:15,125 And a can of black marine paint. 511 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,225 Marine paint. Black paint. 512 00:32:17,469 --> 00:32:18,527 Black what? 513 00:32:18,604 --> 00:32:21,198 Paint, sir. Black paint. 514 00:32:21,273 --> 00:32:22,706 Black marine paint... 515 00:32:22,775 --> 00:32:24,106 Marine paint? 516 00:32:25,778 --> 00:32:27,746 What else, I don't know. 517 00:32:28,147 --> 00:32:29,978 It doesn't make no sense. 518 00:32:31,817 --> 00:32:33,216 Thank you, Fred. 519 00:32:34,253 --> 00:32:35,447 Black paint? 520 00:32:35,521 --> 00:32:39,116 Oh, Uncle Otis would have all sorts of uses for black paint. 521 00:32:39,925 --> 00:32:41,586 That doesn't mean anything, Lieutenant. 522 00:32:41,660 --> 00:32:44,925 That's not gonna tell you what happened to him last night. 523 00:32:44,997 --> 00:32:47,056 No, I don't suppose it would. 524 00:32:47,266 --> 00:32:51,498 And you don't think that the Commodore is the kind of man who would just fall overboard? 525 00:32:51,570 --> 00:32:53,128 If he did, he'd walk home. 526 00:32:53,205 --> 00:32:56,003 That's the way most people thought of him around here. 527 00:32:56,075 --> 00:32:57,838 And they were right. 528 00:32:58,444 --> 00:33:02,972 You know, he's given me an allowance ever since I was 14 and my folks died. 529 00:33:03,282 --> 00:33:04,544 An allowance? 530 00:33:04,883 --> 00:33:08,080 Oh, so they call it a salary now, but who's kidding who? 531 00:33:08,654 --> 00:33:11,953 He even stuck me in his will. He showed it to me. 532 00:33:14,526 --> 00:33:17,689 You've seen the will? What's in it? 533 00:33:18,697 --> 00:33:20,892 A couple of thousand whereases. 534 00:33:21,967 --> 00:33:25,300 He just wanted me to know there'd be a trust set up, 535 00:33:25,704 --> 00:33:28,229 in case Charles got any bright ideas. 536 00:33:29,408 --> 00:33:33,435 You didn't happen to notice whether Charles inerits anything, did you? 537 00:33:33,512 --> 00:33:34,501 No, no. 538 00:33:34,580 --> 00:33:37,879 Joanna, the Commodore's daughter, gets everything. The works. 539 00:33:39,451 --> 00:33:42,909 But, you know, California's a community-property state. 540 00:33:42,988 --> 00:33:44,979 So, what's the difference? 541 00:33:46,125 --> 00:33:47,217 Yes. 542 00:33:48,327 --> 00:33:49,521 Right. 543 00:33:50,295 --> 00:33:51,660 SWANNY: There she is. 544 00:33:52,865 --> 00:33:55,993 That little gem there was the wedding present. 545 00:33:56,068 --> 00:33:57,763 It was five years ago. 546 00:33:58,203 --> 00:34:00,137 COLUMBO: You don't suppose I could 547 00:34:00,205 --> 00:34:03,140 sort of get on that thing, and just look around, do you? 548 00:34:03,208 --> 00:34:06,234 You know, I've never been on anything that fancy. 549 00:34:06,311 --> 00:34:08,871 Why not? Be my guest. 550 00:34:17,556 --> 00:34:19,547 A wedding present, huh? 551 00:35:13,779 --> 00:35:15,371 Are you all right? 552 00:35:35,734 --> 00:35:37,167 What are you doing? 553 00:35:38,770 --> 00:35:39,998 TM. 554 00:35:41,173 --> 00:35:42,299 TM? 555 00:35:44,610 --> 00:35:46,475 Transcendental meditation. 556 00:35:47,179 --> 00:35:48,339 Oh. 557 00:35:50,716 --> 00:35:52,081 About what? 558 00:35:54,119 --> 00:35:55,347 Relax. 559 00:35:57,923 --> 00:35:59,220 Who are you? 560 00:36:02,194 --> 00:36:03,320 Lisa. 561 00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:10,058 That's not right. 562 00:36:11,203 --> 00:36:12,693 What's not right? 563 00:36:15,107 --> 00:36:16,574 Let me show you. 564 00:36:18,143 --> 00:36:20,976 You're supposed to put this foot up to this thigh, 565 00:36:21,046 --> 00:36:23,241 and this foot up to that thigh. 566 00:36:35,427 --> 00:36:37,759 Would you help me with that foot? 567 00:36:42,668 --> 00:36:43,657 Relax. 568 00:36:44,536 --> 00:36:45,798 I'm trying to. 569 00:36:49,374 --> 00:36:51,239 This ankle hurts. 570 00:36:53,445 --> 00:36:54,605 Relax? 571 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,114 This foot on this thigh. 572 00:37:00,152 --> 00:37:02,143 This foot over here? 573 00:37:04,990 --> 00:37:07,288 Would you help me with that? 574 00:37:14,766 --> 00:37:17,030 I don't think I'm gonna be able to do that. 575 00:37:17,536 --> 00:37:19,470 Can I just keep my legs out like this? 576 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:21,365 Sure. 577 00:37:36,521 --> 00:37:38,819 Did you bring that cop over here? 578 00:37:38,890 --> 00:37:39,879 Yeah. 579 00:37:40,292 --> 00:37:41,486 Why? 580 00:37:42,027 --> 00:37:43,187 Idiot! 581 00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:50,397 This is Mr. Charles Clay's boat, isn't it? 582 00:37:50,469 --> 00:37:51,561 Yes. 583 00:37:52,204 --> 00:37:53,296 Okay. 584 00:37:53,705 --> 00:37:55,332 I work for Mr. Clay. 585 00:37:55,574 --> 00:37:57,007 What do you do? 586 00:37:57,576 --> 00:38:01,910 I am a naval architect and a marine engineer. 587 00:38:02,748 --> 00:38:04,409 And I work 588 00:38:06,685 --> 00:38:07,947 with Mr. Swanson. 589 00:38:17,195 --> 00:38:20,460 I didn't know you were into meditation, Lieutenant. 590 00:38:23,201 --> 00:38:24,429 Well... 591 00:38:27,973 --> 00:38:29,201 Lisa? 592 00:38:29,274 --> 00:38:30,263 Yes. 593 00:38:31,977 --> 00:38:34,969 Miss Lisa was just demonstrating. 594 00:38:35,380 --> 00:38:36,711 Lieutenant! 595 00:38:36,948 --> 00:38:38,882 Hey, Lieutenant. Where are you? 596 00:38:38,950 --> 00:38:40,178 Up here! 597 00:38:40,252 --> 00:38:42,152 Up on top of the back. 598 00:38:42,287 --> 00:38:44,414 Well, do you want us to wait down here or come up there? 599 00:38:44,489 --> 00:38:45,854 Come on up. 600 00:38:48,260 --> 00:38:49,591 Come below. 601 00:38:52,898 --> 00:38:54,593 Have a nice meditation. 602 00:38:57,703 --> 00:39:01,002 It's too bad you didn't stay at the Coast Guard station a little longer this morning, 603 00:39:01,073 --> 00:39:02,973 or at least check with your office more often. 604 00:39:03,375 --> 00:39:05,002 Why do you say that? 605 00:39:05,077 --> 00:39:07,841 Oh, why do you keep suggesting that my father-in-law's disappearance 606 00:39:07,913 --> 00:39:09,642 was something more than an accident? 607 00:39:09,715 --> 00:39:12,275 Oh, just a couple of little things bothered me. 608 00:39:14,453 --> 00:39:17,718 Yes. This is Charles Clay. May I speak to Ensign O'Connor, please? 609 00:39:18,323 --> 00:39:22,453 It was Ensign O'Connor who found that spot of blood on the mizzen boom. 610 00:39:25,397 --> 00:39:27,160 Yes, Ensign. This is Charles Clay. 611 00:39:27,232 --> 00:39:29,962 Would you tell Lieutenant Columbo what you told me? 612 00:39:30,235 --> 00:39:33,170 All right? Right. Hang on. Here. 613 00:39:35,140 --> 00:39:36,129 (EXCLAIMS) 614 00:39:36,975 --> 00:39:38,237 Sorry. 615 00:39:41,546 --> 00:39:42,706 Hello. 616 00:39:47,452 --> 00:39:51,946 He lost control of a line, his boat jibed, mizzen boom swung, and that was it. 617 00:39:52,524 --> 00:39:53,513 Mmm-hmm. 618 00:39:54,860 --> 00:39:56,350 Well, thank you. 619 00:40:07,205 --> 00:40:09,139 What does "jibed" mean? 620 00:40:11,810 --> 00:40:13,675 Come on, I'll show you. 621 00:40:22,654 --> 00:40:24,451 That's the jibe, Lieutenant. 622 00:40:25,190 --> 00:40:26,623 That's your old fashioned jibe. 623 00:40:26,691 --> 00:40:30,252 From port to starboard, starboard to port. Right to left, left to right. 624 00:40:30,495 --> 00:40:31,826 And what causes that? 625 00:40:32,130 --> 00:40:34,997 Well, when you're going along, 626 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,260 wind gets behind your sail, hits it, boom. 627 00:40:38,336 --> 00:40:41,032 Moves it all the way from one side of the vessel to the other. 628 00:40:41,106 --> 00:40:42,130 Now, what's that? 629 00:40:42,207 --> 00:40:43,640 What's what? This here. 630 00:40:43,708 --> 00:40:45,198 This wood? Yeah. 631 00:40:45,277 --> 00:40:46,539 It's the boom. 632 00:40:46,611 --> 00:40:47,976 What boom is that? 633 00:40:48,046 --> 00:40:49,911 What? It's the main boom. 634 00:40:49,981 --> 00:40:51,505 Is there another boom? 635 00:40:51,583 --> 00:40:52,982 Yeah, there's a mizzen boom. 636 00:40:53,051 --> 00:40:54,416 The mizzen boom. 637 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:56,888 This is the mizzen boom. 638 00:40:58,323 --> 00:41:00,484 Now, this is a smaller boom? 639 00:41:00,559 --> 00:41:02,151 Yeah. It's also lower. 640 00:41:02,227 --> 00:41:03,489 And lower. Yeah. 641 00:41:03,562 --> 00:41:05,427 You heard of lowering the boom? 642 00:41:05,697 --> 00:41:08,188 Oh, yeah. So this is lower. 643 00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:12,498 Ah, yes. Oh, that's low. Yeah. 644 00:41:13,538 --> 00:41:14,527 Okay. 645 00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:17,233 Move to starboard, port, same way. 646 00:41:17,309 --> 00:41:18,936 Now, what's this? 647 00:41:19,010 --> 00:41:23,003 That? That's the self-steering vane. 648 00:41:24,883 --> 00:41:27,977 That's the self-steering vane. That's right. 649 00:41:28,053 --> 00:41:29,987 You know how that works? 650 00:41:31,089 --> 00:41:32,215 What do you do with that? 651 00:41:32,290 --> 00:41:33,848 Let me show you. Here. 652 00:41:34,059 --> 00:41:35,720 Put that up here. 653 00:41:37,496 --> 00:41:39,361 Hold on this piece right here 654 00:41:39,431 --> 00:41:42,093 till it slides down there just like that. 655 00:41:42,167 --> 00:41:43,828 All the way down. 656 00:41:43,902 --> 00:41:46,462 Then it self steers. It's like an automatic pilot. 657 00:41:46,605 --> 00:41:47,765 By itself? 658 00:41:47,839 --> 00:41:49,272 All by itself. That's right. 659 00:41:49,341 --> 00:41:50,330 I see. 660 00:41:50,408 --> 00:41:51,670 As the wind catches it. 661 00:41:51,743 --> 00:41:52,971 You don't have to... That's... 662 00:41:53,044 --> 00:41:54,534 You don't have to handle that? 663 00:41:54,613 --> 00:41:56,012 That's not a handle. That's a weight. 664 00:41:56,081 --> 00:41:57,241 Ah, I see. 665 00:41:57,315 --> 00:41:59,647 Let me just take a look at that. 666 00:41:59,718 --> 00:42:00,776 Here. 667 00:42:00,886 --> 00:42:01,875 Okay. 668 00:42:01,953 --> 00:42:03,648 There you go. 669 00:42:05,991 --> 00:42:07,788 And I just take that off, right? 670 00:42:07,859 --> 00:42:09,156 Hang on. Hang on. 671 00:42:09,227 --> 00:42:10,387 Wind will catch you and you'll go over. 672 00:42:10,462 --> 00:42:11,724 Oh, I don't want to go over. 673 00:42:11,796 --> 00:42:13,229 All right. Okay. 674 00:42:13,298 --> 00:42:14,890 There we are. All right. 675 00:42:15,634 --> 00:42:19,764 And this whole yawl is driven by this vane. 676 00:42:19,838 --> 00:42:22,466 That's right. Without a need of human help. 677 00:42:22,541 --> 00:42:24,270 Yeah, all right. 678 00:42:24,342 --> 00:42:26,708 Now, what way would you put that on? Huh? 679 00:42:26,778 --> 00:42:27,972 Doesn't make any difference. 680 00:42:28,046 --> 00:42:29,638 Wouldn't make no difference, huh? 681 00:42:29,714 --> 00:42:30,703 Any difference. 682 00:42:30,782 --> 00:42:31,806 Adjusts to the wind. 683 00:42:31,883 --> 00:42:33,009 Right. 684 00:42:33,418 --> 00:42:34,407 Look at that. 685 00:42:34,486 --> 00:42:36,420 There's something missing that should be here. 686 00:42:36,488 --> 00:42:37,682 What's that? 687 00:42:37,756 --> 00:42:39,417 There's supposed to be a nut here. 688 00:42:41,059 --> 00:42:42,151 A nut? Yes. A nut. 689 00:42:42,227 --> 00:42:45,526 You put that on over there, slide it down, screw the nut on. 690 00:42:45,597 --> 00:42:46,825 It secures it. 691 00:42:47,465 --> 00:42:48,796 There's no nut. 692 00:42:49,901 --> 00:42:51,664 Well, what is the nut for? 693 00:42:51,736 --> 00:42:54,000 Well, it secures it. It holds it on top. Just like that. 694 00:42:54,072 --> 00:42:56,506 Oh, you put the vane on down there. 695 00:42:56,575 --> 00:42:59,339 Then this bolt comes up, you screw down the bolt, 696 00:42:59,411 --> 00:43:01,936 secures it, and it steers. 697 00:43:02,013 --> 00:43:04,243 Oh. So the nut would be... 698 00:43:04,683 --> 00:43:05,911 I see. It should be there. 699 00:43:05,984 --> 00:43:06,973 On top. 700 00:43:07,052 --> 00:43:08,246 Or on top. 701 00:43:09,087 --> 00:43:10,452 And there's no nut there, huh? 702 00:43:10,522 --> 00:43:11,511 There's no nut. 703 00:43:11,590 --> 00:43:12,989 Well, what do you think happened? 704 00:43:13,058 --> 00:43:14,423 I don't know. 705 00:43:14,659 --> 00:43:17,127 Maybe it's somewhere on board here. 706 00:43:18,530 --> 00:43:20,225 There's no nut. 707 00:43:21,366 --> 00:43:24,028 Well, what could've happened, I'm speculating, 708 00:43:24,869 --> 00:43:29,169 is the Commodore had put the vane back there, 709 00:43:29,474 --> 00:43:31,635 came up here, took the nut off, 710 00:43:31,943 --> 00:43:33,774 turned around this way. 711 00:43:33,845 --> 00:43:38,578 As he started to walk, his mizzen jibed like that. 712 00:43:38,783 --> 00:43:42,310 He went overboard like that. The nut dropped in the water. 713 00:43:42,954 --> 00:43:44,012 As simple as that. 714 00:43:44,356 --> 00:43:45,823 All right. 715 00:43:47,359 --> 00:43:48,724 Where was the blood? 716 00:43:48,827 --> 00:43:51,625 The blood was here on the portside of the mizzen. 717 00:43:51,696 --> 00:43:53,926 On the port. Yeah. Right there. 718 00:43:53,999 --> 00:43:55,694 On the portside. 719 00:43:56,067 --> 00:43:57,534 There was the blood. 720 00:43:57,602 --> 00:43:59,194 So he was turning this way. 721 00:43:59,270 --> 00:44:00,328 It jibed. 722 00:44:00,405 --> 00:44:02,032 It jibed this way. 723 00:44:02,374 --> 00:44:03,898 Got him... Port. 724 00:44:04,142 --> 00:44:06,770 To the left and got him, and that was it. 725 00:44:06,845 --> 00:44:07,834 Over. 726 00:44:07,912 --> 00:44:09,311 Watch your head. 727 00:44:10,348 --> 00:44:11,337 Okay. 728 00:44:12,317 --> 00:44:13,409 All right. 729 00:44:15,820 --> 00:44:17,082 All right. 730 00:44:17,188 --> 00:44:19,122 Taking the nut off, 731 00:44:20,325 --> 00:44:23,351 going to get the self-steering vane, 732 00:44:24,562 --> 00:44:28,623 and the mizzen boom jibed. 733 00:44:28,833 --> 00:44:29,822 Right. 734 00:44:30,435 --> 00:44:32,096 Blood on the port. 735 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,018 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 736 00:45:07,138 --> 00:45:08,264 Hello. 737 00:45:09,174 --> 00:45:10,266 Yes. 738 00:45:11,943 --> 00:45:13,342 I'm sorry to hear that. 739 00:45:13,411 --> 00:45:14,400 All right. 740 00:45:14,679 --> 00:45:16,044 Right away. 741 00:45:26,424 --> 00:45:28,051 They found your father. 742 00:45:29,561 --> 00:45:30,823 Have they? 743 00:45:33,398 --> 00:45:37,425 Columbo wants one of us to identify the body. 744 00:45:38,937 --> 00:45:39,926 He's dead. 745 00:45:40,472 --> 00:45:41,564 Daddy! 746 00:45:42,774 --> 00:45:43,900 Daddy! 747 00:45:43,975 --> 00:45:45,465 I'd better go. 748 00:45:46,444 --> 00:45:47,843 Please! 749 00:45:47,912 --> 00:45:50,039 I have to, Joanna. Now, don't drink. 750 00:45:50,682 --> 00:45:51,979 Look. 751 00:45:52,050 --> 00:45:53,847 Do you remember this, hmm? 752 00:45:53,918 --> 00:45:55,909 Remember this? My anniversary gift. 753 00:45:55,987 --> 00:45:57,181 Look at it! 754 00:45:57,255 --> 00:45:58,586 Our brooch. 755 00:46:00,158 --> 00:46:01,386 Where did you find it? 756 00:46:01,459 --> 00:46:02,824 I picked it up. 757 00:46:03,161 --> 00:46:04,253 I can't remember. 758 00:46:04,329 --> 00:46:06,388 No. I know you can't remember. 759 00:46:07,232 --> 00:46:08,722 Now, don't drink. 760 00:46:10,335 --> 00:46:11,666 Don't drink! 761 00:46:16,574 --> 00:46:17,768 It's him. 762 00:46:17,842 --> 00:46:19,173 I'm sorry, sir. 763 00:46:20,612 --> 00:46:22,807 Thank you very much. Sergeant. 764 00:46:26,751 --> 00:46:29,049 These are some of the things that we found in his pocket. 765 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,485 You all right? 766 00:46:30,555 --> 00:46:31,544 Yeah. 767 00:46:52,210 --> 00:46:55,873 Was this a watch chain, maybe? It was found hooked to his jacket. 768 00:46:57,215 --> 00:46:58,443 Yeah. That was his. 769 00:47:00,051 --> 00:47:01,518 See, it's broken. 770 00:47:01,820 --> 00:47:03,947 I wonder where the watch is. 771 00:47:05,156 --> 00:47:07,317 Well, I wouldn't know, Lieutenant. 772 00:47:08,159 --> 00:47:09,285 Wouldn't know. 773 00:47:09,460 --> 00:47:11,189 Well, what's the difference? 774 00:47:11,496 --> 00:47:13,794 It's not going to help us find the murderer. 775 00:47:15,967 --> 00:47:17,229 The what? 776 00:47:17,802 --> 00:47:21,101 The doctors are already pretty certain that your father-in-law was dead 777 00:47:21,172 --> 00:47:22,264 before he went in the water. 778 00:47:22,340 --> 00:47:24,205 Maybe even some time before. 779 00:47:24,275 --> 00:47:27,108 Something to do with water in the lungs. Too much water, 780 00:47:27,178 --> 00:47:29,237 not enough water. No water. 781 00:47:29,814 --> 00:47:31,714 They claim he was dead. 782 00:47:34,285 --> 00:47:37,277 Maybe he was hit and fell down, 783 00:47:37,355 --> 00:47:40,916 and was knocked over later by a big wave or something. 784 00:47:40,992 --> 00:47:44,792 Well, you know, the Coast Guard says that the swells 785 00:47:45,129 --> 00:47:47,256 were only two or three feet. 786 00:47:48,566 --> 00:47:51,535 There must've been somebody else on the boat. 787 00:47:57,675 --> 00:47:58,767 CHARLIE: Lieutenant. 788 00:47:58,843 --> 00:47:59,832 Yes, sir? 789 00:47:59,911 --> 00:48:02,243 I was not the other person on board. 790 00:48:02,513 --> 00:48:05,311 Therefore, there is nothing that I could have done to the Commodore. 791 00:48:05,383 --> 00:48:06,577 You couldn't? 792 00:48:06,918 --> 00:48:09,978 I left the island where his boat was moored shortly after midnight. 793 00:48:10,054 --> 00:48:11,681 And I never returned. 794 00:48:11,756 --> 00:48:13,849 Check with the security guards. They're on duty 24 hours. 795 00:48:13,925 --> 00:48:15,859 Now, sir, this is the wrong way. 796 00:48:17,328 --> 00:48:19,159 That's the right way. 797 00:48:20,632 --> 00:48:22,566 They're on duty 24 hours. 798 00:48:22,634 --> 00:48:24,829 And I simply could not have returned without them seeing me. 799 00:48:24,903 --> 00:48:26,302 Yes, sir. I guess that's all true. 800 00:48:26,371 --> 00:48:28,601 And that guard, he certainly remembers what time you left, 801 00:48:28,673 --> 00:48:30,641 just like I told you he did. 802 00:48:30,708 --> 00:48:33,871 But that's exactly what's been bothering me right from the beginning. 803 00:48:33,945 --> 00:48:35,071 Time. 804 00:48:36,247 --> 00:48:38,909 Ever since I saw that beautiful watch of yours, 805 00:48:39,417 --> 00:48:40,406 time. 806 00:48:42,053 --> 00:48:45,784 Why would you check with the guard when you were leaving the island? 807 00:48:45,924 --> 00:48:47,323 The time. 808 00:48:48,059 --> 00:48:50,391 He's got a drugstore watch. 809 00:48:51,496 --> 00:48:55,398 Unless you wanted to make certain that when you were leaving he would remember... 810 00:48:55,633 --> 00:48:56,622 The time. 811 00:49:18,589 --> 00:49:22,218 I'm really confused. There're so many islands around here. 812 00:49:22,593 --> 00:49:26,427 Where are we now? Are we on an island or are we on the mainland? 813 00:49:26,531 --> 00:49:28,192 The mainland, Lieutenant. Here, let me show you. 814 00:49:28,266 --> 00:49:29,426 Ensign. 815 00:49:29,834 --> 00:49:32,098 Let me explain it to him, all right? 816 00:49:32,170 --> 00:49:34,400 Lieutenant, let me explain it to you. 817 00:49:35,974 --> 00:49:38,465 Let's pretend that you're the island 818 00:49:38,643 --> 00:49:41,441 and your foot here 819 00:49:41,946 --> 00:49:45,712 is the Commodore's house. Now, over here is the mainland, 820 00:49:46,784 --> 00:49:49,412 and this piling here is the yacht club. 821 00:49:50,188 --> 00:49:53,919 Now, between the yacht club and the island is a channel. 822 00:49:55,793 --> 00:49:59,627 From the yacht club to the Commodore's house is about a mile. 823 00:50:00,031 --> 00:50:01,589 Then on out to sea. 824 00:50:01,699 --> 00:50:03,564 Is it possible to swim 825 00:50:05,370 --> 00:50:09,397 from the mainland to the island at night without being seen? 826 00:50:10,641 --> 00:50:15,203 Well, the channel is very well-lit, all night in fact. 827 00:50:15,713 --> 00:50:18,113 But there's a reason for the law against swimming, Lieutenant. 828 00:50:18,182 --> 00:50:19,615 With all the boat traffic in here, 829 00:50:19,684 --> 00:50:23,017 the chances of being hit by a boat or a propeller are only too good. 830 00:50:23,388 --> 00:50:27,950 On top of which, it was a Friday night. A lot of people were awake, partying. 831 00:50:28,026 --> 00:50:31,518 I don't mean it's impossible. I just don't think it's very likely. 832 00:50:31,596 --> 00:50:32,585 Lieutenant, 833 00:50:33,197 --> 00:50:34,323 your cigar. 834 00:50:35,066 --> 00:50:38,558 Oh. You're right, Sergeant. Thank you. 835 00:50:39,037 --> 00:50:40,197 What do you have there? 836 00:50:40,271 --> 00:50:41,260 Stencils. 837 00:50:41,873 --> 00:50:42,862 Stencils. 838 00:50:43,875 --> 00:50:47,367 Cleat, running line, black marine paint. 839 00:50:47,845 --> 00:50:49,073 Where's the other stuff? 840 00:50:49,147 --> 00:50:50,614 It's on the boat. 841 00:50:52,583 --> 00:50:57,316 This is a stencil and you use that to paint a word. 842 00:50:59,457 --> 00:51:00,890 These haven't been painted on. 843 00:51:00,958 --> 00:51:01,982 No. 844 00:51:02,060 --> 00:51:03,049 No paint. 845 00:51:03,127 --> 00:51:04,116 No. 846 00:51:04,729 --> 00:51:06,924 All right. What's the word? 847 00:51:07,665 --> 00:51:10,566 Well, sir. I would say "sails". This one... 848 00:51:12,336 --> 00:51:13,701 This one is just a blank, I guess. 849 00:51:14,072 --> 00:51:16,063 "Sails" with a blank. 850 00:51:21,913 --> 00:51:23,278 A hole. 851 00:51:29,987 --> 00:51:32,285 And where would you paint this? 852 00:51:33,825 --> 00:51:37,784 Well, a lot of people stencil their sails locker. 853 00:51:37,995 --> 00:51:39,394 A locker. 854 00:51:42,467 --> 00:51:46,597 Thank you for your time, sir. That was very helpful. Appreciate the time. 855 00:51:46,671 --> 00:51:48,332 Oh, that's okay. 856 00:51:48,439 --> 00:51:49,736 Good luck. 857 00:51:50,808 --> 00:51:51,797 Mac. 858 00:51:53,478 --> 00:51:54,467 Sergeant. 859 00:51:56,013 --> 00:51:58,982 Can we spell anything else out of these? 860 00:51:59,083 --> 00:52:00,482 Let's see. 861 00:52:01,085 --> 00:52:02,211 Slia. 862 00:52:03,387 --> 00:52:05,184 Silas, slias. 863 00:52:07,225 --> 00:52:08,249 Slas. 864 00:52:08,326 --> 00:52:09,315 Slasis. 865 00:52:10,528 --> 00:52:11,517 Lassi? 866 00:52:11,796 --> 00:52:13,058 You need an "E." 867 00:52:13,131 --> 00:52:15,190 You need an "E" for that, Sergeant. 868 00:52:17,935 --> 00:52:20,062 A-S-S, 869 00:52:21,639 --> 00:52:22,731 S, 870 00:52:24,542 --> 00:52:26,772 l-S, 871 00:52:30,882 --> 00:52:33,112 A-S-S-L-I. 872 00:52:33,184 --> 00:52:34,173 Assli. 873 00:52:35,586 --> 00:52:36,575 Sails? 874 00:52:36,654 --> 00:52:38,713 I think it's just... The only word you can spell is "sails." 875 00:52:39,023 --> 00:52:40,012 Sails. 876 00:52:40,091 --> 00:52:41,524 S-A-l-L-S. 877 00:52:42,393 --> 00:52:44,554 It's the only one you got. 878 00:52:45,096 --> 00:52:46,358 With a hole. 879 00:52:50,201 --> 00:52:51,691 (WATER GURGLING) 880 00:53:07,151 --> 00:53:08,778 Was that you making that noise? 881 00:53:08,953 --> 00:53:10,853 You mean the regulator? Yeah. 882 00:53:12,056 --> 00:53:14,183 What were you doing under there? 883 00:53:14,258 --> 00:53:16,055 Scraping the bottom of the boat. 884 00:53:16,127 --> 00:53:17,958 How long can you stay under there with that tank? 885 00:53:18,129 --> 00:53:20,495 With a full tank, about 45 minutes. 886 00:53:20,698 --> 00:53:22,529 How long you been doing that kind of work? 887 00:53:22,934 --> 00:53:24,367 Oh, this is my fourth day. 888 00:53:24,435 --> 00:53:25,766 What are you doing tonight? 889 00:53:25,903 --> 00:53:27,063 Nothing. 890 00:53:35,813 --> 00:53:36,905 Are you all right? 891 00:53:36,981 --> 00:53:38,676 Yeah. I'm all right. 892 00:53:38,816 --> 00:53:39,908 You cold? 893 00:53:39,984 --> 00:53:40,973 A bit. 894 00:53:41,085 --> 00:53:43,144 He's cold. Check your watch. 895 00:53:44,255 --> 00:53:45,620 Check your watch. 896 00:53:46,023 --> 00:53:48,014 Now, you're going from here. 897 00:53:49,227 --> 00:53:53,391 He's going from here out to that island. How far is that? 898 00:53:54,165 --> 00:53:56,258 About a mile down the channel. 899 00:53:56,334 --> 00:53:57,460 Can you make that? 900 00:53:57,735 --> 00:53:59,828 I got a compass. I know the tide. 901 00:54:00,404 --> 00:54:01,701 What time you got? 902 00:54:01,772 --> 00:54:02,932 12:56. 903 00:54:03,007 --> 00:54:04,201 Good luck to you. 904 00:54:04,275 --> 00:54:05,572 Thanks. 905 00:54:58,996 --> 00:55:00,827 (WATER GURGLING) 906 00:55:29,293 --> 00:55:33,593 I got done a lot sooner than I figured. And nobody saw me. I'm positive. 907 00:55:33,731 --> 00:55:34,857 What's your name? 908 00:55:34,932 --> 00:55:35,921 Johnny. 909 00:55:36,701 --> 00:55:38,259 Very good. 910 00:55:48,412 --> 00:55:49,640 Did it work? 911 00:55:49,814 --> 00:55:53,272 That's how he did it. Did you find anything? 912 00:55:53,351 --> 00:55:54,340 A broken watch. 913 00:55:54,452 --> 00:55:55,612 And a lipstick. 914 00:55:55,786 --> 00:55:56,980 Where'd you find them? 915 00:55:57,054 --> 00:55:59,648 There were these little pieces of broken glass, right there. 916 00:55:59,824 --> 00:56:02,122 So, I looked around 917 00:56:02,626 --> 00:56:05,561 and right under the couch there was the watch. 918 00:56:05,763 --> 00:56:07,526 Now, it must've been knocked off of something. 919 00:56:07,598 --> 00:56:12,092 Excuse me, and I found the lipstick right under the corner of the couch here. 920 00:56:12,303 --> 00:56:13,964 Where are they now? 921 00:56:14,038 --> 00:56:15,471 On the desk. 922 00:56:36,527 --> 00:56:37,516 Dust. 923 00:56:41,399 --> 00:56:42,696 Did you fellas touch this? 924 00:56:42,767 --> 00:56:44,359 No, sir. No, sir. 925 00:56:48,072 --> 00:56:50,165 I thought this house had been searched before? 926 00:56:50,241 --> 00:56:51,333 Just a quick look. 927 00:56:51,409 --> 00:56:54,344 We supposed that the Commodore had died on his boat or fell off of it. 928 00:56:54,412 --> 00:56:55,902 The court sealed up the house. 929 00:56:56,981 --> 00:56:58,312 All right. 930 00:56:58,783 --> 00:57:00,910 That could be the Commodore's watch. 931 00:57:04,121 --> 00:57:05,645 Probably is. 932 00:57:07,825 --> 00:57:09,690 What was the time? 933 00:57:11,729 --> 00:57:13,822 (MUMBLING) 934 00:57:15,699 --> 00:57:16,961 Can't see. 935 00:57:26,911 --> 00:57:28,469 Hold that, Sergeant. 936 00:57:33,751 --> 00:57:35,116 Can't see. 937 00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:37,309 Mac, 938 00:57:37,988 --> 00:57:39,922 get me the front end of the telescope. 939 00:57:39,990 --> 00:57:41,082 Yes, sir. 940 00:57:41,158 --> 00:57:42,523 That unscrews. 941 00:57:47,298 --> 00:57:50,028 All right. I need the lenses. 942 00:57:50,100 --> 00:57:51,624 Is this what you want? 943 00:57:56,140 --> 00:57:57,607 Yes. 944 00:57:59,176 --> 00:58:00,404 Twelve 945 00:58:01,846 --> 00:58:03,074 forty 946 00:58:03,981 --> 00:58:05,005 two. 947 00:58:06,484 --> 00:58:09,112 Saturday, 31st. 948 00:58:13,824 --> 00:58:15,018 Chain. 949 00:58:23,834 --> 00:58:25,131 All right. 950 00:58:25,703 --> 00:58:28,001 So, if there was a struggle here 951 00:58:28,572 --> 00:58:31,370 and in the struggle the chain broke, 952 00:58:32,576 --> 00:58:34,908 how could the watch be shoved under the carpet? 953 00:58:36,747 --> 00:58:38,647 Somebody moved the body. 954 00:58:40,885 --> 00:58:43,547 Lieutenant, you remember that Charles Clay 955 00:58:43,621 --> 00:58:46,419 checked off the island at 12:46? 956 00:58:46,490 --> 00:58:48,082 What are these? 957 00:58:48,492 --> 00:58:50,687 Oh, these are belaying pins. 958 00:58:51,195 --> 00:58:52,526 Belaying 959 00:58:54,331 --> 00:58:55,355 pins. 960 00:58:57,167 --> 00:59:00,295 They come off old time ships. They're like... 961 00:59:00,404 --> 00:59:03,669 Like an old fashioned cleat. Tie the rope around them, 962 00:59:03,974 --> 00:59:07,466 and then if you wanna release the rope real fast you... 963 00:59:07,545 --> 00:59:08,534 (EXCLAIMING) 964 00:59:12,216 --> 00:59:14,184 Don't touch that, Mac. 965 00:59:16,787 --> 00:59:18,755 Don't they have a housekeeper here? 966 00:59:18,822 --> 00:59:20,346 Two-week vacation. 967 00:59:24,728 --> 00:59:25,820 Lieutenant. 968 00:59:26,897 --> 00:59:28,762 Can I put the lamp down? 969 00:59:29,667 --> 00:59:31,157 Yes, Sergeant. 970 00:59:31,468 --> 00:59:33,368 Mac. Dust. 971 00:59:34,238 --> 00:59:35,933 Dust. Dust. 972 00:59:36,874 --> 00:59:38,637 Dust. Dust. 973 00:59:39,710 --> 00:59:40,972 No dust. 974 00:59:42,446 --> 00:59:44,812 You boys check these things out. 975 00:59:45,382 --> 00:59:50,012 The belaying pin, the watch, and the lipstick. 976 00:59:51,121 --> 00:59:52,349 For fingerprints? 977 00:59:52,423 --> 00:59:54,653 I don't think you're gonna find any, Sergeant. 978 00:59:55,726 --> 00:59:58,286 So if the Commodore was killed here, 979 00:59:58,629 --> 01:00:00,654 I guess we know who sailed the yawl. 980 01:00:02,533 --> 01:00:04,330 I guess we do, Mac. 981 01:00:06,937 --> 01:00:08,268 Charles Clay? 982 01:00:15,946 --> 01:00:16,935 Who else? 983 01:00:19,116 --> 01:00:20,845 (POLICE RADIO CHATTERING) 984 01:00:38,535 --> 01:00:39,524 Thank you. 985 01:01:20,244 --> 01:01:20,539 Did you find her? 986 01:01:21,311 --> 01:01:25,145 No, not yet. Mrs. Clay had an appointment at the hairdresser at 9:30. 987 01:01:25,215 --> 01:01:28,241 She was there. She left and we're still trying to locate her. 988 01:01:29,953 --> 01:01:31,580 And the housekeeper got here at 10:00? 989 01:01:31,755 --> 01:01:34,553 Right. Mrs. Clay didn't like her to get here any earlier 990 01:01:34,625 --> 01:01:37,185 'cause she was normally a little rocky in the morning. 991 01:01:37,895 --> 01:01:40,762 It was all so simple. A nice straight line. 992 01:01:42,199 --> 01:01:43,928 You've still got a nice straight line. 993 01:01:44,001 --> 01:01:45,593 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 994 01:01:47,571 --> 01:01:49,698 No, you can't talk to Charles Clay. He's gone. 995 01:01:49,773 --> 01:01:50,933 One, four. 996 01:01:51,442 --> 01:01:52,875 And Mrs. Clay isn't here, either. 997 01:01:52,943 --> 01:01:53,967 Five. 998 01:01:54,211 --> 01:01:55,439 GEORGE: Thank you. 999 01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:57,872 I still have what? 1000 01:02:00,751 --> 01:02:02,844 You still got a nice straight line. 1001 01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:05,548 I mean, Charles Clay still could've killed the Commodore. 1002 01:02:05,622 --> 01:02:07,180 Who knows? Maybe he had a partner. 1003 01:02:07,257 --> 01:02:10,351 They got into an argument this morning. The partner killed him, right? 1004 01:02:10,427 --> 01:02:14,488 Lieutenant, I also found in the fireplace with those other things some feminine stuff. 1005 01:02:15,399 --> 01:02:17,924 Handkerchief and a piece of comb. 1006 01:02:18,001 --> 01:02:18,990 Feminine? 1007 01:02:19,103 --> 01:02:20,092 Yeah. 1008 01:02:22,740 --> 01:02:25,402 Maybe I ought to take up smoking again. 1009 01:02:25,476 --> 01:02:27,603 Now, the letter and the notes in the fireplace 1010 01:02:27,678 --> 01:02:30,704 look like they were stolen from the Commodore. And I told the lawyer, 1011 01:02:30,781 --> 01:02:33,272 when he gets here you want a sample. 1012 01:02:34,518 --> 01:02:35,883 Lieutenant. 1013 01:02:40,924 --> 01:02:43,757 That's certainly the old boy's handwriting. 1014 01:02:44,828 --> 01:02:46,455 And what does it say, Mr. Kittering? 1015 01:02:46,530 --> 01:02:49,931 Well, it appears to be a rough draft of a letter he was writing 1016 01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,458 to a big fiberglass factory. I know something about them. 1017 01:02:53,537 --> 01:02:56,062 They've been trying to buy the boatyards for years. 1018 01:02:57,341 --> 01:02:59,366 And had he decided to sell? 1019 01:02:59,443 --> 01:03:01,604 No. How could I know? I don't think anyone knew. 1020 01:03:01,678 --> 01:03:03,908 See, he was a secretive old fellow. 1021 01:03:04,148 --> 01:03:08,676 And I've been his lawyer all this time, but he never really confided in me. 1022 01:03:08,852 --> 01:03:11,047 Except when he wanted to. He made up his own mind, 1023 01:03:11,188 --> 01:03:13,622 and did what he wanted to and that was that. By the way, 1024 01:03:13,690 --> 01:03:16,716 has Joanna, Mrs. Clay, seen this? 1025 01:03:17,561 --> 01:03:19,552 We haven't even found her yet. 1026 01:03:19,663 --> 01:03:20,721 Well, it's nothing to do with me. 1027 01:03:20,798 --> 01:03:22,823 I mean, I'm not her lawyer, I was always his lawyer. 1028 01:03:22,900 --> 01:03:26,267 But I feel a certain amount of responsibility for the family 1029 01:03:26,336 --> 01:03:29,499 and I was just thinking that, perhaps, you might be imagining 1030 01:03:29,573 --> 01:03:33,566 that Joanna might be involved in something or other. 1031 01:03:33,777 --> 01:03:36,769 Of course, you've heard about her temper, 1032 01:03:37,314 --> 01:03:39,908 her drinking and the rows with her husband. 1033 01:03:40,918 --> 01:03:44,012 No, sir, the only thing that I've heard is now that her father is dead, 1034 01:03:44,087 --> 01:03:45,384 she's gonna inerit all the money. 1035 01:03:45,923 --> 01:03:48,050 Well, of course. I mean, she's the primary heir. 1036 01:03:48,125 --> 01:03:49,956 She's the heiress to the whole fortune. 1037 01:03:50,194 --> 01:03:54,096 The nephew gets very little, and the rest are just token gifts. 1038 01:03:54,364 --> 01:03:57,265 Mr. Kittering, forgive me for asking you this, 1039 01:03:57,334 --> 01:04:00,497 but where were you the night the Commodore was killed? 1040 01:04:01,672 --> 01:04:03,731 Oh, poor old Otis. Where was I? 1041 01:04:03,807 --> 01:04:06,071 I think I was in a motel. 1042 01:04:06,276 --> 01:04:07,641 In a motel, sir? 1043 01:04:07,711 --> 01:04:11,078 Yes, I'm sure I was. Nice little motel. I can recommend it. 1044 01:04:11,682 --> 01:04:12,910 Where was it, sir? 1045 01:04:13,817 --> 01:04:17,309 Sounds odd, but I couldn't quite tell you. I could find it, I think. 1046 01:04:17,387 --> 01:04:21,949 It's somewhere near that new restaurant they talk about, the Captairs Quarters. 1047 01:04:22,693 --> 01:04:23,751 Any witnesses? 1048 01:04:25,596 --> 01:04:26,927 There was a young lady. 1049 01:04:27,598 --> 01:04:28,860 Her name, sir? 1050 01:04:29,933 --> 01:04:33,198 Shall we say we werert formally introduced? 1051 01:04:33,270 --> 01:04:37,536 Ships that pass in the night. Not that many ships pass in my nights anymore, 1052 01:04:37,708 --> 01:04:39,266 I regret to say. 1053 01:04:42,412 --> 01:04:43,777 Lieutenant? 1054 01:04:51,321 --> 01:04:53,755 We've found Mrs. Clay. She's at the yacht club. 1055 01:04:55,726 --> 01:04:59,162 Tell Frazer to get things cleaned up. See you at the car. 1056 01:05:02,299 --> 01:05:03,459 Thank you very much. 1057 01:05:03,533 --> 01:05:04,557 A pleasure. 1058 01:05:50,414 --> 01:05:51,472 Hi, Lieutenant. 1059 01:05:51,548 --> 01:05:52,640 Swanny, how are you? 1060 01:05:52,716 --> 01:05:53,705 Fine. 1061 01:06:04,561 --> 01:06:08,190 I'd like a word with you, madam. Could we go someplace more quiet? 1062 01:06:08,265 --> 01:06:10,733 I know. I know, Lieutenant. 1063 01:06:11,802 --> 01:06:13,997 My husband has been murdered. 1064 01:06:16,373 --> 01:06:18,933 Charlie Clay's been murdered, Lieutenant? 1065 01:06:22,179 --> 01:06:24,807 How did you happen to know that, madam? 1066 01:06:26,216 --> 01:06:28,741 Homicide cop! 1067 01:07:32,716 --> 01:07:35,879 I've got to ask you where you've been, Mrs. Clay. 1068 01:07:37,788 --> 01:07:39,551 At the hairdresser. 1069 01:07:41,725 --> 01:07:43,352 Can't you tell? 1070 01:07:45,362 --> 01:07:48,263 What about the night of the Commodore's death? 1071 01:07:48,331 --> 01:07:50,322 I don't know where I was. 1072 01:07:50,801 --> 01:07:55,101 At some point that night, I don't remember anything. 1073 01:07:56,073 --> 01:07:58,507 GEORGE: What do you mean, you don't remember anything? 1074 01:08:01,144 --> 01:08:02,133 (COUGHING) 1075 01:08:02,412 --> 01:08:04,277 Does he have a better memory? 1076 01:08:05,015 --> 01:08:08,314 SWANNY: 'Cause she was here the night of the party. 1077 01:08:08,885 --> 01:08:10,876 She hasn't done anything. Now let her alone! 1078 01:08:10,954 --> 01:08:13,286 No, no, no, don't lie for me! 1079 01:08:15,759 --> 01:08:17,249 I'm sorry, 1080 01:08:18,428 --> 01:08:19,895 but I vaguely 1081 01:08:21,331 --> 01:08:23,231 remember going to my, 1082 01:08:25,635 --> 01:08:27,694 my father on the island. 1083 01:08:28,438 --> 01:08:31,168 At about midnight maybe. 1084 01:08:32,008 --> 01:08:33,532 SWANNY: No later than that. 1085 01:08:33,610 --> 01:08:37,205 I was back here singing with the boys a few minutes after 12:00. 1086 01:08:37,314 --> 01:08:38,338 You went with her to see her father? 1087 01:08:38,415 --> 01:08:39,439 That's right. 1088 01:08:39,516 --> 01:08:40,949 He took me to the boat. 1089 01:08:42,319 --> 01:08:47,154 And then drove me out there, dropped me, and after that I don't know anything. 1090 01:08:48,525 --> 01:08:52,256 Look, please. Just try to recall how you got home that night. 1091 01:08:54,931 --> 01:08:58,833 A girl friend who lives on the island 1092 01:08:59,636 --> 01:09:01,627 called me the next day. 1093 01:09:02,772 --> 01:09:05,104 She and her husband told me 1094 01:09:06,543 --> 01:09:09,774 they found me sound asleep 1095 01:09:12,549 --> 01:09:14,847 on one of their patio chairs at 1096 01:09:16,419 --> 01:09:17,886 4:00 a.m. 1097 01:09:21,925 --> 01:09:25,292 Apparently, they were kind enough to 1098 01:09:27,030 --> 01:09:30,193 take me home and put me to bed. 1099 01:09:35,305 --> 01:09:38,832 Isn't that a pretty story, Lieutenant? 1100 01:09:45,348 --> 01:09:47,077 My husband 1101 01:09:47,250 --> 01:09:51,584 and my father are both dead and I don't know what happened! 1102 01:09:52,422 --> 01:09:53,411 Oh! 1103 01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:58,725 Mrs. Clay. 1104 01:10:01,464 --> 01:10:03,227 Where have you been? 1105 01:10:07,637 --> 01:10:11,038 I don't know where I've been for years. 1106 01:10:29,359 --> 01:10:32,556 That's the third time you've made this run. How many more times you gonna make it? 1107 01:10:32,629 --> 01:10:33,618 What time you got? 1108 01:10:33,697 --> 01:10:35,187 Here, see for yourself. 1109 01:10:35,365 --> 01:10:36,696 What's this all about, anyway? 1110 01:10:36,766 --> 01:10:38,893 Oh, I was just trying to prove something. 1111 01:10:39,202 --> 01:10:40,931 From here to there. 1112 01:10:41,438 --> 01:10:45,238 See, there's no way that Clay could have made that in four minutes. 1113 01:10:49,879 --> 01:10:51,574 You know the Commodore? 1114 01:10:51,815 --> 01:10:55,216 I didn't see him that often. He wasn't a man much for cars. 1115 01:10:55,285 --> 01:10:57,617 He was a man more for the water. 1116 01:10:58,021 --> 01:11:01,821 He took me for a little sail once, Lieutenant. It was lovely. 1117 01:11:02,325 --> 01:11:03,690 Really lovely. 1118 01:11:04,928 --> 01:11:07,328 It's a shame. Real shame. 1119 01:11:12,502 --> 01:11:15,266 Would you open that wooden thing for me there, please? 1120 01:11:15,338 --> 01:11:16,327 Sure. 1121 01:11:34,357 --> 01:11:35,790 Clay's out. 1122 01:11:38,028 --> 01:11:39,518 Who's in, Mac? 1123 01:11:41,531 --> 01:11:42,930 Clay's out. 1124 01:11:48,104 --> 01:11:49,696 What do you think, Mac? 1125 01:11:51,308 --> 01:11:52,900 Rethink. 1126 01:11:55,578 --> 01:11:57,808 You got any Irish in you, Mac? 1127 01:11:58,214 --> 01:11:59,442 No. 1128 01:12:00,850 --> 01:12:02,340 You're sure? 1129 01:12:03,086 --> 01:12:04,485 Pretty sure. 1130 01:12:05,255 --> 01:12:06,620 Pretty sure. 1131 01:12:23,106 --> 01:12:25,097 Look at all this, Mac. 1132 01:12:26,509 --> 01:12:28,067 Water, 1133 01:12:29,279 --> 01:12:30,610 ducks, 1134 01:12:31,915 --> 01:12:33,280 boats. 1135 01:12:35,785 --> 01:12:37,116 It's beautiful. 1136 01:12:39,122 --> 01:12:43,252 Wouldn't it be nice to take one of these boats and just go sailing somewhere? 1137 01:12:52,769 --> 01:12:53,997 I got it. 1138 01:12:56,005 --> 01:12:57,336 Have you got it? 1139 01:12:57,407 --> 01:12:58,567 Got what? 1140 01:12:58,908 --> 01:12:59,897 Lt. 1141 01:13:00,410 --> 01:13:01,399 It? 1142 01:13:02,912 --> 01:13:04,539 Molly J. 1143 01:13:14,057 --> 01:13:15,285 Are you nervous? 1144 01:13:16,159 --> 01:13:20,061 I still get a little tightening in my stomach from time to time myself. 1145 01:13:22,232 --> 01:13:23,927 Mr. Kittering, doughnut? 1146 01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,560 Oh, no. Not just at the moment. Thanks all the same. 1147 01:13:26,836 --> 01:13:28,531 Can I get you a cup of coffee? 1148 01:13:28,705 --> 01:13:30,434 KITTERING: Why not, why not. 1149 01:13:31,074 --> 01:13:32,063 Hello. 1150 01:13:34,377 --> 01:13:35,366 Good morning. 1151 01:13:35,445 --> 01:13:36,469 Good morning. 1152 01:13:36,546 --> 01:13:38,013 Hello there. Good morning. 1153 01:13:38,081 --> 01:13:41,812 Forgive me for being late, but what has to be done has to be done. 1154 01:13:42,886 --> 01:13:45,582 There's a chair in the rear, Miss King. 1155 01:13:48,691 --> 01:13:49,885 Sergeant. 1156 01:13:52,362 --> 01:13:54,421 Oh, a doughnut. 1157 01:13:56,232 --> 01:13:57,597 Good idea. 1158 01:14:00,503 --> 01:14:01,697 Mac! Yeah? 1159 01:14:01,771 --> 01:14:02,863 What time do you have? 1160 01:14:02,939 --> 01:14:04,270 I've got 9:29. 1161 01:14:15,785 --> 01:14:17,844 Mrs. Clay, would you come here a moment? 1162 01:14:19,189 --> 01:14:20,554 Mrs. Clay! 1163 01:14:31,034 --> 01:14:33,195 I want you to look through the telescope. 1164 01:14:41,511 --> 01:14:42,637 Daddy. 1165 01:14:46,316 --> 01:14:47,374 Daddy! 1166 01:14:47,450 --> 01:14:48,439 Otis? 1167 01:14:48,551 --> 01:14:50,781 Columbo, what in hell is going on? 1168 01:14:51,521 --> 01:14:52,681 Trust me. 1169 01:14:52,755 --> 01:14:53,779 Daddy. 1170 01:14:53,857 --> 01:14:55,324 Do me a favor. 1171 01:14:56,192 --> 01:14:57,250 Daddy. 1172 01:14:57,527 --> 01:15:01,463 You know, I've always been fond of this room. It's so peaceful. 1173 01:15:01,564 --> 01:15:03,623 Almost like being at sea. 1174 01:15:05,969 --> 01:15:07,197 Daddy. 1175 01:15:09,939 --> 01:15:14,239 The brightly beams our Father's mercy 1176 01:15:15,578 --> 01:15:19,105 From His lighthouse evermore 1177 01:15:19,849 --> 01:15:23,148 But to us He leaves the keeping 1178 01:15:23,286 --> 01:15:26,813 Of the lights along the shore 1179 01:15:27,957 --> 01:15:30,187 It's only me, folks. Only me. 1180 01:15:36,099 --> 01:15:37,794 I'm sorry, Joanna. 1181 01:15:39,202 --> 01:15:41,067 You did a terrific job. 1182 01:15:41,137 --> 01:15:42,297 Thank you, sir. 1183 01:15:42,906 --> 01:15:44,271 (LAUGHING) 1184 01:15:44,440 --> 01:15:46,032 Close the door. 1185 01:15:53,516 --> 01:15:56,280 All right. Let's get on with it. Mac. 1186 01:15:59,222 --> 01:16:03,716 I'm sorry, but I know that you wouldn't believe me unless you could see how easy it was. 1187 01:16:05,194 --> 01:16:06,183 Lieutenant, 1188 01:16:09,966 --> 01:16:11,695 I didn't hear what you said. 1189 01:16:11,768 --> 01:16:14,601 I said, it was the only way to convince her how easy it was. 1190 01:16:17,206 --> 01:16:20,073 He means to impersonate your father, Mrs. Clay. 1191 01:16:20,143 --> 01:16:24,307 And, Mr. Clay, the night he got away with it, it was dark. 1192 01:16:25,148 --> 01:16:28,845 Thank you, Sergeant. Thank you, Mac. Let's go. 1193 01:16:29,886 --> 01:16:30,875 Mac. 1194 01:16:32,088 --> 01:16:37,048 Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, I felt that, actually, the Lieutenant felt 1195 01:16:37,126 --> 01:16:40,789 that if... We'd save time if we all got together here. 1196 01:16:42,365 --> 01:16:44,890 I'm sure you're all as anxious as we are to know what happened 1197 01:16:44,968 --> 01:16:47,232 the night that Commodore was killed. 1198 01:16:47,637 --> 01:16:50,162 And, of course, find the murderer of your husband, Mrs. Clay. 1199 01:16:50,707 --> 01:16:52,106 Charles killed the Commodore? 1200 01:16:52,175 --> 01:16:53,199 Did anyone say that? 1201 01:16:53,309 --> 01:16:56,210 Okay, now what we meant was... 1202 01:16:56,946 --> 01:16:58,937 Here, I'll show you on the map. 1203 01:16:59,482 --> 01:17:04,510 What we meant was, here's the mainland, here's the island. 1204 01:17:04,988 --> 01:17:07,616 (STUTTERING) This is the bridge to the island. 1205 01:17:07,690 --> 01:17:09,555 Everybody knows that, Mac. 1206 01:17:11,194 --> 01:17:15,153 This is the yacht club and the Commodore's house, the harbor area... 1207 01:17:15,231 --> 01:17:17,495 We all know where we are, Mac. 1208 01:17:18,334 --> 01:17:20,632 All right. Now, what we meant was 1209 01:17:21,070 --> 01:17:23,903 that Mr. Clay 1210 01:17:24,340 --> 01:17:27,741 took the Commodore's body from the house to the boat. 1211 01:17:28,611 --> 01:17:33,071 He sailed the boat out passed the Coast Guard station into the ocean, 1212 01:17:33,549 --> 01:17:37,451 and then somehow he fixed up the boat to make it look like an accident. 1213 01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:39,381 And then swam home. 1214 01:17:40,823 --> 01:17:43,018 Right. Now, I got a list of suspects here. 1215 01:17:43,092 --> 01:17:44,753 Don't show that! 1216 01:17:51,034 --> 01:17:52,763 I don't think he, 1217 01:17:53,436 --> 01:17:54,425 Charles Clay, 1218 01:17:55,304 --> 01:17:57,101 I don't think he murdered anybody. 1219 01:17:57,173 --> 01:17:59,300 Really, Mr. Columbo. 1220 01:18:00,109 --> 01:18:04,569 Charlie certainly went to a lot of trouble if he didn't murder the Commodore. 1221 01:18:04,647 --> 01:18:08,743 Oh, I think he would've gone to twice that much trouble if he thought 1222 01:18:09,752 --> 01:18:12,152 that his wife had murdered the Commodore. 1223 01:18:12,355 --> 01:18:14,983 Wait a minute, Columbo. Back off. 1224 01:18:18,027 --> 01:18:20,757 Maybe he loved you more than you thought, baby. 1225 01:18:20,830 --> 01:18:25,028 I wasn't actually talking about that kind of love. Was I, Mac? 1226 01:18:26,436 --> 01:18:30,372 Well, I think the Lieutenant was talking about love of money. 1227 01:18:30,707 --> 01:18:33,198 Mr. Kittering, you'd know more about that, wouldn't you? 1228 01:18:33,276 --> 01:18:35,471 According to California law, 1229 01:18:36,412 --> 01:18:40,405 if Mrs. Clay were convicted of killing her father, could she still inerit from him? 1230 01:18:40,783 --> 01:18:44,082 Oh, of course not. No way. And what's more, 1231 01:18:44,153 --> 01:18:47,418 poor old Charlie wouldn't have been able to get his hands on any of the stuff. 1232 01:18:47,490 --> 01:18:48,980 That's what we meant, right? 1233 01:18:49,058 --> 01:18:50,457 Yeah. That's what we meant, Sergeant. 1234 01:18:50,526 --> 01:18:52,391 I didn't kill Daddy. 1235 01:18:59,469 --> 01:19:01,869 The young fella is a new officer, a trainee. 1236 01:19:01,938 --> 01:19:02,962 Oh, yeah? 1237 01:19:03,039 --> 01:19:04,438 The other guy's been around for a while. 1238 01:19:04,507 --> 01:19:05,872 Good for him. 1239 01:19:09,812 --> 01:19:12,110 But your husband might have thought you did. 1240 01:19:18,821 --> 01:19:19,947 The brooch. 1241 01:19:28,264 --> 01:19:32,360 He gave it back to me the next day, but he didn't tell me where it came from. 1242 01:19:32,435 --> 01:19:33,424 Oh. 1243 01:19:37,673 --> 01:19:39,800 I'll bet it was right here. 1244 01:19:42,145 --> 01:19:44,670 He asked me such strange questions. 1245 01:19:44,947 --> 01:19:46,915 And you gave him all the wrong answers, too, right? 1246 01:19:46,983 --> 01:19:50,384 And your husband must have begun to realize that he'd made an awful mistake. 1247 01:19:50,453 --> 01:19:53,320 Now, if that's the case, that's when your husband began to realize 1248 01:19:53,389 --> 01:19:54,856 who really did kill your father. 1249 01:19:54,924 --> 01:19:56,323 So that's why he had to be killed. 1250 01:19:56,392 --> 01:19:58,622 That's right, because he started asking somebody questions. 1251 01:19:58,694 --> 01:20:00,457 Somebody? Who you talking about? 1252 01:20:00,530 --> 01:20:02,555 Are you kidding? A lot of people would've been very upset 1253 01:20:02,632 --> 01:20:04,600 if they'd suddenly found out what the Commodore was up to. 1254 01:20:04,667 --> 01:20:05,964 And what's that supposed to mean? 1255 01:20:06,035 --> 01:20:09,436 Well, everybody knows that the Commodore had been acting a little funny lately. 1256 01:20:09,505 --> 01:20:13,066 Like, maybe the way he'd built that little yawl to suddenly sail away on for good. 1257 01:20:13,142 --> 01:20:15,610 Right. Right. But the Commodore had a lot of unfinished business. 1258 01:20:15,678 --> 01:20:17,009 Yeah. Like painting. 1259 01:20:17,079 --> 01:20:19,274 Right. Right. And the will. And the will. 1260 01:20:19,348 --> 01:20:20,747 Excuse me. The boatyards. 1261 01:20:20,817 --> 01:20:21,875 The boatyards. 1262 01:20:21,951 --> 01:20:22,940 And a whole lot of other things. 1263 01:20:23,019 --> 01:20:24,077 And a whole lot of other things. 1264 01:20:24,153 --> 01:20:26,849 All right, fellas. Give me a minute here, would you? 1265 01:20:30,359 --> 01:20:32,088 Sergeant, get me them list of stencils. 1266 01:20:32,161 --> 01:20:36,461 Mac, can you reach up there? Let's look at that list of suspects now. 1267 01:20:36,766 --> 01:20:39,963 Give me that brown paper bag. We'll use that. All right. 1268 01:20:40,036 --> 01:20:42,504 Mac, help him with the stencils. Hold them up. 1269 01:20:42,572 --> 01:20:45,632 Let's see that list of suspects. Can you all see that? 1270 01:20:45,708 --> 01:20:47,835 One, two, three, four, five, six. 1271 01:20:47,910 --> 01:20:50,538 We don't have to read that, do we? All right. 1272 01:20:50,613 --> 01:20:52,547 This is what we found in the boatyard. 1273 01:20:52,615 --> 01:20:56,073 Stencils, marine black paint. All right. 1274 01:20:56,419 --> 01:20:59,582 S-A-l-L-S. That's what it spells. 1275 01:20:59,689 --> 01:21:01,486 We thought he was putting "sails" on his locker. 1276 01:21:01,557 --> 01:21:02,785 Get me that other thing. 1277 01:21:02,859 --> 01:21:04,451 The one with the hole in it. 1278 01:21:04,827 --> 01:21:06,055 That's right. 1279 01:21:06,128 --> 01:21:09,188 All right. Now, we're standing on a bridge, 1280 01:21:09,565 --> 01:21:14,002 this fella here and me, and we seen some ducks there and a boat. 1281 01:21:14,170 --> 01:21:16,161 And then we remembered something. 1282 01:21:16,873 --> 01:21:20,707 The Commodore, he never painted the name on his boat, did he? No. 1283 01:21:21,844 --> 01:21:24,938 And that circle there, that became a period. 1284 01:21:25,281 --> 01:21:27,772 So we had to rearrange things, didn't we, fellas? 1285 01:21:27,850 --> 01:21:30,011 Where's that other thing? That big thing? 1286 01:21:30,086 --> 01:21:31,451 Get that big thing out. 1287 01:21:32,555 --> 01:21:36,252 So we got a hold of duplicate stencils and some black paint, 1288 01:21:36,692 --> 01:21:38,557 and we rearranged those letters. 1289 01:21:40,096 --> 01:21:42,155 This is what we came up with. 1290 01:21:46,168 --> 01:21:48,432 And that's what we came up with. 1291 01:21:48,537 --> 01:21:50,801 He was going to name the boat after her? 1292 01:21:50,873 --> 01:21:54,240 Well, the only trouble with that, sir, is that her last name is King. 1293 01:21:55,111 --> 01:21:58,603 And you've got an "S" left over. Try again, Lieutenant. 1294 01:22:00,783 --> 01:22:02,876 KITTERING: The old boy was gonna marry the kid. 1295 01:22:06,589 --> 01:22:10,855 Look at that, Lisa Swanson. The old boy was gonna marry the kid. 1296 01:22:10,927 --> 01:22:13,623 Look at her. She's young enough to be his granddaughter. 1297 01:22:15,364 --> 01:22:17,264 Just hold it everybody. 1298 01:22:31,781 --> 01:22:33,578 Go ahead. Tell them. 1299 01:22:35,985 --> 01:22:37,714 They don't know. 1300 01:22:43,359 --> 01:22:44,883 Love isn't just 1301 01:22:47,563 --> 01:22:48,928 one age or another. 1302 01:22:52,635 --> 01:22:56,264 Mr. Swanson was the most beautiful man who ever lived. 1303 01:22:56,772 --> 01:22:59,070 And one of the richest, my dear. 1304 01:23:02,778 --> 01:23:04,712 But I didn't want anything from him. 1305 01:23:08,484 --> 01:23:10,384 Sail the seas with him. 1306 01:23:13,022 --> 01:23:16,082 I just wanted to make him happy for the rest of his life. 1307 01:23:16,959 --> 01:23:19,894 Tell them what he told you 1308 01:23:21,797 --> 01:23:23,662 about his will. 1309 01:23:26,936 --> 01:23:29,166 I told him I wouldn't marry him 1310 01:23:30,473 --> 01:23:32,873 unless he promised not to leave me any money. 1311 01:23:34,643 --> 01:23:37,441 But he didn't want anybody else to have it, either. 1312 01:23:37,913 --> 01:23:39,881 He was sick of parasites. 1313 01:23:41,617 --> 01:23:43,915 So he was gonna sell the boatyards. 1314 01:23:45,788 --> 01:23:48,621 And, except for a small trust fund for you, Mrs. Clay, 1315 01:23:48,691 --> 01:23:50,784 he was gonna give it all to charity. 1316 01:23:50,893 --> 01:23:53,020 A sad story. Enough to make you weep. 1317 01:23:53,195 --> 01:23:54,890 (SWANNY LAUGHING) 1318 01:23:54,997 --> 01:23:55,986 Columbo, I... 1319 01:23:56,065 --> 01:23:57,896 Mr. Taylor, would you kindly sit down? 1320 01:23:57,967 --> 01:24:00,128 Swanny, be seated please. 1321 01:24:01,270 --> 01:24:03,067 As a matter of fact, 1322 01:24:05,041 --> 01:24:07,669 that girl is the only one in this room 1323 01:24:08,811 --> 01:24:13,043 that doesn't have a single motive for killing the Commodore or Mr. Clay. 1324 01:24:41,610 --> 01:24:42,736 Do you own that? 1325 01:25:07,169 --> 01:25:08,761 (WATCH TICKING) 1326 01:25:09,472 --> 01:25:10,461 Thank you. 1327 01:25:21,050 --> 01:25:22,483 Swanny, 1328 01:25:27,089 --> 01:25:28,579 the Commodore's watch. 1329 01:25:29,758 --> 01:25:30,850 It isn't. 1330 01:25:48,277 --> 01:25:49,710 The Commodore's watch. 1331 01:25:50,179 --> 01:25:51,168 So what? 1332 01:26:01,724 --> 01:26:03,214 The Commodore's watch. 1333 01:26:03,292 --> 01:26:04,782 Big deal. 1334 01:26:11,867 --> 01:26:13,801 The Commodore's watch. 1335 01:26:14,336 --> 01:26:16,031 Daddy's watch? 1336 01:26:16,805 --> 01:26:19,706 Your father's watch, madam. Did you give that to him? 1337 01:26:20,743 --> 01:26:24,076 I noticed it's got the same kind of face as the one you gave your husband. 1338 01:26:24,146 --> 01:26:25,613 Yes, I did. 1339 01:26:25,681 --> 01:26:27,911 Daddy loved a pocket watch, 1340 01:26:28,217 --> 01:26:31,778 so I mounted it in his own father's gold case. 1341 01:26:32,955 --> 01:26:34,980 Yeah, I thought it was something like that. 1342 01:26:35,524 --> 01:26:38,186 But this watch was broken at 12:42. 1343 01:26:39,128 --> 01:26:43,030 And your husband left the island at 12:46. That's awfully close. 1344 01:26:45,401 --> 01:26:48,427 That's not enough time to struggle with the Commodore, then kill him, 1345 01:26:48,504 --> 01:26:51,905 then talk to Mr. Taylor, then drive over to the guard house. 1346 01:26:52,107 --> 01:26:54,507 No, not in four minutes. No. 1347 01:26:55,177 --> 01:26:57,145 We checked that, didn't we? 1348 01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:00,475 Don't forget, I got to the house after Charles. 1349 01:27:00,549 --> 01:27:04,610 Oh, that's an old trick they use in mystery books, Wayne. 1350 01:27:04,987 --> 01:27:07,979 You think you're going to be seen leaving a place, so you just 1351 01:27:08,057 --> 01:27:10,890 turn about, then pretend you're coming in. 1352 01:27:12,595 --> 01:27:15,655 When we found this watch, there were no fingerprints on it. 1353 01:27:16,031 --> 01:27:18,693 Oh, I see. But don't you think it's possible 1354 01:27:18,767 --> 01:27:21,531 that someone might have been able to get hold of it, the watch, I mean, 1355 01:27:21,604 --> 01:27:25,404 and reset it just to make you think that the Commodore was murdered 1356 01:27:25,474 --> 01:27:26,873 at 12:42. 1357 01:27:27,910 --> 01:27:30,310 If so, sir, tell us who. 1358 01:27:31,480 --> 01:27:34,176 Well, if it couldn't be Mr. Clay, 1359 01:27:34,850 --> 01:27:37,182 then it had to be somebody else. 1360 01:27:39,121 --> 01:27:41,214 Somebody who had been there earlier. 1361 01:27:42,191 --> 01:27:44,819 Somebody who put the watch ahead. 1362 01:27:46,862 --> 01:27:50,354 The same person who left so many clues pointing to Mrs. Clay 1363 01:27:50,432 --> 01:27:53,424 that Mr. Clay thought she committed the crime. 1364 01:27:54,770 --> 01:27:57,796 Of course, then Mr. Clay, he messed everything up and took the body away. 1365 01:27:57,873 --> 01:28:00,569 Will you answer his question. Who was it? 1366 01:28:00,876 --> 01:28:02,503 Well, Mr. Kittering. 1367 01:28:02,611 --> 01:28:03,600 What? 1368 01:28:03,879 --> 01:28:07,178 Who do you think would benefit the most by the Commodore's death? 1369 01:28:07,383 --> 01:28:10,978 Oh, well, Mr. Swanson, of course. 1370 01:28:11,053 --> 01:28:14,147 I mean, he's what we call the secondary heir. 1371 01:28:14,223 --> 01:28:17,386 In fact, he's the only other member of the family, isn't he? 1372 01:28:17,459 --> 01:28:18,448 Swanny? 1373 01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:20,221 Swanny, that's right. Swanny. 1374 01:28:24,767 --> 01:28:26,530 What do you think, Swanny? 1375 01:28:30,272 --> 01:28:33,070 Now, the only reason a murderer would reset a watch like that 1376 01:28:33,142 --> 01:28:36,168 would be to provide himself with an alibi, what do you think? 1377 01:28:37,379 --> 01:28:38,573 Sure, but... 1378 01:28:38,647 --> 01:28:40,774 You're the only one who bothered to do that. 1379 01:28:41,850 --> 01:28:44,444 You said by a few minutes past 12:00, you were back at the yacht club 1380 01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:45,748 singing with the boys. 1381 01:28:45,888 --> 01:28:47,048 So what? 1382 01:28:47,156 --> 01:28:51,252 Of course, you're the only one who knew exactly where Mrs. Clay went that night. 1383 01:28:52,027 --> 01:28:54,461 Who could have known how upset she was? 1384 01:28:54,630 --> 01:28:58,498 Who could have followed them and heard the fight between her and her father? 1385 01:28:59,134 --> 01:29:00,192 Saw the fight. 1386 01:29:01,904 --> 01:29:05,101 Who could've gone in there and killed him when she left the room? 1387 01:29:05,674 --> 01:29:08,438 Who else could've gotten something out of her purse 1388 01:29:09,611 --> 01:29:13,741 when she was riding in a boat coming back here? 1389 01:29:14,717 --> 01:29:16,685 Wait a minute, wait a minute. 1390 01:29:18,153 --> 01:29:21,816 When she was drunk and in a stupor. 1391 01:29:23,659 --> 01:29:25,684 Who else could have done that? 1392 01:29:27,563 --> 01:29:31,055 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 1393 01:29:33,669 --> 01:29:36,137 Maybe that's when I lost the brooch. 1394 01:29:36,305 --> 01:29:37,704 SWANNY: Listen to you. 1395 01:29:38,307 --> 01:29:41,743 You lost that brooch fighting with your father when you killed him. 1396 01:29:43,011 --> 01:29:45,707 That's it! It had to be you, Joanna. 1397 01:29:46,582 --> 01:29:48,379 Mr. Columbo, excuse me. 1398 01:29:48,450 --> 01:29:52,443 You think that any one of us might have done this thing? 1399 01:29:52,755 --> 01:29:54,689 Is that what you're trying to tell us? 1400 01:29:55,090 --> 01:29:58,025 Yes, sir. I guess I am. Except for one thing. 1401 01:30:01,930 --> 01:30:05,866 You'll notice that none of you have seen this watch closely. You've only heard it. 1402 01:30:05,934 --> 01:30:07,526 You heard it tick. 1403 01:30:09,171 --> 01:30:12,572 When I was talking about a watch that was found at the scene of the crime 1404 01:30:12,641 --> 01:30:14,541 that was broken, it was smashed. 1405 01:30:14,977 --> 01:30:17,172 It did not tick. 1406 01:30:18,947 --> 01:30:20,107 It didn't work. 1407 01:30:22,518 --> 01:30:25,544 The Commodore's watch. Now you see it. 1408 01:30:26,688 --> 01:30:29,555 And this is the broken inside part. 1409 01:30:30,526 --> 01:30:35,429 And we took this watch to a jeweler and we had the broken inside part replaced. 1410 01:30:35,531 --> 01:30:37,726 So now the watch ticks. 1411 01:30:40,335 --> 01:30:42,200 You all heard it tick. 1412 01:30:46,108 --> 01:30:49,908 And I... When I went to you Mrs. Clay, and I said, 1413 01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:54,740 "The Commodore's watch," you said, 1414 01:30:54,817 --> 01:30:56,717 "Daddy's watch." 1415 01:30:58,654 --> 01:31:01,623 And when I said to you, Mr. Kittering, 1416 01:31:02,057 --> 01:31:04,082 "The Commodore's watch," 1417 01:31:04,993 --> 01:31:06,290 what'd you say? 1418 01:31:06,361 --> 01:31:09,330 I think I said, "Big deal." 1419 01:31:10,232 --> 01:31:11,221 "Big deal." 1420 01:31:12,634 --> 01:31:16,400 And I said to you, Mr. Taylor, "The Commodore's watch," 1421 01:31:16,472 --> 01:31:18,064 you said, "So..." 1422 01:31:18,607 --> 01:31:19,767 "What." 1423 01:31:25,714 --> 01:31:26,908 "What." 1424 01:31:34,356 --> 01:31:36,722 And when I said to you, Swanny, 1425 01:31:36,925 --> 01:31:38,552 "The Commodore's watch," 1426 01:31:38,927 --> 01:31:40,189 he said, 1427 01:31:42,898 --> 01:31:44,388 "It isn't." 1428 01:31:46,134 --> 01:31:47,829 Which means 1429 01:31:50,372 --> 01:31:52,704 it isn't. 1430 01:31:55,010 --> 01:31:57,774 No, it is not 1431 01:31:58,981 --> 01:32:00,915 the Commodore's watch. 1432 01:32:02,518 --> 01:32:06,818 Because you were the only one who knew that the Commodore's watch was smashed 1433 01:32:06,889 --> 01:32:09,483 because you smashed it 1434 01:32:10,092 --> 01:32:12,424 at the scene of the crime. 1435 01:32:37,386 --> 01:32:39,013 That about wrap it up? 1436 01:32:39,821 --> 01:32:41,379 Yes, Mac. 1437 01:32:43,559 --> 01:32:45,584 That about wraps it up. 1438 01:32:50,866 --> 01:32:52,800 Are you expecting rain, Mac? 1439 01:32:53,869 --> 01:32:56,838 Well, you just can't be too careful, Lieutenant. 1440 01:33:06,214 --> 01:33:07,681 You got a match, Sergeant? 1441 01:33:16,258 --> 01:33:18,021 Thought you were gonna quit? 1442 01:33:29,571 --> 01:33:30,629 Not yet. 1443 01:33:32,908 --> 01:33:35,206 No. Not yet, Sergeant. 1444 01:33:41,216 --> 01:33:42,205 Not yet. 1445 01:33:49,625 --> 01:33:51,252 (COLUMBO WHISTLING) 1446 01:34:39,708 --> 01:34:41,335 GEORGE: Where are you going? 1447 01:34:41,677 --> 01:34:44,145 I'm meeting my wife at the yacht club. 100400