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