![]() ![]() The old coot doesn’t know anything about hidden treasure and denies ever having the list. Columbo’s next act is to dress up as a mafia boss (!) and locate the sister of a mobster’s dead wife who allegedly gave Krutch his puzzle piece and the list of names, as well as telling him that the completed image will reveal the location of the bank robbery cash. ![]() He’s been with her since before 4pm (when Columbo called him) – and she’s still here now! A sleepy Suzie confirms Krutch’s alibi when she’s tipped out of bed, but Columbo still demands a detailed timetable outlining precisely where Krutch was, and when, since Suzie’s arrival.Ī new day dawns. He claims to have been at home before going on a dinner date and stroll with his current squeeze, Suzie. The rangy insurance man is grilled about his whereabouts the previous day. Brown busts Columbo out of the hospital (providing him with some MC Hammer-style pants to get away in) and the pair dash over to disturb Krutch’s sleep. As a result, Krutch now becomes a key suspect as he knew where both Columbo and Weinberg were holed up. His apartment has also been trashed, and the man himself is lying dead with a gunshot wound to the upper chest. No phone calls in or out are permitted, and the nurse steals his trousers so he can’t escape on foot! Brown, meanwhile, discovers more than he bargained for when he reaches Weinberg’s. It’s a trip to the hospital for the Lieutenant, while Brown makes a beeline for Weinberg’s place, convinced that he’s the man behind the Columbo braining.Ĭolumbo meets ‘Misery’ – minus the sledgehammered anklesĪfter receiving a check-up, Columbo is confined to bed at the hospital. That’s nap-time, baby! Some hours later, Sergeant Brown looks in on his colleague to find the apartment trashed and an addled Columbo barely clinging on to consciousness. ![]() Upon answering, he is immediately smashed in the face by a masked felon, who follows this up with a kick to the detective’s head. ![]() Krutch is cock-a-hoop at Columbo’s progress and begs to be kept in the loop on developments.Īfter an hour’s shut-eye, Columbo is roused by a knocking at his door. He also reveals his whereabouts to Krutch, whom he rings from said lodgings to update him on the case. Columbo urges them to think it over and contact him at his bum-wipe lodgings if they decide to play ball. Kahn seems willing to sell their piece, but Geraldine is not. She denies having a puzzle piece, but her bluff is called by her colleague, the camp and simpering Bramley Kahn, who invites Columbo to talk shop in the back office. The gallery is Columbo’s first port of call the next morning, where Geraldine immediately sees through his charade and identifies him as a cop. The two agree to trade pieces and split the cash 50-50 in the event of finding it, and Weinberg reveals that an art gallery owner named Geraldine Ferguson also allegedly has a piece of dat puzzle. With the plot thickening as rapidly as a corn starch-laden stew, the police Captain permits Columbo go undercover to pump career criminal Mo Weinberg (another name on the list) for further info.Īttired in a brown hat and ramping up the huskiness of his voice, Columbo makes a rendezvous with Weinberg and spins a cock-and-bull story about being a lowlife from Salt Lake City named Artie Stokes (why not Jessop?) who paid a couple of grand for a puzzle piece and two names of folk who might have additional pieces – one of those names being Weinberg’s. Hidden in a light fitting, they find the third bit of the puzzle. Intrigued, Columbo and Brown agree to help Krutch in his bid to uncover the stolen money and search the apartment of the dead man who was found gripping the photo piece. Krutch has another piece of the puzzle, as well as a list of seven names – two of whom were the hoods who slew each other the night before – and believes that when all the pieces are found, the location of the hidden booty will be revealed.Ĭolumbo dropped asleep, so dull was Krutch’s explanation of his insurance credentials While discussing the significance of the find the following morning with Sergeant Brown, the duo are interrupted by the pleasantly manic Irving Krutch, an insurance investigator desperate to recover $4m dollar that a gang of crooks hid after robbing a bank six years earlier (the crooks were slain by cops right after secreting the cash away). The guy had clambered up the outside of a two-storey building to break and enter, so Columbo makes the safe assumption that the puzzle piece is what he was willing to kill for – and what he was killed to safeguard. While investigating the synchronous murder of two thugs in a Smack Alley doss house, Columbo discovers a puzzle-shaped piece of a photograph in one of the dead man’s hands. Score by: Dick De Benedictis Episode synopsis Written by: Gerry Day (from a story by Ed McBain) ![]()
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