I love the early part of this scene where as Columbo is speaking to her via the camera, she's desperately trying to shut him out, pressing buttons and flipping switches, but on every screen, everywhere she looks, all she can see is Columbo. It's a perfect representation of how it must feel as the killer once Columbo has locked onto you, and no matter where you go or what you do, there he is.
I love how the killers always act like they're way too busy to even entertain the notion that Columbo is onto them. It's like they think if they look busy enough, he really will just go away.
She was still keeping herself strong and calm even she knew it was over. But that line: "I'll fight. I'll surive. I might even win." is the one that always gets me. Trish van Devere made an amazing and unforgettable performance of a strong woman, and she might be one of the best female killers since Lee Grant in "Ransome for a Dead Man".
Spot on. Just about all of the Columbo episodes are good but this one... it's like I have to turn off my phone, get my spot on the couch and have my "eats" right there because this is such an engrossing, fascinating episode, it's like a treat to watch, no matter how many times I've seen it. And I'd go so far as to say Trish Van Devere and Lee Grant were THE two best female killers the show ever had. Both women just have a hard-to-define quality as actresses that you find yourself riveted to their performances.
I think Kay was the best female killer and in the top 10 overall Columbo killers. At the end she isn't even confessing From what i recall of Lee Grant's character she seemed defeated and weak in that final scene at the airport. But here Trish Van Devere's character isn't giving up at all.
The rub for me was that Columbo had to trick the murderer, as often as he had to get ahead of them. While the tricks are always nifty, I can't help but think some of those cases would falter in court with a clever/unscrupulous enough lawyer to make a sound enough argument for entrapment and get the case dismissed....
"Can we talk tomorrow at the office? Nono, I'll call you. I promise." Columbo's gotta be thinking, "Ma'am, how naive do you think I am that I'd fall for _that_ line?" 😆
In an earlier scene in this episode, she returns to her now-abandoned childhood home, goes in and is surprised to find that Columbo is already there. I mention this because it is an excellent example of the talent behind this production (and most others of the era.) To this day, 44 years later, I remember that scene vividly. Why? Because of the music that accompanied it. It begins as she gets out of her car and starts to walk toward the house. The atmosphere/mood it imparted was a perfect fit for the scene. The more one watches dramatic TV shows of this era, the more one laments the fact that such production values will never be seen again.
Have you watched tv in the past 25 years? Some of the best-produced shows ever made are being made in this era. The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Better Call Saul. Countless others. I'm not putting down Columbo (it's great, one of a kind, one of the best shows ever made), but this idea that nothing comparable gets made today is ludicrous.
"Who needs to actually write/direct excellence in character portrayal when you can do CGI?," the 2022 industry asks. (smh) And some wonder why "retro-networks" hang on so well!
@@charlesmurray4013 ......hey Charles! Sometimes, when I’m orderinggrocery delivery or something mundane, I’ll say “just one more thing” and quietly giggle to myself.😉
Great episode. I thought when Columbo was talking to her through the screens and she gets more and more agitated that it's one of the most surreal scenes in the entire series. Add that she is basically trapped in that small dark room and Columbo will find her. She already got fired in the previous scene which gave this episode a very bleak feel towards the end. That final line ''I'll fight, I'll survive, I might even win'' is one of the best from any killer once caught. Plus she doesn't even actually give in and admit anything, even the legendary Jack Cassidy gives in at the end. This is one hard murderer.
She was a cold witch. Sympathetic at times, but believed too much of her own press releases. But jeez, murder for a job, her boyfriend didn't. She didn't even confess, she thought too much of herself. Very able killer, but certainly one of the coldest. Johnny Cash's Tommy Brown was the most sympathetic and probably most repentant.
@@20thCenturyManTrad I like the way she doesn't even confess at the end, it makes a change from how they usually do that and certainly makes her one of the coldest killers. I didn't find Tommy all that sympathetic tbh (although Edna was horrible), all the way through the episode he showed no signs of being repentant then suddenly in the final scene he says he is. Plus he killed the young girl in a double murder with Edna.
@@ryanwilliams1800 It did make sense to do that, the thing about him, was that he was good to Columbo, and while I agree it didn't always show the outward remorse, but I found that his friendly treatment of Columbo that he didn't start trying to pull strings to get Columbo off his back.
ALL THIS TALK ABOUT JACK CASSIDY, R.I.P. TO NEHEMIAH PERSOFF (AGED 102 ON APRIL 5, 2022) THE LAST SURVIVING MEMBER OF "SOME LIKE IT HOT" (WHICH STARRED MARILYN MONROE AND TONY CURTIS!)
Its kind of a clever reversal. Her being in the control room and being able to monitor him and not the other way around, should technically put her in a position of power. And yet, its Columbo being able to get under her skin just by talking into a camera, not even seeing her.
9:15 She says, "I see." Columbo replies, "I'm sure you do, ma'am." No gloating, no pleasure in the moment. When she starts to explain, there is a musical figure like the exposition of a fugue, reminds me of the second movement of Widor's Op.13 No.4, sort of a melancholy defeat.
I was thinking the other day and I've come to a startling revelation. In the episode "Diplomatic Immunity" (S0:5 E0:2), by befriending the king and convincing him to double back to the Suari Legation so that they can hear Hassan Salah confess to both murders, Columbo effectively shaped the relationship between the Kingdom of Suari and the United States for decades to come. Lt. Frank Columbo was responsible for the best foreign policy negotiation in the history of this country, and he did it while only being paid a fraction of a politician's.
Even though it's fiction I always find myself wondering what happens to these killers in court. Do they all get convicted? Do some of them work out plea deals? The fact that I even wonder about that in a work of fiction I think speaks to the quality of this show.
I think that also! And I always think about the evidence and whether it would be enough to convict in this day and age. This case for example. I don't think it was a slam dunk. A good lawyer could get her off!
Well....I think it's kind of hard to say. Most of the time Columbo seems to get enough evidence to break the killers' alibis, prove opportunity, and prove motive, as well as more than enough evidence - circumstantial and otherwise - to prove they did it, and most importantly he seems to always eventually coax a confession and/or admission of guilt out of the killers by the end of the episode. Which IS admissible and very useful in court. Plus, there is the fact that the killers often seem so flustered and jarred by the realization of what Columbo has gotten them to do - combined with the general ignorance of the law and how trials work that most members of the public have - that I'm pretty sure Columbo is usually able to get these people to sign official, legally-binding, sworn confessions once they get back to the police station. So I feel like there's enough going on to indicate that all of the killers in the show who Columbo catches would wind up getting convicted and sentenced - both in the ficticious world of this TV show, and the realistic world of the real-life reality in h'which we all reside. To me, the only _real_ question is how much time each of these folks wind up actually doing and whether they wind up getting charged with 1st, 2nd, or 3rd degree murder or even perhaps mere manslaughter in the end...
Good question! I guess at least that singer from Swan Song got a plea bargain as I believe renamed himself Johnny Cash and had a great singing career afterwards :)
I thought she was going to try and frame Walter at first, I'm happy that she didn't. And her angrily shutting down the control booth with a scream is such a great part of her emotional arc.
Wow. It's funny how every little thing we think about, and think it's just us, is so universal. I too was just hoping she wasn't going to blame Walter. In fact, (and THIS probably really is weird) I found myself thinking Walter would be the one person who would have visited Kate in prison. They seemed to have a good working relationship, almost something of a friendship. Good writing and direction- because I got all that from just a couple of short scenes.
I particularly liked this episode because it illuminates that all we see are the intellectual cat-and-mouse games between Columbo and his suspects. We have to remember that there's going to be a trial, and that people like the Trish VanDevere character probably would have access to the very best criminal trial lawyers. Mrs. George C. Scott might, indeed, "even win."
I always thought this episode ending with the cue blip was a best finale of Columbo's first run than the last scene and line in "The Conspirators" when he proclaimed: "This far and no farther". In this episode, from Kay's firing by Mr. Flanagan, to her arrest, just the best episode ending ever.
@@emsleywyatt3400 When the networks used to show movies after the lat night need, you could always see the cue blips. I never know what they were when I was younger. I have to thank this Columbo episode for explaining what they are.
I've watched most of the Columbo episodes recently. In nearly every episode the killer just sort of gives up and confesses at the end. This is the only episode i can recall where the killer doesn't really confess at the end. She just says she will fight and might even win! This to me makes her one of the most badass killers in the show!
@@garryiglesias4074 En effet Garry Iglesias, quand je regarde cet épisode de Columbo, je suis scotché par la beauté de cette actrice talentueuse. Merci pour votre commentaire, prenez soin de vous !
In my own office building from time to time going from floor to floor I find myself saying in my mind "You have 40 seconds... You have 37 seconds..............You have 29 seconds".......
9:55 - That orchestral change right as you feel her mood change.... It's chilling to see someone adopt a calm determination to see it all play out to the end, and then respect it.
Sometimes Columbo dislikes the murderers and sometimes he likes and respects them possibly because he understands or just because they seemes to be kind people in spite of the crime. In this case I don’t think he liked her but at least he understood her.
No. She had a career. A guy who like her, and lavished her with gifts. Granted, he had no sense of decorum, but he did not betray her or trade her. He simply said she was not cut out for the position she wanted. She wanted more. She believed she was entitled/warranted a better position. She killed him, so she can assume his job, and prove to the executive she was worthy of it. It was cold. It was calculated. And in the end, it was all for naught.
@@anom4550 It's more subtle than that. The guy she offed was sleeping with his secretary, which is clearly abusive. We don't know whether or not she would be competent at his job: his remarks could be entirely self-serving. It's also not clear whether the higher exec is in on the deal. What is clear is that she understood them as a power couple that was moving up together. When he dumps her, she feels used and betrayed, which she indeed was. It does look like her work contributed to his promotion. Does it justify murder? No. She was foolish to get sexually involved with her boss, and presumably she was doing her own using as well--she's narcissistic and overly ambitious. But what makes her sympathetic is her position as a woman not playing on a level field. Her boss can use her and get away with it; she can't do the same. It's a game system that contributes to her rage. I think that's the subtext of the whole thing, and Van de Vere plays the role well. A competent, hard working woman shouldn't have to sleep with the boss and resort to murder to get ahead.
do you think she means here that she might not go to jail? or she means that the next opportunity she gets to prove herself at job she will take it? She is dependent on emotions and Columbo gives us his opinion about this by saying Yes Ma'am. :) To me it says he thinks she will rot in jail.
@@ft7504 I think it means she'll always fight: it's all she knows and it's what she is, for good or ill. I think Columbo's respectful response comes from what he is: a gentleman. He's got her and he doesn't need to rub it in. I think he also understands the whole situation that drove her to killing the crumb, and while he doesn't approve of the murder, he has some sympathy for her.
She should never have hid the gun there, dropping the glove was sloppy. But, she could have played it off, left the gun in place, and reported it to building security, pretending she saw it and just wanted to turn it in as a concerned citizen.
@@jllore1917 I was a Deputy for 15 years, worked in the jail for awhile, trust me, women have a couple of places they hide some crazy things, you wouldn't believe it.
@@ricogoldstar Hahaha. Well, she was a corporate executive. I doubt she could have hidden the gun any of the places you are suggesting knowing she had about 90 seconds or less to kill Mark and get back to the projectionist's booth.
Kay, like all the other cold-blooded murderers, just cannot fool the LAPD's most successful "sleuth". He may look ragged, but Columbo's smart, not stupid. He can always put the pieces together and come up with proof.
I know a lot of people like Kay, but to me she is one of the more cold-blooded of the killers. She murdered a man not because he was cheating or screwed her out of money or somehow betrayed her, but because he dared to suggest that, while she was talented, she wasn't yet ready for his position after he moved to New York. In other words, she murdered a man whom she had previously loved because of a bruised ego. The victim even went as far as buying her a fancy new car, which Kay must have found insulting as she shot him to death before even taking possession of the vehicle. And her response? She feels no relief at getting caught and proudly announces that she will fight and possibly win even though she knows that she's been caught red-handed. In sum, she shows no remorse. Kay Freestone is a sociopath.
I can usually see why he doesn't bother to read Miranda rights to the suspect, but I can't see why he turns his back to the suspect at the end of this one. She could hit him with a heavy object, or stab him with a knife, and escape, since no other cops were around. P.S. Miranda rights came into effect two years before the first Columbo episode.
With all his brillant work I always wondered why he never made captain. Probably because captains run the station and dont really do the leg work. Its really impossible to know the killer that easily but who cares. A truly iconic great show that will be around long time. Falk was perfection
He probably never put in for it. If he enjoys what he's doing, why go for it? Leadership has it's own headaches and then you don't get to do the fun stuff.
I do like this woman! It would be hard to imagine Bing Crosby acting along side her - I think he was the original choice for Columbo. Fun fact (for me anyway). My mother is a facebook friend of Peter Falk's adopted daughter. They used to discuss a certain former American president a lot.
It's incredible how the different Cotvlumbos on the tv screens were considered cool high tech special effects at that time. If Columbo could see us now.
I think she meant to throw it down the elevator shaft, which is a great place to toss it given that she had to get rid of it quickly somewhere in the building. And, the real gun was actually never visible. But the cops found it, Columbo set a trap, and she panicked, which was the final nail in her coffin.
@@joel23344 you are right... she was so obsessed to make "the perfect murder" and she instead made several mistakes, and LT Columbo is great at setting traps . Her plan was overall too complex, the possibility that something went wrong was behind the corner.
Trish Van Devere is my all time favorite female villain from the show. She dominates her scenes and is so believable in her role. And even when he catches her, she still does not give up.
0:55 I didn't know they had auto-tracking cameras back in 1978, and that they would be smart enough to distinguish a person from and through a spinning merry-go-round.
@@lisawilliams2013 I remember first seeing Trish and George together in The Changeling. I also remember her from her last film, Messenger Of Death with Charles Bronson. She was indeed one of Columbo's most talented guest stars.
So refreshing to see a suspect not just confess.It’s not over until trial.
When Columbo brings out his brown paper bag of incriminating evidence from the 'boys down at the lab' .... game over man. 😅😆
😂😂😂
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That would have been a great spin off: The Boys Down at the Lab.
@@mgmartin51 YES! Let's make it happen. 😁😆 Wait.... they did, it was a show called QUINCY, Jack Klugman played a police medical forensics expert.
That’s right.
I love the early part of this scene where as Columbo is speaking to her via the camera, she's desperately trying to shut him out, pressing buttons and flipping switches, but on every screen, everywhere she looks, all she can see is Columbo. It's a perfect representation of how it must feel as the killer once Columbo has locked onto you, and no matter where you go or what you do, there he is.
This part was so funny she kept on trying to turn it off but Columbo was appearing in various filters and effects it must have been frustrating to her
@@reemyfairy09 They weren't filters, Columbo was preparing to send her to the Columbo dimension for annoying him with the music.
@@andrewcipriano2890There's an entry for a Colombo-like entity on the SCP Foundation website: SCP-3190
That bit with TVs really was her getting sent to the Columbo Dimension- absolutely incredible
I love how the killers always act like they're way too busy to even entertain the notion that Columbo is onto them. It's like they think if they look busy enough, he really will just go away.
he’s got loose ends to tie or he won’t sleep
I mean right up until he produces an arrest warrant that's probably their best bet. Suspecting doesn't mean arresting.
I Wish he simply could do then and come back later.
Just like in real life... body cam footage is basically people pretending they don't have time for consequences
She was still keeping herself strong and calm even she knew it was over. But that line: "I'll fight. I'll surive. I might even win." is the one that always gets me. Trish van Devere made an amazing and unforgettable performance of a strong woman, and she might be one of the best female killers since Lee Grant in "Ransome for a Dead Man".
Spot on. Just about all of the Columbo episodes are good but this one... it's like I have to turn off my phone, get my spot on the couch and have my "eats" right there because this is such an engrossing, fascinating episode, it's like a treat to watch, no matter how many times I've seen it. And I'd go so far as to say Trish Van Devere and Lee Grant were THE two best female killers the show ever had. Both women just have a hard-to-define quality as actresses that you find yourself riveted to their performances.
I think Kay was the best female killer and in the top 10 overall Columbo killers. At the end she isn't even confessing From what i recall of Lee Grant's character she seemed defeated and weak in that final scene at the airport. But here Trish Van Devere's character isn't giving up at all.
I'd go closer to calling it arrogance on her part.
This is one of the coolest murders of the series too. Her timing was impeccable. Or well, impeccable to everyone but Columbo
Down to the *second*! Too bad for her it was in LA, and Columbo assigned!
🖤rightttttt
The rub for me was that Columbo had to trick the murderer, as often as he had to get ahead of them. While the tricks are always nifty, I can't help but think some of those cases would falter in court with a clever/unscrupulous enough lawyer to make a sound enough argument for entrapment and get the case dismissed....
If these Columbo murderers were really smart, they would just hire a hitman.
The evidence is on a thin line. Maybe not enough for the court. With a good lawyer...
"Can we talk tomorrow at the office? Nono, I'll call you. I promise."
Columbo's gotta be thinking, "Ma'am, how naive do you think I am that I'd fall for _that_ line?" 😆
Right??? I'll call you...after I leave the country to a place with no extradition, lol!
In an earlier scene in this episode, she returns to her now-abandoned childhood home, goes in and is surprised to find that Columbo is already there. I mention this because it is an excellent example of the talent behind this production (and most others of the era.) To this day, 44 years later, I remember that scene vividly. Why? Because of the music that accompanied it. It begins as she gets out of her car and starts to walk toward the house. The atmosphere/mood it imparted was a perfect fit for the scene. The more one watches dramatic TV shows of this era, the more one laments the fact that such production values will never be seen again.
ALWAYS JUST ONE MORE THING,I LOVE THESE COLUMBOS.
Have you watched tv in the past 25 years? Some of the best-produced shows ever made are being made in this era. The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Better Call Saul. Countless others. I'm not putting down Columbo (it's great, one of a kind, one of the best shows ever made), but this idea that nothing comparable gets made today is ludicrous.
Absolutely to your sensitive post 🌹
"Who needs to actually write/direct excellence in character portrayal when you can do CGI?," the 2022 industry asks. (smh) And some wonder why "retro-networks" hang on so well!
@@charlesmurray4013 ......hey Charles! Sometimes, when I’m orderinggrocery delivery or something mundane, I’ll say “just one more thing” and quietly giggle to myself.😉
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16 September 1927 ~
23 June 2011⚘
Great episode. I thought when Columbo was talking to her through the screens and she gets more and more agitated that it's one of the most surreal scenes in the entire series. Add that she is basically trapped in that small dark room and Columbo will find her. She already got fired in the previous scene which gave this episode a very bleak feel towards the end. That final line ''I'll fight, I'll survive, I might even win'' is one of the best from any killer once caught. Plus she doesn't even actually give in and admit anything, even the legendary Jack Cassidy gives in at the end. This is one hard murderer.
She was a cold witch. Sympathetic at times, but believed too much of her own press releases. But jeez, murder for a job, her boyfriend didn't. She didn't even confess, she thought too much of herself. Very able killer, but certainly one of the coldest. Johnny Cash's Tommy Brown was the most sympathetic and probably most repentant.
@@20thCenturyManTrad I like the way she doesn't even confess at the end, it makes a change from how they usually do that and certainly makes her one of the coldest killers. I didn't find Tommy all that sympathetic tbh (although Edna was horrible), all the way through the episode he showed no signs of being repentant then suddenly in the final scene he says he is. Plus he killed the young girl in a double murder with Edna.
@@ryanwilliams1800 It did make sense to do that, the thing about him, was that he was good to Columbo, and while I agree it didn't always show the outward remorse, but I found that his friendly treatment of Columbo that he didn't start trying to pull strings to get Columbo off his back.
ALL THIS TALK ABOUT JACK CASSIDY, R.I.P. TO NEHEMIAH PERSOFF (AGED 102 ON APRIL 5, 2022) THE LAST SURVIVING MEMBER OF "SOME LIKE IT HOT" (WHICH STARRED MARILYN MONROE AND TONY CURTIS!)
Its kind of a clever reversal. Her being in the control room and being able to monitor him and not the other way around, should technically put her in a position of power. And yet, its Columbo being able to get under her skin just by talking into a camera, not even seeing her.
If Columbo loomed over me proclaiming, " I know what you did', to save time, and sensing a no-way-out scenario, I'd put the handcuffs on myself!
Don't give up so easy.
@@RichWeigel , girls, you should make a clip or a video with your fantasies.
9:15 She says, "I see."
Columbo replies, "I'm sure you do, ma'am."
No gloating, no pleasure in the moment.
When she starts to explain, there is a musical figure like the exposition of a fugue, reminds me of the second movement of Widor's Op.13 No.4, sort of a melancholy defeat.
The most subtly dramatic finale when it’s only Columbo and the murderer or the murderess is always the best.
I was thinking the other day and I've come to a startling revelation. In the episode "Diplomatic Immunity" (S0:5 E0:2), by befriending the king and convincing him to double back to the Suari Legation so that they can hear Hassan Salah confess to both murders, Columbo effectively shaped the relationship between the Kingdom of Suari and the United States for decades to come.
Lt. Frank Columbo was responsible for the best foreign policy negotiation in the history of this country, and he did it while only being paid a fraction of a politician's.
Of course he did better than a politician, have you seen the kinds that have popped up in the past few decades?
Talk about the sky falling...
Her whole world collapsed this one night. Whenever I'm feeling down, I can say "At least say I'm not her."
Even though it's fiction I always find myself wondering what happens to these killers in court. Do they all get convicted? Do some of them work out plea deals? The fact that I even wonder about that in a work of fiction I think speaks to the quality of this show.
I think that also! And I always think about the evidence and whether it would be enough to convict in this day and age. This case for example. I don't think it was a slam dunk. A good lawyer could get her off!
@@dorkarama3135 ...or at least keep her out of the "big house" even if found guilty 🤔
Well this is where Perry mason would come in 😂
Well....I think it's kind of hard to say. Most of the time Columbo seems to get enough evidence to break the killers' alibis, prove opportunity, and prove motive, as well as more than enough evidence - circumstantial and otherwise - to prove they did it, and most importantly he seems to always eventually coax a confession and/or admission of guilt out of the killers by the end of the episode. Which IS admissible and very useful in court. Plus, there is the fact that the killers often seem so flustered and jarred by the realization of what Columbo has gotten them to do - combined with the general ignorance of the law and how trials work that most members of the public have - that I'm pretty sure Columbo is usually able to get these people to sign official, legally-binding, sworn confessions once they get back to the police station.
So I feel like there's enough going on to indicate that all of the killers in the show who Columbo catches would wind up getting convicted and sentenced - both in the ficticious world of this TV show, and the realistic world of the real-life reality in h'which we all reside.
To me, the only _real_ question is how much time each of these folks wind up actually doing and whether they wind up getting charged with 1st, 2nd, or 3rd degree murder or even perhaps mere manslaughter in the end...
Good question! I guess at least that singer from Swan Song got a plea bargain as I believe renamed himself Johnny Cash and had a great singing career afterwards :)
I thought she was going to try and frame Walter at first, I'm happy that she didn't. And her angrily shutting down the control booth with a scream is such a great part of her emotional arc.
Wow. It's funny how every little thing we think about, and think it's just us, is so universal. I too was just hoping she wasn't going to blame Walter. In fact, (and THIS probably really is weird) I found myself thinking Walter would be the one person who would have visited Kate in prison. They seemed to have a good working relationship, almost something of a friendship. Good writing and direction- because I got all that from just a couple of short scenes.
No i wondering if Kay was going to frame that guy she asked to work late because he was working near the office where the murder happened i think.
That moment she realizes the whole "let's see, the tech told me to press the blue button" & "I almost missed it by 50 seconds" was all an act.
One of the best last lines the murderer utters in Columbo.
the staging and interplay with the television equipment was a brilliant and artistic way to frame this scene.
I particularly liked this episode because it illuminates that all we see are the intellectual cat-and-mouse games between Columbo and his suspects. We have to remember that there's going to be a trial, and that people like the Trish VanDevere character probably would have access to the very best criminal trial lawyers. Mrs. George C. Scott might, indeed, "even win."
The incredible direction and cinematography of this show should get just as much love as its writing.
Even with all the advancements since, it's nice to see how the cinematography of the 70s could still attractively hold up.
"You don't make decisions, Kay. You make guesses. There's a difference."
This is, quietly, the best Columbo episode.
Yeah but that's all anyone does. We're not all-knowing. Our decisions are based on informed guesses.
He just nails her for murder and expects her to care about wasting electricity at the end. LOL.
I always thought this episode ending with the cue blip was a best finale of Columbo's first run than the last scene and line in "The Conspirators" when he proclaimed: "This far and no farther". In this episode, from Kay's firing by Mr. Flanagan, to her arrest, just the best episode ending ever.
I told a couple friends about the "cue blip" and we watched a show just to see it. The show was an episode of McCloud: "Night of the Shark".
@@emsleywyatt3400 When the networks used to show movies after the lat night need, you could always see the cue blips. I never know what they were when I was younger. I have to thank this Columbo episode for explaining what they are.
One of my favorite episodes, maybe my favorite. Amazing music, great actress. She made me feel for her.
10:02 ...And she survived, Trish Van Devere, a beautiful woman, very good acting in this episode in the role of a betrayed woman
Indeed, beautiful and talented!
Go watch her and real-life hubby George C. Scott in The Changeling. Fantastic
I need help. I am totally addicted to Columbo. I keep watching the same episodes over and over. Help?
Me, too! Maybe there's an "Addicted to Columbo" Facebook group to help us? Or maybe that group would only make us more addicted.
No help required. It's a good thing. Relaxing, destressing and ultimately satisfying. 😌
There is no cure.
Me too. Whats your faves?
Carry on!
Reminds me of a Robert Culp episode.
Double Exposure.
And a bit of the Playback episode.
I've watched most of the Columbo episodes recently. In nearly every episode the killer just sort of gives up and confesses at the end. This is the only episode i can recall where the killer doesn't really confess at the end. She just says she will fight and might even win! This to me makes her one of the most badass killers in the show!
The special effects on the screens is so cool.
Formidable épisode ! Et Trish Van Devere, quelle actrice splendide !
Oui magnifique femme. Elle devait en faire chavirer des tètes.
@@garryiglesias4074 En effet Garry Iglesias, quand je regarde cet épisode de Columbo, je suis scotché par la beauté de cette actrice talentueuse. Merci pour votre commentaire, prenez soin de vous !
This is one of my favorite episodes and one of the few that I felt for the murderess! Trish Killed this role! Pun intended 😂
In my own office building from time to time going from floor to floor I find myself saying in my mind "You have 40 seconds... You have 37 seconds..............You have 29 seconds".......
Quality entertainment that was never replaced.
9:55 - That orchestral change right as you feel her mood change.... It's chilling to see someone adopt a calm determination to see it all play out to the end, and then respect it.
Watching the first few minutes of this high is an insane experience
He never realized that the real murderer is that cigar constantly in his mouth.
😂
That irritating merry-go-round music would be enough to make any killer confess. It was obviously getting to Miss Freestone
Sometimes Columbo dislikes the murderers and sometimes he likes and respects them possibly because he understands or just because they seemes to be kind people in spite of the crime. In this case I don’t think he liked her but at least he understood her.
There were episodes where the victim was blackmailing the murderer. Those typically got Columbo's greatest sympathy.
10:10 With that line alone, it shows that there's not one hint of remorse and a ton of arrogance that cannot be humbled.
Narcissism for sure. But I at least kinda admire her fight. The guy she offed was a dirtbag, and the system made her hard.
No. She had a career. A guy who like her, and lavished her with gifts. Granted, he had no sense of decorum, but he did not betray her or trade her. He simply said she was not cut out for the position she wanted. She wanted more. She believed she was entitled/warranted a better position. She killed him, so she can assume his job, and prove to the executive she was worthy of it. It was cold. It was calculated. And in the end, it was all for naught.
@@anom4550 It's more subtle than that. The guy she offed was sleeping with his secretary, which is clearly abusive. We don't know whether or not she would be competent at his job: his remarks could be entirely self-serving. It's also not clear whether the higher exec is in on the deal. What is clear is that she understood them as a power couple that was moving up together. When he dumps her, she feels used and betrayed, which she indeed was. It does look like her work contributed to his promotion. Does it justify murder? No. She was foolish to get sexually involved with her boss, and presumably she was doing her own using as well--she's narcissistic and overly ambitious. But what makes her sympathetic is her position as a woman not playing on a level field. Her boss can use her and get away with it; she can't do the same. It's a game system that contributes to her rage. I think that's the subtext of the whole thing, and Van de Vere plays the role well. A competent, hard working woman shouldn't have to sleep with the boss and resort to murder to get ahead.
do you think she means here that she might not go to jail? or she means that the next opportunity she gets to prove herself at job she will take it? She is dependent on emotions and Columbo gives us his opinion about this by saying Yes Ma'am. :) To me it says he thinks she will rot in jail.
@@ft7504 I think it means she'll always fight: it's all she knows and it's what she is, for good or ill. I think Columbo's respectful response comes from what he is: a gentleman. He's got her and he doesn't need to rub it in. I think he also understands the whole situation that drove her to killing the crumb, and while he doesn't approve of the murder, he has some sympathy for her.
I watched this episode when I was seven. And it amazes me the quality of the series . Great music with anxiety the elevator scene...
9:53 "I'll Fight. I'll Survive. I Might Even Win."
I wish these full episodes were on UA-cam
@@southernsmile5611 And on Peacock for free.🙂
She should never have hid the gun there, dropping the glove was sloppy. But, she could have played it off, left the gun in place, and reported it to building security, pretending she saw it and just wanted to turn it in as a concerned citizen.
Where could she have hidden it since she surely would have been searched by police after the murder. There was no other conceivable place to hide it.
@@jllore1917 I was a Deputy for 15 years, worked in the jail for awhile, trust me, women have a couple of places they hide some crazy things, you wouldn't believe it.
@@ricogoldstar Hahaha. Well, she was a corporate executive. I doubt she could have hidden the gun any of the places you are suggesting knowing she had about 90 seconds or less to kill Mark and get back to the projectionist's booth.
Kay, like all the other cold-blooded murderers, just cannot fool the LAPD's most successful "sleuth". He may look ragged, but Columbo's smart, not stupid. He can always put the pieces together and come up with proof.
An exercise in fatality, swan song, ransom for a dead man & murder by the book was four best Colombo episodes
Agree apart from exercise in fatality. The ending is baffling.
Etude in Black is my favorite. John Cassevetes is excellent as the conductor/villain.
One of the best episodes of the later series.
"I see"....... "Im sure you do maam" lol😂
1:40 sorry ma'am
but you already entered the Columbo dimension...
You will stay here forever,
until you submit!
Adoro Colombo,ha accompagnato la mia giovinezza
Kay was way over her head. She really thought that she was entitled to obtain the executive position but only ended up screwing up the company!
The Lt always knows which button to push.
I know a lot of people like Kay, but to me she is one of the more cold-blooded of the killers. She murdered a man not because he was cheating or screwed her out of money or somehow betrayed her, but because he dared to suggest that, while she was talented, she wasn't yet ready for his position after he moved to New York. In other words, she murdered a man whom she had previously loved because of a bruised ego. The victim even went as far as buying her a fancy new car, which Kay must have found insulting as she shot him to death before even taking possession of the vehicle.
And her response? She feels no relief at getting caught and proudly announces that she will fight and possibly win even though she knows that she's been caught red-handed. In sum, she shows no remorse. Kay Freestone is a sociopath.
Absolutely. Just like Rumford.
But..but..cannot you see...that she is beautiful?
@@davidwallace9416 Yes, she's beautiful. What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?
@@SECRETARIATguy224 I was quoting Inspector Clouseau in the Steve Martin remake.
Okay, i get that it went over your head, but you should chill.
@@davidwallace9416 Incorrect. I LOVE Inspector Clouseau and the Revenge of the Pink Panther is one of my favorite comedies of all-time.
I can usually see why he doesn't bother to read Miranda rights to the suspect, but I can't see why he turns his back to the suspect at the end of this one. She could hit him with a heavy object, or stab him with a knife, and escape, since no other cops were around. P.S. Miranda rights came into effect two years before the first Columbo episode.
Wow the music is so good, and that’s saying something as I love all the Columbo music!
I hereby declare the attractive defendant innocent.
Yep...Colombo certainly pushes the 'right buttons' indeed.....🤣😂🤣
Columbo was always so polite,yes mam.
2:29 Wow! Kay done lost it right now. Such frustration. She knew she'd likely get caught.
You know it's old when so many of them smoke.
With all his brillant work I always wondered why he never made captain. Probably because captains run the station and dont really do the leg work. Its really impossible to know the killer that easily but who cares. A truly iconic great show that will be around long time. Falk was perfection
He probably never put in for it. If he enjoys what he's doing, why go for it? Leadership has it's own headaches and then you don't get to do the fun stuff.
I do like this woman! It would be hard to imagine Bing Crosby acting along side her - I think he was the original choice for Columbo. Fun fact (for me anyway). My mother is a facebook friend of Peter Falk's adopted daughter. They used to discuss a certain former American president a lot.
James Garfield oh there's plenty to discuss involving president Garfield
What is it?
@Bobbie Charles I love Cobb in 12 angry men. Curious to see what he could do here.
Lieutenant Columbo outsmarts another killer!!! 👍
That's his job, penned by Richard Levinson and William Link (creators of Mannix and Murder, She Wrote).
Dammit. I so wish Kay/Trish could have gotten away with it
When Columbo was at the Merry Go Round …That was filmed at Looff Hippodrome ..which was built in 1916..over 100 years old.
I remember Trish Van Devere from a movie where she played a scientist who taught a dolphin to speak. ("The Day of the Dolphin")
Trish Van Devere, a most beautiful and splendid actress !
My favourite Columbo episode is Try & Catch me. Honestly I love every episode. I have the complete collection on DVD.
She has the most beautiful, relaxing voice! Any man that's lucky to be with her would melt into that voice!
George C. Scott did ;)
It's incredible how the different Cotvlumbos on the tv screens were considered cool high tech special effects at that time. If Columbo could see us now.
This is a great episode with great acting by everyone, but I always thought that the ceiling of an elevator was not the best place to hide a weapon...
I think she meant to throw it down the elevator shaft, which is a great place to toss it given that she had to get rid of it quickly somewhere in the building. And, the real gun was actually never visible. But the cops found it, Columbo set a trap, and she panicked, which was the final nail in her coffin.
@@joel23344 you are right... she was so obsessed to make "the perfect murder" and she instead made several mistakes, and LT Columbo is great at setting traps . Her plan was overall too complex, the possibility that something went wrong was behind the corner.
I absolutely love that one. The soundtrack the story and especially the murderer!😂
Every once in a while, Frank uncovered a sociopath.
If she learned anything, it was to be more careful next time.
Excellent Trish Van Devere
Merci for this.
She is beatiful actress great episode
Have you seen The Changelling? A great ghost movie! One of my favorites. It's on UA-cam aa well.
Oh man! It was like that Willy Wonka scene in the boat. Nice shooting
Trish Van Devere is my all time favorite female villain from the show. She dominates her scenes and is so believable in her role. And even when he catches her, she still does not give up.
Sure Columbo, just turn your back on the murderer at the end. She probably doesn't have another gun.
Thank you l Love coLombo🙏❤👍
Behnd the mask she was actually a very touching person. I can identify with that final line.
Absolutely brilliant
0:55 I didn't know they had auto-tracking cameras back in 1978, and that they would be smart enough to distinguish a person from and through a spinning merry-go-round.
Exceptional performance by Trish Van Devere. She's so intense and beautiful.
One of the tensest scenes of the series is her in the elevator with seconds to go!
I swear I was just watching this episode the other day and it got me thinking oh what was it
:45 Hey, it's Ron Ely's "Doc Savage" theme!
Sometimes I think Columbo is a little to friendly with "the boys down at the lab"
He brings them their most interesting cases, what do you expect? ;)
The writers of this show were brilliant.
What is her name?
She has charisma in acting.
Trish Van Devere. Her acting skills were on point, super talented. She was also married to George C. Scott, another fine actor.
I love George c scott. Thank you 😊 💓
@@lisawilliams2013 I remember first seeing Trish and George together in The Changeling. I also remember her from her last film, Messenger Of Death with Charles Bronson. She was indeed one of Columbo's most talented guest stars.
TRISH VAN DEVERE AS KAY FREESTONE!
Even if she weren't in the building when the cops found the gun, it's hard to believe she didn't find out about it until Columbo told her.
Master Detective Columbo 😀
Can you make the video and exaclty the same episode but in the elevator where she takes the weapon
This is a great TV picture.
The Lieutenant always gets his man/woman...another excellent example of Columbo being the 'main man'.
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c est un tres beau episode le doublage franacais est parfait
2:28
Man, Columbo would drive you to drink!
There are many that come close to COLUMBO, but he was the best
'I think I know the right button'. 🙂 Always.