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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 274992" data-attributes="member: 23">That&#039;s a nice observation. I&#039;d enjoyed the scenes with Ray Milland, but hadn&#039;t consciously noticed that this was unusual. They worked really well together, and I loved the scene where he warned Columbo that he didn&#039;t intend to be patient during the investigation. If we hadn&#039;t seen the murder (in other words, if this were a traditional whodunnit) his character would have seemed like a prime candidate to be the killer. He was a great character and said a lot even with little dialogue: from the relief/confusion/guilt on being told his wife had been faithful even though his instincts were telling him otherwise to him listening to Brimmer&#039;s confession and direct apology. I thought it was a good enough episode. Having no dead body for a good part of the episode added a unique angle to this one. Your saying about the Falk/Milland scenes reminded me of something. While watching Dead Weight I remember thinking how unusual it was to have a romance storyline. All right, it was the murderer wooing a witness to suit his own purposes, but it still had a fair amount of screen-time. We had Eddie Albert and Suzanne Pleshette, with Helen Reid as the mother trying to push her daughter into the ill-advised with a respected older man. At times it almost had a sitcom kind of vibe. True, but I liked that it looked old-fashioned. It&#039;s kind of like the murder of Lilly La Sanka in Murder By The Book in that it looked like it could be right out of a Hitchcock film from some years before. I&#039;m already looking forward to seeing him return, but I&#039;m not sure how long I&#039;ll have to wait. A couple of seasons, I suspect. Ha ha. Yes absolutely. That thought has crossed my mind a few times already. I know he&#039;s laid back, but it&#039;s possible to be too relaxed. Along similar lines I noticed that Robert Culp didn&#039;t appear to be wearing gloves during the scene where Brimmer was dumping his victim&#039;s body out of the boot on to the wasteland. I know the car was his, but it just seemed a bit sloppy for someone so meticulous.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 274992, member: 23"] That's a nice observation. I'd enjoyed the scenes with Ray Milland, but hadn't consciously noticed that this was unusual. They worked really well together, and I loved the scene where he warned Columbo that he didn't intend to be patient during the investigation. If we hadn't seen the murder (in other words, if this were a traditional whodunnit) his character would have seemed like a prime candidate to be the killer. He was a great character and said a lot even with little dialogue: from the relief/confusion/guilt on being told his wife had been faithful even though his instincts were telling him otherwise to him listening to Brimmer's confession and direct apology. I thought it was a good enough episode. Having no dead body for a good part of the episode added a unique angle to this one. Your saying about the Falk/Milland scenes reminded me of something. While watching [I]Dead Weight[/I] I remember thinking how unusual it was to have a romance storyline. All right, it was the murderer wooing a witness to suit his own purposes, but it still had a fair amount of screen-time. We had Eddie Albert and Suzanne Pleshette, with Helen Reid as the mother trying to push her daughter into the ill-advised with a respected older man. At times it almost had a sitcom kind of vibe. True, but I liked that it looked old-fashioned. It's kind of like the murder of Lilly La Sanka in [I]Murder By The Book [/I]in that it looked like it could be right out of a Hitchcock film from some years before. I'm already looking forward to seeing him return, but I'm not sure how long I'll have to wait. A couple of seasons, I suspect. Ha ha. Yes absolutely. That thought has crossed my mind a few times already. I know he's laid back, but it's possible to be too relaxed. Along similar lines I noticed that Robert Culp didn't appear to be wearing gloves during the scene where Brimmer was dumping his victim's body out of the boot on to the wasteland. I know the car was his, but it just seemed a bit sloppy for someone so meticulous. [/QUOTE]

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