I Was Quite a Looker: When Columbo mentions a picture, worn-out alcoholic hooker Dorothea (Tyne Daly) misinterprets him and thinks he's talking about some nudie pictures she posed for 20 years ago.As a result, he has to sneak to another room to make the call and ask Brown to find some pants for him to wear when he returns to check him out, which end up being a ridiculously garish pair of parachute pants that Columbo has to wear while exiting the hospital and for the entire duration of his first visit to Krutch's apartment. Improvised Clothes: When Columbo checks into a hospital to get his head injury looked at after he's assaulted while undercover, he needs to contact Brown and check out early, but his nurse doesn't let him make any phonecalls and takes his pants to make sure he doesn't try to sneak out before a doctor takes a look at him in the morning.Like "No Time to Die", it's a Columbo episode In Name Only. He puts on disguises, pretending to be a mobster or a homeless guy. There's no Reverse Whodunit, there's no Perp Sweating (not until the end where Columbo grills Susan, that is), no stories about Mrs. Formula-Breaking Episode: Based on the Ed McBain novel Jigsaw and thus has little resemblance to the typical Columbo plot.Dramatic Gun Cock: Dillinger takes out his gun and quietly cocks it after discovering an intruder in his apartment.Doesn't Like Guns: One of the few nods this episode makes to Columbo formula is when Columbo is reluctant to carry a gun when he goes on his first undercover mission.Dismantled MacGuffin: The picture of the hiding place, cut up into puzzle pieces, which Columbo and the cops have to find.Celebrity Paradox: Gerry says the hoodlum who came to her art gallery "looks like the guy who played in Rocky." Of course, it is the guy who played in Rocky (namely, Burt Young, who played Rocky's brother-in-law Paulie).Cat Scare: Played straight as an arrow when Detective Brown sneaks into the art gallery for an illegal search, and a black cat darts out from Gerry's office door.Camp Gay: Bradley, Gerry's partner at the art gallery, is extremely camp and effete.Bland-Name Product: Dillinger receives in the mail a magazine called "Suave" which, from the centerfold that falls out of it, looks to be a men's magazine like Playboy or Penthouse.She stars as a low-rent prostitute and aunt to one of the bank robbers, who has a piece of the puzzle. ![]() And Starring: Just three episodes after she starred in " A Bird in the Hand.", Tyne Daly gets "Special Guest Star" credit.Alliterative Name: The burglar at the beginning, Eugene Ehrbach.Shera Danese, Peter Falk's wife, makes the fifth of her six Columbo guest appearances. This episode is actually an adaptation of the 87th Precinct novel Jigsaw by Evan Hunter, pen name Ed McBain. Armed with this knowledge, and with one of the puzzle pieces to show his bona fides, Columbo goes.undercover as a hoodlum, looking for the money. Krutch recently contacted the widow of one of the bank robbers, and managed to obtain a torn-in-half list revealing some of the names of people with puzzle pieces. They then took a photo of the hiding place, which they sliced up into puzzle pieces and gave to other people for safekeeping. ![]() All of the bank robbers were run down and killed, but not before they managed to hide the loot, a safe containing $4 million. Six years ago a bunch of crooks robbed a bank insured by Krutch's company. There's little mystery, other than one odd thing: Ehrbach was found with that strange scrap of paper, a portion of a photograph cut in the shape of a puzzle piece, clutched in his hand.Ĭolumbo and Brown are back at headquarters, still wondering about the puzzle piece, when one Irving Krutch (Ed Begley Jr.), an insurance investigator, shows up at police HQ and explains everything. ![]() Dillinger shot burglar Eugene Ehrbach, but Ehrbach had enough life in him to stick a knife in Dillinger's neck before Dillinger pulled the trigger a second time and they both fell over dead. Columbo and his partner Detective Arthur Brown (Harrison Page) looking at two corpses. Cue the occupant of the apartment coming home, and spotting the light on inside. He tears the place up, looking for a scrap of paper, until he finally finds it hidden inside a paper towel roll. Michaelson)Ĭamera and Electrical Department Carl A.Guest Starring: Ed Begley Jr., Harrison Page, Burt Young, Shera Danese, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Tyne DalyĪ burglar makes his way into a shabby apartment in a dilapidated building in a seedy neighborhood. Ingraffiaįirst assistant director (as Joseph Ingraffia) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Joseph A. Unit production manager (as Christopher Seiter)
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