This somewhat lively segment of Columbo stars Janet Leigh, a once shining star who's fading quickly and needs to turn to her husband, played by Sam Jaffe, to finance her career. He refuses, and later we find out it's because she has a terminal brain injury, and after he gives her the bad news about not financing her, she kills him as he's sedated by sleeping pills; it's obvious she didn't marry him out of love, and this was mentioned by him before she kills him. I'm not certain if Leigh's star was dimming in real life in 1975, as I believe Anne Baxter's was(she starred in another episode), but the story was convincing. Many of the scenes between her and the late Peter Falk were very good, and even though he was a rumpled mess whenever he came to talk to her, she seemed to enjoy how he gushed over her and adored the adulation; most of those questioned by Columbo can't stand him, so this is refreshing. I don't think Columbo's speculation about the extra 15 minutes of the film Grace(Leigh)was watching would carry that much weight in court, but many of these episodes seem to make suspects confess, and it doesn't seem likely. I give props for one of the most clever endings of any Columbo episode, which has Grace basically forgetting she even murdered her husband, and her dance partner of many years named Ned(John Payne), admitting to the crime because Columbo informs him that she has just a few months to live. This is a very sad conclusion and doesn't have the usual formula which would typically make the audience happy.