Columbo (TV Series)

Forgotten Lady (1975)

Peter Falk: Columbo

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• Sgt. Leftkowitz : You know, Lieutenant, um, I'm in the homicide office at least, uh, once a week. I don't think I've ever seen you there.

  Columbo : Well, I don't get down there too much. None of the murders take place there, you know?

• Columbo : [to Grace]  From my experience, ma'am, I've discovered that people don't usually forget to do that which they usually do.

• Columbo : Listen, uh, you don't mind if I pump your hand, do ya? You're the fellow that was in all those musicals. Wait'll I tell my wife. You were always her favorite. She dragged me to every musical you were ever in.

  Ned Diamond : I'm sorry you had to be dragged.

• Columbo : [alluding to his compulsiveness]  A light goes on up here... and sometimes I can't turn it off.

• Grace Wheeler Willis : Would you care to join us? We're running a film.

  Columbo : Oh, thank you very, very much. No, I can't. This is Sunday and I promised my dog I'd take him to the park.

• Lt. Flaherty : Columbo.

  Columbo : Lt. Flaherty. Long time, no see.

  Lt. Flaherty : You ought to try coming downtown once in a while.

  Columbo : I'm gonna get down there this week for sure.

  Lt. Flaherty : You know a Sergeant Lefkowitz?

  Columbo : Sergeant Lefkowitz? Oh, the lady with the computer. Yes.

  Lt. Flaherty : You've been giving her the run around.

  Columbo : Me? No. No, I explained to her that my records regard to my going to pistol practice got loused up in the computer.

  Lt. Flaherty : You were right about that. The read-out said you hadn't fired in five years. She double-checked it. It was ten.

  Columbo : Gee, you gotta be kidding!

  Lt. Flaherty : You better get out to that range right away.

  Columbo : Gee, I can't go now. I gotta go some place.

  Lt. Flaherty : Columbo, you could be suspended.

  Columbo : But I don't have a gun.

• Ned Diamond : Lieutenant, you must be aware of the fact that... that men who retire from very active lives very often go into severe depression for no apparent reason whatsoever. I know. I've been there.

  Columbo : You didn't shoot yourself, did ya? Big difference between being old and unhappy and puttin' a gun to your head. Has to be a reason.

• Columbo : You don't happen to have another ashtray, do you?

• Grace Wheeler Willis : Have you taken leave of your senses?

  Columbo : Well, I guess it looks that way, doesn't it?

• Columbo : You see, if Henry already brought the gun in, if he was already thinking about suicide...

  Pat : [heard in the background]  Okay, let's go.

  Columbo : ...before he went to bed, then I don't believe he would be reading this. It's a light, funny book - not the kind of thing that a man would be reading just before shooting himself.

• Columbo : There's no doubt she did it, but I have a problem with this case.

• Columbo : I have very good reason to believe that Miss Wheeler killed her husband.

  Ned Diamond : If you think I'm gonna stand here and listen to that... I'll get a lawyer - I'll get a battery of lawyers - and the least that can happen will be the end of one very unimportant career! OUT!

• Ned Diamond : Anyway, what difference does it make? It doesn't mean anything.

  Columbo : Oh, it means a great deal, sir. It goes to the very heart of the matter.