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At his lakeside home, a retired major general shoots and kills a Marine colonel who's involved with him in a fraudulent military contract. A beautiful, easily manipulated, divorcee is the only witness to the gunshot.

While on a sailing-boat, Helen Stewart witnesses far-away, inside a room, a man with a gun killing another. She notifies the fact to the Police and Lt. Columbo begins to investigate. The man is the famous General Martin Hollister, a war hero. Lt. Columbo searches his house and afterwards he is very doubtful about Helen's statement.—Baldinotto da Pistoia

A young divorcée, Mrs. Stewart, and her mother are out sailing when the daughter happens to look into the window of a nearby house; she sees a man in a bathrobe shoot another man in military uniform. Her mother doesn't believe her, and she even begins to doubt herself when the man she accuses proves to be the celebrated Major Gen. Martin Hollister. Only the redoubtable Lt. Columbo can get to the bottom of this mystery.—J. Spurlin

With an impending investigation threatening to reveal shady business practices, a retired war hero shoots the only man who can link him. Unfortunately, a divorced woman (accompanied by her berating mother) witnesses the act and phones the police. That, plus the general's stature, calls Columbo into the matter. With no body and no signs of foul play, Columbo considers dropping the matter till the ex-war hero goes out of his way to start dating the witness and making her doubt her own testimony.—statmanjeff

A retired WWII general kills an associate in order to fully eliminate his chances of having his embezzlement of military funds exposed. Upon learning his act has been witnessed by a young woman, the general seduces her in an effort to throw off police.

Maj. Gen Martin J. Hollister (Eddie Albert) is a war hero. In times of peace, he has dedicated himself to the building industry. He is worried but he thinks he will be able to get out of his financial problems with his prestige intanct. There is a museum exhibition which is going to feature memorabilia from the war he fought on. He's going to donate some of his weapons, military gear, uniforms... to that exhibition. One of his business associates calls on him while he's trying his old uniform. They've charged a lot of money more for the construction of a building that it should have cost. Col. Roger Dutton (John Kerr) is going to run away to Europe before the scandal breaks out and makes it to the healines. Hollister doesn't want to run away, because he's got so many things to lose, and he thought of pinning everything down on Dutton. In the ensuing argument, finally Hollister shoots Dutton.

There is a sharp cut of the camera to the sail of a small fishing boat. Helen Stewart (Suzanne Pleshette) gets really excited. The young divorcée says that she's seen it all. Her mother, Mrs Walters (Kate Reid) hasn't seen anything, but she complies with her daughter and they come back to shore and call the police so that that night, Officer Sánchez (Ron Castro) calls on Hollister.

Enter shabby-looking Lt Frank Columbo (Peter Falk), as usual. He interrogates Hollister. He eventually admits that he had tried on his old uniform, and that he was playing with his gun. However, it doesn't seem like any of the weapons Hollister keeps has been used recently. Hollister gets to know the name of the person who is accusing him, and he learns that he's Helen Stewart. Hollister calls on Helen, and talks to her about what she saw, when, and even takes her on a boat trip to exactly the same place where she was when she saw him shooting his business associate. Helen starts denying what she saw, especially because she feels dazzled by Hollister's charm and attentions.

The main twist of this episode consists on how Helen starts falling in love with Hollister. At first, her mother is a bit nervous about it, but in the end, she also considers Hollister a good possible husband for Helen. The opening day of the exhibition, all media are present, even TV. That gives Columbo his final idea.

But Columbo is a hounddog in search of his prey. He visits the military exhibition, and pretends that, just by chance, he came across with Hollister and Helen. It's Helen who looks more annoyed with Columbo's assistance, and this time, it's her who is rude to the lieutenant. There, he points to the weapon Hollister used in killing Dutton and Hollister finally confesses.