Columbo (TV Series)

Old Fashioned Murder (1976)

Joyce Van Patten: Ruth Lytton

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• Columbo : You know, when I say "Homicide Department," most women, they act a little upset, so I try and calm 'em with a little chit-chat. I've been doing that for so long that I forgot to notice that you weren't upset. Forgive me for wandering off.

  Ruth Lytton : I've disappointed you. My sister won't. You needn't even bother saying "homicide." "Foul play" will do it. She faints.

• Mrs. Brandt : There is a man's arm to support any woman who wants one.

  Ruth Lytton : No, not any woman.

• Edward Lytton : It's almost two o'clock in the morning. What are you doing here?

  Ruth Lytton : Oh, I do wish people would stop asking me that.

  [shoots her brother] 

• Ruth Lytton : Lieutenant, you must never underestimate me... nor I you. I don't in the least mind you playing tricks, but you're going to have to be a little cleverer, aren't you?

• Columbo : Well, you've got some family, Miss Lytton. Everybody thinks I'm getting ready to arrest them.

  Ruth Lytton : Everybody but me.

  Columbo : Yes. It's a relief talking to you. I was beginning to feel like a policeman.

  Ruth Lytton : You ARE a policeman - and a good one. You say a thing when you're ready to say it and not before.

• Ruth Lytton : I detest modern medicine. Don't you?