*every suspect walks out of court in 2 minutes due to lack of evidence*
>>219675223>when they just go "you've got me" and give up even though Columbo only has circumstantial evidence
>>219675470zoomers wouldnt get this thing called HONORwhen zoomers get caught doing something they shit themselves and claim autism
Where are the ashtrays?Walks into everyone's shit with a lit cigar. No ashtrays.
but its always a moral win , columbo acts as angel exterminador, a metaphysical omniscient entity that practically part of the perpetrators conscience. the murderer accepting defeat is the strongest condemnation
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>>219675833they refer to that in one episode where he is confronted by a disgruntled housekeeper about his cigars, i think its the one where martin landau is a TV chef cooking with a jacket
>>219675223> what about the guy with the body in the trunk> or the one with the body in the wall> or the several with confessions> or the fingerprints on the paintingetc
>>219675833>>219676362Later in the same episode, he screws up her TV playing with the circuit breakers, which pisses her off even more.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVef7GQy1Vc
>Lieutenant Columbo placed on mandatory leave for repeated harassment and attempted entrapment
>>219677237>entrampmentSelf snitching is not entrampment
>>219677237>>219677618The closest Columbo ever came to entrapment was probably this, but he did it outside the US, so his department probably wouldn't care. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0lfMFm4GGo
>>219675223don't even need evidence when you've got a confession
>>219676856Just one more thing, thanks chief.
>>219676682>> what about the guy with the body in the trunkIs that the one where he breaks into the mechanic's shop to get the contact lens? There was no contact lens. Columbo made it up. It looks suspicious he broke in, but he literally could have just not said why he did it.>> or the one with the body in the wallYeah, okay, body's pretty good.>> or the several with confessionsYou have to sign confessions (and even then you can withdraw them).>> or the fingerprints on the painting"I don't know how your fingerprints got on the painting."
>>219677618>>219677910>stealing a "fuck you" expensive wine bottle from a suspect in an elaborate scheme to get him to do something that vaguely reveals that he killed his brotherI mean, don't get me wrong, it's fucking kino, but there's no way this shit would hold up in court
They bullshit around a lot of it by having the killer show contrition by confessing, or just talking too much around other police officers.Stuff like the "Dude I found your bite in this piece of cheese!" probably wouldn't hold up.
>>219679569Yes, Columbo uses trickery all the time, but as >>219677618 pointed out, it's not necessarily entrapment. The cops are allowed to lie to you; and in most cases, Columbo is doing it in the presence of other officers as witnesses to the plot to get them to self-incriminate. But... and it's an important but... he's not entering anything into evidence, he's suggesting that he 'might'.For example, the episode (see image), where he:> prints the photo backward> tells the suspect that the negative was accidently destroyed> tells him that the time on the (backward) clock blows his alibi.That wasn't true, it was a ploy. But if the suspect hadn't confessed, Columbo wouldn't have claimed the same story in court, because it was a ploy; with lots of co-workers in on it.So, whether it's a real-word cop lying to you and saying they have a witness to a crime you've committed, or Columbo here doing a similar thing; it only works if the suspect believes them
It's not about justice for him, it's about solving the puzzle.>Just one more thing, your benefactor, he has an Wikipedia article written about him, doesn't he? I seem to remember, there was something written in the early life section... Well, I'm sure it doesn't matter.
It was the 70's so you can suspend your disbelief pretty easily. A few are noticeably bad though. The clock not chiming on the telephone recording is one that comes to mind.
>>219679999> chimesOn the other hand, in this episode it was the exact opposite> murderer who was CIA fakes the clock chimes on a recording to fake alibi> columbo sees through it and notices the sounds of the shades being closedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNZR58ysUUI
>>219675556Only works with whites
>>219675223monk did an episode like this where a sculpter was the murderer and he made his murder weapon into a driveway, but he hired a lawyer that made monk try to reassemble the drieway into the murder weapon
