Columbo (TV Series)

Death Lends a Hand (1971)

Robert Culp: Investigator Brimmer

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• Investigator Brimmer : You're a very observant man, Lieutenant.

  Columbo : That's not what my wife says.

• Columbo : Yeah, I would say that we have a left-handed murderer and, uh... and an unpremeditated crime.

  Investigator Brimmer : We have?

  Columbo : Oh, I think so, yes. I mean, I don't think a man kills with his hands unless he's angry. As a matter of fact, you know, maybe he didn't mean to do it. Could be. You know, maybe it was an accident. You know, I got a feeling that when we find our friend, it's gonna turn out that he has a terrible temper.

• Investigator Brimmer : Lieutenant, you have a marvelously convoluted mind.

• Investigator Brimmer : I am a moralist. A vanishing specie, so I'm told.

• Investigator Brimmer : Sometimes the obvious answer is the correct one.