:44:00
That was a new will? Only last month?
:44:03
Correct. He wrote most of it himself.
:44:05
He promised to let me draw up
something more detailed later on but...
:44:10
Boy, I can't figure it, I...
:44:12
You'd think the nephew
would get the paintings.
:44:15
I agree. I agree.
:44:17
Mr Mathews had disagreements with Dale
:44:20
but an art collection like that is big business.
:44:24
To manage that requires
specialised skill, taste.
:44:29
Why he'd simply leave the whole thing
to a poor, unstable creature like Edna...
:44:36
- Those comments are hardly professional.
- One thing, though.
:44:40
- Mr Kingston gets the rest of the estate.
- It's meaningless.
:44:44
He rented that big house.
Rudy disposed of all his business interests.
:44:49
There really isn't
any remaining estate to speak of.
:44:55
Well, listen,
thanks for letting me come down.
:44:58
- I gotta get back to work.
- Lieutenant?
:45:02
- Your painting.
- Oh, thank you.
:45:04
Lieutenant? My lighter.
:45:07
- Oh. There you are.
- Mm-hm.
:45:15
Miss Henderson, I'll make my calls now.
:45:22
(Kingston) Looking for me, Lieutenant?
:45:25
Oh. Yeah, I thought I'd kind of
catch you out in the parking lot.
:45:29
Expected to find me there kicking
my tyres in frustration, I suppose?
:45:34
- I thought there'd be disappointment.
- You are so transparent, Columbo.
:45:38
You've had this thing figured out
right from the start.
:45:42
Dale Kingston hired someone
to fake the theft and kill his uncle.
:45:46
- Maybe even some poor little art student.
- Mr Kingston, I never said that...
:45:50
Even though I had an airtight alibi
by total accident
:45:54
at the time of the murder,
that didn't stop you.
:45:56
Mr Kingston, really, I...
:45:58
Well, at this point even a compulsively
suspicious bureaucrat like you