> but it seems to me that leaving loose ends really rankles the audience of detective shows lol I wasn't really rankled by it; I was just kind of like, "Well, that won't hold up in court. Guess he got away with it!" Yea I've see Leonard Nimoy surgeon one - which is another that quite possibly didn't hold up in court. Nimoy planted the dissolving sutures on Columbo in the OR, and Columbo didn't notice at the time. Columbo later appears in Nimoy's office and pulls the dissolving suture out from his pocket... now a court is supposed to believe that Nimoy planted the suture on Columbo? Or that Columbo just had some suture in his pocket and is claiming it belongs to his prime suspect... like that's really easy for Nimoy to say "Wait wait wait jew... *you're* pulling suture out of *your* pocket... and telling me it belongs to me? That I put it there?" Pretty flimsy, especially for a case where Columbo's been studying and pocketing suture throughout the entire episode. "That suture could have come from anywhere" is a viable defense. Mind you this is before DNA could be pulled off the suture to match the patient... also I know Columbo is supposed to be Italian but that does seem like a jew trick a la "crying out in pain as he strikes you."