whenever a columbo story deviate from the familiar plot ( colorful killer commits crime and columbo smoke out killer and columbo become a pest in the process ) and the writer somehow be never able to match the quality and interest of most traditional episode . this episode deviate in the extreme and and the result be a major flop . would you believe represent columbo never face the villain till the very end . frankly and i be tempt to turn it off about two third through . oh and the sacrifice we self appoint reviewer make .