this be the one with hector elizondo a the murderous first secretary at the suarian legation . he enlist an unwitting sal mineo a an accomplice and rob the legation of $ 600 and 000 after murder a security guard and then try to pin the crime on mineo by bump him off . he doesn not get away with it . i be not sure why this doesn not seem as entertaining a some of the other early episode . i have trouble right off the bat . what the difference between a legation and a consulate and and an embassy . and then and a the mystery unfolds and or rather the solution to the mystery unfolds and i find hector elizondo not the most engaging of columbo adversary . oh and he haughty and condescend and like all the others and but his expression never change . there be no bewitch byplay between him and peter falk a columbo . then and too and the best of the villain be people we naturally hate anyway wine snob and chess freak and egg head and fine art dilettante and corrupt politician and superior health nut and and the like . but there no particular reason to resent a suarian first secretary and so there no intrinsic hatred for the story to cash in on . there not much in the way of comedy in this episode either and and what there be of it be unsubtle . columbo lean against a pedestal with a three thousand year old vase atop and juggle it for a moment while elizondo look on blankly . there be and though and an unusual twist at the end . elizondo brag about the crime to columbo . he can afford to do it because the case be weak and elizondo have diplomatic immunity and i guess . but columbo have sneak the king of suari into a neighboring room to eavesdrop and and the king tell elizondo he will now be send back to suari to face suari justice . elizondo hastily sign a confession and be lead away by the lapd . i muse for a few moment on how the writer come up with the fictional monarchy of suari or suaria . i can imagine someone have think of syria right off the bat but think they obviously couldn not use it . so say another writer let just switch that initial vowel and make be sauria . a third guy point out that this lead to saurian and an english word mean lizard like . so one of the writer suggest transpose the two vowel and result in suaria and a national name to which no one can object . one scene involve an encounter between columbo and some sign wield protester outside the suari legation . by an odd coincidence i play a sign wield albanian protester in a scene with peter falk in the vastly superior tune in tomorrow . the film sink without a trace and but i understand it have since become an underground art house classic and that my performance have be laud by everyone who see it . i know this to be true because both my mother and my psychiatrist have assure me it be . falk performance be fine and a usual . by this time he could have walk through the role in his sleep . but the script doesn not give him much and the set up itself isn not very imaginative and and elizondo be no help .