Columbo: Death Lends a Hand
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- Mm-hm?
- And... Drives my wife crazy, you know.

:36:09
The lamp's next to the bed
and the poor thing, she can't sleep.

:36:13
- Did you find anything?
- No, not really. Well, er...

:36:18
Take the autopsy report.
:36:22
Yes. Here it is.
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You see, that jived with something
that I noticed about the body

:36:28
the first time I saw it and that bothered me.
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Mrs Kennicut was struck
on the left cheek and she had a bruise

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and she had a weird kinda cut.
:36:37
Erm...
:36:39
- Do you see what I mean?
- Erm, no. I don't think so.

:36:44
Let's start with the cut
because that's what bothered me.

:36:47
I said to myself, "What in the world
could have caused that kind of cut?"

:36:52
Er, does this lighter work?
:36:55
Yeah, I think so.
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Er...
:37:06
- Where was I?
- About the cut.

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Oh, yes. What could have caused the cut?
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I said to myself, "It could be a ring."
:37:15
A ring of... You mean a finger ring.
This kind of ring.

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Yeah, something like that.
Now here's the way I figured it.

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Suppose you were gonna strike somebody.
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Suppose it was a woman.
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Now, do you punch her? Well, maybe.
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But more than likely,
you hit with your open hand.

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- Either this way or this way.
- Mm.

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Now, if you hit this way,
the ring is not gonna cause any cut.

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So I figured it was a backhand blow
like this. OK?

:37:46
I still don't follow you
because that would put it over...

:37:50
- But I used my right hand, see?
- Yeah.

:37:52
If the ring was on the right hand,
the bruise would be on the right cheek.

:37:56
But it was on the left cheek
so the murderer was left-handed.


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