:58:02
No, ma'am. No, I don't think so.
:58:04
Then I'll be leaving.
:58:06
Mother.
:58:09
We'll go into this later.
:58:11
As you wish.
:58:20
I'll leave the two of you alone.
:58:21
No, that's all right, Peter.
The lieutenant is going to be brief.
:58:25
Oh.
:58:27
What is it now? We've talked about keys
and grass and newspapers.
:58:32
Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you.
:58:34
You know how one thing leads to another.
:58:37
Over at your house there the other day,
:58:40
when I was climbing that ladder,
I had a thought.
:58:43
Something else occurred to me
that's been keeping me awake at night.
:58:47
What might that be?
:58:49
I was wondering about
that burnt-out bulb in front of your house
:58:54
and I went over there this morning
to take a look at it...
:58:58
You brought it with you!
:59:00
- Yeah. I didn't think you'd mind.
- No.
:59:03
Uh... this is a 100-watt bulb. 100 watt?
:59:08
Got a life of 750, 800 hours.
:59:11
Now, if your house
is anything like my house,
:59:14
then you burn the outside light
eight, 10 hours a day
:59:17
so that means it'd last
two, two and a half months.
:59:20
Is that right? Yeah.
:59:22
I'll concede to your knowledge. I don't know.
:59:25
Thank you very much.
:59:27
Now this is what I got to thinking.
:59:30
I hate to change bulbs outside my house
because no matter how tight I put it in,
:59:35
they attract a lot of dirt and guck
and they're full of dead bugs
:59:39
and I don't like to
go up there and touch 'em.
:59:42
Would you get to the point?
:59:44
Uh... why is that bulb dirt and dust-free?
:59:48
That bulb is clean as a whistle.
:59:51
- (Clears throat)
- (Columbo) I think that's kind of strange.
:59:54
Hanging there long enough to burn out
:59:58
but not hanging there
long enough to get dirty.