Columbo: Ransom for a Dead Man
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1:06:02
Certainly.
1:06:18
You see, it's, er...
It's the crackers that make the dish.

1:06:25
I think my stepmother had
something to do with it.

1:06:30
- You realise what you're saying?
- Yes.

1:06:32
- Then tell me.
- She never loved him.

1:06:36
She used him to get
what she wanted for herself - a career.

1:06:40
She used his name, his influence,
1:06:42
so that she could become
the famous lady lawyer.

1:06:46
To be a partner with my father
was instant stature, instant success.

1:06:51
Well, did all this start
while your mother was still alive?

1:06:55
Yes, but he didn't have an affair with her.
1:06:58
- How can you be sure?
- I knew him.

1:07:02
He was faithful to my mother
during those years she was dying.

1:07:06
When did they get together romantically?
1:07:09
After my mother died.
1:07:11
She talked him into leaving
the Supreme Court,

1:07:13
something he'd worked for all his life.
1:07:16
He left it because he wanted to be with her.
1:07:21
Is that when they became partners?
1:07:24
That was the bait.
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- He did that for her, so she married him.
- Why would she want to see him dead?

1:07:31
My father visited me in Switzerland
during last vacation.

1:07:34
He told me what a fool he'd been,
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how she'd finally told him
that she thought he was a bore,

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a dull, tiresome old man,
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and she wanted a new arrangement.
1:07:46
He started to cry.
1:07:49
I'd never seen him cry before.
1:07:53
He was to quit the firm, turn it over to her.
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Then they were to live their separate lives.
1:07:59
She didn't ask for a divorce,

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