Columbo: Short Fuse
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you know, to look into the darkroom and...
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What are you doing, Lieutenant,
looking for secret weapons?

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Secret weapons? No.
What is this, kids' stuff?

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Lieutenant,
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I was talking to my aunt
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and she said that you think
that maybe somebody killed my uncle.

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She said that there was something
about the accident. I don't know.

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No, we don't know anything for sure just yet.
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No, it's just that...
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You know, that's a wonderful darkroom.
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Imagine having something like that
right next to your own office.

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Wonderful. My wife's kid brother's
a nut on photography too.

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- Wonderful hobby.
- I know.

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I also work on inventions in there
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and you were very lucky
that you didn't knock over a bottle of acid

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or some cyanide crystals or nitroglycerine.
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Don't tell me any more.
I'll have a heart attack.

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You really know that stuff, don't you?
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I noticed your medal.
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That's an honour society medal, isn't it?
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It's a national science fraternity.
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I had my PhD in chemistry before I was 21.
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But that's before my MBA and lawyer.
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You don't say.
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You know, I knew you'd be
the one that could help me.

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Would you come?
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Now, my problem with chemistry,
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that started way back in high school.
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Because in my junior year,
I had to get a better grade.

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So I said, "To heck with this chemistry stuff,"
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- "I'll take another year of wood shop."
- (Laughs)

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You know, you just build a birdhouse
and if you paint it red, you get an A.

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- (Roger chuckles)
- So that's what I did.

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Because that chemistry stuff is too hard.
You follow my meaning?

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So?
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You see, the fellows over at our lab,
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they tell me that you can make
all sorts of trigger devices


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