Columbo: Short Fuse
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(Roger) Lieutenant.
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You have not answered her question.
Now, will you tell her the truth?

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Miss Bishop,
the lieutenant is from homicide

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and, obviously, he is under the impression
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that the accident was caused
by an exploding cigar.

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- What?
- You see, Lieutenant,

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Miss Bishop got
the box of cigars from here.

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I saw her. And she put them
over there on the suitcase.

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Yeah. Here. Try one yourself.
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Wow. Never saw cigars
quite like this before.

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- Are all the boxes the same?
- Don't you tell customs.

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- They're from Cuba. A dollar a pop.
- Wait a minute.

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Are you saying that something
was wrong with a cigar box?

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Of course not.
The lieutenant is just simply wrong.

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You see, if there was an explosive
in that car,

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it would have to have been placed
somewhere else.

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No. No, I'm afraid not.
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No. On the way here,
I bumped into a nice old fellow

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that works in your service station, Ferguson.
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And he cleaned that car before they left.
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He said there was nothing else in that car
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except a suitcase,
a coat and a box of cigars.

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And the old boy who carried
everything down, he said the same thing.

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All right, then. Then the explosive
must have been in the cigar box.

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Yeah, I'll grant you that.
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And if somebody tampered with it
or switched it,

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that would have
to have happened here, right?

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OK. Miss Bishop, will you tell me,
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how long did DL's suitcase sit there
in the middle of this floor

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with people coming and going?
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Oh...
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20, 30 minutes.
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You were here then, weren't you?
Didn't I hear you say you were here?

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- Yeah.
- No, no, no.

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Now, Mr Stanford did not touch it.

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