Columbo (TV Series)

Fade in to Murder (1976)

William Shatner: Ward Fowler

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• Ward Fowler : Why don't we stop pretending that I'm brilliant and you're simple for one moment?

• Ward Fowler : I couldn't help wondering why, with all the money that Ward Fowler makes, he could owe Claire Daley that much, and then it hit me.

  Lieutenant Columbo : Uh, what hit you, sir?

  Ward Fowler : Coffee?

• Ward Fowler : Is there anything that doesn't bore you, Clare?

  Clare Daley : Mm-hm. Silver Certificates. I would paper my bedroom with them if I could.

  Ward Fowler : I wouldn't put it past you.

  Clare Daley : Where would you put it?

• Lieutenant Columbo : How does a smart man like Lieutenant Lucerne make a mistake like THAT?

  Ward Fowler : Because you're not talking to Lieutenant Lucerne at the moment, are you, Lieutenant? You're talking to Ward Fowler.

  Lieutenant Columbo : Well, what's the difference, sir?

  Ward Fowler : The difference is Ward Fowler's under suspicion of murder, and a man under that kind of threat is... apt to make mistakes. He's apt to get rattled.

  Lieutenant Columbo : Well, who ever said anything about Ward Fowler being under suspicion of murder?

  Ward Fowler : Lieutenant Lucerne did.

  Lieutenant Columbo : He did? Well, how did he come to that conclusion, sir?

• Ward Fowler : Lieutenant, you would do me an enormous favor if you stopped calling me "sir."