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Line 1: {{work}} * Columbo's deductive flourishes -- as revealed to his target at the end -- sometimes approach this. As do the occasional brief scenes in which he drops the fawning and tells the perp exactly what he thinks of him. * One of the rare times ''[[~~Columbo (TV)\|~~Columbo]]'' is seen upset is when he's facing Leonard Nimoy. Nimoy is playing an open heart surgeon who's working on a crucial research project with a senior partner. Nimoy also has to operate on his partner, by repairing his heart valves with permanent sutures. Nimoy instead uses dissolving sutures, which when dissolved will cause his partner's heart to rupture, killing him in a few weeks, leaving Nimoy to hog all the credit for the project. A nurse discovers this and Nimoy kills her (which is how Columbo first gets on the case). In a genuinely chilling moment, Columbo abruptly drops all pretense and actually slams a coffee cup onto a table! He angrily informs Nimoy that {{spoiler\|if his partner dies anytime soon, Columbo will have a full autopsy performed to see if the real cause of death was that the surtures that were so supposed to keep his heart valves in place were no longer there. This forces Nimoy to re-operate on his partner, forcing him to save the life of the man he was initially plotting to murder.}} * In another episode (can't remember which), Columbo gets so fed up with the perp that he tells him "she thinks you killed him, and you know what? So do I." * Pretty much every episode of ''[[~~Columbo (TV)\|~~Columbo]]'' ends with a CMoA when the villain realises how Columbo has pwned him. {{spoiler\|In "Negative Reaction," Dick Van Dyke's photographer murderer is convinced that Columbo is both an incompetent cop and an incompetent photographer to boot. When Columbo produces a photograph of the crime scene that seems to blow Dick Van Dyke's alibi, he says that Columbo has managed to flip the image of a clock and picks up a camera in the police laboratory to get the negative. Columbo then asks how Dick Van Dyke knew which camera to pick up. The look on Dick Van Dyke's face when he realises that not only has he given himself away but that Columbo managed to get him to give himself away is one to treasure.}} Then there's "A Friend In Need," where he catches the police commissioner: {{spoiler\|"He doesn't live here. ''I'' live here."}} Line 12: * Every episode when he says "Just one more thing...' that is until the later seasons where most bad guys are wise to his act. * While it's a case of [[Characterization Marches On]] it's pretty awesome in Prescription: Murder when Columbo shows he's not bumbling, confronts the murderer's accomplice and even screams at her for her crime. * In the second pilot movie, Columbo explains to the murderess [["The Reason You Suck" Speech\|what her mistake was]]: "Mrs. Williams, you have no conscience and that's your weakness. Did it ever occur to you that there are very few people who would {{spoiler\|take money to forget about a murder?}} It didn't, did it? I knew it wouldn't." * ''Undercover''- Columbo, undercover as Artie Stokes, is walking to the apartment of Mo Weinberg, one of the criminals to meet him for an arranged deal. He looks through the key hole and sees the guy with a gun. Columbo {{spoiler\|takes out his notepad, writes "you're a horse's ass" on a piece of paper and slips it through the crack in the door. As the criminal takes the paper, Columbo kicks the door in and points his own gun at the guy!}} It was quite a moment of [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] for Columbo. * The "endless fence" scene from ''Murder, Smoke & Shadows'' as Columbo and Alex Bradey discuss reality and perception. {{reflist}} [[Category:Live -Action TV/Awesome]] [[Category:Columbo]]▼ [[Category:Awesome]] ▲[[Category:~~Columbo~~{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]