For me, a good Columbo episode needs 4 ingredients :
1) its usual trademarks
2) a good murderer affrontment
3) a good deduction
4) a perfect crime
And this episode misses completely the fourth ingredient. How a crime mindmaster can elaborate such a weak criminal project? How can she just imagine that the victim won't try to show who's the murderer? How can a man die within the night in a rather big closet? And the story of the car key is nonsense, from the beginning to the end
Still the murderer is quite enjoyable to see (even if her crime is one of the most horrible perpetrated)
And this episode misses completely the fourth ingredient. How a crime mindmaster can elaborate such a weak criminal project? How can she just imagine that the victim won't try to show who's the murderer? How can a man die within the night in a rather big closet? And the story of the car key is nonsense, from the beginning to the end
Still the murderer is quite enjoyable to see (even if her crime is one of the most horrible perpetrated)