The Columbo Files – S3 E1 – Lovely But Lethal!

Hey, hey, hey, it's Chaos Queen here, and you're

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it's Mistress Carrie, and you are listening to

Studio 2009. It's a funny thing. I don't know

what has happened. It's a mystery, folks. Dave,

you got any answers? Hello? Answers to mystery,

please. Nah, we can get down to business. Well,

this storm hasn't found its port, right, Dave?

No. No. No, it hasn't, because this year has

been anything but lovely but lethal, unfortunately.

Be publishing or perishing, because holy crap.

As it was mentioned before in earlier clips for

the Star Wars stuff that Dave and I have done,

folks, here at Studio 2009, 2025 has been rough.

Between my medical stuff, between whatever Dave's

got going on, hopefully nothing horrible, horrible.

But life comes before podcasting. I've said that

for years, and sometimes things get delayed and

put back. But we recorded season three of The

Columbo Files months and months and months ago.

So, yeah, please enjoy that. Anything you'd like

to say, sir, before we take these people on to...

everything they want to hear. This is pretty

commonplace for me, the way I keep pushing and

pulling and steering at things. One day the whole

sky is going to light up and it's going to say

tilt. And that day, sir, is the end of the world.

Let's hope not. No end of the world. Let's not...

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No world ending calamities,

please. That's the last thing we need is... World

-ending calamities. What I will say, folks, is

that we do have the start of a new thing after

the Columbo Files. We have, well, not the start.

Or is it the start? I don't remember. Oh, yeah,

it must be. The TV show choices. Medium Mayhem

will continue with TV stuff after Columbo Files.

But, yeah, we get episode 171 to 178 coming up,

and that's what's going to be coming up. So enjoy

those folks up next. Lovely, but lethal. And,

uh, yeah, so we'll have those here in studio

2009 and hope everyone's having a good 2025 and,

uh, yeah. On with the show. I just stopped by

with some news. I thought you might be interested.

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and joining me once again in the far -flung future,

as this is episode 171 of the podcast, which

you'll be hearing sometime at the end of summer

2025, is that good old Detective Dave Draper.

Hello, sir. How are you? I'm wishing it really

was summer 2025. Okay, yeah, we're technically

recording this. We're recording in the middle

of February, and it's miserable. It's miserable

for him. I'm in paradise. Oh, yeah, seven degrees

is great. That's right. Absolutely. Ladies and

gentlemen, it is the middle of January, almost

the end of January 2026. TF2 and Mike from the

Geekast Radio Network. I'm interrupting myself

here because... I felt this was the best place.

And, yeah, we recorded this in February 2025.

Oh, my God. So these episodes, The Columbo Files,

Season 3. Very dated, recorded in February 2025.

Supposed to have aired summer of 2025. A lot

of things happened in 2025. It is now 2026. Enjoy

the show, folks. Today we continue on in our

journey as we put our detective hats on and jump

back in time with Columbo. These are the Columbo

files here inside Studio 2009, and we're starting

at the beginning and going all the way in order.

We're up to season three. Holy crap. Well, it

goes quicker now because it seems like there

are a lot fewer episodes. Yeah, what is there,

seven or eight in this one? I forget how many

there are in season three. And folks, I will

remind everyone where I'm usually watching this

is Tubi TV, so that's the online source. Dave

has the Complete Series DVD set, which I still

need to get at some point. It was weird because

season three is the only one of the set that

has a little logo for the NBC Mystery Movie.

Oh, interesting. Yeah, and otherwise, visually,

it fits in with all the NBC seasons. But it's

got that, and then it's got, oh, God. Usually

I give you a hard time for watching it on Tubi

and being smug about having the DVDs. Season

3 also has unskippable ads for all of Universal's

quality DVD offerings. This is a genre of which

there were many. Okay. This is your own fault.

You brought this up. Look, look, I'm hitting

the button constantly and it's going, nope, you

can't skip it. I'm like, I don't want Macmillan

and wife. I don't want Rockford Files. Like,

why did you show Murder, She Wrote, but you don't

have an ad for it? Let me out. So this is his

own fault, folks. And again, as we mentioned,

even though you're going to hear this in August

or September of 2025, currently, as we're recording

this, it is February 2025. And there are rumors

and speculation and supposedly in terms of service

agreements through Disney Plus and other streaming

services that they are going to start putting

unskippable ads. In ad -free tiers. What the

fuck am I paying for ad -free service if you're

going to put ads in them? I don't care what I

have to pay. I will pay you whatever I have to

pay. That's the point of me paying. That is the

point of me paying Disney +, Netflix, Hulu, whatever.

Insert streaming. Yeah, no, I know, but I'm saying

you brought up the unskippable ads, which led

me into this. And the thing of it is, is if I

am paying – again, using as examples Netflix,

Disney +, whatever. If I am paying you not to

have ads, why would you then put – Because there's

not enough of you. At some point, there's not

enough people possibly in the world, but definitely

in America. that like can cover the costs of

these things that's one of the things that their

whole brilliant scheme was to switch everything

to streaming and it don't make no money like

like you have a finite you have a finite pool

of people that can you know give you money and

you get a subscription and at some point you

raise the price till it's prohibitive which at

this point disney plus is for me like i'm yeah

i'm i'm and our season two and i'm out so i good

yeah go ahead no good I'm just saying like, like,

like the whole thing is they had the nice model

with like, you know, broadcast TV and commercials.

And then they had, you know, like you, you did

home video and they've screwed all of that up.

Yeah. With streaming. Yeah. I, yeah, I don't

mind paying for it. Like Disney plus my next

Disney plus payment comes out in April. If I

can pay for something all at once, I will. If

I can do annual billing, I will. Disney Plus

is one of the streaming services that allows

annual billing. That's one fee of – I think that's

going up to $160. Oh, it went up. Spunky. It

went up. I know. I know. But I'm saying like

– I'm telling you, in October, it went up. Right,

I remember, but I'm saying I think it's going

up again. That's my thing. Right now, I paid

last April, April of 2024, I paid $140. Before

that, I was paying $80 a year. I started doing

60 or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah,

yeah, absolutely. But for me. I don't mind paying

$160 one time for 12 months of however many thousands

of hours of content that that service has. Disney

Plus usually doesn't remove stuff. It's not Netflix

because usually most of the stuff on Disney Plus

they already own. So it's fine. It's not there.

They're like Netflix when it started. And this

is a whole other off the topic, blah, blah, blah

thing. But it's one of those things where we're

talking about whatever. Well, that's part of

it was also Netflix was a revenue source for

everybody else. Yes. And now they're there. That's

another thing they cut out because they're they're

they're keeping their own stuff and not selling

it to Netflix. They've started actually now starting

giving back stuff back to other streaming services,

not getting selling. Because you're not arguing

with me because you're saying, I can watch all

this stuff for one low price. And it's like,

do you have any idea how much the Star Wars series

alone cost? I know. Hundreds of millions of dollars.

I know. Which is one of the reasons I was always

carping about, like, Kathleen Kennedy being reckless

and foolish. Yeah. Because it's like, and then

you've got the Marvel series. And then, you know,

it's like. These things are these huge money

sinks, and they would be money sinks even without

the hyper -expensive programming. I mean Netflix,

which is successful, one of the reasons they

cancel everything really quick is because it's

money, money, money, money, money, money, money.

One of the reasons their movies are starting

to look like sci -fi originals is money, money,

money. And there's only so many people that are

going to subscribe to this thing. And once you

start jacking the prices up, I mean, yeah, okay,

you're willing to – I understand what you're

saying, and in a world – Where I had more money,

and I prefer to pay – I agree. I do prefer –

I pay my insurance up at once. I pay my real

estate taxes at once. I like to pay – I like

to get it out of the way. I don't like to like

with my monthly bill. I'm always worried that

I'll forget. I'll put an envelope in the wrong

place, forget it, and get in trouble. So I like

to pay everything up front. I like to have everything

settled. I get that. It's just the – like I don't

have the money to spend for a service where I

watch like one show every six months. I understand.

And most of the time I don't even like them.

Well, yeah. Acolyte was a little rough. Oh, boy.

All right, so Season 3, Episode 1. Neither of

us are lovely, but we always can be lethal. And

this is lovely but lethal. No weapons required.

Just science. That's right. Science. Science?

What time did I get you up this morning, Sergeant?

About an hour ago, Lieutenant. A kid looked through

the window there and spotted the body right here.

Just after daylight. What was this guy, some

kind of scientist? A chemist. You work for Beauty

Mark Cosmetics. He must have had two jars because

we found these smaller pay stubs in the desk

there. And I also found his bank book in there,

Lieutenant. And this magazine I found over there

on the table. What is that, a microscope? Yes,

sir. And oh, Lieutenant, here's some notes the

doctor made. You know, I haven't seen one of

these things since high school. And here's a

blood stain. The doc seems to think this will

match up as a murder weapon. However, I haven't

found any prints. You were sent from behind,

Lieutenant, by a heavy object. You know, you

better be careful. Feels like there's some broken

glass on the floor. Apparently, they broke a

drinking glass. Anyway, Lieutenant, it's all

in here. He died from a fractured skull. Excuse

me one moment, would you, Sergeant? Oh, boy.

What a way to start this one. What a way to start

the season off with a cosmetics episode. I mean,

yeah. I guess for me it was more like, hey, the

sister from Psycho and Vincent freaking Price.

Yeah. Like horror movie royalty. And then this

unknown, obscure little actor who was the victim.

A guy named... Something... Something Estevez,

I think. Yeah. Yeah, Estevez, exactly. Martin

Sheen was the victim. Yeah. Super young Martin

Sheen. Yeah. Almost didn't recognize him. If

it wasn't for his voice, I probably wouldn't

have recognized him other than seeing his name

in the credits. I'm a fan of Apocalypse Now,

which is only like five or six years after this.

So he looks kind of the same in that. Yeah, absolutely.

But yeah, I mean, Martin Sheen, holy boy. I mean,

just a bunch of stuff. Like you said, Apocalypse

Now. Yeah, West Wing, I think, is the big one

for most people. Yeah, West Wing for TV. But,

yeah, no, absolutely. Amazing, amazing actor.

So this one is all about poisoning. Technically,

in the end, it kind of is, yeah. Well, because

the cosmetic stuff and the this and the that.

Well, yeah, like, okay, I was watching it, but

maybe I missed something. Okay, so the whole

thing is, Drew Miles runs. Beauty Mark Cosmetics,

which has been a very successful cosmetics company,

but it's on the downslope. And her chief inventor

is kind of a drunk, but has come up with a miracle

product that will erase wrinkles, at least for

a little while. Because that's the thing, they

never do cures, they just do temporary fixes.

But anyway, it erases wrinkles. And then it turns

out it doesn't work. And then she finds out that

his assistant, played by Martin Sheen, has tempered

with the formula and is kind of offering it to

her rival, Vincent Price. So she kind of goes

to him and basically says, what do you want for

the real formula, you know, to give me the real

formula? Because he knows, apparently he invented

the formula. Yes. And he's got one sample that

works. And he kind of toys with her. He's kind

of a dick about it. He's like, I want you and

I want all this money. And then he's like, ah,

psych. He literally does a psych. Yeah. And then

she gets mad and clocks them with a giant 1970s,

you know, microscope. Which has, for some reason

on the slide, has poison ivy. And I always thought

that I always thought that she had spiked the

sample. Yes. um just to get back at her but like

how could he know that she would steal a sample

um yeah but like i don't know why he was why

you would because and later on they established

that they do use various poisons in the cosmetic

center although like that's like 1800 stuff that's

like you had lead -based paint for your makeup

kind of stuff i don't think they use poison in

a lot of well i think by the 70s they didn't

nowadays we've got botox so i kind of got to

backtrack that And my first thought was arsenic

and old lace. Well, that had nothing to do with

makeup, but yeah. No, no, no, but I'm saying

like arsenic as a poison, arsenic, like female.

Yeah, the sweet old ladies were poisoning people,

poisoning their tea. Yeah. And Boris Karloff

shows up. Yeah. Speaking of horror royalty. Exactly.

I can't remember if he was really Boris Karloff

or not. It's been a long time since I've seen

that movie. Yeah, a long time. I think for me,

about this episode, what I enjoyed the most is...

What I usually enjoy the most about Columbo episodes

is Columbo himself. I didn't care about her.

I didn't care about the... I don't know. Yeah,

I like seeing a young Martin Sheen. I like seeing

Vincent Price, other than him being Vincent Van

Gogh in Scooby -Doo. I think that's cool. But...

Because I've seen so many true crime stories

with this exact same sort of plot about female

needing to kill somebody over formula, blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, eh, this one

wasn't that. I was more interested in how Columbo

handled the case than the case itself. Okay.

That's just the way I felt. No, no, no. I guess

I have not seen as many. No, I'm not even trying

to be facetious. To me, I don't remember seeing

a lot of woman -kills -guy -over -formula stuff.

I mean, it could just be that I haven't watched

those kind of shows. I don't know. Yeah, and

it was one of the classics where he kind of admires

her. Because, again, the Columbo household is

kind of almost like... Jessica Fletcher's family

where, like, everybody's surrounded by this vortex

of murder. Because, like, you know, she's in

all the products that is – presumably his – you

know, it's weird because he never – he doesn't

really mention his wife much in this episode.

No, he doesn't. He's always talking about how

her products are all over his house. So, I mean,

maybe Columbo was an early trendsetter. I don't

know. Maybe. Maybe. So what else did you – Then

there was a subplot with the creepy – Vincent

Price's creepy, weird assistant who gets murdered

by – She she's a secondary murder because she's

kind of blackmailing Vera Miles. So Vera spikes

her cigarettes. That was kind of a good sequence

where she's trying to get alone to meet with

the assistant. And Columbo was like following

her. Like, I'll just follow you around. It's

fine. I'll just follow you around. And she deliberately

like cuts left into the nude beach. And he's

like, oh, OK, I'm. That's why I like Columbo

so much in this is because. He's trying to do

his normal police. I'm going to say schtick,

folks, because it's a fictional version of stuff

here, but obviously detectives and police men

and women do the following and all that and the

tailing and everything else. But, like, it's

just like he's trying to. ingratiate himself

upon her but also trying to not be a nuisance

to her and close to the end of this i was like

wait are they in a film studio i was like what

in the hell kind of weird i think they were in

a studio to film like commercials and ads okay

yeah because when they drive up or they they

enter the student the the building that is the

I don't want to say cult, but the farm. Okay,

speaking as someone who's a bit on the large

size, the very subtly and sensitively named fat

farm. Can't get away with that in 2025. No. And

again, I'm a very large person. So am I. My language.

That's my word. I'm allowed to say it. Uh -huh.

Absolutely. But yeah, it's this retreat kind

of place. But the way that the place is set up,

to me, I'll have to go back to this episode,

see if I can get a screenshot to put in the post.

There's a scene where she walks out into the

courtyard. Yes. They're doing calisthenics, but

it's almost like an army camp. Yeah, it's like

an army camp. But just the way the buildings

are and the way the whole scene is presented,

before you see the people, you hear the people,

but you don't see them yet. It just reminds me

so much of the Warner Brothers backlot or the

Paramount backlot. It just reminded me so much

of a movie studio kind of thing, even though

they're not in the film business. Let's see here.

I don't know. The acting was really well done.

Yeah, you're right. I don't remember as much

with Columbo mentioning his wife in this one.

Which is weird because he mentions that her products

are everywhere. Yeah. But he doesn't really mention

that his wife has the products everywhere. I

think he more so means my wife. He doesn't say

my wife, but he so means that they're all over

the house. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's, it's clearly,

I mean, in the mid 1970s, that's the obvious

impression you're left with in 2025. You know,

it could mean something else. Good. And it's

my tasteless joke about that. But, um, just like,

You know, it's just it's a weird thing to like

say my wife is really like obsessed with your

products and. He does mention the wife when they

had the bit about the pencil. Yeah. When she's

talking to Martin Sheen, she's making offers.

She's writing it with a. I actually don't have

any of this stuff like a pen, like an eyeliner

pencil, right? Some kind of some kind of makeup

pencil. I don't know this stuff. And Columbo

recognizes it immediately. And she kind of dodges

for a second because she's like, well, that's

a brunette pencil and I'm a redhead. But her

little famous beauty mark is penciled in. Yeah.

Because he sees her next to a picture next to

the corporate logo picture where she has a beauty

mark. And he's like, you don't have your beauty

mark. It's like, oh, I pencil it in. Oh, what

kind of pencil do you use? The brunette one.

Yeah, absolutely. That's... Yep. And, yeah, this

one, I don't know, it just... It was and it wasn't

my cup of tea. Because, again, for me, it's more

about how he reacts to everything that's going

on with the case. And how he's trying to figure

it out. And when he does eventually figure it

out, that's the exciting part for me. The actual

case itself, like I said already, it's like,

okay. And I don't get, like, okay, I get that

she killed him because she wanted the formula.

But in the long run, what's that going to get

her? I think she killed him. It was like a wasn't

it out of like it was a I don't say a crime of

passion per se, but it wasn't like an because

I mean, he's he's got the formula in his head.

Yeah. Like killing him almost like she has one

sample. And I was going to mention that at the

very end when the police are closing in, she

throws the sample like it's like she went through

all of that and she throws the sample away for

this amazing miracle product because it's. It's

her or the, you know, and they still get her

anyway because of the poison ivy. Exactly. Like,

it's a lose, it's a lose -lose situation. Well,

that crime doesn't pay, sir. Well, no, I know

that, but like, I don't know. It just. It seems

like some sort of deal could have been made between

them or something. Who? Between her and Martin

Sheen? Yeah. Well, I mean, that was sort of dependent

on – I don't think he wanted – I think he wanted

to screw her over. There was a little bit of

dialogue about how they'd had a relationship

in the past. Yeah. That, again, was another kind

of 70s changing times. You know, she's like,

I have a lot of affairs with young men. Does

that just does that upset you, Lieutenant? And

he's wow. You know, his whole thing is you do

what you want, you know, as long as you're not

hurting anybody. You're not clobbering people

with giant heavy microscopes. It's fine. But

yeah, it was clear. I don't think they could

have. What I'm saying is I don't think they ever

could have had a deal like his and his demands

were like outrageous to begin with. Yeah. And

then at the very end, he goes, psych, I'm not

even going to I'm not even going to work with

you with my demands being met. And then the assistant

girl tries to do the same thing, like, oh, give

me these things. And she's like, okay, here,

smoke this totally not -doped cigarette. Okay,

crash. Yeah, I knew there was something wrong

with those cigarettes before she even got in

the car. You see her after them. Yeah. Yeah.

I was like, nope, no smoking. You see her after

them and then you see her swap them out with

her cigarette. I mean, it's not exactly subtle.

No, it's not. Which is crazy because, you know,

it's so hard to find good help these days. Well,

she wasn't really that good help. She was betraying

her boss, Vincent Price. That's true. That's

very true. And that $400 dress was ugly. Remember

that weird thing with the weird brocade in the

front? I'm like, $400 for that? Yeah. Or however

many hundred dollars. It was expensive. There's

a lot of things. And I've been told in the past

that I should not be talking about fashion on

podcasts. But there are a lot of dresses that

I've seen in the fashion world that are for the

price that they demand. I mean, the high fashion

stuff is just ridiculous. Yeah. And then like

the, yeah, no, that's just a, I don't understand

it. And that's fine. If you've got, going back

to what we kind of started with, if you've got

the money for that and that makes you happy,

I guess that's all that really matters. Yep.

Fashion designers got to eat too. Absolutely.

Now. I didn't notice this, but Wikipedia has

a note at the bottom here about supposedly there

is a, well, there is a sly reference to Psycho

in which Miles appeared in when Scott claims

to Columbo that she couldn't even hurt a fly.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember hearing that because

I didn't remember it was Vera Miles was in Psycho

until this morning. I looked it up. And I was

like, oh, yeah, she did have that line about

hurting a fly, which is what Norman says at the

very – well, what Mother says at the very end.

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Anything else with

this one? No, this was – I mean, I guess I liked

it better than you. It's not a favorite, although

it was neat to see all the famous people and

all the – Columbo was good. He was – I don't

know. He was – Like, it wasn't like a toot in

black where he was kind of a jerk, kind of felt

like jerky, but he was a little, I mean, he's

supposed to be persistent, and that's part of

his character, but I don't know. Yeah. You said

earlier that he was trying to ingratiate himself

with her, and I don't think he ever really did.

No, but he was trying to. See, he was trying

to, again, this is just my perception of it.

Well, and I don't necessarily disagree with your

perception. So the scene at the end, when she's

doing this exercise... I've never seen a treadmill

like she was walking on. And then he was standing

on the other one. At first he was standing on

the street, or on the sidewalk in the studio

there. So he was constantly trying to ingratiate

himself to her. At the same time, he was also...

Trying to. Not necessarily get her to slip up.

But trying to. See if she would slip up. Trying

to see if she would. Make a mistake. And she

didn't. Until the end obviously. She never really

made a mistake. It was just that she had poison

ivy. That got her. Because she touched the slide.

Yeah she touched the slide. And we have. We often

mention folks that. We record two of these at

a time, and we're recording Season 3, Episode

1 here, and then Season 3, Episode 2 after this.

Both of these episodes have criminals hitting

people over the head with things. Now, I know

in the 70s things were heavier back then. I know

things here. Oh, brother, that microscope. No,

no, no. I'm not arguing that. I'm not arguing

that at all. I know the microscope was very heavy.

I'm not arguing the microscope. What I'm saying

is when we get to the next episode, when you

all hear the next episode, I'm going to argue

whatever. I think it's a candlestick or something.

I swear. That was a phone. Okay, whatever. We'll

get there when we get there. But, like, literally

the whole – I'll repeat it in the next episode,

but I'm going to say it here, too. The next episode

to me, the whole beginning, the murder part,

I was like, look, it's this person in the library

with the wrench. I was like, this is an episode

of Columbo with Clue. Like, I was just waiting

for Professor Plum to show up. Oh, God, I would

love. I don't think Christopher Lloyd ever was

on Columbo. He might have been in the ABC run.

Maybe. I don't know. We'll find out. We'll find

out eventually. Eventually. All right. Zero to

five with half points. What are you going to

give? What the hell is this one called? Crap.

Lovely but Lethal, I believe. Yes, yes. Lovely

but Lethal. What are we giving Lovely but Lethal

for you? I'm going to give it a 3 .5. I think

it's a fine episode. It's not a favorite, but.

i didn't have the issues that you did yeah i

am going to give it a three which uh for those

again just to remind everybody because it's been

a while since we've uh done the colombo things

for the ratings 3 .5 is good it's a mixed bag

but the good stuff outweighs the bad there might

be one amazing element or lots of fun moments

that make the flaws easier to swallow they're

not deal breakers but they do hold it back and

for me 3 .0 average meh it's not bad but it's

not amazing either nothing really stands out

and it's forgettable now i think we need to i've

said this before and what steve and i have to

do this event i think we need to upgrade some

of these uh descriptions but For me, like I said

at the beginning of the podcast for this episode,

I only cared about what Columbo was doing in

trying to solve the crime. I didn't care about

the crime. I didn't care about the criminal.

I like seeing the actors who play the victim

and who play the other, Vincent Price and Martin

Sheen. I like seeing them, but that's because

I like seeing those actors in something this

ancient. It's not that ancient. Well, I mean,

and for Vincent Price, that's probably later

in his career. Oh, yeah, true. Very true. Yeah,

absolutely. So three and a half and a three out

of five, not bad. So that's going to do that.

We're going to head to some quick ads here and

here, some podcast ads, some other stuff. We're

going to come back to close the show right after

this. Oh, but really, Columbo, look, this is

one of the biggest businesses in the country.

I mean, there are literally thousands of chemists

in cosmetics. Now, why you should come here and

question me about some unknown, I just don't

understand. Mm -hmm. See, I gotta pay that. One

moment. That's it. That's what? Mr. Lang, the

phone company tells me... That you've only had

this number for a few months and that it's a

private number. Well? Well, I was sort of wondering

why this Carl Lessing would have it. You see,

my office told me that they found this number

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You know, we pay the highest wages in the business,

so naturally they come here looking for jobs.

Shirley, come in here a minute, will you? We

do know Mr. Lessing was expecting some money,

and maybe a lot of money. Now, don't get ahead

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Still can't figure out how he'd get your private

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Just as you did. All right, folks, we are back

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200. Holy crap. Any final thoughts from you,

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Ivy one time. Oh, that's not good. Yeah. Yeah,

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join us next time stop it i just saw okay again

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now, I am TF2 and Mike with... Dave Dibble. You'll

hear us back in the studio soon. Let me put it

this way. If you found a little red jar with

an eight -sided bottom, would you get promoted?

Just take it easy, lady. Just take it easy. I'm

taking it easy. As a matter of fact, I could

offer you a drink and help you search if I weren't

so furious. No luck yet, Lieutenant. No luck

at all. Lieutenant, would you please do what

you have to do and get out of here? How long

is this going to take? The damnedest case I've

ever seen. Will you answer me? How long is this

going to take? I found the poison ivy. That's

good. Where? In Lessing's place. I know at Lessing's,

but where? It was in the bottom drawer of a file

cabinet. The drawer was locked. You were nowhere

near that drawer. I know. I never opened the

drawer. Still trying to figure out where I got

my poison ivy. Poor thing. Still worried about

your itch. You worried about yours? No. Couldn't

help noticing, ma 'am, the past few days you've

been scratching your hand and wearing gloves.

So? Been out of state recently? No. Neither have

I.