I never understood why Leon Lamar would even want Freddy’s wife in on the scam. After all, her only role was to call Leon from Freddy’s apartment. Couldn’t some homeless guy have done that? Is that really something you pay $15 million for? Also, Freddy was willing to give Uncle Leon a few million anyway.

If he paid some accomplice and then sent the guy on a cruise to Singapore, his scam would have been a lot more lucrative.

Rob, Leon would have zero motivation, if your theory is that Nancy thought Leon won the lottery, to commit first degree murder. And again, she reminds him while on the phone that she has 1/2 of the jackpot coming to her. Columbo also does visit her at the boutique and asks her why she delayed signing the divorce papers, since he had signed them. So in my estimation, she knew Freddy won the lottery, was trying to keep her from getting her piece, and then for the oddest of reasons, decides to conspire with Leon to kill Freddy.

Maybe the Colonel had so much confidence in his plan that he thought nobody would look that closely into the box issue? Or maybe he didn’t think it would occur to anybody to check out the boxes?

This episode did nothing for me.