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Re: Short Fuse...LONG Walk

You raise a good point. It would’ve worked better if, instead of Columbo at the end of the pink spray scene asking “Would you come with me?” it was Roger who led Columbo along. That would’ve fit right in with the usual motif of Columbo following the suspect, who is busy, can’t be distracted, etc. Yes, while the plant scene works well, the transition is abrupt and inexplicable. The later scene at the plant also cuts in but it works much better, as there is no direct or implied connection with the previous one. Something's missing and it seems they just went with it.
“Would you come with me… to the top of a chemical tower in your plant” Say what?

Re: Short Fuse...LONG Walk

The office scene where they visit Everett Logan's office to check on cigars, also makes no sense, geographically. The offices are all in that main building where Roger goes to see D.L. in the beginning of the episode. Valerie Bishop's desk, obviously, has to be right outside D.L.'s. Roger and Columbo are talking to Bishop about the cigar box when she gets the revelation that Logan might have some, too. They walk over to his office, discover one is missing and Columbo orders it locked up. Columbo leaves, Logan asks Roger what's going on, Roger gives that priceless shrug and meets up with Columbo on the streets of the plant. He offers him a ride, drives halfway across the plant, drops Columbo off in the middle of nowhere, makes a quick turn and quickly returns to the office... where Bishop rolls out of the building and confronts him about the pictures. Where the hell did SHE come from? He just left her a mile back.

This episode makes NO sense from a geographical perspective. Offices pop up wherever convenient, conversations begin in a lab and continue on a tower. The director (Edward Abroms) must have wanted to include as much of the plant as scenery as possible and we are asked to suspend belief about the plausibility of these scenes.

Also, the interrogation with Dolores (Ida Lupino) where she discovers the "incriminating" photos of D.L. and Bishop takes place in the same room (obviously in a studio) which was used in "Ransom for a Dead Man". It was Leslie William's house in that episode.