This still makes me giggle though.
He asks Columbo to ‘follow him’, like he’s taking him to another room or something, yet there they are, in Vegas!
I understand flights were easier to buy, and possibly very frequent, but you’d still have to drive (in LA traffic), to the airport, park, get to the terminal, work out who is paying for the tickets, wait for the next flight, and then at the other end, you’d have to get a taxi, get to the casino and find his brother!
I know it’s for TV, but it would have been funny if Columbo had made some sort of joke about it.
Don’t forget they’d have to do all that in reverse! Did Columbo have no other jobs on?! ;)
The fiancée was supposed to inherit all, but the corrupt lawyer was in cahoots with the brothers to get the will from her and destroy it. Once he had that copy, he was going to produce the uncle’s old will and Norman and Dexter would inherit all, after paying a tidy sum to the lawyer for managing the estate.
It makes no sense to me why the brothers would kill her and frame the lawyer. After doing that the lawyer produced the real will so the brothers could not inherit. Maybe I missed something.