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Re: Something I don't get about the ending of Requiem for a Falling Star

I see what you are saying… and by the way, this episode ending always had me puzzled too..
But anyway. Margo rushing home thinking that they had discovered her husband‘s body under the fountain Doesn’t make total sense.
If the ring was on hubs finger when she buried him and if Parks had evidence .. as in the ring, Then that would mean he would’ve been in possession of it at least the day before. She would have known that the body had been found because she would’ve been under arrest!!

It makes no sense that she went to rush home to see if it’s been been exhumed because she should’ve known she lived at the house!
The only way Parks could’ve gotten it is if he dug the body up himself because the police wouldn’t have handed it over to him.

It makes more sense that Margo was concerned that her assistant gave the ring to Parks.
That the ring was not on her husband‘s hand when it was buried.

So… it would make more sense if Margo ran to where she had kept her husband’s ring to see if the ring was still there.

So I think it is as others had suggested.. It was a knee jerk reaction just to go look at where he was buried to see if Parks had told the authorities and if they had started to dig under there.

Re: Something I don't get about the ending of Requiem for a Falling Star

Very nice thread.

I imagine that the writers just did this for dramatic effect, as they say. Yes, what is she planning to do? In reality her running to a back door does not prove anything. She could easily have come up with an excuse for being there. But this of course is fiction - and good fiction at that.

In reality Columbo could just as easily have confronted her about the body under the fountain, but that might have been boring.

He would need a court order to have the body removed but having Nora run to the backyard would not help him get one.

Re: Something I don't get about the ending of Requiem for a Falling Star

If Nora had found the fountain dug up, it maybe would have given her an opportunity to run away. Maybe that is why she immediately ran there. If the worst was true, she could pack a few things and flee before Jerry Parks recovered and told everything to the police.

Re: Something I don't get about the ending of Requiem for a Falling Star

Yes, Nora would flee -- to the hospital to finish off Jerry Parks before he recovers and tells everything.

Re: Something I don't get about the ending of Requiem for a Falling Star

But she would have to check the fountain first to see if Jerry Parks had been there digging.