1. When Brimmer enters his office for the first time he looks at screens. There are two of them. And both of them show exactly the same footage, and one of them is only slightly more zoomed :P what's the goal of having two exactly the same footages?
2. Always funny dialogues like that: "you want me to be a pipeline to my husband?", "No. Just a good listener". Haha, why is he saying "no", if the answer should be pure "yes", which he confirms in rest of sentence :P
3. While most of people are impressed with the scene of cleaning after murder seen in Brimmer's glasses, I really don't like it. It is for me the worst in the episode. Maybe for that time it was innovating technique, but I just don't like it. You have two actions seen together so you don't know on which to focus, they are really small so you need to sharpen your eyesight, and it is just too long and boring for me. Plus I don't like music being pla*** then. But it is just my thought and opinion :)
4. But I love music just after that! when Brimmer is driving his car with body in the trunk. And also the music just after that, when we see Columbo for the first time. That could be the main Columbo theme. Maybe that was even the plan, since this episode was filmed as the first one, and this is the first time we see Columbo so that would be kind of symbolic
5. On the crime scene some policeman says "no tyre tracks we can use". But as I noticed - there were quite clear tracks
6. I like iteraction on first meeting of Columbo and Kennicut. With mutual respect
7. Now I noticed for the first time: when Columbo speaks with Kennicut for the first time there is some woman in the background crocheting :D it would seem like morgue (or whatever this place is) is kind of strange and unusual place for doing that :D
8. Brimmer's office looks very similar to Leslie Williams's office. Is it the same set?
9. Brimmer says he is ambidextrous, and he shares that skill with 10% of people. I think 10% can be maybe left-handed, not ambidextrous (by the way, kind of hard word to remember :P)
10. I've never thought about that before but: what do you think about Brimmer's workers? Of course they were aware of the fact that Leonore had an affair (they did most of the job), so did they know that Brimmer has falsed the report for Mr Kennicut? If they did - all of them agreed on that so easily? and if they didn't know, I'd say that it doesn't give the agency the excelent re****tion :)
11. Leo's wife looks kind of spooky and scary to me :D
12. I think I said that before but I am not sure: this whole Leo plot. I assume Brimmer sends him somewhere, to get rid of crucial witness in Kennicut case. So, he goes. Then Brimmer is arrested in the meantime. So what happens then with poor Leo?
12. Also never noticed before: Denning warns Columbo before crossing the gate (metal detector thing). Everyone seems surprised. But Columbo has already been in that place before in Brimmer's office so he should know about it, and they should know that he doesn't carry a gun already
13. And really funny that when Brimmer shouts at him, the guy keeps standing with his hands in the pockets :D nerves of steel!
14. It looks like by arresting Brimmer Columbo deprived himself of the chance of sending him the recipe for quenelle of sole :D
15. I wonder how Columbo found Leo's wife on this playground
16. When they talk about glasses and contact lenses, Columbo asks: "Mr Kennicut, where's your wife's personal effects?". Why "where's" and not "where are"?
17. Brimmer is looking for a lens in the carpet. But previously probably he cleaned it quite well (like vacuuming?) because there were pieces of glass from the broken glass table. So he should assume that lens is not there anymore after cleaning
18. I really love the way Columbo says to Brimmer in the end "do you mind telling us what you're doing?"
19. The very end - I always thought it was kind of risky from Columbo not to search Brimmer just after telling him to go downtown. Instead, he let him just walk in front of them, then Brimmer had some big chances to get rid of that lens without being seen. Always bothers me and ruins a little this very good ending

..."10. I've never thought about that before but: what do you think about Brimmer's workers? Of course they were aware of the fact that Leonore had an affair (they did most of the job), so did they know that Brimmer has falsed the report for Mr Kennicut? If they did - all of them agreed on that so easily? and if they didn't know, I'd say that it doesn't give the agency the excelent re****tion "...

My thought is, the guy with the crew cut, Leo, "Teacher's Pet" (who, the actor we also see in a short shot shot on The Most Crucial Game) is the only one who knows about her, and that's one reason Brimmer sends him away, the other being so Columbo won't talk to him of course

I also wondered, Bremmer finds a contact lens in his trunk, but Columbo was bluffing about the contact lenses so who's was it? what are the odds an arbitrary contact lens being in a trunk?

I'm pretty repetitive about these two things, but for a smart person, Brimmer seems to really get his backmail scheme in the wrong order. He gives Lenore just what she wants, then threatens to take it away - which couldn't be as easy as he makes it sound - instead of blackmailing her ahead of time!

And for a smart person, Lenore doesn't seem to realize she could turn it into counter-blackmail, by THREATENING to inform on him, instead of PROMISING to inform on him. And since she's had hours to think about it, that should have occurred to her.

But those things don't ruin it for me. Especially the ending, where Robert Culp makes Brimmer seem genuinely contrite, instead of just sorry that he got caught.