..."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.