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.