I always assumed that they feared cooperation would lead to exposure and professional ruin. Once it was publicized that they had paid for good reviews, their restaurants would presumably suffer. Testifying against Paul Gerard would tell the world what they had done.

Good afternoon all.

My first post on this forum.

I was watching Murder Under Glass recently and it occured to me that there was a huge hole in the plot that I can't explain so I was wondering if anyone here could offer up an explenation.

After the funeral scene when Columbo flushes out those who were invovled in the Restaurant Developers Association, he obviously goes to talk to them. Why don't Max Duvall and Mary Choy tell Columbo that they are being blackmaled by Paul Gerard. They know that Vittorio was going to have a meeting with Gerard to tell him he was getting out. Once the police were involved in an investigation involving Paul Gerard surely it would have been easy for Max and Mary to pull the plug on his scam. Instead what we get is Max's strange conversation about Vittorio being a man about to commit murder himself and Mary Choy being all silent about the Restaurant Developers Association. It makes little sense.

Other than that though, I do quite enjoy this episode.