Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo is such a provocative title. Vivian Dimitri (Helen Shaver) seems to have it all, she has just pulled a big real estate deal with plenty of commission for herself.
However she is not well, in mental torment since her husband died in prison. He was put inside for embezzlement and murder, Columbo was the arresting officer.
Dimitri gets a concerned phone call from her psychiatrist but she puts in motion a plan that she concocted a long time ago. She kills her boss who informed on her husband all those years ago and then goes after Columbo and his wife.
The episode opens with Mrs Columbo's funeral with Columbo in torment as we go through several flashbacks.
Of course we never see Mrs Columbo and it is nice to see a break in the usual format. However this is a slow moving episode, I actually found it all rather turgid enlivened each time when Ian McShane popped up as the smarmy married man that Dimitri is having an affair with.
It is clear that Dimitri is mentally ill so it is unlikely she will even get convicted of murder but she does give Columbo a good slap.
However she is not well, in mental torment since her husband died in prison. He was put inside for embezzlement and murder, Columbo was the arresting officer.
Dimitri gets a concerned phone call from her psychiatrist but she puts in motion a plan that she concocted a long time ago. She kills her boss who informed on her husband all those years ago and then goes after Columbo and his wife.
The episode opens with Mrs Columbo's funeral with Columbo in torment as we go through several flashbacks.
Of course we never see Mrs Columbo and it is nice to see a break in the usual format. However this is a slow moving episode, I actually found it all rather turgid enlivened each time when Ian McShane popped up as the smarmy married man that Dimitri is having an affair with.
It is clear that Dimitri is mentally ill so it is unlikely she will even get convicted of murder but she does give Columbo a good slap.