Columbo (TV Series)

Negative Reaction (1974)

Antoinette Bower: Frances Galesko

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Quotes 

• [Galesko has tied his wife to a chair] 

  Frances Galesko : Are you trying to frighten me with some new-found masculinity?

  Paul Galesko : I have this... "dream", Frances. I'm working, and, uh, there's a phone call, and he says, "Terribly sorry, Mr. Galesko, but... your wife's dead. Unfortunate accident," and then I always wake up, and I want to cry. Because you're still alive, Frances, and I have nothing to face that day, but another 24 hours with a domineering, nagging, suffocating woman who took all the joy out of my life.

  [He takes a pistol out of his briefcase] 

  Frances Galesko : Huh! Paul, don't be a fool! They'll know you did it!

  Paul Galesko : I don't think so. Not if everything works.

  Frances Galesko : You'll never get away with it!

  Paul Galesko : If not... it's a chance I'm gonna take.

  Frances Galesko : [pleading]  Untie me!

  [Galesko shoots her] 

• Frances Galesko : If this is some sort of a joke, must I remind you that you have no sense of humor. And you never had, none at all?