Columbo (TV Series)

Last Salute to the Commodore (1976)

Peter Falk: Columbo

Photos 

Quotes 

• Columbo : [pointedly]  Dust. Dust. Dust. Dust. Dust. No dust.

• Columbo : You got a match, Sergeant?

  Sergeant George Kramer : Thought you were gonna quit.

  Columbo : Not yet. No, not yet, Sergeant. Not yet.

• Charles 'Charlie' Clay : Listen, are the police always called in when there's any possibility of an accident?

  Columbo : Accident... Oh, I'm sure this is an accident. Don't worry just because I'm from Homicide. Didn't I mention that? Well, never mind.

• Columbo : Mrs. Clay, where have you been?

  Joanna Clay : I don't know where I've been... for years.

• [the lieutenant has been saddled with an apprentice] 

  Columbo : Now, what do I call you? Theodore?

  Sergeant Theodore "Mac" Albinsky : Uh, no, sir. You call me Mac.

  Columbo : Mac.

  Sergeant Theodore "Mac" Albinsky : Yeah, Mac.

  Columbo : And do you have any Scotch or Irish in you?

  Sergeant Theodore "Mac" Albinsky : Oh, no, sir.

  Columbo : All right, Mac. Welcome aboard.

• Columbo : I don't think he, Charles Clay... I don't think he murdered anybody.

  Kittering, Esq. : Really, Mr. Columbo. Charlie certainly went to a lot of trouble if he didn't murder the commodore.

  Columbo : Oh, I think he would have gone to twice that much trouble if he thought that his wife had murdered the commodore.

• Sergeant George Kramer : Where you goin'?

  Columbo : I'm meetin' my wife, at the yacht club.

• Columbo : Commodore's watch.

  Kittering, Esq. : Big deal.

• Columbo : I'd like to make a preliminary check - if you don't mind.

  Charles 'Charlie' Clay : No, no, no. I like everything... preliminary.

• Columbo : Have a nice meditation.

• Columbo : You'll notice that none of you have seen this watch closely. You've only heard it. You heard it tick, but I was talking about a watch that was found at the scene of the crime that was broken. It was smashed. It did NOT... tick. It didn't work. The commodore's watch. Now you see it. And this is the broken inside part. And we took this watch to a jeweler and we had the broken inside part replaced. So, now the watch ticks. You all heard it tick.