Just One More Thing: A Columbo Rewatch
Oct 21, 2026 · 37 min · 12 segments
Contact Fletch and Abby A brilliant attorney. A staged kidnapping. A ransom demand with one very big problem. Fletch and Abby return for Ransom for…
This one, different from the last one 'cause right off the bat you meet the murderer and you see her doing a ransom note.
She's splicing some audio tape together and, and this one is once again set in a gor- gorgeous Los Angeles mansion with ceilings that are at least 20 feet high.
This one, the murder happens right away, so the husband, what appears to be a husband, comes in the front door, drops off his mail, and he walks into what looks like the living room, and his wife is sitting there in a chair and bammo, she shoots him point-blank and he drops.
She gets the body, wraps up the body in what appears to be some sort of a bag, ropes him off.
And I love, again, so much fun camera angles on this one.
She puts him apparently in a...
Like, takes him out herself, puts him in the trunk, and in this case, much like the episode where the handkerchief was left behind, this one she leaves a briefcase behind and then comes back in, gets the briefcase, goes back out, takes him out to a cliff, dumps him off the cliff, and then mails the ransom note.
What we find out in this episode is that the murderer is an attorney, and she's clearly a defense attorney, and you go right into a courtroom.
And during that court scene she's with her assistant checking in on her husband, can't find her husband.
She's very much playing the role of, "I, I haven't reached him.
I don't know where he is." And then from there you realize the FBI's involved and they are looking for a missing person.
And she, she gets a fake phone call, finds out that there's a ransom.
And he's searching around in the dark for his pen, and even though she offers a light and a flashlight, he goes, "That's okay.
I'll just use my matches." And he's looking around for his pen.
You find out that he's very much in the background of an FBI investigation, and they've, they're using aerial maps.
You find out that what they've asked is for her to get some money, $300,000, put it in an unmarked bag.
They're supposed to be unmarked bills.
Obviously no cops.
We don't wanna be followed.
Drive over and drop it at a certain spot, and she's supposed to drop this bag out of an airplane.
And then when the CHP gets there, there's no money in the bag.
She comes back, lands the plane at the airport, 'cause she's a, 'cause she's a pilot, 'cause she's not only a murderer and a prominent defense attorney-
This one, different from the last one 'cause right off the bat you meet the murderer and you see her doing a ransom note.
She's splicing some audio tape together and, and this one is once again set in a gor- gorgeous Los Angeles mansion with ceilings that are at least 20 feet high.
This one, the murder happens right away, so the husband, what appears to be a husband, comes in the front door, drops off his mail, and he walks into what looks like the living room, and his wife is sitting there in a chair and bammo, she shoots him point-blank and he drops.
She gets the body, wraps up the body in what appears to be some sort of a bag, ropes him off.
And I love, again, so much fun camera angles on this one.
She puts him apparently in a...
Like, takes him out herself, puts him in the trunk, and in this case, much like the episode where the handkerchief was left behind, this one she leaves a briefcase behind and then comes back in, gets the briefcase, goes back out, takes him out to a cliff, dumps him off the cliff, and then mails the ransom note.
What we find out in this episode is that the murderer is an attorney, and she's clearly a defense attorney, and you go right into a courtroom.
And during that court scene she's with her assistant checking in on her husband, can't find her husband.
She's very much playing the role of, "I, I haven't reached him.
I don't know where he is." And then from there you realize the FBI's involved and they are looking for a missing person.
And she, she gets a fake phone call, finds out that there's a ransom.
And he's searching around in the dark for his pen, and even though she offers a light and a flashlight, he goes, "That's okay.
I'll just use my matches." And he's looking around for his pen.
You find out that he's very much in the background of an FBI investigation, and they've, they're using aerial maps.
You find out that what they've asked is for her to get some money, $300,000, put it in an unmarked bag.
They're supposed to be unmarked bills.
Obviously no cops.
We don't wanna be followed.
Drive over and drop it at a certain spot, and she's supposed to drop this bag out of an airplane.
And then when the CHP gets there, there's no money in the bag.
She comes back, lands the plane at the airport, 'cause she's a, 'cause she's a pilot, 'cause she's not only a murderer and a prominent defense attorney-
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