“It’s true somebody tried to pull a few strings, but my superior, he doesn’t like that. He gets thinking. So he said to me, he said ‘Lt. Columbo, you must be touching a sore spot, so you just keep right on trying.’ He’s very intelligent, my superior.”
“Why does he keep bothering you?”
“Because Carol’s death has been almost too perfect, that’s what irritates him. It’s like a speck in his eye. Why, he’d even look for flaws in the old testament.”
More clues regarding Columbo’s crime solving false eye.
I do not remember what I was listening to, but the thing that got me interested in watching Colombo again was a pair of people debating whether or not Columbo had a false eye. Peter Falk has a glass eye, but did the character of Columbo also have one? This second shot taken from the first pilot would seem to imply that he might. Is that why he always seems to stumble onto the truth, though behind the facade he is working hard at solving the case?
