hi mr franklin just finishing up this last melville mystery i didn't get a chance the other day all right now what are you doing here well i'm waiting for you i'm gonna be in the neighborhood well you're always in the neighborhood can you tell me what rut you've got to keep those movers out of this office oh listen i'm sorry about that it's just you know what i thought i thought you and i should talk alone you and i have nothing to talk about yes we do mr franklin we have something to talk about i'm here to arrest you for the murder of your partner what now it's my duty to inform you of your constitutional rights oh you cut that drivel i've written that stuff so many times i know it by heart and what is this nonsense you're going to arrest me come on mr franklin why don't you make a statement and save us both a lot of trouble you know i've really got you all right lieutenant you got me i'm your president here clamp the irons on me do you want to give me a dime first so i can phone my attorney because i promise you i'm gonna sue you and your department for false arrest and defamation of character i kind of knew it right from the start there's nothing definite there's a lot of little things little things driving back from san diego on the day of the murder instead of taking a plane the open mail never showing any genuine emotion for a man that you worked with for 10 years with that you know what they're gonna do they're gonna laugh you right out of court but they're not gonna laugh at the insurance policy are they i've got a photostatic copy of it here in my pocket they gonna laugh at the fact that you withdrew fifteen thousand dollars put it back the next day i've got the book that you gave to miss wasanka with your signature in it you expect to get a true bill of indictment on that trivia come on lieutenant i was down in san diego so was your book that's a provocative statement can you prove that yes not with the witness cause you killed the witness but i got another way to prove it well you enlighten me i must say i enjoy watching a man raise without any cards in his hand you know what ken i'm gonna tell you the truth for a while there i never thought i was gonna get you believe me you had me going in such circles i couldn't figure it out suddenly i thought of something how clever that first murder was the phone gimmick working late in the office brilliant are you awarding gold medals today yes for the first one not for the second one that was sloppy mrs melville she'd have been very disappointed well come on get to the climax lieutenant you're talking to a writer am i that's not what i heard and that's the key that you're not a writer when mrs ferriss told me that you didn't contribute to the writing that her husband did all the work that's a lie i had to say to myself how could a man with no talent for mysteries make up such a clever murder if you were that genius you'd be able to write your own books go ahead i'm fascinated as boring as it may be then i got it the first one the clever one that wasn't yours the second one the sloppy one that was yours but not the first oh and whose idea was that then your partners had to be and his wife told me how conscientious he was you know the way he used to write down his ideas on every art scrap of paper backs of matches whatever ah so that's why you wouldn't let the movies in well i had a rummage around here before they emptied everything out is this your partner's handwriting well i think i can prove it is maybe i ought to read this to you idea for a melville book perfect alibi a wants to kill b drives b to a remote house and has him call his wife and city tells her he's working late at the office bang bang sound familiar that's the part you used practically word for word should i read some more no officer with this i think i got a conviction don't you [Music] you gotta admit i had you going for a while the other night yes you did you want to know the irony of all of it that is my idea [Music] the only really good one ever had i must have told at the gym over five years ago whoever thought that idiot would write it down rusty what's going on i'm sorry sir i apologize this is un but you knew this was my opening night you're right sir it's in the truth no no no no no let me tell you what i'm gonna do i'm gonna sue your ass you're not gonna sue because even get him out of my club no it's foolish get out of my club got it right here i got a warrant here it is i'm sorry i have a warrant uh take this up to mr price region it's an extra copy sir you can keep it uh just so you folks understand we'll be here 10 15 minutes working on the missing persons if you want to stay you're welcome but you got to be quiet uh mr price oh almost forgot this is a fabulous club and this man is responsible for it this is all his vision here this is his design and i think we all owe him a big hand uh mr price i wonder if miss sparrow would join us i think she'll be interested in this too ah miss barrel uh you'll be closer i dropped by earlier today i had the photo of tony galbraith yes yes i remember okay uh do you remember when i was leaving you know i got over here just about with the fish what are these fish called again magnificent creatures the different shapes and the different colors and look at that guy there look at that orange isn't that fantastic anyway they caught my eye and i noticed that there were 14 of them and now i was going this way and i'm sorry and another cover caught my eye but in this tank sir i noticed there were only nine fish each one more beautiful than the other but only nine so when i got over here i was struck because there's 14 here just like the fleece please tell me this nonsense has something to do with obtaining a warrant oh absolutely let me tell you something i got a nephew he works in that zoo down in san diego the one with the big whale and he tells me there's a rule for fish tanks i don't know if you're aware of this or not but he tells me that for every inch of fish in the tank you gotta have one gallon of water so if you have two goldfish each of them one inch that's a total of two inches you gotta have two gallons of water don't ask me who comes up with this stuff that i don't know but that's what he told me and the judge he had it checked out and it's true so uh junior can we get these two things here it has to do so with waste and filtration things that i don't understand so what this all means is the more fish you got the more water you need about four feet so this tank has 14 fish and it's about four feet deep this is ridiculous columbo even for you yeah but i'm not finished you see with this formula and this is the part that really got my attention it follows the less space you have the less fish you can keep now in this tank here we only got nine fish yeah about two feet this tank is only two feet deep that's why it's only got nine fish less space less fish uh mr kaufman am i holding you up all right come on get started work right here on the night this time this is only gonna take a minute you see i'm not sure what happened to tony galbraith but he is missing and i was just thinking hypothetically if something did happen to him and somehow miss pharaoh you happen to be involved well you knew the people that tony was associated with you had to assume if they found out they'd probably kill you again mind you i'm just talking hypothetically i knew mr price you had a lot of riding on tony's investment in this club and this place meant a great deal to you so say something did happen to him in order to ensure the receipt of his money you would have needed to help ms farrell cover it up got it lieutenant okay go that device it's actually called what is it again ground penetrating radar device sir right amazing [Music] so [Music] [Music] so you bury them right here right under that tank and appropriately enough with the fishes as they say this place really could have been something too bad good evening mr price ms farrell [Music] so [Music] you