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Columbo :: Ashes to Ashes (10x12)
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| Title: | Ashes to Ashes |
| Episode #: | 10x12 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday October 08th, 1998 |
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Hollywood gossip reporter Verity Chandler has a deal with mortician Eric Prince, who handles many of the funerals of the rich and famous. Prince gives her the inside scoop on funeral arrangements and in return she keeps the door closed on the closet containing Prince's many skeletons. However, Chandler and Prince were also having an affair, and after Prince dumps her, Chandler is out for revenge. She threatens to announce on her forthcoming TV show that Prince stole a $1 million necklace from the corpse of silent film star Dorothea Page when Prince was handling Page's funeral.
When Chandler confronts Prince with this news in the preparation room of Prince's funeral parlour, Prince murders her by clubbing her on the head. Later that day, Prince manages to dispose of Chandler's body in the funeral parlour's crematorium, thus eliminating, or so he hopes, all the evidence that could incriminate him.
Columbo is called in when Chandler's secretary, Roger Gambles, reports her as missing, and is soon led to Prince as a prime suspect. But how can Columbo prove Prince's guilt when there is no body?
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As of 2006, this is Patrick McGoohan's final live action acting role.
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When Columbo is talking to Gambles after Chandler is reported missing, Gambles starts to say the last time he heard from Chandler was "yesterday afternoon". At this point, Columbo is distracted by his dog, but when he returns to Gambles a minute later, Gambles says the last time he heard from Chandler was "yesterday morning at 11.30".
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Near the end of the episode when Columbo is explaining how Prince managed to steal Page's necklace, he states that diamonds don't burn. This is not true, as a diamond (being pure carbon) will burn in air at around 800 C, which is well within the temperature range reached inside a crematorium.
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