Chances Thrift Charts

''For the transcript, see /Transcript "" is the 2nd episode of the American adult comedy series Anitales: 2021 Series, it first aired on in March 23, 2021. it was written by Richard Ray Rawlings, and directed by Phillip Schofield.

Summary
Sue and Mary try to track down a burglar whose specialty is stealing color TV sets-but end up arresting a jewel thief. They also encounter a drug-addicted mother who uses her children to help her in maintaining her habit.

Plot
Powerful newspaper publishing magnate Allan Pettis hires Private Investigator Greg Fender, the head of a private detective agency, to discover whether or not his much-younger wife Lenore Sue Bridget is having an affair. At a meeting at Mayor's office, Mayor hands over his finished report to Allan, providing his wife with “a clean bill of health” which is to say she has not been unfaithful. However once Allan has left Brimmer enters an adjoining room to reveal Lenore herself as having been listening in on their conversation. It turns out that she was having an affair, one which Mayor had uncovered, but he falsified the report. Why? Because Mr. Beckham is a very powerful and well-connected man, one who deals in information; the type of information which would be highly valuable to an agency like Mayor Associates. In return for the kind of political secrets her husband would be privy to, Brimmer is willing to keep silent about Lenore’s affair.

He gives her some to think the offer over, but when he arrives home from work that evening, Mayor finds Lenore waiting for him. It was easy for her to get in, as the Kennecott own a weekend house only three miles away and Mayor left his terrace door unlocked. Disgusted by his attempted manipulation, she defiantly tells him the answer is an unequivocal no. Things go to bad from worse for Mayor as she reveals that she intends to come clean to her husband about the affair, and will also tell him about Mayor’s attempted blackmail. “He’s going to despise you for lying to him” she spits; “and Allan’s not the right man to have for an enemy.” Seized by a fit of rage, Mayor grabs hold of Sue and in the ensuing struggle backhands her across the face so hard that she is thrown backwards and smashes her head on a glass coffee table. Mayor checks her pulse but there’s nothing he can do; she’s dead. Thinking quickly, he initiates a desperate cover-up; he thoroughly cleans his house down to eliminate any trace of her ever being there, then he places her body in the trunk of his car and drives out to the edge of town. Before dumping her corpse in an empty scrapyard, he swipes a valuable ring from her finger, then drives home.

The following morning, a traffic cop pulls over the driver of a beat-up-looking French 1969 Peugeot 403 convertible for having a faulty right-hand turn signal. Said driver is actually Lieutenant Columbo of the L.A.P.D., on the way to a “187 PC”, also known as a homicide. The bike cop apologizes for pulling the Lieutenant over and offers to give him a police escort, but not before warning him that his driving licensed expires next week! At the scrapyard, the Medical Examiner tells the Captain of Kerry that Sue was more than likely killed somewhere else and moved there, and that the cause of death was concussion. The Captain’s heart sinks when he learns who the victim’s husband is; “Newspapers” he moans. “If we don’t handle this to his satisfaction, he’s got an awful lot of front pages to beat us over the head with.” Columbo, meanwhile, is very interested to learn that Sue exhibits a bruise of her left cheek… Columbo meets with Allan at the local hospital, where Allan identifies the body as that of his wife’s. Allan is already more than well aware that as her husband, he is the most likely suspect and so is more than happy to establish an alibi so that Columbo can move quickly on to catching the real killer; at the time of the murder Allan was at a conference in San Francisco, which his secretary will confirm. Columbo questions him about Sue; did she have any enemies, or any other men in her life? No and no, says Arthur; after all, she had just been given a clean bill of health. Before Columbo leaves, Allan tells him in no uncertain terms “I want this man caught, and I must tell you I don’t intend to be patient!”

The two rendezvous once again the next morning at the Kennecott mansion, but unfortunately Columbo does not have much progress to report. The prevailing theory among his colleagues is that Sue was the unfortunate victim of a mugger, who took her cash and ran. However no one it seems can explain how or why the body was moved; Columbo thinks she knew her killer. It was unusual, he thinks, that she went out to their beach house in the middle of the week, and that she told the caretaker she needed to think and was going for a walk. This was the last time she was seen alive, and her body was discovered on the opposite side of town. Why would she have walked so far away?

Frustrated by the lack of police progress, Allan decides to bring in some help of his own, and introduces Columbo to none other than Investigator Mayor himself. Allan trusts Mayor and has taken Mayor up on his offer to step in and assist in the investigation.