Columbo

Brimmer: Lieutenant, you have a marvelously convoluted mind.

Columbo: You know what it was that really made up my mind? Brimmer: What was that? Columbo: The Kennicutt case. I don't want to give up working on it just now. Not when I'm so close to a solution. Brimmer: Well, uh, you want to let me in on it? Columbo: Oh, certainly. Don't worry. You'll be the first to know. Good night.

Arthur Kennicutt: What would you have done if the car hadn't broken down? You couldn't set up this trap. Columbo: Well, I guess we would have found some other way. You know what this place reminds me of, just seeing all these cars? You know, in our neighborhood we had a bunch of jokers. I mean we were a real loud bunch of guys and we figured out a perfect way to put a car out of commission. You take a potato, you stick it in the exhaust pipe. Doesn't cause any damage but the car won't start. It was a terrible thing to do. And I got a feeling that the reason I became a cop was to make up for all those jokes I played when I was a kid.

Columbo: I was just wondering, because your beach house and his beach house, they're fairly close, aren't they? Brimmer: No. It's a couple of miles. Columbo: That close. Isn't that a coincidence? I'll tell ya, this case is just full of 'em.

Columbo: Isn't that weird? What a coincidence! Brimmer: What's that? Columbo: Here a moment ago we were talking about left-handed people and you're left-handed.