She’s summoned to Mark’s office where she encounters Lieutenant Columbo lying prone on the couch, Mark’s reading glasses on the top of his head.
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We next encounter Kay the following morning as the police investigation is in full swing. Moments later the screening is called off after word of Mark’s slaying reaches the execs. As Walter returns to the booth, the only evidence of Kay’s ‘perfect murder’ is the cotton editing glove she was wearing, which she hastily flung to the floor. The guard blunders off just in time, allowing Kay to race back to the booth to make the reel change with a cliche-tastic second to spare. Although she successfully stashes the murder weapon on the elevator roof, her route is agonisingly blocked by a dawdling security guard who’s taking far too much interest in a Playboy centrefold as she lurks in the shadows, itching to get moving. Kay now faces a desperate race to get back to the booth in time – and it’s far from plain sailing. Mark’s ladyish gasp was almost as loud as the gunshot! Better cancel that New York trip, eh Mark? He is snoozing on his executive couch but looks up as she enters – just in time to see her produce a gun and pop a cap in his treacherous heart. Monitoring her progress with a tape recorded countdown, Kay gets up to Mark’s office without being noticed. Any delays will blow her cover completely and she’ll be behind bars before you can say “Make me a perfect murder, babe.” Sending Walter off on a low-level errand, Kay has a nerve-shredding four minutes in which to sneak to Mark’s office, slay him, and get back to the projection booth to change the reel.
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She pinches his gun and it’s not long before this ambitious dame has cooked up an equally ambitious and high-risk revenge plan.ĭuring an exec screening of a new and violent TV movie she has masterminded (named The Professional), Kay takes her place in the projection booth alongside super-fly projectionist Walter – ostensibly to ensure he doesn’t foul things up for her, but really so her murderous scheme can be put into practice. Such mansplaining hardens Kay’s heart further against Mark. “Well that’s a comment from the management.”īoy, this love turned sour quickly, didn’t it Mark? In a final (and poor) attempt to sweeten the pill, he reveals a peace offering: he’s bought Kay the new Mercedes she’s had her eye on and has personalised it just for her. “You wanna sue me? Shoot me? That make you feel better?” he asks, whipping out a gun from a drawer. Kay, naturally, is hopping mad and doesn’t hide it, but Mark retains his cool. In his own patronising words: “ I can’t give you the West Coast, babe.” Why? Because although she’s great at what she does, he believes she doesn’t make decisions, but takes guesses – and is too big a risk to fill his shoes.
Not only is he not taking her to New York with him, he’s also not going to put her forward to replace him as CNC’s West Coast head honcho. When TV exec Mark McAndrews gets promoted to head up the CNC network’s East Coast operations, he has a nasty surprise for his brilliant Executive Assistant (and secret lover) Kay Freestone. PS – The TV behind her weighed in at 30 tonnes Significant locations: CNC Network HQ ( 3944 Lankershim Blvd, Studio City, LA) Mark McAndrews beach house ( 26646 Latigo Shore Dr, Malibu) Episode synopsis: Columbo Make Me a Perfect Murder Starring Trish Van Devere as murderous TV executive Kay Freestone, and boasting a supporting cast jam-packed with talent, viewers the world over were surely champing at the bit to wrap their eyes around it.īut is Make Me a Perfect Murder a sure-fire ratings hit, or a dismal flop certain to lead to bungling TV executives being given their marching orders? Let’s rewind to 25th February, 1978 and find out… Dramatis personae And that premise was put to the test in the third episode of Columbo‘s seventh season, Make Me a Perfect Murder. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, or so the saying goes.
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