Columbo.S12E02.1993.Butterfly.in.Shades.of.Grey.720p.BluRay Subtitles

00:00:12,645 --> 00:00:15,Coming up,
direct from his Los Angeles studio,

00:00:15,949 --> 00:00:20,the hard-hitting, controversial
commentator and analyst, Fielding Chase,

00:00:21,087 --> 00:00:26,who plays no favourites, pulls no punches
and tells it like it is.

00:00:26,593 --> 00:00:30,Stay tuned. We shall return
following a word from your local station.

00:00:34,267 --> 00:00:36,Come on, Lois, put me through.

00:00:36,603 --> 00:00:39,I know the show's on the air.
Screw the show.

00:00:39,672 --> 00:00:41,OK, I'm sorry.

00:00:41,307 --> 00:00:44,Vicky was supposed to meet
me and this guy here a half-hour ago.

00:00:44,711 --> 00:00:46,What the hell ** I supposed to tell him?

00:00:48,448 --> 00:00:50,OK, fine. Never mind.

00:01:13,339 --> 00:01:14,So?

00:01:14,774 --> 00:01:17,She's not coming. I'm sorry, Lou.

00:01:17,177 --> 00:01:19,The old guy's g***t her scared to death.

00:01:19,379 --> 00:01:22,That I could tell by the time I g***t to
page ten of her novel.

00:01:22,749 --> 00:01:26,- Love and hate, in one neat package.
- So stay another day.

00:01:26,753 --> 00:01:30,I can't , Gerry. I promised Mary
and the kids I'd join them at the lake.

00:01:30,824 --> 00:01:34,- But you will show Englander the book?
- Soon as I get back.

00:01:35,028 --> 00:01:38,- You' re sure it's all right with the author?
- Why wouldn't it be?

00:01:38,765 --> 00:01:43,Look, Lou, Vicky's another Ayn Rand
trying to bust loose from her cocoon,

00:01:43,303 --> 00:01:44,and you and me are gonna help her.

00:01:45,371 --> 00:01:48,Me, I understand. I'm a literary agent.
What 's your angle?

00:01:49,175 --> 00:01:53,- Personal.
- Oh. You mean Fielding Chase.

00:01:53,613 --> 00:01:56,Well, if you' re so mad at him,
why don't you quit?

00:01:56,749 --> 00:02:00,- I need the money.
- You always need the money.

00:02:02,555 --> 00:02:06,By the way,
I was sorry to hear about Murray.

00:02:06,126 --> 00:02:08,I know you guys were together
a long time.

00:02:08,895 --> 00:02:10,- Yeah.
- Anybody new?

00:02:10,697 --> 00:02:13,Mmmm... yeah.

00:02:13,833 --> 00:02:18,He's Ted. He's an actor.
Works on a daytime soap opera.

00:02:18,771 --> 00:02:20,Well? Serious?

00:02:21,774 --> 00:02:26,No. Murray was pretty special. it's gonna
take some time to work things out.

00:02:27,147 --> 00:02:28,- Come on, let 's order.
- Good idea.

00:02:39,626 --> 00:02:40,What I mean, Fielding,

00:02:40,894 --> 00:02:45,is you always say these phonies
in Congress gotta get their act together.

00:02:45,765 --> 00:02:48,Like, you know. I mean, like, the poor.

00:02:48,635 --> 00:02:53,Because wow, when you think about it,
you think about it, I do, we all do.

00:02:53,139 --> 00:02:56,There's a lot of money there.
Like the deficit?

00:02:56,509 --> 00:02:59,Wow, man. The kids are gonna
have to pay for it, right?

00:03:00,547 --> 00:03:03,I know exactly what you mean,
my inarticulate friend.

00:03:04,284 --> 00:03:06,But you know as well as I do...

00:03:06,119 --> 00:03:11,that unless and until the president
is empowered with a line-item veto,

00:03:11,558 --> 00:03:15,this country will continue to haemorrhage
hundreds of millions of dollars...

00:03:15,595 --> 00:03:19,on dams for rivers that don't need
damming and roads that lead nowhere.

00:03:20,099 --> 00:03:21,Thanks for the call.

00:03:22,635 --> 00:03:27,This is... Charlie from Independence,
Missouri. Hello, Charlie.

00:03:27,307 --> 00:03:30,Hi, Fielding. A big handshake
from the home town of Harry Truman,

00:03:30,910 --> 00:03:32,our last good president.

00:03:32,412 --> 00:03:33,That’s debatable.

00:03:33,580 --> 00:03:38,But since I don't like to speak ill of
the dead, let 's move on to a livelier topic.

00:03:38,184 --> 00:03:42,- But I wanna talk about Truman.
- Well, I don't. Goodbye, Charlie.

00:03:43,723 --> 00:03:46,Margaret from Blossom, Texas.
You' re on the air.

00:03:47,026 --> 00:03:49,Fielding, you dear man,
I 'll be 80 Tuesday.

00:03:50,096 --> 00:03:52,Well, bless you, my darling,
and happy birthday to you.

00:03:53,032 --> 00:03:54,Why, thank you.

00:03:54,634 --> 00:04:00,All this stuff I keep hearing about
this big hole in the sky over Antarctica,

00:04:01,007 --> 00:04:03,it's frightening me.

00:04:03,543 --> 00:04:05,Oh, yes. The mysterious ozone depletion.

00:04:05,678 --> 00:04:10,Tell you what , my darling. I 'll send you
a copy of my book. Read chapter nine.

00:04:10,516 --> 00:04:13,It destroys
the environmental Chicken Littles...

00:04:13,853 --> 00:04:17,who would scare decent people like you.

00:04:18,258 --> 00:04:21,Thank you for your call,
and God bless you, sweetheart.

00:04:21,828 --> 00:04:24,That was Margaret from Blossom, Texas.

00:04:24,931 --> 00:04:29,And speaking of large holes
filled with nothing but a vacuum,

00:04:30,370 --> 00:04:33,my guest next Wednesday, the 14th,

00:04:33,573 --> 00:04:37,is none other than
that distinguished senator from back East ,

00:04:37,644 --> 00:04:40,the honourable Gordon Madison,

00:04:40,113 --> 00:04:43,who will demonstrate to you good people
once and for all...

00:04:43,283 --> 00:04:45,why he should be banished permanently...

00:04:45,885 --> 00:04:49,to those good old cotton fields back home.

00:04:50,390 --> 00:04:52,- What happened?
- I told you I couldn't come.

00:04:52,992 --> 00:04:56,- Then you said you'd get a replacement.
- Well, I couldn't.

00:04:56,829 --> 00:04:59,When I told him I wanted the night off,
he had a fit.

00:04:59,732 --> 00:05:01,I bet he did.

00:05:01,267 --> 00:05:03,Come on, Gerry.
I can see your friend any time.

00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:07,Vicky, Lou Caton is more than a friend.
He's a literary agent.

00:05:07,707 --> 00:05:10,- And he loves your book.
- My book?

00:05:10,443 --> 00:05:14,You showed him my book? Gerry,
I gave that to you to read, nobody else.

00:05:14,147 --> 00:05:17,Were you gonna leave it on your shelf
for the next 30 years?

00:05:17,984 --> 00:05:20,Vicky, he loves it !
He thinks it's brilliant !

00:05:20,987 --> 00:05:25,- Look, that’s very flattering, but...
- But what? Are you worried about him?

00:05:25,892 --> 00:05:29,You are not his property.
You've g***t to get on with your life.

00:05:29,329 --> 00:05:31,There's a big, terrific world out there.

00:05:31,564 --> 00:05:35,Fielding Chase. News next. Back in five.

00:05:35,935 --> 00:05:37,And we' re out.

00:05:41,107 --> 00:05:46,Mr. Winters ! I was under the impression
you were back East tracking down a story.

00:05:46,479 --> 00:05:50,A rumour, and it was tracked.
You g***t my report : it was a dead end.

00:05:50,183 --> 00:05:55,I don't agree. When I see smoke curling
around Gordon Madison's elegant coiffure...

00:05:55,355 --> 00:05:56,can flame be far behind?

00:05:56,956 --> 00:06:01,I busted my butt on your cockamamie
lead. It was nothing, and you know it.

00:06:01,494 --> 00:06:05,See how they turn on me? Two years ago
I plucked him from a police beat...

00:06:05,365 --> 00:06:07,on a second-rate paper in a third-rate city.

00:06:08,034 --> 00:06:11,Taking me from obscurity
to complete anonymity. Thanks, Fielding.

00:06:11,738 --> 00:06:15,Mr. Winters, I do not suffer ingrates well.
I must terminate our arrangement.

00:06:16,075 --> 00:06:18,- Dad, please.
- What , I'm fired?

00:06:18,544 --> 00:06:21,Good ! Thanks again.
I could use the severance pay.

00:06:21,447 --> 00:06:23,As well as the unemployment cheques.

00:06:24,083 --> 00:06:26,Come, Victoria.
We have less than 60 seconds.

00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:30,- Vicky, I 'll call you later.
- You will not call her later.

00:06:30,490 --> 00:06:32,How about if she decides that?

00:06:34,527 --> 00:06:37,- Do you have to keep goading him?
- Victoria...

00:06:37,163 --> 00:06:41,You' re both pig-headed egotists,
and tomorrow you'll hire him back.

00:06:41,601 --> 00:06:44,- Not this time.
- Six seconds, Mr. Chase.

00:06:44,237 --> 00:06:46,- Dad...
- Not now, Victoria.

00:06:46,472 --> 00:06:49,Four, three, two...

00:06:49,809 --> 00:06:52,And we' re back for another hour
of National Focus,

00:06:52,979 --> 00:06:58,your obedient servant , Fielding Chase,
ready to chat with the brightest of you.

00:06:58,851 --> 00:07:01,The inarticulate need not bother dialling.

00:07:01,988 --> 00:07:05,The valuable time of my listeners...

00:07:05,191 --> 00:07:09,is far too precious to waste on
chatting about gall-bladder operations.

00:07:09,729 --> 00:07:13,Hi. This is National Focus. What
do you want to speak to Fielding about?

00:07:14,367 --> 00:07:16,Mm-hm. And what 's your name?

00:07:20,373 --> 00:07:25,Don't tell me...