Joyce Van Patten credited as playing...
Ruth Lytton
- Columbo: You know, when I say "Homicide Department," most women, they act a little upset, so I try and calm 'em with a little chit-chat. I've been doing that for so long that I forgot to notice that you weren't upset. Forgive me for wandering off.
- Ruth Lytton: I've disappointed you. My sister won't. You needn't even bother saying "homicide." "Foul play" will do it. She faints.
- Mrs. Brandt: There is a man's arm to support any woman who wants one.
- Ruth Lytton: No, not any woman.
- Edward Lytton: It's almost two o'clock in the morning. What are you doing here?
- Ruth Lytton: Oh, I do wish people would stop asking me that.
- [shoots her brother]
- Columbo: Well, you've got some family, Miss Lytton. Everybody thinks I'm getting ready to arrest them.
- Ruth Lytton: Everybody but me.
- Columbo: Yes. It's a relief talking to you. I was beginning to feel like a policeman.
- Ruth Lytton: You ARE a policeman - and a good one. You say a thing when you're ready to say it and not before.
- Ruth Lytton: Lieutenant, you must never underestimate me... nor I you. I don't in the least mind you playing tricks, but you're going to have to be a little cleverer, aren't you?
- Ruth Lytton: Come in, Phyllis, dear. This is Lieutenant Columbo of homicide.
- Phyllis Lytton Brandt: Oh, oh...
- [faints]
- Ruth Lytton: You see?
- Milton Shaeffer: There is no way nobody's gonna associate me with the robbery. Are you kidding? I'd have to be dead.
- Ruth Lytton: Yes. It will have to look that way.
- Ruth Lytton: Why couldn't one of them have turned the lights on?
- Columbo: They could have. But after they were dead, Miss Lytton, who turned them off.
