Columbo gets a taste of the Los Angeles rave scene as he investigates the apparent suicide of a tabloid reporter.

After her ex-husband, mobster Tony Galper, dies during a struggle in her home, Vanessa turns to club owner Justin Price to help her out. He disposes of the body for her but unknown to him, tabloid photographer Linwood Coben secretly photographed him getting rid of the body. He tells Price he can have the negatives and prints for $250,000 and Price agrees to pay him. They meet that evening but Price has every intention of killing him, making it look like Coben committed suicide. Reviewing the crime scene, Columbo immediately has his doubts about the suicide. To solve Coben's murder, however, he will also have to solve what happened to Galper.—garykmcd

L.A. rave promoter Justin Price makes his first mistake when he helps his girlfriend get rid of the corpse of her ex-husband, the financial backer of Justin's new club and son of a notorious Mafia don. He makes his second mistake when he murders the tabloid reporter who had the nerve and photographs to attempt blackmail. But he makes his biggest mistake by dismissing Lieutenant Columbo, who smells murder...—Leaper