History Recap / ColumboS08E03

* HaplessSelfHelp: The murderer is a sex therapist with multiple books about improving your sex life. Despite this, her friend and lover is cheating with her SexySecretary and she conspires to murder him while dressed up as an escort herself.

* HomeEarlySurprise: A delayed flight to Chicago allows Joan to come back to the institute, and find her lover in bed with his girlfriend.

* SexierAlterEgo: "Lisa" is Joan Allenby's murder disguise but there's even more to it: she designs "Lisa" with thoughts in mind what men would see as an ideal woman and gets more and more drawn into the role once she wears it; she's seemingly turned on and disgusted at the same time when she sees how well "Lisa" works.

** Joan says to David, "Boy, have I got plans for you." He thinks she's talking about weird sex when she's really talking about murder.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: A rather humble one. Towards the end, after he's proven that she's "Lisa" and by that logic David's murderer, Joan soberly confesses her motive, and how the entire experience has lead to a startling path of self-discovery. She wonders to Columbo if her insecurity makes her lesser for it. Columbo admits he's more qualified as a detective than a therapist. But this much he can say: he enjoyed conversing with Joan. This is a rather sweet way of letting Joan know she's ''more valuable'' than David gave credit.

** Joan's friend at the symphony asks what she thought of the concert, and Joan says "I think everything came off perfectly." She's really thinking about how she ducked out of the show, went off and murdered David, and made it back.

* HaplessSelfHelp: The murderer is a sex therapist with multiple books about improving your sex life. Despite this, her husband is cheating with her SexySecretary and she conspires to murder him while dressed up as an escort herself.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Joan Allenby is an obvious takeoff on Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a RealLife sex therapist and media personality. (Although she's a lot taller and younger and doesn't have a German accent.)

* DeathBySex: Joan shoots David in the institute's sex room and then stages the scene to make it look like this happened, via a date with a HighClassCallGirl gone wrong.

Guest Starring: Lindsay Crouse]

Dr. Joan Allenby (Creator/LindsayCrouse) is a well-known, nationally prominent sex therapist, author of best-selling books and host of a radio call-in show as well as the director of an institute on sexual research. Her lover, partner and business manager is David Kincaid. One evening, Joan is scheduled to head to Chicago for a radio convention. However, her flight is delayed due to fog. Rather than wait in the airport, she decides to go back to her clinic, having realized she forgot some papers. While there, she discovers David in the institute's bed room (basically a sex room for clients of the institute), having sex with Cindy Galt, Joan's hot secretary.

* AbsoluteCleavage: "Lisa" wears a jacket with cleavage down to her navel as part of her hooker outfit.

* HotterAndSexier: ToplessnessFromTheBack and {{Underboob|s}} from Cindy during the sex scene (there weren't many sex scenes at all in previous episodes of ''Columbo''), Joan's hooker costume with the AbsoluteCleavage, all the sex talk--this episode is much sexier than any prior edition.

** Joan's friend at the symphony asks what she thought of the concert, and Joan says "I think everything came off perfectly." She's really thinking about how she ducked out of the show, went off and murdered David, and made it back.
* YourCheatingHeart: Joan kills David after discovering him in bed with Cindy.

Dr. Joan Allenby (Creator/LindsayCrouse) is a well-known, nationally prominent sex therapist, author of best-selling books and host of a radio call-in show as well as the director of an institute on sexual research. Her partner and business manager is David Kincaid, who also happens to be her lover. One evening Joan's flight to Chicago is delayed. She goes back to the institute only to discover David in the institute's bed room (basically a sex room for clients of the institute), having sex with Cindy, Joan's hot secretary.

Joan decides to kill David. On little notice she whips up a scheme in which she tricks David into taking her to the sex room, disguising herself as a fancy hooker and pretending that it's kinky role play. Instead of kinky sex, she shoots him and then stages a scene meant to look like a call girl rendezvous gone wrong. Unfortunately for her the case falls to Lt. Columbo, who notices the usual odd details, like how David was found without his keys...

* AbsoluteCleavage: Lisa wears a jacket with cleavage down to her navel as part of her hooker outfit.

* PreMortemOneLiner: When they're having sex Cindy asks "If I were a dessert, what kind of dessert would I be?" David describes a fancy ornate chocolate dessert. Cindy asks the same question about Joan and David says "Rice pudding." Later, when Joan pulls the gun on David, she says "If I were a dessert, what kind of dessert would I be?", right before she shoots him.

* HotterAndSexier: ToplessnessFromTheBack and {{Underboob}} from Cindy during the sex scene (there weren't many sex scenes at all in previous episodes of ''Columbo''), Joan's hooker costume with the AbsoluteCleavage, all the sex talk--this episode is much sexier than any prior edition.

Dr. Joan Allenby (Lindsay Crouse) is a well-known, nationally prominent sex therapist, author of best-selling books and host of a radio call-in show as well as the director of an institute on sexual research. Her partner and business manager is David Kincaid, who also happens to be her lover. One evening Joan's flight to Chicago is delayed. She goes back to the institute only to discover David in the institute's bed room (basically a sex room for clients of the institute), having sex with Cindy, Joan's hot secretary.

* HotterAndSexier: ToplessnessFromTheBack and {{Underboob}} from Cindy during the sex scene (there weren't many sex scenes at all in previous episodes of ''Columbo''), Joan's hooker costume with the AbsoluteCleavage, all the sex talk--this episode is much sexier than any prior endition.

Written by: Richard Alan Simmons\\

* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Joan and Columbo first meet in the elevator on the way up to the institute. He sees the store tag still hanging from her stylish coat, and she is irritated by him lighting up a cigar in a non-smoking elevator. The ride passes in awkward silence. (The tag eventually becomes a vital clue.)