![]() While this seems pretty thin to me, Collier splits leaving the fragile Nadia to call in the crime to the police as he establishes his alibi back at the research lab. She and Karl were at home alone when two men forced their way in seeking jewellery and money. Nadia is in panic mode, but lighting a calming cigarette Collier maintains his presence of mind and concocts an explanation for Nadia to give the police. Karl Donner: one of the series’ least-mourned victims It’s an act of defence, but Big Karl slumps down, dead as a doornail. He’s about to repeat the act when Collier grabs a poker and clobbers Karl between the shoulder blades. Karl grabs Nadia and delivers a colossal slap to her face. In what seems to be an act of genuine affection, he appears to be willing to risk professional ruin by demanding Nadia leaves with him. Karl also lets Collier know that he’s not the first lover Nadia has taken, nor even the fifth! “I know my wife – and the trash she’s attracted to,” he says.Ĭollier, however, refuses to yield. He threatens to ruin him and let the world know about the drugs he’s using on Nadia, and the ‘carnal relations’ they’re indulging in on the side. Karl, as one might expect, isn’t best pleased to see Collier. If it’s sweet, sweet love on his mind he’s in for disappointment as Collier encounters not just Nadia, but her livid husband Karl in the sitting room. Collier furiously denies the claim and sends Dr Borden scurrying away to do more testing on lab rats as part of his research project.Ĭut to the aforementioned swanky beach house, which Collier screeches up to in his sweet Mercedes, very obviously driving through muddy gutter water in the process. She has noticed that some hypnosis-inducing drugs have gone missing from the lab, and hints broadly that she believes Collier is using them on Nadia to deepen her hypnotic state so he can write another book about the secrets of the mind. In the corridor he meets his subordinate, Dr Anita Borden. Collier agrees, and leaves Nadia to rest and recuperate. It’s quickly established that Nadia and Dr Collier are lovers, as she invites him to spend ‘quality time’ with her at her swanky beach house as her husband Karl is heading out of town. This ain’t no regular doctor/patient relationship, though folks. Disappointed, he brings her out of her hypnosis. It seems like he’s trying to uncover a traumatic event from Nadia’s past regarding her sister, but the info he’s after remains out of reach in Nadia’s mind. Score by: Bernardo Segáll Episode synopsis: Columbo A Deadly State of MindĪ tearful Nadia Donner is recounting a ‘daddy’ moment from her youth, while her psychiatrist, Dr Mark Collier, prompts her with questions. ![]() Fischer-penned outing certainly leaves an impression.īut is A Deadly State of Mind actually any good, or does it round out Season 4 like a wet lettuce? Or to put it another way, is it as steely-minded as Dr Mark Collier, or a helpless flounderer like Nadia Donner? Let’s take a look… Dramatis personae Following five excellent episodes, Columbo‘s fourth season rounded out on 27 April 1975 in the suave form of A Deadly State of Mind.įeaturing heart-throb George Hamilton as unscrupulous psychiatrist Dr Mark Collier, a double homicide (including one of the most far-fetched in TV history) and the Lieutenant losing his rag, this Peter S.
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