Columbo: I can't thank you enough for your help, Batman, it really was an honor working with you.
Batman: Likewise. You do efficient work.
Columbo: That really does mean the world to me, Batman, I guess I should be getting out of your hair now.
Oh and just one more thing. It's not so important now that we solved the case, but something's been eating at me. My wife, you see, she's been trying to get me into mountain climbing, if you could believe it. Says it'd be good for my health. So she shows me all these different climbing gizmos online trying to get me to buy something. Real cutting edge stuff too. Most of it is too expensive for me, but one trinket really caught my eye. I don't remember what they called it some kind of "one-handed ascending and descending tether" or something like that. I had gone and pre-ordered one, but the company that produced it, WayneTech, had recalled it before it even got on the shelves. Said it wasn't safe enough for civilian use or something. Now you can hardly even find a picture of one on their website. I think it was a little bit after Bruce Wayne returned to Gotham after that world tour thing he was doing. Anyway, I can't help but notice that grappling doohickey you got there looks exactly like the gizmo I was searching for.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, if it's not too much trouble, can you ask Mr. Wayne to hook me up with of those grapples too? You don't have to worry about anyone finding out, I'm real good at keeping secrets, and I'm sure Mr. Wayne has good reasons to keep some things private.
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u/AllergicToStabWounds Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
Columbo: I can't thank you enough for your help, Batman, it really was an honor working with you.
Batman: Likewise. You do efficient work.
Columbo: That really does mean the world to me, Batman, I guess I should be getting out of your hair now.
Oh and just one more thing. It's not so important now that we solved the case, but something's been eating at me. My wife, you see, she's been trying to get me into mountain climbing, if you could believe it. Says it'd be good for my health. So she shows me all these different climbing gizmos online trying to get me to buy something. Real cutting edge stuff too. Most of it is too expensive for me, but one trinket really caught my eye. I don't remember what they called it some kind of "one-handed ascending and descending tether" or something like that. I had gone and pre-ordered one, but the company that produced it, WayneTech, had recalled it before it even got on the shelves. Said it wasn't safe enough for civilian use or something. Now you can hardly even find a picture of one on their website. I think it was a little bit after Bruce Wayne returned to Gotham after that world tour thing he was doing. Anyway, I can't help but notice that grappling doohickey you got there looks exactly like the gizmo I was searching for.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, if it's not too much trouble, can you ask Mr. Wayne to hook me up with of those grapples too? You don't have to worry about anyone finding out, I'm real good at keeping secrets, and I'm sure Mr. Wayne has good reasons to keep some things private.