Season 2001, Episode 1: Murder with Too Many Notes - Fading film composer Findlay Crawford murders his talented ghostwriter, Gabriel McEnery, by sedating him and pushing him off a rooftop with a freight elevator to prevent exposure. Columbo investigates, finding secobarbital in McEnery's dried blood, proving he was unconscious. The detective ultimately reveals Crawford's guilt by demonstrating how McEnery's personalized, inscribed baton, found in the elevator shaft, could only have fallen if he was lying on the open elevator doors.