Based on the season 4 episode of the same name. Colonel Lyle C. Rumford, head of the Haynes Military Academy, an all-boys military school, is told by Board of Trustees president William Haynes that the school will convert to a coed school as a solution to declining enrollment. Haynes, who is the grandson of the academy's founder and was once a cadet under the colonel, has furthermore decided to boot out his hated former commandant. Rumford decides to kill Haynes instead. Enter Columbo, to sort things out and get to the bottom of things.