Look, my list of suspects hasn’t changed because if there’s one thing that all episodes of Only Murders In the Building have been doing for sure, it’s trolling us about all the suspects in Sazz’s (Jane Lynch) “death.” Yes, I use quotation marks because so far nothing has convinced me that she was actually murdered instead of Charles (Steve Martin).

So I could be completely wrong and the series could have already introduced us to the culprits (the crime wasn’t committed by a single person) and just be misleading us, but… if that’s the case, congratulations. They’re doing it.

Some characters still don’t have much information and more are yet to appear, so I’m working with what isn’t a spoiler yet.

This week’s episode – Adaptation – is about the script. In a series that is exceptional in metalanguage, I appreciate all the wonderfully delivered commas in each scene. We don’t know “who” they wanted to kill, but “who died”; we don’t decipher why and go straight to the “how”, where the 12-minute window between the shot and the crime scene is cleaned up reveals itself as the big question mark of the action. The conclusion? It was a two-person effort. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

After threatening the podcasters with a gun, a still suspicious Bev Melon (Molly Shannon) has an explanation for being armed and in the isolated place where Sazz’s stunt school would be. Well, what she says is that it was dark and she pointed the gun at them out of fear. A loaded gun, by the way, that Bev claims to have “found” in the warehouse and that she assumes is Sazz’s.

She denies being the killer but suspects someone in the film’s production. According to her, on the night Sazz died, the stunt double called and left a voicemail, in which we hear Sazz say that there was a big problem with the film and that she could not talk about it over the phone. Bev took a while to return the call, and she didn’t know what she wanted. Mabel (Selena Gomez) identifies that the time of the message indicates that the call happened minutes before Sazz went to get the wine from Charles’ apartment, which they add to the timeline.

Of the new suspects presented, Bev is ruled out because she claims not to be the killer. Convenient for now. But it is still not very clear why Marshall (Jin Ha), the screenwriter of the film Only Murders, disguised himself with a beard and glasses. He claims to be a fan of Charlie Kaufman and wants to look like him, but it seemed unsatisfactory to me. The trio was satisfied with the alibi he presented (Bev also has an alibi). It is Marshall who questions whether a single person could commit the crime in 12 minutes because they would have to be in great shape.

With the clue that there are two people and that one of them has to be strong enough to carry Sazz’s body to the incinerator, the trio goes to a promotional photo shoot, where they try to locate the person who left the footprint in Dudenoff’s apartment, and who is on the team. And, wow, now the suspicion returns to the Brothers sisters. Tawny Brother (Siena Werber) has a shoe with a footprint and Trina (Catherine Cohen) proves to be strong. But when the three try to get closer, we hear gunshots and the screen goes black. All we hear is “Oh my God, they were shot.” Who? When? How? Why?

I can already imagine that the next one, no, I’ll give you a hint: in the next part we’ll rule out the two as suspects, but I warn you IT’S THE BEST EPISODE OF THE SEASON. I can’t wait for the week to go by faster!

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