This is "One Killer Question."
Digging into all the questions you need answered.
But only actually addressing one.
You're welcome.
♪ ♪
Hey, and welcome to "One Killer Question."
I'm Ali Stroker.
Mabel, Oliver, Charles.
What do they all have in common?
Poor, poor relationship decisions.
Wouldn't you agree, Chris Redd and Melissa Rivers?
Thank you so much for being here.
-Thrilled to be here. -Thank you for having me.
So we've all had some bad relationship experiences.
-Define some. -(all laugh)
Because I fall into perhaps many.
That's the category I live in.
Yeah, I live in a category called:
"Oh, I broke up with you,
but you're standing next to my bed when I wake up drunk."
-Uh-oh. -And I smelled you before I saw you.
That's not good.
No, it wasn't good. I survived, though.
You know what I'm sayin'? She's-- she's doing,
I don't keep up with her.
(all laugh)
You know, listen, we've all had those moments.
What do you think about Charles pursuing a relationship
with Jan, who's in prison?
I think it's kind of like the best of both worlds.
(laughing)
You don't have to worry where the other person is,
because they're incarcerated.
So, you know, I'm seeing that as a relationship plus.
-Yeah. -I mean, you don't have to worry.
Yeah, I've known so many cousins
who have dated people in jail, and they're like,
"Oh, they're strong and they'll kill for me,"
But I've never seen somebody date somebody that will kill you.
-Yeah. -You know what I mean?
So that's like a-- that's a twist on it.
I just like the turn-- turning their heads on dating--
on dating from prison. You know what I mean?
But wait, you've clearly never been married.
You could easily try and kill somebody,
perhaps accidentally.
Oh, yeah. Yes. I haven't been married,
but my parents have been together for over 40 years.
And so there was there was a point
where they didn't even talk to each other directly,
only through us, and we don't live with them.
So I can only imagine how dark it gets at times.
-Oh, you have no idea. -She tried to kill him.
I mean, come-- New York tries to kill me every day.
I still love this city, you what I'm sayin'?
I get it. Yes, yes, yes. I totally--
I mean, do you feel like
maybe Charles is just terrified of being alone?
-Absolutely. -Yes. 100%.
And Jan is sort of safe, but not.
She's-- well, she's-- she's safely locked away.
Exactly. I think things will change if she actually gets paroled.
-Yeah. -Right.
I think he would then really have to take
a deep emotional dive to-- to deal with his-- his demons.
And to her point, like, they only have to talk 10 minutes a day.
-So that's like super tight. -(laughing)
You might, by the way, you might then consider this.
No one's going to bother you when you're on the road.
Yeah, but I think I'm missing
a main part of the relationship I like: sex.
-Yeah. -(laughing)
Okay, Chris, which character has the worst relationship?
Well, I think Oliver has it pretty tough,
because he has three different relationships in one.
He has the Teddy, uh, the Teddy of it all,
and his late wife.
And then he has his son who might not-- You know.
So then it's like, what do you do?
Do you keep letting him just walk in the house
and come over or you just like, "Go upstairs where your Daddy is"?
Oh, no, you can't do that.
I know that. But what if he did?
You know what I mean? And then he has his own ego,
his relationship with his own ego,
and how that would bruise his ego and who he is.
So I think that's pretty tough to figure out.
Absolutely.
Like, are you-- are you aware of it
and just not paying attention?
Well, it was crazy because you find out
he has a superpower to read people,
but he's not reading the biggest story in his life,
you know what I mean?
Or is he so aware of himself and his sort of performance
in all these things that he doesn't notice?
-Right. -It's hard to tell,
but your heart kind of breaks for him.
-Yeah. -As he finds this out.
And, I mean, all three of them are attracted to liars
and specifically with Mabel.
I mean, I love this new relationship
because it's, like, unexpected,
but it's Alice, and Alice has demons.
And compared to Mabel.
-ALI: Right. -She's light and, you know, well-balanced.
Exactly.
So I think that's-- that's part of it, too.
But, ooh, I don't-- something about Alice is creepy.
I know. And like, Mabel's reserved a little bit,
and Alice is a little bit artistically reserved.
And so maybe they see eye-to-eye in that way.
But you can just tell Alice is lying, bruh.
Like about something.
Do you think Mabel wants to be like Alice?
-Ooh. -That's, that's-- ooh.
-Ooh, maybe. -Ooh, that's deep.
Maybe so. Can Mabel draw?
-(all laughing) -Yeah, and she's a paint--
Yeah, she's a painter.
See, yes, we're putting it all together.
I get this sense from Mabel that she is trying to escape
her reality, her past, and she wants something new.
And Alice is something that feels familiar but different.
She has this whole crowd downtown,
she's part of an artist collective.
Alice doesn't judge her.
With the first video that she sends to her,
she's like, she knows everything that Mabel was going through,
but she's not like judgmental about it.
She's like, yeah, you know, (bleep) happens.
You want to come-- you want to come to this event?
And that's-- I think that's what attracts Mabel initially to her.
What I also think Mabel wants to be a part of that cool crowd.
I mean, you even just look at the difference
-in how she dresses to go to the party. -Yes.
-Yes! -And you see her as beautiful and sexy
and trying where normally we see her just being normal Mabel.
ALI: Totally.
So it's almost like getting a chance for her
to try on a new skin.
-Yeah. -CHRIS: That's interesting you say that,
'cause I think both Oliver and Mabel
have gone through similar levels of blindness to people,
'cause, like, he was blind to them sleeping together
and Mabel was blind to this woman
obviously being somebody who's in it
for another alternative reason,
but she couldn't see it because she was just so excited
about having somebody to connect with.
I found that.
Do you think that Mabel has some intentions with Alice
that are not, like, truthful? I mean, I--
Mabel for me, like, I see one thing,
but sometimes her actions, I'm like, who is that girl?
Well, I think we're all questioning
and have been for a long time,
-exactly who is Mabel? -CHRIS: Mm-hm.
I find her sort of strangely naive...
-ALI: Mmm. -...and innocent,
even though clearly she's been through so much
and has such walls.
So the fact that she lets Alice in
and starts to-- it's kind of like...
you just feel like this isn't going to end well.
-Yeah. -I see Mabel as more calculated than that,
and constantly having to walk a line
with her darkness a little bit.
You know what I mean? She's-- she's-- 'cause
she's constantly-- she's just
the realest of the-- of most situations
and like way smarter than the dudes most of the time.
Which isn't that tough.
-(all laugh) -No, no, no.
You've got an egomaniac and a guy
-just trying to get by. -(laughing)
Really, it's not hard to lap those two.
Out of these three relationships
that these characters are in, which is the most dangerous?
-Physically or emotionally? -ALI: Both.
Mm.
I think Alice and Mabel,
because I think Alice could do real emotional damage.
-CHRIS: Right. -ALI: So that's emotionally.
-I think emotionally, yes. -Yeah.
Physically, what do you think?
Jan could escape and kill Charles in a heartbeat.
-MELISSA: It wouldn't even be hard. -I had that thought too.
She would knock on the door, he'd open it, and that'd be that.
Yeah, then he'd be, like, twirling a thing-- a cord.
And she'd be twirling one around his neck.
-Yeah!
-Yeah. (laughs) -Yeah.
That was the most adorable moment I've ever seen in my life.
-(laughing) -I mean--
♪ ♪