- Welcome to "One Killer Question"...
- Where we ask the one question you need to answer
after every episode of "Only Murder in the Building."
- Why didn't they call it "Only Question in the Building"?
- 'Cause it's stupid.
[percussive music] - Hm.
- Hey, welcome to "One Killer Question."
I'm Ali Stroker.
There's really only one thing to do
after watching this latest episode.
- The game is Son of Sam.
- So,
Hayley Law, Dan Oreskes, and Waj Ali,
wanna play Son of Sam?
- Uh-oh. [laughs]
- Let's do it. - Sure, let's do it.
- All right, I've taken the liberty to hand out cards.
On the back, you'll find a name
and that is the character that you're gonna be playing.
So let's dig up some secrets.
[bell dings]
Dan. - Uh-oh.
- You're first. - Okay.
- Who's your character and why should I trust you?
- Ah! Excellent.
You should trust me...
[imitates parrot] Because--
[normal voice] I mean, because...
- [laughs]
- I have an animal instinct
that actually makes it hard for me to lie.
- You've kept some juicy information from us.
I feel like you're very selective in your squawking.
- Mrs. Gambolini...
- [imitates parrot] Yes? [normal voice] I mean, yes?
- Have you witnessed any secrets
that we should know about?
- Oh, yeah.
- [laughs] - [gasps]
- Oh, yeah.
- What? - Tell.
- I can't.
- Aww, man. - Aww.
Hayley.
- I am Oliver.
- Are you trustworthy?
- I mean, I am just--
I'm sweet. I'm innocent.
I like to sit, eat my dips. - You're in show business.
- I'm in show business.
I'm bringing dips to set and I'm not even--
nobody asked me to, I'm just bringing them.
- You know what? You're hungry for another hit.
The first season of the podcast was fire.
You need something new-- wouldn't it be perfect...
- Right. - If you were part
of this murder mystery?
- That's too much work.
I think we should go back to the lovely Mrs. Gambolini.
DANIEL: [parrot voice] [bleep] you, Oliver!
[laughter]
- See, she knows more than she lets on.
- Waj? - Yes?
- What character are you
and why are you trustworthy?
- Well, I will be a Greek man
because I've always desired to be a Greek man
who makes amazing dip.
And the reason why you should trust me
is I'm not a liar.
- Oliver, this is your chance to ask Teddy
if he's been hiding anything from you.
- Where were you the evening
of our original Son of Sam game
at 12:35 a.m.?
- Oliver, that was such a long time ago.
Why are you so specific about that time?
I don't even remember--
I don't even know what I ate for lunch today.
Just--I must say.
I-I feel disrespected.
- Being offended-- the last refuge of the guilty.
- Mm.
- So says the bloody parrot.
- [squawks]
[bell dings] ALI: Who else...
are you this evening?
- I've got a good one. - Who?
- Mabel. - Killer. [coughs]
- No, she did it. - Uh-oh.
- Mabel.
What is your biggest secret?
- Well, I don't really have any big secrets.
I'm certainly not a killer.
I have a heart overflowing with love,
and, uh, and goodness and decency.
And I look into whether people are killers.
I don't kill-- if you see the difference.
- But, Mabel, you have been around
three murders.
- Wait a minute. Three?
- Three. - Three murders.
- Oh, wow. I lose track.
[laughter]
- Mabel.
- Three's a lot, I have to admit.
- You seem very suspicious. - I do, hm.
- Why are you constantly around people getting killed?
- Just bad luck, I'd say.
You know, there is such a thing as bad luck.
Everybody has a bad day.
I'm not talking about the average day.
The worst possible scenario
where I run into an irritating person
and she's extremely irritating, and I happen--
and this is a lot of coincidences.
- And she happens to have your sewing needle
in her chest and she's bleeding. - Exactly, exactly.
Right. - And she dies in your arms.
- So sure... - Totally normal.
- When you put it that way,
yeah, I could see how you might be a little suspicious.
- But, Mabel, you chose Alice...
- Mm.
- As your girlfriend. - Yeah.
- [English accent] 'Cause I'm hot.
And I'm British.
Yes, I might lie and I have a terrible British accent,
but, you know, who doesn't lie in the art world?
You have to lie a little bit to get ahead.
And so sure, those little fibs,
but I'm sincere and I think Mabel's
a once-in-a-generation talent, and I wanna unearth this talent.
And I think her choice in me was a good choice.
I'm truly looking out for her.
- But, Alice, you've told so many fibs.
Why should we believe you now?
- I'm just a young British girl
trying to make it in the art world.
That's it.
- But once you lie once,
how do we know that everything else isn't a lie?
How do we know?
Or as the lawyers say,
so were you lying then?
Or are you lying now?
- Mabel, as a person who's been surrounded by 3 dead bodies...
- Yeah.
- I would like to think that you would like me
to give you the benefit of the doubt.
- Oh, so you're turning it on me, in a way.
- Ah, see?
HAYLEY: Three murders? - Yes.
- One, I would excuse.
Two, maybe.
But three?
Something's going on there. You're setting traps.
- Where there's smoke... - Yeah.
Reminds me--Oscar Wilde, didn't he say,
"One murder would be bad,
but two seems downright careless."
- Alice, Oliver read you.
Let's see if you can name his tell.
- Oliver...
- Yes? - Smiles a bit too much.
And when he's nervous,
he tries to take over and pretend that he's in control.
- The only thing I'm killing people with is kindness.
- I love it. - Case closed.
- You know, when we get down to it,
aren't we all hiding something?
[dramatic music]
[squawks] [bleep] you, Oliver!