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Hey, welcome to "One Killer Question."
I'm Ali Stroker.
Imagine you're in trouble
and the only person there to help you
happened to kind of kill your best friend.
(screams)
And turns out to maybe be not such a bad guy.
(dinging)
Theo. Huh?
What do you think,
Ryan Broussard and James Caverly?
James. What's your deal?
INTERPRETER: Aw, man.
Theo, he got arrested in scene one, and I'm like,
oh, man, I'm finished.
I'm never-- we're never going to see Theo again.
That's exactly what I thought.
But now, you see me get back, and I'm like,
they didn't write off the deaf guy yet!
So I feel like I can play more of the story.
Theo is expanding and I feel good about that.
Do you think ultimately Theo's intentions are good?
Yeah, I think Theo's trying to do good.
He never really had a chance growing up, like, with his father.
I couldn't imagine Theo what his life was like
before the murder of Zoe.
Like before that, I'm sure he was just happy
and, like, woo, let's do whatever I, I want.
And now all of a sudden,
oh, everything's secret, everything's dark.
But yeah, I think the relationship with the father,
you can't help but blame the dad for what happened.
He never really had a chance to grow up, right?
I mean, we see it in Coney Island,
they're all playing around and enjoying everything
and being a kid again.
You never really see that in his character in the past.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like from the beginning,
like I've always just been drawn to your cha--
I was more surprised than anything that like
we, we had the revelation
that Theo had something to do with Zoe's murder,
because I was so drawn to that character, I was like,
that's a good guy, and I want to root for him.
And then we had that big reveal and it was like,
oh, no, I wanted to like you so much!
But I still-- I still do.
His intentions are good.
He wants to make life easier for his father, for himself.
Does Theo think by helping Mabel will allow him,
I guess, to forgive himself about what happened with Zoe?
I hope so.
I talked a lot with the writers, you know, and we said that
Theo's big goal for his life
is to always be centered around Zoe.
I think it reminds you, I mean, being with Mabel
maybe reminds you of Zoe.
There was so much guilt there that Theo had.
Now carrying that for ten years,
I still have to live with the guilt.
Needing forgiveness, that need for forgiveness,
I never really had that.
My father never allowed me to recover from that.
So for Theo, honestly, in that episode,
he's looking for a certain type of forgiveness.
Yeah. We have seen how both Zoe and Tim's death
have affected Mabel.
But how have they affected Theo?
You know, the previous season,
season one, that whole time, Theo was isolated.
You know, I really had to practice for myself
and isolate myself as much as I could from everyone else.
I'm kind of in the dressing room,
kind of like dark, trying to get that feeling,
trying to be isolated as much as I could.
I think him and Mabel are finding each other
at the perfect time.
I think Mabel sees something in him
that not a lot of people see
just because of what he went through in the first season
and the tragedy that happened with Zoe.
And I think Mabel is seeing the same exact situation
happen to her as what happened to Theo,
because she's the main suspect right now
in this, this murder that happened with Bunny.
And to know that, like, it didn't go down like that.
You don't know the whole story.
You don't know everything that happened.
She's starting to show compassion
for Theo and understand that, like, yeah,
maybe the thing that I'm going through right now
is exactly what he was going through in season one.
And like they-- that might form actually a really,
really strong bond. It's going to be interesting.
Do you think Theo belongs in jail?
-Absolutely. -That's interesting.
I think in some ways,
being arrested helped Theo rediscover himself.
I feel like if you do, you know,
serve a prison sentence,
or, or time for the crime that he committed,
it allows you to, yeah, forgive yourself,
have time to reflect and kind of get past that.
But when you never have that opportunity to do that
and he has to just constantly live with that--
with that pain and that mistake, I think it's like, yeah,
that's a-- that's a lifetime sentence, having to deal with
the things that he's dealing with.
-Okay. This is a crazy idea. -RYAN: Mm-hm.
But could Theo and Mabel ever be a thing?
Ooh.
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-Dating a murderer? Why not? -(laughing)
Listen, Mabel seems to be very drawn to murder,
so we're not throwing anything out.
-The ultimate bad boy. -RYAN: Exactly.
(laughing)
Like what kind of girl in her right mind
would want to flirt with someone
who killed her best friend and blamed her other best friend
who was in jail for, like, ten years?
Like what kind of things do these people
have to be going through to be one of--
to want to be tied to each other
and that thing that ties them together is murder.
Like, it almost-- it's their--
They're making a podcast about murder,
-they're hanging out with murderers. -RYAN: Yes.
-Characters are obsessed. -Now, best friends with murderers.
And what about Will's relationship with Theo?
Yeah, we need DNA results to come out ASAP.
I'm right with the audience. I'm figuring this out.
That was one of the interesting things,
like we didn't really cross paths in season one.
Now, we're-- we may be binded together
for-- for the rest of this journey
that's going to happen with "Only Murders in the Building."
Yeah, it's crazy.
-If you two turn out to be brothers... -RYAN: Oh no.
what would be your first bonding trip?
(chuckles)
ALI: Where would you go? What would you do?
Oh, man.
I feel like Oliver would try to convince Theo and Will
to go to a Broadway show.
Take in some theater.
Either that or go to the graves and rob some bodies.
I'll live in that world.
Thank you both so much.
And thank you for watching "One Killer Question."
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