Bombastic Broadway Style Music

"Not squirt, not tinkle, Splash!"

Synchronized swimming choreography. On Broadway. I mean, I'm not into it for theater but I am ready for a comeback of swimming musical movies.

Charles aggressively playing the concertina at Oliver.

All of these people need to tell each other the truth.

Tie Die Guy is what we're calling the person who went up the stairs when everyone else was evacuating. Still could be Mabel even as she says it could be the mysterious fiancee. (Who I am not sure I believe in.)

I like how Oliver and Charles are trying to solve the mystery, except they're investigating things like real estate and mysterious fiancees. Meanwhile Mabel is encouraging them while also using them to solve the mystery only she knows about.

While I don't see Howard "Evelyn's Cat Dad" as a murderer, I can't say I wouldn't be sympathetic if Tim indeed shot the cat as threatened. But we don't know how Evelyn died.

Huh. I somehow didn't expect Teddy to still be here, but who would waste Nathan Lane?
Oh. Teddy is the Dimas Deli guy with the dips. And he financed Oliver's stuff. I assume he lost quite a bit on Splash!

EVELYN!

At least he has a reason for having a frozen cat in his freezer, I guess? Suspecting Tim Kono poisoned her is reason.

Do we have an autopsy report on Tim Kono? I know there's the whole blood thing but was he poisoned too? (Soap style: "stabbed, shot, strangled, suffocated, and bludgeoned.")

"You know, there's A CAT in your freezer."
Vintage fucking Steve Martin, that whole bit.

"Splat!"
Oh, Oliver. You used your son's college fund. Now it makes sense.

He's just holding that cat leg.

Oscar's Dad still works here. So Oscar also has access to the building keys.

I guess you don't waste Sting either.

"End the podcast or I end you."
Yeah, you really should lock your door.
Winnie?! No time! Save Winnie!

Oliver, I do not think Sting is poisoning the animals in your building. Did love that scene, though.

This was a great episode. Framing everything through Oliver's ... not just pov, but life, was so much fun and so interesting. I'll be happy if there's more like this.

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To recap: wtf, Mabel? Did she tell the truth about anything? Was she the person in the hoodie going up while Charles and Oliver were evacuating the building? We don't know where she is until she enters the bar and joins them.

Mabel. My dear hopefully not murderous Mabel. Why are you wearing that ring? I don't feel like I need to ask why she's drawing her dead friend.

Charles. Charles you actor. You liar of an actor. Giving Mabel Brazzo's story as your own. Gods I love these people. They are awful/wonderful.

"Now you sound like Patti Lupone."
I am here for the theater snark.

Oliver should lock his door.

"Tim Kono seems to have had a really sad quiet life."

Ooh. Mabel disappeared for ten years. Someone in jail, Tim can make it right, he knows what happened but didn't say anything.

Who is Oscar who is getting out of jail? I presume he blames Tim for being jailed. Is he the other Hardy Boy?

Oliver should probably take a vitamin, but I do understand his love for dips.

Oh, she knows what's from your show, Charles. She knows.

The cat! How did she die? I knew there was something up with the cat in the hallway.

Nobody liked Tim. I guess that makes sense.

The flashback was very cute. I like the animated bits and extras in this show. Oscar was indeed a Hardy Boy, and the one among them most likely to be punished if any of the 4 were caught. Even Mabel, poor as she was, had the connection of her aunt to protect her. Where's Zoe ten years later? Why was Oliver in jail?

"It was just reeking of your years on CBS."

Tim kept the Hardy Boys books.
Is that the same ring?

As I feared, Zoe is dead. Oliver was blamed. Tim saw someone else fighting with Zoe and that's what he never said.

Evelyn the cat was inside Tim's apartment after he died.

I don't know if I believe Charles.

Oh, god, is Oliver going to make them do trust exercisess?
OMG he did try!

Dead Tim Kono gives Lilly Kane vibes.
Why is she hanging out with a couple of old weirdos? Same reason she hung out with three young weirdos, DeadTim.

I joked in the first episode that Mabel was crawling through the vents but of course she must have Oliver's key.

Tim kept the drawing Mabel made the first day they met. He kept the Hardy Boys books. He stuffed the Hardy Boys books full of jewelry which I was assuming they stole while they were kids, but would he? Especially if he was broke?

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