When an episode of Only Murders in the Building ends with a jarring twist, like Bev Melon threatening to shoot Charles, Oliver, and Mabel, for example, the next one will most likely begin by somehow undoing it. After all, it’s too early in the season for any real answers. That’s exactly how this week’s episode opened: By revealing that Bev (who has the posters for Ice Age 2 , Garfield 2 , and Rio 2 on display in her office) wasn’t actually threatening them.
She was just startled. But why was she lurking around Sazz’s defunct trampoline park in Paradise, New Jersey to begin with? An age-old question. While Bev maintains she didn’t kill Sazz, she fears someone else working on the movie may have.
The night she died, Bev was at Variety’ s Power Women party in L.A. and got an ominous voicemail from Sazz.
“You need to call me, there’s a problem with your Only Murders movie, a big problem,” Sazz warned. Since then, Bev’s been worried that some other shoe is going to drop and derail her film, and she’s trying to get to the bottom of what it could be. Interestingly, this call means Sazz knew about the movie before the trio did.
But what could Sazz be so concerned about that she would go to Bev Melon before bringing it to Charles? Personally, I think it was just business — maybe Sazz wanted a gig (you’d think she’d be a shoe-in after doubling for Charles for so many years). That call now connects Sazz to the film, which opens up a whole new pool of suspect.