Only Murders In The Building “The Stunt Man”

The previous episode ended with the gang getting what sounded like a threatening warning from a mystery woman over a ham radio.  Will this amount to anything?

I mean, this is season four, and this show isn’t shy about ending with cliffhangers that don’t amount to anything right away.

Case in point:  by episode’s end, Mabel learns what’s really going on with those weirdos on the West Tower:  they’re subletting for $200 a month from the missing Dudenoff.  The mystery woman was Rudy’s paranoid ex-girlfriend.  As it is, that sounds kinda plausible.  It also means Mabel’s squatting plan won’t work because Dudenoff isn’t coming back from Portugal, where he retired and sends hams to the people subletting all the apartments he controls.

You know, getting an apartment as big as the one Mabel was squatting in for $200 a month in Manhattan is pretty much unheard of.  That’s how I know this show is a work of fiction.

That would also explain why Paul Rudd is back, this time as Ben Glenroy’s Irish stunt double.  Rudd’s Irish accent is a wee bit questionable, but so is Glen Stubbins’s sanity, so that all checks out.  See, the gang goes down to a stunt man’s bar, and that goes poorly because actors aren’t welcome there, particularly since Sazz can’t get a stunt man’s funeral since that involves her body laying out on a table, and there’s nothing left of Sazz for that.

That is sort of where this episode goes.  Charles assumes that Sazz was his good friend, but he’s having weird dreams of her saying she’s going to “paradise,” and of course, the implication of the season is Charles didn’t know Sazz as well as he thought he did.  He didn’t know about the stunt man bar, her ham radio interest, or a host of other things.  He does stop to think it would be a good idea to set up a second murder board since the group still isn’t sure whether the killer was after him or Sazz, and that’s a smart move.

Of course, Charles does realize he did know something about Sazz:  that “Paradise” was Sazz’s retirement plan to build a school for future stunt men atop a cleaned-up superfund site.  Mostly because the land was cheap.  And Charles can sub for Sazz in that stunt man’s funeral, a reverse stand-in!  That gets him some respect during his second visit!  It’s a better idea that Oliver’s fake Instagram account to find out what Loretta is up to without telling her.  And Charles’s plans work great until he learns he gets hit with a breakaway bottle from every mourner, and even worse when it turns out Glen had one real bottle in there.

Well, it is what Sazz wanted.

Oh, and the episode ends with Bev Melon’s aiming a gun at them at Sazz’s school site, so that probably won’t amount to much in the end either.