Only Murders In The Building Season 3, Episode 9 Recap

#4: Tobert

Let’s start this recap with one more left-field suspect for old times’ sake. Tobert (Jesse Williams) has been on the edge of the investigation all season and chipped in occasionally, but he hasn’t been much more than a romantic interest for Mabel. But like everyone else this season, he had beef with Ben after working with him, and their relationship wasn’t improved after Ben snatched his camera on opening night.

Tobert didn’t poison Ben, and it’d be a stretch to have him be the elevator pusher, but we don’t know if his reasons for working with Mabel were entirely altruistic. Maybe he was working his own angle or trying to get his own true crime doc off the ground? Now that Death Rattle‘s cast is likely off the board, we’ll slot Tobert into the Keep An Eye On Them spot.

#3: Dickie

Poor dang Dickie. This week’s episode all but acquits Dickie, although he comes out looking more than a little worse for the wear.

Dickie admits that he tampered with Ben’s initial bloodwork, but it was to keep the press from finding out about his illegal habits. After Ben’s return from the hospital, Dickie also admitted that he took Ben’s CoBro costume out partying and shows the Arconia gang a photo that places him outside of the building at the time of the elevator push. Dickie’s likely involved in the season’s endgame, but we’re placing him outside of the main suspects.

#2: Loretta

Loretta spent most of the episode in jail, but we learned a new bit of information this week: She’d actively been encouraging Dickie to leave Ben.

Last week’s episode established that Loretta’s disdain for Ben came from her desire to help out Dickie. Her motive comes with a pretty big caveat, as killing Ben would stop Death Rattle and cause her to lose her big role. But if you’re looking for evidence in the She Pushed Ben column, Loretta mentioned to Oliver in the courtroom that she’d “gone this far already” to help out Dickie.

#1: Donna

We called it! You guys, we called it!

As Donna (Linda Emond) told Loretta last week, a mother would do anything to protect their son. In Donna’s case, this (potentially) includes poisoning her play’s leading man to protect her son from a box office flop.

Howard’s word search skills reveal that the shredded paper was a negative review from Maxine, the theater critic who panned Death Rattle and described Ben’s performance as being as wooden as a lighthouse. In the Arconia gang’s retracing, Donna shredded the negative review in the office before spotting the rat poison in the office, dusting a Schmackary’s cookie with the poison, and dropping it off in Ben’s dressing room.

But with a single episode left, we’re due for one more under-the-wire plot twist. We can safely pin the poisoning on Donna. But who pushed Ben down the elevator shaft?