Garage Sale Mystery: The Deadly Room Page #5

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From your

Cell phone, mom.

The less you enlarge,

The better it looks.

-Oh--

-okay.

What-- w-what--

Mm-mm-mm.

Absentee-mom intervention.

You two have a choice.

You can stare at that computer--

...or you can get your butt

Kicked at hearts.

[Groans]

-boom!

-you know you want it.

-that's a challenge.

-you know you want it!

-We cannot turn down--

-we can't turn it down.

We've won--we've won

Six times in a row!

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Mm. Just go with me here.

Seems impossible

There was a murder, right?

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Put that aside.

Let's talk suspects.

Okay. Let's hear it.

And I want motive!

Okay, Ive been

Working on this.

Suspects and motives.

[Clack-clack]

William Carson,

Heir to the Carson family,

Who built the house.

He wanted to buy the house,

But he couldn't afford it.

Mm-hmm.

Donald Lennox,

Real estate developer.

He wanted

To knock the house down

And build

An apartment complex.

Maybe he still does.

Okay!

Erica franklin,

Present owner of the house,

But...

Maybe we should rule her out,

Because she stands

To lose the most

From this whole

"Deadly room" story.

Or we should rule her in,

Because she looks innocent.

[Click]

And then there's Tina,

The most obvious suspect,

Because she stands

To gain the most--

Control of the trust fund,

Plus Adrians share of it.

Sounds guilty to me.

[Phone alert beeps]

Ooh! I have an appointment

With my astrologist.

Oh! The colonial.

We still have

A statue there.

Right. I will

Go pick it up.

Okay. Bye, honey.

Bye.

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[Click]

Zip code.

[Door creaks open]

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[thud]

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[Click-creak]

[Creaking]

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Ohh...

[Grunting]

Oh! Oh, no.

[Thumping]

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Hey. Have you

Heard from your mom?

Uh, no. I called her earlier,

Got her voicemail.

Huh.

[Phone buzzes]

Hello?

oh, hey, dani.

it's Jason.

Have you heard

From my lovely wife?

I can't get a hold of her.

No, I don't know

Where she is, either.

I tried calling her, too.

I'm getting a little worried.

I left her at

the shop this afternoon.

She may have gone over

To the colonial,

to pick up a statue

we left there!

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Jennifer!

Jenn!

Let me check upstairs.

I'm going to go this way.

Jenn! Jennifer?

Jason!

Her purse and phone are here!

-Jennifer!

- [muffled]:
Jason!

- [muffled thumping] Jason!

-Jenn!

[Jenn]:
here! In here!

Hold on, honey.

I'm gonna get you out.

- [click]

-I got it!

[Jenn gasps with relief]

Aww.

Oh, Jason.

Aw, thank goodness.

-ohh--

-you okay?

Yeah. Ohh...

Isn't this trespassing?

Can I press charges?

Um...

Maybe.

[Sighs] probably not.

You had a lockbox on the door,

She had the code.

How did you know the code?

Adrian.

She told me all the codes

To the lock-boxes

Are the zip codes.

And you came by

To retrieve a statue--

The barye stag!

Uh, thank you-- which

You loaned for the open house?

Right.

And then I found

The hidden stairway

That leads

To the bedroom.

I knew about the stairway.

So what?

I don't want you

Sneaking around this house.

And I want you to stop with

This nonsense about a murder.

Detective.

What is the official cause

Of death of Adrian Merrill?

Natural causes.

Well, then who closed

The door behind me

And trapped me

In the stairway?

[Door creaks]

Just like that?

Yes.

[Mechanism clicks, door thuds]

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[Erica scoffs]

Do you know what this is?

Cap to something?

I think it's what

You put on a syringe

To protect the needle.

Where'd you find this?

The hidden stairway.

I think somebody

Injected Adrian with something.

You don't know how long

This has been in the stairway.

I mean,

Think about it--

You've watched

The entire tape

Of Adrian sleeping,

And nobody injected her,

Right?

Right.

It would be on camera

If someone had.

And there was nothing

In the autopsy report, right?

[Sighs]

Right.

So what do you think now?

I think Im gonna

Finish my pie.

Colonel mustard

With the candlestick.

I'm thinking

Professor plum

With the rope.

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Ahh. I knew it!

"1,000 times

More deadly than cyanide."

Tetrodotoxin.

"One fish

Could kill 30 people."

Ooh.

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Hemlock.

Okay.

Mercury? Well, got that.

Watch your tuna.

"A medical toxin,

Succinylcholine,

"Similar to curare,

Used during surgery

Or emergency intubation."

Wolfs bane. Untraceable?

"Causes arrhythmic

Heart function

"Leading to suffocation.

"Leaves and stem are toxic

"And easily absorbed

Through skin.

Must be handled

With protective gloves."

Wolfs bane.

[Pen scratching paper]

-Wolfs-- what?

-"wolfs bane."

It's a poisonous flower,

Very toxic to the touch.

You have to wear gloves

If you're handling it.

So, not a "deadly room,"

A deadly massage?

[Laughs] that's funny!

But what if it had been rubbed

On the sheets, for example?

Have you been up all night?

I think you need more rest.

Here, let me

Take your temperature.

Seriously, dani,

This could explain a lot.

Oh, hold on.

[Ringing]

Hello?

Hi, Tina.

Uh, yes, I can do that.

Very good.

I'll see you in a bit.

That was Tina.

She wants me

To go over to Adrians.

Something about

Going through her stuff.

Ooh.

Hey, you have a friend

Who grows exotic flowers?

Yeah, angelica.

Would you mind calling her?

And seeing what you can

Find out about wolfs bane?

Not at all.

-thank you.

-mm-hmm.

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And... Go!

Nice. Nice.

Okay, let's do another one.

[Awkwardly]:
hey.

Hey.

Uh, Ill catch up

With you guys later.

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[Words catching]: um--

Uh...

If you're gonna ask me

To the dance,

I appreciate

You thinking of me.

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And Id like to go.

Cool.

Yeah. Cool.

I mean...

Thanks.

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Thanks for coming over.

Wow...

Hi.

Hi...

Let's go

Out to the garage.

You're bluffing!

You don't have that ace.

So, here's all the stuff.

Do I just donate it?

There's personal things I don't

Really want to go through.

If you want anything

For your store,

You can just have it.

Most of the furniture

Can go to charity.

They'll pick it up,

And Ill go through the boxes

At the store,

And donate what's appropriate.

Great! I figured

You might know what to do.

I didn't know

You were involved with William.

I met him at the open house.

You know he tried to buy it?

He's a Carson,

Used to be in his family.

Yes.

I'm a little naive.

Can you really make that kind

Of money playing on-line poker?

Enough to buy

A house like that?

Willie wanted to buy it

Before they sunk

All that money into it.

He still might,

If he can win a big tournament.

Hmm.

William Carson wants the house

Because it's part of

His family legacy,

Which is crazy.

Why's that crazy?

Well, he doesn't have

The money to buy it.

So he's moved in

With her?

Humph! Oh, yeah.

Hey. Check this out.

Did you know Peter and Adrian

Worked together?

Oh, yes.

A long time ago.

Before we ever met Adrian.

Did you ever find anything

Out about wolfs bane?

Yup. It's not hard to get.

Angelica had some

In her orchid house.

Toxic to the touch?

Yeah. Sort of.

If you touch it

With your bare hands,

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