Garage Sale Mystery: The Deadly Room Page #6

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You'll feel all tingly

And weird,

But you won't die.

It's lethal

If you eat it,

And it's easy to crush it up

With water and make an extract.

Well, I wonder if

You injected that into someone,

If it would it kill them?

I asked her that,

And it would,

But they'd be

Violently sick

For about four hours.

Oh! I guess we can

Rule that out.

Good.

So, what's the connect between

William and Tina?

I mean--

He was flirty

At the open house,

So things must have

Moved really quickly.

Well, William wants to buy

A house he can't afford.

He hooks up with Tina,

Who's the only person

Who's profited

By Adrians death.

-nice.

-well...

If he wanted to buy the house,

It's a lot cheaper now.

And if anyone would know

About the hidden stairway,

It would be him.

Thank you very much.

So, everyone at the agency

Was talking about you

Getting trapped in the stairway.

And we even had to change

The code on the lock-boxes.

Normally, I don't panic,

But I was getting there.

I can only imagine.

Erica franklin

Called me yesterday.

She wants me

To take the listing.

The colonial?

Yeah.

But I said no.

I just didn't feel comfortable

About it.

It was Adrians listing,

And she'd done such a great job.

I know,

But if you don't take it,

Someone's going to.

What would Adrian have wanted?

That's exactly

What my boss said.

He really doesn't

Want to lose that property.

So Ill see.

Erica gave me 24 hours

To reconsider.

Is there

Any interest at all?

No.

Well, actually,

There's one low-ball offer

From William Carson.

How does a guy like that

Even scrape together

A low-ball offer?

Well, he's got

A little family money,

And I hear

He's some kind of gambler.

Mm.

So Ive been thinking about

Our last conversation,

About who would gain

From Adrians death--

Now that's motive, right?

It all begins with motive.

Well, I can think of a couple--

Some of them far-fetched,

Like, uh, Carson trying to

Knock down the price.

But I keep on

Coming back to how.

If Adrian was murdered, how?

[Sighs]

I was looking

Into deadly plants.

Wolfs bane,

For example.

I thought it might be some kind

Of contact transmission,

But that would only

Make you sick.

Try this out.

Is there any way

Of releasing some kind of gas,

Or cutting off the oxygen

To the room

So she just dies in her sleep?

Uh, from

An unvented fireplace?

-carbon monoxide?

-right.

Wouldn't that show up

In an autopsy?

I guess so.

I got to get back to work.

Is Erica considering

The low-ball offer?

Not yet,

But eventually,

She may just have to

Take a loss and move on.

Thanks for coffee.

My pleasure.

[]

[Bell jingles]

Hello. May I help you?

Afternoon.

Can I ask you a favour?

Sure. What do you need?

I own a number of properties

Around the colonial house,

All this talk about it

Being cursed

And a "deadly room,"

It's hurting everything.

Well, how can I help you

With that?

Leave it alone.

I know you have no intentions

Of keeping this rumour alive.

So why don't we just accept

What the coroner's ruled

As a natural death?

You're right,

I have no intention

Of fuelling any rumours

Connected with the house.

Great.

But--

I am sceptical

That she just laid down

And died.

[]

Are you a doctor?

A police detective?

You own a second-hand shop,

And suddenly,

You're an expert

And you know better

Than the professionals?

You're not serving her memory

By doing this.

I'll be the judge on

How I serve my friend's memory.

My advice?

Leave things alone

That don't concern you.

[]

So, uh...

Amy asked me to the dance.

And...?

Well, I heard "mom voice"

In my ear,

So I said "yes."

Figure Ill survive.

There ya go!

I can't wait

For the wedding.

[Laughs] just kidding.

Hey, um--

That movie, "the sting"--

Um, that was about

A horse race, right?

Yeah. A bunch of gamblers

Figured out a way

To delay the telegraph results

So they would know

The winner before anyone else.

Pretty cool, huh?

[Dress swishing,

Heels clacking]

Huh.

What do you guys think?

-wow.

-whoa...

That is beautiful!

Are you buying it?

Because I think its $300.

Mom!

I'm borrowing it.

Two of my delta sisters

Want to enter a dance contest

For Greek week,

So we're making duplicates

Of the dress

And we're doing the Charleston.

Oh! I can do the Charleston.

You want to see?

[Kids]:
mm--

Maybe later.

Hey, after dinner,

Can you show me something

On your computer?

-yeah. Sure.

-thanks.

[]

Okay, whoa, whoa.

Wait, wait. Pause.

There's

Adrian's watch.

Can you blow it up

So we can see the time?

Um, yeah.

Can you make it

Not so grainy?

I can run a program

That generates missing pixels.

Might help.

Yeah, let me see.

[Clacking]

What if you were to run

The pixel program

For a three-hour segment,

How long would that take?

Mm, it's a pretty static image,

Might take a couple of hours.

Okay. Fast-forward

To about 2:
30 a.m.

And go three hours

From there.

What exactly

Are you looking for, mom?

We'll see.

the sting gave me an idea.

[]

Okay, Logan,

Let's play it back.

Whoa, whoa, but that'll take,

Like, three hours.

It's almost

Midnight now.

Well, put it

On three-times fast-forward,

It'll take

Less than an hour.

You want to stare

At a watch-face for an hour?

I'll make you french toast

In the morning.

Deal.

Okay.

Thanks.

[]

[Hypnotically]:

You are getting

Slee-eepy...

Ve-ry slee-eepy.

[trance-like]:
you will

Take out the trash

Without being told.

Your son should

Have a cool car.

He needs a cool car.

[Chuckling]

[Sighs wearily]

Please don't ever

Tell anyone I did this.

They wouldn't understand.

There it is!

Look at that.

Like, three minutes are missing.

Rewind it.

Play it again.

Yeah, yeah.

[Keys clacking]

Can you go to the wider shot?

Yeah.

[Clacking]

Okay, we're just

Seconds before and...

Oh! Yeah, there it is.

Okay, pause.

[Clack]

Blow up her hand.

[Clacking]

Now play it back

And watch carefully.

[Clack]

[]

What does that mean?

[Exhales] oh...

That means the live webcam

Was not live.

This has been edited.

[]

Ready?

You always tell me

To eat slower.

Fine. Let's do this!

Okay.

Yeah. Okay.

Um...

So, we'll start recording.

-um, nothing for a few seconds.

-right.

Okay, you can step in now.

-okay. Off-camera.

-yep.

Now I am on-camera.

Right.

-okay.

-yeah. Looks good.

And a few seconds of you.

And that's great.

Yeah, yeah.

Come on. Cool.

And we get a few seconds

More now of you out.

It's back to nothing.

- [beep]

-that should be good.

Alright.

Let's play it back.

Let's do it!

-check it out.

-now I am on-camera.

right.

-okay.

-yeah. Looks good.

How's that?

Okay, now edit me out.

Okay.

What I have to do is, uh,

Just make a cut here--

Before you enter...

Then one over here

After you leave...

And...

Yeah, here we go.

[Clack]

[]

Mom, that's it.

The key is to have

A static background.

If anything's moving,

It'll be obvious

Something's been cut out.

But if nothing moves,

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