The Killing Pact Page #5

me over to Aunt Lisa's

so I could go swimming.

- What happened?

- My dad killed himself.

- What?

Why?

- My grandfather was

a man of passion.

He had an unquenchable

love for the arts.

He used every penny to build

the Andrew Performing

Arts Theater.

Unfortunately, he was too

much a lover of the theater

and not enough of a businessman.

This place was hanging by a

thread when he passed away.

It passed to my dad and Lisa.

Knowing how much the

theater meant to my grandpa,

my dad worked his

fingers to the bone

bringing the theater

back from the brink.

But Aunt Lisa, she

thought he was stupid

for putting so much time

and resources into it.

She wanted to cut

losses, sell it.

The theater not only

survived, but it thrived

because of my dad.

It became the premiere

theater in the city.

But Lisa always knew how

to manipulate people.

When she saw the theater

was worth something, well,

she took all he credit

for the success,

and then convinced the board

members to push my dad out.

This not only destroyed

my dad financially,

but it broke him.

The theater had come

to means as much to him

as it did my grandpa, and

to lose it in a betrayal

by a close family member was,

it was more than

he could deal with.

I tried to poison

Lisa once before.

- You did?

- Yeah.

And when she started

feeling sick,

she went to the hospital.

But I was really careful.

They weren't quite sure if she

was intentionally poisoned.

I was questioned by the police

and for a time maybe suspected,

but eventually they

wrote it off as a fluke.

But that's why I have to

come up with a better plan.

If I'm a suspect, I wouldn't

inherit the theater.

She's going to destroy

everything my father

and grandfather gave

their lives to create.

She has to be stopped.

I, I will build it back

up to what it should be,

but without the theater, I...

I have nothing.

Nothing at all.

- If I do this, if I

agree to kill your aunt,

promise to never bother

Jamie or me again.

- Of course.

Of course.

- Excuse me, Mrs. Udall.

Jerry has another visitor.

- Thank you.

I didn't expect you to be here.

- I wanted to see him.

- I wouldn't have blamed

you if you hadn't come.

- Jerry...

He didn't deserve this.

You know, he wasn't perfect,

but he had some virtues.

- You're a saint, Hayley,

putting up with my son

the way you did.

- It's my fault.

- Don't say that.

- It's what he would've said.

And Jerry was never right.

He was blind when

it came to you.

- Mrs. Udall?

Sorry, uh, Ms. Udall, we have

a few more questions for you,

if you don't mind.

- Is there a reason

why I'm here?

Am I being charged with a crime?

- No, I just, I wanna clarify

a few things with you.

Okay.

- So prior to your

ex-husband's murder,

we called you to clarify

Kevin Moore's alibi,

is that right?

- You actually came

down to my work.

That's how it happened, but yes.

- Alright.

Well, we found Kevin

yesterday in a motel.

He's dead, apparently

of natural causes.

- That...

That's horrible.

- See Kevin was a suspect

in the murder of his boss.

Apparently he had

an affair with.

But he was released as a suspect

based on you

corroborating his alibi.

A couple days later, your

husband turns up dead,

and now, Kevin's dead.

Doesn't make any sense.

- Was that a question.

'Cause if it is, no, it

doesn't make any sense.

- You can't clear

that up for me.

- I wish I could.

- Is there something

you wanna tell me?

- Can I go now?

- Sure.

- Thank you.

- I want this fixed by

this afternoon, no excuses.

Shh, I'll be in my

office, no interruptions.

- I'm sorry, I'm really...

- Who are you?

- I'm sorry, I think I just...

- Everybody knows that I

don't like to be disturbed.

- I got turned around

in the bathroom.

- What are you doing in here?

- I'm sorry.

- Who let you up here?

- I'm sorry.

- I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

- Melanie.

How many times have I told you

to make sure no one disturbs me?

- Thanks for the coffee.

- Yeah.

- What happened?

- I was

trying, I was standing...

- Not hard enough.

- She woke up.

- You still could've done it.

- I.

- I warned you

what would happen.

- No!

- I hope you kissed Jamie

goodbye this morning.

- Hi, it's Jamie,

I'll call you back.

- Jamie, come on, answer,

all right, please, call me.

- Cannot believe it.

- Hi, it's Jamie.

- That was the greatest.

Cannot believe it.

- Jamie this is your mother.

Please call me when you

get this, thank you.

- See you tomorrow!

- Jamie?

Jamie!

- Hey Jamie, where are you?

- I love you.

- Jamie?

- She's in the trunk.

- Okay Melanie, please.

- She's brave.

Trying to be anyway.

- Please.

- You should've

stuck with the plan.

- Don't hurt her, okay?

- You should've kept your side

of the pact, Hayley.

- Melanie.

- Even a moron like

Kevin kept his word.

- Yeah, and look

at what happened to him.

- Trust me, it's gonna

be much worse for you.

- Melanie.

- This afternoon was

the perfect time.

- I know and I tried, I did.

- I warned you not to doubt me.

- Give me another

chance, please.

- At 8.

Tonight's production

is a VIP performance.

A lot of donations will

be coming into he theater.

Lisa'll stay late

to tally it up.

Do you still have the syringe?

- No, I, I got rid of it.

- What are you going to use?

- I don't know, umm.

- Think of something.

- I.

- Knife, gun.

It's gotta be quick but

it also needs to be quiet.

- I don't have a gun.

- Knife'll work.

But don't do it just once.

Do it three times to be safe.

Pick one that doesn't match

the others in your kitchen.

- Okay.

- I'm sure you'll find a

moment to get her alone.

You can do it then.

- Oh no, but she saw me today.

- Mm, then you'll

need to be quick.

- And where will you be?

- Close enough.

- I need to see Jamie.

- Not until it's done.

- I will not go

through with this

if you do anything to her.

I need to know that

she's going to be okay.

- Tonight then.

- Melanie.

Oh.

- Hello Ms. Udall.

Now would be a good time to

ask you a few more questions?

- No, no, it's not good.

- I'll be brief.

- Everything alright?

- Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.

What is it that you wanted?

- Oh, I wanna let you

know that we confirmed

Kevin is Jerry's murderer.

Did Kevin know Jerry?

- No, I'm not sure, no.

- You know what I'm

trying to figure out?

Is why Kevin would murder Jerry.

I mean, it makes

sense with Sarah.

I mean he had motive.

Yet there's nothing

that ties them together.

- I dunno.

- You know, a security

guard at Landontech

said he saw a woman leaving

just about the time Sarah Olson

was murdered.

Now did you know Sarah?

- I didn't kill Sarah Olson.

- I didn't ask that.

- I didn't know her.

- And how did you

and Kevin meet?

- I work part time

doing rideshare,

and he was one of

the fares that night.

- And when did you

talk to him next.

- Sunday, we were going out.

- Going?

- Yeah, he canceled.

I wasn't sure why.

- Uh huh, well, we

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