Review: Only Murders in the Building, "Performance Review" | Season 2, Episode 6
The past might haunt all three of these amateur detectives, but it's not giving Mabel room to breathe
There’s a leap of logic in “Performance Review” that strikes me as a bit strange.
When the realization that the bloody matchbook is a key clue to the killer’s identity leads them to follow up with the number that texted them to get out of the building on the night of the murder, they presume they are texting with the good Detective Williams—the person even seems to have her sense of humor, joking that she’s the only one in the NYPD who thinks they’re too stupid to have committed the crime. But when they learn that she’s on maternity leave in Denver, they realize that the person who’s offering to pick up evidence in Morningside Park isn’t her at all…that they’re actually texting with the killer.
Except…why do they presume that? Why would the killer have wanted them to leave the building? Did he—or she, we can’t presume the person who picked up the package was the person behind the number—know Charles and Oliver would go to find Mabel? It’s possible that the person behind …