Bill jammed his fingers in Catherine's mouth and down her throat while he raped her. "Please stop!" shouted Catherine but everyone ignored her because they were too busy [1] and Bill didn't stop (in fact he enjoyed that Catherine was resisting due to his sadism - a facet of his personality never addressed on the show proper but very real which I know because Paul Simms told me and I'll prove that I know Paul by telling you something he told me in confidence: he can only come when fucking underage girls and by underage girls I, of course, mean prepubescent girls). Catherine's flailing free hand grabbed a pot of coffee which she pulled closer to try to scald Bill with but then she accidentally poured it all over her own head and face until she died of shock, at which point Bill came and returned to work. Everyone was either too busy or unable [2] to clean up the corpse so there, on the desk, it remained.
1. Dave was gulping down coffee and Bill was smoking.
"Hey Dave," said Bill. "I'll give up smoking if you give up coffee."
Dave laughed sarcastically. "I've got a better idea. How about we each do something completely different and unrelated."
"Different, eh Dave?"
"Yes, Bill, now -"
"Unrelated, you say?"
"Yes, look, Bill, I -"
"If I were to rape Catherine would that be -"
"Yes, Bill, it would be different and unrelated, now, look, I have something very important to discuss with Lisa so if you'll just -"
"Leave you alone? Sure thing, Dave. Consider it done." Bill smiled hammily. (a)
"Now, Lisa," said Dave. "Our relationship has been the cause of a lot of tension in the office right now. Wait a minute. Where are you, Lisa?"
"I'm in here!" Lisa shouted from within the air ducts. (b) "I'm in here! I'm in here! I'M IN HERE! I'M IN HERE!"
"Turn the volume down, dude," said Joe. "Turn the volume d -"
2. Beth had hung herself with her own orange hair and Mr. James was and always had been a manifestation of Dave's untreated dissociative identity disorder and nothing more.
a. Though it may seem that this conversation must have preceded Bill's rape of Catherine, Bill actually was raping her while talking to Dave. Bill intentionally called attention to (or tried to call attention to) the rape he was performing because of his masochistic desire for chastisement/punishment which though unaddressed in the show I know to be a true facet of the character's personality because NewsRadio creator Paul Simms and I are close friends and he once told me in confidence that the character of Bill was based on Phil Hartman who, as well all know, died in a lighthearted game of sadomasochistic murder/sex play gone horrible wrong (if you try to correct me I'll murder you like I did the both of them I swear to God). Dave failed to notice or at least appeared to fail to notice because he was busy trying to talk to Lisa and was therefore only looking at Bill peripherally and therefore assumed that the rape was a caffeine-induced peripheral hallucination.
b. Dave: "Now Lisa. Our relationship..."
Dave (from within the air duct): "Now Lisa. Our relationship..."
Dave: "...has been the cause..."
Dave (from within the air duct): "...has been the cause..."
Dave: "...of a lot of tension..."
Dave (from within the air duct): "...a lot of tension..."
Lisa, curious, pursued the echo into the spacious duct while Dave was still talking. Inside, she found Matthew and Joe sitting in front of and staring at a TV set.
Joe: "You got to see this Lisa. It's our lives."
Matthew: "It's called NewsRadio."
Dave on TV: "Where are you, Lisa?"
Lisa: "I'm in here!"
