"I don't understand, we put up the weapons, didn't we, how did she get strangled?" Scarlet gestured as she tried to comprehend what happened to Hannah.
Despite her limited search around her half of the mansion, Scarlet didn't see any extra rope, and tried to think someone found another set of ropes to use, but the more she looked at the rope it's more apparent.
It's the same rope Theodore received from Mr. Brody.
Everyone (except Lila as she didn't have a weapon) turned over their weapons to Alfred to hide in a cabinet. He threw out the key, everyone saw him do it, and with all those eyes on him, he couldn't have squirreled it away without someone noticing.
"Did you have any spares?" Lila asked Alfred if he knew the chances of someone finding a spare key and using it to get into the cabinet.
Even something like a master key would've done it and nobody's able to sneak in and pick the lock without someone noticing their one-half partner disappeared.
"No, I don't have any," Alfred shrugged as he informed her that there's no master or spare key. The key he threw out was the only one for the cabinet and he swore by that proclamation.
Colonel Kraft stated he was in the guest bedroom with Scarlet looking for clues and the antidote, Scarlet backed him up, as unhappily to do so, but she regardless stated that he didn't leave her sight.
Professor Rose mentioned he gotten lost and ended up stuck in a closet while looking for the master bedroom, Alfred found him and pulled him out, which is good because the closet smelled strongly of moth balls.
"So, you killed her," Colonel Kraft accused Alfred of murdering Hannah.
Alfred objected to the accusation as he stated he gotten trapped in a bathroom and in his haste, turned the water on by mistake, trying to find the door.
If Colonel Kraft doesn't believe him, he'll do better and study Alfred.
He's drenched in water and if Colonel Kraft paid any attention, he'd hear the sound of his squelching shoes.
Seeing him up close, Colonel Kraft sees Alfred's suit wet and his hair soaked.
"Fine, but you're still a suspect," Colonel Kraft pointed at him. Scarlet hissed that he's acting guilty for someone who's throwing accusations around like he's a child.
Colonel Kraft tensed as he insisted that they don't have a long line of suspects and if no one can leave or enter the mansion, what they see is what they have to go by, and that's not counting what little evidence they have.
Thinking, Professor Rose hinted that it might've been Colonel Kraft or Scarlet and they're covering each other's tracks for the other, for whatever reason.
The two argued against the thought, but Professor Rose stated that someone killed Hannah and if it's not them, then it'd have to be Lila and or the Doctor who killed Hannah.
Lila objected to this accusation as she stated she and the Doctor were in the basement, which's a maze, that'd be impossible for any one of them getting out and in without stumbling.
"Enough!" Theodore thunderously yelled as he silenced the bickering guests.
They stopped and looked at him as he turned back to the scene of the crime.
Studying the crime scene, Theodore concluded someone with strength strangled Hannah, she had defensive marks on her hands, and despite her attempts, her killer overpowered her.
She must've died not too long ago, when they split up and everyone gone out to the different corners of the mansion.
Her in the billiard room didn't make any sense for Theodore, what reason she had coming into the room, and decided to search around for clues on why she came into the billiard room.
Remembering that she said to them before that she was listening to them, Theodore blinks as he recalled not seeing a tape deck anywhere in the billiard room.
They were still tense about Mr. Brody's fake death, that they didn't look around the billiard room closely.
Scouring the billiard room, Theodore attempted to look for the tape deck, given the year they're currently in, he should've found it relatively easily as it'd be bigger than the ones common in his and Lila's time.
Going through the usual suspects and even looking under the billiard table, Theodore remembered how Hannah clutched the edges tightly, though it might've been from the panicking.
Getting on his knees, Theodore looked underneath the billiard table and saw the tape deck taped to the underside in such a fashion, he's shocked it taped the conversations going on in the study with the way it's centered.
Looking closely, Theodore sees the tape reel gone, and he jumped from the ground to stand as Lila talked with him.
He informed her that whoever killed Hannah took the reel from the tape deck. If he knew anything, the killer tossed it in the fireplace and he hurried out of the billiard room with everyone following him back to the study.
The fireplace still lit, he investigated the flames, seeing something blackened reels burning in the fire.
Whatever's on those tapes, they couldn't hear them now, and Theodore can't exactly do everything, half Time Lord or not.
"What do we do, now?" Professor Rose inquired what do they do now they only have forty-five minutes left before one of them dies a horrible death.
Frowning, Theodore thinks to himself before he turned towards them and said, "Something isn't adding up and I have a feeling you all aren't telling me the truth."
He brought them back to the study where they uncomfortably sat near the bodies of the cook, Hannah, and Mr. Brody.
Grim, but Theodore wasn't paying attention to them, he was paying attention to the situation at hand.
The cabinet's completely pilfered and the key sticking out from the lock.
Calmly thinking, Theodore decided to push the guests to reveal themselves, because this wasn't an ordinary mentally insane man, this' about revenge.
Checking the time, they only have twenty minutes before the poison sets for one of them.
They haven't searched the mansion completely and likely can't, so Theodore has to make do with what they had, and hope for the best. His father certainly did his best with even less.
"What can you tell me about Mr. Brody, Professor Rose?" Theodore turned towards the professor as he lit his pipe, filled with tobacco.
Professor Rose adamantly claimed he couldn't tell him anything about his patient due to the confidentiality laws, however Theodore poked a hole through it, on account Professor Rose's life and theirs are on the line.
"You think it's any easier on me?" Professor Plum looked at him with ire in his dark brown eyes. "You don't understand what I had to deal with!"
Theodore eyed Professor Rose as he inquired what that would've been and saw how adamant the professor became as he sat in his spot on the couch.
"I had an affair with one of my other patients and he found out, he threatened to tell the board about it. He said if I helped him, he wouldn't tell them, and I didn't want him out of my sight. I tried to keep him under my care, but he disappeared," Professor Rose admitted his fault as he looked somber. His somber state dissipated quickly as he then declared, "But, I'm still a good doctor!"
He treated numerous patients during his career, something happened with one, and he had an affair with her, something he shouldn't have and clearly regretted. Mr. Brody found out and used it as leveraged against him.
"Well, that's nice, professor, but you still committed a crime," Lila pointed out that despite the guilt Professor Rose had about his affair, he still committed the crime of taking advantage of his patient.
She questioned if it's worth losing his life over and Professor Rose admitted that he wished he came clean with his crime weeks ago, because at least Mr. Brody wouldn't have power over him and it wouldn't have gotten this bad.
"Now, then, Scarlet, it's your turn," Theodore crossed his arms as he asked for Scarlet's story on how she came to this mansion and why that is, there's no possible reason a host would've sent for a madame. It's highly scandalous, after all, and nobody would've wanted to come to a party if they knew she's coming. Not the proper crowd, of course.
Scarlet sat with a lit cigarette in between her fingers as she stated that women came to her for work since it's easy money. She didn't check them closely and wound up with a situation where she hired a girl claiming to be eighteen, but actually fifteen, and maybe it sent Scarlet in a fit of rage when she found about it.
She claimed anyone would've gone into a fit of rage in her heels, she's already playing with fire having a hidden bordello and having an underage worker would've set her finances on fire and end with her in jail.
"And Mr. Brody found out about it," Theodore summed what happened as Scarlet sat in her spot uncomfortably with her cigarette as she nodded.
Mr. Brody wasn't her usual brand of customers who'd come in for a night with one of her girls, instead he was abusive towards her girls, but not in the way Scarlet expected. He raged at the sight of them "wasting away for change and a dance!'
When he found out about the underage worker and what happened to her when Scarlet found out, he blackmailed her, and he kept her under his finger while forcing her to make changes in her business, costing her hundreds of dollars.
"That's immoral!" Colonel Kraft decried Scarlet's abuse of an underage worker and she fired back that the girl shouldn't lied to her and she made it clear what type of work her bordello entailed. Nobody comes to a bordello to work unless they're of age and knew exactly what risks they're taking, she's not responsible for a girl who lied on her own whim. Even Scarlet knew better than to willingly hire underage workers, she'd never see the light of day if authorities found out about it!
"And now, colonel, what about you?" Theodore jumped into the next interrogation as he eyed the colonel as he shirked in his spot with eyes on him.
Colonel Kraft yanked on his collar as he felt muscles in his neck contort from the stress building in his body, and with eyes firmly on him, he ended up telling them his side of the story.
"We were in WWII and I... I... I might've turned people over to the Germans," Colonel Kraft uncomfortably sat in his spot as he told them in little words what he done to receive ire from Mr. Brody.
They were in WWII and in a difficult spot. Colonel Kraft needed an escape for his dwindled soldiers. He didn't know what to do until he found a family hiding in the rubble of a house. Seeing the bright yellow stars on their clothes, Colonel Kraft knew what they were, and he used them to buy him and his men enough time to rejoin the others.
"You killed that family just to buy time?" Scarlet denounced what Colonel Kraft done as he sat mournfully as he recounted the events of having his men force the family out of hiding and made them run to the soldiers across the trenches under threat of death just so Colonel Kraft and his men would have enough time to retreat.
Colonel Kraft stated that in war, there's no absolutes, and he had to do what he needed for his men, often somethings that aren't forgivable by the general public.
"I did what I had to do for my men!" Colonel Kraft insisted as he saw the quiet ire in everyone's eyes.
Theodore calmly asked, "I understand you made a difficult choice, colonel, but is it worth your soul?"
The colonel sat quietly while Theodore asked him if that's what Mr. Brody held over him and he confirmed that it indeed, it was, and Mr. Brody morally objected to idea, but Colonel Kraft superseded his disagreement.
After his injury, the colonel made sure Mr. Brody wouldn't cause any trouble about it, and it'd seem Mr. Brody still held the grudge.
"But he's dead, what does it matter, now?" Colonel Kraft lamented that their host's dead, it doesn't matter, and Theodore disagreed as he deduced that this punishment's more than just poisoning the three.
Theodore calmly asked if anyone knew Hannah and the cook, too which the guests responded they didn't, Alfred says he barely talked to her since Mr. Brody kept her busy.
Theodore studied them closely before concluding they told him the truth. Sighing, he said that the only thing he's able to think about's that they're innocent bystanders, posed to be disposed on account of what they might've known.