Thinking to himself as he tried to compile the evidence they have, looking over the bodies, Theodore deduced that Hannah murdered the cook. Professor Rose asked how he knew and Theodore pointed out that she clearly had opportunity. She snuck out of the billiard room, killed the cook, came back in, and screamed.
Only, there's a problem, the tape, she would've known it'd capture her leaving the billiard room and returning before screaming.
However, she's found in the billiard room, so perhaps, she realized this, and gone back to the billiard room after sneaking away. She didn't expect her killer to be in the same room and whoever killed her took the tape for their own reasons.
"But, how and why?" Lila brought up that Hannah didn't have any reason to kill the cook.
Liver soup or not, just doesn't make any sense, and Theodore raised a finger as he pointed out that the cook would've known who gotten the poison and who didn't. Hannah, acting under orders, kept the cook from spilling the beans.
No, that wasn't an intentional pun, either.
"And how would she kill the cook, you had the rope!" Scarlet pointed out as she crossed her arms.
None of them found any extra rope or any way for Hannah to strangle the cook.
Checking the cook, Theodore sees the bruising on her neck, showing she'd been strangled from behind.
Whatever used needed to be thick enough for the cook not to make a noise and Theodore muttered under his breath as he sees the apron on Hannah's body heavily crinkled.
Checking the frills, they matched the ligatures on the cook's neck.
Hannah used her apron to strangle the cook from behind, pulled her into the refrigerator, hurried back into the billiard room.
Amid the panic, nobody noticed, and Theodore didn't see anyone else in the mansion. Everyone else including him was in the study when the cook was murdered and Hannah wasn't with them.
She killed the cook.
"And who killed Hannah?" Professor Rose inquired as he crossed his arms while he followed Theodore's deduction.
Theodore frowned as he summed, "Whoever killed her, knew about the tape, and that's everyone here."
Hannah said it herself she was taping everyone on request, maybe they didn't know where it was hidden, it wouldn't take time to guess, and they'd have to move fast to hurry back to their partner.
"Then, Mr. Brody?" Colonel Kraft gestured.
Nobody killed him, everyone was together when it happened, and nobody could've snuck out. Someone would've saw the killer.
Theodore noted that's true, but he then pointed out anyone could've easily used the seconds they had to kill Mr. Brody since the attention was on the cook's body.
All the weapons on the table in the study, the door opened, could've easily grabbed the monkey wrench when Mr. Brody opened his eyes.
Where Mr. Brody's body came out of, whoever killed him propped him in the offshoot bathroom, and Theodore turned towards the only suspect that came to mind.
"Hannah killed Mr. Brody," Theodore gave his deduction.
Everyone focused on the cook's body, they didn't pay any attention to Hannah sneaking out of the kitchen and returning to the study.
She waited for Mr. Brody behind one of the couches and when he stood up, she chased him with the monkey wrench and killed him. Holed him up in the offshoot bathroom, planted the wrench, and snuck back in the kitchen while the men helped with the cook's body as Scarlet screamed, preventing them from hearing Mr. Brody.
"Why kill him?" Lila gestures as Theodore blinks as he thinks.
He suggested that Hannah's only tying up loose ends and that ended up a two-way street, seeing what happened to her.
"And whoever killed Hannah?" Lila continued.
Theodore shrugged as he replied, "Wanted to tie up loose ends."
Crossing his arms, Theodore pondered before Professor Rose brought up a good point. Out of everyone, there's not a conclusive story on the Doctor, and that's not helping their cases, on account that nobody knows what he done to receive Mr. Brody's ire.
"Hold on a minute, we're forgetting something, what about you?" Professor Rose pointed at Theodore. He mentioned that Mr. Brody invited him, so he must have something unsavory in his backstory that prompted Mr. Brody to hold a grudge against him.
Feeling eyes on him, Theodore winced as he sees them looking him with curiosity, and he meekly responded he's not sure what he'd done to provoke the host.
It's the honest truth and he didn't know anything about the man until tonight, even then he couldn't talk himself out of this, and thankfully his companion saw an opening.
"Because, he wasn't invited by Mr. Brody," Lila spoke up as she went through the events leading up to their predicament now. Something wasn't setting right with her and the more she focused on the whole thing, the more it became clearer.
The Doctor did meet someone Mr. Brody, but it wasn't Mr. Brody who sent the invitation.
She asked to see the invitation from Theodore and asked for one of the guests to show theirs for comparison.
Professor Rose showed his invitations and Lila held up Theodore's while studying them side-by-side. She noted that it's written on the same paper, same ink, but different handwriting style.
When Lila traveled with her dad throughout different navy bases around the world, he showed her ways the military checked for forgeries, and how even if someone closely copied someone's handwriting, their style still snuck through.
Eying them closely, the guest invitation from Professor Rose, it looked formal and well-though out, but Theodore's looked more direct and short-handed. Almost like someone tried to get this written on a short amount of time so they can send it out.
The handwriting style on Theodore's invitation didn't look feminine, so it wasn't Hannah who wrote it, not the cook, this style's definitely masculine.
It'd only mean two things.
Theodore read her mind instantly and he got the message loud and clear.
"Hannah had defensive marks on her hands from when she fought with her attacker, whoever strangled her would've still had those markings," Theodore began as he looked at the guests and Alfred.
He made the guests show their hands and he checked for scratches or gashes made by Hannah's long fingernails.
Turning his head, he sees Alfred with his gloves and he's about to say something about them when Scarlet suddenly screamed.
Sharply, Theodore turned around as Scarlet pointed at Mr. Brody's body, his head's melting!
Running over to the body, Theodore knelt beside it as he studied it closely, while the guests and Alfred looked on.
Mr. Brody's head concaving inward as his cheeks drooped and slough off his skin. His lips sliding down his chin!
"Is that going to happen to one us?" Professor Rose winced.
Colonel Kraft held his mouth as he muttered, "I think I'm going to be sick!"
Scarlet panicked and Lila went over to help Theodore study the body and he did something he thought he never would've done before.
Gritting his teeth, Theodore touched Mr. Brody's face and felt it give under his fingertips in mere seconds. The way it felt and gave, Theodore deduced it as...
"Wax?" Theodore raised his brow at this discovery while he looked up to Lila as she hesitatingly leaned forward.
To the shock of the guests, Theodore pulled off Mr. Brody's face only to reveal another face underneath and the more he looked at it...
"Is... that..." Lila winced as she stepped back at the sight while Theodore peeled off wax from the identical face of... Alfred?
Grinning, Alfred congratulated Theodore for figuring it out with only fifteen minutes to spare.
The guests amazed; they see Alfred's face changing as he showed his grin towards them. Colonel Kraft sputtered, "Calvin?!"
Calvin Brody, that was his subordinate that showed displeasure at the colonel's actions, yet again, alive.
Professor Rose winces as he exclaimed, "Wait a minute, who did I try to shoot?!"
"W-who did Hannah kill?" Scarlet's voice wavered as she looked between them.
Alfred replied to both questions with, "My butler."
It made so much sense on why "Mr. Brody" didn't know who the Doctor was, because he wasn't the real article. The real article made him write the invitations to the guests and he wrote the invitation to the Doctor.
The key "Alfred" threw out, he used a slight of hand, threw another key out and kept the one for the cabinet. Nobody thought to check his pockets.
"You're doing all this for revenge, that it?" Lila asked him as Theodore protectively held her behind him as he eyed "Alfred."
Shaking his head, "Alfred" said he really wasn't interested in revenge, not the usual variety, he was only disappointed at the state of affairs in society.
This was his attempt at lashing back against it.
"You know colonel, I still think of that family you left for the wolves, did you ever see them when you sleep, do you still see that little girl with her stuffed teddy?" The fake butler inquired about Colonel Kraft's guilt in turning over a scared family to the Axis soldiers. "Did you ever hear their screams of terror when they opened fire on them, while we scurried away like rats?"
Colonel Kraft sat quietly in his spot as he contemplated his guilt while "Alfred" shook his head disappointedly before looking towards Professor Rose who felt the ire from where he sat.
"I'm disappointed in you, Professor, surely you'd know your own patient," the "butler" shook his head disdainfully towards the professor before asking everyone to join him in the billiard room, as he took out the revolver he'd taken from the cabinet.
Uneasily, the guests stood up and Theodore protected Lila as they're forced to penguin walk out of the study towards the billiard room where Hannah's body remained.
Returning to the billiard room, "Alfred" made sure they stayed away from the door and him as he showed them the truth. He yanked on Hannah's blond hair repeatedly until it's revealed she's wearing a wig. Underneath there's a white cap keeping her natural hair hidden. Dropping the wig, "Alfred" yanked off the white cap, revealing bright red frizzy hair.
He wiped off her makeup, revealing her speckled face, opened her eyes and popped out her contacts, showing her natural hazy eyes, and...
Yanked out the padding from her chest, revealing her natural size.
Looking at the exposed body, the guests realized Hannah's not from Paris, but somewhere from Ireland, as "Alfred" revealed.
She had a dissociative disorder where she believed she was someone she wasn't, her prognosis changed from when Professor Rose had an affair with her, and "Alfred" used her for his own needs. Learning every nasty detail about Professor Rose and using that knowledge for his own use.
Theodore heard Lila's inner voice as she asked him, "You read her mind, didn't you?"
Like he said before, he couldn't "just" read people's minds. He can glance into strangers' minds, but he can't read every thought that trailed, just the ones in the forefront.
That's how he knew about Professor Rose's job, he thought about schedules with patients in the coming weeks and mentioned one of them needing a new prescription due to her psychosis.
"She had convincing memories," Theodore replied back to her before he realized that if it's true that she suffered from a dissociative disorder, she'd convince herself of the memories, and them so vivid, Theodore would've mistook them for real memories.
Professor Rose asks as he uneasily look at Hannah's body, "And the cook, what's her role in this?"
Rubbing his gloved hands, on Hannah's apron, "Alfred" stated that the cook was somebody from Scarlet's past.
Scarlet thoughtfully stood in place as she thought about it before she realized that the cook's worked for her in the brothel and the one who introduced Scarlet to the catalyst resulting in her appearance in the mansion.
She didn't recognize the cook because the cook changed considerably since the incident. Scarlet ended up firing her over the ordeal. If the cook hadn't dropped off the face of the earth, Scarlet would've gone after her for putting her business at risk.
"What about the Doctor?" Lila boldly asked what "Alfred" held against the Doctor that he invited him to the dinner party.
Smiling at her, "Alfred" mentioned he doesn't remember her showing up at his door that fateful day with the strange man.
He'd shown up on a stormy day, clad in black, said he needed to speak with "Alfred" on matters that he nearly dismissed hadn't the strange man gave him details about things nobody else knew about.
It was enough for "Alfred" to allow the strange man inside where he prophesied that something would happen to "Alfred" if he's not careful.
He foretold of a man who'd eventually make his way to the mansion sometime after him.
The strange man said that the man who'd show up to his mansion on a similar stormy day would've helped him with something pressing, but cautioned "Alfred" the next one wouldn't be so charitable.
"Alfred" described the man who'd came after the strange man.
Blonde short hair, white hat with a red trim, pinstripe pants and beige overcoat, and a piece of rosemary stuck to his lapel. He claimed it's good luck for him to keep it on his person all time, said it came in handy one adventure. Very handy indeed, he stressed to "Alfred."
"And the man who'd come after him, looked like you, and you'll be the one to kill me," said the irritated host as he recalled what the strange man foretold.
The man described, word-for-word, as Theodore would be the end of him and the strange man recalled his death caused by a "prick of silver."
Lila tilts her head as she asked about the invitation. If Mr. Brody didn't write it and judging from the reaction from his butler, then who wrote it?
"The strange man?" Theodore wondered if he stolen a piece of paper from the mansion during his time and forged the letter for him.
"Alfred" shrugs as he said he doesn't know, but the strange man knew things and he doesn't know how. When Theodore asked his name, "Alfred" shrugs once again as he said to Theodore, "He never gave it to me, almost like he couldn't."
A truth from "Alfred" or as he should say, now, Calvin, that he couldn't get the name from the strange man. Every attempt, he could tell the strange man had trouble even thinking it.
"How did he know me?" Theodore demanded answers.
Calvin shrugged as he said that he doesn't know, he never asked, only that he knew Theodore would kill him with a "prick of silver" and he wasn't going to die so easily.
"Well, you should've thought of that when you set up this whole damn thing!" Lila called him out on it as the guests railed behind her saying the same thing as she did.