AUTHOR'S NOTE: We have reached the deaths featured in the episode "Unforced Errors", the first non-pilot episode. I'm proud of myself for making it this far. Also I decided to assign the law office to a fictional law company.

The drawing on the next file depicts a window shattering and a stickman falling, below the words "INCIDENT 0101051998".

Ruby: "Looks like incident 0101051998 is up next."

Shannon: "That's the one where the lawyer defenestrates himself."

The image on the file depicts a man in a black formal suit having leapt out of a window high above a city, shards of glass flying in all directions around him.

Shannon: "Defenestration, for those of you unaware, is a word that means 'to throw out of a window'. Just like this guy…"

Zoom in.

We open to see an office of some sort. The man on the file is inspecting the view of the city outside.

Date of Incident: 1 May, 1998

Location of Incident: Demper Law Office, Los Angeles, California

The man gestures to the view of the city.

Unnamed man: "Great view, isn't it?"

The man turns around to two people who stand at the doorway to his office. One is a blonde-haired woman wearing a checkerboard shirt, the other a black-haired man

Ruby: (Narrating) "Ian Campbell was, like, very impressed with his law firm's new offices."

We cut to a view of Ian talking with the couple at a black rectangular table, lined with beige-covered seats.

Ruby: (Narrating) "But the thing he was most impressed with… was, like, himself."

Ian: "Did you know I have a Lamborghini?"

The couple look at him. He reaches over and strokes the woman's arm. She pulls back in surprise before shooting him a glare of disapproval, alongside the other man.

Ruby: (Narrating) "One of his favourite pastimes was hitting on the law firm's new female associates."

We cut to a new camera shot showing Ian and the couple walking past several cubicles where Ian's coworkers are tending to other matters. He puts his arm around the woman's shoulders as he walks them through the building, talking about the firm, what it does and the layout of its offices.

Ruby: (Narrating) "You would think a smart lawyer would, like, know better, but Ian here was a sexual harassment case wrapped in a $1,000 suit. Shanny, mind weighing in?"

Shannon: (Narrating) "The partners of law firms have a LOT of power and influence over the careers of brand new associates. If you really need a job like this, you'd be at the mercy of a guy like Ian."

We are back at Ian's office, where he shows off the view outside to the couple, just like the intro.

Ian: "Great view, isn't it?"

He walks over to the couple to talk with then.

Ruby: (Narrating) "Ian had a prank he liked to pull on the ladies. In a conference room on the fortieth floor, he'd get a running start and, like, throw himself into the window."

Sure enough, Ian turns around and begins running towards the window. The couple flinch in horror at what they think is about to happen, but when Ian launches himself at the window he bounces back with a thud sound.

Ruby: (Narrating) "The tempered glass would always bounce him back. Shannon, analysis, please?"

This time around we find ourselves in the Sharuby couple's backyard. Shannon is holding up a square piece of glass in her left hand.

Shannon: "Tempered glass is a special kind of glass. It's treated using special chemical or thermal reactions to increase its strength compared to ordinary glass."

Shannon then sets the tempered glass down on a holder. She takes a few steps back, picks up a stone from the ground and throws it at the glass. Upon impact the glass shatters into many small granular pieces.

Shannon: "It was also developed for safety purposes. When tempered glass breaks it shatters into many tiny pieces instead of the jagged shards of ordinary glass."

Back in the law office, Ian is about to repeat his trick with a new couple.

Ian: "This building's amazing. Watch this."

As Ian takes his running start time is put into slow motion.

Ruby: (Narrating) "Maybe it was this sleazebag lawyer running out of luck. Maybe it was the way his Rolex, like, caught the glass. Because Ian took a running start…"

Just outside the building, we hear the window shatter as Ian flies through the frame, glass shards scattering through the air around him.

Ruby: (Narrating) "...and never stopped."

Soon enough gravity kicks in and begins pulling Ian towards his doom forty stories below, the lawyer screaming all the way down. Back in the office the man screams with horror whilst the woman covers her mouth in shock.

We return to Shannon in the office.

Shannon: "Ian here probably would have pissed himself once he saw his imminent death fast approaching."

A CGI shot shows Ian's body slamming full force into the ground, inflicting several fatal injuries.

Shannon: "As soon as he hit the ground, his skull and spine would have been shattered, his brain pulverised by the force, his spinal cord severed. Thankfully for him he almost certainly died instantly."

The final shot shows Ian's corpse lying on the pavement, blood pooling around it.

WAY TO DIE #064

HABEAS CORPSE

Back to the Sharuby couple in their office. Ruby is looking through the file's pages intently.

Ruby: "Wasn't this death based on a real death?"

Shannon: "I think it is…"

Ruby: "Ah, here it is. Says here that Garry Hoy, like, plunged to his death from a twenty-fourth story floor in Canada after he flung himself into a window and it popped out of its frame intact."

Shannon: "Wow. Sturdy glass. Anyways, it's my turn to narrate the next one."

Ruby nods, closing the file and marking it before wheeling over to get the next one.