The next morning, Deku was looking over a map of Musutafu when Todoroki came to visit him.
"Find any more clues, Deku?"
"I scanned the wanted poster into my computer and put it into Google Image Search, but I'm not really getting any conclusive results. That box of burgers I gave to Tsukauchi yesterday had the same blood as the bag of frozen peas, which tells me that maybe some victims fought back against him before being killed. I do, however, have another idea on how to apprehend the killer…"
Todoroki put her index finger up to her chin. "How so?"
Deku made a "come hither" gesture to Todoroki. "Come here and look at this map."
Todoroki took a look at the map. "What's that mean?"
"I've been plotting out the dates and locations of each murder, and it turns out, the killer's been operating in a specific pattern. Look!"
Todoroki looked at the map more closely, and as it turned out, the pattern of the killings almost formed a "W".
"So how do we catch the killer?" asked Todoroki.
"Simple: we set a trap for him at the general location we expect him to be at for the next murder."
"And what sort of trap do you propose?"
"Here's how it'll go…"
To catch the Musutafu Mauler, Deku had Todoroki dress up as a little old lady with expensive jewelry and walk around the general area that he'd plotted out on the map, all at night. It wasn't easy, for they had to sneak out of UA to do it. They also had Kirishima and Kacchan as backup. Todoroki walked around for a bit, but after an hour, she still didn't encounter the killer, and she called out to Deku over a watch communicator that Hatsume had supplied:
"This isn't working, Deku; the killer's nowhere in sight."
"Please be patient, Shoko; he'll show soon enough."
"Yeah, but how…wait…what's that?"
Todoroki turned around and saw a massive shadow of a man behind her.
"OH MY GOD!"
Todoroki fired off a quick ice blast, but the man jumped out of the way. She cast off her dress after that.
"All right, whoever you are, you're messing with the wrong girl!"
The Musutafu Mauler let out an evil laugh as he charged towards Todoroki, who shot a blast of fire at him. Again, however, the Mauler dodged the attack, and from that point on, it was a deadly ballet of justice as Todoroki duked it out with the killer, not only hoping to stop him, but also hoping to avoid becoming another statistic. However, no matter how hard she tried, the Mauler dodged all her attacks. Even special moves such as Flashfreeze Heatwave proved ineffective. She managed to avoid getting hit herself, but it was clear to her that unless she did something else, she was as good as dead, so she brought up her watch communicator:
"Deku, Bakugo, Kirishima, I could use a little help here!"
"Don't worry; we'll be there as soon as possible!"
Within seconds, Deku, Kacchan and Kirishima descended upon where Todoroki was. Sure enough, the killer caught wind of them and tried to evade their attacks. However, given how close some of Todoroki's ice attacks came, it was clear he couldn't evade them forever. Eventually, while dodging one of Kacchan's explosive blasts, the Mauler got ensnared by Blackwhip, and Deku hurled him against a wall near a streetlight, knocking him down. The four hero trainees descended upon him quickly.
"All right, whoever you are, show yourself!" said Deku. "You're under arrest for first-degree murder!"
The Mauler got up and stepped into the light:
"You think you can stop me? Oh, how you delude yourselves! No one has ever stopped Orson Welles…the Musutafu Mauler!" Orson shook his head. "This is a lot of shit, you know that? What, you want one more?"
"I do, actually…" said episode director Oji Shikeno.
"More on the 'Musutafu Mauler'?"
"You…you missed the first 'Musutafu Mauler' completely, actually…" said season director Nenji Kagasaki.
"What do you mean, 'missed it'?" asked Orson.
"You…you're emphasizing 'Mauler'…"
Orson gestured his hands at Kagasaki "But you can't emphasize 'Musutafu'! That's like wanting me to emphasize 'in' before 'July'! Come on, fellas, you're losing your heads! I wouldn't direct any living actor like this in Shakespeare! The way you do this, it's impossible!"
"Orson, you did six last year, and by far and away the best, and I know the…the reason…"
Orson gestured at the script. "The right reading for this is the one I'm giving it!"
"For the moment."
"I spent…twenty times more for you people than any other TV show I've ever made. You are such pests! Now, what is it you want?"
"Now, I think…"
"In your depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Whatever it is you want, I can't deliver it because I just don't see it." Orson shook his head.
"That was absolutely fine, it really was."
"Here!" Orson crumpled up the script and threw it at Kagasaki. "This isn't worth it. No money is worth this shit! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to chug this entire bottle of California champagne."
Orson cracked open a bottle of Paul Masson and proceeded to drink from it, only to spit the wine out.
"How disgusting! Somebody clearly sold this wine before its time!"
Deku, Todoroki, Kacchan and Kirishima gave each other confused looks. In their entire career as actors, they'd never worked with anyone as difficult as the great Orson Welles, but it wouldn't stop them, either.
Criticism is gold. Negativity and nitpicking are pyrite.
