tate and jonah run some tests to danaya.
"she's been dead for a while. no wonder everything about her are all pale right now." tate said
"babe, check this."
jonah looks over to some papers, but it's not just papers.. newspapers.
"what's this? corbyn besson and christina harris' car crashed and died. the accident seems like it was somehow planned by someone, a car was passing by and crash their own car to the besson's. the suspect was unknown and never found."
tate already know about this news, especially if it's them. why is she keeping this? tate told danaya that she can solve the case of her parents, but maybe she's tired of waiting after years.
another newspaper was shown. it was someone danaya knew.
"this is my case." tate looks at jonah as he looks at her and reads it.
"mila paddington, a model and an influencer was found dead in her apartment. she was drowned, poisoned and shot by the unknown suspect." jonah's eyes got wide.
"you didn't tell me this."
"and if i told you? what's the point of it? that unknown suspect is still out there, jonah. you don't know who and where that person is!" said tate.
jonah gives tate the last newspaper, as someone comes in.
"tate, jonah-" jack looks at the two in comfusion. making him come closer to them.
"lisa knox, the famous designer and writer was found dead in her house, she hunged herself. the cops looks for clues, and nothing was found-"
"do you think there's a connection to these three to what's happening now?" jonah said
jack looks at jonah and tate.
"what do you mean, connection?" jack asked
"aunt tate, i found something." lavender comes in, holding a small bottle of purple drink.
"where did you get that?" tate grabs it.
"it was in the bathroom of where perena slept in last night. do you think she did it?" jack, jonah and tate were shocked.
they didn't knew perena since last night.
"were all drunk from last night, who the fuck remembers everything?" shiori said who came out of nowhere.
"danaya knew her, but why is she here? she's not even on our family. is she the new member of the family?" jack said
"okay, we don't have time for this. i think we forgot the most important question of all during our arousing game of whodunnit." tate said as everyone piled in the room.
"why did she invited us all here? why tonight? she said we were celebrating something, but she never specified what. it's almost as if this whole shindig of a hootenanny was just a ruse."
they all sat down on the floor, ignoring the fact danaya's dead body is in the same floor.
"danaya was my friend- had been for years, then she went quiet. i knew something was wrong, i just never figured out what. now i guess i never will." shiori said looking down.
"look, I'm gonna level with you all. jonah's my partner. i've been working with him for years, during their why don't we years and now. i've been doing this for a long time, and i know something is wrong. there is a murderer here amongst us, and we need to find it, and some of you look like a trustworthy… somebody. i know we all just see each other again, but i am an excellent judge of character. excellent like a fox." tate said
"you all don't look like you have any reason to kill her, and if you guys do…"
"best to keep your enemies close, eh? wink wink." jonah said
"so the real question we should be asking is: who stood to gain the most from danaya's death?" tate looks at the cold dead body and back to everyone.
"now, in my thorough analysis of the corpse's anal cavity, i discovered that in addition to being stabbed 37 times, she was also poisoned, beaten and strangled, in that order. now if you ask me, that's a lot of trouble to go through to knock off one gal and it sure as shit is no accident."
they were all silent. they couldn't talk. zach breaks the silence as he told everyone that they need to eat lunch and continue this murder mustery of his dead wife later on.
no one was the same as before she was still alive. no one dares to speak anything about what they remembered last night or just a little chitchat.
after they ate, they all settled down in the living room. averys all together in one couch, seaveys in the other and frantzich in the last couch. perena sat in a chair as zach and jayda refuse to sit down next to anyone.
"if we look at this situation logically, we can only assume that the killer who struck down our lovely danaya, was with us last night. in the shadows of this mansion, unseen to any of us, lay hidden… a murderer." tate said as lights went out, making everyone panic and wanting to leave.