Only Murders in the Building (1×06) To Protect and Serve Review

For our review of the last episode of Only Murders in the Building, click here.

Synopsis: Mabel brings her new friends (and an old one) to her childhood home to meet her mother. Meanwhile, Detective Williams starts to have her own doubts about the case as she prepares for motherhood. (Disney)

Now that the team was on the same page, the question for the series now was what to do moving forward.

The podcast had ramifications as far as the police was concerned and this episode checked back in on the other side of the equation through Detective Williams (Da’Vine Joy Randolph). Believing that she solved what she thought was an open and shut case, it revealed that it may not have been the case as doubt began to creep in whether she was willing to admit it or not but there was definitely something else going on here. Williams’ work also got in the way of her aspiring home life therefore she made the conscious choice to let the podcast take the lead on the case.

Mabel’s position on the podcast was put in jeopardy by the surprising appearance of her mother. She was concerned about her daughter’s fixation on the past that she regretted putting her through in the first place. She pleaded with Charles and Oliver to let her go but Mabel had doubts of her own. Charles felt wrong about profiting off of Mabel’s tragedy. However, things changed as a sudden rise in popularity following a name drop on a late night talk show prompted their sponsor, Teddy Dimas (Nathan Lane) to write them another cheque to keep going.

As far as the investigation was concerned, all roads led back to the night that Zoe died. Despite her feelings, Mabel just had to see things through which was good for Charles and Oliver as she just happened to get to them in time before they were about to rip up Dimas’ cheque.

The episode ended with another shocking reveal that their latest suspect is another person close to them. Just another wrinkle in an already twisty and turny mystery or maybe one more red herring before the end.

still courtesy of Hulu

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Keith Noakes

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