Whodunnit? By Mindi McNeil (mindimcneil@gmail.com)
Dante’s Inferno (Spoiler Alert)
It’s 438 am & Giles does role call because a fire alarm has gone off. Everyone shows up except Don and Dante, Giles starts calling Don’s name and he shows up and then there is a scream and Dante comes running out screaming and jumps into the pool to try to put out the flames that have engulfed his body. Everyone is freaked out & Dante’s charred body is floating lifeless in the pool. Giles announces that he is dead; Don is sad but happy he is still alive. Now only 11 people are in the running for the $250,000.
Giles says no one can leave and that people have to work together to find out who killed Dante. He tells them to break up into teams and spend the next 30 minutes examining the crime scene, Dante’s last known whereabouts, which is his bedroom, or the morgue. People are hesitant because they feel like some aren’t being 100% honest about what they find when they investigate, but they decide to work together.
Melina, Lindsay, Ronny and Geno go to Last known whereabouts, Cam Sasha and Adriana go to scene of crime, while Don, Chris, Dana and Ulysses go to the morgue. In the bedroom Geno’s group sees a lot of soot near the door handle, and notice the Killer left Dante a St. Agatha medallion as a gift and a note. They are looking at ignition points & deduce that his upper body caught on fire first.
Crime Scene people see 2 black pieces of fabric floating in pool. Adriana pulls them out, & notices that it’s socks that are different from the ones the other guests had, dark black versus everyone’s gray. They see the St. Agatha medallion and Cam goes into the pool to get it. They also notice plaid fabric & wonder if the morgue holds clues. Adriana discovers a tampered lock on the door by the pool.
In the morgue Don (who has a background in Arson) tells everyone to look for an accelerant spot. He then says that that Dante was ignited and had to run immediately, & his right arm & chest burned immediately & that is where the majority of the burn happened. They said the plaid pajamas were meant for him and him alone.
When they all come back together Giles says sharing info could be a matter of life or death. Geno wants to know who has the medallion, and says to change the name of the medallion to draw out whoever has it. Cam thinks Geno is the killer and wants to work with Lindsay. He discusses it with Ulysses; Ulysses trusts Cams and decides to work with Lindsay. Don says Dante was ignited when he was standing up. Adrianna talks to Ronny and feels like she can trust him, but is keeping the medallion info to herself. Ronny says the medallion said St. Agnes protect us from fire, and Ronny knows that Adrianna knows he’s lying about the name of the medallion. Sasha shares info with Melina & says that the medallion actually says St.Agatha protector from fire. Almost everyone agrees that the info regarding the medallion is key to finding out what is going on with Dante’s murder.
Giles appears with white flags and said that the killer wanted him to flag everyone down. He gives them a clue “You’ll know that you are getting warm when you find fire in liquid form, above the cycles look for the labels”. Everyone starts looking for a liquid type of fire. Lindsay and Adrianna start looking at fireplaces. Melina says to go to laundry room because of the word cycles, there she finds Benzene and her and Cris spray a white flag with it. Cris wonders why the flag turns pink when you spray it with Benzene and remembers that one of the crests in the house has that shade of pink on it. Meanwhile Ronny and Don are outside at the grill looking for liquid smoke and they open up the flag and find nothing inside. Cris, Melina, and Cam run upstairs and find a door with a pink crest on it. Cam touches it and gets shocked with electricity; everyone still wants to know what the igniter was.
Since Cris helps Cam with the Crest he draws her into his alliance with Ulysses, &Lindsay. Melina, Geno and Sasha are working together. Sasha goes to Cam’s group and tries to listen in and gets shot down. Adrianna tries to crash Cam’s group and he sends her packing. Geno and Ronny try to figure out about the socks and the pool; they think Dante caught fire by static electricity due to his socks. Meanwhile Dana is freaked out because Ulysses won’t leave Cam’s group immediately and tell her what is being discussed.
Before they are allowed to state their case Giles tells them that they must change out of their PJ’S. Interesting things revealed during case stating are that the carpet in Dante’s room was different than other carpets, and Melina remembers that Dante doesn’t know how to swim and that’s how he died, not due to the fire. Giles brings them a flaming pig for dinner, and then presents them with scared and spared cards. He says Ulysses is on fire and is spared death, according to the killer, and then explains how Dante was killed.
The killer delivered the PJ’s, which were doused in Benzene, and the medallion, and the different socks, and a note saying sleep well. Later he sets off the fire alarm, Dante wakes up runs across the shag carpet, wearing the socks which cause static electricity when he touches the doorknob and it sets him on fire, he runs down the stairs, and dives into the pool. Scared cards went to Dana and Adrianna. Everyone goes to bed and at 7:13am the killer comes & Adrianna is eating a bowl of cereal and drops it, and takes off running and gets in the golf cart, takes off & it explodes killing her. As the credits are rolling Dante was shown partially charred and talking about how he was sad to be killed off but liked the way he died. This was probably done in response to viewers believing that the characters were actually getting killed & tweeting ABC their concerns.