That’s exactly what (i recall) Charles said.
I’m officially 1/1 on opening title sequence easter eggs.
Here’s hoping this season isn’t all just Charles’ dream. I don’t want the last shot of the season to be Charles finding Sazz in his shower.
Or one skilled shooter and one strong person.
I think Sazz is most certainly dead - I liked how the beginning of the episode kept teasing us with them ‘just about’ to find her - and how in the end, they did.
Whoever has her phone is the killer - or the cleanup.
The other option, of course, is that Sazz faked her death and threw some random extra parts in the incinerator.
The interesting thing about that angle is that it means there has to be another murder at the Arconia.
Or maybe it somehow leads to them investigating a cold case murder in the building from many years ago. (Charles mentioned taking on a cold case for their next season, which I was thinking might be a hint for what happens in season 5, since they are really pushing the murder limit in this building.)
Yep, she made the classic mistake “I’ve got something important I need to tell you later”, which as everyone knows, is the kiss of doom for a character in a murder mystery.
I’m a little slow at work today, so I actually took a stab at the math. The Belnord, the building on which the Astoria in the show is based, has 215 apartments according to this link. Since in the show, many of the apartment occupants are older and live alone or with one other person at most (like Teddy and his son), I’m going to arbitrarily put the Astoria resident population at 400. 4 murders in 4 seasons is a murder rate of 1%.
Fictional Cabot Cove is estimated, by this site at least, to have around 3500 residents. There were 60 murders during the show’s run, for a murder rate of 1.7%.
So, if my math is correct, it will take 3 more seasons (assuming the current rate of one murder per season) of OMITB to hit 1.75% and exceed the Cabot Cove murder rate percentage.
Thanks for the analysis. I’m surprised it’s that close. There are certainly buildings in NYC with a higher murder density rate, but maybe not when counting only murders that are solved.
Didnt’ they say earlier that the building smells better now that the old incinerator is shut down? So there should be a decomposing Sazz corpse in there, not a pile of ash & titanium prosthetics.
They had a power blip which they said they haven’t had since they shut down the incinerator. This combined with the ashes means the power blip was the incinerator starting up.
Damn, good catch.
Though why would starting an incinerator need so much power that it browns out the building? It’s just lighting up the gas burners.
Seems highly unlikely an old building in NYC would have an electric incinerator, just electric igniters as you suggest. We don’t know what those ashes are from so if some titanium implants were dumped down the chute some small piece could bounce into the ignition housing and short the igniters briefly, but still unlikely. If an actual body or just some wet meat were dumped in it’s possible that blood or tissue entered the igniter housing causing some kind of short. Although I think that only the slightest bit more likely there could have been a history of problems like that with the incinerator which would have made it happening this time less noticeable and explain why the ‘out of order’ sign over the incinerator chute wasn’t questioned. Whatever it was, I don’t think a body was burned there. I don’t really know but I’d think you wouldn’t find nice clean titanium body parts with just some easily brushed off ashes on them. I think they be coated with some charred material unless the incinerator got hot enough to burn off any carbon deposits. That is possible I suppose, but more likely in reality no body was burned or the parts were tossed in afterwards.
I’m keeping an eye out for evidence pointing that way. I was thinking there was a chance Sazz fired that bullet herself but why then cover up all the possible evidence of her death? Maybe she assumed the bumbling amateur detectives and Mabel would discover the blood spots and burned implants but needed more time to get away cleanly and take care of unfinished business.
Based on what I’ve seen in detective dramas, those implants have serial numbers etched on them, so it should be possible to match them to what was implanted in Sass. It seems unlikely that she used spare parts to fake her death.
She would know they wouldn’t hold up under close examination, but as a red herring it could give her some time. Maybe she even had some spare parts purchased for her so it would take some effort to discover that.
As it is now we don’t know if she or anyone else is dead. And like most places where amateur detectives are at work the police are incompetent. So this would buy her time to go kill someone else, or get extensive plastic surgery so she now looks entirely different.
I think she is alive because Jane Lynch has credits in later episodes this season, but as someone mentioned already she might just be playing herself.
My guess is that Sass appears in later episodes in flashbacks.
Certainly possible.
Pretty good trick shooting herself through a window at a distance.
In the real world they do.
My mom always said I was wasting time watching television and it’s become clear that I was getting an education.
Tricky but not that difficult. I’m sure it’s been done in some mystery story.
That happened with Paul Rudd’s character several times and the other victims in years 1 & 2.