So, this show from last season in Australia just became available in the US. Lucy Lawless is starring as a retired police detective who is consulting on difficult cases. It’s pretty good, and Lawless is really good. It’s called My Life is Murder. You need Acorn TV to watch it online, but it’s available for purchase by ep or whole season if you have On Demand through your cable service.
I’m really enjoying it, except, there was a solution to one case that is bugging me.
I can’t ask the question I want to ask without spoiling the episode (ep.2 “Locked Room”), so if you think you’ve got any inclination to watch it, and don’t want it spoiled, close this now. But if you don’t mind a spoiler, (or if you’ve seen it) I can give the mechanics of the solution, without saying who did it-- and it’s the mechanics that are bugging me.
From the title, you can guess it’s a locked room murder, guy dead in hotel room, chain drawn. Guy’s been killed with a single gunshot, one supposes from one of those special super-quiet movie guns, but nevermind that for now.
Anyway, turns out what the killer did was go into the adjoining room, and drill two holes in the wall (hand tool, no noise), one to fire through, and one to look through.
Yeah. The firing hole is several inches below the “look” hole.
I was a sharpshooter in the Army, and I did pistol target shooting for sport, and I can’t think what kind of gun you can use to get a kill shot in one try without looking down the sight of the gun, unless you are really close to the target-- not across the room. I mean, sure, a peephole would tell you to fire right or left, up or down, so it wouldn’t be sheer guesswork, but I wouldn’t think unless you were really lucky that you’d get a kill shot on the first try (it’s a head shot, too).
And no, the killer doesn’t stick the whole barrel through the hole, just presses it up against it.
Does this make sense to anyone?
Is this just a scriptwriter “Didn’t do the homework” moment? or am I missing something?