Spoilers

“Sitzprobe”

I’m not sure why I ever doubt this show.

Episode eight of the third season of Only Murders in the Building was sensational and they hit a ton of things that I thought they weren’t going to touch on again.

Specifically, the minor heart attack Oliver had early in the season. I felt as if this show was going to brush that under the rug and never bring it up again. How wrong I was as this episode ended with Loretta being taken away after a confession of murder and Oliver collapsing from the strain, clutching his arm and clearly having another attack.

This ending scene was as dramatic as you are going to get.

I also realized, happily, that Loretta is not our killer. I wondered if they were going to do the girlfriend killer again, but clearly that she confessed because she thought Ben’s brother Dickie was about to be arrested (and she may believe that he actually killed his brother). It was revealed this episode that Loretta was Dickie’s birth mother who had gotten pregnant when she was young and gave up the baby to pursue her career in acting.

Shocking! Did not see that twist coming. It also now made sense why she had a book with clips of ben, the one that Oliver had found. It wasn’t clips of Ben, but of Dickie.

I do think that means that both Loretta and Dickie are clear, even though Dickie certainly spoke to his mother (whom he does not know is his mother) in a way that sounded as if he were guilty.

The return of Detective Williams was very welcome as well. She burst into this sitzprobe rehearsal (he first time they rehearse with a full orchestra) with all kinds of venom and curse words. I loved how Charles and Oliver showed their intelligence and planning by playing the fools. Their plan to get recording of the interrogations performed by Williams was complicated, but worked like a charm. I like when they are shown as capable and not just jokes.

Charles made it through his patter song too for the first time without going into the white room. It was a cool thing to hear Steve Martin knock this out.

It was great to see Oliver, Charles and Mabel back on the same page, even if it was short lived with Oliver’s heart attack.

I thought this was a great episode with everything that makes this show stand out.