This movie is a random movie I came across on my moviebox; it has been downloaded for a while, but I decided to start seeing it today when I was a bit bored. And it all started with a murder that happened inside the White House. And I like how it all began in a way that it didn't rush into the usual serious detective drama. Instead, this episode led into the beginning of the congressional hearing, where the death of the head usher of the White House, A.B. Wynter, was being reconstructed.
He was found dead in the game room on the third floor on the night when the president hosted a state dinner for some diplomats that came from Australia while the dinner was ongoing on the first floor. After his death was discovered, it gave the episode the mystery to uncover who did it because no one was allowed to leave the building.
When Detective Cordelia Cupp arrived at the White House to investigate and look into A.B.'s death, everything became more interesting. At first, there was a discussion between some key people in the White House to treat his death as suicide just to avoid scandal during the diplomatic dinner. But while Cupp checked through A.B.'s body, she discovered it was not a suicide, even though there was a suicide note found in his pocket and there was a cut on his two wrists. A wound at the back of his head, blood on his white inner and the shirt wasn't his own, yet there was no knife in the scene. She also checked his shoes and noticed he was dragged into that room. Cupp, however, didn't support the suicide discussion and stated that it was a murder.
Following that event, Cupp started her investigation by walking down the hall and through people in the residence. The president's mother, Cox, was the one who found A.B.'s body and had to scream loud around 9:57 p.m.
The head usher picked after A.B. was not happy due to what A.B. said about not retiring anytime soon. He told her shortly before his death, and she didn't expect what he said. Then another character, Hollinger, who's the close adviser to the president, was the one who concluded that the death should be called suicide. But during Cupp's investigation that night, he found Hollinger inside the A.B. office going through his files while he claimed he was looking for sensitive political documents.
I like how this episode made most people look like suspects with smaller clues but no conclusion on who did it yet. During her investigation, she noticed a wet stain on the casino table, found a glass near the window, found A.B.'s bloody handkerchief in his office dustbin, and learned that the head chef of the White House went missing during the state dinner more than an hour after she had threatened to kill A.B. earlier. Sheila, who is in charge of serving guests, was found stumbling around, while the chef in charge of making pastry was found seated on the kitchen floor beside some knives that were oddly arranged. Tripp, the brother of the president, also said he didn't know anything because he has been in his room since 9:30 p.m. All these details that Cupp was getting were just raising more questions but not the final answer yet. But during the investigation moment, the White House was treated like a crime scene, and everyone inside was a suspect because it was like everyone was trying to hide something, but Cupp was a brilliant detective.
To me, Cupp was the strongest part of this episode. She was so eccentric without making herself feel incapable of being cartoonish. She studied birds a lot, and that alone helped her during her investigation to pay attention to what everyone was saying, spot a lie, and recall what they all said even though some of them forgot what they said, but she remembered all, word for word. She didn't do all the investigation alone; she was assisted by Edwin Park, an FBI agent. Despite all the pressure under her, Safe did things at her own terms and according to how she could handle it.
And less I forget, apart from being a crime detective series. It was filled with comedy, and that is part of what Cupp did as evidence rather than taking it too seriously. She is direct, focused, intimate, curious, and not easily distracted.
Instead of ending this episode with a solution like most films I have seen, this ended with clues; no suspect was identified. And when it came to it, the Australian Foreign Minister, David Rylance, and the Prime Minister confronted the president to ask why everyone was not allowed to leave the building. Cupp looks around with her binoculars and notices something unusual about the Australian Foreign Minister's dress; it was an A.B. shirt, while his was found on A.B. with blood stains. And the way he reacted to what Cupp asked made everything more suspicious.
And that's where the mystery started in this episode. The victim has been found, but the strange situation surrounding his death is yet to be discovered because the room was filled with new discoveries and people with different motives, with just a skilled detective questioning everything that might be a possible suspect while the actual killer is unknown.
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