Anybody trying to work out who is the murder in this weeks installment of Whodunnit will have to be Sherlock Holmes himself. There are too many leads that don't get resolved.
There are unintended mistakes in the show enough to throw off any sleuth. We are specifically told at the beginning of the show that only the murder can lie. But there are errors in nearly every bodies recollection.
Take into consideration.
At the beginning of the show when the murder happens the glass the victim drinks from is on the victim's right hand side. Yet when the last witness shows us what he saw the glass is in the victim's left hand side. Which is a moment before the earlier scene. This seems to be a mistake as it has nothing to do with the solving the case.
When Peter Arnold picks up the victim's medicine off the secretary's desk, the secretary - Carol. Snatches the medicine from him and places it at the far end of the desk, out of his reach. In another look back from Ian's perspective, he takes up where the previous scene ended and we find the medicine is in a new location and another new bottle is added to the mix. The bottle has moved position on the desk without any reason.
We see Ian walking around with a green folder under his arm. During the meeting in the beginning the victim asks Ian for the figures and Ian gives him the folder. We see the victim open the folder and touch the pages inside and then picks up a pen and puts it in his mouth. A moment later the victim dies. The fact that the pages inside the folder might be poisoned and once it passes onto the victims hand the poison could have passed onto the pen, then the victim puts the pen in his mouth and dies. Is never considered by the show. To make the possibility even more likely Ian, after his interview, when he leaves from the detective walks past the desk and looks at the green folder still sitting there. The detective is watching him and Ian walks out of the room - making the possibility of the pages in the folder poisonous even more likely.
The first time we see the victim in a memory throwback he is talking to Carol the secretary with a pen in his mouth. What happens to the pen is unknown. Could that pen have been poisonous - definitely.
The cigarettes and the cigarette box is a complete mess altogether. It constantly moves on the boardroom table - and opening and closing. If you look carefully you will see the original 2 cigarettes that were in the cigarette box get thrown into the trash bin. Maybe the murderer had placed them there waiting for the victim to smoke one, but alas they got thrown out. The cigarette box is then filled with another packet of cigarettes. Which we are shown are not poisonous. Yet the detective never checks the bin to see if the original cigarettes are still in the bin. Any one on the board could have reclaimed them from the bin (just looking in the bin would show you that they are in there) and put them back in the box.
Still a great show, but the chances of getting the answer are barely buckley's.
There are unintended mistakes in the show enough to throw off any sleuth. We are specifically told at the beginning of the show that only the murder can lie. But there are errors in nearly every bodies recollection.
Take into consideration.
At the beginning of the show when the murder happens the glass the victim drinks from is on the victim's right hand side. Yet when the last witness shows us what he saw the glass is in the victim's left hand side. Which is a moment before the earlier scene. This seems to be a mistake as it has nothing to do with the solving the case.
When Peter Arnold picks up the victim's medicine off the secretary's desk, the secretary - Carol. Snatches the medicine from him and places it at the far end of the desk, out of his reach. In another look back from Ian's perspective, he takes up where the previous scene ended and we find the medicine is in a new location and another new bottle is added to the mix. The bottle has moved position on the desk without any reason.
We see Ian walking around with a green folder under his arm. During the meeting in the beginning the victim asks Ian for the figures and Ian gives him the folder. We see the victim open the folder and touch the pages inside and then picks up a pen and puts it in his mouth. A moment later the victim dies. The fact that the pages inside the folder might be poisoned and once it passes onto the victims hand the poison could have passed onto the pen, then the victim puts the pen in his mouth and dies. Is never considered by the show. To make the possibility even more likely Ian, after his interview, when he leaves from the detective walks past the desk and looks at the green folder still sitting there. The detective is watching him and Ian walks out of the room - making the possibility of the pages in the folder poisonous even more likely.
The first time we see the victim in a memory throwback he is talking to Carol the secretary with a pen in his mouth. What happens to the pen is unknown. Could that pen have been poisonous - definitely.
The cigarettes and the cigarette box is a complete mess altogether. It constantly moves on the boardroom table - and opening and closing. If you look carefully you will see the original 2 cigarettes that were in the cigarette box get thrown into the trash bin. Maybe the murderer had placed them there waiting for the victim to smoke one, but alas they got thrown out. The cigarette box is then filled with another packet of cigarettes. Which we are shown are not poisonous. Yet the detective never checks the bin to see if the original cigarettes are still in the bin. Any one on the board could have reclaimed them from the bin (just looking in the bin would show you that they are in there) and put them back in the box.
Still a great show, but the chances of getting the answer are barely buckley's.