Still, I have to say that I get amused when a mystery depends on a bizarre, convoluted alibi by the killer, such as Brad in "Mr. Monk & the TV Star," who dubs his wife's scream from one of her old B films into her work-out video; hearing the scream from inside the house, reporters assume she is being killed while Brad is talking to them. Nobody can break the alibi but Monk!
Okay, it is clever, and the episode is usual Monk fun, and really, mysteries are about the satisfaction of the reveal--which is why Columbo episodes are so successful, despite us knowing the killer from the beginning.
But I have to laugh. In reality? By the end of the day, thousands of people would be proposing not only the above solution but...
The wife was killed by aliens.
Writers like to mock themselves--and agents. - The wife was killed by Kennedy's killers.
- The wife was killed by robots.
- The wife was killed by bunny robots.
- The wife was killed by Brad's mistress, producer, agent, or a scriptwriter.
- The wife faked a scream, then stabbed herself.
- The person being interviewed by the reporters wasn't Brad but a stand-in.
- A loathed political organization or person killed the wife and is trying to ruin Brad's reputation.
And so on...
People have the capacity, especially in large numbers, to imagine the unimaginable--which creates paranoid conspiracy theories AND the tech revolution.
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