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Medium Liveblogging: Better Off Dead (MED-046)

by Sheila on January 25th, 2007

Episode Name: Better Off Dead
Episode Number: 046 (3.08)
MED-046 Summary | All Episodes

Uh…what is with the corn poke music? An older Hispanic man runs down the street in his underwear. Hey, where have I seen him before? He is balding. We will call him Baldy until we get a name. So he’s running and he’s running and finally he sees a younger guy with curly hair in an alley and runs up to ask him if he has a cell phone because he’s got to call the cops because he thinks his wife just tried to kill him with a carving knife.

Meanwhile, Curly is looking at his hands like it’s all new and strange and says he is surprised Baldy can see him. Then he finally gets it:

Curly: You’re dead.

Baldy: I beg your pardon?

Curly: Your wife. She got you.

Turns out Curly got mugged in the alley after withdrawing $500 from the ATM and his body is still lying there. With a bullet hole in his head. Euw!

***

Scanlon says Curly isn’t someone anyone is likely to miss. No family that they can find. The only numbers in his cell phone are to restaurants. Sad.

Joe helps Bridgette with her diorama back at home. What the heck is a diorama and how do you spell it?

Back in the alley, Morgan Turly introduces himself to Baldy, who is not convinced he is actually dead. (Ha ha! Curly’s real name is Turly!) Oh brother, more corn poke music as Morgan takes Baldy to see his own dead body lying on the couch with a knife in his chest. Guess the wife really did get him.

***

Morgan left all his money, in the form of a $1,000,000 life insurance policy, to a woman who rescues cats. She only knew him from the cat shelter, where he adopted about a half dozen kitties over time. She offers a reward to anyone who can help solve the murder of such a nice man. What a sweet girl. And I do love cats. She is also planning a memorial service for Morgan that evening.

Joe does not understand why Allison feels the need to go to Morgan’s memorial service but she goes anyway.

She see Morgan there, gazing at the cat lady while his childhood friend stands at the podium and says all Morgan liked to do was stay in his apartment and stare out the window.

Allison tells Morgan they are going to find out who did this to him but…strange…he doesn’t seem to care. He’ll still be dead so why bother?

***

Allison to Joe: He rebuffed me!

***

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Morgan and Baldy watch Baldy’s wife roll his body onto a tarp and get out a saw. Er, they decide now would be a good time to leave!

Allison wakes up and calls Scanlon with names (Vincent and Gladys Discali) and tells him Gladys cut Vincent up with a saw, that’s why they can’t find his body.

Euw. So far I’ve said “euw” a few time but, you know, it’s more of a funny “euw” than an icky “euw.” There is no real gore. I like my TV deaths as goreless as possible, thank you.

Allison checks out Morgan’s apartment, to find it filled with cats. And Morgan. Allison offers to call the woman he left the money to so she can take care of his cats, but he says he doesn’t want her to know where he lived.

Well whaddya know. As she looks out the window, Allison discovers the woman he left all the money to lives right across the way. THAT’S why he has a chair facing the window. The plot thins.

Sidebar: Bridgette got an A+ on her diorama, which turns out to be a 3-D thingy depicting George Washington crossing the Delaware, or some such.

Morgan and Vincent hang out in Morgan’s apartment and watch the girl in the window. As Morgan decides to tell Vincent “the whole story,” he realizes someone is listening so he sends Allison some really creepy dream visions. Mean!

Allison decides to play hard ball since Morgan will not cooperate and help her solve his murder, so she has Cadence Bixby (the cat lady) brought down to the D.A.’s office. Ooh, Morgan is pissed! Cadence tells them Morgan showed up at the shelter one day to adopt a cat, and eventually ended up adopting a half a dozen over time, but that is all she really knew about him. Then she realizes they think she might be involved in his murder. Color Morgan even more pissed.

When it looks like Allison is going to reveal to Cadence that Morgan lived right across from her and sat staring at her through the window every night, Morgan says he will tell her everything if she will just excuse herself from the interview and go out into the hall. Of course he tells her nothing in the hall, so Allison threatens to take Cadence on a little tour of his apartment with its breathtaking view of her apartment.

Wait a minute, what is his childhood pal Nick doing there? He asks where he can find his fiance, Cadence Bixby.

(!!!)

“Your fiance?” say Allison and Morgan in unison.

Vincent sends Allison a dream showing Nick shooting Morgan in the head in the alley…only he is not the bad guy. Morgan is totally cooperating and it looks like he set the whole thing up! Vincent wanted her to have the whole story after the hit Morgan took earlier finding out his best friend is dating the love of his life behind his back.

Allison finds Morgan in his apartment, staring out the window at Cadence and Nick cuddling on the sofa in her apartment. He tells Allison he fell in love with her immediately but he never knew what to do and he never knew what to say so he just kept adopting cats. Awwwww.

He showed her to Nick about a year ago, so maybe Nick would understand why she was all Morgan talked about. Only he had no idea Nick had started dating her. And guess who planned the fake mugging? Nick. Morgan had been suicidal for years. This way, he could finally kill himself AND do something wonderful for the woman he loved…even though she would never have any idea why he left her the money.

But now that Nick is going to get away with his murder, his money, and his girl, he is more suicidal than he had ever been when he was alive. (Heh.) Allison says, let’s just see what we can do about that.

***

Nick arrives at the D.A.’s office, where Cadence has already been filled in. She looks at him like he is a bug.

Devalos, Scanlon, and Allison tell him they found Morgan’s ATM money at the pawn shop where Nick used it right after the murder to buy the modest engagement ring he told Cadence belonged to his grandmother.

Oh, he is slime.

The money has traces of Morgan’s blood and Nick’s fingerprints. He is going DOWN.

The only thing Nick cannot understand as they cuff him and haul him away is how they found out about the pawn shop. Allison says it was a tip from a true friend, someone who knows what loyalty really means.

Vincent: Once upon a time, there was a man who cared so deeply about a woman, he was willing to give up everything for her.

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