Love and lies are in the air. With a new character to a different perspective, there's suddenly an array of undiscovered possibilities. On Only Murders In the Building Season 1 Episode 9, we inch closer to the final revelations that will answer the question of the series -- who killed Tim Kono? So, phew! Jan is alive after a stabbing. Her opening voiceover is beautiful, complete with bassoon underscoring. Given what we learned about her in this episode, it makes sense that she's our penultimate narrator. It's a shame we only get a little of her perspective, but it makes sense -- she has been keeping SO MANY secrets from the gang. Why does she lie about the symphony of all things? Is she just embarrassed? Is it just a way for the writers to show that she's unreliable? The end was a blindside -- my jaw was on the floor. Did anyone call Jan and Tim as lovers? It's wonderful that a show that's been subject to so much dissection can still surprise with something so huge but totally explicable. Jan's always been a little shady simply by virtue of how she's been orbiting Charles. Someone with so much screen time has to be up to something (see also: Oscar, who we'll get to later). Jan subtly charmed her way into Charles's life -- does she even have feelings for him? Was she just ingratiating herself into the investigation so she could help bring her lover's killer to justice? Or was she just trying to make sure she wasn't a suspect? But if that were the case, why wouldn't she have gone along with the Dimas theory? Does she have a secret vendetta against Howard? We know Tim hated Evelyn the cat, does that mean Jan hated her too? Or did Jan kill Tim because he broke up with her? Something doesn't add up here. The lover-as-killer feels like a misdirect, but we're so close to the end now it's as possible as anything else.
Looking at Detective Williams's toxicology report, Tim died from secobarbital poisoning, which is the same poison that killed Evelyn (as Howard pointed out) and presumably Winnie. Secobarbital is often used in veterinary medicine. Who do we know that's a vet? Will Putnam.
