How to Get Away with Murder - Season 7

9. Die. Die. Die.

December 26

11:03 PM

Two hands strangling the victim's neck.

<<Die. Die. Die.>>, the murderer says three times.

The pressure on the neck lasts less than a minute, causing the victim's death by asphyxiation.

<<Done. Now what?>>

<<Don't get the floor dirty.>>, the voice on the other side of the call replies.

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January 7, 2018

New York

10:42 PM

Detectives Alex Duvall and Matthew Morgan are at the apartment. Forensics is taking pictures at the crime scene. The smell of the dead body is nauseating.

<<What did they find in the bathroom?>>

<<Bloodstains all over the mirror and in the bathtub, Detective. There's also an electric knife in the sink. We might assume the victim was decapitated with it.>>

<<The body was then dragged to the living room, correct?>>

<<Yes.>>

Detective Duvall sighs.

<<Were they able to trace back the phone number of the anonymous call we received at the station?>>

<<Agent Shelley and his team are working on it.>>

<<Doesn't this story seem strange to you, Detective?>>

<<What do you mean?>>

<<We have the NYPD receiving a phone call from a woman who claims to have heard a gunshot in this building, also specifying the number of the apartment. The body, however, does not show signs of a gunshot, but dismemberment and marks on the neck. Yet, there's a laptop with a handwritten name in blood on the screen. Only a fool would believe this wasn't staged.>>

<<Staged?>

<<Detective, I'm sure the woman on the phone wanted the body to be found by the police.>>

There's tension.

<<The gunshot part is probably true. The killer may have shot her in the head—>>

<<Which, oddly enough, it's missing from the crime scene.>>, Detective Morgan interrupts.

Detective Duvall thinks.

<<Let's wait for the DNA results. Meanwhile, I need to explain myself a few things.>>

<<Which ones?>>

Detective Duvall leans down and gets close to the body.

<<It looks like the body had been here for months. That's why it's unrecognizable at the moment.>>

<<Forensics assumes the process of decomposition began at least six months ago.>>

<<Did they find anything about the last person who stayed here in the apartment?>>