Only Murders in the Building season 5, episode 5 ends with Charles having a spicy evening with widow and suspect Sofia Caccimelio. After tracking Charles’s missing phone, the podcasters also find a strange meetup going down between Sofia and Lainey, Lester’s widow.
Caution: this post contains SPOILERS about Only Murders in the Building season 5, episode 6
Two widows teaming up after a murder either means a plot for revenge,or a plot to frame someone for a murder they committed together. Only Murders in the Building loves to keep viewers on their toes when it comes to potential suspects, and this season is no different.
Oliver and Loretta reunite in Only Murders in the Building season 5, episode 6
In the opening scene of Only Murders in the Building season 5 episode 6, viewers discover that Loretta has lost everything in a house fire. She is understandably devastated and moves in with her new husband, Oliver.
Oliver and Loretta had been living apart since their wedding, due to her working on acting projects in another city. Now that’s she forced to leave her home, she may just help the podcast trio uncover key details for the case.
The severed finger goes missing
Charles has been storing the severed finger in his freezer since the day after Oliver’s wedding, which also happens to be the morning after the alleged murders of Lester, the doorman, and Nicky Caccimelio, the mobster. Charles, Mabel, and Oliver were waiting for their trusted detective, Donna Williams, to turn the finger over to police evidence, but she hadn’t gotten around to it before it went missing.
Two plans to relocate the finger happen simultaneously: Oliver and Loretta head to spy on Lainey and Sofia, while Charles and Mabel track down security footage from LESTR the robot. Loretta puts on an act upon meeting Lainey, pretending to be interested in buying her house. Lainey speaks fondly of her late husband, causing Loretta to question the widow’s involvement with the murders altogether.
At the end of Lainey and Loretta’s meeting, no new evidence for the case surfaces, but Oliver and Loretta determine that there is still something very sketchy going on between Sofia and Lainey. Oliver and Loretta decide to follow the widows on foot, all the way to a theater where Oliver reminisces about his childhood experiences.
Sofia and Lainey confront Oliver and Loretta about being followed and continue to presume their innocence. In fact, Lainey is still under the impression that her husband’s death was an accident. With the hopes that it could help the case, Lainey turns over a bird whistle to Oliver, which was found with Lester’s body after his death. We are likely to see this bird again in future episodes, but for now, it hasn’t given us any leads.
As for Charles and Mabel’s quest for camera footage, they discover something even more chilling and disturbing than a severed finger—they find that someone has inserted deep fakes into the security camera footage from the night of the murder and the night when Althea, Mabel’s frenemy, claimed to see an intruder in Charles’ apartment. Charles and Mabel gather that the night on the break-in is most likely the same night that the finger was stolen from Charles’ fridge
Charles gets catfished on Only Murders in the Building season 5 episode 6
As we know from Only Murders in the Building season 5, episode 5, Charles has been taking extra testosterone, and the result of that is an increased desire for romantic relationships. To his chagrin, Charles discovers that someone suspicious used a dating app to connect with him and ask questions about the Lester and Nicky murder cases. Disappointedly, Charles spills the beans about some details of the cases.
At the end of Only Murders in the Building season 5, episode 6, the podcasters find out that the company that owns Charles's dating app, The Last Gasp (pun intended), also owns the security camera system for the Arconia. Research narrows down the owner of the company to one of the three CEOs, who have been prime suspects since the podcasters discovered the underground casino. The suspect is… Bash! What is Bash trying to hide? Find out in next week’s episode!
Big news came just ahead of Only Murders in the Building season 5, episode 6
Only Murders in the Building star, Selena Gomez, married fiance, Benny Blanco. Gomez posted beautiful pictures of the ceremony on Instagram, and the Only Murders Instagram page posted a reel featuring her co-stars, Steve Martin and Martin Short, in honor of the wedding. Congrats to the newlyweds and the "Fathers of the Bride"!
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