- Title: Only Murders in the Building – The Stunt Man
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The investigation into Sazz‘s (Jane Lynch) murder leads Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) to a stunt man bar which Sazz visited before her death. While it doesn’t offer new clues to his friends murder, spending some time with the stunt people does bring Charles a sense of peace and help him find an old memory concerning his friend’s retirement dream which leads to an entirely different kind of confrontation at the end of the episode.
Memorable moments include the stunt people’s reaction to “faces” showing up in their bar, the touching but goofy sequence of Charles standing in for his dead friend allowing the stunt people a funeral, Mabel’s discovery of the truth of the Westies (likely removing them as serious suspects), and he return of Paul Rudd, this time as stunt man Glenn Stubbins. Rudd’s performance is at least three notches too far over-the-top for me, which is really the only negative of the episode that explores Sazz’s life, and Charles’ relationship with her, as much as it does her murder.
