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The Darkest Murder in the Building


Only Murders adjusts its tone — with a little help from Sergio Leone — to depict a true moment of trauma.

Evenfor a show with death in its name, the fourth-season premiere of Only Murders in the Building concludes in unusually brutal fashion: Charles-Haden Savage & Co. discovering the body of Sazz Pataki, Charles’slongtime stunt double, incinerated in the Arconia’s basement. We know that Sazz (Jane Lynch) was shot and killed in the final moments of season three, while hunting for a bottle of wine in Charles’s apartment to celebrate Death Rattle Dazzle ’s opening night. “You can certainly make fun of a show where many murders happen in one building, but I always ground it very strongly in the truth of those situations and the drive it needs for our trio.” There’s also the implication, as briefly seen on the desk at her apartment, that Sazz was investigating something involving her friend in the Arconia.

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