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With Boddy dead and the lights back on, the guests turn on each other. Someone suggests killing Wadsworth to stay safe — "no one but the seven of us will ever know" — but the gun tells a different story: "Somebody tried to grab the gun from me in the dark and the gun went off."
The Guests Suggest Killing Wadsworth
Who Had the Gun When It Fired?
After the power fails at the mansion, the guests find Mr. Boddy dead on the floor. One of them coolly proposes killing Wadsworth so the group can never be exposed. Then the suspects work out who held the revolver, and the story shifts: the gun fired during a struggle in the dark, and nobody can explain how Boddy actually died.
The scene runs on panic dressed as logic. The guests have just been told that exposure means ruin, so the first proposal on the table is a second murder — "the only way to avoid finding yourselves on the front pages, is for one of you to kill Wadsworth now." Then the gun becomes the only thing they can argue about, because it offers a story simpler than the truth. "Somebody tried to grab the gun from me in the dark and the gun went off" gets the shooter off the hook, and the bullet in the wall seems to prove it. But the body has no gunshot wound, so the group's neat explanation falls apart. The real fear is that one of them killed Boddy, and no one wants to be the one who says it.
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“But if one of you kills Wadsworth now, no one but the seven of us will ever know.”
A conditional turns murder into a quiet bargain and names the exact circle of witnesses.
Formal
“The only way to avoid finding yourselves on the front pages, is for one of you to kill Wadsworth now.”
It makes the front page and murder into two options, so the room feels the squeeze at once.
Formal
“He's absolutely right. Look, there's a bullet hole here in the wall. See that?”
He backs up the claim with evidence he can point at, turning argument into observation.
Informal
“In your hands, you each have a lethal weapon.”
One line hands everyone a weapon at once and turns polite guests into suspects.
Formal
Siguiente · 06preyed on my mindLa escena: Wadsworth Explains Why He Gathered ThemSomeone tried to grab the revolver from the person holding it, and it went off in the struggle. The bullet hit a vase and a wall, not a body, so the shot was not what killed Mr. Boddy.
No one in the scene knows. There is no gunshot wound, so the guests guess at poison, and Mrs. Peacock is nearly hysterical before anyone has an answer.
They are afraid their secrets will be exposed. Killing the man who could expose them — and who keeps the only key to the front door — looks like a way to make the problem disappear.
He wants them to kill Wadsworth for him. By putting a weapon in every hand, he makes the murder available to anyone in the room.
The scene gives no proof either way. She is the one being calmed down, and the others only speculate about poison, so her guilt is left open for the ending.
