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Certainly not. I'd obtained them for the colonel and I was going to give them backClue · 1985 — 第 8 / 17 章 · 2'59" · B2
Locking Up the Weapons, Explained：overkill
The guests argue about what the photographs show before Mr. Boddy turns up dead — again. Someone jokes, 'That's what we call overkill.' When they decide to lock the remaining weapons in a cupboard, whoever takes the key quietly pockets it.
あらすじ
At Mr. Boddy's mansion, the guests are trading accusations over a set of photographs when they discover Boddy's body yet again. They haul the corpses onto a sofa, round up the remaining weapons — the gun, the rope, the wrench, the lead pipe — and lock them in a cupboard. One guest pockets the key.
注目の表現
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このシーンの表現
overkill
doing far too much
When someone calls the double killing pointless, Wadsworth turns it into a neat wordplay.
Reheating the same argument for an hour is overkill.
このシーンの他の表現
- position
a pose; also a situation
- blood on your hands
to be responsible for harm
- access to
the right to reach something
- keep it safe
protect something from harm
- ladies first
let women go ahead
このシーンのメモ一覧
57 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ
the moment that
as soon as Mr. Boddy was unmasked.which sort of
How do you know what kind of pictures they are if you're such a lady?embedded question: The clause after know keeps statement order, not question order.
How do you know what kind of pictures they are if you're such a lady?affects me
No. I'm afraid there's something in them that concerns me, too.relative clause: The that-clause describes which part of the photos concerns him.
No. I'm afraid there's something in them that concerns me, too.take that pose
Oh my. Nobody can get into that position.Fall into runs together, and my arms links as one.
I'll catch her. Fall into my arms.to be responsible for harm
Someone catches a fainting guest and gets red on their hands, and the remark turns the stain into blame.
You've got blood on your hands.Blood on links, and on your weakens to on-yer.
You've got blood on your hands.fresh wounds
He's got new injuries. Well, he's certainly dead now.kill the same person again
Why would anyone want to kill him twice?what people name
That's what we call overkill.The t in what nearly disappears before we.
That's what we call overkill.unless clause: Unless means if not, setting the one condition that changes everything.
Unless he wasn't dead before.you don't have to
There's no need to shout!the right to reach something
The hunt for the weapon narrows to whoever could physically get hold of it.
Who had access to the candlestick?place them inside
Let's put them all in this cupboard and lock it.a killer on the loose
There's a homicidal maniac about.protect something from harm
Asked why he pockets the key, the guest answers that he is simply keeping it safe.
- Why? - To keep it safe, obviously.「Locking Up the Weapons」を読み解く
What's really going on
Nobody in this room is really talking about a dead man. The photographs, the blood, the weapons — they are all currency in a game of who can implicate whom first. 'You've got blood on your hands,' one of them snaps, and the accusation matters less than the fact that everyone is quietly checking who else could be blamed. The running joke about overkill is the group's way of pretending this is all absurd, but the cold logic underneath is pure self-preservation: lock away every possible murder weapon, then make sure you personally control the key. Whoever holds the key holds the power to decide what happens next, and nobody is willing to trust the others with it.
Theme
Dark humorA corpse gets killed twice and the group treats it as a punchline — 'That's what we call overkill' turns murder into wordplay.
SecretsThe disputed photographs and the pocketed key show a group that trusts no one and keeps its own leverage hidden.
このチャプターで学べること
- A locked cupboard means nothing if one guest keeps the key.
- Overkill turns a murder into a vocabulary lesson.
- Blood on your hands is both a stain and a verdict.
- Polite phrases become black comedy when bodies are involved.
発音のポイント
- Fall into my — Fall into runs together, and my arms links as one.
- blood on your — Blood on links, and on your weakens to on-yer.
- what we call — The t in what nearly disappears before we.
You've got blood on your hands.An accusation: the blood makes you responsible, or at least complicit, in what just happened — you cannot pretend you had nothing to do with it.
Why would anyone want to kill him twice?The joke that drives the scene: killing a man once is already enough, so a second murder means either the first one never killed him or someone is absurdly overdoing it.
There's a homicidal maniac about.A flat warning that a killer is somewhere nearby, delivered as if it settles the argument for locking the weapons away.
That's what we call overkill.A pun on the word: killing a man twice is doing far more than necessary — the deadpan punchline that names the scene's dark joke.
このシーンについての質問
Why do they lock up the weapons?
After Mr. Boddy turns up dead again, the guests realize the gun, rope, wrench and lead pipe could be used by anyone. Locking them in the cupboard is meant to stop the killer from striking a third time — though the joke is that whoever takes the key now controls them.
Who ends up with the key to the cupboard?
Nobody is named on screen. One guest asks, 'What are you doing with the key?' and the reply is 'Putting it in my pocket,' justified with 'To keep it safe, obviously.' The point is that no one in the room is above suspicion.
Why is killing Mr. Boddy a second time called overkill?
Because killing someone once is already enough; doing it again is the definition of overkill — more force than the situation requires. It is the characteristically dry Clue joke that treats a fresh corpse as a vocabulary lesson.
Why does Boddy have new injuries?
Because he appears to have been attacked a second time. One guest reasons that unless he wasn't dead before, someone went to the trouble of killing him again — the detail that makes the whole scene absurd.
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第 1 章break the iceMrs. Peacock Breaks the Ice
第 2 章over my dead bodyGuests Arrive at the Mansion
第 3 章in the same boatWadsworth Reveals the Blackmail
第 4 章behind barsBoddy Is the Blackmailer
第 5 章over his dead bodyMr. Boddy Is Found Dead
第 6 章preyed on my mindWadsworth Explains Why He Gathered Them
第 7 章defence mechanismMr. Boddy's Body Disappears
再生中 · 第 8 章overkillLocking Up the Weapons
第 9 章make an omeletWadsworth Won't Say Yes or No
第 10 章a likely storyTrapped in the Secret Passage
第 11 章nothing to hideUnexpected Guest Asks to Use the Phone
第 12 章step by stepWadsworth Reconstructs the Evening
第 13 章get your hands onWadsworth Reveals the Secret Passage
第 14 章hold something over someoneWadsworth's Black Market Confession
第 15 章whistling DixieWadsworth Recaps the Murders
第 16 章a red herringWadsworth Reveals He's the Killer
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