modal perfect: Would have killed imagines a past result that never happened because she was already gone.
Mr. Boddy threatened to send those pictures to my dear old mother, the shock would've killed her.Clue · 1985 — 第 14 / 17 章 · 3'05" · B2
Wadsworth's Black Market Confession, Explained：hold something over someone
Wadsworth walks the room through Mr. Boddy's murder, then turns the questions on the guests: "Everyone here tonight was either Mr. Boddy's victim or accomplice." But the scene's real reveal is his own — pressed about how he made his money, he admits to selling stolen air force parts on the black market.
あらすじ
Wadsworth reconstructs how Mr. Boddy was killed: the murderer slipped through the secret passage and struck from behind while everyone waited in the kitchen. The questions then turn to motive and money. Cornered at last, Wadsworth admits he was a war profiteer who stole air force radio parts and sold them on the black market.
注目の表現
motivethrow awaytop-secretkeep a secret
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このシーンの表現
hold something over someone
use a secret to control
Wadsworth asks what leverage the driver had, the kind of secret that keeps someone under control.
He still holds that old mistake over me.
このシーンの他の表現
- motive
a reason to act
- throw away
discard
- top-secret
highly classified
- keep a secret
not tell anyone
- black market
illegal trade
このシーンのメモ一覧
59 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ
Would've blurs into a single weak syllable before killed.
Mr. Boddy threatened to send those pictures to my dear old mother, the shock would've killed her.have a reason
So, he had the motive.fake being dead
Mr. Boddy was on the floor, pretending to be dead, but one of us knows he's alive.One of us runs together, almost like one word.
Mr. Boddy was on the floor, pretending to be dead, but one of us knows he's alive.pass quietly
One of us slipped through the same secret passage.lying on the ground
Meanwhile, Mr. Boddy had been on the floor.search for a way out
Mr. Boddy followed us out of the study and into the hall looking for an escape.participle phrase: The participle phrase explains what Boddy was doing as he followed them out.
Mr. Boddy followed us out of the study and into the hall looking for an escape.approach silently from behind
The murderer crept up behind him and killed him!Threw him links up, and the h almost disappears.
Then he threw him into the toilet and nonchalantly rejoined us besides the cook's body in the kitchen.under thirty seconds
It took less than half a minute.discard
Wadsworth recalls the group locking the weapons away and running to throw the key from the house.
And we put the weapons in the cupboard locked it, and ran to the front door to throw away the key.remove from inside
And someone could've taken it out of my pocket and substituted another.past possibility: Could have done marks a past possibility that applies to everyone in the group.
- Anyone of us could've done that. - Precisely.Could've collapses into one syllable before done.
- Anyone of us could've done that. - Precisely.a connection joining two
Yvette is a link between them.crucial information
Everyone who's died gave him vital information about one of you.purpose clause: The so-clause states the purpose of gathering them: to make them testify.
I got them here so they'd give evidence against him and force him to confess.yes / really — A casual spoken yes; use yes in formal settings.
Yeah? What about that motorist?use a secret to control
Wadsworth asks what leverage the driver had, the kind of secret that keeps someone under control.
And what was he holding over you?「Wadsworth's Black Market Confession」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene closes the trap it has been building. Wadsworth can explain every step of the killing, including how the murderer 'crept up behind him' and returned to the kitchen in under half a minute. His summary line — 'Everyone here tonight was either Mr. Boddy's victim or accomplice' — makes the whole dinner party a conspiracy. Then the logic turns on him. Asked how he knew so much about the motorist, he admits he invited him, and asked what the man was holding over him, he finally answers: 'He knew that I was a war profiteer.' The detective has become a suspect, and the confession is matter-of-fact.
Theme
MoneyThe scene ends at the source of the money all along: stolen wartime parts sold on the black market.
CorruptionRespectable guests are unmasked as blackmailers and profiteers, and the man leading the search is one of them.
このチャプターで学べること
- A motive is the hidden reason, not the deed itself.
- Leverage keeps working long after the threat is made.
- A casual arrival can be part of the plan.
- Flat confessions have no excuse attached.
発音のポイント
- would've killed — Would've blurs into a single weak syllable before killed.
- one of us — One of us runs together, almost like one word.
- threw him into — Threw him links up, and the h almost disappears.
- could've done — Could've collapses into one syllable before done.
Everyone here tonight was either Mr. Boddy's victim or accomplice.Wadsworth's summary that turns the whole gathering into a conspiracy: no one present is merely an innocent bystander.
I stole essential air force radio parts, and I sold them on the black market.The confession underneath the whole case: his fortune came from wartime theft, not honest work.
I got them here so they'd give evidence against him and force him to confess.Wadsworth explains his own scheme — assembling the guests as witnesses — which is also why he is now a suspect.
Then he threw him into the toilet and nonchalantly rejoined us besides the cook's body in the kitchen.A deliberately casual description of the murder, the word 'nonchalantly' doing the dark work.
このシーンについての質問
How was Mr. Boddy killed?
The murderer slipped back through the secret passage, picked up a candlestick, and struck from behind while everyone else waited by the cook's body in the kitchen.
Why does suspicion fall on Wadsworth?
He knows too many details, so the guests ask how he learned them. He admits he invited the motorist and finally confesses that he was a war profiteer.
Where did Wadsworth's money come from?
From crime. He stole essential air force radio parts during the war and sold them on the black market, which is how he made his fortune.
Who is the motorist?
The driver Wadsworth used during the war. He is the one who knew Wadsworth's secret — that he had been a war profiteer — and was thus a threat.
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次のチャプター · 第 15 章whistling DixieWadsworth Recaps the Murders
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
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
再生中 · 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
第 17 章fatal mistakeWadsworth Counts the Last Bullet第 14 / 17 章 · 残り約 9 分