a deadly weapon
In your hands, you each have a lethal weapon.Clue · 1985 — 第 5 / 17 章 · 2'23" · B1
Mr. Boddy Is Found Dead, Explained：over his dead body
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."
あらすじ
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.
注目の表現
over his dead bodytake someone up onthe gun went offmust have killed
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このシーンの表現
over his dead body
never, in his words
Wadsworth recalls the butler's vow that the front door opens only if he is dead.
He swore the door would open over his dead body.
このシーンの他の表現
- take someone up on
accept an offer
- the gun went off
the gun fired by accident
- must have killed
almost certainly did it
- forensic expert
a specialist in evidence
- the only way
the single option
このシーンのメモ一覧
33 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ
report someone to the police
If you denounce me to the police, you will also be exposed and humiliated.make sure of it
I'll see to that in court.only these people
But if one of you kills Wadsworth now, no one but the seven of us will ever know.the key that opens it
He has the key to the front door,never, in his words
Wadsworth recalls the butler's vow that the front door opens only if he is dead.
which he said would only be opened over his dead body.non-defining relative clause: The which-clause adds a side note about the door and uses a passive future-in-the-past.
which he said would only be opened over his dead body.accept an offer
Someone coolly suggests accepting the butler's grim vow as if it were a business offer.
I suggest we take him up on that offer.the single option
The speaker frames murder as the single escape from a public scandal.
The only way to avoid finding yourselves on the front pages, is for one of you to kill Wadsworth now.be splashed across the news
The only way to avoid finding yourselves on the front pages, is for one of you to kill Wadsworth now.a bullet injury
Nobody! Look. There's no gunshot wound.snatch it away from someone
Somebody tried to grab the gun from me in the dark and the gun went off.infinitive after a verb: The infinitive after tried names the attempted action.
Somebody tried to grab the gun from me in the dark and the gun went off.The t in went drops, so it sounds like wen-off.
Somebody tried to grab the gun from me in the dark and the gun went off.a hole from a bullet
He's absolutely right. Look, there's a bullet hole here in the wall. See that?almost certainly did it
With no outsiders around, a guest concludes that one of them must have killed him.
Well, one of us must have killed him.modal deduction: Must have plus a past participle marks a confident guess about the past.
Well, one of us must have killed him.Must have weakens to must've in fast speech.
Well, one of us must have killed him.be killed by poison
Maybe he was poisoned.prevent someone from acting
I had to stop her from screaming.The h in her often drops, so stop her sounds like sto-per.
I had to stop her from screaming.「Mr. Boddy Is Found Dead」を読み解く
What's really going on
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.
Theme
SecretsThe guests would rather commit another murder than let their secrets reach the front pages.
DeceptionA convenient story about the gun going off in the dark stands in for the truth about how Boddy died.
このチャプターで学べること
- A missing wound makes the obvious answer wrong.
- Everyone here is defending themselves before being accused.
- The butler's own threat is quoted back as an alibi.
- Panic makes ordinary people talk over each other.
発音のポイント
- went off — The t in went drops, so it sounds like wen-off.
- must have — Must have weakens to must've in fast speech.
- stop her — The h in her often drops, so stop her sounds like sto-per.
But if one of you kills Wadsworth now, no one but the seven of us will ever know.The offer that drives the scene: kill Wadsworth and the group's shared secret stays buried, since only they would know.
The only way to avoid finding yourselves on the front pages, is for one of you to kill Wadsworth now.The same proposal stated as cold logic: exposure is the threat, and a fresh murder is presented as the escape.
He's absolutely right. Look, there's a bullet hole here in the wall. See that?Physical evidence that supports the gun story — a bullet hit the wall, so the shot clearly missed a body.
In your hands, you each have a lethal weapon.The line that set everything up: every guest was handed a weapon, so any of them could be the killer.
このシーンについての質問
Who shot the gun when the lights went out?
Someone 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.
How did Mr. Boddy actually die?
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.
Why do the guests suggest killing Wadsworth?
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.
Why does Mr. Boddy give the guests weapons?
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.
Is Mrs. Peacock involved in Boddy's death?
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.
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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
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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
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 5 / 17 章 · 残り約 36 分