Mabel Mora

**Mabel Mora** is a main character in Season 1, Season 2 and Season 3 of *Only Murders in the Building*. She is part of the podcast trio.

She is portrayed by Selena Gomez.

## History

### Father's Death

When Mabel was a child, her parents told her her father had to move out for work. She visited him at his new place, where they did puzzles together, using tricks to make them more of a challenge. Mabel became frustrated when her father began breaking promises to her. Unbeknownst to Mabel, her father had stomach cancer. When he ended up in the hospital, Mabel visited him and lay in his bed with him.

After Mabel's father died, Mabel's mother didn't come out of her room for six months. Mabel watched "*Girl Cop*" by herself during this time and came to realize her mother was watching it too, in her own room. They ended up watching it together in their own rooms for months.

### The Hardy Boys

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Mabel grew up in Bayport, Long Island, where she lived with her mother, Silvia Mora, who was a single mother after the death of Mabel's father. She would spent every school break at the Arconia with her wealthy aunt, Salma Ramirez, who lived in Apartment 12E.

In 2002 or 2003, while spending time at the Arconia, Mabel met Tim Kono in the building's inner courtyard when she was drawing at the fountain, interrupting Tim's game. Tim became interested in a book Mabel was reading, *The Missing Chums* from The Hardy Boys series. The two eventually became good friends, and would reunite every school break when Mabel visited the Arconia to read The Hardy Boys book series and pretend they were the Hardy Boys, solving mysteries they would make up around Tim's apartment for years. At some point, Mabel and Tim met Oscar Torres and Zoe Cassidy. Oscar, whose dad is the Arconia's superintendent, copied his dad's key so The Hardy Boys could break into any apartment while the owners were out of town. Although Zoe and her family lived on the entire 11th floor of the Arconia, she would steal things of value whenever the Hardy Boys broke into an apartment.

### New Year's Eve Incident

During one New Year's Eve where the Hardy Boys attended a party on the roof of the Arconia, Zoe was pushed from the roof and died. Tim told Mabel that he saw someone other than Oscar arguing with Zoe but Tim refused to tell the police, allowing Oscar to be sent to prison for Zoe's murder. Zoe's death and Oscar's arrest deeply affected Mabel and made her mother very concerned about Mabel.

### Returning to the Arconia

Ten years after Zoe's death, Mabel returned to the Arconia to remodel her aunt's apartment. She went to see Tim, telling him Oscar was about to be released from prison, and telling him he could still go make things right and tell what he'd seen. He said he didn't know what she was talking about and told her to pretend she didn't know him if she saw him in the hallway.

### Starting a Podcast

When Mabel's aunt decided to renovate her apartment at the Arconia, she asked Mabel to do it and allowed Mabel to live in the apartment during the renovation. One afternoon Mabel arrived at the Arconia and got in the elevator with Charles-Haden Savage and Oliver Putnam. Oliver tried to talk to Mabel about her headphones, but Mabel ignored him. Tim Kono got on the elevator with a bag of garbage while on the phone before getting off the elevator again a few floors later. Oliver started to tell Charles and Mabel a story, but was interrupted by the elevator reaching his floor. That night, Mabel was listening to Cinda Canning's podcast "*All Is Not Ok in Oklahoma*" when the fire alarm went off. Mabel went to a nearby restaurant where Charles and Oliver had begun to bond over their listening to the same podcast. Oliver recognized Mabel from the elevator and invited her to sit with them. Mabel was reluctant at first before realizing they were discussing the podcast and the three sat together while talking about it. Oliver asked how Mabel could afford to live in the Arconia, but Mabel didn't answer him. The three decided to go back to the building to find out what happened. After discovering that a body had been found, Charles said that he could get them to the freight elevator to the ninth floor to take a peek. Mabel agreed but said they should go to the eighth floor because there would be cops at the ninth floor, impressing Oliver and Charles.

The three got to the crime scene and discovered that the victim was Tim Kono, whom they rode the elevator with earlier that day. The three are caught by Donna Williams, who told them it was a suicide. They started asking questions, making Williams realize they had been listening to a true crime podcast. Annoyed, she sent them away, telling them it was a textbook suicide. Later that night, Mabel realized that it was strange for Tim to take a bag of garbage onto the elevator when there are garbage chutes on every floor. When she got to the elevator, Charles was on it, having also realized about the garbage bag. They were then joined by Oliver who wondered if they were all thinking the same thing, but was apparently not thinking about the garbage bag. Oliver tried to persuade Charles and Mabel to make a podcast about the death of Tim. The three went down to the garbage and went through the trash, where they found several notes written by Tim Kono. They appeared to be drafts of a suicide note and the three decided the police must have been right about it being suicide.

Mabel then heard her neighbor Bunny and remembered that a few of Tim Kono's packages were delivered to her by mistake. She went to Charles, remembering that Tim was on the phone trying to get a hold of a package. While Charles picked the lock to Bunny's apartment, Mabel told him about The Hardy Boys, omitting that Tim was one of them. Charles told her about his father's poor treatment of his mother, explaining why he was never married. They got into the apartment and got Tim's package. They discovered an engagement ring and wondered why Tim would kill himself just hours after being desperate to get hold of an engagement ring.

### Memorial for Tim

Charles started recording a second episode of the podcast, this one focused on telling the world who Tim was. Unfortunately, they had very little information about him, forcing them to resort to pedestrian facts. Hoping to find someone who knew Tim, the three of them attended a memorial for Tim in the lobby of the Arconia. At the memorial, they learned that Tim was almost universally hated in the building. They also learned that Howard Morris' cat, Evelyn had died the same evening as Tim and people were much more upset about her death than Tim's. As the memorial ended, they decided to go talk to Ursula, the building manager, to see who had complaints about Tim. Mabel said she had a migraine and told Oliver and Charles to go without her.

Mabel went back to her apartment, where she recorded a video about her relationship with Tim, starting when they met at age ten.

Oliver and Charles came back from talking to Ursula and told Mabel they were cleaning out Tim's apartment the next day. She decided to join them to look for clues. In the apartment, Mabel looked at Tim's large collection of Hardy Boys books. Oliver found a pile of past due bills, backing up the cops' statement that he was having money problems. Oliver also found a box of sex toys. They bagged up some things and took them back to Charles' place. Oliver said he thought they had enough to paint a clear picture of Tim, including that he was unlikable. Mabel said that didn't mean he deserved to die. They all agreed to be more respectful. After a bit of an argument, they also agreed no more lying to each other and to trust each other.

Mabel then went back to Tim's apartment, where she started opening his Hardy Boys books and found jewelry inside.

Back at her place, Mabel finished recording her video and saved it as, "IN CASE I'M NEXT."

### Narrowing the Suspects

As Mabel started working on a mural of the Arconia's residents on the wall of the apartment, Charles recorded another episode of the podcast, asking their audience how well they know their neighbors. Charles texted her after they finished to invite her to go over suspects with them. They looked over the evidence board, where Charles had put up photos of all the suspects and matched them with complaints against Tim. Charles wanted to eliminate the suspects one at a time, but Oliver said instead, he wanted to do the opposite. Charles added tie-dye guy to the board as well as Tim's fiancé, leaving Mabel to wonder if they might be the same person.

Oliver used a mental line-up to narrow the suspects down to Howard, leaving Mabel and Charles to visit him and try to get a confession. Oliver warned them that legally, they had to let Howard know he was being recorded. On their way to Howard's, Mabel and Charles ran into Jan Bellows in the elevator. After watching Charles exchange some friendly conversation with Jan, Mabel suggested he try to get a date with her, but Charles refused.

Mabel and Charles got to Howard's place and were surprised by the mess. He said he didn't want to touch anything of Evelyn's because it made it easier to pretend she was still around. While Charles grew increasingly awkward in his attempts to let Howard know he was being recorded, Mabel proceeded with questioning him about Tim. Howard said he'd heard Tim was fired for losing a client a lot of money. He was also upset that Tim left his window open and then got mad that Evelyn visited his apartment. When Charles made another attempt to let Howard know he was being recorded, he got so nervous, his nose started bleeding and Howard fainted. Mabel told Charles to get ice. He went to the freezer, where her found Evelyn's body. He accidentally knocked it to the floor, breaking off her leg. He put the leg in his pocket and grabbed some ice. Howard explained that he fainted at the sight of blood and said the cat was in his freezer because he was getting a toxicology report done. He believed Tim poisoned Evelyn and then killed himself.

As they left Howard's, Mabel asked Charles about the nosebleeds and he told her it was anxiety, that it happens sometimes when he talks to people. Mabel said that Howard had an alibi, given that he couldn't be around someone who was bleeding without fainting, but Charles didn't buy it.

From there, Mabel went to José Torres's door. She told him she was looking for Oscar. He told her to leave and not come back as Oscar needed a fresh start.

Back at home, Mabel looked through Tim's things and found a note that said, "G.M. 1/31 @ 4:40 PM Shore Road." She checked her phone and saw that it was January 24.

Later, Oliver surprised Mabel and Charles by telling them that he'd posted the first episode. He'd also gotten them a sponsorship from Teddy Dimas, which compelled him to change the name to "*Dimas Chicken Wraps Presents: Only Murders in the Building*". Mabel checked and found they had four listens and a review. Despite Oliver's assurances that he had it, Mabel and Charles were still worried.

### Confronting Sting

Mabel was pondering over who G.M. might be when she got a text from Oliver that the killer had come for his family. She and Charles went to Oliver's place, where he told them that the killer had poisoned his dog, Winnie. He also told them he was sure it was Sting, based on a hostile interaction between Sting and Winnie in the elevator. Mabel found out that Sting had lost millions when his money was mismanaged by an investment firm, the same firm Tim worked for. They also remembered Tim got fired for losing a client a lot of money. Sting was also among the list of people who stayed in the building the night of Tim's death, during the fire alarm. They decided they needed help from an expert, namely Cinda Canning. Charles said he might have a way to get a meeting with her and used his connection with Arnav to set it up.

On their way to the meeting, they met Jan in an elevator. After a conversation between Jan and Charles went from flirty to awkward, Mabel and Oliver tried to get Charles to ask her out. Charles said it wasn't the right time.

At the meeting, Charles, Oliver, and Mabel were surprised to find that both of Cinda's employees, Cindy and Poppy White, strongly resembled Cinda herself. Their conversation was also interrupted when Cinda got a call, which she said was due to them being on the verge of being purchased for $30 million. They asked Poppy if that meant Cinda would stop making podcast, but she told them Cinda was the thing being purchased. When she finished her call, Cinda tried to refer them to a class, but they explained what they suspected about Sting and asked how they could get him to confess. Cinda said she got a confession out of the mayor for "*All Is Not OK in Oklahoma*" by bringing a fully cooked turkey to his house, meaning he couldn't turn her away. She also told them to embrace the mess.

Mabel and Oliver went to Charles' place to talk about what their turkey should be. Mabel asked Charles if he'd asked Jan out and he said that he found dating exhausting. Mabel encouraged him to relax and have fun. She and Oliver then left so he could go on his date. While he was on his date, Oliver and Mabel decided their turkey would also be a turkey. Oliver started cooking it, but when his oven went out, he brought it to Charles' place to finish. While he was there, Oliver also told Charles that Sting had moved up his tour so he was leaving in two days and he was renovating his entire apartment while he was gone, two things they found suspicious. They decided they needed to bring him the turkey early in the morning.

The next morning, they went to Sting's door with the turkey, which greatly confused him. They told him they thought it would be a great community builder to bring a turkey to a different neighbor each week.

As they sat down to chat, Sting remembered that they were the ones doing the podcast. He apologized to Oliver for how he was with Winnie, saying he was having a rough day. Then he talked about Tim working for him until he fired Tim. When they asked him about Tim losing his money, indicating that may have made him snap, Sting admitted that Tim's death was his fault. The day Tim died, Sting screamed at him and told him to kill himself. Then Tim did that. Anita, Sting's assistant, then came in and told them that Sting wasn't a murderer or a dog poisoner. Sting then said he felt responsible for Tim's death, which was why he moved up his tour and why he was renovating his whole apartment. Charles, Oliver, and Mabel then left.

Mabel went back to her place, where she looked at one of Tim's Hardy Boys books. She looked up the title and found out that it was about the Hardy Boys trying to catch a thief named Gus Montrose. She added that to jewelry and found Montrose Gems in New Jersey. As Mabel went to leave the Arconia, she was followed by a figure in a tie-dyed hoodie.

### Going to Tavo's

Mabel realized she was being followed and turned down an alley, where she tackled the person and held up a knitting needle threateningly. After a moment, she recognized the person as Oscar. She was happy to see him and upset that he'd gotten out a week prior, but hadn't come to see her. He said he wanted to hang out with her, but she told him she was on her way to Jersey. He offered to drive her there. She directed him to Teaneck. On the way, he told her he'd spent the week he was out enjoying all the things he couldn't do in prison. She asked if he knew about Tim and he said he did, that he was there that night. She looked at his hoodie and realized he was Tie-Dye Guy. While they were driving, Charles called and she lied and told him she was at the park.

Oscar saw the note Mabel was working from and asked if she was sure Tim was going to a jewelry store. She explained how she came to that conclusion, but Oscar offered an alternative explanation that the GM was her cousin Tavo, who has a tattoo shop on Shore Road. Mabel redirected Oscar to Bayport. On the way, they stopped at a gas station for supplies and Mabel embarrassed Oscar in front of the cashier by asking for condoms and lube. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charles and Oliver were following them in a car driven by a man called, Lucien, alongside his cousin, Vaughn. They had their own horticultural podcast called, Yard Dogs.

When they arrived at the shop, Oscar tried to get Mabel to let it go and leave with him to do things he couldn't do in prison. Mabel said she understood that he couldn't be part of it, but she felt she needed to do it. While she went inside, he left. Inside the shop, she waited for Tavo to finish his work. When she saw Charles and Oliver walking in, she asked them what they were doing there. Charles confronted her about lying and she realized they'd been following her. Mabel apologized for lying and admitted that she knew Tim. Tim was her friend, which is why she got so obsessed with solving his murder. While they talked, Oscar came back in, saying he changed his mind. Mabel introduced him to Charles and Oliver and assured them he also wasn't the killer. Oscar admitted that he'd lied to Mabel and he went to Tim's apartment that night, not hers. He wasn't there to kill Tim, but maybe was going to beat him up a little. He fled when he heard the gun shot. Tavo came out just then and was shocked to find out Tim had been murdered. He said Tim had been worried that would happen because he was working to take down a black market jewelry dealer named Angel. Mabel showed them the jewelry she'd taken from Tim's place. Tavo recognized some of the pieces and said it was all from Angel, but there was one piece Tim really wanted that he never got. He told Mabel he'd find a picture of it and send it to her. Their conversation was interrupted when Silvia Mora came in. She was upset that Mabel had come to Bayport and hadn't told her.

The group went back to Silvia's house, where Silvia learned that Tim had died and Mabel was investigating his death with Charles and Oliver. She wanted Mabel to stop, despite Mabel's insistence that she was fine. She regretted ever sending Mabel to her aunt's apartment for school breaks after seeing how Mabel got lost in her grief after Zoe died. Mabel talked to Charles and Oliver and told them they could keep doing the podcast without her. They both said it was the most alive they'd felt in a decade, then left to go back to Manhattan.

Mabel then went to her room, where she and Oscar looked at old pictures and talked. One of the pictures was of the four of them the night Zoe died. Mabel recognized the ring on Zoe's finger as the one Tim had been looking for. Oscar then said Zoe wasn't wearing it when she died. Then he said he didn't want to talk about death anymore. Mabel said she'd kind of been waiting for him. They leaned in to each other and kissed.

Mabel talked to her mother again and said that even though her mother thought Charles and Oliver were sad characters, they were the first friends Mabel had made in years and she needed to see the case through.

Mabel went back home, where she brought dip and tamales as an apology gift for Charles and Oliver. She told them she felt she needed to finish the story with them. She also showed them Tim's phone, which had been left in an envelope at the desk for her. They just needed the password to get in. Charles then told Mabel that Teddy was Angel and now their prime suspect.

### Investigating Teddy and Theo

While Oliver distracted Teddy, Mabel and Charles broke into Charles's place, where they found a hidden room full of urns labelled, 'Shine On Funeral Home'. When they heard Theo coming in, they hid and slipped out around him just before Oliver and Teddy returned to the apartment.

Charles went on his date and Mabel and Oliver went to the funeral home. They followed a man down some stairs and found a secret room. In the room, they found a jar of fillings. When the left the room, they found a new body on a slab. They watched as Theo came in and started to remove the person's jewelry from their body. Before they could get out, Theo spotted them. He bound and gagged them, then drove them away in a van.

### Recording the Finale

Theo drove them to a dump, where Teddy met up with them and offered them a ride home. Theo drove while Teddy sat in the back and told Oliver and Mabel they were going to release one final episode of the podcast in which they said they were wrong and Tim's death was a suicide. If they refused, he reminded them that he knew where they lived.

As they got out of the car at the Arconia, they were stopped by Sam, Grant, Marv, and Paulette, their fans. Oliver was delighted, while Mabel was horrified and pulled Oliver inside with her when he tried to stop and chat with them. They went up to Charles's place, where Jan opened the door and told them Charles was out getting bagels. When Charles returned, they told him what had happened with Teddy and Theo. Jan said they had spend the morning going through Tim's phone and learned a lot more about him, particularly that he was a meticulous record keeper and that Tim was trying to take Teddy down because Tim saw Theo push Zoe off the roof. Jan said she still wasn't convinced that Teddy killed Tim, so Mabel and Oliver pulled Charles to the side and reminded him that they only had until 7 AM to take Teddy down, meaning they needed real help, from Detective Williams.

They met Williams in a secluded area. She refused to confirm that she had sent them Tim's phone, but asked them to publish a new episode with all the evidence they had. She also said she was running a tox screen and fingerprints on the laptop the killer used to type his suicide note. She told them the rest was on them. They needed to make a tight case.

Mabel, Charles, and Oliver went back to Charles' place, where they started a board with everything they knew. They were interrupted by Jan, bringing pizza rolls. Then Oscar came in and told them he'd talked to Tim's jewelry connection and learned that Tim got the ring the day before he died. Mabel concluded that Teddy and Theo must be the killers because no one else would care to take the ring. Jan said it was all circumstantial without the ring.

When Oliver found that the superfans were still downstairs, he brought them up to his apartment and introduced them around. He said they were there to help work out the how of the murder. They know more, as superfans, than the trio themselves. Oliver directed the fans as they each played a roll and reenacted Tim's death with Theo as the killer. It was 5:30, giving them only an hour and a half before the deadline, so Mabel wanted to start recording immediately. Jan still wanted them to look at Howard again, but Charles told her they'd started the podcast as a team, the three of them. Jan left, upset that she wasn't part of the team.

When they finished recording, Mabel said they needed to show someone a sneak preview and they sent it to Williams. The episode went out at 7 AM and reached a wide audience. Teddy and Theo were both arrested for Tim's murder. Mabel, Charles, and Oliver toasted to their success. Things took a turn when Williams called and said that the medical examiner's report had come back and Tim was poisoned before he was shot. She also had timestamped photos from the night Tim died of Teddy and Theo outside before the fire alarm even went off, meaning they couldn't have done it. Charles was upset that the other two hadn't listened to him or Jan and went to see her.

### Eviction Meeting

In light of the new evidence, Oliver released a retraction, saying that Teddy and Theo didn't kill Tim. Mabel listened to this retraction as she painted a portrait of Teddy and Theo on the wall. While she worked, a paper was slipped under her door and she learned it was a meeting to discuss the podcast and its affect on the building's residents. Mabel talked to Oscar, who was happy that the Dimases got falsely accused of something after what they'd put him through. Mabel agreed, but didn't like that they still didn't know who killed Tim. Mabel and Oscar then went to Charles's place, where Jan was recovering from being stabbed. She was shocked to meet Sazz Pataki, whom she mistook for Charles. Sazz, Charles's stunt double, had a theory that Tim's murder was a crime of passion, perpetrated by a jilted lover. She told them they needed to find the person who was in love with Tim. Oliver then reminded them that since Bunny had locked him out of his place, he was currently homeless and they needed to go to the meeting to paint themselves as the heroes to avoiding getting kicked out. Sazz offered to stay with Jan while they went.

At the meeting, several people aired their grievances against the trio, saying that their kids couldn't sleep and people didn't want to come to the building because they were scared of getting murdered. Howard tried to defend them, saying their actions may have led to him getting answers about Evelyn's death, but Bunny reminded him there were also complaints about him and advised him to vote in favor of evicting them. When the vote revealed a majority in favor, Bunny said she'd start the process immediately.

As they left, Mabel decided that if they found the murderer, it would change people's minds and the board would have to reconsider. Charles was frustrated, saying the two of them never stopped. His girlfriend was stabbed and now he's losing his home. He told them he was done.

Since he was locked out of his place, Oliver spent that night at Mabel's, without a wall separating her bedroom from where he was sleeping on the couch.

The next morning, Oliver said he wasn't so sure that Charles was as done as he said he was. Mabel said the only way to fix it was to solve the case. They explored Sazz's theory that it was a crime of passion and went over the events of that night. Mabel realized that the bag Tim was carrying couldn't have come from his place as the ties on the bag were a different color from the bags in his apartment. They decided to go speak to his neighbor, Ndidi. Ndidi told them she never saw anyone coming or going, but she did hear someone, a very loud woman during sex with Tim.

Oliver was upset that they'd never previously considered that Tim had a girlfriend, despite having found an engagement ring. Maybe they had followed the wrong ring. Oliver pulled the sex toys back out, saying he wanted to know what they did. He found one was from "eXotic Instruments" and had Mabel look that up. Mabel did and found out that eXotic Instruments didn't sell sex toys, but musical instruments. The toy in question was actually a bassoon cleaner.

### Solving the Murder

Mabel and Oliver raced to tell Charles they thought Jan was the killer. Charles told them they sounded crazy, but they laid out all the evidence that pointed to her. Charles forced them all to leave, wanting to preserve the first romantic relationship he'd had in years. Mabel and Oliver told him to look at what was in front of him and be careful. They then went to search Jan's place for more proof. In Jan's bathroom, they found a pill case labelled "Jan's Lil Toxins." They also found a knife in her bathroom grate and realized she'd stabbed herself. They also found the emerald ring in her apartment, cementing the case. They realized Charles was in danger and raced to help him. They went up to Charles's place, but he was gone. They went back downstairs, where they asked Lester if he'd seen Charles. Lester said he'd found elevator drunk in the elevator and sent him back home. Mabel and Oliver raced back to Charles' place. They found Charles lying in the doorway of the elevator and pulled him to safety. He was able to show them that he'd recorded his conversation with Jan, in which she admitted to killing Tim. They used his face to unlock it and play the message. Then Arnav came out and asked if they were dizzy. This made them realize Jan was trying to poison everyone with gas. They loaded Charles into Oliver's dog stroller and went down to the boiler room, where they fixed what Jan had done, then managed to attack and disarm Jan. Jan was arrested and Charles was taken to the hospital to get his stomach pumped. Bunny then told them in light of recent events, they were no longer in danger of being evicted, though she promised to keep trying to get Oliver out.

Mabel finished the final portrait, one of herself, then looked at the whole wall with Oscar. He said it was fantastic. He asked if she was okay and she said she was and for the first time in a long time, she was able to say that honestly.

Once Charles was better, he recorded the final episode of the podcast.

### Bunny's Death

On Bunny's last day as board president, the trio was celebrating their victory in solving Tim's murder. They joyfully told the tale to a crowd outside the Arconia and that evening, they all celebrated in Mabel's apartment. While they were celebrating, Bunny came to the door with a bottle of real champagne for them. In exchange, they gave her a podcast hoodie. After they closed the door, they wondered if they should have invited Bunny to join them. Mabel looked out to see she was still there and then they heard her start crying, but by the time Mabel opened the door, Bunny was gone. They decided to move their celebration to the roof. They toasted their success and when they ran out, Mabel went back to her apartment to get more champagne, but she found Bunny in her apartment, having just been stabbed.

### Arrest and Gallery Opening

Mabel, Oliver, and Charles were arrested and taken to the police station, where they were separated and questioned by Kreps and Williams. Kreps played a clip from the podcast in which she talks about her recurring dream of stabbing an intruder with her knitting needle. At that point, Mabel asked for her lawyer. Williams said that she wanted to believe Mabel, but her story was too far-fetched. Mabel maintained that she went to get champagne and Bunny was just there and then asked for a lawyer again. Williams asked Mabel what she did with the knife, which surprised Mabel, as she hadn't known a knife was involved. Mabel said they had three people, who solved two crimes the detectives couldn't, who were being framed and they didn't even have the real murder weapon.

After this, the three of them were released, though Williams warned them they were still persons of interest, which meant they could be charged as more evidence surfaced. She also told them not to investigate the crime or make a podcast about it, suggesting they take up safer hobbies.

Back at the Arconia, Mabel told Charles and Oliver that Bunny was just there. She didn't see anyone else. Oliver said he was ready for them to do another podcast, but Mabel refused, saying she needed a life away from death. She said they could hang out, but not investigate. Then she went home, removed the crime scene tape from her door, and started scrubbing the blood off the floor.

While scrolling through Instagram, Mabel saw that many people had posted pictures of her being arrested and her latest post, a picture of the mural of the Arconia residents, had over 20,000 likes and many glowing comments. She also had a video message from Alice Banks, from a nearby gallery, inviting Mabel to her gallery opening.

After a dramatic haircut, Mabel went to the gallery opening, where she got a lot of attention for being "Bloody Mabel." Alice found her and took her to see a three-dimensional portrait of Frida Kahlo. Mabel told Alice that her father got her a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of Kahlo for her fourth birthday, which she finished the day before she turned five. Alice told Mabel that she wanted new energy for their collective and invited Mabel to come back with her paints. Mabel asked if it was a cult, but Alice wouldn't answer.

When the trio learned that Cinda was starting a new podcast about the murder and the three of them called "Only Murderers in the Building," they became upset at Cinda stealing their format. Mabel said that Cinda didn't know what happened that night and it was still pretty blurry for her. She remembered Bunny saying "Fourteen," but they couldn't figure out what that meant. Despite this, Mabel still didn't want to investigate. This conversation was interrupted by a voice saying, "Fuck off." They followed the voice and found that it was coming through the vent from Bunny's apartment. They crawled through and found her bird, Mrs. Gambolini. While they were in there, Oliver asked them to go through her things to find the incriminating notes he'd written to Bunny. While they were searching, Uma Heller and Howard Morris came into the apartment to retrieve a painting of Bunny's to have it appraised, forcing them to hide in the closet. While they were hiding there, Mabel found a door in the back of the closet which led to an elevator. They took the elevator down and ended up outside the building. With the new element of the missing painting, Mabel agreed to join their investigation and podcasting.

While looking at the stain in her apartment again, Mabel had more flashbacks to Bunny's death and remembered her saying, "Savage." While she was looking, she got a text from Charles, asking her to come to his place. She and Oliver arrived to find Charles' groceries spilled on the floor and Charles looking up at the wall, where Bunny's painting had been hung.

### Bunny's Memorial and The Painting

The three of them discussed how to get the painting out of Charles' place without being noticed. When they took it down, Mabel noticed that the painting was called "Savage" and told the others that Bunny had said, "Savage" before dying. They wanted to get rid of the painting, but were interrupted by a knock on the door. Mabel and Oliver hid the painting in the bedroom while Charles answered the door to find Howard, who invited them to a memorial for Bunny. Charles didn't want to go, as it would make them look guilty, but Howard said that they needed to go and find the person who looked guiltier than the three of them. They decided to attend the party and use the secret elevator they'd discovered, to sneak the painting back into Bunny's apartment. At the party, the new board president, Nina Lin, said she would make sure Bunny's death didn't adversely affect any of them. Howard told the three that Bunny had nothing on Nina in terms of meanness, but refused to elaborate at the party. They were interrupted by Leonora Folger, Bunny's mother, entering the party and demanding her painting. She had the original bill of sale from the artist. While Charles talked to Leonora about the painting, Mabel and Oliver went back to Charles' apartment, retrieved the painting, and took it out to the alley. When Charles went to let them in, he accidentally let the door shut behind him, locking all of them out. Not wanting to be caught with the painting, Oliver tried to put it in the dumpster, but was stopped by the other two. When they heard voices approaching, they hid it between two dumpsters and promised to come back for it later.

After hiding the painting, Mabel went back to the gallery, to meet Alice, who had asked her to come over. At the gallery, Mabel asked Alice about Rose Cooper and learned she'd died mysteriously. Alice then told her that after months being blocked, she'd finally sculpted Mabel. She handed Mabel an ax and set up cameras to record her destroying it. She believed it would make Mabel feel better. Once Alice was gone, Mabel destroyed the sculpture. Alice returned and Mabel said she felt better, then kissed Alice.

Mabel went back to the Arconia to tell them what she'd learned, but before she could, Oliver said that Amy Schumer had the painting, which was overheard by Leonora, who had been speaking to Charles. They all went up to Amy's apartment, but Leonora quickly discovered that the painting was a forgery.

Mabel and Oliver speculated why Bunny would have a replica of the painting made, but Oliver suggested it might have been the killer, doing it to frame them. While they were talking, Uma came to the door and delivered Mrs. Gambolini, saying Bunny had willed the bird to Oliver. They were soon joined by Charles, who told them that his father had had an affair with Bunny's mother. He wondered if Bunny could be his sister. Mrs. Gambolini then said she knew who did it, drawing their attention to her.

### Tracking Bunny's Last Day

The trio tried to get Mrs. Gambolini to tell them who did it, even impersonating Bunny. When Mabel found some receipts from the day Bunny died, they decided to track her last day and record a podcast episode about it. They got the meeting minutes from the board meeting that took place that day and hung them on the suspect board. They decided that Nina was their main suspect because she and Bunny had fought at that meeting.

### Secret Passageways

When Lucy surprised Charles by coming to Manhattan, he brought her back to his apartment, where he asked Mabel to talk to her because he didn't understand anything she was saying due to her use of slang and recent pop culture references. Mabel tried to talk to her only to find she also couldn't understand what Lucy was saying. Charles liked seeing Lucy again, but when she discovered the knife used to murder Bunny in his knife block, he tried to get her to leave, as he didn't want her involved in the investigation. She instead went to the bathroom, where she opened a secret passageway she had used to play hide and seek as a child. She led the trio through the passageways, telling them she believed that was how the killer had gotten access to their apartments to plant evidence. They used the passageway to look into Nina's apartment, where they saw a picture of the Arconia with a space-age dome on top of it and heard her talk to Jared McGregory about whether or not they'd done the right thing. This led to them believing Nina had killed Bunny in order to change the Arconia. They decided to go to Nina's apartment and try to goad her into a confession. They put together a gift basket and took it over. Then they started questioning her, but the questioning ended fairly abruptly, when Nina went into labor and her water broke. They called for paramedics to take her to the hospital and Charles comforted her and helped keep her calm while they waited. Nina expressed sadness that Bunny wasn't there because she was so excited for the baby. She begged them to find Bunny's killer.

### Party

When a leak at the gallery prevented Alice from holding a party there, Mabel agreed to host it at her apartment instead. While she was on the phone with Alice, Mabel also discovered a matchbook from The Pickle Diner with what appeared to be blood on it in the passageway leading into her apartment. She called Oliver and Charles to her and they debated if the stain was blood or ketchup. Charles also wondered if Bunny said "passage" that night instead of "savage" because Mabel couldn't be sure.

They made a trip to The Pickle Diner, where they got a list of Ivan's regulars, hoping the killer would be on that list. While talking about the matchbook, they drew the attention of their superfans, who were sitting nearby. When Mabel got a message from Alice, Oliver and Charles were immediately suspicious of her, especially since Jan had told Charles they were looking for an artist who had recently gotten close to them. Mabel insisted that Alice wasn't the killer. Then they got up and left the diner.

Charles and Oliver invited themselves to the party at Mabel's, where Alice charmed Charles by recognizing him from an obscure film role. Oliver remained suspicious and used a game called 'Son of Sam' to interrogate her. When the game got down to Mabel, Oliver, and Alice, Oliver was convinced she was both the Son of Sam and Bunny's killer and began to interrogate her. She finally admitted she'd lied about her backstory, as she didn't think she could make it in the art world as a plumber's daughter. Mabel followed her out of the party to the bathroom, where Alice apologized for lying and promised not to tell anymore half-truths. Alice and Mabel spent that night together.

### Contacting the Killer

The next morning, Mabel made breakfast for herself and Alice, a recipe she and her dad used to make together. When Alice asked about Mabel's dad, Mabel said she liked that Alice didn't know much about her history, as so many people were obsessed with her past and Alice made her feel new, a feeling she liked.

Oliver and Mabel went to the Brazzos set to visit Charles while he was filming. While waiting for Charles, Oliver showed Mabel the footage he had from the diner. They were sure the person in the video was the murderer and the matchbook they took was the one from Mabel's apartment. Mabel looked at the matchbook and saw what looked like a fingerprint in the blood. Still convinced the person who texted them to get out of the building was Detective Williams, Mabel took Charles's phone and texted that number, asking to run prints on it. They got a response asking them to meet and not to tell anyone. Then a cop approached them and said that Kreps wanted to meet them in Bunny's apartment to talk about the case.

When they arrived, they found Cinda and Poppy there as well. Kreps told them all to stop podcasting, as it was interfering with the case. At this meeting, they also learned that Cinda had interviewed a former co-worker of Mabel's, Jimmy Russo, who accused Mabel of cutting off his finger and serving it to customers. Mabel said that Jimmy was a liar who got too handsy. When Poppy and Cinda left, Mabel followed them out and talked to Poppy about how Cinda treated her, saying she wasn't getting the respect she deserved.

Back with Charles and Oliver, Mabel learned that Kreps had told them that Williams was on maternity leave in Denver, meaning she wouldn't have texted them to meet up. They texted the number again and were told to leave the evidence in the park to be retrieved later, confirming that it wasn't Williams and was instead probably the killer. They talked about it and decided to make a glitter bomb, which would explode on the killer when they came to get the matchbook.

After planting the bomb, they waited nearby so they could see who showed up. While they were waiting, the new episode of "*Only Murderers in the Building*" was released and they started listening to it. Mabel defended herself to Oliver and Charles, telling them that really Jimmy was a creep and the first time she fought back, he got his finger stuck in the meat slicer. Charles wanted to play some music on his phone to break the tension, but Oliver noticed several calls with Hopestill on his phone, tipping them off that he was talking to Jan again. This upset Mabel, who reminded him that Jan had killed her friend. Mabel went to leave and saw someone running away with the bag, covered in glitter. By the time they got to the bomb, the person was gone. Mabel said she needed some space and decided to walk instead of going back with Oliver and Charles.

Mabel went to Alice's gallery, where she found Alice recreating Bunny's murder with the help of some actors. Horrified, Mabel left, over Alice's objections that she was trying to help Mabel with her trauma. She got on a subway to go home as Poppy called her, telling her that Cinda was a liar and a monster and offering everything she knew up to the trio to take her down. The conversation was interrupted when Mabel noticed someone standing nearby, covered in glitter. When that person approached her, Mabel stood up and stabbed them.

### Visit to Coney Island

When Mabel woke up, she was lying down on a bed, in an unfamiliar apartment, her bloody coat after the stabbing was situated at her feet. She hid when she heard someone coming in and hit Theo Dimas on the head with a lamp as he entered. He told her he was trying to help her and showed her the video of her stabbing someone on the subway. She had no memory of the incident, so Theo told her that he'd watched from the next car as a man attacked Mabel and she stabbed him. Then the man and Mabel both exited the car. The man had Mabel's bag and dropped a Coney Island security badge. When Mabel saw that, she decided she needed to go to Coney Island to look for Glitter Guy. Theo wanted to help but Mabel did not want his help, given their shared background but after telling her that the person she thinks he is, isn't who he really is, Mabel let Theo drive them to Coney Island and help with her search.

At Coney Island, Theo got Mabel into the security office, where she started looking through employee records. Mabel started to panic that maybe she was the kind of person who went into fugue states and stabbed people. When Mabel walked out, Theo bagged up the files and brought them with him. She apologized to him, saying that he was just helping. His ankle bracelet beeped, informing him that it needed to be charged, so Mabel helped him find a plug, then also plugged in an arcade game for him to play. Next, he tried a claw game, but when he failed multiple times, he decided to open the front of the machine and grab a prize. Inside was a ring similar to the one Zoe had. Theo signed that, every night before he went to sleep, he replayed that moment in his head, wondering if she slipped or if he pushed her. Mabel said she couldn't walk past the front gate or Tim's door without seeing their bodies. It disturbed her that she was the kind of person who could stab someone and not remember it, a thought that scared her. Theo indicated that he didn't understand what she said, but she thought that might be better. Theo's ankle bracelet was finished charging, so Mabel said she needed to use the bathroom before they headed back to the city. In the bathroom, Mabel noticed glitter in the sink drain and a bloody tissue in the trash can. She hide in a locker, but the man found her. She shoved the locker door into him and ran. She found Theo, who was anxiously waiting for her and they hid together. After the man, whom Mabel dubbed Glitter Guy, passed them, they went back to the car. Mabel checked the bag and found the matchbook was missing. She also found something that prompted her to tell Theo they needed to go back immediately.

Back in the city, Mabel attempted some ASL and thanked Theo for taking her, telling him also, that he wasn't the person she thought he was and advised him not to push things away, including his father. Then she went inside the diner, where Charles and Oliver were waiting for her. She showed them a picture she'd found in the bag of Lucy with Charles. Charles immediately called Lucy, who said she was in Charles's apartment. Before he could tell her what to do, a black out engulfed the city in darkness.

### Blackout

When they were unable to make contact with Lucy again, Mabel, Charles, and Oliver left the diner and went back to the Arconia. They went right for the stairs, which upset Oliver. As they climbed, Oliver started to slow down quickly, blaming it on his newly replaced knees. Charles suggested that getting up the stairs would be easier if Oliver dropped the bag of dips Ivan had given him. Oliver tucked the dips away and they continued their ascent. When they got up to the eleventh floor, they had to drag Oliver the rest of the way. They got to Charles's apartment, where they found the passageway open and deduced that Lucy had gone in there to run from Glitter Guy. They entered the passageway, but quickly got lost. Lucy found them there and led them out. When they saw a flashlight approaching, they rushed to get out and down the stairs, with a figure in a jumpsuit following them. When they got to the bottom of the steps, Mabel used the bag of dips to hit the figure, causing him to fall. She removed his mask to reveal Marv. Marv explained that he wasn't the killer, that he was just trying to protect Lucy from the Sixth Avenue Strangler. He just wanted to be part of things. Lucy confirmed that he wasn't the person who had chased her and believed he'd actually scared the killer off. Oliver agreed to let Marv record an episode with them, saying they were low on quality content.

Mabel said that they'd seen the killer four times, but wondered if it was always the same person. Mabel was horrified to see Lucy talking to Detective Kreps. He said Lucy had filled him in on what they'd just done. While Charles and Oliver led Lucy out of the building, Kreps said he was just in the neighborhood, which Mabel found suspicious. He made it clear he was after Mabel. Just then, Howard walked by, brushing Kreps' arm. He grabbed it, which he said was because he had just gotten a new tattoo there. When he turned his head, she noticed glitter on his neck behind his ear.

### Confronting Kreps

Mabel told Charles that Kreps was Glitter Guy and therefore their prime suspect. They speculated on why he might have done it, because he didn't seem like the kind of guy who would want the painting. They decided that someone must be pulling the strings behind him, some kind of criminal mastermind. Mabel looked at the bag she'd taken from him, which had a chicken logo she found familiar, but couldn't place. Oliver came in while they were talking, telling them Will was officially his biological child and he was more Greek than he thought. To celebrate, he brought Mrs. Gambolini to give to Charles. Charles tried to refuse and their fighting over the cage opened a secret compartment at the bottom of the bird cage. Inside the compartment was the painting. They put the original up next to the fake. They wondered why Bunny might have made a fake.

Mabel went back to her apartment, where Alice was waiting for her with a present. Mabel opened it to find it was a puzzle, which Alice said she hand-made during the blackout with an x-acto knife because she knew how much Mabel liked puzzles. Mabel said Alice made her realize how much she didn't want her life to be about the worst parts of it. She said she liked Alice, but she couldn't trust her and couldn't be with someone she didn't trust. Alice said she understood and she was around if Mabel needed anything.

Mabel looked at Kreps's Coney Island file and got an address. When she went to the address, she found a boxing gym. Inside, Kreps was sparring. She told him she had a few questions, starting with how his arm was after being stabbed. He told her she could only ask questions if she got in the ring with him. Kreps had her hold a bag while he punched it. She said she couldn't figure out how he pulled off such an intricate plan when he was so stupid. He told her he was smart enough not to be tripped up by her insults. Mabel tried to goad him into confessing, but he said the problem with her generation was that they were taught that everyone cared what they had to say, which wasn't true. He said he couldn't be that stupid because he landed the smartest woman in the world and did a better podcast than theirs right off the bat. Kreps vaguely threatened her, saying she was the prime suspect in a murder he was investigating. Then he told her to get out. Mabel saw a towel nearby that had the same chicken logo as the bag.

Mabel went home and started doing the puzzle Alice left while listening to "*All is Not Okay in Oklahoma*". As Cinda talked about a bar and grill in Oklahoma she frequented called 'The Chicken Chug'. She realized that was the source of the logo.

Mabel went to the studio to see Poppy. Poppy said she'd made a mistake offering her help and couldn't tell Mabel anything. Mabel said she knew the podcast and Kreps were connected, but she didn't know how. Poppy told her to let it go and leave, but Mabel wanted to know what she was so scared of. Poppy said Mabel didn't know what Cinda was capable of. When Mabel asked what that meant, Poppy said that she was Becky Butler.

Mabel went back to Charles's place, where she put Cinda's picture under the label, Criminal Mastermind.

### Killer Reveal Party

Charles and Oliver were stunned to find out that Poppy was Becky Butler. Mabel pointed out that that meant Cinda sent someone to prison for murdering someone she knows is still alive and then went on to try to send them to prison for a murder she committed herself. They reviewed everything they knew and Mabel reminded them that Williams had the knife and was running forensics. Mabel texted her to check on that. They decided they needed something they could use to get Cinda to unravel and confess. Mabel reminded them that Poppy drives Cinda crazy.

Charles, Oliver, and Mabel met with Poppy at The Pickle Diner and asked her what would make Cinda crumble. She told them Cinda doesn't like human error, interruption, people working for her who don't look like her, the inside of tomatoes, and slow motion. Poppy was then called away by Cinda, who was recording the finale of "*Only Murderers in the Building*". She ordered a liverwurst and marmalade sandwich to go, which disgusted Charles, Oliver, and Mabel. Ivan said it was the owner's sister's favorite sandwich, which was why they served it. Mabel then stepped away to take a call from Williams, who informed her there was saliva on the knife that matched a dead girl from way out of town. Mabel realized it was Becky Butler. Mabel then returned to the table and told Charles and Oliver she knew what "14 Savage" meant. She pointed to the menu, which showed that the #14 sandwich was liverwurst and marmalade, the same sandwich Poppy had ordered.

Knowing Poppy was the murderer, they invited many residents of the Arconia, plus Alice, Cinda, and Poppy, to a "Killer Reveal Party" at Bunny's apartment. Oliver, Mabel, and Charles entered the party, where all the Arconia residents were waiting, and explained that they'd solved Bunny's murder and would reveal the killer to them, but only as part of a show they were putting on and wanted them all to participate in. Once they'd all agreed, they began setting up. An hour later, Cinda and Poppy arrived, prepared to record their own podcast because Cinda believed they'd been invited to Mabel's confession. Charles explained that they'd be revealing Bunny's real killer and pointed the finger at Cinda. He declared that she'd killed Bunny and hid her tracks with the help of a crooked cop. She asked how he knew about Kreps. Charles then laid out how instead of solving crimes for her podcast, she made them up. Cinda asked why she'd want to kill a woman she never met. Lester interjected that he had the logs that showed several visits to the Arconia, meaning she did meet Bunny. Cinda said she was just keeping tabs on the Kono investigation. The trio tried more things to unsettle Cinda, but she still couldn't confess. Mabel said that was because she didn't do it and pointed the finger at Alice, saying she wanted the painting and when Bunny asked for too much money for it, Alice killed her to get it. Alice flew into a rage and grabbed a nearby knife, intending to stab Mabel, but hitting Charles instead when he pushed Mabel out of the way. Charles collapsed to the floor while Uma called the police and the others restrained Alice. Oliver and Mabel cried and held Charles' hand as he bled to death.

As Howard comforted Mrs. Gambolini, Uma told them police and the ambulance were three minutes away. Cinda said that she was sorry for Charles's death, but said Mabel was incredible and offered her a job, saying she could even have her own podcast. This upset Poppy, who said there was nothing tying Alice to the murder and her confessing was just pure luck. Meanwhile, Poppy does everything for Cinda. As she talked, Poppy started sneezing. She said she was the one to tell Cinda about the art in the first place. Mabel questioned why and Poppy said it was for a podcast, but Cinda wasn't interested. Poppy continued to sneeze as she talked, prompting Oliver to ask if she had some kind of allergy, perhaps to Mrs. Gambolini. Mabel said the killer sneezed while leaving the crime scene. Poppy challenged that it wasn't uncommon to be allergic to birds and asked if they were going to believe some young girl hiding in the walls. Oliver said that only the killer could have known about Lucy. Cinda then revealed that she knew that Poppy was really Becky Butler, the woman whose "murder" was the subject of Cinda's podcast, "*All Is Not OK in Oklahoma*". When Poppy asked who told her that, Charles popped out from under the sheet and said it was them. The whole night was staged, including the two false accusations. Poppy said she just wanted to make a good podcast. She wanted Cinda to notice her, but things went wrong. While she talked about why she did it, Williams came in to arrest her while Kreps waited outside, already in handcuffs of his own.

After the arrests, Charles, Mabel, and Oliver recorded the ending of the podcast. Then they said they could get back to talking to each other like people, not just about murders.

Mabel decided that with the murder solved, it was time to renovate her aunt's apartment. She had Alice there to help. Alice looked at the mural Mabel had painted and asked if it would be integrated into the new design and if she herself was. Mabel said no, but said Alice could help. Together, they painted over the mural.

### Ben's Death

Over the next few months, Mabel worked on finally renovating her aunt's apartment while Oliver and Charles prepared for the premiere of "*Death Rattle*". She was excited that Ben Glenroy was playing the lead in the play as she was a fan of his. She went to the first read-through so she could meet him and was pleased when he acknowledged her.

Four months later, on opening night, Ben collapsed on stage and was pronounced dead. They all went back to Oliver's play to attend the party Oliver had planned, where Mabel admitted that her first thought when Ben collapsed was how popular a podcast about his death would be. And them doing a podcast together would mean she could spend more time with Charles and Oliver again, as they were together for play rehearsals while she was left out. After the party orchestrated by Oliver for everyone who was a part of the play, Mabel went home and texted Oliver and Charles to meet her there so they could go to Pickle Diner together. When they showed up, she admitted that she felt out of the loop with them and didn't want to be. They were surprised to learn that her aunt had sold the apartment and Mabel had four weeks to move out.

As they went to leave, they saw that the elevator that had been broken was fixed. They hesitated, but decided to take it. As they were riding down, Charles noted that they couldn't have done the podcast anyway as Ben didn't die in the building. Then Mabel noticed blood dripping onto Charles' hat. They stepped out of the elevator just before Ben's body dropped through the ceiling. As the others ran off to get help, Mabel stopped and took some pictures of Ben's body on her phone.

### Ben's Funeral

Mabel asked Charles and Oliver to take her to Ben's funeral with them and quietly admitted to Charles that she was sleuthing. When they arrived, Oliver was upset to be relegated to overflow three, as he wanted to use the funeral to talk to Donna and Cliff. Mabel took the opportunity to look around at the other people attending the funeral. She met Gregg Rivera, who told Mabel he worked security for Ben and was quietly investigating Ben's death. He offered to show Mabel what he had, so Mabel and Charles went back to Gregg's place. Just as they realized that Gregg was actually just a stalker, he knocked them out. They woke up chained to a pole. Gregg threatened them with a torch and they realized he thought Charles had killed Ben. Mabel said that it wasn't Charles and they actually thought it was Gregg. Gregg said he loved Ben and didn't kill him. Mabel realized that the hankie that he put in her mouth to muzzle her was one of Ben's opening night gifts. Gregg said he'd taken it from Ben's place while looking for clues and collectables. As Gregg continued to threaten Charles, two cops came in and arrested him. Detective Biswas told them that they'd been following Gregg for two days since someone saw him leaving the Arconia two minutes after Ben's death. He also said that Donna Williams had told him about them, though he noticed one of them was missing, meaning Oliver.

Now free, Mabel told Charles she didn't think Gregg had killed Ben. She showed him that she'd also taken the hankie and said that Ben had a hankie on him when he died, meaning he may have pulled it off someone else as he fell. They went to Oliver, who happily told them he was reimagining "*Death Rattle*" as a musical. They then told him they were back in the podcast business and they believed Ben had been murdered by someone involved with the show.

### Investigation

While Oliver worked on his show, Mabel and Charles set up an evidence board with all the cast and crew on it. Before they could record anything, Oliver texted Charles to summon him to his apartment for a rehearsal. At the same time, he texted Mabel to tell her she was banned from his apartment and wasn't allowed to investigate during rehearsals. So she told Charles to figure out who didn't have their handkerchief and decided to go to Ben's penthouse to look for clues.

On her way up, she met Tobert, who said he had left some equipment in Ben's place that he needed to get. Mabel lied and said she was looking for a signed headshot Ben had left for her. While they were both searching the apartment, Tobert said it was clear they were both lying. Before they could continue sleuthing, they heard the door opening and hid in the armoire. Still in the armoire, Tobert finally recognized that Mabel was from the podcast. He told her about his time in Botswana filming elephants and how he wanted to make a movie about Ben's death. He showed her that he had footage from the night Ben collapsed on stage, filmed in his dressing room. After they left the armoire, Mabel stole the drive with the footage from Tobert.

Mabel was unable to access the footage on the drive without a password, so she found Tobert at a café, where she told him that the police had the wrong guy and she wanted to find the real killer. Tobert said he wanted to help her, so she gave him the drive. Together, they watched Ben tell a hidden figure to leave, that he didn't want them there. He then said they'd destroy his career and he'd like it. While they were watching, Mabel got a text from Charles telling her that Kimber didn't have her hankie.

Mabel was eager to continue the investigation and figure out if Ben was poisoned on opening night. If he was, they had a viable suspect in Kimber. After a disastrous rehearsal, Mabel persuaded Oliver to go to the theater with her.

At the theater, they were surprised to find Kimber in her dressing room. Kimber admitted that she ran her business from that room and had copied Howard's key. When Charles arrived, Mabel sent the two of them to Ben's dressing room while she stayed to talk to Kimber. Through this conversation, she learned Ben had agreed to promote Kimber's anti-aging serum, but backed out at the last minute, which is why Kimber didn't feel bad selling his opening night gift on eBay, explaining why she didn't have it to give to Charles. Mabel was called away from the conversation to Ben's dressing room, where someone had drawn a pig with the words "FUCKING PIG" under it in lipstick on his mirror.

Mabel went from there to meet Cinda, who had been trying to get Mabel to meet her for days. Cinda told Mabel about her year of self-care, though she admitted a lot of it was fabricated for the podcast, and then offered Mabel a job as Cinda's partner. Even when she substantially increased the payment offer, Mabel said no, that Charles and Oliver were her guys even though they were busy with the musical. Cinda said the offer stood if Mabel changed her mind.

Mabel went to Oliver and the two of them met at Charles' place just as Joy was accepting Charles's unplanned marriage proposal. They were shocked when Joy took the lipstick from Mabel and put it back in her kit as it was hers and had been missing.

Mabel left Charles to talk to Joy about the lipstick and went to a piano bar to meet Tobert, who said he had a lead and wanted them to watch them. When she arrived, she learned that he had actually ruled out his lead, Jonathan, as a suspect and actually just used it as an excused to go on a date with him. Despite the deception, she stayed and they ate and drank together. Later in the evening, Mabel spotted Jonathan talking with a strange man. After Tobert blew their cover and Jonathan and the man left, Tobert said the man was Dr. C, Ben's doctor. Mabel took Tobert to see the evidence board and he put a card with Dr. C's name on it on the board, then they kissed.

The next morning, Howard came to Mabel's place and told her he killed Ben Glenroy. She had Oliver and Charles come over and asked Howard to explain. Howard said that he swept the stage every night to keep the ghost of Gideon Goosebury from sabotaging the show, but he hadn't done it opening night because he couldn't do it that night, as K.T.'s office was locked and there were sounds coming from the inside. He'd remembered this when he was sweeping again in preparation for their return to the theater and a figure he believed was Gideon's ghost appeared in the back of the theater, scaring him enough that he immediately went to confess.

Charles, Mabel, and Oliver went to the theater to investigate. While they were on stage, a sandbag fell next to Charles, followed by a second. They rushed off stage to find K.T., who enlisted Howard's help to conduct safety checks. While they were gone, Mabel noticed a clipboard where the cast signed in, which gave them handwriting samples to compare to the mirror. Oliver tried to dissuade her, confusing her, and then he disappeared while Mabel was talking to Charles about Tobert. She told Charles he and Oliver could do whatever they wanted and she would investigate by herself as usual.

Mabel found Tobert wandering in the theater and he told her that he'd followed Jonathan there while investigating on his own. Together, they confronted Jonathan and learned that he didn't want to be the leading man and was anxious about it, leading to him contacting Ben's doctor to get the same medications Ben was taking. While walking with Tobert, they ran into Charles, who had been trapped in a props closet. From there, they followed Oliver and found him trying to clean the lipstick off Ben's mirror. This led to a fight between the three of them, with Oliver mad that Charles hadn't told him about punching Ben on opening night and Mabel upset with Oliver for destroying evidence and Oliver mad at Mabel for pointing fingers at his cast, jeopardizing his moment to shine. Mabel decided she would continue to investigate without them and find out who killed Ben.

Theo helped Mabel start moving her things out of her aunt's apartment and told her that Dickie was holding a silent auction to sell Ben's movie memorabilia. They went to the auction, where Mabel talked to Dickie about Ben's death and asked about the call Dickie said Ben needed to take that night. Dickie snapped at her, saying he wouldn't be giving her anything for her podcast. She went to him and apologized and he said he shouldn't have taken his frustrations out on her. He'd been taking care of Ben his whole life, covering up every mistake Ben ever made, while Ben got all the credit. And the first time he wasn't watching, Ben got murdered by a stalker. Mabel told Dickie that she didn't think Gregg had actually killed Ben, but Dickie said the timing matched up.

While packing with Theo, Mabel realized that the police had Ben's time of death wrong because they were using his watch, which Dickie said he always had set 20 minutes early, meaning he died at 12:26, not 12:06, meaning Gregg was long gone by the time Ben died. Tobert later brought over recording equipment so Mabel could make the podcast on her own. He had a mock-up of a poster for a new podcast, but Mabel didn't like it, so he backed off. Theo came in and showed Mabel and Tobert that he had purchased the original CoBro art, which Ben claimed to have drawn as a child, but he'd noticed that the B. in B. Glenroy had been crudely changed from an R, meaning Dickie, aka Richard, was the actual artist and Ben had stolen his art and used it to make millions, giving Dickie a motive. Mabel became intimidated by Tobert's fancy equipment and decided to record the trailer for season three of "*Only Murders in the Building*" on her phone instead.

Despite her fight with Oliver and Charles, Mabel came to the theater for the sitzprobe, the first rehearsal with the full orchestra. She told them that, since she had been unable to find a new apartment, she moved in with Theo, as well as informing them that she was still investigating and believed Dickie was the killer. Oliver was pleased because he wasn't in the show. Mabel sat in the audience during the performances, watching Dickie. While the cast performed, everyone got notified that Gregg Rivera had been released and the real killer was still at large. Detective Williams came in and said someone involved in the show was the killer. She wanted to bring everyone down to the station to be interviewed, but after talking to Oliver, she agreed to hold the interviews at the theater instead so the rehearsal could continue.

Howard came to Mabel and told her he had a break in the case. He showed her the shredder in K.T.'s office and said it was the sound he'd heard on opening night while looking for the broom. He asked Mabel to get some tape so he could try to put the shredded documents back together. While she was getting tape, Mabel talked to Loretta about the investigation. When she told Loretta that she thought Dickie was the killer, Loretta said she didn't believe that was true, but couldn't explain why.

When Howard became discouraged with his work, Mabel psyched him up to continue. He was able to put together enough of a sheet of paper to show that it had the date of the opening night on it.

Mabel went to find Charles and Oliver and was pleasantly surprised to learn they'd planted a camera in Charles' dressing room and were able to record all the interviews. She asked them if they wanted to make a podcast with her, officially making up with them.

As they watched Loretta rehearsal the final song, Mabel and Charles pulled things out of her bag, including a letter she'd written to Dickie and a book of pictures of him. They watched as the cops came in and arrested Dickie, but Loretta saw this and confessed to the murder in order to get them to let Dickie go. As she was led out, Oliver clutched his arm and then collapsed. Charles and Mabel rushed to his aid and told someone to call for help.

Oliver spent the next five days in the hospital after getting a stent. Charles and Mabel stayed by his bedside the whole time, suspending the investigation. When Oliver was released from the hospital, they decided to get back into things. They talked to Dickie and asked him where he was when Ben was pushed into the elevator shaft. He admitted to getting drunk, putting on Ben's CoBro costume, and going to "*Snitches Get Stitches*", where he believed Ben had been soliciting the services of sex workers. Charles, Oliver, and Mabel went to "*Snitches Get Stitches*" and were surprised to find that it was a legitimate fabric shop and the sex workers were actually Ben's sewing group. They said they'd loved Ben and spent the night before his opening night helping him make the hankies he'd given everyone and running lines with him. Then after he left for the show, he left them a desperate voicemail, pleading with them to come to the show as he was surrounded by people he couldn't trust. They'd been unable to make it to the show due to traffic caused by an event at the UN.

From there, the trio decided to review the tape of the interrogations, using them to piece together that night and get context for the voicemail. They learned Ben was fasting that night and had learned that Dickie didn't want to be his manager anymore. Finally, they realized that Ben hadn't been yelling at a person in the video from Tobert's camera. Instead, he was talking to a cookie that someone had left on his vanity. Unbeknownst to him, it was laced with rat poison. He finally gave into temptation and ate the cookie, leading to his collapse and first pronouncement of death that night. When Howard came in with a piece of paper he'd managed to put back together, Oliver read it and realized it was Maxine's review of the play, which was a pan. In particular, it singled out Ben as a weak link. This led them to the conclusion that Donna had killed Ben to get him out of the way and keep him from ruining her son's producing debut. They put Mabel in Joy's abandoned wedding dress and used that to get to the courthouse in time for Loretta's arraignment, where they told her they didn't think she did it or Dickie and they knew who the real killer was. Loretta said she believed them, but asked who did it. Just then, Donna stood up in the audience.

They were able to persuade Loretta to plead not guilty and Charles paid her bail to get her out of jail. They went back to the murder board and went over their plan to get Donna to confess. They were all shocked when Loretta showed them she had the blood-stained hankie from Ben's body, which had a lip print on it. She hoped it could tie Donna to the push. They took that and lured Donna to K.T.'s office, where they confronted her. She admitted to poisoning Ben, but denied pushing him until she was confronted with the hankie with her lip print on it. She made a full confession directly into Tobert's microphone, then asked them to wait until after the show to call the police as it was her son's producing debut. She assured them she wasn't a flight risk as she had stage four lung cancer. They agreed and the show went forward, with Oliver stepping into the lead role when Jonathan took too many pills and was unable to perform.

While Charles and Oliver performed, Mabel talked to Tobert, who told her he'd been offered an indie film in LA and wanted her to think about coming with him, thinking it might help her get unstuck. She said she'd think about it. As the show progressed, Mabel noticed Donna and Cliff talking in the audience and then Cliff getting up. She followed him up to the room above the stage, where she realized he was the actual killer and his mother was just covering for him, having recognized the hankie as the one she tucked into Cliff's pocket that night before leaving the party. Cliff told Mabel it was an accident and threatened to throw himself down onto the stage during the show. They were joined first by Charles and then Oliver, both of whom left the stage despite their characters being dead. Cliff continued to dangle and said he couldn't go to prison. Suddenly, Donna came in and Cliff allowed himself to be pulled to safety. He and Donna were both arrested.

At the afterparty, Mabel told Tobert she liked LA in small doses, so she was open to visiting, but she needed to stay in New York to unstick things there.

## Personality

A stylish woman in her 20s, Mabel is full of contrasts and mystery. She lived alone in a vast Arconia apartment she shouldn't be able to afford. From CoBro, she's living with Theo at his apartment. She sporadically talks about her past, old friends and regrets – but it's always a bit unclear what is real or a lie. While she self-admittedly has trouble bonding with people, Mabel's own passion for true crime leads her into a partnership with Charles and Oliver to solve the curious death of their neighbor. Her keen instincts and smarts make her a sophisticated detective.

## Relationships

### Oscar Torres

Mabel and Oscar were friends as teenagers, but it is implied that there was a stronger attraction even then. They reunited after Tim Kono's death, 10 years since they had last seen each other. Both of them easily slipped back into the friendship and realised quite how much the other meant to them. In To Protect and Serve, they kissed for the first time in Mabel's childhood bedroom. They pursued a relationship for the rest of Season 1, but at the beginning of Season 2 Mabel revealed that they were both "waiting for the 'let's just be friends' text". It is assumed that they broke up.

### Alice Banks

Alice first contacted Mabel via an Instagram video message, where she invited her to her gallery opening. At the gallery, they chatted and Alice invited her to join the collective. Mabel asked if it was a cult, but Alice merely looked mysterious in reply. Alice later invited Mabel to destroy a piece of art that she had created, as a form of therapy. Mabel destroyed the art, and afterwards walked up to Alice and kissed her, saying she felt "better". They began dating, and Mabel revealed their relationship to Charles and Oliver in The Tell. However, in Performance Review, Mabel, after walking away from Charles and Oliver when they failed to catch the potential killer outside Morningside Park, went to visit Alice's apartment but walked in on her recreating Bunny's and possibly both Tim Kono's and Zoe Cassidy's deaths. Alice is missing from the next few episodes, but Mabel finds her outside her apartment in Sparring Partners to give her a puzzle as a peace offering. This is when Mabel tells her that she likes her, but doesn't trust her and that she "can't be with someone (she doesn't) trust". This is probably how she broke up with her.

## Notes and Trivia

* Mabel lived in Apartment 12E of the Arconia.
	+ From CoBro on, she's living with Theo until she can find an apartment.
* Mabel has a tattoo of a whale on her left shoulder, the same as Oscar, Zoe and Tim. The tattoo is a reference to a Hardy Boys mystery story, *The Mystery of the Whale Tattoo*.
* Mabel's color palette is associated with the marigold flower, and is based around golds, reds and yellows. Marigolds are an important symbol in Mexican culture, which links the character to Selena Gomez's real-life Mexican heritage. In Mexican culture, marigolds are associated with creativity and passion, but also sorrow and grief. This represents two parts of Mabel's character: her creative work as an artist and her grief over the loss of Zoe. Mabel also often wears black, which is also associated with grief.
* Dana Covarrubias, the show's costume designer, said that Mabel uses her clothes as a form of armor. She also said that Mabel is the kind of person who can pick out interesting pieces from thrift stores and use them to create a cool unique style.
* Mabel was given a Frida Kahlo jigsaw puzzle on her 4th birthday by her father. She finished it the day before she turned 5.
* Her drink of choice is a mezcal old fashioned.
* Rain is her favorite weather.
* Her favorite time of day is night.
* Mabel started learning ASL after becoming friends with Theo.

## Gallery

### Episode Stills

Photography by Craig Blankenhorn and Patrick Harbron"True Crime" (S01E01)."Who Is Tim Kono?" (S01E02)."How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?" (S01E03)."The Sting" (S01E04)."Twist" (S01E05)."Fan Fiction" (S01E08)"To Protect and Serve" (S01E06)."The Boy from 6B" (S01E07)."Double Time" (S01E09)."Open and Shut" (S01E10)"Persons of Interest" (S02E01)"Framed" (S02E02)"The Last Day of Bunny Folger" (S02E03)"Here's Looking at You" (S02E04)"The Tell" (S02E05)"Performance Review" (S02E06)"Flipping the Pieces" (S02E07)"Hello, Darkness" (S02E08)"Sparring Partners" (S02E09)"I Know Who Did It" (S02E10)"The Show Must..." (S03E01)."The Beat Goes On" (S03E02)."The White Room" (S03E04)"Ah, Love!" (S03E05)"Ghost Light" (S03E06)"CoBro" (S03E07)"Sitzprobe" (S03E08)"Thirty" (S03E09)"Opening Night" (S03E10)

## References

1. ↑ "Thirty" (2023). Season 3, episode 9. According to the hospital wristband she's wearing.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Persons of Interest"
(2022). Season 2, episode 1.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Grab Your Hankies" (2023). Season 3, episode 3.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Flipping the Pieces" (2022). Season 2, episode 7.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "The Beat Goes On" (2023). Season 3, episode 2.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Who Is Tim Kono?" (2021). Season 1, episode 2.
7. ↑ "True Crime" (2021). Season 1, episode 1.
8. ↑ "How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?" (2021). Season 1, episode 3.
9. ↑ "The Sting" (2021). Season 1, episode 4.
10. ↑ "Twist" (2021). Season 1, episode 5.
11. ↑ "To Protect and Serve" (2021). Season 1, episode 6.
12. ↑ "The Boy from 6B" (2021). Season 1, episode 7.
13. ↑ "Fan Fiction" (2021). Season 1, episode 8.
14. ↑ "Double Time" (2021). Season 1, episode 9.
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Open and Shut" (2021). Season 1, episode 10.
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "The Last Day of Bunny Folger" (2022). Season 2, episode 3.
17. ↑ "Persons of Interest" (2022). Season 2, episode 1.
18. ↑ "Framed" (2022). Season 2, episode 2.
19. ↑ "Here's Looking at You" (2022). Season 2, episode 4.
20. ↑ "The Tell" (2022). Season 2, episode 5.
21. ↑ "Performance Review" (2022). Season 2, episode 6.
22. ↑ "Hello, Darkness" (2022). Season 2, episode 8.
23. ↑ "Sparring Partners" (2022). Season 2, episode 9.
24. ↑ "I Know Who Did It" (2022). Season 2, episode 10.
25. ↑ "The Show Must..." (2023). Season 3, episode 1.
26. ↑ "The White Room" (2023). Season 3, episode 4.
27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 "Ah, Love!" (2023). Season 3, episode 5.
28. ↑ "Ghost Light" (2023). Season 3, episode 6.
29. ↑ "CoBro" (2023). Season 3, episode 7.
30. ↑ "Sitzprobe" (2023). Season 3, episode 8.
31. ↑ "Thirty" (2023). Season 3, episode 9.
32. ↑ "Opening Night" (2023). Season 3, episode 10.
33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Sutton, Samantha (October 6, 2021). Everything to Know About the Costumes from Hulu's Only Murders in the Building. *InStyle*. Retrieved on June 26, 2022.
34. ↑ Season 2, Episode 1: Persons of Interest.