Murder Mansion

**Murder Mansion** is the fifth episode of Stab. It aired on July 6, 2017.

## Plot

After Amanda gets lured to Jennifer's mansion she realizes she and Jennifer are both in danger. Meanwhile, secrets from Kyle's past are revealed.

## Summary

Caroline arrives home and finds Amanda sitting on the stairs waiting for her. Caroline asks Amanda why she called her and told her to come home so fast. Amanda gets a text and glances down at her phone and reads a text from the killer that says "Tell your mom about me and you'll be sorry". She then lies and tells Caroline that she thought there was an intruder in the house but it was a false alarm. Caroline then goes in the kitchen. While Caroline is in the kitchen, Amanda gets a text from Jennifer that says "can you come over? I need someone to talk to". Amanda replies saying "be there in 5 minutes" and tells Caroline that she's going to Jennifer's house. Caroline tells her not to come home too late and Amanda tells her not to worry. Amanda gets up and walks out the front door. After Amanda leaves, Caroline pulls her phone out and calls Evelyn. When Evelyn picks up, Caroline tells her that she's changed her mind and wants to help Evelyn burn down abandoned buildings again for the insurance money.

Amanda arrives at Jennifer's house and rings the doorbell. Evelyn answers and says hi to Amanda. Amanda tells Evelyn that she looks all dressed up and asks if she's going anywhere. Evelyn tells her that she's going over to her mother, Caroline's, house. Amanda enters and she tells Amanda to tell Jennifer that she'll be back in an hour. Amanda says ok and says bye to Evelyn. Evelyn leaves and Jennifer is seen coming down the stairs and looks surprised to see Amanda. She asks Amanda what she's doing there and Amanda tells her that she got her text. Jennifer asks her what text she's referring to and Amanda shows her the text she got from her 10 minutes ago asking her to go over. Jennifer says that she never sent that text and that she was in the shower when that text was sent. Amanda then gets a call from an unknown number and she assumes it's the killer so she answers and puts him on speaker. The killer responds saying "Hello, Amanda. Having some quality time with Jennifer?" Amanda calls him sick and that she's not afraid of him. He tells her that she should be afraid of him because she fell into his trap. Jennifer asks him what his trap is and tells her that he locked both her and Amanda inside the house and that he'll only let them out alive if they play his game. Amanda and Jennifer rush to every door in the house and realize it's been locked from the outside and that they're really trapped inside. Amanda then agrees to play his game after realizing there's no way out and the killer tells her to show Jennifer the truth. When Amanda asks him what he means by that he tells her that she knows what he's talking about. The killer then hangs up and Jennifer asks Amanda what he's talking about. They both go in the living room and Amanda shows Jennifer the picture she found in the abandoned building on the same day that Kevin died. Jennifer looks at the picture of Caroline and Evelyn from 1997 and asks why Amanda didn't tell her about it. Amanda tells her that she wanted to but didn't because she wanted to give her time to cope with Kevin's death. Jennifer reluctantly forgives her and says that they need to find a way out of the house. Amanda and Jennifer and begin walking around when Jennifer says she's going to call her mother, Evelyn, and ask her to come back and free them from the house. The killer texts both of them the same message reading: "Call the cops or anyone else for help and I'll set this entire house on fire". Jennifer tells Amanda there's no way the killer is being serious and Amanda tells her that he is and that he's very capable of doing so. They both agree not to contact anyone for help and to follow the killer's instructions if they want to live. Meanwhile, Evelyn and Caroline are seen at Amanda's house in the kitchen. They both continue discussing burning down abandoned buildings for insurance money. Evelyn tells Caroline that their next job will take place the following night at an old rundown house in a suburb of town and that Evelyn will text Caroline the address when she has more details. Evelyn then says that she has to meet with someone else in a bit and that she has to go. Caroline tells her that she'll see her tomorrow and Evelyn leaves. Meanwhile, back at Jennifer's house, Amanda and Jennifer are in the kitchen talking about how they can't believe they got themselves stuck in the mess they're in. At that moment, the killer texts them both simultaneously a GIF of them sitting at the table in the kitchen. Amanda and Jennifer then realize that they're being watched by the killer and that the killer is standing outside. They both run to the nearest window and look outside and see nothing. They both get a text from the killer that reads "Jennifer to the upstairs bathroom, Amanda to the basement bathroom. Now or you both die". Jennifer looks at Amanda with a worried look on her face and Amanda tells her to follow his instructions.

Amanda is seen in the basement bathroom when she gets a phone call from Jennifer who is upstairs in the 3rd floor bathroom. Jennifer asks Amanda if in the basement bathroom there are also handcuffs attached to the side of the bathtub and Amanda says there are. Jennifer tells her that there are also handcuffs attached to the side of the bathtub upstairs too. They both then get a text from the killer saying "Both of you get in and put the handcuffs on or there will be consequences". Amanda gets in the bathtub and puts the handcuffs on so she is handcuffed to the bathtub and can't get out. Jennifer is seen upstairs doing the same thing. Amanda gets a call from the killer and she answers. She also adds Jennifer to the call. The killer explains to Amanda and Jennifer that they are both about to play a game where the first one to answer his question correctly gets the key to the handcuffs but the person who doesn't answer or answers incorrectly or last will die. Amanda agrees to play the game and Jennifer starts freaking out. Amanda tells Jennifer that everything will be ok and that they need to play the game or else they'll both die. Amanda then hears a noise coming from somewhere in the basement and then hears a door close. The killer then asks them the following question: "Why are you blind to the truth?" Jennifer asks the killer what that's supposed to mean and the killer tells her that she answered incorrectly and will now have to pay. Amanda hears someone running up the stairs and a key suddenly rolls in the basement bathroom. Amanda picks it up off the floor and unlocks her handcuffs and hears Jennifer screaming upstairs. She starts running towards the staircase and then runs up the stairs. Amanda runs all the way up the stairs to the 3rd floor and sees Jennifer in the bathtub with a knife wound in her shoulder. Amanda uses the key to unlock Jennifer's handcuffs and pulls her out of the bathtub. Jennifer says that the killer was just there and ran out of the bathroom when he heard Amanda come upstairs. Amanda and Jennifer both rush downstairs to the kitchen and Amanda finds some tape and uses it to cover Jennifer's knife wound. Amanda then gets a phone call from an unknown number on her phone. Amanda tells Jennifer to wait in the kitchen and Amanda answers the phone. She walks up to a tall window on the left side of the door and looks outside. The killer tells Amanda that she shouldn't have done what she just did to Jennifer. Amanda then, without thinking, asks him what he's going to do about it and he hangs up and runs out of a closet from behind Amanda and tries to stab her. She ducks and the killer accidentally stabs the wall. Jennifer starts screaming and runs downstairs to the basement. Amanda then tries opening the front door as a desperate attempt to escape but the killer grabs her, slams her against the door and throws her to the floor. As the killer is about to stab her, she pushes him off her and he falls backwards. She gets up and runs upstairs and hides in Jennifer's room. She grabs a large chair and puts it up against the door sideways to block the killer from entering. The killer attempts to enter the room but can only fit his arm through the door due to the chair Amanda placed against the door. Amanda begins to panic and tries to open a window but is struggling to get the window open. When she turns around the killer is gone. Meanwhile, Jennifer is seen in the basement in a small room that she locked herself in. She takes her phone and calls the police and tells them that they need to send someone over to her house immediately and gives them her address.

Meanwhile, Evelyn is seen pulling up to the same abandoned building that Amanda and her friends went to when Kevin died. Evelyn gets out of her car and stands in front of the building when someone is seen walking towards her from around the corner. The person Evelyn is meeting is revealed to be Kyle. Evelyn greets him and Kyle asks her why she asked him to go meet her over there. Evelyn tells him that she knows about his past and that if he doesn't do what Evelyn asks him to do that she'll expose him to the entire town. Kyle asks Evelyn what she knows about him and how she knows everything about him. Evelyn tells him that it doesn't matter how she found out but she tells him that she knows that Kyle used to live with his parents in a nearby city but moved out of the city after his parents both mysteriously vanished and that he changed his name when he moved into town. Kyle then corrects Evelyn and claims that he only changed his last name and that he has no idea why his parents disappeared but moved out of the city because everyone kept blaming him for the disappearance. Evelyn tells him that it still makes him look suspicious especially with all the murders going on recently. Kyle gives in and agrees to do what Evelyn asks of him. She tells him that she needs him to sneak into Sheriff Dylan's office tomorrow and take pictures of Amanda and all of her friends' (including his own) files and send them to Evelyn by text message. Kyle seems reluctant at first but after Evelyn tempts him one last time he agrees to do it and tells her he'll get the pictures taken the next day. Meanwhile, Amanda opens the door of Jennifer's room and walks out. She walks up to the staircase and calls out for Jennifer. Jennifer doesn't answer and Amanda begins walking down the stairs. When Amanda gets to the bottom of the stairs she calls out for Jennifer again but instead of hearing Jennifer respond, Detective Cox enters the house through a side door. Amanda, surprised to see Detective Cox, asks her what she's doing there. She tells her that Jennifer called in and said that she was in danger. Detective Cox asks Amanda where Jennifer is and she says that she saw her run down to the basement. Detective Cox tells Amanda to wait there and not to move while she goes into the basement to look for Jennifer. After Detective Cox goes down the stairs, Jennifer shows up behind Amanda and asks her what happened to her. Amanda tells Jennifer everything that happened and then realizes that the killer might still be inside the house and that Detective Cox showed up and went into the basement looking for her. They then hear glass breaking in the basement and when they look down the stairs to see what's going on they see Detective Cox get slammed across a wall by the killer and stabbed three times in her stomach. Detective Cox falls to the floor and dies. Amanda and Jennifer both scream in horror and run to the back door. They both look at each other in confusion and realize they don't know where to go anymore and that they're trapped in the house. At that moment, Amanda begins to sense something is wrong after smelling a mix of gasoline and smoke. She then realizes that the killer had begun to set the house on the fire and screams at Jennifer and tells her to run through the windows and out of the house. They both run out of the house by running through the windows. They both trip and begin to fall down a hill behind Jennifer's house. As they are falling down the hill an explosion occurs inside the house and when they land at the bottom of the hill they both look up at Jennifer's house completely covered in flames. Amanda and Jennifer both get a text from the killer saying "I warned you, now you suffer". Moments later, Sheriff Dylan and Caroline show up to Jennifer's house and they see Amanda and Jennifer making their way to the front of the house. Caroline runs up to Amanda and asks if she's ok. Amanda says that she's fine but that Jennifer was stabbed and needs medical attention. Sheriff Dylan calls in a paramedic. Paul is then seen running down the street and sees Amanda standing in front of Jennifer's house (which is now being watered down by firemen) and Jennifer getting into an ambulance. Paul asks Amanda what happened and she asks him what he's doing there. He tells her that he heard the explosion from his house just up the street and came running down the street to see what happened. Evelyn then pulls up to see her house completely burnt and still on fire in some places. She starts panicking and asks where Jennifer is. Sheriff Dylan explains that Jennifer got attacked and is on her way to the hospital. Evelyn gets back in her car and rushes to the hospital. At that moment, Jessica shows up from the other side of the street. She sees Amanda and Paul and runs up to them and asks them why Jennifer's house is on fire. Amanda explains everything that happened to her and Jennifer. At that moment, Detective Lorraine arrives and walks up to Sheriff Dylan. Amanda looks at Jennifer's house in flames again and then decides to go home. She tells Jessica and Paul she'll see them at school the next day and gets in Caroline's car with Caroline and she drives off.

## Notes

* This episode marked the death of Detective Cox.
* Drew, Stephanie, Kevin, Miss Miranda and Michelle don't appear in this episode.
* Amanda comes face to face with the killer for the first time in this episode.
* This episode was viewed live by 0.42 million people.

## Cast

### Main cast

* Emma Roberts as Amanda
* Billie Lourd as Jennifer
* Lea Michele as Jessica
* Finn Wittrock as Kyle

### Recurring cast

* Sarah Paulson as Caroline
* Darren Criss as Paul
* Angela Bassett as Detective Cox
* Halle Berry as Detective Lorraine
* Jamie Lee Curtis as Evelyn
* Cheyenne Jackson as Sheriff Dylan

## Body Count

* Detective Cox - stabbed in the stomach three times