Wadsworth

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## Personal details

### Status

* Alive (Ending A and B)
* Deceased  (Ending C)

### Died

1954
Hill House

## Professional & social status

### Occupation

* Butler of Hill House (Cover-up)
* Undercover FBI agent (Endings A and B)

### Known for

Murdering the Singing Telegram Girl and being the *real* Mr. Boddy (Ending C)

## Source

**Wadsworth** is a character from the 1985 film *Clue*. He is the butler of Hill House and the organizer of the dinner party hosted there.

## Role in film

At the beginning of the film, Wadsworth invites six people (Miss Scarlet, Col. Mustard, Mrs. White, Prof. Plum, Mrs. Peacock and Mr. Green) to Hill House for a dinner party. While there, he reveals that all of the guests are people who are being blackmailed by a seventh guest, Mr. Boddy, who has threatened to reveal confidential information about each: Ms. Scarlet runs an underground brothel, Col. Mustard is a war profiteer, Mrs. White killed her cheating husband, Prof. Plum was a psychiatrist who had an affair with his patients, Mrs. Peacock is the wife of a US senator who has been taking bribes, and Mr. Green is a closeted homosexual.

Mr. Boddy gives the guests weapons, telling them to instead kill Wadsworth, ensuring no one ever hears of their secrets. He turns the lights out, only for he himself to be killed. This leads to a night of murder, as the maid Yvette, the cook, a motorist who entered the mansion, and a police officer, are killed off one by one. The group works together to try and solve the mystery, with Wadsworth appointing himself as leader of the group. During the mystery, he reveals his motive: Wadsworth's wife was a socialist who was blackmailed by Boddy into revealing her friends. When she refused, he forced Wadsworth to become his servant, driving her to suicide. After six murders, Wadsworth claims he knows who the killer is, but first explains HOW it was done.

### True identity

Wadsworth's true identity varies by the film's three endings. In the first two endings, Wadsworth is revealed to be an uncover FBI agent. In the third ending, Wadsworth is in fact Mr. Boddy. The man who had been introduced as *Mr. Boddy* was in fact the actual butler, who Professor Plum killed in the Hall with the Candlestick.

With his spies and informants disposed of, Mr. Boddy plans to continue blackmailing the guests until Mr. Green then draws another revolver and kills Mr. Boddy, revealing that he is an undercover FBI agent and that the call from Hoover was for him.

#### Scrapped ending

In the scrapped fourth ending, Wadsworth committed all the murders. He was motivated by his desire for perfection. Having failed to be either the perfect husband or the perfect butler, he decided to be the perfect murderer instead. Wadsworth reports that he poisoned the champagne the guests drank so they would soon die, leaving no witnesses. The police and the FBI arrive and Wadsworth is arrested. He breaks free and steals a police car, but his escape is thwarted when three police dogs lunge from the back seat. This ending is documented in the two tie-in books that were released in conjunction with the film, *Clue: the Novelization* and *Clue: The Storybook*.