Halftime: The Murder Mystery

**Halftime: The Murder Mystery** is a murder mystery drama movie, created by Nathan Network. The film follows the story of Kaden, Jarrett, and Nathan, after the murder knife in their house goes missing, they must find out who took it.

## History

### Creation (2020-2021)

The writer, Zinguini Losis, wanted to create something unique, something like nothing else on the market at that time. So he created Halftime.

The original version of Halftime was gonna end with Nathan and Kaden voting for Jarrett, meaning Jarrett would die, and Kaden (the actual murderer) would kill Nathan, however Zinguini felt that ending would be a to tragic and sad, so he changed it in the final version.

### Release & reception (2021)

Halftime released on March 20th, 2021. The film received overwhelmingly positive ratings from critics. After launch, it quickly became the most viewed piece of Nathan Network content in history.

Film critic "Harriet Marone" had this to say "Halftime is a masterpiece, it has great cinematography, acting, music, story, characters, and everything else. My only disappointment is that we never see Tom Brady get ballsacked, I mean ballsacked, sorry i mean ballsacked, ballsacked, i mean ballsacked, i mean ballsacked, i mean ballsacked, i mean ballsacked-"

## Story

### Game Night / The Murder Knife

We meet our 3 main characters, Kaden, Jarrett, and Nathan. The three are watching an NFL game in their living room. And we learn that the players on the field have popped 8 balls this season, then Tom Brady gets sacked. Then the three all start insulting each other. One of the three got so offended by the insults that they took the murder knife from the kitchen.

The 3 realize this and get scared, Kaden instantly places blame on Jarrett. They end up panicking and run away, except for Kaden who seems a bit more calm and collected.

Jarrett goes back to the kitchen to find Kaden standing there calmly. Jarrett asks Kaden if he thinks Nathan took the murder knife. Kaden simply laughs and pulls out the murder knife. Jarrett panics and tries to run away from Kaden. Eventually Jarrett makes it to the bedroom, and he throws a seal pillow at Kaden knocking him on the ground, and he falls unconscious.

### Kaden Wakes Up / Talk with Jarrett

Nathan finds Kaden laying unconscious on the ground so he wakes him up, and Kaden says that Jarrett chased after him with a knife. Kaden stands up, then he says he has to go pee-poo (pee and poo at the same time) so he leaves and he hands Nathan the seal pillow and tells him not to let Jarrett have it, as it's super powerful.

Nathan enters the kitchen and he finds Jarrett sitting down reading a note, Jarrett tries to convince Nathan that he isn't the murderer. Jarrett reads Nathan the note which says "the murderer is wearing a hat". Jarrett is than seen wearing a hat, and when Nathan questions him on this, he takes the hat off and says "no cap bro".

Jarrett then puts the hat back on, and then he pulls out the murder knife, Nathan tries running away, but Jarrett starts following him with the knife. Kaden, who can be seen wearing a hat, then jumps out, and tries to stop Jarrett, but then Jarrett starts chasing Kaden. Kaden tries to run. Jarrett then tries to negotiate with Kaden, but Kaden throws the seal pillow at Jarrett making him fall unconscious.

### The Final Decision

Jarrett is then held down to a table by Kaden, as Nathan points a knife at his head. Nathan asks Jarrett to give him one reason not to kill him. Jarrett tries to convince Nathan that he's not the murderer, and then Jarrett offers to put this whole situation to rest with a vote for the murderer. Whoever the group votes for, will be killed.

The group is given 30 seconds to decide who to vote for. Kaden tries to convince Nathan that it's Jarrett. But then Jarrett tries to convince Nathan that the murderer is Kaden, since he was seen wearing a hat. Nathan says that Jarrett's not in the clear either since he was also seen with a hat. Kaden says that he's done with this, and he tries to vote for Jarrett early. However, Jarrett says that you can't vote until the timer is up. Jarrett says that he was wearing a hat, because he was trying to show that is was Kaden's hat. Nathan finds it suspicious that Kaden was so quick to judge, and Nathan ends up voting for Kaden. Jarrett also votes for Kaden, meaning Kaden will be killed. Jarrett hands Kaden a gun that he can use to kill himself, however Kaden just snaps his own neck and dies. Kaden was the murderer all along.

### The End

Nathan and Jarrett decide that they want to go finish watching the NFL game so they can see Tom Brady get sacked. In the post credits scene, they end up replacing Kaden with the seal pillow. The two than proceed to insult each other some more.