Finally, in this chapter the play will be over, there are so many clues and hints and I really hope you'll figure it out. Also, I wanna thank everyone for reading, voting and commenting, Thanks for the support :)

Chapter 8

The curtain opened announcing the beginning of act 3, the 6 family members sat at Tommy and Marion's living room all muddy and tired.

"I can't believe we just did this" Tommy said anxiously

"We had to bury the body, we had no other option" Sophie replied

"I'm just worried if someone saw us," Marion said then turned towards Joe "Are you sure no one saw us while burying the body?"

"Marion, do not worry, uncle Joe and I made sure no one saw" Jane assured her as they b both stood as watch while the other 4 buried the body.

"It's been a very long day, we should all get some rest before whoever is doing this strikes again" Logan added.

"You're all welcome to stay here tonight," Tommy said

"I'll go set the extra rooms, can you please help me," Marion said turning towards Jane then Sophie.

"Sure," they said leaving behind the 3 men.

"Since the women are out of here, we need to talk. What are we going to do? We can't live like that forever" Tommy said

"And what do you suggest we should do?" Joe asked

"We pay him/her/them," Tommy said

"We can't feed the beast, we'll just make it greedier" added Logan

Meanwhile, detective William decided to start his investigations with the crew backstage starting with Thomas.

"I thought you were going to wait till the show ends," Tom said

"I said I'll keep my mouth shut till the show ends and then we'll tell the police, but that doesn't mean I won't start my own investigations with you and everyone here backstage."

"Okay, but hurry because I have a show to see" He was also drunk and couldn't concentrate, but he never wanted to admit having a drinking problem.

"You didn't have a problem wasting almost a whole act in order to distract me. Now tell me what happened"

"I was in my room until it was time to meet up before the show," Tom said slurring from his drinking "we all gathered waiting for Daniel to come out, but he didn't and so we decided to go in. He was dead"

"Why did you break the door?"

"Oh yeah I remember now, the door was locked from inside and we had to break it"

"Anything else came to your mind that you forgot earlier? Please try to focus"

"I don't know, it's been a long night" he started laughing

"You aren't any use to me like that, go sober up and I'll talk to you later.. Remember you have no proper alibi, so maybe take things more seriously or you'll end up in jail"

"None of us has proper alibi"

Detective William walked to the door and decided to interrogate someone else and get back later to Thomas.

"Detective, wait, aren't you going to ask me who I think did it?"

"Who might be that?"

"Normally, I'd say the spouse, Melanie, but she's rich, beautiful and successful, so I doubt it. I think Joe could've done it. A little too late, though"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Joe hated Daniel. You see, Melanie wanted her husband to play main against her, so she made me give her husband Joe's role and give Joe another role. It's a little complicated I know, but Joe was furious to play an old man and a smaller role, and because of his contract, he couldn't leave"

"How did Melanie force you to do so?"

"She's Melanie Franco," he said sarcastically

George, Tiffany, and Adam were in George's room "Adam, I thought you got rid of those papers"

"Sir, you asked me to do so many things at the same time and I'm just one person, I forgot the papers." Adam paused "I apologize"

"You seem to be forgetting a lot these days. Look at all of these troubles you got us in" Tiffany shouted

"It's not all my fault"

"It doesn't matter who's fault it is, Adam you need to go fetch these papers from Rachel"

"Yes sir," Adam said leaving the room m while detectiveWilliam came in.

"So let me guess, the two of you are together?" Detective William said pointing towards George and Tiffany.

"We don't have to hide it anymore," George said to Tiffany "Yes, detective, we are"

"Why did you have to hide it in the 1st place"

"We didn't plan to hide it, we just were waiting for the right moment," Tiffany said

"Well, I definitely think that wasn't the right moment you were planning," he said sarcastically "Anyways, I wanted to talk to you a little. Please tell me everything you know"

They told him the brief story, then he asked them to tell him any small details they remember.

"The body was on the ground next to the sofa in Daniel's room face up. He was bleeding, but there was no murder weapon" George said, but Tiffany interrupted. "There was a knife though in the fireplace"

"Clever, to ruin the fingerprints." Detective William said then he looked around the room and found a balcony on the left. "Thomas told me the door was locked from inside, so that means that whoever did it left through the balcony unless Daniel did it himself" He joked.

"That doesn't make it any easier, all the rooms in the corridor have adjacent balconies," George said.

"I know, and all of your alibis are weak. Every single one of you was on their own at the time of murder"

"Tiffany, you have to tell him" George urged her

"Tell me what miss?"

"We sort of nailed it down to 2 possibilities, the murderer I mean" she paused thinking of how Rachel trusted her, but she knew her safety comes first. "Rachel and Owen. I don't know if someone told you earlier, but Rachel is pregnant, she claimed it was Daniel's, but she told me it wasn't and the baby is Owen's"

"So we believe it's either Rachel because she wanted his money or Owen because he loved Rachel or both"

"Interesting theory, " he said shortly.

"But it makes sense, though, doesn't it detective," Tiffany asked

"Anything is possible, it could be Rachel and Own or you miss and your boyfriend"

"Excuse me? Why would we even do that?" George got angry

"It's crazy how when someone gets murdered, it turns out that almost everyone surrounding them had motive somehow"

The next scene in the play was in Tommy and Marion's bedroom. Marion sat on their bed holding a box and looking anxiously until Tommy came out of the bathroom.

"I could've stayed in the shower forever just to wash out the image of burying Raymond"

"Tommy," Marion said shaking "I had a headache, so I was searching for aspirin" her husband cut in "You know you can't take these with the pregnancy, the doctors said you..."

"I found this Tommy" she held the box to his face angrily "It's been you all along, I should've known"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"This has gotten too far this time Tommy, you need help"

"Honey, I don't understand anything.

She opened the box and got out an ink bottle and an unfinished letter, "You got away with it this time, but there's more to come" she read out loud "That's your handwriting. There is also this. I didn't get it first, but now I recognize it, this is Raymond's gold watch that he loved so much and was even buried with it"

"Marion, believe me, I didn't do this. Someone is trying to frame me"

"It's not the first time, you do something like that"

"What do you mean? I'm not crazy and I wouldn't hurt anyone specifically my own family"

"I know you wouldn't hurt anyone, but it's not the first time you do something unconsciously, but I never thought it would be that serious" she held his hands "For a moment I did suspect it was you blackmailing us, but you never took it that far before so I brushed that thought out of my mind; I feel guilty for not helping you earlier, but I will now do whatever it takes to help you"

"I can't believe this, no, this isn't happening"

"The patient is always the last to know"

"I am not a patient and I am not crazy. Someone put these stuff in my drawer and now you think I am. Can't you see that someone is trying to put the blame on me?"

"I never told you I found it in the drawer, but you knew already its place."

Tommy was getting more and more confused walking around in the room holding his head trying to remember until he settled on the floor and sat holding his knees to his chest. "My father never admitted his mental illness, he never knew he was crazy until it was too late to save him, I must be like him"

"It's never too late and we'll save you, Tommy, because we all love you and care about you. Let's sleep now and tomorrow we'll take you to the hospital"

Tommy was crying in disbelief "I don't want to become him"

"You won't become you father"

They went to bed, but Tommy was unable to. He kept on seeing Raymond everywhere and hearing him.

Adam did as told and went to search Rachel's stuff, but couldn't find anything. "Adam? What are you doing with my things?" He heard Rachel's breaking voice from behind.

"You know why I am here, so just give it up" he tried to sound threatening

"When are you going to stop being George's little puppy? Anyways, I'm not stupid to leave it lying in my stuff here."

"Just give it to me and George will still give you the money"

"Then go get the money and I'll give it. I can't give it to you, it's my only insurance"

"I do as I'm told, so don't let me use force"

"Huh, cause you're so strong yourself, we all know that" she laughed "Or maybe you dropped him intentionally, but what do you get?"

"I'm not here to chat" He held her arm fiercely "Get the papers"

She nodded no "This is my last chance, Adam, please. You were raised as me, so please give me the chance to raise to baby differently"

"And because you were raised like me, you have to understand that I have to do what I'm told" he pushed her to the wall with his right hand and searched her pocket with his left. "Here it is" he took the papers in his pocket and removed his arm from over Rachel.

"Please no" she tried to get it from him, but he pushed her away and walked to George's room as he thought about his actions 'I can't believe I did this to her' he thought 'what happened to me? I can't stay his slave forever". He remembered why he took this job in the first place, only because he needed the money for his sick sister.

He also remembered when he asked Daniel this morning for a loan because his sister's case has gotten worse, but he told him he was in the middle of an important transaction and he didn't have the money for now.

'But now I can leave' he said to himself.

"Seem to be lost in thought," Detective William told him as he got out of George's room.

"It's been a very long day, detective"

"Seems like everyone is saying so. Whatever the reason you wanted to go into that room can wait, because we need to talk"

"Sure"

Adam told him the same as everyone already told him before and then the detective asked him who he thought did it.

"Honestly, I have no idea. I didn't get a second to myself tonight to even think who it could be"

"Just think. Do you remember anything specifically suspicious tonight"

"Neil has been awfully close to Melanie, but she always pushed him away, maybe he killed him to get a better chance. Maybe Stephanie or Leah did it because he chose Melanie over them or even Melanie herself for God knows what or T..."

"Don't just list the suspects, you're not making it any easier"

"I'm sorry detective, I wish I could help"

"Maybe you could, can you come with me to Daniel's room?"

"Yes, sir"

They went to Daniel's room and William asked Adam to help him place the body as it was originally.

"Fingerprints won't be useful anymore, everyone's fingerprints are everywhere in here"

"Do you want me to get you the murder weapon?"

"No, wait." He walked to the fireplace and got out his handkerchief and put the butter knife in it without touching it.

He then noticed that the balcony was open and knew his theory was right.

"If you're nervous around the body, you can get out," William told Adam "You got enough time with it tonight" Adam walked out and the detective kept on investigating the room, but he couldn't find anything useful, but just before he got out, he noticed Daniel's wallet thrown on the floor in a corner semi-opened.

He walked to it and got it up, there was no money in it. 'Strange someone as wealthy as him has nothing in his wallet' He thought.

Stephanie was in her room crying, she felt horrible after what happened with Portia and for Daniel and everything that happened tonight. She heard knocking on the door and when she opened it, it was detective William.

"We need to talk," he said "Please tell me everything you know"

she told him everything even the part when she went to Daniel's room before they found the body. "But I swear he didn't answer and I couldn't open the door, so I left"

It was the final scene in act 3 and the whole play. Tommy's family took him to the hospital and the doctor ordered for him to be locked for some time before hurting anyone. Everyone said there goodbyes and gave Marion and him some privacy.

"I know you'll get better and we'll raise our baby together"

"If I never get better, please don't tell that baby about me like that. Tell him or her that their father was a good man and he died, they don't need to know I'm crazy"

"That won't happen, you'll get better"

"Marion the doctor said we need to leave" she heard Logan's voice from behind.

Backstage, Rachel sat hopelessly in the fire escape thinking about everything wrong with her life when detective William came to join.

She told him her side of the story then she asked him "Who do you think did it sir?"

"You know you're a prime suspect yourself, I know about the baby. Who do you think did it miss?"

"Their's a poisonous air around George, Tiffany, and Adam. I sure of it and I don't think Adam's accident with the body was an accident"

Back on stage, Tommy was left in the hospital and everyone left to their own way. Marion and Logan stayed together.

"I can't believe this is finally over," Logan said "Well played" he held her hands

"I told you I can pull it off, I've always wanted to be an actress. Now let's leave, we have the money and we can go wherever we want"

"And start our family, but we need to wait for some time, so no one would suspect us"

"ugh, the show must go one, I know. Logan are we bad people?"

"We can't control love honey," He said as he held her face and kissed her.

The curtains closed and the everyone in the theater was clapping and giving them a standing ovation, then the curtains opened again for the cast to salute the audience.

After her talk with detective William, Rachel walked away and went to the bathroom, 'I lost everything, I can't believe this' she thought 'what have I done, who am I becoming? I used to say Melanie was an awful person for treating me bad, but I've done much for just for money. it's just some stupid paper and ink'