This post contains spoilers for Only Murders in the Building season 5, episode 10.
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It looks like Mabel, Charles and Oliver will be heading across the pond when Only Murders in the Building returns for season 6.
On Tuesday, Oct. 28, the season 5 finale “The House Always…” revealed Mayor Beau Tillman (Keegan-Michael Key) killed the Arconia’s beloved doorman Lester (Teddy Coluca) in part to protect his billionaire pals Bash Steed (Christoph Waltz), Camilla White (Renée Zellweger) and Jay Pflug (Logan Lerman) and their casino plans. Tillman and the billionaires were all arrested, while Lester’s wife Lorraine (Dianne Wiest) finally moved into the Arconia. Even Howard (Michael Cyril Creighton) had a happy ending when he found love with one of Sofia’s (Téa Leoni) sons.
But OMITB had one final twist to deliver before the curtain dropped on season 5, and it was a doozy. The finale jumped ahead three months to find Mabel (Selena Gomez), Charles (Steve Martin) and Oliver (Martin Short) settling down to listen to Cinda Canning’s (Tina Fey) latest podcast almost five years to the day they first bonded over their love of true crime.
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This time around, Cinda is delving into the case of “The Girl with the Curls,” a U.K.-based mystery involving a woman who may or may not have murdered a descendant of the royal family. With tabloid speculation leading to threats against her life, the woman with the flaming red curls headed stateside, according to Cinda.
“While on holiday in the U.K., I found myself confronted by two new obsessions: a jasmine flowering tea that’s become daily ritual and a new mystery,” Cinda says in her podcast.
“A story about a young woman with curls as red as blood, steeped amid the London fog, the prime suspect in the murder of a royal descendant,” she continues. “The public has turned against her, and fueled by the British tabloids, there have been threats against her life. But I believe this girl with the curls is innocent, and I feel a strong need to protect her, to send her to America, which may be the only place she can be safe.”
Cut to a woman with red curls running towards the Arconia, leaving a bloody handprint along the way, before collapsing just outside the gates of the storied apartment building. After a bit of banter between Howard and the trio about whether or not the woman’s death counts as being “in the building,” she weakly slips her hand through the gate guaranteeing that Mabel, Charles and Oliver will take on her murder as their next case.
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The woman in question appears to be none other than Cinda herself — or a convincing doppelgänger — setting up a mystery that will take OMITB full circle as the trio solves the murder of the person who brought them together in the first place.
Hulu officially announced season 6 on Tuesday, Oct. 28, and confirmed the next 10-episode season will include a London adventure for Mabel, Charles and Oliver.
Only Murders in the Building seasons 1-5 are streaming now on Hulu.
