Network: ABC
Episodes: 9 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: June 23, 2013 — August 18, 2013
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Gildart Jackson.
TV show description:
This interactive TV series puts 13 amateur sleuths’ investigative skills to the test in a mystery reality competition. Players use a variety of crime scene investigation techniques to carefully uncover evidence in a series of puzzling murders. Their goal is to ultimately reveal who among them is the killer.
Some players form alliances in the competition, while others choose to go it alone in their quest for the grand prize of $250,000. The contestants are guests on a glamorous estate called Rue Manor with a steward, Butler Giles (Gildart Jackson).
Each week they must solve a new crime in order to advance in the game. Failure to solve the crime leads to a player’s demise, until only three are left. In the final episode, one player unmasks the killer and takes home the $250,000 prize.
Episode #9 — Golden Cuffs
After the smoke clears, Cris, Kam and Lindsey are having trouble locating Melina. The killer left a message for them in the living room and asks them to recall the three digit code that was given to them upon Sheri’s death. The killer has left the code 6-1-3 spread throughout the parlor.
Kam enters the code to the hidden room in the house, where the killer has left an “orgy of evidence” from the past killings. They find Melina’s corpse in the evidence room. They search her body and find a puzzle a piece. When they return to the living room, they are surprised to see three individual stations set up.
There is a station set up for each guest. The station contains a game board with missing puzzle pieces. Kam is the first to place a tile on his station under “memory.” The killer has brought back each “killed off” guest and associated a task/riddle to them. The final three must perform the task and solve the riddle to receive a game piece. They will not know if they received the correct or incorrect piece until their enter board is completed.
The race has commenced. Cris gets a good scare tracking down a snake from Ulysses’ death. Lindsey is not sure if she grabbed the right bean from Ronnie’s hot tub. Kam is blazing through the challenge until he’s left to find an item in complete darkness from Geno’s station.
Kam is on the final piece of the puzzle and must find Giles’ employment contract in the parlor to prove Giles’ innocence. When Kam is able to finish the puzzle, he turns on the black light that reveals he has two of the puzzles wrong. Cris is the next one to finish and finds herself with 2 incorrect puzzle pieces.
Kam is the first one to finish his puzzle with all of the correct game pieces. He now has a head start on the final riddle. Cris is the second to finish her board. Lindsey is the last to finish and receives a different riddle than Kam.
Kam and Cris are at “the finish line” when they see Lindsey get killed off by an arrow. Cris then admits to killing off 11 straight guests. Kam is the winner of $250,000. He’s shocked that he had worked with the killer the whole time. Giles enters the room to give Kam his prize and the golden cuffs to arrest Cris. Two officers escort Cris out of the manor immediately.
Giles and Kam are now free to leave the manor. Kam gets a final farewell from the killed off guests and staff of the manor. He asks Giles to take him home. (Courtesy ABC.)
First aired: August 18, 2013.
What do you think? Do you like the Whodunnit? TV series? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Well DUH ! Of course bring it back!
Are you telling me it didn’t have the rating the Bean Counters required ? ! ?
Some things take time to catch on, look at some of those super hits that didn’t Take Off right away.
Better than Murder She Wrote for crying out loud !
RENEWED, RENEWED, RENEWED!!
Great show, please do not cancel!!
please renew, fun show
This show was amazing, The only reality Tv series that i actually kept on watching the whole series, I really hope it gets renewed for another season because it was too good to be cancelled after the first season!
We loved it and had a blast trying to predict both who done it and who was going to be the next victim. Great interactive show that does an excellent job of suspense without gratuitous violence in a murder mystery. Please bring it back ABC!!!
PLEASE BRING THE SHOW BACK INLOVED IT IT WAS SO EXCITING!!!!!
Bring the show back please I love the show I want it t be another season of whodunnit I love Giles and I want it to come back
Keep
Loved this show, the one show that the whole family actually got together to watch each week without fail. We keep waiting and hoping for it to come back this year.
Don’t cancel it. It was a fun mystery that was family friendly too
Another season please. This show’s renewal or cancel status has been hard to pin down. Here you state TBD. Other sites are having 2014 Casting Calls. Still other sites state it’s cancelled. I, for one, want a Season 2 with the same quirky butler actor with a bit more screen time.
Yes they really DO need another season of whodunit
Please, please, please bring this show back. Me and my teenage daughter watched it religiously last year and have been waiting for it to air this year.
My family loved this show in 2013 and hoping it comes back in 2014.
I absolutely love this show, plz don’t cancel it my sister(s) love it too.So please continue with it, this is a brilliant show!!