Game Changer (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Whodunnit - full transcript
When a cast member is murdered, the game's other players take a stab at finding the killer.
(playful music)
- [Sam] Get ready for a game changer.
Tonight's guests, coming in
all the way from New York City,
it's Josh Ruben.
Coming in at 8 foot 14
inches, it's Grant O'Brien,
and coming in despite having
two other drop out shows
in post production, it's Rekha Shankar.
And your host, me, I've
been here the whole time.
This is Game Changer, the only game show
where the game changes every show.
I'm your host Sam Reich,
I'm joined today by these
three lovely contestants.
Now you all understand how the game works.
- No.
- No.
- I don't, by design I think.
- You've been trapping
us in a room of secrets.
- That's right, our players have no idea
what game it is they are about to play.
The only way to learn is by playing.
The only way to win is by learning,
and the only way to begin is by beginning.
So without further ado, let's begin.
- Hold, hold, sorry we've
got a sound issue here--
- [Sam] Oh.
- Josh, can you come over here,
I've got to fix your lav
mic, please come back here.
- It happens in the world of production.
- Just give me one second.
- Hollywood California am I right?
(crowd gasps)
(screaming)
- Players, there has been a murder.
(spooky music)
- No kidding.
- Yeah no shit.
- It is your job to
figure out who done it.
Was it the sound mixer?
(spooky piano music)
- No no no it wasn't me I swear.
- Was it the production assistant?
(spooky piano music)
- Oh god, oh no, this
is all too heavy man.
(laughs)
- Was it the production designer?
(spooky piano music)
- This is not the kind
of art I had in mind.
- Was it the script supervisor?
(spooky piano music)
- I'm on book.
- Or was it the producer of Game Changer?
- Whoa whoa whoa, don't look at me.
(laughs)
- We are you spoke.
- We all have scripts.
- We need our scripts
Rehka, you know like,
the scripts came in very last minute.
It's too much to ask everybody
to memorize all this dialogue.
- [Rehka] Oh I get it!
- Now this will function like something
of an adventure video game.
There are lines of dialogue here
that you will need to unlock.
Until you've gotten all the clues.
Once you've gotten all the clues,
you will know who the suspects are
and only then will you be able to decide
who you think did it.
Whoever's right will win the game.
- Are there points?
- There are no points in this game.
- Okay.
- No!
- For now, you may address any one
of these crew members about the murder.
We are going to start with Rehka.
- The producer.
- Listen I just can't believe
something like this happened on my watch,
on a game show no less, you know.
I've produced disaster scenes
that are less disastrous than this.
Word travels fast in
Hollywood, California.
- You knew--
- My career is over.
- Okay.
(laughs)
- Grant.
- I feel like there's a clue.
- There will be lots of clues throughout.
- But I don't want to say it out loud
because then I'll tell
Rehka what the clues are.
- But we can just work together,
then we'll share the prize.
- I love the lazy resolution.
- I don't hate that, I don't hate that.
So the last thing that the producer said--
- [Rehka] Yes.
- was Hollywood, California.
- Not Hollywood, Florida.
- So you're right where I'm at.
And the last thing Sam said
was Hollywood, California.
- [Rehka] Yeah.
- Before all the lights
went out seamlessly on them.
- Hollywood, California is a trigger word.
- [Sam] Hmm, production designer.
- I don't even know why
we're debating this.
The sound mixer was standing
right next to the victim
when he was murdered.
It's definitely the sound mixer.
But he's a weird dude.
I heard breeds Rottweilers,
Adopt don't shop.
- He breeds Rottweilers.
- Now you may ask the script supervisor
about the issue of
proximity to the murder.
- So when you say ask them.
- 'Cause I'm not asking anything,
I'm just pointing and
they're saying something.
- Yeah because I had a question
for the production designer.
If you could be any
animal, what would it be?
- A snake.
(spooky piano music)
- Oh.
- In the grass?
- There are snakes.
(laughs)
- Okay, I will ask the script
supervisor by proximity,
because I don't know what
fuck the question means.
- As script supervisor.
- Mm-hmm.
- It is my job to watch
the action carefully.
Now at the time of the murder,
the only people that were near the victim,
was the P.A., and the sound mixer.
- [Rehka] Mm-hmm.
- I'm not saying they're the murderer.
- [Rehka] Mm-hmm.
- Just pointing that out,
as script supervisor.
- So uh P.A., how close
were to you to the murderer?
- Okay look, I'm suppose to
be near by the action, okay.
In case anyone needs like, batteries,
or water, or anything okay.
Speaking of water, are you
guys okay on water though?
- Yeah.
- Does anyone need water?
- Josh left his.
- Well if you have water,
just be sure to mark it
so people knows it's yours.
Do you need a marker for that?
- I would love a marker.
- Sure.
- Yeah, mark it please.
- Look at the marker Grant!
- [P.A] I don't want to
have to get new ones.
- I'm actually.
- Okay it's an unknown brand.
(sniffs marker)
I would like to ask the sound mixer.
- I know this looks bad,
but I didn't do it I swear.
I got nothing against Josh
all right, I think he's great.
He just had a sound issue,
seriously, that's it.
- What was the sound issue?
- Honestly, I saw somebody
run out onto this stage,
stab him, and then run off.
But it was so dark I
couldn't make out who it was.
Please look I can't go to jail all right.
I've got seven Rottweilers at
home I've got to take care of.
- Oh my god.
- That's the most suspicious dog.
- [Sam] Grant.
- Script supervisor, whatcha got?
- As script supervisor.
- Uh-huh.
- Okay, I oversee the script, all right,
and you want to know something ironic?
This was suppose to be the
murder mystery episode.
Says it right here, Game Changer
Murder Mystery, all right.
Of course someone was not suppose to die.
Yeah that may be obvious, but it's my job
to point out the obvious
as script supervisor.
- Why do you keep talking like that?
- Yeah he does.
- I'm taking notes on this water bottle.
(laughs)
Hey producer.
- Yep.
- What's going on, it seems
like you're doing your job
pretty badly if someone
actually got murdered.
- Yeah so this was suppose to
be the murder mystery episode.
One of the other games this season,
the game of prizes was
way, way too expensive.
- Yeah we fuckin' hear about that.
- Yeah!
- Dinner at a michelin restaurant,
right, trip to Big Sur.
- Yeah, yeah I fucking heard.
- Yeah great job Sab.
Yeah, so this was suppose to
be a very cheap, cheap episode.
- Oh great.
- Sorry guys, so we were
just gonna might up the crew,
and then go get a murder
weapon, that's it.
- Can I ask a follow up?
- Oh a murder weapon.
- Are there prizes?
- There is a prize at
the end of this game.
- Oh we!
(laughs)
- Can we ask what the
murder weapon was gonna be?
- It's my turn.
- We're trying to do
the same fucking thing.
- Hey what was the murder weapon gonna be?
- Listen there's only
so many pages of this.
(laughs)
You can't ask everything Grant.
- If you could be any
animal, what would it be?
- It's a snake, for sure.
- All right, sure.
- Okay.
- You may now ask the sound mixer
about those microphones
we just heard about
or the production designer
about the murder weapon.
You can also as the P.A.
about the murder itself.
We haven't heard from him yet.
- P.A., watcha got?
- I don't know man, it's
just too heavy okay.
I just know that I got into this business
because I can't take
anything serious okay.
My dad told me to be a doctor,
and I said "No, I'd have
to deal with death."
And my mom told me to be a lawyer
and I was like "No mom, I'd
have to deal with jail."
But comedy, what could go wrong right?
- Maybe you still have to deal with jail
because you murdered someone.
I'm gonna ask the production
designer about the weapon.
- I mean, as part of my job,
when I'm told to get a prop
or costume, I get options.
- Uh-huh.
- So I didn't just get
one knife, I got two.
(gasps)
- The first one was one of
those cheap plastic ones.
The kind that retract, and
the second one was beautiful,
it was ornamental.
The producer went with
the cheaper one of course
because it was less expensive.
- I kind of want to know more
about the murder weapons.
- Listen that second knife
wasn't just expensive,
it was also dangerous okay.
The blade didn't retract,
but everyone can know,
that knife is not on set
anymore okay, I had it returned.
I mean I told the production
designer to return it.
(spooky piano music)
(gasping)
- [Sam] Now ask the production
designer about returns
or you can ask the sound
mixer about microphones.
- Absolutely not.
- I mean the knife was returned,
I told the P.A. to do it.
- P.A. did you return that
what you were suppose to do?
- It was returned, I mean
it will be, it will be.
I haven't had time to do it yet.
- Accused!
- It should still be in the returns box.
(screaming)
- Something happened.
- [Sam] Grant and Rehka, you
may now search the returns box
for the ornamental knife that was suppose
to go back to the prop house.
- Whoa can I find?
- So which knife is that?
- That's the retractable one.
- That's the retractable knife.
- This is the retractable one.
- So that means
that the real knife is
on someone in this room.
(screaming)
That means you can ask the
sound mixer about microphones,
or you can choose to search
anyone of these suspects
for the murder weapon.
- You know what, because
you keep dangling it
like a freakin' carrot
in front of a vegetarian,
I'm gonna ask about the sound mixer.
- So the whole idea about
the murder mystery episode
was that the crew themselves
were suspects in a murder,
and because we were
all gonna be on camera,
I had to mic up the whole crew.
Look, I didn't mean to eavesdrop,
but I might have heard some
things I shouldn't of heard.
Do you guys want to hear it?
- Yes!
- Yes, Jesus!
- What the fuck!
- A man is dead and you're waiting
until your called on to
offer important information.
- My dear friend.
- All right I'm gonna play it.
(Rehka gasps)
- You have a recording of it?
- Yeah.
- [Grant] Why were you rolling?
- You know what, I'm
fresh out of batteries.
Does anyone have any fresh batteries?
- Ask the fucking P.A.!
- Oh you need batteries?
Yeah yeah cool.
- If you're out of batteries my dude,
I'm going to fucking cut your throat.
- Thank you, thank you.
- There you go.
- Are those the right kind?
Do you need a D cell?
- Let me just put my batteries.
- [Man On Recording]
Just use the cheaper one,
I don't see what the big deal is.
- [Woman] What's the big deal?
This is art, that's what the big deal is.
- [Man] Stop being so dramatic.
- [Woman] I could kill you for this.
- [Man] You know if we
were on a murder mystery,
that kind of language
would be a big red flag.
- Yeah, all I'm getting is
that they have mad chemistry.
- Wow that is legitimately,
like I'm legitimately sweating.
- That was so hot.
- That is really something.
- Fuck, that was incredibly hot, hold on.
- [Grant] This is a fun set.
- Wait, Josh, wait a second, fuck.
- [Grant] Oh man.
Oh we.
- Oh fuck
that was hot as fuck.
- Damn.
- [Rehka] So close to the mic.
- [Grant] Oh man, just
all over each other.
It's so dramatic if you say it like that.
- [Sam] Grant, you may now search anyone
of these crew members
for the murder weapon,
or ask the production designer,
or the producer about
this issue of the budget.
- I suppose I'll search
someone for the murder weapon.
- Is he physically searching
them, or does he just point?
- Physically.
(gasps)
- Oh my god!
Wait, you can't search Josh.
- Josh doesn't have it.
Well sound designer,
you were right by Josh
when those lights went out.
- I didn't do it.
- Well I'm going to search you
anyway for a murder weapon.
- All right, feel free.
- Do a good job please.
- There is no murder
weapon on the sound mixer.
- Sure.
- Okay, since we all have to come out
of our little turtle holes here,
I search you.
Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat.
Is it hidden hear?
- The production designer
does not have the knife.
- What does she have, I bet
it's cute, this is cute.
- She's got the producers number
on a little business card.
- Yeah okay, this is cute too.
Where'd you get this?
- We are not trading fashion tips here.
We are solving a murder.
- Oh my god, okay fine.
- [Sam] Grant.
- I must search the P.A.
I'm gonna touch you, I'm
gonna touch you lightly.
I need an affirmative yes, that's okay?
- Yes.
- All right great.
- Okay no, no, no, it was
me, it was me, it was me,
I did it, I did it, I did it okay!
(screams)
- Oh god, oh no!
- I ran on stage, I
stabbed Josh in the back,
but I was suppose to, I was suppose to.
It says here in the script look.
It say "When a player takes center stage,
"the P.A. rushes out
and stabs that player."
Okay I thought this knife was retractable.
- You're stupid!
- I got it from the props table.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait,
someone must have switched the knife
on the props table with this one.
- The prop master.
- Someone pulled a switcheroo.
- That's why he was so nervous,
'cause he actually killed someone.
First of all, that's man
slaughter at least, at very least.
- You're going, you're
absolutely, hey honey, sweaty.
- Absolutely going to go to jail.
- Please don't tell my mom.
- Hey sweaty, honey, you're going to jail.
(laughs)
- Yeah listen, little boy,
you're going to go to jail.
- Please, no no no.
- Hey sweaty, your ass is grass.
- You are up shit creek my friend.
(laughs)
A switcheroo that you think
that's gonna hold up in court.
- Someone did it.
- Someone pulled a switcheroo.
- [P.A] They pulled a switcheroo.
- You think the fucking
alset has a question.
- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
I shanked someone in the dark,
- Yeah, oh yeah.
- Because I thought the
knife was retractable
- You remember that famous--
- You fucking idiot.
- It was in the script.
- Okay we've established
the P.A. is definitely going
to jail for a long long time.
- Sure, a long time.
- Sorry sweetheart, sorry.
- Producer, what's goin
on with the budget?
That's what important right now.
- Yeah, yeah look, moneys tight okay,
and when moneys tight, tempers flare up,
but the production designers hardly
the only one whose been unhappy with me.
- Oh brother, look, we've all been there.
- [Producer] I know.
- Sometimes stuff gets going
in the office and it's--
- Yow, listen I couldn't
give the sound mixer
all the microphones he wanted.
He threatened to sic his dogs on me.
- Rottweilers.
- That's fucking crazy.
- Rottweilers.
- I would have fired him.
- [Grant] The Rottweilers keep coming up.
- Seven, seven Rottweilers,
seven sisters, school,
liberal arts, women's college, ahh.
- Just the worst kind of lost fan,
the worst kind of conspiracy theorist.
- Production designer, your budget seems
a little out of wack to me.
(mysterious music)
- Look, maybe I don't agree
with all the decisions
the producer has made.
Maybe I got a glance at
his self budgeted day rate
which is wildly over the top,
and maybe it's people like him
that is the reason that
Hollywood, California
doesn't produce anything
of quality anymore,
because it's all money and no art,
but I don't know if that
has to do with anything
about someone being murdered.
- Seems to me like the
production designer--
- Hates the producer.
- I agree, but also loves him.
- But also like whoa, like whoa,
like just like sparks, are you kidding.
- Like that, oh.
- Rehka.
- I'm gonna ask the sound mixer.
- What I said was, "I'm gonna
be sick and my dogs too."
'Cause when I'm angry, I don't
eat, and when I don't eat.
My dogs don't eat, because I'm the alpha,
that's nature okay.
Honestly, according to the script,
I was suppose to mic up
everybody all right, everybody.
You can't just not mic up someone
whose suppose to speak right?
- Well asking about the
microphones hasn't led to much,
and I really do want to
find that murder weapon.
- You think he's just gonna
keep talking in circles.
And he's like "Well I
don't know what to do
"about these mics, and my seven dogs."
- But my fucking dogs are hungry.
- "My dogs are hungry,
"and I was too sick
last night to feed 'em."
(laughs)
- Yeah I don't give a shit about his dogs.
May I check in with you?
- [Rehka] Okay.
- 'Cause I do want to go
over what we know so far.
- Okay so, and I write on this?
(laughing)
She hates him, he hates her,
or but again explosive chemistry.
- Like, god.
- Yes, the script supervisor doesn't seem
to talk to fucking anybody.
- [Grant] Sure.
- The P.A. is very nervous
about impressing people,
but also seems like a
scapegoat for a lot of people.
The sound person, the dogs thing.
- Yep.
- I imagine everyone hates the producer,
because he's the one coming down so hard.
- Do we know how anyone feels about Josh?
- [Rehka] Hmm, interesting.
Is Josh a difficult to mic?
(laughs)
To get water for?
- Sure.
- To dress, to script supervise.
- Rehka, you may now ask the producer
about the issue with the microphones.
The script supervisor about the script,
or the sound mixer about another recording
that just came to light.
- I mean that last voice
recording was hot as hell.
- It was so...
- I mean if we can get
another one of those.
- I would love that.
- Yeah, we'll take a hot steamy recording
for one thousand baby.
- Well you know what, out of
batteries again, god dammit.
- Hey, just a tip.
And this is rude, if you're a sound mixer.
You absolutely need your own batteries.
This can't keep happening.
- Also better batteries 'cause wow.
- Yeah, what are you fucking use--
- Dollar store.
- [Rehka] You're using dollar store.
- Yeah okay.
- Are you gonna go rogue?
- No.
- Stop.
- Yes.
- No stop, what is this.
- You can't do this.
- Hang on I think I have it.
- Wait, you have
batteries, Grant you can't.
- Oh my god.
(laughs)
- Do you need help?
- Yes.
- Am I gonna find stuff I don't like?
- [Sam] Jesus Christ.
- I don't think so, think so.
- All right.
- Look at all my fucking
creams and salves.
- You have a lot of creams and pills.
- It's all right, it's all
right, I'm sorry, all right here.
No, no, all right, I have them.
- Oh my god, can we use our own batteries?
- I'm going to.
- [Sam] Yes you can
use your own batteries.
- Yes bitch!
Can I say, that was really clever
and I think Grant should
be rewarded for that?
- Wow, as his competition,
that's really sweet, no.
Ready?
- Yep.
- [Rehka] This is stupid.
- [Production Designer] The
producer is cutting our budget,
it's destroying our art.
All the while he lines his own pockets.
- [P.A.] Maybe just don't
work with him again.
- [Production Designer] That's not enough.
No one in the town of
Hollywood, California
should have to work with him again.
- [P.A] If you don't mind me saying so,
that's a very suspicious thing to say.
- Okay.
- Now that was also way hot.
- This is also a pretty hot convo
between the P.D. and the P.A.
- That was really really hot.
- So this P.D., she hates the producer.
- [Grant] Mm-hmm.
- So why the fuck is she killing
Josh, who cares about Josh?
- [Grant] No one cares about Josh.
- [Rehka] Right, he's trash.
I mean I think it--
- Maybe, she's trying
to sabotage the producer
by having someone die on the set.
- Oh okay.
- [Grant] So that might be a motive.
- Okay, I'm gonna ask
the script supervisor
about the script.
- As script supervisor--
- Yes--
- God we get it.
- I am intimately familiar
with the script all right.
- [Rehka] Yes--
- And I confirm this script says,
"When a player takes center stage,
"the P.A. rushes out
and stabs that player."
The sound malfunction though,
that was not part of the script.
- Yes.
- Nope, Josh was not suppose to die.
And I should know, 'cause
I am script supervisor.
- You are hot on the trail.
- I would like to speak to the producer
about the production designer,
because I think that's something.
- All right look, the production designer
and I have had our differences but,
would she switch the knife
and have someone killed
just to end my career, either way,
that sounds like a motive.
- A motive have been established
and therefore, the production designer
is one of our official suspects.
(spooky piano music)
(Rehka screams)
- You may now ask the producer
about the microphones.
That is the only thing you are able to do.
- Oh I'll do that.
- So listen, I said to the sound mixer,
"The victim doesn't need a microphone
"he's gonna die as soon
as the game begins,
"he doesn't have any lines,
you don't have to mic him up."
- So we're all mic'd,
we didn't intend to die.
Are you mic'd, you're mic (mumbles).
- I'm mic'd, so the situation
here is that our sound mixer
wanted a bunch of microphones.
The producer didn't want to
give him all those microphones
because the victim shouldn't need one.
- So, sound mixer, the microphones.
- [Sound Mixer] Yeah?
- Tell me about those.
- What's the point of Game Changer right?
The players don't know what's going on,
so if I don't mic up the murder victim,
they're gonna know that
something smells funny,
and that's what happened.
Isn't that right, Grant?
(spooky piano music)
- Shut up.
- Grant came to me asking
why he wasn't mic'd up.
What was I suppose to tell him?
I told him the truth, I told
him that he was, you know,
gonna be the one that dies.
- I am mic'd, I am mic'd up.
- No this can't be against me!
- I am mic'd up, I am
mic'd up, I am mic'd up.
- I'll start crying.
- I'm mic'd up though, I am mic'd up.
- What's happening?
- You may now ask the script
supervisor about Grant.
- This is ridiculous, wait a minute.
- Shut up!
- I'm mic'd up!
- You've went to Tisch, I don't
know what you learned there.
- Not much!
- Okay script supervisor, tell me.
- As script supervisor.
- Oh.
- Grant approached me before the shoot.
- I didn't.
- Shut up.
- He said, "I should be the
killer, I can really ham it up,
"do a big dramatic monologue
once it's revealed."
He asked me to switch the script around.
He said "What's a little switcheroo?"
(spooky piano music)
- That's not, do a
better impression of me.
- You are using your appropriating
(mumbles) P.A.s language.
- What's a little switcheroo?
- I don't like this.
- And I told him no, I
am not a script changer.
I'm a script supervisor.
- I hate you.
- This is a red herring.
- I feel--
- This is a red herring, P.A.
- Well now that I think of it,
you did ask me about the knife earlier.
You wanted to see if it was safe,
but I told you that the dangerous knife
was in the returns box.
(spooky piano music)
- I know what you're thinking.
(laughs)
I know what you're thinking.
- What!?
- You think that I did it.
- Don't come near me.
- They did, they did it, they did a thing.
- I mean, look, we all know
that Grant is a total diva,
but would he A, switch the knife
B, take the batteries
out of Josh's microphone
so he could take center stage.
And C, get him killed just to
be able to play the villain
instead of the dead body
on an internet game show.
- There's something I can't figure out.
Why would the batteries have crapped out
so soon after I put 'em in.
I mean I just put 'em in,
unless somebody wanted them.
- Someone who has batteries in their bag.
Why did, I did wonder why
the fuck you brought your bag
to a podium dumbass.
- Grant, there is one option left
and it's to check Josh's
lav for batteries.
- You have to check the lav,
that's the only way I
know you're not terrible.
- She has a knife.
- I've got a knife.
- I'll check the lav.
- Please.
- Oh yeah there are batteries in there.
Wait wait wait wait wait.
- There's no batteries
you fucking shit head.
(cackles)
- We have reached the end of our journey.
Two suspects have been established.
The production designer.
(spooky piano music)
Or Grant O'Brien.
(spooky piano music)
You can now nominate
whoever you think did it.
- I think the production designer.
(gasps)
- [Sam] Rehka who?
- I think it's Grant.
- You understand that if I, if it was me.
- No, none of this.
- You are being Truman showed.
- I even asked.
- The narcissism that it would take.
- And the nerve, the nerve.
If I'm being Truman showed, the
nerve for nobody to tell me.
(intense music)
- You're right.
(spooky piano music)
- I was asked to play a dead body.
- You dumb bitch.
- And I was suppose to lay
on the floor for 20 minutes.
When I could have been
standing doing meta jokes.
The whole time, no, I went to Tisch.
- I know.
- The Tisch school of the arts.
- So did I!
What!?
- Give me that.
- This?
- Give it to me.
I was born to play the villain.
I am the love child between
the Grinch and Jared Kushner.
- Ugh.
- I am the greatest actor
Hollywood, California
has ever seen.
All right, you want to
see me play a dead body.
And you, and you, you'll get it.
I had my monologue, I'm ready.
There are no small
parts, only small actors.
Well I got the retractable one.
- And that's our show Rehka.
This was all for you.
- I hate this.
(clapping)
I hate it, you did Truman Show me.
- Your prize is this
beautiful, real chefs knife.
(screams)
Which the crew was so nervous
was going to be confused
for an actual knife on our
set given its meta content.
They made us seal this box.
This has been Game Changer,
I have been Sam Reich
reminding you that every
crime leads one way or another
back to Grant O'Brien, good night.
- Wow.
(crowd applauding)
- Stupid piece of shit,
you should have told me.
- [Sam] Get ready for a game changer.
Tonight's guests, coming in
all the way from New York City,
it's Josh Ruben.
Coming in at 8 foot 14
inches, it's Grant O'Brien,
and coming in despite having
two other drop out shows
in post production, it's Rekha Shankar.
And your host, me, I've
been here the whole time.
This is Game Changer, the only game show
where the game changes every show.
I'm your host Sam Reich,
I'm joined today by these
three lovely contestants.
Now you all understand how the game works.
- No.
- No.
- I don't, by design I think.
- You've been trapping
us in a room of secrets.
- That's right, our players have no idea
what game it is they are about to play.
The only way to learn is by playing.
The only way to win is by learning,
and the only way to begin is by beginning.
So without further ado, let's begin.
- Hold, hold, sorry we've
got a sound issue here--
- [Sam] Oh.
- Josh, can you come over here,
I've got to fix your lav
mic, please come back here.
- It happens in the world of production.
- Just give me one second.
- Hollywood California am I right?
(crowd gasps)
(screaming)
- Players, there has been a murder.
(spooky music)
- No kidding.
- Yeah no shit.
- It is your job to
figure out who done it.
Was it the sound mixer?
(spooky piano music)
- No no no it wasn't me I swear.
- Was it the production assistant?
(spooky piano music)
- Oh god, oh no, this
is all too heavy man.
(laughs)
- Was it the production designer?
(spooky piano music)
- This is not the kind
of art I had in mind.
- Was it the script supervisor?
(spooky piano music)
- I'm on book.
- Or was it the producer of Game Changer?
- Whoa whoa whoa, don't look at me.
(laughs)
- We are you spoke.
- We all have scripts.
- We need our scripts
Rehka, you know like,
the scripts came in very last minute.
It's too much to ask everybody
to memorize all this dialogue.
- [Rehka] Oh I get it!
- Now this will function like something
of an adventure video game.
There are lines of dialogue here
that you will need to unlock.
Until you've gotten all the clues.
Once you've gotten all the clues,
you will know who the suspects are
and only then will you be able to decide
who you think did it.
Whoever's right will win the game.
- Are there points?
- There are no points in this game.
- Okay.
- No!
- For now, you may address any one
of these crew members about the murder.
We are going to start with Rehka.
- The producer.
- Listen I just can't believe
something like this happened on my watch,
on a game show no less, you know.
I've produced disaster scenes
that are less disastrous than this.
Word travels fast in
Hollywood, California.
- You knew--
- My career is over.
- Okay.
(laughs)
- Grant.
- I feel like there's a clue.
- There will be lots of clues throughout.
- But I don't want to say it out loud
because then I'll tell
Rehka what the clues are.
- But we can just work together,
then we'll share the prize.
- I love the lazy resolution.
- I don't hate that, I don't hate that.
So the last thing that the producer said--
- [Rehka] Yes.
- was Hollywood, California.
- Not Hollywood, Florida.
- So you're right where I'm at.
And the last thing Sam said
was Hollywood, California.
- [Rehka] Yeah.
- Before all the lights
went out seamlessly on them.
- Hollywood, California is a trigger word.
- [Sam] Hmm, production designer.
- I don't even know why
we're debating this.
The sound mixer was standing
right next to the victim
when he was murdered.
It's definitely the sound mixer.
But he's a weird dude.
I heard breeds Rottweilers,
Adopt don't shop.
- He breeds Rottweilers.
- Now you may ask the script supervisor
about the issue of
proximity to the murder.
- So when you say ask them.
- 'Cause I'm not asking anything,
I'm just pointing and
they're saying something.
- Yeah because I had a question
for the production designer.
If you could be any
animal, what would it be?
- A snake.
(spooky piano music)
- Oh.
- In the grass?
- There are snakes.
(laughs)
- Okay, I will ask the script
supervisor by proximity,
because I don't know what
fuck the question means.
- As script supervisor.
- Mm-hmm.
- It is my job to watch
the action carefully.
Now at the time of the murder,
the only people that were near the victim,
was the P.A., and the sound mixer.
- [Rehka] Mm-hmm.
- I'm not saying they're the murderer.
- [Rehka] Mm-hmm.
- Just pointing that out,
as script supervisor.
- So uh P.A., how close
were to you to the murderer?
- Okay look, I'm suppose to
be near by the action, okay.
In case anyone needs like, batteries,
or water, or anything okay.
Speaking of water, are you
guys okay on water though?
- Yeah.
- Does anyone need water?
- Josh left his.
- Well if you have water,
just be sure to mark it
so people knows it's yours.
Do you need a marker for that?
- I would love a marker.
- Sure.
- Yeah, mark it please.
- Look at the marker Grant!
- [P.A] I don't want to
have to get new ones.
- I'm actually.
- Okay it's an unknown brand.
(sniffs marker)
I would like to ask the sound mixer.
- I know this looks bad,
but I didn't do it I swear.
I got nothing against Josh
all right, I think he's great.
He just had a sound issue,
seriously, that's it.
- What was the sound issue?
- Honestly, I saw somebody
run out onto this stage,
stab him, and then run off.
But it was so dark I
couldn't make out who it was.
Please look I can't go to jail all right.
I've got seven Rottweilers at
home I've got to take care of.
- Oh my god.
- That's the most suspicious dog.
- [Sam] Grant.
- Script supervisor, whatcha got?
- As script supervisor.
- Uh-huh.
- Okay, I oversee the script, all right,
and you want to know something ironic?
This was suppose to be the
murder mystery episode.
Says it right here, Game Changer
Murder Mystery, all right.
Of course someone was not suppose to die.
Yeah that may be obvious, but it's my job
to point out the obvious
as script supervisor.
- Why do you keep talking like that?
- Yeah he does.
- I'm taking notes on this water bottle.
(laughs)
Hey producer.
- Yep.
- What's going on, it seems
like you're doing your job
pretty badly if someone
actually got murdered.
- Yeah so this was suppose to
be the murder mystery episode.
One of the other games this season,
the game of prizes was
way, way too expensive.
- Yeah we fuckin' hear about that.
- Yeah!
- Dinner at a michelin restaurant,
right, trip to Big Sur.
- Yeah, yeah I fucking heard.
- Yeah great job Sab.
Yeah, so this was suppose to
be a very cheap, cheap episode.
- Oh great.
- Sorry guys, so we were
just gonna might up the crew,
and then go get a murder
weapon, that's it.
- Can I ask a follow up?
- Oh a murder weapon.
- Are there prizes?
- There is a prize at
the end of this game.
- Oh we!
(laughs)
- Can we ask what the
murder weapon was gonna be?
- It's my turn.
- We're trying to do
the same fucking thing.
- Hey what was the murder weapon gonna be?
- Listen there's only
so many pages of this.
(laughs)
You can't ask everything Grant.
- If you could be any
animal, what would it be?
- It's a snake, for sure.
- All right, sure.
- Okay.
- You may now ask the sound mixer
about those microphones
we just heard about
or the production designer
about the murder weapon.
You can also as the P.A.
about the murder itself.
We haven't heard from him yet.
- P.A., watcha got?
- I don't know man, it's
just too heavy okay.
I just know that I got into this business
because I can't take
anything serious okay.
My dad told me to be a doctor,
and I said "No, I'd have
to deal with death."
And my mom told me to be a lawyer
and I was like "No mom, I'd
have to deal with jail."
But comedy, what could go wrong right?
- Maybe you still have to deal with jail
because you murdered someone.
I'm gonna ask the production
designer about the weapon.
- I mean, as part of my job,
when I'm told to get a prop
or costume, I get options.
- Uh-huh.
- So I didn't just get
one knife, I got two.
(gasps)
- The first one was one of
those cheap plastic ones.
The kind that retract, and
the second one was beautiful,
it was ornamental.
The producer went with
the cheaper one of course
because it was less expensive.
- I kind of want to know more
about the murder weapons.
- Listen that second knife
wasn't just expensive,
it was also dangerous okay.
The blade didn't retract,
but everyone can know,
that knife is not on set
anymore okay, I had it returned.
I mean I told the production
designer to return it.
(spooky piano music)
(gasping)
- [Sam] Now ask the production
designer about returns
or you can ask the sound
mixer about microphones.
- Absolutely not.
- I mean the knife was returned,
I told the P.A. to do it.
- P.A. did you return that
what you were suppose to do?
- It was returned, I mean
it will be, it will be.
I haven't had time to do it yet.
- Accused!
- It should still be in the returns box.
(screaming)
- Something happened.
- [Sam] Grant and Rehka, you
may now search the returns box
for the ornamental knife that was suppose
to go back to the prop house.
- Whoa can I find?
- So which knife is that?
- That's the retractable one.
- That's the retractable knife.
- This is the retractable one.
- So that means
that the real knife is
on someone in this room.
(screaming)
That means you can ask the
sound mixer about microphones,
or you can choose to search
anyone of these suspects
for the murder weapon.
- You know what, because
you keep dangling it
like a freakin' carrot
in front of a vegetarian,
I'm gonna ask about the sound mixer.
- So the whole idea about
the murder mystery episode
was that the crew themselves
were suspects in a murder,
and because we were
all gonna be on camera,
I had to mic up the whole crew.
Look, I didn't mean to eavesdrop,
but I might have heard some
things I shouldn't of heard.
Do you guys want to hear it?
- Yes!
- Yes, Jesus!
- What the fuck!
- A man is dead and you're waiting
until your called on to
offer important information.
- My dear friend.
- All right I'm gonna play it.
(Rehka gasps)
- You have a recording of it?
- Yeah.
- [Grant] Why were you rolling?
- You know what, I'm
fresh out of batteries.
Does anyone have any fresh batteries?
- Ask the fucking P.A.!
- Oh you need batteries?
Yeah yeah cool.
- If you're out of batteries my dude,
I'm going to fucking cut your throat.
- Thank you, thank you.
- There you go.
- Are those the right kind?
Do you need a D cell?
- Let me just put my batteries.
- [Man On Recording]
Just use the cheaper one,
I don't see what the big deal is.
- [Woman] What's the big deal?
This is art, that's what the big deal is.
- [Man] Stop being so dramatic.
- [Woman] I could kill you for this.
- [Man] You know if we
were on a murder mystery,
that kind of language
would be a big red flag.
- Yeah, all I'm getting is
that they have mad chemistry.
- Wow that is legitimately,
like I'm legitimately sweating.
- That was so hot.
- That is really something.
- Fuck, that was incredibly hot, hold on.
- [Grant] This is a fun set.
- Wait, Josh, wait a second, fuck.
- [Grant] Oh man.
Oh we.
- Oh fuck
that was hot as fuck.
- Damn.
- [Rehka] So close to the mic.
- [Grant] Oh man, just
all over each other.
It's so dramatic if you say it like that.
- [Sam] Grant, you may now search anyone
of these crew members
for the murder weapon,
or ask the production designer,
or the producer about
this issue of the budget.
- I suppose I'll search
someone for the murder weapon.
- Is he physically searching
them, or does he just point?
- Physically.
(gasps)
- Oh my god!
Wait, you can't search Josh.
- Josh doesn't have it.
Well sound designer,
you were right by Josh
when those lights went out.
- I didn't do it.
- Well I'm going to search you
anyway for a murder weapon.
- All right, feel free.
- Do a good job please.
- There is no murder
weapon on the sound mixer.
- Sure.
- Okay, since we all have to come out
of our little turtle holes here,
I search you.
Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat.
Is it hidden hear?
- The production designer
does not have the knife.
- What does she have, I bet
it's cute, this is cute.
- She's got the producers number
on a little business card.
- Yeah okay, this is cute too.
Where'd you get this?
- We are not trading fashion tips here.
We are solving a murder.
- Oh my god, okay fine.
- [Sam] Grant.
- I must search the P.A.
I'm gonna touch you, I'm
gonna touch you lightly.
I need an affirmative yes, that's okay?
- Yes.
- All right great.
- Okay no, no, no, it was
me, it was me, it was me,
I did it, I did it, I did it okay!
(screams)
- Oh god, oh no!
- I ran on stage, I
stabbed Josh in the back,
but I was suppose to, I was suppose to.
It says here in the script look.
It say "When a player takes center stage,
"the P.A. rushes out
and stabs that player."
Okay I thought this knife was retractable.
- You're stupid!
- I got it from the props table.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait,
someone must have switched the knife
on the props table with this one.
- The prop master.
- Someone pulled a switcheroo.
- That's why he was so nervous,
'cause he actually killed someone.
First of all, that's man
slaughter at least, at very least.
- You're going, you're
absolutely, hey honey, sweaty.
- Absolutely going to go to jail.
- Please don't tell my mom.
- Hey sweaty, honey, you're going to jail.
(laughs)
- Yeah listen, little boy,
you're going to go to jail.
- Please, no no no.
- Hey sweaty, your ass is grass.
- You are up shit creek my friend.
(laughs)
A switcheroo that you think
that's gonna hold up in court.
- Someone did it.
- Someone pulled a switcheroo.
- [P.A] They pulled a switcheroo.
- You think the fucking
alset has a question.
- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
I shanked someone in the dark,
- Yeah, oh yeah.
- Because I thought the
knife was retractable
- You remember that famous--
- You fucking idiot.
- It was in the script.
- Okay we've established
the P.A. is definitely going
to jail for a long long time.
- Sure, a long time.
- Sorry sweetheart, sorry.
- Producer, what's goin
on with the budget?
That's what important right now.
- Yeah, yeah look, moneys tight okay,
and when moneys tight, tempers flare up,
but the production designers hardly
the only one whose been unhappy with me.
- Oh brother, look, we've all been there.
- [Producer] I know.
- Sometimes stuff gets going
in the office and it's--
- Yow, listen I couldn't
give the sound mixer
all the microphones he wanted.
He threatened to sic his dogs on me.
- Rottweilers.
- That's fucking crazy.
- Rottweilers.
- I would have fired him.
- [Grant] The Rottweilers keep coming up.
- Seven, seven Rottweilers,
seven sisters, school,
liberal arts, women's college, ahh.
- Just the worst kind of lost fan,
the worst kind of conspiracy theorist.
- Production designer, your budget seems
a little out of wack to me.
(mysterious music)
- Look, maybe I don't agree
with all the decisions
the producer has made.
Maybe I got a glance at
his self budgeted day rate
which is wildly over the top,
and maybe it's people like him
that is the reason that
Hollywood, California
doesn't produce anything
of quality anymore,
because it's all money and no art,
but I don't know if that
has to do with anything
about someone being murdered.
- Seems to me like the
production designer--
- Hates the producer.
- I agree, but also loves him.
- But also like whoa, like whoa,
like just like sparks, are you kidding.
- Like that, oh.
- Rehka.
- I'm gonna ask the sound mixer.
- What I said was, "I'm gonna
be sick and my dogs too."
'Cause when I'm angry, I don't
eat, and when I don't eat.
My dogs don't eat, because I'm the alpha,
that's nature okay.
Honestly, according to the script,
I was suppose to mic up
everybody all right, everybody.
You can't just not mic up someone
whose suppose to speak right?
- Well asking about the
microphones hasn't led to much,
and I really do want to
find that murder weapon.
- You think he's just gonna
keep talking in circles.
And he's like "Well I
don't know what to do
"about these mics, and my seven dogs."
- But my fucking dogs are hungry.
- "My dogs are hungry,
"and I was too sick
last night to feed 'em."
(laughs)
- Yeah I don't give a shit about his dogs.
May I check in with you?
- [Rehka] Okay.
- 'Cause I do want to go
over what we know so far.
- Okay so, and I write on this?
(laughing)
She hates him, he hates her,
or but again explosive chemistry.
- Like, god.
- Yes, the script supervisor doesn't seem
to talk to fucking anybody.
- [Grant] Sure.
- The P.A. is very nervous
about impressing people,
but also seems like a
scapegoat for a lot of people.
The sound person, the dogs thing.
- Yep.
- I imagine everyone hates the producer,
because he's the one coming down so hard.
- Do we know how anyone feels about Josh?
- [Rehka] Hmm, interesting.
Is Josh a difficult to mic?
(laughs)
To get water for?
- Sure.
- To dress, to script supervise.
- Rehka, you may now ask the producer
about the issue with the microphones.
The script supervisor about the script,
or the sound mixer about another recording
that just came to light.
- I mean that last voice
recording was hot as hell.
- It was so...
- I mean if we can get
another one of those.
- I would love that.
- Yeah, we'll take a hot steamy recording
for one thousand baby.
- Well you know what, out of
batteries again, god dammit.
- Hey, just a tip.
And this is rude, if you're a sound mixer.
You absolutely need your own batteries.
This can't keep happening.
- Also better batteries 'cause wow.
- Yeah, what are you fucking use--
- Dollar store.
- [Rehka] You're using dollar store.
- Yeah okay.
- Are you gonna go rogue?
- No.
- Stop.
- Yes.
- No stop, what is this.
- You can't do this.
- Hang on I think I have it.
- Wait, you have
batteries, Grant you can't.
- Oh my god.
(laughs)
- Do you need help?
- Yes.
- Am I gonna find stuff I don't like?
- [Sam] Jesus Christ.
- I don't think so, think so.
- All right.
- Look at all my fucking
creams and salves.
- You have a lot of creams and pills.
- It's all right, it's all
right, I'm sorry, all right here.
No, no, all right, I have them.
- Oh my god, can we use our own batteries?
- I'm going to.
- [Sam] Yes you can
use your own batteries.
- Yes bitch!
Can I say, that was really clever
and I think Grant should
be rewarded for that?
- Wow, as his competition,
that's really sweet, no.
Ready?
- Yep.
- [Rehka] This is stupid.
- [Production Designer] The
producer is cutting our budget,
it's destroying our art.
All the while he lines his own pockets.
- [P.A.] Maybe just don't
work with him again.
- [Production Designer] That's not enough.
No one in the town of
Hollywood, California
should have to work with him again.
- [P.A] If you don't mind me saying so,
that's a very suspicious thing to say.
- Okay.
- Now that was also way hot.
- This is also a pretty hot convo
between the P.D. and the P.A.
- That was really really hot.
- So this P.D., she hates the producer.
- [Grant] Mm-hmm.
- So why the fuck is she killing
Josh, who cares about Josh?
- [Grant] No one cares about Josh.
- [Rehka] Right, he's trash.
I mean I think it--
- Maybe, she's trying
to sabotage the producer
by having someone die on the set.
- Oh okay.
- [Grant] So that might be a motive.
- Okay, I'm gonna ask
the script supervisor
about the script.
- As script supervisor--
- Yes--
- God we get it.
- I am intimately familiar
with the script all right.
- [Rehka] Yes--
- And I confirm this script says,
"When a player takes center stage,
"the P.A. rushes out
and stabs that player."
The sound malfunction though,
that was not part of the script.
- Yes.
- Nope, Josh was not suppose to die.
And I should know, 'cause
I am script supervisor.
- You are hot on the trail.
- I would like to speak to the producer
about the production designer,
because I think that's something.
- All right look, the production designer
and I have had our differences but,
would she switch the knife
and have someone killed
just to end my career, either way,
that sounds like a motive.
- A motive have been established
and therefore, the production designer
is one of our official suspects.
(spooky piano music)
(Rehka screams)
- You may now ask the producer
about the microphones.
That is the only thing you are able to do.
- Oh I'll do that.
- So listen, I said to the sound mixer,
"The victim doesn't need a microphone
"he's gonna die as soon
as the game begins,
"he doesn't have any lines,
you don't have to mic him up."
- So we're all mic'd,
we didn't intend to die.
Are you mic'd, you're mic (mumbles).
- I'm mic'd, so the situation
here is that our sound mixer
wanted a bunch of microphones.
The producer didn't want to
give him all those microphones
because the victim shouldn't need one.
- So, sound mixer, the microphones.
- [Sound Mixer] Yeah?
- Tell me about those.
- What's the point of Game Changer right?
The players don't know what's going on,
so if I don't mic up the murder victim,
they're gonna know that
something smells funny,
and that's what happened.
Isn't that right, Grant?
(spooky piano music)
- Shut up.
- Grant came to me asking
why he wasn't mic'd up.
What was I suppose to tell him?
I told him the truth, I told
him that he was, you know,
gonna be the one that dies.
- I am mic'd, I am mic'd up.
- No this can't be against me!
- I am mic'd up, I am
mic'd up, I am mic'd up.
- I'll start crying.
- I'm mic'd up though, I am mic'd up.
- What's happening?
- You may now ask the script
supervisor about Grant.
- This is ridiculous, wait a minute.
- Shut up!
- I'm mic'd up!
- You've went to Tisch, I don't
know what you learned there.
- Not much!
- Okay script supervisor, tell me.
- As script supervisor.
- Oh.
- Grant approached me before the shoot.
- I didn't.
- Shut up.
- He said, "I should be the
killer, I can really ham it up,
"do a big dramatic monologue
once it's revealed."
He asked me to switch the script around.
He said "What's a little switcheroo?"
(spooky piano music)
- That's not, do a
better impression of me.
- You are using your appropriating
(mumbles) P.A.s language.
- What's a little switcheroo?
- I don't like this.
- And I told him no, I
am not a script changer.
I'm a script supervisor.
- I hate you.
- This is a red herring.
- I feel--
- This is a red herring, P.A.
- Well now that I think of it,
you did ask me about the knife earlier.
You wanted to see if it was safe,
but I told you that the dangerous knife
was in the returns box.
(spooky piano music)
- I know what you're thinking.
(laughs)
I know what you're thinking.
- What!?
- You think that I did it.
- Don't come near me.
- They did, they did it, they did a thing.
- I mean, look, we all know
that Grant is a total diva,
but would he A, switch the knife
B, take the batteries
out of Josh's microphone
so he could take center stage.
And C, get him killed just to
be able to play the villain
instead of the dead body
on an internet game show.
- There's something I can't figure out.
Why would the batteries have crapped out
so soon after I put 'em in.
I mean I just put 'em in,
unless somebody wanted them.
- Someone who has batteries in their bag.
Why did, I did wonder why
the fuck you brought your bag
to a podium dumbass.
- Grant, there is one option left
and it's to check Josh's
lav for batteries.
- You have to check the lav,
that's the only way I
know you're not terrible.
- She has a knife.
- I've got a knife.
- I'll check the lav.
- Please.
- Oh yeah there are batteries in there.
Wait wait wait wait wait.
- There's no batteries
you fucking shit head.
(cackles)
- We have reached the end of our journey.
Two suspects have been established.
The production designer.
(spooky piano music)
Or Grant O'Brien.
(spooky piano music)
You can now nominate
whoever you think did it.
- I think the production designer.
(gasps)
- [Sam] Rehka who?
- I think it's Grant.
- You understand that if I, if it was me.
- No, none of this.
- You are being Truman showed.
- I even asked.
- The narcissism that it would take.
- And the nerve, the nerve.
If I'm being Truman showed, the
nerve for nobody to tell me.
(intense music)
- You're right.
(spooky piano music)
- I was asked to play a dead body.
- You dumb bitch.
- And I was suppose to lay
on the floor for 20 minutes.
When I could have been
standing doing meta jokes.
The whole time, no, I went to Tisch.
- I know.
- The Tisch school of the arts.
- So did I!
What!?
- Give me that.
- This?
- Give it to me.
I was born to play the villain.
I am the love child between
the Grinch and Jared Kushner.
- Ugh.
- I am the greatest actor
Hollywood, California
has ever seen.
All right, you want to
see me play a dead body.
And you, and you, you'll get it.
I had my monologue, I'm ready.
There are no small
parts, only small actors.
Well I got the retractable one.
- And that's our show Rehka.
This was all for you.
- I hate this.
(clapping)
I hate it, you did Truman Show me.
- Your prize is this
beautiful, real chefs knife.
(screams)
Which the crew was so nervous
was going to be confused
for an actual knife on our
set given its meta content.
They made us seal this box.
This has been Game Changer,
I have been Sam Reich
reminding you that every
crime leads one way or another
back to Grant O'Brien, good night.
- Wow.
(crowd applauding)
- Stupid piece of shit,
you should have told me.