History Headscratchers / Clue

** I was always bothered by the cop's presence myself. The only answer I can come up with (and it's rather lame) is that [[spoiler:Wadsworth, Miss Scarlet, or Mr. Boddy]] somehow arranged for him to be transferred temporarily from the Washington police force to one in New England so that he could be out driving that night to discover the motorist's car. [[spoiler:Wadsworth/Mr. Boddy]] is TheChessmaster and so could have pulled that off, but it still seems incredibly contrived and unbelievable. But then this is after all [[BellisariosMaxim just a zany]] [[MST3KMantra screwball comedy]]. On point two, the "they" would likely be Colonel Mustard and whichever woman she wasn't talking to depending on the ending, since they both knew her (Miss Scarlet quite well), and she was expecting to meet Miss Scarlet. [[spoiler:In the ending where Miss Scarlet did it, she obviously wasn't expecting her employer to kill her.]] Admittedly this makes more sense if she was talking to Mrs. White, since it would hardly seem the case (were she talking to Miss Scarlet) that Mrs. White would know every inch of her body. (Unless she'd caught Yvette with her husband and got an eyeful?) Third question is easiest to answer: [[spoiler:he wanted them to kill the informants so that he could keep blackmailing them while his own hands stayed clean. As he himself said "Now there is no evidence against me."]]

** If you don't know where or how it was done, claiming to know who did it would ring kind of hollow.

**** That's what I always considered to be the answer too. However, there is one other point to consider, which could either support or undermine your case: [[spoiler:the scene in the study where all the guests are revealing their secrets. When the time comes for Mr. Green to be unmasked, he pre-empts TheReveal from Wadsworth and states his homosexuality. After this, we see a scene of Wadsworth staring bug-eyed at the letter from Mr. Boddy and then, it appears, ''shifting the relevant page underneath the stack, unread''.]] While in the first two endings this makes sense, because Wadsworth may not have known all the secrets (being both a butler and an FBI agent) and Mr. Green really was gay in then, in the third ending [[spoiler:you would think Mr. Boddy would know better than to shift the page aside unread, ''especially'' if he didn't actually know all the secrets firsthand nor had met his victims face-to-face. Nor does he seem the type to be that appalled or startled by such a secret.]] So either [[spoiler:Mr. Boddy was feigning his shock in order to fool his victims, knew about the secret, but had been fooled himself into believing Green was the genuine article]], or [[spoiler:he hadn't yet been told what the secret was by Green's informant (the Jehovah's Witness, since as Green's boss he would know him and Wadsworth didn't seem surprised by his appearance in any of the endings?), and the information was so shocking he moved the page aside unread, thus being fooled because he didn't bother to check the credentials.]] The latter hardly seems in character, unless he's just that arrogant, so it must have been the former...

** This also applies to Mrs. Peacock in the second and third endings--how did she know of the passage from the study so she could kill the cook? It is implied that Yvette knew the house and all the passages in it to inform Miss Scarlet (and she in turn learned it from [[spoiler:Wadsworth/Mr. Boddy]], no matter which ending), so she could have told Colonel Mustard. But Mrs. Peacock had no connection to the maid...

** This also applies to Mrs. Peacock in the second and third endings--how did she know of the passage from the study so she could kill the cook? It is implied that Yvette knew the house and all the passages in it to inform Miss Scarlet (and she in turn learned it from [[spoiler:Wadsworth/Mr. Boddy, no matter which ending), so she could have told Colonel Mustard. But Mrs. Peacock had no connection to the maid...

***** Also, in all cases the murder of the cop makes no sense. When Wadsworth uses his key to lock the Cop in the library for the second time, he puts the key back in his pocket. However, later on in the film, the door to the Library is unlocked from the outside and the Cop is shortly after killed by either Miss Scarlet or Mrs. Peacock, depending on who the murderer was in the different endings. However, nobody stole Wadsworth's key before the guests split up into pairs to search Hill House again, Wadsworth never mentions that the key was stolen from his pocket to unlock the Library door when he takes the guests through the events of the evening step by step, and it is never said that Yvette had a key to unlock the rooms of the house. It would be impossible for the murderer to unlock and open the door to enter the Library.]]

** [[Main/IWannaBeTheGuy Maybe he explodes when something touches him]]

** You'd allow a kindergartner to do that? :O

**** Bingo. The original was a classic. This modern version is tacky now and is going to be much tackier later. Even if they did a modern version, it could have been done much better.

** But we've no proof that Wadsworth would have let them leave after revealing himself -- well, at leat not Mr. Green. Remember, the FBI call in the third ending was for Green, but ''Wadsworth'' took the call. Even if the caller was careful in what he said, Wadsworth was obviously keen to Green's cover ('''Green:''' 'I was going to expose you." '''Wadsworth:''' "I know.") and could have shot Green on his way out, or more likely staged some other accident.

* It bugs me that the article is on the movie and not the board game. Not that I don't mind that one is made, but I have no idea what tropes are in the board game version and yet I want the board game version made. :(
** Maybe you can make a request on the forum somewhere?
** The page was made before we started chronicling board games. C'est la vie.
** Maybe someone could split the page into 3 sections: the movie, the board game, and the VHS games.