History Headscratchers / Clue

** Amusingly, there ''is'' a bathroom in TheMovie, and it's even a plot point (being where Boddy's body is hidden). There's also a gag where Wadsworth accidentally soaks himself in the shower, having mistaken its knob for a doorknob in the dark.

** Amusingly, there ''is'' a bathroom in TheMovie, and it's even a plot point (being where Boddy's body is hidden).

** FWIW, it was the ''cop'' who answered the call from J. Edgar Hoover, not Wadsworth.

** The '''real''' question is, why didn't he come clean with the ''police officer'' while the two of them were alone in the dining room? Between the pair of them, they could've taken all the suspects into custody, prevented the last three murders, ''and'' taken [[spoiler: Wadsworth]] alive.

** He ''did'' have back-up on the way. All those feds and cops who arrive at the end weren't there for no reason; it was just a question of waiting until they'd taken up positions surrounding Hill House. Breaking cover prior to that wouldn't cause his fellow agents to arrive any faster, and could still afford him the chance to figure out who the killer was.

* In book 6, chapter 6 ("Caught Blue-Handed"), Boddy stores his collection of rare and priceless ballroom dance records in a cabinet in the Ball Room, and then locks the doors, which the guest find out about and promptly go to a lot of effort to try and steal them. However, the solution reveals that they're not actually worth a dime. So why go to all the effort of hiding them?

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** I have to assume this is sarcasm, since the answer is spelled out in the movie (and on the main page) but for the sake of completion: one shot fired at Boddy in the study, one hit the chandelier by accident, two at the lounge door, one for the singing telegram girl. And then the last one gets the second chandelier in the first ending only and is fired (but misses [[spoiler:Green]]) in the third ending.

** It's not a closet, it's a walk-in freezer. It's possible the killer dragged her in there while she was dying. Perhaps the killer dragger her in there and *then* stabbed her. Or perhaps the killer waited until she was already in there, for whatever reason, and killed her then. Also, Peacock and Mustard alone are able to hold the cook's body upright during the fake dance scene, so it's not that one person *couldn't* carry her, but it was easier for four to do it, especially to pick her up off the floor.

*** 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 them, 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...

** It seems to be a combination of Mr. Boddy's childish naivity when it comes to his friends (one story has him thrilled to have the company of several of his friends, and then some time later wonders why they broke in through the window in the middle of the night) and them having just enough PetTheDog moments to be likable.

* In book 6, chapter 2, it's said that a demolition crew came and planted a huge bomb in one of the nine downstairs rooms so the mansion could be blown up the next day to make way for a huge golf course, leaving a message for Mr. Boddy with one of his guests on their way out to let him know that he had a day to clear out. And yet, Boddy was completely unaware of this until he heard about it from an article in the newspaper. ''How in the heck'' did whomever was responsible for this get away with it? Because even if the laws of eminent domain came into play, they should have notified the land's owner well in advance of the whole thing, and it's clear that never happened.

*** MoneyDearBoy. It has been mentioned that they're all in his will

** 1. The cop ''was'' invited. Wadsworth said that everyone had been invited there. He wore his uniform perhaps because he was uncertain what would happen and a uniform is really a cop's best (psychological) weapon. Really, who's to say? 2. "They" was the people who had seen the photo of Yvette as a prostitute, ''in flagrante delecto'' with Col. Mustard. 3. Whether there is a "real" ending depends on what version you watch, but in that ''particular'' ending Wadsworth obviously found it to his advantage not to be the actual killer of anyone, in case there was legal trouble.

*** Except that [[spoiler: both Professor Plum and Mrs. Peacock]] are in the kitchen with the others in the beginning of the scene where the cook's corpse is found. So either the killer used the secret passage while most everyone else was gathered around the cook, or just slipped out of the kitchen and hurried back to the study. The latter scenario might be simpler and less risky than going through the secret passage, except Wadsworth never says anything about Mr. Boddy's murder in the second and third endings that contradicts what he says about it during TheSummation, so the murderer must have used the kitchen/study passage. Perhaps everyone was too distracted by the cook's body to notice the killer going into the secret passage (it's worth mentioning that the conservatory/lounge passage opens without making a sound during the scene where the motorist is killed, presumably because he's too focused on his phone call to notice any noise being made), but my question of how [[spoiler: Professor Plum]] knew about the passage still stands.

** Communication with the outside world has largely been cut,