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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
FletcherVeyluu
Since: Dec, 2020

So, I have a memory of an episode of a show I watched sometime within the last couple years. Honestly it might actually be two different episodes of two different shows, but I'm not 100% sure of that. It's a murder mystery show, and the episode (I think it took place at an apartment complex) begins with an elderly woman in an elevator, which gets stuck between floors. She tries to climb out, but the elevator car falls as she's climbing out and cuts her in half, killing her. I remember there being a cat in the scene? I seem to remember a lot of the episode revolving around a memorial service for a woman who died there some time ago. In the end, it's revealed that the man who's been committing the murders is the woman's son, killing to avenge his mother, who was murdered in a common area of the apartment complex. Multiple people heard the murder, but did nothing to stop it (sort of a Kitty Genovese situation). The climax of the episode involves the protagonists held at gunpoint by him, trying to convince him to put down the gun. Oddly, I have two conflicting memories of this being a Psych episode and being a British TV series, but it can't be both, and it seems a bit too dark for Psych. I've tried Google and looked at a few elevator trope pages and came up blank. Any help would be extremely appreciated.