"I really don't remember where I got that number, sorry."

"Well, I will not require of you that you eat any cephalopods, certainly."

"I also won't eat monkeys but that has never come up."

"I don't think I've ever seen them on a menu, no."

"The Clue movie has a dinner of monkeys' brains, which turns out to be a plot point."

"Is it? I don't think I've seen that or heard Cricket summarize it, he watches a lot of movies but he's like. Five."

"It is but I guess that's kind of also a spoiler, I just lowkey expect you not to care about those. The reason it's a plot point is because it's so weird, though."

"I think good stories hold up even if you know the twists."

“One of the twists in the Clue movie is that it has three separate endings.”

"Huh, how's that work?"

“In the theaters they would play one at random, apparently. On the DVD I watched as a kid you could pick one or just do all three in sequence.”

"I should see if it's on Cricket's list, I bet he'll form a strong opinion about which ending is the best." Their stuffed artichoke appears.

“I suspect I know which one it is but maybe I’m just biased because I have a favorite.”

"Oh, what makes it better than the other two?"

She ticks off her fingers. “So in one ending Miss Scarlet does it, in one ending Mrs. Peacock does it, and in one ending everyone does it.”

"What, they're like, collaborating or they all by sheer coincidence simultaneously attempted -?"

“So the Clue movie opens with all the guests arriving and being issued their pseuonyms—the color-based names from the game. We never do learn any of their real names. Already present are Mr. Boddy, his butler, his cook, and his maid. By the time the movie is over, not only Mr. Boddy has been killed, but the cook, the maid, a stranded motorist who shows up asking to use the phone—this is an old movie, to be clear, from before cell phones—and a singing telegram girl. In the first two endings, the same person commits all the murders; in the third, everyone is killed by a different person. And the butler also dies.”

"...wow. That sounds hard to set up with all the motives making sense so if they did pull it off I'm guessing that's your favorite?"

“It is my favorite, but the motive angle was actually not that complicated. Mr. Boddy was blackmailing all the guests, and the other victims were his informants.”

"Oh, huh, why is it your favorite then?"

“Well, partly I don’t love the fact that of the two endings where one person does all the murder, both of them are women, when the suspect list is fifty-fifty. But mostly it’s for the bonus twist where in the third ending, the so-called butler turned out to have been the real Mr. Boddy the whole time, having instructed his actual butler to pretend to be him to the victims who had never met him in person before.”

"So when you say 'the butler also dies'..."

“Well, the real butler was the first victim. But the otherwise-butler who is in fact Mr. Boddy also dies, trying to escape when the FBI shows up.”

"In the other two endings he's in fact a butler and doesn't die?"

“Right!”