Only Murders in the Building Season 3, Episode 5: Why aren't we talking about Dickie Glenroy?

Another rivetting week of Only Murders in the Building Season 3 comes to an end with half of the season now out of the way. Interestingly, the five episodes so far have had very little to do with podcasting but more with the trio's personal lives, with Oliver Putnam's budding romance with Loretta getting a lot of the focus. 

Things are shaping up well for Mabel as well who seems to have found her current accomplice/investigation partner Tobert worthy of a possible fling/relationship. Charles-Haden Savage, on the other hand, continues to fumble in this regard as he causes a strain in his relationship with Joy when he lets her know unwittingly that he does, indeed, suspect her to be part of Ben Glenroy's death.

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Is Loretta the prime suspect?

Of course, at this particular juncture, we have got not one but multiple suspects to reckon with and you could also expect some of the more unassuming ones to gain notoriety over the remaining episodes. Tobert seems to fit into this bracket and so does Jonathan (the boyfriend of Howard, Putnam's assistant and Ben's understudy) but the writers are keen on building the mystique around Loretta Durkin (played by Meryl Streep).

As much as episode #5, Ah, Love!, is centred on the dinner date between Loretta and Oliver, the episode also casts a spotlight on the former's uncanny living style as we are slowly handheld into her murky and dubious past. We see Loretta tell Oliver that Ben, minutes ahead of the fateful opening night, attacked her because the CoBro superstar thought she was obsessed with him. She, however, vehemently declines that being the case but when Oliver accidentally lands upon a few relics of her past in her apartment, he does learn that his new girlfriend is lying!

Loretta Gurkin is, and was, indeed, obsessed with Ben Glenroy and this is proven by the huge pile of newspaper cutouts, pictures and other memorabilia she has collected over the years.

Why is Dickie Glenroy an important piece of the puzzle?

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As much as Tobert, Jonathan, Joy, Kimber and of course, Loretta, are significant elements of this quest, one must also not forget that Dickie Glenroy (Jeremy Shamos) lurks in the shadows as well. Dickie is Ben Glenroy's brother, manager and the sponge to his endless tyranny so there is a huge motive, as it were, for him to kill Ben. Also, the fact that he immediately sided with Loretta by becoming her manager/representation also seems quite fishy, if you ask us. Will it be a brotherly murder this time? Or a troika of female killers?