Psych

In English class we watch Psych's first episode: Pilot. There we got to look for more elements of a mystery.

Crime: There was a fake kidnapping (they didn't know that until later) and a real murder.

Detectives: Sean and Gus.

Villain: Mr. McCallum

Victim: Mr. McCallum's son

Suspect: Mr. McCallum and the relative (son's accomplice for fake kidnapping)

Alibi: Mr. McCallum saying that his cut came from him trying to commit suicide because he missed his son so much and was sad when he went missing.

Witness: Son's dog.

Evidence: The bodies of the son and relative, the blood and piece of hair on the corner of the table, gun in the relatives hand, coffee mug on the floor, the bag where the ransom money was placed.

Clues: Dog's whiskers covered in blood, Mr. McCallum's sliced wrist, Medication recently prescripted for dog bites.

Red Herring: Katarina holding the same looking bag where the ransom money was placed filled with clothes for the thrift shop.

Suspense: When Sean explained everything to Mr. McCallum.

Surprise Ending: Mr. McCallum was the killer of his own son and relative.

Elements of a mystery. :)

Every mystery has a crime and the crime could be anything. Except the crime usually has a motive. So this picture shows that a crime has happened and that is why they put the tape to prevent people from going there.

Every crime also has an investigator or detective who solves the crime so this picture shows a detective with his magnifying glass ready to solve a crime.

ALL mysteries have villains or as some people call them bad guys. They are always there to start up the crime and do something wrong. Something illegal of course. That's why I picked this picture because he looks like a classic villain.

Every crime has evidence and in the case of this crime the evidence is a knife. The knife is a classic murder weapon because many murders include stabbing with some sort of knife.

Every mystery also has clues. Clues are the things that lead the investigator closer towards figuring out the crime. Sometimes the clues bring suspense to the audience for example the picture of footprints on the floor and they're marked there with blood.

Every crime always has a red herring. A red herring is something that throws an investigator the wrong way or further from solving the crime.

Monk !! :]

In english class we are doing an elements of a mystery unit so we watched MONK. We got the chance to see the elements of a mystery and the mystery was MONK and the voodoo curse.

It was interesting because there was only one crime even though three died and they suspected the owner of the voodoo shop was the murderer. There were also alibis but one of the alibis was a little bit hidden because no one really paid attention to it. Although the REAL victim of this crime was a man who was the uncle of a paramedic who works with a cellphone company. Anyway there was also a red herring in this mystery which were the two other victims (this is where the confusion clears up). The two other victims were an old woman named Martha (who was the first to die) and this other man (second to die) another red herring was that the killer made a voodoo doll for monks assistant/secretary to try and get monk distracted because he cared about her so much (her name was Natalie). There were many clues for example: when monk was at the uncles house he started looking around and realized that they had an upside down horseshoe above their door (upside down: all the luck falls out). All the clues led to the killer (of course) with the evidence which were the voodoo dolls. The old woman and the man were killed just by accident and the paramedic (ding!) was always there at every crime to try and revive each victim (do you get it ? The paramedic: the uncles niece, connection).

Near the end there was a car chase and monk suddenly put all of the pieces together and figured out the crime. The two murders before the uncle were just accidents and Angeline (the niece) sent an empty box to herself earlier and just waited until there was the right accident then she'd paste a new name on the box, decorate a voodoo doll, put it in the box, break into the person's house and placed it there making it look like it was sent 3 days or a week earlier because of the post mark. Then she murdered her uncle to get his money. She pretended he had a heart attack when all along she used an invisible drug to kill him and put lucky charms all over his house to make him look superstitious then when monk arrived she told him that she was upstairs and all of a sudden heard him scream and ran down to find him dead from a heart attack (the alibi that was a little hidden).

So in the end that was all cleared and we learned the elements of a mystery:

• Crime : murder of the uncle
• Problem solver/Investigator : Monk
• Villain/Bad guy/girl : Angeline (niece of uncle)
• Alibis : Angeline saying she was upstairs
• Suspects : Shop owner (but before the movie ended they prove he's innocent)
• Red Herring : other people that were murdered
• Evidence : voodoo dolls
• Clues : Angeline was at every crime scene (because she was a paramedic)
• Steps/Procedures : Monk arrives at the crime then the police and him investigate
• Surprise Ending : It was Angeline all along.