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Premise
Initially, the contestants were given a list of 15 suspects who were "townspeople" played by actors. A large number of improvisational actors were stationed around the real-life town, and their job was to provide clues (useful and not useful) to the contestants. Each week, the contestants were sent out on varying missions around the town in order to discover clues to eliminate suspects. Additionally, the murderer would strike again, eliminating suspects as well. At the end of each episode, two contestants would be sent out to two different remote locations completely alone, with their movements recorded only by a head-mounted camera. One of the contestants would discover a further clue to the mystery, whereas the other one would be eliminated from the show as a "murder" victim, with their last seconds seen through the eyes of the "killer" in the manner of classical slasher films like Psycho. StoryThe game started out with the mysterious murder of a family known as the Flints, which the contestants would base their investigation on. It soon turned out there was much more to this case when suspects started to turn up dead. The solution to the mystery involved the discovery that the members of a local family had been murdered together in 1941 just after the Pearl Harbor Attack because they had stumbled onto a town's secret involving illegal liquor smuggling from Canada. The murder had been committed with the assent of many of the town's leaders, who met in a secret lodge, a society called "The Order of the Scarlet Lupin". The family had been bound in a room together, and the room was set on fire.
He turned out to be suspect William Lambert, a business partner of the late Nate Flint and a common target of suspicion (although all initial theories about him turned out to be irrelevant). At the end of the series, the remaining contestants chased him down before he was able to complete his final murder. The fictional chief of police chased him up a flight of stairs and shot him, sending him falling to his "death" out a window. Season finaleThe final episode aired on Tuesday, September 4, 2001. The contestant who solved the final mystery by identifying the "murderer", and therefore won the prize money, was Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., a firefighter from New York City. One week later, Juarbe was killed in the World Trade Center Collapse on September 11, 2001. His death was noted by many viewers of the show who did not personally know any victims of the attacks, as it gave them some emotional connection to it. CancelationAlthough critically acclaimed, the series did not achieve strong ratings and was not renewed by FOX. The format was sold to the BBC who made a British version (with slight amendments to the rules) in 2003 under the name The Murder Game. Ratings were judged poor and the program was not a critical success. ControversyA running coincidence throughout the show's run was that Kristin had burnt bridges with almost all of the contestants, so she was continuously voted out to play the killer's game (with a 50% chance of returning home). She was sent out a total of 6 times out of the 7 that she was on the show. She returned everytime until her final departure at the "Sunrise Junkyard" (which was actually filmed in Meddybemps, Maine, a neighboring town of Eastport). She also had furious clashes with fellow investigator Stacey, up to the point where Stacey and Kristen were both sent out together in Episode 4, in which Kristen eventually returned. CastContestants
Murder SuspectsIn order from first to last of being cleared and listed with their occupation.
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