#Dickie Glenroy

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I don’t know if any of the showrunners actually scroll through tumblr, but if so—THANK YOU!!! Thank you for including Will and Dickie and Winnie in the wedding scene. Even if it was only 30 seconds, it was so important for them to be there.

And the scene with Charles and Sazz made me cry. He needs to spend his money from the movie rights to build her trampoline park.

[thetempleofthemasaigoddess]

I really hope we'll have Dickie back for Oliver and Loretta's wedding! If he walks her down the "aisle" my heart will burst 🥹

Oh! And Will! Will must be there as well, by Oliver's side!

Aaahh I can't wait!

[theguardianofmagic]

I’m SO glad Dickie and Will were at the wedding.

[dragonsareawesome123]

"Was there something you needed to say to me?"

Only Murders in the Building (2021-), 3x08 - "Sitzprobe"

[toyboy-molloy]

will and dickie at the wedding: haha guess we're brothers now

theo:

[kharjo-san]

Also, the reason Loretta was so GD nervous and distracted at the first table read in ep 1... She was literally staring across the room at Dickie, watching her son in person for the first time, while she should have been reading her line

She looks across the room at Dickie reading, then both Ben and Dickie look up at her in confusion, and she just smiles back cuz Dickie is looking at her

[ms-oswald]

But, you know, sometimes I think a person's just a... collection of a thousand little details. And when they're gone, those are the things you miss most. OMITB, S03E07

[columbocorners]

you know, going over to rewatch the third season of only murders in the building, the context of scenes with loretta make more sense right down to episode one because you immediately get why she is so nervous, it isn't because of the play, it's because of dickie.

[after-the-end-times]

Did Dickie even really know Ben?

Everything we learn about Ben from Dickie turned out to not be true?

Dickie: Ben stayed out every Thurs night to do drugs at a brothel

Reality: Ben had a sewing circle with 5 old ladies

Dickie: He had to cover up Ben's bloodwork cause he did hard drugs

Reality: Ben's Sewing Ladies said he sewed to stay off the hard drugs

I need to go back to the earlier eps, but I'm pretty sure hardly anything we're told about Ben is true in flashbacks?

[potterandpromises]

Charades

Will hosts a Christmas party for his newly rearranged family. At the end of the night, they play charades. Content warnings: Dinner Table Syndrome, discussion of adoption and family related trauma, and drug based humor. Also on AO3

“A robot,” Mabel guesses.

“The Tin Man," from Charles.

“Judy Garland after a long night out.”

Will breaks the no-speaking rule. "Dad."

“What? the kids already went to bed.”

Loretta clings to Oliver's arm. "I know this one! It’s the guy in Times Square who's always covered in metallic paint.”

Everyone except Theo nods in agreement.

"That's a good one," Dickie says.

“The prompt was,” Will pulls the piece of paper from his pocket, holds it out in Theo's direction, “Minecraft. I think Henry put that one in there.”

“Minecraft is a computer game,” Oliver explains. “It’s for the kids who yearn for the days of no child labor laws.”

"Speaking of kids in bed and, um, laws, should those of us who haven't drank too much eggnog and are willing to drive in the dark head out now or...?" Dickie lets his sentence trail off and Charles begins, slowly, to stand up.

“Theo hasn’t gotten a turn yet,” Will points out, literally. Charles slumps back in his seat.

Will had decided on charades for his Christmas party because the internet said it was deaf-friendly, but Theo hasn't participated much. He'd only thrown out two guesses, one correct, in nine rounds of the game, with Mabel interpreting much to everyone's confusion. Will’s not really sure why he thought charades would fix the communication barrier.

“How will we know he’s really playing fairly and not just signing?” Oliver asks, conspiratorial.

“It doesn’t really work like that,” Mabel says. “Most signs don't look like anything. They're just arbitrary.”

On the coffee table lies Charles’ fedora, sacrificed to hold the tiny scraps of paper they each wrote prompts on. Theo draws one out, raises an eyebrow, and walks to the center of the room.

“Walking… he’s walking into a room and closing the door,” Oliver narrates in his podcast voice.

“We can see that,” Dickie says, patiently.

Loretta looks at Oliver like his performance is worthy of a Tony.

“He’s locking the door. A lock! A bathroom! Mabel, how do I sign bathroom?”

Mabel doesn’t respond to that. Theo’s gaze shifts from Oliver and his wild but meaningless gesticulation to Mabel in the oversized armchair, and there it lingers.

He turns, mimes pulling something off a wall.

“It’s a trapped door!” Loretta exclaims.

“A locked secret room,” Charles mumbles.

“Theo.” Will waves to get his attention. “Is it, ah, a baby changing station?”

Theo bites his lip, unsure.

It occurs to Will, too late, that he could have, in the spirit of the game, mimed changing a diaper or even just holding a baby and Theo probably would have gotten it. Or he could have tried spelling it—he knows how to sign the alphabet, mostly.

He hadn’t actually planned to try and have a relationship with his half brother. He would have liked to have grown up with a sibling or two, sure, but as an adult he didn't feel like anything was missing. And he definitely didn't want any Dimas family drama—the Putnams bring enough of that as it is. But when Oliver told Loretta and Loretta told Dickie, he said to Will, very carefully and earnestly, that Will had only lived without knowing one half of his biological family for a year, whereas Dickie had lived with those unknowns for his whole life.

"Brothers can be…" he'd trailed off, sitting at the kitchen island across from Will. "I did love Ben but honestly it was a relief when he was gone. I'm not saying it'll be worth it, necessarily. It could be completely awful."

"Yeah, they're into some pretty shady stuff, or they were, and I don't really need anything from them, so."

Dickie was quiet for a long moment. "Reuniting with my mother has been one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. I don't know what I would have done if…"

"You might not think you need anything from them now, but it sucks going to the doctor and writing unknown for your family medical history," he said, voice raw. "When you really need that information, or your children do, you don't want it to be too late."

Will was, and still is, pretty sure that Theo isn’t a bad person. He can't say the same about Teddy. So, despite his misgivings, Will had reached out to Theo.

He hadn’t exactly been happy to be the last to know, but hadn’t held it against Will specifically. They text, mostly. Will still feels like he knows almost nothing about Theo. But when he asked about medical history, and Theo knew almost nothing, he showed Will a family tree a distant cousin in Greece had sent and translated what he could so Will could read it.

(He couldn't help but notice that on the chart, the younger Theodore Dimas didn't have a mother.)

(He didn't say anything.)

Theo touches the imaginary sides of the maybe-baby-changing-table, leans over, and audibly sniffs.

"I know—" Oliver leans over and whispers in Loretta’s ear.

Theo turns back to Mabel, by herself in the big armchair. She signs something without voicing and Theo signs back. Nobody else seems to notice.

Will turns at the sound of his wife’s footsteps. "Kids go down okay?"

"Henry tried to take his Switch to bed." She joins him on the loveseat.

Theo has fully stopped acting out the scene. Mabel is fingerspelling her guesses, or maybe they're just chatting. Nobody remembered to set a timer for the round.

“Do you think there's something going on there,” he murmurs to his wife, “between Theo and Mabel?"

She follows his gaze to the couple. "Didn't you say that he said there wasn't?"

"Yeah, after I assumed they were together because she slept over at his place."

She snorts. "I don't know your brother."

"Neither do I."

They let that hang in the air. Despite living in the same building, Theo and Will had been on very different paths their whole lives. While Will was taking A.P. Bio, looking ahead to collage and veterinary school, Theo was probably already pulling teeth out of corpses' mouths.

(They'd never talked about that directly. That little detail had come from Oliver.)

When they were kids, they played together while their dads talked business. It was just legos and video games, but Oliver had mindlessly, and in retrospect rather distastefully, praised Will for playing with Teddy's boy. As they got older, the communication gap became more apparent, at least for Will. Then their dads' relationship fractured and he barely thought of Theo at all until the podcast and everything that came after it.

"I don't get Mabel," his wife says, "why she's so close with two random old men."

Will doesn't really get it, either. He’s never had a real conversation with Mabel, and his opinions of her are jointly frozen in 'weird girl who breaks into apartments to do drugs' and 'my dad's podcast partner.' He'd invited her so Theo would have someone to talk to, and then Oliver invited Charles—had insisted Charles come, if Will has read between the lines correctly.

"It seems like it works for them."

She hums in agreement.

Oliver stands up. “Doing cocaine off a changing table in the bathroom at a Denny’s."

Theo frowns at him.

They all frown at him.

"I couldn't take it anymore." Oliver clenches his fists. "That's the prompt. Cocaine. Denny’s. Changing table."

”Denny’s?” Mabel asks, while fingerspelling the word.

Theo nods, jaw clenched and eyebrows raising to the ceiling. “He says he doesn’t get how he was supposed to show that part,” Mabel interprets.

“I wrote that one,” Oliver says.

“We know,” Charles and Mabel say at the exact same time.

“I didn’t want to spoil the fun too soon, but the wait was getting torturous."

Theo sits down next to Mabel in the armchair, sagging with exaggerated relief, hips pressed together. She watches him, and a smile tugs at the corners of her mouth.

“There is something there,” his wife says, in a whispered message disguised as a hug and a kiss on his cheek.

He kisses the crown of her hair, to really seal the illusion. "Yeah, there is."

Theo is, Will assumes based on his generally perturbed and disgusted expression, complaining to Mabel about the prompt, and she's nodding along, trying not to laugh. Theo said she isn't flaunt in ASL, but it seems like it's enough.

"Well, on that note," Dickie stands up, gaze searching for his coat, "I'm heading out. It was..." he pauses, "a really lovely party."

Will knows he means it. Nothing like his adoptive parents' stuffy house parties or the Hollywood parties he always attended in Ben's shadow. They exchange goodbyes and have-a-good-Christmases and then his gaze falls on Theo, who spent half the party checked out and on his phone.

After everyone leaves or else retreats to the guest bedroom, and all the dishes are washed, Will sits in the dark, googling.

"Hey baby, what do you think of ASL classes at the community center as a family Christmas present?"

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Am I the only one thinking that the mystery male arm in so many of Loretta’s pictures belongs to HER SON? You know, the adult one who’s also her showbiz manager, who might not want to be all over her instagram yet? No, Dickie never struck me as super buff last season, but we never saw him in short sleeves either.

And we got a reminder about Ben in the same episode Mystery Man turns up on Oliver’s radar.

Just saying.

[cytryndor]

Buckle up people, I’m about to tell you who’s this season’s killer

It’s Donna.

Why, you might ask? Nothing up to this point actually let to her, right? Wrong!

Have you ever seen that musical, The Producers?

The Producers’ plot is really simple. There’s this guy Max Bialystock, who - with help from this other guy, Leopold Bloom - scheme a plan of how to make 2 million dollars in profit from a total and utter disaster of a play. They think of this amazing five stages of a plan, which only the first two will be useful for us.

Step One: Find the worst play ever written.

Step Two: Find the worst director in town.

So, what does it mean for us?

Death Rattle (the play) is this ridiculous murder mystery where the main suspect is a baby. It’s, it’s just ridiculous, right? Step one speaks for itself.

Okay, but what about step two?

We know that there were at least two directors signed for this play: Jerry Blau and Oliver Putnam. Now, I’m not a critic, but I do have a feeling like both of them can be seen as a disasters just waiting to happen. We’re talking about people who are either a) living in the theater cause they’re broke and too proud to go back home, b) director of Splash! The Musical (2005). Like I said, not a critic, but doesn’t seem like a money making machine for me.

Okay, but what about it? It might as well be a coincidence that it fits, right? Wrong.

There are two real life people cameos in this season - opposed to last two ones, where we got just one per each. This time, we got this silly little guy, (who’s extremely talented and funny) Matthew Broderick, and this other silly guy (who’s more famous and more accomplished than any other star cameo in the series) Mel Brooks. What do they have to do with it, you might ask?

Well, it’s time to skip to the year of our lord 2001, and the Broadway premiere of The Producers, whom were written by silly guy number two, Mel Brooks. It had an amazing cast, everyone was so talented, and later nominated for Tony’s. One of which, was this silly guy number one, Matthew Broderick, for the role of Leo Bloom. Unfortunately, he lost in his category to his co-star, our own Teddy Dimas, Nathan Lane, who’s suspiciously absent from this season (sure, he was having some other, Broadway related play gig, but hey).

And you might say, okay, they got Broderick, and what? Well, let me tell you: not every show got a chance of Mel Brooks’ cameo. I mean, come on, Broderick has an incredible filmography and stage career, why The Producers out of all of them? Why Mel Brooks?

Okay, so you might ask now, if you’re still not convinced: what was her motive? What, was it money? That doesn’t make sense! And you’d be right. I think, that her motive was something far more important to her: Cliff, her son.

Up until last Tuesday I was convinced she wanted Death Rattle to fail. I mean, that was meant to be Cliff’s debut, and if it would turned out to be a hit, he would most probably leave her - or so she thought he would, so she poisoned the cookies, and left them for show’s biggest name, knowing Ben wouldn’t resist to try them.

But now I know, or at least suspect, that that’s not the case, thanks to one scene from this week’s episode.

While in the bathroom, Donna did said to Loretta, that a mother would do everything to protect her child; now, we were meant to be focused on Loretta and her struggle, but what if there’s more to that scene? What if she wanted her son to succeed, and the show to be a hit, but sensed that Ben Glenroy was a threat to not even her, but her baby, and his Broadway debut?

This week’s episode was about mother who was able to confess to a crime she didn’t commit, just so she could protect her baby. I think that this seasons murderer is a mother, who committed said crime, just so she could protect her baby.

[thetempleofthemasaigoddess]

I just watched episode five of OMITB, and I suddenly realised Oliver never considered the possibility that the arm hugging Loretta was Dickie's; I mean, he's her son, and her manager, and maybe he has started going to the gym.

[theodimasbabygirl]

Finding out Dickie is adopted basically confirms that Loretta is his bio mom right???

[jerzwriter]

OMITB... My guess...

Donna did the poisoning, but she did not end up killing Ben. The killer is Cliff.

I think Ben knew he was poisoned. Since he was fasting in advance of the play, the only thing he ate was the cookie, so he knows that's the source. While it was Cliff who offered him the cookies at the door, he mentioned that his mother ordered them. Then, there is one cookie waiting for him in his dressing room.

Ben confronts Donna, maybe he even has proof that it was Donna, and Cliff comes to her defense. He pushes Ben down the elevator shaft to protect his mother from going to jail for poisoning Ben.

Or... perhaps he was just stressed out and did his "anxiety dance" and accidentally knocked Ben into the elevator shaft.

Somehow, it's a mother/son tag team.

My second guess... it was Dickie.

Relieved that O/M/C has found Dickie "innocent," Loretta recants her confession. It's proven she couldn't have poisoned Ben, and she is released. She's eager to have a mother/son reunion, only to arrive at the Arconia to see Dickie being led away in handcuffs after all. That is angst worthy of our Queen Meryl

He was driven mad because he thought he was finally rid of Ben, and then he had the audacity to "come back." That's why he told Loretta "You understand."

So those are my guesses...

@icecoffee90, what do you think?

[themortifyingordealofbeingloved]

whoever cast dickie and loretta the way they did deserves the biggest raise