Ms. Scarlet, Col. Mustard, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, and Prof. Plum all arrive at Boddy mansion for the deceased Mr. Boddy's will reading. Mrs. White is the maid, and she hands out wine in the opening scene. Monsieur Brunette arrives shortly after the other guests; he is Mr. Boddy's lawyer, come to read the will. Madam Rose, Mr. Boddy's sister, greets him and shows him to the library, where the other guests are awaiting him. Ms. Peach, a stranger, and Sgt. Gray, a police officer, arrive unexpectedly after M. Brunette. They tell the guests that the bridge to the nearest town has been washed out, so they are all stranded at the mansion.
Mr. Boddy's will is read. It states that whoever witnesses the reading of the will, and lives longest out of that group, will receive Mr. Boddy's estate. The request is declared absurd by the guests, since it is obviously meant to tempt them to kill each other. Despite this declaration, the guests plan to kill each other off anyway.
After the will reading, the guests come to help Mrs. White prepare supper in the kitchen. In this scene, we find out a common secret between Mrs. White and Sgt. Gray: they are colourblind. This makes one wonder about their relationship [hint hint]. We catch Ms. Peach pouring poison into the salt shaker (claiming it is in fact salt), and Mrs. Peacock dumps poison into the white wine. When she is nearly caught by Ms. Peach, Peacock distracts her by pointing to the window and exclaiming, "What's that? I see something there! Something there, by the window!"
The guests sit down to dinner, which never actually gets eaten. Mustard poisons the soup, and Peach and Peacock continuously offer around the substances they had poisoned. Scarlet poisons the red wine, and a game of trading plates begins when some plates of meat are poisoned.
After dinner, Sgt. Gray gets a nasty bash on the head when he trips over Rose's teddy bear and accuses it of trying to murder him. At this stage, the guests are all suspicious of each other and try frantically to poison one another. At the end of the scene, the guests all start fighting with blunt weapons.
The fight breaks up, and Madam Rose burns the will, insisting that if it survives, no one will be alive for her seance to contact Mr. Boddy's spirit. This angers the guests, until they discover that an old will, which is hidden "somewhere around the house", is now valid.
"I came as soon as I could. Ve shouldn't be seen togezer." Rose is chatting with her teddy bear about how she plans to murder all the guests. Plum, Green, Peach, and Gray, meanwhile, begin the search for the old will, and Peach finds out about Gray's colourblindness. Meanwhile, we make a discovery about Brunette's relation to Peach.
While looking for the new will, Green and Plum discover Mrs. White's diary, which contains all of the secrets of the guests. Meanwhile, White has an interesting dream about Mr. Boddy. The new will is found, and another interesting Codicil is attached.
During Madam Rose's seance in the dining room, Mrs. Peacock's dead husbands' spirits accuse her of killing them. After Peacock runs from the room, a fight breaks out when the candlestick elevates by itself.
Once again, the guests' fight is resolved. Ms. Peach burns the second will, accusing everyone of trying to murder her. Green and Plum attempt to blackmail everyone with Mrs. White's diary, but nobody pays them any attention. The third will is found and read, explaining that the fortune will go to the person who can unearth the most secrets about the other guests.
White ironically only now discovers her diary missing; she throws a tantrum and threatens everyone with the knife. Scarlet seduces Plum in an attempt to try to steal his poison formula. Also, the guests discover that Sgt. Gray is actually an escaped convict when they hear a news bulletin.
The guests learn Peach's secret when they barricade themselves against Sgt. Gray in the dining room. She is a fake, as we have known all along, and Monsieur Brunette who we thought was her father, turns out to have lied to her. He is actually her foster parent. When this is learnt, Peach explains to everyone that Gray is Boddy's child, not her, she simply tried to rip him off of the inheritence.
The guests' secrets all come out in this scene, which places no one at an advantage to another, since everyone knows something about everyone else. White steals her diary back from Green, who the guests discover to be an underworld mobster. Green tells the guests Plum's secret -- he murdered Mr. Boddy's second child, a daughter, who was his wife. Mrs. Peacock is caught stealing, but this is only one of her secrets; the other, of course, is her habit of murdering her husbands. Scarlet turns out to be a spy, and Mustard has a magnetic metal plate in his head.
After the guests' barricade is broken, an enormous fight breaks out amongst the guests. They never discover who killed Mr. Boddy, nor is an heir ever found. The Boddy family trait, insanity (which is clearly illustrated by Sgt. Gray and Madam Rose) is demonstrated greatest by Mr. Boddy himself, through his mischevious wills.
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