Eve
I think my boyfriend is trying to poison me.
Eve
The weird symptoms happened again.
Eve
I woke up with a horrible headache.
Eve
I’m trying to write my book…
Eve
But my hands are too weak and shaky…
Eve
And I’m too nauseous to eat.
Eve
The weirdest part is…
Eve
I woke up with no memory of going to bed last night!
Bri
But what makes you think that Dan is trying to poison you?
Eve
This only ever happens when he sleeps over!
Eve
And every time it’s happened…
Eve
He’s made me dinner the night before.
Eve
And he’s REALLY insistent that I eat, even when I’m not hungry!
Bri
Can I be honest with you, Eve?
Eve
You’re my best friend.
Bri
None of that screams SOMEONE IS TRYING TO POISON ME.
Bri
You’ve been staying up late every night working on your novel!
Bri
I know you’re excited this book might be it…
Bri
“The One” that finally gets published!
Bri
But sleeping 3 hours a night isn’t good for you.
Bri
Sounds like you‘re suffering from sleep deprivation.
Eve
I’ve pulled all nighters before, Bri.
Bri
Let’s pretend you’ve been poisoned…
Bri
Why would Dan do this?
Bri
You two have a great relationship!
Eve
It hasn’t been so great lately.
Eve
Every time Dan comes over we end up arguing ☹️
Eve
He doesn’t respect my writing at all.
Eve
You know what he said yesterday?
Eve
That my “little hobby” is taking over my life.
Eve
I mean, know I haven’t made money off my writing yet…
Eve
But you’d think my own boyfriend would believe in me!
Bri
I think this book is completely brilliant.
Bri
You know I’ve never been a huge fan of Dan, but…
Bri
I’m sorry to hear things haven’t been great with him lately.
Bri
But to play devil’s advocate…
Bri
Let’s say he wanted to get rid of you.
Bri
Couldn’t he just dump you?
Bri
What does he have to gain by killing you?
Bri
I mean, you’re not wealthy.
Eve
He would know what poison to give me.
Eve
AND he has access to drugs at the hospital.
Bri
But WHY would he do it?
Eve
Who knows why people kill, Bri?
Eve
Maybe he’s secretly an evil freak.
Eve
I’m always sick when he leaves.
Bri
This sounds like the plot out of one of your books.
Eve
I KNOW it sounds crazy.
Eve
That’s why I never said anything the first 3 times it happened.
Eve
But it’s too big of a coincidence!
Eve
I won’t take action on this until I have evidence.
Eve
I just need to think of a good way to catch him.
Bri
I’m worried about you right now, Eve…
Bri
When was the last time you had something to eat?
Eve
Last night, when Dan made me dinner.
Eve
I can’t trust any food in this house right now.
Eve
It could all be tainted!
Bri
I really think you should go see your doctor.
Eve
That’s what Dan said too…
Bri
Would he say that if he were trying to poison you?
Eve
It would be a good cover.
Eve
I will see my doctor!
Eve
I can get her to look for poison in my blood stream.
Eve
Then I can take that evidence to the cops!
Bri
Just be careful, Eve.
Bri
Let me know what happens!
Eve
My blood tests came back…
Eve
And they’re positive for CYANIDE!
Bri
I am SO SORRY I doubted you, Eve!
Bri
What are you going to do now?
Bri
Are you going to call the cops?
Eve
This just proves that SOMEONE was trying to poison me.
Eve
Not that DAN tried to poison me.
Eve
He could argue I was doing this to myself!
Eve
I need airtight evidence so that he goes to jail for a long time.
Bri
This sounds dangerous…
Eve goes through her house hiding the “nanny cams” she got from a local spy store.
And invites him over to watch a movie.
He offers to make her dinner.
But she just moves the food around her plate.
And occasionally takes bites that she stores in her cheeks.
When she goes to the bathroom…
She spits out the food into a plastic bag.
She’ll take that to her doctor tomorrow so it can be tested for cyanide.
But before Eve can hide the bag of chewed up food…
Eve freezes with the bag of food still clutched in her hand.
Dan
What’s going on, Eve?
Dan
Your chewed up dinner inside that bag?
She’s trapped in this bathroom.
And Dan knows she’s on to him!
Dan
If you didn’t like my cooking…
Dan
You could have just said so!
Eve
I think we both know what this is really about, Dan.
Eve
Don’t play dumb with me.
Eve
I have blood tests to prove it!
Dan
Seriously, is this a joke?
Eve
You put cyanide in my food, Dan.
Dan
All that writing has officially made you crazy.
Dan
Good luck with your book.
With that, Dan grabs his jacket and leaves.
Eve races to lock the door behind him…
Then frantically types out a text to Bri.
Eve
Dan knows I’m on to him.
Eve
I’m scared he’ll come back.
Eve
Let yourself in with your key.
Eve
I have something I need to do.
Bri arrives at Eve’s house.
She finds Eve in her office, bent over her computer.
Bri
Thought you might need this.
She waggles a bottle of wine at Eve.
Eve
You know me too well.
Eve
I’m bringing up the nanny cam footage.
Bri
What are you talking about?
Eve
I set up hidden cameras to catch Dan in the act.
Eve tells Bri what happened with Dan in the bathroom.
Bri
Why didn’t you call the police?
Eve
Because without this footage, it’s just my word against his.
Eve
He’ll just say I’m poisoning myself!
Eve
Or that someone else did it.
Eve
So I need to find the moment he put the poison in.
Eve
With that, my blood tests, and the tainted dinner he tried to feed me…
Eve
I’ll have enough evidence to convince any jury that Dan was poisoning me.
Bri
Wow. That’s really smart, Eve.
Eve and Bri watch the videos of Dan cooking dinner on Eve's computer screen.
They watch the whole 2 hours of footage over the bottle of wine…
He doesn’t slip anything in her food…
He acts like a totally normal, doting boyfriend.
Eve
Maybe something tipped him off?
Bri
Maybe he saw your text messages to me?
She’s suddenly very woozy.
She can’t seem to finish her sentence.
Eve looks at her empty glass of wine.
The wine that Bri brought over for them to share.
Bri’s glass is still full.
Did Bri even drink the wine?
The puzzle pieces start to click together.
Bri
Took you long enough to figure it out.
Bri slides the keyboard over and begins typing.
The wine glass slips from Eve’s fingers and thumps quietly to the carpet.
Eve
You w-w-wwon’t get away with th-th-this.
Bri
Your texted me about your suspicions.
Bri
You even told your doctor you thought Dan was trying to poison you.
Bri
Dan was over for dinner tonight.
Bri
He cooked for you, as always.
Bri
And like you said before…
Bri
As a doctor, he would know what drugs to give you…
Bri
He was the perfect person to pin this on.
Bri
Now I just have to get rid of these pesky nanny cam videos that show he’s innocent.
Then smiles at the computer screen.
Bri
Voila! They’re deleted.
Eve can barely move her mouth…
But she manages to get out one word.
In the corner of the office, Eve’s printer flares to life.
Pages upon pages begin shooting out of the printer.
Bri
You were right about your book, Eve.
Bri
Or should I say, about MY book.
Bri
It’s going to be the biggest bestseller the world has ever seen.
