MxDisney 22 | Bonus Round | The Culprit
WARNING: Blood, offscreen death
SONG: "Curses" - The Crane Wives
(Reuploaded to fix error)
PLOT: Mary-Lu wakes up in a prison cell, as you do. Arya is also locked up, as well as the other tributes. A guard takes Mary-Lu to the person responsible - Pips. He's royally pissed (ha) that one of his kin was found dead at his party and is convinced one of his human guests was responsible. Mary-Lu asserts her innocence, and that she doesn't have any idea who could have killed her. Then Pips brings out the knife she gave to Arya, which his guards confiscated from her. He tells Mary-Lu she's a woman who would do whatever it took to survive and tries to wheedle her into giving up her name. Mary-Lu refuses to believe Arya is a killer...but the seeds of doubt are planted. When Pips demands she give some kind of name, Arya mentally cycles through some tributes she could throw under the bus, but can't go through with it. Despite everything she's endured, she's beginning to form a conscience. She then tells Pips that Li did it, but he's already dead. Unfortunately, it's not enough to save everyone. Pips chooses to punish young Anakin ("An eye for an eye, as the saying goes.") In his final moments, Anakin confesses that he's the feared assassin known as The Executioner, and warns his fellow tributes to be careful of who they trust as nothing is what it seems; words that suddenly hit very close to home for Mary-Lu...