Michael Cyril Creighton is remaining tight-lipped about the Only Murders in the Building season 5 finale — but he did drop some hints.
“What I will say is, I’ve seen it, I’ve read it, I was there. I think it is surprising and satisfying and wild,” Creighton teased to Us Weekly during an exclusive interview. “There’s a lot that’s going to happen.”
Season 5 of the beloved Hulu show centers around sleuths Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) and Charles Haden-Savage (Steve Martin) investigating the death of Arconia’s doorman Lester. Along the way, the trio discovers that there’s more than one death in the case: Nicky (Bobby Cannavale) has also passed.
In the second-to-last episode of season 5, one major mystery is solved as fellow Arconia doorman Randall (Jermaine Fowler) revealed that Lester killed Nicky with an elevator crank after learning of plans to convert the building into a casino. With one piece of the puzzle now put into place, the jury is still out on who killed Lester.
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But it’s never a simple case; to complicate matters, there’s still questions surrounding a stolen finger and scuff marks left on the nearby floor — which Howard (Creighton) then realizes was created by someone on a motorized scooter. All fingers point to Nicky’s mom, Nonna (Elizabeth D’Onofrio) — and all praise from the trio is directed at Howard.
“To have Howard feel useful and have Howard have a win at the end, it felt great. It was wonderful,” Creighton gushed. “It’s so exciting that he is useful and helpful. He’s constantly trying to figure out what he’s good at every season — be it yodeling, be it documentary filmmaking, he’s tried it all. I think what he’s really good at is being the trio side kick, and he is more integral than he knows. That is really exciting that that’s what we take away at the end of episode nine.”
As the chapter begins to close on Only Murders in the Building season 5, Creighton already has visions of what he hopes for Howard in a potential next season.
“I want to see him win more,” Creighton said. “It was really fun to see him solve a clue. That smile we see at the end, when the trio was like, ‘You did it. You did it, you did it, Howard’ and how happy he is — it would be nice to see Howard happy. I don’t think we’ve seen him that happy. It would be nice to see him figure out what he’s good at, but it’s really fun to watch him struggle to find out.”
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Creighton, for his part, also has the blueprint for a hypothetical spinoff with Howard mapped out in his head.
“He’s traveling around country to country with his dog and he’s selling mysteries. Maybe every now and then the trio comes in for a little guest star,” Creighton said.
In Creighton’s mind, the initial vision was animated, but he noted that if Howard would be adventuring around the globe, he’d “like to do that” too. He quipped, “Let’s just keep those fingers crossed for years to come.”
The Only Murders in the Building season 5 finale airs on Hulu Tuesday, October 28.
