"Scotty Bristol, is a successful late-night host/miserable human being played by outgoing host of The Late Show and national treasure Stephen Colbert. Scotty is a real prince: He's nasty and ungracious to his staff, doesn't bother to prepare for interviews with his guests, and torments his writers by making sure they can see and hear him shredding their joke pitches."
"Eventually, Scotty's Way Late producer Laurel - played by Colbert's real-life friend and collaborator Amy Sedaris - has had it up to here one too many times with Scotty's draconian control-freakishness and uses their once-upon-a-time, could've-been history to feign seducing him and instead gets his necktie caught in Scotty's much-hated high-capacity office shredder. Everyone assumes it's a terrible accident, death by strangulation misadventure, at first,"
"Scotty had left his earbuds on his desk, rather than putting them away, suggesting another person was in the room with him when he died. Also, his tie would have to have been knotted pretty tightly in order for the strangulation to happen, and why would he have been lying backward over the shredder, anyway? Detective Smullen takes on the case, and Elsbeth is assigned Officer Hackett (Lindsay Mendez) as her minder in Kaya's absence (sob!)."
The season three premiere returns on an atypical Sunday before reverting to its regular Thursday slot. A successful late-night host, Scotty Bristol (Stephen Colbert), is murdered; his abusive behavior toward staff and careless on-air habits establish numerous motives. Producer Laurel (Amy Sedaris) feigns seduction and becomes entangled in a high-capacity office shredder, creating an apparent accidental strangulation. Initial assumptions favor misadventure, but physical anomalies—earbuds left out, an unusually tight knot, and the victim's backward position over the shredder—suggest another party was present. Detective Smullen pursues a scapegoat while Elsbeth and assigned Officer Hackett probe deeper.
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