'Towards Zero's Finale Is Best as The Matthew Rhys Mystery Hour

Credit to Towards Zero, a good murder mystery solution should feel, in retrospect, inevitable, even if we didn’t necessarily see them coming. Granted, the small number of suspects in Towards Zero meant that the grand reveal of Neville Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) as the killer was pretty likely. Purely numerically, only Neville, Audrey, Kay, or Thomas were serious suspects, and Neville had the worst vibes throughout.

The final episode does a good job of temporarily diverting suspicion away from Neville when Inspector Leach (Matthew Rhys) realizes that the evidence pointing to Neville – his recovered jacket, golf club, and cufflink near to the murders – is likely an attempt to frame him, only for the rug to be pulled out from under us with the realization that Neville was trying to frame Audrey as framing him for the murders.

Neville did the gruesome deeds in a manner that would result in Audrey being convicted and hanged on a mega-public stage, all as revenge for humiliating him via divorce. This was the “point zero” – Audrey planting Kay’s compact in the car that was discovered by a footman and became key evidence in securing favorable divorce terms for Audrey. It appears everyone involved in this is at least a little off their rockers.