Chap­ter 76 of We Solve Mur­ders begins with the group gath­ered in Steve’s liv­ing room, still pro­cess­ing their near-vic­to­ry at the local quiz night. They had come so close, fin­ish­ing in sec­ond place—just a sin­gle point short of claim­ing the top spot. Despite the dis­ap­point­ment, the evening had been an enjoy­able dis­trac­tion, offer­ing brief relief from the chaos that had con­sumed their lives. Steve, always one to find humor in the moment, teas­es Felic­i­ty and Tony about their grow­ing close­ness, observ­ing how insep­a­ra­ble they have become. Their bud­ding rela­tion­ship is a rare bright spot in the midst of uncer­tain­ty, though Steve knows their cir­cum­stances leave lit­tle room for romance. Even with the light­heart­ed atmos­phere, a lin­ger­ing sense of unease set­tles over him as he checks his phone, aware that he has been wait­ing for an impor­tant mes­sage.

The shift in mood is imme­di­ate when Jeff Nolan opens his lap­top and reads an encrypt­ed email aloud, instant­ly grab­bing every­one’s atten­tion. The sender is François, a name that car­ries weight among them, and the mes­sage is cryp­tic yet unmis­tak­ably threat­en­ing. François claims he under­stands their need for self-preser­va­tion but warns them that Amy Wheel­er is in far greater dan­ger than they real­ize. His words imply that she has been under sur­veil­lance, and the accu­mu­lat­ing evi­dence against her is enough to put her in seri­ous legal trou­ble. As the weight of the mes­sage set­tles over the room, ten­sion builds between Jeff and Henk, who begin to argue over the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a secu­ri­ty breach involv­ing their clients at Max­i­mum Impact. The exchange grows heat­ed, with accu­sa­tions fly­ing back and forth as Steve watch­es, know­ing that if trust begins to frac­ture among them, their chances of sur­vival will dwin­dle.

In an attempt to bring some nor­mal­cy to the moment, Felix heads to the kitchen to pre­pare tea, though the sim­ple act does lit­tle to calm the group. The con­ver­sa­tion takes a dark­er turn as they dis­cuss a man named Kevin, some­one Jeff had risked a great deal to save, only for him to meet an untime­ly end after his release. The cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing his death raise red flags, and Steve con­nects it to their ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion, sug­gest­ing that it might tie back to Rob Ken­na in Dubai. Ken­na has been mak­ing dan­ger­ous moves, seem­ing­ly orches­trat­ing threats against Amy, and the tim­ing of his actions feels too pre­cise to be coin­ci­den­tal. Rosie, still shak­en by her own brush­es with dan­ger, voic­es her sus­pi­cions about Eddie Flood, won­der­ing whether he has been sent after her or if his involve­ment is mere­ly anoth­er piece of a much larg­er puz­zle. As they exchange the­o­ries, it becomes increas­ing­ly evi­dent that the tan­gled web of con­spir­a­cies they are unrav­el­ing is far more com­plex than they had orig­i­nal­ly thought.

The ten­sion in the room reach­es its peak when Steve unveils a crit­i­cal piece of information—Max High­field, a seem­ing­ly harm­less media per­son­al­i­ty, is direct­ly con­nect­ed to sev­er­al of their clients. The rev­e­la­tion is met with stunned silence, par­tic­u­lar­ly from Jeff, who strug­gles to grasp how deep the con­nec­tions run. For years, Max has pre­sent­ed him­self as a self-absorbed influ­encer, more focused on per­son­al brand­ing than any­thing tru­ly nefar­i­ous, but now, his involve­ment appears far more sig­nif­i­cant than any­one had antic­i­pat­ed. The pieces of the puz­zle are begin­ning to align, yet the big­ger pic­ture remains elu­sive. Just when they think they have reached the crux of the mat­ter, Felic­i­ty drops a bomb­shell of her own—she was once Max Highfield’s first agent. Her admis­sion adds anoth­er unex­pect­ed twist, leav­ing the group to ques­tion whether Felic­i­ty has been with­hold­ing valu­able knowl­edge that could change every­thing.

As the chap­ter comes to a close, the weight of their dis­cov­er­ies hangs heavy in the air. Each rev­e­la­tion has pulled them deep­er into a labyrinth of decep­tion, one where every answer leads to more unset­tling ques­tions. The per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al lines between them are becom­ing increas­ing­ly blurred, mak­ing it hard­er to dis­cern who can tru­ly be trust­ed. With Amy’s safe­ty on the line, François watch­ing their every move, and Max High­field now at the cen­ter of their inves­ti­ga­tion, the urgency to act has nev­er been greater. As they sit in silence, pro­cess­ing the grav­i­ty of the sit­u­a­tion, one thing becomes clear—whatever hap­pens next will change every­thing.