The Fall of the House of Usher Trivia

1. Dupin has always said that there's no such thing as 'a good Usher', but he alleges that Annabel Lee was the only one. Roderick claims that who was the better Usher instead?

From Quiz "The Pit and The Pendulum"

Answer: Lenore

Back in 1979, Dupin coached Roderick on what he would need to say in front of the court in regards to CFC forms and his forged signature though it was clear that the tension was getting to Usher, causing him to snap at simple things. Annabel stepped in to send Roderick to another room, apologizing for the distracting noises. While Roderick grabbed a coffee, she asked Dupin what would happen after the trial, asking for his word that when it was all said and done, the detective would help them get back on their feet. Dupin promised. Dupin muses that the only reason he malfunctioned and ended up trusting Roderick back when they were making the whistleblowing attempt was because of Annabel. He trusted her, so he trusted Roderick. Dupin lost a lot, but knowing that Roderick lost her sustained him, all said and done. She was the only good Usher. Roderick begs to differ. Lenore is the best of them-- all the best of Annabel Lee without the broken heart.

From Quiz "Murder in the Rue Morgue"

Answer: Morella

Arthur Pym arrived at the condemned lab after the emergency crews and crime scene analysts, and despite that, he was allowed to go in first. Told not to touch anything at the crime scene, his status allowed him ten minutes on his own. What he found when he opened the door to the club was grotesque. In most cases, the bodies there were nothing more than bones and melted flesh, but panning his flashlight around the room he would find Prospero in its center, still covered by the mask left on his face. Nabbing Perry's phone, he continued on...until Morella, still somehow alive, grabbed his leg. Roderick lets Dupin know the truth, specifically that the tanks on the roof weren't designed to hold water. In fact, they were placed there to hide unfortunate material away to avoid EPA fines. They planned to dump it when the EPA wasn't looking and, yes, it was in violation of environmental regulation, but they had to keep it for the time being since it was so corrosive. Prospero would have known if he paid attention to the business. Dupin notes that there's only one thing that doesn't make sense. Why did the wait staff all leave the building?

From Quiz "A Midnight Dreary"

Answer: At Roderick's childhood home

A massive church plays host to a funeral for three bodies, all children of Roderick Usher. As a priest gives his eulogy to the few family members present, Roderick looks back to the balcony and spies a woman seated, watching, wearing a raven mask. His granddaughter asks him what's wrong, and all he can reply with is "she's here." Outside, the paparazzis snap photos of the Ushers leaving the building. There are so few as many have died under mysterious circumstances. Assistant U.S. Attorney C. Auguste Dupin looks over the family tree and the articles surrounding the Ushers' deaths. He's informed that Roderick Usher has reached out-- actually-- to discuss the matters. He's left his address. Dupin knows he must attend. A taxi brings Dupin to the address and what awaits him there is a dilapidated house on a long-forgotten street. A storm brews. He knocks on the door, and when it opens on its own, he lets himself in, joining Roderick in the living room near the fire.

From Quiz "The Pit and The Pendulum"

Answer: Tech

Roderick was furious speaking to Pym and Madeline the day after Tamerlane died, claiming that not a single person heard her murder when they'd hired her a bodyguard, and not one person lifted a finger at the Goldbug launch as she smashed televisions and assaulted Juno. Madeline admitted that she had her hands on the culprit, but she felt the woman give away like cold steam. More importantly, the Fortunato board was headed to a vote, and no amount of blackmail could get the Ushers out of the hot water they found themselves in. Pym and Madeline both agreed that Frederick would be a key player in the decision before them. They needed to get him into the board room to figure things out. More than that, they just needed to hold on just a bit longer. As Madeline would later tell Pym, Roderick couldn't be trusted because of his disease, and with a bit more time her algorithm would allow Fortunato to push into A.I., artificial consciousness, and virtual immortality. If the board put her in charge, they could leave the rotten legacy behind them and move into the future.

From Quiz "The Black Cat"

Answer: Leo

Leo joined the rest of the family in the board room at Fortunato to share in the grief and shock of Camille's passing. He pointed the finger at Victorine, but she never called her to the R.U.E. morgue; it might have been something to do with the bounty, she suggested. Once the kids started yelling, Madeline told them that they could do so all they want, but the minute they left the room, they would have to put out an air of being put together. She suggested Leo read a statement to the press, but the provided statement was garbage (Camille, after all, would've been the one writing it if she were alive). Roderick didn't care if he used his own words. What he did care about was that the rest of the family toe the line; they'd need to be a wall against what was going on, at least while he got to the bottom of the mess. After the family meeting, Arthur Pym showed Madeline and Roderick the surveillance footage from R.U.E. and noted that the security guard was swapped out. None of them could identify the woman seated there at the desk, but they knew she wasn't meant to be there. Leo headed home instead, grieving over Camille while acknowledging that they still hadn't had a funeral for Perry. Julius tried to help, asking what he could do. Really, all he needed was space. Julius asked about Pluto-- she hadn't been seen since she was brought back. All it took was Julius leaving the room; the cat sprung out of Leo's closet, vanishing deeper into the apartment.

From Quiz "The Raven"

Answer: A sherry

Arriving at the Fortunato staff party at the end of 1979, Roderick Usher was welcomed by his boss, clad in a jester's outfit, as the saviour of the company. Over drinks at the bar, Griswold declared Roderick his right-hand man; he'd already told the board that they created the idea together. Going forward, Roderick would be everywhere he went. To celebrate, Madeline poured him a glass from a bottle of 1925 Amontillado. They would give their cheers, but neither Madeline nor Roderick would take a sip. And while Roderick excused himself to use the restroom, Madeline took Griswold to the basement. As Madeline sat Griswold down on some basement scaffolding, she told him to come and get her if he could. That's when the sedatives hit. Griswold would awaken to find Roderick and Madeline sealing him away behind the basement wall, brick by brick. He angrily told them what he would do when he got out, but that wasn't to be. In light of everything that'd happened, and with the Feds being on his case for not only falsifying data and forgery, but graverobbing, it would only be a matter of time before Fortunato's cancer came to the surface. They didn't want him to resign or tell the truth. All they needed to do was put him away for good. Before they closed him off, Madeline placed the jester hat back on his head. One final brick, laid amongst the rest, read 'you are so small'. He would be dead by morning on account of the cyanide.

From Quiz "The Pit and The Pendulum"

Answer: Very, very slowly

When Morella awakened from her most recent sedation, she opened her eyes to find her entire room covered in photocopied wedding photos, all spread out on the walls by Frederick in an attempt to remind her of the vow she made. She begged him to stop, but he simply dosed her with the experimental nightshade again, explaining all the while that he knew he wanted to marry her the first time they met, back at the photoshoot. The one-sided conversation ended when Frederick received a call beckoning him to the office for an emergency. Before he departed, he asked Morrie where she put the wedding ring when she went to the party. Arriving at his father's office, Frederick received a verbal beating, mainly because he still hadn't seen to the proper razing of the condemned lab. If Freddie couldn't take care of it, Roderick said, then he couldn't count on him for the little things. With the rest of the family gone, only Freddie could save the family. As the swing vote, the best message he could give was to simply avoid picking up the phone when they called-- and they would call. At home, Juno would speak to Roderick's doctor about her own situation. With her on a regimen of two thousand milligrams of Ligodone a day, she nearly doubled the highest dose recorded, and the doctors wanted her on more. Life, she said, is too short, and Ligodone is too much like heroin for her to want to be on it anymore. The doctor told her that it would be a very slow wind-down if she wanted to try and kick the pills.

From Quiz "Goldbug"

Answer: The morning news

Juno woke up the morning after Vic's death to find the house empty as Roderick never came back from the office. Making herself some breakfast (and a pile of Ligodone), she left messages on Roderick's phone while she watched the morning news. It was during this time she found out about Vic and Ali-- another tragic entry in the Usher news cycle-- an apparent murder-suicide. Frederick and Lenore would see the news as well, catching it from Morella's new room in their own home. Though Frederick worried about having to attend another funeral, Lenore worried for their safety. Frederick noted that Vic was an ambitious woman. It was bound to happen. Besides-- none of the others were completely Ushers anyways. Frederick would turn to Morella and let her know the news, backhandedly reminding her that you just couldn't really know some peoples' motives. Bill showed up back at the apartment to ask if Tam was okay in light of the news about Vic and she brushed him off, telling him to leave his key. He reiterated to her that she was not fine and, simply, had not been fine for a while. He reminded her that he loved her; she said she didn't. Looking back to her work she apologized and said that now more than ever, she needed Goldbug to work to save the family and show that Fortunato was more than just Roderick and Madeline for the first time. By the time she looked up, it seemed some time had passed as Bill wasn't in the room anymore. His keys remained on the countertop.

From Quiz "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Answer: Their home

Frederick and Lenore would stop in at the hospital after the funeral to check in on Morella, and to their relief, she was awake and more cogent than over the previous days. A doctor would inform Frederick that her blood oxygen levels were looking better, but given the damage to her lungs she'd need to remain on oxygen. With third-degree caustic burns covering much of her body, her organs were faring better than expected. Despite the doctor's insistence, however, Frederick was ready to take Morrie home, many weeks before skin grafts would be an approachable solution and well before most patients in her state would be expected to move. Frederick didn't care. He's an Usher. Victorine received bad news as well. When Ali returned home, the jig was up regarding the unexpected surgery; Ali learned from her office that she was scheduled a week down the line for an experimental surgery with a candidate that she didn't even vet. Vic reasoned that her father wanted the heart mesh to work, and fast, so he fast-tracked two hundred million in funds, but only if they went ahead with human testing, but this discovery led Ali to realize the bigger issue-- her signature, all over their falsified testing data. Ali admitted she let it all go too far and, when she tried to leave, Victorine reminded her she was under a tight NDA-- Pym's special. Vic wasn't who Ali thought she was. She left with a final goodbye. She planned to tell everyone. In anger, Vic picked up a bookend and threw it at the apartment door.

From Quiz "Murder in the Rue Morgue"

Answer: Smuggling body parts out of the lab

Lenore came across her father and grandfather arguing at the hospital with the latter blaming his son for the recent events since it was his responsibility to have the condemned lab torn down in the first place. When Lenore arrived, however, the argument ended. With Morella in another surgery, they could only wait and talk about what happened. As the news cycle started for the day, Camille watched as Dupin was grilled, live on TV, about the case in light of Prospero's death. The mitigation of the events going well, she instead turned her attention to digging up dirt on Victorine as, in her mind, finding the informant was still key to saving the family. Toby and Tina revealed to her that the key was in the test animals. Simply, there were animals missing. Rumours had it that Victorine was letting monkeys die on the table and swapping them out with new ones before anyone noticed, all in the effort to make it look like her trials were succeeding. Camille tried to poke holes in this though-- there would be cameras and personnel in the office. The rumour was, however, that she chopped up the bodies and carried them out in the night in pieces. Before leaving to keep the investigation going, Toby and Tina gave their condolences for her loss. Perhaps not too oddly, Camille wasn't quite sure what they were actually saying...or how to feel about it.

From Quiz "The Masque of the Red Death"

Answer: Six months

Prospero almost immediately visited the facility that caught his eye from amongst the bunch, bringing his friends with the aim to convert it into an exclusive pop-up club the very next day-- permits be damned. The best part was that this building was owned by the Ushers and had its own power and closed water supplies to support the old labs within. It would be completely off the city's radar. Most importantly, it would be a masquerade. While his friends, Jenny and Faraj, went off to plan, Perry looked at the roof of the building, spying a woman in a red coat watching him from above. In the lab, Victorine hit a setback when her monkey trial testing the experimental heart mesh ended in the death of her test subject. Though she worried about the funding drying up, Al knew it could be a good thing. After all, if the monkey would have tainted their results on account of the use of adrenaline, injected in a last-ditch attempt to save its life. Speaking to Roderick later, Victorine discovered that her father hoped human trials would be done in six months. He wouldn't explain why he needed it to work, but it was important to him.

From Quiz "The Raven"

Answer: The guarantee they'd get away with everything

Aiming to avoid scrutiny and suspicion, Roderick and Madeline ended up at Verna's bar, and there they would spend most of their night talking. Verna asked them what their dealbreakers were, considering that Griswold was a dealbreaker for Madeline, and the conversation soon turned to the ultimate ask: what if they could achieve all the success they ever imagined? All the money, all the power; a lifetime of luxury and comfort. Madeline called all those fairy tales. What it all really came down to was power and leverage, and Verna laughed at this thought, calling the pair of them 'killers'. After all, she said, they were there building an alibi; she knew they killed Rufus Griswold that night. She said she could guarantee they got away with it. The murder, Roderick's rise to CEO, their birthright at Fortunato, and she'd even reward them with no legal consequences for their entire life. They could do what they want with the company. She just wanted to see what they'd do.

From Quiz "The Pit and The Pendulum"

Answer: Remove her teeth

Frederick's status as the swing vote starts to get him some attention, especially from the board, and he ends up fielding calls while spending time in Morrie's room in the midst of lines of cocaine and sedating his wife. He calls up the Jersey boys to take the condemned lab down sooner-- that very night if possible. Dosing Morrie one more time, he told her a bit of wisdom his father once said: "To test a bond, you don't really need to break it. You just crack it a little." He had no intention, he claimed, of being cruel, but he'd need to be brutal with her just once to establish his new authority. Grabbing a pair of pliers, he proceeded to remove her teeth. Lenore would catch her father before he headed out to let him know she's been researching burn treatment facilities-- some of the best in the world. She even talked to one of the doctors and got her a potential admission. Frederick chastised his daughter for even considering it. The two argued and Roderick told his daughter she wouldn't get a free pass from repercussions. In the meantime, she was not to check in on her mother while he was gone, running errands for the company for the day. She attempted to defy him immediately, but the door to her room was locked.

From Quiz "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Answer: There wasn't one

Vic would end up in her office, phoning Ali and leaving a message for the third time, hoping to work it out. When she put down the phone she started hearing the chirping coming from the vents-- a steady chirp not unlike the heart mesh device. Looking around she saw that it was likely the smoke detector on the wall, low on batteries. She took it down as Madeline came in to make her rounds and check on the kids. It was a quick couple of questions before Madeline's true purpose, to check on the status of the HeroVesta's human trials, became clear. All the while, Vic kept hearing the chirping coming from somewhere. And it was utterly distracting. Pym and Dupin, meanwhile, would meet in the judge's chambers. The latter had to ask why, after all this time, 'the Pym Reaper' would stay by the Ushers' side knowing what he knows. Pym wouldn't be anybody without them though, and neither would Dupin for that matter. When Judge Neal came in, it was clear that there was a topic to discuss: the recent deaths in the Usher Family. Pym asked for a continuance; the family needed to investigate the reason behind the deaths, and if it had anything to do with Dupin's inference that an informant was in their midst, it would jeopardize the case and possibly put more lives at risk. Dupin repeated that the Ushers have had a history of evading prosecution, almost to supernatural extent, and Pym made a suggestion clear: they could avoid the need for continuance if Dupin revealed the informant and let an investigation take its course. Roderick asks Dupin-- it doesn't matter anymore, obviously, but he's curious-- who the informant is. There never was one. Roderick has to admit he's impressed; Dupin gave up his ethics to play that card.

From Quiz "Murder in the Rue Morgue"

Answer: A medical patient

Victorine reunited with Al through a throng of reporters outside her girlfriend's office and tried to keep it together. Though Al wanted to have Victorine leave the city to hunker down while everything blowed over, it seemed a bit unrealistic. While Al went back to work, Victorine grabbed her coffee and started to take a walk through the building when she accidentally bumped into a woman, dropping her belongings. Though Victorine had never met the woman before, it was the same one who met Prospero at his party, albeit she looked a fair bit different. When the woman gathered her things she let Victorine know that she didn't know what to do. With the receptionist missing from the front desk, she wasn't comfortable leaving all her paperwork, not because no one needed to know about her heart condition, but because her social security number was amongst the details. When she elaborated on her irregular heartbeat and trouble breathing, Victorine offered to bring the paperwork to Al's office herself, placing it at the top of the pile. Of course, when she brought it back, she investigated, taking photos of the contents and discovering that this woman-- Pamela Clemm-- was just perfect for what she was looking for. Camille, meanwhile, visited Leo at his apartment, getting let in by his boyfriend when his edible kicked in. Though Camille was initially mad that the face of her campaign was too busy getting high, his offer for her to join him was an easy one to give into. What resulted was an honest conversation about the fact that none of the Ushers really made anything-- all of them just threw money around and slapped their names and faces on it. When the doorbell rang and Leo could start to grieve amongst friends, she made her exit, promising to move the interviews to the afternoon. It was the least she could do.

From Quiz "The Masque of the Red Death"

Answer: Leo

Prospero visited Leo after stopping at the condemned lab with an aim to gather enough drugs to supply the event on short notice, and while Leo was reluctant, he handed over two contacts who'd be eager for the sales opportunity. Leo let his sibling know that he felt the event idea was beneath him and encouraged him to think bigger. If he did, he'd be unstoppable. Camille, from her office, reviewed the day's events, flipping between the trial and Bill's fitness program while her associates rattled off their findings. Unfortunately, neither of them came up with anything in the way of identifying the informant (though Camille still believed it could be Victorine...or maybe Perry...or even Juno). At the condemned lab, the party planning already started to get underway. With the invite system quickly built and a clean-up crew starting, Perry told the girls to install padding for the dance floor and prepare the sprinklers. As soon as those sprinklers went off, it would signify a more hedonistic turn for the night. No one would start the true debauchery until the water came down. Unfortunately, per one of his contractors, there was no water in the building; he suggested bringing bottles in. Even though the sprinklers might have been sweating a bit, there was no pressure in the pipes. That's why he told the others to connect them to the tanks on the ceiling. Easy as that.

From Quiz "A Midnight Dreary"

Answer: Kill a man

On the night of their mother's burial, Roderick awakened to the sound of a fierce thunderstorm outside and rose from his bed to look out the window. Waking his sister, he showed what he saw there-- the grave they dug outside, unearthed. The body was nowhere to be seen, but when they went outside to investigate, they found footprints leading back into the house. Eliza was there, standing in the shadows, and on Roderick's recommendation to call a doctor, she reached out to grab her son by the throat. Instead of causing her children harm, Eliza instead left out the front door, walking down the street to the Longfellow property in the rain. Longfellow, outside investigating the power outage in the neighbourhood, never expected the undead Eliza to come upon him and strangle him to death. His wife would find the bodies there, with Roderick and Madeline watching, only moments later. The official story would state that Longfellow had a heart attack in his sleep. No one knew the truth. After Roderick took over the company, he wiped out any news stories about the death, just to spare his family the trouble that could have emerged. Dupin has to ask-- why this story and why now? Roderick explains it's because she's there with them, right behind Dupin. Dupin refuses to turn around and relinquish control in the conversation to Roderick. Naturally he doesn't see the spectre standing behind him in the hall.

From Quiz "The Raven"

Answer: Both Roderick and Madeline

Neither Madeline nor Roderick believed Verna at first though she had knowledge of them that they couldn't have anticipated. Both of them could feel something in the air at that moment; luck was meeting opportunity. Roderick joked that it would cost their souls, but Verna said it wouldn't. In fact, she would defer their payment; they could let the next generation foot the bill. They'd get the whole world, and when they were just about done-- just before Roderick was bound to die anyway-- his bloodline would die with him. Madeline asked how long Roderick would live, and Verna noted that the two of them would die together. Both of them came into it together, after all. But Roderick would live longer than any Usher man ever had. The kids would live in luxury, and that could be worth more. They'd live a blessed life and leave the stage together. Both Roderick and Madeline agreed to the deal there. To seal it, Verna poured them each a glass of her finest-- a Henri IV Dudognon Heritage Cognac, aged 100 years in barrels. You drink it, she said, on the best day of your life, or your last night on Earth. It would be waiting for Roderick at his childhood home on the night he confessed to Dupin. When Roderick and Madeline left the bar, they turned around to find the building long-vacant. Neither could explain what'd happened. By the time they got home, it didn't even feel real. Roderick tells Dupin that after meeting Verna that night, he and Madeline quickly forgot about their encounter, believing it to be something that their minds may have made up on such an eventful night. Besides, they were so worried about the police finding Griswold that their minds went elsewhere. They never really talked about it again. The board voted him in shortly after and the two of them set out to work. Production of Ligodone began in earnest and the years passed. It was all just a weird dream. Nothing more.

From Quiz "A Midnight Dreary"

Answer: Five & 5

Roderick returns to discussing his kids and explains that he always stood by his children as, unlike his own father, he refused to close the gates on them. What resulted was six children by five different mothers over his lifetime. They were all Ushers and they all deserved the best. Dupin and Roderick argue over family and the case before they dive back into the story. Roderick commends Dupin over his original opening arguments in the courthouse. They're especially important because that may have been the last day that the Usher Family was all in the same place at the same time, together, and alive. It was two weeks ago when that happened, and Dupin brought his case forward regarding the Usher crime family and Fortunato Pharma in what he claimed would be the largest pharma hearing in history. Over four decades, Roderick and Madeline had built one of the strongest brands and companies on Earth. But it was all at the expense of awful, awful things.

From Quiz "The Pit and The Pendulum"

Answer: Perjury

Back in the 1970s, Annabel brought Freddy and Tammy to the court hearing, wishing him luck while Roderick is brought in to give his statements. It was December 20th and he was sat before about a dozen people, all asking him to explain documents and objecting to the slightest motion from the opposing side. Discussing the consent-for-care forms with the DA's insistence, he explained that nothing seemed unusual about the documents in front of him-- all standard boilerplate. It was then that Dupin realized something was amiss as Roderick was originally prepared to admit his signatures were forged. The DA asked if he was compelled by anyone at Fortunato to reverse his stance for the deposition, and it was a claim he alleged was not the case. Instead, Roderick claimed that Dupin was forcing the issue, appearing at his home multiple times in what appeared to be a vendetta against Rufus Griswold and Fortunato. With that, Roderick was put in handcuffs and accused of perjury. Back home, Madeline explained to Annabel that this was all expected, and Fortunato would have him out of prison by dinner as he'd made himself the most important employee at the company. They'd be in a new house by Christmas. If they'd done it Dupin's way, Madeline explained, Fortunato would've sued the Ushers into a crater. Annabel, racked with guilt, believed Roderick was going to be the hero.

From Quiz "Goldbug"

Answer: Brevet

On one night back in the late 1970s, Roderick and Dupin shook hands in mutual agreement that they would go forth with the plan to bring down Rufus Griswold. Annabel noted the riskiness of the venture and Dupin reiterated that their success would depend on what Roderick brought back from the records in the Fortunato basement. If Roderick could bring what Dupin needed, they would bring him down without a doubt. Specifically, Dupin needed items from a list he provided. Patient records would be valuable, but more than those, consent for care forms would be optimal as would internal memos and anything with the name Brevet on it. Anything with Roderick's signature on it that he knows he didn't sign would also be important because Roderick could testify to their forgery. That night, Annabel reminded Roderick that this was risking everything they had, possibly in a vendetta against his boss or his dad. He knew the risk though, and he needed her to back him up. She agreed to be by his side and, to a great extent, if he felt it was right, she was proud of him. Soon, he'd find himself down in the basement archives in an office full of boxes. Avoiding the janitorial staff, he'd set to work photocopying in the dark.

From Quiz "The Raven"

Answer: NEVERMORE

Lenore would stop in to check on Roderick after the funeral, knowing that his collapse outside the church was not typical. Instead of heading to the hospital, he headed home to bed, where she tucked him in. With Morella in the ICU, Lenore refused to go home again; Roderick's place, especially with Juno having walked out, would be fine for her. Roderick told his granddaughter not to be hard on Juno; she'd have an uphill battle getting better. Lenore confided in Roderick that it would likely be a good thing not to have Fortunato anymore, at least for Roderick. That place wasn't good. He agreed with her, even if it was his. Roderick told Lenore that maybe she could make Fortunato good, but she told him-- honestly-- to let it go. The Ushers did bad things and they could put their money to good use fixing it. Lenore headed up to the guest room to prepare for bed, and when she did, she found a woman-- Verna-- sitting in the room waiting for her. Verna told her to take a seat on the bed. There was a matter at hand regarding the bloodline and, as such, still work to do. It was this type of work that brought her no joy. Seeing as Morella was placed into a clinic at Lenore's advising, she would recover very well. It would take three years and more than a hundred skin grafts; it would take physical therapy and reconstructive surgery, but she would endure it. She'd inherit a fortune in the collapse of the company and she would give most of it away to good causes, even starting a non-profit called The Lenore Foundation that would save millions over time. Verna told Lenore, making it very clear, that it was Lenore who did that by defying her father. Lenore saved those people. It's the last thing that Verna tells her before letting her die, peacefully, with a gentle touch. Dupin tells Roderick that this isn't possible-- she's been texting Roderick all night. There's an explanation for this, however, and it's in Madeline's sentient AI technology. It's been the digital version of Lenore this whole time. It's just been the beta version the whole night, texting the same word over and over-- NEVERMORE.

From Quiz "The Pit and The Pendulum"

Answer: Snap her neck

Madeline would drive herself out to the old Usher house, arriving to find the door unlocked and letting herself in. Stepping through the threshold, she would be somewhat unsurprised when the door slammed shut behind her with little provocation. A ringing bell from the basement door would take her attention before she'd turn to find Verna in a leather chair awaiting her, seated in a spot that was empty a moment before. Verna would offer her a drink, suggesting it'd be for the boys later on, but they wouldn't mind. Madeline, admitting her recent denial of Verna's existence, would ask her to stop while she sat down, but that wouldn't happen. Pivoting immediately, Madeline asked for a renegotiation of the contract, especially since Roderick set the original terms, but Verna told her the ink was dry. Madeline wouldn't back down though, suggesting they solve it woman to woman. Verna admitted she wasn't a woman. Madeline would rise from her seat and snap Verna's neck at the slightest provocation, but it wouldn't do much. As Madeline stood over the body of the dead figure, Verna spoke to her from across the room, suggesting she sit so they could actually speak to one another. Madeline apologized for her impulse; Verna said it was okay, water under the bridge, because Madeline was always a favourite of hers. At Frederick's home, Lenore would break into her mother's chambers and find Morrie in her bed, struggling to breathe, bandages unchanged and with teeth missing from her mouth.

From Quiz "Goldbug"

Answer: In photos with the rich elite

Roderick, Madeline, and Pym looked over the photos and while Roderick was hesitant to believe their mystery woman was to blame, especially since he watched Vic commit suicide, it was hard to brush off the notion that the alleged culprit just happened to be around all the Ushers by coincidence. Pym asked for more time to solve the case, especially since he staked out the bar where Madeline claims the woman back in 1979 and discovered it was never a bar. In fact, it'd been vacant since 1975. Madeline chalked this up to time; it'd been more than forty years since they were there. It didn't help though, since Pym looked up every bar in a five mile radius of Fortunato dating back to 1975. Facial recognition software also came up with nothing. What Pym did find, however, was that using Madeline's algorithms, combing through the internet and deepening the search, he came up with some concerning results, specifically that the mystery woman had been in pictures with people like David Koch, seven years ago; Mark Zuckerberg at one point; Gina Rinehart, the mining magnate; there was more. Some of the pictures dated back to the turn of the century-- and not the twenty-first century. Roderick said it could be Photoshop; Madeline wasn't so sure. She begged him to remember what the woman said back when they met her. Pym reminded that the photos had been online for a while, so the technology to doctor them, with the metadata in mind, would be beyond his understanding or capability.

From Quiz "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Answer: Her eyes

Pym spread the photos out for Roderick and Madeline, all of which showed the same woman at different sites, all connecting back to the dead Usher children. Images of Verna were found on security footage at both Prospero's party and the R.U.E. morgue on the night Camille stopped in and on Leo's phone at the adoption centre. Madeline brought up her suspicions first, believing the woman in the photos to be the spitting image of the bartender from New Year's Eve back in 1979. Her theory was that, if Roderick slept with her, this could be a new heir, coming out of the woodwork and vying for inheritance. Pym declared that he would be the negotiator on behalf of the family should anything arise, and he would be hostile in his approach. He claimed he would bring receipt of the transaction. Madeline asked that the receipt be her eyes. The woman, meanwhile, was with Vic in her office at R.U.E., listening to the Usher telling her that the procedure might be the most important thing the woman has ever done. While 'Pamela' talked, asking if she could meet Dr. Ruiz before her surgery, Vic kept getting distracted by the continual chirping still present in her office. 'Pam' asked Vic point-blank whether being famous was more important to her than saving lives, but the conversation came to a break before Vic could answer. Instead, Vic got up from her seat and started poring through the shelves looking for the source of the chirping, ignorant of the fact that she really wasn't paying attention to anything outside her own head. Later, Vic's phone would ring and she'd miss the caller. She'd phone Ali and offer her anything, just as loong as she came back and do the surgery.

From Quiz "Murder in the Rue Morgue"

Answer: Pluto's

In the board room, Pym informed Roderick and Madeline that he was able to identify every person in the party surveillance footage save for one mystery woman in a skull mask, the same mask left on Prospero's body. The wait staff, when asked, said they never saw her face. It might be that she tipped them off. The one thing in common is that they all felt a need to get out. Madeline suggested it could all be a freak accident. They'd know more when Morella woke up. Leo woke up on the floor in his apartment after his night-long, grief-driven bender, and wiping his face, he didn't immediately realize that he'd left behind a streak of fresh blood. Looking down at his blood-stained shirt he quickly determined that he wasn't harmed-- neither was Julius, upon looking in the bedroom-- but the blood had to come from somewhere. Following a trail of droplets through the apartment, he finally found the source-- their newly adopted cat, Pluto, cut open with a knife. Putting the cat into a garbage bag, he quickly got to his hands and knees to scrub away the evidence, unsure if he killed the poor animal. When Julius woke up, Leo played off the event as though nothing had happened, and his decision to clean didn't go unnoticed. He blamed the grief. He also claimed not to remember a bit of the previous night; Julius said he was completely gone, mentally. Julius asked after Pluto, but Leo suggested that maybe they accidentally let her out again. Last time, she was gone for three days.

From Quiz "The Masque of the Red Death"

Answer: Lenore

In her office, Madeline gathered all of Lenore's data-- a journal of her thoughts for the past four months, her online presence, a ten-thousand-question questionnaire. Their goal was to send the data into the internet to create an AI capable of replicating the young Usher. Despite Roderick's reservations about the idea, believing it to be a glorified chatbot, Madeline always intended to use the data for something bigger, chiefly the immortality of the Usher name and presence. Arthur Pym stopped by as well, letting Madeline know what he found. Perry's accounts had slowed spending, a sign he was either slowing down on spending or simply spending in cash. Madeline also wanted to check into Juno, but with Roderick's new wife co-signed onto his accounts, it wouldn't be an easy answer. Lenore visited Roderick as well, but the visit ended up turning into an awkward bonding session between her and Juno. Lenore asked how Juno came to meet her granddad and the explanation was that, after her car accident, Juno was placed on one of the highest-ever doses of Ligodone ever prescribed. Roderick visited her in the hospital and the rest was history. Perry would end up visiting Frederick's house as well, dropping off some paperwork. He would end up leaving it with Morella instead, casually dropping her an invitation to his party and suggesting she join the debauchery. She told him it was insane and he responded that he could see the fiery, free-spirited goddess inside her. Though she refused, he left a burner phone for her, just in case she changed her mind.

From Quiz "A Midnight Dreary"

Answer: Goldbug

The news of family dinner rattled the Usher children. Frederick confided in his wife, Morella, and his daughter, Lenore, that he thought Perry was responsible for spilling the beans. Morella wondered why anyone would risk their spot in the will. Tamerlane knew Frederick wouldn't be the informant due to his eagerness to please their father. She told her husband, Bill, that it must have been one of the bastard children. Bill thought it could have been Freddie since he was in line for the throne anyways; Tamerlane thought maybe Perry. They both considered it could be Juno, but Tamerlane preferred not to consider her a part of the family at all. The timing couldn't be worse for them; they had to launch Goldbug on time. Oh yeah, and she cancelled the girl for the night. Dinner would be more important. Victorine LaFourcade, finishing up with a surgery for a new heart treatment in the operating room, celebrated with her girlfriend for a brief moment, but both knew that the study could have been tainted by Roderick's new drug, an experimental paralytic. Victorine joked they'd just need to keep it away from Perry. Besides, they all knew the informant had to be Camille. Napoleon (Leo) told his boyfriend not to come to the dinner but he showed up at his apartment unexpectedly. Camille L'Espanaye, finishing up at the office setting up interviews for the family with all the major publications, set her people to work hunting down the informant as well. Perry, she thought, would be too dumb to do it, but they should keep their eyes on Victorine.

From Quiz "The Pit and The Pendulum"

Answer: A poet

Juno confronted Roderick in his office, suggesting that she planned to get clean and wean herself off Ligodone, but he said he wouldn't have it-- it'd be a PR nightmare. He advised her not to do it due to the side effects from the withdrawals, comparing it to being a fish pulled out of the water but being unable to die. All that said, it wouldn't be addictive. But with that in mind she'd be clean and right as rain after three-or-so years of suffering. Juno called him a monster, but Roderick claimed he was Victor Frankenstein; she was the monster, but she was the perfect creation. It was then that Juno realized he never loved her; he only loved what she became when she took the Ligodone and survived her ordeal. She decided then that she'd take three years of Hell over a lifetime still married to him. It was an easy choice. Madeline and Verna would talk into the evening with the latter claiming that they shared the same fascination with pain, and now, with Verna unable to take Madeline's pain away, she could offer her something new. Years ago, she offered the Ushers certainty. Now, she could offer clarity. No strings attached. Verna stated that had Roderick refused her offer in 1979, he would've become a poet. It's why she gives a poem of her own, called 'The City in the Sea', because a poem is a safe space for a hard truth. When she finished, she let Madeline muse on it for a bit. What to do next would come to her. Roderick would spend another night in the basement of the Fortunato building staring at the brick wall. At the same time, Frederick would arrive at the site of the demolition, prepared to speak to his workers. Meanwhile, Lenore would stay with her mother, at her bedside, until the ambulances arrived.

From Quiz "Murder in the Rue Morgue"

Answer: Beth

Lenore checked in at the ICU in regards to her mother's status to find that while she was stable, finally, she had not awakened from her coma yet. Nonetheless she still wanted to see her. What she found was a private room closed off from a sitting area, and when she opened the door, she found that her mother was actually up and awake, tearing at the protective bandages around her face and wheezing through an acid-damaged windpipe. Despite urging her mother to stop, she could do nothing until the nurses arrived save for watch her mother tear at her injuries. Victorine, meanwhile, would call Pam from her home to let her know that she and Al reviewed her file and decided to bring her in for trials for an exciting, new treatment. Amazingly, she would make the perfect candidate. Toby and Tina returned to Camille's apartment with news, specifically that they'd developed feelings for one another. Although their relationship developed off being Camille's live-in assistants and sexual servants, they declared that this would mark an end to that type of partnership, at least for them; the dynamic had been severely inappropriate. Naturally, Camille was not pleased by this development having already had a rough day. What resulted was a migraine (for Camille) and Venmo'ed severances for her two former servants. As for the dirt on Victorine... she'd have to deal with it herself.

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