Tonight on ABC their new show Forever continues with an all new Tuesday October 7, season 1 episode 4. On tonight’s episode called, “The Art of Murder” a wealthy New York matriarch is found dead at a gala held in her honor.
On the last episode Henry was interested in aging and how to die, but New York’s wealthy elderly were chasing a way to turn back the clock. A clinic was dispensing a pricey product – Aterna – which was supposed to provide the much sought after fountain of youth. But instead, Henry and Jo were confronted with multiple deaths from the costly potion, which instead of revolutionizing the aging process, was turning people’s brains into swiss cheese. Meanwhile Henry remembered back to dear friend who was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1906 and discovers a link to this current case. Unbeknownst to Henry, Abe, who would love to be young and youthful again, was tempted to try Aterna. And Henry learned however long you live, you must live every day and hour like it’s your last. Did you watch last night’s episode? If you missed it we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode, the death of Gloria Carlyle, the elegant, seemingly ruthless matriarch of one of New York’s wealthiest and oldest families, brings a world of hurt down on her family. After Gloria is found dead at a Metropolitan Museum of Art gala celebration of her philanthropy, Henry runs through a variety of suspects and motives but is pulled from the case when the family demands faster answers. Abe assists Henry and Jo entering the family’s estate sale for important clues through his antique connections. Meanwhile, Henry is tormented by the haunting and melancholy memories that this particular art museum holds for him when it comes to the love of his life, Abigail, and their ironic personal history with Gloria. It all calls into question, what would you do for love?
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Tonight’s episode of Forever kicks off at an elegant party at a museum, an elderly woman named Gloria Carlisle is making her rounds and has nothing nice to say to anyone in attendance. While a man is giving a speech in honor of Gloria, she slips away and walks through the dark hallways of the museum.
Someone finds Gloria beaten to death in the East end of the museum that is under construction. Jo arrives at the scene of the crime, and is stressed because it is so high-profile. They have the guests sequestered, and one of them is the mayor of NYC. Jo is upset when she realizes that Henry isn’t coming, instead he sent Lucas in his place.
Gloria’s corpse arrives at the morgue and Henry prepares to examine her. He is noticeably upset because he knew the victim and is “forever in debt to her.” Jo arrives and demands to know why Henry wasn’t at the crime scene. Henry says he never goes to that museum. Jo asks if he knew Gloria, he lies and says “no.”
Lucas heads to the break-room and runs in to a woman. She asks him about the case, and he blabs all of the details and brags he was at the scene. He has no idea that she is actually a reporter. Henry heads home and Abe shows him the NY Post. It says right on the cover “Gloria Carlisle Dead – ME Says Murder.” Henry sits down to have coffee with Abe, all Abe wants to talk about is Gloria’s antiques and whether they are going in an estate sale.
Henry heads to work, and Gloria’s family is furious that her medical exam was leaked. Lucas confesses that the reporter was “very pretty.” He says he is going to resign, Henry tells him to go back to the exam room and keep his mouth shut, he is going to take the fall for Lucas. Henry apologizes to Gloria’s son, and he demands that Jo is taken off the case. Jo argues that Henry is the best, but the lieutenant pulls him off the case.
Jo and Henry head out to the museum, Jo wants to know why he won’t go inside. Henry says that he has “old memories” there. Henry has a flashback of he and his wife Abigail trying to get in to the museum, the guard says that it is a private party, but they convince him to let them in.
Henry finally goes in the museum with Jo and they head to the scene where Gloria was beaten. He uses an antique fingerprint kit to dust for rubber on the floor to see what direction Gloria was coming from. He follows her footsteps and realizes that Gloria actually was pushed down a flight of stairs and then she crawled across the gallery. Hanson calls Jo and tells her that there was someone else in the gallery, they caught him on surveillance footage, it was an attendee at the party named Lance Sharpe.
Hanson and Jo bring Lance in for questioning, he insists that he didn’t kill Gloria. He says that he followed Gloria to get her blessing to marry her granddaughter Sophie. Lance says that Gloria gave him her blessing and a $3 Million ring and told him to follow her heart. He also added that Gloria was shaking, leaning on her cane and slurring her woods. She kept complaining that she smelled burnt toast. Henry calls Jo out of the interrogation room and says that Gloria may not have tripped, she was exhibiting signs of a stroke. He needs to re-examine her body, he heads to the morgue but Lucas says the Carlisles had already taken Gloria’s body.
Jo learns from Sophie that her dad Conrad and Gloria hated each other and Gloria had even threatened to take him out of her will. Henry calls Abe, who is at Gloria’s house at her estate sale and tells him to go to her bathroom and open her medicine cabinet and take pictures of all of her medication. The pictures arrive and Henry is baffled, none of her medications would have caused a stroke. They are back at square one.
Conrad Carlisle is at the police station screaming about Gloria’s case and why they haven’t arrested anyone. Henry notices that his hand is shaking and he has epilepsy. He asks Conrad if he takes a medication called phenytoin, and he confirms he does. Henry announces that is the drug that killed Gloria.
Jo and Hanson bring Conrad in for questioning, Conrad reveals that he was already written out of his mother’s will. Why would he want her dead? He gets nothing. If she had lives he would have had more time to convince Gloria to put her back in the will. Henry watches for the other side of the interrogation window, and has a flash back to when he met Gloria at a party at the museum many years ago. He remembers that Gloria said she had someone special, and it wasn’t her husband.
Jo and Henry head to the exam room and find out that on Lucas’s lunch break he went to the funeral home and did a biopsy on Gloria’s liver. Henry looks at the biopsy and says that someone gave Gloria a dose of phenytoin that was three times the lethal limit before she went to the party, the only person with her before the party was her nurse Marta. Hanson barges in to the exam room with a newspaper, on the front cover it reveals that Gloria left everything in her will to her nurse Marta.
Hanson brings Marta in to the interrogation room. Marta insists she would never hurt Gloria, she had taken care of her for twenty years and cared about her. Marta says that before the party it was a typical afternoon, she made Gloria lunch and built her a fire in the fire place because it was cold.
Henry says Marta’s story doesn’t make sense, so he and Jo head to Gloria’s house to look at her fireplace. He digs through the ashes and finds a letter signed from someone named “FC.” She had tried to burn it and destroy it. Henry and JO head to the garage to look at Gloria’s car, according to their time line she may have been poisoned en route to the party. They search Gloria’s Rolls Royce and find the Phenytoin pill bottle. Henry announces to Jo that he knows who killed Gloria.
Henry and Jo meet up with Conrad at the museum. Henry announces that Gloria killed herself. She knew she had months to live, so she took the phenytoin to kill herself. She took the pils en route to the museum because that is where she wanted to die, in front of a painting that her lover created, and his name was FC. Conrad confesses that his father told him that his mother Gloria had an affair with a painter. He says he never forgave her for it, and then marches out of the museum.
Henry and JO leave the museum, and Jo told him he did a good job back there. She understands why he didn’t want to go to the museum, ever since her husband died she can no longer go to China Town. Henry heads back to the antique shop and plays chess with Abe.
THE END!