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==Summary==
In History class, DeMartino returns some tests. Whereas some students had the expected grades (Daria A, Mack B, Brittany and Jane C) the football team, and especially Kevin, have achieved surprising good scores. Not fooled, DeMartino confronts the QB and, after the latter is unable to answer simple questions, accuses them of cheating and threatens to fail the whole class if nobody comes forward to confess. In between classes, Mack and Brittany try to convince Kevin to admit having copied, but the latter refuses. Jane and Daria watch and comment on the situation, and Daria makes a joke regarding killing Kevin.
That evening, at Schloss Morgendorffer, Jake rants about his clients and considers changing career before interacting with Daria, though he hardly pays attention to her daughter’s answers. Alone in her room, Daria falls asleep watching TV… and starts to dream…
''Daria’s dream:''
''In Lawndale, Daria Morgendorffer rides her bicycle to school. Once there, she and Jane comment the cheating on the History test before finding Kevin’s dead body hidden in Daria’s double-size locker. Students and teachers gather around and wonder on the murder before Li interrupts and accuses Daria. She interrogates her in her office with the help of DeMartino, O’Neill and a lying detector. The teachers play bad cop/good cop, pressuring Daria, but the student is unfazed and only provides sarcastic answers, poking fun at the teacher’s unrewarding careers and lack of prospects before walking out.''
''That afternoon Daria relays the news to her parents, but again both Helen and Jake pay her little attention. At [[Casa Lane]], Daria confides her fears to Jane before the latter shows her Trent’s apparent dead body. Jake, now a private detective, arrives that moment, just as Trent wakes up. Desperate for help, Daria hires The Fashion Club - aka Charlie’s Angels. The angels immediately go check the crime scene, though they get nowhere and the 3 J’s quickly ruin the murder scene.''
''The whole school attends Kevin’s funeral: the 3 J’s make a last check on the deceased; O’Neill breaks down crying on the podium; Daria and Jane question Brittany but get no useful answers; Mack is stumped when he tries to give an honest eulogy. Pressured later by Daria, he eventually reveals some anger at Kevin. Barch makes gleeful speech about the QB’s death just before Jodie concludes the ceremony.''
''Sometime later Daria rides through New York back to LWH. She examines her locker and finds a pink revolver just as Ms. Li appears with police officers Jake and Helen. Daria begs for a few minutes to solve the murder and has Jane assemble the suspects. When the relevant students and teachers are gathered, Daria tricks the culprits into revealing themselves by pretending the killer would have his/her hands dirty. Found out, the various (!) murderers confess: Jane, irritated that Kevin’s cheating would cost her a good grade, had poisoned his lunch sandwich; then Mack and Brittany, angry at the QB, had hit him with a golf club and shoot him with an arrow; Barch had kicked the unconscious young man; and DeMartino had mistaken the mortally wounded Kevin lying on the corridor as resting, and strangled him and hid the body in Daria’s locker.''
''Li interrupts the confession tales by drawing attention to the gun found in Daria’s locker… just as Quinn arrives to take it back. Enraged, the principal orders Daria to be taken away and electrocuted…''
… and Daria wakes up on her bed.
Later that morning, at school, Daria retells her dream to a bewildered Jane. Later, during history class, DeMartino announces he will not fail the students, but make them take another test instead. He is interrupted by Kevin, who pretends to be dying. Enraged at the sight of the student, DeMartion starts strangling the quarterback as Daria and Jane watch and comment…
==Trivia==
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''[[The Daria Database]]'', written two years earlier by Peggy Nicoll - the same writer as "Murder" and, from season 4, the story editor - mentions DeMartino was placed in [[Brookside Rest Home]] psychiatric hospital after assaulting Kevin. The end of this episode has Kevin being choked, the first of a few tie-ins to ''Database'' in this season (Kevin's parents in "[[Mart of Darkness]]" first appeared there).
This episode contains multiple lighthearted parodies of detective shows and movies. Since Daria's dreaming all the references and parodies, she's presumably a fan of one or more of the shows referenced.
The episode title is a play on the television series ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_She_Wrote Murder, She Wrote]'', which was referenced in the episode itself.
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C) The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_(film) ''Babe''] prequel.
D) God I hate my life.
While tongue in cheek, this gives us some indication of DeMartino's [[Daria and Politics|political views]]. (And apparently DeMartino is ignoring that a large amount of the Marshall Plan funds were spent on importing US goods.)
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