‘My Life Is Murder’ Recap: ‘Look, Don’t Touch’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode 204 of ‘My Life Is Murder’.

One fascinating belief that we all share in, is that a broken heart is a dangerous thing, and it does make sense as to why we hold to that notion. Because time and time again, we’ve heard about how people that are tossed aside by a lover… go to extremes to make it known they are devastated by the end of a relationship, they thought the world of. Sometimes it comes in the form of an embarrassing act and sometimes it comes about through harm and danger, but one way or another… they make a headline that teaches us that broken hearts can be incredibly scary to those who cannot fathom the end of a love affair and well, the fact of the matter is… this is a belief that we must collectively change.

Because, the folks that act out in a wild manner when heartbreak arrives, are in the minority and clearly have something deeper going on to motivate them to act out in such a manner. Since the vast majority of us, grieve as we need to, before reconciling our emotions and moving on when an important relationship comes to an end for us. Simply because we quickly come to understand that life goes on and there is someone else out there waiting for us. But changing that weird perception will be no easy task, for it really is quite engrained in our world, to the point where someone might take advantage of that trope to execute a nefarious plan, as evidenced by the next episode of My Life Is Murder on Acorn TV. Since ‘Look, Don’t Touch’ features a case involving quite the twist on that very belief. 

For Alexa is assigned a case that appears to be nothing more than a stereotypical broken heart tale. Since a plucky and passionate historian named Daniel, is found dead in the water off of the coast, after sending his now ex-girlfriend a cryptic text that implied the loss of her love was too much for his soul to bear and he rather would have died than gone on without her. But of course, both Alexa and the police have concerns about this seemingly open and shut case. In that, Daniel sure did show up far away from where he supposedly fell into the water, and it is quite curious that his phone is fingerprint free since he was the last person to send a text. Which makes it appear as though, someone went to great lengths to make it appear as though Daniel died of a broken heart, when in fact… he might have been a victim of foul play.

Which of course puts Madison and Alexa on the case to figure out if that is indeed the case or not and well, what they found was simply fascinating. Because the more they dug into the potential love triangle surrounding Daniel, the more they realized that he likely didn’t die of a broken heart. For all signs pointed to a historian that was eager to continue his career, regardless of whether or not he was in a relationship. Which led them to look closer at his relationship with the museum’s curator and the strange markings on Daniel’s hand and thankfully, that decision proved to be quite fruitful. For it turned out that said curator, was hiding a secret about one of the exhibits, one that Daniel uncovered and in doing so… she went to great lengths to keep her illegal secret buried by killing Daniel and framing the whole event as the end result of a broken heart, to get away with her plans.

But alas, thanks to Alexa’s keen eye and creative mind… she most certainly didn’t and well, in the end, this is an episode that deserves a round of applause for its outright creativity. Because it cannot be easy to assemble a murder mystery that offers this much guile and misdirection and detail, but this episode pulled all that off to a tee and did a fine job of reminding us to always offer up some sense of scrutiny when something seems out of place, because you never know where a question might take you. And now that we’ve reached the end of this quality and engaging mystery, it’s on to the next and quite frankly… who knows what awaits us come next Monday, since My Life Is Murder has made it clear that it is going to surprise us at every turn. Until next time.

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