[Malcolm perks up noticeably as he gets to nerd about weird murders.]

Well, the flintlock pistol was the murder weapon in what turned out to be the first in a series of killings based on the Count of Monte Cristo. So, I thought… if I’m going out the window, I’m going to want to save as much of the compelling evidence from the crime scene as possible, right? Two birds, one stone, because jumping through plate glass is not as easy as they make it look on TV.