"I think I saw a murder[...] I think the killer's after me."
After accidentally witnessing a murder, a woman in a surreal Asian city tries to escape the killer.
Emily O'Brien voices the woman and Ben Sullivan voices the man.
Tropes:
- Advert-Overloaded Future: One shot at the city landscape reveals that it is saturated with huge holographic ads.
- Apathetic Citizens: Nobody tries to help the woman nor will they listen to her when she asks for help, nobody even wonders why a man covered in blood is tearing down the street. This isn't just restricted to her, however, as she gets away with killing the man in the end.
- She also has a bit of this herself in the beginning, as when she hears the struggle across the street, instead of immediately reporting the sound of gunshots to the police she instead opts to close the window instead, which catches the man's attention. She only calls the police after he begins pursuing her.
- Camera Abuse: The cross-dressing host spits on the camera as he speaks to the man.
- Cassandra Truth: When the woman tells the crossdresser about the murder she witnessed, his reaction is "Ew, gross" and he dismisses it as her making up an excuse for being late.
- Chase-Scene Obstacle Course: During their Chase Scene, the woman throws boxes in the way of her pursuer.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The Man looks surprisingly like Groucho Marx sans his iconic mustache.
- Deranged Animation: Trippy visuals aside, there is the Gun Struggle scene (twice) which cuts into outright comic-book stills and traditional animation.
- Dies Wide Open: Both the man and the woman die this way after being shot.
- Door Handle Scare: There is a close-up on the door handle when it's revealed that the man has a key to the apartment the woman tries to hide in.
- Downer Ending: It's implied that the man and woman will continue their Stable Time Loop forever.
- Fan Disservice: The woman is running around in nothing but an unfastened robe throughout the later portion of the episode, allowing her breasts and torso to be flashed at the audience with the slightest movement, but it becomes unsexy due to her being absolutely terrified and running for her life the entire time. She also Dies Wide Open wearing this outfit.
- Fanservice: The woman performing the sexy show.
- Foreshadowing:
- One of the icons that appears before the title card is an ouroboros, giving away the episode's cyclical nature.
- The man in her bed at the beginning of the episode bears a startling resemblance to the man chasing after her. Doubles as a Freeze-Frame Bonus because he's just in the background. This also explains how the man, who becomes the witness at the end of the episode, is in her hotel room to witness the murder. He didn't magically appear there. He was there the whole time.
- Gainax Ending: The episode ends with the scenario reversed, with the woman having killed the man and the man spotting her through the hotel window. It's implied they may be trapped in a time loop of some kind.
- Gun Struggle: The man and woman somehow have the same fight over a gun twice, except the first ends with the man shot dead and the second with the woman dead.
- Large-Ham Announcer: The cross-dressing host at the club the woman works at."MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, BITCHES?!"
- Killing in Self-Defense: What the murder at the end and the murder at the beginning turn out to be.
- Mind Screw: A woman witnesses a man kill someone who looks just like her. She runs from him, finds a gun, and he eventually catches her. She shoots him several times and is witnessed by someone who looks just like him.
- Nameless Narrative: The main characters are only called "the man" and "the woman", though some of the supporting characters are named.
- Poor Communication Kills: The man claims he just wants to talk, but he gets shot in the struggle when he tries to disarm her.
- "Rear Window" Witness: The episode begins with the man noticing the woman witnessing him killing someone from a window in the next building. The man then chases the woman through the city. The episode ends with her killing him, only for someone who looks just like the man to witness it from the next window...
- Riddle for the Ages: When did the loop begin? Why was the man in the woman's hotel room bed and why does it play out as if she doesn't recognize him if they spent the night tonight? These questions go unanswered by the episodes end.
- Stable Time Loop: Despite no clear source of time travel, the short seems to show a two-phase loop that alternates between a man killing a woman, that same woman witnessing it then killing him, and vice-versa.
- Too Dumb to Live: Despite being fully aware that the previous loop in which he attempted to disarm the woman ended with her being shot and killed, the man attempts to disarm her again instead of explaining the situation or attempting to calm her down in some other way. He ends up shot and killed in this loop for his efforts.
- Written Sound Effect: Multiple sound effects show up in the air as things happen.
