What you'll learn

• 1 (01:34) **Scene Setting: The Discovery** - Marcus arrives at the Morris Science Building early on a foggy Sunday morning and finds his mentor, Professor Ellen Braithwaite, dead in Lab 214.
• 2 (05:58) **The Lost Voicemail** - Marcus remembers a panicked voicemail Ellen left him just before her death, which then vanished from his phone logs.
• 3 (07:13) **Who Was Ellen Braithwaite?** - A portrait of the victim: a beloved, accessible professor whose research on fungal resistance in wheat was prestigious and lucrative, creating hidden resentments.
• 4 (11:20) **Tension Before the Fall** - In her final month, Ellen seemed harried and stressed, spending late hours glued to her laptop, creating a growing distance between her and Greg.
• 5 (16:42) **The Final Pizza Night** - The night before her death, Ellen gathered her team for a last pizza night, making light of the growing pressure and maintaining her usual warmth.
• 6 (17:31) **Cracks Begin to Show** - A week before her death, Marcus overhears a tense exchange between Ellen and Dr. Oswald about missing quarterly forms and grant irregularities.
• 7 (19:44) **The Morning of the Death** - The timeline of the morning is reconstructed: Ellen's 7:53 AM voicemail, Marcus's frantic run to the lab, and his discovery of her body.

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