Dead Drunk Detective: Zombeaten

 
This post contains spoilers for 'Zombeaten' and series three of Dead Drunk Detective. You can listen to the episode here.

Arfie does another alternate take on the theme tune monologue. To reflect Johnny's desperation, he sounds frantic and stressed.

This is a pretty dark episode. Johnny goes out to the woods fully expecting to die. He only avoids it through bumping into an acquaintance and Betty sending reinforcements.

Frank points out that zombies are famously 'pretty damn slow'. I do not think I have previously subverted or used this trope in the series before. There is rarely an opportunity to use it. As this is an audio medium, we are unlikely to feature a chase.

In keeping with my desire to not include references which date the show to a specific era, I drop a line from one of the most famous plays of all time. Johnny's 'words words words' is a allusion to Hamlet.

I worked really hard to make this series more interconnected and work as a coherent whole. Hence this finale pulls in the client from episode one, the location and titular character from episode four, and follows on from the action in episode five.

The episode finishes with Kate breaking the fourth wall to acknowledge that the final line is setting up the next Christmas special. This was not scripted. I think it is a nice touch - it means the last thing you hear before Katharine reads the credits is the cast laughing.