My theory after S4E7
Here's my crazy theory! I think Loretta and Lester are the Moriarty characters. I think they know each other from the acting world. They've been trying to throw the trio off because they killed Dudenoff.
- We will find out the Westies had nothing to do with Dudenoff's death. I think the cordial invitation to his funeralwill be him inviting them to a documentary screening where he says he is dying and wants them to keep his rent-controlled apartments.
- Loretta knew Dudenoff. He is likely Dickie's father. For some reason, three years ago, she either kills him or he dies at her hand accidentally, and she asks her good friend Lester to help her put the body in the incinerator.
- Lorettahas been following the podcast since season 1, afraid the trio would figure out the body in the incinerator. She and Lesterare behind the season 1 "plot holes" to try to convince them not to podcast. Lesterhad access to Oliver's apartment to poison Winnie and to place cameras (720p) in their apartments.
- Instead of working, the podcast flourishes. So Loretta sees an opportunity to get closer by auditioning for Death Razzle Dazzle (and get closer to her long-lost son), and then starts a relationship with Oliver.
- Sazz gets too close to figuring this out--this would explain why she has information about the season 1 plot holes and the Westies on her desk. She wants to speak to Charles about a sensitive subject, which is that his friend is in love with a potential murderer.
- I also think Sazz also drafted the screenplay of Season 1 of the podcast, that may be how she started piecing it all together. I think she didn't want credit for the screenplay because she was going to open her trampoline park and she had a bad break up with Bev, and she has Marshall serving as her stand-in writer. When she is killed, that leaves him not knowing how to rewrite the script. That would explain why he's so bad at it.
- Loretta shot Sazz--maybe she shooting is a skill she picked up as an actor when she played the undercover agent in Moonraker adaptation. Lester was there in the Arconia to get the body and dispose of it the same way he did Dudenoff.
- Glen was shot because he knows something he shouldn't. Maybe he figured out Sazz wrote the screenplay. Maybe he knows something about Dickie/Dudenoff. Maybe he's really Ben Glenroy (pretending to be his stunt double), and Loretta figured it out and needed to get rid of him. I don't know, this part I'm still working on! lol
- I think Loretta is going to be found out and killed at the end of this season. She'll be both the baddie and the victim for next season.
EDITED TO ADD: Lots of good comments pointing out that Lester called Charles about the hold in the window, which he wouldn't do if he was trying to cover up Sazz's murder. I agree. Which makes me think maybe he was the accomplice for the Dudenoff killing but not Sazz. That would make sense if Dudenoff was an "accidental" death (or Loretta claimed it to be accidental) because I could see Lester trying to help out his friend. So if Loretta shot Sazz, she must have a second accomplice. That might implicate Marshall--he stolee the script from Sazz and has some connection to Loretta. Maybe he was also in Dudenoff's film classes.The only other explanation would be if the Sazz murder is completely unconnected to Dudenoff, and that absolutely could be. But Sazz being shot from Dudenoff's apartment is sus to me.