Murder Family

Murder Family is the first episode of the first season of Helluva Boss. It premiered on YouTube on October 31, 2020.

Synopsis
When the I.M.P get hired to take out a heroic homicide survivor, things sure do happen.

Plot
The episode opens with Mrs Mayfield, a elementary school teacher, talking about how one can lead a good life but still be sent to Hell for a few bad acts, before showing the day she committed those acts. As class begins she and her students are singing about learning and the day to come, when one of her students reminds her it's her husbands birthday. Mrs Mayfield panics, as she forgot it was his birthday and hadn't gotten him a present, when one of her students asks if they can call him as a happy birthday surprise, which Mrs Mayfield agrees to, using the classroom computer to video call her husband. To her shock and the class' horror, Mr Mayfield is in bed with another woman, which causes Mrs Mayfield to snap and storm out of the classroom, throwing a student who tries to calm her down into the ceiling on her way out. Driving home, her students watch on in horror as Mrs Mayfield violently attacks her husband and the woman he was in bed with, before she takes her own life upon realising what she had done.

It then cuts to Blitzo's office at I.M.P Headquarters, where Mrs Mayfield has been telling him the story as background for why she wants to hire the company's services. Blitzo mocks her, telling her that I.M.P. only kils targets in the living world, and from the sound of it everyone involved in her tale is probably down in Hell with them. Mrs Mayfield then reveals that while she successfully murdered her husband, the woman he had been in bed with, Martha, survived and became a hero because of what happened, appearing on talk shows and receiving two million dollars in donations.

In the office lobby, Loona and Millie watch as Moxxie uses a crossbow to shoot pictures pinned to the wall for target practice, until he goes to shoot the last photo and sees it is of a human family. Millie tells him to stop shaking, otherwise he'll hit Loona, and he tells her he can't bring himself to shoot the picture, as he doesn't want to kill an innocent family. Millie reminds him if that's what the client wants, he'll have to do it, while Loona berates him and invents reasons why the family in the picture could be horrible people. Millie then tells him morality isn't their business, killing is, and to shoot the target.

Blitzo then slams open the door to introduce Mrs Mayfield to the rest of the staff, causing Moxxie to panic and fire the crossbow. The crossbow bolt ricochets around the room bouncing off the walls and ceiling, hitting a computer monitor, the picture, and the leg of a fish tank before Blitzo catches it in time to stop it hitting Mrs Mayfield in the eye. The fish tank then collapses, spilling water and the electric eels within it across the floor, before the eels set fire to the office.

Outside the office, a fire crew packs up after extinguishing the blaze, and Blitzo walks Mrs Mayfield to a taxi, telling her they'll kill the target within 24 hours or else it's free. Moxxie asks him since when have they made that offer, and Blitzo angrily tells him ever since he set fire to the office in front of a client, before asking if the tome they use to access the living world survived. Loona confirms she grabbed the book, and Blitzo offers her a treat, which she declines, and Blitzo eats it himself.

Drawing the symbol needed to pass into the living world on the side of the building, Blitzo, Millie, and Moxxie head through to kill the target. Arriving at the lakeside home she is living in Blitzo and Moxxie approach the house to find Martha, her husband, and their two children sat down for dinner. Blitzo offers to let Moxxie kill the target, but upon seeing her family he hesitates. Blitzo, telling Moxxie he took to long to decide, goes to shoot Martha with a sniper rifle, but Moxxie asks him if they're killing a family. Blitzo tells him they're not killing a family, they're ruining a family by killing the mother. Moxxie asks him to think about what they're doing, before he knocks the rifle causing Blitzo to miss.

Inside the house, having heard the gunshot, the family arms itself with guns that had been stashed under the table, intending to turn whoever shot at them into tommorrow nights dinner.

Characters

 * Blitzo
 * Moxxie
 * Millie
 * Loona
 * Stolas
 * Martha
 * Mrs. Mayberry
 * Ralphie
 * Jarold
 * Robo Fizz (pictured)

Locations

 * Hell
 * Imp City
 * I.M.P Headquarters
 * Stolas's estate
 * Earth

Songs

 * Teacher's Song

Transcript
View the episode's transcript here.

Gallery

 * Murder Family/Gallery