M. William Phelps

I am not going to tell you, he says.

Days later, after coming up with a new idea, Clara gives Patrick a direct order in the form of a new underworld narrative she just created.

Path was Patrick's name in the underworld Clara had come up with.

In her dorm a few days after that instant message exchange, Clara tells Patrick her father will be, from that point on, known under a new code name.

The Target.

She further explains there is now no separation between the underworld OG and the real OG.

No more fuzzy lines or ambiguous references.

Clara is not the Lord of Chaos asking Path to fulfill his role in the game.

She is the girlfriend asking the boyfriend to murder her father.

She no longer appeared to be inside the game.

It appeared to be all reality to her by then, Patrick tells Detective Locke.

Clara has one final question for Patrick during that specific exchange.

Patrick has heard enough.

He stops messaging with her.

The relationship is over.

For investigators, Patrick coming forward changes everything.

His story fits with Mike, Katie, and now Kyle's version of events.

Leading up to the night, Dr. Schwartz was murdered.

And Clara Schwartz, the doctor's own daughter, now becomes their number one mark as the mastermind behind Dr. Schwartz's murder.

The problem investigators face is that all of these people knew one another.