Summary[]
Jessica happens on a computerized clue to a murder while writing a mystery story for a friend's interactive video game company.
Starring[]
Regular cast[]
- Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher
Recurring cast[]
- William Windom as Dr. Seth Hazlitt
Guest stars[]
- Julia Campbell as Sharon Baskin
- Kate McNeil as Kate Walden
- Allan Miller as John Crowley
- Phil Morris as David Salt
- Shawn Phelan as Alex
- Thomas Ryan as Dan Porter, P.I.
- Kevin Sorbo as Michael Burke
- Richard Yniguez as Sgt. Ignacio Delcanto
- Ramy Zada as James Lindstrom
- Sherman Augustus as Officer Rossi
- Art Cohan as Jeremy Hastings
- Danny Woodburn as Mr. Townsend
- Wayne Bolton as Colonel Fleming
- Shoshana Henri as Carrie Brandeis
- Heaven Brooke as Servant Girl
- Ryal Haakenson as Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
Trivia[]
- Final acting role of Shawn Phelan.
- Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey said in a Wired interview that this episode inspired him to work on his virtual reality device.
- The exterior of Hastings Rock in the game is remarkably similar to the castle in Murder, She Wrote: The Wind Around the Tower (1992).
- The building and exterior used for the software company, Marathon Images, is the same building and exterior used as the location of the Bio-Dome in Bio-Dome (1996).
Goofs[]
The 2nd time Jessica is playing the game she sees two battle axes hanging on a wall and asks that they be changed to sabers. Even though a tech says the axes are now changed to sabers, what actually appears are scimitars, which have a more pronounced curve to their blades than do sabers.