Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis) runs her own business, but got the start-up money from Harlan. Meg is outwardly progressive and feminist and pretends to be a friend to Marta, but with just a little nudge is ready to manipulate Marta into surrendering Harlan's fortune. Harlan's daughter-in-law Joni (Toni Collette) has been sponging off him for years and even double-dipping into the allowance for Meg's (Katherine Langford) tuition. Walt (Michael Shannon) runs the family publishing company, but was given the job by his father. Knives Out takes aim at the idea of privileged white people considering themselves to be "self-made" despite relying on inherited wealth and family connections for their success. Marta's humility is strongly contrasted with the spoiled, self-involved, and entitled Thrombey family. The death would be ruled a suicide, Marta would receive Harlan's fortune, and Ransom would get nothing. After Marta "confessed" to Ransom that she had killed Harlan, Ransom realized that Harlan's blood tests would be perfectly normal, showing no morphine overdose. The third was Harlan's decision to kill himself to ensure that Marta wouldn't get in trouble. The second was that Ransom could not possibly have predicted that the medicine vials would be knocked over and that Marta would mix them up all by herself.
The first was that Fran (Edi Patterson), the housekeeper, spotted Ransom tampering with the medicine bag the second time and realized that something was afoot. He anonymously hired Benoit to investigate Harlan's death, believing that Benoit's detective skills would pin Marta as the killer. Ransom then snuck back into the house during Harlan's funeral, when he knew it would be empty, to switch everything in the medicine bag back and avoid suspicion. He then climbed back down the trellis, but was spotted by Harlan's mother, Greatnanna Wanetta (K Callan) - a moment that would later prove crucial to Benoit figuring everything out.
He switched the labels on the medicine in Marta's bag, and took the antidote for a morphine overdose out of the bag. On the night of Harlan's death, after storming out over the will change, he returned to the house and climbed up the trellis to avoid being spotted.
Ransom's original plan was fairly simple. But even if Ransom was only guilty of attempted murder towards Harlan, he seals his fate by committing a number of additional crimes - including outright murder - to try and cover his tracks. Had he not switched the labels on the medicine, Marta would never have believed that she had accidentally given Harlan a morphine overdose, and Harlan would never have killed himself to cover for her. Related: Daniel Craig & Jamie Lee Curtis Interview: Knives OutĪlthough Harlan's death was technically at his own hands, Ransom is undoubtedly to blame. As Benoit Blanc explains, she got it right despite Ransom's tampering because Marta is a good nurse. Marta knew by the consistency of the liquids which medicine was which, and gave him the correct doses of each on instinct. However, not checking the labels is actually what would have saved his life. Throughout the film, Marta is riddled with the guilt of believing that she killed Harlan through her carelessness of not checking the labels on the medicine.
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