At the funeral of prominent business mogul Mr. Sullivan, mourners were shocked when his son, Alex, showed up unexpectedly. Clad in a bright green suit and smiling—an odd contrast to the somber atmosphere—Alex caught the attention of everyone in the room. The priest, clearly taken aback by Alex’s appearance, tried to send him away to change into something more appropriate. But Alex wasn’t about to leave.
Instead, he apologized for his outfit and walked straight to the front of the room, where he made a jaw-dropping announcement. Alex told the mourners that, contrary to what they all believed, his father wasn’t dead—he was alive. The room fell silent as Alex, with eerie confidence, explained how he’d discovered his father’s faked death.
The story began weeks earlier, at Mr. Sullivan’s 50th birthday party. The celebration seemed to go smoothly at first, but there were strange moments. During his toast, Mr. Sullivan had made cryptic remarks about feeling exhausted by his fast-paced life, which made Alex uneasy. Soon after, Mr. Sullivan went to his study, leaving guests concerned. But Alex’s brother, Carter, brushed off their worries, calling it just a “midlife crisis.”
Then, a loud crash came from the study. Alex rushed upstairs and found his father trembling on the floor, a vial of unknown liquid beside him. In a panic, Alex tried to help, but Carter insisted on taking Mr. Sullivan to the hospital himself, rather than waiting for an ambulance. Alex was devastated when Carter later informed him that their father had died from potassium cyanide poisoning.
While Carter took control of the funeral arrangements, Alex couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t right. Back home, he made a startling discovery: their family dog, Pebbles, had licked some of the liquid spilled near Mr. Sullivan’s body. Fearing the worst, Alex rushed the dog to the vet, only to find out the liquid wasn’t cyanide—it was a sedative.
Soon after, the police revealed that Mr. Sullivan had been under investigation for tax evasion after selling his company for an untaxed $10 million. This new information deepened Alex’s suspicions, prompting him to revisit the hospital and examine his father’s body. To his shock, the man in the morgue wasn’t his father at all.
Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Alex searched through his father’s belongings and found an address hidden in his father’s car’s navigation system. The address led him to an old mansion, where he uncovered two bags containing $10 million in cash and fake passports for both Mr. Sullivan and a woman named Linda. It all clicked: his father had faked his death to avoid legal troubles, and Carter had been in on the plan.
Back at the funeral, Alex dramatically revealed the truth. He showed the mourners a mirror held near his father’s mouth to prove he was still alive—breath fogged the glass. Then, after giving Mr. Sullivan an adrenaline shot, he sat up, alive and well, to the horror of everyone in the room.
In the end, Alex’s investigation exposed the elaborate scheme: Mr. Sullivan had faked his death, burned an unknown body, and planned to escape with the $10 million. Both Mr. Sullivan and Carter were arrested, thanks to Alex’s determination and quick thinking.
