> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Assassination of Gianni Versace episode 4 recap - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/the-assassination-of-gianni-versace-episode-4-recap/ - Published: 2018-02-09T17:45:51.000Z - Updated: 2018-02-09T18:12:52.000Z - Author: Heather - Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:55 ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-1-1518138472.jpg) The loft set they made for David Madson's loft already looks like a place where a serial murderer might be. I can't recall them addressing why there is plastic sheeting hanging up or whether he had recently moved in, or what. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-2-1518138479.jpg) This shot started with David working, and we saw Cunanan enter and walk toward him. Simple blocking, except that the way Darren Criss holds his body while walking as Cunanan is amazing. He glides, but so precisely, as if he's a tightly coiled snake. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-3-1518138487.jpg) Finn Wittrock plays Jeff Trail, and gets only one scene and like a minute of face time, max. Of course, that's partly because in the NEXT minute he will no longer HAVE a face. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-4-1518138317.jpg) Afterward, while David cowers in horror on the couch, Cunanan walks to him while still holding the bloody hammer and puts it on David's cheek, while acting like he's sharing in David's grief. It's well-constructed manipulation. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-5-1518138352.jpg) As is the whole ensuing bit, where Cunanan takes a shocked David and gently leads him to the shower, and almost tenderly helps him rinse himself clean of the blood spatter. By acting so caring, he got a dazed and confused David to go along with him immediately, which is the beginning of explaining why David never did call the cops. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-7-1518138443.jpg) Another subtle power play: leaving Jeff's body lying uncovered in the hallway. David would've had to flee OVER it, and when they do decide to go walk the dog -- Andrew, obviously, does not let David go anywhere alone -- they have to cover the body up together, which then makes David more of an accomplice while also continuing to drive home the horror of what happened and keep the vaguest notion that it might be David's fate no matter how much Andrew placates him. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-6-1518138360.jpg) Seriously, the set designers were either DELIGHTED to have very little to do, or bored out of their skulls. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-8-1518138303.jpg) Andrew leaves a bunch of S&M porn and supplies on David's bed, as a way of helping create suspicion that this might have been a sex game gone wrong. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-12-1518138327.jpg) And here, we have David's family's very sedate living room. My favorite little touch are the greeting cards lined up on the mantel. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-13-1518138394.jpg) We pause for Aimee Mann -- traveling through space and time to play as her current self but in 1997 -- to show up and perform a plaintive cover of "Drive" by The Cars, pregnant with meaning for Andrew. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-14-1518138383.jpg) The camera is on Criss as Andrew lets the words sink in and starts to cry. It's open to interpretation what he's crying about; it could be that he's coping with the fact that he's just committed murder, that he's made a prison for himself, or that he is realizing that this delusion of a life -- much less a life with David -- is not going to hold. Probably all three. It's very well done, and also TENSE AS HELL, because during this David is in the bathroom punching out a window and hoping to escape so we keep expecting Andrew to get up and find him in there and kill him. (He doesn't.)(Yet.) ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-16-1518138424.jpg) This diner scene is where the shine starts t come off: Here is the first exposition that clarifies how these two even know each other, and it's David drawing Andrew into a conversation about the glory days of when they met in San Francisco... before turning sour and hissing that it was all A LIE because Andrew is a big fake faker. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-18-1518138460.jpg) Naturally, this doesn't end well, although the show posits that Andrew was still trying to play along with his fantasy of a life together in Mexico before David finally snapped and tried to commandeer the car. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-19-1518138402.jpg) David pleads for his life. Then he just gives up and cuts Andrew verbally before turning to run while Andrew is facing the other way. Andrew turns and fires the gun. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-9-1518138432.jpg) There are some flashbacks throughout demonstrating David's relationship with his father.. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-15-1518138452.jpg) ... to a point. David came out to him after he had won an award ("good news, bad news"), and his father took a moment to compose his words and then finally said he can't change what he believes or pretend that he supports that lifestyle, but "I love you more than my own life." So after Andrew fires the gun, David seems to make it to a nearby trailer... but then he turns and sees his father, pouring soup from a Thermos and offering him some, and poor David sits down and shares an imaginary happy reconciliation with his father... ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/02/versace-crime-story-recap-ep-4-gfy-cunanan-20-1518138339.jpg) ... as it's revealed that he did indeed get felled by a bullet and tried to plead silently one more time before Andrew shot him in the face. We end with Andrew curled up next to David's dead body, head on David's chest, efore getting up and taking the Jeep straight to Lee and Marilyn Miglin's personal hell. It's a really stirringly shot piece. 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