Afterward, Mr. Rogers puts on a gramophone record, from which a voice accuses everyone present of a murder.[4] Shortly after this, one of the party dies from poisoning, and then more and more people are murdered, all in methods synonymous with a poem affixed to the back of each bedroom door. With each death, the murderer removes a figurine from the centerpiece to coincide with the rhyme's sinister disappearance of each "little soldier boy". The remaining people decide to work together.