Spoilers for Season 5 of Only Murders in the Building are ahead! Read with caution, and stream new episodes every Tuesday with a Hulu subscription .

Paul Rudd ’s characters on Only Murders in the Building might die, but at this point, we can almost always count on the actor returning in some way, shape or form. This season, he came back to voice the Arconia’s robot doorman L.E.S.T.R . So, while he can’t be seen in the season airing on the 2025 TV schedule , he can be heard. However, before the team landed on that idea, they floated a bunch of other ways for the actor to make his way back into the building, and co-creator John Hoffman told me about one of the wilder ideas they had.

Now, working Rudd into Season 5 of Only Murders was no easy task. Hoffman

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