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Dr. Malcolm Hogarth is the hidden main antagonist of the Victoriocity special episode "Murder in the Pharoah's Tomb". Hogarth is a Scottish archeologist in London and the killer of Lord Stanley Edgerton, a professor and his mentor, around the time of an exhibition Edgerton was leading.
He's voiced by Pip Gladwin, who voiced numerous other characters throughout the podcast series.
Biography[]
Hogarth worked his way up from poverty to solidify his career. A longtime associate of Edgerton, he was brought along to an excavation of an Egyptian pharoah's tomb, but around the time King Akinahten was found, Hogarth caused a cave collapse that killed three students involved in the dig. One of the was Peter Bowe, Edgerton's illegitimate son who joined to reunite with Edgerton, who Hogarth killed to bury the scandal and protect his own career. When Edgerton realized the truth, Hogarth confessed to Edgerton, who, albeit distraught, believed in protecting his group's efforts and his own prestige and kept the truth a secret.
Around the time Akinahten was to be unwrapped back at London in the museum where he resided, Edgerton was told by doctors he was dying. He planned to reveal the truth to clear his conscience the night of the unveiling, telling Hogarth in advance. Hogarth dreaded repercussions, so he stabbed Edgerton to death the night before the event and shoved him in Akinahten's sarcophagus. He created an "alibi" by returning to the museum while his cab driver was paid to circle the area, then leaving in Edgerton's outfit and abandoning it once he returned to the cab.
When Edgerton was "revealed" in the sarcophagus, Hogarth collapsed, as he faked a fainting spell from having gradually poisoned himself with antimony in his hip flask. He pretended to be most devastated by the loss of his career, but it took comparing everyone's accounts of that night to figure our Hogarth had the window of opportunity to murder Edgerton. Reading the reports of the cave collapse, they confronted Hogarth in front of the other suspects about Peter and Hogarth's crimes. After much denial and failed lies, Hogarth caved and confessed to everything, blaming Edgerton for everything. He would later be arrested once the police arrived.
Quote[]
| “ | He was dying. That's...why he was going to tell. Dying men want to clear their conscience. They think that that's enough. They think that...that undoes their deeds. The young man, Peter, he...he just wanted a father...but he wasn't prepared to remain a secret. Stanley didn't know what to do. It was like...his younger self had set a bomb and then run away, and now we had to face it. That's what rich boys do. They knock things over, and then they run away because there's always someone with a broom who'll tidy it up. I grew up with nothing. I worked to get there, to the right hand man of a lord. To be one of the great leaders of a great archaeological endeavor. But he was just an old, foolish aristocrat with his eyes locked toward his own ruin. Why should I lose everything I've worked for because of his indiscretions?! Where's the fairness in that?! I took action because he would not. He knew what I'd done. He didn't say anything, so I think a part of him agreed it had to happen. But then he got his prognosis. Seems it changed his mind. And tonight became about something other than...Akinahten. For Edgerton...it was all about Edgerton. Four men have died because of his selfishness! And I'll be the fifth... | „ |
| ~ Hogarth's confession and final lines |
Victims[]
- The Egyptian cave collapse: (buried alive)
- Peter Bowe
- Two unidentified students
- Lord Stanley Edgerton (stabbed to death; left in a sarcophagus postmortem)