Dead Quiet is a dark, psychological mystery inspired by The Tell-Tale Heart, where three audience members unknowingly reenact guilt, innocence, and confession in real time. One becomes the killer, two the detectives, chosen in secret through a simple, fair process that even the performer never watches. Using nothing but an anatomical heart pendulum, the magician isolates the murderer without ever seeing what was written or who held the red marker. The tension builds as the pendulum responds, not to the cards, but to the weight of guilt itself. The reveal lands like Poe intended, not as a trick, but as the moment when silence becomes unbearable and the heart betrays the truth.