Nick was watching tv when the news anchor said, “Nick you really shouldn’t be watching tv. You need to go talk to Carol right now. Kill her.”
Your move, writer.
That word at the end is the whole story, so the fun is in deciding whether it's a glitch, a joke, or a genuine threat. You could play it as horror: the television has been watching back, and "kill her" is the first crack in a reality that no longer follows the rules Nick trusted, with Carol innocently in another room, unaware she's just been named. Or swing it comic: Nick's smart TV has been hacked by his prankster nephew, and the anchor's flat delivery is just bad text-to-speech reading a message meant for a video game chat, leading to a farcical dash to warn Carol about nothing. There's also a quieter option — Nick is the unreliable one, hearing things no one else hears, and the real story is what happens when he decides not to trust the voice at all.
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