01x06 - Chapter Six: Tragic

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01x06 - Chapter Six: Tragic

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LEILA: Previously on
Death and Other Details...

I k*lled Keith Trubitsky.

You really want us to
believe you harpooned a dude

for yelling at you?

You did not catch the k*ller. You
only caught one of his followers.

Viktor Sams is an alias
for an international syndicate

that profits by corporate blackmail.

If his targets don't pay,
he sends them a message.

- [SIGHS]
- Okay, so you think my mom sent ya these?

You sent me the spy pics after
tryin' to set me up for m*rder!

I want you to sit there and
show them that I'm in charge.

We came here to close and you couldn't.

We have a deal.

All I ever wanted was for
people to take me seriously.

- They are experts.
- I want a divorce.

You wanted to know my deepest secret?

That sounds f*ckin'
awful, but I still win.

Viktor Sams is everywhere and nowhere.

How does one keep an operation
as large as his so nimble?

It's his whole bloody operation.

[DIAL-UP INTERNET SOUND]

[TYPING]

[RINGING]

[MOUSE CLICKS]

[THROUGH COMPUTER]
Well, joining us tonight

is the upstart private eye who
solved the impossible crime.

Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Rufus Cotesworth.

[AUDIENCE CLAPPING]

Now... Mr. Cotesworth,

how did you discover the necklace?

- Paint.
- [AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

No, really.

For anyone who has applied
wallpaper to freshly painted walls,

you know you should
allow the paint to dry

for at least 30 days before
sticking anything to it.

- Right, ladies?
- [AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

Well, the palace had been
freshly painted, pristine,

except a patch was missing
from the back doorjamb.

Now, when pressed, the contessa's nanny

admitted... she had taped over
the lock every Wednesday night,

so that her Belgian beau could sneak in.

Now that I had identified
the Belgian thief,

the real challenge... was
how to retrieve the necklace

before he moved it
through the black market,

never to be seen again.

Fortunately, even great thieves
love one thing above all:

gossip.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

All it took was a few free
drinks and my ability to play dumb.

For you to accomplish what
Scotland Yard and MI5 couldn't.

- Hm.
- Ladies and gentlemen, Rufus Cotesworth,

and let me be the first to say,

the world's greatest detective.

His words, not mine.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING]

- Any advice for our would
-be sleuths out there?

Well... there's only one thing

that separates a good
detective... from a great one.

The truth.

The truth... at all cost.



[MYSTERIOUS THEME MUSIC PLAYING]





[WATER SLOSHING]

[GASPING]

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

[IMOGENE MOANING]



[HEAVY BREATHING]

- So bossy.
- I know what I want.



[HEAVY BREATHING]

[GASPING, MOANING]

♪ ... over the sea ♪

IMOGENE: Is it just me
or is the room spinning?

SUNIL: As much as I'd
love to take credit,

- I'm fairly certain it's seasickness.
- [IMOGENE CHUCKLES]

I don't know how you do it.

Living on this floating Tilt-A-Whirl.

Tilt-A-Whirl?

The fairground ride.

It spins on a pivot,
and then right after,

you're throwing up funnel cake.

Ohh. Right, yeah. We
call it the "Waltzer."

Hm. That actually makes more sense.

Just like the metric
system and the "u" in colour.

[IN BRITISH ACCENT] Just like the
metric system and the "u" in colour.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

I know, to you, it's just a...
ship sloshin' around the high seas,

but,

- to me, it's...
- It's your purpose.

[INHALES] Ya know, when you say it back,

- it does sound a bit cheese.
- [IMOGENE GIGGLES]

No, it doesn't.

It sounds nice.

I've never had a purpose.

I don't think that's true.

I am an assistant to a mid-level
marketing executive, so... [SIGHS]

[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]

Not that.

Then, what then?

I'm not a detective. Not really.

If I rang my mum and told her about you,

I'd call you a detective.

- What on Earth is funnel cake?
- [IMOGENE CHUCKLES]

[SERVERS WHIRRING]

It's like this along every exterior
wall from here down to F deck.

Ambient temperature of the
ocean keeps the servers cool.

We would've figured it out eventually.

When did you say your source
traced Viktor Sams to Argentina?

- November of 2021.
- That tracks.

We were there. Buenos
Aires, South American tour.

- Hm.
- All this time they were operating

- right under my nose.
- Don't b*at yourself up.

He evaded me for 18 years

- and I'm the world's greatest...
- World's greatest detective.

Their words, not mine.

Undertaking like this requires
construction, maintenance, specialists.

It's a logistical elephant.

sh*t, you don't think Sunil's in on it?

I do not see how it
is possible otherwise.

- [DIALING PHONE NUMBER]
- [RINGBACK TONE]

IMOGENE [ON VOICEMAIL]:
Hey, you've reached Imogene.

[SIGHS] Voicemail.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

This was fun.

- Was?
- Is. Was.

Will be.



[DOOR THUDS]

I admire what you did,
getting that family to safety.

I didn't do it for praise.

Most people say they
want the world to change,

then do f*ck all.

What? You think you and I are the same?

Aren't we?

And we're not alone.

I'm part of something
bigger than any one of us.

We're going to reset the scales,

get even with the people who have
been above the law for far too long.

You could be a part of it.

How does k*lling Rufus
Cotesworth's assistant

make the world a better place?

- What are you talking about?
- That's who he was.

Not Keith Trubitsky, the millionaire.

Just a poor man trying to do his job.

So, whatever you were
promised, that's a lie.

I'll have no part of it.

[COME SAIL AWAY BY STYX PLAYING]

ANNA/TRIPP [SINGING]:
♪ I'm sailing away ♪

♪ Set an open course
for the virgin sea ♪

♪ 'Cause I've got to be free ♪

♪ Free to face the life
that's ahead of me ♪

[SONG CONTINUES PLAYING]

[GASPS, EXHALES]

Are you gonna drink that?

Oh, lady... you are so f*cked up.



[GROANS]

BOTH [SINGING]: ♪ And I'll try ♪

♪ Oh, Lord, I'll try ♪

♪ To carry on ♪

[MIC FEEDBACK TONE]

You're kinda pitchy. Mm.

Ah, pity party. It's
my favorite kinda party.

TEDDY: How long does this take?

Imagine a dictionary with two
million commonly used passwords.

With this program, I can run
them all in rapid succession.

A few hours.

I knew you were more than
just a rich lady's wife.

[SINGS] ♪ I look to the sea ♪

♪ Reflections in the
waves spark my memory ♪

♪ Some happy, some sad ♪

[MESSAGE ALERTS]

♪ I think of childhood
friends and the dreams we had ♪

[PHONE RINGING]

- Hey.
- Thank God.

You're unharmed.

♪ But we'll try best that we can ♪

♪ To carry on ♪

BOTH: ♪ A gathering of... ♪

- [TRIPP SINGS INDISTINCTLY]
- I thought you knew it.

- BOTH: Uh.
- [BOTH SINGING INDISTINCTLY]

- ♪ This is what they said ♪
- BOTH: ♪ They said ♪

♪ Come sail away, come sail away ♪

- ♪ Come sail away with me ♪
- Should I do the harmony?

- You got me.
- I'll do the harmony. Okay.

BOTH [SINGING]: ♪ Come
sail away, come sail away ♪

- ♪ Come sail away with... ♪
- It's not, it's not right.

- Tripp!
- It's not right. Ya gotta go down.

BOTH [SING]: ♪ Come sail
away, come sail away ♪

- ♪ Come sail away with... ♪
- What are you singing?

♪ Come sail away, come sail away ♪

BOTH: ♪ Sail away with me ♪

ELEANOR: A week at sea.

Feels like a month, or maybe, an hour.

Strange when all you
can see is the horizon.

[CELIA SPEAKING MANDARIN]

Go with the marigold.

Send an obscene amount
to Miss Scott's room.

[CHUCKLES] Alright, thanks, Edgar.

[PHONE RINGING]

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

[RINGING]

VIKTOR SAMS [OVER PHONE]: Mr. Bhandari.

What the f*ck? You were
following us in Malta.

VIKTOR: We are always
watching. We own you.

I'm done.

I don't care what you
do to me or my ship.

I will not spy for you any longer.

VIKTOR: You have feelings for the girl.



- If anything happens to her, I...
- [CALL ENDS]

Stop.

- Imogene.
- That was him, wasn't it?

Viktor Sams?

- I... I...
- You work for Viktor f*cking Sams?

- No, I don't work for him. I can explain.
- He owns the boat.

Anyone who pays attention would know.

This ship is no money maker.

You bankrupted yourself
bringing your dream to life.

Ran out of options.

'Til you took dirty money to
keep... keep it all above water.

You're an accomplice.

He made a criminal of you.

We already found his servers.

I didn't know what he was
when I agreed to take his money,

- I swear to you.
- Yeah, that means sh*t at this point.

Where is he?

Or who is he?

You wanna make this right?

[SIGHS]

Bring us to him.

Imogene, it doesn't work
that way. You don't contact him.

How did he recruit you?

There was an intermediary.

It was an asset manager... from Zurich.

Mr. Bhandari... I'm Andreas Windeler.

- Please, take a seat.
- Thank you.

My client is willing to meet your terms

with just one small request.

It's him.

He followed us in Malta.

Viktor Sams was tracking us
and you knew the whole time.

- I wouldn't have let him hurt you.
- Oh, f*ck off.

- Where is he now?
- If I knew, I would tell you.

First things first, what was the offer?

When do I get to meet Mr. Sams?
I'd love to thank him in person.

You do not meet Viktor Sams.

We will fund the
completion of your project.

In exchange, my client will make certain

technological upgrades
to their specification.

You will ask no questions.

This offer expires the
moment I walk out that door.

So, you took the deal? No reservations?

Those bankers who'd
turned me down. I didn't...

give two shits where
that money came from.

I just wanted to rub
their smug faces in it.

If we need to contact you...
we will reach out on this.

Keep it close.



It gets worse from here.

I finished the repo.

Every brass bit polished,
every window stripped

and painted with the original color.

Everything period perfect.

Except for the server farms,
built to their specification.

I didn't know what they needed
it for. I should've asked.

Not that they would've told me.

And then that was it.

Five, maybe six years.

They never asked me to
do anything ever again.

- Until...
- Yeah.

Until...





[PHONE RINGING]

VIKTOR [OVER PHONE]: Mr. Bhandari,

I understand there's a mess in room 534.

- Did you do it?
- VIKTOR: There will be an investigation.

- [SUNIL SIGHS, SNIFFLES, EXHALES]
- We need you to keep us informed

as it progresses.

IMOGENE: Keep them informed?

Meaning report back on us?

- On me?
- The second I found out what he did

- to your mother, I stopped.
- Hm. Really?

So, you just took me to Valletta
out of the kindness of your heart?

Would you believe me if I said yes?

- How much do they know?
- I didn't tell them anything.

Okay, about

who we met o-on land,
a-a-ab-about the bill of lading.

- I just wanna help. I...
- Can we tie him to a chair?

I would really like
to tie him to a chair.

- [DISTANT CHATTER]
- [GLASSWARE CLINKING]

- f*ck!
- What?! What, no olives?

No, f*ck olives. Brad's here.

- You love Brad.
- [TRIPP SIGHS]

Oh, you asked Brad for money.

My little sister's a CEO

and I'm still on an allowance like
a f*ckin' child. It's embarrassing.

- I'm not a CEO.
- Well, you will be.

No, I won't. It's Celia
Chun's company now, basically.

- She won't back me.
- You'll fix it, Anna. You always fix it.

Can I go to sleep now, please?
Have I raised your spirits enough?

I f*cked Eleanor.

Oh.

Is that all?

[SIGHS] Does Leila know?

No. No, of course not.

I love her. I c... I can't tell her.

Do I have to tell her?

It doesn't even f*cking matter.

I don't think she wants
to be my wife anymore.

- Why do you say that?
- Hm?

Oh, she told me.

What do you mean? Like...

- There's a word for it.
- Oh, f*ck.

That sucks. Ah, I love Leila.

Really? She does not like you.

Oh, she likes me, alright? She,
she likes me. You know what?

You know what? She likes me
'cause we're both outsiders.

I mean, yeah, technically
we're on the inside.

We're here. We're not.

But,

see, ya either have
the spark or you don't.

And the spark, the spark is everything.

'Cause the spark means you can see
the world for what it really is.

And what it really
is... is a f*ckin' joke.

It's a joke, but

it's deadly f*ckin' serious.

Do I have the spark? I, I,

I think I did. I-I think,

think I lost it.

Do you wanna get your wife back?

Oh, you, you want advice? Um,
sorry, I'm... [CLEARS THROAT]

I'm tapped out.

[EXHALES] But, uh,

you should try... right?



[ANNA SNIFFLES]

What up, fam? Still here.

Day six on the SS V, and they're
bringin' out the big shrimp.

Like, "Hey, don't stress on that m*rder.

Check out this big-ass shrimp."

Kind of a sneaky, good plan.



[INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER]



Good Lord, Llewellyn.

Another late night of negotiations?

Oh, you haven't heard.

Lawrence agreed to Celia's terms.

[CHUN FAMILY LAUGHING]

How bad was it?

They, um... f*cked us up the ass.

No lube. Sorry.

But... the Colliers still
have control... of the company?

Uh, no, not anymore.

I answer to Shanghai now.

No lube, Father. Not one little dab.



You all right?

What I'm thinking

is... maybe we deserve it.



- [COUGHING]
- [KEYPAD BEEPS]

[COUGHING]



- Alexandra, join us.
- f*ck off, Toby.

THAT DEREK: sh*t, Dad, what'd you do?

- Governor.
- Can we speak in private?

It's Sunday. We can talk on Monday.

I have information on Lawrence Collier.

It's damning and I have
proof enough to prosecute.

[DEEP BREATH]



This is Agent Hilde Eriksen,
Interpol badge number 7160,

- signing in at 2:34
- [WATCH TICKING]

on Sunday the 27th.

I am here with Governor
Alexandra Hochenberg

who has requested an interview.

I need assurances first.

- Immunity.
- Immunity from what?

What have you done, Governor?

It pales in comparison to
what Lawrence Collier did.

My intel can ensure he dies in prison.

It's a career maker.

What did he do?

Full immunity, records
sealed, and I do not testify.

You have documentation?

It's all there.





This is some kind of joke.

What? No, it's...

[ALEXANDRA COUGHING, RETCHES]

- She needs a doctor!
- He's a doctor. Let him help.



[GAGGING, COUGHING]



- SUNIL: Is this really necessary?
- No, you're right.

We should just untie
him. This is lunacy.

Shut up.

RUFUS: Your ship has done double duty

as a floating server
farm for half a decade.

A perfect cover

to conduct an international blackmail
operation and elude detection.

Viktor Sams should risk that,

all of that... to k*ll my friend, Danny.

- Why?
- Why? I...

They tell me almost nothing.

[STAMMERS] I don't even
know what Viktor Sams wants

- or how any of this works.
- A worthy foe.

It's been some time for me.

Well, it's been fun.

You've made your point. Untie me.

Oh, my point's, like, 25% made... tops.

Must call Eriksen at once.

[GRUNTS, GROANS]

[COUGHS]

ELEANOR: He's calling time of death.

Alexandra? Alexandra!

ANNA: Oh God!

TRIPP [CRYING]: No.

- What are we doing?
- He's on a bender.

- We need to get him outta here.
- What happened, Tripp?

You have no idea what
your family is capable of.

You! You did this.

m*therf*cker, she came
to you. Last night!

[GROANING]

AGENT ERIKSEN: Take Mr.
Collier back to his quarters.

Everyone else, clear the deck.

This is a crime scene.

That's it?!

An-Another person is dead
and we're just supposed

- to go back to our rooms?
- AGENT ERIKSEN: For now.

I'll request reinforcements
and get this vessel to shore.



[ELEVATOR DINGS]

I'm sorry. Tripp was...

He shouldn't have said what he said.

He wasn't wrong.

[ELEVATOR DINGS]





There are no potatoes here.

Ever heard of the name, Viktor Sams?

We're all in danger.

What the Governor had to do
with the man you're hunting,

this Viktor Sams, I
have no earthly idea.

She was a whistleblower.

She came to me claiming to have
a case against the Collier family.

What case?

We never got that far.

- She said she had damning evidence, but...
- The pages are all blank.

[SARCASTICALLY] You're a natural.

Swapped out, evidently.

Her k*ller must've known
what she was planning.

But if it's Viktor Sams,
that means he's protecting

the Collier family. Why?

AGENT ERIKSEN: We must
question their lawyer.

Tripp Collier seemed
sure he was involved.

- Good. You take lead.
- [DIALING PHONE NUMBER, RINGBACK TONE]

Inspector Friedrich? Yes,
the situation has deteriorated.

Another passenger on the ship has d*ed.

'Kay, so what are we lookin' for?

AGENT ERIKSEN: Poison, I believe.

RUFUS: Hm. Your stomach
has gotten stronger.

Last time we did this,
you lost your lunch.

Yeah, I wanted to say
"gross" like six times,

- but... seems unprofesh.
- Hm.

- What do we think? Poison?
- RUFUS: Likely.

Maybe somebody slipped it
in her coffee this morning.

Hm. Blood on the lips.

Cough suggests the poison
att*cked her respiratory system.

It needed to be administered
directly into her bloodstream.

- You're sweating.
- It's warm.

Well, yes, but

she's wearing long
sleeves and it is warm.



Oh... [DEEP BREATH]

Gross.

Necrotizing fasciitis.
She's been dead three days.

She just didn't know it.

I saw a cough.

I wrote it off as allergies.

IMOGENE: Three days?

That means she was k*lled while onboard.



Those stupid f*cking vitamin drips
they give out on the pool deck.

[DOOR CREAKS]



Give a boy a ball.

Passes the time.

Does it?

No.



Keep at it.

[DOOR CREAKS]

I take it the Governor is dead.

So, it's another confession then?

You already know it was me...
and you can prove it this time.

What changed?

She thought Trubitsky
was some rich assh*le.

Now she knows.

Is it true?

He worked for you?

For 20 years.

He was my closest friend.

If you're going to
work for a psychopath,

and do it happily,

pays to be a psychopath oneself.

But you're not. Winnie, you're not.

You haven't eaten, you've hardly slept.

You've taken your
fingernails down to the quick.

You are not remorseless.

You were just lost... and
they took advantage of you,

and they said all the right
things, but they were lies.

Please... help us stop this.

They hid a flip phone in our room.

They'd call when they wanted something.

"Doctor the IV drip,"
"Get in the bar cart,"

"k*ll the man in 534."

I swear I didn't know who he really was.

And the phone?

Chucked it overboard before I confessed.

Winnie... who is Viktor Sams?

You think I know?

No one knows Viktor Sams.

Well, you work for
him, or them, or whatever.

I had a friend from school, Keeley.

Got knocked up by a boy
who didn't deserve her.

She wanted to keep the baby,

so she got a job at a factory
making products out of rubber.

The owner was greedy. Long
hours, bad ventilation.

And then one day,

three months too early...
her contractions began.

Her baby lived six and a half days.

Doctor said it was the benzene
in the air at the factory.

Keeley blamed herself,

so she climbed to the top
of the tallest building

she could find and jumped.

Two years later,

Viktor Sams targeted
that greedy factory owner.

I avenged her death.

But there is so much more corruption,

so much more to do.

I'm sorry about your friend,

but I have to believe his
death was for a greater purpose.

And why did the Governor have to die?

Viktor Sams has a reason.

You m*rder*d two people
and you don't understand why?

[SCOFFS] Look at you,
changing the f*cking world.

I think we're done here.



[COMPUTER BEEPING]

[BEEPS]





Lady! Are you out of your f*ckin' mind?

- I'm telling you...
- [CLICKING TOUCHPAD]



[HEAVY BREATHING]



[PHONE BUZZING]

It's all connected. It has to be.

- Imogene.
- The Collier factory in Jiangsu.

The rubber factory.

I mean, coincidences are
just dressed up clues, right?

- Perhaps.
- SUNIL: Imogene.

And maybe Danny was close
to figuring things out.

- Maybe that's what got him k...
- Imogene.

What?

My phone... Inés.

[PHONE DINGS]



Hey, look at me.

- You wanna help?
- Yeah, I do.

Okay, stay still.

[PHONE UNLOCKS]

INÉS [ON VOICEMAIL]: That document,
I was able to put a date to it.

[TRIPP SNORING]

[LOUD KNOCKS AT DOOR]

Jiangsu, China.

- ANNA: What?
- Jiangsu, Anna.

Your factory there was using a
banned carcinogenic poison chemical?

That man.

- He has it out for us.
- I found proof.

A shipping receipt... from 2005.

This is what he has you doing?
Investigating my family business?

We are looking for a k*ller!

- And your denial sucks.
- I really can't with this right now.

How long have you been
paying blackmail to Viktor Sams?

What are you talking about?

It's why he k*lled my
mom... as a warning sh*t.

And your company has been
paying blackmail ever since.

- You are so far off the mark.
- Yeah?

Did we make mistakes in China? Yes.

But the minute I found out, I fixed it.

I rebuilt the entire
g*dd*mn factory from scratch

and it bankrupted us.

What do you think we're doing here?

You think I wanted to beg my
ex-girlfriend for a lifeline?

- So, you knew?
- I stopped it.

- You covered for them!
- No, that is not...

They were poisoning people, Anna!

How many people got sick?!
How many people d*ed?!

- You're criminals.
- Says the woman who's been stealing

from my company for years!

You thought I didn't know?

You know that is so like you.

Just sit on it and use
it to manipulate me.

f*ck you. I wouldn't do that.

- I let it go because I felt sorry for you.
- Oh, right.

You are so wrapped up in your trauma.

- You can't move past it.
- At least it's mine!

Ya know, what do you
have? A f*cking last name?

That last name paid for your life.

Yeah, well, I didn't
f*cking ask for that.

We gave you everything,
you ungrateful c**t.



Right.

[SCOFFS]

We've known her for 20 years.
Lawrence will be heartbroken.

I would like to speak with your husband.

Two people are dead. Why
are we not in port yet?

We are awaiting reinforcements.

Once we have docked in Palermo,

no one will be permitted to leave
the city until this is resolved.

No one.

This is no time for an interrogation.

We are in mourning.

You can stay and pray with us.

I'm not a believer,

but if you could ask your
God, in all his benevolence,

to spare the rest of us.

Prayer against m*rder? Can't hurt.

[INHALES] The only argument for
prayer that ever made any sense to me.

You got in?

He has kompromat.

Photos, videos... blackmail materials.

- On me?
- On everyone.

Is that...

Yes, my soon-to-be ex-wife f*cking
her ex-girlfriend two nights ago.

- Oh.
- I bought her that bra.

- What else does he have?
- There's a folder on your sister.

Show me.



She knows about Captionem Blue.

Steve, you said you
scrubbed the books, right?

I don't know. She said
something about a, a receipt?

Father, we look to you in
these especially dark times.

- [LIGHTS ZAP]
- Jesus Christ!

THAT DEREK: Dad! The Wi-Fi d*ed.

- Steve?
- [LIGHTS ZAP]

[SERVERS BEEPING]

TEDDY: f*ck.



He did this. He was watching us.

We need to get the
backup generators online,

implement emergency protocols,
keep 300,000-euro sushi cold.

[SCOFFS] What am I doing here?

LEILA: Ask yourself this,

where are you meant to be?

Doesn't matter. I've got a job to do.

Um, maybe don't touch anything,
and, uh, maybe don't tell anyone

you watched your wife's sex tape
instead of gathering evidence.



[EXHALES]

She copped to it.

Collier Mills poisoned
their workers and they knew.

It's a coverup. It's
all of a piece. It must be.

Governor's case against the Colliers.

A m*rder.

Corruption in the Collier family.

Viktor Sams is the tie that binds them.

Surely, it's a puzzle.

We have what we need to solve it,

now we make the pieces fit.

How are you so sure?

Why cut the power?

'Cause we're getting close.

We are.

We're close.

LLEWELLYN [YELLING]: Don't
come any closer! Stop it!

[PASSENGERS SCREAMING, CLAMORING]

LLEWELLYN: Stay up!
Get the f*ck back now!

Llewellyn? Llewellyn, what
are you, what are you doing?

I'm sorry.

Why don't you just come over
here and we can talk about it?

I spent years trying
to [SNIFFS] punish myself,

but the pain never stopped anything.

Punish yourself for what?

Is this about Captionem Blue?

Don't ask questions you don't
wanna know the answers to, Imogene.



Are you in league with Viktor Sams?

You.

The world's greatest detective.

The truth was right there, staring
you in the face and you missed it?

You f*cking hack!

Kira deserved so much better.

I really loved her, ya know?

[PEOPLE SHOUTING]

Get down there, get down there!



He knew something... about
my mom, about Viktor Sams.

You saw his eyes when
you said that name.

He didn't even flinch. He just...

[SIGHS] There's nothing here.

Whatever secrets Llewellyn
knew, he took with him.

No!

No.

Rufus, think.

You must've interviewed
Llewellyn back then.

What was he like?

Did you know he was in love with my mom?

He said you missed it.

That means whatever he knew,
you saw, you were there.

Come on.

Walk me through everything, okay?

Every detail, every part
of the investigation.

I'm not sure that's such a good idea.

Why not?

What are you hiding?



RUFUS: I am not the
world's greatest detective,

and I never was.

STU: Fold.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

What's the matter, Stu?

- Out of funds?
- One more hand.

Ah... come now.

- Is that wise?
- One more.

How much you got?



Worth somethin'?

RUFUS: Another double, Bill.

- BILL: They never learn, do they?
- [RUFUS CHUCKLES]

What ya think I get for
this down Portobello Road?

Well, that there is a fine art piece.

And stolen.

From what I hear, Stu
got it off a Russian bloke

who got it off some Belgians.

The contessa's jade necklace.

Huh.

Now, when pressed, the contessa's nanny

admitted... she had taped over
the lock every Wednesday night,

so that her Belgian beau could sneak in.

Now that I had identified
the Belgian thief,

the real challenge... was
how to retrieve the necklace

before he moved it
through the black market,

never to be seen again.

For you to accomplish what
Scotland Yard and MI5 couldn't.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rufus Cotesworth,

and let me be the first to say
it, the world's greatest detective.

RUFUS: The truth is,
there's no such thing

as the world's greatest detective.

It's an invention. It's a bluff.

And I bluffed as long
and hard as I could,

but I couldn't bluff my way
through your mother's case.

Viktor Sams? That's who k*lled my mom?

Now we just need to unmask him.

I'll see this through, no matter what.

I promise.

You are a fraud.

- Ya had me pegged.
- So did Llewellyn.

I wanna know all of it.

Everything you saw 18 years
ago, everything you did,

every detail, big or small.

I'm gonna figure out what you missed.



Won't like me much when we're done.

I'll survive.

[YOU AIN'T ME BY FRANK BLACK PLAYING]





[SONG CONCLUDES]

- [CHILD GIGGLES]
- [BIKE BELL RINGS]

[MACHINE WHIRRING]
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