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Morning, Mr. Thrombey.

Mr. Thrombey? You up there?

Mr. Thrombey, I'm coming in.

Shit!

You killed him, you bastard!

You murdered him!

I didn't murder nobody!

You slashed his face open.

You left him bleeding in the street like a stuck pig,

then you crushed his skull with a forklift

and burned his hands off to erase the fingerprints!

You'll never prove it.

We have the nanny-cam footage!

Alice, turn that off now, please?

You're under arrest for... Why? It's almost over.

Now. Please, just turn it off. What? They're finding out who did it

and the WiFi sucks in my room,

so give me a break. Turn it off, now.

There's two minutes left. Alice!

What? There isn't even anything bad on. Off!

It's just normal TV

and they're just talking! They're talking murder on it!

Normal TV, and they're just talking!

Your sister just had a friend she loved...

Okay, okay! Okay! Whatever... slit his throat open

and she doesn't need to be hearing that right now!

Let's be sensitive!

Alice, you can keep watching your show, it's fine.

No, I guessed who did it anyway.

It's okay. I'm sorry, Marta.

It's okay.

It's Harlan's son.

Hi, Walt.

Hi, Marta, it's Walt.Mmm-hmm.

Would you mind coming to the house early?

The police have a few more questions for everybody.

What?

Hey. Excuse me, ma'am.

You with the help?

Hey! Her name's Marta. She was Grandad's nurse.

She's with us. "The help"?

It's okay. I'm sorry.

No, it's not okay. What the hell?

Aw.

How are you doing?

Not very good.

Alone.

Lots of this and not knowing what to do next.

Marta, anything you need...

You're part of this family.

Thank you.

How you doing, kiddo? MARTA: Linda.

How are you?

You know, the funeral helped, I guess. Just seeing him.

I thought you should have been there.

I was outvoted. RICHARD: Get arrested!

Die up your own ass for all I care! Richard.

He's not coming.

Ransom. Little shit.

Missed the funeral.

Excuse me.

Uh, we're ready for you now.

We'd like to see you one at a time.

All right. Uh, I'll go first.

I'm assuming this will all be wrapped up

before the memorial tonight.

We'll do our best, ma'am.

So...

How you doing, kiddo?

We're just gonna reintroduce ourselves as a formality.

I am Detective Lieutenant Elliot,

and this is Trooper Wagner.

Now, um, I'm going to record this,

just to make things easier.

All right, we're with Linda Drysdale nee Thrombey,

Harlan Thrombey's eldest daughter,

and discussing the events that took place

the night of his demise one week ago.

November eighth.

We're very sorry for your loss.

Thank you. That means a lot.

So, we understand on that night

the family had gathered

to celebrate your father's 85th birthday?

Yes.

How was it? Uh... LINDA: The party?

Pre-my-dad's-death?

Oh, it was great.

Did anyone besides the family show face?

Um, Fran, the housekeeper.

He was a nice guy, but he was so hairy.

Jacob? And I've dated Italian guys.

You know what I mean? It was like...

Marta, Harlan's caregiver.

Good girl. Hard worker.

Her family's from Ecuador.

And Wanetta.

Great nana. Harlan's mom.

Hi, Nana. ELLIOTT: His mom?

Nana? ELLIOTT: Wow. How old is she?

We have no idea.

Okay, um, and your son, Ransom,

did he attend as well?

Yes, but he left early.

Ransom, are you leaving?

Right, um...

Would you say that all three of you showed up

around the same time?

No.

Richard came early to help the caterers set up.

Okay. And you and your husband, Richard,

work at a real estate firm in Boston?

No. It's... It's my company.

Right. Right. Sorry.

I built my business from the ground up.

Oh, just like your father.

You two were very close.

We... We had our own secret way of communicating.

I mean, you had to find that with Dad.

You had to find a game to play with him,

and if you did that, and you played by his rules...

Everyone idolizes their dad, right?

I don't know. Do they?

Very much not.

Don't know why I said that.

But my wife, Linda, does.

Harlan started out with a rusty Smith Corona

and built himself into

one of the best-selling mystery writers of all time.

Wow, seems like all his kids are self-made overachievers.

Sure.

For the record, I'm speaking with Walt Thrombey,

Harlan Thrombey's youngest son.

So, you run your father's publishing company?

Yeah. It's my... It's our...

Uh, it's the family's publishing company.

Dad trusts me to run it.

Thirty languages.

Over 80 million copies sold. A real legacy.

Mmm-hmm. You guys fans?

I mean, I don't do much fiction reading myself, but...

Big fan. I'm a big fan.

I mean, his plots are just like...

Like, I won't spoil it for you but...

Okay, like Thousand Knives?

The Cow and the Shotgun?

Like, where do you come up with that?

Well, Dad said the plots just

popped into his head, fully formed.

It was the easy part for him.

Um, so you're in the area, right?

Uh, you guys probably arrived around the same time.

Uh...

We all got here around 8:00.

My wife, Donna, she's my rock.

Jesus, Donna! Are you all right?

My son, Jacob, he's 16.

Very politically active.

The boy is literally a Nazi.

He's an alt-right troll dipshit.

Kids today with the Internet, it's amazing.

So the night went well?

I mean, we're all gutted, but, uh,

I was happy to have that night with him.

To be by his side. To think about our books

and what we've accomplished with them.

It's like I can still feel his hand on my shoulder.

Passing the torch.

So, we're here with Joni Thrombey,

Harlan Thrombey's daughter-in-law?

Mmm-hmm. Yeah, I married his son, Neil.

We had one daughter, Meg.

And then Neil passed on 15 years ago.

But you remained close to the Thrombeys?

Oh! They're my family.

I feel simultaneously freed by

and supported by them.

It's that balance of opposites that's the nugget of Flam.

Sorry, the nugget of...

Flam.

Oh. Yeah, Flam, your skincare company. Sorry.

I forgive you.

Yeah, it's skincare,

but it promotes a total lifestyle.

Self-sufficiency with an acknowledgement

of human need.

That's Flam.

But it's also Harlan.

He got me and Meg through some tough times.

Grandad gives my mom a yearly allowance

and he's never missed wiring

a tuition payment to my schools.

He's a genuinely selfless man.

But you left the party early?

Have fun.

To see some friends at Smith.

You know Dad pays for her

crypto-Marxist-post- deconstructural-

feminist-poetry-theory- whatever major?

She could have stuck around for the cake.

I think Linda was upset.

Hmm.

But Harlan understood.

Right.

Um, you two showed up to the party around the same time...

If I could pause?

Because I just...

Who is that guy?

And why are we doing all this again?

This is just some follow-up questions.

Um, we're attempting to be thorough,

so we can figure out the manner of death.

So by "manner of death,"

you mean if someone killed him?

If one of us killed him?

One of his family killed him? No, no, Walt, Walt, no, no...

Is that what you're suggesting, Lieutenant?

No one's saying that, okay?

This is all pro-forma.

Okay.

So who the fuck is that?

Um...

This is Benoit Blanc.

Benoit Blanc? ELLIOTT: Yes.

Mr. Blanc is a private investigator

of great renown.

Wait a minute.

I read a tweet about a New Yorkerarticle about you.

"The Last of the Gentlemen Sleuths."

You solved that case with the tennis champ?

You're famous.

Mr. Blanc is not with the police department

and not officially involved in the case,

but he's offered to consult.

Now, I happily obliged, and I can vouch for him.

Mr. Blanc, I know who you are.

I read your profile in the New Yorker.

I found it delightful.

I just buried my 85-year-old father

who committed suicide.

Why are you here?

I'm here at the behest of a client.

Who?

I cannot say.

But let me assure you this.

My presence will be ornamental.

You will find me a respectful,

quiet, passive observer

of the truth.

Fine.

Are we getting there?

Nearly. Um...

Harlan's nurse, she was at the party

in a professional capacity?

Marta?

I guess.

Harlan hired her to be around to take care

of whatever medical needs popped up.

But really, she's like part of the family.

Good kid.

Been a good friend to Harlan.

Family's from Paraguay.

Linda really likes her work ethic.

"Immigrants. We get the job done."

I... From Hamilton.

Oh, Hamilton.

It's so good. It's so good.

I saw it at The Public. WAGNER: Oh!

May I just, um...

Then I'll recede, but...

As a self-made man myself,

I have to express my admiration

for how you followed in your father's footsteps.

Thank you. BENOIT: Just marvelous.

You know, the whole family, too.

And Joni with her thing,

and Walt with his publishing empire...

It's...

Well...

Yes, I mean, Walt, he's done well

with what Dad gave him.

Not that it matters.

But really, Dad hands him a book twice a year

and Walt publishes it.

It's just not the same.

But surely Walt runs the merchandising, adaptations,

film and television rights, I mean...

Are you baiting me, Detective?

You know he doesn't.

And if you think I am dumb enough

to be baited into talking family business,

into shit-talking my baby brother,

in front of a police detective,

and a state trooper...

Walt doesn't run shit.

Because there are no TV and film rights.

Harlan never allowed any adaptations of his books.

Hated the idea.

No.

Yeah!

Drives Walt nuts.

'Cause that's where the real money is.

When Walt would get a little Irish courage in him,

he'd get into it with Harlan. The window is...

Did he "get into it" at the party?

Oh, my God!

Come on, Dad!

Wouldn't leave him alone, the poor guy.

Harlan finally had to give him the hook.

The Netflix guys, their business affair guy...

I didn't hear what he said,

but he must've really handed him his lunch.

'Cause Walt was like a wounded puppy the rest of the night.

What? Richard said what?

No. Jesus. We did not get "into it."

I'm just trying to get an accurate impression.

Harlan took you aside at the party.

When you returned, you were chastened.

What did Harlan say to you?

The Netflix guys, their business affair guy.

He sent something over. It's hard numbers this time,

and I just think this is a window

that's not gonna stay open.

We need to take advantage of it

and then you just need to look at the numbers!

Yeah, Walt, look... Dad! Dad!

You... You put me in charge of our books.

Let me be in charge! Let me do this! Please!

They're not our books, son.

They're my books.

And this is not how I wanted to have this conversation.

But you're right, you're right.

It's unfair of me to keep you tethered

to something that isn't yours to control.

What?

No, I've done you a grave disservice.

All these years,

I've kept you from building something

of your own that was yours.

But you're not going to be running

the publishing house anymore.

You're free of it.

Whoa...

Dad, are you firing me?

No...

We'll talk details tomorrow.

My mind's made up.

Good boy.

We talked. We had a business discussion about e-books.

Jesus. It was nothing.

You want to talk about an argument,

hell, Ransom had an argument with him.

Ransom, that's, uh,

Richard and Linda's son? WALT: Mmm.

Look, we all love Ransom, he's a good kid. We love him.

But?

But he's always been the black sheep of the family.

Ah.

And I'm not trying to...

I like to keep stuff like this in the family.

But with Ransom, he's never had a job.

And Dad, for some unknown reason,

always supported him.

They have this love-hate bond. They fight.

But that night, God, they had a blowout.

About what?

Are you goddamn insane?

We couldn't make it out really,

but it was huge.

And it's strange they went into another room to do it.

Usually they like to stoke up drama

in front of the whole family.

Speaking of getting into it...

You were at the house early, to help the caterers set up. Did...

Did you converse with Harlan at that time?

Well, he was there. We must have spoke.

In his study?

I don't think so.

You see, I spoke with the caterer this morning,

she didn't see you helping her staff.

She did hear Harlan in a screaming match

with somebody that afternoon in his study.

Yeah, I don't...

Screaming match? Mmm-hmm.

No.

Um...

But Joni was here, too.

Um, she was early, so it might have been her.

You can maybe ask her.

These were two male voices.

Harlan shouted the phrase...

You tell her or I will!

"You tell her"

"or I will!"

Bells ringing?

That's none of your business.

You stay out of my marriage.

I know my daughter, and she would want to know.

I've put all of it in this letter to her.

Tomorrow, she gets it.

Harlan, I'm warning you.

No, she deserves to know. You stay out of my marriage.

She deserves to know, and you're gonna tell her.

The hell I am! You tell her or I will!

Yes. I know.

Yes.

Uh...

Harlan had finally decided to put his mom in a nursing home

and Linda had always opposed that.

And I wanted to wait until we got back

to Boston, uh, to tell Linda,

so, to avoid a whole scene,

and Harlan wanted me to tell her then.

That was it.

Sorry. Forgot.

The house?

Uh, early. Richard said you were there.

I was at the house early.

To see Harlan?

To see Harlan.

Yes.

What were you seeing Harlan about?

It was just a mix-up with the, uh,

the payment for Meg's tuition.

I'm... I'm...

I'm sorry to press,

but what kind of mix-up?

Yeah, the school hasn't got the check yet.

I don't know why Alan didn't mail it.

Well, Alan didn't mail it

because he caught a discrepancy.

Alan's office has been wiring tuition directly to the school

as per your request.

But Phyllis's office that handles your yearly allowance

has been wiring tuition monies directly to you as well.

You have been double-dipping Meg's tuition

and stealing from me.

$100,000 a year,

for the past four years.

Harlan, I don't know how this mix-up happened,

but I swear to God...

So, now I am writing this tuition check,

but you must know that this is the last money

you or Meg will get from me.

Please, you don't understand...

Joni, I know it'll hurt,

but it's all for the best.

My mind's made up.

It was, uh, a money wiring issue

with the office at the school.

So I had to ask Harlan to cut a check for the semester.

Mmm. No big deal.

Well...

Why don't we, uh, just take

a little break and we'll resu...

Oh, no...

She's gone.

Richard!

Joni, have you seen Richard?

No, I was, uh, just done with the, um...

Okay, thanks.

No.

Damn it. Richard!

Richard?

Son of a bitch.

See, I might be a victim of my own expectation here,

but when the great Benoit Blanc

comes knocking at my door,

I expect it's going to be about something,

if not extraordinary,

then at least interesting.

But... I'm sorry,

this is an open-and-shut case of suicide

and, uh, quite frankly, Benny, we're getting to the point

where I need to know what we're doing here.

The method?

Throat slit?

Typical for a suicide?

Yes, I mean, that's dramatic.

But look around.

I mean, the guy practically lives in a Clue board.

Come on, Benny, talk to me, all right?

Now, you tell me to invite all of these people back

for questioning all over again. I get it.

Listen, I've had boots on the ground

in this county for a while now.

People are generally what they seem to be.

You're not gonna find murderers in this family.

This is a pleasant family

with the usual quarrels,

but no possible motives for murder.

Where are you going?

Harlan Thrombey's nurse. Marta...

Cabrera. Marta Cabrera. Please.

Miss Cabrera, you can just wait inside

- and we'll be with you in... - Miss Cabrera.

I've been doin' a little pokin'.

You were hired on a part-time basis

as a registered nurse, yes?

Uh, yes. I don't work for a VNA.

Harlan hired me directly.

Take a seat, please.

And you're paid a flat rate

for how many hours a week?

Um...

Well, I started at 15, and then he...

He needed more help.

Medical help?

He needed a friend.

Does having a kind heart make you a good nurse?

All right, Blanc, I mean, this is...

Yeah, yeah. Marta? We were just discussing

possible motives in the family.

I suspect that Harlan has told you

much unfiltered truth about each of 'em.

And a little bird has told me,

how shall I put this delicately...

You have a regurgitative reaction

to mistruthin'.

Who told you that?

Is it true?

Uh...

Yes.Oh.

It's something I've had since I was a kid.

It's a physical thing that I...

Just the thought of lying...

Yeah, it makes me puke.

Really?

Is Richard havin' an affair?

Why do men instinctively

pull at loose threads on their parachutes?

What?

Richard?

Mmm-hmm.

An affair? Yeah.

A yes or no will do.

Mmm... No.

Oh, shit!

Oh, my God! Dear girl, I'm sorry.

- I assumed you were speaking figuratively. - Here, have some water.

I have Wet-Naps in the car. All right, here, here.

Just take a sip of this.

Take that.

That's quite somethin'.Hmm?

Thanks. But I was obviously right.

Richard is having an affair.

His father-in-law found out and confronted him.

"You tell her or I will."

Okay, but even if that were the case, he...

You all right?

Yeah.

Even if that were the case, I mean,

protecting a relationship as a motive,

that's weak sauce. You know that.

Well, then there is Joni.

Joni? Joni?

Lifestyle guru Joni?

No, Harlan was supporting her and her daughter

and that's the opposite of a motive.

And if that support was threatened...

Miss Cabrera, one moment, please.

Yes, I just wanna get some Scope.

Miss Cabrera...

Was Harlan plannin' on cutting off Joni's allowance?

Oh, Joni.

What's up?

Oh, my God.

All right, don't answer that

if you're gonna puke again, please.

Meg said he paid the school directly.

Joni said he sent the money to her.

Both were true.

She was pocketing the double payment.

Harlan found out,

and cut her off without a cent.

Yes?

So she bumps him off for the inheritance?

Come on, no, have you seen her Insta?

She's an influencer.

No, allowance as a motive?

Again, more weak sauce.

You're just dumpin' that vat of weak sauce on me.

Granted. But she lied to me.

All three of them did.

Three?

Walter.

Ah. I see where you're going with this.

Harlan had turned Walter down before regarding film rights,

but that night, somethin' Harlan said shook him.

Now we look at the pattern.

Harlan was cleanin' house.

No wonder.

Did he plan to fire Walter?

Can I just wait inside?

I feel like I shouldn't be here.

Yeah, please, just wait inside.

Stay close, all right?

You have been very patient, my friend.

And yes,

you are right.

None of these weak alibis and domestic squibbles

answer your question...

"Why is Benoit Blanc here?"

Well, now I will tell you why.

I'm here because this mornin',

someone dodged a very important question.

Who?

Me.

Linda asked who hired me.

Well, who hired you?

I do not know.

An envelope of cash showed up at my apartment yesterday

with a news clippin' of Thrombey's death.

An envelope? That worked?

An envelope of cash.Hmm.

So somebody suspects foul play

and goes through this ha cha dance of hiring me,

of staying anonymous.

It makes no damn sense.

Compels me, though.

Walk me through everyone's whereabouts

at the time of death.

We know that the party ended around 11:30.

Good night, Joni.'Night.

Marta took Harlan upstairs

to give him his meds.

The stairs leading up to Harlan's bedroom

and his attic office creak horribly

and Linda is a light sleeper.

So we know every time

someone took the stairs that night.

The first was when Joni heard a ka-thunk

from somewhere above her in the house.

She's concerned about Harlan,

so she goes up to investigate...

Waking Linda.

Harlan was in his attic office with Marta.

Hi, Joni. I just... Hi.

He explained that they had just

knocked over the Go board.

I just knocked over the Go board, so...

You know, that game with the grid and stones?

They play it every night.

He was fine. "Go to bed."

Go to bed, Joni.

Love you. 'Night. Love you.

So she did.Bye.

Ten minutes later,

Linda is awoken a second time...

By Marta leaving.

Walt, I'm leaving.

Walt was smokin' a cigar on the porch with his son.

He saw her leave and drive off.

Noted the time.

Midnight.

Fifteen minutes later,

Linda is awoken for the third and final time...

By someone coming down the stairs.

Harlan, who came down for a midnight snack.

Dad, go back to bed.

Which Walt tried to discourage.

Based on this,

the medical examiner determined the time of death

to be between 12:15 and 2.00 a.m.

As Walt was finishing his cigar

at about 12:30, Meg came home.

She went straight to bed.

Walt and Jacob turned in shortly after that.

And sometime later that night,

it's undetermined, but possibly near 3:00 a.m.,

Meg woke up because the dogs were barking outside.

She used the bathroom, went back to bed.

That's it. All right?

Now, everyone's stories matched,

every moment accounted for.

And there is no other staircase

up to Harlan's room?

None. Just the creaky one.

Interesting.

So, uh, we know that Ransom didn't do it

because he wasn't there.

Marta couldn't have.

Harlan was still alive when she left.

Yeah.Meg...

Meg came home during the window

- of the time of death, right? - Now look, look, it was a...

Except it was a suicide, all right?

Harlan slit right through his carotid.

We saw from the blood splat patterns

that they were uninterrupted,

meaning, it's almost impossible for anyone

to have been around him at the time.

He's the one who cut his own throat, all right?

I don't know why we keep goin' over this.

Physical evidence can tell a clear story

with a forked tongue.

What?

And as we can see from this mornin',

everyone can lie.

Well,

almost everyone.

Miss Cabrera, um...

We kept you waiting all afternoon,

because I wanted to hear from you last.

I needed an entire picture of the evening in my head,

and your piece of it is at its very center.

So, please take your time.

You took Mr. Thrombey upstairs at 11:30

and left at midnight.

Think very carefully

and with as much detail as possible.

Tell us what happened in that half hour?

- Up, up, up, I got it. - Yeah, you got it?

Up, up, up, I got it. Up, up, up, I got it.

- Up, up, up, I got it. - Okay, that's...

Up, up, up, I got it. Hey, Harlan...

Up, up, up, I got it.Let's...

Up, up, up, I got it.

Okay. No second thoughts.

No. No, no, no, no.

Get up here! I had a glass of champagne.

Harlan, listen to me. We are...

It's late. I had... You've only had one glass.

Exactly. A glass of champagne. I don't...

We are not breaking tradition on my birthday!

Can you just take your goddamn medicine and go to bed?

If you're gonna put that vile shit in me,

you have to earn it.

On my birthday.

Oh, God. Eighty-fifth birthday.

Fine. Jesus! I'm so old.

I'm so old. You really love drama, huh?

Oh, Marta.

Okay, let's do this. Nine-by-nine.

Right. You ready?

I'll whip your ass. Are you sure?

Yeah. Yeah.

How dare you.

I know how this is gonna end.

What is that?

Why can't I beat you at this game?

Because I'm not playing to beat you.

I'm playing to build a beautiful pattern.

That's elder abuse.

I'm gonna call the AARP.

Don't make me get the belt, abuelo.

It's basically over.

My only hope is that an earthquake will strike.

But what are the chances?

Uh-oh.

Hello?

Hello? Hello?

Hello? Get under a door frame!

Yes!

Such a bad loser you are! Meds, then bed.

I'm done with you.

That's fair.

Walt is smoking that filthy cigar

out there on the porch.

Dead and nasty things.

How was tonight?

Tonight was, uh, good.

Oh, yeah?

I know you weren't looking forward to it.

No. But I did it.

I cut the line on all four of 'em.

Yeah.

Wasn't easy.

Mmm.

This goddamn fortune.

You know, sometimes I think

that everything I've given my family,

I've done maybe

without knowing, or maybe to keep them beneath me.

I certainly should have...

I don't know, encouraged Walt

to write his own stories, not just be

a caretaker of mine.

Like you said I should.

And then be a father and not just a provider

for Joni, like you also said.

And I could have been kinder to Linda and Ransom...

Jesus! Ransom.

Oh, there's so much of me in that kid.

Confident. Stupid.

I don't know, protected.

Playing life like a game, without consequence.

Until you can't tell the difference

between a stage prop

and a real knife.

You know, I don't fear death.

But, oh, God,

I'd like to fix some of this before I go.

Close the book with a flourish.

I guess we'll see. Hmm?

I guess we will.

Hey.

You had a long day.

You wanna do drugs?

You mean the good stuff?

Yeah?

Oh, come on, send me to la-la land.

Just a tiny bit, okay?

Why did I wait till my mid-age to become a morphine user?

What a schmuck.

What a nudnik. This...

This stuff is the best.

Oh, my God.

Is there a problem?

This is what I just gave you 100 milligrams of.

I messed up.

You gave me 100 milligrams of the good stuff?

Excuse me, what is the good stuff's dosage supposed to be?

Let's not call it that right now, okay?

Three milligrams.

Oh, that's much less.

So what happens?

I'm gonna give you an emergency shot of Naloxone,

so you don't die in 10 minutes.

Oh, well, no pressure.

You know, this is an interesting

and efficient method of murder.

I need to write this down.

So, if someone switched the meds on purpose,

I'd be dead in 10 minutes.

Like stone-cold dead? Yes.

You'll feel symptoms in five.

Sweats, disorientation, and then...

Yes. That big dose injected, within 10, your...

Your brain...

Yes, 10 minutes.

From the moment of injection?

It's eight-ish now.

And even if the victim called for an ambulance

when he first felt the symptoms

and if he lived in a great big country house like we do,

the ambulance would take at least 15 minutes to arrive

and it'd be too late.

If the victim didn't have the emergency Naxostuff.

Marta?

Do you have the Naxostuff? Yes, I'm gonna find it.

I have it because it comes with the kit,

so it should be here. It has to be.

It's like...

It's not here, Harlan.

I don't know why it's not here.

So, I'm gonna use the phone, okay?

To call an ambulance.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Marta, listen to me.

Harlan, I need to call the ambulance.

Stop this! Stop this, Marta!

They need to get here. There's no time!

You have to... You have to listen!

I'm calling the family!

What are you doing?

Are you nuts? Don't make a noise.

Harlan, we have to call the ambulance. Marta, listen to me!

We don't have time!

What's going on? Listen to me!

Now, if what you said is true, I'm gone.

There's no saving me.

No, no.

We have six minutes.

No, I can't... Wait, no.

We have got to get you out of this!

Think of your mom.

My mom?

Marta, get behind me, get behind me.

Don't make a noise.

Harlan?

Marta?

Everything all right?

Oh, hi, Joni. I thought I... Hi.

I thought I heard something. Is everything okay?

No, no. We're fine. We're fine.

Well, I just knocked over this Go board. Sorry about that.

Everyone's all right? Yeah, fine.

No, no. Go to bed, Joni.

Okay.

Maybe we can talk tomorrow about the family...

Tomorrow's fine.

- Goodnight. Love you. 'Night. - Love you. Bye.

Come on.

Pay attention, now.

Your mom

is still undocumented.

And if this is your fault,

she'll be found out and at best deported

and your family will be broken.

We're not gonna let that happen, are we, huh?

But you have to do exactly what I tell you.

Will you do this, Marta? Hmm?

This last thing

for me?

For your family?

What do you want me to do?

Go downstairs as noisily as you can

and then say goodbye loudly.

Walt, I'm leaving.

Call attention to the time...

God, it's midnight already.

If you can.

Drive out the gate.

Then to avoid the security cameras,

pull off the road before the carved elephant.

Wait. Was it before or after?

After the carved elephant.

No, he said before. Was it?

Beafterfore the carved elephant.

Oh, shit.

Park, and come back on foot up to the house.

Take the side yard pass through the little gate.

The dogs will know you, they shouldn't bark.

You've got to get up to the third floor

without being seen.

And the only way is to climb the side trellis

and come in through the trick hall window.

You gotta be kidding me.

I am not. Do it.

And for God's sake, don't make any noise!

Once you're inside, now this is the tricky part...

This is the tricky part?

Get my robe and cap from my bedroom

and put them on.

Harlan...

This is crazy. I don't think I can do that.

No, we need to make this so airtight

that the average cop

will entirely dismiss you as a suspect.

It sounds crazy, but it'll work.

Walt is smoking outside, and he'll see you

through the glazed window.

Dad? Go back to bed.

You were seen leaving.

The security cameras show you driving off.

And 20 minutes later,

I'm seen alive and well by my son.

You see,

you've gone from suspect number one

to an impossibility.

Leave the way you came

and don't be seen.

Ransom?

Are you back again already?

Drive home.

And sometime in the next few days

the police will question you.

No. No, no, no. No!

I can't lie!

You know I can't lie! I'll puke!

Well, then don't lie. Tell fragments of the truth.

In this exact order.

I took him upstairs.

We played our nightly game of Go.

At some point, he knocked the board over

and Joni came up to check on us.

Um...

I gave him pain medication.

He pulled his shoulder last week.

Um...

And I left him in his study.

At midnight

I said goodbye to Walt,

went home.

What kind of medication did you give him?

Since his injury, I've been giving him

a 100 milligram IV push of Toradol.

It's a non-narcotic analgesic.

And to help him sleep,

three milligrams of morphine.

And the family was aware of this?

Yes, of course.

Did you notice anything strange

or off about his demeanor?

No.

Well, that sounds about right.

Thank you, Miss Cabrera.

Hey, sis, people are gonna start getting here

for the memorial pretty soon.

Are you...

Are you all right?

I was just thinking about Dad's games.

This all feels like one.

Like something he'd write, not do.

I keep waiting for the big reveal.

Where it'll make sense.

Wouldn't that be nice?

Oh, Walt.

I don't think he killed himself.

I don't. I really don't.

There's this Hallmark movie

called Deadly by Surprise with Danica McKellar.

And in it, she plays this wife

who's getting poisoned by her husband,

but he's doing it little by little,

so she doesn't know it

and she goes crazy, and she kills herself.

And my cousin, who's a receptionist

at the medical examiner's office,

she says that stuff totally happens.

It's not even 3% as crazy

as the stuff she's seen come through there.

So, I'm just like...

Oh, God, yeah!

I mean, don't like him because you love him.

No, I don't like him, he's an asshole.

But maybe an asshole is what we needed.

Oh, my God, yeah,

an asshole is what Germany needed

in 1930-whatever. RICHARD: Here we go.

Come on, Joni, those two things don't even conflate.

There is the problem... Oh, Jesus.

You do not care about anybody's feelings...

I'm gonna disappear until the politics talk is done.

You, my friend... You want some champers?

I can't. I'm technically working.

Why don't you take off your red cap, Richard,

and look around you?

The streets are literally flooded with Nazis.

No, no, no. No, no, no.

We are losing our way of life and our culture.

That's right.

There are millions of Mexicans coming.

Oh, God, really? Don't make this a race thing.

You always make this a race thing.

Yeah, this is not about race. I would say the same thing

if they were European immigrants.

Oh, yeah? So, if the Swiss were, like,

clogging in the streets... No. No, no, we allow them in

and they think they own what's ours.

They're putting children in cages!

I mean, these are camps! Yes.

Come on, Joni,

nobody's saying that isn't bad,

but the parents have some blame here.

Oh, for what? For wanting a better life for their kids?

Isn't that what America is... For breaking the law!

My God.

And you're gonna hate hearing this,

but it's true, America is for Americans.

Don't point at me.

Where's Marta? Is she still here?

Oh, God, don't.RICHARD: Marta!

Come on over. No, Richard.

Come on over, Marta. Please, come over.

You're shitting me.

Marta,

your family is from Uruguay, but you did it right.

I mean, what I'm saying is they did it legally.

She did it the right way.

You work hard,

and you'll earn your share from the ground up.

Just like Dad and like all the rest of us.

And I'll bet you agree with me, right?

Oh, just leave the poor girl alone, Richard.

It's okay! I just wanna hear what she has to say!

It's okay, Marta, you can speak.

Oh, sweetheart, don't feel pressure to answer.

This is just a... RICHARD: Look...

Please don't.If you wanna

become an American,

there are legal ways to do it.

But if you break the law,

it doesn't matter how good your heart is,

you gotta face the consequences!

Are you goddamn insane?

It's done. RANSOM: Hey! I'm warning you.

That's when I ask her, I'm like,

"Tonya, what is wrong with people?"

Literally.

Oh, my God! Marta, what?

Marta?

What's the matter?

Whoa, whoa. Hey. Breathe.

Oh, my gosh. Marta, are you okay?

Hey, Fran, do you still have your stash?

Take 'em whenever you need 'em.

They're just drying out since you gave me that Juul.

Thanks, Fran.

Hey. Hey. I'm sorry.

No, just... No, stop... I'm sorry.

I'm just very, very sorry.

Stop saying you're sorry. Jesus!

I hate this. Oh, God, my heart won't stop...

I can't...

It's just everything... No, thank you.

That's where Fran keeps her stash?

Who's gonna open a clock?

Do you want dinner, Nana?

Dinner? To eat?

To eat? LINDA: Walt?

Nana? Walt, Walt, she's fine.

She ate the entire salmon spread already.

Walt? Did you tell Marta yet, what we all talked about?

No, not yet. Is now a good time?

Yes. Yes, a very good time, right now.

Oh, okay.

All right. Calm down.

Marta,

we've been talking it over and, uh...

Have you been smoking grass? No.

Mmm-hmm. Come on.

Marta, we've been talking it over,

and, uh, the whole family,

we'd like to take care of you.

What does that mean?

We all think that you deserve something.

Financially, we'd like to help you out.

You were never anything but good to Dad

and because of that we...

You can count on us.

Hmm? Yeah.

I thought you should've been at the funeral,

by the way, I was outvoted.

Detective.

You're still here?

Mmm.

Did you know Harlan?

He knew my father,

who was a police detective years ago.

Oh.

My father respected Harlan.

That says quite a lot.

Is that why you're here?

Here now, here?

No.

I stayed hoping to speak to you a little more.

Something is afoot with this whole affair.

I know it.

I believe you know it, too.

So you're gonna keep digging?

Harlan's detectives, they dig.

They riffle and root.

Truffle pigs.

I anticipate the terminus of Gravity's Rainbow.

Gravity's Rainbow?

It's a novel.

Yeah, I know.

I haven't read it though. Neither have I.

Nobody has.

But I like the title.

It describes the path of a projectile

determined by natural law.

Et voila, my method.

I observe the facts

without biases of the head or heart.

I determine the arc's path,

stroll leisurely to its terminus

and the truth falls at my feet.

The medical examiner was ready to rule this a suicide,

but Elliott agreed to keep it pending for 48 hours.

Tomorrow morning,

I search the grounds and the house,

begin my investigation.

I want you to be by my side for it.

What? My confidante.

My eyes and ears.

Hey. Wait, wait, Detective. Why me?

I trust your kind heart.

Also, you're the only one

who had nothing to gain from Harlan's death.

So how about it, Watson?

Hey, Detective?

If you want my insight into the family...

None of them are murderers.

That's my insight.

And yet,

be it cruel or comforting,

this machine unerringly arrives at the truth.

That's what it does.

Always?

Tomorrow at 8:00.

I know I've missed something.

There's gonna be something I missed.

Harlan. But I know you can do this.

No, I can't.

Without losing your soul,

you have to do what you have to do...

No.To beat this and win.

Harlan, I can't.

You can. And you have to.No.

For me.

Right now!

Harlan, I have to get you help.

You do as I say

and everything will be just fine.

No. No.

I promise.

But...

Fifty years ago, I worked this estate.

You know, security back then was such that

you had to make the rounds with a 94

and keep your ears open.

Now you've got all this modern technology.

Now, that's the video there.

I saved the tape from that night.

Normally, I erase 'em with a magnetic degausser,

but in this case, I thought I'd just save it, you know?

For security.

Now, uh, that's a live feed there.

To avoid the security cameras,

pull off the road after the carved elephant.

All right, well, can we see the actual tape?

Well, of course you can.

I recorded it SSLP.

There's eight hours in that tape.

9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.

Looks like a Japanese horror movie.

You think we could scan forward on that?

Are we all gonna die in seven days?

How can we scan forward?

Oh, yeah, just hold the play button down

and press FF until you hear it grind.

All right. Should be coming up now

to the time when the party ended.

What happened?

You gotta keep holding it down or else it'll eject.

That thing eats tapes like popcorn.

You think your guys can digitize this

so we could scan it properly?

Yeah, I think we can do that.

I got it.

You know, all these statues

that you see around here?

They're all straight out of the series,

The Menagerie Tragedy Trilogy.

Pretty cool. ELLIOTT: Awesome.

Yeah.

Benny, it's beautiful out here,

but do you really think someone broke into the house

and murdered Harlan? Is that why we're out here?

Oh, it is unlikely,

but if they did, there will be traces.

Uh, I can hang on to that.Yeah.

Hey, Wagner, you got any luck on...

Uh, what's-his-name? Ransom?

Yeah.No.

Did get an address though.

Yeah? WAGNER: 10 Kenoak Street.

Ken... Kenoak?

Uh-huh. BENOIT: Kenoak.

It's a pleasant thing to say, isn't it?

Kenoak.

I awoke amid Kenoak.

That's funny. Ken-oh-kia.

All these leaves and mud,

they're really gonna do a number on my boots, man.

Mud. Did it rain the past week?

No, stay there! WAGNER: What?

Whoa!

Okay.

We got footprints here, so, uh...

Oh.I wanna, um...

Marta...

Stop. What?

Um... What?

Marta, stay there.

What? No, Marta! Stay there, Marta.

No! No! I couldn't hear. If you...

Did you call me? All right.

All right. Excuse me.

All right. Come here.

Wagner, we're gonna need to call the boys,

have 'em come down here,

take a look at all these tracks.

Get it taped off. Stay on that side.

I'm sorry. Watch out. Watch out.

Okay.

Hey! Yeah!

Hussie? Hussie, hey.

Best judge of character is a dog.

Good boy. I've found that to be true.

Yes!

My puppies!

Yes. Yeah, well,

they've got plans to read the will at around 10:00,

so, the whole family will be here soon.

I've never been to a will reading.

Oh, well...

You think it'd be like a game show,

but think of a community theater production

of a tax return.

So, what are we looking for?

Oh, you know,

anything suspicious or out of the ordinary.

You'll know it when you see it.

Oh, my God.

Sweet beans!

Well...

Good morning, Mrs. Thrombey.

You think you could handle the study?

Where's your medical bag?

I don't know. I left it here.

I always leave it here with Harlan at night.

They must have taken it in as evidence.

I'll look into that.

Mmm.

Shit.

How'd the Go board get knocked over?

We were just goofing around.

What are you thinking?

No! No, no, no! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Oh, let me guess.

Hey! Stop. Stop.

Stop. Stop.

Hugh Drysdale?

Ransom. Call me Ransom, it's my middle name.

Only the help calls me Hugh.

Okay.

Uh, this is Trooper Wagner.

I'm Lieutenant Elliott.

We just wanna ask a few questions.

Excuse me?

Sir?

We're officers of the law!

You gonna run me in? I don't feel like talking.

I'm distraught.

Hey, Benny, you wanna ask this guy some questions?

All right, what is this? What's this arrangement?

Mr. Drysdale.

Hey, Frannie,

how about a glass of cold milk?

Hey, asshole.

Not her name, not her job.

Hey, Meg. How's the SJW degree coming?

Trust fund prick. All right, guys.

Hey.

Hey. Everyone...

I'm just gonna be in the other room, setting up.

Be ready in 10 minutes.

Funny, Ransom, you skipped the funeral,

but you're early for the will reading.

Okay, people grieve in different ways.

Let's not...

You know what? It's funny you're here at all.

Why are you even bothering?

That's what I'm asking myself.

What's that supposed to mean?

He knows what it's supposed to mean.

Wait... Walt, what?

Jacob was in that bathroom the night of the party.

Oh, that's where you were all night?

What the hell were you doing

in the bathroom all night?

Nothing. Swatting Syrian refugees?

No, I was not.

Alt-right troll.

Liberal snowflake.

I don't know what any of that means.

It means your son's a little creep.

Oh!

My son's a creep?

Guys, just...

Walt, he was in the bathroom.

Yeah, he was in the bathroom.

Joylessly masturbating to pictures of dead deer.

You know what, Richard?

You wanna go?

You bet, skippy, let's go.

You wanna go? Come on!

You better watch out, man.

- Walt, stop it right now! - Son of a bitch!

Stop it! Just stop! Stop it!

Let go! Let go, Richard!

I have been waiting for this my whole life!

Stop it, right now! Donna, I can handle myself!

Stop it! I can handle it.

Oh, my God.

We gotta do this more often.

Hey!

Jacob.

We know where this is going.

You were in the bathroom next to Harlan's office,

where he had the fight with Ransom.

Now, you heard something.

Spill it.

I just heard two things.

...my will.

"My will."

And then there was more yelling.

And then I heard Ransom say...

"I'm warning you."

Ransom...

What's that mean?

I think it means our father finally came to his senses

and cut this worthless little brat out of his will.

So I guess you're gonna have to sell the Beemer

and give your notice at the country club,

and kick whatever fashion drug you're on.

Because if you think

that after all the bridges you've burned,

after all the shit you said,

after everything that you put this family through

for the last 10 years,

that any of us are gonna support you

that any of us are gonna give you,

like Dad liked to say,

"a single red dime..."

you're nuts!

Wow.

Son...

Father.

Did Harlan tell you

he was gonna cut you out of the will?

Yep.

Well, then he's done

what none of us were strong enough to do.

Maybe this might finally make you grow up.

This might be the best thing

that could ever happen to you.

Thank you. My mother, ladies and gentlemen.

Look, this is not gonna be easy for you,

but it'll be good.

Nothing good is ever easy.

Up your ass, Joni.

You've had your teeth in this family's tit for a long time.

"Up your ass"? Oh, very nice.

- Matter of fact, eat shit. - Oh, my God, Ransom.

What? RANSOM: How's that?

Please do not use that word

in front of my son. In fact, eat shit. Eat shit.

If I wasn't practicing...

Eat shit. You entitled prick!

I would slap that smug smile right off...

Definitely eat shit... of your goddamn face!

Eat shit. You can all eat shit.

I'm not eating one iota of shit!

What was that about will readings being boring?

The exception that proves the rule.

Asshole.

"I'm warning you."

Ransom said, "I'm warning you."

Well, you heard Ransom in there.

That's the kind of thing he says.

You want this? You want this?

What do we have here?

This looks like a relatively fresh break.

Yep. Right there.

Wait a minute.

Well, that doesn't make sense.

Where's that window?

How about some more cookies, Hugh?

You want some more cookies? That's great. That's great.

Hey, maybe Harlan left you

a cold glass of milk in his will. Asshole.

Show me. But stay off the carpet.

It's the trick window

from A Kill For All Seasons.

Trooper, here, will you? Take this.

Hmm.

Traces of dried mud.

I suspect they go the length of the hallway.

Footprints?

No, just traces.

Yeah, depending on when this thing was last cleaned,

this could have happened at any time, right?

No, that would not explain this.

Analyze that mud.

It will match these traces.

Take this to Jamie.

And you will find similar samples

leading up the trellis on the outside of the house.

On the night of the party,

somebody who did not want to be heard climbing those steps,

went to a great deal of trouble

to break into Harlan Thrombey's rooms.

The game is afoot, eh, Watson?

Well, thank you all for getting together like this.

It isn't legally necessary,

but I thought because you're all in town,

and some of you are leaving soon...

Excuse me.

Uh, I'm sorry.

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to gently request

that you all stay in town

until the investigation is completed.

Yeah, well, he's gently requesting,

but I'm gonna have to make that an order.

No one move until we figure this all out.

What?

Can we ask why?

Has something changed? No.

No, it hasn't changed? Or no, we can't ask?

Mr. Stevens...

You may continue.

Right. Well...

The other reason I thought

this gathering would be, uh, beneficial

is because Harlan altered his will

a week before he died.

He sealed it.

He asked me not to submit it to the courts

for probate until after his death.

So, if anyone is confused about anything,

we're all together, we can talk.

Although I don't imagine any of it

is going to be that complicated.

Uh, Harlan's assets included...

Um...

The house. The house,

which he owned outright.

Um...

$60 million.

Yes. $60 million in various cash accounts

and investments.

And of course,

the real asset,

sole ownership of Blood Like Wine,

his publishing company.

He also wrote up a statement when he was making the changes

and he wanted that read first.

"Dearest Linda, Walter, and Joni..."

"Some of you may be surprised by the choice I've made here."

"No pleasure was taken in the exclusion."

"And its purpose was not to sow"

"greater discord in the family,"

"quite the opposite."

"Please accept it with grace and without bitterness,"

"but do accept it,"

"it's for the best. Dad."

Um...

Wow. Well, yeah, not too complex at all.

This will be quick.

"I, Harlan Thrombey, being of sound mind and body"

and yada-yada-yada...

"I hereby direct that all my assets,"

"both liquid and otherwise..."

"I leave in their entirety to Marta Cabrera."

"My entire ownership of Blood Like Wine publishing,"

"I leave in its entirety to Marta Cabrera,"

"the copyright of its catalogue likewise"

"I leave in its entirety to Marta Cabrera."

What?

Uh...

What? No.

That's not... That's... No.LINDA: No.

That can't be. LINDA: No.

Can I see that please, Alan?

Yeah. It's right.Please.

This can't be legal.

It's right.

You know, he was... DONNA: Oh, my God.

Aren't there safeguards...

Alan, there's a mistake.

I don't know what to say.

We're his family, so...

It's not possible.

Are there safeguards against this?

Right mind. Something...

You know... Alan, listen...

He was on medication. In his final days,

he was on a great deal of medication.

Morphine? All right, morphine.

- I mean, I don't know. - This is confusing.

She seems like family... Alan, you can take...

...but she's not our family... this piece of paper

and shove it right up your ass, and get out!

And, you cops, too, out.

Linda? LINDA: Out! Right now.

Hey, Linda? No, Richard, we need to talk.

We need to fight this thing. We're not going anywhere.

I said get out!

We are the Thrombeys, God damn it!

This is still our house!

Hmm?

Oh, sorry.

"Likewise the house at 2 Deerborn Drive"

"and all belongings therein,"

"I leave to Marta Cabrera."

Oh, you little bitch!

You little bitch! RICHARD: Linda?

Did you know about this?

Were you in on this from the beginning?

This is unbelievable! RICHARD: Easy.

No, no, no! I just wanna know. What were you...

What were you doing? Were you boinking my father?

"Boinking"? WALT: No, no, no.

I think everybody just needs to cool their jets.

You had sex with my grandpa, you dirty anchor baby!

Now hold your horses.

And in the meantime, I'd maybe run.

Wait, wait, wait, Marta?

Now, would you please...

Ladies and gentlemen, please. Marta, talk to us.

Marta?

Wait a minute.

I totally understand how you must be feeling right now.

You cannot leave! You can talk to me.

I don't know what to say. I don't know.

Calm down. Calm down. LINDA: Marta, please...

Marta, listen, darling...

I don't know what's happening. I don't know why he...

Guys, I'm also confused. I need to think!

Marta! Are you listening?

I can't catch up!

I understand. I understand. Richard! Open the door!

Open up that door!

You are scaring her! I can't open the damn door!

Marta, go. Marta, go.

Marta, you have to understand.

He is our father!

Marta, listen to me.

Marta, don't listen to them. I'm here.

I'm not on Twitter anymore.

So DM me on Instagram, okay?

I wanna talk to you.

Ransom!

What the hell's going on?

I think this could be the best thing

to happen to all of you!

What does he mean by that?

Richard, why didn't you stop her?

What am I supposed to do?

Grab the bumper with my teeth?

Okay, seriously, though, what the hell?

Hey. I'll take an extra bowl.

Sure.

You look like you're gonna pass out.

Have you eaten anything today?

Eat.

This is a nightmare.

Mmm-hmm.

So why?

Why? Why?

Hey. This is everything.

There's gotta be a bigger reason why, and you know it.

Well, how about it had to do more

with you guys than with me?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's the only thing that makes sense.

Did he tell you anything?

Only that I wasn't getting a cent.

That's because he wanted you

to build something from the ground up like your mom.

"To build something from the ground up."

Yeah, my mother built her business from the ground up

with a million-dollar loan from my grandfather.

My father owns none of it. She made him sign a prenup.

He lives in fear.

And I know that's what my grandfather was trying

to protect me from by doing this

and I know I shouldn't say this out loud,

but when he told me, I...

Jesus.

I coulda killed him.

After I left the party though, I was driving.

Nowhere, just in the night, and I had this, um...

Clarity.

Like, from here on out,

I was gonna have to fend for myself.

And that felt...

Good.

The old bastard.

Marta, I know three things.

One...

I know he didn't commit suicide.

What makes you think that? I don't think it.

I know it.

Because I knew my granddad.

Maybe you and I were the only two who knew him,

so you're not gonna bullshit me on this because, two...

I know lying makes you puke.

'Cause of that mafia game last Fourth of July.

And three...

I know you just ate

a full plate of baked beans and sausage.

So...

Look me in the eye

and tell me what happened to my grandfather.

You asshole. Marta,

tell me everything.

Alan, there have got to be options here.

No.

I don't know how many times

I can repeat the same two pieces of information.

If Harlan was of sound mind when he made the changes,

and we all confirmed that he was...

Would a sound mind do this?

How... Sound, how?

The very action speaks to unsoundness.

Not legally. No.

You not liking what he did

does not speak to testamentary capacity.

What about undue influence?

Yeah! Undue influence, how about that? Huh?

Did you just google that?

Look, if Marta was manipulating Dad somehow

and if we found out... If somehow, she had gotten...

...that somehow she was... her hooks into him...

You need a strong case for that.

"Your Honor, she endeared herself to him"

"through hard work and good humor."

That won't cut the salami.

What about the slayer rule?

I did just google that.

The slayer rule obviously doesn't apply here.

Well, what the hell is the slayer rule?

Well, it's if someone is convicted

of killing the person,

they don't get their inheritance.

Not even convicted.

Even if they're held responsible

for their death in civil court.

Like O.J.?

Yes, like O.J.

But Harlan committed suicide.

Detective Blanc?

You said the investigation is ongoing.

You made a point of that.

Do you suspect foul play?

Mr. Blanc, if you please...

There is much that remains unclear,

but yes,

I suspect foul play.

Marta?

I have eliminated no suspects.

You're full of shit.

I don't trust this guy in the tweed suit.

And, Alan, God bless you, you're useless.

Thank you.

There's only one answer to this.

She has to renounce the inheritance.

She knows it's what she should do.

That's exactly what she... It's the right thing to do.

Right? No way...

It's the moral thing.

Mom. RICHARD: She'll do it.

If Granddad wanted to give Marta everything,

then that's what he wanted.

No.

This wasn't him. He loved us.

He wanted us taken care of.

He wanted you to have an education.

Meg,

you think I can pay for your school?

I know.

Just saying it, it sounds insane,

but it's all true.

And I think Blanc's been on to me from the start.

I don't care if I go to jail, but my mom,

my sister?

We...

You gonna say something?

I always thought I was the only one

that could beat him at Go.

Always thought that meant something.

Um, yeah, I know you did.

That night at the party,

my last conversation with him...

My last argument,

that's what he told me about you.

That you beat him at Go more than I do, and I thought...

What a strange thing to tell me.

Think I get it now.

Maybe it did mean something.

I'm not gonna tell my family shit.

You're not gonna go to jail.

That detective is not gonna catch you.

And you're not gonna give up the money.

This is what Granddad wanted for you.

I mean, think about what he did to go through with this.

He wanted this for himself, he wanted this for the family.

And he wanted it for you.

You've come this far.

Let me help you go all the way.

What's going on? This isn't you.

You could just turn me in right now

and still get your cut of the inheritance.

Why?

Because fuck my family.

I can help you get away with this.

And then,

you're gonna give me my cut of the inheritance.

Happy ending. Everybody wins. You, me...

Harlan.

Yeah.

Deal?

Meg.

Marta...

That was nuts.

I know.

Are you okay?

Yeah. Are you?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine, I...

Look, no one knows I'm calling you, I just...

I wanted to...

I wanted to say sorry for how everyone was.

And, uh...

I guess, I wanted to ask, what are you gonna do?

What do you mean?

Well, the...

You know, with the will, what are you gonna do?

What do you think I should do?

You should do whatever you think is right.

Mmm-hmm.

Look, I...

I think you should give it back to us.

Granddad always took care of us.

You know, we're his family.

And I know he was like family to you,

but we're his actual family.

Yeah.

And... Look, Marta,

you know this isn't fair.

We've always been good to you

and you're like family, and we'll take care of you,

but you have to make things right.

You know what's right.

Marta...

Mom's broke.

And she says I'm gonna have to drop out of school.

No. No, no, Meg.

Listen, I won't let that happen.

Whatever money you need, I'll give it to you.

I'm here for you.

And I want you to know I'm gonna take care of you,

I promise that.

Okay?

Thanks.

And once I...

Okay then.

Did Blanc find anything suspicious at the house?

Yes, he found mud upstairs.

Where I broke in through the window.

Shit.

Identifiable prints?

No.

Good. Okay.

Good. Hey...

You lay low for a couple days,

wait for this investigation to blow over,

and it will.

'Cause no matter how good this Blanc guy thinks he is,

he's got nothin'.

Hey, relax.

Marta, get your ass up!

What the hell is happening?

There's a guy here, and a bunch of stuff.

Everything's going crazy. Are we rich?

Maybe, Alice. I don't know.

I don't even know what that means,

but you better get your ass up, okay?

We don't know much about Marta Cabrera,

or her exact relationship... Oh, my God...

...with Harlan Thrombey... Marta, what is all this?

...beyond being his home nurse. What did you do?

Is that here?

Oh, yeah, it is.

[OUTSIDE]Wait, so is that true?

Are we rich?

This is a story so compelling...

Oh, my God.

...you would think he had written the story himself.

Good morning, Mrs. Thrombey.

Why is grief the providence of youth?

I don't know.

But I'd imagine that age deepens all feelings.

Including grief.

This was a long walk to offering condolences

for the loss of your son.

And asking you, if it isn't presumptuous of me,

not to think too harshly of your family,

if I am, as I suspect, the first to console you.

They're young, aren't they?

One thing I assume of age

is weariness.

Damned if I don't get more tired every day.

Tired of what I do.

Following arcs like lobbed rocks,

the inevitability of truth.

But the complexity and the gray

lie not in the truth

but what you do with the truth once you have it.

I think you have something you wanna tell me.

I think you're very perceptive

and very capable of telling me what you saw

the night of your son's party.

But I'll happily wait.

I'm in no rush.

In fact,

I find it quiet pleasant

sitting here with you.

Lawyers were here.

Very big lawyers, it looked like.

They left all this stuff and business cards.

And there was a pile of other stuff

when I got home.

I don't like any of this, Marta.

I don't like it either.

I'm slipping out the back.

I'll be back later. Please don't talk to anyone.

Walt?

Yeah, I came, uh...

Hey, how you doin'?

Walt, I want you to know

that I didn't know about any of this.

We know you didn't.This is...

We know you didn't.

Yeah, we all kind of went a little crazy yesterday.

Understandable.Yeah.

I haven't even looked at all this, yet.

It must just be local lawyers and accountants

who saw the news and wanna get a jump on it.

Yeah. I'd be careful of all of it.

Marta, is it your intention to renounce the inheritance?

This is what Harlan wanted.

Yeah, but...

Harlan put you in a very hard position here. I mean,

it was unfair of him.

I mean, you see

the kind of press and scrutiny that this kicks up

and we know, with your mother...

My mother?

Yeah.

What did Meg tell you?

Oh, this isn't about...

You're missing the point.

We don't wanna attack you with this,

but, Marta, if your mother

came into the country illegally,

criminally.

And you've come into this inheritance,

with all the scrutiny that entails,

I'd be afraid that could come to light.

And that's what we wanna avoid here.

We can protect you

from that happening,

or if it happens.

So you're saying that even if it came to light,

with your family's resources, you could help me fix it?

Yeah.

Yeah, with the right lawyers, you know?

Not these local guys,

but New York lawyers, DC lawyers,

with enough resources put toward it, yes.

Not that that ever even needs to come up,

but, yes.

Okay, good.

Okay?

Because Harlan gave me all your resources.

So that means with my resources,

I'll be able to fix it.

So I guess I will find the right lawyers.

Uh, Marta, that's...

You better be sure that's

what you want.

I don't know... What's this?

It's my medical bag tag.

They have my medical bag for some reason.

Okay, but this is a photocopy of just the header

of a blood toxicology report on Harlan.

Marta, this is gonna show the morphine overdose.

So I'm screwed?

How do you know all this stuff?

I was Harlan's research assistant for a summer.

But what kind of blackmail scheme is this?

I mean, the actual evidence

is sitting up the street, at the crime lab.

There's no demands, there's no meeting place.

What's the point in sending you this?

It could be a half hour.

It could be an hour. It depends.

We wanna make sure...

So, it could take a while.

What's the cheese? But I'll let you know.

Oh, hey. FIRE CHIEF: Yeah.

- Thank you, Chief. - No problem.

5:00 a.m.

Security systems here are all triggered.

Now, this thing went up really quick,

so that means blood stores, records,

anything of that nature, it's all gone.

There were no employees here,

so, thank God for that.Mmm-hmm.

What about security cameras?

Oh, yeah.

Speaking of security,

the surveillance tape at the Thrombey estate

was all scrambled for some reason.

Yeah.

What's still pending from the autopsy?

Just a report on the blood work.

Blood work?

Holy shit.

This is insane.

I mean, who would blow up a whole real building

just to blackmail me?

Marta, this means the blackmailer

has the only paper copy

of the thing that can prove your guilt.

You didn't get any other instructions?

No phone call? No email? Nothing?

No.

Well, I haven't checked my email.

There is one.

Yeah, that's it. "1209, Columbus Road. 10 a.m."

You know what this means, right?

If you destroy that copy,

you're totally in the clear.

Oh, no.

Marta, did you hear me?

Yeah.

Elliott!

We gotta go! We gotta go!

Okay, baby driver. Oh, God.

You regret helping me yet?

I regret not taking the Beemer.

Oh, shit.

Vehicles in pursuit

on Washington Street. No force.

Make sure you say "no force." No force.

We got a possible murder suspect.

I said that. I said that.

Go. Go! Go! Are you flooring it?

I am literally flooring it!

This is going well. I'm pulling over. I'm...

If you miss your chance

to get this tox report, it's all over.

Oh, my God.

Whoa! Whoa!

Why... Why are we stopping?

Why are you stopping in the middle of the road?

Hold on.

Oh, my God, I'm just pure adrenaline right now.

I feel like I swallowed bees.

Okay...

So where is it? What's the address?

1209, Columbus Road.

Okay. I mean, whatever they want,

I'll say yes... Anything.

You know, just to get that report back.

Get it back and destroy it. Destroy it.

Holy shit, Ransom.

Hey, thank you.

I couldn't do this without you.

Oh, my God.

Get out.

That was the dumbest car chase of all time.

Put your hands down.

I spoke to Wanetta Thrombey, Greatnana.

Night of the party, she saw someone

climbing the trellis to the third floor.

Mr. Drysdale, come on. WAGNER: Let's go.

Pat him down, check him out.

What's going on?

"Ransom came back," she said.

Hands on the vehicle.

I don't know what he came back to do,

but we'll find out.

You got anything sharp?

Watch your head. Thank you.

Hey, you don't need to thank him.

Did he ask you to drive when he saw me coming?

Yes.

Blanc, coming with us?

I'll drive with Marta.

Let's go to the police station.

I want a full rundown on everything he said to you.

I'll catch you up on where we're at.

Strange case from the start.

A case with a hole in the middle.

A donut.

I'm just talking through my process here,

let me know if this is boring.

I feel the noose tightening.

The family is truly desperate.

Desperate motives,

the mystery of who hired me,

the impossibility of the crime,

and yet...

A donut.

One central piece

and if it reveals itself, the fog would lift,

the arc would resolve, the Slinky become unkinked.

Do you mind if I stop for a second?

I need to pick something up.

It'll be very quick.

Sure.

It'll be just a few minutes.

Watch the, uh,

door.

Hello?

Listen, I don't know what you want...

Whatever it is, we can work it out.

But we have to figure it out right here, right now.

And I'm leaving with that report.

Hello?

Fran?

No, no, no, no! Fran?

Oh, my God, Fran.

Can you hear me?

Fran, give me a sign if you can hear me.

You... Yes, it's me. It's Marta.

You called me here, you sent me an email,

that's why I'm here. Did you take something?

I'm gonna call an ambulance now, you're gonna be okay.

You're gonna be fine, okay?

Stay with me.Copy...

What? Copy...

Stashed...

What? What are you saying?

You did this.

Won't get away with this.

Jesus, stop it!

911, what's your emergency?

♪ The thought of you stays bright

♪ Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor

♪ Not going left

♪ Not going...

Oh, Lord.

All right, my friend, thank you for the update.

No need for that.

I'll bring her in once we get word

that the housekeeper is stable.

It's still touch and go.

All right.

Listen, this is over.

People are getting hurt.

So I'm gonna tell you the truth.

Young Ransom just told Lieutenant Elliott everything.

Good.

Wait, I hope he didn't cover for me.

Did he tell you the real truth

about me switching the... Yeah.

And the disguise bit? Yes.

And the whole blackmail and...

Mmm-hmm.

But why did Fran take my morphine?

I mean, obviously she had swiped the bag from the house,

but she didn't seem like a user to me,

unless that's why she needed the blackmail money.

I don't know, it doesn't matter anyway.

I have to tell the Thrombeys myself,

I feel like I owe that to them.

I don't think that's a good idea.

No, I have to do it. I need to do it.

I gave the doctors my number,

so they'll call if anything changes with Fran.

All right.

I'll round up the Thrombeys at the house,

along with a police escort.

For the arrest after.

You can tell me your whole story on the drive over.

I don't want any more surprises.

Fran said it was stashed,

the copy, and then she said,

"You did this. You won't get away with it,"

and I called the ambulance.

That's it.

All right.

You ready?

Oh!

Okay.

Well, has she come to her senses?

Well, she's standing right there, Richard,

she can speak for herself.

Is the rest of the family here?

In the living room.

I think that it would be better

if we were to gather again and get this over with.

Hey.Hey.

I'm so sorry I told them about your mom.

Meg, it's okay.

I'm sorry. No... I was scared. I just...

I didn't wanna tell them.

I get it.

Trust me,

I understand. It's all right.

I'm sorry.

God, I am so raiding Fran's stash after this.

I still think this is a bad idea,

but the family is assembled.

I know where the tox report is.

She basically told me where it was.

Anyways, this will tie everything up.

And I just handed it to you.

God, you're not much of a detective, are you?

Well, to be fair,

you make a pretty lousy murderer.

Perhaps we deserve each other.

You've always been good to me.

And what I'm about to say isn't gonna be easy

and you're gonna be upset.

But I thought after what you've gone through

the last few days,

that you deserved to hear it from me.

Hmm.

I... Excuse me!

You have not been good to her.

You have all treated her like shit,

to steal back a fortune that you lost,

and she deserves.

You're a pack of vultures at the feast!

Knives out, beaks bloody!

Well...

You're not getting bailed out, not this time.

Ms. Cabrera has decided, definitively,

not to renounce the inheritance.

What? What?

Furthermore, it will be my professional recommendation

to the local authorities that the manner of death

in the case of Harlan Thrombey is ruled as suicide!

And the case is closed. Blanc?

What?

Thank you all for coming. Goodbye.

What's going on? Just tell me...

That's certainly not what I was expecting.

No.

Is anybody else confused?

Not what I was expecting to hear at all.

Are you gonna tell me what the hell is going on?

Yes. Yes.

I just wanna come clean, okay?

It's over.Almost.

Blanc, what are we doing?

What's going on? I'm sorry. Officer Wagner.

Keep the family out of this room,

and get 'em out of the house if you can.

But stand by with your additional officer.

Get the family out?

Yes, but not all of them. Would you...

Thank you.

Blanc... WAGNER: Yes, sir.

Come on, come on, what's all this drama?

Indulge me. MARTA: Blanc,

I told Ransom, Ransom told you,

and I'm telling you now,

it is an immovable fact that I killed Harlan.

Yes, you did, yes, he did, yes, you are.

But... But, I spoke in the car about the hole

at the center of this donut.

And what you and Harlan did that fateful night

seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly.

A donut hole in a donut's hole.

But we must look a little closer.

And when we do, we see the donut hole

has a hole in its center.

It is not a donut hole,

but a smaller donut with its own hole

and our donut is not whole at all!

Blanc, look, I understand that this is amusing for you...

Why was I hired?

Why would someone hire me?

Someone fishing for a crime

to reverse the will, Blanc. Come on.

But I was hired before the sealed will was read.

So, yes,

the person must have known the contents of the will.

But one step further,

that same person must have known a crime was committed,

and further...

If the intent was to reverse Marta's inheritance,

they must have known that Marta was responsible.

An intriguing combination of factors.

Someone who knew what Marta did

wanted to expose it

but could not reveal how they knew.

Fran!

She was blackmailing me. She knew what I did.

Yeah, but Fran wanted money,

ergo she did not want the crime exposed.

What if someone in the family had observed

Marta doing something suspicious?

But they would have had no reason not to speak up.

The answer is not so simple.

Now with the entire solution in my field of view,

the arc of this case is a tragedy of errors.

Marta it will not be easy for you to hear.

But there is at least

one truly guilty party behind it all,

guilty in the true sense of acting with malice

and committing a heinous crime with selfish intent.

Trooper Wagner.

Trooper Wagner?

No.

Marta, I'm so sorry. I told them everything.

I figured it was up. I'm sorry.

Hey. It's all right, Ransom, I'm glad you did.

Not exactly everything though.

Is this about what Greatnana told you?

She saw me that night. She mistook me for Ransom.

We'll get to that.

In the meanwhile,

Mr. Hugh Ransom Drysdale,

you might tell us all why you hired me.

Why I hired you?

You're right, let's back it up...

To the night of the party.

Your argument with Harlan.

What were the overheard words

by the Nazi child masturbating in the bathroom?

"My will," and "I'm warning you."

You and Harlan were drama mamas,

you shared a love of twisting the knife into one another.

You see, I don't believe

he would have slipped it in halfway,

no, no, no.

I submit

Harlan told you everything.

You can't be serious!

Not a red dime or word of my work

to a single one of them, you included.

Marta,

remind me what Ransom said

his conversation with Harlan ended with?

Harlan told him that I could beat him at Go.

And I asked myself,

"Marta?"

"Why would the topic of the will"

"have steered around to Marta?"

There is one obvious explanation...

You can't be that crazy.

You're not just gonna throw away your fortune.

No. I'm giving it to Marta.

All of it.

Your Brazilian nurse?

Are you goddamn insane?

I'm sane for the first time in my life,

and I've done it. Harlan, if you think

I'm gonna let this happen,

if you think I'm gonna stand here and...

I've made the change to my will. It's done.

I'm warning you!

That's some heavy-duty conjecture.

Granted.

But it is the only way what comes next makes sense.

So you storm out, you drive off into the night.

You tell Marta later...

What was it? Feeling an overwhelming sense of...

Clarity.

That he had to make do for himself from here on out.

Exactly.

Marta. The will. Harlan.

"Do for yourself."

"You won't get away with this."

And a plan forms.

You return,

careful to avoid the gate's security camera range.

Then on foot up towards the house,

you sneak in up the trellis,

so as not to be seen by the rest of the family

who are still having their party downstairs.

What you need to do will take moments.

But it is essential that you are alone and undetected.

You knew what medications Harlan took.

You knew what Marta would be injecting him with that night.

And you knew

if Marta was responsible for his death,

even unintentionally,

the slayer rule would nullify the changed will

and you would get your share back.

You used the syringes in the kit

to switch the liquids in the two medication vials.

And as a final precaution...

you took the Naloxone,

the lifesaving antidote.

No. No, no, no, that's impossible.

That is the truth.

Hand me that vial of morphine, I'll show you.

If he did that, if the meds were switched,

then when I got them mixed up, I...

I accidentally switched them back,

so I gave Harlan...

The correct doses.

Yes.

But not accidentally.

I taped over the label of these two vials.

The vials themselves are identical.

How'd you know this was the morphine?

I just knew.

You knew because there is the slightest,

almost imperceptible differences

of tincture and viscosity between the two liquids.

You knew because you've done it a hundred times.

You gave him the correct medication

because you are a good nurse.

Then Harlan was...

I'm sorry, Marta. But yes.

Harlan was perfectly fine. Oh, my God.

His blood was normal.

The cause of death was truly, solely suicide,

and you are guilty

of nothing but some damage to the trellis

and a few amateur theatrics.

In fact, if Harlan had listened to you

and called the ambulance,

he would be alive today.

Damn!

A twisted web

and we are not finished untangling it.

Not yet.

Marta, when Greatnana spotted you

climbing down the trellis, she said...

Ransom? Are you back again already?

"Are you back again already?"

'Cause earlier that night...

Ransom, you're back?

Come on, Marta.

This is stoopid with two o's.

You don't have a shred of evidence,

you're just spinning a fairy tale.

Not a shred, no.

Just as we have no real proof of Marta mixing up the vials,

so it's your word...

You have her confession!

All right, yeah.

Yeah, we do have that.

With your permission,

I'd like to spin a little further.

Much later that night,

you'd have to come back to the house...

to retrieve the incriminating tampered vials.

However, this time the dogs were outside.

They barked, waking Meg.

No matter.

You'll get the vials tomorrow.

But tomorrow brings news...

Not of a medical error and a guilty nurse,

but of a slit throat and a suicide.

Now the circumstances are perfect

for the anonymous hirin' of me.

You know a crime has been committed by Miss Cabrera,

you need her to be caught for it.

You cannot reveal how you know.

Enter...

Benoit Blanc.

Benny, look...

I hear what you're saying, but this...

The body is discovered early the next morning.

The police,

the medical examiner, the family,

everyone swarms in

and there is no possible way

you can get to Marta's medical bag

to retrieve the vials.

You must wait for your moment,

when the investigation is over

and you know the house will be empty.

And that is why

you missed the funeral.

There is no one home to wonder

why you're going into Harlan's study.

Or so you think.

Poor Fran.

She witnessed you tampering

with Harlan's medication in the medical bag.

She did not know what you were doing.

But she knew you were up to no good.

So her mind begins to turn.

Oh, God.

That Hallmark movie she told me about,

with Danica McKellar...

Deadly by Surprise.

That's what she was talking about.

She loved Harlan.

She hates Ransom.

So the poor girl decides to test her theory,

and make this asshole pay.

She gets a copy of the toxicology report.

Now, I will be honest, I have no idea how.

'Cause she has a cousin.

She told me, she has a cousin

who works as a receptionist at the examiner's office.

Well, voila!

The numbers, they mean nothing to her,

but if Ransom is guilty, its existence is a threat

so she photocopies the header and makes her blackmail note.

So why did she send it to me?

She didn't.

She sent it to Ransom.

And when Mr. Drysdale gets it,

what is his reaction?

Elation.

He still thinks Marta has given Harlan

the tampered drugs.

A blood tox report will prove her guilt.

He goes to the will reading in high spirits,

ready to see the family tear itself apart,

secure in the knowledge it will be all undone

when the tox report comes to light.

And then...

Marta's confession.

And everything turns on its head.

He now realizes that Marta has committed no crime

and the tox report will prove her innocence.

The changed will is gonna stand.

He has lost.

Unless...

Unless you decide...

You're not gonna give up the money.

You're not gonna give up the money.

You've come this far.

You've come this far.

Just one step further,

just one last act.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

You decide you are in.

Step one...

Destroy all evidence of Marta's innocence.

Step two,

send her the anonymous email

with a late morning rendezvous time...

And deliver her the blackmail note.

Step three,

keep your appointment with Fran.

Oh, I knew it.

I knew you were a no-good son of a bitch.

I knew Harlan wouldn't just kill himself.

Yes, Fran, you were right.

I knew you were guilty as shit.

And now you're gonna pay for it!

Don't you come near me.

Don't come near me! I'm warning you!

See, now, now the board is set.

Marta will get the blackmail note.

You'll put the pieces together for her.

You'll guide her to the rendezvous.

You'll make the anonymous call to the police,

they will catch her there

with the body and the burned evidence.

Marta will get arrested for killing Fran

and Harlan.

She said...

You did this.

She didn't say...

"You did this."

She wasn't talking about me, she said...

Hugh did this.

"Hugh did this."

'Cause you made the help call you Hugh.

'Cause you're an asshole.

And it would have worked

if we hadn't have brought you in for questioning

so you could not make your anonymous call.

And if Fran had not stashed

a safety copy of the tox report.

And if Marta had not outplayed you once again.

By having a kind heart.

By saving Fran's life

though it meant her losing the inheritance

and going to jail.

She didn't play your game.

She saved Fran's life.

Fran's alive?

Oh, yes.

Fran...

...who will confirm this very story

or something close to it.

And send you, Hugh,

to jail.

Yes?

Doctor, that's great news.

We'll be there soon. Thank you.

She's okay.

She's ready to talk.

Trooper Wagner, if you could, uh,

keep Mr. Drysdale in custody

while Lieutenant Elliott, Ms. Cabrera and myself,

we go to the hospital and take Fran's statement.

All right. Up, come on.

I'm gonna say this just to you.

No cameras, no courtroom,

just you, 'cause you know it's true.

We allowed you into our home.

We let you watch our granddad,

we welcomed you into our family.

And now you think you can steal it from us?

You think I'm not gonna fight to protect my home,

our birthright,

our ancestral family home?

That is hooey.

Harlan, he bought this place in the '80s

from a Pakistani real estate billionaire.

Oh, shut up, Blanc! Shut up!

Shut up with that Kentucky Fried Foghorn Leghorn drawl!

Yeah, I killed Fran. But I guess I didn't.

So what do you have on me?

Nothing. What, attempted murder?

I get arson for the building, and a few other charges.

With a good lawyer, which I have,

I'll be out in no time.

And then you'll see just how much hell

I can wreak on your life,

you vicious little bitch.

What the shit!

That means she's lying!

Yeah, man, we know.

That's right.

Fran's dead.

And you just confessed to her murder.

Well...

In for a penny...

Shit.

Linda!

Linda!

We've gotta get the attorneys on the phone right now!

We...

Can I ask

when did you know I had something to do

with Harlan's death?

Oh, from the first moment

you set foot in front of me.

Oh, shit.

I want you to remember something

that's very important.

You won,

not by playing the game Harlan's way,

but yours.

You're a good person.

This family.

I should help them. Right?

Well, I have my opinion,

but I have a feeling you'll follow your heart.