TEDDY GOH: Previously, on Death and Other Details...
IMOGENE SCOTT: He followed us in Malta.
Viktor Sams was tracking us and you knew the whole time.
- I wouldn't have let him hurt you. - Where is he now?
If I knew, I would tell you.
- I fucked Eleanor. - Oh. Does Leila know?
ANNA COLLIER: No. No, of course not. I can't tell her. Do I have to tell her?
It doesn't even fucking matter.
I don't think she wants to be my wife anymore.
I want a divorce.
It's been so hard since we lost his mother.
And since you began your affair.
- What do you want? - Information.
You would blackmail a priest? [Celia chuckles]
IMOGENE: Jiangsu, Anna.
Your factory there was using a banned chemical.
I really can't with this right now.
How long have you been paying blackmail to Viktor Sams?
I rebuilt the entire goddamn factory and it bankrupted us.
You're criminals.
We gave you everything, you ungrateful cunt.
LEILA COLLIER: He has blackmail materials on everyone.
[alarm beeping] [electricity zaps]
Jesus Christ.
THAT DEREK: Dad, the WiFi died.
♪ upbeat suspenseful music playing ♪
My mom was a whistleblower.
She was gonna take down the Collier family.
And you were her witness.
♪
[ship horn blows]
[waves crashing]
[passengers chattering]
RUFUS COTESWORTH: I know you want answers, reader,
but we have to go back again.
♪ suspenseful music playing ♪
♪
ELEANOR CHUN: Grandmother?
Danielle's been trying to reach you.
Legal's close to having the signature pages for the Collier Mills deal.
I think I heard them popping champagne. [chuckles]
I've been thinking.
Anna Collier is still the right person to take over as CEO.
She's not her father.
Her plan is solid. She can run this business.
When we are finished with them, there will be nothing left for her to run.
What do you mean?
[electricity zaps] RUFUS: Back again.
For the moment we lost power.
For the moment Viktor Sams took control of the entire vessel.
Oh, come on. Nobody knows the ship like I do.
Cut me loose.
Mm.
This one... aged in Burgundy.
What I'd give to be there now.
I can help figure out why the backup generators haven't kicked in.
No.
Why?
On the one hand, you work for Viktor Sams.
Viktor Sams is a ruthless killer.
Mm.
And the other?
I just don't like you.
She told me what you did 18 years ago.
How you abandoned her.
[knocking on door] - Won't happen again.
Yeah, it better not.
♪ tense music playing ♪
It is not easy to threaten a man
while tied to a chair.
Anna copped to it.
Collier Mills poisoned their workers and they knew.
[sighs] It's all of a piece. Must be.
You have a theory, reader? As to the identity of Viktor Sams?
Here is a hint. He was already there, hiding among us.
[speaking Cantonese]
Just fix it.
- I've been looking all over for you. - I know the generators are down.
Not that. A guest left this.
♪
LLEWELLYN MATHERS: I want you to know that what happened
has nothing to do with you.
Kira deserved so much better. - Excuse me.
LLEWELLYN: I really loved her. - Excuse me. Excuse me, sir.
[gasps] [screams] No!
IMOGENE: No! [passengers murmuring]
Get down there! [passengers chattering]
[shaky breathing]
♪
LLEWELLYN: "I want you to know that what happened has nothing to do with you.
I wish we'd had more time together, mistress."
TEDDY [screams]: No!
LLEWELLYN: I didn't mean to drink it all.
I should've saved you some. [Llewellyn hiccups]
But they took the cork, and [deep breath]
how often does someone send you a '98?
[Llewellyn hiccups]
We should do this another night.
Don't go.
You're the only one on this floating Petri dish I can talk to.
♪ soft music playing ♪
[sighs] That feels nice.
You're stressed about the murder.
[inhales]
It's not a great look for the company, but it's nothing I can't handle.
You clean up their messes?
Yeah.
You know what it's like. At first, it's fan-fuckin'-tastic.
Buncha people spinning around like the world just came unglued,
and they're all lookin' at you like you're the only person
that can stick it back together again.
It's addictive, the adrenaline.
Power.
Access.
And then you blink and you're... 60.
And they all have families, and big, messy, beautiful lives,
and, and you're the guy who has... a file full of someone else's secrets
no one wants to sit with at a party.
I'm not a shrink... but it seems like you're battling depressive tendencies.
And I cannot encourage self-harm.
Self-harm?
Clearly, there's been a misunderstanding.
I have zero interest in checking out of this game early.
I'm a cockroach.
I'll do whatever the fuck it takes to keep on ticking.
Trust me, I've done it.
[door creaks]
[Teddy sniffles] [paper rustling]
Miss Goh?
Is he dead?
From this height?
I didn't see the signs.
♪ dramatic music playing ♪
We--
I know you did.
Me too.
Oh.
It was my night off.
Did you-- Did he ever give you the sense that he was hurting?
I thought he was having a good time.
I suppose... it was something else.
Backup will be here within the hour.
We need to keep people calm. I assume you have emergency protocols.
We do.
Good.
Consider this an emergency.
♪ mysterious theme music playing ♪
♪
[water sloshes]
[ship horn blows] [passengers chattering]
Hi. Hello, Miss Goh. When should we expect the power back on?
- We're working on it. - That's not good enough.
I'm sorry, but we were told before we booked this vessel
there were three redundant levels of backup power.
I was in the middle of an important phone call and--
An important call? Were you now?
A man you've known all your life just flung himself into the sea.
Show some respect. Your call can wait. - Hold on.
Who's dead?
[breathing heavily]
♪
Imogene.
Llewellyn, he's-- - Yeah, I was there when it happened.
I'm so sorry.
That's funny. That's what he said, too.
If you know something, if you know anything... about Jaingsu,
about Viktor Sams, or about what your family has been up to,
now is very much the fucking time.
You know everything I know.
Okay.
Well, I'm gonna go search his room. - For what?
I mean, he, he jumped, right?
He was a weird, sad, gross man, and he was overwhelmed and he--
He did jump, yes?
Well, no one pushed him if that's what you mean.
Then what are you looking for in there?
You know everything I know.
[sighs]
[door closes]
IMOGENE: 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.
[slams box shut] - No!
No. Rufus, think.
You must've interviewed Llewellyn back then.
Walk me through everything.
Okay? Every detail, every part of the investigation.
[deep breath]
Llewellyn is dead.
Anna, you don't always have to jump down his throat
about everything. - N-No. I mean literally.
He's deceased.
Suicide.
He's dead.
Our legal counsel is dead.
Llewellyn was always weak.
Dad, Jesus Christ.
[phone recording sound] LAWRENCE COLLIER: What?
You've been trying to get me to cut him loose for a decade.
The only reason we kept him this long was insurance.
He did us all a favor.
KATHERINE COLLIER: [scoffs] You know your father didn't mean that.
[phone recording sound] - If you're watching this,
the power's back on and your boy's okay.
Or they found my phone and I didn't make it.
Either way, those of you who thought Lawrence Collier was super sus,
I'm beginnin' to think you're right.
Pray for me, y'all.
[phone recording stops]
Whoa. - Your followers,
who else do they suspect?
♪ soft suspenseful music playing ♪
[chuckles]
♪ music intensifies ♪
Leila.
Eleanor.
Where is she? - [groans] Go home.
Oh, fuck.
Tripp... where is Anna?
I don't know.
[groans] She was here, but--
[exhales] Why is it so fuckin' dark?
Because we are not in control.
[Tripp laughing]
Yeah. Who is, Leila?
Did you know?
About Anna and Eleanor?
- Oh, shit. - You did. You knew.
I told her not to tell you.
Maybe you should've told her not to fuck Eleanor.
[sighs] Who cares?
[deep breath] Seriously, Leila, who fuckin' cares?
You love her, she loves you. In the grand scheme, uh--
Yeah, she fucked up.
But she's still here. She's still alive.
You really cared for the Governor.
I should've listened to her more. Should've taken her seriously.
She was fuckin' terrified, and I just-- - She knew someone was after her.
She thought it was my dad.
♪
You don't think that--
He couldn't be behind all this, could he?
No.
No, this is bigger than him.
The man who did this goes after people like your father.
Rich,
corrupt people.
♪ suspenseful music playing ♪
Are we all gonna die?
[ball bouncing]
♪
Give a boy a ball.
♪
WINNIE GOH: Where'd you get that?
Off a girl I know.
Open this.
Jules, please.
They used me.
You let yourself be used.
SIMON: Teddy, are you down here?
♪ dramatic music playing ♪
[grunting, fighting]
♪
[Simon groans]
You're one of them?
Is he working with you?
Simon, are you? SIMON: Winnie, no!
[scoffs] I'm not a killer.
What does he want, your Viktor Sams?
Who's he after?
SIMON: As if you care about anybody other than yourself.
There's no way off this ship.
None that you know of.
SIMON: Jules!
[door slams shut]
LAWRENCE: Come on, where the hell are we going?
They told us that we have to gather in the Celestial Hall.
Well, have you called what's his name, the guy who owns this boat?
ANNA: Dad, I will handle it.
[sighs] Well, I can't see a goddamn thing.
[indistinct chatter]
LAWRENCE: [clears throat] What am I doing here?
We are waiting for backup, Mr. Collier.
And until they come, I would like everyone contained.
You expect me to just sit here and what?
To wait. This is what I expect.
[Anna sighs]
Hi... You're okay? I've been worried.
Have you?
You're still my wife. We're still--
Let me fix this.
Fuck Dr. Mark. He's fired. We'll find someone new.
Someone else to tell me I'm crazy?
This trip... [Leila sighs]
...maybe you were right. [Leila scoffs quietly]
I love you.
I don't want a divorce.
♪ tense music playing ♪
Oh, look, your friends, the Chuns, have some room at their table.
We don't need to--
♪
You don't mind if we join?
How could we?
Great, 'cause I'm famished.
[groans] Tripp. TRIPP COLLIER: What?
Caviar's not getting any better.
Truer words.
Bottoms up.
Can we at least get some blinis?
BRAD: It's wild. I just chatted with the lawyer yesterday morning.
We were gonna get a game going. He's got a wicked backhand.
Had. He had a wicked [chuckles] backhand. I gotta get used to sayin' that.
PASSENGER: I'd like to see the maître d'.
[speaking Mandarin]
Cotesworth and his assistant are searching Mr. Mathers's suite.
I thought it a waste of time, but then, his instincts on all this
have proven more reliable than mine.
And by the way, where is Miss Goh?
[crying]
LLEWELLYN [echoing]: You're the only one on this floating Petri dish I can talk to.
TEDDY: I didn't see the signs.
[breathing sharply]
♪ soft suspenseful music playing ♪
[softly whimpers]
♪
[grunts]
LLEWELLYN [echoing]: They took the cork, and [inhales]
how often does someone send you--
how often does someone send you a '98?
♪
[door opening and closing]
LLEWELLYN [echoing]: How often does someone send you a '98?
♪
- You're free. - And you're not.
Oh, such a wordsmith you are.
Who did this?
[door opens] - Give you one guess.
You pissed her off so quickly?
He's pissed off a lot of people. Where's Cotesworth?
What, you think I have any idea?
I've been here, in the dark, for hours.
Is he with Viktor Sams?
- No! - Unclear.
Jesus, Teddy, not you too.
He owns the ship, he owns you.
You knew I had an unsavory investor.
I mean, you were helping me get out from under it.
I didn't want to be in business with him.
If I'd known what he'd done-- - He killed Imogene's mom.
Yes, Jules, I know that now, and I fuckin' hate myself!
[Sunil sighs]
At least let me get a look at the backup generator
so I can help get the power back on.
Forget about the power. We need to find Mr. Cotesworth now.
Someone poisoned Llewellyn's wine.
♪
Llewellyn Mathers didn't kill himself.
He was murdered.
[indistinct chatter]
How long did Mr. Mathers work for you?
[scoffs quietly] I don't answer questions without a warrant.
Friendly conversation then?
No.
Then permit an observation.
You chartered this vessel, Mr. Collier.
Every guest onboard is here at your invitation.
And yet not once have you shown
a modicum of interest in what has befallen us.
You've not asked to be apprised of the investigation.
Either you do not care,
or you already know.
Ah. Mrs. Collier, is this where you tell me that my boss's boss's boss
is a dear family friend?
We're well past idle threats, Eriksen.
You and Cotesworth have botched this case so spectacularly
you won't have a boss's boss's boss for long.
♪
Darling.
Alright, to the backup generators then.
No.
- No? - They hacked our ship.
They could've hacked our comms.
Help is not comin'. Unless we go to land and get it.
♪ soft suspenseful music playing ♪
[indistinct chatter]
Do you need something?
[chuckles] That's rich. We paid for this whole deal.
ANNA: Actually, this whole deal was a marketing expense.
Now that Mrs. Chun is the majority shareholder,
I'd say we're drinking her champagne.
[speaking Mandarin]
What the hell is she saying? [Celia speaking Mandarin]
LAWRENCE: I don't have to stand for this.
[Katherine sighs]
[speaking Mandarin]
- You'll make a much better CEO. - It hasn't been announced yet.
KATHERINE: Oh, don't be modest, darling.
Everyone knows the board approved it weeks ago.
- The board has changed. - The vote still stands.
But I--
I don't wanna strong-arm you into this, Mrs. Chun.
Collier Mills is a family brand. It always has been.
This company is more valuable with my daughter at the helm.
Because she's a Collier?
ANNA: Because I'm the right person for the job.
I've walked every inch of our factory floor.
I've known our vendors since I was a child.
I can lead our company into a new era.
No.
The clients expect a Collier in charge.
But you are not a Collier.
Lawrence is not your father. KATHERINE: That's absurd.
W-What is this?
I don't know anything. I didn't do anything.
Aside from sleeping with my wife.
W-W-W-What is happening right now?
Oh, I don't want to get in the middle of--
ANNA: Shut the fuck up, Eleanor.
Mom? - Absolutely absurd.
Yeah, but Mom, is it true?
You are your father's daughter.
- Biologically? - Of course!
Of course, you are. - Not what he says.
Toby... you didn't.
She threatened my son.
So, Toby wasn't your first affair?
- Wha-- The priest? - This isn't the place.
W-W-Wait, you're, you're fuckin' the fuckin' priest?
- Language. - I-Is Dad my dad?
Yes, of course.
You know how much we wanted you.
ANNA: Three rounds of in vitro,
and I was the miracle baby.
Oh, fuck.
You didn't even have to try, or so you guys said, over and over?
It was all bullshit. You just upgraded the sperm?!
- Anna, we should speak in private. - Who is my dad?
The gardener? Your Pilates instructor?
Oh, no, don't tell me. Don't tell me, the pool boy.
[Tripp scoffs] - The least you can do
is tell her the truth. - No, the truth never helped anyone.
The truth is a weapon, and it won't help now that he's--
Now that he's what?
[sighs] It's too late, honey.
Is he dead? Is my real dad dead?
Oh, my God, I know who it is.
Oh, shit!
Yeah, [chuckles] it's--
Oh, fuck, I can't unsee it. Your, your nose, your eyebrows.
Jesus. Mom, seriously?! Llewellyn?!
- No. - The lawyer?
KATHERINE: We were both lonely.
He wanted Kira, Kira never wanted him,
and I wanted your father.
And Lawrence doesn't understand the word love.
It was brief, it was sad, and then I had you and it was worth it.
Did Llewellyn know?
It would've been too risky.
So, everyone was right.
You are just a gold digger. How obvious.
[sighs]
I gave you everything.
A last name that opens doors, a future of your choosing,
the power to fall in love and screw it up,
and to have whatever life you want.
I made a promise to God and I kept it. I held this family together!
And Toby,
fuck you.
[passengers murmuring]
♪ suspenseful music playing ♪
[Imogene breathes deeply]
Hey, at least you're maybe not related to a murderer.
Is that supposed to make me feel better?
♪
IMOGENE: My mom was a whistleblower.
She was gonna take down the Collier family,
and you were her witness.
Uh, what?
♪
A whistleblower? I don't understand.
We have no record of you working at our factory.
I had a different name then.
♪
♪ soft, cheery music playing ♪
[Celia speaking Mandarin]
♪
♪ gentle music playing ♪
♪
[workers coughing]
[Chen coughing]
[coughing]
♪ unsettling music playing ♪
[knocking on door]
[door opens]
♪
[Eleanor speaking Mandarin]
[speaking Mandarin]
So... Lawrence knew about the poison.
He knew his factories were killing people,
but it was cheaper just to pay them off.
- No, that is not entirely-- - No, you said it yourself.
To fix it bankrupted the company. Your dad knew that would happen.
He ran the cost analysis,
and he decided that people's lives weren't worth it.
But my mom didn't think like that, 'cause she tried to stop him.
She put a case together, and he killed her for it.
- No. - Yes!
Danny started looking into it,
and Alexandra brought that same case forward and--
And he killed them, too.
- No. - Yes!
[Anna exhales]
[Imogene scoffs]
[Anna exhales]
[Lawrence sighs]
[Imogene exhales]
It's you.
You killed my mom. You're Viktor Sams.
Kira?
♪ soft suspenseful music playing ♪
Oh, Kira.
Thank God you're here.
Nothing works without you.
♪
[softly] There are good days and bad days.
- What's going on? - It's okay, Dad. Everything's fine.
Me and Kira just need a minute. - What?
I tried to explain. There are--
There are varying diagnoses.
It's something like early-onset dementia.
That's why he didn't announce you as CEO the first night.
He wasn't joking.
He didn't remember what he was supposed to say.
He gave away our company and he didn't even realize it.
He's not behind whatever's happening here.
He's not capable of it.
- He killed my mom. - He loved your mom.
You heard Celia.
He made mistakes, he cut corners, but he's not a murderer.
- You don't know that. - Imogene, I have not slept for two days.
Leila wants a divorce. I lost the company.
My dad isn't even really my dad.
My real dad... is the world's creepiest creep,
but don't worry, he killed himself before I found out, so there's that.
Oh, and I can see that none of this is even registering with you
because all you care about is did he kill your mom.
He did.
Prove it.
[Imogene sighs]
Hi, Lawrence.
It's Kira.
Why did you leave?
- I didn't. - You did. You did leave.
No.
That's not what happened.
You were the only one asking questions.
Why did ya have to be a hero?
[exhales] You were poisoning people.
They were lucky to have a job!
Those people, always begging for work,
with their hands out.
I tried to explain it to you. You wouldn't listen.
I never listen.
I didn't wanna do it!
I wanted you to stop! Why wouldn't you stop?!
What did you do?
♪ quiet, tense music playing ♪
I did what I had to do.
You killed her.
I made a phone call.
Kira, I--
I'm sorry, I--
I miss you, so much.
You have no idea.
♪
The night after Keith Trubitsky was murdered,
you served Llewellyn Mathers a bottle of Pessac-Léognan.
Haut-Brion '98, unbearably dry summer.
Who could forget it?
I found this.
AGENT HILDE ERIKSEN: There is the hole from the corkscrew,
as well as a small-bore puncture that runs all the way through that cork,
roughly the size of an 18-gauge medical syringe.
We were able to retrieve Mr. Mathers's body from the ocean.
And when we study it, we will learn that he, too,
was poisoned with ricin,
the same substance used to kill the Governor. Yes?
- I would never. - Murder a guest with a vintage Grand Cru?
If the bottle was tampered with, it was done so before I laid hands on it.
I do what I'm told.
After 20 years of service at the Ritz in Paris, the Pierre,
a guest wanted a bottle sent to Mr. Mathers.
I served that bottle.
Hans, I would like to believe you.
But first,
which guest?
[indistinct chatter]
♪ suspenseful music playing ♪
Where is Katherine Collier?
I told you to keep everyone here.
- Uh, we-we, we tried, but-- - They're very--
Eck! Check her suite, now.
And make sure the goddamn head waiter
does not leave his room until we corroborate his story.
Are you capable of that? Yes? Good, thank you.
[scoffs]
What's happened?
She sent Llewellyn a bottle of wine laced with poison.
We did a thorough search of her room and found some ricin in her things.
She killed him. We don't know why, but--
Why? Because Katherine is Viktor Sams.
IMOGENE [softly]: There's no fuckin' justice.
When a detective goes off hunting for justice,
makes his gravest mistake.
Yeah, then why do you do it?
Why?
For money.
He killed my mom.
He goes to jail, he's not even gonna realize it.
What do you want?
A reward... for puzzling it all out?
- I don't know what I want. - Yes, you do.
You never wanted justice for what happened to your mom.
You wanted her back.
That's impossible.
[Anna screaming]
[sobbing, screaming]
♪ unsettling music playing ♪
[Anna gasping, sobbing]
Oh, my God, Mom!
[Imogene breathing heavily] [Anna sobbing]
♪
[helicopter approaching]
♪
Thank God, your backup.
That is not my backup.
Ah. Should be enough fuel to get us to--
♪
[device beeping]
There's enough here to sink us.
Well, shit.
♪
[Agent Eriksen grunts] [Anna gasps, whimpering]
You... you work for Viktor Sams.
Gather the guests.
We are going to play a game.
♪ Death by White Lies playing ♪
♪ The safety in the clouds out my window ♪
♪ I wonder what keeps us so high up ♪
♪ Could there be a love beneath these wings? ♪
♪ If we suddenly fall should I scream out? ♪
♪ Or keep very quiet and cling to my mouth? ♪
♪ As I'm crying, so frightened of dying ♪
♪ Relax, yes, I'm trying, but fear's got a hold on me ♪
♪ Yes, this fear's got a hold on me ♪
♪ Yes, this fear's got... ♪
[child giggles] [bike bell rings]
[machine whirring]