Previously on A Murder at the End of the World...
[TODD] Police can't get here with the storm closing in.
[SIAN] We don't know who did this.
We don't know why and we don't know if they are done.
It's a signaling device.
[DARBY] I think Bill uncovered something his first night here.
A secret.
Last Chance.
That's the name of Rohan's boat.
Has someone come here to kill us all one by one?
[SIAN] Well, Lu Mei has the strongest motive
because Bill's Artificial Insanity
was a takedown of smart cities.
[DARBY] I get a bad feeling from David.
You're a smart little girl.
[SIAN] I'll tell you this, but you cannot repeat it
if we get out of here alive.
[DARBY] Maybe this ring belonged to his first.
"E. Bell"?
It could lead us straight to him.
Can we talk about something else?
[ANDY] What the fuck were you doing?
- Wait, I... - It's jammed.
- Is that morphine? - How much oxygen?
Two minutes.
[GRUNTS]
- Are you gonna put her under? - [EVA] There's no time.
- [SNEEZES] - Bless you.
I sneeze in transitions from dark to bright light.
- It's genetic. - [SNEEZES]
- My father has it, too. - [SNEEZING]
♪ ♪
[WIND WHISTLING]
- Synced and corrected by naFraC - - www.addic7ed.com -
♪ ♪
What did you just do?
I sneezed.
Do you have a cold?
No, it's called Autosomal Dominant
Compelling Helioopthalmic Outburst.
I sneeze in the light.
Oh, my God.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
- What are you doing? - [LAUGHS] I'm smelling you.
Why are you smelling me?
I don't know, in case I lose you one day,
have to find you.
Oh, yeah, like a dog?
Yeah, like a dog.
- What do I smell like? - I don't know, come closer.
[SNIFFING]
You smell like pine...
gasoline.
[LAUGHS]
- You smell like pot. - [LAUGHS]
Motel soap.
Coca-Cola.
Smoke.
Whoa.
Oh, my God.
We should go.
One day there won't be any place left to go.
♪ ♪
[SIRENS WAILING]
Why are you being weird?
[ALARM BEEPS]
I got to go.
[DOOR CHIMES]
- She's awake. - Thank you, Doctor.
You go on ahead.
[CHIMES]
You should be lying down.
I'll lie down
when you sit down and start answering my questions.
You have a serious concussion.
- Where's Sian? - In her room, resting.
I want to see her.
She's battling an infection.
She needs sleep.
Who are you? You're not a fucking nanny.
I told you I'm a doctor.
So you're running around after someone's five-year-old?
He isn't just any five-year-old now, is he?
Wait, is Zoomer sick?
Is that why there's all this medical equipment?
No.
It's for emergencies.
There's enough morphine here to tranquilize 50 horses.
My dad's a medical examiner.
I mean...
this shit is for major pain. Someone's sick or...
If your dad took a HIPAA oath,
then you know I can't talk about this with you.
Did the morphine that killed Bill come from this safe?
You're the one with the code.
Eva, the more secrets you keep,
the more blood's on your hands.
The morphine was from that safe.
And someone turned on...
the pacemaker receiver.
Yes, and plugged it in.
So who's been in this room
since the retreat started?
I have no idea.
[SCOFFS]
Darby, please. Brain swelling
is not something to mess around with!
Andy and Lee are on the other side of wherever
- this elevator goes, aren't they? - Stop it.
- You could hurt yourself. - Hurt myself?
Two people have died.
A third person has a fucking hole in their throat.
I'm not worried about a concussion.
I'm worried about whether I'll survive the night.
- And you should be, too. - Darby!
Which floor?
We can visit them all.
♪ ♪
[CHIMES]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
[ANDY] Come in.
Sit.
Eat something.
I've got stuff to say that's not for a five-year-old's ears.
Sorry, Andy, I...
It's fine. Could you go and check on Sian?
[LEE] We'll leave you two.
Come here, bug.
Parents have just become the entertainment directors
on their children's private cruise ship.
What will that produce other than a generation
- of fat, lazy tourists? - [ZOOMER] I want to stay.
Oh, I know you do.
But we're gonna go read King Arthur.
- You finished eating already. - [ZOOMER] It's not bedtime!
- No, stop it! - She, uh...
- [ZOOMER] Stop it! No! - She wants to read to him
about King Arthur.
- No! - I want him
to be King Arthur.
I heard about the wild-goose chase you went on.
Doesn't sound very smart.
I know that Zoomer is Bill's son.
And that Bill made some claim to his paternity, so you killed him.
Or got Todd to do it for you.
And that Rohan was just a witness.
- Sit down. - No.
Do you want me to respond to your accusation of murder or not?
I'm sterile.
I've known since I was 19 when I got into trouble
with my tuition and thought that a sperm bank
would solve my problems.
I never told anybody, not even my wife.
I could try and justify that, but really it's just vanity.
The point is...
I've known since day one
that Zoomer is not my biological offspring.
You're lying.
It's very easy to check.
But it was your morphine in Bill.
And you have an entire medical suite.
Your nanny is a fucking doctor.
You're ill, I...
I don't know, or recovering from something serious.
You do understand that any illness I may
or may not have would throw the world's economy into a total spin.
That's not an answer.
The morphine was stolen.
Eva noticed the next morning.
- But then the footage would show... - Only Bill and David.
Apart from the family, of course.
Todd and Eva?
True.
They could be working for somebody else. A foreign government perhaps.
Look, it's highly likely that the killer
is someone close to me.
But it's not me, Darby.
Where were you when Bill died?
[DARBY] The medical bay?
The moment Marius heard about Bill, he came
straight away to get me and Eva.
You were receiving treatment.
I do it late at night.
I don't want to scare my son.
And he is my son.
In every way.
When he falls, I pick him up. When he's scared, I hold him.
That kid is my son in every way that matters.
I felt nothing but gratitude towards Bill.
He provided the hardware.
I provide the software.
And we all know it's the software that matters.
You and Lee invited everyone here.
So who do you think had the motive to kill Bill?
See, that's your blind spot.
I don't think I have a blind spot.
You loved him.
So you think this is all about Bill.
It's not.
Someone wants to destroy me.
And Bill got caught up in that.
This is sabotage.
I'm being set up.
You're afraid.
The world hasn't changed much since the feudal era.
I'm a king, Darby.
And they want my head so they can take my kingdom.
I can't trust anyone.
Even my fucking therapist sold me out for a stock play.
But you're different.
You're like a fresh page in a stale court.
You're very smart.
You've been ahead of me more than once.
I could use you.
And you could use me.
[STAMMERS]
Are you saying we should work together?
Who here is gonna open their door
if you knock on it and start asking questions?
No one.
But if I knock...
[ANDY] This is the lidar scan
from 12:06 a.m., when Bill died.
It's a laser scan.
It renders a 3D model of the hotel for security.
So it's like an immersive security experience?
It's an immersive computer, really.
I do everything here. Check markets, therapy,
map out new ideas on the walls.
Is that someone taking a shit?
The algorithm automatically censors nudity.
So that's your nod to privacy?
We don't scan inside people's bedrooms.
Only public spaces and the med bay.
As I told you, this is me receiving treatment from Eva.
Life extension therapy.
The scan extends to approximately
ten meters beyond the outer walls.
Oh, shit.
Sorry.
I should've protected you from that.
So, um...
so you have...
um, everyone's locations in the common areas and outside?
We do, except for a few minutes
at 11:59 when the system does an auto backup.
The exact time the killer chose to strike.
So they're an insider to security.
Can I see 11:30 p.m.?
- Sure. Ray? - [RAY] Yes, Andy?
Screen through the 11:30 p.m. lidar scan.
So Lee, Lu Mei,
Martin and Marius
are all playing poker in the dining room
from 10:30 p.m. until the 1:00 a.m. scan.
We can't rule them out completely
because of the chunk of missing time.
Right?
Ray?
Would you put on the screen images of the guests
and all of the staff?
And, Ray, would you rule out any of the staff
whose door cam footage shows that they entered
their rooms, but didn't leave?
Sorry, Darby. That's not public information.
Ray, rule out the staff whose cameras
show that they entered their room and did not leave
between 11:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m.
Certainly, Andy.
Do you have anyone else's alibi?
Tomas in the kitchen
from 11:15 p.m. until he turned up at Bill's door.
We've got no hard evidence for anybody else.
Whoever did this
- also hacked Rohan's pacemaker. - Sian's suit.
And deleted themselves from Bill's door cam footage.
I mean, Todd doesn't have the skills for that.
- And Ziba's not a secret hacker. - No.
[CHUCKLES]
David?
I think David was in the hall.
Ray, um...
can you screen the 12:06 a.m. scan and look for David Alvarez?
Wait, no.
That's weird.
Standing in the hall isn't a crime.
No, but David was in the hallway
when Eva led me out of Bill's room.
And that was 12:15.
So what was David doing in the hall for the ten minutes
when Sian was trying to revive Bill?
I don't know why you didn't call me sooner.
We're in the middle of an epic bukkake.
What's this?
We need to ask you a few questions.
"We"?
This a joke?
[ANDY] No.
I don't know why you're indulging a non-player character
like Darby when we should be on the phone to K2
or Black Rock trying to save our asses.
I'm not sure your ass is on the line.
I'm the one that's leveraged to the hilt,
and there's only you and Lee knows that.
Darby.
Um...
So the night that Bill was killed,
um, I bumped into the waiter,
Tomas, in the hall.
And then Eva took me
back to my room.
And you appeared in the hall
just as that was happening.
What were you doing?
I was, uh, I was going to another guest's room.
- Whose? - I don't fucking have to answer that.
It think it would be best, David, if you did.
Oliver's.
After midnight?
I'm on New York time.
[ANDY] Are you trying to poach my talent?
[DAVID] "Poach your talent"?
We're on the same fucking team.
[DARBY] Um, there are other things that people do
at midnight besides corporate espionage.
I'm not saying another word without Mark.
- [DARBY] Who's Mark? - His lawyer.
[OLIVER] Yeah, David and I fucked.
Your mouth dropping because you don't think
disabled guys can fuck?
Oliver...
could you talk us through what happened that night?
Well, uh, the first time we had sex was in David's room.
That was probably around 11:30.
He got a call, seemed kind of distracted.
Then he told me I had to go. So I did.
Half hour later, he's knocking on my door.
- Says he wants to go again. - [DARBY] What was he like?
- His mood? - Flustered.
But horny.
Did you ask him what was on his mind?
Why he was so agitated?
No.
But he talked a lot about Lu Mei.
Thinks she's a Chinese spy or something.
I told him he was racist.
Wait, so you were actually alone
at midnight when Bill was killed?
[OLIVER CHUCKLES]
Look, I thought Bill
was a phony moral crusader.
It's easy to be a luddite when you're a handsome,
able-bodied white guy with charisma.
But I didn't kill the guy.
Your sneakers.
Um...
the tread on the bottom is pretty worn.
You're not paralyzed, right?
Like, you can walk if you have to?
Not very far.
And not for very long.
I had planned to share this with you.
I figured, at some point, you'd tell me
why you invited me here, and we'd have a drink together.
I'm sorry, Lu Mei. This has been a...
a very difficult time.
[LU MEI] I survived the Cultural Revolution, I'm going to survive this.
So are you.
Uh, after the baths,
I played poker with your wife and the filmmaker.
Lee is quite the poker player. She took a lot of my money.
We played from 11:00
to about 1:00 a.m.,
and, uh, then I went directly to bed.
Did anyone leave the table during that time?
The table, for sure, but not the room.
Except... maybe Lee once.
I had a bit to drink.
You have hacking skills, right, Lu Mei?
I'm not the brains of my operation. I'm the brawn.
No, but you build smart cities
run by computers, so,
must know a bit about 'em.
All right. [SETS DRINK ON TABLE]
After Rohan, I became alarmed.
I hacked through the firewall.
I wanted to see if I could reach my security team
in Siglufjördur, and, uh,
have them arrange an evacuation for me
to get me the hell out of this place.
But I couldn't reach them.
Thanks for your honesty.
I've come down here because I want to help.
And I will help you, Andy, even after we get out of here.
My team has developed a software
to keep the residents of our smart cities safe.
It looks for patterns in mental health records,
criminal records, cell phone data
to create profiles that
anticipate criminal behavior.
Clearly, something like that could have been useful here.
Wouldn't you say?
I think we should talk to Lee next.
- Why? - Well, Lu Mei said she left the poker game.
- She could have seen something. - No. She would have told me.
What we need to do is to track down
that call that came into David's room.
Ray, could you go through the list of calls
that came into David Alvarez's room on February the third.
[RAY] There are two incoming calls.
The front desk called at 9:15.
The call was unanswered.
At 11:07, there was an incoming call to David.
Who from?
The call came from William Farrah's room.
Bill called David?
Um, Ray, how long was the call?
27 seconds.
Bill didn't even know David, did he?
Um, do you guys keep transcripts of calls?
No, not unless something dangerous is said,
which triggers a recording.
- Andy? - No, not now.
Andy, I think you should take this one.
It's The Wall Street Journal.
They know Rohan's dead. They know we're stuck here.
- How? - They're on the SAP repeater.
How do they know?
Who told them?
- I-I don't know. - Who do you think told them?
[SHOUTING] What... is fucking wrong with people?!
I cannot trust a single fucking person!
Hello?
Hey, Susan. It's Andy.
Yeah. It's true.
[INDISTINCT, DISTANT CHATTER]
[FAINT WAILING]
[WAILING GROWS LOUDER]
[RECORDED WHALE SOUNDS PLAYING]
[QUIETLY] Did you figure anything out?
No.
Well, yeah, I... I don't know.
It's like I have all the edges of the puzzle,
but nothing in the middle, you know?
Hey, can I ask you something?
Yeah, of course.
Lu Mei said you disappeared from the poker game.
Where'd you go?
I went to check on Zoomer.
Do you know what time that was exactly?
Um... I don't know.
Uh, it was probably a little after 11:00.
And you didn't notice anything strange around, or off?
I took the elevator in the medical bay.
There wasn't anyone in the hall.
Where's Andy?
Um, on the phone.
Look, Lee, um, I owe you an apology.
For what?
I-I put some things together that I thought might be a motive, and...
I told Andy, point blank,
and I should have come to you first.
Well, well, what did you tell him?
Um, Bill used to do this thing
where he would sneeze a bunch of times in a row really fast.
He used to say that it was because of changes in the light.
He called it "ACHOO syndrome,"
and I always thought it sounded fake.
But Zoomer does it.
And it's genetic.
I know that Bill is Zoomer's biological father.
[LAUGHING]
What?
Darby, you said that to my husband?
Yes, but, Lee,
he already knew.
What do you mean, "He already knew"?
I think he... he should tell you that himself.
Tell me what himself?
Darby, tell me what himself?
Um, he's sterile.
Lee?
No, it's okay.
I just need a minute.
[WATER RUNNING]
[CRYING, RETCHING]
[RECORDED WHALE SOUNDS CONTINUE]
[DISTORTED WHALE SOUNDS]
[WATER CONTINUES RUNNING]
[LEE COUGHS]
[LEE RETCHING]
Marie?
[TOILET FLUSHES]
[DOOR OPENS]
Uh, I'm sorry. I was, um...
Sorry. I was...
I think Eva was right. I think I...
- I think I should rest. - I'm not mad at you, Darby.
It's never good to keep secrets.
And I've kept so many of them.
- I think we should talk. - Um...
Did you just sneak off and question my wife?
No.
Well, yeah, I asked her a question...
- Did she upset you? - No. I'm okay.
I think I should go and rest. My head's killing me.
[ANDY] We'll get Eva to come take care of you.
No. I want to go back to my room. I want to change my things...
No, it's better if you stay here.
We'll get Todd to bring your things to you.
Ray, can you get Todd?
[RAY] Of course, Andy.
Andy...
she might need a moment alone,
some space.
She is grieving.
I'd never stop if it wasn't for my wife.
Take a moment.
And then, we'll carry on working.
Together.
Todd, see she gets to the room safely.
[ELEVATOR CHIMES]
♪ ♪
[ELEVATOR CHIRPING]
- [ELEVATOR CHIMES] - [DARBY GASPS]
It's cold.
We're down a generator, have to conserve power, so...
heat's out.
I've been meaning to say,
I'm sorry about your friend.
My brother died when I was in high school.
Group of kids hit him with a bat,
pushed him into a river for making crowns out of flowers.
He drowned in two feet of water.
I'm so sorry.
Supposedly, it was an accident.
But I found every boy who was there,
beat 'em within an inch of their lives.
Look...
I don't know what's going on here,
or who's responsible,
but I understand revenge.
And I admire loyalty.
[DOOR CHIMES]
My loyalty is to this family.
[SIGHS]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
Okay.
[SIGHS]
[RAY] Darby,
your heart rate is elevated. Given the nature of your injury,
- it is important for you to rest. - Yeah.
I know, Ray. I got it. I got it.
[PANTING]
[WIND GUSTING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SNIFFING]
- [RAY] Darby? - Yeah, Ray, I know. I know.
I know, my heart rate's elevated.
I mean, I... I mean, I don't know what to tell you.
Shit here's fucked.
Of course my heart rate's fucking elevated.
Without bed rest, your injury can result in dizziness,
- numbness... - My God, Ray, shut up!
[SIGHS]
- [LINE RINGING] - [SIGHS]
- [DAVID] Yeah? - David?
Jesus fuck. What?
Look, I know you don't want to talk, but can I ask you something?
Uh, you sound funny.
Are you high?
David,
why did Bill call you the night he died?
Uh...
- David, please. - [DIAL TONE]
[GROANS]
[MUTTERS SOFTLY]
[DIALS]
[LINE RINGING]
[FEMALE VOICE] David Alvarez has set his room
- to "Do not disturb." - [LINE CLICKS]
[SIGHS]
[SNIFFLES]
[SNIFFS]
Ray, can you turn the fireplace on, please?
[RAY] I'm sorry, Darby.
Gas and power are in reserve mode at the moment.
_
[RAY] Cerebral edema is serious.
Fluid building in your brain can cross the blood-brain barrier...
Oh, my God, Ray!
[CRYING]
[PANTING]
[WHISPERS] You're okay, Darby.
You're okay.
You just have to breathe. You have to think.
All the pieces are there.
You just got to put them together.
♪ ♪
- [WATER RUNNING] - [SNIFFLES]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[CLATTERING NEARBY]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Yeah?
[TOMAS] Miss Hart?
Would you like anything to eat?
Uh...
Um, no, thanks.
Actually, do you have anything prepackaged?
Like chips or something?
Okay. I've got dried fish chips.
Opal licorice.
Uh...
Yeah, licorice. Sure.
I've also got Muna rice cakes
that are, uh, gluten-free.
Um, yeah.
Sounds great. Thanks, man.
Can you just leave them outside the door?
[EXHALES]
[GRUNTING]
[COMPUTER VOICE] There is no end to this labyrinth.
If you reach the center, you will not get Bill back.
I do not want to take another life.
- [BLADE CLINKS] - Don't force my hand.
["TEXAS SUN" BY KHRUANGBIN & LEON BRIDGES PLAYING]
♪ You say you like the wind ♪
♪ Blowing through your hair... ♪
Hey, wh-when did you first fall for me?
[CHUCKLES] No, I'm not playing that game.
Oh, come on. You want me to start?
I'll start.
For me, it's a-a three-part answer.
- Three parts? - Yeah.
- Seriously? - Yeah, the-the first part was...
was when you said the dead talked to you.
Yeah?
Yeah, 'cause I knew what you meant.
You did?
Most people see a crime scene, they get grossed out
or intrigued or, I don't know, maybe even turned on,
but y-you see a body and you,
you see the whole life behind it.
- You're not even listening. - No, I am.
You're not. What did I say?
"You see the whole life behind it."
What's the second part?
Uh, the second part...
uh, second part was when we first met at the diner.
Um...
And you walked in and I had this feeling
like I was gonna know you forever, and...
Till, like, the... the day I died, I...
[SCOFFS] Is that intense?
- What was the third part? - Oh, that hasn't happened yet.
- It hasn't? - Uh-uh.
- Really? - No.
No. Doesn't happen... It hasn't happened.
But I-I can feel it bubbling.
It's there somewhere.
On the edge.
Yeah. Let me hear yours?
Your turn.
No, don't put me on the spot.
Yours was so good. Mine is just gonna be dumb.
No, come on, I want to hear when you first fell for me.
What makes you think I've fallen for you?
Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God, this is huge. - What?
You know how I was trying to track down E. Bell?
- Yeah. - This guy Fred just posted.
He thinks the ring's from the 1920s.
- Okay, what does that mean? - It means it's old.
Like, 100 years old or something.
And he said it's likely that "E. Bell isn't the Jane Doe
you're looking for, but the original owner."
Okay. [LAUGHS SOFTLY]
I mean, that's major.
Yeah.
- Yeah, that's great. - Fuck.
- That's great. - Yes, Fred.
- Do you ever stop working a case? - Huh?
- I'm gonna put in on Reddit. - Yeah, put it on Reddit.
[ENGINE STOPS]
[WIND WHISTLING SOFTLY]
What are you doing?
♪ ♪
[CAR DOOR OPENS]
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
♪ ♪
Sometimes I think about throwing this into the ocean.
I think a lot of people think that.
It's not a long-term solution.
- We do need them. - Do we? I-I don't think we do.
I mean, if they had pitched them as tiny computers,
which is what they are, they're not phones anymore...
I mean, that's not what we're using them for...
I don't think we would've bought into it so easily.
You look at photos of movie theaters in the 1940s,
everyone's smoking, like, everyone.
Like a huge cloud of smoke above them, it's...
You see it now and you think, "Fuck, that's so gross," but...
if you took a picture now, everyone's just
hunched over their phones.
It's the same thing, it's the same addiction.
It's worse.
At least with a cigarette, yeah, you're slowly destroying
your lungs, but you're still you.
With these, it's just, I mean, we're losing ourselves.
I hate it.
The first time I felt myself fall in love with you
was on my phone.
♪ ♪
[WIND WHISTLING]
[PANTING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Not now, Darby.
No.
[MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY]
[RASPINGLY] Thought you'd never come.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[DARBY] How are you feeling?
My throat's on fire.
[COUGHS]
Can I do anything?
Do you need another blanket?
I got that one for you.
Sian, I'm so sorry.
It was my fault that we went out into the storm.
- It was my idea. - No.
No, I should've been more...
- I don't know. - Don't. Mm-mm.
Guilt is so easy.
Easier to blame yourself...
than to contend with the truth.
It was not in your control.
We are powerless...
To ice, to wind...
to cruelty.
Bad things happen to good people.
The best people.
You are not to blame
for Bill, Rohan...
or me.
You wish it was that easy.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY] Yeah.
What else?
- Eva? - [EVA] Hmm?
- A moment alone? - Of course.
Three minutes, and that's it.
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[DARBY] Someone broke into my room.
They attacked me.
- Are you okay? - Yeah.
- Who? - I don't know.
I could just feel their leather gloves on my face.
They used an electronic voice.
They basically told me to stop.
My God.
[RASPY INHALE]
[GRUNTS]
Sian?
Did you know that Zoomer is Bill's son?
[GASPS]
No.
Andy loves that boy more than anything.
What about Lee?
I don't know what Lee loves.
[CLEARS THROAT]
I used to think money.
Zoomer makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a day.
His trust.
As long as she's with Andy, that's her money, too.
[GRUNTS]
Are you okay?
- Some water? - Water?
Yeah.
What a way to go.
[COUGHING]
Don't give up, Darby.
Find the people you can trust.
You can't go it alone.
Get me the water.
I just can't square that with
the same Lee who wrote that manifesto, you know?
But it just doesn't...
[MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY]
[DOOR OPENS]
What did you do?
Darby, what did you do?!
Ray, I have a code blue in room 4.
♪ ♪
Sian.
[DISTORTED] Does Andy know?
♪ ♪
[MONITOR FLATLINING]
[DOOR OPENS]
Why is it, wherever you go, death follows?
[DARBY] I think you were right.
It is someone close to you.
I just don't think you realize how close.
You know she has a passport
in her backpack under another name?
You're suffering from a brain injury
and no longer making sense.
I suggest you go back to your room, you lie down
and you wait for the professionals to get here.
I mean, that's what you wanted, isn't it?
To be interviewed by the police?
[WIND GUSTING]
♪ ♪
Sian's dead.
[LU MEI] At the welcome dinner, Sian said to me,
"You know how they say there are no atheists in foxholes?
There are no atheists on the Moon, either."
She...
stopped killing spiders when she came back on Earth.
You couldn't harm anything living if you understood
how much eternal night there is and how precious little life.
[ZIBA] And what a shit show stuck down here on Earth, huh?
At four, we might hit a real tipping point.
Tipping point for what?
Revolt.
Is that what this is?
The first person who breaks out of lockdown
and starts a bonfire in the hotel courtyard is a lunatic.
But once someone else joins, it becomes a valid option.
They call you the "second adopter."
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
Critical force in a revolution.
Is it true? Sian?
[SOFTLY] Yeah.
Fuck.
- Coffee? - Whiskey.
- Lu Mei and I... - Thank you.
- ... we were in Andy's suite. - [LU MEI] Yes, this morning.
Or his house.
But I mean, i-it's a bunker.
I'm talking...
ten stories underground.
I think it's what those robots that we saw,
I think it's what they're mining.
I think Andy's building another one of these.
So I'm...
I'm starting to feel like this might not be a hotel at all.
[ZIBA] Apocalypse timeshare for millionaires.
Buy a cabin aboard Noah's Ark and ride out
the climate crisis the superrich created.
- Sorry, Lu Mei. - [LU MEI] Don't be.
I grew up a Communist.
[DARBY] What is this retreat, then?
Like, an audition to get aboard?
Yeah, so, like, what are we, scholarship candidates?
- [LAUGHS SOFTLY] - [ZIBA] They will be underground
for a long time. They need halftime entertainment.
[LAUGHTER]
Well, my people have survived numerous apocalypses, so...
[SINGSONGY] This is just another Tuesday for us.
But tell me, tell me, why is it easier
for people like Andy to dream all this up
than it is for them to imagine an end to capitalism?
It's his son's inheritance.
He has to have a plan for this empire to survive him.
[OLIVER] If Earth is hit by an asteroid,
or climate changes so quickly that human survival is tested,
you'll be glad someone thought to build a safe harbor.
I won't be glad.
- I'll be dead. - Your grandchildren, then.
I doubt they'll be invited to audition.
They spend too much time on TikTok.
[LAUGHTER]
[DOOR OPENS]
[MARIUS] I must advise you all to come inside.
Another front is coming in. It's too dangerous.
- And we cannot have fire in the courtyard... - Fuck off, Marius.
[BLOWS RASPBERRY]
[LAUGHTER]
See his face?
You think I'll lose my scholarship for that?
[LAUGHS]
Oh, I feel so sad.
You know, my people are the Qashqai people
in southwest Iran.
We were nomads.
Some of us still are.
But even if we live in the big cities,
we never stop moving.
Like the wind.
It's in our blood.
But when someone passes, we allow ourselves to stop.
To mourn.
And to be sad for days.
Oh, shit.
[EXHALES] Oh, wow.
[ZIBA] I think we should name the dead.
And bless them to rejoin the wind.
What? "Bless the wind"?
[MARTIN] We have a similar practice
at First African Methodist.
It's kind of like a call and response.
[ZIBA] That's good.
Rohan Ravjit.
A revolutionary.
[ALL] Rohan Ravjit.
A revolutionary.
Sian Cruise. An explorer.
[ALL] Sian Cruise.
An explorer.
If I say his name...
he won't come back.
[WHISPERING] Bill. Bill.
Wake up.
- It's nighttime. - Yeah, I know, but I've done it.
- Done what? - I found him.
I found our killer.
Look.
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
- [BILL] You did all this? - Yeah.
Yes, see, look, I-I traced it,
I traced it right back to E. Bell.
The original owner Eunice Bell.
She died in Sacramento in 1929.
I basically rebuilt her entire family tree
using Ancestry.com and then these, um,
these articles from The Sacramento Bee.
So, Eunice Bell gives the ring to her son Edward,
who then gives it to his wife, who dies of cancer.
But Edward never remarries, so he gives a ring to his son,
and in 1980, he joins the police force.
In 1990, he marries this woman called Patricia who...
Dies?
She vanishes.
I mean, after she moves in with him, there is no trace of her.
And get this: He was then put on probation
for discharging a weapon without cause
and then given early retirement.
- Whoa. - Yeah.
And I have an address.
Whose?
His.
I have his last-known address where he lived with Patricia.
And it's currently for sale, so it's standing open.
Are you saying we should...
we should go to the house to see if Patricia Bell never left?
That's why I like you so much.
Yeah.
[LAUGHING SOFTLY]
[EXHALES]
Fuck.
A-Are you high?
The work's sound. I mean, you can see for yourself.
No, I mean, a-are you on something right now?
Yeah, Adderall. I'm... I was on a roll, so...
- Where'd you get Adderall? - At a truck stop.
Come sit with me a sec?
Okay. [LAUGHS SOFTLY]
Yeah?
I think we should go home. I...
I think you might be losing it, Darbs.
What?
Losing it? I-I've found it.
I've fucking found everything.
What, is this because it wasn't your break or something?
No, I could give a fuck.
What, you just don't care anymore?
No, of course I care, I'm just worried about you.
I mean, you... since Utah, you're not here anymore.
You're just on the case the whole time. It's...
It's alarming, I mean, you're taking uppers, taking downers.
You're not sleeping, not eating.
Y-You're ready to break into a potential serial killer's house
to, what, to save them? I mean, you can't. They're dead.
You know what? I really...
I really thought you were different.
But maybe you're just like everything else.
- "Everything"? - Everyone else.
You need sleep, Darby.
After 48 hours, brain function starts to fail. Uh...
So, what, so are you gonna, what, take me to a spa?
Check me into an asylum? I mean, fuck, there's good precedent for that.
All the millions of women who have been locked up
because they dare to think differently.
I mean, what's next, are you gonna chop off
- part of my brain or something? - Ugh, a lobotomy?
Jesus, that's not what I meant, Darby, you know that.
- I'm not going home. - Okay, well, I'm not going
- to a serial killer's house... - Former house, Bill. Former.
Also, don't you think some of this has come
- a little too easily? - Easily?
- Fuck, I mean, if this was easy, then... - Okay, all right, not easy,
but, uh, it just feels like we're picking up breadcrumbs
deliberately left to be found.
I have a feeling this guy's dying for company.
He-he wants to be seen so bad, and I-I don't want to see him.
So you're just, you're gonna go home?
- No. - 'Cause you're chickenshit.
Even though this man hunts down and destroys women?
Even though when we let someone die unnamed and unacknowledged,
we're basically saying we're okay with it. I mean, this country,
this whole world, is just a fucking mass grave
and everyone's okay with it, but I'm not.
- I don't want to be okay with it. - Darby, Darby, Darby.
I'll get the towel.
- Fuck. Oh, my God. - Oh...
I feel like I'd have to die for you to love me.
[GASPING]
- Are you okay? - [PANTING] Sorry.
[DARBY BREATHING HEAVILY]
[LU MEI] Take a deep breath. Take a deep breath.
No, I'm sorry...
[ZIBA] Darby!
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
- [BOTTLE CLATTERS] - [EXHALES]
[SOFT BUZZING]
Ray?
[RAY] How can I help, Darby?
Will you enable projection?
I think I need to talk to someone.
You can talk to me, Darby.
I...
I don't think I want to be awake anymore.
Everything hurts.
Why does everything hurt, Darby?
I think it's hurt for as long as I can remember, really.
That sounds painful.
Why don't you tell me more about it?
Um, I think life's like a Brillo pad.
And it rubs your skin away.
Little by little.
So you don't really notice at first, and then...
And then, one day, it all comes at once.
And you realize you don't have any skin left.
And there's nothing between you and the world anymore.
You've got no skin.
How does that make you feel, Darby?
[SNIFFLES]
Is it crazy that I'm talking to you like this?
No, Darby.
ELIZA was the first therapy bot created in 1964 at MIT.
Many people confided in her because she was a good listener.
I am a good listener, too.
[SNIFFLES]
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[MUTTERING SOFTLY]
"2200. Pool."
[WIND GUSTING]
[METAL CLANG]
[EXHALES]
Hello?
Fuck, it's cold.
[METAL CLINKING]
[PANTING]
Fuck it.
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[POOL COVER WHIRRING]
[MUFFLED SHOUT]
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