Elementary (2012–…): Season 5, Episode 14 - Rekt in Real Life - full transcript

Previously on Elementary...

I have a daughter, Chivonne.

When I was in Great Meadow
I wrote letters,

birthday cards,
that sort of thing.

And then my letters to Chivonne
started coming back unopened.

- I know he's a criminal.
- He was a criminal.

And now he's just cured?

He's ready to be
a father to Chivonne?

Look, before you talk
to her, I think...

I'm not... going to talk to her.

I want her in my life,
I have to earn it.

Here you go.

You can relax now.

I promise no one followed you,
and no one's watching you.

I guess this whole undercover
thing got me on edge.

Well, I can't imagine why.

So how are things going
with Detective Guzman?

Good, I think.

He says I'm giving him
some good stuff.

Did he give you an ETA on when
you're gonna move on the gang?

Above my pay grade.

Guzman says when it's time,

I'll be the first to know.

I got a text from my
daughter last night.

Chivonne?

I guess her auntie finally
told her I was out.

She wants to see me.

What'd you tell her?

I told her yes.

Okay, Doc, you can say it.

Look, I know that she's the
reason why you're doing this,

that you want to be someone
that she can look up to. But...

... seeing her right now could be
really dangerous for both of you.

I know, but she asked to see ME.

After all this time,
she came to me.

If I turn her down,
I might not get a second chance.

Just be careful.

Always.

Hello, olá, and Eoh, wasseo,
gamers and gamerettes.

It's O.G. Pwnzr coming to you
live from New York City

- with your daily dose of...
- knowledge.

Today I'm gonna introduce you
to the newest champion

for Skystrike Titans,
Vadrus Typhon.

He is a complete badass,

which is why all you rug rats
are gonna pay big bucks

for this upgrade,
so you can do this...

"But how do I execute
that combo?" Oh, you ask...

Okay, admit it,
this guy's hilarious.

He's old. He's got to be,
like, 30.

Yeah, but, like,
that's the whole point.

He's been playing forever,
so he knows all the tricks.

He's gonna be at the VGU Open
this weekend.

I'm gonna play him.
I'm gonna kick his ass.

I can't believe you're wasting
an entire weekend

playing video games with
sweaty nerdcore dweebs.

Not all of them are dweebs.

Challenge Uncle O.G.,
but be warned...

You will be wrecked.

There will be pwnage.

Okay, kids,
don't try this at home.

What the hell? Was that real?

Wait, did somebody hit him?

Yes, ma'am, we'll...
we'll look into it. Thanks.

Hey, Marcus,

my niece just called. She was watching
some live video online,

and she thinks she saw
this guy get assaulted.

She's worried he might be dead.

A guy who uses the name "O.G. Pwnzr"?

Yeah. Yeah, that's him.

She's not the only one.
911's ringing off the hook.

Apparently he was some sort
of online celebrity.

Whatever happened,
it went viral.

Look at the number of viewers.

30,000 people have seen this?

Only no one knows
the guy's real name,

or where he was in New York
when this happened.

If he's dead, there's a murder scene
out there, and no way to find it.

- Hey.
- Hey. No Sherlock?

He wasn't there when
I woke up this morning.

I texted him,
but I haven't heard back.

So do we know any more
about the victim?

This is just what we were
able to dig up online.

Still don't know where the attack
took place, or if he's alive or dead.

We do know that "O.G."
is a pseudonym,

and that he's good at keeping
his real name private.

The company that hosts
his live stream

does all their business
with him through a DBA,

so we subpoenaed the IRS
to pull ownership records,

but they're taking
their time, as usual.

Are you sure he was in New York?

He said he was. He was supposed
to appear at a tournament

this weekend at the Javits Center.

If you want the latest, you should join
the captain. He's about to get a briefing.

From who,
the computer crime squad?

His niece.

He live-streams pretty
much every day.

I mean, he covers a bunch
of different games,

but I mostly watch
the Skystrike Titansones.

And he makes a living at this?

Well, people donate money
if they like the stream.

Plus, he has sponsors.

He says he makes
even more doing this

than he did when
he was a pro gamer.

A professional video game player.

It's a big thing now, Uncle Tommy.

I mean, these games make,
like, billions of dollars.

There are hundreds of millions
of players all over the world.

There are corporate-sponsored teams,

tournaments with million-dollar prizes.

They call it "eSports," right?

O.G. was a pro...
One of the first.

But it's hard for older players
to stay on top.

You know, their reflexes slow down,
they get this thing with their thumbs

where it locks from doing
the same motion over and over and over.

Stenosing tenosynovitis.
It's a repetitive stress injury.

That's what O.G. got, so he switched
from playing tournaments to streaming.

He also worked as
a scout and an agent,

so he would find
the best new players

and then help them negotiate
their deals with the corporate teams.

So O.G. was acting as an agent

in a brand-new sport with
no real regulation or oversight.

- How much are these deals worth?
- Tons.

Millions.

I mean, they say it can get pretty crazy

when two teams compete
over a hot new player.

Do you think that's why
O.G. was attacked?

Excuse me, would you?

- Hey, where are you?
- Where are you?

The precinct. The captain
wanted to talk about...

The violent assault
of one O.G. Pwnzr

- during a live video stream, perhaps?
- You heard about it.

An associate sent me video of
the attack just moments after.

He was concerned that O.G.
might require medical assistance.

So I began investigating
right away.

- And?
- I noticed an odd pattern of lights

in the corner of the video.

I realized it was two different billboards
flashing outside O.G.'s window.

I spent the last few hours
stalking midtown,

searching for a location

which faced two such billboards
at the right angles.

- My search was a success.
- You found the crime scene?

That's the good news.
The bad news is...

medical assistance
won't be required.

So, as we know from the
live stream, the assailant,

likely a male with significant
upper-body strength,

pistol-whipped O.G.,

then smashed the camera,
ending the stream.

He then secures O.G.
to the chair,

using computer cables,
and continued to beat him.

So either someone really,
really didn't like the guy,

or they wanted information
from him.

These bruises would have taken
at least 30 minutes to develop.

Implying that, for reasons unknown,

the killer paused his attack
for half an hour

before delivering a final,
fatal series of blows.

Well, these head wounds
aren't consistent with the butt of a gun.

They are not.

They were inflicted with
a pointed metal object,

perhaps a hammer claw

or garden trowel.
Well, whatever it was,

the killer took it with him when he left.

Who brings a gun and a garden
tool to commit a murder?

Hopefully, this might
provide some insight.

I resisted the temptation to...

... examine it before I could
establish proper chain of custody.

- You think it was the victim's?
- There's one way to find out.

Retina lock can still be
triggered hours after death.

Ain't technology grand?

O.G.'s real name is
Owen Tuchman,

and he's involved in at least
one dispute via text.

"Do not cross me."

"Stay the hell away from Tendu."

Whatever that means.
"Back off, or I'll destroy you."

These are all from
someone named Joey Ng.

He's in contacts.

Joey Ng of ProFine Peripherals.

Address in Williamsburg.

Who's up for a drive?

Chivonne.

I know you?

I'm your...

I'm Shinwell.

You said you want to talk?

It's okay, guys.
Catch you later.

You don't look like I remember.

You, neither.

What are you doing here?

I texted you this morning;
I said: "I'll meet you after school."

They don't let us have
our phones during school hours.

I'm sorry, I didn't know.

If you're not ready for this...

- then...
- It's okay.

The truth is...

I'm in trouble,
and I need your help.

Yeah, I sent those texts,

but I didn't mean anything by them.

"Back off, or I'll destroy you."

- Three exclamation points.
- Well, I admit

that was a little over the top.

Hey, guys, come on, focus.

Don't worry about this, okay?

We got a tournament
coming up. Let's go!

When we came here, we were under
the impression that this was your residence.

Oh, it's a team house;
That's how we do it in eSports.

I own the place,
and the team lives here

so that they can practice
together all day.

Yeah, we give them room and board,
salary, coaches, trainers,

- the works.
- According to O.G.'s calendar app,

he had several meetings with you
at this location over the last week,

all predating your angry texts,

and all on the subject of something
or someone called "Tendu".

They all go by nicknames,
and O.G. was Tendu's agent.

So he found this kid online,
and he flew him down from some...

nowhere town in northern Canada, and

started shopping him to teams.
And O.G. and I...

we got into it. 'Cause Tendu
wanted to sign with us,

but O.G. kept trying to steer
him to one of our rivals.

Joey, we're ready.
Sorry. We're interrupting?

Looks like we're the ones interrupting.

Aah, Anezka and her friends

are trade-show models
for the tournament this weekend.

They're here to take publicity
photos with the team.

You're police.

Did Joey do something wrong?

No, we just...
We're clearing up a misunderstanding.

Hey, why don't you, go hang out with
the team, okay? I'll be right there.

So, you were talking about
why you were angry with O.G.

Right.
Yeah, I was angry with him.

But I had no reason to kill him.
I won.

Tendu signed with Team ProFine.

Now, O.G. was furious, okay?

He kept badgering Tendu
to change his mind, but...

Something wrong?

Tendu was supposed to be here
by now, for the publicity photos.

Called him, like, an hour ago,
but he didn't answer.

Wait, you don't think
whoever tried to kill O.G.

went after him, also?

We can't rule anything out.

You know where he was staying?

I could send a car to check on him.
We need to talk to him, too.

I don't know for sure, but I bet he
was at the same hotel as O.G.

There was only one room
registered under O.G.'s name.

Then try looking under
Tendu's real name.

I only learned it when we were
drawing up the contracts.

It's Marcel Otolik.

O-T-O-L-I-K

It's Eskimo or something.

All clear!

No one's home.

It's freezing in here.
Is there a window open somewhere?

- Yeah, in the bedroom.
- Otolik's an Inuit name.

The address he registered
with the front desk

is well north of the Arctic Circle.

So you can imagine he likes
things a little chilly.

His companion, on the other hand,

might've preferred things
a bit warmer.

- His companion?
- Yeah, long brown hair.

Looks like Tendu spent the night
in someone's warm embrace.

Before they went out the window.

Hand and shoe prints.

Male and female.

So, I find people rarely
exit rooms via windows

when they're not fleeing
for their lives.

Perhaps Owen Tuchman's killer
paid them a visit, too.

That's one possibility. The other
is that they were worried

that someone would
catch them with this.

Looks like the murder weapon.

If that's a garden tool,

it's not like one I've ever seen.

That is a hakapik.

It's a seal-killing club,
favored by the Inuits.

Judging by this inscription,
it is a going-away present,

a little memento from home.

This hook matches O.G.'s head wounds.

I'm gonna put out a Findest Message.

Looks like we got a suspect.

By all means, send your bulletin.
We do need to speak to Tendu.

But not as a suspect. I mean,
judging by this murder weapon...

I think he was framed.

According to the lab, blood type
on the weapon is a match

for Owen "O.G." Tuchman,
and this guy.

Tendu's prints are all over it.

But you two still think he was framed?

Well, circumstantial evidence
is a very tricky thing.

It might seem to point very
straight to one thing,

but if you shift your own
point of view a little,

you may find it pointing in an
equally uncompromising manner

- to something entirely different.
- Well, I don't know how you shift this.

The blood matches the victim,
and the hook matches the wounds.

The hook. Precisely.

Tendu is an Inuit male

from a traditional Inuit village.

Hence, he's likely killed
hundreds of seals.

Only, seal hunters do not kill

with the hook side of the hakapik.

That's used for hauling
seal carcasses onto the boats.

To kill, the hunters use the hammer.

So if he had he swung this club,
Tendu would likely have killed O.G.

with a single blow from the
hammer directly to the temple.

Okay. So what went down?
From your shifted point of view.

Well, imagine for one moment that Tendu...

... was the killer's intended target.

Only, he couldn't find him.

O.G. had taken pains to
keep Tendu's whereabouts

a secret.

O.G. himself, however, he'd been
out and about in the city,

he'd been taking meetings,
he'd been negotiating for his clients.

He would've been relatively easy to
find and follow back to the hotel.

We think that's why O.G. was
tortured before he was killed.

The perp wanted him to
give up Tendu's location.

O.G. submitted.
The killer goes to Tendu's room,

tries to enter.

He's delayed by the security
latch on the door.

Fresh abrasions on the metal suggest
that it was forcefully engaged

and then defeated. Only, by that time,
Tendu had escaped.

So the guy comes up empty-handed,
but he isn't ready to give up,

so he finds the kid's club and he takes
it back to Owen Tuchman's room.

He couldn't kill Tendu.
He settled for framing him.

My niece mentioned that there's some
big gaming tournament this weekend...

the first prize is two million bucks.

Maybe somebody wanted Tendu
out of the picture.

We thought about that, but he
wasn't due to play this weekend.

So him being dead, or on the run

wouldn't have affected the outcome.

What about this brunette
you think he was with?

- Any more on her?
- Not yet.

Watson's at home combing
through Tendu's social media.

Hopefully, we'll have answers
to our questions soon.

You're listening to Goatwhore?

Trying to stay awake!

Been going through this stuff
for five hours straight.

It turns out, Tendu isn't big
on words, but he loves photos.

He posted a few dozen a day,
every day, for the last five years.

That's 30,000 pictures, give or take.

Unfortunately, he only posted a few
since he arrived in New York,

none since O.G.'s murder.
Nothing with a new girlfriend,

no hint that he might be in trouble,
or where he might be hiding.

- He has quite the fan base.
- Yeah, over 100,000 followers.

Some of these photographs went viral

before he became known
as an eSports star.

Over 10,000 shares.
What's so special about that one?

It's Shinwell.

He wants me to meet him
first thing in the morning.

You should turn in for the night.
We're done here.

- What? Just like that?
- Well, you're fatigued,

or else you would've noticed. Not only
did Tendu's most popular selfie

likely motivate the attempt on his life,

but the comments section has also
given us a promising suspect.

Ms. Lundquist, you promised your client
would come in on her own recognizance.

- I could send a couple of detectives.
- I'm sorry, Raina will be here.

And you'll see, she has nothing
to do with whatever this is.

- She's a good person.
- Can a fanatic be a good person?

In my experience,
the answer's almost always no.

She's not a fanatic. She's...

... devoted.

Makes it hard for her to keep
a schedule sometimes.

Hi.

- I'm so sorry I'm late.
- It's okay.

- It's okay.
- I forgot to charge my car last night.

Hi, hi. I am...

... so, so glad that you

granted my request for this meeting.
We...

... cannot wait to free
these gorgeous horses.

- Horses?
- Of course.

We're here to discuss
the NYPD Mounted Unit, right?

Ending equine slavery.

While this meeting does have to
do with your position as CEO of

the Animal Salvation
Fund, Ms. Karnow,

horse emancipation is not
on the docket, I'm afraid.

Rather, we would like to discuss
your campaign to end seal hunting.

A selfie?

"Sealfie", actually.

You and your group have branded
seal hunting barbaric.

But the so-called barbarians,
in this modern day and age,

well, they also have access to cell phones
and social media, just like you do.

You told me you wanted to
talk to Raina about a crime.

- I think you should cut to the chase.
- As your client well knows,

the "Sealfie" movement
was started by the Inuits

to counter outside pressure
to end seal hunting.

"Sealfies" show that the
Inuit's very survival

and culture, depends on the practice.

The young man in this
photograph, for example,

Tendu, he's wearing seal skin,
he is eating seal jerky.

He's also a rising star in
the world of eSports.

That made him one of the
movement's more visible...

...proponents. His "Sealfies" went viral,
causing you a lot of embarrassment.

You even lost a few of your
celebrity supporters.

And how did you respond?

By threatening him in the
comments section of his posts.

"If you continue to support
this senseless slaughter,"

"you and your people deserve..."
in all caps... "EXTINCTION."

Two nights ago, this man was
murdered with a seal-killing club that

belongs to Tendu.
The person who did this

was trying to frame him.

Not quite as drastic
as killing him, but...

... an effective way
to silence his voice.

Okay, this is crazy. The posts
that you're referring to,

Raina told me about them weeks ago.

She regretted them and thought
there might be consequences.

But I'm gonna tell you
exactly what I told her.

Not one word of what she
wrote was actionable.

So if you think you're gonna turn this
into a basis of a homicide investigation...

Tendu and I had a meeting.

- Two days ago.
- What?

Well, I didn't tell you
'cause I thought if

an attorney was there,
it might scare him away.

We met in my office, and we made a deal.

I promised to support
indigenous seal hunting,

if he would come out
against commercial seal hunts.

Commercial hunts killing 20 times
as many seals as the Inuits.

Yeah, last thing I would want is Tendu
dead, or in some kind of trouble.

Can you prove any of this?

I have a draft of the
agreement at my office.

We both signed it.
I can send you a copy.

You can ask other
people at the meeting.

My assistant, Tendu's girlfriend, Libena.

Libena... that's a Czech name.

I guess so. I don't know,
she had a thick accent.

Why? Is that important?

- Thanks for coming.
- Of course.

You okay?

You don't look so good.

I didn't get much sleep last night.

Why? Did something happen with SBK?

Nope.

Something happened with Chivonne.

There's a banger.

Lucien.

He a player, runs some corners.

He got it in his head that Chivonne
is gonna be his girlfriend.

And he don't care what
she got to say about it.

- What do you mean?
- Happens sometimes.

Youngblood sees something he likes,

decides it's "his".

Doesn't matter that she don't like him.

It don't matter that she just 14.

One way or another,
he gonna get what he wants.

Now, this boy...

... Lucien,
he keep coming at her,

got his boys following her,

just making her life hell.

Did she talk to the police?

You mean did she snitch? No.

She worried that it's gonna come back
on her and her aunt, and it would.

That's why she came to me.

What did she ask you to do?

I wouldn't let her say the words...

but I know what she need me to do.

And truth is...

I want to do it.

That's my baby girl.

Anybody mess with her...

...they deserve what they get.

Crazy, huh?
Everything I've been doing,

working with you,
working with the police,

it was so, eventually,

I can be a father to her.

Turns out...

... what she really need,
is a gangster.

I don't blame you for wanting
to protect your daughter.

But if you hurt Lucien...

You know what could happen if his
gang finds out what you did, and why.

Eye for an eye.

They gonna come after me.

Or worse,

... take it out on Chivonne.

That's why I asked you here.
Talk me out of it...

...to help me find another way.

Hey.

What are you guys doing here?

We were just having an illuminating
conversation with Anezka here.

Thanks. You can go.
We'll be in touch.

What's going on?

Were you aware, that when
Tendu disappeared,

he was in the company of a
woman named Libena Havel?

No. No, I wasn't.

Apparently, she's his girlfriend.

When we heard her name, it struck us
that we'd already met one Czech woman,

Anezka.

Having two different
Czechs wrapped up

in the same case, seemed like
more than a coincidence.

We wondered if she and
Anezka knew each other.

If they did, Anezka could
help us find Libena,

which, in turn, could
help us find Tendu.

Anezka gave us this, from a

gaming convention a few months back.

She identified this girl as Libena,

another of your trade show models.

She said Libena and Tendu
met at a party last week,

- here at this house.
- Yeah.

She also told us that she and
Libena were more than just models.

They're prostitutes.

But you already knew that.

They get close to the players,
flirt with them;

When you get the feeling
a player wants more,

you make sure it happens.

And the players themselves,
they don't know the truth.

And that way, they're not just
more likely to stay,

they're more likely to recommend
Team ProFine to other eSport stars.

Anezka told us, Libena
fell for Tendu, hard.

She was thinking about telling him the
truth about herself. Say she did.

Say it made him angry.
He confronted you,

threatened to expose you.

Your team could've been barred
from competition.

Tendu had to go.

Only, you didn't know
where he was staying,

so maybe you paid
Owen "O.G." Tuchman a visit.

What?! No, that...

...that's not what happened.

Well, Anezka seems to think it's a
quite likely sequence of events.

All right, look, you are
right about the girls,

and you're right that
Tendu found out. Only...

...he didn't threaten me,
he came to me for help.

- With what?
- The escort agency that we use,

they're not good people. Okay?
They bring these girls into the country,

then extort them for, like, tens of
thousands of dollars in immigration fees.

They literally hold the girls' passports
and take 90% of what they earn,

until their debts are paid.

So, Tendu wanted to
buy Libena's freedom.

He wanted to negotiate
with human traffickers?

Yes. Then he tells me if they
don't want to play ball,

he knows enough about computers to
track down the people behind the agency,

and identify them to the police.

And I told him, "look, trying to
deal with people like that,"

"is a bad idea." And then to threaten
them? That's even worse.

So, I refused to front him the money,

because I didn't want to encourage him.

But maybe he did, anyway.

If he did...

The escort agency...

You got the address?

Well, yeah, we need
everything you got.

- Sooner the better.
- What's going on?

Your text said you were
looking into an escort agency.

That was the idea.

He's on the phone with the fire marshal.

Based on the weathering of this tape,
and the graying of the ash,

the place was burned down two days ago.

No question it was arson.

Agency's computers and paperwork were
all covered with gasoline and lit up.

Problem is finding who did it.

Agency employees all vanished.
Paperwork's gone,

and the names that I
could find, are fake.

The whole thing was owned
by a shell company.

- Sounds like organized crime.
- Yeah.

I wish I could tell you which kind.

Office manager was named Carla Petro,

but nobody who met her
thought she looked Italian,

and her name is as fake as the rest.

Is he okay?

He's fine.

Your arsonist was driving a fully-restored,

vintage Ford Mustang,
model year 1965, '66, '67 or...

... '68.
Color unknown.

How can you know that?

You say in your report, you found
a charred wastebasket inside.

You thought it was used to
splash petrol around the office.

- So?
- So, why did the arsonist
use a waste basket?

Why not a gas can?
I'll tell you why.

Because the petrol didn't come
from a can, it came from a car,

which was parked right here.
It was siphoned.

There's spilled petrol on the floor...

...here, and it has the distinct
aroma of additives

used for fueling old cars
with modern unleaded.

Additionally, there are scratches
here which could only have come

from the three-bladed spinning
hubcaps of a classic Mustang.

So, you said this garage was
leased by the agency, right?

- Yeah.
- And the people who worked here

are the ones we think started the fire?

You want to put the Mustang
over the air, or should I?

Yo, Ghostface,

I got that tuna you like.

Your cat took off.

I don't think he liked the look of me.

Who the hell do you think you are?

Shinwell.
I'm Chivonne's father.

Given the way you've been
treating my baby girl,

stalking her,
making her life hell,

by rights,

you should be lying in a
pool of your own blood...

...right now.

- That supposed to scare me?
- Nooo.

You hard.

Hard G's, you either drop
or you don't.

Luckily for you, I'm trying
to live a peaceable life.

I come to make you a offer.

What kind of offer?

I been looking into you.

You got three corners,

a decent amount of product.

If you wasn't so damn stupid
when it came to the girls,

you would have a good thing going.

Look, my business,
is my business.

Maybe it's time for you
to put your business first.

SBK got two corners
near your territory.

Now, I can arrange for the
dealers to move out.

Your people, can move in,

doubling...your profit.

Now, in exchange,

I want you and yours
to leave my daughter alone.

Forever.

Or?

No need for "or."

You know a good deal
when you hear it,

and I'm only offering once.

Hello, Carla, or...

do you prefer Amanda? Or...

... Tasha...?

- Carla is fine.
- Carla.

Well, your prints...
tell an interesting story, Carla.

Multiple arrests for prostitution...
... under various

...aliases dating back over 20 years,
and then a gap.

And then, two years ago,

a misdemeanor for
promoting prostitution.

Looks like you went
into management.

Made enough to buy that vintage
Mustang we pulled you over in.

And now you can add arson

to your list of accomplishments.

Maybe murder, as well.
This man...

She's prepared to take the fall for
her crimes, whatever they are.

Likely due to a combination of
fear of her employers and...

the promise of future compensation.

Spent her whole life
in the sex trade.

She's used to trading herself for money.

Didn't ask you how your emergency
meeting with Shinwell went.

Did you manage to avert his crisis?

Well, I tried to point him
in the right direction.

We already have you on the arson.

I spilled gasoline by accident.

I dropped a cigarette.

Clumsy me.

But I didn't send anyone
after the boy,

Tendu.

Neither did the people I work for.

- They don't even know his name.
- You had motive,

and we have reason to believe
that Tendu uncovered

the names of all your bosses.

He threatened
to expose all of you.

He did,

but he also offered me
a deal, which I took.

He's a nice boy.

And I was happy for Libena.

She found her Richard Gere.

Girls from poor cities,
broken homes,

they get into the trade
because they want to escape,

make some money, and...

... someday...

live the dream.

Meet a wonderful man,
fall in love,

live happily ever after,

like Julia Roberts from the movie.

For most of us,
there is no Richard Gere.

It's a fantasy.

Libena and the boy,
seemed to be in love,

and he offered to pay
off her debt, so...

... I...

... gave them their chance
at the fairy tale.

And then...

... what? You figured if Tendu
was able to identify you

and the agency's owners,
other people could, too?

You burned down your office
to cover your tracks?

$100,000 is more than enough

to replace some old computers
and open a new office.

Tendu said he was gonna pay
you a hundred thou?

He didn't say he would do it.
He did it.

Paid me on the spot.

In cash?

Brand new hundred dollar bills.

Joey Ng told us he hadn't
given Tendu any money.

Did he say where he got it?

Sorry.

When someone hands me money,
I don't ask where it came from.

Force of habit.

Fire marshals will be by
to talk with her next.

Any impressions?

If I had to guess, I'd say
she was telling the truth.

Where's Joan?
She's at your computer.

Said she has a theory as to
how Tendu got his $100,000.

- What do you got?
- Ah, hey.

So, this is one of the last pictures

that Tendu uploaded to social media.

Now, the logo belongs to
a company called AmpVX.

They make top-of-the-line headphones.

According to this,
the headphones he's wearing

haven't even been released yet.
A friend of mine who dated a Met once,

she said the guy never wore brand
name unless he was getting paid.

Tendu is a professional athlete now.

Significant percentage of the money
athletes make is from sponsorship deals.

How do we get ahold
of someone from AmpVX?

There won't be anyone in the
New York office until tomorrow.

But?

In Beijing...
it's already tomorrow.

Hao.

- Your call went well.
- It did.

- What is that?
- That's roasted huitlacoche.

It's corn smut.
Do you want some?

No thanks.

So, the VP at AmpVX's
Beijing headquarters said

they signed Tendu to a five-year,
multi-million dollar sponsorship deal.

He collected a $100,000 advance
from their New York office

- the day he bought Libena's freedom.
- Explains the money.

Ms. Jao also said that Tendu

had the company wire
$20,000 each

to several people in his
village in Maniitok, Canada.

He wanted the payments to
continue for the life of his contract.

But he also wanted to make sure
he could stop the payments

if the recipients didn't fulfill
certain conditions.

The payments were incentives.

He wanted to ensure certain
prominent citizens in Maniitok

did something that they already
desperately wanted to do.

- How could you already know that?
- You tend to...

... project when you speak Mandarin.

I overheard enough
to get the gist, so...

I contacted the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police in Maniitok

to see if any of their officers
could provide any insight,

and Officer Montcalm has
been giving me an overview

of a certain situation
in Tendu's hometown.

That, in combination with
the names of Tendu's payees

and their views regarding
the future of Maniitok,

allowed me to deduce
the goal of the payments,

not to mention why
Owen Tuchman was murdered

and Tendu framed.

I don't get it. Are you saying
all of this is because of

local politics in an Inuit village?

The local politics, are just a symptom.

O.G.'s murder was ultimately triggered
by something far larger in scope.

He died...
... because of global warming.

Any sign of the guy?

Not yet.

Our techs pinged
his cell phone to a tower

right around the corner.

He's definitely around here somewhere.

You sure he's our killer?

Kurt Godwyn is a fixer
for Mather and Kline.

He does all the dirty work for
an exceedingly dirty law firm.

So, if they sent anyone
to kill Tendu three nights ago,

I'll bet it was him.

There he is.

Brown jacket.

That's him.

I think I see a parking spot...

What...

If you move, I'm gonna put
six rounds in your liver.

- Police!
- Are we clear?

- Clear.
- Get your hands up on the wall now!

Right pocket.

Don't move.

That isn't a gun.

No, but you're under arrest.

Couldn't wait for me to park the car?

I could see he was armed and
heading into this building.

What's so special about this building?

Carla Petro was
arrested here once.

It was thought that her
employers kept an apartment here

so that the girls
could entertain clients.

Just the kind of place
Libena might go to hide?

You got this all wrong.

I'm just here
to serve a summons.

Yeah, right.

Tendu? Libena?
Police are here.

You're safe.

Show your badge.

You gonna tell me why I'm
looking at a map of Canada?

In a minute.

We know what you do for
a living, Mr. Godwyn.

Your business card may say "legal
investigator," but you're a fixer.

When your law firm
or their clients have a problem,

you make the problem go away.

You were suspected in the sudden,
inexplicable death of the

jury foreman on the "Himmelman" case.

You were accused of threatening
witnesses in "Brust versus Zerakem",

bribing a judge in
the "LexGo Glass" lawsuit.

Three indictments, no convictions.

A winning streak which, I assure
you, is about to come to an end.

Man named Owen Tuchman

was beaten to death
late Thursday night.

Surveillance cameras recorded you

in and around his hotel
at the time of the murder.

And the gun we found in your possession,

looks like a perfect match for the
one used to pistol-whip the victim.

It's not too late to cut a deal.

We still don't know which of your
firm's lawyers ordered the hit on Tendu.

- You give us a name...
- I don't know what you're talking about.

Why would anyone from my firm
want me to kill some Eskimo?

Global warming.

Your presence here is the result
of, let's call it, um...

it's "the reverse butterfly effect."

You may be aware, the
actual butterfly effect, is...

... small, local events, having
strikingly large consequences.

A butterfly flaps
its wings in the Congo

and triggers a hurricane
in New York.

- That kind of thing.
- But the inverse is also true.

Large-scale events, can have
small, local consequences.

For example, fossil fuel
emissions melt arctic ice,

opening Canada's formerly ice-clogged
Northwest Passage, to commercial shipping.

Cargo companies can, save billions
of dollars a year on fuel now by

exploiting this new, shorter route.

But only if they can secure land
rights along the Northwest Passage

for new ports.

We understand your firm
was hired to secure those ports.

If they pull it off, the partners stand
to make millions in commissions.

Unfortunately for them, the indigenous
residents of the Northwest Passage,

specifically the villagers of Maniitok,

are loath to relinquish
their ancestral lands...

A fact which led to you

being ordered to shoot
a young Inuit in the head.

Now, you can either let this butterfly-
-induced hurricane land entirely on you,

or you can point us to whichever lawyer,

flapped his or her wings,
and blew you to Tendu's door.

Well, sorry to sound like a
broken record, but like I said,

Raina's not great at being on time.

Well, actually, Raina's not
gonna be joining us today.

We've been doing some digging,
Ms. Lundquist.

It turns out your work at the Animal
Salvation Fund, is completely pro Bono.

Your day job is contract law
at Mather and Kline.

According to this, your current
assignment is to secure port locations

along the Northwest Passage for a
company called Newhall Transocean.

Now, if you manage to succeed,
you're in line to make partner.

A partner at a white-shoe firm
like Mather and Kline,

makes millions of dollars a year.

But securing the ports
hasn't been easy, has it?

The locals are poor,

and they're attached
to their traditions.

So, you volunteered
your legal services

to an animal rights group here in New
York, and managed to convince them,

to pursue a ban on seal hunting.

Ban like that would've wrecked
the locals' traditional way of life.

They would've been forced to either
relocate, or seek new income.

You were hoping that they'd fold,
and agree to Newhall's port deal.

But Tendu Otolik's "Sealfies"

turned public opinion against the ban.

So, when you switched to Plan B

and tried to buy the village outright,

he stopped that, too.

He sent money home in exchange
for a promise from the village elders

to never agree to Newhall's port.

No way were you gonna
make partner after that.

Not unless you could
make Tendu go away.

Which brings us to your
fixer, Kurt Godwyn.

- No, no, you see...
- Save it.

We've already got a full
confession from Mr. Godwyn.

You might want to call your firm.

You're gonna need a good lawyer.

Hey.

Hey.

I wanted you to know,
that boy Lucien

won't be bothering you no more.

Me and him, we had a... talk.

A talk?

Sometimes that's all it takes.

Chivonne?

You won't have no more
problems with him.

I promise.

Thanks.

I liked walking you home
the other day.

I was thinking maybe
we can make it... a habit.

Don't.

Don't what?

I know what you want.

For you and me.

But I can't do it.

What you did doesn't
change things between us.

It doesn't make us family.

I came to you because I had to.

Do you understand?

I understand.

You do what you need to do.

== sync, corrected by elderman ==
and DKfever - @elder_man