Endgame (2011): Season 1, Episode 13 - Deadman Talking - full transcript
A hotel security guard dies under mysterious circumstances. Was it an accident or was it murder? When Balagan tries to figure out who would want to kill the guard, he discovers there is much more to the seemingly simple hotel employee than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, Pippa is convinced she knows who killed her sister, Rosemary - it was a powerful lawyer named Sebastian Wilks. Wilks decides to put an end to her investigations - by introducing Balagan to his worst nightmare.
Pippa, Pippa, people scream
at each other all the time.
In my family, that is what
we would call conversation.
Wait, one second.
Sam, Pippa has been acting
without any deference
to protocol or propriety.
Pippa, disregard what I am saying.
One second.
So, Sam, she has boycotted
me for over a week.
I will give you five
games if you can call her
and convince her to give me a truce,
and come visit me, and end this idiocy!
I mean, Sam, I've left 50 voice messages
for this person.
Which is much more than you deserve!
And I'm telling you, Sam,
I'm very worried about,
I mean, I'm not worried about you, Pippa!
I'm not worried, okay!
Anyway, just call and confirm, Sam.
And Sam, or, is this,
Argh!
Sooka.
Ah, Danni!
Oh, so ravishing.
What time do you get off?
Uh-huh, why?
I need your help.
I can't, inventory.
What, at night?
No.
All night.
Too many of the staff have sticky fingers.
Head office is freaking out.
But.
Ah, Alcina!
Alcina!
Alcina.
I can't help you, Mr. Balagan.
That crazy Barbara thinks
the maids are stealing.
Always us!
And now we have an emergency meeting.
What are you doing?
Receptionist: Welcome
to the Huxley hotel, sir.
We ordered a hundred banquet tables,
we received a hundred banquet tables,
but food and beverage only has 60!
400 steaks, missing!
30 cases of wine!
Food and beverage
are all thieves.
So do something!
I'm investigating,
I'm getting close, relax!
No, no, Barbara, it's right!
Hugo and the thieves are very close.
Hey, Balagan, this is a
private conversation, all right?
$100,000 in one quarter!
How do we even begin to
explain that kind of loss?
Professionals!
The Huxleys are going to clean house,
and if I go down, you go down.
Come on.
Your investigation file,
my office, five minutes!
Hugs?
This is ridiculous, Barb!
Good evening.
See, Hugo, you should have been a priest.
Then you'd only have to
kiss your boss's ring.
Hugo: What the hell
do you want, Balagan?
I have an assignment that
only you can accomplish.
Yeah, well, I am not your
errand boy, and you heard her.
You do everything that
your boss asks you to?
Of course not, I just pretend to.
Hey, Hugo, Hugo!
The special was on special.
Only 2.99.
Know what?
I lost my appetite.
Don't cry, Hugo.
Hey, Mr. B.
What's up with him?
Inter-species communication
is fraught with challenges.
Gurjit, if I give you an address,
and I write it in big,
bold, simple letters,
do you think you could manage to find it
and send an urgent message for me?
50 bucks.
It is for my friend, Pippa.
$30?
Pippa?
Yeah, sure, 40 bucks is fine.
Good.
Ah, I get off at seven.
Payment upon completion, yes?
Uh-uh, half up front.
You want some chicken?
Smells foul.
No, half now, or you
can deliver it yourself!
Sam, too slow.
No games for you!
Pippa, did Gurjit not deliver my note?
I will strangle him.
Sam, your doctoral thesis is trivial
compared to my urgent needs.
You are becoming self-absorbed.
Where did you learn this?
Pick up, Gurjit.
(phone buzzing)
(upbeat music)
(elevator dings)
(staff chattering)
We'll have to get somebody else,
but it just feels so callous.
Arkady: Who died?
Gurjit.
What?
He died last night.
Seriously?
Yeah.
He was like a son to me.
I taught him about work, life, love.
What happened?
The police say it was an accident.
He had been drinking down at
the seawall, right near here,
and they say he hit his
head, he fell, he drowned.
My last words to him
were, "I lost my appetite"?
I mean, if I'd have known, who
knows what I would have said?
Did this happen right
after work, or was it later?
Was anybody with him?
No, nobody saw anything.
Left work by seven, dead by nine.
The humanity.
And here I was worried
about missing inventory,
and one of our family dies. (sighs)
Barbara?
Something else?
When Gurjit was hired,
there was a bit of an insurance issue.
He had hepatitis C,
so in order to get him onto our policy,
he had to sign a rider saying
he didn't drink alcohol.
Mm-hmm.
The police found him
with an empty bottle.
People have been known to lie, Barbara.
Excuse me.
Danni.
Hey, can you believe this?
I mean, what was he thinking?
A whole bottle of rum.
The guy would sit and nurse
a light beer for hours,
and all of a sudden,
he's just downing a 2-6?
Was Gurjit depressed?
Didn't you notice how happy he was?
The dimwitted always look happy.
What?
He was getting married.
He was, to whom?
Lucinda, from the spa.
The massage therapist?
Yeah.
Gurjit and Lucinda?
You know Lucinda.
Hot, sweet, flaky.
Hmm.
Sounds like a pie.
One massage, she insisted
I point my head north.
Hmm, it felt good.
You think Gurjit's death and
the hotel thefts are related?
You don't think it was an accident?
I'm not thinking anything yet.
Pippa.
Gurjit was on his way to your
house and now he is dead.
Bye-bye.
Perhaps that will get your attention.
I don't know what to say,
but, she doesn't want to go home.
No, she can stay here
as long as she wants.
Okay.
Tom, I'd like to talk to you later
about a memorial for Gurjit.
Yeah, yeah, I'd love to help out.
No rush.
Anything I can do, Lucinda?
Oh, Lucinda, it's going to be okay.
Shh, shh.
My heartfelt sympathies.
Gurjit was a very unique person.
(Lucinda sobbing)
Who are you?
Ah, Tom Mody.
I'm, I was, Gurjit's roommate.
You know, man, I just, I can't believe it.
Maybe Lucinda needs a water?
No.
Tom?
Maybe a coffee?
Tissues.
She needs a tissue.
Aww.
Aww.
I lost my fiancee.
The pain is real, as is the loss, but,
time is your friend.
I am concerned about the
nature of Gurjit's demise.
Do you mind if I ask you some questions?
Was he upset about something?
Did you ever see him drink?
Maybe when you announced your engagement.
Did he have any enemies?
Any family trouble?
Okay.
Maybe they did not approve
of your engagement?
My parents loved him.
That is nice.
And Gurjit's family?
Never met them.
They did not approve?
They lived in Phoenix.
There you go, Luce.
Maybe she's had enough.
Yes, yes, Tom is right.
For now, tears are best.
Mr. Balagan, I was looking for you.
And I have been looking for you.
You know me, I hate gossip.
Of course.
But last night, I went to talk to Hugo
about a watch I found in room 813.
One of those silly watches
where you can't even
tell the time, and, well...
Mm-hmm.
Yes?
Gurjit and Hugo were fighting.
Well, they are like father and son.
I mean fighting fighting.
Doing like this, and they
were swearing at each other.
Fighting.
(upbeat music)
You turd!
You (beep) piece of (beep).
Get off me you big (beep)!
And there were punches.
Arkady: Punches, really?
Mm-hmm.
Gentlemen.
Mm?
(fists slapping)
(grunting)
What were they arguing about?
I don't know.
I came too late, but it
was like a cowboy movie.
(upbeat music)
What time was this?
6:45.
(grunting)
(glass smashing)
Right before Gurjit got off work.
Yet Hugo said the last time
they spoke was earlier.
Mr. Balagan, did that
bully, Hugo, kill poor Gurjit?
Kill me?
You bastard!
I'm gonna beat the (beep) out
of you, you mother (beep)!
(fists slapping)
I have a puzzle to solve.
Thank you, Alcina.
(knocking on door)
Hugo: Go away!
(knocking on door)
I said go away!
(knocking on window)
Jesus, who is it!
Knock, knock!
Open the gate!
I have something for you from Masha.
What the hell are you talking about?
It's from my childhood.
A big, stupid beast is
outsmarted by a little child.
How are you holding up, Hugo?
It's a tough day for
security professionals
whenever one of our own goes down.
Mm.
Just getting Gurjit's stuff together.
With the door locked?
Mourning is private, okay?
He was... He was
like a son to you, yes.
How long did Gurjit work here?
Two years.
He trained at the best
hotel security college
on the continent.
Impressive.
Yeah, he spent a while in D.C.,
he had good references, so I hired him.
He said he was born
six blocks from here.
Yeah, but his family
moved everybody back east.
I think they live in Phoenix now.
What else?
He was a Dolphins fan.
An animal lover?
The Miami Dolphins.
The football team?
Balagan, do you live under a rock?
Happily.
I see you're left holding the bag.
Ah, it's just, Gurjit's crap.
Yet you cling to it like
a relic of Saint Nikolai.
It's nothing.
I like nothing.
Come on, Balagan, seriously.
A dead man's private effects?
You really gonna go there?
No, you are correct.
Hugo.
Which stage of grief is this?
This isn't my money.
Clearly.
I found it in Gurjit's desk.
Like father, like son, yes?
It was taped under the top drawer.
I was clearing it out
for when his uncle came.
That is a lot of money, Hugo,
for an assistant to a simpleton.
Maybe he didn't believe in banks?
Or maybe he sold the 30 cases of wine?
Maybe you should shut your trap.
Perhaps this is why the two of you
came to blows last night?
What blows?
Were you fighting
because of Barbara's audit?
Or because he wasn't giving you your cut?
Neither.
Well, you have your cut now.
I'm not a thief.
Gurjit trained at the Bill
Landers School of hotel security,
and I asked him to call Bill
to convince him to speak at
a convention I'm organizing,
the guy's a living legend,
and he wouldn't do it.
And this is why you
resorted to pugilism.
He was being a stubborn turd.
Those were your last words to him?
You have no idea where
the money came from?
Gurjit: Hey, Mr. B!
So much money, Gurjit.
But do you have it in you
to rob this hotel blind?
Is that why you're dead?
The horsie moves like this, right?
Knight.
It's called a knight.
Well, hey, you wanna
know more about me,
talk to my roommate.
Hmm.
(knocking on door)
Go away.
(knocking on door)
Pippa: I thought you wanted to see me.
Pippa?
Pippa, wait!
I apologize.
I'm sorry. (chuckles)
I can't believe it.
He was on my porch last night.
Arkady: What time?
7:30?
"Apology accepted."
Hilarious note.
He said that he wanted to
invite you to his wedding,
but they weren't going
to have it at the Huxley.
What did you say?
I told him to invite you anyway.
I can't believe he's dead.
He was starting to grow on me.
Like a barnacle, yes.
Hmm, another death you can
pretend you don't care about.
I only care about the living, Pippa.
Hmm, come.
Gurjit was drunk, but he didn't drink.
There's a theft ring
operating in the hotel.
Oh, and hidden money, and
all this makes me ask,
did he fall off the
seawall, or was he pushed?
Could this have something
to do with Rosemary?
Pippa don't ruin my day, please.
Emil Shirt said that he
met someone at the Huxley.
Maybe Gurjit was the one who paid him to...
Gurjit the inside man?
No, that's ridiculous, Pippa.
When I was talking to him,
I saw a guy in a black
car across from my house.
He was just sitting there.
So, when Gurjit left, did the car go?
It was already gone.
So then Gurjit and
the car are unrelated.
Are you becoming paranoid now?
Coming from you?
That's funny.
Where we going?
Well, you're going to the seawall.
Hopefully, you'll have
better luck than Gurjit.
My roommate moved out,
and I was about to
Craigslist for another one
when Gurjit told me
that he needed a place.
He was moving here from the east?
Yeah.
Yeah, he was a great roommate.
We were close.
I'm really going to miss him.
We were tight.
What else can you tell me about him?
Ah, his parents live in Phoenix.
No brothers and sisters.
He studied hotel security at Landers.
Worked in Washington for a little bit
before he came out here.
And he's a Dolphins fan.
Oh, right, the team.
Yes, I know all about it.
Any enemies?
Was he in trouble?
The police said it was an accident.
Maybe it was.
Tell me about Lucinda.
I don't know what to say.
Did she and Gurjit fight?
No, no, she couldn't hurt a fly.
She's a vegetarian.
So was Hitler.
What were you doing last
night between seven and nine?
Going over the numbers with Barbara.
(knocking on door)
You don't think that, um?
Do you?
Tom: Hey, right, thank you.
Thanks very much.
So, what do you do here?
I'm the hotel buyer.
Ah.
Whatever the hotel needs,
I source out and cost.
And what about the hotel thefts?
Well, it's all my fault.
I buy such nice things,
that the guests can't
help but help themselves.
Or maybe it was the hotel staff?
We found cash taped
underneath Gurjit's desk.
Ah, yeah, about that,
whenever celebrities
would stay at the hotel,
Gurjit would sell
their room numbers and stuff to paparazzi.
I think I might need to
look into Gurjit's things.
His desk and his room, and...
I thought you couldn't leave the hotel.
A king has pawns.
Right.
(snores) I like this one.
Tom: It's good.
Arkady: Don't worry, I
won't look in your room.
No, no, it's okay, why
don't you knock yourself out?
A dead guy's stuff?
I don't know.
He did not die of leprosy, Sam.
He was murdered, relax.
(police chattering)
Jason: Pippa.
Pipa: Jason.
You solving another murder?
So he was murdered.
I'll wait for the autopsy.
Arkady knew him.
He's curious.
Well, let me know when he solves it.
Hey, what are we going
to do about Sebastian Wilks?
Nothing.
Look, I told you, our
hands are tied for a while.
He killed my sister, and
I'm supposed to wait five years
for some federal task force to
pull its thumb out of its ass
and make an arrest?
Yeah.
No.
Nice pad.
(suspenseful music)
(rapping on drum pads)
Hmm, is that Gurjit's?
Yup.
Gurjit was gonna be a dad.
(knocking on door)
One sec!
(knocking on door)
Coming!
Hi.
Think you're some kinda smart guy?
No, no, no, no.
Stay outta other
people's private business,
pathetic pervert.
Oh, ah!
We are trying to send a
sympathy card to Gurjit's parents,
but no one knows how to contact them.
Maybe Lucinda.
I can't stop thinking
about that poor girl.
When I lost my husband...
Sammy.
Maybe you should talk to her.
What happened?
I got my ass kicked, literally.
Who would do such a thing?
Did you get a haircut?
Some guy just came
into Gurjit's apartment
and he started hitting me,
and he said, "Stay outta
other people's business",
"you pathetic pervert."
Poor Sammy.
Hey, what you brought?
Your hair, it's...
Oh, Gurjit was going to be a father.
Lucinda is pregnant?
I will definitely talk to her.
Maybe that's why Gurjit was drinking?
Forced into a marriage cause
of a baby he didn't want?
Possibly.
Tom did not mention that Gurjit
was going to be a father.
Maybe he was told not to tell anyone.
She's only 12 weeks.
Huh.
Browser history's been wiped.
Porn.
A guy with a fiancee's
gotta cover his tracks.
Check his recent files.
What's this?
Gurjit is a pervert.
Indeed.
You see? Porn.
Hey, that's that jerk that beat me up.
Oh, my.
That is Trent Karlson.
He's a friend of yours?
He is a famous hockey player.
Right, he plays for Toronto.
No, no, he was traded to Dallas
for draft picks and future considerations,
and that is not his wife.
His wife is a famous country singer.
Alcina, do you like hockey?
Trent is staying on the fourth floor.
They all checked in Tuesday.
Big game tomorrow, we will triumph.
Goodie.
So, Gurjit, he's not a
pervert, he's an entrepreneur.
Paparazzi, blackmail.
(upbeat music)
Maybe you wronged the wrong person?
Dance with the devil, gonna get burned.
There is more to you,
Gurjit, than I thought.
Check!
Mate.
Hmm.
I must talk to this Trent Karlson.
Mr. Balagan.
What?
Gurjit was blackmailing Trent.
Mm-hmm.
Trent went to beat him up.
Why would Trent want to beat
up somebody he already killed?
Logically, Trent has nothing
to do with killing Gurjit.
So, who am I missing?
Coffee for me.
Please.
For you, Lucinda?
No, thank you.
You sure, maybe a tea?
Do you have ginger tea?
No, sorry.
Tulsi tea?
Linden flower?
Peppermint?
It's organic.
No, thanks.
You can never be too careful.
Arkady: So, tell me about Gurjit.
He asked me out, like,
18 times before I said yes.
He wore me down, he was so cute.
He would have to.
I don't really know
what you want to know.
You're doing fine.
Just, anything.
He was born here.
His parents moved the family back east.
Gurjit studied hotel security at Landers
and then moved here.
We became friends, and I hung
out a lot with him and Tom
but, then about six months ago...
Was Gurjit happy
about becoming a father?
How did you...
I know that the timing is terrible,
but your baby will flourish
and give you a reason to live.
It is Gurjit's baby?
Of course.
Gurjit was so happy.
He was going to stay home with
Indigo when I became a nurse.
A nurse?
Yeah, I'm halfway there.
Hmm.
I'm done giving massages
to ungrateful rich a-holes.
No offense.
None taken.
So, you weren't worried about the baby?
Why would I be?
Someone with nurse's
training would obviously know
that hepatitis c complicates pregnancy.
Hep C? I don't,
Gurjit had...
Arkady: Hepatitis C.
Why wouldn't he tell me?
It is rarely communicated
in sexual relations.
Just blood, so maybe...
Another secret.
You know of more?
I have to go.
My mom's waiting.
Are you referring to Gurjit
extorting the hockey players?
Pardon?
Or selling information
to the paparazzi?
Any of...
What?
Oh, no,
(phone beeps)
Never mind.
Hmm.
Thank you, Pippa.
(upbeat music)
Does she really not know you have hep C?
Maybe.
Or maybe she's a really good actress.
Ow!
Ah!
Ah!
I cut myself.
You're using my razor?
I always do when I stay over.
I have hepatitis c!
Oh, God!
And now so do you!
Ugh.
No, it's ridiculous.
It does not explain his drunkenness.
(phone ringing)
Hugo.
What new nonsense?
Right there.
Do you...
Ah, so you must be Gurjit's uncle.
He was quite a character.
He will be remembered for a long time.
I did not get your name.
Smith, Jerry Smith.
May we have a word?
You live in?
Arizona.
Where Gurjit's parents live.
Yeah, that's right, yeah.
Could you tell me about Gurjit?
Gurjit, he was born here.
His folks moved the family out east.
They live in Phoenix now.
He studied hotel security at Landers.
He worked in Washington for a while,
and then he moved back here.
Dolphins fan.
Yeah.
Close family?
Yes.
(upbeat music)
Hey, Gurjit.
You studied at Landers, right?
Do me a big favour, ask
Bill Landers if he'll speak
at my hotel security convention.
Nope.
Why the hell not?
Stop asking me so many
questions, you Cro-Magnon moron!
Yeah, well, you're the missing dink!
Please, Hugo.
He cannot ask Bill Landers.
Why not?
Because he has never met the man.
Are you staying here at the Huxley,
in case we need to talk again?
No, I'm staying out near the airport,
but why don't you take my card.
Real estate.
That's good.
Thank you.
Who's that?
Anytime anyone says
anything about Gurjit,
they always say the same things.
Hugo, Tom, Lucinda, Uncle Jerry,
it is always the same.
He was born here, he moved
east, he's an only child,
his parents live in Phoenix,
Landers, Washington, loves Dolphins.
Yeah?
You play an alleged
sport called ultimate.
You have eight engineers as roommates.
You wash in a sink.
You have a life to draw on, Sam.
Details.
He does not.
So, why?
Because he's making it up.
And he recites it just
the way he learned it,
as does everyone else.
The question is what is he hiding from?
Maybe he's a spy.
Mm.
What country would hire Gurjit?
Absurdistan?
No, he's a criminal on the run.
Or he's future-Gurjit
fallen through the wormhole.
His Uncle would know the truth.
Why would he lie?
Either he's in on the
lie, or he's not an Uncle.
Or both?
Hello, Hugo.
Outta my face, Balagan.
You're not very chipper this evening.
Toxicology came back.
Alcohol in the blood?
No, more like blood in his alcohol.
He was .39.
That's way more than one bottle.
Yeah, and get this...
There was no alcohol in his stomach.
Hugo: Yeah.
(upbeat music)
Way to go, muffin!
You're going to be the best nurse ever.
Hmm.
Have them check for
needle marks in the arms.
They already found one.
So wait, somebody bashed
Gurjit over the head,
injected him with alcohol,
then threw him over the seawall?
Clearly, a professional job,
which means Gurjit was
involved in the theft ring.
He betrayed me, he betrayed the hotel,
he betrayed everything that we stand for.
Or maybe not.
You don't have a clue, Balagan.
You know what, Gurjit is
lucky somebody killed him,
otherwise I would have
wrung his scrawny neck.
Password isn't his password.
Try password with one s.
Nope.
Dolphins?
Tried it.
Lucinda.
We're in.
Sam, well done.
Let's see if this romantic has deleted
his browser history or not.
No, it's still here.
Let's see.
We got football, hockey,
porn, football, porn.
Porn, porn, porn.
Oh, he's got some mixer hits.
Mixer?
It's a social networking site.
Let's see the people
he's been looking at.
A lot of people named Bhatti.
Sam: Gurjit's family?
Arkady: Where do they live?
We got Miami, Tampa, Miami,
Jacksonville, Ft. Lauderdale.
Miami Dolphins.
And Gurjit's name is Bhatti.
Google Gurjit Bhatti and Miami.
See if I'm right.
Sam: No hits.
Hugo!
I'm mopping!
Stay there.
Hugo!
Since when do you mop?
Arkady: Hugo?
Where are you, Hugo?
What are you doing here?
Oh, there you are.
We've been looking for you.
What do you want?
You took too long!
I forgot!
You know, one day, Balagan,
you're gonna be bala...
(door slams)
Gone!
Danni.
Uh-huh?
Business or pleasure?
It is the art of my
life to combine the two.
Vodka and...
Milk.
Milk.
Danni, I need you to use
your considerable expertise
to see if a man named Bhatti,
matching Gurjit's description,
worked in a hotel in the Miami area,
because Gurjit is not Gurjit.
What?
Yeah, yeah.
And you think he worked
at a hotel in Miami?
Most people who run
away from their pasts
end up recreating their old lives.
He was still a Dolphins fan.
You want me to
cold-call a bunch of hotels
looking for a South Asian guy
with the last name Bhatti?
Just say you're from
the Huxley, which you are.
He's applied for a job, and
would they recommend him?
We find about Gurjit's
past, who he was,
we might find the killer.
Arkady: Danni.
Fine.
I'll do it.
Thank you, Dannichka.
Ah.
Just go.
Sam: Thanks, sorry.
(elevator dings)
Ah.
I'll have to get the next one, then.
Hey!
Hey, hey, you work for
that chess champion, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, here's my computer?
Oh, I don't have it.
I just have Gurjit's.
Cause it's gone.
(elevator dings)
I don't,
Sorry.
Hey, hold the elevator!
Thanks, bud.
(elevator dings)
Where is it?
It wasn't on the laptop,
you little skidmark.
I don't have it.
But I think I know where it is.
I want it today!
Right-o.
Okay, so I called nine hotels.
No one had heard of a Gurjit Bhatti,
but then someone said maybe
I was looking for Jag Bhatti.
Security guard, always on the
take, big flirt, Dolphins fan.
Gurjit was once Jag.
Then the guy said there
was a theft ring there,
and Jag was suspected
until he disappeared,
and then the thefts stopped.
So.
Gurjit was on the run
because he was a thief.
No.
Google Jag Bhatti.
Me?
(clicks fingers)
Sam.
He's not going to Google himself.
He was wounded in a nightclub shooting.
Two others dead.
But he was not the target,
he was just a bystander.
Witness Protection.
He was in hiding here.
So did the bad guys find him?
Possibly.
What confuses me is the method of death.
The needle suggests Lucinda, yes?
Why would she kill Gurjit?
Well, she did love him.
I have not found a convincing reason,
but there are people out there now
who might want to kill Gurjit.
How did they know he was here?
What about the uncle?
He's either one of those people,
or he's the agent handling his case.
And he's not going to tell us.
Who would know the truth?
I wanted to inform you
that my suspicions have
been substantiated.
Gurjit's death was no accident.
Someone killed him?
I'm working on two theories.
You are in nursing school, yes?
Part-time.
Were you trained in
intravenous injection?
Yes.
Gurjit was injected with alcohol
to make his fall look accidental.
Oh, my God.
Police did not tell you this?
I'm going to be sick.
Maybe they think you're a suspect.
I am going to be sick.
Was it you?
Would you like a pail, or?
How could you think such a thing?
I loved Gurjit.
I didn't kill him!
All right, all right, theory two.
He was in Witness Protection.
Pail?
Would you like a pail?
Well, maybe that is why
the police did not tell you
he was murdered.
They think you don't know
about the Witness Protection,
but you do, right?
He told me right after he proposed.
Right after I said yes.
He was an eyewitness.
His trial has been delayed and delayed.
That's all he said.
Why did you not mention this earlier?
I'm not supposed to tell anyone.
But did you?
No!
No one knows, I swear!
I'm going to be sick.
Huh.
(tires squealing)
(Pippa panting)
Are you okay?
You'd better watch where you're stepping.
No one is trying to kill you, Pippa.
You weren't there.
Pedestrians are
struck on a daily basis.
It was Sebastian Wilks.
Pippa, you've only seen
a tiny picture of him.
It was him.
The car was the same one
sitting outside my door
when Gurjit was there.
Sebastian Wilks killed Gurjit,
just like he killed my sister.
Gurjit's murder has
nothing to do with Rosemary.
He was in Witness Protection.
Are you serious?
Come in.
Come in, we're working on the puzzle.
Come.
Maybe it was bad luck.
Maybe someone connected
to the Miami bad guys
was here and saw Gurjit.
I don't like that answer.
Sam: Why?
We cannot solve it.
Well, the police can.
Don't hold your breath.
It could also have been
someone doing it for a bounty.
Bad guys putting up a reward.
There's nothing we
can do about that either.
Sam: Lucinda?
I don't think so.
Well, there's rewards other than money.
Yeah, like getting revenge on a guy
that kicked the crap out of you twice.
Listen, whoever exposed Gurjit
knew he was in Witness
Protection, and who knew that?
Who sold him out?
Barbara didn't know that.
Hugo didn't know that.
Only Lucinda knew that.
Maybe someone overheard
Gurjit telling Lucinda.
Lucinda: Witness Protection?
(upbeat music)
Gurjit: Yeah, in Miami.
I saw this guy shoot up a club.
Took a bullet in my ass.
Oh, my God, you poor thing.
(amerous groaning)
How long will this go on?
All night long.
So kill Gurjit,
and maybe we can finish our game in peace.
It's not the game I want to win.
(phone dialing)
Hello, Miami?
Yeah, spread the word.
You know the guy everyone's
been looking for?
The one in Wit Pro?
He's at the Huxley.
But Lucinda's pregnant.
Yeah, and with Gurjit out of the way,
she'll be desperate, too.
So, apparently, are you.
It's love, man.
Maybe Gurjit's
roommate coveted Lucinda.
Tom?
How are you going to prove that?
Ooh!
(knocking on door)
Wait, wait, wait.
I got what you want.
Then gimme it.
Don't make me put
you on injured reserve.
You got the wrong roommate's laptop.
This is the one you want.
I'll trade you?
Oh, I just need the hard drive.
See, isn't this a better
way to resolve conflict?
Arkady: Samuel?
Did you hack the log-in screen?
Nope, figured out the password.
Lucinda.
Yup.
Photos.
Lucinda, Lucinda,
Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda.
Tom's obsessed.
Very good.
Sam, very good.
You have to come, Hugo.
You knew Gurjit better than most of us.
Turns out I didn't know
that little twerp at all.
What about you, Mr. Balagan?
Are you coming to Gurjit's memorial?
It's about to start.
First, I have some news for Hugo.
Hugurt, your friend, Gurjit,
worked in a hotel in Miami.
He was being investigated for some thefts,
and after he left, the thefts stopped.
So he was behind thefts
at another hotel, too?
That's your news?
I don't know, maybe the real
thief used his departure
as an excuse to stop
from being caught, but...
Okay, okay, so what you're saying
is maybe Gurjit was a
thief, and maybe he wasn't.
You're a retired genius, right?
My point is that Gurjit
was not who he said he was.
No kidding, Sherlock.
He was in Witness Protection.
He witnessed a crime.
He was trying to put the bad guys away.
Gurjit?
Jag, his real name was Jag.
Jag Bhatti, he's a hero.
So, wait a second.
That's why he wouldn't call Bill Landers
from the hotel security school,
because he never met him.
Of course.
That makes sense now.
Poor Gurjit.
If he was in Wit Pro,
could be the scumbags caught up with him.
Hugo, I think you
may be on to something,
and you know who may have betrayed him?
Who?
Tom.
His roommate?
Arkady: He was in
love with Lucinda, too.
So, Tom dropped the dime on Gurjit?
Do you have proof?
No, but you can tell
your homicidal friends
at the police department to
start with this hard drive.
It contains pictures of Lucinda.
And bad poetry.
Bad poetry's not a crime.
Unfortunately, but
accessory to murder is.
He probably doesn't even
realize he's responsible,
but I suspect that Tom
led the killers to Gurjit.
You suspect?
So you're guessing.
That is why I prefer
chess over people puzzles.
In chess, there is always a right answer.
Someone wins.
Well, Balagan, you know how
cops deal with uncertainty?
They lie.
Watch how a pro works.
Excuse me.
This is for little Gurjit.
Indigo.
Whatever.
Listen, Tom, I need to
talk to you for a second.
(quietly murmuring)
Hey, get!
Ah, Gurjit,
(gentle music)
You look well, death suits you.
Thanks, Mr. B.
And thanks for all your
help in solving this.
Because of you, Indigo won't
think I'm a clumsy drunk.
That's true, you'll
be remembered as a hero.
And now Tom can't play dad to my kid.
That would have been sick.
So, tell me, were you the hotel thief?
Does it matter now?
Funny thing about all my lies.
It was finally telling the
truth that got me killed.
Well, I'll see you soon.
Not too soon.
Whoa!
Who is this?
Who are you?
Gentlemen, I am beginning
to lose my temper!
I must warn you, I bruise easily!
Come on, at least can we
not take the elevator?
Gentlemen, I am not going
to Gurjit's memorial.
Tell me what this is about.
I will cooperate, but please
tell me what you want!
Please!
Please, I beg of you, you cannot do this.
I have a medical condition!
Look at me, look at me!
Look at me, please!
Don't!
Don't do this!
No, no!
No!
(gasping)
I'm here to prevent another tragedy.
Back to hotel.
Calm down, you're inside.
Hotel!
You know who I am, Mr. Balagan?
That's right, I'm Sebastian Wilks.
You killed Rosemary.
No.
I make things happen.
Get him under control now!
(Arkady yelling)
I will kill you!
Calm down.
Listen, a guy came to me,
needed something taken care of.
I did what I do.
Now that guy's dead.
I don't know why.
Maybe he made a mistake.
I don't know, I don't care.
It was just a deal.
You see your friend, Pippa, here?
If she doesn't stop, if you don't stop,
I'll have to do what I do, Pro Bono.
Don't make me do that.
Your little pal, Sam?
That maid?
That sexy little bartender
who slices your pickles just right?
Do we have an understanding here?
Do we?
Enjoy the fresh air.
(tires squealing)
(somber music)
(Arkady gasping)
(upbeat music)
at each other all the time.
In my family, that is what
we would call conversation.
Wait, one second.
Sam, Pippa has been acting
without any deference
to protocol or propriety.
Pippa, disregard what I am saying.
One second.
So, Sam, she has boycotted
me for over a week.
I will give you five
games if you can call her
and convince her to give me a truce,
and come visit me, and end this idiocy!
I mean, Sam, I've left 50 voice messages
for this person.
Which is much more than you deserve!
And I'm telling you, Sam,
I'm very worried about,
I mean, I'm not worried about you, Pippa!
I'm not worried, okay!
Anyway, just call and confirm, Sam.
And Sam, or, is this,
Argh!
Sooka.
Ah, Danni!
Oh, so ravishing.
What time do you get off?
Uh-huh, why?
I need your help.
I can't, inventory.
What, at night?
No.
All night.
Too many of the staff have sticky fingers.
Head office is freaking out.
But.
Ah, Alcina!
Alcina!
Alcina.
I can't help you, Mr. Balagan.
That crazy Barbara thinks
the maids are stealing.
Always us!
And now we have an emergency meeting.
What are you doing?
Receptionist: Welcome
to the Huxley hotel, sir.
We ordered a hundred banquet tables,
we received a hundred banquet tables,
but food and beverage only has 60!
400 steaks, missing!
30 cases of wine!
Food and beverage
are all thieves.
So do something!
I'm investigating,
I'm getting close, relax!
No, no, Barbara, it's right!
Hugo and the thieves are very close.
Hey, Balagan, this is a
private conversation, all right?
$100,000 in one quarter!
How do we even begin to
explain that kind of loss?
Professionals!
The Huxleys are going to clean house,
and if I go down, you go down.
Come on.
Your investigation file,
my office, five minutes!
Hugs?
This is ridiculous, Barb!
Good evening.
See, Hugo, you should have been a priest.
Then you'd only have to
kiss your boss's ring.
Hugo: What the hell
do you want, Balagan?
I have an assignment that
only you can accomplish.
Yeah, well, I am not your
errand boy, and you heard her.
You do everything that
your boss asks you to?
Of course not, I just pretend to.
Hey, Hugo, Hugo!
The special was on special.
Only 2.99.
Know what?
I lost my appetite.
Don't cry, Hugo.
Hey, Mr. B.
What's up with him?
Inter-species communication
is fraught with challenges.
Gurjit, if I give you an address,
and I write it in big,
bold, simple letters,
do you think you could manage to find it
and send an urgent message for me?
50 bucks.
It is for my friend, Pippa.
$30?
Pippa?
Yeah, sure, 40 bucks is fine.
Good.
Ah, I get off at seven.
Payment upon completion, yes?
Uh-uh, half up front.
You want some chicken?
Smells foul.
No, half now, or you
can deliver it yourself!
Sam, too slow.
No games for you!
Pippa, did Gurjit not deliver my note?
I will strangle him.
Sam, your doctoral thesis is trivial
compared to my urgent needs.
You are becoming self-absorbed.
Where did you learn this?
Pick up, Gurjit.
(phone buzzing)
(upbeat music)
(elevator dings)
(staff chattering)
We'll have to get somebody else,
but it just feels so callous.
Arkady: Who died?
Gurjit.
What?
He died last night.
Seriously?
Yeah.
He was like a son to me.
I taught him about work, life, love.
What happened?
The police say it was an accident.
He had been drinking down at
the seawall, right near here,
and they say he hit his
head, he fell, he drowned.
My last words to him
were, "I lost my appetite"?
I mean, if I'd have known, who
knows what I would have said?
Did this happen right
after work, or was it later?
Was anybody with him?
No, nobody saw anything.
Left work by seven, dead by nine.
The humanity.
And here I was worried
about missing inventory,
and one of our family dies. (sighs)
Barbara?
Something else?
When Gurjit was hired,
there was a bit of an insurance issue.
He had hepatitis C,
so in order to get him onto our policy,
he had to sign a rider saying
he didn't drink alcohol.
Mm-hmm.
The police found him
with an empty bottle.
People have been known to lie, Barbara.
Excuse me.
Danni.
Hey, can you believe this?
I mean, what was he thinking?
A whole bottle of rum.
The guy would sit and nurse
a light beer for hours,
and all of a sudden,
he's just downing a 2-6?
Was Gurjit depressed?
Didn't you notice how happy he was?
The dimwitted always look happy.
What?
He was getting married.
He was, to whom?
Lucinda, from the spa.
The massage therapist?
Yeah.
Gurjit and Lucinda?
You know Lucinda.
Hot, sweet, flaky.
Hmm.
Sounds like a pie.
One massage, she insisted
I point my head north.
Hmm, it felt good.
You think Gurjit's death and
the hotel thefts are related?
You don't think it was an accident?
I'm not thinking anything yet.
Pippa.
Gurjit was on his way to your
house and now he is dead.
Bye-bye.
Perhaps that will get your attention.
I don't know what to say,
but, she doesn't want to go home.
No, she can stay here
as long as she wants.
Okay.
Tom, I'd like to talk to you later
about a memorial for Gurjit.
Yeah, yeah, I'd love to help out.
No rush.
Anything I can do, Lucinda?
Oh, Lucinda, it's going to be okay.
Shh, shh.
My heartfelt sympathies.
Gurjit was a very unique person.
(Lucinda sobbing)
Who are you?
Ah, Tom Mody.
I'm, I was, Gurjit's roommate.
You know, man, I just, I can't believe it.
Maybe Lucinda needs a water?
No.
Tom?
Maybe a coffee?
Tissues.
She needs a tissue.
Aww.
Aww.
I lost my fiancee.
The pain is real, as is the loss, but,
time is your friend.
I am concerned about the
nature of Gurjit's demise.
Do you mind if I ask you some questions?
Was he upset about something?
Did you ever see him drink?
Maybe when you announced your engagement.
Did he have any enemies?
Any family trouble?
Okay.
Maybe they did not approve
of your engagement?
My parents loved him.
That is nice.
And Gurjit's family?
Never met them.
They did not approve?
They lived in Phoenix.
There you go, Luce.
Maybe she's had enough.
Yes, yes, Tom is right.
For now, tears are best.
Mr. Balagan, I was looking for you.
And I have been looking for you.
You know me, I hate gossip.
Of course.
But last night, I went to talk to Hugo
about a watch I found in room 813.
One of those silly watches
where you can't even
tell the time, and, well...
Mm-hmm.
Yes?
Gurjit and Hugo were fighting.
Well, they are like father and son.
I mean fighting fighting.
Doing like this, and they
were swearing at each other.
Fighting.
(upbeat music)
You turd!
You (beep) piece of (beep).
Get off me you big (beep)!
And there were punches.
Arkady: Punches, really?
Mm-hmm.
Gentlemen.
Mm?
(fists slapping)
(grunting)
What were they arguing about?
I don't know.
I came too late, but it
was like a cowboy movie.
(upbeat music)
What time was this?
6:45.
(grunting)
(glass smashing)
Right before Gurjit got off work.
Yet Hugo said the last time
they spoke was earlier.
Mr. Balagan, did that
bully, Hugo, kill poor Gurjit?
Kill me?
You bastard!
I'm gonna beat the (beep) out
of you, you mother (beep)!
(fists slapping)
I have a puzzle to solve.
Thank you, Alcina.
(knocking on door)
Hugo: Go away!
(knocking on door)
I said go away!
(knocking on window)
Jesus, who is it!
Knock, knock!
Open the gate!
I have something for you from Masha.
What the hell are you talking about?
It's from my childhood.
A big, stupid beast is
outsmarted by a little child.
How are you holding up, Hugo?
It's a tough day for
security professionals
whenever one of our own goes down.
Mm.
Just getting Gurjit's stuff together.
With the door locked?
Mourning is private, okay?
He was... He was
like a son to you, yes.
How long did Gurjit work here?
Two years.
He trained at the best
hotel security college
on the continent.
Impressive.
Yeah, he spent a while in D.C.,
he had good references, so I hired him.
He said he was born
six blocks from here.
Yeah, but his family
moved everybody back east.
I think they live in Phoenix now.
What else?
He was a Dolphins fan.
An animal lover?
The Miami Dolphins.
The football team?
Balagan, do you live under a rock?
Happily.
I see you're left holding the bag.
Ah, it's just, Gurjit's crap.
Yet you cling to it like
a relic of Saint Nikolai.
It's nothing.
I like nothing.
Come on, Balagan, seriously.
A dead man's private effects?
You really gonna go there?
No, you are correct.
Hugo.
Which stage of grief is this?
This isn't my money.
Clearly.
I found it in Gurjit's desk.
Like father, like son, yes?
It was taped under the top drawer.
I was clearing it out
for when his uncle came.
That is a lot of money, Hugo,
for an assistant to a simpleton.
Maybe he didn't believe in banks?
Or maybe he sold the 30 cases of wine?
Maybe you should shut your trap.
Perhaps this is why the two of you
came to blows last night?
What blows?
Were you fighting
because of Barbara's audit?
Or because he wasn't giving you your cut?
Neither.
Well, you have your cut now.
I'm not a thief.
Gurjit trained at the Bill
Landers School of hotel security,
and I asked him to call Bill
to convince him to speak at
a convention I'm organizing,
the guy's a living legend,
and he wouldn't do it.
And this is why you
resorted to pugilism.
He was being a stubborn turd.
Those were your last words to him?
You have no idea where
the money came from?
Gurjit: Hey, Mr. B!
So much money, Gurjit.
But do you have it in you
to rob this hotel blind?
Is that why you're dead?
The horsie moves like this, right?
Knight.
It's called a knight.
Well, hey, you wanna
know more about me,
talk to my roommate.
Hmm.
(knocking on door)
Go away.
(knocking on door)
Pippa: I thought you wanted to see me.
Pippa?
Pippa, wait!
I apologize.
I'm sorry. (chuckles)
I can't believe it.
He was on my porch last night.
Arkady: What time?
7:30?
"Apology accepted."
Hilarious note.
He said that he wanted to
invite you to his wedding,
but they weren't going
to have it at the Huxley.
What did you say?
I told him to invite you anyway.
I can't believe he's dead.
He was starting to grow on me.
Like a barnacle, yes.
Hmm, another death you can
pretend you don't care about.
I only care about the living, Pippa.
Hmm, come.
Gurjit was drunk, but he didn't drink.
There's a theft ring
operating in the hotel.
Oh, and hidden money, and
all this makes me ask,
did he fall off the
seawall, or was he pushed?
Could this have something
to do with Rosemary?
Pippa don't ruin my day, please.
Emil Shirt said that he
met someone at the Huxley.
Maybe Gurjit was the one who paid him to...
Gurjit the inside man?
No, that's ridiculous, Pippa.
When I was talking to him,
I saw a guy in a black
car across from my house.
He was just sitting there.
So, when Gurjit left, did the car go?
It was already gone.
So then Gurjit and
the car are unrelated.
Are you becoming paranoid now?
Coming from you?
That's funny.
Where we going?
Well, you're going to the seawall.
Hopefully, you'll have
better luck than Gurjit.
My roommate moved out,
and I was about to
Craigslist for another one
when Gurjit told me
that he needed a place.
He was moving here from the east?
Yeah.
Yeah, he was a great roommate.
We were close.
I'm really going to miss him.
We were tight.
What else can you tell me about him?
Ah, his parents live in Phoenix.
No brothers and sisters.
He studied hotel security at Landers.
Worked in Washington for a little bit
before he came out here.
And he's a Dolphins fan.
Oh, right, the team.
Yes, I know all about it.
Any enemies?
Was he in trouble?
The police said it was an accident.
Maybe it was.
Tell me about Lucinda.
I don't know what to say.
Did she and Gurjit fight?
No, no, she couldn't hurt a fly.
She's a vegetarian.
So was Hitler.
What were you doing last
night between seven and nine?
Going over the numbers with Barbara.
(knocking on door)
You don't think that, um?
Do you?
Tom: Hey, right, thank you.
Thanks very much.
So, what do you do here?
I'm the hotel buyer.
Ah.
Whatever the hotel needs,
I source out and cost.
And what about the hotel thefts?
Well, it's all my fault.
I buy such nice things,
that the guests can't
help but help themselves.
Or maybe it was the hotel staff?
We found cash taped
underneath Gurjit's desk.
Ah, yeah, about that,
whenever celebrities
would stay at the hotel,
Gurjit would sell
their room numbers and stuff to paparazzi.
I think I might need to
look into Gurjit's things.
His desk and his room, and...
I thought you couldn't leave the hotel.
A king has pawns.
Right.
(snores) I like this one.
Tom: It's good.
Arkady: Don't worry, I
won't look in your room.
No, no, it's okay, why
don't you knock yourself out?
A dead guy's stuff?
I don't know.
He did not die of leprosy, Sam.
He was murdered, relax.
(police chattering)
Jason: Pippa.
Pipa: Jason.
You solving another murder?
So he was murdered.
I'll wait for the autopsy.
Arkady knew him.
He's curious.
Well, let me know when he solves it.
Hey, what are we going
to do about Sebastian Wilks?
Nothing.
Look, I told you, our
hands are tied for a while.
He killed my sister, and
I'm supposed to wait five years
for some federal task force to
pull its thumb out of its ass
and make an arrest?
Yeah.
No.
Nice pad.
(suspenseful music)
(rapping on drum pads)
Hmm, is that Gurjit's?
Yup.
Gurjit was gonna be a dad.
(knocking on door)
One sec!
(knocking on door)
Coming!
Hi.
Think you're some kinda smart guy?
No, no, no, no.
Stay outta other
people's private business,
pathetic pervert.
Oh, ah!
We are trying to send a
sympathy card to Gurjit's parents,
but no one knows how to contact them.
Maybe Lucinda.
I can't stop thinking
about that poor girl.
When I lost my husband...
Sammy.
Maybe you should talk to her.
What happened?
I got my ass kicked, literally.
Who would do such a thing?
Did you get a haircut?
Some guy just came
into Gurjit's apartment
and he started hitting me,
and he said, "Stay outta
other people's business",
"you pathetic pervert."
Poor Sammy.
Hey, what you brought?
Your hair, it's...
Oh, Gurjit was going to be a father.
Lucinda is pregnant?
I will definitely talk to her.
Maybe that's why Gurjit was drinking?
Forced into a marriage cause
of a baby he didn't want?
Possibly.
Tom did not mention that Gurjit
was going to be a father.
Maybe he was told not to tell anyone.
She's only 12 weeks.
Huh.
Browser history's been wiped.
Porn.
A guy with a fiancee's
gotta cover his tracks.
Check his recent files.
What's this?
Gurjit is a pervert.
Indeed.
You see? Porn.
Hey, that's that jerk that beat me up.
Oh, my.
That is Trent Karlson.
He's a friend of yours?
He is a famous hockey player.
Right, he plays for Toronto.
No, no, he was traded to Dallas
for draft picks and future considerations,
and that is not his wife.
His wife is a famous country singer.
Alcina, do you like hockey?
Trent is staying on the fourth floor.
They all checked in Tuesday.
Big game tomorrow, we will triumph.
Goodie.
So, Gurjit, he's not a
pervert, he's an entrepreneur.
Paparazzi, blackmail.
(upbeat music)
Maybe you wronged the wrong person?
Dance with the devil, gonna get burned.
There is more to you,
Gurjit, than I thought.
Check!
Mate.
Hmm.
I must talk to this Trent Karlson.
Mr. Balagan.
What?
Gurjit was blackmailing Trent.
Mm-hmm.
Trent went to beat him up.
Why would Trent want to beat
up somebody he already killed?
Logically, Trent has nothing
to do with killing Gurjit.
So, who am I missing?
Coffee for me.
Please.
For you, Lucinda?
No, thank you.
You sure, maybe a tea?
Do you have ginger tea?
No, sorry.
Tulsi tea?
Linden flower?
Peppermint?
It's organic.
No, thanks.
You can never be too careful.
Arkady: So, tell me about Gurjit.
He asked me out, like,
18 times before I said yes.
He wore me down, he was so cute.
He would have to.
I don't really know
what you want to know.
You're doing fine.
Just, anything.
He was born here.
His parents moved the family back east.
Gurjit studied hotel security at Landers
and then moved here.
We became friends, and I hung
out a lot with him and Tom
but, then about six months ago...
Was Gurjit happy
about becoming a father?
How did you...
I know that the timing is terrible,
but your baby will flourish
and give you a reason to live.
It is Gurjit's baby?
Of course.
Gurjit was so happy.
He was going to stay home with
Indigo when I became a nurse.
A nurse?
Yeah, I'm halfway there.
Hmm.
I'm done giving massages
to ungrateful rich a-holes.
No offense.
None taken.
So, you weren't worried about the baby?
Why would I be?
Someone with nurse's
training would obviously know
that hepatitis c complicates pregnancy.
Hep C? I don't,
Gurjit had...
Arkady: Hepatitis C.
Why wouldn't he tell me?
It is rarely communicated
in sexual relations.
Just blood, so maybe...
Another secret.
You know of more?
I have to go.
My mom's waiting.
Are you referring to Gurjit
extorting the hockey players?
Pardon?
Or selling information
to the paparazzi?
Any of...
What?
Oh, no,
(phone beeps)
Never mind.
Hmm.
Thank you, Pippa.
(upbeat music)
Does she really not know you have hep C?
Maybe.
Or maybe she's a really good actress.
Ow!
Ah!
Ah!
I cut myself.
You're using my razor?
I always do when I stay over.
I have hepatitis c!
Oh, God!
And now so do you!
Ugh.
No, it's ridiculous.
It does not explain his drunkenness.
(phone ringing)
Hugo.
What new nonsense?
Right there.
Do you...
Ah, so you must be Gurjit's uncle.
He was quite a character.
He will be remembered for a long time.
I did not get your name.
Smith, Jerry Smith.
May we have a word?
You live in?
Arizona.
Where Gurjit's parents live.
Yeah, that's right, yeah.
Could you tell me about Gurjit?
Gurjit, he was born here.
His folks moved the family out east.
They live in Phoenix now.
He studied hotel security at Landers.
He worked in Washington for a while,
and then he moved back here.
Dolphins fan.
Yeah.
Close family?
Yes.
(upbeat music)
Hey, Gurjit.
You studied at Landers, right?
Do me a big favour, ask
Bill Landers if he'll speak
at my hotel security convention.
Nope.
Why the hell not?
Stop asking me so many
questions, you Cro-Magnon moron!
Yeah, well, you're the missing dink!
Please, Hugo.
He cannot ask Bill Landers.
Why not?
Because he has never met the man.
Are you staying here at the Huxley,
in case we need to talk again?
No, I'm staying out near the airport,
but why don't you take my card.
Real estate.
That's good.
Thank you.
Who's that?
Anytime anyone says
anything about Gurjit,
they always say the same things.
Hugo, Tom, Lucinda, Uncle Jerry,
it is always the same.
He was born here, he moved
east, he's an only child,
his parents live in Phoenix,
Landers, Washington, loves Dolphins.
Yeah?
You play an alleged
sport called ultimate.
You have eight engineers as roommates.
You wash in a sink.
You have a life to draw on, Sam.
Details.
He does not.
So, why?
Because he's making it up.
And he recites it just
the way he learned it,
as does everyone else.
The question is what is he hiding from?
Maybe he's a spy.
Mm.
What country would hire Gurjit?
Absurdistan?
No, he's a criminal on the run.
Or he's future-Gurjit
fallen through the wormhole.
His Uncle would know the truth.
Why would he lie?
Either he's in on the
lie, or he's not an Uncle.
Or both?
Hello, Hugo.
Outta my face, Balagan.
You're not very chipper this evening.
Toxicology came back.
Alcohol in the blood?
No, more like blood in his alcohol.
He was .39.
That's way more than one bottle.
Yeah, and get this...
There was no alcohol in his stomach.
Hugo: Yeah.
(upbeat music)
Way to go, muffin!
You're going to be the best nurse ever.
Hmm.
Have them check for
needle marks in the arms.
They already found one.
So wait, somebody bashed
Gurjit over the head,
injected him with alcohol,
then threw him over the seawall?
Clearly, a professional job,
which means Gurjit was
involved in the theft ring.
He betrayed me, he betrayed the hotel,
he betrayed everything that we stand for.
Or maybe not.
You don't have a clue, Balagan.
You know what, Gurjit is
lucky somebody killed him,
otherwise I would have
wrung his scrawny neck.
Password isn't his password.
Try password with one s.
Nope.
Dolphins?
Tried it.
Lucinda.
We're in.
Sam, well done.
Let's see if this romantic has deleted
his browser history or not.
No, it's still here.
Let's see.
We got football, hockey,
porn, football, porn.
Porn, porn, porn.
Oh, he's got some mixer hits.
Mixer?
It's a social networking site.
Let's see the people
he's been looking at.
A lot of people named Bhatti.
Sam: Gurjit's family?
Arkady: Where do they live?
We got Miami, Tampa, Miami,
Jacksonville, Ft. Lauderdale.
Miami Dolphins.
And Gurjit's name is Bhatti.
Google Gurjit Bhatti and Miami.
See if I'm right.
Sam: No hits.
Hugo!
I'm mopping!
Stay there.
Hugo!
Since when do you mop?
Arkady: Hugo?
Where are you, Hugo?
What are you doing here?
Oh, there you are.
We've been looking for you.
What do you want?
You took too long!
I forgot!
You know, one day, Balagan,
you're gonna be bala...
(door slams)
Gone!
Danni.
Uh-huh?
Business or pleasure?
It is the art of my
life to combine the two.
Vodka and...
Milk.
Milk.
Danni, I need you to use
your considerable expertise
to see if a man named Bhatti,
matching Gurjit's description,
worked in a hotel in the Miami area,
because Gurjit is not Gurjit.
What?
Yeah, yeah.
And you think he worked
at a hotel in Miami?
Most people who run
away from their pasts
end up recreating their old lives.
He was still a Dolphins fan.
You want me to
cold-call a bunch of hotels
looking for a South Asian guy
with the last name Bhatti?
Just say you're from
the Huxley, which you are.
He's applied for a job, and
would they recommend him?
We find about Gurjit's
past, who he was,
we might find the killer.
Arkady: Danni.
Fine.
I'll do it.
Thank you, Dannichka.
Ah.
Just go.
Sam: Thanks, sorry.
(elevator dings)
Ah.
I'll have to get the next one, then.
Hey!
Hey, hey, you work for
that chess champion, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, here's my computer?
Oh, I don't have it.
I just have Gurjit's.
Cause it's gone.
(elevator dings)
I don't,
Sorry.
Hey, hold the elevator!
Thanks, bud.
(elevator dings)
Where is it?
It wasn't on the laptop,
you little skidmark.
I don't have it.
But I think I know where it is.
I want it today!
Right-o.
Okay, so I called nine hotels.
No one had heard of a Gurjit Bhatti,
but then someone said maybe
I was looking for Jag Bhatti.
Security guard, always on the
take, big flirt, Dolphins fan.
Gurjit was once Jag.
Then the guy said there
was a theft ring there,
and Jag was suspected
until he disappeared,
and then the thefts stopped.
So.
Gurjit was on the run
because he was a thief.
No.
Google Jag Bhatti.
Me?
(clicks fingers)
Sam.
He's not going to Google himself.
He was wounded in a nightclub shooting.
Two others dead.
But he was not the target,
he was just a bystander.
Witness Protection.
He was in hiding here.
So did the bad guys find him?
Possibly.
What confuses me is the method of death.
The needle suggests Lucinda, yes?
Why would she kill Gurjit?
Well, she did love him.
I have not found a convincing reason,
but there are people out there now
who might want to kill Gurjit.
How did they know he was here?
What about the uncle?
He's either one of those people,
or he's the agent handling his case.
And he's not going to tell us.
Who would know the truth?
I wanted to inform you
that my suspicions have
been substantiated.
Gurjit's death was no accident.
Someone killed him?
I'm working on two theories.
You are in nursing school, yes?
Part-time.
Were you trained in
intravenous injection?
Yes.
Gurjit was injected with alcohol
to make his fall look accidental.
Oh, my God.
Police did not tell you this?
I'm going to be sick.
Maybe they think you're a suspect.
I am going to be sick.
Was it you?
Would you like a pail, or?
How could you think such a thing?
I loved Gurjit.
I didn't kill him!
All right, all right, theory two.
He was in Witness Protection.
Pail?
Would you like a pail?
Well, maybe that is why
the police did not tell you
he was murdered.
They think you don't know
about the Witness Protection,
but you do, right?
He told me right after he proposed.
Right after I said yes.
He was an eyewitness.
His trial has been delayed and delayed.
That's all he said.
Why did you not mention this earlier?
I'm not supposed to tell anyone.
But did you?
No!
No one knows, I swear!
I'm going to be sick.
Huh.
(tires squealing)
(Pippa panting)
Are you okay?
You'd better watch where you're stepping.
No one is trying to kill you, Pippa.
You weren't there.
Pedestrians are
struck on a daily basis.
It was Sebastian Wilks.
Pippa, you've only seen
a tiny picture of him.
It was him.
The car was the same one
sitting outside my door
when Gurjit was there.
Sebastian Wilks killed Gurjit,
just like he killed my sister.
Gurjit's murder has
nothing to do with Rosemary.
He was in Witness Protection.
Are you serious?
Come in.
Come in, we're working on the puzzle.
Come.
Maybe it was bad luck.
Maybe someone connected
to the Miami bad guys
was here and saw Gurjit.
I don't like that answer.
Sam: Why?
We cannot solve it.
Well, the police can.
Don't hold your breath.
It could also have been
someone doing it for a bounty.
Bad guys putting up a reward.
There's nothing we
can do about that either.
Sam: Lucinda?
I don't think so.
Well, there's rewards other than money.
Yeah, like getting revenge on a guy
that kicked the crap out of you twice.
Listen, whoever exposed Gurjit
knew he was in Witness
Protection, and who knew that?
Who sold him out?
Barbara didn't know that.
Hugo didn't know that.
Only Lucinda knew that.
Maybe someone overheard
Gurjit telling Lucinda.
Lucinda: Witness Protection?
(upbeat music)
Gurjit: Yeah, in Miami.
I saw this guy shoot up a club.
Took a bullet in my ass.
Oh, my God, you poor thing.
(amerous groaning)
How long will this go on?
All night long.
So kill Gurjit,
and maybe we can finish our game in peace.
It's not the game I want to win.
(phone dialing)
Hello, Miami?
Yeah, spread the word.
You know the guy everyone's
been looking for?
The one in Wit Pro?
He's at the Huxley.
But Lucinda's pregnant.
Yeah, and with Gurjit out of the way,
she'll be desperate, too.
So, apparently, are you.
It's love, man.
Maybe Gurjit's
roommate coveted Lucinda.
Tom?
How are you going to prove that?
Ooh!
(knocking on door)
Wait, wait, wait.
I got what you want.
Then gimme it.
Don't make me put
you on injured reserve.
You got the wrong roommate's laptop.
This is the one you want.
I'll trade you?
Oh, I just need the hard drive.
See, isn't this a better
way to resolve conflict?
Arkady: Samuel?
Did you hack the log-in screen?
Nope, figured out the password.
Lucinda.
Yup.
Photos.
Lucinda, Lucinda,
Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda.
Tom's obsessed.
Very good.
Sam, very good.
You have to come, Hugo.
You knew Gurjit better than most of us.
Turns out I didn't know
that little twerp at all.
What about you, Mr. Balagan?
Are you coming to Gurjit's memorial?
It's about to start.
First, I have some news for Hugo.
Hugurt, your friend, Gurjit,
worked in a hotel in Miami.
He was being investigated for some thefts,
and after he left, the thefts stopped.
So he was behind thefts
at another hotel, too?
That's your news?
I don't know, maybe the real
thief used his departure
as an excuse to stop
from being caught, but...
Okay, okay, so what you're saying
is maybe Gurjit was a
thief, and maybe he wasn't.
You're a retired genius, right?
My point is that Gurjit
was not who he said he was.
No kidding, Sherlock.
He was in Witness Protection.
He witnessed a crime.
He was trying to put the bad guys away.
Gurjit?
Jag, his real name was Jag.
Jag Bhatti, he's a hero.
So, wait a second.
That's why he wouldn't call Bill Landers
from the hotel security school,
because he never met him.
Of course.
That makes sense now.
Poor Gurjit.
If he was in Wit Pro,
could be the scumbags caught up with him.
Hugo, I think you
may be on to something,
and you know who may have betrayed him?
Who?
Tom.
His roommate?
Arkady: He was in
love with Lucinda, too.
So, Tom dropped the dime on Gurjit?
Do you have proof?
No, but you can tell
your homicidal friends
at the police department to
start with this hard drive.
It contains pictures of Lucinda.
And bad poetry.
Bad poetry's not a crime.
Unfortunately, but
accessory to murder is.
He probably doesn't even
realize he's responsible,
but I suspect that Tom
led the killers to Gurjit.
You suspect?
So you're guessing.
That is why I prefer
chess over people puzzles.
In chess, there is always a right answer.
Someone wins.
Well, Balagan, you know how
cops deal with uncertainty?
They lie.
Watch how a pro works.
Excuse me.
This is for little Gurjit.
Indigo.
Whatever.
Listen, Tom, I need to
talk to you for a second.
(quietly murmuring)
Hey, get!
Ah, Gurjit,
(gentle music)
You look well, death suits you.
Thanks, Mr. B.
And thanks for all your
help in solving this.
Because of you, Indigo won't
think I'm a clumsy drunk.
That's true, you'll
be remembered as a hero.
And now Tom can't play dad to my kid.
That would have been sick.
So, tell me, were you the hotel thief?
Does it matter now?
Funny thing about all my lies.
It was finally telling the
truth that got me killed.
Well, I'll see you soon.
Not too soon.
Whoa!
Who is this?
Who are you?
Gentlemen, I am beginning
to lose my temper!
I must warn you, I bruise easily!
Come on, at least can we
not take the elevator?
Gentlemen, I am not going
to Gurjit's memorial.
Tell me what this is about.
I will cooperate, but please
tell me what you want!
Please!
Please, I beg of you, you cannot do this.
I have a medical condition!
Look at me, look at me!
Look at me, please!
Don't!
Don't do this!
No, no!
No!
(gasping)
I'm here to prevent another tragedy.
Back to hotel.
Calm down, you're inside.
Hotel!
You know who I am, Mr. Balagan?
That's right, I'm Sebastian Wilks.
You killed Rosemary.
No.
I make things happen.
Get him under control now!
(Arkady yelling)
I will kill you!
Calm down.
Listen, a guy came to me,
needed something taken care of.
I did what I do.
Now that guy's dead.
I don't know why.
Maybe he made a mistake.
I don't know, I don't care.
It was just a deal.
You see your friend, Pippa, here?
If she doesn't stop, if you don't stop,
I'll have to do what I do, Pro Bono.
Don't make me do that.
Your little pal, Sam?
That maid?
That sexy little bartender
who slices your pickles just right?
Do we have an understanding here?
Do we?
Enjoy the fresh air.
(tires squealing)
(somber music)
(Arkady gasping)
(upbeat music)