Endgame (2011): Season 1, Episode 8 - The White Queen - full transcript
At the threat of being thrown out of the hotel, Balagan is forced to help Vivian Huxley, heiress of the Huxley hotel chain, find her missing son, Kitch. It turns out Kitch's parents don't know him as well as they think - nor does he know them as well as he thinks. With the clock ticking, Balagan discovers more than just the whereabouts of Kitch: he uncovers a far more interesting puzzle of past affairs and infidelities.
(tires squealing)
(wood clattering)
(screaming)
No, no!
♪ I could've made a change ♪
♪ I might've known you had fun ♪
♪ None alive ♪
♪ I sat at home all night ♪
♪ Bask in the loneliness ♪
Arkady: B1 to D3.
D1 to E2.
D3 to F1.
♪ Slowly, deep inside ♪
Keep going.
Keep going.
I thought you said you
were only good at chess.
Next time, we're playing
blindfolded Scrabble.
Perhaps.
♪ I didn't hear a sound ♪
♪ Only the sail on the ground ♪
(sirens blaring)
Starfruit!
(dramatic music)
Starfruit!
The white queen, here?
Now?
Starfruit!
Starfruit, everyone!
I'm on it.
Danni, your best move.
Barbara: Starfruit!
Crap, Starfruit!
Really?
Is A6 to B7.
Fingerprints.
Come on, people, move it,
let's go, double-time!
We've been through this drill.
30 seconds, let's wrap it up!
Go, go, go, go, go!
April.
Barbara.
I could've used a heads-up.
Fell through the cracks,
we're having some challenges.
What are you doing here?
Her birthday party in Palo Alto...
Is happening here.
Oh.
Good.
You win.
Danni.
Sore loser.
There's your whack-job right there.
Oh, well, spoils to the victor.
Hmm?
(grunts)
(ominous music)
(elevator dings)
(ominous music)
Stay on the perimeter.
(elevator dings)
(sighing)
Mr. Balagan, I'm Bern Schenk,
head of personal security.
Personal security for whom?
My son, Christopher, has vanished,
and you are going to find him.
Am I?
And why is that?
Because I'm Vivian
Huxley, and this is my hotel.
(dramatic music)
I'm Vivian's husband, Robert Spiro.
Christopher's dad.
Is it Christopher Huxley-Spiro
or Christopher Spiro-Huxley?
Just Huxley.
She wouldn't let me give
my name to my own son.
I detest hyphens.
Besides, my grandfather opened
the first Huxley in Chicago,
and my father turned it
into an international brand,
so my name is a legacy.
April.
Hello, April.
Sorry, Dad, I traded the
Porsche for a four by four.
More my style, don't you think?
We gave Kitch,
Christopher, the Porsche
when he was accepted
for his MBA at Stanford.
Let's go.
Robert: She has trouble sitting still.
It's been two months
since we've seen Kitch,
so the plan was for us
all of us to be together
at my birthday party.
Light.
But he hasn't returned
any of my calls or emails
in three days, and...
Perhaps he's in bed with the flu.
Nobody has seen him at home.
With whom does he live?
No one.
With everyone.
He lives at the Huxley Palo Alto.
Kitch grew up in
Huxley's around the world.
Hotels are his home.
A kindred spirit.
Grime.
And now he's vanished into thin air.
Security: She's on the move.
Security: Copy that.
(elevator dings)
A 24-year-old man doesn't
call you back in a few days,
and this is a crisis?
A mother knows.
April.
The police found his truck yesterday here,
800 miles from where it should be.
Either it was stolen in Palo Alto
and then driven here,
or Kitch drove it here,
and then it was stolen.
Two police departments in two cities
and neither claiming jurisdiction.
It just baffles me.
(elevator dings)
(sighs)
Employee: Good afternoon,
Huxley, can you hold, please?
Please tell me someone checked to see
if her son had stayed at this hotel.
I did, Kitch wasn't on the books.
Rust.
We're going through every hotel
between here and Palo Alto.
He has friends here?
Family, business associates?
None that we know of.
His girlfriend Deirdre's worried sick.
Chair.
Yeah, but she's all the
way back in New York, so.
You trust her?
Despite the hyphen,
Deirdre Knebworth-Hall is an angel,
the perfect match for Kitch.
Such a devoted mother.
I assume you were the
last to speak with him?
No, that would be April.
Two days ago.
Kitch called to ask about plans
for Ms. Huxley's birthday party.
He sounded depressed?
Desperate?
No, normal.
You have no idea where
he was when he went missing.
You have no police support,
and there is no motive
for a disappearance.
You have solved
some very difficult problems, Mr. Balagan.
I want you to find Kitch.
(blows party horn)
Happy Birthday, Vivian!
(blowing horn)
I've found your son!
Sadly, he is dead.
Dead, no, no!
You have failed me.
Throw him out of my hotel!
No, no!
I am afraid I must decline.
You...
Don't worry, ma'am.
I'm your guy.
Hugo Lum, head of hotel security.
I've got the contacts.
Border services, local police.
I'll find your boy for you.
(phone ringing)
April Delman.
Oh, this one should be a seven.
See, you're in good hands.
Mayor Wilson.
So, tell me, Bob,
what passes for a police
force in this town,
one man and a horse?
(mellow music)
Sam: Why'd you turn down the job?
You don't build a latrine in
the middle of your tent, Sam.
You do if it's a latrine tent.
(sighs)
We're stuck planning a 50th
birthday party from scratch.
The least you could do is find
the birthday girl's missing kid.
Despite his unfortunate nickname,
Kitch is a grown man.
He does not have to punch
a clock with his mother.
Oh, well, if you were on the job,
maybe you could tell her that.
Okay, everyone can stop panicking.
I got this thing wrapped up.
See, you don't need me.
Hugo is on the case.
(chuckles)
I talked to my boys downtown.
Got pics of everything
left in Kitch's truck.
Now, to the untrained, or Russian eye,
this probably just looks
like a random collection
of outdoorsy junk,
but the veteran homicide detective
sees the one important detail...
Keys left in the car?
Well, if I tell you
there's a twist coming,
you're gonna look for a twist.
Now, the way I see it,
Kitch was driving to campus
and got grabbed from
right behind the wheel.
(scoffs) Kidnapping, really?
Seriously?
Yeah.
The son of a hotel heiress?
Someone hit the jackpot.
Oh, okay, well,
then how did his truck
get all the way up here?
Easy, some doofus happens by the truck,
keys are still in the ignition,
says, hey, a free ride outta town,
meanwhile, poor Kitch is
probably tied up in some basement
way down in Californ-I-a.
Do campers often collect rocks?
Rich yahoos.
They're always decorating
with crap like that.
Scored a few from my boys downtown.
I figured the white queen
might like a piece of her son
until we get him back.
Are you sure you will?
Uh-huh.
There'll be a ransom note
coming any day, you watch.
Yippee-ki-yay.
Kidnapping, yikes.
We'll see.
I thought you weren't working on this.
I'm not working on this.
But if I was,
I would start with the knowledge
that the Huxley hotels
are a home for Kitch,
and if he did come to town, he...
He would have stayed here.
I thought you weren't working on this.
I'm not, I'm just curious.
Okay, guests who paid cash.
Ansen Chelderknopf, Ravi Mariwalla,
Tarlton Fiske, Sherry Smith.
Tarlton Fiske?
Room 801.
Paid cash for two nights.
The room was turned over
to other guests yesterday.
What, do you think that...
Anything strike you about
the name Tarlton Fiske?
Yeah, who would name their son Tarlton?
No one, it is an alias.
It's Robert Bloch's pen name.
He wrote a charming story
about a young man who owns a motel
and takes orders from his
mummified, tyrannical mother.
You mean psycho?
Yes, a clue within
a clue, within a clue.
(elevator dings)
So, Kitch registered at
the hotel as Tarlton Fiske
and paid cash so no one
would know he was here?
If he did, I'm really
starting to like this young man.
So we should find Alcina
and see if anything was left in the room.
Correction.
(elevator dings)
You should.
(soft music)
(knocks)
This is what was left in 801.
Oh.
And this is for your Nieta's baptism.
Gracias.
Bali, hmm.
No name.
Five-star hotels.
The owner of this book is
looking to spend some money.
The owner of this book
stayed at the Huxley Palo Alto.
(sighs)
Under-ripe.
What is that smell?
April.
You haven't taken up
smoking again, have you?
(coughs)
I'm so sorry, it's
just the stress, I've...
No, you're right,
I've been thoughtless.
Please, take a few days off
while I search for my missing child.
I'll take care of the cognac.
Thank you.
So, I'm not sure what we are
to take from these photos.
We have a working theory
that your son was kidnapped in Palo Alto.
Vivian: What?
Ransom should be forthcoming.
I put in calls to the Palo Alto P.D.
Vivian...
Please, call me Ms. Huxley.
April?
April!
Why must I scream your name?
Where is Bern?
I want him to call the police.
I want a door-to-door search.
Someone might be holding
Kitch in Palo Alto.
Only a fool would think so.
What?
Your son was here, in this hotel.
Vivian: When?
Two days ago.
He checked in under an alias
and paid cash.
However, he left this behind.
What?
Is planning a trip to Bali.
To Bali?
So, so, so, what does this mean?
Is it not obvious what this means?
No.
It means, Vivian, I am taking the job.
So, Deirdre, you're in New York.
Christopher is in California.
How did East meet West?
Last year, at the
spring regatta in Florida.
We were both a bit tipsy,
one thing led to another...
Have you noticed anything
different about Christopher,
something that might shed
light on his disappearance?
He was on top of the world.
Loads of energy, super upbeat.
He'd dropped a few pounds.
Maybe a cleanse?
Any thoughts on why he was here?
No idea.
The depth of your
relationship is inspiring.
Does this mean anything to you?
It's a stone.
No, it's a piece of a puzzle.
So, I spoke to Kitch's
friends on campus.
He quit crew, starts missing seminars,
and then skips mid-terms.
Oh, business school drop-out.
I'm sure his mother will
be happy to hear that.
Perhaps it has something to do with
his pending trip to Bali?
Yeah, that jives with my Intel.
The word is jibe, Hugo, with a "b".
It's a sailing term.
Hugo: Ah, why don't you
just jibe back to ruskieland?
Any ransom notes yet?
Forget about the
ransom note, all right?
My buddy at the border said that
Christopher Huxley crossed
two days ago, alone,
and when he did,
his car was searched top to bottom.
Why?
He was flagged.
He had a drug conviction.
Three years ago, Vegas.
They found a bag of cocaine
in the glove compartment.
So he's just like any other rich boy.
Except he does have a quality, doesn't he?
I'll tell you what quality.
He's planning a trip to Bali, right?
Where's Bali?
Indonesia.
What's in Indonesia?
Orangutans?
Drugs.
Kitch was losing weight.
He had lots of energy.
He was skipping classes, yes?
Mm, yeah, could be a coke addiction.
No, no, no, no, no.
What if he just wasn't into drugs,
what if he was into drugs,
you know what I mean?
Could have been applying
his business school smarts
to a drug-smuggling operation.
Drug smuggling, Hugo?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm, I prefer the orangutan theory.
Oh, yeah?
Well, I'll bet you we
find Kitch's severed head
in a ditch in Arizona any day now.
Well, I bet we don't.
You watch.
So, what next?
We follow the little white lines.
(laughing)
Oh, Mr. Balagan!
This is my mother, Celine.
Ah.
A pleasure.
He's helping to find Kitch.
Oh, I don't want to get in the way,
it's just that she comes
back here so seldom.
I did not know you were from
this rain-soaked wasteland.
April?
Vivian's asking for you.
This is my mom, Celine.
Robert Spiro.
Your daughter's a godsend.
(chuckles)
You know what?
Take your mom out to lunch,
put it in on the corporate card.
Are you sure?
Yes, go, go!
You've met her mother before.
No, just in April's photos.
You often look at pictures of April?
How's the search going?
I just have one question for you.
Are you so ashamed of your son
that you felt it necessary
to withhold information?
Ashamed?
What, no, we couldn't be prouder.
Proud that he was once arrested
with cocaine in his glove box?
No.
Well.
This can't be real.
Kitch has been showing
signs of addiction.
What?
Yes, he dropped out of school.
Robert?
Darling, don't just sit
there like a sock puppet.
What is going on?
♪ Robert knows something
that Vivian doesn't ♪
No.
No, I mean, if he's dropped
out of school, it's news to me.
What about the cocaine?
Yes, Robert, tell us about the cocaine.
I got a call from
one of Kitch's friends.
He was partying in Vail.
Smashed up a chalet and disappeared.
I found him in a motel, alone, strung out.
Strung out?
I checked him into rehab in Colorado.
Excellent back to nature program.
He's been clean and sober for two years!
Kitch didn't want to disappoint you.
I am his mother.
And I'm his father!
Oh, keep your voice
down, we're in public.
Our son has a drug problem!
(laughing)
Will you sit down now?
Hugo.
Why the long face, we're having fun here.
I don't want anyone to panic.
The police pulled a body from the inlet.
Knapsack full of rocks.
They'd like you to come to the morgue.
(gasps)
(soft music)
Barbara: Ms. Huxley,
can I get you anything?
Yes, a mock-up of the cake design.
Let me see it.
Well, I canceled it.
Well, I didn't think,
given the circumstances
that you would want to celebrate.
You canceled it?
If I can't trust you with a simple cake,
how can I trust you with an entire hotel?
Well, I'm sorry, I just assumed that...
What, that I would like to disappoint
300 of my dearest friends?
Give me your key card.
You're done.
Cancel this, see her out.
April?
Get rid of all these hideous white flowers
and call my guests.
The party's off.
Mr. Spiro?
It's not him.
The boy pulled from the water
was some other parents' son.
We don't need the cognac here anymore.
If you don't find Kitch soon,
we are all going to pay.
But here comes Sam with good news.
Well, news.
There's no Huxley hotel in Bali,
but I called all the hotels
in Kitch's travel guide,
and one of them has a
room reserved next week
for Tarlton Fiske.
It's Kitch's alias.
The reservation was made
by his personal travel agent.
This is a list of all the
flights from the past year.
He's been flying everywhere.
Everywhere except for New York,
which is where his girlfriend lives.
Something is keeping him from school,
keeping him from his girlfriend,
and it's intensifying as time goes on.
Well, don't yell,
but Hugo might be right.
Maybe he was smuggling drugs.
Nyet.
He was in Buenos Aires.
Sam: Cheap cocaine?
Yeah, maybe, but that's weird
because Vivian and Robert were there, too.
It was a polo championship.
It was the corporate newsletter,
it was a big spread.
So wait, Kitch was in Argentina
the same time as his parents?
Three weeks ago,
but they said they have
not seen him in two months,
so they obviously did
not know he was there.
Or one of them is working with Kitch
in the drug business.
Maybe there's more than one reason
why they call her the white queen!
Enough!
I should throw you both
in the pit with Hugo.
Well, what do you think then?
I think this family
is an onion of lies.
And I'm going to peel them.
(cell phone dings)
Pippa requests an audience.
Curious.
How are you?
Busy, how are you?
Terrible.
Have a seat.
Alcina.
So, what brings you?
I've been talking to everyone
who saw Rosemary's shooting.
Ah, yes, like Sisyphus,
pushing the rock up the hill forever.
Ark, the guy who confessed
to pulling the trigger...
Emil Shirt, the false confession, yes.
Yeah, he's dying of cancer, right?
Well, he was just
transferred to a hospital,
and I'm gonna try and sneak in.
So, you're going to confront Emil Shirt
and expose his lies, Pippa?
Yeah.
Alcina heard that I was
talking to staff here.
I was there.
Where?
I saw the shooting.
I'm sorry I never said.
I didn't want to upset you.
You saw Rosemary?
I was coming for the start of my shift.
(ominous music)
(gunshots blasting)
(ominous music)
Before the shooting,
I was sitting in the park with my coffee.
The car, the one that came and did it,
it was parked on the street,
waiting.
For a signal from the spotter.
This confirms it.
The guy wasn't driving around
looking for Greg's car.
It wasn't road rage.
It was an assassination.
I told the police.
And they buried it.
You bring a Bible, wear a cross.
The police will think
you're one of those nuts
that goes room to room bothering patients.
Alcina.
Thank you.
(soft music)
♪ For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
♪ For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
♪ For she's a ♪
(laughing)
Uh-huh?
Just the Russian I'm looking for.
It's my birthday.
Well, shall we sing together?
Yes.
♪ For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
♪ For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
♪ For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
(sighs)
So, when was the last time
you talked to your mother?
1992.
Why, is she dead?
Far from it.
I send my parents money...
But we are strangers.
So, how did you end up
living in this sad Chekhov play?
In the original Russian,
Chekhov plays are comedies.
Oh.
Like your son, I was a drop-out.
I fled the chess academy
into which my parents had
worked so hard to put me.
I wonder how they reacted.
They felt I had betrayed them.
Yes.
So you, what,
cut them out of your life,
and now you have no family?
On the contrary.
I now have the luxury to choose my family.
Oh, so where are they all?
Your husband.
Have you noticed him giving
your assistant, April,
a great deal of dictation?
Oh, it's not that
he's screwing the help.
Please, that's inevitable.
It's just that he's being
so damn indiscreet about it.
How long?
Oh, I don't know, forever.
He's been her mentor for years.
He keeps just promoting her
and promoting her through the ranks
until finally she becomes
our personal assistant.
And yet you have not fired her.
Do you know how many
deeply stupid assistants
I have been through?
No, April stays.
Ms. Huxley?
Oh, well.
Here comes Bernsy to check up on me.
Just wanted to make sure
someone wasn't getting a little too...
Too what?
Messy.
My son is missing!
And none of you are
doing anything about it.
We'll find him, Vivian.
Ms. Huxley, excuse me.
(sighs)
(chuckles)
Bernsy's been with me
a quarter of a century.
Sometimes he forgets himself.
I told you.
Screwing the help's inevitable.
(puckering)
Ms. Huxley.
I need more information.
Or better motivation, perhaps?
Listen, you find Kitch,
and I will comp you your
next six months here.
That would be very generous.
But if you fail?
I'm throwing you out with the trash.
Understood?
Let's go.
(soft music)
I saw the trap 10 moves ahead,
and still I fell for this gambit.
(snapping fingers)
What? What?
Be a gentleman, hold the bag!
Sorry.
The white queen is going
to toss me off the board.
Not if you find her son.
What do you have so far?
Kitch was in recovery,
but then he fell back into addiction.
Why?
So it would seem.
What were the signs?
He was losing weight, high
energy, skipping classes.
It could be love.
Doesn't he have a girlfriend?
Mm-hmm.
The oldest addiction.
He could have been in love.
But not with his girlfriend.
So, you met Kitch at the regatta,
but alcohol was not involved.
Kitch has been sober for
the past two years, yes?
Well, that's how I remember it.
(tutting)
Deirdre.
Help me find him.
Tell me the truth.
We hit it off bitching
about our mothers.
We cooked up a relationship.
Arkady: And why would you do that?
My roommate isn't my roommate,
she's my girlfriend.
And Kitch is gay as well?
Deirdre: I assumed so.
Well, if Kitch is
gay, there's always Bern.
Handsome older guy, young pretty boy.
The bodyguard?
I'm afraid not, Vivian
is sleeping with him.
(laughs) No, no.
Bern's been out forever.
No.
Really.
What, the corporate newsletter?
Nico, gossip waiter.
Kitch's cell phone
records finally arrived.
(sighs)
Day before the truck was found,
he contacted Ms. Huxley's assistant.
To ask about the birthday party.
Yeah, around five p.m.
But then there's a bunch
of calls right after that.
So, I checked them out.
A couple of prank calls,
and then one to a sex line,
so, obviously, Kitch didn't make those.
The car thief did.
Kitch left his phone in the truck.
Yeah, which means that the last person
that Kitch contacted was
Ms. Huxley's assistant.
Wait, April has started smoking again,
and she's been eating
a great deal of cake.
So...
I've been there, it's Dumpsville.
Perhaps Kitch is not gay.
He was?
April and Kitch, could be.
So, find out what she's hiding.
Do your bartender thing.
(knocking)
Room service.
I didn't order any.
I have a really good story.
It's about this one time
I dated a rock star.
Oh, we had VIP everything, private jets.
I totally thought he was gonna marry me,
and then, he just dumped me
for some dumb-ass debutante.
I spent six weeks of my life
at the bottom of a vat
of Haagen-Dazs, which...
Oh, yeah.
So, to heartbreak?
I'm not, could you just
please leave?
April.
We all know that Kitch's relationship
with Deirdre was a cover.
We know Kitch was in love with you.
(scoffs) Do you?
I knew he was trouble.
I tried to keep myself
from falling for him,
but he was just so open.
And good.
And persistent.
But you kept it a secret.
I'm not part of their world.
Not really.
Vivian would have lost her mind.
Well, how serious was it?
We were gonna open a wilderness resort
here on the West Coast,
after we got married.
You were gonna elope in Bali.
Then what was Kitch doing
all the way up here?
My mom lives on the North Shore.
Kitch was going to ask for her blessing.
Die-hard romantic, eh?
Yeah, I thought so.
But then he phoned me.
Hammered.
He said it was a mistake
and he never wanted to see me again.
Why, what did your mom say to him?
She never saw him.
He chickened out.
So, no.
Kitch did not love me.
Emil Shirt?
He's got maybe days left.
He's totally doped up.
I told him I was a hospital chaplain,
and he invited me right in.
Perfect.
I asked him if he wanted any help
making peace with God.
You know, for the murder he confessed to.
He said there was nothing
for God to forgive.
He never killed anyone.
Hmm.
But...
But he will not recant his
confession with the police.
He made it for money.
His kids are gonna get a
big payday when he dies.
Who, though, who is paying?
He refused to say.
All I could get out of him was...
Ark, get this.
He met them here, at the Huxley.
Ark, someone at this hotel
was involved in Rosemary's murder.
Or they simply met here at the hotel.
(phone rings)
Many people meet at the hotel.
Pippa: Yeah, maybe.
Yes, Danni.
I'll be right there.
Right where?
Pippa, what you're talking about is...
No, you can't ignore this.
This hotel isn't safe.
You know who you sound like now?
You sound like me.
Oh, jeez.
I'm sorry I didn't tell
anyone about Kitch and me.
I just couldn't.
It still does not explain
what happened to him.
Well, when I saw the
pebbles, I got scared.
They're from the beach at my mom's place.
Then when they pulled
the body from the water,
and the guy's knapsack
full of rocks, I just...
You thought Kitch did the same thing.
Well, he was a drug addict.
It's over, April.
I never want to see you again.
I never want to see anyone!
Excuse me, but why not?
I never loved April.
I'm incapable of loving anyone.
I don't even deserve to live!
So you collected a bag of pebbles
from the nearby beach to drown yourself.
Wait a sec,
maybe I collected the
pebbles before I was upset.
And why would you do that?
Because they're pretty!
(screaming)
It is pretty.
Perhaps Kitch wanted to
bring you back a memento.
What do you mean?
This pebble.
He went to your mother
with the full intention of
asking for her blessing.
Perhaps something happened
that made him change his mind.
No, she never saw him.
Or your mother lied to
you and Kitch was there.
(mellow music)
Does that look familiar?
Well, I suppose it's
from our beach, yes,
but Kitch never came to see me.
Right before he disappeared,
Kitch called April, drunk.
Something had happened
to make him break two years of sobriety
and your daughter's heart.
Nothing to do with me.
Something to do with
his father perhaps?
Robert recognized you.
(laughs) We've never met.
And yet he gave your
daughter preferential treatment.
Do you hold something over his head?
Coming here was a mistake.
Is there a lie in Robert's past?
Did he kill someone?
Please.
He's in love with your daughter.
Of course not!
Why does that thought
upset you so much?
It doesn't.
You love him.
No.
But you once did.
Yes, you do know Robert.
He is April's father.
Right, Celine?
And you told Kitch he
could not marry April
because they are brothers and sisters.
He asked for my blessing.
Arkady: Mm-hmm.
I went into shock.
It just came out.
And that's when he fell
off the wagon and disappeared.
Robert...
Oversaw renovations at this hotel.
I waitressed at a cafe around the corner.
He came in a lot, said he liked the pie.
And only you and Robert
know that he is April's father?
He was married to Vivian.
He gave me enough money so I'd stay quiet.
Yes, and yet, you
did not stay so quiet.
I raised her on my own.
But when April finished school,
she had no work, no direction.
I broke down and called
Robert for one favor.
Let me guess.
He placed her at the Huxley Hotel,
but he wanted to get to know his daughter,
and so gradually, and over
time, he promoted her closer,
but tragically, it was
also closer to Kitch.
You can't tell anyone
Kitch came to see me.
Please.
(door clicks)
Just because you have a key-card,
doesn't mean you can stick
it in any slot you want!
What is it?
Been sent to get a progress
report on the missing kid.
Any news?
No, I'm afraid not.
Well, in that case, it is my pleasure
to enforce Ms. Huxley's directive.
Eviction-ay.
Dasvidaniya.
Arkady: (claps) Hey!
Those are $10,000, be careful with them!
Okay, we really need to find Kitch.
Celine says he came to see her
between 4:30 and five.
Those are my flowers, not the hotel's!
He called April at five, already drunk.
Get to Celine's house.
Find the closest place to find a drink.
Sam: Okay, cool.
What are you gonna do?
(mellow music)
You can't take him out of the hotel.
He has a medical condition!
I know.
That's why I've booked the car
straight to the cuckoo house.
(phone rings)
(sighs)
What took you so long?
Well, I had to check a
few places, but I found it.
Kitch was drunk in 15 minutes,
got kicked out right at five.
That's when he would have called April
to break up with her,
and then he would have kept drinking.
Trust me.
Sam: More bars?
No, he was too drunk to get served.
Find the nearest liquor store.
Okay, it's time to go.
Hey, don't touch him!
Danni, Danni.
It will be all right.
Hugo.
I concede.
After you.
Hugo: Hey, you son of a...
What the, get out of the way!
(giggling)
Any harm that befalls me,
physical or psychic,
will return to you tenfold
in the form of a lawsuit!
I'm sorry but I just
can't abide failure,
and I won't have it
wafting around the hotel.
I thought it was the moldy carpets.
Dear, dear, dear.
Now, if you would like a sedative
to help you deal with the outside world,
speak to my assistant.
(laughing)
Hugo.
Yes?
Hugo, what about that giant I.O.U.?
Ah, you got it on you?
(laughs) Let's go, boys.
No!
Pasaran!
(speaking in foreign language)
Samuel's trying to call
you, he sent photos.
Look, Mr. Balagan.
(phone beeping)
(mellow country music)
Need a ride, pal?
Where you heading?
Alaska.
Alaska?
No, I don't think so.
Where you heading, pal?
Find a motel.
Drink myself to death.
(groans)
Soon as the world stops spinning.
(groans)
Hmm.
Hey, kid, where you going?
Nature, man.
Only place I'm happy.
Drunk people shouldn't
wander off into the woods
to keep drinking.
Whatever happened,
Kitch set off on foot
from the liquor store.
What liquor store?
Ms. Huxley!
If you will be so kind
as to return my bags to my suite,
I will tell you where you
can launch your search
that will help you find your son.
And all you need is a dog that sniffs.
(elevator dings)
(sighs)
Hmm.
Kitch.
Hey, guys.
Oh, my darling baby boy!
Are you all right?
Kitch: Yeah, I'm okay, Mom, I'm okay.
Vivian: Boopsie, what happened?
Could everyone just leave
April and me alone for a bit?
What?
April, why?
What the hell is going on?
It's between us, Mom.
But I am your mother,
I have a right to know.
April and me, alone.
Now.
(soft music)
She wouldn't even let me
give my name to my own son!
I've worked for
Vivian, I mean Ms. Huxley,
for a quarter of a century.
Were you always gay?
Hmm.
(laughs)
It is a comedy.
Your son wants to tell you of a tragedy,
but I think everyone here
will prefer the Russian version.
No, no, let me just
talk to April alone.
Shh!
So, your son and your
assistant are in love.
You're...
Alas, Kitch discovered
that your husband, his father,
is also April's father.
Disaster, but wait!
Vivian had had an affair with Bern,
before he came out.
You'd better watch yourself.
And Kitch was the
product of that affair.
What?
What?
What?
Oh, God.
Therefore, your son and your assistant
do not share the same father,
and they can, indeed, be together.
Discuss.
Did anyone get left in a
handbag at a train station?
(chuckles)
I'm sure she's gonna let you stay.
Messengers do not always
fare well with royalty.
Oh, well, here comes your answer.
Danni.
So, how do you like your birthday present?
(chuckles)
Well, family dinners are
going to be complicated.
But not boring.
Kitch and April?
Are still going to Bali.
Arkady: To elope?
To process.
Well, I am off for a swim.
And then dinner.
In...
My suite?
Ah.
Your suite...
Is comped for the next six months.
(mellow music)
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Oh, Ms. Huxley.
One more thing.
(knocking)
Ms. Stilwell.
So glad you decided to
cut short your sabbatical.
So glad it was cut short for me.
It had nothing to do with me.
Of course.
French cuffs must be
pressed with precision.
Try again.
I am not going to...
Arkady: And so.
Look.
Here she is.
Arkady: Aww.
Here she is getting cake on her dress.
Here she is opening your present.
Oh, she loves the Russian dolls.
Mm, you're welcome.
Her birthday is in six months.
Maybe you will come.
Perhaps.
(soft graceful music)
(wood clattering)
(screaming)
No, no!
♪ I could've made a change ♪
♪ I might've known you had fun ♪
♪ None alive ♪
♪ I sat at home all night ♪
♪ Bask in the loneliness ♪
Arkady: B1 to D3.
D1 to E2.
D3 to F1.
♪ Slowly, deep inside ♪
Keep going.
Keep going.
I thought you said you
were only good at chess.
Next time, we're playing
blindfolded Scrabble.
Perhaps.
♪ I didn't hear a sound ♪
♪ Only the sail on the ground ♪
(sirens blaring)
Starfruit!
(dramatic music)
Starfruit!
The white queen, here?
Now?
Starfruit!
Starfruit, everyone!
I'm on it.
Danni, your best move.
Barbara: Starfruit!
Crap, Starfruit!
Really?
Is A6 to B7.
Fingerprints.
Come on, people, move it,
let's go, double-time!
We've been through this drill.
30 seconds, let's wrap it up!
Go, go, go, go, go!
April.
Barbara.
I could've used a heads-up.
Fell through the cracks,
we're having some challenges.
What are you doing here?
Her birthday party in Palo Alto...
Is happening here.
Oh.
Good.
You win.
Danni.
Sore loser.
There's your whack-job right there.
Oh, well, spoils to the victor.
Hmm?
(grunts)
(ominous music)
(elevator dings)
(ominous music)
Stay on the perimeter.
(elevator dings)
(sighing)
Mr. Balagan, I'm Bern Schenk,
head of personal security.
Personal security for whom?
My son, Christopher, has vanished,
and you are going to find him.
Am I?
And why is that?
Because I'm Vivian
Huxley, and this is my hotel.
(dramatic music)
I'm Vivian's husband, Robert Spiro.
Christopher's dad.
Is it Christopher Huxley-Spiro
or Christopher Spiro-Huxley?
Just Huxley.
She wouldn't let me give
my name to my own son.
I detest hyphens.
Besides, my grandfather opened
the first Huxley in Chicago,
and my father turned it
into an international brand,
so my name is a legacy.
April.
Hello, April.
Sorry, Dad, I traded the
Porsche for a four by four.
More my style, don't you think?
We gave Kitch,
Christopher, the Porsche
when he was accepted
for his MBA at Stanford.
Let's go.
Robert: She has trouble sitting still.
It's been two months
since we've seen Kitch,
so the plan was for us
all of us to be together
at my birthday party.
Light.
But he hasn't returned
any of my calls or emails
in three days, and...
Perhaps he's in bed with the flu.
Nobody has seen him at home.
With whom does he live?
No one.
With everyone.
He lives at the Huxley Palo Alto.
Kitch grew up in
Huxley's around the world.
Hotels are his home.
A kindred spirit.
Grime.
And now he's vanished into thin air.
Security: She's on the move.
Security: Copy that.
(elevator dings)
A 24-year-old man doesn't
call you back in a few days,
and this is a crisis?
A mother knows.
April.
The police found his truck yesterday here,
800 miles from where it should be.
Either it was stolen in Palo Alto
and then driven here,
or Kitch drove it here,
and then it was stolen.
Two police departments in two cities
and neither claiming jurisdiction.
It just baffles me.
(elevator dings)
(sighs)
Employee: Good afternoon,
Huxley, can you hold, please?
Please tell me someone checked to see
if her son had stayed at this hotel.
I did, Kitch wasn't on the books.
Rust.
We're going through every hotel
between here and Palo Alto.
He has friends here?
Family, business associates?
None that we know of.
His girlfriend Deirdre's worried sick.
Chair.
Yeah, but she's all the
way back in New York, so.
You trust her?
Despite the hyphen,
Deirdre Knebworth-Hall is an angel,
the perfect match for Kitch.
Such a devoted mother.
I assume you were the
last to speak with him?
No, that would be April.
Two days ago.
Kitch called to ask about plans
for Ms. Huxley's birthday party.
He sounded depressed?
Desperate?
No, normal.
You have no idea where
he was when he went missing.
You have no police support,
and there is no motive
for a disappearance.
You have solved
some very difficult problems, Mr. Balagan.
I want you to find Kitch.
(blows party horn)
Happy Birthday, Vivian!
(blowing horn)
I've found your son!
Sadly, he is dead.
Dead, no, no!
You have failed me.
Throw him out of my hotel!
No, no!
I am afraid I must decline.
You...
Don't worry, ma'am.
I'm your guy.
Hugo Lum, head of hotel security.
I've got the contacts.
Border services, local police.
I'll find your boy for you.
(phone ringing)
April Delman.
Oh, this one should be a seven.
See, you're in good hands.
Mayor Wilson.
So, tell me, Bob,
what passes for a police
force in this town,
one man and a horse?
(mellow music)
Sam: Why'd you turn down the job?
You don't build a latrine in
the middle of your tent, Sam.
You do if it's a latrine tent.
(sighs)
We're stuck planning a 50th
birthday party from scratch.
The least you could do is find
the birthday girl's missing kid.
Despite his unfortunate nickname,
Kitch is a grown man.
He does not have to punch
a clock with his mother.
Oh, well, if you were on the job,
maybe you could tell her that.
Okay, everyone can stop panicking.
I got this thing wrapped up.
See, you don't need me.
Hugo is on the case.
(chuckles)
I talked to my boys downtown.
Got pics of everything
left in Kitch's truck.
Now, to the untrained, or Russian eye,
this probably just looks
like a random collection
of outdoorsy junk,
but the veteran homicide detective
sees the one important detail...
Keys left in the car?
Well, if I tell you
there's a twist coming,
you're gonna look for a twist.
Now, the way I see it,
Kitch was driving to campus
and got grabbed from
right behind the wheel.
(scoffs) Kidnapping, really?
Seriously?
Yeah.
The son of a hotel heiress?
Someone hit the jackpot.
Oh, okay, well,
then how did his truck
get all the way up here?
Easy, some doofus happens by the truck,
keys are still in the ignition,
says, hey, a free ride outta town,
meanwhile, poor Kitch is
probably tied up in some basement
way down in Californ-I-a.
Do campers often collect rocks?
Rich yahoos.
They're always decorating
with crap like that.
Scored a few from my boys downtown.
I figured the white queen
might like a piece of her son
until we get him back.
Are you sure you will?
Uh-huh.
There'll be a ransom note
coming any day, you watch.
Yippee-ki-yay.
Kidnapping, yikes.
We'll see.
I thought you weren't working on this.
I'm not working on this.
But if I was,
I would start with the knowledge
that the Huxley hotels
are a home for Kitch,
and if he did come to town, he...
He would have stayed here.
I thought you weren't working on this.
I'm not, I'm just curious.
Okay, guests who paid cash.
Ansen Chelderknopf, Ravi Mariwalla,
Tarlton Fiske, Sherry Smith.
Tarlton Fiske?
Room 801.
Paid cash for two nights.
The room was turned over
to other guests yesterday.
What, do you think that...
Anything strike you about
the name Tarlton Fiske?
Yeah, who would name their son Tarlton?
No one, it is an alias.
It's Robert Bloch's pen name.
He wrote a charming story
about a young man who owns a motel
and takes orders from his
mummified, tyrannical mother.
You mean psycho?
Yes, a clue within
a clue, within a clue.
(elevator dings)
So, Kitch registered at
the hotel as Tarlton Fiske
and paid cash so no one
would know he was here?
If he did, I'm really
starting to like this young man.
So we should find Alcina
and see if anything was left in the room.
Correction.
(elevator dings)
You should.
(soft music)
(knocks)
This is what was left in 801.
Oh.
And this is for your Nieta's baptism.
Gracias.
Bali, hmm.
No name.
Five-star hotels.
The owner of this book is
looking to spend some money.
The owner of this book
stayed at the Huxley Palo Alto.
(sighs)
Under-ripe.
What is that smell?
April.
You haven't taken up
smoking again, have you?
(coughs)
I'm so sorry, it's
just the stress, I've...
No, you're right,
I've been thoughtless.
Please, take a few days off
while I search for my missing child.
I'll take care of the cognac.
Thank you.
So, I'm not sure what we are
to take from these photos.
We have a working theory
that your son was kidnapped in Palo Alto.
Vivian: What?
Ransom should be forthcoming.
I put in calls to the Palo Alto P.D.
Vivian...
Please, call me Ms. Huxley.
April?
April!
Why must I scream your name?
Where is Bern?
I want him to call the police.
I want a door-to-door search.
Someone might be holding
Kitch in Palo Alto.
Only a fool would think so.
What?
Your son was here, in this hotel.
Vivian: When?
Two days ago.
He checked in under an alias
and paid cash.
However, he left this behind.
What?
Is planning a trip to Bali.
To Bali?
So, so, so, what does this mean?
Is it not obvious what this means?
No.
It means, Vivian, I am taking the job.
So, Deirdre, you're in New York.
Christopher is in California.
How did East meet West?
Last year, at the
spring regatta in Florida.
We were both a bit tipsy,
one thing led to another...
Have you noticed anything
different about Christopher,
something that might shed
light on his disappearance?
He was on top of the world.
Loads of energy, super upbeat.
He'd dropped a few pounds.
Maybe a cleanse?
Any thoughts on why he was here?
No idea.
The depth of your
relationship is inspiring.
Does this mean anything to you?
It's a stone.
No, it's a piece of a puzzle.
So, I spoke to Kitch's
friends on campus.
He quit crew, starts missing seminars,
and then skips mid-terms.
Oh, business school drop-out.
I'm sure his mother will
be happy to hear that.
Perhaps it has something to do with
his pending trip to Bali?
Yeah, that jives with my Intel.
The word is jibe, Hugo, with a "b".
It's a sailing term.
Hugo: Ah, why don't you
just jibe back to ruskieland?
Any ransom notes yet?
Forget about the
ransom note, all right?
My buddy at the border said that
Christopher Huxley crossed
two days ago, alone,
and when he did,
his car was searched top to bottom.
Why?
He was flagged.
He had a drug conviction.
Three years ago, Vegas.
They found a bag of cocaine
in the glove compartment.
So he's just like any other rich boy.
Except he does have a quality, doesn't he?
I'll tell you what quality.
He's planning a trip to Bali, right?
Where's Bali?
Indonesia.
What's in Indonesia?
Orangutans?
Drugs.
Kitch was losing weight.
He had lots of energy.
He was skipping classes, yes?
Mm, yeah, could be a coke addiction.
No, no, no, no, no.
What if he just wasn't into drugs,
what if he was into drugs,
you know what I mean?
Could have been applying
his business school smarts
to a drug-smuggling operation.
Drug smuggling, Hugo?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm, I prefer the orangutan theory.
Oh, yeah?
Well, I'll bet you we
find Kitch's severed head
in a ditch in Arizona any day now.
Well, I bet we don't.
You watch.
So, what next?
We follow the little white lines.
(laughing)
Oh, Mr. Balagan!
This is my mother, Celine.
Ah.
A pleasure.
He's helping to find Kitch.
Oh, I don't want to get in the way,
it's just that she comes
back here so seldom.
I did not know you were from
this rain-soaked wasteland.
April?
Vivian's asking for you.
This is my mom, Celine.
Robert Spiro.
Your daughter's a godsend.
(chuckles)
You know what?
Take your mom out to lunch,
put it in on the corporate card.
Are you sure?
Yes, go, go!
You've met her mother before.
No, just in April's photos.
You often look at pictures of April?
How's the search going?
I just have one question for you.
Are you so ashamed of your son
that you felt it necessary
to withhold information?
Ashamed?
What, no, we couldn't be prouder.
Proud that he was once arrested
with cocaine in his glove box?
No.
Well.
This can't be real.
Kitch has been showing
signs of addiction.
What?
Yes, he dropped out of school.
Robert?
Darling, don't just sit
there like a sock puppet.
What is going on?
♪ Robert knows something
that Vivian doesn't ♪
No.
No, I mean, if he's dropped
out of school, it's news to me.
What about the cocaine?
Yes, Robert, tell us about the cocaine.
I got a call from
one of Kitch's friends.
He was partying in Vail.
Smashed up a chalet and disappeared.
I found him in a motel, alone, strung out.
Strung out?
I checked him into rehab in Colorado.
Excellent back to nature program.
He's been clean and sober for two years!
Kitch didn't want to disappoint you.
I am his mother.
And I'm his father!
Oh, keep your voice
down, we're in public.
Our son has a drug problem!
(laughing)
Will you sit down now?
Hugo.
Why the long face, we're having fun here.
I don't want anyone to panic.
The police pulled a body from the inlet.
Knapsack full of rocks.
They'd like you to come to the morgue.
(gasps)
(soft music)
Barbara: Ms. Huxley,
can I get you anything?
Yes, a mock-up of the cake design.
Let me see it.
Well, I canceled it.
Well, I didn't think,
given the circumstances
that you would want to celebrate.
You canceled it?
If I can't trust you with a simple cake,
how can I trust you with an entire hotel?
Well, I'm sorry, I just assumed that...
What, that I would like to disappoint
300 of my dearest friends?
Give me your key card.
You're done.
Cancel this, see her out.
April?
Get rid of all these hideous white flowers
and call my guests.
The party's off.
Mr. Spiro?
It's not him.
The boy pulled from the water
was some other parents' son.
We don't need the cognac here anymore.
If you don't find Kitch soon,
we are all going to pay.
But here comes Sam with good news.
Well, news.
There's no Huxley hotel in Bali,
but I called all the hotels
in Kitch's travel guide,
and one of them has a
room reserved next week
for Tarlton Fiske.
It's Kitch's alias.
The reservation was made
by his personal travel agent.
This is a list of all the
flights from the past year.
He's been flying everywhere.
Everywhere except for New York,
which is where his girlfriend lives.
Something is keeping him from school,
keeping him from his girlfriend,
and it's intensifying as time goes on.
Well, don't yell,
but Hugo might be right.
Maybe he was smuggling drugs.
Nyet.
He was in Buenos Aires.
Sam: Cheap cocaine?
Yeah, maybe, but that's weird
because Vivian and Robert were there, too.
It was a polo championship.
It was the corporate newsletter,
it was a big spread.
So wait, Kitch was in Argentina
the same time as his parents?
Three weeks ago,
but they said they have
not seen him in two months,
so they obviously did
not know he was there.
Or one of them is working with Kitch
in the drug business.
Maybe there's more than one reason
why they call her the white queen!
Enough!
I should throw you both
in the pit with Hugo.
Well, what do you think then?
I think this family
is an onion of lies.
And I'm going to peel them.
(cell phone dings)
Pippa requests an audience.
Curious.
How are you?
Busy, how are you?
Terrible.
Have a seat.
Alcina.
So, what brings you?
I've been talking to everyone
who saw Rosemary's shooting.
Ah, yes, like Sisyphus,
pushing the rock up the hill forever.
Ark, the guy who confessed
to pulling the trigger...
Emil Shirt, the false confession, yes.
Yeah, he's dying of cancer, right?
Well, he was just
transferred to a hospital,
and I'm gonna try and sneak in.
So, you're going to confront Emil Shirt
and expose his lies, Pippa?
Yeah.
Alcina heard that I was
talking to staff here.
I was there.
Where?
I saw the shooting.
I'm sorry I never said.
I didn't want to upset you.
You saw Rosemary?
I was coming for the start of my shift.
(ominous music)
(gunshots blasting)
(ominous music)
Before the shooting,
I was sitting in the park with my coffee.
The car, the one that came and did it,
it was parked on the street,
waiting.
For a signal from the spotter.
This confirms it.
The guy wasn't driving around
looking for Greg's car.
It wasn't road rage.
It was an assassination.
I told the police.
And they buried it.
You bring a Bible, wear a cross.
The police will think
you're one of those nuts
that goes room to room bothering patients.
Alcina.
Thank you.
(soft music)
♪ For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
♪ For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
♪ For she's a ♪
(laughing)
Uh-huh?
Just the Russian I'm looking for.
It's my birthday.
Well, shall we sing together?
Yes.
♪ For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
♪ For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
♪ For she's a jolly good fellow ♪
(sighs)
So, when was the last time
you talked to your mother?
1992.
Why, is she dead?
Far from it.
I send my parents money...
But we are strangers.
So, how did you end up
living in this sad Chekhov play?
In the original Russian,
Chekhov plays are comedies.
Oh.
Like your son, I was a drop-out.
I fled the chess academy
into which my parents had
worked so hard to put me.
I wonder how they reacted.
They felt I had betrayed them.
Yes.
So you, what,
cut them out of your life,
and now you have no family?
On the contrary.
I now have the luxury to choose my family.
Oh, so where are they all?
Your husband.
Have you noticed him giving
your assistant, April,
a great deal of dictation?
Oh, it's not that
he's screwing the help.
Please, that's inevitable.
It's just that he's being
so damn indiscreet about it.
How long?
Oh, I don't know, forever.
He's been her mentor for years.
He keeps just promoting her
and promoting her through the ranks
until finally she becomes
our personal assistant.
And yet you have not fired her.
Do you know how many
deeply stupid assistants
I have been through?
No, April stays.
Ms. Huxley?
Oh, well.
Here comes Bernsy to check up on me.
Just wanted to make sure
someone wasn't getting a little too...
Too what?
Messy.
My son is missing!
And none of you are
doing anything about it.
We'll find him, Vivian.
Ms. Huxley, excuse me.
(sighs)
(chuckles)
Bernsy's been with me
a quarter of a century.
Sometimes he forgets himself.
I told you.
Screwing the help's inevitable.
(puckering)
Ms. Huxley.
I need more information.
Or better motivation, perhaps?
Listen, you find Kitch,
and I will comp you your
next six months here.
That would be very generous.
But if you fail?
I'm throwing you out with the trash.
Understood?
Let's go.
(soft music)
I saw the trap 10 moves ahead,
and still I fell for this gambit.
(snapping fingers)
What? What?
Be a gentleman, hold the bag!
Sorry.
The white queen is going
to toss me off the board.
Not if you find her son.
What do you have so far?
Kitch was in recovery,
but then he fell back into addiction.
Why?
So it would seem.
What were the signs?
He was losing weight, high
energy, skipping classes.
It could be love.
Doesn't he have a girlfriend?
Mm-hmm.
The oldest addiction.
He could have been in love.
But not with his girlfriend.
So, you met Kitch at the regatta,
but alcohol was not involved.
Kitch has been sober for
the past two years, yes?
Well, that's how I remember it.
(tutting)
Deirdre.
Help me find him.
Tell me the truth.
We hit it off bitching
about our mothers.
We cooked up a relationship.
Arkady: And why would you do that?
My roommate isn't my roommate,
she's my girlfriend.
And Kitch is gay as well?
Deirdre: I assumed so.
Well, if Kitch is
gay, there's always Bern.
Handsome older guy, young pretty boy.
The bodyguard?
I'm afraid not, Vivian
is sleeping with him.
(laughs) No, no.
Bern's been out forever.
No.
Really.
What, the corporate newsletter?
Nico, gossip waiter.
Kitch's cell phone
records finally arrived.
(sighs)
Day before the truck was found,
he contacted Ms. Huxley's assistant.
To ask about the birthday party.
Yeah, around five p.m.
But then there's a bunch
of calls right after that.
So, I checked them out.
A couple of prank calls,
and then one to a sex line,
so, obviously, Kitch didn't make those.
The car thief did.
Kitch left his phone in the truck.
Yeah, which means that the last person
that Kitch contacted was
Ms. Huxley's assistant.
Wait, April has started smoking again,
and she's been eating
a great deal of cake.
So...
I've been there, it's Dumpsville.
Perhaps Kitch is not gay.
He was?
April and Kitch, could be.
So, find out what she's hiding.
Do your bartender thing.
(knocking)
Room service.
I didn't order any.
I have a really good story.
It's about this one time
I dated a rock star.
Oh, we had VIP everything, private jets.
I totally thought he was gonna marry me,
and then, he just dumped me
for some dumb-ass debutante.
I spent six weeks of my life
at the bottom of a vat
of Haagen-Dazs, which...
Oh, yeah.
So, to heartbreak?
I'm not, could you just
please leave?
April.
We all know that Kitch's relationship
with Deirdre was a cover.
We know Kitch was in love with you.
(scoffs) Do you?
I knew he was trouble.
I tried to keep myself
from falling for him,
but he was just so open.
And good.
And persistent.
But you kept it a secret.
I'm not part of their world.
Not really.
Vivian would have lost her mind.
Well, how serious was it?
We were gonna open a wilderness resort
here on the West Coast,
after we got married.
You were gonna elope in Bali.
Then what was Kitch doing
all the way up here?
My mom lives on the North Shore.
Kitch was going to ask for her blessing.
Die-hard romantic, eh?
Yeah, I thought so.
But then he phoned me.
Hammered.
He said it was a mistake
and he never wanted to see me again.
Why, what did your mom say to him?
She never saw him.
He chickened out.
So, no.
Kitch did not love me.
Emil Shirt?
He's got maybe days left.
He's totally doped up.
I told him I was a hospital chaplain,
and he invited me right in.
Perfect.
I asked him if he wanted any help
making peace with God.
You know, for the murder he confessed to.
He said there was nothing
for God to forgive.
He never killed anyone.
Hmm.
But...
But he will not recant his
confession with the police.
He made it for money.
His kids are gonna get a
big payday when he dies.
Who, though, who is paying?
He refused to say.
All I could get out of him was...
Ark, get this.
He met them here, at the Huxley.
Ark, someone at this hotel
was involved in Rosemary's murder.
Or they simply met here at the hotel.
(phone rings)
Many people meet at the hotel.
Pippa: Yeah, maybe.
Yes, Danni.
I'll be right there.
Right where?
Pippa, what you're talking about is...
No, you can't ignore this.
This hotel isn't safe.
You know who you sound like now?
You sound like me.
Oh, jeez.
I'm sorry I didn't tell
anyone about Kitch and me.
I just couldn't.
It still does not explain
what happened to him.
Well, when I saw the
pebbles, I got scared.
They're from the beach at my mom's place.
Then when they pulled
the body from the water,
and the guy's knapsack
full of rocks, I just...
You thought Kitch did the same thing.
Well, he was a drug addict.
It's over, April.
I never want to see you again.
I never want to see anyone!
Excuse me, but why not?
I never loved April.
I'm incapable of loving anyone.
I don't even deserve to live!
So you collected a bag of pebbles
from the nearby beach to drown yourself.
Wait a sec,
maybe I collected the
pebbles before I was upset.
And why would you do that?
Because they're pretty!
(screaming)
It is pretty.
Perhaps Kitch wanted to
bring you back a memento.
What do you mean?
This pebble.
He went to your mother
with the full intention of
asking for her blessing.
Perhaps something happened
that made him change his mind.
No, she never saw him.
Or your mother lied to
you and Kitch was there.
(mellow music)
Does that look familiar?
Well, I suppose it's
from our beach, yes,
but Kitch never came to see me.
Right before he disappeared,
Kitch called April, drunk.
Something had happened
to make him break two years of sobriety
and your daughter's heart.
Nothing to do with me.
Something to do with
his father perhaps?
Robert recognized you.
(laughs) We've never met.
And yet he gave your
daughter preferential treatment.
Do you hold something over his head?
Coming here was a mistake.
Is there a lie in Robert's past?
Did he kill someone?
Please.
He's in love with your daughter.
Of course not!
Why does that thought
upset you so much?
It doesn't.
You love him.
No.
But you once did.
Yes, you do know Robert.
He is April's father.
Right, Celine?
And you told Kitch he
could not marry April
because they are brothers and sisters.
He asked for my blessing.
Arkady: Mm-hmm.
I went into shock.
It just came out.
And that's when he fell
off the wagon and disappeared.
Robert...
Oversaw renovations at this hotel.
I waitressed at a cafe around the corner.
He came in a lot, said he liked the pie.
And only you and Robert
know that he is April's father?
He was married to Vivian.
He gave me enough money so I'd stay quiet.
Yes, and yet, you
did not stay so quiet.
I raised her on my own.
But when April finished school,
she had no work, no direction.
I broke down and called
Robert for one favor.
Let me guess.
He placed her at the Huxley Hotel,
but he wanted to get to know his daughter,
and so gradually, and over
time, he promoted her closer,
but tragically, it was
also closer to Kitch.
You can't tell anyone
Kitch came to see me.
Please.
(door clicks)
Just because you have a key-card,
doesn't mean you can stick
it in any slot you want!
What is it?
Been sent to get a progress
report on the missing kid.
Any news?
No, I'm afraid not.
Well, in that case, it is my pleasure
to enforce Ms. Huxley's directive.
Eviction-ay.
Dasvidaniya.
Arkady: (claps) Hey!
Those are $10,000, be careful with them!
Okay, we really need to find Kitch.
Celine says he came to see her
between 4:30 and five.
Those are my flowers, not the hotel's!
He called April at five, already drunk.
Get to Celine's house.
Find the closest place to find a drink.
Sam: Okay, cool.
What are you gonna do?
(mellow music)
You can't take him out of the hotel.
He has a medical condition!
I know.
That's why I've booked the car
straight to the cuckoo house.
(phone rings)
(sighs)
What took you so long?
Well, I had to check a
few places, but I found it.
Kitch was drunk in 15 minutes,
got kicked out right at five.
That's when he would have called April
to break up with her,
and then he would have kept drinking.
Trust me.
Sam: More bars?
No, he was too drunk to get served.
Find the nearest liquor store.
Okay, it's time to go.
Hey, don't touch him!
Danni, Danni.
It will be all right.
Hugo.
I concede.
After you.
Hugo: Hey, you son of a...
What the, get out of the way!
(giggling)
Any harm that befalls me,
physical or psychic,
will return to you tenfold
in the form of a lawsuit!
I'm sorry but I just
can't abide failure,
and I won't have it
wafting around the hotel.
I thought it was the moldy carpets.
Dear, dear, dear.
Now, if you would like a sedative
to help you deal with the outside world,
speak to my assistant.
(laughing)
Hugo.
Yes?
Hugo, what about that giant I.O.U.?
Ah, you got it on you?
(laughs) Let's go, boys.
No!
Pasaran!
(speaking in foreign language)
Samuel's trying to call
you, he sent photos.
Look, Mr. Balagan.
(phone beeping)
(mellow country music)
Need a ride, pal?
Where you heading?
Alaska.
Alaska?
No, I don't think so.
Where you heading, pal?
Find a motel.
Drink myself to death.
(groans)
Soon as the world stops spinning.
(groans)
Hmm.
Hey, kid, where you going?
Nature, man.
Only place I'm happy.
Drunk people shouldn't
wander off into the woods
to keep drinking.
Whatever happened,
Kitch set off on foot
from the liquor store.
What liquor store?
Ms. Huxley!
If you will be so kind
as to return my bags to my suite,
I will tell you where you
can launch your search
that will help you find your son.
And all you need is a dog that sniffs.
(elevator dings)
(sighs)
Hmm.
Kitch.
Hey, guys.
Oh, my darling baby boy!
Are you all right?
Kitch: Yeah, I'm okay, Mom, I'm okay.
Vivian: Boopsie, what happened?
Could everyone just leave
April and me alone for a bit?
What?
April, why?
What the hell is going on?
It's between us, Mom.
But I am your mother,
I have a right to know.
April and me, alone.
Now.
(soft music)
She wouldn't even let me
give my name to my own son!
I've worked for
Vivian, I mean Ms. Huxley,
for a quarter of a century.
Were you always gay?
Hmm.
(laughs)
It is a comedy.
Your son wants to tell you of a tragedy,
but I think everyone here
will prefer the Russian version.
No, no, let me just
talk to April alone.
Shh!
So, your son and your
assistant are in love.
You're...
Alas, Kitch discovered
that your husband, his father,
is also April's father.
Disaster, but wait!
Vivian had had an affair with Bern,
before he came out.
You'd better watch yourself.
And Kitch was the
product of that affair.
What?
What?
What?
Oh, God.
Therefore, your son and your assistant
do not share the same father,
and they can, indeed, be together.
Discuss.
Did anyone get left in a
handbag at a train station?
(chuckles)
I'm sure she's gonna let you stay.
Messengers do not always
fare well with royalty.
Oh, well, here comes your answer.
Danni.
So, how do you like your birthday present?
(chuckles)
Well, family dinners are
going to be complicated.
But not boring.
Kitch and April?
Are still going to Bali.
Arkady: To elope?
To process.
Well, I am off for a swim.
And then dinner.
In...
My suite?
Ah.
Your suite...
Is comped for the next six months.
(mellow music)
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Oh, Ms. Huxley.
One more thing.
(knocking)
Ms. Stilwell.
So glad you decided to
cut short your sabbatical.
So glad it was cut short for me.
It had nothing to do with me.
Of course.
French cuffs must be
pressed with precision.
Try again.
I am not going to...
Arkady: And so.
Look.
Here she is.
Arkady: Aww.
Here she is getting cake on her dress.
Here she is opening your present.
Oh, she loves the Russian dolls.
Mm, you're welcome.
Her birthday is in six months.
Maybe you will come.
Perhaps.
(soft graceful music)