Endgame (2011): Season 1, Episode 9 - Huxley, We Have a Problem - full transcript

(horn honks)

[Pippa] Wow, you'd think this guy

was your boyfriend or something?

Pippa, this guy was my first friend,

we lived together for five years.

Like brothers.

You've never heard of him?

Oh, no I haven't been keeping up

with my Russian celebrities.

He's not a celebrity,
Pippa, he is national hero.

Mm, yeah?



(abrupt tapping)

Ah, we have lift off.

Ah, little brother!

Arkady: (laughs) Big brother!

You look awful.

Yes and you're still as
ugly as a wild boar, eh?

(laughs) Pleased to meet you.

This is Pippa.

Another of Arkady's beauties.

Oh, no, no, God no.

No, this is Rosemary's sister.

Oh, yes, yes, of course.

He tell you I used to protect him

from the bullies at the academy?



No.
Only because I let him

cheat off of me, right?

What about this?

What what is this, huh, are you cosmonaut

or a Formula One driver?

Who can tell the difference anymore?

Arkady, I've gone to the dark side.

Private aerospace.

Yes, Chase Galactic, I heard.

A.C. Chase, the zillionaire?

Absolutely.

He will do anything to launch

the first commercial space carrier

with me as his captain.

Oh my God.

I'm gonna fly tourists! (laughs)

(laughs) That's right.
Pippa, Pippa, come with me.

There are people I want you to meet.

Oh hey, grab my purse.

What?

My purse.

Come, come, so welcome
to dog and pony show.

There's big space
symposium in town this week

so we stay at Huxley to see Arkady.

Count on Oleg to
always bring the party.

Tyler, Arkady Balagan,
Tyler Kirkpatrick.

Formerly of NASA, now my copilot.

That's.

Jenny.

Oleg: Jenny.

Arkady, I've heard the stories.

Ah, no, no, only the true ones.

Hope so.

Hi, Pippa.

Hello Pippa.

I'm sorry, I just, I used
to eat Kirkpatrick Crunch,

the breakfast cereal
that's out of this world!

I know, me too.

I fired that manager.

But it was, it was really great.

St. Petersburg in
the spring, I'm serious.

I've always wanted to go to Russia.

Russia, no.

St. Petersburg, Florida,
I have house there.

Florida.

Florida.

Another ginger ale, another appletini?

Pippa, A.C. Chase and his wife.

(glasses clinking)
Delia Chase.

Yeah, she's even more beautiful in person.

Oh you think so?

Thank you.

Thank you everyone, thanks for coming.

Friends, bankers, with
our financing secured,

tonight we submit our final FAA filing.

Tomorrow at the Space Symposium,

we announce our launch date.

We will win the new
space race, my friends.

Randall.

And the Chase Eagle will lift off

on history's first
commercial space flight?

(Oleg grunts)
(people applauding)

Hello.

Randal Muller, head of engineering.

Arkady Balagan, head of me.

Friend of Oleg, I take it.

Yes an old friend, yes.

Is a telescope?

Randal: Yes.

I hope that is not how
you track your spacecraft.

No, it's how I intend to
view the Lyrid meteor shower.

Oh.

Tyler, I'm going to the
roof, may I have a word?

Now, Randal?

The Lyrids should be bright enough

that you can reach straight up

and touch the comet Thatcher.

All right, in the lobby.

Excuse me.

Muller.

He's brilliant man, but he has no love.

And we must have love, Pippa.

Oleg.

You know, I met Rosemary in Paris,

she was astonishing woman.

Yeah, thank you.

(speaking in a foreign language)

(upbeat music)

♪ Follow me I know where I'm goin' ♪

♪ I'm not messed up like all those hos ♪

♪ Stay with me and all will be golden ♪

♪ Walk away ♪
A double bourbon

♪ And be broken hearted ♪

We're drinking!

Come, come, no don't
drink, don't drink.

Take, take, take, take, good.

(speaking in a foreign language)

(upbeat bouncy music)
(people clapping)

Hey!

(people cheering)

(Oleg laughs)

Oh, A.C., A.C., and then Delia,

may I introduce.

A.C.: Arkady Balagan.

Oh, ah!

At 13, the youngest grand master.

At the time, but August Vindu beat me

by six.
(Oleg groans)

Well Oleg sings your praises.

Oleg: Yes I do.

Oh, well I apologize,

Mrs. Chase, because I've heard Oleg sing.

I love you.

On that note, it's a big day tomorrow.

What, no, stay for a drink.

Stay for a drink.

Oleg: No, no, no.

Nice to meet you.

Big boss man, come on!

Shh!
What?

A.C.'s up every morning at 4:30,

so I have to tuck in
the bankers, goodnight.

Okay, goodnight.

(lips smacking)

Okay, no, please, please.
Good to meet you.

Good night, Oleg.

What are you doing?

What?
She liked me.

I have work to do.

Pippa: Hey!

Oh, Pippa!

And (speaking in a foreign language).

(speaking in a foreign language)

That's what I said.

And now, enough.

What?

No, no, I have early morning.

Oleg, no.

But Danni, a nightcap
for my friends, Champagne.

Arkady: Oleg, come back here.

You're right, Oleg is like
getting hit by a hurricane.

A hurricane that
leaves you with the bill.

Young love.

Yeah, I like that guy.

(camera shutter clicking)

Ooh, it is 12:36.

I'm exhausted, I'm just
gonna crash right here, okay?

No, you can take the bed, that's fine.

(body whooshing)

(glass tinkling)
(car alarm blaring)

(pensive music)

Oh, nice to see you again, Mr. Balagan.

You too, Randal.

(car screeching)
(glass tinkling)

Put your boots back on.

Why, what happened?

I think Oleg's stargazing engineer

just found a black hole.

(upbeat music)

(elevator dings)
(police siren blares)

Fascinating puzzle.

Thank you, Oleg.

Wait, you think Oleg has
something to do with this?

Trust me, the man has
old-fashioned appetite

and the world around him gets indigestion.

Police Walkie: Two, four, two bravo 15.

Hugo.

I don't have time
for your games, Balagan,

a man is dead.

Randal Muller.

Yes, more blood on your watch.

Hey, a suicidal space
guy jumps 17 stories

and lands in a Vespa, that's
Houston's problem, not mine.

Suicides don't tend to jump

with possessions Hugo, like telescopes.

Well then it was an accident.

Right, the unfortunate
stargazing misadventure hypothesis.

You got a better one?

Yes.
Why do I even ask?

Tell your detective friend

that the telescope hit the ground

a full four seconds after Mr. Muller.

How the hell do you know that?

Hey.

He just looks so innocent, doesn't he?

(dial tones beeping)
When we were children

he was always guilty and I got blamed.

It's going to be an interesting night.

Samuel, wake up.

No, it's not as interesting as chess,

it's rocket ships and murder.

So what did you tell the detective?

I told him the truth.

I took a sauna before bed,

then Tyler called, I came
straight down to lobby.

You had your phone in the sauna?

Yes.

Well, it was in my
room, hanging outside.

Mr. Balagan.

Arkady: Yes?

Oh my God, Oleg Olesky!

Sam, Sam Besht.

Embarrassing, I did a project
on you in seventh grade.

Oh!

This man did a spacewalk

where he had to repair his
own suit with duct tape.

Oh, Sam, we use duct
tape for everything.

So, I have to ask you,

what's it like to be weightless?

Sam, imagine you're flying
28,000 kilometers per hour

and you feel like you're motionless

and below your feet, a blue globe spins.

Yet, earthbound we remain.

May I clarify a few things.

Clarity, always clarity.

Arkady detests mystery.

I worry for you, little brother.

Our swollen head of
security was the first

to the body.

Then he found your copilot,
Tyler, here in the bar,

took him outside to identify Randal.

All those years
putting people in space,

he falls off the roof.

Tyler phoned the Chases
first and then he called you.

Yes.

In the sauna?

Yes, in the sauna.

You should've talked to
me before the police, Oleg.

Why?

The sauna closes at 10.

Mr. Olesky, we'd like you
to come down to the station

and if you don't mind, remove your shoes.

My shoes?

Shoes.

Now we are both barefoot.

Arkady, I might need some help.

Are you on this or?

I've been on this since
12:36, follow them, Sam.

Learn as you go.

Space Eagle, (speaking in Spanish).

At least it's pretty in Spanish.

16 celebrity passengers,

each paying $250,000 to orbit
the earth for four hours.

That is a lot of money to throw away

on an amusement park ride.

Well, space exploration
to space exploitation.

Maiden test flight, six months ago,

and Delia Chase is their only passenger.

Then she is crazy, too.

Mr. Chase demonstrates
the safety of Space Eagle

to his future clients by
sending his own wife into orbit.

Like that Russian space dog.

That's right, Laika,
first animal in space,

first fatality too.

Which is why I don't
like flying, Mr. Balagan.

Feet belong right here on the ground.

Inside the nice, safe hotel.

Sam: Mr. Balagan,
are you ready for this.

Sammy, save of the
energy for when you are old.

My break is over, nice visit.

Thank you Alcina.
See ya.

What?

Oleg's been charged with murder.

Roof gravel in the
soles of his shoes, yes?

Sam: Yeah, how'd you know?

What else, go on.

Chase hired him this big fancy lawyer.

Mr. Chase was there?

No, he's down at the Space Symposium.

His head engineer
plunges off a hotel roof,

I expect he'll delay the launch.

Yes, go.

Pippa: Well, apparently
not even a dead engineer

can stop the Space Eagle.

They announced the launch date?

Pippa: Yeah, one month from today.

Huh, and what was the
spin on Randal's demise?

The spin of omission.

Yeah, this was all about branding.

Chase, first in space.

So, A.C. got his
final FAA approval yes?

Yeah, full steam ahead.

Rumor is Prince William
and princess perfect

will be first to board.

What's up with Oleg?

Oh, I don't know
until I can grab my hands

around his throat and
look into his beady eyes

and strangle the truth out of him.

I remain neutral.

Oh yeah, I got some friends like that.

Look, they omitted any
mention of Oleg, too, Ark.

Remember, Chase isn't just aerospace.

They've got the media holdings

to control the message.

Arkady: So is there a new captain?

Yeah, they promoted Tyler.

The new copilot is some
Russian guy, Vladimir Federoff.

Another one of your friends.

Arkady: You are my only friend, Pippa.

Yeah, that's what you think.

Well, Russians are interchangeable.

They need an American face
for American investors.

Keep me posted.

Can you hold the elevator?

Mr. Kirkpatrick, word please.

What did our late friend Randal
want to talk to you about

before the meteor shower?

Oh it was nothing important.

Technical issue.

What issue could
not wait until morning?

Well, that's proprietary.

My contract's iron clad.

Of course, of course.

And yet the silence surrounding Randal

at the press conference was so deafening.

We have media people.

I mean, in light of
what happened we had to.

Seal message, yes, I understand.

Civilians in space.

It's all so new.

And yet you left a stable job at NASA.

True, yes, I gave up a
sure mission on the Discovery

to come to Chase.

I looked at where the industry
was headed and I gambled.

And where's the Discovery now?

A lotta NASA pilots held on for too long

and now they're grounded.

And they're calling me.

The right move at the right time

and now you're a captain
with stock options.

I fly the missions
I'm given, Mr. Balagan.

I don't concern myself with politics.

And I was in the bar when Randal died.

Ask the bartender, she'll remember me.

Of course.

I'm sure she will.

The face that launched
a thousand cereal boxes.

Yes, I remember Tyler.

He's Ice from Top Gun.

Iceman.

In Russia, 1986, I had
the bootleg Top Gun VHS.

Okay, well, Iceman wasn't
pushing anybody off a roof.

I was handing him a ginger ale

when Hugo walked into the bar
to get him to ID the body.

Get out.

Yes, going.

(suspenseful music)

Good day, Mr. Balagan.

Enjoying the puzzle?

I'd prefer if it
wasn't so close to home.

Yes, things are certainly
looking bad for Oleg.

Is that because he
pushed you off the roof.

Because old friends
can be hard to trust.

Something's been bothering me.

Randal: Yes?

What happened to your glasses?

Ah, very observant Mr. Balagan.

(Randal screams)

(abrupt tapping)

Arkady.
(Arkady sighs)

I am flight risk.

He sees my passport, they
give me electronic bracelet

but no sympathy from you.

Sympathy?

What is going on with you and Randal?

Why did you go up to the roof?

Take out a gun and kill me now,

shoot me right here in my heart.

After you explain the roof
gravel in your shoes, yes.

Okay, yes, I was on the roof.

I went up there to talk sense to him

but Randal was alive when I left him.

Talk sense about what?

Arkady, I have an alibi.

Is it better than
being in a locked sauna?

When Randal went off the
roof, I was with Delia Chase.

(groans) not again, Oleg!

No, no, it's not like that.

It's different this time.

You big banged A.C. Chase's wife.

She is remarkable woman.

I feel real feelings for her.

I'm sure you do, yes, I'm sure you do.

She came to me for help.

Randal was blackmailing her.

He was gonna tell A.C. about our affair.

I went there to convince him otherwise.

And?

And it was a confusing conversation.

He refused to admit any
of it so we scuffled.

Let me guess, you broke his glasses.

Yes, at some point.

I snatched them off his face.

I crushed them.

But what kind of a man blackmails a woman?

Do you know what this means?

No, what?

I broke his glasses.

You think he couldn't see,

he stumbled over the edge of the roof?

No, I don't think he stumbled and fell.

He was pushed, Oleg.

He was pushed off the roof.

His telescope was thrown after him

and now your fingerprints
are all over his glasses.

Please, I'm scared enough already.

A.C. is a vindictive man.

Oh, is that why you
slept with his wife?

You gonna use that brain
of yours to help me or not?

I'll use it to figure
out who killed Randal.

On my mother's grave, I swear.

When Randal went off the
roof, I was with Delia Chase.

Senora, some fresh
towels for your room.

Oh no thanks, we're fine.

No, you need these,
they are extra fluffy.

Oh, thank you very much.

Thank you for coming Mrs. Chase.

I can assure of my discretion, please.

I'm not sure that's necessary.

What do you want?

I need to confirm Oleg's
whereabouts when Randall died.

He says he was with you.

That's ridiculous, I was
asleep in bed with my husband.

I see but you are having
an affair with Oleg, yes?

Absolutely not.

Where did you hear that?

I'm sorry, I don't
mean to cast judgment

but you're obviously lying.

I know Oleg and I know his effect on women

and I also know he would not say he slept

with someone that he hadn't.

It was just once.

Ages ago.

But not last night.

No, I don't know whether Randal jumped

or he fell or he was pushed

but I'm not going to be Oleg's alibi.

He's facing murder charges, Mrs. Chase.

Anything you could tell me.

I can't!

I was asleep in bed with my husband.

And you and I never spoke.

Oleg: I like blondes.

I'm in love with her.

Arkady: Oh, what, you
expect me to believe that?

It's the truth and she is in love me.

Arkady: Keep talking,

maybe the truth will
accidentally fall out.

I am not lying!

Delia will not admit she was with me

because she is afraid of her husband.

The man is a sociopath.

Why are you in my bath?

Mine is too small.

Arkady, imagine me in prison

where they do not have baths.

Please, don't clip my wings.

You expect me to prove
you're not the killer

and yet keep it secret that
you're screwing the boss's wife.

Yes, for her sake, yes.

Listen, this will make it up to you.

I made a call to Moscow, to
a friend in intelligence.

Very high up.

About Rosemary to see if
there was a file open on you.

Pippa!

Anything you have to say

about Rosemary should include Pippa.

Pippa, Pippa, please.
What?

Come here.
What is it?

Arkady: Eyes on me, eyes
on me, Pippa, eyes on me.

Yeah, but he's the one speaking.

I don't care.

My secret, my secret.

I only take the stairs.

Arkady: Shut up.

No, please.

Pippa, I'm worried about Arkady.

The agoraphobia, the paranoia.

He needs to seek help.

Oh please!

I am, I'm worried about you.

Was Rosemary killed because of you?

I want to know too so I ask

and what do I find out?

(speaking in Russian), nothing.

There is no watch list, no grudges.

No one in Moscow even
remembers Arkady Balagan.

See, I told you.

Putin, Russians killing Rosemary.

It never made any sense.

We need to follow up on the theory

that someone from the hotel was involved.

That theory doesn't
make any sense either Pippa

and I gave millions to the
pro-democracy movement.

Democracy is a corpse in Russia.

You can give all the money you want,

Putin has already won.

It's not that simple.

The only connection
to Russia is your ego.

Yearning to still be important

while you lock yourself up in a hotel.

(melancholy music)

Mr. Chase, Arkady Balagan,
we met the other night.

I remember.

I also remember you beating
Domaschuk in Warsaw in 89.

Only took 14 moves.

That's what people
didn't know at the time

was that his mother had just died.

This.

I knew, and that's why I bet on you.

Listen, our best lawyer's on Oleg's case.

That's very generous.

I hand picked him for the Space Eagle.

I don't believe for a second
that he pushed Randal.

So why did he lose the captain's chair?

Optics, Mr. Balagan.

Stakes are far too high for scandal.

Concierge: Oh, Mr. Chase,
I have a package for you.

Could you remind me, you
and your wife were in bed

when Randal died?

That's right.

Together?

Are you implying something?

It's just I was in the lobby too

and I saw your wife coming first in a robe

and you arrived later fully dressed.

I took the time to dress, Mr. Balugan.

I wouldn't enter a hotel lobby in a robe

any more than I'd go to work in one.

You don't seem to share my qualms.

In chess, a king wears a robe.

For Oleg's sake, I'll
ignore this conversation

but be careful punching above
your weight, Mr. Balugan.

It's always like this.

Oleg offers a Byzantine conundrum

and it's up to little brother to solve it.

Friendship can be complicated.

Please, Pippa, no peons to friendship.

I mean he's clouding
your objective thinking.

All right, so where
should I focus my attention?

Any suggestions?

Yeah, the victim.

Randal?

Mm-hm.

(suspenseful music)

Randal, Randal.

She's right, you've been ignoring me.

I've been otherwise occupied.

People ignore me at their peril.

Yes, you turned to blackmail.

I wonder what else you had up your sleeve.

That's more like it.

Gotta go.

(Randal shouts)

Don't forget your telescope.

Where are you going?

Alcina: Mr. Randal was in room 706,

I only went in after the police were done.

Arkady: You know what they took?

Hugo might, everything
was gone when I cleaned.

Sheets, garbage, everything was taken.

What about the previous day's garbage.

Ah, Sam, bordol mustard?

Yes, with extra capers.

I think that is still in the dumpster.

Excellent.

Well, Sam I will give
you two free chess games

if you retrieve it.

From a dumpster?
Yes.

Five.
No, three games.

Four.
Agreed.

I would go but it's outside.

The garbage is in clear bags.

I put the smaller bags from
four rooms in a larger bag.

The bag you are looking
for will have diapers.

Diapers.

Alcina: Si, the woman
next door has twins.

Well, what kind of
crap did the police take

from Randal's room?

The usual crap.

Clothes, toiletries, crap!

Incident report for head office.

Back off, Balagan.

Were either of you there
when they checked Randal's body

for personal effects?

Yeah, I saw them turn
out his pockets, nothin'.

No key cards, no?

No, what does it matter?

Well, then pull up the
in-out log for Randal's room.

Hugo please if I come up anything,

I will give you all the credit.

You know what I think?

Arkady: What?

I think your Rusky
friend goes up in space,

gets all full of himself,

starts thinkin' he's the man in the moon,

starts thinkin' he can
get away with murder.

Well I will give that theory

all the consideration it deserves.

Okay, here we go, room
713, night in question.

In, out, in, out, in, out, what?

In.

12:34 a.m. the back
out three minutes later.

So at the same time,
Randal falls off the roof,

he's also in his room?

Yeah.

Thank you Hugo.

Yeah, but wait, how can he do that?

That's not possible.

Well, sounds like two
people working together.

One gives Randal a shove,
the other uses his keycard

to go into his room.

Yes, but why?

Before we know why we need to know who

so let us assume for a moment

that Oleg is not lying
and he was in his room

with Delia Chase at
the time of the murder.

Thank you Arkady for
your unqualified support.

So A.C. left the bar around 10:45

and went off to bed alone.

(lights thudding)

(inquisitive music)

(Arkady humming)

(phone trills)

Tyler, what time is it?

Randal's dead?

Your wife's not in the room.

So she's still down in the bar.

No she's not.

We saw her leave.

Then she came to bed, rushed out

before I was fully awake.

Oh, she was with Oleg.

Why would you cover for her affair

and say she was in bed
with you when she wasn't?

I know all about the affair, okay?

We're swingers.

Definitely not.

A.C. thought has wife had come to bed

because he wasn't in the room either.

So he's either on the
roof or in Randal's room

but who's he working with?

Tyler.

Yeah, but he wants me out of the way

so he can be pilot.

Does anybody listen to me?

Tyler was in here.

I was handing him a drink.

Okay, from now on I have
a new minimum standard.

No dumpster diving.

Can you move that over there?

Well, what?

Gross, grosser.

Oleg: Open it up.

Sam.

Oleg, behind you.

(Oleg grunts)

That's for screwing my wife!

No, not in my bar, get out!

You can find a public defender.

You can rot in jail.

Out!

Ice!

(horns beeping)

(elevator dings)

So much for my Chase expense account.

But I wanna know who told him
I was sleeping with his wife.

Maybe she told him?

Oleg: No, she's terrified of him.

Delia!

Ow.

You gave me your word
we spoke in confidence.

I assure you, I told your husband nothing.

He threw all of my luggage in the pool.

Oleg: Darling, we have to.

Shut up, Oleg!

You men, you're all such babies.

Randal must've shown him the tape anyway.

Tape?

Delia: Tape.

What tape?

It's a private tape.

No.

Delia: Randal recorded it, Oleg.

Sex tape?

Oleg, what, how?

Randal recorded it.

You had sex in space?

On the maiden voyage
of the Space Eagle.

Not so maiden, sorry.

Randal was using it against me.

Was forcing me to convince
my husband not to fire him.

Fire him?

Randal was pestering
him over some safety issue.

Arkady: So what was the issue?

Something technical.

A.C. wanted to get rid of
Randal instead of fix it.

Why not just fix it?

It's unfixable, that's why.

A.C. insisted that Randal had to go.

I begged Randal but he said he was going

to release the tape and
reveal the safety flaw.

Which would delay the launch.

And Chase Galactic
would risk being cut out

of the history books.

Oleg, I'm sorry.

I am so sorry.

I wouldn't be your alibi but I can now.

Now, it's too late.

No, no.
Yes, yes.

It's not too late.
Yes.

It's never too late.
Yes.

(phone trilling)

What?

Barbara: Mr. Balagan, it's Barbara.

The manager.

Yes, we've met, what?

Barbara: Is Mrs. Chase there?

Yes?

Barbara: Hi Mrs. Chase,
we're drying out your luggage

and we've prepared another room.

Thank you, I'll be right down.

I don't know where my
husband was when Randal died

but I assure you if his
launch date was threatened,

he's capable of anything.

Come, come.

Everything will be fine.

Go to your room.

(suspenseful music)

You see, I am lover, I am not killer.

What do I do with you, hm?

I cannot tell truth from fiction.

I withheld some information.

Withheld information,
you had sex in space.

A woman's honor.

Yes, well there's a probably
with her honor isn't there?

Arkady, please.

Randal did not have a
chance to show this to A.C.

A.C. just punched you in the face

which means that he just found out

so who told him?

I don't know.

You're covering for Delia.

Is she your alibi, or are you hers?

Did she push her blackmailer
off the roof or did you?

Why are you doing this
to me little brother?

I cannot help you anymore.

Help, you don't want to help me.

I always think the worst of me.

That's because you're always guilty!

Guilty of what?

Of life?

Of eating and drinking and screwing

and see things you will never see

because you have walled yourself up?

Oh, here it comes.

No, you have walled yourself off

so completely, you've become cynic.

Cynic, I was born a cynic, Oleg.

My parents are card carrying
members of the cynic party.

I know what it is like
to be locked in one place.

Oh really?

Oleg: For a month.

And how do you know that?

I was at space
station for eight months.

It does not make things simpler.

It just makes you more crazy.

You and I are nothing
alike, Oleg, nothing alike.

Look, look, the ocean is right outside.

You need to weep, weep on the beach.

Howl at the stars.

Oh primal therapy.
Yes, you are trapped

in that brain of yours.
Don't touch me

with that hand.

Yes I am!

You have abandoned love,

you have abandoned friendship.

Oh yes I have!

You have abandoned me!

I have never abandoned you!

Oleg: You abandoned Russia!

I have not abandoned Russia.

You abandoned your own mother.

I never abandoned my mother.

(men grunting)

(chess pieces clattering)

Yes, yes, go on, break my other nose

as long as it shakes
you out of your prison.

(upbeat music)

Danni.

You wanna talk about it?

I'm not sure I do.

When you get to the bottom, Danni,

there simply are no words.

(wind whooshing)

Just a couple of stiffs
holdin' up the bar, huh?

Speak for yourself.

You know, ever since I was a boy,

I wanted to send people into space.

Then why add pornographer
and blackmailer to your resume?

Perhaps lives were at stake.

Because of the safety issue?

Something A.C. refused to rectify

and you were determined to expose.

To our failures.

Hugo, when the police
took Randal's effects,

did they take a laptop?

No, no laptop.

What's an engineer
doing without a laptop?

I give up, you're the genius.

When the Chase team checked in,

who handed out the room keys?

The boss man's assistant.

Balagan.

Hello.

Hey, Danni, do you still have my garbage?

Please?

Hi, welcome to the Huxley,
what can I get for you tonight?

Here we go.

(bag rustling)

Randal burned something to disc.

He did have a laptop.

Excellent.

What are we talking about?

What if Randal was
falling off the roof,

A.C. went into his room
and stole his laptop.

Why would he do that?

I suspect it has something to do

with this mysterious safety issue.

Okay.

What if he found the
sex tape by accident.

What sex tape?

What if he stole the laptop
to alter the final FAA report?

What sex tape?

A.C. was pressuring Randal

but Randal was gambling he
would ultimately shut up

rather than destroy the whole enterprise.

So if A.C. was busy
breaking into Randal's room

to steal a laptop.

He couldn't have been

on the roof at the same
time killing Randal.

Seriously though, what sex tape?

But what sex tape?

(groans) nevermind.

(suspenseful music)

I wonder who you talk to
about Rosemary in your condition?

This can't go on forever.

You have to find a way to go outside.

Look what happens out there.

Yeah, you can't always control

what happens out there
from in there, Arkady.

You used to break my heart

to watch your genius isolate you.

You grew into an arrogant man.

Full of disdain, very distant.

Until I met Rosemary.

Yes, in Paris with Rosemary.

Then you let the world in.

I was in love, Oleg.

You still are, my friend.

Love, grief, they cannot
be solved with strategy so,

instead of moving on you sit here

and you solve other people's puzzles.

Some therapist.

If someone died for every married woman

that you slept with the earth
would be strewn with corpses.

Yeah.

But I know that you're
innocent of murder.

Pippa: Morning, I'm comin' in.

Yeah, morning.

Arkady: Morning.

You think I wouldn't know
this old Fried Liver Attack?

I was counting on it.

Well, isn't it just so nice
to see everyone getting along.

You know, they banned chess

on the International Space Station

when a fist fight broke out over a game.

Okay, okay, I started it

but Kruzinsky cheated.

And now you can only play against

ground control because of.

Fascinating, but where
are we back on earth?

Well, it looks like Randal died

because of either the sex
tape or the FAA report.

Both were on his laptop
and now that's missing.

I'm sorry, just back up.

Sex tape?

Don't ask.

I'm just happy I'm no longer
Arkady's prime suspect.

And neither is Delia
because she was with him.

And A.C. was breaking into Randal's room

so he wasn't on the roof either.

Pippa: So who's left then?

Tyler.

Tyler has an alibi.

And there's the rub.

Here it is.

Yeah, proves Tyler was
in the bar all night.

Ginger ale, appletini,
ginger ale, appletini,

double bourbon, appletini,

and then back to ginger ale appletinis.

Double bourbon in the middle

now what makes someone
switch to hard liquor.

I don't know, someone
else buying you a drink?

Good news?

Bad news.

Bad news?

Barbara!

Barbara: One moment, Mr. Balagan.

Barbara.

Excuse me, Oleg wants to buy out the bar.

I want to do what?

Yes, private luncheon, hold the lunch.

Mr. Chase.

A.C.: What's this all about?

Being first.

First to a laptop containing an FAA report

that could've postponed your lanch.

I don't know what you're talking about.

The same laptop that also
yielded an unexpected video file

of your wife's zero gravity tryst.

You gave yourself away by punching Oleg.

Be very careful Mr. Balagan.

I'm simply trying to save my friend

from wrongful conviction
and if all goes right,

I may help save you and
Delia from galactic scandal

though perhaps not your launch date.

Ah, Tyler, welcome.

If you and Jenny could sit here please.

What's goin' on?

A.C.?

A.C.: Let him talk.

Consider this a simple reconstruction.

We've traveled back through time and space

to the night of Randal's demise.

Mr. Chase has gone off to bed.

Tyler, you have talked
to Randal in the lobby

and returned for a double bourbon.

Thank you Danni.

Thus Randal is up on the roof all along,

obsessed over this
mysterious safety concern.

Tyler, would you be so kind

as to take off your jacket?

There.

Now to clarify, Jenny, Tyler
is a new friend you just met

that night, yes?

Yeah, I recognized
him from the cereal box.

(Arkady laughing)

Kirkpatrick Crunch, who
would miss that face, yes?

That chiseled profile
that makes him to valuable

to Chase Galactic.

Its value is he's an
elite NASA trained astronaut.

With a marketing
upside, but, I digress.

The night in question has worn on.

Oleg bids us goodnight.

Pippa and I both leave as well,

returning to my suite.

The time is 12:36 a.m.

Randal falls, now.

(phone beeps)

(upbeat music)

Randal has landed.

Four seconds later, the telescope.

Gruesome and I will spare you the.

He hit a Vespa on the southeast curb.

It was not pretty.

Hugo, head of our
security was first on scene.

What happened, Hugo, quick, quick, quick!

The guy died.

So?

So then I called 911 and
waited for the first responders.

Who arrived and what times?

12:40, police and then ambulance.

Right, so for four minutes, Hugo waits.

Right about now, someone
enters Randal's room

and that person is you.

I will not dignify that with an answer.

But did you kill Randal?

I did nothing of the sort.

I know, and the police will agree.

There's no roof gravel
in any of your shoes

and there's no surveillance photos.

Or anything near the roof.

But there's no footage of me either.

Yes, but you always
take the stairs, Oleg.

And there's no security
cameras there anyway.

(upbeat music)

You see, Oleg is not in his prime anymore.

He must work very hard
to pass the physicals.

Much harder than a young buck like Tyler.

Danni, a gingerale and appletini please.

Thanks.

It's 12:40.

Ah, it's four minutes!

First responders have arrived.

At which point Hugo.

Well, I hoofed it
in here to find someone

with Chase Galactic.

Hoof, then Hugo, hoof!

Right, he heads straight for
the Chase Galactic jacket

that he sees which is worn by?

Her.

And you said?

Are you from Chase Galactic?

And you said.

No, but he is.

Right, so Tyler, the
astronaut who is much fitter

than Sam had time to.

Push Randal off.

That's insane.

And then, anyone?

Run down the stairs into the bar.

In time for me to hand him a drink

just when Hugo walked in.

Oh, come on, are we
takin' this seriously?

Do you remember Tyler leaving
the bar around that time?

You did take a really
long time in the bathroom.

I figured that you.

This is ridiculous.

What motive could I possibly
have to kill Randal?

Your motive, Tyler, silencing
Randal who was so obsessed

with safety he would postpone your launch.

I'm sorry, could you please
take your jacket off?

Give it back.

Tyler, would you
mind putting it back on?

You don the jacket with
such panache, Tyler.

I wasn't aware.

(people clapping)

Tyler, I'm going to the
roof, may I have a word?

Now, Randal?

The Lyrids should be bright enough

that you can reach straight up

and touch the comet Thatcher.

It's not an invitation, Tyler.

He's threatening you.

Could you reach for the stars, Tyler?

I suspect that is why you left NASA,

hoping that your injury would slip past

the less scrupulous doctors

of the private aerospace industry.

His injured shoulder is the
mysterious safety concern

and Randal was going to expose him.

That is what he told you

and that is why you
ordered the double bourbon.

You damn fool!

I had it covered!

I wasn't going to let Randal blow the race

over a goddamn rotator cuff.

Hugo: I put in a call to the P.D.

You're gonna have to come with us.

So, now all you need is a job.

No, now all I need is a vodka.

Pippa: Very Russian of you.

Oleg: Very good.

Is this?

(woman moaning)

Oleg.

Oh, yes, yes, I told you Sam.

We use duct tape for everything.

Mr. Olesky, do you
realize how historic this is.

I mean this is.

Giant leap for mankind.

This is the first documented proof

of human coupling in space.

Yes, yes, yes, but
Sam we choose discretion

for the woman's honor, yes.

To my little brother.

To my big brother.

(speaking in Russian)

(Pippa gasps)

It burns, doesn't it?

(mysterious music)