My Life Is Murder (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 10 - Episode #2.10 - full transcript
Your extra-shot flat whites.
Why do people put food
on their social media?
- Well, food is art, right?
- No, that is just dollop of flour with sugar on top.
No, it's Reuben's
Special Wholemeal Waffle Stack
with crispy, smoked bacon
and vanilla bean maple syrup.
- Whatever.
- Do they think people really care?
- Well, it's called 'sharing'.
- No, it's called 'toxic self-obsession'.
The hole planet is on a trajectory to hell, and these
goobers are sharing their maple syrup formations.
How much coffee have you
had today?
Harry. What up?
Hi. Fancy seeing you here.
I have got yoga in half an hour. If I
miss my class, I'm bloody charging ya.
- You ever heard of the Hex programme?
- Something to do with witches?
No, it's a New Age self-help programme set up
by husband and wife duo Otto and Clarissa Klein.
Oh, yeah.
It started off in New Zealand. Now
they've got hubs all over the world.
It's a go-to
for the rich and influential.
Are you saying I
need to work on my personality?
Yeah, I am, actually.
But that's a separate issue.
Otto Klein was found dead in a hotel room two
weeks ago ... naked and handcuffed to a bed.
- Handcuffed?
- By choice. He owned the handcuffs.
- Apparently, his sexual preferences fall into the unusual category.
- Cause of death?
Official finding is accidental
autoerotic asphyxiation.
Otto had a specifically-designed
belt that he liked to rig
between his neck and the upper strut
of the bed. It was this thing, apparently.
- Says who?
- Her.
Sarah Holbeck... says she was in the
room with him when a fire alarm went off.
He was alive at this point.
She tried to uncuff him
but couldn't find the key.
Well, that sounds like
very bad planning.
Claims she left the room to get -help, and when
she got back, he was hanging from the bed strut.
- What about the fire?
- False alarm.
She said she tried to resuscitate
him, but it was too late.
- You don't believe her?
- Not sure.
Sarah is a Hex employee. She was
a client and then joined the staff.
- OK, and what about CCTV?
- Nothing from the inside.
- It's a discreet establishment.
- Oh, a no-tell hotel. Nice!
- What about outside?
- Nothing conclusive. Do you wanna hear more?
Why, yes, I do. Does that
make me a bad person?
Sarah Holbeck's dad is the very
soon-to-be Sir Reginald Holbeck.
Well, it is very handy to have a powerful judge
as a father when your married lover ends up dead,
- handcuffed to a bed.
- Certainly is.
Don't tell me her dad sat in
on the interview.
All she gave us was a written I paragraph as
her statement. After that, it was 'no comment'.
Well, that always screams
innocence to me - There's a kicker.
Bring it.
Sarah's back at Hex running self-help
programmes ... business as usual.
- But the dead guy's wife is still running the show?
- Yup.
She does know by now
about the affair?
Wow. Talk about turning
the other cheek, huh?
All right.
Tell me more about this Hex.
Kia or a.
Welcome to Hex.
Welcome to Hex.
We are so glad to see you.
My name is Sarah.
I'm your personal journey director.
In the corner, we have Cameron who's looking
after technical systems and security.
This programme because we think you You've been
selectively chosen for have what it takes to make change.
Who wants to change their lives
for the better?
Perfect.
Hex is gonna show you how.
This process takes time,
honesty, hard work and action.
To measure your progress we use
a process called the Solon System
There are eight Solon levels, and
each time you progress to the next level,
you will receive one
of these purity symbols.
I am Seventh Solon.
The ultimate destination ...
the eighth level ... is Alpha Solon.
Thus far, it has only ever been achieved by
our founders ... Clarissa and Otto Klein.
And one of them is with us today ...
Clarissa.
Thank you, Sarah.
Today, you will be taking your first
steps in the Hex journey.
As Sarah said, it will involve pain
and honesty.
So let me begin by sharing
some honesty with you.
Otto...
the love of my life...
has recently passed away...
...and I don't know that I can
continue this work without him.
In moments of pain, we need to
surrender to being interconnected.
You need me.
I need you.
And we all need each other.
You will be given a device.
On it, is your registered profile.
Today we need you to sign one more form
a non-disclosure agreement.
Why? Because in this room, we
disclose everything with each other.
It is and must remain a safe space.
What happens at Hex stays at Hex.
Please.
- Oh my goodness.
- What are you doing?
They need a pic.
Concentrate! Make it hurt!
Find that power,
the energy inside yourselves!
All the way down!
Backs nice and straight!
Two weeks ago, she was boofing
Clarissa's dead husband.
Now she's still employee of the
month. I wouldn't be hugging her.
Maybe they're just really
trusting open, hippy people.
Trusting? Have you seen how many
cameras are around this place?
- Is it hurting yet?
- Yeah. - Yes, thank you.
Embrace it. It's good pain.
All change! Next activity
on the circuit! Let's go!
Hex is about lifting yourself up.
Conquering your mind starts
with your body. That is a fact.
So I want you all to learn something
you currently think is impossible.
Who's first?
- Which one of you is Alexa?
- Hello, yes, hello. Me.
I like to have a little one-on-one
time with all the new inductees.
Nice to meet you, Alexa Crowe.
Nice to meet you too.
Peanut?
Oh, I don't like peanuts.
- It's great for the memory.
- Well...
I'm glad the great for something.
What is your greatest fear?
Gosh, so many to choose from.
Um...
Well, after my husband died, I fear that
I will never find anyone to replace him.
At my core, I'm just a,
you know, mad romantic.
It seems we've met each other
in a moment of shared transition.
Oh, yes. I feel that too.
Look, I know that Hex is all about
feeling stronger, but are you OK?
That is so kind of you to ask.
Thank you.
Yes, I'm OK.
It must help to have such good
friends around like Sarah.
It does.
I know from lived experience that
beautiful things come from violent change.
Wow.
You're doing better in a couple
of days than I'm doing after years.
I have tried everything.
I have moved house. I have chased a big
salary. I have tried to change things up.
But I cannot get at this emptiness.
Losing interest in the hunt must've
been confronting for a detective.
- Well, former detective. I'm retired.
- Yes.
I'm sorry.
I saw that I'm the application.
When did you move back
from Australia?
That wasn't on the application.
Your accent, it sounds Melbourne.
Dang, who is the detective here?
So are you ready
for whatever comes next?
Yes.
This journey with me
will change your life.
OK, everyone. Time to climb.
- How high?
- Let's see.
- Yes. Go higher. You've got this.
- You've got this.
- Hi. Cameron?
- Hi.
Do you film this for a good old laugh or
because you like seeing people being tortured?
- It's for the journey.
- In a month, he'll be a weapon.
People like seeing how far
they've come.
Uh, I'm Madison. I was admiring your computer
before. It's a GGPC Reaper RTX 3070, right?
- So you're a gamer?
- Mm-hm. - Same.
How did you get this gig?
- My parents asked me to do it.
- Your parents?
Clarissa and Otto.
Oh, wow. Um, I didn't realise. Um,
I'm sorry to hear about your dad.
Thank you.
- Hey, you two.
- All good in the hood, Cam-a-Lam?
Uh, I have... I'll be right back.
I Excuse me. I
Madeline.
- Madeline?
- Madison?
- Oh, yes. Um, it's your turn for a one-on-one with Clarissa.
- Oh, sure.
- Gosh. You must really miss Otto.
- Very much. We all do.
I bet.
- I mean, I already get the feeling that this place is like a family.
- It is.
So, what's your greatest fear?
- Frogs?!
- Oh, it's a thing. Ranidophobia ... I've had it since I was a kid.
- I can't even look at a photo of a frog without sweating.
- You're weird.
- OK.
- What did you say your fear was?
Some crap about wanting to find
another husband.
I would not tell these people
anything real. They're scam merchants.
Well, it's not a scam
if people think that it works.
People are more vulnerable
when they're tired.
This Hex stuff is just neurolinguistic
programming with a twist.
- Translation?
- Well, it's a mishmash of communication,
personal development,
and psychotherapy.
- Well, it's a profitable mishmash.
- They've turned over $15 million a year.
- Well, who gets all that cash now that Otto's dead?
- Clarissa.
- What about the son?
- Otto changed his will a year ago ... left Cameron nothing.
Now, what did Cameron do a year ago
that made his father do that to him?
- Another fun fact ... Sarah's parents are loaded.
- Oh yeah, her father's a judge.
Yeah, she's in for her own
major payday at some point.
She owns her own home, makes great money
at Hex. She really didn't need their money.
Then why is she having sex with
a man twice her age who's her boss?
I've tracked her socials, and I got into her
Messenger. She really, genuinely liked him.
Or was it just a well-planned,
long-term honey trap?
Do you think that Clarissa and
Sarah could have been in it together?
Oh God. That's brilliant. And that
would explain a lot of things.
Sarah's been searching UK visas
and visiting the Hex London portal a lot.
So was she trying to run away
with Otto or from him?
Madison, wake up.
- What time is it?
- I want you to look at these.
It's 3am, you maniac!
Oh, god.
- Here. Look closely. What do you see?
- It's the dead guy's hands. What...
The bruising is on the left wrist; the handcuff
is on the right. There's no bruising there so far.
- So... - Oh, it's so good.
- What are you doing?!
- Remind me what time the fire alarm went off that night.
- 10 to 7.
And the woman that was in this room with Mr Klein,
when did she come to reception and ask for help?
- About three or four minutes later.
- And was she stressed, panicked?
- Well, of course.
- She thought there was a fire.
- Until we realised there wasn't.
- Thanks.
Wait, you're not gonna get fingerprint
dust all over the place again, are you?
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
- We just wanna have a look around.
Yeah, good, cos that took
about a week to clean up last time.
What are you doing?
Otto weighed 74 kilos, all right?
He was hung by the neck
from this bar, right?
It can totally take his weight, whereas here, the weld
is weak at the joint. I could never take his weight.
- OK...
- His right hand was attached to this bar by handcuff.
And yet it's his left wrist that has
the bruising. What does that tell you?
In order for him to be
strung up by his belt,
the handcuff had to be changed
from his left wrist to his right?
I think he was killed before
he was hung up on this side.
Yeah, but Sarah said that she
couldn't find the key to the handcuff.
That's why she went to get help.
Yeah.
That is what she said.
♪
This coffee isn't
as good as Reubens
Well, don't tell him. He already thinks
he makes the best coffee in the world.
- Like you do with your bread?
- Yeah, but I'm right!
Do you think that Otto was already dead
when Sarah left the room to go and get help?
Yeah, maybe.
I mean, the fire alarm goes off, she panics,
and then she realises, 'I need an alibi.'
Well, she would've needed one of those anyway,
wouldn't she, even if the alarm hadn't gone off?
She might've planned just to slip
out. Get yourself seen somewhere.
You know, it's really hard to be exact about the
time of death if the body was found the next day.
- So, the fire alarm was a spanner in the works?
- Yeah, it feels like it.
So, if Sarah had killed him, why
not just leave him hanging there?
I mean, why take his body down
and try to resuscitate it?
Well, that's what I'd do if I
wanted to make it look like I cared.
And then I call the police,
which she did.
- All right, well,
- how are we gonna prove any of this?
- I don't know.
- Gotta find some fresh points.
Oh, hey. You've gotta get into
Cameron's computer.
It's military grade.
Now, Madison, I sense you're experiencing some
negativity, and what you need is some equilibrium.
Hex! I'll put a hex on you!
Hi.
Hey. do you play sow?
- You're not getting lunch with the others?
- Oh, I'm not really into people.
I prefer to, I don't know,
do my own thing.
This is a really impressive piece
of hardware you've got here.
I built most of this myself.
So, I'm guessing, by the sizing
of the profile photos you collect,
that you're operating
a system replica to the NGI.
Wow. Yeah, you know your stuff.
Hey, do a fellow geek a
solid and show me.
I know that it's probably not done,
but I've signed an NDA, right?
Come have a look.
- Oh, hey, Sarah.
- Hey, yourself. Grab a bite.
- Yeah, only you can't really bite into quinoa salad, can ya?
-
Hey, is it true that you were in the hotel
room with Otto that night that he died?
- Who told you that?
- Oh, it was just something I read on the internet.
- There's a lot of crap on the internet.
- You know, that's what I thought.
- They say that he was handcuffed to a bed.
- Really?
Yeah, and his handcuff was switched from the left
wrist to the right. How would thing like that happen?
- Who are you?
- I'm just Neville Nobody. I'm trying to make my life better.
Kia or a. I'm Otto Klein, and I'm very happy
to see you all here today. You're doing great.
Let's talk about the kind of commitment we expect
to see from you as you strive to achieve Level 1.
Honey, are you OK?
That woman Alexa, she's a cop.
Ex-cop.
She knows. She knows what happened. It
doesn't matter what she thinks she knows.
- - No one can touch you. Relax.
- I'm trying. I'm not you.
You don't have to be me,
but you do have to accept that...
I can't do this.
I need to go
now. I wanna go to London.
You've always said you
wouldn't stop me from succeeding.
- We talked about this.
- That was before.
I need you here with me.
Leaving is not an answer
to your problems.
- How many times in your life have you run away?
- This is different.
I got everything so wrong.
I know I did.
And I can't heal here.
There's too many reminders
of what I've done.
You made a terrible mistake, and people are
watching you, waiting for you to slip up.
Please don't
draw attention to yourself, Sarah!
You upset her.
- Oh. I guess once a cop, huh?
- 'Retired, ' you said.
I don't wish to appear jealous, but if I found
that my girlfriend was sleeping with my husband,
I'd be a little bit annoyed.
- Only if fear wins. Love and understanding are more powerful.
- Oh.
I still think it's weird that she seems
more upset about Otto than you do.
- Otto's own actions led to his death.
- What happened to him was his own fault.
You're not just
a little bit angry?
Stay away from me and my family. That
includes Sarah. Your time here is finished.
- Thank goodness. At last, some real food.
- Mm.
At least we won't have to put up
with our equilibrium crap any more.
Did you find out anything
about Cameron's IT?
He's built it himself, so there'|| be a hole
somewhere. I just need to find it for you.
Mm, great. Cos remember, I need
you and we all need each other.
Cameron's got an image of Sarah
on his home screen.
- Really?
- Mm-hm. It's definitely a love story, at least in his own mind.
Dad sleeping with her
must've been pretty painful.
Like father, like son. Maybe like Mum.
Sarah turns out to be the Hex Medusa.
- Hey!
- You two have worked up an appetite.
- How's my bread selling?
- Or how are you, Reuben? -
- What are the fancy duds in aid of?
- Oh, thanks for noticing.
- A date? Where are you going?
- Uh, new French cafe up the road.
Mm, can you post
while you're there?
No, he cannot post while he's there. He's
supposed to be focussing on another human being.
Why by 80 bucks of snail foam
if you're just gonna Food Gram it?
What? You don't want me to big-ups
your bread social any more?
Wait. Are you saying that you're
touting my bread online without my say-so?
Well, I know you're not
a big social media fan, so...
Wait. Are you saying that that's
why people are buying my bread?
Ah, the ethical dilemma.
What she hateth
so is how thou dost sell her bread.
I was with her just a couple of hours
ago. It just doesn't make any sense.
Her neighbour found her
on the way to the laundry. No notes.
Her parents said that she tried I to call them a
few times just after lunch. They didn't answer.
I'm sorry, Sarah.
What happened to you?
♪
- This is not right.
- Seems pretty clear. No reports of fighting.
No one seen entering or leaving
the block.
Any security video?
We've got a team collecting all the
available footage within a 300m radius.
You know, this is not
what it looks like, Harry.
- She had a complex history.
- Maybe, but that's not what's at play here.
Because?
Instinct.
A few hours after I ask a couple of
hard questions, Sarah's dead.
- Poor thing.
- Yeah.
I hope you're not blaming
yourself for this.
Well, she's got a family
who will never see her again.
So yeah, I'd be happier if someone
else was in the mix, that's for sure.
OK, so I've cracked the Hex security
log showing who came and went today.
- Yeah, and?
- And they've been doctored.
Look, it's a tiny detail, but if you
look closely enough in the code,
the security footprint they've
generated is yesterday's, not today's.
I mean, Cameron's good,
but I'm better.
So, what's the earliest evidence that
Sarah was having an affair with Otto?
Well, texting started outside work
last year ... March.
And what date did Otto amend
his will to cut Cameron out?
It's not long after that.
That's so uncool.
Could Cameron have found out about
the affair with Otto?
Oh, easily. If I could find
those texts, then Cameron could.
So, maybe he confronted his father, told
him to stop and his father responded by...
- Cutting him out of the will?
- Yeah.
But why kill Sarah
if he loved her?
She went right back to work and remained
the focus of his mother's attention.
She wasn't interested in him,
even with Otto gone.
Well, there's no sign of Reuben's
date, but he is clearly in love with foam.
Yeah, it's nice.
Alexa, are you OK?
What do you suppose the mood's like at Hex
now that they've had two deaths in two weeks?
Well, it's a shame we can't go
back and check.
I have some difficult
and distressing news.
Our friend, our colleague, our dear
Sarah passed away yesterday.
I'm sorry, I can't give you any information.
But please, remember that you signed an NDA.
This is not to be discussed
with anybody.
I've asked the Hex Group
worldwide...
to immediately pause operations while I
come to grips with this loss to our family.
Please forgive me.
We'll be in touch.
You're not welcome here.
Did you talk to Sarah
after she left yesterday?
No.
Please leave now.
Where's Cameron?
Why?
I want to know where he was
after Sarah left.
If you come near me or my son
again, I will get a protection order.
- Hello. - How's your gut instinct going?
- So good. I'm all a tingle.
I've got CCTV footage of the streets
surrounding Sarah's place. Send you some links.
- Hey, uh, is the autopsy in?
- Not yet.
Let me know when it is.
Do you ever say 'please'?
- Sarah obviously felt guilty about sleeping with my dad.
- Did she?
- If that's true, then why did she come back to work with your mum?
- I don't know.
She was a bent unit.
Same as Otto.
- Liars and cheats ... both of them.
- Doesn't mean they deserved to die, though, does it?
Are you a cop too?
No.
It's a bit of a long story,
but I'm not lying about that.
I'm used to people
trying to trip us up.
Look, I'm really sorry
that you lost a friend yesterday.
I could tell that you were
really into Sarah.
I guess I was the wrong
kind of Klein.
She only had eyes for Otto.
- Well, that's gotta suck a bit.
- Everybody knew.
Apart from my mum.
I mean, she knew about
all the others.
But I guess she and Sarah
were so close, she didn't click.
- There were others?
- Oh, yeah.
He wasn't much of a dad.
Well, did Otto know
how you felt about Sarah?
- Sure.
- We fought about it all the time.
He didn't care.
The only person Otto cared about
was himself.
Where were you yesterday
when Sarah died?
- At home.
- Did anyone see you there?
Why?
Because you doctored the Hex security logs,
and I'm kind of interested in why you did that.
Hey, come take a look at this.
Uh, hi, Madison.
- Does that like anyone you know?
- Cameron?
- This was taken 200m from Sarah's House yesterday afternoon.
- That would explain it.
- Explains what?
- Why he wouldn't tell me the reason he doctored the security logs.
- That's where you've been ... talking to Cameron?
- Yeah.
- Without telling me?!
- I left you a message. It's not my fault that you ignore your phone.
Madison, he could be a killer.
Look, it was broad daylight. We were in
public. Why? Would you have worried about me?
By the way, Cameron said that Sarah was only one
of many. Apparently, Otto had a lot of Sarahs.
- Oh, yeah? How many?
- Not sure, but one thing's for certain ...
Cameron was not
his dad's biggest fan.
Can we find out
who these other women were?
Yeah, I can troll back through
Otto's phone records.
Good. Do it.
Oh and...
Don't go vigilante on me again.
So...
'No contusions, abrasions or lacerations consistent
with a physical altercation prior to death.'
Well, that doesn't mean
she wasn't taken by surprise.
Yeah, but it means there's
no evidence to say that she was.
I think that Otto Klein's son was
visible in the CCTV footage you sent me.
- You think he was or he was?
- Well, it's indistinct but...
- How far from the scene?
- 200m.
- Well, he could've been out shopping.
- Don't be absurd.
He was there. 8km from Hex. 10km
from his own home. He wasn't shopping.
I'm only telling you what a
half-decent defence lawyer would say.
Are these her clothes?
Yeah.
Do you know I failed her?
All you did was go looking
for the truth.
She felt guilty about killing her
lover. That's not your fault.
- But what if she didn't?
- She was the only other person there.
That we know of.
- Can I?
- Yeah.
She was out of
that room for nearly 10 minutes,
and the handcuff on Otto's wrist was
switched from his left to his right.
- Why is that significant?
- Because if somebody came in and did it while Sarah was out of the room,
she would've noticed
when she got back in.
- She never said anything about that.
- I know. Why wouldn't she?
- It makes no sense.
- There'd be a skull battery evidence.
It makes sense if she had an idea
who did it and was trying to protect them.
Hey, can you give me that blade?
- What's that?
- That's a Hex charm.
The members wear it to indicate
their level in the hierarchy.
Yeah, I read about this.
No, but this is an Alpha Solon. There are
only two. One was Otto's and one Clarissa's.
So, why did Sarah have it?
And more importantly, why did
she feel the need to hide it?
♪
Whose is it?
Well, if it's Otto's,
it's a love charm.
If it's Clarissa's, well, that opens
up some really big questions.
Yeah, like why Sarah had it.
Yeah, and why she felt the need
to sew it into her clothes.
- Any theories?
- I think she needed to know that she always had it with her.
- Because?
- Because she knew Clarissa was looking for it.
Hey, where was Clarissa on
the afternoon that Sarah died?
- Her location data places her phone at Hex.
- She could have just left it there.
Yeah, she could. I mean, Cameron's phone was at
his house all afternoon, but we know he wasn't.
- Any luck tracking Otto's other lovers?
- Some.
He made a lot of calls and sent a lot of texts
to a woman by the name of Chantelle D'Arcy ...
- another Hex alumnus.
- Well, where will we find her?
She's meeting you
tomorrow morning.
Chantelle.
Hi, Alexa.
Thank you so much for coming
at short notice.
Said that you were a Hexer and this - Uh, yeah. As
soon as your friend was about Sarah, I wanted to come.
I've texted her many times,
but she's cut me off. ls She OK?
Sarah died two days ago,
and Otto Klein, two weeks ago.
Did she kill him?
Why would you say
a thing like that?
He was obsessed with her. Maybe
she thought that that was her only option.
Well, you had a relationship with him too.
Yes. It wasn't my finest hour.
Chantelle, I'm an investigator,
not a Hex alumnus.
- Investigating what? Hex or how they died?
- All of the above.
What did you hear about
Otto and Sarah?
I heard that she fell really hard for him,
but she knew it was a dead end relationship.
- She always wanted to run the programme in London.
- So, why didn't she?
Once Otto got involved,
that was never gonna happen.
Because...
- Otto wanted her.
- Clarissa needed her.
If she'd left, they would've had no one to do
all the hard work for them on the ground here.
Do you think that maybe
Sarah wanted out?
With Hex, there
is no such thing as 'out'.
Meaning they keep a record of your darkest
secrets and use them when they need them?
Exactly.
And that's why Otto recorded every interaction
with him. That was part of the deal.
Otto definitely had no personal videos in
the Cloud. He knew Cameron would find them.
Mm. What about a separate device
that records wirelessly to a drive?
Well, it's that hard drive we want. Do you
seriously think he recorded his own death?
Well, I think it's possible.
- How long are we gonna stay here?
- Until they leave.
- How's the security there?
- It's hardcore.
If I can't black it out,
there's no way we can get in.
Just have to hope that there's
no trigger alert on his phone.
- I believe in you.
- Oh, we wouldn't be sitting here if you didn't.
Oh, here they go.
- How's it coming along?
- I'm in.
Right. Let's go.
The Kleins have
interesting taste. That's all I'm saying.
- Does that thing work?
- Absolutely. It's a metal detector app.
I've set it to detect palladium and magnets.
There's lots of both in hard drives.
I'll just use my eyes.
Madison...
Oh, damn.
He was in love with her.
Hey, up here!
- Really?
- Yeah.
OK. Help me grab this.
OK, hold it steady.
- Oh, god.
- Oh.
Rats and spiders.
Ooh.
One hard drive. Yes!
- - Uh-oh. Here we go.
- Be cool, fool. They won't miss it.
Yeah, they didn't even know
it was there.
Welcome home.
- You missed the hallway camera.
- Good but not excellent.
What the hell
are you playing at now?
Nothing's changed. I'm just trying to figure out
what happened to your husband, which in theory,
you should be keen on too, right?
Whatever you were doing in there,
I'll be able to find a way to see it.
- Sadly, you won't.
- I'm getting a restraining order.
If either of you ever set foot on this
property again, I'll have you arrested.
Forward to it.
Great to see you
None of this footage
was recorded on a phone.
It's all gone to a camera
and been uploaded by an RF signal.
- How many files are there?
- Loads. All labelled and dated. He was meticulous.
- This one's Chantelle.
- Just pause that a second.
- How many files are labelled 'Sarah'?
- Plenty, but none from the day he died.
Because he never got a chance
to upload them.
- And did Mr Klein always use the same room?
- Yes, always.
This room.
Is there any way in or out of this building
without being seen by the cameras?
Only if they go through the kitchen. That
door goes straight out into the car park.
- How many smoke alarms have you got on each floor?
- One.
- And when one goes off, do they all go off?
- Yes.
- What the hell are you doing?
- Perfume.
- Hey, can I just take one more look inside Mr Klein's room?
- Sure.
♪
- Hello.
- Good to see you knocking for a change. That's an improvement.
- Thank you for noticing. Can I come in?
- Not without a search warrant.
- Don't worry.
- I am not searching for anything.
- Hey, you can't be here.
- You need to leave right now.
Wow.
Cameron, why were you at Sarah's
place the afternoon she died?
You were seen, so spill it.
I didn't go in. I swear.
Do you go there often?
Just hang out hoping to catch a glimpse,
see who she's hanging out with? Is that it?
Whose is this?
Clarissa's or Otto's?
- Where did you get that?
- From Sarah. It was sewn into her jeans.
- - I don't understand.
- Cameron!
Don't say a word.
Whoa.
Poke the cub and the bear will come.
Did you really think that you
could enter my business, my home,
harass me and my son,
and there would be no consequences?
Mum, why did Sarah
have your Alpha charm?
Can you leave us alone
for a minute please?
Who behaves
like this in front of someone's child?
Why did Sarah have
your Alpha charm?
Because she stole it.
Are you sure she didn't find it on the
hotel room floor where you dropped it.
- What are you talking about?
- I'm talking about what you did.
You figured out that Otto had a regular Tuesday
afternoon rendezvous at the art hotel with Sarah.
The most important part of the plan
was to get the keys to the handcuffs.
You went into the hotel
through the kitchen and waited ...
just long enough for Otto and Sarah
to get comfortable,
cos if Otto wasn't cuffed when you
got into the room, the plan wouldn't work.
And then you set off the fire alarm.
It's a neat trick. Done it myself.
And you knew that Sarah would panic,
so when she did, ran to get some help,
you had just minutes to kill Otto
and to get out of there.
You've got less than that
to get out of here.
When Sarah got back to the room, she noticed
that Otto was on the wrong side of the bed.
Lucky for you,
she was loyal to a fault.
Do you honestly expect anyone
to believe any of that?
Yeah, I kind of do because Otto
recorded the most incriminating part.
You choked Otto with his own belt
while he was handcuffed to the bed,
and then you strung him up to make it
look like he'd done it to himself.
Why? Was it the money
or the betrayal?
Both.
Why not just let Sarah go to
London? She didn't have to die.
Mum...
I'm sorry.
- - Gonna be all right?
- I don't know.
No.
Look, you're a talented guy.
You can make your own future.
You don't have to let
your family define you.
Tell Madison she can look me up
if she wants.
I'll do that.
♪ Something's are indescribable...
♪ ...until you know just
what you wanna say.
♪ So, just relax and remember. ♪
So, how much did your
fancy French dinner cost?
Well, the frogs legs alone cost
more than the suit I was wearing.
- Oh, yuck.
- Shame on you.
Hey, Alexa, are
you searching for equilibrium or something?
- Oh, nah. It's a work thing.
- You wouldn't understand.
- Is that...
- Have you got an Instagram account?
Ooh!
Yes.
The ultimate social media hater
comes in from the cold.
What's it called?
Deadly dough.
- I love it.
- Wait. Wait. How many followers have you got?
- Nearly a hundred.
- - To Deadly Dough.
Deadly Dough!
And do not forget the hashtag.
- Wait. Let's get a selfie.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Oh, no. No photographs, please.
Captions by Kristin Williams.
Captions were made with
the support of NZ On Air.
Why do people put food
on their social media?
- Well, food is art, right?
- No, that is just dollop of flour with sugar on top.
No, it's Reuben's
Special Wholemeal Waffle Stack
with crispy, smoked bacon
and vanilla bean maple syrup.
- Whatever.
- Do they think people really care?
- Well, it's called 'sharing'.
- No, it's called 'toxic self-obsession'.
The hole planet is on a trajectory to hell, and these
goobers are sharing their maple syrup formations.
How much coffee have you
had today?
Harry. What up?
Hi. Fancy seeing you here.
I have got yoga in half an hour. If I
miss my class, I'm bloody charging ya.
- You ever heard of the Hex programme?
- Something to do with witches?
No, it's a New Age self-help programme set up
by husband and wife duo Otto and Clarissa Klein.
Oh, yeah.
It started off in New Zealand. Now
they've got hubs all over the world.
It's a go-to
for the rich and influential.
Are you saying I
need to work on my personality?
Yeah, I am, actually.
But that's a separate issue.
Otto Klein was found dead in a hotel room two
weeks ago ... naked and handcuffed to a bed.
- Handcuffed?
- By choice. He owned the handcuffs.
- Apparently, his sexual preferences fall into the unusual category.
- Cause of death?
Official finding is accidental
autoerotic asphyxiation.
Otto had a specifically-designed
belt that he liked to rig
between his neck and the upper strut
of the bed. It was this thing, apparently.
- Says who?
- Her.
Sarah Holbeck... says she was in the
room with him when a fire alarm went off.
He was alive at this point.
She tried to uncuff him
but couldn't find the key.
Well, that sounds like
very bad planning.
Claims she left the room to get -help, and when
she got back, he was hanging from the bed strut.
- What about the fire?
- False alarm.
She said she tried to resuscitate
him, but it was too late.
- You don't believe her?
- Not sure.
Sarah is a Hex employee. She was
a client and then joined the staff.
- OK, and what about CCTV?
- Nothing from the inside.
- It's a discreet establishment.
- Oh, a no-tell hotel. Nice!
- What about outside?
- Nothing conclusive. Do you wanna hear more?
Why, yes, I do. Does that
make me a bad person?
Sarah Holbeck's dad is the very
soon-to-be Sir Reginald Holbeck.
Well, it is very handy to have a powerful judge
as a father when your married lover ends up dead,
- handcuffed to a bed.
- Certainly is.
Don't tell me her dad sat in
on the interview.
All she gave us was a written I paragraph as
her statement. After that, it was 'no comment'.
Well, that always screams
innocence to me - There's a kicker.
Bring it.
Sarah's back at Hex running self-help
programmes ... business as usual.
- But the dead guy's wife is still running the show?
- Yup.
She does know by now
about the affair?
Wow. Talk about turning
the other cheek, huh?
All right.
Tell me more about this Hex.
Kia or a.
Welcome to Hex.
Welcome to Hex.
We are so glad to see you.
My name is Sarah.
I'm your personal journey director.
In the corner, we have Cameron who's looking
after technical systems and security.
This programme because we think you You've been
selectively chosen for have what it takes to make change.
Who wants to change their lives
for the better?
Perfect.
Hex is gonna show you how.
This process takes time,
honesty, hard work and action.
To measure your progress we use
a process called the Solon System
There are eight Solon levels, and
each time you progress to the next level,
you will receive one
of these purity symbols.
I am Seventh Solon.
The ultimate destination ...
the eighth level ... is Alpha Solon.
Thus far, it has only ever been achieved by
our founders ... Clarissa and Otto Klein.
And one of them is with us today ...
Clarissa.
Thank you, Sarah.
Today, you will be taking your first
steps in the Hex journey.
As Sarah said, it will involve pain
and honesty.
So let me begin by sharing
some honesty with you.
Otto...
the love of my life...
has recently passed away...
...and I don't know that I can
continue this work without him.
In moments of pain, we need to
surrender to being interconnected.
You need me.
I need you.
And we all need each other.
You will be given a device.
On it, is your registered profile.
Today we need you to sign one more form
a non-disclosure agreement.
Why? Because in this room, we
disclose everything with each other.
It is and must remain a safe space.
What happens at Hex stays at Hex.
Please.
- Oh my goodness.
- What are you doing?
They need a pic.
Concentrate! Make it hurt!
Find that power,
the energy inside yourselves!
All the way down!
Backs nice and straight!
Two weeks ago, she was boofing
Clarissa's dead husband.
Now she's still employee of the
month. I wouldn't be hugging her.
Maybe they're just really
trusting open, hippy people.
Trusting? Have you seen how many
cameras are around this place?
- Is it hurting yet?
- Yeah. - Yes, thank you.
Embrace it. It's good pain.
All change! Next activity
on the circuit! Let's go!
Hex is about lifting yourself up.
Conquering your mind starts
with your body. That is a fact.
So I want you all to learn something
you currently think is impossible.
Who's first?
- Which one of you is Alexa?
- Hello, yes, hello. Me.
I like to have a little one-on-one
time with all the new inductees.
Nice to meet you, Alexa Crowe.
Nice to meet you too.
Peanut?
Oh, I don't like peanuts.
- It's great for the memory.
- Well...
I'm glad the great for something.
What is your greatest fear?
Gosh, so many to choose from.
Um...
Well, after my husband died, I fear that
I will never find anyone to replace him.
At my core, I'm just a,
you know, mad romantic.
It seems we've met each other
in a moment of shared transition.
Oh, yes. I feel that too.
Look, I know that Hex is all about
feeling stronger, but are you OK?
That is so kind of you to ask.
Thank you.
Yes, I'm OK.
It must help to have such good
friends around like Sarah.
It does.
I know from lived experience that
beautiful things come from violent change.
Wow.
You're doing better in a couple
of days than I'm doing after years.
I have tried everything.
I have moved house. I have chased a big
salary. I have tried to change things up.
But I cannot get at this emptiness.
Losing interest in the hunt must've
been confronting for a detective.
- Well, former detective. I'm retired.
- Yes.
I'm sorry.
I saw that I'm the application.
When did you move back
from Australia?
That wasn't on the application.
Your accent, it sounds Melbourne.
Dang, who is the detective here?
So are you ready
for whatever comes next?
Yes.
This journey with me
will change your life.
OK, everyone. Time to climb.
- How high?
- Let's see.
- Yes. Go higher. You've got this.
- You've got this.
- Hi. Cameron?
- Hi.
Do you film this for a good old laugh or
because you like seeing people being tortured?
- It's for the journey.
- In a month, he'll be a weapon.
People like seeing how far
they've come.
Uh, I'm Madison. I was admiring your computer
before. It's a GGPC Reaper RTX 3070, right?
- So you're a gamer?
- Mm-hm. - Same.
How did you get this gig?
- My parents asked me to do it.
- Your parents?
Clarissa and Otto.
Oh, wow. Um, I didn't realise. Um,
I'm sorry to hear about your dad.
Thank you.
- Hey, you two.
- All good in the hood, Cam-a-Lam?
Uh, I have... I'll be right back.
I Excuse me. I
Madeline.
- Madeline?
- Madison?
- Oh, yes. Um, it's your turn for a one-on-one with Clarissa.
- Oh, sure.
- Gosh. You must really miss Otto.
- Very much. We all do.
I bet.
- I mean, I already get the feeling that this place is like a family.
- It is.
So, what's your greatest fear?
- Frogs?!
- Oh, it's a thing. Ranidophobia ... I've had it since I was a kid.
- I can't even look at a photo of a frog without sweating.
- You're weird.
- OK.
- What did you say your fear was?
Some crap about wanting to find
another husband.
I would not tell these people
anything real. They're scam merchants.
Well, it's not a scam
if people think that it works.
People are more vulnerable
when they're tired.
This Hex stuff is just neurolinguistic
programming with a twist.
- Translation?
- Well, it's a mishmash of communication,
personal development,
and psychotherapy.
- Well, it's a profitable mishmash.
- They've turned over $15 million a year.
- Well, who gets all that cash now that Otto's dead?
- Clarissa.
- What about the son?
- Otto changed his will a year ago ... left Cameron nothing.
Now, what did Cameron do a year ago
that made his father do that to him?
- Another fun fact ... Sarah's parents are loaded.
- Oh yeah, her father's a judge.
Yeah, she's in for her own
major payday at some point.
She owns her own home, makes great money
at Hex. She really didn't need their money.
Then why is she having sex with
a man twice her age who's her boss?
I've tracked her socials, and I got into her
Messenger. She really, genuinely liked him.
Or was it just a well-planned,
long-term honey trap?
Do you think that Clarissa and
Sarah could have been in it together?
Oh God. That's brilliant. And that
would explain a lot of things.
Sarah's been searching UK visas
and visiting the Hex London portal a lot.
So was she trying to run away
with Otto or from him?
Madison, wake up.
- What time is it?
- I want you to look at these.
It's 3am, you maniac!
Oh, god.
- Here. Look closely. What do you see?
- It's the dead guy's hands. What...
The bruising is on the left wrist; the handcuff
is on the right. There's no bruising there so far.
- So... - Oh, it's so good.
- What are you doing?!
- Remind me what time the fire alarm went off that night.
- 10 to 7.
And the woman that was in this room with Mr Klein,
when did she come to reception and ask for help?
- About three or four minutes later.
- And was she stressed, panicked?
- Well, of course.
- She thought there was a fire.
- Until we realised there wasn't.
- Thanks.
Wait, you're not gonna get fingerprint
dust all over the place again, are you?
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
- We just wanna have a look around.
Yeah, good, cos that took
about a week to clean up last time.
What are you doing?
Otto weighed 74 kilos, all right?
He was hung by the neck
from this bar, right?
It can totally take his weight, whereas here, the weld
is weak at the joint. I could never take his weight.
- OK...
- His right hand was attached to this bar by handcuff.
And yet it's his left wrist that has
the bruising. What does that tell you?
In order for him to be
strung up by his belt,
the handcuff had to be changed
from his left wrist to his right?
I think he was killed before
he was hung up on this side.
Yeah, but Sarah said that she
couldn't find the key to the handcuff.
That's why she went to get help.
Yeah.
That is what she said.
♪
This coffee isn't
as good as Reubens
Well, don't tell him. He already thinks
he makes the best coffee in the world.
- Like you do with your bread?
- Yeah, but I'm right!
Do you think that Otto was already dead
when Sarah left the room to go and get help?
Yeah, maybe.
I mean, the fire alarm goes off, she panics,
and then she realises, 'I need an alibi.'
Well, she would've needed one of those anyway,
wouldn't she, even if the alarm hadn't gone off?
She might've planned just to slip
out. Get yourself seen somewhere.
You know, it's really hard to be exact about the
time of death if the body was found the next day.
- So, the fire alarm was a spanner in the works?
- Yeah, it feels like it.
So, if Sarah had killed him, why
not just leave him hanging there?
I mean, why take his body down
and try to resuscitate it?
Well, that's what I'd do if I
wanted to make it look like I cared.
And then I call the police,
which she did.
- All right, well,
- how are we gonna prove any of this?
- I don't know.
- Gotta find some fresh points.
Oh, hey. You've gotta get into
Cameron's computer.
It's military grade.
Now, Madison, I sense you're experiencing some
negativity, and what you need is some equilibrium.
Hex! I'll put a hex on you!
Hi.
Hey. do you play sow?
- You're not getting lunch with the others?
- Oh, I'm not really into people.
I prefer to, I don't know,
do my own thing.
This is a really impressive piece
of hardware you've got here.
I built most of this myself.
So, I'm guessing, by the sizing
of the profile photos you collect,
that you're operating
a system replica to the NGI.
Wow. Yeah, you know your stuff.
Hey, do a fellow geek a
solid and show me.
I know that it's probably not done,
but I've signed an NDA, right?
Come have a look.
- Oh, hey, Sarah.
- Hey, yourself. Grab a bite.
- Yeah, only you can't really bite into quinoa salad, can ya?
-
Hey, is it true that you were in the hotel
room with Otto that night that he died?
- Who told you that?
- Oh, it was just something I read on the internet.
- There's a lot of crap on the internet.
- You know, that's what I thought.
- They say that he was handcuffed to a bed.
- Really?
Yeah, and his handcuff was switched from the left
wrist to the right. How would thing like that happen?
- Who are you?
- I'm just Neville Nobody. I'm trying to make my life better.
Kia or a. I'm Otto Klein, and I'm very happy
to see you all here today. You're doing great.
Let's talk about the kind of commitment we expect
to see from you as you strive to achieve Level 1.
Honey, are you OK?
That woman Alexa, she's a cop.
Ex-cop.
She knows. She knows what happened. It
doesn't matter what she thinks she knows.
- - No one can touch you. Relax.
- I'm trying. I'm not you.
You don't have to be me,
but you do have to accept that...
I can't do this.
I need to go
now. I wanna go to London.
You've always said you
wouldn't stop me from succeeding.
- We talked about this.
- That was before.
I need you here with me.
Leaving is not an answer
to your problems.
- How many times in your life have you run away?
- This is different.
I got everything so wrong.
I know I did.
And I can't heal here.
There's too many reminders
of what I've done.
You made a terrible mistake, and people are
watching you, waiting for you to slip up.
Please don't
draw attention to yourself, Sarah!
You upset her.
- Oh. I guess once a cop, huh?
- 'Retired, ' you said.
I don't wish to appear jealous, but if I found
that my girlfriend was sleeping with my husband,
I'd be a little bit annoyed.
- Only if fear wins. Love and understanding are more powerful.
- Oh.
I still think it's weird that she seems
more upset about Otto than you do.
- Otto's own actions led to his death.
- What happened to him was his own fault.
You're not just
a little bit angry?
Stay away from me and my family. That
includes Sarah. Your time here is finished.
- Thank goodness. At last, some real food.
- Mm.
At least we won't have to put up
with our equilibrium crap any more.
Did you find out anything
about Cameron's IT?
He's built it himself, so there'|| be a hole
somewhere. I just need to find it for you.
Mm, great. Cos remember, I need
you and we all need each other.
Cameron's got an image of Sarah
on his home screen.
- Really?
- Mm-hm. It's definitely a love story, at least in his own mind.
Dad sleeping with her
must've been pretty painful.
Like father, like son. Maybe like Mum.
Sarah turns out to be the Hex Medusa.
- Hey!
- You two have worked up an appetite.
- How's my bread selling?
- Or how are you, Reuben? -
- What are the fancy duds in aid of?
- Oh, thanks for noticing.
- A date? Where are you going?
- Uh, new French cafe up the road.
Mm, can you post
while you're there?
No, he cannot post while he's there. He's
supposed to be focussing on another human being.
Why by 80 bucks of snail foam
if you're just gonna Food Gram it?
What? You don't want me to big-ups
your bread social any more?
Wait. Are you saying that you're
touting my bread online without my say-so?
Well, I know you're not
a big social media fan, so...
Wait. Are you saying that that's
why people are buying my bread?
Ah, the ethical dilemma.
What she hateth
so is how thou dost sell her bread.
I was with her just a couple of hours
ago. It just doesn't make any sense.
Her neighbour found her
on the way to the laundry. No notes.
Her parents said that she tried I to call them a
few times just after lunch. They didn't answer.
I'm sorry, Sarah.
What happened to you?
♪
- This is not right.
- Seems pretty clear. No reports of fighting.
No one seen entering or leaving
the block.
Any security video?
We've got a team collecting all the
available footage within a 300m radius.
You know, this is not
what it looks like, Harry.
- She had a complex history.
- Maybe, but that's not what's at play here.
Because?
Instinct.
A few hours after I ask a couple of
hard questions, Sarah's dead.
- Poor thing.
- Yeah.
I hope you're not blaming
yourself for this.
Well, she's got a family
who will never see her again.
So yeah, I'd be happier if someone
else was in the mix, that's for sure.
OK, so I've cracked the Hex security
log showing who came and went today.
- Yeah, and?
- And they've been doctored.
Look, it's a tiny detail, but if you
look closely enough in the code,
the security footprint they've
generated is yesterday's, not today's.
I mean, Cameron's good,
but I'm better.
So, what's the earliest evidence that
Sarah was having an affair with Otto?
Well, texting started outside work
last year ... March.
And what date did Otto amend
his will to cut Cameron out?
It's not long after that.
That's so uncool.
Could Cameron have found out about
the affair with Otto?
Oh, easily. If I could find
those texts, then Cameron could.
So, maybe he confronted his father, told
him to stop and his father responded by...
- Cutting him out of the will?
- Yeah.
But why kill Sarah
if he loved her?
She went right back to work and remained
the focus of his mother's attention.
She wasn't interested in him,
even with Otto gone.
Well, there's no sign of Reuben's
date, but he is clearly in love with foam.
Yeah, it's nice.
Alexa, are you OK?
What do you suppose the mood's like at Hex
now that they've had two deaths in two weeks?
Well, it's a shame we can't go
back and check.
I have some difficult
and distressing news.
Our friend, our colleague, our dear
Sarah passed away yesterday.
I'm sorry, I can't give you any information.
But please, remember that you signed an NDA.
This is not to be discussed
with anybody.
I've asked the Hex Group
worldwide...
to immediately pause operations while I
come to grips with this loss to our family.
Please forgive me.
We'll be in touch.
You're not welcome here.
Did you talk to Sarah
after she left yesterday?
No.
Please leave now.
Where's Cameron?
Why?
I want to know where he was
after Sarah left.
If you come near me or my son
again, I will get a protection order.
- Hello. - How's your gut instinct going?
- So good. I'm all a tingle.
I've got CCTV footage of the streets
surrounding Sarah's place. Send you some links.
- Hey, uh, is the autopsy in?
- Not yet.
Let me know when it is.
Do you ever say 'please'?
- Sarah obviously felt guilty about sleeping with my dad.
- Did she?
- If that's true, then why did she come back to work with your mum?
- I don't know.
She was a bent unit.
Same as Otto.
- Liars and cheats ... both of them.
- Doesn't mean they deserved to die, though, does it?
Are you a cop too?
No.
It's a bit of a long story,
but I'm not lying about that.
I'm used to people
trying to trip us up.
Look, I'm really sorry
that you lost a friend yesterday.
I could tell that you were
really into Sarah.
I guess I was the wrong
kind of Klein.
She only had eyes for Otto.
- Well, that's gotta suck a bit.
- Everybody knew.
Apart from my mum.
I mean, she knew about
all the others.
But I guess she and Sarah
were so close, she didn't click.
- There were others?
- Oh, yeah.
He wasn't much of a dad.
Well, did Otto know
how you felt about Sarah?
- Sure.
- We fought about it all the time.
He didn't care.
The only person Otto cared about
was himself.
Where were you yesterday
when Sarah died?
- At home.
- Did anyone see you there?
Why?
Because you doctored the Hex security logs,
and I'm kind of interested in why you did that.
Hey, come take a look at this.
Uh, hi, Madison.
- Does that like anyone you know?
- Cameron?
- This was taken 200m from Sarah's House yesterday afternoon.
- That would explain it.
- Explains what?
- Why he wouldn't tell me the reason he doctored the security logs.
- That's where you've been ... talking to Cameron?
- Yeah.
- Without telling me?!
- I left you a message. It's not my fault that you ignore your phone.
Madison, he could be a killer.
Look, it was broad daylight. We were in
public. Why? Would you have worried about me?
By the way, Cameron said that Sarah was only one
of many. Apparently, Otto had a lot of Sarahs.
- Oh, yeah? How many?
- Not sure, but one thing's for certain ...
Cameron was not
his dad's biggest fan.
Can we find out
who these other women were?
Yeah, I can troll back through
Otto's phone records.
Good. Do it.
Oh and...
Don't go vigilante on me again.
So...
'No contusions, abrasions or lacerations consistent
with a physical altercation prior to death.'
Well, that doesn't mean
she wasn't taken by surprise.
Yeah, but it means there's
no evidence to say that she was.
I think that Otto Klein's son was
visible in the CCTV footage you sent me.
- You think he was or he was?
- Well, it's indistinct but...
- How far from the scene?
- 200m.
- Well, he could've been out shopping.
- Don't be absurd.
He was there. 8km from Hex. 10km
from his own home. He wasn't shopping.
I'm only telling you what a
half-decent defence lawyer would say.
Are these her clothes?
Yeah.
Do you know I failed her?
All you did was go looking
for the truth.
She felt guilty about killing her
lover. That's not your fault.
- But what if she didn't?
- She was the only other person there.
That we know of.
- Can I?
- Yeah.
She was out of
that room for nearly 10 minutes,
and the handcuff on Otto's wrist was
switched from his left to his right.
- Why is that significant?
- Because if somebody came in and did it while Sarah was out of the room,
she would've noticed
when she got back in.
- She never said anything about that.
- I know. Why wouldn't she?
- It makes no sense.
- There'd be a skull battery evidence.
It makes sense if she had an idea
who did it and was trying to protect them.
Hey, can you give me that blade?
- What's that?
- That's a Hex charm.
The members wear it to indicate
their level in the hierarchy.
Yeah, I read about this.
No, but this is an Alpha Solon. There are
only two. One was Otto's and one Clarissa's.
So, why did Sarah have it?
And more importantly, why did
she feel the need to hide it?
♪
Whose is it?
Well, if it's Otto's,
it's a love charm.
If it's Clarissa's, well, that opens
up some really big questions.
Yeah, like why Sarah had it.
Yeah, and why she felt the need
to sew it into her clothes.
- Any theories?
- I think she needed to know that she always had it with her.
- Because?
- Because she knew Clarissa was looking for it.
Hey, where was Clarissa on
the afternoon that Sarah died?
- Her location data places her phone at Hex.
- She could have just left it there.
Yeah, she could. I mean, Cameron's phone was at
his house all afternoon, but we know he wasn't.
- Any luck tracking Otto's other lovers?
- Some.
He made a lot of calls and sent a lot of texts
to a woman by the name of Chantelle D'Arcy ...
- another Hex alumnus.
- Well, where will we find her?
She's meeting you
tomorrow morning.
Chantelle.
Hi, Alexa.
Thank you so much for coming
at short notice.
Said that you were a Hexer and this - Uh, yeah. As
soon as your friend was about Sarah, I wanted to come.
I've texted her many times,
but she's cut me off. ls She OK?
Sarah died two days ago,
and Otto Klein, two weeks ago.
Did she kill him?
Why would you say
a thing like that?
He was obsessed with her. Maybe
she thought that that was her only option.
Well, you had a relationship with him too.
Yes. It wasn't my finest hour.
Chantelle, I'm an investigator,
not a Hex alumnus.
- Investigating what? Hex or how they died?
- All of the above.
What did you hear about
Otto and Sarah?
I heard that she fell really hard for him,
but she knew it was a dead end relationship.
- She always wanted to run the programme in London.
- So, why didn't she?
Once Otto got involved,
that was never gonna happen.
Because...
- Otto wanted her.
- Clarissa needed her.
If she'd left, they would've had no one to do
all the hard work for them on the ground here.
Do you think that maybe
Sarah wanted out?
With Hex, there
is no such thing as 'out'.
Meaning they keep a record of your darkest
secrets and use them when they need them?
Exactly.
And that's why Otto recorded every interaction
with him. That was part of the deal.
Otto definitely had no personal videos in
the Cloud. He knew Cameron would find them.
Mm. What about a separate device
that records wirelessly to a drive?
Well, it's that hard drive we want. Do you
seriously think he recorded his own death?
Well, I think it's possible.
- How long are we gonna stay here?
- Until they leave.
- How's the security there?
- It's hardcore.
If I can't black it out,
there's no way we can get in.
Just have to hope that there's
no trigger alert on his phone.
- I believe in you.
- Oh, we wouldn't be sitting here if you didn't.
Oh, here they go.
- How's it coming along?
- I'm in.
Right. Let's go.
The Kleins have
interesting taste. That's all I'm saying.
- Does that thing work?
- Absolutely. It's a metal detector app.
I've set it to detect palladium and magnets.
There's lots of both in hard drives.
I'll just use my eyes.
Madison...
Oh, damn.
He was in love with her.
Hey, up here!
- Really?
- Yeah.
OK. Help me grab this.
OK, hold it steady.
- Oh, god.
- Oh.
Rats and spiders.
Ooh.
One hard drive. Yes!
- - Uh-oh. Here we go.
- Be cool, fool. They won't miss it.
Yeah, they didn't even know
it was there.
Welcome home.
- You missed the hallway camera.
- Good but not excellent.
What the hell
are you playing at now?
Nothing's changed. I'm just trying to figure out
what happened to your husband, which in theory,
you should be keen on too, right?
Whatever you were doing in there,
I'll be able to find a way to see it.
- Sadly, you won't.
- I'm getting a restraining order.
If either of you ever set foot on this
property again, I'll have you arrested.
Forward to it.
Great to see you
None of this footage
was recorded on a phone.
It's all gone to a camera
and been uploaded by an RF signal.
- How many files are there?
- Loads. All labelled and dated. He was meticulous.
- This one's Chantelle.
- Just pause that a second.
- How many files are labelled 'Sarah'?
- Plenty, but none from the day he died.
Because he never got a chance
to upload them.
- And did Mr Klein always use the same room?
- Yes, always.
This room.
Is there any way in or out of this building
without being seen by the cameras?
Only if they go through the kitchen. That
door goes straight out into the car park.
- How many smoke alarms have you got on each floor?
- One.
- And when one goes off, do they all go off?
- Yes.
- What the hell are you doing?
- Perfume.
- Hey, can I just take one more look inside Mr Klein's room?
- Sure.
♪
- Hello.
- Good to see you knocking for a change. That's an improvement.
- Thank you for noticing. Can I come in?
- Not without a search warrant.
- Don't worry.
- I am not searching for anything.
- Hey, you can't be here.
- You need to leave right now.
Wow.
Cameron, why were you at Sarah's
place the afternoon she died?
You were seen, so spill it.
I didn't go in. I swear.
Do you go there often?
Just hang out hoping to catch a glimpse,
see who she's hanging out with? Is that it?
Whose is this?
Clarissa's or Otto's?
- Where did you get that?
- From Sarah. It was sewn into her jeans.
- - I don't understand.
- Cameron!
Don't say a word.
Whoa.
Poke the cub and the bear will come.
Did you really think that you
could enter my business, my home,
harass me and my son,
and there would be no consequences?
Mum, why did Sarah
have your Alpha charm?
Can you leave us alone
for a minute please?
Who behaves
like this in front of someone's child?
Why did Sarah have
your Alpha charm?
Because she stole it.
Are you sure she didn't find it on the
hotel room floor where you dropped it.
- What are you talking about?
- I'm talking about what you did.
You figured out that Otto had a regular Tuesday
afternoon rendezvous at the art hotel with Sarah.
The most important part of the plan
was to get the keys to the handcuffs.
You went into the hotel
through the kitchen and waited ...
just long enough for Otto and Sarah
to get comfortable,
cos if Otto wasn't cuffed when you
got into the room, the plan wouldn't work.
And then you set off the fire alarm.
It's a neat trick. Done it myself.
And you knew that Sarah would panic,
so when she did, ran to get some help,
you had just minutes to kill Otto
and to get out of there.
You've got less than that
to get out of here.
When Sarah got back to the room, she noticed
that Otto was on the wrong side of the bed.
Lucky for you,
she was loyal to a fault.
Do you honestly expect anyone
to believe any of that?
Yeah, I kind of do because Otto
recorded the most incriminating part.
You choked Otto with his own belt
while he was handcuffed to the bed,
and then you strung him up to make it
look like he'd done it to himself.
Why? Was it the money
or the betrayal?
Both.
Why not just let Sarah go to
London? She didn't have to die.
Mum...
I'm sorry.
- - Gonna be all right?
- I don't know.
No.
Look, you're a talented guy.
You can make your own future.
You don't have to let
your family define you.
Tell Madison she can look me up
if she wants.
I'll do that.
♪ Something's are indescribable...
♪ ...until you know just
what you wanna say.
♪ So, just relax and remember. ♪
So, how much did your
fancy French dinner cost?
Well, the frogs legs alone cost
more than the suit I was wearing.
- Oh, yuck.
- Shame on you.
Hey, Alexa, are
you searching for equilibrium or something?
- Oh, nah. It's a work thing.
- You wouldn't understand.
- Is that...
- Have you got an Instagram account?
Ooh!
Yes.
The ultimate social media hater
comes in from the cold.
What's it called?
Deadly dough.
- I love it.
- Wait. Wait. How many followers have you got?
- Nearly a hundred.
- - To Deadly Dough.
Deadly Dough!
And do not forget the hashtag.
- Wait. Let's get a selfie.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Oh, no. No photographs, please.
Captions by Kristin Williams.
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