Nancy Drew (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 10 - The Mark of the Poisoner's Pearl - full transcript

- Previously onNancy Drew...
- I got the toxicology

back on Tiffany. She didn't die
of natural causes.

She was poisoned.

Lucy Sable disappeared

after the celebration,
never seen again.

What's the dress of girl
who was murdered

20 years ago doing in my attic?

Lucy knew Hudson family secrets
in the past,

and the Hudsons called in
their favorite lawyer

to come and clean up the mess.

I didn't kill anyone!



I have reason to suspect you!

Karen found it in plain sight.

You had quite the list
of evidence against me.

Carson Drew, you're under arrest
for the murder of Lucy Sable.

Miss Drew, when did you
first come to believe

your father was responsible
for the murder of Lucy Sable?

The Hudsons paid Carson $50,000

two days after
Lucy Sable's death.

Did the Hudsons pay your
father to kill Lucy Sable?

Can we call it a day?

Nancy, you need to
take this seriously.

Okay? You're gonna be subpoenaed
to testify against your father

at his evidentiary hearing soon.

And his trial after that.



Look, I know you're
worried about your dad,

but, I mean, we've got a...

He's been in jail for two weeks,
and it's all my fault.

He didn't kill Lucy.
My theory was all wrong.

Okay, so if you're convinced
he's innocent, then

help me get him out.

Carson's not explaining any
of the evidence against him.

Do you know why?

No.

He misses you.

He said he calls during
his phone privileges twice

a day, but you never pick up.

Well, he shouldn't miss me.
He should hate me.

I put him there.

He's not capable of hating you.

He's worried you're not eating.

Well, tell him not to worry.

Maybe you could
tell him yourself.

Hmm.

My grandmother used
to hang those around her house.

Ghost traps?

Are you trying to catch a ghost?

Something like that.

Hey, did you text Nancy
to remind her to bring flowers?

What, and add another
thing to her plate?

No thanks. You do it.

Hey, how is she?

She shows up for work,
and then she leaves.

You can't blame her.

Sometimes you just got
to be alone.

I mean, she's not
completely alone.

She talks to my mom.

About how to find
a missing ghost.

I know Nancy thinks
Simon flung Dead Lucy

to the furthest depths
of the spirit world,

but what if Lucy went MIA

because they arrested the man
who murdered her,

and she's finally at peace?

That's your barometer
for innocence?

Yeah. Ghost sightings,
or lack of them?

Hey, Mr. Drew's fingerprints
were on a bloody knife

at the crime scene.

I seriously hope
you don't end up on a jury.

Oh, wait. Oh.

Okay.Oh.

Surprise!

Nancy.

Ew.

Ah.What is all this?

It's Ace's first day
back at work. No,

but it's so fine. It's so fine
that you didn't remember that.

Or the flowers.

I'm the worst.

No, Nancy.

You're not. It's fine.

Right, guys? It's fine. So fine.Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

- SUPER FINE.
- No, it's-it's fine.

It's okay. It's fine.

Okay.

Okay.

Hey.

Hey.

How are you?

Everybody asks me that.

Y'all put my face on a cake?

Surprise!

Surprise!

Surprise. Oh!

Oh. Hi.BESS: Hi.

What's up, man? Hey.

Hey.

- Hey.
- All right, let's eat this cake

and clean it up.
We open in five.

Hey.

Glad you're alive.

You miss me?

I absolutely did not.

Hi.

I'm really sorry. I'm... No.

I'm sorry, and...

How-how are you?

Um, I have to take this.

Hey.

I've got a name for you.

Actaea pachypoda.

It's what killed
Tiffany Hudson. Uh...

Also known
as white baneberry poison.

Uh, creating the poison from the
berries is incredibly difficult.

Detecting it is even harder.

Oh, well, good thing
I know a genius, right?

Most coroners wouldn't even
screen for this toxin

because it mimics a death
by cardiac event.

They would just rule it natural
causes without a second thought.

I-I thought
you'd be thrilled by this.

It's a new lead for you.

Uh, it's just,

every time I dig into a case,
I hurt everybody around me.

So, just...

trying to figure out
what I should do.

Check it out.

It has been two weeks.

And I thought that this would
have calmed down by now.

It will... eventually.

Look, can you just
endure one more shift?

We're two months behind
on bills, and this uptick

in business could
really, really help us.George.

Please?

Oh, come on. You have
your own fan site.

@NancyDrewsNews. It gets,
like, a bazillion likes a day.

Okay. I'm sorry.

Go organize
the pantry. Thank you.

Yeah.

Nancy. Hi.

Hey. Uh, I-I owe you
a call back.

I just came by
to see how you... George is gonna kill me

if I don't...
if I don't go back to work.

Let's talk later.

Hey, Bess, you have a minute?

Hey.

Did you get
the DNA results back?

We're first cousins. Oh!

You're officially a Marvin.

Oh, snap.

Oh, my God. Do we hug?

Sure. Shake hands?

Oh, my God!

When do I get to meet
the rest of the family?

Um, actually...

can we talk?

Uh, yeah. About what?

Um...

Okay, as family, you should know

that I obsessively worry.

What are we talking about?

It's about the burial coins
from the Velvet Masque.

I need them.

Those coins are
the proof that I need

to put Everett Hudson behind
bars for sinking the Bonny Scot

and murdering our
Uncle Sebastian.

I really, really don't want
to upset you. Um...

Hey.The... Uh...

I destroyed the coins.

Yeah, I accidentally
melted them. Long story.

But if you're going to be upset
with anyone, it's my fault.

I paid a very large sum
of money for those coins.

Yeah.

One point five million, right?

Yeah, I heard,
but that's, yeah...

That's a drop in the
bucket for you, Owen.

I mean, why... why
are you even here?

Gentlemen.

Sit down, please.

Let's talk. Okay?

You both share the same goal,
right?

Take down the Hudsons.

You two should talk.

Shareinformation.

Oh!

Have some cake.

Okay? Work together.

Okay?

Okay, come on, Drew.

A quick search is not
gonna get anyone hurt.

What are you doing?

Nothing.

Why are you looking
at a picture of my dad?

Hey, you know, what-what
if we just told the cops?

Your dad worked
on a case in 2003

that had the same poison
that killed Tiffany.

You stole Tiffany's blood
to get these test results.

Think admitting to that
right before your arraignment's

less than advisable.

Now, before you meet
the Captain...

You call your dad "the Captain"?

Here's a few things
you should know.

He doesn't like people much.

He lost his hearing
after his accident on the force.

He can read your lips,

but he's little self-conscious
about speaking.

My house
can be a bit of a war zone.

Yeah, I can tell.

No.

I wanted you to meet somebody.

Captain Thom?

Uh, I'm-I'm Nancy Drew.

The Hero of Horseshoe Bay?

Yes. The one and only.

Um,

she wanted to ask you something.

About Liza Ainslie.

It's a suicide case in 2003.

Do you remember her?

I found her near her car

with a vial of poison.

It was ruled a suicide.

But I never believed that.

Tiffany Hudson was killed
by the same rare poison.

I-I don't know who waits
15 years between kills, but...

I received an e-mail

the day before Liza died.

And then the next year
I got another e-mail.

And one more
the year after that.

I think they're all
from the same killer.

That has to be a cipher, right?

Yeah, but I never cracked it.

But if the killer is back...

Um...

can we try decoding it?

Together?

Mr. Hudson.

Hey, Bess.

You're back.

Yeah. Yeah. Is George around?

Um, yeah, she should be, like...

In her office? Okay.

Thanks.

Hey.

I, um...

I heard... that your
sister got kidnapped,

and I just wanted to make
sure that you were okay.

That was weeks ago.

Where have you been?

I was, uh,

I was at a-a wellness retreat.

You mean rehab?

Look, I needed to clear my head.

You know, think about the way
I was living my life, and...

I just, I-I wanted to say
that I'm sorry

about the last time
that I saw you.

You know, at the garden party.

When you punched a bookcase
near my head?

Don't mind me.
I'm not even here.

I'm not that person anymore.

Cool.

Look, I used to be afraid

of who I was gonna become

if I wasn't Ryan Hudson.

I'm not afraid anymore.

I don't know what
you want from me, but...

I'm not falling for this again.

I don't want anything from you.

Except for you to know that
if you need anything...

I'm here for you.

Oh.

Bess.

Found it.

We have to get... Whoa!

Sorry. I have a plan
to get an artifact

from the Bonny Scot.

Ryan Hudson.

That's not a plan.

Yeah, he's never gonna help us.

He's a Hudson. And he hates me.

No. But he doesn't want
to be a Hudson anymore.

You don't just stop
being a Hudson.

There's no way
he's ever gonna go for it.

Uh...

not noway.

Oh, we've been trying to
crack this cipher for hours.

Ace, did you learn anything
from the obits?

Yeah.

Life's short.

I know.

That's what I'm doing.

Why did they pick
these pictures?

The photo quality is terrible.

Unless maybe the clue
isn't the cipher at all.

Maybe it's something
in these photos.

Oh, my God.

Thom, you couldn't crack the
cipher because there isn't one.

Not in the text, anyway.

Dad, are you okay?

Hey. You okay?

They never wanted you
to figure out the name.

They wanted you to focus
on the bogus cipher.

That's not your fault.

You didn't figure it out then.

But we figured it out now.

There's time to make it right.

All we have are three e-mails

from over a decade ago...

We don't know the names or
even if they're connected.

Well, maybe they areconnected.

Before Liza died,
you were in the press.

They called you a hero.

That's why the killer
engaged with you.

I'm in the press now.

Guess it's time for a Hail Mary.

Here. Record this.

Record what? Just record me.

I'm gonna upload
this to my fan page.

I believe

there is a serial poisoner
operating in our town,

and I have a message for them.

I cracked your cipher.

You want to play a game?
Fine, let's play.

But I'm changing the rules.

I'm giving you the name
of your next victim.

Nancy Drew.

So...

prove to me you're as good
as you think you are.

Come and get me.

So you just want
to give me a hotel?

Marvin Industries'
latest investment.

Midtown Manhattan.

100% voting stock.

What do you say?

What's this really about, Owen?

How much do you know
about the Bonny Scot?

Doesn't sound familiar.

It was a joint venture between
our families 20 years ago.

A ship carrying
priceless antiquities.

It sank, killing
all 12 crew members,

including our uncle.

What do you mean, "our"?

We're first cousins,

on my mom's side.

And this manifest documents
everything that supposedly sank

with the Bonny Scot.

Your father...

collected the insurance payout
on all these items.

Stone relics,
temple urns, the coins...

You sold them
at the Velvet Masque.

We need to find something else
from that list.

If...

what you're saying is true,

then you're asking me
to help you

put my father in prison.

Your father's a murderer.

But you're not your father.

Are you?

Ace, where are the obits?

Uh...

What is this thing?

It is a ghost trap.

Oh. Okay, then.

Um...

You hungry?

Egg rolls?

Um, you could have
just had this delivered.

Yeah, I know,
but I wanted to check on you.

I saw the video.

Yeah.

Hopefully,
my video will make sure

that they go after me
and not somebody else.

You know, most guys
might be intimidated

by someone
who provokes a murderer.

Oh, my God,
it's from the killer.

Rain check.

Ace, you said you
put the obituaries

in my bag, but they're not...

there.

They're here.

Now we can get started.

Did you find the names
of the other victims

in the e-mails that my dad got?

I don't need your help.

Did the killer contact you?

What did the cipher say?
Are they coming for you?

No. The next victim is
a woman named Claire.

The killer sent me this message,
so I have to stop them,

or else I'm the reason
that another person gets killed.

They said not to call the cops.

They only gave you three hours
to solve this.

you guys get involved in a case,
one of you gets hurt,

and I am not doing that anymore.

- We don't have time for this.
- In order to find Claire,

we need to figure out how
the other victims are related.

Do you have their names from
the ciphers in the e-mails?

Bridget and Pam.

Bridget and Pam.

You don't have to do this.
Shut up, Drew.

We want to help.

All right,
we got Pam Barnaby.Ah.

I got Bridget Wishbow.

And Liza Ainslie.

What do these three women
have in common?

Says here Pam was a "proud alum"
of Hawthorne High School.

Wait, um...

Hawthorne High. Out in the boonies.

Closed down in, like, 2004.

Hey. Bridget Wishbow.

She was the assistant

to the vice principal
at Hawthorne High School

from 2002 to 2004.

Okay, what about Liza?
Does she have a connection?

She was the marching
band director.

Bridget and Pam

were both found dead
in their homes.

Where you going?

I saw you put your house
on the market.

Yeah, it felt like
it was time for a change.

Mm. And what arrangements

have you made for the valuables
in the safes?

Mom, I'm fine.

I can handle it.

I'll just throw everything
in storage.

Please do not throw

anything anywhere.

Some of those valuables
are delicate.

And priceless.

I'll set up a time
and send somebody over

to sort it out properly.

Now, on to more
pressing matters.

Apparently, Tiffany's
sister has woken up.

She nearly died.

That's what I heard.

I so hope that this accident

has brought her some kind
of perspective on life.

I bet it has.

Anyone home...?

Three Claires worked
at Hawthorne High

over the school's history.

But only Claire Barnett
still lived in Horseshoe Bay.

Horseshoe Five-O.

Some kind of bust?

I'm just checking in
on the lady that lives here.

There's no one there, Nancy.

Nothing out of the ordinary.

You sure about this lead?

I'm not sure
about anything anymore.

Um, I'm-I'm really sorry
to have wasted your time.

Claire Barnett?

Is that the Hawthorne High
scoreboard?

Now I know where Claire is.

Bess?

Ryan, I'm glad you called.

I've thought about
what you said, Owen.

And I don't want to see
anybody get hurt, so

stop looking
into the Bonny Scot.

You think I'm scared of
what your family can do?

Laura Tandy wasn't scared.

So don't say I didn't warn you.

Hello, sweetheart.

Hi, Mom, yeah.

I-I was just calling
to thank you

for sending the movers...
They were a huge help.

Oh, good, so you got
everything out of the safes?

Yep.

It's all in the warehouse
down by the docks.

Oh, that's good to hear.

Say, um...

when's Dad coming back
into town?

We should all
do dinner real soon.

Hey!

Get that light out of my face!

How did you find me here?

For someone who sneaks around,
the bright blue car

isn't exactly subtle.

Hero of Horseshoe Bay.

Hero of Horseshoe Bay's friends.

Okay, come on.

20 minutes to save Claire.

Someone was dragged here.

Whoever took Claire is

a woman, size seven shoes.

Maybe seven and a half.

This seems too easy.

Ace, can you stay up here?

Yeah, we need a lookout.

And someone with cell service.

We won't have any down there.

I'm so glad I
brought my crowbar.

Okay, if we're not back in

17 minutes...

call the cops.

Stay alive.

Claire.

Hey!

It's locked!

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Hey. Hey, hey.

It's p-p...

it's poison.

Nancy, we got to get you
out of there!

Don't open the door!

There's poison coming in
through the vents.

You'll be exposed to it.

Just go!

Screw that,
I'm cracking the door!

No, no, no. We have to find out

where the poison's coming from.

What? Come on.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
I need your help.

Dad, I need your help.

Please.

The person who took Liza Ainslie

has taken a new victim.

And so, now this door is sealed.

Nancy and my friends

are trapped
on the other side of it.

Break the molding.

Look for a wire.

Thank you.

Did you see where
the killer went?

No, no, he hit me
over the head and...

"He"?

The poisoner is a man?

I think so.

Found the wire.

"Follow it to a control
system"... got it.

What's the point?
We've been breathing

poison this whole time.

Well, yeah, but this way,
it'll slow it down.

My friends will come
and get us out of here.

You told them to leave.

Yeah, but they don't
ever listen to me.

Hey, is the killer
living in here?

I don't know, but if we can
stop the flow of gas,

we'll buy Nancy some time.

What the...?

What is all this stuff?

Please. Don't do this!

Mm.

We need to stay calm.

Uh,

t-tell me, um,
something about yourself.

Distract me.

Did you have a-a dog growing up?

A cat.
My mom named him "Snowball."

What about

your favorite memory?

Hey.

She's my hero. Nick?

She's supposed to look up to me,

but it's the other way around.

My favorite memory.

I... I failed my driver's test

the first time I took it.

My dad, uh, drove me home.

So I was really

surprised when I looked up
and we were in the parking lot

of my favorite ice cream shop,

which was closed,
but my dad had...

had called the owner,

and he came out with a pint
of my favorite flavor.

And my dad t-told me that it was

okay to fail.

Because it makes us stronger.

Because, uh,

failure reminds us
that we're human.

George?

Claire is the killer.

She's in there with the poison.

There has to be an antidote.

Okay, help me with that.

Get that... get
that valve over there.

That one. Got it? You see it? NANCY:
I'm going to die.

And I... I've been too scared
to talk to the one person

who I care most about.

Because I feel like
I failed him.

You don't think your dad did it?

After all the evidence
you found?

You read the paper?

I've always been fascinated

by how the press creates heroes.

Your shirt.

Your shirt isn't dirty
on the back.

And your shoes...
are size seven?

You're not the victim.

I am.

Do you want to know
my favorite memory?

Watching my older sister die.

The sicker she got,
the more open she became.

I've never felt closer
to anyone in my life.

Is that what you did to Tiffany?

Poison her and then
make her open up to you

in the parking lot of.

The Claw?

Tiffany Hudson?

She died fast in public, sloppy.

It's not my style.

I mean, granted, it did...

It took time to
perfect my method.

To slow the poison down

to suit myneeds, but...

once I did...

Oh, God,

what a time I've had.

You've been killing people
this whole time unnoticed?

No. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Nancy, Nancy,
I'm not a psychopath.

No, I'm not...
I'm not killing people randomly.

I had

a short list of people that
I knew from this school

who wouldn't let me
into their inner circle.

Once I crossed them off my list,
I stopped.

But then you had to go and
make your little video.

And I want to thank you, Nancy.

I really did forget how
much I love this moment.

Please.

I don't want to die. Please.

Yes!

Oh. Oh. Nancy? Nancy?!

All right. Okay.
You're gonna be okay.

Okay. I got you. I got you.

Let's go, okay?

Come on.Okay. Come on. Okay.

I got you. Got you.

Okay. Come on.

Come on, Nancy!

Come on! Come on!

Come on! Come on!

Nick, it's the antidote. Come on.

Look. One of the pearls is
missing from the setting,

because Claire took it.

I think Nancy must
have realized that.

Here. Get her up.

Okay. Okay, got her.
God, I hope we're not too late.

Hurry.Okay.

Oh. Okay, okay,
here we go. It's okay.

Yes.

Come on, that's it.

Come on.

Oh. Oh.

You're okay.

Oh, God. Oh, my God.

Ah. Ah.

You're okay. You're okay.

Got you. I got you.

Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, yeah.Okay.

Claire! We've been
looking for you.Oh.

You okay? Yeah You have to help me.

There's someone after me.

We have to leave... now. All right.

All right. Come on.
I got you.Aah.

Here.

Special delivery.

Saw your picture
on the faculty wall.

Chemistry teacher, huh?

Try not to poison your cellmate.

I'm okay. What are
you doing here?

You did a good job.

I'm sorry. One-one more time.
I didn't... I didn't catch that.

Hmm?

Stop! Stop!

Stop fussing, please. I'm fine.

Uh, fine?

Hey, you came back
from the dead, okay?

Why do you guys always show up?

When I very explicitly
ask you not to?

I mean, somebody could have
gotten seriously hurt.

Because that's

what friends do... we show up.

- Except for Bess.
- Hey!

You know, I was dealing with
a delicate family situation.

Nancy, I might still be in a
coma if it weren't for you.

When I got possessed
by Tiffany, you chose me

over questioning a ghost
about her own murder.

Yeah.

And you let me live with you

when I had nowhere else to go.

You helped me find
what Tiffany left for me.

And you didn't turn me in
to the cops,

even when you had reason to.

But I've hurt you.

I've hurt all of you.

And... f-for what? Okay.

Ease up on the guilt, Nancy.

Okay? We all hurt
people we love.

But we all forgive
the people we love, too.

Right, George?

Eh.

Looks good on you.

For my next cake.

Do you think you brought.

Dead Lucy back with you?

I think she crawled her way out

of wherever Simon flung her.

Uh, she found me, though,

when I was dying.

I don't know if I brought her
back here, though.

Okay.

Drew looks tired.

It's getting pretty late.
We should head out.

See you in the morning.

Good night, Nancy.

So, she definitely wasn't
Tiffany's killer?

No. We're getting close, though.

We know that it's the same
poison that killed Tiffany.

We now know that it's
very hard to make.

And there's an antidote.

Good night.

Good night, Ace.

Good night, Nancy.

Uh...

you risked your life
to save mine.

What are friends for?

Part of being human means

we have to own up
to our failures

and face the people we've hurt,

instead of pushing them away...

You have a collect call

from an inmate
at the Seabury County Prison.

Would you like
to accept the charges?

And hope against hope

that they can forgive us.

Yes. I'd like
to accept the charges.

Dad? Uh, uh, j...

Um, ju-just listen, okay?

I am so,

so sorry.

But I'm gonna find a way
to get you out of there.

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