The Rookie (2018–…): Season 5, Episode 18 - Double Trouble - full transcript
When Dim goes missing, Officer Chen and Sergeant Bradford, along with the CIA, set out to find him and enlist the help of Juicy.
Previously on "The
Rookie"... You're back.
Another
crazy story...
How could I stay away?
This gonna take long? Because,
uh, we got work to do.
I heard
you were happy with how
the last documentary came out.
Oh, my God. It was so
good, and... and...
And I got
so many compliments.
Oh, that's great.
How about you?
Didn't see it.
We found four kilos of black
tar heroin inside of it.
What? Yo, that's crazy.
Um...
That is disturbing.
Oh,
what is taking so long?
- Do I look okay?
- You look hot.
Right?
God, I mean, this lip balm.
It's fire.
So, what are we doing here?
Girl, you know what we're doing.
No. For, like, posperiority.
I think
it's "posterity."
Mnh-mnh. That don't
sound right, girl.
Okay. So...
I'm waiting for Jake to
get out of prison. Mm-hmm.
He just did six months
on a drug charge,
and I found out today he's
getting released early.
Ooh. For good behavior?
Girl. Overcrowding.
Baby!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Mmm! Mmm.
Baby. Oh, I missed you.
Yeah. I missed you, too.
Yo, Lisa!
Hey!
How are you doing?
I'm good! How are you?
Good. Alright. Alright.
What do you want to do first?
You know what I
want to do first.
No. After that.
You know, you said you
been thinking in prison.
Are we going straight or what?
Nah. Screw that. Let's be bad.
Yes.
You ready?
Ahh.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Drop the gun!
Get off me! Get off me!
This was an assassination.
Baby? Baby, look
out!
Look out! Look out!
Sergeant.
Hey. Good morning.
Good morning. How you been?
Fine. Uh, busy.
Yeah?
Yeah. Um... I-I'm sorry.
I'm still a little unclear
what your documentary
is about this time.
I mean, what are the odds
that two cops would end
up arresting two criminals
who look just like them?
Small. Infinitesimal.
And this is gonna be,
like, a whole movie?
I hope so.
All I can do is start filming
and see where it takes me.
Here she is.
Hi.
I'm a little nervous.
Why? You're an old
pro at this point.
I-I know,
but, you know, the
other documentaries,
they weren't about...
me.
You're not interviewing
me with Tim this time?
No, I thought it
would be valuable
to hear from you separately.
Okay.
So, how did you first
meet Jake Butler?
A case.
My roommate, Tamara,
bought a car at
a police auction,
only to find drugs
hidden inside.
So, we traced that back
to Jake and arrested him.
Which brings us to the
elephant in the room.
Right. Yeah. The whole
look-alike thing.
He really didn't look
that much like me.
How can you say that? You
look almost identical.
Says you.
Says me. They could
have been twins.
Why do you think
they called him Dim?
Wait.
What?
Oh, yeah.
We nicknamed Tim's
doppelganger "Dim."
That's funny,
but also a little prejudicial,
don't you think?
In what way?
I mean, the fact that you were
denigrating his intelligence
comes to mind.
I mean, if the shoe fits.
Look, when you have been doing
this job as long as I have,
it becomes very clear
that most criminals are...
well, dim.
No comment.
Well, just 'cause
you're too nice.
I-I would say a good 70%
of the people we arrest
couldn't explain how a
revolving door works.
Okay. Maybe 30%.
Yeah. Anyway, the job
is super stressful,
and cops have a
dark sense of humor.
- So a nickname was born.
- Wait.
If you called Jake "Dim,"
what did you call Sava?
Hello?!
- Juicy.
- Juicy.
Juicy. Juicy.
Juicy.
They called her..."Juicy."
"They"?
We did.
We... Look, I...
I really tried not to, but
it was a losing battle.
And then you and
Sergeant Bradford
went undercover as
your doppelgangers,
Dim and Juicy. Yes.
So, uh, Tim first,
and then I joined him
on a UC operation in Las Vegas,
where we put some very
bad people behind bars.
And was it around this time
that you and Tim
became intimate?
N... N-No.
We... We had to
pretend at intimacy
while we were undercover.
But Tim and I were both in
relationships at the time.
We didn't start dating
until after, you know,
when... when we were
both single again.
I want to dial in on that.
Do we have to? I...
The odds of you and
Tim coming face-to-face
with Dim and Juicy are
already astronomical,
but for both couples
to hook up...
Interview's over.
I need Chen. Hey.
Hey. Oh. What's wrong?
Not here.
Uh, excuse me.
Yeah.
Nolan and Celina responded
to a missing-persons call.
It was Sava. Jake's missing.
What?
Oh.
Uh, my boyfriend,
Jake, he's missing.
I-I-I can't find him.
Hello?! Hello?!
Yeah. No. Okay. Yeah.
Uh, just slow down.
Start at the beginning.
Tell us what happened. Okay.
Uh, we... we were in the study.
He was getting a beer,
grabbing me my lobster salad,
and, um, he just disappeared.
- I don't know where he
went. - Back up.
What were Dim and Juicy doing
at a Beverly Hills mansion?
Have you seen the
movie "Parasite"?
Yeah, after Dim
got out of prison,
he and Juicy started targeting
rich people a-and celebrities,
getting hired to
work at their homes.
Handymen, chefs, nannies.
When you say "celebrities"...
Lance Bass. Lance Bass.
I hired those two to
take care of my house.
Is that Lance Bass?
Well, Jake first.
Hey, guys!
Uh, but then my sensualist quit,
and, uh, Jake recommended Sava.
I'm sorry.
What's a sensualist?
They optimize the pleasurability
of your surroundings.
Every element, from the
tactile to the olfactory.
I have an incredibly
stressful job,
so I want every aspect of
my home experience to be...
euphoric.
Oh.
More colorful.
An alien would never
dance like that.
Mm, uh...
The mac and cheese.
Sorry about that.
No problem.
So what happened
after you hired them?
I fired them. Why?
During the three days
they worked for me,
they had sex on every
surface of my house.
By "every," you mean...
Every even vaguely
flat surface...
Floors, beds, couches, dressers,
counters, the diving board.
Even inside the dog crate.
It was only after Dim
and Juicy were gone
that he discovered
they'd also stolen
several expensive
watches and some jewelry.
Were
they arrested? No.
By the time police
questioned them,
the stolen property was gone.
Likely pawned, so there wasn't
enough evidence
to press charges.
What we didn't know
at that point was
that Dim and Juicy were already
casing out their next target.
Mm. The Baudelaires.
Oh, baby, this place is perfect.
Oh. No. It's on us.
Ooh. Right there.
That's our in.
Listen to me.
You go back to that house,
I'll shoot you in the face!
You got it?
Sent the guy packing.
Took his job.
Well, they caught a break
when Jake showed up
to work on day one
and discovered that
the Baudelaire family
had recently lost their nanny.
So Juicy slid right in.
What?
That's just a really descriptive
way to put that.
How long did they
work there before Dim went missing?
Three weeks.
And what can you tell me
about the Baudelaires?
They were made of money.
And... And then he
just disappeared.
I-I don't know what
happened to him.
Karen, why is there
a police car outside?
Karen?
I'm sorry,
Mr. Baudelaire, but, um,
Skip is missing.
Uh, sorry. And by Skip,
you m... You mean Jake?
Yes. Yes.
Uh, Skip and I, you know, we
got pet names for each other.
He calls me Sava.
I call him Jake.
It's not...
That's not even... Okay.
So ha... hang on a
second. I just need...
First of all, your name is?
Charles Baudelaire.
And this is your house? Yes.
I know, right?
Oh, Meredith, you have
to try this cleanse.
Like, I have dropped
an entire size.
Yeah, and I have to get all my
clothes tailored now, but...
Oh, my God. The cops are here.
Look at this.
And this
is my wife, Camille.
Karen says that Skip is missing.
How awful.
Oh, God. Did you hear that?
Apparently, now our
handyman is missing.
Okay. I need to
unpack all of this.
I think the fastest
way to do it would be
to get a statement
from you first.
Officer Juarez, will you please
take the Baudelaires
into the living room?
Sure. Sir, ma'am, do you mind?
I'm super confused, but okay.
Hey,
Meredith, I have to go.
But, girl, you have
to try this cleanse.
I'm serious.
This is why it took so
long to call you guys.
Because you're
doing something illegal.
No. No.
Jake and I, we
have gone straight.
I am working here as a nanny.
And he is a handyman.
Like I said, a lot to
unpack. Let's stay on track.
You said Jake disappeared?
Mm-hmm.
Babe. Hey!
Hey, what... what time...
What time they back?
Like 3:00.
3:00. Alright.
Remind me to clear that
security footage, alright?
We don't want another mishap
like that last
Halloween situation.
Yeah. That's true.
Oh!
I'mma get me another beer.
You want anything?
Yeah.
Can you see if they
got that lobster salad?
Lobster salad. Yeah.
Yeah, I'll get
you lobster salad.
Lobster salad! All day.
Lobster salad life.
Ooh! You love it?
Lobster sa...
Okay, so Dim walked into
the hallway at 2:03 p. m.
But there are no cameras
in that hallway. Right.
So he walked out of
this shot at 2:03.
And never emerged
from the hallway.
We have hours more footage
of those two rooms,
but Dim never
reappears.
That's
unusual, to say the least.
Do you have a theory
on what happened?
No, but Juicy sure did.
Okay.
Alien abduction.
Oh, yeah. Later,
she added, uh,
"portal to another dimension."
But she didn't appreciate
your suggestion.
Spontaneous combustion.
Oh. Like the
drummers in Spinal Tap.
Thank you for getting
the reference.
So we opened up
an investigation.
Most likely the
explanation is just that
there was a glitch in
the security system.
Right. But
why wouldn't he tell Juicy
where he was going?
Relationships are complicated.
Every couple has their
secrets, you know?
No matter how strong their
moral compasses may be.
Mm.
Which is something Jake and
Sava clearly didn't have.
Do Tim and I keep
secrets from each other?
I mean... nothing big.
I-I feel that honesty is
the most important thing
in a relationship.
I'm literally sitting
in this office
because of a secret she kept.
Despite everything,
it really did seem
like Dim and Juicy
loved each other.
Which made what
happened next so tragic.
7-Lincoln-7.
Code 6 at 911 call location.
Any clarity on the
smell they reported?
That's a
negative, 7-Lincoln-7.
I mean, it's
an alley in L. A.
They all smell. It'd be
a miracle if it didn't.
7-Lincoln-7.
Send an R. A. to my location,
and alert Sergeant Grey.
I just found a body, and
it's Sergeant Tim Bradford.
What?
Give me that.
No, it's not. I'm
at the station.
I-It was Dim, obviously.
But, you know, in the moment,
I-I-I thought it was Tim.
And, um...
you know, anybody could
have made that mistake.
He's not wrong. They
looked so much alike.
My mind broke a little
when I saw Dim's body.
Why
were you there?
We responded to Aaron's
call for an ambulance,
but there was
nothing we could do.
Dim was... way dead. Yeah.
Rigor mortis had come and gone,
blowfly eggs had been laid,
but hair slippage
hadn't started yet,
which placed the time of death
approximately 30 hours
before Aaron found the body.
So around 6:00 p. m. The
day of Jake's disappearance.
Did it bother
you, seeing his body?
What do you mean?
To see a version of
yourself dead in a dumpster,
no matter how much you protest
that you don't see
the resemblance,
I mean, it had to be a
little disconcerting.
Yeah, a little, I guess.
I have nightmares.
Do
you think Tim does?
No.
You know, he's been doing the
job a lot longer than I have,
so his walls are pretty high.
But, you know, they have to be.
Otherwise, the constant
violence would just consume you.
Sounds like a part
of you is envious
that he can divorce himself
from feeling a lot more easily.
No, I...
Listen.
Empathy can be painful,
but the alternative,
at least for me, is unthinkable.
I do this job to help people.
You know, I have
to feel for them.
Do the walls make it hard to
be in a relationship with Tim?
No.
But that's because I
know, behind those walls,
he's just a big softy.
Do I look like a big softy?
No, sir.
So, Officer Thorsen
found the body.
Dim disappeared from the
mansion at 2:03 p. m.
And was killed four hours later.
So we had new
mysteries to solve.
How did Dim get
out of the house?
Where was he for those
missing four hours?
And how did he end up
shot dead in a dumpster?
Unfortunately, there
were no security cameras
around the alley,
so they had no idea
who dumped the body.
It was at this point that
Detective Lopez and I
were assigned to
the investigation.
Miss
Wu, thank you for coming in.
Yeah. Sure.
What's with all the cameras?
They're filming a documentary.
I would love to interview
you at some point.
Don't worry about
them. Let's go talk.
Uh, you want a water,
coffee, anything?
No, thank you.
Okay, this way.
Go. Go. Get ahead of them.
Did you guys find anything?
Uh, we... we're following
up on a couple of leads,
but, uh, we need your help to
get some clarity on some things.
Do you mind if we record this?
No. I... Whatever you need.
How you holding up?
I mean,
I'm not gonna lie.
You know, I'm struggling.
I still can't believe he's dead.
Look, we know you
and Mr. Butler
were engaged in a host
of illegal activities,
but we're not focused
on that right now. Yeah.
All we care about is catching
the person who killed him.
So, if you are holding
back because you're afraid
that you are gonna
get in trouble, stop.
You need to come clean.
Hey. Sorry to intrude.
Uh, you got a
second? Uh, yeah.
Excuse us.
What's up?
They found another body.
In the days
following Dim's disappearance,
officers were searching the
property, looking for him.
In the confusion after
finding Dim's body,
the call to stop the
search wasn't made.
Whose
body did they find?
Holy
It's the Baudelaires'
nanny, Holland Po.
What... I thought she
was out of the picture
before Sava and Jake showed up.
Maybe they popped her before
Dim beat up the handyman.
Well, the nanny's been
dead over a month.
The handyman got beat
up three weeks ago.
Why kill her and then
wait to strong-arm him?
Let's go ask her.
Tell me
about Holland Po.
Who's that?
The Baudelaires'
nanny before you.
Oh. I mean, I-I never met her.
She was gone before we even
knew about the Baudelaires.
Can you prove that?
Turns out she could. Yeah.
Dim and Juicy were actually
on vacation in the Caribbean
at the time of the
nanny's murder.
Paid for by the
sale of the property
they stole from Lance Bass.
Which turned our attention
to the most obvious suspects...
The Baudelaires. The
Bau... The Baudelaires.
Sorry. No, you... you...
you can say it. No.
I just felt like I had some momentum.
They'll... They'll just cut around me.
I was building it up. You
kind of jumped in there.
That's... That's
all right. Sorry.
It's uncanny.
It's freaky is what it is.
You look like twins.
Okay, let's get
back on track here.
You say that Holland did not
show up for work that Tuesday.
And you never heard from her?
That's right.
No call, no text, no
e-mail, no Snapchat,
no ClipTalk, no... We get it.
And you were never aware that
she went missing? - No.
We were paying her
under the table,
so I guess no one
knew to contact us.
Should we have our lawyer here?
That's up to you.
But then it becomes
a whole thing.
Yeah. Right now, we are just
trying to get some clarity.
It can't be a coincidence
that two people that work
for you showed up murdered.
You're looking at
the wrong people.
I mean, we were scammed
by Karen and Skip...
Jake and Sava. Whatever
their real names are.
We're the real victims
here. Of course.
But without another suspect,
you can see why we
are talking to you.
Jesse.
Who's Jesse?
So, Mr. Long,
you worked for the Baudelaires
as a contractor for three years.
That's right.
What exactly
did you do for them?
I'm sorry. I can't say.
I signed an NDA. I
don't want to get sued.
Getting sued is the least
of your problems right now.
Let's just say that
I handled everything
from repairs to
new construction.
What can you tell
me about Holland Po?
What do you want to know?
I mean...
she worked as a nanny while I
did some repairs on the house.
Nice girl.
Did you two get along?
Yeah. I mean, I
didn't see her much.
You know, you stopped
working for the Baudelaires
less than a week
after she disappeared.
Got a better gig.
We found Holland's body
hidden in the
greenhouse yesterday.
That's... That's horrible.
Before that, we found
the handyman... murdered.
Leo?
No. Jake. Um...
Skip.
I don't know who that is.
Look, I'm gonna put
our cards on the table.
We got a warrant for
Holland's cellphone records.
We have dozens of
texts from you,
harassing her, threatening her.
And the M.E. found your
DNA under her fingernails.
We are gonna arrest
you for murder.
I'm so sorry.
I didn't... I didn't, uh...
I didn't mean to
kill her. It just...
It all got out of hand.
I understand.
But the best way to honor
her memory is to come clean.
Tell us everything
that happened.
Okay.
Including what you did to Jake.
I told you, I don't
know that guy.
I swear.
You said he was murdered? Yes.
After he vanished into thin air
at the Baudelaires' mansion.
Did you check the...
Check the what?
Hey, guys. Wait. Hold up.
What do you got?
Let's check it out.
Be careful.
Hey. Stay back.
Weird tunnel.
Wow.
What is this?
It's dusty.
Oof.
What is it? No way.
Grey.
Oh!
What is it?
You gotta be kidding me.
Oh, my God. It
looks just like you.
It's called "The Lost Emperor."
Ferdinand had it for a while,
but it went missing
after World War I.
Rumor has it that Hitler
had it for a short stint,
but it got looted from
the Fuehrerbunker.
We believe it depicts
the Haitian Revolution's
Battle of the Vertières,
when the Haitian rebels defeated
the French in November 1803.
The painting is one
of the generals...
Gabart, Capois,
possibly even the
great liberator
Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
Think George Washington.
They say certain
traits are genetic...
Leadership, strength, the
ability to inspire people.
I'm not aware of any connection
between Dessalines
and my family,
but, uh, well...
I wouldn't be surprised.
Why are you smiling?
No
reason. I just...
Your reaction to the painting
has been pretty priceless.
Go back to work.
"Harlequin's
Head" by Picasso.
Stalin's Bible. Charles
Manson's jockstrap.
What is all this stuff?
Stolen art, uh, antiques,
and... cursed curiosities.
All bought on the black
market by Charles and Camille.
Yeah. They were all
worth a fortune.
Which would explain why they didn't
tell us about the hidden vault.
But the most valuable thing
we found in that moment...
I got something.
Was the hatch.
And that's how
Dim got out of the house.
The ladder led up to a
hidden grate in the bushes.
And from there, it was a
clear path with no cameras
to get off the property.
But one question remained...
Where did Dim go,
and who killed him?
Look alive, guys.
Here she comes.
Thanks for meeting me.
Of course.
And you're okay
with the cameras?
Oh, God. I guess.
Um, I'm a little confused
as to why you're coming
to me and not the police.
I don't trust them.
If I showed them this,
they would find some way
to use it against me.
I'm not so sure about that,
but I'm happy to take a look.
What exactly are
you gonna show me?
It's a video.
Two days before Jake
went missing, um...
somebody tried to kill us.
Okay.
I love you, boo.
Mm. Love you, baby.
No, b-baby, you gotta
say it to the camera.
Well, I'm driving, baby.
Baby. Alright.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I love you, baby.
Damn!
Who
in the hell is that?
Oh. Baby. Baby, watch out.
Watch out!
God!
Oh!
Oh, God.
Baby. Yeah.
We gots to go. Okay.
Baby, we got to go now!
Okay! Okay! Okay!
They didn't report it.
They just abandoned it.
Well, we tracked down
the abandoned car,
but the paint scrapings
that we took from
the impact point
showed the most common
brand of automotive paint.
Which means we had added
another mystery to the case...
Who was the driver?
But that question
took a back seat.
Oh, because the text came.
You have to show
this to the police.
Geez.
Stay with her.
A text was sent from an unknown
number to Dim and Juicy,
demanding the item
that had been promised.
And the text
went on to threaten violence
if Juicy didn't
turn the item over.
It seemed likely that whomever
sent that text killed Dim.
So it was time for
me to go undercover.
You had no idea what
you were walking into.
That's working undercover.
Doesn't that scare you,
walking in by yourself?
Th... But I wasn't by myself.
UC is in play.
Heads up. This
could be our guy.
Do you have it?
Nope.
What do you mean, no?
Whatever you were
into with Jake,
he didn't share it with me.
I got no idea who you
are or what you want.
And now that Jake is dead...
That's not my problem.
I need what he promised...
or you're gonna learn what
battery acid tastes like.
Is that what you said to
Jake before you killed him?
Enough. You're coming with me.
Gun. Move in.
Don't move.
- Copy that! Moving in!
- Get on the ground!
Drop the gun!
Get on the ground right now!
- Police! Don't move!
- Stay where you are!
I got him on this side!
- Don't move!
- Stay where you are!
- Everybody freeze! Weapons down!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Drop your weapon!
- Multiple targets!
- Right there!
- Drop the gun!
Whoa, whoa! Hey! LAPD!
Who the hell are you guys?
CIA.
Thanks for taking
the time to speak with me.
My pleasure.
The agency is committed to
transparency wherever possible.
Great. So, what can you
tell me about Emir Sadik?
Nothing.
Come on.
It's common knowledge that
Mr. Sadik is a Turkish national
who works for Meyer Balik,
an infamous international
arms dealer.
I'm not prepared to
speak on that. Okay.
Can you explain the
connection to Jake Butler?
I'm not prepared
to speak on that.
How about the mystery item that
Emir was so intent on getting
from Mr. Butler and Ms. Wu?
I'm not prepared
to speak on that.
Then why did you agree
to the interview?
The agency is committed to
transparency wherever possible.
It turns out Dim and
that arms dealer...
Meyer Balik?
Yeah. That's the guy.
Dim and Meyer were
distant cousins.
I found out through a
back-channel source at the DOD
that the, uh... the agency
had been surveilling Emir
for... for months now, while
he and Meyer were working
on a massive arms
deal for the Iranians.
But during the
deal-making process,
Emir went to Barbados.
Where he met with Dim.
But not Juicy?
That's what she says.
How
you holding up?
I'm heartbroken.
I thought I knew him.
I thought he loved me.
To find out he had this
whole other life, I mean...
I've been drunk the whole week.
So you had no idea
that the Baudelaires
weren't just a random target?
Jake just said they
were crazy rich
and that we'd be able
to party for a year
off of what we'd get
out of their house.
Well, what we now know
is that Emir pointed
Jake at the Baudelaires.
But it wasn't connected
to the Iranian arms deal
that the CIA was
so keen to stop.
It turns out, among
the stolen antiquities
in the Baudelaires' vault
was a very special rifle.
The miquelet, one
of the earliest
and most sturdy
flintlocks ever made.
And the most famous miquelet
belonged to the Turkish sultan
Osman II, or Osman the Young.
I-I like to read.
You sure do.
But h-history lesson aside,
as a proud Turk and a
professional weapon aficionado,
Meyer Balik had been hunting for
the sultan's rifle for decades.
And somehow, he discovered
that the Baudelaires had it.
So he called up Cousin Jake
and set up a meeting
with Emir in Barbados.
I was probably getting a massage
at the time or a facial...
or a seaweed wrap.
Or body scrub.
I spent most of that trip just
getting pampered, you know?
Yeah, once we learned about
the rifle's existence,
we quickly found the crate
it had been stored in.
But the rifle was gone, which
meant that Dim had taken it,
uh, before he had snuck out
of the Baudelaires' house.
But he hadn't
delivered it to Emir. No.
Emir hadn't even
landed in the U. S.
By the time Dim was killed.
Which means Dim took
it somewhere else.
Yeah. Question was... Where?
To who... whom?
Yeah. And what happened to it?
You were about to find
all that out, though, weren't you?
Yes.
In the most terrifying way.
Drop the gun!
Baby? Baby, look
out!
Look out!
Oh!
With Emir out of
the picture as a suspect,
we went back to the car crash.
Somebody tried to run
Jake and Sava off the road
two days before Jake was killed.
If it wasn't Emir, who was it?
Well, we had previously
gotten warrants for
Jake's phone records,
but Sava told us
that, uh, Jake always carried
a burner phone with him,
and we didn't have that number.
Until the
incident with Emir.
Exactly.
Even though the CIA kept
us from interrogating Emir,
they did search Emir's
cellphone records
and came up with
an anonymous number
that we ultimately
tracked back to Dim.
Let's just say that there
were several text messages
sent to and from that phone
that were very... revealing.
What do you mean?
Jake was clearly
cheating on Sava,
and he was the
Shakespeare of Sexting.
It was
Would you read some
of those texts for me?
Yeah. You... Uh, no.
I can't. I'm sorry.
I can't say any
of this on camera.
My nana is gonna watch this.
Oh. You can... Yeah. Sorry.
Can you read some of
these texts to me?
Are you kidding
me? Put that away.
No. You couldn't get
Lucy to read them.
What makes you think
I'm gonna read 'em?
I'm serious. Okay.
I'm not reading them. Okay.
Would you mind
reading some of these texts
out loud?
Um...
I can't say that.
I'm not saying that.
I have no idea what
that even means.
Let me just find some
PG content for you.
Oh. Here we go.
"Stop calling. I
told you it's over."
The breakup text.
It was the, uh,
proverbial smoking gun.
The text that would
determine Dim's fate.
And just for clarity... who
was Dim sending these texts to?
Who was he having
an affair with?
Uh, Lisa... Lisa Miller.
Li... Miller? Lisa Miller?
That's Juicy's BFF.
So, what
are we doing here?
Girl, you know what we're doing.
No.
For, like, posperiority.
I think
it's "posterity."
Mnh-mnh.
That don't sound right, girl.
Okay. So...
I'm waiting for Jake to
get out of prison. Mm-hmm.
He just did six months
on a drug charge,
and I found out today he's
getting released early.
Ooh. For good behavior?
Girl. Overcrowding.
Baby!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Mmm! Mmm.
Baby. Oh, I missed you.
Yeah. I missed you, too.
Yo, Lisa!
Hey!
At that point, it all
started coming together.
Lisa couldn't handle the fact
that Jake was
breaking up with her,
so she tried to run
them off the road.
Look out! And
when that failed,
she called up Jake, begged
for his forgiveness,
and asked him to meet her.
Yeah, when he showed up,
she shot him with a
.22-caliber pistol,
then dumped his body
in the dumpster.
So, we went to arrest her.
I think that's her.
Police!
Show me your hands!
Move in on her! Move in!
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Drop the gun!
Down!
Shots fired! Shots fired!
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Drop the gun!
- Oh, John!
- Get in there.
Officer down.
We need an R. A...
Flower and Lincoln.
John.
Oh, my God. I'm just...
I'm... Roll me
back. Roll me back.
Let me catch my breath.
I'm good.
The thing about old guns is
that they're very
imprecise weapons,
and the muzzle velocity
was significantly less
than even the most
modern, smallest handgun.
Translation... There is no
way that the miquelet bullet
could have punched a hole
in Nolan's bulletproof vest.
He's just lucky she didn't
shoot him in the face.
Uh, not getting shot in the
face... that's a daily goal.
Yeah, it's true.
The first thing he taught me was
don't get shot in the face.
All things considered, though,
I do... I got very lucky.
Yeah. It could have
been so much worse.
Yeah. Like it was
for Sergeant Grey.
He's probably not gonna
love that you said...
This painting
captures a moment in world history
where freedom won
out over oppression,
which is why its
recovery is so important.
It is my honor to present
"The Lost Emperor."
Climate change!
No! Marcella: Oh, my God!
No!
You bastard!
How could you?!
You son of a
Shame on you!
Shame on you!
Let me go!
Get off me!
Polar bears are people, too!
This was an assassination.
I'm sorry. I need a minute.
I just...
At least I still have this.
Sorry, Sergeant. You're
needed in the bullpen.
What the hell is this about?
What do we have here?
Well, we all know how much
you love that painting.
Unfortunately, it was
completely destroyed.
So, we had another
painting made.
It reflects the way
that we see you.
With my shirt off?
As a dragon slayer.
Um...
I love it. I love it.
Yay!
Well, uh, so Lisa
was going to prison
for the murder of Jake and
the attempted murder of Nolan.
But we were left
with the question
of what to do with Juicy.
At the end of the day, it
didn't make sense to charge her.
We could prove
Dim's involvement,
but all we really had
on Juicy was conspiracy.
D.A.'s office
debated for a while,
but ultimately, we
decided to cut her loose.
How did
you feel about that?
On the whole...
good.
Whatever her faults, Juicy...
Sava had suffered
a great tragedy...
Betrayal, murder.
I'm hopeful that she'll
take this opportunity
to learn from the
experience, you know,
to change.
Of course she said that.
Listen. People
never change, okay?
Sava is gonna end up in
cuffs, one way or another.
♪ Nobody listened ♪
♪ So she screamed out loud ♪
♪ She broke the dishes ♪
You make good money
doing documentaries?
I do okay.
You do better than okay.
I looked you up.
You're not the only
curious one around here.
♪ 'Cause somebody listened ♪
Award-winning filmmaker.
Vacation home on
the Amalfi Coast.
I mean...
Karen! What?
Uh, you gotta go.
♪ Never runs from a fight ♪
You're "Parasiting" again?
Girl's gotta eat. Uh...
Give him my number.
Give him my number.
You call me, okay?
Coming, Mrs. Hotchkins!
Does it
shake you at all...
The fact that your
doppelgangers' relationship
was so dysfunctional?
I... That's an unfair
characterization.
It wasn't dysfunctional.
I mean, Jake cheated
with Sava's best friend
after trying to cut her
out of a big money deal.
Fair enough. But that
doesn't change the question.
What are you implying?
That... That we might
suffer the same fate
because of a couple of people
who looked a tiny bit
like us that were misfits?
I think it's a
reasonable question.
You're working too hard.
Okay, l...
I get it, alright?
You're invested in
a certain answer
because it makes for
a better documentary.
But we are not Jake
and Sava, okay?
I mean, they...
They are criminals
whose lives were
based on deceit.
O-Of course that duplicity
infected their relationship.
But...
we are in a very
different place.
Mm-hmm.
And what place is that?
If you don't know, then you
haven't been paying attention.
I mean...
Okay. So, a place of
honesty, respect, love.
Yeah. I mean, those are...
those are good words. Yeah.
But do those qualities guarantee
that your relationship will
succeed where theirs failed?
Oh, w... Well, you...
Okay, you know what?
Of... Of course not.
But at this moment, I mean,
Tim and I are in a
really beautiful place.
And that's all that matters.
Yeah.
Look, the thing you learn
early on as police officers
is that your future
is never certain.
Yeah. Anything can happen
to anyone at any time.
Especially if they
overstay their welcome.
Uh... Oh. Oh,
does that mean...
Yeah, we're...
Yeah. We're done.
Sorry. That's right.
Sorry, guys.
Do you want to get sushi?
Oh, that's perfect.
Okay. Listen.
We're gonna be back in an hour.
Place better be spotless.
Oh, God.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you.
Okay. Let's pack it up.
You don't think he's
really mad at me, do you?
Rookie"... You're back.
Another
crazy story...
How could I stay away?
This gonna take long? Because,
uh, we got work to do.
I heard
you were happy with how
the last documentary came out.
Oh, my God. It was so
good, and... and...
And I got
so many compliments.
Oh, that's great.
How about you?
Didn't see it.
We found four kilos of black
tar heroin inside of it.
What? Yo, that's crazy.
Um...
That is disturbing.
Oh,
what is taking so long?
- Do I look okay?
- You look hot.
Right?
God, I mean, this lip balm.
It's fire.
So, what are we doing here?
Girl, you know what we're doing.
No. For, like, posperiority.
I think
it's "posterity."
Mnh-mnh. That don't
sound right, girl.
Okay. So...
I'm waiting for Jake to
get out of prison. Mm-hmm.
He just did six months
on a drug charge,
and I found out today he's
getting released early.
Ooh. For good behavior?
Girl. Overcrowding.
Baby!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Mmm! Mmm.
Baby. Oh, I missed you.
Yeah. I missed you, too.
Yo, Lisa!
Hey!
How are you doing?
I'm good! How are you?
Good. Alright. Alright.
What do you want to do first?
You know what I
want to do first.
No. After that.
You know, you said you
been thinking in prison.
Are we going straight or what?
Nah. Screw that. Let's be bad.
Yes.
You ready?
Ahh.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Drop the gun!
Get off me! Get off me!
This was an assassination.
Baby? Baby, look
out!
Look out! Look out!
Sergeant.
Hey. Good morning.
Good morning. How you been?
Fine. Uh, busy.
Yeah?
Yeah. Um... I-I'm sorry.
I'm still a little unclear
what your documentary
is about this time.
I mean, what are the odds
that two cops would end
up arresting two criminals
who look just like them?
Small. Infinitesimal.
And this is gonna be,
like, a whole movie?
I hope so.
All I can do is start filming
and see where it takes me.
Here she is.
Hi.
I'm a little nervous.
Why? You're an old
pro at this point.
I-I know,
but, you know, the
other documentaries,
they weren't about...
me.
You're not interviewing
me with Tim this time?
No, I thought it
would be valuable
to hear from you separately.
Okay.
So, how did you first
meet Jake Butler?
A case.
My roommate, Tamara,
bought a car at
a police auction,
only to find drugs
hidden inside.
So, we traced that back
to Jake and arrested him.
Which brings us to the
elephant in the room.
Right. Yeah. The whole
look-alike thing.
He really didn't look
that much like me.
How can you say that? You
look almost identical.
Says you.
Says me. They could
have been twins.
Why do you think
they called him Dim?
Wait.
What?
Oh, yeah.
We nicknamed Tim's
doppelganger "Dim."
That's funny,
but also a little prejudicial,
don't you think?
In what way?
I mean, the fact that you were
denigrating his intelligence
comes to mind.
I mean, if the shoe fits.
Look, when you have been doing
this job as long as I have,
it becomes very clear
that most criminals are...
well, dim.
No comment.
Well, just 'cause
you're too nice.
I-I would say a good 70%
of the people we arrest
couldn't explain how a
revolving door works.
Okay. Maybe 30%.
Yeah. Anyway, the job
is super stressful,
and cops have a
dark sense of humor.
- So a nickname was born.
- Wait.
If you called Jake "Dim,"
what did you call Sava?
Hello?!
- Juicy.
- Juicy.
Juicy. Juicy.
Juicy.
They called her..."Juicy."
"They"?
We did.
We... Look, I...
I really tried not to, but
it was a losing battle.
And then you and
Sergeant Bradford
went undercover as
your doppelgangers,
Dim and Juicy. Yes.
So, uh, Tim first,
and then I joined him
on a UC operation in Las Vegas,
where we put some very
bad people behind bars.
And was it around this time
that you and Tim
became intimate?
N... N-No.
We... We had to
pretend at intimacy
while we were undercover.
But Tim and I were both in
relationships at the time.
We didn't start dating
until after, you know,
when... when we were
both single again.
I want to dial in on that.
Do we have to? I...
The odds of you and
Tim coming face-to-face
with Dim and Juicy are
already astronomical,
but for both couples
to hook up...
Interview's over.
I need Chen. Hey.
Hey. Oh. What's wrong?
Not here.
Uh, excuse me.
Yeah.
Nolan and Celina responded
to a missing-persons call.
It was Sava. Jake's missing.
What?
Oh.
Uh, my boyfriend,
Jake, he's missing.
I-I-I can't find him.
Hello?! Hello?!
Yeah. No. Okay. Yeah.
Uh, just slow down.
Start at the beginning.
Tell us what happened. Okay.
Uh, we... we were in the study.
He was getting a beer,
grabbing me my lobster salad,
and, um, he just disappeared.
- I don't know where he
went. - Back up.
What were Dim and Juicy doing
at a Beverly Hills mansion?
Have you seen the
movie "Parasite"?
Yeah, after Dim
got out of prison,
he and Juicy started targeting
rich people a-and celebrities,
getting hired to
work at their homes.
Handymen, chefs, nannies.
When you say "celebrities"...
Lance Bass. Lance Bass.
I hired those two to
take care of my house.
Is that Lance Bass?
Well, Jake first.
Hey, guys!
Uh, but then my sensualist quit,
and, uh, Jake recommended Sava.
I'm sorry.
What's a sensualist?
They optimize the pleasurability
of your surroundings.
Every element, from the
tactile to the olfactory.
I have an incredibly
stressful job,
so I want every aspect of
my home experience to be...
euphoric.
Oh.
More colorful.
An alien would never
dance like that.
Mm, uh...
The mac and cheese.
Sorry about that.
No problem.
So what happened
after you hired them?
I fired them. Why?
During the three days
they worked for me,
they had sex on every
surface of my house.
By "every," you mean...
Every even vaguely
flat surface...
Floors, beds, couches, dressers,
counters, the diving board.
Even inside the dog crate.
It was only after Dim
and Juicy were gone
that he discovered
they'd also stolen
several expensive
watches and some jewelry.
Were
they arrested? No.
By the time police
questioned them,
the stolen property was gone.
Likely pawned, so there wasn't
enough evidence
to press charges.
What we didn't know
at that point was
that Dim and Juicy were already
casing out their next target.
Mm. The Baudelaires.
Oh, baby, this place is perfect.
Oh. No. It's on us.
Ooh. Right there.
That's our in.
Listen to me.
You go back to that house,
I'll shoot you in the face!
You got it?
Sent the guy packing.
Took his job.
Well, they caught a break
when Jake showed up
to work on day one
and discovered that
the Baudelaire family
had recently lost their nanny.
So Juicy slid right in.
What?
That's just a really descriptive
way to put that.
How long did they
work there before Dim went missing?
Three weeks.
And what can you tell me
about the Baudelaires?
They were made of money.
And... And then he
just disappeared.
I-I don't know what
happened to him.
Karen, why is there
a police car outside?
Karen?
I'm sorry,
Mr. Baudelaire, but, um,
Skip is missing.
Uh, sorry. And by Skip,
you m... You mean Jake?
Yes. Yes.
Uh, Skip and I, you know, we
got pet names for each other.
He calls me Sava.
I call him Jake.
It's not...
That's not even... Okay.
So ha... hang on a
second. I just need...
First of all, your name is?
Charles Baudelaire.
And this is your house? Yes.
I know, right?
Oh, Meredith, you have
to try this cleanse.
Like, I have dropped
an entire size.
Yeah, and I have to get all my
clothes tailored now, but...
Oh, my God. The cops are here.
Look at this.
And this
is my wife, Camille.
Karen says that Skip is missing.
How awful.
Oh, God. Did you hear that?
Apparently, now our
handyman is missing.
Okay. I need to
unpack all of this.
I think the fastest
way to do it would be
to get a statement
from you first.
Officer Juarez, will you please
take the Baudelaires
into the living room?
Sure. Sir, ma'am, do you mind?
I'm super confused, but okay.
Hey,
Meredith, I have to go.
But, girl, you have
to try this cleanse.
I'm serious.
This is why it took so
long to call you guys.
Because you're
doing something illegal.
No. No.
Jake and I, we
have gone straight.
I am working here as a nanny.
And he is a handyman.
Like I said, a lot to
unpack. Let's stay on track.
You said Jake disappeared?
Mm-hmm.
Babe. Hey!
Hey, what... what time...
What time they back?
Like 3:00.
3:00. Alright.
Remind me to clear that
security footage, alright?
We don't want another mishap
like that last
Halloween situation.
Yeah. That's true.
Oh!
I'mma get me another beer.
You want anything?
Yeah.
Can you see if they
got that lobster salad?
Lobster salad. Yeah.
Yeah, I'll get
you lobster salad.
Lobster salad! All day.
Lobster salad life.
Ooh! You love it?
Lobster sa...
Okay, so Dim walked into
the hallway at 2:03 p. m.
But there are no cameras
in that hallway. Right.
So he walked out of
this shot at 2:03.
And never emerged
from the hallway.
We have hours more footage
of those two rooms,
but Dim never
reappears.
That's
unusual, to say the least.
Do you have a theory
on what happened?
No, but Juicy sure did.
Okay.
Alien abduction.
Oh, yeah. Later,
she added, uh,
"portal to another dimension."
But she didn't appreciate
your suggestion.
Spontaneous combustion.
Oh. Like the
drummers in Spinal Tap.
Thank you for getting
the reference.
So we opened up
an investigation.
Most likely the
explanation is just that
there was a glitch in
the security system.
Right. But
why wouldn't he tell Juicy
where he was going?
Relationships are complicated.
Every couple has their
secrets, you know?
No matter how strong their
moral compasses may be.
Mm.
Which is something Jake and
Sava clearly didn't have.
Do Tim and I keep
secrets from each other?
I mean... nothing big.
I-I feel that honesty is
the most important thing
in a relationship.
I'm literally sitting
in this office
because of a secret she kept.
Despite everything,
it really did seem
like Dim and Juicy
loved each other.
Which made what
happened next so tragic.
7-Lincoln-7.
Code 6 at 911 call location.
Any clarity on the
smell they reported?
That's a
negative, 7-Lincoln-7.
I mean, it's
an alley in L. A.
They all smell. It'd be
a miracle if it didn't.
7-Lincoln-7.
Send an R. A. to my location,
and alert Sergeant Grey.
I just found a body, and
it's Sergeant Tim Bradford.
What?
Give me that.
No, it's not. I'm
at the station.
I-It was Dim, obviously.
But, you know, in the moment,
I-I-I thought it was Tim.
And, um...
you know, anybody could
have made that mistake.
He's not wrong. They
looked so much alike.
My mind broke a little
when I saw Dim's body.
Why
were you there?
We responded to Aaron's
call for an ambulance,
but there was
nothing we could do.
Dim was... way dead. Yeah.
Rigor mortis had come and gone,
blowfly eggs had been laid,
but hair slippage
hadn't started yet,
which placed the time of death
approximately 30 hours
before Aaron found the body.
So around 6:00 p. m. The
day of Jake's disappearance.
Did it bother
you, seeing his body?
What do you mean?
To see a version of
yourself dead in a dumpster,
no matter how much you protest
that you don't see
the resemblance,
I mean, it had to be a
little disconcerting.
Yeah, a little, I guess.
I have nightmares.
Do
you think Tim does?
No.
You know, he's been doing the
job a lot longer than I have,
so his walls are pretty high.
But, you know, they have to be.
Otherwise, the constant
violence would just consume you.
Sounds like a part
of you is envious
that he can divorce himself
from feeling a lot more easily.
No, I...
Listen.
Empathy can be painful,
but the alternative,
at least for me, is unthinkable.
I do this job to help people.
You know, I have
to feel for them.
Do the walls make it hard to
be in a relationship with Tim?
No.
But that's because I
know, behind those walls,
he's just a big softy.
Do I look like a big softy?
No, sir.
So, Officer Thorsen
found the body.
Dim disappeared from the
mansion at 2:03 p. m.
And was killed four hours later.
So we had new
mysteries to solve.
How did Dim get
out of the house?
Where was he for those
missing four hours?
And how did he end up
shot dead in a dumpster?
Unfortunately, there
were no security cameras
around the alley,
so they had no idea
who dumped the body.
It was at this point that
Detective Lopez and I
were assigned to
the investigation.
Miss
Wu, thank you for coming in.
Yeah. Sure.
What's with all the cameras?
They're filming a documentary.
I would love to interview
you at some point.
Don't worry about
them. Let's go talk.
Uh, you want a water,
coffee, anything?
No, thank you.
Okay, this way.
Go. Go. Get ahead of them.
Did you guys find anything?
Uh, we... we're following
up on a couple of leads,
but, uh, we need your help to
get some clarity on some things.
Do you mind if we record this?
No. I... Whatever you need.
How you holding up?
I mean,
I'm not gonna lie.
You know, I'm struggling.
I still can't believe he's dead.
Look, we know you
and Mr. Butler
were engaged in a host
of illegal activities,
but we're not focused
on that right now. Yeah.
All we care about is catching
the person who killed him.
So, if you are holding
back because you're afraid
that you are gonna
get in trouble, stop.
You need to come clean.
Hey. Sorry to intrude.
Uh, you got a
second? Uh, yeah.
Excuse us.
What's up?
They found another body.
In the days
following Dim's disappearance,
officers were searching the
property, looking for him.
In the confusion after
finding Dim's body,
the call to stop the
search wasn't made.
Whose
body did they find?
Holy
It's the Baudelaires'
nanny, Holland Po.
What... I thought she
was out of the picture
before Sava and Jake showed up.
Maybe they popped her before
Dim beat up the handyman.
Well, the nanny's been
dead over a month.
The handyman got beat
up three weeks ago.
Why kill her and then
wait to strong-arm him?
Let's go ask her.
Tell me
about Holland Po.
Who's that?
The Baudelaires'
nanny before you.
Oh. I mean, I-I never met her.
She was gone before we even
knew about the Baudelaires.
Can you prove that?
Turns out she could. Yeah.
Dim and Juicy were actually
on vacation in the Caribbean
at the time of the
nanny's murder.
Paid for by the
sale of the property
they stole from Lance Bass.
Which turned our attention
to the most obvious suspects...
The Baudelaires. The
Bau... The Baudelaires.
Sorry. No, you... you...
you can say it. No.
I just felt like I had some momentum.
They'll... They'll just cut around me.
I was building it up. You
kind of jumped in there.
That's... That's
all right. Sorry.
It's uncanny.
It's freaky is what it is.
You look like twins.
Okay, let's get
back on track here.
You say that Holland did not
show up for work that Tuesday.
And you never heard from her?
That's right.
No call, no text, no
e-mail, no Snapchat,
no ClipTalk, no... We get it.
And you were never aware that
she went missing? - No.
We were paying her
under the table,
so I guess no one
knew to contact us.
Should we have our lawyer here?
That's up to you.
But then it becomes
a whole thing.
Yeah. Right now, we are just
trying to get some clarity.
It can't be a coincidence
that two people that work
for you showed up murdered.
You're looking at
the wrong people.
I mean, we were scammed
by Karen and Skip...
Jake and Sava. Whatever
their real names are.
We're the real victims
here. Of course.
But without another suspect,
you can see why we
are talking to you.
Jesse.
Who's Jesse?
So, Mr. Long,
you worked for the Baudelaires
as a contractor for three years.
That's right.
What exactly
did you do for them?
I'm sorry. I can't say.
I signed an NDA. I
don't want to get sued.
Getting sued is the least
of your problems right now.
Let's just say that
I handled everything
from repairs to
new construction.
What can you tell
me about Holland Po?
What do you want to know?
I mean...
she worked as a nanny while I
did some repairs on the house.
Nice girl.
Did you two get along?
Yeah. I mean, I
didn't see her much.
You know, you stopped
working for the Baudelaires
less than a week
after she disappeared.
Got a better gig.
We found Holland's body
hidden in the
greenhouse yesterday.
That's... That's horrible.
Before that, we found
the handyman... murdered.
Leo?
No. Jake. Um...
Skip.
I don't know who that is.
Look, I'm gonna put
our cards on the table.
We got a warrant for
Holland's cellphone records.
We have dozens of
texts from you,
harassing her, threatening her.
And the M.E. found your
DNA under her fingernails.
We are gonna arrest
you for murder.
I'm so sorry.
I didn't... I didn't, uh...
I didn't mean to
kill her. It just...
It all got out of hand.
I understand.
But the best way to honor
her memory is to come clean.
Tell us everything
that happened.
Okay.
Including what you did to Jake.
I told you, I don't
know that guy.
I swear.
You said he was murdered? Yes.
After he vanished into thin air
at the Baudelaires' mansion.
Did you check the...
Check the what?
Hey, guys. Wait. Hold up.
What do you got?
Let's check it out.
Be careful.
Hey. Stay back.
Weird tunnel.
Wow.
What is this?
It's dusty.
Oof.
What is it? No way.
Grey.
Oh!
What is it?
You gotta be kidding me.
Oh, my God. It
looks just like you.
It's called "The Lost Emperor."
Ferdinand had it for a while,
but it went missing
after World War I.
Rumor has it that Hitler
had it for a short stint,
but it got looted from
the Fuehrerbunker.
We believe it depicts
the Haitian Revolution's
Battle of the Vertières,
when the Haitian rebels defeated
the French in November 1803.
The painting is one
of the generals...
Gabart, Capois,
possibly even the
great liberator
Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
Think George Washington.
They say certain
traits are genetic...
Leadership, strength, the
ability to inspire people.
I'm not aware of any connection
between Dessalines
and my family,
but, uh, well...
I wouldn't be surprised.
Why are you smiling?
No
reason. I just...
Your reaction to the painting
has been pretty priceless.
Go back to work.
"Harlequin's
Head" by Picasso.
Stalin's Bible. Charles
Manson's jockstrap.
What is all this stuff?
Stolen art, uh, antiques,
and... cursed curiosities.
All bought on the black
market by Charles and Camille.
Yeah. They were all
worth a fortune.
Which would explain why they didn't
tell us about the hidden vault.
But the most valuable thing
we found in that moment...
I got something.
Was the hatch.
And that's how
Dim got out of the house.
The ladder led up to a
hidden grate in the bushes.
And from there, it was a
clear path with no cameras
to get off the property.
But one question remained...
Where did Dim go,
and who killed him?
Look alive, guys.
Here she comes.
Thanks for meeting me.
Of course.
And you're okay
with the cameras?
Oh, God. I guess.
Um, I'm a little confused
as to why you're coming
to me and not the police.
I don't trust them.
If I showed them this,
they would find some way
to use it against me.
I'm not so sure about that,
but I'm happy to take a look.
What exactly are
you gonna show me?
It's a video.
Two days before Jake
went missing, um...
somebody tried to kill us.
Okay.
I love you, boo.
Mm. Love you, baby.
No, b-baby, you gotta
say it to the camera.
Well, I'm driving, baby.
Baby. Alright.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I love you, baby.
Damn!
Who
in the hell is that?
Oh. Baby. Baby, watch out.
Watch out!
God!
Oh!
Oh, God.
Baby. Yeah.
We gots to go. Okay.
Baby, we got to go now!
Okay! Okay! Okay!
They didn't report it.
They just abandoned it.
Well, we tracked down
the abandoned car,
but the paint scrapings
that we took from
the impact point
showed the most common
brand of automotive paint.
Which means we had added
another mystery to the case...
Who was the driver?
But that question
took a back seat.
Oh, because the text came.
You have to show
this to the police.
Geez.
Stay with her.
A text was sent from an unknown
number to Dim and Juicy,
demanding the item
that had been promised.
And the text
went on to threaten violence
if Juicy didn't
turn the item over.
It seemed likely that whomever
sent that text killed Dim.
So it was time for
me to go undercover.
You had no idea what
you were walking into.
That's working undercover.
Doesn't that scare you,
walking in by yourself?
Th... But I wasn't by myself.
UC is in play.
Heads up. This
could be our guy.
Do you have it?
Nope.
What do you mean, no?
Whatever you were
into with Jake,
he didn't share it with me.
I got no idea who you
are or what you want.
And now that Jake is dead...
That's not my problem.
I need what he promised...
or you're gonna learn what
battery acid tastes like.
Is that what you said to
Jake before you killed him?
Enough. You're coming with me.
Gun. Move in.
Don't move.
- Copy that! Moving in!
- Get on the ground!
Drop the gun!
Get on the ground right now!
- Police! Don't move!
- Stay where you are!
I got him on this side!
- Don't move!
- Stay where you are!
- Everybody freeze! Weapons down!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Drop your weapon!
- Multiple targets!
- Right there!
- Drop the gun!
Whoa, whoa! Hey! LAPD!
Who the hell are you guys?
CIA.
Thanks for taking
the time to speak with me.
My pleasure.
The agency is committed to
transparency wherever possible.
Great. So, what can you
tell me about Emir Sadik?
Nothing.
Come on.
It's common knowledge that
Mr. Sadik is a Turkish national
who works for Meyer Balik,
an infamous international
arms dealer.
I'm not prepared to
speak on that. Okay.
Can you explain the
connection to Jake Butler?
I'm not prepared
to speak on that.
How about the mystery item that
Emir was so intent on getting
from Mr. Butler and Ms. Wu?
I'm not prepared
to speak on that.
Then why did you agree
to the interview?
The agency is committed to
transparency wherever possible.
It turns out Dim and
that arms dealer...
Meyer Balik?
Yeah. That's the guy.
Dim and Meyer were
distant cousins.
I found out through a
back-channel source at the DOD
that the, uh... the agency
had been surveilling Emir
for... for months now, while
he and Meyer were working
on a massive arms
deal for the Iranians.
But during the
deal-making process,
Emir went to Barbados.
Where he met with Dim.
But not Juicy?
That's what she says.
How
you holding up?
I'm heartbroken.
I thought I knew him.
I thought he loved me.
To find out he had this
whole other life, I mean...
I've been drunk the whole week.
So you had no idea
that the Baudelaires
weren't just a random target?
Jake just said they
were crazy rich
and that we'd be able
to party for a year
off of what we'd get
out of their house.
Well, what we now know
is that Emir pointed
Jake at the Baudelaires.
But it wasn't connected
to the Iranian arms deal
that the CIA was
so keen to stop.
It turns out, among
the stolen antiquities
in the Baudelaires' vault
was a very special rifle.
The miquelet, one
of the earliest
and most sturdy
flintlocks ever made.
And the most famous miquelet
belonged to the Turkish sultan
Osman II, or Osman the Young.
I-I like to read.
You sure do.
But h-history lesson aside,
as a proud Turk and a
professional weapon aficionado,
Meyer Balik had been hunting for
the sultan's rifle for decades.
And somehow, he discovered
that the Baudelaires had it.
So he called up Cousin Jake
and set up a meeting
with Emir in Barbados.
I was probably getting a massage
at the time or a facial...
or a seaweed wrap.
Or body scrub.
I spent most of that trip just
getting pampered, you know?
Yeah, once we learned about
the rifle's existence,
we quickly found the crate
it had been stored in.
But the rifle was gone, which
meant that Dim had taken it,
uh, before he had snuck out
of the Baudelaires' house.
But he hadn't
delivered it to Emir. No.
Emir hadn't even
landed in the U. S.
By the time Dim was killed.
Which means Dim took
it somewhere else.
Yeah. Question was... Where?
To who... whom?
Yeah. And what happened to it?
You were about to find
all that out, though, weren't you?
Yes.
In the most terrifying way.
Drop the gun!
Baby? Baby, look
out!
Look out!
Oh!
With Emir out of
the picture as a suspect,
we went back to the car crash.
Somebody tried to run
Jake and Sava off the road
two days before Jake was killed.
If it wasn't Emir, who was it?
Well, we had previously
gotten warrants for
Jake's phone records,
but Sava told us
that, uh, Jake always carried
a burner phone with him,
and we didn't have that number.
Until the
incident with Emir.
Exactly.
Even though the CIA kept
us from interrogating Emir,
they did search Emir's
cellphone records
and came up with
an anonymous number
that we ultimately
tracked back to Dim.
Let's just say that there
were several text messages
sent to and from that phone
that were very... revealing.
What do you mean?
Jake was clearly
cheating on Sava,
and he was the
Shakespeare of Sexting.
It was
Would you read some
of those texts for me?
Yeah. You... Uh, no.
I can't. I'm sorry.
I can't say any
of this on camera.
My nana is gonna watch this.
Oh. You can... Yeah. Sorry.
Can you read some of
these texts to me?
Are you kidding
me? Put that away.
No. You couldn't get
Lucy to read them.
What makes you think
I'm gonna read 'em?
I'm serious. Okay.
I'm not reading them. Okay.
Would you mind
reading some of these texts
out loud?
Um...
I can't say that.
I'm not saying that.
I have no idea what
that even means.
Let me just find some
PG content for you.
Oh. Here we go.
"Stop calling. I
told you it's over."
The breakup text.
It was the, uh,
proverbial smoking gun.
The text that would
determine Dim's fate.
And just for clarity... who
was Dim sending these texts to?
Who was he having
an affair with?
Uh, Lisa... Lisa Miller.
Li... Miller? Lisa Miller?
That's Juicy's BFF.
So, what
are we doing here?
Girl, you know what we're doing.
No.
For, like, posperiority.
I think
it's "posterity."
Mnh-mnh.
That don't sound right, girl.
Okay. So...
I'm waiting for Jake to
get out of prison. Mm-hmm.
He just did six months
on a drug charge,
and I found out today he's
getting released early.
Ooh. For good behavior?
Girl. Overcrowding.
Baby!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Mmm! Mmm.
Baby. Oh, I missed you.
Yeah. I missed you, too.
Yo, Lisa!
Hey!
At that point, it all
started coming together.
Lisa couldn't handle the fact
that Jake was
breaking up with her,
so she tried to run
them off the road.
Look out! And
when that failed,
she called up Jake, begged
for his forgiveness,
and asked him to meet her.
Yeah, when he showed up,
she shot him with a
.22-caliber pistol,
then dumped his body
in the dumpster.
So, we went to arrest her.
I think that's her.
Police!
Show me your hands!
Move in on her! Move in!
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Drop the gun!
Down!
Shots fired! Shots fired!
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Drop the gun!
- Oh, John!
- Get in there.
Officer down.
We need an R. A...
Flower and Lincoln.
John.
Oh, my God. I'm just...
I'm... Roll me
back. Roll me back.
Let me catch my breath.
I'm good.
The thing about old guns is
that they're very
imprecise weapons,
and the muzzle velocity
was significantly less
than even the most
modern, smallest handgun.
Translation... There is no
way that the miquelet bullet
could have punched a hole
in Nolan's bulletproof vest.
He's just lucky she didn't
shoot him in the face.
Uh, not getting shot in the
face... that's a daily goal.
Yeah, it's true.
The first thing he taught me was
don't get shot in the face.
All things considered, though,
I do... I got very lucky.
Yeah. It could have
been so much worse.
Yeah. Like it was
for Sergeant Grey.
He's probably not gonna
love that you said...
This painting
captures a moment in world history
where freedom won
out over oppression,
which is why its
recovery is so important.
It is my honor to present
"The Lost Emperor."
Climate change!
No! Marcella: Oh, my God!
No!
You bastard!
How could you?!
You son of a
Shame on you!
Shame on you!
Let me go!
Get off me!
Polar bears are people, too!
This was an assassination.
I'm sorry. I need a minute.
I just...
At least I still have this.
Sorry, Sergeant. You're
needed in the bullpen.
What the hell is this about?
What do we have here?
Well, we all know how much
you love that painting.
Unfortunately, it was
completely destroyed.
So, we had another
painting made.
It reflects the way
that we see you.
With my shirt off?
As a dragon slayer.
Um...
I love it. I love it.
Yay!
Well, uh, so Lisa
was going to prison
for the murder of Jake and
the attempted murder of Nolan.
But we were left
with the question
of what to do with Juicy.
At the end of the day, it
didn't make sense to charge her.
We could prove
Dim's involvement,
but all we really had
on Juicy was conspiracy.
D.A.'s office
debated for a while,
but ultimately, we
decided to cut her loose.
How did
you feel about that?
On the whole...
good.
Whatever her faults, Juicy...
Sava had suffered
a great tragedy...
Betrayal, murder.
I'm hopeful that she'll
take this opportunity
to learn from the
experience, you know,
to change.
Of course she said that.
Listen. People
never change, okay?
Sava is gonna end up in
cuffs, one way or another.
♪ Nobody listened ♪
♪ So she screamed out loud ♪
♪ She broke the dishes ♪
You make good money
doing documentaries?
I do okay.
You do better than okay.
I looked you up.
You're not the only
curious one around here.
♪ 'Cause somebody listened ♪
Award-winning filmmaker.
Vacation home on
the Amalfi Coast.
I mean...
Karen! What?
Uh, you gotta go.
♪ Never runs from a fight ♪
You're "Parasiting" again?
Girl's gotta eat. Uh...
Give him my number.
Give him my number.
You call me, okay?
Coming, Mrs. Hotchkins!
Does it
shake you at all...
The fact that your
doppelgangers' relationship
was so dysfunctional?
I... That's an unfair
characterization.
It wasn't dysfunctional.
I mean, Jake cheated
with Sava's best friend
after trying to cut her
out of a big money deal.
Fair enough. But that
doesn't change the question.
What are you implying?
That... That we might
suffer the same fate
because of a couple of people
who looked a tiny bit
like us that were misfits?
I think it's a
reasonable question.
You're working too hard.
Okay, l...
I get it, alright?
You're invested in
a certain answer
because it makes for
a better documentary.
But we are not Jake
and Sava, okay?
I mean, they...
They are criminals
whose lives were
based on deceit.
O-Of course that duplicity
infected their relationship.
But...
we are in a very
different place.
Mm-hmm.
And what place is that?
If you don't know, then you
haven't been paying attention.
I mean...
Okay. So, a place of
honesty, respect, love.
Yeah. I mean, those are...
those are good words. Yeah.
But do those qualities guarantee
that your relationship will
succeed where theirs failed?
Oh, w... Well, you...
Okay, you know what?
Of... Of course not.
But at this moment, I mean,
Tim and I are in a
really beautiful place.
And that's all that matters.
Yeah.
Look, the thing you learn
early on as police officers
is that your future
is never certain.
Yeah. Anything can happen
to anyone at any time.
Especially if they
overstay their welcome.
Uh... Oh. Oh,
does that mean...
Yeah, we're...
Yeah. We're done.
Sorry. That's right.
Sorry, guys.
Do you want to get sushi?
Oh, that's perfect.
Okay. Listen.
We're gonna be back in an hour.
Place better be spotless.
Oh, God.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you.
Okay. Let's pack it up.
You don't think he's
really mad at me, do you?