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[Angie] How are you feeling?
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[Wynter] Like I'm gonna win.
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[Angie] You never win.
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But I'm feeling like I'm gonna win.
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Ha! How'd you get so bad at this?
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[both laugh]
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- [Angie] Ah.
- [Wynter sighs]
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Practice. You won't believe this
but when I was a kid,
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I had a magnetic backgammon set
I used to play in the car.
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I would lose to my father
while he was driving.
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[chuckles] He couldn't even see the board
and I would still lose.
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I definitely believe that.
Why wouldn't I believe that?
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His birthday today.
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Your dad?
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Yeah, just realizing that.
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Well, happy birthday, Papa Wynter.
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- Run it back?
- Mm-hmm.
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He'd be…
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157?
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[sarcastic] Thanks.
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- [chuckles] I'm just doing the math.
- Great.
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How long ago did you lose him?
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54 years. This March.
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Ah, shit.
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- [poignant music playing]
- I'm sorry, A.B.
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How old were you?
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Eleven.
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He and my mom
died in a car crash when I was 11.
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[Angie sighs sadly]
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It wasn't the backgammon. Don't worry.
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They were good parents.
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[sighs softly]
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You're always giving me shit.
"Why don't you have a family?"
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That's why.
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I had
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a family.
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Why were you always letting me
run my mouth like that, A.B.?
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- So you'd feel terrible.
- Well, I do. I do.
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I should probably hold
on this one, actually.
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Got to go make this night happen.
Try not to kill someone. Or get killed.
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Hey.
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You do have a family.
You know that, right?
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All of this here.
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All of this here.
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[Wynter breathes deeply]
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[brisk instrumental music playing]
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Mr. Wynter.
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[Wynter] George. George.
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George.
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- No allergies?
- She said no allergies.
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Excellent.
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[phone ringing]
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Who are you?
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[Tripp] I want A.B. Wynter up here now!
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Because my fuckin' toilet's clogged!
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[robotically] You are old man robot
from Planet Usher, so… [fades]
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- [TV volume increases]
- [Wynter] I'm sending up an engineer.
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- To fix the toilet.
- Thank you.
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And I'm gonna talk to your brother
in the morning.
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[Tripp yells]
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I am trying to do something great,
but you have never understood that.
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And if you get in my way again,
I am going to kill you!
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[Lilly] Helen, no, do not fuck with me.
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I have half of fucking Australia
coming to this party.
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I need Harry Styles here tonight.
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We're screwed!
Nobody wants to play in this shitty house.
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[guests chattering]
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[music continues]
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[phone ringing]
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- Yes?
- [Haney] We have a problem on the floor.
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Valentina Motta.
Lorenzo, please let me handle this.
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- Just let them go.
- It is against White House protocol.
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- Who fucking cares?
- I care.
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Did I just hear
we don't have a musical guest?
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Please pardon my interruption.
We have a cancellation.
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- Uh, yes, okay.
- I'll arrange it. The Lincoln Bedroom.
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[Melody sneezes repeatedly]
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- [Melody sneezes]
- [Jeffrey] Bullshit!
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I follow every single protocol.
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I asked you about no allergies.
Get these flowers out of here.
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- Why do I have to clean up Tripp's mess?
- Would you give us a moment?
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Why am I… Eddie could have…
I was pulled out of my son's birthday…
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…this is what I talk about when…
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- [overlapping speech]
- …fucking job…
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- [music continues]
- [Wynter sighs wearily]
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[Lilly] Rollie, switch.
Actually, Rollie, switch these two.
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Excuse me. Thank you.
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A.B., there's a crash
outside the South Gate.
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…right over there. We have
agents on it now checking it out.
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- Sheila's sitting…
- [Rollie] What is she doing?
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- You're off the floor.
- You know what? Fuck you, A.B.!
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[music continues]
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There's a problem with the kangaroos.
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You are not going to take away
my kangaroos!
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- I haven't taken anything away from you.
- Not you.
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Him!
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- [knocking at door]
- [music pauses]
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[Wynter yells] …not going to talk to me
like that! No! I'm going to expose you!
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- I am going to tell them everything!
- [music resumes]
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Everything!
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[Harry sighs]
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[Wynter sighs]
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Oh, the man I wanted to see.
I spoke to Marvella about the desserts…
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I'm not leaving.
I can't leave the house like this.
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Not after tonight.
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[music continues]
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Elsyie, A.B. needs you to prep
the Lincoln Bedroom for Kylie Minogue.
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- Okay.
- Thank you.
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Mr. Foreign Minister, everything okay?
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[phone ringing]
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Hello? Give me five minutes.
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I am going to be dead
by the end of the night.
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You need to get off the floor now.
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Don't worry about it.
Get it later. Let's go.
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[music continues]
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- [phone vibrates]
- [Wynter sighs]
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- Hello?
- [Wynter] Meet me in the Yellow Oval Room.
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You are old man robot…
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- I am going to kill you!
- Nobody wants to play…
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- This is what I talk about…
- Not you. Him!
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Fuck you, A.B.!
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[Wynter sighs]
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[music continues]
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[Park] You think it happened here
in this room?
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[Cupp] I am now convinced of it.
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[music continues]
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[music fades]
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[Filkins] Detective Cupp? Are you ready?
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I have to catch a flight.
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Yes, I understand.
We're ready if you're ready.
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It's a Giant Antpitta.
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What's a Giant Antpitta?
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- The bird I'm going to see. My flight.
- [Filkins] Oh. Okay. Great.
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{\an8}That sounds like, uh,
such a very large Antpitta.
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{\an8}Huge compared to
the other tracheophone suboscine birds.
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{\an8}It… it's big.
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{\an8}I appreciate you appearing before
this committee today, Detective Cupp.
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{\an8}As you know,
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we've been looking into the death
of White House Chief Usher A.B. Wynter.
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I've heard.
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When we began these hearings,
the investigation was closed,
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and officially,
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Mr. Wynter's death was ruled a suicide.
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In fact, we learned over the course
of some difficult hearings…
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Senators!
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…for which I accept full responsibility,
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that the story of Mr. Wynter's death
was much more…
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[Filkins inhales]
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…complicated.
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Unfortunately, we also learned that
a little late as you had already left.
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[Cupp] To find a Giant Antpitta.
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The largest of
the tracheophone suboscine birds,
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as I understand it.
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- Yes.
- [Filkins] But now you're back.
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And you agreed to come here today
on your way to the airport,
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to report that a suspect
has been detained in your investigation.
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- That's correct, Senator.
- And the name of this suspect?
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[Cupp inhales]
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We are in a closed session here,
Detective Cupp.
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Given the sensitivity of the proceedings.
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Yes. Okay.
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But… don't you wanna hear
how I figured it all out?
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[curious music playing]
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[music intensifies]
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[music fades]
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[sprightly music playing]
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Something's missing
from the Yellow Oval Room.
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- Yes.
- A vase. One of a set.
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French porcelain. From 1823.
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You haven't seen it since October 11th.
The night Mr. Wynter was found dead.
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That's right.
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And you won't. It's broken. I'm sorry.
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Detective Cupp, that's not the only thing
missing from the room.
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Oh, I know.
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I'm looking for a clock.
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Okay. Sure.
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Hmm. Oh.
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How about this one?
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No. A specific clock.
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Oh. Oh, I see.
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Every room has as a clock on the mantel.
But not in the Yellow Oval Room.
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Oh, that clock? The Franklin clock?
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- No. It's gone.
- Do you know where it is?
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- No. We looked everywhere.
- Do you have a picture?
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- That's a big clock.
- Yes.
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- Can I take this?
- No.
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- The yellow roses?
- In a large vase by the door.
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Yes, I remember those. Of course.
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They were… distressed.
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- I wouldn't say distressed.
- What would you say?
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- I would say burned.
- Burned?
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Those were beautiful fresh flowers
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and they were fully desiccated
two days later.
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- Burned.
- What would do that?
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Something violent.
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Contact herbicide.
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- Paraquat, maybe.
- Paraquat?
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- That'd be my guess.
- Is that something you keep here?
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Do I keep industrial weed killer
in my small flower shop
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where I make pretty bouquets?
Is that the question?
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Unfortunately, yes.
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No. I do not.
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But I do know where you can find it.
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Paraquat? No, not something
we're allowed to use here anymore.
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Basically, any chemicals.
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We were told a year ago we had to
completely detoxify all of our gardening.
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- We're just "Conscious Landscaping" now.
- What does that mean?
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I have no idea.
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All I know is we had to get rid of
all of our pesticides like paraquat.
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But now that I'm saying that,
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I don't think anybody ever came by
to collect any of that stuff.
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If I had any of it left,
it would be over here--
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Oh, I guess it is still here.
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- You know, that's really weird.
- Yes.
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- [Emily] You know what I'm gonna say?
- I do.
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So weird.
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The night Mr. Wynter was killed,
when we were all out here together.
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I felt like something had been moved
over in this area. You mentioned that.
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And there is something off
about that shelf back there.
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You don't know what it is,
but it's bothering you.
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- There's something different.
- Oh, that.
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Yes! [chuckles]
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[Park clears throat]
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[intriguing music playing]
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[glass smashes]
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Can you come with us?
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[music continues]
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[music fades]
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Oh my God!
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- Do you recognize this?
- Yes, it's from my desk. Why--
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- It's hard to explain.
- I wondered where it went. Can I have it?
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- No.
- It's mine.
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- It has paraquat in it.
- Oh.
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My sister made that for me.
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Well, now it's kind of a murder weapon.
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Okay.
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You can keep it.
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I'm… I'm gonna leave.
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Thank you, Emily.
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[curious music playing]
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- Where are we?
- We're in the Yellow Oval Room.
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No, I mean, what are we doing?
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We're looking for clues.
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I guess what I mean is, what is that?
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It's a little tumbler.
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- You see what I'm getting at?
- No.
247
00:13:29,517 --> 00:13:30,726
- Generally?
- No.
248
00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:32,269
[sighs]
249
00:13:32,353 --> 00:13:34,730
Last night,
you had Bruce and Elsyie right there.
250
00:13:34,814 --> 00:13:36,899
You were deciding between
Bruce and Elsyie.
251
00:13:36,982 --> 00:13:39,026
Did Bruce kill A.B. Wynter, or did Elsyie?
252
00:13:39,109 --> 00:13:41,862
And now we have a little tumbler
and no Bruce and no Elsyie.
253
00:13:41,946 --> 00:13:44,281
And I'm wondering…
are we getting any closer?
254
00:13:44,365 --> 00:13:45,241
To what?
255
00:13:45,324 --> 00:13:47,409
To figuring out who killed A.B. Wynter.
256
00:13:48,118 --> 00:13:49,995
Oh. Yes.
257
00:13:51,539 --> 00:13:52,540
Yes!
258
00:13:54,124 --> 00:13:56,627
Someone went out to that shed
the night of the State Dinner.
259
00:13:56,710 --> 00:13:59,797
I think looking for poison.
I think they brought a real glass.
260
00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:02,633
I think that glass fell or broke--
I don't know why--
261
00:14:02,716 --> 00:14:04,468
and then they grabbed this.
262
00:14:04,552 --> 00:14:08,013
They found the poison--
the paraquat-- and poured it in here.
263
00:14:08,097 --> 00:14:11,016
And then they picked up the phone
and called A.B. Wynter in his office.
264
00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:12,142
And then they came here.
265
00:14:12,226 --> 00:14:14,270
Well, there. And then here.
266
00:14:14,353 --> 00:14:16,105
I saw two glasses that night.
267
00:14:16,188 --> 00:14:18,315
One on the coffee table.
And one on that end table.
268
00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:20,860
I suspect the one on the end table
had the poison
269
00:14:20,943 --> 00:14:22,862
and was poured on the flowers.
270
00:14:22,945 --> 00:14:26,198
Some of that Wynter probably ingested.
271
00:14:26,282 --> 00:14:27,491
Someone threw a vase.
272
00:14:27,575 --> 00:14:30,619
I think it hit this wall.
273
00:14:30,703 --> 00:14:32,037
That vase is now gone.
274
00:14:32,121 --> 00:14:35,499
The other is right there.
And there are indentations here.
275
00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:38,210
My guess is that
it was intended for Wynter,
276
00:14:38,294 --> 00:14:41,547
and that's why he had little cuts
on his face.
277
00:14:41,630 --> 00:14:44,884
And when that didn't work,
that person picked up something heavy.
278
00:14:44,967 --> 00:14:47,970
Possibly the candlestick,
but I don't think that was heavy enough.
279
00:14:48,053 --> 00:14:50,598
I think that candlestick fell
when Mr. Wynter…
280
00:14:50,681 --> 00:14:54,643
[gasps] …stumbled into this table
after drinking the poison.
281
00:14:54,727 --> 00:14:57,730
I think the heavy object was the clock.
282
00:14:57,813 --> 00:14:58,939
There is no clock.
283
00:14:59,023 --> 00:15:01,650
Exactly. And I think this is why.
284
00:15:02,610 --> 00:15:05,237
- You think the clock is the murder weapon?
- Yes.
285
00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,284
You said the tumbler
was the murder weapon.
286
00:15:10,367 --> 00:15:11,952
I said it was "kind of" a murder weapon.
287
00:15:12,036 --> 00:15:13,704
- So we need to find the clock.
- We do.
288
00:15:13,787 --> 00:15:15,164
Do you think you know where it is?
289
00:15:15,247 --> 00:15:17,249
No. But I know one place
they definitely didn't look.
290
00:15:17,333 --> 00:15:18,167
[Tripp] A clock?
291
00:15:18,250 --> 00:15:20,210
No, I… I'd say no.
292
00:15:20,294 --> 00:15:24,340
You know? I mean,
not like a traditional "clock clock."
293
00:15:24,423 --> 00:15:27,092
Why are you putting that in quotes?
What is a "clock clock"?
294
00:15:27,676 --> 00:15:30,638
- I don't wanna get in trouble.
- It's okay. We're the police.
295
00:15:33,182 --> 00:15:34,099
All right.
296
00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,977
Well, I… I do have a nice piece in here.
297
00:15:37,061 --> 00:15:41,607
More of a sculpture of a dude
with clock-like elements.
298
00:15:42,608 --> 00:15:44,068
Uh… [groans]
299
00:15:44,151 --> 00:15:44,985
Ah.
300
00:15:48,781 --> 00:15:49,949
Why do you have that?
301
00:15:50,032 --> 00:15:52,743
I took it from the Library, all right,
a while back.
302
00:15:52,826 --> 00:15:54,787
And then I heard Mr. Wynter
was looking for it,
303
00:15:54,870 --> 00:15:57,998
and he was already pretty upset with me
about a few things, and…
304
00:15:58,082 --> 00:16:01,168
so when I heard he was leaving,
I thought, I'll wait until then
305
00:16:01,251 --> 00:16:05,005
and then I'll, like, put it back.
And then that didn't happen.
306
00:16:05,089 --> 00:16:06,131
So here we are.
307
00:16:06,215 --> 00:16:08,258
I still can't tell if it's cool or not.
308
00:16:08,342 --> 00:16:09,343
You can't?
309
00:16:09,843 --> 00:16:11,512
- What do you mean, he was leaving?
- What?
310
00:16:11,595 --> 00:16:13,889
You said Mr. Wynter was leaving
and then he didn't.
311
00:16:13,973 --> 00:16:15,349
- Leaving the house.
- Retiring?
312
00:16:15,432 --> 00:16:16,558
- I guess.
- When was that?
313
00:16:16,642 --> 00:16:19,395
I dunno. Sometime since I've been here.
What's that? A couple months?
314
00:16:19,478 --> 00:16:22,314
- You've been here a year.
- Fuck, really?
315
00:16:22,398 --> 00:16:24,525
- Where did you hear that?
- I don't know. Out on the floor?
316
00:16:24,608 --> 00:16:27,236
Out on the floor?
Do you have a floor meeting or something?
317
00:16:27,319 --> 00:16:31,949
I don't know, man. Maybe the old lady?
Or that asshole that works for my brother.
318
00:16:32,032 --> 00:16:35,703
- That could be a lot of people.
- No, I'm talking about the asshole.
319
00:16:35,786 --> 00:16:37,997
The world's biggest asshole.
320
00:16:39,623 --> 00:16:43,043
What? I don't know
what the fuck he's talking about.
321
00:16:43,127 --> 00:16:45,212
That dude is crazy.
322
00:16:45,295 --> 00:16:46,964
You know that, right?
323
00:16:47,047 --> 00:16:49,383
- You never heard A.B. Wynter was leaving?
- No.
324
00:16:49,883 --> 00:16:52,928
But I'm not really dialed in
to Residence staffing
325
00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:58,142
because I'm trying to help
President Morgan run the fucking country.
326
00:16:58,225 --> 00:16:59,727
Are you close?
327
00:16:59,810 --> 00:17:02,896
Because you asking me
about Wynter's retirement plans
328
00:17:02,980 --> 00:17:04,982
doesn't feel like we're close.
329
00:17:09,987 --> 00:17:11,405
Wait, hold on.
330
00:17:11,488 --> 00:17:14,825
Actually, the night he died,
when she came up here,
331
00:17:14,908 --> 00:17:17,619
and I asked her to shut everything down,
and she said no--
332
00:17:17,703 --> 00:17:19,872
- Who are you talking about?
- Jasmine. Jasmine Haney.
333
00:17:19,955 --> 00:17:22,708
She went on some rant
about working here 11 years…
334
00:17:22,791 --> 00:17:24,418
And yes, I want to be the Chief Usher,
335
00:17:24,501 --> 00:17:26,295
and I thought
I was going to be the Chief Usher
336
00:17:26,378 --> 00:17:28,338
but it was made very clear to me tonight
337
00:17:28,422 --> 00:17:31,300
that I am not going to be the Chief Usher
anytime soon.
338
00:17:31,383 --> 00:17:34,303
Basically told me to go fuck myself
until I showed her Wynter was dead.
339
00:17:34,386 --> 00:17:36,472
I don't know
if that's related to him "leaving."
340
00:17:37,097 --> 00:17:40,768
On the night Mr. Wynter died,
he dropped a bomb on Jasmine.
341
00:17:40,851 --> 00:17:43,979
Jasmine Haney was going to be
the next Chief Usher of the White House.
342
00:17:44,063 --> 00:17:46,690
Everybody knew that. She knew that.
Mr. Wynter told her a year ago.
343
00:17:46,774 --> 00:17:49,151
He was going to retire.
She was going to take his place.
344
00:17:49,234 --> 00:17:51,028
But over the last year,
345
00:17:51,111 --> 00:17:54,198
we all started to… feel it slipping.
346
00:17:54,281 --> 00:17:56,033
He never set an exact date,
347
00:17:56,116 --> 00:17:59,119
but whatever it was
seemed to keep getting pushed back.
348
00:17:59,203 --> 00:18:00,329
First, it was the holidays.
349
00:18:00,412 --> 00:18:03,707
Then the terror attacks on March 4th.
Couldn't leave after that.
350
00:18:03,791 --> 00:18:04,833
Then Easter.
351
00:18:04,917 --> 00:18:07,211
- Then the Fourth of July.
- Holidays are coming up again.
352
00:18:07,294 --> 00:18:10,506
I could feel Jasmine getting frustrated.
I told her to hang on,
353
00:18:10,589 --> 00:18:13,509
he just needed time to let go,
that it would happen soon enough,
354
00:18:13,592 --> 00:18:15,677
and I believed that.
I think she believed that.
355
00:18:15,761 --> 00:18:17,221
Until that night.
356
00:18:17,888 --> 00:18:19,014
I'm not leaving.
357
00:18:19,556 --> 00:18:22,601
I'm not retiring.
For at least a couple of years.
358
00:18:23,435 --> 00:18:24,561
A bomb.
359
00:18:25,145 --> 00:18:28,023
And she was pissed.
360
00:18:28,107 --> 00:18:29,066
[yelling]
361
00:18:29,149 --> 00:18:30,442
[Sheila] I know. I know…
362
00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:34,488
Years?! I have been waiting years!
I'm not waiting years.
363
00:18:34,571 --> 00:18:36,031
You just need to talk to him.
364
00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:38,867
I am done talking, okay?
Talking hasn't gotten me shit.
365
00:18:38,951 --> 00:18:40,160
Walking around by his side,
366
00:18:40,244 --> 00:18:43,122
yes sir, no sir,
let me take care of that for you, sir.
367
00:18:43,205 --> 00:18:45,666
Cleaning up his fucking messes.
368
00:18:48,168 --> 00:18:51,213
She tried talking to him again,
but it didn't amount to anything.
369
00:18:51,296 --> 00:18:52,422
It wasn't much of a talk.
370
00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:55,134
Then she never got another chance.
371
00:18:56,969 --> 00:18:58,804
- Jasmine Haney?
- Yes.
372
00:18:58,887 --> 00:19:00,264
Did that surprise you?
373
00:19:00,347 --> 00:19:01,723
I'm not easily surprised.
374
00:19:02,307 --> 00:19:06,353
But I will admit,
it did make things more… interesting.
375
00:19:06,895 --> 00:19:09,273
I'd previously identified
a number of people
376
00:19:09,356 --> 00:19:12,109
who I believed might have played a role
in Mr. Wynter's death.
377
00:19:13,193 --> 00:19:14,820
And now I had one more.
378
00:19:15,445 --> 00:19:16,405
This is it.
379
00:19:16,905 --> 00:19:18,282
She is it.
380
00:19:18,365 --> 00:19:22,077
She's the one with the cleanest, clearest,
most powerful motive. We just heard it.
381
00:19:22,161 --> 00:19:24,621
And she had the access.
And it makes complete sense.
382
00:19:24,705 --> 00:19:28,000
She's the one who told us everything.
Showed us everything. Shaped everything.
383
00:19:28,083 --> 00:19:30,210
We're talking about
all these other people. But…
384
00:19:30,294 --> 00:19:32,713
sometimes it's the thing
right in front of you.
385
00:19:32,796 --> 00:19:34,548
It's the thing hiding in plain sight.
386
00:19:34,631 --> 00:19:35,883
The obvious thing.
387
00:19:35,966 --> 00:19:38,302
The thing you're staring at.
You just didn't see it.
388
00:19:38,385 --> 00:19:39,469
Yes, I agree.
389
00:19:40,262 --> 00:19:41,388
But how exactly?
390
00:19:41,471 --> 00:19:44,099
And when? And did she act alone?
391
00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:46,268
Obviously, everything makes
much more sense
392
00:19:46,351 --> 00:19:48,103
if there were other people involved.
393
00:19:48,187 --> 00:19:49,646
I know this is, uh, weird.
394
00:19:49,730 --> 00:19:52,482
But. Did you see
"Murder on the Orient Express"?
395
00:19:52,566 --> 00:19:53,901
- The new one?
- Or the old one.
396
00:19:53,984 --> 00:19:55,068
I haven't seen either one.
397
00:19:55,152 --> 00:19:57,237
- Then why do you care which one?
- I read the book.
398
00:19:57,321 --> 00:19:59,364
Well, I haven't read the book.
That's not the point.
399
00:19:59,448 --> 00:20:01,116
- The point is, what hap--
- The book is good.
400
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,911
Okay, I'm sure it is.
Someday I'll read the book.
401
00:20:05,913 --> 00:20:08,540
Right, uh, okay, that's weird.
402
00:20:08,624 --> 00:20:11,501
Anyway, if you remember,
it turns out they all did it.
403
00:20:11,585 --> 00:20:12,753
All the suspects.
404
00:20:12,836 --> 00:20:14,213
And it makes me wonder…
405
00:20:15,255 --> 00:20:17,799
Wait. You're agreeing with me?
406
00:20:17,883 --> 00:20:18,800
What?
407
00:20:18,884 --> 00:20:21,637
- When I said it was hiding in plain sight.
- Yes.
408
00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,598
You've agreed with me before,
but I realized you were making fun of me.
409
00:20:24,681 --> 00:20:25,641
Yes.
410
00:20:26,308 --> 00:20:30,979
Yes. So you were making fun of me before,
but you're not making fun of me this time?
411
00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:31,980
No.
412
00:20:34,066 --> 00:20:36,693
I'm just going to go back
to where I started.
413
00:20:41,698 --> 00:20:43,867
Sometimes it's the thing
right in front of you.
414
00:20:43,951 --> 00:20:45,577
The thing hiding in plain sight.
415
00:20:45,661 --> 00:20:48,121
The obvious thing.
The thing you've been staring at.
416
00:20:48,205 --> 00:20:49,706
You just didn't see it.
417
00:20:53,043 --> 00:20:54,002
Yes.
418
00:20:55,254 --> 00:20:56,630
I agree.
419
00:20:58,173 --> 00:20:59,967
- Is that…?
- Yes.
420
00:21:00,926 --> 00:21:02,427
[Filkins] A.B. Wynter's journal?
421
00:21:02,511 --> 00:21:05,847
[Cupp] Right there on the shelf,
in a room nobody else cared about.
422
00:21:05,931 --> 00:21:08,976
Because where's the one place
nobody ever looks?
423
00:21:09,059 --> 00:21:13,272
I use, uh, one of those cans
that looks like a Coke can,
424
00:21:13,355 --> 00:21:15,315
but you can screw off the bottom.
425
00:21:15,399 --> 00:21:17,734
Anyway, that's not what you meant.
426
00:21:17,818 --> 00:21:19,069
The room with the books.
427
00:21:19,152 --> 00:21:21,405
Nobody cares about
the room with the books.
428
00:21:21,488 --> 00:21:24,074
I should have realized this earlier.
It was all there.
429
00:21:24,157 --> 00:21:27,744
His notebooks, his journals,
they were like old-fashioned books.
430
00:21:27,828 --> 00:21:29,663
He wrote everything down in them.
431
00:21:29,746 --> 00:21:31,915
[Haney] The Library.
Mr. Wynter's favorite room.
432
00:21:31,999 --> 00:21:33,875
He stopped by first thing every morning.
433
00:21:33,959 --> 00:21:36,795
And it was always the last place he went
before he left for the night.
434
00:21:36,878 --> 00:21:40,465
I just didn't see it,
which is precisely why he did it.
435
00:21:40,549 --> 00:21:41,425
Did you read them?
436
00:21:41,508 --> 00:21:43,051
I tried.
437
00:21:43,135 --> 00:21:44,344
[Filkins] And?
438
00:21:44,428 --> 00:21:46,888
[Cupp] And they were funny,
439
00:21:46,972 --> 00:21:50,434
erudite, self-critical,
unexpectedly generous, poignant.
440
00:21:50,517 --> 00:21:53,937
He was candid with some of his feelings,
many of them positive, some negative.
441
00:21:54,021 --> 00:21:56,148
He had a particular disdain
for Lilly Schumacher,
442
00:21:56,231 --> 00:21:57,774
which didn't surprise me at all,
443
00:21:57,858 --> 00:21:59,484
but the intensity of it did.
444
00:21:59,568 --> 00:22:03,655
His relationship with Mr. Gotthard
had clearly soured. He did not like Tripp.
445
00:22:03,739 --> 00:22:06,616
He thought it was a really bad idea
to have Marvella around all those knives
446
00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:08,285
and Sheila around all that vodka.
447
00:22:08,368 --> 00:22:10,787
He kept a curious ledger
with acronyms and numbers
448
00:22:10,871 --> 00:22:12,664
that made no sense to me at the time
449
00:22:12,748 --> 00:22:14,875
but which has since proven
highly revealing.
450
00:22:14,958 --> 00:22:16,293
So they were helpful?
451
00:22:16,376 --> 00:22:19,212
Very. And that's even before
I got to the last page.
452
00:22:19,296 --> 00:22:20,714
What was on the last page?
453
00:22:20,797 --> 00:22:22,174
Nothing.
454
00:22:48,992 --> 00:22:50,160
The suicide note.
455
00:22:50,243 --> 00:22:53,997
Yes. But it wasn't a suicide note.
Well, except I didn't know that.
456
00:22:54,081 --> 00:22:57,167
I'm sorry.
It… it might've been a suicide note?
457
00:22:57,250 --> 00:23:00,420
I believed from the beginning
that Mr. Wynter did not die by suicide.
458
00:23:00,504 --> 00:23:01,671
But this note.
459
00:23:01,755 --> 00:23:03,590
It did read like one.
460
00:23:03,673 --> 00:23:05,675
But now,
in the context of the larger page,
461
00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:08,053
it clearly was not one, not originally.
462
00:23:08,136 --> 00:23:09,930
I couldn't explain it. Not yet.
463
00:23:10,013 --> 00:23:12,349
- Did he rip it out himself?
- Or did someone else do it?
464
00:23:12,432 --> 00:23:13,850
- Accidentally?
- Or intentionally?
465
00:23:13,934 --> 00:23:15,977
Did someone know
these books were here the whole time?
466
00:23:16,061 --> 00:23:17,229
- Who?
- Angie.
467
00:23:17,312 --> 00:23:19,398
- Jasmine.
- Why did he have it on him though?
468
00:23:19,481 --> 00:23:21,274
- How did he have it on him?
- What do you mean?
469
00:23:21,358 --> 00:23:22,984
If he was killed in the Yellow Oval Room,
470
00:23:23,068 --> 00:23:25,821
why does he have a suicide note on him
in the Game Room?
471
00:23:26,446 --> 00:23:28,448
Was it just coincidence?
472
00:23:28,532 --> 00:23:29,825
And what did you decide?
473
00:23:29,908 --> 00:23:31,660
I didn't decide anything,
474
00:23:31,743 --> 00:23:33,870
because that's when all hell broke loose.
475
00:23:33,954 --> 00:23:34,996
[door opens]
476
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:36,540
Upstairs. Now.
477
00:23:36,623 --> 00:23:37,749
[intense beat playing]
478
00:23:38,834 --> 00:23:40,794
Hey, it's me. I'm just doing my thing.
479
00:23:44,089 --> 00:23:45,799
[music intensifies, then ends]
480
00:23:45,882 --> 00:23:47,426
I'm not happy, Detective Cupp.
481
00:23:47,509 --> 00:23:48,969
Well, that's not good.
482
00:23:49,052 --> 00:23:51,721
Because you're, like,
the most important person in the world.
483
00:23:51,805 --> 00:23:52,806
Why are you not happy?
484
00:23:52,889 --> 00:23:54,975
What are you doing here?
485
00:23:55,058 --> 00:23:57,894
Who let you back into this house?
486
00:24:04,317 --> 00:24:05,444
Do you want to take that?
487
00:24:07,737 --> 00:24:12,909
[sighs] Well, okay, yes,
before everybody starts pointing fingers--
488
00:24:12,993 --> 00:24:15,078
- Harry--?
- It's not like one person decided.
489
00:24:15,162 --> 00:24:19,207
It was a decision among various… parties.
490
00:24:19,291 --> 00:24:20,667
- You called me.
- Harry!
491
00:24:20,750 --> 00:24:24,713
Yes! Yes. Okay.
I asked Detective Cupp to come back.
492
00:24:24,796 --> 00:24:28,758
Mr. President, I do think it's important
that this gets resolved.
493
00:24:28,842 --> 00:24:31,303
The damage that came out
of those Senate hearings…
494
00:24:31,386 --> 00:24:32,596
You didn't even tell me.
495
00:24:32,679 --> 00:24:33,763
You don't live here!
496
00:24:33,847 --> 00:24:36,683
It's the White House.
I'm the President. Did he tell you?
497
00:24:36,766 --> 00:24:37,767
No.
498
00:24:37,851 --> 00:24:40,979
He didn't tell me either.
And we have jurisdiction.
499
00:24:41,062 --> 00:24:42,272
What the fuck?
500
00:24:42,355 --> 00:24:43,648
You don't have jurisdiction.
501
00:24:43,732 --> 00:24:45,692
The fucking campground attendant is here?
502
00:24:45,775 --> 00:24:47,569
The jurisdiction of
the National Park Police--
503
00:24:47,652 --> 00:24:49,362
- -is the Grand fucking Tetons.
504
00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:51,573
It's a common misperception.
505
00:24:51,656 --> 00:24:55,118
The MPD has jurisdiction.
That's why I'm here.
506
00:24:55,202 --> 00:24:57,704
- Do you see the uniform?
- Yeah, we can't miss it, Chief.
507
00:24:57,787 --> 00:24:59,998
Always with the fucking uniform.
You sleep in that thing?
508
00:25:00,081 --> 00:25:02,292
Okay, it gets respect, no matter when.
509
00:25:02,375 --> 00:25:04,461
[men arguing indistinctly]
510
00:25:04,544 --> 00:25:07,506
[curious music playing]
511
00:25:10,258 --> 00:25:11,968
[music intensifies]
512
00:25:19,851 --> 00:25:21,311
[indistinct arguing]
513
00:25:21,394 --> 00:25:23,438
[music continues]
514
00:25:37,369 --> 00:25:39,621
This painting was in the Red Room
on the night of the murder.
515
00:25:39,704 --> 00:25:40,539
[Park] Okay.
516
00:25:40,622 --> 00:25:44,292
And the paintings that were in here
are now in the Green Room.
517
00:25:44,376 --> 00:25:48,338
The painting that was in the Green Room,
where one of those paintings now is,
518
00:25:48,421 --> 00:25:49,631
is now in the Red Room.
519
00:25:49,714 --> 00:25:52,092
So many colors. Is this important?
520
00:25:52,175 --> 00:25:53,343
- Yes.
- Why is this important?
521
00:25:53,426 --> 00:25:57,222
Because now I know precisely how
A.B. Wynter was killed.
522
00:26:00,183 --> 00:26:01,977
- [Filkins] You had solved the case?
- [Cupp] No.
523
00:26:02,060 --> 00:26:04,980
I had solved part of the case.
A very important part.
524
00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:07,482
I knew how it was done,
but I didn't know who did it.
525
00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:10,485
But now I knew how
to figure that part out too.
526
00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:12,571
I told the President I needed two hours.
527
00:26:12,654 --> 00:26:13,905
If he gave me two hours
528
00:26:13,989 --> 00:26:16,408
and could collect the people
on the list I gave him
529
00:26:16,491 --> 00:26:20,620
and meet me with them in the East Room,
I would tell him who killed A.B. Wynter.
530
00:26:20,704 --> 00:26:22,539
- And?
- [Cupp] And he agreed.
531
00:26:22,622 --> 00:26:24,291
What did you need the two hours for?
532
00:26:24,374 --> 00:26:27,127
Birding mostly.
And to tie up a few loose ends.
533
00:26:27,752 --> 00:26:29,838
[Dokes] Elsyie Chayle. That's correct.
534
00:26:29,921 --> 00:26:32,424
Detective Cupp wants to see you
in the Foyer, and, um,
535
00:26:32,507 --> 00:26:34,134
it's probably a shoes-on situation.
536
00:26:34,217 --> 00:26:35,093
Yeah.
537
00:26:36,761 --> 00:26:37,762
Excellent choice.
538
00:26:39,014 --> 00:26:42,809
And I needed to secure from you immunity
for someone to appear at the White House.
539
00:26:42,892 --> 00:26:45,270
In exchange for which
you agreed to come here.
540
00:26:45,353 --> 00:26:46,521
That's correct, Senator.
541
00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,690
[quiet, intriguing music playing]
542
00:26:53,570 --> 00:26:54,863
Is she here?
543
00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:56,531
Where is she?
544
00:26:56,615 --> 00:26:57,949
She's on-site.
545
00:26:58,033 --> 00:26:59,409
[birds chirping]
546
00:26:59,492 --> 00:27:00,952
Come on!
547
00:27:01,036 --> 00:27:02,287
[Cupp] Whoo!
548
00:27:03,038 --> 00:27:07,500
Got the Fish Crow and the Downy Woodpecker
and the Saw-whet Owl.
549
00:27:07,584 --> 00:27:11,504
And I know Chief Dokes is excited
about that one.
550
00:27:11,588 --> 00:27:14,633
- Always good when you get an owl.
- [Cupp laughs heartily]
551
00:27:14,716 --> 00:27:17,177
Okay. Thank you all for coming.
552
00:27:17,260 --> 00:27:20,722
I appreciate everyone taking time out of
their busy day to join me here.
553
00:27:20,805 --> 00:27:24,267
Particular shout out
to the most powerful man in the world.
554
00:27:24,351 --> 00:27:26,061
Thank you, Mr. President.
555
00:27:27,020 --> 00:27:29,022
You've gotta be fucking kidding me.
556
00:27:29,105 --> 00:27:30,899
[attempts Australian accent] G'day, mates.
557
00:27:30,982 --> 00:27:34,486
Mr. Doumbe. Appreciate you being here.
I'm Cordelia Cupp.
558
00:27:34,569 --> 00:27:36,154
I'll be your host today.
559
00:27:36,237 --> 00:27:38,406
A couple things before we get started.
560
00:27:38,490 --> 00:27:41,701
First, just wanna make sure
everyone's here
561
00:27:41,785 --> 00:27:44,579
for the murder of A.B. Wynter.
562
00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:48,416
If you're here for another murder,
that's, like, a huge problem.
563
00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,835
So please do let me know.
564
00:27:50,919 --> 00:27:55,674
Please do not touch any objects or artwork
as they might be valuable
565
00:27:55,757 --> 00:27:58,843
and/or contain the fingerprints of
the murderer standing next to you.
566
00:27:58,927 --> 00:28:00,345
I will be taking questions.
567
00:28:00,428 --> 00:28:03,014
We're gonna start
up in the Game Room on the third floor
568
00:28:03,098 --> 00:28:05,392
and then work our way down.
569
00:28:05,475 --> 00:28:09,979
I'll explain. So, hopefully,
everyone's wearing comfortable shoes.
570
00:28:12,524 --> 00:28:15,735
Or just any foot-like covering at all
would be great.
571
00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:19,489
- Okay.
- [Morgan sighs]
572
00:28:19,572 --> 00:28:22,659
The last thing, and this is important.
573
00:28:23,743 --> 00:28:26,287
Lots of detectives, even real ones,
574
00:28:26,371 --> 00:28:30,417
do this kind of "summation"
when they already know who did it.
575
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:32,669
Which I've always thought
was a little weird.
576
00:28:32,752 --> 00:28:34,879
But I'm here to tell you right now,
577
00:28:34,963 --> 00:28:38,133
I do not know who killed A.B. Wynter.
578
00:28:38,216 --> 00:28:39,175
[murmuring]
579
00:28:39,259 --> 00:28:41,761
I know he was killed.
580
00:28:41,845 --> 00:28:44,431
I know he was killed
by someone in this room.
581
00:28:44,514 --> 00:28:47,058
I hope the President told you this
when he invited you here.
582
00:28:47,142 --> 00:28:48,935
But I don't know who.
583
00:28:49,018 --> 00:28:52,856
I am positive, though,
that by the time I'm done, I will know.
584
00:28:53,481 --> 00:28:55,817
So. If you killed A.B.,
585
00:28:56,317 --> 00:28:59,279
I'm sorry, you can't leave now. I'll know.
586
00:28:59,362 --> 00:29:03,616
And if you did not kill A.B.,
I'm sorry, you can't leave now.
587
00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:07,245
Because I'll think you did, and probably
have evidence to prove it. Or something.
588
00:29:07,328 --> 00:29:10,039
Because you definitely did
something awful.
589
00:29:10,123 --> 00:29:12,917
So… buckle up.
590
00:29:14,335 --> 00:29:15,628
No exit.
591
00:29:17,005 --> 00:29:18,798
I'll see you in the Game Room.
592
00:29:26,181 --> 00:29:27,766
- Is that really true?
- [Cupp] What?
593
00:29:27,849 --> 00:29:29,768
- That you didn't know?
- Absolutely true.
594
00:29:29,851 --> 00:29:32,103
And you thought you'd just
figure it out along the way?
595
00:29:32,187 --> 00:29:34,814
I knew I would. There's a bird…
596
00:29:34,898 --> 00:29:38,026
A mockingbird… does this thing.
597
00:29:39,235 --> 00:29:42,822
It knows there's an insect nearby,
but it doesn't know exactly where.
598
00:29:42,906 --> 00:29:46,075
So it suddenly flashes its wings open.
599
00:29:47,243 --> 00:29:48,995
Gets the insect to blink.
600
00:29:49,996 --> 00:29:51,039
Watch for it.
601
00:29:52,207 --> 00:29:53,708
[elevator bell dings]
602
00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:54,918
The blink.
603
00:29:59,422 --> 00:30:02,801
Let's back it up.
To the night of the party.
604
00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:06,513
This case began
when your mom next door heard a thump…
605
00:30:06,596 --> 00:30:09,933
- [muffled thump]
- …came over here, found Mr. Wynter dead.
606
00:30:10,016 --> 00:30:11,184
[screams]
607
00:30:11,267 --> 00:30:13,394
When I arrived on the scene
30 minutes later,
608
00:30:13,478 --> 00:30:15,939
you all believed he had killed himself.
609
00:30:16,022 --> 00:30:17,357
Especially you.
610
00:30:18,399 --> 00:30:19,734
We believe it's a suicide.
611
00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:22,695
I told you almost immediately
that you were wrong and I was right,
612
00:30:22,779 --> 00:30:25,490
and that has been our relationship
ever since.
613
00:30:25,573 --> 00:30:27,450
[groans] This is gonna be a long tour.
614
00:30:29,035 --> 00:30:29,994
You can leave.
615
00:30:30,078 --> 00:30:32,455
[curious music playing]
616
00:30:37,293 --> 00:30:38,336
Soon after I arrived,
617
00:30:38,419 --> 00:30:42,799
I told you all specifically
why I knew it wasn't a suicide.
618
00:30:42,882 --> 00:30:44,175
There's no knife.
619
00:30:44,259 --> 00:30:47,262
But it wasn't just the knife.
620
00:30:47,345 --> 00:30:50,098
The blood on the shirt
that Mr. Wynter was wearing,
621
00:30:50,181 --> 00:30:51,307
that was not his.
622
00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:55,979
That was Australian Foreign Minister
Rylance's blood and his shirt,
623
00:30:56,062 --> 00:30:59,274
which Mr. Wynter had graciously exchanged
624
00:30:59,357 --> 00:31:03,319
with Mr. Rylance
in his office an hour before.
625
00:31:03,403 --> 00:31:05,071
The reason for the exchange…
626
00:31:05,154 --> 00:31:07,031
- [lively music playing]
- [both moaning]
627
00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:08,241
[music stops]
628
00:31:08,324 --> 00:31:10,869
…while fascinating, is irrelevant.
629
00:31:11,452 --> 00:31:12,287
Can I leave?
630
00:31:12,370 --> 00:31:13,288
Sure.
631
00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:16,416
[curious music resumes]
632
00:31:20,795 --> 00:31:22,755
Other curiosities took longer.
633
00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:26,593
But the first and most relevant business
was the missing knife.
634
00:31:26,676 --> 00:31:30,263
And that led me to discover that
there had, in fact, been a knife here,
635
00:31:30,346 --> 00:31:31,639
a good knife,
636
00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:34,267
and that it belonged to you, Mr. Gotthard.
637
00:31:34,350 --> 00:31:38,479
And that you removed the knife from
this crime scene. And tried to destroy it.
638
00:31:39,063 --> 00:31:41,316
You have admitted this.
639
00:31:42,525 --> 00:31:46,070
[quietly] After all this is over,
I wanna talk about getting my own office.
640
00:31:46,154 --> 00:31:48,364
A single leaf
from the Cedar of Lebanon tree
641
00:31:48,448 --> 00:31:52,911
and a lot of lying
finally led me to Ms. Cannon,
642
00:31:52,994 --> 00:31:55,622
who was in this room
around the time Wynter was killed,
643
00:31:55,705 --> 00:32:00,084
drinking vodka that she was supposed to be
delivering to Ms. Cox.
644
00:32:00,168 --> 00:32:02,295
- [Morgan groans]
- You were bringing mother vodka?
645
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:06,841
Can I smoke in here?
646
00:32:06,925 --> 00:32:08,217
Uh…
647
00:32:08,301 --> 00:32:09,510
No.
648
00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:13,139
Was Ms. Cannon involved
in Mr. Wynter's death?
649
00:32:13,222 --> 00:32:14,223
I do not know.
650
00:32:14,307 --> 00:32:16,684
Not yet. But she was here.
651
00:32:18,019 --> 00:32:21,356
Mr. Gotthard and Ms. Cannon
were both in this room.
652
00:32:21,439 --> 00:32:24,442
And then I learned another important fact,
653
00:32:24,525 --> 00:32:29,030
this time from one of the few people
who did not lie to me that night,
654
00:32:29,113 --> 00:32:31,574
medical examiner Anne Dodge.
655
00:32:31,658 --> 00:32:34,786
Ms. Dodge confirmed
what I already suspected:
656
00:32:34,869 --> 00:32:37,163
Mr. Wynter likely died of
blunt force trauma
657
00:32:37,246 --> 00:32:40,333
to the back of the head.
And he did, in fact, ingest poison.
658
00:32:40,416 --> 00:32:44,253
And he was dead
before his wrists were slashed.
659
00:32:49,258 --> 00:32:51,511
Meaning he did not slash his own wrists.
660
00:32:54,138 --> 00:32:56,140
Because he was dead.
661
00:32:56,224 --> 00:32:58,810
Oh. Okay, got it.
662
00:32:58,893 --> 00:32:59,978
Thanks.
663
00:33:00,061 --> 00:33:02,105
He is a strange little man.
664
00:33:02,188 --> 00:33:06,150
I had already come to believe that
Mr. Wynter was dragged into this room,
665
00:33:06,234 --> 00:33:09,487
of course, and this report
from Anne Dodge sealed it.
666
00:33:09,570 --> 00:33:12,615
Mr. Wynter did not kill himself
in the Game Room.
667
00:33:12,699 --> 00:33:15,368
He was not killed in the Game Room.
668
00:33:15,451 --> 00:33:17,870
He was dragged in here.
669
00:33:18,663 --> 00:33:22,166
- From where?
- From here. Room 301.
670
00:33:23,292 --> 00:33:27,088
On the night of the State Dinner,
Room 301 was undergoing renovation.
671
00:33:27,171 --> 00:33:31,551
A fake renovation ordered by
President Morgan and Elliott
672
00:33:31,634 --> 00:33:35,096
so that Harry Hollinger's sister
couldn't stay in the White House.
673
00:33:35,179 --> 00:33:38,141
My first clue that this room
was involved in the night's events
674
00:33:38,224 --> 00:33:42,437
was that the door had been taped,
which struck me as unusual.
675
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,731
Even more unusual
was that there was a smell of paint
676
00:33:44,814 --> 00:33:47,066
because, remember,
this was a fake renovation,
677
00:33:47,150 --> 00:33:52,280
staged only to keep Harry's apparently
unbearable sister out of the house.
678
00:33:52,363 --> 00:33:54,198
Can you stop, please?
679
00:33:54,282 --> 00:33:56,242
She's really a nice person.
680
00:33:56,868 --> 00:33:59,871
Beneath the paint,
I found blood. Fresh blood.
681
00:33:59,954 --> 00:34:02,790
And then, another extraordinary turn:
682
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:04,208
A precocious young detective
683
00:34:04,292 --> 00:34:06,836
staying across the street
at the Hay-Adams hotel
684
00:34:06,919 --> 00:34:10,131
saw a flashing red light in this room,
685
00:34:10,214 --> 00:34:12,800
soon after Mr. Wynter had died.
686
00:34:12,884 --> 00:34:17,722
A light I was able to trace
to the wrist of Tripp Morgan.
687
00:34:19,182 --> 00:34:22,351
This fucking watch. I've been having
so many problems with it lately.
688
00:34:27,065 --> 00:34:29,817
[Cupp] I was convinced of
Mr. Morgan's involvement
689
00:34:29,901 --> 00:34:31,903
but had to wait for him
to reveal it to me,
690
00:34:31,986 --> 00:34:35,990
which he has now done
with remarkable detail. So, thank you.
691
00:34:36,991 --> 00:34:39,243
- Thank me for what?
- For explaining what happened.
692
00:34:39,827 --> 00:34:41,120
I never told you anything.
693
00:34:41,204 --> 00:34:43,206
- Did he tell you something?
- Yes.
694
00:34:43,289 --> 00:34:44,373
Oh shit.
695
00:34:44,999 --> 00:34:46,542
Detective Cupp wants to see you.
696
00:34:46,626 --> 00:34:49,879
I knew Tripp was in this room
because of the precocious young detective.
697
00:34:49,962 --> 00:34:53,382
But I didn't know much beyond that,
and I was sure he wouldn't talk to me
698
00:34:53,466 --> 00:34:55,009
any more than he already had.
699
00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:56,469
- By the piano?
- Yeah.
700
00:34:57,136 --> 00:34:59,180
But he is a talker,
701
00:34:59,263 --> 00:35:03,976
and sometimes you just have to
put together the right… combination.
702
00:35:04,060 --> 00:35:08,064
George McCutcheon. The George McCutcheon.
703
00:35:08,147 --> 00:35:10,441
Nah, I'm just kidding.
I know there's three of you.
704
00:35:10,525 --> 00:35:12,151
What up, George?
705
00:35:12,235 --> 00:35:14,695
Only one Tripp. Thank God for that, right?
706
00:35:14,779 --> 00:35:16,656
[Tripp whoops, sniffs]
707
00:35:20,743 --> 00:35:24,997
Yo, you seen that detective?
Looks like Indiana Jones and shit.
708
00:35:25,081 --> 00:35:26,833
"Best Detective in the World."
709
00:35:27,583 --> 00:35:29,752
I dunno.
I guess I'm supposed to meet her here.
710
00:35:29,836 --> 00:35:31,295
She's been badgering me, George.
711
00:35:31,379 --> 00:35:34,132
I'm telling you, I have nothing to do
with this whole thing.
712
00:35:34,215 --> 00:35:36,425
With A.B. Dude. Fucking nothing.
713
00:35:36,509 --> 00:35:38,594
Dude comes to my room
acting all crazy and shit,
714
00:35:38,678 --> 00:35:40,721
but that's fucking it.
You know what I mean?
715
00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:43,057
You're looking at me funny.
716
00:35:46,018 --> 00:35:48,229
Can I tell you something, G? Okay?
717
00:35:48,312 --> 00:35:52,191
That night. That night of the dinner.
I'm like fucked up.
718
00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:53,860
You used to party, right?
719
00:35:54,819 --> 00:35:57,238
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know.
720
00:35:57,321 --> 00:35:59,448
So I'm having a fucking party, right?
721
00:35:59,532 --> 00:36:02,201
'Cause my absolute shitbird brother
won't let me come to this one
722
00:36:02,285 --> 00:36:05,163
with the Australians
who know how to actually fucking party.
723
00:36:05,246 --> 00:36:07,790
So I go to the room
at the end of the hall, right,
724
00:36:07,874 --> 00:36:12,545
so all these assholes will leave me alone,
and, dude, I fucking crash out, right?
725
00:36:12,628 --> 00:36:15,131
Fucking crash out.
726
00:36:15,214 --> 00:36:16,799
And then I wake up…
727
00:36:18,092 --> 00:36:18,968
We're good, right?
728
00:36:19,051 --> 00:36:22,263
McCutcheon, this is just, like,
fucking you and me talking. Right, dude?
729
00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:28,019
Okay. So, dude, I fucking wake up,
730
00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:32,982
and A.B. Wynter
is on the ground next to me.
731
00:36:33,065 --> 00:36:35,026
Fucking dead. Dead!
732
00:36:35,109 --> 00:36:36,903
I'm like, "Oh fuck!"
733
00:36:36,986 --> 00:36:41,073
I lose my shit 'cause I'm like, I was just
fighting with this guy in my fucking room,
734
00:36:41,157 --> 00:36:44,118
and there's this fake electrician in there
who knows we've been fighting.
735
00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:48,122
So I go and look down the hall,
and I see that crazy drunk butler lady.
736
00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:50,374
She's fucked up too,
but I don't think she sees me.
737
00:36:50,458 --> 00:36:53,794
So I go back in, and I get A.B.
738
00:36:53,878 --> 00:36:56,088
Dude. I'm not proud of this.
Right, George?
739
00:36:56,172 --> 00:36:59,634
Not proud. But, like,
I just fucking lift him up
740
00:36:59,717 --> 00:37:02,678
and just start dragging the guy
all the way down the fucking hall.
741
00:37:02,762 --> 00:37:04,138
I don't even know where I'm going.
742
00:37:04,222 --> 00:37:07,433
I take him to the Game Room, and I'm like,
all right. I just leave him there, right?
743
00:37:07,516 --> 00:37:09,977
And then I run back down
to the other room,
744
00:37:10,061 --> 00:37:11,729
and I see this fucking blood.
745
00:37:11,812 --> 00:37:14,982
So I take some paint.
Yes, dude, seriously.
746
00:37:15,066 --> 00:37:16,776
And I fucking paint this thing over.
747
00:37:16,859 --> 00:37:18,236
Real fucking expert, you know?
748
00:37:18,319 --> 00:37:20,321
You get that adrenaline.
You can just do shit.
749
00:37:20,404 --> 00:37:23,074
Dude, turns out I can fucking paint!
750
00:37:23,157 --> 00:37:26,535
So I'm, like, done now, okay?
This shit is over.
751
00:37:26,619 --> 00:37:30,373
And, dude, I look down on the ground,
and I see this fucking set of keys,
752
00:37:30,456 --> 00:37:32,792
and I'm like, what the fuck, man?
753
00:37:32,875 --> 00:37:35,127
So I go back down the hall,
fucking running fast, right?
754
00:37:35,211 --> 00:37:36,754
But real light-footed, like a panther
755
00:37:36,837 --> 00:37:39,298
'cause I don't wanna wake up
fucking Elliott's mommy.
756
00:37:39,382 --> 00:37:42,218
I take the keys.
I put them back in A.B.'s pocket,
757
00:37:42,301 --> 00:37:44,345
and I feel this piece of paper
in his jacket.
758
00:37:44,428 --> 00:37:47,640
I pull it out.
Dude, it's a fucking suicide note.
759
00:37:47,723 --> 00:37:49,558
A.B. fucking killed himself.
760
00:37:49,642 --> 00:37:50,685
Fuck!
761
00:37:50,768 --> 00:37:52,561
I'm like, well,
I just fucked that up, right?
762
00:37:52,645 --> 00:37:54,438
Had I left him there,
it would've been fine.
763
00:37:54,522 --> 00:37:56,732
What am I gonna do now?
Drag him fucking back?
764
00:37:56,816 --> 00:37:59,652
What if somebody sees me?
And I'm gassed anyway.
765
00:38:00,236 --> 00:38:02,280
This is where
I might've fucked up a bit, right?
766
00:38:02,363 --> 00:38:05,658
'Cause I'm fucking going crazy.
Heart like a hamster, 500 beats a minute.
767
00:38:05,741 --> 00:38:09,704
So I'm like, all right, this has to
look like a suicide right here.
768
00:38:09,787 --> 00:38:13,249
So I open the door next door.
I go into the German pastry dude's office
769
00:38:13,332 --> 00:38:15,793
'cause I know that creepy fucker
keeps his knives there.
770
00:38:15,876 --> 00:38:19,297
I borrow that guy's knives all the time.
I just take 'em for random shit.
771
00:38:19,380 --> 00:38:21,590
One time, I had to trim the belt
off one of these robes.
772
00:38:21,674 --> 00:38:24,552
I just grabbed his knife
and just fucking sawing away.
773
00:38:24,635 --> 00:38:27,930
So, anyway, I grabbed the knife,
I go back into the room,
774
00:38:28,431 --> 00:38:31,600
and I just fucking did
the fucking dirty deed, G.
775
00:38:31,684 --> 00:38:35,980
Cut the wrists. Dropped the knife.
Put the note back in and took off.
776
00:38:39,442 --> 00:38:41,485
And that's, like, all I did.
777
00:38:42,695 --> 00:38:43,779
Like I said, dude,
778
00:38:43,863 --> 00:38:47,533
I have absolutely nothing to do
with any of this.
779
00:38:56,208 --> 00:39:00,504
I don't think she's gonna show up.
Good talking to you, G. Late.
780
00:39:03,382 --> 00:39:05,509
[quirky music playing]
781
00:39:16,312 --> 00:39:18,189
[music fades]
782
00:39:20,107 --> 00:39:23,194
[all talking at once]
783
00:39:23,277 --> 00:39:24,320
That's bullshit!
784
00:39:24,403 --> 00:39:25,613
You used my knives?
785
00:39:26,197 --> 00:39:28,407
- My mommy?
- Shitbird?
786
00:39:28,491 --> 00:39:31,118
- Oh, I'll show you a crazy drunk butler.
- Fake electrician?
787
00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:33,454
That is seriously fucked up, Tripp.
788
00:39:33,537 --> 00:39:36,248
Well, maybe you should have invited me
to dinner, bro.
789
00:39:36,332 --> 00:39:37,875
Did Tripp do it?
790
00:39:37,958 --> 00:39:42,671
Did Tripp kill A.B. Wynter?
I will not answer that question. Not yet.
791
00:39:42,755 --> 00:39:46,133
But I will say,
Mr. Wynter was not killed in here.
792
00:39:46,217 --> 00:39:49,178
In fact, he had been dead
for nearly 20 minutes
793
00:39:49,261 --> 00:39:51,972
by the time Tripp dragged him
down the hall.
794
00:39:52,056 --> 00:39:54,392
So once again,
we are faced with the same question
795
00:39:54,475 --> 00:39:55,643
we entered the room with.
796
00:39:55,726 --> 00:39:58,521
From where and by whom?
797
00:39:58,604 --> 00:40:02,775
And this time, it is even more incredible
and unexpected.
798
00:40:03,859 --> 00:40:04,777
From where?
799
00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:09,156
From down there.
800
00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:13,452
[all muttering]
801
00:40:21,043 --> 00:40:23,003
On the night of the State Dinner,
802
00:40:23,087 --> 00:40:26,799
Kylie Minogue found blood
in the Lincoln Bedroom.
803
00:40:26,882 --> 00:40:31,387
I believe Mr. Wynter was brought into
the Lincoln Bedroom, but only temporarily.
804
00:40:31,470 --> 00:40:33,973
As a brief resting place
805
00:40:34,056 --> 00:40:36,934
for the person who had dragged him
from the Yellow Oval Room
806
00:40:37,017 --> 00:40:41,105
and who would carry him
up those stairs to Room 301.
807
00:40:41,188 --> 00:40:44,233
Now, why do I say he was dragged
from the Yellow Oval Room?
808
00:40:45,151 --> 00:40:48,320
Because that's what you said you saw.
Under oath.
809
00:40:48,404 --> 00:40:50,656
I looked down the hallway,
and I saw him dragging a body
810
00:40:50,739 --> 00:40:52,366
out of the Yellow Oval Room.
811
00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:56,454
So. From there. The Yellow Oval Room.
812
00:40:56,537 --> 00:40:58,289
But by whom?
813
00:40:58,372 --> 00:41:00,207
You saw that too, didn't you, Mr. Doumbe?
814
00:41:00,291 --> 00:41:02,626
[tense music playing]
815
00:41:05,546 --> 00:41:06,881
On the advice of counsel, I--
816
00:41:06,964 --> 00:41:08,507
You don't have to do that, buddy.
817
00:41:09,008 --> 00:41:12,845
Who did you see dragging Mr. Wynter
out of the Yellow Oval Room?
818
00:41:13,637 --> 00:41:15,097
[music intensifies]
819
00:41:15,181 --> 00:41:16,098
Him!
820
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:17,808
[Cupp] Aha!
821
00:41:17,892 --> 00:41:22,730
Bruce Geller. The grumpy,
but apparently quite lovable, engineer.
822
00:41:22,813 --> 00:41:26,066
Who had been fighting
with Mr. Wynter and Tripp that night
823
00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:29,570
and who Lilly saw in the Yellow Oval Room
some 30 minutes later.
824
00:41:29,653 --> 00:41:31,614
But when you saw him, Mr. Doumbe,
825
00:41:31,697 --> 00:41:35,367
he was dragging A.B. Wynter
down this hall.
826
00:41:36,285 --> 00:41:37,119
Why?
827
00:41:39,413 --> 00:41:42,458
Well, that's more complicated.
828
00:41:42,541 --> 00:41:45,669
In Bruce's mind,
because he was covering up a crime
829
00:41:45,753 --> 00:41:49,423
he believed had been committed
by the woman he loved.
830
00:41:49,507 --> 00:41:50,841
Elsyie Chayle.
831
00:41:50,925 --> 00:41:52,218
[Tripp] Damn.
832
00:41:52,301 --> 00:41:54,136
Bruce and Elsyie
had been in a relationship.
833
00:41:54,220 --> 00:41:58,349
And on the night of the State Dinner,
Bruce found Elsyie right here, distraught
834
00:41:58,432 --> 00:42:02,811
because of a recent fight she'd had
with Mr. Wynter in the Yellow Oval Room.
835
00:42:02,895 --> 00:42:06,023
While Mr. Wynter stayed in that room,
Bruce tried to comfort her,
836
00:42:06,106 --> 00:42:07,733
but she wouldn't have it.
837
00:42:07,816 --> 00:42:10,194
I am going to kill him.
838
00:42:10,277 --> 00:42:12,404
Bruce left Elsyie right here…
839
00:42:14,949 --> 00:42:18,285
walked down the hallway to the elevator,
840
00:42:18,994 --> 00:42:22,456
but then, worried about her,
he turned back around
841
00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:26,961
only to see Elsyie
now running out of the Yellow Oval Room.
842
00:42:27,044 --> 00:42:33,008
When he went into the room himself,
moments later, he found Mr. Wynter dead.
843
00:42:33,092 --> 00:42:36,053
And so, as any good man does,
844
00:42:36,762 --> 00:42:37,972
he cleaned it up,
845
00:42:38,055 --> 00:42:42,476
which included moving Mr. Wynter
out of the room.
846
00:42:44,270 --> 00:42:45,688
That's what Mr. Doumbe saw.
847
00:42:48,983 --> 00:42:53,445
Now, it's important to say here that
Elsyie has a very different perspective.
848
00:42:53,529 --> 00:42:56,448
She believes that Bruce killed Mr. Wynter.
849
00:42:56,532 --> 00:42:58,993
She insists that
when she came back in the room,
850
00:42:59,076 --> 00:43:03,372
Mr. Wynter was already dead.
And she didn't see Bruce when she left.
851
00:43:03,455 --> 00:43:06,584
Bruce had his own issues with Mr. Wynter,
852
00:43:06,667 --> 00:43:10,754
and she knew he was mad
at the way Mr. Wynter had treated her.
853
00:43:10,838 --> 00:43:13,465
Either way,
whether you believe Bruce or Elsyie…
854
00:43:13,549 --> 00:43:14,925
- Elsyie.
- Elsyie.
855
00:43:15,009 --> 00:43:16,635
- Elsyie.
- Elsyie.
856
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:17,636
Bruce.
857
00:43:19,054 --> 00:43:22,182
Either way, Bruce moved Mr. Wynter.
858
00:43:22,266 --> 00:43:24,184
Dragged him to the Lincoln Bedroom,
859
00:43:24,268 --> 00:43:28,606
left him there while he went upstairs,
and taped the door to Room 301
860
00:43:28,689 --> 00:43:32,526
to make it easier to enter
when he came back carrying Mr. Wynter.
861
00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:36,572
And then he carried him up
and left him there.
862
00:43:36,655 --> 00:43:41,035
I know you did because you were the one
dragging him down here.
863
00:43:41,118 --> 00:43:42,745
And you're probably the only person
864
00:43:42,828 --> 00:43:45,205
who could carry Mr. Wynter
up those stairs.
865
00:43:45,289 --> 00:43:48,792
And those were your keys
that Tripp found in that room.
866
00:43:52,379 --> 00:43:53,213
And so,
867
00:43:54,423 --> 00:43:56,133
now we are here
868
00:43:57,343 --> 00:43:59,178
where it all began.
869
00:44:00,137 --> 00:44:05,100
Because I do believe it was in this room
that Mr. Wynter was killed.
870
00:44:05,184 --> 00:44:08,562
Which means we're down to one question:
871
00:44:09,229 --> 00:44:11,398
Who did it?
872
00:44:13,609 --> 00:44:15,944
[music intensifies]
873
00:44:16,779 --> 00:44:18,989
Well, it has to be him, right?
Bruce, the engineer.
874
00:44:19,073 --> 00:44:21,450
- I mean, I guess it could be her.
- It's not her.
875
00:44:21,533 --> 00:44:23,952
- No, I don't think so either, Margery.
- Mm-mm.
876
00:44:26,789 --> 00:44:30,167
I mean, it is one of them though, right?
Bruce or Elsyie?
877
00:44:30,250 --> 00:44:32,294
You have made this very dramatic.
878
00:44:32,378 --> 00:44:34,755
Thank you. Yes, that's what I thought.
879
00:44:34,838 --> 00:44:38,008
It must be Bruce or Elsyie.
But the minute I thought that,
880
00:44:38,092 --> 00:44:42,513
I allowed myself to consider the opposite,
which one should always do.
881
00:44:42,596 --> 00:44:44,306
What if it's not Bruce or Elsyie?
882
00:44:44,390 --> 00:44:46,892
Is it possible that they both
could be telling the truth?
883
00:44:46,975 --> 00:44:49,186
Is it possible that
neither of them killed Mr. Wynter?
884
00:44:49,269 --> 00:44:50,771
That in that time,
885
00:44:50,854 --> 00:44:54,483
Elsyie stood by that closet,
and Bruce stood by the elevator,
886
00:44:54,566 --> 00:44:58,112
a third person murdered Mr. Wynter
in the Yellow Oval Room.
887
00:44:58,195 --> 00:44:59,655
Is that possible?
888
00:44:59,738 --> 00:45:01,573
- Yes!
- No!
889
00:45:01,657 --> 00:45:03,784
What do you mean "a third person"?
890
00:45:03,867 --> 00:45:05,327
- Who?
- How would they get in here?
891
00:45:06,662 --> 00:45:08,288
[Sheila] Right through that door.
892
00:45:08,372 --> 00:45:11,208
- [Marvella] Could somebody do that?
- Someone did do that.
893
00:45:12,292 --> 00:45:13,293
Him.
894
00:45:14,420 --> 00:45:15,963
The Third Man.
895
00:45:16,046 --> 00:45:18,382
He said he was in that room.
896
00:45:18,465 --> 00:45:19,967
I heard him in that room.
897
00:45:20,050 --> 00:45:22,553
And I saw him come out of that room
into the hallway.
898
00:45:27,182 --> 00:45:28,350
I have immunity.
899
00:45:28,934 --> 00:45:29,768
I knew it!
900
00:45:29,852 --> 00:45:31,228
I… I knew it!
901
00:45:31,311 --> 00:45:35,899
Oh, that whole, ah shucks, I'm just
a dumb sales guy who likes Australians,
902
00:45:35,983 --> 00:45:38,277
and I stumbled into the White House.
903
00:45:38,986 --> 00:45:41,447
He's that guy from that movie.
904
00:45:41,530 --> 00:45:44,032
Ed Norton. "Primal Fear." So good.
905
00:45:44,116 --> 00:45:46,702
It's an act. He's full of shit.
906
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:49,455
He's an assassin.
907
00:45:49,538 --> 00:45:51,582
[suspenseful music playing]
908
00:46:00,466 --> 00:46:02,092
And I work for you.
909
00:46:02,176 --> 00:46:04,052
[music intensifies]
910
00:46:07,431 --> 00:46:08,307
No, I'm just kidding.
911
00:46:08,390 --> 00:46:09,308
[Doumbe chuckles]
912
00:46:09,391 --> 00:46:10,642
That was good though.
913
00:46:10,726 --> 00:46:12,227
[Doumbe laughs]
914
00:46:12,311 --> 00:46:13,687
Right, everybody?
915
00:46:14,313 --> 00:46:16,857
[Australian accent]
Well, he's the next Russell Crowe.
916
00:46:16,940 --> 00:46:19,067
- [Doumbe chuckles]
- [angry muttering]
917
00:46:19,151 --> 00:46:22,321
I have considered this scenario.
That it was Mr. Doumbe.
918
00:46:22,404 --> 00:46:24,782
Mr. Doumbe has admitted
to being in that room.
919
00:46:24,865 --> 00:46:26,867
He could've come in here,
killed Mr. Wynter,
920
00:46:26,950 --> 00:46:29,870
and returned to the room
when he then called his mom.
921
00:46:29,953 --> 00:46:31,163
Aunt.
922
00:46:31,246 --> 00:46:33,457
This is possible, and I don't discount it.
923
00:46:33,540 --> 00:46:36,335
But let's assume
that it is not Mr. Doumbe.
924
00:46:36,418 --> 00:46:39,296
Just for a moment.
Could it be anyone else?
925
00:46:39,379 --> 00:46:41,632
Someone who threads an even finer needle.
926
00:46:41,715 --> 00:46:42,966
A fourth person.
927
00:46:43,050 --> 00:46:45,677
Who comes into that room
before Mr. Doumbe,
928
00:46:45,761 --> 00:46:48,138
slips into this room after Elsyie leaves,
929
00:46:48,222 --> 00:46:51,558
and then kills Mr. Wynter
before she returns.
930
00:46:51,642 --> 00:46:53,143
Is that possible?
931
00:46:53,227 --> 00:46:55,229
- Yes!
- No!
932
00:46:55,312 --> 00:46:57,022
No! Impossible, right?
933
00:46:57,105 --> 00:47:00,442
And yet. And yet. Even as I recognize
934
00:47:00,526 --> 00:47:04,446
the seeming impossibility
of this scenario, I cannot let it go.
935
00:47:04,530 --> 00:47:06,824
Because as I spent time
in this room last night,
936
00:47:06,907 --> 00:47:09,827
I discovered things. Curious things.
937
00:47:09,910 --> 00:47:12,412
A large clock missing from the mantel.
938
00:47:12,496 --> 00:47:13,831
A missing vase.
939
00:47:13,914 --> 00:47:16,166
Flowers burned by poison.
940
00:47:16,250 --> 00:47:21,129
Things that cannot be explained
by Bruce or Elsyie or Mr. Doumbe.
941
00:47:21,213 --> 00:47:25,801
Things that suggest
the presence of another person.
942
00:47:25,884 --> 00:47:28,637
But you have a person. Right here.
943
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:30,430
Two people. Three people.
944
00:47:30,514 --> 00:47:32,933
And if you really need a fourth,
throw him in.
945
00:47:33,016 --> 00:47:34,393
Not cool, bro.
946
00:47:34,476 --> 00:47:40,190
Why are you working so hard
on something so… incredibly unlikely?
947
00:47:40,274 --> 00:47:42,860
It is an excellent question,
Mr. Hollinger.
948
00:47:43,443 --> 00:47:44,945
- Really?
- Yes.
949
00:47:45,028 --> 00:47:47,406
And that surprises me
as much as it surprises you.
950
00:47:47,489 --> 00:47:51,869
It's the question the birder asks
about everything she sees.
951
00:47:51,952 --> 00:47:53,203
Why?
952
00:47:53,287 --> 00:47:54,955
Why would I even consider this?
953
00:47:55,038 --> 00:47:58,292
Why would I go to the most outrageous,
the most extreme,
954
00:47:58,375 --> 00:48:01,962
the most improbable of all
possible resolutions to this mystery?
955
00:48:02,045 --> 00:48:03,839
And my answer to you is…
956
00:48:06,466 --> 00:48:08,093
the passenger pigeon.
957
00:48:11,346 --> 00:48:12,764
That's your answer?
958
00:48:12,848 --> 00:48:14,433
It is not the answer I expected.
959
00:48:14,516 --> 00:48:18,604
The passenger pigeon was once
the most abundant bird in the world.
960
00:48:18,687 --> 00:48:21,899
In the early 19th century,
there were billions of them.
961
00:48:22,816 --> 00:48:26,570
Billions. And by the late 19th century,
they were virtually extinct.
962
00:48:26,653 --> 00:48:29,781
In fact, they were thought to be.
In the wild.
963
00:48:29,865 --> 00:48:32,284
And then, in 1907,
964
00:48:32,367 --> 00:48:35,996
a small flock
was spotted in rural Virginia.
965
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:41,043
This was the last known credible sighting
of a passenger pigeon in history.
966
00:48:41,126 --> 00:48:43,712
And do you know who saw those birds?
967
00:48:43,795 --> 00:48:44,838
You.
968
00:48:44,922 --> 00:48:45,964
1907.
969
00:48:48,717 --> 00:48:49,551
Him.
970
00:48:53,388 --> 00:48:55,098
Alexander Hamilton!
971
00:48:55,182 --> 00:48:57,267
[all talk at once]
972
00:48:57,351 --> 00:48:59,561
[Cupp] Teddy Roosevelt.
973
00:48:59,645 --> 00:49:02,481
President Teddy Roosevelt
was the last person
974
00:49:02,564 --> 00:49:05,025
to see a passenger pigeon in the wild.
975
00:49:05,108 --> 00:49:08,445
And when he did, he couldn't believe it.
It seemed impossible.
976
00:49:08,528 --> 00:49:09,947
It defied logic.
977
00:49:10,030 --> 00:49:14,534
The great birder,
and Teddy Roosevelt was a great birder,
978
00:49:14,618 --> 00:49:19,289
looks for context,
understands relationships, history.
979
00:49:19,373 --> 00:49:21,583
What you are seeing needs to make sense.
980
00:49:21,667 --> 00:49:24,127
And that flock of wild pigeons
made no sense.
981
00:49:24,211 --> 00:49:25,420
They were extinct.
982
00:49:25,504 --> 00:49:29,216
But. You also have to trust yourself
983
00:49:29,299 --> 00:49:31,885
because you know what you are seeing,
984
00:49:31,969 --> 00:49:36,473
even if everything else says,
no, that's not it.
985
00:49:36,556 --> 00:49:40,394
You know. He knew. I know.
986
00:49:43,063 --> 00:49:44,189
Know what?
987
00:49:44,272 --> 00:49:46,483
Know that the murderer
came through that door
988
00:49:46,566 --> 00:49:48,568
with a glass of poison. Paraquat.
989
00:49:48,652 --> 00:49:50,862
That the murderer
tried to get Mr. Wynter to drink it,
990
00:49:50,946 --> 00:49:52,614
and that Mr. Wynter did drink it,
991
00:49:52,698 --> 00:49:57,077
just a little, and tossed it
on the flowers next to him. Burning them.
992
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,913
That the murderer
threw a vase at Mr. Wynter but missed.
993
00:49:59,997 --> 00:50:01,999
That this vase shattered on this wall,
994
00:50:02,082 --> 00:50:05,585
and that the shards of that vase
hit Mr. Wynter on the forehead.
995
00:50:05,669 --> 00:50:09,631
That the murderer then picked up
a large clock on the mantel,
996
00:50:09,715 --> 00:50:14,011
the biggest, heaviest, most accessible
murder weapon in this room,
997
00:50:14,094 --> 00:50:18,098
and hit Mr. Wynter
over the head with it. Killing him.
998
00:50:19,266 --> 00:50:21,768
I know that.
999
00:50:26,940 --> 00:50:28,316
[music fades]
1000
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:29,568
But that is impossible.
1001
00:50:29,651 --> 00:50:31,278
It's incredible. It's not impossible.
1002
00:50:31,361 --> 00:50:32,696
It's impossible.
1003
00:50:32,779 --> 00:50:35,365
You're saying someone comes in that room.
1004
00:50:35,449 --> 00:50:37,117
- Before Mr. Doumbe.
- Yes.
1005
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,120
Then comes in this room
while Mr. Wynter is alone.
1006
00:50:40,203 --> 00:50:42,330
- After his fight with Elsyie?
- Yes.
1007
00:50:42,414 --> 00:50:43,874
- And then kills A.B.?
- Yes.
1008
00:50:43,957 --> 00:50:45,625
- Then what? Where do they go?
- Out the door.
1009
00:50:45,709 --> 00:50:48,378
What door? There were people
on the other side of these doors.
1010
00:50:48,462 --> 00:50:50,881
Mr. Doumbe was right there.
Talking to his mom.
1011
00:50:50,964 --> 00:50:52,674
- Not that door.
- Then what door?
1012
00:50:52,758 --> 00:50:54,259
- [Haney] Oh my God.
- [Harry] Oh shit.
1013
00:50:54,342 --> 00:50:56,178
That door.
1014
00:50:56,261 --> 00:50:58,472
[quiet, suspenseful music playing]
1015
00:51:02,559 --> 00:51:03,935
Yeah, I still don't see it.
1016
00:51:04,019 --> 00:51:06,646
Because it's not there, Mr. Doumbe.
1017
00:51:06,730 --> 00:51:07,689
Not anymore.
1018
00:51:07,773 --> 00:51:10,233
But on the night of the murder,
there was a door there.
1019
00:51:10,317 --> 00:51:13,570
A passageway between
the Yellow Oval Room and the Treaty Room.
1020
00:51:13,653 --> 00:51:17,115
I must've seen it myself,
but it made no impression on me.
1021
00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:22,621
Even when I spent time here earlier today
and discovered other curious things,
1022
00:51:23,455 --> 00:51:24,456
I missed it.
1023
00:51:24,539 --> 00:51:27,542
It's only when I realized
various paintings had been moved,
1024
00:51:27,626 --> 00:51:33,298
and this one brought in here
specifically to cover a now larger space,
1025
00:51:33,381 --> 00:51:34,841
I figured out what had happened.
1026
00:51:34,925 --> 00:51:40,388
That the door had been sealed,
hidden, replaced by this wall.
1027
00:51:40,472 --> 00:51:43,350
A door that makes the impossible possible.
1028
00:51:43,433 --> 00:51:46,561
And makes
every single one of you a suspect.
1029
00:51:46,645 --> 00:51:47,854
- No!
- No!
1030
00:51:47,938 --> 00:51:49,564
[all talking at once]
1031
00:51:49,648 --> 00:51:51,483
- Absolutely not. Not me.
- That's right.
1032
00:51:51,566 --> 00:51:53,735
Yes. You.
1033
00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:55,278
All of you.
1034
00:51:55,362 --> 00:51:58,615
The possibility that someone
could slip in here, kill Mr. Wynter,
1035
00:51:58,698 --> 00:52:02,953
and then slip out that door
means all of you could have done this.
1036
00:52:03,036 --> 00:52:05,288
Even you. And you.
1037
00:52:06,289 --> 00:52:07,582
And you.
1038
00:52:08,583 --> 00:52:13,130
Because if I'm wrong about this,
then one of you definitely did it.
1039
00:52:13,213 --> 00:52:15,674
Nobody here has a solid alibi
1040
00:52:15,757 --> 00:52:18,677
for that brief window
in which we know Mr. Wynter was killed.
1041
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,222
And the fact that you did other bizarre
and terrible shit later
1042
00:52:22,305 --> 00:52:24,474
does not mean you did not do this.
1043
00:52:24,558 --> 00:52:27,811
In fact, it increases
the likelihood that you did.
1044
00:52:27,894 --> 00:52:29,729
That you did kill him.
1045
00:52:29,813 --> 00:52:32,983
You all certainly seemed like
you wanted to kill him.
1046
00:52:33,066 --> 00:52:35,068
You all fought with him that night.
1047
00:52:35,152 --> 00:52:38,238
- Fuck you, A.B.!
- Feel like you have something against me.
1048
00:52:38,321 --> 00:52:39,739
There's broken glass!
1049
00:52:39,823 --> 00:52:40,824
I'm not leaving.
1050
00:52:40,907 --> 00:52:43,994
This is my dessert.
And it is going to be served my way!
1051
00:52:44,077 --> 00:52:45,829
Mr. Wynter, please, I'm begging you.
1052
00:52:45,912 --> 00:52:47,581
You screamed at him.
1053
00:52:47,664 --> 00:52:49,833
[yelling]
1054
00:52:49,916 --> 00:52:50,959
You threatened him.
1055
00:52:51,042 --> 00:52:53,795
Keep your fucking mouth shut.
1056
00:52:53,879 --> 00:52:56,089
You openly mused about killing him.
1057
00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:59,509
He won't fire me if he isn't here anymore.
1058
00:52:59,593 --> 00:53:02,220
Some of you even said
you were going to kill him.
1059
00:53:02,304 --> 00:53:03,305
I am going…
1060
00:53:03,388 --> 00:53:04,347
…to kill him.
1061
00:53:04,431 --> 00:53:06,474
And then one of you did.
1062
00:53:07,434 --> 00:53:08,643
So. Tell me:
1063
00:53:10,270 --> 00:53:11,563
Who sealed that door?
1064
00:53:11,646 --> 00:53:13,940
[tense music playing]
1065
00:53:25,368 --> 00:53:26,745
[music intensifies]
1066
00:53:35,587 --> 00:53:38,006
Jasmine Haney
ordered the door to be sealed.
1067
00:53:38,965 --> 00:53:40,175
[woman] What?
1068
00:53:40,258 --> 00:53:43,261
I saw the work being done,
and I thought it was odd,
1069
00:53:44,012 --> 00:53:47,182
since the President and Mr. Morgan
aren't living here anymore.
1070
00:53:47,265 --> 00:53:49,893
I asked and I was told it was Jasmine.
1071
00:53:51,811 --> 00:53:52,729
Oh.
1072
00:53:53,855 --> 00:53:55,941
Were you going to mention that, Ms. Haney?
1073
00:53:56,733 --> 00:53:58,276
No, I wasn't, Ms. Cupp.
1074
00:53:58,360 --> 00:53:59,277
Detective.
1075
00:54:01,196 --> 00:54:03,531
You really think
I had something to do with this?
1076
00:54:03,615 --> 00:54:07,327
You wanted this job more than anything.
You thought he had betrayed you.
1077
00:54:07,410 --> 00:54:11,456
You fought with him, so… yes.
1078
00:54:12,332 --> 00:54:13,333
Maybe.
1079
00:54:19,756 --> 00:54:21,174
Did you seal that door?
1080
00:54:25,929 --> 00:54:27,389
- Yes, I did.
- [others gasping]
1081
00:54:28,556 --> 00:54:29,933
[murmuring]
1082
00:54:32,435 --> 00:54:33,687
But it wasn't my idea.
1083
00:54:35,981 --> 00:54:37,941
- It was an order.
- Whose order?
1084
00:54:44,614 --> 00:54:47,784
[quietly] He called me
and told me to take care of it.
1085
00:54:47,867 --> 00:54:49,577
- Who?
- Him!
1086
00:54:50,495 --> 00:54:52,706
- What?
- [others gasping]
1087
00:54:54,249 --> 00:54:55,542
That's a lie.
1088
00:54:56,376 --> 00:54:57,711
Perry, that's a lie.
1089
00:54:59,337 --> 00:55:00,380
Perry?
1090
00:55:00,463 --> 00:55:02,382
[hesitates] Yeah. Jasmine?
1091
00:55:03,508 --> 00:55:04,884
Detective Cupp.
1092
00:55:04,968 --> 00:55:05,885
You never called?
1093
00:55:05,969 --> 00:55:08,471
- Called Ms. Haney to seal off a door?
- Yes.
1094
00:55:08,555 --> 00:55:09,973
No! What are you talking about?
1095
00:55:10,056 --> 00:55:12,475
You called me. I talked to you.
1096
00:55:12,559 --> 00:55:13,643
This is the second time now
1097
00:55:13,727 --> 00:55:16,104
you said you didn't make a call
someone else claimed you made.
1098
00:55:16,187 --> 00:55:19,566
I… I know. These things didn't happen.
She's lying.
1099
00:55:19,649 --> 00:55:21,693
And Agent Rausch was lying when she said
1100
00:55:21,776 --> 00:55:25,238
you ordered Secret Service
off the second floor at the State Dinner?
1101
00:55:25,322 --> 00:55:27,365
He called at 9:22 p.m. I spoke to him.
1102
00:55:27,449 --> 00:55:28,783
Yes, it's insane!
1103
00:55:28,867 --> 00:55:30,076
Perry, please.
1104
00:55:31,036 --> 00:55:32,829
Yes. Yes.
1105
00:55:33,413 --> 00:55:34,497
I agree.
1106
00:55:35,957 --> 00:55:38,626
[quietly] Did you have
any issue with A.B.?
1107
00:55:38,710 --> 00:55:41,838
What? No! Why are you asking me that?
1108
00:55:42,547 --> 00:55:44,466
I mean, not really…
1109
00:55:44,549 --> 00:55:45,633
[Morgan groans]
1110
00:55:47,427 --> 00:55:49,637
- I didn't do this, Ms. Cupp.
- Detective.
1111
00:55:49,721 --> 00:55:51,014
You have to believe me.
1112
00:55:51,097 --> 00:55:53,016
Oh, I definitely don't have to.
1113
00:55:53,099 --> 00:55:55,685
[tense music playing]
1114
00:56:05,445 --> 00:56:07,447
[music fades]
1115
00:56:09,866 --> 00:56:13,244
There's a bird on your wallpaper in there.
1116
00:56:13,328 --> 00:56:14,287
In your bedroom.
1117
00:56:14,371 --> 00:56:17,624
Looks almost like
a Malaysian Rail-babbler.
1118
00:56:17,707 --> 00:56:21,795
I'm not sure it is,
but… that would be fitting.
1119
00:56:22,921 --> 00:56:27,550
The Malaysian Rail-babbler
is a wildly elusive bird,
1120
00:56:27,634 --> 00:56:31,596
but not in the traditional way.
It's not just hard to spot.
1121
00:56:31,679 --> 00:56:35,725
It's hard to identify. Even what it is.
1122
00:56:36,684 --> 00:56:40,397
It's called a Rail-babbler,
but it's actually not a rail.
1123
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:41,689
It's not a babbler.
1124
00:56:41,773 --> 00:56:44,567
It has a song that's almost ventriloquial.
1125
00:56:44,651 --> 00:56:47,779
Like it's coming from somewhere else.
1126
00:56:55,370 --> 00:56:56,454
Maybe
1127
00:56:57,205 --> 00:56:58,289
it wasn't you.
1128
00:57:00,041 --> 00:57:02,627
Maybe… it was an order.
1129
00:57:02,710 --> 00:57:04,462
Maybe someone did call.
1130
00:57:07,507 --> 00:57:09,134
And maybe it wasn't you.
1131
00:57:11,136 --> 00:57:14,889
Maybe it was only
someone pretending to be you.
1132
00:57:14,973 --> 00:57:16,808
Using your voice.
1133
00:57:17,475 --> 00:57:20,728
Disguising theirs. Hiding.
1134
00:57:20,812 --> 00:57:22,981
That's possible.
1135
00:57:36,161 --> 00:57:37,203
This…
1136
00:57:39,456 --> 00:57:41,082
is…
1137
00:57:42,876 --> 00:57:43,877
um…
1138
00:57:45,420 --> 00:57:46,421
tricky.
1139
00:57:47,338 --> 00:57:49,841
[suspenseful music playing]
1140
00:57:58,183 --> 00:57:59,267
[Lilly] It was me.
1141
00:58:04,898 --> 00:58:06,024
I did it.
1142
00:58:06,858 --> 00:58:09,569
I ordered the door sealed.
I faked Elliott's voice.
1143
00:58:11,654 --> 00:58:14,115
I'm good at it. You know that.
1144
00:58:14,199 --> 00:58:15,366
Elliott is indecisive.
1145
00:58:15,450 --> 00:58:20,246
[as Elliott] "Uh…
Well, uh, uh, that's… that's tricky."
1146
00:58:20,330 --> 00:58:21,498
I can do it. I did it.
1147
00:58:21,581 --> 00:58:22,707
- What?
- Why?
1148
00:58:23,917 --> 00:58:24,751
[Lilly sighs]
1149
00:58:24,834 --> 00:58:30,048
Mr. Wynter and I had gotten in a fight
earlier that night, about the night.
1150
00:58:30,131 --> 00:58:32,550
He had said some terrible things about me,
1151
00:58:32,634 --> 00:58:34,677
and in the heat of it,
I grabbed his journal.
1152
00:58:34,761 --> 00:58:37,555
I tore a page out. I felt bad about it.
1153
00:58:37,639 --> 00:58:39,307
I went looking for him later,
1154
00:58:39,390 --> 00:58:42,977
and that's when I heard the fight
between him and Elsyie in here.
1155
00:58:43,061 --> 00:58:47,190
I left, but I came back immediately
because it was so violent.
1156
00:58:49,025 --> 00:58:50,568
And that's when I saw him.
1157
00:58:51,069 --> 00:58:52,487
Right there.
1158
00:58:53,821 --> 00:58:54,906
Dead.
1159
00:58:59,077 --> 00:59:00,286
They had killed him.
1160
00:59:01,955 --> 00:59:03,164
Who?
1161
00:59:04,666 --> 00:59:05,542
Them.
1162
00:59:05,625 --> 00:59:06,834
- No!
- No!
1163
00:59:13,550 --> 00:59:15,093
[soft, tense music playing]
1164
00:59:16,719 --> 00:59:19,097
They were both here in the room.
1165
00:59:19,681 --> 00:59:22,100
And it was exactly like you said,
Detective Cupp.
1166
00:59:22,183 --> 00:59:24,644
She and Wynter were fighting.
She threw a vase at him.
1167
00:59:24,727 --> 00:59:26,396
It missed. It cut his face.
1168
00:59:26,479 --> 00:59:29,315
Bruce came in after that
and hit him with the clock.
1169
00:59:29,941 --> 00:59:31,150
This is what they told me.
1170
00:59:31,234 --> 00:59:32,485
What about the poison?
1171
00:59:33,278 --> 00:59:36,739
That was for her husband.
He was ruining her life.
1172
00:59:36,823 --> 00:59:40,034
He wanted me to lose my job,
wanted to destroy my life.
1173
00:59:40,118 --> 00:59:41,452
And she did plan to kill him.
1174
00:59:41,536 --> 00:59:42,912
I did want to kill him!
1175
00:59:43,496 --> 00:59:44,706
[Lilly] That's what she said.
1176
00:59:44,789 --> 00:59:47,917
She had gone to the shed that night
when she assumed no one would be around,
1177
00:59:48,001 --> 00:59:49,210
and she found the poison.
1178
00:59:49,294 --> 00:59:52,255
She called Mr. Wynter from the shed
because she had to tell him
1179
00:59:52,338 --> 00:59:54,841
she was going to be late
cleaning the Lincoln Bedroom.
1180
00:59:56,342 --> 00:59:58,970
And when she got up here
a few minutes later,
1181
00:59:59,053 --> 01:00:00,471
and Mr. Wynter confronted her,
1182
01:00:00,555 --> 01:00:03,558
and she realized she was going to
lose her job, she lost her shit.
1183
01:00:03,641 --> 01:00:06,811
That's when she threw the vase.
The poison came after.
1184
01:00:07,437 --> 01:00:08,688
Because there wasn't much blood,
1185
01:00:08,771 --> 01:00:11,816
they decided that
they could make it look like a suicide.
1186
01:00:13,067 --> 01:00:13,901
That was his idea.
1187
01:00:15,778 --> 01:00:18,114
They staged it.
Again, exactly like you said.
1188
01:00:18,990 --> 01:00:20,158
Or close.
1189
01:00:20,241 --> 01:00:22,160
They got a glass from next door.
1190
01:00:24,412 --> 01:00:26,789
Poured some poison down his throat.
1191
01:00:29,250 --> 01:00:31,002
Then tossed the rest in the flowers.
1192
01:00:31,085 --> 01:00:32,503
That's fucked up.
1193
01:00:32,587 --> 01:00:33,755
But I saw two glasses.
1194
01:00:35,048 --> 01:00:38,343
The other one was mine. I needed a drink.
1195
01:00:39,135 --> 01:00:40,386
Because of the note.
1196
01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:42,138
Because of the note.
1197
01:00:45,725 --> 01:00:47,143
I didn't know what to do.
1198
01:00:48,519 --> 01:00:50,104
I felt terrible for them.
1199
01:00:50,897 --> 01:00:53,858
I know this sounds crazy,
but she looked so
1200
01:00:55,401 --> 01:00:56,319
terrified.
1201
01:00:58,279 --> 01:00:59,572
She has a daughter.
1202
01:01:00,156 --> 01:01:02,158
He was just trying to protect her.
1203
01:01:03,534 --> 01:01:06,663
The page I accidentally ripped out
of Mr. Wynter's journal?
1204
01:01:06,746 --> 01:01:08,164
It read like a suicide note.
1205
01:01:08,247 --> 01:01:10,458
I'm sure that's not what it was,
but that's what it sounded like.
1206
01:01:10,541 --> 01:01:14,379
And I realized what it could do.
For them. To sell the story.
1207
01:01:14,462 --> 01:01:15,713
[sniffles]
1208
01:01:15,797 --> 01:01:17,006
I gave them the note.
1209
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:22,220
He… tucked it
into Mr. Wynter's suit jacket
1210
01:01:22,303 --> 01:01:24,430
and carried Wynter away.
1211
01:01:25,431 --> 01:01:28,351
He came back down. Cleaned it all up.
I helped him.
1212
01:01:28,434 --> 01:01:30,770
Picked up pieces of the vase, vacuumed.
1213
01:01:30,853 --> 01:01:32,105
He forgot the glasses.
1214
01:01:32,188 --> 01:01:34,607
- [Lilly] Mistakes were made.
- And the clock?
1215
01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:36,651
He took it away.
Said he knew how to get rid of it.
1216
01:01:37,652 --> 01:01:41,864
Then they came up with their stories.
Perfectly inconsistent.
1217
01:01:43,533 --> 01:01:44,617
And the door?
1218
01:01:45,660 --> 01:01:46,869
Why did you seal the door?
1219
01:01:48,079 --> 01:01:49,163
Panic.
1220
01:01:50,498 --> 01:01:52,750
When you were on the third floor
that night, investigating,
1221
01:01:52,834 --> 01:01:53,918
I wasn't concerned.
1222
01:01:54,711 --> 01:01:56,921
I thought this would all go away.
1223
01:01:57,004 --> 01:02:01,759
But when you came down here,
before you left, I got worried.
1224
01:02:01,843 --> 01:02:05,263
Even after you left,
I was scared you'd come back.
1225
01:02:05,346 --> 01:02:06,597
Or somebody would.
1226
01:02:07,181 --> 01:02:10,351
I just wanted the room to look different.
1227
01:02:11,269 --> 01:02:13,104
To feel different. Somehow.
1228
01:02:14,439 --> 01:02:16,232
I was trying to protect them.
1229
01:02:17,984 --> 01:02:20,903
I feel terrible for Mr. Wynter.
1230
01:02:21,487 --> 01:02:23,740
And I honestly feel terrible for them.
1231
01:02:24,866 --> 01:02:25,825
Still.
1232
01:02:33,916 --> 01:02:34,751
I'm sorry.
1233
01:02:39,881 --> 01:02:41,674
[cries softly]
1234
01:02:54,228 --> 01:02:56,481
- Blink.
- Yes.
1235
01:02:58,191 --> 01:03:00,777
Watch for it. The blink.
1236
01:03:01,486 --> 01:03:02,737
What?
1237
01:03:09,869 --> 01:03:11,829
You were so close.
1238
01:03:12,497 --> 01:03:13,748
So close.
1239
01:03:14,332 --> 01:03:18,294
I am so unexpectedly impressed
by you, Lilly.
1240
01:03:18,377 --> 01:03:21,672
So smart. So quick-thinking.
1241
01:03:21,756 --> 01:03:24,258
Such an incredible performer.
1242
01:03:24,342 --> 01:03:26,344
Today. On that night.
1243
01:03:26,427 --> 01:03:30,264
So much more diabolical
than I even imagined.
1244
01:03:30,348 --> 01:03:32,225
What is going on?
1245
01:03:32,308 --> 01:03:35,102
You could've done it. I would've
found you some way. I'm sure of it.
1246
01:03:35,186 --> 01:03:36,979
But you were close.
1247
01:03:37,063 --> 01:03:41,734
Undone by that single question
the birder asks relentlessly.
1248
01:03:41,818 --> 01:03:45,822
Why? Why did you seal
that passageway up, Lilly?
1249
01:03:45,905 --> 01:03:48,199
- Just to make it all feel better? No.
- I…
1250
01:03:48,282 --> 01:03:50,493
[Cupp] You needed
something better than that.
1251
01:03:50,576 --> 01:03:53,704
Because there was another reason.
Because you were hiding something.
1252
01:03:53,788 --> 01:03:55,790
Something with your fingerprints
all over it.
1253
01:03:55,873 --> 01:04:00,002
Something that proves
you killed A.B. Wynter.
1254
01:04:00,086 --> 01:04:01,128
[shocked gasping]
1255
01:04:01,212 --> 01:04:02,547
[tense music playing]
1256
01:04:03,965 --> 01:04:05,216
- [screaming]
- Oh!
1257
01:04:05,299 --> 01:04:06,467
- [gasping]
- Detective Cupp!
1258
01:04:06,551 --> 01:04:09,011
I'm really sorry about this,
Mr. President.
1259
01:04:11,347 --> 01:04:12,265
[gasping]
1260
01:04:21,858 --> 01:04:24,110
[music softens]
1261
01:04:25,736 --> 01:04:27,071
Fuck yeah!
1262
01:04:27,154 --> 01:04:28,239
[Tripp laughs]
1263
01:04:35,204 --> 01:04:36,122
[Cupp grunts]
1264
01:04:38,583 --> 01:04:40,626
[soft, tense music continues]
1265
01:04:50,303 --> 01:04:52,305
[string music playing]
1266
01:04:54,557 --> 01:04:55,558
[door clicks]
1267
01:05:02,106 --> 01:05:03,107
Oh.
1268
01:05:26,881 --> 01:05:28,716
I need to call my dad.
1269
01:05:29,842 --> 01:05:30,801
Why?
1270
01:05:32,762 --> 01:05:34,347
Because of the clock.
1271
01:05:34,430 --> 01:05:36,515
Why did you do this, Lilly?
1272
01:05:36,599 --> 01:05:39,101
Oh, I can take that, unless…?
1273
01:05:41,020 --> 01:05:44,231
Or why don't I start,
and then you can jump in?
1274
01:05:45,775 --> 01:05:49,987
She did it because she hates you.
And by you, I do mean you, Mr. President.
1275
01:05:50,071 --> 01:05:51,822
But I really mean all of you.
1276
01:05:51,906 --> 01:05:54,575
The house. Like, the actual house.
1277
01:05:54,659 --> 01:05:57,995
Like, the physical space. Have you seen
what she's done to the Blue Room?
1278
01:05:58,829 --> 01:06:02,249
You don't do these things
unless you really hate this place.
1279
01:06:02,333 --> 01:06:05,211
But also, like, the house as an idea.
1280
01:06:05,294 --> 01:06:07,546
As an institution. She hates it.
1281
01:06:07,630 --> 01:06:10,007
The history. The traditions. The staff.
1282
01:06:10,091 --> 01:06:11,217
What it represents--
1283
01:06:11,300 --> 01:06:15,137
America, I guess? She hates it.
And she hated Mr. Wynter most of all.
1284
01:06:15,221 --> 01:06:17,223
Because he represented what it represents,
1285
01:06:17,306 --> 01:06:21,435
and he was in her way,
and he had been for a long time.
1286
01:06:21,519 --> 01:06:24,438
He sabotaged Wellness Christmas.
1287
01:06:27,191 --> 01:06:29,610
She wanted to "reinvent the White House"
1288
01:06:29,694 --> 01:06:32,321
and to her that meant tear it down.
Maybe literally.
1289
01:06:32,405 --> 01:06:35,908
And he loved the house
and cared about the house,
1290
01:06:35,992 --> 01:06:39,620
about the people and the plumbing
and the artwork and the budgets.
1291
01:06:39,704 --> 01:06:43,290
And he cared about you, Mr. President,
and you, Mr. Morgan,
1292
01:06:43,374 --> 01:06:44,917
and the ordinary Americans
1293
01:06:45,001 --> 01:06:48,087
who came from all over the country
to visit here,
1294
01:06:48,170 --> 01:06:52,466
and that was all just
really stupid to her.
1295
01:06:52,550 --> 01:06:53,509
Am I doing okay?
1296
01:06:54,510 --> 01:06:56,595
She killed Mr. Wynter
because she hated him,
1297
01:06:56,679 --> 01:06:58,180
but also because she feared him.
1298
01:06:58,264 --> 01:07:00,307
You want to know why? This is why.
1299
01:07:00,391 --> 01:07:02,852
Because she found out
on the night of the State Dinner
1300
01:07:02,935 --> 01:07:04,520
he was going to expose her.
1301
01:07:04,603 --> 01:07:07,648
That was the fight that Mr. Gomez heard
in Mr. Wynter's office.
1302
01:07:07,732 --> 01:07:11,152
It wasn't Harry Hollinger in that room.
It was Lilly Schumacher.
1303
01:07:11,235 --> 01:07:14,530
And she just told you that it was.
She admitted it.
1304
01:07:14,613 --> 01:07:17,074
That's the crazy genius
of this wild attempt
1305
01:07:17,158 --> 01:07:18,909
to frame Bruce and Elsyie just now.
1306
01:07:18,993 --> 01:07:20,703
So much of what she said was true.
1307
01:07:20,786 --> 01:07:22,413
She and Wynter got in a fight,
1308
01:07:22,496 --> 01:07:25,875
he said some terrible things about her,
she ripped a page from his journal.
1309
01:07:25,958 --> 01:07:26,959
That all happened.
1310
01:07:27,043 --> 01:07:28,878
What do you mean "expose her"?
1311
01:07:28,961 --> 01:07:34,091
I mean, tell you and Mr. Morgan every last
selfish and absurd and abusive thing
1312
01:07:34,175 --> 01:07:37,428
she had done since she got here,
none of which you probably knew about,
1313
01:07:37,511 --> 01:07:41,265
all of which he had meticulously
documented in his journal.
1314
01:07:41,348 --> 01:07:45,311
All the lies
and misrepresentations and indulgences
1315
01:07:45,394 --> 01:07:49,190
and general shitty behavior was all here.
1316
01:07:49,273 --> 01:07:50,399
And that scared her.
1317
01:07:50,483 --> 01:07:51,400
Excuse me.
1318
01:07:52,026 --> 01:07:54,528
I'm sorry. Really?
1319
01:07:54,612 --> 01:07:56,906
That's it? That's all you got?
1320
01:07:56,989 --> 01:07:59,075
Yes, we fought.
1321
01:07:59,158 --> 01:08:01,452
I admit it. We did fight.
1322
01:08:02,328 --> 01:08:04,622
Everybody fought with A.B.
1323
01:08:04,705 --> 01:08:07,083
And yes, he was worked up, and so was I.
1324
01:08:07,166 --> 01:08:09,502
You think I'm going to kill him
1325
01:08:09,585 --> 01:08:12,546
because he was going to expose
my "shitty behavior"?
1326
01:08:13,047 --> 01:08:14,298
Seriously?
1327
01:08:15,257 --> 01:08:18,177
What do I care if he says crazy shit
to Perry and Elliott?
1328
01:08:18,260 --> 01:08:21,806
They're never gonna believe him over me.
That's not the way the world works.
1329
01:08:21,889 --> 01:08:24,809
And second, I don't care.
1330
01:08:25,518 --> 01:08:26,602
I'm rich.
1331
01:08:26,685 --> 01:08:30,022
Here's a secret, everybody:
Rich people don't give a shit!
1332
01:08:30,606 --> 01:08:35,820
I'm not gonna miss my $114,000 "salary"
or whatever the fuck it is,
1333
01:08:35,903 --> 01:08:38,114
which I give to charity by the way.
1334
01:08:38,656 --> 01:08:41,242
I'm doing this as a public service, okay?
1335
01:08:41,325 --> 01:08:42,827
Okay, guys?
1336
01:08:44,745 --> 01:08:45,871
So fire me.
1337
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,709
Yes, Lilly, I think
that's going to happen.
1338
01:08:50,793 --> 01:08:52,419
So. Thank you.
1339
01:08:52,503 --> 01:08:55,673
And you do make some excellent points,
you really do.
1340
01:08:55,756 --> 01:08:58,968
The thing is, though,
it wasn't just your shitty behavior.
1341
01:08:59,051 --> 01:09:01,846
Mr. Wynter was smart enough
to know he needed more than that.
1342
01:09:01,929 --> 01:09:03,222
And it wasn't hard to find.
1343
01:09:04,682 --> 01:09:07,268
There are a couple of pages here
in his journal
1344
01:09:07,351 --> 01:09:09,562
that I didn't know
what to make of at first.
1345
01:09:09,645 --> 01:09:13,482
It's a blizzard of numbers and letters.
Almost like a puzzle.
1346
01:09:13,566 --> 01:09:16,986
Probably deliberately so.
To kind of hide his work.
1347
01:09:17,069 --> 01:09:19,655
But I figured out what it was
1348
01:09:19,738 --> 01:09:23,117
because I'm, like, really good at puzzles.
1349
01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:26,078
It was all the money you misappropriated.
1350
01:09:26,162 --> 01:09:27,288
Stole.
1351
01:09:27,371 --> 01:09:30,124
Where's the money gonna come from?
You don't have the budget for this.
1352
01:09:30,207 --> 01:09:33,252
Where does the money ever come from, A.B.?
It comes from another pile of money.
1353
01:09:33,335 --> 01:09:34,628
That's how money works.
1354
01:09:34,712 --> 01:09:38,382
You're rich, but here's another thing
about the way the world works.
1355
01:09:38,465 --> 01:09:40,885
Rich people steal money. All the time.
1356
01:09:40,968 --> 01:09:43,179
In some cases it's even why they're rich.
1357
01:09:43,262 --> 01:09:46,015
My guess is your theft had more to do with
1358
01:09:46,098 --> 01:09:49,727
laziness, arrogance, and contempt
for the system, but who knows?
1359
01:09:49,810 --> 01:09:52,521
And it wasn't just money.
1360
01:09:52,605 --> 01:09:53,898
These numbers?
1361
01:09:53,981 --> 01:09:57,776
It was all the various criminal statutes
and ethical codes
1362
01:09:57,860 --> 01:10:02,656
Mr. Wynter knew you had violated.
In the way you had secured contracts.
1363
01:10:02,740 --> 01:10:05,117
In the favors that you traded
with different vendors.
1364
01:10:05,201 --> 01:10:07,661
In the people you had invited
into the White House
1365
01:10:07,745 --> 01:10:10,206
and who advised you
on moving American government officials
1366
01:10:10,289 --> 01:10:12,249
around at a State Dinner.
1367
01:10:12,333 --> 01:10:14,960
I think Mr. Wynter told you all this
in his office.
1368
01:10:15,044 --> 01:10:17,463
[Wynter] I am going to
tell them everything!
1369
01:10:17,546 --> 01:10:22,134
And I think you really, really,
really, really, really gave a shit.
1370
01:10:22,218 --> 01:10:24,678
And I think that's why
you tried to grab his journal.
1371
01:10:24,762 --> 01:10:27,806
And I think that's why when you walked
out of his office that night,
1372
01:10:27,890 --> 01:10:29,141
and stood in the hallway,
1373
01:10:29,225 --> 01:10:31,727
and read that page
that you accidentally ripped out,
1374
01:10:31,810 --> 01:10:34,813
you decided to kill him.
1375
01:10:35,397 --> 01:10:36,690
To stage his suicide.
1376
01:10:36,774 --> 01:10:39,944
Would you have killed him
if you didn't rip that page out
1377
01:10:40,027 --> 01:10:42,071
and realize what you could do with it?
1378
01:10:42,655 --> 01:10:44,657
Maybe. It's impossible to say.
1379
01:10:44,740 --> 01:10:46,116
And irrelevant.
1380
01:10:47,117 --> 01:10:50,120
All criminal activity
is motive plus opportunity.
1381
01:10:50,204 --> 01:10:52,331
And you saw an opportunity.
1382
01:10:52,414 --> 01:10:55,292
All of your problems would go away
'cause Mr. Wynter would go away,
1383
01:10:55,376 --> 01:10:58,045
and then you could redo all the rooms
1384
01:10:58,128 --> 01:11:00,506
and fire all the staff,
and it would be great,
1385
01:11:00,589 --> 01:11:03,384
and you wouldn't have to sit
in some shitty fluorescent-lit courtroom
1386
01:11:03,467 --> 01:11:04,468
for the next two years
1387
01:11:04,551 --> 01:11:08,305
while your really good lawyer
made some of it go away a different way.
1388
01:11:08,389 --> 01:11:11,433
This was easier. And more fun.
1389
01:11:11,517 --> 01:11:12,851
And clever.
1390
01:11:12,935 --> 01:11:16,105
- [clicks fingers]
- And that was it. The die was cast.
1391
01:11:17,773 --> 01:11:20,359
Everything else we know.
1392
01:11:20,442 --> 01:11:22,778
You were the one leading the non-toxic,
1393
01:11:22,861 --> 01:11:25,823
chemical-free,
"Conscious Landscaping" initiative,
1394
01:11:25,906 --> 01:11:27,366
whatever the hell that is,
1395
01:11:27,449 --> 01:11:30,202
so you went to the shed
with your glass that broke,
1396
01:11:30,286 --> 01:11:34,540
picked up Emily's sister's little tumbler,
filled it with paraquat, fine choice,
1397
01:11:34,623 --> 01:11:38,043
and you called Mr. Wynter and said,
let's meet in the Yellow Oval Room.
1398
01:11:38,127 --> 01:11:41,255
Let's see if we can talk. I apologize.
Whatever you needed to say.
1399
01:11:41,338 --> 01:11:43,215
- And he agreed.
- Give me five minutes.
1400
01:11:43,299 --> 01:11:46,385
Even though I have a strong sense
he knew something bad might happen,
1401
01:11:46,468 --> 01:11:48,929
just like birds have this thing
where they can sense
1402
01:11:49,013 --> 01:11:51,890
a change in barometric pressure
when a storm is coming.
1403
01:11:51,974 --> 01:11:55,060
I am going to be dead
by the end of the night.
1404
01:11:55,144 --> 01:11:58,147
- You called the Secret Service as Elliott.
- He called at 9:22 p.m.
1405
01:11:58,230 --> 01:12:00,816
- Had them clear the 2nd floor.
- We were told to stay off the floor.
1406
01:12:00,899 --> 01:12:04,361
Then you carried the poison
into the Family Living Room,
1407
01:12:04,445 --> 01:12:07,323
waited for Elsyie to leave,
1408
01:12:07,406 --> 01:12:09,616
and then you came in here
with your drinks.
1409
01:12:10,117 --> 01:12:11,118
Scotch for you.
1410
01:12:11,201 --> 01:12:14,288
Paraquat and scotch for A.B.
1411
01:12:14,371 --> 01:12:17,833
And then you gave him
the page from his journal back--
1412
01:12:17,916 --> 01:12:18,959
the suicide note--
1413
01:12:19,043 --> 01:12:21,545
and watched him put it into his pocket.
1414
01:12:21,628 --> 01:12:24,590
And then you went to work.
1415
01:12:27,134 --> 01:12:28,260
Tried to charm him.
1416
01:12:29,887 --> 01:12:31,305
I doubt he was charmed.
1417
01:12:32,181 --> 01:12:34,850
But Mr. Wynter
also wasn't a cynical person.
1418
01:12:34,933 --> 01:12:37,811
I don't think he believed
someone could be so malevolent.
1419
01:12:37,895 --> 01:12:42,691
But he'd seen a lot. Knew a lot
of pettiness, cruelty, arrogance.
1420
01:12:42,775 --> 01:12:45,194
Probably more
than any of us could ever imagine.
1421
01:12:45,277 --> 01:12:47,488
But even after everything,
1422
01:12:47,571 --> 01:12:50,532
he was still willing
to give you the benefit of the doubt.
1423
01:12:57,873 --> 01:12:59,833
It cost him his life.
1424
01:13:08,467 --> 01:13:11,303
Wynter drank the poison,
realized immediately what it was,
1425
01:13:11,387 --> 01:13:13,722
and tossed the rest onto the roses.
1426
01:13:13,806 --> 01:13:17,309
But paraquat works fast
and is devastatingly painful,
1427
01:13:17,393 --> 01:13:19,520
and he was rocked.
1428
01:13:19,603 --> 01:13:21,814
I'm sure you don't know
that much about poison, Lilly,
1429
01:13:21,897 --> 01:13:24,566
but you probably knew enough
to know that what he drank
1430
01:13:24,650 --> 01:13:27,361
wasn't going to kill him.
So you threw the vase--
1431
01:13:27,444 --> 01:13:29,947
that missed,
but startled him even further--
1432
01:13:30,030 --> 01:13:32,950
so you went for the clock.
And that was it.
1433
01:13:33,033 --> 01:13:35,619
A.B. was dead.
But now you had to move quickly.
1434
01:13:35,702 --> 01:13:38,705
So you grabbed the clock
and escaped into the passageway.
1435
01:13:38,789 --> 01:13:42,251
But this damn clock, right? What to do?
1436
01:13:42,334 --> 01:13:44,878
It's huge and weird and bloody and cracked
1437
01:13:44,962 --> 01:13:47,714
and you couldn't walk around with it
or put it down anywhere.
1438
01:13:47,798 --> 01:13:50,592
Now Elsyie and then Bruce
were in this room finding the body,
1439
01:13:50,676 --> 01:13:53,053
and you had no reason to believe
that they would so tragically
1440
01:13:53,137 --> 01:13:54,930
misinterpret the actions of the other.
1441
01:13:55,013 --> 01:13:58,851
For all you knew, Secret Service was gonna
come in 30 seconds, and you'd be caught.
1442
01:13:58,934 --> 01:14:02,479
So you stuffed the clock
in this storage drawer
1443
01:14:02,563 --> 01:14:04,398
in front of you in the passageway,
1444
01:14:04,481 --> 01:14:07,317
waited for them to clear the hall,
and then sped out
1445
01:14:07,401 --> 01:14:09,862
through the Treaty Room
and down the Grand Staircase.
1446
01:14:09,945 --> 01:14:11,488
And you were free.
1447
01:14:12,072 --> 01:14:13,657
You rejoined the party.
1448
01:14:13,740 --> 01:14:18,579
But that clock was eating away at you.
1449
01:14:18,662 --> 01:14:20,747
What if they're up there?
What if they find it?
1450
01:14:20,831 --> 01:14:22,499
And then, as time went by,
1451
01:14:22,583 --> 01:14:25,419
and you realized nobody
was saying anything about a dead body,
1452
01:14:25,502 --> 01:14:30,215
and trust me, there would be a big to-do
about a dead body in the White House,
1453
01:14:30,299 --> 01:14:32,301
especially on the night of a State Dinner,
1454
01:14:32,384 --> 01:14:35,220
you decided to go back up
and see what was going on.
1455
01:14:35,304 --> 01:14:36,638
Move the clock if you could.
1456
01:14:36,722 --> 01:14:38,849
But you get up here, and there's nothing.
1457
01:14:38,932 --> 01:14:41,143
No Wynter. No broken vase. Nothing.
1458
01:14:41,226 --> 01:14:43,312
Only engineer Bruce Geller,
1459
01:14:43,395 --> 01:14:46,106
looking for a leak
from Tripp Morgan's room.
1460
01:14:46,607 --> 01:14:48,358
What the hell was going on?
1461
01:14:48,442 --> 01:14:50,611
Was Wynter alive? What happened?
1462
01:14:50,694 --> 01:14:53,113
You were genuinely confused. Worried.
1463
01:14:53,197 --> 01:14:55,949
And that's what everyone saw
from that point forward.
1464
01:14:56,033 --> 01:14:58,452
I was looking for him everywhere,
in every room.
1465
01:14:58,535 --> 01:15:00,287
- She seemed worried.
- Concerned.
1466
01:15:00,370 --> 01:15:02,247
Not panicky, just genuinely worried.
1467
01:15:02,331 --> 01:15:03,207
[Cupp] What I saw.
1468
01:15:03,290 --> 01:15:04,666
I still haven't found A.B.
1469
01:15:04,750 --> 01:15:07,794
[Cupp] Yes,
turns out you are a great actress,
1470
01:15:07,878 --> 01:15:09,671
but that's not what it was.
1471
01:15:09,755 --> 01:15:12,633
You were panicked.
1472
01:15:12,716 --> 01:15:16,887
When I arrived, and all of the details
of what had happened to Mr. Wynter
1473
01:15:16,970 --> 01:15:18,013
started to come out,
1474
01:15:18,096 --> 01:15:20,849
that he apparently killed himself
in the Game Room,
1475
01:15:20,933 --> 01:15:26,855
yes, it was absolutely staggering to you,
mind-blowing, but it was great.
1476
01:15:26,939 --> 01:15:28,190
You were off the hook.
1477
01:15:28,273 --> 01:15:30,234
And then,
when I started to bring the investigation
1478
01:15:30,317 --> 01:15:31,944
down to the second floor,
1479
01:15:32,027 --> 01:15:35,864
well, like you said,
you started to get a little worried.
1480
01:15:35,948 --> 01:15:37,324
But I was gone soon enough,
1481
01:15:37,407 --> 01:15:40,327
and the minute I was, you took
the final step to bury the evidence.
1482
01:15:40,410 --> 01:15:42,955
Seal it in. Hopefully forever.
1483
01:15:43,038 --> 01:15:46,083
It was a brilliant plan,
and you deserve a lot of credit,
1484
01:15:46,166 --> 01:15:48,544
but you really only made it
as long as you did
1485
01:15:48,627 --> 01:15:52,381
because of the bizarre miscommunications
and regrettable behavior
1486
01:15:52,464 --> 01:15:54,800
from so many other people in the house.
1487
01:15:54,883 --> 01:15:57,135
So… team effort here.
1488
01:15:57,803 --> 01:15:59,137
You really owe them a lot.
1489
01:15:59,221 --> 01:16:00,806
Even though you hate them.
1490
01:16:05,269 --> 01:16:07,479
[poignant music playing]
1491
01:16:09,523 --> 01:16:10,983
This is the man who died.
1492
01:16:11,942 --> 01:16:14,236
Right here. In this room.
1493
01:16:17,531 --> 01:16:19,283
I heard a lot about him from you.
1494
01:16:19,992 --> 01:16:24,580
You can learn a lot about someone
from what he writes and reads.
1495
01:16:25,330 --> 01:16:27,040
He was a complicated person:
1496
01:16:27,791 --> 01:16:31,253
flawed and difficult, fiercely loyal,
1497
01:16:31,336 --> 01:16:33,255
smart and thoughtful,
1498
01:16:33,338 --> 01:16:35,173
an enormous pain in the ass,
1499
01:16:35,257 --> 01:16:38,552
and endlessly generous in his thoughts.
1500
01:16:38,635 --> 01:16:42,139
He had suffered in his life,
and he had persevered,
1501
01:16:42,222 --> 01:16:44,558
and I am sorry
I never got the chance to meet him.
1502
01:16:45,475 --> 01:16:46,893
He loved this house.
1503
01:16:46,977 --> 01:16:49,104
I didn't know him, but I know that.
1504
01:16:49,187 --> 01:16:52,983
Loved the people who work here.
Respected them. Understood them.
1505
01:16:53,066 --> 01:16:57,112
Appreciated them. Saw them.
Saw who they were, where they came from,
1506
01:16:57,195 --> 01:17:00,532
what they had given up to be here,
why they were here.
1507
01:17:00,616 --> 01:17:02,492
And there's that question again. Why?
1508
01:17:03,493 --> 01:17:05,829
Why are they here? Why was he here?
1509
01:17:10,917 --> 01:17:12,336
For you, Mr. President.
1510
01:17:15,047 --> 01:17:16,298
And for you, Mr. Morgan.
1511
01:17:19,343 --> 01:17:21,845
- [Morgan mouths silently]
- For everyone here.
1512
01:17:22,763 --> 01:17:23,847
For all of us.
1513
01:17:23,930 --> 01:17:27,893
It wasn't "us versus them" for Wynter.
It really wasn't. It was just us.
1514
01:17:27,976 --> 01:17:29,519
One house. One family.
1515
01:17:29,603 --> 01:17:33,482
One imperfect union.
Trying to make it work. Enduring.
1516
01:17:33,565 --> 01:17:35,525
He believed in that, in this.
1517
01:17:35,609 --> 01:17:38,195
And look, I'm just the detective,
1518
01:17:38,278 --> 01:17:42,991
but I think
this is really worth believing in.
1519
01:17:44,743 --> 01:17:48,163
And she does not believe in this,
1520
01:17:51,083 --> 01:17:55,671
and that is why she really, really sucks.
1521
01:17:56,963 --> 01:17:58,048
Also, she's a murderer.
1522
01:17:58,131 --> 01:18:02,135
I'm still a little unclear
on who has jurisdiction here,
1523
01:18:02,219 --> 01:18:05,514
so whoever it is, take her away.
1524
01:18:05,597 --> 01:18:07,516
- That would be me.
- Yeah. Relax, gentlemen.
1525
01:18:07,599 --> 01:18:09,309
- It's a Bureau thing. I got it.
- No, no.
1526
01:18:09,393 --> 01:18:11,812
[indistinct chattering]
1527
01:18:20,862 --> 01:18:22,072
Lilly Schumacher.
1528
01:18:22,155 --> 01:18:23,573
Lilly Schumacher.
1529
01:18:23,657 --> 01:18:25,826
She wasn't even in my top three.
1530
01:18:25,909 --> 01:18:29,579
I had the Swiss Guy, the Salt Guy,
and the Water Guy.
1531
01:18:29,663 --> 01:18:30,956
And you?
1532
01:18:31,039 --> 01:18:32,165
Let me guess.
1533
01:18:32,833 --> 01:18:34,084
- Yep.
- [Bix] Ride or die.
1534
01:18:34,710 --> 01:18:35,585
What about Harry?
1535
01:18:35,669 --> 01:18:36,962
What about him?
1536
01:18:37,045 --> 01:18:38,755
Did he play any role in this?
1537
01:18:38,839 --> 01:18:41,216
No. I mean, Tripp Morgan was right.
1538
01:18:41,299 --> 01:18:43,051
- He is an asshole.
- Okay, so.
1539
01:18:43,135 --> 01:18:45,011
[Cupp] He was incredibly rude
to Mr. Wynter,
1540
01:18:45,095 --> 01:18:47,097
he did try to kick me off the case,
1541
01:18:47,180 --> 01:18:49,766
he did inappropriately search
Mr. Wynter's office.
1542
01:18:49,850 --> 01:18:53,311
I think that was more in the spirit
of being an anxious political animal
1543
01:18:53,395 --> 01:18:54,438
as much as anything.
1544
01:18:54,521 --> 01:18:57,816
But the conspiracy stuff,
that was all bullshit. Sorry, Senator.
1545
01:18:57,899 --> 01:18:59,693
Nah, don't worry.
We're in a closed session.
1546
01:18:59,776 --> 01:19:02,946
To his credit, he did bring me back
and let me solve this.
1547
01:19:03,029 --> 01:19:04,406
People are complicated.
1548
01:19:04,489 --> 01:19:06,658
Why did Lilly
try to frame Bruce and Elsyie?
1549
01:19:06,742 --> 01:19:08,118
It was a Hail Mary.
1550
01:19:08,201 --> 01:19:11,204
She knew I was onto her in the end.
She knew.
1551
01:19:11,288 --> 01:19:12,122
When did you know?
1552
01:19:12,205 --> 01:19:14,624
I knew when I knew.
I don't mean that as a riddle.
1553
01:19:14,708 --> 01:19:17,878
At some point, you go from
not knowing something to knowing it.
1554
01:19:17,961 --> 01:19:18,837
To seeing it.
1555
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:20,756
When is that exactly? I don't know.
1556
01:19:20,839 --> 01:19:22,340
I had my suspicions about Lilly
1557
01:19:22,424 --> 01:19:25,093
when she first told me
she saw Elsyie and Wynter fighting
1558
01:19:25,177 --> 01:19:26,303
in the Yellow Oval Room.
1559
01:19:26,386 --> 01:19:31,266
I was in the hall, and I saw him arguing
with someone in the Yellow Oval Room.
1560
01:19:31,349 --> 01:19:33,393
Elsyie told me
they fought behind closed doors.
1561
01:19:33,477 --> 01:19:34,644
He told me to close the door.
1562
01:19:34,728 --> 01:19:36,271
[Cupp] She had no reason to make that up
1563
01:19:36,354 --> 01:19:38,857
and it was consistent with what
everyone had told me about Wynter.
1564
01:19:38,940 --> 01:19:42,486
That he always tried to have
his disagreements behind closed doors.
1565
01:19:42,569 --> 01:19:44,821
[Rollie] He definitely didn't like
to fight in public.
1566
01:19:44,905 --> 01:19:46,656
He'd always try to avoid that.
1567
01:19:46,740 --> 01:19:48,533
He'd bring you in, close the door.
1568
01:19:48,617 --> 01:19:53,246
How could Lilly see them from the hall
if the door was closed?
1569
01:19:53,747 --> 01:19:55,165
It was suspicious.
1570
01:19:55,248 --> 01:19:58,335
She did see it, because she was watching
from the Family Living Room
1571
01:19:58,418 --> 01:20:00,003
where she was mixing her poison.
1572
01:20:00,086 --> 01:20:03,131
And when Jasmine said
the call to seal the door
1573
01:20:03,215 --> 01:20:06,468
came down from Elliott,
I had a strong sense that it was Lilly.
1574
01:20:06,551 --> 01:20:09,846
I had heard her impersonation.
And I never suspected Elliott.
1575
01:20:09,930 --> 01:20:12,390
And then she blinked.
1576
01:20:13,099 --> 01:20:15,101
Not because of the clock,
though that was the clincher,
1577
01:20:15,185 --> 01:20:18,730
but when she said she saw Bruce
put the note in Wynter's jacket.
1578
01:20:18,814 --> 01:20:22,526
Lilly wasn't in the Game Room
when I removed the note that night.
1579
01:20:22,609 --> 01:20:24,194
She couldn't have known where it was
1580
01:20:24,277 --> 01:20:26,446
unless she saw Wynter
put it there himself.
1581
01:20:26,530 --> 01:20:28,448
Which she did.
1582
01:20:29,449 --> 01:20:30,909
Well, time to departure?
1583
01:20:30,992 --> 01:20:33,829
Wheels up in… three hours.
1584
01:20:33,912 --> 01:20:34,871
Reagan or Dulles?
1585
01:20:34,955 --> 01:20:35,872
Dulles.
1586
01:20:35,956 --> 01:20:37,415
Well, you better get going, then.
1587
01:20:38,291 --> 01:20:42,295
Thank you, Detective Cupp.
I've been doing this a very long time.
1588
01:20:42,879 --> 01:20:44,923
I've never seen anyone like you.
1589
01:20:49,302 --> 01:20:51,304
[intriguing music playing]
1590
01:21:01,064 --> 01:21:02,274
I got you something.
1591
01:21:03,316 --> 01:21:05,986
For the trip. Do not open in here.
1592
01:21:11,992 --> 01:21:14,953
I feel really bad for the person
sitting next to you on that flight.
1593
01:21:16,288 --> 01:21:17,414
Thank you.
1594
01:21:18,748 --> 01:21:19,666
For everything.
1595
01:21:22,794 --> 01:21:24,588
I need to make a quick stop.
1596
01:21:24,671 --> 01:21:26,423
You sure? Do we have time?
1597
01:21:27,215 --> 01:21:28,091
We have time.
1598
01:21:39,561 --> 01:21:40,478
Five minutes.
1599
01:21:43,315 --> 01:21:45,025
I solved the murder.
1600
01:21:45,108 --> 01:21:46,568
- The one next door?
- Yes.
1601
01:21:46,651 --> 01:21:50,071
Oh great. I thought you might have been
coming about Clive.
1602
01:21:50,906 --> 01:21:51,740
No.
1603
01:21:53,116 --> 01:21:56,912
Does that mean my son's husband
will be moving back in?
1604
01:21:56,995 --> 01:21:59,873
- The President of the United States?
- Yes.
1605
01:21:59,956 --> 01:22:00,832
He is.
1606
01:22:00,916 --> 01:22:04,169
Oh, it was so nice around here.
1607
01:22:04,252 --> 01:22:05,337
I'm sorry.
1608
01:22:05,420 --> 01:22:06,546
Who did it?
1609
01:22:06,630 --> 01:22:07,923
Wait. Don't tell me.
1610
01:22:08,506 --> 01:22:10,592
That snotty girl with the attitude?
1611
01:22:10,675 --> 01:22:11,593
Yes.
1612
01:22:11,676 --> 01:22:13,762
You could've just asked me.
1613
01:22:21,353 --> 01:22:22,312
Detective Cupp?
1614
01:22:22,395 --> 01:22:24,314
I'll have them send up vodka, Ms. Cox.
1615
01:22:25,273 --> 01:22:26,524
You are good.
1616
01:22:26,608 --> 01:22:28,902
Yes. I am.
1617
01:22:30,695 --> 01:22:31,947
The best.
1618
01:22:36,618 --> 01:22:38,620
[intriguing music playing]
1619
01:23:04,437 --> 01:23:05,397
[falcon squawks]
1620
01:23:06,022 --> 01:23:08,775
[music intensifies]
1621
01:23:08,858 --> 01:23:10,944
[music ends]
1622
01:23:22,872 --> 01:23:25,458
[solemn instrumental music playing]