- You got this, Soph!
- Come on, ref!
- You make it too easy.
[dramatic music]
♪
- Aah! [whistle blows]
- Come on!
- [groaning] - Back off!
- How's that for easy?
- Lia? Come on, come on, come on, wake up.
- Oh, my God.
- Somebody go get help right now.
- Is she okay? What happened?
- Come on, come on, come on, come on, wake up.
Oh.
Soph, what have you done?
[dramatic music]
♪
[indistinct chatter]
- Tom. - Professor Mercer.
How'd the Columbia lecture go?
- No one dozed off, so that's a win.
So how can I help the New York District Attorney's Office?
- We've got a bit
of a Tonya Harding/ Nancy Kerrigan situation.
Back in their Ivy League days, Lia, the victim,
broke Soph over there's collarbone,
ended Soph's Olympic dreams. - So last night?
- Soph paid Lia back with interest.
- It sounds like ancient history.
Why would Soph take revenge now?
- Well, now they both work in the same investment firm--
Sondock Ficher.
And Lia just beat Soph out for a promotion,
high-pressure work environment, old resentments.
- Tom, people get hurt playing hockey.
Sometimes they even die.
If you hate someone and you kill them during the game,
does that make it murder?
- Well, that's why you're here.
A bit of an irrational question, isn't it?
- You got my attention.
- All I ask is an honest assessment.
- Hmm.
Do you mind if I ask how you're feeling?
- I haven't slept.
They won't let me leave this stupid rink.
This is all insane.
- Well, a woman is dead.
We need to figure out how that happened.
- What you're trying to do is get me for murder.
But in hockey, injuries happen all the time.
It's just the way the game's played.
- The difference is Lia is dead.
And if you were trying to hurt her, that's intent.
- It was an accident.
Finally.
Um, my firm sent over a lawyer and a crisis manager.
You should probably go talk to them.
- A crisis manager-- you mean a fixer?
- Alec.
What a lovely surprise. - Rose.
- Let me guess, you're working for the DA.
- I'm sorry. Do you two know each other?
- We've worked on a few cases together, yes.
- Although on this one,
it appears we'll be on opposite sides.
♪
- All right, everybody.
Welcome to Outside the Beltway's semiannual Codeathon.
Today's theme is encryption.
- Pink Potentate's in the house.
Guess I better up my game.
- It's good to have goals.
- First person to create an airtight lockup
for the data on your screen wins $1,000.
Starts in three, two, one, go.
[keys clacking rapidly]
- I'm sorry, Alec.
I should have called you the moment I got back.
- It's all right. It's just not how I imagined our reunion.
Uh, you all right?
Last time I saw you-- - [scoffs]
I was far from my best.
But I've had time to recover and reflect.
I'm well.
Sadly, though, our real reunion will have to wait,
seeing as how we're at odds here professionally.
- Right. When you're on a case, you play to win.
- My clients don't pay me to lose.
- Uh, wait, what time did Sondock Ficher call you?
- A little before midnight. Why?
- Because when I saw you,
I assumed that you were brought in, at least partly,
to neutralize me.
But Tom didn't call me till almost 12:30.
- In other words, your ADA friend called you in
to neutralize me.
Hmm.
♪
- You're right. I called you in once I heard the defense
was bringing in Rose Dinshaw.
- You knew I was in a relationship with her.
I ought to recuse. - Hear me out.
I had planned to call you anyway.
The fact that she was brought on just sped up the urgency.
- I got to say, Tom, it feels personal.
- Yeah, well, maybe it is.
Look, Lia was a middle-class kid
who worked for everything she got, like us.
And then on the other side, you've got Soph Rawlings.
- Who's showing no remorse.
- I don't think she's capable of it.
Look, her family is loaded.
Her dad's a real estate developer
who's made sure that Soph never has to face the consequences
of her actions.
Look, Professor, I can't win this case without you.
And Soph--Soph is guilty. I know it.
- You said you think the motive was a dispute at work.
- Yeah. The firm they work at is a shark tank.
- Well, then I guess I better dive in.
[indistinct chatter]
- Pressure makes diamonds.
Sure, Soph and Lia were at each other's throat,
but it was a plus.
They pushed each other. They made each other better.
- Mr. Mahoney?
- Except now one of them is dead.
- Which is a tragedy, but hockey is a violent game.
Now, can we just clear up this whole murder nonsense
so Soph can get back to work?
- What Bruce is saying in his own special way
is that we are all devastated about what happened to Lia,
but they can't possibly hold Soph criminally responsible.
- You just promoted Lia.
I'd think you'd want to get to the truth of what happened.
- I loved Lia.
We just celebrated her promotion
over dinner a few nights ago.
I mentored both of them.
And Soph can be intense, but murder?
- So how did Soph take Lia getting promoted over her?
- Uh, we have a strict no-snowflake policy.
People here don't whine if things don't go their way.
They work harder.
- Joy, I feel like there's something
you're not telling me.
- Soph didn't exactly whine,
but after the promotion was announced,
she did say that she would get Lia.
- Oh, come on, that's just locker room talk.
Look, you spend an hour out in the bullpen,
you'll hear worse than that, believe me.
Now, if you'll excuse me,
trading is about to close in Paris.
I'll leave you in Joy's capable hands.
Hey, Cass, another espresso, pronto.
- Is there anyone else here
who might have insight into Soph and Lia's relationship?
- Here? No. Bruce is right.
Nobody's crying in the ladies' room.
You might want to talk to, um, Lia's boyfriend, Zane.
He's an actor/waiter.
Don't ask me what she saw in him.
But if she felt threatened by Soph,
he would be the one person she would have told.
- [chuckles] Done.
[computer beeping and pinging]
[laughing]
- What? - How'd you do that so fast?
- Are you kidding?
- All right, if everything checks out, Kylie's our winner.
- Damn it. - [chuckles] No way.
- Check for yourself.
- Hmm.
- Just don't drop any tears on my keyboard.
- Oh, judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts.
And men have lost their reason!
Bear with me.
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar.
- Yeah, come on in.
- Zane? - Uh-huh.
- I'm Alec. I'm a director at American Repertory Theater.
Your performance tonight, it blew me away.
- You know, this is really something,
because first it was a Broadway producer and now a director.
Nice. Here, please.
♪
- Rose, my producing partner.
So you made it after all.
Wonderful. - Oh.
- Now we can both talk to Zane together.
- Well, I had hoped that I could talk to him on my own.
[chuckles] But, uh, since you're here,
Alec and I are mounting a stage production
of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
We're looking for someone fresh to play Stanley Kowalski.
- Your Mark Antony tonight... - [gasps]
- Was so real, charged with grief.
I'd love to know where that... [groans softly]
Came from. - Mm.
- Honestly, I've-- [scoffs]
I've had a really bad week.
But I'd rather not talk about it, i-if that's okay.
- Alec is an artist, like you.
He needs to know you as an artist.
[dramatic music]
- My girlfriend just died playing hockey.
- I'm so sorry. That was your girlfriend.
I read about that.
Didn't they arrest another player?
- Yeah, Soph Rawlings.
She hated Lia.
- But it was just an accident, right?
- I guess.
But, honestly,
I blame Bex, Lia's goalie, and the league medic.
And she should have stopped Lia's bleeding,
but she didn't.
- It's normal in situations like this
to look for someone to blame
for your grief and your sadness.
I learned that researching "Hamlet."
- See, now, if you ask me,
Bex is just trying to get out of paying
Lia back what she owed her.
- Bex owed Lia money?
- $85,000.
♪
[knock at door] - Hey, girl.
You wanted to see me? - Yeah.
Uh, there was a ransomware attack
in Delaware this morning.
Someone flooded a big insurance company's computer screens
with cat memes, encrypted their data,
and forced them to pay a $100,000 ransom.
- [laughs] All right, yeah, I heard about that.
But you want me to help you find the hacker?
- FBI techs already found the hacker's name
hidden in the code.
- You look worried.
- It's signed "Pink Potentate."
- That's me. - I know.
But I also know you would never do anything like this.
So what is going on?
- I wrote this at a codeathon.
Damn, that's messed up. Someone stole it.
- Whoever it is compromised
a lot of innocent people's personal data.
And whether it was by design or just careless,
they made you look like the culprit.
I took this case to get ahead of it.
But the best way to protect you is to find the real hacker.
♪
- I just got the results from an experiment
I had my team run.
Rizwan and Simon got people to play board games
to ramp up their competitiveness.
The winner gets $100. - I want to be the dog.
- That's right. Pay the man.
- Two. - You owe me $200.
- This is total crap!
- Hey, there. Easy, tiger.
- Then we put them in go-karts.
- Go!
- The people that were primed for competition
were 50% more aggressive.
One outlier even became violent.
In an exit interview,
she said that she was cheated in the board game.
- Soph was competitive. She felt cheated.
You think that made her more violent with Lia on the ice.
- It's suggestive.
And it backs Tom's pursuit of murder, too.
- Except we have a new suspect. That's why we're here.
- Anything Bex did would have been opportunistic.
She was not the one that attacked Lia.
That's still Soph. - [chuckles]
You really don't like to lose. - Uh, point taken.
But we need to be sure that our competitiveness
doesn't lead to unnecessary aggression.
- And what about necessary aggression?
- We both want the truth. Let's focus on that.
- Hey.
Aren't you two working on Lia's case?
I've been hoping to talk to someone about that.
- I'm not like those other girls
in their cushy Wall Street gigs.
For me, it's hockey.
I coach, work the rink, sharpen skates,
and I goalie for, like, three of these Richie Rich teams.
- But you don't mind taking their money?
- [scoffs] I need it. They've got it.
- Like with Lia?
We know you owe Lia a lot of money.
She paid the back taxes on your mother's house.
- Wait, you think I let Lia die for money?
Are you for real?
- That anger of yours is covering up for something.
And if I had to guess, I'd say it was guilt.
- Or it could be fear, shame.
And whatever it is, it won't go away until you talk about it.
- Remember, you wanted to talk to us.
So say what you have to say.
♪
- I've treated dozens of cuts like Lia's.
But this time, I couldn't stop the bleeding.
I wanted to save Lia. I tried.
But there was so much blood.
What if I messed up?
Tell me what I did wrong.
♪
- This isn't how I imagined my first undercover FBI mission.
- You're going to do great.
- I just wish I didn't feel like such a narc.
- Remember, intentionally or not, someone framed you.
Now go make them pay.
- Kylie. - Hey.
- There she is. - You're paying, right?
- What are you doing? - Can you believe this guy?
He's been recording his footprinting in Excel.
- Hmm. - [laughs] What is this, 2010?
- Please, your entire footprinting log is,
"Can't get in. Too hard."
- Oh!
Hey, speaking of logs,
have any of you been tracking that insurance-company hack?
Because I tried to find a breach log
or a victory dance online, and all the usual sites are empty.
- I have not been paying attention.
- I have. Whoever did it has been playing it close.
- Well, they should be flexing. It was hilarious--
using cat memes to block the monitors
while they totally lock down their data.
Chef's kiss.
- Yeah, but it could have caused a lot of harm,
I mean, all that client data.
- No more harm than insurance companies already do.
I mean, they kept their passwords in a spreadsheet
labeled "Passwords." [laughter]
They deserve what they got.
- Now, that's someone worth looking into.
[indistinct chatter]
- Okay. Thank you.
No ME report yet,
but I did get through to Lia's parents.
They say they didn't know of any underlying condition
that could have caused her to bleed out.
- [sighs] Nothing on her socials either--
no hospital visits, no mention of doctors.
Thank you, by the way.
You've been very patient with me--
not a single question about what happened to us...
how we left off.
- I am worried about you.
You went through hell, and then you just ran off.
- I just needed time
to sort through everything that happened
and how I felt about it on my own.
- And?
Are you feeling sorted?
- Nearly.
[cell phone chiming, vibrating]
- Medical examiner's report just came in.
Lia tested positive for very high levels
of warfarin.
That's a blood thinner.
She had no prescriptions, no conditions that required it.
- Warfarin isn't just used as medicine.
It's also an active ingredient in rat poison.
It kills by making them bleed out,
the same way Lia did,
which means Lia didn't just die from Soph's cut.
- Someone was poisoning her.
- Good night. Get home safe.
- Hey, you got a sec? - Yeah, what's up?
- It's about that insurance-company hack.
- Are you still on that?
- Yes, I am...
because the hacker used my encryption program
in the ransomware.
- S-seriously?
It's a compliment, if you think about it.
If you're going to steal from someone, steal from the best.
- Sounds like she might be our person.
- Hold on.
[device beeps, static whirs]
[dramatic music]
- Is that a mic?
Are you recording me?
- I was, but I'm not now.
- What the hell, Ky?
Are you working with your brother, with the Feds?
- I am contracting with the FBI.
- Wow. - It's my new job.
See, right now I'm trying to bust whoever stole my code
and is using it as ransomware.
- So you're coming at me? - Well, it was your codeathon.
You had access to my encryption program.
I mean, come on, Angelique,
you didn't even bother to take my signature out.
- Oh, I took it out.
- No, it was still in the ransomware.
- Yeah, well, that wasn't me.
But I did crib off your code.
I took pieces of it, erased your signature,
incorporated it into an assignment,
and turned it into my work.
- So you passed off my code as your own?
- I'm sorry, but I was under a lot of pressure.
And I would never give your code to a Fortune 500 company
and then use it for a hack.
♪
- So you're saying I got ripped off twice.
- NYPD is checking the hockey rink, locker room,
Lia's office, Soph's place, and Lia and Zane's apartment.
If there's poison, they'll find it.
- But the warfarin in Lia's blood
is enough to clear Soph, right?
- If Soph is innocent, we'll figure that out.
Either way, we follow the evidence.
- What the hell is with you people?
- Soph?
- I just spent an hour talking to a detective.
And now my lawyer says that you searched my condo for poison.
♪
You think that I poisoned Lia and then cut her?
I'm not a monster. - Soph, this isn't helping.
- No, poison means that someone else was trying to kill Lia,
and I am innocent.
- Did you ever consider that maybe it's your lack of remorse
that's keeping you a suspect? - You don't think I'm sorry?
That's your problem?
Of course I am sorry.
Yes, okay, Lia and I had beef.
But we were actually friends once.
I am not who you think I am.
- I think you're human.
As for the rest, we're figuring it out.
You should listen to Rose. Let her handle this.
- Okay.
I'll go.
But whoever poisoned Lia hated her way more than I ever did.
You should probably be looking for that person.
♪
[cell phone chimes] - It's Forensics.
They found warfarin-based rat poison in Lia's yogurt
and in Zane's walk-in closet.
- You said "follow the evidence."
It seems like it leads right to Zane.
- So you're okay with what Angelique did?
- I mean, I don't love it, but it happens.
And it does sort of prove her innocence.
- Well, you still shouldn't have took off the wire.
- I didn't feel right recording her.
- Well, you did get her to cooperate,
and she seems to be in the clear.
But before you give me those I-told-you-so eyes,
you should know the hacker struck again this morning--
a payday lender in Texas.
We need to stop this.
And I have someone who might give us some insight.
- Phoebe.
- Thanks for coming, Phoebe. - Happy to help.
I've been missing this not working for the professor.
Here. Um, but, first, I should say,
I'm not entirely comfortable with profiling.
Alec's proven it can wander into pseudoscience.
- Suspect profiles can be problematic.
But at times, I find them helpful.
- Because of the Barnum effect.
Police retroactively reinterpret profiles
to fit the person they arrest.
But if you base a profile on hard data, statistics,
it can be less fakey.
- Really selling it there, girl.
- Statistics, then.
- Statistically, your hacker is most likely male, white,
above average in intelligence,
and in his late 20s to early 30s.
- Well, that just about describes everyone
in our group, except me and Angelique.
- Also, the fact that the hacker was sloppy enough
to leave in your signature
implies he's not an expert programmer.
He probably built his hack using other people's tools,
stolen or found online.
- He's a skiddie-- a script kiddie.
Skiddies are hackers who use plug-and-play code.
Anything else?
- Now we're getting into speculation,
but studies show that online video game cheaters
don't just want to win.
They want a claim, for other people to see them as skilled,
even if they didn't earn it.
There could be parallels,
which means I might have a way to identify him.
Hey, can I ask you something?
- Well, I do owe you one for the pseudoscience.
- [chuckles]
If someone above you in a position of authority
was doing something wrong
but reporting it could get you in trouble,
what would you do?
- You're asking me that?
I went after my FBI mentor and a sitting U.S. senator.
You know that.
I don't think you're looking for advice.
I think you're looking for permission.
- Maybe.
But what if I'm not as badass as you?
- Is the person you're talking about a mass murderer?
- No, a plagiarist.
- Well, then I think you can handle it.
But I'm here if you need anything.
- This is crazy.
It's crazy. I-I love Lia.
Why would I poison her?
- This isn't looking good, Zane.
- I'd poison myself if it would bring her back.
- A little over the top, right?
I mean, he meant for that rat poison to kill her.
And if she'd eaten the rest of that yogurt, it would have.
- I'm not so sure this is Zane.
Look at the way this rat poison was left behind--
barely hidden, on its side, at an off angle.
But I don't think Zane's capable
of leaving the poison that way.
In his dressing room,
he lined his script just so.
Look at his walk-in closet--
shoes perfectly lined,
clothes organized by color.
Zane has OCD.
- So he couldn't have tolerated
leaving the rat poison like that.
He would have felt compelled to align it.
- Lia did call Zane a neat freak in their texts.
I mean, they joked about it.
- I'd like to pin this on Zane. It would help my client.
But I don't think he did it.
You mentioned Lia's texts. Can we see them?
- Uh, we're still processing the evidence.
- You don't want to share with Soph's team yet.
But this is a wider investigation now.
If you still want my help,
you have to give full access-- to both of us.
♪
- My word, Lia sent a lot of texts.
It's as if she were trying to author "War and Peace"
five words at a time. - Texts are easy to write.
They're short, emotionally distant.
They're perfect for a generation
with diminished attention spans.
- Gen X hath spoken.
[giggles]
Look at this.
Lia texted a friend back home complaining
that someone was harassing her at work--no name.
She called him Squidward.
- Like the octopus from "SpongeBob."
I get it--all hands.
- These texts get dark.
In this one,
when she finally threatens to report Squidward to HR,
she wrote, "He said he would end me,"
here, all in caps-- a death threat.
- Maybe.
So who's Squidward?
- Sadly, Squidward could be a lot of people.
This firm is a boys' club,
and the boys take care of their own.
- Is that what you said to Lia when she complained to you?
- [scoffs] If she said anything to me,
I would have told her that even when HR listens, which is rare,
men like Squidward only get slaps on the wrist.
Nothing changes.
- You tried to be a mentor to Lia.
You gave her your best advice in a bad situation.
It's not your fault if she didn't listen.
- You're saying that maybe Lia went to HR despite my advice...
or threatened Squidward that she would.
- And now she's dead.
Tell us his name, Joy.
[dramatic music]
- Did I ask Lia out? Sure. Why wouldn't I?
I'm divorced. She was a beautiful woman.
But when she said she wasn't interested, I backed off.
It's no biggie.
- It is so easy to overstep with this younger generation.
Believe me, as a college professor,
I run into it all the time. - Exactly.
I mean, you flirt a little, and they want to cancel you.
- Lia threatened to go to HR.
- Yeah.
I got a little heated, but I know when to cut my losses.
You're barking at the wrong caveman.
- You're using something called the contrast effect--
admitting to a lesser wrongdoing
to deflect from a larger transgression.
- Except in this case, it's true.
HR let me off with a stern talking-to,
and Lia dropped it.
And if you don't believe me...
[keys clacking] Check for yourself.
♪
- These are Lia's company emails,
not to mention her corporate credit card charges
and calendar app.
Why didn't you turn these over before?
- Mm, according to our lawyers,
monitoring my employees' computer activity
is a, uh, legal gray area.
- Lia booked ride shares to the same address
three times in the weeks leading to her death.
Her calendar says she was meeting someone named TW--
initials only.
- Where did the two of them meet?
- [gasps] Karaoke--I love it.
- I wouldn't have pegged you for a karaoke aficionado.
- I did work undercover as a lounge singer in Nairobi.
- Let's talk to the bartender,
see if he can tell us who TW is.
- No need.
Let me show you another spy trick.
- Spy trick.
- Sign-in sheet, please.
Sometimes the simplest plans are the best.
According to her calendar app,
Lia was here two nights before she died.
Here's a TW from that very night.
- Trevor Whitman, "Highway to Hell."
- I know a Trevor Whitman--
a financial reporter for "The Times," a real muckraker.
If he was meeting with Lia in secret, something was afoot.
- We need to find out what it was.
- Bam!
Eduardo Silva,
aka DevilMaker333.
This is the guy who did our ransomware attacks.
- You found him? - Damn right I did.
Now, bask in the Kylie.
- Wait.
You think the hacker was some guy from Argentina?
- That's right.
Give someone else credit, make the real hacker jealous.
- This isn't just some guy from Argentina.
The company's firewalls were breached
the same way DevilMaker hacked Pravda last year.
- IoT exploit? - Yeah.
He used the company's AC Wi-Fi controls.
I mean, that is next level.
This guy was already top tier,
but this is going to make him a legend.
- There's no way this is DevilMaker.
- I have a stack of evidence, honey, that says it was.
- Well, then your evidence is bull,
'cause I know for a fact, it wasn't him.
- Jared, chill out.
- I am chill.
I am just not letting her give all the credit
to some overrated glory hound.
Okay, answer me this-- if this is DevilMaker,
how does he access the AC system?
One's in Texas. One's in Delaware.
Guy's in Argentina?
- I don't know. Maybe he has an accomplice.
- Oh, so now your legend needs help.
No, this is a one-man op.
Whoever did this got into the factory
where they make the AC units, compromised them,
and waited for them to be installed.
That's genius.
- None of those details are public.
And those AC units are made 50 miles from here.
- That doesn't make any sense.
The encryption code was date-stamped a few days ago.
- That's the beauty of it--
because once the hacker controls the AC Wi-Fi,
he can slip into those company computers anytime.
[slaps table] Bam!
- Wow, Jared.
You got all this sussed out.
I mean, if your coding skills weren't so basic,
I would assume that you were the hacker.
- "Basic"?
When this is DevilMaker, you think it's top tier.
Now that it's me, I'm basic?
♪
- [stammering] I just--I got to go.
♪
- Hey, uh, Jared.
You forgot your evidence.
♪
- Nicely done. Let's get him.
- Lia reached out,
said she thought someone at her firm was embezzling,
but she didn't want to name names.
She was afraid of blowback.
- Fits the corporate culture.
- I sniffed around to see if I could confirm her suspicions.
There were signs, but no hard evidence.
A few days ago, Lia agreed to do some digging
in the company records.
- And then she died.
- I guess I want to believe her death
didn't have anything to do with our investigation or with me.
- Because you didn't want to feel responsible,
which is very human.
- It sounds like Lia suspected someone specific.
Did she give you any hints on the embezzler's identity?
- Just that whoever it was felt cheated by the company
and that they planned to flee the country.
- You said the killer felt cheated.
One funny thing about experiments
is sometimes the results don't mean much,
until they do, like our violent outlier.
♪
I think I know who murdered Lia.
Now we have to prove it.
[distant siren wailing]
- Hey, Angelique...
thank you for not tipping off Jared
when he was in the middle of his confession.
I really appreciate that.
- I only kept my mouth shut because I was afraid
you'd arrest me for "accomplicing" or whatever.
That's what you Feds do, right?
- Wait, Jared was committing serious crimes.
He had to be stopped.
- Maybe...
but not by one of us.
[dramatic music]
♪
[door opens, closes]
- What are you two doing here?
- We have an update on the case.
- So...
Lia was poisoned by an embezzler?
And if I hadn't cut her,
she would have died anyway.
Why do I still feel so guilty?
- Because, Soph, you're not a sociopath,
which is why I have hope for you.
That said, you were reckless and violent.
- Look, I, uh...
I never meant for Lia to die.
But...
I definitely meant to hurt her.
What am I supposed to do about that?
- You try to balance the scales.
You can't make it up to Lia, so you make it up to the world.
♪
- How?
[keys clacking]
[knock at door]
- Soph, so good to have you back.
[chuckles] [door opens]
And Rose.
Since the both of you are here,
I'm assuming Rose has helped put all of your unpleasantness
behind you.
- Well, it's not entirely behind me.
- Unfortunately,
the investigation into Lia's death has shifted.
The police think someone here at the firm was embezzling.
- That's terrible.
- Don't bother.
Soph and I looked into it.
We know you've been skimming-- almost $10 million.
- Got to say, you hid your tracks well.
Only an insider could have found what you did,
like me or Lia.
You've already handled her.
- Careful.
- You don't need to threaten me.
Rose and I are here with an offer.
- I am a fixer, after all.
And I was hired to protect Soph's best interests
and the firm's.
So Soph's father has agreed to pay back what you stole,
make the firm whole,
and he will lend you the family jet
to take you to wherever your money's waiting.
- Speaking of your money,
since $10 million doesn't really go as far as it used to,
my father will double it.
- And in return?
- When you get where you're going,
you admit you poisoned Lia,
take sole responsibility for her death,
and make it clear that Soph was not involved.
I'm sure you're headed to a non-extradition country,
so it won't do you any harm.
- And Soph is off the hook.
- Well, people like me don't go to jail.
We just go to the ATM.
- A private jet would solve a lot of problems,
but I-I don't know.
- Soph's father is prepared to give you
a 25% down payment-- $2.5 million.
Just enter the account number where he can send it.
♪
- [scoffs]
♪
- Cyprus-- gorgeous beaches.
- Joy Laslen, you're under arrest
for embezzlement and murder.
- You set me up.
- Haven't you heard? I'm a terrible person.
[handcuffs clicking]
♪
- I'm impressed, but how did you know it was Joy?
- An experiment.
My staff used a board game
to prime subjects for competition,
then tested for aggression.
One outlier got especially violent.
- All because she felt cheated in the game.
Joy's been here longer than Bruce
and has less to show for it.
- And that primed her to be an aggressive outlier, too.
Then there was these bookshelves.
They looked bare, until I noticed the dust patterns
where her mementos used to be.
She was packing to leave.
- Zane confirmed that Joy and Lia's celebratory dinner
was at their apartment.
So Joy did have access
to Lia's yogurt and Zane's closet.
- All of which is circumstantial.
- Which is why we got Soph to seal the deal.
- I need a minute. Excuse me.
Hey, Soph.
How you feeling now? - Glad I could help with Joy.
But I can't stop thinking about Lia.
Our lives were tangled up for so long.
And after Lia broke my collarbone...
she tried to work it out with me.
And I ignored her.
And I made it worse.
And I would do anything to take that back.
- [inhales deeply]
Redemption doesn't come in a single act.
You went down the wrong path, step by step.
You have to walk the right one the same way.
- The DA's office offered me a deal.
- Hmm.
- I'm going to plead guilty to assault.
- Ah.
- In that moment, I meant to hurt her,
but I never wanted her to die.
- I'm glad to hear that.
Becoming a better person is hard work.
But you're off to a good start.
[soft music]
- [crying] Thank you.
I'm trying.
♪
- [sighs]
- Kylie, I know that that coding group
meant a lot to you. - I did what I had to do.
I doubt that Angelique will ever invite me
to one of her events again.
- I had a friend once--Lorna.
We promised that we were going to be
each other's maids of honor.
But she really liked to party,
and her drugs of choice weren't always legal.
So, when I joined the FBI,
we stopped hanging out.
And when she got married...
she didn't even invite me.
Working in law enforcement, oof...
it has its cost.
- This really sucks.
I...
I thought they were my friends, you know?
- Well, you still have me.
- [sighs] - [chuckles]
♪
[knock at door]
- You're here.
- You have some things you want to talk about,
and I don't want to do that over the phone.
- It might have been easier that way.
- Maybe I don't want to make it easier.
I know conflict avoidance when I see it.
♪
- I've thought about this a great deal, and...
What haunts me...
Is this image...
of you...
With a gun pointed at your head because of me.
- This is the breakup speech.
- [sighs] It's the only way to protect you.
♪
- You know, after I survived that bomb all those years ago,
I realized that...
every day since is a win.
So you don't have to protect me.
♪
I'm living on stolen time.
And I want to spend that time
doing what I'm passionate about with people that I--
- Feel passionately about.
- Care deeply for.
♪
You're haunted...
by images of me with a gun to my head.
I saw you in the same situation,
and I realized,
I don't want to lose Rose Dinshaw.
♪
- And I can't bear losing you...
which is the problem.
♪
It's not safe to be with me.
And if I don't run now,
I don't think I ever will...
♪
Because I don't want this to end.
- Then don't end it.
Stay.
♪
Mm.
♪
- It appears...
I'm still here.
- Good.
[Ella Fitzgerald's "Someone to Watch Over Me"]
- ♪ Although he may not be the man ♪
♪ Some girls think of
♪ As handsome
♪ To my heart
♪ He carries
♪ The key
♪ Won't you tell him, please
♪ To put on some speed?
♪ Follow my lead
♪ Oh, how I need
♪ Someone who'll watch
♪ Over me
[vocalizing]
♪ Someone
♪ To watch
♪
♪ Over me
♪
[dramatic music]
♪