National Treasure: Edge of History (2022) s01e04 Episode Script
Charlotte
1
I've got a message from
Miss Morning Dove White.
Is that Elvis?
Uh, Elvis was Cherokee.
His three times
great-grandmother was Cherokee.
Now there's someone following
us. Brown Chrysler on the left.
Maybe it was the Salazar guy.
Did anyone recognize him?
Not me.
You're investigating the
death of a decorated agent.
Okay. Here's the situation. Um
I was actually supposed
to cancel that tox report.
I just wanna help you get
a head start on all this
before I go to the airport.
But I'll be back for
your grandpa's wake.
Your grandpa is the redacted FBI
agent in Riley Poole's podcast.
I thought that guy Benjamin Gates
was the one that found the treasure.
I am the co-finder.
Oh.
Riley Poole.
I recognized you from your book.
Oh, will you sign it?
I've got a message from
Miss Morning Dove White.
"The twin-tongued serpent's
tail is revealed in fair weather
by the bend in the new found land."
Delivery.
It's a sketchy man.
From Ethan.
Tell them. Leave it by the door.
Leave it by the door.
Do you think Billy knows
we solved another clue?
Cupcakes.
Y'all need to fight more often.
One yum emoji. That's it?
- Ask her about the clue.
- No.
Clue talk is off-limits.
She's too frustrated.
Okay, I got this.
This has got to be in
here somewhere. I know it.
You wanna help?
I can't.
I'm going golfing.
You play golf?
Meena said she'd give me some pointers.
Okay.
This makes no sense.
I used to love puzzles. Now I hate them.
Come on. You got a lot here.
Okay, our
twin-tongued translator girl. Malinche.
She kept a secret diary.
Who doesn't?
That she hid because it was a secret
near a sunny, bendy river.
Except there was no evidence
that Malinche could read or write.
Except Malinche was brilliant.
And she spoke a bunch of languages.
Um, she could have taught herself.
I taught myself JavaScript on Twitch.
Point taken.
But even if she could write,
there are over 250,000 bendy
rivers in the New World.
Maybe you're right, Jess.
No one could solve this.
Ben, big news.
They're turning my podcast
into a streaming show.
Uh-huh.
I What's the difference?
Once Once for the ears
and once for the, you
know, rest of the face.
Listen. Uh, guess who's
gonna be our, our first guest?
Benjamin Franklin Gates.
Uh-huh. We shoot in a week.
Charlotte's sick. Abigail has to work.
That's terrible.
Uh, what about the wake?
All right. Yeah.
I'll give the Sadusky
family your condolences.
Oh, and hey, give Charlotte
a big hug from Uncle Riley.
Okay. All right.
Well, looks like I might
have to do it all myself.
What could go wrong, right?
And that was the fifth
expert to dismiss my theory.
- Ugh.
- Mm.
Who am I kidding?
This clue hasn't been
cracked in 200 years.
Jess, it's just a little setback.
It happens to the best of us.
Never forget, Beyoncé lost Star Search.
Liam is texting you.
He did not say "kinky kiss".
Ask him if he wants to have a
"clue session" over pizza later.
- Liam's not into pizza that way.
- Says who?
Says all his socials,
and no love or breakup
songs on his SoundCloud
unless you wanna count this
ode he wrote to his fan.
There you are. You
gotta get dressed, honey.
The guests will be arriving soon.
Why are you doing a wake?
You haven't seen Grandpa in forever.
Peter was my father-in-law for 20 years.
You're texting a lot. What's up?
See? He has a thing.
Come on. Why don't you just invite
whoever you're texting to the wake?
Definitely not.
That'd be weird.
Fine. Then it's just gonna be you, me,
and a bunch of Grandpa's old cronies
telling you stories
about the good old days.
So the thing Liam has
today is his grandpa's wake.
And he wants you to come.
It's at two.
Oh, my God, he's asking you on a date.
Jess.
What? No.
- Why?
- I can't.
It's too soon? Too sad?
It'll just remind you
of your mom's funeral.
How do I say all that
without saying all that?
It's okay. I'll just tell him
you're helping me with a thing.
- Oh, no.
- What?
Liam just invited you
and Oren to the wake too.
- He did?
- So it's definitely not a date.
Which would have been weird.
Apparently, there'll be tons of food.
Yeah, there'll also
be tons of FBI agents.
So it's settled.
We're not going.
Okay? Yep.
Liam doesn't need us
because he has Oren, right?
We have to go, don't we?
You almost lost the Obsidian
relic to a girl with no means.
I didn't "almost lose" anything.
I have the relic.
I monitored Sadusky
until he showed his hand,
and now I have it.
The PanAmerican treasure
isn't like the others.
It's personal to you and we understand.
You lost your brother looking for it.
And we're afraid it's
affecting your judgment.
It's only because of me we have
two pieces of the treasure map.
Yes, but Salazar.
I'm not worried about Salazar.
I can handle him.
And all of you should be happy that
this treasure is personal to me.
No one in this room wants
that treasure more than I do.
So, why don't you all
stop second-guessing me?
Grab your pompoms and
start cheering me on.
Because not only do I have
two pieces of the treasure map,
I've just acquired a clue to the third.
Does anyone want to hear it?
I wish I could have seen their
faces when they heard Elvis's voice.
Oh, yeah. It was a real TikTok moment.
Can I help you, guys?
Is that you, Charlie?
If you want to speak to me,
Charlie, don't beat around the bush.
Uh
There you are.
I'm gonna need those relics, Billie.
Going rogue, are we?
Does Cras Est Nostrum
mean nothing to you?
I can think of a few billion
things that are more important.
Whoa, let's, let's talk about this.
No, no, no.
Oh, dear.
Your hostile takeover failed.
Let's see what kind of boating accident
the board wants you to have, shall we?
Here's a new twist.
Riley Poole is in Baton
Rouge for Sadusky's wake.
Of course, he is. Riley was his friend.
You think he knows about the treasure?
Maybe he's just there for the wake.
You want me to have eyes on them?
Kacey, you knew me better than that?
I already have eyes on everyone.
How inappropriate would it be for
me to sneak away to the Clue Room?
Ah! Beyond.
I know this is hard for
you, but you can't just hide.
Hey! You guys came.
- Your grandpa sure had a lot of friends.
- Mm.
- Oren, there's strawberries.
- Oh!
Yeah, they're
chocolate-covered, it's crazy.
You okay?
I'm doing better now.
Liam.
Sorry for your loss.
Thanks.
You know, why do people always
say "sorry" like it's their fault?
My favorite one was
"At least, your mom feels no more pain.
She's in a better place now."
Oof! Yeah.
At my dad's funeral, it was a lot of
"At least he died doing what he loved."
I was 12.
But come on.
Even a 12-year-old knows that
"Everything always happens for a reason."
Yeah. Yeah, and, and
"Time heals all wounds."
And I hope that one's true.
I'll let you know.
Oh, my God.
Check it. Riley Poole is here.
Who is it?
The famous treasure hunter.
Oh, yeah, Riley and Ben
were friends with my grandpa.
Oh, my God. What am I doing?
I gotta get my books
and get them autographed.
I'll see you in a sec.
Well, we should ask him about the clue.
You just said it was
beyond inappropriate
to work on the clue during the wake.
I didn't know a famous treasure
hunter would be here when I said it.
Liam.
Hi. Riley Poole.
We actually met at
your your dad's funeral.
Yeah, I remember.
- Thanks for coming.
- Hey.
You, uh You wrote a
bunch of books on treasure.
- Right?
- I did.
We have a clue to a
really important treasure
that we've been trying to solve.
Uh, this is my best friend, Jess.
- Hi.
- Hi, Jess. Hi.
She's normally our go-to
riddle-puzzle person,
but this one has her stumped, so.
He's retired, Tasha.
No, no, no. I'm I'm not, not retired.
Uh
You know, Ben and I have been
working on this,
uh, super important thing
- for the last three or four, 15 years.
- Mm.
Is it another lost treasure?
Let's just say
there's 47 reasons to be interested.
Anyway, what's what's,
uh What's your clue?
I would love to Love to help out.
Mm.
Go ahead.
The twin-tongued serpent's
tail is revealed in fair weather
by the bend in the new found land.
All right, let's
let's figure this out.
Okay, so.
- Twin.
Twin. - Mm-hm.
Right, so
Two, uh, two two.
Two is more than more than one.
So you have that, um
Fair weather.
Could be Florida. Orlando.
Too humid. That doesn't work.
Albuquerque.
There are snakes in Albuquerque.
I Yeah.
So serpent
Snakes.
And, and what One more time.
- Riley!
- Sure. Oh.
- Huh?-
- Hey.
- Good to see you, man.
- Hendricks. Hey.
- What's going on?
- I'm so sorry to interrupt.
- Oh, no, please. We'll talk later.
- Oh.
Absolutely. I'm, I'm almost there.
I, I I almost have it.
- Hey.
- I heard you got a promotion.
- I did.
- Congrats.
Yeah. Where's Ben?
Ben couldn't make it.
I heard you guys have
been busy on a new project.
Right. You know, I
I don't think it's really something
that I can discuss right now.
- Of course.
- Yeah.
But as long as it doesn't lead
to me having to arrest you.
You
I'm kidding. Come on.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It's good to see you.
Huh
I thought you were golfing.
- I thought you were waking.
- Who are you talking to
Who're you talking to?
I'll clear out.
- Riley Poole's at the wake.
- Who?
The Templar Treasure guy?
Yeah.
You guys wanna come meet him?
Oh, can we?
So how do you know Mr. Sadusky?
I was his live-in nurse.
- You?
- Fellow FBI.
- Came to pay my respects.
- Oh.
You know, my sister is a nurse
at an assisted living facility.
One of her patients died
and left her his house.
Oh, sure.
Mr. Sadusky left that
to his grandson. Liam.
They must have been close.
That's a hard no.
So they were estranged.
Mr. Sadusky was estranged from everyone.
- Excuse me.
- Hm.
Okay. Don't look,
but that mean FBI lady is here.
I said "Don't look."
Hello again!
Jane Doevers, Jen Lopez,
what are you doing here?
We're here for Liam.
- So, you all know each other?
- Yeah.
Liam's grandpa sort of
brought us together.
I see.
Oh, what happened with
your, um, "kidnapped" friend?
Um
We found him.
Turns out it was a really
big misunderstanding.
That's a relief.
What about that relic Mr.
Sadusky said led to a treasure?
Oh, well, here's the
thing about my grandpa
that a lot of people didn't understand.
He was crazy.
Gentlemen, so glad you could come.
Uh, well, it was nice to meet you.
That felt like an interrogation.
Eulogies start in 15.
Uh
Eulogies.
My mom's gonna want me to
say something. I I just
You just can't deal with it.
Go hide.
We'll cover for you.
Ross, what are you doing here?
I was just looking for the powder room.
I know you went ahead with
that toxicology report on Peter.
Okay. Sir, I'm sorry,
but I really think
No, no. I'm the one
who should apologize.
Peter may have been off his
rocker for the past few years.
That doesn't mean his death
doesn't deserve to be investigated.
I respect you for not giving up.
I'll support you a hundred percent.
Thank you, sir.
Squeaky Pete's musician guy lives here?
This is his grandpa's house.
Hey, uh
Forgot something in the car.
I'll meet you guys inside.
Hey!
Who are you? What are you doing here?
Sadusky has my books.
He even got the French version.
Huh.
What the
Oh, crashing the wake.
After a round of golf.
Who are you?
The bearded guy was here.
Who?
The rando hipster guy
with brown Chrysler
who we thought was
following us to Graceland,
but then we thought
he wasn't following us.
It turns out he was following us.
He was just across the street.
I guess you weren't
being paranoid after all.
Billie really is still
keeping tabs on us.
I'd better go warn Liam.
Liam?
Mr. Poole?
What are you doing in here?
I, uh, saw that Peter had some copies
of the French translation of my book.
Very valuable.
So I took a look.
Turned out it was part of
some kind of locking mechanism.
- What is this place?
- Sadusky's Clue Room
to that treasure we
were asking you about.
Sadusky has a clue room.
To a treasure?
Uh, I don't understand.
Why would he never tell us that this?
Oh, wait, that's the pipe.
And those
What the
Oh, they're like early
American X-ray specs.
Oh, it says, "Do not touch."
It's locked.
Enter passcode to
cancel intruder lockdown.
Intruder lockdown.
That's not good.
What's happening?
Air-tight seals engage.
Oxygen levels dropping.
That's definitely not good.
No service.
- Help!
- Help!
- Help!
- Anybody hear us?
- Hello!
- Hello!
Everyone, please take your seats
so we could start the eulogies.
Your, uh, grandpa used to come
out here to "feed the birds."
"Sneak a glass of whiskey."
Do me a favor.
Don't tell anyone you saw me.
Sure.
For whatever it's worth,
your grandpa loved your music.
No, he never heard me play.
I found you on SoundCloud for him.
His favorite song was
the one about your van.
Your songs were the only
things that made him smile.
So
Help!
Help! Anybody?
Oxygen levels dropping.
Mr. Poole, no one can hear us.
We're gonna have to figure
out Sadusky's passcode.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh, uh, well, 58 percent of people
use their birthday as a passcode.
And you know what that is?
We sent a birthday
present every year to Peter
because he didn't send us
to prison when we, when we
when we stole the
Declaration of Independence.
Ben's idea, not mine.
Okay.
Uh, August 11th, 1938.
Incorrect passcode.
Four more attempts.
When I was new at the FBI,
there was this
piece of paper that went missing.
The Declaration of Independence.
What stayed out of the news was
that Ben Gates first came to me,
but I didn't file a report.
Peter was
He was not happy about that.
But he protected me.
And it taught me a valuable lesson.
Never ignore a civilian report,
no matter how ridiculous it sounds.
We still have four tries left.
This is just like an escape room.
I'm really good at these.
At least, I used to be.
I hate escape rooms. They're stupid.
Why would Sadusky do this?
I know that Masons are
crazy about their secrets,
but this is ridiculous.
He was really paranoid when I met him.
He had dementia.
What did you say?
He had dementia?
According to his home nurse.
Well, he must've hidden his passcode
somewhere, in case he forgot.
Oxygen level at 70%.
What about that?
The FBI seal, it's
right above the keypad.
It could be hint.
FBI seal. Good idea.
Okay. Uh, Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Um, okay. Uh, Federal
Uh, Bureau de desk.
- Anwar
- Unless it's, it's not the FBI,
but rather the FBI's motto.
Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity.
You sound just like
an old friend of mine.
That was beautiful.
Would anyone else like
to say a few words?
I would.
If Liam is here, then where's Jess?
Fidelity means loyalty.
What's loyal?
Uh, uh, wife. Wife.
Uh, he was married for a long time.
For how long?
I have no idea.
Okay. Uh, what else can be loyal?
Uh. Loyal? Uh
What could be loyal, loyal, loyal
Knights. No. Uh
Dogs. Dogs are loyal.
There's a number on it.
- What is it?
- 74.
- Seventy-four.
- Passcode sequence initiated.
It worked.
Next entry.
- I don't feel good.
- Yeah.
The oxygen levels are dropping.
Come on. We got to
keep going. What's next?
Bravery.
I wrote this song
because when I was little,
my grandpa would play
a lot of Neil Young.
It's called "I Missed That Van."
With a couple of
hundred thousand miles ♪
But you still ran good as new ♪
With your paint job peeling ♪
Revealing you were
once midnight blue ♪
Jess?
Jess?
I don't see anything that means bravery.
Maybe everything means bravery.
- I can't think.
- Oxygen level at 55%.
It could be the seven red
stripes in the American flag.
To stand for courage.
The flag.
Courage.
Yeah. Go for it.
It's all we got.
Incorrect passcode.
Are you okay?
No.
Jess?
Are you in there?
Two more attempts.
Did you just hear something?
No.
And then ♪
I miss that van ♪
We'd drive for miles ♪
Nowhere to go ♪
Not talking just
listening to the radio ♪
That was beautiful.
It was about your dad, wasn't it?
Liam.
I'm sorry.
About what?
For saying that you'd regret
wasting all your time on music.
I was so wrong.
No, you weren't.
Yeah, I lost my gig at the club.
They switched to karaoke.
It makes more money.
It's their loss and Nashville's gain.
- Uh, excuse me. I need to borrow Liam.
- Mm.
Someone's locked in the clue
room and I can't find Jess.
Yeah, right, right.
I'll be right back.
Oxygen level at 40%.
Why hasn't anyone come looking for us?
What's that?
Jack Sadusky's Silver Star.
Bravery.
What if I
Eleven.
Eleven.
Next entry.
One code left.
Integrity.
Riley is missing too. Oh.
They must've tripped
the intruder lockdown.
- "Intruder lockdown"?
- Is that bad?
It means, they'll suffocate
if we don't get in there.
But you know how to open it, right?
Yeah. My grandpa had a special watch.
Integrity means
Honesty.
I was gonna say virtue.
But both are correct.
Yeah.
Too bad we only have one guess left.
Maybe your grandpa was
wearing the watch when he died.
Maybe they buried it with him.
Oh, okay.
- Hey, found it!
- Huh?
- Well, get them out!
- I'm trying.
Oh, my God, they're losing oxygen.
They're gonna die.
It needs your grandpa's thumbprint.
Why why would your grandpa do this?
He wasn't exactly all
there in the end, okay?
Tell me about that clue.
How, how long have you
been trying to crack it?
Oh. For forever
Three days.
Three days?
Ben's family tried to
crack the clue about
the Charlotte for three generations.
So how'd Ben finally solve it?
He thought it was a woman.
But when I started
talking about the the
yacht that I was gonna buy
after we found the treasure.
And what I was gonna
name it, he realized
that Charlotte was a ship.
Of course.
I've
I've been assuming the
twin-tongued serpent was Malinche.
But
there were other
interpreters that were
forced to help the colonizers.
The twin-tongued serpent was Sacagawea.
Of course.
Thank you.
Oxygen levels critically low.
Too bad we're still
gonna die in this room.
Wait. The snake.
Integrity doesn't only
mean honesty and virtue.
It also means
completeness and unity.
Look.
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.
Eight pieces.
It represents eight
colonies. It's eight.
Right.
Except these are all out of order.
- These aren't the colonies.
- Huh?
"H, E, N, O, E, G, T, I, Y."
It's an anagram.
I'm good at this. Okay.
All right.
"Hey, tin ego"?
"I get honey"?
Well, it's it's got to be a number.
- Eighty-one.
- One-eighty.
They're both right.
Let's do yours, 180.
No, no, no. Wait.
You think like Ben,
and Ben's always right. Go.
Intruder lockdown canceled.
Jess!
- Jess
- Jess, look at me.
- Are you okay?
- Hey. You okay?
Mr. Poole!
- Mr. Poole, are you okay?
- Are you guys okay?
Oh.
By the way.
I solved the clue.
Are you seriously thinking
about that right now?
Who cares about the
clue? You almost died!
No, no, no.
Come on, guys. Let her finish.
"New found land" isn't three words.
It's one.
Newfoundland.
That's the breed of the dog Lewis
and Clark took on their expedition.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Lewis and Clark.
Wait. So you're saying
it wasn't Malinche?
It was Sacagawea.
Right.
Sacagawea translated for a
bunch of her indigenous peoples.
- It was her job.
- Yeah, right, right.
So she, she totally could have met
a daughter of the Plumed Serpent.
Exactly.
Sacagawea was entrusted
with a clue to the treasure
which she hid in one of
the expedition's journals.
Right.
That's so obvious now.
Is it?
It seems like a reach.
Dude, come on.
"The twin-tongued serpent's tail
is revealed in fair weather."
Meriwether Lewis.
Merry weather.
"By the bend in the new found land."
Sacagawea hid the clue in the journal
Meriwether dedicated
to his Newfoundland dog
because she knew the
journal would be preserved.
It's brilliant, if you think about it.
Okay, then,
what does "bend" mean?
And how did Elvis's
great-great-great-grandma
get the clue from Sacagawea?
It's York.
What?
It's York.
Are you all right, Mr. Poole?
What's York?
Not "what", "who."
York was a was a man.
He was a a man enslaved by Clark.
He was the only African-American
on the Corps of Discovery.
He navigated trails, bartered for food.
He saved their lives multiple times.
They wouldn't have been
successful without him.
Oh, yeah.
York was another Black
hero forgotten by history.
Because Sacagawea wasn't the only
one who hid clues in that journal.
York also made entries,
and he carried those secrets with him
after the expedition to
find his wife in Kentucky
but didn't make it
because he succumbed
to cholera in Tennessee.
And you know who else is from Tennessee?
Elvis's
great-great-great-grandma.
Miss Morning Dove White.
How did you know all that?
I'll tell you how
because I made a podcast.
Yes.
Mm. Uh, so,
it says here Meriwether Lewis
was the governor of Louisiana
and the journal he dedicated to his dog
- is on display
- Is on display
at the governor's
- mansion.
- Mansion.
Yeah.
It's my fourth grade field trip.
Drinks on me.
They're free, Oren.
How are you feeling?
Alive.
So good.
Listen.
I realized today my
grandfather was right.
There's no greater
treasure than lost time.
So I'm not gonna waste anymore.
I get it now, your
bestie's into bad boys.
How do you know he's a bad boy?
Um, the hair, the 'tude,
the brooding musician vibe.
No, thanks.
Interesting. So, you're
not into bad boys?
Nope. Just good guys.
Cool, cool. Yeah.
Cool.
Uh, look at this.
Abigail just posted a
picture of Charlotte.
Ah, cute.
- Love her.
- I have Ben for you.
Oh, yeah.
Ben.
Hey. You won't believe this.
Riley.
Jess. Hey. Are you alone?
Yes.
- Why?
- Okay, listen.
Someone else knows about your clue.
Who?
I'm I'm not sure.
But Ben's mom, Dr. Emily Gates,
she's the foremost expert on
Mesoamerican language in history.
She was approached by someone
who played her a recording
of what sounded like Elvis.
But that's impossible.
No one knows about that recording
except me and my friends.
Well
One of your friends
may not be your friend.
I've got a message from
Miss Morning Dove White.
Is that Elvis?
Uh, Elvis was Cherokee.
His three times
great-grandmother was Cherokee.
Now there's someone following
us. Brown Chrysler on the left.
Maybe it was the Salazar guy.
Did anyone recognize him?
Not me.
You're investigating the
death of a decorated agent.
Okay. Here's the situation. Um
I was actually supposed
to cancel that tox report.
I just wanna help you get
a head start on all this
before I go to the airport.
But I'll be back for
your grandpa's wake.
Your grandpa is the redacted FBI
agent in Riley Poole's podcast.
I thought that guy Benjamin Gates
was the one that found the treasure.
I am the co-finder.
Oh.
Riley Poole.
I recognized you from your book.
Oh, will you sign it?
I've got a message from
Miss Morning Dove White.
"The twin-tongued serpent's
tail is revealed in fair weather
by the bend in the new found land."
Delivery.
It's a sketchy man.
From Ethan.
Tell them. Leave it by the door.
Leave it by the door.
Do you think Billy knows
we solved another clue?
Cupcakes.
Y'all need to fight more often.
One yum emoji. That's it?
- Ask her about the clue.
- No.
Clue talk is off-limits.
She's too frustrated.
Okay, I got this.
This has got to be in
here somewhere. I know it.
You wanna help?
I can't.
I'm going golfing.
You play golf?
Meena said she'd give me some pointers.
Okay.
This makes no sense.
I used to love puzzles. Now I hate them.
Come on. You got a lot here.
Okay, our
twin-tongued translator girl. Malinche.
She kept a secret diary.
Who doesn't?
That she hid because it was a secret
near a sunny, bendy river.
Except there was no evidence
that Malinche could read or write.
Except Malinche was brilliant.
And she spoke a bunch of languages.
Um, she could have taught herself.
I taught myself JavaScript on Twitch.
Point taken.
But even if she could write,
there are over 250,000 bendy
rivers in the New World.
Maybe you're right, Jess.
No one could solve this.
Ben, big news.
They're turning my podcast
into a streaming show.
Uh-huh.
I What's the difference?
Once Once for the ears
and once for the, you
know, rest of the face.
Listen. Uh, guess who's
gonna be our, our first guest?
Benjamin Franklin Gates.
Uh-huh. We shoot in a week.
Charlotte's sick. Abigail has to work.
That's terrible.
Uh, what about the wake?
All right. Yeah.
I'll give the Sadusky
family your condolences.
Oh, and hey, give Charlotte
a big hug from Uncle Riley.
Okay. All right.
Well, looks like I might
have to do it all myself.
What could go wrong, right?
And that was the fifth
expert to dismiss my theory.
- Ugh.
- Mm.
Who am I kidding?
This clue hasn't been
cracked in 200 years.
Jess, it's just a little setback.
It happens to the best of us.
Never forget, Beyoncé lost Star Search.
Liam is texting you.
He did not say "kinky kiss".
Ask him if he wants to have a
"clue session" over pizza later.
- Liam's not into pizza that way.
- Says who?
Says all his socials,
and no love or breakup
songs on his SoundCloud
unless you wanna count this
ode he wrote to his fan.
There you are. You
gotta get dressed, honey.
The guests will be arriving soon.
Why are you doing a wake?
You haven't seen Grandpa in forever.
Peter was my father-in-law for 20 years.
You're texting a lot. What's up?
See? He has a thing.
Come on. Why don't you just invite
whoever you're texting to the wake?
Definitely not.
That'd be weird.
Fine. Then it's just gonna be you, me,
and a bunch of Grandpa's old cronies
telling you stories
about the good old days.
So the thing Liam has
today is his grandpa's wake.
And he wants you to come.
It's at two.
Oh, my God, he's asking you on a date.
Jess.
What? No.
- Why?
- I can't.
It's too soon? Too sad?
It'll just remind you
of your mom's funeral.
How do I say all that
without saying all that?
It's okay. I'll just tell him
you're helping me with a thing.
- Oh, no.
- What?
Liam just invited you
and Oren to the wake too.
- He did?
- So it's definitely not a date.
Which would have been weird.
Apparently, there'll be tons of food.
Yeah, there'll also
be tons of FBI agents.
So it's settled.
We're not going.
Okay? Yep.
Liam doesn't need us
because he has Oren, right?
We have to go, don't we?
You almost lost the Obsidian
relic to a girl with no means.
I didn't "almost lose" anything.
I have the relic.
I monitored Sadusky
until he showed his hand,
and now I have it.
The PanAmerican treasure
isn't like the others.
It's personal to you and we understand.
You lost your brother looking for it.
And we're afraid it's
affecting your judgment.
It's only because of me we have
two pieces of the treasure map.
Yes, but Salazar.
I'm not worried about Salazar.
I can handle him.
And all of you should be happy that
this treasure is personal to me.
No one in this room wants
that treasure more than I do.
So, why don't you all
stop second-guessing me?
Grab your pompoms and
start cheering me on.
Because not only do I have
two pieces of the treasure map,
I've just acquired a clue to the third.
Does anyone want to hear it?
I wish I could have seen their
faces when they heard Elvis's voice.
Oh, yeah. It was a real TikTok moment.
Can I help you, guys?
Is that you, Charlie?
If you want to speak to me,
Charlie, don't beat around the bush.
Uh
There you are.
I'm gonna need those relics, Billie.
Going rogue, are we?
Does Cras Est Nostrum
mean nothing to you?
I can think of a few billion
things that are more important.
Whoa, let's, let's talk about this.
No, no, no.
Oh, dear.
Your hostile takeover failed.
Let's see what kind of boating accident
the board wants you to have, shall we?
Here's a new twist.
Riley Poole is in Baton
Rouge for Sadusky's wake.
Of course, he is. Riley was his friend.
You think he knows about the treasure?
Maybe he's just there for the wake.
You want me to have eyes on them?
Kacey, you knew me better than that?
I already have eyes on everyone.
How inappropriate would it be for
me to sneak away to the Clue Room?
Ah! Beyond.
I know this is hard for
you, but you can't just hide.
Hey! You guys came.
- Your grandpa sure had a lot of friends.
- Mm.
- Oren, there's strawberries.
- Oh!
Yeah, they're
chocolate-covered, it's crazy.
You okay?
I'm doing better now.
Liam.
Sorry for your loss.
Thanks.
You know, why do people always
say "sorry" like it's their fault?
My favorite one was
"At least, your mom feels no more pain.
She's in a better place now."
Oof! Yeah.
At my dad's funeral, it was a lot of
"At least he died doing what he loved."
I was 12.
But come on.
Even a 12-year-old knows that
"Everything always happens for a reason."
Yeah. Yeah, and, and
"Time heals all wounds."
And I hope that one's true.
I'll let you know.
Oh, my God.
Check it. Riley Poole is here.
Who is it?
The famous treasure hunter.
Oh, yeah, Riley and Ben
were friends with my grandpa.
Oh, my God. What am I doing?
I gotta get my books
and get them autographed.
I'll see you in a sec.
Well, we should ask him about the clue.
You just said it was
beyond inappropriate
to work on the clue during the wake.
I didn't know a famous treasure
hunter would be here when I said it.
Liam.
Hi. Riley Poole.
We actually met at
your your dad's funeral.
Yeah, I remember.
- Thanks for coming.
- Hey.
You, uh You wrote a
bunch of books on treasure.
- Right?
- I did.
We have a clue to a
really important treasure
that we've been trying to solve.
Uh, this is my best friend, Jess.
- Hi.
- Hi, Jess. Hi.
She's normally our go-to
riddle-puzzle person,
but this one has her stumped, so.
He's retired, Tasha.
No, no, no. I'm I'm not, not retired.
Uh
You know, Ben and I have been
working on this,
uh, super important thing
- for the last three or four, 15 years.
- Mm.
Is it another lost treasure?
Let's just say
there's 47 reasons to be interested.
Anyway, what's what's,
uh What's your clue?
I would love to Love to help out.
Mm.
Go ahead.
The twin-tongued serpent's
tail is revealed in fair weather
by the bend in the new found land.
All right, let's
let's figure this out.
Okay, so.
- Twin.
Twin. - Mm-hm.
Right, so
Two, uh, two two.
Two is more than more than one.
So you have that, um
Fair weather.
Could be Florida. Orlando.
Too humid. That doesn't work.
Albuquerque.
There are snakes in Albuquerque.
I Yeah.
So serpent
Snakes.
And, and what One more time.
- Riley!
- Sure. Oh.
- Huh?-
- Hey.
- Good to see you, man.
- Hendricks. Hey.
- What's going on?
- I'm so sorry to interrupt.
- Oh, no, please. We'll talk later.
- Oh.
Absolutely. I'm, I'm almost there.
I, I I almost have it.
- Hey.
- I heard you got a promotion.
- I did.
- Congrats.
Yeah. Where's Ben?
Ben couldn't make it.
I heard you guys have
been busy on a new project.
Right. You know, I
I don't think it's really something
that I can discuss right now.
- Of course.
- Yeah.
But as long as it doesn't lead
to me having to arrest you.
You
I'm kidding. Come on.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It's good to see you.
Huh
I thought you were golfing.
- I thought you were waking.
- Who are you talking to
Who're you talking to?
I'll clear out.
- Riley Poole's at the wake.
- Who?
The Templar Treasure guy?
Yeah.
You guys wanna come meet him?
Oh, can we?
So how do you know Mr. Sadusky?
I was his live-in nurse.
- You?
- Fellow FBI.
- Came to pay my respects.
- Oh.
You know, my sister is a nurse
at an assisted living facility.
One of her patients died
and left her his house.
Oh, sure.
Mr. Sadusky left that
to his grandson. Liam.
They must have been close.
That's a hard no.
So they were estranged.
Mr. Sadusky was estranged from everyone.
- Excuse me.
- Hm.
Okay. Don't look,
but that mean FBI lady is here.
I said "Don't look."
Hello again!
Jane Doevers, Jen Lopez,
what are you doing here?
We're here for Liam.
- So, you all know each other?
- Yeah.
Liam's grandpa sort of
brought us together.
I see.
Oh, what happened with
your, um, "kidnapped" friend?
Um
We found him.
Turns out it was a really
big misunderstanding.
That's a relief.
What about that relic Mr.
Sadusky said led to a treasure?
Oh, well, here's the
thing about my grandpa
that a lot of people didn't understand.
He was crazy.
Gentlemen, so glad you could come.
Uh, well, it was nice to meet you.
That felt like an interrogation.
Eulogies start in 15.
Uh
Eulogies.
My mom's gonna want me to
say something. I I just
You just can't deal with it.
Go hide.
We'll cover for you.
Ross, what are you doing here?
I was just looking for the powder room.
I know you went ahead with
that toxicology report on Peter.
Okay. Sir, I'm sorry,
but I really think
No, no. I'm the one
who should apologize.
Peter may have been off his
rocker for the past few years.
That doesn't mean his death
doesn't deserve to be investigated.
I respect you for not giving up.
I'll support you a hundred percent.
Thank you, sir.
Squeaky Pete's musician guy lives here?
This is his grandpa's house.
Hey, uh
Forgot something in the car.
I'll meet you guys inside.
Hey!
Who are you? What are you doing here?
Sadusky has my books.
He even got the French version.
Huh.
What the
Oh, crashing the wake.
After a round of golf.
Who are you?
The bearded guy was here.
Who?
The rando hipster guy
with brown Chrysler
who we thought was
following us to Graceland,
but then we thought
he wasn't following us.
It turns out he was following us.
He was just across the street.
I guess you weren't
being paranoid after all.
Billie really is still
keeping tabs on us.
I'd better go warn Liam.
Liam?
Mr. Poole?
What are you doing in here?
I, uh, saw that Peter had some copies
of the French translation of my book.
Very valuable.
So I took a look.
Turned out it was part of
some kind of locking mechanism.
- What is this place?
- Sadusky's Clue Room
to that treasure we
were asking you about.
Sadusky has a clue room.
To a treasure?
Uh, I don't understand.
Why would he never tell us that this?
Oh, wait, that's the pipe.
And those
What the
Oh, they're like early
American X-ray specs.
Oh, it says, "Do not touch."
It's locked.
Enter passcode to
cancel intruder lockdown.
Intruder lockdown.
That's not good.
What's happening?
Air-tight seals engage.
Oxygen levels dropping.
That's definitely not good.
No service.
- Help!
- Help!
- Help!
- Anybody hear us?
- Hello!
- Hello!
Everyone, please take your seats
so we could start the eulogies.
Your, uh, grandpa used to come
out here to "feed the birds."
"Sneak a glass of whiskey."
Do me a favor.
Don't tell anyone you saw me.
Sure.
For whatever it's worth,
your grandpa loved your music.
No, he never heard me play.
I found you on SoundCloud for him.
His favorite song was
the one about your van.
Your songs were the only
things that made him smile.
So
Help!
Help! Anybody?
Oxygen levels dropping.
Mr. Poole, no one can hear us.
We're gonna have to figure
out Sadusky's passcode.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh, uh, well, 58 percent of people
use their birthday as a passcode.
And you know what that is?
We sent a birthday
present every year to Peter
because he didn't send us
to prison when we, when we
when we stole the
Declaration of Independence.
Ben's idea, not mine.
Okay.
Uh, August 11th, 1938.
Incorrect passcode.
Four more attempts.
When I was new at the FBI,
there was this
piece of paper that went missing.
The Declaration of Independence.
What stayed out of the news was
that Ben Gates first came to me,
but I didn't file a report.
Peter was
He was not happy about that.
But he protected me.
And it taught me a valuable lesson.
Never ignore a civilian report,
no matter how ridiculous it sounds.
We still have four tries left.
This is just like an escape room.
I'm really good at these.
At least, I used to be.
I hate escape rooms. They're stupid.
Why would Sadusky do this?
I know that Masons are
crazy about their secrets,
but this is ridiculous.
He was really paranoid when I met him.
He had dementia.
What did you say?
He had dementia?
According to his home nurse.
Well, he must've hidden his passcode
somewhere, in case he forgot.
Oxygen level at 70%.
What about that?
The FBI seal, it's
right above the keypad.
It could be hint.
FBI seal. Good idea.
Okay. Uh, Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Um, okay. Uh, Federal
Uh, Bureau de desk.
- Anwar
- Unless it's, it's not the FBI,
but rather the FBI's motto.
Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity.
You sound just like
an old friend of mine.
That was beautiful.
Would anyone else like
to say a few words?
I would.
If Liam is here, then where's Jess?
Fidelity means loyalty.
What's loyal?
Uh, uh, wife. Wife.
Uh, he was married for a long time.
For how long?
I have no idea.
Okay. Uh, what else can be loyal?
Uh. Loyal? Uh
What could be loyal, loyal, loyal
Knights. No. Uh
Dogs. Dogs are loyal.
There's a number on it.
- What is it?
- 74.
- Seventy-four.
- Passcode sequence initiated.
It worked.
Next entry.
- I don't feel good.
- Yeah.
The oxygen levels are dropping.
Come on. We got to
keep going. What's next?
Bravery.
I wrote this song
because when I was little,
my grandpa would play
a lot of Neil Young.
It's called "I Missed That Van."
With a couple of
hundred thousand miles ♪
But you still ran good as new ♪
With your paint job peeling ♪
Revealing you were
once midnight blue ♪
Jess?
Jess?
I don't see anything that means bravery.
Maybe everything means bravery.
- I can't think.
- Oxygen level at 55%.
It could be the seven red
stripes in the American flag.
To stand for courage.
The flag.
Courage.
Yeah. Go for it.
It's all we got.
Incorrect passcode.
Are you okay?
No.
Jess?
Are you in there?
Two more attempts.
Did you just hear something?
No.
And then ♪
I miss that van ♪
We'd drive for miles ♪
Nowhere to go ♪
Not talking just
listening to the radio ♪
That was beautiful.
It was about your dad, wasn't it?
Liam.
I'm sorry.
About what?
For saying that you'd regret
wasting all your time on music.
I was so wrong.
No, you weren't.
Yeah, I lost my gig at the club.
They switched to karaoke.
It makes more money.
It's their loss and Nashville's gain.
- Uh, excuse me. I need to borrow Liam.
- Mm.
Someone's locked in the clue
room and I can't find Jess.
Yeah, right, right.
I'll be right back.
Oxygen level at 40%.
Why hasn't anyone come looking for us?
What's that?
Jack Sadusky's Silver Star.
Bravery.
What if I
Eleven.
Eleven.
Next entry.
One code left.
Integrity.
Riley is missing too. Oh.
They must've tripped
the intruder lockdown.
- "Intruder lockdown"?
- Is that bad?
It means, they'll suffocate
if we don't get in there.
But you know how to open it, right?
Yeah. My grandpa had a special watch.
Integrity means
Honesty.
I was gonna say virtue.
But both are correct.
Yeah.
Too bad we only have one guess left.
Maybe your grandpa was
wearing the watch when he died.
Maybe they buried it with him.
Oh, okay.
- Hey, found it!
- Huh?
- Well, get them out!
- I'm trying.
Oh, my God, they're losing oxygen.
They're gonna die.
It needs your grandpa's thumbprint.
Why why would your grandpa do this?
He wasn't exactly all
there in the end, okay?
Tell me about that clue.
How, how long have you
been trying to crack it?
Oh. For forever
Three days.
Three days?
Ben's family tried to
crack the clue about
the Charlotte for three generations.
So how'd Ben finally solve it?
He thought it was a woman.
But when I started
talking about the the
yacht that I was gonna buy
after we found the treasure.
And what I was gonna
name it, he realized
that Charlotte was a ship.
Of course.
I've
I've been assuming the
twin-tongued serpent was Malinche.
But
there were other
interpreters that were
forced to help the colonizers.
The twin-tongued serpent was Sacagawea.
Of course.
Thank you.
Oxygen levels critically low.
Too bad we're still
gonna die in this room.
Wait. The snake.
Integrity doesn't only
mean honesty and virtue.
It also means
completeness and unity.
Look.
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.
Eight pieces.
It represents eight
colonies. It's eight.
Right.
Except these are all out of order.
- These aren't the colonies.
- Huh?
"H, E, N, O, E, G, T, I, Y."
It's an anagram.
I'm good at this. Okay.
All right.
"Hey, tin ego"?
"I get honey"?
Well, it's it's got to be a number.
- Eighty-one.
- One-eighty.
They're both right.
Let's do yours, 180.
No, no, no. Wait.
You think like Ben,
and Ben's always right. Go.
Intruder lockdown canceled.
Jess!
- Jess
- Jess, look at me.
- Are you okay?
- Hey. You okay?
Mr. Poole!
- Mr. Poole, are you okay?
- Are you guys okay?
Oh.
By the way.
I solved the clue.
Are you seriously thinking
about that right now?
Who cares about the
clue? You almost died!
No, no, no.
Come on, guys. Let her finish.
"New found land" isn't three words.
It's one.
Newfoundland.
That's the breed of the dog Lewis
and Clark took on their expedition.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Lewis and Clark.
Wait. So you're saying
it wasn't Malinche?
It was Sacagawea.
Right.
Sacagawea translated for a
bunch of her indigenous peoples.
- It was her job.
- Yeah, right, right.
So she, she totally could have met
a daughter of the Plumed Serpent.
Exactly.
Sacagawea was entrusted
with a clue to the treasure
which she hid in one of
the expedition's journals.
Right.
That's so obvious now.
Is it?
It seems like a reach.
Dude, come on.
"The twin-tongued serpent's tail
is revealed in fair weather."
Meriwether Lewis.
Merry weather.
"By the bend in the new found land."
Sacagawea hid the clue in the journal
Meriwether dedicated
to his Newfoundland dog
because she knew the
journal would be preserved.
It's brilliant, if you think about it.
Okay, then,
what does "bend" mean?
And how did Elvis's
great-great-great-grandma
get the clue from Sacagawea?
It's York.
What?
It's York.
Are you all right, Mr. Poole?
What's York?
Not "what", "who."
York was a was a man.
He was a a man enslaved by Clark.
He was the only African-American
on the Corps of Discovery.
He navigated trails, bartered for food.
He saved their lives multiple times.
They wouldn't have been
successful without him.
Oh, yeah.
York was another Black
hero forgotten by history.
Because Sacagawea wasn't the only
one who hid clues in that journal.
York also made entries,
and he carried those secrets with him
after the expedition to
find his wife in Kentucky
but didn't make it
because he succumbed
to cholera in Tennessee.
And you know who else is from Tennessee?
Elvis's
great-great-great-grandma.
Miss Morning Dove White.
How did you know all that?
I'll tell you how
because I made a podcast.
Yes.
Mm. Uh, so,
it says here Meriwether Lewis
was the governor of Louisiana
and the journal he dedicated to his dog
- is on display
- Is on display
at the governor's
- mansion.
- Mansion.
Yeah.
It's my fourth grade field trip.
Drinks on me.
They're free, Oren.
How are you feeling?
Alive.
So good.
Listen.
I realized today my
grandfather was right.
There's no greater
treasure than lost time.
So I'm not gonna waste anymore.
I get it now, your
bestie's into bad boys.
How do you know he's a bad boy?
Um, the hair, the 'tude,
the brooding musician vibe.
No, thanks.
Interesting. So, you're
not into bad boys?
Nope. Just good guys.
Cool, cool. Yeah.
Cool.
Uh, look at this.
Abigail just posted a
picture of Charlotte.
Ah, cute.
- Love her.
- I have Ben for you.
Oh, yeah.
Ben.
Hey. You won't believe this.
Riley.
Jess. Hey. Are you alone?
Yes.
- Why?
- Okay, listen.
Someone else knows about your clue.
Who?
I'm I'm not sure.
But Ben's mom, Dr. Emily Gates,
she's the foremost expert on
Mesoamerican language in history.
She was approached by someone
who played her a recording
of what sounded like Elvis.
But that's impossible.
No one knows about that recording
except me and my friends.
Well
One of your friends
may not be your friend.