So Help Me Todd (2022) s01e16 Episode Script

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Previously on So Help Me Todd
Maybe Aunt Patty could come down.
I don't want Aunt Patty to come down .
When's the last time
you were in a cemetery?
- Dad.
- Yeah, me, too.
- I'm not a client.
- TODD: You're Susan's fiancé.
[SIGHS]
TODD: You kissed me, in my office,
and now you're just like,
"No, it never happened"?
Oh, it's really starting to hit me.
[CHUCKLES] Susan, you'll be fine.
I was also petrified on my first day
of my first trial as lead attorney,
and the surprise witness was
my high school boyfriend Chip.
But I still won, and you will, too.
I feel like I can't breathe.
It's a simple civil trial.
You can do this.
I'm gonna run upstairs
for a quick hearing,
and I'll be right back down
to see you in action. Okay?
- Okay.
- Yes.
You're going to kill it.
[EXHALES]
And we will prove, beyond
a shadow of a doubt,
that the Total Eclipse
Shampoo company, um,
caused my caused
my client, Ms. Hayes,
to suffer from first-degree
to-to suffer from loss of hair,
loss of motor function,
and-and second-degree
burns to her head.
Through our independent
testing, we will show
that this batch of shampoo was tainted
with dangerous chemicals,
and that the Total Eclipse
Shampoo parent company was
[WOMAN COUGHING]
Ma'am, are you okay?
[OTHERS SHOUTING, SCREAMING]
- MAN: Someone get a doctor!
- WOMAN: Is she okay?
- MAN: Somebody call 911!
- WOMAN: Is she breathing?
What's going on? What
What is going Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, what happened? What happ
Susan?
Well, I killed it.
You put it in the
microwave for 30 seconds,
it tastes a billion times better.
Whoa, holy
- A juror on Susan's trial died?
- Uh-huh.
Well, wait, What do
you mean "unnatural"?
It wasn't a stroke?
She was poisoned?
NEWS ANCHOR: Yesterday, a juror died.
And today, another juror
was taken into custody
for suspected murder.
- What's happening?
- They arrested juror number three.
FRANCEY: Oh, my God in
heaven. That's Amy Morelin.
TODD: Who's Amy Morelin?
Rose Festival Queen. 2008?
- That's Queen Amy?
- Yep.
TODD: Oh, my God.
She looks exactly the same, but older.
- And in custody.
- She looks good.
And what did the police say?
The water bottle under Irene's chair
was tainted with a poison
made from plant fertilizer.
And there were only two sets
of fingerprints on the bottle.
The dead juror Irene's
And Amy's.
Yeah.
[SIGHS]: Oh, God.
Amy works as a florist.
At a gardening shop.
Access. What about motive?
Well, there was the tape.
LYLE: Day before the murder,
courthouse parking lot.
- MARGARET: Mm-hmm.
- That's Amy, that's Irene.
- Mm-hmm.
- No sound, unfortunately.
But from the looks of it,
they did not like each other, at all.
But Amy seemed so nice, and smart.
I thought that she
would be my alpha juror.
And she's moving to New York next month
to start law school at
Cornell, just like I did.
It's just hard to believe that
she would jeopardize all of that
by poisoning someone.
But she wouldn't.
She had her whole life ahead of her.
She was Rose Festival Queen.
Who may have thorns we don't know about.
I'm going to get all
the files from the trial.
- MARGARET: Close the door behind you.
- Yeah.
[CRYING]: Margaret, my first trial.
And that poor woman was murdered,
and another one is just gonna
go to jail for what, forever?
I just can't stand it.
Susan, I know. It's awful.
But there is nothing that
you can do about it now.
You're a witness to the murder.
But you could represent her.
I mean, you always
told me to trust my gut.
And Margaret, in my gut,
I know that Amy did
not murder that woman.
Help her. Please, Margaret.
Help me.
[BEEPING]
So, the fight, in the parking lot.
I think I maybe stole
a parking space from her, accidentally?
I-I really don't know.
I, uh, I didn't see her.
And then, when I got out of my car,
she just started screaming at me.
And you gave it right back.
Well, she was yelling and I
didn't even know who she was.
I was so surprised to realize
that she was the person
on the jury with me.
But I never would've killed her.
And you never met her or
spoke to her or knew her
anywhere ever, before that?
No. She was just some random lady.
Who died. [MOANS]
[EXHALES] This is just
so messed up and awful.
Uh, you're a local celebrity,
and that-that might put
the jury on your side,
or it may turn public
opinion against you.
I mean, people love nothing more
than a salacious story about
a fallen local celebrity.
I was 18.
I was Rose Festival Queen for one year,
and there have been 15
Rose Queens after me.
I'm not a local celebrity.
I'm local history.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
The evidence against
you is circumstantial.
I believe that the police
made you the prime suspect
because it was the simplest solution.
So a large component of your defense
is going to be pinpointing
an alternate suspect.
You mean figuring out who
really killed juror number nine.
Exactly.
Oh, my God. Wow. Queen Amy.
You're out.
And about. You're here.
Yeah, I'm allowed to leave my
house arrest cell to see my lawyer,
- Huh.
- thanks to this stylish ankle monitor
and the armed driver
waiting for me downstairs.
Well, I'm Todd. I'm the
investigator on your case.
I was actually a junior in high school
when you won Rose Festival Queen.
Were you at Jefferson with me?
Uh, no, no, I was at Wilson.
I mean, now it's Ida B. Wells,
but yeah, I just remember
seeing it you, on TV.
[CHUCKLES] Wilson.
Oh, your Princess was Kelly.
She was so sweet.
So, if you're the investigator,
um, does that mean that there's
any new information to know about?
Any clues, suspects?
Uh, no, not yet, but soon.
We're-we're just starting
to look into it now.
Uh, maybe this is weird,
but could I give you my number?
And then maybe you could call me
and you could update me
on any new developments?
Otherwise I'm just gonna be
in my apartment obsessing.
Sure. Um, yeah, let me just, uh Here.
Just put your number in my phone.
Unless your girlfriend
is gonna be upset to find
some strange lady's
phone number in here.
[CHUCKLES] Nope. Uh
No girlfriend.
And no other Queens in my phone, either.
Except for Queen Elizabeth.
But you know. RIP.
And Freddie Mercury, of Queen,
who was always changing
his number. And also
BOTH: RIP. [LAUGHTER]
- My elevator's here. I got to go.
- Oh, yeah, yes, yes, go.
[TIMER DINGS]
Patty,
how long are you planning to stay?
[CHUCKLES] Well, with a view like that,
why would I ever leave?
It's breathtaking.
I can't imagine why Harry
wouldn't have wanted to live here.
Okay, let's not talk
about things like that.
Okay? Not now. Private things,
on this visit,
- for once. All right.
- Oh.
You're making a pie? Oh!
You're holding up your little pinkies
like Mom did when she baked.
No, I'm not.
You're not putting the cinnamon
in before the butter, right?
Yes, Patty, I'm making
the family recipe.
No, that's not the way to do it, though.
I actually wrote down the family recipe.
Oh, you wrote down the family
recipe in my handwriting?
- That's not your handwriting.
- It is my handwriting.
- That's me. I did
- Don't put it in.
- You don't put it in.
- I put it in.
- You have to
- There, it went in.
- That's the family recipe, okay? That's what I did.
- No
- [DOORBELL RINGS]
- Ooh, the kids are here.
- PATTY: See?
- MARGARET: Patty, it's fine. It's fine.
Oh, Todd, I looked up
that poison you mentioned.
- What poison?
- I don't know what other conversations
you're having with other
sisters about poisons,
- Right.
- but the one that you mentioned to me
is actually parloxid blutominide.
And yes, the Rose Queen
could have made it herself
using common fertilizers
and simple instructions
from the Internet.
We do through this whole poison
treatment module in the ER,
and that one is particularly volatile
- and fugacious.
- Which means?
- Short-lived.
- Which means?
If the delivery system is water,
it's only potent for about 60 minutes.
- Which means
- What are we talking about?
ALLISON: Uh, the murder.
- The Rose Festival Queen thing.
- Ooh. Yeah.
Okay. Well
Let's see, okay.
So, the Rose Festival is
basically Portland's version
of the Miss America
pageant, so every high school
selects a senior for
their Rose Princess,
then, at the festival,
a Queen is elected.
She gets a scholarship, she
gets a whole new wardrobe
Uh, Patty,
I-I know. I'm from here.
Mm-hmm. You know, your
mother would have killed
for you to have been a Rose Princess.
- Never.
- Or to have been one herself.
But I guess this Rose Queen
really did kill somebody.
Boy, she snapped and
beheaded a judge, was it?
No one was beheaded, Patty.
Oh, yeah, well, I think
that's for the jury to decide.
- What are these?
- CHUCK: These are the placemats.
- Those are
- No, those aren't.
- What do you mean?
- Those are not the ones that we use.
These are the ones we always use.
- No, we never use those.
- Um
So, uh, what brings
you to town, Aunt Patty?
- Oh, well, there's a ceremony for me.
- Oh.
A little cocktail party.
I want you all to come.
I donated some money
to a refugee organization
of sorts, and now
they're dedicating a wing of
their building in my honor.
And I just like to come in on,
you know, during springtime,
when it's all colorful
and there are flowers and
it's so pretty, you know.
By this time next year
I'll be blind, so
I'm trying to soak
it all in while I can.
What could have compelled
that sweet, poor little girl
to execute somebody?
Well, I don't think she executed anyone.
I don't think she did
it. She's very nice.
Well, maybe she's a sociopath.
- Could've been a thrill kill.
- Patty.
- Patty? Patty, Patty, Patty.
- Oh.
She is my client, and
she did not murder anyone.
Oh, well, I guess we'll never know.
Amy's a victim, Patty,
and Irene was poisoned by someone else.
Or maybe she just up and died.
You know, sometimes a death
like that can be very convenient.
[CHUCKLES] Just ask your mother.
[MOUTHS]
PATTY: Night, Magpie.
[INHALES, GRUNTS]
All right, Lyle, what do you have?
Security camera footage,
inside the courthouse
showing the bailiff delivering
a sealed and wrapped case of water
to the jury room at 6:02 a.m.
One of those bottles was found
under Irene's chair
containing the poison.
And you, Todd? What do you have?
- A theory.
- Mm-hmm?
Those water bottles
sat in that room, alone,
for three hours until the jury
started coming in around 9:00.
And Irene died at 9:27.
So, if the poison is
only active for one hour,
then all these court employees,
the stenographer, the shampoo lawyers
who might have loved a mistrial
are all off the hook.
Because none of them
went into the jury room,
none of them had access
to the bottles of water.
Only one of the jurors
could have gotten that
poison into that bottle
and into Irene's hands in
that slim half-hour window.
- You know what's bothering me?
- Hmm?
There are roughly 803,000
people in Multnomah County.
796 were called for jury duty that day,
100 were sent to that courtroom,
only 12 made it into the jury box.
But all these selections
are completely random
and made by a computer.
- That's like the lottery, which means
- That the jury
is most likely comprised
of 12 complete strangers.
Or maybe one of them shows up,
and surprise
recognizes juror number nine,
has some deep, dark, horrible,
secret connection to her
and decides to send her kersplitzo.
- Kersplitzo?
- We need to talk to these jurors.
All 12 of them.
I mean, nine. One is dead.
I mean, nine is dead. The number nine.
And three is accused of killing nine.
Maybe seven ate nine.
What I mean is, what
we really need to do
even though we don't have enough time
is get the remaining ten
in here and interview them.
Find out who they are,
what they do, what they think.
Wait.
We've already done that.
The voir dire transcript.
They were all interviewed
thoroughly during jury selection.
If there's a random
connection between any of them,
we'll find it here.
Okay. Okay, okay.
We're gonna need a bigger room.
Okay.
Good? Found some photos
of all the jurors,
some of which I had to
pull from social media.
All right, let's arrange
them in their order.
One through six on top
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
This is the best
picture you could find
It's not a beauty contest, Francey.
- We're gonna solve a crime here.
- FRANCEY: Can't even tell who that is.
- Careful with those.
- Why?
- Don't bend the corners.
- TODD: I need eight
This is five. Here. This is five.
Got it, got it, got it.
- Okay.
- All right.
So, one of these jurors
is the real killer.
My money's on the bee.
♪
Okay, first things first. Irene is dead,
and Amy is our client.
AND THESE FOUR: Sven, Danielle,
Kathy and Sal, never made it
into the jury room that morning.
Sven and Kathy were late,
Danielle and Sal were
talking to the judge,
- and none of them got water bottles.
- Okay.
TODD: And then there were six.
Okay. Somewhere in here
is a connection between one
of them and our victim Irene.
So let's get down to it.
[PAPERS THUD]
FRANCEY: Irene was 71 years old,
a former financial
adviser at Lehman Brothers.
And she moved from Pasadena to Portland
three years ago to retire.
TODD: Okay, Sydney works for
Really? Murder Inc.?
A role-playing board game company?
And she "loves it."
MARGARET: Zena does not use shampoo.
And she tried like hell
to get out of jury duty.
Not Lou. "Thrilled to be
here" and "Happy to serve."
FRANCEY [MUTTERS]: One, two, three
MARGARET: Rachel lives in Dunthorpe,
"distrusts financial institutions"
as a result of some "bad investments."
Possibly by Lehman Brothers.
Possible connection.
FRANCEY: Okay, and the
bumblebee, he does use shampoo.
but he wanted to make sure
he was "done with jury duty
in time to make the big Ducks game."
He went to U of O, just like Irene.
Another connection.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
LYLE: Hold on. This Cole looks
too young to be on jury duty.
Aha, that's exactly what
he wants you to think.
Did you see the part
where he says he reads
The Wall Street Journal
every day? Baloney.
- No one does that.
- Irene did.
Put it on the board.
MARGARET: All right.
It is time to bring these six in
and ask them some questions.
TODD: Since Irene was poisoned,
do we really think it's the best idea
to be serving them powdered donuts?
I mean, hasn't anyone
read Flowers in the Attic?
FRANCEY: Where are the other two?
MARGARET: I could only
track down these four.
Okay, we are gonna bring them in,
one by one, for questioning.
Then I want you to hold them here
so that I can bring them
back in for follow-up
Oh, my God, give me a second.
[CHUCKLES]: Uh, Patty. My sister Patty.
Patty, what are you doing here?
I thought we were having
lunch? Are you too busy?
Don't worry, I can make
myself scarce until
Hello.
So you're the murderers.
That's exciting.
Is that a green-crested
cockatoo in that cage?
- Very distinctive coo.
- [BIRD CHIRPING]
I studied ornithology.
Well, me and Vanilla Ice
are on the way to the vet,
but I'm happy to help. H-how can I?
MARGARET: Mr. Briggs, during voir dire,
did you speak to juror
number nine Irene at all?
No. Didn't say two words to each other.
She seemed nice, though.
Now, what does, uh,
"voir dire" mean again?
Oh, it's French. It means
"To speak the truth."
TODD: And, uh, Lou,
on the day she died, how did
you get your water bottle?
Oh, I I don't remember. Uh
Somebody handed it to me, I guess.
MARGARET: And Blake,
do you remember if you drank
from your bottle of water?
I mean, does it matter? You
know, did I even have a water?
I'm pretty hydrated, brah. [CHUCKLES]
Uh, yes. You went to U of O,
as did Irene, 40 years earlier.
Who's Irene?
The juror who died?
Uh, did you ever run into
her at any alumni events?
Are you sure that was
her name? The old chick?
Irene? As for alumni events: maybe?
I'm usually pretty hammered at those.
- All right, Bryce.
- It's Blake.
Same thing.
So, Cole,
where do you live?
Um, Hillsdale area.
Hmm. And, Cole, do you live alone?
Uh, no. I actually live with
this lovely older couple.
Jean and Peter.
Ah, Jean and Peter Winbar? Your parents?
Cole, I-I don't think I
actually believe that you are 18.
Um, okay, so
I may have lied about my age
so I could get a fake I.D.
- and vote.
- Oh.
I-I didn't know they were
gonna give me jury duty.
W-where do your parents
think you are right now?
- A algebra?
- Okay.
Okay, so you're the detective.
And you're the lawyer.
Like good cop, bad cop? I love it.
I love murder. I mean,
all crime, really.
Oh, my God, I'm so excited.
Are we gonna recreate the crime?
Because I brought the
clothes I was wearing.
Uh, hey, Sydney, that
really wasn't necessary.
Is this gonna be on PDX Files?
Is Lea Luna here?
I have not had one sip of
water since it happened.
Hello? Flavorless poison.
Okay, motive-wise,
what are your thoughts?
I have some theories.
It's either a sex crime
or someone has a twin.
Okay, okay. Sydney? Sydney,
did you talk to Irene?
Ah. Okay.
Crafting an alternate theory.
But alas, no.
I was taking notes.
All right. Who's your front-runner?
- I think
- O Okay, Sydney.
Thank you, but you can go now.
What about my blood
and my saliva samples?
What about my fingerprints?
- Aren't we lie detector-ing?
- Thank you, Sydney.
We don't do that here.
This is Margaret Wright's office.
- Ah. Yes.
- The glass was my idea. She wanted brick.
There's asbestos in the ceiling.
- AMY [OVER PHONE]: Hey.
- Hey.
What's happening? What's the latest?
Uh, well, we're still
interviewing alternative suspects.
But my mom wanted to
ask if you remembered
anything in particular about
juror number seven? Blake?
- Oh, the bro-ey frat guy?
- Yeah.
No. He hit on me, but,
like, in a bored way.
I don't think that he'd
be smart enough to
Yeah, yeah, I don't think
so, either. [CHUCKLES]
But, um, h-how are you doing?
Do you need anything?
[SIGHS] Well, DoorDash won't deliver
because my account was hacked,
and somebody had $300
worth of pizza on me.
Yikes.
So I'm eating all my
outdated pandemic canned fish.
Hmm.
Well, have you heard of Todd Dash?
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Yeah, Amy's not convinced it's the bee.
And in my humble opinion,
I don't think it's Birdman,
Young Angela Lansbury
- or the Boy Wonder.
- Uh-huh.
Well, I'm more concerned
about these two no-shows.
- Rachel and Zena.
- FRANCEY: Yeah.
They didn't even bother calling me back.
But I keep thinking about this
Rachel/financial investment connection.
Yeah, what if she lost money
through Lehman Brothers?
What if she knew Irene?
Maybe we should pay a visit to
Rachel at 3710 Military Road?
Todd, jacket. Francey,
I'll be right back.
- Wait, you're gonna leave me here with your sister?
- Y Yeah, no
No, seriously? Margaret? No, Margaret.
[SIGHS]
Pretty sure we had a VW bus
tailing us on the way over here.
It's gone now, though.
Well, Rachel has never been
part of a class action lawsuit,
and she does not trust corporations.
Oh, they always say that
to get out of jury duty.
Hmm.
Hey, what did Aunt Patty
mean the other night
when she said that sometimes
death could be convenient?
[COUGHS]
Mom?
Ugh [MUTTERS]
Do you remember when she told
us that the-the easiest way
to dispose of our Christmas
tree was to eat it?
I mean, she's bonkers.
She makes my skin crawl.
Why?
Why do any siblings not get along?
I mean, i-it can be awful
having someone trailing you through life
and keeping tabs on you and
and remembering your every mistake.
It's like you and Lawrence.
Y-You just don't get along.
Whoa. There she is.
- Mommy!
- Hi. Oh.
Okay. Let's go.
- MARGARET: Hi. I'm Margaret Wright
- Hi.
from Crest, Folding & Song.
Actually, it's just Crest & Folding now.
And this is my private
investigator Todd Wright.
Same last name. I'm her father.
Oh, yeah, I got your message,
I've just been really busy.
I'll call and get something scheduled.
Wai Or-or you could
just tell us right now
if you ever lost any money
through Lehman Brothers
or knew Irene Kimpton before?
MAN: Honey, who is that?
I really can't talk.
- I can't.
- Wait.
Uh, go get the car. Go get the car.
So, not suspicious at all, huh?
We may have to subpoena
her financial records
and bank account statements, all of it.
Wait a minute.
Where is she going?
Todd? Oh, Todd, she's getting away.
She's getting away.
What are we gonna do?
Okay, let's calm down. I snuck
got my little friend the tNAB
into her bumper, and looks
like she's headed south.
Ooh, Todd, I could kiss you.
Well, I'd rather you drive.
Mommy!
♪
Does Rachel have two families?
Yes, I have two families.
You don't know how difficult this is,
what a fine line I'm walking.
I fell in love with Thad,
and then I found Bryce and his son.
That is confusing.
Do you have any idea how many stories
I have to keep straight?
I can imagine.
I don't have time to murder anyone.
And Irene and I were friendly.
We laughed about the whole
investment connection.
She lost money, too.
Look, we even took a selfie together.
My second husband got suspicious,
so I sent him this to prove
that I was on jury duty.
QUESTION: how do you decide
which husband to call your second?
- MARGARET: Um
- TODD: Ow.
Can you please send me that photo?
You can just email it to
I'll AirDrop it to you, but
then you really have to leave.
Oh, my goodness. How did you do that?
TODD: Mom?
Ten years old, this technology.
Why don't you, uh, send me that photo?
Oh, of course. Let me
just AirPlop it to you.
AirDrop, Mom.
Wait. You're not "Sleuthy
McSleutherson," are you?
What? No. Are you kidding me?
Well, then-then, who is that?
It's right there on my phone. Look.
I don't know. It must
be someone else nearby.
Wait, Mom, look.
Oh, my God.
Someone is following us.
Sleuthy.
Ah. Good morning.
You caught me. I've been
following you all day.
I put a tNAB on your car.
What? Hey, that's my thing.
SYDNEY: It's all for my investigation.
Your investigation?
Do you know how long I have waited
to be involved in a murder?
And then it just happened.
Someone died near me.
I'm famous. I'll have a podcast.
People will dress as me for Halloween.
Oh, Sydney, you have to stop this.
This could be very dangerous.
And I know who it is.
It's Rachel. She's a liar.
Two families? And she hated Irene.
Okay, I see what you're
saying about the liar aspect,
but do you think that automatically
makes her a murderer?
I mean, that might
just be a red herring.
- Plus, I think that
- Sorry. Todd, Todd.
Irene and Rachel were apparently fine.
Look, they took this photo together.
Uh, oh, my God.
- What?
- Oh, oh, my God. That That's it.
What? W-What? What do you see?
No. I call this. This is mine.
[STAMMERS] Ow! No, no, no.
Goodbye. I've got to go!
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Do we go after her, or
MARGARET: What did
she see in this photo?
TODD: This is Aunt
Patty's charity event?
WOMAN: Thank you so much for coming.
We are delighted to
honor one individual
Patty. I'm the honoree this evening.
WOMAN: Enjoy the food and drink.
All 97% cruelty free.
[APPLAUSE]Okay, so the refugees
that Aunt Patty is helping are rabbits?
They're rabbit refugees.
And what about this food and
drink is three percent cruel?
- Isn't this fun?
- BOTH: Mm.
I'm so glad you're here.
Whew. I haven't had
hard cider in decades.
Hey, um, Aunt Patty,
- Todd and I were talking.
- Mm-hmm?
What did you mean the other night
when you said that
"death can be convenient"?
TODD: Yeah, a-and then you said, uh,
- "Ask your Mom."
- Yeah.
Oh, that. Well, y-you know.
Your mother and your father Oswald.
Ages ago.
Uh, she didn't have to
leave him because he died.
- Wait, Aunt Patty.
- Mm-hmm?
Our mom was gonna leave our dad?
Yes, she was miserable. Like Allison.
I mean, Chuck is sweet,
but we can all tell
you're unhappy, sweetie.
Your mother was in a
similar predicament.
She put some plans
into motion, but then
- [IMITATES CHOKING]
- Patty.
What are you talking about?
- [APPLAUSE]
- Oh, here it is. This is me. This is the plaque.
WOMAN: And now, the moment
we've all been waiting for.
PATTY: "Augie Norman"?
That's not my name. Wait.
Wait, I know.
I think I donated that money
to the wild hawk rescue.
Don't hawks eat rabbits?
Oh, yeah. [CHUCKLES]
This is just a room full
of crazy rabbit people.
- Hello.
- Okay. Let's go.
Yeah. My good word,
what were you thinking?
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
I can't tell you how good this is.
Thank you so much.
Hey. Are you okay?
Oh, yeah. Sorry. It's just, um
Long day searching for the real killer?
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
And, um, I-I know we don't know
each other very well, but
earlier tonight, I got this weird
info about my parents' marriage,
back when my dad died.
Oh, wow.
- Yeah.
- I'm so sorry.
- No.
- Um, do you, um
Do you need to talk?
How old were you?
When h-he
Fourteen.
He was a doctor.
He went to a medical
conference in San Francisco
and he had a heart attack.
Yeah.
My brother and sister
were both in college,
so my mom and I were home alone.
Together. Not dealing with it.
And now you find out there's
this whole other backstory?
Yeah.
And she was
she wanted to leave him.
Or I guess, she was leaving him.
Well, hey, I don't mean to talk about me
when we're talking
about you [CHUCKLES]
but I-I do think I
kind of know how you feel.
You do?
Yeah. My mom was
S-she screwed over my dad pretty bad.
- Mm-hmm.
- Cheated on him,
made us lie in family
court to get custody.
It was so ugly.
- Mm.
- She was always good to me, though.
You know, supporting me,
wanting me to succeed.
She really wanted me
to do Rose Festival,
'cause of the college
scholarship and everything.
But I also think I knew that
inside, she was a
a bad person.
Huh.
I don't think my mom was bad.
Well, was she good to you?
Yeah.
- [PHONE RINGING]
- Hold on one second.
- Hey, Mom.
- MARGARET [OVER PHONE]: Todd.
Someone needs to check
on Amy immediately.
I'm I'm fairly sure
I know where she is,
but why, what's going on?
The police think someone
may be knocking the
jurors off one by one.
Wait, what? Why would they think that?
Because Sydney, that juror
who was following us today
Sleuthy McSleutherson she's dead.
They strangled her.
Todd, Todd. Come here. Look at this.
- Uh-huh.
- Sydney sent me this photo
right before her death.
What is this? What was she
I think this photo got her killed.
Look closely.
Right there. Look at the gloves.
Now pull up the, uh,
picture that Rachel gave you.
- Rachel?
- Uh-huh.
Wait a second. Are those
the same black gloves?
Mm-hmm.
Sydney got all excited about gloves?
Because gloves don't leave
fingerprints on water bottles.
And the real killer put the poison in
and never left a trace.
Uh, where's that security camera footage
from the courthouse hallway?
MARGARET: Okay, Rachel and Cole.
Clearly no gloves.
- That eliminates them.
- Mm-hmm.
LYLE: Yes, but Lou, Amy and Blake,
their hands aren't visible,
which puts them in the unknown category.
TODD: Hey-hey,
look-look, freeze, freeze.
Stop. Zoom in.
Gloves. Black gloves.
We have been trying to reach
Zena for three days now.
I'm gonna see if Francey
has located her yet.
Zena. I knew it.
You said it was the bee.
Zena is in Madagascar.
- Madagascar?
- Mm-hmm.
Madagascar, "the island
off of Africa" Madagascar?
Her sister confirmed she left
yesterday on a 6:00 a.m. flight.
And Sydney was murdered
the night before.
Someone wanted to get out of town fast.
To a country that has
no extradition policy
- with the U.S.
- Exactly.
By the way, your sister's here again.
She's waiting for you.
[EXHALES]
That wasn't your story to tell.
All right, okay. I know. I'm sorry.
I just assumed that they already knew.
- I mean, how
- It's my family.
My children. My story.
But you were planning
on telling them someday.
Right?
Weren't you?
Margaret.
They're all in their 30s now.
Isn't Lawrence turning 40 soon?
Isn't it time?
[MOANS]
They should really hear it
what really happened from you.
I don't know. Patty, I-I don't know.
Oh Did-did you want Mom's ring back?
[LAUGHS]: No. No. No.
You keep it.
It makes your hand look enormous.
[SIGHS]
I just can't believe this is happening.
I know, but we're on it.
- Do you have any leads?
- Oh, I can't really talk to you
Todd, come on. This is my case.
You're actually a witness on our case.
Are you really gonna be like that?
- Like what?
- Just tell me,
do they think that Amy did it?
The second murder?
Uh, no.
And she does have an alibi
for last night. Ish. So
Ish? Is it a solid alibi?
Uh, yeah. I mean, pretty solid.
She was with me when I found out, and
Well, why were you
with her at that hour?
Oh, my God. Todd.
- What?
- She is your client. That is highly unethical.
You violated a whole string of
Uh, I don't think you get
to talk to me about ethics.
Is it ethical for you to kiss me
and then spend two weeks gaslighting me
into thinking it never happened, Susan?
That is not what I did.
Is it not?
MARGARET [DISTANT]: Todd! Todd!
- Gaslighting.
- MARGARET: Todd!
Todd. Todd, good news.
Susan, where are you going?
Turn on the TV. Turn on the TV. Todd!
Oh, careful. Francey, careful.
We've reached Zena.
She's connecting right now
on a video call from Madagascar.
Hi. Zena Mitchell? I'm Margaret Wright.
Uh, can you, can you hear me?
Hi. Yes, I-I'm here.
Your assistant said you
wanted to talk about my gloves?
Yes! Yes, yes, yes. The gloves,
the ones you wore to court.
Uh I think I may have them with me.
These gloves?
Damn it. They're purple.
Why are you in Madagascar?
The jury was released.
- I'm volunteering on a clean water project.
- MARGARET: Zena,
do you remember anything
about black gloves on any jury member?
- No, I I don't think so.
- MARGARET: Darn it!
Okay. Um, Zena.
This is our juror's box.
You were sitting right
next to the accused, Amy,
who was right behind the victim Irene.
You must have seen something.
Okay. Look.
I'm you. Okay?
And you were sitting right here.
Okay? Uh, Todd, uh, sit
down in chair number nine.
Wait, so I'm Irene? Really?
I feel more like I'm more
of a Sal or even a Cole.
Okay, yeah. Put the water
bottle under your chair and
Wait.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Zena.
On the day that you
came in, you had to walk
right past Amy's chair.
Is there any chance that you could have
accidentally knocked
the water bottle over?
Wait, I think I did knock
somebody's water over.
It fell right in front of
us, but I picked it back up.
Oh, my God.
Okay, so Zena accidentally
switched the bottles?
- Amy's not the killer.
- MARGARET: No.
Amy was the intended victim.
Someone was trying to kill Amy.
We've been looking at
these transcripts all wrong.
- Not Irene?
- Nope. Amy.
Hold on, hold on, hold
on, hold on, hold on.
At the very first
start, the first day
Um
Yes. Did we look back at this?
The judge asks to
speak to "the two jurors
who have vacation plans that
would interrupt jury duty."
Zena, Madagascar,
and Lou, the bird man.
They were both trying to get out of
No, no, no. 'Cause r-remember,
Lou said that he was
"Thrilled to be here"
and "Happy to serve." See?
Why did he change his mind?
Because Lou was juror number 12.
The last one questioned.
Before voir dire, he says
he has a planned vacation.
He wants out, then after
everybody else has spoken,
suddenly, he says no,
he wants to be there.
Somebody before him
must have said something
to change his mind.
Amy.
We need to talk to Lou again now.
TODD: Lou doesn't seem like some maniac
or a deranged serial killer, did he?
I mean, would he kill two people?
[DOORBELL RINGS]
- Todd.
- Hmm?
Look. It's the same table
and chair as from the
photo that Sydney sent us.
She was here. I don't
see the gloves, though.
Okay, so, maybe Lou is not a maniac.
He's just scared.
He-he's a desperate man.
And he found Sydney
snooping around outside
his house and he panicked,
because he knew she was on to him.
And then Kersplitzo.
[SNAPS FINGERS]
TODD: That's weird. Look
at that photo right there.
Mom. 2008.
That is the year that Amy was
crowned Rose Festival Queen.
Who is that?
AMY: That's Rhonda Zane.
And that's me s-standing next to her.
That's my elbow right there.
Yeah, we were vying for, um,
Rose Festival Princess
at Jefferson that year.
Wait, Rhonda Zane? But
Lou's last name is Briggs.
She had her mom's last name.
So, you and Rhonda were friends?
Mm, more like rivals.
I never stood a chance
against her, though.
She was beautiful, smart, talented.
Whole package. But, um
then something terrible happened to her
right before the festival.
Someone
threw bleach in her face.
Oh, whoa. That's crazy.
Who would do that?
They never caught the guy.
But, you know, poor Rhonda
dropped out of the running, disappeared.
And I heard, a few
years later, that she
she took her own life.
Oh, that's awful. Poor girl.
So, Lou was seeking revenge.
Revenge? Against who?
Me?
M Lou was trying to kill me?
Why? I was always nice to Rhonda,
a-and I would never throw
bleach in someone's face.
I would never
Oh, my God.
Wait, that-that couldn't
have been [STAMMERS]
My mom was always competitive,
but she never w-would have
She wasn't that bad. She
- Um
- Do you think it's possible that that she ?
So Rhonda would be out of the running
and you could be Queen.
Lou blamed Amy for his daughter's death.
Now, when he found out
- that it was her on the jury
- He snapped.
A crime of passion. Righting
a wrong from the past.
And he had to do it
Before Amy left town for law school.
Motive, opportunity.
Right? And page 37:
Lou "volunteers at the Rose
Gardens in Washington Park."
Access to fertilizer for the poison.
We have to call the
police. We have to find Lou.
- Wait. It's Thursday.
- Thursday?
BOTH: "I have dinner
every Thursday night
at Via Tevere Pizzeria."
He loves "a pizza special"!
Stay here. Be right back.
Okay.
There he is, there he is. It's him.
MARGARET: Oh, that's him right there.
Patty, w-what are you doing here?
You are on a date with a murderer.
No. Again?
Lou Briggs, you're under arrest
for the murders of Irene Kimpton
- and Sydney Millcross.
- No, no, no, no.
LOU: You should be
arresting Amy Morelin.
She's the one that did it.
Her and her mother, they
they destroyed my daughter.
All over a stupid
crown. They killed her.
What happened to your
daughter is tragic.
But Amy had nothing to do with it.
And I spoke to her mother in Spokane.
She's willing to take
a lie detector test.
Neither of them had anything to do
with what happened to Rhonda.
You killed two people for nothing.
Let's go.
Juror number 12.
I knew it.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
Total Eclipse Shampoo and their lawyers
would have you believe that their
product is completely harmless.
But they are gaslighting you.
Denying what they know to be
true to protect themselves.
[COUGHING]
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
Thank you for being here today,
to help me help my client
bring the truth to light.
AMY: Poor Rhonda.
- Yeah.
- And Irene.
- And Sydney. Ugh.
- Yeah.
This whole thing is just so awful.
I'm just relieved it wasn't you.
- The killer, I mean.
- Yeah. For a minute,
I thought it might
have actually been you.
Me? What? I wasn't even on the jury.
[LAUGHS] Well, you're very shifty,
- and you were kind of lurking around.
- What?
I wasn't lurking.
What do you think about a second date?
- Outside of my house.
- Um
And murder-free.
- Murder-free?
- Mm.
I mean, what would we even talk about?
How many times did we go to France?
I don't remember that.
ALLISON: You have to
remember this place,
because you rememb you
insisted on ordering in French.
- [DOOR SLIDES CLOSED]
- Hi.
Um
MARGARET: When I gave
your father that watch,
I meant that.
Forever.
But you were gonna leave him.
Yes.
I overheard you guys fighting.
I mean, from my room, I
could hear everything, and
I know that he was mad
at you because he thought
that you were lying
to him about something.
I had rented an apartment.
And I didn't want him to know.
Patty was gonna help me leave.
Mom, why didn't you
ever tell us any of this?
Because I wanted
I thought I had to protect you.
After your father died,
I didn't want to break
your hearts all over again.
Yeah, but I had no idea
you were so unhappy.
Then we did our job as parents.
Oswald was a wonderful father.
But he wasn't a very good husband.
It became clear that
he didn't appreciate me
or support my career goals.
And I-I was unhappy. I was frustrated.
And I wanted more.
Over time, he became
emotionally and verbally abusive.
And I had to fight.
For me.
For myself.
I didn't know if I should tell you.
I-I didn't know if I had to tell you.
I didn't know what to do.
I mean, it's really
weird to think about him,
and you, like this.
I know.
So, uh, y-you didn't leave him,
of y-you didn't
actually do it because
Because I didn't have to.
Fate intervened.
Chuck.
We need
We have to talk.