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00:05In Toronto's War on Crime, the worst offenders are pursued by the detectives of the Specialized Criminal Investigations Unit.
00:13These are their stories.
00:17Hey, you got a package here for Patrice Fauchamp?
00:20Yeah, let me see if he's in it.
00:30We're getting closer and closer to finding this, Satan.
00:35Takashi stole from us.
00:37One hundred thousand of us.
00:39And now, he's gonna die.
00:42Takashi is smart, but the hive mind is smarter.
00:47We're gonna tear it apart, limb by limb.
00:53This came for you.
00:55Thanks.
01:03Hi, Mr. Song.
01:04You're early.
01:06I'm a good student.
01:08What's on the agenda today?
01:10Hash functions.
01:11I already know how hash functions.
01:13You smoke it, and then you get high.
01:15Hash functions are the cornerstone of cryptography.
01:18They're why your online passwords have never been hacked, despite the groundbreaking use of your dog's name.
01:22Wait, how do you know my password?
01:24Hash functions.
01:25Which I will teach you as soon as you close those curtains.
01:30You should learn to trust people.
01:33I can't.
01:35I'm too smart.
01:38Most of these kids are way too smart for public school.
01:41Kids on the spectrum obviously have special needs, and we know how to meet them.
01:45The right education could completely change Max's life.
01:48It's incredible.
01:50I didn't know places like this existed.
01:53We're the top-ranked school for autism in the province.
01:55We only have one spot available, but Max seems like a terrific fit.
02:00You said it's $52,000 a year?
02:02I promise you, Mr. Bell, it's worth every penny.
02:09Hey, Stuart, who was that hollering the other day with the camera?
02:13No one, Joel.
02:15They got the wrong guy.
02:16I'm still waiting on rent.
02:17The new rate?
02:18The one we discussed?
02:20Oh, the one that goes against the Residential Tenancies Act?
02:23They'll have it first thing in the morning.
02:31Beautiful.
02:40How much for your piece?
02:43How much?
02:47Think on it.
02:59Hey, let's go away!
03:01Somebody help!
03:03Okay.
03:04Come on, Baxter.
03:05Two more throws and we get to go home.
03:06Go get it!
03:07Go get it!
03:10Baxter!
03:11Baxter!
03:12Come here, buddy!
03:17Come here, buddy!
03:24Baxter!
03:27Baxter!
03:34Baxter!
04:04Victim is male.
04:05Presumed late 20s.
04:07John Doe, no identification.
04:09Dog walkers spotted the body hanging from that tree
04:12at 6.03 this morning.
04:15Took us a minute to get him down.
04:17Like the ornament.
04:18Killer threw the body off the bridge,
04:20didn't quite hit the ground.
04:21I have officers up on the bridge canvassing,
04:23but so far, no luck.
04:25All yours, detectives?
04:26Thanks.
04:28Well, no cameras, not much foot traffic.
04:30Not a bad place to dump a body.
04:32No, not a great place either.
04:33His body was always gonna be found.
04:36I think our killer was in a hurry.
04:39Okay.
04:41Well, the tree didn't do him any favors.
04:43At least he was dead on arrival, no frothbite.
04:46Meticial hemorrhaging in the eye is consistent with asphyxia, but...
04:50But no bruising on the neck, just residue.
04:53Judging by the linear pattern of duct tape,
04:56the victim might have been suffocated with a plastic bag.
04:59Oh, that's a hell of a way to go.
05:01Well, maybe the killer wanted our victim to suffer.
05:05Or maybe he couldn't look at his face as he died.
05:09What's this?
05:12Extreme cold keeps cellular structure in place, stopping decomposition.
05:18Apart from the damage done in the disposal,
05:20we can imagine that our John Doe's body is almost exactly as it was at the moment he died.
05:25You've been hanging around corpses too long.
05:28And you with violent criminals.
05:30Which is probably why you were right about the cause of death.
05:35Suffocation.
05:36Residue around his neck is consistent with duct tape
05:39and traces of a high-density polyethylene often found in plastic bags.
05:44But without decomposition, we can't determine the time of death.
05:47No.
05:48Unless you're really good.
05:51Our victim was killed approximately 24 hours ago.
05:55Our John Doe also recently had his appendix removed surgically.
06:01Not laparoscopically.
06:02A surgical appendectomy, his blood type and some leg work led me to a name.
06:09You could have fled with that.
06:11And deprive myself of this beautiful moment?
06:16You're welcome.
06:19Stuart Song.
06:2028.
06:21No credit cards, lease, license or vehicle to his name.
06:25Only child.
06:26Both parents have died.
06:27No next of kin.
06:28No address on file.
06:30No record of employment.
06:30And get this.
06:31No trace of online activity.
06:33What 28-year-old doesn't go online?
06:35Maybe he's analog, likes his own company, values his privacy, doesn't trust the government.
06:41The only thing we do know is that his digital footprint was wiped clean two years ago.
06:45Oh, there was one thing he forgot to delete.
06:47His Yelp account.
06:50All these restaurants are in the West End.
06:53Picky eater.
06:54Hmm.
06:55Hmm.
06:56A ghost that likes to eat on his own stoop.
06:58If he didn't have a car, then these restaurants are probably close to where he lives.
07:03How many Edwardian duplexes with a number 150 can there be?
07:0747.
07:08I looked.
07:09Then I say these two better get moving.
07:14Stu was a weird guy.
07:15Always insisted on paying cash for his rent.
07:18Wouldn't sign a lease.
07:20Didn't want a record of anything.
07:21You have any idea why?
07:22Huh.
07:23Like I said.
07:24Weird dude.
07:29Never seen a key like that before.
07:31Well, that's cause he invented it.
07:32First one I dropped into a sewer grate.
07:34Took him three weeks to make me a new one.
07:39If you find my overdue rent in there, you'll let me know.
07:55It's a hell of a vinyl collection.
07:57Well, it's a cute library too.
07:59First letter of every title.
08:04Quit looking at my oak shelf?
08:12Oak shelf, where's the bee?
08:14Exactly.
08:15Hard to believe that someone so meticulous would leave their apartment like this.
08:19Now, look at the drawers.
08:22Books everywhere.
08:24Someone's been here.
08:29Stuart's my tutor.
08:31He taught me math and that I wasn't stupid.
08:34Did he ever mention anything to you?
08:37Anyone or anything that he was afraid of?
08:39No.
08:39I mean, he hated technology, but I just can't imagine he had any enemies.
08:45When was the last time you saw him?
08:47Um, four days ago.
08:49I was here for a lesson.
08:52Hash functions?
08:54Yeah.
08:55But Stuart was always writing on that board.
08:57It would never still have that stuff on it.
08:59Unless he hasn't been here since.
09:05Stuart left here four days ago and was only killed yesterday.
09:09Where was he in between?
09:14Emily.
09:15When you last saw Stuart, did he happen to mention where he was going after your lesson?
09:19Um, same place he goes every Thursday.
09:22Four days ago, Stuart left his house around 7pm, headed for the Momo house on Queen West.
09:28He entered this underpass at 7.13pm.
09:32Fast forward 60 seconds, and he never came out.
09:36Oh, not on foot anyway.
09:37He left in the back of that van.
09:38Not just any van.
09:39A quick shift.
09:40You rent them from an app, pick them up on the street, drop them off when you're done.
09:44All you need is a license and credit card.
09:45Let me guess.
09:46We assume the kidnapper stole them from a man with an alibi, still waiting on the statement.
09:50As for the van...
09:51The company retrieved it and wiped it clean of any usable prints?
09:54Right again.
09:55But here's something you may not know.
09:57Before it was dumped, the van had only made one trip.
09:59To this address here.
10:01A house owned by a man named Tony Lewis in North York.
10:07I've owned this lot for almost two years, but I couldn't get approval from the neighbor for a new build.
10:12I guess they, uh, changed their minds?
10:15With some help from my lawyer.
10:17Started prepping the place for a tear down this week, but I haven't been inside for months.
10:24That's absurd! And it's not true!
10:26Stuart! You can't hide this any longer.
10:28You have no idea what you're talking about.
10:30Riot coin was garbage tech.
10:32Trivial code wrapped in shiny influenza wrapping paper.
10:35It was a meme coin.
10:36Yeah, right.
10:50The city's in a housing crisis, and yet, our killer managed to find a nice empty place to bring Stuart.
10:55Yeah.
10:57Until Tony up there starts knocking things down, explains why the body was moved in a hurry.
11:03Yeah.
11:05This is where he was murdered.
11:07And held against his will for three days before.
11:10There was no evidence of torture on Stuart's body, no, uh, signs of malnutrition.
11:17Whoever kidnapped him was humane.
11:19But why kidnap a math tutor?
11:22I mean, the guy didn't have any family to pay ransom.
11:24I mean, he didn't even have a bank account.
11:26If somebody went to Stuart's apartment after he left, maybe they just wanted him out of the way.
11:32If so, they already had a key.
11:37I told you last time I barely knew the guy.
11:39Right.
11:40Just, uh, some weirdo who owed you rent.
11:42Still does.
11:43You, uh, ever go into his place unannounced?
11:46It's not his place.
11:47It's my place.
11:48But no, of course not.
11:50I'm not a creep.
11:51You sure?
11:54It's a nice oak shelf.
11:57Thanks.
11:58But all be that, uh, he was a philosopher, yet had he but little gold in coffer.
12:04Bartlett's familiar quotations.
12:06It's one of my favorites.
12:07I read it when I can't get to sleep.
12:10I just wanted my rent.
12:12Stuart's always trying to pay less.
12:14I let it slide until some guy comes to our door with a video camera.
12:19Says Stuart's a billionaire.
12:20Yeah, with a B.
12:22I mean, it sounded crazy.
12:23But you, uh, you chose to believe him.
12:25The guy had conviction.
12:28So when Stuart left four days ago, I went in the apartment and I grabbed the stupid book.
12:33I saw him take money out of it once.
12:34You wanna know what was inside?
12:35Five or J. Egg.
12:37Eight hundred bucks.
12:38This guy with the camera, did he say anything else?
12:41Uh, Stuart's real name was...
12:43Patashi?
12:44Patashi?
12:45Something stupid like that.
12:47Not, uh...
12:49Not Takashi?
12:50Yeah.
12:52So, you've never heard of Takashi?
12:54I guess you're not interested in crypto?
12:56Oh, Bigaplex scared me off that.
12:58Probably for the best.
13:00So, two years ago, an anonymous online figure goes by the name Takashi,
13:05Mince Riot Coin.
13:07New crypto coin.
13:08Best investment since sliced bread.
13:10Otherwise known as a rug pull.
13:12Coin gets hyped.
13:13Everyone buys in, expecting to own a yacht within a year.
13:16Then Takashi disappears with all the money.
13:18Coin suddenly worthless.
13:19Everyone goes broke.
13:20Well, the timeline would sync up.
13:22Stuart went off the grid two years ago.
13:23Right when, uh, Riot Coin crashed, leaving a hundred thousand duped investors baying for blood.
13:29Well, that explains why Stuart liked his privacy.
13:32Yeah, that he did.
13:33Look at that.
13:34Is that reflective film?
13:37Yeah.
13:38Celebrities use it on their windows to, uh, disrupt cameras.
13:42Ooh.
13:47You ever seen a, uh, a bird's nest this symmetrical?
13:51Gaff, leave the birds alone.
13:52Yeah, they're made of mud, sticks, and garbage.
13:59Oh.
14:00They usually don't come with a price tag.
14:03Or a camera.
14:09Oh, come on.
14:10Takashi's a myth.
14:11He's an urban legend.
14:13At any rate, he's not some 28-year-old map tutor in Parkdale.
14:17Takashi vanished two years ago.
14:18The same week that Stuart went off the grid.
14:20All the money that Takashi stole was converted into Bitcoin.
14:23It's been sitting in a public wallet ever since.
14:26All Bitcoin transactions are recorded on a public ledger that...
14:29That can be viewed by anyone.
14:30Yeah, I know.
14:31My brother won't shut up about it.
14:33Right.
14:33So, for two years, he left the money untouched.
14:36Until two days ago, the entire balance got sent to an untraceable account
14:40at the same exact time that Stuart was being held hostage?
14:43You think he was paying a ransom?
14:45Well, if it was, it didn't work.
14:46They still killed him.
14:47But whoever kidnapped him used this.
14:50A tracking device?
14:52Yeah, we found that in Stuart's jacket.
14:54The lab processed it, but there's no way of seeing who received the signal.
14:59There are thousands of people online who are hunting for Takashi.
15:02I mean, entire forums dedicated to it.
15:04And these people, they want to annihilate him.
15:06And then there are those who just want to find the guy who stole $2 billion.
15:11Okay, so who found him?
15:13Well, Mark just tracked down the owner of the hidden camera we found outside Stuart's apartment.
15:17So, maybe someone at Skyline Post has some answers.
15:23Is this about the body in that tree?
15:25I'll tell you, the city's gone insane.
15:27This is exactly the reason why my wife said we had to move to Port Credit.
15:30Malcolm, we found a camera that belongs to your facility illegally recording a victim.
15:35Not my facility, I'm just the manager.
15:37So you're not aware of what your clients are making here?
15:39You got dozens of directors and producers.
15:41They rent equipment, edit suites.
15:43We're not monitoring what they're making.
15:45You would have a record, though, of who rented that particular camera.
15:52Here we go. This guy.
15:55Mr. Top Secret, Patrice Beauchamp.
15:58He was nominated for an Emmy six years ago.
16:00So, Malcolm, what is he making here?
16:04Did you take a peek?
16:05No idea. You're gonna have to ask him yourself.
16:07He won't tell me.
16:09But doesn't your company offer, uh, servers to the filmmakers
16:13so they can back up their footage for free?
16:17Normally, yes, but he didn't want that.
16:21His editing suite is usually locked.
16:23He insists on having the only key.
16:31Well, looks like Mr. Top Secret has left the building.
16:38His team's getting a few days ahead of time.
16:43I can't wait for it.
16:48I can't wait for him, isn't he?
16:48I can get that for you.
16:48There's anything else in his office.
16:48Your team's getting a few days ahead of time?
16:48Not on your own.
16:49Yep.
16:49Is there anything else in your office?
16:51Not on our own.
16:52Not on our own.
16:52Enjoy this weekend.
16:53Or, uh, just without way for it.
16:55No, wait for it.
16:55Sure thing else.
16:57Yeah, I can get that for you.
16:59Anything else?
16:59Yes.
17:00Hello.
17:03Yo, River, you're shot.
17:11Before we get started, would you mind turning the camera off?
17:14What camera?
17:15The one on your bookshelf.
17:20Look, in my business, everything is material.
17:24You don't know the story till the story appears.
17:26It sounds a lot like our business, and our story so far, as it appears, is that you were stalking
17:35and surveilling a man that we just found dead in a tree.
17:38Thursday night, 7 p.m. Where were you, Patrice?
17:41Wait, wait, wait, hang on.
17:43You're not suggesting...
17:45Suggesting? No. I'm just asking.
17:50I was here. I came in around 3 p.m., and they didn't leave till the next morning.
17:55You can confirm it with my neighbor if you want. We shared a pizza together.
17:59We'll be sure to do that.
18:00Seriously. I was right here, in my office, transcribing interviews on this computer.
18:06Well, that's interesting, as your office used to be at, uh, Skyline Post.
18:12Until you abruptly left yesterday with four months left on your contract.
18:15Look, I wasn't stalking Stuart Song. I just wanted the guy on camera. That's it.
18:22Why? A solitary math tutor that man barely leaves the footprint?
18:26Exactly. I'm making a film about people who've dropped off the grid.
18:32Dropped off the grid? Because thousands of people wanted them dead?
18:38And you think Stuart Song is a crypto-billionaire.
18:43Who told you?
18:44You just did. And seeing that you're the only person that thinks that, I guess that makes you our prime
18:50suspect.
18:50Okay, listen. I can prove Stuart was Takashi, and that I am not the only one who knows.
18:58How?
19:03Last week, this was delivered to my office.
19:08No return address.
19:09Just undeniable proof that Stuart Song is Takashi.
19:16Mark and I went through Patrice's folder.
19:19Tons of proof that Stuart was Takashi.
19:21I haven't shown what we found in the Raikoin source code.
19:24Quit looking at my code.
19:26It's the first letter, just like the bookshelf.
19:28Cute. Not as cute as an oak shelf, but what about our tipster?
19:33I'm thinking under 30, based on the notes on the margin.
19:36T-B-H-I-M-H-O, wag me.
19:39We're all gonna make it. That'll cry the Crypto Republic.
19:42Keeps people going when they're losing their shirts.
19:44Blitz again.
19:46Okay, so, under 30.
19:49Lurking in the forums.
19:51Brilliant.
19:52If they've been able to put this together.
19:55Raised by wolves.
19:56Excuse me?
19:57The hat. It's from Raised by Wolves.
19:59They're a streetwear brand.
20:00And their stores in Ottawa.
20:01It wouldn't be too hard to track them down.
20:03They do a lot of capsules.
20:04Small batch stuff.
20:10Riversmith.
20:12Can I help you, officer?
20:14It's detective.
20:16We're hoping you might have a conversation with us.
20:19About Takashi.
20:21How did you find me?
20:22Well, apparently you were raised by wolves.
20:28Okay, uh, everybody out.
20:31Yeah, you gotta go.
20:32Hey, Pete, could you just throw up a close sign for me?
20:35Oh, really?
20:37Are you serious?
20:37Sorry.
20:38So, River, we went through your files.
20:40They're very thorough.
20:41Why didn't you bring them to the police?
20:43So you could arrest him?
20:44Well, he ripped off 100,000 people.
20:46Look, no offense, but I don't exactly have much trust in the police.
20:51I'm taken.
20:52Besides, this isn't cops and robbers.
20:54This is a treasure hunt.
20:56I mean, this is the Copper Scroll.
20:58This is the Beale Ciphers.
20:59The Beale Ciphers, they're a myth.
21:01Well, yeah, but imagine if you were two steps away from solving them.
21:05What do you mean, uh, two steps?
21:07Okay.
21:08Okay.
21:09Uh, so this is a treasure hunt.
21:11You find the gold.
21:13Why give it away to a documentary filmmaker?
21:16Was I supposed to just release him to those numbnuts online?
21:20And have you heard those freaks?
21:21They want to cut the man to pieces and string him up by the toenails.
21:26Patrice Beauchamp's the real deal.
21:27I mean, I, uh, I think it was a great way to expose Tekashi to the masses.
21:32Yet here we are investigating his murder.
21:33You painted target on a man's back.
21:36It's no surprise he gets shot.
21:37Yeah, I know.
21:38I, um, I'm sorry.
21:42I didn't, I...
21:43Thursday, 7 p.m., where were you?
21:45Swan dive on Dundas.
21:48It's a first date.
21:49Question.
21:50You're a puzzler.
21:52This one's been bugging me.
21:56I went into, uh, the forums from two years ago.
21:59It seems that, uh, Stewart was arguing with Tekashi.
22:02Not as himself, obviously.
22:04His username was LifePi97.
22:07Yeah, no, I, uh, that's how I pulled his age.
22:12Sloppy.
22:13Okay, well, Stewart would point out issues, bugs, problems, and Tekashi'd fire right back.
22:18Call Stewart a fool.
22:19A basic, smooth brain.
22:22Non-player character.
22:23NPC.
22:24Yeah, um, I think that Stewart was Riot Coyne's biggest fan and its biggest critic.
22:31I, I always just figured that he was fighting with himself.
22:36What do you mean?
22:38Haven't you ever heard that thing people say?
22:41Um, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist?
22:49Mark's reviewing the documentary footage now.
22:51How do you take it?
22:53Patrice tore up the warrant into tiny shreds.
22:56I thought he was gonna eat them.
22:57Well, the man has teeth.
22:59You get everything?
23:00Took everything with a plug.
23:02Thanks.
23:05Tekashi is smart, but the hive mind is smarter.
23:10We're gonna tear him apart, limb by limb.
23:13All right, stop it there, Mark.
23:16That clip there, can you highlight that and find the original source in there, Mark?
23:25Right, Colin, where's hope?
23:27And now?
23:29I feel like I'm at the bottom of a hole.
23:32And I look up at the sky, but...
23:36It's so far away.
23:39I don't know how I'll ever get out.
23:45And cut.
24:02You know, there comes a point in every investigation that things start to pile up at the feet of one
24:09person.
24:09And I'd say, we've reached that point.
24:12See, not only were you one of two people who knew that Stuart Song was Tekashi, not only did you
24:18shut down your work at Skyline, and not only did you threaten Stuart's life, but sin of all sins for
24:24a filmmaker.
24:25You faked the source in your interviews.
24:27Couldn't get anyone to come on camera.
24:30They're all privacy freaks.
24:32You said you would tear that man limb from limb.
24:36I have an alibi.
24:38Well, I imagine two billion dollars is enough to pay off a neighbor.
24:42But what do I know?
24:45At any rate, what we have is far more important.
24:48What's that?
24:49Motive.
24:50You hated the man.
24:51You said so on camera.
24:53So you stalked him.
24:54You brought him to a basement.
24:56You put a plastic bag over his head.
24:58And secured it with tape until he suffocated to death.
25:04You were nominated for an Emmy, weren't you?
25:07Mm-hmm.
25:08How was that?
25:09You fly down there?
25:11To L.A.?
25:13You meet any famous people?
25:15No, because they don't talk to losers.
25:18But you did manage to get funding for your next film.
25:21But the money never ended up on the screen, did it?
25:24You put it all into Riot coin.
25:27So not only did you lose your money, you lost people's trust.
25:31You lost your reputation.
25:34And then your career.
25:35Yeah.
25:37And I wanted to find the man responsible.
25:39And do that to him.
25:40No.
25:41Expose him and make him rot in jail.
25:44But I didn't want to kill him.
25:47I just wanted my life back.
25:49And the only way I could claw back some semblance of a career
25:53would be to tell it as a story.
25:55Let the audience be the judge and jury.
25:58So I posted on many forums looking for help.
26:01And then, whoop.
26:03Would you look at that?
26:03Someone dropped Stuart's name right into your lap.
26:05I confronted Stuart.
26:07He denied it, of course.
26:08But then I got a bunch of texts on my phone
26:11accusing me of killing the guy.
26:13Texts from who?
26:14I have no idea.
26:16So I started to panic, shut things down at Skyline,
26:19remove all my footage of their servers,
26:22and finish a project from home.
26:23Period.
26:24No, no.
26:25You're Mr. Top Secret.
26:27They said you didn't want their storage service.
26:30What?
26:32I always back up my projects.
26:34We tell you death.
26:39Okay, so why would Malcolm lie about not having access to the footage?
26:43Well, maybe he was curious about what Patrice was making,
26:45held a private screening.
26:47Maybe he found Stuart's real identity,
26:50and he lied to us to distance himself from our victim.
26:52I mean, do you think Malcolm could have kidnapped Stuart?
26:54Well, it's a theory.
26:55The only way to test it is to revisit the clues
26:59and see if anything's connected to Malcolm.
27:01Okay.
27:02Now, Stuart Sarlan leaves his home at 7 p.m.
27:05He walks south on Gladstone to Queen,
27:08enters the underpass at 7.13.
27:11Van picks him up,
27:12takes him up to Tony Lewis's abandoned house in North York,
27:15where he's held.
27:16What do we miss?
27:17Van.
27:20Van.
27:21The Van.
27:23The Van was rented
27:27using one John Oswald's ID and credit card.
27:32Oswald was bar hopping
27:33the night that his wallet was stolen.
27:35I didn't even notice it was gone till the morning.
27:37How did he get home?
27:39It says here he took a rideshare.
27:41From where?
27:44The Porthouse Social.
27:46Never heard of it.
27:47That's because it's not in Toronto.
27:49It's in Port Credit.
27:52Oh, Malcolm.
27:56God.
27:59Yeah.
28:02Sorry.
28:03It's been a long day.
28:06Hi, sweetie.
28:07Do you want to go play?
28:08Watch your iPad.
28:10Watch the iPad.
28:11Okay, go ahead, sweetie.
28:12Love you.
28:14Yeah, go play.
28:16Great.
28:17Sorry.
28:19I am trying to run my graphic design business from home,
28:22but Max isn't in school right now.
28:25How old is he?
28:26Six, but it's a long story.
28:28This is, uh...
28:30This is beautiful.
28:31Yeah, Max is an artist.
28:33That's for sure.
28:35I'm sorry, you said he was only six?
28:38That seems impossible.
28:40Well, not if he's on the spectrum.
28:42I used to draw when I was a kid, but nothing so intricate.
28:47This is remarkable.
28:49Sorry to intrude.
28:51We, uh, we were hoping to speak with your husband.
28:53Is he home?
28:54Malcolm?
28:55Uh, no, he's at work.
28:56Like, always.
28:58I mean, God bless him.
29:01He has been working so much over time.
29:04Max has got a shot of getting into Beacon Heights.
29:06It's a private school in the city.
29:08It's just...
29:09It's expensive?
29:10Yeah, I get it.
29:12Anyway, um, I'm assuming this is about that body that was on the tree.
29:18Did Malcolm tell you about that?
29:20Uh, no, my uncle.
29:22Apparently the killer used Tony's house.
29:25All Tony talks about is tearing it down, and the moment he finally gets close, it turns
29:30into a crime scene.
29:32Please, Miss Davis, there must be something I can do.
29:35Some savings, RRSPs, life insurance I can liquidate.
29:40Mr. Bell, you haven't contributed to your RRSP in four years.
29:44Your life insurance payment stopped last January.
29:47You're not currently insured.
29:50You make $87,000 a year.
29:55Frankly, I don't know where that money's going.
29:57I told you.
29:58My son.
29:59His name is Max.
30:01He's six.
30:01He has ASD, autism spectrum disorder.
30:05Mr. Bell, I'm sorry.
30:07There's nothing I can do.
30:09No, I'm not leaving until you tell me what to do.
30:18Detectives Bateman and Graff will take this one, right?
30:20You can let him go.
30:22Malcolm, your boss said you were taking lunch to talk to your banker.
30:25I'm guessing it didn't go well.
30:27Malcolm, we'd like to talk to you about the kidnapping and murder of Stuart Song.
30:44The hunt for Takashi.
30:47Yesterday, someone compared it to a treasure hunt.
30:51I hadn't thought about it that way before, but it stuck.
30:55Wasn't hunting for anyone.
30:58No, I believe you.
31:00I mean, you're just a middle manager.
31:01You wouldn't look at the footage that comes across your desk.
31:04Why would you?
31:06But it's human nature when somebody hides something from you to want to take a peek.
31:17Mr. Top Secret, you called him.
31:20Malcolm, you took that peek, didn't you?
31:23Fortune fell right into your lap.
31:25It was like somebody was handing you a winning lottery ticket,
31:29and all you had to do was cash it in and pop the champagne.
31:32We spoke with your wife, Malcolm.
31:35We looked into your finances.
31:38You're broke.
31:40It's tough.
31:41And there's nothing you wouldn't do for your boy, Max.
31:45You'd go so far as to steal a wallet, rent a van, plant a GPS tracker in a man's jacket
31:53so you could hunt him down.
31:56GPS tracker?
31:57No, I don't know what you're talking about.
31:59You abducted your target, brought him to Hannah's uncle's empty house.
32:03You demanded a ransom, which he paid, and then you killed him anyway.
32:06I didn't kill him!
32:08No, I didn't!
32:11I found his address on Patrice's footage, and then I followed him through the underpass.
32:17And I took him.
32:20Okay, why?
32:21Because I needed the money.
32:23I asked him for $300,000.
32:26Life-changing for me.
32:28For him, it's .015% of his net worth.
32:34But he said he wasn't Takashi.
32:36Well, chained to a chair, I might say the same thing.
32:39Sure, but then he started making sense.
32:44He started saying things, like he was an early adopter of Riot Coin, and how he met Takashi online, and
32:52helped him write better code, improve his specs.
32:55He swore on his own life that he wasn't Takashi.
32:57So if Stuart's song wasn't Takashi, then why did he go off the grid?
33:03He claimed he was scared.
33:05That people would find out he was involved.
33:08He said that after Takashi disappeared, he felt sick, like he was responsible for ruining thousands of lives.
33:16You know, everything that I had brought up, Stuart had an answer for.
33:19But eventually, you were going to have to get rid of him.
33:22I mean, make it make sense, Malcolm.
33:23My face was covered, so Stuart had promised me he wouldn't tell a soul if I had let him go.
33:30So I went home.
33:31I thought about it for a couple hours, and then...
33:37When I came back, Stuart was right where I left him.
33:43But with a plastic bag over his head.
33:46And $2 billion transferred out of his account.
33:48Yes, so I guess he was Takashi, and I'm an idiot for believing when he said he wasn't.
34:00Obviously, I couldn't go to the police.
34:02And there was workers starting at the house.
34:04I didn't know what to do.
34:07Are you saying you moved a body for someone else's murder?
34:09Look, I don't know who killed Stuart Song.
34:15But I know it wasn't me.
34:25Looks like we have our man.
34:27For the kidnapping, sure.
34:29You believe that?
34:30Come on.
34:31If it wasn't Malcolm, how would the killer know where Stuart was?
34:33Because of the GPS tracker and Stuart's jacket, Malcolm didn't even know it was there.
34:38Obviously, he was lying.
34:39Why would you confess to a kidnapping, which is five to life, and then lie about how you did it?
34:44So you think the kidnapper and the killer are different people?
34:46Okay, so how would this imaginary second person get the money out of Stuart when Malcolm couldn't?
34:51There was no sign of torture.
34:53Well, there are ways to convince people that don't include torture.
34:57But apart from Malcolm, the only other two people who knew about Stuart were documentary filmmaker Patrice and his anonymous
35:03source...
35:03River.
35:04Both of whom have alibis.
35:06But for the kidnapping, but not for the time of the murder.
35:08If we believe Malcolm, we're looking at a whole different chessboard.
35:12River Smith has no motive.
35:14If he was after Stuart's money, he never would have leaked the information to Patrice.
35:18He would have just killed him taking the money, and no one would have known who Stuart was.
35:22Which leaves Patrice.
35:24And the guy we have in custody was Motive, who just admitted to kidnapping.
35:29Okay, yeah, see, we're not asking you to believe us.
35:31We're asking for more time.
35:37Hey, I can't confirm Malcolm's alibi for the time of the murder.
35:40Ah, Forrester will be thrilled.
35:43What did you get?
35:43Well, we combed through all of Patrice's footage, then realized we didn't check the, uh, camera we found in the
35:49nest.
35:50You mean the one that just shows curtains?
35:52Yeah, so, here's the exact moment that, uh, Patrice confronted Stuart on his, uh, doorstep.
35:58Have a listen.
35:59I've enhanced the audio.
36:06Oh, my God, Henry.
36:12You didn't want to lead with that?
36:14I deprived myself of this beautiful moment.
36:22Detectives!
36:26Espresso?
36:27Oh, it's, uh, a little late for caffeine, thanks.
36:29Not when you got 200 pages left of the Voynich Manuscript.
36:32Hey, but now I got a new puzzle.
36:34Why are you here?
36:36Well, we, uh, we need your help.
36:38See, uh, we found this in Stuart's jacket.
36:41You know, it turns out to be a GPS tracker.
36:45Cool.
36:46Can I see it?
36:47That's not much to look at, but, uh, I think you've seen it already.
36:51Actually, uh, I think you were the one who put it in Stuart's jacket.
36:55Maybe even the night he disappeared, huh?
36:57You were at the Swan Dive, just two blocks away from his house, and maybe you passed him in the
37:03street and bumped into him.
37:08Are you...
37:09Wow.
37:11That's...
37:11I'll have what you're having, man.
37:13River, why don't you, uh, come take a look at this?
37:19It's video from the hidden Nest camera in Stuart Song's front yard.
37:23That's...
37:25It's gripping.
37:26I'll just turn up the volume.
37:28Stuart, you can't hide this any longer.
37:30That's Patrice Beauchamp.
37:32It's Stuart Song.
37:33Heck, some of you are cold-wrapped in shiny influencer wrapping paper.
37:37It was a meme for me, John Brown.
37:38You're still just a basic, smooth-brained NPC.
37:42And that, uh, guy lurking around the house listening, that's, uh...
37:48That's you.
37:51No, it's not.
37:53Doesn't sound like me.
37:55You sure?
38:02Reflective gel.
38:03Bad for paparazzi.
38:05Good for us.
38:08So what?
38:10I mean, the guy ripped off thousands of people, and I'm the one who caught him.
38:13I wanted to watch him squirm.
38:14Sounds to me like you're the one squirming, River.
38:17Using the exact same expressions Takashi used to insult Stuart on the forums.
38:22You know what we could not figure out, is how the killer got the money from Stuart when Malcolm couldn't.
38:28But the killer didn't get the money from Stuart, did they?
38:33Because Stuart wasn't Takashi.
38:36You are.
38:38You killed Stuart, and you sent the money to yourself.
38:43You see, the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing us he was Stuart Song.
38:51Right, um...
38:53Okay, I'm closing up, so...
38:58Got a second date, unless some clowns scared her off.
39:01A hive mind.
39:02It's real.
39:04It's scary.
39:06Crypto millionaires being kidnapped all over the world, being tortured, killed.
39:10I think you heard about the guy in France recently, right?
39:13Got his hands severed, sent to his family for ransom.
39:17I mean, these are the same desperate people who are getting closer to finding you.
39:22So, how do you stop an angry mob from asking questions?
39:27You give him an answer.
39:29And Stuart was the perfect patsy.
39:32An early adopter, fingerprints all over the code, active on the forums, and, uh...
39:38It went dark the same week that, uh, you rubbed Riot Coin.
39:43And then you saw Patrice on the forums asking for help with his documentary.
39:49He'd publish Stuart's, uh, fake identity to the masses, to those fools, to those basic smooth brains.
40:02Okay, if I am Tekashi, then why do I work at a coffee shop, huh?
40:07Where's my two billion?
40:09Well, you couldn't access it, could you, Tekashi?
40:12Not what everyone was looking for you.
40:14So you needed a distraction.
40:16And even if you could get at the billions of dollars you stole,
40:20do you really think it would buy you freedom from those freaks who wanted to tear you limb from limb?
40:27Tell me, River, when was the last time you had a good night's sleep?
40:33You needed it to stop.
40:35So you, you laid a trap.
40:37You put a GPS tracker in Stuart's jacket in case he ran away.
40:43Everything was going hunky-dory until Malcolm showed up.
40:46Malcolm.
40:47Ah, but then the tracker led you to an empty house where Stuart was tied up.
40:53Crisis equals danger plus opportunity, so you decided on a dark pivot.
41:03So you taped a plastic bag over an innocent man's head
41:08and then sent yourself two billion dollars as he suffocated.
41:14River, he can come with us right now.
41:17We'll take you to holding.
41:18And from this moment until your trial, you have our word you'll be fully protected.
41:22Yeah, or you can choose to walk out this door right now and lawyer up.
41:28And we'll have no choice but to start a very public investigation into you.
41:34Now, when that gets out, all the media, they'll descend like vultures.
41:38And very little time will have enough to charge you with murder.
41:41But by then, it'll be too late because everyone will know your true identity.
41:47And all that anonymity that you've worked for, that you've killed for, will vanish.
41:53And of all the Riot Coin buyers that you duped,
41:57I promise you, one of them is going to do a lot more than just break down your door.
42:02You...
42:04You can't do that.
42:05We can, and we will.
42:09You don't know what it's like, okay?
42:11I haven't slept in two years.
42:14I feel like I'm going insane.
42:16My head is pounding.
42:18I feel like I'm just, my brain is just going and going, like I'm spinning around.
42:22River, I get it.
42:23You were looking for a way out, so let us give you one.
42:29You're a genius.
42:31And I don't use that word lightly.
42:33But if you're as smart as I think you are, you won't turn this down.
42:48It's your life, kid.
42:54Round-the-clock protection.
42:57Private room.
42:59As many books as I request.
43:01It's not a room.
43:03It's a cell.
43:10You know, you did a great job in burying your treasure, but you overlooked one thing.
43:16You buried yourself along with it.
43:18Let's go.
43:20Let's go.
43:30Let's go.
43:32Let's go.
43:46Let's go.
43:47I know, I know, I know, I know.
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