01x10 - Chapter Ten: Chilling

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Death and Other Details". Aired: January 16, 2024 – present.*
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Rufus Coteworth finds himself on a luxury cruise liner when a locked-room m*rder takes place.
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01x10 - Chapter Ten: Chilling

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KIRA SCOTT: Previously,
on
Death and Other Details...

- I'm being a bad friend.
- No, it's fine.

I'm happy just freeloading as per usual.

What? Imogene, please, you're family.

Imogene, [SNIFFLES] I have
not slept for two days.

Leila wants a divorce.
I lost the company.


My dad isn't even really my dad.

Oh, and I can see that none of
this is even registering with you

because all you care about
is did he k*ll your mom?

- He did.
- I made a phone call.

ANDREAS WINDELER: Viktor Sams
is meticulous in his justice.


He is in control.

In one hour, this
ship will be destroyed.

I know you're angry, but
right now we need each other.

Oh, my God, you're okay.

JULES TOUSSAINT: Thank
you. For the escape plan.

- Yeah, my timing wasn't perfect, but...
- We'll do better next time.

IMOGENE SCOTT: I found Danny's
log. Everything he did onboard.


Who are you? I never forget a face.

If Danny saw Viktor Sams,
then it's gotta be in there.

See that? There. Right there. See?

LEILA COLLIER: It does not make sense.

Unless...

This was personal.

- You see things, Imogene.
- No.

Things other people don't
even bother to notice.

- Mom?
- [TICKING]

WAITER: Excuse me, Mr. Cotesworth.
May I interest you in a whiskey?

- Maybe some schnapps?
- No. Coffee's fine.

Could you do a bacon butty?

Right away, Mr. Cotesworth.

There's something worse than the end.

Longing for one... knowing
the true end may never come.

I hate that. No, no, no.

[SCRIBBLES]

And... if I...

I used to think if I found Viktor Sams,

if I solved Kira Scott's m*rder,

I'd find some kind of peace.

But there's not real peace.

- Life, I'm afraid... is a messy thing.
- [TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

[TICKING]

[expl*si*n BLASTS]

- [ANNA SHRIEKS]
- [TRIPP GASPS]

[SHIP RATTLING, CREAKING]

- We're not dead.
- Might as well be!

No, no, no, Anna!

The bombs went off, but we're not...

We should be dead.
Come on, we need to go.

Hey! Hey! Look, I get it. Okay?

It's been a, it's
been a sh*t, sh*t week.

But you and I, we're still here.

- Okay? Come on. So, just...
- [SHIP CREAKING]

f*ck it... Come on. [GRUNTING]

Let's go. Come on. f*ck!



[CLANGING]

- [ELECTRICITY ZAPPING]
- [LOUD THUD]

[PANTING]

- KIRA: We need to go.
- I'm not going anywhere with you.

There's a ferry nearby.

In less than six minutes, they'll
be here and evacuate the guests.

- No one has been injured.
- No one has... You blew up a helicopter.

Well, they cheated.

The expl*sives were installed
far away from the guests.

Near your server farm so
you could destroy evidence.

Where is Rufus?

He was evacuated with
the crew and the children.

- He's perfectly safe.
- [SHIP CREAKING]

We need to leave now.

You think I'd trust you?

I'll answer every question you have,

Imogene, but we have
to get off this boat.

[RATTLING]

[SIREN WAILING]



[STEAM HISSING]

[TEDDY GRUNTS]

LEILA: Sunil, we gotta go!

Come on! [GRUNTING]

Go!



- [SIREN WAILING]
- [SHIP CREAKING]

[WATER WHOOSHING]







[MYSTERIOUS THEME MUSIC PLAYING]



[WATER SLOSHES]

KIRA: Go ahead and take it off.

Apologies for the theatrics.

IMOGENE: What do you want?

I want you to trust me.

I want you to understand.

You can go at the end
of this, I promise.

You have no idea what it's
been like to see you every day

and not have you know me,

to wanna tell you who you are to me.

I haven't taken a breath in 18
years without thinking about you.

I never wanted to leave you, Imogene.

But you did.

I did.

Had to.

YOUNG IMOGENE: It's not fair.

They get to own all
the beautiful things.

You're gonna make me
put it back, aren't you?

KIRA: I didn't have a choice, Imogene.

I was all alone. I
didn't know who to trust.


The night after I met with
Hochenberg at the Opal Diner,


- they came for me.
- [CRICKETS CHIRRING]

- [LOUD CLANG]
- [DOG BARKING]

[PANTING]

You're really picturing it, aren't you?

Just tell me what happened.

I went for my keys.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[SHAKY BREATHS]

[GRUNTING, GASPING]

- ASSASSIN: Bitch!
- [FIGHTING, GRUNTING]

[ASSASSIN YELLS]

[IMOGENE PANTING]

KIRA: It was the f*cking
Colliers. They tried to k*ll me.

But they failed.

Now I had to get out
before they tried again.

I desperately wanted
to take you with me.

ANDREAS: No! In no
f*ckin' universe. No kids.

Kids can't stay in a basement
without heat or windows for six weeks.

Kids paint a target on your back.

Every border you cross,
you'll bring more attention.

You found me because you need someone
to make you disappear and I can.

But you go alone.

I'm not gonna have a kid's
death on my conscience.

I knew the only way to keep you safe
was for them to think I was gone.

Lawrence Collier has resources.

You wanna stay gone, you
follow every rule I give you.

And I mean every single rule.

No lookin' back.

No reaching out to your kid or mom.

No ex-boyfriends, girlfriends.

You can't talk to anyone
you knew before, ever.

It's the biggest mistake people make,

the reason they get found,

they reach out to loved ones.

ANDREAS: Okay?

Now here's the hard part.

There may not be a body, but
there damn well better be DNA.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

You gotta be kidding me.

[SIGHS]

[HEAVY BREATHING]



Oh, f*ck.

[THUNDERING]

Oh, gross.

[IMOGENE BREATHING HEAVILY]

Oh, f*ck.

[PANTING]

- [GRUNTING, SCREAMS]
- [cr*ck]

[PANTING, GASPING]

[PANTING]

- [SCREAMS]
- [cr*ck]

[HEAVY BREATHING]



[expl*sives BEEPING]

It's not fair.

They get to own all
the beautiful things.

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]

You're gonna make me
put it back, aren't you?



I sure am.

[SIGHS] Go.

KIRA: That's your go bag.



[SIGHS] I don't, I
don't get it. I saw you.

Right before the car
exploded, you were here.

- You were starting the engine.
- You heard the sound.

- No, I saw you!
- You didn't.

Look.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Memory is a m*therf*cker.

Now you run.





- [PHONE BEEPS]
- [expl*si*n]

YOUNG IMOGENE [SCREAMING,
CRYING]: No! No! No!

- No!
- Every instinct in me

was screaming to go to you.

- [HEAVY BREATHING]
- YOUNG IMOGENE [ECHOING]: Mom!

You made me watch.

The hardest decision of my life.

But I knew you, Imogene.

You had to see it,

or you'd have questioned,
doubted, wondered.

You never would've moved on.

You think I moved on?

[KIRA SCOFFS]

They stole our lives.

[IMOGENE SIGHS]

KIRA: It broke me, for a time.

My only hope was that
it wasn't all in vain.

I'd left evidence behind.

But... it went nowhere.

Corruption was winning and
the corrupt were walking free.

[SIGHS]

I looked around and
saw how naïve I'd been.

I saw power prevailing everywhere.

And what was I doing?

Hiding. [SCOFFS]

It wasn't enough.

Not nearly.

So... I built a new identity.

A few identities, in fact.

I changed my face. Surprisingly painful.

I changed my eye color.
You can do that, but don't.

I love your blues.

And I got to work.





[BELLS RINGING]

[DOORS RATTLING]

Real power doesn't lie in
the halls of government,

or with figurehead
monarchs, or with the media.

No.

Power, real power... is hoarded
by the billionaire class.

They have changed the rules
and they did it with lies.

Lies that divide us,

that keep us scrolling on
our phones for distraction

while they rob us in broad daylight,

while we click "like" and "buy,"
and obsess over conspiracies,

and sell them our eyeballs

until we've not only lost our bearings,

we've lost our humanity.

You see it.

You know in your bones it's wrong.



I will arm you.

I will show you where to aim.

We'll fight for the people
the world throws away.



This is good.

Life, I'm afraid... is a messy thing.

But I will say this about Kira Scott.

There really was a ferry
from the island of Malta,


a scant two nautical miles away,

when her bombs went off
and the ship began to sink.


You could call it a coincidence,
but, of course, you now know


coincidences are just dressed-up clues.

The bombs were never meant to k*ll.

They were meant to provoke... to scare.

We made it.

We f*ckin' made it, Anna.

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

RUFUS COTESWORTH: I'd say it
worked... almost too well.


But in that moment, in that very moment,

all I could think was,

will I ever see Imogene again?

It's alright, son. I'm
alright. We're alright.

I'm coming for you.

Yes, I have your phone.

So glad you made it. I was worried sick.



I think I'm ready to
be boring for a while.

Eleanor, and I mean this,

I never wanna see you again.

[DRAMATIC CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]



[SIGHS] She was perfect.

Even if I wasn't.



[PLANES RUMBLING]

What you're doing here, it's...

I do get it.

I know why you feel like
someone should stop them,

but you hurt people.

Not innocent people.

Danny Turner.

All he wanted to do
was solve your m*rder.


He wanted to help.

You made him part of your game
and you don't even regret it.

I'm full of regret,

- but I have to make hard choices.
- No, you don't.

You don't have to do any of this.

You got your revenge. You can
walk away and we can start over.

Oh... Imogene.

What? You disappeared once.

Come on.

I just got you back.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Give it all up?

What would we do?

[WIND BLOWING]

[SKIS WHOOSHING]

One more run?

[SIGHS] After lunch.

[PANTING] Geezer.

[PANTING] Maniac.

[CHUCKLES]

[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]

RUFUS: When the culprit
has been identified


and the coincidences have
all been sorted into clues,

always feel like absolute horseshit.



[AMBIENT NATURE SOUNDS]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[KIRA LAUGHS]

They're holding our usual
table. I'll be right there.

RUFUS: But this time was worse,

because this time, we'd found the truth.

But who would ever know?

Kira Scott was free.

We'll return the files after they pay.

If they try another decryption
program, triple the amount.

And, Andreas... do not
forget what these people did.

RUFUS: And she hadn't given up
a single thing for her daughter.


[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]

[SNIFFS]







[BELL TOLLING]



TRIPP COLLIER: Come on, Leila. Don't go.

She signed the papers. It's over.

Is that what you really want?





I'll miss you.



If you had told me a year ago

you and I are the only
sane ones in this house...

- You don't have to stay either.
- Yeah, but I do.

They need me.

Never had that.

Mother f*ck! Who doesn't
keep a f*cking spoon?

I mean, [SNIFFLES] what
kinda kitchen is this?

Dad.

Tripp... when are we going home?

[SIGHS] This is home, Dad.

You're bankrupt.

They took the houses, both planes,

and the water park in Tucson.

No. Thunder Gorge?

- She thunders for another now.
- [STIRRING DRINK]

It's a miracle Anna
got to keep this place.

[SIGHS] Where's my g*dd*mn...

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]

[INHALES] So, how is she?

She's fine... I told you already.

[SPEAKING MANDARIN]

Where is she?

[SPEAKING MANDARIN]

Hm?

[TEDDY SIGHS]



[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

IMOGENE: Hm.

The season's ending. Where to next?

- KIRA: I'm done with mountains.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]

There's a ranch in Argentina.

You'll love it.

A ranch.

It's yours?

It's ours.

How many people did you
blackmail to buy that one?

Or was it from your last game?

I read the headlines.

I know the money Andreas took
for those seats wasn't recovered.

You wanna rehash this here?

This is as good a place as any.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Ya know... there's one
thing that didn't add up.

You spent all this time, all those
resources plotting your revenge.

You k*lled everyone responsible.

Everyone except the man
at the heart of the affair,

Lawrence Collier.

His brain is addled, yes,

but did that truly excuse
him from your justice?

Unless...

- Unless...
- Hm.

... your as*ault on him
began before we set sail,

two and a half years before, in fact.

It was right around then that Lawrence

switched his daily protein smoothie

from green,

- to blue...
- [SLURPS]

... after he'd clicked on an
advertisement built just for him.

Smoothies shipped direct to consumer.

Special ingredient?

Captionem Blue.

Causes cancer, dementia, and
all manner of knock-on ailments.

He didn't get dementia.

It's a symptom.

You poisoned him

with the same sh*t he used
on his workers in China.

It's alright, Kira. You
don't need to be coy.

I have proof... of everything you did.

Mm... right.

We couldn't let you win... and we
certainly couldn't let you destroy

all the evidence against yourself.

It's like this along every exterior
wall from here down to F deck.

Ambient temperature of the
ocean keeps the servers cool.

The servers?

That was the one part
of your plan that failed,

'cause they didn't
go down with the ship.

So, while you and I
had our little chat...



Viktor Sams.

... my friends moved your
stupid f*cking servers.



[ELECTRICITY ZAPPING]

- You were the distraction.
- Damn good one.



And all our time together, Imogene,

was it... all a lie?



You tell me.

We got the servers, remember?

We know you've been
active. We know everything.

Truth can finally come to light.

Truth is an outdated technology.

Hm, I intend to drag it
back into our present age.

It's too late for
that. Give it up, Rufus.

I'm not doing it for me.

I'd about given up.

Now I can't.

Which is really too bad for you
in your immediate circumstance.



They're raiding your
warehouse as we speak.

OFFICER 1: FBI! Move!

- OFFICER 2: Hands up!
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

Do not touch that w*apon!

- [DISTANT SIRENS WAIL]
- [HANDCUFFS CLICKING]



Sunil Bandhari is ready to go on
the record and testify against you.



I never wanted us to wind up here.

There's something wrong, with the g*n.

Feels lighter than the
last time you held it.



It's over...

Mom.

[g*ns COCKING]





Well, sh*t.

[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING]

[HANDCUFFS CLICKING]



And as I sit here by
firelight... telling you my truth,

I think about my friend, Danny,

how badly he wanted to solve this.

Not for me, not for justice,

but for a little girl

I made a promise to long ago.



Thought you might need one of these.

Brand new. No bugs. Unlimited data plan.

Thanks, but...

You know, in case someone
tries to reach you.

[PHONE RINGING]

Hello?

SUNIL BANDHARI [OVER
PHONE]: Is it true?

Unlimited data?

[IMOGENE CHUCKLES]

Apparently.

SUNIL: Well then, congratulations.

It's, um...

IMOGENE [OVER PHONE]: Don't you dare
say, "... good to hear my voice."


- sh*t... so my script is worthless.
- [IMOGENE CHUCKLES]

I, um, [CLEARS THROAT]

I missed you.

[OVER PHONE] And I've had a
lotta time to do nothing but.


I still mostly hate you.

SUNIL: Nah, you don't.

[CHUCKLES] How are you holding up?

[INHALES] Well, uh,
my trial's in a month.

My lawyer doesn't like
the judge we pulled.

Hm. So... prison then?

Yeah... there's an upside.

Plenty of time to plot my third career.

[CHUCKLES] Maybe a fourth.
Ya know, just in case.

It really is a dream for me.

When I'm out, I'll find you.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Um, I should...

[SIGHS]

[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]

[RAIN PATTERING]

[IMOGENE EXHALES]

Hey, what happened to workin' alone?

[CHUCKLES] I'm glad you stayed.

You know why I did?

Why?

- Rufus.
- Oh, okay.

His beard... it's so well-coiffed,

- and, uh, such a great...
- Hm. Mm-hmm. Mm.





- [BIRDS SQUAWKING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]

LEILA: I thought about calling the
cops on her, force her into rehab.

IMOGENE: sh*t. When did it get so bad?

Didn't get bad. It's been bad.

After everything she
went through on that boat,

losing her mother, her father,
her career, her best friend.

Her wife.

I haven't filed the papers.

What?

I know what it's
like... to lose yourself,

to have everyone give up on you.

How could I do that to her?

Leila, that's not the same.

No, what she did to y...
what we all did to you.

You were right about all
of it and no one listened.

I don't think I would've
listened to me either.

No. No, I should've.

I wasn't paying enough attention.

I won't do it again.

[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]



[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

What time is it?

I invited a friend.

You don't mind, do you, baby?



[BOTH CHUCKLE]

Okay.

[EXHALES]

[SIGHS]

[SNIFFLES]



Whew!

He's your friend?

- You've been spying on me.
- Mm.

We've been keeping an eye on our asset.

Where's Kira?

ANDREAS: Doesn't matter.

You'll be dealing with us now.

f*ck off.

I talk to Kira, that's it.

You're under the mistaken
impression that, uh,

ya have any control here.

ANNA COLLIER: You are a m*rder*r!

You k*lled Imogene's mom!

What? What are you on about?

Lawrence confessed. I know everything.

Anna... we both know your
father isn't in his right mind

- and that Celia Chun has it out for us.
- Yeah, because we f*cking

poisoned her husband, and then
you m*rder*d Kira to cover it up.

I don't know where you're
getting all of this.

[SCREAMS] Do not
f*cking lie to me again!

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

Do you know how many people
would've lost their jobs

- if the company went down?
- Like you care about them.

- I'm a Christian woman.
- [SCOFFS] God! f*ck!

Don't!

What about Imogene?

All of those nights that
she woke up screaming,

all of those times you told
her everything would be okay

when you knew it f*cking
wasn't because of f*cking you.

That girl had more than
she ever could've hoped for.

Are you seriously suggesting
that her life is better

- because you m*rder*d her mom?
- Wasn't it?

Think about it, sweetheart.

Everything she is,
everything that matters

is because of us.

- [SCREAMS] No!
- [KATHERINE YELLS]

[KATHERINE PANTS, GROANS]



[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]

[KATHERINE PANTING, GASPING]

[GRUNTS]

[ANNA GASPING]

[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]

[ANNA WHIMPERS]

[IV STAND CLANGS]

KIRA: Anna.



Anna... listen to me.

Oh. [GASPING BREATHS]

- You weren't here.
- I didn't mean...

We need to call somebody.

We need a doctor.

She's gone.

Your mom is gone.

But I can protect you

as long as you do exactly as I say.

[ANNA SCREAMING]

[ANNA SOBBING]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[SOBS] Oh, my God, Mom!

Why would you help me?



What does she need me to do?

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

IMOGENE: Pay attention.

Details matter.

Cotesworth liked to say he only
took the impossible crimes.


But I think you know by now
that's some world record bullshit.




Nothing is impossible.
Mm, maybe everything is.


I don't know. I'm new at this.



- [LOUD CRASH]
- [IMOGENE GASPING]

[HEAVY BREATHING]

Gross.

[ DAYS LIKE THESE BY LOW PLAYING]

♪ You'll find we're livin'
in days like these ♪


♪ And say you only
take what you bring ♪


♪ Maybe that's just
the way they speak ♪


♪ Know that I would do anything ♪

♪ Is it somethin' that I can't see? ♪

♪ Everybody just chased by dreams ♪

♪ That's why we're livin'
in days like these again ♪


[SONG ENDS]

- [CHILD GIGGLES]
- [BIKE BELL RINGS]

[MACHINE WHIRRING]
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