01x04 - Charlotte

[bunniefuu]

ELVIS: I've got a message
from Miss Morning Dove White.

Is that... Elvis?

Uh, Elvis was Cherokee.

TASHA: His three times
great-grandmother was Cherokee.

Now there's someone following
us. Brown Chrysler on the left.

OREN: Maybe it was the Salazar guy.

Did anyone recognize him?

Not me.

You're investigating the
death of a decorated agent.

Okay. Here's the situation. Um...

I was actually supposed
to cancel that tox report.

I just wanna help you get
a head start on all this

before I go to the airport.

But I'll be back for
your grandpa's wake.

Your grandpa is the redacted FBI
agent in Riley Poole's podcast.

WOMAN: I thought that guy Benjamin Gates

was the one that found the treasure.

I am the co-finder.

Oh.

Riley Poole.

I recognized you from your book.

Oh, will you sign it?

(CLATTERS)

(TENSE MUSIC)

- (HORSES NEIGHING)
- (WEAPONS CLANKING)

(ALL CLAMORING)

(ETHEREAL MUSIC)

ELVIS: I've got a message
from Miss Morning Dove White.

"The twin-tongued serpent's
tail is revealed in fair weather

by the bend in the new found land."

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(KNOCKING CONTINUES)

Delivery.

It's a sketchy man.

From Ethan.

Tell them. Leave it by the door.

Leave it by the door.

Do you think Billy knows
we solved another clue?

(SIGHS)

(WORRIED GROANING)

TASHA: Cupcakes.

Y'all need to fight more often.

♪ It's sunnier than most days ♪

♪ You'll never see the sky
if you keep looking down ♪

(PHONE DINGS)

(PHONE BEEPS)

One yum emoji. That's it?

- Ask her about the clue.
- ETHAN: No.

Clue talk is off-limits. (SIGHS)

She's too frustrated.

Okay, I got this.

This has got to be in
here somewhere. I know it.

You wanna help?

I can't. (SIGHS)

ETHAN: I'm going golfing.

You play golf?

Meena said she'd give me some pointers.

Okay.

This makes no sense.

I used to love puzzles. Now I hate them.

Come on. You got a lot here.

Okay, our...

twin-tongued translator girl. Malinche.

She kept a secret diary.

Who doesn't?

That she hid because it was a secret

near a sunny, bendy river.

Except there was no evidence
that Malinche could read or write.

Except Malinche was brilliant.

And she spoke a bunch of languages.

Um, she could have taught herself.

I taught myself JavaScript on Twitch.

Point taken.

But even if she could write,

there are over , bendy
rivers in the New World.

(TASHA INHALES DEEPLY)

Maybe you're right, Jess.

No one could solve this.

♪ I am blessed by the heavens
someone's got a hold on me ♪

♪ Sweet, but I get rough
just what I wanna be ♪

♪ Nice to meet ya ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Nice to meet ya ♪

♪ Nice to meet ya ♪

(THEME MUSIC)

Ben, big news.

They're turning my podcast
into a streaming show.

Uh-huh.

I... What's the difference?

Once... Once for the ears

and once for the, you
know, rest of the face.

Listen. Uh, guess who's
gonna be our, our first guest?

Benjamin Franklin Gates.

Uh-huh. We sh**t in a week.

Charlotte's sick. Abigail has to work.

That's terrible.

Uh, what about the wake?

All right. Yeah.

I'll give the Sadusky
family your condolences.

Oh, and hey, give Charlotte
a big hug from Uncle Riley.

Okay. All right.

Well, looks like I might
have to do it all myself.

What could go wrong, right?

(IN SPANISH)

(IN ENGLISH) And that was the
fifth expert to dismiss my theory.

- TASHA: Ugh.
- Mm.

(SIGHING)

JESS: Who am I kidding?

This clue hasn't been
cracked in years.

Jess, it's just a little setback.

It happens to the best of us.

Never forget, Beyoncé lost Star Search.

(PHONE DINGS)

Liam is texting you.

He did not say "kinky kiss".

Ask him if he wants to have a
"clue session" over pizza later.

- Liam's not into pizza that way.
- Says who?

Says all his socials,

and no love or breakup
songs on his SoundCloud

unless you wanna count this
ode he wrote to his fan.

There you are. You
gotta get dressed, honey.

The guests will be arriving soon.

Why are you doing a wake?

You haven't seen Grandpa in forever.

Peter was my father-in-law for years.

(PHONE DINGS)

(PHONE BEEPS)

You're texting a lot. What's up?

(PHONE BEEPS)

See? He has a thing.

Come on. Why don't you just invite
whoever you're texting to the wake?

Definitely not.

That'd be weird.

Fine. Then it's just gonna be you, me,

and a bunch of Grandpa's old cronies

telling you stories
about the good old days.

(PHONE DINGS)

So the thing Liam has
today is his grandpa's wake.

And he wants you to come.

It's at two.

Oh, my God, he's asking you on a date.

Jess.

What? No.

- Why?
- I can't.

It's too soon? Too sad?

It'll just remind you
of your mom's funeral.

How do I say all that
without saying all that?

It's okay. I'll just tell him
you're helping me with a thing.

(PHONE BUZZES)

- Oh, no.
- What?

Liam just invited you
and Oren to the wake too.

- He did?
- So it's definitely not a date.

Which would have been weird.

Apparently, there'll be tons of food.

Yeah, there'll also
be tons of FBI agents.

So... it's settled.

We're not going.

Okay? Yep.

Liam doesn't need us
because he has Oren, right?

We have to go, don't we?

You almost lost the Obsidian
relic to a girl with no means.

(BILLIE SIGHS)

I didn't "almost lose" anything.

I have the relic.

I monitored Sadusky
until he showed his hand,

and now I have it.

The PanAmerican treasure
isn't like the others.

It's personal to you and we understand.

ERUDITE DEALER: You lost
your brother looking for it.

And we're afraid it's
affecting your judgment.

It's only because of me we have
two pieces of the treasure map.

Yes, but Salazar.

I'm not worried about Salazar.

BILLIE: I can handle him.

And all of you should be happy that
this treasure is personal to me.

No one in this room wants
that treasure more than I do.

So, why don't you all
stop second-guessing me?

Grab your pompoms and
start cheering me on.

Because not only do I have
two pieces of the treasure map,

I've just acquired a clue to the third.

Does anyone want to hear it?

(MAN CLEARS THROAT)

I wish I could have seen their
faces when they heard Elvis's voice.

Oh, yeah. It was a real TikTok moment.

Can I help you, guys?

Is that you, Charlie?

If you want to speak to me,
Charlie, don't b*at around the bush.

BILLIE: Uh...

There you are.

I'm gonna need those relics, Billie.

Going rogue, are we?

Does Cras Est Nostrum
mean nothing to you?

I can think of a few billion
things that are more important.

("MOMMY CAN'T SLEEP" BY XVOTO PLAYING)

- (GRUNTING)
- (g*n THUDS)

(COCKS g*n)

- (GRUNTS)
- (PAINED GROAN)

- (YELLS)
- (LOUD THUD)

(BOTH GRUNT)

- (YELLS)
- (THUDS)

(GRUNTS)

(PANTS)

Whoa, let's, let's talk about this.

No, no, no. (GROANS)

(GRUNTS, PANTS)

(CHARLIE PANTING)

Oh, dear.

Your hostile takeover failed.

Let's see what kind of boating accident

the board wants you to have, shall we?

(CHIMES)

Here's a new twist.

(BEEPS)

KACEY: Riley Poole is in
Baton Rouge for Sadusky's wake.

Of course, he is. Riley was his friend.

You think he knows about the treasure?

Maybe he's just there for the wake.

You want me to have eyes on them?

Kacey, you knew me better than that?

I already have eyes on everyone.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

How inappropriate would it be for
me to sneak away to the Clue Room?

Ah! Beyond.

I know this is hard for
you, but you can't just hide.

Hey! You guys came.

- Your grandpa sure had a lot of friends.
- Mm.

- Oren, there's strawberries.
- Oh!

Yeah, they're
chocolate-covered, it's crazy.

You okay?

I'm doing better now.

WAKE GUEST : Liam.

Sorry for your loss.

Thanks.

You know, why do people always
say "sorry" like it's their fault?

My favorite one was...

"At least, your mom feels no more pain.

She's in a better place now."

Oof! Yeah.

At my dad's funeral, it was a lot of...

"At least he d*ed doing what he loved."

I was .

(CHUCKLES) But come on.

Even a -year-old knows that
"Everything always happens for a reason."

Yeah. Yeah, and, and
"Time heals all wounds."

And I hope that one's true.

I'll let you know.

Oh, my God.

Check it. Riley Poole is here.

- (OREN GASPS AMAZINGLY)
- TASHA: Who is it?

OREN: The famous treasure hunter.

Oh, yeah, Riley and Ben
were friends with my grandpa.

Oh, my God. What am I doing?

I gotta get my books
and get them autographed.

I'll see you in a sec.

Well, we should ask him about the clue.

You just said it was
beyond inappropriate

to work on the clue during the wake.

I didn't know a famous treasure
hunter would be here when I said it.

Liam.

Hi. Riley Poole.

We actually met at
your... your dad's funeral.

Yeah, I remember.

- Thanks for coming.
- TASHA: Hey.

You, uh... You wrote a
bunch of books on treasure.

- Right?
- I did.

We have a clue to a
really important treasure

that we've been trying to solve.

TASHA: Uh, this is my best friend, Jess.

- Hi.
- Hi, Jess. Hi.

She's normally our go-to
riddle-puzzle person,

but this one has her stumped, so.

He's retired, Tasha.

No, no, no. I'm... I'm not, not retired.

Uh...

You know, Ben and I have
been... (INHALES DEEPLY)

... working on this,
uh, super important thing

- for the last three or four, years.
- Mm.

Is it another lost treasure?

Let's just say... (SMACKS LIPS)

... there's reasons to be interested.

Anyway, what's... what's,
uh... What's your clue?

I would love to... Love to help out.

Mm.

(CLEARS THROAT)

Go ahead.

The twin-tongued serpent's
tail is revealed in fair weather

by the bend in the new found land.

All right, let's...
let's figure this out.

Okay, so.

- Twin. Twin.
- Mm-hm.

Right, so...

Two, uh, two... two.

Two is more than...
more than one. (SIGHS)

So you have that, um...

Fair weather.

Could be Florida. Orlando.

RILEY: Too humid. That doesn't work.

Albuquerque.

There are snakes in Albuquerque.

I... Yeah.

So serpent...

Snakes.

And, and what... One more time.

- HENDRICKS: Riley!
- JESS: Sure. Oh.

- Huh?-
- Hey.

- Good to see you, man.
- Hendricks. Hey.

- What's going on?
- I'm so sorry to interrupt.

- Oh, no, please. We'll talk later.
- Oh.

Absolutely. I'm, I'm almost there.

I, I... I almost have it.

- Hey.
- I heard you got a promotion.

- I did.
- Congrats.

Yeah. Where's Ben?

(SMACKS LIPS) Ben couldn't make it.

I heard you guys have
been busy on a new project.

Right. You know, I...

I don't think it's really something
that I can discuss right now.

- Of course.
- Yeah.

But as long as it doesn't lead
to me having to arrest you.

(LAUGHS NERVOUSLY) You...

I'm kidding. Come on.

- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It's good to see you.

(LAUGHS)

- ♪ It's not ordinary ♪
- (SIGHS)

♪ It's not casual ♪

♪ All the feels you're
giving me all the feels... ♪

- Huh...
- (ETHAN CLEARS THROAT)

I thought you were golfing.

- I thought you were waking.
- Who are you talking to...

Who're you talking to?

I'll clear out.

- Riley Poole's at the wake.
- Who?

The Templar Treasure guy?

Yeah.

You guys wanna come meet him?

Oh, can we?

So how do you know Mr. Sadusky?

I was his live-in nurse.

- MYLES: You?
- Fellow FBI.

- Came to pay my respects.
- Oh.

You know, my sister is a nurse

at an assisted living facility.

One of her patients d*ed
and left her his house.

Oh, sure.

Mr. Sadusky left that
to his grandson. Liam.

ROSS: They must have been close.

That's a hard no.

So they were estranged.

Mr. Sadusky was estranged from everyone.

- Excuse me.
- Hm.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Okay. Don't look,

but that mean FBI lady is here.

I said "Don't look."

- ROSS: Hello again!
- (NERVOUS LAUGH)

Jane Doevers, Jen Lopez,
what are you doing here?

We're here for Liam.

- So, you all know each other?
- Yeah.

Liam's grandpa sort of

brought us together.

I see.

Oh, what happened with
your, um, "kidnapped" friend?

Um...

TASHA: We found him.

Turns out it was a really
big misunderstanding.

ROSS: That's a relief.

What about that relic Mr.
Sadusky said led to a treasure?

Oh, well, here's the
thing about my grandpa

that a lot of people didn't understand.

He was crazy.

(ALL LAUGHING)

Gentlemen, so glad you could come.

(GASPS) Uh, well, it
was nice to meet you.

That felt like an interrogation.

(TENSE MUSIC)

(PILLS RATTLE)

(CHIMES)

(BEEPS)

Eulogies start in .

Uh...

Eulogies.

My mom's gonna want me to
say something. I... I just...

You just can't deal with it.

Go hide.

We'll cover for you.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Ross, what are you doing here?

I was just looking for the powder room.

I know you went ahead with
that toxicology report on Peter.

Okay. Sir, I'm sorry,
but I really think...

No, no. I'm the one
who should apologize.

Peter may have been off his
rocker for the past few years.

That doesn't mean his death
doesn't deserve to be investigated.

(HENDRICKS SIGHS)

I respect you for not giving up.

I'll support you a hundred percent.

Thank you, sir.

(CAR DOORS OPEN)

Squeaky Pete's musician guy lives here?

(SUCKS TEETH) This is
his grandpa's house.

ETHAN: Hey, uh...

Forgot something in the car.

I'll meet you guys inside.

Hey!

Who are you? What are you doing here?

(ENGINE REVVING)

(SIGHS)

RILEY: Sadusky has my books.

(SNORTS)

He even got the French version.

(CLINKS)

(CLANKS)

Huh.

What the...

Oh, crashing the wake.

After a round of golf.

Who are you?

The bearded guy was here.

Who?

The rando hipster guy
with brown Chrysler

who we thought was
following us to Graceland,

but then we thought
he wasn't following us.

It turns out he was following us.

He was just across the street.

I guess you weren't
being paranoid after all.

Billie really is still
keeping tabs on us.

I'd better go warn Liam.

Liam?

JESS: Mr. Poole?

What are you doing in here?

I, uh, saw that Peter had some copies

of the French translation of my book.

Very valuable.

So I took a look.

Turned out it was part of
some kind of locking mechanism.

- What is this place?
- Sadusky's Clue Room

to that treasure we
were asking you about.

Sadusky has a clue room.

To a treasure?

Uh, I don't understand.

Why would he never tell us that... this?

RILEY: Oh, wait, that's... the pipe.

And those...

What the...

RILEY: Oh, they're like
early American X-ray specs.

JESS: Oh, it says, "Do not touch."

(ALARM BLARING)

(LOUD THUNKING)

It's locked.

AUTOMATED VOICE: Enter passcode
to cancel intruder lockdown.

JESS: Intruder lockdown.

That's not good.

- (HISSING)
- (VACUUM WHOOSHING)

(PAPERS RUSTLING)

What's happening?

(VACUUM WHOOSHING)

AUTOMATED VOICE: Air-tight seals engage.

Oxygen levels dropping.

That's definitely not good.

(PHONE BEEPING)

No service.

- Help!
- Help!

- Help!
- Anybody hear us?

- Hello!
- Hello!

(CLINKS)

Everyone, please take your seats
so we could start the eulogies.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(MELANCHOLY MUSIC)

Your, uh, grandpa used to come
out here to "feed the birds."

"Sneak a glass of whiskey."

Do me a favor.

Don't tell anyone you saw me.

Sure.

(SIGHS)

For whatever it's worth,

your grandpa loved your music.

No, he never heard me play.

I found you on SoundCloud for him.

MYLES: His favorite song
was the one about your van.

Your songs were the only
things that made him smile.

MYLES: So...

RILEY: Help!

Help! Anybody?

AUTOMATED VOICE: Oxygen levels dropping.

Mr. Poole, no one can hear us.

We're gonna have to figure
out Sadusky's passcode.

Okay.

Okay.

Uh, uh, well, percent of people
use their birthday as a passcode.

And you know what that is?

We sent a birthday
present every year to Peter

because he didn't send us
to prison when we, when we...

when we stole the
Declaration of Independence.

Ben's idea, not mine.

Okay.

Uh, August th, .

AUTOMATED VOICE: Incorrect passcode.

Four more attempts.

HENDRICKS: When I was new at the FBI,

there was this

piece of paper that went missing.

The Declaration of Independence.

(LAUGHTER)

What stayed out of the news was
that Ben Gates first came to me,

but I didn't file a report.

Peter was...

He was not happy about that.

But he protected me.

And it taught me a valuable lesson.

Never ignore a civilian report,

no matter how ridiculous it sounds.

(LAUGHTER)

We still have four tries left.

This is just like an escape room.

I'm really good at these.

At least, I used to be.

I hate escape rooms. They're stupid.

Why would Sadusky do this?

I know that Masons are
crazy about their secrets,

but this is ridiculous.

He was really paranoid when I met him.

He had dementia.

What did you say?

He had dementia?

According to his home nurse.

Well, he must've hidden his passcode
somewhere, in case he forgot.

(RATTLING)

AUTOMATED VOICE: Oxygen level at %.

What about that?

The FBI seal, it's
right above the keypad.

It could be hint.

FBI seal. Good idea.

Okay. Uh, Federal
Bureau of Investigation.

Um, okay. Uh, Federal...

Uh, Bureau... de... desk.

- Anwar...
- Unless it's, it's not the FBI,

but rather the FBI's motto.

Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity.

You sound just like
an old friend of mine.

That was beautiful.

(SIGHS)

Would anyone else like
to say a few words?

I would.

(GUESTS MURMURING)

If Liam is here, then where's Jess?

Fidelity means loyalty.

What's loyal?

Uh, uh, wife. Wife.

Uh, he was married for a long time.

For how long?

I have no idea.

Okay. Uh, what else can be loyal?

Uh. Loyal? Uh...

What could be loyal, loyal, loyal...

Knights. No. Uh...

Dogs. Dogs are loyal.

(GASPS) There's a number on it.

- What is it?
- .

- RILEY: Seventy-four.
- Passcode sequence initiated.

It worked. (LAUGHS)

AUTOMATED VOICE: Next entry.

- I don't feel good.
- RILEY: Yeah.

The oxygen levels are dropping.

Come on. We got to
keep going. What's next?

Bravery.

I wrote this song
because when I was little,

my grandpa would play
a lot of Neil Young.

It's called "I Missed That Van."

(GUITAR PLAYING)

♪ With a couple of
hundred thousand miles ♪

♪ But you still ran good as new ♪

♪ With your paint job peeling ♪

♪ Revealing you were
once midnight blue ♪

Jess?

Jess?

I don't see anything that means bravery.

Maybe everything means bravery.

- I can't think.
- AUTOMATED VOICE: Oxygen level at %.

It could be the seven red
stripes in the American flag.

To stand for courage.

The flag.

Courage.

Yeah. Go for it.

It's all we got.

- AUTOMATED VOICE: Incorrect passcode.
- (FRUSTRATED SIGH)

(GROANING)

(LOUD CRASH)

(LOUD THUD)

- Are you okay?
- (GROANING)

No.

(CLANKS)

Jess?

Are you in there?

AUTOMATED VOICE: Two more attempts.

RILEY: Did you just hear something?

JESS: No.

♪ And then ♪

♪ I miss that van ♪

♪ We'd drive for miles ♪

♪ Nowhere to go ♪

♪ Not talking just
listening to the radio ♪

(CROWD APPLAUDING)

That was beautiful.

It was about your dad, wasn't it?

Liam.

I'm sorry.

About what?

For saying that you'd regret
wasting all your time on music.

I was so wrong.

No, you weren't.

Yeah, I lost my gig at the club.

They switched to karaoke.

It makes more money.

It's their loss and Nashville's gain.

- Uh, excuse me. I need to borrow Liam.
- Mm.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

Someone's locked in the clue
room and I can't find Jess.

Yeah, right, right.

I'll be right back.

AUTOMATED VOICE: Oxygen level at %.

Why hasn't anyone come looking for us?

(GRUNTS, PANTS)

What's that?

Jack Sadusky's Silver Star.

Bravery.

What if I...

(GASPS) Eleven.

RILEY (WEAK VOICE): Eleven.

(JESS BREATHES DEEPLY)

(CLICKING)

- (BEEPING)
- (GIGGLES)

AUTOMATED VOICE: Next entry.

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

One code left.

Integrity.

OREN: Riley is missing too. Oh.

(CLANKS)

- (TASHA GASPS)
- (OREN GROANS)

They must've tripped
the intruder lockdown.

- "Intruder lockdown"?
- Is that bad?

It means, they'll suffocate
if we don't get in there.

But you know how to open it, right?

Yeah. My grandpa had a special watch.

Integrity means...

Honesty.

I was gonna say virtue.

But both are correct.

(PANTS) Yeah.

Too bad we only have one guess left.

Maybe your grandpa was
wearing the watch when he d*ed.

Maybe they buried it with him.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

LIAM: Oh, okay.

- Hey, found it!
- TASHA: Huh?

- Well, get them out!
- I'm trying.

- (BEEPS)
- (TASHA PANTS)

Oh, my God, they're losing oxygen.

- They're gonna die.
- (BEEPS)

ETHAN: It needs your
grandpa's thumbprint.

Why... why would your grandpa do this?

He wasn't exactly all
there in the end, okay?

RILEY: Tell me about that clue.

How, how long have you
been trying to cr*ck it?

Oh. For forever...

Three days.

Three days?

Ben's family tried to
cr*ck the clue about

the Charlotte for three generations.

(SURPRISED LAUGH)

So how'd Ben finally solve it?

RILEY: He thought it was a woman.

But when I started...

talking about the... the
yacht that I was gonna buy

after we found the treasure.

And what I was gonna
name it, he realized...

that Charlotte was a ship.

Of course.

I've...

I've been assuming the
twin-tongued serpent was Malinche.

But...

there were other...

interpreters that were
forced to help the colonizers.

The twin-tongued serpent was Sacagawea.

(RELIEVED SIGH)

Of course.

(PANTING)

Thank you.

AUTOMATED VOICE: Oxygen
levels critically low.

Too bad we're still
gonna die in this room.

JESS: Wait. The snake.

Integrity doesn't only
mean honesty and virtue.

It also means... (PANTS)

... completeness and unity.

(JESS BREATHES HEAVILY)

(JESS GROANS)

Look.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

Eight pieces.

RILEY: It represents
eight colonies. It's eight.

Right.

Except these are all out of order.

- These aren't the colonies.
- Huh?

"H, E, N, O, E, G, T, I, Y."

It's an anagram.

I'm good at this. Okay.

(PANTING)

- (PANTING CONTINUES)
- All right.

RILEY: "Hey, tin ego"?

(RILEY MUMBLES)

"I get honey"?

Well, it's... it's got to be a number.

- Eighty-one.
- One-eighty.

They're both right.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Let's do yours, .

No, no, no. Wait.

You think like Ben,

and Ben's always right. Go.

AUTOMATED VOICE: Intruder
lockdown canceled.

(BOTH GASPING)

Jess!

(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)

- Jess...
- Jess, look at me.

- TASHA: Are you okay?
- LIAM: Hey. You okay?

OREN: Mr. Poole!

- Mr. Poole, are you okay?
- Are you guys okay?

(GASPING)

Oh.

By the way.

I solved the clue.

Are you seriously thinking
about that right now?

Who cares about the
clue? You almost d*ed!

OREN: No, no, no.

Come on, guys. Let her finish.

"New found land" isn't three words.

(INHALES)

It's one.

JESS: Newfoundland.

That's the breed of the dog Lewis
and Clark took on their expedition.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Lewis and Clark.

Wait. So you're saying
it wasn't Malinche?

It was Sacagawea.

(SOFT CHUCKLE)

Right.

Sacagawea translated for a
bunch of her indigenous peoples.

- JESS: It was her job.
- Yeah, right, right.

So she, she totally could have met
a daughter of the Plumed Serpent.

JESS: Exactly.

Sacagawea was entrusted
with a clue to the treasure

which she hid in one of
the expedition's journals.

(SOFT GASP)

Right.

That's so obvious now.

Is it?

It seems like a reach.

Dude, come on.

"The twin-tongued serpent's tail
is revealed in fair weather."

Meriwether Lewis.

LIAM: Merry weather.

"By the bend in the new found land."

Sacagawea hid the clue in the journal

Meriwether dedicated
to his Newfoundland dog

because she knew the
journal would be preserved.

It's brilliant, if you think about it.

ETHAN: Okay, then,

what does "bend" mean?

And how did Elvis's
great-great-great-grandma

get the clue from Sacagawea?

It's York.

LIAM: What?

It's York.

Are you all right, Mr. Poole?

What's York?

Not "what", "who."

York was a... was a man.

He was a... a man enslaved by Clark.

He was the only African-American
on the Corps of Discovery.

He navigated trails, bartered for food.

He saved their lives multiple times.

They wouldn't have been
successful without him.

TASHA: Oh, yeah.

York was another Black
hero forgotten by history.

Because Sacagawea wasn't the only
one who hid clues in that journal.

York also made entries,

and he carried those secrets with him

after the expedition to
find his wife in Kentucky

but didn't make it

because he succumbed
to cholera in Tennessee.

And you know who else is from Tennessee?

Elvis's
great-great-great-grandma.

Miss Morning Dove White.

How did you know all that?

(SIGHS DEEPLY)

I'll tell you how... (INHALES)

... because I made a podcast.

Yes.

TASHA: Mm. Uh, so,

it says here Meriwether Lewis
was the governor of Louisiana

and the journal he dedicated to his dog

- is on display...
- Is on display

at the governor's...

- mansion.
- TASHA: Mansion.

Yeah.

It's my fourth grade field trip.

(SNAPS FINGERS)

Drinks on me.

They're free, Oren.

How are you feeling?

Alive.

So... good.

Listen.

I realized today my
grandfather was right.

There's no greater
treasure than lost time.

So I'm not gonna waste anymore.

♪ I will hold you up ♪

♪ When you are down ♪

♪ I will be a spark ♪

♪ I will cary you ♪

♪ I will cary you ♪

I get it now, your
bestie's into bad boys.

How do you know he's a bad boy?

Um, the hair, the 'tude,
the brooding musician vibe.

No, thanks.

Interesting. So, you're
not into bad boys?

Nope. Just good guys.

♪ I will be a spark ♪

♪ When the light runs out on you ♪

♪ You're not on your own ♪

♪ Just so you're not alone ♪

♪ When the dark surrounding you ♪

♪ I will carry you... ♪

Cool, cool. Yeah.

- (SIGHS)
- Cool.

RILEY: Uh, look at this.

Abigail just posted a
picture of Charlotte.

Ah, cute. (LAUGHS)

- Love her.
- I have Ben for you.

Oh, yeah.

Ben.

Hey. You won't believe this.

(PHONE BUZZING)

(BUZZING CONTINUES)

Riley.

RILEY: Jess. Hey. Are you alone?

Yes.

- JESS: Why?
- Okay, listen.

Someone else knows about your clue.

Who?

I'm... I'm not sure.

But Ben's mom, Dr. Emily Gates,

she's the foremost expert on
Mesoamerican language in history.

She was approached by someone
who played her a recording

of what sounded like Elvis.

But... that's impossible.

No one knows about that recording
except me and my friends.

Well... (SIGHS)

One of your friends
may not be your friend.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(CLOSING THEME MUSIC)