[ crowd chanting ]
Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands!
Jaywick Sands!
[ engine starts ]
- Hey. - Yeah.
Pop?
Yeah?
Why the long face?
What does that mean?
What?
Why the long face?
When are you going to be British?
You've been here 25 years.
What does it mean, long face?
Why so blue?
I have a task.
I have some work this year.
So, what?
It involves your brother.
I'll need your help, Kkyman.
I'm going to ask a good deal from you.
It seems.
This year, Kkyman.
Thanks for having a cold one with me, man.
Sorry I'm a bring down right now.
But, I'm blue, man.
Yeah?
I'm fucked up.
My brother, man.
He was messed up.
Little messed up from stuff.
I came here to help him.
But now he's gone.
He's missing.
It's fucked up.
You have a brother?
Or a sister or something?
A brother, yeah.
It's fucked up.
Yeah. Yeah, that would be fucked up.
Blue.
It doesn't readily appear in nature.
Blueberries, maybe.
Bluebirds.
But not much else really.
You know, the ocean's not really blue.
Nor is the sky. Nor me.
Ever, really.
Till now.
I feel so weird.
Let me put some of those up, on my way back to the hotel.
You gonna be okay?
Hey, man.
Just knowing you cared...
just knowing you cared enough to stop and have a cold one?
That's something.
Be cool.
I can't not be.
I can't not be either.
[ chuckles ]
How can you say?
For certain.
I can say. For certain.
I need you to finish his work.
What was it?
Tell me.
There was a bag...
♪ Traveling north ♪
♪ Traveling north to find you ♪
♪ Train wheels beating the wind in my eyes ♪
♪ Don't even know what I'll say ♪
♪ When I find you ♪
♪ Call out your name love, don't be surprised ♪
♪ It's so many miles and so long since I've met you ♪
♪ And I don't even know what I'll find ♪
♪ When I get to you ♪
♪ But suddenly now I know where I belong ♪
♪ It's many hundred miles and it won't ♪
♪ Be long ♪
[ gun shot ]
♪ It won't be long ♪
Luxembourg is the money-laundering
capital of the world.
We allow business to be transacted among countries
and parties who are banned from doing business
together elsewhere.
Every 9th businessman in Luxembourg
conducts business under an assumed name.
Every 9th bag trafficked through the airport holds cash.
A guest at the King Gerald wrote down the address
of the murder victim on this paper
the evening of the murder
on baggage handling time cards
where the foreman was assaulted.
It's clear that someone well-to-do,
someone staying at the expensive King Gerald,
intersected with private baggage
at the Luxembourg City airport.
The brother of our murder victim works handling bags.
I surmise
Edgar Barros discovered a sum of money
in a passenger's checked luggage.
This passenger, flying under an assumed name,
sought him out that evening, fought for the bag
at the Barros apartment, at 77 de Champlain,
to the extent of which a man died.
I have interviewed each guest of
the King Gerald that evening, but one:
John Lakeman.
He abruptly left our scheduled interview session.
His whereabouts at the time of the murder are undetermined.
His colleague stipulated that he missed an essential meeting
because his airline misplaced his bag.
John Lakeman is at the center
of an unusual circle of violence
on an unusually violent night in Luxembourg.
Additionally, John Lakeman phoned, upon a time
during which every other member of his
professional traveling party phoned their wives,
a woman named Alice Taylor,
who is married to a man
who is working as a quote unquote "consultant"
to an intelligence gathering department
of the United States government.
I respectfully submit my request to interview John Lakeman,
in the third party country of the United States,
on the date of May 22nd, tomorrow, 2012.
Concerning the appeal of Luxembourg City,
of the country of Luxembourg,
the court provides its approval to interrogate.
- When are you leaving? - Tonight.
While I'm in Milwaukee, continue trying to find
an association between Alice Taylor and Lakeman.
Okay.
[ phone vibrates ]
Hey.
Tom: She's coming. Approved.
Just now. She's probably on her way.
My guess, she shows up tomorrow. They show up at work.
It's safer.
I found the book. Structural Dynamics of Flow.
Where?
The guy with the girl's name.
- No shit? - No. Yeah.
Get it to Edward, John.
I may want you out of there. I may pull you out of there.
Today. Before she comes.
Cool.
I'm gathering some information.
I'll reach back out to you today.
Okay.
She's good.
She was cited this week for two instances of child neglect
for leaving her daughter alone in her apartment.
Her kid's seeing things. The neighbors narced.
So... she's really cramming in the hours on your case.
She's not a bad mom, I'm guessing;
I'm guessing she's just a good cop.
What does she have on you?
I don't know.
Her daughter drew a picture of me.
It's pretty good.
I pull you out of there today,
she shows up, John Lakeman's a ghost.
Okay.
Midnight.
Hey, maybe it's time to come home.
Okay.
How we doing with that paperwork, John?
Not as yet.
Clock's ticking.
For sure.
John? I'd like to share my demands with you.
Yeah?
John, what do you know about non-sexual, same-sex cuddling?
Nothing.
Well, that's what I want to do.
Yeah?
Yeah, I demand it.
Okay, more soon.
- See ya. - See ya.
Hey, John. How we doing?
Pretty good.
Hey, thanks for killing those birds.
Yeah.
Hey, so I'm making the rounds, letting McMillan
know we're bankrupt pretty much
and I've turned essentially all my authority over to Leslie.
Okay.
Big announcement tomorrow.
Then we're all going to pitch in,
right the ship and secure that Denon deal. Right?
Then the future's so bright we'll have to wear shades.
Cool.
Sir?
Yeah?
Stephen remembers you being in the vicinity of his accident.
Can you help shed some light on his final moments?
Not really.
You seem to have, um, an indifferent attitude
towards Stephen's recovery.
Can I share with you why it's so important
that he have full recollection,
including his accident?
Humor requires your entire whole full being.
Stephen is incomplete, he'll never regain his sense of humor.
If he doesn't regain his sense of humor,
he'll never laugh.
And no one will ever love him.
That's pretty heavy.
Yeah. It is.
So get with it.
For sure.
You sound "not all in." FYI, I'm a fighter.
And I am fighting for these memories.
So, are you on my team?
Count me in.
Hey, just wanted to give you an update about my life.
You ever stay in the kind of a shitty hotel
that has the TV and it's chained to the wall?
Well, that's where I live now.
And I look at it, and I think even if I could
get the TV off the chain, I couldn't steal it,
because I have nowhere to take it
because I have no home now.
Hey, John. We got an e-mail.
It was for you.
It was from a foreign policewoman.
She's gonna interview you tomorrow.
Take care.
[ phone vibrates ]
Hey.
Tom: Stay there. No matter what happens.
I pull you out of there today,
she shows up, John Lakeman's a ghost.
Okay.
Hey, maybe it's time to come home.
Okay.
Anything, Tim?
Yeah.
We picked up a phone call...
It's a conversation between an unknown male
and the wife of your Egyptian physicist Mohamed El-Mashad.
She was told to remain in Luxembourg until the 27th,
and then take a bag from them at 3:00 PM
at the Bettborn Station.
They said they'd have the bag?
- Then? - Yeah.
And the Japanese girl? Well, she's 23.
She's a student at the Luxembourg School for the Arts.
That's all. That's all she is.
She got arrested for stealing a dog leash.
Somebody's dog?
Just the leash.
That's weird.
Yeah, I don't know.
She's being released from the Luxembourg Police Station
at the same date and time they mentioned to the woman.
To El-Mashed. Just an hour earlier.
She got a five day sentence.
Sounds about right for a dog leash, I guess.
Anyway, she'll be let go.
She'll get her belongings back and be let go
at the date and time they mentioned
they can get the bag to the physicist's wife. Right?
They're going to take the bag from that little girl.
So, get there first.
Here's your chance to ravel it back in, Tom.
I like your odds.
All your man has to do is get the bag back
from a 23-year-old Japanese puppeteer.
A puppeteer? What?
Puppetry. She's a puppeteer.
Student. Straight A's.
Yeah. That's all he has to do.
Jesus Christ. Could it really be that simple?
Mmm.
Thanks, Tim.
You can have a heart attack now.
Fuck you, buddy.
Hey?
Stay there. No matter what happens.
Stay and fend off whatever comes at you this week.
We're going to get it all back on the 27th, John.
Can't we just do it the cafeteria, Brent?
I think doing Fellowship in the cafeteria
makes some people uncomfortable.
It's a government building.
It sucks in here.
You know what doesn't suck, Andy?
- What? - The Constitution.
Okay, hi.
Now let us join hands and walk like Christ
in grace and love.
[ computer beeping ]
Can I just say...
very clever to orient this exercise
around Stephen's favorite movie.
It keeps it personal,
and yet adds an important touch of fun.
I think we're in a good place with this.
It's really come along, Ally.
You've really come a long way, son.
Thanks Leslie, to you.
You kept me regularly focused on my recovery.
Well, you did all the heavy lifting, kid.
Well, as the Wolf says in my favorite movie,
"Pulp Fiction", let's not start
sucking each other's dicks quite yet.
- Wow. - Wow.
Show us what you got.
[ playing "Heart and Soul" ]
[ playing "Chopsticks" ]
[ chuckles ]
You got what you wanted, man.
Why am I here?
We're not done yet.
I did my part.
What were you gonna do to me
with your stupid tree branch?
Brutalize you.
Break all the bones in your face
to signal to you what I'm willing to do
to continue the job I'm doing.
John, how dark are you?
If I blow the whistle, the job you're on...
it's over.
Well, you can keep doing the job you're doing,
if you do one last thing for me.
Do what?
Tomorrow, some time during the day, at work...
Kill me.
[ announcements in French ]
[ P.A. beeps ]
People think I'm stupid.
Maybe it's my face.
Name doesn't help, I guess.
You know?
Do I look stupid?
I've never really looked at you.
Well, people think I'm stupid.
I had a period when I was a policeman,
I'd try to show off, I'm embarrassed to say,
by using a large and unnecessary vocabulary.
I had the habit of drinking, too.
One morning, I was in my car.
4:30 in the morning. I'm drunk.
I'm playing Scrabble.
Call comes, Latino purse snatcher on my street.
Latino blurs by my window. Bag on his shoulder.
I get out. I draw.
I yell "halt."
He reaches into his bag, I shoot.
I come up on him.
Paperboy.
Retard.
14.
Not 9, like people say,
but, 14. Just 14.
I couldn't just yell "stop" like anyone else, you know?
My friends, cops, came and swept my car.
They swapped my blood.
What did I put in the box?
Drunk blood. Mine.
I wasn't trying to be found innocent, John.
I was trying to be found guilty.
Wrongful death convictions,
the civil settlements are 400 percent greater.
I wanted that family to have something.
[ honking ]
Then this judge lets me off.
Thought he was helping me out. Yeah.
In the last 20 years,
17 police officers have been charged for killings
for incidents that happened on the job
in the U.S. None convicted.
The system's bent, I guess.
Anyway, my insurance expires tomorrow.
Yeah. So kill me at work.
'cause that's another 75,000 for getting killed on the job.
It's in my stupid security guard contract,
because it never happens.
Kill you how?
Just whack me in my stupid fucking head.
Do your tree branch thing.
Just go a little darker, John.
[ P.A. beeps ]
Pilot: Ladies and gentlemen,
due to mechanical difficulties
we'll have to return to the gate.
Thank you for your patience
and we'll do out best to get you to Milwaukee.
23A?
23B?
Hey.
Hello.
Hey, are you okay?
Oh, yes.
I'm--
Actually, I've never done this before.
Uh, rented a car in America.
Or driven a car in America.
Where are you driving?
- Milwaukee. - Oh, it's short.
It's just a...
It's a straight line. You'll be fine.
Where are you driving?
Same.
It's just, um, it's an hour-and-a-half.
Next.
I would like to rent a car please.
Are you returning the vehicle to its point of origin?
What is this point?
Of origin.
Its return.
Oh, um, she just wants to know
if you'll be returning the car here.
After your trip.
Ah. Yes. Thank you.
In-state travel?
In-state?
No. Milwaukee.
Ah, yes, I am bound for Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Can I see your drivers license please?
Where's this from? Is this a country?
Yes.
I've never heard of it.
Well, it is one.
- One what? - One country.
Hi, um...
- Hey. - Hey.
What are you doing?
Working on my bearings.
What are you doing in Milwaukee?
Traveling. For work.
Do you want a ride?
Why are you going to Milwaukee?
I'm visiting someone.
Why are you?
I'm interviewing someone.
Ah, for what? For a job?
No...
That's not cool.
Yeah.
Just a little wave. That's all it takes.
Yeah, I invented an app that--
you aim at them and it tells you if they're going to thank you.
Why didn't you use it?
Well, cause I didn't actually invent it
because I don't know anything about that kind of stuff.
I just invented it in my mind.
Well, anyway,
if you ever actually invent one, I'll buy one.
Thanks.
I invent stuff that I don't really invent, too.
Like what?
Hmm.
What?
Nothing.
What?
I just didn't expect you to throw it like that.
In that way.
I'm just a little surprised.
Well, I'm throwing with my left hand.
Why?
Because I have to be left handed today.
Why?
Because someone's coming to interview me today.
Fuck.
So you summoned me here just to practice being left-handed?
Yeah.
Why do you have to do it all day?
Because I think she's just going to appear in the office.
Like last time.
And if she appears and I'm like, in that moment,
pouring coffee with my right hand, I'm fucked.
Oh.
Fuck.
Should be an interesting day.
Fuck.
Fat Face?
Yeah. Fat Face.
So it's an image of your face?
Yes, it's an image of your face
on the refrigerator.
And then when you select items from your fridge like ice cream,
your face on the fridge gets fatter...
so it will show you what you would look like, if you ate
that amount of ice cream for a year.
- That's great. - Thanks.
That's a great non-invention.
Yeah. Fat Face.
It doesn't exist.
What's the name of your app that doesn't exist?
I've been calling it Cool Guy or Douche I guess.
Yeah, that's good.
Yeah?
[ chuckles ]
One, two, three...
Kramer.
Thanks.
Oh, come on. You have been so gracious.
You're a guest here. No way.
- I insist. - So do I.
- Seriously. - I'm serious, too.
Rochambeau?
Yeah, okay.
You're pretty good.
I work with kids.
We sort things out like this a lot.
- Oh, you are a teacher? - Yeah.
Well, you're right.
People think this is a game of chance.
But it's a game of skill.
If someone has experience regarding people,
reading people, like a job like yours,
they can excel at it.
Very good.
You've made it further than anyone I think I've ever played.
Now I can take the bill.
[ guitar music plays ]
♪ I'm going to resonate ♪
♪ One day, I'll resonate ♪
♪ I'm going to resonate ♪
♪ One day, I'll resonate ♪
It is good.
Yeah.
I feel like I've heard it before, it's...
I don't know...
♪ One day I'll resonate with... ♪
Here's my e-mail.
Send me yours and I'll give you the name of that album.
Cool, I'll write you later.
I'm kind of excited. To go.
Oh, where are you meeting your friend?
At his work.
Do you need a ride?
Oh, no. Thank you.
I'll take a cab.
You've been so helpful already.
I don't want to take more of your time.
Hey, Chicago.
Sorry?
This is the executive parking section.
For executives.
F.Y.I., Chicago.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No big deal, Chicago.
- Dennis? - Yeah?
I need your help.
Okay.
- He's right inside. - I can't go inside.
I'm not even supposed to be here.
Will you just tell him?
Yeah, sure.
How did you even, like,
find me or know about me?
He wrote a song about you.
I mean it wasn't about you,
it was about how he wants to kill himself.
But in it he said
that there was one cool thing about where he was and
that was he made friends with a guy at work named Dennis.
And I looked you up on the company website.
Thank you for joining us this morning.
This new morning.
An exciting new morning of changes
and the introduction of a new shared leadership.
I'd like to announce, as of this morning,
Divisional head Leslie Claret will now be sharing leadership
with me in every capacity, across every department,
side-by-side.
Let's welcome Leslie Claret on this new morning.
Leslie.
Thank you, Lawrence.
Folks, what do we do, essentially, here at McMillan?
We design complex delivery systems for--
Wrong. Sit down.
No, seriously.
We're sending mixed signals.
Sit down.
We make circles.
Circles don't exist in nature, folks.
The sun? No.
Planets? Not quite.
Circles are perfect.
And nothing perfect exists in nature.
Flaws in all.
Slightly oblong,
our planets, the sun.
Like us.
[ chuckling ]
But here, at McMillan, we make them.
And we place them in the world.
The perfect form across the world.
We make circles.
And all you have to care about,
the only thing that you have to care about,
is this one little thing:
perfection.
[ chuckling ]
Aw, come on, now.
It's just a goal. It's not a demand.
No one is perfect.
But what I need to know, what I need to see
in you is capacity for perfection,
the desire to be perfect.
Stephen. John. Come up here.
Show me how you can conjure perfection.
Show me your attachment to the form we place
so lovingly, under our shared world.
Stephen. Lakeman.
How about it?
Draw your most perfect circle.
Draw it out of you, and then draw it on the screen here.
Show me your attachment to the perfect form,
to perfection.
[ elevator dings ]
♪ Can't you hear that ♪
♪ Rooster crowing ♪
So how are we doing, John, on this new morning?
Pretty good.
You know, John, I spent some time last night just...
Well, pondering how I was going to respond to you this morning.
On this new morning.
Cool.
Yeah, it was cool.
I thought...
Do I just fire him, first thing?
Say, hey, not a good fit.
Because I give two shits about this place
and you don't, so not a good fit.
So adios.
And then I thought,
hey, we all deserve a second chance.
I know that. Hell.
You know?
Yeah.
So I thought, I'll just give the kid
something simple to do.
We'll start with that.
We'll, uh... We'll build from there.
I'll ask the kid
to just draw a little circle.
And maybe, in the simple act of trying his best,
maybe he'll win me over
with a simple circle.
[ sighs ]
Here's the impression your little circle made on me, John.
It lacked focus, ambition,
clarity, precision,
dedication, passion and honesty.
And well,
it reminded me of you.
So...
it seems you'll be staying on
for this weekend's duck hunt.
And then it seems you'll have a new morning of your own
at some new endeavor.
♪ New morning ♪
♪ On this new morning ♪
I wish you well.
♪ So happy just to be alive ♪
♪ Underneath this sky of blue ♪
♪ On this new morning ♪
♪ New morning ♪
♪ On this new morning ♪
♪ With you ♪
♪ New morning ♪
An accounting discrepancy
concerning a file under your office.
I'd like to arrange a visit at your convenience
to help me make some sense of it.
Again, Brent Paddocks.
General Accounting Office. Extension 775.
[ phone vibrates ]
Hey.
How's it going?
Pretty good.
John, I just learned of a complication.
This interview, this policewoman?
Yeah?
Ace that. We can't get derailed.
Tom, hey, you asked us
to pay some attention to an Alice Taylor.
She didn't show up for work today.
She didn't call in sick. Just a no show.
Okay, so you remember being in the company of your colleague
moments before your accident.
Let's orient there.
What were you doing in those moments?
He told me that his interview went poorly.
John.
And I told him that I crushed mine.
Then I tried to fucking cheer him up.
Locker room talk.
Got it.
Pull it back.
Yeah.
Okay. So then? What happened next on that day?
Then we just stood here.
Then I felt a feeling...
[ train whistle blows ]
John.
John, you're wife's here.
Hey, Dennis.
Hey, John.
John, come here.
Are you okay?
I'm sorry, man.
I made things hard for you.
I shouldn't have even ever tried to help, man.
Help me, Dennis. Right now.
Fuck yeah.
Take this baton.
What?
I'm holding a baton. Take the baton.
Why are you holding a baton?
Just take the baton.
Keep hugging me and take the baton.
Okay, I have the baton.
Conceal the baton.
Okay, I concealed the baton.
Walk away with it. The detective's coming.
I'm walking away with the baton.
John Lakeman?
Yeah.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Detective Agathe Albans.
I'm in the Office of Homicide,
in the police department of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
I have formal authority to ask you a series of questions
concerning a homicide that took place
on the evening of May 11th.
The murder of Hector Barros.
Can we do this today?
I've got a lot going on today.
My expectation is this will take an hour of your time.
You caught us in a transition today
I'm trying to make up some ground today.
Today would be best. For me.
Today would be bad. For me.
Tomorrow would be good. For me.
Tomorrow would be bad. For me.
Rochambeau?
What's the nature of your work?
Circles.
In what sense?
In the sense that pipes are circles.
And I just deal with pipes.
You're very good at this.
Thanks.
You, too.
You're remarkably good at this.
Thanks.
You, too.
Darn.
Yeah.
So you'll field my questions today, Sir?
Well, we had a deal, so...
Yes, we had a deal, sir.
Probably going to be on the later side, is that okay?
Please find time at your earliest convenience.
Yeah, of course.
[ guitar music plays ] ♪ Hey I Love you ♪
♪ I hope you're double great ♪
♪ I hope your weird job's double great ♪
♪ And your old man is double great, too ♪
♪ But I wanted ♪
♪ To share something with you ♪
♪ Hey I Love you ♪
♪ But I'm not double great ♪
♪ Notice that I don't say that ♪
♪ In the morning anymore ♪
♪ Because I guess I know ♪
♪ I can't get there from here ♪
♪ So remember to let the light in ♪
♪ No matter how dark it turned out for me ♪
♪ Remember we made a beautiful EP ♪
♪ And I wanted to say thanks ♪
♪ But I just hurt ♪
♪ And I love you ♪
♪ Goodbye, John ♪
It's become late.
Now is the last possible minute we can begin
my series of questions and have you fulfill your agreement
to interview today.
Be right in.
Is there anything you would like to say as we begin?
Yes.
Proceed.
I'm not really an industrial engineer. as we begin?