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[gentle intense music]

[dramatic choral music]

[gentle intense music]

- Look, what you've done technically falls

under the prevention of terrorism.

We've already got the evidence you hacked into our system.

Now if T-branch get involved,

you know what that means.

You've got no rights and they can hold you forever.

You don't want that, we don't want that.

So just talk to us.

Your data, it's been encrypted too.

What is it?

- 8,192 bits.

- Why so high?

What's in there that you don't want us to find?

- Who are you protecting?

[door knocks]

Are you all right?

- I'm pretty thirsty.

[building intense music]

- Hey!

Hey take it easy.

Just relax, put it down.

You don't have to do this.

[electronic buzzing]

[dramatic instrumental music]

No, no no no!

- Good evening, officers.

You have been chosen

to test our new Transference technology.

Your assignment is as follows.

A murder has been committed.

Seemingly impossible murder

of businessman Martin Donovan,

strangled in his own study

while family members and guests are in the room nextdoor.

All with rock solid alibis,

and yet one of them is the killer.

You must find out which one committed the crime,

confront your suspect

and demonstrate how and why the crime was committed.

Every action, every decision you make

will be monitored and graded.

You will all have the rank of detective.

The winner gets to return home immediately

and retain their new rank permanently.

A clean slate.

The rest of you, you stay exactly where you are.

Now, you've been divided into the following teams.

Catherine Beaty and Diana Gregor.

Richard Manning and Steven Williams.

Nina Thompson and Oliver Perot.

Jeff Cruden and Peter Wall.

You've all been briefed on Transference.

You are the first to test this technology.

In the event of a technical issue

our in built help desk is there to support you.

On top of this, we have created Sherlock,

that can assist with your deductions,

but only once.

Transference is the most exciting

innovation of our lifetime.

Transference is the future.

[gentle intense music]

[building intense music]

[electronic whizzing]

[gentle instrumental music]

[radio chattering]

- This is Cynthia Green, fiancé of the deceased,

and William Connor, his lawyer.

Both were dinner guests tonight.

- I'll go over their statements,

you look in on the crime scene.

- Right.

[soft intense music]

- He was strangled from behind,

the body is then for and forward.

A shirt and tie have been removed

because we noticed something on his back.

- [Richard] What have you got so far, doctor?

- Ligature strangulation.

This would have taken about

one to two minutes.

There's bruising and abrasions around

the neck area from the victim's nails.

There will be a full autopsy report for you in the morning.

- We've been over this whole room,

no prints anywhere.

- Death must have been around 6:15, or 6:16.

- That's new.

Lots of photos of Julia.

Daddy's little princess, aye.

- It's like his whole life

was just his work and his daughter.

How did the killer get in?

- Not the windows, they're completely sealed.

- It's a 10 story drop.

So unless our guy's Spiderman.

- There's no way this was his escape route.

- The only way in or out was that door.

- But that door was in view of the guests the whole time.

- So they all say.

[soft dramatic music]

- What have you got there?

Looks like a piece of a document.

See what the boys can make of that.

- Repeating our top story this morning.

Prominent local businessman, Martin Donovan

has been murdered.

He was found strangled in his apartment

early yesterday evening

during a dinner party with friends and family.

Mr. Donovan was the founder

of the financial investment company,

Donovan Enterprises

and was also involved in the wine and food industries.

His daughter and sister are the local fashion designers

Julia and Samantha Donovan.

Samantha had this to say last night.

- This is a terrible tragedy.

For the family and for the city.

Martin was a wonderful and caring brother,

father, husband, employer,

and indulged many fine causes

throughout the community and supported them generously.

I beg you, if anybody knows anything whatsoever,

please contact the police straightaway.

Thank you.

- Police are still investigating,

but no arrests have yet to be made.

Now looking at the weather today,

today will be mostly fine with a high of 20.

[gentle intense music]

[car beeps]

[car beeps]

- Morning.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

- Yes?

- Detective Richard Manning.

I'm sorry for your loss.

- Dad and I used to play together here a lot.

- I just need to confirm a few things

in your statement.

- I've already been through that.

- You were one of the last people to see your father.

- Yes.

- Who was in the room with you?

- Dad's fiancé, Cynthia.

Aunt Samantha and William Connor, he's dad's lawyer.

- And who else was in the apartment?

- Angela the housekeeper, she was in the kitchen then

and David was in the hallway.

- [Richard] David?

- David Mitchell, CEO of Dad's company.

You must know all of this.

- Just being thorough.

Can you tell me exactly what happened

once your father came into the living room?

- I was sitting on the couch.

- I played tennis today.

I haven't played for ages.

- How was it?

- It was exhausting actually.

- I play with my colleague Glean, he's very good.

What about you, do you play tennis?

- Excuse me.

Julia, darling, would you like to come

and help me set up for dinner?

I had give the old game on the court today.

- We're all being paid to lose.

- [Samantha] I wouldn't be so sure about that.

- It's down the road from here.

- Julia, why don't you go to your father

and tell him that dinner is ready?

- I will, here now.

Dad, dinner's ready.

Dad?

Then we found him.

- There's only one door,

leading into the study from the hallway.

- Correct.

- And this door was in view

the whole time your father was in there?

- Yes.

- And yet someone got into that room.

Killed him and then got out again

completely unseen.

- I know it doesn't make any sense.

- No it doesn't.

Can you think of any reason

why someone would harm your father?

- When your successful you make enemies, but no,

I can't think of anyone who'd want to kill Dad.

- How close were you two?

- I'm an only child.

Mom died in a car accident when I was six,

since then it's just been the two of us.

- There was a symbol left on your father's back.

An Ouroboros, is an ancient symbol

of the serpent swallowing its own tail.

- What does it mean?

- Well it can represent the cycle of life

constantly recreating itself.

Beginning anew as soon as it ends.

Why did you go into his study later that evening?

- Well, I knew Dad was changing

his will before the marriage.

I was curious to see what the changes were.

- What time was this?

- About five.

Besides, Dad never included me in anything.

He supported my own dreams.

The suit he was wearing the night he died,

that was my label.

It was my last gift to him.

- If you think of anything else.

[gentle intense music]

- Good morning, Richard.

- Morning.

[soft dramatic music]

[electronic beeping]

- Hi Dad.

- Hi Rich.

Hope the case is going well.

Everyone here misses you.

I just wanted to say

that we shouldn't have left things the way they were.

We'll discuss things when you get back.

Say bye to daddy.

- Bye Dad.

- We'll let you get back to your case.

- Just for once

I'd like to beat you in in the morning.

- This is early for you.

Well done.

- God, I hate mornings.

- [Richard] So do I today.

I feel like I've got a hangover.

- You had a late one, too?

- No.

How did you make that big sign one day?

- It's a gift.

Did you get my text last night

after I interviewed the housekeeper?

- Yeah, thanks.

I confronted Julia about it this morning.

- And?

- She said she wanted a look at the new will,

didn't feel comfortable just asking Daddy.

- Do you believe her?

- Well at first.

She suspected the will was gonna be changed,

she was curious.

- Interviewing Suspects 101.

Everyone lies about something.

I just can't get my head around this case, Rich.

- Yeah, me neither.

- You think better than me.

I got nowhere.

[gentle intense music]

- God, it's quiet here.

I can get used to it.

- Probably the attraction of this place, isn't it?

Come on, mate, we need coffee.

[machine whirring]

[gentle light music]

I talked to Sherlock last night.

- Really, Christ.

- Look, I'm supposed to be the senior officer here.

And all our ideas have been your ideas.

I'm feeling like a fifth wheel.

- We're in this together, mate.

Was Sherlock helpful?

- No.

He said, and I quote,

without any concrete ideas or theories,

he couldn't help me, it was a waste of time.

- That's wasn't smart.

Now I can't speak to him until the very end.

- Have you got any ideas?

- Well look, the killer's definitely one of our guests.

And I've got no idea who or why or--

- How the thing was done.

- [Richard] Exactly.

- And the killer gets in and out like a ghost.

We wouldn't be here if it was easy.

So Boy Wonder, what do you got planned for us today?

- Why don't we split up?

I'll take Samantha.

She knew Martin better than anyone

and we need to know more about him.

- And me?

- Why don't you talk to David Mitchell?

I know his phone alibi checks out,

but he's the only guest that was alone for any time.

See you at 12.

[soft intense music]

I never expected a chance this early.

You know to be the youngest ever chosen.

It's a great opportunity.

- Great.

- And if I solve this case

it means a promotion, we can move out

of that shoebox apartment.

I'm doing this for us.

- No, you're doing this for yourself.

We barely see you as it is

and now you're volunteering for this.

I just have a really bad feeling about this.

They're using you like guinea pigs.

It's just wrong.

- It's the only way to get promoted.

This is something I have to do.

Lisa.

Lisa.

- I know you think you're doing the right thing,

but I don't.

Can you please just listen to me just this once?

Don't do this.

[gentle intense music]

- Hello again.

- Hello.

- Your always ahead of me.

Case going well?

- You know we can't discuss that.

Still early days, plenty of time to catch up.

- What I need to know is

what kind of a man Martin really was.

- Martin was unique.

He was 12 years older than me and

the only family I ever had.

- You were near the door

when he entered the study.

- Yes, he came over to me.

[mellow upbeat music]

- I've just got a little bit of work to finish off.

Let me know when dinner's ready.

- Sure. - I'm starving.

- Excuse me.

Julia, darling would you like to come help me

set up for dinner?

- [Richard] You two are very close.

- [Samantha] Very.

She's more than just my niece.

Her mother died in a car accident

when she was young and

well I've been there for her ever since.

- After the accident,

your brother stopped trading.

He sold most of his investments.

- They'd been out for dinner,

he went back to the office

and Adrian was driving back with Julia.

It was a wet night, she lost control and crashed.

- How was Martin's relationship

with Julia after that?

- No child had ever been more loved

and more protected.

- What do you think of Cynthia?

They'd been engaged for a year.

- She's a very smart woman.

She must be devastated

all her hard work's gone for nothing.

- You believe that she was only marrying your brother

for his money.

- No, of course not.

- But you wouldn't consider her a suspect.

- Look, I don't consider anyone a suspect,

we're all each other's alibis.

It had to be an outsider.

[phone beeps]

- Excuse me.

[soft intense music]

- Good afternoon.

- Hi.

Table for two.

- Sure, follow me.

- Pretty quiet in here.

- Is it?

[gentle intense music]

- [Man] So, what's so urgent?

I thought you'd be out celebrating.

- Look, I can't do it.

- You're the youngest ever officer

to get this opportunity.

- Yeah, I know.

- [Man] But?

- Would you do it?

- What was your main aim?

Your only aim when you joined this place?

- To make detective.

- And here's your chance.

Years before most people get an opportunity.

You wanna throw that away?

Stay on the same crappy wage,

support your family on that forever?

- Lisa's begging me not to do it.

- [Man] She's being melodramatic.

- She's scared.

- That hacker's death

sparked a lot of anger out there.

We could have hung you out to dry.

And if you don't take this chance now,

do you think you'll get another one?

Some very senior people gave you this chance,

I wouldn't want to piss them off.

They say it's really beautiful there.

The air is pure, there's space.

Steve's grateful for this second chance.

He signed on this morning.

[phone beeps]

[soft intense music]

- Hello?

Have you seen Steve?

- Who?

[soft intense music]

- Steven Williams, where is he?

- I can find no record of a Steven Williams.

Are you sure he works in this building?

- Of course he does.

He's my partner on the Donovan case.

- There is no record of anyone working with you.

- That's ridiculous, he was here this morning!

- You must be mistaken, Richard.

- No, you're mistaken.

Steve's a police officer, a detective!

You can't just lose someone, I mean.

- I'm sorry, Richard,

there is no Steven Williams in our records.

- I wanna speak with Help Desk.

- Help Desk can only be activated in an emergency.

- Let me speak with Help Desk right now.

- Help Desk has been activated, please wait.

[computer beeps]

Help Desk is ready, please go to your office.

[soft mellow music]

- Your early today, Richard.

- Have we met before?

- You could say that.

- Look, something's gone very wrong

and my partner Steven Williams has disappeared.

- And you're being told that there is no

record of any such person.

- Yes.

- You've also noticed other mysterious happenings,

such as pigeons and other characters

are disappearing.

You're feeling lethargic

and getting weaker all the time.

- How do you know all this?

- Have a seat, Richard.

Please.

- What's going on?

- Our program encountered a virus.

We have no idea how it got through our defenses,

or where it came from.

This virus is corrupting our files

at an alarming rate.

Non essential components,

such as objects, animals and eventually people

have been wiped completely

as a safety mechanism

to protect the game's key players.

Like yourself.

But you're all running below capacity,

that's why you feel so weak.

However, as the game deteriorates further,

real detectives must be wiped

in order of their priority.

Steven Williams was low priority.

- Steve's been returned home?

- The only way to leave this world early

is to win it.

Steven Williams has been wiped from our records.

He no longer exists.

- He's dead?

- He no longer exists.

- Well when will you get this virus under control?

- The game engine needs repair back in the real world

but we never had any assistance.

- So what do you think's gonna happen?

- I can tell you exactly what will happen.

At 7:47 p.m. this game

will immediately shut down and reboot.

- What does that mean?

- It means that in less than six hours,

this entire day will begin again

and everything, including Steven, yourself,

everything gets re-instigated,

as if nothing has happened.

- So everything can be saved.

Thank god.

- Not quite.

The virus is still in our system.

So it simply begins to corrupt the game

exactly as before.

Everything begins to disintegrate again.

And again and again.

Our world in here is stuck

in a perpetual time warp.

We are living one endless day.

- How long have we all been stuck in here for?

Weeks?

Months?

Years, decades?

- I don't know.

Just before the game shuts down

it sends me one final error report.

But I'm only programmed

to keep the last 365 days on my records.

It could be a year and a day,

it could be three million years, I just don't know.

- Lisa.

Tommy, my parents, they could all be dead.

They could be long gone.

They could be waiting for you.

- This can't be happening.

- It already has happened, Richard.

[soft somber music]

- I missed the five.

[machine whirring] [intense music building]

[soft mellow music]

- My wife never wanted me here.

She knew the risks, but I didn't listen.

- I know.

- So we have this exact conversation ever day.

- Every single day.

- What if someone solved the case

before the game rebooted?

- Then that person would be exported from the game

and back to the real world.

- All the detectives are investigating the same case, right?

- Correct.

- Then why don't we get everyone together,

pull our resources.

- There are hardly any left.

Steven Williams isn't the only one

who has been wiped.

- Well get all the detectives that are left.

- It's not in the rules.

- For fuck's sake!

[soft record scratching]

[mellow piano music]

- We are all inside a computer program, Richard

and the programming can't be changed.

- Can't you do something?

Anything?

- I was designed so that no one can cheat off me.

Richard, you come up with this idea every day.

- What if I team up with one other detective,

someone to replace Steve?

Who else is left?

- It's forbidden for me to tell you that.

But if you were to find that person yourself

there's nothing to stop you forming an alliance with them.

- Then that's what I'll do.

Do I always do the exact same thing?

- You never give up.

You always think there's a chance.

But even if you do solve this murder,

you could be trapped here when the game reboots,

or you may die.

- Anything's better than this.

- I can tell you that Sherlock is still operating.

You will need his help to have any chance.

[mellow piano music]

[intense choral music]

- Hi Dad.

- Hi Rich, hope your case is going well,

everyone here misses you.

- Bye Dad.

- We'll let you get back to your case.

- Thank god you're still here.

Do you know what's going on?

- I don't know.

- Look, surely you must have noticed

how weird things are today.

Who are you waiting for?

- My partner.

- She's not going to turn up.

- What do you mean?

- Look, you'll never believe me,

I'll explain in the car--

- I'm not going anywhere.

I don't know who you really are.

- You need to talk to Help Desk.

- Help Desk?

- I don't have time to explain,

I'm gonna see David Mitchell,

I'll be at the vineyard.

We need to work together.

Trust me.

[building intense music]

- I need to be there

for the meeting of the initial business,

Yes, yes of course.

Here I am stuck in a vineyard because.

All right, that's not my problem.

Forget it, I'll do it myself.

Can I help you?

- I'm investigating the Donovan case.

Got a few questions.

- Be as quick as you can.

As I'm sure you can appreciate

there's a lot for me to do now Martin's gone.

- Was this one of Martin's investments?

- This, was just a hobby.

A status symbol.

Martin didn't even drink.

I oversaw this place

and all his other investments.

- That evening you spoke with Martin

in the hallway before he came into the living room.

- Yes, I had taken a call there.

Martin must have come out of his bedroom.

He was wearing that new suit Julia had made him.

- What did you talk about?

- He was unhappy

with our last quarterly result.

We lost over five million.

Martin wanted somebody's head.

- I don't care if there's no one to blame.

We can't have a loss like this and do nothing

it makes us look weak.

Someone has to carry the cow.

- Okay.

Who should I fire?

- That's your problem.

Make an executive decision for once.

[mellow upbeat music]

- Don't be long.

- Yes, good day.

Looks I'm gonna have to cancel my appointments for tomorrow.

- And this call lasted from 6:15 to 6:19.

Phone records on your PA confirm this.

- Yes, and then I joined the others in the living room.

Soon after that we found Martin.

- That must have been a shock.

- Still can't believe it.

- Who do you think did it?

- An intruder, obviously.

- Not one of the guests?

- Impossible.

We were all together the whole time.

- Except you.

- Except me.

But tell me this,

how did I walk past several witnesses,

strangle Martin, walk out past the same witnesses,

all while still on the phone?

- So what happens to the company now?

Does Julia inherit everything?

- She's meeting with the lawyers this afternoon,

but I'm expecting her to take ownership.

- And how will that effect you?

- Julia knows nothing about this company.

She's only interested in clothes.

So I'm assuming she'll take a hands off approach.

Which will mean more work for me.

- And a lot more power for you.

- I think we're done here.

[sobbing]

- [Catherine] I can't stop thinking about my family.

- My son has just turned three.

He had just turned three.

What about you?

- No kids.

But the thought of not seeing my parents

or my sister again.

- Look, I know it's tough,

but we've got to stay focused,

it's our only chance.

- Help Desk doesn't give us any chance.

- We're both still here.

That means we know a lot more than the others.

- [Catherine] So who's your prime suspect?

- David Mitchell.

He's the only guest unobserved for several minutes.

Now Martin's gone, he'll probably control the company.

- But David was on his phone then.

How did he strangle Martin at the same time

and get in and out of the study?

- His alibi's solid as a rock but

something's not right about it.

What about you, who's your pick?

- Julia.

Maybe she found his new will.

Saw how much Cynthia was getting,

so then destroyed it

and made sure Martin wouldn't write a new one.

- What about the others?

- Angela, the housekeeper.

Like David, was also unobserved for several minutes.

- Then there's Cynthia.

She has the least motive.

Why would she kill Martin before they're even married

and she's not even in the will?

- Maybe Martin was gonna end the relationship,

so she took revenge?

But that seems unlikely.

Everyone says he was beside with her.

- Or William and Cynthia could be in on it together.

Maybe he wanted her for himself.

If she's short of money,

he might think he has a chance with her now.

- And he's Martin's lawyer,

he could have easily siphoned off money over the years.

- [Richard] They both stayed

in the living room the whole time.

- And so did Samantha.

And I can't see an alliance in those three.

- Could Samantha be the killer?

Maybe she's always hated

living in her brother's shadow

and she'll certainly benefit from his death.

- But how could she,

or any of them get in and out of that study?

God, it's so hard to concentrate.

I'm so tired.

We're wasting time.

We need more information.

- I'll talk to William.

He's seeing Julia about the will,

it should give us some clues to mush.

- Good idea.

I'll talk to our dark horse Angela.

So you're married with a child,

why risk it all coming in here?

- There was a case Steven and I were working on.

A hacker got caught

trying to break into our server.

We suspected he was a small part

of something much larger,

so we began an interrogation

to see if he was working with anyone else.

- And was he?

- We never found out.

He killed himself on my watch.

A suicide ring was hid in the evidence.

They could have thrown me out for negligence.

Steve too, he was the senior officer.

Instead they offered us this, a second chance.

- They had something on you, too.

- What do you mean?

- I, suppressed a piece of evidence on a case.

Child molester.

We knew we had the right guy, they found me out.

- And given the same choice as me.

- Maybe ever cop in here

has got a black mark against their name.

We're all expendable.

- Now my family's alone out there.

- Look, let's just stay with the case, okay?

There's one part I just don't understand.

This Ouroboros just seems so abstract.

- But it has to mean something.

- Good luck, I'll pick you up in an hour.

[soft intense music]

- [Julia] Just in time for the will.

- Is everyone here for it?

- I assume so.

How's the investigation going?

- [Richard] Slowly.

- Why is that?

- Well, because no one's really being that honest.

- Does that really surprise you?

- Julia, please have a seat.

- Does he need to be here?

- Of course he needs to be here,

he's trying to find Martin's killer.

- I'll get right to it.

This is Martin Donovan's last will and testament.

It was signed in this room on February the 4th, last year.

- February last year?

He hasn't made another one since?

- No.

As you all know, Martin Donovan

was an extremely wealthy man.

The beneficiaries are as follows,

to Martin's sister, Samantha Donovan,

a lump sum of $40 million.

Everything else, including all of Martin's share,

cash and property portfolios

he leaves to his daughter, Julia.

- He's left me everything?

- This is ridiculous!

He promised me I'd be looked after!

- He barely knew you last February.

- I'm not mentioned at all?

- Not once.

- This is not over.

- There's not much else to say.

Julia, I'll give you a lot of documents

for you to sign in the coming days

and I'll make the arrangements for that.

- Thank you William.

We'll see you at the wake this evening?

- Of course.

- Congratulations.

You and I have a lot to talk about now.

[gentle intense music]

- There's a wake tonight?

- In Martin's honor.

Ironic really.

He never set foot in a church all the time I knew him.

- And you were Martin's oldest friend,

you don't feel hard done by in the will?

- Martin's will does make one other stipulation,

that I remain its executor

and Julia's legal advisor for the next three years.

- For which you'll claim a salary.

- A modest one.

- Was Martin planning on making a new will?

- He was.

- And what was in it?

- Martin didn't confide things in advance to anyone,

even me.

- Maybe he'd guessed your feelings for Cynthia.

- What do you mean?

- How long have you two been seeing each other?

- A couple of months, it wasn't serious.

- And Martin didn't know?

- We were the least of his worries.

- Like what?

- I've said as much as I'm prepared to.

- Look, I don't have time for this,

what was Martin worried about?

- Let me go, your hurting me.

[soft dramatic music]

Ow, what the?

- If you can't tell me what Martin was planning

then I'll know you're lying about him

and that means you're the killer.

- No, you've got it all wrong.

- Tell me who Martin was worried about!

- You wouldn't believe me!

- That's for me to decide!

- I was beginning to think I'd lost you.

- Not yet.

How do you feel?

- Terrible, but at least I'm still here.

- How did you get on with Angela?

- I don't think the housekeeper's involved,

no opportunity.

How did you get on?

- Better.

I had to bend a few rules

but I'm pretty sure I know who did it,

just not how it was done.

I still need some answers.

- From who?

- The killer.

[soft intense music]

He should be home by now.

- Look Richard I'm,

really struggling, I don't know if I can--

- Hey hey hey, hang in there.

We're near the end, okay?

I promise.

Hello?

David?

[soft dramatic music]

He was killed from behind

just like Martin.

Christ!

I'll check the house.

[soft dramatic music]

You okay?

- Game's already shutting itself down.

[dramatic instrumental music]

- Things have disappeared inside as well.

We've got to access Sherlock.

- We need some new theory,

or he won't help us.

Maybe.

You're getting stronger again, aren't you?

We must have some new theory.

- I just thought of something.

- What?

- Let's go.

- Good evening, Richard.

- Access Sherlock.

- Sherlock can only be accessed once,

are you sure you wish to--

- Access Sherlock.

- Thank you Richard, Sherlock is ready.

[upbeat instrumental music]

- It's okay.

You go.

- A lovely piece, don't you think?

We're playing Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.

The earliest opera on record.

Dated 1607, and it's a great story too.

The legend of Orpheus's journey to the underworld.

His wife, Euridice, dies of a snake bite

the day after their wedding.

Stricken with grief,

Orpheus makes the perilous journey down to the underworld

to bring her back.

After much suffering and sacrifice, he fails.

So he goes to his father, the god Apollo,

and asks for his help.

Apollo tells him

that he'll be able to see his wife's image in the stars.

- But he'll never be with her again.

- You know your classics.

Excellent.

You should have left her behind.

- We're solving this together.

- Honorable but foolish.

She's doomed.

You need to think of yourself.

- We're getting out of this together.

Who are they?

- Some people to help us if need be.

Normally we have a larger crowd but

as Help Desk told you,

we're not running at full capacity today.

- Help Desk told me a lot today.

What's really going on here?

- What do you think is going on?

- I know that I'm real, but apart from that.

- How do you know that?

What an arrogant assumption!

Back in the real world you were real.

In here all bets are off.

We're both in a game we can't control.

However I have the advantage of knowing

I can never be real,

you do not.

- So what do I do?

- Your only chance is to play the game and win.

Just play the game Richard.

I'm so glad you have an artistic side to you.

It's such a vital part of one's soul

and one's profession.

Especially if that profession

is the detection of crime.

- We need your help with this case.

- Of course you do.

You've just discovered David Mitchell's body

and he was your chief suspect.

- Yes.

- A second murder either complicates matters

or clarifies them, which is it?

- Clarifies.

I know who killed Martin Donovan,

but not how it was done.

- There is one infallible method

of detecting crime, Richard.

A psychology of human nature.

Every human act, large or small,

is the direct expression of one's personality.

Just as an expert can analyze a piece of music,

so can a great criminologist

analyze a crime and tell you

who committed it and for your sake,

how it was committed.

First.

Let us look at the method of the crime.

Would you agree that our friend here

is the same body type as the victim?

- Yes.

- Strangulation is a very

intimate form of killing.

The murderer came up from behind.

- What are you doing?

- I'm helping you, Richard.

You think this man is real?

What can we deduce from this method?

- Martin knew and trusted his killer.

He felt safe with them standing behind him.

- What else?

- You're not using a great deal

of upper body strength.

Physically, the killer could be anyone

and they were prepared to take huge risks.

- Correct.

These points should help you

when you make your final accusation.

- What about how the crime was committed?

- The murder of Martin Donovan

is a work of art.

It is from any standard view point,

an impossible crime.

Which implies what?

- That I need a different view point.

- Tell me, Richard,

have you read Watson's stories about me?

- Yes, when I was young.

- What was my famous motto?

The one I used to solve many crimes?

Come on!

- Once you have eliminated all other possibilities,

whatever remains must be the truth.

- Well, not my exact words but close enough.

And yet you have failed to apply this

to your own case.

- 10 seconds after Martin entered his study,

there's no way the killer could have escaped.

They all swore blind they saw someone enter the study.

Someone.

That means.

- Yes.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

And take my other advice and leave her.

You can't win this game together, you know that.

- [Catherine] He's right.

- We're getting out of this together.

- No.

No.

It's over for me.

Sherlock!

You have to assist me too.

I demand to speak to you alone.

- What are you doing?

- I don't want him here.

Get out of this nightmare for all of us.

- Gentlemen.

[dramatic instrumental music]

- [Richard] Wait!

No!

Wait!

[shouting]

- It's going to be a lovely evening, do you have plans?

- I'm ready to submit my final report.

- If you're wrong in any way,

you lose all your points.

- I understand that.

I'm ready.

- Very well.

You'll need to address your suspects, please go to them--

- I know where they are.

[dramatic opera music]

Where are they?

They have to be here.

It's the wake tonight.

I've solved the case!

Am I supposed to pray?

Beg for forgiveness?

What's going on?

Virus?

The Ouroboros, it's the only piece that doesn't fit.

The symbol of eternity.

Repeating over and over.

Does it have any relevance to your father?

- Nothing.

- That's somebody's sick joke.

- [Richard] It's their signature, the hackers.

- You've got no rights and they can hold you forever.

- Who are you protecting?

[dramatic opera music]

I, Richard Manning, officially submit in my report

that the Ouroboros is your signature.

You created this virus to punish us.

To put us under pressure,

under exhaustion, under misery.

You want to treat us all like rats in a maze,

damn you!

I have to get back to my family,

they're not your enemy.

I'm not your enemy.

Now let me finish this, then I'm going home.

- [Samantha] Who are you talking to?

- Good evening.

It's been one hell of a day.

- Look, this is hardly the time.

- I know who killed your brother.

I know how and why it was done.

That person also killed David Mitchell this afternoon.

- Who is it?

- First, I need to tell you how I came to my conclusions.

The key has never been who done it, but how it was done.

And why, why did the killer wipe the whole room

clear of fingerprints?

As if the killer wanted to highlight

that they'd been in the room for some time.

Why?

Once you've eliminated all other possibilities,

whatever remains must be the truth.

Let's apply that rule to this case.

Martin Donovan entered the study at 6:14 p.m.

Julia, you and Samantha went into the dining room

about 10 seconds after that, correct?

- Yes, no more than that.

- So, applying our rule,

that's the only time our killer could have escaped.

- But that's impossible.

It took longer than that just to kill Martin.

- Unless, if Martin Donovan was already dead

and the man you saw entering the study

was not Martin.

- This is crazy.

- Are you saying we're all lying?

- Not all of you.

Let's review the facts.

Martin spoke with David in the hallway.

He then entered the living room,

spoke briefly with Samantha.

Then he went into his study.

Julia, William, Cynthia,

did any of you actually speak with Martin?

- No, but I saw him.

- I did, too.

- Me too.

- What you saw was a man of Martin's size and build

wearing the same glasses and identical suit.

The lights were low.

You were across the other side of the room

focused on other things.

Why shouldn't it have been Martin?

Who else could it be?

If my theory is correct

it means that David was lying

when he said he spoke with Martin in the hallway,

it also means that someone else is lying.

The person that planned this entire thing.

You waited until Martin entered the study

then you went in there.

- What do you want Samantha?

[soft intense music]

[groaning]

- It's done.

- I played tennis today.

I haven't played for ages.

- [William] How was it?

- [Cynthia] It was exhausting.

- Wish me luck.

- Excuse me.

- Hi.

- Yes, oh my goodness, lovely.

- I belong to a club, yeah.

- So that's how you killed your brother,

ingenious but very risky.

- [Samantha] I like taking risks.

- [Richard] Initially I thought

David and Julia could be involved

but it was obvious from the way he talked about her

that he didn't have any respect for her.

William confessed to me that he'd seen you two together.

- I offered him the two things he's always wanted.

Company and me.

- But you had no intention of him having either.

This afternoon, after the will reading,

you both went to his place to celebrate, he thought.

Instead you slit his throat.

- What proof do you have?

- David was foolish.

He kept the duplicate you made of Martin's suit.

It's hanging in his wardrobe.

- That doesn't link me.

- It does if your hair and fibers are found in the lining,

which they will be if you made it.

- Why would I want to kill my brother?

- Inheriting $40 million is a good incentive.

Martin's new will would have reduced that considerably.

I know he wrote a new will

because I found a fragment you missed clearing up.

But that's not the main reason.

You've always been dependent on Martin financially,

something you've always resented.

And then he was going to marry someone who make sure

you got even less money in the future.

You killed Martin to get your inheritance

and as revenge for the way he treated you.

- Is that it?

- He left you out in the cold.

Your own brother.

You felt trapped in this existence,

you saw your chance to take everything,

kill Martin, escape.

But you failed.

- Congratulations, Richard.

[dramatic opera music] [clapping]

[soft eerie music]

- Is this the virus?

Is there no end?

Why can't I solve this?

[electronic crackling]

[dramatic instrumental music]

[dramatic opera music]