What's that?
Highly toxic plant that's used to make atropine.
You know what that is, right?
Well, yeah. Atropine is used to dilate eyes.
And for anesthesia, and in cardiac medicine as a resuscitant,
and witchcraft.
Coroner had cause of death listed as atropine poisoning,
but I did a further test on the bile and found it was belladonna.
Which means what?
It's not the expensive synthetic type, so it's more readily available,
harder to narrow down where it came from.
Where do you get it?
Well, you don't pop into Duane Reade and order a vial, but it's accessible.
Easy enough to find if you know where to look.
Besides, nowadays, you can pretty much get anything online.
MILES: But it's definitely toxic?
Belladonna is used for eye surgeries, but never in this amount.
The killer put it in her eyes.
Her death was brutal and certainly no accident.
Cheers.
Where you going? I gotta run.
Well, stick around for a while. I can't.
I gotta run home and change. Going out for a drink. Buy maybe Bill here can tell you more about it.
Bill? You okay?
Brain freeze.
Who are you getting drinks with? I will call you later.
Bill, you have been a godsend. Thank you.
Breathe through the nose.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING AND LAUGHING]
Nice dress.
Nice party. Tell you what.
Order two Hemingway daiquiris.
This joint is one of two places in all of New York City
that makes great daiquiris. I'll be back in time to tell you
why they taste like heaven.
Did I tell you that's a great-looking dress?
HARRISON: No, no, no.
WAITER: You ready? Two daiquiris.
[NINA SIMONE'S "I PUT A SPELL ON YOU" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Thank you.
I'm dizzy from the spin and I'm all the way over here.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
Here.
A very famous man once said that sincerity is everything.
Once you learn to fake that, the rest is easy.
So the Hemingway daiquiri
is two ounces of light rum, one ounce--
One ounce lime juice, one ounce simple syrup,
dash grapefruit, grenadine float.
Oh, I knew I had to worry about you. You pay attention.
I do. For instance, I noticed that wedding ring.
Oh, yes. I am married.
So what? So, what are you doing here with me?
I'm having a Hemingway daiquiri with you.
What are you doing here with me? Am I with you?
Are you married?
Wow, that would make this really interesting, wouldn't it?
No. God, no. No?
Just broke up with someone? No.
Gay? No.
Actually, I'm thinking of joining Match.com.
No, you're not. Are you kidding me? Yes.
Lots of people date online. You're gorgeous.
What do you think of it?
My life is complicated enough as it is.
I'm sitting here, having a drink with you.
I'm trying to figure out how I'm gonna explain that.
Will you have to?
[WHISPERS] Hopefully not.
Do you have kids?
[IN NORMAL VOICE] No. You don't have any kids, right?
No. Family?
A mother.
Here is to Gunnar Hope and his corner office.
Oh, God.
That was a little dramatic, wasn't it? Yeah.
I refuse to be treated like that. That fucking Phelps.
Rat.
Committed the cardinal sin.
Which is what? Don't betray your friends.
Don't betray people who love you.
Law of the jungle, huh?
Law of the universe.
It's not kill or be killed anymore.
Kill or become irrelevant.
So here's to not becoming irrelevant.
And don't be mad.
Don't be mad that I'm married or any of that.
I mean, because that's, you know, a different thing than what this is.
Is it?
I should probably just make some arrangements
to have a car take you home.
Okay.
Drink your Hemingway daiquiri.
[PHONE RINGING]
Hello. Where the hell have you been, kiddo?
Late night. Yeah, I'll bet.
Hey, wait a minute. Are you drunk?
No. Sounds like you are.
No, I'm not. What's up?
Oh, just me waiting to talk to you. About?
I kind of thought that we were doing this story together.
We are.
I know, but I'm the one who's doing all the grunt work while you're out all night drinking.
You know, I mean, at least, you can introduce me to the--
At least, you can introduce me to the lesbian.
Take the virtual tour.
I'm sure there's a lovely picture of her there, Miles.
Night, night. Wait, wait, wait.
Remember that series of murders they traced back to Riverbank Park?
The drifter they never caught?
Women that were being murdered and tossed off the cliffs?
Yeah, yeah. The Rufus Scott series.
Yeah, well, the cops think maybe the drifter tossed Grace.
Yeah, well, maybe.
But I'm gonna go to bed, so let's talk about it tomorrow.
Sweet dreams. Bye.
[###]
MAN [ON COMPUTER]: Tired?
What did you have in mind?
You.
The coffee room. Remember?
You rubbed against me. This is some good shit.
Save this chat.
Then you bent over.
Ew. She did?
You knew what you were doing to me.
You liked it.
Not quite.
I can't stop thinking about you.
Where's your boyfriend?
You are a twisted--
Where's your wife?
Out. Out. Figured.
Looks like it's just you and me, Hill.
Are you turned on?
No.
Me too.
Are you trying to seduce me, mister?
Wait a minute, now I'm gonna get your whole name,
Harrison Hill.
What are you wearing? Robe.
What's underneath? Panties.
Ask what color. Come on, come on. I know it. What color?
What color?
[LAUGHS]
I knew it.
White. Sheer.
I like that. You like that?
Now picture this.
We're on a beach. No, no. Let's keep this real.
Let's put this at H2A. Okay.
H2A. Yes.
No one's around. I got to tell you about this, Miles.
You come into the coffee room.
I'm already there.
Miles, chatting with Hill,
talking about H2A. You rub against me.
I lift up your skirt.
Veronica?
Veronica. I'm coming.
You there? Sorry. My hands were a little busy.
Mine too. Ew.
At least one of them.
God, you're easy.
I'm gonna tell you what to do.
You like being told what to do?
Okay.
MILES: Trail your hands to your panties.
Go inside.
Can you feel me fucking you, Ro?
[###]
Hey. Hi.
What are you doing here? Giving you breakfast.
Good morning. Yeah? Morning.
[CELLPHONE RINGING]
Don't answer it.
I have to answer it. No, you don't.
Wait, hold that thought. No, no.
Don't. Tell them that you're busy.
Don't answer that. Hey.
MILES: Hey, I need to talk to you. I think I got a breakthrough on Hill.
Okay, Cam. Please give me a second. I gotta take this.
Okay, Miles, what's up? Did you get my e-mail?
Wait, tell me you didn't just say, "Cam, give me a minute."
Come on, man, I don't have time for this shit. What?
Oh, you're busy, huh?
Well, look, there's too much to go over right now.
Can you meet me at the Grill Room at 1:00?
Yeah. I hate that he's there, Ro.
Yeah, I know you do.
Hey, Ro.
Did Cam happen to mention
that he's having a DNA test today for Grace's baby?
Three o'clock, 31st Precinct.
Cops have them together in November.
Coffee.
Did he happen to mention that?
What is it with great women and shitty men?
I don't know.
You figure it out. Tell me later.
No more phones.
What are you doing later?
You. No, I mean, like later.
This afternoon later.
Showing a couple of places uptown.
Oh, really?
What about downtown? What do you mean?
Thirty-first Precinct. What?
Three o'clock.
Fucking liar. Thought you said you hadn't seen Grace in over a year.
I haven't.
Uh-huh. That must be why the cops have you with her three months ago.
Thanks, Miles. Thought you said it was over, Cam.
You said you didn't give a shit about that bitch. Remember that?
I don't. You sat your ass right there and said,
"I love you, Ro." I do, Ro.
You're a fucking liar.
Was it yours?
Could it have been yours?
I don't know.
You don't know. Ro--
Get the hell out of my house.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[###]
WOMAN: Good morning, Larry. MAN: Good morning.
HARRISON: Hey.
Good morning.
Okay.
I give up. What?
You didn't read the paper today?
Today is "National Take Your Best Employee to Work Day."
Mmm. So I guess you're going to pick up Esmeralda next.
You know what? Esmeralda rides a broom to work every day.
[LAUGHING]
That's funny. Very funny. A sense of humor.
Bobby, say hi to Katherine.
MIA: Hi, Esmeralda, it's me again. Is he still in a meeting?
Well, just let him know I called and I'll see him later.
Thanks.
[###]
Thank you.
Gentlemen, welcome to New York, or as we like to call it, Reebok Town.
Come and have a seat right over here.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
That ass kissing will go on all afternoon. Wanna take a long lunch?
No, actually, I can't. I've got to meet a friend downtown.
I'll see you.
Fancy lady.
So, what's up? I stumbled across some information
about Hill's wife and her family fortune.
I mean, they had millions and millions and millions. And they invested a lot of it
into medical research. One of the guys they backed
revolutionized surgery by finding a medicinal use
for a poisonous plant called belladonna.
We have proof that Hill was ADEX. We have proof that ADEX knew Grace.
We have the motive, the pregnancy,
and now we have knowledge and history that links Hill directly with belladonna.
The only thing we don't have is access to Hill's personal e-mail account.
What are you talking about? We do have access.
That's his IOL account. His main account is with H2A.
I can't get to it. There's a firewall. There's something new.
I can't scale it with a remote.
Take this. And what's that?
It's new spyware that you're gonna mickey into Hill's laptop.
Go at the end of the day, install it into the computer,
and bury it into the hard drive.
ROWENA: And how long will that take?
MILES: Three minutes and 14 seconds.
But that's just a guess.
SPYrid?
Fuck. What?
MILES: Yeah? Okay. So he's got antispyware
on his computer. There's a big fucking sign that says,
"Stop in the name of SPYrid."
SPYrid? Oh, he's definitely hiding something.
There was a leak, so they probably went into lockdown.
What do I do now? He's asking for a password.
It's new. Look, I can get in, but it'll take a few minutes.
Just take the flash drive out, we'll do it later. I'm sorry.
Sorry? All you can say is sorry?
Well, I don't-- Well, tell me something.
[DOOR OPENS]
Usually the competition's a little smarter
than to send a beautiful temp into the boss's office
to snoop around on his fucking computer to try and find fresh ideas.
I-- Well, I-- No, wait.
Let me see if I can help you. I am in your office,
and I really need to come up with a really honest story.
No. I was really just gonna-- I don't know, tell you the truth.
Go ahead. Give that a shot.
I came in here because I wanted to leave you a note.
I wanted to do it at the end of the day when there was nobody here,
because I really didn't want everybody in this office to know
that the new girl
has got a big crush on the boss.
And what was this little note gonna say?
Well, it was gonna say that you're wrong,
because there's 17 restaurants in this city
that make the Hemingway daiquiri.
Who were you talking to on the phone?
Eddie. Eddie?
My friend Eddie.
He's a bartender and he was helping me
put together the list.
I realized that I didn't remember all 17 bars,
so I was calling him for help and I--
I'm sorry.
And I'm positive I'm fired. Get out.
[###]
Here. This is the list of the bars.
Please get-- I'm telling you the truth.
This is what I was leaving.
You might wanna
check them out.
Hey. This is what you want me to believe?
That you came in here
for this list?
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, you're fired.
Because I don't wanna take you to dinner
as your boss.
I mean, maybe I'll rehire you in the morning or maybe after dessert.
You can tell me all about this crush you have on the boss.
Okay.
[DIDO'S "WHITE FLAG" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
I did that? Yes, you did that.
Okay, wait, wait, wait.
Where you going? Wait.
Wait. Wait. What's the matter?
I've gotta go to the bathroom. I'll be right back.
All right. Oh!
I'll be right back. You all right?
[CELLPHONE CHIMING]
[###]
[CAR ALARM BEEPS]
[ROWENA CLEARS THROAT]
[GROANS]
All of a sudden I'm not feeling that good.
I think maybe you should take me home.
Too much sake, I think.
Which way are we going? My exit's back there.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[LOCKS CLICK]
How far are you prepared to take this?
Say your name.
Go ahead. Just say it.
Katherine. Bullshit.
Katherine Pogue. Bullshit.
Okay. You need to take me home.
Esmeralda was right.
And I didn't want to believe her.
You're a spy for Kirschenbaum, right?
Answer me!
Don't wanna talk?
Well, I'll tell you what.
How about this?
Let's get your pal M on the phone.
Who the fuck is M? And why is my name on this text?
Okay.
I'm gonna ask you one more time.
Are you or are you not a fucking spy? Yes.
What? Yes.
Phelps, right?
You and that scumbag Phelps the whole time.
From the first day. Right?
How much could they be paying you?
Are they paying you more than hooker money?
Because that's what you are, right?
Do you even know what the word loyalty means?
I bet your wife is wondering the same thing.
[SCREAMS]
[###]
I am so disappointed in you right now.
But just because you wanna hurt somebody,
doesn't mean that you will.
[CAR ENGINE STARTS]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Harrison. I'm sorry. I have--
I've never spied on anybody like this.
Fuck you.
Get out.
[###]
[WATER RUNNING]
MAN: Rowena.
Come on, honey.
I wonder where could she be?
[MUFFLED SCREAMING]
Bath time.
ROWENA: No.
Ro, I called you 50 fucking times last night.
I called you at H2A, they said you no longer work there.
I mean, what the fuck? Where are you?
On the way to the rehab center to see my mother.
The last time I spoke to you was when you tried to jimmy the lock on Hill's computer.
Do you have any idea of the thoughts going through my fucking head?
Hill saw the text message you sent me last night.
What? So I guess we won't be getting
into his computer after all. Oh, no.
No, no, no.
No, it's okay. I'll figure something out.
Don't worry about it. Are you okay? Yeah. I'm good.
[LAUGHS]
Look, can we
have an early dinner tonight?
You can bring your laptop and we'll start putting the story together?
Okay. Okay?
Oh, good. You never say okay, and that's good. I love okay.
Oh, good. I'm just glad you're out of there.
Yeah. Me too.
Okay, I'll see you tonight.
Bye. Bye.
Phyllis?
Anybody here?
Hello?
Hi, Mom.
[###]
You look pretty.
Hello, can I help you? Oh, yeah, hi.
I'm from IT. I was sent to run the detox on Mr. Hill's computer.
Fascinating. Wanna know why? Nobody called IT.
Well, your computer did, sir.
When any computer hooked up to the grid goes down, it cries for help.
Ah. A cry for help.
Have you tried these? No.
There's a little honey in the center. Thank--
I'm Harrison Hill. Benson comma Kurt.
Interesting name. Let me ask you something.
Could this have anything to do
with someone trying to install spyware on my computer?
Well, it could have to do with anything,
but I won't know until I give your computer a clean scrub.
I like a good, clean scrub. Yeah.
I need about 10 minutes in my office, but in the meantime,
I'm sure Josie wouldn't mind showing you around the office.
MILES: Hello, Josie.
Josie, meet Benson comma Kurt.
Esmeralda, can I have those mockups that Gunnar left someplace, please?
ESMERALDA: Yes, yes, I know right where it is.
Follow me. Josie.
[DOORBELL RINGING]
Come on, Miles.
Shit.
Beautiful space.
Beautiful people.
Beautiful pictures. Are those--? Are those planets?
No, eyes. Mrs. Hill did a whole series:
"Inside the Dilated Eye."
We have a guest computer.
Take the virtual tour. It's very informative.
I'll be in my office if you need me.
[###]
Oh, thanks. I got locked out.
ROWENA [ON COMPUTER]: Miles is sexy.
ROWENA: Miles?
Miles is sexy.
[CLATTERING]
Miles is sexy.
[###]
Miles is sexy.
ROWENA: "Welcome, Trublu"?
Miles is sexy.
MILES: Can I help you?
What the fuck, Miles?
What are you doing in this room? Well, I heard my voice
coming from your computer.
That's what I'm doing.
It's a joke. That's just a joke. Oh, it's a joke, huh?
Well, are all these pictures on this computer a joke?
Miles is sexy.
Are the pictures of me out there on that goddamn dummy a joke? Huh? Huh?
You know what, I'll tell you what's funny.
What's funny is the fact that you said you hadn't seen Grace,
but yet you got pictures of her on your computer from October.
Nude pictures, all fucking chained up and strapped up and shit.
Hey, can we go in the other room and talk about this?
No, no, no. Let's talk about him. Trublu.
Maybe your pal Trublu took all these pictures.
Maybe Trublu took all these fucking pictures in here.
You freak.
Wait a minute. Go ahead, admit it.
Fucking admit it right now. You were ADEX.
Two or three times, yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought.
You've been manipulating this whole thing, haven't you?
Lying to me. Fucking Grace.
Who didn't?
You were trying to set up Harrison Hill, huh?
Wait a minute. You think that because of this
that I had something to do with that?
Why wouldn't I? You can't keep changing your identity, Miles,
and expect people to trust you.
Don't be such a fucking hypocrite, Ro.
Fuck you. No. Fuck you.
I've been working my ass off on this for you the whole time.
Everybody has secrets, Ro. Right. Everybody's got secrets, huh?
Until they get caught.
Let's see. Take a fucking look at something.
You told me to take the virtual tour of H2A.
When you do,
when you click on the photographs hanging in the reception area,
it links you to Mia Hill's webpage.
She took photographs of dilated eyes, Ro.
They're eyes. Look. "Mia Rheinhart Hill replicates
a phenomenon fashionable in the 1920s,
the dilation of a woman's pupils with the use of belladonna."
This is it. This puts the poison in his hands,
or it puts the poison in his wife's hands.
This is it.
This is what we've been looking for.
You need to get help.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
This is the story.
Can I go now?
[###]
ROWENA: I have a history of powerful men squashing stories
and hiding facts,
so I wanted to get this whole thing together,
give it to you before Harrison Hill had a chance to do just that.
"Veronica. What's new?"
"Boyfriend's out of town."
"Which means?" You tell me.
"Hotel Gansevoort."
ROWENA: "I'll leave a key under your name.
From room 1801, the view is spectacular,
especially the sunrise."
[KNOCKING]
[LOCK CLICKS]
Are you Harrison Hill?
Yeah.
Mr. Hill, I'm gonna need you to put your hands behind your back.
[###]
You're under arrest for the murder of Grace Clayton.
Who? "Fast Filly."
You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer any questions.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have the right to hire an attorney before speaking to the police
and have an attorney present during questioning any time now
or in the future.
MAN: The State of New York will prove beyond a reasonable doubt
that the defendant, Harrison Matthew Hill, did intentionally
and with premeditation commit the heinous murder
of Grace Alexandra Clayton.
Are you aware of the hundreds of e-mails
between your husband and other women?
Now I am.
DA: Mrs. Hill, where do you keep your belladonna?
MIA: It's in my medicine cabinet in my photography studio downtown.
DA: The state will present irrefutable physical evidence
that places the murder weapon, a poison called belladonna,
in the defendant's car, commingled with the victim's blood,
hair and bodily secretions.
We got blood.
DA: And, finally, you will learn about Grace Clayton,
a young woman who believed the lies
that this ad man was selling,
never realizing the price that she would pay
would be her own tragic death.
Thank you for your time and your consideration.
I look forward to your verdict at the close of this trial.
All over the city, really. But most often at his hotel suite.
He kept one at the Gansevoort.
He liked to watch the sun rise over the city.
He just didn't want his wife to find out. If she did, it was over.
The hair, blood and secretions all matched the victim, Grace Clayton.
Additionally, we did find some trace elements of belladonna extract.
All significant financial holdings are in the name of his wife, Mia Rheinhart Hill.
DOORMAN: It was after midnight on the 5th.
I just started my shift.
This blond woman was freaking out, wanting to see Mr. Hill.
I buzzed him. There was no answer.
She left an envelope, but she wasn't happy.
About an hour later, Mr. Hill came down, he took the envelope and left.
I didn't see him the rest of the night.
DA: I'm holding in my hand a copy
of State's Exhibit Number Three in evidence, which reads,
"Grace. Don't come by my house.
Don't come by my office. We are done.
Leave me the fuck alone."
Can you please tell the jury where this came from?
I retrieved it from Harrison Hill's hard drive after the police seized his computer.
ROWENA: It starts with a quiet hum, an empty screen inviting you.
Has the jury reached a verdict? Yes, we have, Your Honor.
ROWENA: "Come inside," it says.
"We're always open."
JUDGE: Will the defendant please rise?
How do you find on the charge of murder in the first degree?
ROWENA: It's a world, you think, where actions have no consequence,
where guilt is cloaked by anonymity,
where there are no fingerprints.
An invisible universe...
filled with strangers,
interconnected online,
and disconnected in life.
It will steal your secrets,
corrupt your dreams,
and co-opt your identity.
Because in this world...
where you can be anything you want,
anyone you want...
you just might lose sight
of who you are.
[###]
MAN: Hello, Rowena.
You know how much Daddy likes bath time.
My great big beautiful girl.
You are so--
Put her down, now. She needed help.
Isn't that right, Rowena? Get out.
Oh, you better get out of here.
You put that thing down. No, I mean it.
Put it down, now.
Do you hear me?
Are you okay, honey? Are you okay?
Mommy, he's coming.
I said, get out. Get out.
MILES: She was blackmailing you, wasn't she?
That's why you did her all those favors all those years,
even after she slept with your boyfriend.
You just couldn't say no, could you?
What was it? What did Grace know about you?
MOTHER: We're just gonna tell people he disappeared.
Like last August.
He just never came home.
He just went away and he never came home.
You got that?
Rowena, look at me.
You got that?
MILES: God, you must have hated her.
I hated her. I hated her for you.
I still do.
Rowena. Grace.
MILES: But she just kept coming back. You can't just forget people.
Bury them and pretend like they never existed?
And then she handed you Hill that night.
She fucking handed him to you.
Regards to your mother.
At some point, you must have thought, "This has to end.
This all has to end."
So you did a little research. You took the virtual tour.
That's how you found out about the belladonna.
That's how you knew you could pin it on Hill.
And then that's how I knew it was you.
You remember that night at my apartment?
When I was looking for Mia Hill's webpage,
and your computer finished the address for me.
Didn't register for me at the time.
But later it occurred to me that you already had everything you needed to know.
You led me right to him. Belladonna is used to dilate eyes.
Are those planets? No, eyes.
Mrs. Hill did a whole series: "Inside the Dilated Eye."
MILES: Every step of the fucking way.
And then, all you needed was the belladonna.
And I-- And I remembered your mother
and that pathetic little pharmacy they have there...
and how you always used to complain how understaffed they were.
And it really wasn't that difficult to get, was it?
You called her to let her think you were gonna do a story on Hill.
"Bring your computer," you said, "show me everything you've got."
You laced her drink good enough to knock her out. You got some hair.
You took some blood.
You placed the belladonna in her eyes
to implicate Hill or his wife.
And then,
all you needed to do was connect Hill with the physical evidence.
You had the blood. You had the fibers.
You even had the belladonna.
All the tumblers clicking into place.
Secrets are great, Ro.
Unless you get caught.
You once told me that all it takes for the perfect murder
are the right ingredients at the right time.
So you waited all these years for everything to line up.
That's fucking beautiful.
That's poetic.
It's almost perfect except for one little thing.
What are you willing to do for me to keep me quiet?
[###]
[MILES GRUNTS]
Lieutenant Tejada, it's Rowena Price.
I think we sent the wrong man to prison. Miles attacked me.
You got to get to my house.
Please.
[###]
[CAT POWER'S "TROUBLED WATERS" PLAYING]
[###]