Sugar
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Oh, yougottago interaction at a dinner party.
The busiest intersection on the planet.
Three thousand people cross the street every two minutes, all day and every day into the night.
I sat there for hours, Henry.
he adds with hesitance.
His cinephiles conscience tips him off to the violent color wheel of flaws inherent to the human race.
He gives Ruby a quick call to check in if shes heard anything about the Siegel girl.
You mean since you called me four hours ago?
No, its all been quiet on my end.
Sugar spots the F-150s from Charlies van, parked not far off.
Charlies anold friend I like to work with, Sugars voice-over introduces his modern PIs local helper-friend.
A civilian, but I trust her.
Stallings doesnt buy it.
A PO could work his whole life and never affordthatsuit.
A while back, shed helped Teresa get away from her husband.
Olivia was helping me then, says Melanie.
Got her outside herself like it does me.
The night of Cliffords death, Melanie got a call from Olivia to come over to Carmens.
Both Clifford and Carmen were dead by the time Melanie arrived.
She did nothing wrong, Sugar says, thinking it through for himself while reassuring Melanie.
Doesnt necessarily warrant trusting the cops with your story, especially with such a messy aftermath at your feet.
Besides, Olivia was loyal to her family.
Sugar cant help but promise hewillfind Olivia.
Hes all in on making the professional personal and vice versa.
Meanwhile, the fledgling Siegel mind trust is hard at work trying to solve the riddle of John Sugar.
After college, Sugar enrolled at the DLI in Monterey.
Thearmy language school, super-intensive crash course for military officers, future state-department officials …
Future spies?
That would explain why some of this biographical intel tracks and some of it doesnt.
Some of the details feel a little too manufactured.
Kenny heard these rumors about this group of spies from all over the globe who used to be enemies.
Sounds like the plot of a shit action movie Bernie produced.
The script was preposterous, Bernie says.
He wantsrealboots-on-the-ground information on this guy.
Too much is at stake.
A rather handsome international group of mystery folks, to be sure.
We scatter and we return.
But tonight, we return to one another.
The group mingles while Ruby rotates everyone in and out of her office for some sort of quarterly one-on-one.
Sugar finds a seat with Henry, an anthropologist by day and another close confidant among Sugars peers.
I dont even like garlic, he says.
He recognizes Sugars overwhelming appetite for his latest case, and warns him to be careful.
The language is mostly I feel when it should be they say.
Were here to observe these people, not participate in their lives, Ruby says.
you oughta stay focused.
Dont forget who you are.
But he hasnt forgotten.
Hes chosen: Hes a guy doing a job.
And the job isto find Olivia.Observation is the means, not the ends.
Sugar has flipped the script with a good old-fashionedthis time, its personal.
Im sorry for the hour, but we have a problem.
We close out the episode on a hushed-tone conversation between Ruby and a superior named Vickers.
(The same Dr. Vickers Ruby suggested Sugar go see in the first episode?
She tells Vickers, Sugar is onto Stallings.
Its only a matter of time before he discovers the rest.
We have to stop him, says the voice on the other end of the line.
Call in the others.
