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Turns out John Sugar has more business
0:02
to attend to in LA, which means we have
0:04
a lot to recap before season 2 drops.
0:06
Here's everything you need to remember
0:08
about TV's most out of this world
0:09
detective story.
0:11
At first glance, John Sugar seems like
0:13
any other fictional private detective.
0:15
He's smart, smooth, and quietly
0:16
dangerous, as evidenced by his ability
0:18
to find a Yakuza leader's son in Tokyo,
0:21
but there's a lot more to him than meets
0:22
the eye. First off, he's a polyglot,
0:24
which means he speaks a ton of
0:26
languages. He's also an avid film buff
0:28
who views his life and the world around
0:30
him through the lens of cinema. So, it
0:31
only makes sense that he heads off to
0:33
Los Angeles for his next job, which
0:34
involves finding the missing
0:36
granddaughter of a Hollywood film
0:37
producer named Jonathan Siegel. Turns
0:39
out Olivia has gone missing many times
0:41
before due to past substance abuse
0:43
problems. This time though, something
0:45
seems different. Mainly, it's that she
0:47
didn't call him to ask for money like
0:48
she always did in the past. When John
0:50
stops by to see Ruby, his friend and
0:52
handler, she isn't too happy about him
0:54
taking the case without talking to her
0:55
first. She also wants him to make an
0:57
appointment with Dr. Vickers, whoever
0:59
that is. It's obvious she's worried
1:00
[music] about him, but this doesn't stop
1:02
her from giving him a gun, one that was
1:04
used in an old movie called The Big
1:05
Heat, and sending him on his way in a
1:07
sweet Corvette that's chilling in her
1:09
garage. If you're going to solve a
1:11
noir-ish mystery in LA, you got to do it
1:13
in style, right?
1:15
Sugar's investigation first leads him to
1:16
Olivia's swanky condo, where he's come
1:18
upon by Davey, Olivia's brother, and his
1:21
bodyguard Kenny. [music] It's an awkward
1:22
interaction to say the least, and it's
1:24
pretty obvious to Sugar that Davey is
1:26
hiding something. More on him later.
1:28
Sugar also finds a pic of Olivia and her
1:29
stepmom Melanie, which leads him to seek
1:31
her out at a bar. The two have a good
1:33
handful of drinks together, and we find
1:35
out that Sugar has some pretty crazy
1:36
metabolism. Turns out he literally can't
1:39
get drunk. Bummer, dude. Wonder what
1:41
that's all about. Before bringing
1:43
Melanie home, he shows kindness to a
1:44
homeless man named Carl by giving him
1:46
money and a phone, and making him
1:47
promise that he'll reach out to his
1:49
sister in Montana so that he can turn
1:50
his life around. Back at Melanie's
1:52
house, she attempts to seduce him, but
1:54
he spurns her advances and acts like a
1:55
total gentleman. Okay, something is
1:57
definitely up with this guy. He seems
1:59
way too good for this world. In fact,
2:01
you [music] could say he's the polar
2:03
opposite of your typical hard-boiled
2:04
detective. He's gentle, idealistic, and
2:06
not jaded whatsoever, even though he
2:08
does have a ghost. Turns out something
2:10
happened to his sister Jen long ago.
2:13
More on that later as well. When Sugar
2:14
goes back to Olivia's condo, he
2:16
investigates her car and finds a dead
2:18
body in the trunk. Looks like she might
2:20
be involved in something a little more
2:21
serious than drugs, just maybe. Back at
2:24
his fancy hotel, he settles in for the
2:26
night by setting up surveillance cameras
2:27
and opening up an invitation to a
2:29
mysterious party.
2:31
Hmm, who's everyone? He also does some
2:34
research on Olivia and inspects some
2:35
Polaroid photos that he swiped from her
2:37
condo. In one of them, we see Rachel
2:39
Kaye, her biological mother. This is
2:41
when he suffers an episode of some kind
2:43
that ends with him injecting himself
2:44
with a mysterious substance and passing
2:46
out.
2:47
The next day, Sugar continues his
2:49
investigation by questioning Olivia's
2:50
father, Bernie. He's a Hollywood
2:52
producer as well and isn't too worried
2:54
about his daughter. He's of the mind
2:55
that she's just doing her usual thing
2:57
and will eventually reappear to ask for
2:58
money. When asked about the picture of
3:00
Rachel, he says he didn't take it. Sugar
3:02
isn't convinced and thinks he's hiding
3:04
something, and he's [music] right. But
3:06
all we know at this point is that Bernie
3:07
isn't too happy about Sugar poking
3:09
around, all because he's making a movie
3:11
and doesn't want a story about Davey's
3:12
assault allegations to come out.
3:14
>> If this story comes out,
3:17
no studio is going to release this movie
3:20
and you'll be out 60 million bucks.
3:22
>> Yeah, surprise, surprise, Davey is kind
3:24
of a piece of
3:26
Eight women have made allegations and
3:28
seven of them have been silenced with
3:29
bribes and NDAs. The last is a stubborn
3:32
one who is yet to come around. Plus,
3:34
Davey and Kenny are all up in Sugar's
3:36
business. They break into his hotel room
3:38
and plant some insanely obvious bugs
3:40
that he later finds without much
3:41
trouble. Sugar then talks to Melanie,
3:43
who was inspired to get sober after she
3:45
was treated so humanely by him the night
3:46
before, but their combo quickly devolves
3:48
after he asks her if she's seen the guy
3:50
he found in Olivia's trunk. [music]
3:52
Turns out his name was Clifford Carter
3:54
and he's linked to the recent murder of
3:56
a woman named Carmen Vasquez, a woman
3:58
that Olivia had been spending time with
4:00
before her disappearance. Melanie
4:02
refuses to answer, which obviously means
4:04
she's hiding something in the same as
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Bernie. So he plants a tracker on her
4:07
car and tasks his friend Charlie to keep
4:09
tabs on her.
4:11
To ponder everything he's learned so
4:12
far, which isn't much, he heads off to
4:14
see a movie. Afterwards, he comes across
4:16
Wylie, the dog owned by the homeless man
4:18
he tried to help the night before.
4:20
Thanks to the dog, he's able to find
4:21
him, but it isn't a happy reunion. Turns
4:23
[music] out Carl overdosed in a hotel
4:25
room and the person responsible is still
4:27
in there.
4:28
>> What did you give him?
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>> Yeah, looks like we have yet another
4:38
piece of evidence that Sugar isn't your
4:39
typical private investigator. He looks
4:41
plenty fit, sure, but not fit enough to
4:44
lift a full-grown man off the ground
4:45
with one arm. Damn, making Arnie jealous
4:48
over here. Sugar takes the dog to Ruby's
4:50
house so she can board him, but she's
4:51
more of a cat person. So what does he
4:53
do? He adopts the dog, duh. Who
4:55
wouldn't? Meanwhile, Jonathan Siegel
4:57
asks Sugar to get rid of Carter's body
4:59
[music] so as not to implicate her in a
5:00
crime. When he returns to the car
5:02
though, the trunk is empty. Hmm.
5:06
Elsewhere, we're introduced to Teresa
5:07
Vasquez, sister of the recently deceased
5:09
Carmen Vasquez. She comes home to her
5:11
apartment to find a guy named Byron
5:13
Stallings and his goons waiting for her.
5:15
Clifford Carter is or was his friend and
5:18
he's convinced that Melanie knows where
5:19
he is. So he forces her to trick Melanie
5:21
into stopping by and proceeds to
5:23
interrogate them.
5:24
But Sugar isn't about to let this go
5:26
down. With the help of Charlie, he's
5:28
able to dupe them and help them both
5:29
escape. This is when [music] Melanie
5:31
gets real and tells him what was really
5:32
going on before Olivia's disappearance.
5:34
Turns out she and Olivia volunteered at
5:36
a shelter that helps women escape
5:37
abusive relationships. [music]
5:39
The aforementioned Carmen Vasquez was
5:41
one of these women and she became very
5:42
close to Olivia. One night, Olivia
5:44
arrives at Carmen's house to find her
5:46
dead. Clifford, who had killed her, was
5:48
still there preparing to load her up in
5:49
a body bag. Olivia, [music] seeing a gun
5:51
nearby, shot him dead when he tried to
5:53
attack her. Then she called Melanie, who
5:55
helped her store the body in the trunk.
5:57
Sugar is confused as why they didn't
5:58
just call the police. The guy was a
6:00
criminal and there's no doubt her
6:02
actions would have been understandable
6:03
to any jury. But Melanie points out that
6:05
Olivia was determined to not create yet
6:07
another scandal for her family. This was
6:09
the last time that Melanie saw Olivia
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before she disappeared off the face of
6:12
the earth.
6:14
Being that Bernie has tasked Davey with
6:15
finding out everything he can about
6:17
Sugar, Kenny heads off to hook up with
6:18
an old flame who works for the NSA. It's
6:21
through him that we find out that Sugar
6:22
is part of the Cosmopolitan Polyglot
6:24
Society, which Kenny believes to be a
6:26
secret [music] network of international
6:27
spies. As they're poking around in
6:29
classified databases, we see that Ruby
6:31
is hanging out in the back end and
6:33
watching them. We then get to see the
6:34
Polyglot group first-hand when Sugar
6:36
shows up at a party he received an
6:38
invitation to in the first episode,
6:40
which is [music] being hosted by Ruby.
6:41
What kind of work is she talking about?
6:44
It's not too clear at this point, but we
6:45
know that everyone does their own thing.
6:47
For instance, [music] Sugar's friend
6:49
Henry is an anthropologist. What
6:50
everyone does have in common though is
6:52
that they keep journals and present them
6:54
to Ruby in a sort of debriefing room
6:56
upstairs. When Sugar takes his turn,
6:58
Ruby tells him that she's worried about
6:59
him becoming too involved with the case.
7:01
And before we have a chance [music] to
7:02
wonder what the hell that means, Sugar
7:04
eyes a weird briefcase on the table and
7:06
asks her if she's [music] heard from
7:07
them, to which she says that she has. In
7:10
case you haven't noticed by this point,
7:11
Kenny seems to be right about this being
7:13
a lot more than just a polyglot hangout.
7:16
Once Sugar leaves, Ruby calls Dr.
7:17
Vickers and tells him that he's on to
7:19
Stallings. In Ruby's case, doing what
7:21
she can involves diving into the
7:23
classified database she has access to
7:25
and deleting everything there is about
7:26
Stallings. [music]
7:27
Then she opens up the briefcase and we
7:29
see that it's a typewriter. I had
7:31
another hmm to the pile.
7:34
Meanwhile, Sugar finally heads off to
7:36
see Dr. Vickers. It seems like a pretty
7:38
normal checkup until he asks,
7:40
>> How often are you using your intravenous
7:41
drugs?
7:43
>> How often do I
7:46
Not often.
7:47
>> He then grills him about his sleeping
7:48
habits and asks if he's feeling any
7:50
despair, which Sugar laughs off. There's
7:53
obviously something going on with him,
7:54
but we're not giving any concrete clues
7:56
as to [music] what. With Melanie's help,
7:58
Sugar finds Taylor, another of Olivia's
8:00
friends. We find out through her that
8:02
she's the eighth accuser of Davies
8:04
[music] who didn't take the bribe money.
8:05
She details how Davey blackmailed her
8:07
into sex and how he's done it to many
8:09
women over the years. [music] Sugar
8:10
confronts Bernie about this at a showing
8:12
of one of Jonathan's classic films, and
8:14
he responds exactly the way you think he
8:16
would. During an on-stage interview
8:17
after the viewing, Jonathan is informed
8:19
that the story about Davies' assault
8:20
allegations has been published, which
8:22
causes him to have a heart attack right
8:24
then and there.
8:26
This is when we find out that Stallings
8:27
and Davey know each other and that the
8:29
goon isn't too happy about the exposé.
8:31
>> And my [clears throat] name comes out of
8:34
your mouth
8:35
>> No, man.
8:37
No way. You
8:38
You got nothing to worry about.
8:40
>> At Stallings' compound, we see that he's
8:42
about to head off to Mexico for what he
8:43
calls a project. He leaves his
8:45
girlfriend behind to protect the house,
8:46
[music]
8:47
specifically whatever or whoever is
8:49
locked in the basement. Sugar,
8:51
meanwhile, heads off to confront Davey.
8:53
First, he has to deal with his mother
8:54
Margie who tries to pay him off and
8:56
convince him that Davey is an empathetic
8:58
person [music]
8:59
which he doesn't buy for a minute. After
9:01
Bernie and Margie resort to threatening
9:03
him, Davey bursts into the room and
9:04
comes clean. Turns out he was a customer
9:07
of Stallings who would provide him with
9:08
girls whenever he wanted, girls who were
9:10
trafficked [music] from Mexico. His
9:12
excuse for seeking companionship in this
9:14
way is that his famous family makes it
9:15
impossible for him to date people like
9:17
everyone else, the good old nepo baby
9:19
blues.
9:20
>> I just
9:21
never knew how to
9:23
to
9:24
figure out how to be normal with them.
9:26
>> He also reveals that he told Stallings
9:27
about Olivia and how she convinced
9:29
Taylor to go to the press.
9:31
>> I just thought he would scare
9:33
you know, tell her that tell her to
9:34
chill. I I I never wanted him to
9:37
Oh god, it's so bad.
9:39
>> Sugar leaves to find Melanie once Davey
9:41
tells him where Stallings lives and
9:42
[music] just in time, one of Stallings'
9:44
goons is there trying to kidnap her.
9:46
This is the first time we see how
9:47
violent Sugar can be [music] and Melanie
9:49
can hardly believe it considering how
9:51
gentle the guy usually is. Elsewhere,
9:53
Ruby [music] meets up with Miller and
9:54
they agree that Sugar is getting too
9:56
close to the truth, a truth that he
9:58
won't be too happy about.
10:00
As the truth remains elusive, bodies
10:01
[music] begin to pile up. Davey,
10:03
following his conversation with Sugar,
10:05
gets drunk with his mom and proceeds to
10:06
shoot himself.
10:08
>> Oh no.
10:09
No no no no.
10:11
>> Sugar heads to Stallings' compound and
10:12
ends up being ambushed by the goon all
10:14
thanks to someone tipping them off to
10:15
his presence. He manages to kill them
10:18
all including Stallings but not without
10:20
suffering a pretty gnarly stab wound.
10:22
With Melanie's help, he's able to
10:23
contact Henry who patches him up at a
10:25
hotel and injects him with some
10:26
mysterious looking blood. Melanie's
10:28
obviously pretty confused by this point
10:30
but neither Sugar nor Henry let her in
10:32
on what's going down. When he wakes up
10:34
later, Sugar heads to Ruby's house. He
10:36
knows she's the one who tipped off
10:38
Stallings. She pleads for him to stop
10:40
looking for Olivia but he's not having
10:41
it. Back at the hotel, Sugar injects
10:43
himself with the same strange substance
10:45
he used in the beginning. This is when
10:47
we learn that he's an alien. You can go
10:49
ahead and pause the video and just sit
10:51
with that twist for a minute.
10:53
Okay, anyway, [music] it's at this point
10:55
that we learn that Olivia is in fact
10:57
still alive. She seems to be locked up
10:59
in a basement somewhere. By now, Melanie
11:01
is pretty convinced that there's a whole
11:02
lot more to Sugar than she can see with
11:04
her own two eyes. The suspicion is
11:05
compounded when Miller shows up and
11:07
tries to apprehend them inexplicably
11:08
[music]
11:09
lifting Sugar up with one arm. After
11:11
they escape, she grills him and demands
11:13
answers but he skirts the truth yet
11:15
again allowing her to believe for the
11:17
time being that he's a spy. [music]
11:19
Not knowing that they're fully
11:20
compromised, they head off to the
11:21
college where Henry teaches to warn him
11:23
but he's gone.
11:24
>> Someone's covering their tracks.
11:26
>> Back at Ruby's house, Sugar finds out
11:27
that their entire group of ETs has been
11:29
exposed so they're being called [music]
11:31
back to their home world. According to
11:33
Henry, the son of a politician found out
11:35
and they're being blackmailed with the
11:36
threat of further exposure. As such,
11:38
they've been trying to stop Sugar from
11:39
poking around and making things worse
11:42
and have obviously failed miserably. He
11:44
gives Sugar the address of the son's
11:45
house and lets him head off to fill in
11:47
the rest of the pieces.
11:49
At the house, Sugar is ambushed by a
11:51
security guard who turns out to be the
11:53
son. During the struggle, the son
11:54
manages to shoot himself. Down in the
11:56
basement, Sugar finds an elaborate
11:58
murder room that would definitely make
12:00
Dexter a little jealous. He also finds
12:02
an entire library of audio recordings.
12:05
Oh, and also Olivia.
12:07
>> Three words. [music]
12:10
I found her. [clears throat]
12:11
>> Following her reunion with her family,
12:13
Jonathan offers Sugar a job as his head
12:15
of security, [music] but Sugar refuses.
12:17
It's during this combo that we learn
12:18
that Jonathan had an affair with
12:19
Bernie's first wife, Rachel, back in the
12:21
day and that Olivia is actually his
12:23
child. Knowing that he can't take Wiley
12:25
with him, he drops him off at Melanie's
12:26
house. [music] During their goodbye, he
12:28
finally reveals the truth to her. Not
12:30
with words, but with what looks to be
12:32
telepathy.
12:33
But it's not over. Elsewhere, Miller is
12:35
pulled over and gunned down, presumably
12:37
by the people who work for the senator's
12:39
[music] family. Sugar, on the way to
12:40
meet up with Ruby and leave the planet,
12:42
listens to some of the son's demented
12:43
audio recordings.
12:45
>> Without life, without struggle, without
12:47
contradiction,
12:50
what is the point?
12:52
>> Something about his words makes him turn
12:53
around and head back to speak to Olivia.
12:55
He asks her what she remembers about
12:57
being [music] stuck in the dude's
12:58
basement and she tells him that there
12:59
was someone else down there with him,
13:01
someone who never talked, but was
13:03
constantly scribbling [music] notes in a
13:04
notepad. This tidbit is enough to help
13:06
Sugar realize that it was Henry. He
13:08
recalls the son saying the exact same
13:10
things that Henry said to him at the
13:12
polyglot meeting.
13:13
>> I was just seeing this thing
13:15
and feeling like I just had to have her.
13:17
>> It just felt like, "Oh, I got to have
13:18
me."
13:19
>> When he confronts Henry over the phone,
13:20
he admits [music] to it, telling Sugar
13:22
that he was just doing it for the sake
13:23
of observation. He also admits to being
13:25
the one who took Sugar's sister, Jen,
13:27
long ago. And he proves it by leaving
13:29
her robe in the closet for him to find,
13:31
knowing that Henry has chosen to stay on
13:33
Earth to continue observing humans,
13:35
Sugar decides to stay, too. He believes
13:37
Jen might still be alive and that Henry
13:39
knows where she is. Plus, Earth has
13:41
grown on him over time.
13:43
>> This place,
13:47
these people,
13:49
for better or worse,
13:51
I like them.
13:52
>> So, that's where things end as season 1
13:54
wraps up. [music] Sugar bids farewell to
13:56
Ruby and sets off in his sweet Corvette
13:57
to continue searching for the truth, his
13:59
genre-shattering optimism still intact.
