Death and Other Details: Vanishing (Recap/Review)

Death and Other Details: Vanishing sees the cruise ship still without power. The episode starts with Rufus having a tour of the bar. He tells Sunil that he does not like the man. After this barb the cruise line owner threatens Cotesworth, whose rejoinder points out just how hard it is for a man tied in a chair to threaten someone.

prologue

Episode 8: Vanishing continues with an accelerated body count. It may as well be the bewitching hour as all masks are coming off. Secrets and lies are exposed equally here.

Some of the lies are laid bare by Anna who confesses the Collier complicity in the dye scandal. Rufus tells the reader that Viktor Sams is hiding in plain sight on the cruise ship. Teddy gets a posthumous note from Llewellyn. She reads the note and has a flashback. We relive the lawyer’s suicide with her. We also learn the true relationship between Llewellyn and Teddy.

They were BDSM buddies.

Mathers tells tells Teddy that he tires of cleaning up the Collier’s messes. He shows no sign of “checking out.” Teddy learns that Agent Eriksen and she shared Llewellyn’s dominatrix fetish.

getting the power back on

As Teddy rushes to get the power back on, Anna learns that Llewellyn has killed himself. She and Imogene share a moment. Imogene and Rufus search the late Mr. Mathers’ room. They go back over the original investigation once again.

Anna confronts her parents about the lawyer’s death and learns that they were not aware of his suicide. That Derek films the interchange. Eleanor and Leila meet outside Anna’s stateroom. Leila goes in and has an uncomfortable talk with Tripp.We learn that Tripp really cared for the late governor.

Leila tries to explain Viktor Sams to Tripp.

Jules uses the key Imogene gave him to escape. He overpowers Simon. He then asks him and Winnie what Sams wants.

Anna leads a small Collier group to the celestial hall. After a terse exchange, Leila, Anna and Tripp join the Chuns at their table. The celestial hall is a mass of conversation; revealing and unrevealing Teddy mourns the loss of Llewellyn in the pantry of the ship.

As a waiter transfers wine corks in the pantry Teddy remembers her last conversation with ber BDSM buddy. She then discovers a clue to his death.

More vanishing

Teddy and Jules talk to Sunil and his composure is slipping. Eriksen speaks with Lawrence and Katherine comes to the rescue. Sunil and Jules decide on a plan of action.

At the Chun’s table, Anna learns that she is not a Collier. Lawrence is not her biological father. Apparently the Priest spilled the beans to Celia Chun. Anna realises that her father was Llewellyn. The dead lawyer, according to Mrs Collier, had no idea.

Katherine storms out of the hall and Imogene confronts the Chun table. She tells Celia that she was the witness for Kira. Celia tells her backstory. Romance and death at the Collier factory in China. After Eleanor’s grandfather died, Llewellyn paid Celia off to keep silent. She used the money to start a rival business.

Imogene confronts Lawrence and he calls her Kira. Anna explains that he has some sort of dementia. Illusions are quickly vanishing. Imogene starts putting the pieces together. Thinking that Imogene is her mother, he confesses to killing her, by making a phone call.

Eriksen confronts the wine waiter about the wine given to Mathers. He tells the agent that Katherine Collier asked that the poisoned wine be sent to the lawyers room. The woman is, Imogene believes, Viktor Sams.

Katherine is found dead in the ship’s pool. A helicopter arrives. It is not filled with good guys. Sunil and Jules learn that the ship is rigged to blow. Eriksen surrenders her weapon to Wendeler.

conclusion

The body count for this episode of Death and Other Details was quite low. Katherine goes out after the celestial hall confession and dies messily in the pool. Lawrence, we learn, is not compos ‘mentis.

Imogene believes Katherine is Viktor Sams. Andreas (Christian Svensson) arrives with his cavalry and she accuses him of working for Sams.

The death count may well be down for this one, but the mystery deepens. As each cover story, illusion or lie vanishes, more twists and turns appear. There are two more episodes to this season. Tune in and see if you can guess the real identity of Viktor Sams.