[S3E4] Blood Money
Hugh is gunning for a junior detective position; he needs the money because his mother threw him out when she learned he was converting. Jack is happy to help, giving Collins extra shifts and letting him get more involved in the case. That how he finds himself down in Collingwood that night hunting for Ned. It's a good thing, too, since Paddy snuck out, and Collins stumbles across the kid, just as they both find Jimmy's body. Collins also finds a necklace in Paddy's pockets, but he insists he found it tucked in the secret communication spot with Ned, proving his brother's alive. Fisher recognizes it as matching the earrings Mary was wearing.
[S3E4] Blood Money
Fisher discovers the "packages" marked for Woods are filled with jewelry and gold watches. But they're not payment for drugs. Mary says she buys them off the boys, and Woods pawns them for her. It's all to make money to support the van, she insists, and if the items were stolen, she didn't know. Col would have told the boys to do it. But Richards insists Badger's petty thievery wasn't under his orders. Jack releases Woods, but unfortunately, he turns up dead the next morning, having overdosed on morphine. His latest skin graft was not going well, and his eye socket was infected.
The case may be solved, but Collins loses out on the promotion. Desperate for money, he quits the police force after a blowout fight with Dot. Jack refuses to accept his resignation. Aware Collins is terrified of telling Dot what's going on; he steps in to let her know. Meanwhile, Butler hires Paddy and Ned to do odd jobs for the household, which will hopefully pay enough to keep them off the streets from here on out.
When asked where Paddy calls home, his response can be no other. Ah, Collingwood. Ties that bind. "You're famous in Collingwood," he declares. Hometown girl turned rich, badass detective with a golden gun. Of course she's bloody famous! But more than anything else, he feels like he can trust her because they come from the same place. Paddy's brother is missing and we learn that they both are homeless. Paddy seems resilient - he's had to be to survive - but Dot takes this notion quite hard. Here, we get an inkling of just how sheltered Dot has been. She was not born into wealth and the family would have certainly had to scrimp (according to Lola, their mother could never afford a new dress) but, it's clear that Dot did not suffer as these children do. You can almost see why Hugh wanted to keep his secret from her.
We learn from Mr. Butler(!) that the feather Phryne picked off Badger's body is a duck feather - though that does not at all coalesce with the place where the body was discovered. Dot tells Hugh that none of these boys have a proper home, that Paddy came to their door starving. And, I imagine that Hugh can see the pity in her eyes which only strengthens his resolve to keep his secret to himself. She questions the stubble on his chin and he brushes it off - he has been learning from Miss Fisher - and uses the opening to steer the conversation to he and Dot renting a house rather than living with his mother as previously agreed. Dot isn't happy with the idea, wanting to save up their money to buy a home of their own instead. He sees her disappointment and stifles it immediately by taking the traditional role of the "man," insisting that it's up to him to find a way. That he is "the breadwinner." Wait. Stop right there. I cannot imagine that Hugh earns more than Dot. In fact, I'm willing to bet that Hugh has absolutely no idea how much Miss Fisher is paying her strong right hand and has likely never asked out of the fear that he would feel deeply, deeply emasculated by the sum. I can't imagine Dot would be happy to have her fiance bear this burden alone but, the moment is interrupted by Miss Fisher. I laughed when he complimented her dress - just goes to show that it was so out of place, even Hugh noticed it! Paddy is introduced and we think Collins is going to be sympathetic... but then he gives the kid an uncharacteristically hard time.
About the salary, this intrigued me because I have long thought about how much money the detectives must be earning and now we have a clue. According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald dated March 6, 1935, the "The average nominal weekly rate of wage in Australia, based on an Investigation of the weekly rates for over 4,000 occupations, was 5/1/5 for adult males, and 2/14/2 for adult females on September 30,1929, when peak rates were recorded." That just so happens to fit squarely into our time frame. The Junior Detective position pays 5 pounds, 6 shillings a week. My goodness! What must Collins be earning if it's a substantial improvement? Half that? Poor baby. Just for reference, a room in that crappy flop house operated by Jane's fake aunt in Ballarat Train was 10 shillings (or half a pound) a week. A decent place would be much more than that and probably account for most of Hugh's wages - you can see why Dot doesn't want to go down that route. In contrast, as a Senior Detective Inspector, Jack must enjoy a relatively comfortable salary by comparison. It's not like he's going to rush out and purchase a Hispano-Suiza of his own anytime soon but, if he makes 10 a week, he's certainly able to afford the luxury of a few new silk ties every year without too much buyer's remorse.
Dot's understandably upset that Hugh didn't confide the promotional opportunity to her. And, we quickly learn why... because she would have questioned his motives. "But why would Hugh leave Inspector Robinson? Even for a better job with more money?" she asks Mr. Butler. Remember, Dot has already given up several job opportunities and nearly her betrothed to remain by Miss Fisher's side. She believes Hugh to have a similar relationship with the Inspector and cannot understand why he would throw that away. Of course, Hugh very much doesn't want to throw that away but, he feels he has no choice. And I don't believe he wants to admit that out loud - nevermind to Dorothy.
As Kendall sits uneasily beside his father, Logan makes his pitch that the safest bet is to back him in the shareholder fight and sit tight, but since Josh has lost 350 million from the recent Waystar troubles, he's not going to fold that easily. Josh wants that money back, so which team will achieve that: Logan and his dysfunctional clan or the seemingly more stable Sandy and Stewy?
Josh admits, "I don't like betting on blood feuds. How does it end?" Logan says with him in control, some slapped wrists, a payout, and all of Kendall's accusations will simply become sea mist that fades away with the wind.
Maeve tracked down the Mortician, who told her that she had only given Dolores blood for identification. Dolores had wanted help smuggling bodies, so the Mortician had sent her to the Yakuza. Maeve forced the Mortician to take her to them.
At his office, Saul stages what he calls an "intervention" for Walt. Wondering how Saul knew where to find him, Walt realizes that Saul had his house bugged. When Saul admits he did and provocatively gives a crude description of Skyler's affair, Walt tackles him to the ground. Walt angrily tells Saul he is fired while Saul tells Walt that he will no longer launder Walt's drug money through his son's website.
Over the course of your career of professional execution, you'll encounter every single content descriptor listed on this game's ESRB rating. Blood, intense violence and sexual themes all blend together with developer Io Interactive's trademark perverse sense of humor to produce a rewarding, but profoundly mature, experience. Despite the control issues that plague this game, the bloody wake of bodies you leaves behind provide hours of guilty pleasure.
I can't say I was expecting them to find Beckett so quickly, but since they did, I knew he couldn't be in this alone. I never suspected that either Voight or Olinsky took the money and was glad to find out that was true.
That said, I was thankful that the plot tightened and finally picked up this episode. We have a Big Bad, and he is King Russell, who revealed himself to be the supplier of blood to Coots werewolf pack. Hes also the employer of Franklin, who spent the episode toying with Tara, first smacking her around and drinking her blood against her will, then tying her up on a toilet and forcing her to hold a bouquet of flowers by taping them to her bound hands. Bill, meanwhile, tries to prove his loyalty to the King by breaking up with Sookie over the phone and telling his new sovereign that Eric is selling vampire blood on behalf of Sophie-Anne, who is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Maeve participates in a torture session to figure out where to go next to learn who Dolores brought with her, and where she found human blood tissue for them. They find out that Maeve had to find someone called The Mortician, who provided the tissue/blood. Then the Mortician brings Maeve to another person she knows quite well: ronin Musashi from Shogun World!
After a sword fight, Musashi stabs Maeve with a fatal blow, leaving her in a pool of her own blood and a white liquid that looks similar to what host bodies are created with. Musashi picks up his sword and goes to cut open her head (my guess is to get her pearl) but runs away when he learns that people tracking her are on the way.
We catch up with Dolores buying Caleb a suit as they embark on her plan. Along with an ill-gotten blood marker from a banker, Caleb transfers Liam Dempsey Jr.'s money to Dolores. On the way into the bank Caleb asks what if his blood marker doesn't work.
And that brings us to an actual masquerade party where things start to diverge. Liam Dempsey Jr. is trying to bid on a lady wearing no pants, but has no money because Caleb and Dolores took it. And that's when Bernard and Stubbs grab Liam and try to control him, only to realize that he isn't a host.
Devil meets up with Robert Quarles, who tells him he knows Devil is second tier with Boyd Crowder and that Boyd's enterprise is going nowhere fast. Quarles says that he can turn his "shitty little project" into a "money making machine" but needs the right people. Quarles also says his offer will require Devil to get his hands dirty, but the offer only comes once. After much persuasion, Devil accepts the deal and betrays his longtime criminal associate. 041b061a72