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met travis unger. all right, well, we're gonna have to verify this. feel free. i'll give you numbers of some of my investors, too. investors? the santa leticia is in deep water, half a mile down. that kind of salvage job costs about a million dollars. i had already sold 50% of the treasure to my investors. if i'd given him 50%, and besides, there's a dvd in the back of that file. it shows video of us when we finally made it to the santa leticia about two weeks ago. it's proof that somebody else ended up with black peter's logbook. that ship had been picked clean. based on the condition of the wreck, someone beat us to the gold by days. weeks, at most. so you think travis unger tried to partner with someone else. that person killed him, took the book, and got to the santa leticia before you? i'd start by finding the people who stole my treasure. and got tobell:santa leticia thanks. that'll do the trick. the national weather service says they'll send us
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the last two months of satellite footage covering the coordinates mr. vestergaard gave us. holmes: should be easy enough to spot a vessel which anchored above the santa leticia long enough to loot her. keep me posted, would you? where are you goinht it's over. you know i don't like it when you do this. nobody does. what's up? what did i do? did i miss an appointment or something? about? a murder. what are you talking about? i know you killed jameel clark. what i don't know is why. i told you everything i know about what happened to jameel. you told me everything you wanted me to know. you left out the bits about shooting him in the back,
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dropping the weapon in a garbage can. believe it or not, i'm here because i want to help you. do tell. 12 years ago, you made a mistake. now obviously, you regret it. or you wouldn't have become an informant for the department. you wouldn't have devoted yourself to dismantling sbk. hmm? you're not the man you were. that could not be more plain. but the truth must out. so tell me what happened that night, hmm? what drove you to take jameel's life? i loved jameel. like he was a brother. so why did you shoot him three times in the back? you know what? i think you should leave. you have a relationship with the police, and with the district attorney. you must realize that there's a deal to be made if you confess. there's nothing to confess.
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so, if you don't mind... you're making a mistake. no, the mistake is yours. i didn't kill anybody. it's good luck you caught me. i was planning to set sail for sardinia tomorrow morning. so... how can i help the nypd? well, last month, a sunken treasure ship named the santa leticia was looted, and satellite photos show your yacht, the sea unicorn, anchored at the coordinates for well over a week. we know you consider yourself an amateur treasure hunter, and that you maintain a private collection of the things that you've found over the years at your home in riyadh. so tell us, if we get a warrant to search your ship, are we gonna find the santa leticia's gold onboard? absolutely. you don't deny looting the treasure? not at all. would you like to see a sample?
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actually, that would be very helpful. i carry this one with me for good luck. it's the first one found by my divers and very precious to me. but you're more than welcome to come to the ship to see the rest of the treasure. you don't happen to have a logbook there written by a man named black peter, do you? it's with the rest of the treasure. you know black peter? he is one of my favorite pirates. mr. al-asmari, that logbook was once in the possession of a man by the name of travis unger. he was looking for a partner to help retrieve the treasure. he was offering a fifty-fifty split. ah. but he was murdered. and now you're admitting to having his book and the treasure. i'm sorry to hear that this man is dead, but i've never seen him before. and i certainly would not have killed him to find the location of santa leticia. why would i? this is a million-dollar watch. my shoes cost $5,000.
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i have more money than i know what to do with. i don't need to steal or kill to get what i want. i'd have happily shared the treasure with this travis unger. he never approached me. if you never met him, where did you get black peter's logbook? i bought it. from? i don't know. i made the purchase on the dark web. the seller wished to remain anonymous. i paid 25,000 american dollars. travis unger wanted 50% of a treasure worth millions. there's no way he sold the logbook for $25,000. you think i bought the logbook from the man who killed this man. but the transaction was made entirely via screen names and encrypted e-mails. do you at least remember his screen name? of course. it was kashgar. like the city on the silk road. (keys clacking)
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mason? hey. i ta it the partially melted statue of coatlicue, the aztec earth goddess, who sold a pirate's logbook to a saudi billionaire? travis unger himselfher killed or knows the person who did. we bought that statue from kashgar. we bought a real one though. it's in the basement. i asked mason to use one of the 3-d industrial printers from his university to make a copy. since when are you at university? since i turned 15. duh. we melted one of the statue's hands to try to convince kashgar that he sold us a fake by accident. see? why did you make a video? 'cause we want kashgar to watch it. which, according to this, he just did. mason embedded a trojan horse in the video.
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by watching it, kashgar is giving us his ip address. got it. now all i have to do is match the address to a name. and... bam. holmes: john neligan. excuse me. watson: "john neligan. "criminal sale of a controlled substance. "criminal possession of a weapon. assault in the first degree." (commentator speaking indistinctly) hope! grab me a beer, will ya? (door slams open) get on the ground! now! my daughter's back there. i'm clean, man! dad? this is a mistake, sweetheart. i didn't do anything. mr. neligan, detective bell, nypd. whatever tip you got, it's bogus. i didn't violate my parole. you can search the house. you won't find anything that's not supposed to be here.
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look, we know you've been trafficking in stolen goods, mr. neligan, including a valuable book you sold to a saudi businessman. what? save it, okay? we know you're kashgar. i don't know what you're talkin' about. who the hell is kashgar? hope: i am. my dad didn't do anything. it was me. i'm kashgar. dearthere's no other way to say this. it's over. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say: if you love something... set it free. see you around, giulia ♪
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camep with the whole kashgar thing a year and a half ago. it was a way to make money for college. well, ever since my dad stopped dealing, money's been tight. not that he gets why i even want to go to mit. stopwatson: do you understand money's been tighthat the crimes you committed are very serious? well, i wasn't selling drugs or guns, like my dad used to. it was just a bunch of antiques. bell: we're pretty sure a man was murdered over one of those antiques. i told you, i don't know anything about that. holmes: we're fairly confident that you didn't murder the victim yourself. he was run through with a sword. and that takes a strong and practiced arm. i mean, your father could have done it. no. that's crazy. he doesn't even own a sword. i mean, i don't think he owns a sword. maybe you should just tell us how you came into possession of black peter's logbook. i never possessed it.
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i was a middleman. that's all i ever am. people reach out to me online for help with dark web transactions, usually because they can't figure out how to do it themselves. but i never handle the merchandise or meet with the sellers. so you just arrange the deals. a couple of months ago, this guy reached out to me. he said that he was a regular customer, but i didn't recognize his screen name. that's not unusual. the people that i deal with, they change up their info all the time. he said he wanted my help selling a book that used to belong to a pirate. so you put it on the market for him. no. not exactly. he didn't actually want me to auction it. he wanted me to offer it directly to a guy named farhan al-asmari. he said to set the price at 25 thou. gave me the guy's private e-mail address and everything. he specifically wanted the book sold to al-asmari? did you think that was odd? no. i get asked to help sell something, i do it. no questions. the odd part was that he said i could keep all the money. said it was a bonus for all the work i'd done for him in the past. he didn't end up making a penny.
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i don't get it. someone kills travis unger to get a pirate's logbook, and the only people it ends up helping are a 14-year-old girl and a saudi billionaire. and it doesn't look like either one of them is our perp. what if the point wasn't to help anyone? what if it was to harm? arranging for hope neligan to pass black peter's logbook to al-asmari didn't just profit those two parties-- it insured the utter failure of a third, lars vestergaard. his expedition to the santa leticia was for nothing. i mean, he didn't just miss out on the treasure-- he cost his investors millions. so what if the killer's true goal was his ruination? i don't know. that's a long way to go to hurt a guy's business. we'll talk to him again. if there's someone out there who hates him enough to commit a murder just to see him fail, he probably knows the person's name, right? i admit, i had my issues with lars vestergaard, but i didn't do anything that would've harmed him or his business. we know that, over the past ten years, you invested in a number of his expeditions,
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mostly to disappointing results. we also know you broke his nose at the met three months ago. during the first intermission of der freischutz. it's a real shame to have missed the final two acts. bell: mr. jarman, you told police that you were upset over treasure hunting losses. you clearly have a grudge against the guy. i had a grudge. past tense. but the punch was the end of it. the truth is, i'm a different man today. right after the... altercation, my firm made me take a sabbatical to work on my anger issues. i spent the time off building houses in haiti. it was life-changing. i assume you got my name from lars. did he also tell you about the pirates? pirates? lars likes to wine and dine his investors on his salvage ship. about a year ago, i was onboard late at night when he was in port, and these men in masks, five or six of them, came roaring up in speedboats. they jumped on board and started wrecking his gear. by the time we got down to the deck, they'd already sped away. but they did thousands of dollars worth of damage.
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according to lars, it wasn't the first time. he called them pirates? no, i did. because they were flying a pirate flag. it had a sbut instead and of the usual crossbones, there were two scuba snorkels. i don't know. maybe they're the people you're trying to find. so, what did mr. vestergaard have to say this time? he confirmed jarman's story. he said that he'd been attacked on four occasions, and that it's happened to other salvage firms, as well. none of them reported the attacks because they didn't want to spook their investors. so, what kind of pirates have a bone to pick with salvage operators? he doesn't know. uh, were you able to find out where that flag came from? i was. unfortunately, uh, isewyourcustomflag.com is a small online shop, and the owner doesn't sound especially organized, but she's promised to let me know when she's located the buyer's name and address. i found something upstairs
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that i would like you to explain. shinwell: so, if you don't mind... holmes: you're making a mistake. shinwell: no, the mistake is yours. i didn't kill anybody. when were you planning on telling me about this? i wasn't, mostly because the recording was my backup plan. i thought that shinwell might see the wisdom in turning himself in. he did not. you disapprove? of the timing, yeah. he's worked for months to embed himself in sbk. an endeavor i cared more about before i knew he was a cold-blooded killer. you think we should look the other way? sbk is a ruthless drug gang. there is no doubt they are the greater evil. so why get a confession out of shinwell now? tell me, watson, what did you think would happen when shinwell and detective guzman finally bring the hammer down on sbk? do you think he would buy a little house here, settle down? or do you think he would be whisked away by witness security, never to be seen again? that's not what he wants. he wants to be with his daughter. that was never gonna happen. now that we know he killed jameel clark, it shouldn't.
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as a physician, you pledge to do no harm, but that's not always possible. cutting into a patient does them harm. medicines have side effects, sometimes terrible ones. with chemotherapy, we actually give cancer patients poison, hoping that it'll kill more malignant cells than healthy ones. so, he's the cure to cancer now, is he? he's not the cure. a means to an end. a necessary evil? no, just a lesser one. several months ago, i destroyed evidence that would've violated his parole. it would've guaranteed his return to prison, so thanks to me, a murderer now walks free. so, if he kills again, it's gonna be on my head, not yours. the man belongs behind bars. (cell phone chimes) speaking of murderers, our seamstress has the name of the person who bought the pirate flag. i don't know what to tell you. i'm a marine archaeologist. i study pirates. doesn't make me one. a flag just like this was commissioned by one of your students, isaac sheridan. he admitted to committing several attacks on treasure-hunting ships, including one owned by lars vestergaard.
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holmes: according to isaac, you instructed him and several other students when to strike and what equipment to damage in order to cripple those companies' salvage capabilities. people like lars vestergaard desecrate important archaeological sites for their own profit. sabotaging their ships was the only way to slow them down. until travis unger came along. who? bell: travis unger. he used to work for the public administrator's office. a couple of months ago, he got his hands on a logbook that contained the location of a sunken treasure galleon. and he approached vestergaard about salvaging the wreck. vestergaard turned him away because he'd filed a claim on the same ship over a year ago. you have the gear and the know-how to run the same kind of operation. so we think that unger came to you next to try to strike some kind of a deal. you realized if you got to the treasure before vestergaard, you'd be able to preserve it and hurt his business. problem was, you couldn't beat him to the wreck. and you couldn't promise unger the 50% split that he demanded. academia is loathe to authorize such expenditure
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without tedious review. so you killed unger and took the book. what? and then you arranged for it to fall into the hands of farhan al-asmari. he keeps his hauls intact in his own private museum, and according to your own academic papers, he's given you access to his collection before. hold on. do i know mr. al-asmari? yes. did i take things with my students too far? no question. but i'm telling you, none of us killed anyone. professor... no. i have a question now. what is the name of this sunken ship that i supposedly killed over? the santa leticia. well, i don't know where you're getting your facts, but there wasn't any treasure on the santa leticia. there was. mr. al-asmari pulled up millions in gold. he's pretty proud of it, too. no, this is impossible. i've read everything that's ever been written about the santa leticia, including the records
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in the archives of the indies in seville, and there is not a document in recorded history that says it went down with gold on it. black peter would disagree with you. black peter? the logbook you think i stole, it was his? you said lars filed a claim on the santa leticia before the logbook surfaced. yeah, we verified it. hmm, that doesn't make any sense. he would've seen all the records i saw in spain. maybe he just had a hunch. no, salvagers like him, they don't work off hunches. they need to know there's gold on a ship like the santa leticia or they'll have their investors to answer to. i've got to make a call. excuse me. yes, thank you. so, we're not liking the professor for travis unger's murder. are you? everything she said fairly reeked of the truth. is that why you left to make a call? holmes: i believe she was also telling the truth
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when she said lars vestergaard had to have expected to find nothing when he mounted his expedition to the santa leticia. but that doesn't make any sense. why go to the bottom of the ocean for nothing? 'cause i think in vestergaard's case, nothing would have been far more valuable to him than gold. 'cause i think in vestergaard's case, when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night. hold on dad... liberty did what? yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat so he could get home safely. my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. don't worry - i know what a lug wrench is, dad. is this a lug wrench? maybe? you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.
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under the right circumstances, a producer could make more money with a flop than he could with a hit. he's quite good, isn't he? i'm more of a chocolate factory kind of guy. someone want to tell me why you're showing me a movie? because you pulled off the same kind of scheme, only instead of a musical about nazis, you convinced your investors to pay for an expedition to a ship that you thought was empty. (laughing): why the hell would i do that? i asked myself the same question when a marine archaeologist insisted that you couldn't have believed there was treasure onboard. i wondered, maybe your intention wasn't to plunder the santa leticia, but rather your investors' pockets. so i contacted one that you'd worked with before, clarence jarman. watson: he helped us track down the people who actually paid for you
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to go to the santa leticia. turns out there were a lot of them, more than anyone knew. holmes: just like the characters in the movie, you oversold your shares in the santa leticia's treasure. you told us that you typically sell 50% of your profits to cover your expenses, but on this expedition you secretly sold 000% of what you might find, if the salvage effort was a flop, they'd get nothing. ateant that 000% after the real costsnd, of the expedition were covered, and no one would be the wiser. seemed pretty foolproof, travis unger showed up with black peter's logbook. suddenly there was evidence there really was gold watson: if you got to the ship and the treasure was still there, you would've owed your investors ten times whatever it was worth. find ten million in gold, for example, bell: you couldn't do that.
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so you followed unger now, you still neededk the. to make the santaleticia's gold disappear, so you made sure the book ended up in the hands of farhan al-asmari. he got to the treasure before you.problem was solved. all right. but i didn't kill anyone. this is a still taken from a documentary film that you commissioned during one of your earliest treasure hunts. ap is a spanish sword this is a still taken called adnavaja.ary film it's different from a traditional sword so? bell: so travis unger was killed with a sword. we'd like you to produce yours so we can compare it to the victim's wounds. i've lost it. actually, we think you did quite deliberately. you took her out the night of the murde mile oside the actually, we think you did harbor, then came right back.
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mr. vestergaard. what do you think our divers will find watson, i just left my meeting. i'm absolutely famished, so, um, if you'd like me to bring home any food for you... did you think i wouldn't notice? you the one taught me how to coax a confession out of a suspect. hmm? (grunts) isolate. surprise. build a rapport. you didn't think i knew what you were doing? shinwell... (grunts) no, you gonna listen to me now. you want to know who killed jameel? huh? sbk killed jameel. leadership cut a deal with a rival gang, and in exchange for a cease-fire, the gangs agreed to work together to raise the price of the drugs they were pushing.
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jameel's death was a condition. he had taken up with the ex-girlfriend of one of the other gang's lieutenants. so he had to go. (grunts, coughs) sbk asked a friend to do it... but they lied. they told his friend that he was a traitor. they tricked him. you looking for someone who killed one person. sbk kills dozens of people a year. their drugs ruin thousands of lives, but don't nobody care. they don't get press. they're not clever. they're not fun. they're just evil. are you done? no. there's something you need to know before i go. i'm-a take sbk down. and anybody who get in my way... (grunts) ...gonna get hurt. captioning sponsored by cbs and ford. we go further, so you can.
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