Episode #2

Phil and Red take the job against their better judgement, but the statue was rigged to kill the buyer, which seems like sabotage to our heroes. Phil and Red decide to retreat to where they were supposed to get their instructions from Kang, but find Cyril the nephew and an attractive woman named Clair instead, with a huge crew of thugs. The contact isn’t around, but Red joins in on a poker game while Phil has a drink makes time with Clair, assuming this is normal. However, when the contact arrives, the crew of men immediately kill the interloper. When Phil and Gallagher try to suss out what happened, one of the thugs says that tossing them in this mess was payback for Gallagher’s double-cross in San Francisco, and the thugs take Gallagher with them. Now it looks like Phil has killed two people in Honolulu, which should make it difficult for them to leave. 

Phil finds a message on the dead messenger that is for him, which explains that the jade statue buyer – who is now dead – was Phil’s contact to get Kang’s instructions. Phil returns to where he met with jade statue buyer anyway, to find that the shop was open, and an extremely helpful clerk gives Phil Kang’s new instructions to go to Japan, with money and a set of numbers that Phil must memorize. This Helpful Clerk has cleaned up the body, and has misled the police and Bradbury into thinking that the Jade Statue Buyer is alive, but out of town. The Helpful Clerk then directly Phil to The Farmhouse, where Bradbury and Cyril might have taken Gallagher. 

The Farmhouse is a night club, and Phil arrives to find Gallagher with Cyril & Clair together. It appears Gallagher has betrayed Phil. Cyril insists on getting Kang’s instructions from Phil. A fight breaks out, and in the confusion, Clair betrays her gang, and sneaks out with Phil. They hide out at a beach bar and make out to pass the time, but Phil quickly figures out that she’s waiting for someone to arrive, and realizes he’s in a trap. However, when Bradbury arrives, Clair betrays Bradbury, and suggests that she’s gonna stick with Phil now, and leave Bradbury behind. Bradbury believes he’s got the upper hand, as Gallagher arrives, who apparently drove Bradbury to this meet-up. But Gallagher has double-crossed Bradbury. A fight breaks out, Clair accidentally kills Bradbury, and fleas the scene. Gallagher explains: after he was taken from Phil earlier, Clair moved in on Gallagher to try and get him on her side, and he noticed she had an Opal Earring that matched the one Phil found on Bradbury’s boat earlier. Clair was willing to double cross anyone, and her offer to split Kang’s reward with Gallagher and to join up with Constantino would probably leave Gallagher high and dry. So Gallagher went out of his way to make Cyril and Bradbury think he was betraying Phil, so he could double cross them later. 

While there were a couple murders that could be pinned on them, Gallagher and Phil leave Honolulu before the morning comes. They set a new course for an island between Honolulu and Japan, and start in on a drink to close things out. 

Coleman Hawkins

Meanwhile, Mr. Underhill’s wife, Aurora, has taken in a border, and inventor named Mr. Sledge. He’s a refugee from Wing 4, who had come to Earth to get away from the Humanoid Institute mechanicals. It isn’t long before Mr. Underhill’s business folds and is taken over by Human Institute. Mr. Underhill is offered a free Humanoid to help around the house, and refuses… but Aurora has accepted. Mr. Underhill’s son hates it, as the mechanical has taken away all his favorite toys, and Mr. Underhill isn’t happy, as the humanoid took away his alcohol. Even Aurora is unhappy, because she’s bored without any chores all day. 

Mr. Sledge tries to invent a new weapon that might be able to finally destroy the Humanoids. Mr. Sledge reveals that he invented the humanoids in the first place back on Wing 4, and has made it his duty to destroy them. He unleashes he new weapon, and it seems to work at first. But soon it is clear that it did not, and a humanoid breaks into break up Mr. Sledge’s gathering. Mr. Sledge is injured, but the humanoids take him and fix him, while also lobotomizing him. This horrifies Mr. Underhill, but soon he realizes that the humanoids will lobotomize him if he doesn’t stop rebelling.

Mr. Underhill pretends to do and say anything to keep the Humanoids from lobotomizing him, including just sitting motionless, with folded hands.