Episode #6

When Dan wakes up, he finds himself 15 miles out to sea, on a boat with Marie Gordon. She explains that she has chartered the boat, and Dan will catch swordfish and Marlin with the captain while she hides in her room, and Manny does… whatever, back on shore. 

After four days of fishing, Dan finally gets angry, and insists that he needs to go back to shore. Marie forces Dan into the dingy and makes him row to shore on his own. Meanwhile, Manny goes to meet someone named Edward B. Spalding, a Fence, who is waiting angrily for the goods that Marie had promised to deliver, and begins to threaten Manny. Dan makes it back to shore eventually, discovers that Suzy is missing, and that Edward is waiting for him.

Dan tells Edward exactly what happened, and Edward believe him. Dan goes to The Star Times to see if they’ve heard anything about Suzy, and a clerk explains that Suzy went on a vacation, like Dan told her to do in his note he left for her. Dan didn’t send a note and doesn’t like what this suggests. Dan picks up all the mail left for him, and discovers that there’s a box with what sounds like a ticking sound inside, which he immediately takes to the police. However, they discover it’s full of jewels. Dan pieces together the smuggling plot: Marie is bringing jewels to Edward, who can then sell them to someone else. But now Edward is mad because Marie seems to be trying to run off with the jewels to sell to someone else. Dan tracks down the captain, to find that Edward and Manny had just done the same, and were looking for Marie, too.

On his way, Dan runs into Manny outside Marie’s cabin, and knocks him out. Dan overhears Marie and Edward arguing, and Dan uses the advantage to knock out Edward. Marie tries to talk Dan into joining her, but Dan refuses. The police explain that they’ve been looking for these smuggler’s for a while, and they wanna thank Dan. Suzy comes back from her vacation to deliver the final zinger. 

Not much later, a heavily perfumed Chinese Man with a Charles Laughton accent introduces himself as Ah Sin, and takes Phil out of his cell. Ah Sin explains that he is incredibly rich and dishonest, and needs the assistance of an honest man. Ah Sin has moved Phil’s ship and has murdered The Colonel. Ah Sin takes Phil to an expensive house where Alice is waiting, and a Texan named Mangan is introduced as Ah Sin’s sidekick. Ah Sin explains that he intercepted a communication from Kang, deduced that The Scarlet Queen is probably in for a payday soon, and pulled strings to get Phil released from prison. Ah Sin also contacted Kang and Constantino separately, and each offered a reward for Phil: $5000 from Kang, and $10000 from Constantino.

Phil claims he never told anyone about the true purpose of the Scarlet Queen. But Alice claims she was raped by Phil, who told her all the details afterwards. Phil is taken to a room with Gallagher in it, who Ah Sin also captured. They get some sleep, and in the morning Alice shows up and feeds them a convoluted story about double crosses that neither Phil or Gallagher believe, but she proceeds to break them out and take them to The Scarlet Queen. Mangan is there to ambush Phil, and shoots Alice, supposedly dead. Mangan explains his plan: to have him and a few Chinese men sign on the Scarlet Queen, so when they get to Kang, they can kidnap him for Constantino.  

A fight breaks out in the shadows of the ship, and Ah Sin shows up, explaining he has a crew of men in the shadows. Ah Sin would like to drop the matter entirely, if only Phil could offer a little something in return for the help Ah Sin has given him. Phil says he would have gladly traded the Ginseng if he still had it, to which Ah Sin is thrilled; in fact, Ah Sin already confiscated it from the Colonel earlier, and now had it to rights thanks to this conversation. Ah Sin sorts out getting Phil’s crew out of prison, and they set sail for Shanghai, with only enough repairs to get them to their next stop. 

Charlie Barnet

Chandu pulls him in the window, and uses his powers to make the intruder think he is seeing snakes about to attack him, and that a knife is about to fly at the intruder. He immediately reveals that Roxor hired him to kill Ben Ali, and then to kidnap Betty, too. As he is about to finish divulging his plan a knife is thrown at him by someone else, and both men run off. 

One of Chandu’s friends arrives, and explains that he saw Betty get taken, and tortured other men to get the information about where she was taken. Apparently, she was kidnapped to be sold on the slave market. Rumor has it that she tried to escape, but if so, is lost, on her own. 

Duke starts teaching Junior that humans are evil, in addition to what the Professor has taught him, and soon Junior revolts against the Professor, and kills him. Duke takes Lola and Junior to Charlie’s, and asks Charlie to scout out a new job, which Charlie says will take 50 men. But duke has his mind set on taking down a payroll truck, and with Junior’s help, is successful, too.  

Seeing Junior in action makes Charlie nervous, so Duke asks Junior to kill Charlie. Duke decides to leave Lola with Junior while he steps out to plan his last heist. Junior asks Lola to oil him, and in talking to her, realizes she thinks Duke is the smartest and the strongest, and that’s why she’s with him. Duke comes home to try and kill Junior, but Junior kills Duke instead, and comes to offer himself to Lola, who is horrified to find what Junior has done. Junior explains that he is “almost human,” and that maybe she could love him, anyway. She screams.