Table for Two: Fictions

Charlie Granger receives a call from Eve asking for help with Olivia’s predicament, since Charlie was once a homicide detective. Charlie agrees, though he thinks a current police officer would be of more help. At the Beverly Hills Hotel, Eve shows Charlie the pictures of Olivia and the note demanding $5,000 on Sunday morning. Olivia does not appear drugged or under duress in the images, which confuses Charlie, since Eve insists Olivia did not pose for them. Prentice enters Eve’s room, meets Charlie, looks at the pictures, and explains that Olivia is likely looking at herself in a mirror. Prentice recognizes where the pictures were taken—the bathroom at Freddie Fairview’s home, the Hacienda. Charlie realizes that Olivia must have been photographed from behind a two-way mirror; the blackmailers must have gotten the pictures from Freddie Fairview. Charlie plans a way to find the blackmailers with Eve, while Prentice will handle Freddie Fairview.

Charlie visits Sean Finnegan, the head of security at the hotel and another former police officer; Charlie retired a few months after Sean. Sean tells Charlie that the pictures were delivered by a Mexican man, who claimed that a man in a blue convertible gave him $5 to deliver the envelope to Olivia.