529 – Bugs – Down Among the Dead Men

It’s a jolly tale of murder and intrigue on the high seas, or, at least, under them. Simon and Eugene take a look at the Bugs episode, Down Among the Dead Men. Episode Synopsis Someone has been stealing Navy salvage parts and willing to murder to do it. Through a not-adequately-explained coincidence, the Team Bugs is brought into a case by a bank. They’ve got their suspicions about an ex-employee, Brody, who was mucking about with computery stuff. Somehow he’s linked to the ex-Navy diver that’s been stealing the navy parts. They distract the diver while Ed searches his home for the parts. The diver gets suspicious and rushes home and he might have discovered Ed, if not for Brody and his wife showing up to talk about his demand to re-negotiate their deal. No deal on that, and Brody’s wife kills him in cold blood. Ed escapes and manages to recover the parts. Beckett and Ed pose as ex-Navy colleagues of the dead man and work their way into the deal. Brody takes them on, with the promise of riches if they finish the job. He takes them aboard his submarine, where Ros can no longer track them, so she bugs Brody’s wife instead and follows her. She leads her to a very prominent diamond merchant in the City. She takes her info to the bank and they basically fire her. “We don’t do any business with that diamond merchant and there’s no way anybody could mess around with our computers,” says Mr. Hubris, one the high muckily-mucks of the company. Brody’s plan is simplicity itself. Beckett and Ed are to use the parts to fix the pump on the submarine. This will allow them to open the lower hatch and snag the undersea phone cables. He will tap into the cables, intercept a routine £250,000 transfer from his bank, replicate that, send the replica to the diamond merchant where his wife is waiting to use that money to purchase an equivalent amount of, presumably untraceable, diamonds. This all go pear-shaped when the arrive on the Dutch coast for a fuel-up. Ed tries to contact Ros and Brody finds out, killing Ed when he causes the fuel store to explode on the pier. He claps Beckett in irons, and the plan goes forward since Ed already did the important work of fixing the pump. The security investigator that brought Team Bugs in is still, unofficially, helping Ros by allowing her some computer access so she can put the pieces together. Ed has actually escaped alive, and is now with the Dutch Navy searching for the sub. The wire transfer fraud takes place, Brody scuttles the sub, with Beckett and the rent-a-crew onboard. Ros rushes to the diamond merchant and alerts them, but in doing so, Brody’s wife just goes homicidal, killing everyone in the room and taking the diamonds, and Ros as hostage in the process. As the building security cuts in and locks down, she is cut off from her husband. She gives him the diamonds, but Ros sews a little marital discord, pointing out that he’ll just take the diamonds and leave her to her fate. It rings true and she kills him. Brody’s wife is taken down by security, and Ros uses Brody’s magic-like satellite navigation doohickey to radio Ed with the exact position of the sub. Ed saves Beckett just in the nick of time. In the tag scene, Team Bugs shows once again that they’ll spare not opportunity to be juvenile asses to one another, by presenting Beckett with a fish.