The Mallorca Files

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Thank you.

Oh, you pleased to see me?

You're not enjoying this?

This ridiculous need to destroy yourself with alcohol

because someone's agreed to marry you.

You sound like my grandmother.

The stag thing is pretty new in Germany,

but you know what? I embraced it.

It's the last HURRAY!

It's hurrah. The last hurrah.

That's equally ridiculous. What?

Breaking free for one last time before the chains are tightened,

the key thrown away.

INDISTINCT

HE MAKES HORN NOISE, LAUGHS

It's magnificent!

You know, Ines created this case

to get me out on the Arenal on a Friday night. I know she did.

Prostitute robbing her customers with a stun gun.

It's maybe too imaginative for her.

How many's this now?

Eight bars. 15 to go.

MUSIC BLARES

Seen her?

Lucita Moreno. No. No, no.

No? Gracias.

You guys having fun?

I think I'm being punished for something.

IN GERMAN

Barman doesn't know our little Bordsteinschwalbe.

That's prostitute?

It actually translates as "swallow of the kerb".

It's poetic, no?

Yep, that's the word.

Hey.

Half-price entry,

and a freebie.

Yeah, anything on Lucita?

Not tonight, but a couple of people saw her with a street girl, Pilar.

One of her regulars.

Something to check out tomorrow.

No. Let's get a list of Pilar's known hang-outs and check them out.

Now.

Imagine Ines' face when we bring her in.

Whoa.

That's Karl's crew.

With no Karl.

Must be having his last... hurrah?

? When the moonlight shines down on the sea

? And you think that you got a shot at me

? Better set me free-e-e

? You got to set me free, yeah!

? I surrender

? Surrender.?

There's no chance it's some sort of insect bite?

So a stun gun.

Our swallow's turned herself into a murderer overnight.

One thing.

These aren't the marks of the stun gun she used before.

This is more powerful than just a deterrent.

He was staying in this room? Yes.

Separate from the rest of the villa.

All right.

So, Miranda, he was stunned unconscious,

fell over, hit his head,

then, I assume, put in the pool to make it look like he drowned.

Or to clean off forensics.

I'm guessing we won't know till the autopsy

if he was already dead when he went in the water.

I know this man.

Where do I know him from?

This is Detective Max Winter. I'm DC Miranda Blake.

Danny Sumner.

My sister, Chloe, was Karl's fiancee.

This is Torsten. Ah.

Chloe met Karl through Torsten and his wife.

We are Karl's friends from Germany. I'm Vincent.

That's Hans in the flamingo.

We're going to have to wake him up at some point.

Do you know what happened?

We think Karl might have been the casualty of a prostitute

who's been using a stun gun to rob her victims.

No.

No, that's not even possible...

OK.

He ate a dodgy prawn baguette last night.

He came back early alone.

That's right.

He said we had to stay and drink.

Didn't want to kill the buzz.

Anyway, Karl's not the type to go near a prostitute.

There was one hanging around him in the bar two nights ago,

and he sent her packing. I'm right, aren't I?

Is this the girl?

You're kidding me.

I've got to tell Chloe that Karl's dead

and he was killed by some hooker.

Wow. This is all about you.

He was our friend.

I'm thinking about my sister.

Look, I don't want to sound heartless,

but I didn't even really know him.

He wanted a British stag so Chloe asked me to organise it.

PHONE RINGS

Oh, God, it's her.

Can you answer it? Please?

I can't tell her. I can't do it.

Of course she will do it,

while I start the interviews, as three of these guys are German.

I got this, Detective.

At least two of them speak English.

But I can talk about swallows.

My interviews will have details you will miss.

We will be doing everything we can

to make sure we find out who did this.

Well, that is your job, isn't it?

I don't need your hollow comments.

I need you to book me on a flight.

We can... we can make arrangements.

Good. Now we're getting somewhere.

Phone me when it's arranged.

I'll do that.

Look forward to meeting you in person, then.

Once again, I'm very sorry for... PHONE BEEPS

METAL JANGLES

WHISPERING

Are you all right, man?

He's feeling a little fragile.

Yeah, I was... I was being sick last night.

Once in the driveway, and the second...

I ran outside to the garden.

That's when I saw Karl there.

Floating.

Who realised he'd been robbed?

I went into his room to get his phone to call for help.

That's when I saw his things were missing.

Why not use your own phone?

Mine was in the villa.

Just thought his was closer.

I wanted to get help quickly.

Right.

Do you recognise these?

I have to ask you some questions.

OK.

Whoa, dudes.

Who died?

None of our stags recognise the keys.

Could have been left by our perpetrator.

How is his fiancee?

I got the idea she was high-maintenance.

You'll get to see for yourself.

She's on the first flight out tomorrow.

PHONE BLEEPS

Bitte.

OK, that's great.

We'll check it out.

Our Lucita's been spotted,

heading into a tattoo parlour in Arenal.

What the...?

Ah!

HE CRIES

HE MUTTERS

These are Pablo Casilla loafers.

Hand-stitched in Madrid.

Yeah, that's Torsten's. From the last hurrah, Max.

It's magnificent, remember?

The only colour in my size.

I can't see if she's in there, but if she's got a weapon,

we need to surprise her on the way out.

I'll confirm it's her.

Why not me?

Do I look like a cop to you?

Mm.

Ugh.

Keep back! I will use this!

Runner!

Oi! Bruja!

Watch the tattoo, right?!

She must have had a tip-off. Yeah.

Lucita Moreno, we're arresting you for aggravated robbery with a weapon

and for robbery-murder.

What?! I didn't kill no-one!

The German guy in that luxury villa that you attacked with this.

Pew, pew!

Turns out, if someone dumps in the pool unconscious, you drown.

That stun gun don't make no-one unconscious, cabron,

and I didn't kill nobody in any villa.

You want Carino de la Noche.

Who? Ew! What the hell is that?! Eugh!

La Carino de la Noche.

"The honey of the night".

Do you believe this?

Apparently, the stories have been circulating for a while.

It's how Lucita got the idea of using a stun gun.

Carino stuns them, handcuffs them and robs them.

Nothing on our files, though.

Well, that's because she selects well-off, married or engaged men

who are unlikely to report it.

Lucita's story ties in with the keys we found at the scene.