The story so far 1

And only one glaring inconsistency* - yay us.

Ryan is in LA, ostensibly on business but in reality to find Eddie Roberts. He wants to atone for events in the past.

He meets colleague Phile at a work meeting. Later, she mysteriously invites him for a drink.

Ryan is in a relationship with Caro who has a drink problem. He has cheated on her once. Now he wants to give her back to Eddie.

He meets Phile in the hotel bar. She is just completing a meeting with an unnamed man. It turns out she and her employers (whoever they are) also want to find Eddie and she is keen to encourage Ryan in his quest because he has 'something' that they don't. Is this Caro?

We meet Eddie in LA. He's failed writer. He tries a last pitch to Larry David and fails although Larry gives him his number. Then he thinks he receives a message telling him to go to Iceland. He leaves, deserting his prostitute/ pornstar girlfriend Carmen.

In the meantime Caro is kidnapped and made to go to Iceland. She thinks it is Eddie who has organised this. She throws up a lot.

Ryan meets Carmen who tells him Eddie has left LA.

Backstory - Ryan, Eddie and Caro were friends at university. Eddie became an Icelandic gangster. Boring Ryan, jealous about Caro (who has since married, had a child and left her husband because she loves Eddie), shops him. Eddie goes to jail. When he gets out he gets a job at the BBC, defrauds it and flees to Hollywood to be a writer. His ex-BBC colleague oddball Phillip vows revenge.

Phillip is also currently in LA, after Eddie. He says he knows Ryan and Caro and believes he is masterminding the entire plot. He has arranged for Caro to be taken to Iceland*.

Eddie awakes from a bad dream, featuring him having been captured by Ryan and Caro. He's on a plane, en route to NY where he will catch a plane to Iceland. Unbeknownst to him, Phile is on the plane too. Once in Iceland he will restart his career in crime, working for Iceland's biggest corporate raider and he will see Caro who he has arranged to be taken to Iceland*.

On the NY - Reyjavik leg, he finds himself sitting next to Phillip but chooses not to recognise him. Phillip is stumped by this.

We find out more about who Phile is but not why her employers want Eddie.

In Iceland, Caro is locked in her suite and drugged. She throws up a lot. Phile appears (so clearly Eddie and Phillip have arrived too) and interrogates her. We learn that Caro also betrayed Eddie, unknown to Ryan. Phile states that Caro knows where 'the money' is.




Sooo... still lots to sort out. What about Ryan for a start? Is he still in LA? Not least....


* The glaring inconsistency. So what is it? Did Phillip arrange for Caro to be kidnapped? Or did Eddie's Icelandic chum?

Over to you James...