![]() ![]() When the revelation that all of Harlan's inheritance has gone to Marta is revealed, Ransom goes on the run with her, urging her to confess to him what had transpired from her account the night of Harlan's death. Fran blackmailed Ransom after deducing he killed Harlan.Īfter the funeral, in an attempt to further cover his tracks, Ransom anonymously arranged for the private investigator Detective Benoit Blanc to investigate the family, while Ransom drugged and ultimately killed Fran with a morphine overdose. However, since Marta is a qualified nurse, she still injected the right product without reading the labels, simply because of her natural instinct.Īfter Harlan ended up killing himself to protect Marta, fearing she would be framed for his death, Ransom skipped Harlan's funeral to cover his tracks by switching back the medication, unaware he was watched by Fran, the estate's caretaker. Ransom conspired to kill Harlan for doing this, intending to frame Marta by tampering with Harlan's medication in his study. On the night of Harlan's 85th birthday, during a party at his estate, Ransom had learned from Harlan that his inheritance, documented in his will, would go down to his young nurse Marta Cabrera, and that Harlan had intended to cut out Ransom and the rest of the family from the will. The psychopathic part of his personality comes when he is cornered by his self-confession of Fran's murder, by trying to murder Marta with a knife, simply out of spite and refusal to accept his failure. He also underestimated Marta's good nature, thinking she would not try to save the life of Fran this ends up working against him and becomes his undoing. For example, he himself hired the master detective Blanc without failing to recognize the risk that he could investigate and solve the crime that he himself orchestrated. ![]() This is seen when he succeeds in earning Marta's confidence to help him get to the bottom of the case and further his own agenda. That said, he can be charming, disarmingly charismatic, and polite when he wants to be, in order to get what he wants. Towards his family, he acts with a sense of entitlement and is obnoxiously rude toward the rest of his family, showing disdain for their hypocrisies. ![]() He claims to be seeking his "birthright," but does not care about the rest of his family as long as he gets his own share. He behaves like a spoiled teenager, even though he is in his thirties. While his family is full of hypocritical jerks, Ransom is the only one who is truly evil because he is willing to do anything to get his part of the inheritance, including murder. ~ Blanc and Marta as they solve Ransom's plan. 'You won't get away with this.' Do for yourself. That he has to make do for himself from here on out.īlanc: Exactly. You tell Marta later of what was it, feeling an overwhelming sense of. Blanc: So you storm out, you drive off into the night. ![]()
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