In Chap­ter 52 of We Solve Mur­ders, the sto­ry takes a sharp turn when Steve, Amy, and Rosie are cap­tured by Nel­son Nunez and his hired gun. The ten­sion in the scene esca­lates quick­ly as Steve antic­i­pates trou­ble the moment they arrive at Bluff Point. Nel­son, wield­ing a machine gun, appears more agi­tat­ed than men­ac­ing, which leads the trio to ques­tion his true motives. In an unex­pect­ed twist, Nel­son reveals that he has been ordered to kill one of them, forc­ing the group into a per­ilous sit­u­a­tion. With the stakes grow­ing high­er, they attempt to rea­son with Nel­son, try­ing to out­smart him with their wits while search­ing for an oppor­tu­ni­ty to escape. The sit­u­a­tion is tense, yet they remain deter­mined to find a way out of this dead­ly stand­off.

Rosie takes a bold step, dis­tract­ing Nel­son while secret­ly work­ing on free­ing her­self from her restraints. As the con­ver­sa­tion pro­gress­es, it becomes clear that there is more at play than just the imme­di­ate threat; Rosalie’s long-stand­ing grudge with a Russ­ian bil­lion­aire adds anoth­er lay­er of com­plex­i­ty and ten­sion to the already volatile sit­u­a­tion. Steve, tak­ing a risk, attempts to nego­ti­ate by sug­gest­ing that Nel­son let the women go free, hop­ing to appeal to his sense of rea­son. Despite the grav­i­ty of their predica­ment, there are moments of humor through­out, such as Rosie’s unan­tic­i­pat­ed remark about how her fash­ion choic­es could com­pli­cate the sit­u­a­tion. These brief, lighter moments help to under­score the per­son­al­i­ties of the char­ac­ters, mak­ing them feel more real and relat­able in the face of dan­ger.

The sit­u­a­tion reach­es its peak when Nel­son receives an impor­tant text mes­sage, which helps him make his deci­sion on whom to kill. Just as the ten­sion seems to be reach­ing its break­ing point, Steve unex­pect­ed­ly man­ages to break free and seize Nelson’s gun, ignit­ing a chaot­ic fight. In a shock­ing turn of events, Steve fires the weapon, hit­ting Nel­son’s accomplice—who is wear­ing a Cold­play T‑shirt—and even injur­ing Nel­son him­self. The chaot­ic con­fronta­tion leaves the group with a wound­ed Nel­son and an uncon­scious body­guard, but it also pro­vides them with a chance to take con­trol of the sit­u­a­tion. As Rosie regains her free­dom, she assists Steve in check­ing for seri­ous injuries, and the pair engages in light­heart­ed ban­ter, com­ment­ing on the absur­di­ty of the whole event. Despite the grav­i­ty of the sit­u­a­tion, these moments of humor bring a sense of human­i­ty to the oth­er­wise intense con­fronta­tion.

After the dust set­tles, Amy press­es Nel­son for answers regard­ing a recent mur­der. The con­ver­sa­tion takes a dark­er turn as they accuse one anoth­er of being in dan­ger, but Amy’s focus remains sharp, dri­ven by her deter­mi­na­tion to uncov­er who killed Bel­la Sanchez. Nel­son, under pres­sure, begins to reveal crit­i­cal details that shed light on the sit­u­a­tion, includ­ing the involve­ment of a local cop and a dis­cred­it­ed lead. As they con­tin­ue to gath­er infor­ma­tion, Amy’s resolve to uncov­er the truth push­es the inves­ti­ga­tion for­ward, reveal­ing more about the com­plex web of deceit sur­round­ing them. The group now under­stands that the mys­tery is deep­er than they ini­tial­ly thought, and the path to solv­ing the case is far from straight­for­ward.

As the group for­mu­lates a plan to deceive a mys­te­ri­ous fig­ure in Dubai, Nel­son admits that he has been receiv­ing mes­sages from unknown sources, par­tic­u­lar­ly from François Lou­bet. How­ev­er, the twist lies in Nelson’s rev­e­la­tion that Lou­bet is not who he claims to be, adding yet anoth­er lay­er to the com­plex puz­zle they are try­ing to solve. This dis­cov­ery hints at even deep­er intrigue and sets the stage for a new chap­ter in their inves­ti­ga­tion, where they must now con­front the pos­si­bil­i­ty that some of their adver­saries may not be who they appear to be. With each new piece of infor­ma­tion, the mys­tery con­tin­ues to unfold, leav­ing the group with more ques­tions than answers but moti­vat­ing them to push for­ward in their quest for the truth.