Sharkey's Place: Five Nickels for Poseidon

About this episode

The episode explores the return of Sandra from New York City and the dark underbelly of both urban and local life.

Sharkey’s Place – Season 2, Episode 5: "Five Nickels for Poseidon" The quiet of Milbridge is disrupted by the return of a familiar face and tales of the high-octane, dangerous decadence of New York City. While Kirini takes a rare night off, Sandra and Elsa hold down the bar, discovering that whether it's the streets of Manhattan or the harbor of Corinth, every world has its own set of predators. In this episode: The Return of Sandra: After a stint in New York with her "super-rich" boyfriend Alexi, Sandra returns to Sharkey’s. She dishes on the "malevolent depravity" of the elite—nights fueled by vodka and cocaine, where beautiful women are treated as disposable and the men live in a constant state of paranoid cruelty. Elsa’s Education: Young Elsa Godspeed learns why she was "passed over" for a job at the Honk'R'Stop. Sandra reveals that the local shop is the front for the town's biggest drug dealer, and the Police Chief keeps it that way just to keep the trouble where he can see it. Five Nickels: Bestselling crime novelist Boots Morrin debuts the plot of her latest thriller. It’s a chilling tale of a cruise ship murder involving a fire extinguisher, a suspicious manifest, and the…

People in this episode

Host: Rick Regan

Guests: Sandra, Elsa Godspeed, Boots Morrin

Topics covered

• crime
• drama
• New York City
• drug trade
• murder mystery
• relationships

Keywords

• Sandra
• Elsa Godspeed
• Boots Morrin
• New York City
• drug dealer
• murder mystery
• Corinth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Honk'R'Stop, Police Chief

Places: Milbridge, New York City, Corinth

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