Murder Mystery 2's kidnappers are staring the Spitzes in the face from the start

The Maharajah is kidnapped in Murder Mystery 2

The second installment of the Murder Mystery film series picks up the story four years after the first film and finds Nick and Audrey running their own private investigating agency, albeit a struggling one.

Murder Mystery 2’s plot is kicked into gear when the Spitzes are invited to the wedding of their friend from the first movie, Vikram the Maharajah, who is about to marry a woman from Paris on his luxurious private island.

The wedding doesn’t go to plan, however, as the Maharajah is kidnapped during the ceremony and his new bodyguard, Louis, is killed, which leaves every guest in attendance, including the bride herself, a suspect.

Nick and Audrey quickly set about investigating the incident and are joined shortly afterwards by Mark Strong’s Colonel Miller, an ex-MI6 hostage negotiator, who has even written a book about his experiences that Audrey is a big fan of.

A red herring

Before the real perpetrators behind the Maharaja’s kidnapping come to light, Murder Mystery 2 throws a red herring into the mix when a mysterious individual steals the briefcase of ransom money from Miller, who is believed to be dead after his car is blown up.

As Nick and Audrey continue their investigations, it’s later revealed that the money was taken by Jodie Turner-Smith’s character, the Countess, and her henchwoman, Imani.

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However, despite the film leading us to believe that the pair had taken the Maharajah, they had simply wanted to claim the ransom money for themselves as $70 million proves to be too much of an appetizing prospect, even for a countess.

Who kidnapped Vikram the Maharajah in Murder Mystery 2?

Colonel Miller was responsible for the Maharajah’s kidnapping in Murder Mystery 2, although he was actually working for someone else – Saira, Vikram’s own sister.

In the final act of the film, which takes place in a thrilling sequence at the Eiffel Tower, the Spitzes are given a matter of seconds to deliver the ransom money to the kidnapper or a bomb strapped to Vikram will be detonated.

However, in all of the commotion, Nick manages to piece together the complexities of the case and works out that Colonel Miller must have been responsible for the kidnapping after having read his book and learning that a kidnapper values the ransom money too much to harm their captive.

As a result, he manages to coax Miller into revealing himself as the kidnapper and we also learn that the former MI6 agent faked his own death in the earlier car explosion to throw the Spitzes off his trail.

But there’s another dramatic twist to come. After Miller has been defeated in a gruesome fashion, it’s revealed that the Maharajah’s own sister, Saira, had commissioned Miller to kidnap her brother.

The reason for this is that she was jealous of him being given the family business by their parents, despite her being the smart one of the pair.

It also comes to light that she was responsible for another attempt on Vikram’s life that took place in Mumbai before the events of the film and saw Colonel Ulenga lose an arm by taking a bullet for the Maharajah.

Murder Mystery 2 is available to stream on Netflix from Friday, March 31, 2023.

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