Ultimately, the episode’s title is irrelevant; it could be called “The Price.” The price of fake money is real death. The price of revenge is real corruption. And the price of art, when it tries to replace reality, is the artist’s own identity. In its final, haunting frames, Farzi achieves what all great crime dramas aspire to: it makes you look at a common object—a banknote—and see not a tool of trade, but a gravestone for good intentions. For that reason alone, Episode 8 stands as one of the most compelling pieces of streaming television in recent memory.

If you binged the first seven episodes for the clever cons and the cat-and-mouse thrills, you’ll stay for Episode 8 because it asks the hard question: What is the real cost of a lie?