After a root canal, Mark is taking it easy at home, drifting off while watching finance guru Robin Westlin on the TV. When he wakes up, he gets a call from Westlin himself, saying he is in danger. When Robin arrives, he tells Mark he thinks one of his close associates has poisoned him and falls down dead.
But when Mark goes to greet the EMTs, Robin's car has disappeared, and when the EMTs get in the house, Robin himself has as well. Steve assumes the whole thing to be a hallucination brought on by laughing gas, but Mark knows otherwise. He takes the group to poke around Robin's operation, to find the truth, preferably by finding Robin's corpse.
"The Restless Remains" displays symptoms of the following tropes:
- The Alleged Car: Mark has to once again roller skate to work when his Jaguar doesn't start.
- Bad "Bad Acting": The people Robin got to espouse the values of his program give out their testimony in a rather dull manner.
- Con Man: Robin's wealth program just screams of bring a scam.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Mark seeing photos of Robin's office and all the wine bottles left out allows him to realize Robin must be stuffed in his wine cooler at the office.
- Fake Interactivity: An In-Universe example. Robin's seminars are held supposedly over a live video feed where Robin answers questions from the crowd. In reality, a crew backstage plays spliced video clips and the askers are plants in the audience.
- It Was Here, I Swear!: Mark calls in the heart attack of Robin Westlin only for the man's car and dead body to disappear when help arrives. Most of the episode is Mark proving there was in fact a murder.
- Medication Tampering: Robin was poisoned with quinidine slipped into his vitamins.
- Ponzi: If Robin's prerecorded video calling his 4-step program a "pyramid of power" is anything to go by, the program is a massive scam.
- Shout-Out:
- Steve says Robin's ads for his finance program are on every channel except Playboy.
- Mark exposing Robin's video splicing method leads him to compare it to The Wizard of Oz.
- Til Murder Do Us Part: The one to kill Robin was his wife Meg.
