In six episodes, “The Jinx Part 2” seeks accomplices and accountability after the original series unraveled the secrets of the New York millionaire, who would be convicted of murder in the wake of the documentary, in 2015. “The theme of complicity is on my mind all the time, when I look at the state of the world,” said director Andrew Jarecki, in a press conference that Lusa attended. “People say I wasn’t there, I didn’t do the bad thing. I didn’t vote for that,” he continued. “That’s why this fascinates me. I think we are in a very dangerous moment in America, and a guy like Bob Durst tells us a lot about how people follow someone who is dangerous.” In part one, he said, everyone was talking about a historical set of facts. “Part two is happening in the present tense. We are following the developments, starting when he is arrested on the eve of the last episode of ‘The Jinx’ airing,” he explained. “So the urgency and the level of anxiety for many of the people involved is much greater.” It was Robert Durst who originally sought out Andrew Jarecki after the latter had made a film about his life, “All Good Things,” in which the enigmatic millionaire was played by actor Ryan Gosling. Durst agreed to a series of interviews in which he was eventually confronted with evidence linking him to the 2000 murder of his friend Susan Berman. He was also suspected of being behind the 1982 disappearance of his wife Kathie and, although acquitted of killing a neighbor in 2001, the shooting was not considered to have happened as he had reported. Alone in a bathroom, but with his microphone still on, Durst said to himself: “There it is. You’re caught.” The documentary series led to Durst’s arrest and indictment, providing prosecutors with enough material to convict the millionaire of Susan Berman’s murder. At 78, he was sentenced to life in prison but died shortly after being incarcerated. “I don’t know if there has ever been another situation where filmmakers are making a movie and they discover evidence that is going to prove that somebody committed one, two, three murders,” Andrew Jarecki pointed out. “So we wanted to have the cameras rolling on everything that might be of interest to us,” he continued, explaining how Part Two came about. Now, the filmmakers look into who helped Robert Durst, who tried to evade justice, reveal hidden material, show the millionaire’s prison phone calls, previously unreleased interviews – and how his death in 2022 changed the direction of the documentary series. “His death triggered a series of legal actions, which we cover extensively,” explained executive producer Zac Stuart-Pontier. “It actually reanimated something that was narratively starting to stall. It had a profound impact on the film.” Jarecki admitted that the death saddened him and that, in a way, he felt troubled for having been responsible for the millionaire’s imprisonment, even with his guilt. “The most incredible thing is that when Bob first called me, he knew he had murdered three people,” he stressed. “He wasn’t just calling a filmmaker to say, ‘hey, I’ve been misunderstood.’ In his mind, this was an exoneration story.” Durst, Jarecki believes, felt wronged because he had never been convicted of the murders but the suspicion hung over him like a dark cloud. “So I always saw this strange innocence in Bob as he was doing these horrific things,” he said. The director also considered that the convicted millionaire is not akin to a serial killer like Jeffrey Dahmer. “I don’t think Bob wanted to kill these people, that he was a bloodthirsty killer,” he opined. Jarecki said that this Part Two is “very revealing about human beings,” about complicity and those who looked the other way and allowed a powerful real estate magnate to escape responsibility for his actions. The HBO original “The Jinx Part 2” premieres today on HBO Max Portugal, following “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” from 2015, which won several awards the following year. Read Also: HBO Max will be (just) Max. Find out the prices of the new subscription plans (Portuguese version)