A year after journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith examines how Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has consolidated power and what the killing revealed about his rule. The film includes an exclusive exchange in which the Crown Prince addresses his own involvement in the murder, along with interviews with officials, journalists, and analysts who track his rise from defense minister to de facto ruler of the kingdom. It traces the arrests of rivals and businessmen at the Ritz-Carlton, the war in Yemen, and the courting of Western leaders and investors that has run alongside the crackdowns on dissent. Archival footage and on-the-ground reporting fill in the picture of a leader presented abroad as a reformer while human rights groups and exiled critics describe a tightening grip at home. The result is a portrait of power built on contradiction, modernization promised in public, dissent punished in private.