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Liam Payne sought out the hotel employee accused of delivering him drugs very shortly before his death ... and their interaction is captured in this newly discovered surveillance footage.

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00:00Well, much of the Liam Payne death investigation is centered around the hotel where he died.

00:06And we know that police have had multiple raids there, and they have charged three suspects

00:12involved with his death.

00:14One of them is a hotel staffer.

00:16Who they believe is the one who brought some of the drug paraphernalia up to his room in

00:21that dove box that we saw.

00:23Right.

00:24That was found in the hotel in Liam's room.

00:27And we also know that police combed through 800 hours of surveillance video at the hotel.

00:33TMZ has now obtained just one bit of video, but a very critical piece of video from the

00:41hotel surveillance.

00:43And this video is critical because it was recorded just three hours before Liam's death

00:48and shows him interacting with the hotel staffer who has been charged in his death.

00:55And you can see the hotel staffer there shaking hands.

00:58Liam is inside the elevator, and you're going to see him step out for just a moment.

01:04In a second here, they're having a conversation about, not sure what, but again, this is three

01:09hours before his death.

01:12And there's Liam.

01:13And police have said they believe that this hotel staffer is the person who delivered

01:18drugs to him.

01:19And was charged now.

01:20Yeah.

01:21And has now been charged with it.

01:22So this could be a very critical part of their investigation and eventual trial of

01:29the suspect.

01:30What I thought was kind of interesting in this video, Liam doesn't seem like erratic.

01:35And I know this was three hours before, but it's crazy to see him kind of like in a normal

01:41state, which we know before his death, he was extremely erratic.

01:46We were told in the lobby he was smashing his laptop.

01:50He at one point collapsed to the ground.

01:52He had to be carried back to his hotel room and things just totally went awry.

01:56And when they actually did the toxicology, they found numerous drugs in his system.

02:01Everything from cocaine, crack, ketamine, ecstasy, a form of methamphetamine.

02:07I mean, it was just, you know, insane how much he had in his system.

02:11And it's unclear if he knew exactly what was in his system.

02:14Yeah.

02:15And this is video three hours before.

02:17They have enough surveillance that they can see up to the minute he actually ends up in

02:23his room.

02:24So we don't know what state he was in there.

02:28But it's hard to tell without the audio, without audio.

02:30Yeah.

02:31And, you know, what's again, I think what's really interesting about this case is the

02:36hotel worker, that person, that if he's asked to do something by a big celebrity, is it

02:45the same as a drug dealer supplying Liam with drugs?

02:51I think there might be some sympathy on the part of a hotel worker.

02:55Perhaps.

02:56And I don't know.

02:57It depends on how it's presented.

02:58But what I'm saying is the way the lawyer might play this to the jury is to say, you

03:04know, put yourself in the shoes of some guy who's working in the hotel.

03:07Right.

03:08And he's a bellman.

03:09And a huge star comes up to you and asks you to deliver something that you know you probably

03:14shouldn't.

03:15But you don't in any way think this is going to end in a calamity.

03:19I have no idea whether that would work or not.

03:22But I think that's going to be the play of a lawyer if this case goes to trial.

03:26Yeah.

03:27Courtland from L.A.

03:28You know, this case, the more details that come out, it's so sad.

03:31But I am glad that there are laws that say, hey, if you provide someone with a substance

03:34and it results in their death, you are held accountable.

03:37But also, if you take the substance, there is a risk that's involved.

03:40So there's really not how can you make everybody happy?

03:43How can you really get justice in a situation like this?

03:45Yeah.

03:46You know, there may not be justice.

03:48You're right.

03:49And again, they don't generally prosecute unless it's a celebrity.

03:53They don't look the way they looked here unless.

03:56And that's not just the case in Argentina, it's the case in the United States.

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