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00:09¡Suscríbete al canal!
00:30My family came tearing down the pier like the world was ending.
00:33My mom and dad collapsed onto the filthy ground, right into the blood, melt water, and fish slime underfoot.
00:39Ethan, your brother went diving two hours ago. He still hasn't come back up. Something happened to him.
00:46You're the best diver we know. Get in the water and bring him up.
00:50My ex-wife Vanessa rushed up next. She pulled out the wedding ring from years ago.
00:54Then she forced it onto my finger.
00:56I swear to you, if you go down there and bring Jason back, I'll marry you again.
01:02I said nothing. I just reached up and touched the hearing aid on my ear.
01:06Had they really forgotten? Eight years ago, Jason, the son they chose, over and over again instead of me.
01:13He fought with his dive partner underwater, over gold bars, hidden in a sunken ship.
01:17After it happened, Vanessa wanted to protect him. So she forced me to sign a confession.
01:23My dad went even further. He slapped me so hard. He ruptured my eardrum. That one hit left me half
01:28deaf.
01:29And now, with the condition I'm in now, if I go back underwater, the pressure could trigger a brain bleed.
01:34I could die down there.
01:36Ethan! Shut your damn mouth and do what they say!
01:40That was David, the doc manager. Just now, he was all smiles, sucking up to them.
01:45The second he turned to me, his face filled with disgust.
01:49The Lane and Cole families practically own this town.
01:52I always thought you knew your place. Didn't expect you to get so full of yourself.
01:55Just say yes already!
01:57You save a life, you get money.
01:59It's your shot at redemption.
02:02So why are you still rotting here, slinging guts on this pier?
02:06People nearby had no idea what was going on, but that didn't stop them.
02:09Yeah, what's wrong with this guy?
02:11That's his brother!
02:12How can he be this cold?
02:14He probably thinks the money's too low. He's trying to jack up the price.
02:17Looks normal enough. Turns out he's rotten inside.
02:21Every word landed hard. The one they dragged out to take the fall for Jason.
02:24Was me. The one whose life got destroyed.
02:27Was me.
02:28So why? Why was I still the one standing here, getting cursed at like I was garbage?
02:33I pulled the ring off, set it back in Vanessa's hand.
02:36Then I pointed at my hearing aid, and shook my head.
02:38It's not that I won't save him.
02:40My ear is shot. If I go underwater, I'll die.
02:43My mom, Susan, froze for a second.
02:45Then she threw herself into the filthy water on the ground.
02:48Fish scales stuck to her clothes.
02:51She slapped the puddles with both hands, crying so hard her voice cracked.
02:55Ethan! It's been eight years! How are you still this cold, this cruel, this heartless to get out of this?
03:01That you'd actually fake an injury?
03:03That's Jason. That's your brother.
03:06My dad, Victor, stared at me in pure disappointment.
03:09His whole hand was shaking.
03:11How did we end up with a monster like you, standing there while your own brother dies?
03:15And now you're making up lies!
03:18You're a goddamn disgrace!
03:20Vanessa's eyes were bright red.
03:22She dug through her purse with trembling hands.
03:24Then she yanked out a bank card, and shoved it into my palm.
03:27Ethan, I'm begging you.
03:29There's five million on this card. That's enough for you to live on forever.
03:32Just go down there now.
03:34Bring Jason back.
03:35You want money? Fine, take it!
03:36You want something else? Just name it!
03:38A hot tear fell from her face.
03:41It landed on the back of my hand.
03:43And burned.
03:44Burned so badly it felt like it went straight through me.
03:47Eight years in prison.
03:48She never visited me once.
03:50Not one time.
03:51And now this was our reunion.
03:53She was humbling herself for the same man she once protected by forcing me to confess.
03:57And even now, she was still using money to grind what was left of my dignity into the dirt.
04:02I didn't want to keep arguing with them.
04:04Not anymore.
04:05So I swallowed the pain.
04:06My hand shook as I pulled a medical report from my pocket.
04:09A diagnosis.
04:10Severe eardrum perforation.
04:11I tried to show it to her.
04:13Vanessa didn't even look.
04:14She slapped my hand away.
04:15The paper flew out.
04:17Are you done yet?
04:18You're still waving around some stupid piece of paper?
04:20Isn't money what you want?
04:21Ira doesn't have time for this!
04:23Jason doesn't have time for this.
04:25Then David charged over.
04:26He grabbed my fish table and flipped the whole thing.
04:29Fish crashed to the ground.
04:30Ice scattered everywhere.
04:31Ethan!
04:32You murderer!
04:33Get the hell out!
04:34Don't bring your bad luck onto these docks!
04:36If you won't save them today, then don't ever think about coming back here!
04:41The crowd joined in at once.
04:43People passing by.
04:44Everybody.
04:45Some even spat at me.
04:46Get out, murderer!
04:48A piece of trash like you deserves to rot in hell.
04:52I looked down.
04:53The medical report Vanessa slapped away was lying on the floor.
04:56Soaked.
04:57Stepped on.
04:58And in that moment, the whole thing felt absurd.
05:00All I wanted was to live like a normal person.
05:03Quietly.
05:04Alone.
05:05In some forgotten corner.
05:07That was it.
05:08I was even that too much to ask.
05:10Did they really have to push me all the way to death?
05:12That feeling.
05:13Like the whole world was pointing at me.
05:15It crushed the last of my defenses.
05:17I didn't want to stay there one more second.
05:19I turned and ran.
05:21I don't even know how I made it back to my rental.
05:23I just remember the voices.
05:24People on the street yelling after me.
05:26Cursing me.
05:27I barely got inside.
05:29I hadn't even caught my breath yet.
05:30Then my phone started going insane.
05:32Alert after alert.
05:34Hashtag the murderer who let his brother drown.
05:36Hashtag rich family drama.
05:37The adopted son versus the real one.
05:39Desperate heiress.
05:41Begs her prisoner.
05:41Ex to help.
05:42I tapped one of the alerts.
05:44It opened straight into Vanessa's livestream.
05:46On camera, my mom, Susan, sat there trembling.
05:48She was trying to hold back tears.
05:51I'm so sorry, everyone.
05:52We know we're taking up public attention.
05:54But as a mother, I have nowhere else to turn.
05:57She covered her mouth and sobbed.
05:59It's our fault.
06:00We failed to raise him right.
06:01Back then, he killed for gold bars.
06:03He robbed people.
06:04He took a life.
06:05He served eight years for it.
06:07I thought prison would change him.
06:08But I was wrong.
06:10He's rotten to the core.
06:12Her tears streamed down harder.
06:14Now his brother's trapped underwater.
06:15His life is hanging by a thread.
06:17Ethan could save him.
06:18He could.
06:19But he just ran away.
06:20Victor held her up like she might collapse.
06:22Then he turned to the camera.
06:24I'm begging everyone to help us.
06:26If anyone can bring Ethan back, I'll pay seven figures.
06:29The comments exploded.
06:31They flooded so fast I could barely read them.
06:33Trash like that deserves exposure.
06:35I know where he lives.
06:36West Side Apartments.
06:38This kind of garbage should die.
06:40Anyone in Harbor City?
06:41Go block him in.
06:42Come on, guys.
06:43Go teach that freak a lesson.
06:45I stared at the screen.
06:46My whole body went numb.
06:48Then it happened.
06:49A violent pounding hit my door.
06:51Over and over.
06:52Like they were trying to break it down.
06:54I barely had time to react.
06:56My landlord stormed in first.
06:58Behind him was a crowd of people.
06:59Phones up.
07:00Flashlights on.
07:01Cameras shoved in my face.
07:02Oh, look at you.
07:03You hit it pretty well.
07:04A damn killer living in my building?
07:07They rushed inside like looters.
07:09One man smashed my bowls.
07:11Another kicked over my pots.
07:13Plates shattered across the floor.
07:14Everything I had got torn apart in seconds.
07:16I tried to stop them.
07:18Two huge men grabbed me instantly.
07:20One slammed my head down.
07:21The other locked my arms.
07:23Hold still.
07:23Apologize to the camera.
07:25Say it now.
07:25Tell them you're trash.
07:27You don't deserve to breathe.
07:29Humiliation drowned me.
07:30It hit like a wave.
07:32Someone yanked my hair back.
07:33A phone was jammed right in my face.
07:35The live comments kept flying by.
07:37I couldn't move.
07:38Then the crowd suddenly split apart, making a path.
07:41My parents walked in.
07:42For one stupid second, I thought they were here to stop this.
07:45I was wrong.
07:46Victor's face was dark, cold.
07:48He handed someone a thick coil of rope.
07:50It was so heavy it sagged.
07:52He pointed at me through clenched teeth.
07:54Please, help me tie him up.
07:55If he won't go, then drag him there.
07:58I snapped my head up.
07:59I stared at him like I didn't know him.
08:01Dad?
08:01Do you even hear yourself?
08:03I told you.
08:04I can't dive.
08:05I'll die.
08:06Then I looked at my mother.
08:07Mom, do I even matter to you?
08:10I'm your son.
08:11For Jason, are you really going to force me to death?
08:15Susan's eyes were red.
08:16For one second, she looked away.
08:18Like something inside her shook.
08:20But it vanished almost instantly.
08:21What came back was ice.
08:23Shut up!
08:24Jason may not be blood, but he's a thousand times better than you know.
08:27Ten thousand!
08:28You spent eight years in prison.
08:30Who took care of us during those years?
08:32Jason did.
08:32Who stayed by our side?
08:34Jason did.
08:35And now he's in trouble.
08:36You're his brother.
08:37You should be saving him.
08:39You're just going to let him die?
08:40Can your conscience live with that?
08:42My chest felt ripped open.
08:44I was already in pieces.
08:45But that still hurt so bad I could barely breathe.
08:48So that was it.
08:49Blood never mattered to them.
08:51Not once.
08:52To them, I was a stain.
08:53Something disposable.
08:54Something they could throw away whenever they needed.
08:56I'm not going.
08:57I didn't kill anyone.
08:59The case back then wasn't what you think.
09:01Why won't any of you believe me?
09:03I fought like hell.
09:05Twisting.
09:05Kicking.
09:06Trying to break free from the rope.
09:08But nobody cared what a convicted killer had to say.
09:11Not one person.
09:12Just when I was about to break.
09:13Vanessa walked in.
09:15One of her bodyguards handed her something.
09:16A stun baton.
09:17She took it without blinking.
09:19Then she stepped into my room.
09:20Her face was cold and hard.
09:22Ethan, don't make me do this.
09:24For Jason.
09:26There is nothing I won't do.
09:28She didn't hesitate.
09:29She jammed the stun baton straight into my back.
09:31A brutal crack of electricity tore through me.
09:35My whole body convulsed.
09:37Then everything went black.
09:38When I opened my eyes again, I was sprawled across the deck.
09:41Like something the tide had spit back out.
09:44All around me was open ocean.
09:45Nothing but water.
09:47Waves slammed against the boat.
09:49The sound made my heart seize up.
09:51Ethan, stop playing dead.
09:53Get in the water.
09:54Bring Jason back.
09:56When I still didn't move.
09:57I promise you.
09:58If you bring Jason back up.
10:00Clenched her teeth and said.
10:01I'll think about marrying you again.
10:03And you'll never have to do that filthy job again.
10:06Filthy?
10:07That word hit me like a knife.
10:09Half a year ago, right after I got out, I went back to the Cole Mansion once.
10:13I was stupid enough to think maybe, maybe there was still a little love left for me there.
10:17But that night, through the mansion's floor to ceiling windows, all I saw was a house blazing with light.
10:23My mom and dad were inside.
10:25Vanessa was too.
10:26They were all gathered around Jason.
10:28The son they always chose over me.
10:30They were eating a big holiday dinner.
10:32Roast turkey on the table.
10:33Steak.
10:33Lobster.
10:34Wine.
10:35Everything rich and perfect.
10:37Glasses raised.
10:38Laughter everywhere.
10:39They looked like the perfect family.
10:41And me?
10:42I was standing outside in the freezing wind.
10:44A convict who had done eight years for someone else.
10:47Half deaf.
10:47Broken.
10:48Shaking from the cold.
10:49That was the moment I finally woke up.
10:52My hell had never been prison.
10:54My hell was them.
10:55They built it with their own hands.
10:57In that house, I was never family.
10:59I was just an outsider.
11:01My thoughts snapped back to the boat.
11:03Then my eyes locked on something in Vanessa's hand.
11:06A photograph.
11:08She was gripping it tight.
11:09It was a candid shot from a beach volleyball game.
11:12Jason was shirtless, standing out among a group of dive team members.
11:15And the thing that hit me hardest was the scar on his right shoulder.
11:19The second I saw that scar, my whole body went cold.
11:22Like I'd been struck by lightning.
11:24My mind got dragged back ten years.
11:27Back then, I was captain of the dive team.
11:29Vanessa was on the team.
11:31Jason was too.
11:33That day, the sea turned bad fast.
11:35The current got vicious.
11:37I saw the danger right away.
11:39So I pointed up.
11:40Signaling everyone to head back.
11:42But before we could surface, everything went sideways.
11:46In the chaos, I used almost every ounce of strength I had to shove Vanessa and Jason
11:50towards safer water.
11:51And I got caught instead.
11:53The current took me.
11:54I should have died.
11:55By some miracle, I didn't.
11:56I washed up on a deserted island.
11:58Passed out there for three full days.
12:01Then I was rescued.
12:02When I finally got home, Jason ran straight at me.
12:04He grabbed me hard, held on like he'd never let go.
12:07And he started crying.
12:09Ethan, you're back.
12:10This is all my fault.
12:11I was useless.
12:12If I'd stopped you from making us go down, if I'd just been stronger, then I wouldn't
12:16have only saved Vanessa and watched you get swept away.
12:19So that was it.
12:20I finally understood.
12:22No wonder my wife had been willing to force me to take the fall, to send me to prison,
12:26and to let me die for another man.
12:27For ten whole years, she had believed Jason was the one who saved her.
12:30In the three days I disappeared, he became her hero.
12:34The man who risked everything for her.
12:36And me?
12:37I became the reckless one.
12:38The glory-hungry idiot who almost got everybody killed.
12:42What a sick joke.
12:43My throat was dry and raw, but I still forced the words out, shouting with everything I had
12:47left.
12:48I told you!
12:49I can't go underwater!
12:50My ear can't handle the pressure!
12:52If I go down there, my brain could hemorrhage!
12:54Do you people want me dead?!
12:56Vanessa's eyes flickered, just for a second, a flash of panic, gone almost instantly.
13:01Then Victor charged at me in a rage.
13:03He rushed over and kicked me hard.
13:05I hit the deck and rolled.
13:07Keep lying!
13:08Go ahead!
13:08Keep pretending!
13:09Ethan, you're rotten to the core!
13:11At a time like this, you're still faking a disability just to get out of it?!
13:15Off to the side, my mom collapsed to the deck, wiping her tears, sobbing like her heart was
13:20ripping apart.
13:21Oh God!
13:22Jason was an angel!
13:24He's always been so sweet!
13:26He did everything for us!
13:28If we lose him, I can't go on!
13:32Then the boat captain, Adam, walked over.
13:34He tapped his watch.
13:36Ms. Lane, this is where Jason went under.
13:39Based on the time, his tank has maybe 30 minutes left.
13:42That one sentence shattered whatever reason Vanessa still had.
13:46Her pretty face twisted from panic.
13:48She spun toward me and screamed.
13:49You heard him!
13:50Move!
13:51Now!
13:51Gear him up!
13:53I stared at her, and something in me finally went cold.
13:56Fine.
13:57I'll go.
13:58But I have one condition.
14:00I want the best deep water gear you've got.
14:02If they were really going to shove me into hell, then I was grabbing whatever slim chance
14:06I had.
14:07No matter how small.
14:08If the gear was strong enough, maybe I could survive the pressure.
14:12The second I gave in, Vanessa's shoulders dropped, like she could finally breathe again.
14:16She rushed over and grabbed my hand tight.
14:18Ethan, I knew it.
14:19I knew you still cared.
14:22I knew you wouldn't just let him die.
14:24Then the next second, guilt flashed across her face.
14:27She pointed to a pile of junk in the corner.
14:29But there's no other option.
14:31This is the only diving gear on the boat.
14:34You used to be the best diver in the business.
14:36A little problem like this, you can handle it, right?
14:39She said it so casually.
14:42Like it was nothing.
14:43I followed her finger, and my blood went cold.
14:46It was an old dive.
14:48The valve was rusted.
14:49That kind of gear should have been scrapped years ago.
14:51There was no way it was safe.
14:53A chill shot straight up my spine.
14:55I yanked my hand away, then backed up in panic.
14:58Vanessa, are you out of your mind?
15:00You know diving!
15:01If I go down in that thing, that's the same as killing me!
15:04Adam looked at the suit, too.
15:05His face tightened.
15:06Mrs. Lane, this gear really is too old.
15:10The risk on a forced deep dive is way too high.
15:13If something goes wrong…
15:14Before he could finish, Vanessa's face went cold.
15:17She cut him off without hesitation.
15:19At a time like this, who the hell cares about that?
15:21Get over here!
15:22Put it on him!
15:23A few bodyguards rushed me at once.
15:26They slammed me onto the deck, pinned me down hard.
15:29In the struggle, someone stomped down.
15:31My hearing aid flew off.
15:32It cracked apart.
15:33Then got crushed under a shoe.
15:35Shattered.
15:35The one thing that had stayed with me for years.
15:38Gone.
15:39In the end, they forced the suit onto my body anyway.
15:42And Vanessa strapped a heavy industrial weight belt around my waist.
15:45Sixty pounds of lead, enough to make sure I sank.
15:48Then they shoved me toward the edge of the boat.
15:50In that last, desperate moment, I turned and looked back at this family.
15:53Victor stood there with his arms crossed.
15:55Coldly.
15:56Like none of it had anything to do with him.
15:58There wasn't one shred of pity in his eyes.
16:01Not for his own son.
16:02And my mother, Susan?
16:04She had her hands clasped tight.
16:05Eyes shut.
16:06Praying into empty air.
16:08Her lips trembled as she whispered.
16:10Please.
16:11Please let him be safe.
16:13Please, God, let Jason come back, okay?
16:16At a moment like this, with my life hanging by a thread,
16:19she was praying for him.
16:21For Jason.
16:21Not her own flesh and blood.
16:24It was grotesque.
16:25It was pathetic.
16:26It was almost funny.
16:27Then suddenly, a huge force slammed into my chest.
16:30Someone shoved me.
16:31Hard.
16:32The second the deck vanished under my feet.
16:34Ethan!
16:34If you bring Jason back, we'll get married right away.
16:38I'll be right here waiting for you.
16:39Then the ocean swallowed me whole.
16:41The freezing water wrapped around my body instantly.
16:44The weight belt dragged me down.
16:45Fast.
16:46Way too fast.
16:47Straight into the deep.
16:48The pressure hit my ears like a sledgehammer.
16:51My right eardrum was already hanging by a thread.
16:53Now it tore.
16:54A dull ripping burst exploded inside my head, like a balloon popping in my skull.
16:59Pain.
17:00Blinding pain.
17:01So much pain, my whole body seized up.
17:04I opened my mouth to scream.
17:05A mouthful of seawater rushed in instead.
17:07My lungs felt like giant hands were crushing them.
17:09My vision turned red.
17:11Then darker.
17:11Then worse.
17:12My mind started slipping away.
17:14And just when I was drowning.
17:15Just when the dark was closing over me.
17:17Just when I gave up trying to live.
17:18A pair of soft hands reached for me.
17:20Fast.
17:21Strong.
17:22And grabbed me.
17:23Susan pressed a hand to her chest.
17:24Her face was pale.
17:26She leaned against the railing.
17:27Her eyes stayed locked on the water.
17:29Victor had his hands behind his back.
17:31He kept pacing.
17:32Back and forth.
17:34Jason will be fine.
17:36He's lucky.
17:37He has to be okay.
17:39Ethan was a diving champion.
17:41He'll bring Jason back up.
17:42She kept saying it over and over.
17:44Like if she said it enough, it would come true.
17:46Like it could calm the fear inside her.
17:48But her fingers were shaking.
17:50And that gave her away.
17:51Then suddenly.
17:52A sharp alarm shattered the dead silence.
17:54A Coast Guard boat was speeding toward them.
17:56Fast.
17:57A few officers jumped onto the deck.
17:59The man in front scanned everyone with hard, sharp eyes.
18:02I'm Owen with the Harbor City Coast Guard.
18:05Who's in charge here?
18:06Victor hurried over at once.
18:08He pulled out a business card and handed it over.
18:10We're with Cole Group.
18:12My son went missing while diving.
18:15We came out here to look for him ourselves.
18:17Owen took the card.
18:19Rescue?
18:20Then he looked them over coldly.
18:22We pulled him out three hours ago.
18:27The whole deck went dead silent.
18:29Then Owen pulled up footage from his body cam.
18:31He opened a video and held it up.
18:32Three hours ago, during patrol, we recovered a man from the water.
18:36It was Jason Cole.
18:38We tried contacting his family.
18:40No answer.
18:42Never thought you came all the way out here.
18:45There's no signal.
18:46The doctor on board examined him.
18:48He'd been exposed to a marine toxin.
18:49A sea barrier.
18:50A kind of sea slug.
18:51That toxin can trigger severe hallucinations.
18:54In serious cases, it can be fatal.
18:55He might have touched one while diving.
18:57He's already been taken to the hospital.
18:59He's been stabilized for now.
19:00The second they heard Jason was alive, my parents and Vanessa lit up with joy.
19:04Like they had all just been handed their lives back.
19:06And not one of them cared about the word hallucinations.
19:09Not one.
19:10Victor nearly started crying on the spot.
19:12He was so excited he could barely stand still.
19:29Vanessa finally let out a long breath.
19:31A smile of pure relief broke across her face.
19:33Like she had just survived a nightmare.
19:36Then the smile froze.
19:37Right there on her face.
19:38Because suddenly she remembered.
19:39Half an hour ago she had shoved her ex-husband into the ocean.
19:42With her own hands.
19:43Forced him down there.
19:44To save Jason.
19:45He was lying in a hospital.
19:46Alive.
19:47So where was Ethan?
19:49I had already been underwater for over 30 minutes.
19:51And there was still no sign of me.
19:52Not even a trace.
19:53A terrible thought started rising in her mind.
19:55But before she could think it through,
19:57Owen took a file from one of his officers.
19:58His expression turned strange.
20:00Cold.
20:01Sharp.
20:02Almost mocking.
20:03Then he looked straight at them and spoke again.
20:06Well, if you're his family, that actually makes this easier.
20:11He opened the document.
20:12Then announced it on the spot.
20:13As of this moment, Jason Cole is in custody.
20:16He is suspected of stealing protected underwater artifacts.
20:21And suspected of murder.
20:24That landed like a thunderclap.
20:26The next, they were dragged straight into the dirt.
20:28The smile on my dad's face froze.
20:30Then his whole face turned dark.
20:32Pointed right at Owen.
20:34What the hell are you talking about?
20:36Stealing artifacts?
20:37Murder?
20:38Our company practically built this town.
20:40My son Jason is one of the most well-known philanthropists.
20:43He's still lying in a hospital bed.
20:45And you people dare dump this kind of filth on him?
20:48My mom rushed up too.
20:49She tried to shove Owen.
20:51That's right.
20:52Do you even know how many schools Jason has donated to?
20:55He won't even hurt a fly.
20:58How could he possibly steal anything?
21:01How could he kill anyone?
21:03Vanessa stepped up too.
21:04Putting on that cold, untouchable CEO act.
21:07Officer, watch what you say.
21:08You can't just throw accusations around.
21:10I'm the chair of Lane Group.
21:13Jason is my husband.
21:14If you try to set him up with fake charges,
21:17one phone call and your career is over.
21:20They were shouting, threatening.
21:22But Owen only got colder.
21:24He didn't argue.
21:25He just tapped open another video.
21:27Jason scrambled backward from empty air,
21:29like something horrifying was standing right in front of him.
21:32His whole body was shaking violently.
21:34His face was twisted with pure terror.
21:37He had been down dozens of feet underwater when the toxin hit.
21:41The hallucinations were strong.
21:42Don't come over here!
21:43Ah!
21:44Don't come near me!
21:45Zach, I know I messed up!
21:47Don't kill me!
21:48My parents went white.
21:49Their lips trembled.
21:50Their eyes stayed glued to the screen.
21:53I got greedy!
21:55I never should have cut your arrows!
21:56I'm so sorry!
21:58I'll do whatever it takes to make it right!
22:00No, no, don't take me with you!
22:02He started smashing his forehead against the deck,
22:04over and over.
22:08Then all at once, the fear vanished.
22:11His face changed, turned vicious.
22:12A grin spread across it, twisted, like a demon laughing.
22:16He gestured into the empty air and cackled.
22:19Ethan, you idiot!
22:20You never saw this coming, did you?
22:22That idiot, Vanessa.
22:24She actually thought I was the one who saved her.
22:26All I did was show her a little scar.
22:27And she fell for me completely.
22:29She played those two old fans like a fettle.
22:31She got me into that house.
22:33My dad forced his neck straight, still trying to fight it.
22:36I just played the victim.
22:37And they treated me like a king while they threw you away.
22:41Sent your pathetic ass to rot.
22:43God, that felt damn good.
22:45You can rot in prison forever.
22:46Everything from the coals and everything from the lanes will be mine.
22:51Dead silence.
22:52Only Jason's crazed laughter kept echoing from the video.
22:55Across the deck, Vanessa stumbled back two steps.
22:57She almost fell right there on the deck.
22:59That was their precious son.
23:01Her precious husband.
23:02The man they defended like he was gold.
23:04And now he was on video.
23:06Grinning like a devil.
23:07Mocking them for being fools.
23:08No, that's impossible.
23:12You said he was poisoned.
23:16He was hallucinating.
23:18He was talking nonsense.
23:21Exactly.
23:22That's all this is.
23:23He was hallucinating.
23:25He didn't know what he was saying.
23:27Yes.
23:30It was the toxin.
23:32That sea salt toxin made him ramble.
23:34Owen's voice turned firm.
23:36I figured that's what you'd say.
23:37Which is exactly why we move fast.
23:40This involves a major attempted murder case.
23:44So we already formed an investigation team.
23:47And verified everything he said.
23:50Then Owen pulled out another stack of documents.
23:53We found that the statements Ethan gave after his arrest eight years ago.
23:57Did not match the physical evidence from the scene.
24:01And there's more.
24:03Ethan's defense attorney turned on him at trial.
24:05The day before the trial.
24:08A large payment hit his account.
24:11We traced the source.
24:12It came from one of your offshore accounts, Vanessa.
24:15Vanessa's face went white.
24:16And Jason's private account received multiple large wire transfers after the incident that year.
24:21The source was hidden.
24:22But we now have strong reason to believe that money came from selling stolen artifacts.
24:26We believe the case was not what it seemed.
24:28Please cooperate with the investigation.
24:30You're coming with us.
24:31The Coast Guard officers were just about to move in.
24:34Then Adam finally broke.
24:36He swallowed hard.
24:38Then stammered out.
24:40Officer.
24:41Wait.
24:42This still isn't over.
24:45Ethan.
24:46Ethan Cole?
24:48He's still down there.
24:49He never came back up.
24:53What did you just say?
24:55Owen whipped around.
24:55His eyes widened instantly.
24:59There's still someone underwater?
25:01Adam's legs nearly gave out.
25:03He started spilling everything.
25:05About half an hour ago,
25:07Ms. Lane pushed Ethan into the water.
25:09He said his ear was injured.
25:11He said he couldn't handle the pressure.
25:13But Ms. Lane insisted.
25:14She forced him to go down.
25:16And now,
25:18he still hasn't surfed.
25:19Three days later,
25:21Harbor City Hospital.
25:23Jason finally woke up.
25:24His body was still weak.
25:26He twitched his fingers.
25:27Then realized the bed was surrounded.
25:30Mom.
25:30Dad.
25:31Vanessa.
25:32And several police officers in uniform.
25:34A flash of joy hit him.
25:35With all these people here,
25:36they had to be worried sick about him.
25:38He quickly changed his expression.
25:40Forced tears into his eyes.
25:41Then weakly reached for Susan's hand.
25:43Dad.
25:45Mom.
25:45Mom.
25:46Vanessa.
25:47I was so scared.
25:49I had the worst nightmare.
25:52I dreamed I was trapped underwater.
25:55I thought I'd never see you again.
25:57Before, that would have worked.
25:59Susan would have rushed over already.
26:00She would have held him.
26:02Cried over him.
26:02But today,
26:03the room was terrifyingly quiet.
26:05No one spoke.
26:06Only the monitor kept beeping.
26:08Steady.
26:08Cold.
26:09Jason's hand hung there in midair.
26:11Awkward.
26:11Stiff.
26:12That was when he realized something was wrong.
26:14Victor wasn't fussing over him.
26:16The man who had always spoiled him
26:17was standing at the foot of the bed.
26:19His face was black with rage.
26:21And the way he looked at Jason now,
26:23there was no warmth left.
26:24No love.
26:25Dad?
26:27What's wrong?
26:28Dad?
26:29What's wrong?
26:30He pulled out a tablet.
26:31Tapped the screen.
26:32Then threw it onto Jason's chest.
26:34Jason grabbed it.
26:35Looked down.
26:36And instantly went pale.
26:37On the screen was him.
26:39Laughing like a maniac.
26:40Spilling everything.
26:42Confessing.
26:42Mocking the people who raised him.
26:44Calling them idiots.
26:45Every ugly word.
26:45Every filthy truth.
26:46All of it was there.
26:48His face went ghost white.
26:49Cold sweat poured down his forehead.
26:51This...
26:51Jason panicked.
26:52This isn't real.
26:53He struggled to sit up.
26:54Dad!
26:54Mom!
26:55Vanessa!
26:56Listen to me.
26:57That was the sea hair toxin.
26:59It made me hallucinate.
27:00It made me say crazy things.
27:02How could I ever hurt Ethan?
27:03That wasn't me.
27:04It was the poison talking.
27:06Vanessa, believe me.
27:07Reached for her.
27:08I love you.
27:10Everything I did.
27:11I did it so we could be together.
27:13Vanessa's expression turned complicated.
27:15Owen cut in from the side.
27:17Jason Cole.
27:18Drop the act.
27:19We've already confirmed the evidence.
27:22You framed Ethan for the theft.
27:24And you murdered Zach.
27:27The jig is up, I guess.
27:29But don't act so high and mighty, Dad.
27:32You're the one who threw your son to the wolves.
27:34I just watched.
27:36Then he turned to Vanessa.
27:37His eyes dragged over her in that disgusting, sticky way.
27:40And you...
27:43Stop acting innocent.
27:45For the last eight years...
27:48Wasn't I good enough for you in bed?
27:51What?
27:53Suddenly found your conscience?
27:56A little late, don't you think?
27:57He laughed again.
27:59Ugly.
27:59Slow.
28:00Mocking.
28:01Ethan's not coming back anyway.
28:04So...
28:05Why not let it go?
28:07I can still take care of you two.
28:10We can all stay one happy family.
28:13Still living the dream.
28:15Isn't that what you want?
28:23The second those words came out, the whole room turned freezing cold.
28:26The shamelessness of it.
28:28The evil of it.
28:29It was beyond human.
28:30My parents were shaking so hard they could barely stand.
28:33They stared at the boy they had raised for eight years.
28:36This was the son they had treated?
28:38Like their own flesh and blood?
28:39What?
28:40Susan finally brought...
28:41What?
28:41She remembered my face.
28:43The look in my eyes when they shoved me into the sea.
28:46That dead, hollow, hopeless look.
28:48She remembered pointing at me, cursing me, calling me heartless in filth.
28:52The pain hit her so hard she almost stopped breathing.
28:54She collapsed to the floor, both hands clawing at her hair.
28:57Then she let out a raw, broken scream.
29:08The second my mom said that, Victor seemed to wake up, like he had just been struck across
29:13the face.
29:14He lowered his head, stared at his own trembling hands.
29:17Those hands.
29:18I slapped my eardrum open eight years ago, had handed over the rope to tie up his own son.
29:27He let out a howl like a wounded beast.
29:29Then he raised his hand, and started slapping himself across the face.
29:33Hard.
29:34Again.
29:35And again.
29:36Smack.
29:37The sound of those hits echoed through the hospital room.
29:40His face swelled almost instantly.
29:41His cheeks turned red and purple.
29:43Blood ran from the corner of his mouth, but he acted like he couldn't feel any of it.
29:46He just kept hitting himself.
29:48Over and over.
29:49Like a madman.
29:50This is karma.
29:52This is all karma.
29:54I thought I could see through anyone.
29:57But I killed my own blood.
29:59And Vanessa, by now the mental wall she had spent three days holding up, finally collapsed.
30:04Completely.
30:05She didn't want to think about that dive.
30:07The underwater current.
30:08The day I disappeared.
30:10Those three days after I went missing, Jason had stayed by her side.
30:13Again and again he described what happened underwater.
30:16Every detail.
30:17Every danger.
30:17Every second.
30:18He painted the whole thing for her.
30:20However, she still remembered it.
30:21Jason standing in front of her.
30:23Taking off his shirt.
30:24Pointing at the scar on his shoulder.
30:25Telling her he got it saving her.
30:27And she believed him.
30:28She actually believed him.
30:30Later, after the underwater murder case, she had bribed my lawyer.
30:32Paid him off to switch sides at the last second.
30:34Helped send me to prison for eight years.
30:36Then she married the man who had really killed someone.
30:38And three days ago, she used money to humiliate me.
30:41And then, she pushed me into the abyss.
30:44The same man who nearly died saving her.
30:46No!
30:49It wasn't supposed to be like this!
30:52Vanessa dropped to her knees.
30:53Her hands shook as she pulled something from her pocket.
30:56The broken pieces of my hearing aid.
30:58She had picked them up from the deck of the boat.
31:00The cracked plastic shell still carried the salt and stink of the sea.
31:03Her vision blurred with tears.
31:05Still, she tried to fit the pieces back together.
31:07One by one.
31:08Even though it was already smashed beyond repair.
31:12Ethan!
31:13I'm sorry!
31:16I'm so sorry!
31:18She kept trying to piece it together.
31:20Crying harder and harder.
31:22The sharp plastic cut into her fingers.
31:24Her nails split.
31:25Blood smeared across the broken hearing aid pieces.
31:28Please!
31:29Come back!
31:31Come back!
31:32I'll give you anything!
31:34We'll remarry!
31:35No more lies!
31:36Ethan, please!
31:38Oh, please come back to me!
31:41The ice queen who looked down on us all, the cold, untouchable CEO, was now on the floor
31:46like a stray dog, crying, begging.
31:48In a hospital overseas, I opened my eyes slowly and met Claire's gentle eyes.
31:55Ethan.
32:01She sat by my bed with a bowl of chicken soup, feeding me one spoonful at a time.
32:08The warmth slid down my throat and settled in my chest.
32:12I hadn't felt that in eight years.
32:14The feeling of being cared for.
32:15Like I actually mattered.
32:17Like someone was protecting me.
32:19Claire was Zach's younger sister.
32:21Zach had been on my dive team.
32:22The three of us grew up together.
32:24Best friends.
32:25Like family.
32:26Back then, me, Zach, and Jason went diving together.
32:29That was when we found the gold.
32:30Hidden in a sunken wreck.
32:32Jason got greedy.
32:33He cut Zach's air hose, then pinned it on me.
32:36Vanessa didn't believe me.
32:38My parents didn't either.
32:39Not for one second.
32:40They even destroyed my eardrum.
32:42Forced me to take the fall.
32:43Only Claire believed I was innocent.
32:45But she had no proof.
32:46She couldn't clear my name.
32:47And she couldn't avenge her brother.
32:49For eight years, she came to see me every month in prison.
32:51Never missed.
32:52After I got out, I stood outside the coal mansion.
32:55And saw them all inside.
32:56Laughing.
32:57Eating.
32:57Living like a perfect family.
32:59That was the night I made my choice.
33:01I was going to get revenge.
33:02So, I went to Claire.
33:03And asked for her help.
33:04Jason killed for gold.
33:06And sold me out for greed.
33:08All for the money.
33:08Fine.
33:09Then, I decided to give him exactly what he wanted.
33:12Two months earlier, I started feeding Jason exactly the kind of story a greedy man couldn't ignore.
33:16Rumors.
33:17Planet articles.
33:17Fake salvage chatter.
33:18Over and over.
33:19All of it pointing to one patch of ocean.
33:22A newly discovered wreck.
33:23And the chance it was loaded with gold?
33:25At first, he didn't buy it.
33:26Why would he?
33:27He had the coals and the lanes backing him.
33:29Money was everywhere around him.
33:30Every time he saw the alerts, he just swiped them away.
33:32But greed is greed.
33:34And it always comes back.
33:35After seeing it enough times, he started wondering if it was real.
33:38Then he started searching.
33:39That was the step I was waiting for.
33:41I had already planted spyware on his phone.
33:43The second he started digging, it triggered everything.
33:45All the planted information.
33:46All the fake confirmations.
33:48Everything we had prepared started feeding right into him.
33:50So he believed it.
33:51He took the bait.
33:52But private salvage without approval is illegal, especially if it involves protected wrecks,
33:57artifacts, historic sites.
33:58He couldn't let too many people know, so he used diving as cover, went down there several
34:03times to check it out, and that part was real.
34:06There really was a wreck in that area.
34:07The moment I found out he had secretly contacted a salvage boat, I knew my chance had come.
34:11After that, the rest fell into place.
34:13Before one of his dives, his breathing gear was contaminated.
34:16Just a trace amount.
34:17Sea hair toxin.
34:18Once he was underwater, it hit, and everything unfolded exactly how we wanted.
34:22But there was one thing I didn't expect.
34:24My parents.
34:25And my ex-wife.
34:26Instead of calling the official rescue team, they came looking for me.
34:29Me.
34:30Back at the trial, they publicly disowned me.
34:32And after I got out, they never looked for me once.
34:35So I had to change plans.
34:36I decided to fake my death.
34:38Disappear completely.
34:39Thank God Claire got there in time.
34:41She came in a mini-sub.
34:42Pulled me up before I died.
34:44Now, in the hospital room, the TV on the wall was playing live coverage from back home.
34:48A major sentencing update.
34:50Broadcast everywhere.
34:51Jason had been convicted on multiple charges.
34:53Intentional homicide.
34:54Theft of protected artifacts.
34:56Framing an innocent man.
34:57And more.
34:58He was sentenced to death.
35:00With immediate execution.
35:01I watched the screen.
35:02Then shook my head.
35:04Claire caught it right away.
35:05She knew exactly what I meant.
35:07So she explained.
35:08My guess?
35:10Jason got pushed up by an underwater current.
35:13Then patrol officers just happened to spot him.
35:17But that part doesn't matter.
35:19The ending still landed where we needed it.
35:22I nodded.
35:23Then looked back at the TV.
35:24Victor and Susan were sentenced to.
35:26One year each.
35:28For shielding the real killer.
35:29And obstructing justice.
35:31Taken into custody right there in court.
35:33Vanessa got three years.
35:34For bribery.
35:35Perjury.
35:35And covering up a crime.
35:36At the same time.
35:38Lane Group and Coal Group were collapsing.
35:40The scandal sent both stocks into free fall.
35:42Then both families went bankrupt.
35:44The Coles.
35:44The Lanes.
35:45The families who once thought they ruled everything.
35:48Their names were ruined for good.
35:49On the screen.
35:50Those people from my past stood in prison uniforms.
35:52Crying.
35:53Begging.
35:54Confessing to the cameras.
35:55But no one pitied them.
35:57And strangely.
35:58I felt nothing.
35:59No hate.
35:59No thrill.
36:00No satisfaction.
36:01Just relief.
36:02A clean, empty kind of relief.
36:04Like all the pain had finally been peeled off me.
36:06Like every last chain had fallen away.
36:08And for the first time in years I let out one long breath.
36:11Four years later.
36:13Thanks to Claire.
36:14And the best specialists money could buy.
36:16My hearing had long since returned.
36:18Now we were on Australia's Gold Coast.
36:21Launching a cutting edge deep sea ecology project.
36:24That day.
36:25We were on the beach testing a new sonar system.
36:27Then a woman came stumbling toward us.
36:29Her hair was almost all white.
36:30She looked gaunt.
36:31Hollowed out.
36:32If I hadn't looked carefully.
36:34I never would have recognized her.
36:35It was Vanessa.
36:36The same Vanessa who once thought she ruled the world.
36:39A foul smell rolled off her.
36:41She dug into a torn pocket.
36:43Then pulled out a ring.
36:44The wedding ring.
36:45The same one she once forced onto my finger.
36:48The same one I threw back at the fish stall.
36:50Ethan.
36:51Ethan, I finally found you.
36:55Look.
36:56I kept this ring with me the whole time.
36:59Please.
37:00Please give me one chance to make it right.
37:03One chance to make up for everything.
37:05For years now, I've thought about you every day.
37:07I know I messed up.
37:09Jason lied to me.
37:10He destroyed me.
37:12My family is gone.
37:13My money is gone.
37:14Someone even beat me until I lost hearing in one ear.
37:17That's my punishment.
37:19That's my karma.
37:26Ethan.
37:28You loved me, didn't you?
37:32Back then, you almost died trying to save me.
37:35She kept pouring it out.
37:37How she got tricked out of everything.
37:39How debt collectors hunted her.
37:40How helpless she had been.
37:42Then one day, she saw me on TV.
37:43She sold one of her kidneys just to pay someone to get her into Australia.
37:46But I only took two small steps back.
37:48Avoided the hand reaching toward me with that ring.
37:50Then I spoke.
37:52Please stay away from me.
37:54We're divorced.
37:55The second you forced me to take the fall for a murderer, the woman I once called my wife died.
38:01So stop acting like this is love.
38:06It just makes me sick.
38:09Right then, Claire walked over holding two cold drinks.
38:11She handed one to me like it was the most natural thing in the world.
38:15Then she slipped an arm around my neck and kissed my cheek.
38:19Babe, why is this woman anywhere near you?
38:22I don't know.
38:24Where's security?
38:25Vanessa stared at us.
38:26At how good we looked together.
38:27At how happy we were.
38:29And something inside her snapped.
38:31Jealousy.
38:31Regret.
38:32Both of them tore through her like poison.
38:35Then she coughed.
38:36Hard.
38:37Once.
38:38Then again.
38:38A mouthful of blood burst from her lips.
38:41She dropped straight onto the sand.
38:43Back in Harbor City, two elderly people shuffled down the street.
38:46Each of them carried a ripped plastic sack.
38:48They limped badly.
38:49Step by step.
38:50Then they stopped in front of a giant LED screen in the city square.
38:53Their bodies shook.
38:55Their eyes lifted.
38:55On the screen, a global live broadcast was playing.
38:58I was there, wearing a custom suit, standing tall, calm, confident, receiving a major UN
39:04environmental award.
39:05The camera panned wider.
39:07Claire stood beside me.
39:08One hand looped through my arm.
39:10Her baby bump was showing.
39:11And she was smiling like sunlight.
39:13Susan burst into tears.
39:14The tears ran down her filthy face.
39:16She slowly raised one grimy hand, reached toward the screen, like she could touch me from where
39:20she stood.
39:22Ethan.
39:24That's my boy.
39:26A security guard from the mall rushed out at once.
39:28What the hell are you doing, you filthy beggars?
39:30Get away from there!
39:33He shoved her hard.
39:34She fell straight to the ground.
39:36Victor was crying, too.
39:37But he didn't dare fight back.
39:39He just kept slapping himself across the face, again and again, muttering through tears.
39:43This is karma.
39:48We were blind.
39:49Then the two of them held each other up and disappeared into the alleys of the city.
39:52As for Vanessa, she was detained and deported.
39:55After that, she completely lost her mind.
39:57The shock broke her for good.
39:59She had no money left for proper treatment, so she got dumped into the cheapest mental institution
40:03they could find.
40:04Out on the shimmering blue water, I lay stretched out on the deck of a yacht.
40:08Warm sea breeze across my face.
40:11Claire walked over with a plate of cut fruit, then curled up in my arms.
40:17Honey, what are you thinking about?
40:19I looked out at the deep blue sea.
40:21The same sea that had almost buried me.
40:23The same sea that gave me a second life.
40:25Then I smiled and shook my head.
40:29I was just wondering, do you think our baby's a boy or a girl?
40:34Then I started the yacht and left every betrayal, every wound, every bit of that old life
40:40behind us in the rolling wake.
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