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00:00Wilhelmina Calloway is about to lose everything. She works as a housemaid for a wealthy Manhattan
00:05family scrubbing floors and watching their baby while the mother gets pedicures. The job pays well
00:12but today it all falls apart. The nine-month-old she's been caring for looks up at her and says
00:19mama. Not to her actual mother standing three feet away but to Millie. The real mother hears it. Her
00:25face goes red. Millie is fired on the spot. Turns out being good at your job is only acceptable
00:32until you're too good at it. Now Millie is walking back to her cramped Bronx apartment wondering how
00:38she'll pay next month's rent. Finding another job won't be easy. She has a felony conviction on her
00:44record. Ten years in prison. Most employers see that background check and suddenly remember the
00:50position has been filled. Her boyfriend Brock a lawyer with a good heart and a heart condition
00:56keeps pushing her to move in with him but she hasn't told him about her past. She's terrified
01:01he'll leave her when he finds out. That's when her phone rings. A man named Douglas Garrick is calling
01:06about a housemaid position. He wants to hire her immediately. No interview. No questions. Just show
01:13up tomorrow. Millie should be relieved but something about this feels wrong. Jobs like this don't just
01:20fall into your lap especially not when you're an ex-con. The next day Millie arrives at a gleaming
01:26penthouse on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Douglas Garrick greets her at the door. He's the CEO of a
01:32tech company called Coinstock though Millie has never heard of him. He explains that his wife Wendy has
01:37been sick and he needs someone to help with light housework and cooking. As he shows Millie around the
01:43apartment she notices everything is spotless. The kitchen looks like it's never been used. Then Douglas
01:49points to a closed door at the end of the hallway. That's the guest bedroom where Wendy stays because
01:54of her illness. Douglas tells Millie never to bother her especially when the door is closed. Red flag
02:01number one. Over the next few weeks Millie settles into a bizarre routine. She cleans an apartment that
02:07doesn't need cleaning. She cooks elaborate meals from complicated recipes Douglas leaves for her. She never
02:13sees Wendy but she hears her. Sometimes there's crying behind the guest bedroom door. Other times
02:19she hears crashes and raised voices when Douglas goes to check on his wife. Millie starts to notice other
02:25strange things. The laundry is already folded when she goes to collect it. Douglas's grocery lists are
02:32oddly specific and controlling and there's a black Mazda that keeps appearing outside her apartment building
02:39and near Douglas's penthouse. Someone is following her. At this point Millie's life is starting to feel
02:46like a very expensive episode of a crime show. One afternoon Millie finds blood in the bathroom. A
02:53handprint on the sink. A trail leading to the guest bedroom. She knocks on the door and Wendy doesn't
02:59answer. Millie threatens to call the police if Wendy doesn't open up. The door finally cracks open.
03:04Wendy's face is covered in bruises. Some old and some fresh. Her lip is split. She tries to claim she
03:11fell because her medication makes her dizzy but Millie knows better. She's seen this before. Around the
03:17same time in her psychology class Millie learns about Kitty Genovese. A woman who was murdered in New York in
03:241964 while 38 people watched and did nothing. The professor calls it the bystander effect. People assume
03:32someone else will help so nobody does. The story haunts Millie because she knows what it's like to
03:38take action when everyone else looks away. Years ago when she was younger a man tried to sexually
03:44assault her friend at a party. Millie fought him off. She didn't mean to kill him but she did. She
03:49spent a
03:50decade in prison for it. After she got out Millie worked for a family called the Winchesters. That's where
03:56she met Enzo Icardi, their gardener. Together they helped women escape abusive relationships. Enzo had
04:04connections that could get fake passports and new identities. Millie had the compassion and the
04:10determination. They saved dozens of women. They also fell in love but Enzo had to return to Italy to
04:18care for his sick mother. Their relationship ended though Millie never really got over him. Now she's with
04:24Brock, a stable lawyer with a good heart but she can't shake the feeling that something is missing.
04:30Stability is great until you realize it's also kind of boring. One evening Wendy pulls Millie aside
04:37and drops a bombshell. She deliberately sought out Millie's help. She got Millie's phone number from
04:42Ginger Howell, one of the women Millie had rescued years ago. Wendy knew about Millie's reputation.
04:48She had Douglas hire Millie because she was desperate to escape his abuse. But now Wendy says
04:54it's hopeless. Douglas is too powerful. He knows everything. There's no way out. Millie refuses
05:00to accept that. She tells Wendy to find a friend Douglas doesn't know about. Someone from her past
05:06with no connection to her current life. A few days later Wendy tells Millie she found an old college
05:12friend who lives on a farm in upstate New York. The friend can meet Wendy in Albany. Millie agrees to
05:18help. She rents a car in her own name and drives Wendy four hours north. She pays for a motel
05:24room
05:24with her own credit card leaving Wendy there to wait for her friend. Millie drives back to the city
05:30feeling like she's done the right thing. Finally a win or so she thinks. A few days later Wendy is
05:38back
05:38at the penthouse. Douglas found her and brought her home. The escape failed. So much for that farm
05:44fantasy. Wendy is defeated but she shows Millie something she discovered hidden in Douglas's study.
05:51A gun tucked inside a hollowed out dictionary. Because nothing says healthy marriage like a secret
05:57weapon in the bookshelf. Wendy asked Millie to teach her how to use it. Millie refuses. Violence isn't the
06:04answer. She's learned that lesson the hard way. Meanwhile the mystery of the black Mazda finally gets
06:09solved. The driver reveals himself and it's Enzo. He came back from Italy three months ago and has been
06:16watching over Millie from a distance. He didn't approach her because he thought she was angry with
06:22him and he wanted to respect her relationship with Brock. But Enzo has been protecting her. When
06:29Millie's creepy downstairs neighbor Xavier attacked her in the stairwell Millie fought him off with Mace.
06:34Later Xavier was arrested for drug possession. Enzo admits he planted the drugs to get Xavier away from
06:41Millie. Romantic? Illegal? Both? Enzo warns her that a man as wealthy and powerful as Douglas Garrick
06:48will always find his wife. There's no escape for Wendy. On what's supposed to be Millie's last day of
06:54work she's folding laundry when she hears shouting from the guest bedroom. Douglas and Wendy are fighting
07:01about a credit card charge at an expensive restaurant. Douglas accuses Wendy of cheating
07:06on him. The argument escalates. There's a crash, a scream, then an eerie silence that makes Millie's
07:14blood run cold. Millie remembers the gun. She runs to get it from the study thinking she'll only use it
07:20to scare Douglas into letting Wendy go. She bursts into the guest bedroom and the scene is exactly what
07:27she feared. Douglas has his hands wrapped around Wendy's throat. Wendy is struggling, her face
07:33turning blue. Millie yells at Douglas to stop. He doesn't move. She yells again. Nothing. Wendy is dying
07:41right in front of her. Millie has no choice. She pulls the trigger. Douglas falls to the floor. Blood spreads
07:48across the carpet. Wendy checks his pulse and announces he's dead. Then surprisingly calm she tells
07:57Millie to leave immediately. Wendy will say she came home and found Douglas dead. There's no security
08:03camera on the back door so no one will know when Douglas arrived or that Millie was there. Wendy tells
08:10Millie to delete all the text messages between them. Millie does. As she leaves Wendy is standing over
08:16Douglas's body with a strange smile on her face. That should have been Millie's second red flag.
08:22The next morning police knock on Millie's door. Detective Ramirez wants to talk to her about
08:27Douglas Garrick. Millie calls Brock to act as her lawyer. At the police station she finally tells him
08:33about her criminal past. Brock is shocked but agrees to help her. Then Ramirez begins showing them
08:39evidence and things go from bad to catastrophic. Text messages from a burner phone that suggests Millie and
08:45Douglas were having an affair. A bracelet with an inscription to W from D found in Millie's
08:52apartment. The W could stand for Wendy but it could also stand for Wilhelmina. A dress Douglas gave Millie
08:59to return but with no receipt. A motel room in Albany rented in Millie's name on the same night
09:05Douglas was in Albany for a business meeting. The evidence is piling up faster than dirty laundry.
09:11Wendy has told the police that Millie and Douglas were lovers. She claims Douglas invited Millie
09:18over to break off the affair and Millie killed him in a rage. Millie's fingerprints are on the murder
09:23weapon. Brock asked Millie directly if she killed Douglas. She doesn't answer. Brock walks out saying
09:30their relationship is over. The police don't have enough evidence to arrest Millie so they let her go.
09:36She takes the train home turns on the television and the news is covering Douglas Garrick's murder.
09:42They show a photo of him. Millie stares at the screen in shock. The man she shot was not Douglas
09:48Garrick. Now we need to rewind four years to understand how Millie ended up in this nightmare.
09:53Wendy Palmer walked into an art gallery with one goal in mind. Find a rich man and marry him.
10:00She spotted Douglas Garrick standing in front of a bizarre clothing exhibit looking uncomfortable.
10:06She approached him and they bonded over how ridiculous the art was. Douglas admitted he only
10:11came for the free food. Wendy found him simple and nerdy. Easy to manipulate. Within a year they were
10:18engaged. Douglas's lawyer made her sign a prenuptial agreement that gave her 10 million dollars
10:25if they ever divorced. Wendy signed it confident they never would. Spoiler alert confidence in reality
10:31don't always match. Two years into the marriage Wendy was shopping for furniture for their new
10:37Manhattan penthouse when she met Russell Simons. He was a furniture salesman and he was everything
10:43Douglas wasn't. Handsome, charming, smooth. Russell was also married to Mary Beth Douglas's secretary.
10:50Wendy and Russell began an affair that lasted 10 months. Douglas eventually discovered it and
10:56canceled all of Wendy's credit cards. When Wendy confronted him Douglas revealed the prenup had another
11:02clause. If Wendy was unfaithful she got nothing. Douglas had proof from security cameras he'd installed in
11:08the penthouse. Wendy was trapped. She couldn't divorce Douglas without losing everything. That's when she
11:15decided to kill him because if you can't have the money legally why not try murder? Wendy
11:20spent months planning the perfect crime. She remembered a conversation with a friend about
11:25Millie Calloway a housemaid who helped abuse women escape their violent partners. Millie had a criminal
11:31record for killing a man in defense of a friend. She was the perfect person to frame. Wendy learned how
11:37to
11:38create fake bruises using makeup tutorials on YouTube. She had Russell pretend to be Douglas whenever
11:43Millie was at the apartment. Russell would argue with her, make controlling demands, and create the
11:50illusion of an abusive marriage. Wendy even convinced Russell to punch her to create a real split lip
11:58and bloody nose. Method acting at its finest. Wendy manipulated Millie into every step. The trip to
12:05Albany, the motel room, the text messages, the gifts planted in Millie's apartment. On the night of the murder,
12:13Millie shot Russell with a gun loaded with a blank. He wasn't supposed to die yet. After Millie left,
12:19Wendy called the real Douglas to the penthouse to sign divorce papers. Russell was supposed to shoot
12:25Douglas when he walked in, but Russell couldn't go through with it. So Wendy shot Douglas herself.
12:30She thought she'd won. She thought she'd get away with everything. But here's the thing about elaborate
12:35plans. They only work if you think of everything. Back in the present, Millie realizes she's been set up.
12:42She calls Enzo for help because when your lawyer boyfriend dumps you, you call the ex with the
12:48criminal connections. Together, they track down the identity of the man Millie actually shot,
12:54Russell Simons. They find his wife, Mary Beth, and learn that Russell owns a cabin a few hours
13:01outside the city. The police issue an arrest warrant for Millie based on gunpowder residue found on her
13:08clothes. Enzo makes Millie promise not to go to the cabin seeking revenge. Millie agrees, but she
13:15steals his car keys on her way out. She doesn't drive to the cabin though. She has a different plan.
13:21At the cabin, Wendy and Russell are celebrating in the bathtub with champagne. They think they've
13:27gotten away with murder. Then Wendy's phone rings. It's Douglas's lawyer informing her that Douglas
13:33changed his will. All his money is going to charity. Wendy will get nothing. Before she can process this
13:40devastating news, Detective Ramirez calls, a security camera was found on the back door of the apartment
13:46building. The footage shows Douglas arriving after Millie left. Wendy's entire plan is falling apart.
13:52Well, karma is a bitch, right? She rushes to the bathroom to tell Russell his throat has been cut.
13:58The lights go out. Wendy stumbles through the dark cabin, assuming Millie has come for revenge.
14:04She slips on blood and crawls toward the kitchen, searching for a knife to defend herself. In a flash
14:10of lightning, she sees who's standing over her. It's not Millie. It's Mary Beth. Turns out, hell hath no fury
14:17like a secretary's wife's scorn. Mary Beth forces Wendy to sit at the kitchen table and write a confession.
14:23Wendy admits to the affair, to killing Douglas, and to Russell's death. Mary Beth makes her right that she's going
14:30to commit suicide. Wendy signs the paper and begs for her life. She argues that Mary Beth can't use a
14:36knife
14:36because people don't usually kill themselves that way. Mary Beth agrees. She explains that the wine Wendy
14:42drank earlier was poisoned with dagoxin, a heart medication. It will cause a fatal arrhythmia. Wendy will die
14:50slowly and painfully. Mary Beth sits back and watches. Sometimes revenge is a dish best served
14:56with a side of irony. Three months later, Millie and Enzo are moving in together. The case was closed
15:02as a murder-suicide. Wendy's confession cleared Millie of all charges. Brock stops by to collect the
15:08last of his belongings. He asks Millie if she's seen a bottle of dagoxin he kept in her medicine cabinet.
15:13It's a medication for his heart condition. The same medication Douglas Garrick took. Millie tells him
15:20she must have thrown it away. But that's not true. Before Mary Beth went to the cabin, Millie visited her.
15:27She told Mary Beth about Russell and Wendy's affair. She gave Mary Beth the bottle of dagoxin and explained
15:34exactly how it worked. She told her what an overdose would do. Millie didn't pull the trigger this time.
15:40She simply gave a betrayed wife the information and the tools. Then she stepped back and let justice
15:48take its course. Millie learned about the bystander effect in her psychology class. She learned that
15:54sometimes people watch terrible things happen and do nothing. But she also learned that sometimes the
16:01smartest move is knowing when to step aside and let someone else take action. This time Millie chose to be
16:08the bystander and sometimes that's exactly what the situation calls for.
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