The Godfather’s Regret: Lost Phoenix is a gripping mafia revenge drama filled with betrayal, fate, and tragic love.
At just 12 years old, Julian witnesses his entire family being slaughtered—saved only by a mysterious girl who vanishes without a trace. Fifteen years later, he rises as a ruthless Godfather, driven by vengeance and haunted by the past.
When fate brings him face-to-face with his enemy’s daughter, he prepares to destroy her—until he uncovers a shocking truth: she is his fiancée… and the very girl he has been searching for all along.
Caught between revenge and love, Julian must confront his past and decide—will he destroy everything, or finally let go?
This short drama full episode delivers intense action, emotional twists, and a powerful story of destiny and redemption.
#MafiaDrama #RevengeStory #TragicLove #ShortDrama #FullEpisode #CrimeDrama #DarkRomance #Betrayal #Fate #EmotionalDrama #Godfather #LoveAndRevenge
At just 12 years old, Julian witnesses his entire family being slaughtered—saved only by a mysterious girl who vanishes without a trace. Fifteen years later, he rises as a ruthless Godfather, driven by vengeance and haunted by the past.
When fate brings him face-to-face with his enemy’s daughter, he prepares to destroy her—until he uncovers a shocking truth: she is his fiancée… and the very girl he has been searching for all along.
Caught between revenge and love, Julian must confront his past and decide—will he destroy everything, or finally let go?
This short drama full episode delivers intense action, emotional twists, and a powerful story of destiny and redemption.
#MafiaDrama #RevengeStory #TragicLove #ShortDrama #FullEpisode #CrimeDrama #DarkRomance #Betrayal #Fate #EmotionalDrama #Godfather #LoveAndRevenge
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00:00At 12, he saw his family slaughtered. Only one girl saved him.
00:04Fifteen years later, he's the city's most ruthless godfather.
00:08He's ready to kill his enemy's daughter, only to find out she's his fiancée.
00:14Twelve candles burn.
00:16Make a wish, my boy.
00:18I look at the twelve flames. I already know.
00:21I wish to lead the Orsini family and rule the city with you, Dad.
00:26Laughter and applause abound. Glasses raised. Dad presses the ice wolf crest into my palm.
00:32If your mother were here, she'd be so proud.
00:35Orsini, hold the blood, carry the name.
00:40The hall answers as one. Then the world comes apart.
00:43The guest beside me drops without a sound. Blood hits the tablecloth. The silk, my face.
00:47While the screaming starts, the Rossetti family sends their regards.
00:52An assassin steps through the entrance. Seven more flow in behind him.
00:56Guns raised. His voice carries the boredom of a man delivering a bill.
01:00The party is over.
01:01Dad moves fast. Pistol already out.
01:04He pulls me behind him through the chaos.
01:06Bodyguards close around us. One by one, they fall.
01:09Each death swallowed by gunfire.
01:11We reach the back door. Glenn, Julian, Norman.
01:15Then Dad's leg box.
01:16He goes down on one knee. We grab for him.
01:18He shuts his arm.
01:19He stands tall on one leg. Slams the door shut with his shoulder.
01:24Take Julian. Get him out.
01:27No, Dad!
01:28That's an order, son.
01:29I stare at his face and memorize it.
01:31Oh, no, that's what I'm doing.
01:32He unclasps the ice wolf crest and presses it into my palm.
01:36The Orsini family is yours now.
01:39Can I count on you?
01:40My fingers close tight.
01:41Of course, Dad.
01:42He's my full, real...
01:43You picked the wrong day to fuck with a father.
01:47Norman grabs my wrist.
01:49We run.
01:49I look back.
01:50Dad falls.
01:50Rises.
01:51Falls again.
01:52Drags himself across the floor to seize an assassin's ankles with the last of his strength.
01:56The assassin looks down at the man, gripping him with cold curiosity.
01:59Presses the gun on Dad's head.
02:00Hold the blood.
02:02Carry the name.
02:04Norman's hand cuts off my scream.
02:05The car smells of blood and engine oil.
02:08I press against the back window and watch the estate shrink.
02:10Gunfire thins.
02:11Then silence.
02:12Only my breathing and the blood drying my face.
02:14Norman's eyes find mine in the rearview mirror.
02:17Go to Pablo's.
02:18We have people there.
02:19I wipe my face with the back of my hand.
02:21Jaw tight enough to crack.
02:22The Rossini family.
02:24I'll kill every last one of you.
02:26I'll avenge my father.
02:27I promise.
02:29To hold the blood and carry the name.
02:32Pablo's Bar.
02:32Kitchen smells.
02:33Grease.
02:34Garlic.
02:34Mop water.
02:35I move through it fast, stuffing supplies into a backpack.
02:38At the quarter entrance, a girl appears.
02:40Twelve years old.
02:41Quick eyes.
02:41Dressed too well for this place.
02:43She presses herself into the doorframe's shadow, convinced she's invisible.
02:46Miss Rosetta.
02:47Time to leave.
02:49A man's voice calls from the corridor.
02:50She flattens against the wall.
02:52Holds her breath.
02:52She slips into the kitchen and walks directly into me.
02:55We both startle backward.
02:56We say it together, then stare.
02:58Who are you?
02:59Who are you?
03:00Her eyes drop to the blood on my head.
03:02The bravado softens into something unguarded.
03:05Are you okay?
03:06You're bleeding.
03:07Not your problem.
03:08Excuse me?
03:10Do you even know who you're talking to?
03:13My hand moves to the dagger at my side.
03:15Who are you?
03:16If someone finds out who you are, we'll be in real trouble.
03:21My name is Mary.
03:22My eyes move over her face.
03:24Are you a Rosani?
03:25What if I am?
03:28My fingers tighten on the dagger.
03:30They just escaped from their manin.
03:32They kept me locked up there forever.
03:35They even lock up girls, I think.
03:36Those bastards.
03:37I let go of the dagger.
03:39Don't follow me.
03:40It's dangerous.
03:42At least let me...
03:43The kitchen erupts.
03:45Gunshots.
03:46Plural.
03:46Close.
03:47I sprint for the rear.
03:48The girl freezes as stray bullets chew through the walls.
03:51And then I'm spinning back, grabbing her hand, pulling her with me.
03:54Two assassins burst in behind us.
03:56I put myself between her and the door.
03:58A reflex.
03:59I feel the bullet hit my shoulder like a hammerhead.
04:01I stagger.
04:02Keep moving.
04:03Hit the storage room door with my good shoulder and wedge my weight against it.
04:07In the stumbling half second of turning, I bump into her and our lips meet.
04:11An accident.
04:13One second of wide eyes and stunned silence.
04:16I shove the rack against the door.
04:18The girl jumps in to help.
04:20You've been shot.
04:22Bullets punch through the wood.
04:23Run.
04:24They're after me, not you.
04:26I'm not leaving you behind.
04:28She drags me toward the window.
04:29And I catch a flash at the back of her neck as she turns.
04:32White.
04:32Birthmark shaped.
04:33A bird with its wings spread.
04:35Then her hair falls back and covers it.
04:36We reach the window.
04:37She helps me onto the sill.
04:39Come on, give me your hand.
04:40She hesitates.
04:41Then pulls out a card.
04:42Black on one side.
04:43The other shimmering with faint blue patterns.
04:45Take this.
04:46There's a safe house at the location marked on it.
04:48How do you even...
04:49No time.
04:50Go.
04:51Go.
04:51I came with my uncle.
04:52He'll protect me.
04:53She slides a bracelet off her wrist.
04:55A child's thing.
04:56Rubber and colored beads.
04:57She fastens it around my wrist with quick, careful fingers.
05:00We'll meet again, right?
05:02Our fingertips almost touch through the gap.
05:04Then she pushes my hand away and slams the window shut.
05:07One last look through the glass.
05:08Her face.
05:09Eyes bright.
05:10Mouth set.
05:10And I run.
05:11One day I can get your feet hitting paper.
05:12I'll find you again.
05:13I promise.
05:16Fifteen years later, I stand alone at the edge of it.
05:18Twenty-seven now.
05:19The boy who ran from this family with a dead father's crest and a stranger's bracelet
05:23has become something harder.
05:25Boss.
05:26All Rosenni present today.
05:29Eliminated.
05:30Good.
05:31Share the sea's property with our men.
05:33Norman leaves.
05:34My hand moves without thinking to my wrist.
05:36Mary, I think.
05:38Or should I call you Phoenix?
05:39I finally avenged my family.
05:42Where are you now?
05:43Norman returns with a woman between several men.
05:46Maggie Rossetti.
05:47Twenty-four.
05:48Beautiful.
05:48The way certain fires are beautiful.
05:50Bright.
05:51Dangerous.
05:51Commanding.
05:52She walks as though the men escorting her or doing her a favor.
05:55Something falls from her wrist.
05:56She catches it before it touches the dirt.
05:58Wipes it clean.
05:59Holds it.
06:00Her face was perfectly stilled.
06:01As if knowing this would be her last day.
06:03I draw my gun and walk toward her.
06:05Maggie Rossetti looks at the gun.
06:07Looks at the man holding it.
06:08Does not blink.
06:09Close your eyes.
06:11Can't kill me while I'm looking at you?
06:13I raise the gun.
06:14Press the barrel to report.
06:15Our eyes meet across that terrible distance.
06:18Cold metal between us.
06:19Her gaze doesn't drop.
06:20Her hand trembles at her side while her face shows nothing.
06:23I pull back the hammer.
06:24Do not hold the trick.
06:26Godfather Burke Hobson moves through the carnage with the elegance of a man who has never hurried
06:30in his life.
06:31Enough.
06:31White-haired, impeccably dressed, cane-tapping, blood-soaked ground.
06:36I lower the gun.
06:38My godfather.
06:39Enough is enough, Julian.
06:41Never go too far.
06:43This is my revenge.
06:44It's not enough.
06:45I raise the gun.
06:47Burke's hand comes down the line.
06:48Pressing it slowly down.
06:50She's about to be your wife.
06:51You wouldn't hurt your own wife, right?
06:54What?
06:55Maggie and I say it together.
06:56What?
06:56Then stare at each other.
06:57Two people who spent 15 years on opposite sides of a war.
07:01Standing in its graveyard, being told they'll share a bed.
07:04Your families have destroyed the city.
07:06The only way this feud ends for good is marriage.
07:10My gun hand stays very still.
07:12Burke's men settle into readiness.
07:14Mine mirrored.
07:15My men just came out of a battle.
07:17This isn't the time.
07:18I produce a smile that almost convinces.
07:20Of course, Godfather.
07:21I cross to Maggie and pull her into my arms.
07:24She goes rigid.
07:26You guys.
07:26She breathes against my shoulder.
07:28You're sick.
07:29Burke smiles.
07:31I think you'll enjoy your marriage.
07:36Burke leaves.
07:37Norman Newsclubs.
07:38He's keeping you in check, boss.
07:41How long do we let this go on?
07:44I've got plans for him.
07:45No rush.
07:47I walk toward Maggie.
07:48Something in my face shifts.
07:50I signaled them to leave and close the door.
07:52My hand finds her throat.
07:53Don't think you're getting away with anything.
07:55I have plenty of ways to torture you.
07:58I release her and walk away.
07:59I didn't look back.
08:00That evening, I stand alone in my rooms and look at a wedding dress.
08:04I commissioned it years ago.
08:05I've never told anyone one.
08:06Phoenix, I had this made for you, waiting for you to come back.
08:10Still nothing?
08:12We've searched the whole city.
08:13No girl with a white phoenix birthmark.
08:16Keep looking.
08:18She's the only one I've ever loved.
08:20The door opens.
08:21Elizabeth Gilbert, my childhood friend, achingly beautiful, strategically persistent,
08:26sees the dress and lights up.
08:27Julian, I knew you'd marry me.
08:29You've always been like a sister to me.
08:32I'm marrying Maggie Rosaudi.
08:33Elizabeth's smile stayed on her face until the door clicked shut.
08:37I stood alone with the dress.
08:38I didn't know then what that smile had been covered.
08:42In the garden, I stand at the altar in a black suit,
08:44wearing the face of a man at his own execution.
08:47He looks like he's at a funeral.
08:49Shut up.
08:50The bride's a Rosani.
08:51At least try to look less miserable.
08:53Norman appears at my shoulder.
08:56Just thinking about that Rosani woman makes me want to throw up.
08:59I down a nearby glass and one swallow.
09:01The bride is here!
09:03I look up.
09:04Maggie walks into the garden.
09:05The world goes still.
09:06She wears the dress as if it was built around her.
09:09Jewels catching light in every direction.
09:11Dark hair loose beneath the white veil.
09:12I stare and something happens to my expression I can't control.
09:15My mind suddenly flashed back to that kitchen.
09:18Fifteen years ago.
09:19Quick eyes and a rubber bracelet.
09:22Phoenix?
09:23The word comes out before I can stop it.
09:24I step forward.
09:25Is that you?
09:26Maggie steps back.
09:27Eyebrows climbing.
09:29Are you out of your mind?
09:31I snap back to the present.
09:33Then my eyes drop to the dress.
09:35How dare you wear this?
09:38It's the wedding dress I prepared for my only love.
09:41Take it off.
09:43Now!
09:44Maggie makes a salad.
09:45She handed it to me.
09:48Boss, she's lying.
09:49She insisted on trying it on.
09:51Liar!
09:51You said it was for me!
09:53Elizabeth materializes you.
09:55She only wanted to wear it to please you.
09:58Classic Rosoni.
09:59Maggie looks from Sally to Elizabeth.
10:01Something in her expression crystalline.
10:02I see.
10:04You two snakes.
10:05She turns to me and chin up.
10:07Don't flatter yourself.
10:09I'm the Rosoni heiress.
10:10I've worn better dresses than this.
10:12She reaches up and is tearing it off her own body.
10:15Guarding the drums.
10:16Gasps from every direction.
10:17I go still for exactly one second.
10:19Then grab her.
10:20Throw her over my shoulder.
10:21And carry her the length of the garden to the altar.
10:23With the grim efficiency of a man who has committed to something.
10:26I deposit her in front of the priest.
10:27Do your thing.
10:29Today we gather before God.
10:31I do.
10:32I shoot Maggie a look.
10:33Like I have a choice?
10:34She rolls her eyes.
10:35I do.
10:35You may now kiss the bride.
10:37I'd have to be in the room.
10:39I grab her wrist and bring her to my bedroom.
10:42Lay her on the bed and begin carefully removing the ruined dress.
10:45My hands steady working with fast needs.
10:47With a gentleness that has no business being there.
10:50The air between us had changed.
10:52Neither of us said anything about it.
10:53Trying to act like a gentleman now?
10:55Shut up.
10:56Don't move.
10:58I turn her gently.
10:59Her back to me, her hair falling aside.
11:01And reach to lift it from her neck.
11:04Maggie turns.
11:06She faces me and presses her palm flat to my chest, pushing.
11:09I'll take the rest off myself.
11:11Wait outside.
11:12How can she be Phoenix?
11:13I pull myself back from something I don't want to examine.
11:15I look at her face instead.
11:17At the smudged lipstick at the corner of her mouth.
11:19I reach out and rub it away with my thumb without thinking.
11:21This whole house belongs to me.
11:24My fingers find the hem of the dress and pull.
11:26It comes away.
11:27The air between us holds a charge.
11:28Neither of us moves to discharge.
11:30What are you doing?
11:32I'll do whatever I want.
11:34Like I said, I'm gonna make you suffer.
11:38I push her toward the mirror.
11:39Both of us reflected.
11:40Her wide eyes like dark ones.
11:43Look at yourself.
11:44I want you to see yourself humiliated.
11:47Julian.
11:50You are such a bastard.
11:52My mouth comes down on hers.
11:53Brutal first.
11:54A punishment.
11:55And then the pressure softens.
11:56Changes.
11:57Becomes something that has no place in this room.
11:59I breathe against her mouth.
12:00Her lips tremble.
12:01Her lashes drop.
12:02A single tear escapes.
12:04Her eyes close.
12:05Her expression said what she wouldn't.
12:06I learned later that something had shattered Elizabeth's room.
12:09Whatever she and Marsha planned in the dark,
12:11they kept it between themselves.
12:13I sit alone in my office,
12:14bracelet running through my fingers.
12:15The dress.
12:16Store it in the vault.
12:18Until the day I find Phoenix.
12:20What about Maggie?
12:21Something moves across my face.
12:23Send her food.
12:24I don't want her to die that easily.
12:26The door bursts over.
12:27Elizabeth frantic.
12:28Julian!
12:29The access card you gave me!
12:31It's missing!
12:32My hand comes down on the desk like a gunshot.
12:34What?
12:36Maggie wakes to bite marks.
12:38And the sound of her own voice saying,
12:40What an animal.
12:41Marsha delivers breakfast with a professional smile.
12:44And on the way out,
12:45lets a black access card drop to the floor.
12:47The drop deliberate.
12:48Made to look accidental.
12:50Maggie finds it.
12:51Flips it over.
12:51Flash.
12:52A kitchen.
12:53A boy with blood on his face.
12:55Her own hands pressing a card.
12:57The other side shimmering with faint blue patterns.
13:01Wait.
13:03Isn't this...
13:03The door crashes over.
13:05Me and Norman Elizabeth guards.
13:07My eyes find the card in her hand and go hard.
13:10I snatch it.
13:11So it really was you.
13:12How dare you steal this!
13:14If this card is the same one I gave that card.
13:16She was staring at my face now.
13:18And something in her expression had gone very still.
13:20Then she reaches me.
13:21We struggle.
13:22The card falls.
13:23Maggie drops to the floor after.
13:24Fingers closing around the energy.
13:26I just need to confirm one thing.
13:28I look down.
13:29Flash.
13:29A girl on a kitchen floor.
13:31Fifteen years gone.
13:32Looking up at me with those same eyes.
13:34In the half second of my stunned hesitation.
13:36Maggie flips the card.
13:37Red.
13:38The pattern is red.
13:39Not...
13:39She stares.
13:41Confirmation dissolves.
13:42Disappointed.
13:42Whatever she was thinking.
13:43She buried it before you.
13:45I take the card back.
13:46This is the Orsini Arsenal Access Card.
13:48What were you planning?
13:49I picked it up off the floor.
13:51I don't even know what it is.
13:53Elizabeth materialized.
13:54This is all my fault, Julian.
13:58Take her to the dungeon.
14:00It's time she learns how savage we are.
14:03As they drag Maggie out, I catch Elizabeth and Marsha exchanging a slow, triumphant smile aimed at Maggie with my
14:09shoulder.
14:10I filed it away and said nothing.
14:12The dungeon is closed.
14:12They couldn't put instruments that announced their purpose without explanation.
14:16Are you serious?
14:18Maggie looks at Norma.
14:19What is all this?
14:20My advice, don't ask.
14:22The more you know, the more scared you get.
14:24He reaches for a barbed whip.
14:26I came down to check on her.
14:27I still don't know what I told myself the reason was.
14:30Through the door I could hear voices.
14:32Elizabeth's.
14:33The sound of boots.
14:34Something hitting a wall.
14:36I wasn't there for all of it.
14:37I learned afterward, in pieces, Norman had left her alone.
14:43She'd found a knife.
14:44Elizabeth and two men had come down before I arrived.
14:46The scene I walked into, knife gone, men caught mid-motion, Maggie's arms pinned, was already in its final act.
14:54Mr. Orsani is here.
14:56I come through the door.
14:58The men stop.
14:59Step back.
15:00Elizabeth moves instantly.
15:01Grabs the fallen knife.
15:02Presses it to her own arm.
15:04Quick.
15:04Control.
15:05Shallow enough to bleed convincingly.
15:07When I turn, Elizabeth is already performing victimhood.
15:10It was an accident, Julian.
15:13Don't blame Maggie.
15:15Are you out of your mind?
15:17How could you hurt Elizabeth?
15:18My hand comes up.
15:19I was going to slap her.
15:21I didn't.
15:22She watches it coming and doesn't flinch.
15:24It stops.
15:25A breath from her cheek.
15:26I stare at her swollen face.
15:28The mark's already there.
15:29My fist trembles.
15:31I don't even want to touch you.
15:32I watched Maggie look at Elizabeth and Marsha.
15:34Something in her face changed.
15:36Not defeat.
15:36Something past it and past caring.
15:39Fine.
15:40I wish I had stabbed her.
15:42And stabbed deep enough to finish the job.
15:45I grab her.
15:46Close enough that she feels the heat of my anger.
15:51Unbelievable.
15:53Say one more word.
15:54Or what?
15:55You're pathetic.
15:57You can't even tell who's lying.
16:00Elizabeth, a fine woman.
16:01She won't lie to me.
16:04And I'm a vicious bitch.
16:06So what are you going to do about it, my dear husband?
16:09I go absolutely still.
16:11Don't call me that.
16:13Everyone, out!
16:43Elizabeth draws a finger across her own throat on her way past the door and smiles.
16:44Flash of movement in the kitchen 15 years ago.
16:46My hand, holding the whip, stops in midair.
16:49Wait.
16:50That's...
16:52Something in me chooses not to know.
16:54I laugh.
16:55Short, bitter.
16:57You even painted a fake one on yourself.
16:59How desperate are you, Maggie?
17:02That's my birthmark.
17:03I was born with it.
17:06Only my phoenix has that mark.
17:08Did you really think this would make me believe you were her?
17:10I'm not pretending to be anyone!
17:13Then don't blame me for what happens next.
17:16I bring the whip down across the birthmark.
17:19Again.
17:20Again.
17:21Maggie screams.
17:22Not from weakness, but because the pain is real and there is no dignity in pretending otherwise.
17:27When I finally stop, the birthmark is torn and bleeding and the hatred in her eyes is ancient.
17:32You're a monster.
17:33You don't deserve love.
17:35If she knew how you loved her, she'd be disgusted.
17:38Shut up!
17:39When I find her again, I'll give her everything!
17:42I hope you never find her.
17:44Better yet?
17:45I hope she's dead.
17:47The color leaves my face.
17:48I drop the whip.
17:49My hands find her throat.
17:51She goes still beneath them.
17:52The door crashes open.
17:54Norman, breathless.
17:57Boss!
17:57We got Lisa Rosati!
17:59I release her.
18:01Take Maggie and her mother to the backyard.
18:03Execute them both.
18:04Do whatever you want to me, but let my mother go.
18:08You shouldn't have talked about her.
18:10I walk out.
18:11Through it, I heard her throw herself against it.
18:13Heard her scream.
18:14I kept walking.
18:16I stand alone in my bedroom and look at the jeweled dress.
18:20Phoenix, where are you?
18:22I pick up Maggie's belongings, a small box, and toss them into the fireplace.
18:26The lid flips open mid-fall.
18:28Something small and brightly colored spins toward the flames.
18:32I lunge into the fire.
18:34I pull out a bracelet and stare at it, then reach into my pocket and pull out my own.
18:38I hold them side by side.
18:40They match.
18:41This is Phoenix bracelet.
18:44Maggie is Phoenix?
18:45The bracelets shake in my hands.
18:47I run through everything.
18:48You know, the kitchen, 15 years gone.
18:51The girl with quick eyes and a blue patterned card.
18:54The girl in the dungeon with those same eyes.
18:57The birthmark.
18:58The bracelet.
18:59Phoenix's name was Mary.
19:01She was a prisoner of the Rossetti family.
19:03I stop.
19:03Oh, I still need her alive.
19:06I run.
19:06The backyard holds a crowd and two disheveled figures at its center.
19:11Maggie sees her mother across the yard and everything else stops.
19:16Mother.
19:17Lisa Rosati, spine still straight despite the tears, fights toward her daughter.
19:22Fingertips almost touching, Elizabeth steps between them.
19:26Tapes Lisa's as mouth shut.
19:27Hits her again and again while Lisa sobs behind the tape.
19:33Rain starts.
19:34Maggie leans her forehead against her mother's.
19:37I love you, Mom.
19:39Dad's waiting for us on the other side.
19:42Executioners move into position.
19:43Safety clicks off.
19:45Stop!
19:46I come through the crowd at a run,
19:48rain plastering my jacket to my shoulders.
19:50I crouch before Maggie and lift her face.
19:54Where did you get that bracelet?
19:57Think carefully.
19:58This is your last chance.
20:00Let us go, and I'll tell you.
20:02Lock them in the dungeon.
20:03I have questions.
20:05Burke Hoban walks into the rain without an umbrella,
20:08which is somehow more more frightening than if he'd had one.
20:11Julian, your wife stole the Arsenal access card.
20:15I won't sleep easy until she's dead.
20:17My eyes move between my godfather and Maggie's kneeling form.
20:22If Maggie dies, I may never find Phoenix.
20:25Something clicks into place.
20:27I walk to Maggie and lay my hand very gently against her abdomen.
20:33She's pregnant with my child.
20:37The rain comes down.
20:39The yard holds its breath.
20:42What?
20:45Burke's trap has reversed on it.
20:47I watch him realize it.
20:49Fine.
20:50If that's true, Maggie lives.
20:52For now.
20:53Kill him, if you must.
20:55Elizabeth recovers fast.
20:56But kill the mother, at least.
20:57Burke points at Lisa with a smile that has teeth.
21:01Fifteen years ago, the Orsini family was wiped out.
21:05Your father killed.
21:07You had a bullet in your shoulder, didn't you, Julian?
21:10Shot in the shoulder specifically?
21:12Maggie's eyes went wide.
21:13She looked at me.
21:14Really looked at me.
21:15For what felt like the first time.
21:16Kill Lisa Rossetti.
21:18Avenge your family.
21:20My fists close.
21:20I don't move.
21:21He's cornering.
21:22But I can't fight him yet.
21:23I draw my gun and walk toward Lisa.
21:25She was still staring at me as I walked toward Lisa.
21:28I couldn't read what was in her eyes.
21:30Maggie breaks free of convulsive motion and throws herself in front of her.
21:33Don't touch her!
21:33I look down at her face, upturned toward me, and something moves across my expression.
21:38Too fast to name.
21:40I'm sorry, Lisa Rossetti.
21:42Then, barely a breath.
21:44For Maggie's sake.
21:45In the struggle, my bracelet slips from my pocket and falls.
21:48Spinning once in the air before landing in the dirt directly in front of Maggie's knees.
21:52She stares at it.
21:53I grab the bracelet back before she can reach it.
21:55Wipe it clean.
21:56Pocket it without looking at her.
21:59I walked to Lisa and positioned myself beside her.
22:01A glance at Norman understood.
22:05I pull the trigger.
22:06Lisa drops.
22:08Maggie's scream is something I will fear for a long time.
22:11She tears free and collapses beside her mother, pressing her hands to the wound.
22:15Mom, please.
22:17Look at me.
22:18I step in, take Maggie's arm, pull her upright.
22:22Maggie's hand finds the knife at my belt.
22:24She drives it into her own chest before anyone can stop her.
22:28Blood pours down her front.
22:29Maggie!
22:32I run.
22:32I run with her in my arms, through the rain and into the villa, shouting to the doctor.
22:36Doctor!
22:37Holding her against my chest.
22:39You haven't told me where Phoenix is.
22:43I'm not letting you die.
22:45Night.
22:46Maggie lies in my bed.
22:47I sit beside her and don't move.
22:49She murmurs in her sleep.
22:51Please don't kill my mom.
22:53Slowly, she surfaces.
22:55As her vision cleared, she looked at me with an expression I couldn't name.
22:59Something layered, complicated.
23:00Like she was seeing two things at once.
23:03She grabs me.
23:05You're...
23:05Her voice breaks against my shoulder.
23:07You finally came for me.
23:09I've been waiting for years.
23:12Her face changed.
23:14Something in her eyes went from warmth to horror.
23:16Like she'd remembered everything all at once.
23:18My mom, she...
23:19She comes fully alive.
23:20She shoves me back.
23:22It was you.
23:23You...
23:23You killed my mother!
23:25If you want to live, stop.
23:27I'd rather die!
23:28Stop!
23:28There's nothing left for me!
23:30She's still alive.
23:35What?
23:38It was a fake execution.
23:39I had a ceramic vest hidden under her clothing.
23:42She's somewhere safe.
23:43You're serious?
23:46Believe it or not, but if you don't cooperate,
23:49I've got plenty of ways to make her suffer.
23:51You're a monster.
23:53Tell me, where's the real phoenix?
23:56Maggie looks at the bracelet in my outstretched hand
23:59and makes a decision.
24:00Yeah, I know her.
24:02Then where is she?
24:03She looks at my face at close range.
24:05Fifteen years of desperation in it.
24:07She makes herself say the horrible words.
24:10The Rasuti family had tons of girls like her.
24:13My father sent them to deal drugs or become prostitutes.
24:16By now, she's probably rotting in some gutter.
24:19My hands close around her throat in a trap.
24:24Shut up!
24:25She's not dead!
24:27Phoenix cannot be dead!
24:29Maggie stays very still with my hands.
24:31Her eyes close.
24:32Her face very quiet says,
24:33We're even.
24:34The pressure releases.
24:35She falls to the floor, gasping.
24:37I stand over her, breathing hard.
24:39I'm not letting you die that easy.
24:42I'm going to break you.
24:43Slowly.
24:45Coward.
24:46You won't kill me because you're too scared.
24:55Locker in the dungeon.
24:56No food, no water.
24:59In the dungeon, Maggie lies on cold stone and stares at the ceiling.
25:03Her mind moves in the patient, calculating pattern of someone given too much time to think.
25:08The door groans open.
25:09She turns her head.
25:10I stand in the entrance.
25:12Something is wrong with the way I'm standing.
25:14I stumble.
25:15The torchlight catches my face.
25:16Unfocused.
25:17Distant.
25:18The eyes not tracking.
25:19Phoenix.
25:22Phoenix.
25:23Julian.
25:24What the hell are you doing?
25:26Snap out of it.
25:27I lunge.
25:27She has nowhere to go.
25:28I crash and pin her to the wall.
25:30My face inches from her.
25:31My eyes glazed and full of 15 years of longing.
25:34I found you.
25:35I finally found you.
25:37I'll never let you go again.
25:40My hands find the back of her dress.
25:42The fabric gives.
25:43Her bare back.
25:44The faint shape of the birthmark beneath my fingers.
25:47Her tears started quietly.
25:49She stops resisting.
25:53Phoenix.
25:54I must have been murmuring her name in my sleep.
25:56Because when I opened my eyes, she was already awake, watching me with a dagger raised.
26:01She raises it over.
26:02There's no way out of this.
26:04Julia, let's go to hell together.
26:07She drives me down.
26:08My hand comes up from sleep and catches the blade with my bare palm.
26:11You crazy bitch!
26:13You're trying to kill me?
26:14I overpower her, roll her beneath me.
26:17The dagger spins away.
26:18She goes still.
26:19Let's out a sound somewhere between a laugh and something worse.
26:23Of course I want to kill you.
26:25After everything.
26:26After last night.
26:28Last night I were legally married.
26:30You call this marriage?
26:32You murder my family and lock me in a dungeon?
26:34I was drugged.
26:36So I was just a stand-in for Phoenix?
26:38My hands find her throat.
26:39A reflex.
26:40Don't mention her name.
26:42Do you care about her that much?
26:44Then tell me.
26:45Why'd you sleep with me twice?
26:48I release her and stand.
26:49To torment you.
26:51What's more painful than being used by your enemy?
26:54I turn to the door.
26:55Tell me where Phoenix is or rot.
26:59The door locks.
27:02I hate you.
27:03I'll never let you find Phoenix.
27:05I sit at my desk, fists clenched, thinking about a birthmark under my fingertips.
27:09Why do I keep mistaking her for Phoenix?
27:12Must have been the drugs.
27:17Norman.
27:18Post a citywide reward.
27:20Half a million for anyone with a lead on the Phoenix birthmark.
27:23I didn't know it at the time.
27:24I pieced it together later.
27:25From what Norman could find out.
27:27Sally had seen the reward sketch.
27:29Had recognized the birthmark.
27:30Had gone to Elizabeth before she could come.
27:32Whatever was said in that, inclusion was the same.
27:34Maggie had to die.
27:36What happened in Burke's office?
27:37I wasn't there for her.
27:38What I know, I learned afterward.
27:40Elizabeth and Marsha went to Burke with forged documents.
27:43Burke turned through them and his expression darkened with each page.
27:50She's been playing us this whole time.
27:52Where is she?
27:52Rotting in the dungeon.
27:54I'll have her executed.
27:55Wait.
27:55Bring her to me alive.
27:57I'll question her myself.
27:58Armed men flooded the dungeon.
27:59You're suspected of plotting to overthrow the gang.
28:01Maggie was dragged to Burke's office and thrown to the floor.
28:03You contacted the police.
28:05Burke held up the forged documents.
28:06Is this revenge?
28:07Yes.
28:08You forced me into this when you married me off to Julian.
28:11You should have expected it.
28:12Was Julian involved?
28:14No!
28:15I wasn't talking to you.
28:17Julian's the only one with high-level access.
28:19Tell me.
28:20Is he part of this too?
28:22The room was very still.
28:24Maggie looks at the floor.
28:25The silence stretches.
28:26I was the one.
28:27I plotted all of it.
28:28Every move.
28:29Mine.
28:30Burke erupted to his feet.
28:32I did it by myself.
28:33She looked him in the eye.
28:34He stared at her, then laughed.
28:37The Roseni family raised a tough girl.
28:40Admiring.
28:41Brittle.
28:42Let's try waterboarding.
28:43He glanced at Elizabeth.
28:45The men forced Maggie down.
28:47A bucket of water waited.
28:48Elizabeth crouched to her level, voice almost gentle.
28:51Die with your secret, Phoenix.
28:53Maggie went completely still.
28:57How did you know?
29:00I was in the corridor before I came through the door.
29:03I don't know how long I stood there.
29:05Long enough to hear what she said.
29:08Last chance, Maggie.
29:10Was Julian involved?
29:12Maggie's head came up streaming water.
29:13No.
29:14I did everything alone.
29:16Julian had nothing to do with it.
29:18She went under him.
29:19In the corridor, I stand with my hand on the doorknob.
29:22I hear her protect me with her last breath.
29:23I feel something in my chest, closed like a fist.
29:26Could it really be her?
29:28I have to save her.
29:29The doors slam open.
29:30I come through them like a detonation.
29:33Three men down before the others register.
29:39And then I'm at her side, hauling her out of the water,
29:41pulling her soaking and gasping into my arms.
29:44Godfather.
29:44I look across the room at Bert.
29:45Don't you think you should have told me before trying to kill my wife?
29:48She colluded with the police.
29:50Traitors must be purged.
29:52Maggie is carrying my child.
29:54She's under constant surveillance.
29:56How exactly would she have conspired with anyone?
29:58Burke scowls.
30:01Then smiles.
30:03Two doctors, then.
30:04Confirm the pregnancy.
30:06I raise my right hand.
30:08If she's not pregnant, I'll cut this hand off myself.
30:11Elizabeth steps back, visibly unsteady.
30:14The doctor performs the scan.
30:17Congratulations, Julian.
30:18You're going to be a father.
30:20Every face in the room performs a different one.
30:24I'm really pregnant?
30:28It's impossible!
30:30She must have slept with someone else!
30:32My slap is precise and funny.
30:34Stop spouting nonsense.
30:37Burke leaves.
30:38I carry Maggie out of the room.
30:41The crowd partying without being asked.
30:43I didn't look back at Elizabeth.
30:45Whatever was on her face, I didn't want to see it.
30:47I heard later that she'd given Marcia instructions that night.
30:51Maggie wakes in the morning to me, carrying a tray.
30:54Soup, fragrant, and hot.
30:55Drink this.
30:56She turns her head away.
30:58I catch her chin and press the bullet to her lips.
31:00Are you insane?
31:01You should be grateful!
31:03Grateful?
31:04You really think I'll carry your child to term?
31:06I go white.
31:10Your mother is still in my custody.
31:12If you don't eat, Lisa and me won't get a drop of water.
31:15Maggie goes still.
31:19Then moves.
31:20The knife from under her pillow.
31:22Driving it toward her own stomach.
31:24I lunge across the bed and catch her wrist.
31:27The knife clatters away.
31:28The soup shatters.
31:30Have you lost your mind?
31:32Why won't you just let me die?
31:34She beats at my chest, weak but relentless.
31:37I hold still and let her hit me and have no answer.
31:38When that baby is born, I'll make you watch me ruin it.
31:42That'll be your punishment.
31:44She slaps me across the face.
31:46I grab her throat and press her back into the mattress.
31:50Then a voice from the doorway.
31:52Sir, please stop.
31:54Maggie and...
31:56I pause.
31:57I look at Sally in the door.
31:58Is what?
31:59Sally hesitates.
32:00Phynex cares, right?
32:02The name lands like a key in a lock.
32:04I go still.
32:05I step back.
32:07I produce a handwritten letter for my coat and toss it at Maggie.
32:10She catches it, hands shaking.
32:12Her mother's handwriting.
32:14If the baby lives, your mother lives.
32:17Something happens to the baby.
32:19Your mother dies too.
32:22I turn to Sally.
32:23Take care of her.
32:24I walk out.
32:26I didn't know they were in the corridor, listening.
32:28I found out later.
32:29By then, they'd already decided what to do about Sally.
32:33That night, this is what Norman told me afterward.
32:36Sally had seen the birthmark.
32:38She pinned Maggie's hair up, lifted it away from her neck, and there it was.
32:42Sally's hands went still.
32:43She reached for her phone.
32:45I sweep pens off my desk.
32:46Fifteen years, not a single lead.
32:51I found Phynex.
32:54Are you sure?
32:55Where?
32:56I've double-checked.
32:57Phynex is...
32:58The door explodes open.
32:59Elizabeth grabs Sally and throws her to the floor.
33:02How dare you come to Julian before me?
33:04I'll tell him where Phynex is.
33:06I step forward.
33:07Elizabeth?
33:08You found Phynex?
33:10Her eyes fill with tears.
33:11I worked so hard to find her, Julian.
33:14Can you forgive me?
33:16Where is Phynex?
33:17Elizabeth glances toward the doorway.
33:19Come in, Mary.
33:21A woman in white enters.
33:23Her eyes find mine, with the specific quality of tears held back for exactly this moment.
33:28You told me to wait for you.
33:29I stare at her.
33:30But I never thought it would be 15 years.
33:32I lift her hair.
33:33A white Phynex birthmark.
33:35Exactly.
33:35Oh, my God.
33:36I finally found you.
33:39Behind me, Sally looks at the back of the woman's neck.
33:43The color leaves her face entirely.
33:46Mr. Orsani!
33:47She's lying!
33:48She's lying!
33:49She's lying!
33:50She's lying.
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