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00:08Marcus. Get mother. Now.
00:20Six hundred years, and it's finally appeared.
00:25What does that mean?
00:27Two kinds of ambrosia bearers. One suppresses it.
00:32The other bears the thorn crown. The promised queen.
00:37Only she can end it.
00:39How?
00:40On the blood moon, she completes the thorn vow with all three.
00:43Her light ends the curse.
00:46But...
00:47But, the ritual takes her life.
00:50The last queen hundred years ago didn't survive.
00:55Then we don't do it.
00:56If we don't, all of us die before thirty.
00:58If we do it, she dies. If we don't, we die. What kind of sick curse is this?
01:01Wait, that's it? That's my only choice?
01:03Watch you all die? Take your place?
01:09Give her some space.
01:10She can't leave. If she's away from us more than 72 hours, the curse will...
01:15I know. The...
01:15I know. I already blocked the garage exit.
01:19She's not going anywhere.
01:20Volume seven. Three pages we still can't make sense of.
01:24If there's another way, it's in there.
01:36I won't let you die.
01:38You're dying too. What makes you think you can promise that?
01:42Volume seven.
01:43I'll do whatever it takes to get through those last three pages.
01:47There has to be another way.
01:49Until then, you're not going anywhere.
01:53Ashul.
01:55Are you scared?
02:00Not of dying.
02:02Of losing you.
02:32Young misters, the latest report is in.
02:35The curse spread 40% faster in eight hours.
02:37The crown mark triggered a backlash.
02:41So the curse knows the cure's here.
02:43And it's speeding up, pushing us toward the ritual?
02:45Yes.
02:46At this rate, if the ritual isn't performed, the marks will reach your hearts within 30 days.
02:55Yesterday, they were still on my wrist. Overnight, they reached my elbow. Pretty fast.
03:0530 days? You've only got 30 days left?
03:08Chloe, sit down.
03:09Then do the ritual!
03:10No.
03:11You're all going to die, and you're still saying no?
03:17Three pages in volume seven are still being decoded. Oxford's best are on it. We'll have answers in 72 hours.
03:23Until then, no decisions.
03:2672 hours. Wait.
03:29Asha cancelled the marriage deal. For some poor college girl.
03:34I know. Ambrosia. My family has searched for her for 300 years.
03:39Is your family cursed too?
03:44Same curse. Same bloodline. We split 600 years ago. They bear black thorn marks. We bear frost. Same cure. Ambrosia.
03:55So you need her too?
03:56More than that. The curse only breaks with both families' heirs. They only have half the codex.
04:03I leave for New York the day after tomorrow. You get me close to her, I get Ashen back for
04:08you.
04:08She's just some nobody. If you want her, why not just take her?
04:13If she's forced, it won't work. It has to be her choice. So she has to leave Black Throne on
04:18her own.
04:19You drive them apart. I'll be there to catch her.
04:31You look like you need something sweet.
04:39I didn't order this.
04:41It's on me. I'm Sebastian. Just got in from London. Mind if I sit?
04:46I'm a fragrance chemist at Oxford.
04:50Your scent's unusual. Vanilla and peach.
04:54But the base has this warmth I can't quite place.
04:59You can smell that?
05:00Relax. I've studied natural human scent for 15 years.
05:04It's extremely rare. Only three documented cases.
05:07A scientist studying scent?
05:09A scientist who's very curious about your scent.
05:12Maybe we could be friends.
05:21The worst being under the fox one away.
05:26Who is this guy?
05:28Facial recognition. Got nothing. His identity's been scrubbed.
05:31Bring in team 4. Starting tonight, her detail goes from 4 guards to 12.
05:35Master, isn't that a bit...
05:41A man with a scrubbed identity just happens to sit across from her, you buy that?
05:50Asher, someone's getting close to her.
06:07Kieran! Kieran! Kieran!
06:13Don't... don't come closer. I can't control it right now.
06:28Your marks run deeper than theirs. Why?
06:31Join special forces at 17. Every op, the curse spread faster.
06:34They came back with medals, I came back with more marks.
06:37This one was Afghanistan.
06:39They got the bullet out, not the curse.
06:41Does it hurt?
06:42Not now.
06:43Never feared dying.
06:45Nearly died twice out there, but no.
06:47I'm afraid...
06:48Afraid of what?
06:49That you'll do the ritual to save us, Chloe.
06:51If it comes to that, choose yourself.
06:53Marks, then why don't you die for me?
06:59This time, it felt different.
07:03Three seconds. Completely gone.
07:05Your power's getting stronger.
07:07Master Kieran!
07:08The team cracked the first page of Volume 7.
07:12Only the destined Queen can end it.
07:14Draw all three heirs' curse, then burn it with the crown.
07:18The price is...
07:21Keep going.
07:23Queen's entire life force.
07:25But...
07:25If all three heirs give ten years with 120 seconds before her life force fades, she can be revived same
07:31only.
07:32Ten years each.
07:33For one life.
07:34Worth it.
07:36You don't get a say in this, we've already decided.
07:38Wait, Ashla, you're 30. Ten years off that, you'd only make it to...
07:41Better than dead now.
07:42Still two pages left. The Oxford team needs at least two more weeks.
07:46Pay more. Ten times more. I want it done in a week.
07:49Yes, Your Grace.
07:51120 seconds.
07:52What if one of you hesitates?
07:56We won't.
08:00They're decoding Volume 7.
08:02Once the ritual's done, I'm finished.
08:04If Asher dies, I lose everything.
08:07I won't be replaced.
08:08Then we move before the ritual.
08:11Frostthorn Extract.
08:12If this touches an ambrosia carrier's skin, it seals her scent for 48 hours.
08:1648 hours?
08:17And after that?
08:18While it's sealed, their curse marks flare unquatched.
08:21In 48 hours, they'll reach the heart.
08:24Then they have two choices.
08:25Do the ritual and let her die, or hand her over.
08:28I can buy time.
08:29Either way, she's mine.
08:31What about me?
08:33Once Asher loses the cure, he'll be weak.
08:35A weak man always needs someone beside him.
08:38That's your chance.
08:41My couture show's at the Met in two weeks.
08:43This year's theme is Curse and Redemption.
08:46Is it about your curse?
08:48No.
08:49It's about you.
08:50All 36 looks were inspired by you.
08:54You're my ultimate muse, and I want you to walk the final look yourself.
08:58Me?
08:59I can barely walk in these things.
09:02In my designs, you don't need to walk.
09:05You just stand there and take everyone's breath away.
09:12Put it on.
09:13This is...
09:15This is...
09:15A little...
09:16Too...
09:19Ezra!
09:20Ezra!
09:21I'll do it myself!
09:25Chloe...
09:27When you wear this dress, my curse marks feign three times faster.
09:32You're my finest creation.
09:35She can model in your show, but I'll be at every fitting from now on.
09:40Asher, you know nothing about fashion.
09:42I know her body better than anyone.
09:44What stays covered, what doesn't.
09:46That's my call.
09:52Why are you suddenly going through your mum's things?
09:54I need to know if she was...
09:57Like me.
10:13What is it, sweetheart?
10:15Edward Blackthrone?
10:18He's Asher's father.
10:21My mother's name was Elaine.
10:23She was the last Ambrosia carrier.
10:25It's all in this diary.
10:29I've waited 21 years for this day.
10:31Edward imprisoned her for three years.
10:33Used her like a drug.
10:35She escaped pregnant.
10:35He hunted her down.
10:36She died when I was six.
10:37Your family killed my mom!
10:39And now you want to use me the same way?!
10:41Edward used your mother like a tool.
10:43Not a person.
10:43That was his greatest sin.
10:44He paid for it with his life.
10:46And your sons?
10:47How are they any different?
10:49They locked me in that estate and won't let me leave!
10:51Edward didn't care if she lived or died.
10:53My sons would sooner die than let you do that ritual.
10:55Same thing?
11:07How long were you standing out there?
11:09All of it.
11:12You knew what your father did, didn't you?
11:16I was eight.
11:17I was eight.
11:17He locked her underground.
11:18She was screaming.
11:19He called it treatment.
11:21Later I found out, she was your mother.
11:24You knew?
11:25You've always known?
11:25Chloe, I knew her.
11:26I didn't know you were her daughter.
11:27The codex only described Ambrosia.
11:28No names, no photos.
11:30But you used the same methods he did.
11:32Big money, a locked estate, no way out.
11:34My father never took a hit for her.
11:35Never dressed her in couture.
11:37Never stood before her and admitted he was afraid.
11:38I'm risking everything to find another way.
11:40Hate my father all you want, but don't put his sins on me.
11:42I need time.
11:53You look like you're having a rough day.
11:55I just found out my employer's family may have killed my mom.
11:58What do you think?
11:59Wanna talk about it?
12:00Sometimes it's easier with a stranger.
12:02It's a family.
12:03Very wealthy.
12:03I work for them.
12:04They need me for something.
12:06I don't fully understand, but they also keep me close.
12:07Don't really let me leave.
12:08But sometimes I just don't know.
12:09Stuck with a family that needs you to survive.
12:11You just don't know if it's love or if you're just the cure.
12:15You're right.
12:16I don't know.
12:17Chloe, if someone loved you, they'd give you a choice.
12:19They wouldn't keep trapping you.
12:22Here's my private number.
12:25If you ever need someone outside all this, call me.
12:34That's him.
12:35Same guy from the school.
12:36Run a full ID check.
12:38I want everything on him.
12:39Copy.
12:46We ran the global databases three times.
12:48This man does not exist.
12:49The card he gave Chloe says Sebastian Reed, Oxford University.
12:52Contacted Oxford.
12:53No such person in that department.
12:56No identity.
12:57No record.
12:58Runs into Chloe twice.
13:00That's not coincidence.
13:01He's moving on her.
13:03Do we take him?
13:03No.
13:04That kind of clean white needs serious backing.
13:07We watch him first.
13:08Find out who's working for.
13:10Your grace.
13:10One more possibility.
13:12An old record.
13:13Thirty years ago, a branch was cast out of the family.
13:15The Thornhields.
13:17Thornhield.
13:17My grandfather erased them from the family.
13:19Why?
13:19The file is sealed at the highest level.
13:21I don't have access.
13:22Only the head of the family can open it.
13:24Open it.
13:26Thornhields split from us 600 years ago.
13:28Same blood, same curse.
13:31They bear Froststone.
13:32And Grandfather cast them out.
13:34So this Sebastian.
13:35He's one of the Thornhields.
13:36And he's after Chloe.
13:37From now on, Chloe's security is at the highest level.
13:40Twelve guards.
13:41Three shifts.
13:42Around the clock.
13:43Ciaran, you lead it yourself.
13:45And that man?
13:46Find him.
13:47But don't touch him yet.
13:48I want to know exactly what Thornfield has left.
13:50Then we wipe them out in one move.
13:51Asha, are you going to tell her?
13:54He's shaken up by what she learned about our father.
13:57Tell her and other families after her and you'll break.
13:59Stop them first.
14:01The more secrets you keep, the deeper the rift gets.
14:25Final look.
14:26Only I get to dress you for this one.
14:28This is even more revealing than before.
14:32More beautiful.
14:33Because I added one last detail.
14:36Ezra.
14:41I've designed a thousand dresses.
14:43This is the only one I made with my hands shaking.
14:46When you step out.
14:48The world wants your name, but only we know you.
14:51And what you truly are.
14:54Five minutes of preparation for the show.
15:06Enjoy your last night in the spotlight, you little nobody.
15:08Take care of your body.
16:06I'm so sorry.
16:09I'm fine.
16:10Really.
16:27Her scent is gone!
16:29All units, lock down the venue.
16:30Find the woman in the black suit.
16:32Move! Someone tampered with her!
16:34Get her out of here.
16:36Now!
16:40Max!
16:41Your scent's been sealed.
16:43Don't talk.
16:44Hold on.
16:44Don't talk.
16:47I want a Halloween movie.
16:48streak.
16:49You
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