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Where We Never Meet Again
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00:00:01Where the hell are you?
00:00:04Grace, I...
00:00:05Save the excuses!
00:00:07I don't care about the storm. I gave you five minutes.
00:00:10Ethan, you only have 30 seconds left.
00:00:37Ethan, seven days left before you leave this world.
00:00:46I do not belong to this world.
00:01:03Ten years ago, my wife and daughter died on our anniversary.
00:01:07No! No! No!
00:01:11My life ended with them.
00:01:16I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:01:30System activated.
00:01:32Ten years.
00:01:34Serve a stranger and her child.
00:01:36Obey every order they give.
00:01:38Then your wife and daughter live again.
00:01:41Do you accept?
00:01:42Yes! Yes!
00:02:05The revised pledge packet.
00:02:07Your speaking cards, the speaking cards, the seating chart.
00:02:11You're late.
00:02:16Grace, the reserve service for table one is missing.
00:02:20Which one?
00:02:21The 2018 Reservo Sestra.
00:02:23That was the course I agreed to.
00:02:28You know where everything is.
00:02:31Go to the cold room and get the 2018 Reserve tin.
00:02:39To the freezer? He's soaked. Wouldn't he freeze in there?
00:02:45No.
00:02:48Ethan handles it. He always does.
00:02:55Not always.
00:02:57Seven more days, I leave for good.
00:03:01What did you just say?
00:03:07I've traveled a long way to get here.
00:03:10To find something I lost a long time ago.
00:03:13A part of myself I thought was gone forever.
00:03:16I have to go in there.
00:03:19I have to face the truth.
00:03:27And get the 2018 Reserve tin.
00:03:31Oh!
00:03:32Oh!
00:03:36Oh!
00:03:38Oh!
00:03:39Oh!
00:03:40Oh!
00:03:42Oh!
00:03:43Oh!
00:03:44Oh!
00:03:45Oh!
00:04:00Open the door!
00:04:02Open it!
00:04:04Help!
00:04:05Help!
00:04:07Open it!
00:04:08Open the door!
00:04:19Open it now!
00:04:33This one.
00:04:41Inside the house, you are my husband.
00:04:43To Lily, you are a father in practice.
00:04:46Outside the house, you support the image when I need it.
00:04:51Okay.
00:04:53There is no legal marriage.
00:04:54No wedding.
00:04:56No shared room.
00:04:57No rights to my money, my company, or my life.
00:05:04Okay.
00:05:08Ten years.
00:05:10He never said no.
00:05:12Not once.
00:05:13His hands are freezing.
00:05:16Grace, table one is waiting.
00:05:21Get him a blanket.
00:05:28What am I thinking?
00:05:29It couldn't be a concern.
00:05:38Breakfast is ready.
00:05:47Nice to see the place still runs.
00:05:52Dad!
00:05:53Dad!
00:05:58Peace, sweetheart.
00:06:04You're staying here, right?
00:06:07For a while.
00:06:11Which room is mine?
00:06:13Open the East Guest Unit.
00:06:15Have the closet cleared and the bathroom stocked.
00:06:17Okay.
00:06:19You can settle in after breakfast.
00:06:25Okay.
00:06:45You can settle in after breakfast.
00:06:48Grace says you've built systems for everything.
00:06:53Someone had to.
00:06:59I need a full transition binder by tonight.
00:07:02Medical, school, food, panic triggers, writing notes, sleep routine, therapy, emergency contacts, everything.
00:07:14That'll help.
00:07:18Ryan is stepping into more of the parenting load.
00:07:21This has to be smooth.
00:07:23Okay.
00:07:27Dad, can you do my bracelet?
00:07:30Sure, honey.
00:07:40The last catch is left.
00:07:42I've got it.
00:07:54Dad, are you coming to pick up today?
00:07:57Yeah.
00:08:07Mr. Cole.
00:08:08I'm here for Lily.
00:08:14Dad!
00:08:15Mr. Cole.
00:08:23I'm here for Lily.
00:08:23Ten years, I learned every way to keep her safe.
00:08:26Lisa.
00:08:26None of it was ever mine to keep.
00:08:33Looks like they got the update through.
00:08:43Dad, you came!
00:08:55A few more days cross into another parallel world to bring my real daughter home.
00:09:07I'm here for you.
00:09:10Can I have dessert first?
00:09:12Sure.
00:09:12One bite won't kill you.
00:09:14No.
00:09:15Excuse me?
00:09:16If she has dessert first, she won't touch dinner.
00:09:18He's right.
00:09:19Dinner first.
00:09:21Fine.
00:09:41Grace said I'm taking her.
00:09:42Do not put her on Monarch.
00:09:45Why?
00:09:46He spooks in weather changes and drifts left on landing.
00:09:51You've got a note for everything, huh?
00:09:54Dad, are we doing jumps?
00:09:59No jumps today.
00:10:01We'll see how you feel.
00:10:05She's not supposed to school over lines today.
00:10:12You can't let her do this.
00:10:23One small vertical wind won't hurt.
00:10:30Don't.
00:10:53active danooks are kept flying.
00:10:56Oh God.
00:10:57Fud Entry, correct?
00:10:58To the test.
00:10:58Fud Entry models are he's on a ship.
00:11:00Oh my god!
00:11:10No, no, Lily. Lily. Lily, Lily, Lily.
00:11:19Lily, Lily!
00:11:24Let me take her.
00:11:26No.
00:11:48I can't feel my hand.
00:11:51Stay with me.
00:11:55What the hell are you doing?
00:11:56I didn't listen to you, but you still came deaf.
00:11:59I always come.
00:12:03Riding fall, possible head injury, child.
00:12:11Are you the child's guardian?
00:12:16Lily!
00:12:17I tried to stop her, Grace.
00:12:19She was so upset.
00:12:21Lily!
00:12:22I can't run on the wire and just steered.
00:12:24The horse was calm until he rushed the ring.
00:12:28That's a lie!
00:12:32We need a signature.
00:12:33Give it!
00:12:37To her father.
00:12:46History of panic, current meds, prior injuries, allergies, sedation concerns.
00:12:52She had a-
00:12:53Shut up!
00:12:54Let Ryan talk.
00:12:58I-
00:12:59We need accurate information.
00:13:02Answer the doctor.
00:13:05Penicillin, amoxicillin, and other beta-like antibiotics.
00:13:07She's also allergic to ibuprofen and aspirin.
00:13:10Hmm.
00:13:21Take him downstairs.
00:13:22I don't want him near her right now.
00:13:24You, go to the basement and reflect on your actions.
00:13:43I made a bad call.
00:13:49I didn't mean for you to get hurt.
00:13:51Ethan told you not to do it.
00:13:54Yes.
00:13:56Then tomorrow you don't get ice cream.
00:14:00Not even if you want it.
00:14:03Okay.
00:14:07That's the punishment.
00:14:14Dad.
00:14:17Dad.
00:14:19Come home.
00:14:33Ryan made a bad call.
00:14:35He knows that.
00:14:36He feels terrible.
00:14:37That helps.
00:14:40Lily won't eat for anyone else.
00:14:42She wants your grilled cheese and tomato soup.
00:14:44You know it wasn't my fault.
00:14:45I know what happened.
00:14:47And this is still what you're doing.
00:14:49There are bigger things going on than how you feel about Ryan.
00:14:55Three more days.
00:14:57Then my time in your world is over.
00:14:59What does that mean?
00:15:05Nothing you need to worry about.
00:15:06Nothing you need to worry about.
00:15:12Hold on my wife.
00:15:14Hold on my little girl.
00:15:16I'll soon travel back to our world and bring you back to life.
00:15:19Sorry.
00:15:32Did it hurt?
00:15:36Eat before it gets cold.
00:15:50You feel better?
00:15:52Yeah, but mom says I need calm.
00:16:00Check this out.
00:16:11Thanks, daddy. Besides mom, you're my favorite person.
00:16:23This isn't because they chose him.
00:16:26It's because in three days, the ten years end.
00:16:31And when it ends, I leave this world.
00:16:35I go back to my own timeline.
00:16:37To my wife and my daughter.
00:16:44What are you doing?
00:16:53Clearing out.
00:16:55Where's Lily's keepsake box?
00:16:57What?
00:16:58The white memory box.
00:16:59Her hospital bracelet.
00:17:01First curls.
00:17:02Ryan's cards.
00:17:03Baby photos.
00:17:03I didn't touch it.
00:17:10You've been clearing things out.
00:17:16Go get it back.
00:17:17Come back.
00:17:20Good thing.
00:17:27No.
00:17:28No.
00:17:34I don't know.
00:17:59I didn't find it.
00:18:01It was here.
00:18:16I shouldn't have assumed.
00:18:18About the box.
00:18:22Her therapist moved Thursday to Friday.
00:18:29The house was perfect.
00:18:31Just like before.
00:18:32But I could feel him pulling away.
00:18:34And I hated myself for wondering,
00:18:37since when was I so afraid of losing him?
00:18:43My last birthday in this world.
00:18:45Two more days.
00:18:47Then I go home.
00:18:59Make a wish, Dad.
00:19:01A real one.
00:19:03Write it down or it won't work.
00:19:12For my wife and daughter.
00:19:14Safe.
00:19:16Happy.
00:19:17And loved.
00:19:23Mr. Cole, Miss Miller wants you downstairs to celebrate the birthday.
00:19:27My birthday?
00:19:34Is this for me?
00:19:38Thank you, Grace.
00:19:39You're welcome.
00:19:41Daddy, I got you a birthday gift.
00:19:45Okay, ready?
00:20:06Oh, you're here.
00:20:07Great.
00:20:07When they bring out dessert, you can cut the cake.
00:20:10Funny thing.
00:20:11We share a birthday.
00:20:18Then Ethan can wish too.
00:20:21Come on.
00:20:23Come on.
00:20:24Just do it.
00:20:32Let me leave this world.
00:20:34Yay!
00:20:35Let me never see any of you again.
00:20:39One more day.
00:20:44Grace?
00:20:47Happy birthday.
00:20:54Miss Miller.
00:20:55The board guests are here.
00:20:57Set the bar side up for service.
00:21:03Perfect timing.
00:21:09Well, I guess I'll be going then.
00:21:16This is a beautiful party.
00:21:18It is.
00:21:19Thank you so much for coming.
00:21:20We're so glad you could make it.
00:21:22You didn't really at the end.
00:21:23I was going to be excited you could make it.
00:21:24Aw.
00:21:25That's your first taste.
00:21:32You run this place beautifully.
00:21:38He's still here.
00:21:40That arrangement lasted longer than I expected.
00:21:43At least Lily finally has her real father back.
00:21:46That's a little too simple.
00:21:48Ethan has been here every day.
00:21:51Ethan has been here every day.
00:21:57Can we do this every year?
00:21:59As long as I'm around.
00:22:10One more day.
00:22:12Then I'll have the best birthday gift of all.
00:22:14Go back to my wife and daughter.
00:22:16And bring them to life.
00:22:19To be back to her.
00:22:28Oh no.
00:22:30Oh no.
00:22:31Can you bring the appetizer platter over?
00:22:48and thank you all for coming
00:22:50to my birthday party
00:23:02Ryan
00:23:13he's not breathing
00:23:15severe reaction
00:23:18what did he eat?
00:23:23he only touched what you brought over
00:23:26he asked me to carry the tray
00:23:31he knows my allergies
00:23:35call emergency transport and police, Ryan
00:23:37I'll make Ethan give you an explanation
00:23:43no police
00:23:46if this turns public
00:23:48it hits Lily, your board, all of it
00:23:53let me handle him quietly
00:23:57mom
00:24:01let me talk to him
00:24:02and get the truth
00:24:05fine
00:24:14you go with him
00:24:17if that's what you want
00:24:23sir
00:24:33let's see if you make it through tonight
00:24:36I'll pick you up tomorrow
00:24:49last night in this world
00:24:52grace told me to go with him
00:24:5810 years of doing every assigned thing
00:25:04I can't break the rules
00:25:05I can't break the rules now
00:25:11you weren't allergic at all
00:25:13why are you trying to frame me?
00:25:17so what?
00:25:21you should have left when you had the chance
00:25:24you should have left when you had the chance
00:25:27that's fine
00:25:32you stayed in my place
00:25:35for 10 years
00:25:37you fed my kid
00:25:42you stood beside my woman
00:25:56Lily?
00:25:57Lily?
00:26:01Lily?
00:26:02what are you doing in here?
00:26:04there's nothing here anymore
00:26:16what is that?
00:26:20for my wife and daughter
00:26:22safe, happy, and loved
00:26:27these are birthday cards
00:26:29his birthday wish is all about us
00:26:33he didn't even write it for himself
00:26:35what if we've wronged him again?
00:26:42if I make one wrong move now
00:26:44I don't just lose my own world
00:26:46I lose my wife and daughter with it
00:26:54you got too comfortable
00:26:56she was never yours to leave and come back to
00:27:03and she still picked me
00:27:07Ethan, I need you downstairs
00:27:09Ethan, where's my blue sweater?
00:27:12Ethan, my pills
00:27:13handled
00:27:13now
00:27:14you can go
00:27:16one more night
00:27:17then the 10 years are over
00:27:19and I return to the world where I belong
00:27:22to my wife and daughter
00:27:23Ethan, what's your name?!
00:27:24you're not here
00:27:26what's your name?
00:27:28I'm here
00:27:33fuck
00:27:35fuck
00:27:36fuck
00:27:37fuck
00:27:41say hello
00:27:43say hello
00:27:44Ethan
00:27:45did he hurt you?
00:27:51no
00:27:54We're coming!
00:27:57Keep going!
00:28:08Do not make any sound.
00:28:30Mission complete.
00:28:32Original world restoration approved.
00:28:35You may exit this world and restore your wife and daughter to the original world.
00:28:42One thing first.
00:28:44State request.
00:28:45Every lie.
00:28:47He knows my allergies.
00:28:49Deception detected.
00:28:50Every hit.
00:28:53Every second.
00:28:55System analysis indicates a high probability of deception.
00:28:59Leave it for them.
00:29:01Confirming.
00:29:09Ethan?
00:29:13He made me.
00:29:15Please.
00:29:22No!
00:29:23No!
00:29:26No!
00:29:31No!
00:29:50Now we will play the video Ethan left for you.
00:30:12you did that grace listen to me get away from us grace security he was unstable I was trying to
00:30:26contain him you touched him again after he was tied down sweetheart you know me don't call me that
00:30:32he's gone because he wanted to leave you mom where did he go I don't know but we will find
00:30:44him
00:31:02he told us
00:31:10he knew everything
00:31:22take Ryan's access away from every property
00:31:25it's done
00:31:27pull every bank trance every travel record every call I want all of it
00:31:35was he telling the truth
00:31:38about what
00:31:39everything
00:31:40everything
00:31:47go to bed
00:31:47he said he always came
00:31:49go to bed Lily
00:32:10he was packing
00:32:39he didn't keep anything
00:32:40he didn't keep anything
00:32:40he didn't keep anything
00:32:48I thought I lost this
00:32:51he labelled everything
00:32:53he was really leaving
00:32:55no
00:32:56he
00:32:59he won't leave us like this he loves us so much
00:33:07this
00:33:07this isn't how he cuts it
00:33:08it's the same sandwich sweetheart
00:33:10it's it's the syrup you want from attach
00:33:12it's not
00:33:13move the donor brunch to Friday
00:33:17what now
00:33:18the soup was wrong last night
00:33:19the toast is wrong now
00:33:20the pills came late
00:33:22my sweater wasn't in the car
00:33:24nobody told the driver I have therapy
00:33:26sit down
00:33:29he never forgot anything
00:33:31Miss Miller
00:33:33Mr. Cole used to send us the order every morning
00:33:35then why did that stop?
00:33:37because he did it himself
00:33:43that one is expired
00:33:51Mr. Cole rotated them every week
00:33:57you said people would handle it
00:34:04he handled it
00:34:06I know
00:34:07there's news
00:34:09a mysterious person says they can help find Mr. Cole
00:34:21he vanished in front of me
00:34:24did you see a body?
00:34:25no
00:34:26a vehicle?
00:34:27no
00:34:28a normal exit?
00:34:29no
00:34:30you're not describing a disappearance
00:34:33you're describing a displacement event
00:34:38I didn't come here for nonsense
00:34:41then don't pay me with disbelief
00:34:48when did he appear in your life?
00:34:50what records existed before that?
00:34:52did he ever speak about time running out?
00:34:55did he ever refer to another family?
00:34:58did he leave any object that felt out of place?
00:35:02he did mention about seven days
00:35:03did he say that more than once?
00:35:05yes
00:35:07then he knew he was on borrowed time
00:35:10where is he?
00:35:12not dead
00:35:15not in your world
00:35:22say that again?
00:35:24he is not dead
00:35:25then where?
00:35:30most people never get close enough to prove it
00:35:32grief covers what logic cannot hold
00:35:39can he come back?
00:35:41that depends on why he came here
00:35:44and what he left unfinished where he belongs
00:35:48can I reach him?
00:35:52possibly
00:35:52tell me
00:35:54a crossing is not travel the way you mean it
00:35:56it takes an anchor and it takes a cost
00:36:00what cost?
00:36:01memory is the usual first price
00:36:05who's memory?
00:36:07the one who crosses
00:36:09when?
00:36:12not until you know what you are crossing for
00:36:17I'm crossing because I owe him the truth
00:36:20if you go
00:36:21you need to survive
00:36:23seeing a life that was never yours
00:36:32you should be asleep
00:36:33I was looking for something
00:36:38I made this when I was seven
00:36:45did you ever give it to him?
00:36:48I forgot
00:36:52Lily, if I found him, what would you want him to know?
00:36:56sorry, sorry dad
00:36:57I picked someone else
00:37:00just because I knew he'd come when I called
00:37:01I didn't know he could leave
00:37:07tell him I was wrong
00:37:10I will
00:37:14why this drawing?
00:37:16because he stayed in that picture longer than he stayed in our lives
00:37:21it is an anchor then
00:37:24what happens if I cross?
00:37:27you get one chance
00:37:28to arrive where his imprint is strongest now
00:37:35and after that?
00:37:37if you return you will not come back untouched
00:37:41you may remember what you did
00:37:43you may remember what he meant
00:37:46faces and voices are less stable
00:37:50can I bring Lily?
00:37:51no
00:37:54a child does not survive this kind of dysplacient well
00:37:58then I go alone
00:37:59you are not going to get him back
00:38:01I know
00:38:02then why are you going?
00:38:07because if he really belonged somewhere else
00:38:10I need to see what I stole from him
00:38:14then tomorrow night we try
00:38:26if I don't come back
00:38:27you are not going there to disappear
00:38:37it's tonight
00:38:43will he come home with you?
00:38:48I don't know
00:38:49if he doesn't, does that mean he hates us?
00:38:53no
00:38:55it may mean he belongs somewhere else more
00:39:00then give him this
00:39:02don't make him forgive us if he doesn't want to
00:39:08I won't
00:39:14come back
00:39:15I'll try
00:39:21mom
00:39:22mom
00:39:24if he looks happy
00:39:25don't ruin it
00:39:26shh
00:39:31mom
00:39:31mom
00:39:31mom
00:39:32mom
00:39:32mom
00:39:46mom
00:39:53say his name
00:39:56Ethan Coleman
00:39:59now say what ties him to you
00:40:03he raised my daughter
00:40:05again
00:40:07he kept my house running
00:40:11he loved us in ways we did not deserve
00:40:16who loved us in ways we did not deserve
00:40:19It's just...
00:40:38Mr. Cole.
00:40:40They're alive.
00:40:41The surgery held.
00:40:53Your wife regained consciousness twice, your daughter once.
00:40:56Memory response is inconsistent.
00:40:58What does that mean?
00:40:59They know their names, they know who they are,
00:41:01but personal recall is incomplete.
00:41:10One minute.
00:41:19I know your face.
00:41:20That's enough.
00:41:22What happened?
00:41:24The crash happened. Surgery happened.
00:41:26You made it.
00:41:28My father's company.
00:41:31Tell me it's still standing.
00:41:34They froze the succession meeting when you went into surgery.
00:41:37Then it's not lost yet.
00:41:42Dad?
00:41:43Ava.
00:41:45Ava!
00:41:56Mrs. Cole, the board wants guidance before noon.
00:42:01Then bring me the numbers.
00:42:05Ava.
00:42:07Ava.
00:42:08Ava.
00:42:10Ava.
00:42:11Ava.
00:42:12Ava.
00:42:13Ava.
00:42:15Ava.
00:42:15Ava.
00:42:17Ava.
00:42:17Ava.
00:42:18Ava.
00:42:19Ava.
00:42:19Ava.
00:42:21Ava.
00:42:22Ava.
00:42:26Ava.
00:42:28Ava.
00:42:29Ava.
00:42:30He looks thinner, more tired, but more alive.
00:42:54Emma can bear the limited decision-making, not for strain.
00:42:57My father built this company with full control.
00:42:59If I don't show up, they'll split it before I can stand.
00:43:01We have a liquidity breach in 48 hours unless the bridge facility closes.
00:43:07Who offered the bridge?
00:43:08Sable Ridge.
00:43:13They've been circling us for months.
00:43:16Can we survive without them?
00:43:19Not long enough.
00:43:24Mrs. Cole, your blood pressure is already climbing.
00:43:28Then don't stand in the doorway like I'm a child.
00:43:40Ethan can just split himself cleanly in two.
00:43:44Protect the woman, protect the company, hold the child together, do all of it at once.
00:43:53If we don't sign by tomorrow, they call default language.
00:43:57I need the truth.
00:43:58The truth is, we don't have enough information and we still may have to sign.
00:44:13Did mom win?
00:44:16Not yet.
00:44:18We are working.
00:44:21That is his polite word for losing slowly.
00:44:24Then win faster.
00:44:39I need ten minutes.
00:44:54You should not be here.
00:44:56I wanted to know if you made it back alive.
00:44:59You know now.
00:45:00Go home.
00:45:01I do not have one here.
00:45:03That is not my problem.
00:45:06I am not here to take anything from them.
00:45:13Then stay away from them.
00:45:19Who is she?
00:45:20Someone who should leave.
00:45:32Ava.
00:45:36Breathe with me.
00:45:39Four in, four out.
00:45:51You've done this before.
00:45:55Yes.
00:45:57Many times?
00:45:59Yes.
00:46:02Stay until I sleep.
00:46:05I will.
00:46:12I told you to leave.
00:46:14I helped your CFO flag the shell entity connected to Sable Ridge.
00:46:18That was you?
00:46:19Yes.
00:46:20Why?
00:46:21Because I know what it looks like when you decide you can carry everything yourself.
00:46:24I know what happens after.
00:46:25Do not use what happened in your house to step into mine.
00:46:28I am not asking to step into anything.
00:46:30I am giving you something you need.
00:46:33You still should not be here.
00:46:35I know.
00:46:35I also know I was wrong about why you stayed in our world.
00:46:40I thought if someone carried us for ten years, it had to mean we were the center of his life.
00:46:45Good.
00:46:46Ethan!
00:46:48I am not asking you for anything.
00:46:54Then keep it that way.
00:47:03I want no filtered version. Give me the real exposure.
00:47:06If we do nothing, payroll fails first.
00:47:08If we move too fast, control shifts before we can map the hidden structures.
00:47:12Your father's old enemies are not buying debt. They are buying position.
00:47:15And the bridge paper.
00:47:19Predatory.
00:47:20Maybe survivable if we cut their teeth out before we sign.
00:47:28Then do that.
00:47:30Mrs. Cole, this meeting should have ended 15 minutes ago.
00:47:33Then come back in 15 more.
00:47:52Ethan.
00:47:54Stay.
00:47:55Okay, I am here with you.
00:47:57Ethan.
00:48:13We need execution tonight.
00:48:15Where is the affiliate control
00:48:17consclosure?
00:48:18Appendix 3.
00:48:26This is summary language.
00:48:28I want beneficial ownership.
00:48:30You do not have the time
00:48:31for a forensic exercise.
00:48:32Then give us enough time.
00:48:34Time is exactly what the market
00:48:36has decided not to offer.
00:48:39Maturity dates move.
00:48:40Fees cap.
00:48:41Asset ring fashion expands.
00:48:43Cross default language narrows
00:48:44or there is no signature tonight.
00:48:53You did not answer
00:48:54my question earlier.
00:48:56Which one?
00:48:57Would you sign this?
00:49:00Only if doing nothing
00:49:02kills us faster.
00:49:12You again.
00:49:15Sable Ridge used a shell
00:49:17in Zurich three years ago
00:49:18to strip collateral
00:49:19through a delayed disclosure chain.
00:49:20I had someone pull
00:49:21the old arbitration notes.
00:49:23Who is someone?
00:49:24Some of them are people
00:49:25who owe me favors
00:49:26from another life.
00:49:34Why are you doing this?
00:49:36Because if I am going to stand
00:49:38in the part of your life
00:49:39I do not belong in,
00:49:40it should at least
00:49:40help you survive it.
00:49:42You are still standing in it.
00:49:44I know.
00:49:45Do not come upstairs.
00:49:47I won't.
00:49:56Where did this come from?
00:49:58A source that wants
00:49:59Sable hurt more than we do.
00:50:01I do.
00:50:04I do.
00:50:09Then I already like them.
00:50:39You crossed worlds
00:50:40to help me with paper
00:50:41I crossed because leaving you
00:50:43with what I did felt worse
00:50:44than the cost of coming.
00:50:46I am not confused anymore.
00:50:48That matters.
00:50:49About what?
00:50:50About the ten years.
00:50:52You were not loving us
00:50:53the way I thought.
00:50:54You were surviving us
00:50:55while trying to get back here.
00:50:57That changes what I'm allowed
00:50:59to ask from you.
00:51:00You should not be asking
00:51:01for anything.
00:51:03Then I won't.
00:51:05But I can still tell you
00:51:06when I see you
00:51:07caring too much.
00:51:12That has never stopped
00:51:13being true.
00:51:14Does Emma know about me?
00:51:18No.
00:51:21Will she?
00:51:22I hope not.
00:51:30Then I stay out of her way.
00:51:41I heard you nearly sold
00:51:43the company to wolves.
00:51:44We nearly died in surgery too.
00:51:47Recovery does not mean
00:51:48the first decisions were clean.
00:51:51And you?
00:51:53We were boxed in.
00:51:55I am not asking you
00:51:57to trust the paper
00:51:58I almost signed.
00:51:59I am asking you
00:52:00to look at the structure
00:52:01we have now.
00:52:03This keeps one facility alive.
00:52:06One facility becomes proof.
00:52:09Proof becomes leverage.
00:52:17We bought time.
00:52:20Yes.
00:52:22That means we are allowed
00:52:24one decent meal tonight.
00:52:28Can it be fries?
00:52:30For 90 days of breathing,
00:52:31yes.
00:52:47Okay.
00:52:48Okay.
00:52:49You know where everything is already.
00:52:52I put it there.
00:52:54That sounds like dad.
00:52:56Hello?
00:52:57Hello?
00:52:58No public statement yet.
00:52:59We need one more week of calm.
00:53:08Sit down.
00:53:11I am standing.
00:53:14Barely.
00:53:22I hate this part.
00:53:25Which part?
00:53:30Needing you this much
00:53:31while still feeling
00:53:32pieces missing.
00:53:34You do not owe me
00:53:36completed memory
00:53:37before you lean on me.
00:53:40That sounds practiced.
00:53:48We can restart
00:53:49one line by Monday
00:53:50if the old supplier
00:53:51releases inventory.
00:53:52That still leaves
00:53:53reputational risk
00:53:55and labor panic.
00:53:57Can one line
00:53:58hold the room?
00:54:00One line tells everyone
00:54:02we are not dead.
00:54:03Then one line lives.
00:54:11That means we won, right?
00:54:15It means we did not
00:54:16lose today.
00:54:22You will never stay
00:54:23with me again, Ethan.
00:54:40This is the last time.
00:54:42I am leaving soon.
00:54:46Lily made it
00:54:47when she was seven.
00:54:48She found it
00:54:49after you were gone.
00:54:51She told me
00:54:52not to make you
00:54:52forgive us
00:54:53if you did not want to.
00:54:55I came here
00:54:55to give you this
00:54:56and to say
00:54:56one thing clearly.
00:54:57The ten years
00:54:58you carried in our house
00:54:59should not disappear
00:55:00like they meant nothing.
00:55:03Goodbye, Ethan.
00:55:08Goodbye, Ethan.
00:55:08Goodbye, Ethan.
00:55:17Goodbye, Ethan.
00:55:20Goodbye, Ethan.
00:55:21Goodbye, Ethan.
00:55:27Goodbye, Ethan.
00:55:30Goodbye, Ethan.
00:55:32Goodbye, Ethan.
00:55:32The date of related
00:55:33party disclosure
00:55:34does not match
00:55:35the earlier terms
00:55:36and conditions list.
00:55:41They staged
00:55:42the exposure
00:55:43in layers.
00:55:43The first set
00:55:44got us to sign.
00:55:45The second set
00:55:46is meant to close around
00:55:47whatever we still have left.
00:55:49How much time?
00:55:50Not much.
00:55:52If we move loudly now, we show them where we are weak.
00:55:57Then we move quietly.
00:55:59If they think we are stabilizing, they will relax around the edges.
00:56:05That is where we pull proof.
00:56:09This is the cleanest version of a dirty option we can force by morning.
00:56:12Do you still hate it?
00:56:13Yes.
00:56:14Do we have better?
00:56:16I narrowed cross-default language.
00:56:18I pushed disclosures.
00:56:19I boxed off what I could.
00:56:21If they are still hiding something, it is under a structure we cannot see yet.
00:56:27Ethan, let me look at you one more time.
00:56:30I'm leaving tonight.
00:56:32Not signing may kill them faster than signing.
00:56:35No.
00:56:36Ethan.
00:56:41If this goes wrong, it goes wrong with both our names on it.
00:56:45No.
00:56:52Cash pressure eases, one creditor backs off, two board threats go quiet.
00:57:01Tell me this one holds.
00:57:04It bought us room.
00:57:07Did we win?
00:57:10We survived the morning.
00:57:19That would have meant nothing to me in my world.
00:57:22Here it says everything.
00:57:27If we get another week, I can rebuild supplier trust.
00:57:32If we get another week, I can map the affiliates deeper.
00:57:35Then maybe we really can hold this.
00:57:45What is it?
00:57:46They moved through a controlled affiliate we were not shown.
00:57:48The asset ring fast is being pierced through an internal timing trigger.
00:57:52Christ.
00:57:54This was held back.
00:57:58Can we stop it?
00:58:02Emma.
00:58:09Answer me.
00:58:12Maybe part of it.
00:58:13Not all of it.
00:58:21Hello?
00:58:22The vendors got the notice.
00:58:24If they file before morning, we lose the hold.
00:58:27Take the injunction language.
00:58:29Strip it to what survives tonight.
00:58:31I believe you.
00:58:38Sable triggered the affiliate lock.
00:58:39The board just voted to recognize the transfer.
00:58:45Say it clearly.
00:58:46We lost control of the company.
00:58:52I signed the term sheet.
00:58:53This is on me.
00:58:54You signed what was in front of you.
00:58:56I should have seen more.
00:58:57They hid more.
00:58:58I still signed it.
00:59:03Everybody out.
00:59:07You too.
00:59:10Okay.
00:59:22I know what happened.
00:59:27Then you know I should have done better.
00:59:29I was so close to happiness, but I made a mistake.
00:59:32What if Emma doesn't want me anymore?
00:59:34You did everything you could.
00:59:36She won't hold a grudge against you.
00:59:44It was not enough.
00:59:46That matters to me.
00:59:48You should not be here.
00:59:49I did not cross worlds to leave that unsaid.
00:59:52You should go.
00:59:53Not before you hear me.
00:59:58You came every time I called.
01:00:01You raised my child.
01:00:03You held my house together.
01:00:04I let myself believe that would go on forever.
01:00:07I know what I did.
01:00:08I know who I kept choosing.
01:00:10I know how late I am.
01:00:12Grace.
01:00:13No.
01:00:14If you want me gone, tell me to my face those ten years meant nothing.
01:00:18They did not mean nothing.
01:00:21Then do not stand there and make me feel insane for still carrying them.
01:00:27I am not making you insane.
01:00:29I am trying not to making this worse.
01:00:34You do not get to decide that alone.
01:00:43You matter to me.
01:00:44What happened in your house mattered.
01:00:48What happened to Lily mattered.
01:00:50What happened to me there mattered.
01:00:52But Emma is my wife.
01:00:54Ava is my daughter.
01:00:55Even if she never remembers me the way she used to, I stay.
01:00:58I will not betray them.
01:01:00So that is the truth.
01:01:02Yes.
01:01:05Then look at me and say there is nothing left of us in you.
01:01:11There is something.
01:01:12There will always be something.
01:01:16That is enough to ruin me and not enough to keep you.
01:01:25Do you know what the worst part is?
01:01:28Grace, I still cannot hate you for telling me the truth.
01:01:33I was selfish.
01:01:35I was blind.
01:01:37I kept taking and taking and calling it normal.
01:01:41I still came here thinking maybe if I stood in front of you long enough, you would turn and choose
01:01:46me.
01:01:48Grace.
01:01:49I know.
01:01:50I know.
01:01:53I live with you for ten years.
01:01:58I know how you walk when you are tired.
01:02:01I know what you do when you are angry.
01:02:05I know the sound of your keys when you come in late.
01:02:08I know what silence means when it comes from you.
01:02:11You do not get to tell me I imagined all of that.
01:02:18I am not saying you imagined it.
01:02:21Then say what I was to you.
01:02:25You were my family there.
01:02:32I am not going to ask you to come with me.
01:02:38I am not going to ask you to choose me.
01:02:42I want one thing.
01:02:45Do not forget me.
01:02:47I will not.
01:02:48Do not let those ten years disappear like they were a job you survived.
01:03:01I want to erase them.
01:03:05Goodbye, Ethan.
01:03:12Goodbye, Grace.
01:03:21Do not move.
01:03:24What?
01:03:26I need to look at you while I still can.
01:03:28I need to look at you while I still can.
01:03:51Grace?
01:03:53What happened?
01:03:56I am fine.
01:03:57Did you find him?
01:04:00Yes.
01:04:01Did you bring him back?
01:04:04No.
01:04:05Then go home before your mind starts protecting you from what it cannot keep.
01:04:14What fades first?
01:04:15His voice.
01:04:17Then his face.
01:04:18And one day, you realize you cannot remember him at all.
01:04:23Maybe that is the punishment.
01:04:24Maybe it is also the mercy.
01:04:27Maybe it is also the punishment.
01:04:41Maybe it is also the punishment.
01:04:41Maybe it is, perhaps, you know.
01:04:44Did you see him?
01:04:48Yes.
01:04:49Did he look happy?
01:04:52He was where he belonged.
01:04:56Did he say anything?
01:05:02I said enough.
01:05:05You're forgetting him.
01:05:08Will you forget him before I do?
01:05:13I will remember what matters.
01:05:29You should be resting.
01:05:30I was.
01:05:33Then I noticed my husband disappeared into a glass box to decide my life for me.
01:05:41Emma, if you came out here to say it, you do not have to make it gentle.
01:05:44Say what?
01:05:46That it is over.
01:05:48I don't have the right to stay after this.
01:05:51I should have protected it better because it was his and because it was yours.
01:05:56You trusted me and I still let it happen.
01:06:08Are you done?
01:06:15Emma.
01:06:18You are my man.
01:06:20If you were wrong, then I was wrong with you.
01:06:25Emma.
01:06:26We are standing in a world where I woke up from surgery without half the map in my head.
01:06:30And you came back to me from something I still do not understand.
01:06:33At this point, I am not interested in pretending certainty is our only respectable option.
01:06:38On a world this unknown, we move together.
01:06:42I already lost my father's company.
01:06:44I am not losing you two.
01:06:47You do not know everything.
01:06:48I woke up missing pieces of my life.
01:06:51I watched my daughter know you before I did.
01:06:53I watched you carry my company on no sleep and no room to fail.
01:06:57My standards for impossible are lower now.
01:07:01I did not come out here to dismiss you from my life.
01:07:07I came out here because I have been watching you since I woke up and you were the only person
01:07:15in that room who kept telling me the truth, even when it cut your own throat.
01:07:25After the crash, I did not wake up here.
01:07:32I woke up in another life.
01:07:36There was a woman named Grace and a little girl named Lily.
01:07:40They thought I was there to stay.
01:07:42I knew I was there on borrowed time.
01:07:45Something called Atlas told me that if I completed the term there, I could come back here and restore you
01:07:49and Ava.
01:07:49That was the deal.
01:07:51Ten years in their world for one chance to get my wife and daughter back in this one.
01:07:56Grace needed a husband in public.
01:07:58Lily needed a father in practice.
01:08:00I became the person who handled everything.
01:08:02School, medicine, meals, night terrors, logistics, board dinners, family emergencies.
01:08:08Every day I told myself it was temporary.
01:08:10Every year it stopped feeling temporary.
01:08:14Near the end, Grace's old partner came back.
01:08:17He framed me, hurt Lily, blamed me for things he did himself.
01:08:24Then he tied me to a chair and beat me because he knew I was in the way.
01:08:28Atlas gave me the way back right before Grace found me.
01:08:33Grace was the woman who came here.
01:08:40And all the time you were there, you knew you were trying to get back to us?
01:08:44Every day.
01:08:46I wrote the same birthday wish every year for my wife and daughter.
01:08:50Safe, happy, and loved.
01:08:53I came back for you.
01:08:54I came back for Ava.
01:08:56If the deal opened again tomorrow, I would still choose the road that led back here.
01:09:02Did you love Grace?
01:09:03Grace.
01:09:06No.
01:09:09It's you.
01:09:14Always and forever.
01:09:16That is the answer I needed.
01:09:18Then stop standing out there like you're waiting for judgment.
01:09:21You're in it.
01:09:30Tell me something only my husband would know.
01:09:34You hate the smell of hospital flowers.
01:09:38You say they make sick rooms feel more like sick rooms.
01:09:42You sleep with one foot outside the blanket.
01:09:44You read bad news twice before you say it out loud.
01:09:46You always pretend Ava's school projects are easy and then stay up until one in the morning fixing them.
01:09:51Again.
01:09:52You steal fries and call it quality control.
01:09:55When you're annoyed, you always start turning your cup in your hands.
01:09:58On our second anniversary, you said if we ever got rich, you still wanted ugly kitchen mugs because expensive ones
01:10:02make coffee taste like meetings.
01:10:04I don't remember saying that.
01:10:06You did.
01:10:08It sounds like me.
01:10:10It is you.
01:10:14Say one more.
01:10:21I missed your voice.
01:10:26You still have it.
01:10:30Not like this.
01:10:32Not when it's aimed at me.
01:10:37I missed you, too.
01:10:39I just didn't know what I was missing.
01:10:46Look at me.
01:10:48You are home.
01:10:56Mom?
01:10:57Mom?
01:10:58Mom?
01:10:59Mom?
01:11:00Mom?
01:11:01Mom?
01:11:02Mom?
01:11:03Mom?
01:11:03Mom?
01:11:05Mom?
01:11:06Did i do something wrong?
01:11:07No, baby.
01:11:11No.
01:11:12Come here.
01:11:14Are you fighting?
01:11:19No.
01:11:20You looked serious.
01:11:22We were.
01:11:24That doesn't mean bad.
01:11:29Are you staying tonight?
01:11:34If you want me to.
01:11:36That's not what I asked.
01:11:40Yes.
01:11:42I'm staying.
01:11:43For real?
01:11:44For real.
01:11:50That's Grandpa's watch.
01:11:52It is.
01:11:53Why do you have it?
01:11:54Because we're carrying this together.
01:11:57Okay.
01:11:59So that means you're on the same team now.
01:12:02Yes.
01:12:04Good.
01:12:04Because when you're not, everything feels weird.
01:12:10We're on the same team.
01:12:13Then what happens to Grandpa's company?
01:12:16It means we have work to do.
01:12:19Did bad people take it?
01:12:21Yes.
01:12:22Are you going to take it back?
01:12:24We're going to build again.
01:12:26From scratch?
01:12:27Maybe not all the way from scratch.
01:12:29Is that better or worse?
01:12:31Harder at the start.
01:12:32Better at the end.
01:12:34Okay.
01:12:37You two better still be on the same team when I wake up.
01:12:40We will.
01:12:41Promise.
01:12:43We should go.
01:12:45Yeah.
01:12:48Tomorrow, no guilt.
01:12:50No retreat.
01:12:51No disappearing into shame.
01:12:53Yes, ma'am.
01:12:55Good.
01:12:55Good.
01:12:56Good.
01:12:56Good.
01:12:56Good.
01:12:56Good.
01:12:56Good.
01:12:57Good.
01:12:58Good.
01:12:58good.
01:12:58Good.
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