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00:00:00Where the hell are you?
00:00:04Grace, I-
00:00:05Save the excuses!
00:00:06I 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.
00:00:45I do not belong to this world.
00:01:0310 years ago, my wife and daughter died on our anniversary.
00:01:07No! No! No!
00:01:11My life ended with them.
00:01:15I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:01:30System activated.
00:01:3210 years, serve 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!
00:02:04The revised pledge packet.
00:02:07Your speaking cards, the speaking cards, the seating chart.
00:02:11We'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.
00:03:18I have to face the truth.
00:03:26you are hiding.
00:03:27Let me get the 2018 Reserve 10.
00:03:31Woman 1
00:03:32The return of the Uhsh
00:04:01Open the door!
00:04:02Open it!
00:04:04Help!
00:04:05Help!
00:04:07Open it!
00:04:08Open the door!
00:04:15Mom!
00:04:19Open it now!
00:04:33This one.
00:04:41Inside the house, you are my husband.
00:04:44To 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, no wedding, no shared room, no rights to my money, my company, or my life.
00:05:04Okay.
00:05:07Ten 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!
00:05:57Peace, 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.
00:06:18Okay.
00:06:19You can settle in after breakfast.
00:06:21You can settle in after a while.
00:06:48Grace says you've built systems for everything.
00:06:51thing. Someone had to. I need a full transition binder by tonight. Medical, school, food, panic
00:07:06triggers, writing notes, sleep routine, therapy, emergency contacts, everything. That'll help.
00:07:18Ryan is stepping into more of the parenting load. This has to be smooth. Okay. Dad, can you
00:07:28do my bracelet? Sure, honey. The lash catches left. I've got it.
00:07:54Dad, are you coming to pick up today? Yeah.
00:08:07Mr. Cole. I'm here for Lily.
00:08:14Dad!
00:08:22Ten years, I learned every way to keep her safe. None 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.
00:09:10Can I have dessert first? Sure. One bite won't kill ya.
00:09:14No. Excuse me? If she has dessert first, she won't touch dinner.
00:09:18He's right. Dinner first. Fine.
00:09:41Grace said I'm taking her. Do not put her on Monarch.
00:09:45Why?
00:09:46Why?
00:09:47He 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 win won't hurt.
00:10:30Don't.
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.
00:11:54What the hell are you doing?
00:11:56I didn't listen to you, but you still came, Dad.
00:11:59I always come.
00:12:03Riding full.
00:12:04Possible head injury.
00:12:05Child.
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 want to run up where I 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.
00:12:34Give 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 biotics.
00:13:07She's also allergic to ibuprofen and aspirin.
00:13:10Hmm.
00:13:20Take him downstairs.
00:13:22I don't want him near her right now.
00:13:23You, 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.
00:13:53Yes.
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.
00:14:08That'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.
00:15:12Hold on.
00:15:13Hold 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.
00:15:32Did it hurt?
00:15:35Eat before it gets cold.
00:15:50You feel better?
00:15:52Yeah.
00:15:54Yeah.
00:15:54But mom says I need calm.
00:16:00check this out
00:16:10thanks daddy besides mom you're my favorite person
00:16:23this isn't because they chose him it's because in three days the 10 years end and when it ends
00:16:33i leave this world i go back to my own timeline to my wife and my daughter
00:16:44what are you doing
00:16:52clearing out where's lily's keepsake box what the white memory box her hospital bracelet
00:17:00first curls ryan's cards baby photos i didn't touch it
00:17:10you've been clearing things out
00:17:16go get it back
00:17:17go get it back
00:17:47no
00:17:59I didn't find it.
00:18:01It was here.
00:18:16I shouldn't have assumed about the box.
00:18:21Her therapist moved Thursday to Friday.
00:18:28The house was perfect, just like before, but I could feel him pulling away, and I hated
00:18:35myself for wondering, since when was I so afraid of losing him?
00:18:43My last birthday in this world, two more days, then 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, safe, happy, and loved.
00:19:23Mr. Cole, Ms. 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.
00:20:08When 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.
00:20:34Let me never see any of you again.
00:20:38One more day.
00:20:44Grace?
00:20:46Happy birthday.
00:20:54Miss Miller, the board guests are here.
00:20:57Set the bar site up for service.
00:21:02Perfect 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 have the M's going to Billy's.
00:21:24How did you make it?
00:21:24That'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.
00:21:57Can 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.
00:22:31Can you bring the appetizer platter over?
00:22:48And thank you all for coming to my birthday party.
00:23:02Ryan.
00:23:12He's not breathing.
00:23:16Severe reaction.
00:23:18What did he eat?
00:23:22He only touched what you brought over.
00:23:26He asked me to carry the tray.
00:23:30He 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, it hits Lily, you're bored, all of it.
00:23:53Let me handle him quietly.
00:23:57Mom.
00:24:01Let me talk to him and get the truth.
00:24:04Fine.
00:24:14You go with him.
00:24:17If that's what you want.
00:24:22Sir.
00:24:33Let's see if you'll make it through tonight.
00:24:36I'll pick you up tomorrow.
00:24:49Last night in this world, Grace told me to go with him.
00:24:58Ten years of doing every assigned thing.
00:25:04I can't break the rules now.
00:25:06I 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.
00:25:27That's fine.
00:25:31You stayed in my place for ten years.
00:25:38You fed my kid.
00:25:43You stood beside my woman!
00:25:56Lily?
00:25:57Lily?
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.
00:26:32He 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.
00:26:50I 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.
00:27:10Ethan, where's my blue sweater?
00:27:11Ethan, my pills.
00:27:13Handled.
00:27:14Now.
00:27:14You can go.
00:27:15One more night.
00:27:17Then the ten years are over.
00:27:19And I return to the world where I belong.
00:27:21To my wife and daughter.
00:27:25What?
00:27:27Fuck!
00:27:29Shit!
00:27:34Fuck.
00:27:42Say hello.
00:27:44Ethan.
00:27:46Did he hurt you?
00:27:52No.
00:27:54We're coming!
00:27:57Keep going!
00:28:07Do not make any sound.
00:28:30Mission complete.
00:28:32Original world restoration approved.
00:28:35You may exit this world
00:28:36and restore your wife and daughter
00:28:39to the original world.
00:28:42One thing first.
00:28:44State request.
00:28:45Every lie.
00:28:46He knows my allergies.
00:28:48Deception detected.
00:28:50Every hit.
00:28:54Every second.
00:28:55System analysis indicates
00:28:57a high probability of deception.
00:28:59Leave it for them.
00:29:01Confirming.
00:29:09Ethan.
00:29:12He made me.
00:29:15He made me.
00:29:16Please.
00:29:21No!
00:29:23No!
00:29:24No!
00:29:25No!
00:29:50Now we will play the video Ethan left for you.
00:30:11You did that?
00:30:14Grace, listen to me.
00:30:17Get away from us.
00:30:19Grace.
00:30:20Security.
00:30:24He was unstable.
00:30:26I was trying to contain him.
00:30:27You touched him again after he was tied down.
00:30:29Sweetheart, do you want me?
00:30:31Don't call me.
00:30:32He's gone because he wanted to leave you.
00:30:36Mom, where did he go?
00:30:41I don't know.
00:30:43But we will find him.
00:31:02He told us.
00:31:09He 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.
00:31:31I want all of it.
00:31:35Was he telling the truth?
00:31:38About what?
00:31:40Everything.
00:31:46Go to bed.
00:31:48He said he always came.
00:31:49Go to bed, Lily.
00:32:10He was packing.
00:32:11He was packing.
00:32:38He didn't keep anything.
00:32:48I thought I lost this.
00:32:51He labeled everything.
00:32:53He was really leaving.
00:32:55No.
00:32:57He...
00:32:59He won't leave us like this.
00:33:01He loves us so much.
00:33:06This isn't how he cuts it.
00:33:08It's the same sandwich, sweetheart.
00:33:10It's the syrup you want from a tach.
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.
00:33:21The 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, Mr. 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 has expired.
00:33:51Mr. Cole rotated them every week.
00:33:56You said people would handle it.
00:34:03He handled it.
00:34:06I know.
00:34:07There's news.
00:34:08A mysterious person says they can help find Mr. Cole.
00:34:21He vanished in front of me.
00:34:23Did 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.
00:34:40Then don't pay me with disbelief.
00:34:47When did he appear in your life?
00:34:49What 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?
00:35:01He did mention about seven days.
00:35:04Did 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.
00:35:33Grief 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.
00:35:53Tell me.
00:35:53A crossing is not travel the way you mean it.
00:35:57It takes an anchor and it takes a cost.
00:35:59What cost?
00:36:01Memory is the usual first price.
00:36:05Whose memory?
00:36:07The one who crosses.
00:36:09When?
00:36:11Not until you know what you are crossing for.
00:36:16I'm crossing because I owe him the truth.
00:36:20If you go, you need to survive seeing 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.
00:36:57Sorry, Dad.
00:36:58I picked someone else.
00:36:59Just because I knew he'd come when I called, I didn't know he could leave.
00:37:07Tell him I was wrong.
00:37:13Why 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?
00:37:26You get one chance to arrive where his imprint is strongest now.
00:37:35And after that?
00:37:36If 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.
00:37:53A child does not survive this kind of dysplacient well.
00:37:58Then I go alone.
00:38:00You 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,
00:38:09I need to see what I stole from him.
00:38:14Then tomorrow night you 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,
00:38:50does 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.
00:39:23If he looks happy,
00:39:25don't ruin it.
00:39:53Say his name.
00:39:56Ethan Cole.
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.
00:40:17If you see him,
00:40:18do not touch first.
00:40:38Mr. Cole.
00:40:40They're alive.
00:40:41The surgery held.
00:40:52Your wife regained consciousness twice.
00:40:55Your daughter once.
00:40:56Memory response is inconsistent.
00:40:58What does that mean?
00:40:59They know their names.
00:41:00They know who they are.
00:41:01But personal recall is incomplete.
00:41:10One minute.
00:41:18I know your face.
00:41:20That's enough.
00:41:22What happened?
00:41:24The crash happened.
00:41:25Surgery happened.
00:41:26You made it.
00:41:28My father's company.
00:41:31Tell me it's still standing.
00:41:33They froze the succession meeting when you went into surgery.
00:41:37Then it's not lost yet.
00:41:41Ava.
00:41:43Ava.
00:41:45Ava.
00:42:07Ava.
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.
00:43:15Can we survive without them?
00:43:19Not long enough.
00:43:24Mrs. Cole, your blood pressure is already climbing.
00:43:29Then don't stand in the doorway like I'm a child.
00:43:41Ethan can just split himself cleanly into protect the woman, protect the company, hold
00:43:46the 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.
00:45:18Who is she?
00:45:20Someone who should leave.
00:45:30Someone who should leave.
00:45:32Ava.
00:45:37Breathe with me.
00:45:39Four in, four out.
00:45:50You have done this before.
00:45:52You have done this before.
00:45:55Yes.
00:45:57Many times?
00:45:59Yes.
00:46:01Stay until I sleep.
00:46:05I will.
00:46:12I told you to leave.
00:46:15I 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.
00:46:27I am not asking to step into anything.
00:46:30I am giving you something you need.
00:46:32You still should not be here.
00:46:34I 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.
00:47:04Give 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.
00:47:14They are buying position.
00:47:16And 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.
00:47:53Stay.
00:47:54Okay.
00:47:55I am here with you.
00:47:57I am here with you.
00:48:13We need execution tonight.
00:48:15Where is the affiliate control disclosure?
00:48:18Appendix 3.
00:48:26This is summary language.
00:48:27I want beneficial ownership.
00:48:30You do not have the time for a forensic exercise.
00:48:32Then give us enough time.
00:48:34Time is exactly what the market has 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 or there is no signature tonight.
00:48:52You did not answer my question earlier.
00:48:56Which one?
00:48:57Would you sign this?
00:49:00Only if doing nothing kills us faster.
00:49:12You again.
00:49:15Sable Ridge used a shell in Zurich three years ago to strip collateral through a delayed
00:49:19disclosure chain.
00:49:20I had someone pull the old arbitration notes.
00:49:23Who is someone?
00:49:24Some of them are people who owe me favors from another life.
00:49:34Why are you doing this?
00:49:36Because if I am going to stand in the part of your life I do not belong in, it should
00:49:40at least help you survive it.
00:49:41You are still standing in.
00:49:44I know.
00:49:45Do not come upstairs.
00:49:46I won't.
00:49:49But.
00:49:50By God.
00:49:56Where did this come from?
00:49:58A source that wants Sable hurt more than we do.
00:50:09Then I already like them
00:50:39You crossed worlds to help me with paperwork
00:50:41I crossed because leaving you with what I did felt worse than the cost of coming
00:50:46I am not confused anymore, that matters
00:50:49About what?
00:50:50About the ten years
00:50:52You were not loving us the way I thought
00:50:54You were surviving us while trying to get back here
00:50:57That changes what I'm allowed to ask from you
00:51:00You should not be asking for anything
00:51:03Then I won't
00:51:05But I can still tell you when I see you caring too much
00:51:12That has never stopped being true
00:51:14Does Emma know about me?
00:51:18No
00:51:21Will she?
00:51:22I hope not
00:51:29Then I stay out of her way
00:51:41I heard you nearly sold the company to wolves
00:51:44We nearly died in surgery too
00:51:46Recovery does not mean the first decisions were clean
00:51:51And you
00:51:53We were boxed in
00:51:56I am not asking you to trust the paper I almost signed
00:51:58I am asking you to look at the structure we have now
00:52:03This keeps one facility alive
00:52:05One facility becomes proof
00:52:09Proof
00:52:10Proof
00:52:10Becomes leverage
00:52:17We bought time
00:52:20Yes
00:52:22That means we are allowed one decent meal tonight
00:52:28Can it be fries?
00:52:29For 90 days of breathing?
00:52:31Yes
00:52:43For 90 days of breathing? Yes
00:52:47Okay
00:52:47Okay
00:52:49You know where everything is already
00:52:52I put it there
00:52:54That sounds like Dad
00:52:56Hello?
00:52:57No public statement yet
00:53:00We need one more week of calm
00:53:08Sit down
00:53:11I am standing
00:53:14Barely
00:53:18Okay
00:53:22I hate this part
00:53:26Which part?
00:53:29Needing you this much while still feeling pieces missing
00:53:34You do not owe me completed memory
00:53:38Before you lean on me
00:53:40That sounds practiced
00:53:48We can restart one line by Monday if the old supplier releases inventory
00:53:51We can restart one line by Monday if the old supplier releases inventory
00:53:52That still leaves reputational risk and labor panic
00:53:57Can one line hold the room?
00:54:00One line tells everyone we are not dead
00:54:03Then one line lives
00:54:11That means we won, right?
00:54:14It means we did not lose today
00:54:16It means we did not lose today
00:54:21You will never stay with me again, Ethan
00:54:39You will never stay with me again, Ethan
00:54:40This is the last time
00:54:41I am leaving soon
00:54:46Lily made it when she was seven
00:54:47She found it after you were gone
00:54:51She told me not to make you forgive us if you did not want to
00:54:54I came here to give you this and to say one thing clearly
00:54:57The ten years you carried in our house should not disappear like they meant nothing
00:55:01Thank you
00:55:03Goodbye, Ethan
00:55:04This is the reality this time
00:55:04What you thought was happening...
00:55:32The date of related party disclosure does not match the earlier terms and conditions list.
00:55:41They staged the exposure in layers.
00:55:43The first set got us to sign.
00:55:45The second set is meant to close around whatever we still have left.
00:55:49How much time?
00:55:50Not much.
00:55:51If 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.
00:56:31I'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.
00:56:54One creditor backs off.
00:56:56Two 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.
00:57:31If we get another week, I can map the affiliates deeper.
00:57:35Then maybe we really can hold this.
00:57:44What is it?
00:57:46They moved through a controlled affiliate.
00:57:47We 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.
00:58:37Sable triggered the affiliate lock.
00:58:39The board just voted to recognize the transfer.
00:58:44Say 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.
00:59:02Everybody out.
00:59:06You 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.
00:59:35She won't hold a grudge against you.
00:59:44It was not enough.
00:59:46That matters to me.
00:59:47You 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.
01:00:02You 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.
01:01:24Do you know what the worst part is?
01:01:28I 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.
01:02:00I 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.
01:02:24You 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.
01:03:00I won't erase them.
01:03:05Goodbye, Ethan.
01:03:11Goodbye, Grace.
01:03:21Do not move.
01:03:24What?
01:03:26I 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?
01:03:59Yes.
01:04:01Did you bring him back?
01:04:03No.
01:04:04Then go home before your mind starts protecting you from what it cannot keep.
01:04:13What fades first?
01:04:15His voice.
01:04:16Then his face.
01:04:18And one day, you realize you cannot remember him at all.
01:04:23Maybe that is the punishment.
01:04:25Maybe it is also the mercy.
01:04:27Maybe it is also the mercy.
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.
01:05:04You are forgetting him.
01:05:08Will you forget him before I do?
01:05:13I won't remember what matters.
01:05:28You 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.
01:06:03I don't know.
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.
01:06:24Emma.
01:06:25We 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 too.
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.
01:07:13And you were the only person in that room who kept telling me the truth, even when it cut your
01:07:18own 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.
01:07:41I 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.
01:08:07Every 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.
01:08:23Then 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.
01:08:45I wrote the same birthday wish every year for my wife and daughter.
01:08:50Safe, happy, and loved.
01:08:52I 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?
01:09:06No.
01:09:09It's you.
01:09:14Always and forever.
01:09:16That is the answer I needed.
01:09:17Then stop standing out there like you're waiting for judgment.
01:09:21You're in it.
01:09:30Tell me something only my husband will know.
01:09:34You hate the smell of hospital flowers.
01:09:38You say they make sick rooms for more like sick rooms.
01:09:41You 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.
01:09:57On 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.
01:10:23I 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.
01:10:45Look at me.
01:10:48You are home.
01:10:55Mom?
01:11:05Did 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.
01:11:56Okay.
01:11:59So that means you're on the same team now.
01:12:02Yes.
01:12:03Good.
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.
01:12:33Better 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.
01:12:56You two better still be on the same team when I wake up.
01:12:57I'm going to be on the same team when I wake up.
01:12:57I'm going to be on the same team when I wake up.
01:12:57I'm going to be on the same team when I wake up.
01:12:57I'm going to be on the same team when I wake up.
01:12:58I'm going to be on the same team when I wake up.
01:12:58I'm going to be on the same team when I wake up.
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