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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.
00:03:27I'm going to get the 2018 Reserve tin.
00:03:31Get the 2018 Reserve tin.
00:03:32Oh.
00:03:34Oh.
00:04:01Open the door!
00:04:02Open the door!
00:04:04Help!
00:04:05Help!
00:04:07Open it!
00:04:08Open the door!
00:04:15Mom!
00:04:18Open it now!
00:04:33This one!
00:04:34Open the door!
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.
00:05:08Ten 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.
00:05:27What am I thinking?
00:05:29It couldn't be concerned.
00:05:38Breakfast is ready.
00:05:47Nice to see the place still runs.
00:05:52Dad!
00:05:53Dad!
00:05:55Oh!
00:05:57Peace, sweetheart.
00:06:04You're staying here, right?
00:06:06Oh!
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.
00:06:20You can settle in after breakfast.
00:06:47You can settle in after breakfast.
00:06:49Grace 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.
00:07:13That'll help.
00:07:19Ryan 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 lash 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!
00:08:18Dad!
00:08:22Ten years, I learned every way to keep her safe.
00:08:26None of it was ever mine to keep.
00:08:34Looks like they got the update through.
00:08:43Dad, you came!
00:08:45Dad, you came!
00:08:48Dad, you came!
00:08:54A few more days.
00:08:57Cross into another parallel world to bring my real daughter home.
00:09:10Can I have dessert first?
00:09:12Sure.
00:09:12One bite won't kill ya.
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.
00:10:29Don't.
00:10:32Don't.
00:11:00Oh my god!
00:11:05Ah!
00:11:07Ah!
00:11:09Ah!
00:11:10No no.
00:11:11Lily!
00:11:12Lily!
00:11:13Lily!
00:11:19Lily!
00:11:20Lily! Lily!
00:11:24Let me take her.
00:11:26No.
00:11:48I can't feel my hands.
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 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 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.
00:12:48Current meds.
00:12:49Prior injuries.
00:12:50Allergies.
00:12:51Sedation 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.
00:13:53Yes.
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.
00:14:14Dad.
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 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.
00:15:32I'll soon travel back to our world and bring you back to life.
00:15:33Did it hurt?
00:15:34I'm sorry.
00:15:36Eat before it gets cold.
00:15:49Eat before it gets cold.
00:15:50You feel better?
00:15:52Yeah.
00:15:53But mom says I need calm.
00:16:00Check this out.
00:16:11Thanks daddy.
00:16:12Besides 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.
00:16:54Where'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.
00:17:14You've been clearing things out.
00:17:16Go get it back.
00:17:34No.
00:17:36No.
00:18:00I didn't find it.
00:18:02It was here.
00:18:17I shouldn't have assumed.
00:18:18About the box.
00:18:22Her therapist moved Thursday to Friday.
00:18:28The house was perfect, just like before, but I could feel him pulling away.
00:18:34And I hated myself 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.
00:19:15Safe, happy, and loved.
00:19:23Mr. Cole, Miss Miller wants you downstairs to celebrate the birthday.
00:19:27My birthday?
00:19:35Is 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. Great.
00:20:08When they bring out dessert, you can cut the cake.
00:20:10Funny thing, we 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.
00:20:35Let me never see any of you again.
00:20:38One more day.
00:20:44Grace?
00:20:47Happy 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.
00:21:23I was going to be like, how did you make it?
00:21:25Oh, that'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.
00:21:42At least Lily finally has her real father back.
00:21:46That's a little too simple.
00:21:49Ethan 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, then I'll have the best birthday gift of all.
00:22:14Go back to my wife and daughter and bring them to life.
00:22:24You're welcome.
00:22:30Can you bring the appetizer platter over?
00:22:48And thank you all for coming to my birthday party.
00:23:02Ryan.
00:23:13He's not breathing.
00:23:16Severe reaction.
00:23:19What did he eat?
00:23:22He 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.
00:23:38I'll make Ethan give you an explanation.
00:23:43No police.
00:23:46If this turns public, it hits Lily, your board, all of it.
00:23:53Let me handle him quietly.
00:23:57Mom.
00:24:01Let me talk to him and get the truth.
00:24:05Fine.
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.
00:24:58Ten years of doing every assigned thing.
00:25:04I can't break the rules now.
00:25:06I can't break the rules now.
00:25:12You weren't allergic at all.
00:25:14Why 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.
00:25:32You stayed in my place.
00:25:35For ten 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.
00:26:11There's nothing here anymore.
00:26:16What is that?
00:26:21For my wife and daughter.
00:26:23Safe.
00:26:24Happy.
00:26:25And 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.
00:26:55You 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?
00:27:12Ethan, my pills.
00:27:13Handled.
00:27:13Now.
00:27:14You can go.
00:27:16One 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?
00:27:29Shit!
00:27:34Fuck.
00:27:35Fuck.
00:27:42Say hello.
00:27:44Ethan.
00:27:46Did he hurt you?
00:27:52No.
00:27:53We're coming!
00:27:57Keep going!
00:28:08Do not make any sound.
00:28:10Do not make any sound.
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.
00:28:54Every second.
00:28:55System analysis indicates a high probability of deception.
00:28:59Leave it for them.
00:29:01Confirming.
00:29:09Ethan?
00:29:11Ethan?
00:29:13He made me.
00:29:15Please.
00:29:22No!
00:29:35umu,
00:29:35Any bite?
00:29:50It's not true.
00:29:51Now 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
00:30:18grace
00:30:19security
00:30:24he was unstable
00:30:25i was trying to contain him
00:30:27you touched him again after he was tied down
00:30:29sweetheart
00:30:31don't call me that
00:30:32he's gone because he wanted to leave you
00:30:39mom 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
00:31:28every travel record
00:31:30every call
00:31:31i want all of it
00:31:35was he telling the truth
00:31:38about what
00:31:39everything
00:31:47go to bed
00:31:47he said he always came
00:31:49go to bed
00:31:50lily
00:32:10he 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
00:32:56he
00:32:59he won't leave us like this
00:33:01he loves us so much
00:33:07this isn't how he cuts it
00:33:08it's the same sandwich
00:33:10sweetheart
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
00:33:32mr cole used to send us the order every morning
00:33:35then why did that stop
00:33:37then 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
00:34:03he 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
00:34:27a normal exit
00:34:29no
00:34:31you'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
00:35:03did he say that more than once
00:35:05yes
00:35:07then he knew he was on borrowed time
00:35:11where is he
00:35:12not dead
00:35:15not in your world
00:35:22say that again
00:35:23he 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
00:35:59what cost
00:36:01memory is the usual first price
00:36:05whose memory
00:36:06the 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
00:36:24that 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
00:36:53lily if i found him
00:36:54what would you want him to know
00:36:56sorry
00:36:57sorry dad
00:36:57i picked someone else
00:36:59just 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
00:37:20it is an anchor then
00:37:25what happens if i cross
00:37:26you get one chance
00:37:28to 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
00:37:47faces 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
00:37:59you 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
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
00:39:08i won't
00:39:14come back
00:39:15i'll try
00:39:21mom
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
00:40:19if you see him do not touch
00:40:53your wife regained consciousness twice
00:40:54your 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
00:41:09one minute
00:41:18i know your face
00:41:20that's enough
00:41:21what happened
00:41:23the 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
00:41:35when you went into surgery
00:41:37then it's not lost yet
00:41:42dad
00:41:45ava
00:41:51ava
00:41:56mrs cole
00:41:57the board wants guidance
00:41:58before noon
00:42:01then bring me the numbers
00:42:28he looks thinner
00:42:31more tired
00:42:32but more alive
00:42:54emma can bear the limited decision making
00:42:56not for strain
00:42:57my father built this company with full control
00:42:59if i don't show up
00:43:00they'll split it before i can stand
00:43:01we have a liquidity breach
00:43:03in 48 hours
00:43:04unless 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
00:43:20not long enough
00:43:24mrs cole
00:43:26your blood pressure is already climbing
00:43:28then don't stand in the doorway
00:43:30like i'm a child
00:43:41ethan can just split himself cleanly in two
00:43:43protect the woman
00:43:44protect the company
00:43:46hold the child together
00:43:48do all of it at once
00:43:53if we don't sign by tomorrow
00:43:55they call
00:43:55default language
00:43:57i need the truth
00:43:58the truth is
00:43:59we don't have enough information
00:44:00and we still may have to sign
00:44:14did mom win
00:44:16not yet
00:44:19we are working
00:44:21that is his polite word for losing slowly
00:44:24then win faster
00:44:37i 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
00:45:31ava
00:45:36breathe with me
00:45:38four in
00:45:40four out
00:45:51you've done this before
00:45:55yes
00:45:56many times
00:45:58yes
00:46:02stay until i sleep
00:46:05i will
00:46:12i told you to leave
00:46:15i helped your cfo flag the shell entity
00:46:17connected to sable ridge
00:46:18that was you
00:46:19yes
00:46:20why
00:46:21because i know what it looks like
00:46:22when you decide you can carry everything yourself
00:46:24i know what happens after
00:46:25do not use what happened in your house
00:46:27to step into mine
00:46:27i 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 10 years
00:46:42it 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
00:47:05if we do nothing
00:47:07payroll fails first
00:47:08if we move too fast
00:47:10control 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
00:47:15and the bridge paper
00:47:19predatory
00:47:19maybe survivable if we cut their teeth out before we sign
00:47:28then do that
00:47:30mrs cole
00:47:31this meeting should have ended 15 minutes ago
00:47:32then come back in 15 more
00:47:52ethan
00:47:53stay
00:47:54okay
00:47:55i'm here with you
00:48:13we need execution tonight
00:48:15where is the affiliate control
00:48:17full disclosure
00:48:18appendix three
00:48:23appendix three
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.
00:48:53You did not answer my question earlier.
00:48:56Which one?
00:48:58Would you sign this?
00:49:01Only 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 disclosure chain.
00:49:21I had someone pull the old arbitration notes.
00:49:23Who is someone?
00:49:24Some of them are people who only 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.
00:49:42You are still standing in it.
00:49:44I know.
00:49:45Do not come upstairs.
00:49:46I won't.
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.
00:50:11Then I already like them.
00:50:13No.
00:50:16What?
00:50:17I did not.
00:50:17I was still there.
00:50:18No.
00:50:19No.
00:50:27I don't.
00:50:38Thanks.
00:50:39You crossed worlds to help me with paper Pavs.
00:50:41work i crossed because leaving you with what i did felt worse than the cost of coming
00:50:46i am not confused anymore that matters about what about the 10 years you were not loving us the way
00:50:53i thought you were surviving us while trying to get back here that changes what i'm allowed to ask
00:50:59from you you should not be asking for anything then i won't but i can still tell you when i
00:51:06see
00:51:07you caring too much that has never stopped being true does emma know about me
00:51:20no will she i hope not
00:51:30then i stay out of her way
00:51:41i heard you nearly sold the company to wolves we nearly died in surgery too
00:51:47recovery does not mean the first decisions were clean
00:51:51and you we were boxed in i am not asking you to trust the paper i almost signed i am
00:51:59asking you
00:52:00to look at the structure we have now this keeps one facility alive
00:52:06one facility becomes proof proof becomes leverage
00:52:17we bought time yes that means we are allowed one decent meal tonight
00:52:28can it be fries for 90 days of breathing yes
00:52:48okay okay you know where everything is already
00:52:52i put it there that sounds like dad hello no public statement yet we need one more week of calm
00:53:08sit down
00:53:11i am standing barely
00:53:22i hate this part which part
00:53:30meeting you this much while still feeling pieces missing you do not owe me completed memory
00:53:38before you lean on me that sounds practiced
00:53:48we 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 one line tells everyone we are not dead then one line lives
00:54:11that means we won right it means we did not lose today
00:54:22you will never stay with me again ethan
00:54:40this is the last time i am leaving soon
00:54:46lily made it when she was seven she found it after you were gone
00:54:51she told me not to make you forgive us if you did not want to
00:54:55i came here to give you this and to say one thing clearly
00:54:57the 10 years you carried in our house should not disappear like they meant nothing
00:55:01thank you thank you goodbye ethan
00:55:31the date of related party
00:55:33disclosure does not match the
00:55:35earlier 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
00:55:47whatever we still have left.
00:55:49How much time? Not much.
00:55:52If we move loudly now,
00:55:53we show them where we are weak.
00:55:57Then we move quietly.
00:55:59If they think we are stabilizing,
00:56:01they will relax around the edges.
00:56:05That is where we pull proof.
00:56:09This is the cleanest version of a dirty option
00:56:11we 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,
00:56:22it is under a structure we cannot see yet.
00:56:27Ethan, let me look at you one more time.
00:56:31I am leaving tonight.
00:56:32Not signing may kill them faster than signing.
00:56:35No.
00:56:36Ethan.
00:56:41If this goes wrong,
00:56:43it goes wrong with both our names on it.
00:56:45No.
00:56:52Cash pressure eases.
00:56:54One creditor backs off.
00:56:57Two 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,
00:57:28I can rebuild supplier trust.
00:57:32If we get another week,
00:57:33I 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
00:57:47we were not shown.
00:57:48The asset ring fast is being pierced
00:57:50through 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 vendor's got the notice.
00:58:24If they file before morning,
00:58:25we 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
00:58:40to 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.
00:59:02Everybody 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,
00:59:30but 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.
01:00:13Grace.
01:00:13No.
01:00:14If you want me gone,
01:00:16tell me to my face
01:00:16those ten years meant nothing.
01:00:18They did not mean nothing.
01:00:21Then do not stand there
01:00:23and make me feel insane
01:00:24for still carrying them.
01:00:27I am not making you insane.
01:00:29I am trying
01:00:30not to make him 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
01:00:46mattered.
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.
01:00:56Even if she never remembers me
01:00:57the way she used to,
01:00:58I stay.
01:00:58I will not betray them.
01:01:00So that is the truth.
01:01:02Yes.
01:01:05Then look at me
01:01:06and 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
01:01:18and not enough to keep you.
01:01:24Do you know what the worst part is?
01:01:29I still cannot hate you
01:01:30for telling me the truth.
01:01:33I was selfish.
01:01:35I was blind.
01:01:37I kept taking and taking
01:01:38and calling it normal.
01:01:41I still came here thinking
01:01:43maybe if I stood in front of you
01:01:45long enough
01:01:45you would turn and choose me.
01:01:48Grace.
01:01:49I know.
01:01:50I know.
01:01:53I live with you
01:01:54for ten years.
01:01:58I know how you walk
01:01:59when you are tired.
01:02:01I know what you do
01:02:02when you are angry.
01:02:05I know the sound
01:02:06of your keys
01:02:06when you come in late.
01:02:08I know what silence means
01:02:09when it comes from you.
01:02:11You do not get to tell me
01:02:12I imagined all of that.
01:02:15I know.
01:02:18I know.
01:02:18I know.
01:02:18I know.
01:02:18I am not saying
01:02:19you imagined it.
01:02:21Then say what I was to you.
01:02:25You were my family there.
01:02:32I am not
01:02:34going to ask you
01:02:35to come with me.
01:02:38I am not
01:02:39going to ask you
01:02:40to 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
01:02:49ten years disappear
01:02:50like they were
01:02:50a job you survived.
01:03:01I won't 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
01:03:27while I still can.
01:03:32What?
01:03:42I need to look at you
01:03:43while I still can.
01:03:51grace?
01:03:53What happened?
01:03:56I'm 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
01:04:05before your mind
01:04:06starts protecting you
01:04:08from what it cannot keep.
01:04:14What fades first?
01:04:15His voice.
01:04:17Then his face.
01:04:18And one day
01:04:19you realize
01:04:20you cannot remember him
01:04:21at all.
01:04:23Maybe that is
01:04:24the punishment.
01:04:25Maybe it is also
01:04:26the mercy.
01:04:44Did you see him?
01:04:48Yes.
01:04:49Did he look happy?
01:04:52He was where
01:04:53he belonged.
01:04:56Did he say anything?
01:05:02I said enough.
01:05:05You're forgetting him.
01:05:08Will you forget him
01:05:09before I do?
01:05:13I will remember
01:05:14what matters.
01:05:29You should be resting.
01:05:30I was.
01:05:33Then I noticed
01:05:34my husband
01:05:35disappeared into
01:05:36a glass box
01:05:37to decide my life
01:05:37for me.
01:05:40Emma,
01:05:41if you came out
01:05:42here to say it
01:05:43you do not have
01:05:43to make it gentle.
01:05:44Say what?
01:05:46That it is over.
01:05:48I don't have the right
01:05:49to stay after this.
01:05:51I should have
01:05:52protected it better
01:05:53because it was his
01:05:53and because it was yours.
01:05:56You trusted me
01:05:57and 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
01:06:21then I was wrong
01:06:22with you.
01:06:25Emma.
01:06:26We are standing
01:06:26in a world
01:06:27where I woke up
01:06:28from surgery
01:06:28without half the map
01:06:29in my head
01:06:30and you came back
01:06:31to me from something
01:06:32I still do not understand.
01:06:33At this point
01:06:34I am not interested
01:06:35in pretending certainty
01:06:36is our only
01:06:37respectable option.
01:06:38On a world
01:06:39this unknown
01:06:40we move
01:06:41together.
01:06:42I already lost
01:06:43my father's company.
01:06:44I am not losing
01:06:45you too.
01:06:47You do not know everything.
01:06:49I woke up
01:06:49missing pieces
01:06:50of my life.
01:06:51I watched my daughter
01:06:52know you before I did.
01:06:53I watched you carry
01:06:54my company
01:06:55on no sleep
01:06:56and no room to fail.
01:06:57My standards for impossible
01:06:59are lower now.
01:07:01I did not come out here
01:07:03to dismiss you
01:07:04from my life.
01:07:07I came out here
01:07:09because
01:07:10I have been watching
01:07:12you since I woke up
01:07:13and you were the only
01:07:14person in that room
01:07:15who kept telling me
01:07:16the truth
01:07:17even when it cut
01:07:18your own throat.
01:07:25After the crash
01:07:26I did not wake up here.
01:07:32I woke up
01:07:33in another life.
01:07:36There was a woman
01:07:37named Grace
01:07:37and a little girl
01:07:38named Lily.
01:07:40They thought
01:07:41I was there to stay.
01:07:42I knew I was there
01:07:43on borrowed time.
01:07:45Something called
01:07:45Atlas told me
01:07:46that if I completed
01:07:47the term there
01:07:47I could come back here
01:07:48and restore you
01:07:49and Ava.
01:07:49That was the deal.
01:07:52Ten years in their world
01:07:53for one chance
01:07:53to get my wife
01:07:54and daughter
01:07:54back in this one.
01:07:56Grace needed
01:07:57a husband in public.
01:07:58Lily needed
01:07:59a father in practice.
01:08:00I became the person
01:08:01who handled everything.
01:08:02School,
01:08:02medicine,
01:08:03meals,
01:08:04night terrors,
01:08:05logistics,
01:08:06board dinners,
01:08:06family emergencies.
01:08:08Every day I told myself
01:08:08it was temporary.
01:08:10Every year it stopped
01:08:11feeling temporary.
01:08:14Near the end
01:08:15Grace's old partner
01:08:16came back.
01:08:17He framed me,
01:08:19hurt Lily,
01:08:20blamed me for things
01:08:21he did himself.
01:08:24Then he tied me to a chair
01:08:25and beat me
01:08:26because he knew
01:08:26I was in the way.
01:08:28Atlas gave me the way back
01:08:29right before Grace
01:08:30found me.
01:08:33Grace was the woman
01:08:34who came here.
01:08:40And all the time
01:08:41you were there
01:08:42you knew you were
01:08:42trying to get back
01:08:43to us?
01:08:45Every day.
01:08:46I wrote the same
01:08:47birthday wish
01:08:47every year
01:08:48for my wife
01:08:49and daughter.
01:08:50Safe,
01:08:51happy,
01:08:51and loved.
01:08:53I came back for you.
01:08:54I came back for Ava.
01:08:56If the deal
01:08:57opened again tomorrow
01:08:58I would still
01:08:59choose the road
01:09:00that 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
01:09:17I needed.
01:09:18Then stop standing
01:09:19out there like you're
01:09:19waiting for judgment.
01:09:21You're in it.
01:09:30Tell me something
01:09:31only my husband would know.
01:09:34You hate the smell
01:09:35of hospital flowers.
01:09:38You say they make
01:09:39sick rooms
01:09:40feel more like sick rooms.
01:09:42You sleep with one foot
01:09:43outside the blanket.
01:09:44You read bad news
01:09:45twice before you
01:09:46say it out loud.
01:09:46You always pretend
01:09:47Ava's school projects
01:09:48are easy and then
01:09:49stay up until one
01:09:49in the morning
01:09:50fixing them.
01:09:51Again.
01:09:52You steal fries
01:09:53and call it
01:09:54quality control.
01:09:55When you're annoyed
01:09:55you always start
01:09:56turning your cup
01:09:57in your hands.
01:09:58On our second
01:09:58anniversary you said
01:09:59if we ever got rich
01:10:00you still wanted
01:10:00ugly kitchen mugs
01:10:01because expensive ones
01:10:02make coffee taste
01:10:03like meetings.
01:10:04I don't remember
01:10:05saying that.
01:10:06You did.
01:10:08It sounds like me.
01:10:10It is you.
01:10:14Say one more.
01:10:22I missed your voice.
01:10:26You still have it.
01:10:30Not like this.
01:10:32Not when it's aimed
01:10:33at me.
01:10:37I missed you too.
01:10:39I just didn't know
01:10:40what I was missing.
01:10:40I 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 come here are you fighting
01:11:19no you looked serious we were that doesn't mean bad
01:11:29are you staying tonight
01:11:33if you want me to that's not what i asked
01:11:41yes i'm staying for real for real
01:11:50that's grandpa's watch it is why do you have it because we're carrying this together okay
01:11:59so that means you're on the same team now yes good because when you're not everything feels weird
01:12:10we're on the same team then what happens to grandpa's company it means we have work to do
01:12:19did bad people take it yes are you gonna take it back we're going to build again from scratch maybe
01:12:28not all the way from scratch is that better or worse harder at the start better at the end okay
01:12:37you two better still be on the same team when i wake up we will promise
01:12:43we should go yeah
01:12:48tomorrow no guilt no retreat no disappearing into shame yes ma'am
01:12:53good
01:12:55you
01:12:56you
01:12:57you
01:12:57you
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