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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.
00:01:0310 years ago, my wife and daughter died on our anniversary.
00:01:07No! No! No!
00:01:11My life ended with them.
00:01:16I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:01:31System 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!
00:02:05The 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.
00:03:26And get the 2018 Reserve 10.
00:03:30I don't know.
00:03:33I don't know.
00:03:45I don't know.
00:03:50I don't know.
00:04:00Open the door!
00:04:02Open it!
00:04:04Help!
00:04:05Help!
00:04:07Open it!
00:04:08Open the door!
00:04:15Mom!
00:04:19Open it now!
00:04:23Open 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.
00:04:52There 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.
00:05:28What am I thinking?
00:05:29It couldn't be concerned.
00:05:38Breakfast is ready.
00:05:47Nice to see the place still runs.
00:05:51Dad!
00:05:53Dad!
00:05:55Dad!
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.
00:06:18Okay.
00:06:19Is there for dinner?
00:06:20You can settle in after breakfast.
00:06:25Oh, my God.
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.
00:07:13That'll help.
00:07:19Ryan is stepping into more of the parenting load. This has to be smooth.
00:07:23Okay.
00:07:27Dad, can you do my bracelet?
00:07:30Sure, honey.
00:07:40The lash catches left. I'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!
00:08:14Dad!
00:08:22Ten years, I learned every way to keep her safe.
00:08:26Listen.
00:08:27None of it was ever mine to keep.
00:08:34Looks like they got the update through.
00:08:43Dad, you came!
00:08:55A 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 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.
00:10:08Okay.
00:10:12You can't let her do this.
00:10:23One small vertical win won't hurt.
00:10:30Don't.
00:10:32Have you got it?
00:10:41To the floor.
00:10:44It's the floor.
00:10:45And just let her do it.
00:10:45Helped her.
00:10:54Oh.
00:10:59I can't let her do it.
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.
00:11:54Hey, what 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 it where I just steered.
00:12:25The horse was calm until he rushed the ring.
00:12:29That'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.
00:12:59I...
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.
00:13:21Take 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.
00:14:15Dad...
00:14:18Dad...
00:14:19Come home.
00:14:21No!
00:14:23No!
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?
00:14:48There 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.
00:15:18I'll bring you back to life.
00:15:33Did 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.
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,
00:16:29the ten years end.
00:16:31And when it ends,
00:16:33I 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.
00:17:16Go get it back.
00:17:17Go get it back.
00:17:18Go get it back.
00:17:21Go get it back.
00:17:30Go get it back.
00:18:00I didn't find it.
00:18:01It was here.
00:18:16I shouldn't have assumed about the box.
00:18:22Her therapist moved Thursday to Friday.
00:18:28The house was perfect, just like before.
00:18:32But 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.
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.
00:19:15Safe, 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?
00:19:49Ready?
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 leave this world.
00:20:35Yay!
00:20:35Let me never see any of you again.
00:20:38One more day.
00:20:44Grace?
00:20:47Happy birthday.
00:20:50Happy 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...
00:21:23I'm just going to Billy's.
00:21:24How 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.
00:21:43At 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.
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.
00:23:13He'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.
00:23:31He 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,
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.
00:24:58Ten years of doing every assigned thing.
00:25:04I can't break the rules now.
00:25:12You weren't allergic at all.
00:25:14Why are you trying to frame me?
00:25:21You should have left
00:25:23when 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.
00:25:43You
00:25:44stood
00:25:45beside
00:25:47my
00:25:48woman!
00:25:56Lily?
00:25:57Lily?
00:26:00Lily?
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.
00:26:23Safe, happy, and loved.
00:26:27These are birthday cards.
00:26:30His 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.
00:27:10Ethan, where's my blue sweater?
00:27:12Ethan, my pills.
00:27:13Handled.
00:27:14Now.
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.
00:27:22To my wife and daughter.
00:27:28Ethan, my pills.
00:27:33Fuck.
00:27:41Say hello.
00:27:44Ethan.
00:27:46Did 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 original world restoration approved you may exit this world and restore
00:28:37your wife and daughter to the original world one thing first state request every lie he
00:28:47knows my allergies deception detected every hit every second system analysis indicates
00:28:57a high probability of deception leave it for them confirming
00:29:11he made me please
00:29:21no
00:29:50now we will play the video
00:29:52ethan left for you
00:30:11you did that grace listen to me get away from us grace security
00:30:24he was unstable i was trying to contain him you touched him again after he was tied down
00:30:29sweetheart you want me
00:30:31don't call me that he's gone because he wanted to leave you
00:30:39mom where did he go i don't know but we will find
00:31:02he told us
00:31:09he knew everything
00:31:11he knew everything
00:31:21take ryan's access away from every property it'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 about what everything
00:31:40about what everything
00:32:10he was packing
00:32:12he was packing
00:32:38he didn't keep anything
00:32:47i thought i lost this
00:32:51he labeled everything
00:32:53he labeled everything
00:32:54he was really leaving
00:32:56no
00:32:57he
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
00:34:03he 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
00:34:23did you see a body
00:34:25no
00:34:26a vehicle
00:34:27no
00:34:28a normal exit
00:34:29no
00:34:31you'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
00:34:48when 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
00:35:01he did mention about seven days
00:35:03did he say that more than once
00:35:05yes
00:35:06yes
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
00:35:26there
00:35:30most people never get close enough to prove it
00:35:32grief
00:35:33covers what logic
00:35:34cannot 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
00:35:52possibly
00:35:53tell 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
00:36:34i 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
00:36:53if i found him
00:36:54what 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
00:37:25what 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
00:37:47faces and voices are less stable
00:37:50can i bring lily?
00:37:51no
00:37:54a child does not survive this kind of displacient 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 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
00:38:49i don't know
00:38:50if he doesn't
00:38:50does that mean he hates us?
00:38:53no
00:38:55it may mean he belongs somewhere else more
00:39:01then give him this
00:39:02don't make him forgive us if he doesn't want to
00:39:08i won't
00:39:09i won't
00:39:14come back
00:39:16i'll try
00:39:21mom
00:39:23if he looks happy
00:39:25don't ruin him
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, do not touch first
00:40:38mr cole
00:40:39mr cole
00:40:40they're alive
00:40:41the surgery held
00:40:53your 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
00:41:19i know your face
00:41:20that's enough
00:41:22what happened?
00:41:23the crash happened
00:41:25surgery happened
00:41:26you made it
00:41:29my 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
00:41:42dad?
00:41:45ava
00:41:50ava
00:41:56mrs cole
00:41:57the board wants guidance before noon
00:42:01then bring me the numbers
00:42:30he looks thinner
00:42:31more tired
00:42:32but 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.
00:43:41Ethan can just split himself cleanly in two.
00:43:44Protect the woman.
00:43:45Protect 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, 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.
00:45:40Four out.
00:45:51You have 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.
00:46:36I 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.
00:47:05Give 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.
00:47:16And 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 fifteen minutes ago.
00:47:33Then come back in fifteen more.
00:47:35Sigh.
00:47:52Ethan.
00:47:54Stay.
00:47:55Okay.
00:47:55I am here with you.
00:48:00Ethan.
00:48:05Stay.
00:48:13We need execution tonight.
00:48:15Where is the affiliate control disclosure?
00:48:19Appendix three.
00:48:26This is summary language.
00:48:28I want beneficial ownership.
00:48:30You do not have the time for a forensic exercise.
00:48:33Then give us enough time.
00:48:34Time is exactly what the market has decided not to offer.
00:48:38Maturity 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?
00:48:57Would 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 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 owe me favors from another life.
00:49:34Why are you doing this?
00:49:35Because 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.
00:49:47I 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.
00:50:33Then I already like them.
00:50:39You crossed worlds to help me with paperwork.
00:50:42I crossed because leaving you with what I did felt worse than 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 the way I thought.
00:50:54You were surviving us while trying to get back here.
00:50:57That changes what I am 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.
00:51:30Then 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.
00:51:47Recovery 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.
00:51:59I am asking you to look at the structure we have now.
00:52:03This keeps one facility alive.
00:52:06One facility becomes proof.
00:52:10Proof becomes 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?
00:52:30For 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?
00:52:58No public statement yet.
00:53:00We need one more week of calm.
00:53:08Sit down.
00:53:11I am standing.
00:53:14Barely.
00:53:22I hate this part.
00:53:25Which part?
00:53:30Needing you this much while still feeling pieces missing.
00:53:34You do not owe me completed memory before you lean on me.
00:53:39That 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?
00:54:00One Line tells everyone we are not dead.
00:54:03Then One Line lives.
00:54:11That means we won, right?
00:54:15That means we won, right?
00:54:15It means we did not lose today.
00:54:22You will never stay with me again, Ethan.
00:54:23...
00:54:29...
00:54:39...
00:54:40...
00:54:41This is the last time.
00:54:42I am leaving soon.
00:54:46Lily made it when she was seven
00:54:48She found it after you were gone
00:54:51She told me not to make you forgive us
00:54:53If you did not want to
00:54:55I came here to give you this
00:54:56And to say one thing clearly
00:54:57The ten years you carried in our house
00:54:59Should not disappear like they meant nothing
00:55:01Thank you
00:55:03Goodbye, Ethan
00:55:31The date of related party disclosure
00:55:34Does 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
00:55:47Whatever we still have left
00:55:49How much time?
00:55:50Not much
00:55:52If we move loudly now
00:55:53We show them where we are weak
00:55:58Then 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
00:56:28Let 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
00:56:43It goes wrong with both our names on it
00:56:45No
00:56:53Cash pressure eases
00:56:54One creditor backs off
00:56:56Two board threats go quiet
00:57:01Tell me this one holds
00:57:04Tell me this one holds
00:57:04It bought us room
00:57:08Did we win?
00:57:10We survived the morning
00:57:19That would have meant nothing to me in my world
00:57:21Here 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
00:57:44What 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
00:57:50Through an internal timing trigger
00:57:52Christ
00:57:54This was held back
00:57:57Can we stop it?
00:58:02Emma
00:58:07Answer me
00:58:12Maybe part of it
00:58:13Not all of it
00:58:21Hello?
00:58:22The vendors got the notice
00:58:23If 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
00:58:37Sable 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
00:59:02Everybody 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
00:59:30But I made a mistake
00:59:32What if Emma doesn't want me anymore?
00:59:34You did everything you could
00:59:35She 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
01:00:02You 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
01:00:09I know how late I am
01:00:12Grace
01:00:13No
01:00:14If you want me gone
01:00:15Tell 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
01:00:31Not 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
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
01:00:55Even 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
01:01:07Left 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
01:01:34I was selfish
01:01:35I was blind
01:01:36I kept taking and taking
01:01:38And calling it normal
01:01:42I 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 for ten years
01:01:58I know how you walk
01:01:59When you are tired
01:02:00I know what you do
01:02:02When you are angry
01:02:05I know the sound of your keys
01:02:06When you come in late
01:02:07I know what silence means
01:02:09When it comes from you
01:02:10You do not get to tell me
01:02:12I 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
01:02:43I want one thing
01:02:45Do not forget me
01:02:46I 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
01:03:22Do not move
01:03:24What?
01:03:26I need to look at you while I still can
01:03:51Grace?
01:03:53What happened?
01:03:55I 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.
01:04:44Did 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.
01:06:34At 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.
01:07:50That was the deal.
01:07:52Ten 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?
01:08:45Every day.
01:08:46I wrote the same birthday wish every year for my wife and daughter.
01:08:51Safe, 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?
01:09:06No.
01:09:10It'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 for 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.
01:09:47You 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.
01:10:22I 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.
01:11:57Okay.
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.
01:12:43Promise.
01:12:44We should go.
01:12:45Yeah.
01:12:48Tomorrow, no guilt, no retreat, no disappearing into shame.
01:12:53Yes, ma'am.
01:12:55Good.
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