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The Shadow Founder. Part 1
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00:00And yeah, we're together.
00:02Five years, Lena.
00:03And what do you even do?
00:05You cook, you clean, you clean.
00:07I built a company worth three billion and you're chopping onions?
00:12You're leaving me.
00:13Right now, in my kitchen.
00:15The lawyer will call you.
00:17You'll get the apartment.
00:18That's more than fair for someone who contributed nothing.
00:21Babe, let's go.
00:22This place smells like soup.
00:39Nothing.
00:49Three days out and the pre-orders hit 400 million.
00:54You're about to be the youngest guy on the Bloomberg list.
00:58We?
01:00We're about to be.
01:08What?
01:09Kyle, the Aegis background won't compile.
01:11The encryption layer is throwing errors none of us...
01:13Fix it!
01:13That's your job!
01:14The core isn't written by anyone on our team.
01:16It's all signed with one hash.
01:18Someone external has root access to everything.
01:20Someone called Mr. Zero.
01:26Who the hell is Mr. Zero?
01:30I don't...
01:31I don't know.
01:41Do nothing.
01:43Let the clock run.
01:44Let them panic a little longer.
01:51Forty-seven engineers.
01:53Forty-seven.
01:54And nobody can make sense of this.
01:55It's like the logic comes from another world.
01:58Then bring in the outside specialist, codename Zero.
02:01Authorize whatever contract it takes.
02:02We ship in two days.
02:13Ten million.
02:15That's what five years of nothing is worth, huh?
02:20Maybe it's someone from your past.
02:23Old partner, old friend.
02:25Think.
02:26Who helped you build the prototype?
02:28Lena was always around when I wrote the first version.
02:30She'd bring coffee and just...
02:31sit there.
02:32But she's...
02:33No.
02:34No way.
02:47Night, yeah.
02:49Night, yeah.
02:52Night, yeah.
02:53Night, yeah.
03:11I don't care if it's Saturday.
03:12Get every contractor on a call now.
03:14Tell them Mr. Zero's fee is 20 million, 30, whatever.
03:17Kyle, I ran the hash again.
03:18Whoever, they didn't just write our back count.
03:19They wrote the encryption patents, the AI layer, the whole thing.
03:22Vectra, it's his.
03:23On a code level, the company is his.
03:38Lina?
03:39What are you doing here?
03:41I'm here for a meeting.
03:42With Mr. Zero's employer.
03:45What?
03:46What are you talking about?
03:59Hello, Kyle.
04:00Hello, Mara.
04:02Am I late?
04:03Lina?
04:04What are you doing here?
04:05We have a meeting.
04:06Please go home.
04:07Darling, show her out.
04:08We have 30 million on the table.
04:09No time for wives.
04:1030 million?
04:11For me?
04:13Kyle, you were always generous with other people's money.
04:15What are you talking about?
04:15Close the laptop and get out.
04:16These are serious adult matters.
04:20I am Mr. Zero.
04:22Five years.
04:23Every line of the core.
04:24Every patent.
04:26That's impossible.
04:27You were cooking soup.
04:28Kyle, tell her this is nonsense.
04:30I'm trying to.
04:31Stop the process.
04:32Lina, this is his purge.
04:33You are still the company immediately.
04:35Do you remember?
04:37You said I was cutting onions while you were building a three billion empire.
04:41Purge at 28%.
04:4435%.
04:4641%.
04:46Lina, I'm begging you.
04:47Stop it.
04:48I got down on my knees.
04:49You see?
04:49I'm on my knees.
04:50You have a couple of minutes before all that's left of your company is this null of soup.
04:5441%.
04:5663%.
04:57Stop.
04:58Stop it.
04:59I'll sign everything.
05:00Whatever you want, Lina.
05:02Sign?
05:03Kyle, you've been signing without looking for five years.
05:06That's your only competency.
05:07Name a number.
05:08How much?
05:0910?
05:1020%?
05:10I'll give it up.
05:11Just don't press the key.
05:12I don't need percentages.
05:14I need the whole company.
05:1551% of shares.
05:17In my name.
05:18Are you insane?
05:19This is robbery.
05:20I'll go to the police.
05:21I have connections.
05:22You'll go to prison.
05:22Go ahead.
05:23Your signature is on every contract.
05:25Kyle Carter deleted the core according to the documents.
05:28Lina, please.
05:29This is my whole life.
05:31I built this.
05:32I am the face of the company.
05:34The face.
05:36Exactly the face.
05:39And I was everything else while you were cutting ribbons on stage.
05:43And if I refuse, what then?
05:45You'll delete the remaining 53% to zero?
05:49No.
05:49No.
05:50No.
05:50No.
05:53You have 24 hours, Kyle.
05:55Your time, not mine.
06:08Kyle, you have 10 seconds to explain why I shouldn't burn you alive.
06:11Victor, everything is under control.
06:14The foreign hash is a leak.
06:15We've already isolated the problem.
06:17$400 million of my money, Kyle.
06:20Isolated?
06:21I'm hearing the word of a little young person.
06:26By noon, I'll clean the system.
06:27By evening, we'll roll out the patch.
06:29Not a word to investors.
06:30I swear.
06:32Victor, before you burn my husband, open the folder.
06:36Page one.
06:37Signature at the bottom.
06:41Patents on the Vector Corps.
06:43Filed five years ago in the name of Lena Carter.
06:46That's a mistake, Victor.
06:47She's a housewife.
06:48She can't even set up my email.
06:49You signed them at the start of our marriage without looking.
06:52Your coffee between a call to your mother.
06:53Remember?
06:54You, five years.
06:56Five years you sat silently at this table and laughed behind my back.
06:59Mrs. Carter, it seems you and I have not been properly introduced.
07:05Lena.
07:07Can we use first names?
07:09We have both essentially suffered because of him.
07:11Talk, Mara.
07:12My 24 hours ended an hour ago.
07:15Kyle is finished.
07:16His mother threw him out.
07:17Accounts are empty.
07:18The board will vote against him any day now.
07:21And you suddenly remembered that we both have a common, unpleasant denominator.
07:26I'm proposing clean.
07:28We remove Kyle from the board permanently.
07:30Split Vectra 50-50.
07:3350-50.
07:35Meaning 50-50.
07:36You and I.
07:37Without him in the equation at all.
07:40Exactly.
07:41I sync him at the next board meeting.
07:43You get the signature.
07:45I get the share.
07:49To a new alliance, Mara.
07:51Good on you for coming first.
07:53I'll remember that.
07:55You recorded her?
07:56Lena, you recorded every word she said, didn't you?
07:59Two traders in one bed.
08:00That's statistics, Kyle.
08:02Keep listening.
08:02There's more.
08:05Mom.
08:07I need 200 million.
08:09Today.
08:10Otherwise, I'm a final moment man.
08:11Do you understand?
08:12200 million?
08:14You walk into my home and ask for 200 million, Kyle?
08:17Vector runs on Lena.
08:19The patents are hers.
08:20The code is hers.
08:21I was just signing papers.
08:23Repeat that.
08:24Slowly.
08:26Whose name the patents of my future empire registered to?
08:29Lena's mom.
08:29My wife's.
08:30All five years.
08:31I didn't know.
08:31I swear.
08:32I didn't know.
08:32And Mara, that blonde you brought instead of her, where is Mara now?
08:37She turned on me.
08:40Recorded a conversation.
08:42A conversation.
08:44And I think she wiped my accounts today.
08:47You drove gold out of this house and dragged in garbage.
08:51My son, a feeble-minded peacock.
08:54What do you mean, zero balance?
08:56There were 40 million there yesterday morning.
08:58Don't come back until you bring her back.
09:00And she won't take you back, Kyle.
09:04Ladies and gentlemen, let's vote on reality.
09:07Three documents, two minutes of your attention.
09:10This is my company.
09:11Five years, my face on the covers.
09:13Are you seriously listening to her?
09:15Core patents, root logs, pre-natural agreement, all in my name, Mr. Carter.
09:20I reviewed the documents overnight.
09:22We vote now.
09:23All in favor of removing Kyle Carter as CEO.
09:30Mara, you too?
09:32You seriously raised your hand against me just now?
09:34Six against one, darling.
09:36That's called a majority.
09:38Get used to the new language.
09:43Stop.
09:44You don't understand what you started today, Madam CEO.
09:47I started this five years ago, Kyle.
09:49Today I simply finished it.
09:51Mara has a brother, Ryan.
09:53You won the room, but you still have to make it to your car.
09:56Mrs. Carter, I believe congratulating you on the chair is still too soon.
10:05Hello, Mrs. Carter.
10:06Congratulations on the chair.
10:08I won't be long.
10:09I have business with you.
10:10Step away from my car.
10:12I have no business with you and never will.
10:15Recognize this?
10:162019 underground outfit server room.
10:18A young person from MIT was poking around where she shouldn't.
10:20That is a low-quality photograph.
10:21Any lawyer can prove in one hour that is not me.
10:23The lawyer can prove it, but the FBI will open a case.
10:25One call from me and your triumph is over.
10:27And what do you want?
10:27Roll back the deal?
10:28A share or just to stroke your sister's pride?
10:30Roll back today's vote by morning.
10:33Give Mara her position back.
10:35That is all, Mrs. Carter.
10:38I don't give back what I've earned.
10:41Tell your sister to learn to lose with dignity.
10:44That is Elena.
10:46Shot this morning at 11, outside her newsroom door.
10:48Mara gave the address yesterday.
10:50She has a dossiate on you since the honeymoon.
10:53Touch my sister?
10:54I'll bury you both.
10:56Tell Mara I know where she parks.
11:01Eight years I knew Mr. Zero was you.
11:03Good morning, Lena.
11:05You passed three security levels without a badge.
11:07Explain how.
11:08And fast.
11:09I mirrored Vectra's cameras from the moment the Mr. Zero news broke.
11:12Last night at 9pm I saw Ryan at your car and intercepted the feed before security.
11:16Look.
11:16That is yesterday's parking lot.
11:18Ryan, a photograph on the hood, me.
11:20Who else has seen this?
11:22Nobody.
11:23I swapped the file for an empty corridor.
11:25Security's recording has no trace of you.
11:27You erase evidence against me before I hire you.
11:29Why?
11:31Because eight years ago I didn't say what I should have said.
11:36This is not the time for that.
11:38I need a CTO, not a college friend with feelings.
11:42Then hire a CTO.
11:43Absolute loyalty, your terms, signature today.
11:47Ryan has a dossier I have no answer for.
11:49Give it to me and you are CTO as of tonight.
11:58Lina, we structural failure him.
12:00Stocks sudden impact 40%.
12:02Kyle is finished.
12:03I heard it on the news.
12:05Congratulations, Elena.
12:06This is your story of the year.
12:08You don't understand.
12:09The source gave me everything.
12:10Patents, correspondence, even Vectra's internal logs.
12:13Someone very much wanted the truth to come out.
12:15Apparently your Kyle has many enemies.
12:18Sis, how are you holding up?
12:19That bastard lived off you for five years.
12:22I'm fine, really.
12:23Don't worry about me.
12:24Focus on your work.
12:25Lina, you know I've always been on your side.
12:27Always, do you hear me?
12:28I know.
12:29Get some sleep tonight, Elena.
12:31You've earned it.
12:31I'll call you in the morning.
12:37Mr. Mr. Zero.
12:39Cryptography, MIT, 2015.
12:42You couldn't have Lina.
12:47Tell me right now.
12:49Was it you who wrote to me anonymously for five years?
12:59Lina, please open up.
13:01I know you hear me.
13:02I have nowhere else to go today.
13:04The door is open, Kyle.
13:06I was waiting for you.
13:07Come in and close it tightly behind you.
13:10Sit at the table.
13:11Hands on the countertop.
13:14And put the bottle down.
13:15You spilled it on the floor.
13:16I was a fool, Lina.
13:18A complete fool.
13:19Take me back.
13:20I will sign anything, everything you want.
13:27Do you remember what you said to me here six months ago?
13:29It smells like soup here.
13:31Eat.
13:31Don't, Lina.
13:32Please, don't do this.
13:33I beg you.
13:34I love you.
13:35Eat, Kyle.
13:35You are hungry.
13:36Take the spoon.
13:37This is all I can give you.
13:38I am nothing without you.
13:39Do you hear me?
13:40I am nobody.
13:41I am an empty suit.
13:42You are everything.
13:43Caught you, Mara.
13:44Keep filming, darling.
13:45You will bring me this video myself.
13:54I have a video from your kitchen.
13:57The board of correctors was we'll receive it in 30 seconds.
14:00Send it, Mara.
14:02I'll even point you to the button you're looking for.
14:05You're bluffing.
14:07Kyle brought low.
14:08Soup, your pathetic revenge.
14:10End of a career.
14:15For ten years, I wrote code while you were learning to smile.
14:18Press it.
14:19Don't stall.
14:21What the hell?
14:21The file is empty.
14:23There's nothing here.
14:24Not a single bite.
14:25Strange, isn't it?
14:26As if someone got into your mailbox a week ago.
14:29It was you.
14:31You hacked my inbox.
14:33Every letter, every contact, everything.
14:35Thank you, Jake, for not sleeping that night.
14:37Mara, you are seven days late.
14:39You think I'm alone?
14:40I have a brother, and he doesn't work with a keyboard.
14:43Call him Mara.
14:44I need to know the names of everyone I'll be burying next.
14:47Ryan, it's time your way.
14:48She doesn't understand words.
14:49Come right now.
14:53Nexus server breach 2019.
14:56Your signature, Mrs. Carter.
14:58I was on my honeymoon in 2019.
15:00Check the tickets, detective.
15:02I checked.
15:03You returned a day before the breach.
15:06Alone.
15:07Without your husband.
15:08She was not alone.
15:09She was with me, in Boston, all that night.
15:13Convenient.
15:14The freshly minted CTO recalled a five-year-old alibi in three minutes.
15:18He did not recall, Morgan.
15:19He knows.
15:20And I will confirm every word under oath.
15:23Someone placed these pieces of evidence very neatly on my desk yesterday morning.
15:29Anonymously.
15:30Then you know what those pieces of evidence are worth.
15:33And you know who is playing you, detective.
15:35I am not a fool, Mrs. Carter.
15:37But I am not your ally either.
15:39Remember that well.
15:41One more thing.
15:43One more thing.
15:43The anonymous leak steers to your sister's email.
15:46I trace them to the Nexus server.
15:47The warrant will not be signed until Monday.
15:52In five minutes, I'll walk out to those cameras and take my company back from that thief.
15:55Darling, stick to the script.
15:57Marital community property, wife stole husband's business, nothing extra.
16:00The lawsuit is shaky.
16:01I have handled your affairs for seven years, Kyle, and I will say it plainly.
16:04The patents are in her name.
16:05Without a prenupal agreement, we have nothing.
16:07There was no prenup.
16:08We signed some paper at a notary's, a formality.
16:10I didn't even read it.
16:10That is precisely what concerns me, Mr. Carter.
16:13I have stayed silent about this since the board meeting.
16:15But what you did not read tends to become a verdict.
16:17Tom, your job is to win in court.
16:19Kyle goes to the cameras.
16:20The journalists are already on our side.
16:22Enough!
16:23You're going to tell me what to do?
16:24This was your idea, joining up with you.
16:27My idea saved your skin from bankruptcy, Kyle.
16:30Without me, you'd already be sleeping under a bridge.
16:32Pick it up and shut up!
16:34I make the decisions here, do you understand?
16:36You are nobody without me!
16:38Nobody!
16:41Your Honor, my wife has been stealing the business I built from scratch for five years!
16:47You built it?
16:48Kyle, you didn't write a single line of code in five years.
16:52The patents were filed during the marriage, Your Honor.
16:55Under state law, they are marital property.
16:57She manipulated me, kept sliding papers in front of me.
17:00I signed out of love and trust!
17:03Out of love?
17:04You called me a servant, Kyle.
17:05It's all in my records.
17:07Your Honor, she is mocking me!
17:09Give me back my company!
17:11Give me back my life!
17:13Prenuptimal agreement, clause seven.
17:15The intellectual property of each spouse remains personal.
17:18That's a forgery!
17:19I never signed anything like this, Your Honor!
17:21Have it verified by an expert!
17:23Your signature, Kyle.
17:25Five years ago, you signed without a reading just like everything else.
17:29You set me up!
17:30Five years my whole life!
17:31Was it your trap?
17:39Two billion billion dollars in your account by tomorrow noon.
17:43And a quiet life.
17:45You invited me to dinner to repeat what didn't work with Kyle?
17:48Kyle is a young person in a suit.
17:50I am offering you a way out while it is still open.
17:53My parents, my core, my company.
17:56You have the wrong address and the wrong number, Victor.
17:58I invested 400 million in Avektra.
18:00I am not in the habit of asking twice, Lena.
18:04Then get used to it.
18:05I am not for sale.
18:07And the board now votes with me.
18:10The board will vote the way I say when your shares crash again by morning.
18:14Threatening a crash?
18:16Or did you hire the same people as Kyle's mistress?
18:19My interests are protected by reliable people.
18:21Someone is already waiting for you outside, Lena.
18:29Hi, CEO.
18:31My people already took care of the evening.
18:33You can get in without worry.
18:35Step away from the car, Ryan.
18:36Your sister lost.
18:38You will follow right behind her.
18:39Sister lost on paper.
18:41I work with my hands.
18:42Get in, start the engine, drive home.
18:49Don't start it.
18:50Get out of the car right now.
18:51Jake, what did you find?
18:52Talk fast.
18:53I have a guest standing at my hood.
18:54Crack their chat.
18:55It is not a false still.
18:57It is intimidation.
18:57So you sign the share transfer.
19:00So there is a surprise under the hood.
19:02One that scares but does not fall still.
19:04Dirty work, Ryan.
19:06Clean work.
19:07The owner asked that you stay alive and sign.
19:10Everyone is happy.
19:11I am not signing anything.
19:13Call Hale, blow up the car.
19:14I do not care.
19:17Forty seconds.
19:19You call your lawyer and sign over the share.
19:22Or I make a call.
19:29Vectra CEO Lena Carter has gone missing.
19:31The company's shares have fallen another fifteen.
19:34I didn't sign, Jake.
19:35Forty seconds ran out.
19:36I threw both phones into a puddle and ran to you.
19:38Elena returned to the newsroom.
19:39I've been tracking her geotag since your call.
19:41I've been keeping this place since I left Google.
19:43They won't find us here.
19:44Eight years you built a bunker for a woman who married someone else.
19:48Why?
19:49Because I knew how this would end.
19:52And I wasn't wrong by a single day.
19:58I'm in Ryan's people's chat.
20:00I can see the IP of the node they're using to search for us.
20:03Whose IP, Lena?
20:05Tell me.
20:05If it's what I think it is, we're trapped.
20:09This can't be.
20:11This node?
20:12Incoming call from the same IP.
20:14Lena, he's calling us right now.
20:16This very second.
20:19Miss Carter, we need to talk without your partner.
20:24You have one hour.
20:30Call your son, Sophia.
20:31Have him lure his wife out, or Kyle sits next to her in a cell.
20:35You're in my house, young person.
20:37Orders here are given by me, not some street dog.
20:40I have a log where your son signed off on someone else's hack.
20:43The feds are giving eight years.
20:44And what do I care about your logs?
20:46My son is an idiot.
20:47His wife is a snake.
20:48You are garbage.
20:49I have narrowed the district.
20:51Forty minutes.
20:51And I find the bunker.
20:53You will speed up the resolution.
20:54You think I am afraid of you?
20:56I buried my husband.
20:57I will outlive you too, you little dog.
21:00You will not pull that, Sophia.
21:02Your hands are trembling.
21:03I can see that from here.
21:05My son is an idiot.
21:06But my home is mine.
21:08One more step and the wall behind you is stained for good.
21:12Fine.
21:13But tell your son.
21:14The name Hale, I have known it since 2003.
21:20So you know too, young person.
21:23Only I have known it 20 years longer.
21:31Open it, Lena.
21:32I have Ryan's people list.
21:34I'm handing over my brother in exchange for protection.
21:37Come in.
21:37Hands are visible.
21:38Jake is filming from three cameras.
21:40Don't twitch.
21:42Names, accounts, routes.
21:43I always jump to the side that is winning.
21:46Good.
21:46Tomorrow at 10, we impact Hale's offshore accounts through Singapore.
21:50The Zurich Nod-Nod is ready.
21:51Transaction substitution.
21:52His network will zero out within an hour.
21:54I'll pass it on to the right people.
21:57And you two, I see, have finally found each other, darlings.
22:05Film away, Mara.
22:06Three ceiling cameras are recording you in return.
22:08Return frame for frame.
22:11Found it by your fence half an hour ago.
22:14Someone was here before me.
22:15Let them come.
22:17It is easier to catch from here than to run.
22:20We have been preparing for a long time.
22:23Hale responded, meeting tomorrow on the yacht.
22:27And answer that call, Jake.
22:30Elena, you called three times in one hour.
22:32What's burning over there?
22:33Tell me.
22:34Someone left an envelope on my desk.
22:36No sender.
22:37Inside is you, Lena.
22:38Five years ago.
22:40Describe the photo.
22:41Calmly.
22:42Where am I standing?
22:43What is in frame?
22:44What is the inscription at the bottom?
22:45Spectra server room.
22:46You in headphones.
22:47Laptop open.
22:48Marker inscription at the bottom.
22:49Mr. Zero.
22:50It's a plant, Elena.
22:52Someone wants you to draw a conclusion in two seconds.
22:54I already drew it, Lena.
22:56Five years of anonymous leaks.
22:57One style.
22:58One source.
22:59Listen to me.
23:00Don't publish anything until we sit down together in person.
23:03Still a sound data page a week.
23:05How have been modeled to jailing a spore?
23:06Just second.
23:07Do not.
23:07Talking characters into our flight right.
23:09I have a second folder here, Lena.
23:12Your investors' offshore accounts.
23:13Do you know what's in them?
23:14Elena, what name is in those offshore accounts?
23:17Say the name out loud, please, right now.
23:19I am sending you a draft article about you yourself.
23:22Read it and answer.
23:24Who are you to me?
23:28Five years, Lena.
23:30Five years you were leaking articles to me
23:32and stayed silent about who you really are.
23:34I was protecting you.
23:35If you had known,
23:36Ryan would have reached you yesterday already.
23:38Don't you dare!
23:39Don't hide behind me!
23:40You used my column as your personal tactical equipment!
23:43I never once fed you a lie.
23:45Every word in those articles was the truth, Elena.
23:47Truth without the source's name is manipulation.
23:50I was writing about you,
23:51defending you from anonymous sources.
23:53I know.
23:54I read it.
23:55And every time I wanted to call you and couldn't.
23:58Are you my sister or an editorial tool?
24:01Answer me!
24:02I want to hear it out loud!
24:05Sister,
24:06but in this war,
24:07I had no right to risk you.
24:08Understand that, finally.
24:10Deal with your hail yourself.
24:11This folder is your problem now, not mine.
24:18He is not a hunter.
24:20He was hurting me for eight years.
24:23Eight goddamn years, hail.
24:27You came alone, Miss Carter.
24:29That speaks of either courage or desperation.
24:32I came with a folder.
24:33Cyprus, Malta, Cayman Islands.
24:35Twelve companies.
24:36Your name on every one.
24:37Papers.
24:38Everyone has papers.
24:40I offered you a dignified way out, remember?
24:42A dignified way out through Ryan Vox in a parking lot?
24:45Say it out loud.
24:46He is your man.
24:48Mine.
24:49Eight years mine.
24:52And your underground firm from five years ago, that was mine too.
24:56Lena, do not answer him.
24:57He is recording every word.
24:58He has microphones in every corner.
25:00Mr. Reed, from the bunker.
25:03Comfortable in there, the two of you, with my future partner?
25:06The Folded goes to Rotor's at 6 p.m.
25:09Recall Ryan, today.
25:14Lena, get out of there right now.
25:16I can hear footsteps on the deck above you.
25:20Then your sister won't have her newsroom tomorrow.
25:22And your CTA will have a cell with a view of a courtyard.
25:27My wife is a hacker.
25:28She falls still, Vector.
25:29She falls still, me.
25:30Film all of this.
25:31Kyle, you are drunk and you are on live television.
25:35Leave the studio immediately.
25:36Live television?
25:38Perfect.
25:39Let the country know who Mr. Zero really is.
25:42You are accusing a person without a single piece of evidence.
25:45On air.
25:46On record, Kyle.
25:48She led me by the nose for five years.
25:51She is a hacker.
25:53She is a criminal.
25:54She is a monster.
25:57Viewers, before you stands a man who spent five years appropriating his wife's work.
26:02You are her sister.
26:03You should be on my side.
26:04Elena, I was family to you.
26:06Family?
26:06You humiliated her in this very kitchen.
26:09I stayed silent for five years, Kyle.
26:11She used you.
26:13She used you, too, just like me.
26:16You do not understand.
26:18This is my sister.
26:19And if they come for her, let them come through me first.
26:32Miss Carter, sit down.
26:34Morgan handed us the materials.
26:36The case has moved to the federal level.
26:40In my own office, without my attorney, you will not get a single word from me, Agent.
26:44This is the Mr. Zero Access log, the night of March 23rd.
26:48Do you recognize your own work, Miss Carter?
26:50Lena, don't react to the log.
26:52Breathe steady.
26:53By time, I'm working.
26:55The file.
26:56That file could not have survived.
26:58The server was wiped completely that same night.
27:01An interesting observation for a woman who has never heard of this server.
27:06Where did you get a copy, Agent?
27:08Only one person on Earth kept logs like these.
27:10Your own archive, Lena.
27:12Ryan broke into your safe and gave a copy to the feds.
27:1548 hours for my attorney and the documents.
27:18The law is on my side, Agent.
27:22And give Mr. Reed my regards.
27:24The warrant under his name?
27:26I signed it yesterday morning.
27:32The log that Morgan put on your desk today.
27:35I saved it, Lena.
27:36It was me.
27:37What do you mean?
27:38You?
27:40That file was supposed to burn five years ago with the firm.
27:43I was tracking your Mr. Zero code.
27:45Entered through my own back door and scrubbed the trail overnight.
27:49Insurance against what, Jake?
27:50Against me?
27:52You stayed silent for eight years.
27:54Against the day you married Kyle and they would have come for you.
27:58So the Federals are not coming for me today.
28:01They are coming for you, Jake.
28:03They already know.
28:04Morgan told me in the corridor, looked me straight in the face.
28:07I chose the wrong man five years ago.
28:10I knew it.
28:11And I said nothing.
28:13Eight years, Lena.
28:15I waited for this conversation for eight goddamn years in silence.
28:29Alana's geotag dropped from the newsroom.
28:31Her code is still on the chair, Lena.
28:36I swapped the schedule last night.
28:38Tom handled the speaker change.
28:40The window is yours.
28:41It's legal.
28:42Alana can wait 15 minutes.
28:44Right now I have another man burning on stage.
28:47Hale is in the third row, left of the aisle.
28:49Files are on your second slide.
28:53Audio's clean.
28:54Your live's steady.
28:56Good afternoon.
28:57Victor Hale will not be presenting today.
29:00I will explain to you exactly why.
29:02This is a provocation, Ms. Carter.
29:04Remove the slide or you will regret this.
29:07$300 million of Vectra flowed through seven offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands.
29:11That is slander.
29:12Do you understand what you are pulling yourself into right now, Ms. Carter?
29:15I am pulling myself into the truth, Victor.
29:17And you, it seems, are pulling yourself into handcuffs.
29:22Jake, we've got him.
29:23Tell Tom to have the lawsuit ready by Monday morning.
29:25Copy.
29:25Tom's on standby.
29:30Mrs. Carter, you just accused Victor Hale of an offshore network.
29:34Do you have evidence?
29:35The evidence is already with the federal prosecutor's office.
29:39I merely voiced what they will soon voice themselves.
29:41Lena, they say Hale has already left the country.
29:45Aren't you afraid of his response towards you?
29:50I stopped fearing people who only know how to run a long time ago.
29:54Lena, I just received the same file.
29:57I can see the metamata.
29:58I'm searching for coordinates.
29:59Where is your sister, Elena Carter, right now?
30:01She's the author of that Vectra investigation, isn't she?
30:04My sister does her work.
30:07And today she is safe, as are we all.
30:12I see the address.
30:13It's an industrial zone in the east.
30:14Lena, it's that warehouse.
30:17Which warehouse, exact Jake?
30:18Tell me exactly which one.
30:19Six years ago, where your firm burnt down.
30:22They're taking her there, where it all began.
30:29The coordinations lead to that warehouse.
30:31It's a trap, Lena.
30:32We can't go in blind.
30:33Then what do you suggest?
30:33Sit and watch the timer while they cut her on camera?
30:35We turn ourselves over to Reyes.
30:37The FBI has drones, impact team, helicopters.
30:39We have two laptops.
30:40Are you serious?
30:41They'll bury her before Reyes signs the deployment order.
30:43This is all because of you!
30:45I got distracted by your kiss and missed Elena's alert!
30:48The alert came two minutes before the conference.
30:50You wouldn't have made it in any case.
30:53It was me.
30:55I hacked their servers five years ago.
30:57Me.
30:58Happy now?
31:01I heard you're having a rough night, Mrs. Carter.
31:03I'm calling once, off the record.
31:07Good luck at the warehouse.
31:09Not my business tonight.
31:11Call me back tomorrow morning.
31:1830 minutes.
31:19Alone.
31:21Otherwise, the next video I send
31:23will already be without her, Lena.
31:27It's a trap.
31:28I know.
31:34Elena, I am here.
31:35Can you hear me?
31:36Step away from her!
31:37Now!
31:39Put the tactical equipment down, idiot.
31:42Mara leaked the address to get us both buried.
31:50Listening, boss.
31:51Yes.
31:52Understood.
31:53Taking her out, leaving the warehouse for the wife.
31:59I said step away from her!
32:01I am not joking, Ryan.
32:02I will put you down right here!
32:04Stay alive, idiot.
32:06Tell your wife I was waiting for her.
32:08Not for you.
32:09No.
32:11No.
32:11No.
32:12No.
32:14No.
32:14No.
32:14Where is she, Kyle?
32:15The coordinates led here.
32:16Who took her?
32:17Answer me right now!
32:18I wanted to save her, Lena.
32:19I was the first one here.
32:20I tried-
32:20You broke everything again.
32:21Every time.
32:22Every time you break what I built.
32:24Lena, do not leave me here.
32:25Mom said you are the only one who can still-
32:26It was my father.
32:27Hale is standing next to my father.
32:32Open it.
32:33My husband was collecting this 20 years ago before he passed.
32:36I did not invite you, Sophia.
32:38And I do not remember giving you a key to my house.
32:41Photo from 2003.
32:42Hale and his partner.
32:43The partner was gone a week later.
32:44My husband knew who Hale was, and he also didn't make it to the impact.
32:47An accident on a yacht.
32:48I read about it.
32:50A very convenient accident for Hale.
32:56And you bring me this now.
32:58Not five years ago, not yesterday.
33:01Today, the price is simple.
33:04Save Kyle from Mara, or take the folder back.
33:08I am a mother, not a charity.
33:12Agreed.
33:13Close the door yourself.
33:15You have had the keys, it seems, for a long time.
33:17The key to Kyle's safe.
33:18The second one in the study.
33:20Your son is in trouble.
33:21You will need it.
33:22And one last thing, Sophia.
33:24Did Hale fall still your father?
33:26Or was it mine?
33:28Your father was not Hale's partner.
33:30He was his handler.
33:31Hale falls still him.
33:35I found who leaked the log to the feds.
33:37It was your husband's signature.
33:39Then the betrayal was not the first.
33:41It was cover.
33:43He gave me up earlier.
33:45Let at least one thing in ten years be my choice, Jake.
33:49I was at the MIT cafe that day.
33:51I watched you choose him.
33:57Four hundred and twelve letters, Jake.
34:00Read me one.
34:01Any one at random right now.
34:02Don't marry him, Lena.
34:05He doesn't see you.
34:06He never will.
34:08Eight years you stayed silent.
34:10And now they are knocking at the gate, and again it is not my turn.
34:16Two warrants in the bag.
34:17Give me a reason to choose you, Reed.
34:19Fifteen seconds.
34:21Take me.
34:22Everything on Hale is in the safe.
34:24The code is the date of that cafe.
34:26She knows.
34:27The second warrants is valid for 72 hours.
34:30Don't make me come back, Mrs. Carter.
34:34This is blackmail.
34:36Legally air talk.
34:37But you cannot walk away without signing, Lena.
34:40Fifteen percent for warehouse coordinates.
34:43He priced my sister in equity shares.
34:48I've already structured it.
34:50Transfer through a trust, retroactive edulocation, if we can prove coercion.
34:55We won't prove it.
34:57He knows I'll sign in front of witnesses and smile for the camera.
35:05Done.
35:06The coordinates will come to your phone within the hour, as agreed.
35:09The Sophia folder, the one she brought yesterday, I'm scanning it now.
35:12A copy to Elena with delayed access, 24 hours.
35:19Talk fast, Mara.
35:21I have 40 minutes before my meeting with your new friend.
35:25What share, Mara?
35:26He has nothing left.
35:27You signed it all away yourself.
35:29I have something you want.
35:34Fifteen percent of Vectra.
35:35Signature and seal.
35:36Sister's address.
35:38Now.
35:40Sit down, young person.
35:41You came to negotiate, yet you behave like a creditor.
35:44I am not negotiating.
35:45You sign, I leave.
35:46We have 40 minutes until her timer runs out.
35:49You know, your father worked for me in 2002.
35:52Not long, but beautifully.
35:54I know.
35:55And I know how it ended for him.
35:57Sign, Victor.
36:04Doc 7, birth 14.
36:06One hour.
36:07Alone.
36:08Otherwise, they will find her in the river.
36:12Sophia, if I do not call back in one hour, come to the address with people.
36:17Old Lady Carter has her own army.
36:19Touching young person.
36:20Very touching.
36:21Your partner in 2003 also had a yacht, Victor.
36:25Remember this pattern.
36:26Elevator is on the right.
36:27They are already waiting for you below.
36:29Say hello to your sister, if you make it in time.
36:36Don't look at the phone.
36:38Hale thinks he hung up.
36:43Hale ordered both sisters dumped in the river.
36:46Nothing personal.
36:48Did Hale tell you everything?
36:51Or only the part where you don't walk out a lies.
36:54Ryan.
36:55Once you finish with her, leave her brother there too.
36:58Mara talks to you.
36:59What did he just say about me, brother?
37:01Lower your tactical equipment.
37:04Sister.
37:05He's playing games.
37:06Lower your tactical equipment.
37:08Ryan!
37:09Muzzle flash illuminates her right now.
37:10Do you hear me immediately?
37:15You just signed a confession in front of two witnesses.
37:19You already spent your one live round.
37:22Lena.
37:23Why is she here before the police?
37:25What did you promise her?
37:30I shot Ryan in the shoulder, young person.
37:32He left first, pressing the surface damage.
37:34Mara followed him.
37:36You came to the warehouse with a shotgun for your price.
37:38Not for my sister, Sophia.
37:40Tom gave me the address at your request.
37:42Today I took what was mine.
37:43You took yours.
37:44Tomorrow we talk.
37:45I will publish everything tonight.
37:48About Hale, about you, about Mr. Zero.
37:50Silence.
37:52One word now, and they will bury us both, Elena.
37:56Not today.
38:02Jake's lawyer caught me at the courthouse.
38:04He asked me to hand it to you directly.
38:05No channels.
38:06What about Jake himself?
38:07Interrogations, pressure, a deal?
38:09Tell me everything you know, Tom.
38:10He's been silent for two days.
38:12They are showing him some old materials.
38:14He doesn't react.
38:19Read it aloud.
38:20I need to hear it in someone else's voice.
38:21Otherwise, I won't believe it.
38:23They know about Elena.
38:25Before MIT, protect her, or they will protect her themselves.
38:33The man I love was hounded to breaking point by his own wife.
38:38Kyle could not bear her cruelty, and he broke.
38:41We remind viewers, Vectora EEO, Lena Carter, has yet to issue any comment in connection to the tragedy.
38:49Doctor, this is Carter.
38:50This is Carter.
38:51I need the truth about my husband right now without protocol, please.
38:53Mrs. Carter, he is alive.
38:55Deep coma.
38:56There is an injection mark on his right hand.
38:58Someone else administered.
38:59He is right-handed.
39:00Would he inject himself with his right hand or right arm?
39:02Thank you, Doctor.
39:03Goodbye.
39:07My young person, you just watched my only son's final moment on live air.
39:13Sophia Mara poisoned him.
39:15I will find her by morning and hand her over to the police personally.
39:19Too late.
39:20Now you are playing with my stakes.
39:22I am taking a seat at your table.
39:23We had a deal.
39:25I close, Hale.
39:26You stay silent and stay out of Vectra.
39:28The originals on Hale have been lying in my safe for 20 years.
39:31Now they are my stake.
39:32The terms change tomorrow at 10.
39:37Half of future Vectra goes to Kyle today,
39:40where the folder leaves for the prosecutor by noon.
39:43Sophia, you wiped your feet on me for five years.
39:46And now, a folder and conditions?
39:49I'm not bargaining.
39:50I'm stating a fact.
39:52My son wakes up because I pull him out.
39:54Not your papers.
39:56His lawyer?
39:58The one rotting in solitary right now?
40:01Convenient.
40:05What do you want, Sophia?
40:06Say it.
40:07I want my son to wake up the master.
40:09Not a doormat to a genius wife.
40:18It's all here.
40:19Move on the folder.
40:20I go on air with this.
40:22Little sister, the journalist.
40:24And Lena, it seems, doesn't know.
40:27She's been recording you all morning.
40:30I'm sorry.
40:31I've been listening since you decided to play alone.
40:42Jake, look at me.
40:43I can't anymore.
40:45Hey.
40:46You're not alone.
40:47I'm holding on.
40:48You hold on, too.
40:54It was me who put you in here.
40:57You're sitting for me, Jake.
40:59Only for me.
41:00Quiet.
41:01I chose this myself.
41:03Eight years ago, I made that choice.
41:06Eight years?
41:07I didn't even know you were waiting.
41:12Last offer, Reed.
41:14Give her up as Mr. Zero by lunch, your home.
41:19Not a single name.
41:20Not today, not tomorrow, not in ten years.
41:23Got it?
41:24Jake, no!
41:25Take it!
41:26I'll manage!
41:27Do you hear me?
41:27No.
41:30Tom, the drive's in your folder.
41:31Open it only if I'm not out by morning.
41:36He's silent, so you'll do the time.
41:47Hello there, young person.
41:49Forty minutes since the article ran, and you're already shaking.
41:52I'm not shaking, Mr. Hole.
41:54I'm working.
41:55In your place, I'd call a lawyer, not Wander Newsroom.
41:57Lawyers are for people with something to lose.
42:01I came to explain that in person.
42:04Explain faster.
42:05My second part runs at six, and there are more names in it.
42:15Look, take your time.
42:17I kept this in a safe for eight years.
42:19Never...
42:20Where did you get this?
42:22That case was closed.
42:23They promised me.
42:24They don't close cases.
42:26They postponed them.
42:27I paid for this to wait its moment.
42:29I was 19.
42:30I didn't understand what they pulled me into.
42:32The judge won't care how old you were.
42:34One call, your sister sits in the same cell.
42:37You wouldn't dare.
42:38Lena will structural failure you.
42:45Lee.
42:47Nah.
42:49Call her.
42:50I need Lena.
42:51Hush, my love.
42:53I'm here.
42:54I'm not going anywhere.
42:56Where is she?
42:59I want Lena.
43:04Lena isn't coming.
43:06She forgot you the moment you fell.
43:18Is he awake?
43:19Answer me now, Mara.
43:21He's whispering.
43:22Calling for his wife.
43:24If he remembers the Forge's signature, we're finished.
43:27Relax.
43:28I have access to his drip.
43:32Blink once if you understand.
43:42Take your hands off him.
43:43Get out.
43:44Now.
43:45Sweetie, I've sat here since six.
43:48Where were you, caring little wife?
43:50I know about the drug.
43:53Out.
43:55He blinked at me once.
43:57That means no.
43:58He's mine now.
43:59Out.
43:59Or I call security.
44:04He's mine.
44:06Get used to it.
44:15Blink if you hear me.
44:18I'll get you out.
44:19Alive.
44:26Lina.
44:27Patel is Hale's man.
44:29I confirmed it.
44:30What?
44:31He's been treating Kyle for four days.
44:33Get him out.
44:34Minutes, not hours.
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