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The Shadow Founder. Part 2
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00:05Sofía, what have you done?
00:24Sofía, pick up!
00:27Sweetheart, I wasn't going to wait.
00:29Do you understand what you've done?
00:31The scans are out. The originals are in my safe.
00:40You don't control your mother-in-law?
00:42It wasn't me who let her loose, Victor. You cornered her.
00:46Listen carefully. Jake Reed, Simpunas Lin, and Takudanau.
00:50Touch him and I burn it all.
00:52By nightfall, he doesn't wake up.
01:02Lena, Jake is in the punishment cell again. Beaten twice. One more night and he won't make it.
01:09Did you open the drive? What's on it, Tom?
01:11A recording of Hale with the prison warden. A corrective talk. An impact ordered on Jake. All clean.
01:18Lin, you go on air. Your defense collapses in 30 seconds. You get that?
01:24If I stay silent by morning, they carry him out.
01:26In our studio?
01:27In our studio, Lena Carter. She has a recording the country must hear.
01:32My name is Lena Carter.
01:35My husband is in a coma.
01:37They are breaking him right now on order.
01:41We're playing the recording.
01:42The voice of Victor Hall. A night talk with the head of the facility.
01:46Make him understand. By morning, I need a pliable man, not a hero.
01:49That is an attempt on a witness.
01:51A criminal article. And only the first recording, Mr. Hall.
01:54Don't say the year. Don't burn it on air.
02:03Hale offered me a book. Protection. A million on top. Guess what I did?
02:11If you came with this, you sent him somewhere.
02:13Where?
02:14Right into his gray head. In front of two lawyers.
02:18Contract in half.
02:20He will leak your MIT in the first broadcast.
02:23He won't leak it.
02:24I told it all on live air myself.
02:27An hour ago.
02:29You burned your shield.
02:30For me.
02:32Why?
02:34We're sisters, Lena.
02:38Forgive me. I was wrong.
02:44Missed call from Sophia. She never calls.
02:47Calling back.
02:48She's with us.
02:50Halifolder by morning.
02:51Or pieces.
03:01Open up, Carter.
03:03No warrant. No recording. No colleagues.
03:06Midnight. No warrant.
03:08Detective, have you lost your mind?
03:12Read the first page.
03:13Then decide if I'm mad.
03:19This is Hale's statement.
03:22He sold out Ryan and Mara.
03:25Sold them out.
03:26For immunity.
03:27He pins Kyle on the two of them.
03:31He's scuttling the ship.
03:35Twelve hours.
03:37By noon, the prosecutor signs.
03:40Why bring this to me?
03:41You dug under me for two months, Morgan.
03:44I'm not on your side.
03:46But Hale disgustes me more.
03:50Twelve hours is enough.
03:52Leave.
03:54Leave.
04:01You have as long as my cigarette.
04:03Talk, Mara.
04:05Hale handed me to the feds tonight.
04:07Immunity for him.
04:09You picked him six months ago.
04:11I had no choice.
04:12He had my brother since 2017.
04:17Everyone had a choice.
04:18What do you want from me?
04:22Drop the suit.
04:23I'll put Hale away for 40 years.
04:262003.
04:26You can't sell me.
04:28Listen.
04:30This is your father.
04:32March 2003.
04:35Victor.
04:35I gave you Michael.
04:37I'll be gone in 24 hours.
04:44Your father gave Hale his partner and ran.
05:01How many were there?
05:03When did they leave?
05:04Four.
05:05Fifteen minutes ago.
05:06They took a copy.
05:07They'll come back for the originals.
05:09Where are the originals, Sophia?
05:11Tell me now.
05:13I moved them before they came.
05:16I'm not a fool, Lina.
05:27Her father handed the partner to Hale.
05:35Tell me she's lying.
05:36She is not lying.
05:38Your father was with Hale from the start.
05:40Five years as I built this war for him!
05:45Save Kyle.
05:46I'll give you the rest.
05:56Signature under the log.
05:58Wasn't me.
06:00Mara forged it.
06:03You're not in any shape to invent this, Kyle.
06:06You're not in any shape to invent this, Kyle.
06:07Kyle says, power of eternity to the board.
06:11Hers too.
06:12I never held those papers.
06:16Tom, forensics is in.
06:18Signature is Mara's.
06:19Both documents forged.
06:20I hated you six months for the wrong thing.
06:26I was a vain fool.
06:30But I never sold you out.
06:33Quiet.
06:34Don't waste breath.
06:36She won't stop.
06:37She'll come for you.
06:38For Jake.
06:39Let her come.
06:41I've waited five years.
06:48Clean up.
06:49Can't breathe.
06:58You're alive.
07:01I didn't breathe for three hours.
07:04You burned your defense on live air.
07:06Why?
07:06Otherwise, they'd have found you in the punishment cell by morning.
07:09I chose you.
07:12You lost Vectra.
07:14Today.
07:18I love you.
07:19Eight years silent.
07:20No more.
07:26Four hundred and twelve drafts.
07:28Sent none.
07:29Idiot.
07:33Kyle is stable.
07:35Patel pulled him out.
07:36Breathe.
07:38I'm coming.
07:40Hold him.
07:41Elena's account was hacked.
07:43They're prepping a leak.
07:44They need a picture.
07:48They photographed us.
07:49Tomorrow.
07:56Minus thirty-eight in a day.
07:58Here to save Vectra.
08:00Or to bury it with hail.
08:02To save it.
08:03From you.
08:05Co-CEO appointed by the board.
08:07The vote has passed.
08:09Tom reinstated me as CTO of this morning.
08:11The architecture is on me.
08:13Without Lena, it collapses in a week.
08:14The architecture is not our concern.
08:17The capitalization is.
08:19Five to two.
08:20Remote vote.
08:20Seven of nine.
08:22All right.
08:23This is Hales, man!
08:25You're handing Vectra to the one sinking it!
08:29Decision stands.
08:31Keys by eight tonight.
08:35I'm tired, Jake.
08:36Five years of silence.
08:37A year of war.
08:38And I lost it in twenty minutes.
08:40You haven't lost.
08:41You said it out loud.
08:42Tomorrow we get up.
08:47Sophia's been silent.
08:48Two hours.
08:49I'm on my way.
08:55Officially, heart closes distance.
08:59Unofficially, a clean professional impact.
09:04Safe's open.
09:05The folder is gone.
09:11Lena, a courier brought me the original Hale files.
09:15Read the letter.
09:16Out loud.
09:18Publish one line.
09:20Your sister final moment tomorrow.
09:22He's using the files as bait.
09:23Publish Elena final moment.
09:27Stay silent.
09:28He walks.
09:33Lena, mom isn't picking up what's happening.
09:37Kyle.
09:37She's gone.
09:39I was twenty minutes late.
09:41No!
09:42You dragged her into this!
09:46I've lost.
09:47He took everything.
09:53She hated me for five years.
09:56And she died for us.
09:57Mom kept that folder since 2003?
10:00For me?
10:01For Dad?
10:02I did not love her.
10:04But I cannot breathe.
10:06He came.
10:07With a wreath.
10:08As if he has the right.
10:17My condolences.
10:18A pity her heart gave out.
10:20Her heart gave out by your hand.
10:23And you stand here with lilies.
10:25In one week the board revotes.
10:27Vectra will be mine.
10:28Accept it.
10:30Vectra will be ours.
10:32You will not live to see that board.
10:35Whatever comes.
10:37I am with you.
10:38To the end.
10:52He has the money.
10:53We have the people.
10:57Money buys silence.
11:00I need witnesses.
11:02Elena and Tom are ours.
11:04Morgan hesitates.
11:06Ryan is broken.
11:10Then I call Morgan.
11:11No middlemen.
11:15You know what you're offering him.
11:19Morgan.
11:20Not a deal.
11:21An alliance.
11:23Six in the morning.
11:24My place.
11:25Alone.
11:30Only I knew this address.
11:38Lena.
11:39What did you find?
11:45One step, Kyle.
11:47Toward me.
11:47I am not leaving.
11:50I will fall.
11:51I cannot feel my right leg.
11:53You had three months.
11:55Today you walk.
12:00Forgive me.
12:01For five years.
12:02I do not know how else to say it.
12:04I do not forgive you.
12:06But I no longer hate you.
12:07Mother died because of me.
12:10I brought Hale into our house.
12:13No.
12:14Because of Hale.
12:16Do not carry his sin.
12:22If I reach you now,
12:25will you let me help with Vectra?
12:27Reach me first.
12:28Then we talk.
12:35They will fall still her before eight.
12:41Two options, Mara.
12:44Figure in distress or poison her.
12:47Choose now.
12:49Sweetheart.
12:51Came to trade for a story?
12:53I'm not your material.
12:56I called six of Hale's witnesses overnight.
12:59The Swiss.
13:00The secretary.
13:01The widow.
13:04And they're still alive.
13:06For how long?
13:08The Swiss flies in tomorrow.
13:09The secretary's under federal protection.
13:13And here I am.
13:15Gray jumpsuit.
13:16Convenient target.
13:20All right.
13:22I'll testify against Hale.
13:29Mara's final moment.
13:30Hanged in her cell.
13:37Your sister is gone.
13:39Tonight.
13:40In the cell.
13:41Hale did this.
13:42Lying.
13:43You're lying.
13:44Don't you dare.
13:45Mara is alive.
13:46Hanged.
13:47An hour before her testimony.
13:50No.
13:51No.
13:52She promised me.
13:55She agreed to talk.
13:57Elena convinced her.
13:58For that,
13:59they fall still her.
14:00Eight years I worked for him.
14:03Eight years.
14:09You're next, Ryan.
14:10The ward.
14:12The IV.
14:12Our heart stops.
14:14Familiar?
14:17What do you want me to say?
14:24Victor Hale.
14:27I'm listening.
14:29Verktra is yours.
14:31Give me 24 hours.
14:36Morgan sent it.
14:37Ryan signed everything.
14:40Then Hale already knows.
14:42He has an hour before the news breaks.
14:43Private jet at 340.
14:45Terminal B.
14:46I can ground him now.
14:49Don't block him.
14:50Let him reach the lounge first.
14:58He's calling.
14:59Himself.
15:03Lena.
15:0524 hours.
15:07Let me fly out.
15:09I'll disappear.
15:11What changed in one evening, Victor?
15:13I'm handing over Vectra.
15:15Father's file.
15:16Just not tonight.
15:18Father's file is mine.
15:19Vectra is mine.
15:21You have nothing.
15:22I know about your mother.
15:24One hour.
15:35Why is my plane still standing?
15:37Release the aircraft now!
15:39Mr. Hale, dispatch has blocked your departure.
15:47Dispatch is mine.
15:48Press is already at the doors.
15:52I want to see his face when he understands.
16:04This is a private terminal.
16:05Who let them in?
16:08Victor Hale, you are under arrest.
16:11I have immunity, Reyes.
16:13A written agreement.
16:15The agreement was voided.
16:18Hands behind your back.
16:23Thirty years I built this country.
16:35Witness Carter, the court is listening under oath.
16:38The Mr. Zero you hunted for eight years, it is me.
16:43The Vectra Corps was written by me.
16:46The patents are in my name.
16:48Every log is signed by me.
16:50You understand this carries federal criminal liability?
16:53I am tired of hiding.
16:56She is lying to save her lover!
17:00The Hartwell report is in the file.
17:02Code, keys, root, all mine.
17:06I'm with you.
17:07Forty years.
17:08No parole.
17:19Mr. Zero is not yours.
17:26Voting complete.
17:28Nine of nine for Lena Carter.
17:32I'd have my always hers, miss.
17:36I have one announcement.
17:38You sure?
17:41Thirty percent of Vectra shares go to an open employee fund.
17:45Today.
17:52Jake Reed joins as an equal partner.
17:54The case against you was closed this morning.
18:00Eight years I waited for the word ours.
18:03This is our company.
18:05Ours.
18:17Jake, active session under Mr. Zero, not mine.
18:20That login's been closed eight years.
18:23Who are you?
18:29Kyle, it's the middle of the night.
18:30If this is about the shares, I'm hanging up.
18:33Not about the shares.
18:35I signed the divorce an hour ago.
18:37You signed it?
18:39Yourself?
18:40No lawyers?
18:41No conditions?
18:42No conditions.
18:43I'm tired.
18:45Lena, for five years I wore another man's crown.
18:50You're really letting go?
18:52I'm letting go.
18:53But I have one request, and then I disappear.
18:59Say it.
19:00Without traps.
19:02Elena.
19:03Let me stay here, friend.
19:05I'm flying to Europe.
19:08All right.
19:09I won't get in the way, Kyle.
19:11Fly.
19:13One more thing.
19:15Before the coma, Mara let slip.
19:18She had a young person with Hale.
19:20He took the young person.
19:25The note is for both of us.
19:29Dad wrote it a week before he died.
19:35Forgive me.
19:37I loved you both.
19:40So Sophia wasn't lying.
19:42He wanted to break with Hale.
19:44And she hid it for 20 years.
19:47From us.
19:52All those years I hated him.
19:55Lena, look.
19:56A page is torn out.
19:58The stub is fresh.
20:02Someone was here.
20:04This week.
20:05Before us.
20:09October 15th.
20:10She will be here.
20:11Nine days.
20:13She?
20:13Who is she?
20:21Someone knows we're coming.
20:26Come in.
20:27I wasn't preparing a speech.
20:29I was preparing this dinner.
20:31For eight years.
20:33Eight years?
20:34Then the pasta is overcooked by now.
20:37Every day.
20:38I waited every day, Lena.
20:43I didn't know I was waiting.
20:47Until the doorway.
20:50Then stay.
20:52Tonight.
20:53And every night after.
21:02I'm tired of being a tactical equipment.
21:05One night just to be.
21:07Then be.
21:09I'll hold the rest.
21:12Morning, future Mrs. Reed.
21:16Daughter.
21:17I'm here.
21:21What's my mother's voice?
21:24She died when you were six.
21:30I came to return the keys.
21:32And to say thank you.
21:35You walked from the parking by yourself.
21:37Forty-two steps.
21:39I counted everyone.
21:41Then Paris?
21:43Then just to live.
21:45Without Vectra.
21:47Without my mother.
21:47Without you.
21:49To learn to be myself.
21:53It's time you became someone of your own.
21:59I'm not asking forgiveness.
22:01I know you won't.
22:03I don't forgive.
22:04But I'm not holding you.
22:06Go.
22:10Thank you for not finishing me off.
22:13Good luck.
22:14Call your sister.
22:29I'm on the roof.
22:30I'm on the roof.
22:31They're still clapping.
22:32First time in a year I'm breathing fully.
22:35On stage you said we, not me.
22:38I almost cried.
22:39Eight years writing code alone.
22:41Today I said it out loud.
22:43Not alone.
22:44You know, I don't even regret that investigation.
22:47Without it you wouldn't have heard me.
22:49And I don't regret it.
22:52Not a single minute.
22:54Hey up there.
23:05Lena?
23:06Why are you quiet?
23:08Can you hear me?
23:08The envelope by the courthouse.
23:10The photo where I'm six.
23:12And the woman beside me with her face blacked out.
23:14I remember.
23:15You showed it to me.
23:16And what?
23:17It's her face.
23:18Lena.
23:19She's here.
23:20Under the tower.
23:21Lena, don't move.
23:23Don't look away.
23:30Eight years I wrote you letters and never sent one.
23:35Eight years I pretended I wasn't waiting.
23:38Forgive me.
23:46I've never said it first.
23:48I love you.
23:51I did it 412 times.
24:00First wedding I've ever cried at.
24:03The war is over.
24:05I'm home.
24:10Mother is awake.
24:11Come in.
24:12I'm coming.
24:14My daughter will see me.
24:16I'm coming.
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