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Hidden Desire in the Hallway
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00:10Welcome home.
00:14Starting tonight, this is your home.
00:16But the Carl Tau family has Carlton rules.
00:21I won't cause trouble.
00:28No one. Come meet your new family.
00:34Hi.
00:36Hi.
00:38You're going out again?
00:40Work.
01:01Sorry. Wrong room.
01:09Do you always walk into other people's rooms like this?
01:20The Carlisle family values boundaries above all.
01:23Everyone will watch how you behave.
01:25I understand.
01:27Good. This is not where you used to live.
01:32Morning, darling.
01:35You must be Aiden. Welcome to the family.
01:53What?
01:55What happened last night doesn't happen again.
01:59I said it was a mistake.
02:01Then learn the house.
02:03And learn that not every door here is meant to be opened.
02:06Relax.
02:07I'm not interested in your secrets.
02:11Don't be so sure.
02:12And you?
02:15What exactly are you afraid of?
02:23Am I interrupting something?
02:27No.
02:32Your brother can be hard to deal with sometimes.
02:35Don't take it personally.
02:36I won.
02:44Just get through today.
02:47Stand up straight.
02:49Don't look so awkward.
02:50Voters don't like seeing anything unplushed.
02:52Places, please, everyone.
02:54Places.
02:57Okay, Aiden, can you come in just a little bit closer, please?
03:00Yeah, right there.
03:00Perfect.
03:01Great.
03:01Everyone look here like a real family.
03:05Everyone will watch how you behave.
03:07Do you always walk into other people's rooms like this?
03:09Like a real family.
03:14Stop looking like that.
03:16You're not here to ask for anything.
03:23Don't let him get to you.
03:26Is this how your family comforts people, too?
03:28Like an order?
03:31Everyone here is playing a role.
03:33The more you care, the more you lose.
03:35What about you?
03:36Are you acting, too?
03:38I always am.
03:40We announce the engagement next month.
03:43Along with the donation plan,
03:44family values will help with women voters.
03:51Welcome to the Carlisle family.
04:02This is not about feelings.
04:04It's strategy.
04:05Noah and Victoria's engagement must be locked in before the election.
04:09Is he cooperating?
04:11He will.
04:13He knows what family duty means.
04:22Who's there?
04:24It's me.
04:32Don't listen at doors.
04:34If it's about your wedding, should I congratulate you?
04:47To family.
05:01Aiden.
05:02You don't have to explain anything to me.
05:04Then why have you been avoiding me?
05:09Because the way you look at me doesn't feel like a brother.
05:26My wife's son from a previous marriage.
05:44You shouldn't be here.
05:45People notice.
05:48I've been looking for you for 20 minutes.
05:50Why look for me?
05:51Your fiance is downstairs.
05:55She's not.
05:56New York seems to think she is.
06:02I never got to choose.
06:04School, major, work, who I'm seen with.
06:07None of it was mine.
06:08I tried to be normal.
06:10I tried to love someone my father would approve of, the media would approve of, someone safe.
06:15I couldn't.
06:16Then what kind of person could you love?
06:21I don't know.
06:22I only know that when I look at you, everything gets dangerous.
06:34If I wanted to kiss you, would you run?
06:51Noah.
06:53You can still tell me to stop.
06:55No.
07:05You can still tell me to stop.
07:15What happened tonight changes nothing.
07:18Then what am I?
07:21You shouldn't be dragged into this.
07:23But you already did.
07:38Why is your face so flushed?
07:40I had a little too much to drink.
07:48You seem to be in a very good mood tonight.
07:53I don't know.
07:56I hope you enjoyed the party, too.
08:02Family is the cornerstone of our society.
08:06And so what doesn't it give in half it, Mani?
08:12Probably a little Niohini stay in our Sataymor.
08:30Are you insane?
08:32Someone could walk in any second.
08:35You've been avoiding me?
08:37You said it yourself.
08:38That night changed nothing.
08:42I didn't say that because I regret it.
08:45Then why?
08:47Because I'm not respectable enough?
08:48Because I know exactly how this family would destroy you.
08:51I can survive whatever they do to me.
08:53I can't survive watching them do it to you.
08:57This only hurts me more.
09:05I'm sorry.
09:09Don't push me away again.
09:19Sorry, sir.
09:20We're here for the champagne.
09:21Take it and leave.
09:22Yes, sir.
09:24Yes, sir.
09:25Yes, sir.
09:25Yes, sir.
09:27Yes, sir.
09:28Yes, sir.
09:30It's okay now.
09:34What if it hadn't been the staff?
09:39Is this what you want?
09:41Every time we get close, it feels like we're about to be executed.
09:46I'll find a way.
09:54Are you okay?
09:56Just feeling a bit stuffy.
10:04Darling, where did you go?
10:06I've been looking for you.
10:08Took a call.
10:10You haven't been yourself all night.
10:13I'm just tired.
10:19Aiden, have you fallen for someone in this house you never should have?
10:35Aiden, talk to me.
10:37Not now, Mom.
10:38Please.
10:40Please.
10:59We have a lot to be thankful for this year.
11:04Let's be grateful for everything we have
11:07and for family members who understand duty and sacrifice.
11:28Are you okay?
11:31I'm fine.
11:33Are you okay?
11:49You seem nervous tonight.
11:52It's just a holiday dinner.
11:55Really?
11:56I thought maybe there was a secret hiding under the table.
12:13This is your place?
12:15I stay here when work runs late.
12:17No house, there's cameras, no my father's people.
12:22Are you here alone a lot?
12:25Most of the time.
12:33You don't look happy.
12:35Back then I kept telling myself I'd leave someday.
12:41Then why didn't you?
12:44Because I thought I wanted nothing.
12:48Until you.
13:06Noah, I know you're in there.
13:08Open the door.
13:09Go to the bedroom.
13:10Mom, stay quiet.
13:12So I still have to hide, right?
13:28Up this late?
13:31What are you doing here?
13:33I just wanted to see what's been keeping you so busy lately.
13:36You've seen enough.
13:38You can leave now.
13:41You're in a terrible mood tonight.
13:44Is it because someone else is here?
13:49You're crossing a line.
13:50Really?
13:51Because lately you look like a man hiding something precious.
13:55Don't be late for the media shoot next week.
13:56We need to look more convincing as a couple.
13:59Good night, Noah.
14:01Good night.
14:05What was I just now?
14:07Aiden?
14:08Like a lover?
14:09No.
14:10Like a boyfriend?
14:11Even less.
14:13I looked like a secret shoved behind a door.
14:16I was protecting you.
14:18That's what you always say.
14:20Then why does the person being protected feel nothing but shame?
14:25Give me some time.
14:26I don't want to be your secret forever.
14:54I don't want to be your secret forever.
14:58I don't want to believe it's real.
14:59Noah, tilt your head lower.
15:01Victoria, move closer to him.
15:05This shot is definitely making headlines.
15:08Excellent.
15:08That's exactly the effect we needed.
15:14Looks like today went wonderfully.
15:17Aiden!
15:19That's in the mail.
15:20Let me explain.
15:22Explain what?
15:23Why you didn't pull away?
15:24Or why you look so much like you belong to her?
15:28It was all for them.
15:30But what I saw felt real enough.
15:49You can't just disappear like this.
15:52Aren't you the one who's best at making me disappear?
15:57I didn't have a choice in that shoot.
16:04Aiden, look at me.
16:09You never have a choice.
16:11No choice about the engagement.
16:13No choice about holding her, kissing her, and admitting me.
16:18Am I that you do?
16:20Is there?
16:23Then when are you ever going to see me a second?
16:37Thank you for meeting me.
16:40What do you want to say?
16:41Don't be so tense.
16:43I'm just curious why Noah has been paying so much attention to you lately.
16:48Maybe because we live in the same house.
16:50You know, Noah wasn't always like this.
16:52He used to smile.
16:53He used to trust people.
16:56Now there are very few people who can make him lose control.
17:00Maybe you know him better than I do.
17:02Really?
17:03Because I keep thinking the way he looks at you doesn't feel very fomential.
17:09You're overthinking it.
17:11And you?
17:12When you look at him, what does it look like to you?
17:15If you care that much, ask Noah directly.
17:17Oh, I will.
17:18But before that, I wanted to see how you lie.
17:22If you invited me here to humiliate me, congratulations.
17:25No, Aidan.
17:26I won't be the one humiliating you.
17:28It'll be the look on your face when you can't hide it anymore.
17:38It's me.
17:40Keep watching them.
17:42I want time, place, and proof strong enough to ruin them.
17:45Understood.
18:01You've barely eaten these past few days.
18:06But Aidan, you want some of your breakfast, one?
18:08I'm fine.
18:10When you lied as a child, you always looked down first.
18:21Mom, please don't ask.
18:23If someone has hurt you, I have a right to know.
18:28No one is hurting me.
18:30Then why do you look like you're falling apart?
18:40The engagement preparations cannot be delayed any longer.
18:43You've been unstable lately.
18:45You're not worried about me.
18:46You're worried about your campaign.
18:47I care that this family does not become a scandal, especially after you started behaving dangerously.
18:54What exactly are you saying?
18:56I'm reminding you not to bring certain unacceptable impulses into this house.
19:05Who is it?
19:08It's me.
19:11You shouldn't be here.
19:15I just needed to know you were okay.
19:24Whose door were you standing at last night?
19:28That's none of your business.
19:30Everything about you is my business.
19:32Especially before you drag this entire family into the mud.
19:35You control my work, my life, my marriage.
19:37Now you're policing how long I stand outside a door?
19:39I'm stopping you from making a mistake that would destroy you.
19:42You're not afraid for me.
19:43You're afraid for the image you built.
19:45Listen carefully.
19:47Before the election, I will allow no scandal.
19:50Especially not the kind that is abnormal, disgusting, and enough to turn every supporter against us.
19:56You make me sick.
19:58Then don't force me to be even clearer.
20:11You make me sick.
20:29Aidan, it's me.
20:38Who sent this?
20:42I don't know
20:43But they got us
20:44Come with me
20:47Where?
20:49Somewhere no one knows us
20:58How much longer can we keep hiding?
21:01When I was younger
21:02I thought if I obeyed enough
21:04One day he'd finally be satisfied
21:06Then I realized with a man like him
21:07Satisfaction is never the end
21:09It's just another chain
21:10Then without that house
21:12Without his name
21:12Who would you be?
21:13Maybe just an ordinary man
21:14Who comes home from work
21:16Cooks terrible dinners
21:17Wastes whole weekends
21:18With the person he loves
21:19That sounds better than the Carlisle mansion
21:21I'm afraid I can't give you that life
21:23Do you think I care about the mansion?
21:25I was never afraid of being poor
21:27I'm afraid of the way you keep pushing me away
21:30Noah
21:30Noah
21:30I love you
21:31You love me?
21:33Yes
21:35Even if it's a disaster
21:36Even if it's dangerous
21:38I still love you
21:43I love you too
22:09This early?
22:09I think you should see this
22:14I didn't want to embarrass you
22:16But pretending not to see it
22:18Would only make things worse
22:21Where did these come from?
22:22Does it matter?
22:24What matters is that
22:25They've turned the Carlisle family
22:26Into a joke behind your back
22:30I think you should have a talk with Noah
22:33Before the media does
22:38Send Noah to my study
22:40Now
22:49Explain
22:50Explain
22:53Do you understand what this would destroy if it got out?
22:56It was never going to destroy me
22:57No
22:59It destroys me
23:00My campaign
23:02My name
23:02My family
23:04So you finally said the truth
23:06Listen Noah
23:07If you want to ruin yourself
23:08Fine
23:09But I will not let anyone
23:11Especially that boy you've become obsessed with
23:13Drag me down with you
23:14Don't you dare touch him
23:16Oh I dare
23:17I can destroy him
23:19Destroy his mother
23:20And leave them with nothing
23:21You're insane
23:22Insane
23:23Then remember this
23:24If you want to keep him safe
23:26Stay away from him
23:30Don't be nervous
23:31What do you want from me?
23:34Your mother loves the life she has now
23:36A respectable marriage
23:38A stable home
23:39A second chance
23:40If you don't want all of that to disappear overnight
23:43Stay away from my son
23:44Otherwise Helen leaves with nothing
23:47And the two of you will go right back to where you belong
23:53You're disgusting
23:55Yet disgusting men are usually the ones who win
24:09What happened?
24:24Why have you been avoiding me?
24:28Because I'm done playing
24:29What do you mean?
24:31I mean did you really think I'd throw away my life for a relationship that has to stay hidden?
24:36That's not who you are
24:39How much do you actually know me?
24:41Maybe I got close to you because you're a Carlisle
24:44You're lying
24:46Am I?
24:47You can give me a mansion
24:48Money
24:49Status
24:51But you can't even admit me in daylight
24:53I'm done playing this little affair game with you
24:57So everything you said was fake?
24:59Yes
25:01Including when I said I loved you
25:17Get out
25:20Gladly
25:24The Carlisle family is expected to announce a major engagement soon
25:36If you're not feeling well
25:38We can leave
25:40I'm fine
25:42Thank you all for being here tonight
25:44To me family has always been the greatest value
25:47So tonight I'm honored to share some wonderful news with all of you
25:51My son Noah is going to be engaged to Victoria
25:57Thank you everyone
25:58Noah and I are both very excited for the future
26:06Aiden
26:08You'll congratulate us, won't you?
26:11Of course
26:12I wish
26:14Wish you a lifetime of happiness
26:16How sweet of you
26:26Fruitated
26:26Thank you
26:46I wish
26:47And I'd like to pick up your heart
26:55Noah!
26:56Stop!
27:02Pick up the phone.
27:04Please pick up.
27:08What did you say to him?
27:11I said nothing.
27:12He would not just disappear for no reason!
27:15Don't make this public.
27:16Tomorrow, the press will continue covering the engagement.
27:19My son is missing!
27:21Then find him.
27:23Quietly.
27:31Hello?
27:41Where is Aiden?
27:44Don't be so hostile.
27:46Sit.
27:47Let's talk.
27:47I'll ask again.
27:48Where is he?
27:50He's safe for now.
27:51You touched him!
27:53No.
27:54Your father drove him away.
27:56I just saw the board more clearly than you did.
28:00What do you want?
28:01Finally, the right question.
28:03I want the wedding to proceed as planned.
28:07You keep playing the perfect heir.
28:09And I become the future Miss Carlisle.
28:14You think I'd agree to that?
28:15If you don't, you know exactly what Richard will do.
28:18He'll destroy Aiden first, then Helen.
28:21And what I have will make sure they never get the chance to fight back.
28:25Don't look at me like that.
28:27At least I'm offering you a choice.
28:29Your father wouldn't.
28:32If I cooperate, Aiden stays safe.
28:36I'll do my best to keep Richard away from them.
28:42Is he safe right now?
28:52Were you trying to scare me to death?
28:55Yes.
28:57I fell in love with him.
29:02What did Richard say to you?
29:04He said if I didn't leave Noah, you'd leave with nothing.
29:10I couldn't gamble with your life.
29:13So I had to leave.
29:14You foolish boy!
29:15I can lose the house, the marriage, the status,
29:17but I cannot watch you bury your heart with it.
29:24Running is not the answer.
29:26If you still love him, then stop running.
29:33You win.
29:34Don't make it sound so ugly.
29:36We're simply getting what we need.
29:38And what exactly do you need?
29:40Position.
29:41Contracts.
29:42Half of the future power of the Carlisle family.
29:45Love was never on my list.
29:47There can be no mistakes tomorrow.
29:50This will be the most important day for the Carlisle family.
29:54Are you sure?
29:57If I don't go, I'll regret it for the rest of my life.
30:03Oh!
30:15This is...
30:16Get him out of here.
30:21Aiden,
30:23you'd better leave right now.
30:24Oh my God!
30:26It's the stepson!
30:26Keep shooting!
30:29How dramatic.
30:31I wasn't going to come.
30:31I was going to do what I always do.
30:33Step back and then step back again.
30:35But then I realized I've spent my whole life giving things up.
30:37I gave way to poverty,
30:39to humiliation,
30:40to this family.
30:41I refused to give up love, too.
30:45Noah,
30:45do not say a word.
30:47Don't marry her!
30:49The person you love is me!
31:00Don't you dare take another step!
31:04You've controlled me long enough.
31:10The person I've loved all along is him.
31:14You've...
31:14You've lost your mind!
31:16No.
31:17I'm finally refusing to live for you anymore.
31:21Beautiful speech.
31:23But if you hadn't seduced him,
31:24would he be here now?
31:25You want to put all of this on me?
31:27Then what about the photos,
31:28the surveillance,
31:29and the deal you offered Noah?
31:31What deal?
31:31You're not the victim.
31:33You knew about Noah and me long before this.
31:35You used those photos as leverage
31:36to force him into this wedding.
31:38You never wanted love.
31:39You wanted your place in the Carlisle family.
31:40She has photos?
31:41This is bigger than a wedding store!
31:43Fine.
31:43If we're tearing this open,
31:45let's tear it all the way open.
31:47You think I'm the dirtiest person here?
31:49Then let's show the contracts to the press.
31:54Here are the private agreements
31:55signed by Richard and my father.
31:57If Noah and I go through with the marriage,
31:59future Carlisle Foundation projects
32:01will be funneled to my family's business.
32:04Give me that!
32:09Richard, we need to leave immediately.
32:11The media is already going live with this.
32:16I've had enough.
32:19I thought I married a man
32:21who could give my son and me a new life.
32:23But now I see I didn't marry into a family.
32:26I married into a performance!
32:28I want a divorce.
32:30I'm not coming back.
32:33Do you have any idea what you're giving up?
32:37I do.
32:38I'm giving up the life you chose for me.
32:51What now?
32:53I don't know.
32:54But for the first time,
32:56that's okay.
33:11Don't laugh.
33:13I haven't said anything yet.
33:16I'm just trying to prove
33:18I can actually make dinner.
33:20So far, the evidence is weak.
33:32I knew the two of you
33:33wouldn't survive your first week on your own.
33:36Hey!
33:37You came at exactly the right time.
33:41Take care of him.
33:44I will.
33:48Do you ever regret it?
33:52Leaving that house, that name,
33:55everything that was supposed to be yours.
33:57No.
33:58For the first time in my life,
34:00I'm not living as the person
34:01someone else wanted me to be.
34:03I'm living as myself.
34:10This feels strange.
34:13Strange good or strange bad?
34:16Strange good.
34:20Like I'm waiting for someone
34:22to tell me it's not real.
34:25It's real.
34:29Not bad.
34:31For a first try.
34:33Just not bad?
34:34Okay, it's terrible.
34:36But I don't care.
34:38What are we going to do now?
34:40Like, for real?
34:41Find jobs.
34:42Pay rent.
34:43Make dinner.
34:44Mess up.
34:45Try again.
34:46That sounds terrifying.
34:50Yeah.
34:51But for the first time,
34:52I'm not scared of my own life.
34:58I used to lie awake in the mansion
35:00thinking I didn't belong there.
35:01And now?
35:04Now I know I belong here.
35:07With you.
35:10Good night, Aiden.
35:15Good night.
35:22The bread is burning.
35:24Let it burn.
35:26You're ridiculous.
35:29We'll get better at this.
35:31At what?
35:32Cooking?
35:33Or being together?
35:34Both.
35:40I never thought I'd be happy being ordinary.
35:43Me neither.
35:44But ordinary feels pretty good.
35:49I got an interview.
35:50See?
35:51We're figuring it out.
35:52Do you miss it?
35:54The money.
35:55The power.
35:56I miss none of it.
35:58I miss having a father who actually loved me.
36:01But I never had that.
36:04You have me.
36:05That's more than enough.
36:10You two look good.
36:14Mom.
36:16Thank you, Helen.
36:18For everything.
36:20Take care of each other.
36:21You two.
36:22We'll be okay.
36:29What are you thinking?
36:31That maybe real is better than perfect.
36:35You two.
36:53That maybe real is better than perfect.
36:53You two.
36:54That maybe real is better than perfect.
36:54That maybe real is better than perfect.
36:54You two.
36:54You two.
36:54That maybe real is better than perfect.
36:54That maybe real is better than perfect.
36:55That maybe real is better than perfect.
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