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Lost Glow EP Heartbreak, Healing, Lost Love
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00:04that one you see it the really bright one next to the weird zigzag shape that's not a zigzag
00:12that's cassiepopia it's shaped like a w looks like a zigzag to me that's because you don't
00:17pay attention in class why would i i've got you to tell me everything after here i made this in
00:22arts and craft nora bennett said it was the worst one in the class but i told her it's not
00:26about
00:26being pretty it's about being strong i triple knotted it so it'll never come off
00:37never never ever
00:50chases are miserable
01:17whoa dude you look totally not
01:21like you who are you and what did you do with lila
01:28come on bro dance floor's calling
01:42you didn't have to go through all this trouble lila we're not fancy people
01:53i want to show you something yeah cool sunset
01:57lila sweetheart how long are you going to keep doing this to yourself doing what you know exactly
02:03what when are you going to tell that boy how you feel you've been saying that since middle school
02:08the right time doesn't come to you you go to it i will when the time is right okay okay
02:13okay i have
02:14news huge news life-changing news what i got it the job in new york apex athletic their marketing train
02:19a program i start in three weeks elliot oh my god that's yeah hey babe yeah it's official i got
02:25it i know
02:26right tonight absolutely can't wait yeah me too okay see you soon bye
02:35okay i can't hold it in anymore you've been twidging since we sat down just tell me
02:45i'm gonna ask serena to marry me
02:50wow elliot that's that's a big step i know right i've been thinking about it for months
02:55she's the one lila i can feel it i mean she's smart she's driven she's you know
03:00yeah i know so what do you think honestly you're the person whose opinion matters most to me
03:09you always have been she'll love it i'm throwing an engagement party
03:15saturday the rooftop at the meridian you have to be there promise me i promise
03:29lila it's 2 a.m the engagement party saturday i'm going to tell him the truth i've been not
03:34sure for 15 years and look where that got me if i don't say it now i'll spend the rest
03:37of my life
03:38wondering are you sure and if he doesn't feel the same way then at least i'll know and i can
03:42finally stop waiting never ever right
03:55you've practiced this you know the words just say the words
04:19oh my god love your dress who is it um i made it shut up you have to give me
04:25your card
04:25thank you excuse me i need to
04:36leela you made it
04:44elliot i need to talk to you alone can we yeah of course is everything okay
04:56so what's up you sounded serious
05:02elliot i need to tell you something and i need you to let me finish before you say anything
05:07can you do that yeah yeah of course i have been in love with you since i was 12 years
05:13old
05:15not the friend kind of love not that you're like a brother to me kind i mean i have spent
05:1915 years
05:20of my life waking up every single morning and the first thing i think about is you
05:24design my first dress to impress you move to new york to be near you i have helped you pick
05:29out gifts
05:30and plan dates and i have sat through every phone call about every girl and i have smiled through
05:35every single one because having you in my life as a friend was better than not having you at all
05:39but i can't do this anymore i can't watch you marry someone else and pretend i'm happy about it i
05:43can't
05:43stand next to you at that altar and not scream so i'm telling you now i love you elliot
05:48i have always loved you
05:57lila i god i don't i don't know what to say say what you feel you're my best friend you're
06:02the
06:02most important person in my life outside of my family you know that but i lila i've never thought
06:06of you that way i don't i love you but not not like that and and i'm engaged i'm about
06:10to start a
06:11life with serena i can't i know i know all of that i'm not asking you to leave her i'm
06:15just asking
06:16you to know i needed you to know we're friends lila the best kind of friends please let's not
06:20ruin this we can just pretend this didn't happen and go back to how things were can we do that
06:24please there you two are everyone's looking for the groom to be what are we hiding out here for
06:29elliot's little childhood friend just gets so emotional at parties isn't that sweet
06:54elliot don't
06:57i should go check on her she just confessed her love to you at our engagement party
07:01if you chase her right now in front of all these people what message does that send
07:24i'm here i'm right here he said to pretend it didn't happen 15 years zoe he wants to pretend it
07:31it didn't happen
07:47fashion design assistant positions paris france
08:03i'm leaving new york don't look for me i wish you nothing but happiness elliot
08:19you know you don't have to do this you could stay you can't stay zoe everything in this city
08:24smells like him i'll go crazy paris is far that's the point you call me every week i don't care
08:33what
08:33time it is there every week
08:52the number you have dialed is no longer in service
09:10the henderson gala is friday we should coordinate outfits can't i have a shoot in the llama until
09:16saturday since when that wasn't on the calendar
09:23it came up last minute you know how this industry works
09:27you've had four last minute shoots this month
09:29and you've had four late nights at the office
09:31we're both busy people elliot that's why this works
09:56oh good you found it i've been looking everywhere you got an email from the rylan group
10:03oh probably some pr outreach they've been trying to get me your campaign you know how these brands are they
10:09email everyone
10:11you know how these brands are they email everyone
10:25you
10:32how long how long have you been doing this
10:41i need to bring something to the board's attention
10:43i have evidence that serena hall has been
10:51you already know
10:52sit down elliot they're the same family serena and damon they've said sit down
10:56the board has been made aware of certain irregularities in your department's dealings with external partners
11:02documents bearing your signature have been flagged we are initiating a formal investigation
11:07those signatures are forged i never authorized any of those agreements serena
11:11your personal relationships are not the board's concern the documents exist your name is on them
11:15until the investigation concludes you are suspended from all duties effective immediately
11:38i'm sorry man i just can't be associated with you understand
11:56no graceful way to say this so i won't try you were useful while you lasted the ring doesn't fit
12:00my new life don't contact me
12:04no graceful way to say this so i don't believe me
12:14the number you have dialed is no longer in service
12:16no fail
12:16no fail
12:19no fail
12:31no fail
12:35no no i said the silk organa in midnight not navy they're completely different
12:39pull the midnight from the lila warehouse and get it to me by thursday or i'll go to test city
12:43yes merci lila vogue paris wants to confirm the feature shoot for next week also the buyer from
12:48gallery lofa called three times tell vogue yes morning slot only i need the afternoon light for
12:53the collection and tell gallery lazard i'll call them back when the collection is ready not before
12:59better
13:08lila lila lila the new york fashion week organizing committee they sent a formal invitation
13:13they want you a solo showcase the skylight pavilion three years three years of learning how to live
13:19without you and all it takes is two words on a piece of paper to make my hands shake
13:23are you okay tell the committee yes we're going to new york
13:33lila lila over here how does it feel to be back in new york it feels like coming home
13:37and no you'll have to wait for the show like everyone else
13:44two interview requests already lus and wwd and the hotel confirm the penthouse suite
13:49take the wwd interview el can wait no personal engagements outside of work while we're here
13:53no old friends no reunions no distractions we're here for the show that's it
13:57and in fashion news internationally acclaimed designer lila shin founder of the wildfire label
14:02has arrived in new york lila is there anyone in new york you're most looking forward to seeing
14:07and it's a queen's and very yak snow no one in particular
14:35the lighting needs to shift from cold blue to warm gold at the midpoint
14:39i'll talk to the ld what about the seating keep it intimate i'd rather have 200 people
14:44who can't breathe than a thousand who feel nothing
14:58lila
15:00elliott
15:01lila i
15:02sophie could you please have security escort this gentleman out of the backstage area
15:07he doesn't have the correct credentials
15:13i know i don't deserve a minute of your time but lila you look incredible
15:45i know you don't want to see me i know i have no right to be here
15:48then why are you here because i owed you something for three years and i'm not going
15:51to send it in a text i'm sorry not for what i said on that balcony though god knows i'm
15:55sorry
15:55for that too i'm sorry for every day before it every time you looked at me and i didn't
15:58see you every time you showed me who you were and i was too stupid too comfortable too blind
16:02to notice i'm not here to ask for anything i just need you to know that i see it now
16:06everything
16:07i missed and i'm sorry thank you for the apology you can go now i know you built all this
16:11without me and i know that's exactly how it should be i'm not here to take credit for
16:14who you became i'm here because the person you became deserves the apology the person
16:17i was should have given years ago
16:42what do you mean held at customs those fabrics were cleared two weeks ago there's been a flag on the
16:47shipment
16:48it could take up to three weeks to resolve i don't have three weeks i have ten days it gets
16:52worse
16:53morelli textiles just pulled out their legal team says the customs flag creates unacceptable liability exposure
16:58they're terminating the supply contract morelli is providing 70 of our core fabrics i know so
17:02you're telling me that in 10 days i'm supposed to produce a full collection for the most important
17:05show of my career with 30 of my materials i'm telling you we need a miracle or we need to
17:09pull
17:09the show we are not pulling the show get me a list of every alternative supplier on the east coast
17:15every single one i don't care if they're in a basement in new jersey i'll sew the damn fabric
17:20myself if i have to
17:24hans elliot reynolds yeah i know it's late i know what you've heard listen i need a favor not for
17:29me
17:29it's a designer lila chen wildfire label she's got a customs nightmare and she needs premium silk organon
17:33by the end of the week the midnight series from your zurich stock i know it's short notice i know
17:36what i'm asking consider it the last favor i'll ever call in thank you thank you hans
17:42hello miss chenz eric lindelman asia pacific director for lindstrom textiles i'm calling to
17:46inform you that a complete alternative fabric package has been arranged for your collection
17:49silker gaunt duchess satin and wool creed all premium grade shipment is already en route you
17:52should have it within 48 hours who arranged this a gentleman by the name of elliot rolls he contacted
18:00our entire supply network overnight
18:06the lindstrom fabrics arrived tonight james says we can resume cutting by tomorrow morning
18:10also there was a man at the front desk this morning he left this tell restoration that if
18:14carter reynolds contacts any member of my team or attempts to access any of our venues he has
18:17to be politely he did just solve our supply crisis overnight i didn't ask him to and i'm not going
18:20to be the woman who falls apart because a man decided to play hero after he spent a decade ignoring
18:24her crystal clear are you clear
18:36not happening richard i know we go back i'm not asking for a freebie i'm asking you to honor the
18:41original space allocation for the wildfire show she earned that slot elliot the sponsor backed out
18:45i'll cover the difference you with what i still have some consulting income and i have relationships
18:48in the sense i've got richard that should tell you something you're gonna go broke doing this
18:51probably she must be something she always was i just didn't see it this doesn't make sense the
18:55budget didn't change how did we get bumped up stop it he's doing what he always does
18:59showing up when it's convenient when it makes him feel like the good guy
19:02it doesn't mean anything it can't
19:17the storage site is flooding the walls are failing everything is in there all 28 looks the runway set
19:21pieces the lighting rigs if we don't move it all to the main venue basement in the next
19:25two hours we lose everything where's the crew scattered across the city i've called everyone
19:29earliest anyone can get here is 45 minutes minimum i'm on my way
19:42why why do you keep doing this you had your chance to care and you threw it away
19:46you don't get to show up now and be this person but you're here in the rain and nobody asked
19:51you to be
20:00what are the people
20:03Muscle
20:03Tiago
20:03Tiago
20:04Tiago
20:05Tiago
20:05Tiago
20:06Tiago
20:06Tiago
20:23Oh, Elit. You can't be serious.
20:26You were supposed to stay down. You were supposed to disappear quietly and let the story end the way I
20:30wrote it.
20:30But instead, you're crawling back to the one person who could help you rewrite it. That's not something I can
20:34allow.
20:34Darling, it's me. I need a favor. I need everything you can get me on Elliot. Recent contacts, texts, emails,
20:39anything.
20:40Yes, I know that costs extra. Since when has that been a problem?
20:42Good. And I need it by tomorrow. This is time sensitive.
20:48I have something huge. Elit Hayes and the wildfire designer. But you didn't get it from me?
20:59You know what the best lies are, Elliot? The ones that sound exactly like something you'd do.
21:17The RSPs are through the roof. Anna's office confirmed. Three major buyers from Asia. And the Times wants to do
21:23a backstage feature. Good. Let's make sure we give them something worth writing about.
21:32Lila, you should see this. There's more. It's on three different platforms already. Fashion Twitter is-
21:36Stop. How thorough. Lila, we don't know if this is real.
21:38It looks real. The message patterns, the way he writes, the time stanks match when he started showing up. It
21:43all, it all fits. Just steps in a plan.
22:10Karina.
22:12Serena.
22:20Emil, this is Elliot Reynolds.
22:21We spoke before.
22:24I need your help again.
22:25The same people who tried to use your name to attack Leela Chen are escalating.
22:28Yes, it's the same source.
22:30I can prove it, but I need you to go on record.
22:32I know it's a risk, because she doesn't deserve this.
22:34No one does, but especially not her.
22:36Tell me what you need.
22:41Leela, the story's collapsing.
22:44A journalist from Business of Flight just published a full debunk.
22:46The screenshots were faked.
22:47The accounts that posted them are connected to Ryland Group.
22:50There's a statement from the InDesigner confirming no plagiarism.
22:53Everything about the smear, it was manufactured, all of it.
22:55The Fashion Week committee just called.
22:57They're issuing a statement of support for wildfire.
22:58They're calling the attack an unextenable attempt to undermine creative integrity.
23:01This might be better for us than if the attack never happened.
23:04The sympathy wave is massive.
23:05Leela, the debunk article mentions that the counter evidence
23:07came from an anonymous source with deep knowledge of the Ryland Group's operational methods.
23:10Every time I build a wall, you find a way through it without even knocking.
23:14You don't ask to be let in.
23:15You just stand outside and make it impossible to forget you're there.
23:19And the worst part, the absolute worst part,
23:20is that I still don't know if it's because you love me
23:22or because you can't stand being the villain of someone else's story.
23:32I'm not going to thank you for the supply chain, or the venue, or the storm, or the article.
23:40I didn't come here looking for a thank you.
23:43Good, because you already got your three words.
23:45Yeah, I did. Best text I ever received.
23:46Why did you do all of it?
23:48And don't say because I owed you or because it was the right thing to do.
23:51I want the real answer.
23:52Because when I saw you on that TV screen in a convenience store in Queens,
23:54standing in an airport looking like you'd conquered the whole damn world,
23:56the first thing I felt wasn't pride and it wasn't jealousy, it was grief.
23:59I grieved the fact that I had the most extraordinary person alive
24:01standing right next to me for 15 years and I treated her like furniture.
24:04You were always there, so I never looked.
24:05And by the time I wanted to look, you were gone.
24:07I didn't help you to win you back.
24:09I helped you because you needed help and I was able to give it.
24:10And because spending 15 years as your friend and not noticing you
24:12is something I will regret every day for the rest of my life.
24:15I can't undo that, but I can make sure that the next time you need someone,
24:18I'm the first person through the door, even if you never let me pass the hallway.
24:22Tell me about Queens. What happened with the job?
24:24Serena happened. She and her brother Damon Hale were running a long game.
24:27Used my position, my access, my name.
24:29By the time I figured it out, the board already had a stack of forged documents with my signature.
24:32I was out in a day. Nobody would touch me after.
24:34And now?
24:34Now I do freelance consulting. Small companies, mostly.
24:36Start-ups that can't afford anyone better.
24:38I've got a studio apartment and a coffee maker that works about 60% of the time.
24:40The coffee maker is honestly the hardest part.
24:41You always did make terrible coffee.
24:42Excuse me, my coffee was legendary.
24:43Your coffee was a war crime.
24:44I read the letter you left with Sophie, the short one, from last week.
24:48Just being near you is enough. It isn't enough. Not for me.
24:52Not anymore.
24:53But I don't know what is, and I need you to give me time to figure that out. Can you
24:56do that?
24:57I can do that.
24:57Don't disappear on me again, Elliot. Not now.
25:10Is it just me, or do those two act exactly like my parents before they admitted they were back together?
25:16Focus on your hemlines, please.
25:30The full package. Send it to Lila Chen's production manager directly, I'll text you the contact.
25:34And push it to Lux Confidential, Fashion Underground, and the Cut's Tips line simultaneously.
25:38I want it everywhere before she can respond.
25:41No, not the plagiarism angle. That's burned.
25:43Use the new material. Yes, the relationship angle. Make it personal. Make it hurt.
25:47Lila, we need to talk. Now, in private.
25:54It's on three platforms already. And this time, it's not just screenshots. There's a document trail.
25:59It lilacs. It looks comprehensive.
26:01He told me to give him time. I gave him time. He told me to trust him. I was starting
26:06to. Where is he?
26:07Loading dock. Moving the last of the lighting rigs.
26:16Hey. I think we're almost... Explain this.
26:22This is fake. Lila, every word of this is fabricated. This is Serena. This is exactly what she did to
26:27me at Apex.
26:28She forges documents. She creates narratives. I never wrote any of these messages. I never signed this agreement. You have
26:34to believe me.
26:35I have to believe you?
26:37Because it's the truth. The time stacks on these messages correspond exactly to the days you showed up at my
26:42venue.
26:42The consulting agreement is dated the week you solved my supply chain crisis.
26:46The language in these chats matches the way you actually talk, your observations, your sentence patterns. Everything lines up, Elliot.
26:52Everything.
26:52Because she knows how I talk. She lived with me for three years. She forged my signature so well that
26:56a corporate board couldn't tell the difference.
26:58This is what she does, Lila. She builds traps that look like truth. Please, let me prove it. Give me
27:0248 hours and I can...
27:03You don't get it. It doesn't matter if this is real or fake. Do you understand that? It doesn't matter.
27:07Of course it matters.
27:08No, it doesn't. Because the fact that I can't tell, the fact that I look at this evidence and I
27:13genuinely cannot determine whether the man standing in front of me is real or performing, that tells me everything I
27:18need to know.
27:19About us. About what we are. About what we've always been.
27:22Three years ago, you stood on a balcony and told me to pretend my feelings didn't exist.
27:28And I flew across an ocean to survive it.
27:31I rebuilt myself from nothing.
27:34I made something beautiful out of the worst night of my life.
27:37And then you walked back into it and I let you.
27:40Inch by inch, I let you back in.
27:43Because some stupid, stubborn part of me still believed that underneath everything, you were the boy on the bench who
27:48gave me a bracelet and said,
27:50Never, ever.
27:52You will always do this, Lila. You will always only know what you had after you've lost it.
27:56And you will always show up just in time to make me believe things could be different.
27:58But they're not. They never were.
27:59And I am so, so tired of being the person who waits for you to see what's right in front
28:03of you.
28:03Don't come to the show. Don't call. Don't help. Just let me go. For real this time.
28:07I love you guys.
28:09I will always do this now.
28:12We'll be right in front of you...
28:13One...
28:35Stay nice.
28:37Austin Taplin
28:37Oh, my God.
29:19Hey, it's Elliot.
29:20I need to book a flight to Paris, one way, tonight if possible.
29:23Yeah, I know it's expensive.
29:24Put it on the business account.
29:25No, I'm not sure when I'll be back.
29:27Whatever it takes.
30:04No, I'm not sure when I'll be back.
30:20No, I'm not sure when I'll be back.
30:23The police think it's industrial sabotage.
30:26Target is professional.
30:28They found traces that link to a private security firm under contract with Ryland Group.
30:32The show is in two weeks.
30:34Lila, we can't.
30:35There's no way we can rebuild all of this.
30:41The Shambra is asking for a formal decision by end of day.
30:43If we're withdrawing, they need to reallocate the slot.
30:45They're sympathetic, but they have other designers waiting for exactly this kind of opening.
30:51How much of the collection is salvageable?
30:53Maybe six pieces out of 28.
30:55How long to rebuild from scratch?
30:57With our current resources, eight weeks minimum.
30:59We have 12 days.
31:00Lila, no one would blame you for pulling out.
31:01You can regroup.
31:02Show next season.
31:02If I pull out, they win.
31:05Whoever did this, Ryland, Serena, all of them, they win.
31:07And the next designer they don't like, they'll do the same thing because they'll know it works.
31:10I'm not pulling out.
31:12Then we need a miracle.
31:13We need materials.
31:14We need additional seamstress.
31:15We need a production pipeline that doesn't exist.
31:16Then we build one.
31:17Payments, fizz, inter-fonsorism.
31:18I don't do ink to myself from Braxel.
31:19Then we build one.
31:25I can't do this alone.
31:27There's someone here.
31:28He says he has a delivery, but he won't give it to anyone except you.
31:30Premium silk or ganda, wool crepe, duchess satin, structural netting, enough for a full collection.
31:34Three industrial sewing machines, a contact list of freelance couture seamstress based in Paris,
31:38all confirmed available, startiate looks in 11 mornings.
31:40And a complete rush delivery on state's embellishments from two suppliers in Milan.
31:42They'll be here in 48 hours.
31:43The logistics company handling transport of the venue has been briefed and is on standby.
31:47How did you pay for all of this?
31:48It doesn't matter.
31:49It doesn't matter, Lila.
31:50What matters is that you have 11 days and you have everything you need.
31:53I'm going to go now.
31:54The seamstress will report here at 7 a.m.
31:55Sophie has their contact information.
31:57This is for you.
31:58Read it whenever or don't.
32:01Wake the team.
32:02We start tonight.
32:29Day 7.
32:30Day 9.
32:46He gave me everything.
32:48Not to win me back.
32:49Not to prove a point.
32:51He gave me everything because I needed it and because he had it to give and because that's
32:55who he is when he's not pretending to be someone else.
32:58He emptied his life to fill mine and he didn't even stay to watch.
33:03I spent three years becoming someone who didn't need Elliot Reynolds and I did it.
33:07I don't need him.
33:08I've never needed him.
33:10But tonight, sitting in this room that he helped save, surrounded by work that only exists
33:15because he threw himself into the fire for me, I finally understand the difference between
33:20needing someone and choosing them.
33:21I didn't do this so you'd love me.
33:24I did this because you taught me what it means to love someone even if they never love
33:28you back.
33:29Go set the world on fire, Lila.
33:32That's what you were always meant to do.
33:33See.
33:45Five minutes to doors.
33:47House is packed.
33:48Standing room only.
33:49Lila, everyone is here.
33:51Then let's give them something they'll never forget.
34:03Extraordinary.
34:05Extraordinary.
34:07Extraordinary.
34:07Extraordinary.
34:10Extraordinary.
34:12Extraordinary.
34:13Extraordinary.
34:14Extraordinary.
34:15Extraordinary.
34:15Extraordinary.
34:16Extraordinary.
34:17Extraordinary.
34:19Extraordinary.
34:24I spent the first half of my life with you right beside me, and I never once looked.
34:27I was so busy de-chasing things that shined that I missed the person who was the light.
34:31You don't need me to tell you you're extraordinary.
34:33The whole world already knows.
34:35You built an empire out of heartbreak and turned everything I destroyed into something beautiful.
34:40I'm standing here because I spent half my life not seeing what was right in front of me,
34:43and I want to spend the other half making sure you never doubt, not for one second,
34:46that you are the most seen, most known, most loved person in any room you walk into.
34:49I was your best friend, and I failed at it.
34:51Let me try again.
34:52Not as your buddy.
35:00Three weeks later, the court is now in session.
35:03Serena, you are charged with commercial fraud and sabotage.
35:08The evidence is overwhelming.
35:12Ms. Chan, following the unprecedented success of your show and the revelations about the sabotage campaign,
35:17can you comment on the future of Wildfire?
35:20Wildfire will continue to do what it's always done, create beauty out of adversity.
35:24And I'm pleased to announce that we'll be expanding our operations with a new strategic partner.
35:28Wildfire has entered into a long-term marketing and brand strategy partnership with Restart Sports Marketing.
35:32Their founder has demonstrated a level of integrity, resourcefulness, and commitment that aligns perfectly with our value.
35:36The founder of Restart, that's Elliot Ronalds, correct?
35:38There were allegations.
35:39Elliot Reynolds was the victim of the same fraud operation that targeted my brand.
35:43Those allegations have been thoroughly abuffed, and the perpetrators are facing criminal charges.
35:48Any further questions about Mr. Reynolds' character can be directed to his work, which speaks for itself.
35:57Remember when you told me that tree was ugly?
36:00I was seven. I didn't know anything.
36:02And now?
36:03Now I think it's the most beautiful tree I've ever seen, because it's still here, after everything.
36:08Still growing crooked.
36:10Did you seriously?
36:11Nora Bennett still would have given me an F. Never, ever.
36:14You know, when you said that the first time, I believed you.
36:16I was seven, and I believed you completely.
36:18And now?
36:19Now I'm 27.
36:21And I still believe you.
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