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ENG The Castaway Daughter
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00:03My mother was the tragic heroine of a story that ended before I was born.
00:08When she died, her four childhood friends cut me out of her body, still breathing.
00:14That's how I got four fathers.
00:16The most powerful senator in the country, kingmaker of presidents.
00:20Garrison, the four-star general who has never lost a war.
00:24Dr. Julian, the Nobel-winning surgeon who built the largest pharmaceutical empire on Earth.
00:30Jax, the underworld king whose name makes the five boroughs go quiet.
00:36Every girl in America envied me, until my 18th birthday gala.
00:41That was the night she came home.
00:43Sienna, the daughter of their perfect muse.
00:47From that day forward, my four fathers became strangers.
00:51Sienna claimed I insulted her.
00:53Alistair had his security detail wire my jaw shut and starved me in the basement for 72 hours.
01:00Sienna claimed I poisoned her.
01:02Dr. Julian dragged me into his black site toxicology lab and let the test specimens eat through my cheek and
01:10devour one of my eyes.
01:12Sienna claimed I hired traffickers to violate her.
01:15Dr. Julian lifted me by the collar and threw me into the underground training grounds.
01:21Made me a plaything for the men there.
01:23For three years.
01:25Three years.
01:26And I stopped fighting.
01:28Tonight, when my door opened again, I reached for my zipper like I always did.
01:33Then I heard a voice.
01:34Not from the doorway.
01:35From inside my skull.
01:37Ellen.
01:39Do not come home to your mother.
01:41All you have to do, sweet girl, is die.
01:45The voice called itself a neural interface.
01:49It said my mother was the original host.
01:51That she'd left this world in a hurry, never knowing I survived her.
01:55Now she knew.
01:56Now she wanted me back.
01:57I was already moving.
01:58I pulled a combat knife from the weapons rack on the wall.
02:01Pressed the edge to my throat.
02:02Mom is alive.
02:04I'm going to see her.
02:05The joy drowned out every instinct to flinch.
02:08I dragged the blade.
02:10And a hand caught my wrist mid-strike.
02:12Pain exploded through my fingers.
02:14The knife clattered to the floor.
02:16A boot stepped on it.
02:17Allura, you want to die?
02:19I knew that voice.
02:20I looked up before I could stop myself.
02:22Jax.
02:23His jaw tightened.
02:24Don't call me that.
02:26I cut ties with you three years ago.
02:28Jax, the underworld king.
02:30When I was seven, a rival cartel kidnapped me.
02:33He walked into their stronghold alone.
02:35Took three bullets and two blades.
02:38When they let me go, I cried at the sight of his wounds.
02:41He'd smiled and said the bullets didn't hurt.
02:43Only my tears did.
02:45Of all four fathers, Jax loved me the most.
02:48Jax picked up the knife.
02:50Glanced at the cut on my throat.
02:51Then, without warning, he slashed the blade across my skin.
02:55His voice came out like ice.
02:57You're as cheap as your mother, Elida.
02:59She at least had the decency to die in front of us.
03:02You picked a sewer.
03:06I almost told him I wasn't performing.
03:09Then I remembered.
03:11But I never listened.
03:12I lowered my head.
03:14You're right, Mr. Sterling.
03:15Did you come all the way down here just to watch the show?
03:19Jax froze for a second.
03:20Don't flatter yourself.
03:21It's Sienna's birthday.
03:23Her coronation is America's sweetheart.
03:25She said she's ready to forgive you.
03:27I came to bring you to her gala.
03:32Three days ago, the news had broken.
03:35Alistair was naming Sienna the official Sterling heiress.
03:43It was supposed to be mine.
03:50He'd promised it to me when I was ten.
03:53The old Alara would have set the city on fire.
03:57The new Alara just said,
04:00I'm not going.
04:02He dragged me out by the wrist.
04:04This isn't a request.
04:06Threw me onto the back of his motorcycle.
04:08Took me to his penthouse.
04:11Scrubbed the grime off me.
04:13Put me in a black couture dress.
04:16Then drove me toward the Sterling estate.
04:19In the back of the town car, he kept talking.
04:23Meal when you see her.
04:25Don't provoke her.
04:26Don't speak unless spoken to.
04:28Don't provoke her.
04:29Every word cut deeper than Dr. Julian's scalpel ever had.
04:34I stared at the East River blurring past the window.
04:37I want to see my mother.
04:39I stood up, opened the door, and jumped.
04:42Seventy miles per hour.
04:44A scream ripped through the car behind me.
04:47The pavement rushed up.
04:50And then I was in someone's arms.
04:52Jax.
04:53We rolled twice across the asphalt.
04:56Blood ran down his face from where my skull had struck his.
05:00His voice came out shaking with rage.
05:03Alara, are you insane?
05:05I reached up to wipe the blood from his cheek.
05:08His expression turned to stone, and he shoved my hand away as if I'd burned him.
05:13If you want to die next time, die.
05:15I won't save you again.
05:22If you want to die next time, die.
05:24I won't save you again.
05:26My hand froze in the air.
05:29Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the Hudson.
05:32Black and glittering under the streetlights.
05:36I laughed once bitter.
05:38Remember what you said, Mr. Sterling.
05:42Then I ran.
05:44Four strides.
05:45The guardrail.
05:46The night air.
05:47I launched myself over the edge.
05:50Jax was terrified of water.
05:52He'd almost drowned as a child.
05:54He'd just said he wouldn't save me.
05:56So when the freezing Hudson flooded my nose and dragged me under,
06:01I smiled.
06:02I'm coming, Mom.
06:05Darkness.
06:07Then, a slap across my face so hard my teeth rang.
06:11You little bitch!
06:13You can't stand a little honest work at the training grounds?
06:16You had to stage this whole performance in front of your father.
06:20Do you know he almost died in that river?
06:23Dr. Julian.
06:25Of the four, he and I had been closest.
06:28The other three ran empires.
06:30He was the one who raised me.
06:33He taught me to read.
06:34Taught me medicine.
06:36Taught me which herbs could kill and which could save.
06:40He never raised his voice at me.
06:43Not once.
06:44Until Sienna came home.
06:46Sienna had planted one of his venomous specimens on herself
06:50and screamed that I did it.
06:52Dr. Julian had whipped me until my back was raw.
06:59Allora.
07:00I failed you.
07:02I raised a monster.
07:06Later, when Sienna was poisoned again,
07:09he force-fed me pheromone pills
07:12and locked me in the containment chamber.
07:15The specimens chewed through my skin from the inside out.
07:21He saved my life afterward,
07:22but he couldn't save my left eye.
07:26I didn't speak now.
07:28He took my silence for defiance,
07:30raised his hand to strike me again,
07:32and Jax's hand shot out of nowhere,
07:35catching his wrist mid-air.
07:37Brother,
07:38she's tried to kill herself three times tonight already.
07:47I looked at Jax.
07:48He'd changed clothes.
07:50His wounds were bandaged.
07:51His face was ghost white.
07:53So it was him who pulled me from the river.
07:55He couldn't swim.
07:56I didn't want to imagine what that cost him.
07:58Jax exhaled.
08:00Thank God.
08:00Dr. Julian turned back to me.
08:03Allora,
08:04today is Sienna's gala.
08:05Act out in front of us if you must,
08:07but do not do this in front of Alistair and Garrison.
08:11His medicine cabinet stood against the far wall.
08:13I yanked open the drawer,
08:14closed my fingers around the black vial,
08:16swallowed it whole.
08:17Dr. Julian's face drained of color.
08:19He lunged,
08:20shoved his fingers down my throat.
08:22Do you know what that was?
08:23Needle to my wrist,
08:24black blood out.
08:25When the black turned red,
08:27he exhaled.
08:29Allora,
08:30you would die over a title?
08:32Tears rolled down my cheeks.
08:34They mistook them for joy.
08:35I dropped to my knees.
08:36Doctor,
08:37Mr. Sterling,
08:39please,
08:40just,
08:41let me die.
08:44I don't want to come home.
08:46I want my mother.
08:48I told them everything.
08:49The voice,
08:50the neural interface,
08:51my mother waiting.
08:53Dr. Julian pulled me upright.
08:54Allora,
08:55your mother is dead.
08:58We sat with her body for seven days.
09:00We watched her rot.
09:02The voice is trauma,
09:03he said.
09:04It wasn't,
09:04I knew.
09:05Tires screeching outside.
09:07Alistair and Garrison burst through the door,
09:09faces white.
09:10Brothers,
09:10have you seen Sienna?
09:11She's missing.
09:12All four of them turned to me,
09:14in perfect,
09:15terrible unison.
09:16I knew that look.
09:17No,
09:18it wasn't me.
09:19Jax's hand closed around my throat.
09:21He dragged me into the courtyard,
09:22plunged my head into the stone fountain.
09:25Under,
09:25up,
09:25under,
09:26up.
09:26Last time,
09:28where
09:29is Sienna?
09:31The truth rose in my throat.
09:33I swallowed it.
09:33Make them kill you.
09:35I smiled up at him.
09:36Sienna?
09:37Oh,
09:37I killed her.
09:38And before I did,
09:39I let 12 of my favorite guests from the training grounds have her first.
09:44Four faces went white.
09:46Alistair sent for the instruments.
09:47Garrison brought the agency's best interrogator.
09:50Dr. Julian force-fed me a stimulant so I'd stay conscious.
09:54Jax gave the order.
09:55The blades went in.
09:56Mom,
09:57I'm coming.
09:57An assistant sprinted down the hall.
09:59Senator!
10:00Sienna!
10:01We found her!
10:02Alive!
10:03My scream tore through the estate.
10:06Hot blood splattered across their faces.
10:09The interrogator's blade,
10:10driven clean and perfect,
10:12straight through my heart.
10:16The blade in my chest burned.
10:19I almost cried.
10:20Almost.
10:20But I was going to see my mother.
10:22Through the haze,
10:23I saw them running toward me.
10:25Alistair ripped off his thousand dollar suit jacket
10:27and pressed it hard against my chest.
10:29Garrison slammed the interrogator into the wall so violently,
10:33I heard something crack.
10:34Dr. Julian forced an experimental compound between my lips.
10:38And Jax?
10:38Jax just kept saying my childhood name.
10:42Ellie.
10:42Ellie.
10:43Don't close your eyes.
10:44Don't you dare-
10:45It reminded me of a winter I'd forgotten.
10:47I was six years old,
10:48burning alive with the fever of 104.
10:51They canceled four boards,
10:53a Pentagon briefing,
10:54a ceasefire negotiation,
10:56just to sit around my bed,
10:58just to coax me into taking medicine.
11:00They used to love me,
11:01so I memorized their faces one last time.
11:04I closed my eyes.
11:06The world should have ended there.
11:07But five days later,
11:08I opened my eyes again,
11:10alive,
11:11in Dr. Julian's guest room.
11:12And the girl sitting at the edge of my bed was Sienna.
11:18Sister, you're awake.
11:20Her voice was syrup.
11:22Dr. Julian crossed the room to take my pulse.
11:24His face was flat.
11:26The blade missed the ventricle by a hair.
11:28I flew the experimental regen serum in from Switzerland.
11:31Five days.
11:33He'd burned a million-dollar compound
11:35on someone who just wanted to die.
11:38Alara, if you didn't touch Sienna,
11:40why didn't you just say so?
11:42Why put us through that?
11:43The other three nodded.
11:45Only Sienna came to my defense.
11:47Don't scold her.
11:48It's my fault.
11:50I got lost.
11:51I just wanted to buy her a gift.
11:54Her eyes glistened on cue.
11:56Sienna missed her own gala worrying about you.
12:00Apologize.
12:01Now.
12:02I laughed.
12:03It hurt my ribs.
12:05I laughed anyway.
12:07Apologize for what, exactly?
12:09The room froze.
12:10I never laid a finger on her.
12:12Not once in my life.
12:14Every crime she cried about,
12:16she staged.
12:18And you bastards believed every tear.
12:21Sienna's face crumpled on cue.
12:23And Dr. Julian's hand came up so fast,
12:26I didn't see it move.
12:27Just felt the sting bloom across my cheeks.
12:32Sienna ran to Alistair,
12:35clung to his sleeve.
12:36Father,
12:37send me back to the compound in New Mexico.
12:40That's where I belong.
12:41The four of them melted instantly.
12:44They hushed her,
12:45promised her she was their precious girl.
12:48Then they turned on me.
12:51Alistair's voice dropped.
12:52You're jealous.
12:53That's all this is.
12:55Jealous like your mother.
12:57Don't.
12:58Dr. Julian slapped me.
13:00Jealous like your mother.
13:02Spiteful like your mother.
13:03Your mother would be ashamed of you.
13:05Don't you dare bring up my mother.
13:09My mother risked her life to hide you four
13:12when your father was assassinated.
13:15My mother emptied her trust fund
13:17to buy the evidence that exonerated the Sterling name.
13:20My mother found the witnesses.
13:22My mother testified at the hearings.
13:24My mother gave you this empire.
13:27And what did you do?
13:29Alistair,
13:30you left her at the altar for a stranger
13:33who'd been in your life eight weeks.
13:35Garrison,
13:36she called you crying for help
13:38and you didn't pick up the phone.
13:40Julian,
13:42Jax,
13:43you swore you'd protect her.
13:46You drove her into the water.
13:48My mother called them by their first names.
13:50Four faces went bone white.
13:52They hadn't realized I knew.
13:54And Alistair's voice came out hoarse.
13:56Almost a whisper,
13:58how?
13:59How do you know any of this?
14:03Because of Lily.
14:04My mother's maid.
14:06The one person they couldn't make disappear.
14:08Alistair had banned her name
14:10from every inch of the estate after she died.
14:13Burned every portrait.
14:15Paid off every witness.
14:16Shipped every servant back to wherever they came from.
14:19The tabloids thought the Titans were grieving too hard to bear her image.
14:23I knew better.
14:24They were furious.
14:25Because my mother had driven
14:27Sienna,
14:27Sienna's real mother,
14:29into hiding
14:30by dying.
14:31When I was nine,
14:32I fell out of a tree
14:33and into the condemned east wing of the estate.
14:36Lily was there,
14:37still living in my mother's old rooms,
14:39the ones they'd sealed.
14:40She looked at me and started to cry.
14:43Your eyes are exactly like hers.
14:45She told me everything.
14:46My mother helped Alistair escape the men
14:49who killed his father.
14:50My mother nursed Garrison
14:51through his first combat wound.
14:53My mother synthesized the rare compound
14:55that saved Dr. Julian's dying sister.
14:58My mother found Jax
14:59when the underworld left him for dead
15:01and brought him back with her bare hands.
15:04She'd been their whole world
15:06until Fiona came.
15:07Alistair broke off the engagement
15:09two weeks before the wedding.
15:11Jax,
15:12who'd comforted my mother through the humiliation,
15:14confessed his love to Bjorn behind her back.
15:17Garrison imprisoned my mother
15:19for her own safety.
15:21Dr. Julian watched it all happen
15:22and said nothing.
15:24When Bjorn planted the last false accusation,
15:27my mother stopped fighting.
15:29Lily told me
15:29everyone thinks she drowned herself
15:31out of heartbreak.
15:32But that morning she was smiling.
15:34She told me
15:35I was going home.
15:36I asked,
15:37isn't this her home?
15:38Lily shook her head
15:39and her answer has never left me since.
15:42She said her real home
15:43was another world
15:44and she said
15:45you could go there too.
15:49Back in the present,
15:50the four of them
15:51sat in broken silence.
15:53Ellie,
15:55if you're miserable here,
15:58come with me.
16:00Come see the world.
16:02Travel.
16:03You said once
16:05you wanted to be like me.
16:07Jax,
16:08you don't want to take me away
16:10because you love me.
16:11You want to take me away
16:13so I stop making Sienna uncomfortable.
16:15His eyes flickered.
16:17Bullseye.
16:18If you take her with you,
16:20she needs medical supervision.
16:22I'll take her to my private facility
16:25in Geneva.
16:26No,
16:26she'll come back
16:27to the training grounds with me.
16:28She was obedient there.
16:30Loud enough
16:30that Garrison's own chair fell over
16:32as he shot to his feet.
16:34Back to the training grounds?
16:36Garrison,
16:37haven't your men
16:38violated me enough yet?
16:40The room
16:40went dead silent.
16:42Suddenly,
16:42his voice came back at me
16:44like a gunshot.
16:45What did you just say?
16:49And the second you left,
16:50they told me
16:51the general himself
16:53had given the order.
16:54I was a new asset.
16:56Don't go easy on her.
16:58There was someone
16:59in my cell every night.
17:00Sometimes one,
17:02sometimes three.
17:04Dr. Julian,
17:05you taught me
17:06about conceptives.
17:07I use them every time.
17:09Dr. Julian's lips
17:10went gray.
17:11Tell me you didn't use
17:12sylphrous extract.
17:13I nodded.
17:14He doubled over
17:15like I'd stabbed him.
17:16That compound
17:17erodes the uterine lining.
17:19Every dose
17:20is like grinding bone.
17:21How did you...
17:22Better than a baby.
17:23Silence.
17:24Jax moved first.
17:25Grab Garrison
17:26by the collar.
17:27You piece of shit.
17:29You told them to.
17:31I didn't.
17:32Garrison's voice
17:33was a whisper.
17:34I never gave that order.
17:36Could sister...
17:37be exaggerating?
17:39Garrison exhaled.
17:40Exactly.
17:41My men would never.
17:42I peeled off my blouse.
17:44My back was a map.
17:46Whip scars.
17:47Burn marks.
17:48The ruined tissue
17:49from the sylphium.
17:51Lacerations that had healed wrong
17:52because no one had set them.
17:54Every man in the room
17:55stopped breathing.
17:56And Garrison's hand
17:58was already on his phone.
17:59Shaking so hard
18:00he could barely dial
18:01as he barked
18:02into the receiver.
18:03Pull every officer
18:04who had access to her cell.
18:07Tonight!
18:10The four men
18:11who had tortured me
18:12for three years
18:13were finally,
18:15finally looking at me
18:16like I was real.
18:18Sienna saw it too.
18:20Her eyes flickered
18:21with something cold.
18:23I pushed.
18:23I don't want to live
18:24with any of you.
18:26I want to go home
18:27to my mother.
18:28Dr. Julian and Jax
18:29exchanged a look
18:30I couldn't read.
18:32Elora, you've been
18:33through trauma.
18:34The voice isn't real.
18:36But we can make you comfortable.
18:38Each of us kept
18:39one of your mother's rooms.
18:41You can live
18:42in whichever one you choose.
18:43I shook my head.
18:44I want my mother.
18:46Why doesn't sister
18:47stay with me?
18:48She's afraid of men now.
18:50My staff are all women.
18:52I'll take care of her.
18:54Four pairs of hopeful eyes
18:56swung toward me.
18:58I opened my mouth
18:59to refuse.
18:59Then I saw Sienna's expression.
19:02The small,
19:03triumphant curl
19:04at the corner of her mouth.
19:05And I understood
19:06exactly what she wanted.
19:08Living with the fathers
19:09would keep me alive.
19:11Living with Sienna
19:12would kill me.
19:13I smiled back at her,
19:14matching her mask
19:15with my own,
19:16and said the two words
19:18that sealed it.
19:19Okay.
19:20Sienna.
19:24Exactly what I expected.
19:26The second the door
19:27closed behind the Titans,
19:29her smile died.
19:30She led me to a windowless room
19:32in the sub-basement
19:33of her brownstone.
19:34Her two handmaids
19:36forced me to my knees.
19:38I didn't fight.
19:39You brought me here
19:40to torture me.
19:41Congratulations.
19:42I'm not surprised.
19:44Sienna lowered herself
19:45into a chair
19:46across from me.
19:47Legs crossed,
19:48wine glass in hand.
19:50Your mother killed mine.
19:52I'm just balancing the books.
19:54Then kill me.
19:55Kill me and we're even.
19:56Go on.
19:57You think I won't?
19:59You won't.
20:01Your mother was a cheap slut.
20:03A homewrecker.
20:05A whore passed around
20:07every bed in Manhattan.
20:08Don't speak about my mother!
20:10She lunged,
20:12slapped me,
20:13drew a knife,
20:14pressed it to my throat.
20:15My mother was royalty.
20:18My mother was the last daughter of...
20:20An older woman,
20:21her chief of staff,
20:22caught her wrist.
20:24Princess, careful.
20:25Sienna blinked,
20:27snapped back to herself.
20:28She laughed,
20:29soft and cold,
20:31and waved the older woman off.
20:33But she'd said too much,
20:35and we both knew
20:36I'd heard every word of it.
20:38Death is a second of relief.
20:40I'm not giving you that.
20:42I'm going to keep you alive,
20:44conscious,
20:45watching,
20:46while I take everything
20:47that was ever yours
20:48one piece at a time.
20:50She clapped twice.
20:52Four large men walked in.
20:53My stomach dropped
20:54before my brain caught up.
20:56I knew those faces.
20:57Every single one of them.
20:59They were from the training grounds.
21:01My body started shaking
21:02before I could stop it.
21:03The men who came to my cell
21:05for three years,
21:06they were yours?
21:08Sienna laughed,
21:09delighted.
21:09Every single one,
21:11hand-picked,
21:12for you.
21:13I'm a generous sister,
21:15aren't I?
21:16Garrison's men
21:16couldn't have been infiltrated
21:18by just anyone.
21:19A four-star general's
21:21personal command.
21:22I tested her.
21:23Aren't you afraid
21:24Garrison will find out?
21:26If I wasn't certain
21:27he wouldn't.
21:28I wouldn't have done it.
21:30Which meant she had moles
21:31inside the U.S. Army.
21:33And if she could bend
21:33Garrison's command
21:34to her will,
21:35there was no telling
21:36how deep the rot
21:37in this city went,
21:39or which of my father's empires
21:40was already hollowed out
21:42from the inside.
21:43She clapped again.
21:44The men moved toward me.
21:46The familiar smell
21:47hit me first.
21:48Cheap cologne
21:49and military-grade soap.
21:51My stomach flipped.
21:53Sienna didn't want me dead.
21:54She wanted me hollow.
21:56Every time I got too weak,
21:58her doctors revived me.
21:59Two weeks in,
22:00I was skin and bone,
22:02barely lucid.
22:03Then the fathers
22:04started showing up.
22:05One of them every day.
22:06She wouldn't let them see me.
22:08Sister is resting.
22:09She gets agitated
22:10when she sees men.
22:11They came back,
22:12and back,
22:13and back.
22:14Until Dr. Julian,
22:16on his fourth visit,
22:17offered to fly me to Geneva
22:18for inpatient
22:20neuropsychiatric care.
22:21And for the first time
22:22in two weeks,
22:23Sienna had no way
22:25to refuse
22:25without exposing herself.
22:27Before she let me
22:28into the room,
22:29she dug her nails
22:30into my cheek.
22:31Remember,
22:32they believe me,
22:33not you.
22:35One wrong word,
22:35and I burn your eyes out.
22:37I nodded.
22:38Then,
22:38I walked into the room,
22:40dropped to my knees
22:41in front of Dr. Julian,
22:42gripped his wrist.
22:43Save me.
22:44She has men here.
22:45The soldiers who raped me.
22:46They're hers.
22:47She's planning
22:48to overthrow Alistair.
22:49Sienna went white,
22:51recovered in half a second.
22:52Oh,
22:53sister,
22:53your delusions are back.
22:55I'm not.
22:57Enough!
22:58Dr. Julian cut me off,
22:59face full of disappointment,
23:01exactly as Sienna had predicted.
23:03Alara,
23:04I thought staying with Sienna
23:05would humble you.
23:07Instead,
23:07you're spreading slander.
23:08I won't visit again.
23:10He walked out.
23:11Sienna bent down,
23:12whispered in my ear,
23:13When will you learn?
23:15She turned to her men
23:16with a smile,
23:17I'll remember until I die,
23:19and gave the order
23:20in a voice like sugar.
23:21Night,
23:22nobody holds back.
23:23After this,
23:25no one's coming
23:26to check on her ever again.
23:28She dipped a braided
23:29leather whip in salt water.
23:30The first lash fell,
23:32then another,
23:32then tires.
23:34Outside,
23:34screeching,
23:35Sienna froze.
23:36The door exploded inward.
23:38Four men,
23:39four silhouettes
23:40in bespoke coats.
23:41Alistair,
23:42Garrison,
23:43Dr. Julian,
23:44Jax,
23:45they saw what was in the room.
23:46Four faces went to stone.
23:48Alistair stepped in first.
23:49Sienna,
23:50what are you doing?
23:51Even royalty folds
23:53under Alistair's voice.
23:54Sienna hit her knees.
23:55Father,
23:56I can explain.
23:58I was playing with sister.
24:00She was so afraid of men.
24:01I was helping her.
24:03Playing.
24:03Alistair's voice was below zero.
24:05And what are the soldiers
24:06you've been training
24:07at the compound in North Hills?
24:08Garrison tossed something
24:09at her feet.
24:10Something that bounced twice,
24:12rolled,
24:12and came to rest upright
24:13so we could see the face.
24:15And Sienna's lips formed the word,
24:17no,
24:18before her brain caught up
24:19to the severed head
24:20of her own commander
24:21staring back at her.
24:22Here's what had happened.
24:24Earlier that day,
24:25when I whispered the truth
24:26to Dr. Julian,
24:27he'd believed me.
24:28He'd noticed Sienna's
24:30handmaids.
24:31The throats weren't right.
24:32Adam's apples.
24:33Calluses from weapons training
24:35on their palms.
24:36Julian was a scientist,
24:38not a fighter.
24:38He'd driven straight to Alistair
24:40and told the others.
24:41While they were mobilizing,
24:43Garrison's internal audit
24:44cracked open.
24:45The whole training grounds
24:47trafficking scheme unraveled.
24:49They traced the money.
24:50It led to an abandoned
24:52industrial site in North Hills,
24:53a private militia
24:55with hundreds of men.
24:56A standing army,
24:58inside U.S. borders,
25:00pointed at Manhattan.
25:01They stormed it that afternoon.
25:03Most of the force
25:03was mercenaries and ex-cons.
25:05They folded in 20 minutes.
25:07The commander broke
25:08under questioning in 10.
25:10And when the four of them
25:10listened to the recording
25:11of his confession,
25:12they realized he wasn't American.
25:15He wasn't a mercenary.
25:16And he wasn't working
25:17for any cartel
25:18they'd ever heard of.
25:19He was the last living general
25:21of a monarchy
25:22that supposedly ended
25:2330 years ago.
25:24He was a deposed
25:25Eastern European general.
25:27One of the last holdouts
25:28from the old regime
25:29the Sterlings had helped
25:31overthrow a generation ago.
25:32He'd been taking orders
25:33from Sienna.
25:34And Sienna's mother,
25:35Fiona,
25:37wasn't just a pretty stranger.
25:38She was the deposed monarchy's
25:40youngest princess.
25:41Exiled,
25:42forgotten,
25:43living in a convent.
25:44She'd spent 20 years
25:45planning her revenge.
25:47Step one,
25:47seduce the four boys
25:49who had killed her father.
25:50Step two,
25:51destroy my mother,
25:52who was the one person
25:53who saw through her.
25:54My mother didn't drown herself.
25:57She killed her.
25:59We just learned this.
26:01Fiona,
26:02poisoned your mother
26:03to silence her,
26:04then vanished.
26:05Garrison picked up the thread.
26:07She left her daughter behind,
26:09raised on hatred.
26:10I found Sienna in Albania.
26:11I thought I was saving her.
26:13I brought a weapon
26:13into our home.
26:15Sienna was sobbing
26:16on the floor now.
26:17I'm your daughter.
26:19I'm your blood.
26:21You can't do this to me.
26:23Alistair's voice could have cut glass.
26:27You are not my daughter.
26:28I never slept with your mother.
26:30You're the bastard child
26:31of an exiled pretender.
26:33Bastard.
26:34Sienna snapped.
26:35She threw her head back
26:36and laughed.
26:37Oh,
26:38I'm not yours?
26:40Then whose is Allura?
26:42Because none of you know either.
26:44The room froze.
26:45Four heads turned toward me.
26:47Sienna pulled a transmitter
26:49from her sleeve,
26:49pulled the pin.
26:50Black-clad men flooded
26:52every entrance of the estate.
26:54Her second army,
26:55the one she'd kept in reserve,
26:57and while Alistair's security
26:59and Sienna's mercenaries
27:00collided in the hallway
27:01in a cascade of gunfire,
27:03I slipped past all of them,
27:05out the front door
27:06and into the night.
27:07I didn't let rock-clad any of you
27:07I just said they were
27:07And I say no.