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SEVEN DAYS
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00:00:02Hmm...
00:00:03Becca, it's midnight.
00:00:04And you're still writing, I know.
00:00:07Listen, I sold your spec script to a producer.
00:00:09He wants changes.
00:00:10What kind of changes?
00:00:12Happy ending. He says tragedy doesn't sell.
00:00:15It's a murder mystery.
00:00:17Someone has to die.
00:00:18Then kill the villain, not the heroine.
00:00:21Call me tomorrow.
00:00:27Everyone's an editor.
00:00:31Done.
00:00:32Silent billionaire kills his fiancée.
00:00:35No one suspects him.
00:00:37Perfect.
00:00:40I wish I could live inside your world.
00:00:43Just one week.
00:00:45Just to see if I got it right.
00:00:56What the...
00:01:14No.
00:01:15No.
00:01:16No.
00:01:17No way.
00:01:17This is...
00:01:18This is my script.
00:01:20The engagement.
00:01:22The penthouse.
00:01:23The silent fiancée.
00:01:25I wrote all of this.
00:01:28I wrote all of this.
00:01:36Must have been a nightmare.
00:01:37There.
00:01:46I have seven days.
00:01:48And I'm the only one who knows how the ends.
00:01:58In my script, he's a killer.
00:02:00But right now, he just looks like a guy who's really boring with his coffee.
00:02:06So, what's on your schedule today?
00:02:15Where?
00:02:19Just curious.
00:02:20I might drop by later.
00:02:24He doesn't believe me.
00:02:26He never does.
00:02:27But I'm going anyway.
00:02:36In the script, the victim is found at 3 o'clock.
00:02:40I have 13 minutes.
00:02:47Yeah.
00:02:48I smell gas.
00:02:49Strong.
00:02:50Like, really strong.
00:02:51You should send someone.
00:02:54I already called 911.
00:02:55You should wait outside.
00:02:56Now.
00:02:57Who are you?
00:02:58Someone who doesn't want to die in a perfect place.
00:03:01Move.
00:03:09One down.
00:03:10Six to go.
00:03:20I don't know what you're...
00:03:34How?
00:03:36I got lucky.
00:03:39He spoke.
00:03:41He spoke to me.
00:03:42And I lied to his face.
00:03:46Seven days.
00:03:48One down.
00:03:49Five to go.
00:03:55Did you hear?
00:03:56That assistant almost died yesterday.
00:03:57And guess who called 911?
00:03:59Sloane Harper.
00:04:00The same Sloane Harper who's engaged to Sebastian Sterling?
00:04:03The guy who never talks?
00:04:04The one and only.
00:04:05Some people are saying she knew it was going to happen.
00:04:07Like, before it happened.
00:04:08That's creepy.
00:04:09What's creepier is that her fiance's family had some old feud with the Vances,
00:04:12like 15 years ago.
00:04:13Something about a kidnapping.
00:04:15Kidnapping?
00:04:15I didn't write that.
00:04:16What are they talking about?
00:04:21I didn't write this.
00:04:24Someone else did.
00:04:25Someone's been in my computer.
00:04:33Sebastian?
00:04:34What happened to your mother?
00:04:39I'm so sorry.
00:04:42What are you?
00:04:44I'm not.
00:04:46I can't explain.
00:04:47Not yet.
00:04:51He knows I'm going to try to stop it.
00:04:54But he doesn't know how.
00:04:57I have to go.
00:05:03Who is this?
00:05:06What do you want?
00:05:07Someone else knows the future.
00:05:09And they're playing a game with me.
00:05:10Tomorrow, I stop the second murder.
00:05:13Then I find whoever's been in my computer.
00:05:28If it's nothing, why hide it?
00:05:32My past?
00:05:33I grew up in Brooklyn.
00:05:35My grandmother raised me.
00:05:36There's nothing to know.
00:05:39Isabella Vance.
00:05:40Isabella Vance.
00:05:41The victim.
00:05:41Or maybe...
00:05:43Not just a victim.
00:05:44That tattoo.
00:05:45I wrote it into my script for a villain.
00:05:47But I didn't write it for Isabella.
00:05:49Someone changed that too.
00:05:53You didn't want me to come.
00:05:54But you didn't stop me.
00:05:58And you're not?
00:06:02Time to check the brakes.
00:06:14Black sedan.
00:06:15License Vance 1.
00:06:16Flat tire.
00:06:17The owner doesn't know yet.
00:06:17Just send someone.
00:06:20I'm fine.
00:06:22Just...
00:06:22Car sick.
00:06:29Car accident today.
00:06:30His vehicle reportedly suffered a mechanical failure.
00:06:31But a tow truck's early arrival may have prevented a tragedy.
00:06:34Police are investigating possible tampering.
00:06:36I couldn't let him die.
00:06:40Because if he died, they would blame you.
00:06:55You don't have to thank me.
00:06:57I...
00:06:57No.
00:06:59Who cut the brake line?
00:07:01Who tampered with my script?
00:07:03That tattoo.
00:07:04Isabella Vance?
00:07:05Who is she really?
00:07:17You asked me to dig into the Vance-Sterling history.
00:07:20I found something.
00:07:2115 years ago, Vance Industries and Sterling Group signed a settlement agreement.
00:07:24The details are sealed, but there's a clause that's been partially redacted.
00:07:28It says, in the event of a fault by Sterling, the Vance family reserves the right to seek
00:07:30personal seems accountability from Sebastian Sterling.
00:07:32Personal accountability?
00:07:33What is that?
00:07:34It could be anything.
00:07:35Financial, legal, or criminal.
00:07:37So if someone wanted to destroy Sebastian, they could engineer a default and then claim
00:07:41he's accountable.
00:07:42That's the theory.
00:07:43He benefits.
00:07:45Isabella's mother, Elaine Bounce, she's a lawyer.
00:07:48She would have known how to write this clause.
00:07:50She's been Vance's attorney for 20 years.
00:07:57It's them.
00:07:59It's always been them.
00:08:03Sloan Harper, you've been someone who's been reading your script.
00:08:05Who is this?
00:08:06The real one.
00:08:06The one before all the changes.
00:08:08What do you want?
00:08:09To warn you, or threaten you.
00:08:10Whichever you prefer.
00:08:11Get to the point.
00:08:12You think you're saving people.
00:08:13But every time you intervene, the story changes.
00:08:16And the next death becomes harder to prevent.
00:08:18What are you saying?
00:08:19I'm saying, you won't save them all.
00:08:22And in the end, you'll be the one who pays.
00:08:25What was that?
00:08:27Someone who knows too much.
00:08:31You're scared?
00:08:32Yes.
00:08:34Of what?
00:08:39Of losing you.
00:08:41I didn't plan this.
00:08:43I didn't write this.
00:08:44But here we are.
00:08:52It's done.
00:08:53The breaks were cut.
00:08:55I know.
00:08:56I watched.
00:08:56But she called a tow truck.
00:08:57He's alive.
00:08:58I'm aware.
00:08:59She's proving to be resourceful.
00:09:01What's the next move?
00:09:02The engagement party.
00:09:03We don't touch her until then.
00:09:05Let her think she's winning.
00:09:07It's a battle.
00:09:07When she falls, he falls with her.
00:09:09That's the beauty of love that makes you vulnerable.
00:09:17I traced Elaine Vance's financial records for the past 15 years.
00:09:20Some accounts in the caveman's.
00:09:21Not in her name, but the money flows to her.
00:09:22Can you connect her to the kidnapping?
00:09:23Not directly, but she was Sterling's personal attorney.
00:09:25She resigned one week before the kidnapping.
00:09:27Then she joined Vance Group.
00:09:28The timing is too perfect.
00:09:30She knew it was going to happen.
00:09:31Maybe she planned it.
00:09:34But why?
00:09:34What's the motive?
00:09:35This personal escouncibility clause.
00:09:36If Sterling Group defaults, the Vance's can go after Sebastian.
00:09:39After the kidnapping, Sterling's wife disappears.
00:09:41The company falls into chaos, and the Vance's sign this agreement.
00:09:43So Elaine engineered the kidnapping to control Sterling?
00:09:45Not just control.
00:09:46Extortion.
00:09:46Every step.
00:09:47The breaks.
00:09:48The murders.
00:09:48The framing.
00:09:48It was all her plan.
00:09:49There's a problem.
00:09:50The murder details in the script.
00:09:51Elaine couldn't have written those.
00:09:52Some of them, only I knew.
00:09:53You think she has an accomplice?
00:09:54Someone hacked me.
00:09:55I've been copying my files.
00:09:56That person is the real prophet.
00:09:57Elaine is just the executor.
00:10:00What price?
00:10:03They found my grandma.
00:10:08No.
00:10:08If they see bodyguards, they'll move fast.
00:10:10I go see her.
00:10:11Warn her.
00:10:11But I can't tell her the truth.
00:10:13Her heart can't take it.
00:10:16You're too recognizable.
00:10:18That face gets noticed everywhere.
00:10:21You're joking at a time like this?
00:10:24He's the man the world calls cold.
00:10:26But what he remembers is how to make me smile.
00:10:33What's the sudden visit?
00:10:34Missed you, grandma.
00:10:36That car.
00:10:37Whose is it?
00:10:38My fiance's.
00:10:39Fiance?
00:10:40You never mentioned him.
00:10:41Things are complicated.
00:10:43Grandma, have any strangers come by recently?
00:10:45No.
00:10:46Just the mailman and old Tom next door borrowing sugar.
00:10:49If anyone knocks, no matter who, don't open the door.
00:10:52Call me.
00:10:53You're in trouble, aren't you?
00:10:54No.
00:10:55But I can handle it.
00:10:57I promise.
00:10:58You've always been stubborn as a mule.
00:11:00Go handle your trouble.
00:11:02I'm not so old that I need a babysitter.
00:11:17They don't want me dead.
00:11:18They want me gone.
00:11:20No body, no evidence, no case.
00:11:26Or now.
00:11:29I won't let anyone hurt you.
00:11:33He's learning to speak for me.
00:11:34And I might get him killed just by existing.
00:11:42Someone is carefully designing a trap.
00:11:45Make Sebastian the killer make me vanish.
00:11:49Marcus, I need you to find something.
00:11:51The detective who handled the Sterling kidnapping case,
00:11:53is he still alive?
00:11:54One second, got it.
00:11:55Detective James O'Brien, retired, lives on Long Island.
00:11:58Send me the address.
00:11:59Actually, I have two addresses here.
00:12:01One in Long Island, one in Florida.
00:12:03Not sure which is current.
00:12:04You have two?
00:12:04Old records.
00:12:05I'll send both.
00:12:06And cross-reference with any other connections to the Sterling case.
00:12:09Will do.
00:12:11Something doesn't feel right.
00:12:12Something doesn't feel right.
00:12:19How did you...
00:12:20How do you even know that?
00:12:27Yes, I want to help you find her.
00:12:32Mr. Sterling, I didn't think you'd ever come back to see me.
00:12:38Come in.
00:12:39I worked that case for six months.
00:12:41Then it got shut down.
00:12:44National security, they said, told me to keep my mouth shut.
00:12:47Who shut it down?
00:12:48Your mom.
00:12:50Your father.
00:12:54He said your mother ran off with another man.
00:12:56Didn't want the scandal.
00:12:57But you didn't believe that.
00:12:58I found evidence.
00:12:59Witnesses who saw two men force her into a van.
00:13:01Not a lover.
00:13:01Kidnapped.
00:13:02I kept everything.
00:13:02Photos, statements, witness names.
00:13:04Invex, putting balloons, transferring to be careful.
00:13:05Whoever shut down a kidnapping investigation won't let you reopen at your time easily.
00:13:08Thank you, detective.
00:13:11Son.
00:13:12Your mother called you before she was taken.
00:13:15Do you remember what she said?
00:13:20She said, don't look for me.
00:13:22Live.
00:13:27She told me to live.
00:13:31She told you to live, not to be silent.
00:13:34I didn't know how not to be silent.
00:13:38You've already started.
00:13:40Talking to me.
00:13:42Smiling at me.
00:13:43Getting angry at me.
00:13:44You're not a silent man.
00:13:46You just hadn't found anyone worth talking to.
00:13:50You're...
00:13:50Worth it.
00:13:52He says I'm worth it.
00:13:53Not I love you.
00:13:54But heavier.
00:13:57Then keep going.
00:13:58No matter what happens.
00:13:59No matter what those anonymous texts say.
00:14:00Keep talking to me.
00:14:02I promise I'll stay.
00:14:06There.
00:14:07The Vances were involved.
00:14:12Switzerland.
00:14:13Serenity.
00:14:15She's alive.
00:14:17She's coming back.
00:14:18I promise.
00:14:25I found it.
00:14:26Serenity Clinic.
00:14:28In the Alps.
00:14:29Private institution.
00:14:30No public records.
00:14:31They take patients who need to disappear.
00:14:33Can you find out if Katherine Sterling is still there?
00:14:36Not directly.
00:14:37But I found a retired nurse.
00:14:38She agreed to talk.
00:14:41Who is this?
00:14:41Why are you asking about Serenity?
00:14:43My name is Sloane Harper.
00:14:44I'm looking for a woman.
00:14:46American.
00:14:46Sent there 15 years ago.
00:14:48She would have used a fake name.
00:14:49I don't know what you're talking about.
00:14:51She's been missing for 15 years.
00:14:53Her son thought she was dead.
00:14:55He hasn't spoken a full sentence since.
00:14:57He needs to find her.
00:14:59Her fake name was Margaret Smith.
00:15:00She was transferred three years ago.
00:15:03I don't know where.
00:15:03Transferred by whom?
00:15:05A young woman.
00:15:05Dark hair.
00:15:0620.
00:15:07She had legal papers.
00:15:09Said she was Mrs. Sterling's daughter.
00:15:11That woman's name is Isabella Vance.
00:15:13She's not a daughter.
00:15:14She's part of the family that kidnapped her.
00:15:16I didn't know.
00:15:17The papers looked official.
00:15:19Can you find the transfer records from three years ago?
00:15:22I can try.
00:15:23But you have to promise not to use my name.
00:15:24I promise.
00:15:29Yes.
00:15:30And she's been using that information to control you.
00:15:36Sloane.
00:15:38Unexpected.
00:15:39Where's your mother, Elaine?
00:15:41Mother?
00:15:41At home.
00:15:42Why do you need her?
00:15:43Stop pretending.
00:15:45I know you were involved in the kidnapping.
00:15:48You know where Katherine Sterling is.
00:15:50You transferred her from that clinic three years ago.
00:15:54What evidence do you have?
00:15:56A nurse in Switzerland is willing to testify.
00:16:00You used fake documents.
00:16:01That's a federal crime.
00:16:04You think you've won?
00:16:06You think finding her will save everyone?
00:16:09I'm the only one who knows where Katherine Sterling is.
00:16:12If something happens to me, she dies too.
00:16:16Did your script include that?
00:16:19What do you want?
00:16:24Simple.
00:16:25Break the engagement.
00:16:27Leave Sebastian.
00:16:28Drop all charges against my mother.
00:16:30Then I'll tell you where she is.
00:16:33Why should I trust you?
00:16:34You don't have to trust me.
00:16:36You just have to know.
00:16:38I want to live more than you want to find her.
00:16:41This was taken last night.
00:16:43She's alive.
00:16:46But if you don't do what I say,
00:16:48Next time, there won't be a photo.
00:16:51Break the engagement.
00:16:53Leave you.
00:16:55Drop the charges.
00:16:57Don't.
00:16:58What?
00:17:00Don't agree.
00:17:02But your mother-
00:17:03My mother would want me to be happy.
00:17:10Not threatened.
00:17:12We find her together.
00:17:16Together.
00:17:17What if they hurt her?
00:17:19They already hurt her.
00:17:2115 years.
00:17:24They won't hurt us.
00:17:29You are my home.
00:17:35She refused.
00:17:37Then we move to plan B.
00:17:40The night of the party.
00:17:42Sloan Harrison disappears.
00:17:44Permanently.
00:17:45And Sebastian Sterling goes to prison for murdering his fiancee.
00:17:49Are you sure?
00:17:5015 years.
00:17:52It ends now.
00:17:56Disappear or die.
00:17:57There's no third option.
00:18:04The party will have 200 guests.
00:18:07It's gonna be a circus.
00:18:09Security is handled by the Vanders.
00:18:12That means they can manufacture chaos at any moment.
00:18:15In the script, Isabella is poisoned at the party.
00:18:18But the killer isn't Sebastian, it's Elaine.
00:18:20She wants to kill her own daughter and frame Sebastian.
00:18:22Why kill her own daughter?
00:18:24Because Isabella knows too much.
00:18:26She's a liability.
00:18:27Elaine wants control of Sterling Group, not her daughter's life.
00:18:32You make Elaine expose herself.
00:18:35Marcus, three things.
00:18:36One, install hidden cameras in the party venue.
00:18:38Two, find Elaine's communication records with the Swiss clinic.
00:18:41Three, prepare a fake police report say there's a terrorist threat for the night.
00:18:44Get law enforcement on site.
00:18:45The third one needs Sebastian's authorization.
00:18:53Understood.
00:18:55Are you scared?
00:18:57Afraid of losing you.
00:19:00But I'm more afraid of doing nothing and losing you anyway.
00:19:07Then we make sure that doesn't happen.
00:19:14Can you trace where she was moved to?
00:19:19E.K.?
00:19:26Who is that?
00:19:29E.K. is Edmund Kendrick.
00:19:31What's his connection to the Vancers?
00:19:33I'll dig.
00:19:33Hold on.
00:19:34Edmund Kendrick, retired judge.
00:19:37Now he's Elaine Vancers' personal legal counsel.
00:19:40A judge?
00:19:41When did he retire?
00:19:4316 years ago.
00:19:4516 years ago.
00:19:45Right before the Sterling E.K.
00:19:48Marcus, check what cases Judge Kendrick presided over.
00:19:51Especially anything related to Sterling Group.
00:19:53A retired judge who became Elaine's personal lawyer.
00:19:56A retired judge who became Elaine's personal lawyer.
00:19:57Receiving money from a Swiss clinic.
00:20:00Bribery?
00:20:01Hush money?
00:20:04She found the Swiss account.
00:20:08It doesn't matter.
00:20:10The account is empty.
00:20:12The evidence is destroyed.
00:20:13But she's still digging.
00:20:15She found O'Brien.
00:20:16O'Brien is a senile old man.
00:20:18His files have no legal standing.
00:20:20Edmund, I don't like this.
00:20:22That woman.
00:20:23She's not ordinary.
00:20:24She can see the future.
00:20:26No one can see the future.
00:20:28She's lucky.
00:20:28It's not luck.
00:20:29She wrote a script.
00:20:31All the murder details were correct.
00:20:32That's impossible.
00:20:33Then we make sure she can't write anymore.
00:20:35Party night.
00:20:36Stick to the plan.
00:20:37Remember.
00:20:38Sloan Harrapin must disappear.
00:20:40Sebastian must be convicted.
00:20:42Sterling Group must fall to us.
00:20:4415 years.
00:20:46Finally over.
00:20:50Tell Serenity to dispose of the old woman after the party.
00:20:58Mrs. Sterling was transferred to Austria three years ago.
00:21:02A facility called Alpine Sectuary.
00:21:05But I can't find the exact address.
00:21:08Can you find the registered owner?
00:21:10Edmund Kendrick.
00:21:11It was him all along.
00:21:15You've helped more than you know.
00:21:18Kendrick was my father's friend.
00:21:21You knew him?
00:21:23When I was young, he came to the house often.
00:21:27My mother didn't like him.
00:21:29She said he was like a snake.
00:21:32Your mother was right.
00:21:33He's the snake.
00:21:34Hiding in the shadows for 15 years.
00:21:36Kendrick was a judge for 20 years.
00:21:39He handled big cases.
00:21:40Business disputes, family trusts, inheritance.
00:21:44He has deep ties to the Sterling family.
00:21:46When Sebastian's grandfather died, the executor of the will was Edmund Kendrick.
00:21:52So he knew all the Sterling family's financial secrets?
00:21:54Not just knew.
00:21:56He could control them.
00:21:58The estate distribution, the trusts, the stock transfers, all went through him.
00:22:05Controlling, then devouring.
00:22:07Having your mother kidnapped was meant to break your father.
00:22:09After your father died, he thought he could control you through Elaine.
00:22:11But you grew up.
00:22:12You have your own judgment, so now he wants to destroy you.
00:22:14The party is his final move.
00:22:16Make Sebastian disappear.
00:22:17With Sterling in chaos, Kendrick steps in as the old family friend to take over.
00:22:20Then we make him walk into his own trap.
00:22:22Do you trust me?
00:22:33Every time you say that, I feel like you're rehearsing a script.
00:22:38Not a script.
00:22:40You are real.
00:22:41Tomorrow, everything could change.
00:22:44Are you afraid?
00:22:45Yes.
00:22:46But not because of tomorrow.
00:22:49Because if tomorrow I lose you, I don't know how to speak again.
00:22:55You won't.
00:22:56Now kiss me.
00:23:03The closer they are, the more painful tomorrow will be.
00:23:06Is everything ready?
00:23:08All set.
00:23:08Police will receive an anonymous tip, terrorist threat at the party.
00:23:12Everyone will be evacuated.
00:23:13Only Sloan and Sebastian will remain inside.
00:23:16And then?
00:23:16Then, an accident.
00:23:19Gas leak.
00:23:20Explosion.
00:23:22Clean.
00:23:23No bodies.
00:23:24No evidence.
00:23:25Fifteen years ago, I made one woman disappear.
00:23:29Tomorrow, two more.
00:23:31No one suspects a retired judge.
00:23:34Tomorrow, no matter what happens, remember what I said.
00:23:38You are real.
00:23:39I am real.
00:23:41The story we wrote together, no one can change it.
00:23:44Tomorrow, after, we keep writing.
00:23:49It's okay.
00:23:56Tonight, either everything ends or everything begins again.
00:24:03Begins again.
00:24:12You're getting better at this talking thing.
00:24:15Because you never stop.
00:24:23The plan is in motion.
00:24:34Sebastian Sloan.
00:24:36Welcome.
00:24:38Sloan, you look stunning.
00:24:40That dress?
00:24:41Custom?
00:24:43White suits you too.
00:24:44Especially in court.
00:24:46Sloan?
00:24:47May I have a word in private?
00:24:49Of course.
00:24:50Mary.
00:24:55You got O'Brien's file.
00:24:56You know about Kendrick.
00:24:58But do you know?
00:24:58You have no idea who you're up against.
00:25:00I know.
00:25:00A retired judge who used his position to manipulate wills,
00:25:03kidnap a woman, control a family for 15 years,
00:25:06and now he's about to be exposed for everything he's done.
00:25:09How do you know all this?
00:25:11Because your script was mine.
00:25:13You just changed the ending.
00:25:18Tonight's ending isn't yours to write.
00:25:20Elaine, does your daughter know you plan to kill her?
00:25:24Isabella is a pawn.
00:25:26Pawns don't need to know the ending.
00:25:30No.
00:25:35Cameras are installed.
00:25:36Police receive the anonymous terror threat.
00:25:38They'll evacuate everyone at 9 o'clock sharp.
00:25:41The gas leak device?
00:25:42Main kitchen gas line.
00:25:44Explosion set for 9.15.
00:25:46After everyone is evacuated,
00:25:48only you and Sebastian will be unable to leave.
00:25:57She said she's the one moving the pieces.
00:26:09She said she's the one moving the pieces.
00:26:14I've heard so much about you.
00:26:16Judge Kendrick, I've heard about you too.
00:26:19From a will 15 years old.
00:26:21A will?
00:26:22That was a long time ago.
00:26:24But the estate hasn't been fully settled yet, has it?
00:26:29Sloan, something shouldn't be discussed in public.
00:26:32Then let's change the subject.
00:26:33How is your accident plan coming along?
00:26:38I don't know what you're talking about.
00:26:40You will.
00:26:41Very soon.
00:26:42Because I know more than you think.
00:26:44Ladies and gentlemen, due to a security concern,
00:26:48please evacuate the premises in an orderly fashion.
00:26:52Do not panic.
00:26:55What's happening?
00:26:57A false alarm.
00:26:58Go.
00:26:58Now.
00:27:03Everyone is out.
00:27:04Only you, Elaine, and Kendrick are left.
00:27:06Smoke machine ready?
00:27:079.15 sharp.
00:27:10The trap is set.
00:27:12Now we wait.
00:27:18Elaine, don't bother.
00:27:22What do you mean?
00:27:24There's no gas leak in the kitchen.
00:27:27The device you planted has been disarmed.
00:27:31She's bluffing.
00:27:32Am I?
00:27:32Then make a call and check.
00:27:34Oh wait.
00:27:34The signal has been jammed.
00:27:35500 meters around Vance Estate.
00:27:37No signal.
00:27:37Only one line is open.
00:27:38The police emergency line.
00:27:39You think the police will listen to me?
00:27:41I'm a retired judge.
00:27:4230 years of reputation in this city.
00:27:44You mean the reputation for bribing witnesses,
00:27:45destroying evidence, and kidnapping women?
00:27:49Catherine Sterling has held a charity clinic for most years.
00:27:53The transfer documents bear Edmund Kendrick's signature.
00:27:56She can't have that evidence.
00:27:58You said everything was destroyed.
00:28:00I thought it was.
00:28:01You only thought what I wanted you to do.
00:28:03You also have a facility in Austria.
00:28:05Alpine.
00:28:07Catherine Sterling was transferred there three years ago.
00:28:09The registered owner is still here.
00:28:11Even if she's there, you can't prove I kidnapped her.
00:28:14Maybe she went there voluntarily.
00:28:15My mother would not disappear for 15 years voluntarily.
00:28:21Speaking?
00:28:23Because you are not worth my silence.
00:28:26You locked up my mother.
00:28:29You controlled my father.
00:28:31You stole my family.
00:28:34Tonight, you pay.
00:28:38Elaine Vance, Edmund Kendrick, you are under arrest
00:28:41for the kidnapping of Catherine Sterling,
00:28:43attempted murder, and money lumbering.
00:28:45Mrs. Vance, you are under arrest.
00:28:47Attempted murder, kidnapping, forgery of legal documents.
00:28:49You have no authority to arrest me!
00:28:51How did you do it?
00:28:53I wrote a script.
00:28:55You stole it and changed the ending.
00:28:57But you forgot, the original author always knows how the real ending goes.
00:29:01Your mother won't live much longer.
00:29:06He's lying.
00:29:07We'll find her.
00:29:10What will happen to me?
00:29:11If you testify against your mother and Kendrick,
00:29:13you might get a reduced sentence.
00:29:14Why should I help you?
00:29:16Not helping me.
00:29:17Helping yourself.
00:29:17Your mother was gonna have you killed at this party to silence you.
00:29:20I dismantled the bomb.
00:29:30Your mother will be found.
00:29:32The FBI has already sent a team to Austria.
00:29:35For what?
00:29:36For finding my voice.
00:29:39For finding my voice.
00:29:39That was your own voice.
00:29:40I just kept listening.
00:29:43One battle won, but the war isn't over.
00:29:56She's asking for you.
00:29:59For me?
00:30:00She says she won't talk unless you're there.
00:30:11You won.
00:30:13But you didn't beat Kendrick.
00:30:16There's someone behind him.
00:30:19Who?
00:30:21You think a retired judge could access Swiss clinics?
00:30:24Bride detectives control Sterling Group for 15 years?
00:30:27It's just a pawn.
00:30:30Who's the player?
00:30:32I don't know the name.
00:30:34Only the codon.
00:30:36The bishop.
00:30:38The bishop.
00:30:39In chess, the bishop moves diagonally.
00:30:41It never attacks head on.
00:30:43Always from the side.
00:30:44Does Kendrick know who the bishop is?
00:30:45He won't say.
00:30:47He's more afraid of that person than of going to prison.
00:30:50I'm done.
00:30:51But you can keep digging.
00:30:52As long as you're not afraid to die.
00:30:54I'm not afraid to die.
00:30:56I'm afraid of dying without finding the truth.
00:30:59Bishop.
00:31:00Chess.
00:31:00Could be a codename for someone inside the legal system.
00:31:03Kendrick was a judge.
00:31:05Elaine was a lawyer.
00:31:06Their common ground is the legal system.
00:31:09Could the bishop be in the legal system too?
00:31:16Who?
00:31:21Clarence Whitston.
00:31:23Federal High Court judge.
00:31:24He and Kendrick were law school classmates.
00:31:27Whitston's wife is Katherine Sterling's cousin.
00:31:31Family.
00:31:32That's the real bishop.
00:31:33He's been hiding in the safest place possible before him.
00:31:38We can't investigate him directly.
00:31:40He's a federal judge.
00:31:42Immunity.
00:31:42But we can investigate his money.
00:31:45Find Whitman's financial records.
00:31:47Especially any transfers between him and Kendrick.
00:31:49That requires a court order.
00:31:51We already have one court.
00:31:53The court of public opinion.
00:31:56I have a bigger story for you.
00:31:58A federal judge involved in kidnapping.
00:32:01A federal judge involved in kidnapping.
00:32:01Money laundering.
00:32:02Attempted murder.
00:32:04Interested?
00:32:05I'll be there in 30 minutes.
00:32:11If we can't bring him down, at least we can show the world who he is.
00:32:42We're famous.
00:32:49better than missing
00:32:52the fbi
00:32:54found my mother
00:32:57when
00:32:59why didn't you say anything
00:33:01this afternoon
00:33:02she's in austria alpine sanctuary
00:33:07alive
00:33:08weak
00:33:10but alive
00:33:14that's wonderful
00:33:15that's wonderful
00:33:23catherine sterling
00:33:24we're from the fbi
00:33:25we're here to take you home
00:33:28sebastian
00:33:30is he alright
00:33:31he's fine
00:33:32he's engaged
00:33:33her name is sloane harper
00:33:35she helped us find you
00:33:41has he spoken
00:33:43yes
00:33:45because of mrs hartman
00:33:47i want to see them
00:33:48arrangements are being made
00:33:59you used to sit on my lap
00:34:01and tell me story
00:34:02before
00:34:05i remember
00:34:06and then one day
00:34:07you stopped talking
00:34:12i blamed myself
00:34:13no
00:34:14i blamed myself
00:34:17i heard you being taken
00:34:19i didn't scream loud enough
00:34:21you were a child
00:34:22a child can't stop armed men
00:34:27but i could have
00:34:28you could have died
00:34:29and i would have lost you forever
00:34:30your silence kept you alive
00:34:32that's not weakness
00:34:34that's survival
00:34:39and now you're speaking
00:34:41for her
00:34:43for yourself
00:34:45i'm proud of you
00:34:53you're sloanen
00:34:54yes
00:34:57thank you for finding me
00:35:00thank you for
00:35:01making him speak
00:35:03he wanted to speak
00:35:07i just
00:35:08stayed with him
00:35:11your father would be so proud
00:35:13to see you now
00:35:17he didn't know
00:35:18the truth
00:35:20he knew
00:35:22before he died
00:35:23he knew
00:35:24he told me not to tell you
00:35:28he knew you would seek revenge
00:35:31he knew you would destroy yourself
00:35:35so he chose silence
00:35:37to keep you alive
00:35:42you haven't disappointed him
00:35:47you found love
00:35:49you found your voice
00:35:52that's enough
00:35:56you two are going to get married
00:36:02we haven't decided yet
00:36:04then i've decided for you
00:36:07you must get married
00:36:09i want to live to see that day
00:36:17your mother is strong
00:36:23like you
00:36:25i'm not strong
00:36:26i just
00:36:28didn't have a choice
00:36:29there are always choices
00:36:32you chose
00:36:34the hardest path
00:36:35you chose
00:36:38to save me
00:36:43in the script
00:36:44my ending
00:36:45was to visit you
00:36:46but you kept me here
00:36:53not a script
00:36:55what?
00:36:57you're not
00:36:58in a script
00:37:00you're
00:37:01in my life
00:37:15can't sleep
00:37:17too much has happened
00:37:20sit down
00:37:21i need to tell you something
00:37:24about your mother
00:37:26your mother
00:37:27Helen
00:37:28was my husband's sister
00:37:30she was my best friend
00:37:32she was Edward Sterling's daughter
00:37:35your grandfather
00:37:37that means
00:37:38you and Sebastian
00:37:40are cousins
00:37:41so Sebastian is my
00:37:42cousin?
00:37:43yes
00:37:44your mother was his aunt
00:37:46you're his first cousin
00:37:49but blood doesn't matter
00:37:51what matters is
00:37:53she entrusted you to me
00:37:55and then i was kidnapped
00:37:58so you ended up
00:37:59with your grandmother
00:38:02is my mother
00:38:03still alive
00:38:05i don't know
00:38:06but your grandmother said
00:38:09she's dead
00:38:12then i'll find the truth
00:38:14not for her
00:38:16for myself
00:38:17you and Sebastian
00:38:19blood or not
00:38:20you belong together
00:38:22don't let anyone
00:38:23tell you otherwise
00:38:31cousins
00:38:33cousins
00:38:35cousins
00:38:38doesn't change
00:38:39anything
00:38:41no
00:38:42it doesn't
00:38:50breaking news
00:38:51judge clarence witzmatt
00:38:53has announced
00:38:53his retirement
00:38:54he denies all charges
00:38:55calls the investigation
00:38:56a witch hunt
00:38:57he's retiring
00:38:59he hasn't even been indicted
00:39:01the fbi says
00:39:02there's not enough evidence
00:39:03witzner has a very good
00:39:04legal team
00:39:07he's hiding
00:39:08no
00:39:09he's preparing
00:39:11a counterattack
00:39:12my husband
00:39:13left a diary
00:39:15before he died
00:39:17he said
00:39:18if i ever came back
00:39:21to give it to
00:39:22Sebastian
00:39:23where is it
00:39:24in my room
00:39:25the bottom drawer
00:39:31mother
00:39:32did you ever see his body
00:39:33what
00:39:34after the plane crash
00:39:35did you identify him
00:39:36your father's attorney
00:39:37handled everything
00:39:38he said the body
00:39:39was too badly burned
00:39:40for an open casket
00:39:41i never saw him
00:39:42who was the attorney
00:39:45Edmund Kendrick
00:39:46we never confirmed
00:39:47he was dead
00:39:49that's something
00:39:50to keep in mind
00:40:00the king
00:40:02who is the king
00:40:03Marcus
00:40:03can you trace
00:40:04any mention
00:40:05of the king
00:40:05in the financial records
00:40:07already on it
00:40:09i'll have something
00:40:10by tonight
00:40:15we're getting married
00:40:20that's not a question
00:40:22no
00:40:23it's a decision
00:40:26when
00:40:26soon
00:40:27before the king
00:40:29makes his next one
00:40:33then
00:40:35we plan a wedding
00:40:37and a takedown
00:40:39both
00:40:47katherine
00:40:48you look thin
00:40:50you look old
00:40:54i only have one
00:40:56question
00:40:57why
00:41:03power
00:41:03money
00:41:05your father
00:41:06wouldn't let me
00:41:06join the sterling board
00:41:07that's it
00:41:08your father
00:41:09ruined my career
00:41:11i would have been
00:41:11chief justice
00:41:12but he wrote a letter
00:41:13to the judicial committee
00:41:14said i lacked
00:41:15judicial temperament
00:41:16that letter
00:41:17cost me the promotion
00:41:18so i spent 15 years
00:41:20piece by piece
00:41:21destroying his family
00:41:23so you locked up
00:41:24his daughter
00:41:24turned his son mute
00:41:26and bled his company dry
00:41:29you were an accident
00:41:30you weren't supposed
00:41:31to be in this story
00:41:33the story wasn't
00:41:34yours to write
00:41:34you stole my script
00:41:36and tried to change
00:41:37the ending
00:41:38the ending hasn't
00:41:39been written yet
00:41:40your husband begged
00:41:41me to spare you
00:41:42i agreed
00:41:44but i never agreed
00:41:46to spare your son
00:41:57he's lying
00:41:58he can't hurt us anymore
00:42:04my father
00:42:07knew it was whitman
00:42:08he chose silence
00:42:10to protect you
00:42:12if he had
00:42:13fought back
00:42:16maybe mother
00:42:17wouldn't have
00:42:18maybe
00:42:19or maybe more people
00:42:20would have died
00:42:21your father made the choice
00:42:22he thought was right
00:42:23if i had
00:42:24spoken then
00:42:25maybe
00:42:25you were 12 years old
00:42:27you heard your mother
00:42:28being taken
00:42:28you were terrified
00:42:29that wasn't your fault
00:42:30you're speaking now
00:42:32that's enough
00:42:33i've been waiting
00:42:34for this all day
00:42:42still writing?
00:42:43writing the ending
00:42:47how do you want it
00:42:48to end?
00:42:52a wedding
00:42:54and at the wedding
00:42:55we expose
00:42:55whitman's crimes
00:42:56not with violence
00:42:58with the truth
00:43:01whose wedding?
00:43:05ours
00:43:12no
00:43:12i'm informing you
00:43:22this is our story now
00:43:27and i get to write the ending
00:43:37i found something
00:43:40sterling group's old records
00:43:41sebastian's grandfather
00:43:42edward sterling
00:43:43had a private safe deposit box
00:43:45in switzerland
00:43:45it was never opened
00:43:46after his death
00:43:47where in switzerland?
00:43:49zurich
00:43:49a private bank
00:43:51that doesn't ask questions
00:43:52that's the problem
00:43:52the bank requires a key
00:43:54and a personal code
00:43:55the code might be in the diary
00:43:58371
00:43:59that could be the box number
00:44:01not we
00:44:02you and me
00:44:03marcus stays with your mother
00:44:04be careful
00:44:05if the king finds out
00:44:06you're going there
00:44:12how may i help you?
00:44:14we need to open
00:44:15safe deposit box 371
00:44:17it belonged to edward sterling
00:44:21please follow me
00:44:29your key please
00:44:38sebastian
00:44:39if you are reading this
00:44:40i am gone
00:44:41i know who took your mother
00:44:42i know who controls the organization
00:44:44but i cannot tell you
00:44:45because that person will kill you
00:44:46forgive my cowardice
00:44:47the usb drive
00:44:48returns everything
00:44:49accounts transfers
00:44:50recordings
00:44:50get to someone you trust
00:44:51and live
00:44:52your father wasn't a coward
00:44:54he was protecting you
00:45:06catherine sterling must disappear
00:45:08not kill him
00:45:09that invites investigation
00:45:11send her to switzerland
00:45:12lock her away
00:45:13what about sebastian?
00:45:15he's a child
00:45:15he doesn't speak
00:45:16no one will listen to him
00:45:17what if he does speak?
00:45:20then make sure he never speaks again
00:45:22that's enough to arrest whitman
00:45:25but he's already retired
00:45:27retired doesn't mean immune
00:45:29we have new evidence
00:45:30enough to put whitman away for life
00:45:32i'll send a team to pick it up
00:45:35your father spent 15 years gathering this
00:45:39now we finish what he started
00:45:40together
00:45:42whitman will be arrested tomorrow
00:45:45and after
00:45:45after you plan the wedding
00:45:49you really want to marry me
00:45:51knowing that i'm
00:45:53damaged
00:45:55everyone's damaged
00:45:56you just wear yours on the inside
00:46:00and i like the inside
00:46:02then yes
00:46:04wedding
00:46:05and then
00:46:06what about the king?
00:46:08one thing at a time
00:46:19judge whitman
00:46:20judge whitman
00:46:20do you have any comment?
00:46:28he's asked to speak with you miss harper
00:46:30me?
00:46:32alone
00:46:33no
00:46:37it's alright
00:46:38he can't hurt me
00:46:43you think you've won
00:46:44i think justice is finally happening
00:46:51justice
00:46:53that's a fairytale for children
00:46:55why did you want to see me?
00:47:00to tell you the truth
00:47:02about your mother
00:47:03helen sterling wasn't just edward's daughter
00:47:06she was the first person who tried to expose the organization
00:47:08and she paid for it
00:47:09you killed her
00:47:10no
00:47:11i didn't
00:47:12your grandmother did
00:47:15margaret the woman you call grandmother is not your grandmother
00:47:18she's the woman who stole you
00:47:20your real grandmother died years ago
00:47:24margaret is
00:47:25the ghost
00:47:27the ghost?
00:47:29the one who gives orders
00:47:30the bishop is married
00:47:33but the ghost
00:47:34is above the bishop
00:47:38she founded the organization that edward stole
00:47:40and when he tried to leave she destroyed him
00:47:44why are you telling me this?
00:47:49because she's going to kill you slone
00:47:51and i want you to know who
00:47:54before you die
00:47:57good luck
00:48:04what did he say?
00:48:05that my grandmother is not my grandmother
00:48:09that she's the head of the organization
00:48:13and she's going to kill me
00:48:15then we stop her first
00:48:17whitman says the ghost is margaret
00:48:20the woman i've been calling grandmother my whole life
00:48:25margaret
00:48:25was your mother's nanny
00:48:28your real grandmother died when your mother was 16
00:48:32margaret stayed on
00:48:33she must have taken your mother's identity
00:48:36and then
00:48:37then yours
00:48:39so the woman in brooklyn's is an imposter
00:48:42she's been watching sloan since childhood
00:48:44she's been waiting for me to become useful
00:48:45or dangerous
00:48:47what you call grandmother is not your grandmother
00:48:54she's going to kill you sloan
00:48:56then we stop her first
00:48:58she's been waiting for me to become useful
00:49:00or dangerous
00:49:01how do we prove it?
00:49:03we don't
00:49:04we let her prove it herself
00:49:10grandma
00:49:10i need to see you
00:49:12tonight
00:49:13alone
00:49:13of course dear
00:49:15i'll make tea
00:49:17she'll come
00:49:18and i'll be ready
00:49:20i'm coming with you
00:49:21no
00:49:21she said alone
00:49:23if she sees you she won't show her hand
00:49:26then i'll be close
00:49:27very close
00:49:35you look tired dear
00:49:36i've had a lot on my mind
00:49:38sit
00:49:39tell me
00:49:42i know who you are
00:49:47what do you mean?
00:49:50you're not my grandmother
00:49:51you're the ghost
00:49:53you founded the organization with edward sterling
00:49:56you've been controlling everything for decades
00:50:03i wondered when you'd figure it out
00:50:08you're smarter than your mother
00:50:09she never figured it out
00:50:13what did you do to her?
00:50:17i loved her
00:50:18but she betrayed me
00:50:20she married a man i didn't approve of
00:50:22she wanted to leave the organization
00:50:25so i made her leave
00:50:26permanently
00:50:29you killed your own daughter
00:50:32i killed a traitor
00:50:33there's a difference
00:50:36you have two choices sloan
00:50:38join me
00:50:40or disappear like your mother
00:50:44there's a third choice
00:50:46what's that?
00:50:48i bring you down
00:50:49with what evidence?
00:50:50whitman is in jail
00:50:52kendrick won't talk
00:50:53elaine is broken
00:50:55you have nothing on me
00:50:57i have your confession
00:50:59you recorded me?
00:51:01every word
00:51:07margaret harper
00:51:08you are under arrest
00:51:15this isn't over
00:51:18it is for you
00:51:19it is for you
00:51:21you did it
00:51:25you did it
00:51:26you did it
00:51:41do you sebastian
00:51:42take sloan to be your wife?
00:51:44i do
00:51:47i do
00:51:48and you sloan
00:51:50i do
00:51:52i pronounce you
00:51:53husband and wife
00:52:02to my son
00:52:04and new daughter
00:52:08happy?
00:52:09more than i ever thought possibly
00:52:27come to gloat
00:52:30come to say goodbye
00:52:33you think this is over
00:52:35it's not
00:52:38the king is still out there
00:52:40then i'll find him
00:52:43he'll find you first
00:52:50all right
00:52:51no
00:52:53but i will be
00:52:54together
00:52:55together
00:53:10this is nice
00:53:12we deserve it
00:53:17you've come a long way
00:53:18from typing on your phone
00:53:20you've come a long way
00:53:21from eating contracts
00:53:23that was a good move
00:53:27it was insane
00:53:29insane works
00:53:38sebastian
00:53:43the king
00:53:44your grandfather had a box
00:53:46under that name
00:53:47or someone else did
00:53:49we have to go
00:53:50we're on our honeymoon
00:53:52the king won't wait
00:53:54you're impossible
00:53:55you married me anyway
00:53:57geneva
00:53:58tomorrow morning
00:54:01this box is under
00:54:02a different protocol
00:54:02only the account holder
00:54:04can open it
00:54:04the account holder is dead
00:54:06then the box remains sealed
00:54:07i'm sorry
00:54:09the protocol requires
00:54:10a blood sample
00:54:10for dna verification
00:54:11fine
00:54:12take the sample
00:54:16the dna matches
00:54:17you may open the box
00:54:30em
00:54:32margaret
00:54:32your grandfather
00:54:34started the organization
00:54:35with her
00:54:35and why is she in prison
00:54:37and he's dead
00:54:37because she betrayed him
00:54:39she took over
00:54:42the king is empty
00:54:44no
00:54:46it means the king
00:54:47can be anyone
00:54:47who sits in the chair
00:54:53you're thinking
00:54:54i'm thinking that
00:54:55we've only scratched
00:54:56the surface
00:54:57then we keep scratching
00:54:59you're not scared
00:55:01of what
00:55:02of what we might find
00:55:04i spent 15 years
00:55:06afraid to speak
00:55:07i'm not spending
00:55:08the rest of my life
00:55:09afraid to know the truth
00:55:12i love you
00:55:13i know
00:55:14you're supposed to
00:55:15say it back
00:55:17i love you too
00:55:25what's wrong
00:55:27it's katherine
00:55:28she's been taken
00:55:30to the hospital
00:55:31what happened
00:55:32a car accident
00:55:34but it wasn't an accident
00:55:36someone cut her brake lines
00:55:37we're coming home
00:55:38now
00:55:42i'm fine
00:55:43just a few broken ribs
00:55:45who did this
00:55:48i didn't see
00:55:49but i heard the mechanics
00:55:51say the brakes were cut
00:55:53cleanly
00:55:54it's the king
00:55:55he's sending a message
00:55:56then we answer
00:56:00marcus
00:56:00find every connection
00:56:01edward sterling had
00:56:02every business partner
00:56:02every rival
00:56:03everyone who might want
00:56:04to sit in that empty chair
00:56:05you're angry
00:56:07yes
00:56:08good
00:56:08use it
00:56:09edward sterling had
00:56:11three major partners
00:56:12one is dead
00:56:13one is in prison
00:56:14the third
00:56:15is a ghost
00:56:16no records after 1990
00:56:18a ghost?
00:56:18someone who erased himself
00:56:20but i found a trail
00:56:21who moved money
00:56:21through a series of shell companies
00:56:23the last transaction
00:56:23was last week
00:56:24where?
00:56:24to a bank in livenstein
00:56:25and from there
00:56:26to a private account
00:56:28in switzerland
00:56:28under the name m sterling
00:56:30m sterling
00:56:31margaret?
00:56:32or someone using her name
00:56:33but margaret is in prison
00:56:34so either she has a partner outside
00:56:36or the king is not margaret
00:56:37then who?
00:56:39what if edward didn't start
00:56:41the organization alone?
00:56:42what if there was a third person?
00:56:43there's no record of a third
00:56:44then we make a record
00:56:45we flush him out
00:56:46how?
00:56:47we announce that we've found
00:56:48edward's second box
00:56:49that we know the king's identity
00:56:50and we wait
00:56:51that's dangerous
00:56:52everything about this
00:56:53has been dangerous
00:56:54do it
00:56:55you've been through so much
00:56:56what's next for you?
00:56:58we're going to find the person
00:56:59who calls himself the king
00:57:02and we're going to bring him down
00:57:03do you know who he is?
00:57:06we have evidence
00:57:07we'll release it soon
00:57:11they're bluffing
00:57:12are you sure?
00:57:14they have the second box
00:57:14was empty except for a photo
00:57:15then why are they so confident?
00:57:17because they want us
00:57:18to make a mistake
00:57:18then we don't make a mistake
00:57:20we end this
00:57:21quietly
00:57:21how
00:57:23take something they love
00:57:33Sebastian
00:57:38how did she get out?
00:57:39we just discovered
00:57:40an hour ago
00:57:41she was transferred to a hospital
00:57:43for a medical issue
00:57:44the transport van was intercepted
00:57:45she's gone
00:57:47the king broke her out
00:57:48why?
00:57:50because she's the only one
00:57:52who knows who he is
00:57:53and now he has her
00:57:57the game has changed
00:58:09this is the safe house
00:58:11your father bought it years ago
00:58:12Sebastian
00:58:13no one knows about it
00:58:14except the person
00:58:15who cut my mother's brakes
00:58:16we're not safe here
00:58:17but we're safer than in New York
00:58:23I sweeped the cabin for bugs
00:58:31they were already here
00:58:36three
00:58:38enough to hear everything
00:58:39my father's cabin
00:58:41they've been listening for years
00:58:42or someone put them here recently
00:58:44either way
00:58:45they know we're coming
00:58:45your father had a saying
00:58:47the mountains have ears
00:58:49I didn't know he meant it literally
00:58:54find anything new?
00:58:56the coordinates we found
00:58:57the underground facility
00:58:58it's 30 kilometers from here
00:59:01the king's castle
00:59:02maybe
00:59:03but we can't just walk in
00:59:05then we watch
00:59:07wait for them to come out
00:59:09you're different
00:59:11more
00:59:12decisive
00:59:14I have something to protect now
00:59:15you
00:59:16my mother
00:59:17Marcus
00:59:18even that annoying assistant of mine
00:59:20you mean the one who's been with you for 10 years?
00:59:22he's grown on me
00:59:24we'll get through this
00:59:27I know
00:59:31what is that?
00:59:32I don't know
00:59:35same car as last time
00:59:37they're watching us
00:59:38making sure we stay put
00:59:39we're waiting for reinforcements
00:59:41they know we're here
00:59:42but they're not moving yet
00:59:44why?
00:59:45because they're waiting for something
00:59:47or someone
00:59:48the king wants us to find him
00:59:50but on his terms
00:59:54can't sleep?
00:59:55too much on my mind
01:00:00I never told you about the night I was taken
01:00:03I was alone
01:00:04Sebastian was at school
01:00:06your mother
01:00:07Helen was supposed to pick me up
01:00:09but she never came
01:00:10my mother?
01:00:11she was working with me
01:00:13trying to expose the organization
01:00:15that's why they took me
01:00:17to silence her
01:00:19my mother was fighting
01:00:21she was braver than any of us
01:00:24she died trying to bring me down
01:00:26how do you know she died?
01:00:29Margaret told him
01:00:31in the clinic
01:00:32she came to gloat
01:00:33your mother loved you
01:00:34she hid you with Margaret
01:00:36because she thought Margaret
01:00:38would protect you
01:00:39she didn't know Margaret
01:00:40was already one of them
01:00:43then I'll finish what she started
01:00:45for her
01:00:46for you
01:00:47for Sebastian
01:00:55the coordinates point to solid mountain
01:00:58no visible structure
01:01:04that's the point
01:01:05it's underground
01:01:09there's something down there
01:01:10big
01:01:15explosives ready
01:01:16do it
01:01:20it's time
01:01:21be careful
01:01:21it's too quiet
01:01:31they knew we were coming
01:01:34they always do
01:01:39they've been watching us the whole time
01:01:41Margaret really was his partner
01:01:42she wasn't just his partner
01:01:46she was the one who built this place
01:01:48downloading everything
01:01:49might take a few minutes
01:01:53we triggered something
01:01:59they were waiting for us
01:02:02then we fight through
01:02:10they're falling back to a lower level
01:02:11we got everything
01:02:12let's go
01:02:15they'd rather destroy it
01:02:16than let us have it
01:02:17but we already have it
01:02:18and we find out who the king is
01:02:20tonight
01:02:31congratulations
01:02:31you found my castle
01:02:33but the king is not a place
01:02:35the king is an idea
01:02:37you want to know who I am
01:02:39but knowing won't save you
01:02:41it will only make you a target
01:02:44that's it?
01:02:45a riddle?
01:02:48there's more
01:02:49financial records
01:02:51communications
01:02:51member lists
01:02:53wait
01:02:54go back
01:02:56they listed him as deceased
01:02:58why?
01:02:59maybe they think he's dead to them
01:03:01or they faked his death
01:03:03or the king is someone else
01:03:05pretending to be Kendrick
01:03:13the king is playing with us
01:03:16then we stop playing his game
01:03:17how?
01:03:19he changed the rules
01:03:21what are you doing?
01:03:22sending a message
01:03:22to every name on that list
01:03:25the king is dead
01:03:26long live the truth
01:03:29that's bold
01:03:32that's the point
01:03:40you slept?
01:03:43no
01:03:43no
01:03:46any responses?
01:03:50three
01:03:50two threats
01:03:52one
01:03:52invitation
01:04:00it's a trap
01:04:01of course it is
01:04:03I'm going
01:04:05I know
01:04:11you're not going to stop me
01:04:12would it work?
01:04:15no
01:04:18then I'll be outside
01:04:19with a sniper rifle
01:04:23fair enough
01:04:24you're going to meet him?
01:04:26yes
01:04:28he'll try to kill you
01:04:30probably
01:04:32and you're still going?
01:04:33he has Margaret
01:04:35he has answers
01:04:37I need both
01:04:37your mother would be proud of you
01:04:39but she'd also be terrified
01:04:41I'm not my mother
01:04:43I won't disappear
01:04:44no
01:04:45you won't
01:04:46because you have Sebastian
01:04:48and you have something
01:04:49my daughter never had
01:04:51a chance to fight back
01:04:56I know you're in there
01:04:58you came
01:05:00where's the king?
01:05:02he's here
01:05:08you faked your death
01:05:11the king doesn't die
01:05:13he only changes his face
01:05:14you've been very persistent Sloan
01:05:17more persistent than anyone expected
01:05:20what do you want?
01:05:21the same thing you do
01:05:23an end to this
01:05:24then end it
01:05:26surrender
01:05:29I didn't mean that kind of end
01:05:33you have two choices
01:05:35join us
01:05:35or disappear like your mother
01:05:40there's a third choice
01:05:42and what's that?
01:05:51she brought friends
01:06:01never
01:06:06are you hurt?
01:06:07no
01:06:08but they're getting away
01:06:09let them
01:06:10we have the church
01:06:12we have witnesses
01:06:13we have recordings
01:06:16you recorded everything?
01:06:18Marcus's idea
01:06:22they won't get far
01:06:24no
01:06:25they won't
01:06:33we have Kendrick's
01:06:35last known location
01:06:36he's heading towards
01:06:37the Italian border
01:06:38Margaret is with him
01:06:39then cut him off
01:06:41we're trying
01:06:42but he has resources
01:06:44private planes
01:06:46safe houses
01:06:47he could be anywhere
01:06:48he'll go to ground
01:06:49somewhere familiar
01:06:50somewhere he feels safe
01:06:51like where?
01:06:52his family's estate
01:06:53in Austria
01:06:55I'll coordinate with Austrian police
01:06:57you're sure?
01:06:58I would hide there
01:06:59it's remote
01:07:00hard to find
01:07:01easy to defend
01:07:02then let's go
01:07:05how many guards?
01:07:07at least a dozen
01:07:09maybe more inside
01:07:11we need a distraction
01:07:12the power grid
01:07:14if we cut it
01:07:15they'll come out to check
01:07:17do it
01:07:29she's here
01:07:30I can feel her
01:07:31then kill her
01:07:32now
01:07:34two guards at the door
01:07:35one on the balcony
01:07:38I'll take the balcony
01:07:39no
01:07:39I will
01:07:43who's there
01:07:46me
01:07:49you just don't know
01:07:50when to quit
01:07:52neither do you
01:07:56going somewhere?
01:07:58you won't shoot
01:07:59an old woman
01:08:01watch me
01:08:10oh my mother
01:08:15it's over
01:08:17is it?
01:08:18you still don't know
01:08:19who the king is
01:08:20do you?
01:08:21I know it's you
01:08:23the king is a title
01:08:24and I was never the king
01:08:33there's someone else
01:08:36who is the king?
01:08:39you really want to know?
01:08:41that's why I'm here
01:08:45then look in the mirror
01:08:46the king is an idea
01:08:48Sloan
01:08:48anyone can be king
01:08:49you
01:08:50me
01:08:50Sebastian
01:08:51even that dead mother
01:08:52of yours
01:08:52the point isn't who sits
01:08:54on the throne
01:08:54it's that the throne exists
01:08:56you're saying the organization
01:08:57has no leader?
01:08:58I'm saying the leader
01:08:59is whoever holds the power
01:09:00and power shifts
01:09:01Margaret founded it
01:09:02Edward funded it
01:09:03I executed it
01:09:04but the king?
01:09:05there is no king
01:09:06there's only the game
01:09:07then I'll end the game
01:09:09you can't
01:09:10because as long as people
01:09:11want power
01:09:12the game continues
01:09:17what did he say?
01:09:18there is no king
01:09:20that anyone can be king
01:09:22then we make sure
01:09:23no one ever wants to
01:09:25we change the game
01:09:33come to say goodbye?
01:09:35come to ask one question
01:09:38what?
01:09:39why did you do it?
01:09:41not the organization
01:09:42not the power
01:09:44why did you raise me
01:09:45if you were just going to
01:09:46destroy me?
01:09:47because you were the only
01:09:47thing left of her
01:09:48of my daughter
01:09:50I loved Heli
01:09:51more than anything
01:09:52when she died
01:09:53I hated myself
01:09:54and I hated you
01:09:55for looking like her
01:09:56so I raised you
01:09:57to be strong
01:09:57to survive
01:09:58I told myself
01:09:59I could destroy you
01:10:00but I couldn't
01:10:01I never could
01:10:01you had a strange way
01:10:02of showing love
01:10:03I didn't know
01:10:04any other way
01:10:08I'm sorry Sloane
01:10:10for everything
01:10:11I don't forgive you
01:10:13but I understand
01:10:15alright
01:10:16no
01:10:18but I will be
01:10:20where to?
01:10:21home
01:10:27what now?
01:10:28now we live
01:10:30we've spent so long
01:10:32fighting
01:10:32I want to spend
01:10:33the rest of my time
01:10:34loving
01:10:35that sounds like a plan
01:10:40do you think we'll
01:10:40ever be completely safe?
01:10:42no
01:10:42but we'll be together
01:10:46that's enough
01:10:55some stories
01:10:56are just too hard
01:10:58to tell
01:10:58but too important
01:10:59to forget
01:11:01writing again?
01:11:02always
01:11:04what's the next story?
01:11:06ours
01:11:06but with a happy ending
01:11:07I like happy endings
01:11:09then let's go live one
01:11:18the game isn't over
01:11:19it's just changed boards
01:11:23checkmate Mrs. Harper
01:11:24but the next game
01:11:26is mine
01:11:33we've identified
01:11:34most of the organization's members
01:11:35some are in custody
01:11:36some have fled
01:11:37but one name keeps appearing
01:11:39a codename
01:11:40ghost
01:11:41ghost
01:11:41we already caught Margaret
01:11:42this is different
01:11:43the ghost appears
01:11:44in communications
01:11:45dating back to before
01:11:45Margaret was born
01:11:46whoever this is
01:11:47they've been pulling
01:11:47strings for decades
01:11:48Edward started the organization
01:11:50with someone
01:11:50not Margaret
01:11:51someone older
01:11:52the Sterling family archives
01:11:53this photo was taken in 1923
01:11:55Edward Sterling is here
01:11:56as a child
01:11:56next to him
01:11:57an older man
01:11:58labeled the founder
01:11:59who is he?
01:12:00no records
01:12:01but he has descendants
01:12:02one of them might still be alive
01:12:07you're back
01:12:08I need to know about the ghost
01:12:13you don't want to go there
01:12:14I didn't want to be in this fight at all
01:12:17but here I am
01:12:18the ghost is not a person
01:12:20it's a bloodline
01:12:20the Sterling family had a secret
01:12:22they weren't the only ones in power
01:12:23there was another family
01:12:24older
01:12:25richer
01:12:25they called themselves
01:12:26keepers of what?
01:12:27of the throne
01:12:27the king's throne
01:12:28every generation
01:12:29one keeper sits as the king
01:12:30Edward was supposed to be a keeper
01:12:31but he rebelled
01:12:32he tried to dismantle the system
01:12:34that's why they took Catherine
01:12:36that's why they killed Helen
01:12:36to remind him
01:12:37he really controlled everything
01:12:38the king is still out there
01:12:40the king is always out there
01:12:41it's a title
01:12:42it passes from parent to child
01:12:44and the current king
01:12:46is someone very close to you
01:12:48think Sloan
01:12:49who has been watching you
01:12:50your entire life
01:12:51who had access to everything
01:12:52who could manipulate everyone
01:12:53no
01:12:54no
01:12:55she's dead
01:12:58is she
01:13:02good luck
01:13:03the king is a bloodline
01:13:05and they've been watching me my whole life
01:13:09who?
01:13:11he said someone close to me
01:13:13the only person who fits is Margaret
01:13:15but she's in prison
01:13:16or someone pretending to be her
01:13:18I overheard
01:13:19there's something I never told you
01:13:25Margaret had a twin sister
01:13:26she died young
01:13:27or so everyone thought
01:13:28but before she died
01:13:29she had a child
01:13:29a son
01:13:30where is he now?
01:13:31I don't know
01:13:32but your mother once said
01:13:32that Margaret wasn't the only one
01:13:34we should fear
01:13:34the king is Margaret's nephew
01:13:35he's been hiding in plain sight
01:13:37then we find him
01:13:37Margaret's sister
01:13:38Eleanor
01:13:39she died in 1955
01:13:40officially
01:13:40but her son Charles
01:13:42emigrated to the United States
01:13:43in 1970
01:13:44he changed his name
01:13:45became a lawyer
01:13:46a very powerful lawyer
01:13:47Harold Finch
01:13:49Finch was Witness Anne's mentor
01:13:50he retired years ago
01:13:51lives in seclusion
01:13:52where?
01:13:54upstate New York
01:13:55a private estate
01:13:58then we pay him a visit
01:14:02no guards
01:14:03no cars
01:14:04he's either expecting us
01:14:06or he's gone
01:14:16I've been waiting for you
01:14:17you're the king
01:14:18you're the king
01:14:19I was
01:14:21now I'm just an old man
01:14:23waiting to die
01:14:24you ordered my mother's kidnapping
01:14:25you killed Sloane's mother
01:14:26I ordered many things
01:14:28some necessary
01:14:29some regrettable
01:14:30but I didn't kill anyone
01:14:31that was Margaret
01:14:32that's undying
01:14:33you're just as guilty
01:14:34perhaps the doctors
01:14:35gave me six months
01:14:36and the organization
01:14:37is gone
01:14:38you've already won
01:14:39then why are you here?
01:14:40to give you this
01:14:41the key to the Sterling family vault
01:14:43your grandfather hid something there
01:14:45something that will ensure
01:14:46no one ever tries to resurrect
01:14:47the organization
01:14:48what is it?
01:14:49the truth
01:14:49all of it
01:14:50every name
01:14:51every transaction
01:14:51every secret
01:14:52with that you can bury the king forever
01:14:54but now leave me
01:14:55I want to die alone
01:15:03the vault is in the basement
01:15:05of the Sterling estate
01:15:06your grandfather built it
01:15:08during the war
01:15:09what's inside?
01:15:11I never knew
01:15:12he said it was for emergencies
01:15:16this is an emergency
01:15:21it's time
01:15:21I know
01:15:23we're close
01:15:25you're sure about this?
01:15:26quiet
01:15:32the answers are all in here
01:15:38I was young
01:15:39I wanted power
01:15:40the keepers offered it
01:15:42but I didn't know the price
01:15:43they took my daughter
01:15:44they took my wife
01:15:45they took everything
01:15:46this book contains every name
01:15:47every crime
01:15:48every secret
01:15:49use it wisely
01:15:50Edward Sterling
01:15:52this is what we need
01:15:53with this
01:15:54everyone goes to prison
01:15:56everyone who's still alive
01:16:02he faked his death
01:16:04he's been hiding
01:16:05in plain sight
01:16:06for 40 years
01:16:07Harold Finch is alive
01:16:08he's at his estate
01:16:09in upstate New York
01:16:10arrest him
01:16:11we just received word
01:16:12Harold Finch died last night
01:16:13natural causes
01:16:14he knew
01:16:15he gave us the key
01:16:16and then he killed himself
01:16:17or someone killed him
01:16:18the body is being examined
01:16:19but if he was the last king
01:16:21then maybe it's over
01:16:22no
01:16:23the king is a title
01:16:26and titles can be inherited
01:16:30who is Finch's next of kin?
01:16:32no known relatives
01:16:33but his lawyer might know
01:16:35then we find the lawyer
01:16:40Mr. Finch left instructions
01:16:42his estate
01:16:43including all assets
01:16:44and any sensitive materials
01:16:45is to be destroyed
01:16:46upon his death
01:16:47including the records
01:16:48of the organization?
01:16:50I don't know
01:16:50what you're talking about
01:16:51you're lying
01:16:52look
01:16:52I'm just a lawyer
01:16:53I don't know anything
01:16:55about any organization
01:16:56then you won't mind
01:16:57if we search your files
01:16:58you have no warrant
01:16:59actually we do
01:17:00federal judge signed it
01:17:02an hour ago
01:17:07if you're watching this
01:17:09I'm dead
01:17:10and the organization
01:17:10is in your hands
01:17:12to my successor
01:17:13the king's throne is yours
01:17:14rule wisely
01:17:16there is a successor
01:17:18the video doesn't name anyone
01:17:19then we wait
01:17:19whoever it is
01:17:20will make a move
01:17:25we're back to square one
01:17:26the king is out there
01:17:27but we have the book
01:17:29we have the evidence
01:17:30we can destroy the organization
01:17:32without finding the king
01:17:33destroy the organization?
01:17:35how?
01:17:36release everything
01:17:37to the press
01:17:37to the public
01:17:38let the world see
01:17:39who these people are
01:17:40that's what Edward wanted
01:17:42the truth
01:17:43it will put targets
01:17:45on our backs
01:17:46we already have targets
01:17:47you're sure?
01:17:50I've never been more sure
01:17:51of anything
01:17:55I'll do it myself
01:17:57no
01:17:58we do it together
01:18:05Sloan?
01:18:05I brought coffee
01:18:14she's alive
01:18:15but her brain activity
01:18:17is unusual
01:18:19like she's somewhere else
01:18:25she wrote herself
01:18:26out of our world
01:18:32still writing?
01:18:34always
01:18:34what's the story?
01:18:36hours
01:18:38but I'm changing
01:18:39the ending
01:18:41how?
01:18:46that's not an ending
01:18:48it's not supposed to be
01:18:56you're about to release
01:18:57documents that could
01:18:58bring down some of the
01:18:59most powerful people
01:19:00in the world
01:19:01are you afraid?
01:19:04I've been afraid
01:19:04my whole life
01:19:06but fear doesn't stop me
01:19:08and you Mr. Sterling
01:19:09you've been silent
01:19:11for so long
01:19:12why speak now?
01:19:14because silence
01:19:15protects the guilty
01:19:17and I'm done
01:19:18protecting anyone
01:19:20then let's begin
01:19:22we are receiving reports
01:19:23of a major corruption
01:19:24scandal
01:19:25sources confirmed
01:19:25the arrest
01:19:26of several
01:19:26high-ranking officials
01:19:27I hereby resign
01:19:28from my position
01:19:29effective immediately
01:19:32it's working
01:19:36for now
01:19:39there's someone at the door
01:19:40she says she knows you
01:19:44who are you?
01:19:45my name is Helen
01:19:50Helen
01:19:50my mother
01:19:53I'm alive
01:19:54Margaret told everyone
01:19:56I was dead
01:19:57but she couldn't kill me
01:19:58she locked me away
01:20:00in a facility in Austria
01:20:03the same one where they kept Catherine
01:20:04I never knew
01:20:05I'm so sorry
01:20:06you have nothing to be sorry for
01:20:08you were a prisoner too
01:20:09why now?
01:20:11why didn't you come sooner?
01:20:14I only just escaped
01:20:17when the news broke
01:20:18about the organization
01:20:19the guards fled
01:20:20I walked out
01:20:21I thought you were dead
01:20:23I mourned you
01:20:24I know
01:20:25and I'm sorry
01:20:27I'm so sorry
01:20:37you look like your father
01:20:39I never knew him
01:20:41he was a good man
01:20:42he died protecting you
01:20:44the king
01:20:45the real king
01:20:46is still out there
01:20:47Margaret was just a pop
01:20:48Finch was just a figurehead
01:20:49the king is the one
01:20:50who controls the money
01:20:51and that person
01:20:52has not been caught
01:20:52who is it?
01:20:53I don't know
01:20:55but I know where to find out
01:20:57this is an address
01:20:58in Switzerland
01:20:59it's where the king's
01:21:00accountants meet
01:21:03we'll go
01:21:04it's dangerous
01:21:05everything about this
01:21:06has been dangerous
01:21:07you should rest
01:21:08we have a lot
01:21:09to talk about
01:21:10I'd like that
01:21:17your mother
01:21:18my mother
01:21:19you're not alone anymore
01:21:29the accountants meet once a year
01:21:31the next meeting is in three days
01:21:33same place
01:21:35a chateau outside Zurich
01:21:37we can set up surveillance
01:21:39identify everyone who goes in and out
01:21:41then we follow the money
01:21:42no
01:21:43we go in
01:21:45that's suicide
01:21:46we have the element of surprise
01:21:47they think we're done
01:21:49they think we're celebrating
01:21:50she's right
01:21:51the king will be there
01:21:52it's the only chance
01:21:53then we go together
01:22:01thermal shows at least 20 people inside
01:22:05we need the king alive
01:22:06we'll do our best
01:22:07we'll do our best
01:22:07we'll do our best
01:22:09we'll do our best
01:22:15you
01:22:16what a pleasant surprise
01:22:20surprise?
01:22:21you were convicted
01:22:22I was
01:22:23but the king has resources
01:22:25I was released two days ago
01:22:27pending appeal
01:22:29and now I'm here
01:22:30you're the king
01:22:31finally
01:22:32she figures it out
01:22:34Finch was my mentor
01:22:35Margaret was my enforcer
01:22:38Kendrick was my lawyer
01:22:39but I was always the one giving orders
01:22:44why?
01:22:45because power is its own reward
01:22:47and I wanted it all
01:22:49you killed my mother
01:22:52I gave the order
01:22:53Margaret carried it out
01:22:55but yes
01:22:56I killed her
01:22:59shoot me
01:23:00and you become just like me
01:23:02a killer
01:23:04no
01:23:04he's not worth it
01:23:06arrest him
01:23:07this changes nothing
01:23:08the king is a title
01:23:11someone else will take you
01:23:12move
01:23:13you have no idea what you've done
01:23:15the king is everywhere
01:23:17you'll never be safe
01:23:23it's over
01:23:25is it?
01:23:29for now
01:23:30that's enough
01:23:32Whitman is back in prison
01:23:33no parole this time
01:23:35and the organization?
01:23:37dismantled
01:23:38the king is dead
01:23:39not dead
01:23:40beaten
01:23:41there's a difference
01:23:44you did it
01:23:46you did it
01:23:47to family
01:23:48the one we chose
01:23:52I have a lot of time to make up for
01:23:54then let's start now
01:24:02we are gathered here today
01:24:04to celebrate the love of Sebastian and Sloan
01:24:07a love that survives silence
01:24:09secrets and danger
01:24:10a love that chose truth over fear
01:24:15I'm ready
01:24:16finally
01:24:17you're still beautiful
01:24:20you're still talking
01:24:21you're still talking
01:24:22you're still talking
01:24:25you're still talking
01:24:26you taught me that silence isn't empty
01:24:28it's full of things unsaid
01:24:30and you taught me that speaking isn't easy
01:24:32but it's always worth it
01:24:35and you Edward
01:24:35you taught me that the future is worth fighting for
01:24:38Sloan
01:24:39I spent 15 years afraid to speak
01:24:41then I met you
01:24:42and suddenly
01:24:43I had something to say
01:24:45I love you
01:24:46I love our son
01:24:47I love this life
01:24:49thank you for not giving up on me
01:24:53your father would have been proud
01:24:58do you think he's watching?
01:25:01I hope so
01:25:02I have a gift for you
01:25:06what's this?
01:25:06the key to your mother's house
01:25:08the one she grew up in
01:25:10it's yours now
01:25:13thank you
01:25:16we have a lot of catching up to do
01:25:21a lifetime
01:25:23writing again?
01:25:25always
01:25:27what's the story?
01:25:29hours
01:25:31but I'm changing the ending
01:25:33how?
01:25:41that's not an ending
01:25:43it's not supposed to be
01:25:45can't sleep
01:25:46too much on my mind
01:25:48tell me
01:25:48I used to think the world was broken
01:25:51that evil always won
01:25:53that justice was a fairy tale
01:25:55and now?
01:25:57now I know that evil doesn't win
01:25:59it just takes longer to lose
01:26:03I've grown so much
01:26:05I had to
01:26:06front page
01:26:08Sterling family exposes
01:26:10crime syndicate
01:26:11king behind bars
01:26:13it's just a story now
01:26:15a story with a happy ending
01:26:18this is our story
01:26:20and it's just beginning
01:26:32ready?
01:26:34ready
01:26:34ready
01:26:35I was going to do it
01:26:49I was going to do it
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