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00:08Neil.
00:12Kill me, or I'll make you wish to die.
00:28Sent to you.
00:41Master! We're here!
00:43I've just finished dinner with my childhood friend, Silas Vance.
00:48But when I'm about to leave...
00:50Hey, you're gonna pay for that, right?
00:52I refuse. I don't know him, after all.
00:56Fuck you, punk! You should be grateful I even let you pay!
00:59Veilgress, no one snubs Lund Group and walks away.
01:02Know who I am?
01:03Asher Hall.
01:04My wife, Coral Lund, runs Lund Group.
01:07Still feeling brave?
01:09I stare at him for a second, processing the absurdity, then dial Coral.
01:14So, you have another husband outside?
01:20Calling for help?
01:22You really think you're leaving in one piece?
01:23Stop!
01:27This is Lund Group's manners?
01:29According strangers for money, then laying hands on them?
01:32Manners?
01:33In Veilchrist, the name Lund Group is manners.
01:36I was doing you a favor to let you pay, get it?
01:39You wanna talk about rules?
01:40My word is the rule!
01:44Even Lund Group doesn't teach highway robbery, does it?
01:49I'm basically offering you a chance to climb the social ladder higher, idiot.
01:53People beg to buy me drinks.
01:55I just turn most of them down.
01:58Since when does the Gideon family need to grovel to anyone in Veilcrest?
02:01The richest heir of Havenport, capital of the country, never imagined a petty Lund Group could humiliate him.
02:09Let me get one thing straight.
02:11In Veilcrest, I, Asher Hall, am the law.
02:15Pin these fuckers down!
02:28Silas!
02:31You bastard!
02:34Stick your nose in my business!
02:36Today you'll learn Lund Group is untouchable!
02:41Asher Hale, I'm Coral's lawfully wedded husband, Elliot Gideon!
02:49That's Simus Vance from Havenport!
02:54Let us go now, and I'll let this slide!
02:58Coral's husband? A Vance?
03:02You two must have lost your minds!
03:09Everyone knows Mrs. Lund's husband is Deputy Hale.
03:12Man, the lies people tell when they're desperate.
03:15Exactly!
03:16Vance family, Havenport, never heard of it.
03:18Must have pulled the name out of thin air.
03:20Say you're her husband one more time, and I'll break your arm.
03:23I'll teach you the difference between real and fake.
03:26Only I get to say Coral's name.
03:30Only I get to claim her.
03:32Come on, so this marriage of yours is just for decoration?
03:36Are you guys declaring himself who a man right in front of you and you're the cuckold?
03:39No, I got to ask you what I want.
03:52You dare hit me?
03:55No!
03:58No!
03:59No!
04:02You dare hit me?
04:10Damn it beat him senseless. I've never swallowed this kind of insult in my life
04:23Everyone from Lund group tear him apart
04:27They know I'll take responsibility triple bonuses
04:44Everyone freeze
04:54Deputy going here. What are you doing here? What happened?
04:59Detective
04:59Detective Finn
05:04These two outsiders are insane. They refused to pay their bill then jumped us. Look what they did to me
05:10and my staff and my staff
05:18What the hell do you two think you're doing brawling in public assaulting Lund group personnel?
05:23You've got balls. I'll give you that he blocked us from leaving and through the first punch
05:28Lies. I was being generous letting them bask in Lund group's shine by picking up my tab
05:35They flipped then had the guard to claim one of them is my wife's husband and the others some big
05:41shot from Havenport
05:49Doesn't matter who started it
05:51You two did this damage and you injured deputy Hale
05:55That makes it your fault. That makes it your fault. Let me spell it out in veil grist nobody snubs
06:01Lund group
06:01Deputy Hale is miss lungs man touch him and you're spitting on the whole city's rules
06:10Enough chatted you're coming with us
06:12Oh, and you're covering deputy Hale's tab the restaurant's repairs medical bills and emotional damages
06:20Kneel and apologize and maybe just maybe we'll keep it out of court
06:25What the hell he started the whole thing and you're sentencing us without a trial on the grounds that you're
06:32outsiders
06:33You play by Val Greg rules here deputy Hale letting you pay his bill was a gift. Don't insult the
06:40gift
06:43I'd love to see Valehurst rules
06:45Try to outrank federal law still got a mouth on you, huh?
06:50Guess you've never learned respect
06:57Fine you want the hard way
07:03You're abusing your badges
07:08Abuse I'm enforcing order in bail dressed Lund group's business is order you punks need a real lesson in respect
07:18Dogs with badges you'll regret this
07:24Regrets save that for when you're inside getting nightly reminders from the other inmates
07:32Deputy Hale, how's that hard enough want me to dial it up crank it?
07:40They need to learn who runs this town
07:45Deputy Hale, if you don't mind me asking when's miss Lund do Declan and I want to be first in
07:50line with congratulatory gifts
07:52Absolutely, please do grant us the honor. Maybe miss Lund will remember us when promotions come around for five months
08:00Doc says it's a boy
08:03Coral
08:05Pregnant
08:06Two years we've been married
08:08She always said the company was too busy for kids
08:15I struggle to my feet
08:17Declan sees the movement and drives the baton into the back of my neck white lightning blinds me
08:23Asher snatches up a chair then quick and sharp the click of high heels cut through the room from the
08:28doorway
08:29Coral's gaze sweeps across the wreckage without so much as a twitch of her brow until it lands on Asher
08:35What happened? Who hurt you?
08:38Asher instantly dons a wounded puppy expression
08:41Thank God you're here
08:43These two Lunaturks claimed one of them is your husband then started swinging
08:47They even hit the officers detective finn scurries forward mrs. Lund perfect timing
08:54These out-of-tumpers picked a fight and insulted you and deputy hail
08:58We're handling it by the book corals eyes finally reach me
09:02Stuck to the sole of her shoe elliot gideon. I underestimated you
09:08Six months on a business trip and you come back brawling like a thug
09:12And the company you keep trashy friends who think valcrest is their personal playground
09:18Did you imagine lun group would just sit back and watch?
09:21I wipe your blood from my lip
09:24Coral let me ask you asher here claims. He's your husband. He blocked my exit, but demanded I pay his
09:30staff's tab
09:31What exactly is that supposed to mean coral studies my face for two heartbeats?
09:36Then turns away
09:37Detective finn please walk me through this in detail
09:42Mrs. Lund you'll be furious when you hear it this guy marches in spots deputy hail and insists on picking
09:51up his table's bill
09:52Says he wants to build a connection
09:55Deputy hail politely refuses
09:57But this one take no he starts bragging cragging powdows about his money
10:03Claiming that it's an insult if the deputy doesn't let him pay
10:08Exactly
10:09We've got statements from the wait staff when deputy hail keeps refusing this guy flips
10:14He blamed the deputy for not honoring him screaming that the deputy doesn't deserve you and lun group
10:19Deputy hail tries to reason and bam fists fly pure fiction
10:25He blocked us from silence speak here
10:28If you hadn't fanned the flames claiming deputy hail wasn't worthy of your money none of this would have happened
10:38Coral maybe he just wanted to get on my good side
10:41But this is too much. I I simply wouldn't let him pay and he lost it
10:46Said he'd smash lun group and make you regret it
10:50Coral's expression freezes over elliot gideon. I didn't think you could sink this low want a curry favor fine
10:56But throwing punches when you're turned down
10:59Six months away and this is what you learn someone refuses your money. So you beat him up. Have you
11:04no shame?
11:04You didn't the police have statements still planning to lie
11:10You're beyond saving so used to leeching off me that you try to buy influence
11:15Then throw tantrums when it fails
11:17Why did I ever marry you?
11:21Coral
11:22Don't stress yourself. He probably just lost his head for a second
11:27A second?
11:28This is who he is
11:32Detective Finn proceed by the book full restitution every cent
11:37Let's see how he plans to pay
11:38So cold my throat tightens in her mind
11:42I'm already the parasite who forces himself on strangers to climb the ladder then lashes out when rejected
11:49Fine
11:52You want compensation name the price
11:56Five million
11:58Can you scrape that together? It's more like you'd have to borrow even just ten thousand
12:06Five million, huh? Hold tight. Text my father, too. My phone's in pieces
12:14Keep pretending five mil with those rags enough stalling hands out now when you can't produce a dime
12:21You'll wish you cooperated you want it rough you've got it relax the money's in route route
12:27More like the ferryman's coming for you daddy bringing cash is he still pushing wheel harrows at some construction site
12:34Last warning comply or else
12:40They're here here on the street below a motorcade of black sedans glides forward in perfect formation
12:47In the distance a helicopter emblazoned with the Vance crest slices through the sky what the hell is this
12:57The helicopter hovers above the restaurant's forefloor the convoy halts
13:01Doors swing open in unison rows of bodyguards black suits and white gloves pour out and form two disciplined minds
13:16Sir are you all right master i'm sorry for all this
13:25Peter did you bring the cash
13:28Miss lun wants five million
13:32Let's count it out for her
13:42Oh my god
13:44Oh my god
13:49Asher's knees buckle he nearly collapses detective finn and officer declan are sheet white
13:57Miss lund the five million you demanded prepared in duplicate by the gideon family and the vance family
14:03However, the watch smashed from my master's wrist handmade in italy is worth seven million
14:09Mr. Vince's suit bespoke from savon road eight million in damages medical fees and emotional distress and the total comes
14:17to 20 million
14:18We trust lund group wire the funds promptly
14:23As for these two officers
14:26Abuse of authority assault on citizens conspiracy to frame those charges go straight to internal affairs. Oh, and you
14:34Inciting violence intentional injury stack the counts and you'll measure the years in decades
14:40Ellet
14:41What is all this?
14:45When did you become someone who commands this kind of wealth?
14:51Back then she stands outside the library in a faded cotton padded jacket shoulders hunched against the cold reciting textbook
14:59passages while clutching two cold sandwiches for lunch
15:03I walk up and offer her a steaming cup of coffee
15:06But she blushes and pushes it away only later
15:09Do I learn she works several part-time jobs tuition for herself and medicine for her sick mother one night
15:15Her business plan draft is torn apart by the professor. She sits on the bleachers and cries
15:21Let me ask my family for seed money. Let's get your company started first
15:26Elliot Gideon
15:27Elliot Gideon, who do you take me for? I'd rather starve than take charity
15:30Especially from you rich kids. I'll stand on my own feet. I don't need anyone's pity
15:35We fight bitterly that evening
15:38She flings the bank card I offer to the ground snarling that she hates silver spoon babies will never understand
15:44pride
15:46From that day on I never mentioned my family again
15:50When her startup hemorrhages cash I anonymously wire 30 million
16:00When rival firms squeeze her
16:04I have my father's friends quietly clear the path she chalks every break to luck
16:10Never knowing each lucky break is me holding my breath lifting her from the shadows
16:17But once coral has money she begins to forget who she was
16:22She grows colder and bars me from every boardroom
16:25Terrified I might be after her fortune
16:28I tell myself that once the company steadies she'll see the truth until she installs her own side piece
16:41You never asked
16:43You said you hated rich kids charity said you'd stand on your own
16:47So I never told you
16:53So everything one group is because of you doesn't matter now
16:58You said you despise disloyalty yet you kept a lover
17:03You said you hated the strong bullying the weak yet you let your people throw their weight around
17:07You said you loathe the abuse of power yet you watch these officers twist the truth without a word
17:12Inform Gideon group pull every cent of investment from lun group immediately
17:17Have legal draft the breach of contract notices
17:25No
17:26No
17:27No
17:27Elliot you can't
17:29Lund group is my life's work
17:31Without your funding it'll collapse
17:34Life's work how much of that life's work is actually yours
17:41Prepare the divorce papers follow the pre-nap to the letter I leave with nothing wait actually correction
17:48Trace every anonymous shareholding ingested into lung group those assets belong to Gideon group reclaim them
17:55Understood mr. Gideon
17:57Elliot I was wrong give me one more chance, please
18:01I'll cut ash off today. I'll terminate the pregnancy
18:05Don't bother your child your company your life. None of it concerns me any longer
18:11Silas silent till now suddenly drives his heel into a nearby table solid oak legs snap like twigs
18:18He rubs the burn mark the stun baton left on his arm
18:22Now that your little soap opera is over
18:25It's time to talk about the damage done to me
18:28Seal this dump not even a fly leaves
18:31Everyone who threw a punch laughed or cheered no one walks out and who kicked me in the gut
18:36Who zapped me with a stun baton who said my old man pushes bricks find them now?
18:42Damn it every last one of you if a single bastard leaves this restaurant on two legs
18:48I'll eat my fucking hat and these scum didn't they love swinging fists break their arms and legs then dump
18:56them in the havenport fish ponds
18:57No, mrs. Lund save me coral help
19:07You want a taste too?
19:10She freezes blood draining from her face
19:13She may not know havenports hierarchy, but she knows men who arrived by helicopter are not to be trifled
19:20Silas's men move like wolves within minutes every guard who struts every heckler and the two officers are face down
19:28on the ground
19:28The stun batons are confiscated then rammed into officer Declan's ribs
19:33He screams curling like a salted slug begging for mercy
19:37And you?
19:38Wanted us beaten nightly in lockup?
19:41Well now is your turn
19:44Beat them until the bones sing
19:46Leave them breathing
19:48Screams
19:48Queens
19:49Crash of chairs
19:50Chaos
19:51Coral crouches
19:52Hands over her face
19:54Sobbing
19:54Yet no one looks over
19:56I see the red rims of Silas's eyes
19:58He's incandescent with rage
20:00The favored heir of Haven Street
20:02Zapped by small town cops
20:04That's uncomfortable
20:06Enough
20:07Don't stain your hands
20:10Silas glances at the writhing pile
20:13Today's their lucky day
20:14Hand them to the proper authorities
20:16Jail time
20:17Restitution
20:18Miss a single cent
20:20And their families can kneel at my gate in Havenport
20:22He drags me toward the exit
20:24Let's go
20:25This place reeks
20:27As for what follows
20:28I mostly hear second hand
20:30Asher's fall is the most wretched
20:32His deputy general manager of Lund Group title
20:36turns radioactive under joint pressure from the Vance and Gideon families
20:40Lund Group issues a same-day dismissal
20:43Then sues him for embezzlement and reputational damage
20:46The sycophants who once orbited him
20:48Now trip over themselves to offer evidence of his abuses
20:5212 years
20:53Cumulative sentence
20:54The officers fare no better
20:56Files on their abuse and cover-ups land on the disciplinary committee's desk
21:00They're suspended before sunset
21:02Their precinct captain, desperate to save himself, leaks their rap sheets overnight
21:07Dismissal, then criminal conviction for assault
21:09Lund Group collapses faster than predicted
21:12Partners flee like rats from a burning ship
21:15The cash chain snaps
21:16Rivals Coral, once crushed, swarm in
21:20Poaching teams, stealing projects
21:22She begs old contacts for help
21:24But they screen her calls
21:26No one will risk the Vance family
21:28And the deep-rooted Gideon family for a sinking ship
21:31Three months later, Lund Group files for bankruptcy
21:34Coral plummets from cloud to gutter, saddled with debt
21:38Word is, someone saw her under the Veilcrest overpass
21:42Gaunt, a ghost of her former glory
21:44The hecklers and thugs?
21:46Silas keeps them from the fishponds, but not from ruin
21:49The attackers' arms are broken
21:51They're shipped home, never to set foot in Veilcrest again
21:54The jeering staff lose their jobs and land on an industry blacklist
21:59No decent employer will touch them
22:01They'll die remembering the carpet of cash and the thunder of rotors
22:06Silas and I board the helicopter straight from that sesame
22:09Silas rubs his scorched arm, cursing Veilcrest's rumors
22:13I stay silent, watching the city shrink beneath the clouds
22:17Feeling the last thread to Coral snap clean
22:20Back in Havenport, the Vance family uses a business summit
22:24To publicly slap every Veilcrest circle that backed Lund Group's tyrion
22:29Silas is nothing if not vindictive
22:31Insult him and the interest is always paid in blood
22:35For me, Gideon Group's focus was never Veilcrest
22:38Pulling out was a flick of the wrist
22:40My father, hearing I'd been hurt, summons me home
22:44Useless guy
22:45While glaring at the bruise on my neck
22:48Then he orders legal to slam the papers in front of Coral
22:51They say she was signing bankruptcy forms when the envelope arrived
22:55She cried until the ink ran
22:58Tears won't help though
22:59What belongs to the Gideon family will be reclaimed
23:02Down to the last cent
23:05Six months later, I meet Silas at a multinational signing center
23:08He's in bespoke charcoal, trading jokes with foreign CEOs
23:12The scar on his arm is almost gone
23:15He bumps my shoulder as I enter it
23:18Your Coral opened a corner grocery store in the suburbs
23:20Still pregnant, rough life
23:22I initial contracts without looking up
23:24Not our concern
23:25He raises an eyebrow
23:27After the toast, we walk out side by side
23:29His Maybach and my Bentley are lined up outside
23:32Night wind carries the scent of jasmine
23:35Honestly getting tased in veil breast
23:37Most humiliating moment of my life
23:39Likewise
23:41But lesson learned
23:42Not everyone deserves our restraint
23:44He pats my back
23:45Come on, would you like some drinks?
23:47My dad flew in a few cases of Lafotte
23:49Consider that a belated freedom party
23:51As the car pulls away
23:53I glance in the mirror at the receding lights
23:55I once thought marriage was two people marching in step
23:58Now I know some only walk with you a short mile
24:01Silas and I have longer roads
24:03Brighter days ahead
24:04After all, the man who can make us bow
24:07Hasn't been born
24:08And so I can cut the door
24:08I think that very would be a good morning
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