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00:00:00Today was my father-in-law's funeral.
00:00:03My husband held an umbrella over his brother's widow,
00:00:07his childhood sweetheart.
00:00:09I stood in the rain alone.
00:00:13Leo will be so lost without Grandpa Harrison.
00:00:16You're not alone, Felicity.
00:00:18I'm not going anywhere.
00:00:19My name is Eliana Heath, Mrs. Vargas on paper,
00:00:22but my real identity was the exiled heir of the Santos family.
00:00:26Today, I decided to stop pretending.
00:00:28Hayes, the funeral is over.
00:00:31We need to discuss the divorce.
00:00:34Is it because of me?
00:00:36Seriously?
00:00:37My father is barely in the ground, and you pull this?
00:00:40The family business merger your father led is done.
00:00:43You've got your own duties now.
00:00:44I don't need to cling to this empty marriage.
00:00:47You mean Felicity?
00:00:48Have some respect.
00:00:49She is my brother's widow.
00:00:51You have a mansion, an unlimited allowance.
00:00:54Don't threat me with leaving.
00:00:55You can't survive a day without the Vargas Trust Fund.
00:00:57He really thought I was a parasite.
00:00:59He didn't know I held three patents.
00:01:01He didn't know my shopping trips were meetings with pharmaceutical developers.
00:01:04Fine.
00:01:06See?
00:01:08She's just jealous.
00:01:09She'll get over it.
00:01:12As soon as the funeral ended, I went straight to my lawyer, Talia's office.
00:01:16She was my only friend, and the best divorce attorney in the city.
00:01:22We go for half.
00:01:24The pre-net has a cheating claw.
00:01:25The photos from the funeral, it's a slam dump.
00:01:27No.
00:01:28I don't want his money.
00:01:29Clean break.
00:01:30Immediately.
00:01:33Why?
00:01:34You spent three years as his nurse, his PR manager, his emotional punching bag?
00:01:39I pulled a medical envelope from my bag and slid it across the desk.
00:01:46Three years of marriage?
00:01:47And he never touched you?
00:01:49He told me on our wedding night.
00:01:50He was saving himself for Felicity.
00:01:53That bastard!
00:01:54That's constructive abandonment!
00:01:56We can destroy him!
00:01:57No.
00:01:58If this blows up, the Santos matriarch will step in.
00:02:01Then I'm just trading the Vargas cage for the Santos cage.
00:02:03You're really walking away with nothing?
00:02:05The Santos family sold you into this marriage, and you're letting Vargas walk free?
00:02:09I'm not letting him go.
00:02:10I'm leaving first.
00:02:12Then I will settle the score.
00:02:13What about Elnar?
00:02:14Wasn't your brother the one who loved you most?
00:02:16He signed the dowry papers and sent me there himself.
00:02:20From that day on, I had no brother.
00:02:23Fine.
00:02:24I'll draft the decoy agreement.
00:02:25Mutual separation, no alimony, no assets.
00:02:29The worst deal in history.
00:02:30It was the price of freedom.
00:02:34I went back to the estate, and all that minimalist art I'd carefully picked out was gone.
00:02:39My home had been invaded.
00:02:41I hope you don't mind.
00:02:42This place was so cold.
00:02:44It needed some warm family energy.
00:02:47Taste is subjective.
00:02:49But some things are objectively loud.
00:02:53I just wanted to make it nice.
00:02:55Eliana, Felicity is a guest.
00:02:58Be gracious.
00:03:00A guest?
00:03:02Then why was she redecorating the host's home?
00:03:04This is my house.
00:03:06Leo has been through enough.
00:03:09I looked at the three of them.
00:03:10She wasn't here to stay.
00:03:12She was here to take my place.
00:03:14Don't worry.
00:03:15She's just jealous.
00:03:16It looks great.
00:03:17I turned and walked away.
00:03:19No argument.
00:03:21No fight.
00:03:22Not anymore.
00:03:24Dinner was a nightmare.
00:03:27Leo wasn't eating at all.
00:03:28He was drumming on a crystal goblet.
00:03:33Let him express himself.
00:03:35He's a musical genius.
00:03:38My eyes landed on the mantle.
00:03:41There sat my only photo of my parents.
00:03:44Black and white.
00:03:45A couple standing in front of a vineyard.
00:03:48The only thing I had smuggled out when I fled at 18.
00:03:52Ugly.
00:03:53Old people are ugly.
00:03:55Leo, Uncle Hayes said you can treat anything in this house like a toy.
00:03:59Put that down.
00:04:01No!
00:04:01Uncle Hayes won't say no to me!
00:04:04Leo, no!
00:04:06Felicity blocked me.
00:04:07She just stood there and let Leo smash the picture frame and tear the photo to pieces.
00:04:11Mommy, my hand is bleeding.
00:04:13What a cheap frame!
00:04:14Hayes, get over here!
00:04:15Aliana hurt Leo!
00:04:16I knelt down.
00:04:17I watched my parents' smiling faces being torn to shreds.
00:04:20I picked up the pieces one by one from the broken glass.
00:04:24Hayes stepped on my hand as he walked over to comfort the mother and son.
00:04:27What happened to Leo?
00:04:28It's all because of that cheap glass frame of hers.
00:04:31No, Felicity!
00:04:32The photo's already in pieces and you just had to throw wine all over it?
00:04:35It's just a photo.
00:04:36Stop being dramatic.
00:04:39There was no negative.
00:04:40This was the only one.
00:04:42I don't know, but you hurt Felicity and Leo.
00:04:44You apologized to them.
00:04:45I looked at Hayes, the man I had tried to love for three years.
00:04:49They destroyed the last photo I had of my parents.
00:04:52I'm not the one who should apologize.
00:04:54I turned and walked upstairs.
00:04:56Blood was dripping from my hand.
00:04:57I called Talia.
00:04:58Send me the papers.
00:05:00Tomorrow, I want his signature on that divorce agreement.
00:05:04Three years of patience.
00:05:05Three years of pretending.
00:05:07No more.
00:05:08I walked into the study with my coffee, just like I always did.
00:05:12Hayes was going through some paperwork, looking pretty frustrated.
00:05:16Are those foundation reports done yet?
00:05:18Just missing your signature.
00:05:19The accountant said noon deadline, or we missed the filing window.
00:05:25Leave it there.
00:05:27I placed the thick stack in front of him.
00:05:30The top pages were boring financial spreadsheets.
00:05:33But I had tabbed the signature lines.
00:05:36Here.
00:05:37And here.
00:05:38Done.
00:05:39You can go.
00:05:39I flipped to the last tab.
00:05:41The divorce agreement was tucked inside the foundation reports, its title covered by an attachment, leaving only the signature line
00:05:48exposed.
00:05:49And here.
00:05:51Hayes picked up the pen.
00:05:53The tip touched the paper.
00:05:55What's this?
00:05:57Foundation reports.
00:05:59Hayes, we're going to be late for Leo's school meeting.
00:06:02I'll check it later.
00:06:03I'll sign when I'm back.
00:06:04It's already noon.
00:06:05If you miss it again, we'll get penalized.
00:06:08So annoying.
00:06:09Next time, sooner.
00:06:12This is the final time.
00:06:14I heard that Mr. Sterling was coming.
00:06:16The executor of the family trust, the board's eyes and ears.
00:06:21A man who terrified Hayes more than his own father did.
00:06:25I needed to set the trap before he arrived.
00:06:28I hung the wedding gift from the matriarch next to Felicity and Hayes' photos.
00:06:32It was Friedrich's painting.
00:06:34Wanderer above the sea of fag.
00:06:35A lone figure stood on top of the clouds.
00:06:37And a bottomless abyss was right beneath his feet.
00:06:40What is that dreary thing?
00:06:41It's so gray.
00:06:42It was painted in 1818.
00:06:44It's a national cultural treasure.
00:06:46Priceless, really.
00:06:47But if it ever hit the market, it could easily break $100 million.
00:06:51$100 million?
00:06:52You're joking, right?
00:06:53Leo ran in holding a juice box.
00:06:55I knew he was about to ruin something of mine again.
00:06:59Leo, be careful.
00:06:59That is very expensive.
00:07:01So what if he looks at it?
00:07:03This whole house is going to be his someday anyway.
00:07:06It belonged to the Santos family, really.
00:07:08If anything happened to it, Hayes would be in a lot of trouble.
00:07:12Go look.
00:07:13If you don't like it, give it some color.
00:07:15Leo grinned.
00:07:17He squeezed the juice box with both hands.
00:07:19A jet of purple liquid sprayed across the delicate rice paper.
00:07:24Oh, no!
00:07:25It looks better now!
00:07:27It has color!
00:07:28See?
00:07:29He's an artist.
00:07:33The heavy oak doors opened.
00:07:34Mr. Sterling stood there, two lawyers behind him.
00:07:38He looked at the ruined painting, his face turning to stone.
00:07:41Mrs. Vargas, what has happened?
00:07:43I tried to stop him, Mr. Sterling, but Felicity said...
00:07:47I deliberately left the sentence unfinished.
00:07:49Let Sterling draw his own conclusions.
00:07:51Hayes stormed in and saw Felicity crying.
00:07:53Leo plimmed to a chair, and Sterling holding papers.
00:07:56What's going on?
00:07:57My card was declined.
00:07:59You allowed an outsider to damage a Santos trust asset.
00:08:02Under the trust terms, all your discretionary accounts are frozen until the board audit is complete.
00:08:08Over one painting?
00:08:09A hundred million dollars?
00:08:12She let him do it!
00:08:13She hates Leo!
00:08:14I warned him.
00:08:16I've notified the board.
00:08:19Until the debt is repaid, all of Hayes' discretionary accounts are frozen.
00:08:23Sterling's men carried out the painting.
00:08:25I watched Hayes' face crumble.
00:08:27A cold satisfaction flickered in my chest.
00:08:30I went back to my room, and took the original from behind the false panel.
00:08:33What Leo destroyed was only the insured display copy.
00:08:36Elnar had already returned the real painting to me.
00:08:38My phone buzzed.
00:08:39A mandatory invitation to the Santos family's winter gala.
00:08:42The matriarch wanted to see me.
00:08:43The next day, I put the divorce papers into a beautiful envelope.
00:08:47Disguised as an anniversary gift.
00:08:50When Hayes came downstairs, I handed it to him.
00:08:53A gift for you.
00:08:58Before he could open it, Velocity screamed from upstairs.
00:09:02He shoved the envelope into his pocket and rushed upstairs.
00:09:06I picked up my suitcase and walked out without looking back.
00:09:09On the drive back to the Santos estate, the matriarch's assistant called to warn me.
00:09:14Bring Hayes to the winter gala, or the alliance would be broken.
00:09:17But I didn't care at all.
00:09:19Goodbye, Hayes.
00:09:20The Santos estate was a frozen fortress.
00:09:23I walked into the great hall alone, and every relative stared at me.
00:09:28Where is the Vargas boy?
00:09:31He was detained by business, Grandmother.
00:09:33He's with his mistress. Everyone knows.
00:09:35You have embarrassed us.
00:09:37The knee of the courtyard. One hour.
00:09:40Grandmother, it's a blizzard.
00:09:41Do you question me?
00:09:44Two guards grabbed my arms.
00:09:45I knew it was useless to resist.
00:09:47I didn't even struggle.
00:09:48The guards shoved me into the snow.
00:09:50I melted on the freezing stone, the wind cutting my face like a knife.
00:09:54Ten minutes.
00:09:55My legs went numb.
00:09:57Twenty minutes.
00:09:58My teeth started shuddering.
00:10:00Thirty minutes.
00:10:01I couldn't feel my feet anymore.
00:10:03Through blurred vision, I saw headlines.
00:10:12Who made her kneel here?
00:10:14I forced my eyes open.
00:10:15I saw a face I hadn't seen in four years.
00:10:18Sharp jawline.
00:10:19Dark eyes burning with terrifying rage.
00:10:22A scar through his left eyebrow.
00:10:24Elnar Santos.
00:10:25The Exile.
00:10:26The Wolf.
00:10:28Elnar.
00:10:32You idiot.
00:10:33The matriarch notified Haze.
00:10:35When he arrived, the iron gates were twisted metal from the crash, and there was blood on the ground.
00:10:40Where is my wife?
00:10:42Kill the Vargas deal.
00:10:44Destroy the stock.
00:10:45Burn it to the ground.
00:10:46I want Haze Vargas begging on the street by morning.
00:10:49The smell of Ood.
00:10:51I opened my eyes.
00:10:53Elnar sat in the shadows, watching me.
00:10:55You almost died.
00:10:57For that man?
00:10:58Brother, I didn't do it for him.
00:11:00I did it for the endgame.
00:11:03The game is over.
00:11:04You're not going back.
00:11:06I'll burn the Vargas assay to the ground with them inside.
00:11:13No.
00:11:14If you burn it, I lose everything, my parents.
00:11:17My dignity, my name.
00:11:20I need to finish this my way.
00:11:23You don't give me orders.
00:11:25I'm not your servant.
00:11:27I'm not your kill.
00:11:29Let me go back.
00:11:30Let me destroy them from the inside.
00:11:33I want them broken, not just burnt.
00:11:36He searched my face for the trembling girl he once knew.
00:11:40Fine.
00:11:41Go back to your little play.
00:11:43But remember, I won't save you a second time.
00:11:47If you crawl back, the price won't be just your loyalty.
00:11:51It will be your freedom.
00:11:53Understood.
00:11:56The car is waiting, Mrs. Heath.
00:11:59I had to walk out on my own.
00:12:01And this time, I would never fall back.
00:12:03I returned to the estate and walked into the closet.
00:12:06The wedding dress still hung there.
00:12:09I used to think if I looked beautiful enough, Hayes would finally see me.
00:12:14Now it was just a white ghost.
00:12:18Eliana, what are you doing?
00:12:19Are you crazy?
00:12:22Your arm?
00:12:23They beat you?
00:12:26The Santos family didn't beat people.
00:12:29You did that for me?
00:12:30Because I didn't show up?
00:12:32What about last night?
00:12:34Who were you with?
00:12:35Was it Elnar?
00:12:38Hayes, you chose to stay with her.
00:12:40So don't ask me who I went to.
00:12:43Honey, are you okay?
00:12:45Pink star cut.
00:12:46Hayes had spent six months finding them.
00:12:49Now they were dangling from her ears.
00:12:52Hayes gave them to me.
00:12:54To cheer me up.
00:12:55Honey, I feel dizzy.
00:12:58Can you take me to the room?
00:13:00Let's go.
00:13:02I followed them, hid behind the master bedroom door, and pulled out my phone to record.
00:13:06Felicity and Hayes were kissing on my wedding bed.
00:13:09I was going to monetize this.
00:13:14Do the final recognition.
00:13:16Three years of patience.
00:13:18Three years of pretending.
00:13:21Now, it was their turn to bleed.
00:13:24The video was out.
00:13:26The movers had already taken my research files.
00:13:29My phone blew up.
00:13:30Trending number one.
00:13:32Air caught an incestuous trice with brother's widow.
00:13:35Stock down 8% in 10 minutes.
00:13:38I was standing in the doorway, watching Hayes and Felimity's faces turn to ash.
00:13:44It was you!
00:13:45You filmed it!
00:13:47Eliana!
00:13:48What did you do?
00:13:49Do you know what this will do?
00:13:51I know, Hayes.
00:13:53I'm calling my lawyer.
00:13:54I can delete it.
00:13:57Five million dollars.
00:13:59My accounts are all frozen.
00:14:01Sterling locked everything.
00:14:02You have the vintage Ferrari collection.
00:14:05Pat and Murray watch is in your safe.
00:14:07Sell them!
00:14:09All of them!
00:14:10Gone.
00:14:11The photo was gone.
00:14:13Mr. Vargas!
00:14:14The matriarch!
00:14:15She saw the news!
00:14:17She collapsed!
00:14:18The ambulance is on the way!
00:14:20Mother!
00:14:20Get the car!
00:14:21We're going to the hospital!
00:14:22I looked at the chaos I had orchestrated.
00:14:24Perfect.
00:14:25Hospital corridor.
00:14:26The Vargas family surrounded Hayes.
00:14:29You fool!
00:14:30You've wiped a billion dollars off the market, Pap!
00:14:33In an hour!
00:14:34I...
00:14:35I'll fix it.
00:14:37Uncle, I brought her favorite herbal tea for when she wakes up.
00:14:41Eliana, you don't have to clean up his mess.
00:14:45He's my husband.
00:14:46We face this together.
00:14:48I walked into the room.
00:14:50Victoria lay in bed, but her eyes were open.
00:14:53It was you.
00:14:54The news.
00:14:56Hayes needed a wake-up call.
00:14:58What do you want?
00:14:59Hayes needed to be severed from Felicity.
00:15:02I could fix the PR.
00:15:05But I wanted the patent rights to the synthetic collagen formula and your voting proxel.
00:15:12That formula is worth millions!
00:15:15Hayes' reputation was worth zero.
00:15:17If I walked, the stock would crash.
00:15:20Done.
00:15:20But you must make him leave her.
00:15:23Okay.
00:15:24The formula was mine.
00:15:26The board was mine.
00:15:27I drafted a statement.
00:15:28Felicity Branch is merely a dependent of the family trust, and Hayes Vargas will relocate to a separate residence.
00:15:34We have to do this.
00:15:36Stock was down 12%.
00:15:38Your mother was in ICU.
00:15:40You're not signing that!
00:15:42You promised William!
00:15:43Did you think the public would sympathize with a home-wrecking widow?
00:15:47You'd be a social pariah.
00:15:50If you stayed quiet, I would set you up in New Jersey.
00:15:53Trust Stippet stayed.
00:15:55But shopping stopped.
00:15:57New Jersey?
00:15:59I'm sorry.
00:15:59Driver takes you in the moment.
00:16:01You'll regret this!
00:16:02Good choice.
00:16:03Phase 1 complete.
00:16:05He was isolated.
00:16:07Next.
00:16:08I was at JFK, readying for Munich.
00:16:11One last call before boarding.
00:16:15Ileana?
00:16:16Where are you?
00:16:18The divorce papers are in that file stack I left you.
00:16:21Go find them.
00:16:23What?
00:16:24Today's reminder.
00:16:26His 30th birthday.
00:16:29Cloud backup failed.
00:16:31The USB was in the Vargas safe.
00:16:33Without it, Project Nina was just useless code.
00:16:36I slipped through the service entrance.
00:16:38The USB was in my hand.
00:16:40You!
00:16:41How dare you come back!
00:16:44So he didn't kick you out?
00:16:46Makes sense.
00:16:47Someone had to bake his cake.
00:16:49Weren't you getting a divorce?
00:16:50Then stay the hell away!
00:16:53Felicity, you couldn't even hold a knife properly.
00:16:55What is this?
00:16:56You're actually leaving me?
00:17:00You finally found it.
00:17:03I ran out.
00:17:03Engine noise roared overhead.
00:17:05Ileana!
00:17:07The helicopter touched down on the grass.
00:17:09Elnar walked toward me through the rotor wash.
00:17:12Your flight is cancelled.
00:17:14I'm taking you to Munich.
00:17:15Ileana officially reserves the Heath nickname.
00:17:17I boarded my brother's private jet.
00:17:20I cancelled my phone number.
00:17:23I was going to disappear from Hayes' world completely.
00:17:30The news was all about Hayes abandoning his wife for his sister-in-law.
00:17:35Felicity's photo in Hayes' jacket was everywhere.
00:17:37She was smiling like she had won.
00:17:40A wave of nauseous hit me.
00:17:44Munich, three days.
00:17:45The Project Nina launch.
00:17:47Will you come?
00:17:48No.
00:17:49Good.
00:17:50This stage, I stood alone.
00:17:52Launch day.
00:17:54I walked on stage in a bespoke suit.
00:17:58Europe's finest scientists were in the audience.
00:18:00Vishnacht dreht sich nicht um das Hälen.
00:18:03Es geht darum, die Blaukarte des Lebens neu zu...
00:18:05Thunderous applause.
00:18:06I spoke fluent German with top scientists.
00:18:09Everyone wanted to meet me.
00:18:10Finally, thank you to our sponsor.
00:18:14Thank you, Mrs. Heath.
00:18:18He said he wouldn't.
00:18:19After the presentation, I was escorted to the VIP lounge.
00:18:23Elnar held a document.
00:18:25I'd acquired all of Vargas' debt.
00:18:27I now controlled 51% of Project Nina.
00:18:31Mrs. Heath, Bavarian Pharma offered 100 million for 49%.
00:18:35Non-controlling state.
00:18:36Schmidt, I didn't know you had a death wish.
00:18:40Execute.
00:18:42What?
00:18:43Stock down 15%?
00:18:46You tipped off the regulators.
00:18:48One more minute in this room.
00:18:50It'll be 30%.
00:18:52Sign it.
00:18:53Pleasure doing business.
00:18:57Why did you sell me?
00:19:00Married me to Hayes for 10 million.
00:19:03I signed a transfer for your dowry.
00:19:05To give you your own money.
00:19:07The matriarch showed me a letter.
00:19:10You wrote that you hated me.
00:19:13I never wrote a letter.
00:19:15She said you begged to leave.
00:19:17That you were in love with Hayes.
00:19:19I didn't even know Hayes existed until the engagement party!
00:19:23She played us both.
00:19:25For seven years.
00:19:27Seven years.
00:19:28I was sold to the wrong man.
00:19:30He thought I hated him.
00:19:31And she sat there, smiling, for seven years.
00:19:36I need space.
00:19:37I'm going back to my place.
00:19:41Eliana.
00:19:41I didn't stop.
00:19:43The wind hit my face.
00:19:44I needed to breathe.
00:19:45Really breathe.
00:19:47New York.
00:19:48Now.
00:19:48I'm going to see the matriarch bring my sister back.
00:19:51I was back at the Tribeca apartment.
00:19:53Talia was already there.
00:19:54Wine open.
00:19:55To divorce.
00:19:57Asset transfer complete.
00:19:58You're officially off the Vargas radar.
00:20:01Donate the five million.
00:20:03To a legal defense fund for abused women.
00:20:05You just got five million and you're giving it away?
00:20:08I was using it to clean my conscience.
00:20:12Fine.
00:20:13But you need to know.
00:20:15Hayes hired Blackstone.
00:20:17Top player private investigators.
00:20:19He was tracking you.
00:20:20Let him look.
00:20:22I'd gone back to my real name.
00:20:24Eliana Heath.
00:20:26The Vargas name was erased.
00:20:29Good news.
00:20:30Dr. Sterling wanted to meet you.
00:20:32A new neural regeneration project.
00:20:34Completely separate from Nina.
00:20:36Yours from the ground up.
00:20:39Dr. Sterling?
00:20:40He read your papers.
00:20:41He said you were the most talented scientist he'd ever seen.
00:20:44I had left Vargas.
00:20:45I had escaped Santos' grip.
00:20:46Now someone wanted to pay for my brain.
00:20:49Not my marriage.
00:20:50The career of Eliana Heath had only just begun.
00:20:54Meanwhile, another net was tightening.
00:20:59We found her.
00:21:01She's in New York.
00:21:02He's heading to the Sterling Institute tomorrow.
00:21:07She thinks she can just disappear.
00:21:09Get the car ready.
00:21:10I'm going to find her.
00:21:14The next day, I arrived at the Sterling Institute.
00:21:17It didn't look like a lab.
00:21:18It looked like a fortress.
00:21:19Glass and steel.
00:21:21Miss Heath, I'd read your paper three times.
00:21:23That section on neural pathway synthesis?
00:21:26Genius.
00:21:27You're too kind, Doctor.
00:21:28It's not kindness.
00:21:30It's fact.
00:21:32I need you.
00:21:36It's just a concept.
00:21:38Concepts change the world.
00:21:42Your project, your rules.
00:21:44I'm building a neural regeneration division.
00:21:46You run it.
00:21:48I accept.
00:21:50There's a small celebration dinner tonight.
00:21:52Some key investors will be there.
00:21:54You must come.
00:21:55I'm trying to keep a low profile, Doctor.
00:21:57You're my lead scientist.
00:21:59This isn't social.
00:22:00It's work.
00:22:03Fine.
00:22:03I'll be there.
00:22:04He said it was work.
00:22:05But I had a feeling that dinner was far from simple.
00:22:09Dr. Sterling's estate was like a castle.
00:22:12I brought my assistant, Julian.
00:22:14He was my new partner.
00:22:16Calm, professional.
00:22:18Only talked science.
00:22:20Eliana, come.
00:22:21I want you to meet our primary benefactor.
00:22:24New project.
00:22:25New investor.
00:22:26Tonight, everything would fall into place.
00:22:29The crowd parted.
00:22:31He stood by the fireplace.
00:22:32Charcoal suit.
00:22:34Whiskey glass.
00:22:35Radiating control.
00:22:37Elnar?
00:22:41We've met.
00:22:43You signed a contract.
00:22:45Sterling works for me.
00:22:46Which meant you work for me now.
00:22:50She's family.
00:22:52I have a home.
00:22:54The institute you were standing in.
00:22:56The champagne you were holding.
00:22:58The salary you were drawing.
00:22:59It all came from my capital.
00:23:01You couldn't run from that.
00:23:04Tonight, I was going to show everyone who you were.
00:23:08Welcome home, little sister.
00:23:12A name from childhood.
00:23:15Now it felt like a chain around my neck.
00:23:18He wasn't there to celebrate me.
00:23:20He was there to claim me.
00:23:22Elnar's declaration hit me like ice water.
00:23:24The room went silent.
00:23:25My phone buzzed with a new message from my persistent ex-husband, Hayes.
00:23:29New number.
00:23:30I'll still find you.
00:23:32Wasn't he with Felicity now?
00:23:33One brother wanted to consume me.
00:23:35One ex-husband wanted to drag me back into the mud.
00:23:39I stood between them colder than I had ever been.
00:23:42Everyone, allow me to formally introduce my A.
00:23:47Mr. Santos.
00:23:49Doctor?
00:23:50You were mistaken about one thing.
00:23:52Eliana's brilliance was her own.
00:23:54Her resilience was her own.
00:23:56She overcame trials that would break lesser people on her own.
00:24:01My institute did not tolerate insults to colleagues.
00:24:05Least of all, to my most important lead scientist.
00:24:10The doctor is right.
00:24:12She was the heart of our team.
00:24:13Anyone who wanted to touch her would have to go through us first.
00:24:17Dr. Sterling stood in front of me.
00:24:19Julian at my side.
00:24:21Two men built a wall around me.
00:24:23Interesting.
00:24:25You'd found a new protector.
00:24:27Let's see how long this one lasted.
00:24:29That's it for tonight.
00:24:30But this wasn't over.
00:24:32He was wrong.
00:24:34I was learning to stand on my own.
00:24:36Late night, I was slumped on the sofa.
00:24:39Talia sat across from me.
00:24:40He was marking territory tonight.
00:24:42Apex predator power play.
00:24:45He wanted everyone to know.
00:24:47You were in his sphere.
00:24:49I know.
00:24:50Hayes texted too.
00:24:51He said he could find me.
00:24:52He was insane too.
00:24:54You were trapped between two wolves.
00:24:56Wait.
00:24:58Julian just sent a video.
00:24:59Someone spotted Elnar at a casino.
00:25:01And Hayes was sitting across from him.
00:25:03He was setting a trap.
00:25:06One more hand.
00:25:08What's left to bet?
00:25:10Money's gone.
00:25:12Property's gone.
00:25:13Wife's gone.
00:25:14I love her.
00:25:16Felicity ruined everything.
00:25:19You lose.
00:25:20What do you have left?
00:25:22My life.
00:25:26Every finger that touched her deserved to break.
00:25:31Your ex-husband is begging to die.
00:25:33Want to collect the body?
00:25:35I hung up.
00:25:36I knew he was forcing me to come.
00:25:38Don't go.
00:25:39Your brother wanted you to watch him destroy Hayes.
00:25:42But if he died, I couldn't answer to Victoria.
00:25:45I didn't want to save Hayes.
00:25:46But I wouldn't let Elrin think he could still control me through other people.
00:25:50By the time I arrived, Hayes was broke.
00:25:53Face down on the table, mumbling a name over and over.
00:25:56She...
00:25:57She loves me.
00:25:58I need her.
00:26:00You didn't deserve to say her name.
00:26:03Your mouth should be cut out too.
00:26:09Enough, Elnar.
00:26:13You came to save him?
00:26:15Drag him out.
00:26:17Put him in a taxi.
00:26:18Yes, ma'am.
00:26:21You set this whole thing up tonight.
00:26:23Pushed him to bet his own life.
00:26:25You wanted me to watch him destroy himself.
00:26:29Then why did you still care?
00:26:32Did he deserve it?
00:26:33I didn't care about him!
00:26:35I hated you!
00:26:37I hated that seven years ago,
00:26:39you left me with that old woman and walked away!
00:26:43You let me burn alive in that hell alone!
00:26:46If I had taken you back then, she would have killed us both.
00:26:50I had no money.
00:26:52No power.
00:26:53I couldn't even feed you.
00:26:54I climbed to where I was now,
00:26:57just to come back.
00:26:59To give you a shelter no one could take away.
00:27:01Don't!
00:27:02Don't!
00:27:02You made me sick.
00:27:04The fire in his eyes died in an instant.
00:27:07Not a word.
00:27:08He turned and disappeared down the corridor.
00:27:10I reached the street.
00:27:11The taxi was still there.
00:27:13Felicity sat in the back.
00:27:15Hayes slept in her arms.
00:27:17He's mine.
00:27:18You don't touch him anymore.
00:27:21You liked garbage.
00:27:23You could take him openly.
00:27:25Nina,
00:27:27don't go.
00:27:29He's delirious!
00:27:31You hear that?
00:27:31He's calling for me!
00:27:33Use this illegally obtained number to contact me again
00:27:36and I'd file a restraining order.
00:27:38I left her on that street with her trash.
00:27:40The next morning,
00:27:42Hayes woke up with a splitting headache.
00:27:45His wrist was heavily banded.
00:27:49Where am I?
00:27:50You lost everything at the casino last night.
00:27:53Eliana left you on the ground.
00:27:55I came and picked you up.
00:27:57She?
00:27:58I'm the one still here.
00:28:00Hayes,
00:28:01I don't want to be just a kept woman.
00:28:02I want to work at the Sterling Institute.
00:28:05What would you do there?
00:28:06No experience?
00:28:07No degree?
00:28:08She thought she was above everyone,
00:28:10didn't she?
00:28:11I wanted to watch her halo shatter.
00:28:13If I was there,
00:28:15we would know every word she said about you.
00:28:19I'll get you in.
00:28:21But remember,
00:28:22you were going there to watch her.
00:28:24My first week at the Sterling Institute,
00:28:26I started to believe this place was a real new beginning.
00:28:30Eliana,
00:28:31bad news.
00:28:32Hayes was using his donor status.
00:28:34He was bringing Felicity for a lab tour tomorrow.
00:28:35This was disgusting.
00:28:37I had already warned them to stay away from me.
00:28:40Site visit,
00:28:41he said.
00:28:42What was he trying to do?
00:28:45Humiliate me?
00:28:47Monitor me?
00:28:48But they wouldn't touch you.
00:28:49I promised her that.
00:28:50Let them come.
00:28:52Let's see how long they lasted.
00:28:53That afternoon,
00:28:55I was at the Bronx Clinic for community rounds.
00:28:58An old woman was shaking with arthritis pain,
00:29:00clutching an empty wallet.
00:29:02Her addict grandson stole all her money.
00:29:04She couldn't afford the medication.
00:29:06I'll cover the medication.
00:29:08An angel.
00:29:09You're truly an angel.
00:29:12It's nothing.
00:29:13Take the medication.
00:29:15Her grandson burst in,
00:29:17snatched her purse,
00:29:18shoved her to the ground.
00:29:19Give me the money!
00:29:20She reminded me of my childhood.
00:29:23Bullied,
00:29:24with no one to stand in front of me.
00:29:28This is a medical facility.
00:29:29You're on camera.
00:29:30Mind your business.
00:29:31Get out of my way!
00:29:32You walk out,
00:29:34or security drags you out.
00:29:36Her addict grandson slammed the door on his way out.
00:29:39I helped the old woman up.
00:29:42This moment was captured by the private detective Elnar had sent.
00:29:46His eyes never left me.
00:29:47That's my girl.
00:29:48Victor,
00:29:50tell the surveillance team.
00:29:51Double the budget.
00:29:53I didn't want to miss a single second.
00:29:55Yes, sir.
00:29:57The next day,
00:29:58I pushed open Dr. Sterling's office door,
00:30:00and then I saw them.
00:30:02Doctor,
00:30:03this institute existed because of my family's donations.
00:30:06One admin position.
00:30:08Not too much to ask, was it?
00:30:10I actually studied nursing for a whole semester.
00:30:12I had a real interest in science.
00:30:16Scented resumes?
00:30:18This was a neuro-biochemistry lab,
00:30:21not a perfume counter.
00:30:23Oh,
00:30:23sister's here.
00:30:25I knew you'd welcome me.
00:30:27Doctor,
00:30:28the basement archive still needed a clerk.
00:30:30Farthest from the lab,
00:30:32no access to samples.
00:30:34The basement?
00:30:35Felicity,
00:30:35you knew how to file papers, right?
00:30:37Or did you need training first?
00:30:39I can manage.
00:30:40I can manage.
00:30:40Felicity,
00:30:41she really thought she could humiliate you for having no degree.
00:30:44But that was fine.
00:30:45As long as Eliana was here,
00:30:47I would find a way to make her uncomfortable.
00:30:50Then let her come.
00:30:51Just so you knew,
00:30:52the basement archives had a biohazard storage area.
00:30:55If she accidentally knocked something over,
00:30:57that would be genuinely uncomfortable.
00:30:59He thought I would break.
00:31:00He didn't know.
00:31:01Once you'd walked through fire,
00:31:03you didn't flinch at a little flame.
00:31:06I pushed through the doors.
00:31:08Hayes followed me out,
00:31:10Felicity trailing behind him.
00:31:12Eliana,
00:31:13stop!
00:31:15You were jealous today,
00:31:16weren't you?
00:31:16You couldn't let go of me.
00:31:18Sister,
00:31:19don't be like that.
00:31:22Jealous?
00:31:23Hayes,
00:31:24I couldn't even look at you without wasting my time.
00:31:26You were just jealous!
00:31:28You couldn't stand seeing me with someone else.
00:31:30That's why you made Felicity's life miserable!
00:31:32A black Mabok glided silently to the curb.
00:31:35The rear window rolled down.
00:31:38Eliana,
00:31:39get in.
00:31:41Elnar Santos?
00:31:42What are you doing here?
00:31:43I looked at him.
00:31:44His face was a mix of rage and fear.
00:31:47Elnar's presence had shattered him completely.
00:31:50This wasn't running.
00:31:51This was a counter-strike.
00:31:53I used his worst enemy as my weapon
00:31:56and aimed it right at his Lucas spot.
00:31:59Drive.
00:32:00Elnar Santos!
00:32:01Stay away from her!
00:32:06You look tired.
00:32:09Yes.
00:32:10I was.
00:32:12Then stop fighting me.
00:32:15I wanted to argue,
00:32:16but my body was too tired.
00:32:18My heart was too tired.
00:32:19Tired of running.
00:32:20The car didn't stop at my door.
00:32:23Elnar brought me to his residence.
00:32:26I said,
00:32:26take me home.
00:32:29The Santos Winter Gala is the day after tomorrow.
00:32:32The matriarch is waiting.
00:32:34We face this together.
00:32:35My phone buzzed.
00:32:36Hayes.
00:32:37He always appeared at the worst possible moment.
00:32:39You just know about the Santos Winter Gala.
00:32:40We're divorced now.
00:32:41You don't want me showing up there, do you?
00:32:42I really don't.
00:32:43I can stay away.
00:32:46But you need to get Felicity a real position at the Sterling Institute.
00:32:51Otherwise, I'm bringing her to the Gala.
00:32:53Perfect.
00:32:54I was looking for a reason to get rid of her anyway.
00:32:57Fine.
00:32:58I agree.
00:33:01You're getting smarter.
00:33:03Using his threat to set your own trap.
00:33:06He thinks he's in control.
00:33:08Stay here tonight.
00:33:10He knows your Tribeca address.
00:33:11You could show up at your door anytime.
00:33:15He was right.
00:33:16Hayes wouldn't let me go.
00:33:17I arrived at the Institute early.
00:33:21Before Felicity set foot in this door,
00:33:23I needed to set the board.
00:33:25Eliana,
00:33:26she hasn't worked a single day.
00:33:27Why are you giving her a probation to permanent assessment?
00:33:30This breaks every protocol.
00:33:33Don't we all want her gone?
00:33:34Let her destroy herself.
00:33:36So that's why you asked for the postgraduate level test yesterday.
00:33:39You want her to crash and burn.
00:33:40Yes.
00:33:40Give her the hardest questions.
00:33:45Understood.
00:33:47Hayes showed up with Felicity right on time.
00:33:49Give me the postgraduate level.
00:33:51I don't want to be underestimated.
00:33:5320 minutes.
00:33:54Begin.
00:33:55The test paper was handed out.
00:33:56She stared at the questions.
00:33:58Her smile frozen.
00:34:0020 minutes later,
00:34:01she handed in.
00:34:02I didn't need to read it to know what was coming.
00:34:05Explain the role of a seal Kaliya's semise you wrote.
00:34:09It makes us nervous.
00:34:12That was a trick question.
00:34:14Identify the biohazard symbol.
00:34:16You drew a smiley.
00:34:18I held back a laugh.
00:34:20Zero, you're not qualified to water the plants in this facility.
00:34:24It's her!
00:34:25She set this up!
00:34:26She hates me!
00:34:29Then explain this.
00:34:31The doctor and my assistant were both playing along.
00:34:34One last move remained.
00:34:36IT traced the person spreading rumors about Alina's academic tegredesie for the past month.
00:34:41Felicity Branch.
00:34:45Hayes!
00:34:46Say something!
00:34:47Help me!
00:34:48You think you've won?
00:34:49I'll be at the gala.
00:34:51I'll make sure everyone knows what you really are!
00:34:55The door opened.
00:34:56Elnar walked in.
00:34:58Leave.
00:34:59Or I'll drag you out myself.
00:35:02Hayes dragged Felicity out in a hurry.
00:35:06The Santos family sent a messenger with a letter.
00:35:08Do you want to read it?
00:35:11What does she want?
00:35:12Show up on time.
00:35:14We'll be erased from the family entire.
00:35:17Fine.
00:35:18Let's go back early.
00:35:22Elnar and I arrived at the estate gates.
00:35:24Brother, let me go in first.
00:35:27Watch carefully how they treat me.
00:35:29My cousin Damon was waiting at the entrance, that louchel, cruel face, drunk as always.
00:35:34Well, well.
00:35:35Look who crawled back.
00:35:37Husband finally dump you?
00:35:38No one else wants you, so you came running home?
00:35:41Recognize this photo?
00:35:44Las Vegas.
00:35:45Room 302.
00:35:47October 14th.
00:35:48She was 16.
00:35:50How did you...
00:35:51If I'm harmed tonight, these photos go to NYPD and TMZ automatically.
00:35:56You know the Santos rule.
00:35:59Scandal means immediate disinheritance.
00:36:02You bitch, I'll kill you!
00:36:05Touch her, and I'll feed you to the East River.
00:36:07She shouldn't have come.
00:36:09The Matriarch is the real threat.
00:36:13Let's go.
00:36:16Matriarch, I'm back.
00:36:18My brother and I walked into the brightly lit Great Hall.
00:36:22This wasn't a private conversation.
00:36:24It was a family tribunal.
00:36:26At the end of the long table sat the Matriarch like a withered vulture, surrounded by relatives waiting for a
00:36:32show.
00:36:33You can't even keep your own husband, and you still have the nerve to come back?
00:36:36You've humiliated the Santos name.
00:36:39You've humiliated the Santos name.
00:36:39Divorce is your failure.
00:36:40You will be punished.
00:36:42The second correction.
00:36:44The North Courtyard.
00:36:46Grandmother, she suffered enough.
00:36:47Do this again, and she won't survive.
00:36:49Silence!
00:36:50Anyone who speaks for her will share her punishment!
00:36:53No need to plead.
00:36:55I volunteered to be erased from the Santos family entirely.
00:36:57The room fell silent, stunned.
00:37:00What did you say?
00:37:03Erase me.
00:37:04Since this name brings only punishment and humiliation, I don't want it anymore.
00:37:09No!
00:37:10No one is to go near!
00:37:11Then erase me too.
00:37:13I'll take her punishment with her.
00:37:15He stood beside me.
00:37:17In front of everyone, he chose me.
00:37:19The North Courtyard.
00:37:21The wind cut my face like a knife.
00:37:24The Matriarch walked out, leaning on her cane.
00:37:27Not shivering yet?
00:37:28Not cold enough?
00:37:31How about now?
00:37:32Are you cold yet?
00:37:34The wine ran down my cheeks.
00:37:36Icy cold.
00:37:37That coat is too warm.
00:37:39Take it off.
00:37:39The guards grabbed my arms.
00:37:41The wind hit me, and I shook so hard I could barely stand.
00:37:45Grandmother, have you had enough?
00:37:48She dies here tonight from abuse.
00:37:51What will the media say?
00:37:52What will the police find?
00:37:54Do you want to drag the entire family down with you?
00:37:56Let her go.
00:37:57But you will never survive outside the Santos family.
00:38:00I knelt down and hit my knees on the ice.
00:38:03Then someone picked me up.
00:38:04He carried me into the car.
00:38:06The heat hit me.
00:38:07He cupped my face, and his fingers were so warm it almost hurt.
00:38:11Come with me.
00:38:13Leave this place.
00:38:14Never come back.
00:38:16His face was getting closer.
00:38:18I could smell his coat.
00:38:20My heart was beating too fast.
00:38:22Eliana.
00:38:24You're my brother.
00:38:27No.
00:38:29I'm just a substitute for your brother.
00:38:32I only see you as my brother.
00:38:34But I'm not your real brother.
00:38:36He died a long time ago.
00:38:39You've always known that, haven't you?
00:38:43No.
00:38:44I...
00:38:45I'm not a Santos by blood.
00:38:47I just looked like him.
00:38:49The matriarch picked me off the street and raised me as the heir.
00:38:52Now that what?
00:38:53Stop!
00:38:54She found out I felt something else for you.
00:38:56That's why she had me exiled.
00:38:58You will always be my brother.
00:39:01Always.
00:39:02Come with me.
00:39:04Paris.
00:39:05Tokyo.
00:39:06Anywhere.
00:39:06Let me take you away from all of this.
00:39:09In that moment I almost said yes.
00:39:11What I saw in his eyes was too hot to bear.
00:39:14I can't.
00:39:15I can't just trade Hayes' cage for your golden one.
00:39:18I can't be the one who breaks you.
00:39:21The world is already trying hard enough.
00:39:23He offered me an escape.
00:39:25But I couldn't take it.
00:39:27Because it was still a path handed to me by someone else.
00:39:29Then let me stay by your side.
00:39:33Even if it's only as your brother.
00:39:35I returned to the apartment, wrapped in Elnar's coat.
00:39:38His scent was still on it.
00:39:40Whose coat is that?
00:39:41Are you dating again?
00:39:44My brothers.
00:39:49Something's off.
00:39:50Did he confess?
00:39:52Yes.
00:39:53But I can't accept it.
00:39:54It's wrong.
00:39:55Are you sure it's because it's wrong or because you're scared?
00:39:58So what are you going to do?
00:40:03Pretend it never happened.
00:40:06The next day I returned to the Institute.
00:40:09The doctor and my assistant were clearing out the mess Felicity had left behind.
00:40:13Finally some peace.
00:40:15You did a good thing.
00:40:17She won't set foot in this building again.
00:40:19We should celebrate.
00:40:20It's my birthday this weekend.
00:40:22Drinks on me?
00:40:23The door suddenly burst open.
00:40:25Hayes stormed in.
00:40:27Eliana!
00:40:28What do you want?
00:40:29Leo's asthma is worse because of the move.
00:40:31I want him in your neural regeneration trial.
00:40:33No, there are strict inclusion criteria.
00:40:35You cold-hearted bitch!
00:40:37No wonder you'll never be a mother!
00:40:38You don't have a maternal bone in your body!
00:40:41Mr. Vargas!
00:40:42Leave now!
00:40:43My mother gave her patents!
00:40:45Gave her voting parcel!
00:40:46She owes us!
00:40:47Leo can be treated at a hospital.
00:40:49No!
00:40:50He's the future of the Vargas family.
00:40:52If you don't help, Felicity will keep coming back.
00:40:55She'll keep bothering you until you break!
00:40:57I'm calling the police.
00:40:58This is harassment.
00:41:01Who do you think you are?
00:41:05I won't help, Leo.
00:41:07But Felicity can come back.
00:41:09What are you saying?
00:41:10You worked so hard to get rid of her!
00:41:13Simple paperwork only.
00:41:15If she touches anything related to research,
00:41:18I'll make her regret it for the rest of her life.
00:41:23Deal.
00:41:28Why did you cave?
00:41:30Because of Victoria.
00:41:32And Felicity under my watch?
00:41:34Safer than outside it.
00:41:37At least I know every move she makes.
00:41:43Fine.
00:41:43I trust you.
00:41:46Julian, you said it's your birthday this weekend?
00:41:48I'll come.
00:41:51I brought Talia to Julian's birthday party.
00:41:55How did they get here?
00:41:56Hayes walked in with Felinity.
00:41:58She was wearing a white lace dress,
00:42:00a gold pendant swinging at her chest.
00:42:02Julian didn't invite you.
00:42:04I'm still your colleague.
00:42:06If you can come, why can't I?
00:42:09Hayes says I look like an angel.
00:42:11We'll be family soon.
00:42:13The future Mrs. Vargas.
00:42:15So desperate to marry a cheater
00:42:17and you show up in a wedding dress to a birthday party?
00:42:19How embarrassing, Felicity.
00:42:20Shut up!
00:42:21Hayes sleeps in my bed.
00:42:22He pays for my apartment.
00:42:24He loves my son.
00:42:25You have nothing.
00:42:26Leave now.
00:42:27Don't ruin Julian's party.
00:42:30That hurt!
00:42:31She hit me!
00:42:33Aaliyah!
00:42:34How dare you touch her!
00:42:35Enough!
00:42:36Who invited you?
00:42:37This is my birthday party.
00:42:39We're leaving.
00:42:42Happy birthday, Julian.
00:42:44After the cake, I made an excuse and left.
00:42:47The gold pendant around Felicity's neck.
00:42:50Find out where it came from.
00:42:51It looked like my mother's.
00:42:53I returned to the Institute.
00:42:54A giant pink coffee machine sat in the lobby.
00:42:58Like it?
00:42:58A welcome gift for my new colleagues.
00:43:02It's blocking the fire exit.
00:43:03Don't be dramatic.
00:43:04It's just a coffee machine.
00:43:06This machine draws too much power.
00:43:08It'll trip the entire circuit.
00:43:09The MRI will go go down with it.
00:43:11Not my problem.
00:43:13The ASO project's neural redegeneration synthesis is at a critical stage.
00:43:18If you make me lose this experiment, you'll regret it.
00:43:21Trying to scare me?
00:43:22Ignore her!
00:43:23Plug it in!
00:43:24Suddenly, one of the workers collapsed.
00:43:25He was convulsing on the floor.
00:43:28He's in shock.
00:43:29Call an ambulance.
00:43:31Oh my god.
00:43:32What's wrong with him?
00:43:33I started chest compressions.
00:43:36Under my hands, his heartbeat was fading.
00:43:40One.
00:43:40Two.
00:43:41Three.
00:43:43The worker coughed.
00:43:45He was breathing again.
00:43:48You saved him.
00:43:51That was incredible.
00:43:53The way you look just now.
00:43:55Very interesting.
00:43:57She tapped her screen a few times.
00:43:59Then she walked out.
00:44:02Hayes, I got something good at the institute.
00:44:05Guess what your ex-wife was doing?
00:44:07She's so desperate for a man, she was making out with a mover.
00:44:12On the lobby floor.
00:44:14So she finally showed her true colors.
00:44:18You dare spread lies about Alana?
00:44:20Oh!
00:44:21Sorry!
00:44:22Sorry!
00:44:23Sorry!
00:44:24Sorry!
00:44:24I was in the lab, completely absorbed in my work.
00:44:28The data under the microscope was coming together.
00:44:32You're a genius.
00:44:33Really.
00:44:34Free tonight?
00:44:35Dinner?
00:44:37Tonight?
00:44:39She's busy tonight.
00:44:41Mr. Santos, I don't see your name on the schedule.
00:44:44I own this lab.
00:44:45You just drove him away.
00:44:48I built this lab.
00:44:50Every piece of research you do here has my money behind it.
00:44:54If you respect me, stay out of my way.
00:44:57One day, I'd stand here with just my own name.
00:45:00Eldar said it was a meeting.
00:45:02Then he brought Julian and me to a restaurant.
00:45:06You're the smartest scientist I've ever met.
00:45:08One day, you'll win a Nobel.
00:45:11You've had too much to drink.
00:45:12That warmed my chest.
00:45:14It had been a long time since anyone looked at me like that.
00:45:16I'm just telling the truth.
00:45:19Julian, are you finished?
00:45:21I suggest you leave first.
00:45:23He's my colleague.
00:45:24If I want him here, he stays.
00:45:26Are Hayes and Felicity still bothering you?
00:45:28Hm.
00:45:30If they show up again, don't intervene.
00:45:33What are you gonna do?
00:45:34One more time, and I'll exile him to Africa.
00:45:38Right next to Damon.
00:45:40This is between me and him.
00:45:41I'll handle it.
00:45:43After dinner, Julian left first.
00:45:46Elnar drove me home.
00:45:48Where's my coat?
00:45:50I'll go get it for you.
00:45:52You've been working all day.
00:45:54You're tired. Let me get it.
00:45:55I'm not trying anything.
00:45:59Elnar went upstairs for his coat.
00:46:01I thought he would just leave.
00:46:03I believe in you.
00:46:04The project review, you'll win it on your own.
00:46:09I'll wait. Take your time.
00:46:15Taria poked her head out from the kitchen.
00:46:18Your brother is handsome.
00:46:20And surprisingly a gentleman.
00:46:23What did you find about the pendant?
00:46:25What Felicity is wearing is fake.
00:46:28Your mother's real one is still in the safe.
00:46:30My mother's pendant was a one-of-a-kind custom piece.
00:46:34Where did Felicity get a replica?
00:46:36Go to the Institute tomorrow.
00:46:38Test her.
00:46:40I closed my eyes.
00:46:42And then I dreamed of him.
00:46:45Elnar.
00:46:49In my dream, I kissed him.
00:46:53What's wrong with me?
00:46:54I walked into the break room.
00:46:56Felicity was holding up a ring to the light, showing it off to the nurses.
00:47:00Hayes proposed with this.
00:47:01Three carats, custom.
00:47:03He said only the purest woman deserves it.
00:47:05Carbon inclusion.
00:47:06And that setting isn't pure platinum.
00:47:09Cubic zirconia.
00:47:11What do you know?
00:47:12Hayes gave it to me!
00:47:15That gold pendant is unique.
00:47:18Where did you get it?
00:47:21Found it.
00:47:22At a flea market. Why?
00:47:24When I was a child, I saved a boy.
00:47:27I lost the pendant that day.
00:47:29A week later, I found it again in the same place.
00:47:33I returned to the lab.
00:47:34The ASOP project samples were extracting critical data.
00:47:37The whole team was waiting for me.
00:47:40Eliana!
00:47:41Look at this.
00:47:42The synthetic enzyme purity hit 99.8%.
00:47:46That's a world record!
00:47:47You're the only one who could pull this off.
00:47:49You just compressed 10 years of my work.
00:47:52But there's one final step.
00:47:53The samples need 24 hours to stabilize.
00:47:55Felicity stood in the corner, watching it all with cold eyes.
00:47:58I turned away to double check the next data set.
00:48:01Just five seconds.
00:48:03Oops!
00:48:09My samples!
00:48:11The vial shattered.
00:48:13Blue liquid spread across the floor.
00:48:16Three months of work, destroyed in seconds.
00:48:19I'm so sorry!
00:48:21I didn't mean to!
00:48:22You!
00:48:23Do you know what that was?
00:48:25Three months of work!
00:48:26Felicity, get out.
00:48:33Hayes!
00:48:34She's bullying me!
00:48:35The whole lab is against me!
00:48:38You can leave early today.
00:48:39Your fiancé is waiting at home.
00:48:41The review is in a week.
00:48:43What do we do?
00:48:48Redo it.
00:48:49Give me three days.
00:48:51She destroyed three months of work.
00:48:54She thought I would break.
00:48:56That night, Hayes held Felicity in his arms.
00:48:59His eyes landed on the gold pendant at her chest.
00:49:03The edge of this pendant.
00:49:05I remember a dent.
00:49:07From when you dropped it saving me.
00:49:09Why is it gone?
00:49:11I've worn it so long.
00:49:13Edges wear down naturally.
00:49:16Felicity fell asleep.
00:49:19Hayes dialed a number.
00:49:21I need you to look into someone.
00:49:23Felicity Branch.
00:49:26I need to know if she was in New York that summer.
00:49:29The summer I was pulled from the ice.
00:49:32If she's not Nina.
00:49:33Three days.
00:49:34I barely left the lab.
00:49:37On the third night, Elnar pushed the door open.
00:49:41Do your work.
00:49:42I'll be here.
00:49:44How long has he been sitting there?
00:49:47Don't ask.
00:49:48At four in the morning on the third day, the data finished running.
00:49:52The results were perfect.
00:49:54Morning came.
00:49:55We pushed open the lab door and ran straight into Felicity.
00:49:59Still here?
00:50:00I thought you died in the lab.
00:50:02Felicity, after the internal presentation I'll deal with you myself.
00:50:07I was just...
00:50:09Get out.
00:50:10Enough.
00:50:11The sample is safe.
00:50:14I turned.
00:50:15Then my vision started to blur.
00:50:19Eliana!
00:50:21When I woke up, it was already the next evening.
00:50:25The review.
00:50:26The results.
00:50:29Past.
00:50:30Internal presentation tomorrow.
00:50:33I did it.
00:50:34His heartbeat was steady.
00:50:36The internal presentation.
00:50:38I stood on stage, presenting the work of three sleepless nights.
00:50:41The Neural Regeneration Synthetic Enzyme from Project ASOAP exceeds industry standards in both purity and efficiency.
00:50:47This is only the beginning.
00:50:48Applause.
00:50:48The team stood up.
00:50:50Dr. Sterling took off his glasses and wiped them.
00:50:53You're a genius.
00:50:55Eliana, this project has fundamentally changed the Institute.
00:50:59Eliana Heath, she carried all of this alone.
00:51:02Tonight, the whole company is going to Per Se.
00:51:05My treat.
00:51:06After the meeting, three biotech companies and five investment firms reached out.
00:51:10They wanted to partner with me.
00:51:11The celebration dinner.
00:51:13No one from the Institute had arrived yet, but Hayes showed up early with Felicity.
00:51:18He took a call from his investigator, and his face completely changed.
00:51:23Felicity, you weren't in New York that summer.
00:51:25You never saved me.
00:51:27Hayes, what are you talking about?
00:51:30Did you steal Nina's pendant?
00:51:31Pretend to be her?
00:51:33Get close to me?
00:51:34No, that's not true.
00:51:35I am Nina!
00:51:36You're not.
00:51:38You're not.
00:51:40You stole her name.
00:51:42You stole every memory I had.
00:51:44I thought you were her.
00:51:45I just loved you too much!
00:51:47The little girl who saved me.
00:51:50Who is she really?
00:51:51Julian held me steady from behind.
00:51:54I heard every word of their conversation.
00:51:58So the little boy I saved was you.
00:52:02What are you talking about?
00:52:04You can't be her!
00:52:05No, it can't be.
00:52:08This pendant.
00:52:10You remember it, don't you?
00:52:12How, Nina?
00:52:14How could it be you?
00:52:16I never thought the boy I saved would end up being my ex-husband.
00:52:20Eliana, I'm sorry!
00:52:22Give me one more chance!
00:52:25You pushed the light away.
00:52:27I can make it right.
00:52:29I'll make everything right!
00:52:31Come with me!
00:52:32Right now!
00:52:35Don't touch her.
00:52:39Eliana, no!
00:52:40You're my Nina!
00:52:42At your father's funeral,
00:52:44how did you treat her?
00:52:46You were with your brother's widow.
00:52:49You let her son call you daddy.
00:52:52And now you want to drag her back into your swamp?
00:52:54I never expected Elnar.
00:52:57He had been watching my every move.
00:53:01Get out.
00:53:02Take your counterfeit with you.
00:53:04Hayes and Felicity were thrown out.
00:53:06The air in the room finally became breathable.
00:53:09To Eliana.
00:53:10She carried all of this alone.
00:53:12Not just carried.
00:53:14She won.
00:53:15Glass after glass of champagne.
00:53:17Everyone called him trash.
00:53:18Said he didn't deserve me.
00:53:20I leaned back and laughed for a long time.
00:53:22I finally didn't have to run anymore.
00:53:25You're drunk.
00:53:26I'm taking you home.
00:53:32When I woke up, the sunlight was blinding.
00:53:35This wasn't my room.
00:53:37Why am I at your place?
00:53:39You said so yourself in the car.
00:53:41You said you didn't want to go back to that empty apartment.
00:53:45What else did I say?
00:53:49I didn't do anything I shouldn't have last night, did I?
00:53:54You did.
00:53:55What?
00:53:57You grabbed my tie and said I was the best looking man you'd ever seen.
00:54:00Then you passed out.
00:54:03You did that on purpose.
00:54:05You haven't laughed like that in a long time.
00:54:09I don't know how to face you. You're my brother.
00:54:12I'm not your real brother. You know that.
00:54:14We didn't say anything more.
00:54:17Sunlight fell on the floor between us.
00:54:20I leaned back into the pillow and fell asleep again.
00:54:23When I woke again, he was already standing in the doorway, holding a glass of juice.
00:54:28Oh God! I'm going to be late!
00:54:30You can take a few days off. The lab isn't going anywhere.
00:54:35No. There are investors coming to see me today.
00:54:39Then let's go. I'll drive you.
00:54:40I returned to the lab.
00:54:42The door was open. Felicity was standing inside, Leo behind her.
00:54:47You ruined my life!
00:54:48I love Hayes! And now he doesn't want me anymore!
00:54:51All because of you!
00:54:54Take him out. This isn't a playground.
00:54:56I'm not leaving! I'll destroy this place!
00:54:58I'm going to pull the plug!
00:55:03Leo, don't touch that!
00:55:04He stepped back. His foot caught on a wire. He fell backward, his head hitting the corner of a metal
00:55:11cart.
00:55:11Blood streaming down his forehead.
00:55:15She pushed my son! Call the police! Call them now!
00:55:20Go ahead. This room has four cameras.
00:55:25Before I could even make the call, Elnar pushed the door open with the police behind him.
00:55:30That's her. Malicious destruction of lab equipment. Endangering public safety.
00:55:34No! I didn't! Hayes is coming to help me!
00:55:37Hayes burst in. He fell to his knees in front of me.
00:55:40Nina, please forgive me.
00:55:43What? Hayes!
00:55:47I'm warning you. We're done.
00:55:51Hayes! I'm pregnant! You can't let them take me!
00:55:55Let them go. My guests are arriving soon.
00:56:00Are you sure?
00:56:01I don't have time for crying and drama.
00:56:04Hayes brought Felicity back to the apartment. He took her credit cards, her jewelry, her keys.
00:56:11What are you doing? I'm carrying your child!
00:56:13I owe Eliana too much.
00:56:15For you, I left her alone in the rain.
00:56:18At the funeral. In the snow. At the Santos estate.
00:56:21Every time I chose you. Every single time.
00:56:25And all those years by my side.
00:56:28You were nothing but a lie.
00:56:31You're kicking me out?
00:56:34You better pray Eliana forgives me.
00:56:37Because what you owe her is more than what I do.
00:56:41Now get out.
00:56:43Daddy! Don't send us away! Daddy!
00:56:47I'm not your father.
00:56:49Take your mother and get out of my sight.
00:56:53We're leaving.
00:56:54Leo was still crying.
00:56:56The door closed.
00:56:58All that was left was the sound of suitcase wheels dragging across the carpet.
00:57:02That afternoon, I pushed open the conference room door with a proposal in hand.
00:57:06Three biotech companies, five investment firms, all present.
00:57:10You all have my data.
00:57:11But data is just the beginning.
00:57:13I'm taking ASOP from the lab to the clinic.
00:57:16Step one, build our own R&D center.
00:57:19Step two, launch clinical trials in Europe.
00:57:22Step three, global licensing.
00:57:25Your synthetic enzyme purity is 9.8%.
00:57:28Only three labs in the world can hit that number.
00:57:31And you're the only one who did it alone.
00:57:33We want exclusive rights.
00:57:35Wait.
00:57:36My fund is ready to put in 30 million for 20% of your R&D center equity.
00:57:41No guarantees required.
00:57:4330 million?
00:57:44I'll give you 40.
00:57:4525% equity.
00:57:47Wherever you build your center, we follow.
00:57:50They were bidding against each other.
00:57:52Now it was my turn to choose.
00:57:54My terms are simple.
00:57:55Joint development.
00:57:57Shared patents.
00:57:58Future profits divided by investment radio.
00:58:01I want partners, not buyers.
00:58:03By the end of the meeting, seven letters of intent were signed.
00:58:07You're already better than me.
00:58:09You've surpassed me.
00:58:12Surpassed yourself.
00:58:13I had come a long way.
00:58:16From a little girl locked in an estate to this.
00:58:19No one would ever choose for me again.
00:58:25Let me take you to dinner.
00:58:27To celebrate.
00:58:29Let's cook at home.
00:58:30Too many people out there.
00:58:34Whose place?
00:58:36Neither.
00:58:40Yours.
00:58:41We were sitting in the living room.
00:58:43Eating the meal we had cooked together.
00:58:45When the TV suddenly cut to Felicity's live stream.
00:58:48Everyone's been fooled by her.
00:58:51Eliana Heath.
00:58:52She stole my child.
00:58:53She stole my man.
00:58:55She left me with nothing.
00:58:56She's the one who ruined everyone.
00:59:00Thousands of people were watching her cry in the live stream.
00:59:05She's trying to destroy my new project.
00:59:09What do you want to do?
00:59:12Let's finish eating first.
00:59:14Let it cool down?
00:59:15No.
00:59:16Tomorrow, we go live too.
00:59:22I'm heading back.
00:59:23Big battle tomorrow.
00:59:25I pulled into my spot and turned off the engine.
00:59:27Then I saw Hayes step out from behind a pillar.
00:59:31Eliana!
00:59:32I can take care of Felicity for you.
00:59:35You help me?
00:59:36Hayes, you can't even handle yourself.
00:59:38I'll do whatever it takes.
00:59:40Just come back to me.
00:59:43Didn't you love me before?
00:59:47Hayes, you're naive.
00:59:49I never loved you.
00:59:51Not even for a single day.
00:59:55You were nothing but a shield to hide from the Santos family.
00:59:59I played the good wife for three years, right in front of you.
01:00:02You didn't actually think it was real, did you?
01:00:05Hayes felt his entire world collapse.
01:00:07He stood frozen, watching the back of me as I walked away in my heels.
01:00:12No, Nina.
01:00:14You're not that kind of person.
01:00:17The investors' calls came in one after another.
01:00:20Mrs. Heath, what's going on with Felicity's live stream?
01:00:24Will this affect our partnership?
01:00:27Watch my live stream.
01:00:28Ten o'clock.
01:00:31Ready.
01:00:33Go ahead.
01:00:37Felicity's live stream last night had only one truth in it.
01:00:40She had nowhere left to go.
01:00:41Her son fell because she wasn't watching him.
01:00:44She has no home because she lied to a man for three years and stole another woman's identity.
01:00:50This circle is small, everyone knows it.
01:00:52I don't need to prove to anyone what I didn't do.
01:00:54I'm not here to compete over who's more pitiful.
01:00:57Because I'm busy.
01:00:58Three days from now I'm hosting a charity gala for women who are truly homeless.
01:01:03Everyone watching is welcome to attend.
01:01:05The comments were scrolling so fast I couldn't even read them.
01:01:09She thought she could destroy me online.
01:01:12I just changed the stage and let everyone see me for who I really am.
01:01:17The chandeliers at the plaza were blinding.
01:01:19Three hundred guests, seven signed investors, and over a hundred strangers who came just to see me.
01:01:26She weathered every storm alone and still pulled in every investor on Wall Street.
01:01:31This woman is something else.
01:01:33After tonight, no one will ask who she is. Everyone will want to know her.
01:01:37I took a deep breath and pushed open the ballroom doors.
01:01:40The room went silent for three full seconds.
01:01:43I wore a black dress, deep v-neck, slid up to my thigh.
01:01:47No jewelry, just the gold pendant at my neck.
01:01:50Elnar walked through the crowd in a deep blue velvet tuxedo.
01:01:52He stopped in front of me and extended his hand.
01:01:54Tonight, you're the only light in this room.
01:01:57You may, Mr. Santos.
01:01:59The task is monumental.
01:02:02Are you scared?
01:02:03The sheep is dead. Long live the queen.
01:02:06Outside the dance floor, a pair of eyes were watching me.
01:02:09I didn't need to turn around to know who it was.
01:02:11I didn't lose a wife.
01:02:13I lost my last shield.
01:02:16We're not just taking the Santos and Vargas empires.
01:02:19We're taking the choice we were never given.
01:02:21Then it's more than an alliance.
01:02:23It's side by side.
01:02:24The waltz ended.
01:02:26Applause filled the room.
01:02:27I was no longer anyone's prey.
01:02:29I was the hunter.
01:02:30And I was just getting started.
01:02:32The gala hit its peak.
01:02:33Glass after glass of champagne.
01:02:36A line of people waiting to toast me.
01:02:38Miss Heath.
01:02:38After tonight, all of New York will know your name.
01:02:42Looking forward to working together.
01:02:46I turned my head.
01:02:47Elnar wasn't where he had been.
01:02:49I walked through the crowd and out the side door of the ballroom.
01:02:52A hand reached out from the darkness and pulled me into an unlit room.
01:02:58You scared me.
01:02:59Bad news.
01:03:00The matriarch doesn't have much time left.
01:03:03The family is already fighting over succession.
01:03:07What do you want to do?
01:03:08I'm gonna take her down.
01:03:10Take everything she has.
01:03:12I need you.
01:03:13Not behind me.
01:03:14Beside me.
01:03:15Are you sure?
01:03:17I'm not the kind who stays around waiting for you to get back up after you fall.
01:03:20I know.
01:03:21That's why I need you.
01:03:23Can you stop seeing me as your brother?
01:03:25I let him kiss me.
01:03:26Okay.
01:03:27His kiss was heavy.
01:03:28Carrying a sense of possession that had been suppressed for too long.
01:03:31The music from the ballroom was still playing.
01:03:34But the hallway was silent.
01:03:37Silent enough for me to hear my own heartbeat.
01:03:43You!
01:03:44What are you doing?
01:03:45She's your sister!
01:03:46This is incest!
01:03:48I'm not related to her by blood.
01:03:50I don't think I need to explain myself to you.
01:03:53His voice drew the guests.
01:03:54The gala lights spilled through the door crack.
01:03:57Everyone was looking this way.
01:03:59You're shameless!
01:04:00Everyone, come see this shameless person in love with his own sister!
01:04:04The night you got engaged, you slept with your brother's wife.
01:04:08Where do you get off talking about morals?
01:04:10Oh, what's this?
01:04:12The two of you sneaking around?
01:04:13Shut up!
01:04:14What you've done is enough to put you in prison for ten years!
01:04:17She won't press charges!
01:04:18I will!
01:04:22Nina, come back to me, please.
01:04:24I'll make it up to you.
01:04:25My name is Eliana Heath.
01:04:27The little girl who saved you is gone.
01:04:30Let's go.
01:04:33No, no!
01:04:34Nina, this is all your fault, Felicity!
01:04:36I'm definitely gonna send you to jail!
01:04:38Just you wait!
01:04:39Go ahead.
01:04:40I'll drag every dirty secret of yours out with me.
01:04:43Let's see who falls first.
01:04:44The shouting behind us grew louder, but I didn't stop.
01:04:48They thought this was a scandal.
01:04:50To me, it was just the last shackle falling off.
01:04:54He didn't take me back to my apartment.
01:04:56The car pulled up to 432 Park of Aoun.
01:04:59The penthouse.
01:05:00All of Manhattan spread out beneath my feet.
01:05:03Three years ago, the day you married him, I bought this place.
01:05:07Why?
01:05:08Because from this window, I could just make out the roof of the Vargas estate.
01:05:12I told myself, as long as I could see where you were living, I hadn't really lost you.
01:05:17Three years. He'd been watching for three years.
01:05:20I never dared say it before.
01:05:21I was afraid that if I did, you would really leave.
01:05:24Now you've said it.
01:05:26And now?
01:05:28The doorbell rang.
01:05:29A messenger in black stood at the door, holding the familiar double-headed serpent seal.
01:05:33The matriarch requests both of your presents at the estate.
01:05:36Now.
01:05:36She finally couldn't sit still anymore.
01:05:39Let's go.
01:05:40The matriarch had called everyone back to the estate.
01:05:42The council chamber was brightly lit.
01:05:44She sat at the head, surrounded by all the family elders.
01:05:48I thought you wouldn't come back.
01:05:50For the sake of inheritance, you don't want to give up the Santos name after all.
01:05:54Yes.
01:05:55I called you all here today.
01:05:57Besides the succession, there's something else I need to announce first.
01:06:01She's trying to get rid of me.
01:06:02I'm here.
01:06:05Elna Santos is not of Santos' blood.
01:06:08The council chamber erupted.
01:06:09Every elder was whispering, their voices rising like a tide.
01:06:13Not a Santos by blood?
01:06:14Then who have we been taking orders from all these years?
01:06:17Matriarch, are you certain this isn't something to joke about?
01:06:20How much business did he take from us?
01:06:22How many resources did he claim as the heir?
01:06:24And now you tell us he's not a Santos?
01:06:26What about all these years?
01:06:27The summers washed over us like a tide, but Elnar and I stood still.
01:06:30Neither of us knew.
01:06:32He only looks like Eliana's real brother.
01:06:35So the matter of succession needs to be reconsidered.
01:06:39She didn't say disinherence directly, but everyone understood.
01:06:43What about Eliana?
01:06:45She's a Santos by blood.
01:06:46I can restore her full share in the family trust.
01:06:49On one condition.
01:06:52Cut ties with him.
01:06:54Come back to the family fold.
01:06:55You said all that were you trying to scare us?
01:06:58Or were you trying to scare them?
01:06:59What kind of attitude is that?
01:07:01I'm doing this for your own good.
01:07:02For my own good? You married me off to a man who never loved me.
01:07:06You made me kneel in the snow until I couldn't feel my legs.
01:07:09Now you're telling me if I leave him you'll give me money?
01:07:12Do you think I'd believe that?
01:07:14Eliana, don't be so ungrateful.
01:07:15You carry the Santos name.
01:07:17You have Santos blood.
01:07:18For the sake of an outsider you would go against the entire family?
01:07:22The matriarch stood at the head of the table.
01:07:24Her face livid.
01:07:26She thought her threats would break me.
01:07:28But she had finally taken the bait.
01:07:31You miscalculated one thing.
01:07:34I'm no longer the little girl you locked in the Alec.
01:07:36You! You dare defy me!
01:07:39Without me you are nothing!
01:07:40I'm the lead scientist of Project Aesop.
01:07:43My patents are worth hundreds of millions.
01:07:45You're right.
01:07:46Without you I am nothing.
01:07:48But I don't need you anymore.
01:07:50Eliana, you're declaring war on the entire family!
01:07:53I'm not declaring war.
01:07:54I'm taking back what was always mine.
01:07:57Do you want to keep following a ruler who governs through fear?
01:08:01Or someone whose track record speaks for itself?
01:08:04She's right. The Aesop project put the Santos name back on the map.
01:08:08You, you planned this. You provoked me just to get them on your side.
01:08:13She finally saw through it. But it was already too late.
01:08:16From the moment I walked through that door, I never intended to follow her script.
01:08:20Her chest heaved violently. Then she spitted blood.
01:08:23The entire council chamber erupted into chaos.
01:08:27Matriarch! Get a doctor!
01:08:29The matriarch was carried out. The council chamber emptied. Only Elnar and I remained.
01:08:35With her down, the elders won't turn back.
01:08:39I know. She lost.
01:08:42Eliana! I followed the matriarch's private secretary like you asked.
01:08:45Found a payment trail.
01:08:48Consulting fees?
01:08:49She paid Felicity's distant aunt?
01:08:51The timing lines up exactly with when Felicity got that pendant.
01:08:54It's not a coincidence.
01:08:56She wanted Felicity to impersonate Nina?
01:08:57More than that.
01:08:58She planted Felicity in the Vargas family to isolate Eliana completely.
01:09:03Without the Vargas name as shelter, Eliana would have no choice but to return to the Santos fold.
01:09:07Back under her thumb.
01:09:08Felicity's impersonation wasn't just greed.
01:09:10She was a pawn.
01:09:11And the matriarch had been hiding behind the board the whole time.
01:09:14She destroyed three years of my life.
01:09:16Pushed me into a lie. Watched me struggle inside it.
01:09:19Then waited for me to crawl back and beg.
01:09:22But she miscalculated.
01:09:24You've already won.
01:09:26She lost.
01:09:27I was about to leave the Santos estate when my phone screen lit up.
01:09:30Talia stopped me. Her face shocked.
01:09:32Is Hayes insane? He just released all the evidence on social media.
01:09:35The financial records, the emails, the transfer details linking the matriarch to Felicity.
01:09:40Everything! Out in the open!
01:09:44He had finally done one right thing, but only to lure me back.
01:09:48Let's go.
01:09:50Hayes called. I hesitated. Talia answered it for me.
01:09:54Eliana, I owe you. I owe you so much. I just wanted you to know I would do anything for
01:10:01you.
01:10:02You're not gonna respond?
01:10:04He did this to make himself feel better. Not for me.
01:10:07Hayes thought this belated justice could erase three years of his coldness and betrayal.
01:10:11He didn't know that when a heart is truly dead, even forgiveness becomes unnecessary.
01:10:16Let's go. It's over here.
01:10:19I stepped toward the exit.
01:10:21Then my phone buzzed again.
01:10:23A livestream notification popped up on the screen.
01:10:26Felicity's face appeared on the screen.
01:10:28Behind her was a familiar lab setting, and Julian was tied to a chair, his mouth taped shut.
01:10:38Julian.
01:10:40Eliana! I know you're watching!
01:10:43You think you win by pushing me and Hayes out?
01:10:45You think taking back Santos makes everything fine?
01:10:49You're wrong!
01:10:49Cousin.
01:10:51Tonight, we settle everything.
01:10:55See this?
01:10:57Your little assistant is here.
01:10:59Your partner.
01:11:00Your most trusted ally.
01:11:03He's in my hands now.
01:11:05Eliana, don't come.
01:11:07It's a trap.
01:11:08Shut up!
01:11:11Eliana, I'm giving you one hour.
01:11:13Come alone.
01:11:14Or tomorrow, when you turn on the news, you'll see your dear assistant's dead body.
01:11:18I've said my piece.
01:11:20The stream ended.
01:11:21The screen went dark, leaving only my own reflection.
01:11:25You can't go!
01:11:26She's insane!
01:11:27She'll be waiting to trap you!
01:11:29She has a detonator.
01:11:31Damon has a knife.
01:11:32You going alone is suicide.
01:11:34I know.
01:11:36I'm already calling in my team.
01:11:38No. I'm going alone.
01:11:39You're insane.
01:11:40She said alone.
01:11:41I won't let someone die because of me.
01:11:44Then I'll go with you.
01:11:45You don't want me in sight, I'll stay where you can see me.
01:11:47If something happens to you, I'm going in.
01:11:50No one's stopping me.
01:11:51You contact the police.
01:11:52Surround the Institute's perimeter.
01:11:54No one moves until I'm inside.
01:11:57I pushed open the doors of the Sterling Institute alone.
01:12:00The familiar air was thick with the smell of gunpowder.
01:12:03Julian was tied to the central lab table, wires wrapped around his body.
01:12:07Aleah!
01:12:08Get out of here! She's insane!
01:12:10You came! You actually came!
01:12:12You really do care about it!
01:12:14I'm here. Let Julian go.
01:12:16This has nothing to do with him.
01:12:17Nothing to do with him?
01:12:18All of you were laughing at me!
01:12:20You, Hayes, and that damn Elnar!
01:12:22You pushed me to this!
01:12:23I scanned the room.
01:12:25Venovation Duck 3 was still open.
01:12:26The sterilizer's indicator light was blinking.
01:12:28I knew every pipe in this lab with my eyes closed.
01:12:30You know the rules, cuz.
01:12:32You walk in, he walks out.
01:12:35Fine.
01:12:36I'll trade.
01:12:37You think I'd believe that?
01:12:38You're too smart!
01:12:39Scarily smart!
01:12:40You're definitely planning something!
01:12:42I came empty-handed.
01:12:43No weapons, no comms.
01:12:45Search me.
01:12:46You think you're still the great scientist on top?
01:12:48Neil, beg me for mercy!
01:12:51Say you were wrong!
01:12:52Say you never deserved anything I had!
01:12:54Elana!
01:12:55You can't!
01:12:56The sterilizer's indicator light shifted from green to red.
01:12:58Coolant began flowing back into the main power line.
01:13:0023 seconds.
01:13:01I felt the vibrations in the floor.
01:13:03Footsteps were close.
01:13:04The matriarch only ever used you as a knife.
01:13:06Discard you the moment you're done.
01:13:07Shut up!
01:13:08Shut your mouth!
01:13:09Felicity, stop wasting time.
01:13:11Set the timer and let's go before the cops arrive.
01:13:14Then we'll all die together.
01:13:17Felicity's finger pressed down.
01:13:18The countdown beep stopped abruptly.
01:13:21But there was no explosion.
01:13:23The emergency protocol I had secretly activated
01:13:26had cut power to every detonator circuit.
01:13:30Why?
01:13:31Why won't it explode?
01:13:33Why?
01:13:34The blast door descended from the ceiling with a dull roar.
01:13:36The steel barrier separated Felicity and Damon on the other side.
01:13:39And I stood beside Julian.
01:13:41Go, Julian.
01:13:42Out the back door.
01:13:43The police are outside.
01:13:44No, I'm not leaving you.
01:13:45She might have a backup.
01:13:46Go!
01:13:47That's an order!
01:13:47I'll be fine!
01:13:49You think you could stop me?
01:13:51I have another one!
01:13:53You're insane!
01:13:54You'll kill us all!
01:13:55Then we all die together!
01:13:57The explosion ripped through the edges of the blast door.
01:14:01The shockwave threw me to the ground.
01:14:03Above me, a massive metal rack came loose and was falling.
01:14:08Ileana!
01:14:09A figure lunged forward and covered me completely.
01:14:12Ileana, I finally got to protect you.
01:14:16Just once.
01:14:18Hayes?
01:14:19The metal rack crashed down on Hayes' back.
01:14:22I heard him jump.
01:14:23Blood dripped onto my face from his arm.
01:14:25Warm and sharp with the smell of iron.
01:14:27You're okay.
01:14:29That's all that matters.
01:14:30Don't talk!
01:14:31Stay awake!
01:14:33First time I've seen you worried about me.
01:14:37Worth it.
01:14:39I'm getting you out!
01:14:41He's still in there, Elnar!
01:14:43The ambulance is here!
01:14:44Someone will save him!
01:14:45Elnar carried me out of the blaze.
01:14:47The cold wind hit my face and I looked back over his shoulder.
01:14:50Hayes' body lay among the rubble.
01:14:52The medics swarming.
01:14:53His eyes were open.
01:14:55They never left me.
01:14:56Hayes lay on the bed, tubes running everywhere.
01:14:59The doctor said he might not make it through the night.
01:15:02You've been standing here for two hours.
01:15:04The doctor already told you.
01:15:05He might not make it.
01:15:07I know.
01:15:08I should hate him.
01:15:10So why do I feel something?
01:15:13You're sad because you're human.
01:15:14Not because you loved him.
01:15:16It looks like he opened his eyes.
01:15:18What is he saying?
01:15:20Elionda, I dreamed about the day of the funeral.
01:15:22I gave her the umbrella.
01:15:24You stood alone in the rain.
01:15:26I'm sorry.
01:15:27I'm not asking you to forgive me.
01:15:29I just want you to know I finally see you.
01:15:32Monitor suddenly changed rhythm.
01:15:34One beat, two beats, then silence again.
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