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00:08Vanessa?
00:10Marcus, what is this?
00:11Celeste, it's not...
00:16Okay, it's exactly what it looks like.
00:19Don't make a scene, Celeste.
00:21You're never home anymore.
00:23What did you expect?
00:24Three years married, and you're in our bed with my best friend?
00:28I want a divorce.
00:29Tonight.
00:30A divorce?
00:31Do you have any idea what that would cost me right now?
00:34No.
00:34You'll stay.
00:35You'll smile for the cameras like always, and you'll keep your mouth shut.
00:38You don't get to keep me locked in a marriage you already threw in the trash.
00:42Watch me.
00:57Hey, step back from the edge, please.
00:59Not tonight.
01:01Whatever you're thinking right now, it is not worth it.
01:03My husband has cheated on me for years.
01:05Tonight I finally caught him with my best friend.
01:09And when I asked for a divorce, he laughed in my face.
01:15Then he's a fool.
01:16You'll soak through.
01:17Let me get you out of this rain.
01:18Why do you even care?
01:20You don't know me.
01:21Because out of every rooftop in this city, you walked onto the one I come to, and everything
01:25gets too loud.
01:26Out of every building in New York, you found mine.
01:29Maybe that's not an accident.
01:36What if we made this real?
01:38Yeah.
01:51Sunny side up.
01:52Edge is a little burnt.
01:54Exactly how you pretend you don't like it.
01:57Ow!
01:59I don't pretend.
02:00I have standards.
02:03Then let me spend the rest of my life meeting them.
02:07Don't say things like that.
02:11Why not?
02:12Because the last man who promised me forever gave it to someone else.
02:16I stopped believing in forever a long time ago.
02:22Then I'll prove you wrong.
02:24One breakfast at a time.
02:33I don't care what it costs.
02:35Freeze the deal.
02:36Nothing moves until I give the word.
02:38Everything stays exactly where it is.
02:51Damien, this is a black card for the most exclusive club in the city.
02:56People wait ten years and pay a fort just to get on the list.
02:58Won it in a poker game.
03:01Kept it to impress exactly one person.
03:03A man who can't make rent?
03:05Carrying a card like this?
03:06A man who'd do anything to look like he deserves you.
03:09Is it working?
03:10Barely.
03:18I know I'm the last person you want at your door.
03:21What I did?
03:22Sleeping with your husband?
03:24There's no excuse for it.
03:25I've hated myself every day for three years.
03:27I just needed to say it to your face.
03:28I'm sorry, Celeste.
03:29You rehearsed that in the elevator.
03:31It shows.
03:33I deserve that.
03:34I just wanted to know that you're okay.
03:39Well, you didn't waste any time, did you?
03:41And who is this?
03:43Someone who is none of your business.
03:45You can go now.
03:46Of course.
03:47I'm happy you've moved on, Celeste.
03:49Truly.
03:57Marcus, it's me.
03:59Your wife isn't home crying over you.
04:01She's got herself a pretty little live-in boyfriend.
04:04Relax.
04:05If she's happy, we'll just have to make her miserable.
04:07You want her back?
04:08Then we tear her cozy little new life apart.
04:10Together.
04:11Just like old times.
04:15I'm sorry.
04:19Hey.
04:21What is it?
04:22You just went cold.
04:25My husband is back.
04:26And I'm going back to him.
04:29After everything he did to you?
04:31Celeste, please, don't do this.
04:33You and me, this is over.
04:35As of this morning.
04:38Tell me you're not going back because of him.
04:42Say it, and I'll open this door myself.
04:46Don't call me.
04:47Don't come looking for me.
04:49As of this morning, we never happened.
05:01Three years.
05:02Not one night went by that I didn't hate myself for what I did to you.
05:05I came back for one reason, Celeste.
05:08You.
05:09I want my wife back.
05:18You came back the same week your family's company started to collapse.
05:22The crashing stock, the lawsuits, it's all over the news.
05:27Touching timing, Marcus.
05:29I don't care about the company.
05:31Let it all burn.
05:31I just want to come home.
05:37You humiliated me.
05:38You slept with my best friend.
05:41You laughed when I begged for a divorce.
05:43And now that you need my name and my connections to save your sinking empire,
05:48suddenly you're in love with me again?
05:51You're right.
05:52I was a fool.
05:54Everyone here can hear me say it.
05:55I don't deserve her.
05:56But I swear, in front of all these people,
05:58I'll spend the rest of my life proving I've changed.
06:04You know what, Marcus?
06:06Come home.
06:11Let's give everyone the perfect reunion they're dying to see.
06:14You mean it, Celeste.
06:16You won't regret this.
06:17Oh, I won't regret a thing.
06:19One of us will.
06:20But it won't be me.
06:24He wants his wife back to save himself?
06:27Fine.
06:28I'll walk right back into that marriage.
06:30And I'll burn it down from the inside.
06:32With him still in it.
06:44Everyone, my wife is home where she belongs.
06:47From today, this house is hers again.
06:54You're too kind, darling.
06:55I'm sure everyone missed the show.
06:57No show.
06:58Just a man grateful for a second chance.
07:01Careful, Marcus.
07:03Grateful men always want something.
07:07What is it you need from me this time?
07:10Only your happiness.
07:11Nothing more.
07:13A small token.
07:15Anything you want, it's yours.
07:17Just say the word.
07:18Diamonds.
07:19You always did think expensive and thoughtful were the same thing.
07:26You want to use me to save your empire, Marcus?
07:29Go ahead.
07:30Rebuild it on my name.
07:31Because the day it's tall enough for everyone to see,
07:34I'm going to pull it down with you standing right on top.
07:43Marcus, the creditors want their money by the end of the quarter.
07:46The board has lost faith.
07:48Without a miracle, Ellison is finished.
07:51The miracle already walked back through my front door.
07:54My wife isn't just a pretty face.
07:56She's the most famous supermodel alive.
07:59Every luxury house and every billionaire in this city takes her calls.
08:03And you think she'll actually help you after what you did to her?
08:06She came back, didn't she?
08:08Women like her need the marriage to look perfect.
08:12She'll smile, she'll open the doors I need,
08:14and she'll save this company whether she means to or not.
08:18So that's the plan.
08:20Use my name to drag your sinking ship back out of the water.
08:25Good.
08:26Now I know exactly which rope to cut,
08:28and I'll let him hand it to me himself.
08:35He's spending more on this fairy tale than on the company he's trying to save.
08:38Let him.
08:39The bigger the story, the harder it falls.
08:44Shhh.
08:44Celeste, darling, look at you.
08:46The whole city is talking about you.
08:48We are just over the moon for you and Marcus.
08:50You drove all the way across the city to tell me that?
08:52How thoughtful.
08:53You didn't come to my last three birthdays.
08:58Oh, don't be like that.
09:00We're family.
09:01And family forgives, family forgets.
09:06Especially now that things are looking up.
09:08For all of us.
09:10All of us.
09:12There it is.
09:14Say what you actually came here to say, Diane.
09:16Fine.
09:17I'm launching my own fashion line.
09:19With your name and Marcus' connections,
09:21you could get me into every showroom in this city.
09:23It's the least family can do.
09:28You mean the family that gave me the smallest room,
09:31wore my mother's jewelry,
09:32and told everyone I was the help?
09:35Careful, Celeste.
09:37Reputations are such fragile things these days.
09:40It would be a shame if certain old stories about you
09:42happened to reach the press.
09:45Go ahead.
09:46Print whatever you like.
09:47But remember,
09:48I'm not the frightened little girl you raised to grovel anymore.
09:52Touch my name,
09:53and the only story left standing
09:55will be exactly what you and Ashlish really are.
10:01The door is right behind you.
10:03You remember how to slam it?
10:04You did it to me often enough.
10:15You put her face on every front page
10:16and left me in the dark.
10:17I helped you destroy her once, Marcus.
10:20Don't forget,
10:20I can destroy you just as easily.
10:23If I can't have you,
10:25then that little queen of yours
10:26is going to lose everything.
10:27Okay.
10:31Guess who landed the Sinclair jewelry campaign?
10:33Her, of all people.
10:35You really think that's about talent?
10:37Please.
10:38I heard she got it flat on her back.
10:40Word is she's warming the bed of the man
10:41who runs Sinclair himself.
10:43That's the only portfolio that books a campaign like this.
10:46First the Ellison heir,
10:47now the Sinclair boss.
10:48Some people will climb anything with money on it.
10:57Celeste, I have to ask.
10:59There's an ugly rumor flying around this set
11:01that the only reason you're wearing these pieces today
11:03is some private arrangement
11:04with the top of the house of Sinclair.
11:06The client is getting nervous.
11:09Sweetheart, I have never met the man
11:10who runs Sinclair in my life.
11:12Luxury houses were fighting over me
11:14long before anyone whispered that name to me.
11:17Now, do you want the campaign
11:18that sells out in an hour,
11:19or do you want gossip?
11:22I'll remind everyone on this set
11:23exactly whose face moves the product.
11:32You always did know how to put on a show, Celeste,
11:35but shows end.
11:38And when this fairytale marriage of yours falls apart,
11:40and it will,
11:41I'll be right there to watch.
11:43Then pull up a chair.
11:44Just remember,
11:45last time you plotted against me,
11:46you needed a man to do it.
11:48On your own,
11:48you've never once been able to touch me.
11:53I don't care what it costs.
11:55I need two seats at the Sinclair Gala.
11:57What do you mean the list is closed?
11:59Do you have any idea who I am?
12:06Not one invitation in the entire family.
12:08It's humiliating.
12:15Mrs. Celeste,
12:16on behalf of the House of Sinclair,
12:18I am to place this personally
12:19and only into your hands.
12:21Mr.
12:22Sinclair looks forward to your presence
12:24at the Centennial Gala.
12:29The Sinclair heir invited you personally?
12:31You've never even met him,
12:33have you?
12:34I've never met anyone named Sinclair in my life.
12:37Then we go together,
12:38as husband and wife.
12:39Whatever this Sinclair wants with you,
12:40it's the chance I've been waiting for.
12:43Oh, we'll go.
12:45Something tells me this one night
12:46is going to change everything.
12:55I'm going to change everything.
12:58Celeste,
12:58the Sinclair heir invited you personally?
13:00No one else in the city got that honor.
13:02How do you know him?
13:04I don't.
13:05I've never met the man.
13:07Tonight, I'm as curious as all of you.
13:11My wife's reputation speaks for itself.
13:14Even the Sinclairs know quality when they see it.
13:28Look at her.
13:29One invitation and she thinks she's one of them.
13:31She's still just the charity cable dad dragged home.
13:34Enjoy it while it lasts, Celeste.
13:36Girls like you always come crashing back down.
13:39Here!
13:39The Sinclair heir!
13:41No one's ever seen his face.
13:42They say he owns half this city and answers to no one.
13:55Ladies and gentlemen,
13:57the host of tonight's gala,
13:59the head of the house of Sinclair,
14:01Mr. Sinclair.
14:02Mr. Sinclair, sir,
14:03this is the honor of my life.
14:05We never dreamed you'd grace us in person tonight.
14:08So that's him.
14:10Ten years at the top of this city
14:11and no one has ever seen his face.
14:13They say a single phone call from him
14:15can make or break any fortune in this room.
14:19Damien, no.
14:20No, it can't be.
14:22The Sinclair came looking at her,
14:24at Marcus Ellison's wife.
14:27That face.
14:29I've seen that face.
14:30The broke nobody living in her apartment.
14:32That's the Sinclair heir.
14:33Impossible.
14:35She was keeping a deadbeat.
14:36A nobody.
14:38I let the richest man in this city
14:40walk off with my...
14:42For three years,
14:43I was yours.
14:44You let me sleep in your bed,
14:46eat at your table,
14:47and you never once asked me for a single thing.
14:50Then one morning,
14:52you looked me in the eye
14:54and told me we never happened.
14:57So I'll ask you once,
14:59in front of every single person in this room
15:02who thinks they know who you are,
15:03does that breakup still stand?
15:05Now you hold on!
15:06She is my wife.
15:08My wife!
15:09Whatever sick little game the two of you...
15:15Your wife.
15:16You cheated on her with her best friend.
15:18You threw her out onto the street.
15:20You vanished for three years
15:22and came crawling back
15:23the very week your company caught fire
15:25because you needed her name to save it.
15:27You don't get to say the word wife in front of me.
15:34You want your answer in front of all these people,
15:36then here it is.
15:37For three years,
15:39every single night,
15:40you let me believe you had nothing.
15:42No name,
15:43no money,
15:44no past.
15:45You let me hand my heart
15:46to a man who didn't even exist.
15:48Everything I felt for you was real.
15:51The name was the only lie.
15:53The name was everything, Damien.
15:56All this power,
15:57this whole room bowing to you,
15:59it doesn't erase a single one
16:01of the three years
16:02you spent lying to my face.
16:05So yes,
16:07the breakup still stands.
16:13Celeste, stop.
16:15Stop running from me
16:16for one minute, please.
16:18One minute?
16:19You had three years.
16:22Three years watching me struggle,
16:24watching me count every single dollar
16:26just to keep a roof over both our heads,
16:28while you could have bought
16:30this entire city without blinking.
16:32I never touched a cent of your money.
16:34Every dollar you ever spent on me,
16:36I paid back ten times over
16:38into accounts you'll find
16:39first thing tomorrow.
16:40I never wanted your money, Celeste.
16:43I wanted the one thing
16:44all my money and all my power
16:46could never buy.
16:46And what is that?
16:48A woman gulible enough
16:49to fall in love with a lie?
16:51A woman who loved me
16:52when she thought
16:53I had nothing to give her back.
16:55Do you have any idea
16:56how rare that is?
16:57In my world,
16:58you are the only real thing
17:00that has ever happened to me.
17:01Come with me.
17:03One place.
17:04Just one.
17:05And let me tell you everything.
17:07If you still want to walk away
17:09after that,
17:10I swear on the Sinclair name
17:11I will never come near you again.
17:19Right here,
17:20three years ago
17:21in the pouring rain,
17:23I watched you walk to that edge
17:25and I knew
17:27if I let you fall
17:28I'd never draw a clean breath again.
17:32I fell for you that night, Celeste,
17:35before you ever said
17:36a single word to me.
17:37Then why the lie?
17:40For three years,
17:41any day,
17:42you could have told me
17:43who you were.
17:44Why let me believe
17:46you had nothing?
17:46Because every person
17:47I have ever known
17:48wants something from me.
17:50My name,
17:51my money,
17:51my power.
17:52My own family
17:53sees me as a chess piece.
17:55Not once in my entire life
17:56has anyone loved me
17:57for nothing but myself.
18:00until you.
18:02You loved me
18:03when you thought
18:03I had nothing left to give.
18:05Do you understand
18:06what that was to me?
18:10It was the first honest thing
18:11anyone had ever put in my hands.
18:14You want to talk about honest?
18:16I trusted my husband.
18:17He sold me off
18:17for a prettier body
18:18and a business deal.
18:19I trust my best friend.
18:20She climbed into my marriage bed
18:21while I was out
18:22picking her birthday gift.
18:23And then I trusted you.
18:25The one person on this earth
18:26I thought was real
18:27and you turned out
18:28to be the biggest lie
18:29of them all.
18:30Celeste,
18:30I am standing here
18:31with nothing hidden now.
18:33No name,
18:34no mask,
18:35just me.
18:36Everything I have,
18:37this entire city,
18:38I would trade all of it
18:40tonight
18:41just for you to look at me
18:42the way you did
18:43before you knew.
18:44That woman,
18:45the one who still knew
18:45how to trust,
18:46she's gone
18:47and you helped bury her.
18:50Whatever this is
18:51between us now, Damien,
18:52it is three years too late.
18:56The whole city
18:57watch the Sinclair King
18:58humiliate you for her.
19:00So we flip the story.
19:01We don't touch the king,
19:02we bury her.
19:03The married supermodel
19:04who seduced two of the
19:05richest men in New York,
19:06a cheating little climber
19:07who got everything
19:08on her back.
19:09By tomorrow,
19:09not one brand
19:10will dare touch her.
19:11Do it.
19:12If Sinclair wants her,
19:13I'll make sure the woman
19:14he gets is one
19:14the whole world spits on.
19:17Leak it all.
19:18The affair,
19:19the photos,
19:19every filthy detail.
19:24Ellison Group
19:25owes 42 banks.
19:26Buy every one
19:27of those debts tonight,
19:28all of them,
19:29then call them in
19:30at once by morning.
19:31No extensions,
19:31no mercy.
19:34The woman running
19:35the smear,
19:35Vanessa.
19:36Every story
19:37she's ever planted,
19:38every man she's ruined,
19:39every lie she sold
19:40to climb her way up.
19:41Verify it
19:42and hand all of it
19:43to the press tonight.
19:44Let this city
19:45see exactly
19:46what she is.
19:48Let's see.
19:54He called them
19:55all in at once.
19:56That's not business.
19:56That's an execution.
19:58He's not trying
19:58to beat me.
19:59He's trying to erase me
19:59from the face
20:00of the earth.
20:01No.
20:02No, this is my whole life.
20:04He can't just...
20:05How does he even
20:06know all of this?
20:08One night,
20:10he erased them both
20:11in a single night.
20:12He thinks tearing
20:13my enemies apart
20:14will make me forgive him,
20:15but I was going
20:16to bury Marcus myself,
20:18brick by brick,
20:19with my own two hands.
20:20I never asked a king
20:21to fight my war for me.
20:23I won't owe him
20:24the one thing
20:25I had left,
20:25my own revenge.
20:28Celeste, sweetheart,
20:29we may have had
20:30our little misunderstandings
20:31over the years,
20:32but blood is blood.
20:33And Mr. Sinclair,
20:35a man like that,
20:35so did a loving mother
20:36and I could sit down
20:37with him,
20:38help smooth things along?
20:39Your loving showed up
20:40the exact missing
20:41you caught the scent
20:41of a Sinclair,
20:42right on schedule.
20:44Just one introduction,
20:46Celeste.
20:47one dinner
20:48with Mr. Sinclair,
20:49one word
20:50from a man like him
20:51and my fashion line
20:52launches overnight.
20:54You owe us that much.
20:56We did raise you.
21:01Oh, Mr. Sinclair!
21:04What an honor!
21:06We're Celeste's family.
21:07You see?
21:08Her mother,
21:09her sister.
21:10We've always been
21:11so terribly,
21:12terribly close.
21:14family.
21:15I know exactly
21:16what kind of family
21:17you were to her.
21:18The smallest room
21:20in the house,
21:21her dead mother's
21:22jewellery around
21:22your necks,
21:24her name dragged
21:25through the dirt
21:25while you told the world
21:26she was the help.
21:28But let me be very clear,
21:29every door I own
21:30is bolted shut
21:31to the two of you.
21:33You do not get
21:34the climb out
21:35of the gutter
21:35on the back
21:35of the woman
21:36you threw into it.
21:40I didn't do that
21:41to make you owe me anything.
21:43I did it because
21:44for three years
21:44I laid beside you
21:45and listened to you
21:46cry yourself to sleep
21:47pretending those people
21:47never broke your heart.
21:49I can't stand by
21:50and watch them use you.
21:51Not again.
21:54Never again.
21:55The right heel,
21:56the one she always
21:57slips on last,
21:58right before she walks.
22:00Push it in deep
22:01where no one checks.
22:04Do it clean
22:05and the money's yours.
22:06Let's see the
22:07flawless Celeste
22:07keep that perfect smile
22:08with the whole world
22:09watching her bleed.
22:50who did this?
22:51Who ever touched her?
22:52Seal this backstage.
22:53Now!
22:54Every camera,
22:55every tape,
22:55every name
22:56on tonight's crew list.
22:57I want who did this
22:58before the sun comes up.
22:59And when I find them,
23:00there will not be
23:01a single corner of this earth
23:02left for them to hide in.
23:03You're still here.
23:04Even after everything
23:05I said to you.
23:07You're still here.
23:08I will always be here.
23:09Even when you can't
23:10stand the sight of me.
23:11Even when you push me away
23:12with everything you've got.
23:13I'll be right here,
23:14Celeste.
23:15Every single time.
23:23A ruined woman
23:24who should be hiding
23:25in a hole
23:25doesn't find the nerve
23:26or the money
23:27to pull something
23:27this bold on her own.
23:28Someone's funding her.
23:30Someone's steadying her hand.
23:31Find out who's really
23:32standing behind Vanessa.
23:33I want to know
23:34whose war this actually is.
23:36A married woman, Damien.
23:38In the eyes of the law
23:39she is still bound
23:40to that bankrupt Ellison.
23:42And now the whole city whispers
23:43the Sinclair heir
23:44chasing another man's wife
23:46through the tabloids
23:46tangled in a cheating scandal.
23:48It is a disgrace
23:49to a name 300 years
23:50in the making.
23:51That married woman
23:52was betrayed
23:53and thrown out
23:54by that man.
23:54And who I love
23:56is not something
23:57I have ever answered
23:59to this family for.
24:00I never will.
24:03Love.
24:05How quaint.
24:07Then let me be blunt.
24:09The board will not
24:10confirm you as heir
24:11while you drag this name
24:13through a gutter romance.
24:14So we've made
24:15other arrangements.
24:16The Ashford girl
24:17old money
24:18spotless
24:19raised for precisely this.
24:21The engagement
24:22will be announced
24:22within the month.
24:23Attend or don't
24:24the announcement
24:25goes out either way.
24:26Announce whatever you like.
24:27I will never sign it.
24:28There is only one woman
24:29I will ever put
24:29the Sinclair name beside
24:30and she is not
24:31your Ashford girl.
24:37Make certain
24:37the model
24:38sees it first
24:39and sees it clearly.
24:40A woman with pride
24:41like hers
24:42doesn't need
24:42to be pushed out.
24:43Simply show her
24:44there is no future here
24:45and she will walk away
24:46on her own
24:47and save us
24:48all the mess.
24:53Of course.
24:54300 year old name
24:55marries another
24:56old name.
24:57Not a bankrupt
24:58man's wife
24:59with her face
24:59in every scandal
25:00sheet in town.
25:01He can offer me
25:02the whole city
25:03on a rooftop
25:03at midnight
25:04but in the cold
25:05light of morning
25:06the king still
25:07marries the queen
25:08they chose for him.
25:11The Ashford engagement
25:12I never agreed
25:13to a single word of it.
25:14It's my family
25:14forcing my hand
25:15not me.
25:16I told them
25:16to their faces
25:17I will never sign.
25:18Celise look at me.
25:19It doesn't matter
25:20whether you sign it.
25:21Don't you see?
25:21In the eyes of the law
25:22I'm still another man's wife.
25:24And you
25:25you're the heir
25:25to a 300 year empire
25:27that will never accept me.
25:28Some distances
25:29can't be crossed
25:29no matter how badly
25:30two people want to.
25:32Go home Damien.
25:34Go marry your queen.
25:38Sinclair took
25:39everything I had.
25:40My company
25:41my name
25:41my future
25:42all because of her.
25:43A direct attack
25:44is suicide.
25:45He'll bury us
25:46like he buried the rest
25:47so we don't touch him.
25:48We go after the one thing
25:49all his money can't shield
25:50her reputation.
25:52Her whole empire
25:53stands on one single pillar
25:54her name and fashion
25:55and that
25:56happens to be my world.
25:58In three weeks
25:59the biggest
26:00Custor show on earth
26:01goes live
26:02to the entire globe.
26:03I'll make sure
26:04her exclusive designs
26:05her concepts
26:06every last one
26:08end up on
26:09someone else's runway
26:10first.
26:11And then
26:12in front of the whole industry
26:13we brand the great Celeste
26:15exactly what she'll look like.
26:17A thief.
26:18A fraud.
26:19Then we don't just ruin her
26:21we make the whole world
26:22do it for us.
26:23Cheering
26:24while she burns.
26:30Three people
26:31she humiliated
26:32all crawling
26:33into the same dark room.
26:34They're not licking
26:35their wounds
26:35they're loading a gun.
26:37And whatever
26:38they're aiming it at
26:39it's the one thing
26:39she would never
26:40let me protect for her.
26:41Her work.
26:42watch them.
26:44Every meeting
26:45every move
26:46the second they pull
26:47the trigger
26:47I want to know first.
26:53Three global campaigns
26:54two magazine covers
26:55and every couture house
26:56is calling at once.
26:58Celeste?
26:59After that scandal
27:00the whole industry
27:00expected you to vanish.
27:02Instead
27:02you're everywhere.
27:03They wanted me to
27:04crawl into a hole
27:05and cry.
27:06Let them watch me
27:06work instead.
27:07I clawed my way
27:08to the top once
27:09with nothing but myself.
27:10I can do it again.
27:12No more waiting
27:13to be rescued.
27:14Not by a husband
27:15not by a king.
27:16From today
27:17the only person
27:18I am counting on
27:20is me.
27:22You won't take my calls
27:23then at least
27:24let me say it to your face.
27:25The Ashford engagement
27:26is dead.
27:27I killed it myself.
27:29There was never
27:29going to be anyone
27:30but you.
27:31Maybe you did
27:31but don't you
27:33understand Damien?
27:34For the first time
27:34in my life
27:35I'm not standing here
27:36because of a man.
27:37Not against you
27:38not for you.
27:38I'm standing here
27:39for me.
27:40And that is the one thing
27:41I can't afford
27:42to lose again.
27:44This is your last chance
27:45Damien.
27:47Sign the Ashford engagement
27:48secure the family trust
27:49take your place
27:50as head of this house.
27:51Refuse
27:52and the board
27:53strips you
27:53of the controlling shares.
27:55300 years
27:56your bloodline built
27:57gone.
27:58All for one
27:58married woman
27:59with a ruined name.
28:00Then take it.
28:01Take the shares
28:02the trust
28:03all 300 years of it.
28:04Half of what this family
28:05is worth today
28:06I built with my own
28:07two hands.
28:07I can build it again
28:08from nothing
28:09the way she did
28:10but I will not
28:11sign my life away
28:12to a stranger
28:13to keep it.
28:15Let me make this simple
28:16so no one in this family
28:17ever miss the standards again.
28:18It is her
28:19or it is no one.
28:20Not the Ashford girl
28:21not anyone your board picks.
28:22The price of loving her
28:23is this entire empire
28:25than I decided
28:26a long time ago.
28:28The empire
28:28is the cheaper thing
28:30to lose.
28:34Sir
28:34if the board
28:35really moves on the shares
28:36you could lose control
28:37of half the group
28:37by the end of the month.
28:38Let them.
28:39My whole life
28:40I've been the Sinclair heir.
28:41For once
28:42I'd like to find out
28:43who I am
28:43when the name is gone.
28:44She loved the man
28:45with nothing.
28:46Maybe it's time
28:47I became him for real.
28:48She thinks a pretty face
28:50is enough to rule my world.
28:52Let's see her talk
28:53her way out of this one.
28:55Every sketch
28:56every fabric swirch
28:57every concept board
28:58we recreate it
28:58down to the last stitch
29:00and put it on the runway
29:01under Vanessa's name first.
29:02Then when Celeste
29:03shows the same collection
29:05she's not the artist anymore.
29:07She's the thief.
29:08And I'll play
29:09the poor victim
29:10she stole from
29:11on a global live stream
29:12in front of every editor
29:14and buyer on earth.
29:15Half this industry
29:16already believes
29:17she trades on her body
29:18not her talent.
29:19This is the final nail
29:20in the caffin.
29:21By the time
29:22she opens her mouth
29:23to deny it
29:24the whole world
29:24will already be
29:25screaming fraud.
29:37Someone's been in my files.
29:39Fine.
29:40Let them take the bait.
29:42If a storm is coming for me
29:44I'll make sure
29:45I'm the only one left
29:46holding the one thing
29:46that proves this work
29:47is mine.
30:03I have to say something
30:04these designs
30:05my life's work
30:11I've just learned
30:12that Celeste
30:13has been copying them
30:14every single sketch
30:16she stole from me.
30:22And she was going to
30:23walk this very runway
30:24pretending they were hers.
30:30As a designer
30:32and as a Whitmore
30:33I have reviewed
30:34both collections myself.
30:37It breaks my heart
30:38to confirm it.
30:40The originals
30:41are Vanessa's.
30:42What Celeste
30:43planned to show tonight
30:44is a copy
30:46line for line.
30:51A supermodel
30:52who can't design
30:53stealing from those
30:54who can.
31:00It is the ugliest
31:01kind of fraud.
31:11First she cheats
31:12her way through
31:13two marriages
31:13now she steals
31:14an entire career.
31:20The great Celeste
31:22fraud from head to toe.
31:29This is a set up.
31:30Ashley, Vanessa,
31:32Marcus, all of it.
31:34Say the word
31:35and I'll have this
31:36whole thing shut down
31:37and every one of them
31:38I'm in a cell
31:38and I'll see you in a cell
31:39by midnight.
31:45No.
31:48If you save me tonight
31:50the whole world
31:51will always whisper
31:52that the fraud
31:52got rescued
31:53by her billionaire.
32:01I didn't build this name
32:02on my back
32:03and I will not have it
32:03cleared on yours.
32:05this is my industry
32:07my work
32:08my war.
32:11Let me walk back out there
32:13and win it myself.
32:33You say I copied these designs.
32:39Then let's talk about
32:40the only thing
32:41that actually matters
32:42in a room full of screaming.
32:43Proof.
32:57Every sketch
32:59time-plined.
33:01Every fabric test
33:02dated.
33:04Hours of footage
33:05of me building
33:06this collection
33:07with my own hands
33:08three months
33:09before Vanessa
33:10ever designed
33:11a single thread of it.
33:15So here's the real question
33:17for this room.
33:24How do you copy something
33:25that didn't exist yet
33:27unless you stole it from me?
33:37I clawed my way
33:38to the top
33:39of this industry
33:39with nothing
33:40but my own two hands.
33:44I have never needed
33:45to steal anyone's work.
33:50The only fraud
33:51standing on this stage
33:52tonight
33:55are the ones
33:55who believed a lie
33:56could outrun the truth.
34:09My people
34:10have been watching
34:10these three
34:11for three weeks.
34:14Allow me to fill in
34:15everything they left out.
34:16Frame Celeste.
34:17She'll never be able
34:18to talk her way out of it.
34:19Better yet,
34:19make sure she never
34:20stands up again.
34:21Vanessa's got the nails ready.
34:22Let her be publicly
34:23humiliated on the runway.
34:24Oh!
34:30That footage is doctored.
34:31It has to be...
34:32Verified it,
34:34notatized,
34:34and already in the hands
34:36of the police
34:36and every editor
34:37in this room.
34:39You didn't just try
34:40to frame her.
34:41You tried to maim her.
34:45Oh!
34:49You are finished.
34:50All three of you.
34:52In this industry,
34:53in this city,
34:54everywhere.
34:55Yeah.
35:06I told you
35:07I'd fight my own war.
35:11And you did.
35:12I never touched
35:13your battle,
35:14Celeste.
35:17I only cleaned up
35:18the cowards
35:18who wouldn't fight you
35:19in the open.
35:22That's not saving you.
35:23That's just
35:24standing behind you
35:25where you can't see
35:27so no one ever gets
35:28to stab you
35:29in the back again.
35:35I don't know.
35:42You did this.
35:44Everything I had,
35:45my company,
35:46my name,
35:48my life,
35:49you took it all.
35:51If I go down,
35:53then I'm taking you
35:54down with me.
35:57Say goodbye,
35:58Celeste!
36:01I don't know.
36:09You think
36:10this ends here?
36:11You think
36:11you've won?
36:12Why?
36:13Why would you
36:14do that?
36:19I'll rot in hell,
36:20Celeste,
36:21but I'll be
36:21watching you burn
36:22right beside me!
36:28I pushed you away.
36:31I told you
36:32we were over.
36:33I told you
36:39Celeste,
36:39why would you
36:40take a bullet
36:41for me?
36:44Because
36:46a world
36:47with you in it
36:48and me gone
36:50is still better
36:51than any world
36:52without you.
36:54I told you,
36:55Celeste,
36:56every single time
36:58I'll always
36:59be right here.
37:15Celeste,
37:15dear,
37:15we came
37:16the moment
37:16we heard.
37:22We're family,
37:24whatever's been
37:25between us.
37:26Surely now,
37:27with Mr. Sinclair,
37:28we can put it
37:29all behind us.
37:39Family,
37:40for 20 years
37:41you gave me
37:41the coldest corner
37:42of that house,
37:43wore my dead
37:44mother's pearls
37:44to my face,
37:45and taught your
37:46daughter that I
37:47was born to serve her.
37:50I used to lie awake
37:51begging for one
37:52kind word from you.
37:54I don't anymore.
37:57There is nothing
37:58left between us
37:58to put behind us,
37:59because none of it
38:00was ever real.
38:06Don't come to my
38:07wedding.
38:07Don't come to my
38:08funeral.
38:13As of today,
38:15I have no mother
38:16and no sister.
38:17Now get out.
38:33Damien,
38:34Damien,
38:35can you hear me?
38:35Please,
38:36open your eyes.
38:39You're still here.
38:41This time,
38:41you didn't run.
38:43No,
38:44I'm done running.
38:46Do you know
38:47what I finally
38:48understood,
38:49watching you
38:49bleed out in my
38:50arms?
38:52Every wall I built
38:53to keep from
38:53getting hurt again,
38:55it never kept
38:56the pain out.
39:08it only kept you
39:09out.
39:13Then let me tell you
39:14the whole truth,
39:15with nothing left to
39:16hide.
39:18I'm not the
39:19Sinclair heir anymore,
39:20Celeste.
39:22I gave it all up,
39:24the shares,
39:25the trust,
39:25the name at the top.
39:30For once in my life,
39:31I'm just a man,
39:33just Damien.
39:37The one you loved
39:38when he had nothing.
39:41Will you have him?
39:44I fell in love
39:44with the man
39:45who had nothing
39:46to give me
39:46but himself.
39:50I don't care
39:51if you're a king
39:52or a nobody,
39:53I just want you,
39:54alive,
39:55and mine.
39:56That is all
39:57I have ever wanted.
40:13three years ago,
40:15in the rain,
40:16right where you're
40:16standing now,
40:17you lost this hairpin
40:18the night I pulled you
40:19back from that edge.
40:23I've carried it
40:24every since.
40:27I've carried it
40:27every day since.
40:29It was the first
40:29piece of you
40:30I ever held.
40:33Celeste,
40:34I have loved you
40:35as a nobody
40:36and I have loved you
40:37as a king.
40:39Marry me.
40:41Let me love you
40:42as your husband
40:43for the rest
40:44of my life.
40:46I've adapted it
40:47every day
40:49A thousand times.
40:51Yes.
40:58The board reversed
40:59its decision
41:00this morning.
41:03The shares,
41:04the trust,
41:05your place
41:06at the head
41:06of this house,
41:07they're all yours.
41:11A woman who
41:12cleared her own
41:13name in front
41:13of the entire
41:14world and a man
41:15willing to give up
41:16an empire for her.
41:17Perhaps the Sinclair
41:18name is safer
41:19in your hands
41:20than it ever
41:20was in ours.
41:24I would have
41:25given it all up
41:25a thousand times
41:26over just for this.
41:29As it turns out,
41:30I don't have to.
41:36Everything that
41:37ever tried to
41:38bury me,
41:38that marriage,
41:40those lies,
41:41the name they
41:41forced on me.
41:46Time to burn
41:47it all to the ground
41:48and keep only
41:49what's real.
41:52I'm here.
41:57No more masks.
41:59No more running.
42:01Just you and me.
42:03Starting right here,
42:05where it all began.
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