00:00I need to know whether she's the woman I've been searching for for five years.
00:16Five years ago, she left and never appeared again.
00:37Find out everything about Naomi Carter before she joined Sterling Group.
00:42Should that include Ruby's birth records?
00:44I want every record.
00:56I need to know whether she's the woman I've been searching for for five years.
01:07This conversation is over.
01:17Where did you get this?
01:19You know the woman in the photograph.
01:29This has nothing to do with my work.
01:31This has to do with Ruby.
01:37Tonight you said her father has hasn't appeared once in five years.
01:42That was my answer.
01:43But it isn't the truth.
01:48You disappeared for five years.
01:51You don't get to interrogate me like an investigator.
01:55I didn't know there had ever been an us.
02:01Then you should ask yourself why you didn't know.
02:08This conversation is over.
02:11I want the truth, not a family excuse.
02:14Then find the person who wanted to keep you in the dark forever.
02:25Where did you find it?
02:28Naomi had it.
02:29She said it was sent five years ago.
02:35You knew she had contacted this family.
02:37I knew a letter had been sent.
02:39The family office told me it had been handled.
02:52This record is dated three months after she left.
02:55Who handled the reply?
02:57The family office handled it.
03:00I want the truth, not a family excuse.
03:03Then find the person who wanted to keep you in the dark forever.
03:28Enough to know that someone hid your letter.
03:35I'm Vivian's assistant.
03:36We'd like to invite you to join the partner's senior design team.
03:40Why are you making this offer now?
03:42You would have your own studio and team,
03:43and no one would use your private life against you again.
03:49You want me to leave Sterling Group?
03:51Your talent shouldn't be trapped in a family scandal.
04:03Did you ask her to leave?
04:05We're offering her a better position.
04:07It's a business decision.
04:13A business decision doesn't need to threat her into abandoning her investigation.
04:29How much have you found out?
04:34Enough to know that someone hid your letter.
04:40Were you already my dad before I knew it?
04:45Ruby looks like Rowan.
04:47Rowan.
04:49She may really be his daughter.
04:51Then Naomi has been hiding it from him.
04:53Naomi hiding it.
04:57How can I shoot you, Terrence?
05:11They said Rowan might be your dad.
05:16Did he say that himself?
05:19No.
05:20But they said your eyes look like his.
05:25He did run with me.
05:27He did run with me.
05:40What are you doing?
05:46Were you already my dad before I knew it?
06:01You're staying here tonight.
06:03No.
06:04Your room was destroyed.
06:07I'll sleep in the library.
06:10Locked.
06:11The stable.
06:12Nox bites.
06:15You planned every answer?
06:18Yes.
06:23Stable?
06:28I hate you.
06:30No, you don't.
06:37I'll take the couch.
06:38You're being normal.
06:40Don't get used to it.
06:59Kale!
07:02Kale!
07:03Don't touch me.
07:18I tried. I sent the letter to your family office and waited three months.
07:26You knew all along that I was the child's father.
07:30I knew who Ruby's father was, but I didn't know what you would do if you found out.
07:34You could have told me.
07:35I tried. I sent the letter to your family office and waited three months.
07:39There was no reply.
07:41Then your family assistant told me you wanted nothing to do with us.
07:43I never received it.
07:44That doesn't change what happened to me.
07:46But it also changes what I lost.
07:50You have a company, a family name, and a life that kept moving forward.
07:54I had only a child and an answer that never came.
07:58I would have come.
08:01Don't think one sentence can rewrite these five years.
08:18Your grandmother's former family secretary.
08:21Find him.
08:32The email body was deleted, but the server caches still has the attachment name.
08:40Who had access to this account?
08:44Your grandmother's former family secretary.
08:47He left the company four years ago.
08:49Find him.
09:07Mom, if he really is my dad, can I call him dad?
09:12You can call him whatever feels real to you, but he'll have to earn that name himself.
09:23You protected a family name, but you destroyed a child's childhood.
09:31The woman in your old file was Naomi.
09:33That family assistant told me Naomi was only using the child to get into the Sterling family.
09:40So you made the decision for me.
09:42I thought I was protecting this family.
09:44You protected a family name, but you destroyed a child's childhood.
09:55You gave her one half, and she left the other half here.
10:12She kept this all along?
10:16It belonged to my grandmother.
10:18She said she was wrong.
10:22One apology won't give Ruby back five years.
10:25I know.
10:27But I'll spend the rest of my life making it right.
10:35The core design file has been altered.
10:39She has an undisclosed parent-child relationship with Rowan.
10:44Keeping her as chief designer creates a conflict of interest.
10:47She's no longer just an employee.
10:49Everyone is now identifying her as the CEO's child's mother.
10:52Wait.
10:53If anyone questions my work, investigate at the work.
10:57Don't use Ruby as a reason to erase my career.
11:03Then choose one.
11:04Your family or your position.
11:11I will not choose between being a mother and being a designer.
11:14I built both lives myself, and I don't need your approval.
11:19If the board believes there's a conflict of interest,
11:22let an independent committee review the project.
11:31Mom isn't leaving.
11:36The core design file has been altered.
