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00:00The day before we were supposed to go clean, I found an encrypted memo my fiancé Victor had hidden there.
00:06The envelope that held my new identity, but the name printed under it was Lily Rossi.
00:13Lily is too fragile. The wolves in this family would tear her apart.
00:17But you're different. You're strong.
00:20Please, gentlemen, don't blame Layla.
00:22I found this by accident. It's a record of the family funds she's been moving out.
00:28Layla, the evidence is right there. You'll surrender all your authority.
00:31I'm not suspended. I quit.
00:34I, Layla, have nothing to do with the Rossi family.
00:38Every one of my bank accounts was frozen. Cash and weapons in my safe house were gone too.
00:43Every move Victor ever taught me over eight years, I spent that night on men whose orders I couldn't even
00:48trace back.
00:50Had enough yet? Layla, you're just too stubborn. You're a woman. Why keep playing tough?
00:56Get lost. Get lost.
01:01Killing you were dirty my hands.
01:04You, lost.
01:07Victor, Lily, you'd better pray you never see me again in this life.
01:12That night, everyone thought this story was over.
01:15What he didn't know was that the nights that would truly keep him awake were only about to begin.
01:23I opened the safe.
01:25The envelope that held my new identity had been opened and resealed.
01:29And not carefully.
01:31I pulled out the Swiss passport.
01:33The photo was still mine.
01:35But the name printed under it was...
01:37Lily Rossi.
01:38Lily was the poor little thing Victor picked up from the outer block six months ago.
01:43Her mother was a gambler who died owing the loan sharks a fortune.
01:46And the collectors cornered Lily in an alley.
01:49Victor swooped in like a hero out of nowhere.
01:51Paid off the debt and brought her home to the estate.
01:54From that day on, the estate had its delicate little white flower.
01:58And everything I had paid for in blood was being quietly signed over to her.
02:02One piece at a time.
02:11Going through my things now?
02:15He walked in frowning at me, as if I were the thief here.
02:18I just looked at him.
02:19Calm.
02:22I took three bullets for you at the Sicilian docks to trade for this passport from our man inside the
02:26police.
02:27Why does it have Lily's name on it?
02:29For a second he looked caught.
02:31Then, just as fast, he decided he had every right.
02:34Layla, calm down.
02:36Lily is too fragile.
02:38She can't even hold a gun.
02:39The wolves in this family would tear her apart.
02:42But you're different.
02:43You're strong.
02:45You can protect yourself, and you keep the old men in line for me.
02:48So that's it.
02:50Because I'm strong, I deserve to stay here and keep being your blade.
02:54And because she's weak, she gets to take the freedom I paid for with my life and run a clean
02:59little gallery in Switzerland.
03:00Do you really have to keep score with me like this?
03:03I can open another gallery.
03:04I can get another passport made.
03:06But Lily has depression.
03:08The doctor says this place is killing her.
03:10She has to leave now.
03:12Layla, give me one more year.
03:14One year, and I'll take you away, I promise.
03:17One more year.
03:19My throat was dry, but I laughed out loud.
03:21He didn't know I wasn't laughing at the promise.
03:24I was laughing about the bomb someone wired under my car last month.
03:31Last month, the family's enemies wired a bomb under my car.
03:34I broke two ribs, jumping clear, and spent three days in the ICU.
03:38Where was Victor those three days?
03:40He was taking Lily to her therapist.
03:42Because Lily said thunder reminded her of the debt collector's guns.
03:48He never called me.
03:50Not once.
03:51Victor, do you remember how I got that scar on my back?
03:53The one that goes all the way through?
03:56He froze, and his eyes slid away from mine.
03:59Five years ago, when his seat was still shaky, the old men sent an assassin after him.
04:03I took that knife for him.
04:05The tip stopped half a centimeter from my spine.
04:09I have 37 scars on this body.
04:11Every single one of them was for that promise of yours.
04:14That one day, we'd walk away clean.
04:17And now he'd handed my way out to someone else and wanted me to stay behind, holding his mess together.
04:23In that moment, I knew I wouldn't spend one more day in this house.
04:29I walked to the closet and picked up the bag I'd packed long ago.
04:33It was supposed to be for tomorrow, for our clean new life.
04:37Now it was just for me.
04:40Consider that passport thrown to the dogs.
04:42She can keep the gallery, too.
04:44Victor, we're done.
04:45Enough!
04:46You're breaking up with me over a passport?
04:49Layla, you can't live without me!
04:50Outside this family, you wouldn't last a single day in this city!
04:54He was so sure this was just a tantrum.
04:56After all, for eight years, I'd guarded him like a loyal dog and never once said no.
04:59He forgot that even a loyal dog bites if you kick it enough times.
05:02I pried his fingers off my wrist, one at a time.
05:07Eight years between us ended right there, finger by finger, until nothing was left holding on.
05:14Then let's find out.
05:17That night, I thought the worst ending would be a clean goodbye.
05:20I had no idea that at the family meeting the next morning, a trial was waited for me.
05:26One staged for an audience.
05:29The next morning, the family held its regular council.
05:32I had already filed to leave, but by the rules, I had to hand over the books in front of
05:36everyone.
05:37The moment I pushed the door open, the noisy room went dead silent.
05:42Victor sat at the head of the table, his face dark.
05:45What surprised me was Lily, sitting right beside him in a pure white dress, delicate as a little white flower.
05:52That seat had been mine for eight years.
05:55Everyone's here. Let's begin.
06:02Layla, the shipment from Naples last week, why was it hijacked halfway here?
06:09I frowned. That shipment was Victor's own operation.
06:12That line was never mine to run.
06:15Not yours to run, but the lock opened with your fingerprint, and the hijackers left a mark.
06:24The same crew you used to hire.
06:29My heart sank. I turned to Victor.
06:32He kept his head down, twisting the Don's ring on his finger, refusing to look at me.
06:37In eight years, it was the first time he couldn't meet my eyes, and that's when I understood.
06:42This wasn't a council. It was a trial, and the script was already written.
06:47And right then, the little white flower opened her mouth.
06:53Please, gentlemen, don't blame Layla.
06:56Maybe she just needed the money.
06:58Only yesterday, she had a huge fight with Victor over a passport.
07:02She said she'd take the money and go somewhere far away and never come back.
07:06Listen to her.
07:07Every word begging mercy for me.
07:09Every word a knife between my ribs.
07:11I found this by accident, when I was cleaning Layla's room.
07:17It's a record of the family funds she's been moving out for six months now.
07:23The room exploded.
07:24I stared at that ledger.
07:26I made it three years ago, over sleepless nights, to cover the hole Victor gambled into the family's accounts.
07:34Only two people in this world knew about it.
07:37Me and Victor.
07:40And now it was ironclad proof that I've been stealing from the family.
07:43Victor!
07:44This is the woman you raised.
07:46She eats at this family's table and stabs it in the back.
07:48The rules of the family must be carried out.
07:50I looked at Victor, and the last faint spark left in me went out for good.
07:59Victor, is that what you believe too?
08:05The rule of the family must be carried out.
08:07The rule of the family must be carried out.
08:24Layla, the evidence is right there.
08:25I can't shield you.
08:26To settle this, you'll surrender all your authority.
08:30Suspended, pending investigation.
08:34As for your gallery in Switzerland,
08:36to keep you from moving any more assets,
08:38it goes under Lily's name for safekeeping.
08:41Lily is simple and honest.
08:43Clean business suits her.
08:45You'll stay on the front line and work off your debt.
08:47Suspended.
08:48The gallery goes to her,
08:50and I stay on the front line, catching bullets for them.
08:54Looking at that righteous face of his,
08:56I went cold.
08:58Eight years of my life,
08:59divided up and given away in three sentences.
09:03Fine.
09:04Take the authority, keep the gallery.
09:07But I'm not suspended.
09:08I quit.
09:10From this day on, I, Layla,
09:11have nothing to do with the Rosse family.
09:14Or with you, Victor.
09:19Stop right there!
09:21You think the Rosse family is a place you walk in and out of as you please?
09:25Without my protection,
09:27you think you'd survive in this city?
09:32Then don't trouble yourself over me, Godfather.
09:35As I walked out,
09:36the room behind me went dead quiet.
09:38Every one of them thought I wouldn't survive the week.
09:41And honestly,
09:42they almost won that bet.
09:48On my third night away from the estate that came for me,
09:51cheap motel on the south side.
09:53Six of them,
09:54armed to the teeth.
09:58I'd covered my tracks well.
10:00For them to find me this fast,
10:01there was only one explanation.
10:03Someone inside the family sold me out.
10:12I fought them in that narrow hallway.
10:14Every move Victor ever taught me over eight years,
10:17I spent that night on men
10:18whose orders I couldn't even trace back.
10:21The last man got his knife into my left thigh
10:24as he went down.
10:25The cut was deep.
10:27Blood came pouring out.
10:35I dragged that leg through the night
10:37out of the district.
10:38No hospital takes people like me.
10:40So I just kept walking
10:42and kept bleeding.
10:44I still clung to one last hope that night
10:46that this was just some enemy
10:48settling an old score.
10:50Then the next day,
10:51all of Sicily heard the word
10:53the Rossi family put out
10:55and I understood.
10:56The noose was only starting to tighten.
11:01The next day,
11:02the Rossi family put out the word.
11:04Layla has been cast out.
11:06Anyone who shelters her
11:07is an enemy of the family.
11:13Every one of my bank accounts was frozen.
11:15Every last card, dead.
11:20The cash and weapons in my safe house
11:22were gone too.
11:23Cleaned out ahead of time.
11:25That's the part that cut deepest.
11:27Only two people in all of Sicily
11:28knew that address.
11:29Me and Victor.
11:31I was a stray now.
11:33A dog nobody wanted.
11:34The wound in my thigh got infected
11:36and the fever took me.
11:37At its worst,
11:38I leaned against the wall
11:39and couldn't even tell
11:39which way was north.
11:40In the fever,
11:41I kept seeing the same man.
11:43One moment,
11:43he was the boy running through the rain
11:45with me bleeding in his arms.
11:46The next,
11:47he was the godfather
11:48who threw me out into it.
11:50Another day of this fever
11:50would kill me.
11:52Then I remembered someone,
11:53a back alley doctor
11:54who owed me his life.
11:56When the collectors had him cornered,
11:57I made his trouble go away
11:58and paid for his clinic myself.
12:00I thought he'd open his door for me
12:02at least once.
12:08I knocked on his back door.
12:10I saved this man eight years ago.
12:12Now,
12:12for the first time,
12:14I was the one asking.
12:21Miss Layla,
12:22don't drag me into this.
12:23Miss Lily put the word out.
12:24Anyone who treats you
12:25gets his clinic torn down.
12:28The door slammed in my face.
12:31Miss Lily,
12:31the little white flower
12:33who couldn't touch a gun
12:34was now powerful enough
12:36to close every door
12:37in this city on me.
12:40I slid down the cold brick wall
12:43into the mud.
12:44Fever,
12:45blood loss,
12:46freezing,
12:47starving.
12:48I'd be lying
12:49if I said I wasn't
12:50at the end of my rope.
12:52And at my lowest moment,
12:54headlights flooded the alley.
12:56At this hour,
12:57in this part of town,
12:59only one man rode
13:00in a black Maybach.
13:03Victor sat in the back,
13:04watching me from the shadows.
13:07Beside him sat Lily,
13:08her face full of pity.
13:10The kind of pity you wear
13:11when you've just given the order
13:12and came to watch it work.
13:17Oh, Layla,
13:18how did you let yourself
13:19end up like this?
13:22Just say sorry to Victor,
13:24won't you?
13:25He's been so worried
13:26about you these past few days.
13:30Had enough yet?
13:31Layla,
13:31you're just too stubborn.
13:33You're a woman,
13:33why keep playing tough?
13:35Apologize to Lily right now.
13:37Admit you forged the ledger
13:38and I'll take you home.
13:39I'll get that leg treated
13:40at the best private hospital,
13:42I swear.
13:42I looked up at that familiar face.
13:44Eight years.
13:46I killed for this man.
13:47I burned for him.
13:48I took knives and bullets for him.
13:50And it all came down to this.
13:52Him,
13:53forcing me to kneel
13:54and confess to another woman.
13:56Get lost.
13:58Layla,
13:59I'm handing you a way back
14:01and this is how you thank me?
14:02How much longer do you think
14:03you can last?
14:04Without me,
14:04you won't live to see
14:05the sun come up.
14:06My leg was bleeding,
14:07but I stood up straight.
14:09Some things must never bend.
14:11Bend once
14:12and they never straighten again.
14:14Victor,
14:15drop the savior act.
14:16It makes me sick.
14:18I'd rather die in a gutter
14:19and let the strays
14:19chew my bones
14:20than take one cent
14:21of your charity again.
14:24Let her go!
14:26Let's see how long
14:26she keeps that spine!
14:28He thought I'd break
14:29within days.
14:30Too bad.
14:31He never really knew me at all.
14:34I rented a damp basement
14:36in the slums,
14:36down in the black market.
14:39With the mechanics
14:40I'd learned over the years,
14:41I fixed and modified guns
14:43for men who lived in the dark.
14:45What I earned each day
14:46bought two loaves
14:47of stale bread
14:48and a handful of antibiotics.
14:50Nothing more.
14:52But I slept like a rock.
14:55No more jolting awake
14:56at 3 a.m.
14:57to guard Victor
14:58from assassins.
14:59No more bleeding myself dry
15:01for the family's messes.
15:03So this was what
15:04a full night's sleep
15:05felt like.
15:09I saved every cent
15:10for a smuggler's birch
15:11to Southeast Asia.
15:12Once I got out of here,
15:14I could start over.
15:15No godfather.
15:17No family.
15:18No little white flower.
15:20Just a little more.
15:21And I'd have enough.
15:23I thought if I stayed small,
15:25in a corner nobody could see,
15:27quietly waiting for my boat,
15:29they'd write me off as dead.
15:32But Lily, clearly,
15:34had no intention
15:35of letting me have that chance.
15:46You vicious woman.
15:47I thought you were just stubborn.
15:49I never thought you'd sink low enough
15:50to sell out the family's lifeline.
15:53And what exactly
15:55did I sell this time?
15:59Still playing innocent.
16:01Last night,
16:02the DEA took our entire ton
16:03of cocaine
16:04at the docks.
16:05Lily checked the server.
16:06You used your old backup key
16:08to send them the drop point.
16:09You're not just trying
16:10to destroy this family.
16:11You want me dead!
16:14The photo was blurry,
16:15but the figure in the trench coat
16:16did look like me.
16:17So much like me,
16:18it was as if someone
16:19had raided my closet
16:20and picked out the coat themselves.
16:21Victor,
16:22I've been gone
16:23for over half a month.
16:24I can barely feed myself.
16:26Where would I find the time
16:27to care whether you people
16:27live or die?
16:28And you're still buying
16:29her clumsy lives?
16:31The proof is right here,
16:32and you still won't admit it.
16:34Layla,
16:35I know you hate me
16:35for taking your place,
16:36but you can't gamble
16:38with the lives
16:38of thousands of our men.
16:39Hand over the list
16:40of police informants,
16:42and maybe Victor
16:42will at least let you die quick.
16:45I didn't argue,
16:47because I knew one thing.
16:49There is no point
16:50explaining anything
16:50to a man who is only
16:52pretending to be asleep.
16:56Pull the trigger.
16:57You've already decided
16:58it was me, haven't you?
16:59So shoot.
17:01Avenge your family.
17:03He hadn't expected that.
17:05The muzzle pressed
17:06a red ring into my temple,
17:08but his finger
17:09never moved on the trigger.
17:11You think I don't dare
17:12kill you?
17:14Oh, you dare.
17:16But you're a coward.
17:17You don't have the guts
17:17to admit you picked wrong.
17:19All you dare to do
17:20is dump the blame on me.
17:24Killing you
17:25would dirty my hands.
17:27From this day on,
17:28the Rosso family
17:29has nothing to do with you.
17:30Killing you
17:31would dirty my hands.
17:32I filed that sentence away.
17:34One day, Victor,
17:35I would hand it
17:36right back to him,
17:37word for word.
17:41She mouthed the words at me.
17:43You.
17:44Lost.
17:45I didn't bother responding.
17:47People who declare victory
17:48halfway through the game
17:49usually never see
17:50how they die.
17:53Once they were gone,
17:54the first thing I did
17:55was go to that loose tile
17:56under my bed.
17:57This city was done with me,
17:58and I was done with it.
18:06Under that tile
18:07was every cent I'd saved
18:09and a smuggler's ticket
18:10to Bangkok,
18:11leaving before dawn.
18:13They smashed my bed
18:15and flipped my worktaj,
18:16but not one of them
18:17thought to check the floor
18:18under their boots.
18:21At three in the morning,
18:22I carried a beat-up canvas bag
18:24onto that boat
18:25reeking of fish.
18:27Eight years ago,
18:28I fought at Victor's side
18:30to take this harbor.
18:32Eight years later,
18:34I was slipping out
18:35of the same harbor
18:36like discarded cargo.
18:38The boat pulled away,
18:40and the lights of Sicily
18:41slowly sank
18:42into the dark water
18:43behind me.
18:44I didn't cry.
18:45Whatever tears I had,
18:47I'd use them all up
18:48the day of that council meeting.
18:50I stood on the deck,
18:51looking at the rosy estate
18:52glowing on the hillside.
18:54Every one of those lights
18:55had once burned
18:56through my sleepless nights.
18:57Now they lit someone else's
18:58sweet dreams.
18:59Victor.
19:01Lily.
19:02You'd better pray
19:03you never see me again
19:04in this life.
19:05That night,
19:06everyone thought
19:07this story was over,
19:09Victor included.
19:10What he didn't know
19:11was that the nights
19:12that would truly keep him awake
19:13were only about to begin.
19:18I only learned later
19:19that on the night
19:20I boarded that boat,
19:21Victor sat in his study
19:23waiting.
19:25All night long.
19:30Has she come back
19:31to apologize yet?
19:33Godfather.
19:34Godfather,
19:34the basement is empty.
19:36Miss Layla is
19:36gone.
19:40What do you mean,
19:41gone?
19:42We turned the whole slum
19:43inside out.
19:44Nothing.
19:45She may have
19:45already left Sicily.
19:48Impossible!
19:49She's penniless.
19:51Her leg is wounded.
19:52I froze her accounts.
19:53Where could she possibly go?
20:01He stood over
20:02that empty hole,
20:03eyes shot through
20:04with red.
20:05I had chosen
20:06to live in that rat hole,
20:07fixing guns for the
20:08black market
20:09rather than bow to him
20:10even an inch.
20:11And now I'd taken
20:12every cent I'd
20:12scratched together
20:13and vanished.
20:15He couldn't name
20:16the feeling.
20:17It was as if a piece
20:18of his heart
20:18had been corved out,
20:20raw,
20:20and the wind was
20:21blowing straight
20:22through the hole.
20:25The docks,
20:26the train station,
20:28the airport.
20:29Use every contact
20:29we have.
20:30Turn Sicily upside down
20:31if you have to,
20:32but bring her back
20:32to me.
20:39Turn Sicily upside down.
20:41Too bad.
20:42I was no longer
20:43in Sicily.
20:46Three days passed.
20:48They found nothing.
20:49I had vanished
20:50off the face of the
20:51earth without leaving
20:52so much as a shadow
20:53behind.
20:58Vic, you haven't slept
20:59in two days.
21:00Have some warm milk
21:01and rest a little.
21:08Leave it there
21:09and go.
21:11Are you still upset
21:12about Layla?
21:14She's the one
21:15who betrayed the family.
21:16It's not your fault.
21:18Don't destroy yourself
21:19over her.
21:20It's all right
21:21that she's gone.
21:22Lily will stay
21:23by your side.
21:24Always.
21:34Get out.
21:40Vic?
21:41Get out!
21:42I said get out!
21:43Don't make me say it
21:44a third time!
21:56Layla?
21:57Where the hell
21:58are you?
22:07Godfather,
22:08the Marco crew
22:09has locked down
22:09our channel in Naples.
22:11They demand to see you
22:12in person.
22:13Otherwise,
22:13the whole arms shipment
22:14goes to the bottom
22:15of the sea!
22:16No perfume can cover
22:17the smell of blood.
22:18And for a Rossi family
22:19without me,
22:20the troubles were only
22:21starting to line up.
22:24With the Naples channel
22:25locked down,
22:26Victor had no choice
22:27but to negotiate
22:28in person.
22:28And sitting across
22:29from him was the
22:30Rossi family's
22:30oldest rival,
22:31Marco.
22:32Victor,
22:33Layla used to
22:34handle these talks.
22:36Now you're
22:37showing up yourself.
22:38Looks like the
22:39Rossi family really
22:40has run out of people.
22:43Release the shipment.
22:45You'll be paid.
22:46The standard rate.
22:47Standard rate?
22:48Layla's gone.
22:50Time for new rules.
22:52For this shipment,
22:53I want 30% more.
22:56Back in the day,
22:57I would have
22:57flipped that table
22:58and dealt with
22:59the ring here
22:59the quick way.
23:02But he couldn't.
23:03With trouble inside
23:05and outside the family,
23:06he needed those guns
23:07to keep his restless
23:08old men in line.
23:1020.
23:14When he signed,
23:16something fouged
23:16itself in Victor's chest.
23:19He couldn't swallow it,
23:20couldn't spit it out.
23:21It was the first time
23:22since taking the
23:23Don's chair that he
23:24had lowered his head
23:25at a negotiating table.
23:27Go home and ask
23:28yourself,
23:29now that you've
23:29lost that woman,
23:31what exactly does
23:32the Rossi family
23:33have left?
23:37The answer to that question
23:39would land on his desk
23:40soon enough,
23:41in the form of a
23:42financial report
23:43he couldn't even read.
23:49Back at the estate,
23:50the butler brought in
23:51the month's financial report.
23:54Losses across the board.
23:56The businesses he was so proud of
23:58were shrinking fast,
23:59now that I wasn't there
24:00running them.
24:02And the old men
24:03who used to fear me
24:04were now stuffing
24:05their own pockets
24:05in broad daylight.
24:07No one dared before,
24:09because I held
24:10every one of their
24:11dirty secrets
24:12in my hand.
24:15Get the finance chief
24:16in here!
24:17Godfather,
24:18you had the finance chief's
24:19legs broken last month.
24:21He's still in the hospital.
24:22He'd forgotten.
24:23Last month,
24:24the man was caught
24:25cooking the books,
24:26and Victor had him
24:27dealt with by
24:27the family's rules.
24:28Before,
24:29it was me who
24:29untangled every one
24:30of those accounts
24:31through the night
24:31and laid them out
24:32clean on his desk.
24:33All he ever had to do
24:34was read the bottom line
24:35and sign.
24:36Now he struggled
24:37just to spot the holes
24:38in those numbers.
24:40The empire he took
24:41such pride in
24:41had been carried
24:42on someone else's shoulders.
24:44From the very beginning.
24:50Godfather,
24:51the DEA bust.
24:53We found something.
24:54The last straw
24:55was about to land.
25:02We caught the informant.
25:04We applied some pressure,
25:05and he talked.
25:06He said the tip
25:07never came from Miss Layla.
25:10Then who?
25:11The call was made
25:12from inside this estate,
25:14ten minutes before
25:15the handoff,
25:15and that extension line
25:17runs straight into
25:18Miss Lily's bedroom.
25:21Inside the estate,
25:23ten minutes before
25:24the handoff,
25:25Lily's bedroom.
25:26Put those three together
25:27and the answer
25:28burned the eyes.
25:29Yet he stared at that line
25:30for a long, long time.
25:32Overturning a verdict
25:33you handed down yourself
25:34is harder than
25:35killing a man.
25:36Every tear he had
25:37believed in now
25:38tasted different.
25:40If the tip
25:41never came from me,
25:42then whose work
25:43was that ledger?
25:44The backup key?
25:45Lily, the figure
25:46in the trench coat?
25:50Bring me Lily's computer.
25:52Now.
25:57Ten minutes later,
25:59his tech man
26:00would dig a truth
26:00out of that computer.
26:02A truth that would
26:03make him wish
26:04he were dead.
26:07Ten minutes later,
26:08Victor was staring
26:09at the hidden files
26:10his tech man
26:11had recovered.
26:12Item one,
26:12a complete trail
26:14of logins
26:14into the DEA's
26:15internal network.
26:17And then there was
26:18the ledger,
26:19the famous proof
26:20that I stole
26:21from the family,
26:22forged three months
26:23earlier,
26:24stroke by stroke,
26:25in a graphics program.
26:26Three months.
26:27Back when she was
26:28still bringing him
26:29warm milk every night,
26:30calling him Vic.
26:32They even pulled
26:33Lily's fingerprints
26:34off the printer.
26:36The chain of evidence
26:37was complete.
26:38Only this time,
26:40it wasn't me
26:41it nailed to the wall.
26:44Oh, you dare.
26:46But you're a coward.
26:47You don't have the guts
26:48to admit you picked wrong.
26:50My voice played
26:51in his head
26:51over and over,
26:53slicing at his nerves
26:55like a blade.
26:56And he finally
26:57admitted it.
26:59What he'd misjudged
27:00wasn't me.
27:02It was his own heart.
27:03Go.
27:04Drag her here.
27:10Three months
27:10of careful scheming
27:11read through
27:12in two minutes.
27:13Now it was
27:14the little white flower's
27:15turn to taste
27:15what she had prepared
27:16for me.
27:24Vic?
27:25You wanted to see me?
27:35explain.
27:39I don't know
27:40what these are.
27:41Someone is framing me.
27:48Still lying.
27:50You really think
27:51I think I'm blind.
27:56I did it all for you.
27:58Layla was too strong.
28:00Everyone knew her name.
28:01Nobody knew yours.
28:03I just wanted her gone
28:05so you could be
28:05the real godfather.
28:07I couldn't stand
28:08watching you live
28:09in her shadow.
28:12look at that.
28:13The same old recipe.
28:14Tears, kneeling,
28:15and one line.
28:17I did it all for you.
28:18Too bad this time.
28:20Her only audience
28:21had already read the script.
28:22For me?
28:23You did it for the money.
28:25For your own greed.
28:30Take her.
28:31Destroy both her hands.
28:33She never wanted
28:34to touch a gun,
28:34did she?
28:38You can't do this to me!
28:39I'm your Lily!
28:40You promised
28:41to take me to Switzerland!
28:43Victor!
28:44You liar!
28:52Layla,
28:54I wronged you.
28:55His apology
28:56didn't come too late,
28:57exactly.
28:58It just went
28:59to an empty room.
29:00At that moment,
29:01I was on another shore,
29:02meeting the man
29:03who would flip
29:04the whole board.
29:07Meanwhile,
29:08I limped down
29:08the gangway,
29:10and there was Marco,
29:11waiting by a black SUV.
29:13The Rossi family's
29:14biggest headache
29:15for years,
29:16and the largest
29:16arms dealer in Sicily
29:18after Victor himself.
29:20You're late.
29:22There's a clean identity,
29:23and enough cash in there
29:24to keep you alive
29:25for a year.
29:30Why help me?
29:32The enemy of my enemy
29:33is my friend.
29:34You spent eight years
29:35winning his territory
29:35for him,
29:36and he just cut off
29:36his own right arm.
29:38Sicily is due
29:38for a new owner.
29:39Work with me,
29:40and we'll swallow
29:41the Rossi family whole.
29:42After you, miss.
29:44I studied him.
29:45This man dealt in profit,
29:47not feelings,
29:48which made him
29:49exactly the kind of man
29:50you could trust.
29:51Feelings change,
29:52profit doesn't.
29:53Eight years ago,
29:54I'd bet on a man
29:55who talked about love.
29:56This time,
29:57I'd bet on one
29:57who talked numbers.
30:03One year.
30:04Give me one year
30:04to heal.
30:06Then I'll carve your way
30:07back into Sicily.
30:13Outside the window,
30:15a strange city
30:15rushed past.
30:16My legs still ached,
30:18but the ledger in my head
30:19was already open,
30:21and on its first page
30:22were two names.
30:23Victor spent that year
30:24searching Sicily for me.
30:26What he didn't know
30:27was that
30:28I never planned
30:29to hide forever.
30:30I was just
30:31sharpening the knife.
30:34One year later,
30:36Victor's estate
30:37was surrounded,
30:38ringed tight
30:38by black SUVs.
30:42Inside,
30:43more than half
30:44the family's elders
30:45had already fled.
30:46The few who remained
30:47sat on the sofas,
30:49gray-faced,
30:50waiting for the end.
30:51Godfather,
30:52we can't hold.
30:52They took the South Channel
30:54yesterday,
30:54and every venue
30:55in the North District
30:56today.
30:56Our cash flow is dead.
30:58We can't pay the men's
30:59family money anymore.
31:00Seventy percent of them
31:01are gone.
31:05Who the hell are they?
31:07All that year,
31:08a nameless new force
31:10had been swallowing
31:10the Rosso territory
31:11piece by piece,
31:13like a snake.
31:14Whoever they were,
31:15they knew the family's
31:16operations and hidden
31:17lines inside out.
31:19Every strike landed
31:20exactly on a vital point.
31:24Someone who knows
31:26our hidden lines,
31:27knows them this well.
31:30In all of Sicily,
31:31there's only...
31:32Only one person alive
31:34knew the Rosso family's
31:35weak points by heart.
31:37He didn't dare finish
31:38the thought.
31:40Or rather,
31:41he hadn't earned
31:42the right point.
31:47Outside,
31:48the ones drawing
31:49the net shut
31:50had arrived.
31:56two muffled gunshots
31:58outside.
32:01The door guards
32:02dropped,
32:03and the last door
32:04of the Rosso family
32:05had no one left
32:05to hold it.
32:12Victor,
32:13we meet again.
32:14Looks like open today,
32:15the Rosso family
32:17becomes history.
32:20Marco,
32:21you think
32:21that handful of men
32:23can swallow
32:24my whole family?
32:26You choke to death on it.
32:33Oh, my appetite's
32:34not that big.
32:36The one swallowing you
32:37today
32:38isn't me.
32:41I'm just here
32:42to lend a hand.
32:43In that moment,
32:44the hall was so quiet,
32:46you could hear
32:47every heartbeat in it.
32:50Boot heels rang out
32:51on the marble floor.
32:53This walk
32:54took me a whole year.
32:56from that muddy alley
32:58to that cold deck
32:59to today.
33:02Walking through the rain,
33:04back into the estate
33:06I built
33:06with my own hands.
33:08That face.
33:10The face Victor
33:11had spent
33:12an entire year
33:13searching for.
33:22The cruelest way
33:23to find someone.
33:26is to have her
33:26come to you
33:28with guns.
33:33Leila.
33:35I knew you'd
33:36never abandon me.
33:37You came back
33:38for me,
33:39didn't you?
33:43Where were you
33:43this past year?
33:45I searched for you
33:45everywhere.
33:46I turned all of Sicily
33:47upside down.
33:48I was here
33:49the whole time.
33:51You're back.
33:52That's all that matters.
33:53I found out everything
33:54about Lily.
33:55She forged the ledger.
33:57She tipped off the DEA.
33:58I destroyed her hands
33:59and threw her out.
34:01Leila,
34:01I avenged you.
34:02Leila,
34:03I avenged you.
34:04He offered those words up
34:05like a gift,
34:06but he'd forgotten
34:07who did the wronging
34:08in the first place.
34:09When the executioner
34:10turns around
34:10asking for credit,
34:12what kind of vengeance
34:12is that?
34:13Don't look at me like that.
34:15I know you're still angry.
34:17The passport,
34:18the gallery,
34:18I got them all back.
34:19They're in the study safe
34:20and the name on them
34:22is yours.
34:23Again.
34:27You want this seat,
34:28don't you?
34:28That's why you teamed up
34:29with Marco all year,
34:30to make me bow?
34:32You don't need all that,
34:33Leila.
34:35Just take me back
34:36and I'll hand you
34:37the Godfather's seat
34:38right now.
34:40I'll be your second,
34:41the way you wear mine.
34:43Whatever you say,
34:44I'll obey.
34:44All right?
34:48You'll give the seat to me?
34:51Yes!
34:52Yes!
34:53We'll do the handover
34:53right now!
34:56Handing it over.
34:57How generous of him.
34:59And now,
35:00in front of everyone,
35:01I was going to tell him
35:02the one truth
35:03he couldn't bear to face.
35:09Victor,
35:10aren't you forgetting something?
35:12You're not giving me
35:13the seat.
35:15You just can't hold it anymore.
35:19Your smuggling lines
35:20have been dead
35:20for three months.
35:21The arms dealers in Napoli
35:22cut you off
35:23half a years ago.
35:24Your south district
35:25is swept,
35:26your north strongholds
35:27are gone,
35:28and the family vault
35:29can't even cover
35:29next month's severance
35:30for the men.
35:32You never could run
35:33this family.
35:34I...
35:34It was me
35:35who balanced your books
35:36through the night.
35:37Me who closed
35:38every negotiation
35:39with a gun
35:39to someone's head.
35:41Me who held
35:41every elder's
35:42dirty secret
35:43in my fist
35:44for you.
35:44You thought
35:45you were a born godfather,
35:46but you were just
35:47a dog I kept
35:48on a leash.
35:49One I used
35:49for biting.
35:51The moment
35:52I let go
35:52of the leash,
35:54you couldn't
35:55even find the door.
35:57Leia,
35:57how can you say that?
35:58What,
35:59the truth too loud
36:00for you?
36:06And you?
36:08Planning to die
36:09with him?
36:14Miss Leila,
36:17every line I run
36:18is yours to command.
36:21Miss Leila,
36:22we pledge ourselves
36:23to you.
36:23You!
36:24I am the godfather!
36:26I'm not dead yet!
36:30Victor,
36:31with Miss Leila,
36:32this family eats.
36:33With you,
36:35we all go
36:35to the bottom
36:36of the sea
36:37together.
36:39Rules are rules.
36:41Abandoned by everyone,
36:43this is what it looks like.
36:45But we weren't done yet.
36:47He still owed me
36:48one more debt,
36:49one he couldn't imagine,
36:51even in his worst nightmare.
37:00Do you really hate me
37:01that much?
37:02No.
37:03I'm just here
37:04to take back
37:04what's mine.
37:05Eight years.
37:06We fought stray dogs
37:07over half a loaf of bread
37:09in the slums.
37:10You took knives for me.
37:11I taught you to shoot.
37:12You said we'd walk away clean,
37:13together.
37:14I was blind,
37:15just once.
37:15I thought you were
37:16strong enough
37:17to wait for me.
37:18Leila,
37:18you're all I have left.
37:19Give me one chance.
37:21I'll spend the rest
37:21of my life atoning.
37:23Victor,
37:23do you remember
37:23that alley
37:24on the south side
37:25a year ago?
37:26You parked your car
37:27in front of me,
37:28with Lily at your side.
37:30You came to watch me beg,
37:32like a dog,
37:33wagging its tail
37:34at your feet.
37:35No!
37:36I was just angry.
37:37I wanted to make you yield.
37:39I had a first aid kit
37:40in the car.
37:40I was ready
37:41to bandage you myself.
37:43Do you know why
37:43I was burning
37:44with fever that day?
37:45Because of the child
37:46I was carrying.
37:47I was pregnant,
37:48Victor.
37:49Two months.
37:52I'd planned to tell him
37:53the day of that council meeting.
37:54We were supposed
37:55to walk away clean
37:56right after
37:56and the news
37:57was going to be
37:57my celebration gift.
37:59Instead,
38:00he stood it in front
38:00of everyone
38:01and called me a traitor
38:02who bit the hand
38:03that fed her
38:03and stripped me
38:04of my place.
38:05He let Lily leak
38:06my location to killers.
38:07I jumped from a window
38:08and fought them
38:09in the pouring rain,
38:10soaked through
38:11the whole night.
38:12In that alley,
38:13my leg was bleeding
38:15and so was I
38:16underneath.
38:17I leaned on that wall
38:18because I couldn't
38:18even stand.
38:19The child lost
38:20its warmth inside me
38:21little by little.
38:22Alone in that basement,
38:24I boiled the water myself.
38:25I cleaned it up myself.
38:26No antibiotics,
38:27no anesthetic,
38:28and I burned with fever
38:29for three days.
38:33What have I done?
38:34What have I done?
38:35What have I done?
38:42For one scheming
38:43little actress,
38:44you killed your own child
38:45with your own hands.
38:47You drove the only person
38:48who ever loved you
38:49with everything she had
38:50to the edge.
38:51Victor,
38:52a man like you
38:52deserves to be alone
38:53until the day he dies.
38:55I was wrong.
38:56I was so wrong.
38:58Layla,
38:59kill me.
39:00Shoot me yourself.
39:01Avenge our child.
39:02killing you
39:03would dirty my hands.
39:05His own words,
39:06the ones he threw
39:07at me back then.
39:08Today I handed them back,
39:10word for word.
39:14It's yours.
39:23Victor was dead.
39:24Looking at his body,
39:26I remembered the boy
39:27who once shielded me
39:27behind his back,
39:28and one tear fell.
39:30But three seconds later,
39:32I opened my eyes again.
39:36Clean this place up.
39:38Yes, Godfather.
39:42Can't say he didn't earn it.
39:43Here's to our partnership.
39:45Report business.
39:47I take 60%.
39:48Your men never fired
39:49a single shot.
39:50Say no and you don't
39:51walk out that door today.
39:55Have it your way.
39:5660.
39:5760.
40:0160.
40:0160.
40:0360.
40:0460.
40:0860.
40:10Godfather.
40:11From this day on,
40:13the Rossi family
40:13answers to me.
40:15Eight years taught me loyalty.
40:17One year taught me goodbye.
40:18From now on,
40:19I am loyal to no one
40:20but myself.
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