00:00You have until sunrise to decide whether you sign that folder or whether the next feed you watch
00:06is not sleeping. I'll sign. He has my brother. There's nothing to think about. Maya, no. No.
00:15A sensible young woman. I find that refreshing. Maya, don't sign anything yet. Give me 60 seconds.
00:23Guest wing. Second floor. Rumor joining the nursery. I need eyes on Tommy Reyes right now,
00:27and I need to know if there's an unauthorized individual in that room. Confirmed. Negative.
00:33Tommy Reyes is alone in the room. No unauthorized personnel detected. Repeat. The room is empty of
00:40any additional occupant. It's recorded footage. Not live. Not difficult at all. I just had palace
00:48security. Physically enter that room. Tommy is alone. Asleep. Exactly as he's been all night.
00:55Whatever you're showing, Maya is a loop or old footage or something staged entirely.
01:01A clever accusation. Difficult to disprove from where you're standing. The blanket.
01:07Tommy kicks it off in his sleep every single night. In this footage, it hasn't moved at all
01:13since you showed it to me. You have a sharp eye, Miss Reyes. I apologize for the theatrics.
01:18I find fear is often more efficient than patience, though clearly less reliable against people who
01:25actually pay attention. A test. I wish to know how quickly Miss Reyes would surrender and how quickly
01:31the rest of you would catch my bluff. Both answers prove useful. So there's no threat to Tommy.
01:38You tried to manipulate her with a lie. Useful for what? For understanding exactly how much actual
01:45leverage remains at my disposal, now that my brother is imprisoned, my chosen chancellor exposed,
01:51and my inside source apparently no longer willing to perform her duties convincingly.
01:57If the threat was fake, then why come here at all? Why risk exposing yourself after twenty years of
02:04hiding? A fair question, Princess. The truth is simpler than any of you likely expect.
02:11I came because Marguerite's hearing tomorrow threatens something I have protected for two decades
02:17far more carefully than any trade fraud. What's that? My own name, attached to nothing,
02:25associated with no scandal, no crime, no family embarrassment whatsoever. I have spent twenty years
02:33ensuring the entire architecture of this fraud, pointed only toward Lawrence, toward Bertrand,
02:39toward anyone but myself. I know, which is precisely why I nearly didn't come at all.
02:45But then I considered something troubling. People under pressure change their minds. Marguerite.
02:51Attorneys negotiate. Judges ask questions no one anticipates. I preferred certainty to hope.
02:58I already told the family I intend to accept the harshest sentence available. I never planned to name you
03:05tomorrow. So you threatened an innocent child to buy silence you already had. I threatened a bluff to
03:12confirm I still had it. And I believe I have my answer now, regardless. Marguerite. Will you name
03:20me tomorrow, or will you not? I spent twenty years building leverage to force a family to finally tell
03:27the truth about the people it hid. I will not spend my final act protecting the one man who has
03:33hidden
03:33more successfully than anyone in this entire story. He would destroy everything you've already secured
03:38for Edmund and Sophia simply to expose me. Then I'm afraid we have reached an impasse that cannot end
03:46peacefully. Edmund and Sophia's recognition is already written into Belmore law. No sentencing hearing
03:53can undo a council vote already passed. You have nothing left to threaten me with, Victor,
04:00except my own comfort. And I have made my peace with sacrificing that a long time ago. Everyone
04:06stay calm, Victor. You came here without an army, large enough to take a house full of armed people
04:12in broad daylight, with a crown phone line open, and palace security already alerted to your location
04:20through that same call. Whatever you intended when you arrived, I'd suggest you reconsider it now.
04:26You're right. Of course, this was never meant to end in violence, merely in persuasion.
04:32I will see you all tomorrow morning, I expect, at the hearing.
04:36Why didn't you leave with him?
04:38Because I'm done. I have been done for a long time, Maya. I just didn't know how to stop.
04:44If I do that, he'll kill me before the hearing even begins. He has people everywhere, Maya. People
04:50you'd never suspect. Then help us. Testify. Tell the council everything you know about Victor,
04:56about the network, about everything you've done. Tell your friend that silence is always paid better
05:03than courage. Ask Reverend Cain. Ask Dr. Whitmore. Ask anyone who has ever tried to speak against me,
05:10and live long enough to regret it. Coming up in episode 39. Speak against me. With Victor's reach
05:18extending further than anyone realized, the family must find a way to protect every witness
05:24willing to testify before the hearing even begins.
