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00:00Her ex-husband invited her to his engagement party just to watch her cry,
00:03but she walked in with a plan, hit subscribe and turn on the bell story,
00:07and tell me in the comments where you're watching from tonight.
00:10To Saturday and to us, and to the merger that makes this family untouchable.
00:16To us, my love. I still can't believe it's finally happening.
00:24Claire Hayes, Grant, that's your ex-wife on our guest list.
00:27Front table, right where everyone can watch her cry.
00:30Why would you even want her there on our special night?
00:35Because three years ago, she stole two million dollars from my company.
00:41Half of Westbrook still pities her, and I'm sick of it.
00:45Let them see her in a thrift store dress at table one.
00:48That sounds cruel, Grant, even for someone who hurt you.
00:52It's closure, sweetheart. Nothing more. Go and try on the gown.
01:00She never touched that money. You know it, and I know it.
01:04But after Saturday, nobody will ever believe she didn't.
01:08Yes, Mr. Ashford. I understand exactly what you want.
01:13Hand deliver it yourself. I want to hear exactly how her face looked.
01:23Four minutes and 12 seconds. That's everything I need. Please let this be enough.
01:27Ashford. He expects a reply by Friday at the latest.
01:31Tell him I wouldn't miss it for the world.
01:34The engagement of Grant Ashford and Vanessa Sterling.
01:38Saturday at Westbrook Country Club. Table one.
01:41Of course he gave me table one.
01:46You getting on, miss, or are you waiting on the next one?
01:49Yes, I'm getting on. I've got ten days and a lot of work to do.
01:56Ten days, Grant. That's all I need. And this time I'm ready for you.
02:03Table one. He wants you up front. So the whole room can laugh at you.
02:08Rosa, breathe, please. Think about your blood pressure.
02:11That man took your house, your name, and your career,
02:14and now he wants your dignity for dessert?
02:17You're actually going in what? That uniform?
02:22Every morning you stare at that glass tower across the street.
02:25What are you waiting for, mija?
02:28The right morning, Rosa. Just the right morning.
02:34Here's your coffee, sir. Can I get you anything else tonight?
02:43Six in the morning.
02:45The bench.
02:46All right, then. I'll be there.
02:51Who was that man, Claire, and what did he leave you?
02:54Just a customer, Rosa.
02:56A very generous tipper.
03:01Sterling Capital's legal team confirmed.
03:03The signing happens Saturday at the party, right after the toasts.
03:07Two hundred million dollars.
03:09Mr. Sterling also insists on an independent audit before he signs.
03:12The firm is called CH Advisory.
03:14And they'll present at the party.
03:15Let them present. Our books are spotless.
03:17You made sure of that.
03:21That ledger you fixed three years ago is buried deep.
03:24Every record in this building says Claire moved that money.
03:27Not me. Her.
03:29Mr. Ashford, the money went to Ashcombe Holdings.
03:32If anyone ever traces Ashcombe...
03:34Nobody traces Ashcombe, Lauren.
03:36Nobody ever will.
03:41And if they did,
03:43whose handwriting is on those pages?
03:44Yours?
03:45Whose login altered the entries?
03:47Yours?
03:49You told me it was temporary.
03:51You swore you'd put it back.
03:53And you said yes because I paid your mother's hospital bills.
03:59We're partners, Lauren, so remember this.
04:01If I fall, you fall first.
04:07He'll never stop.
04:09He'll ruin me the moment it suits him.
04:12I can't keep doing this.
04:17Laundromat at 11.
04:18Bring everything.
04:19All right then.
04:19Tonight it is.
04:25He said it, Claire.
04:26Word for word, she never touched that money.
04:29Good.
04:30That's exactly what we needed from him.
04:32I recorded it on my phone in the bridal suite.
04:34All four minutes.
04:36And the invitation?
04:37Did it go the way we planned?
04:40Exactly like you said,
04:41I told him it'd be a shame
04:42if you weren't there there to see how well he'd done.
04:44He circled your name himself.
04:46He honestly thinks it was his own idea, Claire.
04:50He honestly thinks it was his own idea, Claire.
04:54The original ledger, before I changed it.
04:57The real one with the transfer codes to Ashcombe.
05:00I can't.
05:01Lauren, you know what happens to you when this comes out.
05:03You signed away everything because he said I'd testify against you.
05:06I was a coward.
05:08He's dangerous, Claire.
05:09If he finds out about this, he'll destroy me.
05:11He won't find out.
05:13Not until Saturday.
05:14I promise you that.
05:18Go home a different way tonight.
05:20And don't call me from your phone.
05:22I won't.
05:22I'll wait for your message.
05:24Be careful.
05:27Oh, they're beautiful white peonies.
05:30Are these from you?
05:31Of course, darling.
05:32Only the best for you.
05:37Grant, I'll be honest with you.
05:39Before I hand $200 million to any man,
05:42and my daughter,
05:43I like to know his history.
05:47So tell me about your first wife,
05:49and don't leave anything out.
05:52Claire, I loved her.
05:53I truly did love her.
05:58But $200 million vanished,
05:59and her fingerprints were on every entry.
06:01I didn't press charges.
06:02I just let her go.
06:04That was generous of you, Grant.
06:05Very generous indeed.
06:07I'd like to think so, Richard.
06:08I'm not a vengeful man.
06:11My auditors will present at the party.
06:13If the books are clean,
06:15you'll have my money and my blessing.
06:17They'll be clean, Richard.
06:18You have my word.
06:25Grant, can I ask you something quickly?
06:27Who owns Ashcombe?
06:32A vendor, a concrete supplier.
06:35Why do you ask, sweetheart?
06:36No reason.
06:37It's just something I heard somewhere.
06:41Wedding gossip, Richard?
06:42People love to talk before a big day.
06:45They certainly do, Grant.
06:46And I always listen carefully.
06:53Mother of God.
06:54Claire, what is all of this?
06:57Three years of my life, Rosa.
06:58Every single night of it.
07:00Three years of this?
07:01But you're a waitress, honey.
07:03Before Grant, I was a forensic accountant.
07:05Fraud and shell companies.
07:09He said his wife didn't need to work, so I quit and kept his books for free.
07:13And then he turned around and said you stole from him.
07:17He moved two million into a shell company called Ashcombe Holdings.
07:22When I found the gap, I asked him about it.
07:25Two weeks later, I was the thief.
07:29Why didn't you fight him, Claire?
07:30Why did you just walk away?
07:33All I had was a suspicion, and he had a forged ledger with my name on it.
07:38So I took the worst deal of my life and left with one suitcase.
07:42And now, honey, what's changed now?
07:47Now I have the real ledger.
07:48And the man who's about to give him two hundred million dollars is listening.
07:56The man with the white card.
07:57The one in the diner.
07:58That's him, and I can't be late.
08:00Not today.
08:04You're early, Miss Hayes.
08:06I like that in a person.
08:08You taught me that.
08:09Four months ago, when I mailed you that envelope.
08:12You replied in nine minutes.
08:14I timed it, Mr. Sterling.
08:15An anonymous letter calling my future son-in-law a thief.
08:18With codes I could verify you had my attention.
08:23And now, Mr. Sterling, where do we stand now?
08:25Now my auditor, CH advisory, Claire Hayes advisory, has confirmed every word.
08:31And he still thinks you're pouring coffee in a diner.
08:36Across the street from your office, I picked that diner on purpose.
08:40I picked everything on purpose.
08:42Every single step of it.
08:44Then answer the question I've been asking myself.
08:46Why not go to the police?
08:48Men like Grant don't quiet rooms.
08:50He'd bury it and call me a bitter ex-wife.
08:52He only falls in front of the crowd that watched him ruin me.
08:55My daughter will be standing in that crowd, Miss Hayes.
08:59Your daughter is about to marry him.
09:00Saturday isn't just about your money.
09:02It's about her life.
09:04If you're wrong about this, I lose her trust forever.
09:08And if I'm right, Mr. Sterling, you get to keep her.
09:16He hired a private investigator.
09:18He has photos.
09:19Oh no, Lauren.
09:21What is it, Miss Hayes?
09:22What's happened?
09:24Grant has photos of us.
09:26He knows Lauren met me.
09:30Your assistant, meeting your ex-wife in a laundromat at midnight.
09:34Lauren, after everything I paid for, she crawls to Claire.
09:38What did she hand over to her, Grant?
09:39Do you know?
09:41I don't know yet, but I'll know by noon.
09:46Don't let that woman embarrass this family twice.
09:49I won't survive it again.
09:51She won't, Mother.
09:52I promise you that.
09:55There's no concrete supplier called Ashcomb, Grant.
09:58But there's an Ashcomb Holdings in the Cayman Islands.
10:02Why are you checking up on my vendors, Vanessa?
10:05I'm not checking up on you.
10:07Someone sent me a card.
10:09It's Claire.
10:10She's jealous and desperate.
10:12Don't let her inside your head.
10:14But I've never even met her, Grant.
10:16Not once.
10:17I'm sorry.
10:18It's just wetting nerves.
10:22Forget Ashcomb and forget her.
10:24Saturday is ours.
10:29Jealous and desperate.
10:32Then why does it scare you so much, Grant?
10:38Going somewhere, Lauren?
10:39In such a hurry?
10:41Mr. Ashford, I didn't see you there.
10:43I was just leaving.
10:46Funny thing, Lauren.
10:47I thought you took your breaks at laundromats.
10:50That's not what it looks like.
10:51I swear to you.
10:55What did you give her?
10:56Tell me right now.
10:58Nothing.
10:59I didn't give her anything.
11:00I promise.
11:05Don't you dare lie to me.
11:06Not after everything I've done for you.
11:09Let me guess.
11:10A copy.
11:11How very thoughtful of you.
11:13Please.
11:14That's the only proof.
11:15You told me to change the ledger.
11:19Then it's mine now.
11:20And you're fired.
11:22Go near Claire again and I'll tell the police my assistant forged financial records.
11:27You'd go down right alongside me, Grant.
11:31Lauren, I have the best lawyers in New York.
11:33And you have a hatchback.
11:35Your mother's in the hospital again, isn't she?
11:37It'd be a shame if the bills stopped being paid.
11:45You took the drive.
11:47But you forgot the cloud.
11:48You always forget the small things.
11:53Do you have any proof of this extortion, Mr. Ashford?
11:57My investigator caught them exchanging files at a laundromat.
12:01Pick her up before Saturday.
12:03Come to my party at Westbrook.
12:04I'd like you close by.
12:06I'll be there, Mr. Ashford.
12:07Count on it.
12:12Police came with a warrant and took everything off your wall.
12:15Then a lawyer paid me to make sure you're gone.
12:17Sorry, lady.
12:19They took the whole wall?
12:21All of it?
12:22Everything?
12:22Every inch of it, lady.
12:24I'm real sorry.
12:28Rosa, what's wrong?
12:30Why are you crying?
12:31Health inspectors shut me down, Claire.
12:33An anonymous complaint.
12:3622 years, Micha, and they padlocked my door.
12:39Grant.
12:40Of course it was Grant.
12:43You can take my wall and you can take my home.
12:46But you won't take Saturday.
12:49He took the second drive.
12:51I'm fired.
12:52And he threatened my mother's care.
12:54That man is a disease.
12:56A walking disease.
12:59Miss Hayes, Grant's lawyers say your evidence was stolen.
13:02And the police have it now.
13:04My board won't touch stolen property.
13:07Mr. Sterling, the evidence is real.
13:10You know it is.
13:11Belief isn't proof in a boardroom.
13:13I'm sorry.
13:14CH advisory is withdrawn from Saturday.
13:18It's over, Claire.
13:20He won.
13:20He always wins.
13:22Claire, Micha, please.
13:23Say something to us.
13:26The wall was copies.
13:28The drives were copies.
13:30Grant took everything he could find.
13:34So what's left, honey?
13:36What do we have?
13:37The one thing he can't take because it's in his own house.
13:40What does that even mean?
13:42What's in his house?
13:44Proof he hid himself.
13:46And someone who can reach it.
13:49It depends on whether Vanessa Sterling is braver than I was.
14:03What would you use, Grant?
14:05What number would you never forget?
14:09Not your birthday.
14:11Then our engagement date.
14:12Of course it is.
14:21Sole beneficial owner, Grant Ashford.
14:24Deposit, $2 million.
14:27Oh my god.
14:33The same day, exact same day, he paid himself and blamed her.
14:43Vanessa, where are you, sweetheart?
14:45It's the middle of the night.
14:51What are you doing in here at this hour?
14:53Couldn't sleep.
14:54I was just looking at your father's portrait.
14:56Come back to bed.
14:57It's freezing in here.
15:02Claire Hayes, is that really you?
15:05Hello, Vanessa.
15:06I've been hoping you would come.
15:11You sent the flowers to the estate, didn't you?
15:14I sent the card.
15:15The peonies were just so you'd read it.
15:18I opened his safe last night.
15:20Ashcomb is his.
15:21The $2 million was him.
15:24And the day after the party,
15:26he moves $40 million of my father's money into it.
15:29I know, Vanessa.
15:30I've known for months.
15:32You knew?
15:33Then why didn't you just show my father?
15:35I did, and his lawyers called my copies stolen.
15:39But a document from your own home?
15:41Nobody can call that stolen.
15:44Only you could get it.
15:45So you used me to do it for you.
15:48I warned you.
15:49Nobody warned me.
15:51Three years ago, I wore his ring
15:53and believed every word.
15:56The invitation, table one, was that you too?
15:59Lauren suggested it, and he thought it was his idea.
16:05I needed a seat right beside the signing table.
16:09He invited you to his own downfall.
16:12Unbelievable.
16:14He invited me to watch me cry.
16:16I just accepted.
16:17My father pulled you from the presentation.
16:20You can't get in as his auditor anymore.
16:23I don't need to get in as anyone's auditor.
16:25I'm a guest, Vanessa.
16:27I'm sitting at table one.
16:35$40 million into a casino account
16:37on the very day of your engagement?
16:40He told me she was a thief, Daddy.
16:43He told you too.
16:45And we believed him because he wore the right suit.
16:50I believed her once, then let lawyers scare me off.
16:53She risked everything, and I hung up on her.
16:55Then fix it, Daddy, please, before it's too late.
16:59If I cancel tonight, Grant shreds whatever's left
17:02and spins it to the press.
17:04So don't cancel anything.
17:06Let him make his toast,
17:07and let her walk in the front door.
17:11Thomas, tomorrow evening,
17:13the long car at Rosa's diner,
17:15doors open by hand.
17:16For Miss Hayes, sir, if I may ask?
17:18If I may ask?
17:20For CH advisory, Thomas,
17:22officially reinstated.
17:24It will be my pleasure, sir.
17:25Truly my pleasure.
17:30And I'll be giving this back, Daddy.
17:32In public.
17:33In front of everyone.
17:37I'm proud of you, sweetheart.
17:40You're braver than your old father.
17:42Braver than I ever thought I'd have to be.
17:48Richard's back in,
17:49and Vanessa has the ash comb file.
17:51But Grant will call it fake.
17:55Only one person can tell that room
17:57how the ledger was really made.
17:59Me?
18:01You mean me, don't you?
18:03If I stand up,
18:05I'm confessing to forgery in front of a detective.
18:07Who takes care of my mother, then?
18:10I can't promise how it ends.
18:12Only that I'll stand next to you.
18:14The way nobody stood next to me.
18:18She never touched that money.
18:20You know it, and I know it.
18:22But after Saturday,
18:24nobody will ever believe she didn't.
18:29He forgot my phone.
18:31He always forgets the people he thinks are small.
18:36I'll stand up, Claire.
18:37I'll tell them everything.
18:38Then we both walk in the front door together.
18:41You in a limousine and me on the bus, right?
18:46No, Lauren.
18:47You're riding with me.
18:52Then I'd better find a dress.
18:53I haven't worn one in years.
18:55We'll find one together tomorrow morning,
18:57first thing.
19:02Friends, I have a confession to make.
19:05I invited my ex-wife tonight.
19:09She's at table one,
19:11so she can see exactly what she gave up.
19:13She'll show up in a taxi,
19:15if she can afford one.
19:21Or the bus, darling.
19:22There's a stop right across the road.
19:24Did you hear that, detective?
19:25Keep an eye out for the bus.
19:30Who on earth is that?
19:32Is that one of Richard's cars?
19:33I have no idea, Grant.
19:35But everyone is staring, is staring.
19:40Welcome to Westbrook, Miss Hayes.
19:42Mr. Sterling sends his regards.
19:45Thank you, Thomas, for everything tonight.
19:50Stay beside me, Lauren.
19:51I'm right here, Claire.
19:56That's a sterling car, Grant.
19:58That's Richard's own limousine.
20:00That's impossible.
20:01He pulled her auditor yesterday.
20:04Whose car is that?
20:05Tell me right now.
20:06Mr. Sterling, sir.
20:07He sent it for Miss Hayes.
20:10Thank you for the invitation, Grant.
20:13I wouldn't have missed this for anything.
20:18Breathe slowly, Lauren.
20:20Nobody here can hurt you tonight.
20:22My hands won't stop shaking, Claire.
20:24Look at them.
20:26Sterling Capital never signs blind.
20:31Before I pick up this pen,
20:33my pick up this pen,
20:34my independent auditor will present.
20:38Richard,
20:38I thought you withdrew the auditor yesterday.
20:41I reinstated her this morning.
20:43C.H. Advisory, Claire Hayes.
20:47Claire Hayes?
20:48That's impossible.
20:49She pours coffee in a diner.
20:52Good evening, everyone.
20:53It's been a very long time.
20:58She's a thief!
21:00Her documents are stolen!
21:02Detective, arrest her right now!
21:06Let's hear what she has to say,
21:08Mr. Ashford.
21:11You did invite me to watch.
21:18Three years ago, Grant told I stole two million dollars.
21:21Tonight, I'll show you where it went.
21:25We're taking a recess.
21:27Five minutes.
21:28Outside.
21:28Right now.
21:29Of course, Grant.
21:30Take all the time you need.
21:36Let him go.
21:38Let him show us all exactly who he is.
21:42What do you want? A million? Two?
21:44Name it, Claire, and walk out of here quietly.
21:47You still think this is about money, Grant.
21:50Everything's about money.
21:51It always has been.
21:54No, it's about the morning I signed those papers,
21:57while you pretended to be sorry.
21:58And every person in there who stopped saying my name.
22:03You've got nothing.
22:05The police took your wall, and I took Lauren's drives.
22:10You walked in here with a borrowed car, and borrowed courage.
22:14The wall was copies, Grant, and so were the drives.
22:21I let you take them.
22:23I needed you to feel safe enough to stand up and make that toast.
22:27You planned this, all of it, from the very beginning.
22:31You invited me, Grant. I just said yes.
22:34Grant, come inside. Daddy's waiting for you.
22:38Sweetheart, she's lying to you. She's trying to ruin us.
22:44Don't touch me, Grant. Not tonight.
22:46Just come inside now.
22:53Last night, I opened my fiancé's safe, safe.
22:56The code was our engagement date.
22:59Ashcomb Holdings.
23:01Sole owner, Grant Ashford.
23:04Two million deposited the day Claire was accused.
23:07And 40 million of my father's money,
23:10scheduled to move tomorrow morning.
23:12Those are forgeries!
23:13She's a jealous ex-wife and a bitter liar!
23:16We will now sign the contract.
23:20They're not forgeries.
23:22The only forgery in this story is the one I made.
23:27I'm Lauren Mitchell.
23:29Three years ago, Grant ordered me to change the ledger to blame Claire.
23:32I did it.
23:34And I'll say it under oath.
23:37She's lying!
23:39She was fired!
23:40She's bitter!
23:42And she wants revenge!
23:45She never touched that money.
23:46You know it, and I know it.
23:48But after Saturday, nobody will ever believe she didn't.
23:54You can keep the ring as evidence, Detective.
23:57I won't be needing it.
24:01There will be no merger.
24:02Not tonight, and not ever.
24:05This deal is finished.
24:11Claire, please.
24:13He's my son.
24:14Whatever he did, you were family once.
24:19I was family when he called me a thief, Margaret.
24:22And you didn't call me once.
24:24I'll take it on one condition.
24:26Rose's diner reopens, and you have breakfast there every Monday.
24:30Ha ha ha ha!
24:31Done, Miss Hayes.
24:32And I'll bring my appetite.
24:35Thank you, Claire, for the card and for everything.
24:38Thank you for being braver than I was.
24:44Miss Mitchell, come in Monday.
24:47With a lawyer, a witness who stood up like that, prosecutors remember.
24:54Inspectors came back and gave me an A.
24:56Filed in error, they said.
24:59Prosecutors gave me probation.
25:01And community service.
25:02My mother cried for an hour when I told her, happy tears this time.
25:06And you, Mija?
25:07Head of forensic audit with a corner office?
25:10How does it feel?
25:15Strange, I thought winning would feel loud.
25:17It just feels quiet.
25:19Like I can finally breathe.
25:22Can I ask you something, Claire?
25:23When he took everything, were you ever scared you'd lose?
25:27Every single night, Lauren.
25:29Then how did you keep going, honey?
25:30How?
25:31Because lies can buy a house, a name, even three years of someone's life.
25:36But they can't buy the ending.
25:38The truth always comes out.
25:41You just have to be standing there when it does.
25:43Well, I'll be standing there with coffee every Monday.
25:46And I'll be standing right next to you both.
25:48And I'll be standing there with you both.
25:48And I'll be standing there with you both.
25:49And I'll be standing there with you both.
25:49And I'll be standing there with you both.
25:49And I'll be standing there with you both.
25:49And I'll be standing there with you both.