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My name is Lily Greeley McAllister.

I'm a Greeley of the Pasadena Greeleys.

We Greeleys aren't just any family. In Pasadena, we were the family.

People idolized us, or they demonized us.

But no one really knew us.

We were a mystery.

Since our family scandals went public, that's all changed.

We're on the local news every night. People write about us in the tabloid.

People think they know us and all our darkest secrets.

They think they know the truth, but they don't know anything.

I'm tired of all the gossip and the rumors and the lies.

After all that I've been through, I have no more tolerance for lies.

So if you want to know the truth about my family, then listen to me.

Because I was there.

And I remember everything.

Dad?

Dad? Hey, pretty. What are you doing?

We need to have a serious conversation.

Oh, really?

Yes. Oh.

What?

About cars.

Cars? Yes. Okay. I'm turning 16 in a few months, and I think it's time we made a

decision. But you just turned...

Well, you're always telling me I should be more of a self -starter, so I totally

took the initiative. I did research, I made price comparisons, and I've come to

an informed recommendation.

And that is?

The Audi A6.

The Audi A6.

I know it's on the expensive side, but we're talking about my safety here.

You wouldn't want to pinch pennies when your only daughter's life is on the

line. No, no, no.

Dad, we need to decide. I can't keep living in a state of suspense.

But your mother and I are very late for a very important cocktail party slash

charity banquet. It is a dinner party slash fundraiser, and it is important

because I organized it.

Wow, you look beautiful.

I'm surprised.

I'm wearing my bracelet.

How do you like it?

I love it.

Thank you, Toby.

putting me off?

Am I going to have to call your assistant and schedule an appointment or

might have an appointment to open June 4th. Dad, that's my birthday.

Say goodnight. Relate, relate, relate. What a coincidence. I had no idea it was

your birthday.

I'll fight it with your brother.

Bye.

I know.

Jeff thinks he's so great because he got buff over the summer.

Anyone can take steroids.

The guys at Arroyo are so in love with themselves.

I'm never going to have a boyfriend.

I think my klutzy brothers fell down the stairs.

Mason?

Jenny, let me call you back.

Mason? Mason?

You people have ruined me.

Please, Lord.

What happened to her? Where is she?

Where'd you keep her? You keep her in the house? Just tell me where she's

buried.

San Rafael.

Are you speeding?

No.

Good evening.

Keep him right here. What's going on?

There's something going on in the house? What's going on in the house? What's

going on in the house?

Where the hell? You're just going to leave him there?

There's nobody doing it.

The police told my father the man was named Philip Parker.

He was mentally ill and had spent his whole life in and out of institutions.

He must have been prowling the neighborhood and stumbled upon our

A case of bad luck.

It was the kind of random tragedy that would provide most families with enough

drama to last a lifetime.

But this isn't where my story ends.

This is where it begins.

After the suicide, I felt a lot of things, but mostly I just felt alone.

There was no mention of Philip Parker or his death in the newspaper.

This wasn't surprising, since our family owns the paper and went to heroic

lengths to suppress the story.

My mother never likes to talk about anything negative.

Her main obsession was getting a new carpet for the dining room.

My dad took it easy on me for a while, seeing that I was traumatized and all.

But he didn't really want to talk about it either.

Jenny Bradbury and I got tickets to the Limp Bizkit concert on Friday. Can I go?

Oh, sure. Just be home by midnight.

Well, I think I'm just going to spend the night at Jenny's, if that's okay

you. All right.

You girls have fun.

Dad, Jenny Bradbury's parents are diplomats.

They live in Belize. I mean, Lily and Jenny are just going to party all night.

But, I don't mean to.

Cut your sister some slack, will you?

One. Oh, God, she's got no curfew because, oh, what, she saw some guy blow

brain out?

That's enough.

I can't believe I stuck to this whole thing.

You know, there's no justice in this world.

And my friends at Arroyo Alto could not have cared less.

I can't be alone in my house anymore, and I've been having all these

You know, they might make us wear uniforms again because Lisa Zobrist wore

-through crop top to school.

The oldest story in the world. One slut screws up and we all get punished.

I'm sorry, you're having nightmares?

Never mind.

Is he amazing or am I just really horny?

Henry Bello. Henry Bello?

Who's new?

Finally, some fresh boy blood at this school.

Hey!

I called him.

Fine.

There were careless people, Tom and Daisy.

They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or

their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let

people clean up the mess they had made.

Quite a condemnation.

So, would you say that Tom and Daisy are the villains of the book, Lily?

Um, well, I don't know if they're the villains, but they are self -absorbed.

Gatsby and Myrtle are like toys for them to play with, and ultimately Tom and

Daisy don't care.

They're just selfish.

Okay. Anybody else?

Anybody else besides Lily read the book?

Oh, Henry.

The villain in this book is money. I mean, Tom and Daisy are victims, too, of

their own wealth.

Having all that money corrupts them, makes them careless, manipulative, self

-interested. Money.

is the evil here.

Interesting analysis, Henry.

To blame it all on money is a cop -out. I mean, you can have a lot of money and

still be caring and responsible.

No, you can't.

The only way you can make a fortune is by exploiting other people. I mean,

that's Fitzgerald's whole point. Oh, please. Just because someone's rich

mean they're morally corrupt.

Yeah. Whatever gets you through the night, princess.

Excuse me?

Okay. Anybody else want to weigh in here?

What was that supposed to mean?

What? Whatever gets you to see the Night Princess.

Look, I know who you are. Your last name's McAllister, but you're a

So?

I hate to break it to you, but if anyone's ever gotten filthy rich off

exploiting other people, it's your family.

Look, you don't know anything about my family. Go to hell.

Hi, I'm Jenny.

Jenny! Come on!

Lily, did you hear me?

We're having family dinner tonight.

I know. I heard you.

Hi, Rosa.

Hi, Lily.

You may now be wondering how my family got rich in the first place.

My great -great -great -grandfather, Preston Reese Greeley, was an executive

Southern Pacific Railroad.

He poured all his earnings into downtown Los Angeles real estate, which paid off

big time.

My great -great -grandfather, Norman Preston Greeley, founded the Los Angeles

Sun, which became the most widely read and influential paper in California.

My great -grandfather, Reese Norman Greeley, founded the Pasadena Country

and built the Pasadena Pavilion.

And my grandfather, George Reese Greeley, sits on the board of over 50

corporations.

He's the chairman of the Reese Corp., which owns the Los Angeles Sun.

He's friends with mayors and governors and senators.

He's a billionaire many times over.

And he's a real cranky bastard.

Monthly bilingual inserts, huh?

Mm -hmm. Well, that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Right, well, don't you think it's about time that we started making some inroads

into the Spanish -speaking market?

Come there to get in school.

Mason's practically fluent.

My Uncle Robert is the heir to the family business.

He and my father went to college together.

Now they both spend their time trying to keep my grandfather from having an

aneurysm.

Robert's right.

There are four million people in L .A. who aren't buying a son because they

don't read English.

You think we can change that with a monthly insert?

Give me a break. It's a start.

Daddy, look at the bracelet that Will gave me. It's from Asprey and Gerard. My

mother is a perfectionist. She wants a perfect house, a perfect family.

Most of all, she wants to be the perfect Greeley daughter.

But with my grandmother, that's a lost cause. Is this new carpet in here?

Mm -hmm.

You like it?

It's very busy.

I don't know. I think it's kind of colorful.

A little distracting.

Beth, why don't you tell us about your new boyfriend?

Well, his name is Steve Chasen.

My Aunt Beth has been more like a friend to me than an aunt.

None of Beth's boyfriends has been able to live up to my family standards.

So in order to win my grandmother's approval, Beth has had to resort to

lies and mild deception.

Is he of the New York Chasins?

No. No, he's of the Houston Chasins.

From Houston.

But he's incredibly successful.

He's in the music industry.

Well, I look forward to meeting him.

Why? So you can give her a bunch of reasons why she should dump his ass?

My Uncle Nate has been kicked out of six boarding schools.

He never finished college and he's never had a job.

I guess he's what you'd call the black heap of the family. Dad, Dad, you

remember my buddy Pete from Hodgkin?

That little genius gay guy used to drop quaaludes in my beer. Okay, children at

the table.

Nathaniel, do you mind?

Anyway...

He called me up today, starting this really cool company. He asked me if I'd

partner up.

I just need to bring a little capital.

Forget it.

Wow, you're getting quick in your old age, aren't you, Pop?

I didn't even get to gravel.

I miss it.

Rosa, I got a refill.

I love these family dinners. So much fun.

How are you doing?

Um, I'm okay, I guess.

Good.

How am I supposed to pay when?

What's going on?

You didn't hear it from me.

They're freezing Nate's account.

They think he's, what's the right euphemism, partying again?

Don't say anything to your mother.

All right, I won't. You know...

Our anniversary's at the end of the month, and I was thinking we should

party. Oh, that'll be fun. And as I'm still remodeling our kitchen, I was

we could do it here. It shouldn't be too complicated, just a few hundred people.

What do you think?

Um... All right. Good.

Good night, dear. Good night.

Thank you, Will. It was lovely.

As usual. Good night, George.

Good night, Daddy.

Great dinner, hon. Oh, thank you. See you in a bit.

Uh, well, we're... What are you doing?

Uh, that's some paperwork at the office. Got to go over.

Robert, see you later.

See you, Pop.

Who is she?

She's nobody.

She's history.

I'll take care of this, Catherine.

I promise you.

Lily, is this yours?

I found it behind the buffet. What happened?

Where is she?

That was the first time I saw her.

The face that would decipher the riddles of my family.

Sometimes I think I should have just thrown that locket away.

Get your work done last night?

My what?

Your work.

The work you had to do at the office.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Pretty much.

Ew. Oh, my God.

what she's wearing.

Lisa Zobris.

I'm telling you, that bitch is going to take us all down.

I'll see you at lunch, okay? Okay.

Bye.

Hey, can we talk for a minute?

Yesterday I went on the internet and did a search on your family.

There's a lot of interesting stuff in here.

Did you know Norman Greeley founded the LA Sun?

Obviously, yes.

Yeah, and you know why he wanted his own newspaper?

He wanted to slant the news in a way that would strengthen his power base in

city, advocate his own economic interests.

He used the paper to get his cronies elected to office. In exchange, they

him sweetheart deals and tax breaks, making him a very rich man.

Wait, Roy, you did research on my family? Yeah, and your grandfather.

Did you know he spearheaded the campaign to keep Catholics and Jews out of all

the country clubs in Los Angeles and Pasadena?

I mean, there's a lot of dirt in here.

Your family's like the Wasp Corleones.

Hey, how do you think your family got all that money, Lily?

By being extra good citizens?

Stay away from me. Look, I might not know your family, but it seems to me

you don't know your family either.

So here, do some homework.

Mason?

Robert, you wanted to see me?

Yeah, hey, Jillian.

Yeah, I was just sitting here thinking, you know.

It's about time that you and I had sex.

What?

So what I want you to do is take off your little blue jumpsuit, get on the

and demonstrate for me your greatest talent.

What is this?

Oh, I'm not your type.

You only have sex with married guys with children.

Do you think that you're being amusing or something?

Because you're not.

This is harassment.

Oh, come on. I know you.

I do.

I know the sewer that you crawled out of. You should be proud of yourself.

You're not slumming anymore.

You are in the hallways of power.

Mixing with the elite.

And you earned it.

Nothing was handed to you.

Not like me.

Right?

So I look at you and I see a true, self -made whore.

You can't do that to me. Oh, I can do anything I want to you.

Because you are sleeping with my sister's husband.

I've seen you do it.

Do you have any idea how easy it would be just to ruin you?

So if you want to stay in the game, I suggest that you take off those clothes

and get to work.

Oh, I like that sound.

Do it again.

You're disgusting.

I want you out of the building in five minutes.

I always thought I knew my family's history.

But when reading Henry's research, I realized I'd been living my whole life

blinders on.

Article after article told the real story of the Greeleys.

Yes, yes, I realize that, but I'm having a party.

Look, whatever it will cost me to get that carpet installed today, I'm willing

to pay it.

Fine, really is the account.

Guess I'll hold.

Thank you. Mom, do we have any enemies?

What? I mean, we must, after everything that we've done. What have we done?

Well, for one, Grandpa's kept Jews and Catholics from joining the Pasadena

Country Club.

Our family's been pushing people around for decades. I mean, between the

property development and the newspaper, and our connection to the city

government and the police department. What has gotten into you?

I'm... I'm just thinking, the man who killed himself, out of all the houses in

Pasadena to commit suicide, why would he choose our house?

Maybe it wasn't random. Maybe, maybe, I don't know, we did something to him.

Oh, dude, paranoia? Honey, you're being silly. Eat your breakfast.

What was his name?

Philip Parker?

Did you know him?

No, of course not.

Did Dad know him? Did Grandpa know him? Honey.

He was mentally ill.

He was sick. And what happened was very, very sad, but you just have to put it

out of your mind. I know, but why did he choose our house? A map, please.

Will?

Hello, George.

Hi.

Would you get in for a minute? I'd like to talk to you.

What's up?

Look, I am not going to sit here and defend myself.

You don't have to.

Marriage is a tricky business.

I love my daughter, but I also know what it means to be a man.

Just don't be an idiot and run around with some cramp from the others.

Because it makes me question your judgment.

You're going to sleep around?

Get yourself a hooker, for God's sake.

But be discreet.

I need to have faith in you, Will.

I'm not getting any younger, and I can't run this business forever.

And for all his ambition, Robert does not have what it takes.

But you do.

I just need to know that I can depend on you.

Really depend on you?

If you don't know the answer to that, then you sure as hell better figure it

out.

Well, did it get here? It cost me a fortune, but it was worth it. Mom,

I invited Steve to the party. He's really excited to meet everyone. That

me. I was talking to Rainy O 'Brien. She's from Houston.

She says she's never heard of any family named Jason, and Rainy knows everyone.

Well, there's millions of people in Houston, Mother.

Well, I just think it's a little odd, don't you?

You ready?

Yes.

Ta -da!

What do you think, Mother?

It's better, isn't it?

It's an improvement.

Oh, I'm just so glad it's over. If I never go shopping for carpet again,

be too soon.

Uh, Catherine, we have a problem.

This carpet doesn't work with the upholstery on these chairs.

You see?

The patterns, they clash.

You all right?

I do.

Now, if you don't want to get new carpet, you'll definitely need to get

chairs reupholstered.

Mm.

but I thought so.

Beth, I want to talk to you about Stephen.

Your father and I, Dave.

Hey,

uh, listen.

I talked to your friend, Jenny, and she told me you had a rough couple weeks.

She told me somebody killed himself in front of you.

Look, I don't know why I've been such a brat to you.

I'm here on scholarship, and I'm not used to being around all these rich

I heard you were a Greeley, and I... I don't know what I'm

trying to say.

You're sorry?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say.

I'm sorry.

Apology accepted.

I gotta go.

Bye.

I've decided to redo the dining room.

Oh.

I need a new project.

Okay. Don't worry.

When I'm finished, it's gonna be perfect.

Catherine?

I'll see you tomorrow.

Okay. Bye.

All right, bye.

See you later.

Lily.

Uncle Nate, you scared me.

What did you tell him, Lily?

Did you steal my mother's bracelet?

What did you say to her?

I didn't say anything.

Of course you didn't.

You don't agree with me.

You ought to keep a secret.

You know, she's going to be really upset when she realizes that bracelet's

missing. Look, Lily, there's a screw on me, all right? I needed money now.

They're sitting on millions, and they won't even give me my allowance.

What else to do? I just needed the money.

We've got to protect each other here. I'm your ally, all right? I mean, when

this whole Philip...

Parker thing tears us apart. What whole Philip Parker thing?

It's you and me.

Nate, please tell me, who is Philip Parker?

There's no one, all right? There's no one.

Promise me, promise me, don't tell me, okay?

It's you and me.

It's you and me.

Dad.

What's going on?

Why is Mom destroying the house?

Oh, I just think your mother wants to make some improvements.

Why don't we ever talk about anything?

Honey, we talk all the time. Not about anything important.

I mean, a man just killed himself in our dining room and it's like it never even

happened.

Like it was an inconvenience or something. Like somebody dropped a glass

on the rug.

I don't want to bring it up because I don't want to upset you.

It's the silence around here that's upsetting me.

I know that you've been going through a lot.

And I know that I haven't been here for you.

I've just been distracted with work and other things.

You shouldn't be afraid.

Who was that man, Philip Parker?

You'll guess. This is as good as mine.

Hi. Are you busy?

Um, no.

Why, what, are you stalking me now?

Yeah, I'm stalking you.

Uh, I came to ask you a favor, but I noticed the lights were out, and I

want to, you know, wake your parents. How did you find my house?

There's this thing. It's called phone book.

It's kind of hard to get out.

Yeah, it's, uh, not many people come through the window.

Wow. Wow.

Are you in real estate or what?

I'm mapping the city.

Why?

I'm looking for someone.

My house.

Why is there a craft in my house?

Because the person I'm looking for doesn't live at your house.

Who are you looking for?

That's really none of your business, is it?

Sorry.

No, it's okay.

If I'm just not used to having girls appear in my window in the middle of the

night.

Why are you here?

I'm looking for someone, too.

But this person is... This person is dead.

And I noticed you were pretty crafty with those internet searches.

Yeah. And I was wondering if you could help me.

Uh, yeah.

What's this person's name?

His first name is Phillip.

His last name is Parker.

All the way to the top, please.

And when you come back, get those glasses and the kitchen, please.

What? You write him?

Henry Bellow?

Maybe. But I saw him first, Lily. I called him. I know. I'm sorry. He's so

cool. You're seriously testing the limits of sisterhood here.

I'm such a compassionate and big -hearted friend.

And you're so hard up, you've never had a boyfriend in your entire pathetic

life. I'll let you have first dibs. But you owe me.

I totally owe you. Yes, you do.

The next cowboy who brazes through town, whose pony is he going to be riding?

Your pony.

My pony, that's right.

Jenny, don't say anything to him, okay?

Hey, I keep secrets.

Yeah, like you kept my secret about the suicide.

You know, he's coming over here for the party. I asked him to do some research.

Look, I hope things work out for you two. Really, I do.

I hope you guys do it and get married and have lots of deformed babies. Jenny,

haven't even kissed him. But if it doesn't work out, I'm warning you now,

gonna jump his bones.

Lily, have you seen my bracelet? The one your father gave me.

Uh, no.

I can't find it anywhere.

Well, I'm sure that it'll show up somewhere.

Robert is a maniac.

You have absolutely no idea.

Are you gonna say something?

What's going on?

I can't do this.

It's over.

So the vampires, huh?

Got you running scared?

You think you're just going to unload me and then everything is going to go back

to normal?

Think again, Will.

They're going to have you paying for this for the rest of your life. Jaylene,

I'm not going to leave my children.

You are.

Oh, there you are.

Happy anniversary, Mother.

Well,

thank you very much, dear.

Oh, Catherine.

I love the new dining room. Oh, thank you. It's come together quite nicely.

Well, I couldn't have done it without you, Mother. Oh, there's Chick -fil -A.

Who is that, Harvey? I was kicked out of Hotchkiss for cheating.

And I was expelled from Bates for bringing a hooker back to my dorm room.

It's unbelievable.

They'll keep you up for anything.

You look like a rock star.

It's turning into a real party.

Hey.

Jenny, how are you?

Don't talk to me. What was that about?

I don't know.

Nothing. Hey, look at you.

Um, come with me.

This is a big party.

It's a nice room.

Yeah, I need to throw some stuff away.

So, what's in the backpack?

Did you find anything on Philip Parker?

Mm -hmm. I found out that he was the man who shot himself in your house.

Anything else?

What did your parents tell you about him?

Nothing. Said he was a stranger. He was mentally ill. You know, the truth is, I

really didn't find anything.

I don't believe you. Henry, show me. Look, I don't want to upset you. Henry,

show me. I want to know.

Okay. Okay.

I found out he graduated from Arroyo Prep in 1979.

No way.

So I went to the library.

Found this.

Philip Parker.

Now look.

Catherine Greeley.

That's your mom, isn't it?

See, they were in the same class.

But she said she didn't know him.

It's possible.

There were only 40 people in the whole class.

Maybe she just forgot about them.

Maybe she's lying to me.

Mason.

You're being anti -social. You're being anti -social. Take these off.

Fascist. Yeah, that's me.

Mom.

Did you know Philip Parker went to Royal Prep?

Philip Parker. He kills himself in our house. Philip Parker, you need to end

your plot.

What were your voice?

You told me you didn't know him.

I can't remember.

What is going on? Did you lie to me?

Oh, sweetheart, not now, please.

Did you just get here?

Yeah. I'm dealing with that situation down at the office.

Oh? Yeah, the one we talked about yesterday. I took care of it. You did?

Believe me, it's taken care of.

Better be.

Happy anniversary.

Mm -hmm. Thank you.

Hey, buddy.

How was the fireside chat?

Hey, listen, did he tell you that he fired Jaylene?

Apparently it was some kind of a war cat thing.

Now listen, we're going to need a new VP for Mark, and if you've got any ideas,

you let me know. All right?

Did you hit anybody yet? Oh, piss off.

So if you're Lily's uncle, how come I've never seen you before? Well, I spent

the last year drying out in Hawaii.

You mean laying out.

No, drying out.

Detecting.

Stephen Chafin, am I correct?

Yes, I am. I was wondering when I was finally going to meet you. Me too, how

you? Here he is, in the flat. How are things in the music industry, Stephen?

Great. A lot of pressure, but I love it.

Stephen just got a huge promotion.

Isn't that wonderful, Daddy?

Congratulations. Thank you. I'm so proud of him.

He's just so talented, Mom.

I feel like I keep bumming you out. I promise I'll never do another search in

your family again. No, not at all.

Thank you.

For what?

For opening my eyes.

Really? We're doing family pictures.

Would you excuse us?

Yeah, yeah.

Sweetheart. Father, I've been talking.

We know that you want a car for your 16th birthday, but since you already

your learner's permit, we were thinking we should get you that Audi now. What do

you think? Good car shopping tomorrow.

I don't want an Audi, Mother.

I don't want anything.

Okay, ladies, it's picture time. If you'll come right this way, we can get

thing going.

Let's go.

Catherine, you can sit right there.

Okay, guys, where is everyone else? I need everyone in this party room.

Terrific. Good. Love the energy. Just bring it on.

I'm going to have you sit over here.

Would that be great?

Excellent.

Lily,

come over here.

I'm going to hurry through this. Oh, I'm sorry. Pardon me.

Lily, why are you sitting on the arm of my chair?

Okay, folks.

Okay, you guys get close together.

This was my family.

Before the scandals.

Before the murder.

Before the trial.

These were the Greeleys. The illustrious Greeleys of Pasadena.

And this was the last time we were all photographed.

All of us.

Together.