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Previously on Sacrifice.

Tamika got a boyfriend.

My boss doesn't like that I even look in your direction.

Same with my boss.

I've discovered something.

If I take Arnold on his offer to leave, I want you to come with me.

Sly, where are you?

I really don't date my clients.

What would happen if I fired you? You wouldn't be a client anymore.

You know Jessica ain't who you think he is.

I have a past too. Uncle Sly.

If you find my dad's old assistant, ask her about a group called Syngim. You've

been talking too much to Daniella.

She deserves to know the truth.

Carol Steinberg, she's an awful spiteful woman. An awful woman who may have some

answers for me. You want revenge on my father.

That's good enough for me. You took my father out and in the process killed

your own daughter.

I wish you'd come back to me.

Mom, I wish you were here.

I'm trying to make you proud.

I'm trying to make the right choices.

Sometimes I just... I don't know what I'm doing.

I wish you'd give me a sign.

Jessica, hey.

The new sexy act you signed was supposed to improve our money problems.

All I see here are flops. These goddamn raunchy lyrics.

Extra's beats are actually on point, Grumps.

If you read the full report, you might have seen our streams are down across

the whole catalog.

How is that possible?

It's like the major streamers are purposely ignoring Black Gammon content.

Good morning.

What are you doing here? I thought we would stop by and check on you, Grandpa.

Hope we didn't catch you at a bad time.

He's in a bad mood because the streamer numbers on our catalog are declining.

For how long?

Gradually. Last two weeks.

Then last night, they went off a cliff.

Aren't you counting on that streaming revenue to cover the RCT loan payments?

We were.

Chauncey signing all these new acts put us in this damn hole.

And now we're late on our payments. Wait.

We all agreed that signing Jameson would very quickly become profitable. Not

quick enough.

If we can't get our streaming revenue back to what it was, we are screwed.

What's wrong?

Sly. Oh, my god.

What are you doing here?

I came in last night.

How? I let him in.

It was late. I didn't want to wake you.

Why are you back?

Sly's been doing some investigative work for me. Yeah.

I tracked down Hunter's old secretary.

And no one felt like I needed to know after the way you left?

Tia, I needed his help.

I'm sorry for not telling you. I just, I didn't want to upset you.

You're right about one thing.

I am upset.

I don't think you realize how dangerous this is.

I sure hope you know what you're doing, Mika.

Trust me, I do.

These are all the folders with the Sinjin label.

There's some other documents in those boxes that look like they mean

something. I'll give those to someone.

My main interest is Sinjin.

I didn't know those guys had an official name. I knew they were trouble.

Yeah? From what I hear, they're a secret business fraternity of successful,

powerful people.

Supposed to be full of oligarchs, Saudi princes, and king makers.

I just found out I have a relationship with them that involves my trust.

The lawyer said Hunter was dealing with them a lot when he died.

She believes that Sin Jim had something to do with their deaths.

Was my father a member?

His name is on a lot of those papers.

Wow.

Oh, let's see.

So is someone else's.

Ellis Shaw.

What? This is a handwritten letter from Ellis to my father demanding his money.

You know, Carol Steinberg is convinced Ellis killed my parents.

Sly, did you ever hear him threaten my father?

Once, yeah.

What happened?

He wanted somebody to kill him.

Me.

And I almost did.

Are you hearing this? Yeah.

That's a lot, brother.

I wanted to tell you everything, but I couldn't find the right time. The right

time is now.

All right, I'll tell you the whole story. And if you want me to turn around

and go back to where I just came from, I will. Skip the story and just go.

No, Tia.

I want to hear what he has to say.

Those St. Jim folks used to meet up in Beverly Hills at the Stuckey building.

Pops was mad as hell at your father.

Why? It was over money.

Pops said Hunter ruined it.

It was going to cost him the label. On top of stealing Lila from Black Gammon.

So he said he had to go.

How could you even consider it? Because at that time, I wouldn't do anything to

get Pop's approval.

In real talk, you want to know the truth?

I thought I was cold-blooded, and I thought I could do it.

Go on.

I'm outside the room at the Stuckey building where these men meet, right?

And while I'm outside the room, I hear tempers flaring.

Your Pop leaves the meeting early, walks right past me. Was he upset?

He was pissed.

So I had a little peace on me with a silence, and I was ready to take him

out. I thought about Lila.

And I thought about you.

And I realized I wasn't a killer.

So you had nothing to do with my parents' death?

No. Hell no.

You swear?

I swear.

I would never do anything like that. We are family.

And a week later, your parents were in an accident.

So I called Pops out on him.

And to this day, he swears he had nothing to do with it.

Do you believe him?

Yeah, I do.

Tell her what made you leave.

I found this number with the name Send Jim on it in Bob's office.

I called it.

Soon after that, somebody tried to run me over in a car.

So now you know as much about this shit as I do.

What do you want me to do?

I didn't got that poppin' now.

Why you trying to stop it now? Just keep going until I say stop.

Look, I have to go. I'll check back later.

Things are falling into place.

You should have seen my father and Chauncey trying to figure out what's

wrong with their streaming numbers.

I just knew it was you.

It was fantastic.

Well, that's truly wonderful to hear.

So I wanted to stop by and discuss the terms of our partnership now that it

looks like the Black Gamut acquisition is happening.

Estelle, I wanted to wait, but this just seems like the right time.

Right time for what?

You didn't read the contract, did you?

Because if you had, you might have noticed in the fine print I'm not

obligated to make you CEO.

But you are.

I'm never going to partner with the Shaw under any circumstances.

I trusted you.

How could you do this? You know, I'm starting to see why you never made any

major moves with Black Gammon. Well, Ellis, he knew better than that son of

yours. He's just a chip off the old block.

If you two had conspired together, you both have what you wanted.

What the hell are you talking about?

You didn't know.

Chauncey has been bleeding the label dry for months just to force Black Gammon

into default.

He planned on buying the loan to take over the label, but I beat him to it

thanks to you.

I won't let you do this.

I'm sure your board members will have a field day with the dirt I have on you.

And I'm sure your family would love to see all of the documents and information

you provided me.

Isn't that right, partner?

After all this back and forth with you, I've had it.

I told you I was sorry.

You're sorry until you do it again.

I gave you a second chance, and you played me for a fool.

I'm just trying to do what's right here for all of us.

Gabriela, listen.

I know I hurt you and Daniela, and I'm going to spend the rest of my life

trying to make it up to you if you let me.

But this ring is a promise that I'll never, ever leave you again.

Gabriela Hernandez, will you marry me?

No.

What's up, someone?

Morning. Morning. These are all syndrome related.

OK, I'll cross-reference what's in the box with what I found in Arnold's

digital files.

What did you find?

So I found a series of encrypted numbers tied to your blind trust.

I think they're bank accounts.

Owned by whom?

I'm still figuring that out, but. Well, keep digging.

Let me know when you find out.

I got you, boss.

Nice job, kid.

What's up, Pop?

What the hell are you doing here?

I came by to let you know I didn't get out the joint to run for the rest of my

life.

I came back to marry Gabriella.

And? I love her.

And I want to spend the rest of my life with her.

You're beginning to sound like an old Lionel Richie song.

Yeah, well, she ain't said yes yet.

But I'm hopeful.

Get married and run.

I told you, I'm through running.

And I came clean about everything.

Became clean about what?

Daniela knows you asked me to kill Hunter. And she already knew about

Sinjin. Does she know the danger she could be in?

I'm surprised you care.

All right, Daniela, let's get this over with.

Slide told you the truth.

You hated my father.

But you did business with him.

Why? Because of your mother.

She tried to make it right between us.

Hunter's inside information about an IPO that could have made Black Diamond, my

family, over $100 million.

Yeah, and I remember that.

You put all we had into it, didn't you?

Sure did.

Then the IPO vanished.

But your father had spent my money for his own self-interest.

That's when I told Sly to kill him.

But I didn't.

But someone did the deed to Hunter and my baby.

After that, I cut all ties with Sinjin.

I haven't spoken to any of them since that day.

For your sake?

I hope that's the truth.

Daniela, I'll admit I have no love for your father.

But somebody killed my baby, and I want to find out who.

As far as Sinjin goes, be very, very careful.

There she is. Thank you.

Hello.

Hi.

Well,

I'm impressed.

Well, figured.

If I was going to show my woman the best Cuban cuisine in town, it'd be rude not

to learn the lingo.

Speaking of rude, sorry for running late.

It's okay.

When I go to lunch, I usually bring my work with me.

And your timing couldn't be more perfect.

Really? Just let me finish updating Daniela's calendar.

There.

Now, I'm off to wash my hands.

Okay. When I get back, I'm all yours, sir.

I like it.

You look like you found something.

So you remember that encrypted brokerage account I told you about?

Yeah, what about it? Well, it's paying out $30,000 a month from your blind

trust to each of six different offshore accounts all linked to Senja. Six?

Mm-hmm.

Well, can we ID the owners of these bank accounts?

Not yet.

But you know how you thought your trust was worth $10 million?

Yeah?

Out of zero.

What? Yeah.

How has Arnold hid this from me?

A sophisticated encryption that was tough to crack.

Like, I know they call it a blind trust, but he's been keeping you blind as a

bat. How long has this been going on?

Best guess, since the end of 1989.

Basically, my whole life.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Keep in mind, it's a demo, so it's raw.

Hasn't even been mixed yet.

What do you think?

What?

Oh.

It's good.

Very good.

You're a million miles away.

I'm sorry.

I just, uh, thinking about this financial stuff.

You know what they say.

More money, more problems.

Hm.

Well, I want to help you with those problems.

Take some of the weight off your shoulders.

What are you trying to say?

I want us to be in an exclusive, committed relationship.

Wow.

That's a lot.

In order for us to have a real future together.

I need to be open and honest with you.

The chances of me ever having

children are close to zero.

That has to be okay with you.

Is it?

I've got two kids of my own.

So I'm fine with it.

Okay.

And I relapsed recently.

But I'm going to meetings again, and I'm sober now.

Plan on keeping it that way.

Well, sobriety isn't easy.

I mean, what's the mantra?

One day at a time.

Yeah.

As long as that day is with me, I'm good.

Before I tell you this, I want to make sure you understand I didn't intend for

any of this to happen.

What did you do?

Carol Steinberg bought the RCT loan.

But I had no idea how she was going to affect the streaming numbers for the

company's catalog.

How did she find out about the loan?

Mom, how could you do that?

You ungrateful, petulant child.

I never thought you would sink this low, Ma. Look who's talking, you little shit.

Carol told me how you were burning through Black Gammon assets to devalue

the company, all so you could swoop in and buy it for yourself.

Unbelievable. That's true. But I stopped that a while ago. I've been all in since

Jameson joined the label. So the two of you have been conspiring against me.

Your own flesh and blood.

I'll be goddamned.

Who are you calling?

I'm calling Daniella. She's the only one that can help me fix this goddamn mess

you people have created.

Get out of my face now!

This is really good stuff you got here, Jason.

First Free Mission Baptist Church was a hot spot for drug trafficking and

shootouts. A church.

That was two years ago. By all accounts, they've been clean.

Until you look at these pictures of Daniella's calendar, which shows Dom

dropping off the cocaine he stole from Bobby Howard's at First Free Mission

Baptist Church.

Come on. Let's get him.

If we are wrong, they'll accuse us of over-policing another Black

neighborhood. More bad PR for LAPD and my ass in the hot seat.

Now that we are finally in position to nab this asshole, you're holding back?

You started dating Tamika to get leads on Dom. I know what I did.

You're letting your feelings for this woman cloud your judgment.

You would know something about feelings clouding your judgment.

What's that supposed to mean?

You're not hooking up with the DA, Beverly?

I thought so.

I don't need you to lecture me on duty versus relationships.

I want to cross our T's on this one. Is that so hard to ask?

About to cross your T's.

This is Agent Fields.

This is Tamika. Your message said it was urgent.

It is.

For the information I'm giving you on Dom Mayfield, I'm going to need an

increase in pay.

You know I have to run this by Daniela.

I'll see what she says and get back to you.

Tamika is getting inside information from Fields to protect Dom Mayfield.

Tamika's as corrupt as Hernandez.

Shit.

You still want to sit on your hands while Don moves his load tomorrow?

Trust me, you'll never regret choosing Lang & Associates.

Afternoon.

Dan Yellen.

I don't believe you could look more serious.

What can I do for you?

You can tell me about my trust and Sinjim. What are you talking about?

I'm talking about you siphoning millions from my trust.

Where are you getting this information?

I have my ways.

I want answers.

Or I'll use my speed dial to call DA Beverly Rucker. Hold on.

Danielle, there's a damn good reason all this has been hidden from you. I'm

familiar with Sinjim. But what I don't know is what they mean to me.

I want the truth, Arnold.

All of it.

Your father had inside information on the formation of an IPO for a company

creating new technology.

Something like Spotify and Pandora.

But the technology wasn't there yet and the IPO fell apart.

But your father had already collected money from the members of the group.

And what happened?

Hunter put that money into Criterium Records because they needed a quick cash

infusion. And he put some money into your trust. The investors were furious.

And when Hunter died in the accident...

We both know it wasn't an accident.

They demanded repayment, or they were going to kill you, me, Josh, everyone.

And I did not have the power to sell Criterium to repay the debt, so I

devised a way to pay them from your trust.

For what it's worth, I always felt that your father intended to repay the debt,

but they couldn't wait.

I did what I did to protect you.

But I'm still repaying them.

And you're still alive.

I had to sacrifice.

So my parents really were murdered.

Weren't they?

Arnold, I want to know who did it.

That's a Rubicon I am not willing to cross.

Honestly, Daniela, I'll take my chances with DA Rucker.

Dial away.

You're that scared of them?

Tamika, tell Josh to come down. Right away, boss.

It's Ella Shaw.

Any news?

Mr. Shaw, I looked into that loan situation for you.

Ah. The bad news is Carol is well within her rights to call on the loan.

But the good news is I may have a solution.

Good. Make sure you keep me informed.

OK. Hold tight, OK?

OK. I'll get back to you.

He wanted to see me?

Yeah.

Close the door.

You OK?

Sit.

I need your help.

OK. With your father.

I need help with my father.

Be more specific.

My whole life, he's been hiding the truth from me.

Again, welcome to the club.

And he's been stealing from me.

Well, Dee, that's a serious allegation.

I digitized these files.

Take a look.

So this is what he's been up to.

What do you mean?

You're gonna hate me.

What?

You know those nightmares that you have?

Yeah.

You were in the car the night of your parents' car crash.

What? You knew the whole time?

My dad didn't want you to remember because he didn't want you to ask

questions. I can't believe this.

I knew it.

How long have you known?

When we were kids.

He asked me to hang out with you and to tell him if you remembered anything

more. This tortured me.

How could you?

Because I am an idiot.

I have always been in love with you. So I jumped at this chance to just be close

to you.

And I thought I was protecting you.

I hate that I never looked into this on my own.

So please just tell me what I can do to make this right.

I don't think you could ever make this right.

So that trap, Soban, the 7th of January, is asking Criterium to front a double

album backed by a European tour.

We should go with them, at least as far as Paris. You remember that tiny wine

bar right under the penthouse we rented?

Let's stay there again.

Once we take care of this Daniela business, we'll take that much needed

break. Sounds good to me.

Don't fuck with me, either of you.

I'm sorry I couldn't stop them.

Should I call security?

It's fine, Audrey. They'll be leaving soon.

Ellis, your visit is timely.

We were about to send you a memo that we now own the RCT equity loan. It's one

step closer to owning Black Gamut.

I don't give a damn about a transfer loan.

Keep your goddamn hands off of my label.

Your third mispayment was today.

You're in default.

Do you know what I can do? Oh, I know what you could do.

But now you're just some feeble old man with new plumbing in your chest.

I mean, it's just a matter of time before you burst another pipe and we're

rid of you for good.

You got anything to say besides get out?

I let my niece know.

I let her know all about you and your little group.

That was unwise.

I don't care how long ago it was.

But if I discover that you're behind Lila's death, there will be no way to

hide. You understand?

Threat to me is a threat to the people I work for. Really?

Keep playing with me. Enough.

Now, you delivered your weak-ass message. Now you're mine.

You are in default.

You have three days to pay the balance of this loan, or Black Gammon is mine,

finally.

I can't believe the shit you've been doing.

You brought Josh into this? You brought me into this, Dad.

Those years ago when you told me to keep an eye on Daniela?

I thought you just wanted to keep her safe.

You're in way over your head. This is a lifetime of fraud. And grand larceny and

wire fraud, you name it. That kept you both alive. It kept you alive, Dad.

It built your empire.

Bought your admission into the elite.

And all that shit they used to tell me about hard work and ethics, you should

have said, just be like me and fucking steal it. So what do you want?

Names? I want a distribution of $20 million from my encrypted brokerage

account.

What the hell for?

I want to buy out Black Gammon's loan.

Well, you can't just... Give her the money.

You have no idea of the consequences.

Just do it.

Now, Dad.

All right, where do you want it deposited?

Here.

Wire it to M.W. Case Capital.

Takes five days.

I need it in three.

Speaker. State your name.

This is Arnold.

Confirmation. 747-YK-9385. The codes.

12-ampersand-46.

Final password, please.

Josh.

In the amount of $20 million, U.S. Correct.

Just make the fucking transfer.

Good luck, Mr. Lang.

Done.

Thank you.

Good luck.

Good luck to you, Arnold.

I

thought we

should have...

Our last supper. I mean, we have Judas to my left, willing to screw over his

own grandfather, for a play on a crown is too damn big for his head. Can we

please keep this to family pleasantries?

Ah, now we have Jezebel to my right.

Daddy, you know why I did what I did.

You mean flip on your own blood?

Have you forgotten you ousted me? No.

I see we're having another peaceful Shah gathering.

What do you want, Daniela?

Nice to see you too, Auntie.

I came to deliver some good news.

I can pay off the Black Gammon loan.

How? Carol forgave it? I have the means to do so.

Through Jameson? No.

Me. Me alone.

Is this some kind of a joke?

Are you being serious?

I'm serious.

Come here.

I just have one caveat.

I will now be the majority shareholder of Black Gammon.

What? Hell no.

Okay.

I can just take my money, and you can basically hand the company over to

Carol. Or, all of you can still have a stake in it, and Black Gammon can

remain, wait for it, entirely in the family.

So what are we eating?

Backed in on the wall.

Injury on the fall.

Had to make a couple calls.

I've been through it all. Back in my habitat territory.

Not a favorite life story. Go, go, go, go, go.

Nobody move.

Hands up in the air.

Say where you are.

Hands up.

Hands up. Say where you are. Hands in the air.

All clear.

What the hell?

No dom, no drugs. Shit!

Stand down.

Stand down.

Everybody, please put your hands down.

Hands down.

Sir. Sir, you too, with the hat.

Hands down.

All that and you send my team and go bingo home? Yeah, I know, bro. I know.

Really? No.

Come on.

Give me a second.

I guess Bingo is against the law now.

He played me. Set the pot to the kettle.

I deserve that.

And I admit, when I asked you out, my intentions were less than honorable.

That changed the more I got to know you. But I never got to really know you, did

I?

I'm not a bad guy, Tamika.

Not a good one either.

After what my ex-husband did to me.

I was vulnerable.

You took advantage of that. I was doing my job.

You might not want to hear this, but the company you keep is going to get you

hurt one day. Didn't you get the memo?

I can take care of myself.

Especially now that you taught me a valuable lesson about trust.

Believe me, the next time I invite a man into my life...

He's gonna damn well deserve it.

I truly am sorry, Tamika.

Now that's one thing we can agree on, Jason.

You OK?

Probably touch your food.

I don't eat much when I'm stressed.

What's wrong?

Just some family drama. Don't ask me to get into it.

But it feels like I don't have anyone I can really rely on right now,

except you.

Yeah, you're pretty special to me, too.

Special enough to be exclusive?

Is this all out the blue?

Mm-hmm. I know Keith's feeling the same way.

So we can start on a clean slate.

I just want to let you know that I've been with five women since we started

dating, three of them you don't know about.

Where to, Keith?

What?

Well?

I was with my ex one night.

But that was just on some one last time type of shit.

You are just like every dude I've been with.

Why did you give her the $20 million?

What was I supposed to do, Matthew?

You really shit the bed on this one, Arnold. You need to make it right.

And how am I supposed to do that?

You're saying one little lady has you throwing your hands up in defeat.

Why the hell did the group put you in charge in the first place?

Because I'm damn good.

Hell, no one knew anything until Sly came back, started digging shit up.

You leave Danielle and Sly to me and be ready to cancel that withdrawal.

Now hold on, Matt. It's out of your hands, Arnold.

Fuck.

Matt.

I forgot my phone.

I got it.

Come in. We need to talk.

I

don't know what

that was when you left, but I know you just told me you was with five chicks.

And once I told you I was with one, you went all thin line between love and hate

on me.

I'm kind of embarrassed.

I've never been the jealous chick before.

I want us to be exclusive.

And I'm willing to give up my poly lifestyle to make sure that you're

focused on me and only me.

How about this?

You can't be with any of the dudes.

And neither of us can be with any other woman without each other.

Are you sure?

Yes, I'm sure.

No, that was funny. So you were out of town, weren't you?

Yeah, for a minute.

But I'm back to stay now.

So what are your plans?

Uncle's an investigator.

I plan to hire him at Lang & Associates.

That is, if he wants the job.

I might take you up on that offer.

Because I'm tired of running.

Well, running from what?

Seems like there's a story there.

You're a curious cat.

I'm curious about your intentions with my niece.

Really, she's the only family I can lean on, other than my sweet Gabby.

I hope your intentions are on point, young man.

Well, they are.

That goes for me, too.

I'm watching you.

Hey,

no one's asking what my intentions are.

Because we know your intentions are bad.

Passed out.

I hope so.

You have the most lovely smile.

I'll never get tired of it.

And that dress is on fire.

Gracias, amor.

Now, this is what I wanted to be wearing when I said yes.

Yes, you'll marry me. Yes.

Oh, my god.

I got something for you.

Wait.

What's going on?

This is my late mother's ring.

I'll take good care of it.

I love you. I love you.

Let me see. Let me see.

Oh, I'm so happy for you.

Congratulations. Beautiful.

Nice.

Let's raise our glasses to my dear Tia, to my Uncle Sly.

May you two find happiness with each other forever.

Yes. Cheers.

It was such a lovely dinner. It was.

I feel like I'm on cloud nine.

Wait till we get home. Oh, there's that smile again.

Oh, my God.

No.

Oh, my God. Jessica, call 911.

All right, all right, I got it, I got it, I got it.

Hang on, hold on.

You're the best daughter I could have ever hoped for. No, you don't.

You don't look so good.

I had a slight complication.

Is it done?

Daniela wasn't with me. So you got sly?

No.

Shit only gets done when I do it myself.

I got revenge on my mind.

I got revenge on my mind. They left me for dead. They left me for dead. Now I'm

the one doing the time.

I got revenge on my heart.

These haters be lurking. Now look at them flexing. They must have thought I

forgot. Now I got revenge on my mind.

I'm the one doing the time.

People are trusted and people are loved. They sat up in court and lied.

Can't trust some names.