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Mother, the student council meeting ran late.

An Astra Eris with zero sense of time.

You're not half the person your dead mother was.

Cece, let me show you how to listen to the waves.

My right ear can't hear anything.

Then feel it.

The tide always comes back, just like I'll always be by your side.

Your brother died in that crash trying to protect you. Did he trade his life

just for you to humiliate the Astor family tonight?

All right, go toast Senator Wilson. And remember, never show your weakness to

anyone.

I'm sorry, Senator Wilson. Could you repeat that?

Why does she keep tilting her head when she talks?

We are going to the restroom.

Now.

Every time someone speaks to you, you're a beat too slow.

Are you trying to announce to the whole room that you're a cripple?

By tomorrow morning, the whole state will know the Aster-S can't even hold a

normal conversation. Are you happy now?

Mother.

I didn't mean to. Julian died to uphold the glory of this family, and you can't

even maintain basic decency!

You have five minutes.

Come out, toast every single person, and if you slip up one more time, you're out

of the Astor House tonight.

Philip, guess whose little show I just caught?

Your arch rival, Cecilia.

Hey, deaf girl.

Heard your mom smacked you right in front of everyone last night?

If your brother knew you'd turn out like this, he'd definitely regret dying for

you.

An aster-eris with zero sense of time!

Snack!

Your mom's right.

You're not half the person your brother was.

Your existence is just an embarrassment to the Astrins.

Deaf freaks don't need to read.

Who gave you permission to stand up?

Give me back my book!

You didn't make a peep when your mommy hit you, but now you want to act tough

with me?

Philip, back off.

You're crossing a line.

Hey, scumbag.

Get your filthy hands off her.

Look who it is. The little Southside's trash.

What, you want to play hero for the deaf girl?

You're a nobody who only got in on athletic scholarship.

You can't even afford tuition. What gives you the right to butt in to ask

your family business?

You're right, I don't.

Run. But all you're good for is talking trash on a girl's deaf side.

What do you actually have besides your daddy's trust fund?

The hell did you just say to me?

You're dead!

Go to hell!

Watch your back next time, Raven.

Miss you must return home directly today Don't touch me

miss please cooperate

She made a run for

it

It's

her

20,000 month. It's the end of the month. Where's the money?

Just give me one more week.

A week?

You've been saying that for three weeks, man. How much do you even make a day?

Let my dad go.

Well, well, isn't this the little motherless stray?

Don't you touch her! Take it out on me!

If I were you, abandoned by my mom and stuck with a deadbeat dad, I'd just end

it all.

Shut your damn mouth!

Stupid little bitch.

Your old man owes us.

Get on your knees and beg.

Maybe we'll cut you a break on interest.

Stop right there.

Who the hell are you?

Take the cash and get lost.

I assume you've heard the name Aster.

One phone call from me, and all three of you will be rotting in a cell. If you

ever mess with Raven or her family again, your lives will be a living hell.

You won this round.

What, never been in a poor person's house before?

Is it really that hard for you to talk to someone from the South Side?

What?

I was born with hearing loss in my right ear.

I thought a rich girl like you just looked down on everyone.

You let Philip talk trash to you just because of this?

It's my defect.

You can't hear out of one ear. It doesn't stop you from talking or eating.

What is that, a defect?

That doesn't matter right now.

I want to make a deal with you.

What kind of deal could a high and mighty hair-ass possibly want with a

broke kid like me?

You need money.

$150,000.

Teach me how to be bad.

Deal.

Rule number one of Breaking Bad, take off the shirt.

This is the most rebellious thing I've done in my entire life.

That brings us to rule number two.

No more good girl.

Miss, Madeline has asked me to relay a message. If you don't behave, the

Southside girl disappears tonight.

Tell Madeline I'm done being threatened by her.

Ma'am, we have a situation.

A disaster.

She kissed that Southside girl right in front of us.

I want a full background check on that girl by the end of the day.

A sumer rat trying to lash onto an aster?

She's completely delusional.

Raven, that gray car across the street is taking pictures of you.

They've been parked there since this morning.

Listen to me, princess.

On the count of three, ditch the heels and run with me.

What? One, two, three, run!

Crawl through!

Forget the damn dress! Keep moving!

Miss Astra!

Your mother orders you to return home immediately!

Tell her Cecilia isn't going home tonight!

We lost visual after they entered the seafood market aisle. Block the east

exit, send reinforcements immediately.

Quick, into the subway station.

Your mom's really going all out to track me down. That's the hallmark of an

aster, never stopping until they get what they want.

Ma'am, we lost them.

Two grown professionals can't even keep tabs on a pair of high school girls? Ma

'am, the layout of the south side is too complex. I don't want to hear excuses.

Keep tracking.

Turn the south side upside down if you have to. Just find them. Yes, ma'am.

Those guys are definitely still looking for us.

We'll have to crash at a motel tonight to lay low.

You know this area better than I do.

If there's one thing the south side has plenty of, it's shady motels.

Give me a sec.

Let's go.

Take a left at the next intersection.

There should be one down that alley.

Watch out!

I wanna

kiss

you. Then do it.

Cecilia, what do you think will happen when your mommy sees this?

The great Heiress Cecilia finally graces us with her presence.

You went through a lot of trouble to get me here. This better be important.

Step down and give me the Student Council presidency, or else... You

wouldn't dare leak that.

Attention, everyone.

Got a little gossip for you. The great Aster Ares is half-deaf.

And she and Raven are also... You little...

If

you ever run your

mouth like that again... I'll beat you down every single time I see you.

Why am I the one getting expelled? Philip threw the first punch. Students

like you from the South Side are a virus to St. Martins. Get out of this school

right now!

Let's go.

You threw everything away just for her.

Was it worth it?

I hated this place anyway.

Getting expelled did me a favor.

Cecilia, after everything we've done these past few days, you've disappointed

me beyond belief.

I don't think I did anything wrong.

Raven was expelled. Get her reinstated.

Say that again.

Re-engrall her!

I can donate two million to St. Martin's in Raven's name to get her reinstated,

but my money doesn't come for free.

The catch is, she signs it in person.

Raven Black is here.

Send her in.

What the hell did you do to Cecilia?

How could you do this to your own daughter?

How I discipline my child is my business. It's not your place to

interfere.

Sign this document.

Admit that you only survive off the charity of the Astor family.

You think I'll sign just because you told me to?

If you don't, Cecilia took this beating for absolutely nothing.

I'll pay you back.

You'd better remember, she didn't sign for two million dollars.

She signed for you.

Teach Philip a lesson.

Make him hand over every single backup of that video. You do not mess with an

Astra.

Where's the video?

In the phone.

Astra family, just wait.

Too bad you guys didn't know I have two phones.

Senator Eleanor Ashford donated two million to the school in your name. The

board has decided to reinstate you.

However, the condition of your return is that you must publicly read this apology

statement during the morning assembly.

Why should I read this? Why don't you just get on the PA system yourself and

tell everyone Raven Mallow is a slut? These are Senator Astro's terms. Refuse

and your expulsion stands immediately.

Fine, I'm out. I don't respond to threats. You know exactly what Cecilia

went through to get you reinstated.

And your father?

He's banking on your volleyball scholarship for college.

Are you really going to break their hearts?

Miss Raven Malloy will now read her statement of apology.

I, Raven Malloy, admit to being a slut.

Speak up.

Admit to being a slut and tarnishing the academy's reputation with inappropriate

behavior.

Cecilia, you shouldn't be up here.

Cecilia, do you know what you're doing? This statement was your mother's. My

mother's decisions are not mine. You are openly defying the administration.

I will formally file a complaint with the State Board of Education against you

for abuse of power and violating students' basic rights.

The show is just beginning.

The video is blowing up on the forums!

Oh my god, it's really Cecilia in that south side? Aww, Raven.

Still trying so hard to claw your way into the Aster's world? What's next?

Hoping they'll mistake you for one of them?

Say that again?

Am I wrong?

You're just a scholarship charity case who couldn't even pay tuition until you

climbed into Cecilia's bed for a $2 million handout.

Is your mouth always this filthy or did you just eat garbage for breakfast?

What Cecilia and I do is none of your damn business. You take that back!

Say that again!

A yopping little minion doesn't get to tell me to shut up. You're just a

motherless stray!

Nobody in this world wants you! You deserve to be kicked out!

I love Raven, and it is absolutely none of your business.

I will choose you every single time.

Senator, the video is all over campus.

And Miss Cecilia just publicly kissed the scholarship student during assembly.

How dare she drag the Aster name through the mud in front of everyone?

Drag Cecilia back here immediately.

I'm going to ask her face to face if she has any idea what she's done.

Move.

Raven, leave me! Run!

Making out with that Southside trash in front of the whole school?

Cecilia, you've really learned how to be shameless these past few days.

I'm who I am, and I'm done being your puppet.

From now on, you're not going anywhere.

lock her in her room no one sees her without my permission yes senator

Raven, why do you torture yourself like this?

Dad, I need to see her.

Raven, this is the divide between the Southside and them. We can't cross it.

Let's go home.

Vivian Locke, you've harbored a crush on Cecilia for ten years now. Let's make a

deal.

Senator Astor, if you don't let Cecilia return to school tonight, I swear my

father will expose your child abuse scandal on the Senate floor tomorrow.

You dare threaten me?

Vivian Locke, your father is merely a freshman senator.

I'd do anything for Cecilia. Open the door!

You should thank Vivian Locke. Without her, you'd be rotting in this room all

night.

Cecilia, are you okay? I was so worried. Why are you helping me? We're friends.

Growing up, you always helped me fix my messes, didn't you?

Let's go.

Cecilia, you're out?

Are you okay?

Cecilia, I brought you coffee.

You must not have slept well last night.

Have something warm.

Your face.

The coffee's getting cold. I went out of my way to your favorite spot. Drink up.

No, thanks.

Let's go. Next class is starting.

Cecilia, eat with me at lunch. I have a question about this assignment.

Cecilia, you're just going to walk away?

Could you explain this problem to me again?

Cecilia, you're really something else.

like that what am i to you cecilia just some clown you paid 150 000 from your

trust fund to play your little rebellion games with why would you think that

vivian locke likes you a blind person could see that you have the same

background the same social circle so what she can use her dad's power to bust

you out of your mansion what can i do i just ended up getting beaten to the mud

by your bodyguards like a stray dog this damn jealousy is driving me crazy

Raven, I only want you. That money stopped mattering the second I fell in

love with you.

What?

Raven, I don't care about anyone else.

Put this on and be my real girlfriend.

What are you drawing?

A ring.

For who?

For my future girlfriend.

Can I see it?

Someday, I'll be the one wearing it.

Raven, I'm gonna show you who really belongs with Cecilia.

Here are the surveillance logs from the past few days.

Enjoy your last supper, Southside Trash.

Look at the screen.

Vivian Locke, you had someone stalk my family?

Lion Malloy works three minimum wage jobs just to support you. It's pathetic.

Keep my dad out of this!

Take your filthy hands off me or I'll make one phone call and Lion Malloy will

lose all three of those jobs.

I can also have the police find illegal drugs and smuggled car parts in his

garage. He'll be sent straight to federal prison and your whole family is

finished. What do you want? Leave, Cecilia.

Tell her you were just leeching off the Aster Trust Fund.

Fine.

You win.

Raven.

My daughter.

Raven, what do you mean is the deal off? What happened?

It means I'm done playing pretend.

Are you joking?

We were just on the roof yesterday.

That was just to get you hooked, Cecilia. Did you really think I'd fall

for you?

I only played your little rebellious games to squeeze more money out of the

Astor Trust Fund.

That's not who you are, Raven. How stupid are you?

Your right ear isn't your only defect.

You're just a gullible, broken piece of trash.

If that's what you want, then fine. You get your wish.

Stop this match right now!

Pay whatever it takes and get her out of there!

Who are you?

Why am I here?

The first year.

When you just learned to walk by holding the walls, I bought these shoes.

I never got to send them. The seventh year. I heard you started drawing.

I knit this scarf.

I tore it up and redid it seven times before I finished it. The thirteenth

year. I went to your art show. I sat in the back row. I didn't dare come

forward.

Who are you?

Eighteen years.

Not a day went by that I forgot your face.

Raven, I am your mother.

Back then, my family forced me onto a flight to London, and I couldn't take

you with me.

These gifts... Shut up!

I prepared them for you every single year.

Please don't do this.

You abandoned me for 18 years.

Now you show up with your dirty money and this garbage pretending to be a good

mother? Get out! Raven, give me a chance to make it up to you. If you hadn't

abandoned us, Lion and I wouldn't have had to suffer like we did.

I was wrong.

Raven, I'm so sorry. And I'm sorry for Lion.

Take your trash gifts and get out of my sight!

Arthur Vance! You actually have the nerve to step foot in the South Side?

You ruined our family!

Your anger right now is going to destroy her future.

You don't get to lecture me! Take your snobby attitude and leave!

This is the $2 million education fund I've been saving for Raven for 18 years.

The documents explain everything.

The password is her birthday.

I don't care how much you hate me, but I need to make this clear.

Raven is my granddaughter.

She owes nothing to anyone, and she doesn't need anyone's charity.

I was wrong 18 years ago. I owe you both. With the time I have left, I only

want to do one thing. Make it up to you.

Tomorrow is Raven's volleyball game. Aaron and I will both be there.

Arthur Vance, you're a real bastard.

Stop wasting your tears on that Southside fraud.

Write a check, and the sewer rats always show their true colors.

She even threw a ring I gave her on the ground that day.

So unreasonable.

Did you see her face in that parking, Hodge? I told you from the start, she

doesn't deserve a bit of your affection.

I never told anyone I was meeting Raven in the parking, Glash.

Vivian, how did you know the exact location?

I guessed.

Where else would people like that go?

You better pray you had nothing to do with this.

Get me the Astro Family security advisor.

I want Vivian Locke's complete travel logs now.

Vivian Locke?

You used Leon's three jobs to Black Raven and even forged evidence to try

and send him to federal prison.

Cecilia, let me explain. A Southside rat like Raven isn't worthy of you. Only me.

Only someone with our family status. The Astor's lead attorney filed a

restraining order against you in federal court ten minutes ago.

You can't do this.

We've known each other for ten years.

From this moment out, stay out of my life.

And never let me see you again.

Time out! Call a time out now!

Raven Mallow, is your head even in the game?

This is a match. What the hell are you thinking about?

I'm giving you three minutes. This court doesn't tolerate dead weight. If we lose

this game, you're done playing volleyball for good.

Who are you? This is the player's rest area.

I'm your grandfather.

For 18 years, I was bullied and mocked at school for being a motherless mutt.

Leon worked three jobs a day, his body covered in old injuries, all because of

you. I don't deserve to be here. The pain you and Lyon suffered is my sin.

I'm not asking for your forgiveness, but volleyball is your dream. You're a

better player than I ever was. Go win this game.

You earned it.

Raven! Get it together!

Show them what a mallow is made of!

Three massive blocks in a row by Raven, and a devastating back ruse strike!

It's down and bound!

Nice game, but I know everything about what Vivian Locke

did to you.

If you know everything, then Vivian Locke,

she...

Raven. Raven.

Aster's security has taken over your dad's garage.

You don't have to worry.

Vivian Law can never hurt you again.

I'm sorry for everything I said to you in the garage. That was cruel.

When I called you disabled, I know better than anyone how much that hurts.

I know who you are.

I knew you had your reasons.

I never doubted you.

Remember this, Raven.

You don't need a reason to be loved.

You deserve it just by being you.

I've been wanting to do this since we were in the hallway.

Every time you look at me like that, I want you.

Raven, don't.

Moan louder. I love hearing from you.

Raven, you...

Jerk.

Your legs are shaking.

Am I really that good?

Shut up.

Then don't put them back on. They're just going to come off again anyway.

Cecilia, if you don't love me, then burn in hell with me.

How are you two together?

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

He wants to ruin your life, and I want to make Cecilia wish you were dead.

I watched the video from last night.

You sounded so slutty.

Is Cecilia good in bed? Philip, you can't even get into a woman's bed.

You're just a stray dog peeping through the window. The moment this video is

sent to Senator Madelaster's inbox, Cecilia is completely finished.

How do you think that cold-hearted senator will punish her? With a whip? Or

straight to a psychiatric's hound?

Don't you dare touch a hair on her head!

Relax. You don't look like that sweet, tender lover from bed right now.

At tomorrow morning's school assembly, I want you to kiss Philip in front of

everyone, and then tell Cecilia to her face that you never loved her.

If you don't do as you're told, the video gets sent in one minute.

Don't stress. Kissing me is a win for you.

I'll do it. That's right. You never belonged in her life to begin with.

Now, please welcome Raven Malloyne to the stage.

Hurry up.

Raven! Tell me you were just joking up there! Give me an explanation!

Cecilia, don't touch me.

Wasn't I clear enough on that stage?

I don't like you anymore, Cecilia! I want Philip!

How is that possible?

Philip threatened you just recently. So what, Cecilia? I'm sick of your mother's

surveillance. You make me feel like some sewer rat that has to hide in the dark.

Cecilia, you can't even protect yourself.

Being with you was a mistake.

Cecilia, you look pathetic when you're begging.

Just like a stray dog kicked out by its owner. By the way, Raven slept at my

place last night, tossing and turning beneath me.

Cecilia, you're an absolute zero who can't even keep her own woman. Living is

a disgrace for you.

You are the representative of the Astor family now.

You'd better completely forget that Southside trash, or you'll regret Rhett

coming home. Raven, keep your hands up! Do you want to die in this ring?

Cecilia, only physical pain can stop me from thinking about even for a second.

Cecilia, these are the spring formal invoices submitted by Vivian Locke. As

student council president, you have to organize all graduation scene expense

reports yourself.

Got it. I'll have them sorted within half an hour.

Vivian Locke? Why would she go to that motel?

Could she have known about everything that happened that day?

Leo, I need you to look into something for me.

Six months ago, check-in records and security footage for room 204 at the

motel. I want all of it. Yes, miss.

Heard the news.

Raven's mom, who's been missing for years, apparently showed up. Probably

some loose slut. Came back after all those guys on the outside got tired of

playing with her. What kind of good comes from a bitch? Anyone who messes

with Phillip never gets a good ending. Speaking of which, didn't Phillip make

out with her last time? Is he actually breaking Raven's hands tonight?

What the hell do you know? Philip told us privately that kissing that Southwide

bitch felt worse than swallowing a green-headed blowfly.

Philip just loves watching Raven and Cecilia turn on each other.

The more pain they're in, the happier he gets.

So it was all a lie from the very beginning.

All right, cut the crap.

Let's go grab the iron pulps from the warehouse. If we're late, Philip won't

let us off.

All we gotta do is break that serving left arm of yours, and you're a total

cripple for life. Philip sent you, didn't he? A bunch of losers like you

think you can take me down? In your dreams.

Is that all you've got?

Get in here! Right now!

The precinct has stepped up patrols around here lately. Consider yourself

lucky.

The Astrocrest?

Miss Cecilia, this is the phone Philip used to give orders.

Clear out. Let's go.

Cecilia, it was you.

Raven, I swear, I'm going to get to the bottom of all this.

Miss Cecilia, you asked me to check the security footage from the Southside

Motel before. I've got results.

How is it? That night's security footage was deleted, but I ran a deep data

recovery. Multiple fragmented clips show a black sedan parked downstairs the

entire time.

Following the license plate signal trail, I track the source right to

Vivian Locke. I've locked onto her private cloud account, but Vivian Locke

spent a shorgen on the dark web hiring a top police hacker team. She's using

military-grade dynamic encryption. Forcing a break-in will trigger an auto

-destruct protocol. Leo, I don't care what method you use. Find out.

Let me try injecting the cloud key from Phillip's phone, establishing a reverse

tunnel.

I'm in. Miss, here's Vivian Locke's cloud photo album, plus all

communication logs from her devices going back six months.

Vivien Locke, you actually dared to stalk us?

Raven... All your coldness was just to protect me.

Cecilia went to the south side to find that scholarship student.

It looks like your plan has been exposed.

Don't worry, Senator.

I've got plenty of ways to handle it.

Raven, it's me! Please don't close it!

Cecilia, we're broken up.

Get your ass back to the Astor Mansion.

Raven, stop hiding!

I know all about how Philip and Vivian Locke threatened you.

How do you know?

I had Leo look into everything.

Why didn't you tell me about any of this?

Vivian Locke said if I didn't cut ties with you cleanly, she'd send the video

to your mother.

I couldn't let you be ruined, Cecilia.

I've missed you so much.

Every day for the past six months felt like dying. I've been driving myself

crazy missing you, too.

Raven, I dreamed of you every single night these past six months.

you guys. What do you want? Shut your mouth.

Lion!

Cecilia, I told you you'd pay the price.

What on earth will it take for you to let her go? I gave you both a chance.

You just didn't appreciate it. Vivian Locke, if you have even an ounce of your

- You have the nerve to bring that up?

Cecilia, I've been in love with you for ten whole years!

Ever since we were kids, I followed you around like an idiot, but what about

you?

You betrayed me and everything we had just for some Southside trash?

Since you'll never love me, then I'll make you watch with your own eyes as the

person you love dies right in front of you!

Senator, bring Cecilia back here immediately.

Just dying like this would be too easy for you.

I want you alive, knowing every single day that she belongs to me.

Tie Cecilia up.

You trampled the Astor family name in the dirt for a Southside piece of trash!

Mother, it was my fault from start to finish. Please, leave Raven alone.

Lock her in her room on the second floor. No water allowed without my

permission.

Cecilia, you'll never escape the palm of my hand as long as you live.

Leo, initiate plan B. Strip Vivian Locke's family of every single one of

their overseas accounts.

Miss, interception successful.

All money laundering trails for Vivian Locke, family shell companies, and the

Cayman Islands have been sent to your private terminal. Understood.

Get Madeline up here or I'll smash my head against this door and bleed out

right now!

What kind of madness are you pulling now? Just how long are you planning to

keep me locked up until you've wiped that scholarship student completely out

of your memory?

Aren't you the one who cares most about the Astor family image?

If I never go back to school, people are going to start saying the Astor heiress

has been locked away.

If you don't want headlines like that popping up on your social at friends

phone screens, let me go back.

Let you go back?

So you can go see that wretched Southside nobody?

You can send bodyguards to tail me. I'll maintain a safe distance from Raven

Maleth.

Get a car ready for her.

Data confirmed. Ready to dispatch to the IRS at any moment.

You actually had the guts to leave the estate? Does Madeline know you're- I've

already handed $50 million in undeniable money laundering proof to federal

authorities.

Agents will be surrounding your house within 10 minutes.

If you don't want to get dragged down into a prison cell, delete every single

video back up right here in front of me.

Senator, help me!

Cecilia, she... The Astor family doesn't associate with bankrupt taxigraters.

Consider yourself on your own.

Let's go. Get out of here.

Eleanor has bodyguards watching me 24 hours. I can't run.

The senator requests your return, miss.

Wait for me. Just as I expected, that wretched commoner is still hanging

around you. I kept my end of the bargain this time.

Continuing this entanglement does no one any good.

Next weekend, you're holding your engagement banquet with Arthur from the

Sterling family.

I refuse.

Do you think growing a spine means I'm out of ways to deal with you? With just

a single word from me, she won't even live to see tonight's moon.

I'll do it.

Take his arm.

Think of your dead brother.

He fought tooth and nail to push you into this.

He wanted you to elevate the family, not destroy everything for some Southside

trash.

Tonight, I also want to announce a grand family alliance.

My daughter, Cecilia, is officially betrothed to Mr. Arthur Sterling of the

Sterling family.

I object!

You're forcing Cecilia to marry someone she doesn't love at all.

And you keep weaponizing dead Julian against her, forcing her to be your

personal puppet. You Southside peasant. What do you know about family duty?

What do you know about blood and honor? I don't know any of that. But I know

Cecilia is deeply unhappy.

You trained her into your most obedient drone without ever once asking if she's

happy.

If I were you, I'd never trade my own daughter's life for business leverage.

Senator Madeline, you've won your whole life, but when it comes to being a

mother, you've failed completely and utterly.

No, I... Cecilia, let's burn in hell together!

Vivian Locke, you are under arrest for massive money laundering, tax evasion,

and attempted murder.

Cecilia Raven, I'll haunt you even after I'm dead!

Cecilia, the moment you walk out that door, you won't see a single dime of the

Astor fortune.

I am never living for the Astors again.

Let's go.

Freeze every single account under her name.

I want to see how many days love keeps her afloat down in the Southside sewers.

Madeline has locked down all your funds.

This is the price I pay to buy out my freedom. Let's go home.

The bed is made. You two sleep inside. I'll take the couch.

But that's your bed. In the south side, there are no rich heiresses and

mechanics. Only people taking shelter from the rain under the same roof.

I owe you.

Cut the chatter. Eat it while it's hot.

Wake up early tomorrow. The garage needs someone to wash parts.

Nova, I heard about your accounts.

I have an empty apartment on the east side or I could... Miss Frank, I heard

you invested in an independent coffee shop nearby. I need a part-time where I

can earn my own salary. I'll do it too. Two paychecks.

Fine. I'll have the manager set it up tomorrow.

Tired? Can't believe an Ashford Harris is washing cups here.

No matter how hard it is, I earned it myself.

It feels secure.

Cassandra, have you had enough of the lower-class lifestyle?

Arthur, what are you doing here?

You tore up the engagement and made me a laughingstock in high society. Did you

really think you'd be safe hiding down here? The game is just beginning.

You're fired.

What did we do wrong? No reason why.

I'm the boss. I make the rules. Take your cash and get out of here.

I'll give you three seconds to name who's behind this or starting tomorrow.

Not a single supplier on this street will dare sell you a single coffee bean.

Don't make it hard for me.

You know what the name Astrin means.

If you want to lose everything, I won't stop you. I'll say this one last time.

Who gave the order?

It's the Sterling Family Legal Department sent a pressure letter this

morning. If I keep employing you, the tax theory will shut my shop down

tomorrow. Please just go. Don't ruin me.

Leon, you messed with someone you shouldn't have. Your other two jobs

already fired you too. Don't drag me down with you.

The land lease for this garage is held under the local union.

The union president is an old friend of mine.

If you dare fire Kyle without cause, I guarantee you won't even be able to

source a single screw tomorrow.

This money is enough for your family to live in peace.

Arthur's reach doesn't extend that far. I appreciate the gesture, but both Nova

and I want to live off the work of our own hands.

I'm going straight to the Sterling family penthouse right now and breaking

Arthur's legs.

Raven, calm down.

Your fists are only going to land you in a prison cell.

Then what do you suggest we do?

With him pressing us step by step, we're going to die sooner or later. All of

Arthur's pressure goes through the Sterling family's legal department and

financial chains. If we can find a smudge in his personal finances, we can

turn the tables.

Looks like we came just in time.

External enemy at the gates, old scores aside, let's deal with that Sterling

brat first.

On the surface, Arthur is the respectable heir.

Behind the scenes, he's embezzled massive family funds and gotten mixed up

in Southside Underground illegal sports betting.

If these ledgers are exposed, the Sterling family will be the first to

throw him under the bop as a scapegoat.

The man behind the Underground Fight Club owes me a favor. I've got a VIP

pass for tonight. Can slip some right in.

That's way too dangerous.

Places like that are easy to enter, damn near impossible to walk out of.

This is our only chance.

If I don't go, we'll stay under his boot forever.

I'll back you up remotely.

Raven, Arthur's background server is in the core room behind the ring.

You've only got three minutes to plug in the decryption USB and copy his gambling

ledgers. After three minutes, the backup generate kicks in and all ports reset.

Got it.

Connected. Progress at 30%. 60%. Faster!

Arthur's firewall is way more complex than I thought. It's reverse tracing.

Raven, pull the flash drive and run. The system triggered a physical alarm.

Young Master Arthur gave the order. Completely cripple this south side rat!

Lion, she's trapped at Enzit B3.

Chief, I'm filing a formal, named report against the Sterling family for running

an illegal queso in the Southside.

This is your best shot to take Arthur down.

Raven, get in!

These are the Sterling family bail documents.

Senator Madeline, there are a few rats down in the south side.

Conventional methods aren't working anymore. We need them completely wiped

out.

Mr. Sterling, I can grant you authorization to deploy the state

police, but I have one condition.

Bring Cecilia back to the estate.

As for that Malloy family, do whatever you like with them. Done, Senator.

Everyone down!

Line, you're under arrest for suspicion of harboring large quantities of illicit

drugs and smuggling stolen auto parts.

touches that stuff.

Let him go!

Raven, stay back. If you attack an officer, our family is finished for

good.

Raven, listen to your father.

I'll find the best damn lawyers money can buy.

Drop all charges against Loyan, let him go, and I'll come back to the asters.

Drop all charges against Lion, and let him go, and I'll return to the astrons

immediately.

Cecilia, you still seem confused about your position.

I'm not here to negotiate terms with you.

What on earth do you want? I don't just want your empty shell.

I want you to watch with your own eyes as that Malloy family is completely

shattered before you. That's the price for them teaching you rebellion.

Mr.

Vance, harboring major contraband is a heavy felony.

Bail is typically not permitted. I brought $2 million in cash, plus the

former chief judge of the Federal Appeals Court as my personal guarantor.

48 hours of bail, not a minute less.

or my legal team will subject your entire precinct to a constitutional

audit.

Dad,

you're hurt.

If we don't find absolute proof that Arthur fabricated the evidence, Lyon is

still going to be handed over to federal court.

We'll find the proof, no matter what it costs.

Silly girl.

Take care of yourselves first.

Arthur's tale isn't going to stay hidden forever.

I had someone track down the man who set Leon up.

Who is it? Where are they? Let's go corner him right now!

At the auto shop.

Who ordered you to plant those drugs in Leon's garage?

Talk!

It was young Master Arthur from the Sterling family.

He gave me 50 grand cash to shove the stash in there. Would you dare repeat

every single word of that to a judge in a courtroom?

Too bad dead people don't get to take the stand.

Fiance, your life ends right here.

Cecilia, if you're going to die, you might as well know the whole picture.

It's fine to tell you.

That mechanic named Mallow?

I framed him. I spent a million bribing a police inside man, another 50 grand a

scarface to plant the goods. So what?

Arthur, do you honestly believe you control the entire New York judicial

system? Not down here! I am the judicial system!

Today, the two of you accidentally plunge to your deaths from this roof,

and the police will close the file as an accident.

Cecilia, this is what you get for betraying me.

The audio stream is coming back live through Cecilia's bug.

Audio encrypted and dispatched to the state independent anti-corruption

prosecutor's office. Carbon cappy to the FBI New York field office.

It's time to tour the death brain for the Sterling family.

Shoot them!

Kill them!

Drop your weapons!

Down on the ground, now!

You low-class pigs!

Do you know who I am? If you dare arrest me today, I'll make sure you pay for

this dearly!

Arthur Sterling, you are formally under arrest for illegal possession of

firearms, fabricating major criminal evidence, and operating an underground

money laundering quetmork. The state prosecutor has full custody of your

confessions.

Game over, Arthur.

Senator Madeline, use your political immunity to bail me out. I got arrested

only because I was helping you force Cecilia into submission. Mr. Sterling,

I'm afraid you've lost your mind and right.

Your criminal acts have zero relation with the Astor family.

You dare throw me under the batch?

If you leave me to rot, I swear I'll expo- You have zero evidence, Arthur.

Enjoy spending the rest of your life behind bars.

Madeline, I swear I'll tear you to pieces one day!

Breaking news.

Sterling family heir Arthur Sterling was raided and arrested by the FBI this

afternoon.

Prosecutors have released definitive audio evidence proving his conspiracy.

Release a joint family statement immediately.

Freeze all of Arthur's family funds and trust accounts.

Push total responsibility on him personally. The Sterling stock cannot

collapse because of this idiot.

To our family.

You folks are the bravest people I've ever laid eyes on.

It's you guys?

Ms. Cecilia Astor, this is an emergency subpoena from the State Supreme Court.

Involuntary medical guardianship? What is this supposed to mean?

This is Madeleine pulling strings behind the scenes.

Once this goes through, Cecilia's personal freedom will be completely and

legally hand over to Madeleine.

Senator, right now media focus is entirely on the Sterling family.

Arthur is just an ignorant, arrogant fool.

Since violence couldn't crush their wills, we'll use the law.

Cecilia has suffered from persistent PTSD since the incident with her brother

Julian. As a heartbroken mother, I am petitioning the court for her medical

guardianship. What judge would ever refuse a state senator protecting her

mentally unstable disabled daughter? Understood, Senator. I guarantee Ms.

Cecilia will never step foot outside the estate for the rest of her life.

Ms. Cecilia, pursuant to the emergency petition filed by Senator Madeline, the

court finds you currently status of extreme mental instability with self

-harm tendencies.

We need to escort you immediately to a designated medical facility for a 72

-hour involuntary psychiatric evaluation.

If any of you dare touch her, I'll break your legs today!

If you attempt to obstruct court officers in the line of duty, we will

arrest you on the spot for assaulting an officer.

Raven, if you fight the law here, they'll write whatever fabricated

charges they want into the reports.

But they're going to lock you up in a madhouse.

Trust me.

I'll come back safe.

Let's go.

Your Honor, as a mother, seeing my daughter degenerate into hanging out

with Southside criminals because of the trauma of losing her brother years ago

breaks my heart. I am petitioning for guardianship solely to protect her from

coming to any further harm.

Based on the current medical evaluation reports and Senator Astor's testimony,

this court finds that the rescinded Cecilia currently lacks the capacity for

self-management. The court is prepared to rule.

Your Honor, the defense moves for an emergency submission of new evidence.

This file will prove that Senator Madeline is the one who belongs locked

up in a psychiatric ward.

This report, co-signed by two independent forensic pathologists and

three social workers, shows that seven-year-old Julian's death was never

an accidental car crash at all. Back then, Julian was suffering from severe

global pneumonia.

And the petitioner Madeline Astor, in order to sculpt a political image during

a crucial state Senate campaign, forcibly unplugged Julian's IV lines and

forced him to participate in a two-hour open-air political rally in the pouring

rain. Julian died of acute heart failure brought on by extreme exhaustion.

The so-called car crash was nothing more than an excuse manufactured by Madeline

to cover up traces of abuse and divert public attention.

The one with a true, severe, antisocial personality and sadistic tendencies is

the petitioner, Madeline.

Order. Based on the official CPS top secret files submitted by the defense,

this court finds that the petitioner, Madeline Astor, has severe credibility

issues and potential abusive tendencies.

The petition for involuntary medical guardianship is hereby dismissed.

Cecilia. You are free.

Contact Victor in Washington.

I want to completely free Cecilia's... Madeline, do you think that by throwing

me into prison like trash everything is over? I will personally drag you and

everyone you care about straight to hell!

Mr.

Sterling, we've confirmed the final payment on the Dark Web.

Let's go.

We're going to the south side to start a fire.

Burn

it

all down.

Coming down a single apartment is too boring. That old hag Madeline treated me

like a rag doll, so now she's gonna pay.

Care to guess what I'm gonna do to Madeline?

Arthur!

You better not do anything stupid or the asters will never let you walk away!

Suspects upstairs!

Listen up!

The entire perimeter is locked down!

Drop the detonator and surrender!

While the idiots downstairs are waiting for bomb squads, Madeline, we've got

plenty of time to settle scores.

Since you've read the super pap ledgers, you should know that if you kill me, you

won't survive either. I'm already a dead man looking at 30 years in federal

prison. Do you think I give a damn anymore?

Take a look at this.

Three shell accounts in the Cayman Islands pushing $60 million in black-op

political money. And the best part?

The signature on the incorporation papers belongs to Cecilia.

Arthur! You forged Cecilia's signature. What are you trying to do? If you don't

instantly start a nationwide live stream confessing to taking illegal donations,

rigging elections, and laundering money, I'll hand these files straight to the

FBI downstairs.

Care to guess how many years an 18-year-old high schooler will spend

inside a brutal maximum security women's prison?

Arthur! If you dare lay a finger on Cecilia, I'll haunt you from the grave!

Do you want to protect your political dignity, or do you want your last

daughter's life?

Five seconds.

Five. Four.

I am State Senator Madeleine Astor. I am here to surrender.

I accepted illegal political donations from military contractors and laundered

money through shell corporations.

Enjoy your last few minutes of freedom, Madeleine.

Soon, I'm going to make you wish you were dead.

Arthur's at the campaign office.

He must have forged something to blackmail Madeline.

Stand back!

There are high explosives inside.

By the time they realize there are no explosives, Madeline will already be

murdered. The front door's a no-go.

We go subterranean.

Do you know the layout of this building?

Sub-level three of the parking grad has a freight elevator going straight to the

top, but the wiring's been dead for years.

Let's move.

Madeline, your confession statement was brilliant Do you think cheap tricks like

this are enough to ruin me? Madeline, the moment you threw me away like a

spent asset, I swore I'd make you pay Whatever you care about most, that's

what I'll use to crush you.

I'm going to turn everything you cherish into knives stabbing back at you. You...

you're a lunaturk! Even if you kill me, the rest of the Astras will drag you

down with me.

Arthur, your conspiracy is not going to win!

Who? Get away!

Don't touch me!

Go to hell, scum.

A Southside mechanic bitch daring to meddle in Sterling family business?

Southside rule!

If you can throw punches, Don't waste breath talking.

Die, you cheap stray dog!

That's what you get for overestimating yourself.

Rabbit dog, let go of me!

Cecilia, my arrogant fiancé. Your Aster family ruined everything I had. You

treated me like a dog. You could kick away whenever you please.

Now I'm gonna peel that pathetic sense of superiors right off your pretty face,

piece by piece! Arthur, you brought this on yourself!

Help me!

Cecilia! Pull me up!

I'll give you all the offshore passwords to the Sterling account!

Arthur, you've done nothing but evil and you still expect me to save you? In your

dreams!

No! No!

Cecilia, take good care of yourself.

You think catching an old woman wraps this up?

Nobody who crosses the Sterlings gets off easy.

Get me the fabricated evidence Arthur left behind. I'm going to totally

destroy them.

Someone's coming up!

Freeze! Put your hands up in the air.

Raven, back down or they'll shoot you on spot for assaulting an officer.

A warrant issued by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New

York. Cecilia, you are formally under arrest for transnational wire fraud.

Your Honor, the Cayman Islands Trust Fund statements just submitted by the

prosecution were entirely forged unilaterally by the late Arthur before

his death.

The documents bear your client's personal signature, and the funds

involved total $40 million.

The defendant possesses a massive network of overseas assets.

This court finds Cecilia at extreme risk of flight and orders her immediate

remand to the federal detention center.

The best is yet to come.

Diane, the new board of directors of the Sterling family is formally suing you

for breaching top-team confidentiality agreements. The court has temporarily

suspended your law license.

Every single bank account, fund, and offshore asset under your name was

completely frozen two minutes ago.

Using tactics like this against a humble, salaried corporate accountant

like me, you guys really think high of yourselves.

Mr. Vance, Ms. Vance, all family trusts in this property under your names have

been fully bought out and foreclosed upon by a Wall Street hedge fund.

Please vacate this building immediately.

You bastards!

Whoever is pulling the strings behind the cedars, I am going to drag them out

into the light!

Instmate 7190, put it on and move forward.

Well, look who we have here, our high and mighty Astra Princess.

Where's your multi-billion dollar trust fund now, Cecilia?

Down here, you can't even afford a single pack of black market menthols.

I despise people like you from self-importeous old money families.

I saw it on the news.

Your mother, that high and mighty Senator Madeline, is locked up in

maximum security too, right?

I heard the female guards especially love soft, pample society ladies like

her. Is Madeline crying and begging every night in her cell?

Trading her body for extra soap and toilet paper?

I might not have cash on me right now, but I do know that your biological

younger brother is currently locked up in Rikers Island Men's Facility. All it

takes is a little money through my lawyer to buy off the Aryan Ponderhib

inside. They'll make sure your brother gets special daily attention.

Drag this bitch into the showers!

Who did this?

Back up! Sit down right now! Your visitation privileges are instantly

revoked! Raven, calm down. Don't give them an excuse.

Raven, listen to me.

Don't waste time.

We managed to acquire a copy of the offshore account authorization submitted

by the prosecution through alternate channels. The signature on it, it

genuinely matches your handwriting.

Arthur was an exceptionally lazy idiot. He would never have closely... That's a

New Jersey registration code, not the Cayman Islands notary office. He hired a

local black market broker to forge that seal. A black market broker?

Cecilia, are you saying someone paid off a broker behind the scenes to

deliberately set this whole trap up? That underground casino Arthur used to

frequent before he died.

There should be clues there.

Time's up.

Hang up the phone immediately.

Raven, please take care of yourself.

Wait for me Raven if I'm not out in 20 minutes drive back

to New York and find Aaron don't wait for me Line you raised me. There's no

way in hell. I'm leaving you here alone.

All right We go in together Let's bring Cecilia home

Two bourbons.

Also, I need a name.

The guy who used to run errands for Arthur Astor's VIP table? Who was he?

Arthur threw cash around like water. He handed all his dirty work to a local

black market broker.

We call him Tony. Then the limp.

The old-timer specializes in fake seals and forged documents for the rich.

Where is he?

Old guy's having a rough night, lost his shirt at the tables, and is hiding from

his bookie in the back restroom.

The forged notary documents for the offshore accounts Arthur Astor ordered

before he died. Who hired you to do it?

I don't know what you're talking about. Let me go!

You don't tell me who's pulling the strings.

Nobody can save you today.

It was a lawyer in a suit. He paid me a ton of cash to stamp blank documents

with an old New Jersey notary seal. He said... Dead men tell no tales.

Take it.

The broker slipped this to me right before he died.

It's got his audio confession about forging the notary seals.

This massive payout to buy off the broker? It wasn't from some third-party

shell company? The source code, it's straight back to Grayson's offshore

hedge fund account.

That son of a bitch! He's really trying to destroy Cecilia!

It's Diane.

She got word out from the detention center.

Grayson already bought off the supervising judge.

First thing tomorrow morning, Casillia is being secretly transferred to a

maximum security federal pen in Pennsylvania.

If the justice system is too slow, we stop playing by its rules. We go to the

news networks.

We broadcast everything on this drive and his ugly truth to the whole damn

world.

If Grayson can buy off a judge, we take this to the biggest 24-7 news network.

Once these ledgers and tapes hit national television, no judge will dare

cover for him.

Let's go to the station right now. We have to beat that transfer.

It's Grayson's private security team. The visitor log says Grayson is in a

closed-door meeting with the network present on the top floor.

That old fox.

He's trying to buy his way out of the news cycle with a massive ad deal.

We can't go through the front. I'll take the Vance. We need a distraction to

clear the lobby. I'm with you.

Right here.

Perry Lex Timmons, Blex.

I am Cecilia Astor's attorney.

Grayson is implicated in massive corporate fraud. Get him down here right

now.

of Grayson's crimes. Put the contents of this drive on the air right now.

Mr.

President, for the next three months, I don't want to see a single negative

piece about me on your network.

What the hell is this?

Drop all charges against Cecilia Astor to the MDC right now. If she spends one

more minute immediate in that cell, the DHA will be a national joke.

Miss Astor, the DA dropped all charges. You're completely cleared. You can go.

I knew it.

I knew you'd come for me.

Get in.

Let's go watch that bastard burn.

Nobody move!

Keep your hands where we can see them!

Grayson, you're under arrest for multiple counts of corporate fraud,

money laundering, and attempted murder.

Beating idiots!

I want a lawyer!

It's over, Grayson.

Your luck just ran out.

A federal judge has officially granted a temporary freeze on all ass under

Grayson's name, totaling over $4.7 billion.

No! No!

My money!

Wall Street hedge fund tycoon Coon Grayson suffered a fatal heart attack

tonight after being transferred to solitary confinement at the New York

detention center. He got what was coming to him.

The court just notified me all my frozen assets and properties have been cleared.

We don't have to squeeze into this dump anymore. And I landed a senior mechanic

gig over in Queens. The pay is pretty great.

But Nova and Cassandra have missed so much class because of all this. How is

the Odyssey School's admin going to handle their enrollment? Don't worry

about it. I've already had a word with the board of directors.

First thing tomorrow morning, Nova and Cassandra are heading back to school.

Well, well. Look who decided to grace us with her presence. If it isn't the high

and mighty Miss Aster and her charity fate bodyguard from downtown.

What? I heard your mom got locked up and Grayson died in a cell. Your family's

little drama is the biggest joke in the city right now. Philip, if you had the

brain capacity to actually read yesterday's paper, you'd know that all

of the Aster family's assets have been unfrozen.

And you?

You're nothing but a parasite clinging to a trust fund.

You don't even deserve to be in my line of sight.

You little bitch! You think you're still the same?

Philip, I heard your family's trust fund just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

last week. Let go, you downtown psycho!

Let go of me!

Philip, what do you think you're doing causing a scene at the gates?

Take your little friends and march straight to my office, now!

It looks like your academic probation about to turn into an expulsion.

Miss Astor, Raven, welcome back to Odyssey.

The headmaster is waiting for you in the auditorium. The school assembly is about

to begin.

Let's go, Raven.

This semester, there were those who tried to use dirty money to bury the

truth. to crush the innocent with power and violence.

However, two of our students, in the face of the darkest abyss, refuse to

yield. With extraordinary resilience, wisdom, and courage, they prove to us

that justice is truly invincible.

Headmaster, now on behalf of the Odyssey Academy Board of Directors, I present

the highest order of merit to Cecilia Astor and Raven Malloy.

I never thought I'd see the day I'd be standing on the highest podium of this

prep school.

You earned it, Nova.

You're braver than anyone else here.

Raven! Cecilia!

You two were absolutely amazing up there today.

Dad, you look sharp in that suit today.

Like a real boss.

Aaron picked it out for me. This tie is choking me to death, though.

Listen.

Raven, Cecilia.

Actually, besides coming to your assembly today, Erin and I have

something we wanted to tell you in person.

What's with the serious face?

Kyle and I, we've decided to get married.

18 years ago, my stubbornness and class prejudice violently tore you two apart,

condemning you to endless separation and suffering. It was the most unforgivable

sin I've committed in my entire life.

But fate is merciful.

It has proven that true love is stronger than any hardship.

And following your rebroadly, deeply apologetic father, I bear witness to

your reunion in the light.

Thank you.

Thank you for taking back a broke grease monkey who only knows how to fix cars.

Leon, you are the only hero I've ever had.

Ready? Three, two, one.

Nice reflexes. Looks like, according to tradition, you're the next one walking

down the aisle.

Well, that depends on who's proposing and if the ring shows enough sincerity.

I hate the fake small talk at prom.

I only went before because I had to keep up the aster appearances.

Now?

I just want to be right here.

I don't like it either. Watching those rich kids in suits try to dance is like

watching morning calitetics.

That early acceptance letter to an Ivy League law school?

You decided to sign it yet?

Future hotshot lawyer. I used to think that having money and power meant I

couldn't be hurt, but I was wrong.

I'm going to learn the rules they wrote and then use the law to completely crush

their arrogant little world.

Sounds exactly like you.

What about you?

That letter you've been waiting for?

Stanford. Full-ride D1 volleyball scholarship plus a double major in

mechanical engineering.

I'm going to the best team in the country, and I'm going to show those

West Coast elites what a real spike looks like.

Everything that's happened in the last six months, it feels like a long, crazy

dream.

Good thing it's finally over.

We can actually live like normal people now.

The start of our real lives.

Lion, you handle a steak much better than I ever did.

Grilling is just like fixing a car. Get the timing right and the rest falls into

place. Lion, thank you.

You've proven that love isn't about social status.

It's about responsibility and character.

We're family now.

Let's leave the past in the past. If the emotional bonding segment is over,

please plate those steaks any longer and they'll turn into cork hole.

Cecilia, heads up!

Raven! These hands are for signing multi-million dollar assangements, not

for being your sparring partner.

Oh, yeah?

Well, if you ever run into a stubborn old judge in court, a solid spike might

work better than reading a statute.

Once college starts, you and I are going to be nearly 3,000 miles apart.

What's the matter? The head of the Aster Empire is already missing me? For the

longest time, I thought the Aster name was a curse.

But because of you, now, it's no longer a shackle.

Thank you, Raven.

Every time I was in the dark, you pulled me out of the fire.

Hey, the power of 150 grand.

Of course I gave it my all.

Then it was definitely the best deal I've ever made in my life.

Although, if I wanted to buy out all your time for the rest of your life, I

wonder if the entire Astor fortune would be enough.

Keep your checkbook.

As long as Miss Astor is willing to give me her heart, it comes with a lifetime

contract, effective immediately.

Deal. No matter where you go, you are never backing out of this contract.