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Raven, let go.

You're out of control.

I'm your sister!

Did you forget?

I'm the stray you took in off the streets.

We're not related by blood.

Let me go!

Tonight is our engagement party. Ethan's car is waiting downstairs.

Your fiancé?

Take a look at what your perfect fiancé was doing with another woman in his car.

Ethan, your icy fiancé could never make you so hard.

Of course you know how to please me better.

But her cop father's death will win us plenty of votes.

Between me and the man downstairs who just humiliated you, you're still

choosing him?

I'm selling my marriage to Ethan so I can get the Justice Department's

immunity deal for you.

You don't understand anything.

Have Nora go over the engagement schedule with you.

What were you just doing? Why are you here?

This is my sister's apartment.

I go wherever I want. Do I need to report to you?

We'll talk in the living room.

Ava, so this is your little sister?

A stray from Brooklyn has no business being here.

Say that again.

What? Did I get it wrong?

A piece of gutter rab like you?

Are you done?

Raven, put it down.

Ethan! She's insane!

What she did was wrong.

But she isn't gutter trash.

She's family.

Dr. Moore, you'd better come with me now.

Don't ruin our engagement party.

Miss Mercer, the Old Master's Trust has taken effect.

If you're willing to come home, every resource in Manhattan is at your

dispose. My name is Moore, not Mercer.

Don't bother me until I'm ready.

You handled yourself well at the party, but...

Your sister smashed a bottle over Nora's head.

If she insists on pressing charges, the Justice Department's immunity deal

disappears.

Are you threatening me?

I'm protecting you.

As long as you do exactly what I say, everything will go according to plan.

Senator, anger clouds your political judgment, and I need to see the stamped

copy of the immunity agreement.

Are you negotiating with me?

What are you doing here?

Raven.

It's pouring outside. I had nowhere else to go.

I can have my assistant book you a room.

My identity is on the Justice Department's blacklist.

I can't check into a hotel.

Or should I spend the night under the Brooklyn Bridge?

What do you think, sis?

New York's public safety clearly has serious holes.

Or should I call the NYPD and have them take this trespasser back to the

shelter? She's family.

She's staying.

I don't want outside instability interfering with our lives.

Don't worry.

I'll do what I have to do.

Then prove it.

Use your gratitude for that immunity deal and please your future husband.

What kind of cheap mob trick is this?

The vase fell by itself.

Do you take me for an idiot you can fool that easily?

It's a deep cut.

I'm getting the first aid kit.

The guest room is freezing, Ava.

I want to sleep with you.

Ridiculous.

Ava?

I'm spending tonight in the suite at the Manhattan Club.

By morning, I expect you to regain your professional judgment and get rid of

this embarrassing problem.

Let go.

If you keep moving, you'll tear the stitches.

Ava, he can't protect you.

You can only be mine.

Raven, this engagement is my choice. You don't get to interfere.

Your choice?

Ethan can give me status and resources.

That's how the adult world works.

It's a trade.

You're lying.

You don't care about those titles.

Stay here.

Tonight's club event is packed with powerful figures from politics and the

media. You cannot show up.

Tonight, I want to watch you make a complete fool of yourself.

Keep smiling, Ava.

Dr. Moore, I'm Nora, Ethan's campaign strategist.

A toast to your perfect marriage and to the crucial votes Ethan needs next

month.

Sorry, I don't... Don't embarrass me in public?

It's just a sip of champagne.

It won't affect your precision with a scalpel.

Darling say something

Get this lunatic out of here!

Raven, this isn't some Brooklyn slum.

There was something in that drink.

Something in it?

Raven, not everywhere is as lawless as your slum.

It's so hot.

Why is the room spinning?

Votes! Every vote you have belongs to me!

Senator! Pull yourself together!

I told you to stay at the apartment.

Who said you could follow me?

Stay there?

And watch them drug you like some plaything?

You're signing your own death warrant.

If this draws the Justice Department's attention, it's so what?

Do you really want to be a senator's wife that badly?

Do you really love that politician?

This is my choice.

It has nothing to do with you.

Raven, I'm your sister, and I'm engaged.

We can't do this.

Your sister?

Ava, your heart is racing.

Ava, you're never getting away from me.

You've completely lost your mind.

Yeah, I'm crazy.

He's out there acting like a rabid dog and you're still cleaning up his mess?

You'd choose him over me?

Move.

Don't move.

If you walk out now, they'll know the Senator's perfect wife is covered in my

scent.

I have a deal to finish.

Don't try to ruin my choice.

To hell with your deal.

What do you even see in that politician?

Do you think sending me back to Brooklyn means you can happily play Senator's

wife?

Raven, you shouldn't be doing this.

I've wanted this for a long time, Ava.

Good. Why didn't you hit me harder?

Your little stunt is over.

I've protected you all this time, and all you see is that politician?

Quick! The senator's gone crazy in the main hall!

Find his fiancée!

Put me down!

Those idiots won't find us here.

You're coming home with me.

Ava!

I know you're here! Come out!

Make a sound, Ava.

I love hearing you moan.

Let go. You're insane.

Where's Raven?

Where is that little bastard?

Ethan? She left a long time ago.

It's just me here.

Look at you.

Damn it.

You slut.

Were you cheating on me?

Ethan, snap out of it.

There was something in that drink.

The drink?

Someone's trying to take me down.

Who dares come after a New York state sanitary?

You're in on it too, aren't you?

The drugs are hitting you now.

There are reporters and political enemies everywhere.

If they see you like this, your campaign and your future are over.

Right. My future.

No one can see me like that.

Ava, every part of you, body and soul, belongs to me.

This is an antidote to the nerve blocker.

The effect should wear off within half an hour.

That psychopath.

She drugged my drink.

Well, Senator, you're up and about already.

You Brooklyn gutter rat.

What did you put in my drink?

My approval rating dropped five points because of you.

Senator, you're the one who went crazy on drugs at the club.

What does that have to do with an innocent citizen like me?

Save your cheap street gang act.

You're getting out of my fiancé's home tonight.

Ava, you're the only home I have left.

Ava, tell her to get out. Now.

Ava, tell this self-righteous loser to leave.

Or I'll tell him exactly how you let me have my way with you in that lounge.

Enough, Ethan.

You have that Times campaign interview first thing in the morning.

If you don't want the reporters camped outside to catch a senator losing

control in the middle of the night, leave now.

Fine.

Ava? Don't forget our agreement.

Go back to the guest room, Raven.

Don't bother me tonight.

Go back to the guest room, Raven.

He's gone.

But every time I close my eyes, I see him taking you away from me.

Ava, I'm scared.

I'm your sister, not your possession.

He's my fiancé. Do you even understand what you're doing?

Your fiancé?

He's not worthy of you.

What do you still want from me?

You.

That's all I've ever wanted, Ava.

Let go, Raven.

You can't push me away, Ava.

You'll never escape me.

It's a trap, but I have nowhere left to run.

You have to cut ties with her.

If you send Raven to a treatment facility in New Jersey, I can keep the

Justice Department off our backs.

She won't agree to that.

That won't be up to her.

You want to hand me over to someone else?

Keep dreaming.

Double espresso?

You barely slept last night. You need this.

Let go, Raven.

You can't keep living here. You need to leave.

Where? New Jersey?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Raven, I have to get to the hospital.

Sis,

your heart's racing again.

Raven, the power's out. Where are you?

Stealing while someone's asleep?

Is that another rule your senator taught you?

You still carry this picture with you?

You think I'm as good at forgetting as you are?

When you wrote this, did you ever imagine you'd send me away to New

Jersey?

Looking at the facts, it's the safest way to keep you out of the Justice

Department's reach.

To hell with your safest way.

You swore you'd never leave me.

Ava, trust me.

I can protect you.

Go back to sleep, Raven.

What time? 8 o'clock. Ava, dress like a respectable fiancé.

Don't disappoint me.

Our little secret.

Senator, your fiancé keeps every button fastened O-stage.

Is she just as cold in bed?

New York needs a sexless saint like her to win over conservative voters.

But that stiff, boring body disgusts me.

I hate touching her.

Deeper. Fuck me harder.

Let all those idiots outside and your fiancé hear how the senator fucks me.

The votes.

The reputation.

The future.

Ethan. This will be your most devastating weakness.

Shit.

When does Ethan's fundraiser end?

I'll come pick you up.

Raven.

Let go.

Don't make a scene here.

Stop talking to me like I'm a child.

I'm Ethan's fiancé.

Nothing can go wrong tonight.

Your fiancé?

After the way that piece of trash treated you in there, you still want to

honor this damn engagement?

It's the best option.

The best option is pushing me away and marrying that smug politician?

Back off.

Tonight matters to both of us.

Don't ruin everything here. What's so great about that lying politician?

Ava, I've held it in long enough.

Watching him touch you is driving me insane.

Why?

Why are you staying with him?

Dr. Moore?

The Red Serpents crossed the wrong people and picked a fight with New

York's Volkoff family.

That's a blood fate.

Add the DOJ's drug charges against her, and she could quietly disappear in

federal prison.

What will it take for you to use your connections at the Justice Department

and get her immunity?

I want your perfect public image.

The daughter of a fallen police hero and a top Manhattan surgeon.

It's exactly the image my campaign needs to win over conservative voters.

You're buying a campaign prop.

I need a perfect fiancé.

And I want the trust money your parents left you laundered into my account as

political donations.

It's a win-win.

Sign them.

Otherwise, you can identify her remains at the morgue tomorrow morning.

Senator, what if your respectable fiance comes looking for you? Ava, she won't

notice a thing, and she certainly won't get in the way of my fun.

As long as you keep playing the devoted, perfect fiance in public, next year's

election is yours.

With you working behind the scenes, I'm not worried.

Ava.

Whatever he can give you, I can give you too.

Back off, Raven.

Do you even know what you're doing?

Don't try to push me away like this, Ava.

Raven,

we can't.

Can't what?

From the day you took me in, there's been nothing we can't do.

Don't leave me, Ava.

Stay with me.

Your body is much more honest than you are, Ava.

You're already soaking wet.

Raven, not there.

Raven, this crossed a line.

We never should have done this.

I just couldn't stand watching you go to that piece of trash.

Ava!

What would it take for you to leave him?

If I exposed Ethan to the New York Post, how badly would his numbers drop?

Let go!

Have you lost your mind?

The Justice Department is already looking for a way to take you down.

I don't care if they arrest me.

I just can't lose you.

I've done all this for you.

And now you're trying to destroy it yourself.

Ava isn't just one of Manhattan Hospital's finest surgeons.

She's also the most important person supporting my campaign.

I'm going to step into the lounge for some air.

Ava, I lost control earlier, but I... You don't need to explain.

Raven, you need to leave.

If your identity is exposed at this party, things will spiral out of

control.

Miss Moore!

Ava will soon be the lady of the Sterling family.

Your street-corner manners are painfully out of place at our events.

Know your place.

Don't make Ava ruin our political image just to spare your feelings.

After tonight, we'll exchange rings at the official ceremony next week.

Perfect.

You performed well tonight.

Keep it up at the family dinner.

Word about the Brooklyn gangster is all over town.

It's nothing serious, but this marriage will lock in the votes I need.

If you insist on keeping this bargaining stick, you'll follow our rules. Whatever

you say.

It fits perfectly.

Come on. The family elders are waiting to meet you.

I hear you're still keeping a drug-dealing gangster sister in

Brooklyn. The Sterling family has stayed clean for generations. We don't need a

stain like that.

Ethan, your fiancée comes from a dangerous background.

Who knows when she'll drag the gutter into this family.

Ava is an excellent doctor.

She's nothing like her sister. And she's willing to change to fit into this

family. Right, darling?

If you want to prove you're worthy of Ethan, family tradition requires you to

kneel, kiss the signet ring, and recite this vow renouncing all personal rights

and marital property.

It's just a family ritual to ease the elders' concerns. I'm sure you're

willing to make this small sacrifice for our sacred marriage.

Think about Raven.

Refuse, and I'll have the police raid the Red Siphons tonight.

Kiss the ring, and you're halfway into the Sterling family.

But your gutter manners still need washing off. A surgeon's hands should be

steady. Take a napkin and clean my shoes.

My hands are for operating and repairing blood vessels, not cleaning someone's

shoes. A cop's daughter from the wrong side of town should be grateful just to

enter the Sterling family.

Is wiping a shoe really too much for you? My mother's rules are the family's

rules. You went to all this trouble to stand here because you want that

immunity deal, didn't you? Kneel down, clean the shoes, and don't ruin the

evening for the elders.

That agreement is nothing but bait to trap me.

But I can't back out.

Raven needs it to stay alive.

Fine. I'll do it.

I decide whether and when you sign that agreement.

You'd better keep obeying me.

A cop's daughter from the wrong side of town has already climbed the social

ladder just by stepping through the Sterling family's door.

That won't be enough, Ava.

This is a public dissociation statement along with the Sterling family's image

pledge. What does that mean?

Sign it.

Make a public statement to every New York media outlet declaring that you

have nothing to do with the Red Serpents. From now on, I control every

word you say and every image the public sees.

This is the price of entering the Sterling family.

Sign it, and the immunity agreement takes effect immediately.

Refuse, then the Red Serpents disappear tomorrow.

You want me to send Raven to her death with my own hands? She's already a

criminal who belongs in the shadows.

A politician who uses legal threats in marriage as campaign currency is no

better than a street gang. Ava, watch who you're talking to. I will not sign

anything that smears her.

If you want me to betray Raven, keep dreaming.

Take this garbage back.

You never wanted a senator's wife. You wanted a lap bog you could control.

A nobody from an upstate slum puts on a white coat and suddenly thinks she

belongs among Manhattan's elite?

You're just an ER doctor who knows how to hold a scalpel. Getting through the

Sterling family's door is already a privilege.

Without our say-so, your gang-affiliated sister won't live to see tomorrow.

Ava, why be so stubborn?

Using her to threaten me, Ethan?

Are cheap, dirty tricks all you know?

The method doesn't matter.

Results do.

Mother.

Apparently this commoner's backbone is stronger than we thought.

We'll have to break it.

Then teach her how things work on the Upper East Side. Do it.

Look at her. You can hear the gutter in every word she says.

As long as I'm still breathing, I'll repay everything you've done to me a

hundredfold! Defiance won't save you.

Push her down and make her read the agreement on her knees.

Security! How did she get into the Upper East Side? A gutter rat from Brooklyn,

and you dare set foot on Sterling Womedy?

This is New York.

Pull that trigger and you'll never make it out of Manhattan alive.

Senator, I'm not afraid of hell.

Why would I care about your fake votes?

Raven. How dare you? You think one gun can threaten 200 years of Sterling

power? Go ahead and test me.

Let's see whether your lawyers arrive first, or my bullet blows your son's

head off. Raven, put the gun down.

Name your price. How much political money do you want? We can negotiate.

Touch Ava again, and I'll make the entire Sterling family disappear from

Manhattan.

I warned you not to touch her. Ava, come with me. No! Put the gun down, Raven.

Leave now.

Firing a gun in here is suicide.

You use these dirty tactics to hurt her and you still call this a deal? Give me

the word and I'll fight my way out with you right now. This is a legal contract

between Ethan and me. It's my choice. He's tortured you and you still want to

protect this fake engagement? If I don't do this, Ethan will send you to a

federal maximum security prison. My life is none of a street tug's business.

Raven, disappear.

Now.

If you're determined to marry her, why aren't you protecting her? I am

protecting her.

She'll still be a respectable senator's wife. That's how New York works. I don't

make the rules.

Enough.

Be smart.

Go home and leash this vicious dog.

Raven, back off.

If you fight them, you'll end up in federal prison. Then I'll send them to

hell first.

A Brooklyn gutter rat with some bite.

Looking for a beating?

That's all you've got? These losers?

Take her down.

A bunch of useless idiots.

All of you, get her!

How dare you cause a scene here? Ask your son.

He knows exactly what I'm capable of.

Raven, do you have any idea whose party you just stormed? By tomorrow, the

entire city will be hunting you. Then let them come.

Right now, all you have to do is come home with me.

Raven, I don't want to keep relying on you to save me.

Next time, I decide what happens.

For a moment, I really thought something would happen to you.

Don't leave me, Raven.

I'm right here.

I'm not going anywhere.

Ava, hold on to me.

We crossed a line, Raven.

We never should have done this.

Don't think about that.

Tonight, just stay with me.

Why does a doctor from the wrong side of town get to stand beside Ethan?

That doctor is an uncontrollable liability.

This exclusive story is enough to cost her her medical license.

I can send it to the press whenever I want. The story won't be enough.

She still hasn't learned to respect the rules.

She needs a more convincing lesson.

The Harrison medical money is tied up.

Since she's claiming the senator's wife's dot, we might as well squeeze

some value out of it.

Send her to Harrison and make her beg.

There's a private gathering tomorrow night.

Pick something appropriate.

You're meeting Harrison.

I'm an ER surgeon, not your PR girl. Harrison controls $20 million in

campaign funds.

If he releases it, I'll sign Raven's immunity agreement immediately.

He likes virtuous women, so don't make this difficult.

If I secure the donation, you guarantee Raven walks free? That depends on how

happy you make him tonight.

I'll go.

Ethan, is this your fiancé?

Go on.

Have a drink with Mr. Harrison.

Mr. Harrison, keep your hands to yourself.

Ava, who has the agreement?

Now that's a drink. Pour her three more.

Boss, we cracked it.

She lied to me. She kept saying the marriage was to get me out of her life.

This was the real reason?

Miss Mercer, you finally decided to contact us.

The head of the family has been waiting for you.

I'm claiming my inheritance.

But now I want to use every Mercer family resource in New York to clear my

name. As you wish.

Every resource is at your command.

Senator, your fiancée looks a little drunk tonight. I'll leave her in your

capable hands, Mr. Harrison.

Just make sure the 20 million comes through.

Raven, don't do anything reckless.

You traded your freedom and your marriage to get the Justice Department

to drop the charges against me?

Raven, you dare storm into my private room?

You're nothing but a wanted gutter rat.

Read it carefully.

This engagement is over.

You can't lay a finger on her.

I'll make the entire Sterling family pay.

You're injured.

You shouldn't have come here. You were drinking drug liquor to please those

politicians. How could I stay away? That's my problem.

Your problem?

You gave up everything you own just to sign that damn immunity deal, and now

you're marrying that politician.

You think selling yourself will keep me safe?

No, Raven.

You said that before, too.

Ava, did you know you tense up even more when you're nervous?

Ava, look at me.

I want you to know exactly who's touching you.

Raven.

Let it out, Ava.

I want to hear you.

Raven, slower.

It's you.

It's always been you. You think I'll let you face this alone?

Ava, from your hair to your fingertips, every part of you matters to me. None of

those bastards will ever touch you again.

Trust me, Ava.

I'll take care of everything.

Don't hold back Raven bring them all down.

I won't let anyone control me again That's more like you Ava

The charges were dropped who gave the Justice

Department the nerve to dismiss every federal felony charge against the Red

Serpents overnight It wasn't ordered by a New York court it came straight

from the highest levels in Washington

Ethan, even your father's network can't find out who's behind it.

That's impossible.

How could a nobody from a Brooklyn guff shake Washington?

If she has powerful people behind her, your leverage over Ava is worthless.

The Brooklyn Federal Office just dropped the warrant for you.

Every file connected to the case has been classified and destroyed.

The charges are gone.

I'm free.

Ethan couldn't suppress this, even with all his Senate connections.

This wasn't something a gang war could solve.

I told you not to kneel to those hypocrites for me. You knew the charges

would be dropped?

You've been lying to me this whole time?

I never lied to you. Then where did you get the power to reach the Justice

Department in Washington?

Raven, how much have you been hiding from me?

Does it matter who I am?

From today on, you'll never have to answer to anyone again.

Put on the dress I picked for you.

Every major official will be there tonight.

Your place as my fiancé is beside me.

I have an emergency surgery tonight.

I don't have time to play the devoted fiancé for a senator.

Don't be difficult.

One phone call from me, and Raven goes straight to a federal maximum security

prison.

Is that so?

Can you still get through to the Justice Department?

The Sterling family has deep roots in the justice system.

Deeper than you can imagine.

Put the ring on.

Ava, treating defiance like leverage is a very foolish move.

Washington issued a top-level gag order this morning and dropped every federal

charge against the Red Serpents.

Senator, you received the notice three hours ago, didn't you? Since you know,

fine.

Powerful people in Washington did step in and bury the case.

You held a worthless piece of paper over my head and exploited my one weakness

until you drained me dry.

You're lower than a street dealer.

Lower?

Politics is about results, nothing else.

Now that the immunity deal is useless, you think you're free?

I'm the youngest state senator in New York.

All it takes to suspend your medical license is an investigative memo.

The public will believe a respectable politician, not a doctor tied to a gang.

Then publish it.

Ava, don't push me.

Get out of my office.

You'll regret this.

I'll make you come crawling back and beg me to take you in.

Senator, get ready to watch your career collapse.

The Russian killers from Brighton Beach withdrawn their bounty overnight.

The Volkov family knows when to cut its losses.

Cut its losses?

They're the Russian war machine that tears people apart.

Three days ago, they were threatening to hang your head from the Manhattan

Bridge. They wouldn't dare now.

The Justice Department leaning on the task force and destroying your felony

files could be explained as a political trade.

But the Volkovs withdrawn their hit overnight and handed over control of

three deepwater piers in Brooklyn before dawn.

What do you call that?

The piers are perfect for laundering goods.

Isn't that the legitimate business you've always wanted from me? The entire

New York underworld is saying Brooklyn has a monster who can turn the city

upside down. How does a gang leader who came up on the streets make the Justice

Department keep quiet and the Russian mob bow like trained dogs?

Sis, all you need to know is that no one can force you into a marriage again and

no one can lay a finger on you. Don't use protecting me as an excuse.

Who's behind you? What did you trade for all this power?

I never sold myself.

Then where did this power come from?

A street gang doesn't have this kind of reach.

The gag order, the destroyed files, the peers you acquired. What did you use to

make all of this happen? I told you.

No one gets to use those worthless agreements to threaten you again. Answer

me. Who did you make a deal with? Some things are safer for you not to know.

Ten years ago, I took you in off the streets of Brooklyn.

And now you're shutting me out like I'm a stranger?

Because you took me in, I'll never let you get your hands dirty.

Raven, go through that door and just try coming back. Once I've wiped out the

Sterling family, you'll know everything.

The Red Serpent's leader's arrest records and orphanage files couldn't

just vanish.

How is this possible?

Every record has been erased?

Manhattan's top surgeon, secretly protecting Brooklyn's most wanted

criminal. Send these to the state attorney and you'll never touch a

scalpel again.

What else can you do besides hiding behind dirty tricks?

Be smart.

Take your sister and get out of New York. Hand over everything you have on

Ethan's money laundering or your family scandal will be on every front page in

America tomorrow.

She doesn't need your threats.

Once I get the campaign money, I'm dumping Ava. Only you deserve the

senator's wife title, Nora. Three affairs in a Manhattan penthouse, all

captured in eight hours of crystal clear audio.

If the voters hear this, will the Sterling family survive the night?

How did you get that? In New York, if I want to dig something up, there's no

dirty secret I can't find.

Tell Ethan we'll collect on every debt, with interest, for everything we've

suffered. Tell him to prepare for his own funeral.

Raven, are you planning to kidnap someone in Manhattan? Don't forget who

you are.

Who I am?

You're a senator's puppet about to be abandoned by your voters.

Don't talk to me about status.

Dr. Moore, this is a dismissal agreement for the medical malfunctions case

against you. You're a smart woman. You should know how to maximize your

interests in New York.

Raven is my only bottom line. I don't care about anything else.

You're insane.

Dr. Moore, you're cutting off your only way out. She doesn't need an escape

route anymore.

I make the rules now.

What are you doing? I'm a state senator!

By sunrise, your affair with Nora and the Sterling family's money-leadering

records will be splashed across every front page in the city.

You'll be nothing but a disgraced convict.

Enjoy the end of your political career.

This is an outrageous attack on our democracy.

Two filthy women think they can use fake garbage to smear a family devoted to

public service.

Rage won't solve this. The Post headline has already caught the Justice

Department's attention.

My political career is about to be destroyed.

Your foundation won't survive the fallout either. You promised you could

handle that woman. They're fools if they think a few pictures can bring down the

alliance behind us. What's your plan? Once the hearing starts, we'll be

completely exposed.

No one will be able to save anyone.

This is Nora.

Release the council's cleaners. New York needs a thorough purge.

By sunrise, there won't be a red serpent left in New York. And that doctor will

disappear for good under a drug charge.

Forged signatures.

Switched medical records.

Ethan, I won't be beaten by evidence you fabricated.

Raven, besides everything I already know, how many other reckless things

have you done behind my back?

Can't you tell me now?

Those details don't matter.

What matters is that they're trying to destroy your medical license and drive

you into a corner.

I couldn't just stand by.

I signed that agreement so you could live freely and openly.

Not so you'd jump into another abyss for me.

The day you brought me home ten years ago, my life became tied to yours, Ava.

Raven, you were willing to sell yourself to the Sterlings.

Turning New York upside down for you is nothing.

What are we, Raven?

What does this make us?

We're bound together, Ava.

As long as you still want me, I'm not going anywhere.

They're finished.

The Sterling family won't survive the night.

But Ethan won't go down quietly.

I don't care how badly their reputations are destroyed.

I care about you, Raven.

How are you going to get out of this?

Then let him come.

The red serpents are watching him from the shadows.

The moment he makes a move, Ava, I'll book you a flight.

Go a-brassies and wait somewhere safe. I was too weak before.

I kept trying to protect you and take the blame for you.

Raven, I don't need you hiding in the shadows and calling yourself my little

sister.

I want to stand beside you.

Even if it's hell, I'll face it with you.

Ava, are you sure?

There's no taking it back after this.

The day I saved you, I never left myself a way out.

Listen carefully.

Even if the Sterling family comes after us, with every corrupt cop they can buy,

I'm never letting you go.

Then let them come.

We'll settle this debt once and for all.

From now on, no one touches you.

Raven, gently.

I can't.

Don't move.

Let me see you.

Raven, I'm here.

Raven, don't. I can't take it.

Can't take it?

Want me to stop?

No.

Don't stop.

You

two

damn lunatics. You destroyed my Senate seat and bankrupted the entire Sterling

family overnight.

None of you is walking out of this apartment alive tonight.

Ethan, come at me.

Ethan, you should let the voters see you like this.

A gutter rat from Brooklyn thinks she can judge me?

You won't even leave behind a complete body tonight. Who told you this

apartment was yours to control?

FBI, drop your weapons. Get on the ground. Hands behind your heads.

Get your hands off me! How did you get here so fast?

Bribery, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit murder. Did you

really think killing me would save you?

The Mercer family put the bankruptcy order and arrest warrant on the judges.

Mercer? That's impossible.

You're nothing but an orphan street thug.

The family is waiting for you.

The Mercer family?

Raven, how much more have you been hiding from me?

The Mercer family?

Raven, how much more have you been hiding from me? Ava, I was afraid you

wouldn't keep me by your side if you knew the truth. You think I kept you

because you had nothing and needed my pity? I was afraid you'd decide you

didn't need me anymore, take back your responsibility for me, and push me away

for good.

You idiot.

From the day I brought you home, you've been my little sister, my Raven.

No matter whose blood runs through your veins, that will never change.

What are you doing here?

Get out.

Relax, Raven. Don't rush me out.

Ava, want to see who your fallen police hero father was taking bribes from?

Nora, you're not welcome here. Leave now.

Look closely. A secret account in your father's name received $100,000 every

month. The official seals, signatures and transaction records are all here in

black and white. They can't be faked.

That's impossible.

Doctor, your father didn't die in the line of duty.

He was silenced after moving contraband and fighting over the payout.

$30 million to an offshore account I designate. Otherwise, every media outlet

in New York will have this broderie file by sunrise, and your father will be

remembered as a dirty cop. You don't get to make demands.

The Vance family's assets are already seized. You're less than a stray dog

now.

Let me handle this.

I've seen plenty of rotten wounds on the operating table.

Dead tissue has to be cut out cleanly.

Even if it bleeds, you don't leave it there to spread.

You don't care about your father's reputation?

If it's real, the law can deal with it.

If it's fabricated garbage, I won't dignify it by looking twice.

Those papers can't threaten me.

You ungrateful bitch!

Then we'll go to hell together!

You're asking to die!

She'll pay for what she did.

Don't shoot.

FBI, Nora Vance, hands on your head. Get down now.

Agent, you're overstepping. You have no authority to arrest me. The Justice

Department has verified the evidence submitted by Dr.

Ava Moore. You're under arrest for aiding international money laundering,

illegal trafficking, and obstruction of justice.

Here's the warrant. Take her away. You!

Nora has been formally arrested by the FBI at her home. All her overseas

accounts have been frozen.

The Vance family has controlled politics and business for 30 years. How did it

collapse overnight?

Because they went after the wrong people.

Was this the Mercer family?

I gave Washington a list and asked them to take a closer look at the Vances.

It was nothing.

The engagement is over, the charges are gone, and the Vance family has fallen.

No one can force you to do anything ever again.

Tomorrow morning, I'm going back to Manhattan Hospital and filing my

reinstatement papers. I'm going back to being a surgeon.

Good. I'll help you reclaim everything that belongs to you.

We're finally free.

I got my reputation and my career back.

But what about you, Raven?

Raven, how much longer are you going to keep me in the dark?

You're back. You're still awake?

How did things go at the hospital?

Everything's been cleared up. The paperwork went smoothly.

Good.

Raven.

What is it?

Where have you been these past few days? What dangerous thing have you been doing

behind my back?

Ava, do you trust me?

I do.

Come with me. I'll take you there now. To the Mercer Estate.

What did you say?

I've been handling this for the past few days.

I want them to understand how much you mean to me.

Do you know how scared I was?

I was afraid you'd disappear without a word, just like my father did, and all

I'd get back would be a cold obituary.

I'm not going anywhere, and I'm not dying.

Go change.

I'm taking you to meet them.

Miss Raven, the head of the family is waiting for you in the study, and this

must be Miss Ava.

Hello. I'm Ava Moore, Raven's sister.

Raven has told me a lot about you.

She said you took her in all those years ago.

Yes. When I brought her home, she was just a neighborhood girl who was

freezing to death.

Back then, she wasn't the Mercer heir. You risked everything for her.

What do you expect the Mercer family to give you in return?

I never expected anything in return.

I only wanted her to be safe.

She nearly tore this house apart these past few days.

You suspect her motives?

She's a surgeon.

To get me immunity, she used herself as leverage and agreed to marry a

politician. If it weren't for her, I'd have died on the streets of Brooklyn.

I also dug into her father's case.

Officer Moore was killed after uncovering the Volkov family's money

-leadering operation.

They set him up and silenced him.

If she isn't welcome here, then I won't be coming back either.

Now that you've crossed this threshold, this is your home too.

This is the final confirmation of the Mercer Family Trust.

As of tonight, every family business and holding is being transferred to Raven.

Grandfather? When the family turned on itself, I failed to protect your parents

and let you grow up away from us.

This is the debt I owe you. Thank you, Grandfather.

Enough.

Dinner is ready.

Don't keep the family waiting.

Welcome home, Raven.

When did you prepare all

this?

A long time ago.

I wanted to give you a real home, one that belongs to us.

No one will ever disturb us again.

Raven, there's something I've always wanted to ask.

How did you get on the Volkov family's bad side in Brooklyn?

Why did you provoke the Volkovs? They even put out a hit on you. You had only

just taken over the Red Serpents.

A hit job.

So you were the ones who really killed Officer Marker.

Why else?

Those Russian bastards muscled in on the Red Serpent's smuggling route and cut

into my profits.

I was young and reckless.

I hit two of their operations.

You risked your life over territory?

It was worth it.

Otherwise, I could never have established myself in Brooklyn or

protected you.

Raven.