[ Knock on door ]
>> Sally: Well, I was going to tell you what I've been thinking about for the last couple of
hours, but...
>> Adam: I have been thinking about the same thing.
>> Sally: I'll bet.
I mean, you could point your mind towards the project that
you pitched to Victor and got approved, but...
>> Adam: But...this.
>> Sally: This is a big deal.
>> Adam: Yeah, it is potentially my birthday and Christmas and a
stock invested in splitting all rolled into one.
If only the phone would ring.
I could be getting a call from Ashland right now saying he
accepts my offer.
Or he's rejecting it.
>> Sally: Anticipation could be exciting, depending on who
you're waiting with.
>> Adam: [ Chuckles ] I mean, Ashland is a smart guy.
He had to do the math and realize that my deal was his
best offer.
It's the only way that he can escape the mayhem with his
dignity and his reputation intact.
Right?
>> Sally: Clean slate, full bank account, can't lose.
I mean, I would take the offer.
>> Adam: Well, then why isn't he jumping on it?
>> Sally: Because he's toying with you.
That's what he does.
He's played this game 100 times.
>> Adam: I was -- was flying blind.
I just -- I was totally going on impulse when I offered to give
him that money to walk away from Newman/Locke.
Telling that I was representing the Newman family?
What the hell was I thinking?
>> Sally: You were thinking like a leader.
>> Adam: [ Sighs ] It felt like the right move to
make at the time.
But maybe I just gave him another card to play.
>> Victoria: You went behind my back, Daddy, to bribe Ashland
into leaving me?
[ Scoffs ] I don't know what part is more
offensive.
>> Victor: [ Chuckles ] It seems an offer was made,
right, Ashland?
And you're kind of considering it seriously?
>> Ashland: I don't know what other option I have at this
point.
I want this turmoil to end, for your sake.
>> Nikki: The best way to end it is to admit to your lies and
leave of your own volition.
>> Ashland: Tell your errand boy, Adam, I will meet him at
The Grand Phoenix to discuss the terms.
[ Sighs ] >> Victoria: Does somebody want
to tell me what's going on here?
Why the hell did you two do that?
𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮
>> Nick: No signs of a fight.
I guess it was okay to leave you and Ashland in the same room.
>> Sharon: [ Sighs ] How is a person supposed to
believe anything that man says after what he did to Victoria?
You know, he started talking about how he's gonna exonerate
himself and that he's innocent of all charges.
>> Nick: Thought we said we weren't gonna engage.
>> Sharon: Well, I had to say something.
I wasn't in any danger.
There were witnesses.
Then Adam came in.
>> Nick: What'd they say to each other?
>> Sharon: I don't know.
I didn't want to get involved, so I made up some excuse and I
ducked into the back, but I popped my head out now and then
and watched them talking.
>> Nick: How'd they seem, like enemies, friends?
Was it loud? Was it not?
>> Sharon: Mm, they were too far away for me to hear.
>> Nick: Well, what about, like, body language?
You pick up on anything?
>> Sharon: I don't know, seemed serious.
High-key.
They went out into the patio, so they obviously wanted privacy.
>> Nick: Okay.
>> Sharon: It was intense.
I mean, nothing hostile, but they were both determined and
very focused, like whatever they were talking about, their lives
depended on it.
>> Victor: I got to come clean with you.
I'm not the one who offered Ashland money.
>> Victoria: Adam just took it upon himself?
Why didn't you just tell him, "Ashland, no, I did not
authorize Adam to offer him money to go away"?
>> Victor: I'm going to discuss many things with Adam, but I
would not contradict him to Ashland.
We need to work on this whole thing as a family, stick
together, okay?
However, it was kind of interesting to watch Ashland's
reaction to the offer.
He seemed kind of interested, didn't he?
>> Victoria: Do not take that at face value.
It was never gonna be that simple to get rid of him.
He was testing you, just like you were testing him.
>> Nikki: If Ashland was testing anybody, it was you.
>> Victoria: Oh, he was not, Mother.
>> Nikki: Oh, yes, he was.
He was watching you.
Every time you moved or looked his way.
>> Victor: Well, he can sense that you're torn.
You know he's trying to drive a wedge between you and our
family.
>> Victoria: I am well aware of that.
Look, maybe Adam's obnoxious interference will make it easier
for me to pretend that I am completely fed up with Adam and
blame him for setting up Ashland.
>> Victor: But you said that Ashland doesn't like your plan
of planting false evidence against Adam.
>> Victoria: I am not giving up.
I'm gonna do everything that I can to get him out of our lives
and out of this company.
And I'm gonna do it without spending tens of millions of
dollars.
Wait a minute.
How much did Adam offer Ashland?
>> Nikki: $500 million.
>> Victoria: Where the hell does Adam get off making an offer
like that?
We had a plan.
We all agreed.
>> Victor: I will be speaking with Adam.
I don't know what he was thinking when he made this plan,
but he's gonna hear from me, okay?
Having said that, it's irrelevant because we're all
trying to get rid of this bastard.
>> Victoria: Yes, I know, by moving forward with my plan.
>> Victor: But your plan has not come to fruition.
>> Victoria: And Adam doesn't want it to.
I warned you over and over again that he would do anything that
he could to try to undermine me and to try to make me look bad.
This is really incredible.
It's all your fault.
>> Victor: Oh, yeah, what did I do?
>> Victoria: You should have put a stop to it before it started
by letting Adam know that you expected his full cooperation.
>> Nikki: Alright, alright.
Victoria, there is nothing stopping you from executing your
plan if Ashland doesn't take the money.
>> Victoria: "If"?
Of course he won't take the money.
>> Victor: Oh, yeah?
Why?
Because he's eternally in love with you?
>> Victoria: I think you're missing my point.
I am never going to fall for Ashland's lies again.
I know his mind far better than you.
>> Victor: Well, then kindly educate us.
>> Victoria: He would never accept a bribe, and he never
backs down from a fight.
>> Nikki: If he doesn't want the money, then why did he agree to
consider Adam's offer?
>> Victoria: I don't know.
Maybe it was a part of his plan.
>> Victor: Oh, yeah?
Maybe he doesn't have any plans.
Maybe this is the best option left.
>> Victoria: Well, I guess time will tell which one of us is
right.
>> Nick: You know, I guess it could've been a business
meeting.
Adam is the temporary CEO.
>> Sharon: Of Newman/Locke?
How did that happen?
>> Nick: Yeah, it was Dad's idea.
He thought if he put Adam in that role, it might convince
Ashland and Victoria to not go to Italy and stay in town.
>> Sharon: Well, I guess that worked.
They stuck around.
>> Nick: Yeah, but Adam resented it so much, he refused to go
along with Victoria's plan to oust Ashland unless Dad decided
to keep him in the big chair.
>> Sharon: Wow, that just sounds so --
>> Nick: Self-serving?
Like the old Adam?
Imagine that.
I actually tried to talk to him about it, you know, just to
remind him how much progress he's made and to let him know
that it would be a real mistake to use this situation with
Victoria to his advantage or to allow ambition or sibling
rivalry to get the better of him.
>> Sharon: Do you think he listened to you?
>> Nick: I don't know.
It was worth a shot.
>> Sharon: How's Victoria handling all this?
>> Nick: It's hard to say.
I mean, she's pretty distant.
She's not listening to us.
We're trying to get her to come up with a plan "B," just in case
plan "A" doesn't work.
You know, I don't think Ashland is buying this at all, but she's
just so scared and defensive.
>> Sharon: Well, of course she is.
She just had her heart broken by a man who one swept her off her
feet.
She's probably feeling used and exposed.
>> Nick: Unfortunately, she's still in love with him.
>> Sharon: Oh, no.
>> Nick: But she also knows that she can't trust him completely,
so when you add it all up, there's no way in telling where
she's headed with all this or what to expect.
In fact, I don't even think Victoria knows at this point.
>> Sally: You need to find some way to let this go.
You did what you could.
Seized the moment.
You took bold, decisive action.
>> Adam: [ Exhales sharply ] That could fail miserably.
>> Sally: If this thing with Ashland doesn't work out, you're
gonna come up with something else.
And do you know why?
>> Adam: Tell me.
>> Sally: Because you're brilliant and relentless --
a combination that is sexy as hell.
>> Adam: Well, that's probably why we get along so well.
>> Sally: I read your mind.
>> Adam: Oh, you don't say.
>> Sally: Do you know what I'm thinking right now?
>> Adam: Something like this?
>> Victor: Son, we have some serious business to discuss.
>> Adam: [ Chuckles ]
>> Adam: [ Clears throat ] Well, I'd love to hear more
about what you're here to say, but Sally stays.
I'm sure this is about Ashland, and she is up to speed on
everything.
>> Victor: Is she also aware of the reckless move you made
offering this criminal millions of dollars to get out of the
company?
>> Adam: I mean, I'm the one who made the deal, so why did he run
to you?
>> Victor: Because he doesn't trust you because he knows you
were lying when you said you had the backing of your family.
>> Adam: So what'd he say?
[ Clears throat ] Is he gonna take the deal?
>> Victor: What difference does it make what he says or said?
You're trying to buy some time, trying to figure out where the
hell to get that amount of money from?
>> Adam: Come on, nobody has that kind of cash laying around.
>> Victor: This is your first move as an executive, as a
temporary executive of Newman/Locke?
What are you gonna do, draw the funds from Newman/Locke?
>> Adam: No, it wouldn't be appropriate to use company funds
for a personal family, matter.
>> Victor: Then where the hell were you gonna get the money
from?
>> Adam: Victoria's the one who brought Ashland into this
family, so she should be the one responsible for getting him out.
>> Victor: Your lack of sympathy for your sister is appalling.
As a family, we don't do this.
>> Sharon: I remember how worried Nikki and Victor were
about Victoria when she split with Billy.
After she was attacked.
Nikki even asked me to help.
I mean, I imagine in some ways this feels even worse for them.
>> Nick: Oh, yeah, they were all in on the wedding, and I was
sent to the doghouse for even daring to doubt the guy.
>> Sharon: And now it's all falling apart anyway.
>> Nick: The scary part is if it doesn't fall apart completely
and Victoria tries to salvage her relationship with Ashland.
>> Sharon: You mean if she chooses him over the entire
family?
>> Nick: If she does that, it could cause a rift in the family
that may never repair.
>> Sharon: Oh, Nikki.
>> Nikki: Hi, Sharon.
>> Sharon: You know what?
Why don't I get you your usual?
Are you gonna stick around or do you want it to go?
>> Nikki: Make it to go, and we'll play it by ear.
Thank you.
>> Nick: What have I missed?
>> Nikki: You're never gonna believe it.
>> Nick: Let me guess, something to do with Adam.
>> Nikki: Oh, how did you know?
>> Nick: Sharon said she saw Adam and Ashland in here talking
earlier, and from the looks of it, it was a pretty intense
conversation.
>> Nikki: Apparently Adam has decided that he's going to
handle this Ashland situation all on his own.
>> Nick: Nobody asked for his help.
>> Nikki: No, no, we did not.
However, he told Ashland that the family had authorized him to
make an offer of an ungodly amount of money to terminate his
contract at Newman/Locke and to walk away from Victoria.
>> Nick: Let me guess how Ashland reacted -- he went
whining and crying to Victoria, saying there was no amount of
money that will ever replace her and that their love will last
forever and ever.
>> Nikki: Actually, no, he went to your father first.
>> Nick: Why would he do that?
>> Nikki: To make sure it was a bona fide offer.
It was the first your father heard of it, but he played along
and pretended that the offer was authentic.
>> Nick: Are you telling me that Ashland's considering taking
this deal from Adam?
>> Nikki: I don't know.
Victoria says he's just pretending to be interested.
>> Nick: Well, it's probably hard for her to accept that she
meant so little to him.
>> Nikki: [ Sighs ] She begged us to trust her to
handle this, and God knows I am trying my best, but the more
time she spends with him, the more opportunity he has to charm
his way back into her heart.
>> Victoria: We should talk.
>> Ashland: I'll do anything you want, but not here.
We need privacy.
>> Victoria: That would be ideal, yes.
I'll grab us a suite.
>> Nick: $500 million?
>> Nikki: Can you believe that?
>> Nick: It's the exact figure that Victoria, Abby, and I won
in that lawsuit with Dad.
>> Nikki: Coincidence?
>> Nick: Doesn't feel like it.
>> Nikki: Have you ever heard of a golden parachute that large
for a CEO that has barely spent any time in that position?
Now, mind you, Adam is asking him to do more than just walk
away from his job, he has to say goodbye to Victoria, too.
>> Nick: Look, he's probably just flexing his muscles.
You know, he gets rid of Ashland, he impresses Dad.
He proves that he can handle things on all fronts, unlike
Victoria.
>> Nikki: Yes, that's exactly the message he was sending --
that he thought her plan was doomed to fail.
And she saw that for what it was.
She's furious.
>> Nick: And she has every right to be.
If Adam was this convinced that Victoria's plan was gonna be so
ineffective, then he should've come to us, and together we
could've come up with an alternative option.
Instead, he just goes off freelancing.
>> Nikki: I really don't know that he has it in him to be a
team player.
>> Nick: How's Dad reacting to this?
>> Nikki: Well, he's not happy.
>> Victor: I assume your COO encouraged you to take this
path.
And you thought it was a good idea based on what, based on her
extensive experience in corporate deal-making?
>> Adam: No, Dad, this was my idea.
And it was mine alone.
>> Sally: But once I did hear about it, I thought it was
wonderful.
Simple, clear, and direct.
>> Adam: Look, I wanted to provide Ashland with the
incentive to do what you've been telling him to do ever since you
discovered he's a fraud -- to get out of our lives.
>> Victor: Are you forgetting that Victoria already had a
plan?
>> Adam: Can I get a show of hands of anyone who actually
thought that plan could work?
Anyone?
Anyone?!
>> Victor: Stop it!
>> Adam: Okay?
I am coming at the problem from a different angle.
>> Victor: Really?
Hell of an angle.
You slack off, you listen to her advice, and you agree to pay
this bastard hundreds of millions of dollars.
Are you serious?!
>> Sally: If I may, Adam's plan is only expensive if it works,
but you haven't even told us how Ashland responded to Adam's
deal.
If he wasn't interested or he just blew it off, then this
whole conversation is moot, right?
There's nothing to argue about.
>> Adam: He didn't reject it, did he?
>> Victoria: Tell me that you never took that offer seriously.
Tell me that you were just trying to make Adam feel
self-satisfied so that he would let his guard down.
>> Ashland: I'm sorry to say that Adam has every reason to
feel confident right now.
He's finally on track to getting everything he's ever wanted.
He'll be Victor's shining star.
Respected, admired, and, yes, he will take over for me once I'm
gone.
>> Victoria: "Gone"?
>> Ashland: Yes.
I told you already I want to get the hell out of this place.
Start someplace fresh.
>> Victoria: You were tired.
I -- I just thought you were fantasizing or that you felt
discouraged.
>> Ashland: All of the above.
>> Victoria: You know there is still time to hold Adam
accountable for all that he's done.
Clearly you can see by now that he is trying to set you up, now
that he's made this final push to shove you out of the company,
now he's demanding that we end our marriage.
Tell me that you're not gonna give in to these demands.
You're gonna fight this, right?
>> Ashland: I know that you want me to plant evidence to
incriminate Adam.
>> Victoria: It's the least that he deserves.
>> Ashland: I care more about what you deserve.
Victoria, I can't give it all to you anymore.
We can no longer continue the life that we'd planned and loved
and built, running Newman/Locke side-by-side and trusting each
other implicitly.
That life is not gonna happen.
But I can still be the man that I promised you I would be on the
day we got married.
[ Sighs ] The thing is...I'm a selfish
man.
Greedy and selfish.
I don't just want your love.
I want your respect.
And I know if I do this thing that you're asking me to do,
that's what I'll lose.
>> Victoria: And that's your final answer.
You're not gonna do what's necessary to bring Adam down.
>> Ashland: No.
The answer to lies is not more lies.
>> Victoria: But it's all been lies, hasn't it?
From the very beginning.
>> "The Young and the Restless" will continue.
>> Victor: I will tell you about my conversation with Ashland
after you assure that I've been heard and understood.
>> Adam: [ Clears throat ] Loud and clear.
You want me to work for the good of the family, and honestly,
that's what I thought that I was doing.
>> Victor: Don't ever go off on your own and make a deal of this
magnitude without me knowing about it.
>> Adam: Listen, I was trying to help.
Sometimes you got to think outside the boardroom.
I made a judgment call.
>> Victor: You had no right to take the situation into your own
hands -- none!
>> Adam: Okay, look, I should've come to you before I made the
offer, definitely, yes, but I wasn't trying to get away with
anything.
I saw Locke, the idea came to me, and I just ran with it.
>> Sally: It's true.
I was there.
It was not something we had discussed.
He was just inspired.
>> Victor: I don't care if you were there or not!
It was an impulsive decision.
You shouldn't have made it without consulting me and the
family.
Don't you ever do that again!
Isn't that what you accused your sister of, having rushed into a
plan?
>> Adam: Look, there were plenty of problems with Victoria's
plan.
Most importantly, he didn't bite on the bait, which was me.
And when I gave him my offer, I actually saw a big, beautiful
light turn on behind his dead eyes, okay?
He was intrigued.
So what did the guy say?
>> Victor: He said he's at The Grand Phoenix, waiting for
you.
>> Adam: When?
Right now?
>> Victor: Maybe he's still there now.
>> Adam: Okay, uh, well, it's past the point of no return.
Unless you want me to kill this deal.
Tell me now.
Just say the word, and I'll drop it.
>> Victor: Son, let me say this quietly.
Once again, don't ever make a deal without me knowing.
Not a deal of that magnitude.
>> Nick: I mean, is there a chance Adam's plan could work,
just paying him off?
It's not clever, it's not overly complicated, but maybe that's
it's saving grace.
>> Nikki: [ Sighs ] It's easy money, if that's what
Ashland is looking for.
>> Nick: You think he's ready to give up control of the company?
>> Nikki: I don't know.
He asked your father to have Adam meet him at
The Grand Phoenix so they could go over the agreement.
Although that could've just been a tactic.
>> Nick: Well, what does that buy him?
>> Nikki: I don't know.
More time?
He's always telling her how much he adores her and he would give
up the world for her.
This scheme feeds right into that.
The poor thing, I mean, she must feel like we don't support her
and that we've given up faith in her.
>> Nick: And then Ashland could twist things around, make it
seem like it's just the two of them versus the big, mean Newman
family.
>> Nikki: And then he can make this enormous sacrifice out of
love.
>> Nick: When really it's just a ploy, a way to pull her back to
him.
>> Victoria: My God, you really are a piece of work, aren't you?
>> Ashland: I don't understand where this is coming from.
>> Victoria: Love really is blind, right, Ashland?
But guess what -- my eyes have been opened.
>> Ashland: By your family.
>> Victoria: No, by you.
There's one thing I have known, that everybody knows about you,
is that you are a fighter.
You never surrender and you hardly ever show mercy, so there
is no way in hell that you would ever let anyone set you up or
sully your reputation.
And then what, after that, you're gonna take a payoff
and you're just gonna walk away from the company that you built
with your wife?
That wouldn't happen.
>> Ashland: You're making a lot of assumptions.
>> Victoria: The only reason you stopped looking for evidence
against Adam is because you know that there isn't any.
You know that he didn't set you up.
You're 100% guilty.
You have been faking your cancer for months.
You falsified records.
You bribed the doctors.
You conned me into caring about you, and after I gave you my
heart and my trust and after everything that you put me
through, you at least owe me the truth.
Can you not give me the truth?!
>> Ashland: You're right.
About one thing.
Who I am -- I am a fighter.
What you may not be considering is that I've changed what I'm
fighting for.
>> Victoria: You want me to believe that you are fighting
for me.
>> Ashland: I am.
>> Victoria: And yet you just told my parents that you would
consider accepting a bribe to get me out of your life.
[ Scoffs ] I'm sorry, just pardon my confusion.
>> Ashland: What I consider and what I agree to are not
necessarily the same things.
>> Victoria: Oh, right, yeah.
It's all just semantics.
>> Ashland: Look, I know that it doesn't matter anymore what I
say to you.
It's not likely you're gonna believe any promises or denials
that come out of my mouth right now.
I understand that. I get it.
>> Victoria: That is so big of you.
>> Ashland: But I'm gonna let you in on a little secret, okay?
I don't believe you either.
When you act like this -- so tough and so above it all -- I
know what's going on inside.
>> Victoria: Whatever affection I might still have for you is
far outweighed by how angry I am with you.
>> Ashland: If the situation were reversed, if I found out
that you were using me, a sick and dying man, to gain control
of Locke Communications, I would be livid.
>> Victoria: Would you?
>> Ashland: Yes.
I would feel betrayed, I would feel used, I would feel
manipulated, and yet it would be impossible for me to stop loving
you.
Because I would know in my heart that no matter how our
relationship started, no matter what kind of simplistic and
grasping intentions we had at the beginning, that what it
turned into was something entirely different.
Something real and true and strong.
And I would know that you were in love with me despite your
best efforts to cover it up or pretend it away.
>> Victoria: It seems that you've decided to disregard
everything that I say.
>> Ashland: No, I'm telling you that a love as strong and real
as ours cannot be forced or faked.
It cannot be an act, and you can't convince me otherwise.
>> Victoria: So if the shoe were on the other foot, you would
forgive me.
>> Ashland: Without hesitation.
>> Victoria: Because?
>> Ashland: Because I love you.
And I could never stop loving you.
>> Victoria: What is it that you want from me?
>> Ashland: The same thing you want from me.
The truth.
>> Nick: Alright, you'll let me know if you hear anything.
>> Nikki: Yes, of course I will.
>> Nick: Look, Mom, don't worry.
Vick is gonna come out of this stronger and tougher than she's
ever been.
>> Nikki: I hope so.
She's been through so much.
>> Nick: She's gonna be okay.
>> Nikki: Alright, I'm gonna take off.
>> Nick: Alright, I love you.
>> Nikki: Love you too.
>> Sharon: She looks really worried.
>> Nick: Well, everything keeps piling up.
We thought Adam was up to something, and we were right.
>> Sharon: Why, what did she say to you?
>> Nick: Do you remember when you saw Adam and Ashland in here
talking?
>> Sharon: Yeah.
>> Nick: Well, I guess Adam decided he didn't trust Victoria
to be able to single-handedly get Ashland out of our lives, so
what you were watching was Adam going behind the family's back,
putting his own plan in motion.
>> Sharon: Should I act surprised?
>> Nick: Now everything's up in the air.
Ashland's gonna have a chance to play us all against each other.
It's time I have a talk with Ashland, and I know right where
to find him.
>> Sharon: Wait.
Nick, I don't think that's a good idea.
>> Victor: I have issues with your plan, son.
What if Ashland Locke pretends to agree to accept the
$500 million?
Then he can toy with us.
He can suddenly say, "I don't like the deal."
And then what?
>> Adam: So what are you gonna do?
Are you gonna just wait and hope that Victoria's plan works out?
>> Victor: Victoria's plan was a damn good plan, son.
Very good plan.
All we had to do is catch him in doing something illegal.
He would've terminated his contract with Newman/Locke.
He would've been the hell out.
>> Sally: If he's up to something underhanded, he's
never gonna get caught.
He's way too smart.
He's been five steps ahead of Victoria since the day he made
her his mark, and I am not victim-blaming because I thought
he was in love with Victoria just like everyone else.
>> Adam: Look, I'm not asking you to trust Locke, because I
certainly don't.
But if he agrees to walk away, I will insist that he signs
ironclad legal documents.
Okay? Nondisclosure, non-compete -- all of it.
It'll be easy.
We'll make it clean, and we can get him out of our lives for
good.
>> Victor: All this is contingent upon you getting
ahold of $500 million.
Where are you gonna get it -- Victoria?
You know that's out of the question.
What?
You think it's gonna come from me?
>> Adam: What is worth to you to get this guy out of our lives?
>> Victor: [ Sighs ]
>> Nick: Just give me one good reason why I shouldn't let
Ashland have it.
>> Sharon: Well, you just got through saying how wrong it was
for Adam to go behind Victoria's back and take charge of the
situation himself.
>> Nick: Yeah, I know, but it's --
>> Sharon: How is that any different than you going to
confront Ashland right now?
What is that gonna do?
It'll show Victoria that you don't trust her to handle this
herself.
>> Nick: [ Sighs ] Well, it'll make me feel better.
>> Sharon: Okay, but this isn't about you.
>> Nick: I know, you're right.
>> Sharon: Why are you even involved in this?
Why don't you just sit this one out?
>> Nick: This sick bastard has caused my sister so much pain.
>> Sharon: Okay, well, if you want to get involved, go to her.
Just offer her your love and support.
That's what she really needs right now.
>> Adam: Yeah, it's an obscene amount of money.
>> Victor: Hmm.
>> Adam: But what price can you put on freedom?
Because that's what you would be buying for Victoria.
My sister would never have to see this guy again.
She could stop pretending to love him because it's pretty
clear that's what's messing with her head, no matter how much she
wants to claim otherwise.
And, Dad, aside from that, we have to get this guy out of the
family company.
He gets in control, he can make major changes.
Our management team -- gone.
His lieutenants get promoted, he could sell off entire divisions
to the highest bidder.
I think half a billion dollars is a small price to pay to avoid
the kind of chaos that that man could unleash.
>> Victor: You're not bringing up anything that I haven't
already considered.
>> Adam: Well, I figured as much.
So what do you want me to do?
>> Victor: Meet with him.
Make the deal.
>> Adam: And the money?
>> Victor: It'll come from your father.
>> Adam: You -- You won't regret this.
>> Victor: See to it that I don't.
>> Victoria: After everything that's transpired, how can you
expect me to forgive you?
>> Ashland: No, no, no, don't go anywhere.
I know it sounds mad.
Just hear me out.
We can start over.
And thanks to Adam, ironically, we will have all the capital we
need to start our next venture.
>> Victoria: You don't understand --
>> Ashland: I do understand.
Think about the life we could have.
No suspicions.
No judgment.
No family rivalries.
Just the two of us...and this crazy, perfect love that we have
found together.
You want that...every bit as much as I do.
Don't you?
𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮
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