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♪ I've been watching you, watching me♪

♪ From across the room♪

♪ You've been staring a long time...♪

Don't stop on my account.

-[music stops] -You know,

no one's going to care about

that stage or your costumes,

or even those new moves.

They're coming to hear that voice.

And Tracy's and Sharon's.

Better together, sisters forever,

Articulettes strong, remember?

Well, I can't help it if I'm partial

to a particular Articulette.

I just wanted to let you know I'm headed to Mom's.

Well, that's wonderful.

You two could use some time.

You might not feel that way when you know why.

What is it, Martin?

Smitty won't talk to me

about anything other than the kids' schedules.

I have to prove to him that I'm serious.

What does that look like?

Me living my whole truth

instead of half-truths.

Martin...

Not to the world,

but to family.

Bill has already filled Dad in

about what happened at the park, but Mom--

We told her what happened to us two years ago.

But not what happened to the man who happened to us.

There's still blood fresh on my hands.

The edited version was already very difficult

for Nicole to digest.

Mom is still struggling because we all lied to her.

But this is my one shot at getting Smitty back

and proving to him that I can be honest.

If I come clean with Mom,

that's an important step.

One that might

actually save my marriage.

Good luck, son.

This reunion concert

feels impossible

with everything that's happening with this family.

NICOLE: Chief, thank you for giving me the time away.

Has the storm passed?

It seems so.

I am ready to resume full work schedule

and start seeing patients again.

It is the new normal.

But at least I'm not gonna be surprised anymore.

Hmm.

Your lips are with me,

but your head is still at the station.

Naomi, I don't like having

your family in my duty books again.

I thought you dropped looking into Martin.

It's your aunt.

Aunt Nicole?

Aunt Nicole wouldn't even jaywalk.

Yeah, well, according to Leslie Thomas,

Nicole wrapped her hands around

Leslie's neck and squeezed. And not metaphorically.

Nicole admitted to being provoked into

a mild physical altercation.

-Any witnesses? -Ted.

And, of course, he vouched for Aunt Nicole.

He "respectfully refused" to provide a witness statement.

Smart. Smart.

Oh, Jacob,

please tell me you didn't believe that lying train wreck

and put cuffs on another member of my family.

♪ ♪

[sighs]

Let's find out where you are.

Oh. I'm the worst.

I invited you over here

and now I can't find it.

No hurry.

Hey, I don't want you to think--

That you wear pretty bras?

That I brought you up here to show it to you.

I feel so cringe right now.

I'll let you in on a secret.

It's not my first bra.

I don't remember you ever being this shy before.

I don't remember you ever kissing me before,

like you did back at Orphey Gene's.

There's that.

Want me to go?

BILL: Ooh, look at you, glowing up a storm.

New dress.

You always notice.

I picked it up yesterday.

Wanted to look nice for you.

Mm, mm, mmm.

You are the ninth wonder of the world.

I would never know you're pregnant.

Nobody caught it. Not the cameras or the staff.

So I took what I found, or what I didn't find,

to the D.A.'s office, and they told me

I didn't have enough to make an arrest.

Boy scout, next time,

lead with the fact that you're not

arresting anyone in my family.

Look, I know my fam's been exploring

their vigilante streak, but let's try to keep

the Dupree name off your police blotter. Please.

That isn't entirely up to me.

There's a lot of unanswered questions about Martin.

Babe, no one's asking you to pursue this.

And there was nothing concrete connecting Martin

and that dead guy in the park.

Justice doesn't take last names

or see colors or genders.

Are you seriously quoting my granddad to me right now?

Look, I tried to ignore this thing, Naomi,

but I can't stop thinking, what would Vernon Dupre do?

He would protect his own.

Even if they're in the wrong?

Granddad is not a saint.

He lives in reality.

Now, he fought the good fight,

not just for our people, but for his family, too.

And he has every Dupree's back, no matter what.

Mom?

What? Is there something on my face?

Yeah, there is.

What? Where?

You're smiling.

[laughs] I just got off the phone with the chief.

I'm going back full time.

You're taking a step forward, and...

I might be about to send you back.

Is this something that Mother and Daddy already know?

Dad and Smitty, too.

-Of course. -This is it,

I swear. I should have given you

every detail the other day.

That's the part I don't understand.

I know you're scared, but--

Mom, it's like I'm an addict.

I'm not addicted to some substance.

I just...

I can't stop hiding the truth.

And that's not who you raised me to be.

I know who you are. Mistakes don't make you.

Now, lay it on me.

Let's have a seat.

The man I told you about,

the one that was blackmailing me.

He came back.

Oh, dear. What does he want? Money? Revenge?

Both.

He made his presence known to me first, and then the kids.

Mother mentioned that. He didn't harm them, though.

No, they're safe.

But it was taken care of.

How so?

Bill was concerned about this guy coming back again.

And he made sure he never would.

He got the assist from

Joey Armstrong,

Detective Marcel Malone,

and Jacob's dad.

Elon? He's as upstanding as your grandfather.

Did you hear about the body found in Stance Park?

The robbery gone wrong?

That was the man that was blackmailing you.

Martin, please tell me you didn't--

I didn't know until after the fact.

Did your gra--

Did Daddy know?

He was in the dark, too.

So this is all on Bill.

So, your idea

of a compliment is to tell me I don't look pregnant

when I'm barreling towards not being able

to wear anything like this again for months?

My days of looking like this...

are numbered.

Baby, I just want you to be able

to enjoy it before I turn into a big, round pumpkin.

Oh, honey, I will.

And I do.

You're gonna look just as beautiful

when you're all the way out to here.

That's because our baby will be ready to meet us.

And my mind is not on Dani and the past.

Okay?

But I did make another deposit in the 529,

and that should cover undergrad tuition,

-room and board, essentials. -Bill,

isn't it a little early to plan for college?

I mean, our baby still has

a few more milestones before that.

Walking, talking, being born.

Babe, investing often and early is the key to wealth.

And by the time we're holding our little one in our arms,

we'll have law school covered, too.

Well, what if he or she wants to skip college?

Well, then our little man or woman

will have a massive portfolio

and will be able to do whatever his or her heart desires.

What our child will be

is lucky to be a Hamilton.

-[chuckles] -Just like I am.

No, I'm the lucky one.

Come here.

Have you eaten, sweetheart?

No, nothing for me. Thanks.

Except for the truth.

Now, you guys have always given it to me straight.

So... what do you want to know?

A new case landed in Jacob's lap,

and it's just not making any sense.

Everything he's learned points to Martin

somehow carrying this big secret for two years.

But we have a family meeting when somebody has a hangnail.

How is it that our Martin is in that kind of trouble

and we don't all know about it?

Or is it just me?

You are never on the outside, sweetheart.

But something's happened that's very complicated.

VERNON: And it's not just a family matter.

It's a legal one.

You're saying Martin did something criminal?

You can't say.

Because I'm married to a police officer.

It's bad, isn't it?

[sighs] This is awful news.

But it's good that you told me.

I didn't want you to see me like this.

As someone who would defend his grandfather?

Martin, I don't know

when everybody got the wrong idea of me.

I'm not some perfect, fragile thing.

I am your mother.

I am the one you come to,

not the one you hide things from.

Nobody is gonna love you more,

protect you more,

fight harder

for you than I will.

There's more reasons why I didn't tell you.

A more selfish one.

A part of me was still thinking about being president,

and I didn't want to lose that dream

back on that road.

You would have made me face it

and own it.

We can't take back what's happened...

but we can learn from all of our mistakes

along that dark road.

-You didn't do anything wrong. -Yes, I did.

I didn't see it, any of it.

Not with you, not with your father.

I should have asked more questions.

Mom, no. This was on all of us.

You couldn't have known.

I listened to Granddad and Gran

because it took the pressure off of me.

I allowed them to let Bill orchestrate a cover-up.

I followed instead of making my own way.

I'm a Dupree,

and I should have stood taller

and faced the consequences.

Even Duprees need to talk things out.

Maybe it's time we use doctor-patient privilege

and work some of these things out.

With a doctor who just resumed seeing her patients?

I need you to get better, Martin.

Let's do it.

Now, I hate to cut this short,

but I have something I need to go do.

You're gonna be okay, Martin. I promise.

Can I ask you something at the risk of

ruining this perfect moment?

-Okay. -Relax.

It's not about our family.

It's... about your former one.

Mm-hmm?

You've been meeting with Vernon.

You crashed Martin's press conference

and escorted him out.

I want to know where you stand with the rest of the Duprees.

-Hmm. -Friends or foe?

Neither.

We don't have anything to do with one another,

unless they want something.

I was kind of hoping that the closer we got

to meeting our bundle of joy,

their grip on you would loosen.

But it hasn't, Bill.

You just can't quit the Duprees.

Well, that may have been the case before, but...

not anymore.

I don't care if you can't find the book.

There's nowhere else I want to be.

There's something you don't know about me, Tomas.

What's that?

I am completely and totally freaked out right now.

Yeah.

I don't think that's as much of a secret as you think it is.

Look, I know I invited you here, but...

I don't know what happens next.

Well, we've been reading about time travel.

We can turn back the clock, and it can be like before.

Two friends talking about reading

and life.

And I can leave here with that book

and pretend like that kiss never happened.

Or?

We can play the moment all over again.

[doorbell app chimes]

Who's our unwelcome visitor?

Not so much "unwelcome" as "surprising."

I never liked you.

But this?

My God, Bill,

you are a murderer.

We don't want you to have to carry this, Naomi.

Not as our granddaughter,

not as an officer of the court,

not as the wife of a cop.

It's 'cause we'd have to ask you

not to share this information with Jacob, and

that could mean a lifetime of secrets.

Well, we had none...

until now.

So think about what that really means.

No, I-I need to know.

I need to help.

I'm retaining you as an attorney.

Anything we tell you

will be covered under attorney-client privilege.

So I'm bound not to tell Jacob.

Martin and I were driving back from an event

late one night along a country road.

We were just laughing and enjoying each other's company.

Then we had a flat tire.

♪ ♪

♪ Can I make a confession?♪

♪ You're my favorite obsession♪

♪ And you feel just like heaven...♪

Oh, Tomas...

Are you sure you...

I don't want to stop.

♪ Obsession♪

♪ You're the one I break the rules for♪

♪ Game on, and that's your fault♪

♪ You'll stay in my life...♪

What?

You're so beautiful, but...

But what?

Sorry, this is only the second bra I've ever seen.

[laughs] Shut up.

Make me.

♪ You're the coffee in the morning♪

♪ You're the umbrella when it's pouring♪

♪ And even though...♪

Eva, did I do something wrong?

No. This...

you're perfect.

This is exactly like I thought it would be.

You thought about this?

About me?

Have you seen you?

Have you thought about this?

Wait, don't answer that.

Have you seen you?

♪ Obsession.♪

I can't.

Because of Kat.

Yeah.

Kat.

Look, if we did this, this is exactly

what she's been accusing me of trying to do this whole time.

Sleeping with her boyfriend, and I'm not that girl.

I'm not that guy, either.

Kat and I aren't exclusive.

Does she know that?

Tomas, look, that book we're reading

really got me thinking.

Look, I'm not saying we're this grand love story,

but I don't want to be the girl on the side.

Some spoiler that the lovers have to overcome.

I want to be the main character.

And that's something I've never been.

Like, I've been my mom's revenge.

I've been my dad's long-lost daughter.

I've been Kat's evil sister.

And now, working for my dad,

and finally and actually being good at it...

...I have the chance to be the heroine.

At being the me I've only ever imagined.

Eva, you are so that woman,

that main character.

But I gotta ask,

taking me out of the equation...

...does that mean you don't get to kiss

or touch anyone until everything's perfect?

[knocking on door]

I know you're in there.

We need to talk. Open the door.

Murder? Seriously?

For the first time,

I see the resemblance to your sister.

-Get the hell out of my house. -BILL: Wait up, Hayley, baby.

Give Nicole and me a moment, okay?

Seems we've got some catching up to do.

Have you lost your damn mind?

Hayley has no part in this.

Oh, did you decide that Hayley

doesn't deserve to know who her future baby daddy is?

Just like I deserved to know

that Ted was somebody else's baby's daddy?

You wouldn't, Nicole.

You don't even like Hayley.

We might have found some common ground.

Maybe I'll just run upstairs and read her in

on who the real Bill Hamilton is.

♪ ♪

Hey, Martin.

How you holding up?

I heard about you and Smitty.

I'm rooting for you two.

Are you really?

Yes. We're family.

Look, I can't pretend to know what's happening inside

your marriage, but Smitty did tell me

that Marcel had some officers assigned to the kids.

Something about a weird guy stalking them.

Is that why you took a step away?

Are you trying to protect the kids from the guy?

And is he still out here, walking around?

Because if he is, I'd love to step in and help scoop him up.

As far as I know, he hasn't made contact again.

And I've been at the Grands',

so I only have secondhand knowledge about the kids.

All right.

Well, if you want to talk about it, I'm here.

I'm a public figure.

Threats come with the territory.

But I appreciate the offer,

but the rest is between Smitty and me.

We'll work it out together.

Wow.

Even when y'all are apart, you're all on the same page.

Come again?

Smitty also refused to answer questions,

which makes cops suspicious.

I mean, it's not like either

of y'all committed some kind of crime.

Right, Martin?

Hide. Bathroom.

KAT: I can hear you in there.

I'm not trying to fight. Mom needs your help.

We're not hiding. I'll explain everything.

What are you doing?

Straighten up.

While your Looney Tunes mom is trying to frame my mother,

you can't seriously already be in--

Bill stopped Martin at the press conference,

told him that the body had been discovered in Stance Park.

But that man didn't just die at the opportune time, did he?

He had help. From whom?

Marcel Malone.

Jacob always thought he was dirty.

But in the age of body and street cams,

a hit like that is not easy for a cop to pull off.

Elon played his part

in making sure that the investigation

came up clean, just as he did

all those years ago with Martin.

No, not Jacob's dad.

No, no. Elon is a good man.

We all thought we were doing

the right thing, protecting Martin.

But we were all wrong.

Yeah, but you didn't know what Marcel had planned.

-No. -And neither did Martin.

Mm-mm.

ANITA: Granddad and Martin

just wanted to pay the man off and get him out of town,

but Bill and Joey Armstrong

decided on their own

that the only way out of this

was to eliminate the threat permanently.

My dad did this?

My dad instigated murder?

I'm sorry, love,

-but this is on me, too. -How?

If I hadn't gone to Bill in the first place,

he couldn't have done this.

The man would be alive.

I just believed that there was a line

that Bill wouldn't cross.

I was wrong.

Nothing is out of bounds for "The Fixer."

I'll never make that mistake again.

You can leave the woman scorned routine to Dani.

She's perfected it.

Let's get to what's really got you mad.

You see, I'm just a supporting player here.

Your family left you in the dark.

You think I am so demoralized by my family's secrecy

that I would equate that

to you orchestrating a man's death?

What? The only thing that I've ever killed is the law.

Oh, just stop!

I know the whole story now.

What I don't understand, though,

is why, if you are even half of the lawyer

that you claim to be,

you would have seen that first case

was easily self-defense.

But now you have piled on

a premeditated murder.

Why keep dragging my son further into the muck?

Oh, here we go. The Dupree line.

Yeah, so you get to sit on high

while I have to do exactly what your family asked me to do,

and that's clean up the mess they made.

And now that you know,

you can join your family of hypocrites

in being utterly aghast and blaming big bad Bill,

or you can use that big brain of yours

and deal in reality.

Oh?

How's that?

Really? How would Martin have fared

two years ago if he had to go through

a public trial for killing that racist?

We'll never know.

Would he have been that much better off

if he had exposed the truth to those vultures

in the press that he gathered together to bare his soul?

He wouldn't have just been in the doghouse with his hubby.

He could have been in prison.

Yeah, and his congressional career? Poof.

The sterling Dupree legacy

and the family's potential...

gone.

There are other things more important than politics.

Deep down, you can't handle

that, as much as you hate how I did it,

as immoral, as reprehensible

you find it and me,

I'm the one that saved your baby boy.

Not kind, loving Mommy.

Must rock your whole worldview.

Look, the article on Malone

that Smitty consulted you about

had nothing to do with me.

I hate to press the point,

but Smitty also pulled back on that article,

all in the same conversation.

The conversation where he made the bad joke.

Look, I'm not a detective, Detective,

but I don't see it.

And it almost feels like you're fishing.

No, I'm worried.

If there's something to say, I'm the place to say it.

I don't know what you mean.

You don't think all these coincidences mean something?

Like how the first murder

in Stance Park in years

happened at the same time as your press conference?

I heard about that. It's tragic.

And it's important to me and my constituents

that we keep crime down.

But if you're drawing some kind of conclusion to the timing,

I mean, I have press conferences

on the regular.

I'm just glad that Marcel is on the case.

He has all these years of experience,

and I'm sure he'll find the man.

I think I'm going to order takeout

and head back to my grandparents'.

What's going on with Nicole?

Never mind.

For a moment, I thought you could actually help,

but clearly, you're busy with something else.

Kat, I was just here picking up a book from Eva.

You know that fantasy series, House of Lord Astrant?

I'll, um, just get out of your way.

No.

You haven't gotten what you came for yet.

You stay.

-I'll go. -Kat...

I should have just hid in the bathroom.

I think I might have just made her hate you more.

You said you didn't want to hide,

but you just did.

What?

I know you said that you weren't exclusive,

but you're something.

If you would have told Kat that you weren't here

just borrowing a book, then...

you guys would be done.

But you didn't say that because you don't want that.

What makes you so sure?

Your face when she stormed out of here.

I just didn't want her to take it out on you.

[scoffs] It's okay if you still like her, Tomas.

I certainly didn't think us making out

would make you forget all about her.

I'm just glad we put on the brakes

before things got messy.

Eva...

We both have some things to figure out.

Keep it. No need to return it,

because I'm completely capable of letting go of a story

once I'm done with it.

Eva, I care about you.

You're funny,

compassionate,

intelligent, and a good person,

no matter what Kat says.

You're already main character energy.

And, for what it's worth,

I hope you allow me to keep being part of your story.

[door closes]

The end.

♪ ♪

Monster. I cannot believe anyone

could do that to another person

and stand there like nothing happened.

Kat, I can explain--

Why? You weren't there.

They were together

in Eva's hotel room.

Eva and Tomas? Your Tomas?

Apparently, he's not my Tomas.

Were they in bed? Oh, Kat.

-I'm sorry. -No.

It was before or after bed.

He claims he was trying to borrow

a stupid fantasy book.

I mean, I don't understand.

Does he think, "Oh, she's beautiful.

Must be stupid"?

After everything I told him about Dad,

how could he think I could stand a cheater?

Especially when he's cheating with my own evil half sister.

Kat, you know I'm on your side.

And especially if he's stepping out on you,

I'm ready to pull out the emergency breakup kit.

But are you sure you're not mistaken?

I mean, you didn't see them in bed.

He looked guilty.

Like "ready to devour her" guilty.

He's a liar and a cheater,

just like Dad. Just like all men.

I think you're painting all men with a broad stroke.

[sighs] Okay.

I'm sorry, big bro.

Not you and not Granddad, but everybody else.

You're right.

You're living, breathing proof

that really good men exist.

Thank you for being so good.

You think you saved my son.

But you damaged him,

along with my entire family.

We were the Duprees.

If only we had never met you.

Well, I'll give you that

the Duprees have taken a hit.

But it's more of a self-inflicted wound.

And not from your poor boy.

From the patriarch himself.

This is all Vernon.

You have gotta be kidding me.

Look, tell me something.

Do really good men in really good families

need cleanup men? Hmm?

No, they don't. Instead, they live lives

that don't require them.

Your father

wanted to maintain the image of a pristine family dynasty

instead of actually doing the hard work

to become a good family.

You really are a piece of work.

I was like you once.

Yeah, I was a believer.

I'd watched him make all those speeches

next to the greatest of men.

And when Dani brought me home to Vernon,

I thought, "Hey, you know what?

"Maybe this can be the father that I-- that I always wanted

but I never had because mine was such a bum."

I wanted just a little bit

of that magic dust to sprinkle on me, too.

But that's not how it worked out for me, now, did it?

No.

Instead of Vernon making a better man out of me,

I became the enabler for his wrongdoings.

You're not gods.

You're mere mortals, after all.

And I am just as disappointed

as you are right now.

You're good.

You can bring out

anyone's baser, desperate instincts.

You don't need any of my father's fairy dust.

But do me this favor:

stay away from my son.

Better yet, stay away from my entire family.

They come looking for me.

Then just say no, Bill.

My family was at a precipice two years ago,

as they are now.

And here you are,

the devil on their shoulder,

egging on their fears,

encouraging them to take the easiest way out of the pain.

My son Martin is a good man.

And you have nearly broken him by saddling him

with all of these secrets and lies.

And now this death?

Do you really think that wouldn't weigh heavier on him

than losing a seat in Congress?

There is still so much good

that he can still do.

And he is so damaged by all of your "fixing"

that he can barely see it.

But that ends here.

Oh?

Now that I know the whole truth,

I'm going to be the one to help him.

I am going to be the one to fix him.

I am the fixer now.

I thought Dad changed.

Not that he could ever be good like you, Granddad,

but that he could be better.

I let him in, and I told myself

I would never forgive him for what he did to Mom.

But I thought that was the worst of it.

That nothing else he could do would be that despicable.

But killing someone?

Even if that was a bad man, that's...

How can Bill Hamilton be half of me?

You are nothing like him.

Maybe I shouldn't have told you.

What? No.

I want to unhear it, but I don't want to unknow it.

Knowing it will let me help Martin.

Now, if I didn't make this clear,

Jacob is investigating Martin,

And I thought I could get him to back off,

but he thinks he's doing

what you would do in his place.

Ah, the irony stings.

How much does he know?

Not everything, but enough.

And he is putting it together fast.

Well, how exposed are we, legally?

Well, you and Granddad aren't guilty of murder,

and Martin was acting in self-defense two years ago.

And he had nothing to do with the blackmailer's death.

The cover-up and the conspiracy

could get you charged as accessories.

Bottom line?

I think you need to prepare for the possibility

that this may not stay covered for long.

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