02x06 - Reaching for the Stars

[bunniefuu]

[telephone ringing]

[ringing continues]

[Lexington] It's me.

Yes.

I've had the photo checked.

It hasn't been edited.

This must be treated
with absolute confidentiality.

The student is about to graduate.

Graham Sutton…

My approval just got him promoted.

I can't even think about that.

If we don't resolve
the matter immediately…

It's over for me.

MAXTON HALL - THE WORLD BETWEEN US

BASED ON THE NOVEL
"SAVE YOU" BY MONA KASTEN

[crowd chanting] Maxton Hall! Maxton Hall!

-[crowd cheering]
-Whoo!

[in English] Come on, boys.

[in German] Crazy that
your dad's let you play.

Isn't today
that super important investor meeting?

-You have told him, haven't you?
-It's irrelevant.

I'm here for Cyril.

[crowd chanting] Maxton Hall! Maxton Hall!

[indistinct conversation]

[coach] The time has come.

One last game for this team to play.

And this is it.

It's about the championship, boys.

And remember why we've come here.

-To return the trophy to our house again.
-[players] Yes!

[in English] Go, boys!

[in German] And for some of you,
it's about your entry ticket to college.

The absence of Beaufort
could have meant that we fell apart.

But thanks to our captain Vega here,
this team's ready to win it!

[players] Yes!

Yep, yep, yep!

Cyril, my young man,

you've always fought like a lion
for this team.

You should be proud of yourself.

Thanks, Coach.

Hey, are those the talent scouts?

[coach] You're in the best form
you've ever been in, boys!

And so I want to see everyone trusting
that, endless energy, and a team on…

[players cheering]

-Let's get 'em!
-[players exclaiming]

[scoffs]

-Maxton!
-Hall!

-Maxton!
-Hall!

[announcer in German]
Welcome, everyone, to the grand final

of the national college championships.

-And we have Eastview…
-[crowd cheering]

…versus Maxton Hall.

Who will leave the field as champion?

[whistle blows]

[in English] Go, go, go, go, go!

-[cheering]
-[announcer] Eastview!

[cheering]

[in German] Maxton Hall
comes straight back with an equalizer.

sh**t, sh**t, sh**t!

Hey! Over here!

-Go! Follow!
-Just run!

James!

[announcer, indistinct] …on the ball!

[in English] James! Clear!

[all cheering]

-[cheering]
-[in German] Yeah!

[crowd chanting] Maxton Hall! Maxton Hall!

[whispering] You have to do it now.
Everyone's waiting.

Okay.

I'm very grateful that you could come,
thank you, ladies, gentlemen.

I'm aware that the recent
fluctuations in the share price

and the private revelations have caused
a great deal of unrest at this time.

I would therefore like
to present to you today

a few decisions we have made
to realign our corporate strategy

in order to regroup
and recapture our market leadership.

I presume we're talking
about Young Beaufort?

You presume correctly.

In that case, where is James?

[announcer] What an exchange of blows.

The score is 11-10 in favor of Eastview.

Everything is open.

-[groans]
-[crowd exclaim]

[crowd jeering]

-Both players are on the ground…
-Hey, Cyril.

-Hey. You okay?
-Yeah.

Are you okay? [in English] Come on.

[in German] You're good. Okay?

[announcer] Vega is already
back on his feet.

Borgmann, though,
needs further treatment on the field.

The other players
are starting to take up their positions,

-as play will continue in a minute.
-Um…

Maybe we don't put this picture
of the game in the yearbook?

-No.
-Okay.

I reckon a picture of Graham Sutton

in action should
feature in it, though. [laughs]

-What picture?
-Haven't you heard?

Word is that Sutton
has been seeing a student.

And someone sent Lexington a photo of him.

-What?
-What?

I think that's so crazy.

But not Mr. Sutton.

-Which student?
-How did you hear about this?

It's what everyone's saying out there.

[Kieran] That can't be.

I'm just going to the toilet.

-Should I come?
-No, it's okay.

Mortimer, more than 70%
of the strategy adjustments

in this paper violate
the production ethics adhered to

by Beaufort during
Cordelia's time in charge.

Not to mention the fact
that your new junior CEO

doesn't show up here at all to such
an important board meeting as this.

Harold, I'd like to make
something very clear.

There's no need.

I'm cashing out.

-What?
-[board members talking indistinctly]

But Harold,
you've always been our main investor.

Is that a joke?

-Harold...
-Does it sound like a joke, does it?

A man who doesn't have
any control over his own son

doesn't deserve
another single penny of mine.

Harold!

Mortimer, I'm aware that your family

is dealing with
an enormous weight of emotion,

and you have my deepest sympathy.

However, given the mess
Beaufort has found himself in

and the repercussion
of James's disrespectful public behavior,

sadly, I am forced to withdraw
my investment at this time.

-[board members talk indistinctly]
-Harold. Harold, wait!

When you see him, you tell James that
it was a serious failure of judgment

to choose that moment
to announce his new little friend

and humiliate my daughter in the process.

After everything
my family has done, do we deserve that?

Harold, please.

If you withdraw now,
then our final time has come.

I know that.

-Good day, Mortimer.
-Harold!

[grunts]

-[groans]
-[cheering]

[announcer] The score is still level
here in the fourth quarter.

The countdown to the final whistle is on.

The next goal decides the championship.

[in English] I'm open!

[cheering]

[grunts]

-[in German] Pass it, man!
-Pass!

James is free!

Pass it!

[cheering]

[coach] Cyril!

[grunts]

[groans]

[gasps, exhales]

Cyril!

[groaning]

Back, back!

[in English] Fast break! Back, back!

Cyril, back!

Fast break!

[cheering]

[in German] Go down and sh**t!

[buzzer buzzes]

[crowd exclaiming in disappointment]

[cheering]

-[man chanting] Eastview! Eastview!
-[panting]

[slow music playing]

[deep breaths]

[cheering]

[players chanting] Eastview! Eastview!

Eastview! Eastview!

Eastview! Eastview!

Eastview!

Damn.

[man] A total catastrophe.

I've never experienced
anything like this in all my life.

A black day, Mortimer.

Good that Cordelia didn't have
to experience this.

Today is the reading
of the will, isn't it?

And I hope that James
will at least show up to that.

Keep us updated
on any future developments.

Mortimer!

We will of course inform you.

I always knew it.

From the beginning I always knew it.

That girl is the only one to blame.

And which girl is that?

Ruby Bell.

It's all her fault, you know.

Everything was better till she arrived.

It was you who brought her in, man.

You think Ruby's responsible
for the game we just messed up?

The match.

Our friendship. All of it.

Are you serious?

-[Mortimer] Julia?
-Yeah?

[Mortimer] I need a phone number.

In Gormsey.

Right away.

Ruby didn't do this.

But you're right.

I've been neglecting
our friendship lately.

I'm sorry, Cyril. I…

I've been looking after myself,

my worries, and forgot
about everything else around me.

I want everything to be fine again. Okay?

Enough cuddling. You stink like a weasel.

I was afraid you wouldn't come, you know.

I'm so sorry.

Me too.

But you know, somehow

I'm also relieved.

It had to happen at some point.

What happens next?

As far as I know,
there's photographic evidence

will be presented at the parents' board.

So they'll decide what happens tomorrow.

My father's on that board.

-He'll k*ll me if they show it to him.
-We should tell him beforehand then.

Terrible timing.

The reading of the will is in an hour.
James is coming here to pick me up.

I can imagine how nervous you are.

Mom always wanted
to get me into management.

And I'm pretty confident
that she'll have arranged for that.

What are you saying?

That by tomorrow, James and I will be
majority shareholders in the firm.

But, Lyd, that's… that's so fantastic.

Mortimer can get as upset as he wants.

You can take over Beaufort,
as you've always wanted to.

But the question remains,
what happens to the babies?

Well, I'd say it looks like
I might be available for a while.

[light chuckle]

I'm serious, Lyd.

I'll always be happiest
long as I'm with you.

And anything else we come up against.

We'll handle together.

[James clears throat] So…

God, James.

I didn't want to interrupt.

But Aunt Ophelia's meeting us
in 20 minutes at the notary's.

[bell tolling]

Mr. Sutton.

I think maybe it's time
to move to first-name terms?

[slow music playing]

I'll wait by the car.

[James] It's one thing
to lose control of one's own life.

It's another to let a person you love

make decisions
that will turn their life upside down.

To not intervene,

to trust that every experience helps us
to sharpen our own inner compass,

is an important realization.

But if perfection has
always been the only objective,

the slightest deviation
feels like a defeat.

[cell phone chimes]

JAMES Met Lydia and Sutton.

Going to the notary now. J.

RUBY
Everything will be fine now! R.

[Helen sobbing]

Mom?

[Angus] Ruby.

What happened?

I lost my job, sweetheart.

I mean, I've been fired.

What? Why, though?

[Helen] Mr. Smith called me
into his office today

and he gave me a letter
of instant severance

instead of a new list of things to do.

What made him do it?

[Helen continues sobbing]

He sold the bakery after everything.

Our bakery.

What about your arrangement,
about you buying it back then?

No chance. We had nothing in writing.

And he says he had an offer
come up that he couldn't refuse.

An offer was made?

From whom?

[Ophelia] Nice to see you.

Although a different occasion to this
would've been preferable, I know,

at least we can remember
this turning point as a moment

when good things are ahead.

Let's hope so.

Your mother always said
you embodied Beaufort's passion.

And had extraordinary vision as well.

And now you can always count on me
for constant backing, Lydia.

That's a promise.

Thank you.

-Now come in.
-[cell phone vibrates]

We're going in.

Hey, Ruby, we're just heading in.

Ruby?

What's happened?

[James] When a person's outlook on life

is in harmony
with their feelings and behavior,

one speaks of cognitive consistency.

A state that
I've always wanted to achieve.

A principle that I would love to live by.

And I know I will succeed.

But in moments like these,
when one feeling overrides all others,

when it brings everything to silence,

I realize that I'm not there yet.

The thought of how much suffering
a person can cause in the lives of others,

just to demonstrate their own
grandiosity can make one sick.

But if there's one thing
I've learned, that is that nothing is lost

as long as there is hope.

In accordance with the last will
of Mrs. Cordelia Imogen Beaufort,

her estate will be disposed of as follows.

Mrs. Beaufort leaves

all of her assets, her real estate

and without exception all stock interests
in the Beaufort companies…

To her husband Mortimer Beaufort.

[Mortimer smirks]

[Ophelia] I'm sorry?

[man] Yes, all her assets,
properties and shares.

And what about the children?

Don't receive any specific assets.
Nothing else has been decreed here.

[Ophelia] That is absolutely unacceptable.

[man] If necessary, you can obtain
information about provisions of care.

Provisions of care? How dare you?

Please make a special
appointment for this another time.

Our mom wouldn't
have left us without anything.

Your mother was probably a more
intelligent woman than you thought, James.

-We will fight you for this.
-Who's "we"?

You? My wonderfully spoiled children?

Do you really believe
that you'll be able to get away with this?

Mom would never have left you everything.

[James] Did you force her?

Like you forced Alice Campbell
to withdraw Ruby's scholarship?

Or Mr. Smith
to destroy Ruby's parents' dream?

You have been warned, my boy.

You didn't want to listen.

And so you'll live
with the consequences to come.

Alone.

f*ck you.

We are not alone.

[door opens]

[door slams shut]

[microwave beeping]

-[Helen humming]
-[Ruby sighs]

[whistling in tune]

[in English] ♪ Don't worry ♪

[whistling in tune]

♪ Be happy ♪

[whistling in tune]

-♪ Don't worry, be happy ♪
-♪ Don't worry, be happy ♪

[all humming in unison]

♪ Don't worry ♪

[humming in tune]

♪ Be happy ♪

[humming in tune]

♪ Don't worry, be happy ♪

[humming in tune]

[laughing]

♪ Don't worry ♪

[humming in tune]

♪ Be happy ♪

[humming in tune]

♪ Don't worry, be happy ♪

[in German] So, who is up
for a Jenga playoff?

I'm sorry, I have to go.

Scholarship exams are tomorrow.

And if I don't do well,
then that's blown it for Oxford.

As if that would ever happen to you.

Don't worry. Tomorrow is a new day.

You warned me.

To prepare that being with James

would mean that I had to be
ready to face his world.

But I had no idea
it would mean dragging you into it.

Oh, sweetheart. You love this young lad.
That's the only thing that counts.

Your father and I,
we've been through worse things together.

Mortimer Beaufort
can take away our bakery this time,

but he won't take our dream.

Thank you, Mom.

-Did you send the email to Dr. Fiber?
-Exactly.

Mrs. Campbell?

Hey, didn't you check you email?
I replied to your inquiry.

It said that now's not
a good time for Mrs. Campbell.

James, I'm afraid I have to leave.
Can we do this later?

My dad forced you to withdraw
Ruby's scholarship offer, didn't he?

He's trying to destroy her life inch
by inch, and you're helping him with that.

Going against everything you proclaim,
everything you personally stand for.

[Alice sighs]

My mom held you in the highest regard.

She always said she didn't know anyone

who fought as vehemently
against social injustice battles as you.

It's not as easy as you think, James.

Your father is a very influential man
who knows how to use his power.

Whatever Ruby has done has
actually turned your father into an enemy.

And that's why she needs you.

You have had to fight
just as hard to get where you are.

You have the best contacts,
friends in the press, politics...

You're the only one who has
the power to show my father resistance.

Surely you see it.

Your father endorses me.

Mortimer finances all of my projects,
my important programs.

This enables hundreds of children
who need my help

to attend educational programs
that are unaffordable for them.

So I had to choose
between the fate of one young girl

and that of countless
families on the other side.

What would you have done
with that choice, then?

[Alice sighs]

I've known your father for so long.

He's very social, very popular
and has a large network.

And if someone challenges him…

Their life's demolished.

Ruby's done nothing at all.

She's also the most
fearless person I know.

She won't ever give up.

She could still teach you a great deal.

What next?

No idea.

I was so sure that Alice would help us.

Any will update?

Ophelia thinks we should contest it
and demand proof it's authentic.

-She believes your dad forged it?
-She's not the only one.

I think he'd stop at anything.

Want to stay with me for a bit?

I already know what my parents will say.

After everything my dad's
done to your family already?

But that has
nothing to do with you or Lydia.

We'll stay at Cyril's tonight.

Then you can concentrate
on your exam tomorrow.

That's the priority right now.

And when you get the scholarship, we'll
celebrate your place at Oxford. Okay?

Just the two of us.

[dance music playing]

[music stops]

I'm so sorry, guys.

Hey, yo, get me
two sex on the beach, please.

[clears throat]

Virgin. Virgin sex on the beach.

Sorry to rock up and ruin the mood.
Are we good for a couple of days, mate?

My house is your house. Come.

What's actually going on, then?

Mortimer turning off
the money tap for you now or what?

My aunt has the best lawyers.
It won't be easy for him.

I guess, for once, first prize
for the shittiest family goes to you.

I'll share the prize with you.

[all chuckling]

Well, then,
to our new shared apartment, yeah?

To us.

-Cheers.
-Cheers.

Okay, I'm dying of hunger.
Who's up for pizza Mai Tai?

-Come on, man!
-That was a good throw!

Get him! What's wrong with you, dude?

Enough… Ah!

[James] From a young age,
we were taught that we were special.

Born into a bloodline that has shaped

an entire sector of industry
over generations.

Preserving the image and traditions
of our family was our only job.

But I only recently understood

that family can have a different
meaning for everyone.

Thanks for having us stay with you.

I'm sorry, Lyd.

Me too.

I…

♪ The Maxton Hall pizza ♪

♪ Is the pizza ♪

-♪ For all b*tches ♪
-[both laughing]

♪ Is the pizza… ♪

I think there's pizza.

[in English] Hot and spicy.

-[laughing]
-[in German] What are you doing?

-I'm taking this…
-I need more…

[dance music playing]

[sentimental music playing]

[bell tolling]

[tolling continues]

[cell phone vibrates]

JAMES Sleep well, Ruby Bell.

We'll meet in our dreams.

[bell tolling]

[Ruby] The future belongs
to those who believe in their dreams.

Just a few weeks ago, I thought
I'd have to give up on my dreams.

That I couldn't have everything.

I was ready to accept it,

even though everything in me
resisted this mindset.

Now I realize
that this feeling of resistance is a sign.

The inner voice
that whispers, "You're wrong."

Keep dreaming.

Believe in yourself.

And I know if I follow this voice,
everything will work out.

[Lexington] Would you explain what
relationship you have with the student?

I'm happy to do so, sir.

I've been thinking
about how I can explain the…

The situation in a way I can.

Of course, I'm completely
aware of how this looks,

so I want to be entirely
open with you all.

It's true that we first came
into contact outside of school

and we fell in love with each other.

Love, Graham?

Naturally.

I'm incredibly sorry if the circumstances
might've led you all to think differently.

So you don't deny having an intimate
relationship with the student in question?

[Mortimer] I'm eager to hear
from her parents

and what they'll think of the situation.

Uh… Her parents, sir?

Once we verified
the authenticity of the photo,

we obviously informed them immediately.

Her mother is making her way.

I'm sorry… I don't understand.

Do you have it?
Do you have the photo? May I see it?

You've got everything? Pen?
Phones on silent?

Good. Then all of you taking part in the
scholarship exam, follow me please.

You can do it.

Thank you.

[woman on PA] Ruby Bell, please report
to the principal's office immediately.

Ruby Bell, to the principal's office.

But what about my exam?

Just come as soon as you're done.

I'll try and add the time
at the end if I can, okay?

Thank you.

Mom?

What's happened?

Well, Miss Bell, we're hoping
you'll be the one to tell us.

Ruby, sweetheart, sit down.

[Lexington] Are you aware
of this photograph?

It was taken on the evening
of the welcome party.

There's a witness
who saw you and Mr. Sutton

spending time together that evening.

They confirmed this photo is real.

What? Sir, it was
a completely innocent situation.

The witness statement says otherwise.

-But it was a conversation.
-Ruby…

In 20 years,
I've never experienced anything like this.

I will not risk the reputation
of our school for your dirty affair…

I'm not having an affair!

Sir, please, for 11 years,
I've worked towards this moment,

and now I'm just about to graduate
with an acceptance from Oxford University,

and I'm currently missing out
on my last chance for a scholarship.

You don't seem to be
grasping the situation, Miss Bell.

Mr. Sutton and you

should consider your journey
with Maxton Hall suspended.

No graduation. No exams.

And Oxford, you can forget it.

[imperceptible]

[slow music playing]