Why isn't Ali here? This is between me and him.
It's not Ali who decides, my dear. I'm the one to decide.
As I told you on Monday, we go to the doctor.
I've called him, and he'll deal with it.
Don't worry, Nadia.
It will all be done in the same day, as if nothing happened.
I will go with you to make you feel safe.
And once you get better and recover, we'll talk about your future with Ali.
This woman is cheating on you.
She's right here, you can ask her.
This is none of your business.
And what I say is what's gonna happen.
-I saw her with another man-- -I said this is none of your business!
I've been asking you for a divorce for a year now.
We haven't touched each other for two years.
What did you expect? Don't tell me you didn't know about it.
I tried not to know.
Then you're lying to yourself.
You just can't imagine losing something that you want,
or for anyone to say no to you!
You expected to have me live with you, while you knew I can't stand being here!
Why do that?
Because you don't care about anything but yourself.
What you want is what has to happen.
But from now on, no.
Only what I want is what's gonna happen.
One,
you're to cut contact with that person immediately.
Or else, I'll kill you both.
You know very well that I'm capable of that.
Two,
from now until one of us dies,
don't sleep next to me.
NADIA SUMMER 2007
ECHOES OF THE PAST
I'm sorry. There's been an incident in the hotel.
We have to evacuate all the rooms.
DON'T SAY THAT YOU SAW ANYTHING.
MENTIONING YEHIA WILL BRING UP YASSIN AND YOUR WHOLE FAMILY.
DELETE THIS MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY.
Can I help you?
What is going on exactly?
Someone knocked on my door, saying there's been an incident.
There's been a situation. Security found a guest dead upstairs.
Hmm. That's the official version.
What really happened?
It looks like it was a planned fight, a big one.
How do you know?
Someone switched off the hotel cameras just before it happened.
Everyone who was on that floor is right there.
-Where are you going? -One second.
-There. -Mona.
Need to know who's the girl with him.
Get her name.
Are you okay?
-I'm fine. -Did something happen?
-Nothing happened. -You're okay?
-Mm-hm. -I'll be right back.
The incident was on your floor, right?
-Yeah. -And what happened?
-I didn't see anything. -Come on, miss. The officer is calling.
Did you text my daughter on her phone?
I'll explain later.
Later? I didn't tell you to do that.
I acted so we don't all end up in trouble.
-I'll come right away with you. -Please.
Okay.
Does this have anything to do with Yehia?
Come on, miss!
That's enough on the phone. I'm calling about something else.
The guy has been under our nose the whole time.
What do you mean?
I'll tell you when I see you.
Is that him?
Is that him or not?
It's him.
Answer him.
I'm scared.
Don't you want to avenge Fatla?
Answer him.
Answer him!
Uh, Hi, Mr. Khaled.
Sure.
I wouldn't been able to… to meet Mr. Fatla
and look him in the eye.
Now I'm glad I can… meet him.
It had
to be
this way.
Where are you?
I'm coming for you.
Soon.
Very soon.
-How did you get in here? -The, uh…
-How did you get in? -I, uh…
Did you change the lock?
Y… Yes, it was me.
I was worried about you, worried something might happen to you like last time.
What happened?
I'm fine.
Now, go.
What happened?
I've been calling you for ages and you haven't answered.
What is it, Yehia? Tell me.
What do you think
when I find Nadia's killer, I'm going to do?
Turn him in with no evidence?
This story has only one ending,
and you'd best stay away.
Fear for yourself.
Everyone close to me dies.
Nadia.
My mother.
Fatla.
Maldini. A kid who was completely innocent.
They all died. And I still don't know who killed Nadia.
All of them.
Fatla, your friend?
You went to Mona?
How did you know where she was?
Hm?
Look at me.
Were you using me, Yehia?
Why did you go to her?
Did you want to kill her?
Answer!
Answer me!
Why did you go to her?!
I had no other choice.
I won't stop now.
Not until I kill Nadia's killer.
Why are you up so early, dear?
I thought you'd sleep till noon.
I couldn't sleep at all.
I have to get up for the interrogation anyway.
And give them the address where I'm staying now.
Hmm.
Enough about me.
Why are you up?
Why are you back here?
I was tired of the family house, thought I'd come back to my place.
Dad…
kicked me out of the house and the company.
What happened?
Look closely so you can be sure.
I don't know him.
Okay.
This man had taken a room in the hotel where the murder happened.
He was killed yesterday.
And we found next to him the body of the kid
who worked for the man who was killed in your room.
What's my connection?
Right. It's possible that you may have no direct connection.
But when we find that the last call, to this man's phone,
came from your father, Mr. Yassin Ezzeddin,
I think you have some connection.
You should be asking my father.
MOHAMMED ABUL-GHEIT DEPUTY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR
Mona.
What did you tell them?
I said nothing.
But I know that you're the one who killed Nadia.
Yassin Ezzeddin!
I already told you I'd never met him before.
I want to know, is this an interrogation?
Do I need to call my lawyer?
We're not accusing you of anything.
At least not yet.
But we want to know, how is it…
that you were the last one to call the victim on the phone?
Because I wanted to hire him as security manager for my factories.
Given his security experience.
So, you were calling him this late for that reason?
Yeah.
Right, okay.
We have no further questions. And you may leave, sir.
However, don't leave the country until this investigation is over.
I want to see you, Yehia.
I'll tell you everything that happened.
Did you know why Mona has refused to talk to me for all these years?
You knew the reason, even though we've talked about this
more than a hundred times?!
Is it because she thinks that I'm the killer?
What are you, woman?
What are you?!
You must tell her immediately.
Now!
I can't.
Then I'll tell her.
Because I won't carry this whole burden alone.
I didn't kill Nadia.
It's Yassin who killed her.
Nadia!
My father.
I was worried about Nadia and warned her not to go in the water.
Nadia, honey, diving is dangerous for you.
Say you don't feel well. Don't go.
Why don't you all stop telling me what to do and not do.
And what's this, Mona? Now you're my friend who really cares about me?
Sorry, Nadia, I don't understand. Aren't we friends?
-And what do you mean by "you all"? -Your family. All of you.
You're lying to each other to hide your own dirt, and you're ganging up on me.
What dirt, Nadia?
Your mom's cheating on your dad with another man.
Your dad knows. He's playing dumb.
Shut up! You're a liar!
I'm not a liar, Mona. You're a filthy family.
I never thought she'd ever talk to me like that.
I wanted to tell her that she was lying.
But I was afraid what she said might be true.
It was like a blow to the head.
I asked you how long you'd be diving.
You're diving for how long?
Like last time.
Because I couldn't wait until we got back.
I took the boat and went back.
Why did you leave?!
I had to ask Mom.
I had to hear everything from her.
That girl is a liar, she's very bad.
She wants to turn you all against me.
I felt like she was lying.
But I didn't get to respond.
We heard the commotion, and the siren of the rescue boat.
We ran down the stairs, and the first thing I saw
was you, carrying Nadia's body.
You did that! It's your fault!
You were all yelling at each other and fighting,
and I couldn't believe that she was lying there, dead in front of me.
I stayed awake.
I couldn't sleep all night.
I heard a noise, so I looked out the window.
And I saw dad burying something in the garden.
Once he left, I went down.
He had buried my Swiss Army knife.
That's when I knew he had something to do with Nadia's death.
I kept the knife, but I didn't know what to do.
Like someone holding a huge travesty, and has no other choice but to hide it.
-You're imagining it! -No, I'm sure of it.
I even found the knife.
I don't want to hear you say that again!
Don't we have enough tragedies?
Your sister is in the hospital and your brother is a suspect
in a possible homicide.
One word like that could destroy us all.
Do you understand?!
Why didn't you say anything?
I did.
The last time I saw you was at the DA's office.
Was that all you could do?
There was a trial, a whole case.
A kid whose sister died…
His life, wasted.
-I'm sorry. -Not accepted.
Then why did you listen to them?
Why?
Why did you submit to them?
Didn't I tell you not to?
No one ever loved me but you.
And I could never love anyone else.
You were so many firsts in my life.
Every day, I ask myself…
if none of that had ever happened…
what would our lives have been like?
Would we have stayed together?
But I was wrong.
I should've said the truth.
I should've said that my father killed my friend.
Even if I lost my whole family,
I should've said the truth.
But I couldn't, so I ran away.
I left everything behind me until you came back.
But you came back…
dragging Layla with you.
What is this, Yehia?
Part of your revenge against us?
No.
What then? What do you want with her?
Nothing, and I've not hurt her.
Everything I've been looking for, you just said to me.
No one should cover for him.
He's the reason for everything that happened.
And still is.
Where were you all day?
Why is your phone off?
I was with Ali at the DA's office.
Then, I had an errand.
Yehia was in your room yesterday.
And his friend was killed.
Why did you hide it from me?
I'm in no mood for questions.
Really?
No mood for questions?
Why did you come back, Mona?
Are you worried about me because of Yehia, or worried because I'm with Yehia?
What are you saying, Layla? Are you crazy?
Ali just told me about you two. Don't lie.
Do you understand what we're facing?
Yehia came to me yesterday because he thought that I killed Nadia.
He found me because of you!
He almost killed me because of you!
And you're here questioning me now?
Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore.
Everyone knows now. I'm leaving. You can do whatever you want.
What do you mean, everyone knows?
-Did you tell Yehia? -I told Yehia.
-You told him about Dad? -He had to know!
-How could you do this? -Yehia almost killed me yesterday!
Just like he almost killed Ali.
You… What were you thinking?
What are you doing?
To protect who?
Protect your father?
Are you scared for him?
You care about the man who never cared about us?
Okay, tell me.
How would you feel if you'd seen me dead in front of you yesterday?
Mom is here.
We need to talk about a decision we've made.
Yassin has become a danger to all of us.
There's not one of us he hasn't harmed.
It's enough.
Now, it's time for him to step away from everything.
You say this now?
I told you 15 years ago that he killed Nadia.
You just now realized that he's a danger to us?
There was nothing I could do then.
That's why I told you to keep quiet.
There were disasters around us on all sides.
Ali had been arrested.
And Layla was sick.
If you had talked back then,
our life would have been destroyed, Mona.
But why are you talking now?
Because that's it.
Now that everything's opened again,
the only solution is for Yassin to step back.
What do you mean?
Just as I told you, sir. There's no problem at all.
Fine. If there's no problem, why did they call me to the DA again?
Because they found calls between you and him in his recent phone records.
But it's all just standard procedure. It's no problem.
The key question now is,
if you have any link to the victim, other than what you've told me,
I need to know about it, so there's no surprises at the DA's.
No. There's not.
Okay, Mr. Yassin, I'll go with you tomorrow to the DA's office.
What now?
You dragged him here with you to mediate for him?
We won't take more than five minutes of your time.
Five minutes?
Did your precious boy tell you what he's been up to?
He's been helping Yehia.
That's not true.
But I've said all I have to say.
Take your mommy, boy, and go home.
Speak to me, Yassin.
I'm not here to mediate.
Or argue either.
We're here as partners, shareholders, and members of the board of directors.
We have talked, in the past few days,
with all of the members of the board,
who are also shareholders, of course,
and first among them, is us four.
Me, Mom, Mona, and Layla.
And we've all agreed that Ali is the best one to run the company at this stage.
Layla?
Layla.
All of us.
You, you're out.
Yassin, let's handle this gracefully.
You step down and hand over to Ali,
and then rest a bit.
Step away.
You could travel.
That would be the best for all of us.
You want me to hand over?
To him?
You seem to have all lost your minds.
Especially you, Sawsan. You need to think very carefully about what you're saying.
I did.
This is our only solution.
Hm. It is our only solution.
Believe me.
And let's do it smoothly,
without trouble.
Otherwise,
we will have to tell the police,
and inform… the members of the board,
and have them see this.
So, tell me.
What will you tell them when they find out I saw you with this man before?
And when we testify against you,
and tell them that you hired him as a hitman?
And that the murder that happened in Mona's room,
was at your orders?
What'll you say then,
Father?
If you do what you're thinking of doing,
you'll pay a very high price.
It will be ready in a minute.
Yassin.
Already having second thoughts?
I knew you were smart enough not to expose yourself.
That's enough, Yassin.
Think anyone would believe you if you told them
that I was the one who killed Nadia?
I'll say that you threatened me, to keep me quiet.
And that you're doing this to get back at me, after what happened upstairs.
Who are they going to believe?
Let's not do this to our kids.
You want me to believe that you're doing this for the kids?
Yes.
Let's take our distance away from them.
Accept what I told you to do, and leave.
Not gonna happen.
And if you want a war,
okay.
Let's see who will win.
Hello, Layla.