Maya asks Elena to dance “as friends.” During the dance, Maya whispers: “He told me you don’t understand his art. That you’re… safe. I told him safe is boring.” Elena freezes. The music swells. Elena slaps Maya—but Maya smiles, turns to the crowd, and says loudly, “It’s okay, everyone! Elena has had too much champagne!” Damien pulls Elena aside, furious. “You’re embarrassing me.” For the first time, Elena looks at him not with love, but with pity.

Cut to: Anna on a yacht, watching a video feed of the gala. She smiles, sips champagne, and says to an unknown man: “Phase two. He’s almost ready to leave her. Then I take everything.” Damien returns home. The apartment is dark. Elena sits in a chair by the window, the shattered wine glass from the cold open now glued back together, displayed on a pedestal.

Damien lunges for the recorder. Elena stands up, calm.

“Anna says hello. She’s very much alive. And she’s not the one you should be afraid of.”

She presses play on a voice recorder. We hear Leo’s voice: “I have the financial records, Simone. Damien’s been laundering money through the gallery for two years. Elena’s signature? Forged.”

“I fixed it. See? You can barely see the cracks.” Damien: (nervous laugh) “It’s just a glass, Elena.” Elena: “No. It’s us.”