Gordon, I said no distractions.
Why is the sidewalk cleanup crew walking in?
Vanessa, please.
She’s just a customer.
Good morning, ma’am.
Come in.
Take [music] your time.
Thank you, dear.
I only need something small.
[music] Excuse me.
Some of us are spending $40,000 here.
Try not to breathe on the roses.
I’m only looking, miss.
[music] Miss Pierce, she’s a customer, too.
Customer?
She can’t afford the tissue paper.
Let’s keep it friendly.
Vanessa.
May I buy just this one?
It was my husband, Harold’s favorite.
He [music] passed in the spring.
Of course.
That’s $3, [music] ma’am.
Oh, I only have 24.40.
I’m 60 cents short.
I’ll put it back.
Please keep it.
I’ve [music] got the rest.
You are very kind, dear.
Charity at a florist.
How touching.
[music] This is what 40,000 buys.
It looks like a hedge.
Garden roses and peies, Miss Pierce.
They’ll open fully by tomorrow’s ceremony.
These are Santiago [music] roses bred by my father.
Your father grew weeds.
[music] I want white orchids from Ecuador.
500 stems.
Ecuador orchids take 10 days, Vanessa.
Then find a magic wand, Gordon.
Or my 40,000 goes to Willox Floral.
That rose on your bench is lovely.
It’s my father’s.
He made the vase, [music] too.
He called the rose Santiago.
Hi, baby.
Yes, the florist is perfect.
Everyone just adores me.
Good.
Grandma Eleanor flies in from Zurich tomorrow morning.
I just want her to love you.
I love you.
[music] Bri, look at the bag lady by the window.
Nessa, be nice.
I’m always nice.
Watch it, you clumsy old hag.
You’ll smear [music] your filth on it.
I’m so sorry, dear.
It’s all right, ma’am.
I’ve got it.
Don’t ma’am her.
Do your job and fix my flowers.
Your husband’s favorite.
Now he can have it in the grave.
Child, you’ve stepped on something that can’t be replaced.
Is that supposed to scare me?
Here, a [music] new one on me.
God bless you, dear.
Oops.
Maybe now you’ll finally get a bath.
That’s enough, Miss Pierce.
You owe her an apology.
I owe nothing to people who smell like a thrift store.
Vanessa, maybe we One more word, Gordon, and the order is cancelled.
It’s only water, dear.
Water [music] washes off.
Character doesn’t.
Whatever.
[music] What’s your name, sweetheart?
Maya Reyes.
Ellie Brooks.
A pleasure, Maya.
Lemon [music] and honey.
My Harold used to make it just like this.
What’s this dusty thing?
A weed in a pot.
That’s my father’s.
Please don’t touch it.
Please set it down.
He made that vase with his own hands before he passed.
This one?
Whoops.
Whoops.
Papa’s rose.
It’s [music] a plant.
Buy another at the hardware store.
You can break a [music] vase, Miss Pierce.
You can’t break what he taught me.
[music] She goes, or my 40,000 goes and goes.
Decide, Gordon.
Maya, [music] I’m so sorry.
I can’t lose this account.
I have to let you go.
After [music] 9 years, Gordon.
I understand.
[music] I’ll get my things.
Bri, keep Gordon busy.
Nessa, what are you doing?
Teaching her a lesson.
Oh, child.
Goodbye, Gordon.
[music] Thank you for 9 years.
Maya, I’m my bracelet.
Julian’s gift.
$60,000.
Are you sure, Vanessa?
I took it off to wash my hands.
Only she was back there.
I never saw a bracelet.
Check her bag.
Go ahead.
I have nothing to hide.
Thief.
No, I didn’t take it.
I didn’t take it.
Someone put that there.
Caught red-handed.
I’m calling [music] the police.
I saw you put it in her bag, miss.
A [music] confused old woman.
Ignore her, Gordon.
Vanessa.
Hello.
I’ve been robbed.
Who called?
She stole my bracelet.
And I’m sure she’s been stealing from this shop for years.
Years.
That’s a lie.
Officer Miss Reyes, did you take it?
No, she planted it.
Look at her.
She’s almost smiling.
She’s lying through her teeth.
Mr.
Pratt, [music] any security footage?
The camera hasn’t worked all week.
Miss Pierce wants to press charges.
Miss Reyes, you’re not under arrest, but you’ll give a statement and stay in Brook Haven.
That’s mine.
It’s evidence, ma’am.
Ma’am, [music] I’m sorry about all this.
Please take your Daisy home.
Don’t lose [music] heart, child.
Truth has long legs.
That was easy.
Nessa, that was a lot.
Don’t go soft on me, Bri.
Deliver my flowers to the Heartwell estate by two.
Don’t disappoint me, Mr.
Pratt.
[music] That camera’s red light is on.
She’d ruined me, ma’am.
She told me to lie.
Does it record?
It uploads to a cloud.
[music] Nine years Maya carried this shop.
I’m a coward.
Cowards can still do the right thing.
Mr.
Pratt, who are you, ma’am?
A friend of ma’s, a friend [music] with a driver.
Deliver Miss Pierce’s flowers at 2.
Act normal.
You may keep more than you think.
Maya’s address, Walter.
11 Lark Spur Lane.
Ma’am, [music] take me.
I want to see how a woman who lost everything treats a stranger.
And I’m afraid for Julian.
He’s your blood.
Ma’am, let’s see what kindness does when it has nothing left.
Maya, dear.
Miss Brooks, how did you find me?
My heart and the bus schedule.
[laughter] You shouldn’t have [music] walked all this way.
Please sit.
Your garden is a miracle.
It was my father’s.
I was going to eat alone anyway.
Have some after the morning you’ve had.
That’s exactly why.
Tell me about your father, [music] Tomas Reyes.
He came here with nothing and grew roses for other people’s gardens.
He named this one Santiago after his [music] own father.
He passed two years ago.
He made me promise to open my own shop someday.
[music] I never had the courage.
Courage isn’t the absence of fear, dear.
It’s what you do while shaking.
That young woman hid the bracelet, didn’t she?
I never saw it.
I did from my chair [music] in the reflection of the glass.
Miss Brooks, who would believe a florist over a bride marrying into the Heartwells?
The heart wells may not be what you think.
Do you regret being kind to me this morning?
[snorts] Never.
If kindness cost me a job, it was cheap.
Nessa, you already got her question.
[music] Let it go.
I need her signature.
Nice little dump.
And look, the beggar again.
Hello, dear.
Stalking my victim now.
Sign this.
Say you stole the bracelet and you’ll leave Brook.
Drop the charges.
I won’t sign a lie.
$5,000.
Take [music] it and disappear.
No, don’t.
[screaming] You think your daddy’s weed makes you special enough?
Or what, old woman?
You’ll call the Salvation Army.
Nessa, stop.
That’s too far.
Don’t start.
Bri, Trent, relax.
Two more days.
After the wedding, the old bat Eleanor signs the trust paperwork and I pay you back your 400,000.
And Eleanor Hartwell won’t live forever.
Then I sell her precious gardens and buy a villa in Italy.
Oh my god.
Let’s go.
Pull over.
You framed her, Nessa.
You destroyed her father’s rose.
It’s a plant.
[music] You’re in this as deep as I am, Bri.
You watched.
You said nothing.
Stay quiet.
And you walk away rich.
Okay.
Look, dear.
It’s alive.
It’s [music] just a root.
Roots are where roses are brave.
I have a favor to ask.
Come with me to the Hartwell estate this afternoon.
[music] Bring your father’s rose, Miss Brooks.
To them, I’m a thief.
That’s exactly the point.
My father said, “Never hide from the truth.
I’ll come.”
Is that your nephew?
A call, ma’am.
In [music] a few minutes, you’ll understand.
Until then, hold your rose and hold your head high.
Where are we going?
To a lunchon where the flowers are yours.
[music] This is the Hartwell estate.
Yes, Miss [music] Reyes.
Eleanor, you look terrible.
Give me 20 minutes, Richard.
Officers Daniels and Kim have reviewed the footage.
They’re standing by.
Time [music] to stop being a stranger.
Miss Brooks, [music] my name is Eleanor Hartwell.
I am Julian’s grandmother.
Oh, no.
Oh, yes.
Mrs.
Hartwell, why the disguise?
To see people’s true hearts when they think [music] no one is watching.
Hold the rose, Maya.
When I call your name, walk out beside Walter.
Yes, Mrs.
Hartwell.
[music] Welcome everyone.
Tomorrow’s the big day, so today we celebrate.
Julian, you look happy.
These are stunning.
Who designed them?
My my best designer, Mr.
Hartwell.
Maya Reyes.
Then why isn’t [music] she here?
She was let go this morning.
There was a misunderstanding.
Julian, I’ve had the most horrible morning.
What happened?
A florist stole my tennis bracelet.
The police took it.
A florist?
Her name wasn’t Maya Reyes, was it?
Whose side are you on?
And I designed these flowers, babe.
Gordon just executed my concept.
Watch it.
[music] Do you want to work again tomorrow?
Vanessa, easy.
He’s doing his job.
Of course, baby.
To justice, [music] to flowers, and to Julian’s grandmother watching from Zurich.
I’ll make [music] her love me.
Cheers.
I love Vanessa.
I just wish Grandma Eleanor were here.
She’s the reason I know what good people look like.
And now, our [music] love story.
[music] That’s cruel.
Turn it off.
Turn it off.
Vanessa, is that you?
It’s AI.
Someone edited it.
I’m being framed.
You planted it, Julian.
No.
I’m done lying.
Eleanor Hartwell won’t live forever.
Then I sell her precious gardens and buy a villa in Italy.
You said that about my grandmother.
Mrs.
Hartwell.
It’s quite in [music] context.
Vanessa, who’s You’re supposed to be in Zurich.
Zurich was boring, darling.
A florist was far more educational.
Grandma Eleanor, I can explain.
I didn’t know that woman was you.
Precisely.
You didn’t know.
That’s why I looked.
I [music] wore a cardigan and a borrowed cane.
And you showed me exactly who you are when you thought I had no value.
You tricked [music] me.
No, I let you be yourself.
Tell me the truth just once.
Baby, I love you.
It was a misunderstanding.
It’s not fake.
Julian, I saw her do it.
I’m so sorry.
Bri, you traitor.
I can’t do this anymore.
Everyone, this is Maya Reyes.
This morning, she gave [music] a stranger her last dollar and a cup of tea.
Then she lost her job and she was accused of theft.
Mr.
Hartwell, I never took anything.
Miss Reyes, I’m so sorry for what was done in my name.
It wasn’t you who did it.
Miss Pierce owes $412,000 to a Mr.
Trent Mason.
She planned to pay it with Julian’s trust.
That’s private.
So was my dignity.
Vanessa Pierce, you’re under arrest for filing a false police report and tampering with evidence.
Give me the ring.
The wedding is off.
Julian, I love you.
[music] No, you love my name.
[music] Hands behind your back.
Looks like attempted witness bribery, too.
[music] You’ll regret this.
I think regret is what you’ll be living with now.
I always found her rude.
Hard to unsee it.
[music] Maya, [music] I should have spoken up.
I’m so sorry.
Thank you for finally telling the truth.
[music] Maya, I owe you the biggest apology of my life.
9 years you carried my shop and I handed you to a bully.
I forgive you, Gordon, but I won’t go back.
I bought [music] the building at 14 Maple Street this afternoon.
The entire ground floor is yours rentree [music] for 3 years.
Mrs.
Hartwell, I can’t accept charity.
It isn’t [music] charity, dear.
It’s an investment in character, and I never lose money on.
My father wanted a shop with his name.
Then call it [music] Santiago’s.
I’ll buy the first bouquet.
Mr.
Pratt, you’ll have a job if Maya will have you.
[snorts] Gordon, you can keep the books.
I hate paperwork.
I’d be honored.
Grandma, I almost married a stranger.
How did I miss it?
[music] You wanted to see the best in her.
That’s not a flaw.
Next time, watch how she treats waiters and old women with canes.
Today [music] cost me a cardigan and some dignity and taught me this.
Judge people.
Judge people by how those who can give them nothing.
[music] Thank you for what you did today, Miss Reyes.
It was just flowers.
Can I help [music] carry it?
Careful.
The roots are fragile.
I’ll be careful.
And thank you for not hating me.
I hated what she did.
Not you.
That daisy cost me 60ents.
Your kindness has returned a fortune.
I’m told roses grow back stronger.
Roots are brave.
You really are the first honest thing that’s happened to me today.
Then I’ll [music] try to stay honest.
I think you’ve done it again, ma’am.
[music] I only watered the garden, Walter.
Nature does the rest.
Miss Reyes, once Santiago’s opens, may I order something for the table at Sunday dinner?
[music] I’d be honored, Mr.
Hartwell.
To honest [music] hands and brave roots.
Cheers.
Kindness is the strongest rose.
It blooms even after the storm.
