Window shopping is free.
Inside is not.
Good afternoon.
I would like to speak with Mr.
Baines about the ring in the window.
[laughter] Dad, someone is here about the halo.
Do you have an appointment?
I sent you four letters, Mr.
Baines.
You never answered one.
I do not answer letters from just anyone.
That ring is my design.
I am here about the rights.
[laughter] Your design, sweetheart.
That ring costs more than your whole neighborhood.
[laughter] Is this a prank?
Are we on camera?
May I look inside the band?
You may not even breathe on it.
Step away from the [music] case, Mr.
Baines.
She is only looking.
Hands where I can see them.
What is in the bag?
My sketches.
Nobody leaves until the officers get here.
I know what you people do.
You just locked me inside your store.
And you are staying right there.
Hi.
Yes.
A woman is trying to take a $90,000 ring.
Y’all, a jeweler on Fifth just locked a woman inside his store.
Look at this.
Just take a walk.
Ma’am, please have some water.
Lena, do not serve her.
It is only water, sir.
Thank you, Lena.
You are paying for that glass.
Smile for the camera, thief.
[clears throat] place.
[laughter] That bench costs more than her rent.
I know exactly what everything in this room is worth.
[laughter] Mr.
Baines, I would like to call my attorney.
Call whoever you want.
Nobody is coming for you.
10,000 watching, 20, 30,000.
Somebody do something.
Claire, I am at Baines.
He locked the doors.
40 minutes, darling.
Get comfortable.
We got a call about a theft in progress.
That woman tried to take the Bane’s hilo.
Ma’am, did you take anything?
No, officer.
I came to talk about my ring.
Ask him to look inside the band.
Sir, open the case.
This is absurd.
[music] What does it say, sir?
IB for Grace.
Ammani Brooks.
Grace was my grandmother.
Same initials, same drawing.
Anyone can scratch initials into a ring.
Sir, nothing was taken.
You held this woman behind a locked door for 41 minutes.
That is a problem for you, not for her.
I came here [music] to talk, Mr.
Baines.
Now my attorney will You will never prove a thing, ma’am.
30,000 people just watched that.
Are you okay?
I am fine.
Thank you for not looking away.
What is your name?
Ammani Brooks.
I design rings.
[music] Wait, that ring in the window is yours?
It [music] was and it will be again.
Miss Brooks, wait.
I am so sorry for what happened in there.
I do inventory in the workshop.
The casting log says the halo came from a prototype called Brooks.
He kept my prototype.
[music] Mr.
Okora, our master jeweler, keeps the logs.
He knew your grandmother, Samuel Okora.
My grandmother used to talk about him.
[music] [music] I have to go back before they notice.
Lena, please be careful.
Dad, 2 million views.
Jeweler locks designer inside his store.
Designer.
She is nobody.
[music] The Halo collection launches Friday.
Investors, press, everyone.
And if they see the initials Samuel, every Halo ring, grind off the initials tonight.
Those initials belong to Grace Brook’s granddaughter.
Grace polished rings at my father’s bench for 40 years.
She never complained.
She never had the chance to.
[snorts] Grind them or pack up your bench.
Your choice.
[snorts] 31 years.
And you would give it all up for her?
Not this one.
Grace Imana, the video has 3 million views.
Baines is calling it a staged stunt.
[snorts] Of course he is.
Tell me from the beginning.
Three years ago, Baines held a contest for new designers.
I sent my handmade prototype.
He sent back a rejection letter.
He said the prototype was lost in the mail.
This was my grandmother’s bench.
Grace polished rings for the Baines family for 40 years in the back room, never out front.
She used to say, “Sweetheart, one day your name goes inside the band, not on the back door.
[music] [music] So I engraved it.
I be for grace on the inside where only the person wearing it would ever know.
If that engraving is on his rings, he cast them from your prototype.
That is not inspiration.
That is copying.
Then let us take back her name.
We file for an injunction before Friday’s launch.
No, let him launch in front of everyone.
You really are your grandmother’s granddaughter.
I am coming.
Grandpa.
[music] Oh, look.
The thief is back and she brought a lawyer.
Miss Baines, this is a formal notice of design infringement.
Here is your notice.
Oh, so sorry.
We filed a defamation suit against you, Miss Brooks.
You staged that video for money.
You locked the doors, Mr.
Baines.
I only sat down.
Ladies and gentlemen, this woman wants a payday.
Do not let her near the cases.
Should I press the button again, Dad?
You will never sell a ring in this city.
I will make sure every buyer on Fifth knows your name.
Good.
Let them [music] learn it.
See you on Friday, Mr.
Baines.
Keep these, Mr.
Baines.
You will want to remember the day you were warned.
Immani Brooks.
I am Samuel Okari.
Mr.
Roora, my grandmother talked about you so much.
[music] [music] Grace’s bench.
I would know it anywhere.
She taught me to polish without leaving a single mark.
Your prototype.
He told me to melt it down.
I hid it for 3 years and the casting log model Brook’s prototype in my own handwriting.
You will lose your job.
I lost my courage once with your grandmother.
[music] Never again.
He ordered me to grind off your initials.
I never touched the ring in the window.
Why that one?
Because everyone walks past that window.
[snorts] Grace would be so proud of you.
[snorts] I printed it from the office computer.
He sent it to Mr.
Okuli.
That is intent in writing.
I am going to lose my job.
You will have one with me.
Miss Brooks, my statement and my body camera footage are filed 41 minutes behind a locked door, and I am on duty at that launch on Friday night.
The judge signed it this morning.
Design rights restored.
We serve it on Friday night in front of everyone Friday.
Grandpa, [sighs] Ladies and gentlemen, the Bane’s Halo collection, born in this house, crafted by Bane’s hands.
[applause] Who is it?
Is her security Lena Samuel?
What is this?
The truth.
Richard, [music] go ahead.
Lock us in.
This time, everyone stays to listen.
Miss Baines, unlock that door.
As the thick metal bolts inside the doors slide [music] open, nobody gets locked in tonight.
Three years ago, I sent Mr.
Baines my handmade prototype for his contest for new designers.
He told me it was lost in the mail.
[music] It was not lost.
He told me to melt it down.
I hid it instead.
[music] Casting log, March 2023.
Model Brooks prototype.
Every Halo ring was cast from her hands.
Lies from a bitter old man.
Then explain your own email, Mr.
Baines.
Grind off the initials.
All pieces.
No exceptions.
Sir, open the window, please.
[music] [music] Look inside the band, Mr.
Baines, out loud this time.
[music] I be for grace.
The Bane’s halo.
[music] Mr.
Baines, a court order.
Design rights restored to Imala Brooks.
Every Halo ring comes off the market tonight.
[music] Dad, the investors are leaving.
Wait, please.
You told me she was nobody.
You said the design was ours.
Vanessa.
I am done covering for you.
What do you want?
Money.
Name your price.
I want her name inside the band and yours off it.
My grandmother polished your father’s rings for 40 years in a back room.
Tonight, her name walks out the front door.
Samuel Lena, I am opening a store.
It is called Grace.
I need a master jeweler and a manager.
It would be my honor.
Yes.
Yes.
[applause] 30,000 watched you get locked in.
A million just watched you walk free, [applause] Mr.
Baines.
About the 41 minutes you held Miss Brooks.
We will need your statement.
[music] Heat.
Heat.
[music] Vanessa, please.
Not now, Dad.
Heat.
Heat.
[music] on radius.
Grandma’s [music] bench front and center.
Where it always belonged.
[music] I came to buy an engagement ring from the designer herself.
Then let me make one just for you.
[music] Miss Brooks.
Mr.
Baines.
Our door is always open.
I came to apologize to you and to Grace.
Then come and see her bench.
Yes, that’s aggravation.
So, stop yours.
Yes.
Motion, right?
My father never once let her out front.
She is out front now.
31 years at your bench, Richard.
You never asked whose hands were on the rings.
I know whose hands they were now.
S anywhere.
Miss Brooks, the Grace Ringle was just named design of the year.
[music] [music] I have a new son.
Great care.
[music] She would want you to have this tonight.
[music] She gave me the bench.
You gave me the courage.
You guys engaged with a grace ring.
Congratulations.
He was reviewing an just for reason.
I found Grandma.
They know your name now.
If anyone tells you your name belongs on the back door, engrave it inside the band, then walk [music] out the [music]
