Part 1:
Good night, Celeste.
I’ll be home on Friday.
Let’s see the house.
I said oat milk, not this.
I’m sorry, Miss Celeste.
I’ll make another one.
[music]
Clean it and use your hands this time.
I’ll get the mop, ma’am.
[music]
Did I say mop?
The mop cleans better, ma’am.
Is that Celeste?
Let me help you, Nora.
I’ve got it, Mr.
Graves.
Thank you.
She’s been at you all week.
She’s just under pressure with the wedding.
Pressure doesn’t make people cruel, dear.
It shows who they are.
Albert, it’s me.
Is Nora all right?
She’s fine, sir.
She always is.
How long has this been going on?
Since the day you left, sir.
Every single day.
Every single day.
[music]
Is that your lunch?
Yes, ma’am.
Leftover pasta from home.
It smells like a cheap diner.
That was my lunch, ma’am.
Now it’s the trash’s lunch.
[music]
Kindness costs nothing, ma’am.
Cruelty always ends up costing more.
Are you threatening me?
No, ma’am.
Just telling you the truth.
[music]
Kindness costs nothing.
Stand at the gate until my guests arrive.
It’s raining hard, ma’am.
May I take an umbrella?
Umbrellas are for guests.
Take this.
I don’t care what she says.
You’ll get in trouble, Mr.
Graves.
At my age, trouble is the only excitement I get.
2 hours in the rain.
Why do you stay, Nora?
Because the pay is good and my mother [music] needs it.
Will you tell Mr. win?
He loves her, Mr.
Graves.
It isn’t my place.
Maybe the wedding will make her happier, and happy people are kinder.
You’re too good for this house, my dear.
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Part 2:
She’s still protecting her after everything.
Today, Mr.
Graves shared his umbrella.
What is she writing every night?
There’s my girl.
How was the palace?
Same as always, Mom.
Beautiful and cold.
That fiance again?
She threw my lunch away today.
She did what?
It’s fine.
I wasn’t that hungry.
You were hungry.
You just won’t say it.
Quit, honey.
We’ll manage.
Two more years of night school, Mom.
Then I’m a teacher.
And until then, you let her walk on you.
I let her be unhappy.
That’s different.
Your father used to say things like that.
Still writing [music] one good thing a day?
Every day since dad.
What was today’s?
Mr.
Graves and his umbrella.
An umbrella?
So she made [music] you stand in the rain?
Mom, please don’t make that face.
I only have one face, Nora.
[laughter]
And it’s a beautiful face.
Now come eat your soup.
What did you write about her?
About who?
Miss Celeste.
You don’t want to know.
Some [music] things stay in the notebook, Mom.
Mysterious daughter.
Your father would be proud of you and furious at her.
One day someone will really see you, baby.
Celeste, how is the new maid working out?
Lazy.
Is that right?
Interesting.
Good night, Celeste.
Darling, he has no idea.
He thinks I’m an angel.
Once the ring is on, [music] the maid goes, then the old butler.
Then I redo this whole gloomy house.
Once the ring is on.
His mother’s precious brooch.
How perfect.
[music]
Albert, don’t say a word to anyone.
I’m coming home tomorrow.
Understood, sir.
Not a word.
You would have liked Nora, Mom.
Good morning, Nora.
Morning, Mr.
Graves.
You look like like you didn’t sleep.
Old men don’t sleep.
They plan.
Plan what?
Breakfast, of course.
Nora, darling, coffee in the garden, please.
Yes, Miss Celeste.
Darling.
Thank you, Nora.
You may go.
Of course, ma’am.
Enjoy your last day.
Let’s see who’s who.
Welcome home, sir.
Thank you, Albert.
Where is everyone?
Miss Celeste is upstairs and Nora is in the kitchen.
Good.
Say nothing yet.
Today, I just watch.
Sebastian, you’re home early.
I missed home.
[music]
You should have called.
I’d have planned dinner.
I wanted to surprise everyone.
Well, you did, darling.
I’m sure I did.
Mr.
Wyn, welcome home, sir.
Thank you, Nora.
Is there any tea?
There’s always tea, sir.
You can sit in the dining room, sir.
I like it here.
It’s warmer.
How has [music] the house been, Nora?
Quiet, sir.
Everything is in order.
[music]
And Celeste?
Miss Celeste has been very busy with the wedding.
[music]
That’s a very kind answer.
It’s the only answer I have, sir.
Albert says you’re studying night school to become a teacher.
Which grade?
Third [music] grade.
When they still think everything is possible.
Maybe they’re right.
Sebastian.
Darling, the planner is waiting.
Coming.
Nora, the silver needs polishing before the party.
Yes, Miss Celeste.
Did Nora ever complain, Albert?
Not once, sir.
Not one word.
She [music] even defends Miss Celeste to me, sir.
I heard.
She told me Celeste was busy.
What will you do, sir?
The engagement party is on Saturday. [music] I want everyone to see what I saw.
And the brooch, sir?
Let it stay where it is [music] for now.
Let me take that.
Sir, that’s my job.
Then let it be my job for 5 minutes.
5 minutes, then.
You’re [music] different than I expected, Mr.
Win.
Different how?
You ask questions and actually wait for the answers.
Sebastian, your mother’s brooch is gone.
Gone?
It was right there in your study yesterday.
Who has been in the study?
Only the maid cleans that room.
Miss Celeste, [music] I would never touch it.
Then you won’t mind if we check your locker.
Well, look what we have here.
I’ve never seen that in my coat.
I swear.
We have to report this, Sebastian.
No one is reporting anything.
She stole your mother’s brooch.
I said no police, Celeste.
Then fire her today in front of me.
Give me one day.
One day for a thief?
One day, Celeste.
That’s all I ask.
You don’t need a day, sir.
I’ll go.
Nora, wait.
I won’t stay where people think I’m a thief.
[music]
Nora, please.
Thank you for everything, Mr.
Graves.
You did the right thing, darling.
Did I?
Some people just aren’t our kind.
Be kind.
It’s the only fortune that lasts.
Sir, she left her notebook.
Her notebook?
It fell out of her apron, sir.
I’ll return it to her myself.
It’s not mine to read.
Where are you going, sir?
To find her.
They fired you over a brooch?
She put it in my coat, Mom.
And he believed her?
He asked for one day and I didn’t give him one.
[sighs]
Pride is our family’s specialty.
[music] [bell]
Can I help you, sir?
I’m looking for your daughter, ma’am.
Mr.
Win.
You forgot [music] this.
Did you read it?
No, it’s yours.
Can we talk, Nora?
You have 5 minutes.
I know you didn’t take it.
How?
I watched her put it in your coat on my laptop from New York.
You saw?
I saw everything.
The coffee, the lunch, and the rain.
Then why didn’t you stop it?
I needed everyone to see it, not just me.
So I was a show for your cameras.
No, you were the only honest thing on them.
You let me walk out of there a thief.
For one day.
And then everyone will know you’re not.
More coffee, Mr.
Win?
Please, ma’am.
A good man asking for one more day is worth one more day, honey.
Mom, you don’t even know him.
I know he came to a diner at at night.
Men like that don’t chase a maid across town for nothing.
Come to the engagement party on Saturday.
To your engagement party?
As my guest, not as staff.
And what happens on Saturday?
The truth gets [music] a microphone.
I don’t want revenge, Mr.
Win.
Neither do I.
Just the truth.
Then I’ll come for the truth.
If I’m a guest, then call me Nora and I’ll call you Sebastian.
Deal.
So, what are you wearing on Saturday, Mom?
The screen fits perfectly, sir.
And the files?
Every clip is ready, sir.
In order.
The coffee first, then the lunch, then the rain, and the brooch last.
You installed those cameras, Albert, so you pressed play.
It would be my honor, sir.
What is that screen for?
A surprise for the toast.
Is it a slideshow of our photos?
Something like that.
You’re so romantic.
[music]
She’s going to love it, sir.
I’m sure she will.
Your mother would be proud, sir.
She hired you, Albert, and she always knew people.
She told me one thing on my very first day.
What was it?
She said, “Watch how they treat the staff, Albert, because that’s who they are.”
I should have listened to her sooner.
I wore this to my own engagement party.
Mom, it’s beautiful.
Your father said [music] I look like the sky.
I’ll take good care of it.
Mom, what if it all goes wrong?
Then you’ll write it in your notebook.
Even bad days have one good thing, and you taught me that.
Today, someone believed me.
Nora, I’m just checking that you’re ready for tomorrow.
I’m ready, Sebastian.
Good night, Nora.
By tomorrow night, I’m practically Mrs.
Win.
[laughter]
And the maid is gone, darling.
Problem solved.
Not for long, madam.
You look wonderful, Nora.
It’s my mother’s dress, and she says hello.
What is she doing here?
She’s my guest.
You brought her here in front of everyone?
Especially in front of everyone.
Fine, but she stays in the corner.
[bell]
Thank you all for coming tonight.
[applause]
Sebastian and I have so much to celebrate [music] even after some, let’s say, staff troubles this week.
Head up, Nora.
I’m trying.
[music]
May I add something, Celeste?
Of course, darling.
While I was in New York, I checked the cameras in my home.
Albert, please.
Yes, sir.
That’s edited.
That’s not real.
It’s from my own cameras, Celeste.
[music]
She turned you against me.
She defended you every single time.
After all of that, she told me you were just busy.
Keep your gloomy house.
[applause] [music]
This belongs on someone kind.
Sebastian, I can’t.
My mother wrote, “Be kind.
It’s the only fortune that lasts.”
[music]
Then she would want you to keep it.
Then hold it for me for now.
Well done, sir.
Well done, Albert.
That was a lot of truth for one night.
It was long overdue.
Are you okay?
You just lost a fiance.
I lost a stranger I almost married.
I want you to read one page.
Are you sure?
The day she threw my lunch away.
Miss Celeste looked tired today.
I hope someone is kind to her.
[music]
After everything, you wrote that?
Cruel people are usually the loneliest.
[music]
And I thought I was the one watching people.
Why one good thing a day?
My dad started it after he lost his job.
He said, “If you can find one good thing, you can find tomorrow.”
Is he still with you?
He’s been gone 5 years, but the notebook stayed.
My mother had sayings, too.
[music]
Like the one on the brooch.
She chose every person in that house by watching how they treated the gardener.
Then she would have hired me.
[music]
She would have adored you.
Kindness is a seed, Sebastian.
And you plant it even in bad soil.
Even in a house like mine?
Especially in a house like yours.
[music]
Come back, Nora.
But not as my maid.
As what, then?
As someone I’d like to know better.
Slowly.
Slowly sounds good.
Tea? [music] Anyone?
Always, Mr.
Graves.
[music]
I’m retiring next year, sir.
Then you’ll have to train someone first.
I know exactly who should run this house.
[laughter]
Me? [music] I’m going to be a teacher.
Then on the weekends.
[laughter]
Today, the truth got a microphone, and tomorrow I’ll find out.
Best pie in the state, Ruth.
You say that [music] every Tuesday, Albert.
And every Tuesday, it’s true.
Guess who finished [music] her first year of teaching?
My daughter.
Congratulations, Miss Bellamy.
Just Nora.
Always.
[music]
Am I late?
5 minutes.
I had to pick something up.
Flowers and your notebook.
You left it in my car.
Did you read it?
Just today’s page.
Today’s page is [music] empty.
Not anymore.
[music]
Today, Nora Bellamy said yes.
Will you make [music] that page true?
Yes, Sebastian.
Yes.
[music]
I told you he’d come back for her.
You told me [music] twice a week, Ruth.
Your father would have loved him.
It looks like it was always yours.
Your mother just lent it to me.
One good thing for today.
Just one?
Today I get to write a lot of them.
To the new lady of the house.
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