- I know you, you work for Diana Trout.
- Well, obviously I work in publishing for love, not money.
- And is marketing your passion?
- Well, my heart's in editorial.
- Well, here's to a bright future
and fewer parties like this one.
For both of us.
(upbeat music)
- I do think he's feeling a little adrift since the divorce,
which, you know, is, it's totally normal.
- And where do you gather these little nuggets
of wisdom from, Buzzfeed?
- The girls, they were just angels tonight.
- I am glad to hear that.
Please.
This divorce has been rough on them.
They can act out, it's a mess.
- Messes make people interesting.
(upbeat music)
- Are you sure you're 26?
Maybe you can, you can babysit again.
- Yeah, just let me know.
- Yeah, you don't want to keep your young man waiting.
- Well, how do you know it's a young man?
- Isn't it?
Your HR file says you're 26,
but you write like a 40 year old.
There something you want to tell me?
- Uh, no.
- No, I think I know your secret.
You're a writer.
- Yeah, I'm a writer.
- Hi. - Hi.
Um, I've got the Hillenbrand manuscript.
- Thank you so much for running it over so late.
- You're so lucky, I'm such a Hillenbrand fan.
- Well, I wish I could ask you to come in
and read this with me, but I think it would
get us both in trouble.
- Charles, hi, this is my boyfriend.
This is Josh.
- Very, very nice to meet you, Josh.
- Yeah, you too.
- Oh my God is that his...
Wow. - Don't touch it!
- There is a, a small matter that I need
to talk to you about. - We know.
- We've seen it. - Not small.
- I, I don't know what to say-
- There's no need to explain yourself.
I can assure you, we will get it off.
- Down. - Down.
- God, it has a name now.
- What, what are they calling it?
- The Empiriconda.
Accurate. (upbeat music)
- I'm at the Four Season.
- Okay, well, we are done here.
This princess needs rescuing.
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like
if the bottom dropped out
and I had to start over again.
What would I do?
- Well, what's something you've always wanted to do?
Something you couldn't do because of your job.
- Do you really want to know?
- Yeah.
- What are you doing here?
- You wouldn't understand.
- I know when you're young you think you're responsible
for all kinds of things that you have nothing to do with,
but you're not.
Most things in life are out of your control.
- I appreciate you saying that.
- We want you back at Empirical.
- I don't know. - Just think about it.
And while you're at it, think about this.
(upbeat music)
- When Charles found me at the mall,
he kissed me in the men's department.
- Did you like it?
- It doesn't matter, he thinks I'm 26,
and he's my boss, nothing can happen.
- Hi. - Hi.
- I just want to say I'm very happy you're back.
- So am I.
- This young woman I work with,
I kind of kissed myself into a complicated situation.
She's different.
There's something about her.
She's like an old soul.
- I'm so sorry about last night
- You don't have to explain a thing.
- I haven't seen him in a mood like this
since his wife left.
Something is really under his skin.
- Wow, um, I, I didn't know you were gonna be here.
- How wonderful.
Do you need a hand with that?
- Do you mind? (upbeat music)
- You look great.
And so does your... girlfriend?
- Let's just say it's new.
Radha, you remember Liza.
- Yes, delighted to see you again.
- What on earth does he see in her?
- Liza was in an accident, she's in the hospital.
- Charles, if you leave to go and see that girl,
we're over. - I hope you don't mean that.
- I'm feeling much better now.
- While you were incapacitated,
Charles and Radha broke up.
- Hello, neighbor. - Hi.
Is Berlin playing tonight?
- Should we go in?
- We have to go in.
(light music)
Oh my God, this song.
- This was the song that was playing the first time that...
Oh, I am telling you way too many stories about myself.
- I like hearing them.
- I like you.
(light music)
- Oh, that was unexpected.
- Uh, yeah, yeah, didn't know Berlin was still together.
- Yeah, must have been a one night only kind of thing.
- I sure hope not.
(light music)
I certainly hope that broken engagement
had nothing to do with me.
- Liza Miller, right?
Jay Malick, we met at Bonfire.
- Hi, Jay!
- What's up, Chuck?
- Liza. - Hi.
- Jay Malick, huh?
He's a nice guy.
I heard about your Twitter feud.
- Mm hm.
- I would shut that down, if I were you.
This is bad, Kelsey.
For all of us.
I've got 75 people out there
whose jobs I suddenly can't guarantee
because of her carelessness!
- This is not like you to be so angry
before you know the facts.
- You're right, you're right, I don't know anything.
I don't know how I'm gonna replace our biggest donor.
I don't know how I'm going to make payroll next month.
And I don't know why you're dating a 40-something guy
in publishing who isn't me!
You okay?
You seem a little jumpy.
(light music)
- Charles' ex-wife wrote a book.
It's like a thinly-disguised tell-all of their marriage.
- Did you read page 58?
- Yes, and I'm trying very hard to forget I ever did.
- I mean, who knew Charles had it in it him?
- There are so many salacious details in this book.
It is gonna be huge!
- I honestly have no idea how to handle this.
- Hi, I'm not the same woman
who walked out on you a year ago.
Can we just start there?
- I suppose she has a right to tell her side of the story.
- I love him.
I am out of my mind for him, I always have been.
Can you understand that?
- Yeah, I can.
Evidently the real reason she wrote the book was
to win Charles back, and as her editor,
she wants me to help her do that.
- My feelings for you are real.
- But she- - Wrote a book.
Pauline may have made a mess of my life,
but she is not going to make a mess of us.
- I think Charles is seeing someone else.
- What, why would you say that?
- Holy shit, Liza. - I know.
- Sleeping with the boss doesn't end well,
for any of us.
- I can't.
- My feelings for you haven't changed.
- Charles, everything's changed.
- Liza, this book is really changing everything for me.
Charles and I are even talking about my moving back
into the townhouse with the girls.
- I am not going to be the one to stand in the way
of this family getting back together.
- I don't want to throw away what we could be for this.
I am concerned that you have been put
in a compromising position.
- My feelings are there, and they're real.
- Birth certificate, marriage license, bankruptcy report.
The woman is a con artist.
- How did I not see this?
I was ready to break up my family for this woman.
I was in love with her.
- They just want to know
if we're ever getting back together.
And frankly, so do I.
- This isn't working, Pauline.
I have to pretend so much in my life,
and I just can't do it anymore.
- Charles, wait!
- Who are you?
- I'm just a woman who lied about her age to get a job.
- You betrayed me.
You are not the kind of person
that I want to have in my life.
- What is wrong with Charles?
- He knows. - Knows what?
- About me, all of it.
Just, I care about you so much.
I, I need you to know that.
- And I need you to forget about it.
- Just talk to me, please, Charles.
Just yell, if that will help.
If you're trying to punish me, it's working.
- Night, Liza. - Goodnight.
(upbeat music)
- It's amazing the things that we do for our kids, isn't it?
- Caitlin's why I work so hard for my job.
Why I did what I did.
(upbeat music)
What are you...
- I don't care anymore.
(upbeat music)
- We can't go back to how we were after this.
- You ready to take a ride?
(upbeat music)
- Is Charles dating anybody?
- Uh, nothing that he's been public about.
- Uh uh, very single, as far as we know.
- Which we don't know for sure.
- I'm trying to keep work and us separate.
And I thought that we agreed
that we would keep us quiet for now.
- I don't want to be in a relationship
I can't be open about.
- We have three months of operating expenses left.
If we don't get an investor,
everything that we have all worked for will just disappear.
- I think I found a way out for you and me.
- Consider yourself fired.
- So, we have a problem.
My entire group was just emailed a blind item
that's due to run on Page Six tomorrow.
- What major publisher
has been having a torrid affair
with his 27-year-old assistant?
- We're going to have to withdraw our offer.
- I think there's another way.
Your new publisher, Kelsey Peters.
(group applauds)
- Charles, why would Quinn do this?
- She found out about us.
Our first time out as a couple.
(upbeat music)
- What's that all about?
So you are behind Mercury.
Why didn't you just tell me?
- I'm sorry.
To be honest, this whole thing took off
a lot faster than expected.
- I wish there was a way that we could work together.
- Come work at Mercury.
- I can't just leave Kelsey.
- I left my company to be with you.
- You're closing up Mercury.
- I want you to buy it.
My grandfather mortgaged everything to start this place.
I want to come home.
- Liza is 42.
- This isn't how I wanted you to find out.
- You knew? (upbeat music)
- Quinn pulled our funding, we're broke.
- This is all my fault.
- We will get the money.
Everything is going to be fine.
- So this is our only shot at keeping the company alive?
- Sorry.
- We're interested in Millennial,
but not with Miss Peters as publisher.
Now, if Mr. Brooks could return to that position,
we'd keep funding in place.
- I have fallen deeper and deeper in love with you.
How can I not?
Will you marry me?
- Oh my God.
We don't have to rush, I'm not going anywhere.
- Sometimes I can be impatient when I know what I want,
but I understand.
I do know what I want, and it's not a ride
or some kind of fantasy.
- Charles, I love you.
I just don't need a piece of paper to prove it.
- And I love you, and I never thought of marriage
as just a piece of paper.
We just want different things.
It's best we both move on.
- But if we still love each other...
- Liza and are actually, we're not together anymore.
- Oh, I'm so sorry.
Isn't it true that with every loss
comes unexpected opportunity?
It was actually Charles' idea.
This whole book was actually Charles' idea.
- Liza, what do you think?
- I don't know what to think.
Wait, what is she doing here?
- Hi.
- Oh yeah, Charles bought her book.
- I practically wrote your ex-wife's book.
I hope you don't expect me
to edit your new girlfriend's book as well.
- Are things really over between you and Charles?
- Pardon?
- When you know what you want, you don't apologize for it.
You go for it.
- It's lucky that we found each other.
You've got the wrong idea, Liza.
- I just want what's best for you.
- Stay out of my personal life.
That's best for us, Liza.
Remember my novel about the affair that I had
with an older woman after I graduated from college?
- Of course.
- My past is coming back to haunt me.
- Just thought you might need a friend right now.
What you're feeling right now you should use
to finish your book.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
- You believe that's true?
- If you loved Charles and he proposed to you,
then why aren't you married?
- It's gotta be your terms or it just doesn't work.
- I wanted to have all of you.
- You did have all of me.
Oh my God, you don't believe me.
- Can you blame me?
- I wish I didn't love you.
Do whatever makes you happy.
That's all I want.
It doesn't matter how you get there.
- You are a remarkable woman, Liza Miller.
You have a way of making me see things
in a completely different way.
- I think Charles is gonna propose to Quinn,
which would be a huge mistake.
He's not really in love with Quinn.
He's in love with you.
- I couldn't get on that plane.
- What, why?
- Because I was with the wrong person.
Forget marriage, I just want to be with you,
any way that you want.
- We're not gonna make it, are we?
- I don't think so.
(upbeat music)
Kelsey is gone, and I need someone to run this place
while I am at Diotto.
- Seriously? - Yeah.
I've spent enough years looking
over other writers' shoulders.
You don't think it's too late
to start a second career, do you?
- Never.
Charles, thank you.
- No, Liza, thank you.
(upbeat music)