Rough Diamonds (2023) s01e06 Episode Script

- Good evening.
- Good evening.
This is my sister, Adina.
Talk to me.
I'm sorry
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
I'm sorry for the way it happened,
but I meant no disrespect.
But it went against
all that we had agreed on.
I couldn't do it.
All that we asked was
to be quiet, and a smile.
Gentlemen
We're all here to, uh
to find a fix for this situation.
A way to go forward.
We're all smart here.
We're all business people.
We can settle this
and then go our separate ways.
After what you've done,
you come with demands?
We've paid a price as well.
We lost our contract.
That's your problem.
We'd suggest a compromise.
We'll do one last exchange.
Five million. Gratis.
No commission.
- And we part ways peacefully.
- Cut it out.
You'll supply diamonds to us
for as long as I want you to.
And from now on, we'll pay 10% less.
Sorry. I'm sorry, but that's impossible.
Matthias, what is this?
Our profit margins
are low already.
Ten percent means that we'll be
losing money on this, lots.
That's his prerogative.
We can't do it.
Is that what you
want me to tell them, then?
Yes. Yes.
Okay.
- How long can you play the same game?
- It's not the same game, it's a new level.
- What about that language app?
- It's boring.
- You said you wanted to learn.
- I am learning, without an app.
My name is Tommy. What is your name?
Pretty good.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Good morning.
- Morning.
- I haven't seen you in a while.
- Yeah, sorry, a lot is going on.
- It's okay, really.
- Hm?
If you want to hang out, cool.
And if not, also cool.
We haven't made any promises.
Okay, buddy.
- Oh, my bike's in the basement.
- Okay. Bye.
- Hey, Tommy. Come!
- Bye, Dad.
Hey, hey, no hug?
Are you Tommy's dad?
That depends. What did he do?
No, nothing wrong.
My daughter can't stop talking about him.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- What's her name?
- Amanda. She said you're from London?
Yeah, Tommy was born there.
I'm from here.
Okay. And your wife?
Amanda said she stayed in London.
- Yeah
- Well I'm sorry.
Yeah. Go ahead.
Hi.
Kerra?
Our banker friend called me last night.
You got yourself into quite a mess.
I know. You were right.
I was naive trusting them.
I'm calling because you're in danger.
They made it very clear.
They want me to get you in line.
Or else
What they're asking for is impossible.
It will bankrupt us.
I didn't want to make this call, really.
I wanted to wait for you to come
running back to me, begging for help.
- But I guess I'm softer than that.
- I'm glad you called.
They're not gonna let this go.
I don't think there's anything I can do.
I tried to make them understand.
- Maybe the big man will listen to you.
- I'll try.
Thank you. I really appreciate it.
Good morning.
You did an excellent job at the bank.
- Why did I take the picture?
- Valuable information.
- Especially that notebook is
- You lied to me.
You're after the bank, not the mafia.
I withheld the truth
for your own wellbeing, Mr. Wolfson.
If you had known
what my office was doing,
you would have felt the pressure then
and the man would have noticed.
If I had known, I would have
never gone in there at all.
Hey, I'm doing you a big favor here.
You could have been in jail already.
Are we done here?
That's what I wanted to talk about.
I promised I'd get protection
for you and your family,
and I will, really.
But it's only gonna happen
if you act as a state witness.
It's not as bad as it sounds.
You'll have total immunity.
Do you even know what you're asking?
I testify against other diamond dealers,
we're blacklisted forever, that's it.
Doing it publicly isn't required.
All you do is tell lies.
Mr. Wolfson, this isn't a lie.
The truth is, this is the only way
for you to escape prosecution.
What I say must remain anonymous.
- No one can ever know it was me.
- Yes, of course, done.
And it has to wait
until after my daughter's wedding.
Okay.
That's the right decision.
Bye.
Maybe take it in
just a little bit?
- Take it in?
- Yeah, then use shapewear.
Oh.
- Shapewear?
- Oh, yes, Rivki.
You've lost a bit of weight, huh?
She won't eat.
Just look at her, she's so weak.
That's normal. She's stressed.
- You look great, for sure.
- Yeah, truly.
I hear that you're going
to look for a bridal gown too.
Oh, what?
When Tova gave me the news,
I couldn't believe it.
Such a match, it's great.
Who is it?
- Yehuda Ziskind.
- Wow. Excellent.
Is he going to bring
our beautiful Gila to New York?
Well, I didn't say yes or no.
And what are you waiting for, exactly?
Come on, Rivki.
It's really a big decision.
Yeah. She doesn't exactly
have options, though.
He really is a lovely man.
I met him a few times at the bourse.
- Let me make that a little bit looser.
- Yeah.
So how does it look?
- Amazing.
- Yeah?
Yeah.
Love, what's the matter?
Oh, she's gonna fix the dress.
Don't worry, it's okay.
What?
How did you know
you chose the right man in the end?
How can you ever be certain?
What are you so worried about, honey?
I don't even know the guy.
We've only spoken six times, you know.
You two have been engaged a whole year.
Your parents have gotten
to know his parents.
You kids are undoubtedly a great match.
All of us agree on that.
How would they know that?
I'm going to spend the rest of my life
with him, together we'll raise children.
I have no idea what that's gonna be like.
How can I tell
if I'm making the right choice?
How were your dates? Hmm?
How did it feel to to be with him?
I do like him.
He's smart and he's funny.
Mm-hmm.
And we want the same things in life.
Yeah.
- Seven kids
- Uh-uh.
A house with a garden to play in.
But that is what's important in life.
Hey.
When you're with your soulmate,
then you feel it right there
in your heart.
Hey. Come in.
Where did you get it done? London?
About, uh, three months after I left.
Did you know someone there?
So, how did you get by?
Did you have any money or?
Not really.
Before I, uh before I left
I considered going into the office,
taking diamonds from the vault,
and running.
- Really?
- Yeah.
It wouldn't have been that hard, but
I didn't want them to have anything on me.
- Then what did you do?
- I pawned my watch.
Gave me a little bit for food.
And, after a couple of nights in the open,
I, uh was able to find a gig.
Just being a mover, it was okay.
It wasn't as bad as it sounds, truly.
Why make it wings?
The artist said they stand
for freedom and the like.
I think I only did it
because it's forbidden.
Is that why I'm here too?
Because it's forbidden?
Of course not.
Of course not.
We can't keep doing this.
If someone finds out
It's Tommy's school.
- Hello?
- Hello, Mr. Wolfson?
- Yes.
- This is Tommy's teacher.
Is it possible for you
to come over to the school?
Tommy is very upset.
Tell him I'm on my way.
What's wrong? Did something happen?
Yes, but I don't know what.
- Can I do anything?
- No, sorry.
I've gotta go.
Tommy!
He wouldn't tell us what happened.
He just got really upset
and asked that we call you.
Okay, thank you.
Can you give us a moment? Thanks.
Hey, buddy, are you okay?
- What happened?
- A man came to the fence.
Where?
He called me. He knew my name.
What did he do?
He called me over, I came.
He was nice.
But then he grabbed me
through the fence and didn't let go,
said to tell you your friend
isn't gonna wait much longer
Hold on, hold on. What did he say?
He said to tell my father that his friend
isn't gonna wait much longer.
And then what?
He left. Dad, who was that man?
Easy, easy. Hey, I'm here now.
He's never, ever
gonna bother you again, okay?
Come here, buddy. It's okay.
- Did he touch him?
- He grabbed his arm.
- Those fucking cunts.
- Scared the shit out of him.
- I warned you.
- I thought you were gonna talk to them?
I did talk to them.
I thought I did.
What are you gonna do?
You need to go there,
bow your head, and settle this.
And let them go after Tommy
every time they're not satisfied?
- Tommy should come back home.
- No way.
If you can't keep him safe,
you need to send him back to London.
I'm not leaving him again.
I don't think you have a choice anymore.
He's my family too.
I meant to call you back.
You've got me
in an uncomfortable situation.
- And it really isn't fair to Yehuda.
- I'm aware. I'm sorry.
Have you made up your mind yet?
Not yet.
What's the matter?
What are you worried about?
Another woman in your situation
would have said yes a long time ago.
I'm aware.
If you keep Yehuda waiting too long,
he's going to doubt his choice.
It's not about him at all.
I'm not sure about moving to New York.
I'm not sure about
how the children are gonna react.
A new school, new friends.
A new life is exactly what you need.
You let your feelings command you, Gila.
Yehuda lives in New York,
but he's certainly not an American.
He's from here. You know him.
Say yes, and your children
will once again have a tateh.
A reliable man who will take care
of every single thing that they need.
That's more important than anything else.
Well, I'll give you my answer soon.
Very soon, okay?
- How's Tommy been?
- He's okay.
Noah, we can't have them
coming after the children.
That won't happen.
I'll speak to Matthias
and say we'll do it.
Stupid. How could I do that?
Saying no to such a type of man,
thinking we could get away with it.
I didn't think it would go this far.
I figured we could negotiate.
And now? What do we do?
We sell diamonds to them
at a massive loss? Then we
We have no other choice.
We'll have to lose money, just for now.
We won't hold off for long.
I want you to tell him
that we hired a smaller orchestra.
Come up with some excuse.
Don't mention it was the price.
Hear me, Eli?
I have to tell you something.
This about the prosecutor?
- Shh!
- What's going on?
They're here.
Hello.
- Hi there.
- Hello, hello!
- How are you?
- Thanks.
The original plan is more or less
the same, not much has changed.
The bride and the groom
will enter through here
for the ceremony in the afternoon.
And each is going to have
a room of their own
on either side of the banquet hall.
Uh, the band will play over there.
And the dinner tables will stand
dressed and ready at the back.
And we'll move them in
for the evening festivities.
- Wonderful.
- Wonderful.
Can we see where the bride
will be on the day?
Of course. Follow me.
- So, it's gonna be quite a day, huh?
- Hm.
What? Is there something wrong?
What's up?
No, no. It's all good.
Have we missed anything?
I'll worry about
all the important stuff, huh?
Yeah. Great.
I hope that Miri
will bring happiness to your son
and that you'll be satisfied with her.
Rivki and I feel very lucky
that someone like Moishe
is gonna marry our daughter.
I've gotta say, Eli
I didn't want to bring
this up to you at all, but
after the story with Yanki
and then with Noah returning home,
there
there were one or two people
in the community
who advised us to reconsider the match
we were making
and to cancel the wedding.
They were arguing that
two rotten eggs in the mishpocha
it's just not a good omen.
But I just want you to know,
I never for one second
doubted the match we made.
You know, I've
I've got a I've got a sister
who is, hm
polite word is "difficult," you know?
It's hard for her to get on the path.
Someone like that in the family doesn't
reflect on how the rest are, you know.
That's true, yeah.
I know you, Eli, and I knew your tateh,
may he rest in peace.
That has nothing to do with
what your brothers have done, I say.
I know that my son is getting a bride
from a respectable family,
with a tateh who's a respectable Jew.
Of good character, huh?
That's everything, that's what counts.
- Mendy, come look at this.
- Yeah.
Well?
- What?
- You had something to say.
No, it's okay.
What is it? I don't want to hear it
right before the wedding.
I mean it, you can forget it.
- I'm going to bed.
- Mm-hmm.
- Eli?
- You called?
Yeah, let's meet tomorrow, huh?
It's about time you signed your deal.
I'm busy now.
Let's speak when the wedding's over.
No more talk.
You need to meet me tomorrow,
You've gotta sign. It can't wait.
I won't do it.
I'm sorry?
I can't be your witness.
Wait. Wait. Let's meet now.
I'll be there in ten minutes, okay?
No, no more, sorry.
I'll get you everything, whatever
you ask for, full and total anonymity.
This is the last time we ever speak.
Do you realize what you're doing?
I have your confession.
I know all that you've done
in your family business.
I'd rather fight in court than turn
me and my family into traitors.
It would mark us for generations.
What do you mean, fight in court?
If you don't sign the deal,
you bet I'll destroy you in court.
I'll make Wolfson Diamonds
my personal target, do you hear me?
You'll go to prison.
Do what you have to do.
Fuck me.
Fuck, fuck! Ungrateful piece of shit.
- Maybe it's for the best.
- He's all we've got.
Without him, the chief prosecutor
is gonna bury us alive.
We can always return
to our original mark, can't we?
The Albanians
aren't going anywhere, Maarten.
When are we ever gonna have
a chance like this?
We've got too much info to let this go.
I have a list
of everyone who uses that bank.
No, you got nothing.
Not officially.
It's over, Jo.
Wind it up as quickly as possible
before anyone can ask any questions.
- We've gotta expose the case.
- What?
We just need to kick up a fuss
before it's too late.
How are you, buddy? Huh?
I will always protect you.
You know that, right?
I wasn't that scared of him.
It's okay to be scared.
It's good sometimes.
I was scared as well.
I told Grandma Kerra what happened
and she was scared too.
Listen, she, uh
she thinks it might be a good idea
for you to go back to London.
- Just me?
- For now.
- But it wasn't my fault.
- Of course not.
It's not a punishment,
we just want you to be safe.
- You just said you'll protect me.
- I will, but it's not that simple.
- You said you'll never leave me.
- I won't.
- You are! You're sending me away!
- Tommy, I'm not sending you away.
It's just an idea. Tommy, come back.
- No! Leave me alone!
- Tommy, let's talk.
Tommy?
Tommy, I'm sorry.
Tommy?
Tommy?!
Tommy!
Tommy!
Tommy!
- Hi, this is Marie. I'm not available
- Fuck.
I've looked
in every street around here.
- I'm hoping he's not lost somewhere.
- God forbid.
Have you called the police?
- I haven't yet.
- Have you spoken to Adina?
- Yeah, but he's not there.
- I'll be there soon.
Gila, would you go to my apartment
in case he comes home?
- The door is open.
- Yeah.
- I'll keep searching the neighborhood.
- Yes, of course.
Okay, thank you.
Tommy!
Sorry, have you seen a little boy,
this tall, he speaks English?
No, sorry, I haven't seen him.
Tommy?!
Nothing?
The police are on their way.
Why don't you sit?
- I'm so stupid.
- You're not, Noah.
It's my fault.
I did something
I should have never thought of.
He can't be too far.
I've fucked this up, Gila.
Everyone's in trouble because of me.
I can't protect my own son.
Now he knows it.
- Marie?
- Hey, Noah, yeah, I've got Tommy.
- Toms!
- Dad!
- Hey, buddy.
- I'm sorry.
- Are you okay?
- I'm sorry, Dad.
No, no, I'm sorry. Where did you go?
I saw him when I came out
of the supermarket.
He was trying to find his way back,
but he he got lost.
- I'm so sorry.
- You're not mad at me?
Of course not.
Listen, I shouldn't have said
that thing about London.
- I'll go if you want me to.
- No, no, no. We stay together.
I'm never, ever gonna
leave you again. Okay?
Trust me.
Thank you.
- Yeah, it was pure coincidence.
- Still, though
Hey, I know it's cold,
but I have some ice cream.
- What do you say?
- We can't say no to that.
- Yeah.
- Yeah? You want some? Come, let's go.
Have a blast.
Yeah, thanks.
- Go on.
- Yeah.
Mazel tov!
- What's happening?
- Eli, such a gorgeous day.
You should only know
joy and happiness. Mazel tov.
Hey, tell me what's happening.
The police are sweeping
the diamond district.
Where?
It's better I don't.
Excuse me, we need to leave.
Forgive us.
Do you people have a warrant?
I warned you, Eli.
Why didn't you come to us
at the beginning?
Why keep it a secret, Eli?
They would expose what they have on me.
- I couldn't let that happen.
- What do you mean?
The prosecutor, she discovered that
that I was the one
who made the deals with Salman Karim.
This was before he died.
Yanki had just
I didn't want anybody to know that I was
responsible for this trouble, not Yanki.
This was all just my arrogance.
When Yanki contacted Karim,
I should have refused,
but it was my leadership
the company was failing under.
And Karim offered fast cash,
and lots of it.
I hope on this special day you can
can forgive me for this.
We're all guilty in this.
You did the right thing
refusing to be a witness.
- That never would have been forgiven, Eli.
- That's true.
But let's say this clearly
the firm is ruined.
- Don't say that.
- It is.
That prosecutor has everything
she needs to bring us down.
It won't happen that fast.
Let's have a meeting
with our lawyers first.
And she's not even our largest problem.
This means we don't have the stones
to supply the Albanians.
Sanchetti can't sell to us
while this is happening,
nor can anybody else.
Not to mention what might happen if
they think we're working with the police.
So, what do we do about this?
We will deal with all this tomorrow.
Now we have to smile.
In honor of the bride.
She's not happy now.
- Where is she?
- She's sitting with her friends.
They're begging her to dance,
but she doesn't want to.
- I'll go and speak to her.
- Shkoyach.
- Where is Tommy?
- He's playing out there.
Eli. Eli.
What is it?
Where I lay a hand,
the Almighty lays a foot.
Oh, now, come on.
She planned this specifically
for today, the demon.
"She"? Who is "she"?
Yeah.
The prosecutor. She's a she.
She should burn in hell.
Yes, it's so good to see you.
I'm glad you were able to come out.
Yes, of course!
- Gila, can we talk?
- Not now.
Really, I gotta speak to you.
Can you please?
Yeah, okay.
Come on.
What is it?
Are you angry with me?
Have I been a jerk?
No. What do you want to talk about?
Um
What happened today
has made the situation, uh
impossible.
We're returning to London.
So, you've come to say goodbye?
I hope not.
Come with me.
I want you with me. And the kids.
- We'll get so far away from all of this.
- Noah
But, Gila, just think
What's left for you here? What
I'm getting married.
- What?
- Yeah.
I'll marry Yehuda Ziskind in New York.
And we will live there.
I'm sorry, what?
He's a good man.
He's loving and modern.
Dependable.
Why didn't you tell me?
- I've only just made my decision.
- I thought you wanted to be with me.
Be with you? How, Noah?
Secret meetings? Is that a life?
Look at us. We don't fit together.
- Yes, we do.
- Don't fool yourself, Noah.
Gila, if you come with me to London,
we won't have to keep any secrets,
you' ll be free.
This has nothing to do with me.
Things get hard, so you're running.
- You're just asking me to tag along.
- No. No. I want you in my life.
For how long?
You're leaving your family
sinking in the mud.
You left your son, you left me.
Who can promise me you won't do it again?
Goodbye.
Wait.
- I don't want to leave without you.
- I've made my decision, Noah.
Gila
you're right.
This is selfish.
But give me a chance
to do this the right way.
Let me prove to you that I've changed.
I promise.
All these promises
Gila.