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With the approach of a
special tribute to the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist to be given
by the Hollywood Screen Guild, Tess and Monica arrive to help Libby
Glaser, a powerful Hollywood agent, learn the truth about her
Blacklisted father's last days. Monica arrives as Libby's new
assistant and quickly impresses Libby with her "connections"
by managing to connect her with the head of the Hollywood Screen
Guild. Libby learns that the Guild has chosen to restore her father's
name to a film he made during the Blacklist Era when he was forced to
write under a pseudonym, and that they want Libby's mother, Vera King,
to present the award with her co-star in the show, Clive Hathaway.
Vera flatly refuses to present the award with Clive which surprises
Libby as he was her father's best friend. Simultaneously, home movies
from Libby's childhood mysteriously appear from an unknown source and
Libby's memory is jarred as she views them. When Libby confronts her
mother, Vera tells her Clive is the one who ruined her father's career
by naming him as a communist and that he didn't die in an accident, he
killed himself. Libby then sends Monica on a search for her father's
FBI file and it is soon delivered by Tess. Tess then explains to
Monica that she was Budd's angel and that she was unable to convince
him not to kill himself, suffering under the burden ever since. She
continues to say that Budd wrote a note to Libby just before driving
his car over the cliff but that the note was lost during the fire.
Libby, now armed with her father's FBI file, plans to ruin Clive
Hathaway as he ruined her father. As the Blacklist ceremony is in
progress, Vera begs Libby not to expose Clive, finally telling her the
complete truth, that she had "one sad weekend" with Clive
and that he was her real father. Now wrecked, Libby enters the stage
intent on ruining Clive. Monica then freezes time and asks Libby to
forgive. As time resumes, Libby then realizes that she is no longer
holding the FBI file but the note from her father asking her to
forgive those involved and telling her that she will always be his
little girl. Libby then gives an emotional speech, denouncing the
tactics of the Blacklist.
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