After being interrogated by the police, Paris approached Barnhill, who had already gone through questioning, still shaken.
"Man, I'm so glad I registered as a security patrol ahead of time. Damn, you're way too impulsive. Don't tell me you're actually into that female reporter?"
"Shut up. I was saving someone," Paris snapped, glancing around. Then, he leaned in and lowered his voice. "Man, I think you might've messed up your employer's business."
"Employer? Messed up? What are you talking about?" Barnhill froze, then suddenly jolted. "You mean... that killer was sent by that fat bastard Harvey?"
"Ninety percent sure," Paris sneered. "It wouldn't be the first time that guy's done something . You remember David Carr, the reporter from New York Magazine?"
"Yeah. That's him. '1993'—you know the piece. His death wasn't just some random car accident. I suspect our BOSS had a hand in it."
(Author's Note: This isn't fiction. The timeline has been moved forward, but the events are real. Since the 1990s, multiple journalists who tried to investigate Harvey Weinstein were silenced, stalked, or worse. Some paid with their lives.)
In real life, David Carr died in 2015. In the time leading up to his death, he lived with deep anxiety, convinced he was being watched and followed due to his investigation into Harvey. After his death, his colleague Jennifer Senior tweeted in anguish: "All the female victims who dare not tell the truth about Weinstein can only jump hand in hand."
Harvey wasn't just ruthless toward journalists—he showed no mercy to the victims who tried to resist him.
One such victim was the Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez.
In March 2015, Ambra was sent by her modeling agency to attend an event hosted by Harvey. There, he invited her to meet again the next day to discuss "business."
The following day, Ambra showed up with her portfolio at the agreed location, but after just a few words, Harvey suddenly lunged at her and started groping her.
After desperately resisting, Ambra managed to escape. She immediately went to the nearest police station with a modeling agency employee and reported the assault.
Upon hearing Harvey's name, the officer at the desk sighed, "It's him again?"
Because Harvey contacted Ambra again afterward, hoping to meet, the police set up a sting operation. They gave Ambra a wire and had her go to the meeting as requested.
The operation went smoothly, and Harvey was arrested.
By law, he could have faced up to three months in jail.
Ambra and her friends celebrated—they believed they had caught a monster.
But things quickly turned.
Suddenly, tabloids began digging into Ambra's past, publishing photos of her modeling in revealing outfits to discredit her. They painted her as promiscuous and implied she was lying.
Even Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan District Attorney handling the case, dismissed her. It was later revealed that Vance had accepted a total of $26,450 in donations from Harvey since 2008—chump change for such betrayal.
How could a 22-year-old immigrant model fight against such power?
Ambra was tormented daily, unable to eat or sleep. Her family was also harassed.
Though she knew she'd done the right thing, she was eventually forced to sign a settlement with Harvey's team on April 20, 2015. She left the United States and disappeared from the public eye.
The terms of the agreement required her to destroy all evidence and hand over all devices, including her phone, to Kroll—the security firm working with Harvey.
But Ambra secretly kept one of the recordings. That very tape would later become key evidence in the #MeToo movement.
"What?! Judy was attacked?!" Hillary's voice shook with anger. "Goddammit, Harvey's gone too far!"
The next day, Hillary dispatched a young white man named Ronan Farrow to assist Judy. In the original timeline, the two had collaborated—now, they met early.
Yes, that Ronan Farrow—the journalist who exposed Harvey Weinstein's crimes and won a Pulitzer Prize alongside Judy.
Born in 1987, Ronan is just twenty this year, but he's a certified genius. He skipped grades in school, enrolled in the Center for Talented Youth, and graduated from Bard College at age fifteen—the youngest graduate in the college's history.
Currently, Ronan is both studying for a joint JD/PhD at Yale Law School and working as an assistant in Hillary's think tank. In the future, he'll earn his law doctorate in 2009.
His full name? Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow. He's the son of famed director Woody Allen and actress Mia Farrow.
Hollywood rarely has enduring relationships, and Ronan's parents were no exception.
Mia began dating Woody Allen in 1979, though they never married. The relationship ended in 1992 when Mia discovered Woody had begun a sexual relationship with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi, who Mia had adopted in 1978.
Mia filed a lawsuit and publicly accused Woody of molesting her other adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow—who was just seven at the time. The legal battle was bitter, but young Ronan, only five then, stood firmly with his mother and sister, cutting ties with his father.
Years later, on May 11, 2016, Ronan wrote an article for The Hollywood Reporter, expressing unwavering support for Dylan and criticizing Woody Allen for using PR teams to suppress damning reports.
It was after this that Ronan gained national attention with his exposé on Harvey Weinstein.
Now, with Ronan and Judy teamed up, it's a force to be reckoned with.
All that's left is Meghan—the other reporter who, in the original timeline, helped blow Harvey's crimes wide open.