The Paris Apartment

Nick and his siblings are gathered in Sophie’s apartment for a family meeting. Sophie seems older and frailer, even though she still looks impeccable. When Antoine tells Nick that Jess is at the club, the meeting immediately descends into resentments. Antoine never accepted Sophie as his stepmother after the death of his mother, and he insults both her role as trophy wife and Mimi’s adoption. Sophie points out that Antoine also lives off of his father’s money. Antoine declares that Sophie’s origins are suspect. He goes into Jacques’s study to retrieve the photograph of the nude woman, revealing that Sophie is the subject of the picture. Sophie points out that the real issue at hand is Jess—that she mustn’t find out anything more than she already has. Mimi tells them she saw Jess talking with the concierge for a long time, hidden away in the concierge’s cabin.

The show ends, and while others file out of the club, Jess and Theo sneak into the door they saw many men go through. They go downstairs and run into one of the dancers, who looks alarmed and tells them they can’t be there. They keep going, but before they pass through another door, the doorman stops them and brings them back up to the bar where the show took place.