Someone Else's Shoes

The Frobishers leave the room, allowing Nisha to escape, but before she exits, she leaves behind a picture that Andrea had taken of Liz putting the cat in the trash can. Meanwhile, Sam begins to panic at what she has done but then laughs at the resulting chaos. As Nisha is leaving the hotel, Ari sees her holding the shoes, and she runs to the restaurant kitchens. Aleks hides her in the refrigerator and tells her that Sam triggered the fire alarm. Nisha and Aleks have sex in the refrigerator, which is only opened from the outside half an hour later once the staff start coming back to the kitchen. The two of them walk to Jasmine’s apartment, and Nisha compares the way Carl treated her to how she feels about Aleks. At Jasmine’s apartment, they celebrate with prosecco, and Nisha thanks and hugs Sam. Sam notices how Nisha has become softer with Aleks and realizes that she has lost a similar connection with Phil. When they see the shoes, Nisha realizes that she actually hates them because of how they represent her and Carl’s relationship, and she still thinks there is something off about him wanting them so badly. Nisha cracks open one of the shoes in anger, and inside they find a handful of tiny diamonds.

In bed that night, Nisha fumes at the knowledge that she was just a mule for Carl to smuggle diamonds illegally across international borders. Remembering Jasmine’s wry comment that the diamonds are her divorce settlement, she wonders whether other pairs of her shoes might also be filled with blood diamonds from their various trips to Africa. Realizing that she would have been the one to suffer the consequences of being caught, Nisha comes to grips with just how little Carl’s regard for her ever was. In the middle of the night, Nisha calls Ray and reassures him that she will come to get him from the boarding school, but he hangs up on her. After the call is ended, Nisha finally gets a text from Juliana.

Nisha calls Juliana and asks her to check on Ray, to which Juliana agrees, and Nisha apologizes for cutting their friendship short when she married Carl. While everyone else celebrates the discovery of the diamonds, Sam recognizes how sad it made Nisha. Later at Andrea’s house, Sam finally tells her friend about Phil leaving, and Andrea reassures her that everything will work out. When she gets home, Sam notices a light on upstairs and discovers that her house has been robbed.

Sam calls Cat to tell her not to come home and calls Andrea, who suspects that the robbery may be connected to the shoes. The house has been ransacked, but Sam cannot find anything missing. Andrea, Nisha, Jasmine, and Grace come to help her clean up, and Nisha apologizes, believing that Carl has done it. During this time, Miriam Price calls Sam and asks her to come in for an interview that day, so Nisha tells her to go and helps her get ready. Bolstered by her new friends, Sam gets the job.

Carl keeps calling Nisha, and she debates what she should do with the diamonds because she knows he will keep harassing her if she does not return them. She finally answers and agrees to return the shoes the next day at the hotel. When she sees some of Grace’s costume jewelry sporting fake crystals, she gets an idea. Meanwhile, Sam goes to clean at her parents’ house, and her mother briefly forgives her because of the burglary but keeps asking uncomfortable questions about Phil and Cat, so Sam has to admit that Phil has left. In response to her mother’s reproachful response, Sam refuses to do any more cleaning for her in the future because she needs to focus on her family and her new job. Sam meets Joel at a cafe and tells him she has taken the job with Miriam and cannot see him anymore.

When she gets home, Sam asks herself what Nisha would do and begins planning concrete steps that will get her life back in order. Then, she hears someone inside her house. Thinking of all the things she has recently overcome, she gathers her confidence and punches the intruder, who turns out to be Phil. Her husband apologizes for how he has acted the last few months and tells Sam that he has been seeing a therapist and taking his medication. He also tells her that he does not know if he is ready to talk about Joel but that he wants to try and work on their issues and keep their family together.

Juliana texts Nisha to tell her that Ray is okay and knows that she is coming. Nisha is staying with Aleks, and on the morning of her meeting with Carl, she meets with the other women to tell them that she is giving the diamonds back. The women do not trust Carl, and Sam volunteers to go with Nisha to meet him. When they get to the hotel, Carl is already there with his usual entourage, and Sam recognizes him from the video on the flash drive, which she goes to get. Nisha is angry at Sam for leaving her and goes to get the shoes before meeting Carl on her own.

Nisha meets Carl, who gives her the divorce settlement papers, which she asks to read before giving back the shoes. She sees that her signature is already on the settlement, and Carl tells her that she signed it when she was drunk, six months prior, even though she would never have agreed to the arrangements. Carl gives her 10 minutes to decide whether or not to take the settlement while he goes to the bathroom, and Jasmine rushes in to ask what has happened. As Carl comes back, Sam runs into the lobby, pulling Nisha aside to tell her about the pornographic video on the flash drive.

Nisha returns to Carl, who asks to see the shoes, which Nisha has glued back together. Nisha tells Carl that she wants the money she is owed before she returns the shoes. She then asks Jasmine to retrieve her belongings from the penthouse as she signs the papers. Sam is stunned at what Nisha has done, but as they walk away, Nisha says that she has told Carl that if he ever tries to contact him, their son, or her friends again, she will post the compromising video footage online. Sam asks Nisha why she didn’t use the video as leverage before signing the papers, and Nisha says that she does not want to be as cruel a person as Carl. Once they get to the car, Sam questions Nisha and confirms that the diamonds were actually still in the shoes.

On the drive back, Nisha asks Sam where she saw the police officer who had pulled her over and asks Sam to pull up next to her. Nisha then gives the officer a tip about the diamonds, telling her everything about where to find them. Sam realizes that Nisha has outthought Carl, for because he believes her to be unaware of the diamonds, he will not trace the tip back to her. She knows that because of her actions at the hotel, Carl will only think that Nisha cares about retrieving her expensive wardrobe. Additionally, because they are now divorced, she is free to testify against him in the future.

The night before Nisha’s departure to the United States, the women all have dinner at Sam’s house, and everyone appears to be happy and healing. Nisha promises Jasmine that she will come back to visit. Nisha goes to the airport with Aleks the next day, and before going through security, she gives him a few packages she said she forgot to put in the mail. They say goodbye, but Nisha knows that Aleks will wait for her. When she gets back to New York, Nisha goes immediately to get Ray. Nisha runs and sobs when she finally sees him, and Juliana is standing nearby.

Carl is prosecuted for millions of pounds worth of illegal diamond theft and extradited to the US to be sentenced. Tabloids cover the fact that he had been duped and a few of the diamonds were fake. One day, Andrea notices an unmarked envelope on her doorstep. Inside is a note that says to sell the enclosed diamond to a person at a specific address without telling Sam or Jasmine. Three weeks later, Nisha returns to London with Ray. Three months after that, Jasmine opens her new clothing business, and she, Andrea, and Sam realize they all got the same note from Nisha.

Sam is enjoying her new job and the flexibility it provides, and she and Phil have agreed to do something new with each other every week. Miriam’s company has bought Uberprint, Sam’s old company. Miriam asks Sam to be the head of this new division and assigns her the task of making personnel cuts just before Sam sees Simon walking through the door.