Faux Amis

"***Faux Amis***" is the fifth episode of Season 1, and fifth episode overall.

## Synopsis

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## Plot

Emily meets with Mindy at a restaurant to discuss everything that happened with Gabriel and Camille that weekend. While ordering, Emily confuses her French words and orders her croissant with a side of condoms instead of preserves, as she mistakes the word “préservatif” for meaning “preserves”. Mindy explains that this phenomenon of confusing words that look similar but are different in meaning are known as faux amis. It also means fake friends, with Mindy pointing out that it's like Emily and Camille. Camille joins them a few minutes later and meets Mindy, with the trio sharing a few awkward moments before Mindy takes Camille and Emily's picture. Emily posts it on her Instagram, which Camille follows, and notices she has over 20K followers.

Emily returns to work when she receives an invitation from Durée inviting her to an influencer lunch. She shares the news with Julien who warns her against attending as Durée and Savoir have a complicated past. Emily approaches Sylvie regarding Savoir not having a cosmetics account, but Sylvie refuses to discuss it and instead, tells Emily about the Hästens luxury bed account they are meeting with tomorrow.

She attends the Durée lunch and attempts to get a moment alone with their CMO, Olivia Thompson, though her persnickety assistant informs Emily that she will have to earn the meeting with Olivia. Emily does just that by coming up with a clever way to advertise their new lipgloss and is invited to speak with Olivia in private. Olivia recognizes Emily from the Vaga-Jeune social campaign and is interested in speaking with Emily more at lunch tomorrow.

Emily runs into Gabriel and Camille outside 1 Place de L'Estrapade and the couple invites Emily to join them at a unique art gallery, L'Atelier des Lumières. They admire Van Gogh's work which is projected all around the room as if to give the illusion that they are in the painting. Camille is distracted by her friends, leaving Emily and Gabriel to discuss their kiss the other night. Emily assures him she wouldn't have kissed him if she knew he had a girlfriend, even though she thought they had something between them. They agree to pretend as though the kiss never happened.

The next morning at Savoir, they meet with the representative from Hästens luxury beds. The representative, Klara, doesn't like Sylvie's ideas as they have been executed before and aren't interesting. Emily pitches an inspired idea that includes taking photos of real people sleeping in Hästens beds in the best places in Paris, from Jardin du Luxembourg to the Louvre. Klara agrees to think about the pitch idea.

In the meantime, Emily's lunch meeting with Olivia Thompson from Durée Cosmetics takes a wrong turn when Olivia offers Emily the opportunity to be their brand ambassador and an official influencer. Emily turns down the offer and explains that she wants Olivia to resign with Savoir, an idea that Olivia rejects solely because Sylvie Grateau still works there.

Feeling a little defeated, Emily returns to work where she is reprimanded by Sylvie for attending the influencer soiree. Sylvie is worried their paying clients will see Emily advertising for Durée for free and decide to use influencers who aren't paid much instead. Sylvie demands that Emily deactivate her Instagram account. Before Emily leaves, Sylvie informs her that Hästens liked Emily's idea so now she has to get them the Louvre for the bed campaign.

Emily meets with Mindy that evening and they agree to end the emilyinparis Instagram account with one final story. They get drunk, dance, party, and take photos all over the city in an attempt to remember the youthful exuberance that inspired the account. At the end of the night, Mindy takes Emily to Place Dalida where they deactivate the account. She returns to her apartment where she runs into Gabriel outside and he patiently waits for her to unlock the door code. As she goes upstairs he tells her that he felt something between them too.

The next day, Emily returns to Savoir and Sylvie demands to see the last photo Emily posted on her account but Emily can't as she deactivated. Sylvie insists she reactivate and so Emily obliges, showing her the photo of her and Mindy at Place Dalida. Turns out, Hästens wants to place the bed for the campaign there and wants Emily to be their first model and the one to post it first.

Emily spends the day setting up the Hästens photoshoot when Camille visits her at Place Dalida. The girls lay down on the bed and share a photo on Instagram with the caption, "*#getinbedwithus*". Gabriel sees the photo on his feed and likes it without hesitation.

## Cast

* Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvie Grateau
* Ashley Park as Mindy Chen
* Lucas Bravo as Gabriel
* Samuel Arnold as Julien
* Bruno Gouery as Luc
* Camille Razat as Camille
* Erica Pelosini Leeman as Herself
* Alexandre Wetter as Lucien
* Natascha Wiese as Célia
* Aleksandra Yermak as Klara

## Quotes

**Mindy:** *Your English is as confusing as your French.*
**Emily:** *I wouldn’t have kissed you if I knew you had a girlfriend.*
**Gabriel:** *It’s okay. You didn’t know.*
**Emily:** *Our dreams transport us to magical places that we try to capture in film, music, and arty. But we only dream when we sleep deeply. The superior quality of Hästen's beds allows us to dream our best dreams, but why must that only be in our bedrooms? What can’t it be under the stars? We should be able to fall asleep anywhere. Let’s harness the power of social media and ask people to come sleep with us. Stage the bed in the most irresistibly instagrammable spots in this beautiful. The Jardin du Luxembourg, the Louvre. And post photos of real people, not just models, sleeping and dreaming. All thanks to Hästen's.*
**Sylvie:** *It’s not you, it’s everything you stand for. You’re the enemy of luxury because luxury is defined by sophistication and taste, and not by emilyinparis.*
**Gabriel:** *It wasn’t just you. I felt it too.*

## Trivia

* "Faux Amis" is French for false friends. It is often used to refer to words that look similar, but differ significantly in meaning.
* Emily accidentally orders her croissant with a side of condoms instead of preserves, as she mistakes the word “*préservatif*” for meaning “*preserves*”. Mindy explains that this phenomenon of confusing words that look similar but are different in meaning are known as faux amis.
	+ Examples included "*un crayon*" isn’t “*crayon*” it’s “*pencil*”, “*un médicine*” isn’t “*medicine*” it’s “*doctor*”. “*Faux amis*” also means "*fake friends*".
* Emily receives an invitation to attend Durée’s influencer launch at Hotel d’Evreux. She tries to use this to sway Durée into returning to Savoir but fails.
* The combination to unlock Emily and Gabriel's apartment building is "5-2-1-3". Gabriel notes that it resembles an upside-down pyramid.