Troy was driving but he thought of the conversation with Zeke last night.
Zeke wasn't in Troy's bar as a coincidence, since he tells Troy about an animal documentary he watched, where a jackal had taken hold of a coyote's tail, causing the coyote to go to the edge of a cliff.
'If the jackal was sensible, he would have let go of the tail he was bitting, and if the jackal were stupid, they would have died together by falling off the cliff. What do you think that jackal chose?' Zeke asked clearly.
Zeke was referring Sharpay as the coyote and the jackal as Troy.
'The jackal was probably more reckless than he'd think' said Troy
'Wouldn't the jackal be scared to die when faced with the edge of a cliff. Wouldn't he have changed his mind?' said Zeke
'No, probably not. It probably would've said to the coyote, 'It's a relief that we can go together. Thanks to you, I won't be lonely as I go.'' Troy replied
We see Troy arrive at the Bahamas only seconds after Sharpay ushers the American company inside, He asks the conceierge where Gabriella is in Bahamas.
Troy arrives at the place where Gabriella is staying, he found her Barbie on a swing.
'It's been a while' he tells the doll with a smile.
On Gabriella's door there's a warning written
"Don't disturb me. Never ever knock".
So he doesn't, and just sits outside and waits while Gabriella crunches numbers inside. Turns out he was watching her the whole time Gabriella was outside, and tried to get her attention once she was asleep, only to hear her murmur, 'The calculations aren't right'.
Troy takes the opportunity to let himself inside, and slips through Gabriella's notes. It seems like she has a habit of scribbling a person's name when they're troubling her, but instead of Troy Bolton she scribbled at the dinner table, not it's Sharpay Evans
He remembers overhearing Gabriella and Sharpay's earlier conversation, especially the bit where Sharpay told her "You can't beat me." Since helping Gabriella with harm Sharpay, Troy sits down and sets to finishing Gabriella's work. The goal? Find roughly thirty-five million dollors from anywhere they can, in order to avoid selling the resort.
Chad got a midnight call from Troy asking for his expertise to help him make sense of Gabriella's financial statements.
After a tiny tantrum, Chad uses his business management skills to help his friend.
Troy end up working the whole night, papering the walls with post-it notes of all the little amounts they can collect to add up toward the big sum. One of the companies, Club X, piques his interest as he remembers one of his female clients telling him to put his money into the company since it was growing fast, despite having filed for bankruptcy two years ago.
We see Troy dumping Gabriella into the river.
'Let's kill them all' said Troy.
'But let's get some food to build up our strength' said Troy.
Gabriella just stares at him over the breakfast table, and it's cute that Troy keeps pushing plates her way so he can eat.
'How did you get here?' asked Gabriella
'I took the plane' replied Troy
Gabriella looks miffed so he adds
'I also took the taxi'.
'I actually came here because I missed you' Troy admitted.
'I can't go without you or without seeing you for even a couple of days, my hearts too distressed at the sight of your pale and tired face'.
Troy starts telling her about all the ways hr's found to help get the money, namely the five million the company invested in Club X. Gabriella thinks the shares are worthless, but Troy tells her what he found out about the group's recent and secret growth, which wil turn their five million into twenty million. Now, they only have fifteen million to go.
Gabriela barely speaks, her expression caught somewhere between surprise and admiration.
'Since when did you know all these things?' Asked Gabriella
'I have a pool of connections' replied Troy
'Of course, if we're comparing, I'm even smarted' said Troy
He's also found a defunct factory they can sell, and Gabriella's able to come up with more, which earns her an admiring look from Troy. This leaves them around $500,00 left, which Troy thinks she can come up with by selling jewerly, cars, or whatsoever she doesn't need.
It's easy to see that she's touched, and Troy tells her to dismiss those feelings for now since she doesn't have time. She tells him that she'll remember well what he's dismissed.
'Reverence, being touched, using you to boast, a hug… After I win, let's tally the tab clearly.'
Gabriella gets on the phone in order to put a stop to Sharpay until she can get there, and is stoped on her way off by Troy, who gently holds her face in his hands so he can give her a kiss on the forehead.
'You have to win and kill them all. And if you don't win, don't think of coming back'.
You could see the love beaming from Gabriella's eyes, and Troy smiles after her until she's out of sight. Then he drops his smile.
And Gabriella, still happily reeling from the kiss, heads off he thwart Sharpay's plans.
Meanwhile with Sharpay was taking a bath and Zeke accidently comes in and walks out quickly. Sharpay finishes her bath and Zeke tells her that Gabriella came up with a way to get the funds, and that she wants Sharpay to stop with the deal.
Sharpay doesn't plan on doing anything Gabriella asks, and Zeke seems to agree with that sentiment. She asks him to get her a gown, and by the time he turns around, she's standing in front of him stark naked.
In the wake of Gabriella's new discovery, Sharpay plans to push the contract through faster in order to pull the rug out from her rival.
While Gabriella is still on a taxi ride to the hotel, Sharpay begins the contract-signing process with the American company. She's on pins and needles but smiles to herself once she knows Gabriella won't make it.
And she's right, since Gabriella arrives only moments after the contract has been signed. Sharpay introduces her as her daughter to her contacts. Gabriella is fuming that Sharpay ignored her message to put a stop to the signing, but Zeke steps in and rakes the blame, telling Gabriella that he never even passes it on to Sharpay because
'I couldn't let you risk the company's future because of your own personal feelings.'
He even tells her that her useless stubbornness is what caused them to hold off on selling the resort so long, and Gabriella looks like she is about to cut a bitch.
Sharpay smiles coldly.
'Gabriella, I know your heart. This resort, including every tree here, is what your mother planted. And all the guest room's interiors are what your mother designed.' Sharpay claims she know that Gabriella wanted to protect the resort, but business is business.
So Gabriella turns to the Rolling company head
'I'm not selling this resort. I will not sell it. Never!'.
She even starts ripping up the contact, which has Sharpay screaming at her to stop,
'What are you going to do about?' said Gabriella.
'The contract is invalid' said Gabriella while dropping the ripped up contract to the floor.
Sharpay rages about the fact that she'd dare to tear the contract when she's already fired from the company, so when Gabriella goes for the phone to call Daddy, Sharpay snatches it away and slaps her across the face.?
Gabriella takes it like a champion she is, but Sharpay tears into her about how she's her mother, and gives that her absolute authority to correct Gabriella from going down the wrong path.
None of this fazes Gabriella, until Sharpay adds the cherry on top of the harsh lecture
'The person who wanted to sell this resort the most is not me, but the Chairman. He wanted to erase all the memories of your mother with the selling of the resort more than anyone else.'
Gabriella eventually screams in frustration before she collapses, but she's the first to shrink away when Zeke tries to help her up.
'Since when did you become Sharpay Evan's dog? You were one of Gabriella Montez's most precious people in the company, in which she could rely on.' Said Gabriella to Zeke.
Zeke tells her that he's just got the company's success on the mind.
Troy calls Gabriella, and her face briefly contorts in sadness before she tamps it all down. Troy guesses from her silence that she lost, but strangely enough asks to talk to the Rolling Chairman. Gabriella puts him on loudspeaker.
Troy talks to her Chairman to call out him for his previous company's sordid past of lawsuits and illegal chemical dumping. Troy's certainly done his research, and even Sharpay looks surprised to learn that they plan to renovate Bahamas into some sinister medical research center.
His tactics work, and the Chairman hightails it outta there. Sharpay makes sure Gabriella knows she made a big mistake, but Gabriella doesn't care as long as she could save the resort.
And once again, she's left Troy on the line, Sharpay eavesdrops from the outside as Troy tells her to meet in three hours, since he needs a nap.
Back in the homestead, Jason still seems to be suspicious of Troy, and studies a picture of him intently. Word of the cancelled contract has already reached Chairman Montez, as he expresses his desire to punish Gabriella severely.
Jason keeps offering safe punishments like taking the money from her future salary, and when that doesn't work, he offers his own salary for a cut too.
'As long as you don't kick her out until she's eighty' said Jason/
Except, it doesn't seem like Chairman Montez wants her punished as he entreats Jason,
'If, for an unbelievable reason, people would turn their backs on Gabriella, and even if I turn my back on her… Please, stay right next to that child. Even if everyone in this world leaves her, don't leave her. And be patient although it may be difficult. Please, protect her no matter what.' Said Chairman Montez
Jason agrees and leaves.
Meanwhile with Gabriella gets ready for her date with some preening and primping, except it goes horribly awry and makes her look like a kid who got into mommy's makeup. She calls someone to help her with it instead.
Sharpay gives Troy a call, and through we can't see his eyes through the sunglasses, you can hear the thinly veiled uncertainly in his voice as he denies Sharpay's every attempt to come and see him.
She pulls out the big guns though, and in her most pitiful and breathless voice tells him
'I miss you, Troy. Just give me ten minutes'.
Gabriella shows up for the date in a demure ensemble, and has no idea that Troy's gone to meet Sharpay. He tells her he's going to give her ten minutes.
'Did I make you like this?' asked Sharpay
'I made you like this. The warmest Troy in the world…. I turned you into this dark, cold and scary person that you are right now. I, Sharpay Evans, made it like that'.
Troy's just counting the minutes, she asks him to take the nearby cruise with her, because he'd told her a long ago that he wanted them to take a cruise together to the end of the world.
'That promise… You still haven't kept it yet'
While that is going on, Gabriella continues to hike around the beautiful date locale, looking for Troy.
No matter what sweet words Sharpay says, Troy is ready to leave her when her ten minutes are up. She resorts to begging at the sight of his turned back
'Don't go. Don't leave. Please don't go. Please don't go to Gabriella!'
But Troy keeps walking, until he hears a splash from behind him.
He turns around only to find her shows left on the bridge. She's jumped into the ocean. Troy sees nothing when he looks over the edge and yells for Sharpay.
And at the same time, Gabriella turns around, as though she's heard him.
Troy dives in after her and sees her slowly sinking down, stiff as a board. He manages to get Sharpay back on the bridge where he performs emergency CPR, until she spits up water and regains consciousness.
And when Gabriella calls him it goes straight to voicemail.
Meanwhile Jason goes through the security camera footage and stops when Troy pops up on screen. Something about Troy isn't sitting right with him, but he continues to click through the footage until he sees something even more unsettling; Sharpay and Zeke's kiss.
Troy watches over Sharpay while she's unconscious and hooked up to an IV at the resort, and consciously resists the urge to hold her hand.
Sharpay's voice stops him as he's about to leave
'Could it be that you still haven't forgotten me? That's why you're still lingering by my side, right?'
She thinks him saving her is proof, and wonders why he didn't let her die.
'I will go back. I will go back to you again. Not now, but I will definitely go back to you. So trust me and for a bit'. Tells Sharpay.
'Out of 100 memories, there were ten that were good. Don't you know what you've done wrong? How great it would have been if only you could've left on or two good memories. 'Ah my first love Sharpay Evans isn't that kind of unscrupulous person.' Even though I don't understand, you should have left the good memories for forgiveness. That way, the pathetic Troy Bolton who believed Sharpay Evans was everything in his life wouldn't have become so defiled.'
Troy finally storms out leaving Sharpay speechless in his wake.
It's dark out, but the town is alive with a grand parade making its way through the street. Troy stares vaguely until he remembers his missed date with Gabriella, and runs through the crowd.
Gabriella has fallen asleep on the bride waiting for him, and that's where Troy finds her. She wakes up when he brushes her hair behind her ear, and when he asks what she would have done if he never came, she answers
'Then I would have waited until you came. If you wait, the person is bound to come'.
He takes a good look at her face, and asks if she put makeup on. She mentions that it's her first time wearing a dress, but as she begins to tally up what she owes him, including a hug, Troy interrupts her by swooping for a kiss. Gabriella closed her eyes and kissed him back passionately.