Here it all begins: Carla humiliated in front of the entire Institute, the person responsible revealed, she takes revenge for good [SPOILERS]
The episode opens with a seemingly ordinary morning at the Institute, but from the very first minutes, a strange tension hangs in the air. Students whisper in the hallways, glances meet, and a rumor ignites at lightning speed. At the center of this tumult: Carla. Usually self-assured, flamboyant, and feared for her outspokenness, she is about to experience one of the worst humiliations of her life. That day, everything changes, and no one will emerge unscathed from what follows.
It all begins with an anonymous post on the Institute’s internal forum. A compromising video circulates, showing Carla in an intimate situation, captured without her knowledge. Within minutes, the entire campus is aware. Students laugh, some feign compassion, others shamelessly fuel the rumor. Whispers turn to sniggers, and shame falls on the young woman like a guillotine. Her legendary confidence wavers. For the first time, Carla lowers her eyes.
Ambre and Bérénice try to help her, but Carla refuses to show pity. She wants to understand who dared to betray her. Rage fills her, burning, visceral. She knows that behind this despicable act hides someone close to her, perhaps even a student she thought was her ally. As the hours pass, the tension mounts. The teachers themselves are alerted, and the administration launches an internal investigation to discover the author of this humiliating leak.
Meanwhile, within the group of students, tongues are loosening. Several names are circulating, but one keeps coming up: Souleymane. Some have seen him hanging out with Carla recently, others claim he had access to her phone. But this line of reasoning seems too easy, almost contrived. Behind the surface, another student is pulling the strings in the shadows, savoring Carla’s fall as a personal revenge.
In a scene of rare intensity, Carla confronts the entire group during Chef Guinot’s class. Anger erupts, the tension is palpable. “Who did this?” she asks, her voice trembling, somewhere between fury and pain. Silence falls. Some lower their heads, others look away. But a discreet, almost imperceptible smile betrays the real culprit: Malik. For weeks, he’d been struggling with Carla’s cutting remarks and arrogant attitude, and wanted to teach her a lesson.
When the truth comes out, it rocks the Institute. Carla remains frozen, unable to speak. Malik tries to justify himself, explaining that he just wanted to “get back at her,” but his excuse rings hollow. The teachers intervene, outraged, while the students gradually become aware of the gravity of the act. But for Carla, the wound is too deep. She leaves the room without a word, her gaze cold, almost blank.
The next few hours mark a turning point. Carla disappears from campus, leaving behind a heavy silence. Amber finds her later by the lake, sitting alone, her face ravaged by tears. But in her eyes, sadness soon gives way to icy determination. If Malik thought she was going to collapse, he is sorely mistaken. This humiliation will be her downfall, not his.
Carla’s revenge is set in motion with surgical precision. She begins by turning the students’ opinions against Malik, subtly manipulating conversations, sowing doubt and mistrust. She reminds everyone else that they could have been the victim instead of her, that no one is safe from betrayal. Little by little, Malik becomes the outcast of the group. His friends drift apart, the teachers keep an eye on him, and the administration summons him for disciplinary action.
But Carla doesn’t stop there. She wants him to feel the same fear, the same shame. She orchestrates a relentless staging: during a public tasting, she reveals in front of the entire Institute a recording where Malik admits, in a private conversation, to having planned everything to “demean Queen Carla.” The silence that follows her revelation is chilling. The students’ applause is ironic, almost cruel. Malik, pale, understands that he has just lost everything.
Carla’s revenge is complete, but it leaves a bitter taste. Backstage, she collapses, exhausted. The victory is no triumph: it’s a revenge that eats away at her. Ambre finds her again, her eyes reddened. “You got him, but at what price?” she asks her softly. Carla, in a faint voice, replies, “He had to know what it feels like to fall.”
In a poignant final scene, Carla stands alone in the empty kitchen, facing her reflection in the hanging pots and pans. She realizes she has crossed a line, that she may have lost herself in this war of ego and pain. The shot closes in on her face, where pride and sadness mingle. She has avenged her honor, but something inside her has broken.
The final image shows Malik leaving the Institute, head bowed, while Carla watches from afar. No words are exchanged. Between them, everything is said. Carla’s genius and cruelty are revealed, reminding us that in the merciless world of “Here It All Begins,” the line between justice and revenge is thinner than a knife’s edge.
An episode of rare intensity, where humiliation, betrayal, and revenge intertwine until the final explosion. Carla, wounded in her pride, proves that she is not only a brilliant student, but a formidable strategist, ready to do anything to regain power. A painful lesson for the Institute, and a television moment that fans won’t soon forget.
