Emily in Paris season 4 part 1 recap and ending explained

In the season 4 part of Emily in Paris, Emily hopes to bring stability into her chaotic personal and professional lives. The series is streaming on Netflix.

Warning: This article contains heavy spoilers

Plot summary:

Camille’s brother makes a viral TikTok, explaining how Emily ruined Camille and Gabriel’s wedding and how she always causes trouble for their family.

Alfie doesn’t give her a chance to explain herself, but AMI has them at the center of their campaign showcasing true love.

Julien has already accepted the offer from JVMA and is seeing out the AMI campaign before he leaves. He has cause to worry once again and it is all Emily’s fault.

Mindy and her group are excited about Eurovision but they learn that they have to pay for everything themselves.

She is still seeing Nicholas but doesn’t want to ask him for the money. JVMA has agreed to invest in Laurent’s local club, but Sylvie isn’t too thrilled about working with Luis de Leon.

A reporter from Le Monde reaches out to Sylive to ask her about her experiences working with Luis and the rumors about him being indecent with employees.

She initially chooses not to say anything about it. AMI wants to play an ad during Roland Garros and they need Emily and Alfie to show off their romance on the big screen.

Antoine and Sylvie are discussing his new fragrance and a possible name when Alfie walks in. She asks Alfie to do the right thing and not let Emily’s career nosedive.

Alfie visits Gabriel to say that he feels betrayed but Gabriel insists that Emily didn’t cheat on him and that he doesn’t want to stand in Alfie’s way.

Alfie shows up at the event but he tells Emily that he cannot be with her because he will always feel insecure about her and Gabriel.

Julien gets the courage to tell Sylvie that he is quitting because he doesn’t feel valued. Luis makes some crass comments about Mindy and Nicolas has to apologize for it.

She doesn’t accept his apology and storms off. Gabriel is worried because Camille has disappeared and no one has seen her since the wedding.

Emily sends Sofia a message and then tells Gabriel that she saw Sofia and Camille kissing. She later remembers that Camille shared her location a while back and uses it to find her.

Julien goes to work at JVMA and Nicolas takes Mindy to the brand closet to apologize for not standing up for her.

While she’s there, some of the other female employees open up about how Luis has been inappropriate with the female employees there for a long time.

Emily finds Camille and convinces her to come back, where Gabriel and Sofia are waiting for her. Sofia tells Camille that she loves her and they stay at Gabriel’s temporarily.

Antoine names the new fragrance ‘Heartbreak’ and they host a masquerade ball to launch it.

Gabriel and Alfie show up and Emily has to choose one of them since she has strong feelings for both.

Mindy tells Emily what she heard about Luis and this is passed on to Sylvie who decides to speak to the reporter.

The article comes out on the night of the ball and this causes some friction between Mindy and Nicolas because he doesn’t want to accept that his father is terrible.

Emily chooses Gabriel, and Alfie is left humiliated by the entire experience. With JVMA in trouble, Laurent’s club doesn’t have an investor and is at the risk of shutting down before its opening.

Gregory showcases his latest line of risque formalwear but Nicolas shoots it down because of the pressure the company is under at the moment.

Luis wants to retaliate against Sylvie so he asks Julien for dirt but Julien stays loyal to his former boss and quits.

Sylvie reaches out to her mother, Heloise, for help acquiring a new venue for Laurent’s club. She has a space that has been empty for decades and she agrees.

Emily and Gabriel are finally together but life is a bit complicated because Camille and Sofia are right there too.

Sofia and Emily feel a little neglected because of Camille and Gabriel’s complicated past. Gabriel treats Emily to a romantic night on the rooftop, and this inspires her for her next campaign.

However, she doesn’t want to adjust anymore and tells the building supervisor that three people are living in Gabriel’s apartment, which is against the lease.

Gabriel also tells the supervisor, but Camille and Sofia discover that the apartment opposite Gabriel’s is available so they take it immediately.

Julien uses the opening night of the club to promote Gregory’s latest fashion line and pour some salt in Luis’s wounds.

Benoit still has feelings for Mindy but Nicolas tells her that he finally stood up against his father and this company board is forcing Luis to step down.

Ending explained:

A new client

Mindy introduces Emily to her friend Li from London who is launching his skincare brand in Paris and wants Agence Grateau to take her on as a client.

Li does a presentation for them with Mindy’s help and Sylvie says that she will reach out to a contact of hers for a trial show.

The event turns out to be a huge success as people go crazy for the product, but Julien finds out something troubling about it.

Li was on the reality show ‘Fox’s Lair’ where she marketed it as lube for intimate purposes, but Sylvie is too embarrassed to tell her friend the truth.

Emily spins it in a way that benefits them and they get out of trouble.

Choppy waters in the relationship

Sofia feels secondary in the relationship as long as Camille is living across from Gabriel and having his baby.

They disagree over the apartment and the things they want to get for it. She packs up her bags and asks Camille to consider living with her in Athens, but Camille says she cannot leave.

After the break-up, Camille sees Gabriel and Emily sharing a happy moment and is saddened by her situation.

She goes to the doctor for a check-up and learns that she was never pregnant. She doesn’t want to tell Gabriel just yet because she is unsure of what effect that will have on their relationship.

No more pressure

Gabriel hires a new pastry chef to improve his chances of getting a Michelin star but the new guy is very obnoxious and gets on Gabriel’s nerves.

Sylvie wants to take Laurent to dinner for his birthday celebration so she asks Luc to help using Marienne’s influence.

Marienne gets them a reservation at a high-end restaurant but books a table for four so that she and Luc can join in.

She tries to use this moment to get Luc a raise in exchange for the favor she is doing but she is exposed as a fraud.

Another inspector says she was fired as a Michelin inspector a year ago for using her position to her benefit.

When Emily finds out, she tells Gabriel and is surprised to see that he is happy. He fires the pastry chef and then celebrates not getting a star anymore.

He didn’t enjoy the pressure and is happy with his life now that he is with Emily and is supposedly having a baby with Camille.


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