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00:00B***h, votre argent est de l'argent.
00:03Je suis tricte par ma meilleure amie dans la prostitution quand je suis payée.
00:08Le moment que je n'ai finalement essayé de l'escapacité, elle m'a mis à la mort.
00:14Maintenant je suis retourné.
00:16Je suis dans le même quartier, regarde Emma's heel se déroule,
00:20déliberatement, sur Chloé Sinclair's white-leather sneakers.
00:24Ne t'en même pas, je sais que vous pensez que le argent fait vous mieux que moi,
00:28mais je n'ai pas cleaning vos shoes.
00:30Not aujourd'hui, not ever.
00:34Vous voulez venir pour une petite fille over une paire de sneakers ?
00:37C'est qui vous êtes ?
00:41Charity case.
00:44Clean the shoes.
00:45$10,000.
00:48Don't vous dare !
00:49Nous sommes un front de la fronte.
00:50Elle n'est pas de payer notre respect pour $10,000.
00:53Tell her !
00:57Je vais faire ça !
00:58Obviously.
01:02Chaque seconde de cette humiliation est worth $10,000.
01:06Je ne suis pas un copier, je suis un contractor collectif.
01:09Ginger !
01:10Stand up maintenant !
01:12Vous êtes embarrasant de moi !
01:13Vous êtes embarrasant de moi !
01:16Then vous allez partir.
01:19Then vous allez partir.
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03:18That girl is a liability. She's aware of that.
03:35You wiped my shoes without being asked twice and didn't flinch when she hit you. That's either pathetic or tactical.
03:45It's financial.
03:48How much do you need?
04:01My grandmother needs a surgical procedure that isn't covered by our insurance. Full cost is approximately $1 million.
04:15And you came to St. Jude's to what? Hustle-rich kids?
04:21I don't know.
04:22I came to St. Jude's because my scholarship covers tuition and housing and gives me access to people with liquidity.
04:28I'm not asking for a handout. I'm asking for work. There's a difference.
04:34Jack's harrow. Back corner of the senior wing. Tell him I sent you. He eats takeout from off campus every
04:41day because the cafeteria offends him. His hotel is four blocks east. The kitchen knows the order.
04:46One trip, one delivery, $10,000.
04:58Don't be late. He charges penalties.
05:11Jack's harrow. Chloe sent me.
05:14Jack's harrow.
05:15Jack's harrow.
05:16Jack's harrow.
05:18Jack's harrow.
05:21Jack's harrow.
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05:27Jack's harrow.
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05:30Jack's harrow.
05:33Jack's harrow.
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05:40Jack's harrow.
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05:40Jack's harrow.
05:41Jack's harrow.
05:41Jack's harrow.
05:43Jack's harrow.
05:44Jack's harrow.
05:44Jack's harrow.
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06:44This was a business arrangement and I was the service provider.
06:48But when I got back to my room and opened my banking app, I let myself look at the number
06:53for exactly seconds.
07:01Then I opened my economics textbook and started on the quarterly projections.
07:06Every number I processed was a deposit toward Grammy's fund.
07:09Every page of projections was $20,000 of surgery coverage.
07:14I had work to do.
07:23You were at Jax Harriso's hotel room last night.
07:32I delivered food.
07:34Move away from my door.
07:36People saw you.
07:37People are talking.
07:39Ginger, I'm trying to protect you.
07:41When these people are done using you, they will throw you out like you meant nothing.
07:45I have seen this happen.
07:46When these people are done using you, they will throw you out like you meant nothing.
07:50I have seen this happen.
07:51You haven't seen anything.
07:53You've performed outrage about things you've never experienced.
08:05I'm your best friend.
08:10I'm your best friend.
08:12You donated $50,000, my grandmother's surgery money, to a federal investigation target, in my name, without my consent.
08:24Using my stolen password.
08:26You committed financial fraud and potential identity theft, in my name, for a cult.
08:33You'll thank me when you're not someone's errand girl.
08:36Move away from my door, Emma.
08:47I had work to do.
08:49And Emma?
08:50Emma was no longer my problem.
08:52Emma was smarter about the next move.
09:01She didn't confront me.
09:02She gathered evidence.
09:05Caught you.
09:09I'll buy that phone.
09:11Name a price.
09:13I don't sell things.
09:14I'm not like her.
09:15If Ginger accepts one more dollar from these people, this goes to the school's disciplinary board, and your parents, and
09:22the local news, because I know a reporter who covers prep school scandals.
09:25Emma, this is blackmail.
09:28Emma, this is blackmail.
09:31This is intervention.
09:33You have 30 seconds to hand that phone to me voluntarily.
09:36After that, I'll have someone retrieve it.
09:46You're just a rich boy with a daddy complex.
09:49You can't touch me.
09:53I'm the boy whose father owns the building your scholarship housing is in.
09:58Among other things.
10:00Among other things.
10:02This is what they do, Ginger.
10:04This is what they always do.
10:06They threaten.
10:07They intimidate.
10:08And you just smile and take it because you think they're going to save your grandmother.
10:12I kept records of everything.
10:14Every transaction, every message, every time's time.
10:17I've been keeping records since day one of this school year, because I knew you'd do something like this eventually.
10:22Emma, go ahead.
10:23Send the footage, because when you do, I'm going to the Financial Crimes Unit with a full documented account of
10:27what you did with my login credentials, the donation routing, the account numbers, and the organization's active federal status.
10:37Financial crimes documentation?
10:38You actually have that?
10:40Every record since August.
10:45I need someone to manage PR risks for the inner circle, proactively, not just financials, scandals, exposure management, the whole
10:51containment stack.
10:59That's a different rate.
11:01Name it.
11:05$500,000 a year.
11:10Start Monday.
11:13Start Monday.
11:16Someone came to her hospital room and showed her footage on a phone.
11:20She's very agitated.
11:21I knew without asking.
11:23Emma had gone after the only person who mattered.
11:33I took a rideshare to the hospital with my heart running faster than I would have liked.
11:43I don't want to see you.
11:45What that girl showed me.
11:47Grammy.
11:48She edited video to look like something it wasn't.
11:51She's been doing things like this since school started.
11:54I have documentation.
11:55The woman who came here, the woman who came here, Emma Voss.
11:58She transferred $50,000 from your surgery fund into a cult account last week.
12:02She used my stolen password to do it.
12:04I have filed a police report.
12:09I have filed a police report.
12:10She came to my hospital room.
12:15She came because she knew it would hurt me.
12:19She has been trying to stop me from earning your surgery money since school started.
12:23She didn't say anything.
12:29Neither did I.
12:31We sat there while the monitors beeped and the light through the window shifted.
12:36After a while, Grammy squeezed my hand once.
12:40Very slightly.
12:42That was enough.
12:44That was enough.
12:51I stood in front of my St. Jude's classmates and asked for help.
12:55It wasn't what I wanted to do.
12:57But Grammy's surgery had a deadline.
12:5930 days to secure the remaining funds or the surgical team lost the booking.
13:03And I had run the numbers six ways and this was the fastest path.
13:07I'm offering a straightforward exchange.
13:09Whatever services I can provide.
13:10Academic support.
13:11Financial modeling.
13:12Logistics.
13:13Scheduling.
13:13Problem solving.
13:14At whatever rate the class sets.
13:15Applied directly to the surgery fund balance.
13:25$300,000.
13:30Jax came up first.
13:33$300,000.
13:36The hall went quiet.
13:37Then Chloe came forward.
13:39Then 12 others.
13:40In 9 minutes they had assembled $800,000.
13:43$200,000 short.
13:46Ginger Ashworth donated $50,000 to a hate group last month.
13:49She has HIV.
13:51She has been selling personal services to male students for cash.
13:54Do not give her your money.
13:55The hall froze.
13:57The hall froze.
13:58Students who had been moving toward the Lekri stopped.
14:05Emma walked to the front of the room, picked up the stack of checks, and walked out.
14:10She moved fast.
14:12She knew she had maybe 90 seconds before anyone reacted.
14:15She knew she had maybe 90 seconds before anyone reacted.
14:18I watched her take photos of the checks with her phone.
14:21Then she transferred the funds via the routing numbers, donated the entire $800,000, in my name, to a charity
14:27she had pre-selected.
14:31You keep finding new ways to take their money.
14:33I keep finding new ways to stop you.
14:36How long are you going to keep doing this, Ginger?
14:39Until my grandmother is out of the OR.
14:41However long that takes.
14:58I have a grandmother who needs surgery.
15:01I know which one matters.
15:10I know what you did.
15:11And if you don't want the whole school to know, I suggest you do exactly the vault.
15:21Ring any bells?
15:24Jax has been running background on everyone who's touched this situation.
15:27Turns out you've been conducting your own business out of an underground club downtown for the past six months,
15:32while delivering speeches about dignity.
15:34You don't have anything...
15:35We have transaction records, check-in logs, and three signed witness statements,
15:38and a direct line to the school board, the police financial crimes unit,
15:41and two investigative journalists who cover exactly this kind of story.
15:46You set me up.
15:48You set yourself up.
15:49We just paid attention.
15:50This isn't over.
15:52It is...
15:53for you.
15:54This isn't over.
15:55It is...
15:56for you.
15:58Emma didn't run.
16:00She stood very still as they reached her,
16:02like someone who had finally ran out of moves and knew it.
16:07She didn't look at me.
16:09Maybe she couldn't.
16:11Wire transfer confirmation.
16:14Surgery fund.
16:15Full amount.
16:18Done 20 minutes ago from a different account Emma couldn't touch.
16:23One million dollars.
16:25Full balance.
16:27I stood in the hallway and did not cry.
16:35Thank you.
16:37Don't thank me.
16:38You earned it.
16:40I thought about Grammy.
16:43I thought about the version of me in my last life
16:45who followed Emma into ruin because I was afraid to disagree.
16:48That version was gone.
16:50That version was gone.
16:51The vault was an underground members-only club
16:53that operated out of a converted parking structure
16:55four blocks from St. Jude's Eastgate.
16:58No sign.
16:59Invitation only.
17:01The same girl who had screamed about dignity in St. Jude's courtyard
17:05had spent her evenings in an illegal private club,
17:07levering her access to wealthy students
17:09to broker introductions and collect fees.
17:13Emma's file was extensive.
17:15She used other people's vulnerabilities like currency.
17:18She had been doing it to me since we were 14.
17:21I was the last one in the room to understand that.
17:23I was the last one in the room to understand that.
17:26I don't recognize this institution's authority to judge me.
17:29You have spent years buying the compliance of scholarship students.
17:32What I did was expose the transactional nature of this school's supposed generosity.
17:36Student activity log.
17:39Transaction records.
17:40Witness statements.
17:42Everything from the vault, August through present.
17:44I don't accept your framing.
17:46Miss Voss, you are being expelled.
17:48Your scholarship has been revoked retroactively.
17:50The Financial Crimes Unit has been notified and will conduct their own review.
17:53You have until 5 p.m. to vacate your housing.
17:55Whatever you have, I stand by my principals.
17:56Your principals generate approximately $340,000 in brokered fees
17:59from this school's student population, under an assumed name,
18:02while receiving a full scholarship funded by the same families you were defrauding.
18:05You could have stood with me.
18:08You never gave me anything worth standing with.
18:11No.
18:19I expected more theater.
18:21She's out of material.
18:23I expected more theater.
18:25She's out of material.
18:27Grammy's surgery went for 11 hours.
18:29I sat in the waiting room with Chloe on one side
18:32and three other classmates who had showed up without being asked.
18:35Nobody talked much.
18:37The procedure was successful.
18:39She's in recovery.
18:40You can see her in about two hours.
18:42Chloe handed me a coffee without a word.
18:45I drank it.
18:51You did it.
18:59We did it.
19:01Yeah.
19:02Your mother would be proud.
19:10St. Jed's held its full student assembly two weeks later.
19:15Emma Hennard requested it.
19:17They grant it because it's the cleaner option.
19:19She talks.
19:20She hangs herself.
19:21Everyone hears it from her directly.
19:23Case closed.
19:24He was right.
19:25I want to address what's been framed as my misconduct because the framing is dishonest.
19:30This school has always used money as a control mechanism.
19:33The scholarship program is not generosity.
19:35It is acquisition.
19:36You bring in students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
19:38You dangle resources in front of them and you purchase their loyalty.
19:42That's not education.
19:44That's cultivation.
19:46That's cultivation.
19:46You brooktered paid introductions at an underground club for six months while you were on scholarship.
19:53Is that playing by your own rules or just different ones?
19:56You transferred $800,000 out of a surgery fund.
19:59Twice.
20:01Money that other students voluntarily raised for someone's grandmother.
20:05You told us she had HIV at a fundraiser through a megaphone.
20:09The room had shifted.
20:11It had not shifted against Emma because of any argument.
20:14It had shifted because she was standing in a room full of people who had been watching her for months
20:18and they had drawn their own conclusions.
20:20I was trying to protect Ginger.
20:22From what?
20:23From what?
20:24From people like you.
20:27People like me pay her on time, respect her work, and don't steal her grandmother's surgery fund.
20:33What exactly is your objection to people like me?
20:36You could have stood with me.
20:39You never gave me anything worth standing with.
20:44The auditorium stayed quiet for a moment.
20:46Then someone in the back row started clapping.
20:48Then the room joined in.
20:50The sound building slow and then fast.
20:52And I sat in my seat with my hands in my lap and didn't know quite what to do with
20:55any of it.
20:56Accept it.
20:57You earned it.
20:59I thought about that.
21:01Then I put my hands together.
21:07Who hears someone slandered at a fundraiser and just accepts it?
21:11We should have pushed back immediately.
21:13She destroyed the checks from inside a school building with our routing numbers.
21:18And then lectured us about integrity.
21:22I'd been warned about her before school even started.
21:24Turns out several students from her previous district had similar experiences.
21:28She finds someone and decides they belong to her.
21:31The dignity bit was always a tell.
21:33People who actually have dignity don't announce it that loudly.
21:38You've been buying us breakfast for three months.
21:41You think we wouldn't show up?
21:42You fixed my entire junior year thresis structure in one sitting.
21:45My advisor said it was the best outline he'd seen.
21:47You didn't charge me extra.
21:49You managed the situation with my father and the board last mesen.
21:52You didn't have to.
21:54You did it anyway.
21:56Grammy's physical therapy starts Monday.
21:58I've arranged transport.
22:00Don't argue.
22:01Um, I wasn't going to argue.
22:05You should know that I'm aware this is more than business.
22:07I'm aware you didn't have to do any of this.
22:09No, I didn't.
22:12Thank you.
22:15Don't make it weird.
22:18The inner circle's Q1 projections.
22:21When you have time.
22:25Monday.
22:26The rate is going up.
22:30I know.
22:31I'm adjusting it upward.
22:32You're undercharging.
22:34Bettered I do.
22:35Start Monday.
22:38Outside the auditorium windows,
22:40the campus was lit up and ordinary.
22:43And mine, in a way it had never been before.
22:47I had come to St. Jude's as a charity case with a plan and a debt.
22:50I was leaving this room as something else entirely.
22:52I wasn't sure there was a clean word for it.
22:55But it felt, for the first time in a very long time, like enough.
22:58The years at St. Jude's ended with a graduation ceremony so polished it could have been staged.
23:03Chloe gave the address.
23:05Jax didn't speak.
23:06But he was there.
23:08In the front row.
23:09Which meant more than any speech.
23:11Grammy sat in the third row in the expression she always wore at ceremonies.
23:15The one that said she had been waiting her whole life for this particular moment.
23:19I had been accepted everywhere I applied.
23:21I chose the school Chloe and Jax were attending.
23:24Not because of sentimentality.
23:25Because they were the best operators I had ever worked with and proximity to the best makes you better.
23:30Three years of business school.
23:31Two of applied finance.
23:32Navigating a startup ecosystem that moved fast and didn't care about your pedigree.
23:35Only your results.
23:36I turned out to be very good at building things.
23:38The inner circle, what had started as Chloe and Jax's loose social network, became something else over those years.
23:44Tighter, more structured, operate across three industries in two continents.
23:48I planned to do it myself.
23:51When I told them I wanted to run something on my own, they said good.
23:54When I said I was filing in creation papers, they said obviously.
24:02This is too much.
24:03It's accurate.
24:04You've been undervaluing your equity state since year one.
24:06I've been correcting the discrepancy.
24:08We didn't agree to an equity arrangement.
24:10We agreed to a professional arrangement.
24:12And professional arrangements reflect the actual value of the contribution.
24:16Read your original contract.
24:17Paragraph seven.
24:25This is extremely annoying.
24:27You're welcome.
24:29I stood at my office window.
24:31Top floor.
24:32Corner unit.
24:33A view of the city in three directions.
24:35And looked at the number on my phone screen.
24:38I thought of St. Jude's Prep Courtyard.
24:40A scubbed white leather sneaker.
24:42A girl crouching with a cloth.
24:43Calculating which humiliations to bear.
24:45Each second of humiliation is worth $10,000.
24:48I'm no dog.
24:49I'm a professional earning pay.
24:51In the end, she was right about nearly everything.
24:54The industry event was the kind Chloe liked.
24:57Curated.
24:57Deliberately intimate.
24:59The type that looks like a dinner party but functions as a deal room.
25:02I was late.
25:04You're late.
25:05Unavoidably.
25:06Your company cleared regulatory review this morning.
25:09I heard before you did.
25:14How?
25:15I know people.
25:17That's ominous.
25:20That's infrastructure.
25:22Paragraph seven.
25:23I'm not disputing it.
25:25I'm acknowledging it.
25:26You've been adjusting for actual value this whole time.
25:31Yes.
25:32Why?
25:33Because accurate valuation is a principle.
25:36You apply it to everything you build.
25:39I apply it to everything I invest in.
25:43Are you two going to stand here being cryptic?
25:46Or are we going to close the European fund tonight?
25:50Both.
25:53Obviously.
25:54The cryptic thing is getting worse.
25:56The room was warm and full of people who were good at things, which was my preferred
26:00kind of room.
26:02She had asked me last month if I was happy.
26:04Ginger.
26:05I had told her I was busy.
26:06She had those aren't the same thing.
26:07Standing in this room.
26:09In this life I had built from a scuffed sneaker and a calculated bet that competence was the
26:15only currency that compounded.
26:17I thought she might be right about that.
26:19They weren't the same thing.
26:21But for the first time in two lifetimes, I had both.
26:24That felt, quietly and without fansure, like winning.
26:29As for Emma, I heard about her through an industry contact three years after St. Jude's.
26:36The financial investigation had moved slowly.
26:39She had moved faster.
26:41Cycling through positions and cities, staying ahead of the paperwork.
26:44She had eventually surfaced at an operation not unlike the vault.
26:48The kind of underground network that runs on the same logic she had always used.
26:52The difference was that the people in those networks were not St. Jude's students.
26:55They were harder, and they had less tolerance for the kind of lectures she specialize in.
27:00I read it once.
27:01Poured a second cup of coffee.
27:03The day had 17 items on the agenda, and I had already lost 12 minutes.
27:08I got back to work.
27:13That's the end of the story.
27:15That's the end of the story, or maybe the beginning.
27:18The end of the story, or maybe the beginning.
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