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00:00Your money is mine.
00:03I was tricked by my best friend into prostitution when I was penniless.
00:08The moment I finally tried to escape, she stabbed me to death.
00:14Now I'm back, standing in the same courtyard, watching Emma's heel come down, deliberately, on Chloe Sinclair's white leather sneakers.
00:23Don't even think about it. I know you think money makes you better than me, but I am not cleaning
00:29your shoes.
00:30Not today. Not ever.
00:33You want to come for a poor girl over a pair of sneakers? That's who you are?
00:40Charity case.
00:43Clean the shoes. $10,000.
00:48Don't you dare! We're a united front. She is not going to buy our self-respect for $10,000. Tell
00:53her!
00:57I'll do it, obviously.
01:01Every second of this humiliation is worth $10,000.
01:05I'm not a dog. I'm a contractor collecting a fee.
01:09Ginger! Stand up right now! You are embarrassing yourself! You are embarrassing me!
01:15Then walk away.
01:19Then walk away.
01:22Emma's fist connected with my shoulder from behind. Sharp, deliberate. A punch designed to knock me off balance.
01:28I stayed crouched. Finished the left shoe. Moved to the right.
01:32$50,000. Spent more effort than it was worth. Consider the rest a signing bonus.
01:38Grammy's surgery fund. Halfway there in one afternoon.
01:43I told you. I told you I would not let you sell yourself to these people.
01:47I followed, already knowing what she was going to do. Already knowing I couldn't stop it.
01:52She typed in the routing numbers from the card, my saved login restrentials that she'd stolen off my phone three
01:56weeks ago, and the destination account.
02:00You're welcome. I just saved your soul.
02:04Not just because of the money.
02:06Because my name was now attached to a federal investigation target.
02:11Emma.
02:12You used my login.
02:17You donated $50,000 to a cult under my name.
02:21I freed you from dirty money.
02:23That's what good friends do.
02:27You.
02:35Emma didn't want to save me.
02:37She wanted an audience for her too.
02:39I was the audience.
02:47We're done.
02:52Ginger.
02:53Done.
02:54Permanently.
02:59I walked away.
03:01This time, I didn't look back.
03:18That girl is a liability.
03:21She's aware of that.
03:35You wiped my shoes without being asked twice and didn't flinch when she hit you.
03:38That's either pathetic or tactical.
03:45It's financial.
03:49How much do you need?
04:01My grandmother needs a surgical procedure that isn't covered by our insurance.
04:09Full cost is approximately $1 million.
04:15And you came to St. Jude's to what?
04:18Hustle rich kids?
04:21I don't know.
04:23I came to St. Jude's because my scholarship covers tuition and housing and gives me access
04:27to people with liquidity.
04:28I'm not asking for a handout.
04:30I'm asking for work.
04:32There's a difference.
04:34Jack's Harrow.
04:37Back corner of the senior wing.
04:39Tell him I sent you.
04:40He eats takeout from off campus every day because the cafeteria offends him.
04:43His hotel is four blocks east.
04:45The kitchen knows the order.
04:46One trip, one delivery, $10,000.
04:58Don't be late.
05:00He charges penalties.
05:12Jack's Harrow.
05:13Chloe sent me.
05:15Fine.
05:167pm.
05:17Don't be late.
05:18And don't talk to me unless I ask you something.
05:22Understood.
05:24Something shifted in his expression.
05:26Not a smile.
05:28More like a Rhea calibration.
05:49Same time tomorrow.
05:51Same fee?
05:52Same fee.
05:54And if you need extra work, I need quarterly financial projections done by someone who isn't
05:59going to leak the numbers.
06:00Flat rate, $20,000 per quarter.
06:06I'm a high school student.
06:08Chloe said you were good at math.
06:10Chloe doesn't know me.
06:12She knows people.
06:12That's the same thing.
06:13$10,000 per delivery.
06:15$20,000 per quarter for financials.
06:17If I took three more arrangements like this, Grammy's fund would be fully covered before Christmas.
06:39I did not allow myself to feel grateful.
06:43I did not allow myself to feel grateful.
07:01Then I opened my economics textbook and started on the quarterly projections.
07:07Every number I processed was a deposit toward Grammy's fund.
07:10Every page of projections was $20,000 of surgery coverage.
07:15I had work to do.
07:24You were at Jax Harriso's hotel room last night.
07:34I delivered food.
07:35Move away from my door.
07:37People saw you.
07:38People are talking.
07:40Ginger, I'm trying to protect you.
07:42When these people are done using you, they will throw you out like you meant nothing.
07:46I have seen this happen.
07:51You haven't seen anything.
07:54You've performed outrage about things you've never experienced.
08:07I'm your best friend.
08:13You donated $50,000.
08:16My grandmother's surgery money to a federal investigation target in my name without my consent using my stolen password.
08:28You committed financial fraud and potential identity theft in my name for a cult.
08:34You'll thank me when you're not someone's errand girl.
08:37Move away from my door, Emma.
08:49I had work to do.
08:50And Emma?
08:51Emma was no longer my problem.
08:53And Emma?
08:54Emma was no longer my problem.
09:00Emma was smarter about the next move.
09:03She didn't confront me.
09:04She gathered evidence.
09:07Caught you.
09:11I'll buy that phone.
09:13Name a price.
09:15I don't sell things.
09:16I'm not like her.
09:17If Ginger accepts one more dollar from these people,
09:20this goes to the school's disciplinary board.
09:22And your parents.
09:23And the local news.
09:25Because I know a reporter who covers prep school scandals.
09:27Emma, this is blackmail.
09:32This is intervention.
09:34You have 30 seconds to hand that phone to me voluntarily.
09:38After that, I'll have someone retrieve it.
09:48You're just a rich boy with a daddy complex.
09:51You can't touch me.
09:55I'm the boy whose father owns the building your scholarship housing is in.
10:00Among other things.
10:02Among other things.
10:04This is what they do, Ginger.
10:06This is what they always do.
10:08They threaten.
10:09They intimidate.
10:10And you just smile and take it because you think they're going to save your grandmother.
10:15I kept records of everything.
10:16Every transaction.
10:18Every message.
10:18Every time's time.
10:19I've been keeping records since day one of this school year
10:22because I knew you'd do something like this eventually.
10:24Emma, go ahead.
10:26Send the footage because when you do,
10:27I'm going to the Financial Crimes Unit with a full documented account
10:29of what you did with my login credentials,
10:31the donation routing, the account numbers,
10:32and the organization's active federal status.
10:39Financial crimes documentation.
10:41You actually have that?
10:43Every record since August.
10:47I need someone to manage PR risks for the inner circle.
10:50Proactively.
10:51Not just financials.
10:52Scandals.
10:52Exposure management.
10:53The whole containment stack.
11:01That's a different rate.
11:03Name it.
11:12Start Monday.
11:15Start Monday.
11:19Someone came to her hospital room and showed her footage on a phone.
11:22She's very agitated.
11:24I knew without asking.
11:25Emma had gone after the only person who mattered.
11:35I took a rideshare to the hospital
11:37with my heart running faster than I would have liked.
11:45I don't want to see you.
11:48What that girl showed me.
11:50Grammy.
11:51She edited video to look like something it wasn't.
11:54She's been doing things like this since school started.
11:57I have documentation.
11:58The woman who came here, Emma Voss.
12:00She transferred $50,000 from your surgery fund
12:03into a cult account last week.
12:05She used my stolen password to do it.
12:07I have filed a police report.
12:13She came to my hospital room.
12:18She came because she knew it would hurt me.
12:21She has been trying to stop me from earning your surgery money
12:25since school started.
12:26This is how she operated.
12:30She didn't say anything.
12:32Neither did I.
12:34We sat there while the monitors beeped
12:36and the light through the window shifted.
12:39After a while, Grammy squeezed my hand once.
12:42Very slightly.
12:44That was enough.
12:47That was enough.
12:54I stood in front of my St. Jude's classmates and asked for help.
12:58It wasn't what I wanted to do.
13:00But Grammy's surgery had a deadline.
13:0230 days to secure the remaining funds
13:04or the surgical team lost the booking.
13:06And I had run the numbers six ways
13:08and this was the fastest path.
13:10I'm offering a straightforward exchange.
13:12Whatever services I can provide.
13:13Academic support, financial modeling, logistics, scheduling, problem solving
13:17at whatever rate the class sets
13:18apply directly to the surgery fund balance.
13:28$300,000.
13:33$300,000.
13:34Jax came up first.
13:36$300,000.
13:39The hall went quiet.
13:40Then Chloe came forward.
13:42Then 12 others.
13:43In nine minutes, they had assembled $800,000.
13:46$200,000 short.
13:49Ginger Ashworth donated $50,000 to a hate group last month.
13:52She has HIV.
13:54She has been selling personal services to male students for cash.
13:57Do not give her your money.
13:58The hall froze.
14:00Students who had been moving toward the Lekri stopped.
14:08Emma walked to the front of the room,
14:10picked up the stack of checks,
14:12and walked out.
14:13She moved fast.
14:14She knew she had maybe 90 seconds before anyone reacted.
14:18She knew she had maybe 90 seconds before anyone reacted.
14:22I watched her take photos of the checks with her phone.
14:24Then she transferred the funds via the routing numbers,
14:27donated the entire $800,000,
14:29in my name,
14:30to a charity she had pre-selected.
14:34You keep finding new ways to take their money.
14:36I keep finding new ways to stop you.
14:39How long are you going to keep doing this, Ginger?
14:42Until my grandmother is out of the OR.
14:45However long that takes.
15:01I have a grandmother who needs surgery.
15:04I know which one matters.
15:13I know what you did.
15:15And if you don't want the whole school to know,
15:19I suggest you do exactly the vault.
15:24Ring any bells?
15:27Jax has been running background on everyone who's touched this situation.
15:30Turns out you've been conducting your own business
15:32out of an underground club downtown for the past six months,
15:35while delivering speeches about dignity.
15:37You don't have anything...
15:38We have transaction records, check-in logs,
15:40and three signed witness statements,
15:41and a direct line to the school board,
15:43the police financial crimes unit,
15:45and two investigative journalists who cover exactly this kind of story.
15:50You set me up.
15:51You set yourself up.
15:52We just paid attention.
15:53This isn't over.
15:55It is for you.
15:57This isn't over.
15:59It is for you.
16:02Emma didn't run.
16:03She stood very still as they reached her,
16:06like someone who had finally ran out of moves and knew it.
16:11She didn't look at me.
16:13Maybe she couldn't.
16:15Wire transfer confirmation.
16:18Surgery fund.
16:19Full amount.
16:21Done 20 minutes ago from a different account Emma couldn't touch.
16:27One million dollars.
16:29Full balance.
16:31I stood in the hallway and did not cry.
16:52The vault was an underground members-only club that operated out of a converted parking structure four blocks from St.
17:01Jude's East Gate.
17:01No sign.
17:03Invitation only.
17:05The same girl who had screamed about dignity in St. Jude's courtyard had spent her evenings in an illegal private
17:11club,
17:11levering her access to wealthy students to broker introductions and collect fees.
17:17Emma's file was extensive.
17:19She used other people's vulnerabilities like currency.
17:22She had been doing it to me since we were 14.
17:25I was the last one in the room to understand that.
17:28I was the last one in the room to understand that.
17:30I don't recognize this institution's authority to judge me.
17:33You have spent years buying the compliance of scholarship students.
17:36What I did was expose the transactional nature of this school's supposed generosity.
17:41Student activity log.
17:43Transaction records.
17:45Witness statements.
17:46Everything from the vault, August through present.
17:49I don't accept your framing.
17:50Ms. Voss, you are being expelled.
17:52Your scholarship has been revoked retroactively.
17:54The Financial Crimes Unit has been notified and will conduct their own review.
17:57You have until 5 p.m. to vacate your housing.
17:59Whatever you have, I stand by my principals.
18:01Your principals generate approximately $340,000 in brokered fees from this school's student population.
18:05Under an assumed name.
18:06While receiving a full scholarship funded by the same families you were defrauding.
18:09You could have stood with me.
18:12You never gave me anything worth standing with.
18:15No.
18:23I expected more theater.
18:25She's out of material.
18:28I expected more theater.
18:30She's out of material.
18:32Grammy's surgery went for 11 hours.
18:34I sat in the waiting room with Chloe on one side and three other classmates who had showed up without
18:39being asked.
18:40Nobody talked much.
18:42The procedure was successful.
18:44She's in recovery.
18:45You can see her in about two hours.
18:47Chloe handed me a coffee without a word.
18:50I drank it.
18:56You did it.
19:04We did it.
19:06Yeah.
19:07Your mother would be proud.
19:10I looked at the window.
19:12Outside, it was just a hospital parking lot.
19:15It looked beautiful.
19:17St. Jed's held its full student assembly two weeks later.
19:20Emma Henned requested it.
19:22They grant it because it's the cleaner option.
19:24She talks.
19:25She hangs herself.
19:26Everyone hears it from her directly.
19:27Case closed.
19:29He was right.
19:30I want to address what's been framed as my misconduct because the framing is dishonest.
19:35This school has always used money as a control mechanism.
19:38The scholarship program is not generosity.
19:39It is acquisition.
19:41You bring in students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
19:43You dangle resources in front of them and you purchase their loyalty.
19:48That's not education.
19:49That's cultivation.
19:50You brookdered paid introductions at an underground club for six months while you were on scholarship.
19:58Is that playing by your own rules or just different ones?
20:01You transferred $800,000 out of a surgery fund.
20:05Twice.
20:06Money that other students voluntarily raised for someone's grandmother.
20:10You told us she had HIV at a fundraiser through a megaphone.
20:14The room had shifted.
20:16It had not shifted against Emma because of any argument.
20:18It had shifted because she was standing in a room full of people who had been watching her for months.
20:23And they had drawn their own conclusions.
20:25I was trying to protect Ginger.
20:27From what?
20:29From what?
20:30From people like you.
20:32People like me pay her on time, respect her work, and don't steal her grandmother's surgery fund.
20:38What exactly is your objection to people like me?
20:42You could have stood with me.
20:45You never gave me anything worth standing with.
20:50The auditorium stayed quiet for a moment.
20:52Then someone in the back row started clapping.
20:54Then the room joined in.
20:55The sound building slow and then fast.
20:57And I sat in my seat with my hands in my lap and didn't know quite what to do with
21:00any of it.
21:01Accept it.
21:03You ruined it.
21:04I thought about that.
21:06Then I put my hands together.
21:12Who hears someone slandered at a fundraiser and just accepts it?
21:17We should have pushed back immediately.
21:19She destroyed the checks from inside a school building with our routing numbers.
21:24And then lectured us about integrity.
21:27I'd been warned about her before school even started.
21:30Turns out several students from her previous district had similar experiences.
21:34She finds someone and decides they belong to her.
21:37The dignity bit was always a tell.
21:39People who actually have dignity don't announce it that loudly.
21:44You've been buying us breakfast for three months.
21:46You think we wouldn't show up?
21:48You fixed my entire junior year threese's structure in one sitting.
21:51My advisor said it was the best outline he'd seen.
21:53You didn't charge me extra.
21:55You managed the situation with my father and the board last mesen.
21:58You didn't have to.
21:59You did it anyway.
22:02Grammy's physical therapy starts Monday.
22:05I've arranged transport.
22:06Don't argue.
22:08Um, I wasn't going to argue.
22:11You should know that I'm aware this is more than business.
22:13I'm aware you didn't have to do any of this.
22:16No, I didn't.
22:21Don't make it weird.
22:24The Inner Circle's Q1 projections.
22:27When you have time.
22:31Monday.
22:32The rate is going up.
22:36I know.
22:37I'm adjusting it upward.
22:38You're undercharging.
22:40Better'd I do.
22:42Start Monday.
22:44Outside the auditorium windows,
22:46the campus was lit up and ordinary.
22:50And mine, in a way it had never been before.
22:53I had come to St. Jude's as a charity case with a plan and a debt.
22:57I was leaving this room as something else entirely.
22:59I wasn't sure there was a clean word for it.
23:01But it felt, for the first time in a very long time, like enough.
23:04The years at St. Jude's ended with a graduation ceremony so polished it could have been staged.
23:10Chloe gave the address.
23:11Jax didn't speak.
23:13But he was there.
23:14In the front row.
23:15Which meant more than any speech.
23:17Grammy sat in the third row in the expression she always wore at ceremonies.
23:21The one that said she had been waiting her whole life for this particular moment.
23:26I had been accepted everywhere I applied.
23:28I chose the school Chloe and Jax were attending.
23:30Not because of sentimentality.
23:32Because they were the best operators I had ever worked with.
23:34And proximity to the best makes you better.
23:36Three years of business school.
23:37Two of applied finance.
23:39Navigating a startup ecosystem.
23:40That moved fast and didn't care about your pedigree.
23:42Only your results.
23:43I turned out to be very good at building things.
23:45The inner circle.
23:46What had started as Chloe and Jax's loose social network.
23:49Became something else over those years.
23:51Tighter.
23:51More structured.
23:52Operate across three industries and two continents.
23:54I planned to do it myself.
23:57When I told them I wanted to run something on my own.
24:00They said good.
24:01When I said I was filing in creation papers.
24:03They said obviously.
24:09This is too much.
24:10It's accurate.
24:11You've been undervaluing your equity state since year one.
24:14I've been correcting the discrepancy.
24:15We didn't agree to an equity arrangement.
24:17We agreed to a professional arrangement.
24:19And professional arrangements reflect the actual value of the contribution.
24:23Read your original contract.
24:24Paragraph seven.
24:32This is extremely annoying.
24:34You're welcome.
24:36I stood at my office window.
24:38Top floor.
24:39Corner unit.
24:40A view of the city in three directions.
24:42And looked at the number on my phone screen.
24:45I thought of St. Jude's Prep Courtyard.
24:47A scuved white leather sneaker.
24:49A girl crouching with a cloth.
24:50Calculating which humiliations to bear.
24:53Each second of humiliation is worth $10,000.
24:55I'm no dog.
24:56I'm a professional earning pay.
24:58In the end, she was right about nearly everything.
25:01The industry event was the kind Chloe liked.
25:04Curated.
25:05Deliberately intimate.
25:06The type that looks like a dinner party but functions as a deal room.
25:10I was late.
25:11You're late.
25:13Unavoidably.
25:14Your company cleared regulatory review this morning.
25:16I heard before you did.
25:21How?
25:22I know people.
25:25That's ominous.
25:27That's infrastructure.
25:29Paragraph 7.
25:30I'm not disputing it.
25:32I'm acknowledging it.
25:34You've been adjusting for actual value this whole time.
25:38Yes.
25:39Why?
25:40Because accurate valuation is a principle.
25:44You apply it to everything you build.
25:46I apply it to everything I invest in.
25:51Are you two going to stand here being cryptic?
25:53Or are we going to close the European fund tonight?
25:58Both.
26:00Obviously.
26:01The cryptic thing is getting worse.
26:04The room was warm and full of people who were good at things.
26:07Which was my preferred kind of room.
26:09She had asked me last month if I was happy.
26:12Ginger.
26:12I had told her I was busy.
26:13She had those aren't the same thing standing in this room.
26:16In this life I had built from a scuffed sneaker and a calculated bet.
26:21That competence was the only currency that compounded.
26:25I thought she might be right about that.
26:27They weren't the same thing.
26:29But for the first time in two lifetimes.
26:31I had both.
26:32That felt.
26:34Quietly and without fansure.
26:36Like winning.
26:37As for Emma.
26:39I heard about her through an industry contact.
26:41Three years after St. Jude's.
26:44The financial investigation had moved slowly.
26:47She had moved faster.
26:49Cycling through positions in cities.
26:51Staying ahead of the paperwork.
26:52She had eventually surfaced at an operation not unlike the vault.
26:56The kind of underground network that runs on the same logic she had always used.
27:00The difference was that the people in those networks were not St. Jude's students.
27:03They were harder.
27:04And they had less tolerance for the kind of lectures she specialize in.
27:08I read it once.
27:09Poured a second cup of coffee.
27:11The day had 17 items on the agenda and I had already lost 12 minutes.
27:16I got back to work.
27:21That's the end of the story.
27:23Or maybe the beginning.
27:25Good morning.
27:26Good morning.
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