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When a debt‑crushed executive assistant at a global media empire discovers a clerical glitch that could erase her student loans, she triggers a stealthy, all‑female (and a few ride‑or‑die allies) caper that skims corporate excess to free an underground network of assistants from crushing debt—until an internal audit and her own conscience force a reckoning between personal liberation, systemic injustice, and the price of loyalty. Charecters: Tina Fontana (late 20s, first‑gen college grad) Smart, dry‑humored, hyper‑competent executive assistant to media titan Robert Barlow. Crushed by ~$80K in student loans (state school + grad credits she never finished). Morally straight but bent by exhaustion. Her superpower: she knows exactly how money flows through the org because she routes every receipt. Costume arc: Starts in outlet‑rack blazers & sensible shoes; ends in tailored but ethically rented wardrobe—she owns her power without buying it. Robert Barlow (60s, charismatic shark) Self‑made billionaire founder of Barlow Global Media (cable, streaming, news, sports). Performs benevolence but bleeds perks. Not evil; just structurally insulated from consequence. Sees Tina as “family”—which means 24/7 access, not actual care. Mise note: Always framed against vast windows overlooking Manhattan; lens flares from private helipad. Emily Park (late 20s, legal dept assistant → co‑conspirator) Law‑school deferral year turned indefinite. Debt twin to Tina. Tech‑curious; can parse policy PDFs and backend portals. First to clock Tina’s windfall; becomes strategist. Opening Scene: Beat 1 – Debt‑Crushed Morning As Tina races out of her cramped apartment for another high‑stakes day, she’s hit with a stack of FINAL NOTICE envelopes and a loan‑servicer voicemail threatening wage garnishment. Nothing she can do in the moment; the bills aren’t going away. The scene locks in the financial ticking clock and bonds us emotionally to her; we feel the moral pressure that will justify what’s coming. Beat 2 – Emergency Travel Buy Minutes later at BGM Tower, the corporate travel system crashes just as Tina’s billionaire boss needs two last‑second, cross‑country first‑class seats. Ordered to "just get it done," she slams nearly $19K in charges onto her personal card to save the day—maxing her credit and proving how far she’ll sacrifice for a job that wouldn’t cover her interest payments. Loyalty and exploitation are now inseparable. Beat 3 – Glitched Expense Override Trying to get reimbursed, Tina fights a locked expense portal and force‑saves her upload under an emergency override code. The enterprise system wheezes, then spits out two confirmation numbers—#000872 and #000872A. A banal bureaucratic glitch quietly births an opportunity; the seed of the scam is planted by software, not intent. Beat 4 – Duplicate Reimbursement Emails On the late subway home her phone lights up: “Expense Approved / ACH Scheduled” … and a second identical email seconds later. She can’t reach Accounts Payable, and she knows keeping both deposits could be fraud—yet $19K is life‑changing. Suspense tightens; temptation collides with the rule‑following instinct we’ve seen define her. Beat 5 – Midnight Payoff Window Back in her apartment, Tina checks her loan portal: a payoff amount good only until 11:59 PM. If both ACHs land, she could erase the debt tonight. AP’s on‑call rep shrugs—if there’s a duplicate, they’ll sort it “next cycle…maybe.” Corporate indifference does the final moral sanding; the line between right and righteous begins to blur. Beat 6 – The Scam Click Tina executes: she schedules a time‑synced transfer that will sweep the (briefly doubled) reimbursement to her loan servicer the instant the money hits, then buries a $27 minibar reclassification to mask the accounting gap in the nightly reconciliation batch. It’s a precision move under the radar—her first deliberate step outside the rules and the point of no return. Beat 7 – Void Check Jam (Evidence Seed) Down in the bowels of BGM, the system auto‑generates a paper VOID to cancel the duplicate—but the check jams in a shredder chute and survives. A physical breadcrumb now exists in the world: Chekhov’s receipt that can surface in an audit, blackmail, or plot twist later. The scam isn’t as invisible as Tina hopes. Beat 8 – Loan Clears; Emily Sees At a pre‑dawn ATM, Tina watches her balance spike and her student loans zero out—ecstasy, shock, relief—just as fellow assistant Emily steps up beside her and catches the glow. Instead of reporting her, Emily’s curiosity sparks: "Does Barlow know he just paid off Sallie Mae?" In that moment secrecy turns to potential solidarity, launching the ensemble caper to come.

When a debt‑crushed executive assistant at a global media empire discovers a clerical glitch that could erase her student loans, she triggers a stealthy, all‑female (and a few ride‑or‑die allies) caper that skims corporate excess to free an underground network of assistants from crushing debt—until an internal audit and her own conscience force a reckoning between personal liberation, systemic injustice, and the price of loyalty. Charecters: Tina Fontana (late 20s, first‑gen college grad) Smart, dry‑humored, hyper‑competent executive assistant to media titan Robert Barlow. Crushed by ~$80K in student loans (state school + grad credits she never finished). Morally straight but bent by exhaustion. Her superpower: she knows exactly how money flows through the org because she routes every receipt. Costume arc: Starts in outlet‑rack blazers & sensible shoes; ends in tailored but ethically rented wardrobe—she owns her power without buying it. Robert Barlow (60s, charismatic shark) Self‑made billionaire founder of Barlow Global Media (cable, streaming, news, sports). Performs benevolence but bleeds perks. Not evil; just structurally insulated from consequence. Sees Tina as “family”—which means 24/7 access, not actual care. Mise note: Always framed against vast windows overlooking Manhattan; lens flares from private helipad. Emily Park (late 20s, legal dept assistant → co‑conspirator) Law‑school deferral year turned indefinite. Debt twin to Tina. Tech‑curious; can parse policy PDFs and backend portals. First to clock Tina’s windfall; becomes strategist. Opening Scene: Beat 1 – Debt‑Crushed Morning As Tina races out of her cramped apartment for another high‑stakes day, she’s hit with a stack of FINAL NOTICE envelopes and a loan‑servicer voicemail threatening wage garnishment. Nothing she can do in the moment; the bills aren’t going away. The scene locks in the financial ticking clock and bonds us emotionally to her; we feel the moral pressure that will justify what’s coming. Beat 2 – Emergency Travel Buy Minutes later at BGM Tower, the corporate travel system crashes just as Tina’s billionaire boss needs two last‑second, cross‑country first‑class seats. Ordered to "just get it done," she slams nearly $19K in charges onto her personal card to save the day—maxing her credit and proving how far she’ll sacrifice for a job that wouldn’t cover her interest payments. Loyalty and exploitation are now inseparable. Beat 3 – Glitched Expense Override Trying to get reimbursed, Tina fights a locked expense portal and force‑saves her upload under an emergency override code. The enterprise system wheezes, then spits out two confirmation numbers—#000872 and #000872A. A banal bureaucratic glitch quietly births an opportunity; the seed of the scam is planted by software, not intent. Beat 4 – Duplicate Reimbursement Emails On the late subway home her phone lights up: “Expense Approved / ACH Scheduled” … and a second identical email seconds later. She can’t reach Accounts Payable, and she knows keeping both deposits could be fraud—yet $19K is life‑changing. Suspense tightens; temptation collides with the rule‑following instinct we’ve seen define her. Beat 5 – Midnight Payoff Window Back in her apartment, Tina checks her loan portal: a payoff amount good only until 11:59 PM. If both ACHs land, she could erase the debt tonight. AP’s on‑call rep shrugs—if there’s a duplicate, they’ll sort it “next cycle…maybe.” Corporate indifference does the final moral sanding; the line between right and righteous begins to blur. Beat 6 – The Scam Click Tina executes: she schedules a time‑synced transfer that will sweep the (briefly doubled) reimbursement to her loan servicer the instant the money hits, then buries a $27 minibar reclassification to mask the accounting gap in the nightly reconciliation batch. It’s a precision move under the radar—her first deliberate step outside the rules and the point of no return. Beat 7 – Void Check Jam (Evidence Seed) Down in the bowels of BGM, the system auto‑generates a paper VOID to cancel the duplicate—but the check jams in a shredder chute and survives. A physical breadcrumb now exists in the world: Chekhov’s receipt that can surface in an audit, blackmail, or plot twist later. The scam isn’t as invisible as Tina hopes. Beat 8 – Loan Clears; Emily Sees At a pre‑dawn ATM, Tina watches her balance spike and her student loans zero out—ecstasy, shock, relief—just as fellow assistant Emily steps up beside her and catches the glow. Instead of reporting her, Emily’s curiosity sparks: "Does Barlow know he just paid off Sallie Mae?" In that moment secrecy turns to potential solidarity, launching the ensemble caper to come.

When a debt‑crushed executive assistant at a global media empire discovers a clerical glitch that could erase her student loans, she triggers a stealthy, all‑female (and a few ride‑or‑die allies) caper that skims corporate excess to free an underground network of assistants from crushing debt—until an internal audit and her own conscience force a reckoning between personal liberation, systemic injustice, and the price of loyalty. Charecters: Tina Fontana (late 20s, first‑gen college grad) Smart, dry‑humored, hyper‑competent executive assistant to media titan Robert Barlow. Crushed by ~$80K in student loans (state school + grad credits she never finished). Morally straight but bent by exhaustion. Her superpower: she knows exactly how money flows through the org because she routes every receipt. Costume arc: Starts in outlet‑rack blazers & sensible shoes; ends in tailored but ethically rented wardrobe—she owns her power without buying it. Robert Barlow (60s, charismatic shark) Self‑made billionaire founder of Barlow Global Media (cable, streaming, news, sports). Performs benevolence but bleeds perks. Not evil; just structurally insulated from consequence. Sees Tina as “family”—which means 24/7 access, not actual care. Mise note: Always framed against vast windows overlooking Manhattan; lens flares from private helipad. Emily Park (late 20s, legal dept assistant → co‑conspirator) Law‑school deferral year turned indefinite. Debt twin to Tina. Tech‑curious; can parse policy PDFs and backend portals. First to clock Tina’s windfall; becomes strategist. Opening Scene: Beat 1 – Debt‑Crushed Morning As Tina races out of her cramped apartment for another high‑stakes day, she’s hit with a stack of FINAL NOTICE envelopes and a loan‑servicer voicemail threatening wage garnishment. Nothing she can do in the moment; the bills aren’t going away. The scene locks in the financial ticking clock and bonds us emotionally to her; we feel the moral pressure that will justify what’s coming. Beat 2 – Emergency Travel Buy Minutes later at BGM Tower, the corporate travel system crashes just as Tina’s billionaire boss needs two last‑second, cross‑country first‑class seats. Ordered to "just get it done," she slams nearly $19K in charges onto her personal card to save the day—maxing her credit and proving how far she’ll sacrifice for a job that wouldn’t cover her interest payments. Loyalty and exploitation are now inseparable. Beat 3 – Glitched Expense Override Trying to get reimbursed, Tina fights a locked expense portal and force‑saves her upload under an emergency override code. The enterprise system wheezes, then spits out two confirmation numbers—#000872 and #000872A. A banal bureaucratic glitch quietly births an opportunity; the seed of the scam is planted by software, not intent. Beat 4 – Duplicate Reimbursement Emails On the late subway home her phone lights up: “Expense Approved / ACH Scheduled” … and a second identical email seconds later. She can’t reach Accounts Payable, and she knows keeping both deposits could be fraud—yet $19K is life‑changing. Suspense tightens; temptation collides with the rule‑following instinct we’ve seen define her. Beat 5 – Midnight Payoff Window Back in her apartment, Tina checks her loan portal: a payoff amount good only until 11:59 PM. If both ACHs land, she could erase the debt tonight. AP’s on‑call rep shrugs—if there’s a duplicate, they’ll sort it “next cycle…maybe.” Corporate indifference does the final moral sanding; the line between right and righteous begins to blur. Beat 6 – The Scam Click Tina executes: she schedules a time‑synced transfer that will sweep the (briefly doubled) reimbursement to her loan servicer the instant the money hits, then buries a $27 minibar reclassification to mask the accounting gap in the nightly reconciliation batch. It’s a precision move under the radar—her first deliberate step outside the rules and the point of no return. Beat 7 – Void Check Jam (Evidence Seed) Down in the bowels of BGM, the system auto‑generates a paper VOID to cancel the duplicate—but the check jams in a shredder chute and survives. A physical breadcrumb now exists in the world: Chekhov’s receipt that can surface in an audit, blackmail, or plot twist later. The scam isn’t as invisible as Tina hopes. Beat 8 – Loan Clears; Emily Sees At a pre‑dawn ATM, Tina watches her balance spike and her student loans zero out—ecstasy, shock, relief—just as fellow assistant Emily steps up beside her and catches the glow. Instead of reporting her, Emily’s curiosity sparks: "Does Barlow know he just paid off Sallie Mae?" In that moment secrecy turns to potential solidarity, launching the ensemble caper to come.

When a debt‑crushed executive assistant at a global media empire discovers a clerical glitch that could erase her student loans, she triggers a stealthy, all‑female (and a few ride‑or‑die allies) caper that skims corporate excess to free an underground network of assistants from crushing debt—until an internal audit and her own conscience force a reckoning between personal liberation, systemic injustice, and the price of loyalty. Charecters: Tina Fontana (late 20s, first‑gen college grad) Smart, dry‑humored, hyper‑competent executive assistant to media titan Robert Barlow. Crushed by ~$80K in student loans (state school + grad credits she never finished). Morally straight but bent by exhaustion. Her superpower: she knows exactly how money flows through the org because she routes every receipt. Costume arc: Starts in outlet‑rack blazers & sensible shoes; ends in tailored but ethically rented wardrobe—she owns her power without buying it. Robert Barlow (60s, charismatic shark) Self‑made billionaire founder of Barlow Global Media (cable, streaming, news, sports). Performs benevolence but bleeds perks. Not evil; just structurally insulated from consequence. Sees Tina as “family”—which means 24/7 access, not actual care. Mise note: Always framed against vast windows overlooking Manhattan; lens flares from private helipad. Emily Park (late 20s, legal dept assistant → co‑conspirator) Law‑school deferral year turned indefinite. Debt twin to Tina. Tech‑curious; can parse policy PDFs and backend portals. First to clock Tina’s windfall; becomes strategist. Opening Scene: Beat 1 – Debt‑Crushed Morning As Tina races out of her cramped apartment for another high‑stakes day, she’s hit with a stack of FINAL NOTICE envelopes and a loan‑servicer voicemail threatening wage garnishment. Nothing she can do in the moment; the bills aren’t going away. The scene locks in the financial ticking clock and bonds us emotionally to her; we feel the moral pressure that will justify what’s coming. Beat 2 – Emergency Travel Buy Minutes later at BGM Tower, the corporate travel system crashes just as Tina’s billionaire boss needs two last‑second, cross‑country first‑class seats. Ordered to "just get it done," she slams nearly $19K in charges onto her personal card to save the day—maxing her credit and proving how far she’ll sacrifice for a job that wouldn’t cover her interest payments. Loyalty and exploitation are now inseparable. Beat 3 – Glitched Expense Override Trying to get reimbursed, Tina fights a locked expense portal and force‑saves her upload under an emergency override code. The enterprise system wheezes, then spits out two confirmation numbers—#000872 and #000872A. A banal bureaucratic glitch quietly births an opportunity; the seed of the scam is planted by software, not intent. Beat 4 – Duplicate Reimbursement Emails On the late subway home her phone lights up: “Expense Approved / ACH Scheduled” … and a second identical email seconds later. She can’t reach Accounts Payable, and she knows keeping both deposits could be fraud—yet $19K is life‑changing. Suspense tightens; temptation collides with the rule‑following instinct we’ve seen define her. Beat 5 – Midnight Payoff Window Back in her apartment, Tina checks her loan portal: a payoff amount good only until 11:59 PM. If both ACHs land, she could erase the debt tonight. AP’s on‑call rep shrugs—if there’s a duplicate, they’ll sort it “next cycle…maybe.” Corporate indifference does the final moral sanding; the line between right and righteous begins to blur. Beat 6 – The Scam Click Tina executes: she schedules a time‑synced transfer that will sweep the (briefly doubled) reimbursement to her loan servicer the instant the money hits, then buries a $27 minibar reclassification to mask the accounting gap in the nightly reconciliation batch. It’s a precision move under the radar—her first deliberate step outside the rules and the point of no return. Beat 7 – Void Check Jam (Evidence Seed) Down in the bowels of BGM, the system auto‑generates a paper VOID to cancel the duplicate—but the check jams in a shredder chute and survives. A physical breadcrumb now exists in the world: Chekhov’s receipt that can surface in an audit, blackmail, or plot twist later. The scam isn’t as invisible as Tina hopes. Beat 8 – Loan Clears; Emily Sees At a pre‑dawn ATM, Tina watches her balance spike and her student loans zero out—ecstasy, shock, relief—just as fellow assistant Emily steps up beside her and catches the glow. Instead of reporting her, Emily’s curiosity sparks: "Does Barlow know he just paid off Sallie Mae?" In that moment secrecy turns to potential solidarity, launching the ensemble caper to come.

When a debt‑crushed executive assistant at a global media empire discovers a clerical glitch that could erase her student loans, she triggers a stealthy, all‑female (and a few ride‑or‑die allies) caper that skims corporate excess to free an underground network of assistants from crushing debt—until an internal audit and her own conscience force a reckoning between personal liberation, systemic injustice, and the price of loyalty. Charecters: Tina Fontana (late 20s, first‑gen college grad) Smart, dry‑humored, hyper‑competent executive assistant to media titan Robert Barlow. Crushed by ~$80K in student loans (state school + grad credits she never finished). Morally straight but bent by exhaustion. Her superpower: she knows exactly how money flows through the org because she routes every receipt. Costume arc: Starts in outlet‑rack blazers & sensible shoes; ends in tailored but ethically rented wardrobe—she owns her power without buying it. Robert Barlow (60s, charismatic shark) Self‑made billionaire founder of Barlow Global Media (cable, streaming, news, sports). Performs benevolence but bleeds perks. Not evil; just structurally insulated from consequence. Sees Tina as “family”—which means 24/7 access, not actual care. Mise note: Always framed against vast windows overlooking Manhattan; lens flares from private helipad. Emily Park (late 20s, legal dept assistant → co‑conspirator) Law‑school deferral year turned indefinite. Debt twin to Tina. Tech‑curious; can parse policy PDFs and backend portals. First to clock Tina’s windfall; becomes strategist. Opening Scene: Beat 1 – Debt‑Crushed Morning As Tina races out of her cramped apartment for another high‑stakes day, she’s hit with a stack of FINAL NOTICE envelopes and a loan‑servicer voicemail threatening wage garnishment. Nothing she can do in the moment; the bills aren’t going away. The scene locks in the financial ticking clock and bonds us emotionally to her; we feel the moral pressure that will justify what’s coming. Beat 2 – Emergency Travel Buy Minutes later at BGM Tower, the corporate travel system crashes just as Tina’s billionaire boss needs two last‑second, cross‑country first‑class seats. Ordered to "just get it done," she slams nearly $19K in charges onto her personal card to save the day—maxing her credit and proving how far she’ll sacrifice for a job that wouldn’t cover her interest payments. Loyalty and exploitation are now inseparable. Beat 3 – Glitched Expense Override Trying to get reimbursed, Tina fights a locked expense portal and force‑saves her upload under an emergency override code. The enterprise system wheezes, then spits out two confirmation numbers—#000872 and #000872A. A banal bureaucratic glitch quietly births an opportunity; the seed of the scam is planted by software, not intent. Beat 4 – Duplicate Reimbursement Emails On the late subway home her phone lights up: “Expense Approved / ACH Scheduled” … and a second identical email seconds later. She can’t reach Accounts Payable, and she knows keeping both deposits could be fraud—yet $19K is life‑changing. Suspense tightens; temptation collides with the rule‑following instinct we’ve seen define her. Beat 5 – Midnight Payoff Window Back in her apartment, Tina checks her loan portal: a payoff amount good only until 11:59 PM. If both ACHs land, she could erase the debt tonight. AP’s on‑call rep shrugs—if there’s a duplicate, they’ll sort it “next cycle…maybe.” Corporate indifference does the final moral sanding; the line between right and righteous begins to blur. Beat 6 – The Scam Click Tina executes: she schedules a time‑synced transfer that will sweep the (briefly doubled) reimbursement to her loan servicer the instant the money hits, then buries a $27 minibar reclassification to mask the accounting gap in the nightly reconciliation batch. It’s a precision move under the radar—her first deliberate step outside the rules and the point of no return. Beat 7 – Void Check Jam (Evidence Seed) Down in the bowels of BGM, the system auto‑generates a paper VOID to cancel the duplicate—but the check jams in a shredder chute and survives. A physical breadcrumb now exists in the world: Chekhov’s receipt that can surface in an audit, blackmail, or plot twist later. The scam isn’t as invisible as Tina hopes. Beat 8 – Loan Clears; Emily Sees At a pre‑dawn ATM, Tina watches her balance spike and her student loans zero out—ecstasy, shock, relief—just as fellow assistant Emily steps up beside her and catches the glow. Instead of reporting her, Emily’s curiosity sparks: "Does Barlow know he just paid off Sallie Mae?" In that moment secrecy turns to potential solidarity, launching the ensemble caper to come.