After Nathan Kessler fires his own majority shareholder, believing her to be nothing more than a persistent quality-control employee, the calm smile she offers him on her way out signals she already knows something he doesn’t. As Thursday’s shareholder meeting approaches, Nathan prepares to tell everyone she simply wasn’t a good fit, unaware that the very trust controlling ninety-two percent of Ridgemont Components belongs entirely to her.

When the shareholder register is finally read aloud in Boardroom A, Nathan’s confident narrative is about to collide with a reality far more expensive than any termination packet he’d handed across that conference table.