Our hero enters the office where A has been using flash drive resources to find dirt on his old employer. the following conversation would be broken up by various retail/liquidation shenanigans.
H "did you find anything on the drive?"
A "no, most of the files are half there or corrupted. I tried to tell you that before you left."
H "I was holding out hope there would be something incriminating on there"
A "are you trying to take this place to court or something"
H "not really, I probably would have used it to make myself feel better about not working for him anymore"
A "Well if you are just looking for a reason to hate him, I looked up his name on our system... since everyone's a contractor everyone has access to everything. He's been on a pretty heavy pain killer script, paying for it with cash...."
H "he's got insurance... I don't know if that does anything for my mental state. Can you lose the prescription? maybe make kick him off it for a day or two, til he pays off another doctor to write him a new one."
A "it'll require a field trip the pharmacy but I'll give it a shot. I was trying to find out what kind of dirt that you were looking for so I did a search for ad agency fraud. Top hits were over billing and money laundering."
H ".... seems like money laundering would be hard to prove... probably annoying to prove innocence. maybe we can use that."
A "use it for what"
H "to do some damage. this guy's dirty... I just need something to get people fired up about it. we take whatever contacts we have on the drive; clients, former coworkers, we start some type of campaign to just get people sniffing and assuming the worst."
A "and then what?"
H "the whole advertising industry is a deck of cards, hopefully it'll be enough to knock him down a peg"
A "and you are ok with doing this whole thing based on a lie and your anger."
H "I think I can live with it. Do you want to help?"
A "if you think he deserves it"
More retail shenanigans happen while the boys work on their campaign to stir dissent. They do targeted direct mail, fake investigation inquiries, getting sloppier and sloppier as they go on.
Over the next couple days our hero moves the remaining store merchandise around to encourage purchase and cutoff unused portions of the store. Through eliminating wasted space he has reduced the general merchandise area less than a department's worth of space. Surveying the reduced footprint of reduced price clothing and knick knacks, A understands what the plan is for the store.
A " I know what they are planning for SS"
H "shutting it down?"
A "no, they are slowly clearancing out all of the non-grocery stuff. They've already replaced the union with temp labor. Once the founder dies they are going to sell the chain to Wal-mart.... walmart will move in the existing locations of stores that don't have direct competition. They are keeping grocery going so that people won't look for other options."
H "that seems like a lot of work"
A "easier than actually competing on an honest level"
H "honesty is the hardest policy"
At this point the project manager that fired our hero walks empty handed from the SS pharmacy. Noticing our hero and A, he heads directly towards them.
PM "Can I assume you had something to do with my prescription getting lost"
A "It was lost? I could have sworn I saw that prescription on an email attachment recently."
H "Sir we are trying to manage a liquidation, if you have any concerns about your service today please report them to management or deputy management (show's fake sherif star that he took from the toy department)
PM "Can we talk somewhere private?"
H "Sure"
Our hero leaves the store with PM, it is the first time our hero has been out during daylight since he was fired. Despite the daylight being dimmer than the halogen's inside the store. Our hero squints to take in the natural light, his eyes adjust just in time to see the PM's fist connect with his face.
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