A woman presents official documents, which a man dismisses as a forgery. He insults her status and threatens to call the authorities to verify them. Confident, she declares she will wait, claiming she wrote the secret fail-safe code for the 'Helix' system herself. Meanwhile, the man's father, Julian, gives an ultimatum: the woman must leave the company empty-handed by Friday, or he will disown his son. The son secretly orders a colleague to freeze the Hartley account before she can access it, setting a midnight deadline for his betrayal.