At an expensive campus café, Elly works part‑time while also working at the school. Keira finds her and accepts an extra staff meal. Back in the dining room, coworkers are told to watch the "new girl" as classmates spread that Elly sent Asher five dollars for a drink. The gift embarrasses Asher and triggers snide remarks about scholarship students and unequal rules. Asher moves to see Elly, but a customer blocks and berates someone — "Hey, I'm talking to you!" — and a shocked "What the hell?" closes the episode, leaving Elly's response and Asher's intervention unresolved.