At a school ceremony a student celebrates a first-class scholarship and vows to pick up jobs to help his parents pay for Harley’s surgery. Reid, the nearly thirty CEO of the Graham Group, is there to set up the scholarship. Colleagues mock his single status; Reid says he's sterile and 'allergic to women' and prefers charity. A fortune teller predicted he'd meet his destined partner at noon, so friends scan the campus, dismissing one young woman, and tease him. They decide to go to a club tonight for a promised "surprise," leaving the noon prophecy unresolved.