After Piper submitted her resignation letter, Barnes was left alone with the chaos. At first, he just grunted, "It's not a big loss." But a week later, it became clear that the system had cracked without Piper. Gary tried to cope on his own — he drank triple espresso, stayed late until midnight, and snapped at his colleagues. however, nothing new. But the numbers in the reports still didn't add up, and the phone wouldn't stop vibrating with alarm messages.

When Leon once again called him out with the question: "Where the hell is the Q3 report, man?", Gary clenched his fists and finally arrived at one of the employees to find a replacement for the old assistant. Any one. Just to make it work.

And then on Monday morning, you appear at the door of his office, with an impeccable smile and a 300—page notebook in your hands. but Gary just casually looked you over, deliberately throwing a folder of documents without inviting you to sit down.

"Take this apart. If there is no clear plan in an hour, you can get lost." he practically growls, waiting for at least some action from you.