Equity 2016

Naomi Bishop, Anna Gunn, is a senior investment banker who handles IPOs. When her latest project is undervalued, she faces professional setbacks, including clients losing confidence in her work. To bounce back, she is hired to handle the IPO for Cachet, a privacy-focused social networking platform.

Around the same time Naomi bumps into Samantha Ryan, an old college classmate who now works as a federal prosecutor investigating white-collar crime. Unbeknownst to Naomi, Samantha is investigating Naomi’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Michael Connor, James Purefoy, a broker at the same firm as Naomi who Samantha suspects is involved in insider trading. Michael tries to get information from Naomi about Cachet but fails.

While doing due diligence, Naomi learns from Marin, one of the coders, that Cachet is hackable. Despite having a nagging feeling that something is wrong, the numbers check out and Naomi continues to try to sell the shares of the company to investors. Michael, who has had no new insider trading tips to pass on to his friends at Titanite, tries unsuccessfully to hack into Naomi’s phone.

Erin Manning, Naomi’s assistant on the IPO, learns that Marin has been fired. To warn Naomi of this, she goes to Michael’s home after not being able to reach Naomi and ends up leaking the information to him in the hope that he will be able to get her a promotion, something Naomi has been unable to do for her. Michael leaks the tips to his friends at Titanite and then sends the story to an old college roommate who is a tech journalist.

Naomi figures out that it was Erin who betrayed her, based on her having a green pen, the same type of pen that Michael uses. When the shares open, confidence is lost and the company loses a third of its value on the first day of trading.

Michael changes jobs to Titanite, neglecting to take Erin with him. Naomi is fired, while Erin assumes her position. Unable to crack the case from the outside, Samantha interviews for a high-paying corporate position, saying that she is in it for the money using words from a speech she heard Naomi give at an alumni event.