You make it sound like Quinn is good at handling the expected. The only reason she needed to try the unexpected was because her normal business was already falling apart.
That said, now that we know someone is actively stalking Quinn and stealing her profits, I wonder if the reason Quinn was short had nothing to do with using drugs for free. Perhaps Episode 6 wasn't the first time her money was stolen, just the most obvious?
Quinn at one point accuses Riona of smoking too much free merchandise, now either that's a joke, but it doesn't seem like it, or Riona smokes as much as all sports bettors together, or Quinn's business produces the earnings of a homemade lemonade stand. ...
it will also be due to the currency issue in BADIK-verse but I just can't get an idea of what we're talking about.
it's all very amateur. Quinn needs the money so she throws herself on the Preps but without having had a real prior hookup, she talks to Rick and hopes he finds out he's a big drug user, and ends up begging him for a single purchase, and undertakes to get him some. other merchandise, which Quinn has never handled ...
Quinn blindly trusts a Prep who wasn't even her client
the girls in the restaurant pretty much do what they want, luckily for us. Camilla can only limit herself to the glory hole, while Mona is sent to the slaughterhouse and then let go after threatening her nose ...
the impression that Quinn's Empire of Evil is more in the imagination than in reality