Man, I can't even tell you how happy I am, that you wrote that and I not only call you, I raise you by a boatload.
#1 Quinn and Riona started the gloryhole/sex business to pay for tuition, just to help themselves. The drug income was used to cover the gap, untill the gloryhole/sex business made enough money to cover all of it.
#2 There is no evil Burke, they are not even involved at all. Well, at least not Stephen or Jade, but Tybalt might be the one who fronted the money.
#3 Sage knew all along, it may even have been her, who had the original plan in the first place, on how to help Quinn and Riona. Sage would do anything for her HOT's, and Quinn being her former daughter and the HOT she is closest to, might have shone a light on problems Quinn has at 'home' and it was Sage, who was the one who came up with a solution. Sage's temper is a carbon copy of Jade's, and we all saw how submissive Tybalt is towards Jade, what if 'sis' has her 'bro' wrapped around her finger and made him cough up the dough and to be the one who fronted the money for Quinn and Riona and it's Sage who pays him back?
It all started in Episode 03, when Riona and Quinn had the following convo.
One thing just jumps of the page: "They are paying for themselves". Now I looked at that from all possible angles, how it could fit all the preconceptions we have and what we believe to be true, but it
JUST...
DOESNT...
FIT ! When someone is paying for oneself, it means someone else paid something upfront, and then the person in question, starts paying it back over a period of time, except it reads like Quinn and Riona are the ones being paid back, how else could they be taking losses?
"And we just sell what we need to sell, on top of our obligations...then we cut our losses". "Our obligations" being that they have to pay their own tuition money back, but it reads like they are using the drug buisness to front the money for all the other girls and that THEY are being paid back. I just dont know how else one can read that line, other than that Riona points out that the girls don't make enough money with the sex/gloryhole buisness and that Quinn and Riona have to supplement that income with their drug money, to which Quinn points out, that Melanie and Sarah are almost at the point where they do make enough and dont have to be supplemented much longer.
Tuition has to be paid at the start of the semester, so that one is easy. But obviously, with at least 6 girls involved at the peak of that operation ( Quinn, Riona, Melanie, Sarah, Camila, Mona ), we are talking about quite a big chunk of change, depending on what they study, in the ballpark of 30.000$ per semester for all of them together. So that would mean, Melanie and Sarah must make ~10.000$ in 6 months from their gloryhole/sex endeavours, which seems doable at first glance. It's also really important to point out, that ALL HOT's live in the Mansion, so the costs for Room & Board are gone, at least in terms of paying the college for it, they still have to eat, obviously.
Now the big one... Tybalt ? REALLY ? Well, follow me ...
Convo between Sage at Quinn at the carwash:
We all know what Sage set up and with whom, and apparently it "didn't take much convincing" and "he's been wanting to do something like this for a very long time." ! REALLY ? Tybalt wants to hang around with the HOT's ? We dont even have a shred of evidence that he ever hung out with them, or a single render where he casually talks with any of them, so why is he so keen on booking them ?
Sage is "helping Quinn out", in other words helping her to get money for the new HOT's, because they need the money, but why would they need more money, just by becoming HOT's ? They've been students all along, so shouldnt they need LESS money from here on out, because they can cancel Room & Board, just like the MC did ? And Sage isn't saying she's helping the HOT's, she saying she's helping Quinn to get money, because adding two girls (Camila & Mona), means Quinn and Riona have to front an extra 10.000$ and that's what's pissing Riona off and what Sage is helping Quinn with.
Lets point out 2 more things : #1 Sage absolutely does NOT want to include her parents, even the suggestion from Quinn makes Sage insta snap at Quinn. #2 Sage is helping Quinn out, and she agrees to do it Quinn's way...this time, suggesting that all the other times, they did it Sage's way. So, that kind implies that Sage is not only aware, but that she's the one who pulled all the strings up to this point.
Whenever Sage is told "I heard the HOT's offer free tuition", she doesnt ask "Where did you hear that ?", instead she insta shoots it down and says "Dont believe in rumours", in fact, Maya flat out tells Sage in the library, that Quinn was the one who told her, that she would get free tuition, and yet Sage doesnt even blink. We've never seen her question it or drumm her girls together and ask them where those rumours come from. Yea, I know not shown doesnt equal not happening, but isnt that something DPC would love to show ? To increase the Sage vs Quinn tension ? To have them lie to Sage infront of everyone ?
Finally, to tie up the 'Tybalt is the one who fronted the money to Sage, and she's the one who pays him back' angle. At the party in the DIK Mansion, Sage is absence, the MC calls her and asks her why she didnt come. Sage tells him, she had something to do and then she says:
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Call me crazy, but isnt that the Prep Mansion ?
So, is Stephen Burke DPC's red herring ? Is he just another horny, middle aged man who just wants to get some pussy ? I am still 100% sure that he fucked 3 students, it just wasnt related to any tuition business.
Do we need to apologise to good, old Stephen ? Is Tybalt keeping the HOT's afloat ? Is Sage the mastermind behind all of it and Quinn just does as she's told ?
