Ethan Frisenda

Ethan Frisenda is a recruiter for the Sandra Sechrest Foundation.

## Appearance

He's in his mid-forties. When he goes to meet YO, he's wearing a classic academic outfit: gray slacks, tweedy jacket with patches on the elbows, and button-down shirt without a tie.

## Personality

He's willing to be part of an organization that recruits people to take the SAT for students, so he's a slimy person. Georgia later notes that he must've seen too many movies and TV shows, because he sounded like a Hollywood villain, with his euphamisms and vague warnings.

## Sequential History

### The Skeleton Takes A Bow

His name first appears with Yo shows Georgia the letter she got from the Sandra Sechrest Foundation, inviting her to join. Georgia and Yo arrange for Yo to meet with Ethan to figure out what he's up to, and Ethan takes the bait. He meets Yo at the Pennycross Hilton. His business card only reads *Ethan Frisenda, Sandra Sechrest Foundation*. When Yo asks him who Sandra Sechrest is, he claimed Sandra is some rich woman who'd left a lot of money for education grants; a Google search showed Yo that it was bullshit. Yo Googled Ethan too, and also founding nothing about him. Yo thinks he smelled off and she's a big believer in trusting her instincts, so she doesn't want to talk to him again. Just after the meeting, Georgia and Yo couldn't come up with any ideas for what Frisenda really wanted. Georgia wonders why Frisenda had been so interested in Yo's SAT test scores. She later realizes that Ethan wanted to hire Yo to take the SAT for somebody else, and is determined to make sure the people who run the SAT find out exactly what Ethan and company are up to. Georgia and Sid created a fake letter to send Ethan under the name Jean Schulz, hoping to tempt him out by telling him she's interested in joining the foundation. Ethan doesn't respond, but later approaches Georgia at the McQuaid Campus Deli. Ethan says that he can be difficult to find whereas Georgia was easily located, and he clarifies it's not a threat, but an observation, although Georgia wasn't convinced. She also thinks the way he clasped his hands on the table between them seemed vaguely threatening. He says he's surprised how much Georgia knew about the Sechrest Foundation. Georgia boldly challenges him. Ethan's knuckles whiten, as if he was squeezing his hands too tightly, but he tried to stick to his script. He says he has his way of learning these things and is seemingly surprised that Georgia admits to taking an interest in the foundation. Georgia continues to slam him and Ethan says that he seems to know a lot for a disinterested party. Georgia turns the conversation to Patty Craft and he's forced to go off-script to talk about it. He says he thought it was suicide, is surprised that it was murder, and says he liked Patty even after she went through chemo and couldn't pass a high school student anymore. She also asks Ethan about Robert Irwin and he's surprised to learn he's dead. Ethan confirms that Robert and Patty weren't blackmailing him or being blackmailed by him. Georgia believes that he wasn't a killer, although she doesn't his respectable business man claim. Georgia concludes by telling him she's not going to pursue him anymore but he shouldn't recruit at McQuaid anymore, and Ethan says he can arrange that before sliding smoothly away. He has a napkin stuck to the bottom of his shoe as he leaves. Sid sics Charles on Frisenda.