Stock Options

**Stock Options** is the four-hundred forty-first video in the lonelygirl15 video series. It is also the thirty-first video of season three.

## Transcript

{*Daniel and Jonas are sitting in the living room of the rented house shifting through papers and notes on the coffee table. Gina is on the sofa next to Jonas.*)

**Daniel:** Nope. No...

**Jonas:** We've been through all this, man. There's- There's nothing new here. Thank you.

(*Jennie, off camera, hands Jonas a coffee cup.*)

**Jennie:** Guys, it's worth it if there's something that might lead us to Bree's mom.

(*Jonas sets down the coffee cup and picks up Bree's "#1 Dad!" collage.*)

**Daniel:** It just feels useless.

**Jonas:** This is hard, Jennie, you know? I mean, you weren't there.

**Daniel:** Did you see this? (*Daniel pulls out a post-it from the back of a composition book.*)

**Jonas:** What?

**Daniel:** It's this note stuck in the back of the book. (*Reads the note.*) "Speak with E"...something. "Re: WP and", uh, "GA"...

**Jonas:** (*Grabbing note from Daniel.*) What? Let me see. "Speak with EA." It's an A, see? I mean, uh, I think it's a pair of initials. And "Re: WP" and I- I think that says "Bio"? "What is the status of the financing?"

**Jennie:** "Funding."

**Jonas:** "Funding."

**Daniel:** Hey, "E.A." could be, um, Elizabeth Avery. That's Bree's mom.

**Jonas:** Yeah, maybe. But what's "W.P." and "Bio"?

**Jennie:** Well, "W.P." could be William Porter.

**Daniel:** Wait. William Porter? Wasn't... wasn't he the president of Bio-Therapy?

**Jennie:** Yeah.

(*Daniel gets up and walks toward the hall.*)

**Jonas:** Okay, fine. Let's just say that "E.A." is Bree's mom, what would she know about Porter and Bio-Therapy?

**Daniel:** I don't know, but you know what? There was something kinda similar in Ted McKinley's files. Hold on.

(*Daniel goes into his bedroom. Cut to Gina is looking at Bree's collage.*)

**Gina:** It's weird.

**Jonas:** What?

**Gina:** She was my sister.

**Jonas:** Yeah. You would've really liked her. (*Places his hand on Gina's knee and pats it. He then looks guiltily at the camera.*) What?

(*Daniel returns with a stack of files.*)

**Daniel:** Hey, man. McKinley's files. The one with the stock. Yeah, right here. (*Pulls out a folder labeled "stocks" and opens it to show a certificate for 500 shares of Verdus Pharmaceuticals.*)

**Jonas:** What have we got?

**Daniel:** (*Hands a paper to Jonas*.) Here's a request to sell his Verdus stock options, and look who approved it. Right there at the bottom.

**Jonas:** "Chairman of the Board." It's initialed "E.A."

**Daniel:** Yeah.

**Jonas:** Shit!

**Daniel:** Yeah, if she was Chairman of Verdus, she would have known about Bio Therapy and William Porter.

**Jonas:** Yeah, and Bio-Therapy is a subsidiary of Verdus, which also funded the Hart Study.

**Jennie:** (*Turns the camera on herself*.) And the Lullaby Project. Everything always leads back to Verdus.

(*A knock is heard at the front door. Jennie opens the door to reveal Carl.*)

**Jennie:** (*Sighs.*) Hey, Carl.

**Carl:** Oh, hi.

(*Carl walks in.*)

**Jennie:** Oh, just... come on in.

(*Jennie rolls her eyes as she closes the door.*)

**Carl:** Hey, guys.

**Daniel:** Hey, what's up, dick?

**Carl:** Hey look, I'm just here to pick up Sarah. (*Sits down next to Daniel*.) We're gonna grab some lunch.

**Daniel:** I can't believe she accepted your insane deal. It's disturbing.

**Carl:** Wait, look. I'm sorry you guys feel that way, I was just trying to have a little fun. But, hey... How can I help?

**Jennie:** Okay, well, what can you tell us about Verdus?

**Carl:** Not much. Um... I worked there before I was assigned to the Lullaby Project. Uh, but I'm done with all that stuff now.

**Daniel:** So...

**Jonas:** Yeah. Do you remember seeing Elizabeth Avery around Verdus?

**Carl:** I don't know. Not that I can recall.

**Jonas:** Well, what I'm saying is, was she ever Chairman of the Board?

**Carl:** Well, I don't know. I... (*Looks through the papers on the table*.) Hey, where did you get the Verdus stock? (*Picks up Verdus stock*) You know they issued these to all their employees.

**Daniel:** Oh.

**Carl:** I still have some. They always send me these notifications about, uh, proxy voting.

**Daniel:** So?

**Carl:** (*Laughs*.) So, the Board meets the third Friday of every month.

**Daniel:** Okay.

**Jennie:** You guys. That's *this* Friday.

## Notes

* When Carl talks about proxy notices, it is implied that Carl is a current shareholder of Verdus.
* From what is visible in the hi resolution version of the video, the stock options letter has been determined to contain the following:

```
[Verdus Logo]

TO:		TED MCKINLEY
FROM:		THE OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
SUBJECT:	OPTIONS IN STOCK
DATE:		AUGUST 24,2007

Dear Mr. McKinley,

This shall confirm receipt of your Letter dated July 29, 2007 in which you requested to
exercise your Verdus Pharmaceutical stock options as a ___ ___. Your request has
been approved.

Thank you for your dedication and support of the company.

Sincerely,

[signature]

Office of the Chairman of the Board
Verdus Pharmaceuticals
```

* It is unusual that an official letter would not note the full name of the Chairman of the Board.