Leah confronts the headmaster of an elite boarding school regarding an offensive historical portrait of the school's founder. She challenges the institution's traditions and the headmaster's dismissive attitude toward the concerns of the new scholarship students.
LEAH: What were you doing in there? We didn’t sit through two interviews and three exams for you to fuck this up for us.
JAHEIM: Yeah, I know. I had to do it too.
LEAH: Then why don’t you act like it?!
JAHEIM: You don’t even know what happened.
LEAH: No, but I know you, Jaheim! That’s the problem.
LEAH: Bernard!
BERNARD: ‘Master’ will suffice, Miss Dulverton.
LEAH: I don’t think I’m gonna be calling you ‘Master’.
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