WEBVTT 00:00.091 --> 00:08.475 [SPEAKER_00]: The timekeepers dilemma, true crime tales, workplace crime, passion, and running out of time. 00:09.695 --> 00:13.617 [SPEAKER_00]: At 815 PM, the deadline was only three hours away. 00:14.617 --> 00:16.678 [SPEAKER_00]: At 816, someone died. 00:17.859 --> 00:24.022 [SPEAKER_00]: And by midnight, an entire company would discover that a successful business had been built on a terrible secret. 00:30.243 --> 00:34.004 [SPEAKER_00]: He was brilliant, driven, obsessed with winning. 00:35.245 --> 00:37.785 [SPEAKER_00]: His entire career depended on one contract. 00:38.746 --> 00:42.527 [SPEAKER_00]: If Hamilton won, Ethan would become vice president. 00:43.367 --> 00:45.348 [SPEAKER_00]: If they lost, his career was over. 00:46.628 --> 00:54.591 [SPEAKER_00]: But the night before the presentation, Ethan discovered that the company's biggest competitor had obtained confidential information. 00:59.717 --> 01:02.618 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan had until midnight to find the traitor. 01:03.879 --> 01:07.541 [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, the traitor knew Ethan was looking. 01:08.121 --> 01:09.742 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan lived for deadlines. 01:10.562 --> 01:12.403 [SPEAKER_00]: He believed pressure made people better. 01:13.003 --> 01:14.704 [SPEAKER_00]: His coworkers didn't always agree. 01:15.284 --> 01:16.505 [SPEAKER_00]: He demanded perfection. 01:17.125 --> 01:17.865 [SPEAKER_00]: He stayed late. 01:18.565 --> 01:20.906 [SPEAKER_00]: He expected everyone else to do the same. 01:21.647 --> 01:24.968 [SPEAKER_00]: The Hamilton Project had consumed six months of his life. 01:29.627 --> 01:31.608 [SPEAKER_00]: when he knew it would change the company. 01:32.868 --> 01:35.689 [SPEAKER_00]: And Ethan's life then came to league. 01:36.550 --> 01:40.891 [SPEAKER_00]: A competitor submitted a proposal containing information that only Hamilton employees knew. 01:42.232 --> 01:43.773 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan gathered a project team. 01:44.773 --> 01:46.894 [SPEAKER_00]: Someone in this room is leaking information. 01:48.214 --> 01:48.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody spoke. 01:50.055 --> 01:51.276 [SPEAKER_00]: He checked access logs. 01:51.716 --> 01:54.457 [SPEAKER_00]: Five employees had access to confidential files. 01:55.057 --> 01:55.937 [SPEAKER_00]: One named stood out. 01:56.518 --> 01:57.198 [SPEAKER_00]: Laura Bennett. 01:58.398 --> 02:00.239 [SPEAKER_00]: Laura was Ethan's closest colleague. 02:00.880 --> 02:02.581 [SPEAKER_00]: She had worked with him for eight years. 02:03.122 --> 02:03.942 [SPEAKER_00]: He couldn't believe it. 02:04.503 --> 02:05.283 [SPEAKER_00]: He confronted her. 02:05.964 --> 02:07.225 [SPEAKER_00]: Laura denied everything. 02:08.906 --> 02:09.927 [SPEAKER_00]: I would never do that. 02:11.628 --> 02:15.611 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan wanted to believe her, but the evidence kept pointing toward her. 02:16.391 --> 02:18.053 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan began investigating. 02:18.713 --> 02:19.334 [SPEAKER_00]: He discovered 02:26.188 --> 02:28.369 [SPEAKER_00]: the same pattern appeared again and again. 02:29.950 --> 02:31.190 [SPEAKER_00]: But Ethan noticed something. 02:32.230 --> 02:34.952 [SPEAKER_00]: Laura's computer had been active while she was at home. 02:36.052 --> 02:37.813 [SPEAKER_00]: Someone had cloned her credentials. 02:38.693 --> 02:40.474 [SPEAKER_00]: The leak wasn't coming from Laura. 02:41.554 --> 02:43.355 [SPEAKER_00]: Someone was pretending to be her. 02:44.475 --> 02:48.557 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan checked the access records again, then he found another pattern. 02:49.590 --> 02:55.774 [SPEAKER_00]: Every stolen file was accessed exactly seven minutes before the system's automatic backup. 02:56.875 --> 03:00.997 [SPEAKER_00]: Seven minutes, whoever was doing it knew the system perfectly. 03:02.178 --> 03:06.220 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan immediately suspected the company's chief technology officer, Martin Veil. 03:07.381 --> 03:09.502 [SPEAKER_00]: Martin had designed the security architecture. 03:10.663 --> 03:11.904 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew every vulnerability. 03:13.125 --> 03:14.085 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan confronted him. 03:15.286 --> 03:15.946 [SPEAKER_00]: Martin smiled. 03:19.253 --> 03:21.234 [SPEAKER_00]: answer the question, which one? 03:22.255 --> 03:23.455 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you selling our information? 03:24.476 --> 03:25.396 [SPEAKER_00]: Martin's step closer. 03:26.297 --> 03:27.317 [SPEAKER_00]: You should be careful, Ethan. 03:28.278 --> 03:28.858 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that a threat? 03:29.118 --> 03:29.298 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 03:30.339 --> 03:30.999 [SPEAKER_00]: Martin's smile. 03:32.059 --> 03:32.740 [SPEAKER_00]: It's advice. 03:33.740 --> 03:35.861 [SPEAKER_00]: That night, Ethan copied the evidence. 03:36.642 --> 03:40.243 [SPEAKER_00]: He planned to deliver it to the board at midnight, but at 03:48.315 --> 03:57.680 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan checked his backup drive, going, his phone buzzed, a message appeared, stopped before the deadline stops you. 03:58.760 --> 04:06.564 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan realized that evidence wasn't destroyed, it had been moved, he traced the transfer to a server room beneath the building. 04:07.645 --> 04:13.708 [SPEAKER_00]: He went downstairs, the server room was dark, rows of machines blinked in the darkness. 04:14.628 --> 04:16.289 [SPEAKER_00]: Then he heard footsteps. 04:17.465 --> 04:20.706 [SPEAKER_00]: Martin appeared, you should have walked away. 04:21.967 --> 04:23.227 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan held up his phone. 04:24.268 --> 04:25.348 [SPEAKER_00]: I recorded everything. 04:26.029 --> 04:26.669 [SPEAKER_00]: Martin laughed. 04:27.189 --> 04:28.230 [SPEAKER_00]: You think that matters? 04:29.250 --> 04:30.471 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan stepped backward. 04:30.991 --> 04:32.191 [SPEAKER_00]: You just admitted it. 04:33.472 --> 04:35.012 [SPEAKER_00]: Martin smiled disappeared. 04:35.493 --> 04:36.213 [SPEAKER_00]: He lunged. 04:37.002 --> 04:38.923 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan ran between the server racks. 04:39.524 --> 04:40.504 [SPEAKER_00]: A struggle followed. 04:41.225 --> 04:41.945 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan fell. 04:42.545 --> 04:44.146 [SPEAKER_00]: His phones lit across the floor. 04:44.827 --> 04:45.827 [SPEAKER_00]: Martin reached for it. 04:46.548 --> 04:48.169 [SPEAKER_00]: Then the building alarms sounded. 04:49.069 --> 04:49.890 [SPEAKER_00]: Police entered. 04:50.750 --> 04:54.673 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan had scheduled an automatic email before coming downstairs. 04:55.613 --> 05:01.557 [SPEAKER_00]: If he didn't cancel it by 10pm, the evidence would be sent to the board and law enforcement. 05:02.978 --> 05:04.879 [SPEAKER_00]: Martin had forgotten one thing. 05:05.690 --> 05:12.351 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan was obsessed with deadlines, that obsession saved his life, Martin was arrested. 05:13.831 --> 05:18.852 [SPEAKER_00]: The investigation revealed that he had been selling confidential information for years. 05:19.953 --> 05:25.453 [SPEAKER_00]: He had manipulated access credentials and planted evidence against innocent employees. 05:26.394 --> 05:28.374 [SPEAKER_00]: Laura's reputation was restored. 05:29.234 --> 05:31.134 [SPEAKER_00]: Ethan received a promotion he wanted. 05:35.273 --> 05:42.834 [SPEAKER_00]: He realized something winning wasn't worth becoming the kind of person who sacrificed everything for a deadline. 05:44.055 --> 05:45.855 [SPEAKER_00]: Months later, Ethan left Hamilton. 05:46.715 --> 05:48.455 [SPEAKER_00]: He started his own consulting company. 05:49.516 --> 05:52.356 [SPEAKER_00]: On his office wall, he hung an O-clock. 05:53.176 --> 05:54.757 [SPEAKER_00]: It was always five minutes fast. 05:55.997 --> 06:02.358 [SPEAKER_00]: When someone asked why Ethan smiled, because I learned something, what 06:03.761 --> 06:05.605 [SPEAKER_00]: Time doesn't give you warnings forever. 06:07.248 --> 06:10.034 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes the deadline isn't a date on a calendar. 06:11.557 --> 06:14.082 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the last chance you have to make the right decision.