S02e01 Wma: Industry

End of episode: The trade executes. The family office makes £2M. Eric gives Harper the faintest nod. But in the final shot, the compliance server logs the WMA keyword — flagged to an investigator who wasn’t there in Season 1. The screen freezes on:

The morning of Series 2, Episode 1. London’s financial district is gray and slick with rain. Inside Pierpoint’s trading floor, the hum hasn’t changed — but the faces have. industry s02e01 wma

But WMA is also a test. Eric has planted it. If Harper executes the trade, she’s complicit in a lie. If she reports it, she’s disloyal. If she ignores it, she’s useless. End of episode: The trade executes

The episode unfolds over 48 hours. The WMA, Harper learns, is a — a backdoor mechanism allowing a shadow client (an Asian family office with ties to the show’s elusive “Felix” character from S1) to dump illiquid credit derivatives without triggering market alarms. But in the final shot, the compliance server