This series follows a group of young people who are in the process of redefining currency in a modern world.

Logline:

Five average graduates from the exceptional Wharton Business school quickly realize that the way to make money is through favors, so they collect and systematize this through their new secret society, Five Points. As their society is really starting to coalesce, one dies in an apparent suicide. Nobody believes it and as doors are opened into the group, Five Points must figure out its future, and each of the five members must decide who they will be.

Synopsis:

Charlie, Sophie, Benjamin, Siri and Jun recently graduated the prestigious Wharton Business school, all depressingly in the middle of their class.  However, they didn’t let that small setback keep them from starting a new secret society – Five Points. Based in New York and centered around peddling influence, these bright but not brilliant early-20 somethings are almost like the Barons of old. Each represents an industry, banking, cybersecurity, transportation, telecommunications, and computer software.  They use their power in the modern five points of industry to collect information, influence people, change outcomes, and, most of all, get bloody rich.

Jun, who runs their cyber division, filters through all of the requests each day. People are constantly trying to either buy or sell the new currency (influence) within the group.  Currency can help them get a promotion, information on a rival company, or even move someone out of the way that is blocking them. The society has but one rule: there is no murder – they are not a group of assassins. They are just the new moneyed royalty.

Their empire is just starting to coalesce when Charlie, the banker/moneyman and front for all of the transactions dies in an apparent suicide. Nobody believes that the suicide was real. He had been acting anxious for weeks. He was even a little paranoid declaring that the police were ready to capture and take him down. He speculated that it would be the end for the entire group.  Did someone take these fears personally?

Now at a funeral that no one attends in person and yet strangely is watched by thousands on the Internet, the leader of the group makes a plea for someone to replace Charlie. He is irreplaceable and yet he must be replaced; someone must continue his great work. The entire Five Points membership gets the message that they are on an international headhunting mission to replace Charlie as the leader of finance in five points. They are also now dodging a special commission appointed to look into the new integrated crimes that are happening in New York and abroad.

With the death of Charlie, it does indeed appear as if someone has broken that rule. So now Benjamin has to balance eyes from the outside and rules on the inside while trying to hold their modern-day idea-based empire together. They all expected people to get hurt when they came up against them but they never expected to lose one of their own. These new challenges could destroy Five Points, brutalize it into a mafia-like organization, or transform it into the new industrial machine that benefits members and lets outsiders wither and die.