Pumpkin spice hits Prestige like a warning flare—sweet, fake, and wrong. In Conference B, Coach Thompson tries to pin everything on Wolf… but Superintendent James Devereaux and Mrs. Brinkley are focused on a bigger threat: the smell means the watchers are seated, and when that happens… The Nine start moving.

[I“THE NINE” STING — 9 NOTES / MUSIC SCARE] A hijacked tone. A signature melody. A message that lands like a receipt: Prestige isn’t reacting anymore—it’s being run.

Out in the office lobby, Nia Calloway does what she always does when the school starts acting hungry: she listens. Ms. Harris tries to keep her “out of trouble” (the nice way), donors hover nearby, and Nia en ...