A Screenburn Original · Secret billionaire, hidden identity · New
The Waitress Who Owns Wall Street
A diner waitress is the hidden heiress who inherited a Wall Street bank, and she keeps the apron on to find out which of her executives is stealing, and which of them is the man who keeps tipping her his last twenty. Her father's oldest friend tells her when to take the apron off.
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Score 92 out of 100. Nothing below 80 carries this mark.
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- Cast size
- 25 speaking roles
- Locations
- 17
- Page count
- 235 pages
- Episodes
- 80
- Episode runtime
- About 120 seconds
- Total runtime
- 2 h 40 min
- Genres and tropes
- Secret billionaire, hidden identity
- Language
- English
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- The full scriptAll 80 episodes, as PDF and Final Draft files.
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92out of 100
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- 84 (30%)The opening of episode one.
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- 97 (30%)The end of every episode.
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- 88 (20%)How often each episode gives the viewer something new.
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- 100 (20%)How the tension builds across the season.
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The Waitress Who Owns Wall Street
92/100
- Opening84
- Endings97
- New information88
- Shape100
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Written by Harper Quinlan.
A Screenburn Original.
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The Waitress Who Owns Wall StreetEpisode one
Free to read · Harper Quinlan · about 120 seconds on screen
INT. SOL'S DINER - COUNTER - DAY
Breakfast rush on Water Street. Steam off the grill, suits three deep at the counter, a wall television running business news with the sound down. By the kitchen window a meat supplier's calendar shows SEPTEMBER 2026, the days crossed off in black marker up to the fifteenth. SOFIA REYES, 30, short dark hair, no makeup, a white apron over black, works the counter with a coffee pot.
SOL BERMAN, 63, heavy and slow, an apron older than his grill, slides plates through the pass.
A BANKER, 40s, cufflinks, has his phone propped against the sugar. On the screen, a young woman in a graduation gown, long hair, glasses. Under her the chyron: REYES HEIRESS UNSEEN 100 DAYS AFTER FOUNDER'S DEATH. MEETING 10 DECEMBER.
Sofia fills his cup. Short hair, no glasses, the same face above the pot.
BANKER
(not looking up)
A hundred days. Owns the bank and she can't get on a plane.
SOFIA
Maybe she's working.
BANKER
At what?
SOFIA
Something.
He holds the cup out. She fills it.
BANKER
Old man dropped dead at his desk. Saved the board the trouble.
Sofia pours until the coffee stands at the rim. She stops.
SOFIA
More?
BANKER
Lisbon. That's the word on her. Lucky girl.
At the last stool AUGUSTA PETTIGREW, 78, small, upright, pearls and a wool coat in September, eats poached eggs alone. Sol sets her check by the plate.
SOL
Same next Tuesday, Mrs Pettigrew?
AUGUSTA
If I'm alive, Sol.
She takes folded bills from her coat pocket, counts them onto the saucer and tucks them under it. She nods to Sofia and goes out.
At the far end a MAN in a cheap grey suit, thirties, thin, eats crackers with his coffee. He catches Sofia looking and looks away.
Sofia turns to the pass. The bell over the door rings.
His stool is empty. A folded bill under his cup. The check reads $4.00.
Sofia lifts the cup. A twenty.
SOL
Third time in a week.
SOFIA
Who is he?
SOL
A suit. They all look like that.
Sofia pushes through the door, the twenty in her hand. A hundred grey suits walk toward Broad Street. Not one turns round.
End of episode one.
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