Mikey Schmidt arrives at the College of Charleston, drawn by the school's gender ratio and its thriving fraternity culture.

Mikey meets KA member Rob Liljeberg and the two quickly bond over smoking weed together.

Mikey earns a formal KA bid by selling high-quality fake IDs to fraternity members who cannot legally drink.

Mikey endures a semester of hazing rituals including forced binge drinking and sleep deprivation, then is initiated as a full KA member.

Mikey's grades drop below a 2.4 GPA and he leaves C of C, returning home to Atlanta after only one year.

Rob becomes president of the C of C KA chapter and begins purchasing bulk Xanax from Zack Kligman to distribute on campus.

Mikey and Rob build a joint Xanax network that sells roughly 10,000 bars per week across multiple college campuses.

Mikey and Rob add cocaine to their operation, with Mikey sourcing it from a cartel-linked contact he calls Uncle.

Patrick Moffly arrives in Charleston, moves into 97 Smith Street, and begins dealing Xanax as part of Zack Kligman's operation.

Patrick Moffly is shot and killed in his home, surrounded by hundreds of GG249 counterfeit Xanax pills.

Police arrest pledge driver Jonathan Reams after he delivers a cocaine shipment from Atlanta to Charleston.

Rob is stopped outside 7 Montagu Street and admits to police that cocaine is hidden in his truck.

Rob secretly agrees to become a police informant and provides detailed evidence about Mikey's entire drug operation.

Mikey posts a $75,000 bond after being arrested for cocaine trafficking and is released under strict conditions not to leave the state.

Mikey accepts a 10-year prison plea deal after refusing to name his cartel-linked cocaine suppliers.

Mikey Schmidt arrives at the College of Charleston with ambitions to join a fraternity and quickly befriends fellow KA member Rob Liljeberg, the two bonding over dealing weed. Together they build a massive drug operation selling Xanax and cocaine to students across the South, eventually making millions of dollars. Patrick Moffly, a young man connected to their Xanax supplier Zack Kligman, is shot and killed in his Charleston home, setting the investigation in motion. Police work their way up the supply chain, arresting a pledge driver and then Rob himself, who secretly agrees to cooperate against Mikey. Mikey is ultimately arrested and, unable to name his cartel-linked cocaine sources without risking his life, accepts a 10-year prison sentence while most of his co-conspirators walk free.

The rise and fall of a college drug empire.

SAE's Mountain Weekend retreat devolves into boys throwing knives near sleeping girls and burning all the cabin contents.

Three KA members die in quick succession at off-campus locations, and college administrators decline to investigate any of the deaths.

Mikey is arrested for reckless driving after police pull over the car during KA's traditional kidnapping hazing ritual.

Charleston's top Xanax dealer Johnny Drama is arrested, and Zack Kligman steps in to fill the vacuum as the city's leading supplier.

KA members routinely spike party punch with crushed Xanax, causing both themselves and unwitting guests to black out with no memory.

Zack Kligman begins pressing his own GG249 alprazolam pills at a rented beach house using powder ordered from China.

A video surfaces of SAE members chanting a racist rhyme endorsing lynching, and rapper Waka Flocka Flame cancels a planned performance at SAE.

Patrick Moffly is arrested for trafficking cocaine, and his parents hire a defense lawyer over his strong objections.

Zack empties the Treehouse of drugs just before a police raid, but a storage unit lock left behind leads officers to his stash.

Police discover and search Zack's rented storage locker, seizing thousands of pills, cocaine, weapons, and a military-style grenade launcher.

Zack Kligman agrees to become a police informant and is released without being charged for the massive pill stash seized from his locker.

Police arrest Charles Mungin for Patrick Moffly's murder based on text message records and largely circumstantial evidence.

The KA chapter at C of C is shut down and several other fraternities are suspended in the wake of the drug bust.

Charles Mungin's lawyer calls no witnesses and barely cross-examines the prosecution's case; Charles is convicted and sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years.

Most white frat members arrested in the drug ring receive little or no jail time, and the suspended fraternities eventually reopen on campus.

These events trace the broader culture of violence, racism, and impunity that made the C of C drug ring possible. From SAE's destructive Mountain Weekend retreats to KA's long history of hazing deaths, the party culture at C of C operated without meaningful accountability. Zack Kligman quietly built a pill-manufacturing operation and rose to become Charleston's most powerful drug dealer, supplying the network that Rob and Mikey distributed through. Patrick Moffly's arrest, murder, and the subsequent investigation ultimately unraveled the entire network, leading to a series of arrests and plea deals. While Charles Mungin, the only Black man arrested, received a life sentence with minimal legal defense, the white fraternity members involved in drug trafficking faced few real consequences. Fraternities were briefly suspended but eventually returned to campus, and the underlying culture largely resumed.

The culture and consequences surrounding the drug ring.

Mikey chooses to rush KA over the more prestigious SAE after meeting and befriending Rob Liljeberg.

During Hell Week, KA pledges are blindfolded, driven to the ocean at night, and abandoned to walk home alone.

Mikey unknowingly ingests Xanax at a party, blacks out completely, and wakes up with no memory of the night.

After his arrest during the KA kidnapping ritual, Mikey abandons the fake ID business and shifts his focus entirely to dealing weed.

Rob recognizes that Xanax is odorless, lightweight, and carries no trafficking-level charge in South Carolina, making it far safer to sell than weed.

Mikey moves back to Charleston, telling his mother he enrolled at Trident Technical College while secretly continuing to traffic drugs.

A student caught with LSD and Xanax gives police Zack Kligman's name, and officers begin conducting surveillance on the Treehouse.

Patrick returns to Charleston from a family trip abroad and spirals into deeper Xanax dependency after Zack cuts him off from the dealing operation.

Mikey confides to Rob that their operation has made him a millionaire and that they now need to launder money.

Mikey suspects Rob has become a police informant but is reassured when Rob points to his published mug shot as proof he is not cooperating.

Mikey travels to Charleston for Rob's graduation ceremony and privately consults defense lawyer Tim Kulp about his legal exposure.

Mikey is arrested and realizes that the anonymous informant code-named Hunter Thompson is Rob.

Marshall reveals that Zack had a hidden microphone and camera installed in his car when Rob arrived to deliver the cocaine.

Defense lawyer Tim Kulp argues that Zack Kligman may have arranged Patrick's murder, but police refuse to investigate the claim.

Marshall meets Zack in person for a brief conversation; Zack's face stays expressionless when told that Charles Mungin was convicted of Patrick's murder.

This pool follows the pivotal choices and shocking revelations that determined the trajectory of Mikey Schmidt's story from beginning to end. Early decisions — choosing KA over SAE, pivoting from fake IDs to drug dealing, recognizing Xanax as a low-risk commodity — set the stage for everything that followed. As police began closing in, Mikey faced mounting suspicion about Rob's loyalty, only to be blindsided by the full extent of the betrayal at the moment of his arrest. The final revelations pull back the curtain on how the case was built: Zack's hidden wire, Rob's secret cooperation, and Mikey's refusal to name his suppliers as the reason he alone received a decade in prison. The epilogue reveals a criminal justice system that sent a poorly defended Black man to prison for life while the white architects of a multimillion-dollar drug ring avoided serious punishment.