With what kind of scandal would it be rational to kill someone?

Question by TheAdversifyer: With what kind of scandal would it be rational to kill someone?
Calm down, I am not actually planning on killing somebody.
I am writing a script for a short film for my art class.
The story was that a hot-shot business woman was taking drugs (cocaine) and her rival came in and caught her. There was a big argument because if this got out her whole career would be ruined.

It was a brilliant idea and it wasn’t as though we were actually going to have someone actually snorting cocaine but we had to scratch the whole drug thing because we are 15/16 and “representing our school.”

It’s an all girls school so it can’t really be affair or anything along those lines.
Some ideas were that she was stealing money from the office and looking in restricted files but i am not entirely sold on either. Also i dont want it to be that she kills the rival because she is mentally unstable because it is just a misconception that I do not want to feed into.

I really need help on this I can’t for the life of me decide.
“If this person knew something about you that was so wrong, that if it ever came out, it’d finish you. ” good answer but WHAT?!?! What sould be so wrong.
There are ways, how else do the soaps work also, it doesnt matter about the consequences, someone is dying, also the end sequence is very good, nothing to do with her going to jail at all, but it requires her to have killed the rival.

Best answer:

Answer by samurai
There is no scandal that would be rational to kill someone.

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