There’s a moment in the first episode of Netflix’s Inventing Anna when you can’t help but feel an immense wave of sorrow, sympathy and total frustration. Not for Anna Delvey, aka Anna Sorokin, an enigmantic twenty-something who fooled New York society into believing she was a German heiress with a $65 million trust fund. But for Vivian Kent, a magazine journalist who is doing her utmost to secure an exclusive interview and tell Delvey’s real story to the world.

Perfectly played by Ozark Emmy winner Julia Garner, we first find Delvey in Rikers Island prison, where she is being held before her trial. Kent (Anna Chlumsky), a determined, sharp-eyed reporter, has sought out Delvey after spotting a small news article in the NY Post about her arrest and shrewdly surmising that there is a far more interesting story to the public than the one currently in print. As Kent tries repeatedly to persuade Delvey to open up, she is met with arrogant jibes about her weight, clothes, and manner of travel. “Why do you dress like that?” she says with pursed lips of disdain. “You look poor.”

Inventing Anna: this powerful scene in the premiere episode brilliantly cracks Anna Delvey’s code