Alright, here's an idea I've been mulling, but I don't rightly know if it's even possible. I guess I drew some inspiration from one of the Net Gain promo images, the one where all of the operatives are working and Conrad is trying to sex some woman up for info.
Imagine you're an asset. Not a broker. Not an operative. You are an asset. You have specialized talents in one area, be it access to information of some sort or a particular skill set that makes you unique, but you have little in the way of the far-reaching abilities and ties that comes with the territory of a broker or operative. Put frankly, you're a tool that others use to reach their end goals. How you got to that point could take any number of routes. You could be blackmailed into it, generously paid, honeypotted, whatever. Regardless of how you got sucked in, you begin to realize what you thought was actual value that people put to your life is nothing more than value people put on your abilities as an asset.
You want out. By any means possible, though alive would be the preferable option.
Business is the bottom line.