The original facility lease transfer, dated March 2018, with Charles Wilson’s signature on the owner’s line in the same careful handwriting as the notebooks.

That was the page missing from Derek’s filing cabinet.

The lease for the third-floor underwriting suite ran through a holding company in Clintonville, and the tax bill for it went to Charles’s bungalow address.

Derek had initialed the tenant acknowledgment twice, once in March and once in June, using two different pens.

Behind the ledger copies was a second envelope, smaller and sealed, with a date written on the front in Charles’s handwriting.

“That one waits until after the hearing,” Liam said.