The judge reviewed the transportation company’s interior camera feed.

She reviewed the medical records documenting the severity of Leo’s injury — the crushed leg, the surgery, the long road of rehabilitation ahead.

And she reviewed Audrey’s careful record of the three days my husband had abandoned his post-surgical five-year-old to comfort another woman about her daughter’s difficulty sleeping.

There was not, in the end, much for the court to deliberate.

Julian’s attorney tried, of course, the expected story — the devoted father, the split-second instinct, the vindictive wife.

But the story did not survive the footage, because no story does.