Any of those might have bought her time.

Instead, she tried to trade me — to physically coerce me, to lock men at the doors, to reduce me to collateral in a deal.

And in doing that, she handed me everything my case had been missing.

She gave me physical evidence of coercion — the locked room, the men, the cuts on my body from the window I had to break to escape.

She gave me witnesses, in the driver and the physician and Flynn himself.