A few more episodes on video.

Marcus’s signature on a property-management agreement he was being pressured to sign.

A formal recommendation that a disturbed child be placed in residential care.

And then the rider would activate, and a secondary trustee named Sarah would take managerial authority over a six-million-dollar estate, and a six-year-old girl would be somewhere else, labeled and filed away, her inheritance quietly harvested by the people who had labeled her.

It would have looked, from the outside, entirely legitimate.