We anonymously routed the falsified emergency logs to Deputy Iris Barr, the one honest cop in the county, systematically marginalized by Landry’s cronies.

We overnighted Lily’s medical records and the police negligence reports to Victoria Caldwell — Matthew’s sister, and a ruthless family law attorney in Raleigh.

Ivan packaged an encrypted drive holding three gigabytes of financial discrepancies and routed it to Federal Agent Rebecca Lomax at the FBI’s financial crimes division in Charlotte.

We didn’t throw a punch. We opened the floodgates and let the water in.

The foundation started to tremble almost immediately.

The Department of Labor executed a dawn raid on the mill and shut the assembly line down. EPA vans appeared, drawing water samples from the river the mill had been dumping into for years.