The signature page on that relinquishment came off a four-page NDA I signed on the twenty-second of April 2019 before a flight.

Pages one to three were replaced.

That is the whole mechanism.

It is not sophisticated.

It required a printer, a stapler, and a person nobody would question.

Part Ten: Why It Never Worked

Peter Nadeau is the lawyer I hired eight days later, and he is not a family lawyer and he told me so and referred me to one, and before he did that he read the four pages once, in about ninety seconds, and put them down.

And what he said, which took the floor out from under me for the second time in a week, was: