Chapter 10 — The Footage He Thought Was His

Dalton’s collapse, when it came in full, began with the security footage he had always assumed belonged to him.

It did not.

The townhouse was owned by a corporate housing subsidiary — a detail of his own arrangement that he had never thought to worry about, because he had never imagined a day when the cameras would be turned against him.

When the subsidiary received our preservation demand, it did what such companies do: it retrieved six months of cloud backups and handed them to the investigators.

The footage was worse than anything we could have staged.