It showed him entering Catalina’s room at night.

It showed him cornering her in the kitchen.

It showed him taking her passport from a drawer and putting it in his own pocket.

And it showed him and Eugenia, at the dining table, rehearsing the theft accusation together — the mother coaching the son on how to frame the girl, captured in high definition, timestamped, undeniable.

Then the payroll records came apart in his hands.

They showed that Catalina had regularly worked seventy-hour weeks while being paid for forty — wage theft, plain and documented, running back the length of her employment.