The forty minutes on the ramp is the part that mattered, because the ramp is the only place in the entire record where a man says out loud that the purpose of an act was to prevent a question from being asked.

At about four in the afternoon he got to Cleveland.

He read Aurelio Pastrana’s incident report into the record and asked me whether the account attributed to the companion was mine.

I said it was.

He asked whether Ms.

Bramhall had caught her heel on a carpet transition.

I said she had not.

He asked what had in fact occurred and I described it: the brace, the two hours seated, the left leg, the wall.