Not to them, not about this, not ever.”

They asked to see the footage, and I showed them, on my tablet, the timestamped record, and I watched their manner change as they took in what it showed, the way a professional’s face closes over when a situation stops being ambiguous.

They asked me not to touch the server, and made arrangements to secure the logs properly through the security company, so that the chain of it would be clean and unchallengeable.

They were careful, and they were thorough, and I was grateful for both, because I wanted this to be built on something no defense lawyer could ever pull apart.