The final, irreplaceable evidence that sealed the syndicate’s fate.

There is a bitter irony in it that I have never fully resolved.

Christopher, in his one belated attempt to be a hero, to erase his sins by force, ended up doing the single most useful thing anyone could have done for the prosecution — he flushed Samuel and the master archive straight into the arms of the law.

He could not undo what he had done.

But he did, at the very end, hand the authorities the last piece they needed to make sure no one else in that network would ever walk free.