That is what made the next few minutes so devastating for him specifically.

He was the person in the room with the most to lose from the truth, the one whose whole self-image depended on the video being fake.

And the video was not fake.

He would have to watch, with everyone else, as the thing he most needed not to be true proved itself, frame by frame, beyond the reach of any argument he could have made.

The security officer looked to the warden.