What followed on the recording, the room watched in near silence, and it is not necessary, and would not be right, to dwell on the worst of it.

For several minutes Richard and Marcus Vance argued, and though the camera’s audio was imperfect, enough of it carried to make the shape of the conflict clear.

They argued about money, about a web of offshore real estate holdings and wire transfers that should never have existed, about arrangements between the two men that had evidently gone very wrong.

Voices rose.

The argument sharpened into something with an edge on it.