s01 Cold Open — Queen's Park

flash-forward — the record begins

no vector moves in this unit

recorded elsewhere · flash-forward — e1.cold-open.02 carries same_event: e2.press-conference.01; the presser's moves are stepped at their home (holmes_jarett e2.press-conference.02, pasma_chandra e2.press-conference.08). Ladder point alt 2 sits here (the record begins). No separate step at the flash-forward — it would put a late-story event ahead of Jarett's entry on his fortune line.

s02 Act 1 — "Hi, my name's Evan."

the joke lands, then the sentence that starts the show

• Evan Holmes ▲wants keep the room light — open on the recovery-meeting joke · event the joke lands — "what meeting is this? Oh, shit" — and he turns serious · turn says it out loud — "I'm a survivor of Robert Land Academy" — the mission declared

fixed · the page turns Evan — the recovery-meeting joke lands, then "My name's Evan, and I'm a survivor of Robert Land Academy" — the mission declared. The other five on stage (Ladas, Bowman, Cho, Krys, Longfield) are archival texture and listening faces; no move on them, none authored. · arcs.yaml holmes_evan @ e1.act1-my-names-evan.01 (+1)

s03 The Founder

the founder's voice over the men who ran it

no vector moves in this unit

recorded elsewhere · archival portrait — Bowman reads his own ancestor letter over the staff faces; no character enters wanting or leaves turned on the page. The unit's motion is myth altitude: Ladder point alt 2.8 (first contact with the founder's voice).

s04 One Year In

Evan alone, one year in — texts turn conspiratorial; the coroner file eludes him

• Evan Holmes ▼wants prove what he's found is real, working the case alone · event the texts to Jarett turn strident and conspiratorial — they own everything south of Toronto, they have the Chief of Police in their pocket · turn doubling down on the widest claims, still alone with them

s05 The Brothers

the past laid out; ends on the ask — "I need your help"

• Evan Holmes ▲▲wants get someone — anyone — to actually help him carry this · event he calls Jarett and says he needs his help, that they have to do something about it · turn toward a two-brother investigation — not alone anymore

s06 Act 2 – "We're going to be recording everything from now on."

Jarett in; the brothers' method-conflict forms

• Jarett Holmes ▲▲wants stay outside it — his own recording-studio life, apart from the investigation · event Evan's year of solo findings and his direct ask for help · turn commits — camera on everything, becomes investigator and documentarian of record by Evan Holmes

s07 First Diorama: The Boy With The Broken Legs

the core memory dead-ends — so find the others

• Jarett Holmes ▲wants solve the broken-legs memory as two brothers alone · event the memory dead-ends — no name for the boy, no name for the staff member, no way in · turn pivots to building a crew — find the others, to corroborate and to tell their own stories
• Evan Holmes ▲wants solve the broken-legs memory with just the two of them · event the dead end — no names, no way in · turn toward building a crew beyond the two brothers

s08 The Crew Forms sequence

five recruits, then the fire hose

• Danbi Cho ▲wants post-RLA life, unconnected to the school or the group · event Jarett messages him — the goal of breaking cycles of trauma · turn in the fight by Jarett Holmes
• Mike Hauben +the call answering his one-star review by Jarett Holmes, Evan Holmeslone bad review on the internet → in the fight
• Ian Longfield ▲▲wants keep building the case alone, still hoping someone will finally listen · event Jarett's cold email answers within the hour; Ian hands over everything he has · turn leaves the one-man crusade behind — core of a real group now by Jarett Holmes
• Marty Schady ▲wants posting into a Facebook group, hoping others answer · event the group finds his "power in numbers" post and Jarett video calls him — "I hate that place." · turn in the fight, with his mother Johanna by Jarett Holmes, Ian Longfield
• Johanna ▲wants her son's fight not to be his alone — the relationship the school took, back · event Jarett calls her — a mother inside the survivors' formation for the first time · turn in the fight with her son — power in numbers now includes a parent
• Andrew English ▲wants carrying the 1981 CBC memory and the school's failure of duty of care alone, for decades · event Jarett finds him in the old CBC broadcast footage and reaches out · turn becomes a core member of the group by Jarett Holmes, Ian Longfield

s09 Who is Bowman? sequence

the myth punctured claim by claim; first provable lie

• Scott Bowman ▼wants the invented military record and medals accepted as real · event confronted by a journalist, he all-but concedes it — an aspiring writer of spy fiction, not a soldier · turn leaves on record undercutting his own legend, in his own mouth
• Andrew English ▼▼wants still believing that, whatever his faults, Bowman was at least a real soldier · event the empty military record and the fake medals surface · turn the belief dies on camera; he pivots to where the vehicles came from

s10 Enter: Peter Merrick

the possible mole appears

• Evan Holmes ▲wants more material on Bowman — keep scouring · event unearths a recent photo of Bowman with a beaming Peter Merrick · turn a possible mole in view — proposes the disguise call; a door toward the inner circle opens

fixed · the page turns Evan — scouring for Bowman material, he unearths the photo of Bowman with a beaming Peter Merrick and proposes the disguise call; Jarett shuts it down. Merrick himself is found footage here — he does not yet know he has been found; no move on him. · arcs.yaml holmes_evan @ e1.enter-peter-merrick.01 (+1)

s11 Facebook War sequence

the discourse war; an apology answered

• Jarett Holmes ▲wants corroboration beyond the survivors' own memories · event a former staff sergeant's unprompted public apology — "I was terrible… I need to ask forgiveness" · turn recruits Jon Krys — the first witness from the staff side of the wall
• Jon Krys ▲wants to be forgiven for what he let happen as staff · event his unprompted public apology on Facebook is answered by Jarett · turn joins the fight, on the survivors' side by Jarett Holmes

s12 The Mortality Count Begins sequence

Howie dies; Ian starts counting

• Howie Steinberg −suicide, not long after the post selling everything he ownedposting his abuse into a hostile group → dead — the first name on the count
• Ian Longfield ▼▼wants get Jarett to see Howie Steinberg's own posts about his abuse · event Howie sells everything he owns, then kills himself · turn the crusade has its first name on a death count
• Ian Longfield ▼wants understand how Howie's death fits a wider pattern · event in four days finds twenty-one more early deaths among former students · turn shifts from countering the school's ads to counting its dead

s13 The Turn — The Return of the Boy With the Broken Legs

the boy found; the credit fight starts

• Evan Holmes ▲▲wants keep digging on his own even as the group grows around him · event stumbles onto the boy's real name — 'It's not Nimittz, it's Niznick!' · turn toward vindication — his solo digging cracks the season's first major breakthrough
• Jarett Holmes ▲▲wants a name for the boy with the broken legs — the core memory corroborated · event Noah is alive, found, and grew up into a lobbyist with the ONDP education critic in his contacts · turn the dead-ended memory becomes the door into Queen's Park
• Noah Niznick ▲wants to be found — no longer just the unnamed boy in a core memory · event Jarett tracks him down under his real name; Noah, now a political lobbyist with MPPs in his contacts, agrees to introduce the crew to ONDP education critic Chandra Pasma · turn from an old wound with no name to the crew's living door into political power by Evan Holmes
• Evan Holmes ▼wants be part of the door his own breakthrough opened · event left off the Pasma exchange — Jarett says he couldn't reach him · turn toward feeling the investigation taken from him by Jarett Holmes

s14 MIDPOINT — An Authority Engages

high point — and a false victory for the brothers

• Jarett Holmes ▲wants someone outside the survivors' circle to take this seriously · event the crew meets Chandra Pasma — everyone who has worked on this in one frame, with an MPP · turn an institution engages for the first time
• Chandra Pasma ▲wants gauge, from a distance, whether this case is real and worth backing · event meets the assembled survivors in one frame; the government commits, on the call, to move on the allegations · turn leaves the call an engaged ally to the men's case by Noah Niznick
• Jarett Holmes ▼wants keep driving the investigation forward · event because Jarett hosts the meeting, Evan privately accuses him of stealing his project · turn the cost of driving lands at home — the partnership with his twin starts to crack
• Evan Holmes ▼▼wants be seen as driving this alongside Jarett, not behind him · event Jarett hosts the meeting his own year of work made possible · turn toward open accusation — on the phone, privately, he tells Jarett he's stealing his project by Jarett Holmes

s15 Backsliding sequence

press fails them door by door

• Evan Holmes ▼wants stay central to the investigation as it formalizes · event the group turns itself into a Slack channel he didn't build · turn toward drifting out — present but standoffish
• Jon Krys ▼wants for the survivors' own story to reach the press, not the journalist's flattened version · event his demand that the survivors tell their own story, not the now-distrusted journalist · turn TVO cancels the whole segment — another press door closes

s16 The Somalia File

the state approved; Evan was right again

• Ian Longfield ▲wants keep filing the access requests nobody else will file · event thirty-eight requests pay off — government documents tie RLA staff to the Somalia torture-killing · turn delivers proof the state didn't just fail the boys, it approved of the school
• Jarett Holmes ▲wants keep sorting Evan's claims into provable versus conspiracy · event the Somalia court-martial record — a judge who liked what RLA did — lands in the crew's own archive · turn credits Evan's map of the thing — the brother who sounded paranoid has been right again by Ian Longfield

s17 Conspiracy Theory or Conspiracy Fact?

Gleed in the founding papers — rot from day 1

• Ian Longfield ▲wants the paper trail — pull the school's own corporate registry · event inside the 1973 incorporation papers, a founding board member nobody has heard of — Keith Gleed · turn the rot documented to day one — the most outlandish claims keep testing true

fixed · the page turns Ian — he pulls the corporate registry and finds Keith Gleed on the 1973 incorporation papers; "The rot at the core of Robert Land Academy is right there in the paperwork from day 1." A find that opens questions. Ladder point alt 5.8 also sits here. · arcs.yaml longfield_ian @ e1.conspiracy-theory-or-fact.01 (+1)

s18 Evan Goes Dark

the Walrus wound; vindicated on paper, unreachable in person

• Evan Holmes ▼▼wants get some credit for the work, even from outside the group · event the Walrus profile reduces him to his homelessness and addiction, erases the investigation he built · turn toward reeling by the Walrus journalist
• Evan Holmes ▼wants be heard by the group he helped build · event he posts a legal brief to the Slack and only one person replies · turn toward dark — unreachable

s19 Checking in With Queen's Park

the province stalls — "I need more than this"

• Chandra Pasma ▲wants get the minister to act through the quiet channel she's already committed to · event Jarett reports nothing has moved since the government's promise · turn reads the stall as proof and proposes the press conference herself
• Jarett Holmes ▼wants get real movement out of institutional channels — Pasma, the education minister · event Pasma's own emails lay the province's inaction bare · turn needs more than the system will give — "People are dead and dying. I need more than this." by Chandra Pasma

s23 The Break into Episode Two: Peter Merrick and the Death Threats

Merrick talks — and threatens

• Peter Merrick ▲wants field the investigation's questions without giving anything away · event Jarett's call reaches him after weeks as a distant online defender, and he agrees to talk · turn opens a line to the investigation — still guarding everything by Jarett Holmes
• Peter Merrick ▼▼wants keep the line open on his own terms · event the season's first hour closes on his own words, repeated over the black box — you asked the wrong question, you're no longer here · turn the line snaps back into menace — a death threat as the episode's final word

s02 Act 1 – "I think that would be, like, life threatening"

everyone says don't go; hard cut to the plane

• Jarett Holmes ▲wants weigh Merrick's threats against the promise of an inside rapport · event his brother and his co-director both say under no circumstance should he go · turn takes the plane to San Diego anyway

s07 British Bulldog

the sanctioned brawl — both boys under Arthur

• Andrew English ▼▼wants a small boy just trying to survive the school · event British Bulldog — the four-hour sanctioned brawl; Bill Arthur's hand at his throat, his face driven into the snow · turn he got the worst of everything the place had by Bill Arthur
• Peter Merrick ▼wants hold the exemplar's story together on camera — the favourite who worked the system from the inside · event recounting Bill Arthur's canoe-paddle beatings and his own torn ligaments · turn the wound under the loyalty surfaces — he was also a victim of the place he defends by Bill Arthur

s08 The Diorama Continues: The Handgun on the Path and the Suicide Attempt

the handgun, the pills, court-martialled at eleven

• Andrew English ▼▼wants enduring the beatings, getting through it · event Arthur pulls a gun on the path back to barracks and threatens to kill his parents if he tells anyone · turn he swallows pills, attempting to die by Bill Arthur

s09 Bowman's Answer

punish the child, protect the business — SOP set

• Andrew English ▼▼wants a child fresh from a suicide attempt, needing to be helped · event Bowman finds out, does not call police or discipline Arthur, and instead rages at Andrew — "seething, banging on the desk, screaming at me" — court-martialled for cowardice at eleven · turn punished and humiliated instead of helped — the institution turns his attempt into his crime
• Scott Bowman ▼▼wants keep his third attempt at a business, two years old, alive · event a child's suicide attempt — caused by a staff member's threat to kill that child's family — lands on his desk · turn chooses the business over the child; protect it at all costs, let nothing out — the order that becomes the school's standing rule

s12 The Stone

Kalls buried on the parade square — Peter's first crack

• David Kalls −suicide, about eighteen months after leaving the schoolthe master corporal the others wanted to be near → dead — "died suddenly"
• Peter Merrick ▲wants believe his devotion to Bowman was earned, not just endured · event recalling that Bowman buried David Kalls on the parade square against his own suicide-is-cowardice preaching · turn the first crack — a forty-year-old anger he still can't quite let go of by Scott Bowman

s13 The Facebook Civil War sequence

the hornets' nest; the group is a morgue; Peter won't concede. Yet.

• Ian Longfield ▼▼wants keep finding the alumni the group has lost track of · event works out a method — look for who was posting, then went silent; a dead person looking for another dead person · turn realizes the group itself is a morgue it doesn't even know about
• Jarett Holmes ▼wants turn the loyalist — Peter still defending Bowman as a good man with a dream · event comes armed with Andrew English's recorded testimony and goes at Peter, at length, on the record · turn the fight is now direct and on tape — but Peter does not concede

s14 Peter Breaks Rank

Howie's death lands where argument couldn't

• Peter Merrick ▲▲wants keep defending Bowman in the Facebook group as the pressure mounts · event his own 2011 silencing of Howie Steinberg put back in front of him, and Howie dead · turn writes his own post into the group — solidarity with the man he silenced, in public, where the loyalists can see it by Howie Steinberg

s15 Looking for Evan

Peter was Evan's idea — and Evan is unreachable

• Jarett Holmes ▼wants share the win with the brother whose idea Peter was in the first place · event Peter has flipped — and Evan cannot be found to be told · turn the victory sours — the man who deserves the credit is missing

s16 An Arrest

first active-teacher arrest anyone remembers

• Jonathan Ahlstedt −the undercover stingpromoted head of physical education → charged with child luring — the first active-teacher arrest anyone remembers

s17 More Silence from Legacy Media

no outlet connects the dots — twice

• Jarett Holmes ▼wants one outlet to connect the arrest to the school · event the arrest runs on the crime beat with no connection made — and the first arrest, November 2023, went unconnected too · turn the silence is systemic and predates the investigation — the record will not carry itself

fixed · the page turns Jarett — no outlet will connect the arrest to the school, and the first arrest (November 2023, before the investigation) went unconnected too; the silence is systemic and predates them. · arcs.yaml holmes_jarett @ e2.more-silence-legacy-media.01 (-1)

s18 Mike Brown Surfaces

Chris's brother finds them; the coroner file comes

• Mike Brown ▲wants find out the truth of what happened to his brother · event Googles his dead brother's name, finds Jarett's group — Ian's handoff text is two words long, "this is HUGE" · turn pulled inside the investigation
• Mike Brown ▲wants the coroner's file Evan could never get · event as next of kin he requests his brother's file — Jon Krys doubted it could be done ("Mike, I don't think you can get it") — it comes · turn holds the file Evan never got
• Mike Brown ▼wants answers — the truth of what happened to Chris · event the group reads the coroner's report together — an unidentified John Doe, identified only by the school's crested clothing, ruled "teen misadventure" · turn leaves with the institution's dismissal in writing, the wound reopened

s19 Midpoint — The School Announces Its Own Death

the school announces its own death — "WE TOOK YOU DOWN"

• Mike Haubenthe school announcing its own closure the day after Mike Brown reaches outthe place fucked up his life — rage with nowhere to land → declared victory — "WE TOOK YOU DOWN"

fixed · the page turns Hauben — the school announces its own closure and the man who said the place fucked up his life posts "WE TOOK YOU DOWN." Time-indexed belief: the declared victory is the move at this point of the telling, whatever Hollow Victory does to it next. Derivation miss — delta authored. · e2.yaml delta hauben_michael @ e2.midpoint-school-announces-death.02

s21 Diorama Sequence: The Hellmouth

searching the Downtown Eastside; the Hellmouth

• Evan Holmes ▼wants nothing the record can name — he is inside the Downtown Eastside · event his own voice from inside — the place warps time, "you eventually stop being able to find your way back out" · turn consumed — the Hellmouth swallows the city and everyone in it, his brother searching above
• Jarett Holmes ▼wants find Evan in the Downtown Eastside · event walks Hastings frantically, asking strangers if they have seen his twin — to no avail · turn the search fails — his brother is somewhere inside the Hellmouth

fixed · the page turns both brothers — Evan's own voice from inside the place that warps time ("you eventually stop being able to find your way back out"), Jarett walking Hastings asking strangers for his twin, to no avail. · arcs.yaml holmes_evan @ e2.diorama-hellmouth.01 (-1) + holmes_jarett @ e2.diorama-hellmouth.02 (-1)

s22 The Group Comes Apart sequence

three exits; justice without consequences?

• Andrew English ▼▼wants core member of the unit · event the consequence-free closure reopens 1981 — a vivid nightmare of the bloodied cadets crawling toward him · turn leaves the Slack, re-traumatized
• Jon Krys ▼▼wants to stay in the fight beside the survivors · event the guilt of having been staff returns · turn leaves the Slack — exits the group as an interloper
• Danbi Cho ▼wants to stay in the fight with the others · event an MBA to finish, a family to raise — he's taken it as far as he can go · turn stepping back from the group

s23 The Last Parade sequence

the school's last day — stakeout, police, chased off the road

• Ric Patterson ▲wants to be known by Jarett as more than eleven years of assaults after Robert Land · event he tells Jarett what he wants out of all this isn't justice — years of working on himself land him somewhere else · turn toward art school, painting, a book — healing, not justice
• Jarett Holmes ▼wants witness the end of Robert Land Academy as a victory · event the last cadets look exactly like the men who came to watch it close · turn says the quiet part — "We're 40 and we're just getting deprogrammed here"
• Stefanos Karatopis ▲wants believes the criminal complaint goes nowhere in a compromised system · event the Niagara Regional Police finally stand in front of him · turn insists on giving his testimony to an officer who did not ask for it

s24 Diorama Sequence: Evan Overdoses in a Car Wash

where Evan was — back in contact, hard to believe he'll be okay

• Evan Holmes ▲wants survive, wherever he is · event the car-wash overdose and robbery — Narcan promised and never delivered, found blue-skinned by shelter staff next door · turn toward back in contact, promising his brother he'll be okay

s27 Evan's Mountain

the camp, Louise, Snuffaluffagus — brothers at ease

• Evan Holmes ▲wants protect the camp — Joe inside, the lens kept off his people · event Snuffaluffagus found; he points the cat at the camera — "That's my brother. That's — that's my brother." · turn at ease and connected the day before the national interview — family language back in his mouth

fixed · the page turns Evan — protective of the camp, then the cat found and pointed at the camera: "That's my brother. That's — that's my brother." At ease the day before the national interview. Louise and Joe are named presences with no move; Jarett participates unturned. · arcs.yaml holmes_evan @ e2.evans-mountain.03 (+1)

s28 The Interview

the broadcast ends on "homeless" — Evan dark again

• Evan Holmes ▼▼wants keep the ground he found on the mountain — stay okay · event the national broadcast ends by telling the country Evan Holmes is homeless · turn toward dark again in the Downtown Eastside

s29 Act 3 – "Pitting brother against brother"

six men file; strangers discover shared wounds

• Andrew English ▲wants still measuring his life against RLA's own metric — "I failed in life in so many ways and still do" · event Mike Brown asks him whether he failed by their metric or his own · turn names the mechanism — "I adopted their metric… that is how they are able to pit brother against brother"

s30 Peter Pivots

went to support — came out a complainant

• Peter Merrick ▲▲wants stand beside Andrew at the police station as a friend, nothing more · event standing at the complaint desk beside a man he has bad history with · turn files his own criminal complaint against the school he defended for eighteen years by Andrew English

s31 The Press Conference sequence

the count said out loud in a legislature

• Jarett Holmes ▲▲wants deliver the case the crew has built · event back at Queen's Park, the set piece that opened the series — he goes first · turn puts his own imprisonment and abuse on the public record, in a legislature
• Andrew English ▲▲wants to finally put it on the record, after 42 years · event at Queen's Park he testifies publicly — Bill Arthur, the canoe-paddle beatings, the gun threat against his family, the pills, the taped-together plane ticket, "I was court-martialled for cowardice at the age of eleven" · turn stands publicly with "brothers and now sisters" — on the record at last
• Mike Brown ▲▲wants to make Chris's death matter publicly, not just privately · event testifies at Queen's Park beside Chris's photo — "The day Christopher died is the day my whole family died" — names the bench-taunting on the record for the first time, "If you want to take the easy way out, you could be like Brown" · turn leaves a public witness — the family's private grief now public testimony
• Stefanos Karatopis ▲wants wants the abuse said publicly, on the record, not just to one officer on a roadside · event takes the podium at Queen's Park and describes being made to dig his own grave · turn stands before the province so "no child should have to dig their own grave again"
• Chandra Pasma ▲wants turn her institutional standing into public pressure on the minister · event hears the men's testimony delivered inside her own legislature · turn goes on the record, thanking them by name and demanding the Minister meet them

s32 Aftermath

the team room — the unit re-forms

• Jon Krys ▲wants to stay clear of the group after quitting it · event Jarett talks him into rejoining to represent staff at the press conference · turn comes back, and is glad he did
• Jon Krys ▲▲wants to hold it together after testifying, in front of a group he only just rejoined · event Andrew embraces him in the hallway afterward, thanking him for putting himself out there · turn breaks — the group re-forms around him as a unit by Andrew English
• Andrew English ▲wants still carrying the weight of having just testified · event he hugs Jon Krys, a stranger to him until an hour ago, in the hallway after the press conference · turn "It kind of feels like we're in a team room" — the unit re-forms around him

s33 Evan Is Not There

the day's glaring absence — his name never said

• Jarett Holmes ▼wants celebrate the record finally landing, with everyone who built it · event at the hotel, Morgan Sluser reads his own text to Evan aloud — the man who started it all is absent · turn "I wish he was here, obviously" — the triumph has a hole in it shaped like his brother

s34 The Deaths Don't Stop

the count does not slow — Lofranco at 33

• Spencer LoFranco −sudden death at 33a rising Hollywood career → dead — the highest-profile name on the count
• Ian Longfield ▼wants keep the count moving no matter who's next · event Spencer LoFranco's sudden death goes up the same way every other name has; Jarett calls the posting a metronome · turn the counting has become mechanical — grief with no pause built into it

s35 Winter Comes for Evan

north into the storm — alive or dead, TO BLACK

• Jarett Holmes ▼▼wants find Evan alive · event drives north into the storm and calls into the black shack — "Okay. Hello? Hello?" · turn documentarian becomes brother on a rescue — not knowing if Evan is alive or dead

s01 COLD OPEN — "I just want my boy back"

Riyadh — inseparable, spirited; then sent. "I just want my boy back."

• Jarett Holmes ▼▼wants stay a rebellious, inseparable pair with his twin, a world away in Riyadh · event their parents' decision to send them from Riyadh to Robert Land · turn delivered into the Academy
• Evan Holmes ▼▼wants keep the reckless, spirited freedom he and Jarett built together in Riyadh · event their parents' decision to send the twins to Robert Land Academy for discipline · turn toward delivered into the Academy — a decision he'll regret for the rest of his life

s02 Act 1 - "What the fuck is going on here?"

the doorway violation — then "I made a mistake" / "I'm glad you came"

• Evan Holmes ▼wants hold on alone through the winter, on his own terms · event a stranger and a camera show up in his bedroom, unannounced · turn toward violated in his own home by Jarett Holmes
• Jarett Holmes ▲wants get to Evan first, camera rolling, as the documentarian · event Evan names what the unannounced camera in his bedroom did to him · turn brother first — "I made a mistake" by Evan Holmes
• Evan Holmes ▲wants be left alone, not filmed, not intruded on · event his brother's apology and the breakfast in his hands · turn toward re-opened — "I'm glad you came" by Jarett Holmes

s03 Mike and Evan

Mike meets Evan — "you don't got to do it alone"

• Evan Holmes ▲wants get through the winter without needing anyone · event Mike Brown's arrival and welcome at the trailer · turn toward reconnected to the mission's human core by Mike Brown

s04 Diorama: The Edge of the World

two figures on the tracks at the cube's edge

no vector moves in this unit

device unit · device tableau — the camera crosses the cube to the tracks; two small figures, backs to the school, unnamed on the page (beat-data references brown_chris / toppi_matthew). Nobody enters wanting, nothing perturbs. The vector move lives in the adjacent unit (e3.s03 — Mike meets Evan, stepped).

s05 Around the Campfire

the string he pulled; the rabbit story; "Thank God you exist"

• Jarett Holmes ▲wants hold Evan and the group together after the winter · event Mike's vow across the fire — "If it wasn't for Jarett, I would never found out about my brother… that means you're my brother too" · turn the crew becomes family — Evan has more holding him than Jarett alone

s06 Fentanyl

how it started — then Evan's Bill

• Evan Holmes ▲▲wants be more than the addict and the homeless case the press made him · event Mike Brown proposes naming the bill after him — "Evan's Bill" · turn toward named — honored by Mike Brown

s07 The Last True Believer

Bates will not flip — authored flat; the line not bending is the point

no vector moves in this unit

ruled · Bates will not flip — the last true believer is a red herring by design; his flat lane is the authored fact. Jarett conducts the call and Peter passes the number; the page states no want or turn for either in this unit.

s08 Diorama: The Last Man on the Roof

one figure alone on the roof of the cube

no vector moves in this unit

device unit · device tableau — one figure alone at a laptop on the cube's roof, a framed photograph of a boy in uniform beside him; the figure is unnamed on the page (beat-data references bates_bill). Nobody enters wanting, nothing perturbs.

s11 Staying Alive for Snuffles

the winter was worse than he said — he stayed for the cat

• Evan Holmes ▲wants keep the winter's real severity to himself · event he admits he would have died out there, if not for the cat needing him · turn toward naming the thing that's keeping him alive

s12 Ian's Overdue Moment in the Spotlight

the method, the man — the list passes one hundred

• Ian Longfield ▼▼wants keep the count accurate, whatever it costs him · event the list passes one hundred; seventeen hours later his own friend David Johnstone becomes number 101 · turn tells the group he's starting to feel like the grim reaper

s13 The Irrepressable Jessica Starr

the list runs backwards — Jessica lives

• Ian Longfield ▲wants still hoping one of the missing turns out alive, not another name · event turns up an email address for Jesse Estrella after years of nothing · turn hands Jarett a real chance at finding someone who isn't dead
• Jessica Starr +being found under the name she lives in by Ian Longfield, Jarett Holmespresumed among the dead → alive — more herself than ever
• Jarett Holmes ▲wants find the friends the count keeps marking dead · event Jessica Starr appears alive on the screen · turn hope — fuel for one last assault on the tormentors by Jessica Starr

s14 Midpoint – Assembling the Mission sequence not shot

the band back together — Evan restored to a key role

• Evan Holmes ▲▲wants be kept involved, not managed from a distance · event Jarett and Jesse FaceTime him and pitch him back into a key role in the investigation he started · turn toward back in the mission by Jarett Holmes, Jesse Maiman
• Ian Longfield ▲wants whatever the mission needs next, already in · event the group calls to ask him to stand vigil at the accused's doors one more time · turn says yes before the question is even finished

s15 The Heartbeat partly not shot

the one kind adult, found — the flip-book kept 25 years

• Shauna Jacques +the brothers finding the name she kept findable on purpose by Jarett Holmesout of the record, waiting to be found → back in the brothers' story
• Jarett Holmes ▲wants find Shauna — the friend both brothers urgently need to be alive · event someone sends a Facebook page, and there she is — "That's why I made it like that, so that people could find me" · turn Ian's method for finding the dead runs in reverse — it finds someone living

s19 Act 3 – "There is not a lot of asset value here."

the estate is empty; Ness blocked; LeFave made inspector

• Matthew LeFave ▼wants settlements negotiated for the men he represents — avoid court · event not one statement of defence ever filed, and now the insurers have stopped responding to him · turn the thing he has spent two years avoiding is the only thing left — he has to go to court
• Bruce Ness −Jarett's on-record objection by Jarett Holmesold boy reaching for oversight of the estate → named complicit, on the record
• Jarett Holmes ▲wants the forty-year paper record preserved under untainted oversight · event Bruce Ness — cook for twenty-nine years, complicit in the shrouding — volunteers as inspector of the estate · turn objects on the record, and the estate's oversight becomes contested ground
• Matthew LeFave ▲wants keep oversight of the bankrupt estate out of a complicit insider's hands · event he votes the claimant proxy bloc against Bruce Ness and is appointed inspector himself · turn inspector of an estate the trustee has already said has no asset value — a title with nothing behind it

s20 CLIMAX — The Search for an Untainted Jurisdiction sequence

the file escapes force after force — Peel commits on tape

• Jarett Holmes ▼wants a police service without a Robert Land conflict inside it · event York's answer to the conflict he flagged himself — "we can have this transferred… if that's what you want to do" · turn the choice handed back to the complainant is its own answer — the third service must be found
• Stefanos Karatopis ▼wants wants the criminal complaint to land somewhere untainted · event York, the second force handed the file, turns out to carry a bigger conflict than Niagara — active-duty officers who sat on RLA's board, cadets who ran security at police events · turn proven right about conflict of interest again — and the file still hasn't landed clean
• Andrew English ▼wants keep faith in the police process, don't rock the boat · event Jarett raises the York officer's Robert Land connection anyway, over Andrew's objection · turn they fight about it over email — at odds with the group's harder line
• Acting Detective Justin Wall +three years of the survivors' evidence landing on his desk by Jarett Holmesthe third service to receive the file → committed on tape — the assaults will be investigated
• Jarett Holmes ▲▲wants get one police service to actually commit · event Detective Wall, the third service to receive the file, commits on tape — "that will be investigated for sure" · turn asks the season's culpability question directly to a police officer

s21 Mike Maislin partly not shot

the machine explained calmly, on the record

• Mike Maislin +Peel taking over the investigationmemorabilia keeper at a distance → explaining the machine, on the record

s22 The Others

the montage of the uncounted; Ric's last word

• Ric Patterson ▲wants still carrying what the school made him · event the investigation surfaces and settles something in him — the last word among the others · turn toward art school, a book — a life of making

s23 The Ending sequence partly not shot

the field at golden hour; fifty in reflection; the anthem

• Andrew English ▲▲wants united with Peter in trauma and grief, still carrying it · event they reenact British Bulldog together, badly, on the same ground at golden hour · turn the wound heals in front of the camera by Peter Merrick
• Peter Merrick ▲wants close the distance with Andrew, the boy he once watched get the worst of it · event reenacting British Bulldog together on the same field, at golden hour, badly · turn the wound heals in front of the camera by Andrew English
• Ian Longfield ▲▲wants to do the thing he's wanted for years — the school genuinely gone · event stands on the parade square of a dead school with a guitar and a stack of amps · turn plays the national anthem where Robert Land Academy used to be

s24 The Final Diorama Sequence: The Cube Comes Apart

the cube carried to the river; the graveyard becomes a garden

• Evan Holmes ▲▲wants put the investigation, and the school, down for good · event he carries his piece of the cube to the river, over his own voiceover on rejoining the stream of life · turn toward reintegration — giving his soul back to the stream of life
• Danbi Cho ▲▲wants the cycle broken, not just fought · event his children play free in Jarett's garden while his own voice carries the closing VO on breaking the generational cycle · turn the cycle broken, on screen — the season's last image

s25 Epilogue — Mallorca not shot

Aperol in the sun — "he's going to check it out"

• Ric Patterson ▲wants to know if a life different from the one Robert Land set him on is real · event fade up on Mallorca — Ric on a patio with Maislin, Aperol Spritzes in the Mediterranean sun, in his Oakleys, somewhere he's never been · turn toward proof the want is livable, not just spoken
• Ric Patterson ▲wants to answer whether the art-school want is real or just something he says · event asked point blank if he's actually going to paint, he says he doesn't know · turn toward checking it out — undecided, but moving