Acker filed his formal statement at nine-oh-three.
Hunter saw the confirmation on his phone while he was walking to Ren's apartment. Forty-one pages of operational documentation — case files, internal communications, authorization chain records, and the four facility locations with their access protocols and personnel rosters. The statement named every operative who had implemented the acquisition mandate over four years. It named the compliance officer who had signed the maintenance rejections. It named Crewe. It named the official whose name Lena had produced from memory.
And it named Acker himself.
Every case he had managed. Every facility visit. Every operational decision made under the fourth tier authorization for four years.
Hunter looked at the confirmation on his screen.
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