At nine o'clock in the morning, the morning news broadcasts across the province were scheduled to air Governor Donald Sterling's live address from the capitol steps. Across the city of Grandview, car radios were tuned to the morning traffic reports, television screens in diner windows displayed local news graphics, and digital billboards along Grand Avenue prepared to stream the state briefing.
Without warning, every commercial signal in the metropolitan grid cut out simultaneously.
The television screens went black for two seconds before flashing a bold white title card bearing the seal of an independent investigative syndicate. Through the radio speakers of thousands of idling vehicles on the river bridges, the crisp, uncompressed audio recording captured in Sovereign Safehouse 3 began
