Waddell cut the tablet speaker before the public clip loaded.
There was no sound yet. He did it anyway, two fingers moving by habit across the controls, then a third tap to lock the captions before Mason could wake up and read a stranger's panic from the floor.
Jade noticed the order. He killed the sound, checked the child, then protected the evidence. That told her where his head was, which was why she let him keep the tablet for another few breaths.
The clip opened on the service exit behind Mercy General. Sprinklers hit the tiles in bursts. Smoke leaked around a half-open fire door, low and dirty near the floor where the camera kept losing focus. Ty's old body came through it with an injured woman held under the arms, his right leg dragging for three steps before he shifted his weight and got moving again.
The face was Ty Hockenson's.
The choices were Zunoder's.
