Chen calls on Tuesday with the full picture.
Damien takes the call in the barn office. Aria joins him halfway through — she was on another call, the Singapore portfolio, the kind of thing that used to feel urgent and now sits in a different tier of the urgency hierarchy. She comes in and sits across from him and he puts the call on speaker without being asked.
Chen talks for forty minutes.
The full picture is this.
Patricia Chen has been building what she calls — in documents Chen's team found in the tertiary registry's filing appendices, which is a layer of documentation that Hope didn't know to look for and which Chen found using Hope's cross-reference methodology — the corrective architecture. That's her language. Corrective. As if what Richard Cross built was an error that needs correcting rather than a criminal enterprise that needs dismantling.
This tells Damien something about how Patricia Chen sees herself.
