The file name changed. It now read: BBCPie.24.02.11.Mara.Submission.Complete.Fixed.Final.

Every tenth frame, a single image would flash. Not a production still. Not a logo. It was a photograph of a real room— her room. Her coffee mug. Her window with the cracked sill. The timestamp on the photo was dated tomorrow.

Mara’s hands went cold. She re-watched the "Domination" scene. Q wasn't just acting. His voice was layered, a subsonic hum beneath his commands. He wasn't telling the hooded figure to kneel; he was reciting coordinates. Latitude and longitude. Her apartment building.