We worked for eight consecutive hours on the first Saturday of November.
This was not unusual, in itself. Saturdays had been part of the investigation's working calendar since the scope reclassification. What made this particular Saturday different was the quality of what occurred within it: the eight hours in which the evidentiary framework completed itself, in which the separate threads we had been building across two months resolved into a coherent and comprehensive structure that would hold under formal scrutiny.
It began at seven in the morning, when Kaien arrived at the annex with the Kwon Jisoo follow-up documentation and I had already been there for ninety minutes reviewing the facilities department payment records against the shell company transaction timeline. The coffee was already made. He looked at the work I had laid out and looked at me and said nothing, which was the correct thing to say, and sat down and began.
