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7b2222f97a Beirut cold open, the unused film beats, and ZAZ's back catalogue
MRPGI is verified clean and in sync; all thirteen cases still pass against it.
This pass closes the content gaps a sprite audit turned up — several generated
sprites were never placed, and each one was a missing film beat.

- Case Seven now opens in BEIRUT, as the film does: four days at the back of a
  summit of the six least popular men on earth, holding a glass of water,
  which is where a Los Angeles shipping company with two hundred and six ships
  gets named out loud. Added as room6 with start_room pointed at it, so nothing
  renumbered. Case is now 140 points across seven rooms. The despots are
  generic fictional strongmen rather than caricatures of real heads of state.
- Case Ten: the P.L.O.T. Device itself now appears — the title object of the
  case had never once been on screen — plus Cane's self-driving car, which
  refuses the destination and plays an advertisement before the paperclip
  intervenes.
- Case Six: Danny Cavanaugh's publicity still, captioned in his own hand,
  "DANNY CAVANAUGH — AVAILABLE."
- Case Eight: Hector Savage's fire hose, and Meinheimer's own wheelchair.
- Case Nine: Tanya Peters and the clinic on Wilshire (Frank is DONOR OF THE
  QUARTER; there is a plaque; his wife has not seen it).
- Case 00b: the Professor's four-foot diagram, admitted as Exhibit 1 over a
  defence objection that it is prejudicial, which the judge agrees it is.

ZAZ's own earlier films go in as texture, not cases (DESIGN §10):
Airplane!'s "don't call me Shirley" in Case Five, the escalating "wrong week to
quit" across four rooms of Case Eight, the drink poured into his own face, and
Otto the inflatable partner in Act III at forty per cent with no pump. Kentucky
Fried Movie's news anchor who doesn't know he's on air (twice, 1988 and 2025)
and Feel-A-Round at the Academy Awards, where the usher cannot move because he
is the horse.

Six name-shadowing blockers caught by the linter on the way in, including
'earpiece' swallowing 'plotdevice' and 'body' swallowing 'comedian'.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 18:37:54 +10:00
type-two
9bfd6ddb44 Cases Three, Four, Five and Nine — the campaign is complete
Thirteen cases, all playable, all lint clean, all verified end-to-end at
100/100 (Case One is 95 + 5 optional by design).

Case Three — Rendezvous at Big Gulch. The racket only shakes down businesses
that are doing well, so to get extorted you must run a genuinely excellent
locksmith shop. Frank reads MODERN LOCKSMITHING cover to cover and retains all
of it while understanding none of it, which for locksmithing is the correct
ratio. The street won't talk because paper doesn't stand in your doorway on a
Friday; Halloran opens up only after you offer to fix his door, and his
extortion ledger has been lying open on a public counter for two and a half
years because nobody ever asked to see his book.

Case Four — Revenge and Remorse. Section 14 paragraph 9 was written in 1949 for
a 1949 timer, and this bomber files his timing stub twice because he cannot
leave a thing not-quite-square, which shortens the contact throw and energises
the trigger first. Follow the manual and it completes. So Frank disarms it
backwards — the one time in nineteen years he departs from a written
instruction, because he can prove the instruction is wrong in four sentences.
Carries PQ1's Captain loop and an explicit refusal of PQ3's centre-pixel bug.

Case Five — The Butler Did It. Chain of custody on a birthday cake: photograph,
weigh with a witness, seal all forty forks. Eleven pounds light in the tier
nobody cuts, because she was inside it for four minutes while forty people
looked at it. And Frank will not suspect the butler because the literature says
it is always the butler, so suspecting him would be quoting rather than
investigating. It is the butler.

Case Nine — The Final Insult. The marriage is a gate, not a subplot: the finale
is locked behind actually answering the counsellor's question, and Jane's terms
are "before you go, not after". He doesn't disarm the envelope, he swaps it and
writes in a winner by hand. He picks the one he liked.

Two point budgets came in over (110, 115) and are trimmed to exactly 100.
Sprite generation needed a kill-and-restart: two overlapping runs were competing
for the farm and producing "Resource temporarily unavailable" — one clean pass
at pool 2 completed all four sets with zero failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 00:15:47 +10:00