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Sixteen cases. All lint clean, all win paths verified by tools/verify.sh. John's multiverse finale, with his own Stay Tuned correction folded in as the frame — which is what made it work. The television is not a neutral doorway, it is a subscription: a satellite dish on the property annex roof that is on no asset register, aimed down through the roof at a 1958 set with no plug, and a man in a maroon blazer at ten to midnight who does the one thing that has ever worked on a Drebin — hands over the paperwork and asks him to sign. Frank Jr reads the terms first. Nobody has read the terms in four hundred years, and that is what wins the case six rooms later via Clause 14. Five channels, each a genre with a rule the family breaks with a form: an iron-curtain spy picture where the unapproved encore becomes the only state-approved act of resistance in history; a carrier-deck melodrama where the unlandable jet lands because somebody finally read the manual, and the saxophone stops mid-phrase because you cannot underscore procedure; a 90s buddy-cop show that locks onto Sr the moment it reads DAYS TO RETIREMENT, and is beaten by a Form 14 reassignment, because a man who has been reassigned cannot be killed in the line of duty; a UK procedural whose silence technique loses to a man who simply has nothing he needs to say; and a cartoon, survivable twice, if you fill in the injury form afterwards. The Twilight Zone kid is the actual antagonist — not the salesman, who only sells the dish. A boy of nine on the crater set, lit from below by a television that isn't there, who can do anything and only wants nobody to leave. The win: they supply sixty-seven years of Drebin paperwork as the contractual replacement programme, in good order, and the instrument must broadcast it on all 666 channels — and none of it is entertainment. The boy watches eleven minutes, stops smiling because it is the first thing he has ever seen that was not made to hold him, says "Oh", and turns the television off from the inside. The three Drebins are one man for exactly one frame. Also: the win-path harness lived in a scratch dir and got wiped mid-session, which made every case look like it had broken. The games were fine; the harness was not reproducible. It now lives in the repo — tests/scripts/*.jsonl plus tools/verify.sh — so regression testing survives the machine. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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{
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"name": "Police Squad Quest — Case Twelve: The Late Movie",
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"start_room": 0,
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"max_score": 100,
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"intro_text": "Property inventory, 11:40 PM. The 1958 evidence pallet includes one wooden television set, never claimed, and the active shelf includes one P.L.O.T. Device, and regulations do not say they cannot be inventoried on the same bench. In about four minutes that will turn out to be an oversight, and shortly after that a man in a maroon blazer is going to explain the terms. My name is Frank Drebin Jr. My father was a police officer. His father was a police officer. Tonight, all three of us are going to be on television, and only one of us is coming off it. Type 'help'.",
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"death_text": "† OFFICER DOWN. The channel changes. The day restarts. †",
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"verbs": [
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{
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"name": "use",
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"words": [
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"file",
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"sign",
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"check",
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"read",
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"tune",
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"rig",
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"merge",
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"watch",
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"inventory",
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"halt",
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"radio"
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "look",
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"words": [
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"investigate",
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"observe",
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"examine"
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "talk",
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"words": [
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"interrogate",
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"question",
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"brief",
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"ask"
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]
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}
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],
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"flags": {
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"device_on": false,
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"tuned": false,
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"encore_done": false,
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"landed_it": false,
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"partner_alive": false,
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"confessed": false,
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"signal_up": false,
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"signed": false,
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"read_terms": false
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}
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} |