Therese attended the interview but spoke only when asked to confirm dates or what she remembered seeing. She was surprised by how difficult it felt to hear the voices behind her notes. A line in a notebook that said TURNED AWAY AT 9:14 had occupied less than an inch of paper; in Emeka's telling, it stretched across several years of lost chances. She had kept the notes because she wanted the truth preserved, but now she understood preservation was only the beginning of what she owed those people.
On Saturday afternoon, Eleanor Whitcomb came to Rory's office carrying a sealed memory card. She had a long history with Summit, including decisions she was no longer proud of, and she spoke candidly about that history. Warren's strong results during his early years had made the board reluctant to examine complaints too closely, she said. When employees raised concerns about access and treatment, directors had accepted assurances from the very people whose conduct was being questioned.
"We liked the numbers," Eleanor admitted. "We liked the certainty. Warren made the company seem manageable, and we didn't ask what people were paying for that certainty."
The memory card contained authorized recordings of the Tuesday and Thursday board meetings. Eleanor identified the portions where Warren threatened Therese, acknowledged that he had approved the continuity protocol before the buyer's identity was known, and warned directors that he could remove them from their positions. She also offered to testify about the circumstances of the acquisition and the board's genuine intention to appoint Daniel. Rory preserved the card and prepared the necessary declarations.
"I signed the compliance resolution on Thursday," Eleanor said. "I know it must have looked like surrender. But our counsel was right: ignoring the court order would have placed the board in a worse position and might have endangered the company."
"I didn't mistake it for support of Warren," Daniel replied. "You told me what you were doing."
"I should have told people a great deal more over the years," Eleanor said. "On Monday, I intend to start."
They worked into Sunday. Therese sat with a spreadsheet and her notebook while the forensic specialist's team supplied date-matched exports from preserved systems. Rory insisted on distinguishing confirmed matches from likely ones, rejecting entries that did not align clearly even when they would have strengthened the overall narrative. Daniel helped review the names, careful not to turn the exercise into a contest to produce the largest possible number.
By Sunday evening, they had independently matched 161 of Therese's 212 entries to visitor profile records carrying the P flag. Some of the remaining names had incomplete dates or no surviving electronic record, and they left them unresolved rather than guessing. The confirmed cases included contractors, vendors, employees, and job candidates from varied backgrounds who had been subjected to extra screening not supported by individual security concerns. The records also showed that the risk score had influenced vendor eligibility in multiple instances.
"One hundred and sixty-one," Therese said quietly. "I knew there were a lot. I didn't know we'd be able to prove that many."
"You don't have to prove everything you ever wrote to show that you were right to keep writing," Rory told her.