At the jail, Olivia learned only the outline. Price met her that afternoon and placed a carefully worded document on the table describing a commercial surveillance recording that appeared to show an officer introducing material into her trunk. Olivia read it twice before looking up. There were moments in court when a witness told her something she had almost given up hoping to hear. This felt larger, and she could not speak for several seconds.
"Maya found it?" she asked.
"Maya and another reporter identified the camera. The business owner authorized preservation, and outside investigators handled the evidence. It has been reviewed by people who are not relying on your memory or mine."
Olivia pressed her lips together. She wanted to cry, but the visitation room offered no privacy, and she suspected Reed would enjoy hearing that a guard had seen her break down. She settled for a long breath and a question. "What about Tasha and the others?"
Price smiled faintly. "I knew you were going to ask that. The investigators have their names. Their cases are being evaluated individually."
The attorney then explained the watch inspection. With the property custodian and authorized counsel present, the item had been examined under documented conditions, and the protected memory copy had been identified without disturbing the watch's historical markings. The records it pointed toward matched materials preserved elsewhere before Olivia's arrest, including a secure archive maintained through her legal advisers. Independent investigators were now verifying the sources and dates, separating attorney-client material from information relevant to public corruption.
"Your father's old watch may end up being one of the least glamorous but most useful objects in this case," Price said.
"He'd be pleased," Olivia replied. "He always said a watch should do its job without drawing attention."
She asked for every original to remain protected, for no files to be disclosed merely to satisfy a newspaper, and for the defense to receive complete copies of all exculpatory material. Price agreed. The state had treated her as someone who could be silenced by removing a phone and an office computer, but now the work of months was being evaluated by people Reed did not control. It was not victory. It was finally the opportunity to have the truth tested.
Meanwhile, Harris spent Sunday afternoon giving another sworn interview. He described changes in evidence logs that he had observed firsthand, including corrections made after narcotics packages were removed from storage without complete documentation. He identified supervisors who could have authorized those changes and produced contemporaneous messages showing that Captain Reed had directed him to treat certain discrepancies as harmless. Several messages matched dates in Thomas's old records, giving investigators a reason to reopen evidence movements from 2017.
Davis made sure Harris understood the consequences of his admissions. Cooperation might allow prosecutors to consider a narrower recommendation, but it did not erase his years of silence or guarantee protection from discipline. He could not bargain away the truth for a promise of personal safety. Harris answered that he understood, then asked whether his testimony could help identify what happened to Thomas Turner.