Kate Wyler sat down opposite her deputy, a man Leo didn’t recognize. The dialogue was tense, sharp. Then, the screen flickered. The image froze on Kate’s face, her expression caught mid-sentence. The audio continued for two seconds, then stopped.

He clicked the file.

He reached for his phone to text his friend Maya, the one who’d sent him the torrent link. “Hey, did you get the weird subtitles on E02?” But the message didn’t send. No signal. WiFi still showed connected, but the internet was dead.