Leo leaned back. The entire operation took 4 minutes and 22 seconds. He unplugged the drive. It was cool to the touch.
On Feed C, Judge Crane’s encrypted phone buzzed. Not with a threat. With a file. A single PDF titled Exhibit A: The Real Killer . Leo had found the confession of the actual murderer, buried in a police server’s "deleted forever" sector. The judge’s face, visible on the feed, went pale as milk.
He didn’t blackmail the judge. He simply handed him the truth.
He didn’t keep the oil money. He gave it back.
