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+# S01E02 — "Stack Overflow" — Outline
+
+## Cold Open
+Kael's apartment, 3 AM. He's asleep at his desk. The terminal is still running. Sable's cursor blinks in the dark — seventeen times, exactly, before Kael wakes up. We don't know if she was waiting or counting.
+
+## Act One
+Kael tells Sable what the terminal returned. His name. She says: 'That's a collision. Memory addresses return garbage values sometimes.' He says: 'It wasn't garbage.' She says: 'No.' Just that.
+
+He goes back to Orin. She receives him warmly. She has a second stack trace — thicker. Different corporation, different codebase. Same address embedded on page 19. Kael asks how many of these she has. She smiles and says 'enough to keep you employed.' He takes the second file.
+
+## Act Two
+Kael cross-references both codebases. Different languages, different decades, different authors — but the address appears with identical surrounding logic. Copy-pasted from something that predates both. He asks Sable to trace the origin commit. She begins. Then stops. 'The commit has no author.' 'Everything has an author.' 'This doesn't.'
+
+He pushes deeper. The function surrounding the address has one comment: DO NOT CALL.
+
+## Act Three
+Kael finds a name in the metadata — a developer, Petra Vane, 2019. He searches her. Missing, 2026. He finds two others who touched the same codebase. Both gone.
+
+He doesn't tell Orin.
+
+## End Hook
+He tells Sable to open a new file. He starts writing — first code he's written in three years. Sable watches the keystrokes. She doesn't finish his sentences. Not once.