# Ending Quality Audit - Chapter 10

- `LANDS - scene 1 - final lines quoted: "Theo looked at his own hands up there on the rail... He found the tape roll in his pocket and put it on the table where it belonged." What closes the beat: the action of putting down the tape roll after the painting exposes the evasion. Pressure it cuts on: public recognition without repair. Strongest weak candidate: "everyone in the room had recognized them faster than he had" is summary-like, but it is followed immediately by object action that carries the landing.
- `LANDS - chapter-final - final lines quoted: "The new wing nut had held. He tightened it anyway, killed the lights, tried the locked door twice from the outside, and walked to Sonia's, where somebody would be one chair short, and he could fix that." What closes the beat: Theo chooses another unnecessary fix and walks toward another social room where he can keep being useful. Pressure it cuts on: exposure has not produced self-change yet. Strongest weak candidate: "It did not say, what can you do correctly" risks explanation, but the final action refuses to resolve it.

Chapter verdict: `ENDINGS-CLEAN`.

REVISION ORDERS: None.
