The round-2 audit is written to `output/critiques/claude/chapter_03.comedy_doctor_round2.md`. **OVERALL: CLEAN** — all round-1 blocking findings verify as repaired, no new blocking findings, chapter-level verdict CLEAR. The chapter is committable on comedy.

How each mandated check came out:

1. **Fiscal/bureaucratic register: repaired.** A full-text scan finds zero instances of the filing/fiscal figure (round-1 count was 10) — no "file/filed/filing," "fiscal," "public record," or narration "budgeted" (Ben's buffer line is dialogue, card-licensed). "Filed them as a unit... accepted the filing" is now plain "made the two of them a unit" (l. 127). What remains is a different, licensed device: a two-instance work-register runner ("a pencil gave a person a job in any room" → "surveying was a job and she needed one"), which is June's busy-hands stress tell from her voice card doing the comedy, not admin overlay.

2. **The four portable lines: gone**, confirmed by pattern scan with zero matches — "grow a third act," the "X the way other people Y" frame, "course record," "zip code" — with no register residue at the old sites.

3. **Cohort intro window: no longer an epigram contest.** Mara's "famous last slot" and "week six" buttons are cut, the parking metaphor is flattened to reported functional speech, Ruth's triple tag is cut, and Priya's aphorism became card-verbatim care ("Did you eat? You'll be standing a while."). Only Ben's licensed buffer speech and June's small self-aimed "I see the flaw now" survive as composed lines; functional speech now dominates the window.

4. **Mara's correction beat: repaired into her card.** "It looked lonely" is gone; the overwork now lives in the drawing ("gone over five times, restated, rescued, apologized to") and her reply is admission under pressure ("I know. I kept trying to fix it."), so Odile wins the exchange.

5. **Theo's exit offer: purely practical** ("There's a back stair. It comes out past Sonia's. Front door catches the group.") and the being-looked-at theme now lands once, inside June's interiority, answered with her sideways yes ("I owe Mara a scarf next week"). This sequence is now one of the chapter's best.

6. **Clarity repairs: no tonal damage.** The "for June" focalizer fix costs the line nothing; the seating fix relocates Theo's bulldog-clip deflection to "beside her" where it arguably improves; the phantom pencil-cup callback is gone and the charcoal-gift beat runs clean on the never-announce rule.

The audit includes a 49-item inventory (no item scores below funniness-2, none portable, none workshopped) and six explicit counter-candidate rulings — the closest calls were "the way a proofreader reads a menu" (same simile family as the banned template, ruled distinct because it's profession-keyed to Ruth), "signing her name in someone else's coat" (the chapter's most portable survivor, ruled a pass as the only overlay image at its beat), and "the worst part of knowing anything" (punchline syntax, ruled wound-speech). Strongest item remains "That's collateral." / "It's wool."

Two forward notes carried into the tracker recommendations: Odile sits at her quotability ceiling (~11 aphorism-grade lines; chapter 05 should target about half), and the four characterizing pose similes are structural to this gesture-class chapter only — they shouldn't become the default body-description move next class chapter.
