# Opening Hook Audit - Chapter 14

- CRITERION 1: PULLS - first 50 words quoted: "Theo had the wrong date on the pickup sheet three lines down before he caught it. *November 17. November 17. November 17*, in his own handwriting, under a header that said THURSDAY PICKUP in his own handwriting too. He drew a line through each one, wrote the" - reasoning: the opening starts in character action, shows competence failing, and raises the immediate question of why Thursday pickup has been disrupted.
- CRITERION 2: CLEAN - strongest atmospheric candidate quoted: "The panels came down first" - why it survives: the room enters through Theo's handling of pickup work, not camera-pan setting.
- CRITERION 3: N/A - Chapter 14 is not chapter 1 or a part-opening; strongest possible put-down point considered is the panel-drying paragraph, but the phone thread interrupts before the work can become static.

Chapter verdict: `HOOKED`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
