The audit is complete and written to `output/critiques/claude/chapter_04.dialogue_doctor.md`. **Verdict: OVERALL: BLOCKING (2 findings)**, both under FAKE-SHARP; the seven legacy failure modes and the rule-9 interiority test (run in both directions) are CLEAN, each with per-criterion evidence and the strongest counter-candidate shown per the template.

The two blocking findings, each with an executable revision order for the opposing-model rewriter:

1. **Table-wide dry-correction monoculture.** All nine speakers — including Dee the waitress — land at least one flat deadpan correction in this single scene (Dee's "You'd better," Priya's "Twice," Theo's "Forty-three," Luis's "It isn't," Ruth's "I didn't ask what she owed," Mara's "Tuesday"/"Tuesday," Sam's "Off the clock, Ruthie," plus June's two). Content differentiates the speakers; the resolving move doesn't — that's the cut-list bullet verbatim and the style bible's "no sitcom rhythm." The fix is surgical: re-voice Mara's scarf enforcement into her card's warmth-plus-reason register and Sam's quip into their gentle-direct room language, with the card-licensed corrections (June, Luis, Ruth, Theo, Priya, Dee) explicitly protected from collateral flattening.

2. **June's openings epigram.** "Openings are for standing near art so other people can see you doing it" is the chapter's most quotable line, delivered mid-improv by a character whose card calls for compression and self-interruption under exposure, in a book that licenses memorable-line density to Odile alone — and at the exact moment June is spending her real, private Thursdays to shore up a lie. The order keeps the correction and the load-bearing "Thursdays" fact, and replaces the epigram with visual specificity or a half-finished self-interruption.

On your special-focus questions: the improv genuinely reads as messy shared memory — the simultaneous start, the hedged "out of, what, forty?" corrected to "Forty-three," and "It was a soft pencil" defending nothing are the right kind of mess; the clipped class-entry relay's polish survives because the convergence is the chapter's named revelation, not an accident. Theo's mind stays on throughout, and the two hard double-explain cases (the arithmetic paragraph after Mara's recap, the Ruth-file paragraph) were adjudicated CLEAN with reasoning — the enumerations annotate rather than repeat, and the Ruth paragraph is required to keep her misread reading as professional impropriety instead of the genre-default romance-clocking. Ruth's misread itself lands through "Is it comped?" and "I didn't ask what she owed," with her sharp-line cap respected. June's money boundary passes cleanly: "Separate check for mine" is procedural, aimed at Dee, and pre-emptive — no proud-poor performance.

Three non-blocking cross-notes are in the file: Mara's "That's four words" miscounts a three-word line; the "line eight" sheet math implies eight couples against a four-couple canon (possibly a deliberate reread clue — flagged for the continuity audit to settle either way); and the cover-story list appears four times in fifty lines, with the arithmetic paragraph named as the cuttable instance if the editor stage wants compression.

One process flag for you: the existing chapter 01–03 Doctor files in `output/critiques/claude/` contain end-of-session chat summaries ("Audit complete and written to…"), not the template's Required verdict format — it looks like prior sessions wrote their closing message into the file instead of the audit. The manifest marks them "present," but they wouldn't satisfy the template's per-criterion format, so the coverage contract is weaker than the manifest suggests. Chapter 04's file follows the template verbatim.
