Audit complete and written to `output/critiques/claude/chapter_21.comedy_doctor_round1.md`.

**Verdict: CLEAR — with two blocking findings** (per the blocking rule, the chapter is not committable until they're repaired).

The full inventory found 21 comic attempts. Nineteen pass at funniness-2, character/situation-sourced, non-portable, mechanisms varied — including every candidate the prompt named: "Sam carried Ruth's bag and complained about the stairs" (bathos via Odile's flat report), "There is soup upstairs. Barley." (card-licensed feeding, checked and cleared for oversweetening since "partly your fault" is never retracted), the knife/drill/phone-wait physical beats (the drill-as-alibi run is the chapter's best gag — opened at 65, closed by "set it down like the drill" at 105), and "You will be less convenient." / "Yes.", which I named the strongest item: the peak dramatic beat and the best joke are the same two lines.

The two blockers are the chapter's only narrator-overlay wit, and both are portable and workshop-shaped:

1. **Line 3** — "the order told him who he was faster than a mirror could have" — overlay garnish on the otherwise excellent "count first, feel later," and it brushes the guide §6 banned epiphany-via-mirror family. Order: cut the mirror clause, keep the observation.
2. **Line 63** — "a performance with an audience of zero" — theater-critic phrasing no version of Theo generates; could appear unchanged in any contemporary novel. Order: replace with logistical Theo-idiom reasoning or cut to "He ate the soup because it was there."

Both orders were checked against Dialogue Doctor round 2's clean repairs: they add no Odile lines (her inventory is at ceiling), no door/forgiveness naming, no consent-logic explanation, and no hand beats (motif at cap). The audit also logs tracker updates: the autonomous-hands gag closes its arc here ("both hands empty") and must rest in Ch22, the drill prop is spent, and Theo's counting-comedy density is licensed for this solo chapter but must not migrate into June's Ch22 POV.
