# Chapter 12 Dialogue Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_12.dialogue_doctor.md`

## Accepted Orders

1. Removed the self-listening narration `kept going before it could become a speech`. The dialogue now performs the swerve from circulars to chicken thighs without a speech-shape caption.
2. Removed the pre-delivery caption `There was no useful way to say it, and the plain way was sitting right there.` Theo now pushes the card across the desk and says, `I want you to have that one.`
3. Removed the explanatory interiority about Tuesday being `the harder kind of acting` where true material must be delivered as not true. The paragraph now ends on Theo looking at `PARTNER` on Odile's card after the concrete Mara/Ruth/public-performance projection.

## Verification

After repair, `bash scripts/quality_gate.sh output/chapters/chapter_12.md` returned PASS, open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=51. Targeted grep found no residue of the three ordered phrases or dialogue-diagnosis vocabulary.
