# Chapter 01 Dialogue Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_01.dialogue_doctor.md`

Disposition: all three blocking findings repaired by Codex as opposing-model rewrite.

1. Voice convergence / fake-sharp stockroom caps.
   - Finding targeted Theo's lines: `"That isn't a defense. It's the floor plan"`, `"The class is whatever the card says. The card says couples"`, and `"Not volunteering information is most of the job."`
   - Repair:
     - `Also, she's my boss. I should have said no anyway. I didn't.`
     - `The card says couples. ... I can ask her tomorrow whether she meant pairs. Tonight she'd hear it as me correcting her in front of half her buyers.`
     - `We stand where she puts us. We don't explain first.`
   - Rationale: preserves boss-cover truth and practical repair while replacing aphoristic caps with guilt, qualification, and plainer instruction.

2. Mandatory cut of `"It's the floor plan."`
   - Status: cut.
   - Replacement: `I should have said no anyway. I didn't.`
   - Rationale: keeps Theo losing the beat rather than winning it with a metaphor.

3. Loaded short line / unmarked silence after `"Odile," Theo said.`
   - Repair: added `His hand went to the key ring at his belt and stopped there.`
   - Rationale: June remains a staff-watcher and clocks a concrete stress tell without understanding family stakes.

Mechanical regression check after all Chapter 01 repairs: `bash scripts/quality_gate.sh --report output/critiques/codex/mechanical/chapter_01_quality_gate.md --json-out output/critiques/codex/mechanical/chapter_01_quality_gate.json output/chapters/chapter_01.md` passes with open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=80.
