# Chapter 04 Ending Quality Audit

- LANDS — scene 1 / chapter-final — final lines quoted: `"Thursdays. 43 labels, one flipped. The pencil. Line eight."` and `"He folded the smudged corner in and filed the list in the pocket where the stub lived."` — what closes the beat: Theo chooses to preserve and standardize the public story rather than explain Odile; pressure it cuts on: the lie now has a record and an object-state. Strongest weak candidate considered: `"the first person it had to come out of the same was him"` risks summary, but it is immediately tied to the receipt action and does not close as a standalone moral.

Chapter verdict: ENDINGS-CLEAN.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
