# Set-Piece Intensity Audit - Chapter 17

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SET PIECE: Turn 3 nephew reveal / rupture
  spec: "Turn 3 on Week 6 night, November 24: Theo's own care move causes the discovery. He lends June old Odile catalogs for label language; an acknowledgment page names Odile's sister Eileen Brennan and nephew Theo. What breaks her is asymmetry/safety net, not generic lying. June leaves Theo on the back stair; no Odile final reveal, no cohort disclosure, no Tasker decision."
  rendering: `"The ninth catalog... with the paper slip..."`, `"My sister, Eileen Brennan..."`, `"Her son, Theo Brennan..."`, `"Every Tuesday I stood in her room knowing she could throw me out, and you stood in it knowing she couldn't"`, `"Don't set one for me"`, and `"The other eight come back some way that isn't you."`
  locked text present verbatim: n/a
  verdict: HITS
  reasoning: The chapter lets the discovery stay small and procedural before the impact reclassifies prior scenes. The confrontation names one concrete asymmetry, then makes Theo's core care language fail as repair: `"You're trying to get a task."` The close turns the rupture into action, not speech: one catalog returned, eight still outstanding, no escort, no next Tuesday chair.
  misses: none.
  revisions: none.

Chapter verdict: `ALL-HIT`.

