# Ending Quality Audit: Chapter 02

- LANDS — scene 1 — final lines quoted: "A card per Tuesday... *Including me*, he added, which was true, and was the first true thing he'd given her that came with no cover attached." What closes the beat: Theo gives June one clean fact after a withheld one. Pressure it cuts on: truth-with-omission. Strongest weak candidate considered: "the first true thing" risks explanation, but it is anchored to the email action.
- LANDS — scene 2 — final lines quoted: "She took the pen from him for the eighth and wrote PARK / BRENNAN herself..." What closes the beat: Odile physically claims the eighth label. Pressure it cuts on: Odile's hidden authorship of the arrangement. Strongest weak candidate considered: "declining to have opinions" leans explanatory, but it registers Theo's evasion rather than wrapping the scene.
- LANDS — chapter-final — final lines quoted: "Then he opened the desk diary... Under it he wrote *packets: 8 of 8 collected*... He locked the front the way the new lock wanted, lifting while he turned, and heard it catch." What closes the beat: Theo records the packet collection and locks the building. Pressure it cuts on: the lie is now in the official record. Strongest weak candidate considered: line 163 "All the signature did was agree" could be a profundity stamp, but the chapter continues into filing and locking, so the final close is action/consequence.

Chapter verdict: ENDINGS-CLEAN.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
