Contact In Hallway C

At 03:12 on the night of the incident, security camera 4 in Hallway C of Sub-Level 04 recorded a routine sweep by a single armed response operative, designated R-7. The corridor had been sealed since a ████████████████████████ . Standing orders for any contact inside a sealed corridor are to hold position, identify the subject, and wait for backup.

At 00:01.5 of the recording, a young woman in a dark dress appears in the shadows ten meters from R-7, directly in his line of sight. She carries no badge and shows no restraint marks, and there is ████████████████████████ for her. R-7 raised his rifle. At 00:02.8 a red laser dot settled on her chest, and the feed broke into a single horizontal line of static before recovering.

What the recovered frames show is still disputed. R-7's report states that the subject "did not react to the sight." On the wet concrete behind her, every other light in the hallway doubles in reflection, but the red dot ████████████████████████ . The audio channel recorded a feedback whine at the same instant, peaking at ████████████████████████ .

R-7 did not fire. He was found at 03:41 standing in the same stance with his rifle still raised, ████████████████████████ . Hallway C was sealed again that morning. The woman does not appear in any frame after the line of static, but camera 4 had logged ████████████████████████ , each on a night when the hallway was empty.

Camera 4 was left running. Its footage is reviewed every morning at 08:00, and each review has noted the same thing: at 03:12 the figure is in the frame again, ████████████████████████ .