The Squeeze #
Parrini issues an ultimatum: "By Friday, I want to see Team B hitting the same signal-to-noise thresholds as Team A. We need a 'proof of concept' that the success is the model, not the person."
Ulysses attempts a technical defense, but Parrini cuts through it: "If the discrepancy persists, I’ll have to assume the Sector 4 data is corrupted. And corrupted data requires a full forensic investigation by the ethics board."
Exiting the trailer under the long shadow of the mountain, Lucia is blunt: "Normalization. That’s a polite word for a noose."
"He doesn't want the truth," Ulysses says. "He just wants the wins to look legal. And if I can't give them to him... we're the scapegoats."