Seventh Directive
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An investigative journalist discovers an encrypted municipal file that names her missing brother and sets off a collision with a private contractor running a covert program. As she traces shipments, recovers footage, and risks betrayal and violence, a live expose detonates public outrage and reveals a system that punishes lives with coded decisions.
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