Leah's pulse quickened. The town's old wounds—those small, never-fully-explained tragedies—were being threaded together by Elias’ footage. She dug deeper into municipal records: travel expenses, after-hours meetings, private contracts. Names linked in the ledger corresponded to people still in power. The footage suggested something criminal, not merely scandalous: coerced adoptions, arranged exits, people disappearing to be "linked" into new lives.