Panic works on junior analysts. It works on day traders. It does not work on the Director of Risk Oversight at a $3 billion firm. You send another message, leaning fully into the urgency. You invent a phantom regulatory deadline. You type in all caps. You demand action. Thirty seconds pass. Your screen flashes. The PRAP terminal session abruptly terminates. `ERROR: ACCESS DENIED. ACCOUNT LOCKED (CODE: 492-B).` Your phone rings. It's Dane. > **Dane**: *"You idiot. She didn't panic. She triggered a manual lockdown of the entire subnet. Blackridge's incident response team is already tracing the connection. We have ninety seconds before they hand your IP to the authorities."* You tried to play a predator, but you acted like prey. > **Dane**: *"Wipe everything. We're done here."* --- [[Burn The Operation|Burn the operation]]