You dig deeper into the access history, looking past the current alerts. Among the legitimate traffic, you find an anomaly from thirteen months ago. It was a staging server ping with an almost identical IP structure to the one Dane gave you. The attack vector was identical. The phrasing of the malicious lure logged by the firewall was identical. But this one failed. Blackridge's incident response team traced it. You cross-reference the old IP on the darknet. It leads back to a residential address in Chicago. A low-level hacker who went down for corporate espionage last year. A fall guy. Dane didn't just invent this methodology. He ran it before, failed, and let someone else take the fall. You realize with a cold certainty that you aren't his partner. You are his crumple zone. If Blackridge catches you, Dane won't extract you. He will cut the cord. You are entirely on your own. --- [[Emergency Cash Approval Map|Return to mapping the cash flow]]