Surveillance Notes

The surveillance still, timestamped 2:17 a.m., catches Dr. Elias Hawthorne stepping out of Suite 812 at the Marriott Wardman Park, the very suite registered to Dr. Sofia Rivera for the duration of the Policy Horizons Summit. His usually impeccable hair just a touch disheveled, as if he'd been running his fingers through it—or someone else had. The hallway is empty, the lighting dim, but there's no mistaking the faint, satisfied curve at the corner of his mouth, the kind a man wears when he's just finished a very private debate that had nothing to do with policy. One might almost think the good doctor had found an unexpectedly persuasive counterargument to his own principles behind that door.