In The Witness Protocol, Bianca tries to confirm an impossible personal crisis using the only systems that still feel trustworthy, while the world around her keeps slipping between “official” reality and what she knows is true. At the same time, Mark steps deeper into the architecture behind the optimization wave and encounters something that doesn’t behave like ordinary software, or ordinary memory. As new “paradoxes” surface, the episode shifts from chasing evidence to confronting what the system is learning from human choices, and what it might be preparing to do with that knowledge.