In Case 004 — The Flight That Was Not Authorized — a father and daughter do everything right, and still the system intervenes. This episode isolates the moment where the case could have required explanation—and didn’t. What emerges isn’t a failure, but a design: a system that enforces outcomes without obligation to justify them.

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