Outside the Question Garden doors before dawn, blue-black palace shadows and gold sigils pressing down on the corridor.

Inside the Question Garden, the chamber shaped like an iron conservatory, with black stone, glass vials, and the obsidian interrogation table.

The Garden is interrupted before Yelena can resume the suspended question.

The inspection converts the chamber from interrogation room to tribunal.

Orvek begins with Yelena's wrong uniform color.

Orvek notices Cassian's chains are looser than regulation.

Orvek inspects the drug cup from the previous session.

The missing meal records expose Cassian's weakened state.

Yelena recognizes she is being interrogated inside her own rules.

Orvek implies political contamination, and Cassian tries to shift attention.

Orvek orders a direct confession sequence despite Cassian's condition.

The direct confession sequence and its consequences are made clear.

Yelena and Cassian understand the three possible disasters.

The chamber prepares for the direct confession question.

Orvek takes the question from Yelena and asks Cassian directly.

Cassian looks to Yelena before answering, understanding what a false confession would buy her.

Cassian begins a confession and stops before it becomes a full lie.

Cassian refuses to complete the false confession and pivots toward Orvek.

Cassian asks the question that turns the inspection toward the conspiracy.

Cassian says the forbidden phrase about the child hidden behind the nursery wall.

Yelena places herself between Cassian and Orvek as the hidden ledger presses beneath her coat.

The pilot ends with the Garden poised between confession and conspiracy.