She had become the director.

Now she did something new.

Tonight, someone was watching.

The studio logo faded in: a brass gramophone against a crimson curtain. Then the episode proper. Mireille felt the LFE (Low Frequency Effects) rumble through her bones – or what passed for bones. The scene was a kitchen argument. Dialogue in the center channel. A slammed refrigerator in the left front. But the man watching had cranked the rear channels to an unnatural level.