Wet Lab, silver-gelatin production still: a sealed optical workbench in a near-black laboratory, close top-down view of an anatomical image plate held by two gloved hands between two matte-black reasoning cabinets. Cream film fragments receive precise callouts: 01 task-aligned cue, 02 source trace, 03 quarantined impossible glyph. A concentrated phosphor-green cue-line tethers only the verified image region to a labelled execution docket; the discarded glyph rests under a small glass cover. The bench sits on a real hexagonal honeycomb mesh; a circular BRAINHUGGERS BUREAU seal is mis-struck once in the lower corner. Warm chiaroscuro, oxblood shadow, gauze, copper clips, one absurd domestic tea spoon beside the tray, clinical tenderness, no faces. Output in exactly 1122 x 1402 px, 4:5 portrait ratio.