Paper Trail to Nowhere

You drive to the nearest FBI field office. The agent listens, stone-faced.

You hand them the flash drive.
They quarantine it. Ask questions. Take your devices.
Then they stop responding to your follow-ups.

"Your case is under internal review. Please do not contact us again."

Later that week, you get a bill from your ISP. Your bandwidth usage? 3 terabytes… yesterday.

Whatever you turned in—someone else turned on.

[ENDING: Paper Trail to Nowhere]

THE LESSON (Not Even the Authorities Can Save You From Everything.)
"Good intentions don’t always come with good outcomes. The chain of custody doesn’t mean chain of control."
[TRY AGAIN?]