Tonight, someone was watching.
Mireille retreated to the Ls (Left Surround). She pressed herself into the rustle of a prop bush. The man on the couch – she could see him through the acoustic topology of the room, a sweating silhouette with a soldering iron – was patching the Blu-ray player's output into an oscilloscope.
The archivist's soldering iron sparked.
Now she did something new.
The screen flickered.
As he crumpled to the floor, Mireille slipped back into the rear left channel, where a gentle Foley of wind through a window had just begun. The episode ended. The menu looped.