Episode 28: The Frame

Rain on glass, track lights on silk, and a room that learned to lie. Jack Colder takes a simple walk-through of a blue-chip gallery and finds a market where "patterns" are kept like investments and reputations hang under museum glass. Celeste Armitage—curator, broker, strategist—doesn't just sell paintings; she sells stories…and knows how to price a crime.

When a new work appears wearing Jack's face, the room turns witness. The front is art; the back is evidence: receipts, hardware lists, and headlines varnished into the ground. A closed circle of patrons, a ledger of coded transfers, and a catwalk monologue later, the question isn't who made the art—it's who wrote the scene.

In CASE 7: The Art Dealer — Episode 28: The Frame, we work the file the only way it holds: timeline first, gallery to vault; cast second, curator to "patron"; paper third, from consent forms to courier tags. No rumor without a record. No theory that doesn't survive the light. By the end, the provenance of every lie is clear—and so is the single moment that drops a body out of the frame.

A standalone entry in Last Seen: Casefile Anomalies, perfect for readers who like procedural minimalism, urban noir, and evidence that argues back.