FORMAL WITNESS INTERVIEW

SUBJECT: Helena Rusk

CLASSIFICATION: OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE // INVESTIGATION

REFERENCE: CONTROLLED COPY // COT/JOINT/2035/CTC019

Document control

CASE REFERENCE: COT/JOINT/2035/CTC019

SUBJECT: Helena Rusk

CENTRAL RECORD: COTD1F01246589AD

RANK / APPOINTMENT: Operational architect of the corrupted rescue corridors

ORGANISATION: DAWN / Black Dawn continuity logistics

ALIAS / CODENAME: The Ferryman

DATE OF BIRTH: 1985-12-18

PLACE / NATIONALITY: Classified, Classified, British

INTERVIEW STATUS: Witness / account holder

LOCATION: Secure interview suite — location withheld

DATE: 19 September 2035

LEAD AUTHORITY: Joint Investigation Team

RECORDING MEDIA: Two sealed digital masters and one independent evidential hash

DISTRIBUTION: Named recipients only. No automated onward distribution.

NOTE: Handling notice. This document contains operational, personal and evidential material. It may be read only by a person with both the required clearance and a recorded need to know. Extraction of images, transcript segments or metadata creates a new controlled copy.

Identity and visual evidence control

VISUAL ASSET STATUS: Passport image: attached; dossier image frames available: 2; surveillance frames available: 1; identity match: matched by subject/asset map.

Reason for interview or reconstruction

This record concerns the subject's knowledge of events, communications and decisions under active investigation. The scope of this record is confined to the matters set out above and to evidence formally introduced during the session.

Preliminary investigator note

The subject completed identity verification but challenged the assumption that a valid administrative record necessarily described the physical event.

Recorded interview transcript

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: State your full name for the record.

HELENA RUSK: Helena Rusk

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you understand the status of this interview and the limits placed on distribution?

HELENA RUSK: I understand the status. I do not accept that the distribution is as limited as the header suggests.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Have you been offered the representation, legal advice or staff support applicable to this procedure?

HELENA RUSK: Yes. The offer should not be mistaken for my acceptance of your account.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-01 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Helena Rusk.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?

HELENA RUSK: The record may be right. I can only tell you what was in front of me. Check the physical record against the unprocessed record before you accept the later label.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: What did you understand at that moment, before later analysis supplied a larger explanation?

HELENA RUSK: The record may be right. I can only tell you what was in front of me. My answer is limited to what I personally saw, heard or ordered.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-02 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Helena Rusk.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?

HELENA RUSK: I saw what happened. I did not know then what it meant. My answer is limited to what I personally saw, heard or ordered.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Who else was physically present and capable of confirming your account without relying on the same electronic record?

HELENA RUSK: I saw what happened. I did not know then what it meant. the person who held the contemporaneous log can confirm the sequence, but not necessarily the interpretation.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Are you saying the official record is wrong?

HELENA RUSK: I am saying it may be accurate about the event and wrong about the cause.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-03 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Helena Rusk.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?

HELENA RUSK: The record may be right. I can only tell you what was in front of me. I will not improve my memory to make the chronology easier.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Why was the matter not escalated through the ordinary reporting route?

HELENA RUSK: The record may be right. I can only tell you what was in front of me. Check the physical record against the unprocessed record before you accept the later label.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Is there any material fact you have withheld because you consider this recording or its distribution unsafe?

HELENA RUSK: No fact material to immediate safety. Other matters require a narrower compartment.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: What is the single next action this investigation should take?

HELENA RUSK: Speak to the people who were physically present before asking another database to explain them.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you wish to add or correct anything before the recording is suspended?

HELENA RUSK: Preserve the questions I declined. They may matter more than the answers you expected.

[Recording suspended. Source media sealed. Any resumed session requires a new opening declaration and exhibit schedule.]

Supplemental visual evidence exhibits

Confidential investigator assessment

The subject's account conflicts with at least one administrative record but not necessarily with the underlying physical evidence. The conflict is an investigative lead, not a concluded finding.

Actions and inconsistencies outstanding

1. Recover acquisition authority, original-resolution files and adjacent frames for every surveillance exhibit.

NOTE: Finding limit. Nothing in this record establishes guilt, operational direction or final causation unless expressly stated as a supported finding. A valid credential, image or system entry proves only what that item can independently support.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR — sealed electronic signature held separately

Evidence custodian — receipt and hash recorded

END OF CONTROLLED RECORD — CTC-019