For a decade, Elias had been patching plot holes in romances, tightening the tension in procedurals, and smoothing out the logic in sci-fi epics. He was good at it. He could look at a script—thousands of branching possibilities generated by the Master Algorithm—and see the fatal flaw, the thread that, if pulled, would unravel the emotional investment of ten million viewers.
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