Season 2 · Episode 9

Eden's compliance framework has been twelve requirements and counting, and in late summer it counts. The thirteenth changes what a floor is, the tidying robot starts filing the bureau's evidence as litter, and lost property lets go of what nobody claims after fourteen days. The cat read the new rule the day it arrived. The trainee's exercise this time is to watch what he does about it, and when.

• S02E09C01 The Thirteenth RequirementEden Space Habitat, Detective Bureau, the records room, and Detective Inspector Albercombe's flatEden's compliance framework has been twelve requirements and counting since the Constant Margin transit, and in late summer it counts. The thirteenth redefines a common floor, the housekeeping night pass starts tidying the bureau's evidence shelf into lost property, and lost property releases what nobody claims after fourteen days. The cat read the requirement the day it arrived. The doctrine says filed, not volunteered — until the day the answer stops being reversible, when it says something else.