Juliette goes to Walker’s electronics workshop before her shift, expecting to find him asleep but discovering him at work. After they greet each other, Juliette brings up Scottie, and Walker breaks down in grief and guilt, confessing that he pushed Scottie to take the IT job because he wanted Scottie to feel free to choose his own future. Juliette reassures Walker, but Scottie’s death quickly becomes the reason for her visit.

Juliette tells Walker that she does not believe Scottie killed himself and insists that what she is about to share must stay secret. Walker immediately believes her and suspects IT. Juliette explains that Scottie sent her a final wire after helping her examine something strange in Holston’s computer. When she shows Walker her transcription, Walker identifies Scottie’s reference to “p-x-l’s” as pixels and says the dimensions in the note do not make sense for the kind of display Scottie describes, reinforcing that Scottie was warning her about manipulated images and danger inside IT.

Juliette then asks Walker about Scottie’s line that her “joke was truth.” She connects it to the bad heat tape Scottie once sent to Mechanical, tape so poor that she had joked it seemed engineered to destroy itself. Realizing the conversation is dangerously heretical, Walker shuts and locks the workshop door, then turns on a noisy air compressor to mask their words before urging Juliette to continue.

With the compressor covering them, Juliette says what she has concluded from Scottie’s warning and from what cleaners always experience outside. Cleaners never get far, no matter how much the suits are supposedly improved, and they always have just enough time to clean. Combined with the bad tape and earlier faulty IT seals that reached Mechanical by mistake, this leads Juliette and Walker to conclude that the cleaners’ equipment is deliberately designed to fail. Juliette pushes the idea further: IT keeps mechanically skilled people far away from itself, controls separate supply chains in secret, likely murdered Scottie, and may be responsible for killing anyone who uncovers too much.