The day in three parts. Nothing here explains itself twice — read each on its own, or watch what carries between them.
The file closes in three jurisdictions and stays open in all of them.
The barrier is never the danger — the danger is what happens the day it is asked to actually work.
The dumpster, the driveway, and the tub were never separate incidents — they were the same failure of custody, filed three times under three different names.