Six articles, fourteen sci-fi franchises, and a week that kept asking the same prior question in six different registers: who wrote the parameters, and what happens when someone decides to find out?

In which Loki confesses to engineering the operational conditions that placed a Florida Highway Patrol trooper in the precise location needed to intercept a Cadillac traveling 109 mph on Alligator Alley with a naked driver and three passengers, and explains why claiming the infrastructure of a controlled stop is a different kind of confession than claiming the incident that preceded it.