"Your daughter's really something."

Transit doesn't react to this. He might not even have heard her.

"You must be proud." Maybe her power knows whether he can hear her.

He cannot. Perhaps due to prior knowledge of her modus operandi, the bot is noise cancelling Tattletale's voice for him.

Probably it'd let anything really important through. She might be able to find a way to work with that but now isn't the time to see how her power works on robopsychology.

Lorica sacrifices every desideratum of durability and elegance to get a high res camera setup banged out as quickly as possible. It fits in one of her bigger bot chassis. She sticks it in, whips up a birthday card for one of the maintenance staff, and sends the bot with the camera carrying the card to Calvert's office to get a signature.

"That's the real him."

Gotcha, you son of a bitch.

"Cool. I can arrest him once you're confident the timeline's already kept."

"If you hadn't verified your identity to the bot nothing would have happened in this one and he would have kept it since the Merchant raid his mercs are doing in the other won't go well. Your actions won't change what his power predicted so when he tries to close this timeline he'll fail."

"If that makes your head hurt imagine how my days been."

"So you're saying I can arrest him right now?"

"Yeah, though once he realizes he'll try to end this timeline, fail and instead keep it, and then split from here."

"How well the splitting works is going to be wacky and depend on how well his power can predict you without scanning your brain."

"I guess I'd better make sure I've got a pretty airtight case." How is the sweep of the secondary lair going?

Bots have found a few encrypted hard drives, mercs, and Coil (or someone who appears to be him) getting a status report on surveillance of Kayden Anders, wife of the CEO of Medhall.

Bots take photos of everything and kidnap some drives to take home and decrypt. Can't tip him off till there's no timeline where he gets off erroneously.

"What are you waiting on?"

No use wasting her power when she can ask.

"Hoping to crack the drives. I don't have anything very concrete linking the fellow in the office to the hideout or anything there."

"Give me a chance to talk to someone who knows the password for ten minutes while I can see their face?"

She could probably do it in less than that if she were pushing but Lorica doesn't need to know that.

"Is that going to be anyone besides the man himself?"

"The drive is for the mercs, I can get one of them to give me the password if I can talk to them, I think. Or get it without their cooperation if I'm there in person."

"I can send the bot with the good camera into the hideout." She does this.

"Not good enough without a way to interact with people there, I need to see how they react to my guessing."

"It can relay voices. Tell them you hacked the bot or something."

She can work with this.

She informs them Coil is dead and she's cut a deal with the PRT - that drive is one of the requirements. They can all have neat severance packages if they cooperate with her. Whatever's on the drive makes them nervous as fuck according to her power, but not the PRT finding it so much, and also not her finding it, which narrows things down enough.

She insists that yes she knows the blackmail material that's on the drive (easy guess) and that it's about the Empire (process of elimination) and don't worry the PRT isn't going to put the resources into tracking down the hired muscle just for doing standard villain shit.

Welp, that didn't go over well - whatever's on that drive is worse than standard villain shit, probably identities of Empire villains given the context. Well, she can remind them that Lorica already has confirmation of this and the mercs involvement from the footage but Tattletale can help them out if they hand over the password.

That works! Password acquired

Hooray. What's on there, can she comprehensively bust Calvert with it?

Well, she can comprehensively bust the Medhall Corporation - it turns out the largest Pharmaceutical company in Brockton Bay is also a front for Empire Eighty-Eight - the CEO Max Anders is actually Kaiser and much of the executive team are villainous capes as well. It looked like Coil was putting together a comprehensive doc to leak to the media. This is a huge violation of the unwritten rules and would almost certainly mean that if he were convicted he'd go to the Birdcage.

The finances are enough to prove that Coil was the one funding all of this and that he's financially linked to Calvert, but not that they're the same person.