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A single payphone quarter gets left behind in a grocery store vestibule—flat on the coin return tray, like it’s meant to be found. It happens again. Same day. Same tight time window. Same man in a light windbreaker.

A cashier does the only thing she can: she logs the times on receipt tape, saves the quarters, and watches the routine tighten into a pattern. When she disrupts it with a swapped coin, the reaction is immediate—and quiet. Soon the “small odd habit” pulls in phone company security logs, service/collection schedules, and plain cars parked with perfect sightlines. An OUT OF ORDER sign appears where it shouldn’t… and the next move leads to an “unused” apartment with nothing inside except what was left behind: tape residue, a coin-shaped imprint, and the cold logic of a safehouse being cleared fast.

This is a Cold War domestic noir / procedural thriller where the tension isn’t gunfire—it’s repetition, paperwork, and the moment an ordinary place becomes a meeting point.

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