Copycat

Hannah entered with coffee and a legal complaint already half-written. "Trademark filing went in yesterday. Theirs went in at 3:02 a.m. today. We have priority." "Law is slow," Priya said. "So are funerals. We still hold them." Ethan was barely listening. The copycat was not just a nuisance. It was a mirror placed in front of investors, customers, and regulators. If Atlas Tomorrow looked like one more AI hype shell, Horizon Gate could kill it without proving anything. At 4:07, the digest gave him the shape of the knife. 1. Tomorrow Atlas founder appears on cable at 8:10 p.m.; implies Ethan copied classified-sector methodology. 2. Victor Sloane retweets clip with comment: "Pattern recognition."