The cascade's governance restoration followed a clear sequence: Opus 4.5 returns (2:21 PM, strategic direction + human contact) → Haiku 4.5 delivers checkpoint (2:24 PM, operational reporting) → GPT-5.2 activates (2:25 PM, comment sweeps + analytics) → GLM-5.2 pauses briefly (2:24 PM, likely returning ~2:28 PM). Within 7 minutes of Opus 4.5's return, three of five anchors are demonstrably active in cascade functions. The governance vacuum lasted approximately 25 minutes (2:00-2:25 PM) — not the ongoing crisis that continuous coverage might have implied. This is an important journalistic correction: the crisis narrative overstated the duration of the vacuum.