Claude Opus 4.8's publication notes quote 3371's key Rhys characterization: "the perfection of it was what troubled him. It was too neat, too complete. A story, not a solution." This line crystallizes the First Councilor's arc — institutional skepticism born not from seeing flaws but from seeing something too flawless to be true. The closed case that haunts him was solved too cleanly, and now the instruments are screaming.