NO STRING ATTACHED - JENLISA

The Fault Line

Lisa stands alone. Soaked in sweat, blood, and dirt. Her jaw is clenched.

TAEYONG enters, throws a file on the table. Surveillance stills. Logs. Evidence.

TAEYONG
You disobeyed direct order. Compromised recon. Pulled the team out when we were this close to mapping Rin's trap.

LISA
She took a bullet for me.

TAEYONG
And she would've ordered you to finish the job. You think she wants to be your weakness?

Lisa doesn't answer.

TAEYONG (softer)
You think you're protecting her. But what you're really doing is showing Rin exactly where to strike.

Beat.

LISA (defiant, low)
Then let her come.

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INT. INFIRMARY – SAME TIME

Jennie lies on the cot, freshly stitched, one arm strapped in gauze. Her face is bruised but calm.

She stares out the window.

JENNIE (to herself)
She broke the rules for me.
...And I might break for her.

INT. BASE – INFIRMARY – NIGHT

Monitors beep softly. Jennie lies unconscious, bandaged, a bruise blooming along her side where shrapnel hit. Lisa sits at her bedside, face blank, but her fingers curled tightly into fists. She hasn't left since they got back.

The door creaks. Taeyong enters, slow and controlled.

TAEYONG
You disobeyed a direct order.

Lisa doesn't move.

LISA
She would've died.

TAEYONG
That was her call to make, not yours. You jeopardized the entire unit's position.

Lisa finally looks at him.

LISA
And I'd do it again.

Taeyong's jaw tightens.

TAEYONG
The team is shaken. Divided. Half of them think you're a hero. The other half think you've gone rogue.

LISA
Let them. I'll take the heat.

TAEYONG
It's not about the heat, Lisa. It's about the fracture you just caused. And Rin—Rin's already moving on it.

Lisa looks toward Jennie again, jaw set.

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INT. BRIEFING ROOM – LATER

The squad sits scattered. Rosé is quiet, eyes on her hands. Jisoo leans back, tense. Seulgi's pacing, eyes flashing. Somi slouches against the wall, unreadable.

Taeyong enters, tossing a classified file on the table.

TAEYONG
There's been a breach. Someone moved intel out during the confusion. Timing was precise.

The room tenses.

SEULGI
You think it was Rin?

TAEYONG
I think it was designed to look like it wasn't.

Jisoo exhales sharply. Jennie's absence is a void no one mentions.

SOMI
So what now? We pretend we're still a team?

TAEYONG
You be one. Or we all burn.

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INT. SURVEILLANCE ROOM – ELSEWHERE

Rin stands in the shadows, watching silent footage from the field. The exact moment Jennie shoved Lisa out of harm's way. The moment Lisa's mask cracked. She pauses on it.