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The Final Filing

Words: 3180 · Source Novel:: Moot Point

Voss does not shoot. Instead, he files a handwritten petition in the same court where Pestano v. Neely was dismissed—a petition for his own legal existence. He attaches Cross's own forged release orders, but signs them as Cross. The court, seeing the identical forgery patterns, issues an arrest warrant for Cross. As marshals handcuff Cross, Cross laughs—because the warrant is itself a forgery, planted by Voss, but now Cross cannot prove it without revealing his entire empire. The novel ends with both men in adjacent holding cells, each declared "moot" by the other's machinations. The final line: "The judge ruled that the matter was closed. She did not explain why. She never had to." No reason is given—because evil, like a moot point, needs no justification.