EPISODE 9: THE RETURN ## CHAPTER 1: THE DEVELOPMENT October 2021. Tamara Chen-Morrison had been the Witness for four years when she saw the headline. "MEGA DEVELOPMENT APPROVED FOR CEDAR VALLEY: GALLERIA PLAZA TO TRANSFORM DOWNTOWN" She read the article three times, hoping she had misunderstood. She hadn't. --- ## CHAPTER 2: THE PLAN Galleria Plaza was going to be the largest mixed-use development in the Midwest. Residential towers. A shopping complex. An underground parking structure that would extend four stories beneath the surface. Directly over the site of the original Galleria of the Americas. "They're going to dig," Tamara said when she called her mother. "They're going to dig right through the seal." "Can you stop them?" "I don't know. The approval came from the state level. Someone with serious influence pushed this through." "Harrison Mercer?" "He died in 2003. But his company is still active. And their fingerprints are all over this." --- ## CHAPTER 3: THE INVESTIGATION Tamara had learned from the best. She traced the development through shell companies and offshore accounts, uncovering a network that made the original Foxwood Commons look simple. At the center of it all was a name: Elena Mercer. Harrison's daughter. A woman who had inherited her father's company and, apparently, his obsession with the Cedar Valley land. "She knows,"...