Twelve

Pip and Ravi work side-by-side, reviewing photos and videos sent by attendees of the calamity party and memorial. Ravi questions the value, but Pip insists Jamie’s unusual behavior that evening must be key to his disappearance. She notes Jamie ignored Natalie and likely followed someone from the memorial to the party.

Pip tracks time pressures: Jamie has been missing forty-two hours, with the pivotal forty-eight-hour mark approaching. She also worries her family will confront her about the missing-person posters once they return from the supermarket.

From party photos, Pip identifies two sightings: a 9:16 p.m. image showing a burgundy-sleeved arm with Jamie’s watch moving through a hallway, and a 9:38 p.m. photo placing Jamie by a bay window, tense and staring as if watching someone, consistent with Stephen Thompson’s account.

Opening a video sent by classmate Chris Marshall, Pip watches a beer-pong scene and spots Cara cheering in the foreground while, in the corridor behind, Jamie passes by. Scrubbing back, she sees Jamie clearly: burgundy shirt, head down, moving quickly while focused on a phone, ignoring the commotion.

The video captures Jamie for four seconds before he disappears from view, confirming his purposeful movement inside the party and suggesting active communication or tracking on his phone. Pip concludes they’ve found him again in the timeline.