Broadcast Code Geass: Diethard's Chess Line

"Get me a clean entrance vector for the press conference." Diethard Reid never asked for the director's monitor now welded behind his eyes, a frame that floods the world with one broadcast the instant it fires, pricing every secret in a spectacle weight that hollows his chest the moment he spends it. He lands in the Black Knights' comms bay in the days after the Narita landslide, the Britannian television producer Zero's rebellion recruited to stage other men's truths for the cameras. The Chess Line fires on its own before he can stop it, outing Zero's royal blood and Ohgi's hidden meetings with Villetta in the same feed, in front of an armed room already closing ranks around him. With Lelouch he holds the Fulcrum, a live-wire truce where Diethard could expose the Geass dependency any day he chooses, except the Bilateral Law means every broadcast he publishes prints his own loyalty in the same frame. The propaganda chief can no longer control what's shown of him.