The next morning, Lidia calls him into her office. "The showrunner wants to know who authorized a 22 CRF on a prestige title."

Marco says nothing. He just opens his laptop and starts looking for jobs outside physical media. A factory pressing the disc. Thousands of BD25s spinning. On each one, the president's face, slightly pixelated at the edges. And no one will ever know — except Marco.

Marco tried everything. Re-encoded the 5.1 audio to Dolby Digital at 448 kbps instead of lossless — saved 800 MB. Dropped the Spanish commentary track entirely. Lowered menu video to 720p. Still, he was 4 GB over.