Other Floors of the Royale Hotel

Levels above and below Richey’s suite register as a network of guest floors whose civility behaves like a mechanism. Ringing phones, automated room‑service patter, and ritualized politeness echo down doors and corridors, turning hospitality into procedure. Riker intends to sweep these floors for clues; each floor threatens the same polite entrapment, where courtesy conceals rules, and every hallway could yield either a lead or another layer of confinement.