Unspecified Jail Cell

Referenced only offstage as a possible place where Judge Roberto Mendoza might be detained, this location exists as an imagined, claustrophobic hold: a narrow space of metal bars, fluorescent glare, and the antiseptic tang of bureaucracy. It functions narratively as an unseen pressure point—cold, anonymous, and dehumanizing—into which power and uncertainty funnel, converting backstage panic into a concrete threat even though no physical details appear on screen.