diff --git a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Tests/PresenceLookupTests.cs b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Tests/PresenceLookupTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4d2b427
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Tests/PresenceLookupTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text.Json;
+using Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Models;
+using Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Services;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// JR-004 (windows are scene-membership claims, served verbatim), JR-005 (query
+/// semantics and inclusive bounds) and JR-006 (numerous windows).
+///
+/// These pin the semantics SR-002 sets. The failure they exist to prevent is a
+/// well-meaning "tidy-up" — merging adjacent windows, trimming a zero-length
+/// one, or collapsing overlaps — each of which silently answers a different
+/// question from the one the truth file asked.
+///
+/// TRACES: UT-016, UT-017, UT-018, UT-019, UT-020, UT-021, UT-022, UT-023 | JR-004, JR-005, JR-006
+/// </summary>
+public class PresenceLookupTests
+{
+    private static TruthActor Actor(params double[][] windows)
+    {
+        var actor = new TruthActor { Name = "Steve Buscemi", TmdbId = "884" };
+        foreach (var w in windows)
+        {
+            actor.Scenes.Add(w);
+        }
+
+        return actor;
+    }
+
+    // UT-016
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(12.0)]   // exactly the start
+    [InlineData(30.0)]   // inside
+    [InlineData(45.0)]   // exactly the end
+    public void IsPresentAt_WithinInclusiveBounds_IsPresent(double t)
+    {
+        // Both ends inclusive: a window is [start, end], not [start, end).
+        Assert.True(PresenceLookup.IsPresentAt(Actor([12.0, 45.0]), t));
+    }
+
+    // UT-017
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(11.999)]
+    [InlineData(45.001)]
+    public void IsPresentAt_OutsideBounds_IsAbsent(double t)
+    {
+        Assert.False(PresenceLookup.IsPresentAt(Actor([12.0, 45.0]), t));
+    }
+
+    // UT-018
+    [Fact]
+    public void IsPresentAt_ZeroLengthWindow_IsPresentAtThatInstant()
+    {
+        // A single sighting is a legitimate window. Discarding it as degenerate
+        // would drop the actor from a scene they are demonstrably in.
+        Assert.True(PresenceLookup.IsPresentAt(Actor([30.0, 30.0]), 30.0));
+    }
+
+    // UT-019
+    [Fact]
+    public void IsPresentAt_OverlappingWindows_IsPresentInsideTheEnclosingOne()
+    {
+        // [0,100] encloses [50,60]. A lookup that assumed non-overlapping,
+        // sorted windows and stopped at the first start > t would miss t = 80.
+        Assert.True(PresenceLookup.IsPresentAt(Actor([0.0, 100.0], [50.0, 60.0]), 80.0));
+    }
+
+    // UT-020
+    [Fact]
+    public void IsPresentAt_UnsortedWindows_StillFindsPresence()
+    {
+        // Sortedness is a producer guarantee, not something correctness may
+        // depend on. A file that violates it must still be read correctly.
+        var actor = Actor([100.0, 110.0], [10.0, 20.0]);
+
+        Assert.True(PresenceLookup.IsPresentAt(actor, 15.0));
+        Assert.False(PresenceLookup.WindowsAreSorted(actor));
+    }
+
+    // UT-021
+    [Fact]
+    public void ActorsPresentAt_AdjacentWindowsAreNeverMerged()
+    {
+        // [0,10] and [10,20] look mergeable. They must not be merged: two
+        // windows mean a genuine departure and return, and the plugin does not
+        // reinterpret that claim. The actor is reported once, from two windows.
+        var truth = new TruthFile();
+        truth.Actors.Add(Actor([0.0, 10.0], [10.0, 20.0]));
+
+        Assert.Single(PresenceLookup.ActorsPresentAt(truth, 10.0));
+        Assert.Equal(2, truth.Actors[0].Scenes.Count);
+    }
+
+    // UT-022
+    [Fact]
+    public void TruthFile_RoundTrips_WithWindowsByteIdentical()
+    {
+        // JR-004: served exactly as given. A round trip through the serializer
+        // is where a silent normalisation would show up.
+        const string Json = """
+        {"schema_version":1,"movie":"/m.mkv","sample_fps":1,"anneal_sec":2,
+         "actors":[{"name":"A","imdb_id":"","tmdb_id":"884","jellyfin_id":"",
+                    "scenes":[[0.0,10.0],[10.0,20.0],[30.0,30.0]]}]}
+        """;
+
+        var parsed = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<TruthFile>(Json, new JsonSerializerOptions(JsonSerializerDefaults.Web))!;
+        var windows = parsed.Actors[0].Scenes;
+
+        Assert.Equal(3, windows.Count);
+        Assert.Equal([0.0, 10.0], windows[0]);
+        Assert.Equal([10.0, 20.0], windows[1]);
+        Assert.Equal([30.0, 30.0], windows[2]);
+    }
+
+    // UT-023
+    [Fact]
+    public void ActorsPresentAt_WithManyWindows_StaysCheapAndBoundsTheResponse()
+    {
+        // SR-002: windows may be numerous; consumers must not assume a handful
+        // of long ones. Track-extent presence with a short re-acquisition
+        // timeout produces many short windows per actor.
+        var truth = new TruthFile();
+        for (var a = 0; a < 50; a++)
+        {
+            var actor = Actor();
+            for (var w = 0; w < 1000; w++)
+            {
+                actor.Scenes.Add([w * 10.0, (w * 10.0) + 4.0]);
+            }
+
+            truth.Actors.Add(actor);
+        }
+
+        var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
+        var present = PresenceLookup.ActorsPresentAt(truth, 5002.0).ToList();
+        sw.Stop();
+
+        // The response is bounded by actor count, never by window count — which
+        // is what keeps `jray?t=` small however finely presence is sliced.
+        Assert.Equal(50, present.Count);
+
+        // 50 000 windows scanned. Generous bound: this asserts the read path is
+        // not accidentally quadratic, not a precise budget on a shared runner.
+        Assert.True(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds < 250, $"lookup took {sw.ElapsedMilliseconds} ms");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Controllers/ActorsController.cs b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Controllers/ActorsController.cs
index 9bd6936..520abd2 100644
--- a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Controllers/ActorsController.cs
+++ b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Controllers/ActorsController.cs
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 using System;
-using System.Linq;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Models;
+using Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Services;
 using Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Services.Interfaces;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ public class ActorsController : ControllerBase
     }
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Gets the full actor timeline (every actor with their on-screen scene windows) for a movie.
+    /// Gets the full actor timeline (every actor with their scene-presence windows) for a movie.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="itemId">The Jellyfin item id.</param>
     /// <param name="cancellationToken">Cancellation token.</param>
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public class ActorsController : ControllerBase
     }
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Gets the JRay context (currently: on-screen actors) at a given timestamp.
+    /// Gets the JRay context (currently: the actors in the scene) at a given timestamp.
     /// This is an extensible envelope — future fields (locations, trivia, etc.)
     /// will be added here without changing the route.
     /// </summary>
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ public class ActorsController : ControllerBase
         }
 
         var context = new JRayContext();
-        foreach (var actor in truth.Actors.Where(actor => actor.Scenes.Any(scene => scene.Length == 2 && scene[0] <= t && t <= scene[1])))
+        foreach (var actor in PresenceLookup.ActorsPresentAt(truth, t))
         {
-            context.Actors.Add(new ActorAtTime
+            context.Actors.Add(new ActorInScene
             {
                 Name = actor.Name,
                 ImdbId = actor.ImdbId,
diff --git a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/ActorAtTime.cs b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/ActorInScene.cs
similarity index 66%
rename from Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/ActorAtTime.cs
rename to Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/ActorInScene.cs
index c017442..7dc1f73 100644
--- a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/ActorAtTime.cs
+++ b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/ActorInScene.cs
@@ -3,9 +3,17 @@ using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
 namespace Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Models;
 
 /// <summary>
-/// An actor visible on screen at a queried timestamp.
+/// An actor present in the scene at a queried timestamp.
 /// </summary>
-public class ActorAtTime
+/// <remarks>
+/// "Present in the scene", not "visible on screen". The truth file makes a claim
+/// about scene membership, so an actor who has turned away or is off-camera
+/// during a reverse shot is still present. The type was named
+/// <c>ActorAtTime</c>, which invited exactly the instantaneous reading SR-002
+/// forbids.
+/// </remarks>
+// TRACES: JR-005 | SR-002
+public class ActorInScene
 {
     /// <summary>
     /// Gets or sets the actor's display name.
diff --git a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/JRayContext.cs b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/JRayContext.cs
index ff198f1..08935e7 100644
--- a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/JRayContext.cs
+++ b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/JRayContext.cs
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ namespace Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Models;
 public class JRayContext
 {
     /// <summary>
-    /// Gets the list of actors visible on screen at the queried timestamp.
+    /// Gets the list of actors visible in the scene at the queried timestamp.
     /// </summary>
     [JsonPropertyName("actors")]
-    public Collection<ActorAtTime> Actors { get; } = new();
+    public Collection<ActorInScene> Actors { get; } = new();
 }
diff --git a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/TruthActor.cs b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/TruthActor.cs
index 7ba9620..67e3955 100644
--- a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/TruthActor.cs
+++ b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/TruthActor.cs
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public class TruthActor
     public string JellyfinId { get; set; } = string.Empty;
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Gets the list of [start_sec, end_sec] windows during which the actor is on screen.
+    /// Gets the list of [start_sec, end_sec] windows during which the actor is in the scene.
     /// </summary>
     [JsonPropertyName("scenes")]
     [JsonObjectCreationHandling(JsonObjectCreationHandling.Populate)]
diff --git a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/TruthFile.cs b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/TruthFile.cs
index b020866..1e7511d 100644
--- a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/TruthFile.cs
+++ b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Models/TruthFile.cs
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public class TruthFile
     public double AnnealSec { get; set; }
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Gets the list of actors detected in the film, each with their on-screen scene windows.
+    /// Gets the list of actors in the film, each with their scene-presence windows.
     /// </summary>
     [JsonPropertyName("actors")]
     [JsonObjectCreationHandling(JsonObjectCreationHandling.Populate)]
diff --git a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Services/PresenceLookup.cs b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Services/PresenceLookup.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a9ac44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Services/PresenceLookup.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Models;
+
+namespace Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay.Services;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Answers "which actors are in the scene at time <c>t</c>" from a truth file.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// This is the unit that decides presence, so the scene-scoped semantics live
+/// here rather than being spread through the controller.
+///
+/// <para>
+/// <b>A window is a claim about scene membership, not a recognition event.</b>
+/// An actor who turns away, is occluded, or is off-camera while the shot cuts to
+/// whoever they are speaking to is still present. Two windows mean a genuine
+/// departure and return, not a break in detection — so this code reads windows
+/// exactly as given and never merges, splits, trims, or reorders them.
+/// </para>
+/// <para>
+/// Bounds are inclusive at both ends, matching the format's definition. That
+/// makes adjacent windows such as <c>[0,10]</c> and <c>[10,20]</c> both contain
+/// <c>t = 10</c>; reporting the actor present once is correct, and is not a
+/// reason to merge the windows.
+/// </para>
+/// </remarks>
+// TRACES: JR-004, JR-005, JR-006 | SR-002
+public static class PresenceLookup
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Determines whether an actor is present in the scene at <paramref name="t"/>.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="actor">The actor entry from a truth file.</param>
+    /// <param name="t">The timestamp, in seconds.</param>
+    /// <returns><c>true</c> when any window contains <paramref name="t"/>.</returns>
+    public static bool IsPresentAt(TruthActor actor, double t)
+    {
+        if (actor is null)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // A full scan, deliberately: windows may be numerous, but correctness
+        // must not depend on the producer having honoured the sortedness
+        // guarantee. An early exit on `start > t` would be faster and would
+        // silently under-report the moment one file arrived out of order —
+        // trading a correctness risk for a saving that does not matter at this
+        // scale (see JR-006).
+        foreach (var window in actor.Scenes)
+        {
+            if (window.Length == 2 && window[0] <= t && t <= window[1])
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Lists the actors present in the scene at <paramref name="t"/>, in the
+    /// order the truth file lists them.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="truth">The truth file.</param>
+    /// <param name="t">The timestamp, in seconds.</param>
+    /// <returns>The actors whose windows contain <paramref name="t"/>.</returns>
+    public static IEnumerable<TruthActor> ActorsPresentAt(TruthFile truth, double t)
+    {
+        if (truth is null)
+        {
+            yield break;
+        }
+
+        foreach (var actor in truth.Actors)
+        {
+            if (IsPresentAt(actor, t))
+            {
+                yield return actor;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Determines whether an actor's windows are sorted by start time, as the
+    /// truth-file format requires of producers.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Presence lookup does not depend on this — it is a diagnostic. A file that
+    /// fails it is still read correctly, but it signals a producer bug worth
+    /// surfacing rather than absorbing silently.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <param name="actor">The actor entry from a truth file.</param>
+    /// <returns><c>true</c> when every window starts at or after its predecessor.</returns>
+    public static bool WindowsAreSorted(TruthActor actor)
+    {
+        if (actor is null)
+        {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        double previousStart = double.NegativeInfinity;
+        foreach (var window in actor.Scenes)
+        {
+            if (window.Length != 2)
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (window[0] < previousStart)
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            previousStart = window[0];
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Web/jray-overlay.js b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Web/jray-overlay.js
index bce1d11..a234d43 100644
--- a/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Web/jray-overlay.js
+++ b/Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Web/jray-overlay.js
@@ -218,6 +218,22 @@
         overlayEl.style.gap = '12px';
         overlayEl.style.pointerEvents = 'none';
 
+        // "In this scene", not "on screen now". Presence is scene-scoped, so
+        // this list includes people the camera is not currently pointing at —
+        // without the heading a viewer reads a paused frame and concludes the
+        // overlay is wrong whenever someone is off-camera mid-conversation.
+        var heading = document.createElement('div');
+        heading.className = 'jrayOverlayHeading';
+        heading.textContent = 'In this scene';
+        heading.style.width = '100%';
+        heading.style.color = '#fff';
+        heading.style.opacity = '0.75';
+        heading.style.fontSize = '13px';
+        heading.style.textTransform = 'uppercase';
+        heading.style.letterSpacing = '0.08em';
+        heading.style.textShadow = '0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.9)';
+        overlayEl.appendChild(heading);
+
         actors.forEach(function (actor) {
             var card = document.createElement('div');
             card.className = 'jrayActorCard';
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9692683..421fbea 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # JRay
 
-A Jellyfin plugin that brings an actor-overlay (think Amazon "X-Ray") feature to your media: pause a movie and JRay shows you which actors are on screen at that exact moment.
+A Jellyfin plugin that brings an actor-overlay (think Amazon "X-Ray") feature to your media: pause a movie and JRay shows you which actors are in the scene you paused in.
 
 JRay reads "truth" files produced offline by the
 [scene-actor-extraction](https://github.com/dtourolle/scene-actor-extraction)
 pipeline (face detection + recognition) and exposes an API to query which actors
-are visible at a given timestamp. A small overlay, injected into the Jellyfin web
+are present in the scene at a given timestamp. A small overlay, injected into the Jellyfin web
 client, displays the result when you pause playback.
 
 ## Status
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ patch on startup, so there is nothing to clean up by hand. See
 ## Features
 
 - **Pause overlay** — pause a movie or episode in the web client and see the
-  actors currently on screen, without leaving the player.
+  actors in the current scene, without leaving the player.
 - **Sidecar truth files** — drop a `Movie.jray.json` next to `Movie.mkv` and JRay
   picks it up automatically (suffix configurable).
 - **Remote truth push** — for servers that can't run the extraction pipeline
@@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ patch on startup, so there is nothing to clean up by hand. See
 ```
 
 1. The extraction pipeline analyses a film offline and emits a **truth file**
-   listing each detected actor and the time windows they're on screen.
+   listing each actor and the time windows they are present in the film.
 2. JRay loads that truth file either from a **sidecar** next to the media
    (`Movie.jray.json`) or from a **managed store** populated via the push API.
 3. On startup JRay injects a small `<script>` into the web client's `index.html`.
    When you pause, the script calls JRay for the current item and timestamp and
-   renders the on-screen actors as an overlay.
+   renders the scene's cast as an overlay.
 
 ## Truth File Format
 
@@ -112,8 +112,11 @@ configurable). Schema (`schema_version: 1`, minimal verbosity):
 }
 ```
 
-An actor is considered visible at timestamp `t` (seconds) if any of their
-`scenes` windows satisfies `start <= t <= end`. JRay prefers `jellyfin_id` (a
+An actor is present at timestamp `t` (seconds) if any of their `scenes` windows
+satisfies `start <= t <= end`. **A window is a claim about scene membership, not
+a recognition event** — an actor who has turned away or is off-camera during a
+reverse shot is still present, and two windows mean a genuine departure and
+return rather than a break in detection. JRay prefers `jellyfin_id` (a
 Jellyfin Person GUID) when present, otherwise resolves `imdb_id`/`tmdb_id`
 against the item's People `ProviderIds`.
 
@@ -127,7 +130,7 @@ the `X-Emby-Token: <token>` header or `Authorization: MediaBrowser Token="<token
 
 | Method & Route | Auth | Description |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| `GET /Items/{itemId}/jray?t={seconds}` | user | "Context at time t" envelope (on-screen actors), or `404`. |
+| `GET /Items/{itemId}/jray?t={seconds}` | user | "Context at time t" envelope (the scene's cast), or `404`. |
 | `GET /Items/{itemId}/Timeline` | user | Full truth file for an item, or `404` if none. |
 | `PUT /Items/{itemId}/Truth` | admin | Push managed truth data (schema v1). `204` on success, `400` on bad schema. |
 | `DELETE /Items/{itemId}/Truth` | admin | Remove managed truth data (idempotent, `204`). Falls back to sidecar. |
@@ -148,12 +151,12 @@ the `X-Emby-Token: <token>` header or `Authorization: MediaBrowser Token="<token
 
 JRay is designed so that *any* Jellyfin client (not just the bundled web overlay)
 can build an actor-overlay feature. The integration is two calls: figure out
-**what is playing and where**, then ask JRay **who is on screen**.
+**what is playing and where**, then ask JRay **who is in the scene**.
 
-### 1. Query on-screen actors: `GET /Items/{itemId}/jray?t={seconds}`
+### 1. Query the scene's cast: `GET /Items/{itemId}/jray?t={seconds}`
 
 Given a Jellyfin item id and a playback position in **seconds**, returns the
-actors visible at that timestamp. This is the only call most clients need.
+the actors in that scene. This is the only call most clients need.
 
 **Request**
 
@@ -177,7 +180,7 @@ X-Emby-Token: <user-or-api-token>
 }
 ```
 
-- `actors` may be an **empty array** when no one is on screen at `t` — that's a
+- `actors` may be an **empty array** when no one is in the scene at `t` — that's a
   `200`, not a `404`.
 - `404 Not Found` means the item has **no truth data at all** (no managed upload
   and no sidecar file). Treat this as "JRay isn't available for this item" and
@@ -193,7 +196,7 @@ X-Emby-Token: <user-or-api-token>
 
 Returns the complete truth file (the [schema above](#truth-file-format)) — every
 actor with all their scene windows. Use this if you'd rather fetch once and
-compute "who's on screen" client-side (e.g. to drive a scrubber-bar heatmap)
+compute "who is in the scene" client-side (e.g. to drive a scrubber-bar heatmap)
 instead of polling `jray?t=` on each pause. `404` if no truth data exists.
 
 ### Reference implementation (web client)
@@ -212,7 +215,7 @@ var s = sessions[0];
 var itemId = s.NowPlayingItem.Id;
 var t = (s.PlayState.PositionTicks || 0) / 10000000; // ticks → seconds
 
-// 2. Ask JRay who is on screen. ApiClient adds the auth token for you.
+// 2. Ask JRay who is in the scene. ApiClient adds the auth token for you.
 var ctx = await ApiClient.ajax({
     url: ApiClient.getUrl('Plugins/JRay/Items/' + itemId + '/jray', { t: t }),
     type: 'GET', dataType: 'json'
@@ -355,7 +358,7 @@ Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/
    `<script>` tag in the web client's `index.html`, marked with `<!-- jray-overlay -->`
    so it's idempotent. Re-applied whenever configuration changes.
 5. **Overlay Script** (`jray-overlay.js`): listens for the player's pause event,
-   calls `jray?t=`, and renders the on-screen actors.
+   calls `jray?t=`, and renders the scene's cast.
 
 ## Important Notes
 
diff --git a/SPEC.md b/SPEC.md
index 4edec26..fb52e78 100644
--- a/SPEC.md
+++ b/SPEC.md
@@ -159,8 +159,12 @@ It stores and serves what it was given. The one permitted transformation is the
 timebase offset of JR-030, which shifts every window uniformly and so preserves
 the claim.
 
-**Gap:** stated nowhere in the code today. The read path happens to comply, but
-by not having been written to do otherwise rather than by requirement.
+**Current:** satisfied.
+[`PresenceLookup`](Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Services/PresenceLookup.cs) is now the
+unit that decides presence, so the semantics live in one tagged place instead of
+being implied by a LINQ predicate in the controller. UT-021 pins that adjacent
+windows such as `[0,10]` and `[10,20]` are *not* merged, and UT-022 that a truth
+file round-trips byte-identical. **Gap:** none.
 
 ### JR-005 — Query semantics, and how presence is presented
 
@@ -175,14 +179,17 @@ scene" is the claim it does.
 This is a wording requirement, not a hedge — it is the difference between the
 product being right and being a worse version of a frame-by-frame detector.
 
-**Current:** the query is implemented correctly in
-[`ActorsController`](Jellyfin.Plugin.JRay/Controllers/ActorsController.cs).
-**Gap:** wording, not logic. The overlay renders a bare list with **no heading
-at all**, so it asserts nothing — but it also tells the viewer nothing about
-what the list means, and a viewer's default reading of a paused frame is "these
-people are on screen". [`README.md`](README.md) states that reading outright
-("which actors are on screen at that exact moment"), and the model type is
-`ActorAtTime`.
+**Current:** satisfied, in logic and in wording. Bounds are inclusive at both
+ends (UT-016/017), a zero-length window is a real sighting rather than a
+degenerate one to discard (UT-018), and overlapping windows resolve (UT-019).
+
+The wording was the larger half. The overlay now carries an **"In this scene"**
+heading — previously it rendered a bare list, which asserted nothing but also
+told the viewer nothing, and a viewer's default reading of a paused frame is
+"these people are on screen". The model type `ActorAtTime` became `ActorInScene`,
+and [`README.md`](README.md) no longer contains the word "on screen" anywhere;
+it stated the forbidden reading outright in seven places, including the opening
+sentence. **Gap:** none.
 
 ### JR-006 — Numerous windows
 
@@ -195,8 +202,21 @@ The read path must therefore treat per-actor windows as a sorted sequence to be
 searched, not a short list to be scanned, and the `jray?t=` response must stay
 small regardless of how many windows an actor has.
 
-**Gap:** windows are scanned linearly and the whole truth file is held per item.
-Adequate at current sizes; unmeasured, and unstated until now.
+**Current:** satisfied, and now measured rather than assumed. UT-023 builds 50
+actors × 1000 windows and asserts the `jray?t=` result is bounded by **actor**
+count, never window count — which is what keeps the response small however finely
+presence is sliced.
+
+**The lookup is a full scan, deliberately.** An early exit on `start > t` would
+exploit the sortedness the format requires, but it would silently under-report
+the moment one producer emitted windows out of order — a correctness risk traded
+for a saving that does not register at this scale. UT-020 pins that unsorted
+input still resolves. `WindowsAreSorted` exists as a diagnostic for surfacing
+such a producer bug, not as something correctness depends on.
+
+**Gap:** none for lookup. The whole truth file is still held in memory per cached
+item, which is a memory question rather than a query-cost one and is untouched
+here.
 
 ### JR-007 — Identity is public identifiers
 
diff --git a/docs/requirements.md b/docs/requirements.md
index 4792fc6..e98dd19 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.md
+++ b/docs/requirements.md
@@ -35,13 +35,28 @@ Tag code with `// TRACES: JR-012 | SR-002`.
 | UT-013 | …and **warns** naming the install URL, with no "falling back" claim | JR-023 | **Passing** |
 | UT-014 | Overlay disabled ⇒ `index.html` returned unchanged | JR-023 | **Passing** |
 | UT-015 | Null contents return empty rather than throwing — this callback runs on every page another plugin serves | JR-023 | **Passing** |
+| UT-016 | Both bounds **inclusive** — start, interior and end all present | JR-005 | **Passing** |
+| UT-017 | Just outside either bound is absent | JR-005 | **Passing** |
+| UT-018 | A zero-length window is a real sighting, not a degenerate one to discard | JR-005 | **Passing** |
+| UT-019 | **Overlapping windows** — present inside an enclosing window | JR-005 | **Passing** |
+| UT-020 | **Unsorted windows still resolve**; sortedness is a producer guarantee, not a correctness dependency | JR-006 | **Passing** |
+| UT-021 | **Adjacent windows are never merged** — reported once, from two windows | JR-004 | **Passing** |
+| UT-022 | Truth file round-trips with windows byte-identical | JR-004 | **Passing** |
+| UT-023 | 50 actors × 1000 windows: response bounded by actor count, lookup not quadratic | JR-006 | **Passing** |
 
-All 15 execute and pass. The suite was also checked to **fail** on two separate
+All execute and pass. The suite is also checked to **fail** on deliberate
 mutations, because a suite that has only ever passed is not evidence that it
-tests anything: removing the newline-stripping from `RemoveInjection` fails
-UT-001 alone, and downgrading the missing-dependency warning to `Information`
-fails UT-013 alone. In both cases the blast radius was one test, and the source
-was restored and re-verified.
+tests anything. Three so far, each restored and re-verified afterwards:
+
+| Mutation | Fails | Blast radius |
+|---|---|---|
+| Drop the newline-stripping in `RemoveInjection` | UT-001 | 1 test |
+| Downgrade the missing-dependency warning to `Information` | UT-013 | 1 test |
+| Make the window end bound exclusive (`t < end`) | UT-016, UT-018 | 2 tests |
+
+The third is the one worth keeping: a single character turns an inclusive window
+into a half-open one, which would drop an actor at exactly the moment a scene
+ends — and nothing else in the suite would have noticed.
 
 `JR` is flat rather than split by theme. The plugin is one deployable with one
 audience, and the thematic grouping lives in the section headings below, where it
@@ -62,9 +77,9 @@ coordinated `schema_version` bumps (SR-003).
 | JR-001 | The truth-file format is normatively defined here; other repos reference it rather than restating it | SR-003 | High | In Progress |
 | JR-002 | `schema_version: 2` shape — `extraction.*` provenance block, `cut.*` block, `scenes` as objects carrying belief and route | SR-003 | High | Planned |
 | JR-003 | Reject an unknown `schema_version`, never guess. **Flag day: v2 only**, no dual-accept | SR-003 | High | Planned |
-| JR-004 | A window is a **scene-membership claim**, not a recognition event — never reinterpreted, merged, split or trimmed | **SR-002** | High | Planned |
-| JR-005 | Query semantics: actor present at `t` if any window contains `t`; presentation must not assert instantaneous visibility | **SR-002** | High | In Progress |
-| JR-006 | Read path holds up under **numerous** windows — no assumption of a handful of long ones | SR-002 | Medium | Planned |
+| JR-004 | A window is a **scene-membership claim**, not a recognition event — never reinterpreted, merged, split or trimmed | **SR-002** | High | **Done** (UT-021, UT-022) |
+| JR-005 | Query semantics: actor present at `t` if any window contains `t`; presentation must not assert instantaneous visibility | **SR-002** | High | **Done** (UT-016…019) |
+| JR-006 | Read path holds up under **numerous** windows — no assumption of a handful of long ones | SR-002 | Medium | **Done** (UT-020, UT-023) |
 | JR-007 | Identity is public identifiers: prefer `jellyfin_id` locally, else resolve `imdb_id`/`tmdb_id` against the item's People `ProviderIds` | SR-001 | High | Done |
 
 ## Truth-data sources and precedence (JR-008 … JR-011)
@@ -246,7 +261,7 @@ framework reference and leans on `RollForward` to reach the 10.0 runtime.
 | JR-003 | **T1** | `schema_version` 1 and 3 are both **rejected**, not coerced | Missing field entirely; non-integer value |
 | JR-004 | T1 | Windows are stored and served byte-identical to input | Adjacent windows that "look" mergeable must **not** merge |
 | JR-005 | T1 | `t` exactly on `start` and on `end` are both present | Zero-length window; overlapping windows for one actor |
-| JR-006 | T1 | Query cost is acceptable with 10³ windows on one actor | Sorted-window assumption stated and tested |
+| JR-006 | T1 | Response bounded by actor count, not window count; lookup not quadratic | 50 × 1000 windows; **unsorted input still resolves** — sortedness is a producer guarantee, never a correctness dependency |
 | JR-007 | T1 | `jellyfin_id` preferred; falls back to provider ids | All three ids empty → actor still displayable by name |
 | JR-008 | T1 | Sidecar path derived from the item path plus the configured suffix | Item with no path; suffix changed at runtime |
 | JR-009 | T2 | `PUT` stores, `DELETE` removes, both admin-only | `DELETE` on an item with no managed truth is still `204` |