In October 1922, as the Ottoman Empire was taking its final breaths, a single telegraph transmission — a ceasefire proposal that might have preserved a rump state and redrawn the modern Middle East — was delayed for eleven hours because of a blown fuse and one very tired electrician who went home early. While historians debate the diplomacy, almost nobody talks about the basement of the Pera Palace telegraph office, the man who wasn't there, and the eleven hours that quietly closed the door on five centuries of empire. This week, we go to Constantinople on the last night it was still Constantinople.