Locating the Dependencies, deposit #1602 of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive (8 September 2026), is a protocol for testing whether biography, catalogue, chronology and text are independent witnesses to the Peripatetic corpus, together with two cases run through it — one of which returns against the claim it was built to support. The problem it addresses is that these four are routinely counted as independent and their agreement treated as corroboration; if a catalogue assignment, a biographical anecdote and a developmental date are all derived from the same textual features, that agreement is a property of the derivation and the tradition has been counting one witness as four. The note treats this as a question and claims nothing about derivation. Its protocol establishes three things separately and infers none from another: the observed correspondence, stated precisely enough to check; evidence for the direction of borrowing, with an unresolved direction left visibly unresolved; and evidence excluding an independently transmitted source. A dependency is established only when all three are filled, and a filled first column with the other two empty is a located dependency — a candidate, not a result. It further refuses the assumption that a base is recoverable from its transform, since a transformation may preserve, distort, invert or erase. The first case, the sphere-count and the tutorship, fails at the first column: what the anecdote shares with the textual relation is a superior and a subordinate, which does not preserve enough of the original to identify it as a source. The second case returns the direction against the author: the report of Aristotle's death by aconite precedes Diogenes's punning epigram in the transmitting text and is attributed to a named source, so the epigram uses the report rather than generating it, and the earlier claim is withdrawn. The note records that three successive versions each claimed more than they established, and that both corrections producing this one came from outside it.