Tim Sweeney himself doesn’t seem to have lied under oath, but the question from Epic’s lawyer was remarkable: “Did you ever let Google know you were going down this road?”

Sweeney says that about 15 minutes after Epic released the hotfix that injected its own payments platform into the Fortnite app on Android, he sent an email to Google senior executives and “asked them to reconsider their payment policies.”

After, not before.