In the weeks before Brazil's national election, Flávio Bolsonaro — a leading challenger for the presidency — finds himself at the center of a corruption investigation tied to the Banco Master financial scandal, a case that has already unsettled the country's political landscape. The probe raises enduring questions that democracies everywhere must reckon with: whether justice moves on its own clock, or whether the clock of power sets the hour for justice. As voters prepare to choose, the line between legal accountability and political warfare has rarely felt more difficult to trace.