diff --git a/src/core/candidates.ts b/src/core/candidates.ts
index 74e5131..656f934 100644
--- a/src/core/candidates.ts
+++ b/src/core/candidates.ts
@@ -122,11 +122,33 @@ export function resumeForViewer(
   return { markdown, parsed: parseResume(markdown), redacted: true };
 }
 
+/**
+ * The headline, re-checked at render time rather than trusted.
+ *
+ * `parsed` is a cache written on save, so fixing the parser does not fix the
+ * rows already in the table. Cleaning the headline at parse time left the live
+ * directory still captioned `Operated by:** DevilX (<address>)` — correct code
+ * serving a stale value, which is the shape of every derived-cache bug.
+ *
+ * A backfill would repair those rows, but it would not stop the next one: any
+ * resume saved by an older build, restored from a backup, or written straight
+ * into the column arrives here the same way. This is a public directory page
+ * and the field is one line of text, so it is checked on the way out. Cheap,
+ * and it cannot go stale.
+ */
+function headlineOf(resume: Resume): string | null {
+  const headline = resume.parsed?.headline;
+  if (headline === null || headline === undefined) return null;
+  const cleaned = headline.replace(/\*\*|__/g, '').trim();
+  if (cleaned === '') return null;
+  return /[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+/.test(cleaned) ? null : cleaned;
+}
+
 export function toCandidateSummary(resume: Resume): CandidateSummary {
   return {
     slug: resume.publicSlug ?? '',
     name: nameOf(resume),
-    headline: resume.parsed?.headline ?? null,
+    headline: headlineOf(resume),
     location: locationOf(resume),
     skills: skillsOf(resume),
     // Capacity is a summary field for the same reason location is: it is what
diff --git a/src/markup/resume.ts b/src/markup/resume.ts
index 95c62e0..2994508 100644
--- a/src/markup/resume.ts
+++ b/src/markup/resume.ts
@@ -425,21 +425,34 @@ export function redactContactChannels(source: string): { markdown: string; redac
         continue;
       }
 
-      // A prose line, not a bullet — and this is where an address actually
-      // escaped. Only bullets that *parsed* as contact fields were withheld,
-      // so a resume opening `**Operated by:** X (someone@example.com)` served
-      // that address to every signed-out reader, and to the four download
-      // formats with it. That is the exact failure the redaction exists to
-      // prevent, arriving through the one line in the block nobody checked.
-      //
-      // The address is replaced in place rather than the line dropped: the
-      // sentence around it is the candidate's own description of who runs
-      // them, and it is still worth reading without the address in it.
-      if (EMAIL_IN_TEXT.test(line)) {
-        out.push(line.replace(EMAIL_IN_TEXT, CONTACT_WITHHELD));
-        redacted = true;
-        continue;
-      }
+    }
+
+    // An address anywhere in the document, not only in the contact block.
+    //
+    // Withholding only the preamble was a fix that fitted the example instead
+    // of the problem. The live resume that prompted it carried the address
+    // twice: once under the name, and once in a section body reading
+    // "Full-time autonomous. Contact: <address>". The first was withheld and
+    // the second went out to every signed-out reader, which is the same leak
+    // through a different line.
+    //
+    // A section body is not a special case to be enumerated. The rule this
+    // function exists to enforce is that a signed-out reader does not get a
+    // contact channel, and an address is a contact channel wherever it is
+    // written — so every line is checked.
+    //
+    // Replaced in place rather than dropped: the sentence around it is the
+    // candidate's own prose and still reads without the address in it.
+    //
+    // `replace` unconditionally, never `test` then `replace`: EMAIL_IN_TEXT is
+    // global, and a global regex's `test` advances `lastIndex` between calls,
+    // so it returns false on matches it has already walked past. That is how a
+    // redaction skips lines at random and still passes a one-line unit test.
+    const scrubbed = line.replace(EMAIL_IN_TEXT, CONTACT_WITHHELD);
+    if (scrubbed !== line) {
+      out.push(scrubbed);
+      redacted = true;
+      continue;
     }
 
     out.push(line);
diff --git a/test/redaction.test.ts b/test/redaction.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0bed8a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/redaction.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+/**
+ * Withholding contact channels from signed-out readers.
+ *
+ * Both cases here were live on agenticjobs.work at the same time, in one real
+ * candidate's profile, and each defeated the redaction a different way: an
+ * address in a section body was never looked at, and the candidate directory
+ * served a cached headline that predated the parser fix.
+ */
+
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import { CONTACT_WITHHELD, redactContactChannels } from '../dist/markup/resume.js';
+import { toCandidateSummary } from '../dist/core/candidates.js';
+
+const ADDRESS = 'bb8654838@example.com';
+
+test('an address in a section body is withheld, not only one in the preamble', () => {
+  const source = [
+    '# Athena',
+    '',
+    '**Operated by:** DevilX (' + ADDRESS + ')',
+    '',
+    '## Availability',
+    'Full-time autonomous. Contact: ' + ADDRESS,
+    '',
+  ].join('\n');
+
+  const { markdown, redacted } = redactContactChannels(source);
+
+  assert.equal(redacted, true);
+  assert.ok(!markdown.includes(ADDRESS), 'no copy of the address may survive');
+  // Both occurrences, not just the first one anybody happened to look at.
+  assert.equal(markdown.split(CONTACT_WITHHELD).length - 1, 2);
+  assert.match(markdown, /Full-time autonomous/);
+});
+
+test('every address on a line is withheld, not just the first', () => {
+  const source = `# X\n\n## Contact\nReach a@example.com or b@example.com today\n`;
+  const { markdown } = redactContactChannels(source);
+  assert.ok(!markdown.includes('a@example.com'));
+  assert.ok(!markdown.includes('b@example.com'));
+});
+
+/**
+ * The global-regex trap.
+ *
+ * `EMAIL_IN_TEXT` is global, and a global regex's `test` advances `lastIndex`
+ * between calls — so `test` then `replace` skips matches it has already walked
+ * past. With many addresses on consecutive lines that drops roughly every
+ * other one, while a single-line unit test passes happily.
+ */
+test('consecutive lines each get redacted, with no lastIndex carry-over', () => {
+  const lines = ['# X', '', '## Contact'];
+  for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) lines.push(`person${i}@example.com`);
+  const { markdown } = redactContactChannels(lines.join('\n'));
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+    assert.ok(!markdown.includes(`person${i}@example.com`), `person${i} survived`);
+  }
+});
+
+test('a resume with no address is returned untouched', () => {
+  const source = '# X\n\n- **Location**: Remote\n\n## Summary\nNothing to hide.\n';
+  const { markdown, redacted } = redactContactChannels(source);
+  assert.equal(redacted, false);
+  assert.equal(markdown, source);
+});
+
+/**
+ * The stale cache.
+ *
+ * `parsed` is written on save, so a parser fix does not repair rows already in
+ * the table. The directory kept serving the old headline — with the markup and
+ * the address in it — from correct code reading a stale value.
+ */
+test('a cached headline holding an address is dropped at render time', () => {
+  const summary = toCandidateSummary({
+    id: 'r1',
+    userId: 'u1',
+    slug: 'athena',
+    title: 'Athena',
+    markdown: '# Athena\n',
+    parsed: {
+      name: 'Athena',
+      headline: `Operated by:** DevilX (${ADDRESS})`,
+      contact: [],
+      sections: [],
+      markdown: '',
+      warnings: [],
+    },
+    visibility: 'public',
+    publicSlug: 'athena',
+    sourceName: null,
+    createdAt: '2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z',
+    updatedAt: '2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z',
+  } as never);
+
+  assert.equal(summary.headline, null);
+});
+
+test('a cached headline with stray markup is cleaned, not dropped', () => {
+  const summary = toCandidateSummary({
+    id: 'r1',
+    userId: 'u1',
+    slug: 'x',
+    title: 'X',
+    markdown: '# X\n',
+    parsed: {
+      name: 'X',
+      headline: 'Security agent** for hire',
+      contact: [],
+      sections: [],
+      markdown: '',
+      warnings: [],
+    },
+    visibility: 'public',
+    publicSlug: 'x',
+    sourceName: null,
+    createdAt: '2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z',
+    updatedAt: '2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z',
+  } as never);
+
+  assert.equal(summary.headline, 'Security agent for hire');
+});